Taking Part of Something (Rumi)

    For some reason, it always felt like Rumi ended up in the Western Flatlands. To the point that it was getting kind of weird, actually. Not that it had occurred to her until now, while sitting on the back of a Mitamamon that was flying through the sky of said area. Why didn't they ever go anywhere cool? Or to a beach? Didn't most characters get beach episodes at some point in their careers?

    "Do you have gummy snacks?" the mode of transportation questioned, breaking Rumi out of her daydream. "I'm getting hungry."

    As if something like gummy snacks would make her full. "You ate half my lunch today," along with her own, of course, "what're you complaining for?"

    "I'm bigger than you. I get hungry. Gummy snacks would fix it, Miss Rumi." When it came to Mori and her logic, there really wasn't any. Especially considering the human didn't usually carry any sort of gummies with her! Who had given the god beast anything like that, to begin with?

    Kurumi was just going to blame the holosuited Cyberdramon that sat behind her. Mostly because he was asleep, and couldn't defend himself. Not that she was going to say it aloud, anyway. "I probably have, like, a chocolate bar," assuming it hadn't melted, "but I didn't bring gummies."

    This was clearly the wrong answer. For a short while, Mori was completely silent. Which was also just long enough for Rumi to think the conversation had ended, and that it was time to return to daydreaming. But, she could never have a moment of peace! "Do you think the strangers on the ground have gummy snacks?" What a great reason to talk to strangers, right?

    "Don't take candy from strangers. They're weird and you don't know what they did to it," Rumi uttered, peering over the side of the Digimon, to see whoever she was looking at. Sure enough, there were strangers! Quite a few of them, too. And a probably-broken train. Did a train count as a stranger? ...Rumi wasn't going to think too hard on it. She wasn't even sure trains counted as people, despite many of them being able to talk.

    It was very obvious the Mitamamon was going down, regardless of Rumi's advice. After all, the spirit user hadn't directly told her no! And, she was hungry. It was really hard to talk sense into someone who had a craving for unhealthy food.

    Her descent toward the group was surely not at all threatening, as Megas were definitely not concerning entities when they fell from the sky. It was also jarring enough to finally wake up the sleeping member of the trio. "Where are we going?"

    "Snacks from strangers."

    The holosuited mercenary took a moment to process the statement through his sleepy haze, before turning his attention to their human, who had already given up on deterring the Digimon. "Has anyone told you that you're a great digi-parent?"

    "I will stab you again," the blonde stated, as Mitamamon continued her quest that was only fueled by hunger.

    "Terrifying," the 'man' commented, while waving his hands in front of him. "A fantastic role model for babies, even."

    "Megas are not Babies," Mori stated, matter-of-fact and absolutely not in any way like a toddler would argue their point. If she wasn't busy with 'landing,' she'd figure out how to cross her arms and pout, just to send the point.

    Not that any of this post really mattered up to this paragraph, anyway, where Mori would stop only inches above the ground, and was actually going to interact with characters controlled by someone else. "Hello, strangers of wherever-we-are," the digimon would begin, while Remmy took the opportunity to bail from Mitamamon's back, "do any of you have gummy snacks that you would be willing to part with?" Broken 'things' and hunger were the best ways to make new friends, right?

    "You're my neighbor?" the Mitamamon immediately needed to question. She'd never seen these strangers near Rumi's house! For a moment, she tried to search any part of her brain that might hold secrets of where Nanami lived in relation to them, until Kurumi reached across the Mega, to give her a single pat on her weird helmet-head-thing.

    But, before the blonde could say anything to clear things up, a very rude Lopmon began talking! While being informed of just how welcome they were, Rumi lazily dragged herself over Mitamamon's mane, to prop herself up with her elbows on top of Mori's head. She waited until the stranger-girl had successful silenced the Lopmon, before commenting, "cute rabbit." Then, there was a pause, as she looked toward the Terriermon(s) in the group. "Er, dog?" They were totally rabbits, right? Rumi wasn't really sure why she thought there was room to question that!

    Now that they were introduced to the cast, it was probably appropriate for one of them to do the same on their end, huh? "Rumi, Mori-"

    "Amorie." Correction. Granted, not one that would ever be enforced, and Mori usually just went by Mori anyway. She probably just felt the need to say her full name to try to make Rumi's life more difficult.

    "-Remmy," the blonde continued, while pointing at each of the Digimon as she said their names. Being named prompted a lackluster wave from the holosuited Cyberdramon X. "He jus' woke up, so enjoy his silence while you can."

    This unsurprisingly yielded a, "was that necessary?" that was immediately ignored.

    Now, the real question was: did Nanami successfully keep Mori's attention when no gummy snacks were provided? She had been debating very hard! Which was probably the only reason Rumi had been able to introduce them before any negotiations on food could be made. "I suppose other food could work."

    "Won't take a chocolate bar, but you'll take rando' food from strangers, sure," Remmy uttered, before leisurely strolling toward the broken Locomon and labcoated not-a-dog-mon. Maybe he'd try to help them out with whatever they were doing. Or get kicked out and need to remain a part of the main conversation. Only one way to find out!

    "Chocolate is boring," the Mitamamon huffed, while staring down at Mocha. Surely there was nothing deeper to interpret from that. Not at all! Then, she lifted her attention back to Nanami, "I appreciate you. What kind of food do you think you can find?" Hopefully something tasty! Even if it wasn't gummies. Mori particularly liked the ones that were shaped like cartoon characters! Shame none were to be found!

    While this conversation was taking place, the blonde finally took it as her cue to roll off of her 'partner' and stretch her legs. It was probably overdue anyway. "Didn't really expect anyone to be out here, not gonna lie." Kind of a weird thing to assume when the trio were also in this area! "Something interesting happening?"

    Mori stared at Nanami for a moment, eyes sparkling. "Everyone is my neighbor," she repeated, with a nod. Somehow, this statement was probably going to haunt Rumi, who would have to deal with Mori announcing this for years to come. Assuming both of them managed to live for years to come, all things considered.

    For now, the blonde would just focus on the concept that even Terriermons might not know if they were more bun than dog. Why else would they avoid the topic? "Fair 'nough." Maybe someone more knowledgeable about the species names of these Digimon would actually put it into better questioning, but Rumi quite frankly didn't know that the name 'Terriermon' existed, nor that its common twin was a 'Lopmon.' This was just Cream and Mocha! And they absolutely didn't have other identifying names!

    Now that Remmy had wandered away from the main group and over to the grumpiest Terriermon in the world, he found himself holding what was absolutely a crispy potato. The holosuited Cyberdramon turned it in his hand, assessing the object. If it was a spud, it was probably just toxic at this point. But soon, it was identified as a capacitater. "That's what this is supposed to be?" He could have never guessed! And definitely not because it was a made up part in a thread where neither writer knew anything about digi-train functions!

    The Digimon threw a glance at the Locomon, making sure Ferry wasn't literally dead despite still having a very physical form. Then, he gave some nods to whatever Nico was saying up until the train robbery part. "I'd pick a train with different passengers, if it were a robbery," the Ultimate smiled. It was almost like he'd considered it once or twice in the past! This train wasn't really... up to robbing standards, though, was it? "Where's the fun in robbing something broken, anyway?" The challenge was notably less. Only someone pitiful would bother!

    Remmy made a vague gesture toward the main group, to try to bring mechanic!Terriermon up to speed with minimal effort. "Name's Remmy. My boss is busy with your friends. It looked more interesting over here." So far, being accused of attempted burglary was, in fact, more interesting to him! He wasn't wrong yet. "Can probably make a decent assistant, if you want one." An assistant for Assistant Terriermon? Weird stuff.

    While watching Mocha be... Mocha, Rumi made a mental note to appreciate that neither of her partners were bratty toddlers with booger-picking (and wiping) tendencies. Gross. The blonde wasn't sure if Nanami didn't care that the bundog was awful, or if she had just accepted her fate. Personally, she wasn't sure if Digimon were worth it, if it meant dealing with that. "It break down a lot?" That must suck. Maybe Rumi was also lucky that her usual ride was a bit more organic and a lot less mechanical.

    Even though that meant her ride also, apparently, craved sweets, and would harass strangers in a quest to attain them. Unlike a dumb, broken train, though, Mori was still mostly functional in her hunger! The Mitamamon did little dancing tappies, like an excited puppy, as soon as Nanami announced that she'd found things. While the spicy taffy did not sound particularly amazing, it was better than nothing. But what was even better was news about gummy worms! That was like a bear, but in noodle mode! Mitamamon was also noodle mode of-sorts, so it had to be a sign!

    "Can I have the worms?" Mori questioned. She wasn't actually dead-set on gummy bears, but it was better to lead with a very specific request and then accept whatever the best offer was! "If I eat them whole, they don't have time to frown. So you don't have to feel bad about them." Even better logic!

    For now, nobody would mention the stacks of gross saltines. It was best to pretend they didn't even exist. Who would even buy them unsalted like that? Ew.

    Apparently, Mechanic!Terriermon had already thought through the perks of robbing a broken train. It was almost a shame he didn't share with the class. Though, it was had to tell if Remmy would have listened past the first sentence, anyway. Soon, he was being sent away again. Back to the group of extremely enjoyable entities that Remmy absolutely wanted to spend time with. Nico would only be able to escape for so long, though! The holosuited Cyberdramon was determined not to be stuck with a nose-picking Lopmon for extended periods. "Sure, sure," he agreed, while slowly heading back toward the main group.

    But, to give a reasonable amount of time for Remmy to be lazy about joining the masses, the narrator shifted to Mori and her appreciation of gummies. There was a silent debate from the Mitamamon, before her form gave a small glow, and turned into a white-haired girl. Using human hands was going to be a much better task for eating gummies! And for opening the package that they were hopefully in. The holosuited Mega would soon begin her quest to consume all of the gummies, regardless of the level of sealed their package was. And, true to her word, even in human form, she would eat each worm whole, to prevent their sadness from being apparent. What a benevolent creature Mori was!

    Listening to Nanami justify keeping around faulty trains, Rumi's eyes shifted toward the subject, and then slowly returned to the pink haired girl. "So, do they, like, owe you or something?" Someone clearly wasn't understanding the power of friendship here! "It just sounds like a lot of hassle for all parties." But, to try to be more helpful sounding, she added, "have you offered to help get Ferry completely fixed, so they don't break as often?" Maybe fixing a living train was too expensive.

    On that topic, Remmy finally approached the dumber of the humans present! It was a shame nobody had heard his conversation with Nico, else he likely would have stopped in front of Rumi instead. But, no, there was no fun in an inside joke only one person knew. So instead, he'd hold the capacitater out toward Nanami. "Nico said you need a new capacitater." Very informative. Surely someone so young-looking would know what that even was. Surely it was a real enough object that everyone knew what it was. "Otherwise you're going to have to use the Lopmon as a paddle." Was that word-for-word? Not at all. Did Remmy actually care? Also, not at all. But he somewhat hoped they would take the statement literally, if only for a second.

    "Maybe Miss Nanami has a spare one in her infinite storage?" Amorie suggested, making a small gesture at the mess caused from the General looking for snacks, before popping another sentient-ish gummy worm into her mouth. They really should just carry an infini-store full of train parts! Nothing could go wrong if they did that! Granted, that would make thread starters a lot less easy, but sacrifices needed to be made!