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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 22:32:40 GMT
Today was a very special day for fans of music in Tokyo today. In the entertainment district in Shibuya, a crowd of fans make their way over to where the stage is being set up. Who's stage is it today? None other than White Wolf, the popular pop idol that had taken Japan by storm. To celebrate how far she's gotten, a charity show had been set up, where fans can donate a certain amount of money to Ashinaga, an organization that provides funding to the education of children who had lost their guardians.
It was a charity that White Wolf and her brother Iki had gotten help from ever since their big accident, and White Wolf felt it was necessary to give it back.
The streets were crowded around White Wolf's stage, all eagerly excited to see the idol play some of her most well known songs live. Behind the stage however, the girl behind the mask was clearly freaking out. In her dressing trailer, Rebecca Story was looking in the mirror, her wig and mask on the ground next to her as she tryed her best to look confident... but failed horribly.
"No offense," Agumon said, who was sitting on the love seat next to the door, "but you look less confident and more constipated."
Rebecca turned right at Agumon and glared at him. "You could've at least put it in a nicer way." Her angry expression shifted to a sad and desperate one as she placed her head on her hands. "What am I going to do?"
"Relax, Rebecca," Gabumon said, who was sitting next to Agumon, "you've done this before. I have a feeling it's all going to be fine. Just... trust yourself."
White Wolf laughed a little bit. "That couldn't be more cliched if you actively tried, Gabumon." Suddenly there's a knocking at the door. Who could it be...?
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 22, 2019 0:41:24 GMT
Apparently, it could be AEGIS agent, battle-tested general, and White Wolf super fan, Tadayoshi. It could have also been Tadayoshi presenting a bouquet of flowers, but this young man learned from his mistake last time. No need to overdo it. This time he was empty-handed, but the goofy smile came along again. "Are you free, Beck?" he asked as he stepped straight in. Normally the boy would have waited for explicit permission to enter a girl's quarters, but he knew it wouldn't do to risk getting caught by some trash paparazzo. Immediately he got in close for the kiss, but he thought better about it before their lips made contact. If she was wearing makeup, he risked smearing it. So, instead, he tried to hug her instead.
"This is a really nice thing you're doing. The charity concert, I mean, not the seats... but I like the seats." After giving her some personal space back. "You're gonna be great. You always are."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 1:22:01 GMT
When that door started to open, Rebecca and the twins tensed up. They weren't expecting the door to just open up suddenly; what if it was a manager? Or a crazed fan? For one, they'd see Rebecca without her wig and mask, and looking pathetic, and two, they'd see her Digimon right there.
Thankfully it wasn't either of those things. It was just Rebecca's boyfriend Tadayoshi walking in. In all the stress about the concert, she had almost forgotten that she had invited him. The twin tamer group let out a sigh of relief.
"Yoshi!" Rebecca excitedly cheered as she got out of her chair and ran over to hug him. She was afraid he'd have some AEGIS assignment, or that DATS would somehow interfere. Luckily that wasn't the case.
Tadayoshi complimented her on her charity concert, saying it was a really nice thing to do. "Thanks! Ashinaga really helped me and my older brother Iki out when the explosion happened. Now I feel like it's my turn to pay them back."
The teenage girl blushed when Tadayoshi not only said she would be great today, but told her she always was. "...I really needed to hear someone say that. This will be the biggest concert I've ever had and I don't know if I'll be able to keep up the act, you know?"
"Just don't make that constipated face and everything will be fine," Agumon commented.
"Say that again and I'll punt you out of this trailer into next week," Rebecca threatened, pointing at Agumon and not looking away from Tadayoshi.
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 22, 2019 3:12:32 GMT
"Ashinaga's an excellent organization. I volunteered at one of their summer camps last year, had a great time." Of course, Tadayoshi hardly seemed to have time for his old volunteer work now. At least, in the human world that was true. "But, umm... what is the constipated face?" Maybe that wasn't helpful for her nerves, something Tadayoshi acknowledged. "Sorry. I should know better than to encourage Agumon. The point is, of course you can do it. You just have to do what you've always done. It's not any harder today than it was yesterday, right?"
Ring, ring! Tadayoshi's cell phone started to go off then. His first instinct was to send the call to the abyss known as voice mail, but caller ID convinced him otherwise. "...work," he explained to Rebecca before covering his mouth, accepting the call, and acknowledging it with, "Teppei." By the tone of the speaker's voice the matter was not all that urgent. Tadayoshi was inclined to agree, which Rebecca could tell from his side of the conversation. "Yes..? OK... No, I'm off duty tonight... No, absolutely not... ask agent Davis to take care of it... In the morning, then. OK."
Boy, did he look relieved to get off the phone. "Sorry, I have to leave it on in case of emergency. But tonight's about you."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 17:08:11 GMT
Rebecca did a classic anime stagger when Tadayoshi asked her what the constipated face meant. "Oh, y-you know, it's just Agumon being his usual dumb self, you know? It's nothing, it's nothing."
"I'm just trying to save her from embarrassing herself in front of all the humans," Agumon said, attempting to defend himself. "Right now when she's trying to look confident she looks like she really has to poop."
"AGUMON," Rebecca half-yelled, her face reddening up with embarrassment.
"Agumon, please, just shut up," Gabumon told his brother, "You are not helping this situation at all."
Rebecca sighed as he put a hand on her face, as if trying to hide. Tadayoshi then told her that if she did was she had done in the past, then she'd be amazing today. These simple words made Rebecca smile. "Thanks, Tadayoshi. Hey, maybe after the concert we can-"
RING RING! Rebecca's words were interrupted by Tadayoshi's phone ringing. Her face morphed into a combination of "damn it all" and "really?" as Tadayoshi answered it. It was definitely an AEGIS call, but from how he was responding it didn't sound too urgent. When the call ended, Rebecca just responded, "Well wasn't that just bad timing?"
There was suddenly a knock at the door. It didn't open, but the person on the other side just said, "Five minutes until showtime, Ms. Wolf."
"I'm almost ready!" Rebecca shouted at the door before facing Tadayoshi again. "Find a way to sneak out of here and get back to your seat. We'll talk later, 'kay?"
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 23, 2019 23:59:00 GMT
"Bad timing, but it will not happen. The only thing that will separate my rear from that chair is when the standing ovation comes." Tadayoshi decided not to add "or an emergency," which was the only reason he answered the call in the first place. That was all he could say because he fell silent when Wolf's manager (so he presumed) showed up. He gave Rebecca a couple pats on the shoulder while scanning for a way out. The door obviously wouldn't work because someone was just there, shouting inside. That left one window. Well, it was cramped, but slipping out a window was how he got there in the first place.
So, Tadayoshi opened it slow to keep quiet, then dropped out behind the trailer. He stayed low as he circled it, peered around corners before rounding them, and hopefully made it to his seat without running into anybody with a camera. How did White Wolf become my girlfriend again? he asked himself rhetorically. Hey, maybe she wanted to be treated like a regular girl on regular days, and that was something Yoshi could do. But this wasn't a regular day, and he was still a fan.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2019 3:13:53 GMT
"Standing ovation? Ha, you're funny. Never gotten one of those before." She was serious, too; sure people cheered, but they never stood up and clapped after her songs. Rebecca didn't mind, at least. "And don't worry. I know all about the Digimon troubles as of late, so you're off the hook on that front. You saw those news reports, didn't you?"
After Tadayoshi had left by climbing out the window, White Wolf looked back in the mirror. She put on her mask, then her wig. She gave the best smiling, happy-go-lucky girl face she could. The reflection staring back at her was perfect.
Alright. Let's go, girl.
She then exited her trailer, taking a deep breath. As she walked closer to the stage she could hear the crowd's cheering get louder and louder. There were actually people who... liked her. It was a fake version of herself, but she still would like to believe that it was really her that they liked.
White Wolf strutted onto the stage, wearing a bright yellow tank top underneath a blue denim vest. She had a white skirt on which had black leggings going all the way down to her brown leather boots. Her smile was as cheery as ever. "Hello, people of Shibuya! Welcome to the White Wolf Ashinaga charity concert! I am so glad you all could make it! Ashinaga is a wonderful organization and I'm glad you're all here to support it!"
After the introductions were done, White Wolf proceeded to sing two songs. In the middle of the second one though, Tadayoshi would receive an urgent call. If he answered, he would then hear Johan's voice.
"Tadayoshi! It's me, Johan. Look, something's happening in the Entertainment District. The Digital Energy readings are through the charts, and it's saying something's entering right in the middle of the place. What's going on down there?"
Johan appeared to be right. White Wolf's third song was interrupted by a bright green field of energy suddenly forming right above the crowd. Of course people panicked and ran as far away from it as possible. Suddenly, what could only be described as an orange monkey wearing sunglasses fell through the portal, right in the big space where the crowd used to be. He looked up right at the idol... and smiled.
"White Wolf, is it now? Name's Etemon."
"...yes, I am White Wolf. You're... a Digimon, correct? What are you doing here?"
"Before I answer that, lemme give us some breathin' room." The Etemon then whipped out a microphone and "sung" into it. By sung of course, it really means poorly screamed into it. "DARK MUSICAAAAAAAL!"
A horrendous sound wave flooded the ears of every human there, causing White Wolf to fall over and making all of her audience run away in fear, a majority of them screaming "MONSTER!"
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 24, 2019 18:15:17 GMT
Tadayoshi almost didn't catch his phone ringing at all. The music was loud, and it was also the center of the young man's attention. Father would throw a fit if he knew where I was right now! Of course, unlike most of the crowd, Tadayoshi was keeping his mouth shut during the songs. He didn't sing, and even if he did he had previously thought it universally rude to be noisy during a performance. Even ruder? Answering the phone. But the young man had no choice, just barely managing it before its final ring.
"Teppei." Tadayoshi was fantasizing about firing whomever had the audacity to call him in the middle of a White Wolf, and finding out that it was Johan did nothing but put a face to his anger. But he was able to switch gears in good time as Johan did the smart thing, talking fast and getting to the point about a real emergency. Too bad Johan couldn't actually talk fast enough to prevent the emergency. "You're the one at HQ! Don't you have a location more specific than-?"
Then Entemon went and showed up on stage. Could this get any worse? The crowd was evaccing itself, so that was a plus. The minus? They were all witnesses and smart enough to get this wasn't part of the show. Tadayoshi covered both his ears and cringed with the Etemon's horrific amplified voice, completely unable to move until his lung capacity finally ran out. At that point he told his phone, "-Location: White Wolf Ashinaga benefit concert. Subject is Etemon. Threat status: high visibility, unknown hostility. Silence on site responding. All further comms through digivice link," at which he hung up on Johan. After all, conventional phone calls could more easily be eavesdropped upon.
While the audience ran away, Tadayoshi ran in. The stage was too high up for the boy to easily reach, but he was able to run beneath it, flash the badge in his back pocket, the digivice with his other hand, and authoritatively declare, "AEGIS Agent! Come off the stage, and come with me! Reb- Wolf, back away!" Tadayoshi couldn't give any indication that he knew this person for many obvious reasons, but there was another reason he wanted Rebecca out of his way: he highly doubted that she had her digivice on her.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2019 18:56:17 GMT
Johan was about to tell Tadayoshi something along the lines of "Try to guess where all the people in that area are today?" since he knew about the White Wolf charity concert thing going on. However, Tadayoshi's call was interrupted by what seemed to be a loud noise, followed by lots of screaming.
"Agent Teppei. Teppei, are you there?!" Johan asked desperately on the other line. Thankfully Tadayoshi managed to respond, saying that the subject is an Etemon and that its hostility is unknown. Now it was time to communicate through Digivice links, as phone calls could indeed be eavesdropped. "Status. Do you request additional backup? I can send Speed and Psych to your location if need be."
White Wolf could not believe what was happening. Her charity concert, one she was so passionate about... completely ruined. All by this giant orange ape that couldn't even sing! She... she didn't know how to feel at all. Her depressed and furious emotions were fighting each other.
Tadayoshi made his way in front of Etemon, claiming to be an agent of AEGIS and that he wanted Etemon to go with him. The Digimon, of course, looked unimpressed and simply flicked Tadayoshi away. Light enough to not cause a lot of bodily harm, but hard enough for Tadayoshi to be out of the picture. After that, Etemon turned right back to White Wolf. "Why don'tcha come with me back to the Digital World, where we'll have a bit more breathing room to do our thing..." Etemon began to extend an arm out towards the idol, and-
"Pepper Breath!"
"Blue Blaster!"
Two separate shots of fire and ice hit Etemon directly in the face, causing him to be startled and stumbled back. "AUGH! MY EYES!"
On each side of White Wolf, Agumon and Gabumon had landed, with the former holding Rebecca's digivice in hand, handing it over to the human. "Here, White Wolf. You're gonna need this."
"Thanks," White Wolf said as she took the digivice. She walked right up in front of Etemon and spoke directly to him. "I don't know who you think you are, but if you think I'm just going to GO with you after you crashed and ruined my concert, scaring everyone away? You're out of your goddamn mind."
"Don'tcha know, honey? I ALWAYS get my way."
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 24, 2019 22:08:37 GMT
Ouch! Besides the smarting on the boy's forehead, he'd just been humiliated to boot. That wasn't exactly a threat to his bodily safety, but at this point Etemon had technically assaulted an agent, plus Yoshi was getting angry. The fact that Etemon's actions were turning into an attempted kidnapping was just a convenient excuse for escalation of force. The timing of Rebecca's partners was perfect. Maybe they didn't have a chance against an ultimate digimon by themselves, but they took the monkey's attention and armed their Tamer. Yoshi didn't yet know if the latter point would be helpful, but keeping the Etemon's attention was good. Knocked into the wings, Yoshi was clear to tell his Xros Loader, "Proportional response authorized. Discretion imperative rescinded. Commandramon, Renamon, Alpha through Hotel, deploy."
"Yes, sir," Commandramon acknowledged upon materialization. "Here," Renamon apathetically checked in as she became visible. The cluster of MetalKoromon didn't say anything, but each one of them beeped at a different pitch up the major scale until Hotel pinged an octave above Alpha.
"Digi-Xros!" While their fusion took place, Tadayoshi addressed Johan. "Tell the twins this one is under control. Just give first responders a cover story and instructions to stay out of the way." By that time he was looking down at Scorpmon, already on the ground prone and aiming down his scope. "Acquiring target." "You can't shoot a digimon who hasn't hurt anyone yet." "Cover your ears." Bang! If Etemon hadn't already noticed Scorpmon, he definitely had by now! The bullet whizzed past him, Agumon, Gabumon, and Rebecca as it sailed off into the night, but that was the point. It was a warning shot. "Let's try this again! These bullets have a muzzle velocity of over eight hundred meters per second! Do you think you can outrun them?" Commandramon, Renamon, and the MetalKoromon fused into X3 Scorpmon.Scorpmon fired Scorp Sting as a warning shot. -Scorp Sting: This digimon fires a metal bullet out of his rifle to deal damage.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2019 18:36:12 GMT
When Tadayoshi was flicked away like that by Etemon, she couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hands. She initially wanted to shout out his name but that would give the impression that White Wolf personally knew him, and she couldn't let this Etemon know that.
Etemon's attention was focused on White Wolf and the twins. He saw the two leap at her side and noticed the device in White Wolf's hand. He smirked. "So you're a Tamer? You must've been to the Digital World before then. That means we can skip the grand tour and head right towards my place."
"Just what is it do you want with me?" White Wolf said, losing her patience, "What was so important that you had to ruin my concert for?"
"Why, the answer's simple. You are a special human in this world. The others seem to love your songs, so you'll be a perfect decoration. At least once my-"
Etemon didn't get a chance to finish as a shot rang right past his head. He angrily turned towards the culprit: a Scorpmon. This Etemon did NOT look happy. "Didn't anyone tell you that it's rude to interrupt people?! I'll show you..." He raised his microphone up and sang: "Love Serenade!"
Suddenly both Agumon and Gabumon lost their determined faces and just sat down. "Come on White Wolf, just go with the guy."
"Do we seriously have to fight over this?"
"What the...? What's happening to you guys?!"
It seemed that the Love Serenade was causing Digimon to lose their will to fight. Would X3 Scorpmon be able to resist the temptation to give up...?
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 30, 2019 0:48:29 GMT
The General's eyebrows furrowed as Agumon and Gabumon, supposedly his girlfriend's best friends and protectors, were completely derelict in their duty by abandoning their Tamer to a crazy kidnapper. What kind of madness was this? "What the heck are you two playing at?" Tadayoshi irritably shouted at them, "Now is not the time for a ruse! Get her out of the line of fire now!"
"General. Calm down."
Well, that was unexpected advice from Commandramon, but maybe it was good. Yoshi shouldn't lose his head here. "...OK. Calming."
"Everything is fine."
"Yeah. This is what we do. Situation is under control."
"Peace will be restored when Etemon and Miss Rebecca leave."
"Ye- what did you say?" The sniper clicked the safety of his rifle on, stopped looking through the site, and sat up, laying his weapon casually down at his side. That was when Tadayoshi finally got it: that song wasn't just a song.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 1:12:23 GMT
Things weren't going too much better for Tadayoshi at the moment either. Etemon's Love Serenade attack had affected Scorpmon as well, and he just set his rifle on the ground and sat up, almost exactly doing what Agumon and Gabumon were doing. White Wolf was practically screwed.
Etemon let out a hearty chuckle. "It seems as if all your bodyguards decided to take today off! What a shame. On the bright side, now there's nothing stopping you from coming to the Digital World with me!"
White Wolf panicked. She looked around furiously, trying to find something, ANYTHING, that could save them. Alas, she could find nothing. The idol looked back up at Etemon. "I'll run from you! I'll escape you! I'll stall you until the Digimon are back on their feet and ready to kick your monkey ass!"
Etemon laughed even harder. "The only way they'll kick the lazy butt attitude is if I leave the area, which I will not do without you." He then looked over at Tadayoshi, who was also open for attacks. "Maybe pancaking him will give you a good enough motivation to-"
"NO! DON'T!" White Wolf screamed. She stopped and sighed, putting her hands behind her back and letting her head down. "Don't hurt anyone. I'll... I'll go with you." Right as she said that, she pushed a button on her Digivice, basically allowing Tadayoshi a chance to track her with either his Xros Loader or D-Terminal if he had one.
"Hmhmhm, finally," Etemon said with a smile on his face. He picked up White Wolf and opened a portal to the Digital World, closing it behind him. As soon as he left, Agumon and Gabumon got up, blinking rapidly.
"Unh, my head... what in the world happened?" Gabumon asked in confusion. "It's as if I just fell asleep..."
"Wait... where's White Wolf? Where's Rebecca?! Did Etemon take her?!!!"
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jul 31, 2019 2:31:24 GMT
"Rebecca, don't! You don't have to-" Well, no matter whether she had to or not, she did, and there was nothing that the boy could do about it. There was, perhaps, something that others could do about it, but they just... didn't. "Rebecca!" Who cared that her secret identity was still secret? What did it matter that Yoshi was shouting after her in a public place? His girlfriend just got snatched! "Johan, it's a mess over here. Clean it up and cover it. I don't care how," he hissed at Johan through the Xros Loader. "And I need a driver we can trust at my location immediately."
It was only at this point that Scorpmon seemed to shake himself free. Realizing the situation, he dove for his rifle, got back to prone position, and started to survey the area. "Target lost."
"I see that, captain!"
"Sir?"
"Stand down. While the three of you had your little pacifism phase, that guy made off with my girlfriend!" Tadayoshi began to pace and rub his own face as the digimon that made up Scorpmon defused. "OK, no time to waste. People are going to look for her. Heck, everybody is going to look for her! We've got to get to the train and find her ASAP. Every minute we spend here is seven that my girlfriend spends kidnapped by a darn primate!"
"Yes, sir."
"You two!" Tadayoshi pointed at the twins. "Come with us. I'm sure you want her back, too. There's no way of knowing where she could be, but there just isn't any-"
Beep beep. Yoshi's loader alerted him to a signal it was receiving. A distress signal? The signature of the source was easily recognizable as Rebecca's. "...Got a fix."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2019 23:44:49 GMT
Did... did the good guys just lose? Because with the current situation, it definitely seemed so. All the ally Digimon were affected by a mind-altering attack that made them lose all energy when it came to battling, and simply just let the big Etemon take White Wolf to who knows where in the Digital World. Tadayoshi was distraught, Agumon and Gabumon blamed themselves for everything.
The entire situation was a giant mess.
At AEGIS HQ, Johan blinked when Tadayoshi asked him to initiate a clean and cover up. He sounded royally pissed. Instead of asking about it and igniting Tadayoshi's apparent rage any more, Johan decided to let it go. "Of course. A few agents will be there to clean up any damages and make sure that this news does not spread any further."
Back at the scene of the attack, Agumon and Gabumon weren't exactly happy with getting blamed at by Tadayoshi for White Wolf's kidnapping. "Did it look like we had a choice at all, lover-boy?!" Agumon growled. "You at least kept your sanity during that song!"
"It was as if we were asleep after hearing it," Gabumon added, "We already feel terrible about it, she's our partner, and you are not helping in making it any better by yelling at us."
Suddenly Tadayoshi's Xros Loader started beeping. Gabumon took a look at its screen when the general had pulled it out. "That looks like some sort of... tracker? Do you know where the signal is coming from?"
According to the Xros Loader, Rebecca's Digivice signal seemed to be coming from... the Western Flatlands, more specifically an area in the Folder Desert. What would an Etemon be doing there? And with a human idol, too?
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