I don't Own Digimon
Comprehension
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They looked at the little projector in the ground and groaned. They then turned to the pink digimon that had identified itself as Piximon. They were in a large dilapidated palace that Piximon had led them to.
"I thought you said that he was going to talk to us," said Amy quietly. "If this is another one of your tricks so help me…"
"Nope not a trick, nope, nope," Piximon jumped back. "I told you; Gennai is not easily found and he likes to keep it that way, many bad things are looking for him to destroy him utterly, yes indeed they are!"
"So where is he?" asked Brendan quietly.
"Gennai has to utilize what ever bandwidth is available, he will speak when he can!" replied the little pink fur ball.
Suddenly the projector flickered to life. Gennai blurred into existence over the projector. "A the digi-destined…how have you been?"
"Oh just peachy," replied Amy with a sneer. "You take out that metal monster kidnapping me, trying to kill us, throwing us down a hole where we met up with a combination of a fire ball and a newt and then nearly freezing to death and finally watching ourselves destroy an entire city…I'd say peachy covers it quite well…"
"I'm glad to hear that," said Gennai, nonplussed by the girl's outburst. He looked to all of them, "have any of you attempted to use your crests yet?"
Kevin blushed and looked down. Snow Agumon looked up at the boy and then at Gennai. Snow Agumon nudged Kevin softly and looked up at the boy with his large blue eyes.
Kevin lifted his hand. "I have, sir."
"How did it go?" Gennai turned to the boy and looked at him intensely. Kevin looked back at the wrinkled old man.
"It didn't go so well…" sighed Kevin. He looked at the others and then returned his gaze to Gennai, "When Amy said we destroyed an entire town…it was me…I didn't mean to but Assaultmon was there; we had to get him. If I had known Snow Agumon would've turned into Skull Greymon…"
"You used your crest to show your power to Assaultmon," said Gennai without letting Kevin finish. "You are a foolish child, these tags and crests are not toys that can be played with and shown off, they are serious, and their power is immense!"
"I know…but you didn't…" Kevin reached out to the hologram.
"I figured children like you would be wise enough to know better!" groused Gennai. He turned from the children, "Maybe I was wrong, maybe you aren't the chosen ones…"
"NOW LOOK HERE!" Jason walked around and looked into Gennai's closed eyes. "We have put up with a lot of junk these past weeks, you don't help any; you little coward! We've been doing this duty, this responsibility, and yes we have made mistakes, but just because we aren't perfect doesn't mean we aren't the chosen ones! Frankly I think you were out of line. After Kevin and Snow Agumon's rampage in Alpine Tundra, he had the guts to come back and help those digimon! I doubt you have that kind of fortitude…"
The old man looked up at Jason. A little smile came across his face and he turned to the others. "We have many things to do; the nearest crest is one in Marinaville, a small fishing community on the sea coast. Unfortunately one of Assaultmon's generals has taken up residence there."
"Another one…" Brendan blinked. His hand rested on his chin.
"Yes, another one," replied Gennai. "Go there, and retrieve the crest, I will attempt to communicate with you there."
"What about the general?" asked Janet. She looked at the others, "Our digimon are pooped. I don't think we could get them to digivolve if we wanted to…"
"You will stay with me tonight, yep, yep," said Piximon. He turned. "I have plenty of food! You can rest here, and then later on can sleep. Of course I'll have to have a price, yep, yep…"
"Anything for a meal and a bed…" Amy leapt forward.
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"This was not what I had in mind," grumbled Amy as she pushed the wheeled, water bucket forward and lifted the mop out of the water and pushed its head over the dusty floor.
"You were the one that said 'Anything for a meal and a bed'," said Steven as he wiped a dust rag over a picture.
"Well at least you only have to clean at floor level!" growled Brendan as he wiped a large window high above the floor.
"Why don't you just have Tapirmon fly up there and do it?" asked Michelle as she wiped down a desk.
"No flying…" said Lucemon as he walked by carrying an arm load of books. "No flying; no skipping steps."
"No jumping dimensions either," said Renamon as she batted at cobwebs with a feather duster.
"Where are Kevin and Snow Agumon?" Mark walked out a closet with a broom.
"Don't know…" said Janet.
"I heard Piximon and Gennai talking after we were sent out…" said Ryuudamon. The little black lizard was wiping off pots. "Piximon said something about a special job for Kevin and Snow Agumon…"
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"Come…I need you to do something, yes indeed I do," chirped Piximon as he glided ahead of Kevin and Snow Agumon. He stopped on the edge of a giant pool of water. It was more like a lake but they were still within castle, somehow, so it had to be a pool. Even though the entire thing was enshrouded in mist and had a night time gloom to it. "I have misplaced something within the confines of the pool…there is a bit of an island in the middle of the pool I think it's there…could you get it?"
"You can fly, can't you get it yourself?" Kevin looked up at the digimon.
"I would be very grateful if you did it!" grumbled the digimon. "I have other things to do, plus someone must supervise your friends!"
"Ok…" said Kevin. He looked down at the little white dinosaur next to him.
"We can get it…you know we can!" said Snow Agumon.
"There is a boat…" Piximon turned and the mist peeled back to reveal a little gondola. "Don't need you catching a cold, nope, nope."
"Come on," said Kevin. He climbed in. Snow Agumon scrambled in, "Careful!" yelped Kevin.
The two of them glided off into water. A fog enshrouded around them.
"Snow Agumon…I have been thinking," said the boy as soon as he was sure that they were out of ear shot from the shore. "Maybe we should leave the Ultimate digivolving up to the others…"
"Why?" the little dinosaur looked up at the boy.
"Well, I'm still really scared that you'll turn into Skull Greymon again," whispered Kevin. "I know what we did was stupid but what if we do it again and one of the others gets hurt, I mean…"
"You weren't afraid to let me digivolve to Shima Unimon," said Snow Agumon. The white digimon looked down into the water.
"Yeah but, Shima Unimon I can trust…I can't trust Skull Greymon," whispered Kevin. He looked down sadly. There was a jolt and Kevin looked up. He stepped off of the gondola and helped Snow Agumon out.
"You can't trust me?" asked Snow Agumon. He looked sadly up at Kevin. "You don't think I can handle being an Ultimate?"
"You can handle being an Ultimate…I just don't think anyone else can handle you being an Ultimate," replied Kevin. He looked around. There were lots of trees; they were in a park. He blinked; there was a spot light that revealed three people.
"Kevin…isn't that…" Snow Agumon pointed to two of the people. One was a small brown haired boy with a red cap; the other was a small tan hair girl with a vest jacket.
"How?" Kevin looked around. "That happened two years ago…The third person is a bully we used to have at school…" The third person was a large boy with spiky brown hair. He had arms like large hams. He was snatching at the young Michelle. Kevin looked away. "I had been learning some martial arts…and I…" He closed his eyes. Snow Agumon looked in shock as young Kevin kicked the bully in the face. A hard well placed kick directly to the face, not the chin, not the ears or cheek but the flat of Kevin's foot slammed into the bully's face. The balls of the toes smashed into the bridge of the boy's nose and the balls of his foot pushed into the boy's bottom lip. Kevin looked down at the shocked dinosaur. "I broke his nose and fractured his chin…they say his cheek bones were cracked…he was unconscious for a day."
"Kevwin…" Michelle's voice called. "I think you wealwy hurt him…"
"No…I couldn't have," replied the younger Kevin, "but he's bleeding so badly…" The bully coughed and the blood coming from his lips flicked all over. The scene faded to dark. A new scene faded into existence.
"Mr. Sorenson your son injured another child. I can't turn my head to such a thing, especially when it happened on school property." The middle aged woman on the business end of the desk said.
"He was a bully, my son was protecting his sister!" replied the man on the other side of the desk.
"With what could've been deadly force!" retorted the woman. "No, I can't allow this to slide. I'm sorry but I have to expel your son from school."
"Fine, you do that, but you won't be seeing Michelle this coming Monday either!" growled the man. He pushed the chair back as he stood and then walked out of the door. The scene followed Mr. Sorenson out the door into the hall. Two children, one a young girl with tan hair the other a young man in a red hat. Little trickles of blood were on his right sneaker.
"I'm sorry dad…" mumbled the boy quietly. He had little streams of light trickling down his cheeks.
The man walked past the boy and picked up the girl. She had always been so refined in fact people often thought she was nearly the same age as the, as they termed, 'immature' Sorenson boy and now the girl was crying softly in her father's arms. The man walked away.
"Kevin…" Snow Agumon looked up at the older incarnation.
The younger boy looked up. "Who…who are you?"
Kevin blinked and looked at the younger child. "You can see us?"
"Uh huh…" replied the child he looked at Snow Agumon. "Is this your pet?"
"Umm, I guess you can say that," looked apologetically at Snow Agumon.
"I was a bad boy…dad won't want to talk to me anymore," the boy looked down and sighed. "I didn't mean to but I wanted to show him that he couldn't bully us anymore! And, and…" tears started to drip on the floor.
"And you wanted to protect your sister," said the older Kevin. "I know deep down inside that's why we, err you did that…look, promise me this, don't ever be afraid of protecting Michelle ok? She's really important…trust me when I say dad is happier that you protected Michelle than he would be if you had let her get hurt by that bully."
The little Kevin looked up. "How did you…?"
"I was eavesdropping on the principal," Kevin smiled at the shocked face of the child.
"But I really hurt him…" whispered the little Kevin.
"I know and you did it to show him you weren't weak and that's not the right thing to do…but you were also protecting your sister, and you can't ever stop doing that…it will be uncomfortable to fight for her sometimes but sometimes you have to do uncomfortable things to make the world go round," whispered Kevin. His eyes gleamed. "You may be scared of your strength and you may be scared to hurt someone in order to protect others and you may not be sure of yourself but sometimes you have to just swallow your fear and do it."
The little boy nodded slowly and looked up. "I better go dad will be mad if I'm late…" the child slid off the bench he was sitting on and ran away.
"I think I understand now…" Kevin looked down at Snow Agumon.
There was a loud explosion that seemed muffle into the realm they were in. The fog faded, even the illusion of the water disappeared and the human and the digimon looked around to see chunks of rocks falling around them.
"Something is attacking!" shouted Snow Agumon. "The others might need our help!"
"Right!" shouted Kevin and he ran after the white dinosaur.
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"Fox Leaf Arrowhead!" Renamon dove between brown streaks of hardened exoskeleton. The little white bursts of leaves shot forward and exploded into the black and yellow colored insect as it retreated back.
"Boiling Bubble!" yelped Otamamon. The purple amphibian dropped down on the insect from a tree. The insect growled and dodged the creature it then spun around. Its wings glowed buzzed loudly.
The rookies and even Piximon shrunk back in pain. The humans covered their ears.
"Now Kuwagumon!" growled the bee. A large red stag beetle rose from the rocky incline it had been hiding behind. "Not very often we get food like this in these parts is it?"
"No…" growled the digimon as it snapped its scissors together. "No, indeed." Its wings guards shot open revealing two large insect wings and the large beetle took flight. "I think I shall consume the humans first, they are such a delicacy!"
"You'll do no such thing!" A voice shouted. Kuwagumon looked up. He was a brown haired human and wore a blue shirt with a red cap.
"And you will stop me?" growled the beetle, "Flymon, bust their ear drums!"
The yellow and black striped fly and whirred its wings. The new human covered his ears but his eyes stayed on Kuwagumon. A black and white zebra with a red helmet stepped up. It was twitching its ears.
"Keep it up!" growled Kuwagumon.
"I don't think so!" shouted Kevin. He turned to the zebra. "Let's help our friends out!"
"Wild Thunder!" There was a blaze of blue lightning Kuwagumon was sent tumbling out of the air. The horse then turned its head to Flymon.
"I'm gone!" yelped the bee as it turned tail and fled.
"Hey! You coward!" growled Kuwagumon as he rose up again.
"I'd stay down if I were you," called out Kevin as the other children stood up. Their ears stopped ringing. "Looks like you eyes were bigger than your mouth…though looking at your chompers that's hard to believe. Leave now or we'll have to do something quite unpleasant with you that could possibly include a big can of Raid…or something."
The large insect took appraisal of his prey. Seven rookies, one of them an angelic digimon he knew would be more than a handful, an Ultimate, though he seemed rather impartial to the fight, and the Champion zebra; whose attack was still stinging his chest. The insect growled. He opened his wings and lifted off the ground and turned and flew off.
"Kevin…" whispered Janet as the boy and his digimon leapt down to them. "Where were you?"
"I was…" Kevin looked to Piximon. "I was busy with a little friend."
The pink digimon smirked and nodded. The boy looked to the others, "We should take up camp tonight, if Piximon is done tasking us…"
"I do not believe, we need anything else cleaned today," said Piximon as he smiled. "I will gather your meal and then you will go forth to Marinaville in the morning."
"After breakfast," insisted Brendan.
"If we could," remarked Michelle.
"Yes, yes, but that will be the morning, and now is now!" chuckled Piximon as he flew off. "Do go forth and find the sheets and pillows in the palace, I will return forthwith."
With that the digi-destined smiled. They all turned to go in but, Kevin who stayed with Shima Unimon. The boy looked to the large zebra and he nodded. The zebra glowed and turned into Snow Agumon.
"I think we did well," said Kevin quietly.
"I think we did superbly," smiled Snow Agumon.
"Well, let's go before the others take the good bed clothes!" laughed Kevin. "I'll race you. One, two…" He started to run off.
"Hey that's not fair!" shouted Snow Agumon as he chased after the boy.
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Piximon turned and smiled as the digi-destined went back into the castle. "They just may be able to defeat him, yep, yep."
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AN: Thanks to Lodis, and Sixsense, I know this must seem like a long stretch but I finished chapter 41 today(cough I've been having some fun with the other fanfic I'm writing so much so I have to chore myself into writing for this one and I'm so can't wait for well…let's just say…coming sometime in the future, more than likely after Assaultmon, Lucemon is gonna sing, at least once…). So I'm posting. I was rather conflicted as to whether I wanted a, comprehension chapter. I didn't want to mirror 01 too much but I also didn't want to leave Kevin all…yeah yeah I get it either…I hope it worked, I get the feeling that some of these speeches are getting either A) over lappy or B) Uber corny. Oh well, as long as you keep reading…