Taira watched as everyone started to fall asleep. Night had once again come and Taira noted this as rather quick (o.o;;; ) She was hesitant to get to sleep right then, her stomach was telling her to stay alert. Eventually the warmth emanating from Foxmon's body, started to work Taira into a daze like slumber. Eventually she did fall asleep sitting back against her favorite tree.
*Dream*
Taira's vision was blurry....All she could see was someone standing by her. The voice it projected sounded much like her own. "You know it's wrong to fall asleep, Wake up!"
*Reality*
Taira turned in her spot, her eyes to tired to wake.
Chris snoozed away peacefully, unconsciously putting his arm around Kamika. Suddenly, his hair flared silver as a foreign technological force intruded in his mind. A fierce mental battle ensued, but the strange force easily overpowered the off-balance and tired Chris and took control of his mind within seconds! All the real Chris could do was scream mentally as whatever was possessing his body made him stand up (his hair was still silver), and pull off his two necklaces (the microchip ones).
*Dream*
"Taira.....Wake up...Something's very wrong...can't you feel it!"
*Reality*
Taira shot open her eyes and looked around, not really seeing anything. Suddenly she saw a soft glow and looked towards it "Is that Chris?" Taira thought.
He dropped them on the ground, and concentrated on them. Some strange programming ensued, and the necklaces rose off the ground and started to whirl in a circle, creating a disc of force. Chris's body was forced to jump on, and he stood up as the disc, at the strange force's command, swept him away to somewhere else...
Taira stood up as the glow grew bright and she noticed what was going on "Chris!" She yelled, but he obviously didn't hear her. He just rose up and was suddenly out of her sight. She stood there frozen....."COME BACK CHRIS!" She yelled loudly enough to wake people up, her eyes confused and big.
Kyrainia noticed that the rest of the group was going to sleep. She decided that that wasn't a bad idea...except the fact that something could happen in the middle of the night. Kyrainia leaned against a tree trying to keep her eyes open. By the time she was just beginning to fall asleep, she heard a bunch of yelling.
"What the heck..." she whispered rolling her eyes a bit.
Kamika opened her eyes. She turned to her side to see no sign of Chris anymore. She stood up quickly. "Taira? What's going on?" She asked in a panicked voice.
Christo woke up. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes. She could see Kamika talking to Taira, and Chris wasn't there any more.
"Yeah, what's up?" she said, getting up.
Fiona sat up and rubbed her eyes. "I thought we were going to sleep," she said, and saw the others. "What's wrong?"
Isthian had returned to the camp a while after having run off screaming into the woods. He couldn't sleep, however... not near *him.* So instead he sat on the ground, as far away from Chris as he could be while still being able to keep a wary eye on him. He just sat there through the night, hugging his knees to his chest, with a slightly demented gleam in his eyes.
So he had had a good view of what had happened to Chris. Thian kept rocking back and forth with his arms around his knees, and talked to himself. "He's gone, he's gone, he's gone and left us! I knew he would, oh didn't I say he would! He will be our downfall, our downfall I say... he's gone, gone, gone and left us! Maybe he will never return, but no, that would be too lucky for us... he will be our downfall, our downfall! Woe the day when he returns! Gone, gone, oh, gone and left us..."
Fiona paused, looking over at Isthian. "Or should I say... what's wrong with HIM?"
"I think he's gone mad!" answered Penguinmon.
Taira blinked at the other asking her all these questions..."He went up there!" She pointed off into the sky. "He stood up got on a disk, glowing UFO thing and LEFT!" Her voice sounding incredibly Psycho.. She flung her arms into air. Then she sat down onto the ground holding her knees and rocking back and forth. "He's evil.....EVIL! EEEEEEEEVIL! He knows everything...he knows our secrets!" Her face went blank and she proceeded to chant, still rocking side to side "He went away! Way! Way! On a CD! D! D! He is an evil Mon! Mon! Mon! Or just Crazy! Z! Z!" Then she stopped and grinned evilly. She crawled over to Thian and gave a huge smile "He's gone....He went away....we're all ganna die...."Her voice grim and evil. Then her face went all cheery "Wanna play 'Patty Cake'?" She held up her hands to start the game.
Isthian's litany was interrupted by Taira. "...gone, he's gon... What's that?"
She smiled sweetly..."A game...IT'S REALLY FUN!"
"Cool! Fun! Fun game!"
Taira smirked and patted both hands on her knees, clapped, and put a hand in the air, clapped and put the other one in the air. "You just do that over and over again" She smiles. "Then you sing the song"
Isthian tried that a few times. "Ooh, fun... song! Fun song game. Fun."
"I don't remember the words. But I know the tune!" She hums it.
"Whee, tune! Sing! Fun sing song tune game. Lessee..." He started to sing. "Poddy's gone, forever gone, he flew away..."
"He flew out up high and I'm singing my song."
"Flew 'way! Far away! Up high over the moon!"
"But that's okay cause we're all doomed"
Isthian and Taira just kept playing, singing new... if slightly repetitive... verses.
Kamika sweatdropped. "What in the world is going on?" She murmured silently. She shook her head. "QUIET!!!" She yelled, trying to get everyone's attention.
Fiona watched as Taira got up and joined Isthian in a game of patty cake. "I'm scared now. What happened?"
Taira was enjoying her game and really getting into it, spurting verses about silver hair and Bill the pony taking control of his mind o.O. Kamika yelled quiet and Taira stopped singing and jumped into Thian's lap yelling "RABID CHIPMUNK WOMAN!" And pointing madly at Kamika.
Kamika sweatdropped again for the third or fourth time. She sighed and looked around. "What happened?" She asked.
"Exactly what I'm asking... what's going on? And where's Chris?"
"Yeah...where's techno-jerk boy anyway?" Kyrainia asked walking towards the group.
"He went to heaven mom....A golden disk formed beneath his feet and he went high!"
Fiona blinked. "Did Chris go back to his mothership or something?"
Kamika blinked. "Mothership? Sounds alien-like. . ."
"His hair turned silver and his eyes gloweded blue and he cackled and want's to rule the world!"
"Well, that's what he is, isn't he?"
"Eh...probably."
Kamika sweatdropped. "Rule the world? Doesn't sound like Chris. . ."
"Sounds like him to me."
Kamika just sweatdropped more.
"Well, I say, from the way Taira's talking, Chris was abducted by aliens... or he IS an alien and flew away in his saucer." Fiona said.
"He probably IS an alien..."
Kamika sighed. "But how could he be taken from here?"
"ALIEN" Points at Fiona and the rest of the girl "Chris went all supersayan and stood on this flat CD and went bye bye...WE'RE ALL GANNA DIE!"
Kamika sweatdropped. "Taira! Get a hold of yourself!!"
Kyrainia rolled her eyes. " Yes, we're all going to die." she said in a flat tone of voice.
Smiles innocently "Okay!" ^^ Taira smirked and got a serious tone "Okay....here's the deal with pod boy...." She looks around to see if someone is spying on her "I had a dream...see....And it told me to wake up...." Looks around again " And he stood up and then his necklace dropped to the ground....Formed a yellow disk, and Chris stood on it...his hair was silver, like when he uses his techno stuff or something..." Looks down and whispers "I called to him but he didn't do anything" Her face looked so serious...Then she started to laugh.
Fiona blinked. "Taira... if you're telling the truth... that's really freakin' freaky."
"It's true..." She giggled.
"That's a little strange...even for him."
Fiona nodded. "And how."
Christo sweatdropped.
Labramon sweatdropped.
Big sweatdrops.
Isthian bounced Taira on his lap, still doing the Patty Cake motions in the air. "Wheee horsey horsey bouncy wheeeee!"
After being on that stupid disc for a LONG time, Chris finally felt the thing start to lose altitude. Even though his body was still under the control of whatever it was that was controlling him, he could still use his senses. So he saw, out of his eyes, a gigantic computer setup on the ground. And he was headed right for it!
As he touched down, the disc faded, and his body reached down and picked up the two necklaces. Then he walked inside, somehow knowing where to go. He stopped in the middle of a long darkened hallway, and a quartet of strange digimon fell in step around him. (They're Guardromon.) They escorted "him" down the hallway, and entered a large silver-walled room. Then they turned and headed back.
A mechanical-sounding voice rang out in his head. "Heh heh heh! If all humans are as easy to capture as you, the Digital World will be under my master's rule very soon!"
Chris's entire body went stiff, his joints and muscles all locking up. It stayed like that, as the presence left his mind. He tried to move, but he found that he couldn't even twitch.
The room suddenly lit up, and Chris found himself facing some large metal clawed feet. His neck suddenly "unlocked", and he looked up... and up... and up.... till finally he was looking at a dinosaur-like metal head. <What are you?> he thought, in the language of computers.
"I am the great Machinedramon, servant to the Highest Lord Commander! And you are now my prisoner! You will serve me by programming my troops!"
Chris sweatdropped. <How am I supposed to do that? And who is this Lord guy, anyway?>
"Enough prattle out of you! A few days in my digital prison with no food, water, or technology ought to make you more ready to serve me and the Lord Commander! Take him away!"
The strange digimon (Guardromon, just to remind you!) appeared again, and took Chris with them. They brought him to a silver door with bars, proceeded to strip him of all technology. Then they tossed him in, taking away all the technology stuff (his two necklaces, his watch, and his boxers) The door slammed shut behind Chris, and he found himself in a windowless room made entirely of smooth steel. There were no windows anywhere, no handles, no nothing. (not even in the door.) Chris sighed and sat down in the center of the floor, hoping the others would be able to come help him somehow....
Isthian kept bouncing Taira on his lap. "I want a cake! Do you wanna cake? I WANT A CAKE!!!" He pounded his fists against the ground and pretended to have a tantrum.
Chris sighed, his back to the cold steel wall. Where were those guys? Where was Kamika, in particular? Were they ever going to find him? What would that ugly berk, Machinedramon, do to him? He moaned, but then perked up as he realized something. He still had his technology powers, and he could use them to contact someone! He concentrated for a second, looking for a familiar techno-signature. His hair flared silver as he finally found one that seemed.... familiar to him, somehow. He linked up with it, and blinked as a picture appeared in his mind. It was of a cyan-colored digivice, rotating.
Kamika sighed. She needed the other's sanity to get a move on. Chris was missing and she wanted to find him NOW. Unfortunately, with everyone's mind as crazy as some were. . . (*coughisthiancough*), they didn't to seem to be able to actually move. She kicked a tree in anger. 'Where could he be?!?!' She thought. Suddenly she heard someone call her name. She looked around first but then didn't see anyone call her. She noticed it was coming from below and saw a picture of Chris on her digivice. "Chris?" She muttered softly holding her digivice in front of her.
Chris sighed happily as Kamika's face appeared in his mind picture. "Kamika, where are you guys? I need help really badly!"
Kamika smiled. "Chris-kun. . ." Then she groaned. "The others. .. Some are kinda . .. not in their right mind. . .just to put it kindly. . ." She held the digivice tightly. "Where are you? Where can we find you?" She asked in a worried voice.
Chris raised an eyebrow. "One of the crazies is Thian, right?" He smiled. "Just kidding.... Anyway, I'm in this freaky prison. This guy named Machinedramon took control of me and brought me here. He wants me to be his slave or something. I think that I can reprogram your digivice... one second...." He made a few changes to her digivice's locator program. "Yep. Your digivice, and only yours, will now home in on me using the locator option. I'll appear as a pulsing silver dot, unlike my digivice, which will be a silver dot, but not pulsing. Okay? Kamika, come find me soon! It's scary here, and these guys are just plain freaky!"
Kamika nodded. "I'll come. . With or without the others. ." She mumbled. She breathed in. "Don't worry Chris-kun. . . I WILL be there. . ."
Chris smiled. "That's the reason I like you so much, Kami-chan." He then looked up as he heard a banging on the door. "Oh, no, I think they've found out I'm doing this! I gotta go! Be careful, and watch out for this guy's digimon!" He hurriedly broke the connection.
Kamika stared at her digivice. She exhaled and put it in her hand tightly. She yelled out loudly as she started to walk up to the others. "I'M GOING TO GO GET CHRIS!!!!" She started to pass by each person thinking that they probably were looking at her bewildered but she didn't care. She had to save Chris. .. NOW before he got into trouble. Puttimon followed behind her slowly, not knowing where she was going.
Kamika brought up her digivice. She stared at the silver dot on her digivice. She looked up to see that he was north at this moment. 'I'm coming Chris. . .And everyone else better watch out. .' She thought angrily.
Chris looked up, his hair turning back to its normal blonde shade, as the door opened and several Guardromon entered. "Come with us. Our master is not pleased." they said, robotically. Chris groaned, and stood up, They surrounded him, and took him out of the room.
Eventually, they arrived at the same large hall he had met Machinedramon in. Machinedramon was already there. "HOW DARE YOU ATTEMPT TO CONTACT YOUR HUMAN FRIENDS?" he raged.
Chris shrugged. "What'd you expect me to do, sit there and mope?"
"GRRRR!!!!! Well, no matter. Now I can just destroy all of you at once. But... just so you don't try to contact your friends again...."
"Wha-?"
"SHIELD UP!"
"Right, boss." one of the Guardromon said, hitting a switch on the wall.
"Heh, heh, heh. Fool. Now there is a technology shield. No more contacting your friends or doing ANYTHING with your powers... WAHAHAHAHAHA! TAKE HIM AWAY!"
The Guardromon took him away. They deposited him back in his cell, quite hard, against one of the walls. "That'll leave a mark..." one of them commented.
"On the wall or on the human?" another asked.
"Ha! Funny!" They clanked off.
Chris, before passing out, had one fleeting thought. If he couldn't use technology powers, then neither could Machinedramon.... He passed out.
Taira giggled and bounced like a happy child on Thian's lap. Suddenly she heard Kamika yell about going to get Chris. Taira gets a sly look and turns to Thian "Rabid chipmunk woman is MAAAAD!" She said making the mad longer than the rest of the words. She smirked and stood up out of his lap and held out her hand "Well peter pan! Time to save the lost pink fluffy bunnie man!" Taira said with a cluelessly happy smile.
"You big silly," said Christo. "We're forgetting just one thing. CHRIS IS STILL MISSING AND PLAYING PADDY CAKE ISN'T GONNA BRING HIM BACK!!! Come on, Labramon." And she picked up Labramon and stalked off.
Fiona smacked her head in frustration. "We aren't going to GET anywhere if the only witnesses are totally incapacitated like this. Even *I* don't get this hyper." Fiona looked warily over at Taira. "AND STOP THAT!" she said as the girl bounced up and down on Thian's lap.
Christo watched Kamika leave. Beckoning to Labramon, she ran up to her.
"Where are you going, Kamika?" she asked.
Kyrainia looked at Kamika. " You can't very well go off and attempt to find techno-jerk yourself... heck, it's bad enough that Chris's gotten himself in some sort of trouble, but if you go alone and get into the same sort of trouble, then where would we be? Definitely not any better off..."
Kamika turned around slightly glaring. "Chris did not get himself into this mess. . . He was taken. .. Now if you don't mind. . I must get moving. . ." She replied to Kyrainia. She didn't notice Christobel and just rushed of angrily.
Isthian frowned. "Where are all the people going? Are they gonna become butterflies?"
Taira looked at him with a smirk "Yes, they shall be come butterflies and attack rabid moths that eat your hair. Sounds fun, but I don't think chipmunk do that." She watched them leave " Perhaps we should find out what they are REALLY up to?" Looks at him raising her eye brows up and down.
"Oooh..." Isthian stared at her eyebrows with amazement. "Wow, yeah, we should! Rabid moths... ick... we should follow them and make sure they can't complete their master plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!! ...that IS their master plan, right?"
"I don't know....But sound right enough to me....If their plan goes through...All the Kool-aid dependent children shall read POKEMON SELF INSERTIONS!" She gasps and put her arm around his shoulder and looking at him seriously and making sure the other don't see "We must save the world and stop this too!"
Isthian shivered. "This is scary... what if... what if they find out what we're doing???"
Taira looked at him fearful "They are baka's......" She looked over to them and back at Thian "But we must save the world. It's our duty. Plus the fluffy Bunnies will protect us if necessary."
"Oh, yay! The fluffy bunnies!!" Isthian started bouncing again. "Okay, then! Let's DO IT!!"
Taira looked at Isthian and smiled "Let's get our plan into action brave one!" she started whispering things into his ear.
Isthian leapt to his feet, ignoring the fact that Taira was on his lap. He ran over to Kamika and jumped onto her. "HIIIIIII!!!!!!!!"
Taira smirked and started running around the trio singing "I'm a pretteh BUTTER MOTH...I LOVE TO FLY IN THE WIIIIIIIIIIND!" Once her tune was in motion she started flapping her wings.
Isthian was shouting in Kamika's ear. "ONWARD AND AWAY, BRAVE BUTTERFLITTLES!!! GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!"
Taira ran past the youngest of the group Christo and gave Thian an enthusiastic thumbs up and wink.
Isthian grinned broadly back at her and returned the thumbs up. And kept shouting in Kamika's ear. "YEAH!!!!"
Taira decided to join Thian and get a piggy-back ride. On her last loop she jumped on Kyrainia's Back and shouted randomly "MOTHS SHALL SUFFER! ON WE GO!"
At the exact moment that Kamika was going to start to walk, Isthian jumped onto her back. Kamika almost fell to the ground because of the sudden movement. A vein pops as he yells in her ear. "GET OFF ME!!!" She yelled angrily. She started to turn red. Steam started to release from her ears.
"Get off of me you bloody loser!" Kyrainia yelled throwing Taira off of her back. "Warn me the next time you're going to do that!"
Taira blinked and got off her back sweatdropping. "I'm not a loser!" she said pushing her some " I'M A BUTTERMOTH!" She then starts circling the group again laughing and flapping her arms.
"Wheeeee!!" Isthian rolled off of Kamika. "Come on, you are so slow! Get up, get on, get going!!" He bounced up to his feet, seemingly without going through any other stage. "AWAY, BUTTERMOTHS!! WE FLY... TODAY!!!" He pointed dramatically off in a random direction.
Kamika growled. She humphed and started to storm away angrily. 'What are they trying to do? Stop me! Well. . They won't!' She thought angrily.
Christo turned in the general direction of Taira.
"You are not a buttermoth. You are hyper." she commented.
"You're telling me," said Fiona. "She's more hyper then *I* would be after I had a few cans of pop... and look at her, we haven't had sugar in days!"
Taira turned to Christo and glared thinking "There on to me!" Then aloud "I'm so a buttermoth.. Just overly hyper buttermoth princess! ..why else would I be here" She puts on a fake smile and give Thian a thumbs up believing she covered that up pretteh well.
Isthian winked cheerily at Taira, approving her cleverness. He got tired of his pose, and started singing an improvisational song.
"But-ter-flit-tles, rah rah rah!
"That is why I sing this song!
"Ugly moths don't stand a chance!
"Against the great but-ter-moths!"
"Creepy." remarked Labramon.
Tsafmon blinked a few times as he watched his partner run around singing. He scurried over to some of the other Digimon. "Um... are they... playing? I haven't seen that game before."
Labramon looked at Tsafmon. "I think their playing." she said uncertainly.
Meanwhile, Christo was looking at Thian.
"Gods. Even I'm more mature then that." she commented.
"SHOULDN'T WE BE LOOKING FOR CHRIS!?!" she shouted.
"Good POINT." remarked Fiona. "As peaceful as it is..." she looked at Isthian and Taira, "Or... how it *could* be... I think we should still be looking for the missing member of our group..."
"Haven't people been saying this from the beginning?! Crimady. Chris is gone. We should go and look for him. As much as I may just completely NOT like the jerk, he's still nevertheless part of our bloody group and indeed we should be looking for him. Besides...he's gotta be good for SOMETHING. Okay...which direction did Chris leave in anyway?" Kyrainia asked looking around the insane group.
Kamika grumbled as she walked down the path. She had just left the others just a few minutes ago and was now currently following her digivice. She didn't notice that she had left Puttimon with the others.
Puttimon jumped up and down for attention. "Kamika went that-a-ways!" She exclaimed pointing down the path Kamika went. She yanked on the nearest person's shirt. "Let's go, let's go, let's go!!" She yelled.
Isthian fell over Puttimon as she yanked on his shirt. "Waaahh!! It's the freaky... thingy... thingy!" He paused for a moment, still lying half over Puttimon. "CUTE!!!!" He poked her belly, as if she were the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
"Come on Labramon!" said Christo, hurrying after Kamika.
"Hey! Wait for me!" yelled Fiona, running after them.
"Off to the wizard of Oz." Kyrainia muttered as she followed Fiona, leaving the two mentally err...currently unstable? people there behind.
Puttimon laid beneath Isthian trying to breathe. "I. . . Can't. . . . Breath!" She yelled after feeling him poke her in the stomach a thousand million times.
Isthian lay on top of Puttimon for a minute, laughing. Then he leapt to his feet with a look of horror. "OH, NO!! They're getting away!!!"
Taira blinked and watched Thian with fascination, then she turned to see the other walk away...."Thian the BUTTER MOTHS ARE CHARGING!"
Thi bounced around hysterically. "I KNOW!! WHAT DO WE DO WHAT DO WE DO WHAT DO WE DO???"
Taira strikes a classic anime pose and says "WE SHALL FOLLOW THEM AND STOP THE EVIL!" Her eyes do the classic anime sparkle and she starts to stomp towards them.
Foxmon on the other hand was just watching her partner in confusion. "Oh...no..." she shakes her head.
Isthian skidded to a stop. "Right! Onward and offward and upward and roundward!!!!" He dashed off in pursuit of the escaping buttermoths.
Tsafmon gave a little shrug -- as best he could. "I guess we follow them...?"
It didn't take Isthian very long to catch up with the buttermoths. Once there, he started running crazily around trees, people, and whatever else he could find. A few minutes later, he settled down, grabbed Fiona's hand, and skipped merrily beside her. "These," and he bowed, "are for you!" He offered to her a handful of flowers.
Christo looked at Isthian going nuts. "Man, SOMEBODY's had to much sugar." she commented
Labramon walked over to Tsafmon. "Tsafmon, could I talk to you for a second?" she asked.
Isthian rolled his eyes at Christobel. "Yeah, well, you, uh... you, uh... you... you... Hello?" He looked confused.
Tsafmon smiled perkily at Labramon. "Yeah, sure! But, er, should we maybe follow them while we talk? I mean, just maybe." The lizard looked over to where the group of others could barely still be seen and blinked a few times.
Fiona blinked and looked at Isthian and took the flowers. "Um... thanks..." she blushed.
"Sure," said Labramon, "It's just, well, we're just living our lives, and suddenly a bunch of humons turn up. I mean, it's not like this happens every day, right?"
Tsafmon tilted his head and frowned, considering the problem. "Naw, it doesn't happen every day. I mean, how often can we be this lucky? Getting a lifetime friend! A partner! Wow! I WISH this happened all the time!" The lizard-Digimon smiled cheerfully.
Kamika grumbled as she stared at her digivice following its directions. She was getting nearer and nearer as she could see. She looked up at that exact moment to see her destination. Puttimon, who had ran up to catch up to her, banged into her back. "Kamika?" She was frozen in her spot. Puttimon looked up and blinked. "Is. . This it?" Kamika nodded as she stared. "This. . .Is it. ." She mumbled. .
Labramon shook her head. "That was WAY too deep for him."
Christo squinted at the strange fortress. "Is it just me, or can we see a giant computer?"
Fiona quickly stood up and ran over to Kamika. "What's it?" She said.
"You haven't gone mad too, have you?" asked Penguinmon.
Isthian frowned at the building, then at Christo, then back to the building. "Of COURSE that isn't a computer. Duh. It's a... sausage!! See? There it's all sausagey, and there it's all sausagey..." He pointed out various parts that looked "sausagey" for a moment, before starting to drool. "Mmmm... sausage...."
"Odd person." said Christo.
"Sausages?! I thought it looked more like a candy cane..." Kyrainia stated.
Kamika sweatdropped. "Candy cane? Sausages? What is going through your minds?" She mumbled beneath her breath.
"Hmm... yeah, I can kinda see a candy cane in there... but it's far closer to a sausage!! See that bit over there, where it goes all fwoopy?" Isthian made twisting, circular gestures with his hands. "Clearly a sausage. I dunno what Rabid Chipmunk Woman is talking about with that 'computer' stuff... She is so weird!"
