Rougefan; Palmon will be important, though won't actually appear. This chapter gives you almost all of the digimon stuff in this story. As to your question, they were just stalling. That and over confidence will really give you a slight upper hand with the element of surprise.
L17; I hate those things too. Thanks!
Lonegrowlithe; Thanks! The waits over!
Mimi was running. The freaky guys in the 'power rangers' knock off outfits were running her down, with probable intent to kill. Her friends knew about her powers, and her parents had already said they'd love her, even if she became a mutant. She just never really got around to telling them. But she didn't care about that. Neither did she care how they found out she was a mutant. She just cared about getting away from the solders long enough to focus her powers. Finally thankful for three years of forced gymnastics in Japan, she maneuvered her flight to a bridge near trees. When she got there she ran to the center and easily flipped over the side and landed under it. She had managed to lose them for enough time to keep them for immediately locating her. She stayed in her crouch and began an impromptu meditation.
The leader of the COBRA battalion chasing her was puzzled at first. Realizing he'd lose face and gain a demotion if he continued looking like a mentally incapacitated goldfish on steroids, he immediately started barking orders.
"Okay you morons, get looking! We barely managed to get the Wheadon girl, and were getting this one with ease! Either that, or very unfortunate things will start to happen to you! Get it? Got it? GOOD! GET THE F--- MOVING ALREADY!"
With that highly intellectual conduct, and brilliantly witty threats, the troopers silently began searching for the missing girl. Mimi, meanwhile, had completed her meditation and was now ready. She slipped away as quietly as she could and positioned herself between two pine trees.
"HEY, JERKOFFS!" She yelled, with a malicious grin on her face. "COME AND GET IT!"
COBRA troopers are in general psychotic Cro-Magnons with advanced weaponry and as such are easily provoked. So they did the first thing that came to their minds. They blitzed her. Not exactly they brightest moves they ever made.
Mimi spread her arms wide and closed her eyes. Her hands became raveled in a mesh of transparent green fire, and the pine trees became surrounded by small floating green-white orbs. At the center of the trees a green orb glowed and grew with pulses of the fire encompassing her hands. As she opened her eyes and spread her fingers, the orbs stopped rotating around the tree and began to pulse. The main spheres began pulsing like crazy, each time getting larger. Mimi's eyes glowed and her handfire burned almost out of control. With a flourish, she snapped them together, and directed a blast of energy towards the imbeciles about three yards from her. Had things stayed in those conditions, she might have had a good chance of escape, even with the only two voluntary members of Z project near by. But just to prove that its never that easy, life intervened at this point.
Trinity, Wanda, Blob, Angelica, Cover Girl and Spirit materialized about five yards away from the action. Without a formulated plan, the immediate decision was to dispose of the COBRAs and recruit the girl. So the first to gaining her good will was for Blob to protect her from oncoming forces. As Mimi, in her panicked state was liable to blast anything in her path, even if she realized Blob was trying to help, was blast by Scarlet Witch. Her powers immediately shut off and with the use of Hex bolts, ballistics, flares and psychic lightning, the troopers were easily removed. They did not know that they were being observed.
"Are you okay?" Cover Girl knelt over Mimi. "What's your name?"
"Mimi. What happened?"
"What happened-" Interjected a cold voice. "-Is that they just condemned any chance of escape you had. Prepare to become the property of COBRA, infidel."
"Try not to give away the entire plot this time, Washout…"
"That's 'Aquarius' now, Xi'an or should I call you 'Libra?'"
"You're giving away valuable information, 'Aquarius.'"
"Quiet, you idiot, can't you see that I'm trying to taunt them?"
During this exchange, as series of whispered communications had gone on and among them:
) The Blind Master had pointed out the location of 'Libra' and 'Aquarius'
) Send signals to carry out an attack plan and
) Start a count down to attack
The two, obviously ill matched warriors continued to fight. The Master's hand formed the simple count down of five four three two one. On four he shouted "NOW!" and away the Misfits went. The odd couple jumped like professional ninjas and landed in twin crouches. They turned around.
One, Libra was stately with Korean features and had trapeze artist's muscles. His face was cold, yet gentle, as if he could still be kind. The other, Aquarius, was dark with a permanently cruel expression on his face. He wore crimson goggles, a tight blue uniform and spiky brown hair.
Aquarius spun around and as his hands turned blue, a blast of pressurized water blast shot from them. Unfortunately, his chosen target was Blob, and as such his blast did little good. It served as a distraction though, long enough for Trinity to strike from behind him. That's about when pieces of debris and blasts of psychic lightning started flying. He wasn't going anywhere for a while.
Cover Girl, Firestar, and Scarlet Witch were providing cover for the Blind Master as he got Mimi out of danger. At least that's what they were trying to do. Every time they sent a projectile his way, some kind of wave blasted out of his left hand, and the missile dissolved. Cover Girl had managed to get Trinity's patented Dehydrated, Inflatable Nuclear Bazooka (®) and thus was very frustrated by this development. Every time they managed to get a hit on him, they managed to get more, but the injures never lasted. He merely touched them with his right hand and the wounds almost instantaneously sealed up. Then he went back to blasting them.
Aquarius wasn't doing nearly as well in his fight. Suddenly he keeled over. Blob leaned over him as Trinity hovered close by. Aquarius looked up. His eyes reflected red and a strange glowing green seal burned on his forehead. He straightened up and turned wholly into water. He cried out as almost a vibration rippled out of his 'body' and into the hair. Depending on how far away him the various Misfits and G.I.Joe handlers were from him, the fell over in intense pain. A few seconds after everyone other than Libra had passed out, the vibration stopped and the mark faded. A wave seemed to flow through Libra's body from his right hand, repairing the severe harm done by the energy Aquarius had put out. He got up, slung Mimi over his shoulder and left the scene of the crime with his companion.
Misfit Manor"…And that is pretty much how it happened." Reported the Blind Master.
Roadblock, pacing, nodded. Then he turned to Arcade. "Okay, what's on your report today?"
"Well, quite a bit. First of I'm very sure that Lina, Lance and Xi aren't being held on the main COBRA Island. That's because almost all of COBRA non-terrorist activities are centering around a remote Pacific island called Wake Island."
"That sounds familiar." Wanda mused.
"It should, if you pay close enough attention to your WWII history. It had some negotiation done on it like a million years ago that no one cares about, accept for cynically insane Fan Fiction writers with nothing better to do than use names as unbelievably vague plot hints."
"What?"
"Sorry… I got carried away. Anyway, it could possibly be the selected location for some kind of bizarre ritual. It involves several rites. The main point seems to be locating great power and inverting something called 'The Gate of Babylon.' That involves the 'Seal of Oricalcos' as well as the 'Eye of Maul.' It utilized the celestial force called 'the Balanced Ones.'"
"And those are?"
"In Japanese Mythology, they were eight demigods. Four on the side of Amaterasu and four on the side of Susanowo. Nobility for Despicability, Light for Darkness, Earth for Rot, Fire for Water. In other terms; Dragon for Wyrm, Tamer for Beast, Kamé for Golem, and Phoenix for Leviathan. There are three pillars involved, which stand for Despicability, Rot and Darkness, but why I can't imagine. There is some other things involved but, as I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, I'll try to get back to you on this."
"Right. As for now, sit tight."
Okay, I'm still working exactly what's going to happen. Just stay tuned. Please. I've got a lot going on in this little world that I don't know about.
And since I'm bored enough, I'll add an author postscript commentary:
GothickStrawberry's Jane/Insight; I read her story and I found Jane a delightfully devious OC villain. At the time, I was looking for more ways to make a Phoenix add-in, as well as a YuGiOh! tie in for the general story line. Jane's current plan is to beat Marik in Duel Monster's and take his Millennium Rod, and then utilize Harpy Lady's Phoenix Formation to gain the Balanced Fire power. After that, I think you can guess.