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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Dec 1, 2018 9:52:23 GMT
Chenjin seemed to be looking a little upset here, so Luke decided to be more gentle to him. "Hey, don't feel bad, you just slipped up is all, we all do that from time to time" he said, patting his arm. "Also are you okay from that person earlier? If she gives you trouble and a teacher isn't there, well, we'll do our best to help you out" he gave a stern look at Bellamy. "And we won't set fire to her, Bellamy".
"Yeesh, you're never gonna let me hear the end of that eh?" Bellamy sighed, then chuckled at Akemi and Anzu's continuing ruse. Then Tadayoshi walked over to them to speak more about their mutual jobs.
"Yeah, the hobby store..." Colin scratched the back of his head, supposing that was a great cover for talking about AEGIS in school come to think of it. "Heh, same to you". Then Tadayoshi showed his Xros Loader with the digimon within visible. Colin's eyes widened. "Wow... that's a lot of digimon" he remarked.
"Huh, you're not kidding there" Luke remarked, looking as well as Bellamy, greeting them back. "So you're an Xros General, Tadayoshi? Wow, that's a lot of digimon to get to know".
Bellamy gave a little giggle of triumph as it was his supposedly sensible partner and brother that said the "D-word" before he did. Luke realized this a moment later and facepalmed. Colin chuckled, well, seemed that horse had bolted. But Bellamy supposed now was as good a time as any to spill the beans.
"Welp, now that we're alone, suppose we'd better be polite and come clean with you all" Bellamy said, grinning at the group. First he looked at Chenjin. "Diginoir? Yeah, that ain't French" he then looked at Tadayoshi. "You're workin' for Sophie, you know about us too", he turned to Johan. "You seem in the know too", then he turned to Akemi and Anzu. "Lastly, I can tell you're one of us too, Anzu. So then. I think it'd be impolite to formally introduce ourselves while we're in our little disguises, so, let's do this properly".
"Bellamy are you sure?" Luke asked, a little nervous. "I mean... what if someone sees?"
"We're alone on the roof behind the air conditioning vents, only aircraft could see us, Luke" Bellamy retorted. "Besides, it'll only be for a few seconds. Plus nobody really took that close attention in the park when that soccer ball knocked mine out, so, it's only right to do".
Luke supposed he was right there. "Okay, but only for a few moments" he answered, then the brothers reached up to the their ears and flipped something, which completely transformed them.
As disguised humans, they stood about average height for 15 year olds. But a moment later, they flickered and instantly shrunk down to two creatures only about three and a half feet tall. One was a rabbit-like digimon, covered with red fur, with purple on his back, purple stripes on his arms and legs, and white on his belly, dressed in nothing but a blue scarf. And the second was a slightly taller cat-demon creature, covered in purple fur, other than white on his face and belly, with a yellow grinning face on his chest, and wore just a red scarf and gloves.
"We normally go by our human legal names in our holosuits, but our real names are Bellamy the Impmon and Luke the Elecmon" Bellamy explained, his tail flicking. "And we're Colin's twin digimon partners. Nice to meet ya guys".
Colin meanwhile was looking wildly in all directions, hoping there wasn't a hidden camera or a nearby drone that could see them.
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Post by Johan Walker on Dec 2, 2018 2:02:18 GMT
Johan was impressed by the variety of Digimon that chose to say hello. The first voice he heard reminded him of Dokamon in a way, he was sure that those two would get along. He then heard three different voices that each said a word in a single sentence, which kind of confused him in a way.
The third greeter, the group of MetalKoromons, confused him the most. They didn't even speak; just a few words came up on the Xros Loader. Johan chuckled nervously at that part, not exactly knowing what to say.
Then the purple haired kid, Bellamy, began to just give up with the act. He looked over at Johan, claiming that he seemed to be in the know. "In the know about what, exactly?" he asked, still trying to play dumb.
"Wait, what's happening?" Chenjin asked, as he still thought that Johan didn't know about Digimon yet. Suddenly, Luke and Bellamy took off their human disguises and were now standing in their true forms. Chenjin was mentally freaking out, since he still thought that Johan was just a regular human. He looked to the American boy in fear, but all that fear left him with the following words:
"Heh, I was wondering which of you three were Digimon." Johan then held up his D-3 Digivice. "Dokamon, realize!" A light shot out of the D-3 and hit the ground, forming into a blue robot-like creature with a very not-so-friendly look on his face. That did not mean that he was not chivalrous in his greeting, however.
"So you're all Tamers or Digimon? What a small world. I am Dokamon, Johan's partner."
"You were a Tamer this whole time?!" Chenjin asked Johan in complete shock. And just like that, his own holosuit powered down as well, revealing a white mammalian creature with a red hat and a yellow magnifying glass on his belly. "My name is Sir Chenjin, and I'm from Whitewater!"
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Dec 2, 2018 22:13:09 GMT
"This hiding spot will become rather claustrophobic if we come out, too" was how Commandramon and company all politely declined the taste of fresh air. "Pleasure nonetheless. General, they're an Elecmon and Impmon."
"Yeah, you guys have it easy with hiding," the General agreed, "One digimon? Two? Piece of cake. Try 17... and counting. Technically I'm not a Tamer, Dokamon." Yoshi glanced over in Chenjin's direction as he spoke, "And as a certain someone said, we're also employed by AEGIS. Gotta admit, though, I'm kinda surprised you're here. School, I mean. Like... my team stays with me because there's nowhere to hide them but, like... don't you guys have anything better to do? I'm guessing your family knows about you if you actually got yourselves registered as students and given your cover story, so hiding you would be way easier."
When an answer might have been given, though, the Missimon all interjected, "Oh-"
"-my-"
"-Yggdrasil-"
"-he's-"
"-so-"
"-cute!" All six of them flew out of the Xros loader then and took a position at each of Luke's ears, two taking his back, and two taking his stomach, all petting him and scratching him like a cat.
"Whoa, hey, guys, you can't just- I'm sorry!"
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Post by Akemi & Anzu on Dec 5, 2018 4:56:57 GMT
Things got a touch more interesting as Luke and Bellamy revealed that they were, in fact, Digimon. Anzu was a little surprised by that. Or the presence of other Digimon (aside from the blundering kid) in the school. "...Huh." The girl noted as she too was enveloped by a glowing light to reveal a Tsukaimon.
...Right as everyone else revealed themselves as well as the Missimon. Those things terrified Anzu for some reason. Was it the speech? Their assault on Luke? Maybe the latter. The former she could deal with just fine. She was eeriely silent. Akemi took note of this, and...shrugged.
"Apology accepted. Uh...Quite a coincidence we've got going here, huh?"
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Dec 8, 2018 8:53:45 GMT
In truth, it was just Bellamy's good sense of smell (that came with being part-Beast digimon) that he suspected that Johan was associated with digimon. He hadn't come up with any solid evidence yet though, and was relieved when his hunch turned out to be confirmed by Johan revealing his own partner digimon, a Dokamon.
"Ahh, thought you might have one of us on ya" Bellamy said, smiling. Then Chenjin powered down his own holosuit, revealing his form as a Gatchmon. When he said his name was Sir Chenjin, Bellamy had to put his paw to his mouth to prevent himself bursting out laughing. Luke smiled a little too, and Colin turned his chuckle into a cough. But Luke at least composed himself enough to speak politely.
"Nice to meet you, Dokamon and Chenjin" he said, while Bellamy had turned around, shaking a little to stop himself bursting out with giggles. Colin meanwhile turned to the fellow AEGIS agent.
"Yeah... the main reason I'm here is my agreement with my parents" Colin explained. "They're okay with me having digimon partners, they even like the guys a lot, but, they made me promise that going on digimon business won't affect my education in any way. So... study by day, digital world stuff by evening. I have to admit though, the time difference is a lifesaver". He would have never been able to go on digital world adventures without the 7-hours there is 1-hour here difference.
"Yeah, no kidding" Luke agreed. Then the Missimon appeared and all descended on Luke, and they started petting him. "H-hey! Cut it out!" he whined, but eventually submitted, being reduced to laying on his back as they all petted him, his leg shaking. He giggled so much that Bellamy was finally given an excuse to burst out in laughter too, at both "Sir Chenjin" and the sight of his brother suffering this treatment.
"Guys, quiet down..." Colin advised. Then Anzu revealed that she was a Tsukaimon. Huh. Having classmates turn into digimon was quite the experience for Colin.
"Yeah, sure is a coincidence... or maybe it's because we might've known all along? Deep down I mean?" he explained. Then the bell rang, indicating that their next classes would start soon. "Ahh, right. Uh... let's see here..." he pulled out his timetable. "We have Theatre next. What about you guys?" Being in this grade meant that Colin's choices of classes had expanded significantly, so he'd understand if others were different.
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Post by Johan Walker on Dec 15, 2018 1:25:34 GMT
Chenjin picked up on the reactions to his name, but he did not get it. What was so funny? All he did was say his name, which was Sir Chenjin. Why was that such a laugh to them? "My name isn't funny!" He cried.
Dokamon was impressed by the way that Luke had introduced himself. "It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Luke," he told the Elecmon with a small smile. Before more could be said, all the Missimon had flown out of Tadayoshi's Xros Loader and flew right to Luke, each of them petting him in multiple areas. Johan, Dokamon and Chenjin all watched this event play out and sweatdropped as they did.
"I do not wish for that," Dokamon said as he took a few steps back, with Chenjin doing the same and agreeing. Just then the bell began to ring, signalling that the next class was about to start. Colin noted that they had theater next. Sadly, neither Johan nor Chenjin did.
"Sorry, but Algebra is my next class," Johan said as Dokamon went back into the Digivice.
"And mine is Japanese History," Chenjin said as he activated his holosuit. "But maybe we'll see each other sometime again?"
And with that, Johan and Chenjin said their goodbyes to the group and headed to their individual classes.
[Exit Thread]
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Dec 15, 2018 2:11:15 GMT
"Guys? Guys I think that's enough."
"But-"
"-he's-"
"-just-"
"-so-"
"-freakin'-"
"-fluffy!"
"Well he also said stop, so knock it off!" Tadayoshi stepped forward trying to pry each individual Missimon off of their poor, trapped victim, but he could only seem to handle one at a time. When he tried to get another one, the first would escape and resume the attack. Only when the bell rang did Tadayoshi finally get the justification he needed to forcibly confine all six Missimon in his Xros Loader at once. "Ru- I mean, Luke, I'm so sorry. Here." Tadayoshi extended a hand and offered to help the apparent Elecmon up after delivering a formal apology bow. Whether he took it or not, that didn't change his answer to Colin's question: "I'm supposed to have my advanced physics class right now." That wasn't the end of it, though. Tadayoshi gulped and became a little sheepish as he confessed, "But I couldn't get in this semester, and they put me in theater class instead. Father was... displeased. I don't actually know anything about acting either, really." Trying to defuse his own stress, though, he awkwardly smiled and wondered out loud, "Maybe we should take bets on how many more digimon and aware people are in the class?"
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Post by Akemi & Anzu on Dec 17, 2018 23:40:52 GMT
"I mean, when you really think about it, the question you should be asking yourselves is is there such a thing as too much fluff? I personally don't think there is, but that's something to ponder on for the rest of the day." Anzu mumbled, a bit mesmerized at the sight of a high schooler...
Trying to chase down six hyperactive Missimon at once. Akemi, meanwhile, made a noise best described as a pffft. "...Oh, hey, we got theater next too!" That's a funny coincidence. Anzu reactivated her holosuit and tapped her chin. "I'm betting there's at least two more tamers and digimon in the class that we're unaware of. At most? Six."
Yes, she was seriously betting on this.
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Dec 29, 2018 3:51:58 GMT
Deciding that Bellamy laughing at Chenjin wasn't being taken well, Colin decided to gently explain. "Sorry about that. Just in English, your name sounds a bit like "Search Engine", which apparently Bells here finds funny" he explained.
"Sorry about that, pal, that's rude of me" Bellamy apologized.
Luke meanwhile accepted Tadayoshi's hand in pulling him back to his feet. "Ah that's okay, Colin's dad does it to me all the time, so I'm used to it... not so much in school though". He was kind of glad that Lantis wasn't around to see that. So, it seemed Akemi, Anzu and Tadayoshi also had theater, while Johan and Chenjin did not. "Aw, okay. Well, hopefully we'll see you guys again next Geography class?" Bellamy asked. "Or Japanese Language, everyone's gotta take that last I heard".The Impmon and Elecmon turned their holosuits back on, the twins regaining their human appearances. "Also I bet two other than us" Bellamy said. "Luke?""I don't gamble" Luke replied. Bellamy scoffed, but supposed that was his choice to make. So, the group made their way down the stairs from the roof garden and down toward the theater level. Colin was always impressed with just how much they could fit into this building. The first floor was the gym level, while the second floor was devoted to the performing arts. While yes, the theater couldn't be that big since technically this was a skyscraper building, it was still well provisioned. Colin had mainly signed up for theater because it seemed to be something that Bellamy liked. He wondered what the teacher would be like. Colin and his partners entered, seeing a few others present in the mostly empty theater. The seats were currently folded up at the sides of the room, giving them a wide area to work with on the hardwood floor. "Good MORNING, Class!" the teacher said, making Colin jump at just how loud he was. There he saw a rather eccentric looking individual on the stage, wearing a white shirt with a frilly collar and cuffs, black tights, green vest, and had a large blond hairstyle that looked half like Lantis's mane, half like Tina Turner. That Colin knew who that was was due to his father mainly. "...is he the digimon?" Bellamy wondered out loud. "I said GOOD MORNING!" the teacher repeated, tapping his foot impatiently. "Good morning, Sensei..." Colin and his partners said hesitantly. The teacher gave an impatient 'tsk' and performed a running ballet leap off the stage, landing dramatically. "No no no! You must learn to enunciate properly here!" he said. "If you expect to perform like that, just mumbling out your lines you'll be cancelled on your first night! But never fear, that's why I, Nawabe-Sensei will educate you in this!"Hoo boy... Colin had a feeling that this class might be more work than he thought. |
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Dec 29, 2018 23:53:46 GMT
"Don't worry, Luke. They will be better behaved the rest of the day," was both a reassurance that Luke wouldn't be 'ambushed' again and a command to the Missimon for the same.
This sort of setup was extremely alien to Tadayoshi, something he'd only really seen in the media but not in person. He seemed confused as to whether he should unfold a chair for himself as well as where he was supposed to put it. The net result was that he was left standing there very awkward and very confused as this fireball of a teacher barged in and made his grand entrance. "G-good morning, Sensei!" Tadayoshi was one of very few in the room who remembered his manners and greeted the man the first time, but he could hardly hear himself because the startle caused him to drop his metal folding chair, which made a loud metallic clang on impact.
Yoshi's shirt momentarily revealed his loader again as he scrambled to pick it up, and before he covered it perhaps an onlooker might have noticed Commandramon, in response to the noise, pointing his gun outside the screen and peering around. Maybe he couldn't use an ability from in there, but having his weapon up was his habit, though the shirt promptly blocked his vision soon enough. Too polite to get chatty during class, Tadayoshi tried his best to politely observe and listen instead of making all of the remarks he thought of, but maybe others were able to hear his loud, audible gulp.
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Post by Akemi & Anzu on Jan 2, 2019 15:47:13 GMT
"...An unfortunate choice of title, I see..." Anzu mumbled. As everyone said their goodbyes to Johan and Chenjin, Akemi found herself in a setup she had, in fact, been in before--she had this class on a regular basis. It was always refreshing to see the theater teacher's eccentricity in a world full of boring folks.
Maybe that was why she gelled so well with other people. "Good morning, Nawabe-sensei!" Akemi seemed psyched. Something that was unusual for the girl! At least that's what Anzu thought. She just looked like a fish out of water. Like someone who got robbed of the spotlight by some shithead literal fruit samurai dinosaur.
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Jan 10, 2019 8:37:17 GMT
Nawabe-Sensei gave an irritable click of his tongue as he saw Tadayoshi with the metal chair. "There will be no seating in my class!" he declared, the acoustics of the small theatre room making it echo. "Upon the stage, more oft than not, you will be remaining standing, up to an hour if need be. You will practice this, yes!"
The flamboyant man noticed Tadayoshi's digivice fall to the floor, but dismissed it as simply some model of phone. He also saw Commandramon. "I hope that's a screensaver and not a little video game you intend to play whilst I'm not looking!" he said. "Needless to say, I forbid the use of phones in my classes!"
"But... about sitting down what if we really need to sit down to take a break... Nawabe-Sensei?" Luke asked, a little awkwardly. The teacher did a dramatic twirl before looking at him.
"Then do so on the floor!" was the reply. "True speech is done whilst standing, to be seated hampers your delivery! Another thing I will teach you. Even if you are not destined for the theatre, the skills I teach you will propel you forward through any career. To scientists - your ability to present your findings. To politicians, your ability to campaign in the electorate and then stand in the legislature and speak. Even to retail workers, your ability to convince and make a sale!"
Bellamy gave a grin, he thought that this was likely going to be a class that he was going to enjoy.
"Now then! For our first exercise..." Nawabe-Sensei paced around the room, making sure to make eye contact with every student there. "Your task is to speak your name, then your interest, then talk for 30 seconds, loudly and clearly, about that interest without repeating a single word, hesitating, or deviating from the subject! Starting with... you!" he pointed first at Bellamy. The holosuited Impmon was taken aback for a moment, then eagerly rose to the task.
"Yes, sensei! Bellamy James, interest: The Dragon King anime!" okay, now for the test. "This series is about the story of a hero called Sosuke-Bosuke, along with his companions Tomoko, Archibald and Lysanderoth, who betrays them later, their aim's about defeating villainous Dragon King while experiencing... series of-"
"Repetition! "Of!"" declared the teacher. "Not bad for a first attempt, however, Bellamy James! Now... you!" he then pointed to Tadayoshi. Next he intended to challenge Anzu.
OOC: The '30 seconds' can simply be 50 words.
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Post by Tadayoshi Teppei and Silence on Jan 11, 2019 2:00:35 GMT
Tadayoshi felt so awkward about his mistake with the chair, both bringing it and dropping it, that he froze like a deer in headlights (after recovering his Loader again, that was). Quite frankly, his back pocket was proving to be a very impractical place to hide such a large, bulky, and therefore conspicuous variant of the digivice, so after this scolding he internally resolved to find a better, equally-accessible place on his person to keep it. The teacher, however, also showed his hand by scolding Tadayoshi over a 'video game' without any pause or sign of recognition. It seemed he was ignorant about the rabbit, fox, and flying hamster in his classroom (and those were just the ones Tadayoshi knew about.) "No, Sensei! Never during class, sensei!" At least Tadayoshi didn't have to lie about that, though he did feel ashamed about having to tell the truth all the same. At some point, Tadayoshi tried to quietly whisper into the other humans' ears, "You Tamers with your smaller digivices are lucky."
Tadayoshi thought to himself, What an odd teaching style. Does this man actually have a college education? Deception is definitely a good skill to have for any occupation, but... Well, despite Tadayoshi's doubts about this course's merits, he at least was ready to give it the old college try. He even complied with the first exercise, although he was extremely stiff as his turn came. He snapped to proper attention, arms tight at his sides and ankles together as he projected an improvised personal speech. "Sensei! Tadayoshi Teppei, interest-" at this point he hesitated, but it sounded earlier like that didn't count until after he was talking about said interest. So, unless interrupted, he went on, "-Strategy games! My father never used to allow me to play video games, but he did approve of activities that were believed to sharpen cognitive acumen and improve decision making. For that reason I became very good at-" Yoshi almost repeated the word "games." "-challenges such as western chess, shogi, go, plus Risk, which all piqued interest in studies including historical military strategy." At this point Tadayoshi's nerves were making it harder for him tor each into his extensive vocabulary, so he prayed he had said enough to pass; that was all he had.
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Post by Akemi & Anzu on Jan 17, 2019 14:47:42 GMT
Eccentric as the teacher was, he did provide a rather interesting challenge--After Tadayoshi had been tested appropriately (and probably called out for repeating games), Anzu stepped up and cleared her throat.
"Nakayama Anzu: Interest would be this anime that my friend's got entitled Mobile Fighter G Gundam. It is set in a bleak future where Earth's so trashed that most everyone lives in space upon colonies and those on the surface have to fight in some whacky tournament. Also, there's giant robots and people screaming attack names at the top of their lungs and people doing things with the help of Kyoji."
Did she pass the test or not? Who knows. Akemi just gave a side-eye to her partner. Who said she could rummage through her case full of anime?
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Post by Colin, Luke & Bellamy on Jan 29, 2019 7:01:05 GMT
"Eh... sorry" was all Colin could whisper in reply to Tadayoshi about the state of his Xros loader.
Nawabe-sensei paid attention to Tadayoshi carefully as he spoke, pacing in front of the class as he listened. He didn't interrupt like he did with Bellamy, but, as the sentence went on, he began to smile at the effort made.
"Not bad at all..." he remarked. "There were repetitions, however. Three cases of 'to', and two cases of 'that'. However, you made effort elsewhere in your sentences. You were paying attention to what you were saying. That is good!"
Bellamy pouted a little that he was halted from completing his speech just for saying 'of' twice. But if he was honest, he felt like he was actually learning stuff in this class. While this was theatre, he felt like he was learning other things, and enjoying it too. Argh, how was this possible?!
Nawabe-sensei then turned to Anzu for her speech. He tutted a little here. "Three 'in's, three 'and's, three 'the's, two 'people's, two 'of's. I understand that they're simple bridging words that one most commonly uses in sentences, but, think as you speak. Rearrange the words to rise to the challenge!"
He would do this with the rest of the class for the rest of the first half, and for the second, he would task them with something a little easier. He gave them all copies of a script of a theatrical piece, and tasked them with speaking each line as best as they could. All while standing. While doing so, he would tutor them on their delivery. Before long, the bell rang once more.
"Your homework this week..." Nawabe sensei began, running across the room making ballet leaps and flourishes. "Read the entire play aloud so that you may practice your delivery! I shall see you all next week!" he finished, before disappearing backstage.
"Well... that was... somethin'" Bellamy remarked, as he, Luke and Colin gathered near Akemi, Anzu and Tadayoshi. "So, what's next on our timetable, Luke?"
"It's... oh! That's it" Luke remarked, blinking. "Afternoon is a double free period. Huh. Lucky us I guess... but that's gonna be full of work as the year goes on though".
"Eh, we can hightail it to the digital world for assignments and stuff" Bellamy waved his hand.
Well, supposing that was technically the end of the school day for them, Colin turned to the others. "How about you? You got free periods too? Or are yours at other times of the week?". While they seemed lucky, Colin and his partners had no such luck of a double free period of any other day of the week, meaning from tomorrow they'd be occupied all the way until Friday afternoon.
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