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Singularity ARK - [The Repeating Disaster] (3/3) (Mature)
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Post by yuukz on Aug 7, 2023 4:23:15 GMT
Deep within waters of Sunken Elysium, the party would find the Digivice-like device on their person begin to blip... blip... blip. It guides them to deeper water... deeper area. It leads toward the area where Hikaru warned to be the ground zero of the ExD infection. True enough, there are tons of ExD infected Digimon swimming around... The rusted but always growing blades on its body ExD Tylomons... Submarimons that infected by many barnacles.... or even one, a leviathan sized Metal Seadramon that looked like an alien creature as its metallic body slowly replaced with flesh and countless eyes.
...Calling it terrifying would be and understatement. But thankfully, the Digivice shielded them. It was almost as if the Digivice masked their presence entirely, as the ExD Digimons avoided them completely. However, it was not enough to shield them from the sight of what ExD affected ocean floor looked like. It feels... alien, like writhing elements of various zone trying to beat one another. It mutates plants, turning them into tendrils that spreads the corruption further into the earth, changing its colors. Crystals appears from the ground, except that it grows from what looked like stalagmite made out of cancerous, fleshy-like cells. It was.... simply cursed. Fishes? They looked closer to what appear in made in abyss than anything coherent.
...No reprive in sight... all the team must do is to push ahead.. until at some point... they met a figure clad in purple cloak.
"Ara, finally here I see? Welcome, welcome... My name is Renge. I am sure that you have many questions, and perhaps many answers are to be given.... but we can't stay here forever, so... let me just give each party two questions each, shall I? Six questions out of three of your party... sounds quite good, isn't it?"
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Aug 7, 2023 4:39:52 GMT
"I don't like this..." Hawkeye stated as he watched outside of the submarine that he and Kaya were currently occupying. The beeping of the mysterious device they got from Tamernet was taking them closer to what Hikaru warned was ground zero. And the Digimon occupying this area shows; they looked exactly like the infected ones that Yuuki had shown them once before.
"I don't think those Digimon even know we're here," Kaya theorized, looking at the strange, cracked Digivice in her hand.
"I still think coming here was a mistake. Yuuki and Hikaru warned us this was ground zero for the ExD virus. We've seen three times before how the virus can affect Digimon, and being anywhere near the starting point for it is making my feathers stand on edge."
Kaya couldn't exactly argue with her partner on this topic, as much as she wanted to. She was also feeling on edge from how alien the ocean and the Digimon looked in this place, especially after the group had reached their destination in the Sunken Elysium. The plants had tendrils, crystals with flesh-like cells appeared from the earth itself. It was all a very disturbing sight that made Hawkeye wish Kaya had heeded his previous warnings outside of Tamernet.
They and the group they were with (consisting of Naoki and Mantis, as well as Nanami, Cream, and Mocha, a twin tamer that Kaya and Hawkeye hadn't seen in some time, as well as their mercs) all pushed ahead. Eventually, they met a figure in a purple robe. Renge, Kaya and Hawkeye were sure it was. She offered two questions for each person there. Kaya and Hawkeye would ask their questions first.
"Do you know how many universes there are?" Kaya asked.
"Do you know how the ExD virus got here?" Hawkeye asked.
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Aug 7, 2023 23:44:45 GMT
Imagine you were at the brink of something...great. Something you've been working towards. Something to work on. Yet something was missing. Something you knew not of, yet knew it was pivotal. That had been the life of Aizawa Naoki for the past...few months here? Yes, let's go with that.
There were far too many unresolved things lurking in this world to let go of. "...Fascinating that they can't seem to see us." Xu noted, glancing to the others with the group. "Going to need to prod Renge about these...broken Digivices. What...part of them wards away these Digimon..."
At that point, Filia, the Lunamon among Naoki's entourage, spoke up. "Irrelevant at this time. I don't see the old coot yet." She noted. "Naoki, you know her the best here--where does she usually pop up?"
"Yes." Was the tamer's simple reply. "Mistake or otherwise, would you rather some people who don't know what they're doing come here and end up making things worse?" Don't answer that.
When the group eventually found the woman in purple, Naoki exhaled. ...He was well aware Renge wasn't evil. But she made his skin crawl. In a special sort of way. So, they all each had two questions.
"...Has your journey been worthwhile, Renge?" Naoki found himself asking. "What...purpose does this visit hold?"
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Aug 8, 2023 0:15:04 GMT
Considering the surroundings, watching a gargantuan, bright pink eldritch horror descend into the depth below was remarkably mundane. And no, the bright pink eldritch horror wasn't just Nanami on a bad hair day. A giant Abaddomon slowly made its way down, along way briefly getting into a eleventy-billion-eyed staring contest with a giant flesh serpent. But as they got closer to their destination, the Abaddomon's eyes slowly focused in on what was below them, their pale, yellow eyes acting like spotlights in the water. It focused in on the people around it, giving a wide, unnerving cheshire grin as it chuckled through gritted teeth for reasons unknown.
Anyways, the Abaddomon then proceeded to spit out a bunch of dorks, as a pink-haired idiot, the #1 most popular character of DFRP (According to an online survey comprised of at least 1 Mochas), the most boring Terriermon ever, and the bestestest birb buddy a pink-haired idiot could ask for. Mocha, Cream, and Mu-kun took a look at their new surroundings as the massive Abaddomon suddenly shrunk down, wrapping around Nanami's torso in the form of a big poofy coat. If only one person stared at the coat for too long, an eye would open up and stare back, only for it to close before another person could notice it.
"Ahoy~ everybody!" Nanami greeted with a cheerful grin. Most definitely not appropriate for the situation at hand but it's never stopped her before.
Cream let out a grunt. "Yep. Definitely don't like this at all."
"Not so bad," Mocha countered, rubbing her stomach. "Though being in the abomination's mouth for so long has got me kinda hungry. That weird?"
"Yes." Mocha just shrugged in indifference as everyone got their crap together and purple-lady started spouting exposition. They were given two questions, so they ought to use them wisely...
"Oh, that's hard..." Nanami admitted. "Um... can you give me a second to think of a really good one?"
"That's one question." Cream pointed out, lifting up a tiny digit.
"Gack! Uh... can I have an extra question, pretty please?" Nanami stared at the violet-robed entity with her hands clapped together as if in prayer.
"And that's two questions," Cream held up two lil' digits with an unimpressed stare.
"Double gack!" Nanami slumped over in defeat as the Lopmon on her shoulder struggled to balance.
"Hey lady, we're starving. Give us some sandwiches or something if we're doing a Q&A!" Mocha pointed a lil' digit of her own at Renge.
"...And that's just being an asshole." Cream gave her sister a level glance before focusing her attention back to the cryptic questgiver.
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Post by yuukz on Aug 8, 2023 0:47:35 GMT
The purple hooded figure stood there as if what surrounding them wasn't anything that she needed to be concerned of at all. The hood also left very little visibility of the woman's exact look, with the clearest of them all being her mouth. Kind of like a Digimon in a sense, except not really one...
"...you're asking how many universe are there? Surely you don't expect me to rattle out the exact number, right? There are as many universe as there are possibilities. Let's say an universe where you did not take this mission... it exist. Everything is the same, except the fact that you didn't take this mission. That is also considered an universe... However, if you meant a radical difference where you having a completely different life from this one... perhaps, there is 10^60 of those kind of universe."
Hawkeye meanwhile have a more productive question. "As for your question, it will be answered soon... in fact, I am here for that exact reason."
Naoki's first question made Renge smile. "....I am but a vestige of a destroyed Digital World. A ghost, or a zombie perhaps you can say... my journey here.... has been worthwhile, I feel.... but then again, we agents are predisposed to have a great level of faith and expectation toward chosens. I hope that you would rise to meet my expectation? Ufufufu...."
What purpose?
"Hmmm, I'll answer that one soon...."
The other team meanwhile is purely chaos and funny. She likes them, but she cannot say that she didn't consider those questions and therefore they could ask more. Maybe she should just move to the main topic... Well, after handing a ridiculously huge, scooby-doo level topping of baguette sandwich at Mocha.
"Well, then, to answer the questions that I'm holding back before... you see..." she pointed behind her. "ExD, is the name of this... pandemic that you have encountered since a while, correct? ....Well, let's just say... I am here to show you.... pinpointing what caused that, and the origin of it all... Unfortunately, we cannot simply tell it to you... or more correctly, even if I tell you, you will not understand the weight and the thoughts that went into creation of this program, or why this program went so haywire til it become virus."
What behind her... is a massive maelstrom. While it moved the current around it, strangely it did not pull them in, as if the storm is a barrier that protected something.
"...Inside this is a piece of another world, from another dimension. Mine. To understand about the ExD, to gain information about another dimension, isn't it why you're here? ...Well, I am offering that experience to you, that knowledge and at the same time, the forbidden, 'out of your jurisdinction' information that will forever haunt you. Inside, time is looped endlessly, starting from the point where the disaster happened, to the end of the Digital World. Your mission... is to stop the loop from looping endlessly. There is 'the source of the singularity' inside. If you resolve their regret, then this singularity will stop. However... you may only loop this event five times. More than that, you will be trapped forever inside. If you fail on the fifth, then there's no choice other than to pull you back and detonate the whole singularity, to make sure that it will not produce more ExD.
...But exploding it would be a waste, especially when my goal is inside this too. So how about it, chosen? Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours... simple as that."
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Aug 8, 2023 3:17:26 GMT
"I can't even begin to imagine all the pain those Digimon are going through," Kaya said from the submarine, looking down at the broken Digivice in her hands. She remembered that poor boy that said his partner had been killed by the ExD-infected Flymon. A Digimon that died from ExD was never going to come back, regardless of if they were infected or not, according to Yuuki and Hikaru. And Kohaku and Ruri's grandfather, as well...
Naoki seemed to know this mystery person that the group was coming to meet the best. From her messages on Tamernet, Kaya and Hawkeye both had a suspicious feeling about this person, but neither one of them knew her like Naoki seemed to. "Naoki, is it safe to assume that we're walking into a death trap by meeting this mysterious being?"
Then the group came across Nanami and her partners and companion. Hawkeye could swear he saw Nanami's jacket blink for a second, but pushed that aside as just an optical illusion. None of them had changed even slightly since the last time Kaya and Hawkeye had seen them. Cream shared Hawkeye's feelings of being uneasy about the entire area, while Mocha mentioned that she was hungry after being in an abomination's mouth for so long.
"Putting aside the 'abomination' thing, how can you possibly feel hunger when in a place like this?" Hawkeye asked the Lopmon, although he was expecting an unsatisfactory answer considering this was the same Digimon that pulled the fire alarm to the middle school on their first meeting.
Now the group had come face to face with Renge herself. She answered Kaya's question first, saying that there were an infinite number of universes in total, but about ten-to-the-sixtieth-power of unique ones different from the one they were currently in. Kaya wasn't the best in math, but she still knew that that was a lot of universes. It was enough to silence her for a while as she thought to process it.
Naoki's question was more personal, asking if Renge's journey has been worthwhile. That question raised more questions than anything, however. And Mocha just rudely demanded food, to which Kaya and Hawkeye made unamused faces at. Those faces turned into intrigued ones once Renge gave the Lopmon a giant sandwich, making Hawkeye metaphorically eat his words about what he last said to Mocha about feeling hungry in this area.
Renge then started explaining what ExD was. She had brought everyone here today to pinpoint exactly where it all started. That alone got Kaya's and Hawkeye's attention. Behind Renge was a maelstrom of sorts, only weirdly enough, the current wasn't pulling any of them in. Inside the maelstrom was piece of Renge's original world, stuck in a specific point in time on loop.
More specifically, the time when the disaster started to the end of that Digital World.
She offered the group a chance to learn the forbidden knowledge of ExD by going inside and stopping the loop, resolving the source of the singularity's regret. However, they could only get it to loop five times before they would have to be extracted, and the singularity would have to be destroyed. Kaya... wasn't entirely sure how to respond to this.
"So we have to go in there and find out why this loop is happening to begin with, is that right?" Kaya asked Renge, her second question. "That would mean we'd learn how the virus started to begin with... and probably what it was meant to be at first."
"We shouldn't rush into this, Kaya," Hawkeye warned his partner. "I want to find out about the ExD virus as much as you do, but I don't want us both to die in the process. Remember, if I get infected, it's all over for me, not even taking into account how fragile you are."
"Don't call me that. I'm stronger than I used to be, and I don't want to run away from this." She extended her hand towards the Hawkmon with a smile. "We'll watch our steps, and move together as one."
Hawkeye looked at Kaya's hand for a brief moment before opting to see how everyone else responded before accepting it.
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Aug 8, 2023 19:53:36 GMT
"With Renge? Not...necessarily. While she's been at the start of a lot of traumatic experiences for me, it's less that such a thing is a certainty and more...a possibility. It could be harmful. It could be beneficial. Or both. The point is that it is a necessity. You ever meet the Fatebreaker? Think of it as like her showing up somewhere. It has to be done."
There were two very different approaches being taken here, and both were...equivalently sensible to Aizawa Naoki. Hawkeye and Kaya were taking this pretty seriously, given the impact the ExD epidemic had had in the three times it had surged. On the other hand, the way Nanami and friends had...approached this delicate matter...
Well. It was enough to ease a lot of tension. "I can see why Omen speaks so highly about you." Naoki couldn't help but smile a little bit. Filia, meanwhile, gave Mocha the mother of all side-eyes. "...I like your style, jackass."
And Xu? All the Coronamon could feel was abject horror at the realization that just slapped him. "...Hawkeye. Cream, was it? I hate to say this, but there's two of them. And I hate it."
Okay, back to serious mode. Even with the purpose of their visit revealed, Naoki couldn't really -tell- Hawkeye what could happen.
"Five attempts. Not enough, given how some Chosen approach this." Filia noted. "But the benefits it could bring far, far outweigh the harm...It always heals, eventually. Given time. But this? This could be a wound we could never heal if we let it pass us by like this. And unlike some overgrown dead ends I'm not, I'm not letting this...precipice pass me by."
"We have to try. Obviously, we can't save everything but we have to at least try to resolve...this."
"We accept."
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Aug 9, 2023 1:44:05 GMT
With all the talk about parallel universes, Nanami was reminded of some of the books she would read at the hospital way back... whenever that was. She really didn't get any of it back then, and most definitely didn't understand it right now. But apparently there was a world where Nanami was potentially a friendly robot dinosaur or something, so imagining that was pretty neat. But before she could imagine too deeply about the wonders of going on adventures with missiles and rocket punches of love and friendship, she brought herself back to reality.
Which was apparently one of many, because if every possibility was a reality that meant that everything and nothing simultaneously mattered and didn't matter. Truth and lies are relative, as everything was both reality, but also fiction. Possibilities and potential no longer existed, yet infinite. If there were potentially infinite possibilities, it meant that imagination and dreams were no longer fantasies, but glimpses into other realities. After a little while, Nanami could start to smell burnt toast, so she slapped her cheek to focus on the matter at hand.
"Umm... I don't know if I can ask more questions, but who specifically do we need to help?" Nanami asked with a thoughtful frown. "And what did they do to feel really bad about?"
"Use small words. People call her 'Stupid Nanami' for a reason," Mocha added, still perched on Nanami's shoulder, barely able to hold her well-deserved reward in her tiny arms. When Hawkeye admonished her, she the Lopmon just shrugged her shoulders and grunted.
"You're the only one that does that," Cream noted, watching her sister go in for a bite, squeezing down on large sub. Unfortunately, a large slice of ham to slipped out and slapped the Lopmon's tamer in the face. Nanami shivered in surprise and disgust, liking trying not to imagine the pig's face that the ham used to belong to.
She hopped down off Nanami's shoulder, suddenly transforming into into her slightly-larger Lekismon form. Just to eat a sandwich. She then received something she didn't expect from another living being. Positive reinforcement. She wasn't prepared or sure how to deal with that, so she just gave the Lunamon a nod of acknowledgement and let out another grunt.
Cream looked over to the Coronamon, then to her sister, then to Filia, and for a brief moment, there was a glimpse of utter dread in the Terriermon's eyes before being blinked away and returning to her usual stoic expression.
And as it came time for the group to make a decision, there was some caution, hesitation, and of course, determination being displayed by everyone around. And by this point, I'm pretty sure everyone can guess what Nanami would decide!
"I say we should do it!" Nanami said to... pretty much everyone in general. "We get five whole tries to do this, right? That's like... four more tries than we normally get for most stuff, so if anything, that's a bonus!" She gave a grin filled to the brim of raw confidence as dozens of eerie, yellow eyes popped open on her big poofy coat. "And you don't gotta worry! I'll keep an eye out and protect everyone that needs protecting!"
"And as Lady Nanami protects you all with her life, so too will I protect Lady Nanami with mine!" the Falcomon besides them piped up for the first time in a while.
"If there's someone that needs help, or we can make things better somehow, then should try our best, right? I don't really know much about dimensions or time loops or single air ti-... umm, boobies, but I understand that much!"
"Singularity," Cream corrected, standing beside her tamer in support. "There's likely danger involved, but that's never not the case, it would seem. So long as we're careful, then the worst result is that we fail five times and things resolve with only slightly less convenient results."
"Ugh... mayo..." Mocha groaned as she licked her fingers, finishing up her sub as everyone else was giving brief speeches. "I say we go for it. I got nothing else to do, and I gotta do something to work off that crappy-tastin' sandwich."
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Post by yuukz on Aug 9, 2023 2:56:19 GMT
"...Good question, but even then... I could not answer your question, or mayhaps, in more correct manner, I have to say that I am... completely at loss of who is it exactly that needed your help? It could be a human, or a Digimon, or perhaps a completely unrelated personage... As long as they have feelings of regret that is enough to fuel this singularity, then they are the source of the singularity," Renge answered.
But looks like all of them are ready... In that case... She snapped her finger. Out of sudden, everything went dead silent. It is as if the time itself stopped for them.
"...From here on is a journey that no one else has attempted. A journey to the other dimension. Do know that death is completely possible within... if you die, you become inactive, and you have to wait until the loop to 'resume', or if all of you died somehow. Needless to say, if all of you die, then it'll be counted as you went through a loop. However, do note that even if you die inside, you will not die in this side. It, however, will be quite the traumatic experience so proceed with care and act as if you only live once.
Reminder: The loop will restart if all of you died If you reach the end of the third day... or if the singularity is killed before the third day.
The loop have a span of three days before it looped back. The first day... will be your calm before storm. Always remember that in case you need a breather. While inside, there are some subjects that are taboo to be spoken of, and if you attempt to do so, your words will be caught on your throat and you will be unable to breathe until you drop the topic. Such are:
the fact that you're from another world.... the fact that this is all not real and are byproduct of singularity information from the previous loop that would cause its inhabitant to have any form of mental breakdown. You cannot also use technologies from this world... holosuits and other technologies that are not directly supported by your digivice will not be able to be used.
I cannot give you much more info than that... now, walk forward, chosen, to the unknown realm....
Should the crew decided to enter, they would feel as if they're walking on empty space at first... and then their eyes adjusted, and everything looked slightly different, like a field of light.... with crystals passing by. There was a music that seem to play... except at some point, a loud screeching could be heard, like someone hitting a brake, and it blends with the music... creating eerie sound that loops back to the beginning.
"This is wrong"
someone's voice out of sudden resounded.
"We have to stand our ground. For the sake of the future, even if we're not part of it..."
a voice that sounded strangely like Hikaru.
"You have to prioritize: The world or its people, you CAN'T choose both! We don't have that leeway!!"
a mature man's voice.
"If you can't choose both then why are you a chosen!? I refuse to choose and I refuse to accept this is the end!"
a voice of what sounded like a teen or a woman.
"In the end, is it all for naught...?"
the same voice from before, except they sounded so desperate and giving up.
"Your majesty... please... for the sake of the future---"
an unknown voice, which cut by the sound of something stabbing against flesh.
It all suddenly disturbed when a loud crack formed on the other end of the horizon. The crack spread, and before long a hole formed as something smog-y and slime-y punched it way through. The first thing that the team see would be the gigantic eye on its chest, while the fleshy jelly around it is trying hard to maintain a form similar to human, except with claw for arm... and on its palm is a mouth filled with sharp teeth.
"I̶̋̈ ̵̐̐f̷͖͘o̷̒̍u̷͊͘n̸͋͘d̷̀̇ ̷́̽ỳ̶̃ó̵u~"
The golden, broken Digivices reacted.... and a blinding light stopped the creature from getting too close... and before they knew it... they woke up---right in the middle of scramble crossing. It's the same scramble crossing, yet the air felt different... it's hard to pinpoint what's exactly is wrong, but...
it just feels... odd.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Aug 9, 2023 3:51:45 GMT
Well, it seemed like the entire group had accepted Renge's offer to stop the singularity. Hawkeye looked back at Kaya's hand and sighed. "I just know I'm going to regret this," Hawkeye says as he grabs onto Kaya's hand, causing her to smile at the fact that he too had accepted the offer.
Renge snapped her fingers, and it was as if time stopped for them. She explained the rules of how death worked within this rift; essentially, if you die, you'll be revived once the loop restarts, but it would be as traumatic as actual death. The loop would reset if all participants died as well, alongside reaching the end of the third day or killing the singularity inside. And also while inside, the group will literally be unable to say things like they're from another world, or things that happened in a previous loop. Technology from the group's original world not supported by the Digivice will also not work.
Kaya and Hawkeye walked inside the maelstrom with the others... and once their eyes adjusted, everything around them just looked white, but with some kind of crystal floating around. They heard music, then the sound of breaks... then they could hear familiar voices. Hikaru... probably Yuuki... a third voice they didn't recognize... they sounded scared. Panicked. Something bad was happening. Was it a world ending?
The sound of flesh being stabbed was heard next. A loud crack had formed, and it spread, before something smoky and slimy poured out of it. Kaya was scared. What was going on? An eye formed on this thing's chest. It was humanoid in structure, aside from its claw-arm paired with the sharp-toothed mouth on its palm. Kaya was breathing heavily. She tried to move, but she couldn't. She wanted to scream, but no sound came out. It was about to come and kill them!
Suddenly, a bright golden light stopped the creature from getting any farther. Kaya would be the first to wake up as she screamed loudly while sitting up as fast as she possibly could. She was breathing heavily, clutching her chest and trying to calm herself down. She got a good look at her surroundings... they were in Shibuya Crossing?
This air... it feels so different... Kaya thought to herself as she got to her feet. Hawkeye was with her too, and he looked just as confused as she did. What was that thing? Was... was that an ExD monster? Just a nightmare? It was then that she noticed all the people... just silently staring at the group. Particularly, the monster companions of that group. No one was doing anything, no running or screaming for help, just... silent staring.
"They're afraid of us," Hawkeye said.
Kaya would then hear her phone start to ring. She pulled it out, and the screen was showing an unrecognized number. The teen girl cocked an eyebrow up in confusion as she slid the screen to answer the call. "Hello?"
A male voice could be heard on the other end. "Yeah, hi, I would like to order a pizza for carryout, please."
"I'm... I'm sorry, what?"
"Did I stutter? I'm trying to order a pizza here."
The look on Kaya's face could only be described as "what the fuck is even going on right now?" "Um, I think you've got the wrong number, sir."
"No I don't. I was staring right at this number on your pamphlet as I called it. You are Pizza Slice, right?"
Pizza Slice... yeah, Kaya recognized the name of that pizza shop. But why would that place have her number for their store? "I'm sorry, but you might want to try again," was all she said before she hung up. She took this time to check the date on her phone, since it was clearly still working.
August 7th, 2022
That's... that's the day before my birthday.
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Aug 12, 2023 4:00:31 GMT
"Regret, or otherwise. It's up to us." Xu spoke simply, and matter-of-factly towards Hawkeye. Other than that, and Cream's cosmic dread (the likes of which Xu empathized with genuinely), the group was set and headed into the singularity.
The rules were simple enough. All three of Naoki's crew seemed to accept them as they were explained.
The rules were also not the part that was to be worried about. It was entering the singularity proper. The voices were all too familiar. For Naoki, it was the voice of Hikaru. Or what sounded like Hikaru.
It was their voice. Yet not. Alien. Yet not as alien as whatever that aberration that pierced the veil on the other end was. That thing that stared at them as if a prize to be devoured. Naoki knew his partners were not capable of much at the moment, but they IMMEDIATELY got into a stance as if prepared to fight...Well. Tried to. The will was there. Yet they could not move.
...Yet.
That moment never came, for their shattered digivices were what warded this creature away. And whisked them to a Scramble Crossing that was never the one either of the three humans here had inhabited. And everyone. Everyone at the crossing on August 7th, 2022 was staring right at them.
"We might want to move." Naoki stated, bluntly...And noted Kaya's conversation with the Pizza Customer. They might not exist here. Otherwise, he made to usher the group...out of the middle of Scramble Crossing. Some place where the Digimon could hide so they could figure a first move out.
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Aug 12, 2023 6:59:01 GMT
Nanami listened along as Renge told the gang the rules, nodding along. For once, she actually understood MOST of it, though she'd have to ask Cream to explain things later when she got the opportunity. They moved ahead without pause, overhearing some conversation full of a bunch of voices that Nanami had never heard before a cool-looking but still creepy monster reached out for them. Their special Digivice thingies stopped it for whatever reason, and then suddenly found themselves waking up in... in Nanami's world!?
She didn't expect that, like at all. Kaya screaming jolted Nanami awake as the end of her coat stretched out above her head and turned into a giant fist, ready to punch whatever threat loomed nearby. Meanwhile, the Falcomon, Lekismon, and Terriermon companions stood up and looked around at sights they've literally never seen before.
"Ah..." Nanami so eloquently noted, scratching the back of her head as the giant fist vanished. She had a thoughtful frown as she murmured, "I promised I wouldn't come back here..." They looked around as the crowd seemed to take varying levels of interest in the literal monsters in the group. Then Kaya got a bizarre phone call, and Naoki made a good suggestion. They followed along, and unless something stopped them, they likely found a place to hide.
"Mocha, let's store ourselves in Nanami's Digivice for right now," Cream suggested, the Lekismon devolving into her Lopmon form as the bunnies hid within the girl's ugly-colored device.
"Mu-kun..." Was all Nanami had to say as the 100% legitimate Falcomon nodded and suddenly hid within the girl's shadow. Once her 'mons were either hidden or fashion'd she clenched her fist and raised it into the air. "Oooookay! So what's our first move?"
"...I... I have a suggestion," Cream's voice came out from within Nanami's Digivice, nearly startling the girl so much she almost dropped it. Thankfully she caught it at the last second, and let out a nervous laugh. After the brief fiasco, Cream continued. "This is a parallel world, correct? Which means that no matter how similar it is, by its very definition it can't be exactly the same as ours. Which means running around recklessly, assuming we know everything about it because of our world's similarities can prove to be fatal. For that reason, I'd like to take the opportunity to suggest something that might... umm... go against some of our more common morals.
"I'd... like to suggest that we take this first cycle to simply observe what happens between now and the end. We take as little actions as possible to prevent as many changes as we can, then figure out what specifically happens during the course of one cycle. Otherwise we're just trying to... solve a puzzle without knowing what all the pieces look like."
"Hmm... That all makes sense," Nanami noted, crossing her arms and nodding along. Whether it was actually making sense to her or not was up in the air, but she generally trusted whatever Cream said.
"It also means that... inaction is mandatory. If we observe someone in clear need of help, we need to let it happen. Kaya, Naoki, without your complete cooperation, this won't be possible. I don't know enough about you all to know your morals, but I know that Nanami won't stand by if we encounter someone in danger. Even if it makes things worse for everyone. So the two of you will likely need to restrain her."
"Nuh-uh!" Nanami defiantly countered her own Digivice. "I'll go along with what the team does!"
"So you say," Cream stated without a shred of conviction.
"Who cares about all that? Nanami's gonna do somethin' stupid, and we'll all pay the price. Way it's always been," Mocha's voice blurted out. "But enough of that! Hey Blonde Beret, if your number's the same as that pizza place, order us some grub while we wait for somethin' to happen! If we're lucky, the delivery guy is the key to this stupid mess! Either way, we'll get some pizza out of it!"
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yuukz
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Faint caramel, apparently.
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OOC Name: Yuukzja™
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Post by yuukz on Aug 12, 2023 7:37:59 GMT
Kaya's screaming was enough to jolt some onlooker, and some even starting to whip their phone to call the police if needed. They're a bit on guard because of course, Digimons... but none of them approached, none.. bars a person, who somehow have someone in coat following her. The person looked like about between Nanami and Kaya's age, a girl with long, messy orange hair. Her warm golden eyes darted around and clouded with panic that only can be described as when you got busted by your parents because your friends are tattletale.
"YOU THERE, OH MY GOD-- Excuse me, beg pardon, please let me pass!" she wade through the crowd and immediately grabbed the nearest person... of course that being Kaya. She grabbed her by her arm, practically pulling her up to her feet. "You guys, come with me! Are you out of your minds-- oh my god I can't believe this-"
"PARDON, NATSUME IS A GIRL OF ACTION. SHE COULDN'T EXPLAIN HERSELF RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN. HOWEVER, ULTIMATELY, THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE TO DO SO. ANY SORT OF EXPLANATION NEED TO WAIT. PLEASE COOPERATE AND FOLLOW US. WE MEANT YOU NO HARM."
This girl, Natsume, seem to be partnered with a certain mechanical Digimon. Anyway, should the party consent and followed her, she would ran toward a less occupied place... a shop or sort. Cafe Riviera, it's called. The shop sign was closed and yet somehow.... its seem that they can enter without worry.
The teen whipped around, her jacket swirled as she faced the group. "What's up with you guys, screaming like that on top of digitizing out of nowhere in middle of busy scramble crossing!? Were you guys recently wiped out or something? You should have put your respawn point in the Digital World cities you know! I thought all Digivice warned you to immediately set your respawn point to one of them! Why didn't you follow the instruction?"
"NATSUME, CALM DOWN. PARDON NATSUME FOR THESE TIRADES, FRIENDS. WE THOUGHT IT'S SIMPLY UNTHINKABLE FOR ANYONE TO SET REAL WORLD AS THEIR RESPAWN POINT. DESPITE SO, IT DOESN'T SOUND AS IF YOU ALL ARE BEGINNER AT ALL. IF ANYTHING, THE SIGNAL THAT YOU EMITTED BELONGED TO VERY EXPERIENCED PARTNERED."
"Ha!? Them!? They're experienced!?"
"PERHAPS IT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NEVER ONCE WIPED. PERHAPS THEY ARE VERY TALENTED AND LUCKY TO THE POINT THEY HAVE NEVER ONCE HAVE A NEED TO RESPAWN... UNTIL SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAPPENED," the Digimon suggested. "ANYWAY, WHERE'S MY MANNER. I AM CALLED BARMETT."
The Digimon takes off his clothes and revealed himself as a Guardromon.
"NATSUME IS MY PARTNER. PLEASURE TO MEET YOU ALL."
"Nnnghhh... you guys are suspicious as hell, but I can't help but to think just how strangely lost you guys are...! Hoshikawa Natsume. I'm currently a D-Rank Explorer registered to Steampunk Vanguard."
Natsume flashed her Digivice... the same Digivice that Renge gave the team, except hers is adorned with different casing. It looked more steampunk-y than the one they have....
....but wait, the ones they have somehow... returned back to its original shape? It's no longer broken, or cracked, or even damaged for that matter....
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Aug 13, 2023 0:04:38 GMT
Almost immediately, Cream and Mocha were put into Nanami's V-Pet, while their Falcomon companion phased right into Nanami's own shadow. As much as Kaya wanted to ask about that, they had more important objectives at the moment.
Cream spoke up and suggested that the group should try to interfere with as little of this world as possible for the first loop to see how things would naturally end up. Kaya was a naturally helpful person so she had reservations about just potentially leaving someone to die for the sake of the loop, but she did understand Cream's thought process with this idea. She didn't say anything outright in response to it, however, but she will try to follow that idea to the best of her ability. Hawkeye would, as well.
Then Mocha went and said that Nanami was going to screw it all up for everyone, which infuriated Hawkeye. How could a Digimon talk about their partner like that?! Not only that, but she refused to call Kaya by name as she ordered her to order a pizza while they wait for something to happen. Hawkeye was so close to snapping at Mocha right then and there for treating his partner like that, when someone from the crowd started calling out to the group.
Kaya and Hawkeye turned to the source of the voice to find a very angry looking red-headed girl with long hair stomping over towards the group, with a large figure in a coat following close behind her. The figure asked for the group to cooperate as girl grabbed onto Kaya's arm before stomping away. And wow, was her grip strong.
"Wha- hey! Let go of me!" Kaya yelled as she had no choice but to follow along. Hawkeye would remain relatively close to Kaya during this walk, likely with the rest of the group as well.
The duo led the group to a building with the name "Café Riviera." The shop itself looked closed, but that didn't stop them from being able to enter the shop seemingly without worry. Once inside, the girl would continue to scold the group for screaming like a lunatic and digitizing in the middle of Scramble Crossing. She asked why they didn't set any respawn points in a Digital World city, since the Digivice would've urged them to do so.
Respawn point...?
The large figure spoke in the group's defense, stating that their signal was that of experienced Partnered, and had never wiped before now due to sheer talent and luck. Kaya decided to play up this angle, looking bashful and rubbing the back of her head. "Yeah, that's what happened. I meant to set up a respawn in the Digital World ages ago, but it completely slipped my mind, I guess. We didn't mean to cause all that trouble, and we're really sorry for it. It won't happen again."
She hoped the others would play along with this story like she was doing.
The larger figure took off his coat, revealing himself to be a Guardromon named Barmett. His partner, the girl that dragged the group here, was named Hoshikawa Natsume, who claimed herself to be a D-Rank member of the Steampunk Vanguard, a team that neither Kaya nor Hawkeye had ever heard of, along with showing a Digivice that reminded Kaya of the ones Renge gave the group, but more with a steampunk aesthetic. This was the point that it truly set in that they were on another Earth.
"I'm Kaya Matsui," Kaya introduced herself to the two. "And this is my own partner, Hawkeye."
"It is a pleasure to meet you both," the Hawkmon said with a slight bow.
Of course, Kaya had no reason to randomly pull out her Digivice right now, so she wouldn't know quite yet that the Digivices that Renge had given them had been magically repaired. Still, if the situation called for it, she would pull out that Digivice in place of her usual one, only to find that it had indeed been fixed.
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Aug 14, 2023 7:39:02 GMT
"Solid plan, agonizing though it may be. Helps establish a preliminary pattern as to what's what and who's who..." Xu mused. Truth be told, he was considering something similar. He was fairly certain that the pinkette would need to be restrained, and Naoki would definitely need to be clocked to get him to NOT rush in to try helping someone.
"Oh, yeah, Matsui-san, could you order me some chocolate dunkers? ...Least if they got 'em." Filia was absolutely piggybacking on Mocha being an asshole. They were indeed, just two peas in a pod with how irritating they could be. They couldn't really dwell any longer due to a girl around Nanami and Kaya's age popping in and practically DRAGGING them over somewhere else.
There was a lot of terminology being used that the three had zero idea about. "...We never had the time to go and do that, sorry." Naoki explained. Subtle deflection. The core of the plan seemed to be doing the least effort, and...he was going to try it. "My name's Aizawa Naoki--the Coronamon's Xu and the Lunamon is Filia. They've been my friends for a long while, and they're a little rough around the edges, so I apologize if they're a bit brusque."
As if on cue, Filia waved it off. "Yeah, we're just that skilled, evidently. Glad someone can tell OPULENCE from a glance. Nice to meetcha."
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