Thresh's Mission from God(dess)
Thresh was ex-, eggsy, excited! Thresh was excited.
He and Dommy Fonte had spoken to her Goddess and had been charged with a holy mission! It was hard to think of something more honorable than being the bearer of a holy burden, even if it was for a frog.
Course after their big tourney matches the two of them were pretty recognizable, so they had slid down into their Champion forms to maintain their cover. It was weird seeing Fonte as a Centaurmon, it was so different from her usual Knightmon self, but she carried herself with the same dignity and pride.
Him being a Growlmon wasn't super strange, he did this alot to get headpats, but sometimes he'd catch himself walking in a different way than normal, half expecting the weight of his rocket boosters on his back. Or see his arms and forget for a moment that they weren't always massive scything blades.
"So, what's holy Geckomon wants us to do again?" Thresh asked somewhat bashfully. Who knew remembering the instructions of an overly excited frogmon while you were bored would be hard? He cert-, curtain, certainly!- didn't.
"Her name is Drop, Chevalier Thresh! And she is not a Geckomon!" Fonte huffed and stomped her front feet indignantly at the disrespect to her Goddess.
"Yeah yeahs, I gets it." He rolled his eyes just out of sight and glared at the Lilamon giggling at their interactions. It froze up for a second and then fell to the ground, before getting up and flying away as fast it physically could. He smirked, and then grimaced, that probably wasn't very knightly…
"
Drop would like us to go retrieve a package from these coordinates-" She pointed at a little dot on a data pad strapped to her left wrist. "-and deliver it safely to her within the hour!" She declared solemnly.
"So what, we's some kinda errand 'mon? Couldn't she gets somemon else for this if it's that simple?" He grumbled, pouting slightly. He didn't expect this to be so dissa-, dissappear, disappointing, if he'd know it was just going to be to fetch some dumb pakige he wouldn't have come.
"Not at all! For you see, Drop, in her infinite wisdom, realized that there may be strong mon protecting such an important relic, and so tasked us, her two strongest followers with retrieving it from their foul clutches!" Her voice rose with every word until she shouted the final one, a fiery passion filling the statement and a fervant zeal in her eyes.
"Gigigigigi, so we's gonna get into a fight then, why didn't ya just say so!" He laughed heartily. Oh yeah, a fight was way more his speed. And if they were keeping something from a Goddess then that meant he could beat 'em up no problem too! Heh, being a knight was easier than he thought!
And so they walked in companionable silence, the buildings around them growing more ramshackle as they headed into the seedier (and that was saying something given the rest of the city) parts of town.
Fonte held up her metallic clawed fist in a motion to halt.
"We're here." She intoned gravely. They stood outside a mildly dilapid- tilapia, run down… restaurant? A sign naming it "Burgermon's Best Burgers" could be seen hanging just over the door.
"Uh, we grabbing food or what? Why're we at a restaurant?" Thresh asked, an eyebrow raised as he gazed at the shabby building. He was expecting some kind of big warehouse full of goons or something not whatever this was.
"This is the location I was given by my Goddess. Whatever we are searching for must be inside." She nodded decisively and marched up to the front door throwing it wide open with her cannon arm as Thresh followed in her wake.
Inside there were… what looked like two rival gangs of Digimon about to beat the snot out of one another.
On the right side a WaruMonzaemon with dozens of patches of different fabric across its form glared balefully at Thresh and Fonte, alongside it stood a Pandamon with a long patchwork scarf and massive stitch running the length of its torso, and an Etemon who despite carrying a long microphone stand, had its mouth stitched over.
On the left stood a Master Tyrannomon with several prominent facial scars, including one that looks to have taken out an eye, at his side were a surprisingly small Skull Greymon, which twitched sporadically in a disturbing manner, and a MetalGreymon with rather prominent patches of rotten flesh across its body, exposing swathes of hydraulics and wires.
The strangest thing was that all of them had well tailored suits on. It almost reminded him of Lord- er, of how Astamon dressed.
"Who da heck are you!" The WaruMonzaemon sneered, his high pitched voice taking most of the intimidation out of the question. His two companions glared at them, Pandamon punching into his other hand and Etamon swinging his microphone stand menacingly.
"And what are you doing on my turf?" The gravelly voiced Master Tyrannomon intoned, his muscular bulk turning slightly so he could glare at them. The small Skull Greymon twitched even harder for a moment and let out a short maniacal cackle, the MetalGreymon smashed its metal claw into the table in front of it, cracking it in half as it glared.
Thresh paid them no mind as he glanced into the back of the store and saw two Burgermon cowering behind the counter. Thresh narrowed his eyes.
"Hey, yous wouldn't happen to be menacing these nice Burgermon would you?" He asked with a growl, muscles tensing as he prepared to lash out at a moment's notice. Fonte readied her cannon beside him as she clocked his combat readiness.
"Tch, and so what if we are? They been paying their protection dues to deez low lives instead of us, even though they live in
our territory!" The angry WaruMonzaemon replied disdainfully, shooting a quick glare at the 'mon in question as they cowered even further than before.
"Your turf? Hah! This is
our turf now little puppet, you best step off before we have to teach you a lesson." The Master Tyrannomon replied with a smug smile full of sharp teeth across his face as he mocked the puppet Digimon.
"Rigghhhttttt, well that's nice but, I'm gonna have to ask you all to leave sos we can do our business." Thresh responded. Knights didn't just attack people for no reason after all.
"You think you can order us around?! Why I oughta!" WaruMonzaemon brought his massive clawed arm up, ready to strike. His companions both slipping into fighting stances to back up their boss.
"You little twerp where'd you get off thinking you can tell us what to do!" Master Tyrannomon growled angrily, fire coalescing in his jaws as he snarled. His two underlings growling in unison as they readied themselves to fight alongside their master.
Thresh simply blew out a sigh and glanced at Fonte. She nodded and took her hand off her sword. He could handle them no problem.
He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed. Before he smiled viciously as he opened his eyes again. Yeah, it was supposed to be
honorable to protect the weak. Least Vee said so. Heh, perfect.
Power.
A dark pulse of energy shot across his body as he tapped into the Hazard for an infin-, infant… tiny fraction of a second. In that moment all six 'mon seemed to realize something terrifying as they all scrambled to get away from him.
"Ah ah ahhhh, no running!" He sing-songed as he stomped forth and speared WaruMonzaemon on his claws and threw him back out the door. Fonte stepped out of the way to watch him fly past.
The Pandamon and Etamon, enraged by the manhandling of their leader, leapt forth to attack him at the same time! He simply let their attacks land. They couldn't hurt him if they tried. Two more swings of his arms and two more puppets were skewered on his claws. And two more puppets went flying out the door.
Then he turned a baleful eye on the other dinosaur 'mon in the shop. Master Tyrannomon came charging at him, flames licking his maw.
"
Master Flame!" He shouted, a gout of scorching fire crashing into Thresh's chest. It didn't even singe the his flesh.
"Gigigigigi, nice try old timer." He mocked as he shoulder checked the smaller dinosaur into his two minions like a bowling ball. He took a deep breath… and
Howled.
The virally enhanced sound sent shockwaves through the restaurant, carefully held back and directed
away from the Burgermon, broke the front windows and sent the three lizards flying out into their rivals on the street.
Thresh stomped to the front and watched as the six 'mon, seemingly uncaring of their previous animosity, scrambled over each other to get away from him.
"And don't come back!" He shouted after them with a self-satisfied smile. Oh yeah, he kicked their butts and he hadn't even killed anyone! Heh, this knight stuff was easy.
"Yous can come out now, they're all gone." He called to the still cowering Burgermon as they peaked their head out to stare at him and Fonte.
"Yes, and while you're at it we came to pick up a package for Drop." Fonte added, a subtle hint of condescension in her voice as she gazed upon these weak Digimon that couldn't even protect themselves.
"Th-thank you for protecting us, those guys have been coming here and taking our money since we opened this place." The larger of the two burgermon replied as it stood up, the smaller one going back into the kitchen to grab something.
"Eh no problem, it was the honorable thing to do." Thresh replied with a shrug as Fonte looked at him askance.
"All the same, thank you, even if we will have to repair those windows…" It trailed off as it looked past him at the shattered store front.
"Oh uh, yeah. I'll find a way to pay yous back for that." Thresh replied scratching his head with a clawed gand looking suitably bashful. He hadn't meant to break their place but using a technique, even as held back as it was, on such weak 'mon was bound to have consequences. And causing property damage, especially when you were trying to protect the people whose property you'd damaged wasn't very honorable.
"Thank you kind ser, that would be most appreciated." The burgermon replied with a smile as it's smaller companion came back with a large back, "Drop" written in digimoji across the front.
"Yeah, uh no problem." He replied blushing slightly at the praise. It felt nice being complimented like that…
Fonte grabbed the bag and gave a curt nod as she turned on her heel and motioned for Thresh to follow. As he followed he looked back to see the two Burgermon waving at him. He waved back, a small smile on his face.
As they left the restaurant and moved through the city, Thresh pondered on what it meant to be beloved and respected for being a protector of the weak. He'd always been a weapon of terror when he worked for Lor- for Count. He was meant to crush his enemies in the most brutal fashion to demoralize the enemy force. And he'd enjoyed it. It allowed him to indulge his bloodlust, and he didn't have to
think while doing it. Brutality came easy to him.
But being a knight was hard. It required careful thought and for him to hold back, alot. It meant he had to hold back those same impulses he'd been trained to give in to since he was a baby… and yet for some reason it felt good. And even though it was difficult, it was also paradox-, parachute, pretty easy when he really got to thinking about it. Almost like part of him already knew what to do, and it just needed him to let it loose.
Soon they arrived back at Drop's headquarters, a nice apartment provided to her by Malkimon for the duration of the tournament, and entered to find her lounging on the couch.
"Oh yay you got my stuff!" She exclaimed as she sat up and made a "give me" motion with her hands.
"Of course my Goddess the two of us together could never fail at such a task!" Fonte, now a Knightmon once more, replied fervently, handing the bag to Drop and getting down on one knee to kneel before her.
"Yeah, some goons tried to start trouble but we tooks care of em." Thresh replied with a smirk as Drop looked at the bag with an awe usually reserved for special stuff like a cool fight or a super power up thingy.
"But uh, what is it? Little weird we got it from a restaurant…" He trailed off as Drop looked to him with a raised eyebrow.
"Well of course you got it from a restaurant, it's my lunch!" She replied haughtily as she pulled out a massive burger and salivated at the sight.
Thresh froze for a moment. He felt his eye twitch as he realized they'd gone through all that… for a burger. He took a deep, deep breath and sighed explosively. "Holy mission" his butt. As he cast an eye to Fonte and saw how pleased she seemed with herself though, he could only shake his head ruefully and smile. At least they'd spent some time together and one of them was happy. He could live with that.