DM: Digital Mutants: Part 4
[A/N: OK, I don't know why I stopped the last part where I did. That's just the way I work.]
[Disclaimer: I don't own either of these things.]
The Digi-destined had finally gotten to America and all the way into New York. Mimi was close to jumping out of the jet and shopping like mad, even though she didn't know much English.
When Cyclops and Storm landed, they were at a secluded place in a dense forest like place. The group clambered off the jet and again followed the X-Men.
They reached a room and walked inside, Sora just walking through the door. "Professor Xavier?" Cyclops asked. "Ah, good. You're back." Professor Xavier said, looking up. "So, mind explaining why we've come here?" Tai asked. Professor Xavier chuckled slightly and started off…
About a half an hour later, the Digi-destined were in a state of confusion. "Well, I think I'll let Scott and the others show you to your rooms." Professor Xavier said, "You obviously need some rest." He looked at Shinji in particular when he said that. It was about midnight anyway. The Digi-destined walked out of Professor Xavier's room and again followed the X-Men to their respective rooms.
Myotismon stared out of a window at the dark sky. Shinji seemed so powerful… He turned around and smiled slightly. Shinji had been reading in a chair a short while earlier, saying that she wasn't all that tired. She had fallen asleep two minutes later. Myotismon chuckled softly. He walked over and picked Shinji up. He put her down on the bed in the room, pulling the blanket over her. Myotismon smiled again. "Ashiteru, Tenshi." he whispered softly.
The Digi-destined couldn't have chosen a better day to go to America. It had been a Friday, and now it was Saturday. And considering that none of the kids had any more clothes than what they had been wearing, they had to do the one thing Mimi loved (A/N: And I fear…). They had to go shopping.
"God, remind me again why I had to come along?" Shinji asked, sweatdropping. "Well, we needed someone to translate!" Mimi said. "But why didn't you take Izzy then?" Shinji asked in an angry tone. "Because he doesn't KNOW any English." Sora answered. Shinji hung her head in defeat and groaned.
Mimi was going nuts at the amount of malls in New York. She, Sora, and Kari were looking at things, practically drooling. The boys did NOT want to go along, and just given Sora a list of what they needed. Shinji kept throwing wary glances at a large group of protesters. They were just on the other side of the street and really didn't like mutants. "Can you pick something and we get out of here?" she asked in an undertone. "What?" Mimi asked, shocked, "You listen here! It's very hard to pick the exactly perfect outfit so you just shush!" Shinji practically cowered.
"I just think it's better that we get out of here fast without attracting any attention!" she shot back. Mimi looked over Shinji's shoulder and finally noticed the angry mob. "Oh, right…" she breathed in a fearful tone. "So let's get the stuff, and head back. I really, REALLY don't want a repeat of what happened back in Tokyo." Shinji urged.
The girls quickly bought the stuff for themselves and the boys and started off back towards the school. It was just in time too. The crowd was starting to get extremely violent, pulling out guns and knives. Finally, a man's anger broke, and he fired his gun. He fired it towards the girls.
The fast moving bullet was impossible to detect, and headed straight for Shinji. The girls turned and Mimi screamed. Everything froze for a few seconds. Shinji opened her eyes to see that the bullet was still spinning, but not moving. It was right in front of her heart, and something was stopping it. But Shinji wasn't doing anything. The crowd stared and then, the bullet fell to the ground, clinking softly against the pavement.
Shinji let out the breath she was holding and looked around the crowd. The only odd person she spotted was a tall teenager, about fifteen, wearing a black trench coat and an eye-patch over one eye. He turned away and disappeared in the milling crowd. Then she noticed that the crowd was staring at her.
She glanced at the other girls and turned red. Her glare said "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, NOW!" to the other girls. They all walked away quickly.
"Why does every little thing always happen to me?" Shinji sighed angrily. The girls had gotten back to the school and were giving the boys their clothes. "What happened?" Myotismon asked, concerned. "Oh, some baka Americans shot off a few bullets and one nearly hit my heart." Shinji replied back with the air of one telling the score of a baseball match. The boys stared at her. "Did you stop it?" Tai asked. "No." Shinji answered. The boys' jaws dropped. "Then how are you still alive?!" Matt yelled.
"I've got no idea." Shinji chuckled, "Every bad thing happens to me, but I seem to have a lucky streak." Everyone but Shinji pulled a face-vault. "N-nani yo?!" Izzy said. Shinji didn't answer.
Soon enough, the weekend had ended and the Digi-destined started schoolwork. It was slightly funny to listen to Mimi try to speak English. "It's not all that hard." TK said. Even he had perfected his speech.
Shinji watched Tai, TK, Matt, and Joe play against four boys in a game of basketball. TK was a very good player, even though he was so little. He got quite a few baskets, but the other boys were winning. Shinji smiled and flicked her glance at the ball. She then turned to TK's open hands. The ball suddenly flew from the boy's hands and into TK's hands. "TAKE THE SHOT!" Shinji yelled in Japanese. TK jerked, then hurled the ball straight into the basket. "Game, set, and match." Shinji laughed in English.
"How did that happen?" the boy, Jake, asked. Shinji tried hard not to laugh. Suddenly, she was aware of another presence close by. "Nani yo?" she wondered softly. Shinji looked around and thought that she saw the same teen in the trench coat standing on the roof of the building. But it was only for a second. "Shinji?" Joe asked. "Ne? Oh gomen." Shinji apologized, "I thought I saw something, but it's nothing."
"Well c'mon." Joe said, "We're going to be late." Shinji nodded and jogged to catch up with her friends.
It was Friday, and Mimi had finally perfected her English. In a sense, anyway. "Hey, at least you CAN speak it." Tai said. "Oh hush!" Mimi snapped. Shinji was silent. She was positive that she had felt another presence that day! But who was it? "Hey Mimi, don't make the sky so gloomy!" TK said sadly, "It makes me feel kinda bad!" "Huh?" Mimi asked, "I'm not doing anything, TK."
The sky was extremely cloudy and black. "Nani yo…" Shinji murmured. That same odd feeling that she got whenever another person was coming was set off again, at a high rate. "Hey, who's there?" she asked out loud.
"What's wrong?" Matt asked. "Someone's coming…" Shinji said quietly. "Who?" Kari asked. Shinji narrowed her eyes in thought. "I've got no idea…" she muttered. The lights suddenly flickered and went out. There was a small amount of chaos for a few seconds until Tai held up a ball of flickering fire, lighting the room.
"Is everyone OK?" he asked. He looked around the group and stopped at Shinji. She was hardly breathing and looked scared out of her wits. Her blue eyes were twitching rapidly, as was most of her body. "Shinji!" Izzy said, "What's wrong?" Then they noticed her feet were about two feet off the ground. The Digi-destined gasped.
A soft, frigid laugh rang out. Everyone turned to see a tall boy, much taller than Shinji, standing in the doorway, his arms crossed across his chest. "Y-you!" Shinji said in a frightened tone. The boy laughed again. "I saw you in the city!" Shinji said, "What are you doing here?!" Suddenly, Shinji yelled in pain. It looked as if her body was being crushed by a large hand.
"It is not the time for you to be asking questions." the boy said. Shinji yelled again, only more urgent. "Hey, let her go!" TK yelled. He reached up to fire his eye beams… "No wait!" Shinji yelled. TK froze, not by his own movements. His hand was forced down. "Don't do anything!" Shinji ordered in a strained voice. Her eyes were shut, but she was holding one open with effort. "I want to know who he is first!" she said. She yelled again. "Such a bad liar." the boy said, "You're stalling for those friends of yours."
"H-how do you know about them?" Shinji growled. "I know everything about you." the boy said, "I've seen into your mind." Shinji fell to the ground suddenly, lying on the floor panting. "Wh-who are you?" she asked. "My name is Kusanagi." the boy answered. Suddenly, he choked slightly. "Little brat." a deep voice snarled, "You shouldn't have done that to her." Kusanagi chuckled. "Oh yes, you're her boyfriend, aren't you?" he asked. His purple hair lifted slightly off his shoulders and Myotismon let his neck go. "WHA!" he yelled as he was thrown across the room.
"Bad vampire." Kusanagi laughed, "Down." Myotismon tried to get up, but found that he was stuck to stay on his knees. The lights dimly came back on, still a little dark, but everyone could see better. Kusanagi had on an eye patch over his left eye. He was wearing a long black trench coat. His revealed eye was blood red. Shinji still lay panting on the floor, and then yelled out in pain again. Her left hand flew to her right, holding it tightly. Her right hand was being crushed by an unseen force.
A loud, long cracking sound was heard and Shinji screamed in pain. Her right was limp. It had been broken completely! Kusanagi laughed. "Now, time for us to go." he said, raising his hands. Everyone shimmered and disappeared.
A few short seconds after, everyone, including all the digimon, found themselves on an island. Myotismon was able to stand up again. Shinji was on her knees, sobbing silently and clutching her shattered right hand. Kusanagi was before them, along with Mystique, Toad, Sabertooth, and a new, much older man wearing an odd helmet. "Meet, Magneto." Kusanagi laughed. The older man nodded at Kusanagi. "Bow." Sabertooth snarled. No one moved. "He said BOW!" Kusanagi yelled. Everyone was forced onto their knees.
"Did you honestly have to injure someone?" Magneto asked. Kusanagi rolled his eyes. "It was all in fun." he said, "Besides, I owed her." Shinji kept sobbing. The pain in her hand was high, very high. "Don't you remember?" Kusanagi asked. Shinji felt another sudden lift from the ground and saw that Kusanagi was forcing her off the ground again. "I did owe you an injury." he laughed. Shinji looked away, tears still running down her face. "Look at me." Kusanagi ordered. Shinji's eyes were jerked to facing Kusanagi. "Don't you know my last name?" he asked.
"I've only just met you." Shinji breathed. "Wrong." Kusanagi growled. he reached up and pulled off the eye patch. Shinji's eyes grew wide at the scar over Kusanagi's eye. "My full name is what?" he asked. Shinji couldn't answer.
"What is it?!" Kusanagi hissed. "Kusanagi… Shazaki." Shinji whispered, "You're… My brother."
Kusanagi laughed cold and long. Shinji fell to the ground again. Everyone stared at the two. "B-bakano!" Myotismon said, "How could that be true?!" Shinji cried harder, hiding her face. "Oh but it is!" Kusanagi laughed, "If she was the one who said it!" "Shinji, you never told us about your brother." Tai said. "Because I wanted to forget him!" Shinji sobbed.
"Why would you want to forget a part of your own family?" Sora asked. "Because Kusanagi is hardly a person you can call a brother!" Shinji sobbed, "He just broke my entire hand and laughed!" Kusanagi kicked Shinji hard in the stomach. "Shut up!" he yelled, "I've had enough of your talk!" Shinji curled up on her side, gasping for breath.
"Y-you were the one that saved me back in the city. W-why?" Shinji managed to get out. "I didn't want you to die so soon!" Kusanagi said. "Enough!" Magneto yelled. Kusanagi looked back. "I believe that it is time for the family reunion to END and for our plans to be set forwards!" Magneto shouted. He brushed past Kusanagi and looked at the Digi-destined. "Sabertooth, Mystique, Toad." he said. Before Magneto could finish his sentence, a hand fell on his shoulder.
He turned, and suddenly, the same hand grabbed his face. "I've had enough of YOUR babbling, old man." Kusanagi snarled. His hand started to glow a bright red, and in an explosion of light, heat, and energy, Magneto disappeared (A/N: He was sent to HFIL! ^_^). Kusanagi raised his hand towards Magneto's henchmen and in another explosion, they disappeared.
Everyone stared at Kusanagi. He had just killed four people and was laughing. "Now for my bratty little sister." he said in a whisper. He turned towards Shinji, who was still on her side. "I'll personally torture you to death and then after you die, I'll met you down in hell." Kusanagi whispered, kneeling down and whispering the words in Shinji's ear, "And I'll keep torturing you till the end of time." He tenderly stroked Shinji's cheek and then slammed his fist into her stomach.
Myotismon yelled angrily and tackled Kusanagi to the ground. The room around everyone shimmered and disappeared, leaving the group on a plateau high above the sea. Kusanagi growled and Myotismon flew back, landing roughly on his back a few feet away.
Then, he flew back as well. Kusanagi landed very close to the edge of the cliff and looked around.
"You were talking some crap about torturing me in hell, brother?" Shinji sneered. She was flying in the air, her wings out, off the edge of the plateau. "Well here's your chance!" she yelled, "Let's see if you can keep your word! COME AND KILL ME THEN!" Kusanagi stood back, lowered his head and fell silent. He didn't watch Shinji turn into her mutated form, claws, fangs, and pointed ears included. But a few minutes afterwards, he burst out laughing. "You think your measly power is enough to beat me?!" he cried. "Why don't you shut up and get on with it?" Shinji snapped back.
"Oh, like this you mean?" Kusanagi asked. He held out his arms and closed his eyes. His black trench coat melted away from his arms, turning slowly to the color of blood. The fabric gathered at his back and stretched from his skin, forming huge feathered wings. The feathers were blood red, as if Kusanagi had bathed them in blood. His hands and feet were absolutely normal, unlike Shinji. "So, do you really want to fight me now, sister?" he asked.
"So now you're a bird." Shinji mocked, "OK feather boy, if you don't want to fight, you'd better run. 'Cause I don't care about anyone but the people closet to me." Shinji dove straight at Kusanagi with blinding speed, but for some reason, she hit the ground hard, landing on her hands and knees. Kusanagi was nowhere in sight.
"Dang…" Shinji whispered, looking back over her shoulder. Kusanagi was hovering just were Shinji had been. "I thought you said that we were going to fight." he said. Shinji snarled and jumped at him. Her right hand was out, ready to claw Kusanagi's face, It had either never been broken, or it had healed. But still, she froze just before touching her brother.
"Listen." Kusanagi commanded, "I thought perhaps because you and I were family, that we could work together." "More crap!" Shinji hissed. Her protests were cut short when Kusanagi grabbed her throat. "Silence!" he hissed back, "I've seen what kind of life you have back in Japan! With what power you have, you could easily kill these fools and take control of anything you wanted!"
"It looks like you and I have different ways of using power given to us." Shinji said, "I've been in another world! In a place that you can't even dream of! My friends and I were the most powerful team in that world! And I know that I can defeat you if I have to."
"Oh really?" Kusanagi whispered back. Shinji snarled and tried to slam her knee into Kusanagi's stomach. Kusanagi grabbed her knee and grinned. "Sorry to tell you sis." he laughed, "But no one can beat me. Ever." He grabbed Shinji's head and threw her into the ground hard. A huge cloud of dust rose up when Shinji slammed into the ground. When the dust settled, Shinji was in the bottom of a large crater, nearly knocked out. "H-he's right…" she muttered, "I don't think there's a way we can win." She groaned in pain. "Oh damn…" Shinji laughed weakly, "He broke one of my ribs… I can't move anymore." She smiled suddenly, her eyes half-lidded. "Well, if I'm this useless, I guess I should die." she whispered. With a final groan, Shinji passed out.
Kusanagi landed before the crater, his wings turning back into the trench coat. "I don't suppose anyone of you will try and get her?" he asked. He had barely finished his sentence when Myotismon had slammed his fist to his face. The teen flew back off the cliff, disappearing. A few seconds later, he flew back up over the cliff. He spat out a tooth. "Jerk." he snarled, "You broke my jaw!" Kusanagi grabbed his jaw and snapped it back in place. "Whatever." he laughed, "I'll see you soon enough! And her. But if you aren't ready, everything on the planet will soon be under my control."
He flew away, laughing like a psychopath. Everyone stared after him for a long while, never tearing their sight away from him until he disappeared from sight. Myotismon turned towards the crater and leapt into it. He slid down to Shinji and picked her up. Her wings were gone, but her ears and teeth remained as if she were transformed.
It was about an hour later. The Digi-destined had found their way back to the school. "What happened?" Agumon half shouted when the group walked into the room. "Don't ask." everyone sighed at the same time. The digimon stared in confusion.
The Digi-destined had all fallen asleep a short while later. Myotismon was still awake, waiting till Shinji woke up. It was around 1:00 AM when she finally woke. Shinji woke up with a ragged gasp, sitting up quickly. "Shh." Myotismon whispered, "It's all right." Shinji looked into Myotismon's icy blue eyes and curled into a ball. "Gomen." she whispered, "Gomen nasai. I'm worthless to you guys. I'm completely worthless."
"You aren't worthless." Myotismon said, a slight tone of anger in his voice, "If you were worthless, you wouldn't have played such a huge part in saving the Digiworld." "I can't fight my own brother!" Shinji snapped back, "If I can't fight, I'm no good to you guys!" She put her head on her knees. Myotismon snarled. Shinji had done this before! He suddenly jerked Shinji's head from her knees, forcing her to look at him. "You AREN'T worthless!" he whispered/yelled, "If you were worthless, would I love you?!" Shinji was silent. "Yes, I love you!" Myotismon repeated, "I'm not afraid to say it!" Shinji still remained silent. In the dim light, Myotismon could see that silver streaks were running down her face… She was crying. Myotismon was wondering why she was crying when her hand reached up to his face. She kissed him gently.
"So, see it my way now?" Myotismon whispered, smiling. Shinji nodded, her head coming to rest on Myotismon's shoulder. She fell asleep quickly, very tired. Myotismon smiled and chuckled, wrapping his arms gently around her. "Don't fall into that pit again." he whispered in her ear.