A Different Reality Part 2
by Cybra
A/N: Hmmm…Part 2 already…eat THAT, Kyra! ;P
Disclaimer: Nope. Still don't own Digimon. If the new Digimon I created resemble or have the same as any living or dead Digimon by other writers or the owners of Digimon themselves, that's purely coincidental.
My name is Jyou Kiddo, but you can call me Joe.
I'm basically the nervous wreck of the group.
You know, the one who warns everybody to be extra careful.
Well, I'm a member of a group called the Digidestined, but I think Matt already gave you the summary of what we do.
We've been through a lot together:
We've saved File Island from Devimon;
Found the Crests and tags on the continent of Server to defeat Etemon;
Gone back to Japan to find the Seventh Child, Tai's sister Kari, and saved our world and the Digiworld from Myotismon.
However, we have one challenge left to face. At least, I hope they're the last challenge we have to face:
The Dark Masters.
I'm scared to death of those four Mega Digimon.
Of course, who isn't?
Everyone in the Digiworld is afraid of them.
They warped this world and put most of it up on Spiral Mountain.
Well, there's one good thing that's happened so far:
Metal Seadramon has been defeated for good.
"Hey, Joe!" Gomamon shouted, interrupting me from my thoughts.
"Huh?" I asked intelligently.
"If you're not careful, the others are going to leave without us!"
I hurried to catch up with the rest of the group. We were traveling through a never-ending forest that seemed to be going nowhere. I knew we were lost. There was no way we could've known where we were.
I was about to say this when Mimi said, "Let's rest a minute. My feet're tired and I'm hungry."
Tai hmmm'ed for a moment until Matt nodded in agreement with Mimi.
"Yeah, I'm getting kinda tired, too. Let's take a break. It's not like we're going anywhere, so what's the rush?" Matt stated.
"We're looking for Puppetmon, remember?!" Tai snapped.
'Oh, boy. Here it comes…' I thought.
"We're not going to beat anyone if we don't stop and rest, Tai!"
I sighed. I knew it'd been too peaceful lately. I'd wondered when they'd start bickering again. Mimi sat down, taking the time to rest. A wise idea, but I had a job I to do. I walked up to the two fighting boys and stepped in between them before either one of them could begin trying to punch the other one.
"Cut it out, you two. Look, let's rest for a few minutes. Then, when everyone's ready, we'll continue on our way. Tai, Matt's right about us taking it easy. Matt, Tai's right about having to defeat Puppetmon. So will you two please stop arguing?"
They looked at me, blinked, and nodded, turning away from each other. I sighed. Well, at least the road trip would be relatively quiet. I had lived up to my Crest of Reliability once more:
I was reliable enough to break up a fight between Matt and Tai.
~~~~~
I must've dozed off because I felt Gomamon nudge me. I woke up and saw TK looking at me funny.
"Hey, Joe?"
"Yeah?"
"Why do Tai and Matt always have to fight?"
'Good question. Wish I had a real answer for you,' I thought, but what I said was, "They're both trying to look out for the group, but their ideas don't really match up. That's what I think, at least."
"Oh."
Patamon flew up behind him and touched him on the shoulder. TK turned around to see his friend's happy face.
"Tag! You're 'it', TK!"
"Hey!"
I smiled as TK began running around with Patamon. Kari looked a little surprised as TK tagged her, but quickly joined in the game. It wasn't really resting, they were just wearing each other out, but it was fun to watch. From the looks on their faces, it was fun for them, too.
While I was watching the two, Gomamon began talking my ear off about something that I wasn't paying attention to. He talked for a full five minutes before he realized that I wasn't listening. I tried not to show my amusement as his green eyes narrowed and he took a deep breath.
My amusement faded when he yelled, "Hey, Joe! Listen up!"
I winced at the pain of him yelling in my ear. Gomamon began laughing at my reaction. He hopped up onto my shoulders, "Climbing Mount Joe" he calls it, and looked over my head down into my face. My glasses slid down my nose and I shoved them back into place.
"Gomamon, I was thinking about something. Did you have to shout in my ear?"
"Of course!"
He continued laughing maniacally while I silently plotted my revenge when someone else's maniacal laughter came from above. The entire group turned their attention immediately to the source.
At first glance, you'd most likely think, "It's a puppet!" You'd be half-right. He's a puppet all right…Puppetmon. The Lord of the Forests as some Digimon call him. I gulped. He was right above my head in the same tree I was sitting against.
"Well, well, well…what do I have here? 7 Digidestined and their Digimon to play with!" he laughed happily.
"Yeah, right, Puppetmon! Go find somebody else to play with!" Tai snapped.
Sora stood right next to Tai, agreeing with him with a nod.
"Oh, so you guys don't wanna play, huh?" he asked in a whiny sort of voice. "Too bad! Puppet Pummel!"
He brought his mallet forward and all sorts of little lights came out of it. Trust me. From what Gomamon told me, those things hurt. We ran all around, dodging the attacks, until our Digivices began to glow.
"Agumon warp digivolve to…Wargreymon!"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to…Metal Garurumon!"
"Gomamon digivolve to…Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon digivolve to…Togemon!"
"Biyomon digivolve to…Birdramon!"
"Patamon digivolve to…Angemon!"
"Lightning Claw!"
Gatomon leaped up towards Puppetmon and began her attack. Puppetmon easily swatted her aside, but she landed on her feet. Typical of a cat.
"Terra Force!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
Laughing, Puppetmon dodged. I felt angry, but continued dodging Puppetmon's own attacks.
"You Digidestined are fun to play with!" he taunted.
"Harpoon Torpedo!"
"How's about a Needle Spray?!"
"Meteor Wing!"
"Hand of Fate!"
"Puppet Pummel!"
Puppetmon's attack took out all of our Digimon's. Ikkakumon tried ramming him with his horn, but the creepy little guy easily dodged out of the way. What we needed was more power…
"Electro Shocker!"
The sudden attack caught Puppetmon by surprise as he barely dodged out of the way. He turned around and shook his fist at Kabuterimon.
"Why do you always have to ruin my fun?! Puppet Pummel!"
Kabuterimon cried out in pain as the attack hit him in the leg. That's when he began to glow…
"Kabuterimon digivolve to…Megakabuterimon!"
I thought I was going to scream. He now looked like a gigantic cockroach! Mimi looked just as nauseated as I felt.
"Ew….he's gross!"
"Mimi! He's helping us out!" Sora told her.
"Well, he's still gross-looking!"
"Everybody digivolve while we have a chance!" Tai shouted.
"Ikkakumon digivolve to…Zudomon!"
"Birdramon digivolve to…Garudamon!"
"Gatomon digivolve to…Angewomon!"
"Togemon digivolve to…Lillymon!"
"Ha! You think all of you can defeat me?! I've got friends, you know!" Puppetmon shouted in defiance.
I raised an eyebrow. He didn't know when to quit…
"See you chumps later! Kiwimon, Garbagemon, take care of them!" Puppetmon ordered as he took off.
"Yes, Master Puppetmon," came the voice of a bird Digimon without wings.
The Garbagemon were disgusting little twerps in garbage cans that constantly threw sludge at us. Kiwimon ran quickly between attacks and constantly pounded us with his annoying-yet-powerful "Pummel Peck". Finally, Zudomon had had enough.
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
Kiwimon, too distracted by Garudamon, turned around just in time to see Zudomon's attack scatter him into bits of data. Meanwhile, Lillymon was having some fun taunting the Garbagemon.
"Over here, Ugly!" she taunted as she zipped around the battlefield.
I was vaguely reminded of how I asked Tai when we were facing Etemon, "Great. Why don't you call him 'Ugly', too?"
Megakabuterimon buzzed upward, not doing anything, as we continued to fight. He seemed to be…waiting…
'What's he up to?' I wondered.
"Everybody, out of the way!" Wargreymon shouted.
I quickly moved as he warmed up his attack.
"Terra Force!"
Needless to say, the Garbagemon were all now just stray pieces of data.
Tai shouted loudly, "Woohoo!"
"Why don't you just let Puppetmon know exactly where we are?" Matt muttered, but he looked happy for the win.
"Well, he knew where we were before," Tai remarked, still smiling. Apparently, not even Matt could ruin his good mood at the moment.
That was good. I didn't want to put up with any more arguing from those two.
That's when I remembered something. I looked around and spotted a figure disappearing into the forest. Our mysterious friend no doubt. I would've run after him, but it was too late. I turned my gaze upward to find out that Megakabuterimon had vanished from sight as well.
'I guess he was just waiting to see if we could handle it on our own…'
~~~~~
After the fight, we went back to what we had done many times before:
Walking, walking, and even more walking.
Loads of laughs.
Still, we'd managed to take out more of Puppetmon's forces which gave us a better chance at winning.
As we approached a new part of the forest, I saw Piximon flying in front of us.
"Hello!" he called.
"Hi!" we called back.
Kari tugged on Tai's sleeve. "Tai, who's that?"
"That's Piximon. He gave us some training a while back," Tai explained.
"That I did. Yep, yep, yep!" he agreed. "I think that all of you would like a nice place to rest, right?"
"Yeah!" Gomamon answered for the group.
"Well, follow me! When the Dark Masters warped the Digital World, my home was put right in the middle of this forest. Yep, yep!"
I couldn't help remembering of how annoying that "yep, yep" and "nope, nope" thing he does was. The little powder puff with wings led us deeper into the forest. Mimi was looking at the ground, crying. I walked up to her.
"Mimi?"
"I'm sorry. I was just thinking about…Flowerfairimon…" Mimi answer, still crying.
My heart clenched. Flowerfairimon had been sent to find us by Piximon when we first went up against the Dark Masters. She'd died while holding off the four Mega Digimon. She had been a Mega herself, but four against one has always been nasty odds for anyone. She hadn't been able to escape.
Palmon looked up at Mimi.
"Don't worry, Mimi…when Primary Village is fixed up, she'll be back," she soothed, "along with all the other friends we've lost…"
Mimi wiped her hand across her eyes.
"You're right, Palmon. We'll see her again. I know it."
"That's the spirit!"
We've lost a lot of friends in our battle against the Dark Masters and other evil Digimon.
First, Gotsumon and Pumpkinmon were condemned by Myotismon. It was Wizardmon who left us next since he had been killed by Myotismon. Then Chuumon, Flowerfairimon, Whamon…all of them were leaving us one-by-one. I looked at the ground in front of me. We had lost several battles.
As if he had been reading my mind, Gomamon whispered in my ear, "We haven't lost the war."
I looked at him, surprised. He smiled.
"I can tell when you're upset, Joe. No matter how hard you try to hide it."
I smiled at my digi-pal. I remembered what TK had said once:
"It's gonna be OK."
TO BE CONTINUED…
A/N: humming "Kitto OK" sung by Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing Not bad for a Part 2! Let's see how far this will go!