A bad place to land

[Inori]

"If it's all the same to you..." Mel started, deftly freeing herself from the boy's grip. "I fight my own battles, thank you! Though I appreciate the help."

Pinamon fluffed up a bit as she clung to Mel's hair. "Lots of help! Look!"

Pinamon launched herself from atop the girl's head fluttering haphazardly towards the nearest Hagurumon, fully intending to zap it once she got close enough.

"H-hey!" Melanie yelled, lunging after the small bird in what felt like slow motion. The bird landed on the Hagurumon and shocked it...but wound up being flung away shortly thereafter. Pinamon was thankfully a rather small and bouncy creature...smacking into a wall and bouncing a little before coming to a stop. The small bird staggered around in a dazed fashion.

Before the Hagurumon could go for a counter attack, Melanie had shoved (or more of punched) it aside and rushed over to scoop up her new friend.

"On second thought...probably should get you somewhere safe before you get yourself into more trouble!" She noted aloud, staring at Pinamon. Said digimon giggled.

"The room is spinning in circles!" Was all the response she got.

[jrtherabbit]

Jei blinked awkwardly as the girl pulled away from him "Uhhh...I know you like to do that but I don't exactly think this is a battle we can win by ourselves alone!" he said to her before he watched Pinamon get smacked away by the Hagurumon.

MagnaAngemon continued on fighting off the Hagurumon with ease although when he noticed that Pinamon was smacked away he would lose concentration for the briefest of moments which allowed for one of the Hagurumon to take a cheap shot at him.

Jei noticed this and was going to ask if he was alright but that wasn't the most appropriate thing to do at the moment, he needed to get out of there just like the holy digimon had asked of them. "You see what I mean...Now let's go!" he once again grabbed her hand and tried to run off to safety with her.

[Inori]

"That had nothing to do with anything! A good fighter knows not to loose focus." Mel snapped in mild irritation. "Here, why don't you take Pinamon here and go hide."

"Nooooo! I don't want to do that! I won't go without you!" Pinamon squawked, clearly not intending to back down on this. The girl sighed.

"Fine. Let's go. I know when to back down." The look on her face clearly indicated her dislike for the situation at hand.

[jrtherabbit]

"About time!" Jei said with a sigh as he continued on his sprint to get them out of there hopefully this time without anymore interruptions.

Once they had got a bit away from the holy digimon's fight Jei would stop and look around. "Uhhh...that looks like a good spot..." he said as he ran over to a large pipe and moved into the dark space that was behind it "Hey...come over here...None of those weird things will be able to spot us here...We can wait here for that angel guy to come" He said to her as he waved his arm from behind the pipe.

Meanwhile, MagnaAngemon would end the battle with a mighty swing of his Excalibur ridding himself of the pesky Hagurumon. "I hope those children found a good place to hide in...I must get them out of this corrupted factory..." He thought to himself as he looked around to check for any more Hagurumon before he flew off in the direction the two had ran off in.

[Inori]

Mel scowled briefly at Jei. "At least I was trying to do something."

"Me too!" Pinamon pipped up in a cheerful sort of way.

"Yes, you too." Mel's expression softened for a moment before she carefully placed Pinamon next to the pipe Jei was hiding behind. "But you should stay here with him for a bit."

Standing straight, the girl turned her back to the two facing the direction they had just come from. "If that angel guy is as good as he seems we shouldn't have to worry about anything. Besides, I don't like hiding."

[Dante]

As MagnaAngemon headed in the direction of the other children, a heavy metal door spontaneously appeared in his way, having been rapidly closed a mere second before. Shortly thereafter, a voice came through over some sort of loudspeaker.

"There, ah say, there ya are, son. Had me lookin' all over this here place. Don't ya know it ain't ni-, ah say, it ain't nice to keep a man waitin'?"

A pause, as if the voice was considering something.

"That there location don't have the same number o' workers it should. Have you, ah say, have you seen those lazy Hagurumon annehwhere? They ain't doin' theah jobs."

[jrtherabbit]

(Nice accent lol)

Jei sighed lightly "Well sometimes you can do something and sometimes you can't..." he said as he looked at Mel and then down to Pinamon before he got up, picking up Pinamon with him as he walked back over to Mel.

"Alright then...Let's go back and see him" Jei said as he handed Pinamon back to her.

Meanwhile, MagnaAngemon would stop as that large metal door appeared infront of him which made him grunt under his breath. He wouldn't say anything to the first thing the voice had said as he preferred to keep his silence although after he would speak "I disposed of them...It is a shame that I had to do so..."MagnaAngemon said before he charged at the door, he really wasn't in the mood for any shenanigans as he slashed at the door diagonally, attempting to slice it in half.

[Inori]

Pinamon looked awfully unhappy to have someone else holding her. It took all her limited and nearly nonexistent willpower to resist biting Jei.

Mel scowled again at Jei, but only briefly as she put Pinamon back on her head.
"Make up your mind already...either you prefer to hide or you don't." She grumbled to herself before starting to walk back in the direction they had just come.

[Dante]

The door parted like wet paper beneath the force of the angel's blade, falling away like so much scrap metal.

"Now that's, ah say, that's just rude."

From the shadows above came a vicious thunderbolt.

"I was, ah say, I was talkin', son. Don't interrupt."

A pause, and another steel door.

"Now, as ah was sayin', what'd ya go and destroy mah workers for? You probably went and panicked 'em, too. Now that's, ah say, that's just intolerable."

A steel wall rose from the floor across the room and sprouted spikes.

"Yo-ah holdin' up production, boy,"

The wall began moving towards the temporarily trapped angel.

"If there's, ah say, if there's one thing ah cannot abide, it's an interruption in productivity."

[jrtherabbit]

Jei would scowl at the girl "Mel...we got to be realistic here...we can't just show up in some strange computer world and start beating up whatever is in it...especially if it's some crazy cog things...you don't know what they could do to us..." he said with a worried expression as he walked along with her

Meanwhile, MagnaAngemon would look up as he heard the loud cackle of a thunderbolt which came zigzagging down right at him, although with quick timing he would hold his shield up, causing the bolt to hit it and with a powerful swing of his arm he would redirect the bolt into one of the surrounding walls, this was also known as Shield and Counter. "I disposed of them because they had lost their way...Any digimon who has strayed from the light deserves to be turned back into a digiegg..." he said to Peacockmon, disregarding that last attack completely.

He would refrain as much as he could from speaking about the Chosen he had saved earlier as it would be bad news for Peacockmon to get his hands on them, that is if he didn't already know about them. "As for you...It's going to take a lot more than these foolish obstacles to stop me" he told him as he looked towards the spiked wall once more before turning to the door that formed.

He would charge at it, and with excalibur held high he would slash through it two times, before attempting to bust through it.

[Inori]

"I am being realistic. I'm sticking with what I know how to do." Mel replied quickly in an oddly cheerful sort of way.

"I'll protect you!" Pinamon squeaked in an equally cheerful way.

"I don't doubt this!" The girl laughed. "But I can protect myself pretty well!"

"Melanies are great fighters!" Pinamon noted in agreement, causing the girl to shake her head and smile.

"Some yes."

[Dante]

The door MagnaAngemon slashed through fell down just as easily as the last one, revealing a corridor beyond. The spiked wall continued approaching, picking up speed now.

"Well, then," Peacockmon said, "Let's see, ah say, let's see haoh you handle the runnin' section. Better hurreh up, though, because you don't, ah say, you don't wanna know what'll happen if you ain't fast enough..."

He paused a bit, letting silence reign.

"Ah have a question feh you. Would you, ah say, would you happen to know what kinda creatuh is shaped like you, has no ahmuh, no weapons, and might be seen with a Pinamon on its head? Ah have two of 'em in mah factory..."

With that, Peacockmon clicked off the microphone to the section MagnaAngemon was in. He didn't want the angel to hear what he was about to say. He'd just heard the door open behind him.

"Can ah, ah say, can ah help you, Demidevimon? Didn't yoah employah just stop bah not long ago? Ah'll tell you the same things ah told him."

[shivdeeviant]

Demidevimon flew in, his winning smile wasted on the back of Peacockmon's chair as it turned into a grimace. Peacockmon's knowledge of what happened in his factory was unparalleled, his cameras missed nothing. In front of the champion was a wall of monitors and an array of controls. A push here would alter the speed of the processing conveyors, a touch there would put an entire section into lockdown. The security systems of the factory were top of the line even if they were a little eccentric. Productivity reports displayed the efficiency of each team of workers in real time as they toiled away at their tasks. Demidevimon flew over and perched himself on the edge of the control board, careful not to push anything sensitive.

"And greetings to you as well, Peacockmon." Said Demidevimon as politely as he could. Deference and civility could lower many barriers and allow domain over unguarded minds, his Master had told him. "You're omniscience over your domain is as implacable as ever. I've come to check on the progress of my Master's order and wish to tell you..."

He stopped as he saw the commotion on the screen, grasping that an angel was in the building wreaking havoc was one thing, but his body froze and his heart skipped a beat when his eyes came to rest on the children. What was this?! Chosen, here?! What had happened in hos Master's domain?! Hadn't his master won?! Wait. Wait. These chosen were unknown to him, they must be new. Demidevimon let out a sigh of relief.

"You seem to have an infestation of humans in your factory, Peacockmon." Said Demidevimon, "They seem to exist to cause trouble. My master has been trying to eliminate them for a while now, and recently dispatched a large group of them in his castle. They seem to latch on, almost parasitically, to another Digimon and turn them from their destined path. They remove them from the natural order of things, bringing chaos and disorder wherever they go. Just look there! Humans show up in your factory and suddenly there's an angel causing havoc! But do not fret, their purported parasitic strength is also their undoing. Catch the children and the angel will submit to your will. Threaten them and he will fold. It is the way of the holy types, and their greatest weakness."

He grinned at the console. These children would make a wonderful gift to his master.

His master would most definitely be pleased.

[jrtherabbit]

MagnaAngemon grunted and just started flying forward, picking up speed just as much as the spiked wall moving behind him did. He didn't come here to play games with the digimon, he needed to get to those Chosen and get them out of there fast but as things were now, he wasn't going to be able to get to them at all as the spiked wall forced him to fly away. He figured this was probably the Avian digimon's plan all along. He needed to think of something fast, considering the digimon knew about the chosen all along but his mind was drawing a blank as he looked along the walls of the corridor, all it seemed like was this passage that kept on going forever.

Jei would sigh "I guess there is no changing your mind...." he said as he rubbed his head.

"I wonder what happened to that Angel guy though...I know he had to get rid of those cog things by now" he said to Melanie and Pinamon, getting a bit worried about him.

[Inori]

Melanie shrugged absentmindedly. "Who knows. I would have rather stayed to fight, but we know this."

"We do!" Pinamon squeaked cheerfully. "We can find him too! With the thing that finds stuff!"

"What, this?" Mel reached into her pocket and pulled out her digivice. "How?"

"Push the buttons of course!" The small bird replied. "Buttons do everything!"

"....right!" Melanie exclaimed before starting to poke randomly at her digivice in hopes of causing something to happen.