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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 2:16:32 GMT
"Actually..." Adrian corrects Agumary, "even if you could afford this food all the time... that's not a good idea. There was this movie - a thing that humans create for other humans to watch - called 'Super Size Me.' It was about a human who ate this stuff for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a whole month. It, uh... didn't turn out too well for him. Everything in moderation, basically."
"Come on, food can't be bad for you!" Shoutmon insists as he tosses more food into his mouth. "It makes you happy and makes your stomach not be all growly!"
"Yes, but too much can also give you a huge stomachache," Adrian tells his partner. "Not like you Digimon need to worry about stuff like that. You could eat out an entire restaurant and still have room for more, I bet..."
Adrian and Shoutmon both look at Agumaru with big wide anime pure-white eyes as he starts speaking in run on sentences. "I think you've had enough soda for now..."
Agumaru then asked how there were so many restaurants of this nature. "Well... that's kind of hard to explain, really. But they somehow make it work. When humans work together, they could create amazing things. You should see our city, Tokyo... man, your jaw would fall right off as soon as you see how large it is."
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Post by agumaru on Apr 14, 2018 2:30:29 GMT
"Wouldn't... wouldn't being super sized be a good thing," Agumaru asks inquisitively. "I'm gonna super size me one day and be a... well... probably a Greymon if I'm not mistaken. Though I might become Tyranomon or GeoGreymon. I'll only find out once I forge my path, but..." He lets out a tiny laugh, realizing he is getting off-topic. "Food can't be bad, right? Worst-case scenario is a bellyache, and I'm tough enough to 'survive' one. Those are temporary anyways."
Then bartender Adrian cuts Agumaru off. "But... but soda! It is good and delicious and it fuels me and gives me power I could train forever with that in me oh I'm out of soda anyways nevermind!" He listens intently about Tokyo, but gets a bit concerned when mentioning his jaw would fall off. "I don't know if that's a good thing last time I had my jaw fell off was well... you know when, you were there and it wasn't a good time at all but let's not talk about that let's talk more about Tokyo. What's it like?"
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 2:42:12 GMT
"Super-size refers to enlarging the amount of food that you order," Adrian explained.
"So basically, the best option ever!" Shoutmon adds. "I'd never go hungry again if I supersized my food! ...actually, I still might, now that I think about it."
Adrian laughed a bit. "Yeah... Also, you can have the rest of my soda, I guess. I'm trying to cut back anyways. Mom's orders." He hands the still full cup over to Agumaru.
"And when I say your jaw would drop off, I don't literally mean it. I just mean that Tokyo has a lot of things going for it. Karaoke bars, malls, restaurants, parks, schools... really is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Personally, I live in the Shibuya Ward of Tokyo... which is actually where the most digital abnormalities have been occurring as of late..."
Then, Adrian heard the ToyAgumon bring up his Digivolution line. "Hey, we can see what your next stage is here!" Adrian says, as he pulls out his Digivice and scans Agumaru. He read the info on the Digivice, and it said "ToyGreymon."
At first, Adrian sweats and has a look of panic on his face. Does he tell Agumaru the truth? Or should he lie, saying it's a normal Greymon?
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Post by agumaru on Apr 14, 2018 2:59:48 GMT
"Bigger food than this," Agumaru asks excitedly, "You can get that? That's awesome! Always do that, yes!" He agrees wholeheartedly with Shoutmon on the matter. Then the ToyAgumon decides to help Adrian out with cutting back on his soda, eagerly gulping it down. "Thank you thank you thankyou! You are great you know that?"
Tokyo sounds amazing to the small dinosaur's (lack of) ears. It also seems to be where Digimon end up the most in the real world. "Maybe they all just want to see how great Tokyo is? It sounds like a place lots of Digimon would want to go to even if there is school there like you said but the other parts sound great."
So... that device could tell him what he'd become? "I always thought it depended on various circumstances like how Digimon lived their lives or who they met or something like that but I guess maybe it tells the most likely based on the current path and stats? What does it say for me? And whatabout Shoutmon?"
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 21:28:44 GMT
It was up to Adrian now. He could tell Agumaru the truth, that he was actually a ToyAgumon, and that his champion form would be ToyGreymon. Or...
"Oh, damn... it's broken!" Adrian lied.
"Huh? No it isn't," Shoutmon says, right before Adrian bonked him right on the top of his head, giving Shoutmon a big anime head bump. "Ow. That hurt..." He says before he falls over.
"Yeah, the damn thing won't even turn on..." Adrian sighs, even though the information was right there on the screen. He put the "broken" Digivice back into his pocket. "Sorry, Agu. Maybe next time. But yeah, you should definitely visit Shibuya sometime, although you might need a holosuit to do so. Not everyone in the human world knows about Digimon, and they tend to... not be very kind to things that seem strange to them."
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Post by agumaru on Apr 14, 2018 21:46:00 GMT
"What? It's broken!?" Initiate panic mode. Agumaru flails around, trying to get a good look. "Isn't that important? Don't you need it for-"
Then Shoutmon claims it is not broken, and gets bopped for it. "Whoa! Hey! Not cool! Why would you do that for him just... oh." Realization shines in Agumaru's eyes. "I know what's going on," he says darkly, glaring at Adrian. "I know what this is about... you don't know how to use it right!" His voice becomes accusational yet much lighter.
"Just because Shoutmon called you out on it doesn't mean you should hit him like that! I bet I can get it to work, give it here!" He reaches towards Adrian, hoping he will take the device out of his pocket and hand it to him. "I promise I won't break it - or break it 'further' as you think. Heh heh, sorry, but you deserve to be teased not for your incompetence - which I'm sure isn't the case. I bet that's pretty complex. But teased for how hard you deny it that you'd resort to harming an innocent friend."
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 22:03:37 GMT
"Yeah, it's broken," Adrian sighed. Then Shoutmon had to go and blow his cover - Shoutmon learned his lesson for that. Then Agumaru said he knew what was going on.
"Y... you do?" Adrian asked nervously. Oh god, damn it Shoutmon, now look what you've done! He's gonna freak out-
Then Agumaru pretty much called Adrian incompetent. Hearing his, Adrian fell over anime-style. He can at least say that he kept Agumaru from finding out, although he didn't exactly know what to do now. Right as Adrian was gonna move away, Agumaru took out the Digivice from Adrian's pocket.
"NOOOO!" Adrian yelled, reaching his hand back for his Digivice. The screen was clear:
Species: ToyAgumon Level: Rookie
"It didn't even tell me the next form..." Adrian sighs.
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Post by agumaru on Apr 14, 2018 22:54:43 GMT
After enough flailing and grasping, Agumaru retrieves Adrian's Digivice. "Okay! Now to see what's wrong with-"
Species: ToyAgumon
Level: Rookie
"Oh." He stares at the screen for a while, blank-faced. What was going through Agumaru's mind? Did he finally realize the truth? Is he struggling with the discovery that he might not be a real Agumon? Does he think that Adrian is being mean, or maybe even the Digivice itself was insulting him? "I think I'm still hungry."
Eventually, he returns to normal. "Ah. I see. I think I hit a button there, sorry. I'll fix that!" He starts happily tip-tapping away at the buttons on the device with a cartoony smile practically making the "^u^" emoji as he does so. "I'll get it to work no problem! Just gotta do this, and this and-" Perhaps hitting all those buttons wasn't such a great idea after all, but it isn't turned off nor is it displaying ToyAgumon or ToyGreymon. "Here you go, all better!" Was it?
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 23:03:26 GMT
The best way to describe what Adrian was thinking right now is "first episode of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid," as he was just staring blankly at the ToyAgumon.
He's hungry? That's what he thinks? He just ignores the scanner's saying? Still smiling. What go on? Make no sense. All logic thrown out window. Mental shutdown.
However, if that Digivice wasn't broken before, it surely was now. Adrian doesn't know what Agumaru did to it, but the Digivice was now just showing a game of Solitare. "What the hell?"
"What happened?" Shoutmon asked Adrian.
"Now the Digivice actually IS broken! God damn it..." Adrian groaned as he hung his head down low. "And this thing didn't even show you the other information... I guess its exclusive to Haru's club or whatever... here, let me see what else there is to-" Adrian grabbed the bags, but they seemed very light. "Huh?"
Adrian took a quick peak in the fast food bags. It was all trash, and no food. "Shoutmon... did you eat everything here?"
"...yes." Shoutmon admitted.
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Post by agumaru on Apr 14, 2018 23:25:31 GMT
Adrian complains that it really IS broke this time, but how could that be? It has Solitaire now! "Broke... or made better," Agumaru happily and sincerely asks. "Wait. How do you play Solitaire with that few buttons? Oh well~" He shrugs, his good deed done for the day. "So, what else we got to eat?"
Apparently nothing. "You.... you ate all the food?" Agumaru looks about ready to cry, staring in watery-eyed disbelief. "But... but I needed more of that to fuel me and make me bigger and give me energy so I can get stronger and reach my goals of becoming stronger and a real hero like my big brother and to be able to fight evil spires without being bulldozed by Rhinomon into it and...and.... Oh... okay..." He hangs his head sadly. However, he quickly puts on a soft smile and shakes his head. "No use whining, right? That's not going to help anyone. Sorry about that!"
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 14, 2018 23:49:19 GMT
"I don't even LIKE Solitaire!" Adrian yells, a bit too loudly, which he quickly apologized for. "It's fine... I don't know HOW you managed to do it, so that's a feat all on its own. Luckily, I bought this this afternoon..." Adrian then pulled out another Digivice, with a more updated design.
"Ooh, the D-Arc!" Shoutmon says. "It allows Adrian to plug in these things called Digi-Memory Sticks to power me up! It's so cool!"
Then Agumaru realized there was no food left, and went on a crying tangent. Adrian and Shoutmon had no idea what to do in that situation, and just sat there, with Adrian sweatdropping and Shoutmon feeling bad for not leaving that much for Agumaru.
However, he got over it super quickly. Adrian and Shoutmon both went anime white... how could he get over that so fast, and so sudden?!
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Post by agumaru on Apr 15, 2018 0:06:19 GMT
Agumaru flinches at Adrian's anti-Solitaire shouting, as if it was Shoutmon using his powerful yell. Disappointment and emotional pain flicker on his face for a split second. Luckily, the apology stopped any problems before they started, emotions stabilizing once more. Even more luckily, Adrian already had a replacement. "Hey, that's pretty cool! Maybe you'll get that one to work better! Did it come with a manual this time?"
As for his food-related outburst, despite smiling and sounding more cheerful, he still seems just a little off. His voice is ninety-nine percent convincing though there was still a bit of conflicting sound in it, and he seems to be mostly smiling genuinely, but a slight shake betrays this. As better as he seemed, perhaps he wasn't completely over it. However, he does a fair job at hiding it. "So now what? More training? Find more food? What do you two think?"
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 15, 2018 0:13:52 GMT
Adrian could sense that Agumaru wasn't COMPLETELY over it, but he decided to shrug that feeling off. "How about we battle with each other? I wanna try out this new D-Arc."
"Yeah, so do I!" Shoutmon says. "Plus, it'll be fun. I want to see the full affect of your moves, Agumaru!"
"But we shouldn't rely on these too much," Adrian says. "The shop owner told me that after three are used in a battle in a row, then the whole thing will go offline. So they aren't an instant win method, but they do help."
"Blah, blah, blah, let's just get to it!" Shoutmon says. "You in, Agumaru?"
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Post by agumaru on Apr 15, 2018 0:51:30 GMT
"Hmm... battle each other?" Agumaru mulls it over. On the one claw, Shoutmon has what some might think of as an unfair advantage with those memory sticks. On the other claw, it is likely he doesn't know how it works and would be good for learning. And besides...
"Sure! You can learn how to use that new device, and I can learn how to fight against multiple types of attacks and abilities! I enjoy a good sparring match anyways! But first... follow me!"
Agumaru leaves the area, and heads all over the training grounds. Eventually, he reaches an unused arena. "Ah good, here's one! Nobody's using this place at the moment! Come in!" He stands in a circle slightly away from the center, a dividing line down the middle with another circle on the other side making it clear where the fighters are supposed to start.
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 15, 2018 0:58:27 GMT
"You got this, Shoutmon," Adrian reassures his partner as they approached the arena, with Agumaru drawing lines and circles in the dirt.
"No, we got this," Shoutmon replies, giving Adrian a big thumbs up. He then walks up to his position of the arena, waiting for the fight to start.
Okay, I gotta be smart about this, Adrian thinks as he stares at his new Digivice. Can't just use Digi Memory Sticks all willy-nilly without thought. Only three of these before the device goes offline... although if I had a Digivolution stick, that probably wouldn't count. Too bad Shoutmon can't Digivolve yet...
"Ready when you are, Agu," Shoutmon declares as he wields his microphone.
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