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Episode 3: Monica's Protector
"So tell me again exactly what happened?" Mack asked Finny. The group was back in the desert and the sun had been beating down on them ever since they had left the Hotel. Finny was still bragging about the events that took place last night.
"An evil Digimon showed up and wanted to kill us all. I was woken by a soft crash and it was a good thing I was. The thing was about to come in and attack us all!" Finny exclaimed dramatically.
"That's not how it happened. Tyromon said, sweatdropping.
"It's close enough." Finny said harshly to the dragon. Tyromon shrugged. "Back to my story. He was about ready to skin you all alive when I said to Tyromon," Finny paused dramatically. "'You had better digivolve! We're all counting on you!' Then he did! And boy did he get huge! He was a giant blue dragon with white and black spikes all over his body and a massive wingspan. He made short work of the evil Digimon."
"Funny how your story changes every time you tell it." Mack said. She smirked.
"Well that time was the truth. That's how it really happened." Finny shot back. He crossed his arms in defense.
"Not completely." Tyromon whispered to Kitsumon, who was walking beside him. Kitsumon laughed under her breath.
"Look, the point is I beat him, alright!" Finny said. He was getting annoyed.
"Technically Tyromon did all the work." Seb pointed out. "Or are you the one who digivolved?"
Finny frowned and the rest of the group giggled.
"Well he wouldn't have been able to do it if I hadn't had my Digivice." Finny said, taking out his red and white Digivice. "See."
"It's true! Finny did help me!" Tyromon said, smiling at his partner. Finny smiled back.
"Oh yeah, I forgot we had those." Mo said, pulling out her own purple one. She looked at it and than looked at Kitsumon. "So this thing will really help you digivolve?"
"Probably. I bet I could digivolve without it." Kitsumon said. "But I would advise you to keep it anyway."
"Yeah, whatever." Mo said.
"If this Digital World is anything like the games back home, then we probably do need them. The Digivice was an important part in the game." Theo pointed out.
"This is a game?" Kusamon asked.
"No, but it sure does feel like we've been pulled into one." Theo replied.
"I don't remember the Digivice in the game." Mack said.
"You got it at the beginning, remember?" Theo explained. "It shot out of the computer and then it was explained how it would trigger your partners evolution and hold other information."
"Oh yeah." Mack said. She pulled out her own Digivice, which was light blue and white. "But these didn't come out of the computer."
"Yeah, where did these come from?" Mo asked to no one in particular. She looked down to Kitsumon, who just shrugged her shoulders in reply.
"I think mine came from my cellphone." Jesse spoke up from behind the group. In his hands he had is own grey and white Digivice. "I had my cellphone in my pocket and when I got here it was replaced by this."
"Come to think of it, I don't have mine either." Finny said, checking his pockets one more time. All he had was his Digivice.
"I don't have mine either." Becky said. She held up her pink and white Digivice. "The last thing I remember doing with it was putting that mindless game onto it."
"You mean DiGiT?" Mo asked. "I had that too. I never got to finish it though.
"I liked that game." Sandy spoke up from the back. "I picked the green spots for my egg."
"That's the pattern on my digiegg." Ashimon explained. "Maybe that's how we became partners."
"It's a possibility." Jesse said, looking at Dokumon. "Did your egg have black diamonds on it?"
"Maybe. I wasn't paying attention when I hatched." Dokumon said. Sandy giggled and pulled out her Digivice, which was green and white.
"I wish you had come with a prettier Digivice." she told Ashimon. Ashimon looked at her. "I pink one would have been nice."
"Mine's pink." Becky said, holding it up for Sandy to see. Sandy smiled.
"Want to trade?" she asked.
"How many times do I have to tell you just to be happy with what you have?" Jesse asked her. Sandy frowned.
"I'll trade with you," Lexi said. "Mine's an ugly brown." she held the device up for Sandy to see. Sandy shook her head in disgust.
"No thanks." she replied.
"Darn it."
"Aww, it's not that bad." Mizumon comforted Lexi. Lexi smiled and put her Digivice back in her beg.
"I guess not."
The Digivice conversation ended and the group continued to walk in silence. The sun was still hot and all of them were uncomfortable.
"When are we gonna get out of this desert?" Lexi asked finally. Everyone was thinking the same exact thing.
"I don't know." Finny said, wiping his brow of sweat. "I hope it's soon."
"Me too." Mo said, trying to hold her hair off her neck. It wasn't helping much.
"If you want I can go see if there's anything up ahead." Inagomon offered. Everyone except Becky agreed to it. Becky, who was enjoying a nice breeze coming from the constant rapid buzzing of her Digimon's wings, didn't really want her to go.
"So, can I go?" Inagomon asked Becky. Becky looked around at the group. They all looked miserable.
"If you must." she said. Inagomon didn't think twice before buzzing off ahead.
"I hope she comes back soon." Bochamon complained as he sat down. "I'm dying."
"Me too, buddy." Seb said, taking a seat next to his Digimon. He noticed his Digimon's smooth and usually moist skin was drying out.
"She'll be back soon." Becky assured the group. No one said anything in reply. They were all too worn out.
Moments later, Inagomon came buzzing back as fast as she could. She landed in front of Becky, kicking up a lot of dust and sand as she did so.
"Guys, there's a forest up ahead! And it's a lot cooler in there!" she exclaimed happily.
"Then what are we waiting for!?" Finny shouted. With a sudden burst of energy he took of running in the direction that Inagomon had pointed out. Everyone else got up and took off after him in a matter of seconds.
"Guess we weren't as tired as we thought." Becky said as she ran with the group.
"I guess not." Inagomon buzzed beside her.
They arrived at the forest in a matter of minutes and found it to be much cooler that the scorching desert they were previously in.
"That is much better!" Finny said, laying down on the ground.
"You're telling me." Tyromon said, laying next to his partner.
"But now that we're here, we should keep moving. " Mo said as she walked over to Finny and Tyromon.
"Yeah, the sun will be setting soon. We have to find a place to stay." Kitsumon added in.
"Right! I'm on it!" Finny said, bolting back up. Tyromon lazily followed him. "Let's keep going."
The group continued walking until they came to a small grove of smaller looking trees. But there was something different about them.
"What is that stuff?" Mack asked. She walked up to one of the trees. It looked like every other tree in the forest except that it was smaller and had weird black patches covering it. Over the black patched appeared to be a red colored grid.
"That's Fractal Data." Inagomon explained. "There's no need to worry, it's perfectly safe."
"Says you." Mack said, poking it. "Why's it here?"
"The program is corrupted. As you probably know, the Digital World is completely made up of Data from your world, including the environment. The data making up these trees somehow got corrupted when transferred here. That's why they look like that. But other than that there's nothing wrong with it." Inagomon explained.
"So this in corrupted computer data?" Mo said, walked up beside Mack.
"Feels nice." Kitsumon said, following her partner.
"What do you mean?" Mo asked.
"I dunno, it just feels... energizing." Kitsumon tried to explain.
"She's right." Tyromon said, joining the blue fox beside the Fractal Data. "This is great!"
"For some unexplainable reason, the Data also gives off a certain energy to Digimon. It's good for healing." Inagomon continued her explanation.
"We'll have to keep that in mind in case on of you ever gets hurt." Becky said.
"Do you like it too?" Sandy asked Ashimon. Ashimon nodded her head.
"I prefer the orange though." she said.
"I wonder if there's pink." Sandy pondered to herself. Ashimon laughed.
As the group stood around the Data, they failed to notice another presence sneak up behind them.
"That's my data." a new voice spoke to them. They all turned around and found a small black lizard type Digimon.
"Is that Agumon?" Mo asked as she gazed at the green eyed Digimon.
"Yeah, but that's Blackagumon. You'll have to be careful around him." Kitsumon explained.
"Stay away from that!" the Blackagumon said. He took a step forward and, for some unknown reason, collapsed. He looked like he was in pain.
"What's wrong with him?" Finny asked.
"I haven't the foggiest." Tyromon replied. No one else had a chance to say anything because Blackagumon quickly got back to his feet. They noticed that his eyes looked glazed over now.
"GET OUT!" Blackagumon screamed. He released a bright flame from his mouth and ran at them. The attack narrowly missed Mo and Kitsumon.
"Run!" Finny shouted. Everyone turned and ran. Blackagumon smiled and chased after them.
"Now what do we do?" Mo panted "We can't keep this up all night!"
"Over this way!" Kitsumon told her. "We can hide over here."
Mo nodded and followed. But apparently she was the only one who heard. The rest of the group had kept running straight.
"Well at least we lost the Agumon." Mo said, breathing heavily. She was still too worn out to be running so much.
"Think again!" Blackagumon's voice came from behind them. Mo and Kitsumon turned and came face to face with the black dinosaur Digimon.
"Shoot." Mo said. Black Agumon smiled and blew another breath of fire at the two of them.
"Get down Monica!" Kitsumon yelled. She pushed her partner out of harms way at the last minute and the attack blew past them.
"Stand and fight me, you coward!" Agumon yelled. He prepared himself for another attack.
"Gladly." Kitsumon smirked. "I've been itching for a good fight." Agumon smiled and attacked, but Kitsumon easily dodged it.
"Fox Frost!" she screamed and released a cold breath with hundreds of minuscule ice crystals floating in it. Blackagumon tired to dodge, but he didn't get out of the way in time. The attack hit his tail tip and left claw, freezing them solid.
"You'll pay for that!" he muttered, getting ready to attack again.
"Be careful, Kitsumon!" Mo said from the sidelines. Kitsumon turned to smile and assure her partner that it would be alright, but another attack by Blackagumon caught her off guard as it slammed into her back.
"Kitsumon!" Mo yelled.
"Don't move! "Blackagumon said. "With her out of the way, I can take you out no problem."
"Look out, Monica!" Kitsumon said from the ground. "I'll protect you."
"But you're hurt." Mo said. She watched as Blackagumon made his way towards her. His mouth was glowing with the bright flame he was getting ready to release.
"It doesn't matter if I'm hurt. It's my job to protect you." Kitsumon said, shakily getting up from the ground. "I will always protect you!"
As Kitsumon said those last words, Mo's Digivice starts buzzing and glowing with a bright purple light. The light shot out and engulfed Kitsumon completely.
"Kitsumon digivolve to . . . MYOBUMON!"
"What!? You can digivolve?" the Blackagumon said as the light faded.
Mo just stared in awe as her new Champion Digimon came into view. Kitsumon had turned herself into a magnificent looking lavender colored fox with a white belly and blue markings. Several sharp red spikes with black tips lined her back and one of her two tails had a black buckle strapped around it. The red hat that she usually wore had been transformed into a helmet made of red Chrome Digizoid. Each of her now huge paws were tipped with four, light blue claws.
"Still want to fight me?" Myobumon spat at the Blackagumon. He turned to face her.
"You're still no match for me." he shot back.
"Think what you want." Myobumon said calmly. "ICICLE SPEARS!" Myobumon shouted. She opened her toothy jars and released several crystal icicles that were flaming blue right at Blackagumon. He didn't have a chance to even duck before the attack hit its target. Blackagumon instantly froze over and seconds later he burst into hundreds of data pixels and disappeared completely. Myobumon smiled and turned to face her partner.
"I told you I would always protect you." she said in a calm voice.
"I never doubted you for a sec!" Mo said happily. She hugged her Digimon around the neck, which proved to be more difficult that it looked seeing as Myobumon was pretty big.
"Climb on my back and well search for the others." Myobumon said, crouching down so Mo could climb on. "It's getting dark out."
"Let's go!" Mo said, trying not to slice herself on Myobumon's spikes. Myobumon stood up and bounded away through the trees at rapid pace, sniffing the air for the others' scent. As they ran, the new moonlight reflected off Myobumon's armor and lit the way.
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