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A Sukeban in Terminus City [Elliot]
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Post by Otohime on May 21, 2018 19:23:10 GMT
It was a normal day in Shibuya Central Station. One Otohime Watanabe was loitering around the little convenience store, eyeing a nice, fresh bottle of Ramune. Just a little swift motion, and it would be hers, without even paying for it! Slowly, she passed the cashier, acting all innocently. Bad luck. The cashier behind her ran out and yelled "Hey, you, wait!" Shit, time to leg it! She ran, her prize getting all shaken up. The cashier then yelled for security, and soon the girl was weaving through the heavy early morning crowd, pursued by two very serious looking policemen. Suckers, thought Otohime. No one knows this joint as well as her! She ran people over, shoving them aside, or even into the path of the police. Just around the corner, and she'll be home free! Bad luck. The police had wised up to her, and had prepared a duo of policemen to catch her at the exit. She looked behind herself. The other policemen were catching up, fast. Shit, now she gotta think fast. Her eyes darted left and right, when she spotted a tiny Staff Only hallway. She even threw her ramune at the policemen in front of her to distract them. Man, the hallway here is narrow, it's hard to weave about. But there! There's an elevator! That can save her! She'll catch a train and be safe! So, she jumped into the elevator, where someone else stood. A tall lady, but Otohime wasn't scared. She held her baseball bat under the girl's nose and snarled. "We're goin' down. And no word of this to anyone or yer takin' yer teeth home in a bottle." The tall girl gulped. "O-o-o-ok...", said Yukiko Armstrong. Once at the very bottom, Otohime took the train without looking at the number. Anywhere would be better than here...!
When the train finally arrived at its destination, Otohime was quite confused. Eh? What part of Tokyo is this? Did she accidentally take the train to Kyoto? And the train was kinda empty, too! She gazed upon a vast, glowing neon city, strange letters floating in the air, people walking about with all sorts of animal people cosplayers. Ah, through Otohime, it's Akihabara. Might as well take a look around! So, she began to nonchalantly walk down the streets...
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on May 22, 2018 3:07:59 GMT
"Yeah! Yeah, that's right, you better run! What's the matter, ya little punk, scared?"
Frankly, "scared" wasn't the word that Elliot would use to describe the small, bat-like creature currently orbiting around his head. "Irritating" was more like it, especially with that DemiDevimon's insistence on getting right in his face. Occasionally he reached up to try and wave it away, but whenever he did so the DemiDeivmon nipped at him or lashed out with his oddly hand-like feet. "How do you like that, huh?" the DemiDevimon asked. "Serves ya right for coming around these parts!"
Elliot was fairly certain he could spirit Digivolve and send the thing flying away in a panic, but he really didn't feel like making a scene right now. Digivolving in the middle of the streets, whether a Digimon or a human borrowing one's guise, tended to get bystanders a little riled up. The last thing Elliot wanted was to end up being filmed on DigiWorldstar.
"Please just stop," he finally said, looking up at the DemiDevimon with a weary expression on his face. "I haven't slept in hours . . ."
"Yeah?" the DemiDevimon asked, tilting the head that made up his whole body. "Shoulda thought of that before taking a nap on my bench! Get yourself your own, ya hear?"
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Post by Otohime on May 22, 2018 9:59:24 GMT
As Otohime wandered the streets of what she thought to be Akihabara, she occasionally stopped to just marvel at everything. Whoa! If she'd known that Akihabara was this big and fancy she woulda come here ages ago! Eventually, though, her attention was drawn to a little kid being harrassed by some flying orb with bat wings. Eh? What's that? Some really fancy cosplay? How'sit even work? Gah, thinking about it hurts her head, and the kid is clearly being harassed, and she ain't lettin' -that- happen on her watch!
The Demidevimon was eventually grabbed by the head and raised to be on an eye-level with the sukeban. Her one brown eye glared deep into his soul. "The fuck are -you- doin, harrassin' little kids? Ya wanna have trouble with me ya lil' shit, huh?"
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on May 23, 2018 1:41:37 GMT
The DemiDevimon let out a panicked squeak as he was suddenly snatched out of the sky. He windmilled his claws in a panic, and his eyes turned big and pleading. For all his big talk, DemiDevimon was now clearly the scared little punk when forced to pick on someone more his own size. "Hey . . . hey, come on! I was just kidding about all that junk, you know?" he said, a nervous laugh shaking out from between his yelping pleas. " 'Oh, that DemiDevimon, such a kidder.' Come on, everyone knows I'd never hurt a fly! Unless it was a fly that pissed me off, but everyone hurts those flies. You can put me down now, right?"
Maybe a more patient Digimon would have had that ruse work. DemiDevimon was not patient. Immediately his flailing turned twice as hostile and five times as pitiful, DemiDevimon gnashing his jaws at the strange human who seized him like a man possessed. "Agh, all you humans are the same!" he snarled. "Let go or I'm gonna bite the crap outta you, y'hear? You're gonna learn why you don't mess with a demon!" His threats slowly started devolving into agitated grumbling and frothing, until soon he was just making incomprehensible noises with his mouth. It was kind of sad.
Elliot just watched, one hand on the Digivice inside of his pocket in case this really did get bad. He had no idea whether to be impressed by this (frankly, kind of badass) newcomer or worried for her safety.
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Post by Otohime on May 23, 2018 14:40:24 GMT
Otothime glared at the bat orb with her one eye, then sighed. "You little fuckers are all the same, you act like you're hot shit, but the second someone takes ya up on your boasting you collapse like a house 'a cards." She then lifted him on an eye level with her. "I'm havin' a good day, so I'm givin' ya another chance. But if ya ever show yer ugly mug 'round here I'll tear ya a second asshole, got it? Good. Now fuck off." She then let the DemiDevimon fall and then kicked him away like a soccer ball. Then, she turned to Elliot. "You ok, kid?"
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on May 26, 2018 4:27:08 GMT
Elliot was more than okay. A badass, masked, eyepatch-wearing, rock-solid looking hero had just swooped in to save him from . . . okay, a minor annoyance at best. But who cared that it wasn't a big deal? She looked so cool! He didn't even look at the DemiDevimon, who fluttered away while muttering something about "BanchoHumons" being huge bullies.
Her question snapped Elliot out of it, the impressed grin on his face melting away. "Oh! I'm okay," he said. "Yeah, DemiDevimon can be kind of annoying sometimes. Usually I just try to ignore them, but this one was . . . persistent." Judging by her reaction, the mysterious stranger clearly knew about that already. It was amazing how similar human world and Digimon World bottom feeders could be, huh?
It was a little weird, though. The woman didn't have a partner with her. Was she a Spirit User too? Most humans in the Digital World practically had their partner crawling all over them, with any discretion that they had in the human world melting away. "I'm surprised your partner didn't spook him off, though. Are you usually the one who does all the fighting?" he asked. It was an innocuous question . . . in the Digital World. Hopefully it didn't sound more awkward for someone who didn't have a Digimon!
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Post by Otohime on May 26, 2018 16:26:02 GMT
Otohime went "tch" at the floating bat ball. "Little bastards are always the same, ya gotta make sure they feel their lesson 'till next week." The sukeban then looked at Elliot, scratching her cheek. "Eh? Partner? Do you need a partner to be in Akihabara?" She looked after the DemiDevimon. "And how did he do that, just floating? Is this one of them fancy drone thingies? I'm kinda new to Akihabara, never been here before." It was blatantly obvious this girl had never been in the Digital World before, as she was convinced this was Akihabara. How the hell did she get here, then, without a Digivice?
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Jun 2, 2018 2:10:14 GMT
Elliot nodded. "That's what my brother always said," Elliot admitted. "Although he always told me I should never pick a fight like that if it could be helped. He was always pretty quick to pick them, so he probably just didn't want me to get hurt." In Isaac's absence, Elliot could count on a pair of somewhat-intimidating twins to subtly threaten the bullies in his life instead. Honestly? It worked better in some ways. He owed Elsie and Evie for that one.
He was snapped out of his daydreaming when he heard about Akihabara. What did that have to do with any of this? Well, apparently that was where Elliot's new acquaintance thought she was! He mouthed the word to himself, as if trying to figure out how she even came to that conclusion, but he figured it'd be way more polite to just not say anything about that. "I . . . no, that's not really where we are," he said, trying to figure out how he was even going to come close to breaking the news to her. Should he even say anything, or would it just be better to bring her back to the human world before anything bad happened?
"There's a lot I'm probably gonna have to explain," he said, sheepish. "So sorry if it's a lot to take in.
But first, my name's Elliot. It's nice to meet you!"
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Post by Otohime on Jun 2, 2018 10:34:40 GMT
The sukeban gave the young man a bit of a blank stare. You could almost hear the gears grind and groan in her brain as she tried to put his words together. "This...this ain't Akihabara? Then what the fuck is this place? I am sure this ain't Nerima, I know Nerima, I live there..." She looked around again. This place really was -weird-! Where the hell did that train take her??? Regardless, the lil guy was introducing himself. Elliot? Cool name. Definitely a gaijin, but Otohime never cared about who came from where. She just nodded at him. "Name's Ryuko. Pleased to meetcha."
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Jul 14, 2018 1:44:55 GMT
For a second, Elliot thought Otohime had said Narnia. Honestly, even that would've been easier to explain than where the two of them currently were. He let out a slight huff as he considered the current predicament. "You're gonna think I'm crazy," he admitted. "But, I mean, considering you're seeing it all too, please believe me on all this.
So, we're kinda not in Tokyo anymore. Or, like, Japan at all. Or even anywhere in our world. Because there's totally more than one world." Well, Elliot, you started this pitch magnificently. "You know that weird talking bat you spooked off? Yeah, that's actually a talking bat. And there are a lot of other things like it around here. This is the Digital World, which is basically like our world if everything there talked and had superpowers.
So, uh, yeah. Just look around and you'll see there are bugs, cats, demons, robots, plant people. And they can all talk, too. Even the trains here talk! It's kind of uncomfortable, honestly, but it's pretty much the safest way to go places around here so I don't really mind it.
How did you get here, again?"
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Post by Otohime on Jul 19, 2018 10:21:49 GMT
Otohime stared at Elliot like he had just told her spaghetti grows on trees. "Not...Tokyo...wha? You tryin' tha fool me? That ain't workin, slick! Next you'd be tellin' me dragons are real!" And, with a comedic timing reserved only for fate, a large Veedramon emerged from a Ramen store, patting his belly with satisfaction, and burping a little flame. This, Otohime found a -lot- harder to explain as cosplay. "...well cover me in tare sauce and call me gyutan. I got no explanation for that..." Eh? How she got here? Oh, that's easy. That also got her thoughts back in order! "Oh, see, I was in this shop, conducting totally legal business, then this asshole of a shopkeep calls the cops on me! Me, bein' an upstandin' citizen' of course run for my life, and I come up in dis weird side alley with a big wimpy girl usin an elevator. I just joined her and took the next train, and whaddya know, I come out here in weirdass land!"
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Aug 17, 2018 6:44:42 GMT
Huh. The Trailmon Terminal totally a Digivice to open up, likely as the Digital World's natural protection against masquerade-breaking. And someone like Otohime just wandered in? Somehow, Elliot didn't think it'd make an exception even for the most upstanding citizens and their legitimate business. That left two options right there. One was that Otohime had somehow gotten onboard right at the same time as the girl she followed, basically hitching a ride off of her Digivice. It was probably the most accurate solution, and nicely summed up how hilariously out of place the girl seemed to be.
However, it could've also been one of those cases where destiny just pulls someone into the Digital World whether they knew it or not. "There isn't anything weird in your bag, is there?" Elliot asked, which is a very smart choice of words when dealing with a girl on very legitimate business. "I mean, the trains here require some kind of device to reach, so if you don't have one we're really going to have to start looking. It should look a little like . . . this!" Elliot rooted around in his bag a little, pulling out his Digivice with a small flourish. It was strange. He hadn't handled it proudly in a while, but he wasn't about to let his own nerves make him falter in front of someone new to the Digital World.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to all of this really quick," he added. "But we should probably walk and talk. People here don't always like when others are in their way, and they're a lot better at throwing their weight around than us humans are." Just one look at the stocky, solid Veedramon reconfirmed that thought for Elliot. He would be way more dangerous to deal with than your average city hustler!
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Post by Otohime on Aug 19, 2018 13:43:54 GMT
Otohime scratched her head. Eh? Her bag? A thing like that? "Listen dude, I got less tech experience than a Meiji-era farmer, why would I have something like that? I got my phone and that already overwhelms me!" She dug around in her bag for it, and to her surprise, the phone was gone. Rather, inside her bag was a thingy just like Elliot's, only hers was black and green. She raised an eyebrow at this, then another. "What the fuckin' hell is this? I woulda remembered havin' this, an' my phone's gone? One of these weirdos musta robbed me and slipped in this thingy!" She followed Elliot as he began walking, looking left and right for the potential thief. "If ya see anyone shady, bud, ya tell me, k?"
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Post by Elliot and Isaac Sunderland on Aug 28, 2018 0:54:26 GMT
Elliot cringed a little, offering a sympathetic smile as Otohime took out her freshly-converted "phone." Some people lucked out, and the Digital World gave them their Digivice free of charge. Others found themselves sacrificing the nearest electronic item on their person, which in this day and age . . .
"Oh, don't worry. That wasn't any thief," Elliot said. "But that is a sign that, and trust me I know how weird this sounds, you're kinda supposed to be here. You see, those things are called Digivices, and they mean you're bonded to one of the creatures that lives in this world. Usually a small one at first, but they can get really big. Think of them like your guide, your protector, and your best friend all in one. So, good news! You're totally making a new friend today.
Bad news, you're kinda out of a phone. I know, it sucks. Happened to me too."
Still, the goal remained the same. Elliot and Otohime would be on the hunt for a strange character. It was just less due to thievery and more due to new friendship, unless Otohime decided to get even with her new "friend" for making her phone disappear. "So now we just gotta keep an eye out for someone who looks like a friend . . ." Elliot said, squinting his eyes to try and peer around Terminus. "A lot of the time you're lucky and they're still in an egg. But usually when that's the case, it's a lot closer to the Digivce. So who knows what you'll end up finding?"
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Post by Otohime on Aug 30, 2018 18:55:10 GMT
Otohime looked at Elliot like he had just told her spaghetti grows on trees. Meaning she looked like she had no idea if she should believe him or not. "What? This is my phone? An' it's related to a new friend??" She looked at her Digivice. "They coulda just let me known another way than just breakin' my phone and turnin it into somethin else!" She shook her head, and kept walking. Eventually, she stopped. "Hark, I hear somethin'. You hearin this too??" She leant down an alleyway and listened. indeed, there were distant, quiet words! "Please, l-l-l-let me go...I r-r-really have no money!" It sounded like someone was in distress! Otohime broke into a run down the alley![/font]
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