MPC 77C: Heroes Rising (Faustein, Ryuji) (Complete)

MPC Name:
Meanwhile at the Hall of
MPC Number:
 77C
Reward Requested: Bits


What appeared to be two human boys, one with a short messy black mop of hair and the other with longer messy red hair, were heading in the direction of the mall. Ryuji and his disguised digimon partner, Yoshihiro, had already eaten before they got near the mall. This was good considering digimon could have crazily large appetites. So it was much like living with a living vacuum at times which was surprising with how small Yoshihiro was in the form he used regularly.

When a strange sound started coming from Ryuji's digivice both he and Yoshihiro looked in the direction of the pocket of his hoodie. Ryuji dug his digivice out of his pocket and looked at it while Yoshihiro grimaced at the high pitched noise it was making. It was as if the very gadget was glitching or something. 

The duo followed the glitching digivice into an abandoned store while Yoshihiro was alert for trouble. Seeing nothing at first, he deactivated his holosuit. Then Ryuji looked at his digivice again seeing it seemed to be leading the pair to an opening about ten feet up. 

Equipping his recently bought grapple gun, Ryuji aim and fired the grapple attaching shortly after. Then the grapple gun pulled the teen up his Calumon partner floating up with him. Upon reaching their destination safely, Yoshihiro landed on Ryuji's shoulder his ears wiggling before he said "Ryuji there's someone here. I can hear them."

Nodding at his partner, Ryuji called out "Hello? Whose there?"


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Whether they had come to the area for shopping or research, the burned shopping center had drawn multiple Digi Destined. They all entered the hole in the wall their own way; Dante climbing, Ryuji with a grappling gun, and Faustein levitating in with his Anti-Grav Device. The strange signal was indeed worth investigating, as someone is up to something sinister.

Dante can hear someone respond. Willow climbs up on top of a shelf and looks around. "Hey, I see someone! Is that a Digimon with him? I think I see someone flying."

Before they have a chance to meet up, loud stomping sounds can be heard growing louder. A group of machines with noticeably large legs come marching forward. Menacing laughter can be heard echoing around the building.

"Such a strange design for robots. Are those boxing gloves on their hands?" "They look like those giant rats from the land down under." "Yes, they look like kangaroos!"

The strange robots continue stomping forward. Two turn their attention to Dante while two head towards Ryuji. One of the robots leaps towards Dante and Willow. The two of them quickly dive out of the way. Willow's holosuit is deactivated and the Worm King stares daggers at the machine.

"You wanna mess with me, wide load? I'm gonna upload a can of whoop ass on you!"

Dante scrambles away from the other bot while Wormmon goes for a headbutt. The bot smacks Wormmon in midair and sends them flying into a shelf. Wormmon shakes it off and approaches at an angle, running along the shelf and leaping down, landing a hit with his tail.

The bots approaching Ryuji and Yoshihiro get closer. One of them goes for a quick jab. They continue to pursue their targets. Their armor appears to be quite decent, and they strike fast. It would not be so easy to avoid their attacks or dismantle them. None of the bots seem to notice Faustein yet. This creates an opening for the former substitute professor to aid Ryuji.

As the bots are attacking, a loud explosion goes off further inside the building. This knocks down a wall and sends smoldering debris shooting across the room. Dante ducks behind a broken shelf as a massive piece of wall flies by overhead and smashes into the ground. Someone can be seen in the area behind the collapsed wall. There is a large cyborg standing next to a power generator with an orange tank. The cyborg has a large, bulbous head with cybernetic implants, thick arms, large and round torso, and a pair of jet black metal cybernetic legs. Wormmon looks on in shock at the disturbing individual.

"Whoah! This looks like some kind of steampunk cosplay gone horribly wrong."

The cyborg laughs with a booming voice, acting delighted to see the Tamers.

"Welcome to my nightmare, a haa haha ha! I knew you would come. This city will feel the wrath of Schrodinger! My Dredd Bots will bring people to their knees."

Dante and Wormmon try not to snicker. "Your name is Schrodinger?" "Are you the jerk that put a cat in a box?" "And what is with his robots? Dredd Bots? They look like kangaroos!" "They do not look like kangaroos! They are menacing, and intimidating." "If you say so."

While Schrodinger's bizarre appearance and ridiculous robots were absurd, the threat is real. Clearly, this cyborg is a genius with robotics. He appears more machine than man at this point. The Dredd Bots continue to attack. What is this mysterious Schrodinger plotting?
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Faustein had been making his way through the decimated shopping center when he finally ran into the other two digital signal bearers, one of whom was a young man named Ryuji who was somewhat familar to Faustein as he had seen him on a previous NEXUS mission. The other one was completely unknown, also male and this one had a Wormmon with him whereas Ryuji had, surprisingly enough, a Calumon.

"Interesting choice of digimon you have there."

He had said to Ryuji and had been about to continue when the situation took a turn for the worse, or at the very least a fair bit stranger than average. As Faustein looked on silently, there seemed to be what looked like robots which came at both Dante and Ryuji. Moments afterward, there was an explosion which sent debris flying all over the place, but thanks to his cyborg prosthetic left arm and right leg, Faustein was able to successfully deflect or otherwise evade the multiple pieces of rubble that came towards him. Once the dust had settled, along with the others, Faustein beheld what seemed like a cyborg who called himself Schrodinger who then introduced his robotic minions as Dredd Bots and ranted on about how dangerous and menacing they were to his enemies

Well, this is turning out to be rather irksome.

Faustein mused silently and then sighed, though luckily the Dredd Bots had not detected him yet, so he simply proceeded ahead with his observation and analysis of the situation as was his usual routine before entering a battle.

Thus far our side seems to be fending off the enemy well enough, though with a bit of difficulty due to the sheer numerical advantage possessed by the enemy. However, if we can somehow lure the robots and the cyborg controlling them into a bottleneck area where they would be forced into single file movement, we could perhaps even the odds at least a little.

Then, he noticed that the robots attacking Ryuji and his Calumon partner left an opening to strike and from his experience with his own erstwhile robotic digimon, aka Taser the Kokuwamon and Lego the ShadowToyAgumon, Faustein knew they were weak to electricity despite their armor and general speed. So, he looked about for such a source of powerful electrical charge and luckily due to the destruction the cyborg had caused earlier, there were several exposed live wires dangling from the ceiling which were sparking dangerously as a testament to the powerful current of electricity running through them. So, he rose up into the air with his "Anti-Grav Device" and after gathering a good number of these, he swooped down from behind onto one of the robots fighting with Calumon and struck it in the back with the exposed end of the wire bunch, causing a powerful charge of electricity to rip through the robot, disabling it significantly, and thus giving Calumon even more of an advantage.

"Perhaps you did not need this assistance, but nevertheless a weakened enemy is always advantageous to have in a confrontation, would you not agree?"

He asked Ryuji and Calumon with a smirk on his thin lips and then immediately turned around and struck the other robot which was attacking them as well, afflicting it with the same disabling electric charge. Then, he leaped away using the wires bundle to swing over to his original spot off to the side where he could keep view of the whole battlefield and analyze all the elements therein

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WC: 580

Battle Log:

• Faustein attacks the Dredd Bots engaging Ryuji and Calumon with a powerful electric current from the damaged, now live wires dangling from the ceiling, and disables them via a powerful electric charge from the damaged wires (ATTACK SUCCESSFUL DUE TO ELEMENT OF SURPRISE).
• Battle Results: Dredd Bots attacking Ryuji and Calumon immobilized for next 1 post.

Luckily Dante's Wormmon partner seemed to be alright as the bug got up and dusted himself off. When Dante suggested trying armor digivolution Ryuji agreed it may be the best shot they had. Watching Wormmon armor digivolve into Mothmon the gun packing moth digimon took flight and began opening fire on the Dredd Bots while Dante was utilizing martial arts against the Dredd Bots as well.

"Alright, Yoshihiro, Digi Armor Energize!" Ryuji exclaimed as he selected the digimental for Yoshihiro's armor ultimate.

Bright light enveloped the Yoshihiro as he said "Calumon(Rookie form) armor digivolve to Mantismon!" As the light faded a six foot tall and seven foot long white mantis digimon was standing in place of the four foot tall rookie. Mantismon did retain the ears and Crystal Matrix from all of Yoshihiro's previous forms. Kneeling down, Yoshihiro said "Climb on, Ryuji, I'm with Mothmon on this one. Time to rip these kangaroos to pieces."

Focusing his large bug like eyes on the city, Yoshihiro leapt toward the streets below with Ryuji clinging on for dear life. Upon hitting the ground, Yoshihiro swung his powerful forelegs at the Dredd Bot making short work of them since an armor ultimate was a great deal stronger than a rookie digimon. He made his way to Schrodinger without so much as using a single named attack.

Soon the group cornered Schrodinger and it seemed the weapon the guy wielded ran out of power allowing Mothmon to digivolve normally. What happened next didn't last long as soon the menace known as Schrodinger was no bigger than an action figure. Not the most dignified ending for him but the sound of sirens made Ryuji hop off Yoshihiro and his partner returned to his in training form before activating his holosuit. As Dante and Wormmon bid farewell both Ryuji and Yoshihiro swiftly left the scene for they were in no mood to explain why two giant bugs were moving through the city bashing robots.

[Exit]

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