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JP wasn’t thinking straight, he just marched right on in glaring right at Exermon, all the other digimon just looked at him with a bewildered look at him. He stood protectively in front of Kunemon.
“So are you going to tell me what the heck is going on?”
“You can see us?”
“I can see this whole mess! What are you doing?”
The digimon remained quiet for a while.
“None of your concern is just business with the hive.”
“It does when you take my classmates and the staff, put them in cocoons and do…. Whatever is it you're doing to them! It doesn’t look healthy at all.”
“Your kind has no business in our power,”
“That explains nothing!”
“We are just taking back what belongs to us! Humans have taken our power in unnatural ways! Electricity is for the Digimon who can channel it! It was our gift from the ancients, it's our livelihood! Many have taken our power for their own means, getting it out of us one way or another until there was nothing left and no one, even another member of our hive will stop us or convince us otherwise.”
Exermon just glared at the blue dressed boy.
“We were given another chance in this world, each of our original hives have been destroyed, so we made a new one with each other and this time we will be the ones doing the taking. We are taking every bit of our power, including the electricity you hide in your bodies!”
“Just because you suffered does not mean you get a free pass to make others suffer!”
“Well it still doesn’t excuse your kind for using what they have no claim to.”
JP stood strong.
“That doesn’t mean you can just claim it.”
“Are you challenging me?”
“I Guess I am!”
He pulled out his phone and went through the motions he made so many times in the digital world.
“EXECUTE! Spirit Evolution!”
Nothing happened.
All the Digimon were just looking at him.
“Kewww?”
JP then remembered that his phone was not a digivice and the spirit of thunder was in the digital world..
“Hehehe!” He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.
He picked up Kunemon, still trapped in the threads and tried to free them.
JP, was now panicking, how the heck could he, a mere human, fight a Digimon?
“So, you're changing me very well, we shall engage in a competition.”
“What kind of competition?”
“We try to find each other, first to capture the other wins. No backing out now, you agreed.”
Exermon stopped floating, landed on the ground and started walking toward JP, until they were face to face.
“Hive, you know what to do. ”
JP, staggered back as webs shot in front of him making a wall of sorts. The entire room quickly became a maze of webs, dead ends, non strait ways and corners.
The red digimon with bright green eyes flew overhead.
“On go, both of you will begin, first to incapacitate the other, wins.”
JP braced himself, Kunemon slinged over his shoulders once again.
“Ready?”
JP tensed up.
“Set?”
An unsettling buzzing filled his ears.
“GO!”
The wall behind him started ripping and tearing apart.
JP started running, weaving himself as fast as he could though the webs.
It was very difficult given his wide frame and the passenger he was carrying.
Suddenly the humanoid ant monster was right in front of him, electricity sparking in its palms.
JP barley dogged, before the digimon gracefully weaved through the webs gracefully as if it was doing gymnastics, until it was out of sight.
The boy looked around worrying, wondering where Exermon would strike next, for some reason he had trouble telling right from left.
“KEWW!”
“DefibrillaShock!”
JP quickly dodged as the hand swiped above him.
“KUNEMON! You shouldn’t intervene!” The Giant ant grabbed the still trapped, caterpillar digimon, and threw them away.
“KUNEMON!” JP called out trying to run after them before being knocked away.
He got stuck in something, The more he struggled the more he got stuck.
But then he got hit by something and got unstuck.
He stubbled a bit but ultimately he got back up.
This time he put his back against the wall, eyes darting around trying to find his opponent.
He saw a dark shadow dart towards him, electricity from the attack lit up the place, showing Exermon’s face.
It was absolutely terrifying.
JP dogged just out of the way.
Exermon got stuck. They hit the wall too hard.
*BOOM!*
Ah geez that sounded like thunder.
The digidestined ran into the maze of webs.
He kept getting stuck on stuff, but managing to get free.
He can’t see anything in the dark.
*BOOM!*
A bright flash accompanied the noise.
JP looked around frantically in the dark, unable to see anything swearing they saw Exermon everywhere he looked.
The dark was scarry.
He hated thunder.
He can’t see anything.
There was this noise in the air that was killing his head coming from somewhere It felt like a ton of bees were in his head.
The dark was scarry.
Where was the enemy?
*CRAKLE!*
That was the only warning before another attack came out of nowhere, Exermon struck the gound.
He ran away, flailing around in the dark hearing the sounds of his own panicked breath.
He couldn’t think clearly.
It was dark.
He was scared.
It was dark.
He was scared.
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He was scared.
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It was dark.
He
Was
Scared.
He fell to the ground and crawled under something
Finally he found his voice for just a moment.
“I’m- I’m-”
*BAM!*
“STOP IT!”
The ground shook and he turned to look at the source of the familiar voice.
Aldamon was standing right there. It was hard to see him in the shadows.
The ground felt more rough.
And in that moment he was Beetlemon again.
Kumamon and Kazemon were there as well but all of them were just staring at the warrior of fire who soon spoke up again.
“No more fear!”
“But the dark-” Kazumon started.
“Stop saying that!”
“HUh?”
“With faith we can win!”
JP’s voice came out without him thinking.
“Sorry pal but faith alone isn’t gonna cut it here!”
“Listen to me!”
“. . .”
“There still is only one of him.”
“Yeah, but that hasn't stopped him from beating us so far, has it?” He spat.
“Close your eyes.”
“Wha?”
“Huh?
“Hu?”
“I SAID CLOSE YOUR EYES!”
Aldamon said that with such conviction and fierceness it took them all aback for a bit.
J.P. was still unsure about this whole thing but he closed his eyes anyway, not like it mattered whether or not they were open in this darkness.
“We're not humans now, we are Digimon.”
He was still a Digidestained, Digivice or not.
“Our senses are sharper than when we were in our human forms,”
He had changed alot since arriving and leaving the Digital World, probably not even just as a person.
“You have to trust the Digimon inside of you.”
If Takuya could Digivolve in their world then it stood to reason that there was a part of them all that was still Digimon.
He just needed to tap into that.
J.P. was a human again, still hiding under something…..
He crawled out from his hiding spot and stood with vigor.
He took a deep breath and tried to remember what it was like….
What he had to do.
To be a Digimon.
Even if it was just for one moment.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, just trying to compose himself and focus.
Just for one moment, it was quiet.
. . .
Then he felt it.
It was weird, it was like there was water but not water, that he could tell was there with his eyes closed…. He could tell it was flowing, though the webs, in the machines, in the wires.
He could feel it in Exermon and the other digimon. It was like he could see him through the walls.
His opponent was coming back around but this time would be different.
This time when the Digimon threw a punch, JP was able to sidestep, grabbing the arm, pulling his opponent before punching them in the face.
The ant monster flew back nearly into one of the webs.
JP saw his chance and started running right at Exermon.
The cry came out all on its own. “Lighting Beat!”
Electricity enveloped his hands and feet and he struck his opponent. It flowed though the webs and back into the factory causing all the lights to filler.
Exermon ending up flying backwards.
After a while…. The lights came back on. JP saw that the webs were destroyed and the people who were trapped in them fell down, but still alive.
He then saw all the rest of the bug Digimon huddling around their leader…. Knocked out cold.
He then looked at the hand he used to hit the ant. Only to find it completely different.
It was a familiar purple, except for three silver inhuman machine-like pointy fingers. Touching it with his non transformed hand, it felt cold and metallic. He moved his fingers around expermently, no problems despite missing two digits, it felt natural, if he didn’t look at his own hand in amazement he probably wouldn’t have noticed anything was wrong.
“Oh he’s alright!”
That snapped him out of it. Walking over to his opponent.
“I guess I’ve been bested. Once week insects always week insects only good for creating electricity for others to take….. I guess Kunemon was right, it really was wrong to want things to be different. To be more than just… Prey.”
“I don’t think you were wrong to want things to be better for ourselves.”
All the Digimon looked at JP in surprise. Their leader, now sitting up.
“But that doesn’t mean you can treat everyone else terribly. Humans don’t use Digimon to generate Electricity. What you're doing is stealing from them.”
“KEEWWW! KEWWW!! KEEEW!”
They all turned to Kunemon. Hurt and still tied up.
“ Kew Keww Keeewwwwwww.w……” JP didn’t understand but the caterpillar looked angry.
“Oh… so that's what you meant………” Exermon lowered his head in shame. “I failed….. Terribly as a leader.”
He then bowed down on his knees(?) in front of JP.
“New hive leader, what shall we do now?”
“Huh?”
“You bested me, you seem to know most about this world, and it seems to me that you are one of our kind, You are clearly the best to become our new hive leader. How did you make yourself look like one of those humans?”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa…. I’m not a-.” He put out his hands as a way to shoo the idea down but caught a glimpse of his inhuman hand, and that shot down what he was gonna say.
“Look, it’s…. Complicated but I’m not…. Completely a Digimon, look, I’m not sure if I can be a good leader to you guys right now. I have my own things going on. But could you please try and not hurt the humans? Especially the ones who do not deserve it.”
He crossed his arms.
“As for living here….. maybe you can set up shop in a power plant or something.”
“A power plant? What’s that?”
“It is where humans generate electricity, maybe you can help them with productivity and stuff, I’m sure they won’t mind you guys getting some of the energy yourself if you do that.”
“That’s a thing? That is a great idea!”
“Kewww!”
“Oh boi,”
“We can probably work with the machines,”
While the digimon were chatting he started hearing growns… the people around them were waking up.
“Come on! All students please head to the cafeteira! We need to do a head count and make sure no one is hurt.”
JP looked back at his hand in alarm, wondering what he was gonna do about this….
Only to find that it reverted back to normal.
Some minor relief washed over him. He doubts he would be able to escape like Takuya.
But then that left Digimon.
Someone came up to him, it was a worker.
“Come on kid, let's get you back with your class.
“Hey, just curious…. Where is the nearest power plant?”
He just looked at the Digidestined in a weird way.
“What are you talking about?”
It took awhile but he managed to get the information to the hive…. Maybe he should upgrade his phone but his current one used to be his digivice…. Something that they realy need right now.
Looking back at the sign, he realised what he saw earlier was just a digimon on it…
There was two to talk about with the group.
- Digimon are appearing in the real world, and they may cause trouble, but no one can see them.
- It’s not just Takuya who can digivolve
This whole thing was one big mess…. He can’t wait to crash into his bed.
Taking with his friends, he felt bad for leaving them in the dark.
There was one thing J.P was happy about however…
He wasn’t the last one to awaken his powers!
“Log number 97
Experiment number 2002 has proven results………. Of where that monster originated from. It appears that something is blocking our progress though, as soon as we find something promasing, it changes, making us look like idiots.…. Wherever that thing came from…. Something is trying to keep it a secret, nevertheless we managed to tap into it. Now it seems other things are breaking though…. Or maybe…. Did we drag them from their home?
I’m afraid we may be breaking down a dam of sorts, dealing with some kind of….. Edrich stuff here.
But curiosity is one of the greatest driving forces in life
.
I am both dreading and looking forward to what is coming next.”