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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 4, 2020 15:18:21 GMT
Alternate Title: Shopping episodes are a convenient way to introduce new plot devices, so even though they always suck we still use them.
It had been a few hours, so Nanami decided to take a break. It was Sunday, and the food court was packed. She didn't necessarily feel uncomfortable around crowds, but she rarely went out so she found the massive number of people around her at all times to be more distracting than anything else.
But at the same time, the mass gathering of students managed to make this particular girl stand out a little less; even with the dyed pink hair. By some miraculous turn of events the girl had managed to find a spot where no one sat at the packed-together tables. Considering the six large shopping bags she was grasping and the suspiciously large tote bag half the size of her body over her shoulder, the frail girl could use the space.
She strategically placed several shopping bags on either side of her to obscure the view of anyone that decided to sit next to her. She gently set her enormous tote bag on the table so it's opening was facing her. She lifted the bag open just a bit, but there only appeared to be darkness within the confines of the large bag.
"Mocha... are you still in there?" She whispered, a little more loudly than she preferred, but considering the noise around her it was all she could do. After a moment passed without an answer, she prepared to whisper even louder, but a thought crossed her mind. "Hey, Cream, is Mocha in there with you?" There was a brief pause before a voice came out from the insides of the bag.
"She's still in here..." The calm voice then let out a yawn.
"Traitor!" Another voice, nearly identical, yet much more exuberant than the previous one. And unfortunately, much, much louder.
"I'm not 'Traitor'. My name is Cream..." The voice trailed off, presumably to fall back asleep.
"D-did you just try and crack a joke just now? C-Cream!?"
"Mocha, we're still in a big crowd!" Nanami chided the creature inside her bag. "Try and keep your voice down!"
"Aw, come on! I've been keeping quiet all day!"
"No you haven't! I've been my throat to cover your voice so much today that the CRYX clerk probably thought I had a..." She struggled remember how the phrase went again. "...a cockroach stuck in my throat!"
"...why would a cockro-"
"So not the point!" She groaned, resting her forehead on the table, an act she immediately regretted. It seems no one had cleaned it since someone sat here last.
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Mae
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Post by Mae on May 4, 2020 15:38:00 GMT
Evidently, today was a time for plot devices of all kinds to converge upon a singular location for one reason or another. Mae was not necessarily a stranger to the Shibuya 104 at this point, but it didn't mean by any sense that she was acclimated to it completely. It had always been kind of hard to focus on what was where when half of the time she was being addled by her foresight kicking in at...rather inopportune moments.
Like right now at the food court. The holosuited Meicrackmon got a number of REALLY opaque visions regarding something that she couldn't even make out, which...was pretty much unheard of when one considers this was happening at the ultimate level.
Taking a seat near a young lady with...a -lot- of shopping bags, Mae decided to discretely check for anything new from her D-Terminal. If there wasn't anything, she could probably just find a dumb meme and send it Hasenya's way.
"Traitor!"
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Wait, didn't that just...come from a bag? Mae turned her attention towards Nanami and her shopping bag fort and tilted her head. "...Excuse me. Is everything alright?"
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on May 4, 2020 15:47:12 GMT
Kazumi made her way through the store looking much better since her and Vemmon's encounter with a girl named Alexis. Vemmon had been eerily quiet but in public this seemed normal most the time for him. Though he said earlier he was fine and she decided to leave him be. He would talk to her if he needed to. Now getting food for them was needed and according to her partner she would eventually have to plan for more than one digimon to feed.
Then the call of traitor caught her ears and Vemmon whispered "S-Sounds like it isn't coming from the human girl. C-Could she have a digimon with her?"
Whispering seemed odd for a normally soft spoken digimon with a stutter but Kazumi took out her Xros Loader and whispered "Maybe, Vemmon but it seems we aren't the only ones to notice." A female seemed to be talking to the girl and asking if everything was alright. Kazumi decided to approach after pocketing her Xros Loader. She then asked "Hello, young lady, is everything alright?" She decided not to mention the voice she heard so as not to be perceived as crazy.
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 4, 2020 17:28:25 GMT
Nanami had been contemplating what drink might have been spilled here. She couldn't quite place it, but for some reason she began to crave an orange smoothie. She debated waiting in line for one but didn't think her present company would make it difficult. Of course, if she were to get them something as well...
She lifted her head to ask Cream and Mocha if they wanted to go get something to drink, but she heard a couple of voice breach the walls she built up to isolate herself from he crowd. She turned her head to see an exotic woman sitting nearby, with tanned skin and long, white hair. The naturally gray-haired Nanami felt a little jealous.
Then another woman approached her, this one with long, red hair. Nanami had to pause. Did she really look that helpless? She fumbled her words as she thought of something to say, but heard a voice whispering from still inside her bag.
"They're probably cops. Just stay calm, don't admit anything, and you'll get through this," The Lopmon inside her bag advised. She gave the bag an incredulous stare. What kind of advice was that!? And why was she acting like some hardened criminal? She shook her head before answering the two people that approached her.
"Uhh... You know, I'm... uh..." She took a deep breath while before giving them an uncomfortably wide smile. "I'm perfectly fine! You know, I'm planning a trip soon, and was doing some shopping to prepare, you know?" She let loose a boisterous disingenuous laugh. "But gosh golly, I think I bought a little too much, don't you think so?" She reached over to make sure her bag was closed only to put her hand on something warm and fuzzy. She turned to see her hand on top a Terriermon's head - currently sticking out of bag. What was Cream doing!? She expected Mocha, sure, but not the Terriermon!
The Rookie Digimon's nose started twitching. "That one smells kind of like Kaya," Cream softly stated, looking at Kazumi with a blank expression, before turning to Mae. "That one smells kind of strange, too." The sound of snickering laughter could be heard from further within the bag. "Ah... no offense..."
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Mae
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Post by Mae on May 4, 2020 17:42:57 GMT
Mae reached up to adjust her hair accessory a little bit. That...was probably giving her the illusion of having long hair again. It was a part of the holosuit that she didn't necessarily ask for but would make do with regardless. She looked briefly to the redhead approaching, waving at her before she then tilted her head at Nanami before looking down at her bag with the grey-haired girl.
"...You might have." Mae noted. "It's quite a bit for one person...But, preparing adequately for a trip is important to maximizing the enjoyment you'll get out of it, is it not?" There was no judgement in Mae's voice. Even as she noticed the head of a Terriermon pop out of the bag.
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No, she wasn't going to call attention to it. That would only cause a ruckus. Nobody wanted that. "...I realize I haven't introduced myself. I'm Aizawa Ran." Surname first, given name second. Mae made sure to remember that for her alias. "What's your name?"
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on May 5, 2020 0:15:52 GMT
The girl with pink hair seemed jumpy so Kazumi didn't want to add fuel to the fire and risk freaking her out more so she decided to introduce herself since the stranger now known as Ran to her. A soft click of Vemmon's mandible was heard by Kazumi coming from her pocket. Since it was so quiet she had to strain to hear her partner. He didn't sound distressed, she was getting good at reading his mood based on the various clicking noises his mandible made, so she wasn't worried about him. "I'm Kurihara, Kazumi." she said in the same manner as Ran since she was Japanese and this was normal.
Wondering what the pink haired girl would do ceased as a fluffy cream colored thing, most likely a head, came into view. A digimon perhaps. Judging by the wary soft clicking of Vemmon's mandible apparently that was the case. Then the rest of the creature appeared revealing a cute rabbit, dog looking digimon. "I don't know who Kaya is but if you mean that I have a friend like you well.." she then showed her Xros Loader with the image of Vemmon on the screen. The alien bug digimon was still quiet as if waiting for the reaction of the strangers.
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Nanami Hanabana
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 5, 2020 22:56:01 GMT
Nanami gave the two humans a curious glance as they introduced themselves, one after another. Kazumi then showed off her Digivice to her, with a Digimon apparently inside it. It looked a bit different from Kaya and her own Digivice. Did each Digivice look different for each Tamer, or something? If so... why was Nanami's Digivice... so ugly? Then she realized she had yet to introduce herself. Sure, they were complete strangers who went up to talk to an unaccompanied child, but they didn't seem like bad people. They did ask if she was alright, after all.
"Oh... Hanabana... Nanami..." the pink-haired girl finally stated, still nervous. It was clear that Kazumi was a tamer, but if Ran had any acknowledgement of Digimon, she didn't point it out. Still, she was unfazed when Cream popped out of the bag... "And I'm sorry! I forgot to introduce my Digimon! This one here is Cream, and the other one is... Mocha?" She leaned a little closer to the bag. "Mocha, you can say hello to these two, if you want to!" There was a few seconds of silence before she heard a reply.
"...Don't wanna. They seem shady."
Meanwhile, the Terriermon continued to leave her head out in the open, glancing at the pair with an emotionless expression. "Pleasure to meet you two, Ran, Kazumi."
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Mae
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Post by Mae on May 5, 2020 23:15:46 GMT
Well, Mae (or Ran, in fact, let's refer to her as 'Ran' from here on out) was not quite expecting the other human to introduce herself immediately afterwards. ...That just sort of made this seem even stranger, even if she was not quite unfamiliar with bizarre adventures. "A Terriermon...The other must be a Lopmon, then..." She mused, staring at Cream. There was a fair amount of room for error, but that was the guess she was running with.
"It's nice to meet you as well, Cream. You have a nice name." Said with as much grace as she can. Cream, Mocha and Vemmon could probably ascertain that this tan girl was not entirely human. Or that something was off with her. Not that she really cared, though.
Turning her attention to Mocha's voice, though.
"I don't blame you. Most would balk at the mere prospect of talking to something like me. So...stay hidden, if you so wish. I won't fault you for it."
Glancing back to Cream (who was definitely more sociable than Mocha), 'Ran' decided to fire a question. "How'd you come to know each other? You and Hanana---...." She cleared her throat. "Hanabana, I mean."
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on May 5, 2020 23:57:19 GMT
Though an indignant click and soft hiss was heard from Vemmon's mandible, indicating either anger, annoyance, or even both, Vemmon made no other sound for which Kazumi was glad. Though she understood his feelings about hearing his general and himself being called shady. He then whispered to Kazumi "K-Kazumi, that girl without digimon is different. I-It's almost as if she may know m-more than she's letting on but I can't t-tell that well."
"Could she be a digimon herself?" Kazumi whispered back.
"H-Hard to say but the T-Terriermon called Cream said she smelled different. M-Maybe I can ask her because, n-no offense, Kazumi, but you're a b-blunt instrument when it comes to most matters and at t-times embarrassingly so."
Vemmon had a point about her bluntness so she nodded indicating her partner permission to speak to the one known as Ran. The soft spoken digimon then said out loud to Ran "E-excuse me, Ran is it? I'm g-getting the feeling you aren't human like y-you appear. W-what Cream said about your smell clued m-me in on this. Y-you're a disguised digimon aren't you? I-if you mean no harm I h-have no problem with you."
After hearing Vemmon talk Kazumi was glad she didn't handle things this time. The little guy might make a decent diplomat.
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 6, 2020 22:41:29 GMT
Cream politely ignored Ran's verbal slip-up, giving a slight shrug. "My sister and I had..." She gave a brief concerned glance back to the confines of the large tote back before looking back to Ran. "We had been... forcefully reformatted back into a Digitama while in the Digital World. Only instead of returning to the usual place, we wound up here, in your... in the human world."
"I was going to prepare breakfast when I found these two stuck inside my fridge!" Nanami added, giving Cream a gentle head pat. The Terriermon's expression didn't change to the unexpected contact, but she didn't protest, either.
"That was... one of my more regrettable defeats..." The Terriermon looked down, ashamed at her inability to deal with refrigerator doors while in her Fresh form. While Cream was lamenting her first day after hatching, Nanami listened in on the Digimon in Kazumi's Digivice as it questioned the dark-skinned woman.
"Not human...?" Nanami pondered. Cream said something was weird about her, too. What about her didn't seem human? Was it because she didn't look Japanese? Did all Digimon... hate foreigners or something? "That's not very nice to say, Cream and... um... Kurihara-san's partner! Just because she doesn't look Japanese doesn't mean she's suspicious! Humans can look different just like Digimon do!" At that point Mocha stuck her head out of the bag as well, giving her human partner an annoyed look.
"Hey, Stupid Nanami. Just stop talking. For everyone's sake."
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Mae
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Post by Mae on May 9, 2020 15:10:13 GMT
Hopefully nobody noticed that verbal slip-up. "Ran" leaned in a little to hear Cream's story out, and...it was probably good she did that, because that struck her as odd. "Ah...So you also didn't end up at the village." ...Something that had happened to her. "It's good you two have someone to take care of you, though. Not many of us have that luxury, especially in times like these."
And when the alien called her out...Ah.
So, one who bore the moniker of Captain Obvious was present. She only decided to humor Vemmon's response with the filthiest smirk one might ever imagine a girl her age (or really the holosuit's intended age) can be capable of putting on. "You seem to have everything figured out, is it really necessary to say all of that?" Seriously, it wasn't like Mae was TRYING very hard to hide what she was.
A sigh then served as a prelude towards "Ran"'s face returning to the perpetual state of neutrality it was found in.
"If I meant any harm, then we wouldn't be having this conversation." A pause. "In addition, I just have a tan." That was really it. She stared at Mocha. "Hi there. Do you frequently chide your partner just for speaking?"
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on May 9, 2020 21:12:58 GMT
Vemmon said nothing to Ran's response but clicked his mandible quietly in annoyance. Picking up on her partner's annoyance Kazumi said "Don't take what Vemmon said as personal Ran, he's just looking out for me." She then turned to look in the direction of Cream and Mocha, though the digimon named Mocha wasn't currently visible, and said "I agree with Ran its not nice to talk to your partner that way, Mocha."
A sigh was heard from the Xros Loader and Vemmon said "K-Kazumi, I'm sure she knows that and I agree w-with you." Vemmon then directed his speech toward Cream as he said "C-Cream, is your sister always like this?"
Kazumi wanted to know something so she said "Vemmon, she doesn't have a Xros Loader so its obvious she isn't a Xros General like me."
"Y-you got that right, Kazumi. N-Nanami is a young tamer with twin digimon n-no less." he replied.
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 9, 2020 21:52:26 GMT
"If Stupid Nanami says something stupid, I have to call her Stupid Nanami. That's how being partners works!" Mocha responded to Ran and Kazumi. "If you can't talk that way to your partner, who can you talk like that to?"
Nanami gave an exasperated sigh as the Lopmon shuffled herself further into the bag. At least she was staying in bag...
Meanwhile, Cream just stared back at Kazumi and the source of Vemmon's voice, silently nodding her confirmation to the hidden Digimon's inquiry.
"And it's rude to talk about someone when they're right in front of you!" The Lopmon snapped back from within the confines of the large tote bag.
Meanwhile, Nanami was starting to feel a little overwhelmed by the conversation. Between the sudden revelation that Ran was in fact a Digimon, Mocha's sudden appearance, and then this strange talk about Xros... whatever it was... The girl just kind of shook nervously in place before shaking her head. Ran apparently didn't want her actually being a Digimon being a big deal so she could put that part on the back-burner for now, though she had about eleventy-billion questions for later.
"Xros...General?" She repeated, finding it rather difficult to even pronounce the word. She looked at Cream for an explanation but the Terriermon simply shook her head and shrugged. "I didn't know there were generals with Digimon..." Nanami's mind began to wander a path that only made since to her once again. If Kazumi was a general in the military... and she had a Digimon... that meant the Self-Defense Forces also knew about Digimon! She stood up and faced Kazumi. That meant that the only reason these two were here was because... "Wait! I'm too young to be in the military, so you can't enlist me! Besides...I... uh..." She slapped her chest. "That's right! I can't fight! I have a heart condition!"
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Mae
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Post by Mae on May 23, 2020 17:46:00 GMT
Whether it was under the pretense of looking out for someone or not, it did not absolve Vemmon of accountability for claiming the absolutely obvious, now, did it? "Right, sure." God knows why the endangered species of alien would shack up with a human...A question to answer later, definitely.
Mae peered at Mocha. Inquisitively. "I wouldn't know. I've never had a partner, but I feel like you have a point somewhere in there...Yes, I do think it'd be a partner's responsibility to steer their tamer away from poor decisions, but maybe not -that- bluntly..." The disguised Digimon mused.
"As for what Xros Generals are, they're a pain in the ass." A rather BLUNT explanation, but there was more to it. "They're a type of Digimon tamer that utilizes an army of like-minded individual digimon that might be a bit weaker than normal, but utilize their specific digivice in order to combine into different configurations. ...I can't really wrap my head around it too much, but they're a very rare kind of tamer."
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on May 23, 2020 22:14:28 GMT
"I'm not that bad, Ran, and neither is Vemmon. We just like to explore and when we get home we play video games. Maybe my recruits will be rather laid back. Ran, have you had bad experiences with Xros Generals or something?" Kazumi asked the disguised digimon now curious.
"M-Mocha, I don't call Kazumi stupid. N-Not only is she my friend but she is the f-first human I met and she tried to help me because I h-had hurt my arm somehow. S-Still don't remember how I got to the Human World or how I hurt m-my arm."
"It's okay, Vemmon. You still might remember in time. We haven't worked together long." Kazumi said hearing a calm click coming from Vemmon's mandible indicating he was relaxing. "As for Xros General, Ran, I don't know much so I'm still learning as I go. Vemmon did give me some basic information though."
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