The Big Surprise, Yet another part!
Meanwhile, Takato ran as fast as he could down the street. He HAD to find Rika: She had been the one who had given Guilmon the accursed hand the young boy was holding in his hand. He still couldn't make out the text of it, but he stared at it every now and then, even while still running desperately.
Desperated was the right word; Takato had sent a giant digimon, his digimon no less, to the city, and he didn't know what to do. Rika would probably have an answer, she would have it, no. She HAD to have an answer! "Damn damn damn!" Takato swore, cursing in his mind at his own chicken-legs for not letting him run any faster. He could hear the quakes, the trembling, it was less than half a mile away from where Guilmon was!
Before reaching any breaking point though, Takato thanked the heavens he had reached the Nonaka Residence at last. "Rika, RIKA! RIKA!!" Takato shouted while slamming the door continuously with both of his hands. "Open up!" he demanded before the, almost on cue, the door opened, and Takato flew inside, and down to the floor, crashing on the ground. "Oww ow ow ow ow!" he groaned, holding his face in pain as he sat up.
"Just what are you doing here, goggle-head?" Rika's voice boomed, shattering Takato's embarrassing moment, which made him stand up straight and nearly start begging to her.
"You have to help me!" the boy said in anguish, his eyes nearly ready to start tearing already as he grabbed Rika by her shirt with both hands "Something happened, and Guilmon..."
"Oh my god!" another female's voice yelped suddenly.
"Huh? That came from the living room!" Rika said, pushing Takato off, ignoring his psychotic persona for a moment as she went to check up on the source of the yelp.
"Grandma, are you okay?!" she said hastily as she entered the living, Takato following behind her.
"Oh dear, look at the news!" Rika's grandma said, pointing towards the TV, which showed live footage of a messed up (In both senses) city.
"What the?!" Rika and Takato said in unison, though Rika appeared to be even more shocked than the guy tamer.
"This just in!" the announcer from the news started, "A walking red and white lizard of titanic proportions and size has just rampaged through the city and seemingly has..." she stopped for a moment, feeling awkward at what she had to read next, "... sexually relieved itself... over the first nine blocks of the eastern district." The pale, brown-haired woman reading the announcement nearly fainted at the thought, but her expression was covered by the footage and the pictures taking of a seemingly gargantuan Guilmon sitting on a building and masturbating like a teen with a Play Boy magazine in front of his eyes, of course, the digimon's massive genitalia had been censored... at the best of the team's ability, taking into account the large penis attached to Guilmon was easily a third leg to him.
Takato's eyes nearly flew out of their sockets as he widened them like saucers, "Holy... He wasn't THAT big when I left him!"
"What do you mean THAT big?!" Rika shouted at Takato, blushing hard at what she had to see in the reportage. That... dirty expression...those large muscles... the sensual pose Guilmon was in. Rika bit her lips hard, trying to hold back what she wanted to say, or rather moan, but Takato helped.
"HEY! It's not my fault!" the boy grunted, rising his hands in defense, rising the modifier card as well, "YOU were the one that gave him THIS!" Takato showed the accursed card, gasping as he didn't know what to expect from the altered Rika.
Takato had seen it coming, but not in such an hysteric way: Rika's pupils shrank, she seemed to have skipped a beat, and later, when she came altogether again, she suddenly yelled "You... you slashed twice?!"
"Yeah, I did?" Takato said, using his free hand to scratch his head in wonder.
"You goof!" Rika shouted again, this time she was back to her normal, rant-happy self, "You got curious even after Guilmon told you something bad would happen, huh?!"
"No! Wait, I,"
"Oooh! That does it! This is ALL your fault, Takato!" Rika growled, but Takato yelled suddenly.
"It wasn't MY fault! Guilmon said if I didn't slash two times something terrible would happen!" Takato stuck up in his defense, but Rika huffed and snorted back at him.
"I told him to tell you NOT to slash it two times, but it's YOUR fault for misinterpreting! Give that back, googlehead!" Rika growled again, snatching the Modifier card from Takato's hand.
Takato almost squealed with a loud "Hey!" and promptly asked "What are you going to do with it anyways?!"
"Keep it from dummies like you, for example?" Rika snarled, and hmph'd to Takato. But the situation didn't look nice anymore, even if for a second she thought she had done something good by getting pissed at Takato. Both returned their view to the TV as another news' flash came in.
"We're connected to the District's Military Guard at the moment. The Chief in charge has accepted an interview where he'll explain the details of the measures that will be taken against the giant dinosaur in the city..."
"WHAT?!" Takato nearly choked with his own saliva as he shouted in despair "The military?! This has to be a joke!"
"This doesn't look good," Rika added, disappointed, but better collected now. "If they launch an attack on him while he's in that state, we don't know how Guilmon will react. Just what were you thinking when you left him alone instead of trying to bring him here?!" Rika yelled to Takato again.
"I was scared, you know! This isn't like when he digivolved to Growlmon! He became HUGE! And I mean GIGANTIC! In front of me and... uhh... that thing... too!"
"What thing?" Rika asked. Takato was making odd hand movements to describe what he wanted to say, upon seeing him mimicking a cylinder, it became crystal clear, and Rika's face, a crimson red. "Well we have to do something about it! If he didn't listen to you because he was so big, then we need to catch his attention someway!"
"Rika..." Renamon's voice said, and all of a sudden her body materialized next to her tamer.
"Oh, Renamon! Did you hear it all?" Rika said, she was sure she had ordered Renamon to take a rest, so it was a bit weird to suddenly have her there and with no sign of being tired, regardless of her 'break' to have been given to her only 10 minutes earlier; then again, Renamon was always a steady fighter and a fierce warrior, you'd rarely see her slacking off at anything.
"I'm ashamed to say even I would fail if I tried to get his attention, seeing as Guilmon apparently is mentally deluded" Renamon bowed her head down, closing her eyes in self-disappointment.
"It's not your fault" Rika patted Renamon's shoulder a bit, looking at Takato with a glare. Takato gave her the look of 'Why so mad at me?!' and sighed in defeat as well. "But more importantly, I never expected these were the terrible thing that would happen if the Card's rule was violated." Rika continued, putting emphasis in 'these' while speaking.
Takato raised an eyebrow, "You didn't know? Just where did you get that card? And why is it making Guilmon grow so much out of control?"
"Well... I got it from a mysterious card dealer. He gave me a cheap deal" Rika explained, "He said this Card is like the Giant Card,"
"Wait, the Giant Card only doubles the digimon's size!" Takato interrupted, but Rika continued, regardless.
"And that it would be a Power Boost at the same time. But it manages the digimon's data in a different way, which is why they told me not to slash it more than once in a row..."
"So you haven't used it on Renamon yet?" Takato asked, cocking his head sideways. Rika shrugged.
"I'm a Card collector, but I'm not an insensible Tamer. I wouldn't risk my digimon just because a fancy card effect. But yes, I used it once. It did duplicate Renamon's height, and it did power her up over normal. What I haven't done is try the second slash..."
"Wait! Rika! That's it!" Takato said, his eyes sparkling, "Why don't you make Renamon a giant so she can take Guilmon back before he gets hurt? Or... well... before he hurts somebody!"
"Are you nuts?!" Rika gasped, "I'm not going to,"
"Rika..." Renamon interrupted, "There is no other choice." The vixen sighed a bit, "I would like to avoid this as much as you, but there is a good chance that Guilmon's state will hardly be of any benefit to his current behavior if he's attacked. Takato's right, there's no time to lose."
Takato blinked a bit, going over what the furry digimon had said "I'm right? Wow that's a first!" he grinned a bit, and nodded to Rika. "I'm sure they'll revert back to normal if we make them discard the extra energy, right?" he smiled, "It'll be a great opportunity to take while they are calm and alone... and not being targeted by missiles and related stuff!"
"Yeah I guess but..." Rika looked down for a bit, then back at Renamon, "This isn't digivolution, we don't know how big the timer for the modifier is and I doubt we can keep two giant digimon in hiding for long..."
Renamon stayed silent for a second, but sighed and stood up "I don't want to stay here and do nothing. If this becomes a worse mess than it already is, then it will be harder to try this in the future. Our best bet is now, Rika. I'm willing to do it to protect Guilmon, and everyone!" she said, her sense of duty talking bigger than her common sense at the moment, obviously.
Rika however, was in a big heated up debate inside her head, her eyes fixed onto the modifier card. This was a big decision... she couldn't afford to make a mistake in here!
So... what will Rika do? Carry out the Plan A or try to think up Plan B, hm? What do YOU want to happen? ;D