Alone Together
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Daisuke ducked behind a pillar as darts crashed into it and she glared at a Highbreed who had fired the darts at her, Gwen then launched mana blasts at it but it dodged and fired darts from its hand at her. "It's trying to run!" she shouted. "Cut it off!" she told the others as Ben jumped down from a stack of crates but the Highbreed elbowed him sending him flying and he rolled across the floor and fired his blaster making the Highbreed stumble back.
"V-HEADBUTT!" Veemon shouted as he jumped and rammed the Highbreed in the face.
"Vermin!" it shouted throwing Veemon away.
"I got this!" shouted Daisuke as she turned into Echo Echo in a flash of gold light and she multiplied into six duplicates. "Going somewhere they asked the Highbreed who slammed the ground and jumped behind Kevin but Ben fired his blaster allowing Kevin to absorb the stone floor and punch the Highbreed.
"Nice going Miss I got this covered," Kevin told Echo Echo and the six duplicates jumped past Kevin and tackled the Highbreed to the ground.
"Don't touch me creature," it told Echo Echo as it stood and headed to a machine.
"Don't let it get near that thing. It's a teleporter pod!" Kevin shouted as he ripped up some of the floor and threw it at the teleporter which short circuited.
"You've disrupted the transmission field!" the Highbreed shouted as it and Echo Echo were sucked into the teleporter.
"Dai," Ben said worried. Meanwhile the Highbreed and the Echo Echo duplicates crashed into a sandy dune.
"Micro vermin ridden carcass!" the Highbreed shouted.
"That's an insult right?" the duplicates asked as they surrounded the Highbreed.
"Your friend interfered with the teleporter settings," the Highbreed told them.
"To be fair, we were kind of distracted," one Echo Echo said.
"What, with you trying to kill us and all," another Echo Echo said.
"That's right I was. And I still am!" the Highbreed shouted as it lunged at the Echo Echo duplicates who jumped out of the way, the Highbreed rolled across the sound when Echo Echo then sent a sonic sound wave at it sending it flying back, the ground then suddenly shook.
"Was that an earthquake?" Echo Echo asked as a large creature erupted from the ground and the Highbreed and Echo Echo ran off when the creature dived under the ground again throwing Echo Echo into the air, the creature then emerged again. "Going to need backup," she said splitting into five duplicates and they grabbed onto the jaws of the creature. "Now, let's try this again," they said before they all jumped into the air and send soundwaves at the creature but it threw them away and dived under the ground again. Then it re-emerged and swallowed one Echo Echo before it spat her out in disgust, then it chased after the Highbreed who was running away. "Highbreed! Look out!" she warned and the Highbreed fired darts at the creature but they bounced off and Echo Echo jumped onto the creature and she screamed at it again allowing the Highbreed to fire more darts and this made the creature retreat. "What was that?" Echo Echo asked.
"A Dravek. Its kind is numerous on this planet," the Highbreed answered. "In this planet," she corrected.
"Then we better get off this planet before more of them show up," Echo Echo said.
"We?" asked the Highbreed.
"Yes. We. You couldn't beat that thing alone and I couldn't beat it alone, our only hope of survival is if we work together," Echo Echo told the Highbreed. "You know I'm right,"
"I know no such thing," the Highbreed told her.
"Whatever. I don't like this anymore than you do," she said walking off. "How do we get of this planet? Whatever it's called,"
"We are on Turrawuste. A desert world, useful only as a teleporter relay station," the Highbreed told her.
"So, how come we didn't beam into the teleporter?" Echo Echo asked.
"The damage to the pod must have temporarily shifted the focusing axis," the Highbreed answered.
"Can you fix it?" Echo Echo asked.
"If we find the teleporter pod station on this planet we won't need to fix it. Simply avoid hitting it with a rock while it is active," the Highbreed told her.
"Where is it then?" she asked.
"Impossible to tell," the Highbreed answered.
"For you maybe," Echo Echo said before she released a sonic scream across the vast and endless desert and a small flash of light appeared. "There, it will take a day or two on foot to reach it. Let's go," she told the Highbreed.
"Your kind disgusts me," the Highbreed told her and Echo Echo turned back into Daisuke.
"See? I'm just a regular human girl," she replied.
"That is worse. I will not allow such a filthy creature to spend another moment more in my presence," the Highbreed said turning its back to her. "I shall traverse to the teleporter alone," it said before the ground shook.
"We need to travel together. We have to watch each other's backs in case more Draveks show up," Daisuke told the Highbreed.
"If I am forced to travel with you, then you must keep ten paces behind me at all times," the Highbreed told her.
"I'm the one who knows the way," Daisuke retorted.
"Ten paces," the Highbreed said.
"Fine. Lead the way," Daisuke said and the Highbreed walked off with Daisuke following it from ten paces behind. "Hot enough for ya?" she asked the Highbreed wiping some sweat from her forehead.
"Yes," the Highbreed replied.
"It was just an expression. It means it is hot out," Daisuke said.
"It is obviously hot. I do not see the point of reiterating what we both already know!" the Highbreed snapped.
"I'm glad I didn't say, it's not the heat it's the humidity," Daisuke mumbled.
"There is no humidity. It is in fact the heat!" the Highbreed said and Daisuke sweatdropped, she then heard a groan and saw the Highbreed collapse to its knees, she then ran up but the Highbreed stopped her. "Do not touch me vile thing," it said.
"Here, you can use this to keep the sun off your head," Daisuke said as she removed her jacket and tossed it to the Highbreed.
"I do not require charity from vermin," it replied. "I only require a moments rest," it told her as Daisuke saw it start to dehydrate.
"Rest won't cut it. You're already dehydrated," she said.
"The one true species thrives in a much cooler climate," the Highbreed explained.
"Humans like it cooler then this too, but you're wasting away out here," Daisuke told the Highbreed. "I got a way for us to beat the heat," she said as she turned into her Cryonite form and she sent a beam of ice at the Highbreed but the ice evaporated quickly. "Huh?" she asked.
"A Cryonite's powers are considerably weaker in extreme heat," the Highbreed told her and Daisuke turned back to normal before she was enveloped in a flash of gold light and she turned into Big Chill who breathed ice onto the Highbreed. "Stop that this instant!" the Highbreed demanded in a female's voice.
"Wait? You're a girl?" Big Chill asked her.
"Yes. One of the last females of the Highbreed race," she answered.
"One of the last?" Big Chill asked.
"It matters not," the Highbreed answered and Big Chill noticed some water nearby.
"Water, I will bring some back for you," she said flying off and she scooped some water up when five points erupted from the ground and closed in around Big Chill who flew off and turned intangible and phased through the jaws of the Dravek and froze them shut. "It was a trap,"
"Gullible prey can be lured in by the right bait. Many predators use this to their advantage," the Highbreed told her.
"That thing's getting loose. We need to move," Big Chill told the Highbreed.
"You do not issue commands to me vermin," she told her. "Lesser beings do my bidding," she said as the Dravek broke free and attacked the two of them. "And I bid you to fight!" she shouted.
"Alright then. If you say so," Big Chill said flying off and she froze the Dravek which broke out of the ice. "We can't keep this up," she told the Highbreed.
"Follow my lead," she told her.
"And do what?" Big Chill asked.
"Freeze it," the Highbreed answered.
"Already tried that," Big Chill told her.
"From the inside! Stay inside and keep it frozen until I say otherwise," she told Big Chill who shrugged and flew inside and froze the Dravek. "Now!" she shouted and Big Chill flew out and the Highbreed fired darts at the Dravek and shattered it to pieces before she fell to her knees again. "Now that the danger has passed, I can locate water myself," she said as her chest opened and two tendrils came out and dug into the ground.
"Gross," Big Chill said.
"There is water beneath the sand, if one looks deeply enough," the Highbreed said. "There," she said.
"I didn't know Highbreed were some kind of plant," Big Chill said.
"We are not some kind of anything. The Highbreed are the only kind," the Highbreed replied as the tendrils came back into her chest and water emerged from the holes. Soon the planet's two suns began to set as Daisuke drank some water when she heard something.
"Did you hear something?" she asked the Highbreed.
"I heard nothing except you, human," she replied walking away and Daisuke looked around before she followed after the Highbreed. "Which is the same as nothing," unbeknownst to them hundreds upon hundreds of alien insects emerged from the ground and followed them, the ground then shook making Daisuke and the Highbreed stop.
"More Draveks underneath?" Daisuke asked and the Highbreed turned around.
"Worse," she answered turning around.
"Worse?" Daisuke asked turning around to see the swarm.
"Dasypodidae!" the Highbreed shouted.
"How can these be worse than Draveks?" Daisuke asked as the alien insects swarmed all over her and the Highbreed and tried to drag them underground. Daisuke was enveloped in a golden flash of light and she transformed into Heatblast who threw fireballs at the swarm. "This will take a second," she said before she saw the immense size of the horde. "Did I say a second? I meant an hour!" she shouted before running to higher ground. "Highbreed! This way!" she shouted and the Highbreed followed her, Heatblast then tossed a fireball at the nearby rock formation creating a landslide which crushed the Dasypodidae and the Highbreed was almost swept away but Heatblast caught her. "You're welcome,"
"How dare you touch me, you filthy vermin!" the Highbreed shouted and Heatblast jumped in front of her.
"What's your problem!? Yeah you don't like the aliens I turn into, I get that, but I saved your life, cut an alien girl some slack once in a while," she told the Highbreed who walked off and Heatblast followed her. "Ten paces behind my butt," Heatblast grumbled as the duo walked on until night had fallen. "This is as good a place as any to camp for the night,"
"No, we shall walk through the night," The Highbreed said.
"No, we shall camp here for the night," Heatblast said in the same tone as the Highbreed who looked at her.
"I would not use such an insolent tone with me, lesser creature," she threatened Heatblast who ran up to her.
"Oh yeah?" she asked the Highbreed.
"You have not yet seen me at my full power," the Highbreed told her. "See how the cool night air has begun to restore me?" the Highbreed asked her.
"Yeah, I've noticed." Heatblast said.
"I shall carry on from here; you have outlived your usefulness to me," the Highbreed said.
"Fine, go on," Heatblast said before they both heard loud roars in the distance.
"We shall camp here for the night," the Highbreed said, soon Heatblast was standing over a small campfire and she turned back into Daisuke who held her hands over the fire.
"Pull up a boulder, sit down," she told the Highbreed.
"So your infernal pit can deplete me of my strength?" she asked her.
"No. It's a campfire, it's tradition, you're supposed to sit around and talk," Daisuke explained.
"To you? For what conceivable purpose?" the Highbreed asked her.
"My name is Daisuke Motomiya, what's yours?" Daisuke asked.
"I am known as Reinrassic III, seventh daughter of the noble Highbreed house of Dirassa, direct descendant of the pure blooded High Order of Raseckt. Heir to the-," the Highbreed said.
"I'm gonna call you Rena," Daisuke cut her off.
"That is disrespectful Daisuke Motomiya," Rena told her.
"Please call me Dai," Daisuke replied. "And it's weird, despite the fact I don't trust you as far as Four Arms could throw you. Its cool how we've managed to work together to survive. I mean we're not friends or anything but we're not mortal enemies anymore either," she said .
"You and I are enemies," the Highbreed said.
"But we've been able to seen past our differences to help each other survive. Probably because I know what it's like to be not a Highbreed exactly but a whole bunch of other alien creatures like you. Thanks to the Omnitrix I can walk a mile in other alien's shoes, so in a way i can understand what it is like to be them, since I have been them," Daisuke said.
"Such presumption, but what is there to expect from a genetically inferior creature?" Rena asked. "Why would I a Highbreed be the slightest bit interested in befriending revolting likes of you?" she asked Daisuke.
"I was just trying to make conversation is all," she told her. "Find common ground and all that,"
"You and I are more than mere enemies. The Highbreed were the first race in the universe. All species since then other than pure-blooded Highbreeds are nothing but mongrels, hideous abominations of nature. Especially humans, the moment i no longer rely on your aid to protect me. Daisuke Motomiya i shall eradicate you and there will be one less vermin infesting a grateful universe," Rena told her.
"You can't think that. Not after I've been helping you," Daisuke told her.
"You are tired human, I shall take the first watch," Rena said.
"Oh no. I'm wide awake, I'll take the first watch," Daisuke replied making the Highbreed look at her and soon Daisuke was sleeping and Rena looked over at her and she moved toward her and Daisuke woke up and yelp as she fired darts at a Dasypodidae which had snuck up on Daisuke. The Dasypodidae snarled at Rena grabbed it before the Dasypodidae bit her and she roared as her arm was severed and it dropped to the ground. "Can you regenerate it?" Daisuke asked her.
"I cannot," Rena answered.
"But it can be healed?" Daisuke asked.
"Not from such an injury as this, not in these conditions," Rena answered holding her arm and Daisuke looked at her dismembered arm and she turned into Swampfire and grabbed Rena's arm and she walked over to her and held the arm up and vines wrapped around it and reattached Rena's arm which turned green and Swampfire turned back to Daisuke.
"Better?" she asked Rena.
"Why would you help me?" Rena asked her.
"Why would you help me?" Daisuke asked her back.
"It was in my best interests to stop that creature from harming you," she answered.
"Yeah? Well it's in my best interest to help those who need it," Daisuke told her and Rena sat down and looked away from Daisuke who then sat down on a rock and put some more wood onto the fire, she then felt the rock she sat on shake and she jumped off and Rena fired darts from her hand at the rock making it stop shaking and Daisuke smiled before a Dravek emerged from the ground and Rena fired darts at it and ran off with the Dravek chasing her.
"Dai!" Rena shouted and Daisuke grabbed a burning piece of wood and she ran towards the Dravek as Rena held onto one of the Dravek's five jaws.
"Open wide!" Daisuke shouted throwing the burning piece of wood into the Dravek's mouth and it roared and Rena dropped to the ground as the Dravek coughed and retreated under the ground. "Maybe you're right. We should walk at night," Daisuke said walking off and Rena followed her. "Thanks for saving me back there, you know this kind of shows Highbreed aren't that bad. I mean you're trying hard to be friends with a human," she told Rena who stopped walking and looked at Daisuke who kept walking. The next morning Daisuke and Rena came over a hill to see the teleporter pod. "There it is," Daisuke said running off but she saw Rena had stopped following her. "Not the ten paces behind thing again,"
"Go home Daisuke Motomiya. I shall remain here," Rena told her.
"Did you hit your head or something? We can finally get off this sand trap of death and get on with our lives," Daisuke said.
"I have spent too long with you Daisuke, and have therefore myself become contaminated," Rena said.
"Contaminated?" Daisuke asked her confused.
"As clearly evidenced by my abnormal behaviour. Risking my own life to save you, a lowly human," Rena said.
"Rena, what you did was a good thing," Daisuke told her.
"I have obviously become infected by your mongrel influence. And am now myself unclean," Rena said holding up her reattached arm.
"Even if that were true, why stay here?" Daisuke asked.
"A self imposed exile as it were," Rena answered. "I can never return home, ever. I could infect the rest of my kind. The only honourable thing, is to remain here,"
"No," Daisuke said.
"Because all lesser creatures except pure-blooded unadulterated Highbreeds must be expunged from the universe, including myself," Rena said.
"I thought I had gotten through to you. I thought you had changed," Daisuke said.
"This much is true, I have changed. And now I must pay the price," Rena said walking to the teleporter. Back on earth Kevin was trying to get the teleporter to work.
"It looks fine, but I can't make it work," he told Ben, Veemon and Gwen.
"We need to get that working Kevin, we need to find..." Ben trailed off as the teleporter activated and Daisuke came through and landed on her feet. "Dai!" Ben said happily as he ran towards her and hugged her as did Veemon.
"You gave us quite a scare," Kevin told her.
"Where's the Highbreed? Did it escape?" Gwen asked.
"I doubt it," Daisuke answered sadly and back on the desert planet with Rena she looked at the teleporter and she walked off with roars of the planets inhabitants echoing around her.
The end of the chapter
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