Disclaimer: Although the severely warped and twisted imagination is my own, Digimon Xros Wars and its characters are the property of Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, Toei Animation, and TV Asahi.
| Digimon Xros Wars | Xtra | Part 22|
There was a question drifting in the back of Crystal's mind. She let it fester there awhile as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. Seeing herself standing there wearing the silver bikini that Zapmon had forced on her, she couldn't contain herself any longer. "Why the hell do I have to be dressed like this!"
However, to answer that question, it would probably be best to go back to Xros Heart's arrival at the Beach Zone.
As the name would imply, the Beach Zone was a composed of a glorious stretch of sandy beach with glistening waves beating gently against the shore. There were numerous palm trees, a few volleyball courts, and quite a lot of aquatic digimon all around. One of the palm trees kind of looked like Envy. There were also several wooden beach side shacks, primarily for the purpose of serving out refreshments, except for the largest one which belonged to Zudomon who was, for all intents and purposes, the digimon in charge of the entire beach.
"Well this is a pleasant change of scenery," Akari remarked as they were greeted by sunshine and the salty sea air. In fact, it seemed that it was one of the small handful of Zones that had somehow managed to go unconquered by the Bagra Empire. In short, the atmosphere was calm and peaceful.
"So maybe we can get our hands on the Code Crown quickly and enjoy the rest of the day on the beach!" Shoutmon suggested.
"Maybe," Taiki considered it. "But we still have to find it first."
There must have been a trick to it like there had been in the Shinobi Zone. Otherwise he couldn't imagine how such peaceful digimon could have been able to hang onto it like this.
"We might not have to look very hard," Crystal noted as she held up a hand to point out a banner hanging outside of the large beach side shack belonging to Zudomon. There was an image of the Code Crown overlaid with an announcement reading:
Annual Swimsuit Competition! Become Ruler of the Beach Zone for the Coming Year!
It went on to say that registration would begin that very same afternoon.
"A swimsuit competition, huh?" Zenjirou rubbed his chin appreciatively. He began to picture how the girls might look wearing practically nothing to reveal a fair amount of skin and steam blew out his nose at the prospect as he threw both fists in the air. "We definitely have to enter!"
Crystal groaned audibly. She would have nothing to do with this.
"Hm," Taiki contemplated the situation. "Well, it does seem like winning the swimsuit competition will be the easiest way for us to obtain the Code Crown."
"It looks like the competition might be girls only," Nene observed. In as much as the digimon lined up to participate had the appearance of aquatic animals, it was exceptionally difficult to determine their genders without speaking to them, she was only guessing based on the fact that all of them were wearing bikinis or other equally feminine looking swimsuits.
"Then I guess it's up to us girls to win this thing!" Zapmon declared without any hesitation.
"Like hell!" Crystal refused point blank. Unfortunately, as she turned to take her leave of Zapmon's ridiculous proposition, the small dragon caught her by the arm and held her there. "Let me go! I'm not doing this! You can't make me do this! It's stupid! I refuse to be a part of it!" Each exclamation was punctuated by Crystal struggling, rather unsuccessfully, to pull free from Zapmon's grasp.
"Come on," Zapmon persisted. "We've got hardly any girls as it is. You can't just walk out on us."
"I could if you would just let go of me!" Crystal stubbornly resisted.
"She must not be comfortable with her femininity," Nene suggested.
"It sure sounds that way," Akari agreed.
"No one asked you!" Crystal sighed in exasperation. The whole situation was entirely demeaning and the one responsible for recommending that they do a chapter like this was obviously evil. Nevertheless, Crystal's protests went unheeded and she eventually found herself being dragged into a changing room all the while proclaiming, "But we don't even have swimsuits!"
"Don't worry, the Monitamon have that covered," Nene assured her.
The three human girls were accompanied by Bastemon, the only other female member of Xros Heart of sufficient size to participate in the competition. Zapmon stuck to Crystal to make sure she didn't try to escape, but since there was no way she could find a respectable looking swimsuit in her size she couldn't actually join in the competition. Of course, when the small dragon began trying to undress her so she could get changed, Crystal fiercely drew the line by declaring, "I can do that myself!"
She snatched away the swimsuit that her partner had picked out for her and disappeared behind the curtain of one of the changing stalls to put it on. Which, of course, brings us back to where this all started.
"You're dressed that way because it makes you look sexy and you're trying to obtain the Code Crown for Taiki," Zapmon told her matter-of-factly as she ducked under the curtain to have look. "Really, I don't see what you're so self conscious about. It looks great on you."
"Yeah," Crystal murmured. "But I'm really not comfortable with showing this much skin."
"Well this competition isn't really about being comfortable," Zapmon started dragging her out from behind the curtain so they could regroup with the others. "It's about looking good so we can win."
Nene seemed to be perfectly at home in her own bikini which was pale lavender and held in place with strings so that there was virtually no fabric to cover her back. Akari had on a somewhat more modest light red bikini that was just a dark enough shade not to be mistaken for pink. Bastemon had on a leopard print bikini that closely matched her normal attire.
Crystal immediately felt that blue would have been a preferable color for her. It was more subtle than silver so she wouldn't have stood out so much. She grabbed a towel and immediately draped it around her shoulders like a poncho.
"Crystal, you really don't have to be so embarrassed," Bastemon gave the human a light pat on the head.
"She'll get over it eventually," Zapmon was fairly confident of that fact.
Once they were back outside Crystal noticed Lilithmon, adorned in a black bat-wing patterned bikini that barely seemed to fit over her voluptuous curves, accompanied by a school of Ranamon. Using the group of Ranamon around her, Lilithmon was pushing aside the other contestants to push her way to the front of the registration line.
"What digimon is that?" It was Crystal's first time seeing one of the Bagra Empire's three head officers and she already knew she didn't like her.
"That's Lilithmon," Akari told her, sounding somewhat resentful toward the busty evil digimon.
"She's also one of the three head officers of the Bagra Empire," added Nene.
"She has a lot of nerve thinking she can barge in on this competition," Bastemon hissed as her hackles began to rise.
Zapmon peered up at Crystal. "Still feel like walking away from the competition?"
"No," Crystal conceded. She calmly cast off the towel she had been keeping herself covered with. "Even though I probably won't be adding much to the competition, we really can't afford to let the Bagra Empire win."
Once all the contestants were registered they were lined up on a humongous stage so the voting could begin. As could be expected, the competition had brought together a huge crowd of enthusiastic male digimon who were cheering wildly, clearly not at all particular about the small assortment of humans who had joined the competition among all the digimon. Taiki was content to wait at the back of the crowd so he wouldn't get trampled, but Zenjirou was steadily pushing his way to the front so he could get a better look at the girls.
"Maybe this wasn't such a great idea," Taiki noted in consideration of the fact that Lilithmon was part of the competition. She was abiding by the rules of the competition and had remained civilized so far, pushing her way to the front of the registration line not withstanding, but it could easily get ugly once a fight broke out. Taiki didn't think it was a matter of 'if', but more a matter of 'when' given that he could anticipate that Lilithmon wouldn't take kindly to losing the competition, but even if she won she would likely begin to force her will on the inhabitants of the Beach Zone. And Taiki really didn't trust that group of digimon that Lilithmon had brought with her to the competition. She had clearly come prepared to engage in an aquatic battle.
"Next up we have-" Zudomon trailed off as he glanced at the name written on the registration form. "Omekamon?"
Omekamon stepped forward. Rather than actually wearing a swimsuit, he had hastily drawn a scribbled version of a bikini onto the front of his body. The odd puppet digimon had also attempted to draw himself a 'sexy' face, but it was really just his normal expression with additional colors scribbled on to make it appear as if he was wearing lipstick and eye liner. He placed his cardboard hands on his hips and wiggled them in what he probably intended to be a seductive manner, but all that earned him was a chorus of intense laughter from the audience. Disappointed by their reason, he immediately covered his face and erased his old expression to replace it with a new sulky one, complete with drawn on tears trailing down his cheeks as he ran off stage wailing sorrowfully.
"Well then, that was rather unexpected," Zudomon quickly flipped to the next registration form so they could get on with competition.
It eventually came to be time for the judges to decide on a winner for the swimsuit competition. Once that was out of the way, an Orcamon came out to give Zudomon the envelope containing the name of the winner. Zudomon carefully ripped it open, extracting the small sheet of paper from inside and glanced down at the name written across it.
"And the winner of this year's swimsuit competition is none other than the lovely Shutumon!" he announced to a fresh chorus of cheers from the waiting crowd.
Of course, this didn't rest well with Lilithmon. The instant Shutumon stepped forward to receive her prize, she was ambushed by the group of Ranamon that had accompanied Lilithmon to competition.
"RANDOM LASER!" Sparrowmon swooped down and immediately started blasting the Ranamon off of Shutumon. Zapmon hopped down from Sparrowmon's back with Crystal and Nene's Xros Loaders in hand, skillfully tossing them over to both girls. Ever since they had discovered that Lilithmon would be entering the competition, they had been expecting for something like this to happen.
"I guess now that the competition is over we can settle this the old fashion way," Crystal felt much better once she had her hand wrapped around her Xros Loader. "Slashdramon, Black Fladramon, Digi Xros!"
The two digimon came together with the result being that Slashdramon became adorned with Black Fladramon's flame armor. "Slash Fladramon!" The metal claws on his flame gauntlets began to glow with red-orange fire as he swung them at the group of fleeing Ranamon to produce crescent shaped shockwaves. "Claws of Fire!"
A portal suddenly opened up over Lilithmon as she held her arms out wide. "Calmaramon, dispose of these pests!"
"Titanic Charge!" Calmaramon fell from the portal, pulling her tentacles in close as her squid-like body began to rotate like a drill as she threw herself at Slash Fladramon. Slash Fladramon spun around to face her, just narrowly catching her spinning body between his clawed hands. The rotation of Calmaramon's lower body gradually came to a halt once she was caught between Slash Fladramon's claws and then the flame armored dragon flung her out to sea before stomping out after her, not unlike a rampaging kaiju.
"Death the Cannon!" Beelzebumon descended upon Lilithmon with a barrage of blasts from his arm mounted cannon. She was less than pleased to see him.
"Three Victorize!" Shoutmon X4 fired a blast from the V on his chest at Lilithmon to quickly divert her attention away from Beelzebumon by providing her with yet another target. Fortunately, the crowd surrounding the competition stage had already scattered as soon as the fighting started so there wasn't any trouble getting through.
Omekamon suddenly burst back onto the stage with Zenjirou slung over one shoulder. The puppet digimon set him down by the girls before charging in to join the battle. Most surprisingly, he ran up to one of the Ranamon and performed a flying kick which easily struck her in the face causing her to explode into a golden cloud of data.
"Wait, you're telling me that guy can actually fight?" Zenjirou became even more baffled.
"Apparently so," Crystal verified for him. "You know, this might prove useful."
"What are you going to do?" Akari wondered aloud.
"I'm going to use her vanity against her," Crystal responded as she held up her Xros Loader again. "Zapmon, Gururumon, Lighdramon, Omekamon, Digi Xros!"
Zapmon, Gururumon and Lighdramon came together to form X-Zapdramon Fighter Mode while Omekamon let out a surprised "Omek!" before transforming into a cardboard approximation of the Omega Blade with hastily scribbled digi-code letters written on both sides of the sword and the felt tip of an over-sized marker forming the point of the blade. X-Zapdramon took hold of the cardboard sword with one hand. "X-Zapdramon Fighter Mode + Omeka Blade!"
"Rakugaki Rengeki!" X-Zapdramon Fighter Mode made rapid slashing motions with the Omeka Blade causing a rainbow of ink to splatter over Lilithmon as it took on the shape of letters to form the word 'loser' in a number of different languages as the ink stained Lilithmon's body. At first Lilithmon simply laughed it off as a pathetically weak attack until she actually bothered to look at some of the writing to realize what had been written all over her. She rushed over to the water's edge and began furiously scrubbing at the ink trying to make it come off.
"Sorry, but that ink isn't water soluble!" X-Zapdramon Fighter Mode declared as she brought the Omeka Blade around and made another dive at Lilithmon. "I'm afraid it's permanent!"
"Keep that thing away from me!" Lilithmon caught the Omeka Blade in her hand, but not without more ink splattering across her face to make her look like a clown.
"Magma Breath Explosion!" Slash Fladramon turned away from Calmaramon to exhale an explosive blast of super hot fire onto Lilithmon's exposed back, effectively burning away her already absurdly skimpy bat-wing bikini. The embodiment of lust then blushed profusely, out of a combination of both anger and embarrassment, before vanishing into a portal.
"Fine, I don't feel like playing with you anymore today!" were Lilithmon's parting words. The few remaining Ranamon attempted to flee into the portal after her, but the portal closed before they could make it.
"Razor Flame Impaler!" Slash Fladramon raised his flaming metal claws and stabbed them into Calmaramon, roasting her alive before she finally dissolved into a cloud of golden data so that the flame armored dragon could finally return to shore.
Once the battle was over, Shutumon decided that she would gladly hand the Code Crown over to Xros Heart. The Ranamon who had accompanied Lilithmon surrendered and were now under Zudomon's supervision. So, all that was left was to enjoy the rest of the day on the beach. Of course, Crystal had something else she wanted to take care of first.
"Hey, has anyone seen my clothes?"
Zapmon just looked up at her blankly. "I'm pretty sure you left them back in the changing room."
"That's what I thought, but when I went back I couldn't find them," Crystal explained.
"Huh, well that's weird," Zapmon scratched the back of her head. "Well, you can worry about that later. You might as well enjoy the beach while the sun is still out."
Crystal was going to be awfully mad when she found out that Zapmon had tied her clothes up on a palm tree, but the small dragon decided that it would be worth it once the day was through. After all, they didn't get too many chances to just relax like this in the Digital World. It was best to just enjoy it while they could.
To Be Continued...
| Digimon Xros Wars | Xtra | Omake 3 |
Lilithmon, splattered with multi-colored ink and with her bat-wing bikini ruined and burned into tatters, stormed past Blastmon once she returned to the Bagra Empire's Headquarters. She seemed even more irritable than usual.
"Did you have a bad day Lili-tan?" Blastmon immediately attempted to comfort her.
"It could have been better," Lilithmon grumbled. She didn't so much as slow down to answer him. "I'm going to have to borrow your bath for awhile," she added as an afterthought. She could get revenge on Xros Heart later, but right now she desperately wanted to rid herself of all the horribly obnoxious ink that had gotten all over her. She would never have pegged a digimon as weak and pathetic as Omekamon as being such a remarkable nuisance.
"Mind if I join you?" Blastmon hopped along after her as best he could being just a bouncing head. It really wasn't the same not having any arms. He couldn't quite get himself to sparkle like he used to. "Lili-tan?" he called after Lilithmon again since she seemed to be ignoring him. "You still haven't answered my question!"
"Alright!" Lilithmon turned on him. "Just be quiet!"
Omake 3 - End
Author's Notes: Well, Halloween is upon us and next month is NaNoWriMo (or Nation Novel Writing Month) so this will probably be my last update for awhile. Not to mention, even after November, things tend to get pretty chaotic around here during the holiday rush. I'll certainly try to update when I can, but time is going to become pretty scarce for me in the months ahead. Even so, I do plan for this story to continue. It just might take awhile for it to get back on track after this.