DC - Genesis Mile Chapter 17

Chapter 17: The Chicken or the Digi-Egg

Daisy was at home, reading a book on her bed, it was late in the night yet she was fully clothed just as she was after fighting the Darkling. She was just trying to chill for now, as that Darkling fight was a tad stressful for her, then she heard a knock on the front door. Opening it, it was Eric Vanguard in a raincoat.
“May I talk to you for a moment” he asked her, “its about your little ‘encounter’ earlier today”, assuming he had just been to Tomo’s house and heard it from him and the others.
“Sure thing” she said. After putting the kettle on and taking Eric’s coat, they sat down to talk.

“Do you remember when we read the tome of ghouls and goblins?” he asked her kindly
“Yes of course” she grinned, “How could I forget, it was a big project, we couldn’t fully understand the legend but it was a lot of fun trying to find out.”
“Indeed” he chuckled, then he went quieter, “do you remember how much of a big case that was?”
“Big case?” she gasped, but then again, Royce did mention about his father being banned from his research, perhaps this was why.
“Were-Ghouls are an extinct species” he declared, “but due to their dangerous nature they were deemed fearful creatures, any attempt of reviving them would mean a lawsuit, if word got out that you fought one tonight then police would be knocking at your door.”
“But, I defeated the Darkling” she explained, “surely that was an act of heroism than an act of crime”
“To you and I, yes, but the Government is another story” he calmly explained, “the Government do more than watch over our cities and deal with political issues, me and Professor Edwards have recently found out that the Government also want to keep the general public in check by covering up incidents like these under wraps. In other words, arresting you to make sure the public aren’t aware of the, what did you call him? The Darkling? So that they can maintain a so-called, ‘healthy’ environment”
“I see your point,” she said, “the public cannot know of these incidents or it would cause panic”
“Worse” Eric announced, as he drank his tea, “it would cause the public to cause these incidents themselves. Especially in a city like this, if people found out that things like ghouls exist it would encourage them to experiment in these affairs”
“Why would people do that?” she asked him.
“Well why do people deal drugs? Why do people carry knives and guns to hurt others and cause crimes?” and he put his tea down for a second, “You have good friends who watch out for you Daisy, but let me put it this way, we know that Thomas is a City Vampire, if those powers would have gotten to someone like a murderer what do you think would happen?”

“That makes sense,” said Daisy “crime would be through the roof and there would be no way to stop it”
“Exactly”, finished Eric as he stood up, “I best be going, Professor Edwards wanted me to warn you about all this, I’ve said the same thing to Thomas and his little friends, I think your friend Thomas is in a lot more danger than he realises.”
“Being a City Vampire?” she asked him, “he’s going to be the main target of both the government and any supernatural beings that may come our way” and she hugged her arms in worry, “I’m really worried about him.”
“Do you by any chance like Thomas?” he asked her
“Well, yeah, he is my best friend after all”
“I meant, do you like-like him?”
Daisy was shocked, “Oh no! we’re just friends, I just worry for him is all”
“Whatever you say,” he grinned, trying to forget the stress that has caused the recent events. “just remember, here on in, it’s only going to get more dangerous, be careful”, and he grabbed his coat and put it on
“Where are you going?” Daisy asked
“Back to the lab” he said, “there’s a lot of stuff to do, and that winged killer is still on the loose”
Daisy hugged him, “just be careful”, Eric hugged her back.
“Thank you” he said, and he walked out the door and kindly waved farewell as he walked down the road.

Meanwhile, at Tomo’s house, Justin was playing Ape Escape (1) whilst Max watches.
“How the hell are you supposed to get up that cliff?” Max shouted, noticing the protagonist in the game trying to jump a high cliff to get the monkey on the top.
“Screw it, perhaps there’s a way later on” and Justin directed his character to the other monkeys playing in the grounds.
Tomo was sitting on his computer in the same room, pondering over what Eric said to him.
“Its best if you refrain from using your powers, until we can find the real killer, you cannot let yourself be known”
Tomo understood what he meant, but if he didn’t use his powers then how could he face Alex the next time they met? He didn’t have the will to tell Eric about her.
“AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWH!!!” screamed Max “You let the monkey slap you in the face!”
“Alright its your turn” Justin laughed as he handed Max the controller, he was having fun.
Then Tomo noticed he just received mail from Daisy, to which he opened it, it read “use this e-mail on MSN”, to which he did.

“Thank god” Daisy huffed, "I thought I would never get this computer fixed", and she turned to the man next to her, brown hair and stubble, wearing glasses and black coat, with a T-shirt underneath with the letter “A” on it. “Thank you very much Mike, I appreciate it”
“No problem at all” Mike replied, “if you encounter any problems or need a spot of hacking let me know”
“Will do” she smiled
“I better get back, the wife will be needing me to devour a pie, seeya later”, And he walked out of the house, leaving Daisy to access MSN.
By this time, they have both added each other, and were now talking on the computer.
“Daisy: How are you?” she typed
“Tomo: We’re good ” Tomo replied
“Daisy: I’ve just been talking with Eric “
“Tomo: Oh o.o”
“Daisy: and I’ve just been thinking, with all this going on, I’m sort of worried what will become of us T_T”
“Tomo: how do you mean? =/”
“Daisy: we’ll either be targets of the government or targets of any other ‘super-humans’ that come our way, doesn’t that worry you? <=O”
“Tomo: I see your point, but you fought the Darkling tonight, that proves that we can fight back right?”
“Daisy: I guess ”
“Tomo: Though I must admit, I’d like to know a bit about myself, these powers aren’t natural you know -_-”
“Daisy: we’ll find out soon enough ^_^”
“Tomo: wait, I think Max wants to chat”
“Daisy: Ok =3”
Daisy waits for MSN to answer back, then she falls off of her chair in surprise as she suddenly notices Max’s face coming out of the computer screen so suddenly and unknowingly
“Hey Tuts” Max laughed, “feeling better?”
“GOD DAMN IT MAX YOU SCARED ME TO DEATH!”
“Oh did I not mention? I’m a Digimon and can pass through electronic devices”
“OVERGROWN SMILEY!!!” and she punched him in the face, which made him go back into the computer and fly out of Tomo’s computer.
“She said hi” said Max weakily, hurt from the punch
Tomo laughed, then Justin wanted to talk
“Justin: Don’t worry about Max ”
“Daisy: XD lol!”

Whilst all this had been going on, near the middle of the City Park, Alex along with her master, still cloaked and mysterious were setting something up.
“This is perfect,” her master said, “this is the perfect place for our little friend to rise from his imprisonment”
“Yeah, yeah” said Alex, very boringly as she was busy prodding a small doll with needles, the doll looked like Tomo.
“What are you doing?” her master asked
“It’s a voodoo doll of Tomo” she replied, “its just something I got from some guy called Joe Go…”
“I know what it is” he interrupted, then he sighed, “I know you want to face him sooner or later, but right now we have to revive our little friend here”
Alex dropped her doll on the floor and walked away
“It’s a simple process really,” she said, “I learnt this from a guy named Mike” and she typed on a computer a weird code, which triggered another machine to light up, on screen showed a percentage bar starting at 0% whilst a picture of a Digi-egg was wobbling on the corner of the screen.
“I’ll let you take it from here” her master said as he walked away
“Aren’t you going to watch?” Alex asked, “He’s our friend after all”
“Tell him I said hello”
Alex was puzzled, but once he was out of sight
“gee, at least this gives me time to mull this over” and she drew the book she had been given, she still couldn’t read the marking though, she sat down next to a tree and started to look through it whilst the machine did its job, it was only 1% at this stage. At this moment of reaching 1%, Max has a sudden mind-jolt
“I sense a disturbance in the force” he references
“What’s up?” asked Justin, “Daisy hit you too hard?”
“No” said Max, “I’m picking up a familiar signal, I think it might be a Digimon”
And he rushed out of the door, Justin followed
“Where are you going?” Tomo shouted, but both Max and Justin were out the door.

Into the City they rushed, Justin was feeling out of breath
“Max, what is this about?”
“It’s a Digimon, I’m sure of it, being brought into the real world”
“How can you be sure?”
“We are digital organisms or some s*** like that right? Trust me I know”
“So another Digimon is coming here, so what?”
Max stopped for a moment, “I recognise the digital scent, but from where? Its familiar but I cannot pinpoint who it is. It seems like my brother Ozzy but no the signal is too strong.”
“Who’s Ozzy?”
“The signal is getting greater, THIS WAY!” and he rushed to the park
“This isn’t like you at all Max” said Justin as he painfully runs after him

By this time, 38% had been completed, which now blinked to 39%
“C'est si ennuyeux!” Alex cried (French meaning of “This is so boring!”), “Why is this taking so long?”
“Patience my dear” her master called out, he had just returned with a pasty and a sausage roll, he was eating the pasty and passed her the sausage roll
“So who is it that we are trying to free?” Alex kindly asked
“Ever heard of a Digimon?”
“I’ve heard stories” she replied, “sounds like a tamagotchi to me”
“Well this one in particular was sealed away for a long time by one of the four guardians of the Digital world”
“I see, but just how is he going to help us?”
“You are about to find out in due time.”
“And that’s another thing monsieur, he said you knew where I came from, when will the time come when you are able to tell me?”
“Patience, for I’m sure our little friend here will assist us greatly.”
By this time, it hit 46%
“So this ‘Digimon’ is going to help us?”
“Yup”
“I feel my power slowly returning” said the mechanical voice on the screen, “I promise I will not fail you, that fool Baihumon thought he could defeat me but didn’t, and now I return to finish what I started”

Max was just entering the park when he spotted both Alex and her master with the machine.
“Right there!” Max called out, “that’s where I got the scent from”
“Who are these two?” Justin asked
Alex’s master was startled “What’s a Digimon doing here?”
Justin thought he was staring at him, “Err, I’m a Pokemon”
“That’s not what I meant!”
“What’s the difference?” Alex asked
“That one with the boxing gloves, does he look like he can fit in your pocket?”
“To be honest, neither does the taller one”
“I think you need a Pokeball…” said Justin, but was interrupted “SHUT UP!” shouted Alex, concerned about them being here which might affect the download, now on 62%
“So the Digimon is the one that can pass through electronic devices right?” she asked herself, and she drew her desperado cannons from her back “fair enough, I’ll finish him and store his data into my pocket watch!”
“But that would make me a Pokemon!” Max joked
“But your data will be stored” said Alex, “So you must be a Digimon”
“Well you can do that for Pokemon as well” Justin joked, “that’s what Pokeballs do, they store monsters to fit in your pocket.”
“But one of you is made of Digital data” she answered, “so that would be a Digimon”
“But then once I’m inside the Pokeball that IS data isn’t it?” asked Justin
“I think she’s implying that Pokemon are made of flesh” Max answered
“But then she would be the Pokemon” Justin pointed out
“I’m no Pokemon” Alex ranted
“Then you’re a Digimon” Max added
Then Justin soon remembered, “HANG ON! You’re the Butterfly Tomo was talking about!” he startled
“Butterfly?” asked Max, “I thought she was a Moth”
“I AM NOT A MOTH LADY!” she screamed
“She’s the killer everyone is talking about!”
“Wait a minute” Alex called,  “that would make you Thomas’s pet Digimon?”
“I’m a Pokemon ma’am!” Justin answered
“Then who’s the Digimon?”
“That would be you!” Max called out
“That’s ridiculous!” Alex shouted, “at least I can’t be crammed into your pocket”
“He’s the Digimon ma’am.” Justin added
“Then what are you?”
“The Pokemon”
“Then you must be”
“The Digimon”
“FOR F*** SAKE WILL YOU JUST KILL THEM ALREADY!!!” her master shouted as he was getting annoyed at this stupid confusion of Japanese franchises.
Alex quickly came to her senses and equipped her cannons and jumped back ready for battle. At this point the download was at 88%

“Whatever you are I take it your working for Tomo am I correct?” she asked them kindly, as she got ready to fire at them.
“I think the term your looking for is ‘friends’” Justin replied
“Tomo doesn’t know the meaning of the word” she shouted, “either way, I found new friends who are willing to help me regain what I had lost over the past few years”
“Youth?” Max asked
Alex twitched at this, “THAT’S IT!!!” and she fired a deadly blast at Max
Justin charged at her, but she swung her cannon to directly hit him and he slammed against a tree, then she quickly turned to Max who was getting up, and she charged at him and the grey front part of her right cannon separated to form a 4-pronged grabber, which she then slammed against Max hurting him, the grabber then closed as tightly as it could to hold Max, she stood up and drew her cannon to inspect the now hurt Max. The dials on the cannon were flashing.
“No more confusions” she said angrily, “You are the Digimon that poses a threat to this operation, I don’t know how you came into the real world, but your about to witness one of our friends from your world come through that digital gate.” And she threw Max onto the floor and her cannon took shape to its original form. “A Pokemon and a Digimon working together why even bother?”
It was this moment, the download moved from 99% to fully downloaded 100%, a green light eminated from the Machine, showly putting together the bits of data to give their “friend” psychical form, Justin got up quickly to see this.
“Why did I get knocked out so easily?” he whined, “I need to use ‘Detect’ more”, then he noticed the book Alex had been keeping.
“This scent” Max announced, “Could it be?”

Sadly, as the digital form was getting clearer, it was clear to Max, they were reviving Machinedramon!
“About time” Alex’s master chuckled, “I must attend to other duties, dear Machinedramon, greet our guests wont you?”
The half-finished Machinedramon replied in a dark mechanical voice, “Digimon-Inferior-Machinedramon-Superior!”

End of Chapter 17