Sukamon

"You knew they were Sukamon, so why were you still standing there instead of running? Did you want to experience flying free?" Knowing the original plot, Zhou Zhu broke his usual rule of keeping quiet this time. After all, Sukamon's special move really was disgusting.

He was at the back of the group, and this was a narrow sewer. Once everyone started running, he might get trapped behind them and buried alive under Sukamon's attacks...

"What are you doing, Zhou Zhu? Are Sukamon that powerful?" Hearing Zhou Zhu's warning, Matt had already taken out his Digivice, ready to make Gabumon digivolve.

"Enough questions. Just run! It's not about whether Sukamon are powerful. Their special move is absolutely disgusting!" Zhou Zhu hurried past several of them, grabbed Mimi, and took off ahead of the others.

After all, Mimi was the only member of the main cast he found reasonably likable. As for Izzy and T.K., sorry, but he'd only known them for a day. They weren't that close.

"Disgusting?" Even now, Tai was still puzzling over what Zhou Zhu meant. He apparently still had no intention of running.

"Zhou Zhu probably means that Sukamon's special move is throwing poop. It really is pretty disgusting." Agumon stepped in to explain to Tai and the others.

"Throwing poop?"

"How could there be Digimon like that?"

While everyone stood there in shock, Zhou Zhu had already dragged Mimi more than ten meters away. As Mimi's Digimon, Palmon had no choice but to follow.

That left the overly curious bunch standing there waiting to get crapped on.

They didn't even realize the shit was about to hit them...

"They really are Sukamon... Run!" Only when a pack of Sukamon burst out of the shadows did Agumon finally know to flee. Tai and the others snapped out of it too, but it was already too late...

"Zhou Zhu, you actually got a head start! Some friend you are!" Matt no longer had time to worry about making Gabumon digivolve. The way these Sukamon attacked was so outrageous that whether a Champion or an Ultimate faced them, the psychological damage would be pretty much the same.

"What do you mean, some friend I am? I told you to run, but you all stood there debating whether Sukamon were disgusting!" Zhou Zhu refused to indulge Matt's accusations and shot right back.

Even as he spoke, though, Zhou Zhu didn't slow down at all.

"Stop arguing at a time like this! Watch out, or they'll throw poop into your mouths!" Running in third place, Joe Kido warned his friends behind him as he fled.

"Joe, what you said... Gah!" Tai was about to answer when a lump of unidentified green matter grazed his cheek, making him shut his mouth instantly.

While the main cast pushed on with Poop Swim Ahead, Zhou Zhu, running at the front, had already spotted the turn leading to the exit from the original story.

"This way! Everyone, follow me!" With that, Zhou Zhu pulled Mimi into the branching tunnel first.

In their panic, Tai and the others couldn't worry about whether this was the right way. They could only follow Zhou Zhu into it on instinct.

Matt hesitated a little behind them, but the ever-increasing barrage of poop left him no choice.

"There's light! It's the exit!" As the light grew brighter, Zhou Zhu led Mimi out of the sewer ahead of everyone else.

Tai, Matt, and the others followed.

The Sukamon pursuing them relentlessly slowly retreated into the sewer, afraid of the sunlight.

"What's going on?"

Everyone in the main cast was surprised by the Sukamon's behavior.

"Sukamon are Digimon that are afraid of sunlight." Agumon the commentator was back on duty...

"All right, enough talking. Let's get away from here!" Seeing Agumon standing at the sewer exit giving an explanation, Zhou Zhu was genuinely afraid a Sukamon would suddenly fling a lump of something unspeakable straight into Agumon's mouth.

After all, being afraid of sunlight didn't stop a Sukamon from standing in the shadows and throwing poop at you...

"Zhou Zhu's right. Let's leave first and talk later." Sora had also been frightened by Sukamon's outrageous special move. She didn't want to spend another second in this awful place.

"Thank you so much for earlier, Zhou Zhu. If it weren't for you, I don't even dare imagine what would've happened." Seeing that all her friends had at least some of that unspeakable stuff on them, Mimi turned slightly pale and bowed deeply to Zhou Zhu.

"Thank you, Zhou Zhu." Palmon followed her example.

"You're welcome. It was no trouble. All right, let's keep moving." Zhou Zhu didn't dwell on Mimi's thanks. He simply found her likable and had lent a small hand because it wouldn't put him at risk.

If it had been Sora or Matt falling into a pile of poop, he wouldn't even have looked back.

"Hmph! If you already knew about Sukamon's special move, why didn't you explain it outright? Instead, you said something weird and made us guess!" Brushing the unidentified matter out of his hair, Matt glared furiously at Zhou Zhu, clearly taking his frustration over Sukamon's poop-throwing out on him.

"I'm not your mom or dad. Warning you was already more than enough." Zhou Zhu had no intention of indulging Matt's anger. The more you indulged someone like this, the more he thought he could push you around.

"What did you say? Are you looking for a fight?" Already seething, Matt immediately prepared to get physical after hearing Zhou Zhu's response.

"A fight? With you? I could give you a one-hand handicap and still beat you senseless." Zhou Zhu had been prepared for Matt to behave this way. After all, in the original story, this guy had caused plenty of trouble and gotten into fights with Tai.

But he wasn't Tai. With the same physical capabilities as Candlemon, he was practically a Rookie Digimon in human form. Even ten more guys like Matt wouldn't stand a chance against him.

"Enough, Matt. Zhou Zhu already warned us back there. Getting away was the most important thing in a crisis like that." Seeing the conflict escalate, Tai hurried forward to hold Matt back. Any way he looked at it, Zhou Zhu's warning had been well-intentioned. Hitting someone over that really went against the values he'd been raised with.

"Get out of the way! I'm going to teach this guy a lesson today!" Shoving Tai aside, Matt swung his fist at Zhou Zhu with a vicious look on his face.

Before this, Matt might only have been venting verbally. But Zhou Zhu had put him in his place by claiming the authority of a parent, and Tai's words had reminded him that Zhou Zhu was just an outsider, not a member of their group.

That made Zhou Zhu seem even easier to bully. Taking all of this together, Matt became even more determined to teach this suspicious, foul-mouthed foreigner a proper lesson.

Thump!

Before Matt's fist could land, Zhou Zhu's fist slammed into his face first.