MPC 56AB: Old memories, old enemies.

Lady lucky smiling, maybe. If there was someone Katherine was eager to see, aside Amelie maybe, was the girl with the hat jogging towards her with a small Tsukaimon above her head right now. Akemi and Anzu were the only ones she knew aside Amelie in this team (or so she thought). Aside, she was heavily involved with the reason they joined in the first place. Before she even noticed, a smile had made its way to Katherine's lips. "Ama..." Yeap, that was still a thing she had to work on. "Akemi!" The green-eyed just stared as the slightly smaller girl approached her. Of course, accompanied by the coolest bean ever: Anzu.

"O-Of course I don't!" Was her first comment upon the duo's arrival. That was over two weeks ago! (Even more if you considered Human World time), She couldn't smell like empanadas still, right? "I had multiple showers since then!" The teenager remarked, a slight blush on her cheeks.

Leaving the empanadas scent behind, she addressed the pair.  "How have you two been? Amy told me you would be in this mission too. That made me feel much better." It was probably no secret to anyone that Katherine didn't feel good having to interact with a large group of people she didn't know. So Akemi and Anzu's presence was kind of a relief. "But why are you here so early?" She almost couldn't finish the question. Jazz stepped up front to say hi too. 

"Akemi! Anzu! It's great to see you!" The pig girl clenched her fist in excitement. "This mission is going to be awesome!" She then pointed her finger to the Tsukaimon. "Last time I couldn't see you fight, Anzu. So I'm eager to see how strong you really are!"A small wink ensued that sentence. "You need to stop pointing at people." Her tamer immediately lowered the Chohakkaimon's arm using her own hand. 

"This is Jazz, by the way. This is her new form..." A brief silence went right after, until Katherine let a sigh go, finishing the sentence. "... Unfortunately."

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It was a good thing for the green-eyed to have some type of reassurance she didn’t smell like food. “Well thank you!” Katherine showed an honest grin to Akemi. What came next, made Katherine tilt her head, a little confused at the statement. “Your half is… weird?” Why were they even two halves of the same story?

“Yes!” The curly haired then nodded at her peer. “Not long after we met in the restaurant, I went to talk with Amelie about this team you're both a part of, so I ended up joining the Council. I think your cause is noble, as I said. And it will help me find Bastian too!” There was no loss in this society, or so it seemed. It felt… nice, to know Akemi was happy to have her on board. The hatted girl usually had a plain, serious expression, so seeing her smile for Katherine being there was sure heartwarming. “The… cute things?” Anzu was definitely a character, Katherine let go a giggle after hearing her denial. It wasn’t hard to bring the curly haired to laughs, but the Tsukaimon accomplished this even easier than regular people.

Even though she hadn’t thought about it thus far, Katherine then realized Jazz’s personality in her Chohakkaimon form was actually… very similar to Anzu! Maybe a little more aggressive, but definitely just as bold and non-filtered. “You heard the Tsukaimon, Jasso! Let me… point!” This last word was uttered as the pig girl aimed towards a long street, which could be accessed from the eastern side of the square they were currently at and that seemed to lead to the beach. Katherine shrugged, and started walking in that direction. Why not walking around while they talked? It was better than staying there, knowing the conveyance wouldn’t arrive any time soon.

If Akemi and Anzu followed, which hopefully they would, the conversation would continue. The group would keep walking through the pathway until they reached the beach, leaving the noise of the multitude behind, only some houses could be seen to their left now, while the sea was to their right. And even those houses had started becoming fewer along the sidewalk.

“She’s right. Not everyone will take the pointing so nicely.” After a quick sigh, Katherine shifted her glance at her partner to say this. “How’s Anzu stronger form?” She turned at Akemi again, while they kept walking. “The new Jazz is just too impatient and always wants to fight! I kind of miss her Lopmon form." A little frown made its way to her expression.

“Hey! Stop speaking as if I were not right here, Jasso!” Jazz pouting was immediately replaced by a curious blink. Her gaze had encountered a big seaside house. It had a very spooky vibe around it, and it seemed like it was abandoned. The door? Half opened. “What’s wrong?” Katherine asked, taking her eyes back to her partner


Jazz turned at Anzu. Unlike that time in front of the restaurant, this time they seemed to be on the same page about what to do with a place that looks abandoned with a slightly open door.

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“Let’s go!” The almost classical yelling of Jazz in her Chohakkaimon form echoed through the beach. She followed Anzu, and they both broke inside the house at the same time. 'Yay, trespassing private property~'

Did Katherine and Anzu have any option but to follow their delusional partners at this point? Probably not. If they did, they would find her partners inside of a pretty wide living room. Jazz had her eyes wide open, observing every detail of the wooden layout. It seemed pretty old and abandoned. It had the whole ‘spooky house’ vibe.

Leaving behind the rather obvious ‘Here we go again’ expression that Jazz’s actions produced on her, Katherine smiled when she heard Akemi’s words about them being teammates. It was hard for her, harder than probably anything else, to make friends. But she could feel a very warm bond, slowly growing between her and Akemi, and that was making her happier that she could put into words. “Yes! It’ll be great.” She gave a smile back to Akemi, to then shift her gaze back to Anzu, tackling the topic about her transformation. “Demonic… goat?” That sounded scary. “That sounds awesome!” Or not.

Jazz’s eyes were even wrinkling at the idea. “Mephistopheles is the name of a demon, isn’t it? Some cultures say he’s the right hand of the devil.” Frowning a little, Katherine mused about this matter. “I think Anzu must look really scary in that form.” Of course, Anzu’s next choice of words would make her chuckle, as more often than not. “Your tights?” A louder laugh ensued. “That’s so funny!”

“Come on, Anzu! I want to see it! Please! Let me see it! Come on! Just a little bit, Let me see…” That would continue for a while, regardless if Anzu agreed right away. Meanwhile, the group would enter a room. It was a pretty big one. Judging by the huge table and over twenty chairs, it seemed like a dinning room. “I wonder who used to live here…” Katherine muttered, while Jazz kept poking Anzu with her index finger, trying to convince her to show her Mephistomon.

“So… Akemi.” A small pause ensued. Katherine tried to look for the right words to ask this, without seeming too intrusive. “Would you and Anzu like to talk about this... 'questionable encounter' you two had recently?” Well, now that they were walking through an abandoned mansion with nothing else to do, why not going there? Other than how she and Anzu met, Katherine didn't really know much about Akemi. It was time. 

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While Katherine was listening closely to Akemi’s story, Jazz kept trying to convince her friend to show her this demon. “Then go BIG, Anzu, BIG!” The pig girl started bouncing, opening her arms in the air, like if she were… well, recreating something big.

“Enough! I-It’s really not necessary for her to evolve into that monster right now.” Katherine chided, stuttering a little bit. Was it too obvious that she was actually scared of seeing this beast? She had a point, though. There was not a situation that demanded a giant mist demon to appear right now.

“Oh my…” A frown made its way to Katherine’s expression. “That sounds terrible. How old is Shizu?” Being an only child, she couldn’t quite understand how Akemi could have felt, but it sure sounded like an appalling situation. “What happened then? That means this nun is kind of… her digimon partner?” Those two were a pair of kind of obvious question after such a story.

“Sis-ter-mon…” The curly haired muttered, trying to remember where could she have heard that name. “Oh, that’s right!” She finally reached the answer. “I’ve already seen a Sistermon Blanc and Ciel. Never a ‘Noir’, though.” She then blinked, turning at Anzu, just starting to process what she had said. “A cult!?” The Tsukaimon seemed to not be just fun and games, but a pretty devilish creature, at least during her past.

Just when Katherine was about to ask more about this, she noticed her partner seemed to be a little touched by the story. “That’s terrible, Akemi!” She jumped in front of the hatted girl. “Is your little sister okay? You must have been worried about her.” That made perfect sense. After all, Jazz was an older sister, so it was logical she could empathize with the situation.

It was good to see how Jazz hadn’t lost the love for her siblings, even though being in that form where all she seemed to care about was fighting. “I have three little brothers: Boru, Koru, and Roru are their names. They are a bunch of dunces, but I love them very much.” Apparently, it was easier for her to show her feelings now too, but Katherine knew that already. It seemed like it was storytelling time for Jazz too. But that was fine, actually; it couldn’t hurt that Akemi and Anzu knew a little more about them two now too, right?

“We used to be a group of bandits in Rustport, where I was raised. We stole stuff from passers-by and townsfolks to then sell them to the merchants and buy food for the poor digimon living in the street.” This was a good one, Katherine liked this story. She couldn’t help to show a small grin, while the group left the dining room and began walking through a huge hallway. “One day, they actually stole Jasso’s digivice, who had just arrived into the Digital World.”

“They did.” Katherine continued with the tale. “Desperate, I told some Koemon that I had been stolen, without actually knowing he was part of a band of evil digimon who were usually taking stuff from Jazz’s band.” That was unfortunate. “He then told his boss about Jazz’s band having a digivice and they went there to take it. Jazz tried to hide it from them, and they were about to kill her brothers.”

“Jasso got there just in time to see everything develop, and even though we had stolen from her, she still put her life at risk to help us and a fight broke out between our band and theirs. Boru, Roru, and Koru fought really hard to come out of that alive. They did a great job.” It could be seen in the pig’s eyes how proud she was of her brothers. “Jasso and I had our first battle that day, against this Koemon, who thought he was better than us and thought it was stupid that Katherine cared about digimon and that I ended up caring for her.” That was how their bond actually started building.

“I think we performed pretty good.” Katherine turned at her partner, winking at her in a playful manner. “Of course!” A clenched fist, Jazz bounced a bit again. “We taught that guy a lesson!” She then blinked, raising her gaze into the roof, thinking. “I wonder where Koru, Roru, and Boru are right now…” She muttered. Well, hopefully, two of them hadn’t been captured by an evil organization while the other trained with a beautiful female warrior digimon to save them or something like that… right? Nah, they were probably fine.

This train of thought was stopped immediately, when Jazz’s eye corner caught Katherine staring at the door at the end of the hall, just standing still. The sight to make the girl stop like this with such a shocked expression in her face? A Sistermon Noir and a Koemon had just gone through the door, and were now at the end of the hall, staring at them, a deadpan on their faces.

“What the…?” Her eyes wide open, Jazz barely managed to utter.

A white bean of light engulfed both digimon’s body... they were evolving. When it vanished, they had turned into a tall metallic-like monkey and a blonde digimon woman with two guns. Immediately, Katherine reached for her digivice to scan them.


Her expression turned even more horrified … These were Mega-Level digimon.

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While Anzu seemed to have acquired an aggressive attitude towards the sighting of these creatures, Jazz was still paralyzed by the shock. What the hell was Koemon doing in a place like this? Katherine, on the other side, knew this couldn’t be a coincidence. Something was clear: they had never seen Koemon evolve, so this metallic monkey with sunglasses was completely new for the duo. The digivice stated his name was Metaletemon. He was a Mega level digimon, and that couldn’t mean good news.

Unable to react in any way, Jazz was hit by this dropkick. Katherine was barely able to jump to the side, avoiding the pig girl to hit her after being jutted back, rolling on the floor several meters away from them. Meanwhile, Akemi’s bean had turned into a monster! There was no doubt, this was Anzu’s Mephistomon form. The masked gunned lady whom Katherine’s digivice had identified as BelleStarmon immediately jumped into the air, shooting at the demon. These enemies were not exchanging any type of words; they were just savagely attacking them. Anzu’s blast destroyed the door behind the shooter and it managed to partially hit the lady around her leg. She was definitely throwing her best at this opponent. 'Empress' evolved form fell to the ground and seemed to be in some pain from being scratched from the blast.

So Jazz couldn’t fall behind, right? She slowly stood up, her eyes glimmering while she stared at the monster in front of them. Katherine frowned at the sight of her partner not being that damage from the monkey’s dropkick. Why? This was a digimon who was two levels above the Chohakkaimon. That meant he was, at least in theory, as strong as Luke, wasn’t him? And the Valkyrimon had completely crushed Jazz recently, so what was going on? “Are you alright?” The curly haired asked her partner, turning at her.

The pig girl’s attention drifted towards her opponent. “I think I am.” She answered. “I don’t know what’s going on but I think…” She then began running towards the Metaletemon, her Roketto Dingpa materializing out of thin air. Katherine just moved out of the way, and stared as her partner tried to slam the monkey with her giant hammer.

“…the field has been leveled!” 

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