Kid's Stuff (107A)(OPEN)(COMPLETE)

"Basically what I just said." Solarmon grumbled to Adhira as he would start to heat up and glow, slowly making his way down into the hole, lighting it up after getting the all clear over the coms. "Diggy said the tunnel's ready, the other side is connected to a thin wall that she saws we can just knock over during the chaos." Kai explained to the others before she was about to Climb down the hole, only for Deac to grab her and jump down. Kai yelped in shock but Deac managed to stick the landing before setting her down. "Sorry Boss, small drop but you're smaller now." Deac said as he was preparing to take point. The Missies and Snowball followed soon after.

"Once you guys get halfway through the tunnel, Snowball will signal us and we'll start our onslaught so by the time you get there there will be enough of a ruckus to help you get through the castle." Tera said to Stacy as Mach and Sarge were preparing themselves for the signal. Both were confident in their ability to raise heck, Mach was fast and could ride up walls while Sarge was mobile heavy artillery. Diggy opted to take on the rear side of the castle. She was already finished tunneling around the castle and just laying in wait underground for the right time to strike. Despite her size, Diggy was useful in stealth operations as she could move underground with ease, always conscious of her location.

Meanwhile despite the light emitted by Sarge, Kai was not having an easy time in the tunnel as this time she was holding onto all three Missies. Her teeth chattering as she was clearly reliving some form of trauma. "Good girls don't belong in the closet... good girls don't belong in the closet..." She muttered to herself. Solarmon was on point with Deac not far behind.

"Were her parents competing for worst parents ever?" Deac whispered to Solarmon. "Probably." The two whispered trying to ignore Kai as she was hugging the in training Digimon for support and comfort. Being stuck in a dark tunnel even with the light was hard for her.

"This whole scenario probably explains why Kai's heartrate always skyrocketed in caves. Thought my ears just played tricks on me. Best we pace along." Snowball said as the Missies let out a simultaneous yet somehow still cute high pitch grunt of agreement as Kai was still holding onto them tightly. "We should've stopped to get her a teddy bear, or a flashlight, or maybe a cookie..." The three missile Digimon said as they did not seem to enjoy being held captive.

"Not much longer boss." Deac said after signaling the remaining members of the Vehicle Expedition through the comms. Tera and Mach nodded to eachother as Diggy signaled she was in position at the rear side. Tera would fly left while Mach made a wide turn around right, with Sarge remaining behind the bolder as he kept ducking back periodically while firing at the castle from the front. Once closer to position Tera would fly high and use her machine guns to shoot at any careless or inexperienced guards too close to ledges, occasionally going in for a swoop to knock them off. Mach would drive along side the opposide side of the castle, occasionally riding up the wall or shooting at a few digimon when the targets aligned in his sight.

Diggy however wood be periodically popping her head out from underground to throw chunks of earth at her side of the castle, all four Digimon distracting from opposite sides and elevations attempting to pose a confusing challenge. All four were trying to cause damage but they were sticking on [oint with the main objectives of causing a distraction and chaos.

Back underground Solarmon eventually stopped at the end. Light from the other side visible as the brick wall could be seen, damaged from Diggy's drill just enough that one solid charge from a Rookie would knock it down. "Orders?" Deac said as he turned to Kai, who was still stuck in her child like state as her trauma and a younger perspective were not easy. "Kai... Focus on the next step, breathe..." Snowball said before Deac smacked him upside the head with one of his clawss. "No more coddling. Now that Kai's a real boy it's time for them to man up and take charge- ORDERS?!" Deac said again as Kai was about to start crying from the stress. Before Deac could say anything Solarmon shoved one of his gears into Kai's mouth. In a unusual display of initiative he seemed to take charge.

"Spirit users, Spirivolve or whatever you call your unnatural and unholy morphing powers. Then once everyone is ready, Snowball bursts down the door, he's not gonna be much use anyways so he can burn off the energy. Missies you take point and take out as much as you can or set up the rest of us. Deac goes ahead, followed by the spirits, I'll focus on guarding the crybaby." He said as he looked Deac square in the eyes. "One more remark out of you and I'll personally introduce you to the void." He said making Deac look away uncomfortably.

"That- that sounds wise... everyone let me know when you're ready..." Snowball said visibly intimidated by the grumpy Solarmon.

"Everyone else is in position and acting outside. They're causing havoc and disorientation among the enemy forces as they are trying to compensate for the variety of tactics at once. We should have a small advantage to press through if we're smart and maybe lucky." Deac said before smacking Snowball on the back and he stumbled forward.

"Lets see... how do I do this again?" He said searching his memories before pulling out a notebook from a hidden pocket. "To perform white hail..." He was reading aloud as the other members of his army stopped stunned. "He seriously forgot how to use his own powers and abilities?" Solarmon said before taking deep breath, and pressed his side gears together as if the mechanical digimon was trying to emulate prayer hands to exhale into, before Snowball put the notebook away. "Simple enough. White Hail!" he said before breathing out a barrage of snowballs from his mouth that hit the weakened wall, breaking it through piece by piece allowing the way to be clear for the others. Deac stepped in front as he pulled a grenade off his belt and whipped it around the corner. "X GRENADE!" He called out as the Missies instinctively covered the ears of Kai, Stacy, and Chris before the explosion could be heard and they stopped soon after Deac gave them a hand signal to scout ahead.

The Missile Digimon quickly took the opportunity to zip out of the room, quickly homing in on any Digimon in the basement room before Deac followed in with his rifle to shoot a flurry of bullets at them.

"Clear!" He said charging forward as he would burst the down that lead out of the room. "So loud and noisy... So much waste." Kai said as she looked around the room seeing the brutality of the ruins the surprise attack created. "You should've just taken a piece out silently and counted how many there were in the room, then find the most swift attack." She said pouting a bit as Deac scoffed. "Okay little miss Princess, maybe if you admitted you were a liability and kept away from this mission, maybe you could prove you are as smart as normal and come up with that plan but better as the normal you would've found a way around this mess ten times over, but you're not. Just stay quiet and you may grow back up again." Deac said as Kai wanted to say something but felt like there was a lump in her throat and ended up saying nothing at all.

"Spirit users, show us what you got, while me and the Missies hang bakc and we'll prep our Demi-Xros surprise, if Kai can put her big girl pants on enough to do so." Deac said bluntly. Solarmon and Snowball stayed close to Kai, Solarmon mostly to protect Kai while the arctic dinosaur was held back by his non-violent nature.

"Not cool! So mean! She's still in charge?!" The Missies said in unison but doubts were clearly creeping in.

Meanwhile Tera was being chased by any flying Digimon they had around, however few could keep up with her. Some for a lack of lower, others were outclassed and outskilled. "Hey, is it just me, or are these Digimon... not that bright?" Tera asked over comms while Mach was on top of the wall on his side at this point, running over a few Digimon before returning to riding along the wall back down and around the field. "Yeah, from the sound of it the target was childish so..." He said as Diggy just managed to create a few holes in one of the towers. "Likeminded folk that are less along, easier to control. He's surrounded himself with kiddies. Should we start throwing punches?" Diggy asked over the comms but Sarge would chime in next as he was behind the boulder recharging himself.

"Negatory, we're still downed by the lack of Fusion and the more this situation is prolonged the worse things get. If we could at least get X2s I'd say restraint but at this point, no holds barred." Sarge said before ducking around the cover he was using and fired at the castle again. All four kept their attacks on all four sides but spaced them out to keep the enemies off guard and unable to find a place to coordinate. "Soldier boy is right. At this point the humans we brought are not going to last long. But I'm sure Kai's gonna hold out to win, she always had for us in the past." Tera said, though her wavering conviction was clear in her voice.

"Sugar, you're clearly starting to realize this is possibly the one time we cannot expect to depend on her. This time for her, we gotta step up and handle ourselves." Diggy said as Tera went silent, focusing on her side of the castle.

Deac stayed between Kai and the few from her army that proceeded to help invade. Once the Spirit Users had cleared the way from this room Deac motioned to the Missies to get close as he would proceed ahead and saw a hoard of Digimon, including some Chikurimon rushing towards them. "I'm sorry but are those mines! As in boom mutual destruction?" Kai said in a panic but Deac smiled as he tapped his rifle and the Missies followed suit.

"Sucks to be them, clustering and expanding their weakness. Ready? Full Clip plus..." Deac said as the Missies seemed to convert into energy similar to what happens during an Xros and all three fused into Deac's gun. "Demi-Xros up! Ammunition!" The Missies said as suddenly Deac's rifle morphed into a rocket launcher with a larger Missimon as the sole ammunition. Deac aimed forward before firing the large Missimon themed projectile at the incoming Digimon and caused the Chikurimon to detonate prematurely and damaged the hallway brutally, taking out the wall on both sides and caused a number of the swarm to be pushed out. The rocket launcher split back into Deac's rifle and the three Missies right after.

"Least we still have Demi-Xros, that's something." Deac said as he would continue to press forward into the castle. "Right, explanations. Demi-Xros is a type of ability some of my army has, rather then initiating a full or incomplete Xros, they can partially fuse into another. The Missies can replace any ammunition based attack of anyone they have any connection through a connection by Xros." Kai explained to the spirit users. "It's more stable then Incomplete Xros but it has a very short span even without using energy, basically good for a one off boost for an attack." Snowball clarified as he was hiding behind Kai as the army was pressing forward.

Meanwhile Tera nad the others were continuing with their pressing with their distractions, allowing the infiltration unit to remain concealed by the chaos.

"Umm, Chris is it? We are the infiltration team. We tunneled underneath the castle while everyone else is doing their best to keep everyone panicking." Snowball said to Chris as he was concerned the boy forgot his place, perhaps a side effect of being regressed and spirit merged were a bad combination on the mind. Deac pressed forward with his gun, firing at the rookies as he pressed ahead, being unnecessarily loud so the Missies could slip by and hit incoming enemies from behind.

"King of Debt, Blazing bomb!" Solarmon said as Kai gasped, scared a bit at the thought but she rubbed her arm. She clearly didn't want to go along with the idea but felt like she was too late. "Sounds good..." She said half heartedly as Deac nodded. "Snowflake take point while Missies fall back to tag Solarmon who ditches his post as premature as Kai is right now, copperface syncs onto me! GO!" Deac said quickly confusing everyone not in the army as Snowball was a bit scared but walked in front of Kai, behind Solarmon. The missies started to return back towards Kai while Solarmon seemed to ditch his post defending Kai as he and the Missies soon passed by eachother. Solarmon appeared to glow as his body was heating up before his two golden like gears started to spin rapidly, gaining incredible speed and velocity as he approached Deac.

Deac stuck the barrel of his gun into Solarmon's gears before whipping his body quickly down the hall along the floor face up. "Sol Calor!" He called out as a large blaze of fire came from his out as he slid down the hall, becoming an inferno that burned opposing Digimon from right underneath them so that Deac could shoot them down with his gun while they were off guard. With this in play, Deac began to storm down the hall quickly.

"Risky gambit but worth it if we can make progress."

He said as he looked out a window to to see Mach outracing attacks, nervous. "We should've called Mach to regroup so he and Deac could storm the castle from within, Mach himself has been taking out a lot on this side and they got too many on the south side on Sarge..." She said as Snowball could see what she meant. "What's the play Kai?" Diggy said hearing them over the comms.

Kai tried to snap herself back to focus as she began to think. "Ri- right..." She said feeling anxious and wanting to cry but she barely kept herself afloat. "Tera... if you still got flyers after you, nosedive by the south wall, if these are green novices... friendly fire. Then once no one is in the sky, free up Sarge and Mach." She said over the comms shakily.

Tera felt angry at Kai's plan, not because she hated it but she practically heard the tears Kai was holding back. Kai was being overwhelmed, that wasn't even hidden anymore and the former woman now child was near a breaking point. "Understood..." Tera said as she silently cursed herself, saying that today she was going to be the overwhelmed one no matter the cost.

She immediately took a turn for the south side just as the Digimon trying to shoot down sarge from the distance were about to fire again. She made sure to be a distance away from the castle as she did so that both forces would be focused on their original targets before enacting Kai's plan. She quickly nosedived through the south side with the fliers behind her just before another barrage would be fired, making it so that the forces struck their own. Those that did not fall had turned against the south side forces, starting a riot between the two as they would ironically finish eachother off. "That's what you get without a strict chain of command and training, these lot couldn't even see such an obvious move or have the maturity to handle it..." Sarge said as he came out from cover, his wounds were still fresh.

"Let's go cover Mach-" Tera said as Sarge would do something almost out of character. "Negatory." He said as Tera was almost shocked as Sarge looked her in the eyes with a serious expression. Sarge turned his Comm of for a moment and Tera did the same. "Your defying orders? You? The man who stood in front of a door in the middle of a desert for nearly a hundred years?" She said confused. "Extraordinary circumstances, General isn't fit to lead which means emergency measures must be taken. Her emotions are no longer contained, her walls are breached, she cannot restore her stability. The Mission comes first, but this is our current objective, not the mission." Sarge said as he and Tera shared a look of silence, both understanding the other.

"Despite the past, your relationship with the General is different, right now the General needs someone to carry her while she's down for once instead of dragging herself out of her own pain and despair alone. The Mission comes first." Sarge said as Tera nodded. "She who took us in, she who didn't see us as misfits unable to fit in with the groups we tried to belong, she who supports us in mind, body, and soul despite her own never being supported before. We shall carry her." Tera said as they turned their comms back on. "Get moving." Sarge said as he would move to help Mach on his side of the building.

Tera took a moment to breathe, with a tear coming out of one eye for a moment before she turned towards the castle and flew straight for it, bursting through a window and took out several Rookies on her way in. "This time... no one is abandoning you in the dark... Kai."

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Solarmon:
Sol Calor: He spins around rapidly before releasing a sun like burst of fire all around for a devastating fire attack. A dangerous ability as it can just as easily burn allies and friends alike. Requires a Cooldown of 2 posts.

"We should be making good progress right towards the throne room. If I were to guess the door is probably on the south side too." He said as he would keep moving down the hall. "What makes you suggest that?" Snowball asked from the rear of the group.

"Think about it, remember a castle like this being in the area before?" Deac said as he kept moving forward. Tera and Sarge's efforts utterly reduced virtually all resistence on the southern side except for those straggling within. "So you think whoever made this castle is childish, and if Agumon made it rise it probably randomized the plans from his subconius- subcontio- the back part of his mind." Kai said as she felt herself slowly unable to use advanced diction.

"If that's the case it might keep things as simple as possible... making the gate and throne room doors face the same way?" I can see that." Snowball added as Deac and Mach were at the front, giving the Missies a break as they were focused on defending Kai. Eventually they would make their way to two large doors in the middle of a large hallway... with two smaller doors built into it to ensure weaker Digimon could get in and out. Mach would approach one door with Solarmon behind him. Kai and Snowball stayed back, out of the way while Deac would signal Stacy and her brothers by the other door and to give the signal when they were ready.