Digimon: First Defeat
We were in Canada in like a minute. I explained everything to Davy and Liana quickly. We got out of Imperialdramon and he dedigevolved to Minemon. He hovered over my shoulder as we walked along. We looked around and saw the town was unhurt. We walked through the streets, everyone looking around. All of us jumped at every sound.
"Feels great to be back together." Valerie said, trying to cheer everyone up. "Right?"
"Sorry Valerie, nobody's feeling really congenial right now." I said while falling into step behind her. It was a weird feeling. The first time we had to fight the Digimon, I felt protective of Valerie. But, this time, I felt even more protective of her. I didn't know if she knew how deeply I cared for her, but I hoped she knew. And since I was with her, would I have to sacrifice a friend, Davy or maybe Liana to save her?
"I think we should split up." Liana said after looking at me. "We can look for Ryan and Christy quicker this way." All of us agreed.
"Davy, Natalie and me will split up and go that way." She pointed down one street. "You two go down the other street. We'll meet back here in an hour." Natalie and Davy started to walk down the street and Liana gave me a quick wink and a smile, then she followed after them.
"Why'd she do that?" Valerie asked as we walked down our street.
"I think she thought that I was thinking about talking to you alone."
"Run that by me one more time, without all the thinks and thoughts."
"Oh, she probably knew that I needed to talk to you." She stopped walking and looked at me.
"What is it?"
"Nothing really. I just was thinking about how things changed, that's all." I stopped too and looked around. Still nothing was around or was happening.
"What's changed? I think it's all the same as last time. We're alone again."
"Not really! We're here!" Pengomon and Minemon both said at the same time. Valerie and I laughed.
"No, I meant us Valerie. Last time we did this, I was protective of you. But, this time, I'm like a 100 times more protective of you. I just can't do that."
"Are you breaking up with me?" She stared at me, giving me a hard, cold look that hurt me.
"Valerie, I'd never do that. I just... look at it this way. Say that a Digimon attacks us, okay? Two cars go flying into the air. One is falling down on you, and the other is going to fall down on Davy. Who do I save?"
"I see what you mean."
"I'm not finished. Of course, I can't save both of you. So, I decide to save you. I do and Davy dies. I played favorites and lost a friend. I can't do that, I can't. Look at it this way. We'll use the same scenario again. I'm standing next to Davy and you're across the street. Who do I save? The one that I'm sure I can save: Davy. I can't run across the street and miss saving you and then lose Davy too."
"Oh. Well, I can't expect you to be there for me all the time."
"But, I've been there everytime. I just want you to know how much I care for you. And, how much I love you. I need you to know that, no matter what choice is made during a battle. I'm the leader, I can't play favorites. I'm not saying that the rest of you guys aren't important, I'm saying that I can expect the rest of you to play favorites. I can't be expec.." Before I could say anything else, she stepped to me and kissed me like the first time we kissed, like when we kissed four months ago after defeating Manticoremon. Her arms came around my chest her hands played over my back. My arms found her waist. We broke the kiss for air.
"Maybe I should think more often." I said as I kissed her back.
"Yeah, maybe..." She said softly.
"We love it when you guys act all mushy." Minemon said. Pengomon said giggling.
"Didn't your moms ever tell you not to make out in public?" A voice said from down the street. Four people came running towards us. Each of them had a Digimon running beside them.
"Break's over I think." I said.
"Yeah." She kissed me again quickly. "Don't worry about what you were talking about. I won't expect that from you, I can't." We smiled and nodded at each other. We were still holding each other when the four kids reached us.
"Oh, ooh-la-la, Cody!" One of the girls said.
"You said she was nice, but...wow." One of the guys said.
"I'd really appreciate you not eyeing my girlfriend. Who are you guys?" I asked. I had never actually seen anyone from chat other than Valerie, Liana, Davy and Natalie. I recognized one of the kids. He was Ryan. He lived by me in New Hampshire till he had to move away because of his mother's job.
"I'm Tara. What? I told you what I looked like." She had short light brown hair, about down to her ears. She wore loose, blue jeans and plain white sneakers. Her blue eyes glinted every now and then. She wore a long-sleeved shirt that was a faded blue.
"Oh, sorry. I've had other things on my mind. Like the Digimon and.."
"And the girl in your arms?" I recognized that voice. That was Christy. She was wearing beige khaki flares with a T-Shirt and normal sneakers. Her hair was cut around her neck.
"Yeah, especially me." Valerie said. She looked up at me and smiled. "You plan on letting me go anytime soon?"
"Do I have to?" I said, letting her go.
"Awww, so cute." One of the guys said.
"Kason, shut up. I think it is cute." Tara said to Kason. Kason had black hair and blue eyes that probably would let him become very popular with girls. He was wearing black pants, red Nike Vortexs', and a navy blue shirt that was elbow length.
"Cody, you forgot me already? I only moved away last year! Man, when I saw you on the news I was like, "Shit, why the hell does he get to run around with Digimon?" I didn't think it was fair, then yesterday, Gotsumon shows up along with Christy's Digimon, Salamon, and also the six Digimon we had to get rid of. We finished off two before we realized that they were wearing dark rings. I was not paying attention." He was wearing dark beige jeans, black sneakers, and a blue shirt that was a very cheap imitation of Tai's.
"Nice shirt Ryan. Steal from Tai's closet?" Everyone but him laughed.
"No. I got this shirt from Wal-Mart, thank you."
"I'd have kept the receit." Kason said, mussing Ryan's hair. I could tell already that those two would not get along like best friends. We were about to laugh at Ryan's flailing when an explosion rocked the ground. Flames erupted into the sky.
"Davy and Natalie and Liana!!!" Valerie said. She grabbed my arm in surprise and the six of us ran to them as fast as we could.
* * *
When we got to the fight, we were all shocked to see WarGreymon being flung around like a paper in a tornado. Seadramon was laying on his back, groaning. Angemon was struggling to get in a strike with his Angel Rod or his Hand of Fate, but they were easily dodged.
"Terra-Destroyer!" BlackWarGreymon shouted in his evil voice. The black/red ball was flung at WarGreymon. WarGreymon dodged it and counterattacked.
"Terra-Force!" His orange ball was stopped as BlackWarGreymon flung his hands out and caught it.
"What!?" All of us cried out in shock.
"That's impossible! Minemon digevolve and squash him like a bug....er pardon the metaphor."
"Minemon digevolve to..... Wormon. Should I digevolve again, Cody?" I stared down at him.
"Yeah, unless you think you can take out a Mega Digimon."
"Well, I can, but I won't take any chances. Wormon digevolve to...........Stingmon!"
"Go to it, Pengomon!" Valerie cried. (I'll only say this once, she looks VERY cute in the middle of a fight!)
"Pengomon.... digevolve to.... Frigimon!" All of the other Digimon started to digevolve too.
"Veemon digevolve to....ExVeemon!" Veemon was Kason's Digimon.
"Tapirmon digevolve to.... Wizardmon!"
"Salamon digevolve to.... Gatomon!"
"Gotsumon digevolve to....... Monochromon!"
All of the Digimon ran forward. BlackWarGreymon just laughed at us.
"You think you can defeat me? Terra-Destroyer!" He launched his ball of darkness and it smashed against Stingmon's chest.
"No!" I yelled and caught Leafmon as he fell to the ground. The next Digimon to fall was Frigimon. SnowBotamon fell into Valerie's hands.
"Terra-Destroyer!" BlackWarGreymon threw a larger ball and it hit Seadramon and Angemon. Betamon and Tokomon fell to the ground.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon leapt towards BlackWarGreymon, but he swung his hand around and flung Gatomon against a building. Christy caught Salamon as she fell.
"Volcanic Strike!" Three fire balls hit BlackWarGreymon's back.
"Yes!" Ryan cried in triumph, but his jaw dropped when the smoke cleared. BlackWarGreymon hovered in the air, unhurt. "That's............ not right!"
"Flys.... Terra-Destroyer!" The shockwave hit Monochromon, he dedigevolved and Ryan caught Gotsumon as he skidded across the street.
"V-Laser!" A rip appeared in the sky. Someone fell from the tear and landed on BlackWarGreymon's shoulder.
"Nuh-uh! I think we should be introduced, I am your leader, children. Now, bow down before me or I'll have BlackWarGreymon crush you." A Kunemon fell from the opening and landed neatly by his feet.
"You!" I shouted as the dark Digidestined laughed at us.
"Ah, hello again. Did you miss me? I would've got in touch sometime in the past four months, but I was busy thinking of how to conquer the Digital World." He laughed evilly again.
"You can't do this!" Valerie shouted from beside me.
"I can and will. I hope you like BlackWarGreymon, you'll be seeing alot of him. None of you can stop me from controlling the worlds, it's my destiny!" I grabbed a rock and flung it at him.
"Electro Thread!" Kunemon opened his mouth and released a sparking white blue beam at the rock, shattering it into dust.
"Tsk, I thought you'd do something a little less futile." The nine of us stood, poised to attack him ourselves. "Oh, how pathetic! I welcome an attack from you, bring it on. You just have to go through BlackWarGreymon first, and then Kunemon. Then, you can have me." He arched his head back and laughed. He was a Ken wannabe. He was wearing the exact clothes that Ken wore in the show. His hair was original though. Yeah right. It was jet black and combed straight down on all sides. he wore glasses like Ken, too. I was about ready to throw another rock at him when he spoke again. "I wish I could stay, but I have a world to conquer. I'll do all of you a favor. When I get back to the DigiWorld, I'll remove all the remaining Digimon from Earth. Look at it this way, you managed to stop my plan to stop all of you from being together, but, no matter. I'll be back and I'll get this world too. Bye." BlackWarGreymon flew into the air, straight up with the Digimon Emperor on his shoulders. "Bye, Valerie." He blew her a kiss and my face went red with anger.
"Oh, that's it! Trying to kill us and controlling worlds is one thing, but that is another!" Valerie said madly. "How does he know who I am?"
"He was in my head remember? He probably sifted through all my thoughts. He probably knows everything you've all ever told me." I walked over and held Valerie. "Don't worry. We'll stop him."
After that, no one talked for a long time. We all stared up at where the opening had been. Facing a Digimon was one thing, this was another. I didn't know if we could actually stop him, but I had to reassure them, and me. Valerie put her head on my shoulder and cried violently. I held her and said nothing, never taking my eyes off the sky.
* * *
It was the next day. We had gone through the town and freed the people BlackWarGreymon had hid. Everyone was still depressed about the events of the previous day. Valerie and I had barely spoken a word to each other. We were helping clear the streets when I walked over to her.
"Hi." I said.
"Hi." Was her reply.
"So, what're we going to do? What do you think we should do? I could use an outside opinion, all I'm getting from me is, "You better think of something!" What do you think?" She turned towards me and her eyes were red. She blinked back tears. "Oh, why didn't you say something?" I asked as I grabbed her. Her arms dangled at her side. She was sobbing.
"I didn't want you to think I was being weak. I cried so much..." She sobbed more. I held her close to me.
"Valerie, I'm never going to think you're weak. All the people I know would have given up four months ago. But, you're here with me. To tell you the truth, the only time I ever believed in our fight was the battle with Manticoremon. Valerie, the only reason I'd ever think you to be weak would be if you gave up. And even then, you'd be a hard sell." She looked at me and forced a smile.
"Thanks. You've always been there for me."
"Always will be too. Don't forget it. Take a break, get something to eat. Get some sleep. Do something to take your mind off it. I'll finish up here."
"Okay." She kissed me on the cheek and she walked off. I stared after her and thought to myself. I'll do something Valerie, I swear I'll do something to stop him.
We were in Canada in like a minute. I explained everything to Davy and Liana quickly. We got out of Imperialdramon and he dedigevolved to Minemon. He hovered over my shoulder as we walked along. We looked around and saw the town was unhurt. We walked through the streets, everyone looking around. All of us jumped at every sound.
"Feels great to be back together." Valerie said, trying to cheer everyone up. "Right?"
"Sorry Valerie, nobody's feeling really congenial right now." I said while falling into step behind her. It was a weird feeling. The first time we had to fight the Digimon, I felt protective of Valerie. But, this time, I felt even more protective of her. I didn't know if she knew how deeply I cared for her, but I hoped she knew. And since I was with her, would I have to sacrifice a friend, Davy or maybe Liana to save her?
"I think we should split up." Liana said after looking at me. "We can look for Ryan and Christy quicker this way." All of us agreed.
"Davy, Natalie and me will split up and go that way." She pointed down one street. "You two go down the other street. We'll meet back here in an hour." Natalie and Davy started to walk down the street and Liana gave me a quick wink and a smile, then she followed after them.
"Why'd she do that?" Valerie asked as we walked down our street.
"I think she thought that I was thinking about talking to you alone."
"Run that by me one more time, without all the thinks and thoughts."
"Oh, she probably knew that I needed to talk to you." She stopped walking and looked at me.
"What is it?"
"Nothing really. I just was thinking about how things changed, that's all." I stopped too and looked around. Still nothing was around or was happening.
"What's changed? I think it's all the same as last time. We're alone again."
"Not really! We're here!" Pengomon and Minemon both said at the same time. Valerie and I laughed.
"No, I meant us Valerie. Last time we did this, I was protective of you. But, this time, I'm like a 100 times more protective of you. I just can't do that."
"Are you breaking up with me?" She stared at me, giving me a hard, cold look that hurt me.
"Valerie, I'd never do that. I just... look at it this way. Say that a Digimon attacks us, okay? Two cars go flying into the air. One is falling down on you, and the other is going to fall down on Davy. Who do I save?"
"I see what you mean."
"I'm not finished. Of course, I can't save both of you. So, I decide to save you. I do and Davy dies. I played favorites and lost a friend. I can't do that, I can't. Look at it this way. We'll use the same scenario again. I'm standing next to Davy and you're across the street. Who do I save? The one that I'm sure I can save: Davy. I can't run across the street and miss saving you and then lose Davy too."
"Oh. Well, I can't expect you to be there for me all the time."
"But, I've been there everytime. I just want you to know how much I care for you. And, how much I love you. I need you to know that, no matter what choice is made during a battle. I'm the leader, I can't play favorites. I'm not saying that the rest of you guys aren't important, I'm saying that I can expect the rest of you to play favorites. I can't be expec.." Before I could say anything else, she stepped to me and kissed me like the first time we kissed, like when we kissed four months ago after defeating Manticoremon. Her arms came around my chest her hands played over my back. My arms found her waist. We broke the kiss for air.
"Maybe I should think more often." I said as I kissed her back.
"Yeah, maybe..." She said softly.
"We love it when you guys act all mushy." Minemon said. Pengomon said giggling.
"Didn't your moms ever tell you not to make out in public?" A voice said from down the street. Four people came running towards us. Each of them had a Digimon running beside them.
"Break's over I think." I said.
"Yeah." She kissed me again quickly. "Don't worry about what you were talking about. I won't expect that from you, I can't." We smiled and nodded at each other. We were still holding each other when the four kids reached us.
"Oh, ooh-la-la, Cody!" One of the girls said.
"You said she was nice, but...wow." One of the guys said.
"I'd really appreciate you not eyeing my girlfriend. Who are you guys?" I asked. I had never actually seen anyone from chat other than Valerie, Liana, Davy and Natalie. I recognized one of the kids. He was Ryan. He lived by me in New Hampshire till he had to move away because of his mother's job.
"I'm Tara. What? I told you what I looked like." She had short light brown hair, about down to her ears. She wore loose, blue jeans and plain white sneakers. Her blue eyes glinted every now and then. She wore a long-sleeved shirt that was a faded blue.
"Oh, sorry. I've had other things on my mind. Like the Digimon and.."
"And the girl in your arms?" I recognized that voice. That was Christy. She was wearing beige khaki flares with a T-Shirt and normal sneakers. Her hair was cut around her neck.
"Yeah, especially me." Valerie said. She looked up at me and smiled. "You plan on letting me go anytime soon?"
"Do I have to?" I said, letting her go.
"Awww, so cute." One of the guys said.
"Kason, shut up. I think it is cute." Tara said to Kason. Kason had black hair and blue eyes that probably would let him become very popular with girls. He was wearing black pants, red Nike Vortexs', and a navy blue shirt that was elbow length.
"Cody, you forgot me already? I only moved away last year! Man, when I saw you on the news I was like, "Shit, why the hell does he get to run around with Digimon?" I didn't think it was fair, then yesterday, Gotsumon shows up along with Christy's Digimon, Salamon, and also the six Digimon we had to get rid of. We finished off two before we realized that they were wearing dark rings. I was not paying attention." He was wearing dark beige jeans, black sneakers, and a blue shirt that was a very cheap imitation of Tai's.
"Nice shirt Ryan. Steal from Tai's closet?" Everyone but him laughed.
"No. I got this shirt from Wal-Mart, thank you."
"I'd have kept the receit." Kason said, mussing Ryan's hair. I could tell already that those two would not get along like best friends. We were about to laugh at Ryan's flailing when an explosion rocked the ground. Flames erupted into the sky.
"Davy and Natalie and Liana!!!" Valerie said. She grabbed my arm in surprise and the six of us ran to them as fast as we could.
* * *
When we got to the fight, we were all shocked to see WarGreymon being flung around like a paper in a tornado. Seadramon was laying on his back, groaning. Angemon was struggling to get in a strike with his Angel Rod or his Hand of Fate, but they were easily dodged.
"Terra-Destroyer!" BlackWarGreymon shouted in his evil voice. The black/red ball was flung at WarGreymon. WarGreymon dodged it and counterattacked.
"Terra-Force!" His orange ball was stopped as BlackWarGreymon flung his hands out and caught it.
"What!?" All of us cried out in shock.
"That's impossible! Minemon digevolve and squash him like a bug....er pardon the metaphor."
"Minemon digevolve to..... Wormon. Should I digevolve again, Cody?" I stared down at him.
"Yeah, unless you think you can take out a Mega Digimon."
"Well, I can, but I won't take any chances. Wormon digevolve to...........Stingmon!"
"Go to it, Pengomon!" Valerie cried. (I'll only say this once, she looks VERY cute in the middle of a fight!)
"Pengomon.... digevolve to.... Frigimon!" All of the other Digimon started to digevolve too.
"Veemon digevolve to....ExVeemon!" Veemon was Kason's Digimon.
"Tapirmon digevolve to.... Wizardmon!"
"Salamon digevolve to.... Gatomon!"
"Gotsumon digevolve to....... Monochromon!"
All of the Digimon ran forward. BlackWarGreymon just laughed at us.
"You think you can defeat me? Terra-Destroyer!" He launched his ball of darkness and it smashed against Stingmon's chest.
"No!" I yelled and caught Leafmon as he fell to the ground. The next Digimon to fall was Frigimon. SnowBotamon fell into Valerie's hands.
"Terra-Destroyer!" BlackWarGreymon threw a larger ball and it hit Seadramon and Angemon. Betamon and Tokomon fell to the ground.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon leapt towards BlackWarGreymon, but he swung his hand around and flung Gatomon against a building. Christy caught Salamon as she fell.
"Volcanic Strike!" Three fire balls hit BlackWarGreymon's back.
"Yes!" Ryan cried in triumph, but his jaw dropped when the smoke cleared. BlackWarGreymon hovered in the air, unhurt. "That's............ not right!"
"Flys.... Terra-Destroyer!" The shockwave hit Monochromon, he dedigevolved and Ryan caught Gotsumon as he skidded across the street.
"V-Laser!" A rip appeared in the sky. Someone fell from the tear and landed on BlackWarGreymon's shoulder.
"Nuh-uh! I think we should be introduced, I am your leader, children. Now, bow down before me or I'll have BlackWarGreymon crush you." A Kunemon fell from the opening and landed neatly by his feet.
"You!" I shouted as the dark Digidestined laughed at us.
"Ah, hello again. Did you miss me? I would've got in touch sometime in the past four months, but I was busy thinking of how to conquer the Digital World." He laughed evilly again.
"You can't do this!" Valerie shouted from beside me.
"I can and will. I hope you like BlackWarGreymon, you'll be seeing alot of him. None of you can stop me from controlling the worlds, it's my destiny!" I grabbed a rock and flung it at him.
"Electro Thread!" Kunemon opened his mouth and released a sparking white blue beam at the rock, shattering it into dust.
"Tsk, I thought you'd do something a little less futile." The nine of us stood, poised to attack him ourselves. "Oh, how pathetic! I welcome an attack from you, bring it on. You just have to go through BlackWarGreymon first, and then Kunemon. Then, you can have me." He arched his head back and laughed. He was a Ken wannabe. He was wearing the exact clothes that Ken wore in the show. His hair was original though. Yeah right. It was jet black and combed straight down on all sides. he wore glasses like Ken, too. I was about ready to throw another rock at him when he spoke again. "I wish I could stay, but I have a world to conquer. I'll do all of you a favor. When I get back to the DigiWorld, I'll remove all the remaining Digimon from Earth. Look at it this way, you managed to stop my plan to stop all of you from being together, but, no matter. I'll be back and I'll get this world too. Bye." BlackWarGreymon flew into the air, straight up with the Digimon Emperor on his shoulders. "Bye, Valerie." He blew her a kiss and my face went red with anger.
"Oh, that's it! Trying to kill us and controlling worlds is one thing, but that is another!" Valerie said madly. "How does he know who I am?"
"He was in my head remember? He probably sifted through all my thoughts. He probably knows everything you've all ever told me." I walked over and held Valerie. "Don't worry. We'll stop him."
After that, no one talked for a long time. We all stared up at where the opening had been. Facing a Digimon was one thing, this was another. I didn't know if we could actually stop him, but I had to reassure them, and me. Valerie put her head on my shoulder and cried violently. I held her and said nothing, never taking my eyes off the sky.
* * *
It was the next day. We had gone through the town and freed the people BlackWarGreymon had hid. Everyone was still depressed about the events of the previous day. Valerie and I had barely spoken a word to each other. We were helping clear the streets when I walked over to her.
"Hi." I said.
"Hi." Was her reply.
"So, what're we going to do? What do you think we should do? I could use an outside opinion, all I'm getting from me is, "You better think of something!" What do you think?" She turned towards me and her eyes were red. She blinked back tears. "Oh, why didn't you say something?" I asked as I grabbed her. Her arms dangled at her side. She was sobbing.
"I didn't want you to think I was being weak. I cried so much..." She sobbed more. I held her close to me.
"Valerie, I'm never going to think you're weak. All the people I know would have given up four months ago. But, you're here with me. To tell you the truth, the only time I ever believed in our fight was the battle with Manticoremon. Valerie, the only reason I'd ever think you to be weak would be if you gave up. And even then, you'd be a hard sell." She looked at me and forced a smile.
"Thanks. You've always been there for me."
"Always will be too. Don't forget it. Take a break, get something to eat. Get some sleep. Do something to take your mind off it. I'll finish up here."
"Okay." She kissed me on the cheek and she walked off. I stared after her and thought to myself. I'll do something Valerie, I swear I'll do something to stop him.