DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02: Part 8
[A/N:
Did I just arrest my own character?]
[Disclaimer:
Don't own.]
"Miss Shazaki, you are charged with destruction of the Tokyo Tower." the first man said, "What do you have to say in your defense?"
"I won't say anything." Shinji replied
tiredly, "I did nothing wrong. I was
defending myself against another mutant." "Oh really?" a familiar voice questioned.
Kusan Igan stepped into the light,
throwing snapshots onto the table in front of the old men.
"I have crystal clear evidence of you
destroying the Tower." the man said, "And there is no one else in the
picture. And you seem to be enjoying
this mindless destruction."
"DEMON!" Shinji shouted, rising to her
feet, "There's no one else in the shot because you tampered with what the
camera could see! STOP HIDING AND SHOW
US YOUR REAL FORM, DEMON!" A guard
leapt forwards and slammed his elbow into the teacher's stomach, silencing her. "There's no need for that." Kusan said,
waving his hand, "Just see that she doesn't escape her cell. Take her away!" The two guards forced the teacher from the room.
Thunder crashed angrily across the sky,
and Joe jumped. "Mimi, calm down!" he
said, patting his betrothed on her shoulder. "It isn't me, remember?" Mimi breathed sadly, "This is normal." "Oh right…" Joe muttered
half-heartedly. Tai slammed his fists
onto the table in the middle of the room. "This is crazy!" he said, "Why would they arrest her?!"
"Someone set us up." Matt surmised,
"Kusanagi." "It's only logical." Izzy
agreed, "But we have one big problem." "How are we going to get Shinji out of jail?" TK wondered. The rain pounded loudly against the roof and
windows, and it seemed deafening in the silence. The teachers thought hard, trying to figure something out.
"Wakey-wakey, sister dear." a sarcastic
voice taunted. Shinji groaned and
looked up. "Go away you lousy
rat-bastard." she cursed angrily. "My,
my!" Kusan said, "Such language for such a highly regarded person!" "What are you here for?" the teacher
questioned. "Oh, I just wanted to see
my little sister in jail, that's all." Kusan laughed.
He smiled and turned away, chuckling at
the situation. "By the way, if you're
expecting your little friends to post bail, it won't work." he said, "You have
neither the funds, nor the possibility to even try. See you later."
"Come ON!" Tai leapt to his feet
angrily, "I expected that at least one of us would have gotten an idea by
now! Especially you, Myotismon! This is YOUR partner we're trying to
save!" "I have no clue." the vampire
said, "She exhausted her powers, so our link wouldn't even be open right
now. We don't have nearly enough money
to try and post bail, and like I said, she exhausted her powers, so she wouldn't
be able to break out. The only thing
that could help her is if she could get small enough to go through the bars!"
Tai's brown eyes lightened up. "Did you say…'small'?" he grinned. The Ultimate level digimon nodded, and Tai
grinned wider. "Yolei, you remember
that spell that you used once on Davis, right?" he asked. "Spell?" Cody questioned. "She's more of a magician than a mutant."
Mimi whispered. "Which one?" Yolei
replied, "Davis is kind of my guinea pig for spells…" "The funny one!" Tai snapped quickly.
"Yes, why?" Yolei asked, tilting her
head to the side. Tai glared, and
glared, and glared, and then Yolei blinked. "Oh!" she said, "I get it!" "But, Tai!" Kari said, "Wouldn't Shinji get really, REALLY angry with us
for doing this?" "That's the point!"
Tai said, a glimmer in his eyes, "This is the only thing I've got, and besides,
I owe her for something that happened on the trip!"
"Well, OK…" Yolei began to chant the
incantation, and the others watched.
Shinji leaned back against the wall,
letting her eyes close slightly. She
was so tired, and this was a much needed, but unwelcome break. But suddenly, a strange and harsh electrical
charge streaked through her veins, and she blacked out without warning, and
with no sound. A few moments later, the
teacher woke, and she blinked a few times. The clattering of metal against stone reached her sensitive ears—
Wait a minute. Sensitive ears?
Shinji looked at her hands, and froze.
She had furry paws.
"Oh gods…" she said, but what came out
was:
"Meow."
"They turned me into a-a-a…" the
teacher thought silently. The tiny,
rabbit-like figure let out a pitiful meow. "I'm a cabbit…" the teacher sobbed internally.
"Hey!" a weak voice shouted, "Hey,
Shinji! Run like the dickens, you furry
cabbit!" Tai communicating through a
weak link from Kari. And he was
laughing.
Shinji face-vaulted onto the stone
floor, then got back up. "Well, no
sense in wasting a perfectly good escape chance!" the cabbit meowed in its
normal tongue. Darting out between the
metal bars, the small, brown-furred creature looked around. The guard that had elbowed her in the
stomach was sleeping watch, leaning back in a chair. The cabbit grinned an evil grin.
"YEEEEEEEOW!!!"
The cold-hearted policeman let out a
scream as something clamped down hard on his nose. He ripped it off, ripping quite a bit of skin off as well, and
threw it aside. He heard the meowing of
a cat, but was too concerned with his bleeding nose to look.
"And that's what you get for smacking
innocent mutants!" Shinji meowed, waving a paw in goodbye. The policeman ran off, screaming something
about demon rats, and the cabbit laughed an evil laugh. Shinji bounded down the dark hall, running
out of the police department, and out into the rain.
The Digi-destined waited anxiously for
the return of their friend. Tai was
pacing nervously, and biting his thumbnail without purpose. There was a sudden 'THWAP' sound at the
window, and everyone jumped. Myotismon
leapt over the group sitting in a couch, and wrenched open the window.
"MEEEOW!!!" A furry cabbit yowled,
struggling to keep its grip on the narrow windowsill.
The group all stood up, smiles on their
faces as Myotismon pulled the very, very wet cabbit into the room.
"All right, Tai, you've had your fun."
Myotismon sighed, rubbing the towel hard into the cabbit's wet fur, "Yolei,
change her back." Struggling not to
giggle like the schoolgirl she was, Yolei stepped forwards and raised her
hands. But suddenly sweatdropped.
"I-uh-I-" she began, "It's been so
long… I forgot the counterspell!" There was a flurry of cloth, fur, and teeth
as Shinji leapt free of the towel and launched at Yolei. Luckily, Myotismon reached out and encased
the small cabbit in his hands.
"Yolei, you've got- YEEEEEOW!!!" he started. But he screamed, nearly dropping his partner
as teardrops appeared in the corner of his eyes. "She BIT me!" he yowled. Struggling against the malcontent of a pissed off cabbit, he hissed,
"You've got a few hours to remember or find that damned counterspell!" "Meow!" the cabbit growled through
Myotismon's hands.
"I've forgotten how cute cabbits are."
Sora murmured softly, "Although, I have to admit that Shinji is a much cuter
cabbit than Davis was." "Hey, are you
feeling OK?" Izzy asked, turning around in his chair, "You seemed pretty tired
when we were waiting." "I'll be OK
after a good sleep tonight." the red-haired woman breathed, rolling over onto
her side.
"Did you really have to bite me so
hard?" Myotismon wondered. "Meow, meow,
meow." Shinji replied tiredly, lying on the digimon's lap. "Are you in such a rush to turn back to
normal?" the vampire asked, "You look
so cute." "Meow, meow, meow!" the cabbit
mewled. "Oh yeah." Myotismon sighed, "I
forgot."
Yolei searched vehemently through her
composition book, searching through the spells she had figured out how to
do. It had been a long time, and the
notes were scrawled somewhat hastily, and she could never remember
anything. But, she knew that she had
written it down somewhere.
As the night turned into day, Yolei had
finally found the spell, and called the other teachers into their meeting
place, or their lounge anyway.
"So, got the spell all ready?" TK
asked, "Sure that you won't turn our head teacher into a frog or
anything?" "Do you want to be turned
into a frog, bucko?" Yolei snapped, "I was up all night looking for this!" Suddenly, both teachers' heads conked
together and they sweatdropped. "Meow!"
the head teacher-turned-cabbit shouted, landing back on the ground and dusting
her paws off.
"Sorry." Yolei sighed, "I'll get on
it." The magician began to chant the
incantation, and the group stepped back slightly. The cabbit/teacher sat still as a stone, waiting for the
magician/teacher to finish the danged spell. As Yolei finally finished the spell, the teacher blacked out for a few
moments once more.
"Yolei, what did you do wrong this
time?!" the teacher shouted, in a strangely muffled tone, "I can't see a
thing!" Suddenly, the sound of boots
walking towards her made the teacher look around, until a hand fell on her head
and made her freeze.
The same hand clenched into a cloth
that was lying on her head, and lifted it up. Shinji blinked a few times, trying to get used to the light, and stared
into her partner's eyes for a moment. "What?" she asked. Myotismon
dropped the cloth and stumbled backwards for a moment.
"YOLEI, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY
PARTNER?!" he shouted suddenly. "Yolei,
what did you do?!" a muffled shout came from the teacher.
Tai strode over to his friend, and
pushed back the cloth that kept falling over her face. The teacher shook her head for a moment,
then looked at Tai. Tai slowly turned a
strange shade of blue, and then turned around to look at Yolei.
"Please tell me that I'm still asleep."
he squeaked. The entire group shook
their heads in unison, turning the same shade of blue. "What?" Shinji asked. "You-you—" Joe stuttered. Sighing, Shinji stood up and walked towards
the group, but then paused.
"Say, did you guys grow a few feet when
I was a cabbit?" she asked, "Did Yolei cast some sort of growing spell on you
or what?" She blinked suddenly and
rubbed her arm. "And why the heck does
it feel like I'm wearing a really loose jumpsuit?" she wondered. "You-you look—" Kari began.
Cody stepped forwards jerkily, and then
stared his teacher in the eye.
They were the same height.
"Yolei, did you shrink me?!" the
teacher snapped, "Why I am Cody's height?!" "If-if I can say so, you…you look a little bit younger than me." Cody
said jerkily, raising a finger and pointing, "You look…like you're nine years
old."
Shinji froze, her eyes little dots, and
then squeaked, "Am…I wearing a cabbit pajama suit?" Cody nodded slowly, hardly able to move. Slowly, Shinji began to growl angrily, a large
pockmark popping out on her forehead. Then she leapt at Yolei, screaming bloody murder.
"YOLEI, YOU TURNED ME INTO A
NINE-YEAR-OLD!" she screamed, "YOU TURNED ME INTO A NINE-YEAR-OLD YOU
TWIT!!!!" Luckily for Yolei, Myotismon
grabbed the nine-year-old and held her back. "Yolei, if I were you right now, I would run like hell." he said,
holding his partner back. He didn't
even finish the sentence and Yolei was out the door.
That night, Shinji sat awake in her
cabbit pajamas, plotting how to kill Yolei.