Notes: It's that time of the fic.
Sai of Torrent: Dare I ask what that time is?
It's time for a RONIN, WARRIORS, MOMENT!!
Yugi: Based on a real experience!
Yes, that's right, and this Ronin Warriors Moment is brought to you by Chibi Kento of Hardrock.
Kento: Yeay! I get to go first!
Right, first we'll chibitize you with the Chibi Gun that I got from Tobias in the Generation. (shoots with Chibi Gun)
Kento: (shrinks) Yeay! I've been chibied! (stomach growls audibly) I'm hungry. (opens the fridge) Ahhhhhh!!! There's nothing there!! Who stole my Chinese food? SAGE????
Sage: (fortune cookie sticking out of his mouth) What?
Chibi Kento: (walks downtown looking for a restaurant) Yeay! There's the best pizza place in town! (counts money) Let's see, it's either eat poorly now and eat well later, or eat well now and eat poorly later. (thinks for a moment) Okay, I know what to do! (walks into store) Right waiter, I'll have a pepperoni and bacon pizza with extra cheez! And gimme a 2 liter of Pepsi while I'm at it!
And so Kento of Hardrock ate his pizza and soda and missed dinner.
Kento: (two hours later) I'M HUNGRY!!
Sai: (rolls his eyes) Will he EVER learn?
We now take you back to your regularly scheduled fanfic.
One more note, for those of you who don't watch Inu-Yasha, Yumi's ringtones are the english translation of the Inu-Yasha Japanese Theme.
Chapter 6- Yumi's Excellent Adventure pt. 3The first inkling Yomaki had that something was wrong in the digital world was when the Hypnos tracker in the real world went off. "What's going on up there?" He demanded.
His wife, Reilly tapped at her console. "There's an odd… presence of some sort trying to go from the real world to the digital one. I'm trying to get a lock on it, but it keeps shooting down our trackers."
"Hostile?"
"It looks like it."
"And Gennai hasn't detected it?" Gulped Yomaki. His son and his cohorts normally noticed things like that, ever since Gennai had been digitized their son seemed to have eyes in the back of his head for creatures that were trying to enter the digital world.
"Apparently not dear. You know how he is about reporting things like this."
Yomaki growled in his throat. "Can you locate it?"
"It's somewhere in southern France, trying to penetrate to the continent of Server in the mountain area near Gennai's castle."
"Issue a warning to Gennai immediately. Call up Gennai's French counterpart. Hurry up before it gets through! Use Yugoth or Juggernaut if you have to, just stop that thing!"
"Launching Yugoth. OH NO!" Reilly cried as the whole system shut down.
A symbol similar to an eye, with a line above and three lines below appeared on the system screens. Yomaki knew that symbol. He had been there at it's creation. Yomaki paled under his tan, eyes widening in fear. He spoke the two syllables that had struck fear into the hearts of the Wild Bunch more than thirty years before. "X.A.N.A."
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Yumi sighed as she plopped back on her bed. Six o' clock on a Saturday night, with two full hours until Yu Yu Hakusho and Inu-Yasha came on back to back. She considered going to bed right then and there, and decided against it. She had never gotten to see the end of the dark tournament saga. And she'd get to see the end of the search for the Tetsusaiga.
She didn't notice that she'd dreamed until she was back in that realm of blackness. "Yumi you have to come!" The girl growled. "I've got this most horrible feeling, that something bad is going to happen. Something terrible. And I'm almost never wrong! Please Yumi you've got to…"
The cellphone began to sing. "I want to change the world, piercing through the gales unafraid of anything… change my mind…"
Yumi woke up, cold and covered in sweat. "Just a dream. It's gotta be a dream." She went to the window, opening it. She thought she saw a shadow out in the courtyard, moving with the moonlight, almost as if it were trying to avoid it. The creature peered up at her window. It looked like a little red dragon, with tiny wings for ears, but nothing that looked like it could fly. "What the hell?" She wondered.
"Oops, Yumi see, that bad. Takato say that Yumi can't see." The creature ducked under her mother's lilacs. "I in bush. Yumi cannot see."
"What are you doing here?" Yumi demanded. "Did X.A.N.A. send you?"
"Takato send me. He say Yumi cannot see Guilmon watching. So I hide in bush and you cannot see." The monster sniffed. "Smells funny. Smells like Juri's perfume." It sneezed.
"Stupid monster." Yumi growled and then wrestled with the sheets to get to the annoying phone call and what very well might be a midnight raid by X.A.N.A. She could sort out the monster in the back yard later. "Yeah Jeremy?"
"How'd you guess?"
"It's called Caller I.D."
"Right, I should have known. Look, X.A.N.A. activated a tower in the mountain region."
"Oh joy, my favorite. Hornets." Yumi rolled her eyes.
"Right, how soon can you get down here?"
"As soon as I sort out the Digimon in my mother's lilac bushes." Yumi growled. "X.A.N.A. hasn't attacked us yet, so we still have time right?"
Suddenly, the computer turned on, with a sigil on the screen, Yumi tensed, but this was different from X.A.N.A's sign. It looked like a dot, surrounded by pieces of some kind of ring and a line jutting out from the four outermost ring pieces. "This is Gennai, Master Guardian of the Digital World sending an S.O.S. to the digidestined. Mysterious monsters are attacking the Master Guardian Crafthall. I have declared E and L. I want extra security around the Action room and the Hypnos Dome. I repeat, S.O.S., E and L. To all Digidestined, anybody who can help us...." The Message continued to repeat itself.
"Jeremy, did you hear that?" Yumi asked.
"Yeah, looks like we know where the attack is." Jeremy responded.
"Look, I'm going to try and go to that world. At the very least I should reply to the S.O.S." Yumi was dressing as fast as her legs would let her.
"How?"
"There's a digimon in the yard right? That digimon ought to know how to get to the digital world right?"
"Okaaay, me, I was going to ask Ken." Jeremy replied.
"You do that." Yumi hung up and ran down the stairs on tip toe. Then she reached into the bush in the back yard and yanked on Guilmon's ear. "Alright pineapple head, you tell me how to get to the digital world and do it NOW!"
"Ow! Yumimon angry! Me listen to Yumimon! Takato tell me no! No let Yumimon boss you around. No let Yumimon see!"
Yumi dragged Guilmon out by the tail. "Listen dinobreath, I've already missed Yu Yu Hakusho AND Inu-yasha and now I'm missing Ranma ½. And I am not in a good mood!"
"Okay, me come!" Guilmon popped out of the bush. "Hurry up. Takatomon will be angry." He lead the way out of the park to the sewer grate.
"You're kidding right? This is the way to the factory." Yumi said as she passed their abandoned skateboards.
"It way to digiport to. If you had gotten your digivice by now we could have gone through your compooter, but we need to take tunnel because you no have digivice." Guilmon explained.
"Do all digimon talk as weird as you and Dryadmon?" Yumi asked as Guilmon lead them to a place where a storm had worn the concrete down.
"No, not all digimon do. I created by Takato. Takato teach me everything from speaking and eating to what is a dreaming. But some things he just can't teach away." Guilmon explained. "Digimon hatched from an egg in their baby forms speak normal. Your digimon speak normal, if you listen to her."
"Why would I have a digimon? I think I would have noticed it by now." Yumi asked.
"Partner digimon must stay in digital world. You come with me, you meet digimon. Ah, Renamon! Leomon!"
Two creatures that could only be digimon were waiting at either end of a smaller tunnel that Yumi had always passed in her hurry to get to the factory, and never bothered to explore. The first of them looked like a fox standing on two legs and wearing gloves and boots. She stood about six inches taller than Yumi. The second digimon stood about seven feet tall and looked like a human with a lion's head, tail and claws.
"Yumimon, this Renamon." He indicated the fox digimon. "And this Leomon." Guilmon indicated the lion digimon.
"It's Yumi, not Yumimon."
"Yumi a digimon, thus Yumimon." Guilmon replied. "Now follow me. We go through gate."
They walked through the gate, just as Yumi heard the sound of skateboards coming up the concrete. She froze in the darkness. Didn't they see Renamon and Leomon? They were standing right there!
But no, Odd, Jeremy and Ulrich blew past at top speed. Maybe she should join them. This was stupid... but...
A need, an awful yearning choked Yumi's throat, so bad that she almost burst into tears. She felt the breezes ruffling through the tunnel and into her hair. "We go Yumimon? You okay?" Guilmon asked worriedly.
"They cannot see us Yumi." Renamon said calmly. "I can make myself and Leomon invisible to anybody that we don't want to see us."
"Hurry Digidestined. You are needed. You must trust your friends." Leomon answered the unspoken question.
"Come Yumimon. I take you to Gennai." Guilmon tugged her genly. "We run."
"Yes." Yumi's voice sounded flat in the tight space, no echo, like she would have expected. "We go."
They turned and ran. The passage seemed to go on forever. But then Yumi felt it. She reached down to wipe the sweat from her palms and realized that she was wearing the silk kimono that she normally wore when she was in Lyoko. At that point her fans clicked into place. "Alright!" She grinned an animaline look of battle lust. "The cavalry's coming!"
"That right. Keep shorts on. We nearly there."
They came to a huge, double door, ornately carved and shining golden in the darkness. Guilmon shoved his muscular bulk against it. "Yumimon..." Wham "Come..." Wham "We push!"
"On three." Yumi agreed.
"Ichi!" Guilmon shouted.
"Ni!" Yumi agreed, switching to her native Japanese.
"SAN!" They cried at once, thrusting their bulk against it.
The door burst open with a BAM!
Yumi looked upon a scene of chaos. Takato and two other adult tamers were facing a swarm of Hornets and Blocks.
"GUILMON!" Takato cried.
"I come Takatomon! I save friend!"
"We came to help!" Yumi agreed as she opened her fans.
About half the blocks and hornets turned.
Takato pulled out a well worn card. "Digimodify! Speed activate! Hyperwing activate!"
Guilmon sprouted wings. "Yeay! Me fly!" He shot like a bullet under the hornets.
Yumi, wishing that she could fly, began to hack at the blocks with her fans. But Guilmon was already laying waste to the hornets before the first of their shots were fired at him. The blocks began to charge up. Yumi leapt into the air, expecting one of the super jumps that she had managed in Lyoko.
Um. Problem, this wasn't Lyoko. Yumi managed three feet to the top of the nearest block. Startled at not managing a normally easy maneuver she ran along the tops of the blocks. "What's wrong? I can't jump!"
"Oh that was a jump alright. This is the DIGITAL WORLD." Takato growled. "We were waiting for you Yumi. Gennai's briefed us on the situation with Lyoko. The Digital World isn't like Lyoko. You can't manage super jumps. Unless, of course, you're a digimon." He said with a smirk at Guilmon. The blocks had started shooting. Yumi thought that she'd be hit, but then...
"Double shot!" A gun went off. The bullets went through six blocks before they stopped, lodged in the bottom. Sitting on a motorcycle stood a digimon with black angel wings, a mask, blonde hair, three eyes and a rat-tail. Beside him stood a man and a woman, about in their mid twenties.
"Mako! Ai!" Cried a twenty year old with brown hair.
"Suzi!" Another digimon that looked like a brown rabbit bounced over to her tamer.
"Kazu! I am coming!" A digimon like a brown, blocky robot came running over. "Quickly Kazu, get inside."
A hatch opened and a man with brown hair and laughing eyes climbed into the mecha. "Let's go!" he cried as the digimon began to move.
Mako pulled out a sword that he'd borrowed from the armory. Ai whipped out a spear that she'd borrowed from Gennai. "Beezlemon, we'll take care of the enemy. Get Yumi to the Action Room. Gennai's waiting with the Legendary Warriors."
"Right, hop on." Beezlemon shifted forward on his motorcycle.
Yumi, not questioning the strange circumstances, climbed on behind Beezlemon and the digimon popped a wheelie in his hurry to get out of here. "So what's an E. and L.?" Asked Yumi over the noise.
"Evacuation and Lockdown. Once Gennai has taken a headcount of all the digimon and humans who live in the castle or who were visiting, then he's going to lock the place down so that none of the monsters can get out."
"Look out! Hornets!" Yumi pointed.
"Die!" Beezlemon lifted his pistol. "Double shot!"
The Hornets split their formation, swung back into place, and began to follow. Beezlemon sped up. "We have to hurry. The Legendary Warriors will be able to take care of that."
"They're strong against artillery type attacks." Yumi explained. "Odd has trouble with them."
"Who's Odd? I look pretty normal for a digimon."
"No, Odd is his name. He's a friend of mine." Yumi explained.
"Ah. The action room is this way." Beezlemon swung a hard right and found his way blocked by a triad of crabs.
Yumi threw her fans, slicing one of them in half.
"Double shot!" Beezlemon shot the second crab. But the third was powering up for an attack.
"LOOK OUT!" Yumi cried, but something big and black and white shoved them both aside. The Crab missed.
"Heat lightning!" Shouted another digimon. The remaining crab fell to the ground, a twitching, half melted pile of junk.
Yumi looked up, and found herself facing the girl from her dream. "YOU!" She exclaimed.
"Yup, it's me." Kathy held out a hand to help her up. "My name's Kathy, pleased to meet you. And this is my partner Aeroraidramon."
"Yo." Aeroraidramon replied.
Beezlemon kicked the blackened ruins of his motorcycle angrily. "Damn! What am I gonna do now? I have to go to the Meditation Dome and buy a new one offa Piddomon!"
"First we have to complete the E. and L." Responded Kathy. "You go back and get the tamers out of the gateroom. I'll get Yumi to the Action Room to get her digimon, digivice and stuff." She leapt with a practiced vault to Aeroraidramon's back. "Here Yumi, climb on." She offered the other girl a hand.
Yumi climbed on and clung to Kathy for dear life as the digimon leapt into the air and cleared ground. More crabs and some blocks were rushing onto the scene. "HEAT LIGHTNING!" Aeroraidramon shot a blast of blue and white lightning at them. The monsters fell, twitching in their death throws to the floor. "Yeah! Hottest blast in the west, that's me!"
Hornets came zooming around the next corner, shooting with all their might. Aeroraidramon bounced off the ground and walls to avoid the shot. "I'll take them." Kathy swung a dachi from her back. "Sephirod Crystals!" Kathy used Orphanimon's old attack, which had been imbued into Orphanimon's sword. The Hornets were torn apart. "Take that Xana!" She shouted at the remains.
Suddenly they turned another corner. "Here we go!" AeroRaidramon touched down. "Right, welcome to the action room." Kathy dismounted.
Two digimon stood on either side of the door. One of them was dressed in red armor, with golden hair. He had a wrist blade or gun of some kind on his wrists, making them heavy. His under armor was black, and the kanji for fire was carved into his armor.
The second digimon was dressed in steel armor shaped like a wolf, with blue and black under armor. A glyph was carved into his armor as well. He had blades on his right wrist that looked almost like claws.
"So you're the little kid who's cause so much trouble." The wolf digimon looked down at her, though how he could see with that helmet covering his eyes was a mystery to Yumi. "I'm Beowulfmon. This is my mate, Aldamon."
"Hello Yumi, we've been waiting for you." Aldamon said, more kindly than Beowulfmon had. He opened the door.
At that absolute last second a tank, with two digimon chasing it, came rolling down the hall. "Avalanche Axe!" Shouted a big furry digimon with two curved horns, dreadlocks, and an ax. "Damn it! I can't penetrate it!"
The second digimon, who looked like a darkly tanned angel with elf's ears and golden wings, shouted. "Keep trying!"
Yumi sighed. "Must I do everything?" She wondered. The tank stopped, opening. "Ha!" The elf like digimon grinned. "It's stopped."
"Out of the way!" Yumi growled. She jumped on top of the tank and slashed at the eye inside with her fans. "Next time, be more careful." She scolded as she jumped down from the ruined tank. "When it opens like that it's getting ready to shoot! You have to move quickly and hack at the eye in the center!"
"Come in Yumi of Lyoko." Gennai said, coming to the door. "There's somebody waiting to meet you."
"Hello Yumi." A Renamon stepped out from behind the nearest stasis tank. "I've been waiting for you Yumi."