Lemonade Stand (Solo Job)

After having met with her new slimy companion, Viere set off in search for trains. No, not training, but the trains. To be more specific, the same train that brought her here to this strange place. God knows how her mother must feel knowing that her daughter never came back from school. It would make such a huge problem...She really didn't want to worry her. She also had school the next day. So many things to do...She had to get out of here fast....if there was a way in then there must be a way out, and the train is the key, right? Viere had been pondering about this in silence the entire time. Ruru, who guided her to the outside of the junlge, followed closely behind her, getting bored from the silence. So she decided to break it by talking.

"So what does your home look like?" Ruru asked curiously, speeding up to walk beside Viere with a smile on her human like face. Viere was startled by her being so close to her now. It was still unusual to see a...slime...in the form of a human.

"My..uh..." Viere was taken aback really. She was never a social girl and barely had conversations with others, much less about herself.

"My home...Is back in the human world." She answered somewhat awkwardly, Ruru however, shook her head.

"That wasn't what I asked! What does the Hewmoon world look like?" Ruru asked, Viere simply looked at her with disbelief.

"Why do you do that, it's HUMAN, not HEWMOON."

"I know! It's just more fun to say it like this~! Hewmoon! What does it look like hahah!" Ruru smiled brightly and giggled.

"R...Right...My world..." Viere paused for a moment, trying to think of words to describe it.

"It's...uh...industrious...there's lots of tall buildings and houses...and a lot of Humans, all different...Uhm...there's good food." Viere simply said, unsure if this was a good description, suddenly she realised something. She had Ruru guide them out of the jungle and after having walked aimlessly they had finally entered what looked to be a very badly damaged plain. It looked like hell had broken lose around here..Viere was slightly bothered by this...it was like if Godzilla came to wreck things...What was even stranger was the fact that more unidentified creatures appeared. Viere was unsettled...First Ruru and now these? Some looked like small metallic lady bugs, others like blue bipedal dogs, hopping balls of...What the hell?

Ruru peered curiously as she slid forward and waved to the working Digimon with her hair hand and her normal hand. Well nothing about Ruru is normal, but you understand.

"Hello there! You guys look busy! Whatcha'll doing?" She asked cheerfully, Viere startled by how easy Ruru could start a conversation with others...Well she figured that they were all Digimon so it must not be too hard... A particularly human like Digimon came...well human like to a very small extend. It was cyan skinned...very tall...muscular and masked with two wodden swords on its belt...Viere felt intimidated and took some steps back after the tall Swordsman looked down on them. Viere terrified and Ruru simply smiled as she looked up.

"Hiya there!"

"Hello child, Human. What brings you two here?" He asked with a not so intimidating voice. Sounded like Viere's teacher almost.

"We were passing by! Nice to meet you! I'm Ruru, this here is Viere!" Ruru pointed at her scared companion. Yasyamon sighed as if he's gone through this millions of times.

"I am Yasyamon, it is good to meet you both, please know, little Human, I will not harm you. Despite my outwards appearance I am a warm fellow." Yasyamon nodded as if trying to confirm this himself.

"S...Sorry...I-It's just.....w...wait a sec how do you know I'm a human?" Viere asked him with a perplexed look on her face.

"Oh, I've seen many like you come past here. A lot of them lately...There was a time in which they stopped coming but recently they are everywhere!" Yasyamon answered in a matter of factly tone of voice, gesturing with his hands.

"....Eh? E...Everywhere..?" 

"Yes."

And to this Viere was so confused...there were already humans here before her? What the hell? 

"Do you know where I can find them?!" Viere asked desperately, taking a step forward, causing Yasyamon to take a step back himself.

"I...I'm sorry but I don't know where they congregate. I've been staying here for only a little while... we are reconstructing this place." He answered, Viere clearly disappointed, looking aside with a frown.

"What happened here? Looks all crispy!" Ruru asked, Viere glanced at Ruru who asked this. She looked around the place seeing Digimon sewing seeds and removing debris...

"As far as I know, it was a battle of epic proportions. We are unsure of the details but it left most, if not, all of the Network Plains in a huge mess...We've started to try and renew it back to the beautiful expanse of land it once was, but as you see...It is quite tasking." Yasyamon answered, gesturing to his fellow working Digimon with a sad voice.

"Oh....That's so sad...HEY! I have an idea! Why don't we help!" Ruru asked cheerfully, Viere's eyes widening, looking at Ruru with surprise.

"B-But Ruru I--"

"We can't just leave these guys all alone! We gotta help! If we've found trouble, it's our responsability to do stuff about it!" Ruru said with a proud voice...and well, now that she said that so loudly, Digimon were glancing over to them, some murmuring happily, others confused. Viere felt like all eyes were on them and she didn't like it....She didn't realy have a choice.

"S....Sure...We can uh...help." Viere answered reluctantly.

"Ah! How wonderful! It is very kind of you to help." Yasyamon said pleased. "Well right now we could use some quick help with our lemonade stand. Come this way." He said as he turned and lead the two.

"A lemonade stand..?" Viere asked confused assuming she would be expected to do manual labour...but this was fine, meanwhil, Ruru simply happily jiggled behind her, not even knowing what lemonade was.

"Yes, our current snack crew has been pushing themsleves to the limit, trying to stay awake in order to keep selling and preparing more snacks and drinks for the workers. Food and drink are important." He said in a wise tone of voice, even if what he was talking about was quite trivial.

"I can't  argue with that...." Viere answered offhandedly, Yasyamon chuckling beneath his mask. Viere stared...she wondered if this Digimon had  mouth or something...How does it eat? They reached a small caravan that had a small line of workers who were sweating...She saw more different Digimon now. Some that looked like rabbits, others that were like foxes and lizards...How diverse. Yasyamon knocked on the back door of the caravan and opened it.

"Coming in...Burgermons, I got you guys some helping hands." Yasyamon spoke, letting the two in after himself. The two looked at the workers...and it was two...yellow...things just as tall as her who had this whole kitchen littered with prepared sandwhiches and a huge jar of lemonade. One was handing things out and the other came to them.

"Oh hey Yasyamon! Really? You got volunteers?" It spoke with a werid european accent. Yasyamon gestured to the two and Viere was once again, taken aback...Ruru simply smiled and waved.

"Hiiii! I'm Ruru! This is Viere and we are here to help!" Ruru pointed to herself and Viere, who awkwardly said hello as well.

"Oh boy! This'll be good! We've been awake for 3 days straight! It's always nice getting help!" It answered enthusiastically.

"...You sound...energetic.." Viere noted. 

"Ho! Believe me! We are this close to collapsing!" It smiled and laughed, the other not so much.

"How did they manage to stay up before then...?"

"We had other Burgermon...however they're in the medical bay as they caught some fevers. And the only ones who know how to make drinks or food are them."

"Luckily we premade a lot of these so all you would need to do is hand em out!"

"S-Sure..."

"Only for a couple of hours so we can regain our energy! Yay!" The burgermon cheered and pulled its friend after letting everyone know from out the window.

"There will be no more food prepared for now! We have some new staff attending! Please be nice as always! We are gonna sleeeeeep!" It told everyone, who all answered in kind. Viere just realised this now as it was pulling it's pal along...it was asleep...this whole time.

"Good niiiight!" It told the three before taking its friend and entering a room which was near the back entrance where they came in from and locked the door shut where they would sleep.

"....Well....you heard em kids. Handle them out. I must return to remove some heavier debris and other....dangerous things. Best of luck." The Yasyamon saluted and left the caravan. Viere and Ruru looked at eachother, Viere more confused than Ruru.

"R....Right so...All we gotta do is attend the people?" Viere walked over to the attending window after dropping off her bag, where they would be handling things out and there was a line of waiting Digimon who all looked at her curiously...This was awkward. She looked down at the Digimon from the caravan window.

"Hi!" Ruru popped up next to her. "What would you like?"

"Meal and drink please!"

"Okaaaaay, Viere gimme some!" Ruru smiled enthusiastically, Viere blinked and remained motionless for a moment, then she nodded and quickly got the sandwich and lemonade and handed them to Ruru...who quite amazingly grabbed it with her hair without even turning back, and handed it down to the Digimon.

"Thanks!"

"Take care! Neeeeext!" Ruru gestured with her normal hand for the next customer. Viere was somewhat shocked by Ruru's ability to adapt so well, as well as just being so natural at socialising. 

"Meal and Drink!"

"Right...!" Viere got some more and Ruru of course, took them the same way. 

"Stay saaafe!"

"How do you even know where to grab without turning around?" Viere asked curiously as she went to get some more ahead of time.

"Oh? Well my eyes aren't the ones you see! My eyes are up here!" Ruru suddenly grew another arm and hand from her back and pointed to the two orbs in the ear like blobs on her head.

"I can see things with these! So that's why I don't gotta turn around. Convenient right?"

"Huh..." Viere looked at the two red orbs and was amused. She may look human but she's still a slime monster.



After attending some more mons, it wasn't soon until more people started to come by...the line growing ever larger, to the point where Viere had to attend the people next to Ruru as well. It was weird...and awkward, she couldn't keep up with Ruru who could keep saying hello and stretching her limbs to grab the nearest food and drinks and who continued to smile all the way through. Viere was starting to feel tired quickly, having to attend people and run back and forth to keep getting the food and such for the customers.

"Busy on your side Viere? Wanna swap?" Ruru asked her partner who seemed to be rushing, trying to get the things in time, but her line kept growing more and more.

"S...Sure...Sorry"

"Nah! It's okay!" Ruru swapped with the defeated Viere and quickly got the orders done, however in the end it seemed like her line grew right back again the moment they swapped. 

More time passed and Viere was feeling hungry, her stomach making audible noises and Ruru couldn't help but giggle.

"Don't go eating the merchendise now!" She teased, Viere blushed from the embarrasment and shook her head.

"What are you on about! Nonesense..." Viere answered frustratingly, then silently peering at the food...it looked really nice...

"No. NO. You have strong willpower! Don't let yourself give in to temptation!"


More time passed and Viere was visibly exhausted and starving...In fact she looked so bad that people stopped coming on her side and started going to Ruru's, making her line much bigger and giving her a sudden increased workload.

"Ah, yes! Snack for you! Or wait was it...No wait!"

More and more mons came up and kept requesting for food and Ruru was starting to lose her cool streak. There was a limit to how many she could attend at once, and the line was almost non existent now.

"V-Viereeeee help!"

"....R-Right sorry. Please stay in a line and split off to two lines..." She sheepishly said, but her voice wasn't loud enough.

"....I tried."

"V-Viereee! C'mon! With feeling!" Ruru pleaded.

"Yeah with feeling tired and hungry..."

"Not those feelings!"

Suddenly the door from the room at the back opened and out came two Burgermons, looking like they had a goodnights sleep despite it being only around 5 hours since they began. 

"We are aliiiiiiiiive!"

"Yeeeeep. How are you two holding up?" Asked the burgermon, whom Viere could only assume was the one that talked to them.

"We need help..." Ruru asked with an awkward smile. If she could sweat, she would be right now.

"We are back dear customers! Everyone say thank you to the two lovely people who attended for us while we slept!"

Everyone cheered and said thank you to the two. Ruru smiling brightly, despite feeling tired herself, it felt worth it...and Viere had an immense sense of relief.

From the door at the back came Yasyamon, who after hearing the announcement came to them.

"Hello child, human, I was keeping an eye out on you two, you both held up well....However I could say the human looked like she was not prepared for this." Yasyamon laughed lighty, Viere simply glared at it, which in turn made Ruru laugh. 

"It was tough but we pulled through together! Now I'm hungry though!"

"We thought you might be, so here you can take some food and drink!" The burgermon handed Viere a basket with sandwiches and bottled drinks. Viere almost shed a tear.

"....Thank you...."

"No, thank YOU very much for helping us out!"

"What about the Burgermon that were sick? Will they come back to help?"

"Ah, those two should be back later on at the night. I gave them a quick visit and they seemed like they would be better." Yasyamon explained. 

"Oh that's great!" Ruru cheered. Viere was already eating her food. Again she almost cried. She drank the lemonade and ate her sandwich with vigor. Ruru laughed at the sight.

"Oh! Hey! By the way, you know where we can find trailmons?" Ruru asked the Yasyamon, Viere perked up as she realised she never did ask about trailmons. The Yasyamon tapped his chin and pondered.

"I...I've only been through these parts recently so I'm not too familiar with the trailmon's routes...I come from the south...There's a city there, maybe you might have some luck?" It answered with a shrug. "Don't quote me on that though."

"Nah It's alright! At least now we got an idea right Viere!" 

"Mhm...Thank you Yasyamon."

"No, it is quite alright."

"Here! Have some more for the journey." One of the Burgermon shoved an almost excessive amounts of sanwiches into the basket and more bottled lemonade. Viere bowed politely at the chefs.

"I am forever in your gratitude." Viere felt blessed to have food in a strange world like this, specially with what she assumed would be a long long travel.


After that, the two exited the caravan and begun to head south in the direction Yasyamon told them to.

"Bye Bye Yasyamon! Hope you are able to fix this place up! We'll be baaaaaaaaaaack!"

"Good bye! Stay safe you two!" The Yasyamon waved goodbye as the two girls continued their journey to the south, Ruru eating some sandwich along the way.

Meanwhile in the lemonade selling caravan, one of the Burgermons spoke up.

"Hey now that I think about it, didn't we see a Trailmon go to Terminus city earlier today?"

"I don't remember I was barely awake!"