I.II "Beautiful Associate! Shirubi Joins the Team!"
Alex, having dreamed of mailbox-trees and Chiisu, awoke the next day after their adventure. Her alarm clock beeped annoyingly in the room somewhere, which prompted her to get up.
"Gahh..." she muttered. "I had better get going..."
Indeed, she was to meet Chiisu, Carl and Melissa on their way to school that morning. She had no idea that Carl and Melissa had been to the Dejitaru, much less about the fact they had found two Digimon and instantly became "bound" to them, as Chiisu had put it abruptly.
Alex stared deeply into the mirror with a toothbrush hanging out of her mouth.
"I hate this."
It was dark out, it was early morning. Carl stood, falling asleep aside a lamppost. He held a stout red bird in his arms, sleeping soundly. Alex arrived and continued to observe Carl as he slept. Then her eyes fell on the bird.
"Quit the starin', will ya?!" The bird screeched, which woke Carl. He rubbed his eyes.
"Hawkmon, please," he sighed, closing his eyes. The bird glared at Alex, then closed his eyes again.
"Heeey!" Melissa's voice chirped.
"Meliss---ah...?" Alex saw the little white cat in her backpack, equipped with fighting gloves and large blue eyes that looked deep into Alex's soul.
"So this is an Alex..." The cat purred, continuing to clean her ears. "You were right. It does look stupid."
"T---Tailmon!" Melissa shouted. "I--I said nothing of the sort...!" Her face, turning a bright red, said differently.
"Geez," Alex sighed, taking pity on herself. "thanks a lot, Mikiru..."
And thus, Alex, Melissa, Carl and their Digimon, Tailmon and Hawkmon, awaited the casual arrival of Chiisu Kimura.
"Yo."
"Come on," Melissa urged, "We had best get going."
"Wait," Tailmon added from the backpack, "were are we going?"
"School."
"What is...'school'...?"
The day was uneventful, especially to Alex. As she sat in second hour history, her mind wouldn't stay on the page of the textbook. Instead, it wandered off into the distant land, that of the Dejitaru. She closed her eyes and recalled each tiny, vivid detail. The crisp breeze, the sound of life in the air, the sight of La Ville Capital, and...
With good memories came the bad memories. The army, the thousands, and it scared her that Chiisu and Ankylomon had nearly defeated them all armed with nearly nothing but their own limbs. She knew Chiisu for quite awhile, but how could she have missed that?
Her mind then remembered the three, the three that wanted Chiisu dead, and the tyrant that seemed to spare their lives.
Are they our enemies...? This... "CHAO-Fi"?
Alex put her head in her arms and closed her eyes. Nothing made sense. Especially the tyrant, she thought. What'd they call him...? Kaiser? What the hell does that mean? He looked only a litte bit older than Chiisu, maybe even younger... who knows--I didn't really get a good look at his face or anything...
Thus, she fell into a deep sleep about her adventures to come.
The day ended as uneventfully as it had started (although Melissa and Carl had quite the time trying to hide their Digimon...). Alex was still confused and ventured asking.
"Chiisu," she began, "what...exactly do we do now?"
The boy shook his head as he leaned against the brick wall outside the school. The day was nice and sunny, but they all couldn't stop thinking about the Dejitaru.
"That was so cool..." Carl gasped, remembering the beast that had nearly eaten them. "When are we going back, Chiisu?"
"W--WHAT?!" Melissa screeched with Alex.
"It seems recently that," Tailmon, Melissa's white cat Digimon, stated, "the CHAO-Fi organization is expanding...or something. We don't know much of the details."
"We never really liked all that political crap," Hawkmon added.
Chiisu's eyes were misty,
"The CHAO-Fi seems to be gaining power..." His eyes reflected him, the "tyrant", the one they had called "Kaiser".
"Chiisu..." Alex whined, "please tell me we aren't going back! I don't want to see him again! I don't want to see him kill you!"
"Dammit, Alex, HE'S NOT GONNA KILL ME!" Chiisu's fiery rage erupted in an instant.
"Who's not gonna kill who?" Carl inquired, raising his hand. Chiisu unclenched his fists and spoke softly,
"That...that kid..."
"He had blue hair," Alex stated quietly, as if she would set off Chiisu's temper, "...and wore a really, really, really weird outfit..."
Tailmon and Hawkmon's eyes widened.
"Blue hair...?" the cat parroted. "Tell me, girl," she directed the question to Alex, "but was he, or did he resemble, a...whatever your species is... human?"
Alex nodded swiftly in reply.
"Something's off, though," Chiisu stated loudly. Rage was apparent in his voice. "How could he have brought me down...?!"
"That's the Kaiser," Hawkmon coughed.
"Kaiser?" The four humans repeated mindlessly.
"Yes, we all call him the Digimon Kaiser..." the bird closed his eyes and spoke quietly. "We don't know quite when it happened... but ever since he linked up...showed up or something with CHAO-Fi..."
"The Dejitaru has been in a complete state of mass chaos," Tailmon cut in. "Both the political and moral system is screwed up. Digimon are killing other Digimon for no real purpose. It's the kill-or-be-killed lifestyle..."
"That's why you tried to eat us..." Melissa nodded in understanding.
"Yes," Tailmon spoke again. "The CHAO-Fi is threatening a total takeover, and with this Kaiser guy with them, who knows what kind of damage they'll do..."
"So let me get this clear," Chiisu asked, "that kid's a Fighter?"
Tailmon nodded.
"And we don't like humans because of him," Hawkmon stated cautiously. "He's screwed up our world enough. We don't need you bastards effing it up even more."
"Hawkmon!" Tailmon screeched, shoving her sharpened paw into the bird's face. "Cool it! These children may actually be able to help us... that is..." She took her paw back and faced the humans, "...if you're all willing to risk your very lives to destroy the CHAO-Fi until there is nothing left."
Chiisu nodded sternly.
"Risk our lives...?" Alex repeated. "Sorry, I don't..."
"Alex, don't be so-freaking-selfish!" Melissa shouted. "Their world will, like, be destroyed!"
Carl nodded,
"Yeah. Plus, we get something to do other than school!"
"But...But..." Alex stammered, "what about our parents? Teachers? Homework? What if we get killed?!"
"Then it won't happen," Chiisu added with a little mysterious smirk.
Carl, Melissa, Chiisu, Tailmon and Hawkmon headed back into the school.
"Don't come if you don't want to, girl!" Melissa shouted scornfully back at her.
After little thought, the girl known as Alex followed.
They were all soon back to the strange world known as the Dejitaru, using the strange devices they'd recieved the day earlier. Alex tugged at her dress, her face filled with worry.
"What if..." she kept whining unintelligibly.
"Shut up, Alex," Melissa ordered. "Or you can just go home."
Carl looked indifferent. Chiisu, Tailmon and Hawkmon dashed up to the familiar-looking Mailbox-Tree.
"Hellllloooo!" Chiisu shouted.
"Armadimon again?" The Mailbox-Tree sighed, this time with a feminine voice. Chiisu nodded and after a flash of light the Digimon was reunited with him.
"Anything happen whilest I was gone?" Chiisu ventured. The armadillo hesitated.
"Uhh...nothing really..."
"Learn anything about that...that..." Chiisu seemed too angry to speak at mentioning the Fighter's title.
"...Kaiser?" Tailmon finished. Armadimon again hesitated.
"Actually," the Mailbox-Tree spoke loudly, as usual, "I hear they're around in the forest..." Again, it grew a limb that had a hand, in which it pointed to the nearby ocean of green trees.
"You mean he's with his entourage...?" Chiisu spoke while clenching his fists. "Bah! I can take 'em..."
"And I'll help!" His Partner, Armadimon, chirped.
"I ask only that you all take extreme caution..." The Mailbox-Tree warned. "I hear they are among the highest ranking Sentry Fighters of the CHAO-Fi organiz..." Chiisu was already off with Armadimon perched on his back.
"Ch...Chiisu!" Alex ran after him as he disappeared into the endless green. "Chiisu! CHIISU! WAIT UP!"
Melissa and the others dashed in after them.
They soon were separated.
"G...Guys...Guys...?!" Alex shouted, though she tried to remain quiet. Her arms were folded inwards, very close to her. She was immensely afraid. Every noise--a rustling in the bushes, a bir chirping, a bug squeaking--caused her to nearly screech in horror. Amidst this, however, she saw an egg lying motionless in the middle of her path. She strode cautiously up to it. It was much larger than a normal egg, but she picked it up nonetheless. It was blue with dark blue stripes. She observed it closely, and continued to sniff it.
"An egg...?"
"HEY!" A voice shouted from above her. "Is that yours?"
Alex looked up and, to her horror, saw two large, gleaming green eyes staring back at her. The owner of the voice screamed,
"HELLLLLOOOOO!!!" And with that, the owner of the large eyes and cheery--yet scarily ominous--voice smiled insanely. She was a human, like Alex, with short brown hair that fell carelessly by gravity. She hung upside-down from the tree with her feet lodged in the groove of two branches and stared Alex straight in the face.
"I said 'HELLLLOOO!!!!', girl! Pleasant day we have, hey naw hey naw hey naw, na?!" She giggled, but Alex only did one thing in reply.
Run.
"Damn..." The girl sighed, not bothering to get herself back upright. "What a panicky gal... wonder if her meds aren't workin' or somethin', dududududu..." She continued to sing and hum and nod her head to imaginary music.
(insert note: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GIRL!? OO?!)
Chiisu was still in a state of rage, trying to find his opponent(s). Armadimon strode slowly beside him, eager for battle and to prove his strength for Chiisu. The two were friends, and also great business Partners.
He stopped walking suddenly.
"Chii-kun, what's up?" The Digimon asked quietly.
"Sh-h-h-h..." Chiisu prompted. "...You're here, aren't you!?" He shouted, seizing a fallen tree branch from not too far away. "Show yourself!"
He suddenly felt a the cold metal of a gun on his neck.
"What do you want?" The cold voice of the tyrant behind him commanded.
"To fight you," Chiisu answered with much hesitation.
"That doesn't sound too smart," the Kaiser laughed, "considering last time. Don't want to kill you now, do I?"
"I thought that was your plan," Armadimon said in reply, staring down the blue-haired "human".
"Well, then..." the gun was taken away from Chiisu's neck as he backed slowly away from him, "Shall we...?"
Chiisu tossed his device in the air, screaming the phrase:
"GTx FORMULA---EVOLUTION!"
Armadimon soon became the hulking beast, Ankylomon.
"Oh, please," the Kaiser sighed irritably, "is that it?"
Chiisu glared.
"Alright," he unsheathed a spear from his back. "I'll go easy on you."
"Bastard," Chiisu cursed breathlessly.
Ankylomon lunged, but the battle was over before it started. He merely held up his hands and grabbed onto the behemoth's claw. He swung the Digimon around violently before Chiisu shouted, whilest blushing from embarassment,
"Stop! I get it!" He clenched his fists while his opponent dropped Ankylomon, who suddenly reverted back into Armadimon.
"S--Sorry, Chii-kun..." He cried softly.
"It's okay..." he noted blankly as he picked the fallen Digimon up. The Kaiser laughed,
"Thought it'd work, eh?"
"I'm gonna kill you..." Chiisu breathed, setting his defeated comrade aside.
"Eh?"
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" He screeched, dashing swiftly and slashing the branch into his side. The opposition wasn't too affected by the attack and just pulled the branch away from his side.
"Are you done?" He spoke with impatience and overconfidence.
"S-SHUT UP!"
The two began to fight and Chiisu didn't do too well. He would slash with his "weapon", but his opponent, the Kaiser, would counterattack with a strong fist to his shoulder or stomach.
"You're pathetic..." he noted as he strode up to Chiisu, who had fallen to the ground from the force of the punches. He pulled out the spear and aimed it at his neck, readying to kill him, "This is almost too easy..."
"HOLD IT!" A loud, feminine voice hollered from far above. Chiisu, through his pain, saw a figure high up in the trees' branches. "Leave that poor boy alo-----oooooaaaaaaaaAAAAGHH!" They, obviously having stepped forward on the branches that immediately snapped, tumbled and twisted as they fell through the air, down, down, down...
"What the hell is this...?" the Kaiser inquired with a tone of confusion. He sheathed the spear and squinted his eyes.
"LOOK OUT BELOWWW-DUDUDUDUDUDUDUUU!!!!" And they landed in his arms, "they" being more of a "she". The palms of her hands nearly touched the ground, as she had landed with her face to the ground. The Kaiser, in a state of shock, stared with his mouth agape at her. She twisted her head around to see him.
"Uhh---thanks for catchin' me, there, dude..." She smiled nervously, "...but for just meetin', you're gettin' kinda...uh...friendly, there..." She laughed a little as she watched his face turn a bright red. His arms held her along her chest and her stomach, and it was obviously awkward. And embarassing.
"Whoa," Chiisu laughed darkly. "Gettin' there kinda quick, eh?"
He shook his head defiantly, obviously panicking and sweating nervously,
"I--It's--It's nothing like that!" The girl just lie there, doing nothing. He eventually got a clue in his head to toss her aside. He glanced about nervously and put his hands in his pockets, his face still a dark red. The girl sat up and laughed,
"Hey, wasn't all that good for me, either," she nudged him in the knee with her elbow. "Heh, heh, get it? Wasn't that good for me, either. Heh, heh. Get it? Wasn't..."
"S-Sh-Sh-Sh--H--" he stammered and then finally screeched in her face, "SHUT UP!"
She continued to laugh. Chiisu finally chirped in. Alex, Carl, Melissa, and the Digimon, who had been "rescued" by the girl, laughed with them. He glanced about angrily, humiliated.
"SHUT UP!"
"Oh, Kaiser-kun!" A voice chimed from another tree. It was the red-dressed woman, equipped with a spear also. "Need some help?"
"N-No! I'm fine!" He turned on the girl, face darkened and full of hatred. "You are SO dead...!"
"Eh? Whatever, dududu..."
In a swift movement, she got up and rushed at him. Her right fist came first, then her left, pummeling him quickly beat by beat, as if it was a beat to a song. Twisting around and not letting him even retaliate, she had "defeated" him. He lay on the ground for a moment and then slowly got up. She strode over, and smiled with her hand outstretched to him.
"Dududu, I guess I win this round, eh? Come on, a loss is a loss is an experience, na?"
He refused her help.
"Y-You...I'll finish you all later...!" He strode angrily (and awkwardly) away with that.
"Hey!" The girl shouted after him. "We're still on for another time, aiiight, Kai-kun?!"
He stopped walking.
"Ka--Kai-kun...?" His walk turned into a run, and soon he was gone.
"Geez, what a wuss..." she laughed, "...looks a lot like him, though..."
"Uhh..." Chiisu inquired, still beaten brutally from the fight, "'Scuse me, but who are you, now?"
"Que?"
A little while later...
Ka-chink! Ka-chink! Ka-chink!
"Eh?" She trudged along the vast seascape tiredly, along a white fence.
Ka-chink! Ka-chink! Ka-chink!
"Kaiser-kun...?" She asked groggily, taking off her glasses and rubbing her eyes. She was obviously tired. The sun was setting across the ocean somewhere, and pop cans were getting shot to pieces. "Angry," she spoke quietly, "eh?"
"Don't talk to me," the boy sighed irritably, setting up the twenty-or-so pop cans back onto the fence.
"Mad that a girl defeated you en combat?"
"Shut up," he commanded as he readied the gun in his hands. He closed one of his eyes and aimed...
Ka-chink! A shot that hit, but not enough for the perfectionist.
"Dammit...!" He scowled as he continued to shoot in random anger. "I didn't lose. I was just..."
"Just...?"
"I don't know," he scowled again as he readjusted his glasses. He aimed again, but this time he completely missed.
"You got that girl on your mind, eh?"
"Dammit, I didn't lose," he continued to scowl.
"Your mind's just not into it today..." she sighed. "Tell ya what, Kai-kun..." with the title, he obviously leered at her. She continued, "...Mummymon and I'll take over for your shifts the next couple'a days. You've been overworking yourself."
"Bleeehhh..." he groaned in reply. "Maybe."
"It'll be good for ya, kay?"
He nodded swiftly in reply, gathered his miscellania, stuffed them into a duffel bag and left.
"Hey, one question, Kai...when was the last time you acted like a normal kid...?"
A harsh, painful laugh came from him as he disappeared into the sunset.
"Hello, all," the girl greeted. "My name is Shirubi, I'm fourteen and a freelance demon hunter."Pleased to meet'cha!" She smiled insanely as she shook Alex and Chiisu's arms violently.
"Demon hunter?" Melissa inquired. "Shirubi" nodded.
"Un-huh. Nothin' but. I saw you guys were in trouble, so out of my wonderful sense of philanthropy, I decided to rescue y'all. Ain't I so sweet?" She smiled again and everyone but Alex saw the humour in what she'd said. Alex looked a little confounded.
"Eh? What's your problem, girl?" Shirubi asked her as she observed her closely.
"You..." She found it difficult to say. Shirubi's large green eyes were all that was visible to her.
"Get on with it, girl! We ain't got all damned day!"
"You're...a lot like that Kaiser guy..." Shirubi stared at her for awhile. Then she started laughing.
"You're kidding, RIGHT?" She continued with a raucous laugh as Alex continued to feel stupid. "Waitamminute!" Shirubi shouted as she examined the large egg in Alex's hands. "Can you...hold onta that for me, gal?"
"W--Wh..." Alex shook her head. "No! It's gonna explode or something, ain't it!?"
"Maaaybe..." Shirubi teased. "...Okay, it won't. I just figured that because your friends here have Partner Digimon, I thought you should too...so..."
"R-Really?! That's..." Alex stammered, then bowed in respect, "Th-Thank you!"
Chiisu was skeptical now.
"How did she know that she'd need it...?" Armadimon whispered to his Partner.
"I'm having my thoughts..."
"...Do they involve chocolate pudding in some way or another...?"
Chiisu's eyes shifted nervously as his face turned red.
"Ahem!" He stated whilest clearing his throat. "Everybody," he addressed them as if he were speaking to a college class, "I believe tomorrow we shall discuss the Dejitaru Sekai's matters... moreso, why we were brought here and what we need to do about it."
"Alrightie-o!" Shirubi saluted. Melissa seemed to hang on her every word.
"If Shirubi-dono thinks its good, it must be!"
'Sh-Shirubi-dono...?' Alex heard her stammer.
"I'm in," Carl uttered.
"What about those 'other plans' you spoke of, Utaru?" Chiisu pried. Carl was silent in reply.
"Uhh--Uh..."
"Don't worry, Alex. There'll be food."
"Uhhh...okay..."
It was a cold night. Darkness enveloped the town with an eerie silence. Doors were sealed, windows closed.
In the apartment of a rather "average" family, the bathroom faucet was running. The man of the household, a strong, tall man, awoke next to his wife and looked around tiredly.
"What the...?"
He sat up and strode through the hallway as the sound of the faucet got louder. The door into the room withheld a sliver of light that stretched to the end of the hall. The light was obstructed by a single shadow. The faucet was the loudest ever now. He held his hand to the wooden door and pushed it open.
And there was his son. His head was placed stiffly under the running water, practically turning into ice as it ran. His boy's vacant, expressionless eyes were aflare, scared and wide. Sweat dripped down the side of his face with the water. He saw the fatigue, the pain, in his face and under his eyes.
He coughed, and red spilled out and mingled with the water as it ran down the drain.
Too confounded to speak, the man just stared at his son as he twisted his head to him. His eyes were open wide and quivered with his mouth as he spoke.
"I--I-I---I...I t-t-taste blood..."
"I'm worried," Alex spoke softly to the egg in her room that night. "Will I be able to pull all this stuff off?" There was silence. "You're so lucky. You have your little egg to hide in, no world outside to condemn you to be saviour of the earth. Nooo...You just gotta stay in your own little bubble..." she scowled as she hopped into bed. The egg glowed a tiny bit as a voice stated,
Good night, Alex.
fin
Shirubi: Hello! We are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
Chiisu: Like this double-space-enter shit.
Kai-kun: Yea---HEY! WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THIS NICKNAME?!!? : (
Shirubi: I think it's fitting for a shrimpy little guy like you. 8P
Kai-kun: Sh---Shri--WHAT?!
Chiisu: Guys...aren't we supposed to be doing the episode preview...?!
Shirubi/Kai-kun: SCREW THAT!
Stereo (me): Why, God, do they ALL HATE ME?!
Kai-kun/Shirubi: SHUT UP, DEADBEAT!!!! THE NEXT EPISODE OF DC02:
"OF BEING CHOSEN!"
SO SHUT UP AND READ IT!!! OKAY?! OR SUFFER!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
(stupid double...space...CRAPP!!! MUST KILL!!!)
Me: Oo?!
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