Black Fang! A Sudden Meeting? [Elliot/Isaac/Idmon]

At the sound of the loud barking noise Elliot nearly jumped out of his skin. Big dogs were scary enough in real life. In the Digital World? Whatever made that sound was probably fifty feet tall and able to spit lava! Still, while originally Elliot was quaking in his boots, when he gave the situation a closer look he found himself becoming far more resolved. The dog was chasing something round and ball-like, and it did not look like a friendly game of fetch. Isaac made sure that his brother kept a safe distance as the two of them edged forward a little, taking a peek to see just what was causing such a commotion.

It wasn't a ball, but instead a baby Digimon in trouble. What were a pair of travelling heroes supposed to do? Just ignore it? Elliot shot a pleading look at Isaac, who answered with a sharp nod. They held their Digivices high and lit up brightly, calling out the forms of Strikedramon and Yasyamon.

With a heavy leap the two jumped in between the Dobermon and its strange target. Isaac couldn't help but notice that it looked really weird, like some kind of eye-spider, but he wasn't about to judge. The Digital World had some really weird looking denizens, his own transformations included. One of them was a drunken snake, for crying out loud! His brief observation made he turned back to the Dobermon, flashily swinging his blades in a show of intimidation. Elliot simply stood to his full height, feeling far more comfortable staring down the dog as Strikedramon than he did as Elliot. "Leave that baby alone, you big bully!" he shouted, standing firm even in the face of inevitable danger.

Elliot stooped down, giving the poor, trembling eyeball a gentle pat on the head. "Hey, don't worry. My bro and I are heroes. We're not gonna let you get hurt, okay?" he said, voice as soft as a recently fluffed pillow. He then returned to standing firm, making sure that Idmon would be kept safe behind his large frame. This wasn't the largest form he had access to, but it was far more personable than Sandiramon was. Besides, he really didn't want a fight. If this other Digimon would just run away, everything would be perfect!

Then it made the mistake of targeting Elliot. Immediately Isaac dropped into a combat stance, criss-crossing his two blades across each other. He juked left and right to try and throw off the Dobermon's rhythm, then slashed them outward to fire an X-shaped blast of energy. "Cross Slash!" he shouted, aiming the attack right at the Dobermon's feet. It hadn't directly attacked Elliot, so he figured he would give it the courtesy of just one warning shot. It didn't even get a chance to explain itself, after all. If it kept proving so cruel and hostile he would have to chase it away, but until then he had learned from Alphamon that first impressions didn't always mean anything.

"I'm giving you one more shot. Explain yourself or run, and we won't have to fight you. But come at us again and we'll make you regret it."

It chose run, seemingly. Isaac relaxed his stance, while Elliot gave the mysterious Digimon another pat on the head. While Isaac would still be keeping an eye out for any potential ambushes, it seemed like they won the day without any fight. Safety in numbers continued to prove itself useful for the two brothers here in the Digital World. Isaac may have wished Elliot would just stay home and safe, but he couldn't deny that the two of them were making one heck of a team. Would it really be the same if Elliot was gone?

No time to think about that, though. They've got mail! Elliot's eyes widened in shock as he looked at the message on the floor. Digimon could do that? This guy must've been some kind of projector Digimon or something. That was really cool! "Anytime, Ociomon!" he chirped merrily. "We couldn't just let that big, scary dog hurt you. Are you okay?" He didn't see any injuries on the little Digimon, but its anatomy was kind of strange. Who knew if that dog ended up nipping at it before they were able to intervene. Elliot didn't even want to think about what would happen if they were a little bit slower on the draw.

"Where are you from?" Isaac asked, curious. Digimon came in all shapes and forms, but spiders and eyeballs didn't seem like they were natives of the Network Plains. Was he lost a long way from the city? Or did he come from somewhere else? Maybe a jungle, where his large eye would help him capture lots of light and his spiderlike profile would help him skitter around the foliage. Also, maybe Isaac should stop cramming for his first biology quiz before trips into the Digital World.

Awww, the poor thing! It was so scared and alone here in the Digital World. That was how Elliot felt on his first day too, small and vulnerable and being pursued hungrily by big, tough Digimon. Now he had come so far and learned so much, but back then he wanted nothing more than to just run home crying. At least Elliot even had a home to escape to. Ociomon was a Digimon, or at least it seemed like it was. This was its home, and it was one of the poor souls at the bottom of the food chain. Elliot looked down sadly at the poor creature, trying to think of what to say in order to reassure the Digimon. "That's so awful! I'm really sorry everything's been picking on you. I'm just so glad you're safe right now. And hey, soon you're gonna be too big and tough for them to mess with you anymore. Then you won't have to be scared," Elliot finally said. He had been a tiny Veemon before, and now he could turn into a giant snake of light. Who knows how much better he could get?

Isaac was normally quite the suspicious sort, especially when talking about their personal lives. This was the Digital World. Sooner or later there would be more humans popping around, so trying to hold that information out on Ociomon really wouldn't do anything. It'd just ask the next set. When there was really no way of keeping a secret, was it worth it trying to keep it around? "We're humans. There's a world of our own we're from, kind of parallel to yours." Isaac explained. He and Elliot released their Human Spirit forms, as if putting a bit of punctuation on that point. Even though they were used to being some of the smallest things in the Digital World, they still towered high above the Ociomon. Poor thing.

Elliot loved the human world. After all, he was human, and he's lived there for 13 years. Would it be nearly as nice for a Digimon? Especially one kind of scary looking like Ociomon? He didn't exactly seem like he could pass for a stuffed animal like many Digimon could. Still, Elliot figured it'd be best to just give a good, honest description of the Digital World. "Well, it's kind of like the Digital World. But all the people in the cities look kind of like us. There aren't really as many kinds of humans as there are Digimon. It's pretty peaceful over there usually, but there are some really mean people. My brother keeps them away from me, so it's all okay. Its bigger than over here, but it isn't as diverse. Like, we don't have a Dark Area, or a big flying sky continent, and our deserts and tundra are all really far away from our grasslands. And the people there speak a bunch of different languages." It seemed Digimon usually understood them well enough no matter what they were speaking. Did they just speak binary or something? Ociomon seemed to be capable of writing Japanese, though, which was a really interesting thing. "It's pretty similar to here, but really different too," he concluded.

Then came the desperation message. Isaac knew this was a really unfeasible prospect. People didn't really trust Digimon much in the human world. Whereas Digimon seemed to know all about humans, the human world was mostly locked off to Digimon. Was that even remotely fair? Isaac wouldn't be surprised to see an organization cropping up to try and separate out all of these humans. However, Elliot was giving him That Look. His bleeding heart fell for the little Digimon's story, and now Isaac had to risk opening a huge can of worms or just disappointing him. In the end, though, he had to step down to his brother's sad eyes. "We can show you around for a little bit. But I'll warn you, it might not be completely safe either. Humans aren't the most comfortable with Digimon. You'll have to be very quiet and careful, okay?" Isaac concluded.