Chapter 11 continued: Conundrum pt. 2
We rounded the corner onto Adams street. This is straight down the street from my house, near Abington Highschool and the library. Adams street is a very long two way street that leads down to the Highschool, it has trees running down it's sides. Fatomon and I were running down the middle of the street, it is Sunday after all.
"Kayla and Gotsumon are on the way!" I told Fatomon when we reached the emergence point. I called her when we left the house.
"Ok, get ready, here it comes." Fatomon said. Sure enough, soon after the digital field fizzled into existence. As I took out the D-Gadget I heard a car stop outside the field, a door open, and shut, footsteps.
"Hey guys, just in time?" Gotsumon said, running in through the fog.
"Yep, just In t---" I began to respond, but was interrupted by an evil laugh emanating from deep in the cloud followed by some crackling stomping sounds. Soon the Digimon revealed itself, Brendan was the real Digimon wiz, I consulted the D-Gadget.
"Alright everybody, Golemon, Champion virus type, that's pretty much all I've got on him. This won't be easy." I told everyone. He's a big and tough looking Digimon, His limbs looked to be made out of rock, but covered in wood. At his head he has a large metal portion with his eyes poking out from under the metal hood.
"Even more bad news!" Fatomon said "Herpetomon's coming!"
"Why is that a bad thing? I'm sure we could use some help." Kayla said.
"Yes, but Brendan's not with him, he'd get creamed if he tried to help." I explained. Golemon was beginning his advance on us.
"That doesn't make sense, Herpetomon's still strong though, right." Kayla asked.
"I don't know, I guess Brendan knew what he was doing when he asked me to keep Herpetomon out of the fight. Gotsumon, do you think it's possible for you to defeat Golemon on your own?" I said.
"Ok, sure, with K's help of course" Gotsumon said smiling goofily at her.
"Alright good, now Fatomon, I'm going to need you to keep Herpetomon out of the fight, hold him down, whatever it takes. Remember, it's for his own good." I told him. Golemon had reached Gotsumon who was guarding Kayla and suddenly Herpetomon came rocketing into the fog.
"Fatomon go get him!" I said, beginning to feel useless, I couldn't cheer on my Digimon to hurt my friend, and I couldn't do anything to help Kayla and Gotsumon. I decided to stay put and help alert anyone to any dangers.
Fatomon had successfully caught up with Herpetomon, he had him in a hold from behind.
"What are you doing? Let go!" Herpetomon growled. Brendan was right, he is totally different when he gets this way. Herpetomon was struggling and it looked like Fatomon was holding up.
"I'm sorry friend, but this isn't your fight." Fatomon said. I turned to Gotsumon and Golemon. Golemon was taking swings at Gotsumon while K hung back a bit.
"Rock punch!" Golemon called as he wound up and took a hard swing at Gotsumon. Surprisingly Gotsumon caught Golemon's giant fist, albeit a little feebly. I guess he's a lot stronger than he looks. Meanwhile, Fatomon was close to losing his grip on Herpetomon.
"Let me go! Damn it!" Herpetomon said as he was thrashing wildly in the air. Then his last wild swing caught Fatomon in the face, and he let go. Herpetomon backed off a little, his eyes were glaring green light, and I was a little scared as to what would happen.
"Go easy on him, he's still our friend." I called to him.
"I know, that tell him!" Fatomon returned.
"Ok, that's it hero boy!" Herpetomon said jumping at Fatomon. Fatomon was going for his sword, but I guess he remembered and he let it alone. Herpetomon knocked Fatomon back and began mauling him. I couldn't believe how he was acting, could this all be because of his virus type? Back to Kayla and Gotsumon.
"Boulder burst!" Gotsumon called. He picked up a nearby piece of debris from Golemon's stray punches and threw it at him. The titan Digimon was hit hard and stumbled a few feet. Then Gotsumon ran up and punched him in the chest. Golemon tumbled over. Soon after he was right back on his feet though.
"Sulfur Plume!" Golemon called and opened his mouth.
"Kayla get back, run!" Gotsumon cried as he ran in front of Kayla to absorb a billowing jet of sulfur gas from Golemon's mouth. He began stumbling around, 'till he fell on the ground with a "Cr, crack!"
"Oh, no, Gotsumon, Gotsumon!" Kayla said, running to his side. I could hear him coughing so at least he was still alive. Golemon took another advance. "Please Gotsumon, get up! If you can't stop this monster, the others will be in serious trouble."
Gotsumon slowly got up.
"Yeah, you're right, that's so kind of you to consider their problems." Gotsumon said with a smile. Then, Kayla's Digivice began to glow. –Flare Activate- And Gotsumon began glow with the same light. He was filled with new energy so he ran back into the fray.
"Herpetomon, please stop this!" Fatomon had thrown Herpetomon off of him. Herpetomon was very angry, about what, I didn't know. His eyes were green and very cruel looking. I'd never seen him so angry before, he was usually so mellow and cool. Fatomon on the other hand was looking very beat up, I don't know how much longer he could last.
"Raaagh!" Herpetomon went back and jumped at him. He made a fleeting punch at Fatomon. It hit him square in the jaw. Fatomon stumbled back. Herpetomon landed and knelt down, apparently he wasn't holding up so well either. Fatomon put his hand on the pommel of his sword.
"Fatomon! Don't!" I yelled to him. He nodded
"Trust me." He replied. He got in a stance and awaited Herpetomon's attack. I thought Herpetomon would be wise enough to realize Fatomon would attack, but alas. He made one last dash at Fatomon, he was charging with an air of intense burning anger. When Herpetomon was about two feet away from Fatomon he stepped aside and struck Herpetomon in the head with the hilt of his sword. It was a crushing blow and Herpetomon was knocked out cold.
"Ok, good, now pick him up, we'll have to bring him home afterwards." I told Fatomon.
"Right." He replied.
Back to K and Gotsumon. Golemon was now on the defensive as Gotsumon made many jumps up to his face level to punch him in the face.
"Alright, nice going! Keep it up!" K cheered. Golemon was beginning to run away. Gotsumon gave chase.
"Oh no you don't!" Gotsumon yelled, he grabbed the middle rock from the 'mantle' on his head, wound up, and threw it at Golemon. Although it was just a small rock he threw it with a lot of force, just as the flare was wearing off. The rock flew straight at Golemon's head and Krack! He was hit. The rock was thrown so hard it practically exploded on contact. Golemon was knocked down on his face and was soon disappearing into a cloud of data, which was absorbed by Gotsumon. I ran over to them, followed by Fatomon who was carrying a limp Herpetomon over his shoulder. We all convened in the center of the digital field.
"Well that was weird." K said as Gotsumon reached her and jumped into her arms.
"How did I do?" Gotsumon asked looking eagerly at K.
"You were great, stopped him all by yourself." She responded
"No, you helped too." He said "What happened to Herpetomon?" Fatomon adjusted Herpetomon on his shoulder.
"Something came over him, he attacked me like we were enemies. I just don't get it, I knew he didn't like me for some reason already, but I didn't think that would be enough for him to attack me like that. I just knocked him out though, I'm going to take him home." Fatomon said.
"OK, be careful, and make sure your not caught." I told him
"Of course." Fatomon said as he began running for B's house.
"So this is what you kids have been up to." Said a voice from outside the fog. K let Gotsumon down and he stood defending her. Slowly a figure approached from the field, which was rapidly disappearing. I could see that is was an older man in a tan trench coat, he smoked a cigar and looked out at us from under the rim of his brown dress hat.
"Wha…who, who are you?" I asked, the man leaned back on the hood of his car.
"My name is inspector Lyons and I'm very interested in the little, operations you kids have been making. Said Lyons.
"How did you know about us?" Kayla asked
"Don't you worry about that!" Lyons said, losing his cool "I want you to tell me what these monsters are and what threat they cause."
"These…monsters?" I asked "These aren't monsters. They are called Digimon, and most of them are 'good'."
"Friends?" Lyon asked "You're friends…with these…'things'? These are monsters and they need to be stopped. You say they're your friends, but what if they turn on you. What if they start to attack you instead of following your orders? Or worse, what if they begin attacking other innocent people?" Lyons was becoming frustrated. Kayla looked down at Gotsumon, who smiled at her.
"No, that won't happen." Kayla said "I don't know much about these Digimon, but I know that me and Gotsumon have a special relationship. A trusting relationship that can't be broken easily. I know the good one's won't attack humans because, well, they just don't need to. My cousin says that humans created Digimon to live in peace with humans someday." Kayla knelt down and put her hand on Gotsumon's head.
"Yeah, that's right." I backed her up.
"You think so?" Lyons asked "What about your friend back there, Herpetomon was it? He turned on you, his own friends."
"Well, he's, uh…" I said, grasping for an answer that didn't exist to me.
"Exactly, They are unpredictable and not to be trusted." Lyons replied, a faint noise of his police radio could be heard coming from his car. He ducked in and answered it, then turned to us again. "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to cut this discussion short." He said with feigned courtesy. "Keep an eye on those "Friends" of yours, maybe they'll turn on you too." With that he got back in his car and backed out down the street. The three of us were all a little shaken at our being found out.
"What was that about?" Kayla asked.
"I don't know, what I want to know is, why didn't he arrest us or anything." I said.
"Who knows, but we'd better be careful from now on." K said "Who knows what he might try…"
"Yeah, well, see ya." I told her.
"OK, bye bye." She responded and ran off with Gotsumon in her arms. I followed her down the street, parted, and continued to my house. It was only 8:30 so I walked in and went up to my room. I sat there for only a few moments before Fatomon came knocking at my window. I slinked over and let him in.
"Hey how did it go?" I asked him as he came in and took a seat on my bed.
"It was good, I left him in Brendan's room, I left a note on his chest explaining what happened." He explained.
"Alright good. Hey! Listen, after you left some police inspector named Lyons came and gave us a talk. He says that he knows what we've been up to and he really doesn't trust Digimon." I told him.
"Oh, I see, I guess we'll get that a lot, huh?" He said.
"Yeah, I suppose, if you ever go out stay away from him." I instructed.
"Right." Fatomon affirmed. "Well that was a crazy night." Fatomon lay back on my bed and flipped up his grill-visor, revealing his bright yellow eyes. "Crazy night."
Return Shift: Brendan –Present Sunday the 18th of November-
Finally, back home! It had been a long and surprisingly enjoyable trip. It was around 8:00 when we got back and I was anxious to see Herpetomon, I had a sneaking suspicion that he broke himself out during the day. We pulled up to the house, I got out swiftly and went into the house. I looked around the kitchen, which was unmarred; mom and Dave came in the door. I casually took off my jacket and slipped into my room. It was dark so flipped on the light and shut the door.
"Hey Herpetomon, did you miss me?" I asked without turning around, worried. I instantly whirled around to find Herpetomon knocked out on my bed looking very beat up. "Oh, Herpetomon, you didn't." It didn't take a genius, I understood what had happened. I went and knelt by him, he was covered in bruises. I couldn't even tell if he was alive or not. I was distressed, but since he was still in this world I assumed was still living, in some distant stretch of the word. Near his head I found a note and took a closer look; Dear Brenda. Nick, Kayla, Gotsumon, and I got into a fight with a Golemon that bioemerged. When we got there Herpetomon arrived too, we remembered our promise, so I kept Herpetomon out of the fight. Kayla and Gotsumon handled the Golemon. Herpetomon was very angry, he started fighting me…like we were enemies. In the end I took out my sword and knocked him out with the pommel, he'll be Ok tomorrow. You can ask us about it later, goodbye friend. I might've known, but I didn't think that Herpetomon would attack Fatomon, even in his alert-mode. I'd have to talk to him in the morning. Presently I moved him to the floor and got ready for bed. All the while puzzling over what Herpetomon fighting Fatomon could mean. Basically when he's out of the alert-mode he's my best friend, the wise and funny Digimon I made him to be. Then, right when he changes like that, he suddenly becomes violent, angry, and so different from what I'd hoped for him to be. It doesn't make any sense. As I got into bed I came to the disappointing suspicion that the evil that resides in Herpetomon, somehow, comes from me. As nice and happy as I try to be, I've always had a dark and angry side inside myself. I'd always kept it down and maybe it was now being shown through Herpetomon. It seemed irrational as well as improbable, but it was as good a guess as any at this point.