-chapter45-
The next morning arrived. It was a slow start as we weren't sure what to do, until we decided to try to send 4 mechanorimon up to try to locate grandracmon from the sky, he was quite a large digimon so he shouldn't have been too difficult to spot. One stayed with us so he could call back the others at any time. Arukenimon basically copied us and sent a few stingmon out to do the same. She didn't have very many under her command, but every little bit helped. Eventually one of the stingmon returned and we received the news. During the night Grandracmon apparently made a move for Big Tree Village, which was now inhabited solely by civilian digimon. Then we had to make a decision, we could make it to big tree village in about an hour, but we'd have to leave Arukenimon and her dokugumon army behind, along with Iceleomon. If we tried to keep them in the group, it would take days, at which point grandracmon could be somewhere else entirely. We eventually went with the former, as the digibabes insisted that grandracmon be defeated as soon as possible.
After grandracmon's defeat we would go back to retrieve Iceleomon, then we'd decide on the next dark king to bring down.
We headed over to big tree village with all five mechanorimon and a small group of friendly stingmon. When we arrived at the village we quickly found out that grandracmon had assembled another army, mostly consisting of rookie insect and plant digimon, as well as a few stingmon and roachmon left over from grandkuwagamon's army. All their eyes were glowing a demonic red. We knew some of these digimon even, as we had rescued them from Grankuwagamon or defeated them in the process of taking him down., they all came at us, but the only ones that really posed a threat were the stingmon and roachmon. The simple fact that we could fly kept us out of range of most of the others. So we started to fight the enemy stingmon, hoping we could just go around the rookies later. Their glowing eyes helped to distinguish them from the ones that were fighting for us, and everything was going well for about five minutes until grandracmon started to scream, which made it very hard to focus, but it didn't affect the enemies at all because they were too hypnotized to care. The mechanorimon themselves also didn't seem to be affected too much, unfortunately the same could not be said for the stingmon Arukenimon sent with us. I started taking hits, while the mechanorimon protected me from most of the damage, I was still getting knocked around it's cockpit like a pinball, and the mechanorimon itself wouldn't be able to hold out indefinitely.
Nobody else was doing any better. We began to retreat, to at least get away from the sound. I wondered if he would ever stop screaming, you'd think he'd run out of breath at some point, but there was no sign of that happening and we needed to get out of there before we were too banged up to do so. We never even got the chance to let our digimon out of their digivices, not that there was much they could do aside from slaughtering a few hapless civilians. Grandracmon was untouchable, and he was just getting started.
We headed back north, regrouping when we couldn't hear that infernal screaming anymore, the enemy stingmon didn't even try to chase us. It seemed strange, but relieving.
"We can't beat him." Phoebe said after teleporting out of her mechanorimon. "Some of those digimon were the same ones we've rescued before, what if he turns us against each other?"
"I don't think he can Pheebles and besides, as long as he doesn't get Kitty or Saphira, you can just reverse it can't you?" I asked.
"Maybe." She said. "But what if he gets either one of them, or even the mechanorimon, or me?"
"I don't know baby girl, I just don't know." I said.
"We need to come up with another plan." Zari said. "If he's just going to start screaming like that again we can't get near him."
"What if we had ear plugs?" Claire suggested.
"Can you make them out of trees or something?" Phoebe asked.
"No, but, well, Henry might." Claire stammered.
"Um, that's a negative." Henry replied.
"Great idea, no way to pull it off." I commented.
"We need to take him down before he takes control of anyone else." Kitty said.
"You got any ideas?" I asked.
"What if she tries to hypnotize them?" Phoebe asked.
"What if you try?" I asked.
"I can't, my hypnosis doesn't work on digimon very well, and even if it did, it's a lot easier to put them to sleep than to have complete control of them." Phoebe replied. "But what if Kitty's hypnosis overrides his own?"
"Does it really matter? It's not his goons that are the problem it's his screams that will get us killed." I said.
"Cj, his goons are innocent digimon." Phoebe pointed out. "We have to save them if we can."
"I know that, but still, baby girl. We can't even get near them without him screaming at us. " I replied. "They didn't even try to follow us here, so we can't just lure them away."
"So we need to bypass them and go straight for Grandracmon?" Saphira asked.
"The mechanorimon weren't affected by his screaming as much as everyone else was." I pointed out.
"But they aren't strong enough to take him down on their own." Kitty replied.
"True, but if they can hold him off for a little while, maybe we'll be able to buy some time, then you can do your thing and try to undo whatever hypnosis he has on them and save the others." I said.
"I think that's the best we can come up with." Phoebe said.
"And what are we supposed to do?" Zari asked.
"Well, we should just keep our distance until we see whether this will work or not." I replied.
"The mechanorimon will go and attack grandracmon first, then Kitty will do her thing." I said.
"But what if he hypnotizes the mechanorimon?" Phoebe asked.
"We'll just have to hope that doesn't happen." I said.
-meanwhile-
"Get the portal open already Myotismon, we need to get these weaklings converted before they come back." Grandracmon commanded as Myotismon was waving his arms around doing something strange and rather incomprehensible while a strange dark energy emanated from his hands. It's not a normal thing for a myotismon to be able to do, but he was manipulating the code of the digital world to create a portal to the dark zone. It was a strange skill that a part of him had learned in a previous life.
All the digimon Grandracmon had hypnotized were simply standing still behind him in silence awaiting his commands. Grandracmon was planning to feed them code from the dark zone that would convert them into more powerful, evil digimon, likely more devimon. Such code is more common in the dark zone than actual digimon and consists of bits and pieces of digimon that had been sent there due to their wickedness and had since perished due to the constant conflict and chaos that occurs exclusively in the darkzone. Such digimon aren't reincarnated like the others and thus their code is left to float around in a corrupt, fragmented manner. You'd think all the other evil digimon would absorb it, but the reality is digimon exposed to it in large doses will lose all control, and basically go on a rampage until they are destroyed as for them to absorb it is literally akin to demonic possession. So aside from creating a few low level goons for evil digimon, it's not really all that useful. There becomes a point where a digimon can absorb too much of this vile data and become unstable. Do to the need to keep certain, extremely wicked digimon such as deusmon locked up, it is also the only part of the digital world not affected by the reformation, thus the entire realm has existed for thousands of years and many of it's residents have also been around for thousands of years.
Unfortunately by the time we got back, Myotismon had already created the portal, and the process was underway. The innocent civilian digimon were force fed data that caused them to quickly digivolve into devimon, vilemon, and other dark species, with the stingmon becoming dragomon, lady devimon, and other ultimate level foes. Some of which felt they were strong enough they decided to escape and do their own wicked things, only for Grandracmon to make an example of them in front of the others. This quickly made the other ultimates fall in line, not wanting to return to the darkzone they just managed to escape. However, this brought their already limited numbers down even further, as there were now just 3 ladydevimon and 2 dragomon.
"Still think we can save them Pheebles?" I asked as we watched them while hiding behind some bushes. We left the rest of the team behind to do some quick scouting before sending the mechanorimon in.
"I don't know. I hope so." She replied.
"He has 5 ultimates now." I said.
"What's that mean?" She asked.
"Those demon chicks and the squid monster thing, they're ultimates, like Arukenimon and the big silver bug guy." I replied. "They're going to be a problem."
"Do you think Kitty's dancing will even work on them?" I asked, unsure as to whether she could only hypnotize men or not.
"I don't know, but it's the best plan we have so we have to hope for the best." Phoebe said.
"Allright then, let's get back to the others and tell them what's going on." I said.
"Ok, take my hand." Phoebe replied.
She teleported us back to the rest of the group, we told them what we saw and then sent the mechanorimon into battle. Once they had grandracmon's attention, we let Kitty out nearby to distract his goons. Which worked surprisingly well, she even drew in the lady devimon. However, myotismon was trying to help grandracmon fight off the mechanorimon, so, it didn't work on him or grandracmon for that matter, hell, it would've worked on me too if Phoebe wasn't right beside me. All that aside, Phoebe, Saphira, and I went to back up the mechanorimon before they inevitably got creamed by both myotismon and grandracmon, with the mechanorimon providing a useful distraction, we had the element of surprise which we decided to capitalize on. He didn't see what Kitty was up too, and he didn't think to scream because it wouldn't work on the mechanorimon anyway. We didn't have much time, but it was enough for Phoebe to line up all her shurikens and sink them all into his back. Add fire to the mix with a shogun sword, and a constant pelting of lasers from the mechanorimon, and it looked like it was game over for him, he let out another scream that was cut short as he fell to his knees. It seemed that he was mortally wounded, but now we had to deal with Myotismon, who quickly figured out where we were and was charging towards us while Grandracmon laid dying. To make matters worse, a single Ladydevimon managed to snap out of her trance due to Grandracmon's screaming and was now going after the mechanorimon, most of which were already pretty banged up from fighting with Grandracmon.
Myotismon put up quite a fight, crimson lightning was a vicious attack that was really hard to dodge. There were many times where he could have finished either one of us if the other wasn't there. He probably would've killed us eventually, but after fighting us for several minutes a mechanorimon suddenly slammed into him, which gave me an opening to finish him off. I lopped off his head, causing him to instantly disintegrate into a stream of data. Then I briefly caught sight of a ladydevimon escaping into the forest. I have no idea why it helped us take down myotismon by throwing one of our robotic friends at him, but myotismon was dead and grandracmon, who was somehow still writhing in pain despite a rather large pool of blood and at least 20 shurikens in his back, was about to join him. If I could get at his neck without the weird shark-like jaws on his forelegs biting me. I was just about to take his head as well when he got the strength the stand.
"You cannot win, Deusmon must be reborn!" He said, only to stumble and fall down again.
"Not today." I replied as I swung the blade down against his neck, causing him to burst into a cloud of data. After that happened, his mind control wore off, and all the digimon he had "recruited" began to destabilize and revert to their previous forms. With the apparent exception of that one lady devimon that escaped, as it had somehow managed to possess its host entirely, while the other digimon were able to reject the "evil" data which hovered in the air for awhile before immediately getting sucked back into the dark zone through a strange dimensional rift. With all the digimon back to normal, Kitty stopped dancing, rejoined our group, and began to absorb grandracmon's data along with Saphira.
"Can we go after Indramon now?" Kitty asked.
"I don't know." I replied.
"You want to have an orgy tonight?" Phoebe asked.
"Pheebles." I chastised her.
"What does that mean?" Kitty asked.
"It means we all get naked and play with Cj." Phoebe replied. "Or if he's going to be grumpy about it, just you me and Saphira, and maybe Zari and Arukenimon."
"Pheebles." I replied. "That is literally cheating."
"It's not if you join us." Phoebe replied.
"If Cj's out I'm out." Kitty replied.
"Yeah Phoebe that doesn't really sound fair to him." Saphira said.
"What do you mean fair? He had Kitty to himself for one whole night. Phoebe said.
"And you said it was fine." I replied.
"Yeah you let us." Kitty pointed out.
"She encouraged us even." I added.
"You're right." Phoebe reluctantly agreed. "Sorry Cj."
"No more orgies Pheebles, I thought we agreed to this for the 90 millionth time, besides we're probably not going to get back to the bus tonight anyway." I said. "Look how banged up the mechanorimon are."
"Yeah, I guess so." Phoebe replied.
"Um, excuse me?" A random floramon asked.
"How long were you standing there?" Saphira asked while everyone else just staired at her.
"Um I just came up and wanted to thank you . . . for saving us." The floramon nervously replied.
"Oh yeah, sure, no problem." Everyone replied with their own variation of that.
"Pheebles, baby girl, just calm down ok?" I replied as I wrapped my arm around her. "You know I love you."
"I know." She replied.
"Let's get our wounds taken care of. And get back to the others." I said.
"Digibabes, both of you were amazing today." I said.
"Awwe thanks." Kitty cutely replied.
"But now you need to get back inside our digivices so we can take the mechanorimon back."
"We'll do that later, let's get to Henry and Claire first." Saphira insisted.
"Allright fine." I replied.
Eventually we made it back to Henry, Claire, and a handful of friendly stingmon with the mechanorimon trailing behind us. Everyone was tired and banged up as per the usual, except for Kitty, she was just tired, then again she usually is anyway.
After that we had to go back up to Arukenimon and retrieve IceLeomon. Riding in mechanorimon that were hurt to the point that some were struggling to stay airborne. It was not a fun ride, but somehow we all made it back safely. Once we found them it was almost night so we made a fire and had another night on the grass. The next day, Phoebe and I decided to split from the others and head back to the bus and wait for them to arrive, leaving them with three mechanorimon for protection, as Iceleomon would have to walk back as he couldn't fit inside the mechanorimon. Arukenimon would escort them back as well. This gave Phoebe and I some much needed time alone.
"I missed this bus." Phoebe said as she opened the door and stepped onboard.
"Remember our bedroom? I miss that." I replied.
"Ohh, I miss it too. How long do you think it will take them to get back?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know, a day or two at the most." I said. "It's a lot of time we can spend together."
"Is Kitty still asleep?" She asked.
"Yep." I said as I glanced at the screen on my digivice. "How bout we kick them out for a moment and then you and I can rock the bus?"
"Ohh Cj, Are you sure you just want me?" She asked.
"I'm sure baby girl." I said.
"I had to rub that cream all over your body yesterday." I said.
"It was so hard to resist." I replied. "I wanted to rub those nipples of yours so badly."
She replied with a giggle before ejecting Saphira from her digivice.
"Saphira, Cj and I . . . " Phoebe began to explain.
"I heard, I'm leaving. You two have fun. I'll be back in awhile." Saphira interrupted as she headed for the door.
"Allright then." I said as she closed the bus doors behind her.
"How do you want to start this time?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know, you want to dance baby girl?" I said as I offered my hand. "There's no reason we can't take this slow."
"I'd love too, but there's not enough room." She replied.
"You know if we have enough time later, an orgy isn't such a bad way to kill it. If you really want one so bad." I said at a moment where I seriously doubted we could stay here for a few days without getting bored.
"Exactly." Phoebe agreed. "We're going to have so much fun just wait and see, and you're going to be so happy."
"But right now the only girl I want is the one I married." I said.
"Awe, Cj." She replied as she came up and hugged me. "I can't say I don't love the special attention only my wuving husband can provide."
"Baby girl, let me show you how much more you mean to me than Kitty." I said.
"Oh Cj, I'm all yours, my prince." She said as we started to make out.
"So how are you going to show me exactly?" She asked after our kissing began to get a bit more aggressive.
"Well lie down on the bed baby girl, why don't we start with something you have that she doesn't." I said.
"And what is that?" she asked.
"Your deliciously cute little feet." I said as I carefully removed her shoes.
"Ehehe, I knew you'd start there." She giggled as I slowly licked her soles.
"You like it though don't you?" I asked as I paused to wet my tongue.
"I'll never understand how you make something so weird feel so good." She said as I continued to worship her pretty little toes touching every square millimeter of her pretty little feet with my tongue.
"It's because I love you baby." I replied before attempting to jam both of her feet into my mouth.
"You goofball." She said as I did so.
"And now where should we go?" I asked as I held both her feet in the air side by side.
"Up." She replied.
"How far up?" I asked as I kissed my way up one of her legs, spreading them open as I did so.
"Ehehehe Cj." She cutely giggled.
"Oops I forgot we have to destroy the dark king of panties to go any higher." I said as I reached her crotch.
"You can push them out of the way." Phoebe said.
"No, he'll suffocate you." I replied.
"Be gone foul demon!" I said as I quickly pulled her panties off, giving both of her feet one more quick kiss before removing her underwear entirely. She was giggling uncontrollably at this point, but that came to a rest when I focused on my next target, her sweet little snatch. While my tongue and her pussy had a nice little reunion, I slid my arms up under her dress to give her partially swollen breasts a nice massage as well. That was about the time she stopped giggling and started moaning, and I kept playing with her like that until her boobs were full engorged and ready to come out to play. Then I removed her dress and introduced my tongue to her nipples before travelling up her neck and ending my tongue's long, perilous journey inside her sweet little mouth where it celebrated a reunion with her own.
"How do you still have clothes on?" She asked after we made out for a bit.
"I was focused on bringing you pleasure, not myself." I said.
"Oh Cj, you know I can't let you do that without repaying you. Lay down." She said.
So I laid down, she crawled on top of me and we started to make out once again as she slowly removed my pants with her powers, that were now weakened as she was aroused, but still present. Then as we continued to make out until it was finally time for my cock to reunite with it's one true love, her sweet, little pussy.
Like many times before, I made sweet, passionate love to her, doing my best to please her in every way possible. I knew it worked because we layed there for quite a while afterwards, even after the bond wore off. She didn't want me to get up for any reason, and when Kitty finally woke up, she basically yelled at her until she left.
"Well Cj, now that we've reconnected, why don't we go dancing like you want? There's that digital music disc in the radio. We could go outside where there's more room." She said after a brief period of silence after she told Kitty off.
"If you want to baby girl." I replied.
"You know I want to, when's the last time you took me dancing? I'm so glad you thought of it." She said as she pulled herself closer to me.
"It was one of our date nights I think." I replied. "I really don't remember, it might have been before Charley was born."
"I don't remember either." She replied. "That's why we need too, now!"
"Allright then, I guess we'll just have to start it up and see what's on that CD." I said.
"And then its orgy time!" She cutely announced.
"Hehe if you say so." I replied.
When we bought our bus it came with a free CD that someone left in the radio and forgot about. It contained 15 songs, all from that strange alternate version of the pokémon world. So they were literally nothing anybody had ever heard before. Up until now we really hadn't had much of a chance to mess around with it, in fact we barely thought of it until now. The cd had a mix of 90s to early 2000s sounding pop and electronic dance music, likely used to back guided tours of Cinnabar Island, appropriate for what we needed it for. Being a former tour bus, it also had a pretty good sound system, for a bus. On full blast with the door open, it could be heard clearly from some distance away. After we had the music going, Phoebe decided to let all of our able-bodied pokémon out as well, so now we had quite a party.
Anyway, we got dressed, I turned the radio on but not the engine, the cd player started playing music. If the battery went dead I could always get magnum to jumpstart it for me where the alternator would handle the rest.
And then we spent the next few hours dancing and generally having fun as we socialized with both our digimon and pokémon, even the 3 mechanorimon we had with us had a good time. Then it was time for them to go back to being on guard duty, for the pokémon to be put away, and not long after that the clothes started to come off. It was a wild night, I didn't really want things to get this out of hand, but Phoebe really didn't want to slow down. All I can say is that I woke up naked the next morning between Kitty and Phoebe, with Saphira on Phoebe's other side, all naked, just barely fitting on our bed in the back of the bus. Claw marks on my back, the entire bed feeling just slightly damp. Everyone started to wake up in silence. Orgy time had come and gone, now it was figure out what the heck we were going to do now time.
"Told you it would be fun CJ." Phoebe softly said after she woke up.
"Yeah, it kind of was." I replied.
"Saphira, you're starting to get better at this." Phoebe sighed. "Should've practiced with you when Cj was with Kitty, guess I let you down as your tamer."
"Phoebe, you woke me up." Saphira complained.
"Yeah, she does that a lot." I said. "Wait until she gets nightmares."
"Cj, I was only joking." Phoebe said.
"Yeah I know you were baby." I replied.
"I don't want to get up yet." Kitty said.
"That's fine, you can sleep for a while." I replied.
"Cj?" Phoebe asked.
"Mhm?" I replied.
"Why don't we get dressed and go for a walk?" Phoebe asked. "We'll let them have the bed for a while, they've earned it."
"Ehehehe, Ok, if you say so." I replied.
So we both got up and got dressed, leaving our digimon to sleep for a while as we took a stroll through a fairly quiet area of the forest. She pretty much clung to me the entire time.
"Do you think the others will come back today?" Phoebe asked.
"They might, but I doubt it." I replied. "It will probably be tomorrow."
"Do you think Zari will be jealous?" Phoebe asked.
"Of what? She's just a friend." I replied.
"Yeah, you're right, she has no right to be." Phoebe replied.
"So where are we going?" I asked.
"Nowhere really, I just wanted to be alone with you. No sex, just some nice quality time." She replied as she gave me an amorous look.
"Awe baby girl." I replied.
"Do you think we'll find any wild digimon out here?" She asked.
"I don't know if there is such a thing baby girl, they all seem to live in their own little villages, but who knows, there may be some out for a walk just like us." I replied.
"I'm starting to get worried about the bubbleheaded guys." She said as we continued to explore the area.
"Yeah, their army is getting pretty big. But they're a lot slower since we killed their jeeps." I said as a lone Monitamon was stealthily spying on us about 30ft away. If only it wasn't a digimon, then Phoebe would pick up on it pretty quickly, but since it was a digimon, and stealthyness was one of its trademark abilities, we would never find him. This guy was following us everywhere and we had no way of knowing. Occasionally he would report to an equally stealthy kogamon that was a lot further away, that would then track down Volkheim and Co to inform him of our location. There was another Monitamon following Henry, Claire, and Zari around for the exact same reason.
Fortunately Volkheim and Co were in the big city at the moment, which is where they went after we managed to ditch them during our last encounter, so it was going to take several days for the news to arrive, and by that time we would be on the move again.
"Yeah, but they'll find us again eventually." Phoebe replied.
"Yeah, well, maybe we'll head back west and take down Indramon next, that should throw them off." I said.
"The only other dark king we know about is packing a lot of firepower. I think its best we save him for last, give Kitty and Saphira a chance to gain some more experience, give the mechanorimon a chance to repair themselves, and also give IceLeomon some time to pick a partner." I replied.
"Yeah, that should work, if we don't come across them on our way over there." Phoebe said.
"Hey Pheebles?" I asked.
"Mhm?" She replied.
"When we get back home." I began to ask before she interrupted with. "We'll figure it out when we get there."
"Remember when you were doing the laundry that one day, and Charley found that dead mouse in the basement and started playing with it like it was a toy." I said.
"Why would I want to remember that?" Phoebe replied.
"I don't know, I mean it was gross, but at the same time it was kind of funny." I replied.
"It was disgusting, and then he threw a fit when I took it away from him." She said. " And then he went ballistic when I threw it away, like if I just threw away one of his toys."
"I remember when you didn't even know what mice were." I said. "And then you started to hunt them down and gently carry them out of the house, because you didn't want to kill them."
"Yeah well, they just want a home." She insisted.
"They chew up clothes, crap everywhere and spread disease." I replied. "I'm just glad that thing didn't make Charley sick."
"Me too." Phoebe replied. "I just hope he doesn't find another one.
"Well, just keep him out of the basement. That's where all the mice are coming in from." I said.
"Well if I remember that by the time we get back, I will." Phoebe replied.
"If we ever get back." She said as she got really sad for a moment.
"We'll get back to him someday Pheebles, you know we will." I said.
"I know, but I still miss him, and Nina." She said as she hugged me.
"Yeah, well, that's a good thing. Just don't let it drag you down." I said as I kissed her on the cheek.
-Meanwhile-
Henry, Claire, Zari, and Iceleomon were making their way back to us. Arukenimon and company returned to Big Tree Village, as Arukenimon was trying to recruit more of grankuwagamon's former army during the huge power vacuum that had consumed the entire forest. A few stingmon were following them, for protection and to keep Arukenimon informed of where we were heading. They were making steady progress without a whole lot of interruptions. It wasn't clear which one of them would be IceLeomon's partner yet, but both Phoebe and I were hoping they would figure that out by the time they got back to us. We were growing tired from doing most of the fighting.
"Where are we going?" IceLeomon asked.
"We're going to meet Cj and Phoebe where we parked our vehicles and then we're going to decided where to go from there." Zari replied.
"How much further do we have to go?" Claire asked.
"I don't know, all these trees look the same." Zari replied.
"How do we even know we're going the right way?" Claire asked.
"You're going the right way, we got you covered from the sky to make sure you're not just heading in circles." One of the stingmon following them said.
"I wonder what Cj and Phoebe are doing." Claire asked.
"They're probably naked." Henry replied.
"Yeah probably." Claire agreed.
"With their digimon." Zari said.
"What?" Claire asked.
"They've done it with their digimon before, they told me." Zari replied.
"I'm not really surprised." Claire said.
"You saw how Phoebe was pushing him to leave, she knew exactly what she wanted to do." Zari continued.
"Bet you wish they asked you to come with them." Claire replied.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Zari replied. "I've had my fun with them, now it's over."
"Sure it is." Claire replied.
"It's over till you're driving their bus around again and you need somewhere to sleep." Henry added.
"Even Cj said it's over." Zari replied. "He's afraid he could get me pregnant."
"Yeah, but Phoebe is the crazy one." Claire said.
"Hey fluffy you know how many dark kings there are left before we can get out of here?" Zari asked.
"Did you just call him Fluffy?" Claire asked.
"My name is IceLeomon and you will address me as such!" Iceleomon replied.
"Ok, ok, yoosh." Zari said.
"There's at least 2, both are further to the north, which is why we should be going that way." IceLeomon continued. "Why you're traveling the opposite direction makes no sense to me."
"Because we need to get back to our vehicles, then we can head there even faster without having to walk." Henry said. "Though, I'm not sure if you'll fit inside, maybe you can ride on the roof of the bus or something."
"Or if you partner with one of us you can ride in the digivice." Claire pointed out.
"Yeah, well, we'll see about that once I've seen how you fight." Iceleomon replied.
"Um, actually Cj and Phoebe do most of the fighting and they already have partners." Claire pointed out. "We mostly just stay inside the mechanorimon, otherwise we would get creamed."
"Hold that thought, there's another digimon nearby." Iceleomon said.
"Can you read minds?" Claire asked.
"No you fool, their smell, it's coming from that direction. Mechanorimon open fire!" IceLeomon commanded, oddly enough, the three mechanorimon they had with them obeyed and opened fire on a tree that IceLeomon had pointed at, shortly thereafter a badly wounded kogamon fell out of it.
"That's one of Tactimon's goons!" Zari said.
"Worse, Volkheim's now." Henry replied.
"What are you doing here you freak?" Claire asked as the small, round digimon clambered to its feet.
"I'll never tell." It said with a mischievous laugh before dropping a smoke bomb which immediately went off and blinded everybody, allowing it to promptly escape.
"Where'd he go now?" Claire asked.
"Too much smoke, can't smell him anymore." Iceleomon replied.
"Some more stingmon are approaching." Said one of the friendly stingmon.
"The smoke must have drawn their attention." IceLeomon replied.
"You are trespassing into JewelBeemon's territory." An approaching stingmon said.
"Is he another dark king?" Claire asked.
"How many are in this forest?" Zari added.
"Never heard of him." IceLeomon said.
"He's the newly crowned king of the Jewel Kingdom, which you are now trespassing on." The possibly unfriendly stingmon replied.
"What kingdom? All I see is more trees." Henry said as he approached the potential enemy.
"This is the Jewel kingdom." The stingmon insisted as his backup arrived and began to surround to the group. "Now we must take you to JewelBeemon for judgement."
"Really?" Henry asked.
"Just like Grandkuwagamon." Claire commented.
The friendly stingmon began to fly away, causing a few of the enemy stingmon to chase after them, the mechanorimon began to fire their lasers, while Iceleomon ran up and punched the one that had been speaking so hard that it burst into data on contact. This drew the attention of more enemy stingmon, and quickly escalated into quite a large battle against the army of somebody that wasn't even a dark king. When a break in the fighting occurred, Henry, Zari, and Claire climbed inside the mechanorimon, who were still beat up from the fight with Grandracmon, but had a little bit of time to recover. Since they were only fighting a bunch of stingmon at the moment, they were doing well. IceLeomon turned out to be a pretty strong fighter, often able to drop an enemy in just one punch. Other times the enemy would be frozen solid and unable to retaliate. As the fighting continued, they gradually made their way through Jewelbeemon's territory. With the friendly stingmon guiding them towards villages they knew about. Villages where the entire population was enslaved, or drafted into Jewelbeemon's army.
The insect digimon were busy making thick walls of webbing in order to protect Jewelbeemon's newly acquired and ever expanding territory, while the plant digimon were chopping down trees to use for building materials, and also cultivating fields in order to plant cabbages. All of their work and misery being supervised by woodmon, veggiemon, flymon, and stingmon guards who quickly turned their attention towards our friends, which then erupted into chaos as the handful of digimon they enslaved promptly decided to revolt.
While rookies are no match for a champion, enough of them can really start to slow one down, making them easy targets for our friends. Within the hour all the guards were defeated, though more stingmon and flymon were coming in to attack from elsewhere. A handful of cherrymon were monitoring the situation from afar, similar to those employed by Grandkuwagamon. They used the village as a garrison to fight off the enemy forces for a while, until finally Jewelbeemon himself showed up, surrounded by an entourage of stingmon and flymon. At this point the mechanorimon were exhausted, and IceLeomon was starting to tire out as well. Claire's mechanorimon was on its knees while Henry and Zari's were struggling to walk. The friendly stingmon weren't doing much better.
Thankfully Jewelbeemon wasn't as strong as an actual dark king, so they had something going for them. Henry used the remainder of his mechanorimon's strength to charge at Jewelbeemon, while all the recently liberated rookies attacked him at once with various low powered projectile attacks, except for the floramon in particular which attacked with poison ivy, which was like vine whip, but poisonous. Unfortunately their attacks were so ineffective they barely slowed him down, and failed to cause him any real harm.
Despite Henry bravely charging towards him, IceLeomon got to him first and punched him square in the chest, knocking him back towards Henry who span around in mechanorimon's gyro break attack which launched launched jewelbeemon off into the forest. Henry needed a moment to recover from dizziness after this which Jewelbeemon quickly too advantage of. Brandishing it's spear as it leaped towards Henry at great speed. He managed to take down Henry's mechanorimon and run it through with his spear, with Henry himself barely being able to dodge it. A well-aimed laser from Zari knocked Jewelbeemon off of Henry and away from his spear as Henry's mechanorimon went into a death rattle and began to reveal its data stream.
As his mechanorimon disintegrated, Henry found himself on the ground with Jewelbeemon's spear promptly falling on top of him. Thankfully it wasn't that heavy so he was able to get up pretty quickly as Zari had her turn with Jewelbeemon.
"Give me the spear! Hurry." Iceleomon said as a dazed Henry tried to understand his surroundings.
Henry came too and passed the spear to IceLeomon as Jewelbeemon brutally defeated Zari's mechanorimon by ripping its arms off and kicking it onto its back where it was unable to get up without its arms. He would have finished it off if Iceleomon didn't attack it. Giving Zari a chance to escape from the now disabled mechanorimon. Claire's mechanorimon managed to regain enough strength to stand and was now shambling towards Jewelbeemon as he fought with IceLeomon.
"Go get Phoebe and Cj, hurry." Henry yelled. "They'll have to rescue us if we get captured."
"Yes hurry, before we lose Iceleomon too." Zari added.
"We haven't lost yet." IceLeomon stubbornly replied as Claire took to the air and started to fly towards the clearing where we had parked our vehicles, which by now was about 2 hours of flying away, but her mechanorimon was tired and within minutes ended up flying off course. Claire didn't realize this until well over 2 hours later and ended up in a different, similarly shaped clearing far to the south, on the other side of the "gap" that leads to the coastal village. Her mechanorimon too tired to continue flying, she was now stranded in unfamiliar territory with nothing but her chikorita for protection. The forest didn't extend as far south from the gap as it did north, and the locals in this area had yet to be under threat from a dark king, because none had materialized anywhere near it.
Meanwhile IceLeomon managed to finish off Jewelbeemon singlehandedly, which put a stop to attacks from his army of insect digimon. IceLeomon went and absorbed his data so he wouldn't regenerate in a few hours, which was for the best as the mechanorimon had to regenerate as well. Henry's was still an unconscious data stream and Zari's was comically flopping around on the ground trying to get back up. IceLeomon had to carry both of them away from all the enemy data streams so they would be somewhere else when they regained consciousness, in order to avoid being attacked again by any one of the many enemy digimon they had just defeated. They hoped that since Jewelbeemon was out of the picture, they would disperse once again. They figured Claire's mechanorimon would be able to home in on their own when she made her way back as they decided to rest only about a mile from the village.
As all this was going on, Phoebe and I were just hanging out in the forest enjoying each other's company while our digimon chilled out in the bus.
"Do you think I should cut my hair or try a different style or something? Phoebe asked as we walked hand in hand.
"I don't know, not much point in trying to fix something that isn't broken." I said.
"What if I dyed it black?" She asked.
"You can do that?" I asked.
"It's about the only color it can be dyed." Phoebe said. "It's a special dye for gardevoirs. "
"I don't know Pheebles." I said.
"Oh come on, maybe I'll try it and see if you like it." She said.
"Ok, but it will have to wait until we get home." I said.
"Yeah, I know." She replied.
"I wonder if Charley would recognize you if you did." I said.
"Of course he will, I'm his momma." She replied. "If we get home."
"We'll get home Pheebles, we just have to be patient." I said.
"Shhh somebody is coming." We heard a childish voice come out of some nearby bushes.
"Too late, we already heard you." I replied.
"Don't kill us, please, we'll do whatever we can to serve Grandkuwagamon!" The voice nervously pleaded.
"Grandkuwagamon is dead." Phoebe said.
"He is?" The voice asked.
"Just come out already, we're not going to hurt you." I said.
"You promise?" Whatever it was asked.
"I already know where you're hiding, I would've hurt you already if I wanted to." Phoebe bluffed.
A small group of rooky refugees reluctantly rambled out of the bushes. Four Floramon, five mushroomon, five motimon, and a pair of tentomon, the standard fair for this area.
"Then who's in charge now?" One of the mushroomon asked.
"Nobody, you're free to go home." Phoebe said.
"Do we still have a home?" The mushroomon asked.
"You'll never know if you don't check." Phoebe said.
"Ok I guess we should go home then, thanks for telling us." The mushroomon said.
"Are you sure it's safe?" One of the motimon asked.
"I promise, there's no more dark kings around here that I know of." Phoebe said.
"Good enough for me." Another motimon said.
The group quickly dispersed into about three smaller groups and headed towards their homes.
"I wonder how many refugee groups like that are still hiding around." Phoebe said.
"I don't know, I wonder how many villages there are out here." I replied.
"What if nobody ever tells them Grankuwagamon is dead and they never go back home?" Phoebe worried.
"Maybe we should try to find them all and tell them." She suggested.
"Oh they'll head home eventually Pheebles, we don't have time to go find them all." I said, trying to downplay how ridiculous that idea was for her own sake.
"Yeah, that was kind of a silly idea." She said with a sigh.
"Did you forget how big this forest is? I get that you're worried about them, but seriously?" I joked.
"Ok, ok, Cj, you don't have to rub it in." She said.
"You make me worry about you when you say things like that baby girl." I said.
"Well, I don't have good ideas all the time." She admitted.
"Yeah, then again, nobody does. Allright then, why don't we head back to the bus and check on the digibabes? " I asked.
"Ok let's go." She cheerfully replied as we turned around and began to walk back towards where we had come from.
"Hey Cj, when we get back, why don't we stop working for Devon and open a gym?" Phoebe asked a bit later.
"Then we could spend more time with the kids." She continued.
"And where would we open this gym? Goldenrod already has one and it's the city we live closest too." I said.
"Slabtown?" She asked.
"Nobody would come there's no pokémon league in my world baby girl." I said.
"Well maybe we could be the first." Phoebe continued.
"With one gym? You know we'd need to catch a lot more pokémon if we did. We need to have multiple teams for multiple levels of competitors and would we specialize in a certain type or?"
"I don't know, it was just an idea." Phoebe said.
"I don't know either baby girl." I said.
"What are we going to do with all our friends when we get back?" Phoebe changed the subject.
"I imagine Devon will house them for a little bit, after all they'll be very conductive to their research." I replied.
"And after that?" Phoebe asked.
"It'll be like what happened with Rio. They'll find their own way, but baby girl, that bridge is so far away I don't even see it, so relax." I said.
Eventually we made it back to the bus, while discussing all sorts of things we could do once we finally made it home, even though we weren't going to be home for quite a while. I tried to steer the conversation away from it a few times, but Phoebe seemed to be fixated on it. That said, it did provide an ample amount of conversation.
We found Saphira hanging out outside the bus with Kitty still napping on our bed inside.
"Hi Saphira, what's going on?" Phoebe cheerfully asked.
"Kitty is still sleeping, I'm getting bored standing out here waiting for you to come back." Saphira replied.
"Oh, ok." Phoebe replied. "Claire and the others haven't returned yet?"
"No, no sign of them." Saphira replied before asking "Where did you go?"
"Nowhere really, we just went on a walk through the forest for a little bit." Phoebe replied.
"Just enjoying some time together." I replied as I put my arm around my beloved who responded with a smile.
"I see. So what are you going to do now?" Saphira asked.
"Haven't thought that far ahead, I guess we could go on another walk, or maybe play some cards?" I suggested.
"We could play cards until Kitty wakes up." Phoebe replied.
"Allright then let's do that." I said as I headed towards the bus with Phoebe in tow.
"Come on Saphira, you can play too." Phoebe said as we climbed on board.
Anyway, while we were trying to find ways to kill time, Claire was waiting around in the middle of nowhere for her mechanorimon to gain enough strength to fly again, at the moment it was barely able to stand. There were no dark kings on this side of the forest, but just like the north side, there were many small villages dotted around inhabited by weaker digimon. Unfortunately for Claire, they approached her out of curiosity, and were so naive they saw the badly hurt mechanorimon that was resting, but looked dead because it was a machine that didn't normally breathe, and immediately assumed she was working for Grandkuwagamon, whom they had heard rumors about, but had yet to learn of his demise.
Unable to defend herself from the large group of angry rookies, she went on the run and got separated from her mechanorimon. With some quick thinking she used her chikorita (who they mistook for a fellow digimon) to mislead the crowd and send them searching for her in the wrong direction, but at this point she was completely lost and didn't know how to get back to her mechanorimon. So she tried to keep walking in one direction to the best of her ability.
Fortunately, instead of leading her deeper into the forest, she eventually arrived at the south side of the gap, which she decided to follow to the coastal village, thinking the bubble men may be somewhere in the other direction, this was correct, though they were very far off in that direction, still hanging out in the big city, where there was plenty of room to organize their massive army. They didn't even have to force anybody out of their homes, there was just that much unused real estate.
We played cards until Kitty woke up, then she joined in for a while. Then Phoebe got horny and started to rub my groin with her feet under the table without the other two noticing, at least for a few more hands.
"You want to move on to something else CJ?" I heard her say as she looked right at me, her feet lightly rubbing my groin.
"Pheebles what are you doing?" I asked.
"You know you like it." Phoebe replied as I felt my pants come unbuttoned.
"I love you're pretty little feet baby girl but really? Right now, right next to them?" I asked.
"When they find out, we'll just have another sexy party." She said.
"You are the craziest girl I know." I replied.
"Don't draw any attention just keep playing the game." Phoebe said. "I want to see how long I can go without them finding out." She said as she grabbed my manhood with her feet.
There was nothing I could do that wouldn't draw attention to it, so I just kept playing the game, lasted about 3 more hands until I could take it anymore and Kitty finally noticed.
Everything escalated, at some point clothes started coming off and we ended up having yet another sexy party.
After waiting for Claire to return for a few hours, Henry, Zari, and Iceleomon kept heading towards us without any further interruptions. Though they were concerned for Claire, who hadn't returned yet, they were eager to get out of the forest before they ran into more enemy forces. Their mechanorimon were both conscious now, but still badly wounded.