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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 11, 2022 12:31:12 GMT
"I still don't think that you have to ask your questions like that." Ollie said, adjusting his backpack as they walked away from what was probably the scene of another crime from the perspective of the Knightmon that patrolled the digital capital. The front window of a shop smashed inward by Procopius throwing an old "Source" of his through the plate glass without a moment's hesitation.
"You have to know how to speak their language. Luckily, I had my entire life to learn." Procopius said in a tone that sent a shiver down Ollie's spine. There were parts of this that just didn't feel right. Even accounting for Procopius' somewhat..."confrontational" nature Ollie had never seen him this way. he was after something, and he was willing to let the entire city know exactly what it was, cutting a swath through the back alleys and poorer neighborhoods of the city just so that every would know he was coming.
Procopius had always known that it was one of his own people who betrayed him, stabbed him in the back and left him to twinkle away into a pile of data in the wind. That had been months ago, maybe years from the digital world perspective. Someone had taken his place, and they'd killed him in order to get it. There had been distractions before now, time where he and Ollie had been doing something else that he considered important enough to put his "investigation" on the back burner. But now his patience had run completely out. The Black ToyAgumon was stomping up and down the streets of his old neighborhood. He WOULD find where his people were hiding and even if it was too late to take back what was his, he would settle the score with his personal judas one way or another.
"HEY!" Came a voice from somewhere behind him before he felt a weight slam into his back and long black claws begin to dig into the plastic surface of his body. A Gazimon, snarling and gnashing its teeth had latched itself onto his back and was using its snarling teeth to gnaw on one corner of his head while the claws on its fingers and toes dug into his shoulders and back in order to provide it with leverage, the sound of squeaking and distressed plastic bounced off the walls up and down the street like a siren.
Ollie just stood there, stunned, as his partner and the attacker wrestled, Procopius trying to make his blocky plastic arms reach up far enough to grab the attacker and the Gazimon trying to get Procopius to fall with his scratching attacks. Neither outcome seemed to be working particularly well for them at the moment, leaving the Gazimon to hold on tight as Procopius waddled back and forth with his stunted, squared arms trying to unlock themselves enough to reach up to his own shoulders and head. It would be almost comical if it wasn't and actual fight for survival.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 11, 2022 22:00:06 GMT
Meanwhile also not far from what looked like multiple crime scenes though LJ had no idea why given his nature to generally stay away from crime scenes. However whether his curiosity was driving him due to him being a detective at least part time or the fact that he had a vibe something was strange about the broken windows, the young ninja made his way through the streets. Sure he had spoken to the various Knightmon only to be brushed off with at most a "Get lost kid". Sure it was irksome being called a kid despite being able to reach ultimate but despite the level he could reach he was a kid even if he was old enough to handle himself.
Hearing a call of "Hey!" caught LJ's attention then he trotted in the direction of the voice spotting two digimon in what looked like a life or death struggle and what looked like a stunned teen nearby. Sure he could of been older but with his short stature it was hard to tell for sure. Deciding to but in the Leomon X moved to the fighting pair before reaching down grabbing them both by the scruff of the neck and holding them apart from each other as he said "All right that's enough you two. No need to kill one another at least while we have a human so young watching." His tone, which he learned from his fathers, was stern.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 12, 2022 12:24:42 GMT
Procopius had moved on to using every single curse word he could think of as he struggled to reach up high enough to remove the Gazimon from his back. it truly was an almost impressive flurry of bad words that made Ollie blush bright red and almost made his ears curl. Just one more part of his gangster nature that would leave his tamer shocked and awed.
Eventually both of them were picked up like fighting children. It wasn't clear if LJ knew that this was a serious fight, it was hard to tell when it was two Child digimon going at it how much they actually meant to hurt one another, though Procopius' continued stream of bad mouthing at least gave a clue.
"The boss wants you gone, you hear me. G-O-N-E GONE!" The Gazimon continued to swipe wildly in the direction of Procopius like a cat throwing a tantrum, squirming and kicking as he was held up by the scruff of the neck.
"You were always a punk, Gazimon. A vulture and a punk just looking to kiss ass long enough to chow down on scraps!" Procopius said. his struggling was much less wild abandon considering the restrictive nature of his joints, but damn if he wasn't trying.
"That's enough...!" The Gazimon began to glow, becoming too big for LJ's hand as his muscles expanded, the shaggy beast digimon become a squat, yellow furred ape with a swinging bone club, and the Hanumon did not waste any time, freeing himself of LJ's grip and swinging his club HARD into his chest.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 12, 2022 20:15:55 GMT
Procopius' earlier cursing surprised him given it was something he was not used to hearing. He had never heard his own parents swear. Sure he heard swearing in passing before but not to that degree. Procopius' language could probably make a sailor blush.
Then the back and forth between the Gazimon and Procopius caused LJ some interest and glanced back at Ollie who clearly was not comfortable with all this and asked "Hey. Are you okay? Do you know either of these two?" LJ didn't like what he heard from the Gazimon.
Then when he felt something warm in the hand that held Gazimon he glanced back at the furry digimon eyes widening as he muttered "The light of digivolution..." Soon the furball had digivolved into Hanumon/Apemon and lept for him swinging his club. The young ninja moved to keep himself between the yellow furred ape and Ollie taking the blow to the chest and boy did it hurt as well as knocked the wind out of him as he clutched his chest dropped to one knee. Glancing at the digivolved menace he swept his leg in an attempt to trip Hanumon/Apemon.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 13, 2022 12:16:28 GMT
"As much as I'm loathe to admit it at this particular point in time. That one is mine." Ollie said, pointing to Procopius swinging and cursing in LJ's grip. he seemed almost socially embarrassed for a moment, like the parent of a child who was throwing a tantrum in a fancy restaurant. Ollie reached up and pinched the bridge of his noise, raising his glasses for a moment until he heard the sound of the conflagration change on a dime.
Lifting his eyes to again look at the trio as his glasses settled back onto his face he saw the small, grey-purple beast had transformed into the massive yellow ape.
"Hey! Let me down! if you're gonna be playing with this flea-bitten hairball then I want to take my turn giving him his licks!" Procopius said, slipping free the moment that the heavy end of the bone club slammed into LJ's chest. Though both Ollie and Procopius did make a hissing sound, sucking in air through their clenched teeth as they cringed at the pain LJ must be going through.
"Should have stayed dead "boss." The Hanumon said, raising his club over his head with both hands like he was about to bring a battle axe down on Procopius' plastic head.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 13, 2022 12:34:37 GMT
"Ah so you're his tamer then." LJ deducted while listening to the cursing digimon he had in his grip before he, with a hint of dry sarcasm he obviously picked up from Mandrake, asked "Is he always this charming?" It was clear the teen was embarrassed about how his partner was acting in public. LJ supposed he understood cause if he acted like that in public he would of earned a stern talking to from his dads.
Apparently his leg sweep was unsuccessful as the Hanumon mentioned something about the BlackToyAgumon being his boss. What did this mean and what did LJ get involved with? Either way he couldn't just leave now given their was not only a human who was vulnerable but also a rookie digimon who had yet to digivolve to defend himself armor or otherwise. Was he not yet at that point? Or did he too hungry to maintain the extra energy? While either was possible that was not the problem LJ was focused on as he got up rubbing his chest as he hissed "That's gonna leave a bruise. I should of been more careful."
When the Hanumon moved to bash in the other digimon's head LJ reached over grabbing Hanumon's bone wielding arm by the wrist before attempting to use his momentum to use his karate training to shoulder flip the smelly ape.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 14, 2022 12:15:59 GMT
"Who Procopius? You should see him when he's in one of his moods." Ollie said sarcastically as Procopius continued to let fly a string of curses, some of which neither Ollie nor LJ had ever heard before. It was like a talent in and of itself the colorful language that he was able to come up with on the spot.
The Hanumon yelped as LJ's attempt to sweep its leg out from under it didn't budge his weight but DID slam into his ankle hard enough to hurt and drew his attention away from Procopius and toward the meddling lion Digimon. Hanumon yelped, snarled and screeched like a wild ape as his blow that had been aimed toward Procopius was changed mid flight to try and come down on top of LJ. The ape monster felt its momentum hitch, stomach rising up into its throat as it was flung over LJ's shoulder. Before the creature could even fully react to what was going on it was laying on its back looking up at the skyline with a bunch of brand new kinds of pain blooming along its back.
It didn't stay down for long though, already it was starting to climb back to its feet. It had come here with the attempt of making this a one sided fight against Procopius. Now it was digging in for a real scrap.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 14, 2022 20:59:00 GMT
LJ's brow raised at some of the curses. It showed the angry rookie had a talent for words that even he did not expect. "I have to admit that though I have heard some angry curses in passing but I have not heard many of those before. Your partner is definitely creative but I don't necessarily know if that's a good thing or not."
Hanumon apparently felt LJ's attempted leg sweep but wasn't enough to budge the ape. At least the blow to the ankle was enough to divert Hanumon's attention away from Procopius. Then said ape screeched like a wild ape at LJ's efforts to divert the intended attack. The crazed ape was sent flying by LJ's toss landing on it's back. However it didn't stay down all that long looking ready to fight. "Still eager to fight even when you aren't fighting just a rookie digimon and a human kid. Let's see how you like it when the odds are even furball." LJ said getting in a karate fighting stance. What looked like a pale blue aura formed around LJ gathering at his fist forming what looked like a lion's head before he said "Take this! Fist of the Beast King!" He then threw a punch sending the aura towards Hanumon.
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Fist of the Beast King: Channels a pale blue aura into his fist forming it into the image of a lion's head before he throws it towards an a opponent with a punch.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 15, 2022 12:21:06 GMT
"I know what you mean. At some point I'm going to start writing them down for the sake of linguistic preservation, it's almost like poetry. Very, very vulgar poetry." Ollie said, standing on the sidelines, his eyes darting back and forth in wide arcs like he was watching a tennis match as the digimon went at it. He almost felt bad he didn't have a half empty soda or something to make an obnoxious slurping noise with for the sake of doing something funny for once.
The ape Digimon dug its claws into the sidewalk, snarling and raising its hands with the club clutched tightly between them. Charging LJ before its eyes went wide and it caught the glowing energy attack square in the chest, getting flung backward so hard and so fast that it didn't even slow that much when it hit the ground, skidding and tumbling a couple dozen hard away from the point of impact and rolling to a smoking stop. It got up, huffing and snarling like an injured ape would and instead of taking LJ on it leapt onto the side of a nearby building and ran off, swinging off of signs and leaping from the edge of rooftops, only barely looking back at the trio.
"That's not good. He was trying to do the job himself before. Now he'd running for backup." Procopius said as his eyes followed the fleeing thug before turning back to Ollie and LJ. Ollie had turned his attention toward their feline savior.
"Thanks for the hand." Ollie said, looking up at LJ. "I'm Ollie and this is Procopius." Ollie said, motioning with his hand toward the small, plastic digimon who made some vague grumbles in the direction of greeting.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 15, 2022 12:40:52 GMT
"I can see why you would want to write them down. Despite the vulgarness it is quite impressive in its own way, isn't it?" LJ said with a hint of amusement.
LJ was surprised the Hanumon would just leap out at him without any caution or forethought but given the angry state the ape digimon was in it would be easy to make such a dangerous mistake. That choice ended up backfiring for Hanumon as it took the blow square in the chest which made LJ feel a sense of satisfaction for the Hanumon's earlier blow to his chest. Upon Hanumon getting up, after snarling, it climbed its way to the rooftops soon disappearing from sight.
"Backup. That doesn't sound so good." LJ said before looking over at Procopius and asked "Just what was going on with you and that guy? He seemed to know you." Then when Ollie thanked LJ said "No problem. My parents taught me to help those in need." The small teen then introduced himself and his partner and LJ said "Nice to meet you. I'm Lothar Junior but I normally go by LJ. As for Procopius that is an interesting name."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 16, 2022 12:24:41 GMT
"It's my name. The first name I've got." Procopius said. he was rather protective of the name that Ollie had given him. it sounded meaningful and important which wasn't a feeling that the former street rat had ever been able to have before meeting Ollie.
"it's nice to meet you LJ. Honestly I'm not sure what would have happened if you hadn't come along. We've been out here...looking for Procopius' past to catch up with us, more or less." Ollie said, not really sure if Procopius wanted to explain the whole sordid situation to the newcomer. He underestimated Procopius however, there was nothing shameful to his past criminal life, not to him anyway.
"I used to run the gang on this block. Bunch of orphaned Digimon protecting ourselves and each other, solving the problems the Knightmon couldn't give less of a damn about because they think we're all born troublemakers. Then someone whacked me on the back of the head hard enough that I woke up having landed in Ollie's lap." Procopius said, turning his head to Ollie with a slight smile. If there was one good thing that came out of this whole mess, it was them coming together. "I come back and all of my boys are acting like common thugs, shaking down people on our block for protection and getting into fights. And I have half a reckoning that whoever whacked me is now the man on top." Procopius said. This wasn't about revenge. Well, ok it wasn't TOTALLY about revenge. His own gang had become a threat to the neighborhood he had committed himself to protect. Now he planned to put that mistake back to rights.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 16, 2022 20:35:57 GMT
LJ held up his hands in a placating manner before he said "Easy there. I meant nothing by it. I just thought that your name was unique and that's a good thing."
Seeing as Procopius almost had his head smashed in it was clear his past was a rough one but LJ wasn't sure just how rough until Procopius explained that he used to run a gang or orphaned digimon that lived by protecting themselves. Hearing that made LJ think of his little brother Kshin. Heck even Kshin's own gang seemed to be behaving like thugs as well. The paralles were just uncanny. "That's just uncanny. Your story reminds me of my little brother, Kshin. He was a street orphan that was in a gang though he didn't lead it since he was far too young. However your old gang is the bigger problem right now. If you don't mind I would like to help you two sort this out." LJ said after he processed the information he heard.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 17, 2022 12:18:43 GMT
"He's named after the Byzantine historian named Procopius, the one who wrote the history of Justinian the First. One of my personal favorite historical figures." Ollie said, and Procopius seemed to swell with no small amount of pride at the comparison. Having grown up on the street he had never even had a proper name, let alone one that sounded so prestigious and important. It was why the name was so important to him.
"The fact that I know there are a bunch of gangs exactly like mine says a lot about how whacked this city's law enforcement and public support are. If you don't live on the blocks up near the terminal then they don't care if you starve to death in the street." Procopius said, that was an old injustice, one that certainly bared dealing with later but right now he was out to solve a much more personalized vendetta. "Truth is, if they're sending thugs out to get me, we must be getting close." Procopius said, heading back toward the direction he had already been following, toward one of his groups oldest hideouts.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Sept 17, 2022 20:10:54 GMT
"Humans have an intriguing history at various points but I don't know if I have a personal favorite historical figure. Still being named after a famous historian is pretty cool." LJ said noticing that Procopius was swelling with a sense of pride and LJ said "And judging by Procopius' reaction right now and earlier, he seems proud of his name. Sure sounds more prestigious than my more humble name by comparison. Don't get me wrong, I love my name cause it comes from a loving place. My namesake is one of my fathers. A Leomon named Lothar."
"This seems to be a problem in the bigger cities. If my parents hadn't found Kshin on the streets of Whitewater then who knows what would of eventually happened to him? Shame this city's law enforcement and public support are so messed up. The gangs that didn't cause any major problems should of gotten aid in the forms of jobs and living arrangements." LJ said with disgust at Terminus' issues. Before this current issue the gangs were originally just stealing to survive. "If they've gone so dramatically from stealing for self preservation, I wonder who is responsible. I doubt it was our furry friend from before." LJ said and when Procopius said they must be getting close he said "Hanumon definitely looked like trouble but I doubt he would be able to lead but if he shows up again I wouldn't be surprised."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Sept 18, 2022 12:35:45 GMT
If Procopius had been capable of blushing, he would have when LJ pointed out the way he rose up with pride at his name. He had never had anything fancy or prestigious before in life, he'd never even treated his title of leader as something to pump himself up about. But now that it was pointed out he shrunk down a little sheepishly. Ollie reached out and patted him on the head, smiling without judgement.
"Seems universal in just about any power structure. The guys at the top think they know it all and deserve it. And the guys at the bottom are left to rot because they must have done something to deserve it." Ollie said, putting his hands in his pockets. That was drawing heavily from his own personal experience in the orphanage system but it was applicable in this and a depressingly large number of other scenarios.
"Who, Gazimon? He's not smart enough to open a tin can by himself, let alone pull off whatever this is. No, he's just running home because he got spooked. And I suggest we follow his lead." Procopius said, marching down the street and keeping track of where the fleeing Hanumon had left clawed handprints in the sides of buildings or lamp posts. They never actually caught sight of the ape digimon again, he had gotten too far ahead of them for that but he had left plenty of clues around to show exactly which way it was that he had gone.
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