Digimon [Digimon Tamers/Ranma] Do Digimon Dream of Digital Sheep?

ellf

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#26
And chapter 2 complete...


Jenrya never found that wild digimon the previous night, and he’d reported as such to Yamaki. Neither he nor Terriermon knew what that meant. Did the digimon just go back to the digital world on its own, or did someone handle it? Regardless, Yamaki had encouraged the pair to stay in Nerima for a couple nights, setting them up with a nice hotel and a stipend. If anything, Jenrya was glad to have a little bit of a vacation from Shinjuku, though Terriermon seemed a bit sad that he couldn’t play with either Lopmon or Shiuchon.

That morning, Jenrya and his partner set out to find out whatever dealt with the digimon or to find it or something. He wasn’t quite sure why Yamaki had him doing this. It had been a bit slow recently; maybe this was just Yamaki worrying over nothing.

“Come on, Jian... Let’s take a look around! I haven’t seen this part of the city before and I don’t think you have either!” Terriermon certainly seemed enthusiastic. Of course, with school out for summer break, the little guy was just happy to be around him.

“All right, all right. Let’s go, Terriermon.” He was rewarded a few seconds later by a weight on his shoulder, indicating his digimon had joined him, and he headed out. The hotel was near a few restaurants that seemed to be preparing for their lunch rush early in the morning. There was a ramen place, the Nekohanten, a barbecue place, Kim Chung’s, a sushi place, named of all things, Ichiban, and there was an okonomiyaki place, Okonomiyaki Ucchan’s. Maybe he’d be able to get something at once of these places with the money that Yamaki sent him.

After they got past the restaurants, Terriermon perked up. It wasn’t quite the way he did it when there was a feral digimon that he was sensing. His fur remained unruffled by whatever instinct that he had. “Jian, there’s a digimon nearby.”

Jenrya paused for a second. It wasn’t that he doubted his partner, he’d been with him too long to doubt such instincts, but just because there was a digimon nearby didn’t mean much unless they found it. “Are you sure it’s not just indigestion?” Jenrya joked.

Terriermon leaped to the ground and glared at him. “Come on, Jian! It’s this way! And it’s not Calumon or Guilmon either!”

Terriermon headed off through the streets. Jenrya, without any better ideas, had to follow his partner if only to keep him out of trouble. There were a decent amount of people around as they were running through the streets, and Jenrya idly wondered why they weren’t reacting to Terriermon. Yeah, people knew digimon were real and had for the past six years, but a digimon still wasn’t something normal to see. Why these people weren’t even batting an eye confused him.

“Hold up, Terriermon! We don’t even know where we’re going!”

“Momentai, Jian! It’s definitely this way, I can feel it!” Terriermon was almost bouncing at this point. He was dashing through the crowd at this point. “It’s coming from over there, Jian!”

“I’m coming, I’m coming... you know you’re not supposed to scare people....” Jenrya followed, and he could see past the people he was weaving through toward the fence. On the fence was a guy around his age dressed in a red Chinese shirt and black pants tied off at the bottom. On top of the guy’s head was... was that a Salamon?

“Ah, who’s scared? The people around here seem a lot more relaxed than back home. They even offered me breakfast at the hotel, Jian!” Jenrya just shook his head as he continued forward.

“A Salamon and a guy standing on a fence...” This reminded him of someone. Who did he know that was partnered with a Salamon? Oh he hadn’t seen him in a while! “Saotome Ranma? That you?”

“Yeah, that’s me...” Ranma seemed to not quite recognize him, but it was now fairly clear that he had a D-Ark. “And you are... hmm.... Henrii... no, ah! Li Jenrya! Been a long while.”

Ranma leaped off the fence, and after that, Salamon jumped down off his head. “Terriermon! Hi!”

Jenrya smiled as Salamon tackled Terriermon. “Yeah, it’s been a long time, Ranma. Haven’t seen you since you left town after the D-Reaper.”

“Yeah, well, Pop and I had to get back on our training journey. We ended up doing quite a bit after that. I see you managed to get Terriermon back too, when did that happen?”

“Well, about a month after you left, Takato managed to find his way back into the Digital World and came back with all our partners. Ryo ended up joining Cyberdramon back there, but everyone else came back here.”

“That’s... actually pretty neat... Salamon didn’t show up till last night, herself.”

Huh. He wondered if last night Salamon was the Wild One that Yamaki was tracking. “Oh?”

“Yeah, she ended up helping me finish off an Ogremon. Guy wasn’t that tough, but I don’t know if humans can actually disperse digimon.”

Salamon perked up. “Yeah, Ranma made a tornado! It was awesome. I wanna make a tornado too, Ranma. Next time we fight can you swipe a card that lets me?”

Ranma chuckled. “Sure Salamon, I think I might have a card or two that can help with that.”

Wait. Tornado. Ranma made a tornado. How the hell did he make a tornado? Maybe Salamon was mistaken. Of course, he’d heard of crazy things that supposedly could be done with martial arts, but that was something right out of a manga. “Tornado? Ranma, was that you last night and not a digimon?”

Ranma scratched the back of his head, below his pigtail and laughed. “Yeah... It was a martial arts technique I learned. One of my most special attacks. Hey, you’re a martial artist too, right? Maybe we could spar later.”

Jenrya blanched a little. While he did practice Tai Chi, without biomerging with Terriermon, he wasn’t too sure he’d be able to effectively use it against someone who had been practicing crazy martial arts that let you produce tornadoes. “Yeah, I’ve kept up my Tai Chi practice.”

Ranma smiled. “Ah yeah, I remember MegaGargomon using that against the big phoenix jerk. That was impressive back then. Should be interesting to see how well you do without digimon help.”

That’s what he was afraid of... “Momentai, Jian. Ranma probably won’t hurt you! He’s probably got a lot of control if what Salamon was saying is true. “

Before Jenrya could respond, his cell phone rang. He flipped it open. “Moshi moshi. Li here.”

“Li-kun, this is Ootori Reika. We have two Wild Ones moving in on your position. They’re both displaying power levels consistent with Adult digimon bordering on Perfect. They should bio-emerge soon.”

“Right, let Yamaki know that Terriermon and I are on it with the person who dealt with Ogremon last night. He might remember Saotome Ranma.”

Ranma seemed to be paying attention to the phone call and subtly looking around. Jenrya pulled his sunglasses from his pocket to put them on before the digital field formed.

“Will do. Be careful, Li-kun. HYPNOS out.” Ootori-san cut out without giving him the chance to say goodbye. He put his phone away.

“So, two digimon incoming, right?” Damn, Ranma’s ears must be good or he had that turned up too loud. Jenrya nodded. “Well, we’ll just have to make sure that they’re handled.”

The hairs on Jenrya’s arms began to stick up and he could almost taste the static charge on the air. Ootori-san wasn’t kidding when they said that they were closing on them. “Ranma, you have anything to cover your eyes?”

“Not yet, my old sunglasses broke a while ago.” Ranma had already gripped his D-Ark, much the same as Jenrya.

“Well, Terriermon and I should be able to handle this, you don’t have to get involved.”

Ranma looked at him like he was nuts and then a manhole burst upwards as the digital field erupted from both it and the water. “Terriermon...”

“Momentai. I’ve got them...”

He glanced down at his D-Ark, and it displayed the first digimon’s data. “Ranma, that’s a DarkTyrannomon, we’ll have to be careful of its Fire Blast and Iron Tail...”

Ranma gave an affirmative sound. “And in the water’s a Seadramon. That’s going to be a pain to deal with.”

“Don’t worry about it, Terriermon and I have this. Biomerge Activate!” Jenrya thrust out his digivice as he called out the activation phrase.

Terriermon jumped up in preparation... “Terriermon shinka.... or not...”

Wait... what? Why weren’t they together right then? Jenrya tried again. “Biomerge Activate!”

“Terriermon ... aww forget it...” Terriermon sounded disappointed.

“Jenrya, what’s wrong?”

Jenrya looked at his D-Ark as he heard the roars of both DarkTyrannomon and Seadramon echoing through the area. The readout said, “Biomerge Failure.”

Both Adult Digimon roared again. “It’s not working... Terriermon and I can’t biomerge...” Why was this happening? Why now? What were they going to do?
 

Capito Celcior

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#27
Entertaining. I do hope you keep writing more. It's all a bit rushed, but I can live with that.
 

BukkakeNoJutsu

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#28
I don't know much about Digimon since I'm more of a Ranma fan, but I'm having a lot of fun with this.
 

ellf

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#30
Capito Celcior said:
Entertaining. I do hope you keep writing more. It's all a bit rushed, but I can live with that.
Not really trying to rush it... just having the story move at a pace which fits the plans of the arc. There will be more slice of life stuff, but some things will happen regardless.
 

ellf

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#31
Jenrya didn’t know what to do just yet. A DarkTyrannomon and a Seadramon were right there in front of him and he couldn’t biomerge with Terriermon. Then it hit him.

“You okay there, Jenrya?” Ranma’s voice called from out of the fog, breaking into his contemplation a bit, but that was okay. He knew what he needed to do now.

Jenrya nodded. “I’ve got this, Ranma.” He reached into his deck holder. He hadn’t expected to need this when he left the house, but he’d grabbed it anyway. A simple card slash of a Blue Card and Rapidmon would be here to take out these two fairly easily. He didn’t even look at the card he pulled out of the holder. He wouldn’t need to. All he had to do was focus on it. His hopes. His dreams. His wishes would generate a blue card for him and together with Terriermon he’d be able to take out the enemy digimon.

He focused and after what he deemed a sufficient amount of time, he swiped. “Card Slash! Matrix Evolution Activate!”

He looked to Terriermon, expecting to see him evolve. “Terriermon shinka... or not...” And now to the card in his hand. It was a Speed Plugin D. It wasn’t a Blue Card. The hell?

Jenrya didn’t have much time to question as it looked like DarkTyrannomon noticed them. “That’s... not good.”

“Salamon, here!” Jenrya lost his breath as his feet left the ground and he was moving backwards at a speed that he only felt before as MegaGargomon.

“FIRE BLAST!” Jenrya felt the heat as he continued flying backwards out of the reach of the digimon’s attack. Apparently Ranma had grabbed him and Terriermon, carrying them away.

“What happened, Jenrya?” Ranma asked after he placed the half-Chinese boy on a wall. “Why isn’t Rapidmon out and kicking ass?”

“I don’t know, I can’t get the Blue Card!” Jenrya gave the only answer he could. He knew Ranma probably wouldn’t have thought to try himself; Salamon’s Perfect Form ate a lot of the digimon’s energy.

“Well I guess we do this the old fashioned way. You and Terriermon handle Seadramon, we’ll deal with big, black and toothy.” Ranma grinned as he spoke. It looked like the boy was having some fun. Of course, Salamon had a grin on her face as well. Ranma put Terriermon down near Jenrya and jumped off.

Jenrya turned to his partner. “What do you think, Terriermon, think we can handle a Seadramon without you evolving?”

“Momentai. You and me, Jian, we’re unbeatable together. It doesn’t matter if we can’t become MegaGargomon or I can’t evolve to Rapidmon or even if I can’t evolve period. I’ll win because you’re with me and you’ll win because I’m with you.” Terriermon spoke with quite a bit of confidence and Jenrya couldn’t help but smile.

“Then let’s show this Seadramon what we can do, shall we?” Jenrya said as he dug through his deck box for appropriate cards. “We beat the Devas, we beat the D-Reaper; there’s nothing we can’t face together.”

They were ready.
 

ellf

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#32
Start of chapter three... kinda feel weird about it, may want to rewrite a bit later... but it's a start.
 

ellf

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#33
And Jenrya's fight


The water of the canal had frozen over, Seadramon’s work, no doubt. This wasn’t a bad thing as it let Terriermon have some sort of solid land to fight off of that wasn’t the fence. Jenrya considered. Seadramon had a few ice related breath powers, but it was a water based digimon. He pulled out a few cards from his pack as he and Terriermon approached. A smile came to his face, perfect.

“Go, Terriermon!” Terriermon leaped from Jenrya’s shoulder onto the frozen-over canal. Seadramon’s roar echoed through the area and Jenrya shook his head as Terriermon found his footing.

“This guy is pretty big, Jian...” Terriermon smirked. “But I can take him. Petit Twister!” Terriermon rapidly spun around forming a tornado which slammed into Seadramon’s mighty form. Terriermon came out of the attack mid-air to avoid Seadramon snapping at him.

“ICE ARROW!” Terriermon barely had time to dodge the incoming ice shard formed from the serpent digimon’s breath.

“Any time you’re ready, Jian!” Terriermon had to dodge another two ice shards. “Bunny Blast!” Jumping again, Terriermon pelted the Adult with shots of superheated air.

Jenrya wasn’t idle while his digimon did battle. He had two cards at the ready. He swiped the first. “Card Slash! Zudomon: Thor’s Hammer!”

The gigantic weapon formed in Terriermon’s hands and he shouldered it. Seadramon glared at Terriermon before blowing out a blast of cold.

“Card Slash! WarGreymon Brave Shield!” Jenrya swiped another card and then prepared for another. “Card Slash! Strength Plug-in C! Card Slash! Speed Plug-in H!”

A giant golden shield formed in front of Terriermon, blocking the incoming blast of cold before it fell forward in front of him. Terriermon jumped and wrapped his ears around the handle for the hammer, lifting it higher. The child digimon blurred and brought the hammer down onto the ice around the digimon.

“THOR’S HAMMER!” Terriermon cried out and a jolt of electricity went through the water, arcing along the adult digimon’s body. Terriermon did a follow up swing, turning the hammer and slamming it into Seadramon’s head plate. The plate cracked on impact, and the hammer lost energy, dissipating into bits of data. “BUNNY BLAST!”

Terriermon followed up by blasting the Adult in the cracked plate, destabilizing the data bonds holding it together. Seadramon exploded into bits of data seconds later, and Terriermon prepared to download it.

“Wait, Terriermon. Something’s not right.... Don’t download it!” Jenrya looked at his D-Arc. Why hadn’t the signal for Seadramon faded yet? And what was that extra signal in the data? The flash of darkness he saw there? It didn’t make sense.

“Momentai, Jian, it’ll just take a minute!” Terriermon prepared to download.

“Terriermon, come here, now!” Jenrya forcefully stated and the digimon acquiesced. It took a few seconds, but Terriermon returned to his side. “Look, Terriermon!”

The data hadn’t yet faded, and it didn’t look like normal digimon data bits. There was something off about it. Darker. With a hint of redness. Jenrya didn’t know what to make of it.

“Get ready, Terriermon. I’m not sure the fight’s over just yet...”

Ranma's fight is next.
 

ellf

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#36
Ranma and Salamon stood on a wall near the DarkTyrannomon. Well, to be more accurate, Ranma stood and Salamon stood on his shoulder. The digital field obfuscated their presence for the moment, but that could change any second. Ranma knew that Jenrya and Terriermon had engaged.

“Salamon, let’s go!” Ranma leaped into the air, and Salamon pushed off of Ranma’s shoulder to get started.

“SLEDGE DASH!” Salamon slammed into DarkTyrannomon’s chin, driving it upward and kept going while Ranma posed confidently. His ki flared upward and he grinned.

“MOKOU TAKABISHA!” He launched a ball of energy at the digimon’s exposed stomach to follow up Salamon’s attack and then at Amaguriken speeds flipped open his deck box. He pulled out eight cards and fanned them out. “No... no... no... Yes... There we go.”

Salamon landed and stared up at the Adult Digimon. It looked angry. “FIRE BLAST!” Salamon dashed to the side, avoiding the incoming jet of flame. She barely escaped it, feeling the heat of the blast warming her tail.

Sitting down, Salamon cocked her head back. “Puppy HOWLING!” Her sound based attack cut through the fog. DarkTyrannomon roared in pain. Salamon couldn’t help but glance back to her tamer as she held the howl.

Ranma nodded and prepared the cards to modify Salamon. “CARD SLASH! Speed plug-in F!” He glanced at Salamon before prepping the next card. “CARD SLASH! Frigimon: Ice Breath!”

“IRON TAIL!” DarkTyrannomon slammed its tail down where Salamon had been standing up until the cards kicked in. Salamon blurred into action, jumping out of the way of the incoming tail and then using her newfound speed to jump on top of it. She ran up the length of the tail and pushed off of it once she was on his back.

“ICE BREATH!” A blast of absolute zero air left Salamon’s mouth, leaving a layer of ice on the DarkTyrannomon’s neck. Salamon then used its speed to dash at the ice layer.

Ranma flipped out another card and swiped it. “CARD SLASH! Strength Plug-in G!” Ranma clipped his D-Ark at his waist. “Come on, Salamon, let’s finish it!”

Ranma ran up to the Adult digimon, dodging another incoming jet of flame and jumped up. He reared back his fists, and Salamon did the same with her paws.
“Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!”

“Petit Punch!” Two sets of fists impacted the Adult digimon at the same time and the same speed. Tamer and digimon partner worked together, uniting their intent and attack. The ice shattered under the multiple impacts. DarkTyrannomon blurred slightly as its data destabilized under the pressure.

“Now, Salamon!” Ranma leaped back to the ground and Salamon did the same. He leaped foot first at the oversized reptile. “METEOR KICK!”

“SLEDGE DASH!” Once again, tamer and partner in unison slammed into the digimon. A ki-powered kick and a data-powered headbutt powered through, destabilizing the data further. DarkTyrannomon clawed at Ranma just before the hit, slashing open his shirt and leaving scratches on his chest. But it didn’t matter, as DarkTyrannomon exploded into data.

Salamon prepared to download the data, but stopped as she heard an alarm from Ranma’s waist. Ranma looked at his digivice to see what the issue was. “Wait, Salamon!”

The data was the wrong color... Something was wrong. Salamon returned to Ranma’s side and he climbed to his feet, moving backwards. “What’s wrong... Ranma you’re hurt!”

“I’ll be fine, Salamon... But something’s not right here.” Ranma stepped further back, picking up Salamon climbed up onto Ranma’s shoulder. The data hadn’t dissipated yet.

DARK JOGRESS EVOLUTION

Jenrya had finished his fight around the same time.... and now the two data fields were coalescing into a single form. It almost resembled a MetalTyrannomon, but instead of metal... there was bone. An aura of evil permeated the area. Its head was bare bone, colored like the skull-cap of Seadramon, and it had glowing red eyes.

“SKULLTYRANNOMON!” The digimon roared out its name as it finished forming. It had to be at least a Perfect.

Ranma looked up at the new form and could only utter two words. “Oh... crap.”
 

ellf

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#37
Calumon really was the best at hide and seek. Maomaolin...mon... hadn’t found him yet! He’d been in this hiding place for hours and hours and hours and hours! Though... he was starting to get bored.

“Maybe he’s not going to find me after all?” Well that was okay. Calumon poked his head up out of his hiding space, taking to the air. All he had to do was go back to where the ghost kitty was and... Wait... where was that exactly?

Calumon looked over the sea of buildings. There were so many of them and they all looked alike... Oh... that looked weird. Calumon flew closer to a big dark data cloud. He landed on a rooftop nearby.

“Oh... that looks scary... I hope whoever’s in there is friendly...”

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“Ground Zero Buster!” A dark jet of energy left the SkullTyrannomon’s mouth and it kept the beam going along a line leading up to Ranma. Everything that the beam struck instantly turned into data and disappeared.

Ranma jumped backwards with Salamon, and Jenrya ran up with Terriermon in tow.

“What the hell is that thing?” Jenrya pulled up his D-Ark and looked at the screen. [No data available.] “Great, just great.”

“Whatever it is, it did a Jogress between DarkTyrannomon and Seadramon. There’s no way it’s less than a Perfect.” Ranma looked to Salamon. “Looks like you’re going to have to evolve.”

Terriermon stepped forward. “Me too, Jian! Even if we can’t go Perfect, we have to do something.”

Both tamers nodded and fished a card out of their pockets. In unison, they slashed their cards through their respective D-Arks. “CARD SLASH! Super Evolution Plug-In S!”

A buzzing sound came from the digivices after that. [No Carrier].

“That... can’t be good.” Ranma stated the obvious. The area darkened further and the ground shook as the massive skeletal reptile came closer.

“GROUND ZERO BUSTER KAI!” No more than a meter away a line was drawn with a beam of dark energy, causing an explosion of rubble and data. The shockwave knocked the group back some. Ranma shielded Salamon with his body as he slammed into some piping. Cold water jetted from the pipes, hitting Ranma activating the curse. Ranma didn’t have time to think about that as SkullTyrannomon clawed at the place she would have been at if she hadn’t moved.

Ranma picked up Jenrya and Terriermon, and leaped to a nearby building’s roof. “We need to figure out what to do, that thing’s dangerous.”

Jenrya looked over the girl who was wearing Ranma’s clothes and had Salamon with her. “Who are you, exactly?”

“Worry about that later, Jenrya. Perfect level dark digimon to worry about now.” Ranma stared down the perfect. She wasn’t feeling confident enough for a Mokou Takabisha, and the situation wasn’t dire enough yet for her to be depressed enough for a Shishi Hokodan. She didn’t want to send Salamon after it without some major card upgrades, and she wasn’t certain she could evaluate this well enough. Why didn’t the Evolution work?

Ranma stood in a fighting stance and abruptly winced and fell to one knee.

“Ranma!” Salamon nuzzled her. Ranma must have aggravated the wound that DarkTyrannomon gave her.

“Don’t worry about me, Salamon...” Ranma said. She glanced over at Jenrya and Terriermon, the former trying to reassure the latter. She looked at the digital field around the area... it was darker than usual. An evil aura. The only way to counter it would be... That was it!

Unfortunately, the building chose that moment to collapse inward. Ranma, thinking quickly grabbed the digimon and Henry, breaking their fall with her own... and she collapsed down.

“Ranma! Please be okay! Are you okay?” It was no use, Salamon couldn’t wake her tamer. She turned to Jenrya and Terriermon. “This thing hurt Ranma. It’s going down. Are you with me, Terriermon?”

Terriermon leaped down after checking on Jenrya. “Yeah, we can handle it!”

Jenrya shook his head. “No, you can’t go against a perfect like that, are you crazy?”

“Momentai, Jian. You’re always with me anyway!” Salamon ran out of the building followed by Terriermon.
 

ellf

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#38
Salamon had a plan. It was probably a stupid plan, but it was a plan. She was a student of the Saotome School of Anything Goes for a reason. Uncle Genma trained her just as hard as he trained Ranma during the time she was with him.

“Terriermon, follow my lead.” Salamon hissed to her fellow child digimon. When she saw him nod, she smirked and ran up into SkullTyrannomon’s view. “Hey! Ugly!”

The skeletal digimon looked down at her, red eyes boring through her skull.

“Yeah that’s right, I’m talking to you. You big pile of bony boniness!” Salamon knew she had his attention... but Terriermon tapped her on the shoulder.

“What are you doing?” He hissed out. Obviously he didn’t get her plan. That was okay.

“I told you, follow my lead...” Salamon hissed out to Terriermon. “I don’t care what you are, you lame rip-off of SkullGreymon! We beat you before when you were an adult and we’ll beat you again! It doesn’t matter that we’re child level. “

SkullTyranomon just continued staring. Good. It seemed confused. Maybe a little angry.

“Oh and before you say I had help... remember I had help from a human, something you should never expect to get. But see, I don’t need my Tamer to beat you. Neither of us need our tamers. You’re just a big fat failure...”

SkullTyrannomon roared loudly. “Foolish little thing, how do you plan on beating me?”

Hook. “Oh, we’ve both been trained in human martial arts by our Tamers. See we can trust them and rely on them. What do you trust and rely on? Your loneliness?”

SkullTyrannomon snorted out a jet of flame. “Your so-called human abilities will not help you against me. I shall consume your data.... and then this town...”

Line. “Well, I bet I can take you with a single attack! My one attack that will beat you completely!”

“Oh yes, little one? Perhaps I should give you a free shot then if you’re so confident.” SkullTyrannomon’s voice dripped with patronization.

Sinker. “Remember, Terriermon, follow my lead...” Salamon hissed out to her fellow digimon before turning toward the SkullTyrannomon and building up energy in her skull quite visibly. “SAOTOME SCHOOL OF ANYTHING GOES MARTIAL ARTS FINAL ATTACK!”

SkullTyrannomon winced slightly... Maybe it shouldn’t have given the child a free hit?

“FAST BREAK!” Salamon and Terriermon dashed off away from the Perfect and away from the collapsed building.

SkullTyrannomon roared at the insult and chased after them.
 

ellf

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#39
Updated the SkullTyrannomon description and added a scene before teh Calumon one

DARK JOGRESS EVOLUTION

Jenrya and Terriermon had finished their fight around the same time as Ranma and Salamon and now the resultant data fields were coalescing into a single form. A dark aura came from the evolving digimon, its evil permeating down to Ranma’s bones. The digimon’s base form resembled that of the DarkTyrannomon it was evolving from in shape, but there was no skin, no muscle exposed. All that was there was a skeleton made up of a slightly charred bone. The top of the skull resembled Seadramon’s skull-cap, but its maw was all sharpened Tyrannomon teeth, slightly decayed. Its eyes, if one could call them that, were glowing red flames burning in the hollow eye sockets of the skull, and its chest cavity was open down the middle, revealing a darkly glowing, pulsing sack of digital organs. Its digital core vaguely resembled a beating heart.

“SKULLTYRANNOMON!” The digimon roared out its name as it finished forming. It had to be at least a Perfect.

Ranma looked up at the new form and could only utter two words. “Oh... crap.”
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The alarms inside the HYPNOS control room blared loudly. The operator chair spun around swiftly and the two operators typed quickly at their terminals.

Yamaki flicked open the zippo lighter at his side and closed it as he watched, giving his subordinates a little time to collect themselves as he looked at the screen. Error messages lit up all around where the two wild ones had emerged earlier. The wild ones had been dealt with, he’d thought for a second, but something wasn’t right here.

“Reika, tell me you and Megumi have something.” Yamaki ordered. He wasn’t nervous. Things were under control. Yamaki flicked open the lighter again.

“Near as we can tell, the two Wild Ones have combined into a single being. We can’t contact Li-kun’s cell, but the data we’re getting off of it is brand new.” Reika answered.

Yamaki felt like going outside and smoking a cigarette. “What data have you gotten on it?”

Megumi spoke up. “It’s an undiscovered digimon, not one that has been designed or seen in the card game. It is outputting the energy signature of a Virus-Type Perfect level digimon. The Virus-Type energy is almost pure virus though... almost a dark energy. We can’t tell much more as there seems to be a Faraday Cage-like effect forming in the digital field.”

Yamaki swore under his breath. “Keep an eye on things you two.” He adjusted his coat and put his lighter in his pocket.

“Where are you going, Mitsuo?” Reika moved her visor up and looked at him.

“I’m heading to Nerima, and I’m grabbing the prototype on my way.”

“It’s untested. It’ll be dangerous...” Reika sounded worried.

Yamaki Mitsuo put on a pair of sunglasses from his pocket. “It’s dangerous for those kids every time we send them out. I’ll call when I get there.”
 

ellf

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#40
This goes after the Final Attack

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Jenrya hadn’t been in this situation before. While his life had been put on the line when facing digimon, it was rarely this close, and the lack of ability to evolve at all scared him. Without the ability to at least have Terriermon evolve to his Adult form, there was little that could be done other than what the two Child digimon were doing.

He couldn’t help but watch in shock when he saw Salamon’s bold idea. Insult the Perfect and then run away. That seemed like a great plan, but he saw the logic in it. Salamon was able to lead SkullTyrannomon away from the building that way. He just hoped that it would be possible to think of a plan to beat the dark digimon before he caught up. Ranma would have thought of something by now. Ruki would have too. Takato would have just done something crazy and had it work, but Jenrya always needed to plan meticulously.

He looked at the unconscious body at his feet. The girl was shorter than Ranma, but she was wearing the same clothes as him and had similar physical prowess. He supposed the girl could be Ranma’s sister with how she resembled the pig-tailed boy. They shared the same color hair and eyes. However, there were two issues with that supposition. Issue one was that she seemed to appear out of nowhere and Ranma was gone. Issue two was that as far as he knew, Ranma was an only child. Salamon had called the girl Ranma and reacted as if she was Ranma. Digimon knew their tamers. That meant the girl had to be Ranma. Why she was now a girl, he didn’t know. It might have something to do with his link to his digimon partner. Ranma, Juri, and Ai were the only tamers to have digimon which, as much as Renamon denied it, had opposite genders. Maybe if Leomon survived, Juri would have turned into a man and been able to biomerge with him. As for Ai, Impmon was already able to evolve into his Ultimate form, so it probably didn’t affect her.

Ranma was obviously injured. The front of her shirt was torn open and he could see some dried blood on the exposed skin. Her skin looked slightly burned but he could see it healing before his eyes. Ranma always had been impressive.

Ranma coughed and opened her eyes, looking around the collapsed building. When her eyes fell on Jenrya, she smiled.

“You’re okay...” Her eyes widened. “Wait, where’s Salamon and Terriermon?”

“They’re out there, trying to hold off that big digimon.”
“SkullTyrannomon.” Ranma idly said and then did a double-take. “Wait, how are they holding it off?

Jenrya shook his head. “Salamon did something she called the ‘Saotome Final Attack’ and then just ran from it.”

“When did she...?” Ranma shook her head. “Nevermind... as they are now, it’s not going to work, but I think I might know how we can get them to evolve. The dark energy might be preventing them from evolving so I’m going to get rid of it.”

Jenrya blinked. Well, it sounded like Ranma, even if the voice was more a soprano than a tenor. Still, he wanted to see what Ranma had planned. “How exactly are you going to do that?”

Ranma pulled a card out from her deck pouch and showed it to Jenrya. “With this.”

The card read, “Holy Ring Activation.”
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#41
Fight Climax!

EVOLUTION



Salamon and Terriermon began to glow as the effects of cards swiped some time ago finally went through.



“Salamon shinka!” Salamon shifted from a quadrupedal canine form to a bipedal form that had a feline head. The holy ring around its neck moved down to its tail which snaked out, gaining purple and white alternating stripes with a tuft of purple fur at the end. Its ears pointed into feline ears which also gained tufts of purple fur. Gloves with clawed tips formed around what were its forward paws before and now were its hands. “Gatomon!”



“Terriermon shinka!” Terriermon grew to about double its size and its arms and legs lengthened. Jeans formed around its legs and its arms gained a Gatling gun-like casing around each of them. Red war paint decorated its larger form and it whipped a bandoleer around its bare chest. “Gargomon!”



Gatomon smirked. “Well, I think we might have a bit more of a chance now, eh Gargomon?”



“Yep, that ugly skeleton won’t know what hit him.” Gargomon nodded to the smaller adult digimon.



“Be careful, the both of you. Jenrya and I will get to a decent location so we can help with cards as needed.” Ranma said through her link with Gatomon.



“Momentai!” Gargomon said. “We’ll be able to handle it, you stay safe.”



“GROUND ZERO BUSTER!” Gargomon and Gatomon jumped away in the nick of time, dodging the explosion caused by SkullTyrannomon’s attack. It still stood taller than them, at about five times Gargomon’s height. Gatomon refused to let herself be afraid though. She was an adult, not a child, and this thing would feel the wrath of her claws.



“Neko Punch!” Gatomon dashed at the Perfect and once she was close, she clawed at the bone there. She could feel some of it flake off with her scratches, but not nearly enough.



“Gatling Arm!” A hail of bullets came from the vulcan cannons on Gargomon’s arms, leaving a trail of impacts on SkullTyrannomon’s skeleton. When the dust cleared, it was clear that some damage had been done, but not enough to be catastrophic.



Gatomon landed down next to Gargomon. “Well, we’re able to scratch him. Death by paper cuts?”



Gargomon shook his head. “That’s gonna take a lot of paper cuts.”



The two separated again to dodge an incoming Ground Zero Buster. One benefit seemed to be that the explosion had a short range. Only thirty feet or so, and they could clear that easily. Gatomon landed on a ledge, while Gargomon had landed on a wide fence.



Gatomon knew she had to go at it again. She leaped at SkullTyrannomon and kicked at its skull. “Neko Kick!” She followed it up by digging her claws in. “Neko Punch! Revised! Saotome Style Combination!”



The feline digimon erupted in a series of kicks and clawed punches all to the side of SkullTyrannomon’s skull... and she was rewarded with a swat from the larger digimon’s arm which sent her flying back twenty feet.



Of course, after she went flying, Gargomon followed up her combination with an attack of his own. “DUM DUM UPPER!” The rabbitlike digimon drove a bullet-powered uppercut into SkullTyrannomon’s chin, knocking it backward a bit.



“Cursed Destroyer!” SkullTyrannomon’s right arm’s forearm opened up and ejected a marrow missile encased in dark energy at Gargomon.



“Card Slash! WarGreymon Brave Shield!” Jenrya’s voice echoed out nearby and the shield formed in front of Gargomon, blocking the attack. He and Ranma had arrived on the roof of a nearby building.



“Thanks Jian!” Gargomon called out as he lowered the shield, holding it with his left hand. Gatomon managed to climb to her feet nearby.



Up on the roof, Ranma assessed the situation. Two Adult digimon versus one Perfect was still highly unfavorable odds, especially one with unknown capabilities. Still, it was fairly obvious that SkullTyrannomon was linked with dark or unholy energy, and that would be the key to its defeat.



If this doesn’t work, I have one last absurdly stupid thing I can try. Ranma thought as she looked down at Gatomon and tried not to think about how catlike her partner was. Gatomon was a digimon, not a cat. “Jenrya, here!”



Ranma tossed a card to her fellow Tamer who caught it by instinct. He looked at it and raised an eyebrow. “This is your plan?”



“Well, that and we work together with them.” Ranma replied.



Ranma pulled out her own card and readied it at the same time as Jenrya. Their voices echoed in unison. “CARD SLASH!”



Ranma continued, “Angewomon: Holy Arrow!”



Jenrya finished, “MagnaAngemon: Sword of Promised Victory!”



The data now read, Gatomon looked up from her distraction of the Perfect and smirked. Gargomon now held a glowing purple broadsword in his right hand and a shield in his left.



Gatomon couldn’t help but snark. “I thought Guilmon was the one supposed to turn into a knight.”



Gargomon replied, “I don’t know, I feel all heroic all of the sudden.”



Ranma shook her head at their banter. “Right, let’s finish them off....” The martial artist’s actions mirrored perfectly her digimon partner’s as she gripped her digivice.



Jenrya nodded. “We’ll start it off...” He gripped his own, and as he raised it, Gargomon raised the sword perfectly in sync. “EX...”



Gargomon’s voice echoed in unison with his tamer’s. “CALIBUR!”



Ranma did much the same with her partner, only she drew her digivice back as if she were drawing a bow, and a bow and arrow made of holy light formed in Gatomon’s hands. “HOLY....”



Gatomon finished together with her tamer, “ARROW!”



A beam of golden light came from Gatomon’s bow, and a wave of purple and gold energy came from the sword in Gargomon’s hand. The two attacks intermingled and struck SkullTyrannomon right in its digital core and then the energy blew through the back of the massive digimon. The Perfect fell to one knee and flickered... and then it exploded into data which dissipated before Gatomon and Gargomon could even think about downloading it.



The digital field began to fade away and the sky was visible again.
 
#42
I was looking forward to Ranma's reaction to the cat-like Gatomon...disapointing, I must say. I dimly seem to recall that he never had her digivolve before, or that there was no need...must have been my imagination, but I did hope that the cat would shock him.
 

WarGiver

Well-Known Member
#43
It was mentioned that it (digivice) was in his pack at the bottom of his pack and it was stated that it was too much of a drain to maintain a digivolution.

The only thing that needs some explination is the fear or there lack of cats. but then again he seems to resist the fear based on Gatomon being a digimon instead of a cat. Something I can see as otherwise every cat statue in Japan (and given the fact that it would not be easy to avoid for long periods of time, and even more off would be Hello Kitty.) So it is reasonable there would be room for some layer of denial there.
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#44
Ranma never had Salamon go Mega before, and Ultimate was too draining, so yes, he knew about Gatomon.

Gatomon is only enough to trigger it if Ranma lets her trigger it. Being that Ranma was able to mentally prepare herself, she was able to deal with it.

Neko-ken training was between end of Tamers and now. Also, Ranma did have more pressing issues to focus on at the moment than Gatomon's feline-ness. Like the giant skeleton digimon trying to kill them all.
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Also next pair of scenes. Four or five more scenes left in chapter three.


Ranma smiled. They’d won. As the adrenaline left her, she was as a puppet with strings cut, but Jenrya swiftly moved to support her. That fight had taken a lot out of her, and she’d poured a lot of energy into that last attack, feeding it to Gatomon.

Speaking of the Adult digimon, she could feel her partner approaching with Gargomon. She turned to look at her and a familiar fear started to well up within. No. She would not be afraid of her digimon partner. No matter how much she looked like one of those... c... She couldn’t even finish that thought in her mind.

Ranma coughed and then spat the mixture of bile and blood out of her mouth.

“Ranma, we need to get you to the hospital.” Jenrya accepted what happened without question, though she knew he had to have some.

“No hospital, but there’s a doctor nearby who can help.” Ranma smiled at Jenrya and then frowned as she looked down at her shirt. “Why is it they always destroy my shirt?”

Gatomon ran up to Ranma. “Ranma, you’re hurt... I’m sorry...”

Ranma shook her head. “Don’t worry about it, Gatomon... I’ve been worse off.”

Jenrya looked around the roof and found the fire escape. “Well, let’s get you to that doctor of yours then.”

With a little help from both digimon, Jenrya managed to get Ranma off the top of the building, and then Gargomon picked her up. It was a good thing too, as Ranma could barely stand on her own. The fight with the DarkTyrannomon and then SkullTyrannomon had to have caused some internal injuries, and she was just drained overall. She had done her best to take the energy strain off of Gatomon from using an attack from her Perfect form by pouring her own ki through the D-Ark. At least she’d stopped bleeding.

“Dr. Tofu’s office is just down this way.” Ranma pointed and Gargomon walked. Gatomon walked a little ahead of Gargomon, probably so she could keep an eye on her.

“So... Ranma, why are you now a girl?” Well, she knew someone was going to ask that question.

“Gargomon!” Jenrya sounded scandalized, but she bet that he wanted to ask too. It wasn’t that often that you got to see one of your old friends turn into a cute girl. Well, it wasn’t that often if you didn’t live in Nerima.

“Ranma has a Jusen-something curse... She changes with water. Cold makes Ranma a girl, hot a boy.” Gatomon spoke up.

“Jusenkyo, and you can blame Pop for that. It was his idea to train at the training ground, and he knocked me into the cursed spring.” Ranma couldn’t muster up the normal disgust she had for it. While she was a guy, she honestly didn’t exactly care about the form she was in. Well, not much anyway. She liked being a guy more as that was what she was used to, and people treated her different as a girl. Still, if they were going to treat her different, she might as well exploit that. She was certain if she were a guy right now, she’d be walking while leaning on Gargomon rather than being carried.

Gatomon patted her on the shoulder and it took nearly all of Ranma’s willpower to not flinch in fear. Stupid Neko-ken. This was never a problem before they left Shinjuku.

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They arrived at the Ono clinic after a little more walking. Their battle hadn’t been far from there. Walking in the clinic, Gatomon couldn’t help but notice all the people staring at her and Gargomon. Ranma was injured, and these old humans were staring.

“What’s the matter? Never seen a digimon before?” Gatomon shook her head and turned back toward Ranma. Something was bothering her tamer, and it wasn’t just her injuries. She couldn’t help but notice that Ranma was avoiding looking at her even when she talked to her. She’d have to find out why. She almost sensed a flicker of fear when Ranma looked at her.

Gatomon was so focused on her thoughts that she almost didn’t notice the weight on her shoulder. She looked to see what was there... A skeletal hand! She jumped and landed between Ranma and the thing! She would not let Ranma get hurt further! She would take out the skeleton before it could hurt her tamer more!

“Easy now, that was just a little prank, there’s no need to take it out on Betty.” Gatomon blinked and looked just behind the human skeleton, and there was a human man dressed in black scrubs. He had brown hair in a thin ponytail and wore a pair of thin wireframe glasses. She wasn’t so sure she trusted him. “So, you two are digimon, huh? I suppose the two with you are the humans you work with.”

Why was he smiling? Didn’t he know just how close Gatomon was to using him as a scratching post?

“Are you Doctor Tofu?” Jenrya asked and the man nodded. “We have someone here who’s injured.”

And then he stepped aside, revealing Ranma in Gargomon’s arms. She was still conscious and waved weakly at the doctor. Gatomon wasn’t so sure she trusted this human, but she did trust Ranma.

“Ranma! Okay, bring him into my examination room.” Well, it seemed like the man did know Ranma after all. Gargomon brought the girl into the room, and Gatomon began to follow. “I can only have one other person in there with him.”

“Ranma’s my partner, Doctor, and I’m not leaving her.” Gatomon stepped in with Gargomon.

“Momentai, Gatomon, I’ll wait outside with Jian once I put her down.” Gargomon placed Ranma down on the examination table with care, sliding his Vulcan cannons out from under the pig-tailed girl. He then walked out of the examination room and the Doctor shut the door before turning toward his patient.
 

WarGiver

Well-Known Member
#45
Okay Gatomon is going to make Genma a scratching post... I think I know know something about the neko-ken comming up but I'll keep my comment to myself.
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#46
Oh boy, he was glad that was over. Big digital fields out of nowhere were scaaary things. The last time he ran into one of those... actually, he didn’t remember much about it. It probably wasn’t all that important, but digital fields were definitely bad, and that one was very bad with its black stuff. At least it was gone now. Now he could continue to explore and try to have fun!

Sure he didn’t know where he was, but that was part of it. Calumon floated from roof to roof, looking around. Oh hey! That place had a tall wall!

He was going to climb it. Well, float up it. It wasn’t like it was hard to scale things when you could fly. Maybe they had food there. His poor tummy was rumbling. He hadn’t eaten in like fifteen minutes. Puff balls on a stick. He loved those.

Calumon perched on top of the wall. There was a funny looking human on the other side holding what looked like a long stick. He was wearing some sort of blue and black robe thing with baggy pants. Wait, he remembered what that was called! He saw it in a movie with Juri! It was a hakama! Samurai wore those! Calumon was seeing a real live samurai!

Oh, how cool would it be to be a samurai? Calumon couldn’t help but picture it. He’d be walking down the road dressed up in a perfectly tailored hakama.

He’d have his own sword dragging out behind him. He’d see people having a problem and he’d go, “Hey you, I am the great samurai Calumon-sama! Don’t bother that person! Unless you want to face my blade!”

He’d draw the sword and get into a nice fighting position like this. “Back you fiend, I, the great Calumon-sama will defeat you! HIII YAAAA!”

With a swing of his blade, he’d slay the evildoers and be the best samurai in the world. HIYA! HOO WAA! KII YAA!

“HII-oop!” Calumon slipped from his perch and tumbled down the side of the wall to bump into the samurai person. “Ack! Sorry!”

The human peered down at him. “Hum. A strange creature.”

“Hi! I’m Calumon! Are you a Samurai?” Calumon retracted his ears and looked up at the human.

“Ha! A Digimon! Surely something as adorable as you is not a minion of the foul sorcerer! I am Tatewaki Kunou, the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High!” Thunder seemed to crash in the background at that proclamation. “ And yes, I am a noble samurai!”

“Oh... so cool! I never got to meet a Samurai before, what are you doing here?”

“I am training so that I may finally beat the foul sorcerer and break the spell that ensnares my loves!”

“Your... loves?” Calumon cocked his head.

“Yes! My fierce tigress Akane Tendou and the pig-tailed girl! Join me, Calumon, and we can beat the foul sorcerer together!”

Okay... Calumon wasn’t entirely certain about this samurai. Maybe he wasn’t as nice as awesome as he seemed. “Umm.... I’m not exactly a fighting kind of digimon! Maybe you would have better luck with another digimon!”

Calumon took to the air. “I’ll maybe come by and see you later! Good luck!”

“So you reveal yourself as a minion of the sorcerer after all!” Tatewaki turned toward Calumon and raised his stick high.

“I’m out of here!” Calumon flew over the wall. That person was scary!
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#47
Damn that traffic. He knew as he was driving that he’d be too late one way or the other, but on the off-chance that he could be of some help, he drove to Nerima. Yamaki wasn’t even halfway there when he got the call from Onodera.

The kids had managed to pull a victory out of nowhere, without his help. However, one of them got hurt in the process. Li was fine and so was his digimon, but it was Saotome that had gotten hurt. Saotome was a name he hadn’t heard in six years. Saotome Genma had done janitorial work at the HYPNOS building, never actually seeing the detailed work that went on inside until the D-Reaper attacked. He was the father of Saotome Ranma.

The younger Saotome had been an eager child, and like the rest of the Tamers, Ranma took to having a digimon well. However, after the defeat of the D-Reaper and the return of the digimon to the digital world, Genma had resigned at HYPNOS and he and his son had disappeared. Yamaki hadn’t kept on the lookout for the pair as Ranma’s digimon partner did not return from the digital world with the others, almost as if she knew that Ranma wouldn’t be there.

Now it seemed that Ranma lived in Nerima and had gotten hurt in a fight with a digimon. He owed it to the Saotome boy to at least see how bad the injuries were. It was his job to keep digimon contained and away from the general public if possible, after all.

He parked his car down the street from the Ono clinic and locked it once he got out. The prototype was in the trunk, and while it had a special lock on it, he didn’t want anyone attempting to access it when it happened. He pocketed his lighter, making sure it rested neatly in the pocket before going inside.

He was spotted as soon as he entered the clinic by that overgrown rabbit of a digimon, Gargomon. Odds are it’d turn back into its Child form soon enough, but Li had it running around as an Adult, likely a result of the previous fight.

“Oh hey, Jian, it’s Yamaki-san.” Gargomon obviously was talking to Li who was sitting next to him. The boy was wearing an orange vest and jeans today. How original.

The boy stood up and walked over to him. “Yamaki-san, what are you doing here?”

“I’d heard that you were having a bit of trouble with the wild ones you were apprehending, and judging from where we are, you might be lucky it wasn’t worse.” Yamaki wouldn’t let him know that he was worried. He never liked sending kids out to do this job, but they were good at it.

“Yeah, we did get lucky. I don’t know what we’d have done if Ranma hadn’t been there. I couldn’t biomerge with Terriermon and Matrix Evolution didn’t work. For a while there, even regular evolution didn’t work.” Li looked at his digimon.

“Ootori said something about an energy based Faraday Cage, that would have blocked any electro-magnetic signal from getting through, including that of evolution if it needed to come through from outside.” In an official situation, he’d be professional.

“That makes sense, after that dark aura thing was cleared away by Salamon, she and I evolved to Adults.” Gargomon was grinning.

“So if Saotome and his partner hadn’t been there, it would have been worse.” Yamaki stated.

“Momentai! We all dealt with everything okay and...” Looks like Gargomon ran out of energy to maintain that form. Good. The child form was easier to deal with. Smaller. “And Ranma’s fine now, she’s with the doctor. He’ll take care of her.”

“I’ll have to have a talk with Saotome myself. In the meantime, we can wait. Good work, you two.” Give credit where credit is due. The two had managed to defeat something that normally wouldn’t have been out of their league, but at this point it was due to unforeseen circumstances.

Wait a minute... her?
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#48
Not sure I'm happy with this:


Inside the examination room, Ranma was laying on the table as Doctor Tofu took a good look at her. Gatomon wasn’t quite sure how much she trusted this doctor as he wanted to keep her out of here. Ranma was her partner. She needed to make sure that he was safe.

“Please stay over there, miss... Gatomon...” The doctor had said as he started work on Ranma. He had opened her shirt and began cleaning the front of her body. “Hmm... lacerations, but these look like they’re from actual claws as opposed to Mousse getting a lucky hit in on you, Ranma-kun.”

“They’re from a digimon that we ended up fighting... DarkTyrannomon. It had these big claws... It didn’t hit me too hard.” Ranma said.

“The lacerations are shallow, what I’m more worried about is your back and low ki right now.” Gatomon didn’t know what the doctor meant there, but he pressed his fingers onto Ranma’s back in several areas... and Ranma closed her eyes falling asleep.

Gatomon spread her claws. The doctor obviously did something that hurt Ranma. Nobody got to hurt her if she could help it! “You hurt Ranma!”

“No, I just put him to sleep so I could finish getting him in order so he could walk... without seeing you and becoming frightened.” The doctor sounded sincere... but he had hurt Ranma, hadn’t he?

“Why would Ranma be scared seeing me? He was fine earlier...” Gatomon questioned.

“Ranma has a severe fear of cats resulting from some childhood trauma.” Doctor Tofu looked over Gatomon, studying her. “And you greatly resemble that which he fears.”

“But he never had any trouble with me before, and she seemed fine on the way here...” Gatomon couldn’t believe it. She wasn’t exactly a cat, but Ranma couldn’t be scared of her.

The doctor began doing something with Ranma before turning her over and bandaging up the cuts on her chest. He tapped a few more points on Ranma’s neck and nodded. “It may have been adrenaline or focus on the fight... the only way to know would be to ask Ranma when he comes around in a few minutes.”

Gatomon stood by the examination table and when she heard Ranma shift, she smiled. “Ranma! You’re awake!”

Ranma groaned. “Did you have to knock me out, Doc? I’d have been fine if you’d done the work with me awake.”

“I didn’t want to chance you lapsing into the Neko-Ken in the middle of an examination due to your digimon friend here.” Doctor Tofu explained.

“Neko-ken? What’s that?” It sounded like a digimon attack... sorta. She had something that was “Neko Punch” which could have been something just like this.

“Gatomon isn’t one of those things, Doc. She’s a digimon, no matter what she looks like. And she’s my partner. I’m not scared of my partner unless I picture her as something else... And the Neko-Ken is a stupid martial arts technique my old man taught me, Gatomon. It don’t even work right.” Ranma looked right at her, and while she was sure he was holding back some fear, it wasn’t quite of her, she didn’t think.

Doctor Tofu shook his head. “Your father, Ranma, is sometimes...”

“Pop can get a little single-minded in his training ideas. The Neko-Ken was no exception. I just wish he had read through the entire manual before deciding to start me on the training... maybe I wouldn’t...” Ranma shuddered.

“Wait, what does the Neko-Ken have to do with being scared of cats?” Gatomon wasn’t sure she followed.

“To train someone in the Neko-Ken, you have to dig a pit. And you fill it with... cats, and you don’t feed them for a few days.” Ranma began, and Gatomon could already tell she wouldn’t like where this is going. Those poor kitties. “The trainee is then tied up and wrapped up in fish sausage. He or she is then thrown into the pit. This is repeated until the trainee learns the technique.”

Wait... what? “Uncle... Genma did this to you? When?” Gatomon was going to have to have a talk with Uncle Genma. That was something that shouldn’t have happened at all.

“Yeah, Pop did. To be fair to the old man, he was following a training manual and really thought it would make me a better martial artist. Unfortunately he didn’t read the entire thing and find out that ‘only an idiot would teach this technique.’ And it happened about three months after we left Shinjuku. I was missing you pretty bad around then...” Ranma smiled at Gatomon.

Okay, Uncle Genma deserved something. He made Ranma scared of cats. Nearly scared of her, but Ranma loved her father, and Gatomon knew it. So Gatomon would just have to let him know her displeasure without doing anything permanent. “Okay... At least you aren’t scared of me...”

“Well, not entirely. You’re a digimon, which is different enough though my backup plan for dealing with SkullTyrannomon was to use the Neko-Ken if you and Gargomon weren’t enough to defeat it.” Ranma scratched the base of her pigtail nervously. “You’re still my partner though.”

Doctor Tofu turned to Ranma at this point. “Well Ranma, you should be able to walk now, though you will need support. I suggest you lean on your friend who came in with you... I also have a spare shirt here. You need to go get some good food to replace some of the energy you have lost.”

Ranma nodded. “Okay... you’ll add this to our account?”

Doctor Tofu nodded. “You’re good to go.”
 

Capito Celcior

Well-Known Member
#49
Ok, so when will doctor Tofu bring out the hot water? It seems like a very, very basic service that would be greatly apreciated by Ranma. And doctor Tofu wouldn't deny him that. IT would also help heap the confusion for Yamaki, as Li and Ranma keep refering to a male Ranma and a female version too.
 

ellf

Well-Known Member
#50
Actually, sometimes it is a bad idea for Ranma to change while injured. Shifting healing things out of order. Plus the following scene works the way it is:


Yamaki hadn’t been in the clinic that long, maybe six minutes or so, before the door to the examination room slid open. First out of the room was Gatomon, and if he recalled correctly, that was Saotome’s partner. It would make sense if Saotome was injured for his partner to come in with him to make sure that the doctor was treating him okay.

Behind the Gatomon, supported by the man Yamaki could only assume was the doctor was a young woman dressed in dark pants and a red shirt that looked to be made of silk. Her hair was the same color as he remembered Saotome’s to be, but it was fairly obvious that the girl was female. To be fair, Saotome was ten when he last saw the child. It was entirely possible that Saotome Ranma was actually a girl. He wouldn’t put it past Genma to try to pass off a female child as a son.

The girl seemed to recognize him when she looked out in the examination room, and Li’s movement indicated that at the least, this girl was probably Saotome. Li went up to help support her and the digimon came over to him.

“Yamaki-san, what are you doing here?” Gatomon seemed to be a bit more mature than Terriermon or his evolution. Of course, that could just be personal bias.

“I’m here because of the digimon attack earlier. You and your tamer did a good job of handling it, but I was on my way here to be backup.” Yamaki considered standing, but that would put his eye level above that of Gatomon’s and put hers at a very vulnerable area. He remained sitting. “I’d heard that Saotome was injured.”

“Yeah, Ranma got hurt trying to protect Jenrya from SkullTyrannomon. When we weren’t able to evolve, it decided to try and get rid of us ahead of time. Ranma was able to keep us from being hurt by its attacks.” If Gatomon was telling the truth, Yamaki would have to look at Saotome in a new light. Of course, digimon rarely lied... at least the ones with human partners anyway.

“Speaking of Saotome, where is he?” Yamaki needed to speak to him.

“Ranma’s right over there, being transferred to Jenrya’s shoulders... She can’t walk that well on her own just yet. The doctor says she’ll be fine after she gets some food in her though.” Gatomon shook her head like she didn’t believe what she was saying.

Of course, a glance at the girl now being helped by Li gave him pause. That was Saotome? “I thought that Saotome Ranma was a young man.”

“I am a guy, Yamaki-san. This is just a cursed form given by Jusenkyo. Cold water makes me into a girl, hot water into a guy. Though, it makes me into a pretty hot girl, doesn’t it?” The girl’s voice, despite her injury exuded confidence.

Yamaki glanced over the girl. He supposed she could be considered cute under the right circumstances, but she was obviously underage despite her generous assets. “Saotome, if that is who you really are, you are sixteen. You are too young for me to even dignify that question with a response. However, you managed to help out my agent today, thank you.”

Saotome looked to the person she was leaning on, and while Li’s cheeks were turning red, she didn’t comment on that. Saotome only raised an eyebrow and asked, “Agent? When did you start working for Yamaki-san, Jenrya?”

“When we turned about thirteen, Yamaki-san was able to give us an internship at HYPNOS that mostly involved payment for dealing with digimon who were a threat to public safety. Some of us also got to go see how the interior of the system works. It’s really cool.” Despite the admittedly reasonably attractive girl on his shoulder, Li managed to answer well enough. His father would be proud of him.

“Ah.... I’ll take your word for that. So, did you just stick around to say that, Yamaki-san?” Saotome asked.

Yamaki shook his head. “No. You were injured in a digimon fight which you involved yourself in without authorization. However, you are a free agent being a digimon tamer who just managed to get your partner back. HYPNOS will be paying for your doctor’s fees, and I will need to get further authorization for anything more. Where are you living currently?”

“The Tendou dojo here in Nerima... it’s only a few blocks away.” Saotome answered.

“Thank you. Once the authorization comes through, I will likely meet you there with some paperwork. It shouldn’t take longer than a week or two.” Yamaki offered Saotome one of his rare smiles. He would probably have to talk with Saotome’s father, but the girl would be getting a job offer.

Saotome nodded and smiled. “See you then, Yamaki-san.”

Yamaki was unsure about this curse business. However, one did not get to be commanding officer of a department that dealt with digital monsters by being a skeptic. Until he saw something proving or disproving Saotome’s assertion, he would give the girl the benefit of the doubt. After he dismissed the group, he would go talk with the doctor to arrange payment. It was the least he could do.
 
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