Digimon: End Game

Mimi had come storming out of the fog into an abandoned city section. She had tripped on a fallen lamppost, but was quickly helped up by clawed hands. "Agumon!" She cried, glad to have a protector. She looked up and saw Patamon flying over his head. "Patamon! Where are the others?"

Agumon didn't have time to chat. The converted Andromon had been hot on their tails. The fog didn't hinder Andromon's sensors much. "Come on Mimi, we have to hide in that building there. The metal in the structure should interfere with the Andromon's sensors. Come on, move it!" Agumon nearly dragging Mimi by her arm to the building, which turned out to be some sort of deserted theater. Agumon and Patamon watched out the window as Andromon walked by, slowly looked around, and continued on his way.

"Whew…." Agumon breathed a sigh of relief as their former friend slowly disappeared from view. He turned to face his friends. "That was too close. He nearly caught us there Mimi." Suddenly Mimi slapped him across the face. "Ouch! What the digihell was that for?"

"Look at this!" Mimi screamed. She held out her arm, exposing three large scratches on her arm.

Agumon realized that he must have cut her with his claws when he was pulling Mimi's arm. "I'm sorry, but would you have preferred that we let you be captured?"

"Well did you have to injure me while you where doing it?" Mimi shot back.

"Well, if you weren't such a baby all the time I wouldn't have had to pull you so hard!" Agumon was getting pretty angry at Mimi's ungratefulness. Mimi and Agumon where standing toe to toe when Patamon flew down between them.

"Now come on you two!" Patamon held out his paws. "We're all tired from running and the previous battle. It's making us all yell at one another. Now why don't we get some sleep?"

Agumon and Mimi snorted at one another. They walked over to respective corners of the giant theater. They made beds out of the large curtains, and quickly fell asleep.

Mimi woke up to a noise over her head. She saw Agumon standing over her. "What do you want?" She angrily asked.

Agumon looked like he was trying to say something, but instead he tackled Mimi. Mimi, completely surprised by this, defended herself in the way women traditionally handle male aggressors: by nailing him as hard as she could in between the legs with her knee. She saw Agumon's eyes light up in pain and surprise, but not a sound escaped his lips. Mimi couldn't figure out why he was attacking her and not speaking when she saw strings attached to various parts of his body, one was clearly holding his mouth shut. She pushed off Agumon with all her strength and jumped away. "What's going on?"

A high-pitched voice came from the rafters. "I'll give you a hint, who's your favorite evil twin of Pinocchio?"

Mimi looked straight up. "Puppetmon!"

"Why thank you!" Puppetmon laughed. "I was really hoping to run into that Matt kid and his dog Gabumon, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. Speaking of begging, now it's time for you to start to beg for your lives." Another wave of laughter filled the room.

Patamon had woken up and flown beside Mimi, ready to defend her. Mimi yelled up at their attacker, "Why are you helping Gatomon? She helped destroy you before, remember?"

Puppetmon sighed, "True, but she did bring me back and gave me some wonderful playmates, namely you. Besides," Puppetmon tapped the side of his head; "Gatomon brought me back with a few changes. She can delete me on a whim. Lucky for you Gatomon wanted you alive or I would have destroyed you on a whim as well." Puppetmon held out his hand, shooting strings that lassoed around Patamon and Mimi. "But she didn't say I couldn't have some fun first. Now what do you want, pain or humiliation?"

The three captures struggled vainly against their strings, but their grips were too tight. Puppetmon laughed as they struggled. "Well if you won't choose, I will. Let's go humiliation. It's much less messy than pain, and there's not as much to clean up. I have an idea! Since where in a theater, we'll put on a puppet show. Now then everybody into costume!"

Mimi felt herself walk towards the costumes in the corner. She was forced to put on a princess's gown with a tiara on her head. She couldn't help but think how much it resembled the outfit she wore when she was with the Geckomon in their castle.

When she had finished putting on the clothes, she felt herself turn around. Agumon and Patamon where wearing outfits that made them look like members of the three musketeers, complete with frilly hats and sword. They where both trying to say something, but their jaws where still strung shut.

"Now then," Puppetmon shouted down from the rafters, "Let the show begin!

For the next twenty minutes he put them all through an embarrassingly stupid play. It was nearly five minutes before he regained his composure enough to speak. Puppetmon looked around smiling, "What no applause? I though it was an excellent bit of improve."

"Oh well, we're done here. Now we have another play-date with Gatomon."

Suddenly two blasts of energy came from Agumon and Patamon. A fireball sailed to Puppetmon's left and a boom bubble to his right. Puppetmon held his eyelid and stuck out his tongue. "Nyahh Nyahh missed me!"

Agumon smiled. "We meant to."

Puppetmon whirled around and saw the charred remained of two ropes go flying up to the ceiling. His gaze followed the ropes as they hit the top, releasing the several hundred pound curtain directly above him. He had time for a quick scream as several kilograms of velvet smothered him.

"Let's get out of here!" Patamon cried as the three raced towards the exit. The heard Puppetmon's enraged scream, from behind them, but by the time he freed himself, his prisoners had escaped.

The trio ran as fast as they could, not stopping until they where on the outskirts of the city. They hid in a tiny cabin, breathing a deep sigh of relief.