Digital Diner
Mary saw a barbecue with steaming sausages and then a guy from Baywatch handed her a burger with tomato ketchup all over it. She was about to bite into it when he leant towards her. She did the same to him; their lips were getting closer...
"HELLO, THIS IS YOUR WAKEUP CALL!" Violet yelled in her friend's ear. Mary jumped, and found herself next to a river, still in the Digiworld.
She sighed and rolled over. She was just drifting off to sleep again when Snowmon splashed her `by accident` as he got out of the river. She shook her head angrily. Snowmon grinned, "Whoops."
She growled and swung one arm at him. He dodged easily and scampered off to where Steve was having an argument with Mike.
Mary growled some more, then stopped when she realised Violet was pretending to film her. The sunlight glinted off the hilt of her sword, as she announced, "The rare Mary Tiger can be found in either the area next to a TV showing Baywatch or attacking a poor, defenceless Digimon."
Mary wasn't sure what she was going to do, but it didn't matter, as the sounds of Steve and Mike's argument reached their ears. It started with Steve yelling, "To the left's where Mythicmon saw it! We have to investigate!"
"Hold it, we still need to find two crests. That isn't a walk in the park!" Mike pointed out.
"You're just scared!"
"I'm not!"
"You are!"
"Are not!"
"Are to!"
"Are not!"
Something inside Steve snapped. He flung himself at Mike, who joined in eagerly. Soon they were punching each other with all the strength they had. John seemed to be pretending not to be there.
Pearlmon walked over to him, "What happened?"
He looked at her sheepishly, "I asked where we were going to go today, and they said different things at the same time. Now they're arguing about whether we go in the direction Mythicmon saw the shadow, or whether we try and find the last crests."
Violet suddenly gave an evil grin. She leant towards Mary; "How about we set off without them?"
"Where?" Mary asked.
"I say we try and find the crests, but we might as well proceed after the shadow. It might lead us to them."
"Right."
They both did a mock-tiptoeing motion over to the edge of the camp, then they ran off. It took Steve and Mike a full five minutes to realise they'd gone. This was their fastest time yet.
Immediately Steve turned to John, "John, can you use your dot program to find them?"
John typed away, then he reported, "Two blue dots, two green dots, one black dot."
"Black? Oh, this is just perfect!" Mike said sarcastically.
John typed some more, "It's a Digimon working for an evil Digimon. And the girls are in serious trouble..."
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"What the heck is that?" Mary screamed.
The object of her confusion was a Digimon. It looked like a HUGE red-and- white spider, with large fangs, and some kind of circular object on its back. There were two horns jutting out of opposite ends of its head, and its eight eyes were all red, and then white, then red, then white...
The two Digimon were not happy bunnies (actually, they weren't even bunnies). Jewelmon filled the two girls in on who the overgrown spider was; "She's Arachnidmon. She wraps her opponents up in her Energy Web, and then she drains them of all their energy. And if that doesn't work, there's always the poisonous version!"
Violet held up her digivice, "Show time!"
"Pearlmon digivolve to Flakemon!"
"Jewelmon digivolve Diamondmon!"
Arachnidmon smiled. The circular object glowed, and then she fired a net from it, "Energy Net!"
The net fell on Flakemon. The snake Digimon lashed out at it, but her actions gradually grew weaker, until they stopped altogether. Then she flashed and Pearlmon was lying there.
The same thing happened to Diamondmon before you could say `Diamond Strike`. The two rookies both lay there, exhausted. Violet frowned. She leant over to Mary, "Mary, things may get crazy. Don't be surprised if they do."
Violet drew the sword Warriormon had given her and rushed at Arachnidmon. The Digimon knocked her back, but not before the girl slashed across the net firer. It didn't stop the nets being fired, but it disabled the energy sucking and poisonous parts.
The angry Digimon suddenly fired a net at Mary. She wasn't expecting it, and the net covered her before she could run. Arachnidmon sauntered up to her. She took a step backwards, and then she rushed at the girl. As the Digimon's head collided with Mary, everything went black for her.
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She came round on something soft. She felt underneath her and was surprised to feel a bed. She looked around. She was in a small room, with a single window and door. A Digimon was sitting next to her.
It looked like a tabby cat, except its tail was twice the length of its body. A pair of purple wings erupted from its back, and a red mask covered the middle part of its face. It smiled at her, and Mary heard a voice inside her head, 'I'm Katmon, a psychic Digimon. My attack is Psychic Cat Eye, and I can move things by only using my mind.'
Mary stared. Then someone yelled through the door, "Katmon, get moving! We've got our first customers!"
'That's Stalliomon. He's quite nice, but he can get really mad. I'd best go and start cooking.'
"`Cooking`?" Mary repeated. Katmon nodded. The girl continued, "This is a restaurant?" Another nod. Mary smiled, "Do you want some help cooking?"
Katmon nodded frantically. Mary stretched and stood up. The Digimon smiled and flew towards the door, with the digidestined following.
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Steve wasn't in a good mood. He was not happy about the fact that Mary was gone. He had had a good yell at Violet, who answered merely by saying `Lover Boy`. That had shut him up.
No one wanted to try to start a conversation with Violet, as she looked ready to rip someone's head off. She walked at the back of the group, mumbling to herself.
Mike stretched, "Steve, I still don't understand why you're so bothered about this. Violet disappears, you say that we should look for her, but you're calm. Mary disappears; it's a red alert! You're acting like some kind of lovesick general!"
"Stop calling me that," Steve grumbled. Mike was about to answer back, when John stopped and sniffed.
"Am I the only one who can smell food?" he asked. Mike sniffed and shook his head.
Steve stuck his hands in his pockets, "Why don't we check it out? It's better than just walking around in circles."
Since John seemed to know which direction the smell was coming from, he led the way. They found that they ended up walking on a rough path, which meant they were heading somewhere that got a lot of visitors.
Eventually, the trees gave way to an open space. And there, in the centre of it.They stopped and rubbed their eyes. What was a restaurant doing there?
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Mary was definitely enjoying herself. Not only was she doing one of her favourite things (cooking), but she was also doing it with someone with an excellent sense of humour. Katmon kept up a steady stream of jokes to keep them entertained. She knew even more than Lizzie, a friend of hers. And Lizzie was the Queen of Jokes. Especially bad ones.
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Mythicmon peeked over the Western-style doors, and saw a large room with tables and chairs arranged all around it. It was empty, except for a single Gazimon, who was just leaving. A counter was at the far end of the room, and a large, black stallion with a star on its forehead and front legs stood behind it.
The Digimon flapped back to the digidestined, "Looks OK. There's not a lot of Digimon in there, so there probably won't be a fight."
Steve went first, and he cautiously pushed open one of the doors. The stallion glanced up, and then he turned around, "Hey, Katmon! We've got customers!"
The cat Digimon flew through a door that was behind the counter, looked at the digidestined, then perched on the counter to pick up some menus. The stallion sighed, "Katmon, I'm seriously thinking of getting a new waiter."
'Alright, I can take a hint, O impatient one,' Katmon retorted. Violet smirked, and the cat Digimon winked at her. She (Katmon) recognised someone who liked a good joke when she saw one.
A few minutes later, they were sitting around two tables (digidestined round one, Digimon round the other). Katmon had asked what they wanted, and they had all asked for things like meat, or omelette, except for Violet. She was having alphabet soup. This was strange, seeing as she wasn't a very big fan of it. Still, an order was an order.
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Mary could hardly believe it when she heard that her friends were in the restaurant. However, the stallion (whom Katmon called `Stalliomon`) had said that she needed to stay in the kitchen. It had immediately struck her what an odd thing that was to say. Why didn't he want her to see her friends?
When Katmon gave her the orders, he started straight away, hoping that the cooking would make her forget the strangeness of those words. Suddenly she couldn't contain her curiosity any longer, and asked Katmon, "Why doesn't Stalliomon want me to s...Whoops!"
This last part was uttered as she accidentally spilt some of the alphabet soup on the floor. Katmon started laughing, but Mary was staring at it in a very strange way. She'd suddenly had an idea. She knew why Violet had ordered that particular type of soup.
Carefully, she arranged the letters in the bowl to say `Hey LM. NS here.` Of course, she had to replace the full stops with starting a new line, but she knew it would work. She had placed the letters so that they looked as though they'd been placed there randomly, and she knew that only Violet would understand the message. She was using the abbreviations of the names they used on their website. LM meant Lady Moon, and NS meant Night Slayer.
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Of course, V had told Violet that would work. The girl tried to look casual when the soup was served, but she immediately looked at the letters when Katmon used her psychic abilities to place the floating bowl in front of her. She smiled when she saw the letters.
The next step of the plan was to find some way of getting to Mary. Violet considered the problem as she chewed the spaghetti letters, resisting the urge to even LOOK sick. Then V said, ~ 'When you get outside, pretend you need to `powder your nose`, then look for some kind of back door.' ~
'Hey, that's a good idea!'
~ 'Don't sound so surprised.' ~
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Stalliomon smiled as the digidestined managed to find enough money in their pockets to pay the bill, but when they'd left, he let out a sigh. He watched them walk away through the window, "Good. Now to take the girl to see the master."
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As soon as the digidestined were out of sight of the restaurant, Violet did an excellent impression of a girl who needed to go to the toilet. First, she started looking uncomfortable. Then she bit her lip, and crossed her legs. After that, the fidgeting began. Eventually, Steve said, "Violet, if you need to do, you know, THAT, you can just go and do it somewhere else."
Violet put her hands in nun-position, "Thankyou, noble master. Sister Violet is honoured to be guided by your wisdom and compassion." Then she ran away, to avoid his playful slap.
As soon as V said no one could see her, Violet turned around and headed towards the restaurant. She ended up on the borders of the small garden at the back. Carefully, she edged her way towards the door, then whispered, "Hey, Mary! Hello?"
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Mary was just washing up when she heard Violet. Or rather, she AND Katmon heard it. The Digimon looked up, 'What was that?'
Mary suddenly remembered a cartoon picture that Lizzie had once drawn, trying to prove that she could draw just as well as her. It had shown Mary with one hand behind her head, with a Mega sweatdrop, as they called the ones that appeared on TV. She imagined that she probably looked like that picture right then.
"I...I didn't hear anything. You...must be...mistaken. Yeah, mistaken!" she stuttered. The cat Digimon looked at her with a look that clearly said `Yeah right. Come on, own up. `
'It's one of your friends, isn't it?' Mary jumped. How did she know? Katmon smiled, 'Don't worry. I won't tell Stalliomon. In fact, the sooner you get out of here the better.'
Mary stared, "Why?"
'Stalliomon's going to hand you over to Switchmon.'
"Who?"
'The new evil. But I'll tell you more about him some other time. Right now, I have to get you to your friends.' The Digimon rose and silently flapped to the window. She had a silent conversation with someone (well, silent on HER end), then she returned to Mary, 'Come on. Violet's waiting.'
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Snowmon sighed, "Does it usually take one of you humans this long to go to the toilet?"
Steve grinned, "Depends on who the human is. If it's my sister, then it's a lot easier to just find another toilet."
Snowmon looked up at him; "You have a sister?"
"Yeah. Her name's Hannah. I've never mentioned her because she lives with my Mum, up in Edinburgh."
"Oh yeah. I forgot your parents were divorced."
"It's no big deal. Really."
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Back at the restaurant, the two girls and one Digimon were just leaving when a voice behind them declared, "Where do you think you're going?"
They turned around, and saw Stalliomon glaring at them. Violet muttered something, and Mary hissed, "Violet! Language!"
Violet frowned at her, then turned to Katmon; "Just who is that?"
'Stalliomon: A stallion Digimon who attacks with his Stallion Star. He is extremely loyal, and will serve his master willingly.'
"Good to see you've been paying attention, Katmon. But now, not only will I deliver two digidestined to Switchmon, but a traitor as well!" The Digimon chuckled.
Violet grabbed Mary, "We haven't got our Digimon! How are we meant to beat this guy without them?"
'I'll take care of this piece of digi-filth,' Katmon smiled. She sprang at Stalliomon, 'Psychic Cat Eye!'
Her eyes glowed, and then two beams of purple light shot straight out of them at Stalliomon. Or rather, where Stalliomon had been, before he galloped out of the way. He struck the ground with one hoof, "Stallion Star!"
The star on his forehead glowed, and then a beam of yellow light shot from it. Katmon only just got out of the way.
Suddenly, Mary noticed Violet looked as though she was straining herself, trying to do something she couldn't. She (Mary) turned to her, "What's the matter?"
Violet looked up, and looked frightened, "Mary, I can't digimorph! It's been too long since there was a full moon!"
Mary's eyes widened. Then a voice `said`, 'Inside the restaurant! Stalliomon's hidden your crest there, Mary!'
Mary looked at the cat Digimon, "My what?"
'Your crest! For heaven's sake, get moving!'
Violet grabbed her, "Come on! Let's go!"
The two girls rushed into the building. Katmon began firing blast after blast from her eyes, to distract Stalliomon. She thought to herself, 'Hope they find it before he gets them!'
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Mary sighed, "How are we supposed to find it! We don't even know where to look!"
Violet rubbed her forehead, "Let's see. It's not here, or else you would have found it. I didn't see anything like the picture on the back of your digivice in the other room, so it must be upstairs!"
She pulled open the door that led to a set of stairs, and thundered up. As she followed, Mary thought, 'How did Violet know that there would be stairs behind that particular door?'
As they stumbled into the room, they heard Katmon scream. Violet turned to Mary, "We don't have much time. We need to find it as fast as possible!"
Five minutes later, they collapsed on the bed. They hadn't found anything useful, except for a pocket-knife with various attachments. However, as Mary threw herself down, her tag started glowing. Suddenly, a thought occurred to her. She looked under the bed, and saw something under it. As she pulled it out, it became consumed with a flesh-pink light. The light shot at her tag, and when it faded, her crest was firmly fixed inside.
Violet peeked over her shoulder at the object the crest had come from, and grinned, "A crest on a plate. How likely was that?"
Just then, a light from Mary's crest shot out of the window. It travelled down, until it hit Katmon. The Digimon could feel strength surging up in her, and then she yelled, 'Katmon digivolve to IronKatmon!'
She grew to three times her old size. Her mask expanded until it covered her whole face, and then it became an iron mask. Her entire body was encased in iron. Her wings were the size of an average grown man's legs, and shone with iron. A large missile launcher was mounted on her back.
She growled, 'My name is IronKatmon. I can control anything with my mind, and my Psychic Missile is impossible to avoid.'
Mary stared out of the window at her; "Did I do that?"
Violet's mouth was the size of an average house, "I don't know how, but somehow you made her digivolve!"
IronKatmon lowered her head, so that her missile launcher was pointing directly at Stalliomon, 'Psychic Missile!'
A missile surrounded by purple light shot out. Stalliomon leapt to the side, but the missile turned in mid-air and hit him right in the face. There was a loud scream, and then he disintegrated. The two girls stared, and then IronKatmon flew up to their window, 'Want a lift?'
They nodded, and Violet pushed the window open. She lifted Mary onto the Digimon, and then she got on herself. Their steed turned around and flew away from the building.
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John rubbed his neck, "You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Violet's gone off to look for Mary."
Steve nodded, "Yeah, I think so too. But she must know where she is, or else she would have taken Pearlmon."
Mike suddenly clicked his fingers, "Now I get it. Mary must have been at the restaurant!"
Firepentmon shook himself, "How do you know that?"
"I remember that Violet took a look at how the letters in her soup were arranged. Mary must have put a message there!"
'You're cleverer than you look,' a voice said behind him. He spun around and then his eyes widened. Standing there was a gigantic cat, covered in iron. Then a familiar laugh came from her back.
"Don't open your eyes so wide, or else they'll get sore!" Violet advised, sliding down from the Digimon's back and then helping Mary off too.
There was utter silence for a moment, then the girls' Digimon flung themselves at them. Violet fell against Mary, Mary fell against nothing, and they both ended up on the floor.
Everyone started laughing, and then the cat-like Digimon said, 'I have to go now, but I have a feeling we'll see each other again some day.'
She flew up and into the distance, with Mary shouting after her, "Bye, IronKatmon! And thanks!"
WHY DID MARY'S CREST DIGIVOLVE KATMON? AND WILL THE OTHER'S FIND OUT ABOUT V? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: Yes, I know, Violet DID NOT mention digimorphing until she tried to. I'd completely forgotten about it. Oh, and you SHALL see more of their crests digivolving Digimon other than their own. But I won't tell you which ones. MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! Oh wait... #realises what she just said # OK, I lied. There's an Ultimate digivolving in this episode. Sorry Alan. #Looks shamefaced # SORRY!!!!!!
Mary saw a barbecue with steaming sausages and then a guy from Baywatch handed her a burger with tomato ketchup all over it. She was about to bite into it when he leant towards her. She did the same to him; their lips were getting closer...
"HELLO, THIS IS YOUR WAKEUP CALL!" Violet yelled in her friend's ear. Mary jumped, and found herself next to a river, still in the Digiworld.
She sighed and rolled over. She was just drifting off to sleep again when Snowmon splashed her `by accident` as he got out of the river. She shook her head angrily. Snowmon grinned, "Whoops."
She growled and swung one arm at him. He dodged easily and scampered off to where Steve was having an argument with Mike.
Mary growled some more, then stopped when she realised Violet was pretending to film her. The sunlight glinted off the hilt of her sword, as she announced, "The rare Mary Tiger can be found in either the area next to a TV showing Baywatch or attacking a poor, defenceless Digimon."
Mary wasn't sure what she was going to do, but it didn't matter, as the sounds of Steve and Mike's argument reached their ears. It started with Steve yelling, "To the left's where Mythicmon saw it! We have to investigate!"
"Hold it, we still need to find two crests. That isn't a walk in the park!" Mike pointed out.
"You're just scared!"
"I'm not!"
"You are!"
"Are not!"
"Are to!"
"Are not!"
Something inside Steve snapped. He flung himself at Mike, who joined in eagerly. Soon they were punching each other with all the strength they had. John seemed to be pretending not to be there.
Pearlmon walked over to him, "What happened?"
He looked at her sheepishly, "I asked where we were going to go today, and they said different things at the same time. Now they're arguing about whether we go in the direction Mythicmon saw the shadow, or whether we try and find the last crests."
Violet suddenly gave an evil grin. She leant towards Mary; "How about we set off without them?"
"Where?" Mary asked.
"I say we try and find the crests, but we might as well proceed after the shadow. It might lead us to them."
"Right."
They both did a mock-tiptoeing motion over to the edge of the camp, then they ran off. It took Steve and Mike a full five minutes to realise they'd gone. This was their fastest time yet.
Immediately Steve turned to John, "John, can you use your dot program to find them?"
John typed away, then he reported, "Two blue dots, two green dots, one black dot."
"Black? Oh, this is just perfect!" Mike said sarcastically.
John typed some more, "It's a Digimon working for an evil Digimon. And the girls are in serious trouble..."
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"What the heck is that?" Mary screamed.
The object of her confusion was a Digimon. It looked like a HUGE red-and- white spider, with large fangs, and some kind of circular object on its back. There were two horns jutting out of opposite ends of its head, and its eight eyes were all red, and then white, then red, then white...
The two Digimon were not happy bunnies (actually, they weren't even bunnies). Jewelmon filled the two girls in on who the overgrown spider was; "She's Arachnidmon. She wraps her opponents up in her Energy Web, and then she drains them of all their energy. And if that doesn't work, there's always the poisonous version!"
Violet held up her digivice, "Show time!"
"Pearlmon digivolve to Flakemon!"
"Jewelmon digivolve Diamondmon!"
Arachnidmon smiled. The circular object glowed, and then she fired a net from it, "Energy Net!"
The net fell on Flakemon. The snake Digimon lashed out at it, but her actions gradually grew weaker, until they stopped altogether. Then she flashed and Pearlmon was lying there.
The same thing happened to Diamondmon before you could say `Diamond Strike`. The two rookies both lay there, exhausted. Violet frowned. She leant over to Mary, "Mary, things may get crazy. Don't be surprised if they do."
Violet drew the sword Warriormon had given her and rushed at Arachnidmon. The Digimon knocked her back, but not before the girl slashed across the net firer. It didn't stop the nets being fired, but it disabled the energy sucking and poisonous parts.
The angry Digimon suddenly fired a net at Mary. She wasn't expecting it, and the net covered her before she could run. Arachnidmon sauntered up to her. She took a step backwards, and then she rushed at the girl. As the Digimon's head collided with Mary, everything went black for her.
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She came round on something soft. She felt underneath her and was surprised to feel a bed. She looked around. She was in a small room, with a single window and door. A Digimon was sitting next to her.
It looked like a tabby cat, except its tail was twice the length of its body. A pair of purple wings erupted from its back, and a red mask covered the middle part of its face. It smiled at her, and Mary heard a voice inside her head, 'I'm Katmon, a psychic Digimon. My attack is Psychic Cat Eye, and I can move things by only using my mind.'
Mary stared. Then someone yelled through the door, "Katmon, get moving! We've got our first customers!"
'That's Stalliomon. He's quite nice, but he can get really mad. I'd best go and start cooking.'
"`Cooking`?" Mary repeated. Katmon nodded. The girl continued, "This is a restaurant?" Another nod. Mary smiled, "Do you want some help cooking?"
Katmon nodded frantically. Mary stretched and stood up. The Digimon smiled and flew towards the door, with the digidestined following.
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Steve wasn't in a good mood. He was not happy about the fact that Mary was gone. He had had a good yell at Violet, who answered merely by saying `Lover Boy`. That had shut him up.
No one wanted to try to start a conversation with Violet, as she looked ready to rip someone's head off. She walked at the back of the group, mumbling to herself.
Mike stretched, "Steve, I still don't understand why you're so bothered about this. Violet disappears, you say that we should look for her, but you're calm. Mary disappears; it's a red alert! You're acting like some kind of lovesick general!"
"Stop calling me that," Steve grumbled. Mike was about to answer back, when John stopped and sniffed.
"Am I the only one who can smell food?" he asked. Mike sniffed and shook his head.
Steve stuck his hands in his pockets, "Why don't we check it out? It's better than just walking around in circles."
Since John seemed to know which direction the smell was coming from, he led the way. They found that they ended up walking on a rough path, which meant they were heading somewhere that got a lot of visitors.
Eventually, the trees gave way to an open space. And there, in the centre of it.They stopped and rubbed their eyes. What was a restaurant doing there?
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Mary was definitely enjoying herself. Not only was she doing one of her favourite things (cooking), but she was also doing it with someone with an excellent sense of humour. Katmon kept up a steady stream of jokes to keep them entertained. She knew even more than Lizzie, a friend of hers. And Lizzie was the Queen of Jokes. Especially bad ones.
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Mythicmon peeked over the Western-style doors, and saw a large room with tables and chairs arranged all around it. It was empty, except for a single Gazimon, who was just leaving. A counter was at the far end of the room, and a large, black stallion with a star on its forehead and front legs stood behind it.
The Digimon flapped back to the digidestined, "Looks OK. There's not a lot of Digimon in there, so there probably won't be a fight."
Steve went first, and he cautiously pushed open one of the doors. The stallion glanced up, and then he turned around, "Hey, Katmon! We've got customers!"
The cat Digimon flew through a door that was behind the counter, looked at the digidestined, then perched on the counter to pick up some menus. The stallion sighed, "Katmon, I'm seriously thinking of getting a new waiter."
'Alright, I can take a hint, O impatient one,' Katmon retorted. Violet smirked, and the cat Digimon winked at her. She (Katmon) recognised someone who liked a good joke when she saw one.
A few minutes later, they were sitting around two tables (digidestined round one, Digimon round the other). Katmon had asked what they wanted, and they had all asked for things like meat, or omelette, except for Violet. She was having alphabet soup. This was strange, seeing as she wasn't a very big fan of it. Still, an order was an order.
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Mary could hardly believe it when she heard that her friends were in the restaurant. However, the stallion (whom Katmon called `Stalliomon`) had said that she needed to stay in the kitchen. It had immediately struck her what an odd thing that was to say. Why didn't he want her to see her friends?
When Katmon gave her the orders, he started straight away, hoping that the cooking would make her forget the strangeness of those words. Suddenly she couldn't contain her curiosity any longer, and asked Katmon, "Why doesn't Stalliomon want me to s...Whoops!"
This last part was uttered as she accidentally spilt some of the alphabet soup on the floor. Katmon started laughing, but Mary was staring at it in a very strange way. She'd suddenly had an idea. She knew why Violet had ordered that particular type of soup.
Carefully, she arranged the letters in the bowl to say `Hey LM. NS here.` Of course, she had to replace the full stops with starting a new line, but she knew it would work. She had placed the letters so that they looked as though they'd been placed there randomly, and she knew that only Violet would understand the message. She was using the abbreviations of the names they used on their website. LM meant Lady Moon, and NS meant Night Slayer.
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Of course, V had told Violet that would work. The girl tried to look casual when the soup was served, but she immediately looked at the letters when Katmon used her psychic abilities to place the floating bowl in front of her. She smiled when she saw the letters.
The next step of the plan was to find some way of getting to Mary. Violet considered the problem as she chewed the spaghetti letters, resisting the urge to even LOOK sick. Then V said, ~ 'When you get outside, pretend you need to `powder your nose`, then look for some kind of back door.' ~
'Hey, that's a good idea!'
~ 'Don't sound so surprised.' ~
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Stalliomon smiled as the digidestined managed to find enough money in their pockets to pay the bill, but when they'd left, he let out a sigh. He watched them walk away through the window, "Good. Now to take the girl to see the master."
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As soon as the digidestined were out of sight of the restaurant, Violet did an excellent impression of a girl who needed to go to the toilet. First, she started looking uncomfortable. Then she bit her lip, and crossed her legs. After that, the fidgeting began. Eventually, Steve said, "Violet, if you need to do, you know, THAT, you can just go and do it somewhere else."
Violet put her hands in nun-position, "Thankyou, noble master. Sister Violet is honoured to be guided by your wisdom and compassion." Then she ran away, to avoid his playful slap.
As soon as V said no one could see her, Violet turned around and headed towards the restaurant. She ended up on the borders of the small garden at the back. Carefully, she edged her way towards the door, then whispered, "Hey, Mary! Hello?"
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Mary was just washing up when she heard Violet. Or rather, she AND Katmon heard it. The Digimon looked up, 'What was that?'
Mary suddenly remembered a cartoon picture that Lizzie had once drawn, trying to prove that she could draw just as well as her. It had shown Mary with one hand behind her head, with a Mega sweatdrop, as they called the ones that appeared on TV. She imagined that she probably looked like that picture right then.
"I...I didn't hear anything. You...must be...mistaken. Yeah, mistaken!" she stuttered. The cat Digimon looked at her with a look that clearly said `Yeah right. Come on, own up. `
'It's one of your friends, isn't it?' Mary jumped. How did she know? Katmon smiled, 'Don't worry. I won't tell Stalliomon. In fact, the sooner you get out of here the better.'
Mary stared, "Why?"
'Stalliomon's going to hand you over to Switchmon.'
"Who?"
'The new evil. But I'll tell you more about him some other time. Right now, I have to get you to your friends.' The Digimon rose and silently flapped to the window. She had a silent conversation with someone (well, silent on HER end), then she returned to Mary, 'Come on. Violet's waiting.'
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Snowmon sighed, "Does it usually take one of you humans this long to go to the toilet?"
Steve grinned, "Depends on who the human is. If it's my sister, then it's a lot easier to just find another toilet."
Snowmon looked up at him; "You have a sister?"
"Yeah. Her name's Hannah. I've never mentioned her because she lives with my Mum, up in Edinburgh."
"Oh yeah. I forgot your parents were divorced."
"It's no big deal. Really."
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Back at the restaurant, the two girls and one Digimon were just leaving when a voice behind them declared, "Where do you think you're going?"
They turned around, and saw Stalliomon glaring at them. Violet muttered something, and Mary hissed, "Violet! Language!"
Violet frowned at her, then turned to Katmon; "Just who is that?"
'Stalliomon: A stallion Digimon who attacks with his Stallion Star. He is extremely loyal, and will serve his master willingly.'
"Good to see you've been paying attention, Katmon. But now, not only will I deliver two digidestined to Switchmon, but a traitor as well!" The Digimon chuckled.
Violet grabbed Mary, "We haven't got our Digimon! How are we meant to beat this guy without them?"
'I'll take care of this piece of digi-filth,' Katmon smiled. She sprang at Stalliomon, 'Psychic Cat Eye!'
Her eyes glowed, and then two beams of purple light shot straight out of them at Stalliomon. Or rather, where Stalliomon had been, before he galloped out of the way. He struck the ground with one hoof, "Stallion Star!"
The star on his forehead glowed, and then a beam of yellow light shot from it. Katmon only just got out of the way.
Suddenly, Mary noticed Violet looked as though she was straining herself, trying to do something she couldn't. She (Mary) turned to her, "What's the matter?"
Violet looked up, and looked frightened, "Mary, I can't digimorph! It's been too long since there was a full moon!"
Mary's eyes widened. Then a voice `said`, 'Inside the restaurant! Stalliomon's hidden your crest there, Mary!'
Mary looked at the cat Digimon, "My what?"
'Your crest! For heaven's sake, get moving!'
Violet grabbed her, "Come on! Let's go!"
The two girls rushed into the building. Katmon began firing blast after blast from her eyes, to distract Stalliomon. She thought to herself, 'Hope they find it before he gets them!'
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Mary sighed, "How are we supposed to find it! We don't even know where to look!"
Violet rubbed her forehead, "Let's see. It's not here, or else you would have found it. I didn't see anything like the picture on the back of your digivice in the other room, so it must be upstairs!"
She pulled open the door that led to a set of stairs, and thundered up. As she followed, Mary thought, 'How did Violet know that there would be stairs behind that particular door?'
As they stumbled into the room, they heard Katmon scream. Violet turned to Mary, "We don't have much time. We need to find it as fast as possible!"
Five minutes later, they collapsed on the bed. They hadn't found anything useful, except for a pocket-knife with various attachments. However, as Mary threw herself down, her tag started glowing. Suddenly, a thought occurred to her. She looked under the bed, and saw something under it. As she pulled it out, it became consumed with a flesh-pink light. The light shot at her tag, and when it faded, her crest was firmly fixed inside.
Violet peeked over her shoulder at the object the crest had come from, and grinned, "A crest on a plate. How likely was that?"
Just then, a light from Mary's crest shot out of the window. It travelled down, until it hit Katmon. The Digimon could feel strength surging up in her, and then she yelled, 'Katmon digivolve to IronKatmon!'
She grew to three times her old size. Her mask expanded until it covered her whole face, and then it became an iron mask. Her entire body was encased in iron. Her wings were the size of an average grown man's legs, and shone with iron. A large missile launcher was mounted on her back.
She growled, 'My name is IronKatmon. I can control anything with my mind, and my Psychic Missile is impossible to avoid.'
Mary stared out of the window at her; "Did I do that?"
Violet's mouth was the size of an average house, "I don't know how, but somehow you made her digivolve!"
IronKatmon lowered her head, so that her missile launcher was pointing directly at Stalliomon, 'Psychic Missile!'
A missile surrounded by purple light shot out. Stalliomon leapt to the side, but the missile turned in mid-air and hit him right in the face. There was a loud scream, and then he disintegrated. The two girls stared, and then IronKatmon flew up to their window, 'Want a lift?'
They nodded, and Violet pushed the window open. She lifted Mary onto the Digimon, and then she got on herself. Their steed turned around and flew away from the building.
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John rubbed his neck, "You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Violet's gone off to look for Mary."
Steve nodded, "Yeah, I think so too. But she must know where she is, or else she would have taken Pearlmon."
Mike suddenly clicked his fingers, "Now I get it. Mary must have been at the restaurant!"
Firepentmon shook himself, "How do you know that?"
"I remember that Violet took a look at how the letters in her soup were arranged. Mary must have put a message there!"
'You're cleverer than you look,' a voice said behind him. He spun around and then his eyes widened. Standing there was a gigantic cat, covered in iron. Then a familiar laugh came from her back.
"Don't open your eyes so wide, or else they'll get sore!" Violet advised, sliding down from the Digimon's back and then helping Mary off too.
There was utter silence for a moment, then the girls' Digimon flung themselves at them. Violet fell against Mary, Mary fell against nothing, and they both ended up on the floor.
Everyone started laughing, and then the cat-like Digimon said, 'I have to go now, but I have a feeling we'll see each other again some day.'
She flew up and into the distance, with Mary shouting after her, "Bye, IronKatmon! And thanks!"
WHY DID MARY'S CREST DIGIVOLVE KATMON? AND WILL THE OTHER'S FIND OUT ABOUT V? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: Yes, I know, Violet DID NOT mention digimorphing until she tried to. I'd completely forgotten about it. Oh, and you SHALL see more of their crests digivolving Digimon other than their own. But I won't tell you which ones. MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH! Oh wait... #realises what she just said # OK, I lied. There's an Ultimate digivolving in this episode. Sorry Alan. #Looks shamefaced # SORRY!!!!!!