How to Make a Bad Day Worse (Tadashi)

"Baby Salamander!"

A jet of fire streaks through the air from somewhere along the shore, although it's not going to be enough to do more than tickle the Seadramon. Not to mention the elemental type disadvantage. There's a human on the beach, with four Digimon around him, eyes locked on the little girl and the sea serpent.

One is a tall knight with armor made from a dull black metal, numerous moving eyes set into said armor and long blades extending from the skull-like hands. Another is a little shorter, green, and highly reflective with a mirror for a face. And lipstick. The third looks like your typical RPG monster made of wood. And the fourth is some kind of tiny demon man with blazing red hair.


The human nudges the little demon man with a foot, speaking just loud enough to be heard over the splashing of the girl swimming, "Wh-what did you think that was g-going to achieve?" The imp considers for a moment, before shrugging and sticking its tongue out, keeping back from the water's edge, as if afraid it might melt upon contact with the liquid. "J-just get in there a-a-and help her,"

"In the water? Are you nuts?!"

The boy pulls out a bulky white cellphone-like device, a number of black symbols covering the plastic case. "Just r-roll with it. Flamemon, A-Arbormon, Mercurymon! Execute, Fusion Evolution!"


Three of the four Digimon suddenly sparkle and degenerate into sparkling orbs of light, sliding across the beach and merging into a single, much larger orb. It stretches out as the light slowly fades away to reveal a truly gigantic crocodile made of wood and metal. Boy, the things these kids are into these days. "Deckerdramon!"


It slides into the water without any further hastle, two missile pods on its back folding outwards to serve as buoyancy aids. It swims under the girl and rises up to float on the surface, hopefully scooping it up on its back between the two missile pods, now that they've moved out of the way. Its voice is deep and gravelly, "Are you alright, small human?"

The boy and the skull-knight can only watch from the shore for now.

Deckerdramon turns his head in the water slightly to face the shore, calling out loudly, "Your orders, my lord?". The human on the beach holds his hand out, thumb pointing downwards, which is apparently all that the metal crocodile needs to hear. The hatches on its missile pods iris open, "Crocodile Cannons!" The announcement is deafeningly loud, even over the sound of the missiles being launched. They streak through the air, peppering the Seadramon with dozens of tiny explosions until it finally collapses in the water, defeated and on the edge of reverting to a Digitama.

Deckerdramon swiftly moves back to the shore, reverting back into the three humanoid Digimon from earlier as soon as its back on dry land, and dropping Alice onto the warm sand. The boy comes running up the beach. He's about twice Alice's age, caucasian, and wearing a school uniform of some kind. He comes to a halt a few feet away and stoops down to look at her, "A-are you alright there?"

Tadashi breathes a sigh of relief. At least the beach is relatively warm, so the girl isn't likely to die of hypothermia or anything. He's not even sure you can get hypothermia here. "Stick c-close to F-Flamemon, he g-g-gives off a lot of h-heat," he indicates the little imp-like Digimon by his side.

The tall metal Digimon scoffs, "Besides the hot-air generated by his bluster, my lord?" Which earns him a sharp kick in the leg from Flamemon, of course (which he immediately regrets as he remembers that Mercurymon is made entirely of metal...). Tadashi stands back up, and gestures at the creepy knight, "Duskmon, g-go and make s-sure there aren't a-any nasty s-surprises nearby, please,". Tall, dark and creepy nods silently, before turning and starting to walk down the beach.

Tadashi offers the girl a hand, "C-come on, up you get. L-let's get a l-little further away f-from the water, hm? Th-then you can t-tell me what you're doing out h-here b-by yourself," He moves to sit a few dozen feet further inland. He can't even see the girl's partner Digimon. Maybe she's another one of those 'spirit wielders' he keeps running into. Sigh. He hopes not.

"D-Duskmon? Nah. He's a sweetheart," Tadashi pauses and rethinks his statement, "He's...like a kn-knight. He protects the innocent. He just l-l-looks a little scary, don't let it bother you,"

Flamemon remains close to the girl, uncharacteristically quiet as he keeps his eyes open for trouble. The other Digimon more-or-less disperse, wandering around the beach to find things to do while they let their master indulge himself with other peoples' problems again. Sigh.

"Oh! Your D-D-Digivice," Tadashi nods. He's seen a couple like that before, although never in such vivid colours. He holds out his own black and white Xros Loader covered in those odd tribal glyphs. "Mine's a little b-bigger. Hm. Well. Where's your partner D-Digimon?" Size queen.

There's a brief pause.

"Oop. Manners. Again. I'm T-Tadashi Tenkuji. You don't have to thank m-me, I enjoy helping other p-people,"

Tadashi snaps his fingers, "I've got it. You s-s-said you keep tumbling back into the Digital World? And y-you're following a blip on your Digivice? It's probably t-trying to lead you to your partner. Believe me, these th-th-things can be pretty insistent sometimes," He waggles his Xros Loader around for emphasis.

"If you want, we c-can come some of the way with you so you c-can try to resolve this a little. It's probably not g-going to go away until y-y-you do," Not the most consoling thing to say to a little girl, perhaps. "It'll be safer if we c-come with you for a while, though. And maybe you'll s-s-see not all Digimon are q-quite so scary,"

"I think p-people like to use the word 'destiny'," Tadashi shrugs. He'd never really subscribed to things like that, but...then here he was with seven out of ten Legendary Warriors needed to reform the Digital World's great hero, Susanoomon again. Hm.

"Okay. Let's see if we can f-f-figure out where your partner is, hm? L-lemme see your Digivice f-for a second. I can conjure up D-DarkTrailmon to carry us part of the way so we can ride in c-comfort," And be insanely lazy. On the other hand, it beat walking for miles and miles. Again. Boy, he really needs to stop forgetting he has a magical talking train that shoots lasers and stuff.

He holds out his hand for the Digivice, so he can try to divine a location or...at least a direction.

Tadashi looks down at the Digivice, pondering for a few moments, "...It's underwater. L-looks like it's a little ways from here. Mm. We can probably take DarkTrailmon m-m-m-most of the way, and then let Shawjamon or Ranamon scout around underwater a little..."

He seems to mostly be talking to himself, but raises his Digivice again as Duskmon walks back towards them, "D-Duskmon, Mercurymon. Execute! Fusion Evolution!" The two combine, as they did before, but...it isn't a giant crocodile like before. It's...a tail of sorts. Sleek and black with a collection of layered red rings on each side, and green stipes. A single black carriage is attached. "DaaaarkTrailmon. All aboard,"

The doors on the carriage open. Tadashi and Flamemon board without further comment, recalling Arbormon into the Xros Loader with a flash of light. The inside of shades of black and red with comfortable leather benches and tables to sit at. Tadashi drops into one and waits for Alice. "Don't worry, it d-doesn't bite,"