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Humon

-Chapter 30-

-Last Time-

Giggling a little at his over dramatic reaction, Mimi patted the blonde's shoulder comfortingly. "There there Naruto, don't be sad, we can still fix this."

"Hey look, a crest." Tai said while pointing to the top of the cactus they had anchored to which had a large flower that just bloomed to reveal the large stone plate of a crest with the symbol for Sincerity on it.

"Huh, you know, I'd actually forgotten that we were looking for that." Izzy admitted as the slab shrunk down to a small green rectangle and floated down into the tag around Mimi's neck. "Well, that's three down, just four more to go."

-And Now-

Naruto groaned tiredly as he flopped onto his bed, his body covered in bits of paint, wood and metal shavings, plaster, and soot. For the last three days he and his clones had been fixing up all the damage that had been done to the Sandoraidā during that last bout with Etemon, and boy was there a lot of it.

Almost every single deck had the walls and floors torn up, scratched, gnawed, ect, multiple fires had broken out across the ship, and there were hundreds of piles of broken rock and sand from the stone wolf bodies.

On the positive side, the majority of the damage had been merely aesthetic while key areas such as the engine and generators were mostly unharmed. An even luckier break was that Matt had stumbled upon a storage room filled with various supplies needed to patch things up.

Even so, it took a lot of time, effort, and clone spamming to get his ship in working order while simultaneously manning it.

Hell, there were still five or so of his doppelgangers going around making sure everything stayed in working order while one taught Matt and Tai how man the bridge.

So tired was he, Naruto didn't even care as he devolved into his Chibi form as he pulled the blanket over himself, nor when a certain pink loving girl exited the bathroom dressed in a pair of slightly baggy pink pajama pants and black pajama shirt with a pink flower decal on the middle.

Rubbing her eyes tiredly, Mimi shuffled over and flopped onto the bed next to Naruto, burrowing under the covers as she pulled the chibi blonde into her arms. In less then a minute both of them were completely asleep with soft snores filling the air.

Due to their tiredness though, neither of them had noticed that the door was partially open or the three sets of eyes peering inside belonging to Palmon, Izzy, and Sora.

"Okay, be honest with me Izzy. She's getting worse again isn't she?" Sora asked while carefully closing the door.

"Unfortunately, it would appear so." The computer genius said with a sigh. Ever since the assault on the Sandoraidā by TitanEtemon and his stone wolves, Mimi seemed to have lost a chunk of her regained confidence as she'd redoubled her insistence on being by Naruto's side at all times.

Even the others were starting to notice her behavior, even the whiskered blonde himself, though Mimi managed to play it off as being worried that some of the stone wolves had survived somehow and were hiding onboard. And being the gullible knuckleheaded ninja he was, Naruto bought her excuse without a second thought.

Hence why he didn't question the girl further when she asked him to 'stand guard' outside the restroom whenever she was bathing or relieving herself.

"If her SBS (Security Blanket Syndrome) gets any more severe, we may have to take direct action." Izzy said, earning curious/worried looks from Sora and Palmon.

"Uh… what exactly do you mean by 'direct action'?" Palmon asked nervously.

Izzy opened his mouth to respond, but was cut off when the ship suddenly lurched, sending the three of them tumbling several feet down the hallway.

"Owwww, what was that?" Sora asked as she slowly got to her feet, gingerly rubbing the lump that was growing atop her noggin.

"Based on the intense kinetic force that propelled us and the lack of resounding motion shockwaves, I'd say that our transportation has ceased moving for some reason." Izzy said while Palmon helped him up before looking towards Naruto's room. "We should-"

*Bang* "KAMI DAMMIT! CAN'T I GET FIVE FREAKING MINUTES OF SLEEP BEFORE SOME CRAZY KUSO HAPPENS!?"

"…Wake up Naruto and Mimi in case something is wrong." Izzy finished quietly as a very upset Chibi Naruto burst through the doorway and marched towards the bridge with a heavy-duty artillery cannon in tow, a still half-asleep Mimi following him.

…

…

"Is anyone else wondering where they got that cannon?"

-Main Deck-

"GRAAAHHH!" A massive red beetle digimon screamed in agony, clawing at the front of the Sandoraidā where his lower half was being crushed while also trying to pull free his massive pincers from the hull. This is Kuwagamon, a powerful and deadly digimon who loved to cause destruction and mayhem.

He was also not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, which was the main reason why he was in his current predicament.

"You know, maybe trying to stop a two hundred-thousand-ton ship by catching it with your teeth wasn't the brightest of ideas!" Matt called down from the bow beside Gabumon, Tai, and Agumon, getting what he swore could was a very sarcastic roar of pain in response. "Hey Gabumon, could you put him out of his misery or something, this is kinda getting disturbing to see and he kinda holding us in place."

"Oh no, no way, I ain't getting involved in that mess." The wolf-pelt wearing digimon said with a shake of his head before trotting off. He was not getting dragged into this sort of unanswerable ethical dilemma that would probably haunt him for the rest of his life.

"Oh well, guess that means you and me get to clean this one up Tai. Let's scrape this bug off the grill, shall we?" Agumon asked rhetorically as he climbed up the guardrail.

However, just when he was about jump down and deal with Kuwagamon, he paused when he noticed that Tai hadn't responded. Turning around to his partner, he finally noticed how the goggle-headed boy was staring down at the partially squashed bug with a blank expression as sweat poured down his forehead. "…Tai?"

-Tai's POV-

"Greymon dark digivolve to…"

As the miasma settled into place, it turned solid and became stark white until all that remained was a massive skeletal beast with a large orange heart in its ribcage and an orange fish-like object on it's back.

"…SkullGreymon!"

…Skullgreymon raised his bony hands and grabbed onto the mutated Greymon's head. "Die."

…the pressure became too much and GigaGreymon's head caved in with a sickening wet crunch.

"GRAAAHH! DIE! DIE! DIE!" He roared, flailing his arms while blindly firing another fish missile from its back that obliterated even more of the coliseum. "DIE! DIE!"

-Normal POV-

*KABOOM* Tai was jarred from his dark remembrance by a loud explosion. Whirling his head towards the source, the goggle-headed boy's eyes widened in shock as he found himself staring at Naruto and Mimi pointing their cannon down at the smoking crater that used to be Kuwagamon.

"I swear, if anyone else causes trouble while I'm trying to sleep, they are gonna end up just like that." Naruto stated with a slightly crazed look thanks to his slightly bloodshot and baggy eyes that made everyone on deck shrink away slightly before Mimi scooped him up into her arms and marched off back towards their room.

…

"Hmm, somebody appears to be in quite the foul mood," A small pink pixie like digimon wielding a small spear said as he floated onto the deck, getting the remaining people to snap their attention towards him. "Perhaps I should come back later."

-Meanwhile-

"Sovereigns dammit it! How?! How do those brats keep slipping through my fingers, uh-huh!?" Etemon demanded as he paced back and forth his trailer while wringing a crushed microphone in his hands.

In the background several Gazimon were working diligently on a computer that had at about two dozen screens, three-fourths of which were filled with nothing but static while the remaining ones showed topographic maps of the desert.

"I mean it just doesn't make sense! I've thrown everything I have and then some at those digidestined children and yet they somehow keep coming out on top!" Etemon vented angrily. "It literally makes no sense!"

"Perhaps that is because you haven't considered all the variables." A familiar voice said as the door to the trailer swung open, causing Etemon to stop mid-step and look towards the owner.

"Oh really Aidmon? And what exactly do you mean by that little lady?" Etemon demanded with a raised brow as he looked down at the small doll digimon, though his tone did hold a small amount of respect. Every time she'd visited so far Aidmon had brought him a very nice 'gift' with her, so for now it was in his best interest to keep on her good side… for now.

"It's actually rather simple really." Aidmon said while sauntering inside. "All your plots so far haven't been thwarted by these digidestined you've been ranting about. There's someone else with them that's been doing that, someone that I believe you've had a great deal of personal experience with as of late."

Easily figuring out what the woman was referring to, Etemon grit his teeth angrily while one of his hands strayed towards his backside protectively. "Teumesemon."

"Ding ding ding, correct. Your ever-devout fan has discovered that this Teumesemon fellow is traveling with the digidestined for the sole purpose of causing you trouble since you invaded his territory." Aidmon said, her smirk widening slightly as Etemon growled lowly while the squished microphone in his grasp snapped in two. 'Hook, line, and sinker.'

"So that's why that bastard keeps showing up, uh-huh. I was wondering about that for a bit now."

"Indeed Mr. Etemon, and not only that but he has been spreading quite a few rumors about you as well to other digimon."

"…Oh really? And what exactly is he saying?" Etemon asked darkly, before blinking in confusion when Aidmon simply held up a piece of paper.

"They aren't really appropriate for a lady like myself to say, so your fan was nice enough to write a few of them down for you." Aidmon explained, giggling slightly when the orange monkey took the paper and read its contents.

…

"I'M GOING TO RIP THAT BASTARD'S SPINE OUT AND USE IT AS MY MIKE STAND!" Etemon screamed in rage before turning his attention back to his underlings. "I WANT THIS NETWORK UP AND RUNNING BY THE END OF THE DAY OR ELSE!"

"YES SIR!" The Gizamon yelled back in terror with salutes.

Losing himself into his rage, Etemon didn't even notice as Aidmon set a small package down on shelf and head for the door.

Upon stepping outside, the nurse mummy doll vanished in a blur of motion and reappeared inside a tropical oasis where Kitsunemon was casually laying back on a hammock, examining a small red crystal in his hands.

"That was fast." He said calmly, not even looking away from his work.

"Of course it was Master, that buffoon is so easy to trick that I could have done it in my sleep." Aidmon said with a huff before pulling out a huge pile of snacks and drinks from… somewhere? "He didn't even notice that I've been stealing all the food on his ridiculous trailer every time I visit. Would you like some twinkies?"

"Don't mind if I do." Kitsunemon said while grabbing a few of the fluffy snack cakes. "Ah, worthless sacks of meat they may be, but by Juubi do humans know how to make a tasty food."

"Indeed Master," Aidmon said as she placed the rest down beside him and started munching on a chocolate bar. "Shall I proceed with the next phase?"

"…Yes." The intimidating kitsune said with a nod, getting the doll digimon to smirk mischievously.

-End Chapter-

AN: Short chapter I know, but I hope it was still a good one. Thanks for reading and please review.