Episode Seven - Rescued By the Rat

Episode Seven - Rescued By the Rat

Crystal: Damien's machine was causing real problems, but Solomon's Crest somehow made it work. The three of us made it back home. Damien talked with Piedmon some more while Solomon reminded me about how many memories our old house had. Back in the Digi-world, we met up with those nosy Digidestined, and would have defeated them, but Damien chickened out. Luckily, Cupidmon's fortress is up and running. Those digidestined better not try to escape!!

Scene: A forest and a desert. Camera shot from the forest onto the desert. We see six heads getting closer. It's Izzy, Allison, Topomon, Okomon, Maria, and Joe)

Allison: All right! We made it!

Topomon: I don’t think I could have gone any further!

Izzy: Hm…this forest is pretty thick. It could take hours just to find Cupidmon’s fortress.

Joe: (sweatdrop, squiggly-crying) Why does this always happen?!

Allison: Aw, come on, Joe, it’s not THAT bad.

Maria: Well, I kinda agree with Joe.

Allison: Mm?

Maria: Ever since we got here, it’s been one disadvantage after another. It feels like we’ve barely made any progress today, especially since we had to turn around and go back the way we came once we got to the ocean…

Okomon: Don’t worry, Maria! (Maria looks up) Things will get better, but only if you keep trying! (flies over to the forest and pauses in mid-air)

Maria: What are you doing, Okomon?

Okomon: (closed eyes, concentrating) I think…I should be able to sense where the fortress is.

Maria: (happy) Hey, that’s a great idea! You can use your psychic powers.

Topomon: I’ll help!

Allison: Huh? But you’re not psychic, too…?

Topomon: No, but I can use the radar-sensors in my nose to tell where objects are!

Allison: I’ve always wondered how you were able to see without eyes…

(Topomon hops over next to Okomon, and they sit for a while, silently)

Joe: Well?!

Topomon: (arrogantly) Don’t rush us. (Joe hangs his arms and sweatdrops)

(more silence…then we see a split-screen shot of Okomon and Topomon jolting their eyes open (well, at least Okomon’s eyes open ^_^;)and gasping)

Maria: What is it?

Okomon: Something’s coming!

Topomon: It’s…not very big…

Okomon: (closes eyes, gritting teeth, because it’s hard to concentrate when you know something’s headed toward you) I think…it’s a digimon…

Izzy: Huh?!

(we hear a distant rustle of leaves and branches, and then it gets louder…all are watching the forest, frozen to the spot with their mouths hanging open...and then)

Chuumon: (bursting out of the under-growth) Aaah!!! (latches on to Okomon, and they both go sprawling backwards towards Maria, Allison, Izzy, and Joe)

All: Whoa! /Hey! /What the…!!

(Okomon, with Chuumon holding on, comes to a stop at Maria’s feet)

Okomon: (running around franticly trying to get Chuumon off) GET…OFF…ME!!!!!

Chuumon: AHHHHH!!!!

Maria: HEY! (grabs Okomon and tries to pull off Chuumon…to no avail. Izzy runs over and pulls on Chuumon, and Maria pulls the other way with Okomon. Eventually, they separate the two. Izzy goes flying back and lands on Allison while still clutching onto Chuumon, and Maria and Okomon fall over backwards.)

Allison: (groaning from the pain) Ohhhh…GET OFFA ME, ZUMI!!!

Maria: (blinking) What is…that?

Joe: Are you OK, Maria?

Izzy: (Getting up, putting down Chuumon, and brushing himself off) Chuumon? What are you doing here?

Chuumon: Huh? Who are you?

Izzy: Don’t you recognize me? It’s me, Izzy!

Chuumon: Izzy…? Hm…(sits and thinks for a minute) You’re not short anymore!

(everyone falls over with their feet sticking up in the air)

Joe: Chuumon, would you happen to know about a gigantic evil-looking fortress making a landing in that forest recently?

Chuumon: Hm? (thinking, then jumping into the air) As a matter of fact, yesh!!

Maria: (sweatdrops) That was easy…

Chuumon: Come on, I’ll show ya! (scampers back into the forest)

(group looks at one another, nods, and follows into the brush)

Allison: Ooo, I’m getting stickers in my clothes…

Joe: This would be SO much easier if we had a weed-whacker.

Chuumon: Come on, guys! Just a little further up ahead!

Maria: How much farther is further?!

(we see Chuumon poke his head out of a bush, and he motions behind him to the group)

Chuumon: We’re here!

(group pokes their heads out of the bush, and gape in awe at the huge building before them. There’s a huge moat with no water around the fortress. The forest completely surrounds the fortress, and the walls are extremely high. The bush that they’re in is right at the edge of the moat)

Allison: Tha…tha….thaa…

Maria: It’s huge!!

Izzy: It could take forever to find where they’re keeping Tai and the others!

Chuumon: Hm? They’re in there?

Joe: Yeah. Cupidmon came and kidnapped them a while ago. We think they’re in that fortress.

Maria: But a place that huge is bound to have millions of rooms and passages. If we don’t find them, we’d at least get lost in that process…

Chuumon: AAHH!!! ARE YOU SAYING THAT MIMI IS BEING HELD CAPTIVE?!

Izzy: (sweatdrop) Uh, yeah.

Chuumon: In that case, I’ll help you guys out!

Allison: Thanks for the offer, but I don’t think there’s anything you can do.

Chuumon: But I have to save Mimi!!!!

Allison: Since when is Mimi so important to you?

Joe: When Izzy and Mimi first met up with Chuumon, he got a real crush on Mimi.

Maria: Just Izzy and Mimi?

Izzy: Yeah. We are all a little spread out at the time. I found these old ruins on the island I was on and went inside, and Mimi got lost inside them. It took a while to get her out…Hey!!

Allison: Huh? What?

Izzy: (taking out laptop) I think I know a way to get everyone out of there.

Allison: Really?

Izzy: (setting up laptop, plugging in his heed-set) Mm-hm. Chuumon, I need you to do something for me.

Chuumon: (saluting) Anything to help Mimi out!

Izzy: (plugging a long extension cord into his laptop, and handing the other end to Chuumon) I need you to plug this into a electrical socket in the fortress.

Allison: (big head screaming) WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THERE’S GONNA BE A SOCKET TO PLUG IT INTO?!

Izzy: (looking at her) Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. (she shuts up)

Chuumon: (grabs cord, and takes off) I’ll save you Mimi…!!!!!!

Joe: So, what’s the plan?

Izzy: When Mimi got lost in the ruins five years ago, I was able to use my laptop and her digivice to communicate with her.

Maria: So, what’s with the extension cord for?

Izzy: It’s be pretty redundant if I could talk to her but couldn’t give her directions on how to get out. I should be able to get a map of that place once Chuumon plugs in the cord.

Maria: Whoa! That’s pretty smart for a Freshman!

(Allison and Izzy blow mushrooms)

(we switch to Chuumon, who is about halfway through the big moat. He begins to scurry up the side of the moat toward the fortress. He then reaches it, stops to catch his breath, and gets up. He looks up to see the fortress’s entrance before him)

Chuumon: (small sweatdrop) Egad…who lives here, a giant?

(he then runs up to the door, cord in hand, and pushes it open)

Chuumon: Huh! They forgot to lock the front door! Whoa…(looking inside at the huge entry-way)

(switch back to Izzy, Joe, Maria, and Allison)

Allison: WHAT is taking that little rodent so long?!

Izzy: Ah! (his screen beeps, and a map of the entire fortress pops up) Prodigious!!

Maria: Now we just have to try and contact Mimi!

(switch back to Chuumon, who just finished up plugging the cord into a wall)

Chuumon: (dusting off his hands) That’s done with…(turns around, and looks at the many hallways leading into darkness) I wonder where they’re keeping Mimi prisoner? (hears talking out of the hallway to his left) Huh?!

(we can hear distant talking; it’s Mimi voice; “…honestly, if I ever get out of this awful place, I’ll give those Dark Triad-numb-skulls a piece of my mind…!!!!)

Chuumon: AAAH! MIMI!!!! (runs into the hallway, and we can hear Mimi’s voice getting closer…he then reaches the other end. It’s a room with the electric cell holding the other six digidestined!)

Sora: Come on, Mimi, you know we all feel that way.

TK: It’s not like we ENJOY being captured and locked up in a electric floating ball…

Chuumon: MIMI!!!! (he begins to run at them)

Mimi: Huh? (turns and looks at him) Chuumon?!

Chuumon: Mimi, I’ve come to res- (<BANG>he’s stopped by the electrical bars around the digidestined; he falls on the floor, massaging his head) Oooh…

Mimi: Chuumon! I’m so glad you’re here!

Tai: (sweatdropping) Sure. Ecstatic.

Chuumon: (giggling with delight) She’s glad I’m here! She’s glad I’m here! She-(interrupted; there are Gizamon-guards coming) Uh-oh…

(two Gizamon enter the room)

Gizamon one: Halt!!

Gizamon two: What do you think you’re doing here?!

Chuumon: (dancing white anime spots) Uuuh……

Mimi: He’s come to rescue us! Right Chuumon?

Chuumon: Dah…! Um…(looks at Mimi, who is staring determinedly at him) Right!!! (turns and faces the Gizamon)

Gizamon two: You’ll pay for such insolence! Frog kick! (runs and jumps at Chuumon)

Chuumon: Cheese bomb!! (the attack hits Gizamon in mid-air)

Gizamon two: Ahh! (lands on the floor, and runs out of the room. The other Gizamon is petrified)

Matt: The little guy really had it in him!

Chuumon: Gimme the keys!

Gizamon: (hesitates, then flings the keys at him and runs away whimpering)

Chuumon: (catches the keys in one hand, and poses) Hm!

All: (clapping) You were great! / You showed them! / Cheese bomb…?

(Chuumon bows again and again)

Tai: (groans) Now could you PLEASE get us out?!

Chuumon: Right-O! (he scampers over to the wall which has a panel with buttons all over it surrounding a keyhole. He inserts the key and turns it. The cell flickers on and off, and then vanishes. The digidestined fall in a heep on the floor)

Kari: OW!!

Matt: My SPINE!!

Mimi: We’re FREE!!!!

Chuumon: (rushes to Mimi’s side) Now, what do I get?!

Mimi: (sweatdrops) Er…thank…you…?

Chuumon: (puckering lips)

Matt: (punches Chuumon and Chuumon goes flying) Don’t be a moron! Now let’s get out of here.

Tai: Swell idea, but where are we supposed to go? (points to the opening where the Gizamon came from; it’s closed, and it just looks like a wall)

Sora: Ah!

TK: The passage…it’s gone!

Mimi: (looks stunned…then her eyes well up into tears and she bursts out crying) WWHY-Y-YYY DOES THIS ALWA-A-AYS HA-A-APPEN?!

Izzy: (through mimi’s digivice) Calm down! Your crying more than my mom when she watches “It’s A Wonderful Life”.

Mimi: (immediately stops crying) Huh?

(Commercial Break)

Sora: It’s Izzy!

Kari: …talking out of Mimi’s digivice…?

Izzy: Mimi, I have a map of the fortress. I think I should be able to get you guys out of there.

Tai: Huh…?

Mimi: (suddenly comprehending Izzy’s plan) Oh!…Right. Tell me what to do.

Izzy: (we see a split-screen of Izzy and Mimi) Just like old times.

Mimi: (nods)

Matt: Are you sure you know what you’re doing?

Izzy: Relax, it’s me! When have I ever let you down? Now, Mimi, the door to the room you’re in is sealed, right?

Kari: How’d he know that?

Mimi: He’s got a digital map, remember? OK. Izzy, where do we go?

Izzy: Look below the…something on the wall. The map doesn’t show what it is.

Mimi: Is this it? (moving towards the keyhole, which still has the key in it)

Izzy: (looking at the screen. The white dot that represents Mimi is moving toward a white space on one of the walls) Yeah, that’s it! Find some way to open it up.

Mimi: (small sweatdrop) Er…(turns to group) Any ideas?

Matt: Lemme try. (looks at the buttons surrounding the key) Maybe we’re supposed to press them in a certain order.

TK: Huh. Let’s see…

Matt: I dunno, TK, it could take hours to figure this one out…(TK starts pushing buttons, each one lights up after it’s pushed)…You have to leave a job like this to the older gu-(The panel lights up, and slides to the side, revealing a dark passage about five feet high and five feet wide) Er…

(all sweatdrop)

TK: (smirking at Matt) Hours, huh?

Matt: (mad anime criss-crosses sprouting all over his head) Well?! What are we waiting for?!

Izzy: Is it open?

Mimi: Yeah. Should we go through it?

Izzy: Uh-huh. It should lead straight to the outside.

Mimi: OK, everybody, let’s head out. I’ll go first. (She climbs into the passage) It’s pretty level. I can’t see very well, though.

TK: You go ahead, Kari.

(eventually all six of them are crawling inside this passage on all fours)

Tai: I hope this isn’t TOO long…

Sora: We should be OK. After all, we are taking instructions from a genius like Izzy, right?

Mimi: That’s riiiIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!(Apperently, the tunnel does NOT stay level. Mimi begins to slide down a much more windy passage at high speed. Everyone else stares into the darkness where she disappeared)

Kari: (hesitates, then clenches her eyes shut) Oh, what the heck?! (she jumps down the passage, sliding after Mimi)

Tai: Kari!!! (also jumps into the darkness. Eventually, everyone is sliding along this really dark roller-coaster, Mimi screaming her head off at the front)

Izzy: (looking at his screen. The six dots are moving a lot faster than before) Hey! Something’s wrong!

Maria: What is it?

Izzy: (closing up laptop and packing up quickly) Come on, you guys. They need our help! (with his laptop-pack, he slides down the side of the moat, while everyone else stares after him in stupidity. He reaches the bottom, the middle of the moat, and looks back up at everyone.) What? Let’s get a move on!

Joe: Uh, my mom never encouraged sliding down the sides of moats, especially during hay fever season…

Allison: (pushing him off the side) Oh, please…(he remarkably slides down on his feet, while flailing his arms. He reaches the bottom)

Joe: (shouting back up at Allison) Don’t…DO THAT!

Allison: (put hand behind head and nervously laughs while sweatdropping. Maria gives her a disapproving look) Hey, come on, like he’d go down any other way.

Maria: (sweatdrop) I guess you’re right.

Okomon: Come on, let’s go for it!

(They both slide down the side of the moat, and arrive at the bottom)

Izzy: We haven’t got much time. Let’s go! (he takes off, and the other three follow him)

Allison: (while panting; Izzy’s running fast) What kind of…trouble are…they in…?

Izzy: Don’t know. They were moving much faster than normal on the screen, I think they may be falling down a long tube of some sort.

Maria: Ah!

Izzy: We need to give them a safe stop.

(they run a little farther, and then make a stop at nearly the other side of the fortress from where they were. Izzy looks up at the fortress. There’s a five feet by five feet hole in the wall)

Topomon: They’re gonna come out of that hole?

Maria: (Izzy begins to set up his laptop again) It must be twenty feet up!

Izzy: (adjusting headset) Mimi? Are you there?

Mimi: (her hair flying back, she’s in a big panic) AAAAH, huh? Izzy?

Izzy: Hurry and tell me what’s going on! Why did you start going so fast?

Mimi: The tunnel just goes down! It’s like a roller-coaster!

Izzy: Hm. Mimi, how big is the tunnel?

Mimi: Uh…maybe five feet high and five feet wide?

Izzy: Huh, this must be the tunnel there in…OK, we should be able to catch you guys.

Mimi: You mean this tunnel just ENDS?

(switch to outside)

Maria: How are we going to catch them? There’s six of them and only four of us!

Okomon and Topomon: Hey, what about us?

(digivolution sequence: “Okomon…divivolve to…! Conegamon!”….”Topomon…digivolve to…! Terremotomon”)

Allison: You did it!

Maria: I thought you were too tired!

Conegamon: Anything for the sake of the digidestined!

Terremotomon: Let’s move it!

Joe: (looks at the tunnel; he can hear sounds coming from it) Hey! I think they’re almost here!

Izzy: Move into position!

(start-up “Going Digital”)

Terremotomon: Rolling Spikes!! (she rolls into a ball with only her thorny back showing, and rushes up the side of the moat away from the fortress. She them cuts down about ten trees, and runs back down the moat, and places the bushy leaves in a big heap for a cushion)

Conegamon: (flies up to about ten feet from the tunnel-hole) I’m ready!

(Mimi comes flying out<WAAH!!>, and Conegamon catches her. While she sets her down, Kari comes flying out, landing on the heap of leaves. Conegamon flies back up and catches Tai, and Sora lands on the heap of leaves. Finally, Conegamon catches Matt, and sets him down. TK lands on the pile of leaves)

TK: Ow…does anyone have any Neosporin…? (Joe pops his head in: “Right here!”)

Sora: We made it!

Kari: All right!!

(Commercial Break)

Tai: Thanks, Izzy!

Izzy: Hey, I couldn’t have done it without Mimi.

Mimi: (giving him a noogie) You better believe it!

Matt: (stretching his arms) That was some ride…(sees Allison blushing and gaping at him) Oh. Hi Allison.

Allison: (starts, and then faints)

Maria: Allison, quit napping! We gotta get out of here before they realize they’re missing six prisoners!

Kari: Yeah…Hey, where’s Chuumon?

Mimi: Uh-oh…I think we left him in the prison room…

(suddenly, we can hear echoed screaming from inside the tunnel-hole. They all look up at the hole, and Chuumon comes flying out)

Chuumon: (missing the pile of leaves and landing in the dirt) Oooh…

Izzy: Well, that answers your question…

Chuumon: (jumping up) I’m OK!

(go forward about five minutes; switch to the desert outside the forest. Conegamon is finishing up putting down the digidestined she just transported from the moat.)

Matt: (shielding eyes and scanning the desert) Ugh. How are we supposed to cross THAT?

Maria: It took us almost two days.

Sora: Well, if we’re going to make any progress, we better start now so we can get back to File Island.

Kari: (nods)

Chuumon: Well, in that case, (wearing a cowboy cape and holding a guitar) Looks like it’s time for me to say adios…

Tai: Huh? Ok, thank for all your help!

Chuumon: Don’t mention it. (disappears into the forest)

Allison: (turning back to the vast desert, and sweatdropping) Oy, I’m NOT looking forward to crossing this thing again.

Tai: We might as well stop here for now and stay the night. What do you think?

Mimi: Couldn’t argue with that.

(nighttime. All the digidestined except for Kari are asleep on the sand.)

Kari: (looks at watch) Just a couple more minutes and then it’s Tai’s turn for night watch. (stares up into the starry sky) Hm. I wish the sky was like this back home in Japan. There’s way too much pollution, though. Huh? (she sees something flying toward them, about thirty feet high in the air. It’s Cupidmon, carrying a packed-tight cage of tired in-training digimon) Hey!

[she gets up and runs toward the flying object. Inside the cage, Nyaromon(Gatomon’s in-training stage) wakes up]

Nyaromon: (yawns) Tokomon, quit poking me! Uh? (sees Kari running towards them) Kari!

Kari: Please stop! Those are ours!!

Nyaromon: Kari!

(digivolution process: “Nyaromon…digivolve…to…Salamon!!”)

Kari: Huh? Salamon!

Salamon: Kari!

Kari: Salamon, I’m coming!

Cupidmon: (finally notices the screaming girl) Eh? The digidestined? Well, no time to destroy then now. (bangs cage) Quiet, Salamon!

(he passes over Kari, and starts over the forest)

Kari: (running after the flying Digimon and cage) Come back!!

Salamon: Kari…!! (they disappear. Kari stands there silent. TK runs up to her.)

TK: What’s wrong? (looks where she is staring, but Cupidmon has vanished from sight)

Kari: Cupidmon. He had our digimon.

TK: What?

Kari: We’ve got to go back to the fortress. (freeze-shot of her determined face)

(switch to a dim, bare room with a large computer console and a doorway (no door) on the far wall. Shot is from behind and above the computer. We can see Damien hunched over the computer. He is tyoing, and the blue computer screen is the only thing lighting his face and the room. Crystal walks past outside, then comes back and stcks her head in.)

Crystal: What are you doing?

Damien: (looking up slightly and narrowing eyes) Go away.

Crystal: Come on! You’ve got us doing guard duty while you sit in here and mess around on the computer.

Damien: (sighing) I’m monitoring Cupidmon’s transfer of the eight digimon that beloing to the Digidestined.

Crystal: What’s wrong with File Island?

Damien: It is a very bad idea to keep prisoners in one non-fortified place for long, Crystal.

Crystal: (sweatdrop) Oh.

(A beep sounds on the computer and the ambient light from the screen turns from blue to red. Damien’s eyes widen in surprise, then return to normal as he grins. The shot changes to show the screen, which shows square portraits of the 8 in-trianings on a red background. The Nyaromon pic flashes white and turns into a pic of Salamon. Return to the previous camera angle.)

Damien: (excited) You know what this means?

Crystal: Um…no? But I have a feeling you’re going to tell me.

Damien: One of the in-training digimon has digivolved. As my studies have told me, this only happens when the digimon’s owner is nearby. Therefore…

Crystal:…The kids are all there near Cupidmon!

DamienL Exactly! I suggest you get on the phone and tell Cupidmon to keep his eye on them. As soon as he secures the digimon, order him to attack.

<threatening, evil music>

(Announcer: What is to become of Salamon and the other Digimon? Can Kari and the others save them before it’s too late? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!)