Molten Steel Gathers (Beast Fraction Hunt) [Solo]
Apr 9, 2016 13:16:52 GMT
Post by Alicia Westfield on Apr 9, 2016 13:16:52 GMT
Enough was enough, Alicia had decided. She needed to stop putting people she'd just met and learned to care for in trouble. First Kai was ambushed by so many Digimon helping her get her Sprite form, Rustdramon. Then, Elliot and Isaac nearly fell to their doom off the side of a Trailmon because of Ulysess and Ferrus. Now? Getting one of her human spirits had nearly cost herself and Maia their lives. It was only because Kuu was a spastic moron that they were around at all!
When it came to hunting for her spirits, she felt like she was bad luck to them. She'd go about this one all on her own, regardless of what awaited her. She'd managed to heal sufficiently to be discharged from the hospital, and she had a lot of lost time to make up. The other spirit totem had been patiently waiting for her for over a week now. She'd ignore the call no longer, for she was far over due when it came to collecting this one.
"Are you sure it is wise to pursue this one all on your own? This has not been a good idea the last few times." Sol commented worriedly. She could understand why. In every instance she could name a moment for when being alone would've spelled disaster for her. Still, she wasn't about ot put friends in harms way again if she didn't have to. Since it seemed there wasn't a time limit, if she ran into trouble she could bail and then call for help, after becoming aware of at least some of the dangers.
"I'm not budging on this one Sol, and you know it. We're doing this my way or the high way." Alicia returned, dashing acrossed the sands. Why was a Steel Spirit here of all places? This seemed more like it would fit, say, a Water Spirit. Oh well, the D-Scanner lead her here, and here is where she would search.
"Very well. I will relent on this matter. You are the leading force in this after all, I'm merely your advisor on this journey." Sol noted, falling silent. "I just hope you have something in mind for what you'll have to deal with." That certainly didn't inspire any confidence.
Alicia blinked and looked down at her D-Scanner. Then she looked out into the surf. "... No..." she muttered, eye twitching. Was it really hidden out at sea? That just wasn't fair. "That's just cruel... how am I supposed to go out there?"
"It's not too far. You'll likely be able to get in using Steeldramon to weigh yourself down. That form is also a bit bigger, increasing lung capacity." Sol offered helpfully, humming. It was an idea at least. And something Alicia was considering.
"Well, let's get out there then and be careful..." Alicia mused. "I cast off the rusted shell... Spirit Evolution!" The energy cocoon inherent of many evolutions surrounded her, before being coated in steel plates. Exploding out, Alicia's Human Fraction form was revealed once more, "Steeldramon!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, there little lady!" Someone called out from the surf. In fact, he'd spoken from underneath it, surfacing once he was done to reveal himself.
"You need a ride under the waves somewhere? Sorry, I just couldn't help but over hear you." The Submarimon continued, opening up the canopy. "I can tell you now you'll be in for a bad time normally. I'd be perfectly willing to help out." It seemed almost too convenient, for something to come up as a means of helping out.
"Kid, find another way..." Sol advised, narrowing his eyes at the Submarimon suspiciously. "There's something off about him." Alicia nodded in agreement to the assessment before sighing.
"We don't really have much of choice though..." She whispered back, walking over to the submarine Digimon. "You'll help?" She asked just to be sure, tilting her head. Not that she expected the answer to change, but perhaps she might get an idea of why it seemed so off.
"You know it little lady, just climb aboard and give me an idea where we're going." Submarimon answered, nodding a bit. Alicia still suspected him like Sol did, but they really didn't have any other options available to them. Alas, he had a really good poker face, she couldn't read him at all after the opening obvious 'I'm gonna back stab you later' moment the two had agreed was odd at best and devious at worst.
So she decided to have a back up plan available. Getting herself situated in the Submarimon's cockpit, she sighed to herself as the canopy started to close. Quietly, she formed a dagger and made a small scrape on the glass to weaken the canopy. If she had any idea of how she'd be backstabbed, she wanted to be able to smash the glass and get out. With Submarimon none the wiser to the sabotage of his canopy, he submerged with Alicia and followed her directions.
To say that Alicia was expecting a shrine of sorts to be waiting underneath the surf where the D-Scanner was leading the temporary duo was certainly a lie. It was a bit tough for Submarimon to squeeze his way past, but the aquatic digimon managed it somehow. "Real cool place huh? I always like skulking around in old ruins like this, see what around to be found. Never thought I'd actually be doing an intentional mini-treasure hunt for someone though!" Submarimon quipped, his short laugh filling the cockpit as Alicia smiled a bit.
"Yeah... Though, is it me or are there odd red lights going over you the deeper we go?" Alicia noted, having seen several almost scan her and Submarimon. It was an odd thing to be sure, and Sol wasn't talking about it, so maybe she was just seeing things?
"Eh what? What red lights are you talking about?" Submarimon replied a little too quickly. That struck the Steeldramon as odd. He seemed almost panicked that she had noticed. That did reinforce the fact that there was foul play going on though. She was certainly glad to have planned something in advance for it.
They went quiet again, but oddly enough despite the near constant scanning, nothing seemed to trigger to bar their path. Things were going almost too well. "We should be almost on top of it, Submarimon..." Alicia noted to the aquatic mon. He, in turn, flicked his lights up to a higher setting to help them see better in the dark waters.
"You sure about this miss? I'm not seeing anything too out of the ordinary. Is it possible that little device of yours is faulty?" Submarimon asked after a few seconds of sweeping his spotlights around. Indeed in the dingy place nothing seemed strange. Alicia herself began to doubt that they were in the right place. The D-Scanner wasn't exactly good when it came to elevation after all.
Wait... "Submarimon, focus at eleven o'clock and raise your spotlights to the ceiling!" Alicia called. The aquatic machine blinked but obeyed the order. It was just the thing they needed. Hanging by a rusty chain was the Spirit Totem. Alicia had only managed to spot it through a glint in the upper corner of her eye and a hunch that it wasn't just a trick of her mind.
"Alright, I'll grab it and then we can surface. Glad to be of assistance to you, miss." Submarimon chimed, swimming up carefully and biting the weak chain off. Carrying the totem, the submersible mon started to make his way back out of the shrine they'd discovered, sighing softly.
The sigh set Alicia on edge, so she carefully and quietly made another scratch in the canopy with the blade she made earlier when Submarimon was focused on squeezing between a pair of collapsed pillars again. The pressure of the water started to crack the glass and Alicia nodded to herself. It would be weak enough for her to punch through now if she had to.
Just in time too. Submarimon seemed to know his way around almost too well, finding the exit again in record time. Several meters away from the shore, though, the digimon shut off his propellers and came to a stop. "Is something wrong, Submarimon?" Alicia asked cautiously, tensing up her hand with the dagger.
"Yeah, I'm afraid so little miss... no hard feelings, kay?" Submarimon said, and suddenly the life support for his cockpit got shut off. Alicia's eyes went wide as she took a deep breath, holding it. "See... I'm kinda in a seri-" Alicia cut him off by smashing the weakened canopy open, causing Submarimon to yelp as glass shards were slammed into his soft cockpit body from the torrent of water. "Augh! W-What the!?"
The Steeldramon took the moment to swim out and send a chain to the totem that the Submarimon had let go in the heat of his injury, wrapping it up and pulling it towards herself. "W-Wait a minute!" Submarimon cried, eyes wide. There was no waiting though, Alicia loaded the spirit in her D-Scanner and began to swim to the surface.
"Bah! Useless tool, I give you one job and you manage to screw it up at the very last second!" A third arrival was heralded by the vicious snarl. A massive red serpent lashed out to grab Alicia, and the Steeldramon's eyes went wide. With a swipe of her claws, she managed to scar its face slightly, but that was the only thing she managed to accomplish. In an instant she was bound and near helpless, and getting dangerously close to having to worry about actually drowning.
"The saying really is true. 'If you want something done right, do it yourself'. Pathetic really Submarimon, that someone so weak was able to escape the trap I planned out for you. Didn't you want to save Rukamon...?" The revealed MegaSeadramon laughed as he started to constrict, squeezing the life out of Alicia. The Steeldramon flailed helplessly, as there was nothing she could do in this scenario. She'd never have a chance of activating her new Spirit in time.
"... Yeah, I do... But now you've gone too far MegaSeadramon! Oxygen Torpedo!" The Submarimon loosed a pair of compressed torpedos, which slammed into MegaSeadramon's coils. The serpent hissed angrily as Submarimon charged, scarring his body with the drill bit and forcing him to let go of Alicia. With the sudden change of heart, Submarimon grabbed the nearly unconscious metal dragon and rushed for the shoreline, breaching the surface early and practically tossing her back onto the sands.
"Get out of here little lady, and I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused you! I'll hold MegaSeadramon off as long as I can!" Submarimon called, turning to prepare to face his doom. He certainly didn't expect that the person he just tried back stabbing would even dare lift a finger to help him. People weren't that selfless.
"... Ever... flowing... Ever changing..." Alicia began, coughing. "My soul... is Steel... in its most... malleable form...! Beast Spirit Evolution!" The declaration made, Alicia made the slash against the digicode around her hand with the D-Scanner. Her form lost definition all at once, 'melting' into a floating orb of silvery fluid. Each limb burst out and formed one at a time, slamming down into the sands. The last one to form was her new head, and the liquid dragon reared back and roared her challenge. "Mercurialdramon!"
"E-Eh? What? Why...?" Submarimon sputtered, looking at the new dragon as she charged for the waters again. MegaSeadramon then breached the surface, howling in fury towards the two digimon that were now banding together. There was no more time for words between the unlikely duo.
"Shatter Fist!" Alicia called, ballooning up her arms at the cost of shrinking the rest of her body and raising her swollen hands high. They melded together and sprouted spikes, and the Mercurialdramon howled back as she swung down. MegaSeadramon only had a moment to look at the massive shadow descending upon him and gape before his face was smashed in. The impact of her hands against the water caused large waves to ripple out as she considered her options.
Instead of reeling her arms back in, the Mercurialdramon forced the rest of her body to flow over to it, causing her to dive in once more. Being made of liquid metal though, she had no fear of drowning this time, her new body either didn't need air or could simply strain what air it needed from the water around her.
"Why you little..." MegaSeadramon snarled as he regained his senses, swimming back up to meet Alicia. "Maelstrom!" The attack named, MegaSeadramon breathed a massive torrent of cryogenic power at the Mercurialdramon. His target was a slippery one in her new form though. Literally flowing with the waves, Alicia handily dodged the freezing blast with almost casual ease before thrusting her hand forward. Swelling it up again, she smashed MegaSeadramon into the seafloor this time with a ludicrously over sized fist, leaving the serpent groaning in pain.
"Why won't you just sit still and die!?" The fiendish serpent screeched as he lunged for Alicia. Wrapping her up again before she could react, the Ultimate level digimon attempted to constrict her again, snarling. It didn't seem to be having any effect this time though.
"... I'd move if I were you." Alicia warned as she started to condense herself into a ball again. MegaSeadramon just let out a questioning grunt before coiling himself further aroung the Mercurialdramon. Sighing, Alicia just shook her head. "Alright then. Fright Burst!" And then Alicia figuratively and literally exploded. Into a very spikey mass of solid steel to be exact, skewering MegaSeadramon in too many places to count. The serpent shrieked as Alicia recollected herself and shifted back to her default form.
"You... yooooou... I'll... remember this...!" MegaSeadramon snarled, starting to swim away weakly as his body was leaking data from every signficant injury. He was out of sight soon enough, sinking back into the depths. Hearing propellers running, Alicia turned to look at Submarimon, who had just arrived on the scene after getting over his shock at the turn of events.
"You really just... took him on...? Just like that...? Why?" Submarimon asked, stunned. He couldn't understand, he'd tried to suffocate her just a few seconds ago, and now she was taking his fight upon herself when the best course of action was to flee to safety and leave the aquatic mammal to his fate.
"Because I don't like it when family is used to blackmail someone. And aren't friends ust family we choose to meet in our lives? I don't think MegaSeadramon will be bothering anybody for a long time, so you go get Rukamon out from wherever he's locked up." Alicia answered, smiling and going ashore again. The Submarimon just nodded and swam off, going to find his dear friend.
"Well... I must say that was a brilliant way to turn things around. Seemed a bit too reliant on lucky moments though." Sol commented. Alicia could feel him shaking his head on one hand. On the other, she could also hear him laughing to himself. He wasn't quite sure what to think about that it seemed.
"All's well that ends well..." Alicia mused as she reverted to human form, leaving the beach behind her. Silently, she wished Submarimon and Rukamon a long and happy life together, and that their friendship would stay true to the end of time.
Hunt concluded
When it came to hunting for her spirits, she felt like she was bad luck to them. She'd go about this one all on her own, regardless of what awaited her. She'd managed to heal sufficiently to be discharged from the hospital, and she had a lot of lost time to make up. The other spirit totem had been patiently waiting for her for over a week now. She'd ignore the call no longer, for she was far over due when it came to collecting this one.
"Are you sure it is wise to pursue this one all on your own? This has not been a good idea the last few times." Sol commented worriedly. She could understand why. In every instance she could name a moment for when being alone would've spelled disaster for her. Still, she wasn't about ot put friends in harms way again if she didn't have to. Since it seemed there wasn't a time limit, if she ran into trouble she could bail and then call for help, after becoming aware of at least some of the dangers.
"I'm not budging on this one Sol, and you know it. We're doing this my way or the high way." Alicia returned, dashing acrossed the sands. Why was a Steel Spirit here of all places? This seemed more like it would fit, say, a Water Spirit. Oh well, the D-Scanner lead her here, and here is where she would search.
"Very well. I will relent on this matter. You are the leading force in this after all, I'm merely your advisor on this journey." Sol noted, falling silent. "I just hope you have something in mind for what you'll have to deal with." That certainly didn't inspire any confidence.
Alicia blinked and looked down at her D-Scanner. Then she looked out into the surf. "... No..." she muttered, eye twitching. Was it really hidden out at sea? That just wasn't fair. "That's just cruel... how am I supposed to go out there?"
"It's not too far. You'll likely be able to get in using Steeldramon to weigh yourself down. That form is also a bit bigger, increasing lung capacity." Sol offered helpfully, humming. It was an idea at least. And something Alicia was considering.
"Well, let's get out there then and be careful..." Alicia mused. "I cast off the rusted shell... Spirit Evolution!" The energy cocoon inherent of many evolutions surrounded her, before being coated in steel plates. Exploding out, Alicia's Human Fraction form was revealed once more, "Steeldramon!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, there little lady!" Someone called out from the surf. In fact, he'd spoken from underneath it, surfacing once he was done to reveal himself.
"You need a ride under the waves somewhere? Sorry, I just couldn't help but over hear you." The Submarimon continued, opening up the canopy. "I can tell you now you'll be in for a bad time normally. I'd be perfectly willing to help out." It seemed almost too convenient, for something to come up as a means of helping out.
"Kid, find another way..." Sol advised, narrowing his eyes at the Submarimon suspiciously. "There's something off about him." Alicia nodded in agreement to the assessment before sighing.
"We don't really have much of choice though..." She whispered back, walking over to the submarine Digimon. "You'll help?" She asked just to be sure, tilting her head. Not that she expected the answer to change, but perhaps she might get an idea of why it seemed so off.
"You know it little lady, just climb aboard and give me an idea where we're going." Submarimon answered, nodding a bit. Alicia still suspected him like Sol did, but they really didn't have any other options available to them. Alas, he had a really good poker face, she couldn't read him at all after the opening obvious 'I'm gonna back stab you later' moment the two had agreed was odd at best and devious at worst.
So she decided to have a back up plan available. Getting herself situated in the Submarimon's cockpit, she sighed to herself as the canopy started to close. Quietly, she formed a dagger and made a small scrape on the glass to weaken the canopy. If she had any idea of how she'd be backstabbed, she wanted to be able to smash the glass and get out. With Submarimon none the wiser to the sabotage of his canopy, he submerged with Alicia and followed her directions.
To say that Alicia was expecting a shrine of sorts to be waiting underneath the surf where the D-Scanner was leading the temporary duo was certainly a lie. It was a bit tough for Submarimon to squeeze his way past, but the aquatic digimon managed it somehow. "Real cool place huh? I always like skulking around in old ruins like this, see what around to be found. Never thought I'd actually be doing an intentional mini-treasure hunt for someone though!" Submarimon quipped, his short laugh filling the cockpit as Alicia smiled a bit.
"Yeah... Though, is it me or are there odd red lights going over you the deeper we go?" Alicia noted, having seen several almost scan her and Submarimon. It was an odd thing to be sure, and Sol wasn't talking about it, so maybe she was just seeing things?
"Eh what? What red lights are you talking about?" Submarimon replied a little too quickly. That struck the Steeldramon as odd. He seemed almost panicked that she had noticed. That did reinforce the fact that there was foul play going on though. She was certainly glad to have planned something in advance for it.
They went quiet again, but oddly enough despite the near constant scanning, nothing seemed to trigger to bar their path. Things were going almost too well. "We should be almost on top of it, Submarimon..." Alicia noted to the aquatic mon. He, in turn, flicked his lights up to a higher setting to help them see better in the dark waters.
"You sure about this miss? I'm not seeing anything too out of the ordinary. Is it possible that little device of yours is faulty?" Submarimon asked after a few seconds of sweeping his spotlights around. Indeed in the dingy place nothing seemed strange. Alicia herself began to doubt that they were in the right place. The D-Scanner wasn't exactly good when it came to elevation after all.
Wait... "Submarimon, focus at eleven o'clock and raise your spotlights to the ceiling!" Alicia called. The aquatic machine blinked but obeyed the order. It was just the thing they needed. Hanging by a rusty chain was the Spirit Totem. Alicia had only managed to spot it through a glint in the upper corner of her eye and a hunch that it wasn't just a trick of her mind.
"Alright, I'll grab it and then we can surface. Glad to be of assistance to you, miss." Submarimon chimed, swimming up carefully and biting the weak chain off. Carrying the totem, the submersible mon started to make his way back out of the shrine they'd discovered, sighing softly.
The sigh set Alicia on edge, so she carefully and quietly made another scratch in the canopy with the blade she made earlier when Submarimon was focused on squeezing between a pair of collapsed pillars again. The pressure of the water started to crack the glass and Alicia nodded to herself. It would be weak enough for her to punch through now if she had to.
Just in time too. Submarimon seemed to know his way around almost too well, finding the exit again in record time. Several meters away from the shore, though, the digimon shut off his propellers and came to a stop. "Is something wrong, Submarimon?" Alicia asked cautiously, tensing up her hand with the dagger.
"Yeah, I'm afraid so little miss... no hard feelings, kay?" Submarimon said, and suddenly the life support for his cockpit got shut off. Alicia's eyes went wide as she took a deep breath, holding it. "See... I'm kinda in a seri-" Alicia cut him off by smashing the weakened canopy open, causing Submarimon to yelp as glass shards were slammed into his soft cockpit body from the torrent of water. "Augh! W-What the!?"
The Steeldramon took the moment to swim out and send a chain to the totem that the Submarimon had let go in the heat of his injury, wrapping it up and pulling it towards herself. "W-Wait a minute!" Submarimon cried, eyes wide. There was no waiting though, Alicia loaded the spirit in her D-Scanner and began to swim to the surface.
"Bah! Useless tool, I give you one job and you manage to screw it up at the very last second!" A third arrival was heralded by the vicious snarl. A massive red serpent lashed out to grab Alicia, and the Steeldramon's eyes went wide. With a swipe of her claws, she managed to scar its face slightly, but that was the only thing she managed to accomplish. In an instant she was bound and near helpless, and getting dangerously close to having to worry about actually drowning.
"The saying really is true. 'If you want something done right, do it yourself'. Pathetic really Submarimon, that someone so weak was able to escape the trap I planned out for you. Didn't you want to save Rukamon...?" The revealed MegaSeadramon laughed as he started to constrict, squeezing the life out of Alicia. The Steeldramon flailed helplessly, as there was nothing she could do in this scenario. She'd never have a chance of activating her new Spirit in time.
"... Yeah, I do... But now you've gone too far MegaSeadramon! Oxygen Torpedo!" The Submarimon loosed a pair of compressed torpedos, which slammed into MegaSeadramon's coils. The serpent hissed angrily as Submarimon charged, scarring his body with the drill bit and forcing him to let go of Alicia. With the sudden change of heart, Submarimon grabbed the nearly unconscious metal dragon and rushed for the shoreline, breaching the surface early and practically tossing her back onto the sands.
"Get out of here little lady, and I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused you! I'll hold MegaSeadramon off as long as I can!" Submarimon called, turning to prepare to face his doom. He certainly didn't expect that the person he just tried back stabbing would even dare lift a finger to help him. People weren't that selfless.
"... Ever... flowing... Ever changing..." Alicia began, coughing. "My soul... is Steel... in its most... malleable form...! Beast Spirit Evolution!" The declaration made, Alicia made the slash against the digicode around her hand with the D-Scanner. Her form lost definition all at once, 'melting' into a floating orb of silvery fluid. Each limb burst out and formed one at a time, slamming down into the sands. The last one to form was her new head, and the liquid dragon reared back and roared her challenge. "Mercurialdramon!"
"E-Eh? What? Why...?" Submarimon sputtered, looking at the new dragon as she charged for the waters again. MegaSeadramon then breached the surface, howling in fury towards the two digimon that were now banding together. There was no more time for words between the unlikely duo.
"Shatter Fist!" Alicia called, ballooning up her arms at the cost of shrinking the rest of her body and raising her swollen hands high. They melded together and sprouted spikes, and the Mercurialdramon howled back as she swung down. MegaSeadramon only had a moment to look at the massive shadow descending upon him and gape before his face was smashed in. The impact of her hands against the water caused large waves to ripple out as she considered her options.
Instead of reeling her arms back in, the Mercurialdramon forced the rest of her body to flow over to it, causing her to dive in once more. Being made of liquid metal though, she had no fear of drowning this time, her new body either didn't need air or could simply strain what air it needed from the water around her.
"Why you little..." MegaSeadramon snarled as he regained his senses, swimming back up to meet Alicia. "Maelstrom!" The attack named, MegaSeadramon breathed a massive torrent of cryogenic power at the Mercurialdramon. His target was a slippery one in her new form though. Literally flowing with the waves, Alicia handily dodged the freezing blast with almost casual ease before thrusting her hand forward. Swelling it up again, she smashed MegaSeadramon into the seafloor this time with a ludicrously over sized fist, leaving the serpent groaning in pain.
"Why won't you just sit still and die!?" The fiendish serpent screeched as he lunged for Alicia. Wrapping her up again before she could react, the Ultimate level digimon attempted to constrict her again, snarling. It didn't seem to be having any effect this time though.
"... I'd move if I were you." Alicia warned as she started to condense herself into a ball again. MegaSeadramon just let out a questioning grunt before coiling himself further aroung the Mercurialdramon. Sighing, Alicia just shook her head. "Alright then. Fright Burst!" And then Alicia figuratively and literally exploded. Into a very spikey mass of solid steel to be exact, skewering MegaSeadramon in too many places to count. The serpent shrieked as Alicia recollected herself and shifted back to her default form.
"You... yooooou... I'll... remember this...!" MegaSeadramon snarled, starting to swim away weakly as his body was leaking data from every signficant injury. He was out of sight soon enough, sinking back into the depths. Hearing propellers running, Alicia turned to look at Submarimon, who had just arrived on the scene after getting over his shock at the turn of events.
"You really just... took him on...? Just like that...? Why?" Submarimon asked, stunned. He couldn't understand, he'd tried to suffocate her just a few seconds ago, and now she was taking his fight upon herself when the best course of action was to flee to safety and leave the aquatic mammal to his fate.
"Because I don't like it when family is used to blackmail someone. And aren't friends ust family we choose to meet in our lives? I don't think MegaSeadramon will be bothering anybody for a long time, so you go get Rukamon out from wherever he's locked up." Alicia answered, smiling and going ashore again. The Submarimon just nodded and swam off, going to find his dear friend.
"Well... I must say that was a brilliant way to turn things around. Seemed a bit too reliant on lucky moments though." Sol commented. Alicia could feel him shaking his head on one hand. On the other, she could also hear him laughing to himself. He wasn't quite sure what to think about that it seemed.
"All's well that ends well..." Alicia mused as she reverted to human form, leaving the beach behind her. Silently, she wished Submarimon and Rukamon a long and happy life together, and that their friendship would stay true to the end of time.
Hunt concluded
