[Plot] A Golden Week to Remember [Group B]

Viktor's mind was clear, his thoughts were on this battle and he was expecting tricks, perhaps she would teleport or give another ear piercing cry. But transparency? Surely she knew the foolishness of this? Data was data, transparent or not and the D-reaper's tar wold affect her all the same. But... he would let her figure that on her own. She was still occupying space.

As the demoness phased through his blade, Viktor was lined up to impale his wolf ally. Or... he would have if wasn't planning for this trickery. The fox pulled his blade to the outside, sending it clear from his ally as he brought it back around. She might have been semi-invisible, but she didn't understand the Tar from the Red Mode affected data. Transparent or otherwise. Viktor would push away just after, letting Iko regain his bearings. But... as the Demoness taunted, Iko simply turned his back and headed to what Viktor assumed was his partners. Explaining she had three choices. As soon as Iko finished and turned, he would finally speak to the Demoness directly;

"Christ, just die already."

Viktor next and only retort was him aiming his weapon; training it on LadyDevimon's movements before bringing it up and around, with a single, short stroke, that created a solo symbol. It spun in place then approached the Demoness in an expeditious manner! She might have been transparent, but this was still explosive and would affect her, even if his polearm could not. He was baffled why she was stalling for time, given that once the humans formed their response it was essentially game over for her. They might threaten Viktor, but even in all this chaos they would know who was fighting for them. Maybe she thought she could take them? Perhaps she was so fool hardy in her actions that she truly believed this would end in her favor. So believing that the humans were weak that she wouldn't end up dead or incarcerated. Perhaps she was so radical in her beliefs that it didn't matter to her.

Or... maybe she was just an idiot.
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One by one, Agent Tiger recognized the tamers and digimon she had met before and those she was seeing for the first time. She was glad to see Alan and Levi present, those were two that she felt she could really trust. And Cion was here as well. The rest, she only knew by word of mouth or not at all. Toki, he was a spirit wielder that Agent Maria had interviewed and helped DATS learn about spirit wielders. The rest, Tiger and Jiro did not know.

Then, Tiger listened to Maria's briefing. Initial combat was caused by three digimon that had fused into MetalGreymon, but it seemed they were now neutral. However, further damage had been caused by the arrival of four provocateurs. The black-haired woman looked at those in question. "I see. That's a similar story to what I encountered in the Entertainment District." she replied to her fellow agent.

But what she was saying about Cion... Tiger could hardly believe it. This digimon apparently goading the provocateur digimon into action? When they had a human hostage? Surely not.

"Agent Maria, please call your partners off Cion. I don't want her to be attacked." Tiger said to her colleague. She thought all of this was a mistake, but, she still had to trust in Maria's judgement. If Cion had been acting out of line here to such a degree that Maria would approve of attacks on her, she thought this was well out of control and needed to be defused immediately. She would then speak to the digimon.

"Cion, I like you, but tonight I have to go by what my superiors tell me." the DATS agent told the lavender-grey beast digimon. "They told me to assist my comrade Agent Maria, and it seems that your actions over the course of this night have caused her to distrust you to the point that she thinks you're an enemy. The best thing you can do here? Return to the digital world. I can create a portal and send you back just like last time, you'll be safe and sound and we can pretend all of these unpleasantries never happened."

She then gave a sigh, wishing she could light up a cigarette, but she had been told not to when on duty. This kind of stress never did well with her.

"So please. Return home or stand down. And I promise no harm will come to you." she looked at Maria with pleading eyes, hoping she would spare her.

Then Matadrmon made his screaming declaration. Agent Tiger cringed with guilt. Once again, it was old DATS that had caused all this destruction. They had hurt this digimon and he was seeking his revenge. And it seemed he used a powerful ability to make this a 1v1 duel, between himself and Toki.

Still though, after that display, Tiger had no intention on letting this one go, not after what she heard he had done and was intending to do. With that, she raised her digivice, a teal glowing energy glowing around her.

"Digisoul... Full Charge!" she cried, letting the energy flow through her before she jammed her palm on her device, which displayed the words "Perfect Evolution." then shone the light on her partner.

"Coredramon digivolve to...!" Jiro cried, the blue dragon transforming so that he gained weapons and accoutrements that increased his battle effectiveness by an incredible amount. Orbs appeared, hovering between his claws. A giant spear appeared on his back. His bulkiness increased considerably. And in the end, he appeared as a very threatening figure.

"...Wingdramon." he finished. As the evolution ended, he turned to face Matadrmon.

Before he would attack, Tiger turned her iC-digivice to the flamboyant demon digimon to determine his movements and strategy. From what she could determine, he was aiming the entirety of is power at Toki. However, she remained hopeful that Jiro's power could penetrate this phenomenon.

"Jiro, disable him." Agent Tiger ordered. And Jiro complied. His wings glowed green, then with swishing motions, he sent two green blades of energy at Matadrmon. They would not cause any physical damage, but, they would in fact disrupt his data for a short time, rendering him unable to use any of his known attacks, his data so jumbled he wouldn't even be able to remember the name of his attacks as he was struck. And since Jiro's attack would do no damage, he was unaffected by Matadrmon's field effect.

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Tiger evolves Jiro to Wingdramon.

Jiro uses Mana Wings on Matadrmon.

Mana Wings - Jiro's wings glow green, then he beats them forward, creating two powerful blades of energy that drain attacking energy from the target. For 1 turn, they will be rendered unable to use named abilities. [Cooldown: 3 turns]

Constructive criticism? At this point it already gone beyond the time for constructive criticism. Maria exhaled and recomposed herself. She need to focus on task at hand... Which is... She scanned for the Matadrmon... The next point of action would be... somehow boost either Toki or debuff the Digimon himself huh...

"Ciel, attend to Akiyama-san," meanwhile, the agent looked at Cion "...That action could've caused us even more damage. Attacking the ring... is it? There are counter mechanism there, and you want to attack it? Honoring Agent Tiger's request, I shall not attack you anymore, but at this point I began to question your mindset. First you thought that it's a good idea to keep egging on the terrorist, causing them to unleash high powered wide area attack... Alright, that's acceptable, people can make mistakes and especially in battle they can lose temper... still tolerable...

...Then what part even 'focusing their attention at you'? He got a hostage, he wanted to be heard, perhaps a sense of superiority, who knows... but you instead egged him again... asking him to duel you in Digital World... at which point was it focusing their attention at you? All you're doing is to encourage him to off the reporter... Because he got nothing lose. He doesn't fear death, why would he fear that? He just want to inflict as much damage as possible in real world, and you encouraged it with your egging. Have you ever truly strategies your moves or are you just letting your emotions flow like that? If you just want to play hero, please go somewhere else, preferably your own world. This is critical situation, not fantasy novel."

Jiro's debuff... passed through the ring of fire without actual repercussion. Matadrmon was going to attack Toki with an attack of his own, aiming for cross counter, but Jiro's silencing debuff actually paralyzed his technique, and causes him unable to react accordingly. Toki's attack launched him to the other side of the ring, burning him severely. No shriek, no shout of pain, just a Matadrmon who hunched and seem ready to attack once more. The mechanism that was made to prevent his preys from running away now used on him... ironic. Still, there are some fight in those eyes.

At this point, Ciel has finished with her prayers and send it to Toki, healing him while at the same time cutting his cooldowns by two turns.

Lady Devimon cackled. What's this, someone's retreating? How nice, how nice. Should she thank him? The excitement of living another day seem to made the Lady Devimon more spirited. She dodged the attack sent by Viktor, albeit truthfully, a bit of it managed to peel her skin, more than just superficial wound considering the flow of data that came out from the place of contact, but still superficial compared to the burn she suffered, and the stab to the stomach back then. "How about neither? I'll be taking my leave, boys! Oh I won't die, foxy boy! Not with all those attack of yours anyway! Perhaps next time keep focusing on killing me instead rather than being frozen by my alluring look? I'd give you two kiss goodbye, but looks like this is not the time! Now, Darkness Wave Var II!!"

She sent her attack toward Viktor and the Metal Greymon that tried to aim for her. The blast from the Metal Greymon X's cannon unfortunately was only enough to counter the swarm of bats she released at him, but not enough to hit her ascending figure... If there are no action done, the Digimon would successfully escape next turn as she opened a portal above her.

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Battle Log:
Sistermon Ciel uses Flowing Soul at Toki
Sistermon Ciel prays momentarily, then draws forth a great healing light around herself or 1 ally for major damage as well as reducing their cooldowns by 2, or up to 3 allies for moderate damage and reducing their cooldowns by 1. [Cooldown: 3 turns]

Matadrmon tried to attack, but Jiro's debuff stopped him from executing his attack. Toki's attack brutally hits him and launched him to the other side, where the ring burned him. He's taking major damage.

Lady Devimon is damaged by Viktor's attack, but decided to run anyway. She used Darkness Wave variation II on Metal Greymon X and Viktor.
Darkness Wave Var II:
A smokescreen, a batscreen even? It's meant to be nondamaging attack that prevented the enemy to accurately attacks Lady Devimon, thus most likely wasting their attack. one turn duration, three turns cooldown.

Something was off, Viktor didn't observe any onlookers or witnesses. No police. But most concerning was the lack of JDF or American forces. Considering how fast they responded to much less problems, they would at least be setting a perimeter. But there was none, only the DATS agents on site. If they weren't responding with small arms, it meant there was another option on the table:

Ordnance.

Viktor cursed as he only shook his head at the Demoness, then leaned to move in for a final barrage. She was an excellent bluffer, but the Fox was no fool. She was hurting. While he briefly surmised that an American ship was likely lining up a strike, or JDF was lining some sort of attack, the Demoness had all of his attention. But perhaps it wasn't the kind she wanted. Normally he would have let her flee, as it was little to no effect on him. But this LadyDevimon was truly a problem.

Viktor specialized in problem solving.

As she launched her attack, Viktor watched her movements. To her, it would appear that the Fox was consumed by this odd smog. At least at first. But very quickly she would see that familiar lithe figure of the DemiKajunemon break through the smoke, rubbing the blade of the weapon as it began to glow softly. Viktor took a deep breath as the world came to a stop. He began taking in the account of his momentum, her momentum, the trajectory of his polearm, it's weight, and the regular gravitational pull of the Earth. All in a matter of milliseconds. With a soft grunt, he brought his fingers up and took aim, throwing the sharpened spear not at her, but rather towards her portal.

Even if she noticed him setting up, despite it's sheer speed, her current path would be her last, should she continue it. Even if he missed, he was hot on her tail and would likely follow her through the portal!

The Fox was willing to chase her to end this, which wasn't normally his MO, but sometimes drastic enemies need drastic moves.












The Pen is Mightier: Viktor coats the blade with the writing from the weapon, increasing it’s sharpness and making it much more lethal to armored targets. It also will stick, burning to it’s target. [2] Post cool down.

Levi opened his eyes.

Did this new power of mine... help anyone? he pondered, though not for very long, as he realized that he had no way of knowing. His eyes had been closed, after all, possibly for dramatic effect, rather than necessity. What he did manage to see once he had finished his healing spell (or so he assumed it was, in lieu of a definite answer,) was that the combatant he had sworn had been almost finished was now fleeing upwards. The following is a series of thoughts and actions, which, while unclear to Levi, who would only be experiencing a sudden feeling, would later be explained as thus:

Crap! What kind of precedent are we setting if one of the actual villains gets away while those champions, or rather, that ultimate, gets to be at DATS's mercy? They'll be pissed, I'll be pissed, DATS'll be pissed... and that, especially, is something to be avoided. How do I stop this?

The Magnamon's first instinct told him the best way to stop an airborne enemy with a lead was to throw something, but what? In the immediate area, there was nothing convenient, nothing that would do anything significant. However, this was a new form. He could be able to do anything, for all he knew. Clasping absolutely nothing in his hands, he took aim and made an exaggerated throwing motion, as if pitching a baseball, and upon release of the imaginary ball, the draconic warrior would notice that the ball was as real as could be.

BANG!

It was not a baseball, but rather, a sphere of concentrated, solidified, golden light sailing through the air towards LadyDevimon at a speed astonishing even to him. With no time to revel in shock, the moment he saw he had successfully launched an attack, he followed after it himself, intending to catch the fleeing devil using the jet propulsion built into his armor.

Ah... I suppose I can will flight to work, too...

A moment too late, Levi noticed that Viktor had had a very similar idea, with somewhat dissimilar intention. Even so, Levi would charge on to intercept. On some feeling, he had decided he needed to keep LadyDevimon on this side of the portal, for capture, or arrest, or whatever one would call it, and with DATS after her, it would make them considerably easier to bargain with if he was the one to do it.

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Levi launches a SPHERICAL attack at LadyDevimon and charges through the air to grab hold of her if she falls, or take her off course if she doesn't.

It's Spherical! - Magnamon fires a sphere of light at a target. Apart from being a glowing ball of light, it is similar to a cannonball.

Part of her is extremely tired from this. There’s not even an energy in her brain at the moment to seriously listen to this Digimon’s drivel… but to be honest, Maria just want to cease this sort of ego dead on its track, no matter how useless it is. The flame behind them died as it looked like the victor of the battle has been decided.

“I shall be as patronizing as I want and I can do so. This is our jurisdiction in case you forgot. This is Real World, not Digital World, and as such, it’s my duty to stop beings with power fantasies, be it humans or Digimons to not cause more than enough damage. Yes, that includes you. If you don’t want to be patronized then perhaps rethink your actions?

You’re also a ‘mere perfect stage’ as you put it at the moment in case you forgot. All Digimon’s conjuration are not perfect, but surely you understand that to force your way through the trap will only harm Mr. Akiyama. Is that also part of your plan? Is your plan also includes the first time damage, or the possibilities that the opponent goes directly aim to end the hostage’s life?

Unlike you, we only have one life… one, not more. If we’re killed that’s the end of us.

Have you ever stop and think the consequence of mouthing off, and taunting the terrorists? Wide area of attack, does that sound familiar to you? It hits everyone, not just you. Is that part of your so called plan? Have you stopped and tell everyone else? Or are you thinking that they should just follow you for whatever ‘seniority’ you have?”

After exhaling an exasperated sigh for the last time, Maria delivered her conclusion to Cion. “...None of these matter to you isn’t it? Not the humans, not your ‘allies’, not DATS. You don’t even try to work together with the rest.It’s clear that you just want to show off your abilities and the world should just revolves around you. You have clearly painted yourself in that way to me. An arrogant being who think she’s perfect, but the tru th is absolutely otherwise. I have nothing else to address to you.”

The conclusion of the fight was clear. Toki won. His attack has charred the Matadrmon, and his life will soon forfeit… But at what cost? Surely if his madness isn’t stopped, then there will be a second time for this. The flamboyant dancer vampire also is aware of is. Its data slowly wafts away from its body. Its bond slowly breaking, and it’s about to turn into Digitama.

“...absorb… me… there is…. Nothing… left… for me… My brother… never returned… my fury… will never ends… My hatred… my vengeance… it will keep tormenting me… in… next… life… child of man… if you’re truly just… then you should take both… my fury… and my sadness… And remember… that atrocities that you… humans… made… must… end…”

What happened to Lady Devimon? Viktor’s vision was still clouded by the bat, but even if it missed the demoness herself, it hits the portal, causing it to explode. Lady Devimon shrieked, the explosion caught her off guard. The portal closed, but the explosion caused her to plummet and Levi’s attack to miss her completely… he himself won’t though, had he not stopped by Jiro. The dragon’s debuff landed and clearly she’s caught soon after. Knowing that she’s unable to fight, Lady Devimon just clicked her tongue and let herself be caught. There’s no longer any other way to fight this. She devolved back to her Petit Mammon form.

Maria approached the Metal Greymon with her partner on tow. “...Thank you for your help, but at the same time we still cannot disregard of what you did prior. We’d have to detain you and ask you several questions regarding what just transpired. Do you comply?”

The jogressed Digimon splits into three, a Black Agumon, a Gaossmon, and an Alraumon.

“We’ll comply to your demand.” the Black Agumon stated.

"Very well, we will treat you fairly." After the fiasco that is Matadrmon, Maria felt something bitter in her mouth. She just ushers them to preferred method of transport toward DATS HQ.

"DATS appreciates your help, Mr. Akiyama, Mr. Pantell, Mr. Levi, and four yet to be named individuals. Unfortunately, I have some reports to make. I trust you all can find your way home. Please do not dawdle, lest what transpired here ends up dragging you down, and please keep your Digimon hidden."

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PLOT B HAS ENDED.
You may post your exit post now.
Rewards and reputation change as follow:

Toki and Amelie gained +2 reputation from Maria. 25000 bits and 25 posts awarded.
Toki is at +3 and Amelie is at +2
Amelie gained joke item "Manager-Summoning Always-Get-it-Wrong Suncents Moccha"
Alan and Levi gained +1 reputation from Maria, 25000 bits and 25 posts awarded.
Alan and Levi at +2 reputation
Viktor, Iko and Luke gained 15000 bits, 15 posts awarded
Cion's reputation with Maria is at -3 and gains no reward.