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Reaching Out for Help(Supes)
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 16, 2021 2:55:11 GMT
Stumbling out of the cargo section of a Trailmon a worn out looking Zudomon named Poseidon scanned the area. This Trailmon wasn't stopping in Rosewood and this was the closest it could get him and his father. Speaking of his father, an Angemon named Alucard, he looked at his still unconscious father. Alucard had been asleep since he passed out from his injuries a few days ago and had barely woken for more than a few moments in those few days since his injuries were pretty bad. Alucard's injuries were hard to look at without making Poseidon want to cry at the sight. The once pristine looking Angemon was covered in gashes and burns. His white clothing was also mostly black from grime and burn marks with little of the original appearance remaining. Even more heart wrenching was the fact that two of Alucard's six wings were broken.
Supporting his father in the crook of the arm with the furry orange paw, he hung his hammer on his shell so as to support his injured parent better. Poseidon was glad he wasn't far from Rosewood because he knew he didn't have the strength to hold his ultimate form much longer. Shuffling tiredly on he became worried when he was loosing strength sooner than he feared. This was not good since if he reverted to his rookie form he couldn't carry his father and it looked as if he wouldn't be able to make it to Rosewood to get Alucard some medical attention.
Soon the sight of an old mansion came into sight and Poseidon sighed in relief. While not ideal it would have to do. Hopefully the owner, if there was one, would allow them use of the place so he and his father could rest safely. Approaching the door he began to glow. This was not good. Looking down he gently set the eight foot Angemon on his side and not on his broken wings before dedigivolving back into his rookie form of Gomamon. The tired Gomamon walked up to door lifting a clawed flipper before the youngster started rapping on the door with a sense of urgency. Anyone who spotted him would see a Gomamon wearing a holy ring around his neck.
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Post by supesman on Dec 16, 2021 18:26:13 GMT
The Gomamon would see the sign "Digimon Shelter" hand painted beside the door, he probably missed the ones along the crests of the surrounding hills in his panic but it might just be enough to put his mind at ease. he wasn't just depending on the kindness of perfect strangers but people who, in one way or another, had dedicated themselves to helping people. Footsteps thumped behind the door and it was pulled inside, a man dressed in a worn black t-shirt and matching black slack opened it.
"Hel...lo?" Zack said, having to adjust his gaze to look down closer to his feet rather than at human eye level. He spotted the Gomamon and let a smile begin to drift across his face before he caught a look at the Gomamon's expression. he instantly searched the yard with his eyes and found the Angemon lying on his side, shivering slightly. He didn't need to know anything more. "MARIGOLD!" He shouted inside before bolting away from the doorway. A Fanbeemon in a crimson scarf bolted down the stairs, hovering on gossamer wings as she waited for instruction. "Get that Angemon in the yard and bring him inside, set him down on the table. I'll get the first aid kits."
"Fanbeemon digivolve to! STINGMON!" Marigold complied, bolting over Poseidon's head making his orange mohawk flutter as she scooped the Angemon up in her arms. "Waiting on an invitation?" She said to the Gomamon as she blurred past in his vision, laying his father down on the same mostly undamaged side she had found him on. "Close the door behind you, that cold's not doing him any good." She said, bolting to a closet and digivolving down back to Fanbeemon form, throwing it open and pulling out a kit of sterile sewing equipment just as her father skidded back into the room with at least three first aid kits in his arms. Human issue but with enough medicine and the like to be useful as he unrolled bandages with his teeth and set to work on the smaller wounds. Applying burn ointment and wrapping them up, bandaging the smaller wounds as Marigold set herself loose, the pointed ends of her front limbs going to work like a sewing machine as she closed the larger wounds with thick black thread.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 17, 2021 2:20:20 GMT
Poseidon looked up at as the door swung open seeing a human and when the human said Hello as if asking a question which was more noticeable since the word was stretched out. Somehow Poseidon found new energy, not enough to digivolve to even champion, and his eyes filled with tears before he sputtered words rapid fire. "Please help me. My Dad is hurt and I don't have enough energy to digivolve to champion anymore cause I used the last of my strength to carry him here and then my power ran out." The distressed youngsters words were coming so fast that one would of had to listen carefully to make out what Poseidon even said in the first place. Poseidon was also struggling not to break down sobbing as he knew it wouldn't help his father.
Apparently this human was willing to help as he shouted to someone inside named Marigold who turned out to be a Fanbeemon wearing a scarf that digivolved to Stingmon before lifting Alucard up. Alucard's face twisted in pain but otherwise was silent when he was lifted off the ground. Then Marigold said 'Waiting on an invitation?' Before zipping past him again telling him to close the door since the cold wasn't doing his father any good. Poseidon stepped in before tugging the door closed with some struggle since he lacked hands to get a good grip and was much too short to reach the door handle.
As Zack and Marigold began tending to Alucard's wounds the Angemon's face was scrunched in visible discomfort which was hard for Poseidon to watch coming from his normally aloof and rarely complaining father. He must of been in far more discomfort than he had been letting on. Now the Gomamon felt worse for jostling his father as much as he did even if it was only slightly.
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Post by supesman on Dec 17, 2021 14:11:53 GMT
"We're doing the best we can, kiddo." Zack offered, finally registering what the Gomamon had been saying to him. His mind had been too busy racing to actually fully absorb what had been said in the doorway and only now was the back of his brain getting enough leeway to fully parse what he had been told. "Emergency snacks are in that cupboard right there." He said, pointing to a furnishing brandishing a pair of massive wooden doors. When Gomamon got them open he would find box after box of granola bars, jerky, Gatorade and plenty of other high energy, low space food that was easy to store for an indefinite amount of time.
"Hold still, big man. I know this must sting like a bitch and a half but there's only so much stitching I can do when you're flinching all over the place." Marigold said, part of the thread she was using tucked between her mandibles, making her pronunciation of words slurred and muffled as she worked as fast and cleanly as possible with the needle sharp points at the head of her forelimbs.
Zack snatched a paper towel from a roll that was sitting on the divider between the kitchen and the main sitting area at the front, dabbing and soaking up the sweat from Angemon's forehead and cheeks.
"I'd give you some painkillers, fella. But I don't think they make Ibuprofen big enough for an eight foot tall angel that's eighty-five percent muscle." Zack said, his voice strained even as he tried to use humor to mask just how out of his depth he was. Neither him nor his daughter were doctors and what they did know was enough first aid to get them both through the day in the dangerous human and digital worlds. Zack alone and his...proclivities made it a necessity that they knew at least some of what they were doing.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 18, 2021 0:26:28 GMT
Despite the promise that they were doing the best they could and the mention of food, Poseidon seemed hesitant to take his eyes of his father until he knew he was in at least somewhat better shape but hunger overcame him and he moved over to the cupboards taking out a few little items as he wasn't that hungry since his worry was more pronounced. Grabbing a few things he walked out balancing various things on his back setting it down and watching Zack and Marigold once again.
Meanwhile Alucard still hadn't made a sound or even a move in response as it seemed he was aware of the pain but little else. Poseidon noticing this said "Dad's still unconscious from his injuries. He may be reacting but he has been out cold for a few days since he passed out from his injuries."
Poseidon watched as Zack wiped the sweat from his father's face then noticed Alucard's fingers were beginning to twitch. Was he starting to come around? It was a relief and a worry to Poseidon at the same time. How would Alucard react to being injured in an unfamiliar place with strangers hovering around him? Poseidon was sure his father wouldn't go violent but definitely would likely not be fond of strangers touching him without his consent. He was sometimes irritatingly stubborn that way.
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Post by supesman on Dec 18, 2021 18:23:51 GMT
"Kid I think you better get up here. As much as I like to have faith in my fellow man I'd rather not be the first thing an Angemon sees when he wakes up after getting into a scrap, you know what I mean? You two can take a smack or two but if he even looks at me funny I'm going to be painting the back wall a lovely shade of christmas red for the season, you get me?" he said, reaching out to reaching his hand around the back of the Gomamon and shoving him in at such an angle that there was a good change Poseidon would be the first thing his father saw.
"Ditto. I mean, literally ditto about not wanting my father to get turned into salsa by someone's bolting overreaction but I don't want to be the one taking the hit either if I can help it." Marigold said, still snipping and clicking away at the surgical thread. Neither of the heroes had stopped moving or even looked away while having that conversation with the Gomamon in their midst. Even if everything did go wrong and he caught the wrong sight with the wrong reaction at the wrong time upon waking up it wasn't going to stop either of them from doing their best to patch him up right as rain.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 19, 2021 0:58:04 GMT
Poseidon had to admit that the stranger had a point. Seeing as he was a human a digimon in their fight or flight response could easily smear a human all over this place so maybe it would be best he was in Alucard's line of sight. Though grunting in annoyance at being shoved, Poseidon quickly brushed it off as he walked the rest of the way on his own.
Meanwhile Alucard's hand had clenched into a fist as he opened his eyes. Though his mask would obscure his eyes from view he gradually caught sight of a blur of white before it cleared into the familiar form of Poseidon. "P-Poseidon?" Alucard asked hating how scratchy his voice sounded but seeing as he had been unconscious for a few days it made sense for his voice to be that way.
"Dad, it's okay. I brought you here for medical attention so please don't get to mad at those trying to help you. I used up the last of my energy to get you this far." Poseidon explained keeping his eyes on Alucard's face as he didn't want to spend more time than he had to looking at his father's injuries seeing as he'd spent his fare share looking at his father in that state.
"Where...?" was all Alucard was able to get our before his face scrunched up realizing how bad he smelled. Given he was both injured and covered in grime it was understandable.
"This is some shelter near Rosewood. I ran out of energy and knocked on the door here asking for help." Poseidon answered as if knowing what information his father wanted to know.
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Post by supesman on Dec 19, 2021 14:44:45 GMT
"Try to keep still. You're not dying as far as I can tell but you've gotten about thirty percent of the way into a death by a thousand cuts. Just relax and we'll patch you up as best we can." Zack said, still not looking up from his work, lips pursed as he readied another length of bandage and the disinfectant spray. "Also just to be honest, this stuff stings like a bitch." He said, the hiss of the can perhaps neatly mirroring the hiss of the Angemon laid out on the table before the disinfected wound was covered with a bandage.
"What my dad said. Lay down and don't try to move. The stitches on your deeper wounds are fresh and if you pop them ten seconds after I just finished making them , you're on your own." She said, sarcastically as the father/daughter duo stepped back from their handiwork. Zack grabbed a paper towel off the roll sitting on the sill between the kitchen and main seating area, patting and wiping at his forehead so as to banish at least a fraction of the sweat that was soaking it.
"I'll get you some water, Marigold, bring one of the snack sacks around." Zack turned, pushing his way into the kitchen. The sound of running water followed before he came back in with a tall glass of tap water. "Not the fanciest thing in the world but you don't seem to be in a spot to be choosy." he said, helping, very gently and slowly, the Angemon sit up before he handed him the glass and Marigold returning with a large mixed sack of jerky, cheeses, granola bars and other such things.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 20, 2021 1:12:57 GMT
Alucard wasn't going to argue about keeping still while being patched together. Between the cuts of various severity not to mention the nasty burns leaving his clothes in need of not just cleaning but repair as well, he decided to just be glad he was alive and still had clothes left at all. As the disinfectant spray was taken to yet another wound he grunted in discomfort but otherwise remained still.
When Marigold spoke he looked at the young Fanbeemon and could sense she was only a little younger than Poseidon so basically a child. Yet she had taken up quite the responsibility at her young age being the partner of a tamer. "Don't worry I don't plan on going anywhere." he said in a cold tone that Poseidon was more familiar with but still sounded pretty weak. Poseidon sighed quietly in relief as he seemed to be much improved from the unconscious state he had been in for a few days but it would still be some time before he was out fighting vampires and such.
Then Zack headed into the kitchen for some water while Marigold went for some food. When Zack returned with the glass of water he helped Alucard sit up carefully before handing the Angemon the water which the vampire hunter accepted before he said "Thank you." Alucard had said his thanks quietly but there would be no way Zack didn't hear him. As he began drinking the water Marigold entered with a large sack of food. Poseidon had finally gone back to a pile of food he found and had begun eating the little rookie hungrier than he was earlier admitting.
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Post by supesman on Dec 20, 2021 17:54:05 GMT
"Don't thank me, I only did what came naturally." Zack said, collapsing backward into a chair, leaning forward with his arms propped up against his thighs, letting out a long, exhausted groan. He pressed his thumb into the palm of his opposite hand, trying to work some of the aching tension out of his musculature from strictly wrapping and caring for the Angemon who was now sitting up in front of him. "What kind of monster would I be if I turned away a child saying their parent was hurt. Or at least I assume that's what Gomamon here was trying to tell me. I saw you groaning out in the yard and sorta stopped thinking in full words there for a tick." He said, admitting that he had very much gone into action move upon seeing the state Alucard was in at first.
"No kidding." Marigold said, collapsing flat against the top of one of the tables across from him. Her front limbs were burning slightly, she had never knitted anything so delicate so fast, the stitches on him were probably some of the best work she had ever done from a pure technique standpoint even as the Angemon's powerful musculature rolled back and forth with the slight motions that had made, lower quality stitches would have popped already from the pure power being put into the angel's every motion. "If you pop one of those and come back for a new one I might just give you a few stitches in places you won't like 'em." She said, her eyes slumping shut as she de-stressed for the moment. Even her wings lay flat against her back.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 21, 2021 1:22:06 GMT
Poseidon scratched the back of his head with his clawed flipper before he said "Yeah. Sorry about not being clear but I guess since Dad was hurt and my energy had run out so I couldn't protect him if something came our way, you could understand me being a incoherent mess. It was like all my training went out the window in my panicked state." Poseidon then began digging into the snacks with better table manners than most young digimon his age. Alucard made sure his son at least had manners and didn't eat like he hadn't eaten in a week.
As Zack collapsed into a chair Alucard had finished the water and set the glass down before picking up some food himself. Before he opened the wrapper of the granola bar in his hand, he said "Don't mind me. I'm not used to seeking strangers for help with medical matters. I'm not mad at my son for doing so seeing as I couldn't exactly defend myself in an unconscious state." Then he turned to look at Marigold, who had collapsed on a table, and said "Don't worry, little one, I don't intend to pop the newly made stitches. I don't plan on charging out the door looking for battle especially like this." His normally cold tone that had become a habit when interacting with others had faded somewhat when interacting with Marigold as his brain identified her as a child. As for Poseidon, he was more than used to hearing the cold tone from his Angemon father but, then again, it never upset him in the slightest even when he was a fresh digimon called Pichimon.
"I hope so considering you also have two broken wings on top of the gashes and burns covering your body. Man Asuramon really messed you up a while back." Poseidon said and when Alucard looked his direction with a frown, Poseidon then said "Sorry, Dad."
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Post by supesman on Dec 21, 2021 14:33:36 GMT
"You can say that again kid." Zack said, lazily rolling his neck so that he was looking over at the Gomamon child, still totally slumped and relaxing in his chair. It wasn't that his body was exhausted though that was a small part of it, more of it was the mental exhaustion and the receding waves of adrenaline that were kicking him in the teeth at that moment. "You could have been quoting the collected works of Shakespeare and I probably wouldn't have heard much of it in that moment." he said, reaching up with one hand and rubbing his eyes.
"Total instinct from us, that's for sure. We do a lot of...do-gooding on our own time so helping you out was just us doing what we do. Even if being blindsided THIS hard is a bit beyond how we usually do things." She said, her shoulders trembling as she tried to shrug. Again it wasn't so much the physical lack of energy but just all of the fight or flight response getting sucked out of her muscles with the passing of the "threat"
"Maybe you could tell us what exactly brought you two here in such a state and we'll see if we can lend a hand. We're not exactly strangers to showing up to a scrap, if you know what I mean." Zack said, though the offer was a bit comical coming from a man who was slumped backward in his chair so hard it looked like he was only a few seconds away from dissolving into a puff of smoke. "You don't just show up at someone's doorstep looking like you did without at least some kind of story being in there and I feel like if nothing else my daughter and I have a right to know who we just dragged over our threshold and why." He said, not in accusatory way, more in a genuine attempt to figure out the context.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 22, 2021 0:36:09 GMT
As Zack slumped in her chair he mentioned the collected works of Shakespeare which made Poseidon freeze with a cheese stick in his mouth cocking his head in confusion at Zack's words before he took the food out of his mouth and asked "Shakespeare?" The young one did look utterly perplexed to almost a comical degree.
Seeing his son's confusion, Alucard said "Must be a human writer, Poseidon." Alucard then returned to eating some of the food put near him and Poseidon nodded as if in understanding before returning to eating as well.
Alucard nodded at Marigold in regards to her comments regarding instinct to help others and Poseidon said "Dad has helped some folks but he doesn't always go out of his way to do so."
Alucard sighed as the human stranger had a point. Sure at times the Angemon could be a frustratingly private fellow at times but this was a good reason to explain what had happened seeing the shape he was in. "My son, Poseidon, and I were traveling around like we usually do when we ended up trapped in some unusual barrier. While trying to figure out how to escape a devastating fireball came at me. I protected Poseidon from harm but was confused how I survived an attack from what seemed to be an ultimate level digimon at full strength. After three days and multiple additional injuries I finally lost strength while protecting my son from harm."
"At some point the fiend who had been tormenting us revealed himself as an Asuramon. He had created some barrier that we were trapped in that made us immortal for the purpose of using us as victims of his cruel hunt. I digivolved into Ikkakumon to fight him and at some point Dad passed out. The odds were against us and, I don't know, I then just digivolved into Zudomon before creating a holy barrier to protect us from his attack. Then I defeated him in battle but didn't download his data. With the barrier gone I gently picked my father up and carried him to a Trailmon then a few days later I made it here." Poseidon said finishing up what Alucard was unconscious for.
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Post by supesman on Dec 22, 2021 16:03:08 GMT
Zack's had smacked against his face with an exaggerated growl, rolling his eyes through the gaps between his fingers. This really was a running issue with many Digimon that was started to make things difficult. he smiled though, they couldn't help it.
"Some would say THE human writer, really. I don't even wanna know how you two could have gotten your names considering yours at least comes from human classical mythology." He said, pointing casually at Poseidon. "I wonder about that alot. How digimon end up with such specific names tied to literary, mythical or cultural traditions tied to the human world in the same way that humans do while at the same time having little to no context of any of those things. I mean, didn't you give the kid his name?" Zack asking. he was probably assuming what they meant when they said they had a father and son relationship. With a human and a digimon it was easy to tell that a parental relationship was adopted but just like a digimon to human culture he was a little ignorant for how digimon lineages went and whether it was even possible for an Angemon to beget a Gomamon in such a way.
"Sounds like you two have been through a lot. You can rest here for as long as you like, free of charge. Trust me, I know what it's like for your father to keep getting himself into trouble." Marigold said, obviously referring to her totally human father. It might be a bit confusing for the Digimon pair who might be expecting humans to behave as their bodies dictated, in relation to Digimon anyway, since they were so much more fragile and vulnerable than digimon of just about any level the idea of Zack getting himself into the same kind of trouble as Alucard would be a bit head tilting. Not the least because he was still sitting there talking to them and not a smoking crater in the center of the ground.
"Considering I DO always go out of my way to help people, I might be more well versed in finding trouble than you are even." He laughed, Marigold rolling her eyes with a grumble.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Dec 22, 2021 19:54:38 GMT
Alucard cocked his head in confusion for a moment before he said "Seeing as many digimon share features in common with creatures in various human mythologies including names which explains my son's name really. It is also not uncommon for digimon to be aware of some things from the Human World and ignorant of others."
"Yeah, Dad gave me my name shortly after I hatched. He sure looked lost on the whole Dad thing. Considering the complexity of the situation my egg came to be that is probably an understatement." Poseidon said with a snicker earning a glare from Alucard which made the Gomamon laugh harder.
Alucard sighed as his son laughed before looking at Marigold and said "I've had a tough life even before Poseidon was born and it seems I still have to face many challenges ahead yet."
Poseidon snickered again when Marigold mentioned also having a dad who was good at finding trouble. Then a thought came to the young Gomamon's mind before he glanced up at his father and said "Hey, Dad. Are you gonna introduce yourself or are you gonna leave it to your son and apprentice?"
"Fair enough, Poseidon." Alucard said after chewing and swallowing some food that was in his mouth when Poseidon was snickering again. "My name is Alucard and my son's name you already know. Believe it or not he isn't adopted but, like Poseidon mentioned, the circumstances regarding his birth are rather complicated as I don't have a mate to produce a child with."
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