Xavier's New Student
A Digimon - Xmen Cross-over.
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Disclaimer: Neither Digimon nor ANY of the X-related titled Comics
are mine! "Digimon" (the Anime) is the property of it's creator, Houso Miyoshi, and Toie Amination, while the dubbing rights belong to Hayim
Saban;
The X-Men, New Mutants, Generation X, and any other X-characters belong to Marvel Comics.
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CHAPTER 03
"Tachikawa Mimi-san!" The blue-haired boy repeated, "What are *you* doing here?"
"I go where I am needed most, Ichijouji Ken!" Mimi smiled and bowed.
"But you have already FOUND refuge! You need not be here!"
"And the Digi-Destined.. including you, Ken-kun..", Mimi responded, "should not be here!"
Meanwhile, Hikari began to glow softly.
"We shall continue this later, Ichijouji-san!" Mimi said as she reached Hikari. "For it appears I will be needed shortly!"
Then, in a bright flash of light, Kamiya Hikari and Tachikawa Mimi vanished!
"HIKARI!!!!" Gatomon screamed.
"MIMI!!!!" Tanemon called out.
"NANI-YO?"
"ICHIJOUJI!!!!" Taichi screamed out. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY IMOUTO?!?! You have no RIGHT to the Crest of Kindness! What kindness is is to bring someone someplace to only have them KILLED???" Kamiya Taichi tried to
stangle Ichiouji Ken.
"What would be kinder?" Ichijouji Ken asked. "To see those your love die at the the hands of known-enemies? Or to be killed in the safety of
their own homes by supposed friends?"
Taichi halted his attack inches from Ken's throat.
"Nani?" Taichi asked. Suddenly, Kamiya Taichi burst into flames!
"IYAAAA! IIEDE! IIEDE! IIDE!" Taichi screamed. "I'm on fire! I'm on fire! I'm on.."
'You are not on fire, Taichi!' The calming voice of Yamato came through
Taichi's mind.
'But, Yamato! I..!'
'Do you feel the flames, Taichi?'
'Iie.'
'Do you smell roasting flesh?'
'Iie.'
'Relax, Taichi! This is a chemical reaction just above your skin! It will
not harm you! Relax.. Relax..'
Suddenly, Takenouchi Sora let out an ear-piercing shriek.. and started floating, then sailing and jetting, around the cavern!
Taichi body began to burn again, brighter and hotter this time, catching his clothing on fire!
Ken backed away safely from Taichi.
'Gabumon!' Yamato called out. 'Help Taichi!'
"Blue BLASTER!"
'Biyomon!'
"Nani? Yama-san? How am I hearing you in my head?"
'I'll try to explain everything later! Right now, get up to Sora! Get as close as you can! Show her how to maneuver before she kills herself on the rocks in here!'
"Hai!"
Soon, Biyomon was- as best as she could- showing her partner how to bank and turn.
"It is a good thing there is a deep antechamber in this cave." Yamato grinned. "Takeru! Ototo! I will need your help with Sora!"
'Sora,' Yamato called out in a calm tone. 'Listen. Turn around toward us. Keep screaming, but slowly decrease the intensity. And lower your legs and put them in front of you to land."
Sora, with the help of Biyomon and Yamato, aimed herself to the floor of the cavern. But, she was coming in too fast! Takeru caught her, however, cushioning her fall.
"How.. did you *do* that.. Takeru-san?" Sora stammered, looking at her friend, still two meters below her.
"I.. do not know!" Takeru looked at his brother. "Yamato-niisan?"
"It is called 'Telekinesis', Ototo!" Yamato smiled sadly. Then he looked back towards Taichi.
Soon the flames of Kamiya Taichi were out, and, with a certain astonished horror in his eyes, he slowly pulled his hand away from Ken.
"Gomen.. nisai.. Ichijouji-san! I did not.. I.. was not thinking."
"Benmei muyo, shitashii." Ken smiled, then took Taichi's extended (and
extinguished) hand in his. "I understand. Hikari-sama is, to me, shin'yuu, but she is your imouto."
"Hai." Taichi said. "Shazai."
"Nani-yo?" Miyako asked in a low voice. "Daisuke-kun? Iori-oto? What happened to Mimi-san and Hikari? And what just happened to Taichi? And who is Katarin-sama?"
"I do not know, Miyako-chan!" Daisuke said. "Katarin-sama *does* look familiar! But I can't remember where I've seen her! And, I do not know if my usual charms will work here! I have to think this out."
"Dai-kun! You are actually thinking first?" V-mon asked his partner. "This situation must *really* be serious!"
"What are you thinking of, Iori-san?" Armadimon asked his partner.
"Oh?" Iori suddenly came back from this thoughts. "Gomen, Armadimon! I was thinking about Katarin-sensei and Mimi-san. I have an idea of who they are.. and what that may mean to us!"
"The Wizardmon is with Katarin-Sensei!" Daisuke noted. "Does that mean Katarin-Sensei is one of us?"
"I am not sure, Daisuke-san!" Hawkmon said as he held Miyako's hand
reassuringly. "But things will work out for the best!"
Kathryn studied Yamato. "So, you are a telepath, Ishida-sama!
However, even for a telepath, you are able to instinctively help the others
with the beurgeoning powers! That is something even Professor Xavier has
trouble handling until the powers manifest themselves to a greater extent
than they have here! Are you also precognitive?"
"Second-sight? Iie, Shadowcat! I am just a telepath. But, I seem
to be able to sense how the body of those whose mind I touch works and
responds! So, I am able to help the others 'guide' their powers in their
uses!" Yamato bowed.
"A grave responsibility." Kathryn commented.
"Hai. And, I fear, too intrusive! That is why I tended to.. shy
away.. from others.. except for Takeru. I.. feared.. learning too much of
others! And they.. learning of me. I feared being alone. Hitoribocchi."
"And yet you became inshi, the thing you feared you'd become most."
Jyou smiled in understanding and he and Izumi walked toward Yamato and
Kathryn.
'Somtimes, Katarin-sama,' Yamato said sadly, 'I wish I were a
precognitive. Then, maybe some of the .. hurts .. my friends ..
my family .. had to pass through would not have been so hurtful!'
'Hai.' Kathryn sighed. 'Our families are *very* important to us!
I would wish mine to go through no harm, also!'
"Katarin-sensei!" Yamato spoke up. "I felt Mimi touch me."
"Then, let her come in!" Kathryn said.
A flash of light in the cavern's antechamber annonced the arrival
of the time-travelers.
"TAICHIIIIIIII !!!!" Hikari's scream echoed and re-echoed through the
cavern.
"HELP MEEEEEEEEE !!!! IYAAAA !!!! IIEDE ! IIEDE ! IIEDE ! IIEDE !
Iwannagohome Iwannagohome Iwannagohome I DON'T WANNA GO HOME !!!!" Hikari
continued to cry hysterically as she wrapped herself around he older
brother.
Taichi tried to reassuring caress his younger-sister, as his eyes
searched out Ishida Yamato and Ichijouji Ken.
"Imouto? Hikari-chan? Nani-yo?"
"Fire.." Hikari spoke in a tramatized state, "screaming.. fire..
blood.. fire.. blood.. death..." Then Hikari screamed once more, collapsing
into her brother's arms. "TAICHIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!"
Mimi and Kathryn then noticed a faint glowing around Hida Iori, which
seemed to grow and fade with the fading echoes.
"That light?" Mimi asked.
"Just like..." Kathryn Whispered.
"It's OK!" Taichi tried to calm his sister. "It will be alright,
Hikari-chan!"
"Iiede ! Iiede ! Iiede ! It will *never* be alright, Taichi !! We
are the walking dead !!!! If we stay here, we die.. if we go home, we get
killed. Slow death? Quick death? All death! Iiede iiede iiede iiede..."
"Mimi-san!" Kathryn asked the young teleporter. "What happened?
Where did you go? And what did you see?"
"It was terrible, Sensei!" Mimi began. "When we arrived, The night
was lit up like day because of the fires near-by! At first, I thought we
were in one of the firestorms of the Second World War! But, then, I
noticed the anger in the crowds! It was mob-violence! Then, I found a
newspaper! The scene Hikari-chan and I saw will be in three days! And,
the mob will want us.. dead."
Hikari mumbled fearfully as she clung to Taichi for dear life!
"Burning.. efigies.. us.. or.. was us.. iiede.. iiede.. onegai.."
"So!" Jyou said sadly, stroking Gomamon, "We can't go home! For we
have no home. Hahai.. Shin.. Shuu.. sayonara.. I will miss you."
"Kana-oba? Soun-haku? I will miss you!" Koushirou said through
forming-tears. "Haha.. Chichi.. I will be joining you!"
"Iyaa!" Kathryn stated. "There is *always* another way! We just have
to find it! I don't think Wizardmon and I were bought here just to bury you!"
She thought for a couple of minutes. "We just need a plan! What we *really*
need is to get in touch with the School!"
"Hai!" Mimi turned to Koushirou. "Kou-kun? Are you able to patch the
Pineapple into Xavier's School?"
"Hai, Mimi!" Koushirou volunteered. "Jyou had me get online to the School for such a possibility after you and Hikari-chan vanished!"
"It seemed the only reasonable thing to do." Jyou blushed.
"Did we ever wonder why you were given the Crest of Reliability, Jyou-kun?" Mimi reached up to gently kiss the blue-haired man. Jyou blushed even more.
"My reliable partner!" Gomamon smiled.
"Do you have a way for me to talk directly to our people, Izumi-Sama?"
Kathryn asked.
"As on the phone?" Koushirou asked. "Hai! I decided one time to develope a little phone-program that I could use between Home and the Digital-World! Then I refined it for my laptop.. just for emergancies!"
"I'd say this qualifies as an 'emergancy'." Kathryn smiled.
"Hai!" Koushirou said, "We are already plugged-in and online!" He pointed to an outlet about ten feet from them. "All you have to do is
type in the School's e-mail address."
Kathryn smirked. "How many wall-sockets does the Digital-World have?"
Mimi, Koushirou, and Jyou sweatdropped. "You would be surprised."
Kathryn typed in the School's e-address, took the headset offered by Koushirou, and started formalating a plan:
"We need food for the Digimon it seems like. They appear a bit weak. And we need a place to go to in Japan for a safe-house, a place to prepare you for a trip Stateside."
The Pineapple's audio-system sounded a couple of of phone-rings and a soft click.
"Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngesters! Jubilation Lee here.
Kate? Mimi? Is this you?"
"Yes, Jubilee! It's us!" Kathryn answered. "We're o.k.. for now. But we're gonna need help. We've got a time-teleporter here, and she and Mimi just returned from Japan! Things are gonna turn ugly there in a couple of days. And we have a few more mutants here than our 'porter! So, we're gonna need help getting the Destined and their families out
of Japan and Stateside."
"I understand that, Kate! What do you need from this end?"
"Well, I need to know if Shiro Yashida is up to having visitors! Because we may have to use the Yoshida-lands as a safe-house!"
"Roger on that, Boss-Lady!" Jubilee responded. "I think Wolverine still keeps in touch with the Yoshida-clan. So we should be able to get that info to you soon! Anything else, Mother-Hen?"
"Thank-you, Jubilee!" Kathryn smiled. "Yes, there is! We seem to be running short of food here! And my friends and Wizardmon need to replenish their strength! So, we need a few-dozen CARE-packages, the higher in calory the better! Along with a bit of protien! I'll send Mimi to pick them up when you're ready!"
"OK. The airlift can start in about half-an-hour! The news on Sunfire should be ready by then, too."
"Thank you, Jubilee! God bless you!"
"Just get home safe, Boss-Lady!" Jubilee said.
"We'll try. Kathryn, out,"
"'Mother Hen'?" Tentomon asked.
"'Boss-lady'?" Gomamon asked.
"I *really* wish Jubilee wouldn't call me that!" Kathryn blushed.
"Hai." Mimi smiled. "Katarin-Sensei has had to lead a few of the groups
at times! And, although she does not boast of those times, she has done her sensei proud!"
Kathryn blushed a deeper red !!!
The computer-phonecall reached the ears of the younger-Destined.
"'Wolverine'?" Iori blinked as the name ran though his memory.
"'Jubilee'?" Miyako asked in a low tone.
"'Xavier's..'?" Daisuke eyes widened. "THAT is where I've seen Katarin-sensei! She is The Shadowcat! She is one of the X-Men!"
"The.. X-Men?" Miyako gasped. "Then.. Katarin-sensei.. and Mimi-sama.. are.. mutants? Are the Digi-Destined.. are we.. ?" Tearing eyes took on a distant look. "My parents..", Miyako squeaked out, "hate Mutants! They do
not consider them human!"
Hawkmon held onto Miyako reassuringly as she tried to hold back her tears. "Come, Miyako. Let us talk to Katarin-Sensei and Mimi-san."
Miyako slowly nodded.
"Pardon me, Sensei," Miyako asked meekly, "but, are you The Shadowcat?"
Kathryn and Mimi silently listened to Miyako, and hugged her ressuringly.
"We will help you, Inouye-san!" Kathryn said softly.
*BOOOOMM!!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!*
"IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! TAICHIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!" Hikari screamed again. "Make it STOP! IIEDE! IIEDE! IIEDE!"
"Kami-sama!" Sora screamed as she ran back into the cave. AIRDRAMON!!!! We are being BOMBED!!!!"
*BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!*
"WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!" Ken screamed out. "BEFORE THE CAVE FALLS
IN ON US!"
*BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!*
The Digimon and Digi-Destined ran out into the canyon.
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*** *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"We're beinmg MACHINEGUNNED !!!" Mimi screamed.
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*** *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"It's MEKANORIMON!!!!" Koushirou shouted.
"Hug the trail, minna!!" Sora ordered. "NOW!!!!"
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY*** *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"It's the Airdramon!" Hikari said looking backwards up the canyon! "THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER RUN!!!!"
"Hold on to you stomaches, minna!" Ken shouted jumping up. "This is gonna *hurt*! Wormmon! Keep the Digimon calm!"
Ichijouji Ken concentrated as he aimed his arms at the fast- approaching flying-snake-digimon. Suddenly, energy-pulses emmenated from Ken's body...
And the Airdramon fell in writhing balls to the floor and walls of the canyon!
"Nani?" Miyako asked weakly. "Ken-kun?"
"You're suffering from a loss of equilibrium, Inouye-san! But, not as much by half as our attackers! Quickly! Up! We must get to the top of the plateau!"
"You will be going.. nowhere.. Digi-Destined!" A strange, feminine voice called out, a bit shakilly. "This canyon shall by your last RESTING PLACE!"
Ken turned his gaze up to the opposite rim of the canyon.
"You have a habit of talking to much, Nezumimon! I would save my strength if I were you!"
"So," another feminine voice, a bit weakened, called out. "the Halfbreed-Who-Would-Be-Emporer shows himself here, again?"
"You and your sister do not sound well, Inumon! Could you be a bit queezy, still?"
"Half... breed?" Miyako asked groggily.
"We.. will quickly recover, Ichijouji Ken! Unlike your friends.. your human-tricks have no lasting-effect on us!"
"How about one of our father's tricks, then, dear sisters? CRIMSON LIGHTNING!!!!"
As most of his team-mates gasped in recognition, Ichijouji Ken fired to flexible red-beams of energy toward the opposite cliff! The tendrils of energy fell beneath the Digimon on the cliff, crubling the rock on which they stood and sending them screaming to the canyon-floor!
The Mekanorimon opened up once more in responce to their Commanders' fall.
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"Get down, Ken!" Miyako jumped up to push Ken out of the way of the machineguns.. and phased herself and Ken through the rock and back into the cave!
"MIYAKO?!?!" Iori cried out.
Silence greeted the young boy at first, then..
"WE'RE ALRIGHT, IORI-OTOTO!!!!"
"We have to silence those Mekanorimon!" Wizardmon said.
"And I think I know how!" Mimi said. "Those Steel drums can't hit what their
optic-sensers can't see.. so.. Iori! You will blind them for us!"
"Me?" The young boy asked. "How? How will I be able to?"
"Do not worry." Mimi smiled. "You should be able to.. with some help!"
Mimi then turned to Sora. "Sora-neesan? On me signal, scream at Iori! Loud
and long!"
"But.. won't that.. hurt him?" Sora stammered.
"Iie. It will not. Trust me." Mimi bowed, then turned to Iori. "Now! When you get hit, Iori-kun, aim where I tell you to.. and concentrate!"
"Hai, Mimi-san!" Iori snapped out a salute.
"Alright.." Mimi waited for the Mekanorimon to get into position. "Now, Sora..
SCREAM! To the highest octave you can reach!"
Takenouchi Sora hit Iori with her sonic blast.. and Iori started to glow like the brightest star in the night!
"Iori-kun... fire your light in a fast strobe! NOW!!"
The strobelight hit the Mekanorimon, freezing and disorienting their
systems for a time.
"That's.. DAZZLING!!" Daisuke blurted out, a bit numbed by what he's just seen.
"Hai." Kathryn smiled in memory of a friend. "It is!"
"Now, minna, UP THE TRAIL!!!!" Ken shouted. "The lightshow will only blind the Mekanorimon temporarily!"
The Digi-Destined picked up their weakened partners and hiked up the trail.
"Then, how about we try something a little more permanent!" Koushirou grinned determinedly. "I am not in Magneto's league yet, but I must try a few things!" After having Tentomon devolve to Motimon, Koushirou tried concentrating on the far canyon walls just over a line of Mekanorimon. "I feel a certain magnetic tug to the rocks there! My guess is there is a vein of magnetic ore that opens up in that part of the canyon! Let us hope I can get to it."
"My partner is AMAZING!" Motimon cheered.
"Under the circumstances," Koushirou breathed out heavily, "I would have to agree with you, Motimon!"
A few moments of concentration, and Koushirou found his answer in a dull rumble, as a great chunk of canyon gave way to bury those Mekanorimon under it!
"OK, minna!" Kathryn shouted, "Let's MOVE IT!"
Soon, the Digi-Destined made the forced-hike to the top of the canyon, and, then, dashed into the cover of the forests.
"Is everybody ok?" Kathryn asked.
A weak chorus of "Hai"s followed, signifying that everyone was at least able to breathe.
"I hate o mention this," Jyou said with a weak smile, "but I am hungry."
"I am hungry, also!" Yamato said. "I move that we find something to eat!"
"I second the motion!" Taichi grinned.
"It's been moved and seconded we get some food!" Mimi said. "Hearing no objections.. Kou-kun ? dail up the School!"
"Running final diagnostics of my Pineapple!" Koushirou smiled. "No glitches from my first experiment with magnetism! Dialimg up Xavier's!"
"Do you want the com, sensei?" Mimi asked Kathryn.
"Iie! No! You can handle this, Mimi-san." Kathryn smiled as she watched Tachikawa Mimi at work.
"Hai. Hello? This is Tachikawa Mimi, calling Xavier's School! Hello? Can anyone hear me?"
"Guten Abend, Fraulein Mimi! This is Kurt speaking!"
"Guten Abend, Herr Wagner! Wie gehtes Dir?" Mimi perked up. "Is everything ready at your end?"
"Sehr getz, Fraulein! The CARE-Packages are ready to be airlifted, ja! Und Herr Logan was able to speak with Yashida-sama! We will be waiting for you at the Yoshida estate in 36 hours!"
"Dankesehn, Herr Wagner! I will be there shortly to start the airlift!"
"Alright, Madchen!"
"Kou-kun?" Mimi requested. "I want you and Jyou to help with the airlift! Will you give control of the Pineapple over to Katarin-sensei?"
"Of course.. Mimi-taishou!" Koushirou bowed.
Mimi blushed.
Then, after a minute of gathering and concentration, the three friends vanished in a blink!
"There they go!" Taichi sighed as he watched three friends vanish. Then, he turned toward his imouto, cradled in Takeru's arms. "Will she be able to get us all out alive, Yamato? And.. what then? Our parents will try to protect Hikari and I... but, will they be enough?" He looked at Yamato with apprehension.
Yanato looked bnack with sadness pouring from his eyes. "I do not know, Taichi! And, I wish I did! At least.. you and Hikari have both your parents.. and I have my chichi.. but.. I do not know about Takeru, and
who he has.. I know my haha.. and she scares me!"
Taichi hugged his best friend reassuringly.
Miyako slowly walked over to where to where Ken was standing guard.. slightly away from the others. Every now and then, the young man would look at his hands, they slowly start rubbing them together.
'Almost as if he were trying to rub off the flesh', the young woman
thought.
"Will you be alright, Ken-san?"
"I do not know. Maybe. I hope so."
"When.. we heard the Crimson Lightning being released.. and the taunts of those women before that.. That.. was *you* we heard. They were speaking of you."
"Hai."
"What are you, Ken-kun?"
"I am born a mutant.. but I also inherited powers for my father- the Myotismon."
"Your.. father?" Miyako gasped and backed away a bit. "But.. I thought.."
"That Ichijouji-Sama was my biological-father? Or that the Myotismon only came to our world three years ago? Iie. Myotismon.. had been to earth many times before, but only for short times! One of those times, he met my mother! And, somehow, they fell in love! Then, they found out Haha was pregnent.. with me. However, Myotismon had one friend, who was as loyal to him as Haha! Ichijouji-sama, because of his friendship with the Myotismon, raised me as his own! And, when the time came for me to learn of my past..
he was there by my side, for me and Haha!"
"And.. those Digimon?"
"My half-sisters! Myotismon's other children! Nezumimon! Amd Inumon! And, I pray they have happier times in their next lives."
'Poor Ken-kun!' Miyako gazed at Ken. 'How noble he is! And what a big heart he has! I hope.. that Myotismon was proud of his son, and happy for him, before he died!'
Miyako gently hugged Ken, guiding him back to camp. Soon, they were joined by Iori.
Iori bowed to Ken. "Arigatou, Ken-san! You have shown your kindness to us more often than was demanded of you. And greater than I would have shown. Gomen nisai."
"Gomen muyo, Iori-san!" Ken smiled. The two grasped each other's offered hand firmly.
"It gladdens me that we are able to start as shin'yuu!" Daisuke said, "for, after hearing of Hikari and what she saw, we will need to stand tightly together! But, come! Tachikawa-san, Izumi-san, and Kiddo-sama have returned with food! We should eat!"
Four friends made it back to camp. The Digimon were already eating when they returned, regaining what would be much-needed energy!
"Do not eat so fast, Tanemon!" Mimi warned her friend. "You might get sick! I have enough food for you!"
"Alright, Mimi-hahai!" The little plant-digimon said, bringing a smile to her pink-haired partner.
"Peanutbutter and crackers! Cheese and crackers! Crackers and crackers!" V-mon exclaimed.
"Hai!" Gato sang out. "Tuna in springwater! Hai! The only oil I wanna taste is fish oil!"
"Can you share?" Patomon piped up.
"Sure, Porkchop!"
"Everyone eat up!" Kathryn said. "Because we are gonna be moving out to find a place where we can get back to Earth!"
A Digimon - Xmen Cross-over.
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Disclaimer: Neither Digimon nor ANY of the X-related titled Comics
are mine! "Digimon" (the Anime) is the property of it's creator, Houso Miyoshi, and Toie Amination, while the dubbing rights belong to Hayim
Saban;
The X-Men, New Mutants, Generation X, and any other X-characters belong to Marvel Comics.
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CHAPTER 03
"Tachikawa Mimi-san!" The blue-haired boy repeated, "What are *you* doing here?"
"I go where I am needed most, Ichijouji Ken!" Mimi smiled and bowed.
"But you have already FOUND refuge! You need not be here!"
"And the Digi-Destined.. including you, Ken-kun..", Mimi responded, "should not be here!"
Meanwhile, Hikari began to glow softly.
"We shall continue this later, Ichijouji-san!" Mimi said as she reached Hikari. "For it appears I will be needed shortly!"
Then, in a bright flash of light, Kamiya Hikari and Tachikawa Mimi vanished!
"HIKARI!!!!" Gatomon screamed.
"MIMI!!!!" Tanemon called out.
"NANI-YO?"
"ICHIJOUJI!!!!" Taichi screamed out. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY IMOUTO?!?! You have no RIGHT to the Crest of Kindness! What kindness is is to bring someone someplace to only have them KILLED???" Kamiya Taichi tried to
stangle Ichiouji Ken.
"What would be kinder?" Ichijouji Ken asked. "To see those your love die at the the hands of known-enemies? Or to be killed in the safety of
their own homes by supposed friends?"
Taichi halted his attack inches from Ken's throat.
"Nani?" Taichi asked. Suddenly, Kamiya Taichi burst into flames!
"IYAAAA! IIEDE! IIEDE! IIDE!" Taichi screamed. "I'm on fire! I'm on fire! I'm on.."
'You are not on fire, Taichi!' The calming voice of Yamato came through
Taichi's mind.
'But, Yamato! I..!'
'Do you feel the flames, Taichi?'
'Iie.'
'Do you smell roasting flesh?'
'Iie.'
'Relax, Taichi! This is a chemical reaction just above your skin! It will
not harm you! Relax.. Relax..'
Suddenly, Takenouchi Sora let out an ear-piercing shriek.. and started floating, then sailing and jetting, around the cavern!
Taichi body began to burn again, brighter and hotter this time, catching his clothing on fire!
Ken backed away safely from Taichi.
'Gabumon!' Yamato called out. 'Help Taichi!'
"Blue BLASTER!"
'Biyomon!'
"Nani? Yama-san? How am I hearing you in my head?"
'I'll try to explain everything later! Right now, get up to Sora! Get as close as you can! Show her how to maneuver before she kills herself on the rocks in here!'
"Hai!"
Soon, Biyomon was- as best as she could- showing her partner how to bank and turn.
"It is a good thing there is a deep antechamber in this cave." Yamato grinned. "Takeru! Ototo! I will need your help with Sora!"
'Sora,' Yamato called out in a calm tone. 'Listen. Turn around toward us. Keep screaming, but slowly decrease the intensity. And lower your legs and put them in front of you to land."
Sora, with the help of Biyomon and Yamato, aimed herself to the floor of the cavern. But, she was coming in too fast! Takeru caught her, however, cushioning her fall.
"How.. did you *do* that.. Takeru-san?" Sora stammered, looking at her friend, still two meters below her.
"I.. do not know!" Takeru looked at his brother. "Yamato-niisan?"
"It is called 'Telekinesis', Ototo!" Yamato smiled sadly. Then he looked back towards Taichi.
Soon the flames of Kamiya Taichi were out, and, with a certain astonished horror in his eyes, he slowly pulled his hand away from Ken.
"Gomen.. nisai.. Ichijouji-san! I did not.. I.. was not thinking."
"Benmei muyo, shitashii." Ken smiled, then took Taichi's extended (and
extinguished) hand in his. "I understand. Hikari-sama is, to me, shin'yuu, but she is your imouto."
"Hai." Taichi said. "Shazai."
"Nani-yo?" Miyako asked in a low voice. "Daisuke-kun? Iori-oto? What happened to Mimi-san and Hikari? And what just happened to Taichi? And who is Katarin-sama?"
"I do not know, Miyako-chan!" Daisuke said. "Katarin-sama *does* look familiar! But I can't remember where I've seen her! And, I do not know if my usual charms will work here! I have to think this out."
"Dai-kun! You are actually thinking first?" V-mon asked his partner. "This situation must *really* be serious!"
"What are you thinking of, Iori-san?" Armadimon asked his partner.
"Oh?" Iori suddenly came back from this thoughts. "Gomen, Armadimon! I was thinking about Katarin-sensei and Mimi-san. I have an idea of who they are.. and what that may mean to us!"
"The Wizardmon is with Katarin-Sensei!" Daisuke noted. "Does that mean Katarin-Sensei is one of us?"
"I am not sure, Daisuke-san!" Hawkmon said as he held Miyako's hand
reassuringly. "But things will work out for the best!"
Kathryn studied Yamato. "So, you are a telepath, Ishida-sama!
However, even for a telepath, you are able to instinctively help the others
with the beurgeoning powers! That is something even Professor Xavier has
trouble handling until the powers manifest themselves to a greater extent
than they have here! Are you also precognitive?"
"Second-sight? Iie, Shadowcat! I am just a telepath. But, I seem
to be able to sense how the body of those whose mind I touch works and
responds! So, I am able to help the others 'guide' their powers in their
uses!" Yamato bowed.
"A grave responsibility." Kathryn commented.
"Hai. And, I fear, too intrusive! That is why I tended to.. shy
away.. from others.. except for Takeru. I.. feared.. learning too much of
others! And they.. learning of me. I feared being alone. Hitoribocchi."
"And yet you became inshi, the thing you feared you'd become most."
Jyou smiled in understanding and he and Izumi walked toward Yamato and
Kathryn.
'Somtimes, Katarin-sama,' Yamato said sadly, 'I wish I were a
precognitive. Then, maybe some of the .. hurts .. my friends ..
my family .. had to pass through would not have been so hurtful!'
'Hai.' Kathryn sighed. 'Our families are *very* important to us!
I would wish mine to go through no harm, also!'
"Katarin-sensei!" Yamato spoke up. "I felt Mimi touch me."
"Then, let her come in!" Kathryn said.
A flash of light in the cavern's antechamber annonced the arrival
of the time-travelers.
"TAICHIIIIIIII !!!!" Hikari's scream echoed and re-echoed through the
cavern.
"HELP MEEEEEEEEE !!!! IYAAAA !!!! IIEDE ! IIEDE ! IIEDE ! IIEDE !
Iwannagohome Iwannagohome Iwannagohome I DON'T WANNA GO HOME !!!!" Hikari
continued to cry hysterically as she wrapped herself around he older
brother.
Taichi tried to reassuring caress his younger-sister, as his eyes
searched out Ishida Yamato and Ichijouji Ken.
"Imouto? Hikari-chan? Nani-yo?"
"Fire.." Hikari spoke in a tramatized state, "screaming.. fire..
blood.. fire.. blood.. death..." Then Hikari screamed once more, collapsing
into her brother's arms. "TAICHIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!"
Mimi and Kathryn then noticed a faint glowing around Hida Iori, which
seemed to grow and fade with the fading echoes.
"That light?" Mimi asked.
"Just like..." Kathryn Whispered.
"It's OK!" Taichi tried to calm his sister. "It will be alright,
Hikari-chan!"
"Iiede ! Iiede ! Iiede ! It will *never* be alright, Taichi !! We
are the walking dead !!!! If we stay here, we die.. if we go home, we get
killed. Slow death? Quick death? All death! Iiede iiede iiede iiede..."
"Mimi-san!" Kathryn asked the young teleporter. "What happened?
Where did you go? And what did you see?"
"It was terrible, Sensei!" Mimi began. "When we arrived, The night
was lit up like day because of the fires near-by! At first, I thought we
were in one of the firestorms of the Second World War! But, then, I
noticed the anger in the crowds! It was mob-violence! Then, I found a
newspaper! The scene Hikari-chan and I saw will be in three days! And,
the mob will want us.. dead."
Hikari mumbled fearfully as she clung to Taichi for dear life!
"Burning.. efigies.. us.. or.. was us.. iiede.. iiede.. onegai.."
"So!" Jyou said sadly, stroking Gomamon, "We can't go home! For we
have no home. Hahai.. Shin.. Shuu.. sayonara.. I will miss you."
"Kana-oba? Soun-haku? I will miss you!" Koushirou said through
forming-tears. "Haha.. Chichi.. I will be joining you!"
"Iyaa!" Kathryn stated. "There is *always* another way! We just have
to find it! I don't think Wizardmon and I were bought here just to bury you!"
She thought for a couple of minutes. "We just need a plan! What we *really*
need is to get in touch with the School!"
"Hai!" Mimi turned to Koushirou. "Kou-kun? Are you able to patch the
Pineapple into Xavier's School?"
"Hai, Mimi!" Koushirou volunteered. "Jyou had me get online to the School for such a possibility after you and Hikari-chan vanished!"
"It seemed the only reasonable thing to do." Jyou blushed.
"Did we ever wonder why you were given the Crest of Reliability, Jyou-kun?" Mimi reached up to gently kiss the blue-haired man. Jyou blushed even more.
"My reliable partner!" Gomamon smiled.
"Do you have a way for me to talk directly to our people, Izumi-Sama?"
Kathryn asked.
"As on the phone?" Koushirou asked. "Hai! I decided one time to develope a little phone-program that I could use between Home and the Digital-World! Then I refined it for my laptop.. just for emergancies!"
"I'd say this qualifies as an 'emergancy'." Kathryn smiled.
"Hai!" Koushirou said, "We are already plugged-in and online!" He pointed to an outlet about ten feet from them. "All you have to do is
type in the School's e-mail address."
Kathryn smirked. "How many wall-sockets does the Digital-World have?"
Mimi, Koushirou, and Jyou sweatdropped. "You would be surprised."
Kathryn typed in the School's e-address, took the headset offered by Koushirou, and started formalating a plan:
"We need food for the Digimon it seems like. They appear a bit weak. And we need a place to go to in Japan for a safe-house, a place to prepare you for a trip Stateside."
The Pineapple's audio-system sounded a couple of of phone-rings and a soft click.
"Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngesters! Jubilation Lee here.
Kate? Mimi? Is this you?"
"Yes, Jubilee! It's us!" Kathryn answered. "We're o.k.. for now. But we're gonna need help. We've got a time-teleporter here, and she and Mimi just returned from Japan! Things are gonna turn ugly there in a couple of days. And we have a few more mutants here than our 'porter! So, we're gonna need help getting the Destined and their families out
of Japan and Stateside."
"I understand that, Kate! What do you need from this end?"
"Well, I need to know if Shiro Yashida is up to having visitors! Because we may have to use the Yoshida-lands as a safe-house!"
"Roger on that, Boss-Lady!" Jubilee responded. "I think Wolverine still keeps in touch with the Yoshida-clan. So we should be able to get that info to you soon! Anything else, Mother-Hen?"
"Thank-you, Jubilee!" Kathryn smiled. "Yes, there is! We seem to be running short of food here! And my friends and Wizardmon need to replenish their strength! So, we need a few-dozen CARE-packages, the higher in calory the better! Along with a bit of protien! I'll send Mimi to pick them up when you're ready!"
"OK. The airlift can start in about half-an-hour! The news on Sunfire should be ready by then, too."
"Thank you, Jubilee! God bless you!"
"Just get home safe, Boss-Lady!" Jubilee said.
"We'll try. Kathryn, out,"
"'Mother Hen'?" Tentomon asked.
"'Boss-lady'?" Gomamon asked.
"I *really* wish Jubilee wouldn't call me that!" Kathryn blushed.
"Hai." Mimi smiled. "Katarin-Sensei has had to lead a few of the groups
at times! And, although she does not boast of those times, she has done her sensei proud!"
Kathryn blushed a deeper red !!!
The computer-phonecall reached the ears of the younger-Destined.
"'Wolverine'?" Iori blinked as the name ran though his memory.
"'Jubilee'?" Miyako asked in a low tone.
"'Xavier's..'?" Daisuke eyes widened. "THAT is where I've seen Katarin-sensei! She is The Shadowcat! She is one of the X-Men!"
"The.. X-Men?" Miyako gasped. "Then.. Katarin-sensei.. and Mimi-sama.. are.. mutants? Are the Digi-Destined.. are we.. ?" Tearing eyes took on a distant look. "My parents..", Miyako squeaked out, "hate Mutants! They do
not consider them human!"
Hawkmon held onto Miyako reassuringly as she tried to hold back her tears. "Come, Miyako. Let us talk to Katarin-Sensei and Mimi-san."
Miyako slowly nodded.
"Pardon me, Sensei," Miyako asked meekly, "but, are you The Shadowcat?"
Kathryn and Mimi silently listened to Miyako, and hugged her ressuringly.
"We will help you, Inouye-san!" Kathryn said softly.
*BOOOOMM!!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!*
"IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! TAICHIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!" Hikari screamed again. "Make it STOP! IIEDE! IIEDE! IIEDE!"
"Kami-sama!" Sora screamed as she ran back into the cave. AIRDRAMON!!!! We are being BOMBED!!!!"
*BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOM!*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!*
"WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!" Ken screamed out. "BEFORE THE CAVE FALLS
IN ON US!"
*BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!*
The Digimon and Digi-Destined ran out into the canyon.
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"We're beinmg MACHINEGUNNED !!!" Mimi screamed.
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"It's MEKANORIMON!!!!" Koushirou shouted.
"Hug the trail, minna!!" Sora ordered. "NOW!!!!"
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY*** *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"It's the Airdramon!" Hikari said looking backwards up the canyon! "THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER RUN!!!!"
"Hold on to you stomaches, minna!" Ken shouted jumping up. "This is gonna *hurt*! Wormmon! Keep the Digimon calm!"
Ichijouji Ken concentrated as he aimed his arms at the fast- approaching flying-snake-digimon. Suddenly, energy-pulses emmenated from Ken's body...
And the Airdramon fell in writhing balls to the floor and walls of the canyon!
"Nani?" Miyako asked weakly. "Ken-kun?"
"You're suffering from a loss of equilibrium, Inouye-san! But, not as much by half as our attackers! Quickly! Up! We must get to the top of the plateau!"
"You will be going.. nowhere.. Digi-Destined!" A strange, feminine voice called out, a bit shakilly. "This canyon shall by your last RESTING PLACE!"
Ken turned his gaze up to the opposite rim of the canyon.
"You have a habit of talking to much, Nezumimon! I would save my strength if I were you!"
"So," another feminine voice, a bit weakened, called out. "the Halfbreed-Who-Would-Be-Emporer shows himself here, again?"
"You and your sister do not sound well, Inumon! Could you be a bit queezy, still?"
"Half... breed?" Miyako asked groggily.
"We.. will quickly recover, Ichijouji Ken! Unlike your friends.. your human-tricks have no lasting-effect on us!"
"How about one of our father's tricks, then, dear sisters? CRIMSON LIGHTNING!!!!"
As most of his team-mates gasped in recognition, Ichijouji Ken fired to flexible red-beams of energy toward the opposite cliff! The tendrils of energy fell beneath the Digimon on the cliff, crubling the rock on which they stood and sending them screaming to the canyon-floor!
The Mekanorimon opened up once more in responce to their Commanders' fall.
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*
"Get down, Ken!" Miyako jumped up to push Ken out of the way of the machineguns.. and phased herself and Ken through the rock and back into the cave!
"MIYAKO?!?!" Iori cried out.
Silence greeted the young boy at first, then..
"WE'RE ALRIGHT, IORI-OTOTO!!!!"
"We have to silence those Mekanorimon!" Wizardmon said.
"And I think I know how!" Mimi said. "Those Steel drums can't hit what their
optic-sensers can't see.. so.. Iori! You will blind them for us!"
"Me?" The young boy asked. "How? How will I be able to?"
"Do not worry." Mimi smiled. "You should be able to.. with some help!"
Mimi then turned to Sora. "Sora-neesan? On me signal, scream at Iori! Loud
and long!"
"But.. won't that.. hurt him?" Sora stammered.
"Iie. It will not. Trust me." Mimi bowed, then turned to Iori. "Now! When you get hit, Iori-kun, aim where I tell you to.. and concentrate!"
"Hai, Mimi-san!" Iori snapped out a salute.
"Alright.." Mimi waited for the Mekanorimon to get into position. "Now, Sora..
SCREAM! To the highest octave you can reach!"
Takenouchi Sora hit Iori with her sonic blast.. and Iori started to glow like the brightest star in the night!
"Iori-kun... fire your light in a fast strobe! NOW!!"
The strobelight hit the Mekanorimon, freezing and disorienting their
systems for a time.
"That's.. DAZZLING!!" Daisuke blurted out, a bit numbed by what he's just seen.
"Hai." Kathryn smiled in memory of a friend. "It is!"
"Now, minna, UP THE TRAIL!!!!" Ken shouted. "The lightshow will only blind the Mekanorimon temporarily!"
The Digi-Destined picked up their weakened partners and hiked up the trail.
"Then, how about we try something a little more permanent!" Koushirou grinned determinedly. "I am not in Magneto's league yet, but I must try a few things!" After having Tentomon devolve to Motimon, Koushirou tried concentrating on the far canyon walls just over a line of Mekanorimon. "I feel a certain magnetic tug to the rocks there! My guess is there is a vein of magnetic ore that opens up in that part of the canyon! Let us hope I can get to it."
"My partner is AMAZING!" Motimon cheered.
"Under the circumstances," Koushirou breathed out heavily, "I would have to agree with you, Motimon!"
A few moments of concentration, and Koushirou found his answer in a dull rumble, as a great chunk of canyon gave way to bury those Mekanorimon under it!
"OK, minna!" Kathryn shouted, "Let's MOVE IT!"
Soon, the Digi-Destined made the forced-hike to the top of the canyon, and, then, dashed into the cover of the forests.
"Is everybody ok?" Kathryn asked.
A weak chorus of "Hai"s followed, signifying that everyone was at least able to breathe.
"I hate o mention this," Jyou said with a weak smile, "but I am hungry."
"I am hungry, also!" Yamato said. "I move that we find something to eat!"
"I second the motion!" Taichi grinned.
"It's been moved and seconded we get some food!" Mimi said. "Hearing no objections.. Kou-kun ? dail up the School!"
"Running final diagnostics of my Pineapple!" Koushirou smiled. "No glitches from my first experiment with magnetism! Dialimg up Xavier's!"
"Do you want the com, sensei?" Mimi asked Kathryn.
"Iie! No! You can handle this, Mimi-san." Kathryn smiled as she watched Tachikawa Mimi at work.
"Hai. Hello? This is Tachikawa Mimi, calling Xavier's School! Hello? Can anyone hear me?"
"Guten Abend, Fraulein Mimi! This is Kurt speaking!"
"Guten Abend, Herr Wagner! Wie gehtes Dir?" Mimi perked up. "Is everything ready at your end?"
"Sehr getz, Fraulein! The CARE-Packages are ready to be airlifted, ja! Und Herr Logan was able to speak with Yashida-sama! We will be waiting for you at the Yoshida estate in 36 hours!"
"Dankesehn, Herr Wagner! I will be there shortly to start the airlift!"
"Alright, Madchen!"
"Kou-kun?" Mimi requested. "I want you and Jyou to help with the airlift! Will you give control of the Pineapple over to Katarin-sensei?"
"Of course.. Mimi-taishou!" Koushirou bowed.
Mimi blushed.
Then, after a minute of gathering and concentration, the three friends vanished in a blink!
"There they go!" Taichi sighed as he watched three friends vanish. Then, he turned toward his imouto, cradled in Takeru's arms. "Will she be able to get us all out alive, Yamato? And.. what then? Our parents will try to protect Hikari and I... but, will they be enough?" He looked at Yamato with apprehension.
Yanato looked bnack with sadness pouring from his eyes. "I do not know, Taichi! And, I wish I did! At least.. you and Hikari have both your parents.. and I have my chichi.. but.. I do not know about Takeru, and
who he has.. I know my haha.. and she scares me!"
Taichi hugged his best friend reassuringly.
Miyako slowly walked over to where to where Ken was standing guard.. slightly away from the others. Every now and then, the young man would look at his hands, they slowly start rubbing them together.
'Almost as if he were trying to rub off the flesh', the young woman
thought.
"Will you be alright, Ken-san?"
"I do not know. Maybe. I hope so."
"When.. we heard the Crimson Lightning being released.. and the taunts of those women before that.. That.. was *you* we heard. They were speaking of you."
"Hai."
"What are you, Ken-kun?"
"I am born a mutant.. but I also inherited powers for my father- the Myotismon."
"Your.. father?" Miyako gasped and backed away a bit. "But.. I thought.."
"That Ichijouji-Sama was my biological-father? Or that the Myotismon only came to our world three years ago? Iie. Myotismon.. had been to earth many times before, but only for short times! One of those times, he met my mother! And, somehow, they fell in love! Then, they found out Haha was pregnent.. with me. However, Myotismon had one friend, who was as loyal to him as Haha! Ichijouji-sama, because of his friendship with the Myotismon, raised me as his own! And, when the time came for me to learn of my past..
he was there by my side, for me and Haha!"
"And.. those Digimon?"
"My half-sisters! Myotismon's other children! Nezumimon! Amd Inumon! And, I pray they have happier times in their next lives."
'Poor Ken-kun!' Miyako gazed at Ken. 'How noble he is! And what a big heart he has! I hope.. that Myotismon was proud of his son, and happy for him, before he died!'
Miyako gently hugged Ken, guiding him back to camp. Soon, they were joined by Iori.
Iori bowed to Ken. "Arigatou, Ken-san! You have shown your kindness to us more often than was demanded of you. And greater than I would have shown. Gomen nisai."
"Gomen muyo, Iori-san!" Ken smiled. The two grasped each other's offered hand firmly.
"It gladdens me that we are able to start as shin'yuu!" Daisuke said, "for, after hearing of Hikari and what she saw, we will need to stand tightly together! But, come! Tachikawa-san, Izumi-san, and Kiddo-sama have returned with food! We should eat!"
Four friends made it back to camp. The Digimon were already eating when they returned, regaining what would be much-needed energy!
"Do not eat so fast, Tanemon!" Mimi warned her friend. "You might get sick! I have enough food for you!"
"Alright, Mimi-hahai!" The little plant-digimon said, bringing a smile to her pink-haired partner.
"Peanutbutter and crackers! Cheese and crackers! Crackers and crackers!" V-mon exclaimed.
"Hai!" Gato sang out. "Tuna in springwater! Hai! The only oil I wanna taste is fish oil!"
"Can you share?" Patomon piped up.
"Sure, Porkchop!"
"Everyone eat up!" Kathryn said. "Because we are gonna be moving out to find a place where we can get back to Earth!"