Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 4
[A/N: I love the way I
finished that last part! Now comes the
fun!]
[Disclaimer: Don't own.]
"WHAT????!!!!!"
Tai screamed.
"Wait
a minute!" Joe leapt in, "How can that possibly be?" Myotismon shrugged and said, "Fate?" Shinji blinked a minute. "Can we stop the screaming for a second and discuss exactly why we're
here?" she wondered, "Vamp-boy didn't give me a very good explanation."
"YOU
are going back to the Real World!" Tai snapped, "WE are going to delete
this vampire!"
"No,
you're going to tell me what's going on, and NOT delete vamp-boy." Shinji
responded. "YOU'RE GOING HOME!" Tai
roared. He stood just before the
teenager, standing on his tiptoes and shouting in her face. "You spit when you talk, did you know that?"
Shinji said.
"YOU
ARE GOING HOME!!!" the Digi-destined leader shouted. Shinji turned to Myotismon and said, "Did
you notice he spits when he talks?" Tai
grabbed the shoulders of her t-shirt and started to yell again. But before he could say a word, he fell flat
on his back. Shinji pulled her left
foot back into place from her sweep-kick and stared at Tai.
"I'm
not going anywhere until I get a good explanation of why vamp-boy dragged me
here." she said flatly, "So either you fess up, or you're going to have to
suffer through having me along for the trip without any details." Tai growled and raised himself up on his
elbows.
"Geez,
you told me nothing." the newest Digi-destined said, looking at Myotismon
sideways. The sun had set by the time
the Digi-destined had finished with their story. Kari had to listen in intently as well. Tai sat away from the new girl, his arms crossed and staring at
the night sky.
"So,
you're the ex-bad guy." Mimi said, "So who are we up against now?" Myotismon stared at his partner carefully
from the corner of his eye. She looked
entirely calm and composed, but he knew that she was hiding her emotions.
"The
Dark Masters. Metalseadramon,
Puppetmon, Machinedramon, and Piedmon." he replied, "They reside atop Spiral
Mountain and will stop at nothing to get what they want." Matt curled his fingers before his mouth and
leaned thoughtfully against them. "So
how are we supposed to beat four Ultimates when we couldn't beat you?" he
wondered.
"They're…not
Ultimates." the vampire bowed his
head. The group let out a collective
gasp. "They are one level higher than
myself." he continued, "They're Megas." There was a cold silence. "How
are we going to beat them?" TK asked, his voice shaking. "Don't worry, TK." Matt smiled at his
brother, "We'll find a way to get them!" "Without their help." Tai said.
"Tai,
get it through that thick layer of hair!" Shinji ordered, "You need our
help!" "We don't need help from a
person we don't even know, and an old enemy!" the leader snapped.
"Listen,
I guess that this whole thing was decided by fate." Shinji said, "If it was, we
can't fight it. If I'm a Digi-destined,
and so are you, we need to work together."
"SHUT
UP!" Tai shouted. The teen jerked
backwards. "I don't want your help!"
the large-haired twelve-year-old snapped, "I don't need your help! We can beat the Dark Masters without you
two! GO HOME!"
Shinji
blinked. But she closed her eyes and
stood up. Myotismon looked at his
partner from his leaned position on a tree in confusion. "Fine, Tai." she said softly, "If you don't
want our help, then we'll go. But I'm
not going home." She silently walked
off from the campfire, slowly disappearing from the light.
"Shinji,
wait!" Myotismon called after her, dashing in the direction his partner
disappeared into. The Ninth Partners
vanished into the darkness.
"Tai,
have you gone completely insane?!" Izzy snapped, "Shinji's right! This is fate! We need each other's help!" "No we don't." Tai replied, "We got this far without them." "No we didn't." Kari muttered, "She was the
one that helped us get here." Tai
glared at his sister. "We don't need them."
he repeated.
Myotismon
glanced around. Even with his keen
sense of vision in the dark, he couldn't spot his partner. He never knew of something that wasn't a
digimon that moved so fast or silent. But he had heard of humans moving faster when their emotions ran high.
He
closed his eyes and concentrated. The
almost-silent sound of a twig snapping reached his pointed ears. He flew quickly to the place he had heard it
and saw a flash of silver dash between the trees.
"Shinji!"
he called. The girl didn't stop, but he
was quicker. He was in front of the
human, and had a tight hold on her shoulders. "You're right!" he insisted, "This is fate, and we can't deny it! You humans have to stick together!" Shinji's head was bowed, her eyes out of
view.
"Shinji,
why did you run away?" the vampire asked without emotion. "Even if I wanted to go home, I couldn't."
the human said in a strangely calm voice, "You know that." Myotismon didn't reply. The two remained silent with each other.
Tai
lay awake, staring at the black night sky. His trust was spread extremely thin, and didn't cover over the new
Digi-destined. He didn't want it to go
near them. His brown eyes glared, and
he rolled over.
But
before the Digi-destined leader could fall back asleep, Matt poked him in the
shoulder. "It's your turn for watch."
the blond said, quite awake. Tai sat up
with an angry sigh and waited for Matt to lie down and go to sleep.
"Tai,
don't say anything for a second and listen to me." the Child of Friendship
ordered, "You forgave Gatomon the instant you met her. You didn't mind that she used to work for
Myotismon. Well, tell me one
thing. Why don't you trust Shinji? Is it just because Myotismon is her
partner?"
"No."
Tai snapped, "I just…don't trust her!" "Why not?" Matt asked again. "Go
to sleep!" Tai ordered. "Not until you
tell me why you don't trust her!" Matt replied.
"I-Well-I-"
Tai glanced around, as if searching for a reason, "Go to sleep!" Matt still wouldn't lie down. The brown-haired twelve-year-old groaned
angrily and fell onto his back. "Tai,
I'm your buddy." Matt smiled, "You can tell me anything."
"Her
eyes." Tai said softly. "Say what?"
Matt raised an eyebrow. "There's
something about her eyes I don't trust." Tai repeated. "Tai, Shinji's eyes and my eyes are exactly
the same!" Matt sweatdropped.
"No."
Tai explained, "There's something I don't trust about her eyes. There's something in your eyes, and TK's
eyes, that I can trust. But when I look
at Shinji's eyes…they're the same as Myotismon's. I just can't trust them." Matt smiled halfheartedly.
"Tai,
you have to learn to trust people when you have to." the blond said, "You
learned to trust all of us, when you didn't even know us. And you learned to trust Gatomon in a
snap. So learn to trust Shinji, darn
it!" He smacked Tai over the head
lightly, laughing. Tai rubbed his head
and looked at Matt with a questioningly look. Matt smiled and then, Tai did too.
The
next day, the Digi-destined were in awe at Tai's sudden change of heart.
"C'mon
gang!" he said, "We've got a new partner to find!" He laughed and started to run off. Matt rushed after him, but the others remained where they
stood. "LET'S GO!" the two friends
shouted. Blinking a bit, but then
smiling, the Digi-destined raced after their leaders.
"The
digivice says that they aren't far off." Izzy remarked, keeping careful watch
over his digivice. "Great!" Tai
laughed, "Not far off!" Suddenly, the
digivice let out a loud beep and Izzy murmured 'huh?'. "Hey, the signal's coming up really quick!"
he said. Glancing at the small distance
between a clearing, and the signal of the digivice, Izzy said, "They'll cut
right through that clearing!" The team
stared at the clearing, and then saw a flash of silver run through the clear
space.
"Shinji,
wait!" Tai yelled. He started for the
clearing, but then saw another flash, a blue flash, run through the clearing,
firing off a blast of purple energy behind itself and into the sky. Almost immediately after, a huge creature
that looked like a metal sea dragon flew overhead, laughing like a horse. The Digi-destined hurried after the strange
occurrence.
The
forest abruptly ended a few feet into the chase, and opened to an area of dry
dirt and a cliffside. The Digi-destined
spotted their newest partner, running quickly down the stretch. Myotismon was in the air, lashing out with
his Crimson Lightning at the metal dragon.
"PUPPET
PUMMEL!" came a cry. "GIGA CANNON!"
rose another, metallic voice. Dots of
yellow energy shot from the west, where Shinji was running towards. Two, immense blasts of yellow energy rose
from the east, the other end of the dirt strip. The energy slammed into Myotismon, and he slowly fell from the
sky. The dragon laughed and let him
fall over the side of the cliff, down to the ground below.
"YES!"
a snobbish little voice shouted, "We got 'em!" Nearly transparent strings uncurled from the horizon and latched onto
Shinji. A loud, clomping sound came
from the other edge of the horizon, and a huge metallic beast appeared.
"One
traitor down." the beast growled, "Nine human brats to go. Throw her over the cliff!" A strange puppet walked up from over the
western horizon and whined. "But I
wanted to play with her first!" he moaned, "And I thought that Boss wanted her
for something!"
"Shut
up and let me go!" Shinji shouted, trying to move at all. "Ha!" the puppet laughed, "Now you'll do as
we want!" The wooden puppet yanked the
strings upwards, and the Ninth Digi-destined flew into the air. The strange digimon brought the strings
down, and slammed Shinji into the ground. He kept repeating the process, laughing.
"YOU
TERMITE-INFESTED PIECE OF DRIFTWOOD!" Tai shouted, running towards the digimon,
"I'M GONNA TURN YOU TO TINDER!" The
puppet had no idea that Tai was going to rush at him, and could only stand
still. Tai slammed into the wooden
puppet with all his might, and the puppet strings snapped. The digimon was thrown back, and Tai dashed
to his new ally.
"Tai-Dark
Masters-here-" Shinji groaned. She
suddenly scrambled to get to her feet and stumbled to the edge of the
cliff. "Vamp-boy?" she called down. Tai started over towards her, but froze as
she shouted, "MYOTISMON!!" She looked
as if she were going to jump down the edge of the cliff. Tai grabbed her shoulder
"Don't
try it!" he ordered, "It's too far! Even the best jumper would die!" Shinji glared down at the crevice, Tai's hold like a vice on her
arm. "You don't understand." she
hissed, "You don't even trust me, so let go!" She tried to pull her arm free, but Tai held fast. "I understand that I acted like a real
jerk!" he snapped, "But I'm sorry!" Shinji stared at him.
"Hey
brats!" the sea dragon roared, "You never attack the Dark Masters like
that! RIVER OF POWER!!" The two Digi-destined whirled around and saw
a stream of blue energy flying towards them. Tai suddenly shoved Shinji aside and stood in the spot she had
been. The energy slowly headed towards
the courageous boy.
The
Crest of Courage began to glow brighter than ever before, and Agumon
jerked. Power and energy coursed
through the Rookie digimon and a new command of digivolution entered his
mind. He knew what to do.
"AGUMON
WARP-DIGIVOLVE TO!" he shouted. The
orange light of digivolution enveloped Agumon, and he shifted through each of
his forms. But then, a new form
overcame his body, and he cried out the name of his Mega form.
"WARGREYMON!"
the Mega level digimon roared. In a
flash, the new digimon had flown to the two Digi-destined and flew them
away. The blue energy of the Dark
Master smashed into the dirt and rock, but the Digi-destined weren't harmed.
"War…Greymon?"
Tai turned slightly in his partner's arm, to gaze at the new digimon.
"Wargreymon
is a Mega level digimon of the Vaccine type!" Tentomon supplied as Izzy pulled
up the profile, "His Terra Force and Mega Claw attacks rip apart his
enemies! Don't get in the way of this
dino!"
"Right!"
Wargreymon said in his roaring voice. He gently landed by the rest of the Digi-destined, letting Shinji and
Tai go. "Time to fight!" he bellowed. The Mega digimon flew at the metal sea
dragon, ready to fight.
"Tai,
why in the world did you do that?" Shinji asked, not looking at Tai. "Hey, I wouldn't be a good leader if I
wasn't ready to risk my life for my friends!" Tai replied with a grin. The Digi-destined were too intent on
watching Wargreymon battle against the metal sea dragon to notice Shinji's
hands clenching to fists and smiling, shaking her head.
After
landing a screeching blow on the sea dragon's metal body, Wargreymon flew back
slightly. "Ready to give up?" he
growled. "You'll meet us again!" the
dragon roared, "Until next time, Digi-dolts!" He flew away.
"Digi-dolts?"
Matt asked, "He couldn't come up with anything better?" The Digi-destined laughed loudly. "Hey, what about Myotismon?" Kari asked. The soft clop of a heavy boot made the
Digi-destined turn. "You could be a
little more concerned and at least try to get to me." Myotismon said
sarcastically.
"You're
all right, aren't you?" Shinji questioned, actually serious. "A bit of energy bruising, but fine none the
less." Myotismon replied. Shinji sighed
a breath of relief. The Digi-destined
stared at Shinji strangely. "You're
really concerned!" Mimi teased. "You
even called him by his real name!" Kari giggled. Myotismon raised an eyebrow and asked, "You did?" Shinji turned a light red color and turned
slightly. She lifted her nose and said,
quite easily, "I did no such thing, vamp-boy!" The Digi-destined started to laugh again.
Shinji
opened one eye and glanced at Myotismon. He smiled at her, and she returned the smile.
