MPC 53B: Home Invasion

MPC Number: 53B

MPC Name:  Crackdown In Shibuya

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That was Tadayoshi's only warning before Commandramon flipped the kitchen table onto its side in the direction of the front door. Then he pulled the boy down to the ground by his collar and refused to let go while he raised his rifle with his free paw and his eyes just over the cover. That was when the bang of the front door being bashed in by a battering ram alerted Yoshi to the fact that his home was being invaded, but he never could have predicted who was storming the house: the JSDF. No one else could have been shooting suppressed, automatic rifles at the table, for such things were much harder to acquire in Japan. Lucky for Commandramon, he was a professional. He slickly held his General's head down while, with one paw, shot his energy bullets in rapid succession at the doorway. "Bullet Burst!" Unlike those human weapons, his ammunition seemed to find no end.

The invading soldiers dropped one by one like the enemies in a shooter video game. Apparently, though, they were smart enough to come from more than one direction. "The back door!" Tadayoshi warned his partner just as he watched it swing open for more soldiers to charge through. Now the pair was surrounded; by the time Commandramon could flip directions, he was already staring at a dozen soldiers behind various cover with their guns raised.

"Drop the gun, or we drop you!" One of the soldiers demanded of the digimon. "You're under arrest!"

Commandramon just hissed. "Yoshi, cover your eyes and ears." The young man was smart enough to both obey and know exactly why he had to: Commandramon swiftly reached for his pack and extracted a small grenade so fast that it was impossible for a human to think to shoot in time.

That was why, by the time someone yelled, "Grenade!" and got everybody to duck, Commandramon was able to flick the switch on his device to explode-on-impact mode... and then smash it at his own feet. This was his Bangsmoke ability, and on detonation the grenade produced a blinding flash of light, a deafening crack even with Tadayoshi prepared, and instantly filled most of the lower floor with a thick, dark cloud of smoke.

Clearly, the General was in no position to run on his own after that; he needed a while to recover from the point-blank flashbang effect. So, Commandramon dragged the dazed boy behind him as he made for the front door, occasionally getting the drop on a soldier using his rifle's infared scope to see through smoke that he summoned with, "Precision Shot!" In the end, he successfully guided Yoshi outside the house, in front of which were parked a pair of armored personnel carriers.. and above which hovered a pair of attack helicopters.

"Subjects are loose! Repeat, subjects are loose! Breach was botched!" Someone chasing the pair from behind yelled to his radio.

By this point, Yoshi was only just un-loopy enough to notice, "Gotta move... too many."

As Commandramon pulled Yoshi down the street, the pair heard the pursuing helicopter pilot shout through a speaker, "Drop your weapon and get on the ground! You're under arrest!"

Commandramon wisely recognized, "We'll never escape with that contraption following us."

"Already... already on it." Tadayoshi weakly raised his Xros Loader. "Digi-fu-!" Before the process could be complete, bullets whizzed by his and his partner's head; it seemed the soldiers left from the house were catching up, and they had abandoned nonlethal force. So Commandramon pulled the boy behind a fence and started blindly shooting over it to cover his partner. Tadayoshi knew he had to be quick, so he rapidly asked, "Ready?" the dragonoid nodded with his finger squeezing the trigger. "Hagurumon, stand by!" Hagurumon came out of the Xros Loader obediently. "Digi-fuse!"

As spectacular a sight as watching a digifuse was, Tadayoshi had more important things to worry about, namely that there was no longer a digimon keeping the soldiers at bay. So he took off running down the sidewalk fast as he could. He thought he heard someone shout, "Don't let him get away!" but the angry CAW that followed made Yoshi know he was safe; there was now a much bigger, more dangerous target than himself to worry about.

To the helicopter pilot's credit, she recognized just what sort of combat Pteramon was made for by looking at him, so she wisely opened fire with the chainguns before the armored digimon could take off. These things actually harmed Pteramon and made him stumble backwards, but before he could be felled he successfully took off with such speed that the helicopter could never have kept up. Once he shot upwards above the chopper, it was over; the pilot tried her best to gain altitude and turn around, but she was only able to rotate halfway before Pteramon had looped in the air to acquire a better shot. As he activated the ability Spray and Pray, his belly opened up, and out from under it dropped a machine gun that immediately began peppering the attack helicopter. Unlike the chopper's rounds, his own cut through the copter's metal like it was fabric, causing the machine to fall and crash right in the middle of a suburban street.

After that, there was just no chance of continuing the chase. Many of the soldiers has been incapacitated, the chopper had been downed, and, worst of all, a public scene had been made. This was definitely going to be a black eye on someone's record.

Thankfully, this was a situation Yoshi and Commandramon had already anticipated and planned for. As expected, Yoshi made haste for the train station in an attempt to make it to the digital world. However, it seemed this move was itself anticipated; a squad was camped outside the elevator, and Tadayoshi was alone. He surrendered without a fight, but he'd only just been cuffed when Commandramon rounded a corner and dropped the squad with just one shot per enemy.

It seemed the pair only had a chance to reflect on the experience safely once they were aweigh on a Trailmon to Terminus. "I'm sorry about the human casualties, Yoshi," Commandramon tried to console his General, "But you've said it yourself: nothing is more important than our goal."

"The only thing you should be sorry for is them," the boy coldly retorted, "But, then again, they chose to follow orders instead of doing what was right. All our actions have consequences - and we've said from the beginning we'll be the consequences if we have to. Human, digimon - anyone who threatens the better world has to be neutralized with minimum necessary force, and that's what you did."

This was a mood Commandramon had seen his General in before. It concerned him; the dragonoid himself was a soldier first and foremost, but the coldness with which Yoshi could regard his enemies was truly something worrisome. Still, there were more pressing matters at hand. "No human can get through those doors without a digivice. That means the entire digital world is our safe house, but there's no telling when you can go back."

"Hmm." It seemed there was little else to say, so the pair finally took the moment to relax and breathe again.

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