Lawless Game (Closed)

"It is not as though you're a paragon of comedy yourself." An alien and distinctly male voice rang out. How Vemmon had found his (her?) way here was a story for another time, but this seedy city was strangely PERFECT for him to skulk around, with Mao's consent or not.

Footsteps clattered as the purple alien stared at what was unfolding before him.

...Holy shit, is that Dash...? It is not. Dash is a different Gazimon, I presume. Plus, he's far too skilled to allow a mere -fox- to do that to him.

"Don't pursue a career in comedy. You'll likely choke." These were pretty bold words for someone who had just stumbled into this like it was no big deal, really.

So... this was Tenebrous.

Colin had been reluctant to visit here, especially from the horrors that his Impmon partner Bellamy had suffered in Old Terminus. While Colin knew of what happened only by word, the sheer terror in Bellamy's face as he told of what had happened lingered for a long time on him.

He had seen true death down there. He had almost suffered the fate he feared the most - death by drowning. It was only their new friend Dio that had prevented that. And had he, his partner Luke, and their friend Carlos had been seconds late in rescuing them, they too would have suffered true death.

That Bellamy was so petrified coming down this way that he would only travel on Colin's back, well, that seemed like it would be the arrangement. Neither Colin or Luke judged him poorly for it, it seemed that would be it.

Thankfully, in this trek through Old Terminus, none of the misfortunes of earlier repeated themselves. And so, they soon made their way to the entrance of the city beyond Old Terminus - Tenebrous.

In his new role as an AEGIS agent, and as the one with both experience of the digital world and enough power to help him hold his own in unknown areas, Colin was asked if he wanted to volunteer to explore this place. He agreed to do so, on condition he'd act as a freelancer. To this, his elder sister Sophie agreed.

And so, the trio entered this intriguing underground civilization. Of course, the native digimon viewed them warily, some even blinking with confusion at the sight of a weird furry Impmon riding a human's back, but Colin paid no attention to them.

It was information about this place that Colin sought after. If they were threatened, only then would he defend himself. But strange and suspicious looks were not threats, so he did not retaliate.

Soon, though, they would embark upon a curious scene. A strange fox digimon seeming to apprehend a male Gazimon (which was much to Bellamy's relief as his daughter was also a Gazimon); also in the vicinity was a strange purple digimon that none of the trio had ever seen before. And lastly, a silver Dorumon.

Given that Colin was confused and Luke was trying to make out the situation, it was Bellamy, now glad to be rid of Old Terminus and its horrors and here in this new city to find out its mysteries who spoke first.

"I agree with silverfluff here" he said, jumping off Colin's back and trying to look cool, standing in his regular outfit of a cross-belt around his waist and right shoulder, holding in place a pauldron of leather armor displaying a red heart over a starburst - his crest. He nodded at the Dorumon in agreement. "Wanna... share what's happenin' here?" he asked in general.

...Does that explain why she's acting like a creep?

Now you're just being rude.

"Don't think it matters--that guy's paid in dignity and asphyxiation either way." The one-eyed alien slowly turned his gaze towards the newcomers. A silver Dorumon (strange, he knew), and...an Elecmon, an Impmon, and some human with red eyes. Huh, he was feeling a little bit of deja vu on that one.

"So basically...How do the humans put it? Shittalk, get stropped? Talk shit, get hit?" The alien put a hand to his chin. That was the real question to be asking. "Hey, greasefur, which one is it?" Vemmon asked of the Gazimon, only now remembering he was kind of choking on his words.

"...Oh. Oops."

The Gazimon's yelling had attracted not only a small crowd, but apparently one of the cities protectors as a shadow fell over the group. If the Tactimon that loomed over them eyeing them all with sharp gold eyes from behind his cracked face plate could ever be termed as such. Still his partner had sunk her heart and soul into this place and he was loath to let it come to ruin. 




"Is there a problem here?" He questioned in a low growl with a tone that made it all too clear there had better be no such thing. His narrow eyes flickering over the gathered crowd mentally assessing their individual threat levels and assuring himself the Gazimon pinned to the wall was not one of his associates. Perhaps employed by one of them, but certainly not a member he knew by name. Unlike his Tamer Cloak was hardly a bleeding heart when it came to those in trouble. Then again had they truly expected as outsiders to come to the den of thieves and not run into some form of trouble? It was well known that Tenebrous while small protected it's own, but outsiders while typically treated cordially were fair game if they strayed from the advised paths. Of course it seemed the Gazimon had bitten off a bit more then he could chew when it came to his intended mark.

What delightful acquaintances she was meeting today! An unexpected social gathering, but a welcome one for the fox! Alien friend here was a bit of a funny one... and she did like the Dorumon's style of justice, but it was perhaps a bit too on the nose for her tastes. She was still trying to get a read on those two fluffy boys and their tamer, but all in due time. "Hmm. Nah, it doesn't really say a message. Maybe I could take one or two fingers though... Gazimon claws could make a delightful necklace ... A nicely poetic punishment for a thief ~" she mused, offering a shrug to the human boy and Elecmon... clearly the goodie-six-shoes of this little party they had going. "Oh, I was just going to teach him a lesson. Why, imagine if he tried mugging someone worse? What could happen if he met a relentless killer?"

Tamamizu giggled as she gazed back at the Gazimon, he gulping awkwardly. Yeah. What if?

It did appear that their little gathering had drawn attention from passerby Digimon... It made sense. Violence was prone to drawing out the curious when it was not directed at them, and one particular individual had definitely had their attention picqued by their little rendezvous... A Tactimon, one that practically exuded a menacing aura with their mere presence. Enough to even cause Tamamizu to falter, for even just a few seconds before her chipper attitude returned.

"Oh nothing important tall, dark, and handsome. Just a silly woman who was just defending herself from a mean thief." she spoke to the lone Mega, dropping the Gazimon unceremoniously on the ground as she turned to face him. She was a fickle and odd-motived creature, but she knew when to pay respect to those with power when it was necessary.

The Gazimon grasped at his sore neck, finally having a chance to breathe properly as he managed to weakly get up, pointing a claw at this psycho fox. Okay sure he was a thief, but this chick? This chick was dangerous... he practically had his life flash before his eyes earlier! "You kidding me?! This bitch tried to fuckin strangle me to death!" he yelped, eyeing everyone... from that shitty alien and the big Mega level here.

"Choke, darling. I tried to choke you. Strangling is very different." the Renamon X softly muttered at the Gazimon before turning to Cloak, bowing slightly. "I'm just a simple host of an apothecary I am hoping to setup here in this lovely city. Unfortunately, this rude little boy thought it wise to try and shake me down... Why, I didn't know what he would have done to me! Maybe he would have killed and loaded me?"

"Bullshit." the Gazimon muttered, sorely rubbing his neck from where the Renamon X grabbed him prior.

Alpha did think it was quite good idea to be punished by losing an entire arm for doing something Gazimon definitely shouldn't have but after thinking a bit alongside with what weird fox lady said it did make somewhat sense. Alpha nodded slightly scratching his head and shrugging "Maybe it is a bit too much for the first time, but i think i would make sense to do it if one doesn't learn from the first mistake. There is a saying. "Even a donkey doesn't hit his head to the same spot twice." I think it fits the bill quite well don't you think?" Alpha shivered right after saying it as the mega level digimon suddenly appeared as if from thin air, making him shudder as he did have a quite sensitive sense of danger and this guy made it yell nonstop. 

Alpha took a deep breathe in and calmed down seeing that the Tactimon wasn't going to do anything right away. "Shouldn't be a problem, sir. Just a little thief messing indeed with a wrong person, which obviously was a huge mistake he did. He also seemingly did not want to pay for his mistake and instead pulled out the victim card from his filthy mind i suppose." Alpha looked a bit disgusted with the Gazimon, who was the one who was wrong act like he was the victim before he sighed and shook his head only to look at Tactimon wondering what he would do in this situation. "Is it safe to assume you are some kind of guard in this place, sir?" Alpha was trying to be as respectful as he could not to get killed for being careless.

Luke was quite alarmed by the digimon's suggestion. "Well... to be frank, if you wanted to teach him a lesson, maybe not take something that can't be returned?" he asked, still hoping he could convince them to not be quite so barbaric of this? Removing the Gazimon's fingers, that was still too extreme for his liking. And he seemed glad that the strange purple alien digimon agreed with him on the arm.

Colin was still uncertain of what he should say here, given he knew nothing of the laws of this city, but Bellamy kinda wanted to know the other side of the story too. "Why did ya steal from her?" he asked the grey digimon directly. Once, across many incarnations ago, he was a little shit like that, so, he wanted to know if this was an act of innocent but stupid desparation, or something of a more sinister thing.

That apparently this digimon was an apothecarist made Luke a little more sympathetic as well, if Gazimon had been stealing ingredients for things like healing potions and antidotes then he'd have less objection for him being punished for it, but still, the brutal methods voiced made him ill at ease.

Then their attentions turned to the Tactimon. He gave a somewhat vague answer that Bellamy took as confirmation that he was an arm of the law here, so the Impmon would make note not to screw around too much here. At least for Colin and Luke's sake, none of them wanted to make a bad first impression down here.

None of Colin or his partners had anything to object to what Tactimon offered in the ways of justice to the apothecarist fox digimon.

However, when the Tactimon mentioned places that might be of interest, that did make all three of them interested. "A market district, eh?" Bellamy asked, rubbing his white furred chin. He liked the sound of that. They did have rather a lot in the way of bits on their journey after all.

Luke meanwhile liked the idea of meeting up with the Business Council a bit more. "If we arrange a meeting, maybe we can introduce ourselves?" he asked his partner and brother, by now thinking the situation with the thief wasn't their problem anymore. "After all, some digimon might be worried that AEGIS would be the same kind of interventionalists as DATS, and we don't wanna have that misunderstandi-" he realized he had said this at normal speaking volume, realizing he might have made a little bit of an error of speaking about that so carelessly. Still, he finished with an "-ng" and hoped little more attention would be put to that.

"Well, if that's all settled..." Colin began, realizing he knew nobody currently present here. "My name's Colin, these are my partners Luke and Bellamy. We're here on our first visit to Tenebrous, like Bells said, so, heya" he finished with a careful kind of wave.