Relevant Time - Calamity [Gallatin/Maia/Open]

    Sure, why Gallatin felt every bit of fuzziness that may come with switching worlds, Maia was still just trying to settle her mind down. Okay, step one, walk into a crazy portal. Done. Step two... uhh... nope, she had nothing. Oh well! Time to improvise! After all, that was really all that Maia had been doing this entire time, anyway! Why change the plan now? Unfortunately, the idea of getting back up was pretty slim, now. This was really a poor turn of events. Maybe, she really should have gone home.

    The weird guy's garbled warning went noticed, but at this point, what was she to do. Kuu had already crawled off of her shoulders again, pleased that he hadn't lied about them surviving walking through a mysteries rip in the worlds. "Hey," Maia directed at the spider, ditching holding onto her phone for clinging to her Digivice, which was in the other pocket. Phones were useless at this point, so the thing linked to her partner was the better option. "You didn't agree to my terms, so I feel like I need to take your prize back now," with any luck, this would make the spider pull some of her weight off of the breathless kid.

    If she wouldn't, maybe the weird kid could do his teleport-y thing again or something to get away. Probably not, because there was no way he was going to actually be useful, but worth a shot. On top of that, they were in the Digital World now. Anything could happen! Maybe someone else would save them?

    Where do these schmucks keep coming from! First the Girl her Kudamon, then the boy merges with the Spirit of Time, and now there's another human IN THE DIGITAL WORLD WITH A WARGREYMON! There was no way that she could stay and fight now. That wasn't an option any more. "THAT IS IT!" She shrieked in a voice that cracked glass, pressing done harder on the struggling Chronamon that was Gallatin. "Nobody make another move or I snap this human's neck!" There was only one way she was getting out of this, and that was by using the boy as a bargaining chip.

    "If any of you want him to live, you'll walk away and let me take this boy back to my master. The GREATEST POWER in the digital world! We'll extract the fractal code of his spirit and throw him back out to the human world; we have no motive for killing him, but any of you take another step and we just might!" Of course she wasn't technically lying. After extracting the fractal code, they most likely would have turned him loose... Too bad that the extracting process would involve also extracting the code of the human, effectively killing him. Hehehe; but they didn't have to know that now.

    Underneath the pressed hand of Arachnemon, Gallatin had nearly lost consciousness from lack of air. Apparently being a digimon and data didn't change his lung capacity at all. "GACK! Head... feeling light... need... to get free... can't.... BREATH.... #!$^&(%@!!!" He screamed internally, barely able to hold on to a thought. His mind clouding... he needed to do something.

    Noticing Gallatin's eyes nearly popping out from the pressure she was exerting, Arachnemon slackened her grip and moved it down to his throat so he could breath, while she could crush him easier... But that was just the thing that he needed. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!" He Gasped for air, and a smirk appeared on his face. "*cough* *cough* Hachhh. Got... *wheeze* you..*cough* *cough*" He struggled to say, still trying to filter air into his lungs but proud of what he accomplished. "CHRONO GACK!" Gallatin yelled out, failing to say it properly, as the familiar purple color enveloped everything as time once again froze to nobody's knowledge. Able to finally do something, he pried the Arachnemon's hands off with difficulty before using another new skill. "AGE  *COUGH* AIR BUSTER!" Wheezed out the breathless boy as he conjured a yellow magic circle behind him. Around it, the air considerably browned and was clouded with pollution and bacteria that accumulated over decades of aging. He opened his cupped hand wide and the digital pentagram exploded, rocketing him forward with the compressed and aged air blasting behind him. He was in a very undignified position, on his back with his arms and hands pointed down between his legs, but it gave him a large push that launched him like a spinning stone, skipping across a lake.

    It was while he was in mid air, spinning like a top and rocketing through that time resumed with the Arachnemon completely amazed at how his powers had progressed so much. He may not be able to deal much damage, but be able to escape the strength and grip of an Ultimate level digimon was no feat to sneer at. He landed in a mess of dust, on his back and right next to Maia where he got on his knees and began a coughing fit while trying to catch his breath after nearly being choked to death. Sadly, for the Arachnemon, and to everyone's astonishment at the turn of events, she had just lost her only bargaining chip. "Kick *WHEEZE* Her Ass."

"You'll neither take him nor kill him, you will put him down, walk away and you'll live. Anything else and we'll destroy you." Shi said with lack of emotion in his voice, it was true a bargaining chip was only useful if the person cared who it was, taking the greatest power spelt trouble but Shi would still save whoever that was. War had his clawed arm in his shield staring at the large spider. The second he saw a opening he'd dash over and destroy them. Shi however spared a moment for the other person. "Umm no, no you cannot keep him, trust me you don't want him eats enough for ten grown men." Shi calmly explained causing War to sigh and shake his head lightly.

War saw the moment the captive was free and dashed forward at a incredible speed spinning around forming a pseudo tornado launching himself right at the Ultimate to go right through them.

    "See?" Maia commented toward her Digimon, when the other tamer talked about how much WarGreymon ate, "you won't have any food left if we took him home with us. That means no more cookies."

    This was enough of a point for Kuu, whose ears drooped, "okay, I don't want him anymore," he dismissed. "Can I be his friend, instead? I'd like to sit on him and be tall, too."

    To this, his tamer shrugged, "you'll have to ask him when he's not busy." Wow, this was a rather collected conversation between the two of them! Usually, with Kuu, there was some screaming involved! Not from Maia, of course, but from the Digimon just needing to be heard by everything in a ten mile radius. Noise was the best cure for everything, after all! Like sanity or trains of thought! Who needed those? Out the window they'd go!

    Maia wasn't entirely sure how she felt about the warning that the Arachnemon gave to her device. Putting Kudamon or the random bypasser on some sort of hit list was the last thing that she wanted. Aside from death. That was pretty high on the list of 'do not want' as well. But, then the Ultimate decided to try to get in one last move. Maia started taking a step back, flinching, but could feel the pipe fox race back up her side, leaping off of her shoulder to meet the gap between the spider and his tamer, whirling his holy cartridge around, "Bullet Whirlwind!" he warned, with only a second to respond, before the solid item would bear down onto the Arachnemon's head. Hopefully, this would be enough to at least stop her from reaching the teen!

    After finally catching his breath... wait, WHAT JUST HAPPENED!? He looks away for two seconds and suddenly the Arachnemon had been sliced and diced into pieces after nearly killing Maia. He watched as the pieces exploded into data that then rose into the air before disappearing. After taking a second to pick some dust out of his especially fluffy head fur, Gallatin stood up. "Well... Didn't expect you to kill it... but I guess that works." he said in as much of a calm voice as he could. "So thanks, mysterious stranger."

    At that point, all of the speeding up time and usage of his power suddenly caught up with Gallatin as he felt incredibly woozy. A bright green light engulfed him, blinding everyone around him. When they were able to look back at him, he was once again a regular 16 year old boy, his Digivice in a strange new black pouch clipped onto the right side of his pants like a belt. After taking a second to look at himself, Gallatin realized he was normal again. He turned to face with a wide and happy go lucky grin on his face despite all of the death he had just avoided by pure luck and chance. "Okay, I take back what I said in the forest. Your a pretty cool witch if you can turn Cell-Phones into things this cool." This also happened to be the second time that she had seen him smile since the first time that they had met in the forest.

War let out a soft sigh as the fight was finished, heard the girl talk also. "Glad you're glad." He said before walking back over to Shi, without the heart of combat one might hear that his voice sounded like the combination of two. When he got the mystery stranger and the thanks he just shrugged. "Happy to help." Shi said flatly, he tended not to show emotion but even he cracked a small smile at the joke. "Yup just let me get my fabulous steed and I'll be off." Shi joked figuring that was a joke, should be considering they were just saved by him and War. "Shi." He gave his name soon after, no reason to hide his name, despite the uniqueness wasn't like they were any threat as they were now.

"So who are you two." Shi asked again with zero emotion, he had to work on that a lot. "Shi portals not lead here right?" Shi shrugged at what War said. "Don't know everything about the Digital world War, best to just wait for a explanation" Shi said, despite what he said he didn't seem like he'd hold them to anything, he just wanted to know what was going on right now.

    To the counter-joking, Maia found herself actually smiling for one of the few times throughout this overall lame day. Hearing Gallatin introduce her, she crossed her arms again, with Kudamon deciding that crossed arms looked like a better place to sit than a shoulder at the moment. "Yeah, I'm Maia," she nodded, "but, ah, Gallatin? I wasn't actually the one that fell on you," she admitted, figuring there was no point in maintaining that bluff.

    "I fell on you! With my tree branch!" Kuu cheered, seeming far too pleased about that. Ah.. hah... Hopefully that wouldn't change anything about there not being some sort of lawsuit.

    While the question was directed at her, Maia honestly didn't know the answer to that. "Oh, I don't know," was her best answer. "Digimon are weird. Shi may know more than I do. After all, he's got a..." there was a pause, as she pointed her Digivice at the WarGreymon. Reading the stats that the device displayed, her eyes grew wide for a second. "Wow, yeah, Mega?" Maia hadn't even heard of a Mega digivolution yet! "Yeah, you have to know more about that than I do."

    Was it rude to check another tamer's Digimon on her digivice? Maia wasn't really sure. She probably could have asked, but curiosity had gotten the better of her, it seemed. Oops.