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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Apr 18, 2017 13:14:16 GMT
Bellamy's eyes narrowed as Dynasmon's words of horror and despair reached him. "What the hell did you think would happen?!" the Beelzemon spat. "You come at us with that crap? That we're the ones in the wrong? After... after all the love we have for our human partners, bastards like you think you can just strut up to us and tear us apart?!"
Luke nodded. His blue eyes twinkled a little from behind his armored mask. "Bells did warn you though" he said.
Too injured to evade, Dynasmon attempted to block their attacks with a shield. Luke attempted to pierce it, his jets flying at full speed, but he was unable to get all the way through. And Bellamy's rapid fire gatling gun attack merely made it shimmer.
But then came Hikaru. His attack pierced right through it, and laid the finishing blow on Dynasmon.
When he was gone, Luke and Bellamy walked up to the Alphamon as he knelt. He asked them to look after Yuuki. They glanced, and saw that Colin was there to take care of him. Neither of them had forgotten what they had been through to get to this moment, what Hikaru had done, the lies he told, the pain he had caused.
But they instantly forgave him. He was there - alive. And neither of them would let him out of his sight so easily.
"Glitched or not, Hikaru, you're my friend. Always" Bellamy said, and the Beelzemon didn't care how un-awesome he looked. He hugged the Alphamon tightly.
"I'm so glad to see you again, Hikaru" Luke added, also hugging him, tears running down his face again.
"Don't you ever do that again, alright?" Bellamy said, suddenly fierce. "You told Luke you'd die, then you run off, you make us all worried, and now you're not dead!"
Luke concurred, but, he felt like he should give his friend some advice too. "You may want to think carefully about what you're gonna say to Yuuki" he said. "I... don't think I've ever seen anyone be as upset as he was before just now".
In the end, they were just friends. But Yuuki was Hikaru's partner. And ultimately, he would have to face him. Luke hoped they would be able to sort this out.
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Post by yuuki on Apr 18, 2017 13:45:41 GMT
"....Heh, thanks, sorry there..." the Alphamon hugged his friends back. Too bad he can't yet unarmor himself him here... otherwise they'd be smothered by FLOOF. His eyes softened as he saw Luke cried. "...Sorry, I totally don't meant any of it... I thought... it'll be less hurtful for you guys if I just disappear without saying much goodbye. Even I don't want to see my friends tearing up from my death."
He sighed and fell on his butt unceremoniously. "...Looks like I still have some energy over. I REALLY HOPE I won't be stuck in this form in return though."
"You better won't," Yuuki came closer to him, albeit currently bandaged. His wounds are pretty nasty, but he'll survive, mostly. "...You got a lot to explain, partner."
"I sure do," Hikaru exhaled and looked to the sky. "...I just knew that I got infected yesterday... The virus is called a Chronos-Virus... Sorry there, Luke. I was really desperate to the point of I just give up... It's not without basis, though. It's unclear what sort of virus is this, but affected Digimon are rapidly returning back to their basic form, or so most of the explanation said. It fits the symptoms shown by Gotoh--"
"Your first date? That Gabumon?" Yuuki asked.
"Yeah... Gotoh... cannot evolve at all, and it was the cause of his death. What I described to Luke, degeneration and ... I didn't want to tell you because you'd be really worried, but... his partner said that he overheard Gotoh is infected by that, the Chronos-Virus. The moment I can't evolve and only degenerate after hitting armor made me notice, that it's really like that. I got infected too."
"But since when? Is it infectious?"
"I don't think so. I think the Arbiters creates some sort of special bullet that they shot to you. It also apparently won't work to solo Digimon. There's coding difference between Solo Digimon and Partnered Digimon. Still, this made me worry..."
"...Elysia might be in trouble afterall."
Hikaru nodded grimly. "Our friends there might be relentlessly targeted by Arbiters... Judge of the Heaven might still held most of his allies on bay to not attack the human side, but if there are someone foolish enough to cross him..."
"...That'd be the worst," Yuuki muttered.
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Apr 22, 2017 9:18:03 GMT
Glad that Hikaru was still among them, Luke and Bellamy appreciated his hug back. "Oh you fool" Luke said at his words. "If you think you were going to die and there was nothing we could do, do you think we'd be better off if you didn't give us the chance to say goodbye?"
Bellamy concurred. "Yeah, man, like, if it was something terminal, we'd at the very least try to make sure, well, you'd be happy if you were really gonna... you know".
But of course, they probably couldn't avoid the awkward conversation that would come next. The Fulminomon and Beelzemon took passive positions as Hikaru faced Yuuki. Colin stood behind Yuuki a little distance away.
They listened as Hikaru explained that he had the symptoms of the Chronos Virus. None of the three had heard of that illness before now. And that Hikaru was so scared because it had been the virus that felled his first boyfriend, Gotoh the Gabumon.
"Oh... damn" Luke uttered, realizing that his actions were not so terrible now. That Gotoh had probably died of this and caused so much pain to the Dorumon, no wonder he wanted to try and have this swept under the carpet.
"So wait" Colin said when they were finished. "Who are these Arbiters? Are they digimon that just hate humans and their partners?"
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Post by yuuki on Apr 22, 2017 10:42:39 GMT
Hikaru of course patted his friend's back calming them down. "I'm sorry there... again, I'm sorry. Please don't tell Owen about this? Honestly as much as possible I want it that this incident kept secret," Hikaru admitted. Then again, it's impossible to be happy while having terminal illness so suddenly... After their awkward dialogue, Colin suddenly brought a valid point.
"...Ah, right, sorry, we must start from there, huh? Let's see... Arbiter are task force that used by Judges to eliminate the human who are related to Elysia, but the general consensus is yeah, they hate human, probably more than Digimon in El Doradimon do." Yuuki sat on the grass beside Hikaru. He took one of the painkiller med just in case to mute the pain slightly. It's annoying, but what can he do, he guess...
"...About several years ago, apparently, even before when I become a partnered human... there exist a group of humans. They felt like they're not exactly welcome in both real world and Digital World. However, while in Real World they're treated as if they're losers, in Digital World, they still can help through the power of being chosen by Digital World. So, they banded together and they wanted to create this peaceful place for human called Elysia. Their vision is to make Digital World into a peaceful world for both human and Digimon.
Unfortunately, even when they're about to do it, they had one problem. They had no idea where to build this safe haven, nor they have any capital to do it. Fortunately, there exist group of Digimons called Judges. It's unclear whether they're affiliated with any of the Digital World order, but... Judges are each Super Ultimates, it's not something that you can get normally. One of those Judges, against the desire of his peers, offered some of the part of his area for human to build that said city, Elysia. He even offered to help to build the city as long as the human of Elysia could act as watcher to the human that come to Digital World. "
Yuuki exhaled, then continued. From his expression, it looks like it's going to not be a nice story.
."...Unfortunately, Elysia soon in a situation even worse than anything ever happened. Some of the people began to question where they stood and why they're there in Digital World. More chaotic people began to feel that the rule imposed by the judge was unfair... and there are problem. Elysia is unaware of what is in people's heart. Many abuses Elysia's status as safe haven for human. Then, there are also problem with people who felt unsatisfied with Elysia submitting itself to the Digimon rules. Many often forgot the rule when in Rome, do as the Roman. The human unfortunately become greedy for freedom. It's not few that people also thinks Digital World like a game. Those sort of human views Digimon's death as a game. They keep spreading chaos and then took refuge in Elysia when it gone wrong... Before they knew it, Elysia now looked like a fortress for those scums. The judges quickly act and asked Elysia to surrender the criminals. The problem is, the judges demands for their death. Of course there is a problem with that in human's point of view. Death is permanent. So you can guess what happened next. Outrage happened, and the people who was unaware of their friends actually scums on earth tried to fight for their friends... it was a chaos, and soon the Judges treats all Elysian as criminals.
By the way, I'm also treated as one. It was an accident really. One of the scum got escaped, got chased by the Arbiters, he tossed the blame to Karin. Karin got in trouble, me and other four quickly came to her aid and we fought the Arbiters. Their side refuses to acknowledge our plead of not guilty and it's actually a legitimate self defense... and well, the rest is history. We ended up in Elysia and become its resistance force..."
Yuuki sighed again. "...By being one that means I've killed Digimon and human alike. Elysia became a dystopic hell. If you want to know more about it just ask me. I think we're lucky that the Digimon didn't sent any SOS signal, otherwise you guys gonna get pulled to that shit too."
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Apr 27, 2017 3:06:05 GMT
Hikaru asked them not to tell Owen about this. Both of the twins nodded. That Gaomon was too sweet to be upset by news like this. "Alright, but only if you promise to give him a hug and a full date" Bellamy said, grinning.
Colin was a bit confused about the mention of judges, but then Yuuki mentioned Elysia again. "Ohh, right, so they're linked from your adventures of 7 years ago?" he asked, finally starting to get where Yuuki was coming from. Luke folded his arms and scratched his chin.
"And they're starting to show up here now in the Digital Core?" he asked. "This could become something to worry about".
The three of them remained silent while Yuuki told the story about Elysia and the Judges. The three of them were astonished to hear that such a nice place had soon become corrupted by evildoers, and the situation was worsened by the judges ordering a punishment none of them would accept.
"Oh boy, what a mess" Bellamy remarked when he finished, the Beelzemon scratching his head. And it was only lucky they weren't drawn into this as well?
"Well then. I think what we need to do here is stop the Arbiters from doing that horrible stuff again" Colin said. He nodded at Luke and Bellamy. "I mean, they might not be Super Ultimate levels yet, but, they only hatched about 7 months ago. Reaching Mega in under a year tells me that they'll soon be strong enough to take these bastards on".
"I think it's probably going to be more complicated than that..." Luke said cautiously. "But, Yuuki and Hikaru are our friends. And if you want to help them out, Colin... Bellamy and I will back you up" he smiled behind his armored mask. "However, it's a risky decision, Colin. You could get caught up in a huge mess, and I hope you'd be prepared for that".
Colin looked at Yuuki's pocket where the painkillers were kept, and his metal arm. Yeah. That was something big to be caught up in alright.
"Well... the way I see it, I was brought to the digital world for a reason - to help make it right" he said. "And with you two around, I think we can take them on".
Luke and Bellamy could only look back at their partner with looks of adoration as he declared his confidence in them. With that done, Colin looked at Yuuki. "Okay, so, what's next?" he asked. "Is there anything we need to do to help Hikaru?"
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Post by yuuki on Apr 27, 2017 3:51:26 GMT
"Another date? Sounds fun," Hikaru answered, chuckling. "Last time I heard from him, he's transporting lemonade to Digital Core... hmm, I wonder how it goes?"
Then, Colin seem to be listening intently... yeah, he's right. "It's mostly seven years digital world time, yes. It's just a year in real world. Then again, this thing about the Elysia happened long before I even met Hikaru so yeah... I'm not clear. The Judges refuses to talk about Elysia, and the only one who talks about it is a damn viper, so I really can't trust his words. Now there might be bias on Elysian council who unfortunately not the originals who built the island, the founders apparently gone missing... but because I'm one among very few Super Ultimates back then, I think they also have tried to curry my favor, so a possibility of bias is also there."
Luke seem to be worried that they're appearing in Digital Core. For Yuuki though, he just shook his head. "They won't bother anyone who unrelated to being a criminal," he admitted. "Arbiters aren't as foolish to kill any human in sight and then caught the ire of most human anyway... when that happened, I'm sure the human would side to Elysia... they don't want that."
"The problem with the 'entire horrible stuff'," Hikaru put an air quote "...is that the fact that it's hidden from the public. Luke is right. To begin with, horrible is up to how you see it... yes, for us, it's completely unjust, but admittedly, Elysia was a hellhole in itself. During the final battle few months ago, me and Yuuki saw that the Arbiters are not our only enemy. Humans are too... chaotic humans who took the time for war to betray and tried to take Elysia for themselves. So basically, we're stuck between rough places."
"I appreciate the help," Yuuki told Colin "...but for now I want you to not get caught on it just yet. For now... well, I myself still trying to get some way to get back to Elysia. With it currently looks like a huge prison, it's hard to return there unnoticed... I might need to build my power more, too... and you heard Hikaru. His Alphamon form is only 25% of his usual, complete form."
Well, at least with that enough, he suddenly fell to the ground.
At first Hikaru looked panicked, but upon hearing his slow, tired breathing, he sighed in relief.
"...Looks like he's tired. Well, just in case, we need to bring him to hospital in Terminus. I'm sure he's anemic from all that fiasco..." Hikaru muttered.
Still, there's no indication that the Alphamon would move anytime soon. "...Luke, Colin, Bellamy... hear me out a bit," he requested in low voice. "...I want you to meet a guy with Hackmon partner... his name is Itou Kenji. From the surname, as you can guess, he's Yuuki's little brother." Hikaru took out a paper and pen, then rapidly writing something. When he's done, it looked like some data string.
"...This is the data string for the Chronos Virus. Give him this. Hackmon--no, Gin, he most likely can help us in getting the cure for that virus. The problem is not even I know where he is... the brothers, you see, have some personal problem, a really deep one... You can say that Kenji dislikes Yuuki--or maybe hate? It's not to point of killing or like murderous hate, but... let's just say, everytime two of them met, a fight often breaks out. The... analogy would be Abeforth and Albus Dumbledore, I guess?"
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on May 1, 2017 4:04:13 GMT
"Lemonade, huh?" Luke said, shrugging. "That sounds like an easy task".
Far in the distance, across the plains, the sound of a very sarcastic Gaomon's laughter sounded, before it burst into tears. For some reason.
Yuuki then talked about the politics of Elysia, which Colin completely lost track of. In fact that put him off taking an active role in helping out too much. Luke and Bellamy decided to pass to the next subject as well.
Luke kept his arms folded, however. "Nonetheless, people like you have made social networks and you're a vital part of this. If the Arbiters are really keen on trying to drag you over there, we can't exactly stay out of it..." he hesitated, then continued. "Well... I guess there's always diplomatic options?"
"Hmph, diplomacy..." Bellamy scoffed. "If they try and do some crap like try and kill Hikaru again, I'll show them "diplomacy" in the form of my cannon in their mouth".
"Easy big guy" Luke soothed his brother, the Beelzemon could still be a bit hotheaded.
So they needed time to reach their strongest forms before they'd attempt to return to Elysia? Colin nodded. "Alright, but, if there's anything we can do, we'd be glad to help"
Colin then gasped as Yuuki collapsed. Luke and Bellamy would have immediately moved in to heal him, but Hikaru didn't seem to be worried just yet. In fact he wanted them to help him with something after all.
"Kenji, eh?" Colin asked, then Hikaru explained that he was Yuuki's little brother. It seemed they had some kind of ongoing feud going on. He nodded hesitantly. "Alright... I'll do my best to find him" he said. He kind of understanded where that was coming from, he didn't always see his own brother Riku eye-to-eye.
With that, Hikaru gave him a sample of the Chrono Virus. Luke and Bellamy backed away momentarily, thinking it was dangerous. But Colin carefully handled it, storing it in a small sealed bag in his backpack.
"Alright" Colin said. "Any idea where he might be?" He supposed Yuuki wouldn't know, and it would be problematic if he was told what was going on.
"We'd better get Yuuki back to Terminus pretty quickly then" Bellamy added. "I can take him there if you guys are a bit tired". The Beelzemon had a pair of great big black feathered wings after all.
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Post by yuuki on May 5, 2017 8:09:08 GMT
:"Diplomatics, schdiplomatics," Hikaru answered, looking as fed up as Bellamy. "Sadly no, Luke. I'm not someone who likes fighting, but I'm not exactly a pacifist either. I know when to not pull the gun and this one is honestly time where gun need to be pulled... and that's definitely not now. We got a pacifist judge too among the arbiters, but... that pacifist judge still told us to break the bond between Digimon and human by destroying our Digivice. I can't take that as an alternative. That's just stupid."
Hmmm, question where Kenji is? "...No idea honestly, As far as I know he's not related to Elysia as whole... But well, that's not something that I know, especially when to begin with he never really talked with me and vice versa. It might be a wild goose search but let's hope that he's around."
Still, on the offer to ride... Hikaru degenerated back to Dorumon and shook his fur like a dog drying itself off. "I got a better idea. Give us a ride on your zeppelin! We'll be ridin' with style!"
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on May 6, 2017 13:39:08 GMT
Luke nodded as Hikaru took Bellamy's side of the fight-or-not-to-fight debate. "Alright, but, if the worst happens, we'll do what we can to get you and everyone else we like out of their clutches. Alive" he said. While the Fulminomon wasn't exactly up for negotiating with such assholes, well, he didn't want them to kill anyone he liked either.
And the so called "Pacifist" judge wanted them to break their bond by destroying their digivice? "God, they're just so freakin' delusional" Luke muttered. This somewhat surprised Bellamy, since that was something he was about to say. But he gave a small grin of pride at his brother that he thought the same thing.
Instead, Bellamy focused on what Hikaru next told them. "Okay, so, I'm guessin' this Kenji pretty much looks like Noctis-Sama here?" he asked, nodding at Yuuki. Luke shot him a warning look, but seemed like he was holding back laughter.
Colin meanwhile kept it together. "Okay. I guess we'll know when we see him" he said.
Then all of a sudden, Hikaru de-digivolved back to Dorumon. Taking that as a cue, Bellamy and Luke de-digivolved back to Impmon and Elecmon as well. Seeing as the two of them had thought they would never see Hikaru like this again, they were sure to give him a twin fluffy hug to let him know they were delighted he was back with them.
"Heh, well, alright then" Colin said, taking Daedalus's digimemory from his pocket. He slid it into his D-Arc and in a flash of light, the giant airship digimon appeared.
"Hello again" the AirVessemon said. "Where would you like to go, Colin?"
"Terminus City thanks, Daedalus" Colin answered. He prepared to bring Yuuki on board, hoping they were strong enough as a group to do so.
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Post by yuuki on May 7, 2017 12:51:51 GMT
"Kenji? Well... different... how to say... Yuuki used to have really dark brown hair and sky blue eyes... Kenji got chestnut colored hair, styled more spikily, like he used tons of hair gels but not really, and uh... his eyes is more to the greener side of the blue. He's generally a warm guy... if you don't talk about his brother that is. Well, their no-nonsense personality is the same though. I guess that shows that they're really brothers."
Tho while the comment about Yuuki being a certain video game character is funny, Hikaru pat the brothers on their back and smiled melancholically.
"...Biomerge might be neat, but be careful. Remember it's not just body for one or two, but body for you all. Use it too long and you'll be messing with Colin's DNA... get damaged and it'll be reflected to him. In that sense, Biomerge is one of the least safe option out there. I don't know how it works for the other, though. I only seen enough for me to think that it'll be the same for everyone."
Of course he's happy to be hugged by the brothers, so much that his tail starts to wag. However, when it comes to lifting Yuuki...
"...Aaah, you guys got no stretcher, huh? Well, it can't be helped."
Hikaru poked the Digivice several times and seem to manually access the Alphamon form once again, lifting his partner gently and walked inside the cabin.
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on May 9, 2017 10:35:14 GMT
"So, chestnut hair and green eyes? Got it" Luke said, keeping that image in his mind, although... he admitted Colin might be better at this. After all, for a red and white furred digimon with rabbit ears and nine tail spikes that could use electricity, most humans pretty much looked the same to him.
"Heh. Funny that they'd have somethin' in common as brothers" Bellamy said, putting an arm around Luke. "Better than us at least"
"Actually since we've been partners, I've noticed there's similar things about you guys too" Colin said. Both Bellamy and Luke looked curious about this.
"Yeah? Such as?" the Impmon challenged.
"Well, your faces are kinda the same shape, even if your eyes and fur are different colors" Colin began. "And, well, you're both really decisive about things. Once you decide on something you kinda try and move the earth to see it through, although Luke takes a bit longer to make up his mind".
"Hm. Maybe..." Luke relented. "Anything else?"
"Other than both of you being soft and warm, well, you've got similar senses of humour" Colin said. "Even if you tell Bellamy off if he's too crude, Luke, I can see you grinning".
"Heh, guess so. I just have your upbringing to take care of" the Elecmon said. "Anyways, now's not really the time to go over that. Let's talk more on Daedalus".
All of them took Hikaru's advice about biomerging seriously. "Yeah... I guess we'd best not stick to Colin too closely" Bellamy said. "Although I kinda think he'd be cool if he had some Beelzemon stuff on him, but, if it'd cause pain then we'd best avoid it".
"Yeah. Only biomerge in emergencies" Colin agreed. But then, alas, it seemed they had no way to move the still unconscious Yuuki. With Colin only being 13 and not being that strong, and with Luke, Hikaru and Bellamy now in their rookie forms, it'd be a struggle to drag the young man aboard the ship. But Hikaru solved that by evolving and simply walking on board.
"Huh. I didn't know ya could do that" Bellamy said, the Impmon scratching his chin, getting ideas. Just borrow Colin's blue card while he was sleeping and he could fly off as Beelzemon for... things.
But with that, they followed Yuuki and Hikaru aboard, and before long, Daedalus's engines roared to life, carrying the five of them back to Terminus City.
[Thread Exit]
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