2005 Story Archive

W.T.F?

"Renamon!" Ruki exclaimed, "Look out!"

"Warp blast!"

Renamon and Ruki were in the middle of a battle with a strange Digimon that looked like a clock with arms and legs. The thing was fast and kept firing blasts that seemed to alter the age of whatever they hit, making it become older or younger. Renamon had dodged them all so far but she couldn't seem to get close to the Digimon. It'd fired another blast and Renamon was about to land in its path. Launching herself with all her might, Ruki took the blast for Renmon and then fell onto the street barely breathing. Renamon now totally pissed off went to attack the monster, but it was gone.

"Forget about that thing," Renamon said to herself, "I need to get Ruki home!"

Picking the girl up in her arms, Renamon teleported into Ruki's room.

"Oh Ruki," Renamon said, placing the girl on her bed, "you should've let me take the hit."

Hearing Ruki's mom and grandmother coming into the room, Renamon was forced to teleport away. Ruki's mom had forbid Renamon from being at the house for a week, a punishment for not modeling some weird new clothes that were coming onto the market.

"Oh my god! Ruki!"

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Ruki spent the next few days with doctors always watching her. While she had recovered from the mild physical damage, they weren't taking any chances after hearing what those blasts could do.

After watching her for three days the doctors left.< They had determined that the blasts didn't appear to have had any effect on humans. That afternoon while channel flipping, Ruki found herself stopping on a children's channel. She giggled and even talked along as she watched Winnie the Pooh and Sesame Street.

If you'd asked her what was going on, she would've told you what she told her mom, "Pooh bear is funny an' I wove Big Bird."

Her mother just shook her head and walked away thinking, "if it makes her happy..."

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In the following days, Ruki found herself slipping into this childish behavior and then back. To truly understand what was going thru her head, I give you Ruki's point of view as she returns to school for the first time since the battle.

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Ruki, age 14:

Man, what a drag this has all been, the whole doctor thing. I'm fine even if mom thinks I'm acting weird, you know? I'm the Digimon Queen! Oh wait, there's Takato, Henry, Juri, and Ryo. Man, that Ryo is cute. I would love to have him any day of the week.

"Hi guys! What's up?" I ask, slipping Ryo sly looks every now and then.

"Ruki, we were just discussing what type of Digimon attacked you," said Takato. "So far, between mine, Henry's, Juri's and even Ryo's deck, we've yet to find that card. We were hoping if you knew what its name is, or at least found it in your cards."

"That's weird. I never for--"

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Ruki, age 4:

Wows! Me never sees place like this before. It really big with all these big kids 'round. Maybe they'll wanna play tag or duck-duck-goose?

"Ruki?" one of them with goggles asks, "Are you ok?"

"You knows my name! Koolies! Now what your name?" I ask him, tilting my head to the side. "Oh yeah, you wanna play with me?" I add, looking hopeful.

The one with goggles on his head looks puzzled before the only other girl there leans over to him and whispers something.

"No fairs keeping secrets!" I pout, crossing my arms and slumping to the floor. "Me wanna know toos!"

Then, this mean girl comes up and calls me a name. It makes me cry. I don't like these mean people. The girl who was whispering in goggle boy's ear is helping me to my feet and moving me away.

"Where we go-"

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Ruki, age 14:

What the hell is going on? Juri is holding my hand and leading me to the office.

"What's going on?" I ask, pulling my hand away. "Are you hitting on me or something?"

"Ruki?" Juri asks, "are you back to normal now? You were acting like a little kid, crying and everything."

"Yeah right," I say, giving Juri a look of contempt. "Look, I don't swing that way Juri. Besides, I thought you and Takato were a couple."

Juri looks mad and storms off, grabbing Takato's arm as she walks away.

"Ruki, that wasn't nice," said Ryo. "Besides, Juri was telling the truth. All of us saw it, and so did everyone in the hallway."

Feeling a bit foolish, all I can think to say is "ohÖ."

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The next few days carried on like that. Ruki would be saying something, then suddenly start acting like a four year old. It was happening so often that the school just sent her home. Well, in all fairness, it wasn't until she'd let the lab mice out during class so she could play with them. Now she spent her days sitting in her room either super-happy as a little kid or really miserable as herself. What was really bumming her out was that she was turning little kid more frequently and for longer periods of time. In fact at this rate, she'd probably lose her 14 year old consciousness within days.

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Ruki, age 14:

*SIGH*

Great, I just got my body back and it seems I'm starting to act younger. Instead of turning into a four year old, now I'm acting like a TWO year old and need to wear diapers. Last time I lost my mature mind I was acting like a two year old for about a day! What makes this even harder is Renamon has stopped coming around because she blames herself. My only hope is this nut ball doctor my mom hired who says he can keep my mind from turning younger.

"Ruki, some of your friends have come to visit you," my mom says as she leads Juri and Takato into the room.

Takato spots the diaper I'm wearing and start laughing. Juri elbows him in the ribs to stop his laughter.

"Sorry about that Ruki," she says, "It seems that Takato is a bit of a moron."

Takato stands there blushing as Juri glares at him.

"But I'm curious," she continues, turning her attention back to me. "What's with the diaper? I thought you were turning into a four year old."

"It seems my mind is getting younger than just four years old," I reply, blushing deeply. "So, because we never know when I'm going to change, it's just easier for me to be diapered all the time."

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Well, Juri and Takato had to leave shortly thereafter because the nut ball doctor showed up. Claiming he had the cure, he slowly injected this strange liquid into the small of my back. My mom had to leave the room because he said I would be very fragile for the next few minutes and there was only a fifty-fifty chance that it'd work and she might do something to lessen it.

After he had injected the stuff into me I started to feel weird. It was like something else was slowly taking over my body. I found that I was unable to move anything below my waist. I looked at the doctor, watching him smile at the fear on my face. He was six feet tall and well built with short cut blond hair and black eyes.

He leaned over and whispered in my ear, "I've treated this stuff before. You have a slim chance of gaining your body back fully, more like one chance in a hundred. What's more likely to happen is your mind will become a slave to this body. Except in rare cases, your body now belongs to the mind of an infant and you'll feel every thing that happens. Your mind will be saved, but you'll have no control whatsoever, just like the infant you're becoming. You'll only get your body back in three years. that's when that monster's effect wears off. You could've simply let your body act babyish and take control back when it wore off, but now you'll suffer every second for the next three years. I'll be surprised if your mind is still in tact after that."

With the last of my power, I yell out to my mom that he's a fraud.