'um, matt, i need to go.' tk said.

'go where?' his brother asked.

'you know, go.' the youngest digidestined squirmed.

'oh, right. well, you can find the bathroom yourself surely?' matt said, more intrested in the spread of food before him.

'but there's something weird about this place.'

'tk, the statues are just statues. they won't hurt you.' izzy said.

'but...'

'tk, seriously, either go find a bathroom or pee your pants.' matt snapped. tk made his way out of the room carrying tokomon with him.

'i don't like this.' tokomon said.

'me neither. i'm not sure this place is really safe.'

eventually, tk did find a room marked as a toilet, but it had the pink symbol of a woman. what he also found was cockatrimon standing outside.

'who are you?' tk asked.

'i'm cockatri... you know what, i think i have a better answer.' the digimon said, and petrified tk and tokomon on the spot.

that didn't answer anything! tk protested in his mind. cockatrimon did not hear him and wandered off.

it took a few seconds, but tk realised he had another problem apart from being inanimate stone.

i still haven't found a toilet i can use yet!


***

'i know where they are.' cockatrimon said. digimon and digidestined looked up. tentomon petrified instantly by his petriflare gaze, but izzy ducked and it missed. he fled outside

'impossible! things don't turn to stone!' he said to himself, and then saw a shield on the wall. a shiny shield. he grabbed it and raised it. cockatrimon obliged, his petriflae bouncing back and turning the evil cockatrice to stone. at the same time, everyone else turned back. unfortunately, the beam hit more than cockatrimon. the ship also turned to stone.

'uh oh.' izzy realised. the ship, now a solid floating rock, lurched and listed over. after it crashed violently, the digidestined realised that they were all somehow fine.

'phew, that was close!' they unknowlingly chorused together.

at that point the ship turned back to normal and exploded.

***


'tk's taking a long time.' matt realised.

'maybe he got lost?' gabumon pondered. matt sighed.

'probably. i'd better go find him.'

izzy and tentomon were left alone, as matt and gabumon went searching. matt saw tk sitting outside a womens toilet.

'tk? why are you sitting around there?' matt asked, only seeing his brother's hat and clothes. he got closer and was confused for a second.

'a statue? but...'

he then saw tokomon petrified nearby and put two and two together. he then heard gabumon cry out and turned to see his own digimon being petrified.

'that's no statue, that's your pesky little brother!' cockatrimon cackled/clucked.

matt was shocked, but not so shocked as to dodge when cockatrimon tried to petrify him as well. the beam struck the petrified tk and turned him back to normal.

'tk! you're okay!' matt said in surprise. cockatrimon sighed and petrified the older of the two brothers. tk immediatly ran over, then remembered cockatrimon was there and jumped out of the way. as matt turned back, tk was then petrified once more as cockatrimon corrected his mistake. matt then deliberatley dived in front of tk and doged the next beam...

...four hours later, cockatrimon fell over, exhausted. he'd turned them into and back from stone dozens of times as they dodged and dived, causing the unfortunate cockatrice to tire himself out. gabumon and tokomon reverted to normal, and the four ran off to warn the others. of course, for the moment, cockatrimon was no threat. unless you didn't like to hear a chicken trying to snore.

***

'the pool is closed!' cockatrimon yelled, and glared at the water. however, he missed, and petrified tai instead. the stone statue he had become sank to the bottom of the pool. joe stared in shock.

'hey, that was fun!' cockatrimon realised, and petrified joe. he took sank like a stone, because he was one.

i know everyone says i'm bad at swimming but i never expected to float like a brick. joe thought.

cockatrimon however had become very distracted by the discovery, and had begun to toss the other statues into the pool...

'this rocks!' he said in praise of the new game he had found.

***

mimi was blissfully unaware that she was now, apart from cockatrimon and the numemon, the only unpetrified living thing aboard the ship. she had decided sora had been right and had put on her own swimsuit when she was startled by the door kicking open. she screamed and tried to run the opposite direction, but slipped on the wet floor. this was actually lucky for her as cockatrimon's petrifying gaze then struck and petrified a mirror, but also bounced off to turn a part of the wall opposite into granite, narrowly missing cockatrimon himself.

'stone the crows, that was close!' he remarked, looking in surprise at his near self-petrification.

mimi had noticed this though and had thought fast. she grabbed a small item from her belongings and held it up as the digimon tried again.

'well, girl, you're the last one.' he said, and attacked without looking properly. but as he shot out the green beams at the cringing mimi, he noticed she held up a makeup mirror. the beam bounced straight back.

the mirror was petrified in mimi's hands, but the cockatrice digimon also became petrified and stayed petrified. unfortunatley, so did her mirror. and everyone else. she was horrified to discover the statues of everyone else across the ship. the numemon, upon seeing her loose, tried to flee. she was in no mood to flirt with them.

'hey, you! you morons get back here, drive this ship, and tell me how to help everyone or i'll throw you all in a cactus patch!'

the numemon, terrified, could only obey...

***

mimi was blissfully unaware that she was now, apart from cockatrimon and the numemon, the only unpetrified living thing aboard the ship. she had decided sora had been right and had put on her own swimsuit when she was startled by the door kicking open. she screamed and tried to run the opposite direction. cockatrimon was ready, and petrified her as she fled.

'ha! i rule the roost!' he proclaimed, walking over to look at the last of the digidestined, who was now a statue like all her friends.

cockatrimon however did not see the bar of soap. when his foot hit it, he found himself sliding out of control.

'oh droppings!' he said as he slid out of the shower room and along the corridor. he buckawed in terror upon seeing the stairs approach.

'oof! ow! argh!'

he fell down the stairs, landing on something mostly soft. unfortunatley it was a cake on top of a food trolley that then began to roll towards a door, out onto the deck, and straight towards a gangrail. it slammed into the rail and catapulted cockatrimon high into the air.

'i can fly!' he happily shouted. then he saw he was merely falling without style. towards a cactus patch. that for some reason had been planted in a minefield.

'why is that there and why am i heading towards it?' he whined. luckily, those were not his last words, and he did not go out with a whimper, but a bang. a very large and loud one.

on board, everyone reverted to normal, and their confusion at what had just happened grew greater when it rained sand, dust, and feathers from a huge explosion a few hundred metres behind the ship.

***

'it's fortunate my brains match my good looks!' cockatrimon remarked upon finding the dark network down, leaving him to his own initiative to take the digidestined on. he then had a thought.

'actually, how good are my looks?' he said, and looked in a mirror. he found his brains indeed did match his good looks in that both were nonexistent.

oh yeah. petrifying gaze. whoops. the statue thought.