Growing Pains (Faustein, Terminus Job C) [Complete]

It had been some time since Faustein's latest adventure and that was one in which he had to join forces with a fellow NEXUS member called Ryuji and his partner Calumon called Yoshihiro as well as another young man called Dante and his Wormmon partner to stop a rampaging mad scientist and his robots from wrecking a mall in Shibuya in the human world. Since then, Faustein had gotten back to the daily grind of his profession as a practicing physician-scientist and also to the indulgence of his obsession with his ongoing and ever-burgeoning mad science research.

Apart from that, there were the now frequent summons he had been receiving from his grandparents due to the fact that he had brokered a high stakes business deal some time back with another one of the richest and most influential families in Japan, namely the Alanis family. Thankfully, after all of that, just last December, he had a short break wherein he had traveled to the Northern Prominence which was the snowy area of the Digital World. During his two day long stay there, he had thoroughly enjoyed playing in the snow while reliving his childhood memories of doing the same with his parents. His companions had, of course, been the Frigimon that called that frigid area their home. Fortunately for him, they had been the welcoming sort, so his stay ended rather peacefully instead of the usual trouble-filled manner it always seemed to whenever he came to the Digital World.

After that had come the rather adventurous trip that Faustein had taken alongside several hard up for cash mercenary digimon being led by a Hookmon with the goal of tracking down an alleged source of great treasure. Needless to say, in true mad physician-scientist fashion, Faustein had repeatedly allied with and then later betrayed each and every one of those digimon and had them devolving into a mass of chaotic infighting monsters before too long. Consequently, he was able to walk off with the treasure in hand which he had then taken directly to the arms dealer contact of his in order to purchase some discarded and decommissioned android and cyborg digimon parts. He had then stored these parts away for safekeeping so that they would not get stolen in his absence.

Regrettably, however, he was forced to return to the Human World due to a call from some of his associates there who apparently needed his help with some matters. Thus, he had gotten embroiled in the toils and troubles of his life once more for the next several months. So, naturally, he had been looking forward to his current, upcoming trip to the Digital World wherein he would once again be free to unleash his mad physician-scientist side and its cravings to his heart's content as that always seemed to bring him much needed relaxation. To that end, he had decided to travel there via the usual Digi-Port method as it was the fastest and most private known to him by using his usual command phrase while standing in that secret part of the normal looking Shibuya Station.

"Digi-Port, open. Destination: Terminus."

With that, the Digi-Port was activated leading to the formation of a portal which Faustein then tugged on in order to open completely.



Inside was the usual black, fluid void and so, Faustein stepped inside and waited patiently as the proximal end of the portal closed in the human world and then walked through to the other end and upon reaching it, he tugged on the portal's rim again, which dropped him off at his destination, which in this trip was just Terminus, as it had been last time. However, this time, he would be soon seeing someone familiar, someone he had not seen in quite a while, not that he knew that at that moment.

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Word Count: 639/1000 (Faustein posts only)

Text Legend:

• Bold w/ Quotes: Faustein's out loud speech
• Bold w/ Italics, No Quotes: Faustein's covert speech, aka whispering or muttering
• Italics w/o Bold and No Quotes: Faustein's silent thoughts

Basic Appearance:

Faustein had been looking about and enjoying the sights and sounds of Terminus when he saw a familiar face, aka Ravenna whom he had last seen when the two of them had to band together to stop a rather psychotic and dramatic Piedmon while the dimensional reality all around them had been breaking apart. So, as she came towards him and bowed, he smirked and since he was feeling dramatic as well at the moment, he returned her bow while responding

"Likewise, Ravenna. It has been far too long, indeed."

He would have said more, but they were interrupted by a DesertGabumon named Officer Mamluks who was apparently in charge of the volunteers for a particular assignment. Faustein would not normally have agreed, but he had nothing better to do this time other than the usual random exploration of Terminus's back alleys, so he decided this would be a better expenditure of his time and effort, especially since the amusing Ravenna was here. So, he allowed himself to be instructed by the DesertGabumon named Officer Mamluks who was the volunteer supervisor and listened silently to his explanation while watching him set up the traffic cones and other designators of the work area. He also watched briefly as Ravenna got started on her share of the work

Alright, I should begin as well...

With that in mind, he twisted from side to side and rolled his shoulders as well as neck before setting off toward the large pile of soil bags after Ravenna was done with her part thus far. Once there, he picked up two soil bags and since he was too lazy to lift them all the way up onto his shoulders as Ravenna did before him, he carried them cradled in the crook of each arm instead. Upon reaching the soil bed, he brought out a sharp surgical scissors from his field medical kit and made a nice and neat incision at the top ends of both bags. Once that was finished, he put the scissors away and then upended each bag in turn, dropping the soil from inside onto the moderate pile made before by Ravenna. Thus, the soil bed received even more soil while the rest of the volunteers were bringing in the plants and tamping down the soil to make it even all over. Finally, Faustein finished by rolling up the bags and taking them over to the recycling bin and dropping them inside.

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-Post Word Count: 409 (Faustein posts only)

-Total Word Count: 1048 / 1000 (Faustein posts only)

Faustein had been working steadily with the other volunteers in patting down the soil for the imminent planting of the saplings into it and occasionally was taking a moment to check on Ravenna as well as she seemed to be struggling now due to the heat and work effort. It was when she went to retrieve a shovel to start digging holes in the prepared soil for dropping the saplings into when something truly amusing unfolded right before his eyes. As he watched, he saw Ravenna bump into a shovel and cause it and another shovel beside it to fall over. Then, Faustein saw her bend down to pick it up and almost immediately, the eyes of all the males in the volunteer group, minus Faustein of course, were drawn to Ravenna’s bent over form because it displayed her in a rather alluring pose, albeit unwittingly. Faustein snickered as he saw this and apparently missed when Ravenna spoke to him, but thanks to his genius mind, he was still able to make a swift save in his response to her

“Indeed, it would not do for you to become worn out, after all. Your many ardent fans would be quite sad to see you in such a deplorable state, my dear Ravenna.”

He finished by flashing her his trademark smug amused smirk and then turned swiftly on his heel to go with the other volunteers to get the plants they were tasked with planting in the soil bed. It was short but intense work, to be sure, but slowly they were able to bring over all of the plants to the work location from the storage depot. Once that was done, Faustein and the others went to work, carefully planting each plant into the holes dug by Ravenna’s group until finally at the end of the day when the sun was beginning to set on the horizon and was painting the entire sky in a muted orange glow, their assignment was complete. Naturally, Officer Mamluks was thoroughly satisfied with the diligence of each of the volunteers and so, he had returned with a stack of packets which he gave out to each of the volunteers, with Ravenna and Faustein being the last ones to get one each. As was expected, the packets contained the money they had each earned by working so tirelessly throughout the day in planting the plants as per the assignment instructions. Seeing this, Faustein smirked at Ravenna while remarking

“Job well done, my dear Ravenna. I would say we did a most excellent job...as is evident from this ample monetary reward. And now, I must bid you adieu, but be assured that till next we meet, I shall be pining for your most valued company. Au revoir.”

He finished with a rather theatrically dramatic bow worthy of the finest Shakespearean stage play to the adulation of the volunteers and Officer Mamluks as well after which he summoned the usual Digi Port and vanished from sight, going back to the human world while looking forward eagerly to the next encounter with Ravenna as she was a most amusing specimen.

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-Post Word Count: 523 (Faustein Posts only)

-Total Word Count: 1573 / 1000 (Faustein Posts Only)


[FAUSTEIN’S EXIT]