"Would you stop staring at me?" DemiDevimon angrily grumbled while he was sitting in one corner of the kitchen, still tied up. "And take this thing off, my wings are getting numb."
"So you can take off and cause more mischief?" Shibumi chuckled. "I don't think so." He was currently sitting at the Wong's dining table and ate some cereal.
It was early in the morning. He didn't know it, but over the past few hours, the children of his best friend had met Romi and the rest of her team, had gone down a trash can shaft, had solved a block puzzle, had talked to the rebels and had begun to fight a large number of fire Digimon deep below the city.
Janyu and Mayumi were worried about their children, of course. Mayumi had told the two men several times that she would follow her kids, and Janyu had almost given in, but then Shibumi reminded them that he and Janyu would probably not be able to defend themselves if a squad of Lucemon's goons appeared. Also, someone had to watch DemiDevimon.
Right now, Mayumi tried to distract herself by helping her husband, as he went through the papers their old friend and colleague 'Dolphin' had left behind, among them the blueprints for several of his brilliant inventions, such as the MCT.
'Too bad I didn't get the chance to take a look at that thing while it was here,' Shibumi thought to himself. I'd loved to take a look at Dolphin's work... too bad the old boy went kooky in the head after his wife's death. Poor Dolphin... the only one who was left for him was little Alice... it's a shame that he had to turn a little girl into a Digimon soldier, though...'
He took another spoon of his cereal, while Demi continued to give him angry looks.
"Shibumi, would you take a look at this?" came the excited voice of Janyu from the living room. "I think I found something that might be useful for the kids."
"Coming!" Shibumi shouted, wiping some milk out of his beard. He sternly looked down at DemiDevimon before leaving the room. "You stay where you are, got it?"
Demi grimaced. "As if I would go somewhere like this..." he grumbled.
Shibumi just frowned and left the room. As soon as he had left, DemiDevimon turned around, pushed his clawed feet against the fridge he had been leaning against, and pushed himself backwards, across the smooth floor (Mayumi had mopped the floor just two days ago). He kept on sliding, until his round body hit the cupboard. He looked upwards... a single cutting knife was lying up there. It had been used to make dinner the previous evening, and nobody had put it into the dishwasher.
Demi grimaced. "If only I could move my wings and fly up there..." he muttered.
Still, it had been a mistake to keep his feet unbound. True, he wasn't exactly fast when walking on the ground, and Mayumi would have captured him in no time if he had tried to escape like this... but he also could use his feet for other tasks than running.
DemiDevimon was a formidable climber. Using his claws, he held onto the knobs of the cupboard's drawers and slowly made his way upwards, making sure to make no loud noise.
When he had reached the top, he listened if his jailer was already coming back.
"See, Shibumi?" Janyu just told his friend. "According to these instructions, most of Dolphin's gadgets are protected by a special password function... if someone who used one of the devices had thought of putting in a password, the devices won't be usable again unless the user knows the right password."
"Doesn't sound too bad," Shibumi replied. "And knowing your smart daughter, I'm pretty sure they already found out about that system. Meaning, if Lucemon or someone else found them, they won't be able to use them."
"Dolphin always thought of everything..." Janyu sighed.
DemiDevimon had heard enough. Those humans would continue to jabber for hours, it seemed. He had more than enough time to escape.
He quickly grabbed the knife with his right foot and began cutting through the rope. He almost slipped once or twice and began sweating, but he managed to keep a hold on the knife, until his work was finally done and his wings were free again.
"Finally..." he murmured. "Now, to get out of this human hole..."
He flapped his wings a few times, since they still felt numb from being tied up for so long. After his circulation was running again, he hopped onto the table (nearly throwing Shibumi's cereal off the table) and spread his wings, ready to fly off.
He grinned. "Those foolish humans will never catch me... whatever happened out there, I'm not stupid enough to stay around. I'm gonna fly out of here, out of Japan, if I must!"
He jumped up into the air, flapped his wings and soared out of the window... but then, a pair of strong hands caught his feet from behind and pulled him back inside.
"Going somewhere?" Shibumi frowned as he glared at the devil Rookie, who was dangling from his hands like a bat.
"Release me, human!" DemiDevimon spat. "I command you to..."
But before he could use his hypnosis again, Shibumi quickly tied a dish cloth around his eyes. "Sorry, not this time," he grinned. "Now will you be a nice Digimon?"
"I'll kill you!" DemiDevimon screeched and wildly flapped around with his wings. "Demi Da..."
But before he could use his attack, a bursting noise coming from the entrance door made them both wince.
"Enemies of the Lady Lucemon, you are under arrest!" a loud, female voice shouted.
Shibumi then heard the growl of Sheperdmon. He quickly closed the kitchen door. "You'll never get us alive, you devils!" Mayumi barked.
"Bad puppy!" the female attacker chuckled. "But I just have the thing for you... a nice song to calm you down!"
And when she began singing, Shibumi paled. He quickly wrapped the dish cloth around DemiDevimon's ears and put some oven mitts over his own ears. They still could hear the voice, but it wasn't loud enough to affect them.
"Stay calm!" he whispered. "Or do you want to be brainwashed?"
DemiDevimon shook his head hastily. For once in his life, he agreed with a human.
When the song was over, the Succubimon behind the door chuckled. "There, this should be enough to keep those two out of trouble."
"You said there was another human in the apartment," the male voice of an Azraelmon spoke up. "You think he's hiding somewhere?"
"Well, not for long..." the Succubimon growled.
Shibumi gulped when he heard footsteps approaching the kitchen door. Grabbing DemiDevimon like a basketball, he opened a door underneath the kitchen sink and actually managed to squeeze his whole body in there, together with DemiDevimon. He then closed the door, just before the Succubimon entered the kitchen.
She looked around. "Hmmm... there's no one here!"
"Hey, Manami, look at those ropes and that knife," her Azraelmon partner said. "You said they had a prisoner, right? Maybe he used that knife to escape."
"Well, then we know where the other human is," Manami said. "He's probably trying to recapture him. I'm telling the others to keep looking for them. You go and report to the boss!"
"And the kids?"
"What about them? There are a huge amount of kids in Tokyo right now that know how to take care of themselves. They are just waiting for their guardian or parents to return, that's all."
"Well, okay... see you later, then."
Shibumi heard how both devil Digimon left the kitchen. He waited some more time, to make sure they were really gone.
"Can we get out now?" DemiDevimon hissed. "You're sitting on my feet!"
"Ssshhhh!" Shibumi hissed. "They might still be in the apartment... I'm hearing something!"
Once again, footsteps were heard on the other side of the door. Someone had entered the kitchen. Shibumi sweated. He hoped that they didn't get the idea to look in here...
He was startled when the door was suddenly opened from outside... and a child-sized Rookie Digimon with a cute dog face smiled at him.
"Gotcha, Uncle Shibumi!" the little dog-girl grinned. "You're really not good at hide'n seek!"
Shibumi blinked. "Mayumi?"
"Mayumi!" a voice behind her whined. "No fair! You said you were gonna call me when you found them!"
Shibumi stared at the slightly pudgy boy with the glasses, who was even smaller than the young Rookie. "J-janyu?" he gasped.
"Would you finally get off my feet, you ass?" DemiDevimon yelled.
Mayumi giggled and pointed a furry finger at the other Rookie. "Tee hee, Demi has a potty mouth! Mommy and Auntie Turuiemon are gonna wash out your mouth with soap when they come back home!"
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