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.
Notes: The song in this episode, "Man Come from Egypt", is another
folk-song from the trio of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
"Krystallnacht" ("Night of Broken Glass"): 9 November 1938-
Jewish synagogues in Berlin and throughout Germany were destroyed. Jews were
beaten and many Jewish-businesses were destroyed.
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CHAPTER 05
The soft pink light announced the arrival the Digi-Destined and Digimon in a computer store in Odaiba. Somehow, all the Destined and Mon, including Kathryn and Wizardmon, were able to slip out of the store.
Getting out of the mall, however, was another story.. a horror story.
From what Shadowcat remembered of Hikari's and Mimi's report, she had
figured that the population of the Toyko Plain was turning out to be highly
anti-mutant. That thought- she soon learned- was a terrible understatement!
As the kids made it into the mall, Kathryn and Mimi were able to catch
scraps of conversation from the people passing by them:
"..X-Man ..Japan!"
"Nani?"
"Naze?"
"Who knows.."
".. to take care of.."
".. take care of our own.."
".. handle our own problems.."
".. permenantly!"
".. permenantly!"
".. permenantly!"
".. leave no trace!"
As the talk became more hostile, Mon and Destined huddled closer
together! The Digimon came in closer to jump to their partners' aide if
needed. The Destined brought their Digimon closer to hide them from the
eyes of a potentially-hostile mob.
Unfortunately...
"Nani? A little monster? It must be a Mutant!"
"KILL THE MUTANT!! DESTROY!!"
"HARAI!!!"
"'Purification'?!?!" Miyako cried out.
"'Exorcism'????" Iori blinked.
"This.. does not look good." Jyou sighed.
"OK, troops..", Kathryn whistled, "orderly fashion.. BUG-OUT!!!!"
The Digimon were securely picked up.. and the race was on!
Soon, after dodging shoppers-turned-vigilantes, the Digi-Destined and
their companions were safely out of the mall and running toward the street.
"OK!" Katheryn sighed. "We've made it out of the mall. That was easy.
Now.. we have to make it to the Yoshida Estate.. intact! Now.. Mimi, I'll need you and your Palmon's help. We need to hunker-down, stay close, and stay low! The last thing we need this place to become is a shooting gallery!
Now.. if I remember.. Yashida Shiro has a penthouse-apartment in the Ginza-
District.. We can use that for a safehouse until someone gets us out of Tokyo! Now.. how do we get there?"
"We need to leave Odaiba, first!" Koushirou smirked.
"Hai." Kathryn agreed. "Someone just point us in the right direction."
"The direct route takes us over the bridge.." Hikari started to say.
"But that will leave us out in the open!" Daisuke protested.
"Demo.. going around the bay will take too long, Motimiya-san!" Ken bowed. "That will make us easier targets. Gomen nissai."
"Gomen muyo, Ichijouji-san!" Daisuke hung his head. "I just wish none of this had happened."
"Such thinking will not help us!" Mimi stated in a commanding tone. "Come! We MUST get to Tokyo! Come!! Let us move! And stay low!"
"Hai!" Destined and Mon snapped out as softly as they could.
As the group made it's way to the bridge, detouring around possibly-
hostile crowds, they made their way past the apartment-building of the Digi-destined- now, a potential-warzone!!
"Our home!!" Takeru cried out. "They will destroy our home... kill everyone.. to GET to us!! We MUST stop them!! Patomon! DIGIVOLVE!!"
"PATOMON! Digivolve to.. ANGEMON!!"
Fires had already erupted in several apartment-buildings as Takeru
and Patomon started to dash around the angry mob.
"Mimi-san! Shadowcat!" Taichi called out. "Watch over my imouto! Agumon! DIGIVOLVE!!"
"Agumon! Digivolve to.. GREYMON!!"
In an instant, Taichi and Greymon were wading through the unfocused-
no-longer crowd!
"Nani?"
"Mutant!"
"HARAI!!"
"Shimatte!!" Mimi and Shadowcat swore, Shadowcat under her breath.
"If Taichi-BAKA survives this night," Yamato swore, "I will snap his
*brain* like a twig!! Gabumon! Digivolve.. NOW!!"
"Gabumon! Digivolve to.. GARURUMON!!"
"Come, Garurumon!" Yamato mounted the wolf-digimon. "Let us follow my brother's example. Sora! We will, no doubt, need your help.. and Birdramon's!!"
"Hai!" Sora replied. "Biyomon?"
"Biyomon! Digi-volve to.. BIRDRAMON!!"
As Birdamon flew into the night sky, Sora felt a tight beam of sonic- energy start fring in her throat, then lift her off the ground as soon as she released it! Then, she followed Birdramon toward the blazing apartment- building.
"Shimatte..!" Shadowcat slowly hissed. "When it rains, it pours!! Mimi! Hold TIGHTLY onto Hikari! We do not need to lose anyone. I WILL NOT lose anyone on my watch!"
"WE will not loose anyone, Katarin-Sensei!" Wizardmon held onto his partner's hand. "That.. I promise!"
As the screams of Birdramon and Sora, and the roars of Greymon and Garurumon, strangely blended into the screams and shouts of the ameobic crowd, Mimi clung tightly to a sobbing Kamiya Hikari. Mimi started caressing the young girl's head and kissing her gently.
"Hush! Hush, Hikari-chan! Things will turn out alright.. we saw it..
it will be alright! It has to be."
"What is wrong with Hikari?" Shadowcat asked.
"She is feverish!" Mimi responded worriedly, cradling the girl. "Reliving her nightmare is taking a heavy toll on her body."
"It is not only her nightmare, Mimi." Shadowcat whispered loud enough for the fear to show through her voice. "Es ist Krystallnacht.. over again!
Mein Gott in Himmel.."
"'Krystallnacht'?" Iori asked.
"'Night of Broken Glass', Iori." Jyou sighed. "The night in 1938 in
Germany when the Germans first rose up in terror against the Jews."
"Against my people!" Shadowcat wept. "Miyako-chan? Until.. we hear from
our wayward Digi-Destined.. keep.. your phasing-powers up.. the way you went into the Cave when Ken's sisters attacked. We will all keep our hands linked together! If trouble meets us before friends do.. we all take a deep breath
and back-step into the wall! Got it, Miyako-chan?"
"Hai, Sensei!"
"Good!"
The next couple of hours were filled with shouts, roars, and screams as pieces of the apartment-building exploded into flames! Sometimes, Birdramon or Greymon would become visible against the inferno, which would send the mob into an enraged panic! At these times, Hikari would bury herself deeper against Mimi, and cry harder.
Soon, the whole apartment-complex was in flames, as the panicky-crowd
quickly turned ravenous!
"MUTANT!!!"
"DESTROY!!!"
"HARAI!!!"
"THAT IS ENOUGH!!!" Taichi's voice rang out above the mob. He jumped
down from Greymon. "You want us? You.. our neighbors.. are willing to destroy
EVERYTHING to hunt us down down?"
"You were willing to sacrifice INNOCENTS.. to.. destroy us?" Sora's voice cracked and coughed as she limped off Birdramon.
"Sora?" Hikari asked.
"I tried.. I really tried!.. to save all of them." Sora sobbed as she laid three babies on the sidewalk. "Demo..", she coughed out, "some.. were already.. already... Oh, Kami!!!"
"You wish to smell blood and scorched-flesh!" Yamato spoke as he lay two more babies safely on the ground. "You wish to taste death! To see a mangled body and say, 'Here lies a freak! A ghoul!' It is you who are the ghouls! Your minds betray you."
Yamato then climbed back on Garurumon. "Come! We will leave these vultures!"
A man and woman suddenly ran from the stunned crowd:
"MUTANTS! KAIJUU! Kaijuu, HARAI!! Flee from us! HARAI!! You are not from us! You never were!!"
"IIEDE!!!!" Daisuke screamed as he broke away from the safety of Miyako's grasp, tears in his eyes. "How can you SAY that! You gave BIRTH to
us!!" He stared hard- through teary eyes- at his parents.
"You gave birth to me." He whispered.
"We would NEVER give birth to Kaijuu!!"
"You gave birth.." Daisuke started to shake.
"Do not do it, Dai-kun!" Miyako whispered.
".. to ME!!" Daisuke screamed, then ran his fists, literally, around the first two rows of the anti-mutant mob! Then, he stopped in front of his
parents. "What do you say, now, Motimiya-Sama?"
"You are NOT our son!" Mrs. Motimiya shouted. "You a KAIJUU! You are a
MISTAKE, and shame to whoever BORE YOU!"
"It.. is as you say..", Daisuke said as his shaking subsided. He then
looked out through teary-eyes. "You.. no longer.. have... a son. I.. am an orphan."
"Dai-Kun.. gomen..." Miyako cried softly, as Takeru and Ken could just
look on.
Daisuke's mother quickly withdrew a knife and lunged at Daisuke!
V-mon responded to his partner's danger. "Daisuke! Get down! Sora! Hit Iori!!"
Sora screamed.
"SMILE!!" Iori shouted as he hit Mrs. Motimiya and the those around her
with a strobe-light effect!
Mrs. Motimiya dropped the knife.
"That will only blind them for a few seconds!" Iori advised. "Let's get out of here!"
"Maybe I can purchase us some more time," Ken said with a dangerous grin. "You go on ahead! I will catch up. Go!". Once the others were a safe distance away, Ichijouji Ken picked up Wormon and turned to the crowd:
"A gift.. from the Family Myotismon! SLEEP!!"
A red mist seemed to gather around Ken's outstretched hand, and- at his command- float over the mob, causing them to fall, unconscience, onto the ground.
"Sayonara, minna."
By now, fourteen mutants and fourteen Digimon made a co-ordinated run
fr the bay-bridge.. and Tokyo! And, behind them, a young girl followed.
Soon, Ken and Wormon rejoined the group. "That is at least one group that will not been following us!" Ken told Mimi.
"Hai. I sensed a sudden drowsiness." The pink-haired teleporter mused.
"For how long will they remain asleep?"
"Until someone washes the sleep-spell off them!" Wormon replied. 'Or the next rain. Whichever comes first!"
"We are being shadowed", Ken told Mimi and Yamato, who had fallen back to be a rear-gaurd.
"Hai." Yamato replied. "Do not worry, she is a friend!"
"If will relieve Daisuke to know she is with us!" Mimi smiled. "And, she WILL stay with us!"
Soon, everyone was at the Bay Bridge.
"I'm sensing a group in the middle of the Bay Bridge." Mimi told Shadowcat. "And they seem to be just waiting for something."
"They are waiting..", Yamato spoke from atop Garurumon. "They are waiting for us! And they wait for the X-Men!"
"Unfriendly?" Shadowcat asked.
"Very!" Yamato answered.
"Great! Just what we need!" Shadowcat growled. "Mimi-san! Is there
any mind you can latch onto on the other side of the Bay?"
"Iyaa, Katarin-Sensei! Gomen nisai!" Mimi apologized. "There are too
many minds to connect with! I cannot get an accurate reading. Gomen."
"Gomen muyo, Mimi-san!" Shadowcat have a dark grin. "We just need to find a way across the bridge, then.. that keeps us alive."
"I have been thinking of that, Sensei!" Mimi bowed. Then, she turned
to the other Digi-Destined!" Jyou? Iori-kun? We need picket-guards.. our main force.. preferably ones our enemies cannot see! Hai? We will force their hand! Just listen for their first shots of gunfire.. then ANSWER IT!!"
"HAI!" Jyou and Iori snapped to attention:
"Gomamon? Digivolve!"
"GOMAMON! Digivolve to ... IKAKKUMON!!"
"Armadimon? Digi-armor MODIFY!"
"Armadimon! Digivolve to... SUBMARIMON!!"
"Come, Ikakkumon!" Jyou headed to the shore. "We must be in position!"
"Hai, Kiddo-san!" Ikakkumon answered. Soon he and Jyou were dissapearing in the hoizon.
"Come, Hida-san!" Submarimon called from just inside the waves. "We are a team!"
"Hai, my partner!" Iori chirped. He and Submarimon soon sank beneath the waves.
"We can rely on Jyou and Iori to do their parts, hai!" Mimi said, "Now, they are relying on us to do our part. We have a bridge to cross! The X-Men cannot help us on this side. Let us GO!! BANZAI!!!!"
With the Banzai-cry, the main group of mutants and Digimon charged the
bridge! They then speeded up to the top, suprising the anti-mutant garrison that had positioned itself in mid-bay!
Then, the garrison responded with their weaponry!
"Watch out!!" Shadowcat shouted. "If they have ammunition like they have back in the States.. they can screw out powers up enough that killing us will be easy!!"
As if in answer to Shadowcat's warning, the garrison opened fire!
"Get down!!" Mimi and Shadowcat ordered. Digimon and -Destined then hit the pavement.
"There is the gunfire, Kido-san!" Ikakkumon said. "Shall we return that fire?"
"What is the range, Ikkakumon?" Jyou asked.
"One kilometer, Commander!"
"What is the elevation, Submarimon?" Iori asked.
"Fifteen meters, Sir!"
"Then.."
"FIRE!!!!"
"OXYGEN TORPEDO!!!!"
"HARPOON TORPEDO!!!!"
*BOOM!!*BOOM!!*
"There go the base-supports!" Shadowcat said as the mutants felt the bridge sway.
*BOOOOMM!!!!*BOOOOMM!!!!*
"And there goes the pavement!!" Mimi shouted. "OK, Ken-kun! These Baka
have been rocked..."
"Now it's time to ROLL THEM!!!!" Ken moved foreward aways from the rest of the Digi-Destined.
"I hope you Baka-tachi have medical insurance! Because you're going to NEED IT!! VERTIGO!!!!"
The already-rattled garrison were now falling on their knees and stomaches, some clutching thier stomaches in agony, as the Digi-Destined and Digimon ran past them!
"OK, people!" Shadowcat ordered. "Gather as many weapons as you can! What you can't pick up.. DESTROY!! I don't want these weapons used agaist us or any other mutant!!"
As the Digi-Destined were coming off the bridge, Shadowcat started a song to keep the group's spirits up:
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"There is a man come into Egypt,
And Moses is his name!
When he saw the grief upon us
in his heart there burned a flame!
"In his heart there burned a flame, O Lord!
In his heart there burned a flame!
When he saw the griefg upon us
in his heart ther burned a flame.."
"There is a man come into Egypt,
His eyes are full of light!
Like the sun come up in Egypt
come to drive away the night!
"Come to drive away the night, O Lord!
Come to drive away the night!
Like the sun come up in Egypt
Come to drive away the night.."
"There is a man come up in Egypt,
He's come for you and me!
On his lips a word is saying,
and the word is 'Liberty'!
"And the word is 'Liberty', O Lord!
And the word is 'Liberty'!
On his lips a word is saying,
and the word is 'Liberty'.."
"There is a man come out of Egypt,
To stir the souls of men!
We will follow into freedom,
and never where those chains again!
"Never where those chains again, O Lord!
Never where those chains again!
We will follow into freedom,
and never where those chains again!"
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In four hours of snaking through Tokyo, the Digi-Destined made it to
the Yoshida Building in the Ginza District. It was 6:30 AM local time, and the Odaiba-refugees had been up and moving for 12 hours since returning from the Digital World. They were tired, hungry, and completely on-edge!
And still on battle-alert.
"Is everything well, Kitten?" A woman's voice asked.
The Digi-Destined tensed up.
"WHO GOES THERE?!?!" Taichi shouted. "SHOW YOURSELF!!!!"
"Good going, Storm!" A young girl's voice said. "They're jumpy enough as is!"
"Ororo?" Shadowcat jumped. "Jubilee?"
"We're here, Boss-Lady." Jubilee said and she slowly walked into the room. "We've been listening to the news. Things have been bad outside."
"You don't know how bad, Jubilee!" Shadowcat cried as she hugged the younger woman. "And, I hope you never do."
"Well, you're safe here, Kate!" Wolverine said. "You an' Mimi an' the other Digi-Destined! Yashida Shiro says you can stay here long enough to eat
and rest, an' then we'll get you to the Yashida estate. Then.. we go back Stateside! An' you don' have to worry about break-ins! We're helpin' Shiro's
bodygaurds look after the building, here."
"I'm gonna have to thank Yashida-Sama!" Shadowcat sighed. "Some breakfast and sleep is just what this girl..."
"Katchen?" Nightcrawler appeared in the doorway. "Rahne und I found a liebchen wandering lost downstairs. She says she was following you from Odaiba. She says she needs to talk to one of the Digi-Destined."
"She does?" Shadowcat asked "Who is..?"
"It is alright, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi assured Shadowcat. "We know her,
and will vouch for her!"
"Then let her in!" Kathryn said.
"Come on in, Miss Motimiya." Rahne shepherded the young lady inside. She looked as beat and bruised as the Digi-Destined.
"'Motimiya'?" A worried Daisuke looked up as he heard his family's name spoken. "Jun.. Neesan? What are you doing here?"
"Following you, Ototo-Baka!" Motimiya Jun tried to laugh as she clung to Daisuke for dear life, but she wound up choking on her tears. "I *had* to
see you, Dai-kun.. had to be here for you.. after.. after..." Jun broke down in Daisuke's arms.
"It will be alright, Jun!" Daisuke gently cradled his sister. "Things will be alright, now. You are safe, here! Shhh.. shhh... Is there a room where my neesan can rest?"
"There is.. enough room, here, young man!" A thin, yet elegant, man
spoke up. He moved with the aid of a walker. "I.. have always.. tried to be a gracious host!"
'Daisuke-Sama!', Yamato called out telepathically, 'you are doing the right thing for Jun-chan. You are a gentleman.'
'She is my sister!' Daisuke replied. 'We may fight.. but, that is what brothers and sisters do! Demo.. no one *destroys* her!! Especially, her parents!'
"Yashida-Sama!" Shadowcat started. "What are you doing here? You should be resting!"
"Someone.. had to allow the X-Men onto the property, Pryde-Sama! Besides," Shiro smiled sadly, "the cancer.. has not totally-incapacitated me.
Yet. As long as I am needed, somewhere.. somewhere is where I will be! And, how are you, Tachikawa-chan?"
"I am well, Yashida-san! Domo arigatou!" Mimi bowed.
"If I *ever* see my parents *again*," Daisuke swore as he helped his sister to bed, "I will *kill* them! How *dare* they tear my sister apart like this!"
"Daisuke?" Jun spoke hoarsely. "You are right.. we have no parents. The parents we knew.. died.. within the last two days.. and those kaijuu took their place. Or.. were they there all along?"
Daisuke's answer to Jun haunted each of the Digi-Destined:
"I do not know."
Yashida Shiro turned back to the Digi-Destined. "After you have rested, we will.. leave.. for my estate! The other X-Men and your families are waiting there for you!"
"Hai! Domo Arigatou, Yashida-Sama!" Kathryn and Mimi bowed.
"Pardon us, Pryde.. Katarin-Sama?" A young man spoke up. "We are looking for our brother, Kido Jyou! Where may he be? I am Kido Shin, and
this is my niisan, Kido Shuu!"
"Arigatou, Kido-San! Demo.. Jyou-san is..", Shadowcat turned around to
locate Jyou. "He is..."
Shadowcat started couting heads..
"One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-ni..? One-two-three-four-five-
six-seven-eight.. One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-EIGHT.. seven-EIGHT?!!!"
The Shadowcat then let out a line of precise-Japanese that made everyone's ears burn!!!!
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Who's missing (besides Jyou)? Find out next chapter.
Kellybug.
caellach@houston.rr.com
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.
Notes: The song in this episode, "Man Come from Egypt", is another
folk-song from the trio of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
"Krystallnacht" ("Night of Broken Glass"): 9 November 1938-
Jewish synagogues in Berlin and throughout Germany were destroyed. Jews were
beaten and many Jewish-businesses were destroyed.
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CHAPTER 05
The soft pink light announced the arrival the Digi-Destined and Digimon in a computer store in Odaiba. Somehow, all the Destined and Mon, including Kathryn and Wizardmon, were able to slip out of the store.
Getting out of the mall, however, was another story.. a horror story.
From what Shadowcat remembered of Hikari's and Mimi's report, she had
figured that the population of the Toyko Plain was turning out to be highly
anti-mutant. That thought- she soon learned- was a terrible understatement!
As the kids made it into the mall, Kathryn and Mimi were able to catch
scraps of conversation from the people passing by them:
"..X-Man ..Japan!"
"Nani?"
"Naze?"
"Who knows.."
".. to take care of.."
".. take care of our own.."
".. handle our own problems.."
".. permenantly!"
".. permenantly!"
".. permenantly!"
".. leave no trace!"
As the talk became more hostile, Mon and Destined huddled closer
together! The Digimon came in closer to jump to their partners' aide if
needed. The Destined brought their Digimon closer to hide them from the
eyes of a potentially-hostile mob.
Unfortunately...
"Nani? A little monster? It must be a Mutant!"
"KILL THE MUTANT!! DESTROY!!"
"HARAI!!!"
"'Purification'?!?!" Miyako cried out.
"'Exorcism'????" Iori blinked.
"This.. does not look good." Jyou sighed.
"OK, troops..", Kathryn whistled, "orderly fashion.. BUG-OUT!!!!"
The Digimon were securely picked up.. and the race was on!
Soon, after dodging shoppers-turned-vigilantes, the Digi-Destined and
their companions were safely out of the mall and running toward the street.
"OK!" Katheryn sighed. "We've made it out of the mall. That was easy.
Now.. we have to make it to the Yoshida Estate.. intact! Now.. Mimi, I'll need you and your Palmon's help. We need to hunker-down, stay close, and stay low! The last thing we need this place to become is a shooting gallery!
Now.. if I remember.. Yashida Shiro has a penthouse-apartment in the Ginza-
District.. We can use that for a safehouse until someone gets us out of Tokyo! Now.. how do we get there?"
"We need to leave Odaiba, first!" Koushirou smirked.
"Hai." Kathryn agreed. "Someone just point us in the right direction."
"The direct route takes us over the bridge.." Hikari started to say.
"But that will leave us out in the open!" Daisuke protested.
"Demo.. going around the bay will take too long, Motimiya-san!" Ken bowed. "That will make us easier targets. Gomen nissai."
"Gomen muyo, Ichijouji-san!" Daisuke hung his head. "I just wish none of this had happened."
"Such thinking will not help us!" Mimi stated in a commanding tone. "Come! We MUST get to Tokyo! Come!! Let us move! And stay low!"
"Hai!" Destined and Mon snapped out as softly as they could.
As the group made it's way to the bridge, detouring around possibly-
hostile crowds, they made their way past the apartment-building of the Digi-destined- now, a potential-warzone!!
"Our home!!" Takeru cried out. "They will destroy our home... kill everyone.. to GET to us!! We MUST stop them!! Patomon! DIGIVOLVE!!"
"PATOMON! Digivolve to.. ANGEMON!!"
Fires had already erupted in several apartment-buildings as Takeru
and Patomon started to dash around the angry mob.
"Mimi-san! Shadowcat!" Taichi called out. "Watch over my imouto! Agumon! DIGIVOLVE!!"
"Agumon! Digivolve to.. GREYMON!!"
In an instant, Taichi and Greymon were wading through the unfocused-
no-longer crowd!
"Nani?"
"Mutant!"
"HARAI!!"
"Shimatte!!" Mimi and Shadowcat swore, Shadowcat under her breath.
"If Taichi-BAKA survives this night," Yamato swore, "I will snap his
*brain* like a twig!! Gabumon! Digivolve.. NOW!!"
"Gabumon! Digivolve to.. GARURUMON!!"
"Come, Garurumon!" Yamato mounted the wolf-digimon. "Let us follow my brother's example. Sora! We will, no doubt, need your help.. and Birdramon's!!"
"Hai!" Sora replied. "Biyomon?"
"Biyomon! Digi-volve to.. BIRDRAMON!!"
As Birdamon flew into the night sky, Sora felt a tight beam of sonic- energy start fring in her throat, then lift her off the ground as soon as she released it! Then, she followed Birdramon toward the blazing apartment- building.
"Shimatte..!" Shadowcat slowly hissed. "When it rains, it pours!! Mimi! Hold TIGHTLY onto Hikari! We do not need to lose anyone. I WILL NOT lose anyone on my watch!"
"WE will not loose anyone, Katarin-Sensei!" Wizardmon held onto his partner's hand. "That.. I promise!"
As the screams of Birdramon and Sora, and the roars of Greymon and Garurumon, strangely blended into the screams and shouts of the ameobic crowd, Mimi clung tightly to a sobbing Kamiya Hikari. Mimi started caressing the young girl's head and kissing her gently.
"Hush! Hush, Hikari-chan! Things will turn out alright.. we saw it..
it will be alright! It has to be."
"What is wrong with Hikari?" Shadowcat asked.
"She is feverish!" Mimi responded worriedly, cradling the girl. "Reliving her nightmare is taking a heavy toll on her body."
"It is not only her nightmare, Mimi." Shadowcat whispered loud enough for the fear to show through her voice. "Es ist Krystallnacht.. over again!
Mein Gott in Himmel.."
"'Krystallnacht'?" Iori asked.
"'Night of Broken Glass', Iori." Jyou sighed. "The night in 1938 in
Germany when the Germans first rose up in terror against the Jews."
"Against my people!" Shadowcat wept. "Miyako-chan? Until.. we hear from
our wayward Digi-Destined.. keep.. your phasing-powers up.. the way you went into the Cave when Ken's sisters attacked. We will all keep our hands linked together! If trouble meets us before friends do.. we all take a deep breath
and back-step into the wall! Got it, Miyako-chan?"
"Hai, Sensei!"
"Good!"
The next couple of hours were filled with shouts, roars, and screams as pieces of the apartment-building exploded into flames! Sometimes, Birdramon or Greymon would become visible against the inferno, which would send the mob into an enraged panic! At these times, Hikari would bury herself deeper against Mimi, and cry harder.
Soon, the whole apartment-complex was in flames, as the panicky-crowd
quickly turned ravenous!
"MUTANT!!!"
"DESTROY!!!"
"HARAI!!!"
"THAT IS ENOUGH!!!" Taichi's voice rang out above the mob. He jumped
down from Greymon. "You want us? You.. our neighbors.. are willing to destroy
EVERYTHING to hunt us down down?"
"You were willing to sacrifice INNOCENTS.. to.. destroy us?" Sora's voice cracked and coughed as she limped off Birdramon.
"Sora?" Hikari asked.
"I tried.. I really tried!.. to save all of them." Sora sobbed as she laid three babies on the sidewalk. "Demo..", she coughed out, "some.. were already.. already... Oh, Kami!!!"
"You wish to smell blood and scorched-flesh!" Yamato spoke as he lay two more babies safely on the ground. "You wish to taste death! To see a mangled body and say, 'Here lies a freak! A ghoul!' It is you who are the ghouls! Your minds betray you."
Yamato then climbed back on Garurumon. "Come! We will leave these vultures!"
A man and woman suddenly ran from the stunned crowd:
"MUTANTS! KAIJUU! Kaijuu, HARAI!! Flee from us! HARAI!! You are not from us! You never were!!"
"IIEDE!!!!" Daisuke screamed as he broke away from the safety of Miyako's grasp, tears in his eyes. "How can you SAY that! You gave BIRTH to
us!!" He stared hard- through teary eyes- at his parents.
"You gave birth to me." He whispered.
"We would NEVER give birth to Kaijuu!!"
"You gave birth.." Daisuke started to shake.
"Do not do it, Dai-kun!" Miyako whispered.
".. to ME!!" Daisuke screamed, then ran his fists, literally, around the first two rows of the anti-mutant mob! Then, he stopped in front of his
parents. "What do you say, now, Motimiya-Sama?"
"You are NOT our son!" Mrs. Motimiya shouted. "You a KAIJUU! You are a
MISTAKE, and shame to whoever BORE YOU!"
"It.. is as you say..", Daisuke said as his shaking subsided. He then
looked out through teary-eyes. "You.. no longer.. have... a son. I.. am an orphan."
"Dai-Kun.. gomen..." Miyako cried softly, as Takeru and Ken could just
look on.
Daisuke's mother quickly withdrew a knife and lunged at Daisuke!
V-mon responded to his partner's danger. "Daisuke! Get down! Sora! Hit Iori!!"
Sora screamed.
"SMILE!!" Iori shouted as he hit Mrs. Motimiya and the those around her
with a strobe-light effect!
Mrs. Motimiya dropped the knife.
"That will only blind them for a few seconds!" Iori advised. "Let's get out of here!"
"Maybe I can purchase us some more time," Ken said with a dangerous grin. "You go on ahead! I will catch up. Go!". Once the others were a safe distance away, Ichijouji Ken picked up Wormon and turned to the crowd:
"A gift.. from the Family Myotismon! SLEEP!!"
A red mist seemed to gather around Ken's outstretched hand, and- at his command- float over the mob, causing them to fall, unconscience, onto the ground.
"Sayonara, minna."
By now, fourteen mutants and fourteen Digimon made a co-ordinated run
fr the bay-bridge.. and Tokyo! And, behind them, a young girl followed.
Soon, Ken and Wormon rejoined the group. "That is at least one group that will not been following us!" Ken told Mimi.
"Hai. I sensed a sudden drowsiness." The pink-haired teleporter mused.
"For how long will they remain asleep?"
"Until someone washes the sleep-spell off them!" Wormon replied. 'Or the next rain. Whichever comes first!"
"We are being shadowed", Ken told Mimi and Yamato, who had fallen back to be a rear-gaurd.
"Hai." Yamato replied. "Do not worry, she is a friend!"
"If will relieve Daisuke to know she is with us!" Mimi smiled. "And, she WILL stay with us!"
Soon, everyone was at the Bay Bridge.
"I'm sensing a group in the middle of the Bay Bridge." Mimi told Shadowcat. "And they seem to be just waiting for something."
"They are waiting..", Yamato spoke from atop Garurumon. "They are waiting for us! And they wait for the X-Men!"
"Unfriendly?" Shadowcat asked.
"Very!" Yamato answered.
"Great! Just what we need!" Shadowcat growled. "Mimi-san! Is there
any mind you can latch onto on the other side of the Bay?"
"Iyaa, Katarin-Sensei! Gomen nisai!" Mimi apologized. "There are too
many minds to connect with! I cannot get an accurate reading. Gomen."
"Gomen muyo, Mimi-san!" Shadowcat have a dark grin. "We just need to find a way across the bridge, then.. that keeps us alive."
"I have been thinking of that, Sensei!" Mimi bowed. Then, she turned
to the other Digi-Destined!" Jyou? Iori-kun? We need picket-guards.. our main force.. preferably ones our enemies cannot see! Hai? We will force their hand! Just listen for their first shots of gunfire.. then ANSWER IT!!"
"HAI!" Jyou and Iori snapped to attention:
"Gomamon? Digivolve!"
"GOMAMON! Digivolve to ... IKAKKUMON!!"
"Armadimon? Digi-armor MODIFY!"
"Armadimon! Digivolve to... SUBMARIMON!!"
"Come, Ikakkumon!" Jyou headed to the shore. "We must be in position!"
"Hai, Kiddo-san!" Ikakkumon answered. Soon he and Jyou were dissapearing in the hoizon.
"Come, Hida-san!" Submarimon called from just inside the waves. "We are a team!"
"Hai, my partner!" Iori chirped. He and Submarimon soon sank beneath the waves.
"We can rely on Jyou and Iori to do their parts, hai!" Mimi said, "Now, they are relying on us to do our part. We have a bridge to cross! The X-Men cannot help us on this side. Let us GO!! BANZAI!!!!"
With the Banzai-cry, the main group of mutants and Digimon charged the
bridge! They then speeded up to the top, suprising the anti-mutant garrison that had positioned itself in mid-bay!
Then, the garrison responded with their weaponry!
"Watch out!!" Shadowcat shouted. "If they have ammunition like they have back in the States.. they can screw out powers up enough that killing us will be easy!!"
As if in answer to Shadowcat's warning, the garrison opened fire!
"Get down!!" Mimi and Shadowcat ordered. Digimon and -Destined then hit the pavement.
"There is the gunfire, Kido-san!" Ikakkumon said. "Shall we return that fire?"
"What is the range, Ikkakumon?" Jyou asked.
"One kilometer, Commander!"
"What is the elevation, Submarimon?" Iori asked.
"Fifteen meters, Sir!"
"Then.."
"FIRE!!!!"
"OXYGEN TORPEDO!!!!"
"HARPOON TORPEDO!!!!"
*BOOM!!*BOOM!!*
"There go the base-supports!" Shadowcat said as the mutants felt the bridge sway.
*BOOOOMM!!!!*BOOOOMM!!!!*
"And there goes the pavement!!" Mimi shouted. "OK, Ken-kun! These Baka
have been rocked..."
"Now it's time to ROLL THEM!!!!" Ken moved foreward aways from the rest of the Digi-Destined.
"I hope you Baka-tachi have medical insurance! Because you're going to NEED IT!! VERTIGO!!!!"
The already-rattled garrison were now falling on their knees and stomaches, some clutching thier stomaches in agony, as the Digi-Destined and Digimon ran past them!
"OK, people!" Shadowcat ordered. "Gather as many weapons as you can! What you can't pick up.. DESTROY!! I don't want these weapons used agaist us or any other mutant!!"
As the Digi-Destined were coming off the bridge, Shadowcat started a song to keep the group's spirits up:
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"There is a man come into Egypt,
And Moses is his name!
When he saw the grief upon us
in his heart there burned a flame!
"In his heart there burned a flame, O Lord!
In his heart there burned a flame!
When he saw the griefg upon us
in his heart ther burned a flame.."
"There is a man come into Egypt,
His eyes are full of light!
Like the sun come up in Egypt
come to drive away the night!
"Come to drive away the night, O Lord!
Come to drive away the night!
Like the sun come up in Egypt
Come to drive away the night.."
"There is a man come up in Egypt,
He's come for you and me!
On his lips a word is saying,
and the word is 'Liberty'!
"And the word is 'Liberty', O Lord!
And the word is 'Liberty'!
On his lips a word is saying,
and the word is 'Liberty'.."
"There is a man come out of Egypt,
To stir the souls of men!
We will follow into freedom,
and never where those chains again!
"Never where those chains again, O Lord!
Never where those chains again!
We will follow into freedom,
and never where those chains again!"
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In four hours of snaking through Tokyo, the Digi-Destined made it to
the Yoshida Building in the Ginza District. It was 6:30 AM local time, and the Odaiba-refugees had been up and moving for 12 hours since returning from the Digital World. They were tired, hungry, and completely on-edge!
And still on battle-alert.
"Is everything well, Kitten?" A woman's voice asked.
The Digi-Destined tensed up.
"WHO GOES THERE?!?!" Taichi shouted. "SHOW YOURSELF!!!!"
"Good going, Storm!" A young girl's voice said. "They're jumpy enough as is!"
"Ororo?" Shadowcat jumped. "Jubilee?"
"We're here, Boss-Lady." Jubilee said and she slowly walked into the room. "We've been listening to the news. Things have been bad outside."
"You don't know how bad, Jubilee!" Shadowcat cried as she hugged the younger woman. "And, I hope you never do."
"Well, you're safe here, Kate!" Wolverine said. "You an' Mimi an' the other Digi-Destined! Yashida Shiro says you can stay here long enough to eat
and rest, an' then we'll get you to the Yashida estate. Then.. we go back Stateside! An' you don' have to worry about break-ins! We're helpin' Shiro's
bodygaurds look after the building, here."
"I'm gonna have to thank Yashida-Sama!" Shadowcat sighed. "Some breakfast and sleep is just what this girl..."
"Katchen?" Nightcrawler appeared in the doorway. "Rahne und I found a liebchen wandering lost downstairs. She says she was following you from Odaiba. She says she needs to talk to one of the Digi-Destined."
"She does?" Shadowcat asked "Who is..?"
"It is alright, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi assured Shadowcat. "We know her,
and will vouch for her!"
"Then let her in!" Kathryn said.
"Come on in, Miss Motimiya." Rahne shepherded the young lady inside. She looked as beat and bruised as the Digi-Destined.
"'Motimiya'?" A worried Daisuke looked up as he heard his family's name spoken. "Jun.. Neesan? What are you doing here?"
"Following you, Ototo-Baka!" Motimiya Jun tried to laugh as she clung to Daisuke for dear life, but she wound up choking on her tears. "I *had* to
see you, Dai-kun.. had to be here for you.. after.. after..." Jun broke down in Daisuke's arms.
"It will be alright, Jun!" Daisuke gently cradled his sister. "Things will be alright, now. You are safe, here! Shhh.. shhh... Is there a room where my neesan can rest?"
"There is.. enough room, here, young man!" A thin, yet elegant, man
spoke up. He moved with the aid of a walker. "I.. have always.. tried to be a gracious host!"
'Daisuke-Sama!', Yamato called out telepathically, 'you are doing the right thing for Jun-chan. You are a gentleman.'
'She is my sister!' Daisuke replied. 'We may fight.. but, that is what brothers and sisters do! Demo.. no one *destroys* her!! Especially, her parents!'
"Yashida-Sama!" Shadowcat started. "What are you doing here? You should be resting!"
"Someone.. had to allow the X-Men onto the property, Pryde-Sama! Besides," Shiro smiled sadly, "the cancer.. has not totally-incapacitated me.
Yet. As long as I am needed, somewhere.. somewhere is where I will be! And, how are you, Tachikawa-chan?"
"I am well, Yashida-san! Domo arigatou!" Mimi bowed.
"If I *ever* see my parents *again*," Daisuke swore as he helped his sister to bed, "I will *kill* them! How *dare* they tear my sister apart like this!"
"Daisuke?" Jun spoke hoarsely. "You are right.. we have no parents. The parents we knew.. died.. within the last two days.. and those kaijuu took their place. Or.. were they there all along?"
Daisuke's answer to Jun haunted each of the Digi-Destined:
"I do not know."
Yashida Shiro turned back to the Digi-Destined. "After you have rested, we will.. leave.. for my estate! The other X-Men and your families are waiting there for you!"
"Hai! Domo Arigatou, Yashida-Sama!" Kathryn and Mimi bowed.
"Pardon us, Pryde.. Katarin-Sama?" A young man spoke up. "We are looking for our brother, Kido Jyou! Where may he be? I am Kido Shin, and
this is my niisan, Kido Shuu!"
"Arigatou, Kido-San! Demo.. Jyou-san is..", Shadowcat turned around to
locate Jyou. "He is..."
Shadowcat started couting heads..
"One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-ni..? One-two-three-four-five-
six-seven-eight.. One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-EIGHT.. seven-EIGHT?!!!"
The Shadowcat then let out a line of precise-Japanese that made everyone's ears burn!!!!
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Who's missing (besides Jyou)? Find out next chapter.
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