Digimon: BlackWarGreymon's Victim
Everyone went their seperate ways. We all knew how to go in and out of a Digiport, I mean, after all you stand in front of a computer and say two words. Davy and Liana went back to help clean the mess in San Diego, Kason and Tara returned to Ireland to explain things with their parents and help clean. Christy and Ryan went home and tasted the bitterness of the first loss. It was everyone's first loss. The closest thing to a loss the rest of us suffered was when Manticoremon first appeared. Natalie, Valerie, and I went back to Texas. After losing that bad to a Ken wannabe, the last thing I wanted was to be alone. Natalie went to her house to sleep. Tokomon was her arms, recovering, like all of our Digimon. Leafmon and SnowBotamon were in my arms as Valerie unlocked her house door. We didn't say anything to each other as the helicopter brought us home. Home, I'm thinking of this place as home. I thought to myself and smiled lightly. When we got in her house, she collapsed onto the couch. SnowBotamon hopped over to her and laid on her stomach. I slumped into a chair and sighed. Leafmon fell asleep in my lap instantly. I picked him and set him on a pillow on the end of the couch. All the while, nobody said a word. My face was covered with dirt and the lower half of my left pants leg was torn off. Valerie didn't look much better. Her hair looked like a clown's, it was up in the air in a million different directions. Her pants were covered in dirt and her shirt was in the same condition.
"How can we beat him?" She asked, someone finally breaking the silence.
"I don't know, I just don't know. He seems really tough, but I'm sure he has a weakness somewhere. He has to." I didn't know which one of us I was trying to reassure, her or me? She stared up at me.
"I guess, most people do have weaknesses, but then again, not many people can go into a Digital World." This was really depressing. Before either of us could say something, someone knocked on the door. I sighed heavily and got up. I answered the door and white light shined into my gritty face.
"Cody Siders! Is it true you led the terrible fight against the other kid?"
"Is it true that you lost the fight on purpose?"
"How tough was he and what did he look like?"
"Is it true you ran away from home so you wouldn't have to face the embarassment of failure?" The reporters asked more questions, each one worse than the last. Finally, I calmed them down by waving my hands.
"Get lost, go to hell, get bent, fuck your mom." I said to each one in turn, then I slammed the door in their faces and locked it. I walked back into the living room and collapsed onto the couch by Valerie. "Don't ask, for the love of God don't ask me who it was."
"Okay. Are you okay?"
"I want to go into a shower and never come out. I think mud wrestlers come out of the ring cleaner than I did out of that fight. How are you?"
"About the same. Well, I don't think you want to stay in a shower forever, it'd get cold after awhile, but go on upstairs and clean yourself, maybe take off a layer or ten of dirt." She said to me. I nodded and walked up the stairs into the bathroom. I stripped (not like that! sickos!) and got into the shower. The hot water washed over my aching and bruised body, wiping away yesterday's defeat. I stood there, unmoving, just relaxing. Eventually, the water did turn cold, so I got out. I wrapped a towel around me and swore.
"Shit!" Valerie knocked on the bathroom door, I don't know how long she'd been out there.
"What is it?"
"I just remembered, I left all the clothes I bought at the mall, at the mall!" I sighed in defeat. It's just one after another, isn't it? I thought sadly.
"Danny sent them over after we left. They're down stairs." She stayed by the door.
"Gee, do you think that maybe you can get them? I really don't feel like walking around downstairs, with bay windows wide open. I can see myself in a towel at anytime, but, I don't feel like seeing it in a newpaper. Here's the headline that'd go with it. "Cody Siders has sex in shower after unbelievably inhuman defeat yesterday." How does that sound?"
"You're right, and, darn, I wanted to see you in that towel. Be right back." I looked at myself in the mirror. I may have got all the dirt off me, but after losing that bad, I felt unclean. My eyes looked haunted, and I felt along those same lines. Valerie knocked on the door and gave me the clothes.
"Good thing you didn't go downstairs in a towel, my parents are home now. They're making breakfast, what do you want?"
"Anything that is edible."
"Well, my dad's cooking with my little brother's help, so we're out of edibles. How about pancakes?"
"Alright." I sifted through the bag of clothes slowly. I put on a red T-Shirt and a black button up long sleeve, I left it unbuttoned. Then, I put on a pair of light black khakis. I walked down the stairs slowly. I reached the kitchen and sat down.
"How're you? Better now?" Valerie asked.
"Yeah, but I feel just as bad on the inside as I was on the outside. You're turn, unless you plan on wearing those for a while." I said to her. Her family didn't say anything, they must've known how bad yesterday was. After breakfast, we went up to her room to make a strategy.
"We can't attack him here in the real world, he's just as dangerous here as he will be in the Digital World." Valerie said, messing around with some change on her desk.
"Yeah, he can send Digimon into the real world, so I suggest that we don't fight here. He can hurt alot more people if he gets angry here. The Digital World seems a safer place to fight. And for another reason, we can't even attack him here in the real world, he could live anywhere and go anywhere here, you saw how he opened a Digiport right in the middle of a town!"
"All of us just need to work together."
"I don't think that'll be enough, we tried to work together last time and he still beat us down. With BlackWarGreymon working for him, we're done for. He flung WarGreymon around like a kid with a new toy. Maybe, if we had Imperialdramon, we could've done something. I think he's alot smarter than we realize. I don't think he's going to turn out to be a real big dumb ass like Ken was as the Emperor."
"Why would anyone want to do that to Digimon?" Valerie asked sadly. My 2-Way beeped. I pulled it out and looked at it.
"CODY, VALERIE! WE NEED YOU IN THE DIGITAL WORLD ASAP!!! SOMETHING IS UP. GET HERE SOON. THE GANG."
"Well, we'll finish this later." I said as I grabbed Minemon (He digevolved during breakfast. Pengomon digevolved twice during breakfast.) and walked over to the computer. Valerie stood beside me.
"Digiport open!" She cried and we were pulled in.
* * *
We landed in a clearing and saw them immediately: control spires.
"Doesn't he have an original bone in his body?" I asked to no one.
"Looks like he doesn't. Hey! There are the others." Valerie said and pointed to the halfway point in the clearing. We ran to them.
"About time you guys are here." Kason said, completely somber.
"I guess this is really bad if Kason doesn't have a wise ass comment to make." I said looking across the clearing. "Why are there so many in one spot?"
"I think I've figured it out." Ryan said. "Look at it like this. You want to have control over something, whether it be satelite or Digimon, you need something on the receiving object, i.e. a dark ring. The control spires are here to backup the dark ring's controller. Look at how the control spires are postioned." He said pointing at them. I saw what he meant.
"A square of them, and then one dead center. It's not a control spire group, it's a control transmitter." Tara said seconds before I could.
"Exactly. With them postioned like that, he can control a grid of nine areas, with four less control spires than if he put one in each area. This is more balanced too. You've got to give him some credit for that idea." Ryan smiled at the complexity of what he had figured out. All of us stared at him, giving him a hard look. "Or maybe not."
"That's not a good thing." Valerie said softly.
"It's worse than you think. Show them guys.." Christy said.
"Salamon digevolve to errrr...."
"Veemon digevolve to..... Ex.....actly what happened last time..."
"Tapirmon digevolve to... Wiz.... I give."
"Agumon warp-digevolve to........ maybe next time."
"Betamon digevolve to Sea.... oops."
"Okay, I get it. We all get it." Everyone's morale was getting worse and worse.
"Aw, boo-hoo." We all turned around to see His evilness behind us. BlackWarGreymon appeared behind him. Kunemon was like his shadow. "Did I ruin your fun? I'm sorry. NOT!"
"Why are you doing this!?" Christy shouted at him.
"Ha! I don't need to explain myself to lesser beings. I have a new playtoy for you all. Go, Kunemon!"
"Kunemon digevolve to....... Musyamon!"
"How can he digevolve?" Natalie asked what we were all thinking.
"He's special and your Digimon aren't. Allow me to introduce Musyamon. He's a ninja Digimon that has a tendancy to attack on my command. His NinjaBlade is going to hurt. And if that doesn't, BlackWarGreymon will help."
"Terra-Destroyer!!!" BlackWarGreymon shouted out. He threw a black/orange ball at us. We all dodged. Kason grabbed Tara, their Digimon went flying from the shockwave. Christy and Ryan leapt out of the way with their Digimon ahead of them. I grabbed Valerie and yanked her backwards. Minemon hovered back. I didn't see anything else except stars in front of my eyes.
"Is everyone okay?" I managed to ask after a few minutes. I was waiting for the final blow to come, but it never did. Everyone replied. All 16 of us. Wait, 16? There's 18 of us, including me. I didn't say anything, so we're missing one person or Digimon.
"Quick role call!" I shouted. "Ryan, Christy, Tara, Kason, Valerie, Natalie, Davy, Liana, me."
"Here." eight people said.
"Now, Digimon! Gotsumon, Salamon, Tapirmon, Veemon, Pengomon..." No answer.
"Pengomon?" Valerie asked. "Where are you?"
"I believe he's been deleted." BlackWarGreymon said coldly.
"NO!!!" She cried out, slamming her hands down on the ground.
"Oh, yes. Haha! Go Musyamon." The Emperor said.
"Veemon, Digi-Armor Energize!" Kason shouted.
"Veemon... armor digevolve to... Mangamon!" Magnamon hovered in the air in front of us. All of us stared at him.
"What!?!?" The Emperor cried in shock. "Oh well, show them who's the top ninja, Musyamon."
"Wormon, stop him! Digi-Armor Energize!" It was worth a try, it had worked for Kason.
"Wormon.... armor digevolve to.... Shurimon!" All the Digimon started to Armor Digivolve.
"Salamon... armor digevolve to.... Nefertimon!"
"Patamon armor digevolve to.... Pegasusmon!"
"Tapirmon armor digevolve to.... Raidramon!"
"Gotsumon armor digevolve to.... Digmon!"
"Betamon armor digevolve to.... Submarimon!"
"Agumon armor digevolve to... Flamedramon!" The eight armor Digimon launched their attacks in vengance for Pengomon.
"Magnamon Blast!" Missles launched from all over him, hitting both of the evil Digimon.
"Top ninja eh? Double stars!" Two stars were flung, one at each of the Digimon.
"Cat's Eye Beam!" One beam angled off and hit Musyamon in the chest, while the other hit BlackWarGreymon.
"Star Shower!" Pegasusmon flapped his wings and shot a hailstorm of stars at them.
"Blue Thunder!"
"Gold Rush!"
"Oxygen Torpedo!"
"Fire Rocket!" All the attacks slammed into their targets. All of us except Valerie cheered, but when the dust cleared, the two evil Digimon still stood where they had been before. Both of them laughed. Our Digimon dedigevolved and slumped to the ground.
"I thought so. Never stand in my way again. I'd hate to have to kill a person."
"Get bent, your Denseness!" Kason shouted after the Emperor as he turned and walked away with his lackeys at his heels. All of us did the same as our Digimon and slumped to the ground in defeat. I looked over at Valerie and blinked back my own tears. I have to stay strong for the group, the last thing they need right now is their leader having a breakdown. I thought to myself as I grabbed Valerie and hugged her. But, she pulled away. She stood and ran to the Digiport. I stood and followed her as fast as I could. Wormon was on my heels. She opened the port and went through. I jumped through a second later and landed in her room. She was on her bed, laying face down, crying into her pillow more than she'd ever cried before.
"Valerie, it's gonna be okay. Pengomon will be reborn in the Primary Village. He'll be okay." She looked up and flung the pillow at me.
"Go away!" She shouted. I walked over to her and sat beside her on the bed.
"No, you don't need to be alone right now." She gave me the evilest look I'd ever seen and she started to slam her fists all over me.
"No, no, no, no!!!!!!!!!" She shouted over and over. I grabbed her wrists and held them at her sides. She punched pretty damn hard!
"Valerie, listen. You never went away when I went through stuff like this. You were there for me, now I'm here for you." She hugged me and cried into my shoulder. I didn't say anything else. Two defeats in two days, a casuality and a mental breakdown. We were in the darkest moments of our lives. I just hugged her and didn't let go. Soon, she fell asleep in my arms and I laid her down on the bed. I walked over to the pillow she threw and put it under her head. She still sobbed in her sleep. I laid down next to her and looked at her. I wiped the tears from her face. You didn't deserve this Valerie, you out of all people. You didn't deserve this. I fell asleep.
Everyone went their seperate ways. We all knew how to go in and out of a Digiport, I mean, after all you stand in front of a computer and say two words. Davy and Liana went back to help clean the mess in San Diego, Kason and Tara returned to Ireland to explain things with their parents and help clean. Christy and Ryan went home and tasted the bitterness of the first loss. It was everyone's first loss. The closest thing to a loss the rest of us suffered was when Manticoremon first appeared. Natalie, Valerie, and I went back to Texas. After losing that bad to a Ken wannabe, the last thing I wanted was to be alone. Natalie went to her house to sleep. Tokomon was her arms, recovering, like all of our Digimon. Leafmon and SnowBotamon were in my arms as Valerie unlocked her house door. We didn't say anything to each other as the helicopter brought us home. Home, I'm thinking of this place as home. I thought to myself and smiled lightly. When we got in her house, she collapsed onto the couch. SnowBotamon hopped over to her and laid on her stomach. I slumped into a chair and sighed. Leafmon fell asleep in my lap instantly. I picked him and set him on a pillow on the end of the couch. All the while, nobody said a word. My face was covered with dirt and the lower half of my left pants leg was torn off. Valerie didn't look much better. Her hair looked like a clown's, it was up in the air in a million different directions. Her pants were covered in dirt and her shirt was in the same condition.
"How can we beat him?" She asked, someone finally breaking the silence.
"I don't know, I just don't know. He seems really tough, but I'm sure he has a weakness somewhere. He has to." I didn't know which one of us I was trying to reassure, her or me? She stared up at me.
"I guess, most people do have weaknesses, but then again, not many people can go into a Digital World." This was really depressing. Before either of us could say something, someone knocked on the door. I sighed heavily and got up. I answered the door and white light shined into my gritty face.
"Cody Siders! Is it true you led the terrible fight against the other kid?"
"Is it true that you lost the fight on purpose?"
"How tough was he and what did he look like?"
"Is it true you ran away from home so you wouldn't have to face the embarassment of failure?" The reporters asked more questions, each one worse than the last. Finally, I calmed them down by waving my hands.
"Get lost, go to hell, get bent, fuck your mom." I said to each one in turn, then I slammed the door in their faces and locked it. I walked back into the living room and collapsed onto the couch by Valerie. "Don't ask, for the love of God don't ask me who it was."
"Okay. Are you okay?"
"I want to go into a shower and never come out. I think mud wrestlers come out of the ring cleaner than I did out of that fight. How are you?"
"About the same. Well, I don't think you want to stay in a shower forever, it'd get cold after awhile, but go on upstairs and clean yourself, maybe take off a layer or ten of dirt." She said to me. I nodded and walked up the stairs into the bathroom. I stripped (not like that! sickos!) and got into the shower. The hot water washed over my aching and bruised body, wiping away yesterday's defeat. I stood there, unmoving, just relaxing. Eventually, the water did turn cold, so I got out. I wrapped a towel around me and swore.
"Shit!" Valerie knocked on the bathroom door, I don't know how long she'd been out there.
"What is it?"
"I just remembered, I left all the clothes I bought at the mall, at the mall!" I sighed in defeat. It's just one after another, isn't it? I thought sadly.
"Danny sent them over after we left. They're down stairs." She stayed by the door.
"Gee, do you think that maybe you can get them? I really don't feel like walking around downstairs, with bay windows wide open. I can see myself in a towel at anytime, but, I don't feel like seeing it in a newpaper. Here's the headline that'd go with it. "Cody Siders has sex in shower after unbelievably inhuman defeat yesterday." How does that sound?"
"You're right, and, darn, I wanted to see you in that towel. Be right back." I looked at myself in the mirror. I may have got all the dirt off me, but after losing that bad, I felt unclean. My eyes looked haunted, and I felt along those same lines. Valerie knocked on the door and gave me the clothes.
"Good thing you didn't go downstairs in a towel, my parents are home now. They're making breakfast, what do you want?"
"Anything that is edible."
"Well, my dad's cooking with my little brother's help, so we're out of edibles. How about pancakes?"
"Alright." I sifted through the bag of clothes slowly. I put on a red T-Shirt and a black button up long sleeve, I left it unbuttoned. Then, I put on a pair of light black khakis. I walked down the stairs slowly. I reached the kitchen and sat down.
"How're you? Better now?" Valerie asked.
"Yeah, but I feel just as bad on the inside as I was on the outside. You're turn, unless you plan on wearing those for a while." I said to her. Her family didn't say anything, they must've known how bad yesterday was. After breakfast, we went up to her room to make a strategy.
"We can't attack him here in the real world, he's just as dangerous here as he will be in the Digital World." Valerie said, messing around with some change on her desk.
"Yeah, he can send Digimon into the real world, so I suggest that we don't fight here. He can hurt alot more people if he gets angry here. The Digital World seems a safer place to fight. And for another reason, we can't even attack him here in the real world, he could live anywhere and go anywhere here, you saw how he opened a Digiport right in the middle of a town!"
"All of us just need to work together."
"I don't think that'll be enough, we tried to work together last time and he still beat us down. With BlackWarGreymon working for him, we're done for. He flung WarGreymon around like a kid with a new toy. Maybe, if we had Imperialdramon, we could've done something. I think he's alot smarter than we realize. I don't think he's going to turn out to be a real big dumb ass like Ken was as the Emperor."
"Why would anyone want to do that to Digimon?" Valerie asked sadly. My 2-Way beeped. I pulled it out and looked at it.
"CODY, VALERIE! WE NEED YOU IN THE DIGITAL WORLD ASAP!!! SOMETHING IS UP. GET HERE SOON. THE GANG."
"Well, we'll finish this later." I said as I grabbed Minemon (He digevolved during breakfast. Pengomon digevolved twice during breakfast.) and walked over to the computer. Valerie stood beside me.
"Digiport open!" She cried and we were pulled in.
* * *
We landed in a clearing and saw them immediately: control spires.
"Doesn't he have an original bone in his body?" I asked to no one.
"Looks like he doesn't. Hey! There are the others." Valerie said and pointed to the halfway point in the clearing. We ran to them.
"About time you guys are here." Kason said, completely somber.
"I guess this is really bad if Kason doesn't have a wise ass comment to make." I said looking across the clearing. "Why are there so many in one spot?"
"I think I've figured it out." Ryan said. "Look at it like this. You want to have control over something, whether it be satelite or Digimon, you need something on the receiving object, i.e. a dark ring. The control spires are here to backup the dark ring's controller. Look at how the control spires are postioned." He said pointing at them. I saw what he meant.
"A square of them, and then one dead center. It's not a control spire group, it's a control transmitter." Tara said seconds before I could.
"Exactly. With them postioned like that, he can control a grid of nine areas, with four less control spires than if he put one in each area. This is more balanced too. You've got to give him some credit for that idea." Ryan smiled at the complexity of what he had figured out. All of us stared at him, giving him a hard look. "Or maybe not."
"That's not a good thing." Valerie said softly.
"It's worse than you think. Show them guys.." Christy said.
"Salamon digevolve to errrr...."
"Veemon digevolve to..... Ex.....actly what happened last time..."
"Tapirmon digevolve to... Wiz.... I give."
"Agumon warp-digevolve to........ maybe next time."
"Betamon digevolve to Sea.... oops."
"Okay, I get it. We all get it." Everyone's morale was getting worse and worse.
"Aw, boo-hoo." We all turned around to see His evilness behind us. BlackWarGreymon appeared behind him. Kunemon was like his shadow. "Did I ruin your fun? I'm sorry. NOT!"
"Why are you doing this!?" Christy shouted at him.
"Ha! I don't need to explain myself to lesser beings. I have a new playtoy for you all. Go, Kunemon!"
"Kunemon digevolve to....... Musyamon!"
"How can he digevolve?" Natalie asked what we were all thinking.
"He's special and your Digimon aren't. Allow me to introduce Musyamon. He's a ninja Digimon that has a tendancy to attack on my command. His NinjaBlade is going to hurt. And if that doesn't, BlackWarGreymon will help."
"Terra-Destroyer!!!" BlackWarGreymon shouted out. He threw a black/orange ball at us. We all dodged. Kason grabbed Tara, their Digimon went flying from the shockwave. Christy and Ryan leapt out of the way with their Digimon ahead of them. I grabbed Valerie and yanked her backwards. Minemon hovered back. I didn't see anything else except stars in front of my eyes.
"Is everyone okay?" I managed to ask after a few minutes. I was waiting for the final blow to come, but it never did. Everyone replied. All 16 of us. Wait, 16? There's 18 of us, including me. I didn't say anything, so we're missing one person or Digimon.
"Quick role call!" I shouted. "Ryan, Christy, Tara, Kason, Valerie, Natalie, Davy, Liana, me."
"Here." eight people said.
"Now, Digimon! Gotsumon, Salamon, Tapirmon, Veemon, Pengomon..." No answer.
"Pengomon?" Valerie asked. "Where are you?"
"I believe he's been deleted." BlackWarGreymon said coldly.
"NO!!!" She cried out, slamming her hands down on the ground.
"Oh, yes. Haha! Go Musyamon." The Emperor said.
"Veemon, Digi-Armor Energize!" Kason shouted.
"Veemon... armor digevolve to... Mangamon!" Magnamon hovered in the air in front of us. All of us stared at him.
"What!?!?" The Emperor cried in shock. "Oh well, show them who's the top ninja, Musyamon."
"Wormon, stop him! Digi-Armor Energize!" It was worth a try, it had worked for Kason.
"Wormon.... armor digevolve to.... Shurimon!" All the Digimon started to Armor Digivolve.
"Salamon... armor digevolve to.... Nefertimon!"
"Patamon armor digevolve to.... Pegasusmon!"
"Tapirmon armor digevolve to.... Raidramon!"
"Gotsumon armor digevolve to.... Digmon!"
"Betamon armor digevolve to.... Submarimon!"
"Agumon armor digevolve to... Flamedramon!" The eight armor Digimon launched their attacks in vengance for Pengomon.
"Magnamon Blast!" Missles launched from all over him, hitting both of the evil Digimon.
"Top ninja eh? Double stars!" Two stars were flung, one at each of the Digimon.
"Cat's Eye Beam!" One beam angled off and hit Musyamon in the chest, while the other hit BlackWarGreymon.
"Star Shower!" Pegasusmon flapped his wings and shot a hailstorm of stars at them.
"Blue Thunder!"
"Gold Rush!"
"Oxygen Torpedo!"
"Fire Rocket!" All the attacks slammed into their targets. All of us except Valerie cheered, but when the dust cleared, the two evil Digimon still stood where they had been before. Both of them laughed. Our Digimon dedigevolved and slumped to the ground.
"I thought so. Never stand in my way again. I'd hate to have to kill a person."
"Get bent, your Denseness!" Kason shouted after the Emperor as he turned and walked away with his lackeys at his heels. All of us did the same as our Digimon and slumped to the ground in defeat. I looked over at Valerie and blinked back my own tears. I have to stay strong for the group, the last thing they need right now is their leader having a breakdown. I thought to myself as I grabbed Valerie and hugged her. But, she pulled away. She stood and ran to the Digiport. I stood and followed her as fast as I could. Wormon was on my heels. She opened the port and went through. I jumped through a second later and landed in her room. She was on her bed, laying face down, crying into her pillow more than she'd ever cried before.
"Valerie, it's gonna be okay. Pengomon will be reborn in the Primary Village. He'll be okay." She looked up and flung the pillow at me.
"Go away!" She shouted. I walked over to her and sat beside her on the bed.
"No, you don't need to be alone right now." She gave me the evilest look I'd ever seen and she started to slam her fists all over me.
"No, no, no, no!!!!!!!!!" She shouted over and over. I grabbed her wrists and held them at her sides. She punched pretty damn hard!
"Valerie, listen. You never went away when I went through stuff like this. You were there for me, now I'm here for you." She hugged me and cried into my shoulder. I didn't say anything else. Two defeats in two days, a casuality and a mental breakdown. We were in the darkest moments of our lives. I just hugged her and didn't let go. Soon, she fell asleep in my arms and I laid her down on the bed. I walked over to the pillow she threw and put it under her head. She still sobbed in her sleep. I laid down next to her and looked at her. I wiped the tears from her face. You didn't deserve this Valerie, you out of all people. You didn't deserve this. I fell asleep.