Hotheaded Chaos [Xros Partner Hunt]
Mar 31, 2022 0:32:27 GMT
Post by Kai Aizawa on Mar 31, 2022 0:32:27 GMT
After getting out of the Dark Area, spending a few days there and getting well acquainted with Deeplane and with Tera feeling ready to go, the two arranged travel outbound of the Dark Area, taking them to the western part of the main continent before they would have to make the rest of the way on their own. Kai took a drink from her water bottle as she was quite hot in the area as the two were approaching the outskirts of Rustport.
"So this is Rustport, haven to machine based Digimon. I can see why." She said looking about the place, noticing the fact that there were more, mechanical, mineral, and other types that rely less on biological needs or naturally thrive in the heated area. "Yep. This place can support most types of life, but those that need a little boost to survive in the desert can stick around with some support with places like the Chili Pepper Tavern and a few other places. As much as I would rather carry you by air travel, my crate gets too hot. We'll need to catch the Trailmon from Rustport, it's not as crowded as trying to go by trails from Rosewood." She explained a bit before long the two could hear various sounds of shouting, and Tera got curious and hovered towards the display immediately. "Huh, what's going on over here?" She asked curiously while Kai followed, only because she didn't wanna get separated from Tera in the Digital World.
The two would be running towards what appeared to be a crowd of Meramon, Sunmon, Coronamon, Firemon, Flare Lizamon, and other various fire based Digimon and a number of other various types, most of which were holding signs outside the fenced off area. "A protest?" She said as she recognized the signs. "Oh yeah, second one in four years. Marv's Reforgery, a c0nstruction company that honestly is not too bad. They get a few gigs for Rustport every now and then and other places among the west and north. Boy they're really pissed at scabs this time." Tera said as she could hear a bit better then Kai and could make out the words. Kai trusted her partner on that before she felt the area get a bit hotter as she gulped down half her remaining water. "Are they..." She asked before Tera nodded acknowledging her.
"Was like this last time, strike must have lasted a few weeks or work really needed to get done and the Scabs were brought in early. At the moment it's just a standoff, waiting to see who folds first before they can leave. I don't like the looks of this, we should stay put for now." Tera said surprising Kai with how logical and reasoned the Digimon was but then again when it came to combat like situations, Tera did seem to be a bit more wise.
This lasted about forty five seconds when suddenly through the crowd, a Digimon tried to make a break for it towards the outskirts of town, coincidentally in a similar direction as Kai and Tera were, but he sped through to the alley, as a Flamon, Kokuwamon, and a Junkmon chasing after the fleeing Digimon. "Come back and die scab!" The Flamon shouted as he was hurling fireballs at the Digimon, while the Junkmon was far behind but throwing stuff at the golden gear Digimon. "Git away you bloody ingrates. I'm just trying to work for a bit of cash, not maim ya mothers. Not my fault ye can't take a good deal for what it is." He yelled back at them.
Immediately Tera burst out in support of the lone Digimon, into the alley. Kai sighed and would run down the street, around to the alley's other side before seeing there was a big wall there, with piles of junk on either side. Tera followed after the three Digimon, firing pellets out of her cannons. "Side Winder!" She yelled as she would get the attention of the three Digimon as she flanked them, knocking the Flamon down, while the Kekimon stumbled, and the Junkmon was able to take the hit. "Stay out of this courier!" The Junkmon said before all three of them barraged the aerial Digimon with their ranged attacks.
Tera managed to dodge the junk and fireball, but took the lightning strike right on the beak. Tera could only move in two directions, upwards, downwards, forward, and behind, which limited some options. However Tera would take advantage of being knocked back as she would loop up and down, flying how before arcing up as they would swoop down at the three Digimon, taking the shots knocking them aside.
Meanwhile as the Solarmon reached the end of the line, he cursed himself for taking the wrong alleyway, he meant for the one two streets over but figured he got disoriented in the crowd. He would curse himself silently before he would look up to see a human girl, Kai, who had climbed the junk on the other side, leaning over reaching her hand down to the gear bodied Digimon. "C'mon, she's got them distracted." She said genuinely offering her help before the Solarmon scoffed. "I don't need any charity from ya lass, I ain't fallin' for no shakedown tactics." He said skeptical about Kai's intentions. Kai maintained focus on her balance, while she was a bit surprised at the reaction. "Look, you're outnumbered and cornered, offered a lifeline-" she said before the metal gear based Digimon snapped."I heard that before, yah, you say that, offering me a 'lifeline' from one danger, then you want a wee favor, and then put me in a box to run your damn lights!" He shouted back at Kai, who due to the situation didn't make any immediate connections. However she was a bit irritated that this Digimon was unjustly being attacked and couldn't accept one small act of kindness.
Kai did not want any efforts to be wasted, so she would go lower and grab the Digimon before using all her strength to pull him over the wall, landing on a old mattress. Kai winced in pain as she would feel a burning sensation in her hand and heat on her chest as she would soon let go of the Solarmon to find his body was rapidly getting hotter. "Owe, hot!" She said before Solarmon got off, grunting a bit. "I'm not paying you for that." He said a bit disgruntled as Tera flew over the wall. "Let's depart with any rambling and put some distance between us and them in case the wall doesn't hold." he said as she was flying a bit low. "You wanna lose them too? Fine, this way..." The Solarmon said as he would disgruntledly lead the two girls through the outskirts until stopping at a empty lot after several twists and turns, each of the three at high speed with just Solarmon panting at the end, leaning against a wall. "How are you not tired?" He said looking at Kai who was running behind him the whole time.
"I can manage a lot of stress and ran track before. If you weren't so, hotheaded I could've carried you a bit faster." She said as she fully intended the obvious pun. "What do you mean by that ye- alright fair enough. Anyways, what are ye two wanting of me?" He said as he was starting to get on Kai's nerves a bit but she kept her composure. She took a deep breath. "You were just a guy lookin' to do a job and go, you didn't ask to be jumped. We tried to help those hotheads from misplacing their anger. If we wanted something, I could've made a threat while you were still in hot water. Fact is you got out unscathed. I'm an advocate for aiding the proletariat too and using some, drastic measures to get what one wants, but those people took it way too far. "
"What happened? Why the strike? That project looked good and Marv doesn't skim, she pays above average, hell she even tips couriers. What's the beef this time?" She asked as she was curious. "They all got raises, but flame welders got half as much as the rest did. Also I think they want four extra vacation days a year a piece instead of three." Solarmon said, explaining the story, before Tera turned to Kai. "Flame Welders are Digimon with Fire elemental powers capable of refining it to weld metals together, they normally get paid about nearly twice as much as general guys. Marv also gives everyone two weeks plus three days in addition to a week for every year they work for Marv." She explained as Kai was growing more and more confused as she was wondering why there was much to complain about. "However this project is a big one, work had to keep movin', I was in the area, so yeah." She said as Kai would be a bit confused.
"I mean, both sides have some, 'logic' to their side. Some employees feel cheated out of a raise, and Marv had a contract to keep to and they tried a gambit of using the contract to pressure her. I was hired on for a few days, but at this point I'm gonna split. Not worth it any more." She said as she would have some opinions on both sides, more so supporting the Bourgeois in this instance. "Well. At least you're okay now right? Oh, I don't suppose we were formally introduced, I am Kai Aizawa. This is Tera." She said, trying to still be nice with the Solarmon, who grunted. "I'm just Solarmon. Just passing through, and just so we're clear lass, I don't owe you a wee bit. I clawed out of hell fallin' for a pretty girl bein' a trap in disguise." He said with a twinge of hostility, this time with what he mentioned to Kai about being suckered earlier started to get to her.
"You... the Bayou, the tavern, you were stuck inside the-" She tried to say before she was hit in the back by a compressed ball of rubbish sending her flying forward before Tera would look in shock as Kai hit the floor, the twinging fear in her eyes initiated a flashback of the feeling of helplessness she encountered before she went to the dark area, that fear, pain, and uselessness stabbed her like a syringe before she was filled with rage as she saw the three Digimon from earlier catch up. Solarmon would start to flee across the lot as he had nothing but himself at stake, while the Kokuwamon ran forward before trying to shoot Tera with lightning, while the Flamon tried chasing after Solarmon.
Junkmon sped up to Kai and ran over her back, pinning her down as she cried out in pain. Tera would be avoiding the Kokuwamon's attacks, angry that Kai was under attack; she couldn't do much about it without being immediately crushed. "Ditchin' your bodyguards scab?" Flamon said before he charged up a large fireball over his head and tossed it towards the fleeing Solarmon. Tera could see the attack coming before diving low, rotating her body so her wingspan would be taking the brunt of the attack before it exploded, knocking her down onto the ground.
Solarmon looked back, seeing Kai and Tera down on the ground. Kai looked at Solarmon clearly hurting. "What are you waiting for? You didn't ask to be wrapped up with people and just wanted to leave after some work. You said it yourself, you don't owe us anything." Kai said with slight wheezing as she did have a Digimon crushing her back by sheer body weight and pressure,there were tears and pain in her eyes, while Tera was barely getting off the ground being repeatedly zapped by the Kokuwamon, a single thought went through the Solarmon’s mind.
”There’s nothin’ in it for them to do this. Even if they wanted to con me out of some coin or capture me, this is too far to go. Maybe… Maybe they’re just too damn good.” He thought as his gears came to a grinding halt for a moment as he felt his own anger strike down his mind as he would silently recite a prayer. “If there’s any God out there, make sure I get hell for what I did, but first let these old gears be put to good use.” He thought before he would look at the Kokuawamon as his gears started to spin rapidly before forming a ring of fire around him before spinning his whole body around causing the ring of fire to shoot out and hit the Kokuwamon, knocking him back. Solarmon would then charge at the Junkmon, tackling him off of Kai as he hit the Junkmon right in the chin.
Kai would roll to the side before crawling off, breathing heavily. "Thanks. What changed your mind?” She said getting onto her knee and foot. “Finally started to listen. Besides, a Digimon that picks on a human who’s already down needs a good slappin’” He said before breathing out fireballs at the other two, giving Tea enough time to recover and get away as she would fly into the air, picking up the Junkmon with her claws and fly high, before tossing Junkmon away. "I agree, however being tossed towards the scrapyard might do the trick.” Tera said before taking position in the air.
"Two on two? This might be tough… We could use an edge. Kai. I think we may need, ‘it’...” Tera said as she was willing to endure the pain at the moment but Kai shook her head as she held out her Xros Loader. "We don’t need the fake when we got the genuine article right here… Solarmon, can you lend us a bit of faith and trust?” She called out prompting a glare from Solarmon, who recognized the device before he would nod. "Alright, I think I see where this is going. Do it.” He said before Kai would spin the dial twice holding out the Xros Loader before the top extended, sending two bursts of light out towards the two Digimon before they turned into pure purple and red lights that would be drawn towards the other before in a burst, the two would fuse, creating a large Pteranomon that had its claws forced empty back as two thrusters extend from them. Red and orange patterns traced her body, and the cockpit turned red, as she opened her eyes, it was revealed her eyes were now a bright crimson red color.
"Pteranomon: Blaze Mode!” She called out before she would fly straight forward at the two, shooting out pellets of fire at the two Digimon. "Side Blazer!” She called out as the two were now running for cover. Tera was now chasing the group out, not as focused on damaging her enemies as she was chasing them out. “Screw it, it’s not worth it when they have a human playing dirty. It’s not fair for her to pick on those that clearly can’t fight back at her leve!” The Flamon said as the two would run off before Tera returned to Kai, defusing afterwards.
"So, thanks for that I guess…” Solarmon said awkwardly before Kai brushed it off as she was clearing the dust off her clothes. "Don’t mention it. I have an idea about your past so you may be a bit wary of some people. Look, if you’re exhausted of the lonely road, and got nothin’ else to go, feel free to hang around us.” She offered much to the surprise of the Solarmon. "You can’t be serious, you sure you’d even want to have me around?” He asked, confused and moved by the offer. "Yeah, we all had tough times around and sometimes needed someone to offer some kindness, think nothing of it. You wanna leave us, your call.” Tera said as after fusing with the Digimon, she could understand through some echoes as to why he was so lonely.
"You have my word you’ll be treated fairly and if you wanna split, you’ll be free to leave.” Kai said with complete sincerity, Solarmon paused for a moment as he thought about it, but then internally chuckled at the thought of his luck at being able to travel the world with a couple of pretty girls and figured he had nothing to lose at this point. "You know what, sure, what the hell. Sure, I’ll stick around. Also what did you mean earlier when you said the real thing?” He said before Kai would go white as a sheet before remembering that technically she had the Digimon’s old severed limb floating around in her Xros Loader, she tugged at her collar uncomfortably as she started to walk. "Long story…” She said as she was not sure where to begin with that story.
[END, partner acquired
WC 2852
"So this is Rustport, haven to machine based Digimon. I can see why." She said looking about the place, noticing the fact that there were more, mechanical, mineral, and other types that rely less on biological needs or naturally thrive in the heated area. "Yep. This place can support most types of life, but those that need a little boost to survive in the desert can stick around with some support with places like the Chili Pepper Tavern and a few other places. As much as I would rather carry you by air travel, my crate gets too hot. We'll need to catch the Trailmon from Rustport, it's not as crowded as trying to go by trails from Rosewood." She explained a bit before long the two could hear various sounds of shouting, and Tera got curious and hovered towards the display immediately. "Huh, what's going on over here?" She asked curiously while Kai followed, only because she didn't wanna get separated from Tera in the Digital World.
The two would be running towards what appeared to be a crowd of Meramon, Sunmon, Coronamon, Firemon, Flare Lizamon, and other various fire based Digimon and a number of other various types, most of which were holding signs outside the fenced off area. "A protest?" She said as she recognized the signs. "Oh yeah, second one in four years. Marv's Reforgery, a c0nstruction company that honestly is not too bad. They get a few gigs for Rustport every now and then and other places among the west and north. Boy they're really pissed at scabs this time." Tera said as she could hear a bit better then Kai and could make out the words. Kai trusted her partner on that before she felt the area get a bit hotter as she gulped down half her remaining water. "Are they..." She asked before Tera nodded acknowledging her.
"Was like this last time, strike must have lasted a few weeks or work really needed to get done and the Scabs were brought in early. At the moment it's just a standoff, waiting to see who folds first before they can leave. I don't like the looks of this, we should stay put for now." Tera said surprising Kai with how logical and reasoned the Digimon was but then again when it came to combat like situations, Tera did seem to be a bit more wise.
This lasted about forty five seconds when suddenly through the crowd, a Digimon tried to make a break for it towards the outskirts of town, coincidentally in a similar direction as Kai and Tera were, but he sped through to the alley, as a Flamon, Kokuwamon, and a Junkmon chasing after the fleeing Digimon. "Come back and die scab!" The Flamon shouted as he was hurling fireballs at the Digimon, while the Junkmon was far behind but throwing stuff at the golden gear Digimon. "Git away you bloody ingrates. I'm just trying to work for a bit of cash, not maim ya mothers. Not my fault ye can't take a good deal for what it is." He yelled back at them.
Immediately Tera burst out in support of the lone Digimon, into the alley. Kai sighed and would run down the street, around to the alley's other side before seeing there was a big wall there, with piles of junk on either side. Tera followed after the three Digimon, firing pellets out of her cannons. "Side Winder!" She yelled as she would get the attention of the three Digimon as she flanked them, knocking the Flamon down, while the Kekimon stumbled, and the Junkmon was able to take the hit. "Stay out of this courier!" The Junkmon said before all three of them barraged the aerial Digimon with their ranged attacks.
Tera managed to dodge the junk and fireball, but took the lightning strike right on the beak. Tera could only move in two directions, upwards, downwards, forward, and behind, which limited some options. However Tera would take advantage of being knocked back as she would loop up and down, flying how before arcing up as they would swoop down at the three Digimon, taking the shots knocking them aside.
Meanwhile as the Solarmon reached the end of the line, he cursed himself for taking the wrong alleyway, he meant for the one two streets over but figured he got disoriented in the crowd. He would curse himself silently before he would look up to see a human girl, Kai, who had climbed the junk on the other side, leaning over reaching her hand down to the gear bodied Digimon. "C'mon, she's got them distracted." She said genuinely offering her help before the Solarmon scoffed. "I don't need any charity from ya lass, I ain't fallin' for no shakedown tactics." He said skeptical about Kai's intentions. Kai maintained focus on her balance, while she was a bit surprised at the reaction. "Look, you're outnumbered and cornered, offered a lifeline-" she said before the metal gear based Digimon snapped."I heard that before, yah, you say that, offering me a 'lifeline' from one danger, then you want a wee favor, and then put me in a box to run your damn lights!" He shouted back at Kai, who due to the situation didn't make any immediate connections. However she was a bit irritated that this Digimon was unjustly being attacked and couldn't accept one small act of kindness.
Kai did not want any efforts to be wasted, so she would go lower and grab the Digimon before using all her strength to pull him over the wall, landing on a old mattress. Kai winced in pain as she would feel a burning sensation in her hand and heat on her chest as she would soon let go of the Solarmon to find his body was rapidly getting hotter. "Owe, hot!" She said before Solarmon got off, grunting a bit. "I'm not paying you for that." He said a bit disgruntled as Tera flew over the wall. "Let's depart with any rambling and put some distance between us and them in case the wall doesn't hold." he said as she was flying a bit low. "You wanna lose them too? Fine, this way..." The Solarmon said as he would disgruntledly lead the two girls through the outskirts until stopping at a empty lot after several twists and turns, each of the three at high speed with just Solarmon panting at the end, leaning against a wall. "How are you not tired?" He said looking at Kai who was running behind him the whole time.
"I can manage a lot of stress and ran track before. If you weren't so, hotheaded I could've carried you a bit faster." She said as she fully intended the obvious pun. "What do you mean by that ye- alright fair enough. Anyways, what are ye two wanting of me?" He said as he was starting to get on Kai's nerves a bit but she kept her composure. She took a deep breath. "You were just a guy lookin' to do a job and go, you didn't ask to be jumped. We tried to help those hotheads from misplacing their anger. If we wanted something, I could've made a threat while you were still in hot water. Fact is you got out unscathed. I'm an advocate for aiding the proletariat too and using some, drastic measures to get what one wants, but those people took it way too far. "
"What happened? Why the strike? That project looked good and Marv doesn't skim, she pays above average, hell she even tips couriers. What's the beef this time?" She asked as she was curious. "They all got raises, but flame welders got half as much as the rest did. Also I think they want four extra vacation days a year a piece instead of three." Solarmon said, explaining the story, before Tera turned to Kai. "Flame Welders are Digimon with Fire elemental powers capable of refining it to weld metals together, they normally get paid about nearly twice as much as general guys. Marv also gives everyone two weeks plus three days in addition to a week for every year they work for Marv." She explained as Kai was growing more and more confused as she was wondering why there was much to complain about. "However this project is a big one, work had to keep movin', I was in the area, so yeah." She said as Kai would be a bit confused.
"I mean, both sides have some, 'logic' to their side. Some employees feel cheated out of a raise, and Marv had a contract to keep to and they tried a gambit of using the contract to pressure her. I was hired on for a few days, but at this point I'm gonna split. Not worth it any more." She said as she would have some opinions on both sides, more so supporting the Bourgeois in this instance. "Well. At least you're okay now right? Oh, I don't suppose we were formally introduced, I am Kai Aizawa. This is Tera." She said, trying to still be nice with the Solarmon, who grunted. "I'm just Solarmon. Just passing through, and just so we're clear lass, I don't owe you a wee bit. I clawed out of hell fallin' for a pretty girl bein' a trap in disguise." He said with a twinge of hostility, this time with what he mentioned to Kai about being suckered earlier started to get to her.
"You... the Bayou, the tavern, you were stuck inside the-" She tried to say before she was hit in the back by a compressed ball of rubbish sending her flying forward before Tera would look in shock as Kai hit the floor, the twinging fear in her eyes initiated a flashback of the feeling of helplessness she encountered before she went to the dark area, that fear, pain, and uselessness stabbed her like a syringe before she was filled with rage as she saw the three Digimon from earlier catch up. Solarmon would start to flee across the lot as he had nothing but himself at stake, while the Kokuwamon ran forward before trying to shoot Tera with lightning, while the Flamon tried chasing after Solarmon.
Junkmon sped up to Kai and ran over her back, pinning her down as she cried out in pain. Tera would be avoiding the Kokuwamon's attacks, angry that Kai was under attack; she couldn't do much about it without being immediately crushed. "Ditchin' your bodyguards scab?" Flamon said before he charged up a large fireball over his head and tossed it towards the fleeing Solarmon. Tera could see the attack coming before diving low, rotating her body so her wingspan would be taking the brunt of the attack before it exploded, knocking her down onto the ground.
Solarmon looked back, seeing Kai and Tera down on the ground. Kai looked at Solarmon clearly hurting. "What are you waiting for? You didn't ask to be wrapped up with people and just wanted to leave after some work. You said it yourself, you don't owe us anything." Kai said with slight wheezing as she did have a Digimon crushing her back by sheer body weight and pressure,there were tears and pain in her eyes, while Tera was barely getting off the ground being repeatedly zapped by the Kokuwamon, a single thought went through the Solarmon’s mind.
”There’s nothin’ in it for them to do this. Even if they wanted to con me out of some coin or capture me, this is too far to go. Maybe… Maybe they’re just too damn good.” He thought as his gears came to a grinding halt for a moment as he felt his own anger strike down his mind as he would silently recite a prayer. “If there’s any God out there, make sure I get hell for what I did, but first let these old gears be put to good use.” He thought before he would look at the Kokuawamon as his gears started to spin rapidly before forming a ring of fire around him before spinning his whole body around causing the ring of fire to shoot out and hit the Kokuwamon, knocking him back. Solarmon would then charge at the Junkmon, tackling him off of Kai as he hit the Junkmon right in the chin.
Kai would roll to the side before crawling off, breathing heavily. "Thanks. What changed your mind?” She said getting onto her knee and foot. “Finally started to listen. Besides, a Digimon that picks on a human who’s already down needs a good slappin’” He said before breathing out fireballs at the other two, giving Tea enough time to recover and get away as she would fly into the air, picking up the Junkmon with her claws and fly high, before tossing Junkmon away. "I agree, however being tossed towards the scrapyard might do the trick.” Tera said before taking position in the air.
"Two on two? This might be tough… We could use an edge. Kai. I think we may need, ‘it’...” Tera said as she was willing to endure the pain at the moment but Kai shook her head as she held out her Xros Loader. "We don’t need the fake when we got the genuine article right here… Solarmon, can you lend us a bit of faith and trust?” She called out prompting a glare from Solarmon, who recognized the device before he would nod. "Alright, I think I see where this is going. Do it.” He said before Kai would spin the dial twice holding out the Xros Loader before the top extended, sending two bursts of light out towards the two Digimon before they turned into pure purple and red lights that would be drawn towards the other before in a burst, the two would fuse, creating a large Pteranomon that had its claws forced empty back as two thrusters extend from them. Red and orange patterns traced her body, and the cockpit turned red, as she opened her eyes, it was revealed her eyes were now a bright crimson red color.
"Pteranomon: Blaze Mode!” She called out before she would fly straight forward at the two, shooting out pellets of fire at the two Digimon. "Side Blazer!” She called out as the two were now running for cover. Tera was now chasing the group out, not as focused on damaging her enemies as she was chasing them out. “Screw it, it’s not worth it when they have a human playing dirty. It’s not fair for her to pick on those that clearly can’t fight back at her leve!” The Flamon said as the two would run off before Tera returned to Kai, defusing afterwards.
"So, thanks for that I guess…” Solarmon said awkwardly before Kai brushed it off as she was clearing the dust off her clothes. "Don’t mention it. I have an idea about your past so you may be a bit wary of some people. Look, if you’re exhausted of the lonely road, and got nothin’ else to go, feel free to hang around us.” She offered much to the surprise of the Solarmon. "You can’t be serious, you sure you’d even want to have me around?” He asked, confused and moved by the offer. "Yeah, we all had tough times around and sometimes needed someone to offer some kindness, think nothing of it. You wanna leave us, your call.” Tera said as after fusing with the Digimon, she could understand through some echoes as to why he was so lonely.
"You have my word you’ll be treated fairly and if you wanna split, you’ll be free to leave.” Kai said with complete sincerity, Solarmon paused for a moment as he thought about it, but then internally chuckled at the thought of his luck at being able to travel the world with a couple of pretty girls and figured he had nothing to lose at this point. "You know what, sure, what the hell. Sure, I’ll stick around. Also what did you mean earlier when you said the real thing?” He said before Kai would go white as a sheet before remembering that technically she had the Digimon’s old severed limb floating around in her Xros Loader, she tugged at her collar uncomfortably as she started to walk. "Long story…” She said as she was not sure where to begin with that story.
[END, partner acquired
WC 2852
