"Kabuterimon's Electro Shocker"
After we had some food and lots of water to drink from the Yokomon village I felt a lot better and was able to walk on my own and my brother didn't know bad I really was.
But now we were just walking around, not sure where we were going, but at least it wasn't as hot out as before.
"We passed this place before." Sora commented and I looked around to see that she was right.
Oh man, we're totally walking around in circles
"You mean we walked all the way around the whole planet?" Joe asked shocked.
"That just can't be! I can't walk that far, can I?" Mimi said falling to her hands and knees, Palmon in the same position as her as Gomamon panted as he crawled by them with his tongue sticking out of his mouth.
"My feet are hot." TK said falling back on his rear and Patamon sat on his knees.
I sat down beside him as V-Mon sat beside me, looking ready to go still and I wondered how he had so much energy to keep going.
Looks like we're taking a break." Matt said as he, Izzy, Tai, Sora and Joe stood in front of us Mimi, TK and me.
"It's not like we have someplace to be." Sora said agreeing.
"I guess you're right. There's no reason to hurry." Tai said.
"Check out Izzy. I bet he's trying to e-mail the aliens." Matt said when he saw Izzy had opened up his lap top.
"Maybe he's e-mailing them to beam him up." My brother joked making me roll my eyes and I looked over at the genius here.
"Still crashed and the warrantee's expired." Izzy sighed with a frown on his face.
"Hey, Izzy, I know how to get it to boot up!" Tai said running over and took the lap top from him and began whacking it.
"You just gotta give it some subtle adjustments." He said making Izzy freak.
"Hey, wait!" Izzy yelled as he grabbed his lap top back and moved a few feet away from him as he held it under his arm.
"Are your brain cells malfunctioning?" Izzy asked making me tilt my head in confusion.
What was that supposed to mean?
"If that means he's dumb, then the answer is yes." I said making my brother frown at me as V-Mon chuckled.
"Dai." Tai said in a warning tone.
"Sorry." I said as I leaned back on the ground with my arms behind my head.
"Gosh, you're acting like I'm hurtin' the dumb thing." Tai said with a shrug.
"Too bad your brain isn't as big as your hair. Maybe Izzy doesn't want grimy finger prints and dents all over his computer." Sora said making Tai pout and cross his arms as I smirked.
See why I admire this girl?
Hey, look, you guys see that smoke over there?" Tai asked as he looked over in the distance.
I'll check it out." He said running off.
"Hey, Tai, wait for me!" Agumon called running after him.
"The attention span of a gnat." Joe commented.
"Ah, whatever." Matt said.
"Ah, we got graphics, we got sound. Beautiful! Up and running." Izzy said happily.
"But this indicates that the battery needs recharging." The red head said.
"Hey, Dai, what's that thing that Izzy's carrying anyway?" V-Mon asked.
"Huh? Oh, it's a lap top. Where we come from, it's something that we use to send messages to people that are far away, play computer games, download music and all sorts of things." I said.
"Games? Music? What kind?" V-Mon asked.
"All different kinds." I said not really sure how else to explain it.
The blue dragon looked like he was about to ask something else, a confused look on his face, when someone interrupted.
"Hey everybody, get over here, quick!" I heard Tai call out to us, so we all got up and started running over and gasped when we saw a huge factory that looked dirty and made completely out of metal.
"Looks like a factory of some kind." Joe said as we all looked at it.
"Let's hope they can manufacture a way for us to get home." Matt muttered with a frown.
We all walked down the hill we were on and went into the factory, trying to see if there was anyone there.
"I wonder what they make in there." Joe wondered.
"I don't know, but wouldn't it be great if there's a Manufacturers' Outlet store? They always have killer deals." Mimi said with a smile.
"Don't ask me how but there doesn't seem to be anybody here." Matt said.
I wonder why I don't find that surprising.
Anyone catch the sarcasm there?
As we explored this place, no one was talking and the tense silence was creepy.
I was not used to this.
The only times I ever heard silences like this was when Kari or I got really sick and that's when things were really bad because everyone was scared that we would die or whatever.
It almost happened once with Kari when I was a baby.
It's a very long story that I don't remember too well and that Tai never liked to talk about.
I asked about it once and he snapped at me for it.
There's gotta be someone running the equipment." Sora instisted.
"Well, I dunno, it appears to be doing quite well all by its-self." Izzy pointed out.
Matt, what're the machines making?" T.K. asked.
"Ya got me, maybe parts for robots or space-ships." Matt said with a shrug.
"Somebody's gotta be moving those belts, and people gotta eat. So is there a cafeteria in this place, 'cause we could really use a good meal!" Joe shouted into the empty space.
Everyone in our group all split up, Tai, Joe and Sora going off in one direction with their digimon as Izzy and Tentomon disappeared and I stayed with Matt, TK, Mimi and our digimon watching the weird machines that were being built.
Things got a little freaky when the lights went up and everything shut down, but they then soon came back on and the machines started taking the weird doohickey thing apart.
Matt led us all outside and we were high up to see most of the town we were in.
Soon enough, Izzy came running up to us saying that he found the power source to this place and my brother's group all came running over to us a few seconds after that.
"Hey you guys, listen up!" Tai yelled as he ran over.
We have gotta get outta here, now!" Tai insisted urgently.
"What do ya mean, Tai?" Matt asked.
"Finally lost your mind?" I asked making V-Mon chuckle.
Just then some huge cyborg just jumped through the floor or roof of the building we were standing on right in front of us.
"Oh my God! It's the Terminator!" I yelped latching onto TK and he did the same to me.
"Actually, that Andromon." Tentomon said.
"Let me guess; we have nothing to worry about, he's a nice digimon. I think that's poppycock and should run." I said.
"Capture intruders, sensors detect hostility. Bring intruders into firing range." The cyborg said.
See, even he pretty much just told us to do.
"Uhh…Mister whatever-mon, are you talking to us?" Mimi asked innocently.
"Bring missiles to position." Andromon said as he began to get ready to fire off missile that looked like fish that came out of these compartments of his chest.
"And…FIRE!" he said shooting the missiles at us and we all screamed as they headed over to us.
And it was heading STRAIGHT TOWARDS ME AND TK!
"TAI!" I yelled.
"MATT HELP!" TK yelled as we clung to each other.
"TK!"
"DAISUKE!"
Our brothers both yelled in worry as their gizmos both started to glow in this bright white light that also covered Gabumon and Agumon.
"Gabumon digivolve too…GARURUMON!"
"Agumon digivolve too…GREYMON!"
Garurumon jumped in front of us and easily knocked the missiles away from us and I swear I could kiss that wolf.
Andromon then started firing off bullets at us making everyone dance away from them, but Greymon soon broke them so we were safe.
"We need to get the heck outta here!" I said grabbing the blonde boy's hand and pulled him over to where our brothers were V-Mon and Patamon right behind us.
"Who challenges Andromon?" the cyborg demanded.
With a snarl Garurumon lunged at the Andromon, only to be flung into Greymon who had also charged him.
"Bungling weaklings!" Andromon roared as he jumped down the ledge he'd thrown the two digimon off.
"Get 'im, Greymon!" Tai called to his partner as I was safely hidden behind him.
"Recycle that hunk of tin!" Matt joined in as he did the safe with TK.
"You puny ones dare to challenge me?" Andromon scoffed.
Sadly the crazy cyborg was pretty strong and Greymon and Garurumon were easily getting knocked around.
"He's more powerful than either of our digimon." Matt gasped.
"Maybe because he's all machine, it's almost like he's digivolved far beyond the other digimon." Sora suggested.
"Dude, that sucks." I said.
"Is it possible that we could lose?" Tai asked himself.
Greymon tried to attack him, but the cyborg just picked him up and used him like a baseball bat and hit the blue wolf back making me wince.
"He's beaten them both now." Tai sounded both frustrated and frightened.
"Looks like there's no hope." Matt said sadly making me frown.
No hope?
NO HOPE?!
Dang it, I did not survive getting eating by giant insects, dinosaurs, sea monsters, falling off of cliffs and heat stroke to all of a sudden be killed by thing Terminator wannabe."
"We can't just give up now! I refuse to do that. There's gotta be something we can do. I am not dying this way and I doubt anyone here wants to die like this either, so stop acting so pathetic and somebody DO SOMETHING!" I yelled making everyone look at me in shock.
Izzy seemed to have thought of something and was typing away on his lap top and Tentomon soon was covered in that white light as Izzy's gizmo also lit up with that light.
"Tentomon digivolve too…KABUTERIMON!"
The lady bug became this huge purple bug and then charged in to fight Andromon and Izzy soon figured out that there was something up with the cyborg's leg and Kabuterimon used this move called Electro Shocker that was a blast of lightning that shot the leg and a black gear popped out and was destroyed.
"That black-gear reprogrammed my system somehow. I'm normally a non-violent digimon." Andromon explained.
"You coulda fooled us." Tai said as he stood in front of me in a protective way.
"No kidding." Sora concurred.
"I told you he's a digimon and not an android." The girl whispered to Joe.
"I never meant to hurt anyone." Andromon began apologetically.
"Don't give it another thought, hey we all make mistakes." Matt assured.
"Yeah, I do it all the time. It's no biggie." I said with a smile.
"I can't answer your questions about how this place came to be or what it's for but I can be of some help." Andromon said and then he pointed to a nearby tunnel.
"The best way to escape from here is to follow the underground water-way, the labyrinth begins just beyond this point."
"Thanks for your help, Andromon." My brother said.
"I hope you find your way home, and no matter what try to remember the big guy that turned out to be not so bad." Andromon said to us.
"There's one thing you can count on; we'll never forget you, Andromon." Tai said.
I guess he's actually an OK guy now that he isn't trying to kill us, but I have this weird feeling that there's gonna be this thing when we meet him in the future that's going to be trouble.
I'm not sure why though.
(Later)
"I know I can do this. Really I can…okay, ready, set…" Mimi muttered as she jumped into the sewer we were now walking in.
Yeah, pretty nasty, but whatever.
"Okay, that only took four minutes, let's get outta here." Tai said.
Am I the only one who finds strolling leisurely through the sewers just the slightest bit disgusting?" Joe complained.
"Tell me the truth, Izzy, was it your computer that made Tentomon turn into a superhero?" T.K. asked excitedly.
"Prodigious, huh?" Izzy answered proudly.
"Could your computer make Patamon become a superhero?" TK asked pointing to the flying hamster on his head making me excited as I bounced over to them.
"Ohh, V-Mon too! V-Mon too. It'd be awesome to see what he's look like." I said as I began to imagine what he would look like and sadly I was only able to come up with a blue version of Greymon but with yellow stripes and spikes going down his back and tail.
"I suppose that is possible." Izzy replied.
"Wow, OK." TK said as Izzy opened up his lap top and turned it on, excitement bubbling up inside of me.
"Let's see now…" Izzy muttered as he typed.
"What's happening?" TK asked.
"What's goin' on?" V-Mon asked as he crawled up onto my back to look over my head to see what was happening.
"That's strange…" Izzy said as the lap top went blank and was turned off.
"Hey!" Izzy and I cried; him in disappointment and me in annoyance.
That was so not fair!
"The program's right, but nothing is happening." The red head said as he tapped the keys, trying to get it to work.
"Just give it a few whacks, that'll do it!" Tai said eagerly.
"Let us try!" Agumon offered.
They both rushed over with their hands raised, ready to whack the lap top, but Izzy, TK and I all moved out of the way quickly.
Sadly, this ended with my goggle head brother and his orange dino hitting each other of the heads instead, large bumps appearing soon after.
"Sorry guys, but a computer is not a toy." Izzy reprimanded.
"Now that you boys have holes in your heads maybe your brains will get enough oxygen." Sora quipped.
All of us laughed at that as the two just pouted.
I really have to wonder though about when V-Mon will finally digivolve and I get to see what he looks like.
I hope it's soon.
TBC