Reviewer Response!
Inuyasha-kun - I'm sorry I gave you a very short response...so now I'm writing you this much longer one because I am very, very poor and could in no possible way help contribute to anyone's anime collection -- I barely have one! I would if I could, though. That help much? Umm...umm...darn, I can't remember what I was going to type, sorry! Is this a long enough response? I hope so...
Okay, now it's fic time.
Reiko Matsuki finally felt herself become conscious again, as the ordeal of becoming Jigoku Fusion wore off. She found that she could still speak, surprisingly. So she decided it was time to speak.
"Why?" Reiko asked Hellmon as the shock of what had happened wore off. "Why are you doing this? What's the point of this?"
*Do you know what it is to be alone?* Hellmon asked the girl. Reiko said nothing, unsure of what to say.
*I thought not. You've no idea what it is like to be the only one of your kind, and considered an aberration by every other living thing, do you Miss Matsuki?* Hellmon condescendingly asked the young girl.
"No, I don't..." Reiko reluctantly admitted. "But doing all this just because you're alone...!" She protested.
*That is not my only reason. I cannot allow something like me to ever be created again. I must destroy both of the worlds from which I originated, so no one else will feel my pain.* Hellmon explained.
*I will not let this opportunity go to waste. Convincing those hybrids to search for your friends and frightening the four gods to this world...I will not let that effort pass me. Even if you resist, we are bounded. I cannot be held back by you, not completely.* Hellmon said, grimacing.
"The two worlds from which you originated?" Reiko repeated in bewilderment.
*The Digital World and the Real World. They must end.* Hellmon said gravely.
"End?" Reiko gasped in fear as Hellmon drew on the reserves of her data to attack. "No!"
Yamaki plucked the small tele-bomb from Jenrya's hands. "We don't have a choice. We've got to go."
"But Yamaki!" Jenrya yelled in protest. Yamaki's face softened at this plight of the young man.
"I can't relate to what you must be going through, but...we have to use this chance to get your son back, Mr. Lee. And your daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Matsuki." Yamaki added, nodding at Takato and Ruki.
"That's right." Ruki whispered, causing Takato and Jenrya to look at her in surprise.
"I won't stand around and just let Reiko be tortured! I'd be disgracing my title as the Digimon Queen!" Ruki yelled, pulling on a familiar set of blue sunglasses from her pocket. She suddenly seized the tele-bomb from Yamaki's open hands and ran off with it. All of the men stared after her in shock, then Takato finally ran after the redhead bomb that stolen his heart.
"How did the three of you ever keep her under control?" Yamaki questioned Jenrya. Jenrya smiled.
"Who says we did?"
"No!" I heard Reiko's voice gasp before Jigoku Fusion fired again. I had heard Pata and the four gods running away...had they made it? I couldn't see them. I was about to pass out, and I knew it...but I couldn't. If I did, Jigoku Fusion might kill everyone! And Reiko was still inside somewhere, if I wasn't hearing things...
But...my body couldn't hold out...I couldn't open my eyes!
Then I slipped away from consciousness as Hellmon fired another set of beams.
"He just can't stand the thought that his little sister is being corrupted."
"Of course we cry."
"You're actually kind of cute."
My life was flashing my eyes. From when I was little kid at school, and kids were freaking out whenever my ears and tail happened to sprout up. Playing with Reiko on the playground. Being with my family. Moving away from Grandpa's house. Thinking I was weird because my parents didn't love each other, and weren't even the same species. Wondering why I had been created. Meeting Yamaki for the first time, and being infected with that virus. Rescuing Dad from his death, and meeting Devi and Grey. Meeting the rest of the hybrids. Devi and Grey dying. Yamaki telling me why this had all happened. Meeting the four gods, and going to the Digital World. The promise rings. And now, Hellmon and Jigoku Fusion...
Then everything suddenly came back into focus. Jigoku Fusion was vehemently swearing. What had happened? Why was I still alive?
There was a barrier covering Pata, the four gods, and me. A very familiar looking barrier...
"That's it, Taomon!" Ruki cried. What were Ruki and Renamon doing here?
*Are you all right?* Mom asked me. *Yeah, I'm fine...what's going on?* I asked dumbly.
"Wake up the gods and that little girl, Kiiroishi!" Takato ordered me. "We're gonna clear out of here!"
I did as Takato told me, almost earning me a singed shoulder from Zhuqiaomon. But what would they do?
Then we all began running away from Jigoku Fusion, and then I noticed Ruki throwing a small cell phone at Hellmon. "It's a tele-bomb. It'll delete all the data in the area when it goes off." Ruki explained.
"What?" The four gods and I screamed. Takato gave us a blank look.
"It'll delete Hellmon and free Reiko...what's the problem?" He asked all of us, totally dumbfounded.
"Look!" I roared, grabbing Takato by the head and forcing him to stare at Hellmon. In about two seconds, he grew as pale as I was. I felt so sorry for him, he looked as if he was about to throw up. "But that's impossible...there's not much time left!" Takato cried out in rage and frustration.
Ruki stared at Jigoku Fusion, her eyes full of tears.
Without even giving it a moment's consideration, I ran back to Jigoku Fusion full speed to get rid of that phone. There was no way I would let it go off and risk killing Reiko. No way at all.
Even if I died trying.
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