The Digital Gate: Sorry if I took so long in updating. I don't know much about after Chazz left Duel Academy, so yeah, it's before.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX or Digimon, just the characters and cards I made up.
Suzy, having had the wind knocked out of her, regained enough sense to realize that she was in danger. Looking up, she saw Meinumon's claws whistling through the air inches above her head. Gritting her teeth, she sprung out of the way. She only partly succeded.
Meinumon changed his aim mid-air--and managed to slash Suzy's left arm, wrist, and leg. He smirked as Suzy's face twisted into a grimace of pain. He opened his jaw, intending to blast her into the next century.
Suzy, blinded by pain, didn't expect Meinumon to attack so soon. But attack he did. And it caught her head-on.
She flew through the air, along with a few trampled bushes before landing with a gigantic spray of mud. Suzy tried to sit up, but suddenly felt tired and sleepy. Must...stay...awake..., she thought, her eyes drooping.
Something slapped her. Lopmon. "Don't black out now, Suzy!" he begged.
Suzy made another effort. "Too tired," she muttered.
"Suzy! Get up!" Lopmon smacked her again. This time, Suzy actually did open her eyes and straighten, if blearily.
"It's no use," Meinumon hissed, standing in front of them.
Lopmon ignored him and continued to try to get his Tamer to focus. But even he knew that death was certain if a miracle didn't happen.
"Doragon Ba-ARGH!" Meinumon's shout turned into a howl of pain. During the time he had been occupied with the Digimon and his Tamer, someone had crept up behind him in the rain. Holding a sharp stick in one hand, the stranger had plunged it between Meinumon's two monsterous wings.
And now, that person hung on while Meinumon danced around trying to shake him/her off.
"Get off of me!" shrieked Meinumon. "Now!"
The person didn't reply. Just twisted the stick in more deeply.
"OWWWWWWWWWWWW! THAT HURTS!"
His cry of agony snapped Lopmon back to reality. Turning back to his partner, he said hurriedly, "Hurry, we need to help whoever it is." To the Digimon's relief, Suzy seemed to have woken up from her state.
"Right. Oi!" Meinumon glanced over at Suzy and was enraged to see her making faces at him. With a roar of rage, he leaped at her. The person that was sitting on his back jumped off and landed with a muffled oof on the ground.
Suzy waited until he was nearly upon her, then stepped aside. The result was Meinumon crashed headlong into the tree behind her. Meinumon struggled to stay up. "Mark my words Tamer," he managed to gasp out, "I will elminate you." Then he was gone.
Suzy had completely forgotten about the stranger until Lopmon nudged her. Walking to him/her, Suzy extended her hand. "Thanks...who are you?"
A hand grasped her own as the person stood up. "It's me."
"Jaden?"
"The one and only."
"Why are you here?"
Jaden grimaced as he mopped the mud on his face. "I knew that they weren't holograms. But since you didn't tell me, I figured that I would play along. I came here because I thought you were in trouble," he explained.
"Thanks."
"No problem. I think I should get you back though," he added, seeing Suzy's condition. "And while you're at it, could you explain about these...things?"
They left with Lopmon saying indignantly, "I am not a thing!"
"Why isn't Jaden talking to anyone lately?" Syrus inquired.
"I saw him talking to Suzy," Chumley answered.
Alexis looked up from her homework. "Why Suzy?"
"Don't know. He just was," replied Chumley.
She stood up. "I'm going to see this for myself."
Chazz walked down a hallway and turned left. Glancing around, Chazz noticied that he didn't know where he was. He had been too busy thinking about the past few days to concentrate. Stupid Suzy...
"Suzy!" Recognizing the voice, Suzy froze. Oh no, not again... For the past hour, Jaden had been bombarding her with questions about Digimon, Yazuki, her family, etc. It was getting on her nerves.
Turning around slowly she replied with a small, "Yeah?"
"Are you sure Yazuki won't return?" Jaden asked.
"Yes."
Footsteps sounded. "They were right, he does talk to you."
Suzy glanced around and spotted Alexis. "What do you mean?"
"Jaden hasn't been talking to anyone, except you," Alexis snapped.
What's going on here?, Suzy thought and was about to speak when Lopmon dashed into the hallway. "Suzy...I..saw...Meinu-" he gasped, but broke off when he saw Alexis. "Is this a bad time?"
"What do you think?" Suzy retorted. Alexis was still gaping at Lopmon.
Too make matters worse, Chazz appeared at the end. He halted. "Is this some sort of party?"
All at once, every head turned to look at Suzy. "Oh boy," she groaned. And fainted.
Suzy blinked. Someone's head was swimming above her. Alexis. "You all right?" she asked as Suzy sat up.
"I think so," Suzy replied a bit uncertaintly rubbing her sore head.
"You hit that wall pretty hard when you collapsed," Jaden told her. "Oh yeah, Lopmon told us that freaky thing's weakness."
Flashback
Jaden stared down at the unconcious Tamer. "What do we do?" he asked.
Alexis shrugged.
"Take her outside. That way people won't stare," Chazz ordered.
Jaden glanced at him. "Since when do you care?"
Chazz shot a glare his way. "Since now," he snapped. "Happy?"
"That depends. Is it sandwhich day?"
Chazz would have beat him if Lopmon hadn't interrupted. "Whats-your-face, if you want to know Meinumon's weakness, stop argueing and help me," he instructed. The rabbit was trying, unsuccessfully, to pull Suzy down the hallway.
Alexis was still staring at him. "What are you?"
"I'll explain when we get out of sight."
After Chazz finally hoisted Suzy onto his back and walked outside followed by the others, he asked, "Where do I put the dork?"
"Somewhere where something won't happen. And she's not a dork," Lopmon added.
"Whatever."
"So...what are you?" Alexis asked again.
Lopmon sat there, trying to think of an explanation. "Digimon are..." he began, then stopped. "Digimon are... how do I put this? Digital Monsters. We were created from a program...and...um... I'm not good at this," he confessed.
"I've noticied," Jaden remarked.
"Then you explain it," Lopmon shot back. "Suzy explained it to you, so you explain it to Alexis."
"What? She won't listen to me!" Jaden protested.
You're the one who won't listen," Alexis snapped.
Lopmon threw his arms up in exasperation. They were getting nowhere. "Alright, you two, settle your differences. You"--he pointed at Chazz--"go over there."
Chazz folded his arms. "I'll go where I want to go."
"You want to hear sappy-ish stuff?"
"I'm outta here."
Plopping down behind the tree, Chazz was suprised to find the Digimon following him. "What do you want?"
"Funny, I should be asking you the same thing," Lopmon retorted. "I've come to tell you Meinumon's weakness."
"Well? What is it?" Chazz asked impatiently.
"But first, I'm going to tell you the reason why Suzy didn't tell you." Chazz didn't reply. "She didn't want you to get hurt."
"What'?"
"You heard me. If Meinumon found out that you knew, you would be his next target."
"So why are you telling me?"
"Because I want you dead," Lopmon snapped sarcastically. "Because Suzy needs help, whether she likes it or not. Meinumon's weakness is simple: fire. He's deathly afraid of it. When you wave it in his face, he cowers and immeadiatly reverts back to his Rookie form, and is easier to defeat. But if the fire goes out, he goes back to his Champion form."
Unknown to them, Jaden and Alexis had forgiven each other and had been listening. "So...does that mean we're in it too?" Jaden asked.
Lopmon gave a startled jump and looked back. "You told her, didn't you?" he asked, meaning Alexis. "Well, it looks like it."
End Flashback
"Hareruya," Suzy mumbled. Turning to Lopmon she whispered, "Did you?"
"Most of it," Lopmon admitted, "but not the coma, cousin, and cat deva stuff, only Chazz knows that. By the way, Jaden and Alexis stopped fighting."
"And we're going to help you," Jaden continued.
Suzy's expression on her face showed that she didn't get what was going on. As she scanned their faces to see if they were joking, Chazz's stood out. He was smirking, and not in a pleasant way. Uh-oh... I've gotta bad feeling about this...
"We're going to train you. At least 5 hours a day!" Jaden announced. Chazz's smirk grew larger, if possible.
"WHAT!"
TBC
The Digital Gate: If you didn't know, 'hareruya' means 'hallelujah'. Please review, thanks.