A Different Reality Part 12
by Cybra
A/N: Woah…I'm actually going to do Mimi's POV again…scary…Still, I think it'd be kinda funny to see how she describes the fight with Puppetmon. Don't you agree? Also, I know I've been using "Horn Blaster" in all my fics as Megakabuterimon's attack, but I always thought it was "Horn Blaster". I have seen the error of my ways and have changed it to the correct attack of "Horn Buster". Thank you for your patronage!
Disclaimer: The idea behind this story is mine. The show…isn't.
Hi!
It's your good friend Mimi!
How are you doing?
Well, our group was doing okay as we continued to walk through Puppetmon's forest.
I didn't like all the walking we were doing one little bit.
The heat was starting to make my hair go all frizzy.
Not a pretty sight.
"Tai, can we please stop for a little while?" I asked.
"Mimi, we have to get there as soon as possible. Besides, we had plenty of time to rest at Piximon's place!"
I sighed. There was just no way I could get him to change his mind.
Palmon walked next to me. She looked okay with the walk. In fact, I think she was enjoying it.
I looked over at Sora, my best human friend. It was exactly like that time we were looking for the Seventh Child AKA Kari. She didn't look tired at all!
That reminded me that we were no longer 7. We were 8 now. I'm not normally superstitious, but I always thought that 7 is a luckier number than 8. We'd need a whole lot of luck to fight Puppetmon.
I didn't like the idea of fighting one little bit. We'd lost a lot of good friends that way. Yet lately, when we fought, we hadn't lost a single friend.
Maybe 8 is a luckier number than 7.
Tai and Matt soon began arguing about something, as usual, until Joe walked up and broke it up. I wasn't really paying attention to them as I thought about how my legs were going to look like a body builder's when this was all over.
"Excuse me, Mimi," a cold voice began.
I jumped. Koushiro had caught up to me and was waiting patiently.
"Yes?" I asked, trying to regain my normal look.
"Does Lillymon have any attacks other than her 'Flower Cannon'?"
"Uh…she used her 'Floral Wreath' when we were back home looking for Kari."
"Thank you."
I guess that's all he wanted because he slowed down so Tentomon could catch up. This resulted in him being at the back again.
'Okay, that wasn't too bizarre,' I thought sarcastically.
I shivered slightly. That guy gives me the absolute creeps.
Palmon looked up at me. "Mimi, why'd he ask that?"
"I dunno, Palmon…I don't – "
I was cut off when Tai announced, "This is it!"
In front of us was this truly awful-looking house. It looked like its upper windows were eyes, and it had this thick roof. The color scheme was absolutely disgusting!
"Ug-ly!" I commented.
"It looks like a fun house!" TK shouted.
I watched as a bush suddenly moved. It turned around to show us a kind of chicken with a blue head and white body. He wore this handsome red bow tie and a golden crown on his head. The bush was attached to his back.
"Who're you?" Tai demanded.
The bird raised an eyebrow as he asked, "Who're you?"
Koushiro stepped up to the front of the group. The Digimon looked surprised.
"Didn't think I'd see you again! How're you and Tentomon doing?"
"We're doing well. Deramon, these are the Digidestined and their Digimon."
Tai's jaw hit the ground. "That's Deramon?"
Koushiro nodded. "Floramon should be joining us soon."
Deramon tilted his head to one side. "She's right behind you guys."
I turned to see this pretty little flower thing. She wasn't at all like Palmon. She was pretty skinny, but wasn't half-bad looking at all.
"What's going on?" Floramon asked.
"The Digidestined are here to get rid of that jerk Puppetmon!"
"Finally! I was thinking they'd never get here!"
Matt cut in, "There's no time for small talk, guys. We need to get inside. Is Puppetmon home?"
Deramon shook his head. "No, Lord Puppetmon left a while ago looking for you guys."
"Excellent," Koushiro stated. "We'll have the element of surprise on our side, then."
Deramon began to walk towards the hideous-looking house. "C'mon in. Just don't touch anything. Puppetmon has booby traps all over the place."
I watched out of the corner of my eye as Koushiro began to talk to Floramon. I couldn't help but eavesdrop.
"Floramon, does Puppetmon have any of these?" He held out something to her.
"Yeah, he does. Uses them for that trigger-happy monkey-in-the-box of his."
"Do you think you could go get them and bring them back to me? We'll be killing two birds with one stone."
"Don't say that!"
"Sorry. Figure of speech."
"Oh. Well, apology accepted. Yeah, I'll get them for ya. Be right back!"
Floramon disappeared into another section of the mansion as we headed upstairs.
"'Trigger-happy monkey-in-the-box'?" I asked.
Palmon shrugged. "Beats me."
We soon found out what Floramon had meant.
At the top of the stairs, there was a little Jack-in-the-box. It suddenly popped open and this monkey with a machine gun popped out. He began firing at us.
"Oh, so that's what she meant!" I yelped as we tried to get out of the way.
"Poison Ivy!"
Palmon's vines yanked the gun out of the insane monkey's hands, and threw it away. Agumon took a deep breath.
"Pepper Breath! Poi!"
Goodbye, monkey-in-the-box!
"Nice work, you two!" Joe congratulated as we made it up the stairs.
"You guys were awesome!" Sora added.
Palmon blushed. "It was nothin'."
~@~
Tai finished laying out the plan for us.
"Okay, so Matt, TK, Kari, Sora, and I are going to attack from the front with our Digimon. Mimi, Joe, and Koushiro will attack with their Digimon from the back. That way, he'll have too many targets to even think about a sneak attack from behind. Does everybody get it?"
We all nodded. Kari held up her hand like she was in school.
Ick. School. I don't like thinking about it.
"Tai, don't you think that we should kinda break up the second group?"
"Huh?"
Koushiro said, "I believe what she means is that we should have Mimi, Joe, and I spread out. That way, we've got him covered in case he tries to get away."
I shivered. I didn't like that plan at all. Splitting up was not one of my favorite things to do.
Tai looked surprised, but nodded in agreement. Kari smiled.
"All right then. Mimi, you, Joe, and Koushiro talk to each other about who goes where. Don't tell any of us where you're going to be. We don't want to give away your positions by accident."
Koushiro nodded his approval as Joe and I nervously agreed.
"All right then, let's go get Puppetmon!"
~@~
"This is such a drag," I complained from my spot in a tree.
Palmon had already digivolved to Lillymon and was sitting beside me.
She smiled as she said, "Don't worry. Once Puppetmon's gone, we're halfway finished with the Dark Masters!"
I smiled at that. We'd only have two left. Afterward, we'd be able to go home!
I slightly frowned. Of course, that also meant that I might not ever get to see Palmon again. I didn't think that was a good thing.
'Worry about it later,' I ordered myself.
That's when I heard this noise. It sounded like…
"A train whistle?" I wondered aloud.
"I'll go take a look," Lillymon offered as she flew off.
I felt a little nervous sitting in that tree all by myself. What if Puppetmon came this way while she was gone? I'd be in big trouble then.
I heard a buzzing noise a few minutes later. I turned around to see Lillymon flying in my direction.
"It is a train!" She told me when she landed. "It goes to and from Machinedramon's city according to the passengers!"
I smiled. After we got rid of Puppetmon, we could take a nice easy train ride to that metal moron's place. No more walking!
There was a loud explosion as some dust flew towards us. Lillymon beat her wings a bit to blow some of the dust out of my face. I covered my eyes. After the dust cleared, I opened my eyes and looked over the battle.
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
MagnaAngemon swiped at Puppetmon with his sword.
"Puppet Pummel!"
I watched as Garudamon soared into view. She flew way up high.
"Wing Blade!"
The bird made out of fire, Garudamon's attack, flew down towards Puppetmon. We could barely see what was going on down on the ground, but we were getting a pretty good idea of what was going on.
I watched as Wargreymon tried to hit Puppetmon with his "Terra Force" attack, but the little guy was just too fast!
Puppetmon tried running away from his house. He was quite surprised when the large, ugly-looking rock he'd seen suddenly moved…
Zudomon had laid down so his shell was upwards and most of him was hidden by the forest. That way, anybody would mistake him for a large rock.
Well, it worked like a charm!
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"No fair! You Digidestined don't know how to play by the rules!"
"Oh, and you do?" Matt taunted.
Puppetmon began running in our direction.
"Now, Lillymon!"
She flew upwards and created that huge yellow flower in front of her.
"Flower Cannon!"
That cut off Puppetmon like a crazy driver on the interstate! He jumped back as this big hole appeared in front of him.
"Oh, no! Not another one!"
I don't know what possessed me to say what I said next.
"Not so tough, are you, you piece of driftwood?!" I shouted.
"Mimi!" Lillymon shouted, shocked.
"Puppet Pummel!"
Lillymon gave a yelp, but began dodging the attack. I gave a yell and fell out of the tree. At least I could run for cover on the ground. Metal Garurumon came to my rescue with Matt on his back.
"Hop on!" Matt told me, leaning down to grab my hand.
I grabbed on, and he yanked me up behind him. Metal Garurumon took off into the air with Matt and I on his back.
"I hate this!" I screamed as I held on tightly to Matt's back.
Puppetmon decided to try to make it back towards his mansion. He'd have reinforcements there.
Wow! Listen to me talk! I sound like a general or something!
As we continued to chase Pinocchio's evil brother, Matt looked back at me.
"So, where's Koushiro?"
I wiggled my index finger and tsk'd at him. "Shame on you. Tai, told me not to tell either you, him, Kari, TK, or Sora."
Matt smiled as we suddenly went into a dive. I squeezed my eyes shut and gripped Matt tighter.
"See ya 'round, Digidestined! I've got a bunch of friends over at my place and they're ready for some fun!"
"Too bad you'll never get there," Koushiro's voice told him.
"Huh?!"
"Horn Buster!"
I opened my eyes as Puppetmon's hammer went flying. Garudamon caught it and smashed it in one of her feet. It was almost over!
Puppetmon grabbed his little puppet controller thing from his back and threw it at Megakabuterimon.
"Get out of my way! Puppet Pummel!"
I heard a loud "bang" as the tip of Puppetmon's nose was chipped off. He yelped in pain and forgot about his little controller thing…
…that is, until it hit him in the stomach.
"Metal Garurumon!" Matt shouted.
"Wargreymon!" Tai yelled.
Together they ordered their Digimon, "Finish him off!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
"Terra Force!"
The other Digimon decided to give them a hand. MagnaAngemon swooped in quickly and sliced into Puppetmon's back with his sword.
"Stop it!" Puppetmon cried. "You have to listen to me! I'm da boss!"
"I don't think so!" Lillymon shouted. "Flower Cannon!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Heaven's Charm!"
"Horn Buster!"
"Wing Blade!"
There was this huge explosion! When the dust cleared, we were all on ground zero and the Digimon had all de-digivolved. We watched as the last bit of Puppetmon's data disappeared.
"We did it!" Joe shouted.
"We won!" I yelled happily.
I ran over and gave Joe a hug for no reason at all. Then, I released when I noticed Joe was blushing beet red.
"Sorry, Joe."
That's when the forest decided it was time to disappear. Palmon ran up towards us.
"Guys, there's a train station that should take us to Machinedramon's city! We gotta hurry before it's deleted!"
"Let's go then!" Tai yelled.
We began running at top speed towards the sounds of a train whistling. The forest was being deleted all around us. The same thing had happened with the ocean when we'd beaten Metal Seadramon. The forest, just like the ocean, would be put back where it belonged.
However, I didn't want to be right in the middle of this process!
The train station came into sight. It was an old-fashioned style train station with all these trains. They were so pretty! However, all I could think about at the time was making it onto one of those trains.
As we approached the platform, the trains began to leave! Tai leaped onto the tracks and began to run after one of them. We all quickly followed.
The train wasn't going very fast, but it was picking up speed. Tai grabbed onto the caboose and pulled himself over the railing. He grabbed anyone and everyone who came close enough to him and pulled them on board as well. Matt and Joe were soon helping Tai as they began grabbing kids and Digimon. Koushiro grabbed onto Matt's hand and jumped up to grab onto the train, but he was still on the other side of the railing. He hadn't been pulled over yet.
Tentomon beat his wings furiously as he tried to catch up. That's when this red plant bounced into view.
"Just where do you think you're going?!" the ugly plant laughed as he snagged Tentomon's leg.
"Oh, no! That's Redvegiemon! He's always red because he's always mad!" Palmon explained.
I watched in horror as Koushiro let go of Matt's hand and jumped off the train. He rolled on the tracks and pulled something out of his backpack.
"Tai! He's got a gun!!!" I shrieked in alarm as I quickly recognized what that something was.
Koushiro fired a few shots at Redvegiemon's arms, making him release Tentomon. The train was picking up speed by the second.
I heard Tai's shout of "Kari, no!" as she leaped off the train with Gatomon. The two of them rolled just like Koushiro did, but they had a bit rougher landing. The train began pulling away from the station at an even faster rate.
Joe grabbed Tai just as he was about to follow her. "Tai, don't! The train's going too fast! You'll get seriously hurt!"
"I have to go back and protect her!"
The train station went out of sight as we turned a corner. I was in shock. It had happened so fast…
Matt put a hand on Tai's shoulder as Tai began to fume. "Don't worry, Tai. I've got a feeling that Koushiro's going to take good care of Kari. We'll see them again at Machinedramon's city."
'We hope,' I added silently.
The scenery around us changed into a desert, but the train was still going. We were on our way to Machinedramon's city.
TO BE CONTINUED…
A/N: What did I do to her?! I made her sound weird!!! Oh, well. I did my best! Can you believe I wrote this all in one hour? Woah…scary what happens when I have an idea on where this is going!!! J
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