EL Digital Saviors 27
Ok loyal readers now the battle against Etemon is going to get red hot! With minions dropping like flies, he enlists even stronger agents to take out these annoying human pests! But again our heroes slowly prove limits can be surpassed. Also this is where the pairing of JP and Yuka starts. I mentioned it earlier, much like Kanae and Alex there's a slow burn romance going on between them. Story is still rated the same. Please read and review.
-chapter 27 - Power Plays
-begin Trust You Forever by Ushima
It was late morning at the Inn and frankly if the place were any more dead, it would need a coroner. Only JP, Yuka, and Mayu were there. That and the Digimon. Going through some ancient texts and scrolls Bokomon hoped he'd be able to find some way to evolve to the Ultimate level, and finally defeat Etemon. But so far he'd come up with zilch. As in nothing. Coming inside JP was making a beeline to the sink to wash the grease off his hands, he'd been tuning up his truck for over an hour now. In fact his whole outfit was smeared with the stuff.
He then noticed Yuka dragging a bunch of text books for her college classes. The school had been demolished by the Digimon battling again. It was almost becoming a kind of running joke. She set the heavy books on the table and sat her self down, letting out a sigh. In short she was worn out. "Uh hey JP just where is everybody?'' She asked. "Because I can't remember the last time the Inn was ever this deserted.''
"Oh c'mon it's not that bad.'' He said scrubbing off more grime.
"Look around superstar. Everyone's off to well everywhere. You can even hear a pin drop.'' She said dropping a hairpin.
The tiny thing made a small clinking sound, JP hated to say it but Yuka was right. The Inn was quiet you could a hear a pin drop. "So... where is everyone JP?'' She asked again.
Putting on a pondering look JP recalled what everyone was doing in town, then remembered. "Uh let's see first Lucy went for groceries with Nana and Mariko, again. For my buddies, they're off in town somewhere getting Alex some DBZ manga or Gundam something or other. I don't understand that kid sometimes. Want some help?''
"Yeah same here... Alex is meeting up with Kanae's friends. But the gutters need a little work. Again. Sorry. Maybe the toaster next time.'' Yuka said glancing out the window. Her cousins always had some mysteries about them.
Cringing at how nasty they were last time JP resolved himself anyway to doing it (he still hated that toaster). ''Hey I am your man. I am your Mr. Fixit for a reason y'know. Anything else?'' He asked twirling his wrench.
"A few floorboards are loose. Don't want Mariko getting splinters from them.'' Yuka thought again. "Alright let's go.''
"Lead the way Toots.'' He said walking after her.
That comment made her stop right in her tracks. "Toots?'' Yuka repeated slowly turning around giving him a glare.
Evidently Yuka didn't like being called Toots, quickly JP thought up something else. "Uh babe? Sweetcakes?'' Still Yuka gave him the glare. Then he thought up another one. "Ah I got it! Princess. Hah!''
She still kept glaring at him, this was getting harder every second the American boy thought. Maybe she could throw him a clue? "Ya wanna me a throw me a clue here Yuka? I'm drowning.''
"Y'know what that's ok. I'll do it myself JP.'' Yuka spat at him.
That and she gave him the worst of glares. She was not happy with his high and mighty macho tough guy talk to her. "Fight?'' Mayu whispered at Renamon as they relaxed on the couch.
"Fight. Pork rind Mayu?'' The fox based Rookie asked her.
Taking a few of them, the young girl then crunched away on them. They were a snack the boys from the States enjoyed, Mayu developed a little taste for them too. As did Renamon. "Fine that suits me just perfect. Just don't come around to me asking for my help anymore.'' He remarked.
That was it, that was the backtalk that broke Yuka's back, so to speak. She was furious at him. "Ya see I wouldn't ask for your help if you were the last living thing on the face of this planet. Mister!'' She yelled getting right in his face.
Despite being five inches shorter than the American boy (JP was 5 foot 9 inches) she had the courage to stand up to things way bigger than herself. Like JP for example. "Fine by me do it yourself!'' JP griped plopping himself down on the coach. "Ugh... Women. Am I right Hagurumon?''
The gear monster simply shrugged and shook his head as best he could. "Ya shouldn't have talked to her that way. Ladies aren't objects JP. She's got feelings.''
''Really. Really Hagurumon? Take her side!'' He growled back.
"I'm not taking nobody's side here, except basic etiquette.'' Hagurumon explained.
"You callin' me a chauvinist? Me?'' JP gasped flabbergasted by the idea.
His family always taught him to respect everyone equally, and now someone was saying he wasn't doing exactly that? Well that made him mad. Pure and simple. "Well uh your idea of talkin' to the ladies JP is mostly ''Hey baby somebody call a cop cuz it's illegal to look as hot as you'. Or this one ''Baby you are so hot I wish I'd plant a whole field of you''. Get the picture lover-boy? Its greasy and not even good for my ears. And I like grease.'' The gear monster elaborated.
Well to be honest JP hadn't thought of it that way, true his flirting and pick up lines worked wonders in New York. They made the ladies swoon and melt for him. Like putty in his hands. It never occurred to him the same flirting would fail with the Japanese girls. "Well I guess I never saw it that way... '' He admitted nervously scratching the back of his head.
After taking off his gloves Hagurumon noticed something about them, JP's gloves were getting fairly worn out. "Uh JP I think you need a new set of gloves for those gutters. Ones you got now... getting kinda ratty. Might wanna invest in new ones."
''Hey Yuka we're headed to the store, get some new work gloves. Wanna go with and grab something?'' He called to her.
Poking her head out around the corner the older girl simply scowled at him, still mad about their earlier fight. Grumbling she fetched her shoes and told Renamon to guard the place, to which the fox gave a salute. "Renamon hold down the fort 'til we get back."
This yet again confused Neemon. "But wait I thought this place was an inn not a castle. I'm confused... " Neemon said once again confused.
Facepalming Mayu sighed and then snapped his pants, with him letting out his usual yelp. She then waved as the pair loaded into JP's truck and drove off to the shopping district. She and Renamon wondered if the two would put aside their issues while at the store. Otherwise there would be a repeat of before.
-store
As the two (Hagurumon tagging along just in case) walked through the convenience store though the tension brewing between Yuka and JP was so thick you'd cut it with a knife. Somehow his American talk got him into trouble again. In fact all their arguing got her fellow college freshman's attention, in fact all of them: Tai, Yamato, Ken, and Sora aside from shopping errands they haven't caught up (they knew about the whole Digimon fiasco thankfully/Kanae and her texting).
"Ahh there it is. The perfect shampoo.'' He chuckled. "Just the thing for my great hairline.''
Now Yuka was disrepecting his hair, something he took a whole lot of pride in maintaining (since he grabbed a very high end shampoo). He worked up a huge sweat being Mr. Fixit and all. So a haircare product that kept it healthy and stylish was necessity. ''That's no hairline JP! It's yer hair running away from yer face!'' She growled getting up close and personal in his face.
''Oh we're doing this here? We're doing this here, that's rich comin' from you Toots." JP sassed at her.
"I told you before ya bonehead don't call me Toots!" She yelled back. "What is your problem?!"
Getting increasingly annoyed JP growled back at her. "What's my problem? It stands about 5 foot 4 and smells like cheap hair conditioner!"
"Think you got me confused with your mother!" Again Yuka sassed bringing the dreaded ''momma'' insults.
This had Yamato and Sora's mouths go wide open in shock, Yuka just did a 'yo momma' insult. She'd have to be really mad to resort to those, no ifs ands or buts Yuka was furious at JP. Ignoring Tai and Ken's concerns JP shot back at Yuka with the best kind of comeback. ''Oh we're doing momma jokes now? Oh it's on Yuka!''
''Yeah ok hotshot, here's another. Yer momma's so fat when she wears high heels she strikes oil!'' Yuka said with a smirk, she was enjoying this a tiny bit.
Smirking back at her JP was getting a little kick out of this whole thing too, not he'd admit it to her though. "Your momma, ooh yer momma. Your momma's so fat you showed her a photo of her feet and guess what she couldn't figure out whose they were!"
By now Yuka was on a roll, a rollout actually. A rollout of insults, still she had a confession to make. ''Actually I feel sorry for your mom having such an ugly baby boy... You're so ugly she tied a burger to yer hand just so a dog would play with you!''
By then JP ditched the momma jokes and went straight to the heart of Yuka's issue, in his mind anyways. "Uh now don't take this the wrong way but have you always been this stubborn or did it takes years to practice?"
Taken aback by that remark Yuka couldn't believe the gall JP had, calling her stubborn of all things. She was not stubborn. She was compassionate and caring. She started strutting around the aisle, mocking his swagger. "You calling me stubborn? You're the one acting all stuck up. That's right JP Mr. New York fronting around like you own the place."
By now JP was running out of the juiciest insults and comebacks, he had to call a truce. For now. "'You so stubborn... No... wait that one sucks. You're so stuck up... Eh no that one's weak too. Uh Yuka will ya give me a few minutes to think, brain's fried. I got a real zinger. I guarentee you it'll be very meaty."
It seemed Yuka's brain was fried too, she couldn't come up with good insults either. She agreed to the idea. "You... You... Uh fine I got nothing... Just gimme a sec.''
By then the two simply humph'd both clearly in no mood to speak civil to one another. It was then Yamato noticed something about Yuka, she had a slight blush on her face, and it wasn't from blowing her stack. "What's this JP, havin' a lovers spat with yer girlfriend?" Yamato teased grabbing his pal into a playful headlock.
Taking Yuka aside Sora hoped she'd get her classmate to cool off her temper, it wasn't very lady-like. She saw something in the two's argument. They argued like it was a contest of who could make the best comeback. "You argue like an old married couple. Y'know JP would be a really nice guy to have for a boyfriend Yuka. He's very handy." Sora said whispering into her ear.
"She/he ain't/isn't my girlfriend/boyfriend!'' They both yelled denying the crazy idea.
Now that was it, the very last straw, their friends insinuated Yuka & JP had some kind of crazed romantic attractions to one another. But it was just that, crazy! Right? They both thought it over, but realized they were just too different. She was just your average girl in college. JP, he was a loud mouthed gearhead. A boisterous blowhard if she'd ever laid eyes on one. A relationship between them, just wouldn't work out. While opposites did atract and worked out now and then. But a lot didn't, the youths weren't gamblers and ignored the idea of them dating.
To help things simmer down even more Tai figured he'd the best way, buy a few drinks at the shop. The drink of choice, some barley tea and warmed over chocolate milk. While Yuka got caught up with Sora several many questions still occupied her mind... questions far too complicated her young mind could understand. Ever since she first met JP new thoughts raced around inside her head, strange thoughts, ones even uncomfortable, why was she thinking these wierdo things about him? ''Really Sora? Me and JP? That's crazy, we're just too different. Though he might almost be cute... if he didn't brag so much.'' She thought glancing at him briefly.
Looking out the corner of his eye, JP saw something in the way Yuka was so at ease around Sora and her college friends. Thinking back to what Yamato said, Yuka hooking up with him? That's insane. Still after she sipped her hot cocoa her face made a small smile. "Fah! Me and that drama queen, please. Still I never really noticed until now, at just how cute Yuka looked when she's smiling." He thought quickly looking away from her.
-begin Face of Fact by Kotoko
But just then a loud blast was heard outside, rattling the store's windows and nearly knocking the youths flat on their behinds. Quick as a bunny JP dove and caught Yuka before she lost her balance. "Well, well, well think I got an idea what's going on. The Network's at it again.'' JP grumbled as he, Hagurumon, and Yuka dashed outside.
And he was right, yet again the Network had decided the worst of times to instigate a fight with the youths, as a squad of Kunemon, Dokunemon, Gazimon wanted to try their luck. Seeing the group of very angry evil Digimon glaring their direction Tai and his friends pondered their options.
"Now what do we do?!" Tai whispered glancing at Sora.
"Running would be a good idea.'' She said.
"Hide in my truck. Alright time where we take over. Ready Gearhead? Execute! Champion Level Digivolve!'' JP yelled out his companion's transformation command putting in the button command.
"Hagurumon digivolve to... GUARDROMON!" Guardromon then struck a fighting stance.
But joining him was JP of all people, to everyone's shock except Guardromon. He knew his partner wasn't the type afraid to brawl if one happened, not that Guardromon minded. He'd prefer to fight alongside his friend. "All right JP let's put these Network scoundrels in their place!" He called out pointing at the Network horde.
''Ok human jerms ya wanna fight, fine. We can help with that.'' A Gazimon sneered cracking its knuckles. "Sic 'em!''
Quickly two of the Dokunemon and Kunemon pounced on him, ready and raring to go at ripping him apart, but the American boy would not back down to to data based punks. So he stood his ground.
"Poison Ride!" The green Dokunemon pounced on JP trying to stab him with its poisonous stinger tail.
"Electro Thread!" The yellow larva yelled spewing an electrically-charged thread of silk from hard beak.
Just as fast JP dodged the Poison Ride attack then the Electro Thread, but doing that the electrical blast slammed into the chromed grill of his truck. That and Gazimon had his friends trapped within, with no way of escape. He scowled at the scorch mark Kunemon left on it. ''Hey! Claws off my truck!" Instead JP struck a fighting stance gesturing the evil Digimon to 'bring it on'.
And he lunged at the Kunemon slugging it right in the chin of its beak, taking the evil monster by outright surprise. ''ARGH!" The yellow larva screamed out getting slugged right in his mandibles. Then it was headbutted and kicked in the gut by the American youth. The punch sent him flying and landing with a heavy thud on a nearby bus.
After that even the tougher Gazimon inched back, slightly unnerved by the brazen strength the human showed in physical combat. No wonder Commandramon spoke a little highly of him. "Anyone else want some? Cuz now ya got me mad!"
"And me as well. You want to push your luck Network? Keep fighting." Guardromon grumbled slamming its metal knuckles.
The Gazimon simply growled their teeth ready to attack, but the awesome twosome stood their ground ready to take on all challengers. ''Sorry but the lady's already taken!" JP growled standing guard by his truck, and by extention Sora, Tai, Yamato, and Ken inside.
"Well then... Try me for starters?'' A sinister voice said stepping out from a nearby shadowy alley.
The evil Digimon resembled a creepy guy in samurai armor, again JP struck a fighting stance but Guardromon knew exactly who this was. "Musyamon! Of course a dishonorable scum like you would be working for the Network."
The evil Musyamon jumped high into the air and once he landed between JP and his friends stuck inside the truck. He smirked a toothy grin as he knew exactly what was inside. ''Ahh... My favorite dish. Hostages." He cackled manically.
The sight of Sora in trouble made Yuka's heart sink, if she didn't think up something fast it could be too late for them. She pleaded for him to help. ''JP! Ya gotta help me! They took my friend hostage!''
"Thought ya didn't need my help?'' He sassed her.
"Not the time!'' She spat back.
''The end... " Musyamon snarled out raising his sword, readying to cleave the truck and trapped occupants in two.
Only he didn't even get the chance to, as Guardromon punched the side of his face hard! With the powerful blow strong enough to shatter neaby glass windows, as Musyamon was sent flying! After punching Musyamon away from his partner's truck Guardromon was now very upset. It took a lot to really make him angry... But threatening JP & Yuka's classmates was where he really drew the line! Guardromon flew off after him to finish things!
With the creepy samurai taken care of for the moment, JP & Yuka's friends scrambled out of his truck as fast as their legs could carry them. They figured to keep on running until a Gazimon joked about their weakness. "Feh! Serves ya right you weak humans, keep on running.''
That remark had them stop running, now rooted on the spot. They simply glared at the furry monster, opening up and rummaged through the trunk of JP"s truck. They knew he kept auto tools in it, JP said it all the time. Thus they equipped themsleves with them: Ken a large L-socket wrench, Tai a crowbar, and finally Yamato a tire iron.
Even Sora grabbed something JP"s tire iron, and blocked a claw swipe from Gazimon. Then she took a big swing, and whacked him hard across the face sending him flying. "That's how weak I am." She grumbled glaring at the Kunemon just ahead of her.
''Uh-oh... " The larval monster uttered. You can probably guess what happened to him next.
Meanwhile Guardromon was locked in a powerful grapple but Musyamon was just as strong as he was, making this a difficult battle. "Ninja Blade!" Musyamon yelled attackings with his sword. "Ninja Blade!"
The sword swipe hit Guardromon's arms, while he's tough enough to take the blows the second sent him inching back a ways. Seeing the perfect opening the samurai went for the kill! "Shogun Sword!'' He slashed his enemy with the glowing sword, draining Guardromon's life force.
"Warning Beam!" The iron clad partner called forth blasting with lasers from its eyes Musyamon in his ugly face.
The high heat ended burning his enemy's shoulder armor. In a rage Musyamon used another Ninja Blade attack slamming down on Guardromon's arms sending back almost toppling him over.
Meanwhile JP and Yuka's group of friends had Musyamon's rookie minions actually on the defense, in fact they monsters were a little spooked. ''Hey bugboy! What'd the baseball bat say to the pitcher?" Ken asked brandishing the L-wrench.
"Huh?" Another Kodokunemon uttered, not figuring what he meant.
"Batter up!" Ken yelled.
Pretty quick the sounds of the Rookie level minions were heard getting beaten up, with every single one of them sent flying! Then landing in a huge sorry looking heap. "Argh... ! My abdomen... " One of the Kunemon groaned out.
''I think my claws were bent... " Gazimon muttered in pain.
"You jerks give up?" Kenasked them cracking his knuckles.
''Or are ya thirsty for more?'' Sora sassed to them.
After the sounds of Musyamon's minions getting their hind ends beaten Guardromon figured this was time to end this fight once and for all. The evil samurai used yet another Ninja Blade attack, only this time the Machine type caught the blade and the two struggled a bit. But enough was enough and Guardromon slammed his steel fist shattering Musyamon's sword. The broken tip fell with a clunk on the ground. ''Guardian Barrage! Guardian Barrage! Guardian Barrage! Guardian Barrage! Guardian Barrage!'' Guadromon bellowed as dozens of missiles shot out at high speed.
Each of the missiles detonated on impact, engulfing Musyamon in a massive fireball of an explosion, completely obliterating him! An even bigger fireball exploded from the ground, with huge billows of smoke pouring into the now darkening sky. The sun was setting, night was coming as Gazimon knew this battle was lost. "Don't be so smug humans you won this battle but there will others.'' He growled as the group vanished into a DigiPort.
With the bad guys beaten JP now saw the sorry condition his truck was in. It broke his heart, he built it from nothing but scrap. He tenderly touched the hood, and a popping sound sound was heard. A piston had snapped in the engine block. Put simply he broke down crying. "Ahh what did they do to you? Ooh my baby. Look what they did to my baby! Scorch marks everywhere and broken windshield. Gotta buff out the dings... "
"JP I will give your vehicle a lift back to the inn. Go on get in." Guardromon said ushering the boy along with Yuka inside the vehicle.
''The rest you guys just repeat what you said last time to the police. I'm headed home.'' Yuka told her friends just before the Guardromon fired up his rockets and flew off.
-back at the Inn
Once they'd returned to the inn Yuka took JP aside for a talk. She and him were in need of a serious talk. The look in her eye to JP meant she was serious. "Look JP I don't appreciate being talked to that way. Its not polite and keep in mind you're a guest in this country and this house. If not Kouta will not be too happy, if he finds out.'' Yuka pointed out giving him a stern look.
"Sorry Yuka. I keep forgettin' that. The girls back in New York didn't seem to care. I keep thinking I'm still in NYC, but that's just it. I'm not there, I didn't think. And haven't been. Uh we cool? I mean are things good again between us?'' JP said sincerely apologizing to her.
"Well... as good as they can be. Considering we're stuck in the middle of a war of monsters. Now get to fixing those gutters.'' She said pointing for him out the door.
"Yes ma'am.'' He did as he was told heading outside as Guardromon helped reach places out of his reach.
"Now that's more like it.'' She thought smirking.
Maybe her friends weren't so crazy, after all JP was very handy around the inn. He's kept their repair bills low, thanks to his skills with tools. Maybe... Just maybe he could be a boyfriend to her.
-to be continued
This was a pretty hard chapter to write up because of all the dialogue and Yuka/JP interactions. I needed to get some differing views with them both. JP is Japanese American... Fifth generation in fact and loves New York. Much less left it. Yuka is a Japanese native, born and raised there her whole life thus her cultural views are way different than his. There lies the conflict between them. And its explored here... They'll never fully understand each other but at least they're trying to. Again Alex, Jason, and JP are gaijin in Japan (literally foreigners basically) and don't quite fully get the different taboos and cultural diffrences. And despite all the rough n' tumble exterior JP is deep down a good guy who'll always help those in need. And frankly I don't think Yuka is a tsundere type either (I should know I looked the definition up/my teachers told me never to use words I don't know the meaning to).
Please read and review this and my other stories which range from: Yokohama Night Monsters, Power Rangers Dimension Legends, ELG The Series, Code Lyoko EL, Loud House: Rise of Akira, Cybertronian Invasion, and Maverick Hunter KLN to satisfy your craving for bizarre crossovers. Ok for references... I'll give 50 points to all the readers, whoever can correctly guess all the references the characters make. Be it anime, manga, comics, books, live-action, animation, or games it doesn't matter. See if you can guess any. Something else many chapters are puns off words or phrases (like the show does/take a look and you'll see it).
PS: Sadly on the 22nd of November most in my apartment section came down with COVID (including me). Luckily we'd been vaccinated way back in February. As for myself... Mostly fine except for coughing fits (that are really starting to hurt my ribs). But two of my housemates are a lot older and were really hit hard... So please leave some good words for them (one's a veteran). So please maybe some supportive prayers for them?
