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 06
After cursing most of Japan is perfect Japanese, the mutant known as Shadowcat started to quieten. Then, she started to shake, and cry!
"Where .. did they go?" Kathryn asked repeatedly through her sobs.
"WHY did they go? Don't .. they know .. how .. dangerous it is ? Oh, my poor goslings..!"
"It is my fault, Katarin-Sama." Yamato moped. "I should have kept my guard up! Demo.. I was tired.. Yamato-no-Baka!! What will tousan say? SHIMATTE!!"
"Iyaa, Yama-kun. You should not have been expected to keep your mind open all night!" Kathryn gently rebuffed the young man. "Even Professor Xavier needs to rest at the best of times! And, we've been on the sword's edge the past three days."
"What we need is to get our people back here.." Mimi said. "In one piece! Demo.. we must do this logically! No one goes off on their own rescue-mission!"
"Sounds like someone's been taking Mother Hen lessons!" Jubilee smiled.
"You.. are right, Mimi-san!" Shadowcat said. "Before we send anyone out, however, we need to know where to send everyone! Yamato? Mimi? Can you locate our quail?"
"Already located, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi said. "Takeru, Jyou, and Miyako
are within a ten-kilometer radius of each other!"
"Das ist gut!" Nightcrawler spoke. "Getting them should not be *too*
difficult, then."
"My ototo is trailing our kaasan." Yamato spoke sadly.
"I *may* stand corrected, Katchen." Nightcrawler said.
"My Ototo will be hurt, today," Yamato hung his head, "Kaasan will see to that! Come, Garurumon! I know where they are!"
"You're not going ANYWHERE alone, Ishida!" Shadowcat jumped up just as Yamato and Garurumon reached the elevators. "Shimatte! Logan! We need the car! You will drive Shuu and Shin and Mimi to find Jyou! Does anyone know where Miyako would be?"
"The Inouye family moved their storefront to Tokyo two months ago!" Iori spoke up. "Ichijouji-san! We should go there!"
"Then.. GO!!" Shadowcat ordered. "We'll join each other as we're able!"
"Armadimon? Digi-armor ENERGIZE!!"
"Wormon? DIGIVOLVE!!"
"ARMADIMON!! Digi-volve to.."
"WORMON!! Digi-volve to.."
"DRILLMON!!"
"STINGMON!!"
Soon, the partners were winging through the morning sky!
"Alright..", Shadowcat said. "Shuu! Shin! Mimi! Palmon! Follow Wolverine out to the car!"
"Hai!"
Then, Shadowcat turned to the rest of the Digi-Destined:
"Sora? Tai? Hikari? Koushirou? Stay here! Look after Daisuke and Jun! The rest of us will be back when we can." She then looked down at Wizardmon.
"Hold tight to me, partner! We're taking the Expressway down!"
With that, Shadowcat and Wizardmon sank beneath the floor!
In an hour, Shadowcat was outside a bar in the Ginza.. just out of sight of Yamato and Garurumon and Takeru and Angemon.
"It looks like your tracking abilities are on par with Wolverine's, Wizrdmon!" Katharine smiled.
"Well.. I *was* tracking other Digimon." Wizardmon said apologetically.
"Right." Shadowcat sighed. "Now, for the hard part!"
Shadowcat and Wizardmon crossed the street, first to Yamato:
"Yamato-Sama! Gather your brother and his digi-patner!"
Then, they crossed over to the bar:
"Takeru-san? It is time for some rest." Katherine knealt to comfort the young man.
"I.. can not leave!" Takeru choked out. "Not until I know.. until I..
know..."
"I know." Katherine said sadly. "I will find out for you, Ototo, demo..
you may not want to hear the answer. Wizardmon? Stay with the brothers!"
At Wizardmon's nod, Katherine phased into the door of the tavern.
Takaishi Natsumi sat at a table near the bar, contemplating a cedarwood bowl of saki in the center of her table.
'Right where Yamato let me know she'd be', Katherine thought as she moved over to the table.
"Your son needs you." Katherine told the woman.
"I have no sons." Natsumi slurred.
"At least.." Katherine said, an edge to her voice, "you'd at *least*
have the *courage* to say that to Takeru's face, Instead of nursing your prejudices alone.. in the dark!"
"I have no sons..", Natsumi slowly repeated herself like a mantra,
I have no sons.. only *youkai* that have haunted my every moment since I've met them!"
"That is strange..", Shadowcat responded, "I've met no youkai, until
now, only two beautiful young men who deserve a mother." She then picked up the saki and tossed it into Natsumi's face! "Enjoy your drink, Natsumi-haha!"
"Nani-yo?" Natsumi suddenly awoke from her stupor. "YOU!" She pointed
to Shadowcat. "You are mutant! Kaijuu! KAIJUU!!" She then drew a knife from her purse!
"Mutant? Hai. Kaijuu? That is more you than I." Katherine said. "And you can throw as many knives as you wish, Takaishi! They will not touch me.. unless I wish them to."
As if to prove her point, Katherine phased in time to let the knife pass harmlessly through her! Then, she re-solidified and opened the door.
Natsumi threw a saki-bowl at a closing door!
"That knife is..." Takeru gasped as Shadowcat opened the door to go out.
"Hai, Takeru-san!" Shadowcat apologized. "Gomen nisai."
"Gomen muyo, Katarin-Sensei!" Takeru said in a child-like voice as he climbed atop Garurumon. "I..needed .. to know. Aishiteru, kaasan! Patomon? Let us.. go home?"
"I will join you later, Takeru-san!" Shadowcat said reassuringly.
'Mimi-san? Where are you?' Shadowcat called.
"Logan-Sama?" Mimi spoke. "Stop the car! Jyou is here."
"This," Shin said, "is our father's station!"
"Hai, and Jyou is on his office-floor!" Mimi answered. "I will take
you to Jyou, but you and your brother and Gomamon much bring Jyou down here to Logan-Sama yourselves! I will be down, later."
Mimi took Shin's and Shuu's hands, closed her eyes, and concentrated.
A soft pink light heralded the arrival of Mimi and the brothers Kido.
They were close enough to see Jyou and Gomamon outside his father's office, but far enough away to not see easily seen or heard!
"Jyou looks devestated!" Shuu gasped.
"What has Otousan done to my ototosan?" Shin hissed.
"Jyou had been shaken!" Mimi answered. "I can sense it! You two will see to your ototo! I will speak to Gomamon!"
As Shuu and Shin made their way to their brother, Mimi spoke quietly with Gomamon.
"I was not able to see inside the office, Tachikawa-Sama! And.. I do not know what Jyou saw, either! For, as soon as Jyou looked inside, he quietly shut the door, then collapsed on his knees and closed up like an oyster! He has not said a word at all.. he has just cried silently! I am worried! What has gone wrong??"
Mimi looked into the sad eyes of the Gomamon.
"I do not know, Gomamon! Demo.. I will find out! Goma? Go with Shuu
and Shin downstairs with Jyuu! What happens next must be between Kido-Sama and me *alone*!"
"Hai! Come, Jyou!"
After seeing her friends off down the elevator, Mimi walked into the office of Kido Shin. Mr. Kido held a seppuku sword ready.
"So.. this is what Jyou-kun saw when he opened this door."
"My son.. saw me?" Kido-Sama asked.
"He did," Mimi answered, "if you still consider him your son."
"Hai. He is Mutant.. demo.. his is my son. And I have failed him."
"When.. did you learn?" Mimi asked.
"Three weeks ago!" Kido Shin confessed. "I.. had.. suspicions.. for a
few years. My.. wife.. did not share my old views. I first thought.. a friend
or someone in her family was... Then, I saw my sons were standing up for mutants..
then I thought.. maybe one of them? Demo.. it was only when I read my wife's
diary that I learned Jyou's secret. At first.. hai.. I wished nothing but his
death! My son.. who would do anything for me.. out of love.. I wanted DEAD!!
I.. had even *planned* to sacrifice him.. using this sword! Demo.. something
always withheld my hand! Then.. I realized.. my son was not Youkai. I was.
I looked at this sword.. my otousan said it, and it's niisan, held.. 'much honor'.
Demo.. all I saw.. was innocent BLOOD on it! Then, last night, when the reports
came in from Odaiba.. all I could see was Jyou.. on this sword.. and ME in that
crowd! So, I stayed here through the night, and wrote my last letter. Demo..
when the time came for retribution.. i could not act! Leave me, Tachikawa!
My son needs a man to stand with him, not a coward!"
"Hai." Mimi replied. "Jyou DOES need a man to look up to.. one who can face
his youkai, and stand up to them and face them.. and not run from them!
Do not run, Kido-Otousan!"
"Go, Tachikawa-Sensei! My son needs you."
"Kido-Sama?"
"Go. Now. I will follow."
Mimi started off slowly, hesitantly, toward the elevators.
Soon, Mimi was slowly walking toward the limousine where her friends were.
"Mimi?" Palmon noticed her partner's look of depression.
"Mimi-san?" Jyou asked shakily. "Where is tousan?"
"I.. do not know..." Mimi sighed, looking desperately to the TV-Station.
"Could that be him?" Wolverine asked as a haggerd gentlemen stepped out of the building.
"OTOUSAN!!!!"
Kido-Sama slowly got to the car.. then fell to his knees!
"Jyou..", the elder Kido Shin whispered through his tears, "I.. have SHAMED you! Can you.. forgive me?"
The looks of shock of the faces of Shin and Shuu were replaced by the look of concern of their ototo as Jyou got out of the car:
"Come, Otousan! Let us go home."
Mr. Kido turned by to Mimi and gave her the seppuku-blade. "Do with this as you wish! I NEVER want to see this hateful thing again!"
"Hai." Mimi responded, taking the sword. "Logan-Sama? Could you help me
with this? This blade's life has become a blemish to other lives!"
"Hai." Wolverine got out of the driver's seat and popped his claws:
*Snikt!*
"Just hold the sword out, Mimi-imouto!"
"Hai. Logan-san!"
*CRACK!!*
As adamantium claws slid back into the Wolverine's arms, shattered pieces
of a sword fell into the gutter.
"And, let them stay in the gutter," Mimi said, "Where they belong!
Logan-Sama? Get the family-Kido home! We will join you shortly! Palmon?
Katarin-Sensei calls us! We are needed elsewhere!"
As a car sped off to the Yashida-Penthouse, Mimi and Palmon vanished
in a pink fog!
Shadowcat, Mimi, Palmon, and Wizardmon telrported to the Iyoune-family
storefront where Iori and Ken and their Digimon were standing as still as statues!
"There.. has been screaming.. and crying.. inside!" Ken whispered.
"We can *hear* it!"
"And.. crashing and breakage!" Iori panted, his eyes wide. "Demo.. if
we enter.. will we be helping Miyako? Or.. will we... ?" The young man started
to shake and cry! "Oh.. Kami-Sama!!"
"I was afraid of this!" Mimi said. "I feel chaos! And, Iori and Ken are
too stunned to react!"
"Then, let us get into the store!" Katherine took ahold of Mimi's and,
with a nod and a deep breath, both women phased through the store's wall!!
"Get out.. KAIJUU!!" Mrs. Inouye screamed. "You do not BELONG here!!"
"I will leave," Miyako replied in an even tone, "demo.. I must get my clothes!
I thought to say 'Sayonara' to my siblings.. my brothers and sister.. since I have
no parents here."
Even though she shook from fear, dispair, and anger, Miyako fought to keep her
tears and voice under control.
'I will not let my parents win!' Miyako thought. 'I must not.'
'You will not let them, win, Miyako-chan!' Mimi reassured her.
'Mimi-chan!' Miyako frantically thought, moving her eyes away from her parents,
'You must not be here! My otousan carries a gun behind out counter!'
As if on cue, Mr. Inouye pulled out a shotgun.. and aimed it point-blank at
Miyako!
"DIE, mutant! You will infect us no longer!"
"MIYAKO!!" Mimi and Katherine cried out as Iori and Ken and their Digimon and
Wizardmon rushed in through the door!
*BOOM!!*
When the acrid smoke cleared, the store-display in back of her was riddled with
shot, and some items were completely distroyed.. but, Miyako was still standing,
seemingly untouched.
"Nani-yo?" Mrs. Inouye screeched. "Bokei?!?!"
"Not a ghost, yet!" Miyako allowed herself a grin. "I just remembered what
Katarin-Sensei taught me in the Digtal-World! Otousan? Care to fire another round? You
might actually hit me, this time?"
"Do not SHOOT!" Mrs. Inouye screamed. "YOU WILL WRECK THE STORE!!"
Iori began to glow.
Mr. Inouye cocked the shotgun again.
"DO NOT SHOOT! It is one of her mutant-tricks!"
"It's not one of my tricks." Miyako smirked.
**BOOM!!**
Cans and bottles broke and shattered!!
Still, Miyako stood through the blast and the gunpowder-smoke.
"NOW, IORI!!" Mimi yelled.
"Smile for the CAMERA, YOUKAI!!" Iori called out- and popped a flash-bulb effect
point-blank at the Inouyes!!
"I cannot SEE!!!!"
"And, by the Almighty," Shadowcat swore, "for the darkness you have lived by,
and the blood you tried to spill, may this house always be in darkness!"
A strange silence filled the store.
"All right now, people!" Katherine ordered. "Let's leave!"
Four Digidestined and four digimon quietly walked out of the store, and down
the street!
After walking silently for two blocks, both Iori and Miyako collapsed! Iori
fell down from fatigue. Miyako broke down in spirit.
"Miyako!"
"Iori!"
"I.. never knew..", Iori panted, "that converting.. energies.. would be.. so
draining! Now.. I know.. how *you* feel, Drillmon!"
"Just rest, Iori-san!" Drillmon told his partner. "We shall be safe, soon!"
"MIYAKO!!" Hawkmon cried out. "Will you be alright?"
"I.. have to say 'Sayonara'..", Miyako croaked out. "Had to tell them.. I
loved them! An impossible dream, ne?"
Hawkmon wraped his wings protectively around his partner. "They are too filled
with hate to know love, Miyako-chan! They are not your family."
"Do not worry, ane." Iori wrapped his arms around Miyako. "Do not cry. We will
be alright."
"Drillmon and Hawkmon are correct!" Ken spoke softly as he embraced Iori and
Miyako tenderly and protectively. "Tachikawa-Sama? Pryde-Sama? Let us get home!"
"You heard the man, Mimi!" Shadowcat said. "Get us back to Yashida-Sama's
penthouse!"
"Everybody join hands..", Mimi slowly opened her eyes as eight figures were
bathed in a pink light. "The Tachikawa-Express is leaving.. NOW!!"
Soon, the refuge of the Yashida penthouse was filled with people and digimon in various
stages of grief and healing.. and two mutant-nurses and their digimon-assistants!
"How are Dai-kun and Jun-chan?" Mimi asked Koushirou.
"Jun is sleeping, thankfully!" Koushirou replied. "If only Daisuke would do the same!
Demo.. he has been up and down, nervously pacing! He is worried for his aneue! I *think* he
fears she will have to go back to their family. How id Jyou? He and his oniisan and and
otousan have not spoken since Logan-Sama brought them here! What happened?"
"Kido-tousan had to meet himself, Kou-kun!" Mimi looked at the floor. "He did not like
who he met."
"Will he be alright, Mimi-san?"
"Maybe, Kou-kun, in time."
"Will Takeru.. be alright.. Yama-niisan?" Taichi asked.
"I.. do not know.. Taichi." Yamato spoke in a shaky voice, Gabumon supporting him. "The
Shadowcat told Takeru that he might not like what he learned about Kaasan. *I* did not like
what I learned about Kaasan! Even knowing what I did beforehand.. Takaishi Natsumi-Sama SCARED
me!! Even more than she did Takeru!!"
"Iyaa.. Takeru..!" Hikari sobbed. "Will.. he be alright?" Gatomon wrapped as much of her tail as she could around her partner to protect her.
"With his friends around him, hai, he will recover, demo.. it will take time! At least, he will have otousan and me near him." Yamato sighed.
"WE will be near him, Yama-niisan!" Hikari corrected the young man. "And *I* will make sure
Takeru gets all the time to heal he needs!" She said this with an edge in her voice.
Yamato and Taichi exchanged reassuring smiles:
'Dano.. Kami-Sama help ANYONE who THINKS to get in Hikari's way!'
"Will you be alright, Miyako-chan?" Sora asked anf Katherine was looking over her.
"I.. do now know!" Miyako said in a slow, weak voice. "I hope so! I.. will have to get used.. to being an orphan."
Sora instinctively hugged Miyako protectively.
"Miyako's.. tousan.. tried to kill her?" Pyomon gasped, trying to take in the story Hawkmon
had just told her.
"Hai. If Miya-chan had not been as intangeable as bokomono.. she would BE bokomono, now!"
Hawkmon hissed. "Miyako does not deserve them! She deserves MUCH BETTER!!"
"What.. happened, Wizardmon?" Agumon asked.
"The Digi-Destineds' world has become a hell, Agumon!" The digital-wizard answered. "And some of their parents have been infected by it!"
"Will they recover their senses?" Tentomon asked hopefully.
"I am afraid there is no cure for a diseased spirit, Tentomon." Palmon said with a tear in her eye.
"Everybody is accounted for? That.. is good.." Daisuke yawned. "I was hoping that all my friends would.. come back."
"Dai-kun?!?!", Hikari shot out, "You should be back in bed!! Go! Go! Go!"
"Demo.. I just need to make sure.. everyone got back. Ohayo, Yamato-san! Ohayo, Takeru-niisan!"
'Takeru-*niisan*?' Takeru wondered. 'Does Daisuke REALLY think of me like that?'
'He does.' Yamato nodded.
Mimi smiled. 'Let the healing begin.'
"Demo," Daisuke frowned, "I still worry about Jun. I want her to come with my.. with us..
to America! Demo.. is that possible?"
Shadowcat looked to Yashida Shiro, and smiled. "I think we can arrange something!"
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Twelve hours later, after a much-needed rest, the Digi-destined and Digimon were on the estate of Yashida Shiro.
"Mien GOTT!!" Nightcrawler exclaimed as his watched Daisuke and Jun in an eating-contest,
Wo ist das Knoldern going? Und are they ever coming up for air?"
"It has only been.. three minutes, Wagner-Sama!" Miyako looked at her watch. "Give them three more minutes.. then, they will come up for a deep breath! Arigatou nisai, Katarin-Sensei,
for the machanical-watch!"
"You are welcome, Miyako-chan!" Shadowcat smiled. "Rewinding can be annoying at first, demo.. I tend to short-circuit any electronics I phase through, and I thought that watch might be better for you, too!"
"Hai." Miyako smiled.
Wizardmon chuckled. "Cluck-cluck-cluck! Your team-mates are right!"
"Get used to it.. partner!" Shadowcat grinned.
"Oh, he is!!" Palmon and Gatomon sang out.
Wizardmon blushed.
"I am afraid!" Koushirou told his aunt and uncle. "Kana-oba? Soun-haku? I will be alright in America.. I think.. demo, what will become of you?" The young man's eyes began to tear. "Will I ever see you again?"
"Do not worry, Koushirou!" Kana hugged her nephew protectively. "We have known something like this may happen. Your haku has made arrangements to work in America! We will join you shortly."
"It.. will feel.. awkward," Koushirou sniffed, "leaving kaasan and tousan!"
"Do not fear, Koushirou!" Soun smiled. "Their bodies are here, hai! Demo, their spirits", he
touched his nephew's heart and head, "are here! Dano.. they will ALWAYS be here!"
The Izumi family cradled one another.
"Will.. you be alright.. Miyako?" Iori asked softly.
"In time, Iori-ototo." Miyako managed to smile softly.
"You will always be welcome in our family!" Mrs. Hida said.
"As you are in ours! Mrs. Ichijouji said.
Iori and Ken smiled.
"I failed everyone!" Kido Shin muttered. "I held on to the youkai in me too long.. and it almost had its offering of blood!"
"Demo.. Tousan!" Jyou tried to reassure his father. "You fought back when it counted!"
"If Tachikawa-Sama had not.. been there.. arguing the youkai..", Shin choked back his fear,
"it could have... Jyou-san! Gomen nisai! What you have to see..."
"Was a battle you *won*, Otousan!" Jyou hugged his father protectively. "A battle that will
not happen, again!"
"We must leave here!" Mrs. Kido said. "My home has tried to take my son from me! Then, it tried to take my husband! We must go."
"And, leave we shall!" Mr. Kido said. "I will *not* abandon my son *again*!"
'The Kido-tachi are a family, once more!' Gomamon thought, the smile on his face mirrored in his eyes.
"Kaasan is coming with us to America!" Sora told Mimi. "I am glad! I would worry too much if she stayed here in Nippon. Demo.. she will need a place to stay!"
"Do not worry, Sora!" Mimi answered. "She will stay with my family as long as she needs to!"
"Is everyone ready to leave?" Charles Xavier asked. 'Now that you have rested and eaten?"
"Hai, Xavier-Sensei!" Mimi bowed. "We are ready!"
"Good! 'Student-visas' have been made ready, as have the 'visas' for the Kayimas, Kidos, Mr. Ishida, and Mrs. Takenouchi!" Professor Xavier said. "We will start working on getting documents together for the Hidas, Izumis, and Ichijoujis as soom as possible!"
"Demo..!" Koushirou asked. "Xavier-Sensei! How can visas be gotten so quickly?"
"Kou-kun?" Mimi interrupted.
"Hai, Mimi-san?"
"It is best.. not to ask."
"Smart girl." Wolverine grinned.
Jubilee giggled.
"Well..", Katherine said, "Mimi HAS been living with us!"
Jubilee fell to the floor in laughter!!
"These *will* be *interesting* times, Koushirou!" Tentomon told his partner.
"Hai."
"What about my aneue?" Daisuke asked. "Will she be able to come to America?" He looked worriedly at Jun.
"Do not worry, Daisuke-Sama!" Yashida Shiro said. "I wil see that.. she makes it to America.. with *all* she needs!" He slowly bowed to Daisuke. "until then.. she will stay safe as my guest here!"
After leaving Japanese air-space, the occupant's of the modified SR-71 Blackbird started to
relax on their way back to the U.S.
"A.. toast!" Ororo said after handing out the bottled-water. "To out newest students! May you find a home with us!"
"Salute!"s were heard all through the plane.
"Hai!" Katherine answered back! "And a special toast! To our last 'newest student'! Without
your help, Mimi-imouto, we wouldn't have gotten through this mess. Le Hayim!"
"Le Hayim!"
"Arigatou.. nisai.. minna!" Mimi said shily as she tried to had her blush. She then looked
around at her friends, old and new. "I have learned.. from the best!"
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 06
After cursing most of Japan is perfect Japanese, the mutant known as Shadowcat started to quieten. Then, she started to shake, and cry!
"Where .. did they go?" Kathryn asked repeatedly through her sobs.
"WHY did they go? Don't .. they know .. how .. dangerous it is ? Oh, my poor goslings..!"
"It is my fault, Katarin-Sama." Yamato moped. "I should have kept my guard up! Demo.. I was tired.. Yamato-no-Baka!! What will tousan say? SHIMATTE!!"
"Iyaa, Yama-kun. You should not have been expected to keep your mind open all night!" Kathryn gently rebuffed the young man. "Even Professor Xavier needs to rest at the best of times! And, we've been on the sword's edge the past three days."
"What we need is to get our people back here.." Mimi said. "In one piece! Demo.. we must do this logically! No one goes off on their own rescue-mission!"
"Sounds like someone's been taking Mother Hen lessons!" Jubilee smiled.
"You.. are right, Mimi-san!" Shadowcat said. "Before we send anyone out, however, we need to know where to send everyone! Yamato? Mimi? Can you locate our quail?"
"Already located, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi said. "Takeru, Jyou, and Miyako
are within a ten-kilometer radius of each other!"
"Das ist gut!" Nightcrawler spoke. "Getting them should not be *too*
difficult, then."
"My ototo is trailing our kaasan." Yamato spoke sadly.
"I *may* stand corrected, Katchen." Nightcrawler said.
"My Ototo will be hurt, today," Yamato hung his head, "Kaasan will see to that! Come, Garurumon! I know where they are!"
"You're not going ANYWHERE alone, Ishida!" Shadowcat jumped up just as Yamato and Garurumon reached the elevators. "Shimatte! Logan! We need the car! You will drive Shuu and Shin and Mimi to find Jyou! Does anyone know where Miyako would be?"
"The Inouye family moved their storefront to Tokyo two months ago!" Iori spoke up. "Ichijouji-san! We should go there!"
"Then.. GO!!" Shadowcat ordered. "We'll join each other as we're able!"
"Armadimon? Digi-armor ENERGIZE!!"
"Wormon? DIGIVOLVE!!"
"ARMADIMON!! Digi-volve to.."
"WORMON!! Digi-volve to.."
"DRILLMON!!"
"STINGMON!!"
Soon, the partners were winging through the morning sky!
"Alright..", Shadowcat said. "Shuu! Shin! Mimi! Palmon! Follow Wolverine out to the car!"
"Hai!"
Then, Shadowcat turned to the rest of the Digi-Destined:
"Sora? Tai? Hikari? Koushirou? Stay here! Look after Daisuke and Jun! The rest of us will be back when we can." She then looked down at Wizardmon.
"Hold tight to me, partner! We're taking the Expressway down!"
With that, Shadowcat and Wizardmon sank beneath the floor!
In an hour, Shadowcat was outside a bar in the Ginza.. just out of sight of Yamato and Garurumon and Takeru and Angemon.
"It looks like your tracking abilities are on par with Wolverine's, Wizrdmon!" Katharine smiled.
"Well.. I *was* tracking other Digimon." Wizardmon said apologetically.
"Right." Shadowcat sighed. "Now, for the hard part!"
Shadowcat and Wizardmon crossed the street, first to Yamato:
"Yamato-Sama! Gather your brother and his digi-patner!"
Then, they crossed over to the bar:
"Takeru-san? It is time for some rest." Katherine knealt to comfort the young man.
"I.. can not leave!" Takeru choked out. "Not until I know.. until I..
know..."
"I know." Katherine said sadly. "I will find out for you, Ototo, demo..
you may not want to hear the answer. Wizardmon? Stay with the brothers!"
At Wizardmon's nod, Katherine phased into the door of the tavern.
Takaishi Natsumi sat at a table near the bar, contemplating a cedarwood bowl of saki in the center of her table.
'Right where Yamato let me know she'd be', Katherine thought as she moved over to the table.
"Your son needs you." Katherine told the woman.
"I have no sons." Natsumi slurred.
"At least.." Katherine said, an edge to her voice, "you'd at *least*
have the *courage* to say that to Takeru's face, Instead of nursing your prejudices alone.. in the dark!"
"I have no sons..", Natsumi slowly repeated herself like a mantra,
I have no sons.. only *youkai* that have haunted my every moment since I've met them!"
"That is strange..", Shadowcat responded, "I've met no youkai, until
now, only two beautiful young men who deserve a mother." She then picked up the saki and tossed it into Natsumi's face! "Enjoy your drink, Natsumi-haha!"
"Nani-yo?" Natsumi suddenly awoke from her stupor. "YOU!" She pointed
to Shadowcat. "You are mutant! Kaijuu! KAIJUU!!" She then drew a knife from her purse!
"Mutant? Hai. Kaijuu? That is more you than I." Katherine said. "And you can throw as many knives as you wish, Takaishi! They will not touch me.. unless I wish them to."
As if to prove her point, Katherine phased in time to let the knife pass harmlessly through her! Then, she re-solidified and opened the door.
Natsumi threw a saki-bowl at a closing door!
"That knife is..." Takeru gasped as Shadowcat opened the door to go out.
"Hai, Takeru-san!" Shadowcat apologized. "Gomen nisai."
"Gomen muyo, Katarin-Sensei!" Takeru said in a child-like voice as he climbed atop Garurumon. "I..needed .. to know. Aishiteru, kaasan! Patomon? Let us.. go home?"
"I will join you later, Takeru-san!" Shadowcat said reassuringly.
'Mimi-san? Where are you?' Shadowcat called.
"Logan-Sama?" Mimi spoke. "Stop the car! Jyou is here."
"This," Shin said, "is our father's station!"
"Hai, and Jyou is on his office-floor!" Mimi answered. "I will take
you to Jyou, but you and your brother and Gomamon much bring Jyou down here to Logan-Sama yourselves! I will be down, later."
Mimi took Shin's and Shuu's hands, closed her eyes, and concentrated.
A soft pink light heralded the arrival of Mimi and the brothers Kido.
They were close enough to see Jyou and Gomamon outside his father's office, but far enough away to not see easily seen or heard!
"Jyou looks devestated!" Shuu gasped.
"What has Otousan done to my ototosan?" Shin hissed.
"Jyou had been shaken!" Mimi answered. "I can sense it! You two will see to your ototo! I will speak to Gomamon!"
As Shuu and Shin made their way to their brother, Mimi spoke quietly with Gomamon.
"I was not able to see inside the office, Tachikawa-Sama! And.. I do not know what Jyou saw, either! For, as soon as Jyou looked inside, he quietly shut the door, then collapsed on his knees and closed up like an oyster! He has not said a word at all.. he has just cried silently! I am worried! What has gone wrong??"
Mimi looked into the sad eyes of the Gomamon.
"I do not know, Gomamon! Demo.. I will find out! Goma? Go with Shuu
and Shin downstairs with Jyuu! What happens next must be between Kido-Sama and me *alone*!"
"Hai! Come, Jyou!"
After seeing her friends off down the elevator, Mimi walked into the office of Kido Shin. Mr. Kido held a seppuku sword ready.
"So.. this is what Jyou-kun saw when he opened this door."
"My son.. saw me?" Kido-Sama asked.
"He did," Mimi answered, "if you still consider him your son."
"Hai. He is Mutant.. demo.. his is my son. And I have failed him."
"When.. did you learn?" Mimi asked.
"Three weeks ago!" Kido Shin confessed. "I.. had.. suspicions.. for a
few years. My.. wife.. did not share my old views. I first thought.. a friend
or someone in her family was... Then, I saw my sons were standing up for mutants..
then I thought.. maybe one of them? Demo.. it was only when I read my wife's
diary that I learned Jyou's secret. At first.. hai.. I wished nothing but his
death! My son.. who would do anything for me.. out of love.. I wanted DEAD!!
I.. had even *planned* to sacrifice him.. using this sword! Demo.. something
always withheld my hand! Then.. I realized.. my son was not Youkai. I was.
I looked at this sword.. my otousan said it, and it's niisan, held.. 'much honor'.
Demo.. all I saw.. was innocent BLOOD on it! Then, last night, when the reports
came in from Odaiba.. all I could see was Jyou.. on this sword.. and ME in that
crowd! So, I stayed here through the night, and wrote my last letter. Demo..
when the time came for retribution.. i could not act! Leave me, Tachikawa!
My son needs a man to stand with him, not a coward!"
"Hai." Mimi replied. "Jyou DOES need a man to look up to.. one who can face
his youkai, and stand up to them and face them.. and not run from them!
Do not run, Kido-Otousan!"
"Go, Tachikawa-Sensei! My son needs you."
"Kido-Sama?"
"Go. Now. I will follow."
Mimi started off slowly, hesitantly, toward the elevators.
Soon, Mimi was slowly walking toward the limousine where her friends were.
"Mimi?" Palmon noticed her partner's look of depression.
"Mimi-san?" Jyou asked shakily. "Where is tousan?"
"I.. do not know..." Mimi sighed, looking desperately to the TV-Station.
"Could that be him?" Wolverine asked as a haggerd gentlemen stepped out of the building.
"OTOUSAN!!!!"
Kido-Sama slowly got to the car.. then fell to his knees!
"Jyou..", the elder Kido Shin whispered through his tears, "I.. have SHAMED you! Can you.. forgive me?"
The looks of shock of the faces of Shin and Shuu were replaced by the look of concern of their ototo as Jyou got out of the car:
"Come, Otousan! Let us go home."
Mr. Kido turned by to Mimi and gave her the seppuku-blade. "Do with this as you wish! I NEVER want to see this hateful thing again!"
"Hai." Mimi responded, taking the sword. "Logan-Sama? Could you help me
with this? This blade's life has become a blemish to other lives!"
"Hai." Wolverine got out of the driver's seat and popped his claws:
*Snikt!*
"Just hold the sword out, Mimi-imouto!"
"Hai. Logan-san!"
*CRACK!!*
As adamantium claws slid back into the Wolverine's arms, shattered pieces
of a sword fell into the gutter.
"And, let them stay in the gutter," Mimi said, "Where they belong!
Logan-Sama? Get the family-Kido home! We will join you shortly! Palmon?
Katarin-Sensei calls us! We are needed elsewhere!"
As a car sped off to the Yashida-Penthouse, Mimi and Palmon vanished
in a pink fog!
Shadowcat, Mimi, Palmon, and Wizardmon telrported to the Iyoune-family
storefront where Iori and Ken and their Digimon were standing as still as statues!
"There.. has been screaming.. and crying.. inside!" Ken whispered.
"We can *hear* it!"
"And.. crashing and breakage!" Iori panted, his eyes wide. "Demo.. if
we enter.. will we be helping Miyako? Or.. will we... ?" The young man started
to shake and cry! "Oh.. Kami-Sama!!"
"I was afraid of this!" Mimi said. "I feel chaos! And, Iori and Ken are
too stunned to react!"
"Then, let us get into the store!" Katherine took ahold of Mimi's and,
with a nod and a deep breath, both women phased through the store's wall!!
"Get out.. KAIJUU!!" Mrs. Inouye screamed. "You do not BELONG here!!"
"I will leave," Miyako replied in an even tone, "demo.. I must get my clothes!
I thought to say 'Sayonara' to my siblings.. my brothers and sister.. since I have
no parents here."
Even though she shook from fear, dispair, and anger, Miyako fought to keep her
tears and voice under control.
'I will not let my parents win!' Miyako thought. 'I must not.'
'You will not let them, win, Miyako-chan!' Mimi reassured her.
'Mimi-chan!' Miyako frantically thought, moving her eyes away from her parents,
'You must not be here! My otousan carries a gun behind out counter!'
As if on cue, Mr. Inouye pulled out a shotgun.. and aimed it point-blank at
Miyako!
"DIE, mutant! You will infect us no longer!"
"MIYAKO!!" Mimi and Katherine cried out as Iori and Ken and their Digimon and
Wizardmon rushed in through the door!
*BOOM!!*
When the acrid smoke cleared, the store-display in back of her was riddled with
shot, and some items were completely distroyed.. but, Miyako was still standing,
seemingly untouched.
"Nani-yo?" Mrs. Inouye screeched. "Bokei?!?!"
"Not a ghost, yet!" Miyako allowed herself a grin. "I just remembered what
Katarin-Sensei taught me in the Digtal-World! Otousan? Care to fire another round? You
might actually hit me, this time?"
"Do not SHOOT!" Mrs. Inouye screamed. "YOU WILL WRECK THE STORE!!"
Iori began to glow.
Mr. Inouye cocked the shotgun again.
"DO NOT SHOOT! It is one of her mutant-tricks!"
"It's not one of my tricks." Miyako smirked.
**BOOM!!**
Cans and bottles broke and shattered!!
Still, Miyako stood through the blast and the gunpowder-smoke.
"NOW, IORI!!" Mimi yelled.
"Smile for the CAMERA, YOUKAI!!" Iori called out- and popped a flash-bulb effect
point-blank at the Inouyes!!
"I cannot SEE!!!!"
"And, by the Almighty," Shadowcat swore, "for the darkness you have lived by,
and the blood you tried to spill, may this house always be in darkness!"
A strange silence filled the store.
"All right now, people!" Katherine ordered. "Let's leave!"
Four Digidestined and four digimon quietly walked out of the store, and down
the street!
After walking silently for two blocks, both Iori and Miyako collapsed! Iori
fell down from fatigue. Miyako broke down in spirit.
"Miyako!"
"Iori!"
"I.. never knew..", Iori panted, "that converting.. energies.. would be.. so
draining! Now.. I know.. how *you* feel, Drillmon!"
"Just rest, Iori-san!" Drillmon told his partner. "We shall be safe, soon!"
"MIYAKO!!" Hawkmon cried out. "Will you be alright?"
"I.. have to say 'Sayonara'..", Miyako croaked out. "Had to tell them.. I
loved them! An impossible dream, ne?"
Hawkmon wraped his wings protectively around his partner. "They are too filled
with hate to know love, Miyako-chan! They are not your family."
"Do not worry, ane." Iori wrapped his arms around Miyako. "Do not cry. We will
be alright."
"Drillmon and Hawkmon are correct!" Ken spoke softly as he embraced Iori and
Miyako tenderly and protectively. "Tachikawa-Sama? Pryde-Sama? Let us get home!"
"You heard the man, Mimi!" Shadowcat said. "Get us back to Yashida-Sama's
penthouse!"
"Everybody join hands..", Mimi slowly opened her eyes as eight figures were
bathed in a pink light. "The Tachikawa-Express is leaving.. NOW!!"
Soon, the refuge of the Yashida penthouse was filled with people and digimon in various
stages of grief and healing.. and two mutant-nurses and their digimon-assistants!
"How are Dai-kun and Jun-chan?" Mimi asked Koushirou.
"Jun is sleeping, thankfully!" Koushirou replied. "If only Daisuke would do the same!
Demo.. he has been up and down, nervously pacing! He is worried for his aneue! I *think* he
fears she will have to go back to their family. How id Jyou? He and his oniisan and and
otousan have not spoken since Logan-Sama brought them here! What happened?"
"Kido-tousan had to meet himself, Kou-kun!" Mimi looked at the floor. "He did not like
who he met."
"Will he be alright, Mimi-san?"
"Maybe, Kou-kun, in time."
"Will Takeru.. be alright.. Yama-niisan?" Taichi asked.
"I.. do not know.. Taichi." Yamato spoke in a shaky voice, Gabumon supporting him. "The
Shadowcat told Takeru that he might not like what he learned about Kaasan. *I* did not like
what I learned about Kaasan! Even knowing what I did beforehand.. Takaishi Natsumi-Sama SCARED
me!! Even more than she did Takeru!!"
"Iyaa.. Takeru..!" Hikari sobbed. "Will.. he be alright?" Gatomon wrapped as much of her tail as she could around her partner to protect her.
"With his friends around him, hai, he will recover, demo.. it will take time! At least, he will have otousan and me near him." Yamato sighed.
"WE will be near him, Yama-niisan!" Hikari corrected the young man. "And *I* will make sure
Takeru gets all the time to heal he needs!" She said this with an edge in her voice.
Yamato and Taichi exchanged reassuring smiles:
'Dano.. Kami-Sama help ANYONE who THINKS to get in Hikari's way!'
"Will you be alright, Miyako-chan?" Sora asked anf Katherine was looking over her.
"I.. do now know!" Miyako said in a slow, weak voice. "I hope so! I.. will have to get used.. to being an orphan."
Sora instinctively hugged Miyako protectively.
"Miyako's.. tousan.. tried to kill her?" Pyomon gasped, trying to take in the story Hawkmon
had just told her.
"Hai. If Miya-chan had not been as intangeable as bokomono.. she would BE bokomono, now!"
Hawkmon hissed. "Miyako does not deserve them! She deserves MUCH BETTER!!"
"What.. happened, Wizardmon?" Agumon asked.
"The Digi-Destineds' world has become a hell, Agumon!" The digital-wizard answered. "And some of their parents have been infected by it!"
"Will they recover their senses?" Tentomon asked hopefully.
"I am afraid there is no cure for a diseased spirit, Tentomon." Palmon said with a tear in her eye.
"Everybody is accounted for? That.. is good.." Daisuke yawned. "I was hoping that all my friends would.. come back."
"Dai-kun?!?!", Hikari shot out, "You should be back in bed!! Go! Go! Go!"
"Demo.. I just need to make sure.. everyone got back. Ohayo, Yamato-san! Ohayo, Takeru-niisan!"
'Takeru-*niisan*?' Takeru wondered. 'Does Daisuke REALLY think of me like that?'
'He does.' Yamato nodded.
Mimi smiled. 'Let the healing begin.'
"Demo," Daisuke frowned, "I still worry about Jun. I want her to come with my.. with us..
to America! Demo.. is that possible?"
Shadowcat looked to Yashida Shiro, and smiled. "I think we can arrange something!"
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Twelve hours later, after a much-needed rest, the Digi-destined and Digimon were on the estate of Yashida Shiro.
"Mien GOTT!!" Nightcrawler exclaimed as his watched Daisuke and Jun in an eating-contest,
Wo ist das Knoldern going? Und are they ever coming up for air?"
"It has only been.. three minutes, Wagner-Sama!" Miyako looked at her watch. "Give them three more minutes.. then, they will come up for a deep breath! Arigatou nisai, Katarin-Sensei,
for the machanical-watch!"
"You are welcome, Miyako-chan!" Shadowcat smiled. "Rewinding can be annoying at first, demo.. I tend to short-circuit any electronics I phase through, and I thought that watch might be better for you, too!"
"Hai." Miyako smiled.
Wizardmon chuckled. "Cluck-cluck-cluck! Your team-mates are right!"
"Get used to it.. partner!" Shadowcat grinned.
"Oh, he is!!" Palmon and Gatomon sang out.
Wizardmon blushed.
"I am afraid!" Koushirou told his aunt and uncle. "Kana-oba? Soun-haku? I will be alright in America.. I think.. demo, what will become of you?" The young man's eyes began to tear. "Will I ever see you again?"
"Do not worry, Koushirou!" Kana hugged her nephew protectively. "We have known something like this may happen. Your haku has made arrangements to work in America! We will join you shortly."
"It.. will feel.. awkward," Koushirou sniffed, "leaving kaasan and tousan!"
"Do not fear, Koushirou!" Soun smiled. "Their bodies are here, hai! Demo, their spirits", he
touched his nephew's heart and head, "are here! Dano.. they will ALWAYS be here!"
The Izumi family cradled one another.
"Will.. you be alright.. Miyako?" Iori asked softly.
"In time, Iori-ototo." Miyako managed to smile softly.
"You will always be welcome in our family!" Mrs. Hida said.
"As you are in ours! Mrs. Ichijouji said.
Iori and Ken smiled.
"I failed everyone!" Kido Shin muttered. "I held on to the youkai in me too long.. and it almost had its offering of blood!"
"Demo.. Tousan!" Jyou tried to reassure his father. "You fought back when it counted!"
"If Tachikawa-Sama had not.. been there.. arguing the youkai..", Shin choked back his fear,
"it could have... Jyou-san! Gomen nisai! What you have to see..."
"Was a battle you *won*, Otousan!" Jyou hugged his father protectively. "A battle that will
not happen, again!"
"We must leave here!" Mrs. Kido said. "My home has tried to take my son from me! Then, it tried to take my husband! We must go."
"And, leave we shall!" Mr. Kido said. "I will *not* abandon my son *again*!"
'The Kido-tachi are a family, once more!' Gomamon thought, the smile on his face mirrored in his eyes.
"Kaasan is coming with us to America!" Sora told Mimi. "I am glad! I would worry too much if she stayed here in Nippon. Demo.. she will need a place to stay!"
"Do not worry, Sora!" Mimi answered. "She will stay with my family as long as she needs to!"
"Is everyone ready to leave?" Charles Xavier asked. 'Now that you have rested and eaten?"
"Hai, Xavier-Sensei!" Mimi bowed. "We are ready!"
"Good! 'Student-visas' have been made ready, as have the 'visas' for the Kayimas, Kidos, Mr. Ishida, and Mrs. Takenouchi!" Professor Xavier said. "We will start working on getting documents together for the Hidas, Izumis, and Ichijoujis as soom as possible!"
"Demo..!" Koushirou asked. "Xavier-Sensei! How can visas be gotten so quickly?"
"Kou-kun?" Mimi interrupted.
"Hai, Mimi-san?"
"It is best.. not to ask."
"Smart girl." Wolverine grinned.
Jubilee giggled.
"Well..", Katherine said, "Mimi HAS been living with us!"
Jubilee fell to the floor in laughter!!
"These *will* be *interesting* times, Koushirou!" Tentomon told his partner.
"Hai."
"What about my aneue?" Daisuke asked. "Will she be able to come to America?" He looked worriedly at Jun.
"Do not worry, Daisuke-Sama!" Yashida Shiro said. "I wil see that.. she makes it to America.. with *all* she needs!" He slowly bowed to Daisuke. "until then.. she will stay safe as my guest here!"
After leaving Japanese air-space, the occupant's of the modified SR-71 Blackbird started to
relax on their way back to the U.S.
"A.. toast!" Ororo said after handing out the bottled-water. "To out newest students! May you find a home with us!"
"Salute!"s were heard all through the plane.
"Hai!" Katherine answered back! "And a special toast! To our last 'newest student'! Without
your help, Mimi-imouto, we wouldn't have gotten through this mess. Le Hayim!"
"Le Hayim!"
"Arigatou.. nisai.. minna!" Mimi said shily as she tried to had her blush. She then looked
around at her friends, old and new. "I have learned.. from the best!"