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The Other Side of Crazy (Dante/DracNos, Ask for Invite)
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Post by Dante on Aug 14, 2016 23:21:56 GMT
DracNos's playstyle may seem unusual, but it was working. Dante's wide open player got the ball, and he easily sinks the basket. It wasn't long until Dante's drive and DracNos's playstyle was getting the best of Wormmon's All Star team. After a hard fought game, Wormmon's team was defeated by a few points. "Argh! ALL THE RAGE!" Wormmon tosses the controller down and starts banging on the coffee table with his short little legs. "Serves you right, ya dirty cheater!"
Drac suggests playing a fighting game. Dante puts in Generic Arcade Fighter 4 Thousand. "You guys can play. I'm going to get something to eat." Dante gets up and goes to the kitchen to microwave some frozen burritos. Wormmon chooses a half naked woman as his first fighter. "You're going down this time! All hail the power of jiggle physics!" Sure enough, the game developers had painstakingly rendered the female characters to have very jiggly breasts and butts. The Worm King is indeed pleased.
While the gang was getting in some late morning gaming, Shirou was up to his usual tricks. Shirou types away on his keyboard, programming his latest creation. However, today Shirou couldn't seem to focus clearly. His mind was preoccupied with the way Judith acted the night before. Shirou did his best to push it out of his mind, but he couldn't shake it off. Fantasies of Judith kept running through his head. Shirou's Digimon partner Keramon notices something is wrong.
"01000001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101111 01101011 01100001 01111001" "What? Ya, I'm alright. Just preoccupied with something." Shirou tries to focus on his work, but gets fed up and decides to take a break. He closes his browsers and gets up to grab a bottle of wine. "Just need to take a break for now. I'll finish up later." Shirou pours a glass, and takes a sip. He gets a sinister idea. (Thinking) "It's time I make my move."
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Post by DracNos on Aug 15, 2016 5:34:42 GMT
After the game, and the new one was plugged in, he raised an eye on his palm, "She does't look like a fighter," He said, tilting his head, searching through the characters. "Hey, is there any vampire characters?" He asked, deciding to choose the character he could relate to the most. He read each of their profiles, eventually discovering his vampire character, disregarding everything else, he turned towards the bug digimon, "Jiggle physics? Doesn't sound like a reliable fighting mechanic, I hope I can steal health, or something, you know, like a real vampire? Or at least, like me." He concluded, as his character bent himself unnaturally, rotating his torso 180 and peering his head, upside down towards the other character. "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" he laughed, as his character contorted himself, "Wow, This guy's awesome! Who could fight this guy!? He moves better than most digimon I've seen!" HE exclaimed, honestly impressed.
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Post by Dante on Aug 16, 2016 5:20:12 GMT
Wormmon watches as DracNos contorts his body. "Ahck! Don't do that, it's creeping me out!" Lucky for Drac, he found a vampire character that he can relate to. Does that mean Wormmon can relate to half naked women? Who knows? Wormmon is as confusing as he is malicious. The game loads the stage, some overly elaborate, vaguely Chinese, vaguely Japanese dragon temple, as generic Eastern music plays. Wormmon uses every strategy in the cheap player's handbook. Crouching and spamming low kicks, using complicated button combinations he had practiced and memorized, and when all else failed, the time tested, button mashing. DracNos was in for a tough fight.
Dante takes a sip of coffee and sets the mug down on the counter. It wasn't even noon, and yet it was so sunny outside, the house was really heating up. Judith opens the freezer and takes out a popsicle to cool off. "So, still frustrated you lost our karaoke challenge?" "No. I don't really care that much." "Oh, right. All that trash talking, and look who all of a sudden doesn't care?" Dante knew Judith wasn't going to stop teasing him about it until she has an outlet for her bragging rights. "Ughh, fine. My sister is a better singer than me." "Thank you." "But I'm better than you at a lot of things. Taekwondo, fencing, video games, Basketball." "Yes, well, how much money are you going to make with all of your, so important, skills?" "Hey! I don't need a career any more. I could have Stingmon rob a bank, and we would be set for life!"
Judith takes a hue bite off her popsicle, and sets it down on a plate. "Oh sure, the laws don't apply to lazy Dante! I would make a much better Tamer than you! At least I wouldn't use my partner for personal gain." "Like you wouldn't! I bet you've already asked Wormmon to steal a few things for you. The other day at the mall, I caught him stealing earrings." "So?" "He doesn't have any ears!" Dante and Judith get up in each other's faces, both so angry they are grinding their teeth. Dante's eye starts to twitch. Judith tightens her fist and gets ready to punch her brother. "I've put up with your bad attitude long enough! Why don't you do something productive today for once?!" "Well why don't you, get your skinny fat ass off the couch and find yourself a real man, instead of chasing around the biggest jerks, that are willing to look at that misshapen ape skeleton that you call a body?!"
Judith decks Dante right in the face. Dante licks his lips and wipes some blood off with his hand. "It's on, sister." Dante grabs Judith and lifts her up over his shoulder. He rams her into the fridge, shaking loose several magnets. Judith gets up and lunges towards Dante, grabbing him by the throat. The two roll around on the ground, exchanging hits. Judith scratches Dante on the neck. She opens up a cabinet door, and slams it shut on Dante's head. "Can you guys keep it down in there?! I'm fighting DracNos right now!"
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Post by DracNos on Aug 16, 2016 7:06:44 GMT
"Well, not really directly fighting, I mean, if we were fighting, I doubt this house would have a roof." He giggled, tilting his head at Wormmon's peculiar movements, as his opponent crouched in the corner, he started making his character crouch many times in a row, eventually, he realized his character could teleport, and he then proceeded to warp left and right, repeatedly, occasionally tossing a bat projectile towards the crouching woman, "Hey, This may not be the best time, but what's it like, havin' stumps for arms? I mean, I started life with fingers. Only fingers. So, what's it like for you, I mean, do you have a nub assigned to each button?" He asked, his hands each memorizing the patterns, so he fell into the pattern of two to four teleport, then a projectile. He repeated this many times, hearing the crashing. "What's that? I can't see anything," He asked, as he was currently only loading information from the the controller, effectively blind in any other way.
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Post by Dante on Aug 17, 2016 5:39:09 GMT
Wormmon had the upper hand, until DracNos figured out how to teleport. "Whoah! I didn't know that guy could do that." Wormmon almost always sticks to the easiest difficulty in the game, and the computer opponents never used advanced moves at so low of difficulty. DracNos asked how Wormmon played the game with such stubby little legs. "Oh, I admit it's tough to get by without fingers and thumbs. Opening doors is way so much easier when I'm wearing my holosuit. But with video games, I can hit the trigger buttons with my second highest legs. Hey, I bet with all these legs, I could give great massages to pretty ladies." Wormmon dodges to avoid a projectile attack, then executes a grapple move. His fighter hits a rolling armbar, taking DracNos' vampire to the ground and snapping his arm. "Woo! Sexy, and dangerous."
Dante and Judith continue grappling on the floor. The brawl ends when Judith's cell phone starts ringing. She gets up and drops a chunk full of Dante's hair out of her hand. Dante stands up and dusts off his clothes. "It's Rob! What's going on, Rob? Calm down Rob, I can't understand you. Rob?! Where are you at?" Judith hangs up the phone. "Something's happened to Rob!"
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Post by DracNos on Aug 17, 2016 6:40:05 GMT
"Holo-what?" He asked, not sure what he meant by that word "holosuit," Before his character was caught, of course, despite having his arm broken, he got back up, a portion of health bit off, but his arm was still functional, something DracNos couldn't help but giggle at the logic of these games. "Aw, he's fine, besides, I think he breaks his arms just to fight! Watch," He explained, as his character fired a bat, planting Wormmon's character in place as he made a sudden dash forwards, catching her in a special grab attack, where he slammed his elbow into her neck, his forearm cracking, swinging around her neck, he caught his wrist, which was wrapping around her neck, backwards, followed by a sweep and a reverse RKO move, slamming her into the ground, dealing a decent chunk of damage. At the end of the attack, he teleported to his feet, at the opposite side of the screen. "Man! Wouldn't that be awesome to do, in real life!?" He said, absolutely ecstatic over the awesomeness that just occurred. "Man! I wonder what else he can do?" He asked, bouncing in his seat, completely enchanted by this character.
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Post by Dante on Aug 18, 2016 22:33:59 GMT
DracNos returned the favor with his own special grapple attack, taking Wormmon's bimbo to the ground in spectacular fashion. The move reduces Wormmon's health bar to zero, and DracNos wins the first fight. "What?! Aww..." Wormmon is disappointed he lost the first fight. They return to the character selection screen. "Who should I pick this time? Oh what about this guy?" Wormmon chooses an impossibly overweight sumo wrestler. "Oh ya, the extreme sumo is gonna drop it down on ya!" The Worm King is confident that this fighter will finally give him the edge in winning a game.
Dante and Judith go back and forth over what happened to Rob. "What are you talking about?! Where is he?!" "He said that he's being held captive somewhere down town." "Well then how are we suppose to find him? It's not like he has a Digimon or a digivice that we can track." "I don't know! But we can't just let him fend for himself." "We were going to hang out with Shirou today!" "That will have to wait. We need to find Rob."
Suddenly a magical attack flies through the kitchen and knocks over some pots and pans. Dante looks around and sees a dark figure sitting of the window seal. "Hello, Dante. Long time no see." Dante takes a step closer, and recognizes Wizardmon, the unpredictable sorcerer always sticking his nose in their business. "Wizardmon?! What the hell are you doing here?" "Relax, Dante. If I wanted to harm you, I wouldn't reveal myself." Wizardmon hops down from the window and walks over to the counter. He picks up what's left of Judith's melted popsicle and eats the rest, then licks the plate. "Mmm, oh these are good."
"So, what are you doing here?" "Well I was scouting your house last night, as I often do, and I noticed something strange. Rob goes out to get something from his car, and two masked goons jump out from the bushes and snatch him. They threw him in the back of a white van." "That's terrible! So if we find the white van, we might just locate Rob." "But how are we going to know if it's the van or not? I doubt Wizardmon wrote down the license plate." "Alas, I did not. But I can tell you that while Rob was being dragged, he kicked the back passenger side of the van. If you see a white van with dents, you will know you are close."
Judith is overjoyed. "Yes, now we can find Rob! Thank you so much, Wizardmon!" "But why help us out? How do we know this is not just another trick?" "Dante, I've told you before. My master wants me to keep tabs on your activity, but I am still on your side. Besides, I don't think it's right for someone else to be kidnapping my targets." Wizardmon opens the freezer and takes out a box of popsicles. He reaches in and grabs about 6 of them and puts the box back. "We'll call it even. Ta-ta, young Palladinos." Wizardmon levitates up to the window and jumps out. "Well, that was, abnormal." "Do you really think Wizardmon is watching our house all the time?" "Probably more often than not. He's been sticking his nose into our business far too often. But at least he's helping us out. Let's go find Rob."
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Post by DracNos on Aug 28, 2016 6:09:08 GMT
"Hey-o! Magic Man!" Drac called, waving at the champion level, as he left. He examined Wormmon's new choice, "Now THAT looks like a fighter! Is there like status things? Like, does he have a higher defense than others?" He asked, curious as to what kind of differences these characters had amongst themselves. "So... wait. Someone's missing?" He asked, recalling the conversation he overheard from them, he flipped himself on top of the couch, "Did I hear "Adventure" Correctly?" He asked, abandoning the controller as he stood on the couch, striking an adventurous pose, "Because if I did, I do believe we have a friend to rescue!" He stated, Leaping up to Dante and Judith. He glanced at Judith, "I don't believe we met. Or I forgot, either way, what's your name?" He asked, extending his arm.
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Post by Dante on Aug 30, 2016 5:03:10 GMT
DracNos and Wormmon's game was interrupted by the disappearance of their friend Rob. This wasn't the first time he had gotten into some trouble, and with no Digimon partner to bail him out of jams, it was Dante and the others' responsibility to save his sorry butt. DracNos walks up to Judith and extends his hand. "I'm Judith, Dante's sister. It's my job to make sure Dante takes care of himself and doesn't sit around the house playing video games all day." Judith shakes Drac's hand, a little creeped out about touching the eye. "Right, because watching reality TV shows all day is more mature than playing video games."
Wormmon turns off the video game console and crawls over to the kitchen. "Come on, you guys. Let's go save Rob!" The gang goes outside and hops in Rob's low rider. Fortunately he dropped his car keys during the struggle. Rob's car was blocking Dante's car in the driveway, and how often to you get to drive around town in a low rider? Dante starts the car, and loud hip hop music starts blasting from the speakers. Dante quickly turns the stereo down. They take off and head downtown in search of the dented white van.
The gang drives around town, but no sign of the van yet. "Dante! Can we stop for some cheeseburgers?" "Fine, but we have to make it quick. Who knows what Rob is going through right now." Dante pulls in to the drive through of a burger joint. Wormmon orders a crazy amount of food. "Do you have any idea how many cheeseburgers you've had this year? We're not made of money." "We can always go on a crime spree. Then we could afford our own burger joint." "That's horrible! You can't go around breaking the law just because you're a Digimon." "Try and stop me, blondie! Muhuhahaha!" They order the food, pick it up at the window, and continue the search around town. Wormmon unwraps a cheeseburger and stuffs it in Dante's mouth while he's driving. "Mmm, that's good. Pass me some fries."
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Post by DracNos on Aug 30, 2016 7:10:30 GMT
"I've had my fill." DracNos said, examining the Cheeseburgers, he had absorbed a good amount of combat data from the video game, regardless, he swiped one of Wormmon's burgers and stuffed it in his wide smile with virtually no effort, "Hmm, surprisingly cheesy. You know, for a Cheeseburger" He commented, after wiping his face, he hopped up to the front of the car, crouching in the space between the driver and passenger seats. "sooo, who are we saving?" He asked, just remembering he had no details on their target, "Aah, doesn't matter, he said, hopping back to the back seat, turning to Wormmon, "Hey, you got yourself to the Ultimate level, right? What did it feel like? Could you describe it?" He asked, recalling the spider-like form the digimon took while fighting that crazy lady-dragon, "...What about Champion form? You know, Bug-man?" He asked, remembering the humanoid form Wormmon used during one of his favorite food fights.
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Post by Dante on Sept 1, 2016 6:45:59 GMT
The gang continues driving around in search of the alleged white van. Was Wizardmon up to another trick? He was surprisingly helpful, for just the payoff of a few popsicles. DracNos asks what Wormmon feels like when he digivolves. "Let's see, Ultimate feels really weird. I've got all these long legs, and everything looks smaller, but at least I got my webs. Plus, I have breasts! When I'm Stingmon, it feels a lot different because I've only got two arms and two legs, but I can fly around really fast. And I've got my energy cannon! Blowing things up comes in handy. When I'm Stingmon, I wanna kick whosever's butt is standing in my way." Judith tickles Wormmon's belly. "But you're not as cute as you are now. The whole caterpillar look has really grown on me." "I think he's more of a caterpillar/spider hybrid. But his name is Wormmon. Go figure. What's like being a Dracmon?"
After filling up on cheeseburgers, the gang finally spies a white van in the parking lot of a hotel. "There's one! Let's check for the dents." Dante pulls into the parking lot and looks at the side of the van. "Yep, that's gotta be it. Rob must be held up inside the hotel." Dante parks the car, and they get ready to go inside the hotel. Although, after eating all that greasy food, standing up feels lousy right now.
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Post by DracNos on Sept 1, 2016 8:30:56 GMT
"Well, before I tell you that. Me digivolving into THIS form was pretty odd, and rough, at first, I was... dull. I ran, I found data I ate it, rinse repeat, you know? Then I got to this world, the Human World, where I freaked out, dug my own grave, died, and became an undead digimon. Suddenly, I could think! I could process information, I could choose what I wanted, who I wanted to be! It was all very exciting, really, was digivolving kind of like that for you? You know, changing your perspective on the world around you?" He asked, again, "as for being a Dracmon, it is pretty cool, I mean, I can turn into a swarm of bats, ghost bats, at that, and... doing that is... odd, because suddenly I'm a bat surrounded by other bats who are basically clones of myself, we think the same, move the same, and speak in unison, and stealing the data from others, is pretty fun, I'll admit, if you're curious to what it's like having eyes on my hands, it's hard to describe, because they've always been there, ever since I started munching data." He explained, lost in thought, finding himself staring at his own face with his palms. "Depth perception's kind of screwed over for me, as well," he continued, bringing his eyes to where they would be if he was a human, blinking a few times, he brought his claws back down. "I've got permanent pants, so that's useful on colder nights," he said, gesturing to his furry lower half, "Oh! And this little guy!" He realized, grabbing his wiry tail, tapping the arrowhead point with his finger. "Hmm? We're here?" He started, snapping out of his own rambling.
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Post by Dante on Sept 2, 2016 9:22:39 GMT
DracNos' origin story was even more creepy than Wormmon thought. "Dug your own grave and died?! Well the end result is pretty cool. I wish I could turn into a swarm of bats, but I guess it would have to be flying spiders. I didn't really choose what I digivolve into. It just feels like I've always been that way in whatever form I'm in. What feels weird is these holosuits! Humans are so weak." The gang walks into the hotel. Dante whispers, "Okay, make sure not to draw attention to us. Everyone act casual, but not too casual." Dante goes up to the front desk.
"Hello, we're looking for a friend of ours. He wears a Lakers Basketball jersey and a black beanie." "Yes, I remember seeing him here last night. He was so intoxicated, two people had to carry him to his room. He's up in room 420." "Alright, thank you." Dante walks back over. "He's up on the 4th floor." "Lets take the stairs. I don't like elevators!" After walking up the stairs to the fourth floor, the gang looks around for Rob's room. "There it is. Room 420." Judith laughs a bit. "What's so funny?" "Nothing, nothing."
Wormmon walks up and starts pounding on the door. A large bulky goon opens the door. "Hiya! We're looking for Rob." "He's not here." Wormmon kicks the goon in the crotch and he drops to the floor. The gang walks into the room and sees Rob tied to a chair with duck tape over his mouth. Another goon is watching TV and eating candy from the very, very overpriced minibar. "Rob! What's going on here?!"
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Post by DracNos on Sept 3, 2016 0:04:22 GMT
The small virus-type neglected to wear a holosuit, since he never wore any before, and he looked human enough that people wouldn't speak up about how odd he looked. DracNos peered around the room, hand on his chin, "I'm not a professional, but I think he might be being held hostage," Drac said, pointing at the tape on the man's mouth, he then slipped up right beside the thug watching TV, "Ooh! I love this show!" He said, tilting his eyes towards the man, each eye staring at the goon, blinking separately each once, Before they both blinked in unison, as he turned back to the TV, snatching one of the minibars, eating wrapper and all. He leaned back, stretching, his tail accidentally poking the man in the thigh as he did so.
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Post by Dante on Sept 4, 2016 21:22:25 GMT
Amidst one of the most unusual hostage situations of all time, DracNos decided to kick back, watching TV and eating snacks. Can't say I blame him, but the rest of the group was still digesting all of those cheeseburgers. Dante recognizes the goon on the bed. "Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" "Ya, we used to work for Terriermon, before he built all those stupid bunny bots that put honest hard working goons like us out of a job." The concept of machines replacing workers is very deep, and now isn't the time to get all philosophical. They've got a kidnapping to deal with.
Wormmon walks over and yanks the tape off of Rob's mouth. "Rob, just what have you gotten yourself into this time?" "Oh man, it's so crazy! Hell have no fury like a woman scorned, am I right?" "Wait, what are you talking about?" The bathroom door opens up, and out walks a woman wearing a towel. Dante recognizes her right away as Raziya, the Tamer from Africa who occasionally shows up from time to time. "Raz?! What are you doing to Rob?" "Dante! What are you guys doing here?"
Everyone looks around at each other, both shocked and confused by this bizarre turn of events. Only DracNos appears calm and nonchalant. "I broke up with that crazy psycho bitch, so she sent these goons to abduct me last night." "You were hitting on anything with a pulse that looked good in a skimpy dress!" "I must say, I like this towel look you got going on. You were crazy for fooling around on her, Rob." "I had no idea Rob was one of your friends. Maybe I went a little crazy. I was just so upset, and wanted to teach him a lesson." "Well I'm glad we've got that settled. We will take Rob out of your hair, and make sure he doesn't trouble you any more."
Raziya stands in front of Rob, and the goons get up and stand next to her. "Oh no, this is a kidnapping after all. If you want Rob back, you're going to have to fight for him." "Are you serious? The Worm King already whomped your little flower princess Lilimon. Fighting isn't going to prove anything." Dante is referring to the time Dante and Raziya battled each other during the Nubar Desert Tournament. "Hmm, that may be true. But I'm not going to let Rob go without a fight." Would a Digimon battle break out right here at the hotel?
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