Magic Tech Productions Presents.... it’s first Fuzion Fanfic stretching into infinity... The Chosen written by Shaun Garin (C) 2001 Mtech Productions <><><> Episode 4 : DASH! Run for it! My Magic Doesn’t Work? <><><> Elsewhere, in a dark cavern underneath a broken down castle, Mummymon was using his scrying crystal to find out where the artifact in question was. “You who sails the seas of the Astral Plane, reveal those shadows to me!” Nothing. “Why won’t it work? What’s wrong?” “Well?” Ken asks, walking in. “Are you still getting no sign of the item?” “Ken! Well... yes. The crystal ball hasn’t located it since last night actually. If I could go there myself with a short range detection crystal, perhaps I could find it.” Ken frowned. ‘That girl couldn’t have lost it between yesterday and today. Is something interfering with us?’ Out loud, he said, “Alright Mummymon. There’s a slight change. Try to check the crystal ball once more. We’ll try bargaining with her once more.” <><><> “Daisuke, I’m getting kinda bored just looking at trees all the time.” V-mon complained. “Can’t help you there,” Daisuke said. “the best route to Atlas City is through these woods.” “Hey Daisuke,” Miyako called, getting his attention. “Remember how I said I thought those guys last night would attack again?” At Daisuke’s nod, she continued. “Look, I’m not going to have my powers for the next few days... so I’m going to be sticking close to you when we fight.” “You can’t use your powers?” V-mon exclaimed. “Okay, look.” Miyako held up a hand. “Source of all power...” She snaps them. Daisuke and V-mon look around before she says, “See?” “You’ve completely lost all your powers?!” Miyako nods. “I think I won’t be able to cast anything beyond a light spell for the next two or three days....” Daisuke nods knowingly. “Oh. That Time of the Month, huh?” “Let’s not talk about this!” Miyako cried in horror. “It’s that Time of the Month girls don’t like to talk about! When all the priestesses and sorcresses start loosing all their powers! OOW!” Daisuke rubbed his head. “What was that for?!” “How does a guy with the brains of the jellyfish and the brawn of a troll know about THAT TIME OF THE MONTH?!” Miyako screeched into his face, hands grabbing his shirt. “Well... it’s nothing really.” Miyako lets him go. “When I was a kid, there was a woman nearby who’d tell fortunes. One some days of the month she’d have to close her shop.” Daisuke looked up into the sky. “When I asked her why she did it, she told me it was That Time of the Month. Does That Time of the Month mean something special?” “Now hold on! You don’t KNOW?!” Miyako exclaims. Suddenly, Daisuke got that serious look in his eyes as he said, “Well, I’d say we’d better cut the gags for this episode. Looks like it’s time to get serious.” From behind a tree, Ken and Wormmon stepped out. “It’s him.” Miyako said. “Well now, it seems we have finally met once again,” Ken said, hand on his sword. “Anyway, I want the item! If you have some objections to that...” he draws his weapon. “Then I will take it from you by force. So, which would you rather prefer? Choose now!” “I’d think carefully before I’d answer that,” a second voice says. It steps out and reveals itself to be an ugly Digimon carrying a bone cuegel. Miyako turns and blinks. “Ogremon. Looks like you’ve really out done yourself this time Orgemon. Is working freelance starting to pay off now?” “You know him?” Daisuke asks. “We’ve crossed paths before.” “So, all we need to do is get that Orihalcon Statue, am I right Ken?” “Ogremon!” Ken exclaims. Ogremon scratches the back of his head. “Oh yeah, you said not to tell them anything. Well, it doesn’t really matter, they’re both gonna get hurt. Nothing personal Miyako.” “Boy, some company you keep,” Daisuke says, drawing his sword. “Your friends got a big mouth. I’ll shut it perminantly for him!” Ogremon laughed. “Alright, but you’re not gonna like it when *I* win,” Miyako said smugly. “I’ll take you on myself!” The group stood off for a long minute before she raised a hand and said, “Gooooooooo...... get ‘em DAI!” A massive facefault occoured. “Me go get em?” Daisuke asked, straightening his goggles. “Yes you!” “But now there’s two of em! Plus the Digimon!” “Oi vey.” Miyako groaned. “Guess again Daisuke, now there’s three of ‘em.” Iori stepped out, his katana in hand. “Remember me?” “The guy from last night....” Miyako scowled. “HEY! Three against one isn’t fair!” Iori shrugged. “I don’t know what you did to me last night, but today is gonna be different!” He holds out his katana offencively. ‘He isn’t kidding,’ Miyako thought. ‘Oh man, are we gonna have to turn tail and run?’ “Are you ready?” Ken asks, holding up his Digivice. “Lets go. Wormmon!” “Wormmon evolve!” Wormmon was lifted in a sphere that shattered like glass without damaging anything. “Stingmon!” “V-mon, lets take them down! Digimental Up!” “V-mon armor evolve!” V-mon was uplifted in a red bubble as the Digimental shot into it. It shattered as well, leaving behind Fladramon. “Fladramon, burning with Courage!” “You too Hawkmon!” “Hawkmon evolve!” Hawkmon was lifted in a red bubble as well and it shattered to reveal a large red and white horned bird. “Aquilamon!” “Well then, I’ll have to play that tone too. Go Armadimon!” “Armadimon evolve!” Armadimon was lifted in a yellow bubble and it shattered, leaving behind a club tailed Dinosaur like monster. “Ankylomon!” Ken nodded. “Deal with the Digimon Stingmon. I will take on Inoue personally.” He lifted a hand. “Flare.....” A red arrow of energy appeared. “Arrow!” Miyako shrieks as she dodges it and starts to run away from Ken through the underbrush. “Miyako!” Daisuke shouts and then is confronted by Iori. “We haven’t had the chance to finish our duel,” Iori says as the pair faces off. As Miyako is being chased through the underbrush, she frowns as she pulls her sword. “This isn’t good.” “Allow me to test your skill.” Ken leaps and Miyako leaps at him, the pair striking each other’s blade in mid air. She lands and continues running through the tall grasses. ‘he’s good. I’m gonna need Daisuke to back me up against him.’ Suddenly, she ran out of space as she encountered the edge of a large vast lake. “Oh man, out of grass!” Ken suddenly leapt down behind her, scowling. “You flee?” Miyako turns but suddenly, he’s in front of her. His knee slams into her stomach as she coughs violently, the hollow thud echoing in her head. Dropping to her knees, she gasped out, “I thought you were supposed to take it easy on a lady.” “If you’d just handed over the statue quietly, I wouldn’t have had to do that. So, in the end, this is all you are.” He extended his hand. “Now hand over the statue.” “Source of all power....” Miyako grimaces. ‘light which burns which burns beyond crimson flame, let thy power gather in my hand.....’ She suddenly shoves her hand into his face. “LIGHTING!” Ken cries out as he stumbles back and Miyako starts to run away. ‘I may be able to pull off the light spell, but he’s not going to fall for that again!’ Back with Daisuke, he started to feel the strain of holding off two attackers, and one of them was a Digimon. “You’re pretty good, holding both of us off!” Iori says, clearly enjoying the fight. “Thanks a lot,” Daisuke puffs. “Look, we’re just after the girl. Stay out of our way and you won’t get hurt.” Ogremon sneers. “Don’t be impatient. Right now our leader Ken is probably....” he makes a slashing gesture as Daisuke throws himself back into the fight. ‘This isn’t good,’ Daisuke thought. ‘Even the Digimon are getting tired, we’ve been travelling for half a day without food!’ Back with Miyako, she kept on running down the riverside, concentrating on the here and now. ‘I don’t know if my sword’ll work on that stone skin of his! I have to find some way to loose him!’ Suddenly, the river abuptly ends with a large rock face. She spins around to see Ken walking down the bank, cooly and calmly. “Sink or swim time.” She rears back with both hands. “Flare... ARROW!” The arrow speeds at Ken and suddenly, it stops and falls short just inches away from him. Ken sweatdrops. “Interesting.” “I think I’m sunk! Better run.” Miyako tries to scramble up the cliff side but Ken suddenly throws a green orb at her. Miyako suddenly freezes up as she looks down. “A Shadow Snap!” “I’ve caught your shadow. Can’t move now can you?” Ken says, advancing. “But it dissapates with light. And that’s my specialty.” She casts Lighting and begins to run, but Ken’s hand comes down hard on her shoulder. “Mono Volt.” Miyako screams in pain as the energy sizzles through her body and then, after a few short bursts of electricity, she collapses. Ken then releases her as he sends up a magical flare. It soars up and explodes with blinding light. Back with Daisuke and the others, Ogremon grins. “There’s the signal! Ken’s done it!” <><><> “Ooowwww....” Miyako groans, “feels like there’s a hundred bees buzzing in my head....” She wiggles her arms and finds that she’s tied upright. “Hey! What’s the big idea?” “So, you’re awake now.” Mummymon walks up, smirking at her. “Mummymon!” “No use trying to struggle,” Ogremon said. “Those ropes are magically enforced. “Seems we’ve overestimated you, my dear,” Ken says from the back of the room. Miyako scowls and then, suddenly, something occoured to her. “Hey! Where’s Daisuke, V-mon and Hawkmon! What did you do to them?!” “That guy who was with you ran off after he heard we’d got you,” Ogremon said smugly. “Along with those Digimon of yours.” “Dumped you, huh, little girl?” Mummymon said condencingly. “Guess so,” Miyako said a bit sadly. “Well now, there’s some life in you after all! You look pretty calm.” Mummymon grins as he changes to his attack form. “Perhaps we should introduce you to my Necrophobia attack to brighten your day!” “Anyway, lets cut to the chase,” Ogremon says, keeping the gun from being fired. “Apparently we were wrong to assume you were carrying it. Where’s the Orihalcon Statue?” “Who knows?” Miyako says mischeviously. “You gave it to that man, is that it?” Ken asks. “So now what?” Miyako asks. “What confuses me is our losing track of the statue,” Wormmon said thoughtfully. “How did you do it?” “I just slapped a protection spell on everything like that,” Miyako said smirking. “A protection spell?!” everyone chorused. “I figured you were using magic to track that thing. But with a protection spell on it, you’ll never be able to find where it is.” “You can maintain a spell like that?” Ken asked, getting up from the wall he was leaning on. “Yeah, sure! No problem at all!” Miyako announced cheerfully. “But then why did you use such feeble magic against me when we fought?” Then, a small smile came on Ken’s face as he turned around. “Of course, it’s That Time of the Month.” “JUST LAY OFF!” “In any case, we’ll have to keep you alive until we recover the Orihalcon Statue. Mummymon, do whatever you want with her. Just don’t kill her. Understand?” He walked away. “Yes sir! I understand perfectly!” He grins as he walked up and stuck his weapon into her face. “Now then, little lady. For all the grief you’ve caused me, I’d like to thank you with a little payback!” Suddenly, Miyako lashed out with a foot, kicking him in the face. Mummymon stepped back, rubbing his face. “Guess I’m gonna have to teach you a painful lesson! Ogremon!” “Yeah?” Ogremon asks. “Give me... a smile!” “But I’m always smiling,” Ogremon said before Mummymon reached out and grabbed his face. “Bare your teeth you idiot!” Mummymon stretched out his face as he brought the sharp long teeth two inches before Miyako’s face. She wrinkled her nose at the smell of fish coming from his mouth. “You keep jerking us around, and these TEETH get USED! Now tell us where the Orihalcon Statue is! Otherwise...” “The Orihalcon is....” Miyako says softly. “Speak up!” Mummymon leans close. “The Ori........” “What?” “Well I..... YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!” Mummymon was suddenly blasted back by the force of her yell. “Oh man you fell for it! What a idiot!!” “A idiot?! A IDIOT?!?!?!” Mummymon gets up, flaming Aura of Death around him. “That’s it! SUKAMON! HEY SUKAMON!” “Is it my turn?” asks a voice. The door opens and a rotten stench wafts in. Miyako turns green. In walks a yellow Digimon with teeth all around his body, and a long tongue, with long gangly arms and a vacant expression. “Okay Sukamon, give the girl... a KISS!” Mummymon declaired, grinning evily. “A KISS?!” Miyako screamed. “NOOOOO! I DON’T WANNA KISS A SUKAMON! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” “Hey you’ll love it!” Sukamon said, bounding up. “Getting a kiss from me, the handsomest guy from File Island!” “WHO THE HECK SAID YOU WERE HANDSOME?! AAAAAH! GET AWAY GET AWAY!! DON’T EVEN TOUCH MEEEEEE!” Silence, and then... “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” “Wow! Suck Face!” Ogremon and Mummymon said, impressed. Miyako grunts as she pushes herself out of Sukamon’s mouth with her feet. She turns a sickly shade of green. “Oh God the smell.....” Then, she gets a murderous look as she kicks him into the wall, knocking Mummymon into the wall along with the brainless Champion. “THAT HURT!” Mummymon shouted, standing up. “Keep this up and I’ll actually USE THIS THING!” He cocks the gun menacingly. “Just SHUT UP! What kind of way is to treat a girl?! You Gangly, knocked-kneed, in-training, third rate magic-using mummy man!” “THIRD RATE!? IN-TRAINING?! Why you...! NOBODY CALLS ME THAT!!” Miyako, meet the Flaming Mummy of Doom. “Whoa, Mummymon man! Just chill, will you?” Ogremon tries to get the Perfection into a full nelson but he tosses the Champion into the wall. “Ooh, it’s too late for that! I’m gonna show her!” “I’d like to see you try!” “SNAKE BANDAGE!” His bandages wrap around Miyako like a coccon as he sneers angrily. “That’s enough out of you! Now, prepare to taste what you’ve been giving me!” He stalks up, maintaining his hold on Miyako as her eyes go big. Then, he walks up, leans in, and says, “Little Runt.” “Pig Face! Flat Chest! Shrew! Saucer-eyed Egomaniac! Is that really your nose?! And what’s with your hair?” “Man, this is really getting personal!” Ogremon said. “If I’m third rate, then you’re FIFTH Rate!” Through the night, a muffled scream could be heard. End Episode 4