Digimon: Visions
Chapter 12: Simple Design
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"I can't live the button-down life like you, I want it all! The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue noses with my cocky stride and musky odors-Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards and talk about 'What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?'"-Homer Simpson, from the episode "Lisa's Rival"
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Kilroy rubbed the back of his head as he rose from being out of it. He looked around at the people around him, but there were only Mitsuko, Agumon and Ridomon. He wondered where the others were, but he first took out his laptop and tried to turn it on. It worked; thanks be to God.
He looked to his surroundings. No longer were they near the hotel where they fought Purgatomon, it was now a valley, lush in vegetation and flat as far as he could see. He hooked his digivice up to his computer and tried to see where they were. All indications said that this was nowhere near anywhere they had been. He wondered how Purgatomon had moved them so far, but he was not about to question the possibility, nothing seemed too far fetched in this world.
"Mitsuko, you all right?" He shook her and checked her pulse. She was alive, and he was thankful for that. She slowly stirred and got up, looking around as she did. Kilroy examined the girl's form. This was one of the few occasions he had looked up from his computer and it was not a fight or a forum, and he was not displeased to see Mitsuko with him, she was the only person he had met before now.
"Where are we, Kilroy?" Mitsuko had stood up and walked around a little. These surroundings were completely foreign to both of them. The Digimon were still out, maybe one of them knew. Kilroy began to prod Agumon to wake up, to no avail.
He shrugged and looked to her through his green eyes. "I honestly have no clue, I scanned the area on my computer and it was not anywhere on any maps of the prior area I had scanned" He spoke in the literal and strangled proper English. Every time Mitsuko heard it, she winced, English was a second language to her, and she preferred the mutilated American English.
"Baka! That doesn't help" Mitsuko shut his computer as he opened it, not caring that she accidentally slammed it upon his hands. Kilroy knew that word of Japanese; she called him an idiot in her native tongue. He put his computer in his backpack, complying with her whims for whatever reason he may say he had.
"What do you suggest, your eminence?" Kilroy looked around as he spoke sarcastically. It was not exactly like they had much they could do, so he would just hold out for a simple solution or the Digimon to wake up. He stood up, realizing that Agumon was not about to easily wake up, even though he would swear he felt a pulse and it was alive.
"I suggest you use plainer English. Otherwise, you're the brilliant one, Brit" She pointed to him and poked him, playing with him a bit for some fun. Kilroy simply sighed and continued to look around.
"I am not some daft American, so to me this is basic English, and also, do not call me 'Brit' unless you do not mind 'Jap.'" Mitsuko stuck her tongue out to him and folded her arms.
"You're still the smart one, come up with a plan, ass-hole" She was fed up with him holding out for the heavens to relinquish an idea, he was smart, he could do it.
"I'm thinking" He spoke with an attitude and continued to look around. Mitsuko sighed and looked to him, upset. She ran a hand along Ridomon's scaley back and sighed, sitting on a fallen tree.
They were silent for a while as Kilroy tried to think, and Mitsuko simply was angry with his ineptitude. An apple digitized before Kilroy's computer, but as hr grasped for it, Mitsuko took it and bit into it. Kilroy simply sighed, wondering why she kept on taking his food, she had done this when they met too. They kept silent as they continued to seem annoyed by one another.
"Do you have anything yet, Einstein?" Mitsuko folded her arms and rested herself on Kilroy's head. He attempted to get her off, but she continued to persist in having her arms and head there. He was not really about to complain though, he was acting like Matt.
"Good ideas take time, even if you've never had one, you should know that" She drove an elbow into his scalp as he said this.
"Wait, Ridomon, isn't this area familiar?" Agumon had laid down, but now was completely upright as he looked to the dragon.
"Now that you mention it, isn't a church near by?" Ridomon walked over to Agumon, examining the area as she did. The humans both looked to the Digimon, wondering what they meant by it.
"We should try to find it, maybe then we'll be able to find the others" Kilroy put his computer away as he spoke. He knew that the most important thing now was to find the others, though he would rather have looked around more, and try to find out more about this world.
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They had walked for a few minutes as they saw a fire not too far away. All of them quickly ran to it, in an attempt to find out what was going on. They saw a chapel burning brightly, with fire licking the air from the windows and the roof. Nearby they saw what looked like a human fire laughing.
They ran into the church, trying to find out what was happening in the building, but all they saw was a small creature with brown fur and a metal plate on its head under a pile of debris. Ridomon, Agumon and Mitsuko tried to get the Digimon free, while Kilroy simply looked out to the plain.
"Kilroy, help us!" Mitsuko shouted to him as the other tried to move the burning timber. Kilroy was unmoving, though. It was not that he did not care, his mind was just distracted, wondering what did this. "Kilroy!" She shouted again as she kicked him while still trying to move the lumber while her hands began to be covered in burns.
Kilroy finally responded and began to help, telling Mitsuko that she should stop. She begrudgingly complied as the Digimon and geek finally moved the burning wood. The Digimon floated up and bowed to them, showing its clouds for hind feet and grey underbelly.
"Thank you, my saviors, but why do you help me? Do you not know this is a church of Tabernamon?" The creature asked them as it bowed.
"We would have due to that alone, but we wanted to help" Kilroy said as he brushed the remaining debris out of the matted fur.
"Why would you help Tabernamon's order? Are you followers?" The Digimon examined them closely. "Wait, are you the saviors sent by Tabernamon to grant us deliverance?" The creature looked to them wide-eyes in hopes that they would be those he had long awaited
"We're two of them, I guess" Mitsuko said as she tried to cool her hands. A bag of ice covered in towels appeared before her.
"You're too damn head strong" Kilroy gave it to her to cool her burns, though he made sure that he did not make the change too sudden. "What's your name anyway?" Kilroy asked the Digimon as he tended to Mitsuko's wounds.
"I am Pastor Tapirmon" The creature bowed to them with the utmost reverence. "And what are your names, my saviors?"
"Kilroy, Mitsuko, Ridomon, Agumon" Chris pointed to each of them as he announced their names, all of them looking to Tapirmon and bowing their heads as they did.
"Tabernamon bless you all" Tapirmon gave them his blessing and placed a hand on their heads as he did, to bestow the blessing.
"Tapirmon, who did this to you and your church?" Agumon asked the Digimon as the group left the church yard, walking into the warm plain.
"I did not see, but the nearest disciple of Sheldon is Meramon" Tapirmon sadly said as he looked to the green grass as a last ember fell onto it.
Kilroy typed away at his computer with his Digivice networked onto it. "Meramon, Champion, Data type. A fire based human-shape time. His attack is fireball" Kilroy read the data in a monotone as he gazed at it.
"That won't be a good thing for us, Agumon and I are both Fire based" Ridomon said with concern as she flew around Mitsuko and over to Kilroy and Agumon.
"Come to think of it, a good number of you are. You two and Dracomon are fire based, then Dismon and Ultimon are dark, and Fernirmon, Hexamon, Kittenmon and Nekamon . . . I don't know, plain, normal?" Mitsuko said as she thought about what the Digimon were based in elementally.
"Yeah, we're well rounded, we know" Agumon spoke in a smarmy tone as he leaned back on a tree.
"If Meramon comes to finish the job, we'll be ready, Tapirmon" Mitsuko patted the head of the small mammalian creature. The Digimon did not look that comforted, but he smiled warily regardless. Mitsuko tried to make the Digimon happy, though she did not seem to help.
"What should we do until then?" Kilroy as they continued to walk through the field. He had put his computer away and was actually associating with humans.
"Maybe we should make camp, or try and find some of the others" Mitsuko said with uncertainty. They had no idea where anyone else was, but this was the first time any of them brought it up. She wondered if Sakura, Savaria and Aya were safe, though she was not even sure if they were with any of the others. She hoped they were the only ones who were divided, and everyone else was safe.
"Let's help Tapirmon first; then we'll find the others. I'm certain they are okay" Kilroy tried to comfort Mitsuko, though he knew he may only make it worse. To his surprise, she looked at him with an honest smile.
"So then, what should we do to help Tapirmon?" Mitsuko asked, sitting on a log, still tending to her tender burned hands. She simply fumbled the towel-covered ice, trying to heal her wounds.
"We should make sure he's safe, so I'd suggest we either get him out of here, or defeat Meramon. Otherwise I don't know what we can do" Kilroy sighed, walking to Mitsuko and trying to help her tend to her wounds.
"But what if we kill Meramon? Digimon are living creatures" Mitsuko rebuked, looking to Kilroy with the utmost concern. She did not want to kill again, after what she had seen and done in her battle with Maildramon.
"We'll figure something out, but mind you that I regret not killing Veedramon. I know he'll be back, I can feel it" Kilroy said, looking to Agumon as he did. Something happened in that battle, and he knew full well that Veedramon would be back, and Greymon and he would battle the Digimon again.
"How can you say that? I may know I had to kill Maildramon, but he nearly killed Shinjumon" Mitsuko yelled at him.
"Veedramon nearly killed Greymon and Fernirmon! Was I supposed to let him kill Satorii's partner and mine?" Kilroy asked, his eyes shining a fiery anger toward that Digimon.
"But you were noble to let him live. Sin, Dantes even Matt, none of them share that claim, they killed the Digimon they fought. Only you and Satorii can say you let them live, I admire that" Mitsuko considered what she could do, and with the inability to touch him with her hand, she kissed him on the cheek.
Kilroy looked to her and blushed. "Erm . . . Let's think about what to do for Tapirmon . . . " He said, looking to the three Digimon which were nearby, though, talking about Religion amongst them selves.
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"Meramons!" A large blue dragon yelled to the two Digimon. Veedramon too had come to the second Circle of the Digital World. "Purgatomon wants you to get these to. Word has reached him the IceDevimon failed to capture the girl. Do not upset him"
The two fire consumed Digimon bowed to Veedramon. "Yes, Father, we will not fail you" They claimed and looked with respect to the Digimon.
"If you lose, I will back you up, but Purgatomon wants me to survive, he does not care as much about the two of you, Meramon brothers" The Digimon spoke the truth; Purgatomon wanted for him to live to stay on his side, but the other Digimon did not matter to him.
"We will not need you, it is only two of them, and both are fire born" The first Meramon said, this one a deeper red, while the other an orange. They both walked out of the Church, looking to the burning rose and blessing themselves before going to find the two saviors who ended up in this parish.
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Mitsuko dipped her hands in a pond near the area where Kilroy and the Digimon were, trying to quell the burns on her hands. She looked into the water, meditating on Kilroy's words. Would it be better to defeat their enemies, or was it unjust to kill the living, regardless what they were willing to do to them?
She wondered if she would know if she had faith, but she was agnostic to the belief in God; this was the only world she knew there was a God, two at that. Maybe God did exist, and for what she knew the belief was doing unto others, as you would have done unto you. So maybe it was just to kill in self defense, like against Maildramon, or to save someone, like when Virgilmon killed Kabukimon.
She continued to try to cool her wounds, and looked up to see what looked like two men on fire. She quickly got up and bit her lip, running back to Kilroy and the others. "Kilroy, Ridomon, Agumon, Tapirmon, they're here, two of them!" She pulled her Digivice out, despite her blistered hands.
"Damn, I only thought that there was one of them!" He shouted, pulling his red and orange device out. "All right, Agumon, let's give them hell!" He held the device out, as Agumon began to glow.
"Agumon Digivolve to . . . " The Digimon began as its body began to morph. "Greymon" The orange dinosaur with blue stripes slammed its tail into the ground as it looked to the two flaming Digimon.
"Ridomon Digivolve to . . . " The small dragon began to lengthen and grow "Shinjumon" The long black dragon covered in coding looked to Greymon, nodding to the other Digimon as it did.
"Both of you, move, Veedramon ordered us to get the humans and Tapirmon, you do not need to die, only they do, pledge allegiance to Sheolmon, and you will be spared from any harm" The deep red one said, the both preparing fireballs in their extended hands.
"We are their partners, and devout followers of Tabernamon, we will not disavow either" Greymon said looking angrily to the enemy Digimon.
"Have it be that way then, we will defeat you, Fire Ball" Both Digimon called in unison. Greymon and Ridomon easily evaded the attacks, though. Greymon used Nova blast, but it only succeeded to fuel the flames.
"Greymon, use your horns, fire won't work on them!" Kilroy shouted, throwing his arm across his body as he did. Greymon complied, ramming toward the lighter Meramon. His attack barely phased it as he passed right through it.
"Maybe this will work, Digitosse" Shinjumon called out, and there was finally progress, the Meramon were stricken back, though they were still able to easily maintain form, feeding one another's flames.
"Shinjumon, hit them into the woods, there's a pond, maybe we can douse them there!" Mitsuko shouted. The Digimon continued to try to defeat the Meramon, but they were growing tired, and the Meramon were able to hit them easily and to an effect.
Shinjumon began to follower her instructions, and they were upon the pond in minutes. The Meramon continued to fight back, but with each blast they were inched nearer. With their heels upon the water, the Meramon smirked and looked to each other. "Brother, let us form in to one, Purgatomon said we may be able to become more powerful as a single being" The red one put it's hand into the orange one, and they began to fuse in to one.
Veedramon walked out from the brush, Kilroy and Greymon looking to it coarsely "Meramon brothers, stop, Purgatomon only has that in theory; I also have word that Purgatomon wants to keep you two alive now, so we should leave, if you two touch the water, you know that it will do both of you in" The Digimon smiled, looking to Greymon and Kilroy.
"Yes, Father Veedramon" They spoke, both quickly rushing away with Veedramon. They were gone, and all was safe for now.
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"Damn it, they got away!" Kilroy shouted as the Digimon lost their Champion forms, punching a tree as they did.
"But we're safe, and I doubt that they'll return for me" Tapirmon said, bowing to the humans and their now rookie level Digimon. The humans managed to smile, though Kilroy was obviously upset still. "If you would like, I managed to get some food from the church, if you are hungry"
They took Tapirmon's offer and got to sit down for one of their first real meals in ages. They did not even get to eat in the hotel, so this was more then welcomed. It was fish and apples, like what they had found the other day, as well as some red meat, it was very welcomed.
Mitsuko wrapped her hands with bandages that had been saved from the fire. "Thank you, Tapirmon, what will you do now?" Mitsuko asked the Digimon, looking to it respectfully.
"I'm going to go to another nearby chapel. I'll be fine, thank you for all that you have done for me" The Digimon bowed to both of the humans, and it left them, giving them the rest of the food.
"Thank you, again, Tapirmon, we're going to go find our friends" Kilroy shouted back to Tapirmon as they separated ways. Up the road they saw a familiar face, it was Dantes. They ran to him, though neither were very comfortable with it being him.
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There are no longer points for the songs, unless I say so, Dantes' theme will come later
Papa Roach "Do Or Die" Today I saw my hero fall apart, The one who taught me to be strong, On the outside I look fine, But on the inside I am dying My strength has overcome my pain My love for you remains the same The loneliness is setting in I have no one to free my sins It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine Now it's my time to help you out, Coz you were there when I was down, It's hard for me to seal this way Losing all your sanity You helped me, keep my dreams alive , Without you how would I survive It's time for me to be a man Now I finally understand It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore Today I saw my hero fall apart, The one who taught me to be strong, On the outside I look fine, But on the inside I am dying It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's do or die It's never too late to live your life, The time is now, it's your to mine I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore I cant run anymore I cant hide anymore Yeaaaahh
