Well with Fan fiction.net finally up I say it's about time that I updated, how long has it been since I update? Three weeks? That sounds about right. Actually this chapter isn't quite finished yet, but I thought since it's been so long since I've updated I better put something up, I'll be putting this chapter up in three parts (like I did for two others before it), the second part to this chapter should be up sometime tonight if not sooner. So I'll shut up and let you enjoy the latest chapter, which includes a glimpse into Elecmon's past.
Disclaimer: As you all know I don't own Digimon, I'm making no money off of this so as usual please don't sue.
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Chapter 25: The Strongest Minions
Kris
My eyes opened the next morning to feel a warm body sleeping beside me, Elecmon? No, Jenn, I had fallen asleep with my arms wrapped around her, and she was cuddled up to me. It hadn't been a dream, it had actually happened. I warm smile spread on my face, for a while I thought I'd been dreaming, last night was almost too good to be true. Aside from kissing he hadn't done really done anything. I did end up staying the night, but we only ended up cuddling up on her cot and falling asleep in each other's arms. I thought the whole thing had been a dream; it had been to good to be true. But it wasn't the proof was right here, the girl I loved was wrapped in my arms, and it was real! She rolled over placing one of her arms around me, beginning to wake up. Her beautiful eyes opened, and looked up at me lovingly.
"Morning," she said cuddling even closer.
"Morning," I responded. "Sleep well?"
"Great," she answered drawing herself even closer. "It's hard not to be comfortable when I'm so close to you."
I smiled, and we kissed lightly. Could this get any more perfect?
I always thought, romantic stuff like this on TV was so corny, but now that I was actually experiencing it I absolutely loved it. I never thought I could be this happy.
"How could I have not noticed how beautiful you are before?" I said.
She blushed bright red. "That's kind of hard to follow, except maybe with this."
She brought her hand to my cheek and brought me into a passionate kiss. I don't think I'd ever get tired of this.
Our lips finally parted. We looked into each other's eyes and couldn't help but smile.
"That beats a compliment any day," I said.
"I thought you'd feel that way," she said her grin just as wide as mine. "I can't believe how fast this relationship is accelerating, we've been a couple for less than a day, and we're already making out like we've been dating for months."
"Well technically we've been dating for years, we've been such good friends for so long, its like we've been dating. Just without the physical intimacy, it's like our relationship has been lying dormant for all these years and now that it's finally out all the emotions that we've felt for each other over the years are just being expressed physically."
"I thought you said you only had these feelings for me just recently," she said.
"I have," I said. "But the truth is I think I've felt them for a long time now, they were just dormant. It took Elecmon to bring them out."
"I'm glad he did, I love this. "I've been praying that you'd be holding like this for a long time. I love feeling your arms around me."
"And I love holding you like this." I said. "Almost as much as I love you."
"I love you too." She said not taking her hand away from my cheek.
We began to move our lips towards each other once again, but where stopped by a harsh cough.
"Ahem," I heard Yolei cough from the doorway.
Both our heads turned towards the doorway, both of our faces going bright red as we saw Yolei, Hawkmon, Elecmon and Penguinmon standing at the doorway, all four of them had enormous grins on their faces.
"How long have you guys been standing there?" I asked.
"Only a few seconds," Elecmon answered.
"But long enough to see you two have moved up in your relationship," Yolei said.
"Of course we had already impression after seeing you cuddled up so close when you fell asleep." Penguinmon said. "And like I said before it's about time."
We were both blushing a deep red, both unsure of what to say, we could say anything we wanted to, to each other, but as far as other people went that was a different story, for me anyway. Jenn was much less shy than I was.
"You guys can come and eat if you want," Hawkmon said. "There's not much but cereal's better than nothing."
Jenn grinning seductively, not something I was used to seeing on her, but it was something I liked.
"No thanks," she said, then turned to face me. "I've got everything I need to satisfy my hunger right here."
It was easy to say I was blushing as she said that, it wasn't something I'd expect from her, I guess had it been anyone else she wouldn't have, but I was someone she'd known since she was seven, I guess because of that she was more forward, and I knew I felt the same way. I felt I could be much less shy around her, and the next words that came out of my mouth showed it.
"Mm, I like the sound of that."
If she was surprised by those words she didn't show it, she just drew our faces closer and met in yet another passionate kiss.
"Please get a room," Yolei sighed, walking out of the room.
Had my lips not been wrapped around Jenn's, and my tongue not in her mouth, I would have said. 'I don't know if you noticed but we've got one.'
The Digimon didn't leave right away, Yolei had to drag them away, our Digimon anyway, Hawkmon left without a problem.
Our lips separated after about five minutes of being together and I was still reluctant to pull away.
"You know my question still hasn't been answered." Jenn said. "Where exactly do we go from here? Officially we're not even dating yet, I could definitely call you my boyfriend, but even though I've had my tongue in your mouth we haven't even gone on our first date yet."
"Is that a hint?" I asked.
"Yes, it definitely is."
"How about tonight?" I asked. "That is provided that Infermon doesn't attack."
"And the odds of that are?"
I sighed. "Unfortunately not very good, he's attacked almost every day we've been here. It's probably not very likely that he won't attack today too."
"We could at least try to go out and have a good time."
"Yeah, that's what I was about to suggest, so what would you like to do?"
"I was thinking something like dinner, they've got to have something besides sushi restaurants here right? I mean that is just a stereotype."
I nodded. "Yeah that sounds good to me, we'll go out for dinner tonight, when?"
"Seven sound okay." She said.
"Then it's settled," I said. "What do you want to until then?"
She smiled seductively. "What do you think I want to do?"
We both grinned seductively as we drew closer and once again found ourselves kissing again. I couldn't believe how affectionate we were being, but I knew if this had been anyone else than I couldn't be being this affectionate, things would be going much slower, but this wasn't someone else, I would be really shy and nervous about any physical contact. However this wasn't someone else, this was Jenn and I could tell her anything, I was never shy around her when it came to words why should physical contact be any different?
The phone began to ring, but we ignored it, nothing could separate us right now. I had the girl that I loved in my arms and there was no way some stupid phone was going to make me let go, besides it wasn't my phone anyway Yolei could get it. The phone stopped ringing only for a moment only to bring upon another distraction.
"If I could interrupt you two for a moment," Yolei said entering the room, along with the three Digimon. "But Davis is on the phone and wants to talk to Kris."
Jenn broke the kiss for a second only today. "He'll call back." She drew us closer and we began to kiss again.
Davis! I completely forgot! I didn't tell him where I was going I'd just disappeared for all he knew both Elecmon and I could be dead, right now only Jenn Yolei and their Digimon knew where Elecmon and I were.
I reluctantly broke the kiss. "Sorry Jenn," I said. "As much as I'd like to continue this I've got to take this, I didn't exactly tell Davis I was coming over here. I'm just going to tell him I'm okay."
"You didn't tell him,"
"I was in a hurry."
"You were," she said happily. "To see me?"
I smiled as we looked into each others eyes once again.
"Ahem," Yolei interrupted.
"Sorry," I said taking the phone from Yolei. "Hello?"
"Where the hell have you been!" Davis yelled. "I thought Infermon might have gotten you. You just disappear! For all I knew you could be dead!"
"Sorry Mom," I said sarcastically. "We were sleeping, I didn't want to wake you up."
"So instead so scared the hell out of me, what was so important that you had to leave in the middle of the night anyway?"
"I just had to talk to Jenn," I answered.
"Oh I see," he said. "You had to talk. I'm sure you did a lot more than that."
"Shut up!" I snapped. "Look I'll be back as soon as I can, sorry I didn't tell you where I was going."
"No rush, you can stay and make out with your girlfriend if you want," Davis teased.
"Shut up!" I snapped hanging up the cordless phone.
I didn't like the look Jenn was giving me. It was almost a cold stare.
"Did I hear right?" she asked. "Did I here you say you were leaving?"
"I'm really sorry Jenn, I don't want to, I'd love to stay here with you, but Infermon could attack at anytime, and if he just happens to attack the area Davis is in he wouldn't have any backup."
I was hoped for a response that gave me some sort of excuse to stay, I didn't want to leave, holding her in my arms was one of the best feelings in the world and I would have taken any excuse to stay this way, no matter how stupid it was. Even if she had just asked me to stay that would've been enough.
"I guess you're right," she said sighing. "Without Ken Davis's Digimon can only become a Champion, he could use your help if something happened. Besides the date would be better if we didn't spend all day together first."
I nodded, not wanting to agree but still knowing she was right. Very reluctantly we separated and I walked towards the window.
"I'll see you at seven then," I said.
"Unless of course we get called to duty."
I smiled and nodded, Elecmon jumped out the window and Armor Digivolved. I gave Jenn one last wave goodbye as the dome on Armyleomon's back closed, and sadly flew away.
* * *
"Are you sure that florist shop is around here somewhere?" I asked Davis glancing looking at the numerous shops in downtown Odeiva.
Davis, Ken, Izzy, Rob and I had gone downtown so I could find a florist shop and get flowers for my date with Jenn. I had to promise I'd buy Davis lunch to convince him to come, I didn't know my way around here so I needed a guide, and we'd ran into Ken, Rob and Izzy on our way. Rob wanted to check out some of the local shops, and had convinced Izzy and Ken to come. Our Digimon were with us but they were hiding in various places keeping out of site of the public but still keeping an eye on us.
"Of course I'm sure," Davis said. "I know my way around my own hometown."
"And that's why we've been looking for an hour," I said glancing down at my watch, once again noting the time. It was going to take forever for seven to come. "Five hours and twenty-seven minutes until I see her again."
"Will you stop doing that!" Davis practically yelled. "I've seen a guy fawn over a girl like that."
Izzy smiled at Davis. "You mean like the way you do over Kari?"
Davis's face went red. "Uh - I."
"You and Kari?" Rob said. "I thought I saw something between Kari and T.K."
"What?!" Davis yelled. "T.E could never end up with Kari!"
"I don't know," Rob said. "I could definitely see some sort of spark between them."
"Davis and Kari aren't together," Ken said laughing. "Davis just thinks they are."
Davis began to grow angry, but we all just laughed it off. It was nice to be able to socialize like this without having to worry about losing our lives. I hadn't had the chance to just hang out with other kids and not worry since this whole ordeal started. Davis seemed to shrug off his anger like it was nothing at all as he spotted what we were looking for.
"See there it is!" Davis said pointing to the florist shop just ahead of us.
"Finally," I said. "It's been an hour since we started looking."
"Come on!" Davis said breaking into a run. "The sooner we get what we need there the sooner we can eat."
Davis broke into a run towards the store, forcing the rest of us to do the same, with the exception of Ken. He wasn't just walking, he had stopped walking altogether, not only that but his face had a horrified look on it and he was shivering.
I stopped running, and ran up to him. "Ken you okay."
He didn't respond, he just kept that same horrified look on his face.
"Ken!" I yelled grabbing his shoulders. "Ken you okay?"
Still no response it was like he was in some sort of a trance, and paralyzed in fear. The others began to notice what was happening, and stopped running towards the florist shop and began to run back towards us.
"What's wrong?" Izzy asked.
"I don't know!" I yelled.
"Ken!" Davis yelled Davis yelled beginning to shake Ken. "Ken snap out of it."
"What are you doing!" I yelled. "Do you want to make it worse."
But it didn't make it worse Ken immediately snapped out of it, but he seemed weakened, and fell to his knees.
"What happened there?" Rob asked. "You okay?"
"Yeah," he said. "Fine, I just had this really bad feeling, I saw - I'm fine!"
"You sure didn't look it," Izzy said. "You looked like something had really scared you, what did you see?"
"Nothing okay!" he snapped angrily. "Just leave me alone! It's nothing!"
He pushed Davis's hand off his shoulder and began walking ahead of us towards the florist shop.
"That was weird," I said. "I've never seen Ken snap like that, he's usually so nice. I've never really seen him angry."
"You didn't see him as the Digimon Emperor," Davis said. "But he hasn't acted like that in a long time. For that brief moment when he snapped like that he was acting the way he did as the Digimon Emperor."
"He saw something," Izzy said. "Something that really bothered him."
"Way to point out the obvious," Davis said.
"It's probably best we don't ask him about it yet," I said. "If it really bothered him that much we should let him deal with it first and ask him about it later."
"Yeah," Davis agreed. "I'll talk to Wormmon, if anyone can help him deal with it he can, but right now let's do what we came here for."
I nodded, as we began to walk in the direction Ken was going, towards the florist shop.
As I approached the sop I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, something in an alley. I only saw it for a second, and it was only a shadow, but it looked like the tail of a Monochromon slinking into an alley.
"Hey Rob." I said.
"Yeah?"
"Gotsumon didn't Digivolve did he?"
"No," Rob said shaking his head. "Was he supposed to? It would probably be better if was a rookie, more conspicuous you know. Why?"
"Nothing - just, I thought I saw a Monochromon's tail, in that alley."
"Could be one of Infermon's minions," Rob said.
"Maybe," I said.
I didn't doubt that it was one of Infermon's Digimon, but I didn't really think that it was a Monochromon. It couldn't have been a coincidence that Ken freaked out then a shadowy Digimon shows up. There was no way that Ken would get that freaked out over a Monochromon. Something was definitely wrong, Infermon could be trying to attack us mentally now, maybe I shouldn't be going out on dates but thinking up battle strategies.
No! I'd thought about this stupid war for too long. Since September, two months it's been the only thing on my mind, for once I was going to relax try and live a life that I had before I got that e-mail from Michael. Right now I was going to go into that florist shop and get some flowers for my girlfriend, and for just one night I wasn't going to think about the fight.
* * *
I raised my hand to the door to Yolei's apartment, glancing at my watch at the same time. It was exactly seven.
"Why are you so nervous?" Elecmon asked standing at my feet.
"I don't know," I said. "I mean it's Jenn, I've never been nervous around her before, except for the time when I told her how I felt about her. I just want this date to do right."
"It'll be fine, you and Jenn have a great relationship already, and now that you've let all these pent up feelings for her our, it's going to be even better. Now just knock on the door, and let's go."
"By the way, why are you still out in the open. Though you are coming with us - you have to with Infermon on the loose - but you're supposed to be in the background, and only step in if Infermon attacks, what if someone sees you, a member of Yolei's family."
"Don't worry, Penguinmon and I will fade into the background and leave you and Jenn to be alone."
"Well you better hide know incase someone besides Yolei or Jenn answers the door," I said knocking.
Elecmon sighed, and ducked behind a nearby plant. After about thirty seconds after I had knocked Yolei opened the door.
"You're late," Yolei said smiling.
I glanced at my watch. "It's only seven-o-one."
"I was just kidding."
"Oh yeah,, sorry I knew that."
"Anyway, it took some work but Mimi Janine and I finally managed to make your girlfriend presentable." Yolei said.
"What was wrong with the way she was dressed before?"
"Once you see how she looks now, you'll see."
Yolei stepped aside as Jenn stepped into view. My jaw dropped as I saw her, I'd never seen her looking like this before. She was wearing blue dress, nothing too fancy but something much fancier than the t-shirt and jeans she normally wore. Actually I'd never once seen her a dress before, and I could easily say that it made her look great! The dress fit her body perfectly, hugging the curves of her body perfectly like the dress had been made exactly to fit the perfect form of her body. I'd never noticed how incredible her body was before until this moment. I couldn't believe that Jenn, my girlfriend looked - well at the risk of sounding sexist - hot!
"Kris?" she said with a confused look on her face waiting for a response. "You okay?"
"Yeah," I said very quickly. "It's just that you look - you look incredible."
She smiled and blushed at the same time. "Thanks, you look nice too."
I smiled and looked down at myself. She must have just being polite, compared to her I was really underdressed. I was wearing a dress shirt, and jeans. I didn't look half as good as she did.
"Are you kidding?" I said. "Compared to you I look horrible."
She smiled again as she wrapped her arms around my neck, I did the same thing wrapping my arms around her waist.
"You're too nice sometimes," she said bringing our faces closer to each other. "It's a good thing I like that."
We kissed lightly only for about three second, only stopping because Yolei 'coughed'.
"You two have only been going out a day," she said rolling her eyes. "Can't you keep your hands off each other for a minute."
I laughed. "Maybe we should get going. Before something happens."
"Have something in mind?" Jenn asked.
"Yeah Davis recommended a place," I answered. "It's supposed to be famous for its duck."
"As long as its not sushi it's fine with me."
I nodded. "I can definitely agree with that.
Elecmon was right; we still did have the relationship we had before, but even better now that these physical feelings for each other were out. She was my girlfriend but at the same time she was still my best friend too. She was one of the rare girls that I actually understood. Most guys had searched their lives for a female that they could actually understand, and I'd found one that had been under my nose this entire time. I've said this about a dozen times before, but I really loved this!
"We better get going then," Jenn said. "Before Infermon decides to ruin it somehow."
I nodded and took her arm, and we left the apartment.
Like we had agreed our Digimon stayed in the back, creeping back in alleys staying out of site and allowing Jenn and I to be alone, even after we got to the restaurant they were willing to wait outside. Jenn and I both found that surprising considering all the food that was around. The atmosphere was perfect, candlelight, violin music in the background, and I had the girl I cared for more than my own life cuddled up close to me. Perfect, then why did I feel like something was about to go wrong?
"Kris you okay?" Jenn asked as if reading my mind. "You look like something's bothering you."
"I'm sorry," I said in advance. "This is great, I've wanted to be out on a date with a girl like you for a while, and now that I am I just can't seem to enjoy it. I just can't get my mind off of this stupid war. I just have this feeling that something's going to happen, and I want to just sit back and enjoy this night, because I love being with you but, but I can't just enjoy it this stupid war keeps coming back into my mind."
"Don't worry about it," Jenn said. "The fate of the world is at sake, it's hard not to worry about that, but I don't think that Infermon's going to attack today, he usually attacks during the day, then after we've beaten him away for the night."
"That's kind of what I'm worrying about, the more time he stays hidden the more time he has to plot against us."
"Stop being so pessimistic, it works the same way with us. The more time he stays hidden the more time we can prepare for him. Stop worrying and just enjoy tonight."
I gave her a smile. She was right. I'd been worrying about this for so long, and just a few simple words from Jenn had made all those worries go away.
"Your right, I promised myself this afternoon I wasn't going to think about the fight, and that's what I'm going to do."
She wrapped her arms around me and cuddled up closer to me, I wrapped one of my arm around her shoulder accepting her embrace.
"Good." She said. "I've been waiting a long time to be out with you like this, and I don't want you to be distracted by anything."
"I promise I'll try not to be, not even by the possible destruction of the world."
She laughed, and cuddled up even closer to me. For once I actually stopped thinking about what could go wrong with the fight, and the consequences if we lost. All I was thinking about right now was how great I was feeling right now with Jenn in my arms, too bad it didn't last very long.
It only lasted a few minutes, I only sat in that restaurant booth, holding Jenn in my arms and listening to the romantic violin music for a few minutes, the only other thing I could have asked for was for it to last longer, even a second longer would have been enough.
The violin music suddenly stopped playing and there was a scream coming from the violinist. Jenn and had our back to him so we couldn't see exactly what was happening, but we could tell something was wrong as we saw him get hurled across the room. Screaming began to erupt throughout the restaurant.
"Aw, come on that music's a little too boring!" an Elvis like voice said. I didn't even want to look. "We need something faster than that."
Oh please just let it be some punks trying to cause trouble, and not one of Infermon's minions.
"Please tell me that's not what I think it is?" Jenn said.
I sighed. "I hope not."
He separated and carefully turned around only to have our fears confirmed. The source of all the commotion was indeed one of Infermon's minions. . There was a six-foot metal monkey with a definite Elvis complex standing on one of the tables.
"Excuse me!" one of the waiters said approaching the Digimon. "But I must ask you to leave."
The Digimon smiled evilly.
"I've no time to deal with you. I got more important humans to deal with, uh huh huh!"
The Digimon pulled back his fist and smashed the table below him effortlessly, then his fist connected with the waiter's face sending him flying and crashing though the window.
"Let that be a listen to the rest of you!" the Digimon said smiling.
Screams erupted from everyone from the people in restaurant, everyone with the exception of Jenn and I made a mad dash to the door, but before any of them could make it close, the metal monkey Digimon flipped over all their heads and landed between the crowd of people and the door, it didn't look like he was going to let anyone out.
"No one's going anywhere, you hear! But, I am looking for one particular human. If he and his partner decides to show himself, I'll let the rest of you go."
I began to sit up, but Jenn grabbed my arm.
"Kris, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like? It's obvious he's looking for me."
"I doubt he just wants to talk, he's going to hurt you."
"It's better than having him hurt all these people, besides your forgetting that we both have backup."
I took my Digivice out of my pocket and pushed the button to signal Elecmon.
"At least wait for them to get inside then," Jenn said.
"Yeah, sure." I said nodding my head.
"Well, I'm waiting," the metal monkey Digimon, said. "Show yourself Digidestined! Unless you want these people to meet their final farewell concert."
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
Elecmon and Penguinmon's attacks shattered the window making a direct hit on the Digimon's chest, but he wasn't affected in the least. There wasn't a scratch on him, he looked down confused where the attacks had hit him.
Elecmon and Penguinmon jumped through the window they had broken and assumed a defensive position as they stared down the metal monkey, Jenn and I were immediately at their side.
"We're the ones you want!" Jenn yelled. "Leave these innocent people alone."
"Actually you're not the one I want, honey," the Digimon said. "It's those two I want."
He pointed towards Elecmon and I.
"Don't you dare touch him!" Jenn yelled protectively.
"Uh, isn't that my job," Elecmon said.
"What do you want with us?" I asked.
The Digimon smiled, his teeth glimmered as he did. "I want to finish the battle, your little Digimon and I started three years ago."
"Excuse me?" Elecmon said. "We've never even met before, let alone fought."
"Are you tellun' me you've forgotten your old friend Metaletemon!"
"I couldn't have forgotten you, we never met!" Elecmon yelled.
"Did becoming a Digidestined's Digimon affect your memory?" Metaletemon said. "And I'm here to finish it! Oh yeah baby I'm taking you down! Uh huh huh!"
The four of us, as well as the rest of the people in the in the restaurant stared in disbelief. Was this Infermon's idea of a joke? He'd sent a total idiot against us. This shouldn't take to long.
"Of course, you were, much bigger back then. You were in your Mega form. Much bigger, much badder baby!"
"Stop talking like some moronic Elvis impersonator!" Elecmon yelled.
"Why you little!" Metaletemon yelled angrily. "I'm really going to enjoy pummeling you, like I was three years ago, before the Digidestined rudely interrupted."
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Elecmon yelled.
"How could you have forgotten, you did die that day, now can you become Saberleomon again or not?"
"How did you know about my Mega level?"
"Like I said, we fought before, and I was about to beat you before the Digidestined stopped it."
"I don't know who you fought, but it must have been a different Saberleomon, I was only first hatched from my Digiegg, I've been with Kris my whole life, we've never fought before."
"Oh I'm sure you, you and the Saberleomon I fought are one in the same, apparently the reconfiguration has affected your memory."
"What exactly if going on here?" Penguinmon asked. "I'm I missing something."
I thought that little kitty Baihumon would have told you," Metaletemon said. "But since he hasn't looks like old Metaletemon is going to have to tell you. See a couple years ago a certain Digimon named Leomon had been exposed to the Digivices of the eight original Japanese Digidestined; this gave him the ability to Digivolve. Too bad for him he didn't have a Digidestined partner, so the Digivolution was unstable, that's why he went straight from his Champion level of Leomon to Saberleomon, and he couldn't control it. At the same time the Dark Masters had attacked the temple where the Digieggs of you Canadian Digidestined's Digimon. Most of them were saved, however one of them was destroyed by the Dark Masters, the holder of the crest of Compassion's to be exact, leaving him without a Digimon. This left a very interesting situation, a Digidestined without a Digimon, and a Digimon who could Digivolve but had no Digidestined to help him control it. Meanwhile, you intervened in my attempt to get revenge on the Digidestined, and we fought in the end we ended up destroying each other, but only because the Digidestined intervened! You were NOT stronger than me! You and Zudomon double-teamed me in a totally unfair fight baby! And now I'm going to prove to you I'm the stronger Digimon."
"That doesn't exactly prove how that Saberleomon and I are the same." Elecmon said.
"Maybe I should finish then," Metaletemon said. "The Primary village was destroyed at the time so our Digital data floated around the space between the real world and the Digital world. The forces of light of the Digital World took advantage of this, and collected your data, and modified it to match your current partner's, so he could help you Digivolve. So you became his partner, but apparently the modifying of the data wiped away any previous memory before you were reconfigured. Then at the same time, the Dark forces took my data and put it back together, the only catch was that I would be Evamon's slave, but it's worth it, if I can prove my superiority to you! And now that you have a Digidestined partner, I can get revenge on the Digidestined and you at the same time, it's almost too perfect."
"That's why you went straight to Mega from Champion," I said to Elecmon. "You're Digivolution was unstable, you have me now so you can control it, but it's still unstable."
"No," Elecmon said softly, I'm not sure anyone else heard it but I definitely did. "It can't be…but it is."
"Well," Metaletemon said. "I suggest you Digivolve before I destroy you as you are."
"I will," Elecmon said. "But first you have to fulfill your part of the bargain, we showed ourselves, now you let these people go."
"As noble as usual, but alright."
Metaletemon jumped into the air doing an impressive flip and landing on a table a few feet a way, it broke as he landed on it. Apparently he hadn't expected that to happen because he ended up falling on his butt.
"I - uh mean to do that." He said.
Jen and I both smiled at each other.
"This is going to be too easy." Jenn said.
"Don't underestimate him!" Elecmon yelled. "He's dumb but he's powerful, he's at his Mega state."
"Let's Digivolve then," Penguinmon said.
"No!" Elecmon yelled. "I want to fight him alone."
"Alone!" I yelled. "Elecmon you can't, you said it yourself he's powerful, we should attack with all the power we've got."
"That's the point," my Digimon said. "He's a Mega and the most highest you can go Penguinmon is Ultimate, you'll just get hurt. I've seen this guy in action, now that I've been reminded of it some of the memories are starting to come back, they're a little fuzzy, and I'm not sure of the exact details, but I remember a little bit, and he's tough. No offense Penguinmon but you're just not strong enough you'll just get in the way. Besides I've got a score to settle with him."
"Elecmon please…" I begged, all in vain I knew he was right, if Metaletemon really was a Mega than even if Penguinmon became Parrotmon she would just get in the way. "Alright, then…fight him alone."
Elecmon grinned at me. "Now at what point did I say I'd be fighting him alone, we're a team Kris. I can't fight without you, and your can't fight without me."
I smiled, for a second there I thought Elecmon had forgotten that he was part of a team. I held my Digivice and crest tightly in my hand. "Okay buddy let's do this."
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to………………….Saberleomon!"
Metaletemon smiled that classic Elvis grin of his upon seeing Saberleomon.
"Oh yeah baby!" he yelled. I was really getting annoyed of that stupid catch phrase. "I've been waiting a long time for this!"
I took a step towards Saberleomon but Jenn stopped me before I could.
"Kris…please, let Penguinmon and I help."
"Sorry Jenn, but I don't want you to get hurt."
"What? So you think I want you to get hurt!" she yelled. "How come you can never accept help? I don't want you to get hurt just let us help."
"I'm sorry…" I said sighing. "But Elecmon's right, I'm sorry but you'll just get in the way. We can take this one."
Her head sunk, I could tell she really didn't want to accept the fact that I was right. She had the crest of Assistance for a reason she liked to help she didn't like the fact that I had to go and fight and there was nothing she could do to help.
"Alright, I'll let you go…but be careful. I love you."
I brushed my hand up against her cheek and brought her closer giving her a light kiss on the lips. "I love you too, and don't worry I'll be back."
"I never thought I'd be in this position," she said. "Sitting her worrying while my guy goes off to fight, I always thought being the modern girl that I am I'd be going off fighting with him."
"Maybe next time," I said smiling. "For now leave it to Saberleomon and I."
"Are you quite done yet?" Metaletemon asked.
I didn't say anything; I gave Jenn one last kiss, and climbed onto Saberleomon's back.
"'Bout time," Metaletemon said.
I surveyed the surroundings, all the people were out of the restaurant, they had ran the second Metaletemon had gotten out of the doorway, with all this stuff happening I had barely noticed. Saberleomon and Metaletemon exchanged angry glances, I think both of them had forgotten I was even there. Saberleomon and Metaletemon lunged at each other, and the battle began.
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Well that's Part one of Chapter 25. I had intended to upload them as one chapter, but it's going to take a few more days before I can finish it, so it's better than posting nothing, I'm almost done the second part, so expect it up tonight, but I wouldn't expect the third for a while. Anyway I'll leave you to lie in wait for it.
Disclaimer: As you all know I don't own Digimon, I'm making no money off of this so as usual please don't sue.
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Chapter 25: The Strongest Minions
Kris
My eyes opened the next morning to feel a warm body sleeping beside me, Elecmon? No, Jenn, I had fallen asleep with my arms wrapped around her, and she was cuddled up to me. It hadn't been a dream, it had actually happened. I warm smile spread on my face, for a while I thought I'd been dreaming, last night was almost too good to be true. Aside from kissing he hadn't done really done anything. I did end up staying the night, but we only ended up cuddling up on her cot and falling asleep in each other's arms. I thought the whole thing had been a dream; it had been to good to be true. But it wasn't the proof was right here, the girl I loved was wrapped in my arms, and it was real! She rolled over placing one of her arms around me, beginning to wake up. Her beautiful eyes opened, and looked up at me lovingly.
"Morning," she said cuddling even closer.
"Morning," I responded. "Sleep well?"
"Great," she answered drawing herself even closer. "It's hard not to be comfortable when I'm so close to you."
I smiled, and we kissed lightly. Could this get any more perfect?
I always thought, romantic stuff like this on TV was so corny, but now that I was actually experiencing it I absolutely loved it. I never thought I could be this happy.
"How could I have not noticed how beautiful you are before?" I said.
She blushed bright red. "That's kind of hard to follow, except maybe with this."
She brought her hand to my cheek and brought me into a passionate kiss. I don't think I'd ever get tired of this.
Our lips finally parted. We looked into each other's eyes and couldn't help but smile.
"That beats a compliment any day," I said.
"I thought you'd feel that way," she said her grin just as wide as mine. "I can't believe how fast this relationship is accelerating, we've been a couple for less than a day, and we're already making out like we've been dating for months."
"Well technically we've been dating for years, we've been such good friends for so long, its like we've been dating. Just without the physical intimacy, it's like our relationship has been lying dormant for all these years and now that it's finally out all the emotions that we've felt for each other over the years are just being expressed physically."
"I thought you said you only had these feelings for me just recently," she said.
"I have," I said. "But the truth is I think I've felt them for a long time now, they were just dormant. It took Elecmon to bring them out."
"I'm glad he did, I love this. "I've been praying that you'd be holding like this for a long time. I love feeling your arms around me."
"And I love holding you like this." I said. "Almost as much as I love you."
"I love you too." She said not taking her hand away from my cheek.
We began to move our lips towards each other once again, but where stopped by a harsh cough.
"Ahem," I heard Yolei cough from the doorway.
Both our heads turned towards the doorway, both of our faces going bright red as we saw Yolei, Hawkmon, Elecmon and Penguinmon standing at the doorway, all four of them had enormous grins on their faces.
"How long have you guys been standing there?" I asked.
"Only a few seconds," Elecmon answered.
"But long enough to see you two have moved up in your relationship," Yolei said.
"Of course we had already impression after seeing you cuddled up so close when you fell asleep." Penguinmon said. "And like I said before it's about time."
We were both blushing a deep red, both unsure of what to say, we could say anything we wanted to, to each other, but as far as other people went that was a different story, for me anyway. Jenn was much less shy than I was.
"You guys can come and eat if you want," Hawkmon said. "There's not much but cereal's better than nothing."
Jenn grinning seductively, not something I was used to seeing on her, but it was something I liked.
"No thanks," she said, then turned to face me. "I've got everything I need to satisfy my hunger right here."
It was easy to say I was blushing as she said that, it wasn't something I'd expect from her, I guess had it been anyone else she wouldn't have, but I was someone she'd known since she was seven, I guess because of that she was more forward, and I knew I felt the same way. I felt I could be much less shy around her, and the next words that came out of my mouth showed it.
"Mm, I like the sound of that."
If she was surprised by those words she didn't show it, she just drew our faces closer and met in yet another passionate kiss.
"Please get a room," Yolei sighed, walking out of the room.
Had my lips not been wrapped around Jenn's, and my tongue not in her mouth, I would have said. 'I don't know if you noticed but we've got one.'
The Digimon didn't leave right away, Yolei had to drag them away, our Digimon anyway, Hawkmon left without a problem.
Our lips separated after about five minutes of being together and I was still reluctant to pull away.
"You know my question still hasn't been answered." Jenn said. "Where exactly do we go from here? Officially we're not even dating yet, I could definitely call you my boyfriend, but even though I've had my tongue in your mouth we haven't even gone on our first date yet."
"Is that a hint?" I asked.
"Yes, it definitely is."
"How about tonight?" I asked. "That is provided that Infermon doesn't attack."
"And the odds of that are?"
I sighed. "Unfortunately not very good, he's attacked almost every day we've been here. It's probably not very likely that he won't attack today too."
"We could at least try to go out and have a good time."
"Yeah, that's what I was about to suggest, so what would you like to do?"
"I was thinking something like dinner, they've got to have something besides sushi restaurants here right? I mean that is just a stereotype."
I nodded. "Yeah that sounds good to me, we'll go out for dinner tonight, when?"
"Seven sound okay." She said.
"Then it's settled," I said. "What do you want to until then?"
She smiled seductively. "What do you think I want to do?"
We both grinned seductively as we drew closer and once again found ourselves kissing again. I couldn't believe how affectionate we were being, but I knew if this had been anyone else than I couldn't be being this affectionate, things would be going much slower, but this wasn't someone else, I would be really shy and nervous about any physical contact. However this wasn't someone else, this was Jenn and I could tell her anything, I was never shy around her when it came to words why should physical contact be any different?
The phone began to ring, but we ignored it, nothing could separate us right now. I had the girl that I loved in my arms and there was no way some stupid phone was going to make me let go, besides it wasn't my phone anyway Yolei could get it. The phone stopped ringing only for a moment only to bring upon another distraction.
"If I could interrupt you two for a moment," Yolei said entering the room, along with the three Digimon. "But Davis is on the phone and wants to talk to Kris."
Jenn broke the kiss for a second only today. "He'll call back." She drew us closer and we began to kiss again.
Davis! I completely forgot! I didn't tell him where I was going I'd just disappeared for all he knew both Elecmon and I could be dead, right now only Jenn Yolei and their Digimon knew where Elecmon and I were.
I reluctantly broke the kiss. "Sorry Jenn," I said. "As much as I'd like to continue this I've got to take this, I didn't exactly tell Davis I was coming over here. I'm just going to tell him I'm okay."
"You didn't tell him,"
"I was in a hurry."
"You were," she said happily. "To see me?"
I smiled as we looked into each others eyes once again.
"Ahem," Yolei interrupted.
"Sorry," I said taking the phone from Yolei. "Hello?"
"Where the hell have you been!" Davis yelled. "I thought Infermon might have gotten you. You just disappear! For all I knew you could be dead!"
"Sorry Mom," I said sarcastically. "We were sleeping, I didn't want to wake you up."
"So instead so scared the hell out of me, what was so important that you had to leave in the middle of the night anyway?"
"I just had to talk to Jenn," I answered.
"Oh I see," he said. "You had to talk. I'm sure you did a lot more than that."
"Shut up!" I snapped. "Look I'll be back as soon as I can, sorry I didn't tell you where I was going."
"No rush, you can stay and make out with your girlfriend if you want," Davis teased.
"Shut up!" I snapped hanging up the cordless phone.
I didn't like the look Jenn was giving me. It was almost a cold stare.
"Did I hear right?" she asked. "Did I here you say you were leaving?"
"I'm really sorry Jenn, I don't want to, I'd love to stay here with you, but Infermon could attack at anytime, and if he just happens to attack the area Davis is in he wouldn't have any backup."
I was hoped for a response that gave me some sort of excuse to stay, I didn't want to leave, holding her in my arms was one of the best feelings in the world and I would have taken any excuse to stay this way, no matter how stupid it was. Even if she had just asked me to stay that would've been enough.
"I guess you're right," she said sighing. "Without Ken Davis's Digimon can only become a Champion, he could use your help if something happened. Besides the date would be better if we didn't spend all day together first."
I nodded, not wanting to agree but still knowing she was right. Very reluctantly we separated and I walked towards the window.
"I'll see you at seven then," I said.
"Unless of course we get called to duty."
I smiled and nodded, Elecmon jumped out the window and Armor Digivolved. I gave Jenn one last wave goodbye as the dome on Armyleomon's back closed, and sadly flew away.
* * *
"Are you sure that florist shop is around here somewhere?" I asked Davis glancing looking at the numerous shops in downtown Odeiva.
Davis, Ken, Izzy, Rob and I had gone downtown so I could find a florist shop and get flowers for my date with Jenn. I had to promise I'd buy Davis lunch to convince him to come, I didn't know my way around here so I needed a guide, and we'd ran into Ken, Rob and Izzy on our way. Rob wanted to check out some of the local shops, and had convinced Izzy and Ken to come. Our Digimon were with us but they were hiding in various places keeping out of site of the public but still keeping an eye on us.
"Of course I'm sure," Davis said. "I know my way around my own hometown."
"And that's why we've been looking for an hour," I said glancing down at my watch, once again noting the time. It was going to take forever for seven to come. "Five hours and twenty-seven minutes until I see her again."
"Will you stop doing that!" Davis practically yelled. "I've seen a guy fawn over a girl like that."
Izzy smiled at Davis. "You mean like the way you do over Kari?"
Davis's face went red. "Uh - I."
"You and Kari?" Rob said. "I thought I saw something between Kari and T.K."
"What?!" Davis yelled. "T.E could never end up with Kari!"
"I don't know," Rob said. "I could definitely see some sort of spark between them."
"Davis and Kari aren't together," Ken said laughing. "Davis just thinks they are."
Davis began to grow angry, but we all just laughed it off. It was nice to be able to socialize like this without having to worry about losing our lives. I hadn't had the chance to just hang out with other kids and not worry since this whole ordeal started. Davis seemed to shrug off his anger like it was nothing at all as he spotted what we were looking for.
"See there it is!" Davis said pointing to the florist shop just ahead of us.
"Finally," I said. "It's been an hour since we started looking."
"Come on!" Davis said breaking into a run. "The sooner we get what we need there the sooner we can eat."
Davis broke into a run towards the store, forcing the rest of us to do the same, with the exception of Ken. He wasn't just walking, he had stopped walking altogether, not only that but his face had a horrified look on it and he was shivering.
I stopped running, and ran up to him. "Ken you okay."
He didn't respond, he just kept that same horrified look on his face.
"Ken!" I yelled grabbing his shoulders. "Ken you okay?"
Still no response it was like he was in some sort of a trance, and paralyzed in fear. The others began to notice what was happening, and stopped running towards the florist shop and began to run back towards us.
"What's wrong?" Izzy asked.
"I don't know!" I yelled.
"Ken!" Davis yelled Davis yelled beginning to shake Ken. "Ken snap out of it."
"What are you doing!" I yelled. "Do you want to make it worse."
But it didn't make it worse Ken immediately snapped out of it, but he seemed weakened, and fell to his knees.
"What happened there?" Rob asked. "You okay?"
"Yeah," he said. "Fine, I just had this really bad feeling, I saw - I'm fine!"
"You sure didn't look it," Izzy said. "You looked like something had really scared you, what did you see?"
"Nothing okay!" he snapped angrily. "Just leave me alone! It's nothing!"
He pushed Davis's hand off his shoulder and began walking ahead of us towards the florist shop.
"That was weird," I said. "I've never seen Ken snap like that, he's usually so nice. I've never really seen him angry."
"You didn't see him as the Digimon Emperor," Davis said. "But he hasn't acted like that in a long time. For that brief moment when he snapped like that he was acting the way he did as the Digimon Emperor."
"He saw something," Izzy said. "Something that really bothered him."
"Way to point out the obvious," Davis said.
"It's probably best we don't ask him about it yet," I said. "If it really bothered him that much we should let him deal with it first and ask him about it later."
"Yeah," Davis agreed. "I'll talk to Wormmon, if anyone can help him deal with it he can, but right now let's do what we came here for."
I nodded, as we began to walk in the direction Ken was going, towards the florist shop.
As I approached the sop I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, something in an alley. I only saw it for a second, and it was only a shadow, but it looked like the tail of a Monochromon slinking into an alley.
"Hey Rob." I said.
"Yeah?"
"Gotsumon didn't Digivolve did he?"
"No," Rob said shaking his head. "Was he supposed to? It would probably be better if was a rookie, more conspicuous you know. Why?"
"Nothing - just, I thought I saw a Monochromon's tail, in that alley."
"Could be one of Infermon's minions," Rob said.
"Maybe," I said.
I didn't doubt that it was one of Infermon's Digimon, but I didn't really think that it was a Monochromon. It couldn't have been a coincidence that Ken freaked out then a shadowy Digimon shows up. There was no way that Ken would get that freaked out over a Monochromon. Something was definitely wrong, Infermon could be trying to attack us mentally now, maybe I shouldn't be going out on dates but thinking up battle strategies.
No! I'd thought about this stupid war for too long. Since September, two months it's been the only thing on my mind, for once I was going to relax try and live a life that I had before I got that e-mail from Michael. Right now I was going to go into that florist shop and get some flowers for my girlfriend, and for just one night I wasn't going to think about the fight.
* * *
I raised my hand to the door to Yolei's apartment, glancing at my watch at the same time. It was exactly seven.
"Why are you so nervous?" Elecmon asked standing at my feet.
"I don't know," I said. "I mean it's Jenn, I've never been nervous around her before, except for the time when I told her how I felt about her. I just want this date to do right."
"It'll be fine, you and Jenn have a great relationship already, and now that you've let all these pent up feelings for her our, it's going to be even better. Now just knock on the door, and let's go."
"By the way, why are you still out in the open. Though you are coming with us - you have to with Infermon on the loose - but you're supposed to be in the background, and only step in if Infermon attacks, what if someone sees you, a member of Yolei's family."
"Don't worry, Penguinmon and I will fade into the background and leave you and Jenn to be alone."
"Well you better hide know incase someone besides Yolei or Jenn answers the door," I said knocking.
Elecmon sighed, and ducked behind a nearby plant. After about thirty seconds after I had knocked Yolei opened the door.
"You're late," Yolei said smiling.
I glanced at my watch. "It's only seven-o-one."
"I was just kidding."
"Oh yeah,, sorry I knew that."
"Anyway, it took some work but Mimi Janine and I finally managed to make your girlfriend presentable." Yolei said.
"What was wrong with the way she was dressed before?"
"Once you see how she looks now, you'll see."
Yolei stepped aside as Jenn stepped into view. My jaw dropped as I saw her, I'd never seen her looking like this before. She was wearing blue dress, nothing too fancy but something much fancier than the t-shirt and jeans she normally wore. Actually I'd never once seen her a dress before, and I could easily say that it made her look great! The dress fit her body perfectly, hugging the curves of her body perfectly like the dress had been made exactly to fit the perfect form of her body. I'd never noticed how incredible her body was before until this moment. I couldn't believe that Jenn, my girlfriend looked - well at the risk of sounding sexist - hot!
"Kris?" she said with a confused look on her face waiting for a response. "You okay?"
"Yeah," I said very quickly. "It's just that you look - you look incredible."
She smiled and blushed at the same time. "Thanks, you look nice too."
I smiled and looked down at myself. She must have just being polite, compared to her I was really underdressed. I was wearing a dress shirt, and jeans. I didn't look half as good as she did.
"Are you kidding?" I said. "Compared to you I look horrible."
She smiled again as she wrapped her arms around my neck, I did the same thing wrapping my arms around her waist.
"You're too nice sometimes," she said bringing our faces closer to each other. "It's a good thing I like that."
We kissed lightly only for about three second, only stopping because Yolei 'coughed'.
"You two have only been going out a day," she said rolling her eyes. "Can't you keep your hands off each other for a minute."
I laughed. "Maybe we should get going. Before something happens."
"Have something in mind?" Jenn asked.
"Yeah Davis recommended a place," I answered. "It's supposed to be famous for its duck."
"As long as its not sushi it's fine with me."
I nodded. "I can definitely agree with that.
Elecmon was right; we still did have the relationship we had before, but even better now that these physical feelings for each other were out. She was my girlfriend but at the same time she was still my best friend too. She was one of the rare girls that I actually understood. Most guys had searched their lives for a female that they could actually understand, and I'd found one that had been under my nose this entire time. I've said this about a dozen times before, but I really loved this!
"We better get going then," Jenn said. "Before Infermon decides to ruin it somehow."
I nodded and took her arm, and we left the apartment.
Like we had agreed our Digimon stayed in the back, creeping back in alleys staying out of site and allowing Jenn and I to be alone, even after we got to the restaurant they were willing to wait outside. Jenn and I both found that surprising considering all the food that was around. The atmosphere was perfect, candlelight, violin music in the background, and I had the girl I cared for more than my own life cuddled up close to me. Perfect, then why did I feel like something was about to go wrong?
"Kris you okay?" Jenn asked as if reading my mind. "You look like something's bothering you."
"I'm sorry," I said in advance. "This is great, I've wanted to be out on a date with a girl like you for a while, and now that I am I just can't seem to enjoy it. I just can't get my mind off of this stupid war. I just have this feeling that something's going to happen, and I want to just sit back and enjoy this night, because I love being with you but, but I can't just enjoy it this stupid war keeps coming back into my mind."
"Don't worry about it," Jenn said. "The fate of the world is at sake, it's hard not to worry about that, but I don't think that Infermon's going to attack today, he usually attacks during the day, then after we've beaten him away for the night."
"That's kind of what I'm worrying about, the more time he stays hidden the more time he has to plot against us."
"Stop being so pessimistic, it works the same way with us. The more time he stays hidden the more time we can prepare for him. Stop worrying and just enjoy tonight."
I gave her a smile. She was right. I'd been worrying about this for so long, and just a few simple words from Jenn had made all those worries go away.
"Your right, I promised myself this afternoon I wasn't going to think about the fight, and that's what I'm going to do."
She wrapped her arms around me and cuddled up closer to me, I wrapped one of my arm around her shoulder accepting her embrace.
"Good." She said. "I've been waiting a long time to be out with you like this, and I don't want you to be distracted by anything."
"I promise I'll try not to be, not even by the possible destruction of the world."
She laughed, and cuddled up even closer to me. For once I actually stopped thinking about what could go wrong with the fight, and the consequences if we lost. All I was thinking about right now was how great I was feeling right now with Jenn in my arms, too bad it didn't last very long.
It only lasted a few minutes, I only sat in that restaurant booth, holding Jenn in my arms and listening to the romantic violin music for a few minutes, the only other thing I could have asked for was for it to last longer, even a second longer would have been enough.
The violin music suddenly stopped playing and there was a scream coming from the violinist. Jenn and had our back to him so we couldn't see exactly what was happening, but we could tell something was wrong as we saw him get hurled across the room. Screaming began to erupt throughout the restaurant.
"Aw, come on that music's a little too boring!" an Elvis like voice said. I didn't even want to look. "We need something faster than that."
Oh please just let it be some punks trying to cause trouble, and not one of Infermon's minions.
"Please tell me that's not what I think it is?" Jenn said.
I sighed. "I hope not."
He separated and carefully turned around only to have our fears confirmed. The source of all the commotion was indeed one of Infermon's minions. . There was a six-foot metal monkey with a definite Elvis complex standing on one of the tables.
"Excuse me!" one of the waiters said approaching the Digimon. "But I must ask you to leave."
The Digimon smiled evilly.
"I've no time to deal with you. I got more important humans to deal with, uh huh huh!"
The Digimon pulled back his fist and smashed the table below him effortlessly, then his fist connected with the waiter's face sending him flying and crashing though the window.
"Let that be a listen to the rest of you!" the Digimon said smiling.
Screams erupted from everyone from the people in restaurant, everyone with the exception of Jenn and I made a mad dash to the door, but before any of them could make it close, the metal monkey Digimon flipped over all their heads and landed between the crowd of people and the door, it didn't look like he was going to let anyone out.
"No one's going anywhere, you hear! But, I am looking for one particular human. If he and his partner decides to show himself, I'll let the rest of you go."
I began to sit up, but Jenn grabbed my arm.
"Kris, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like? It's obvious he's looking for me."
"I doubt he just wants to talk, he's going to hurt you."
"It's better than having him hurt all these people, besides your forgetting that we both have backup."
I took my Digivice out of my pocket and pushed the button to signal Elecmon.
"At least wait for them to get inside then," Jenn said.
"Yeah, sure." I said nodding my head.
"Well, I'm waiting," the metal monkey Digimon, said. "Show yourself Digidestined! Unless you want these people to meet their final farewell concert."
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
Elecmon and Penguinmon's attacks shattered the window making a direct hit on the Digimon's chest, but he wasn't affected in the least. There wasn't a scratch on him, he looked down confused where the attacks had hit him.
Elecmon and Penguinmon jumped through the window they had broken and assumed a defensive position as they stared down the metal monkey, Jenn and I were immediately at their side.
"We're the ones you want!" Jenn yelled. "Leave these innocent people alone."
"Actually you're not the one I want, honey," the Digimon said. "It's those two I want."
He pointed towards Elecmon and I.
"Don't you dare touch him!" Jenn yelled protectively.
"Uh, isn't that my job," Elecmon said.
"What do you want with us?" I asked.
The Digimon smiled, his teeth glimmered as he did. "I want to finish the battle, your little Digimon and I started three years ago."
"Excuse me?" Elecmon said. "We've never even met before, let alone fought."
"Are you tellun' me you've forgotten your old friend Metaletemon!"
"I couldn't have forgotten you, we never met!" Elecmon yelled.
"Did becoming a Digidestined's Digimon affect your memory?" Metaletemon said. "And I'm here to finish it! Oh yeah baby I'm taking you down! Uh huh huh!"
The four of us, as well as the rest of the people in the in the restaurant stared in disbelief. Was this Infermon's idea of a joke? He'd sent a total idiot against us. This shouldn't take to long.
"Of course, you were, much bigger back then. You were in your Mega form. Much bigger, much badder baby!"
"Stop talking like some moronic Elvis impersonator!" Elecmon yelled.
"Why you little!" Metaletemon yelled angrily. "I'm really going to enjoy pummeling you, like I was three years ago, before the Digidestined rudely interrupted."
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Elecmon yelled.
"How could you have forgotten, you did die that day, now can you become Saberleomon again or not?"
"How did you know about my Mega level?"
"Like I said, we fought before, and I was about to beat you before the Digidestined stopped it."
"I don't know who you fought, but it must have been a different Saberleomon, I was only first hatched from my Digiegg, I've been with Kris my whole life, we've never fought before."
"Oh I'm sure you, you and the Saberleomon I fought are one in the same, apparently the reconfiguration has affected your memory."
"What exactly if going on here?" Penguinmon asked. "I'm I missing something."
I thought that little kitty Baihumon would have told you," Metaletemon said. "But since he hasn't looks like old Metaletemon is going to have to tell you. See a couple years ago a certain Digimon named Leomon had been exposed to the Digivices of the eight original Japanese Digidestined; this gave him the ability to Digivolve. Too bad for him he didn't have a Digidestined partner, so the Digivolution was unstable, that's why he went straight from his Champion level of Leomon to Saberleomon, and he couldn't control it. At the same time the Dark Masters had attacked the temple where the Digieggs of you Canadian Digidestined's Digimon. Most of them were saved, however one of them was destroyed by the Dark Masters, the holder of the crest of Compassion's to be exact, leaving him without a Digimon. This left a very interesting situation, a Digidestined without a Digimon, and a Digimon who could Digivolve but had no Digidestined to help him control it. Meanwhile, you intervened in my attempt to get revenge on the Digidestined, and we fought in the end we ended up destroying each other, but only because the Digidestined intervened! You were NOT stronger than me! You and Zudomon double-teamed me in a totally unfair fight baby! And now I'm going to prove to you I'm the stronger Digimon."
"That doesn't exactly prove how that Saberleomon and I are the same." Elecmon said.
"Maybe I should finish then," Metaletemon said. "The Primary village was destroyed at the time so our Digital data floated around the space between the real world and the Digital world. The forces of light of the Digital World took advantage of this, and collected your data, and modified it to match your current partner's, so he could help you Digivolve. So you became his partner, but apparently the modifying of the data wiped away any previous memory before you were reconfigured. Then at the same time, the Dark forces took my data and put it back together, the only catch was that I would be Evamon's slave, but it's worth it, if I can prove my superiority to you! And now that you have a Digidestined partner, I can get revenge on the Digidestined and you at the same time, it's almost too perfect."
"That's why you went straight to Mega from Champion," I said to Elecmon. "You're Digivolution was unstable, you have me now so you can control it, but it's still unstable."
"No," Elecmon said softly, I'm not sure anyone else heard it but I definitely did. "It can't be…but it is."
"Well," Metaletemon said. "I suggest you Digivolve before I destroy you as you are."
"I will," Elecmon said. "But first you have to fulfill your part of the bargain, we showed ourselves, now you let these people go."
"As noble as usual, but alright."
Metaletemon jumped into the air doing an impressive flip and landing on a table a few feet a way, it broke as he landed on it. Apparently he hadn't expected that to happen because he ended up falling on his butt.
"I - uh mean to do that." He said.
Jen and I both smiled at each other.
"This is going to be too easy." Jenn said.
"Don't underestimate him!" Elecmon yelled. "He's dumb but he's powerful, he's at his Mega state."
"Let's Digivolve then," Penguinmon said.
"No!" Elecmon yelled. "I want to fight him alone."
"Alone!" I yelled. "Elecmon you can't, you said it yourself he's powerful, we should attack with all the power we've got."
"That's the point," my Digimon said. "He's a Mega and the most highest you can go Penguinmon is Ultimate, you'll just get hurt. I've seen this guy in action, now that I've been reminded of it some of the memories are starting to come back, they're a little fuzzy, and I'm not sure of the exact details, but I remember a little bit, and he's tough. No offense Penguinmon but you're just not strong enough you'll just get in the way. Besides I've got a score to settle with him."
"Elecmon please…" I begged, all in vain I knew he was right, if Metaletemon really was a Mega than even if Penguinmon became Parrotmon she would just get in the way. "Alright, then…fight him alone."
Elecmon grinned at me. "Now at what point did I say I'd be fighting him alone, we're a team Kris. I can't fight without you, and your can't fight without me."
I smiled, for a second there I thought Elecmon had forgotten that he was part of a team. I held my Digivice and crest tightly in my hand. "Okay buddy let's do this."
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to………………….Saberleomon!"
Metaletemon smiled that classic Elvis grin of his upon seeing Saberleomon.
"Oh yeah baby!" he yelled. I was really getting annoyed of that stupid catch phrase. "I've been waiting a long time for this!"
I took a step towards Saberleomon but Jenn stopped me before I could.
"Kris…please, let Penguinmon and I help."
"Sorry Jenn, but I don't want you to get hurt."
"What? So you think I want you to get hurt!" she yelled. "How come you can never accept help? I don't want you to get hurt just let us help."
"I'm sorry…" I said sighing. "But Elecmon's right, I'm sorry but you'll just get in the way. We can take this one."
Her head sunk, I could tell she really didn't want to accept the fact that I was right. She had the crest of Assistance for a reason she liked to help she didn't like the fact that I had to go and fight and there was nothing she could do to help.
"Alright, I'll let you go…but be careful. I love you."
I brushed my hand up against her cheek and brought her closer giving her a light kiss on the lips. "I love you too, and don't worry I'll be back."
"I never thought I'd be in this position," she said. "Sitting her worrying while my guy goes off to fight, I always thought being the modern girl that I am I'd be going off fighting with him."
"Maybe next time," I said smiling. "For now leave it to Saberleomon and I."
"Are you quite done yet?" Metaletemon asked.
I didn't say anything; I gave Jenn one last kiss, and climbed onto Saberleomon's back.
"'Bout time," Metaletemon said.
I surveyed the surroundings, all the people were out of the restaurant, they had ran the second Metaletemon had gotten out of the doorway, with all this stuff happening I had barely noticed. Saberleomon and Metaletemon exchanged angry glances, I think both of them had forgotten I was even there. Saberleomon and Metaletemon lunged at each other, and the battle began.
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Well that's Part one of Chapter 25. I had intended to upload them as one chapter, but it's going to take a few more days before I can finish it, so it's better than posting nothing, I'm almost done the second part, so expect it up tonight, but I wouldn't expect the third for a while. Anyway I'll leave you to lie in wait for it.