Iterative Encounter [Talia|DLC?]

Much like many times before, Sasha had been spending a large portion of the day walking around the Dark Area, alone with her own thoughts and sporadic conversations with her spirit. While she said it was to patrol the area surrounding the city looking for threats and the like, it was mostly an excuse to be alone for a while. That and the constant noise of the city being built could get really overwhelming.

This time Sasha wasn't on her own however, as for once her patrolling actually led her into something. Or rather, someone. More than what she had expected.
Things could have turned rather grim for her, had she not had the good fortune of coming across someone else.

To make a rather embarrasing story short, after being nearly eaten alive by a rather hungry Raremon, Sasha had been lucky enough to be found and saved by a tamer and her two partners. One thing led to another, and now Sasha somehow found herself being taken back to the city site by the andiramon named Tohru, one of Talia's partners. During their short conversation on the trip back Sasha had grown rather...curious about Talia, or more specifically about her rather abnormal situation.

How much Talia had been willing to share about said odd situation? It was hard to say, but you'd have to be very oblivious to not notice there was something slightly odd about the pale girl.

So she figured: what better place to take her than to the city itself? Maybe someone there would be able to help her out some? Again, it was hard to say, but it didn't hurt to try. It was the least she could do after Talia helped her out.

"Watch your step, Anzu's work force is great at digging holes but not so great at filling them again." She warned the tall bunny as they began getting closer to the city's site, something that was quite obvious to see thanks to the large amounts of holes and tunnels scattered all over the place in an almost nonsensical fashion. And standing at the entrance (or perhaps the exit?) of one of said tunnels was a familiar face, hard at work as usual.

"Yo Amy! I brought some fresh meat." Sasha said with a wave in the tall french girl's direction, quickly climbing down from the digimon and approaching Amelie.

"Geez, do you ever sleep? You know you don't need to personally oversee every single tunnel, right?" She said with a teasing smirk while patting the brunette's back with far more strenght than what one would think the small russian was capable of, before turning to face Talia and the other two, who should have caught up to them by now.
"Guys, let me introduce you to the big boss lady herself, Amelie. She's the one calling the shots here."

The dark area wasn’t normally somewhere Talia had ventured, but after what she had gone through there wasn’t really anything that could top the sort of scary that was briefly dying and suddenly coming back to life in a new body, and after hearing that people were building settlements there, she’d convinced the twins to go explore to put out feelers for a new office, so to speak - what better a place to do shady work? Not that she really saw it that way, but hackers unfortunately had that stigma about them. And in the process of their combing, they’d come across a human being harassed by a vile blob of trash called Raremon and hadn’t hesitated for a second to intervene, the walking dumpster being a walk in the park for the ultimate level rabbit to seamlessly get rid of via Bunny Blades. “Heh, that’ll teach him.” The leporid was powerful as well as calculated, efficient and far more even tempered than her lower level counterpart, the last thing being a helpful asset in successful fights for sure.

“It shouldn’t be too much of an issue,” the rabbit reassured the girls (Talia having chimed in with Sasha’s warning in reminding her partner to be careful), gracefully jumping from edge to edge wherever she suspected a hole was. “Tohru is both a ninja and a showoff sometimes! The second thing, as you can see, can be more useful than annoying.” Hearing her human’s comments, the limber and lithe bunny pondered showing off more of her skills just in a sort of ‘hold my digi beer’ moment towards the teasing but luckily for Talia, she was as logical as she was show off-y, so much so that she wasn’t about to risk tripping and injuring her already weakened tamer. “Amelie?” Where did she know that name from? Digging mentally deep into the synapses of her mementos, the woman realized it was the same girl they’d run into on one of their very first trips together into the digital world, and the very first person she’d met with the power of spirit evolution. The question was, how was she going to explain to Amy about the body switch? Would it be too much to say things off the bat? “Greetings!”

Dropping down from the bunnys shoulder, Simba went to sniff the wolf, posing in a bit of a canine playbow as he did so. “I know you! You’re uh uh...the digimon who owns Anzutopia! It’s me, Simba, just in a smaller version.” Well, if Anzu was here that meant Akemi was too right? Talia thought, happy to know the girl was (hopefully) nearby. If anything, it was definitely comforting knowing this circle had two people she already knew, the woman thought as she dismounted the tall rabbit who devolved into a Turuiemon for energy saving purposes. “Now, the question is, does Amelie recognize me?” It was better than jumping into a long winded explanation off the bat right?  

Anzu let out a chuckle! "You're half-right, but Anzutopia isn't really a place. Anzu is a thing though, and that's me." The wolf gave a smirk before she tried jumping on Simba. It was as close as she could manage to a hug, truth be told. And given Simba was smaller, she was quick to give him some space.

"Yes, I can definitely confirm that Amelie only sleeps eight hours a month." The wolf then added to the frenchwoman's claim. Yep, definitely didn't seem like Amy could recognize Talia at first, though she had some questions on that front. "...Humans can use holosuits?" That's what she took away from the matter.

"...So there's the question of recognition. Now, I can't imagine you all came here just to admire our tunnels, right?" The wolf tilted her head. Did they?

    Anzu's question was interesting; mostly in the sense that Amy thought that was a piece of common knowledge. In any case, it wasn't like she minded answering. "Yeah. It's not super common, but I've seen humans wearing those. The reason? I have no idea, but I think that if somebody wants to change how they look, they're on their right to do so."

    It wasn't important, anyway! Just like Talia had said it, things were fairly busy over here. "Yeah. This place won't be finished on its own, so I'm taking care of everything being on time and that stuff. Overseeing, if you wanna call it in any way."

    An eyebrow was raised at there being more than just a holosuit, though. It seemed like Talia was hiding something? While the mystery was somewhat enticing on its own, the brunette was confident on reaching the answer eventually. Or, at least, as soon as Talia felt comfortable with talking about it.

    For now, it seemed like the person who found herself in the receiving end of a fair share of queries was none other than Amelie herself. Talia was curious, and that was understandable. Her first reaction? Waving off the girl's initial concerns. "No need to justify your stance; I know that you don't have bad intentions." She seemed a bit pensive for a bit. "A justification, huh? Well, I'm doing this mostly because I think that this place deserves so much better than what it's got, and that pretty much nobody cares on getting it anywhere, so... why not just me? Figured that after centuries of inactivity, there wasn't going to be a magical solution unless I worked for it. Also, I like to think that this place will set a new standard for the Digital World, and that it will be taken as an example of how things should be done, but that's a bit of a lofty goal, I guess. In any case, if you want to hang out with us and are willing to pull your weight, you're more than welcome. It should be fairly obvious that there's a lot of work left to be done and nowhere near enough hands over here."

    Talia was a very capable girl. Amy had no doubts about her ability to fit this project. The question was... did she want to?

"What an interesting bit of trivia to learn about, eheh..." A voice that was distinctly not Anzu uttered. A little lady standing about five feet flat with a hat. That was Akemi. Though, she was also accompanied by someone else. A woman standing about eight inches taller than her and wearing a...very conspicuous nun-like outfit. She was quiet as a mouse and otherwise just stood at Akemi's side like some sort of gangster-like bodyguard.

"Oh, so you actually...finished whatever it was you were doing?" Anybody with a brain/the knowledge of what goes on here knew that Akemi sometimes went and oversaw a group of DexDorugamon herself. She nodded towards Anzu, before looking to Talia and waving at her. "Hey! Did you get brought aboard too? Or did I walk in on that?"

Anzu herself meanwhile gave Simba some room before she actually started chuckling at Tohru. "Yeah, we're in dire need of more hands for digging. Always. "I'd say we're doing pretty okay with the local neighbors, too..."

“It involves a megidramon also, but that’s a story for another day,” She told the approaching Akemi while waving to the woman who seemed to be accompanied by what looked like someone dressed in what Talia could only describe as Religious Lolita, said someone being a digimon she assumed and sure enough, the readings on her digivice referred to it as a sistermon. “You could say that; we helped out another member of yours from being attacked by a raremon and she brought us here to check things out.” She left out Sasha’s name to cover her own ass, having a feeling that the prideful blonde might get really irritated if she was public embarrassed that way, as she waved at the quiet sistermon. “Hi there! I’m Talia and these are my par-” where had those two gone off to now?

“And we’re glad to be here! It’s good to see you again.” Much to the silver haired girls mild horror, the twins had opted to greet Amelie, as usual, without any need for utilizing personal space, with Tohru sitting on her shoulder and Simba hunched at her side. “I hope you’re not working too hard, you feel a bit cold.” The rabbit put her hand on the girls head having been concerned after Sasha’s commenting on her lack of sleep, a check which was followed by nuzzles from Simba. “But that’s why we cuddle the humans Tohru! To keep them warm.” Dang it, why was it so hard to stay mad at these two when they were being this adorable? “-anyway, that would be them over there, Tohru and Simba.” Seeing the soft ears on Anzu, the woman couldn’t help but reach out to stroke her yet again. “And you’re just as pettable as I recall, Anzu, hehe!”

Turning back to Amy, Talia shrugged. “I felt the same way when I left my recent company, but the office life just got so...stale for me? That and I knew deep down, I was capable of much more than just drinking coffee and sitting at a desk all day.” Programming hadn’t nearly been that boring, but she was exaggerating just a bit for the reason that the other pieces of the story wouldn’t make sense if she explained them now. “No idea - I did see Carlos and Dio recently, but those details can be best saved for a rainy occasion, or maybe that dinner later.” This wasn’t really the appropriate time to go into details about her relationship troubles after all, especially since Amy seemed to want to get down to business and frankly Talia gladly welcomed the distraction. “Ooooh, I do love a good old fashioned brouhaha squabble!” The twins glanced in the direction the woman was looking at with an utmost curiosity and tugged their own human along with impatience. “You heard her Talia!” “Yeah, we should jump right in!” To which the girl could only chuckle with amusement. “Apparently we do! Heck, I didn’t know there were so many settlements here for a while - I always pictured the dark area as being an untamed wasteland of wild digimon or something.” Which was probably true before the humans had arrived.