MPC 52A: What The Heart Wants

Reward Wanted: Bits (rin need get money for colege)

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Clad in shining red armour, the hero of this story stood tall and stout (about waist height) in front of the castle. His steely grey hide and determined yellow eyes fell upon the imposing visage of ExVeemon. The mighty dragon roared before him, shaking the air and silencing the bird-song that'd previously filled the morning air.

"Who's Jesus Christ?" The centipede asked himself, perplexed. Figuring that was the name of the ExVeemon, he stared up challengingly at the dragon, willing himself the courage to confront it. He could do this!

"You, Jesus Christ! Under the name of the Furry Lordess Meicrackmon, I demand that you release that human immediately!" Rinji shouted, shaking slightly. This human was going to be her betrothed! Although he had no idea how a digimon and human relationship was meant to work anyway.

Ignoring the human, the centipede readied himself to fight the reptilian beast. He adjusted his stance, prepared for whatever the dragon would throw at him. Which was apparently a gust of wind.

"I thought dragons breathed fire!" He complained as the air pushed him right off his feet and into a tree. This is what he got for going on a diet!

Having landed in the bushel of a tree branch, slightly worse for wear with a few scratches on his armour, his yellow legs held onto the wooden saviour tightly. It was time to kick it up a notch. "For Mei-Narnia!" He shouted as a red glow enveloped him tightly, shining beams of red as the excess energy struggled to contain itself.

Within seconds, the blinding red form grew larger and larger, revealing an absolutely gigantic black centipede monster in its place. All the extra weight had to go somewhere, however...

The monster hit the ground, his landing less than graceful. "Oh shit," he swore, his voice deeper than a rumbling car engine. Feeling his anger rise at the humiliation, he began crackling with electricity, the air taking on a distinct smell of ozone.

"Incinerate Laser," he announced, jaw glowing crimson before unleashing a huge laser-beam towards ExVeemon. Unfortunately for Jesus Christ's human, if it missed, that tower was probably going to come crashing down. Too bad Rinji didn't think of that.

The Mukademon roared in return to ExVeemon's growl, oblivious of almost killing his damsel in distress. The human could wait. Not thinking of either dodging ExVeemon or swatting him away, Rinji lowered his head and exposed the carapace armouring his forehead.

Subconsciously figuring that ExVeemon was going too fast to stop, if he were to continue he would almost certainly land himself as a comfy decoration pinned to Mukademon's forehead. If that were the case, Rinji would quite happily turn his head and attempt to smash the annoying dragon into the dirt. If not... well...

Whether or not the dragon had pinned itself to his head and/or gotten smashed or opted to do something entirely different, Mukademon had better things to do than fight dragons all day. He had to save his forest! With another roar, he charged forwards towards the tower, ready to snatch the human from his confinement.

"The squishy is mine!" He growled as he smashed through the stone brick. Shoving his head through the self-made hole, he found the human crouching in a corner. Why the boy was crouching in the corner as if he were doing something completely different was beyond Rinji, but he needed the kid.

With surgical precision, he attempted to catch the boy by the shirt with his pincers and pull him from the crumbling tower.

The centipede growled at the boy's struggling. "I'm here to save you, idiot," he hissed as he adjusted his grip on the kid's shirt. Rinji found himself with far less patience when he was digivolved.

Having momentarily forgotten about ExVeemon, Rinji took his sweet time removing his head from the castle when he heard the dragon announce his attack. Growling again, he was practically unable to counter with the boy still stuck in front of his mouth. If he were to use Incinerate Laser, that would spell the end for the kid. Likewise with using any sort of electrical attack.

All he could do was slightly duck, causing the V-Laser to graze across the crack in his armour. The pain from the surprise attack practically knocked him off his legs, causing him to crash into the ground, and he had to consciously increase his grip on the kid's shirt. He'd be feeling that in the morning.

Nonetheless, he righted himself back onto his legs. "Never announce a surprise attack!" Rinji shouted, feeling slightly smug despite the attack still having technically hit him. It hurt like digi-hell, too.

Still, now he was facing Jesus Christ, practically disarmed. Lasers would disintegrate the boy, an electrical discharge would electrocute and biting was out of the question. The digimon growled again, his breath hot on the boy's back.

That dragon had too much free reign in the air, he figured. "Encryption Storm," he growled, and immediately, the sky was encompassed by dark clouds. The sunlight that'd previously lit their battlefield was now extinguished, replaced by a grey sky. Hopefully the ensuing lightning and gale would make it harder on the dragon.

"Time to go," he said to himself and the kid, before attempting to do a runner towards the city. Pretty easy when you had about one hundred legs. There was no doubt the dragon would take chase, and the city was far away, but why bother thinking about that?

If Rinji had been able to turn around and see ExVeemon jogging as if he were at bootcamp, he probably would've started laughing. Unfortunately, he was more concerned with the human struggling in his grip.

"It's not like you have to marry her forever, just run away afterwards!" The Mukademon argued back, not really concerned with whatever problems the human had. However, the boy then slipped out, landing on the ground somewhere beneath Rinji's feet.

Left holding a dirty old shirt (did the human ever hear of cleanliness?) the centipede skidded to a stop, roughly aware of where the human had dropped as he attempted to avoid tramping him. "For Drasil's sake," he cursed as he turned around to see the human arguing with the dragon.

Weren't they enemies or something? Now, he was starting to get a mouthful too.

"I'm just doing my job," Rinji growled deeply, a tinge of disappointing annoyance slipping into his tone. He tried to reign in any hint of anger from his voice. Damn, why did this form have to be so hard to control? At least ExVeemon wasn't attacking him again.

The centipede monster sighed, realising the human probably wanted an explanation. "Look, human," he began, unaware of his condescending tone. "Meicrackmon threatened to level my home. And I don't even have one! I live in a bloody forest! What was I supposed to do, let her destroy an entire forest? She told me to bring her a male human, so that's what I did."

Rinji paused for breath, and continued, "now, I don't know why you were in that castle or what ExVeemon has to do with any of this, but didn't you want to be saved?" It wasn't like he was trying to hurt him. "Most humans are grateful when they're saved from evil digimon," he muttered, still a little annoyed.

The giant centipede leaned forward slightly to inspect Leith's digivice, his expression betraying nothing. The kid's words made him pause in thought. Then, he spoke up.

"I don't need a spine. I already have an exoskeleton," he said matter-of-factly. "But... sorry. Shouldn't have been such a push-over." Maybe it would've been weird to see a giant monstrous black centipede apologizing to a 19 year old boy alongside a huge humanoid dragon, but in the Digital World, this was Tuesday.

Rinji was more annoyed with himself now. He'd been trying to take the pacifist route by bowing to Meicrackmon's demands, but instead had ended up doing far worse than if he'd refused. He'd been wasting energy fighting some kid and his possessive dragon boyfriend when he could've been using it to resist Meicrackmon.

Unfortunately for the trio now, there was a full-blown storm whipping past them. Blasts of lighting tore through the air, sometimes a little too close for comfort. "Yeah, how about we get out of here? I'm pretty good at summoning storms but once they're here, they're here to stay. Unless humans enjoy thousands of volts coursing through their body and I just haven't heard about it yet."

Watching the exchange between the human and his partner, the Mukademon would've smiled, had they not been in such a pressing situation as a literal lightning storm.

"What the..." Rinji growled as the flash of light struck between the two. It forced him to squint, but thankfully when the induced blindness faded, both were revealed to be just fine. Still, he chuckled deeply at the human's feisty reply to his earlier remarks.

Uncoincidentally, the human wasn't so appreciative of lightning. However, it seemed the boy had a proposal to make, and the centipede turned his massive head to hear him speak.

"A happy ending, huh? That would be splendid," he spoke, sounding genuinely pleased and surprised at the same time, despite the name calling. "And in return, if you two don't mind walking beneath me, I can shield you from the lightning strikes." Indeed, Mukademon's carapace was designed to conduct electricity, especially since it was technically his own.

And so the very strange trio travelled back, away from the castle together. Rinji, the centipede, who learned the importance of asserting yourself against the true enemy and not bowing to their orders; ExVeemon (aka Jesus Christ), the dragon, having learned the importance of consent, and Leith, who finally learned how to slip out of a T-Shirt.

Then they lived happily ever after until the next digital Armageddon arrived.

The End.