Insanity just breeds more Insanity [Ricochet]

Still unaware of any newcomers behind them, Tomiko walked further into the strange, hidden town. That was it. Hidden away in a grove of very tall, ancient and overgrown trees. So whatever it was, it was either important or forgotten. Maybe it was a theme park, lost to time. That happened in her own world on occasion.

She pondered this thought for a minute, as they walked deeper into town. Her partner, Sukasimon followed closely behind, but said nothing as usual. “What a strange place...” Tomiko said, jumping up and down in place. The ground under their feet was oddly bouncy, like a children’s play area kind of material.

As Tomiko reached the middle of town. Which was oddly surrounded by giant colorful blocks engraved with the heads of animals or fruit. These appeared to make up the buildings, as doors had been placed at the base of some of these odd squares. In the center of the town was the most odd part of all. A giant tree, larger and more ancient than any other, had been planted right in the middle of town. Roots stuck out of the ground and rose and fell into patches of grass. “Sure... a tree surrounded by trees. In a world of trees.”

Under it lay hundreds of small stone structures scattered across the soft landscape. Peering down into one revealed only giant eggs of varying colors. “So what you’re telling me is you came out of one of them. What are you a chicken?” Putting two and two together, Tomiko said, giving a irritated sort of a look to Sukasimon. “That’s just as stupid as I had expected.”

This world just kept on surprising her. Yet, not in a good way. A infuriating way.

Sighing to herself and reserved to her fate of ‘something annoying happening’ as seemed to be the running gag of this world. Tomiko turned on the spot, her face clearly showing signs of great irritation that were growing ever more fierce by the second.

Two Digimon that Tomiko didn’t recognize stood nearby. One was a red dinosaur sort-of creature, covered in white and red fur like a forest animal. The other was similar to a bunny rabbit, she supposed. Although it was more scaled like a dinosaur and had a mohawk running down the middle of it’s head.

Tomiko’s eyes quickly ran over the two. A rather nasty and unimpressed smirk slowly fell across her face as she silently made judgment of the two.

“While I guess that you’re right. But we don’t come from eggs that size,” Tomiko said, pointing to the closest egg. A pale cream egg with a red stripe across the middle. “Because that would be stupid, like I said in my original point.”

“Dame da?” Sukasimon cut in. His head moved from Tomiko to the two Digimon and then back to Tomiko. Possibly, unsure what to make of this situation.

Tomiko’s mouth dropped slightly. She couldn’t help it. The annoucement of ‘...we go to High School in the Human World after all.’ It had taken her completely off guard. For a second, she didn’t quite know what to say in response to that. Something rude most likely.

She put an eyebrow up and stared down at the pair of them. “You’re not serious. You’re... monsters, little slightly weird monsters in a world of crazies and annoying crap, like this place. A bouncy fun house in the middle of nowhere. Why? Where is the logic here. I guess as much logic as you going to a school.”

It kinda came out in a barrage of growing annoyance of the past couple of days. But as the subject swiftly changed and probably for the better. Tomiko answered the follow up questions. “My name is Tomiko and that is Sukasimon. My partner or whatever. I don’t know, it was kinda dropped on me and now he won’t leave me alone. So there...”

She crossed her arms and gave a quick annoyed looked over to her partner. “I dunno. Your guess is as good as me. It says like two words, max. Sometimes it means something and sometimes it doesn’t. I dunno. You tell me.” Very rarely had she been able to understand Sukasimon’s speech. Now that she thought about it, it was a rather odd trait that she had so far only seen in him.

Tomiko couldn’t help but roll her eyes as the two Digimon; the rabbit and the dinosaur turned into pretty normal-looking humans using some device. Silently thinking that if she had not known, she wouldn’t have been able to guess. A fact which annoyed Tomiko greatly.

“I see,” she grunted, taking another step towards the large tree. “That’s a thing, then. How many of you use them to infiltrate our world. I just want to be sure that I’m not running into any of you... things... on a daily basis.” She had already been forced to deal with monsters across this world, let alone on her own, too. They annoyed her enough here.

Tomiko paused, putting a hand into her skirt pocket, and pulled from the depths, a small, slightly broken looking device. Pieces of the outer shell were missing and the internal electronics were visible in places. The screen was blank and motionless. “You mean this thing, right?” With absolutely no care, Tomiko threw the device behind her to the feet of the two Digimon so they could get a closer look.

“Don’t worry, that thing won’t go away... I’ve tried. It’ll be back in my pocket in a minute,” she grunted, taking another step forward. She was now right in front of the tree. It seemed pretty normal from this view. Just a tree.

She wasn’t sure why Leroy seemed to frightened for her to touch it. Rolling her eyes for a second time, Tomiko pressed her hand to the trunk and smirked. “See. Nothing happened. It’s just a stupid tree.” Then, something happened. A giant, green monster dropped from one of the tallest branches right in front of Tomiko. Taken aback by its sudden appearance – Tomiko stumbled and fell backwards.