Author's Note: Thanks to those who have reviewed. This is one of those fics where I don't really know when I'm going to go on and all that. Well, we'll never know until I try, right?
This next chapter should get more into the plotline, as opposed to the 'WTF' thing at the beginning. No worries, it gets more plot based now.
For the record, the EEPG Ninja is the Evil Evil Plot Goddess Ninja. Don't ask why I have such a long title.
And, for the record, I'm sorry it took so long!
Chapter 1 : Help! It Broke! Dance of the Termination
KNOCK KNOCK!
Snorting lightly, Shokura rolled in his bed a few times, mumbling in his sleep, about who knew what.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!
At the sound of this, Shokura opened an eye, thinking it pure dark out. The sun that came from the window told him otherwise. Sighing, he started to get up out of bed.
KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK!
"I'm coming!" he grumbled, standing up, leaving his room, then going to the door, which he opened promptly. He immediately blushed when he heard a small giggle escape the girl's lips, and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Oh, sorry Cass…" he said, and, though still slightly groggy, he stepped away from the door and proceeded back into his room, where he started to find a decent pair of pants.
"At least you were wearing boxers this time, hmm?" replied the girl, Cassie, as she stepped inside and closed the door behind her. She glanced around a moment before politely taking her shoes off and stepping in further. His apartment didn't look that bad, though it could have stood a little cleaning. From inside the boy's room, Cassie could hear a grumble then a thud; a sound only made when the 17-year-old boy fell onto the floor. Granted, he wasn't the most graceful ever, but he still had his good points. Giggling again, she shook her head just as he came out, wearing a pair of tattered blue jeans.
"Hey," he said after a small sigh, "Aren't you early?"
"… If early's considered to be ten in the morning… yes…" she replied, raising an eyebrow. Shokura's eyes went a little wide, and he brushed a hand through his brown hair before glancing over at the girl and her slightly widened brown eyes, her sign for playfulness.
"It's that late?"
"Yep. Don't worry 'bout it though. You didn't miss much."
"Oh, that's cool…"
"Yeah, the world only ended."
At this, Shokura eyed the girl warily before sighing and smiling lightly at her. Then he watched as she proceeded to take out a small package, which made him a little more excited. It was one thing to see her, but it was another when she brought something for him.
She glanced over a moment, watching his expression as she took the package out of her cargo pocket, and blinked before setting it onto the counter.
"Came in today. You had to order the most random colors… I mean, seriously... you picked the palest pink we had and white…"
He didn't seem to pay attention, currently looking at the package like it was the last, best gift of Christmas. It was like he knew what it was, and, in all reality, he did, which made things that much more exciting for him.
"Can I open it?" he asked. Cassie's eyes narrowed before she nodded and tossed the package at him. Without another word, Shokura opened the package and smiled at the contents, a sole pale pink and white Digivice, shaped like a rounded rectangle, very simple in design, with one sole screen in the middle. He smiled at Cassie, hugging the girl in pure ecstasy. After a moment, she squirmed from his grasp and smiled, taking out her own Digivice, of the same design, but of different colors, ice blue and crimson red.
"You know what to do, right?" she asked, "Or do I have to go over it with you again?"
It was a well-known fact that Cassie was, as her profession labeled her, a Termination Technician, even to the youngest of children. This meant that she traveled around, taking orders, sending them to her boss, who turned those orders into Digivices, which got returned to Cassie, who delivered them to the owner, who would then manifest their own digital creation, which kept the name Digimon. She herself already had a partner, but he was her's long before the Phantasy Termination Project even existed.
Now, she had another satisfied customer, hopefully.
"Of course I know what to do," was the reply he gave her, "Faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust, right?"
She nodded in reply, and he closed his eyes, clenching the Digivice tight in his hands. After a few seconds, the device began to glow and, after a moment, stopped. Cassie blinked, as if unsure on why it did that.
"Shokura, give that here," she said, holding out her hand, "Something's wrong with it."
The boy opened his eyes and, in dismay, handed her the Digivice. As she fumbled around with it, she kept her eyes on Shokura, knowing her way around the device like the back of her hand.
"Please tell me all you thought about was happy things, right?" she asked, and waited for a nod. However, the boy decided it was time for a nice little drink of… something, and went to the kitchen to get whatever he would end up deciding that something was.
"Mmhmm…" was the reply he eventually gave.
"So… why's it not working?"
"I dunno. Not my job."
There was a small grin on the boy's face as he said it, though Cassie had turned her attentions towards the device.
"Yeh… well, it's not supposed to do this… never done this before…"
"Maybe you should wait a moment before letting anything happen… coffee?"
"No thanks… and it's supposed to happen right on the dot!"
Shokura padded out of the kitchen again, glancing down at the device before putting his hand on top of it, to get the girl's attention. She glanced up at him.
"It's fine. You know what'll end up happening?"
Before Shokura could finish, or before Cassie could respond, the small device let out a small whining noise, and started to glow. Neither of them seemed to pay any heed as they just stared at each other, almost dreanily.
"No…" was the soft reply she gave.
"It'll come… and it'll be better then that rushed thing of data bits that everyone else gets."
"Well… people like the data bits that they get…"
"La la!"
The two of them paused, then, simultaneously, they glanced down at the device.
"…. Lalalalalalalalala!"
"The hell is that?" Shokura asked, lifting his hand off of the device. On the screen was a small, green creature, with a leaf for a tail and three spikes sticking out of it's head, though that's all it looked like… a disembodied head…
"Lala?"
