Madi
"There has to be some way out of here…" She mutters, studying the room as she turns. Irritated, she sits on the bed. "I'm not some damsel in distress now…" she mocks herself. She takes a deep breath, pulling out her digivice. Nothing looked any different about it, and that was comforting. She started to tap the buttons on it, attempting to see if there was anything else it could do. It never showed anything before, but she'd never been to the digital world before.
It seemed like it had been hours since she'd woken up. By the clock function on the digivice, it has only been about a half hour. In frustration, Madi hit all the buttons and threw the digivice behind her, letting out a muffled thud as it hit the pillow. She laid back, slamming herself into the bed. "This is stupid!" She yells. "You're the worst protagonist ever!" She tries to provoke, only met with silence.
She reaches above her, feeling around until she found her digivice, and sits up. When she looked to the screen again, it reads:
'identity authenticated: tamer/human/digidestined.madi
digivice:command_protocol-digital world
Please_say_a_command'
Madi blinked, unsure what she was looking at. Did she break it? "Uh, find Bearmon?" She tries. It answers back with more text.
'Command_uh find bearmon_ recognized. Searching….bearmon not found in digital world
Please_say_a_command'
Madi tilted her head, unsure of what to do. "List functions."
'Command_not_recognized' it reads.
Madi sat on the bed, thinking for a while. Her digivice seemed to hold more function here. In her desperation, she managed to figure it out. She just wasn't sure how to apply it. She needed to know what it would effect. She had an ideas, "Dim lights." She says to the digivice.
'Command_dimlights….recognized….please_say_how_
dim'
Madi grinned, "50%" she orders.
'Dimming lights 50%' the display reads. As it appears on the device, the room grows dim. The light a little more gentle.
Her eyes go wide. She stumbled onto her key out of here. She walks to the area where her captor had opened the door before. "Open door." She commands, holding the digivice at her side. In an instant, the door opened, on the other side was the man in the cloak. He looks down on her, "Come with me." He demands bluntly.
Madi wasn't sure if what she did worked. As the man walks away, she follows. She glances quickly at her digivice, the command confirmed on the screen. Was he waiting for this or was her timing perfect for when he opened the door. Her heart pounds as she takes each step, not sure what is about to happen. The walls of the hallway look exactly like the inside of the room she was in. .
She's led into another room, larger than the last. Computers line one of the walls, a rail at the opposite side of the door, revealing this to be a second floor. The figure moves forward, Madi is looking around the room at the nonmon at the computers working. There's a nudge behind her, two nonmon on the inside of the door that she hadn't noticed.
She walks forward, joining the man at the rails. "Leave her." He commands the two nonmon that had trailed her. "She's my guest."
Looking to the bottom floor, there were several spheres, all containing digimon. "This is where we have been doing our research." The man explains, "Each one of them destined for evolution."
Madi's stomach turned at the thought of what he meant.
"We discovered that the process will destroy the original body in the process. However, thanks to the one over there, we've made a breakthrough that digidestined are different. Their code doesn't allow for copying or transfer." He gestures to a sphere that has a digimon that looked like a devil child inside.
"Come ta torture me some more huh!" He yells, looking to Madi, "Hope you feel real tough bringing her in as an audience!"
"Impmon has been valuable for our research." He ignores, "He's loaded several digimon. Though many of them were lost in the battle against the D Reaper, he still had several hundreds of files to use." He sounds proud of what he's done, adding, "Our last surprise was finding he'd loaded another tamer's partner. I believe you met him before his tamer had managed to revert him back to his unevolved state." He knew for a fact that they'd met.
"You're sick." Madi says, disgust in her tone. "They don't deserve this." She clenches her jaw, angry at the sight.
"Mute." He says, the sounds from Impmon's sphere trapped in with him. "They've said that about several different people. Scientists, doctors, even transgender people."
Madi's heart stops, she tries not to show it, but it comes through nonetheless.
He continues. "I finally figured out that you are Bearmon's original tamer. All because of someone who didn't think you should have transitioned. It surprised me, I'll admit, but my entire project is about leading people to being their best selves. People like you inspire what I'm doing here."
Madi's breathing picks up, she's the target now. "I'll fight back." She warns. "I'll find a way. If that girl's partner could do it, I will too."
The cloaked man turns to her now, "Why would you resist this?" He asks, troubled. "Can't you see? I can make you perfect. I can give you the body you should have."
Madi turns to him, glaring up at the void hidden in the hood of his cloak. "But I'd never be happy. I'd never be free." She tightens her grip on her digivice. "And I don't need you, I'm already perfect!" In a flash, Madi attacks. She rushes forward, pushing the man backwards. The surprise of it knocking him to the ground. Several nonmon turn, some heading to help their leader, some to stop her. She climbs over the rail, having no choice but to jump. When she lands, it feels different. The height of the jump should have hurt, but it didn't. The digimon in the spheres all look to her, she notices two more spheres, hidden in the corner. A boy and a girl. One has a digivice as well, the girl. Madi holds out her digivice quickly, "Open all containment spheres!" The spheres all open nearly instantly.
Two nonmon land directly behind Madi, prompting her to run to the spheres in hopes that the newly freed digimon can fight back. She's not fast enough for the closest one, she turns just in time to see its opened jaws coming for her arm!
"Bada boom!" Impmon yells, nailing the nonmon in the face before it can get Madi.
"Yeah!" The girl says, "Great job Impmon!" The boy. The two humans run to their friend's side.
"I hate to break this reunion short, but we're in a fight here!"
"Right!" They say in unison. The girl lifts the digivice up, the boy's hand joining hers around the digivice "Digivolve!"
A brilliant flash of light comes from Impmon as he digivolve a into a large, demon digimon. "Impmon digivolve to! Beelzemon!" He grins at the nonmon before him. "Now ya jerks are gonna pay!" He holds out his arm, which appears to be a giant cannon. It pops open on the top and bottom, revealing a charging energy blast.
"Ya have ta get everyone out of here now!" He yells. "This might be our only chance!"
Madi runs over to a closed door, "This way!" She yells to the others. "Open door!" She yells, the doors opening up to reveal another hallway. The digimon all follow, running through as Madi waits.
"Corona blaster!" The mega level digimon fires, destroying the nonmon instantly. He looks up, the cloaked man staring down, his arm held to his side to signal to his creations not to move. "Oh have I got somethin' for you!" He raises his arm, anxious about the revenge to be had.
His tamers run to him, "Impmon, no! We have to go!" They say hurriedly.
He doesn't break his gaze with his former captor. "Ai, Mako…you have to go without me. I can't let this jerk hurt anyone else."
"But what if he comes after us again?" The girl, Ai asks.
"Yeah, he's too strong!" Her brother says.
He grumbles, "Hmph!" Knowing they're right, he starts to back toward the door.
Madi moves to the inside of the door, waiting for the trio to get through with her and the other digimon.
As Ai and Mako come through, Bellzemon stops, waving his gun in the air, making a pentagon, "Corona destroyer!" He yells, blasting through the traced shape.
An explosion from the impact as Madi closes the door with another command. Everyone is looking to her now. "Anyone know they way out?" She asks.