Chapter 7: Ranting, Rushing, Rescue!
Jyou stuck out his thumb, desperately attempting to hitch a ride. By the time he could walk to the harbor, who knows what would happen to Ken and Daisuke?
And who knows what would happen to him if who knows what happened to Ken and Daisuke???
He gulped. He had been standing here for several minutes and still cars passed him by. There was only one thing left to do. Backing up a few steps, he waited for a car to come by.
A blue car was coming over the hill and Jyou jumped in front of it.
SQUEEEEELL!! THUMP! SLAM!
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"Hurry, Seadramon!" Michael yelled, hugging Wallace tightly to prevent him from falling (yeah, riiiiight)
The quartet (Terriermon and Gummimon were hanging on for dear life on his tail.) had used the Digital World gates to quickly navigate to Odaiba, and were now rushing through the streets to the harbor, attracting many strange stares. Wallace wasn't quite sure if this was due to the 20 foot long sea-serpent floating through the streets, or Michael's rather passionate embrace.
The five were on a noble mission, and well on their way...only there was one problem. They didn't quite know what way that was.
"Michael!" Wallace shouted, above the din of traffic. "How do you know we're in the right direction??"
"I don't, Terriermon is steering!" He yelled back, as confused as Wallace.
"I'm following my nose!" Terriermon said. "I can smell the rotten fish from here!" It was the most sensible thing that anyone had said all day, so Wallace accepted it as it came.
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As all this chaos was going on, Takeru and Iori were blissfully unaware and completely drunk. Poor Iori was giggling so much he was almost hyperventilating, and Takeru was doing... inappropriate things on the monitor with his hands.
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When Jyou opened his eyes, he found himself looking into Mimi's eyes. "Wha-What're you doing here?" He asked, wondering whether he was in heaven or hell, when exactly Mimi had died, and why there wasn't any Swedish Fish.
"I hit you with my car, idiot," she said, holding out her hand to get him up. "You aren't dead, if that's what you thought."
Jyou sighed. He wasn't dead, and he hadn't failed Hikari yet. (He was pretty sure the latter was the worse of the two options, as he was sure Hikari could defile his dead body pretty badly) But he would have to put up with Mimi.
"Mimi, I need a ride to the harbor, quick!" he said. Normally, he wouldn't ask her, knowing her unsafe driving "skills", he was a desperate and nearly dead man.
Mimi put her hands on her hips. "So I save your life, and you want me to play chauffeur? Where's the debt? Where's the I'm you slave for life sort of thing?"
"In the middle ages," Jyou said, and threw her in the car and slid into the driver's seat.
Buckling her seatbelts, she screeched at him "What are you doing??? This is Hijacking!" Jyou hit the gas and burned rubber, trying to get there as fast as humanly possible.
"Well, you see Hikari started going a little insane, and we needed to set up Ken and Daisuke..."
Mimi was face faulting at him, a large sweatdroplet hanging ominously above her head.
"Which was Hikari's idea, Ok? And then we rented this boat and put up all these cameras....."
The sweatdrop grew larger.
"Not that I wanted to see that!! And I hired this Captain, see, for two bottles of Rum....."
The sweatdrop was almost as big as Mimi's head.
"No, I didn't drink it! So then I come to find out this guy was the captain of this ghost ship...."
The sweatdrop promptly exploded, drenching both of them. Jyou swerved to avoid Seadramon as the digimon floated past on the street, then did a double take. Seadramon? Either someone was trying to take over the world again...or that was Michael!
He leaned out the window and yelled out "Michael, is that you?" Mimi struggled to grab the steering wheel as the car zig-zagged all over the road.
Michael smiled. "Wallace, it's Jyou! He's probably going to help Ken and Daisuke too!" Raising his voice, he shouted, "Yeah! We're going to rescue those two!" He reined Seadramon closer to the car.
"There's the harbor!" Jyou said, and grabbed onto Seadramon, jumping out of the car. "Cheaper than renting a boat. The three boys landed in the water and began to head out after the pirate ship and it's captives.
Mimi, however, was not as lucky. Unable to get control of the car, she rode straight into the bay. As she went down, she muttered, "Just look what this dirty water is doing to my hair!"
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They had made it up on deck, but the sight there was no better than being trapped under deck. The pirate ship loomed above them, a sight made especially to strike fear into the hearts of all that beheld it. The effect would have been a lot more effective had there been a jolly roger (skull and crossbones, for the layman) instead of a jolly rancher on the flag.
"Eeeeeeeeee," both boys said, trying to hide behind one another, (if you've ever tried this, you soon find yourself in a heap on the floor.) as rappelling hooks began appearing over the sides of the Murphy's Dream.
"We can't just stand here!" Daisuke said, getting a determined look in his eyes.
"Yeah, but what can we do? We don't have any weapons!" Ken said, looking about the ship for anything to brandish. His searching gaze found the antennae that Miyako and Takeru had erected. It was tall and flexible, and in order to make it look like fishing pole, they had attached a string to the end. Well, it wasn't exactly Kaiser material, but hell, it'd do.
Daisuke had too found a weapon, pulling off his goggles and grabbing the rocks used as ballast, used them as a slingshot.
The pirates swarmed up and over the edge of the ship, with knives that looked a little too sharp and pointy for either boy's liking. Funny thing was though, that all of them seemed to have bit's of candy stuck all over them. Swedish fish, mostly.
"Oh hell!" Daisuke said, and began shooting bits of rocks at the corsairs, though now it seemed a futile attempt, as the numbers had grown to horde-ish amounts. Standing back to back with Ken, he shot wildly into the crowd, fully intending to take down as many as he could before he went down.
Ken was a whole new sight to behold. Somewhere between Kaiser and Ken he found himself, even looking the part, as his hair was terribly messed up and sticking up slightly, giving it a Kaiser-ish look. He was wielding that whip with surgical precision, lashing out fiercly.
Ken had always been scared that that side of him would come back, but he wasn't concerned. He knew exactly what (or should we say, who) he was fighting for, and that he was right in this fight.
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"What's happening?" Jyou asked, squinting and shading his eyes. He could just barely see the shapes on the horizon that were the Murphy's Dream and the pirate ship. His eyes weren't very good, and it was almost dark."The Digivice isn't working anymore." When Ken had pulled out the antenna, all broadcast had stopped, so except for Takeru and Iori, who were plastered anyway, nobody could see what was going on.
Michael, who had better vision and was seated at Seadramon's head, said, "Looks like there's some kind of fight going on. "
"We've got to save them!" Wallace cried from Seadramon's tail. "It could really get ugly if we don't get there soon! Come on Seadramon!"
Terriermon muttered to Gummimon, "How come I don't get any practical forms like Seadramon? Hmph."
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Hikari shook her head. That had been a very interesting family reuion. She wasn't sure why Taichi had to have chosen the soup course to come out of the closet though. It would probably take them months to get all that soup out of the table cloth. Huh.
She switched on her Digivice. She hadn't had the opportunity to check up on her project all night (Urgh. Way too many relatives pinching her cheeks and telling her not to turn out like her brother.) so now she wanted to see some action. When nothing came up on the screen, she frowned.
"Hm. I guess I'll go down to the boat house, and see how Takeru and Iori are holding up," she said, and walked down the street. Odd, she thought, that the digivice wasn't working. She must have a "conversation" with Koushiro about that.
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Ken was wearing down, as wave after wave came before them. He lashed out, hitting many, but more just seemed to come up in their place. Daisuke was similarly ragged and his shot were getting strayed.
"We can't win," Daisuke said, seeing how futile this was. They were closing in on all sides.
"I noticed!" Ken replied, sarcastic, but quickly retracted his harsh tounge. "Sorry. Hell, if we've gotta go down, let's go down with a bang." He drew Daisuke close and gave him a kiss that put to shame the one that they had shared over lobster bisque.
The pirates, roughians that they were, were taken aback, to say the least. That was definately not what they were expecting.
"Those pretty boys put up that much of a fight?" a particularly nasty fellow with less teeth than his shoe size and more bits of candy sticking to him than his IQ (That is to say, not that many at all)
The rest were similarily surprised, but orders were orders, and they set upon the two, (still kissing) roughly subdubed them , bound them hand and foot, and dragged them away.
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Mimi stood on the docks, wringing water out of her ruined blouse. She had used the pay phone to call Miyako, Koushiro, Yamato, Taichi, and Sora. Everyone else hadn't been home. If what Jyou said was true, she wanted everyone to see when they landed.
Jyou stuck out his thumb, desperately attempting to hitch a ride. By the time he could walk to the harbor, who knows what would happen to Ken and Daisuke?
And who knows what would happen to him if who knows what happened to Ken and Daisuke???
He gulped. He had been standing here for several minutes and still cars passed him by. There was only one thing left to do. Backing up a few steps, he waited for a car to come by.
A blue car was coming over the hill and Jyou jumped in front of it.
SQUEEEEELL!! THUMP! SLAM!
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"Hurry, Seadramon!" Michael yelled, hugging Wallace tightly to prevent him from falling (yeah, riiiiight)
The quartet (Terriermon and Gummimon were hanging on for dear life on his tail.) had used the Digital World gates to quickly navigate to Odaiba, and were now rushing through the streets to the harbor, attracting many strange stares. Wallace wasn't quite sure if this was due to the 20 foot long sea-serpent floating through the streets, or Michael's rather passionate embrace.
The five were on a noble mission, and well on their way...only there was one problem. They didn't quite know what way that was.
"Michael!" Wallace shouted, above the din of traffic. "How do you know we're in the right direction??"
"I don't, Terriermon is steering!" He yelled back, as confused as Wallace.
"I'm following my nose!" Terriermon said. "I can smell the rotten fish from here!" It was the most sensible thing that anyone had said all day, so Wallace accepted it as it came.
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As all this chaos was going on, Takeru and Iori were blissfully unaware and completely drunk. Poor Iori was giggling so much he was almost hyperventilating, and Takeru was doing... inappropriate things on the monitor with his hands.
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When Jyou opened his eyes, he found himself looking into Mimi's eyes. "Wha-What're you doing here?" He asked, wondering whether he was in heaven or hell, when exactly Mimi had died, and why there wasn't any Swedish Fish.
"I hit you with my car, idiot," she said, holding out her hand to get him up. "You aren't dead, if that's what you thought."
Jyou sighed. He wasn't dead, and he hadn't failed Hikari yet. (He was pretty sure the latter was the worse of the two options, as he was sure Hikari could defile his dead body pretty badly) But he would have to put up with Mimi.
"Mimi, I need a ride to the harbor, quick!" he said. Normally, he wouldn't ask her, knowing her unsafe driving "skills", he was a desperate and nearly dead man.
Mimi put her hands on her hips. "So I save your life, and you want me to play chauffeur? Where's the debt? Where's the I'm you slave for life sort of thing?"
"In the middle ages," Jyou said, and threw her in the car and slid into the driver's seat.
Buckling her seatbelts, she screeched at him "What are you doing??? This is Hijacking!" Jyou hit the gas and burned rubber, trying to get there as fast as humanly possible.
"Well, you see Hikari started going a little insane, and we needed to set up Ken and Daisuke..."
Mimi was face faulting at him, a large sweatdroplet hanging ominously above her head.
"Which was Hikari's idea, Ok? And then we rented this boat and put up all these cameras....."
The sweatdrop grew larger.
"Not that I wanted to see that!! And I hired this Captain, see, for two bottles of Rum....."
The sweatdrop was almost as big as Mimi's head.
"No, I didn't drink it! So then I come to find out this guy was the captain of this ghost ship...."
The sweatdrop promptly exploded, drenching both of them. Jyou swerved to avoid Seadramon as the digimon floated past on the street, then did a double take. Seadramon? Either someone was trying to take over the world again...or that was Michael!
He leaned out the window and yelled out "Michael, is that you?" Mimi struggled to grab the steering wheel as the car zig-zagged all over the road.
Michael smiled. "Wallace, it's Jyou! He's probably going to help Ken and Daisuke too!" Raising his voice, he shouted, "Yeah! We're going to rescue those two!" He reined Seadramon closer to the car.
"There's the harbor!" Jyou said, and grabbed onto Seadramon, jumping out of the car. "Cheaper than renting a boat. The three boys landed in the water and began to head out after the pirate ship and it's captives.
Mimi, however, was not as lucky. Unable to get control of the car, she rode straight into the bay. As she went down, she muttered, "Just look what this dirty water is doing to my hair!"
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They had made it up on deck, but the sight there was no better than being trapped under deck. The pirate ship loomed above them, a sight made especially to strike fear into the hearts of all that beheld it. The effect would have been a lot more effective had there been a jolly roger (skull and crossbones, for the layman) instead of a jolly rancher on the flag.
"Eeeeeeeeee," both boys said, trying to hide behind one another, (if you've ever tried this, you soon find yourself in a heap on the floor.) as rappelling hooks began appearing over the sides of the Murphy's Dream.
"We can't just stand here!" Daisuke said, getting a determined look in his eyes.
"Yeah, but what can we do? We don't have any weapons!" Ken said, looking about the ship for anything to brandish. His searching gaze found the antennae that Miyako and Takeru had erected. It was tall and flexible, and in order to make it look like fishing pole, they had attached a string to the end. Well, it wasn't exactly Kaiser material, but hell, it'd do.
Daisuke had too found a weapon, pulling off his goggles and grabbing the rocks used as ballast, used them as a slingshot.
The pirates swarmed up and over the edge of the ship, with knives that looked a little too sharp and pointy for either boy's liking. Funny thing was though, that all of them seemed to have bit's of candy stuck all over them. Swedish fish, mostly.
"Oh hell!" Daisuke said, and began shooting bits of rocks at the corsairs, though now it seemed a futile attempt, as the numbers had grown to horde-ish amounts. Standing back to back with Ken, he shot wildly into the crowd, fully intending to take down as many as he could before he went down.
Ken was a whole new sight to behold. Somewhere between Kaiser and Ken he found himself, even looking the part, as his hair was terribly messed up and sticking up slightly, giving it a Kaiser-ish look. He was wielding that whip with surgical precision, lashing out fiercly.
Ken had always been scared that that side of him would come back, but he wasn't concerned. He knew exactly what (or should we say, who) he was fighting for, and that he was right in this fight.
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"What's happening?" Jyou asked, squinting and shading his eyes. He could just barely see the shapes on the horizon that were the Murphy's Dream and the pirate ship. His eyes weren't very good, and it was almost dark."The Digivice isn't working anymore." When Ken had pulled out the antenna, all broadcast had stopped, so except for Takeru and Iori, who were plastered anyway, nobody could see what was going on.
Michael, who had better vision and was seated at Seadramon's head, said, "Looks like there's some kind of fight going on. "
"We've got to save them!" Wallace cried from Seadramon's tail. "It could really get ugly if we don't get there soon! Come on Seadramon!"
Terriermon muttered to Gummimon, "How come I don't get any practical forms like Seadramon? Hmph."
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Hikari shook her head. That had been a very interesting family reuion. She wasn't sure why Taichi had to have chosen the soup course to come out of the closet though. It would probably take them months to get all that soup out of the table cloth. Huh.
She switched on her Digivice. She hadn't had the opportunity to check up on her project all night (Urgh. Way too many relatives pinching her cheeks and telling her not to turn out like her brother.) so now she wanted to see some action. When nothing came up on the screen, she frowned.
"Hm. I guess I'll go down to the boat house, and see how Takeru and Iori are holding up," she said, and walked down the street. Odd, she thought, that the digivice wasn't working. She must have a "conversation" with Koushiro about that.
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Ken was wearing down, as wave after wave came before them. He lashed out, hitting many, but more just seemed to come up in their place. Daisuke was similarly ragged and his shot were getting strayed.
"We can't win," Daisuke said, seeing how futile this was. They were closing in on all sides.
"I noticed!" Ken replied, sarcastic, but quickly retracted his harsh tounge. "Sorry. Hell, if we've gotta go down, let's go down with a bang." He drew Daisuke close and gave him a kiss that put to shame the one that they had shared over lobster bisque.
The pirates, roughians that they were, were taken aback, to say the least. That was definately not what they were expecting.
"Those pretty boys put up that much of a fight?" a particularly nasty fellow with less teeth than his shoe size and more bits of candy sticking to him than his IQ (That is to say, not that many at all)
The rest were similarily surprised, but orders were orders, and they set upon the two, (still kissing) roughly subdubed them , bound them hand and foot, and dragged them away.
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Mimi stood on the docks, wringing water out of her ruined blouse. She had used the pay phone to call Miyako, Koushiro, Yamato, Taichi, and Sora. Everyone else hadn't been home. If what Jyou said was true, she wanted everyone to see when they landed.