The streets were alive, like they always were in the early mornings, people rushing to get to work, mothers ushering their children to school even the local homeless take part in the action begging for change or catching a loose coin being kicked around busy feet.
For Harvey there was no avoiding this morning chaos. Already running late to work he dodged through the crowds of bodies quickly saying ‘sorry’ or ‘excuse me’ every time he bumped elbows. He was not near happy about having to brave the streets of his hometown in the morning but unfortunately, for him, his car is out of commission and he hadn’t the time or money to fix it.
Once the streets thinned out a bit Harvey quicken his pace to a run, he ran all the way through Main-street and continued. He turned a quick corner and headed down the road towards a house that was clearly under construction. A bit out of breath from his long run he slowed his pace to a jog as he ran in the fresh new gate, which he had seen being installed the previous day. It seemed already all the workers had gathered and started doing there parts on the creation of the new house.
Harvey’s thick work boots slapped across the dry ground. He wondered, looking at the bare dirt the surrounded the building, if and when the owners of the home were going to plant grass. He caught sight of his boss and ducked to avoid being seen. Harvey managed to pivot his way around the construction workers to his station. He crouched down looking through his tools pretending he had been here for a lot longer than he truly had. He used his thumb nail to pick at the dried cement dust on his trowel from the previous night of working. He hadn’t had time to wash it after working a lot later than he usually does eventually he managed to convince his boss to let him go home with the thought of his brother powering his words.
Harvey sighed and looked to the bags of cement beside his tool box. He stood up and lugged one of the fifty-kg bags towards where he would be working for the day.
“Norman!” The shout of his name made Harvey jump and drop the bag on his foot he muttered “Shit.” before he bit down on his fist to avoid screaming. He released his hard bite and turned to face his boss.
Alonzo Clark was he man in front of Harvey, and he was the exact kind of person you would imagine would run a brick laying company. He wore a dirty hat covering what little grey hair he had left and what wasn’t on his head grew on his face as mutton chops and a neatly groomed moustache. Harvey stood over top of him, as Harvey was quite a bit taller.
“So, Norman, how was your brother doing last night?” He said in his loud strong voice.
“He was alright, he was…uh… hungry…. I guess.” Harvey awkwardly said.
Alonzo gave a strong laugh and slapped Harvey quite hard on the back. “Sounds like he could only be your brother.” He grinned before walking away to go socialize with, more than order, his workers.
Harvey sighed glad to be rid of him.
Now as Harvey walked the streets home he was grateful to how lonely they were in the midday. After seeing the chaos in the mornings it’s hard to believe that Main-street could get so empty. He passed a few people here and there and the few homeless who were leaning against shops or sleeping on benches.
Harvey had a grin on his face the whole time he walked. He was glad to get of work early, he didn’t have to spend his day until seven o’clock laying bricks or mixing cement and he could cook dinner before his brother even got home from school and probably have a quick rest before he went out to his second job at eleven.
It was a hard life Harvey had to try and live and he only lived it with his brother. The two lived together in an old apartment building paying a minimum rent for an admitting bad house. As kids the two house-hopped a lot until they decided to live together, alone, five years ago when Harvey was eighteen. They had been living in their current apartment for three years and have found it good it was big enough, cold in the winter but it was cheap.
Harvey came up to the solid brick building, he actually fathomed if Alonzo’s company built it all those years ago.
He went in the doors and began walking up the flights of stairs to the third floor with his hand in the pocket of his jeans searching for his keys.
Getting up the hall he looked at the familiar door that was supposed to say ‘26’ but the metal silhouette of the 2 went missing a while ago. He jammed the key in the lock and gave it a jimmy and twist and the door swung open. Harvey took in the familiar view of brick walls on the window side of the house the first room was a kitchen with a small island that had two seats at it for a dining table, the room stretched from the doorway to the windows where it sported to rickety couches and a large 32-inch box TV.
He walked into the house and instantly found something amiss. He could hear a growling sound lightly echoing off the brick walls. He narrowed his eyes and snuck silently further into the house. The sound grew louder as he approached one of the bedroom doors. His hand was shaking a lot more than he willing to believe as he grabbed the doors handle. In a quick motion he twisted the doorknob and pushed the door open.
“Bede!” He shouted looking at his brother sleeping on his back in a tangle of blankets his mouth wide open with a growling snore coming from it.
Bede didn’t shift at all after Harvey’s shout.
Harvey stomped forward and swiftly kicked the low bed Bede was asleep on.
Bede’s amber eyes opened unfocused and confused. “Whuuuutt?” He moaned.
“What the hell are you doing at home?” Harvey was utterly confused.
“Why didn’t you wake me for school?” Bede sat up in the bed.
“I had to get to work earlier to finish up the job from last night.” Harvey tried to lower his voice.
“Dude calm down, I’ll just go to school now, it’s only like 10 o’clock.” Bede stood up pulling on some pants that were on the floor over top of his boxes.
“It’s 1 o’clock!” Harvey slapped his hand to his forehead and gave a long sigh.
“Oh.” Bede smiled a bit before collapsing on the bed. “I guess it’s not worth going.”
Harvey rolled his eyes. “I guess it’s not.”
Bede stood up happy his brother agreed with him. “We should go play soccer in the park.” He jumped up his eyes darting the room for his soccer ball.
“No, you are going to help me cook something unless you want fruit loops for dinner again.”
Bede nodded. “Alright.” He stood off the bed and the two brothers made their way to the kitchen.
It was around 6 o’clock by the time the Norman brothers sat down at the island in the kitchen to eat the food they prepared.
The first hour of their preparation was spent debating what to have for dinner. One wanted something and the other wanting something different. Eventually they decided on steak, eggs and oven baked fries. It was about as grand as either of them could muster, as usual it was a meal that tasted good and was easy enough to prepare.
“I would play ‘father’ and ask you how was school but we both know how that went.” Harvey said between mouthfuls of fries.
Bede laughed. “Yeah, I’m sorry about that. It wouldn’t hurt to invest in an alarm clock.”
“Wouldn’t hurt for you to get a job.” Harvey replied with a sly grin.
“I probably could.” Bede used his knife to cut through the food on his plate. “It could be fun I could work a McDonald’s.” He looked up towards Harvey waiting for his reply.
Harvey chuckled knowing why Bede was looking at him. “You’re just waiting for me to say something about your volunteering work there aren’t you?”
Bede nodded. “Do you think they’d want me back?”
Harvey stopped and thought. “You could just work register and not set fire to something in the kitchen again, you do have the personality of a clerk.” Harvey stood, with his plate, from the chair and walked around the island into the kitchen where he placed the plate on the bench.
“I’ll apply after school tomorrow. It can’t hurt.” Bede kept eating as he had a much larger portion than Harvey had had.
Harvey stood at the sink washing the dishes they had used in the preparation of the meal, not bothering to wait for Bede to finish.
To Harvey’s surprise and upset the microwave beside the sink began to flash and beep, as if food had been heating and it was finished, however there was no food in it. Nor had it been on. Harvey began tapping and bashing the machine with his hands trying to make it stop. With little patience for the situation he pulled the microwaves cord from the wall and the noise stopped.
Harvey sighed. “Bed Spread, you’re doing your own dishes.” He turned to his brother.
Bede had stopped chewing his mouthful and had a blank expression.
“Bed…” Harvey said a little louder looking at his brother.
“Shshhh.” Bede put his hand up to silent Harvey. “Do you not hear that?”
Harvey turned the tap in the sink off and listened. Ever so slightly he could hear a faint repetitive beeping. The pattern of it seemed obstructed. “Yeah I can, what the hell is that?”
“We don’t have a microwave anywhere else in the house do we?” Bede joked and stood from the island-bench and began walking through the apartment.
“Harv!” He called out to his older brother.
Harvey walked and stood beside Bede in the doorway of his room.
“There was no beeping when I was sleeping in here.” Bede said over the relentless chirp that was now significantly louder than it was in the kitchen.
Harvey walked into the room listening carefully trying to pin point the location of the sound. It pulled him closer to the bed. He got down on his hands and knees and looked under the bed. As normal under the bed were boxes of old stuff that they had from when the brothers lived with their family and Harvey was 90 percent sure the beeping was coming from one of the boxes.
“Bede, help me go through these.” He gestured to the darker haired boy.
Bede crouched beside Harvey and grabbed the boxes and pulled them aside when it was obvious the noise wasn’t coming from them. Eventually the two found the correct box. The beeping was louder than ever and it had now become obvious that the obstructed pattern wasn’t faulty at all, it was just there were two separate beeps blinking at different times.
Harvey took the lid of the box and found it full with old electronics, little things like digital pets and walkie-talkies. With every beep the box was flashed with a red light, and what Harvey could make out there was a second colour two that wasn’t as obvious. Bede put his hands in and began rummaging through the plastic battery run toys. He pulled his hands out one wrapped around a red device and the other around a grey one.
The electronic were rectangular in shape with a few buttons and splits where parts of it seemed to open and shut and slide out. With each beep the screen would illuminate from empty black to bright red and white light.
Harvey locked up a bit staring at the devices in Bede’s hands. Not sharing the younger brothers small smile.
“Why are they working again?” Harvey said, asking himself the question more than his brother knowing he couldn’t possibly know why.
Bede shrugged. “I don’t know…” He pressed the centre button, on the grey device, surrounded by an arrow key pad.
The beeping didn’t stop nor did anything else happen. Bede looked disappointed.
“We need to make them stop.” Harvey said taking the red device from Bede’s hand.
Bede tried pressing another button he pressed a red button furthest on the right of the electronic. The beeping subsided but the flashing white light was still happening.
“I guess we can deal with that.” Harvey said pressing what he thought was the same button on the red electronic in his hand but Harvey’s thumb tapped the green button on the left of the device.
The beeping and the flashing both stopped.
“What did you press?” Bede leant over to look at the now blank device in Harvey’s hand.
Before either brother could say another word the electronic began to buzz and a bright red light shone from the top end of it.
The light took the shape of a small upright animal before manifesting into a grey-furred creature with large cat like ears and a skull covering its face with long sharp horns protruding from it, around its neck were sharp purple spines, its hands were exposed bones with dark claws poised out of them, a strip of red fur ran down its tail right to the end of it where a skeletal human hand was stretching as if it hand its own mind. The creature opened its hollow black eyes to reveal bright inattentive pink irises.
Without much thought or consideration towards the creature Harvey leapt towards Bede and grabbed the grey device out of his younger brother’s hand, casting the now blank red device aside.
“Harvey! Give it back!” Bede quickly yelled grabbing Harvey’s arm that now held the grey electronic.
“NO! We don’t need both of them around here!” Harvey wrestled Bede off of him.
“It’s not your choice!” Bede punched Harvey hard in the collar bone.
Harvey ground his teeth. “Well it is now!” He shouted back shoving Bede with his free hand. “We are not dealing with this again!”
“You two don’t change.” The grey creature said, which was now sitting on the bed watching the brothers bicker.
“SHUT UP FERRICMON!” They both yelled back at the monster.
“We are done with Digimon that part of us was taken from us.” Harvey held the grey device far from Bede’s reach using his spare hand to push him back when he lunged to get it.
“Now it’s been given back!” Bede stopped wrestling his older brother and just stood shouting at him.
“Harvey… Bede…” Ferricmon started getting a little bored with the argument.
With that Harvey pocketed what was obviously Bede’s device and grabbed Ferricmon under his small arms and carried him, struggling, into the bathroom and locked the door. He walked back to Bede’s room and picked up the red device.
“I am going to find a way to put Ferricmon back into this thing, and you aren’t going to touch either of these when I do.” Harvey explained to Bede who had a sour, angry look on his face.
Harvey stared at his brother waiting for his response.
“Fine.” Bede muttered barging past Harvey and back into the kitchen.
Harvey ran his hand through his short hair and heavily sighed.
Bede played around with what was left on his plate with his fork. He didn’t have much of his appetite left. He could hear Harvey and Ferricmon in the bathroom talking, though he couldn’t make out what they were saying.
The door opened and Harvey and the Digimon walked out.
“I have to go to work.” Harvey said to both Ferricmon and Bede. “I’ll be back later tonight. Both of you stay out of trouble.” He walked to the front door and left closing it behind him.
Bede rested his chin on his hand pushing the plate still half full away from him.
“You’re not going to eat that?” Ferricmon said, running his pink tongue along the sharp teeth of his skull mask.
“Nope. Go for it.” Bede grabbed the plate and placed in front of Ferricmon who sat at the empty chair and began eating the remaining food.
“So. What were you and Harvey talking about?” Bede asked the Digimon.
“Nothing much, just asking me how to ‘put myself back in the thing’.” Ferricmon didn’t look up from his meal.
“You don’t know how then?” Bede watched Ferricmon eat the food happily.
“No. I don’t even know how I got ‘into it’.” Ferricmon was already done with the meal.
Bede looked at the empty plate with a look of surprise. “So you don’t remember anything?”
“I don’t think so.” Ferricmon stood on the chair and planted himself on the surface of the table. “I just remember you and Harvey, though much smaller, and…” Ferricmon paused. “Moimon.”
Bede’s face fell a bit. “Do you know how long it has been?”
Ferricmon shook his head.
“It’s been seven years, Ferricmon, you guys just suddenly just disappearing in a flash into those weird devices we always had. Harvey and I spent weeks trying to figure out how to get you out.” Bede explained.
“Well he seems pretty reluctant about it now.” Ferricmon shrugged.
“I know. I don’t know why he’s being weird.” Bede stood up taking the plate and cutlery Ferricmon had discarded to the kitchen sink.
Ferricmon watched the younger Norman brother wash the dish. “I don’t know if I’ve ever asked either of you. But how did you find us in the first place? For me it was a sort of ‘one minute there you are we’re friends’ sort of deal.”
“I don’t remember.” Bede placed the plate on the dish rack. “It was too long ago and I was too young anyway. I know Harvey remembers but he hasn’t ever told me about it. It could have something to do with why he doesn’t want you back.”
Ferricmon began looking around the apartment. “So this is how you guys live now?”
“Yip.” Bede smiled.
“So this ‘work’ that Harvey is off doing?” Ferricmon was curious to the new life the familiar Norman brothers were living.
“During the day, basically every week day, he works for a brick laying company,and at night not as often he works for the local auto repairer. The car shat itself a few days ago so he is working extra hours to fix it between jobs.”
Bede and Ferricmon talked back and forth the same way for a while. Ferricmon mostly asking the questions, Bede didn’t mind he was happy to share any information with the Digimon that he knew as a child.
They were interrupted though when Ferrimon asked a rather strange question.
“Did you just feel that? The building just shuddered.” Ferrimon stood on the table alert.
“It could have just been the wind, this building as old as the Methuselah. It wouldn’t be a surprise if you felt it shuddered.”
“What is a Methuselah?” Ferrimon turned to the human with a confused look on his face.
“Nevermind.” Bede quickly said standing on the floor beside Ferrimon on the table.
Suddenly the building shuddered again. But this time Bede felt it.
“Yeahhhh… I don’t think that’s the wind. Come on.” He ushered to Ferricmon.
“Where are we going?” Ferrimon jumped from the table to the floor.
“To the roof to see what’s going on.” Bede opened the front door and ran out followed quickly by the equally curious Digimon.
After climbing two flights of stairs Ferricmon gave up and was happily carried by Bede up the remaining stairs.
Bede burst out the top door onto the roof of the apartment building with Ferrimon clutching to his back. He placed down the Digimon onto the flat concrete and the two made their way to the edge of the building.
Bede looked out to the rest of the city. From the top of the apartment building he could see Mainstreet which was just few small shops, surrounding Mainstreet were most of the suburbs. He could also see downtown which had much larger buildings franchise HQ’s which brushed the sky. And in the midst of it all down the road from the apartment building Bede could see something big was going on.
“What the fuck?” He whispered unable to believe what he was seeing.
Flying between buildings being licked by the fires that were burning through the small part of town was a huge bird, with fiery feathers over its body and a cruel looking mouth with fierce fangs, it had huge talons at the ends of its big strong feet that were tucked close against its body, it soured through the air screeching and beating fire from its wings.
“Ferricmon? Is that a Digimon?” Bede swallowed his eyes fixed on the distance chaos.
Ferricmon nodded. “Yep.”
“Well...” Bede’s face scrunched up. “…you can stop it then. Come on Fer’ we have to go down there.”
Ferricmon looked at the teenager in front of him and let out his breath. “Alright. But you’re carrying me.”
The noon summer sun baked down on Harvey’s neck, he knew hours ago that he would have gnarly sunburn on his neck and arms. He sat back from the job he was doing admiring the wall he had set for the bottom story of the house. No matter how much he hated laying bricks in the midday sun there was always something oddly satisfying about looking at a brick wall he had made with his own hands and tools. Harvey saw Alonzo coming to talk to him and quickly jumped back up and started rubbing down the bricks in an attempt of looking productive.
“Norman!” He shouted in the exact familiar tone that Harvey has grown to hate.
“Sir?” Harvey turned from the stupid act he was doing that Alonzo failed to notice.
“What are you still doing here?” Alonzo asked.
“Working?” Harvey said suspicious of the question.
Alonzo have another of his hearty laughs. “Of course you are. But I do remember allowing you and Lawrence to leave the site at twelve, after you two worked some hours yesterday.”
Harvey’s eye twitched, he had already had lunch so he knew it was well after twelve. “I don’t think you told me that… sir.”
Alonzo stood slightly for a while as if he was running through memories. “Of course I didn’t”- he tapped his hat with his palm –“I told Lawrence for sure though.” He laughed again. “Well you can go now. I’ll finish up the corners of this wall.”
Harvey wanted to smile but didn’t want to look to happy to leave. “Thank you, sir.” Harvey returned his tools he was using to his tool box, neglecting to wash them again, and happily jogged away from the work-in-progress house.
It hit the giant bird in the face causing it to screech loudly, it dodged Moimon in the middle of the street and flew upwards.
It did a quick turn and flew back towards the small fox Digimon.
“Meteor Wing!”
Moimon quickly rolled out of the way of the incoming fire blast.
“Blaze Tails!” She called, two tails of fire sprouted next to her original, as Birdramon flew past she jumped up and pummelled the larger Digimon with the burning hot tails over and over landing on the ground after every hit.
Birdramon cawed and swung wildling around until one of its wings hit Moimon out of the air. Moimon hit the blacktop hard but managed to regain her posture.
“Vigorous Fox!” She shouted again sending another burning attack at Birdramon.
Bede, Harvey and Ferricmon watched from a safe distance.
“This isn’t working. Fighting fire with fire.” Harvey noted.
“Harvey, you know I want to be out there.” Ferricmon stated agitated by not being in the fight.
“I know, but you can’t right now.” Harvey said to his Digimon who was standing restless beside him.
Bede didn’t say anything, he was focused on watching Moimon fire out attacks fighting in a way he had never seen her move. He had only ever seen her play fight with Ferricmon, all those years ago, and she only would spit little fire balls at the other Digimon, this was a lot different.
For the second time Moimon was beat down onto the ground. This time she struggled a lot more to get up. Her fur was dirty and covered with ash from the fires that were still burning. It seemed the firemen had taken cover when Moimon and Birdramon started fighting at street level.
“This isn’t easy!” She called to Bede.
“I know!” He shouted back. “But you have to stop it, keep trying Moimon!”
“Vigorous Fox!” She called taking aim at Birdramon.
The fight was just a clash of fire against fire, it made the air smoky and hot and neither Digimon appeared to be winning, Moimon was obviously tiring though a lot quicker than Birdramon.
“Meteor Wing!” This time Birdramon’s attack hit Moimon sending her backwards skidding across the road.
Moimon whimpered as she pushed herself up being careful of the grazes and burns she just received.
“Moimon.” Bede whispered staring at his beat up Digimon beginning to feel responsible for the conditions of this fight. He watched as she readied herself to attack again she looked very tired and it didn’t seem she could fire another.
“Ferricmon!” Harvey’s shout echoed from where he stood pointing.
Bede and Ferricmon’s gaze set on where Harvey was aiming. The distant buildings were black as the sun lowered behind the horizon slowly sending darkness over the city.
“Sunset.” Ferricmon breathed.
He ran out from cover and into the middle of the road. He stood between Moimon and the larger Digimon facing it. He closed his eyes just as the last of the sunlight left and darkness shadowed over downtown.
Birdramon shrieked and soured forward at the new enemy.
Ferricmon suddenly faded into thin air leaving nothing between the fast moving bird and tired Moimon. But as quickly as he disappeared he reappeared but now instead of grey fur it was a strong orange colour, darkness swirled around him, as he levitated off the ground to be at level with the flying Digimon.
“Dead Eyed.” Ferricmon called opening his eyes locking them with Birdramon stopping it where it was, when it was only inches from touching him.
The Birdramon was now just floating mid-air, like Ferricmon, it wasn’t moving its wings on anything to keep it afloat. Ferricmon didn’t blink he kept his bright pink eyes in contact with Birdramon’s. He jerked his head downwards and sent the Birdramon crashing into the blacktop with great force. Floating, Ferricmon did a back flip and hovered back getting in front of Birdramon again.
“Ymir’s Curse.” He blew a gust of dark energy at Birdramon.
With that its wound’s it had sustained began to clot with blood. Birdramon cried and howled as the mist covered it making all its wounds bleed out.
Ferricmon locked eyes with the bird again. “Dead Eyed.”
This time he jerked his head sideways and Birdramon followed crashing into a building.
“Don’t wreck the place!” Harvey shouted to his now powered partner.
He used his puppet like power to send the Digimon crashing back onto the road grazing it along. “Moimon, give me some help.” He turned to the small fox who stood near him.
“Vigorous Fox!” Moimon called using her last ounces of her strength.
Ferricmon’s attack followed. “Ymir’s Curse.”
The fire hit Birdramon as did the dark fog. Birdramon began to shriek as the wound from Moimon’s attack worsened from Ferricmon’s.
Bede clenched his eyes shut before the large bird Digimon burst into data.
Bede bounded down the stairs two at a time, Ferrimon clutching his small skeletal paws to Bede’s broad shoulders.
He pushed his way through the front doors of the apartment building and began running as fast as he could down the footpath towards the mess downtown. Every person he passed was running in the opposite direction few paused and told Bede not to go that way taking no notice of Ferricmon clinging to his back. None of their small warnings made Bede turn around.
The fire in the distance got bigger and bigger as Bede got closer to the burning buildings. The bird Digimon had disappeared behind some of the larger buildings as it flew around but Bede could still hear it screaming. Fire engines had gathered at the bottom of the structures, water souring through the air from hoses trying to put out the fire.
Bede put Ferrimon down, they were only meters away from the fires. Bede could feel the intense heat burning off of it and only hoped that no one was inside.
“Hey kid! Move!” One of the firemen shouted standing far out of the way of the road and footpath.
From seemingly nowhere the fire bird Digimon came swooping down the road its talons nearly brushing the black top. Bede dived down and rolled out of the way.
Ferricmon got himself onto the roof of a nearby car. The much larger Digimon screeched past and Ferricmon jumped clipping one of its legs with his sharp claws. It gave a quick angry caw before beating its wings and raising itself higher into the air. It did a few loops before configuring itself to aim.
“Meteor Wing!” Its voice wailed. Hot fire burst from its wings it an instant.
Ferricmon dove quickly out of the way behind the cover of the car.
“BEDE!” Ferrimon shouted trying to see the human teenager through the smoke that was pouring through the streets.
Ferrimon crawled from behind the car and scurried over to the other side of the street where he found Bede behind one of the streets benches.
“Fer’ that thing is shooting fire! Can’t you do anything like that to stop it?” Bede said to Ferricmon.
Ferricmon scowled. “Not at the moment. The best I could do was clip it with my claws, it’s got the advantage of flight.”
Another blast of fire hit the other side of the road.
“This is crazy! Where did that thing come from?!” Bede shouted over the crackled of fire.
“I don’t know! But your plan to come down here is not so brilliant now is it” Ferrimon shouted back.
Bede looked up and through the smoke and could make out the figure of a human, running down the footpath towards them. Coming to a halt and crouching low behind the bench was Harvey.
“What the fuck are you two doing here?!” He shouted at his brother and Digimon partner.
“Trying to help. It’s a Digimon, Harv.” Bede pointed to the bird that was now busy souring far above the buildings.
Harvey hung his head in his hands.
“Harvey, we need her.” Ferricmon looked at the older human.
Harvey growled.
“Come one Harv. People could be get hurt.” Bede, as he always accidently did, had puppy-eyes as he pleaded to his older sibling.
Harvey pulled the grey device, still flashing white, from his pocket and handed it to Bede.
Bede pressed the green button and the flashing stopped. A beam of white light burst from the electronic in his hand and took the shape of a small two-legged fox. It manifested into an orange, white and grey Digimon with fiery patterns all over its body mix-matched with brown stripes, it had a large busy tail with two crossed over metal rings sitting on the end of it, it’s paws were held in fists that had black gloves over them and spiked metal bracelets around it’s wrists.
“Moimon.” Bede beamed as he looked at the familiar creature in front of him.
“Bede!?” Moimon threw her arms around Bede’s body. “Look at you your huge!” She smiled with sharp teeth.
“I know, but we have bigger things to worry about Moi’.” Bede pointed to the bird Digimon ruling the skies.
Moimon gazed upwards and her mouth fell open a bit. “Woah. That’s new.”
The two reunited friends were interrupted by Harvey. “Bede what is that doing?” He pointed to Bede’s grey device which was no longer blank.
Bede tried pressing the middle button, it brought up information on the Digimon they were apposing.
“It’s about the Digimon, it’s called Birdramon.” Bede said reading the data.
“Well either way.” Moimon looked at Bede and grinned. “It’s going down.”
Moimon ran out onto the middle of the road in plain view of the Birdramon. It screeched loudly before descending with great speed towards the new coming Digimon.
Moimon stepped one foot back and sturdied herself. She became engulfed in flames and called.
“Vigorous Fox!” She jumped back launching the fox shaped fire at the oncoming Birdramon.
“I can’t believe either of you! I mean, what in hell were you thinking?!” Back in their apartment Harvey’s inevitable rant was starting. “I remember telling you two not to get into trouble yet you go downtown and think you can take on a giant flaming pigeon.”
“We did take it on. It’s dead now isn’t it?” Ferricmon noted.
Harvey shot him a look. “That doesn’t matter. You didn’t listen to what I said you could have been killed.”
“But we weren’t, so it’s ok Harvey.” Bede said defensively.
Harvey gripped the air with his hands in anger. “I know and I am glad you’re not hurt” He collapsed on the couch.
“What if that’s why you guys came back?” Bede turned to Moimon and Ferricmon. “Maybe there will be more attacks like this, and maybe we have to stop them.” He had an excited grin on his face.
“No. No .No!” Harvey jumped from the couch. “That’s a horrible idea.”
“Harv, what if we left that thing alone? Huh, half the city would be totalled by now.” Bede explained.
“It’s not our responsibility to stop it, we didn’t sign up for this kind of job, but I, by the way, have probably lost mine after ditching because I just KNEW you too would be downtown in the mix of things.” Harvey ranted.
“Well we seem to be the ones with Digimon so maybe it is.” Bede shot back.
Harvey rolled his eyes.
“You saw what our Digimon can do.” Bede replied.
“I did. But it’s still a bad idea.” Harvey walked into his room and shut the door behind him.
Bede looked at the Digimon once again and grinned. “Don’t worry, the idea will grow on him.”
