Chibi-Koushiro walks up. "Hi," he waves. "This series is NOT FOR KIDS. It is rated R for a reason. It was not arbitrarily assigned. If you are under 18 years old, and your parents won't let you see a rated R movie-- then you should NOT be reading this either."
Chibi-Koushiro coughed. "Anyway. The characters are properties of Toei Animation Inc., Akiyoshi Hongo and others. They are used without consent. Archive is only borrowing them for an indefinite amount of time.
"Strict Japanese spelling for all names when possible. If an English name for a digimon or his attack is used and you know what the name is supposed to be in Japanese-- please tell Archive so it can be corrected."
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"Upon reaching the continent of Server, we discovered a village that used to belong to Koromon, but it had be taken over by Gazimon who cannibalized the Koromon for food," Koushiro informed. "As the Gazimon committed genocide on the baby digimon, we wiped them from existence as well.
"After the village had been utterly destroyed, the local lord of the area appeared, King Etemon. His power was greater than even that of Skull Satamon as he effortlessly defeated all of our digimon, even Paildramon."
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Sweat beaded over the Chosen and their digimon as they continued to march over scorching sands.
"Whose bright idea was it to go over the desert to escape monkey boy?" Daisuke questioned.
"Yours!" retorted most of the group.
"Right." Daisuke sighed. "Sorry."
"Well, the Crest of Purity is somewhere in this desert," Koushiro noted.
"I need water," Mimi moaned.
"No shit. We all do," Yamato snapped at her.
They all began to blink at the strange mirage that was coming towards them. There was no way a cruise liner could sail in a desert.
"Ah, guys, either I'm seeing things or there's a cruise ship about to run us over," Miyako stated in disbelief.
"Good, then I'm not only one hallucinating," V-mon commented.
"Run!" Wormmon cried out.
As if to aid them the cruise ship began to brake and turned away from where they were running. Though when the Chosen looked upon the deck of the ship, the idea of gaining help disappeared. On the ship was a group of vile-looking digimon.
"Why don't we aid these... fine folks?" drawled a humanoid digimon in a red pirate's coat with a gun and hook for hands.
"Aye!" cheered the crew of deformed looking skeletons which had oversized heads.
Daisuke and the others backed away. "Prepare to fight."
V-mon tensed up, but then sagged. "We're too hungry and tired to fight," he whined.
"What should we do?" Mimi questioned desperately.
"Why missy, the boys will swab the deck and do the work. You lovely lasses, though..." He licked his lips. "...shall service us fine digimon males in every way you can."
The gangplank crashed to the ground and the skeleton digimon began rushing towards them.
"Girls, run! We'll slow them down!" Taichi ordered.
Sora and Piyomon hesitated for a moment but then ran after Mimi and the other girls. There was more at stake for them than the boys, but Sora hated having to be protected. Her delay cost her though as the boys failed to put up much of a fight and a pack of skeletons tackled her to the ground.
Piyomon tried to rescue her partner, but her struggle ended with a rusty sword hilt slammed hard against the back of her head.
Miyako paused since Hawkmon remained with the guys, and her delay also cost her.
Hikari wasn't the healthiest of girls, nor very physically active. The digimon quickly over took her.
Mimi and Palmon managed to escape merely by virtue that the skeletons had their hands full with everyone else.
Hookmon grinned as the Chosen and their digimon were dragged aboard. "Very good, my dear Skelamon."
"Thank you, Captain Hookmon!" chorused the skeleton's despite having no fleshy mouth from which to speak.
Hookmon eyed today's catch. He then strutted over to Hikari and raised her chin with his hook. "Send the others to their accommodations. Put this one in my room."
"What?!" Taichi cried out struggling against his captors, only to be knocked out cold.
Most of the Chosen and their digimon that were still conscious also had to be forced into slumber to subdue them.
Hikari, however, didn't put up a fight at all until Taichi had been hurt. "Don't hurt them! Please!"
"Hurt them, my dear?" Hookmon questioned in surprise. "Do you know what I plan to do to you?"
Hikari nodded. "I won't fight you if you don't hurt them."
"What about a girl's fabled virtue? Don't you want to protect that?" Hookmon questioned.
Hikari glanced at Daisuke. "Already gone."
Hookmon laughed coldly and struck the side of her head, sending her to join her companions in unconsciousness. "Having the girl struggle is half the fun. But you may yet entertain me."
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Mimi couldn't run anymore and collapsed in the shade of a giant cactus. She looked off into the distance and saw the cruise ship on the horizon and began to sob. She had abandoned her friends. Now she was alone where everyone else was being tortured or worse.
"Mimi, there's nothing we could've done," Palmon told her partner sympathetically. "At least with us free we can find a means of helping them escape."
"But how? We don't even have food or water," Mimi bemoaned.
Palmon extended her vine fingers and slashed the cactus. "Actually, we have both."
Mimi greedily took a fallen piece of cactus and sucked on it, drawing it's sweet water into her mouth. She then blinked and bit into it. "Tastes like watermelon."
Palmon shrugged and began to eat from the plant as well. "I wonder if this makes me a cannibal?" she tried to joke, but no humor became of it.
After finishing her meal, Mimi once again sagged against the plant.
"I should be able to evolve now," Palmon informed.
"And how well would you do against all of those digimon?"
Palmon frowned. "Not very well.... Especially if I'm restricted from killing them."
From what the captain had said about what he planned for the girls, she might condone killing him. That was something you just don't do to a girl. Other than that, no. She couldn't allow any deaths, especially on their own hands. She had to save the others though. SHE HAD TO! She couldn't be called their friend if she let them suffer.
Palmon tugged on Mimi's sleeve and pointed up.
Above them a lime green light filled the air and a large image of a crest with a teardrop appeared above the cactus. It then began to shrink and flew down to Mimi, inserting itself into her tag.
Palmon grinned. "You got the Crest of Purity!"
Mimi nodded, feeling even more energized with the crest. She had to do something, and she was now sure it would work. She then frowned as the cruise ship was moving again, straight towards her.
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"Avast, maties!" Hookmon called out. "That light may be the one that got away. I want that bonnie lass in my bedchambers tonight! The one who brings her to me will get to play with the experienced lady."
"Aye, aye!" chorused the Skelamon with glee.
As the ship drew closer to the cactus, the Skelamon surveyed the area watching for Mimi and Palmon. But all they could see was a freshly cut portion of the giant plant. They came to a full halt and a couple Skelamon disembarked and looked around.
"They were here recently, Captain Hookmon!" announced one of the Skelamon. "They must've been REAL hungry with how much they ate of it. No sign of them at the moment. They may have run off."
"Find where they went!" Hookmon ordered.
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As the Skelamon searched the ground, Mimi held onto a chuck of the cactus as she clutched onto Palmon while the plant digimon lowered both of them onto the top of the bridge of the ship from the giant needled plant.
"Where to now? We don't know where the others are being kept," Palmon stated.
"I think I know," Mimi replied. "I've been on a few ships like this before."
Palmon nodded and followed her partner.
Mimi smiled as she came across a ship map in the main hall. "They were probably taken to the cells. Harder for the digimon to break." She traced her finger over the map. "Here it is. Let's go!"
Mimi and Palmon were surprised to note they ran into no digimon until she reached the cells. Two Skelamon stood before the door into the room.
Palmon dealt with them with a cry of, "Poison Ivy!" Her vine whips lashed out, wrapped around the skeletons' oversized heads and smashed them together, causing the Skelamon collapsed to the ground.
Mimi quickly took the key and opened the door and was dismayed to see five overly crowded cells and the girls in a sixth.
"Mimi!" chorused everyone that knew her.
"I'm here to free you!" Mimi first went to free the girls, but paused as she noticed Hikari was missing.
"She was taken by Hookmon," Taichi answered her unvoiced question. "Get us out of here, so I can kill that shit-ass pirate."
Mimi nodded with a harsh look. She didn't stop after freeing her friends, but also numerous Numemon and an enormous hooded and chained bird. She also handed out pieces of the cactus for the Chosen digimon to eat.
"Get this off me!" pleaded the bird.
Mimi unlocked the chains and the collar that held the mask in place.
The bird let out an ear-piercing squawk. "That two-bit pirate won't get away with stealing my boat! Get him, guys!"
The bird rushed out of the cells, followed by most of the Numemon.
Taichi clenched his fist and took off after them. "Hookmon is mine!"
The rest of the Chosen and digimon followed him. It was only when they reached the main deck that they found the battle. The Numemon were being hacked down by the Skelamon.
"Good-bye, Cockatrimon." Hookmon pointed his gun arm and it fired, blowing off the bird's head.
Agumon glared viciously and evolved into Greymon. "Your turn!"
"Wah?!" Captain Hookmon emitted as he stared up at the giant tyrannosaur as it bent over and bit down on him. Then the dinosaur's mouth exploded with flames. When Greymon stood up, Hookmon was nothing more than scattering black particles.
The rest of the Chosen digimon evolved to adult or armor form and the Skelamon literally jumped shipped in fear for their data.
"Where's the Captain's room?" Taichi demanded.
"I know where," Mimi replied, leading Taichi to the room.
Taichi immediately tried to open the door, but it was locked. He started kicking it, but to no avail.
Agumon had followed his partner after devolving and spat a fireball at the door, blowing it away.
"Taichi!" Hikari cried out, fully clothed. She quickly found herself in a hug from her big brother.
"Thank gods you're all right," Taichi said in relief, tightly clutching the girl, who said nothing in return.
Mimi decided to leave the siblings alone and returned to deck.
Daisuke grinned at her. "We're going in style now. First stop the Crest of Purity!"
Mimi smirked. "Need to decide the next stop after that then, because I already have it." She held up her tag, displaying the crest inside it.
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"Great, they found a boat!" cheered Pico Devimon, a demonic bowling ball with bat wings. "Now all I have to do is sneak aboard and get out of this damn heat!"
"Oh, I can put you out of your misery over this heat."
Pico Devimon turned around and stared at another Pico Devimon.
"What do you want?" the original one asked.
"You."
And the sky was filled with cries of pain.
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Author's Notes:
Skelamon is a digimon I made for the lack of any existing undead child digimon.
Skelamon
Type: Undead Digimon
Level: Child
Attribute: Virus
Family: Nightmare Soldier
Attacks:
Rusty Sword (180)
Relentless Charge (240)
Defense: (160)
Comments:
Skelamon look like chibi-skeletons, with an over-sized skull for a head.
Coming next:
Episode 24 - Arena of Death
King Etemon and Daisuke enter the arena, but only one shall leave it.
A lone figure sat upon a throne. Massive armor completely covered every inch of him save the black void that would be his face. "Hello, I'm Lord Archive. This special installment begins a series of Neo Digimon Omake that has the Digimon casts looking at the fanfiction series their show has generated.
"Let's start with Adventures...."
Taichi scratched his head. "Can you get back to us later? We haven't gone through half the stories yet."
"My eyes! My eyes are bleeding!" cried out Daisuke.
"Ahem. Right." Lord Archive coughed.
"We're ready," Kouji commented.
"Already?" Lord Archive questioned.
"Wasn't a whole lot to go through," Takuya grumbled.
"Do they know we were even on?" little Tomoki questioned. "If you have watched the American version, I'm 'Tommy.'"
"I'd like to know if they even WATCHED the series!" Izumi added bitterly. "I'm not some girly damsel in distress that wants Kouji, Kouichi, or Takuya coming to save me. I can save myself! And if you can't guess by me being the only girl, I'm 'Zoe.'"
"And why is it I don't do the saving!" Junpei protested. "I've only had a crush on her the WHOLE series. And for you dubbies, I'm 'JP.'"
Izumi slapped the back of his head. "Don't encourage them. I can be strong."
The boys looked at her skeptically.
"I'M STRONG!"
The boys instantly agreed.
"Someone explain to me why I seem to have taken up poetry? And what's with this gay crap?! Especially with my own brother!" Kouji pointed at Kouichi who was still reading ficts.
"Huh?" Kouichi blinked. "Is there something wrong with these? I think this one is rather sweet. You were so gentle."
Kouji's eyes crossed and his mouth opened to say something, but nothing came out.
"I just want to know one thing," Takuya growled. "WHERE THE HELL ARE THE ACTION FICTS?! Frontiers is an ACTION series. Fighting, drama, battles that hold sway over the fate of the world. Why the hell does every fict have to pair somebody off. Especially when they don't make sense. Tomoki and Ranamon?! Come on, what were you people smoking when you came up with that one? The series is not about who gets into whose pants!"
Lord Archive coughed. "Well, they've said their piece...." He looked over at the Adventures crew.
"Another fict where I married Mimi?!" Yamato questioned in outrage. "I don't even talk to her!"
Lord Archive chuckled nervously looking at the next stake which could be labeled 'MEmato.' "Next Omake will feature the Tamers. Adventures won't be done for a long while."