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Post by ryouta on Oct 23, 2016 5:24:30 GMT
...A teen leaned on a wall near the platform leading to Trailmon. He... purposely stayed there, with his iPod constantly in play mode. Beside him is a small dragon Digimon, a Dracomon. Both scarred in some way, with the boy particularly the worse one of the two. Several people passes by, or coming back to the Real World. His eyes scanned each and every one of them, making sure that he missed none... but with his vision like this, he guessed that it'll be hard. Also, even when he's having noise canceler on, he regretted the fact that he have to come here regardless... because at times there are quite noisy groups. Of course he can't do anything to them. It's his fault for hanging like this, but... He needed it.
...It's not like he doesn't want to be proactive, but from how many evaded him the moment he raised his eyes to look at them seem to say much about their stance: Please don't harm me. How rude, he's not going to do anything to them yet this is how they're going to play? He sighed, but nevertheless ignored it for the meantime. His Dracomon partner, despite his similarly rather 'ragged' looks, is the cuter of the two. He's playing some juggling with balls in boredom, but made sure to of course paying attention to his partner's body gesture.
...This will be a long day.
Luckily despite the Trailmon's nature that's often too impatient and usually would "ask"*sarcasm* if he wanted to ride or not, this time a glare is already enough to shut them up... In a way, he's grateful, because they're often way too loud, but at the same time, it made him feel a bit lonely.
Have I sunk to that level already? Where I'm no longer human?
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 28, 2016 4:05:32 GMT
OOC: Enter Colin/Luke/Bellamy
"Stop! Wait!" Colin shouted as the train pulled into the station. Just his luck. Just as he had finally found a way home to Earth, his plans for a simple stroll home from the Shibuya Station were in tatters when instantly, the two creatures that he had brought home with him decided to run off without him. He chased after them, just as they were perched at the doorway of the train.
"Wow... so this is Earth" said the little fuzzy red furball. The purple and brown one sniffed the air, scrunching his nose up at it.
"Earth sucks" he said. "Yo Colin, you don't seriously live in this dump do ya?"
"No, Bellamy, this is the train station" Colin said. "Come on, you're blocking the doorway. Let's just get onto the platform together, okay?"
"Tsk, fine" said Bellamy. "One small bounce for a digimon... but a giant leap-"
"Oh please, Bellamy, I bet hundreds of digimon already made the trip" said the red digimon, simply hopping onto the station platform. Bellamy scowled at him.
"Homeostasis you have no style whatsoever, Luke" he muttered, bouncing after him. Colin followed.
Okay... so they were finally back on Earth now. Colin resisted the urge to kiss the concrete floor as it was probably filthy. But... yes, this definitely did seem like it was Earth. There were other humans around, and a few digimon, but most importantly, Colin was close to finally coming home, hopefully before his family got worried. But how could he do so while successfully smuggling in Luke and Bellamy, his twin partners?
Colin looked down, and saw that they had bounced off again. "Argh! I said to wait for me!" he called after them, chasing the Wanyamon and Yaamon as they bounced toward the entrance. He definitely didn't want to lose them.
He saw them bouncing toward a large muscular boy ahead. Colin wondered if he would be able to help him out. While Colin was a fast sprinter, man these digimon could bounce fast.
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Post by ryouta on Oct 28, 2016 4:52:05 GMT
He started to get bored and honestly counted the passenger coming from the Trailmon. No one dared to approach him and it's getting bothersome, so he's was ready to give up when a kid that's look just a year younger than him suddenly came out from the Trailmon. He looks... probably glad returning back here? Ryouta raised an eyebrow. Sounds like a really new kid. He looks like as if he have some difficulty catching the twins that hops off...
"...Hold," the boy suddenly said to both Digimons, suddenly moving from his position with speed that actually also made him rather surprised to gently catch both of them. He turned to Colin and addressed the boy. "Are they your companion?" he asked, handing them back to the boy, not caring whatever action they might do when they're on his hold. "You should be careful, they might could pass off for being stuffed plush at the moment, but outside of this, there are lot of people that doesn't take kindly of whatever came out when they're too big," he told them.
Ryu looked at the twins and blinked after tilting his head to the sides.
"...Anyway, are you new? Do you need some little veteran help?
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 28, 2016 14:42:37 GMT
"Agh!" Oh such a sudden impediment for the two of them. Luke and Bellamy gasped with shock as the largely built human ahead of them suddenly caught them. The Wanyamon and Yaamon struggled to get free, but it was near impossible with this guy's strong hold.
Colin, however, was incredibly grateful for this intervention. He ran up to the young man that halted his digimon, looking up at him with deference.
"Thanks, mister" he said, in what he hoped was the right Japanese speech for that sentence. "Yeah, these digimon are my partners" he answered the question. Colin saw the Dracomon that was standing beside him. So this guy had a digimon partner too?
"Er, yeah, I was kind of hoping they wouldn't rush off like that once we got back home on Earth, but it looks like it didn't happen that way" Colin continued, making sure he looked Luke and Bellamy in the eye as he said that. And at the very least, he was glad to see a little bit of remorse on their faces.
Then the bigger digimon partner guy asked if he was new and if he needed a veteran's help. Colin instantly felt somewhat glad that he'd bumped into someone like this so quickly. He gladly accepted his partners back into his arms, and was thankful that neither Bellamy or Luke wanted to struggle free again. Indeed, both digimon seemed to be a little curious about what this much more experienced tamer had to say.
There were so many questions he wanted to ask. But of course, he settled on the questions closest to his mine.
"Er, yeah, I do have some questions, mister" he said, hoping he sounded respectful enough in his rudimentary translation of Japanese. "My first one... do you know why this place exists? I mean... wow, this is a train station that leads to a whole new world".
"Better be thankful this place exists, otherwise we'd probably be stuck in one of your Men in Black facilities or some crap like that" Bellamy said, haughtily. He and his twin brother had been struggling to get free, but Ryouta's grip was too tight, so the both of them had been caught by his arms the whole time. Luke had chosen to be quiet however, hoping that he'd be released quicker if he was cooperative. Although with this conversation, it seemed that Colin would be getting somewhat of a tutorial with his new situation.
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Post by ryouta on Oct 28, 2016 15:16:23 GMT
"Mister?" Ryouta asked, mildly amused, chuckling at that remark and suddenly switched to English. From how the kid talked, he guessed that Japanese isn't his strong suit. "Kiddo, how old are you?" he asked. "Must be a year younger than me? I'm just 16 this year, nothing too old, right? What, did I look like I'm in my 20ies?" he joked. After giving the twins back to the boy, he leaned on the wall again, Ryu looked attentively at the new group that just joined them, giving them a rather friendly smile and resumed his juggling, hoping that it might entertain the twins because it's going to get boring unless they're into some theory.
"Well, let's see, why, you ask, that I have no idea, but apparently the only gateway to the other world is this. My theory is probably because it'll be far easier to keep in secret in here, yeah. It's not so suspicious, I mean, with how many people are there, not many would guessed that they should go to the empty platform with "broken" sign and ended up here if you got Digivice... so honestly, this place is a secret in itself," Ryouta explained. "And also, your partner is right. Somewhere in this city, there's an organization called DATS. Think them as your Digimon version of M.I.B. The thing is they won't disturb you if you don't disturb the society and just act like a good guy. Digimons are strong, see... Hmmm, well, why don't I give you an example?"
Ryouta looked at the platform. It's probably about five meters tall to the roof, so... He nodded. "First, your Digimon partner is what you call Baby II stage. They've evolved at least once, or is in that form before. Now, if they evolves once more, they'll be like mine, this guy" he pointed at Ryu. "His species is Dracomon, his name is Ryu. This is basically his Child stage. This is when Digimons started to get lethal for human. Now..."
He took out his Digivice and it started to react, summoning a digital field that changed the Dracomon into... Coredramon. The three meters tall Digimon saluted to them, but looks a bit disappointed that his balls is now too small for him to juggle.
"Hey there, name's Ryu, now is a Coredramon, an adult Digimon."
"This is where Digimon started to get... very lethal," Ryouta explained. "I swear, even if you resurrect a T. rex in this world, Digimon would still win no question asked. Even one as big as this guy can wreak considerable havoc in a city."
"Not that I would," Ryu said, shrugging his shoulders. "But people are paranoid."
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 29, 2016 1:34:59 GMT
"Oh, uh, I'm just 13" said Colin, smiling a bit nervously. Wow this guy was only 16? He looked at least 18.
The twins meanwhile looked impressed at the Dracomon's juggling. "Huh, I wish I could do that" said Luke.
"Hmph, when I'm an Impmon I bet I can juggle fireballs" said Bellamy, not failing to take that as a challenge.
Colin listened to the explanation. That sounded right. "I see... I thought I ended up on that platform by accident, but I was kind of in a rush and just following my phone's directions..." saying that, he realized that it must have been a deliberate reason why he ended up on that train to the digital world. Well, he was back on Earth now, so that was alright.
"Oh okay, so DATS are the people to watch out for" Colin surmised.
"Yeah, we'll be good digimon, we won't start trouble" said Luke. There was a pause, then he started to snicker.
"Oh my god you almost said that with a straight face" Bellamy said, snickering too. "But seriously though we won't do really evil stuff, just... I can't promise we won't try to have fun, heh heh"
Then Ryouta brought his attention to his own digimon partner, who was juggling. So this was Ryu the Dracomon. "Wow he looks awesome" he said.
"Eh, you just wait till you see the Impster, kid" Bellamy said. Although even he made a "whoa" of awe as Ryouta demonstrated evolution to Champion.
"I see... so Baby II, Child, Champion" Colin said, nodding with understanding. "Do you know what I should do to get Luke and Bellamy to evolve that far?". He was kind of eager to do that. "Does it involve this thing?" he held up his digivice.
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Post by ryouta on Oct 29, 2016 2:12:31 GMT
"Welp, you're tall even for western standard, I guess," Ryouta remarked, slightly impressed. Ryu just grinned when the twins seem to be interested in his juggling. He laughed when Bellamy said that when he's an Impmon he bet he can juggle fireballs. "Just be careful, mate," Ryu said amusedly. "You're not going to like it if it came down crashing on your head. Before this I also failed, lucky that it's hollow plastic instead of iron ball yeah~?"
"Then again like you're strong enough to juggle iron balls?" Ryouta muttered.
"Welp," Ryouta suddenly say toward Colin's explanation "Maybe you're, you know, got called by the two through your GPS. It's not something that's not a possibility considering just how strange Digital World is... but I wonder if your phone ain't going to be toast? I mean, apparently lot of electronic devices that uses internet connection or signal based are going haywire there... so might as well as not carrying phone at all. My iPod apparently fares better... compass and such are useless in Digital World. Trust your Digivice more than your compass I guess."
Ryouta shook his head at Colin's remark. "DATS is not something that you have to be worried of if you did nothing wrong. I mean, c'mon, should you fear police officer when you're doing nothing wrong? Here I thought in western country apparently when a police stopped you, you only need to ask if you did something wrong, and if you don't, that's illegal. Basically it's like that. Just because you have a Digimon doesn't mean you would be captured indiscriminately."
He turned to the Digimon partners and snickered, meanwhile, Ryu also smiled in a knowing way. "Well, an Impmon," the draconoid Digimon started "would pass as a kid easily, not sure what about a Red Gaomon or... huh, actually what would you become?" he tilted his head to Luke. "But anyway, if you don't walk on four feet, you can pass easily as costume wearing kids."
"Eager, aren't you?" Ryouta chuckled, but understanding the sentiment. "Experience, both hand on like fighting and caring, also adventuring... I think, you just have to enjoy the world. Granted, Digital World isn't exactly the safest place around. You can meet less than agreeable individuals... at times, you have to harden your heart and kill them... yeah."
Ryouta's expression darkened slightly, but he continued. "Look, Digimons works under law of 'survival of the fittest'. Despite their intelligence and their mental capability to learn, it doesn't change the fact that they're fighting species. They fight to grow stronger, and at times, fighting are needed to grow to the next stage. Mine happened to be pacifist, but even pacifist like my partner would be dragged to fight... Digimon only grows stronger because it's necessary. Evolution is there because it's necessary. So as you can see... Digital World is a dangerous place... even knowing that, would you still hear me and decide to raise those two partners of yours?"
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 29, 2016 4:47:59 GMT
Colin grinned a bit bashfully when he was told that he was tall for his age. "Yeah, I get that a lot" he said.
"Eh, you're a good thing to sit on anyway for a good view" said Bellamy, the Yaamon bouncing up high, perching himself on top of Colin's head. Luke had to settle for second best, jumping into Colin's arms. Both twins appreciated having a higher viewpoint when they were talking to people at least.
"Of course I'm careful with fireballs" Bellamy said to Ryu. "I've seen all the Smokey the Bearmon public service videos about fire safety!"
"You've also seen his other videos where Smokey and his friends do naughty things" Luke added, smugly.
"Bah, I don't judge the guy, he must've been a bit short of cash" said Bellamy.
Colin had a look at his mobile phone as Ryouta explained that it messes with electronics. He was a little worried, he got this as a birthday present. It thankfully still seemed to be working. He'd test it out by calling his parents later.
"Ohh, okay, so DATS work like Police?" Colin said, tilting his head. "It's just I've never heard of digimon before, so I thought they were keeping them secret from the public or something like that".
Ryu said that an Impmon could pass for a human kid, then he asked what digimon Luke would be.
"A red Gaomon? Nah, I think I'll evolve into an Elecmon" Luke said. "Bellamy and I were best friends in our old lives, but we seem to have got, uh... reconfigured. I can't remember the last moments though, but I remember most other stuff. I don't think we made it to Adult level though"
"That's okay, we're not here to dwell on the past, we're here for memes and shenanigans with our new human pal here" Bellamy interrupted. They listened to what Ryouta said, how they would be able to evolve - through experience and training mostly.
"Really...?" Colin said, a bit uncomfortable about that. "I don't think I could kill a digimon..."
"That's okay, Col, we'll protect you the best we can" Luke said, smiling up at him. "Although we won't kill if we can help it. We'll beat up the bad guys for ya though, don't worry"
Colin nodded, a little reassured. So to evolve his partners, he would have to go to the digital world and do possibly dangerous things. Would his parents be okay with that? He doubted it very much. However... Luke and Bellamy had chosen him to be their partner. He didn't really want to let them down by refusing this. Plus, wow, this whole adventure with digimon thing seemed pretty exciting.
"Yeah, okay, I'm up for it" Colin said, nodding.
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Post by ryouta on Oct 29, 2016 5:10:58 GMT
"Being tall is good though. A lot of girls like tall guys. Maybe that will be a plus point for you, eh?" Ryouta joked, but just offhandedly. He nearly choked on his own saliva though when the twins suddenly talked about something like Bearmon doing naughty things. Please don't let it be whatever he thought it is.
"Well," Ryu started. "In that case, I think if you already got a past life, you should be quite experienced in this time around. Take that as an experience that you should never forget and use it to avoid untimely death. I think that defeated Digimon might lost most of their data... and most likely evolution data. I... have a friend with similar case."
Ryouta nodded slightly afterward and addressed Colin's previous question. "Well, DATS is exactly like you thought... MIB, and plus, Digimons aren't supposed to get out in public, but in a case of emergency because of no holosuit, you can pass them as a doll, a little brother and such... I passed Ryu as a doll, nobody asked much. If it gets too much..." he devolved the Coredramon back to his baby form Babydmon. "Like this." and soon evolved him back to Dracomon. "That's how it is. It takes time to get used to how you evolves your Digimon, but...you'll get there eventually, yeah? Anyway, holosuit is an item that could mask a Digimon's appearance, by changing them into humanlike form. However, it's tend to be... useless when attacked. The masking gonna be undone that easily."
Hearing Colin's answer, Ryouta smiled. "I have no idea why we're chosen for one, but it's still not an excuse that actually, both us and our partners are chosen to be a team. That's why, we both have to understand each other, supporting each other and pushes each other to improve. Do not think your partner as something to tame, but someone to walk together with.
...Well, with that concluded, I'll give you choices. Would you return to Digital World with me for a training session... or would you go home first?"
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 29, 2016 7:26:10 GMT
Colin grinned as Ryouta said that being tall was a positive point with girls. "Heh, thanks. Hopefully I don't grow too tall, I don't really wanna frighten them off" he said.
"You wanna pick up girls, eh?" Bellamy asked, giving him a coy look downward. "Well you're partnered to just the right digimon! Follow my advice and you'll be scorin' with them left, right and centre!"
"Scoring drinks thrown in his face more like" Luke muttered.
"What was that, fuzz boy?!" Bellamy snapped down at him. Luke giggled a bit.
Ryu said that they were lucky to have retained much of their memories, and that they should use their experience for the better. "Yeah... I doubt we'll become mercenaries again" said Bellamy, looking a little ashamed. "But... I reckon we'll just take advantage of life a whole lot more"
Then the subject changed to holosuits. "Oh, okay. Do you know where I can get holosuits?" Colin asked. "...and are they expensive?"
"Yeah, we don't wanna dress up Bellamy and sell his body for money when he digivolves" said Luke.
"Hmph, you're just jealous I'd be raking in the cash" Bellamy scoffed.
Colin ignored this talk of course, then listened as to why they were chosen. "I guess so. I'll do my best to look after these two and help them get stronger" he said. "They pretty much just came out of nowhere and picked me as their partner. I don't know why, but I'm pretty happy about that"
"Heh, alrighty, we knew we picked ya well" said Luke. Then the next question was whether or not they wanted to go back to the digital world. Colin was interested. But... should he?
He looked at the clocks on the wall, and was surprised to see that very little time had actually passed since he had gone. He was definitely up for the idea.
"Well, okay, I'm game for it" Colin said. He had all day to spend after all. And he didn't really want his digimon partners to miss out by him not knowing how to look after them properly. "When does the next train go?"
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Post by ryouta on Oct 29, 2016 10:14:27 GMT
"Fair point, but as long as you're not this buff, you won't scare them off I think? I used to have reaaally baby face, so looking at my face like this the first time made me scared at myself," Ryouta offhandedly joked again. Ryu didn't comment much after the initial remark, seem to be a bit guilty hearing something that he's not supposed to hear. Ryouta shook his head.
"Mmmm, lessee, probably somewhere around a thousand bits each? I have no exact idea, I never bought one. Ryu preferred me to not buy anything that sort, maybe due to him unable to cuddle me anymore in that form?" he teased his partner, who giggled. "Cuddling Aniki is good though, although his body is a bit too hard lately," he commented. Ryouta only snorted. "Sorry, it's not like I'm against it, but cuddling with even my own brother in bed at this age is damn awkward, and that also applies to my human-formed partner."
The talk getting more and more dangerous and honestly, even Ryu is increasingly red from the talk, despite his innocence... don't tell him actually...?
"...Anyway!" he said, crossing his arms. "We can go now, kiddo---oh wait, we forget to introduce one another eh? My name's Ryouta, and this is Ryu, you already know that. For a westerner like you, you can just drop the honorific although to begin with, I'm not someone who cares about stiff formality. Nice to meet you eh?" he offered a hand, then should Colin returned the gesture, he would handshake him firmly.
He then turned to the nearest Trailmon that's ready to go, one that looks like worm.
"Hey!" he greeted, waking up the Trailmon.
"What kid? Just two of you? There's no way I'll take you with just two of you!"
"Well, I'm willing to pay," Ryouta said, going to the nearest locker, putting his phone and electronic device and the rest, and took a bag, then opening it, revealing onigiri. Lots of it. There must be more than thirty there.
"...Hn, fine, enough for my lunch. Give it here, kid!"
Ryouta dumped the entire bag of them to the Trailmon.
"Keep your phone here, Colin. The locker is 100 yen a day, might be a bit hefty, but better than destroying your phone. Turn it off meanwhile."
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Oct 29, 2016 14:13:13 GMT
"Heh, alright then" Colin said, supposing being tall -and- muscular would make a lot of girls nervous. According to his sister Sophie, girls mainly want to be respected and treated gently. Colin would do that regardless of his eventual height.
"A thousand... bits?" Colin asked, confused about that currency. "How much is that in yen roughly?"
"If it helps, a thousand bits in the Digital World is roughly a day's hard work" Luke said. "If you really want holosuits for us, it shouldn't be too hard. Although... heh... I kinda wonder what sort of human I'd look like with one"
"Probably a scrawny little cute guy" said Bellamy, deliberately talking down to him as payback for that remark about his advice about girls being bad. Luke scowled.
Ryu then said that he didn't like being in his holosuit, mainly because Ryouta didn't like to cuddle him that much in it.
"Heh... I don't blame ya" said Bellamy. "Bein' cuddled by humans is awesome. There they go, struttin' around the place like they own everything, but give 'em a cute look and they'll smother you with affection!"
Colin gave a nervous laugh at this. He did find the digimon cute and would probably cuddle them like he would with animals... but cuddling them when they looked like humans? "I think I'd probably pass on cuddling them in holosuits. I think that'd make my family give the wrong idea if they found out".
"Eh, your loss buddy" Luke said. "I gotta say, you're a good cuddler. I don't even tell you where to pet me and you pick all the right spots".
Colin grinned. He had grown up around pets, and knew they always liked being petted in spots where they couldn't reach with their own paws.
Then Ryouta formally introduced himself. Colin was glad he was spared the obligation of using honorifics, he was never good with those. Ryouta offered a handshake, and Colin reached out and returned it. Colin had been taught by his father to always give firm handshakes, since weak ones gave a weak impression, so to say. He expected a firm one in return obviously, and was given one.
Then Ryouta talked to the train. Colin was curious about this, then the train suddenly spoke back. He hadn't yet seen a Trailmon talk so this was rather startling. Colin felt a bit awkward when the Trailmon said he wouldn't transport just two people back to the digital world, but, a bit of culinary convincing from Ryouta changed that.
"Oh gosh, thanks" Colin said, a little bashful about a transaction being made for his benefit. He was then told that he should probably store his cellphone on Earth. "Okay, I'd best not risk this getting fried". His parents would be directed to his voicemail if they called however. But they hopefully trusted him enough to not be too pedantic about it.
And so Colin paid the yen to hire the locker and put his cellphone in it. With that, he supposed he'd best board the Trailmon. Bellamy and Luke remained on his person, excited to see what would happen next in this training.
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