-Chapter 43-
To make matters worse I found Kitty in bed with me the next morning, like she hadn't learned anything the day before. Once we were both awake she gave me her excuse that since Phoebe was out of action maybe she could take her place for a while.
"No." I replied. "Get out of here, did you see what she did to Grandkuwagamon yesterday? If you sleep with me without her permission she'll probably do the same to you."
"What if she doesn't wake up?" She had the nerve to ask.
"I don't want to think about that, I know she will." I said.
"But what if she doesn't?" Kitty asked again.
"Fine you want it that way, I'll start sleeping with Zari."
"But if she doesn't want too?" Kitty asked.
"Then there's Ranamon." I said.
"And then what if . . . . . " Kitty continued.
"Then I just won't sleep with anybody ever again." I interrupted.
"Do I really mean that little to you?" She asked. "Am I really that bad?"
"No, Kitty you're beautiful, sexy, strong." I said.
"Then why won't you. . . . " She began to say before I cut her off.
"Because Phoebe and I have been together a long time, we have children, for crying out loud."
"Cj I need to tell you something. Kitty get out, I told you he wasn't going to." Ranamon said as she entered the room.
"Well I had to try. " Kitty said.
"What do you have to say Ranamon?" I asked.
"She told me to make sure Kitty is out of the room first." Ranamon said.
"Who? Zari?" I asked.
"No, Phoebe." Ranamon said.
"She's awake ? " I asked.
"No it's like I can hear her in my head, but I have to be close to her to do so." Ranamon said.
"What else did she say?" I asked. She just rolled her eyes as Kitty layed next to me, nervous.
"Kitty get out." I said.
"But." She replied.
"I'll talk to you later." I said.
Kitty got up and stomped out of the room, taking a moment to stick her tongue out at Ranamon. Ranamon closed the door behind her and came up and sat on the bed next to me.
"So what'd she say?" I asked as I sat up.
"She said first to remind you of the time you almost set the house on fire with fireworks in case you didn't believe me." Ranamon began.
"Ok, and then what?" I asked.
"She said that she promised to "screw your brains" out yesterday morning, but she can't now because it's going to take so long for her to wake up."
"Mhm, and?" I asked.
"She said that well, I, um, well, she doesn't, doesn't trust Kitty, and well . " She struggled to say as she awkwardly moved her hand towards my crotch.
"She wants me to sleep with you instead? " I asked.
"Mhm." She playfully replied.
"She's in a coma and this is her primary concern?" I asked.
"Well she really doesn't want you to sleep with Kitty."
"WHAT THE DIGIBYTES? " Kitty angrily banged on the door, apparently she was listening in the entire time.
"SHE SAID IF YOU WEREN'T ALWAYS HUGGING ON HIM MAYBE SHE'D LET YOU." Ranamon yelled back.
"And if I refuse?" I asked after all the yelling was over.
"Then she'll sleep with you as soon as she can." Ranamon said.
"But why would you do that?" She asked a few seconds later as she got her hand around my traitor of a cock that was already hardening. It felt good, she was cute, too cute, but nothing about it felt right.
"Hey, hands off." I said. "Either Kitty is in or she breaks down the door, but since Phoebe isn't too keen on that I can't do that to either of them."
"Yeah, she wasn't even supposed to know." Ranamon said as she retracted her hand. "But she was already in here and she didn't go away like she was supposed to."
"Kitty come back in." I said.
"What? You're not going to sleep with her either?" She asked as she opened the door and came back in.
"Something tells me you wouldn't let us anyway." I said.
"You girls just want to snuggle for awhile?" I asked. "Nothing naughty just, kind of relax for a while ."
"Ok." Kitty said.
"Sure." Ranamon replied.
So for the next few minutes I was sandwiched between two beautiful digibabes. The self-control I had to exhibit at that moment.
"So my wife is ok?" I asked.
"She said she'll wake up as soon as she can. "Ranamon replied. "You can talk to her if you want."
"I probably will, in a bit. Who do you think we should go after next?" I asked.
"Indramon." Kitty replied.
"Ehh, he's clear to the west isn't he?" I asked.
"Why don't we talk about it later, I think we should focus on finding the other chosen digimon. " Ranamon said.
"We don't even know where to begin to look for them." I replied.
"What about Arukenimon and Okuwamon?" I asked.
"Nope, they're not chosen." Kitty replied.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"They were working for Grandkuwagamon. " She replied.
"Yeah, but they don't now. " I said.
"They're not the chosen ones. " Kitty sternly replied.
"Ok." I replied.
"They can't be, they'd know better than to associate with a dark king. " Ranamon explained.
"If you say so." I said. "Now if you ladies don't mind I'm going to go see my wife."
"Awwwwwe. " Kitty complained as Ranamon moved so I could get out of bed.
"Why don't you two go see what everyone else is up too and report back?" I asked.
"Ok." Ranamon agreed.
We all left the room together after I got dressed, then I went to see Phoebe on my own.
She was still out like a light, occasionally breathing, but otherwise completely still.
"Cj." I heard her voice in my head as I approached.
"Hey baby girl." I replied.
"You didn't sleep with either of them?" She said after a few seconds. All her responses seemed to take a few seconds. I don't know why.
"I can't, not while you're like this." I said.
"I'm fine I think, I just need time to recover." She replied.
"How long?" I asked.
"I don't know, this never happened to me before. I might not ever" She replied.
"Don't say that, we'll stay here as long as we need to ok?" I said.
"I love you. If I can't get out of this, go be with Ranamon." She said.
"Pheebles?" I asked.
"I'm serious, Charley and Nina need a mother. And I don't trust Kitty." She said.
"I love you, I'm running ou of stren to spea, I nee ore est . "
She went silent after that.
"I love you too baby girl." I said, hoping she could hear me. I gave her a kiss on the cheek and hobbled outside, my arms only slightly less sore than the day before.
"How is she?" Arukenimon asked. I was surprised she stayed the night.
"She's still in a coma." I replied. "I don't really want to talk about it."
"Are we free to go home?" A random mushroomon asked.
"Yeah, Grankuwagamon is dead, go on home if you want, tell the others." I said.
The mushroomon ran off to do just that and before long most of the refugees were leaving the village for their homes.
Henry and Claire seemed to be having a moment from the sound of things, so I fought all temptation to say something about lovebirds, left them alone like a decent person and went to check on Zari, which is also where the digibabes went.
"How are you holding up?" Zari asked.
"The sooner she wakes up the better." I said.
"I heard she can still speak." Zari replied.
"Only through telepathy. " I said. "And even that tired her out so now she just needs to sleep."
"For how long?" Zari asked.
"I don't know, this never happened before, I've never seen her so mad." I said.
"All because of little ole me?" Ranamon asked.
"Not entirely." I said. "She worries about everything, seeing you get hurt was probably just the final straw."
"She freaked out like that when you were hurt too." Kitty said. "She didn't tell you her eyes went all purple and she ripped all those ogremon to shreds did she?"
"No she didn't. " I said.
"She didn't lose consciousness though." Ranamon pointed out.
"She was really weak after it though, we had to do most of the work to drag you back to the palace." Kitty replied.
It probably took more power to wound a mega than destroy several champions.
"Well as long as she wakes up it will be ok." I said. "I'll talk to her about it then."
"What's going on over here?" Henry asked as he approached us with Claire trailing behind.
"Phoebe is still unconscious." I said.
"We're going to go look through that, um, tree castle thing over there in case they took my chikorita there." Claire said. "You want to come along?"
"I kind of want to stay here in case my wife wakes up or becomes communicative again." I said.
"Communicative? She's in a coma." Henry said.
"Yeah, but, I don't know how, but she can still speak through telepathy, she just can't move." I said struggling to explain. "But she's tired, so she can't do it all the time. I don't know how her powers work man, I just appreciate them when they do."
"You sure you're not just hallucinating?" Henry asked.
"I'm sure, she uses telepathy with me a lot, it's like our secret language." I replied.
"I heard her too." Ranamon backed me up.
"Ok if you say so, how about you Zari? Are you coming?" Henry asked.
"I think I'm just going to chill for a bit, I'm still sore from yesterday. You go on ahead." Zari replied.
"Well ok, see you all later then." Henry said as he set off for the castle with Claire staying closely behind.
"Bye." Kitty replied.
The girls stayed out for awhile after I went back to my wife. I just sat on the floor next to her, waiting for her to wake up or at least hear her voice in my head again, but she just laid there, softly breathing as the minutes turned into hours. With me missing her voice even more with every passing second. Kitty came in after a while to check on me.
"You're still in here?" She asked.
"I don't want her to wake up alone." I replied.
"Henry and Claire still aren't back from the castle." She said. "Maybe we should check on them to make sure they're ok?"
"It's a big place, and they want to search it thoroughly." I replied.
"Are you sure?" She asked. "I know you want to stay with her, but it'd be silly to let something happen to them over, well this."
"Come on, I can't fight very well without you." She said.
"That's a lie and you know it." I replied.
"No it's not, and even if it is, you need to do something today aside from sit in that corner." She said as she crossed her arms in annoyance.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yes." She replied.
"You know you're never going to replace her." I said.
"That's not what this is about." She replied. "This is about your friends."
"Now either you come with me or I'm going by myself." She said.
"So Ranamon isn't going?" I asked.
"She can't fight very well without her either." Kitty said.
"And why is that?" I asked.
"I don't know, it's just something about you non-digi people." She replied.
"Ranamon said she'd stay with her in your place so she won't wake up alone." She continued. "So are you going or not?"
"Ok." I said, too mentally and psychologically exhausted to have a fight about this. I didn't want to hurt Kitty. She pushed her boundaries, a lot, but then again most of that was Phoebe's fault.
So I got up and we went off to the castle together to see what our friends had gotten themselves into.
It turned out they were fine and just taking their time going through every single piece of furniture looking for their pokémon. Since we were already there, we helped them look for a while as there was still a lot of rooms to go through. This helped me get my mind off Phoebe for a bit and gave me a chance to try to bond with Kitty in a more appropriate manner. The castle reminded me a lot of the palace Phoebe grew up in, but it was so much bigger than that. There were over 200 rooms and most of them were nicely furnished, while others were completely empty, and some seemed to have a lot of damage incurred from battles in the distant past. A lot of the "furniture" was carved out of the tree itself and was basically part of the floor, but there were some more conventional pieces mixed in.
"Why is this place so huge? Did Grandkuwagamon even live here?" Kitty asked as we began to search through one of the many rooms.
"Well if I was an evil forest king, where would I live? The biggest, fanciest house I could take? Or a tiny little hut like some of the houses in the village?" I replied. "I don't know why he would want to live anywhere else."
"Do you think he has any treasure? I could use some more rings." She said.
"I don't know, probably." I said. "I wonder if he found any of those statues he's not supposed to have. We should probably be looking out for those too."
"What are we going to do with those?" Kitty asked.
"If nothing else, we can keep the other dark kings from getting them." I replied.
"What are you going to do with more rings?" I asked.
"Wear them, duh." She replied.
"They don't have magical powers or anything?" I asked.
"They're shiny and they make me look sexier." She said.
"Who are you trying to look sexy for?" I asked.
"You don't get it do you?" She asked. "The better I look the easier it is to draw people in. You've seen me dance before, you know how my powers work. In a way, they are magical."
"You haven't done that in a while." I said.
"Yeah well, those bugs we were fighting were too spread out and a lot of them moved too fast, and they were soft and squishy so I didn't really need too." She continued to explain.
"If you say so." I replied.
Eventually we searched every room in the castle, found nothing, and returned to the village. By then it was sunset. Pretty much all the refugees went their separate ways, so we were down to our core team, the mechanorimon, and arukenimon, who was still hanging around for some reason I had no idea where okuwamon went or what he was up to.
By the time we got back Zari already had a campfire going within a fire pit towards the center of the village, and before long everyone but the mechanorimon gathered around it.
"So where are we going to go now?" Henry asked.
"Um I don't want this to be awkward, but what are we going to do about the spider lady? Is she with us now? Maybe she's supposed to be one of our partners?" Claire asked.
"No she's not." Ranamon replied. "The chosen digimon wouldn't knowingly work for a dark king."
"Well what if she didn't know?" Claire asked.
"She did though." Ranamon replied.
"We could see what's on the other side of the lake." I said.
"I think we are on the other side of it." Henry said. "We've gone more northeast than northwest, if we head south from here we'll probably end up on the other side."
"I don't know man, seems like we've been heading more north than anything." I said." At any rate we need to get back to our vehicles at some point." I said.
"Didn't we leave one of the robot guys back there too?" Zari asked.
"Yeah I think so, here's hoping he did a good job protecting them." I replied.
"What about those guys that had all the guns?" Claire asked.
"I kind of want to save them for later." I said. "We're having problems with a bunch of overgrown bugs, rifle-wielding dinosaurs might be a bit too much to handle at this point." I said.
"I say we keep going east. Hopefully by the time we have everything cleared up in that direction one of you will have your own digimon."
"Yeah, but by then who knows what will happen to our pokémon?" Claire asked.
"She's right, the sooner we find them the better." Henry agreed.
It was then that I realized something that probably should have been obvious.
"Arukenimon!" I exclaimed to get her attention as she was not really part of our group and thus she was sitting on her own outside of our little circle, but within the circle of mechanorimon that were on guard duty as usual. She was in her human form, as she had been for most of the day.
"What is it?" She asked as she nervously approached us.
"The guy you had locked up in that tower, who is he and what do you know about him?"
"He's a thief." She said. "We were holding him for execution once Grandkuwagamon arrived to oversee it why?"
"What did he steal?" I asked.
"Nothing he was just snooping around the tower, looking for things to steal." Arukenimon said.
"He wasn't bad was he?" She asked. "I'm sorry. I was just following orders."
"We don't know what side he was on, that's why I was asking." I replied.
"Did he say who he was working for?"
"He said Grandracmon was going to kill us if we didn't let him go. I don't know who that is." She said. "
"Grandracmon?" I asked.
"Well guys what do you think? Keep heading east or try to figure out where this Grandracmon is and what all this other business is about?"
"Grandracmon." Henry, Zari, and Claire said in unison.
"Kitty I know you're going to say Indramon."
"Yes." She quickly replied.
"And Ranamon?" I asked.
"Anything is fine with me. " She replied.
"All right then Grandracmon it is." I announced at about the same time I heard a door open in the background.
"Cj?" Phoebe muttered as she stumbled out the door.
"Pheebles!" I exclaimed as I got up and ran over to her.
"You're awake!" I said as I wrapped my arms around her.
"I told you it was going to take a while." She said in a rather weak sounding voice.
"My head still hurts." She continued as I kissed her on the cheek.
"At least I can hear your voice again." I said.
"I had the craziest dream and you were in it." She said.
"Was I a scarecrow?" I asked.
"No you were a robotic coat and you could shoot lasers out of your sleeves." She replied.
"Ok, yeah that is pretty crazy." I said.
"And Zari was a frog, and Henry was Thomas the Tank Engine."
"What was the plot?" I asked.
"I don't remember." She replied.
"I missed you. " I said.
We got lost in each other's eyes for a moment before she turned away to speak to everyone else.
"Hello everyone." She said to everyone else.
"Glad you're ok." Ranamon said while everyone else nodded.
"Was I in your dream?" Claire asked.
"You were a sentient watermelon." Phoebe said.
"Um ok." Claire replied. Nobody really knew what to say to that. I honestly couldn't tell if she was serious or just making it up to lighten the mood.
"Is the spider lady with us now?" She asked.
"I don't know baby she's been hanging out here all day." I said.
"Well I guess she can come with us if she wants." Phoebe said.
"I just wanted to make sure you were all right." Arukenimon said. " I need to go find the dokugumon, maybe I could be their new leader."
"As long as you're not power crazy like Grankuwagamon." I said.
"That means no eating innocent digimon." Kitty pointed out.
"Yes well, ok." Arukenimon said. "I can't say Okuwamon will do the same."
"Then you must take him down, or else we will be back." Kitty went and made a threat that nobody else cared to enforce.
"Just be a good leader and you'll be fine." Phoebe said.
"Now Cj come on let's go to bed I'm still tired, even though I just woke up." Phoebe said as she tugged on my arm.
"Ow, hey careful." I said as my arm was still very sore.
"Oh sorry." Phoebe replied.
We made it into the house and went to bed for the night.
"I know I said we'd make love as soon as possible, but I really need more sleep. My head hurts too much." Phoebe said.
"Oh it's ok baby girl, my arms are too sore anyway. We'll have more fun when we're both in better condition."
"Sounds good." She said. "Now hold me."
"All right baby." I said as I wrapped my arms around her with a little bit of pain, once we were settled in though it was about as comfortable as any other position.
The next morning arrived, I woke up next to my baby girl, something I missed the previous morning.
Our bed didn't have any uninvited guests, so that was good. My arms still hurt, but the pain was much more tolerable, and Phoebe for the moment, was still fast asleep. I layed there for awhile in silence, until she slowly stirred awake.
"Good morning Cj." She said once she was able to speak.
"Morning baby girl." I replied.
"I wonder what Arukenimon has under her clothes." Phoebe asked a brief moment later.
"I don't know." I said. "Odd time to be thinking about that."
"How good do you think her disguise is?" She asked.
"I don't know, I'm not sure if I want to know." I said. "You remember what she's like in her other form."
"Yeah, but her form now, it's kind of sexy." She replied.
"You want to see if she'd be willing to show you? Is that what you're saying? " I asked.
"Yeah, and maybe we could have a little fun, and she could be our reward for going through all of this." Phoebe replied.
"Does that sound like fun? Or are you're arms still sore?" She asked. "I don't want it to be painful for you."
"I take it your headache is gone?" I asked.
"For the most part yes. Are you in or not?" She asked.
"I think you're enough of a reward for me to be honest baby girl." I replied. "My arms are still a bit sore, but I think I can handle it."
"Oh Cj, you can indulge a little more than that, I won't hold it against you." She insisted. "Come on, she's leaving today, we both already have digimon partners, it won't backfire."
"Ok fine, so do you want to go get her or should I?" I asked, it was early in the morning, I was more horny than intelligent or argumentative at that point and now Phoebe had me wondering what Arukenimon looked like without her clothes as well, because mornings just work like that.
Phoebe kissed me on the cheek and then started to get up.
"I'll go since I'm already halfway dressed." She said. "You stay here."
And so I waited in silence for about 10 minutes before Phoebe returned with Arukenimon in tow.
"And see Cj is in here." Phoebe said.
"I see, but why did you bring me here, I really should get going before all the dokugumon separate and then I have to find them one by one."
"Well it's really simple sweety." Phoebe said. While I thought it was strange for her to call her that as Arukenimon appeared to be older than her, though still young and beautiful, a far cry from her other, more beastly form.
"We want to see what's under your clothes." Phoebe continued.
"My clothes?" She asked.
"Yeah, take them off, like this." Phoebe said as she slipped out of her dress.
"Unless you can't, then you can just leave, its ok." Phoebe said.
"I've never needed to before." Arukenimon replied. "There was one time a stingmon stole my hat once and I couldn't change back for a week. I need them, they're a part of me."
"Well you don't have to lose them you just have to take them off." Phoebe said while standing there half-naked.
"Maybe Cj can help you." She said as she motioned for me to get up.
"Well what do you want me to do baby girl?" I asked.
"You've undressed me millions of times, I think you can figure out how to undress her." Phoebe replied as she layed down on the bed.
"You just want to watch don't you?" I asked.
She didn't reply she just smiled at me with her boobs out and her cute little feet crossed.
"So um, how about we start with your hat?" I said as I began to help her remove her hat. Then her glasses, then her belt, then her boots, then she was barefoot and out of accessories, so only her dress remained.
"Remove her dress really slow Cj, and start kissing her already." Phoebe said.
"That's my wife, by the way." I said to Arukenimon. "The one asking us to make out while she plays with herself."
"Well get to it already Cj, I wanna see her boobies." Phoebe said.
"I can see yours growing over there you horny little thing." I said.
"Well they're gonna stop if you don't kiss her." She replied.
"See what I have to deal with?" I asked Arukenimon.
"What does she mean kiss?" She asked.
"Well come here and I'll show you. We'll just ignore her and take it slow." I said.
I kissed her on the cheek.
"It's like that." I said.
"Like this?" She asked before kissing me on the cheek.
"On the lips Cj." Phoebe said.
"Maybe we'll go to another room." I jokingly whispered.
"Where you going?" Phoebe asked.
"We could do without the peanut gallery. " I said. "Are we sharing her or are you just going to perv out and watch me fuck her? "
"By the time you get her naked I'll be ready to go." Phoebe replied.
"Ready to go with what?" Arukenimon asked.
"We'll get to that, but she's right it's better if I kiss your lips." I said.
We locked lips for a moment, Arukenimon decided she liked the way it felt so we gradually started to make out.
It should have felt wrong, but Phoebe just kept egging me on. Then the time came to try to remove her dress. As it rose up to her waistline and her genitals were revealed, we discovered that her human form, was, well, human and equipped appropriately. Aside from her slightly pale skin and bluish gray hair, she was basically the typical hotty you could find in a variety of places, usually the kind that already has a boyfriend. It was almost as strange as her ability to create hundreds of mini dokugumon. The question was, was she a human that could transform into a giant spider monster, or a giant spider monster that could transform into a human. Obviously the latter was the truth, but in bed it made little difference. By the time Phoebe and I indulged in our little reward as well as each other, which was what I really wanted in the first place, it was time to get dressed and get out of the house before either our friends or our digimon noticed what we were doing.
After everyone was assembled around the spot where we had our campfire last night, Arukenimon said her goodbyes and went to find some dokugumon to rule over, while the rest of us prepared to take the mechanorimon back to the lakeside village. Once we got there we informed as many as we could that Grandkuwagamon was defeated and it was now safe for the refugees to return to their homes, then we began our quest to hunt down Grandracmon, some of the civilians wanted us to stay and celebrate, but Henry and Claire were really wanting to find this guy on the off chance he had their pokémon.
What we did with Arukenimon that morning would always be our secret from the rest of the group. While it felt great and there were no repercussions, Phoebe's lack of control continued to worry me, but we didn't have much of a chance to talk about it. We couldn't talk on the bus as Zari was driving and our digimon were riding with us as well. So we went quiet and from the comfort of our bed our conversation went telepathic.
"Cj I'm sorry about this morning." Phoebe said.
"It's fine baby girl." I thought.
"No it's not, it didn't work, that was supposed to get your mind off of Kitty." Phoebe said.
"How come?" I thought.
"Because you want her more than me." She said.
"I do not." I thought.
"I saw your dreams last night, you think she's prettier than me." She said.
"I don't even remember my dreams last night." I thought.
"And even so, Pheebles this might be hard for you to take, but some people are going to be prettier than you." I thought.
"Well you're not the most handsome man around yourself." Phoebe replied.
"I know." I thought. "But who am I lying next to right now?"
"I thought you'd know by now looks aren't everything." I thought.
"Thank you, that's what I needed to hear you say." She replied.
"Now if only we could've talked about this before this morning." I thought.
"My head hurt too much." She replied.
"Fair enough." I thought.
"And I probably still would have anyway. You need to control me better." Phoebe said.
"You need to control yourself you weirdo." I thought.
"Once we take down Grandracmon can we go after Indramon?" Kitty suddenly asked, ending our conversation.
"We'll see, we'll get to him when we get to him." Phoebe replied.
"Also, Phoebe, why don't you trust me?" Kitty asked.
"Seriously?" Phoebe replied with a hint of aggravation. She wondered for a moment if she was just that dense.
"I mean, how do I get you to trust me?" Kitty corrected herself.
"If you think it means I'm going to let you sleep with my husband, it's not." Phoebe said.
"Oh Pheebles, give her a chance." I said. "You owe her that much."
After all she was the one that started this entire rivalry in the first place.
"Wait what?" Zari asked. "You two have been holding out on me?" She asked.
"You thought you were the first didn't you?" I asked in return as I got up and approached the front of the bus.
"Well I thought that maybe I would, we could." She struggled to say.
"Well considering we don't have any condoms and we're not sure if I can get you pregnant or not it just doesn't seem like a good idea." I explained while Phoebe and Kitty had their own conversation. "We've been pretty lucky so far, but still. But hey, if you're that lonely and find a digimon you want to hook up with go for it." I replied. "We're just friends you know?"
"What if he ends up being your partner? That could be fun." Ranamon added.
"And then this could be your big romantic adventure, like how Phoebe and I met." I added. "That's a sweet deal you know, most people never get that chance."
"I don't know." Zari replied, just a few short weeks ago the space police wouldn't even allow her to be in a relationship.
"Or you can wait until we get out of this place and date whoever we come across." I said. "I'm not really sure how long that's going to take though."
"Cj!" Phoebe called from the bed.
"What?!" I replied as I looked back to see that she had gotten out of bed as well and was sitting across from Kitty.
"Tell Kitty I'm so much prettier than her." She said out of nowhere.
"Didn't we just talk about this?" I asked.
"No we didn't." Kitty replied.
"Not you, just me and her." I said.
"Yes, but don't you think it would be more effective if you said it to her face?" Phoebe asked.
"Don't you think that if that was going to work she would've stopped when I told her you were my wife?" I replied.
"Yeah, you have a point." Phoebe replied with a sigh.
"Are you two friends yet?" I asked.
"No!" They said in unison as they turned away from each other. Some people just don't get along and with these two I was beginning to think this may be the case. Unfortunately one happened to be my wife and the other was my digimon partner.
"You want to let Mr. Cinders out? I'm bored and this might be a long ride."
"Ok." Phoebe agreed.
We didn't know where to look for Grandracmon, which seemed to be a recurring problem, so our best plan was to head back to the huge city and ask around, hoping that somebody there knew something about him. So we spent our trip playing with Mr. Cinders, our oddly colored red and silver cyndaquil from another dimension, as well as teaching Kitty and Ranamon how to play cards.
Once we got back there we returned to the hotel, our former base of operations, and then we made plans to split up and search the city, talk to some civilians and find out what they knew. I decided to pair up with Ranamon just to force Phoebe and Kitty to be together. Zari decided to explore the market on her own, Henry and Claire headed to the park. The mechanorimon split into two groups of three and headed to the northwest and northeast. After everyone else left it was down to just me, Phoebe, and our digimon. Of course Phoebe wouldn't let me walk away with Ranamon so we had to talk about this.
"Ok Pheebles, now that everyone else is gone, like it or not you and Kitty need to get along which is why I think you should go together, at least for the day." I said. "I'll go with Ranamon."
"I was hoping you wouldn't have the nerve to say that." Phoebe said.
"But, I need you to come with me. You give me strength, you're my tamer." Kitty begged.
"Why can't we just go together like we always do?" Phoebe asked.
"We're just doing some research today it shouldn't matter, we're not going to be fighting anything." I said. "And Pheebles, you need to own your mistakes."
"Now I'm going to go explore the southeast with Ranamon, you trust her right?" I asked.
"Mhm." Phoebe agreed. "And I trust you."
"Ok then." I said. "You two take the southwest and try not to kill each other."
"I'll try." Phoebe said.
"All right then." I said. "Let's go Ranamon."
"Phoebe?" Ranamon asked. She just had to make sure her tamer was ok with this.
"Just go, he's right, we need to sort this out." My beloved finally admitted.
"And Phoebe?" I asked.
"What?" She said.
"Don't make the same mistake twice." I said, realizing I was about to leave them alone, again.
"WHY WOULD I DO THAT?" She asked.
"I don't know, but you've surprised me before." I said as I took Ranamon's hand and led her away.
" -sighs- Guess I'm stuck with you for a few hours. I saw it in his head, didn't think he would say it, but then he goes and says it. That's Cj for you." She said once I was conveniently out of earshot.
"Like it's really that bad." Kitty defended.
"Come on let's go. Let's just get this over with." Phoebe said as she walked towards the southwest, across the trafficless street.
"Where are we going?" Kitty asked.
"Southwest, like Cj said." Phoebe replied. "We need to go ask a bunch of people if they've heard anything about this Grandracmon guy. Were you asleep when he said that or what?"
"No, I heard him. I just want to know where we're going in the southwest." Kitty replied.
"I don't know. I'm not really familiar with this place." Phoebe said.
"I know a place we can go." Kitty said.
"Well ok, lead the way I guess." Phoebe replied.
Ranamon and I were getting along well, though we hadn't come across many other digimon yet we headed to this small amusement park that heavily reminded me of Whirly World but it was closed and nothing was going on inside. Everything seemed to be in great condition, but nobody was using it. It was a nice place to have a chat.
"I know this is kind of late to ask, but does your skin ever dry out if you're out of the water for too long?" I asked.
"Nope, it's always like this." Ranamon replied.
"Weird." I said.
"Are there other Ranamon or are you the only one?" I asked.
"There's others, but they usually don't come this far inland. We belong in the water with the other sea digimon. Now it's my turn." She replied.
"Ok what?" I asked.
"How many different women have you and Phoebe been with?" She asked.
"Really? That's your question?" I replied.
"Well if you really wanna know, let's see, five? No, six, no it was seven, plus she tried for like two more. Something like that." I awkwardly replied.
"Is she always like that? " Ranamon asked.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Always wanting to get naked and play?" She awkwardly said.
"No, she's not always like that. It's just everything that has been going on recently is getting to her, we've been away from our children for a while, we haven't seen an easy fight in I don't know how long. She's just trying to find a release, and I'm trying to keep her from going too far, both because I love her and because some of those times we've done things like that, she's really hated herself afterwards." I said.
"Do you think she hates herself after what you did with us?" She asked.
"I, I don't know, see she can see my thoughts, but I can't see hers, but now you have me worried she's just bottling it up like she tends to do. Really I worry about her sometimes." I said. "Then I guess we both have moments where we just try too damned hard to please each other."
"Has she ever been with another man?" Ranamon asked.
"No, but she says she's also into women, you should know, she was playing around with you in the pool." I replied.
"Yeah, she was amazing." Ranamon said.
"Yeah, I know." I agreed.
"Sorry." Ranamon replied.
"Hey, it's not like I didn't have my turn with you." I said.
"I felt better with her." She said.
"Yeah well, we did that so you two would become partners, so I wasn't really trying that hard, I only do my best for my baby girl."
"Well what about Kitty?" Ranamon said.
"Change the subject. Wait a minute, you're not going to start coming after Phoebe like Kitty is after me are you?" I asked with a slight bit of concern.
"No, Kitty is a ditz, I understand you guys are together for a reason." Ranamon replied.
"Ok then." I replied. "Though I wouldn't blame you."
"Why not?" She asked.
"Well, it's just like with Kitty, it's not her fault, you know, as much as it's not your fault. Phoebe kind of gave you both a bad first impression of us, if that makes sense. And even then, the only reason Phoebe is acting like that is so she can cope with being separated from our kids, as well as, well if you haven't noticed these recent battles have been a real struggle. You know before we met you, we used to have more pokémon, but just our fight with Duskmon alone hurt most of them pretty bad. Bubba and Cloudela are all we have left until we can find a way to heal the others. Phoebe will get better, she just needs time to adapt and once that happens you better be good for her because she is one of the kindest and most loving people I've ever met." I said.
"Ok, I wondered what was in all those extra balls. I'm sorry about that, you were supposed to find us before Duskmon, but I guess something went wrong for Ophanimon. Now we can't even find the other three chosen digimon. " Ranamon replied.
"Anyway, I'm gonna count that as fifty questions due to the subject." I said.
"Ok, then what do you wanna know?" She asked.
"So, um, what were you before you were a Ranamon?" I asked.
"Atlantiamon." She replied.
"What is that?" I asked as I had never heard of that digimon before, ever.
"It's like, well, I was smaller and I didn't have any legs, just a tail."
"Like a mermaid?" I asked.
"Kind of, yeah, but my skin was still blue, not human color." She replied.
"Ok." I replied.
"Is Phoebe going to give me a nickname or not?" She asked.
"I don't know, why? You want one?" I asked in return.
"Well if Kitty can get one why can't I?" She asked.
"I'm sure Phoebe will give you one if you ask, she usually does that more than me anyway." I replied.
"Now that counts as one hundred and fifty questions cause it wasn't your turn." I said.
"What? Why?" She asked.
"Just joking." I replied.
"Good because I have another question." Ranamon said.
"What?" I asked. "You're still out of turn."
"If Phoebe wasn't well, Phoebe, would we still be partners?" Ranamon asked.
"I don't know, I don't think it matters too much, we can't change it, besides, it's not like we all can't get along, and we just have a few kinks to work out is all." I said.
"I hope you're right." Ranamon replied.
"It'll be fine." I said, trying to reassure her.
"Come on, we better start looking for people to ask."
Meanwhile, somewhere to the northwest, Kitty led Phoebe to an odd jewelry store with a pristine interior and a variety of jewelry on display in glass cases.
"I saw this place when I first came here, it has all these pretty rings see?" Kitty said as she led Phoebe down inside.
"Kitty there's nobody in here." Phoebe said.
"Yeah, but I just wanted to show you something cool." Kitty said.
"They're just rings." Phoebe said.
"Oh really? Try breaking the glass on the case." Kitty said.
"Why not just open the case? There's nobody here running this place." Phoebe said as she searched for the lock, once she found it, she tried to bypass it with her powers.
"You can't, everything in this store is completely indestructible aside from the building itself." Kitty pointed out as Phoebe kept trying to force the lock open. The fact that the interior of the building was undisturbed even though many digimon would pass by this place on the regular gave that statement a sense of credibility.
"Really?" Phoebe asked as she gave up trying to open the case.
"That's why all the rings are still here." Kitty said. "Otherwise they'd be mine."
"I imagine you aren't the first to come across this place." Phoebe replied.
"-sighs-, yeah probably. Hey, where did you get your ring?" Kitty asked.
"That's my wedding ring." Phoebe said. "Cj got it from a shop like this one."
"Cj got it for you?" Kitty asked.
"Yes, he has one just like it." Phoebe replied.
"It's really pretty." Kitty said.
"Awwwwe thank you." Phoebe replied. "Actually I have an idea."
"What?" Kitty asked.
"Well first we need to find a stick or something . . . . . . Hey! There was that tree just a little bit down the street why don't you go cut one from there?" Phoebe asked.
"Ok." Kitty replied before walking out of the store towards the tree.
For a moment Phoebe thought about ditching her, something that would have been incredibly easy since she could teleport, but she stuck around, curious to know if she could retrieve something from the supposedly indestructible glass cases. Nobody owned the store so it technically wasn't stealing. She tried to open the lock again, but gave up when she realized that there didn't seem to be any moving parts inside, the lock was inoperable.
Eventually Kitty returned with a stick cut from the tree that was planted on the sidewalk down the street. Phoebe took the stick and very carefully positioned herself alongside the case, she did have a plan for it all along, aside from just to get Kitty away from her for a few moments.
"Ok now, I need to be careful, but if I do this right." She said before teleporting just a few inches to the side. This caused the stick to fuse with the case itself. "And there, see I got part of the stick inside."
"Um, ok, now can you get it out?" Kitty asked.
"I can't." Phoebe replied.
It took a few seconds for it to react, but the glass on top of the case slowly turned into a solid and flawless panel of wood, by flawless I mean it was consistently a single shade of brown, without a grain, which for something made out of wood, wasn't normal at all.
"Um, I guess it's not indestructible after all. I wasn't expecting that to happen." Phoebe said.
"How did? But? What?" Kitty struggled to find words. "I can't see through it anymore."
"Maybe fusing with the stick screwed it up somehow. That's why teleporting is dangerous, you don't know what will happen when two objects occupy the same space. Try cutting through it now, it's not very thick." Phoebe said.
What actually happened was that the glass pane fused with the stick, and because it's entire deal that made it indestructible was that it had no material data set for it, which is basically what would define it's weight, density, and other material properties aside from appearance, it just copied them from the stick because it had these things and became wood instead of glass. Something that would only happen in the digital world. If Phoebe tried the same thing with 2 fully defined objects the results would be much more random and unpredictable. In a non-digital world, where things aren't defined by code, it could potentially result in a small explosion as compressed matter tries to escape. It was one of the things that made the first few days of the disaster particularly gruesome was pokémon accidently ending up inside walls.
Anyway, Kitty managed to put her claws straight through the board, and with some more effort, made a hole in it big enough for the two of them to fit their arms through.
"You did it, the rings are mine! Um, unless you want a few." Kitty said with some excitement.
"Ohhh no, it's all right you can have them." Phoebe replied.
"Thanks so much!" Kitty said as she began to put on as many rings, necklaces, and other pieces of jewelry as she possibly could. While she was doing that, Phoebe broke the stick off of the panel and, once again using her teleportation ability, made it possible to access all the other display cases.
"You think that's enough Kitty?" Phoebe asked as she was now wearing at least 50 rings and many, many necklaces, which made her resemble a walking chandelier.
"But they're all indestructible, it's like armor." Kitty replied.
"Yeah, but, ohhhh never mind." Phoebe replied, trying not to laugh, she wanted everyone else to see how silly Kitty was being, so she said nothing. Eventually Kitty had put on all the jewelry she wanted to wear and then the two left the store.
"Now where are we going to go? Any other stores you want to assimilate?" Phoebe joked.
"What?" Kitty asked.
"Actually do you think there are any clothing stores around with a similar problem?" Phoebe asked. "Cj only has one good shirt left, the others got destroyed because he keeps getting hurt."
"Um, maybe." Kitty replied.
"And then we might be able to get you some proper clothes." Phoebe said.
"What's wrong with the ones I have?" Kitty asked.
"Nothing, it's just Cj likes it when girls dress a certain way." She lied.
"What like you?" Kitty asked.
"Well, not necessarily." She said. "Anyway it will be fun to try new outfits, come on."
"I guess it couldn't hurt." Kitty replied.
"That a girl." Phoebe said.
Of course this had nothing to do with me, Phoebe merely intended to try to talk her into looking even more ridiculous. They eventually managed to find a clothing store after more exploring. It was relatively undisturbed as well, as digimon really didn't need clothes (even the ones that wore clothes always had their own anyway, of course some liked to accessorize, but only a handful could wear clothes intended for humans.) The results were that only a few racks of clothing were knocked over here and there, and all the candy and non-clothing items were gone, but as far as clothing went it was still well stocked for the most part.
Meanwhile, in the northwest part of the city.
"Have you heard about a particular individual digimon with the name of Grandracmon?" One of the mechanorimon asked a random civilian agumon.
"Nope, never heard that name before in my life." The agumon replied, prompting the mechanorimon to ask another nearby civilian, a gabumon, the exact same question with the exact same tone. All the other mechanorimon were spread around doing the exact same thing in a very mechanical fashion. Eventually they started to spread out over a wider area.
Meanwhile, in the market area, Zari was on her own, taking a slightly different approach and carefully watching the various market stalls for thieves. There was such a crowd she blended right in, even though she wasn't a digimon. For the first time in several days, she felt like a space police officer again.
After closely watching the stands for several minutes, she saw a gazimon grab something off of one of them and dart into the crowd without the veggiemon shopkeeper even realizing. And so she quietly chased it through the crowd to an alleyway where it slowed down because it thought it was safe. As far as digimon go, Gazimon was a bit on the small side so Zari didn't hesitate to tackle it.
"AHH GET OFF ME!" The gazimon yelled.
"WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?" Zari yelled in return.
"NOBODY I WAS JUST HUNGRY!" The gazimon yelled back as Zari realized the object it had stolen was just a cabbage.
Realizing the poor creature had no idea what she was talking about, she got up and let it run away, down the alley, and just like that she was back to square one.
In the park, Henry and Claire were approaching various digimon and asking them about Grandracmon, according to plan. With their pokémon on the line they were much more focused and dedicated than the rest of us, but they weren't making much progress. After asking several digimon about Grandracmon and getting no results they ended up at the spot where they were training when their pokémon were stolen, they spent a few minutes looking for clues, but as it had been several days it was a fruitless effort, so they eventually left the park and began to head further north, questioning any digimon they passed along the way.
For somebody that sounded like they could be a dark king, surprisingly few knew about him. It turned out that Grandracmon didn't have nearly as big of an army as the others, and also seemed to keep to himself.
Hours passed, and soon it was time for everyone to return to the hotel and discuss what we had learned. We didn't have any accurate way to keep time, so we arranged to return at sunset. When the time came, Ranamon and I returned to the hotel and waited for the others by the front door. Eventually Zari showed up.
"Hey Zari did you learn anything?" I asked.
"Nope." She said. "It was boring, nobody seems to know anything."
"Where's Phoebe and the other monster girl?" Zari asked.
"You mean Kitty?" I asked.
"Oh right that's her name. Weren't you partners with her or something?" She asked.
"Yeah I forced them to group together because they need to learn to get along better. So I spent the last few hours with Ranamon." I said as Ranamon shyly waved at her.
"Doing what?" Zari asked.
"Just talking and asking others about grandracmon, get your mind out of the gutter you know I would never mess around behind my baby girl." I said.
"I know, you don't have to be so defensive." Zari replied with a chuckle.
And so the three of us waited a bit longer, eventually Phoebe teleported up to me out of nowhere and very quickly kissed me before I could even react.
"I missed you." She cutely said when she was done surprising me with a kiss.
"Oh hi baby, where's Kitty?" I asked.
"She's coming up the road." Phoebe said. "She'll be here in a few minutes or so."
"You couldn't teleport her up here?" I asked.
"She wanted to walk." Phoebe replied.
"Did you get along ok?" I asked.
"Mhm." She replied.
"Ranamon was my husband nice to you?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, everything went well Phoebe. Except we didn't learn anything about Grandracmon." Ranamon replied.
"Good." Phoebe replied. "We didn't either, what about you Zari?"
"Nope." Zari replied.
"Hopefully Henry and Claire had better luck." Phoebe said.
A few seconds later I saw Kitty in the distance cheerfully walking down the street, she seemed to be wearing a new green dress, as she got, I saw that she was wearing what had to be the loudest and most ugly green dress in existence, ill-fitting flip flops, and enough jewelry to make Mr. T look modest. The dress was lime green with some dark green lining and pictures of strawberries, apples, and watermelon wedges printed all over it, it was also a bit big for her. A white and pink skirt that looked like it was made from a table cloth did not help matters any.
"What is she wearing?" I asked.
"I don't know, she picked it out herself." Phoebe said in a manner that told me she was lying.
"Really?" I asked.
"That's quite a dress." Zari commented.
Thanks for bringing them out so they could see." Kitty said once she arrived.
"Mhm, no problem." Phoebe said, trying not to laugh.
"Anyway Cj, how do you like my dress?" Kitty asked.
"Um . . . well, it's interesting, did you pick it out yourself?" I asked.
"Phoebe said you'd like it the best." She cheerfully replied as everybody but her glared at Phoebe for a moment.
"And you trusted her?" I asked.
"Ok to be fair I just picked the dress, she put on all the jewelry by herself." Phoebe said.
"What are you trying to accomplish Pheebles?" I asked.
"I didn't think you'd catch me out so fast." She replied.
"So it's not beautiful?" Kitty nervously asked.
Everyone just looked at her for a moment, unsure of what to say.
"Phoebe why did you lie to me? I thought we could be friends, but you're just a meany. You were supposed to help me look the best not look like a weirdo!" Kitty got really upset really fast, she entered my digivice, the screen shut off, and it wouldn't turn back on.
"I didn't think she would react like that." Phoebe said, struggling not to laugh. She really couldn't hide it at all.
"Dammit Pheebles all you had to do was be nice to her."
"All you had to do was stop thinking about her so much." Phoebe said.
"All you had to do was trust me." I replied.
"But all you had to, well." She struggled to continue.
"Pheebles you have any kind of idea what position you're putting me in?"
"I, I'm sorry, don't get mad, please." She said, sensing how angry I was.
"You must not trust me at all do you? Otherwise you wouldn't be so jealous." I said. "Then there's the fact that she's only interested in me because of you and your lack of control. If you never did that we would've been fine, but no, it'll be fine, nobody will know, there will never be any repercussions because we're just having fun right?"
"Cj?" She asked, concerned.
"Just leave me alone you unresponsible . . . . sex . . . . monster."
After saying that, I was done, I just entered the hotel, found a room and locked myself inside.
"Cj you know those locks won't work on me." Phoebe said from the other side of the door a few moments later.
"Yeah, well I TRUST you to be smart enough to leave me the hell alone." I replied.
Zari and Ranamon stayed outside, wisely choosing to stay out of this. The tension had been building up for some time, and now it was time to release.
Ignoring my warning, Phoebe teleported into the room.
"Cj please." She said.
"God dammit Pheebles just go away, I don't want to hurt you." I said. "Even if you don't feel the same about me."
"Why would you hurt me if you don't want too?" Phoebe asked.
"I can't do this anymore Pheebles." I said.
"Cj." She replied.
"No more threesomes, no more distrust, I love you baby, but I can't put up with all this petty high school drama bullcrap. You just need to calm the fuck down." I said.
"I'm so stupid." She said before getting upset and teleporting away.
I was only alone for another five seconds before Kitty popped back out of the digivice.
"Cj?" She asked, still wearing that ridiculous dress.
"Come here Kitty, I need someone to hold." I said as I wrapped my arms around her.
"I am so mad at her right now, I'm so sorry she did that to you."
"You don't even know the half of it." She said.
"She was building it up this whole time saying I was going to look so beautiful, she even said we were all going to sleep together tonight, but she was trying to make me look stupid." She said.
"Yeah, that's Pheebles for you, just lies lies lies, she even lies about stuff that doesn't even make sense to lie about. She didn't even tell me she had parents until we were almost married for 2 years! Although that wasn't really a lie, more of an omission."
"And what's with all the jewelry, I know you like it, but this is a bit overboard." I said.
"Can I keep it though? It will store nicely in the digivice." She said.
"I guess." I replied.
"So, um. You want to give Phoebe a reason not to trust me?" I asked.
"No." She quickly replied.
"Really?" I asked.
"She may have been an awful friend, but I'm going to be better." Kitty said.
"Nothing wrong with that." I replied.
"So why don't we invite her to have a threesome with us?" Kitty asked.
"Like the opposite of the situation that got us into this mess to begin with?" I asked.
"Yeah, then you two can be even and everything will be fine again." She said.
"I like that, but now do you want to go get her or should I? She's probably crying her eyes out right now." I said.
"I already heard you." Phoebe said as she walked out of the bathroom.
"Well that was convenient." I said. "You were in there the whole time?"
"Mhm." She sobbed. "Do I really lie that much?"
"Well, it is annoying when you do." I replied.
"Cj I'm so sorry." She said. "Don't let this be the end."
"What?" I asked. "Pheebles I'm just mad at you I don't want to leave you. Crazy girl. Come here."
She layed next to me and I put my other arm around her.
"Kitty, if you want to have another threesome." Phoebe said.
"If it's ok with you." Kitty interrupted.
"Cj?" Phoebe asked.
"And then no more right?" I asked.
"No more." She replied.
"No more guilt, no more distrust, no more suppressing your feelings. No more getting naked with other women without talking to me beforehand."
"Mhm." Phoebe agreed.
"And Kitty?" I asked.
"Mhm." She said.
"After this, we're just partners and friends ok?" I said.
"So we have to make it count." Kitty said.
"We'll make it count don't worry." Phoebe said, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"-sighs- Making up is always the best isn't it?" I asked as I turned towards my wife.
"Oh Cj." She replied before we started to make out.
-2 hours later-
Somehow I ended up in bed between both of their beautiful naked bodies.
I held my baby girl close, hoping we could finally move on from this. The sun was down, but it was too early to go to sleep for the night. I kept thinking that at some point we should have probably went to check to make sure Henry and Claire made it back along with the mechanorimon, but we were too relaxed to worry about that at the moment.
"That was fun." I said.
"Yeah." Phoebe replied.
"Do you think Ranamon will be jealous if she finds out?" Phoebe asked.
"I hope not. Oh by the way, she wants a nickname." I said.
"Oh does she?" Phoebe replied. "I'll think about it."
"All right no more animosity between you two ok?" I asked.
"Because like it or not we're going to be together for awhile." I said.
"Ok." They both replied.
"Pheebles if you pull anything like that again." I began
"I understand." She interupted. "I'm sorry Kitty it just, seemed too funny to pass up."
"It's fine, it all worked out in the end." Kitty replied.
"Cj?" Phoebe meekly asked.
"Yes baby girl?" I replied.
"I'm sorry for dragging us into all of this." She said.
"It was going to happen anyway." Kitty pointed out.
"Yes, but we could have started off on better terms." She said.
"It's all right, tomorrow we'll start over ok?" I said.
"Ok." Phoebe agreed, followed by Kitty moments later.
"I'm going to go and check on the others, if you want to start round 2 before I'm back go for it." Phoebe said as she got out of bed and threw on her dress.
"You sure about that baby?" I asked.
"I don't know, if I don't come back in twenty minutes just assume I'm with Ranamon. If that's ok with you." She said.
"If you want to go one for one that's ok, but only for tonight ok? No more of this tomorrow. Tomorrow you're mine and mine alone forever."
"Will you promise me the same?" She asked.
"You know I will baby girl." I replied.
She didn't come back that night, which likely meant she spent the night with Ranamon, it also meant I was free to be with Kitty. We didn't sleep much at all that night, there was so much to do, and so little time to waste. Just one night, until Phoebe and Ranamon came along with the morning to pull her away from me. Before taking her place in bed beside me.
"We're all even now." She said.
"I take it you and Ranamon . . . " I began to ask.
"No, I couldn't go through with it. I thought I'd just let you two have one night alone." She said as Ranamon blushed. "But her name is Saphira now."
"I didn't know she was supposed too." Saphira said.
"Cute." I commented. "So I owe you now?"
"No." Phoebe replied. "Now we're even."
"Pheebles, Kitty and I have going at it all night. You don't want? You're just ok with that? Saphira is she lying?" I asked.
"No, she's not, she came to talk to me for awhile , and then she found an empty room and slept alone." Saphira replied.
"I tried to, but really it was hard to sleep without you Cj." Phoebe commented.
"So now what?" I asked.
"Now you're mine forever." She replied. "and I am yours."
"But as long as we're together, Kitty, I give you permission to be there for my husband whenever I am not able to, including as my successor if need be." She said as Kitty's eyes lit up.
"Really? You trust her that much now?" I asked.
"Allright then, it's only fair I say the same for Rana, I mean Saphira? Right?" I replied.
"Right." Phoebe replied.
"Ok then." I said.
"Why don't you two leave us alone for a little while now? The night is over, things kind of need to get back to normal. Here Kitty, I'll even give you your other clothes back." She said as she ejected Kitty's original clothes from her digivice.
"Thank you, I don't want to wear that dress ever again." Kitty said as she took a moment to get dressed before leaving the room along with Saphira, leaving the hideous dress behind. Legend has it it's still there to this day.
"Well that was a thing." I said once they were out of earshot.
"Mhm." Phoebe replied.
"You sure about that permission thing?" I asked.
"As sure as I am that I'll always try to be there for you no matter what." Phoebe replied.
"Hehe, clever." I replied. "Same here baby girl."
"Do you have enough for one more round? We should reconsumate our marriage." She asked.
"Ehehehe, wait until tonight ok?" I said, after four or five rounds with Kitty there was just nothing left at the moment.
"Arceus, all those claw marks what did she do to you?" Phoebe asked as she saw my back. I thought something felt off.
"Yeah, she has claws." I said. "It's not that bad though is it?"
"No, it will heal." Phoebe replied as she crawled into bed next to me. "Your back has been in much worse shape, but this bed, well look, there's fluff coming out." She said as she pulled a ball of fluff out of one of several holes in the mattress that weren't there before.
"Good grief." She said as she stretched out the fluff ball.
"It's just you and me now isn't it Pheebles?" I asked.
"Mhm." She replied.
"You ever think what we're going to tell Nina when we get back?" I asked.
"Hopefully it will never come up." Phoebe said as she continued to play with the fluff ball.
"What if they come back with us like they're planning on doing?" I asked.
"We'll make it work." Phoebe said. "Maybe they'll become Devon agents and then they can get their own place."
"Hehe, maybe. Baby girl all I know is that you're the only one I ever want to be with." I said.
"Awwwe, same here big boy." She replied.
"And if you ever need a night alone with Saphira." I began to say.
"No, I promised no more." She interupted.
"But baby girl I'm never going to be able to make it . . . . "
"You forgave me, that's all I wanted." She interrupted.
"That's a hell of a price to pay for forgiveness." I said.
"Well maybe just a bit more." She replied. "Because now you can see I'm still the same girl you fell in love with."
"How do you always manage to make me feel like I don't deserve you?" I said.
"It doesn't matter what you deserve, because I deserve what I want and I want you." She cheerfully proclaimed.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because you're my everything. Now, are you sure you can't go another round? I don't know if we'll be at this hotel tonight." Phoebe asked as she tossed the fluff ball off the side of the bed, legend has it it's still there to this day.
"Well you can try." I said. "I can't make any promises."
"What if we tried in the shower?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know." I said.
"Come onnnnn. " She replied.
"All right then let's try." I said as I fumbled out of bed.
Long story short, it didn't work so she settled for me holding her close for the time being.
Anyway, for the four of us it was a long day not helped by the fact that we barely slept the night before.
For everyone else it was just another day trying to look for Grandracmon.
Unfortunately the Bubblemen did not in fact stop existing, and were still in control of the remnants of Duskmon and Tactimon's army. There were many Kogamon spies scouting out the city, as well as various other locations, looking for us. However Volkheim himself as well as the majority of his forces were heading towards the lakeside village. We somehow managed to pass him on the way back to the city without him noticing, but our luck was beginning to run out as the Kogamon spies he sent to watch over the city had found us and were still keeping a quiet eye on us without us knowing, they already sent one back to inform Volkheim of our whereabouts, so our time was limited.
Volkheim's army was expanding once again with the addition of various stingmon, roachmon, kuwagamon, and flymon, enough to cover for their losses at the machine city. The majority of grankuwagamon's forces were done fighting altogether. While Arukenimon and Okuwamon had a small number of loyal followers.
After some discussion with the rest of the group we decided to search areas of the city that we hadn't searched the day before. Phoebe and I pretended to go along with this, but really as soon as the others left we just went back inside the hotel to get some much needed rest and quality time. Grandracmon could wait for a while. When we felt like we had spent enough time in bed, I showed Phoebe the amusement park Saphira and I found yesterday.
"This place reminds me of Whirly World." Phoebe said.
"That's exactly what I thought too." I replied.
"But there's not as many people." She continued.
"Yeah." I replied.
"Do you think there's a way to turn on the rides?" She asked.
"I don't know, we didn't really bother with that." I said.
"Besides if we did that it would probably get a lot of attention." I said.
"Yeah, but, maybe then grandracmon will see it and he'll come out and be like "What the jumpluff is going on here?"" She said as she looked around for a powerline and found one running along the side of the ticket booth at the park's entrance.
"I don't think he would care either way." I replied as I watched her follow the powerline around to see where it went.
"Then what's the problem?" She asked as she located an electrical cabinet, then used her powers to unlock it and open it up.
"Our friends might discover our slacking off?" I replied as she realized the electrical box she found wasn't the main one, so she closed it and went back to following powerlines again.
"So? We deserve a break." Phoebe said before following a powerline around a corner.
"Random dark king soldiers might start attacking us?" I suggested as I tried to keep up with her.
"We can deal with them can't we?" She asked in return as she opened up yet another electrical box.
After staring at it for a few seconds she realized it wasn't what she was looking for so she closed it and continued following the power line.
"Hey wait a minute Pheebles." I asked.
"What?" She said as she stopped searching.
"What if we could find a way to charge up Cap'n'Magnum?" I asked.
"We could try." Phoebe replied before going back to her search.
Eventually she found the main power box, which had a switch for every ride in the park, as well as a few for various groups of lights and stalls.
I sent out Magnum to see if he could somehow absorb electricity from the power box, he was still weak and unable to fly from the fight with Duskmon quite a while ago. It was kind of a sad thing to see as all he could do was look around and wobble. Phoebe helped me move him towards the power box, once we were close enough, a powerful arc of electricity came from the power box and went straight to him. This went on for a few moments until he was finally able to levitate off the ground on his own. "Magna magna, magnaZONE!" Magnum cheered.
"You're welcome buddy, sorry it took this long." I said. "Take all you need."
"Where does all this electricity come from?" Phoebe asked.
"I have no idea." I replied.
In reality it just came out of nowhere as it was just code and it was constantly generated at an optimal amount required by the amusement park and all its electronics, as with most buildings in this city. Outside of the digital world, trying to recharge a member of the magnemite family in this manner would just cause a blackout and anger a lot of people. It was also unfortunate that we couldn't use it to charge anything but Magnum. After just a few minutes of hovering near the power box, Magnum was good to go, prompting Phoebe to flip all the switches which did little else aside from turning on a few lights.
"Really that's it, just a few lights?" She asked in disappointment.
"Probably have to turn the rides on from the control panels." I replied.
"But that means we need somebody else to operate them." Phoebe said.
"Yep." I replied.
"Mag na zone?" Magnum seemed to ask.
"I'm fine, how are you?" Phoebe replied.
"Magnazonne?" He asked.
"A few weeks, things haven't been going well." Phoebe replied.
"Everyone else is out, it's just you and Bubba." I added, getting the jist of what he was asking based on Phoebe's response.
"Magnazone, magna magna?" He asked.
"We're going to have to get him caught up aren't we?" I asked.
"That's what happens when you leave them in their balls for an extended period of time." Phoebe replied.
"Ok well I guess I better let Bubba out then as well." I said as I fished his ball out of my pocket.
"Might as well inform my pokémon too." Phoebe added as she let out Cloudela, Polli, Cubey, and finally Mr. Cinders.
"Polli and Cubey are still good?" I asked, confused, I thought she was down to Cloudela.
"Yeah they're fine, it's just I didn't think they had much of a chance against what we've been fighting recently." Phoebe said. "It's good to see you guys again."
It quickly became a day to spend with our pokémon, the ones that weren't too hurt to play anyway.
I led Phoebe over to the bumper cars since I figured nobody would have to stand at the controls to run it. Sure enough all we had to do was turn on the power and it was good to go. Polli was keeping track of Mr. Cinders so we were free to have a go. With just the two of us, this got boring a lot faster than we thought it would, so before long we were looking for another ride.
We could always explain to the others that we were just trying to attract the thief, though in reality we just ended up having a good time.
Unsurprisingly, at the end of the day, nobody learned anything new. I made love to my baby girl that night, reclaiming her as my rightful wife. We were both expecting tomorrow to be more of the same. Wherever Grandracmon was, he knew how to fly under the radar. The next day we brought our digimon to the park as well, thinking with the four of us, the bumper cars would be more exciting, or at least that's what I thought, Phoebe was done with the bumper cars altogether. At least she finally started to get along better with Kitty. As it happened, after introducing our digimon to the rest of our pokémon team, we didn't even have a chance to decide what to do instead of the bumper cars because out of nowhere a large group consisting of both stingmon and flymon descended from the sky and very quickly surrounded us. Oddly enough, they didn't want to fight, but one of the stingmon approached us with a message
"We've been searching for you since yesterday, Arukenimon sent us to tell you that she found Grandracmon mansion to the north of the forest." One of the stingmon said. Apparently Arukenimon kept herself busy by trying to find this guy too.
"Really? It was over there all this time?" I asked." Do us a favor and tell the rest of our group."
"It will be faster if I find them Cj, they don't know where to look." Phoebe insisted.
"How are you going to find the mechanorimon?" I asked. As she couldn't detect their presence with her magic powers.
"Um, well, I guess we'll just have to wait until sunset then." She said.
"All right." I replied.
"So we're not going to fight?" Kitty asked.
"No, we're not." I replied.
"Ok then, I'm going to go ride the rollercoaster." She said.
"You don't want to try the bumper cars?" I asked.
"Cj, the bumper cars were kind of boring." Phoebe said.
"But there's four of us now, plus the stingmon." I replied.
"Actually we want to go check out the market, we don't come this way very often." The lead stingmon said. "It's the largest in the area, it has good from villages all over the continent."
"Um ok." I said, not really expecting that answer.
"We're all staying at the hotel, it's a few blocks back that way." Phoebe said. "We'll meet you there tomorrow and you can show us the way."
"Sure thing." The stingmon replied before they pretty much all took to the skies at once.
"Well that happened." I said.
"Yep." Phoebe replied.
"Saphira that's not a pool it's a fountain!" Phoebe suddenly exclaimed.
"So what?" Asked the water loving digimon.
Anyway, now that we had a general idea where to look and a plan, there wasn't much left to do today, but regroup at the hotel. After trying to have a good time at the amusement park of course.