Operation: Treasure Hunt! (Armor Champion Hunt, Tsubaki)

Hana, or rather, Hana's Digivice had led them to a location neither of them expected. Tsubaki just laughed it off, and when Hana gave her reaction, the young woman just slapped her on the back. "Maybe it just means that some of us here need to lighten up!" She joked, poking at the Wanyamon at her side.

They peered into the arcade through the window, and when Data pointed towards the claw machine, she squinted her eyes in confusion. "Wait, you were just lookin' for a couple of bowling pins? Man, I'm sure we could find a few of those in our world, if you want!"

"Don't mistake bowling pins for Digimentals!" Connie interjected, rather angrily. "And this is not some sign to 'lighten up'! Clearly it's a sign meant to stay vigilant and serious despite the temptations to fool around!" He turned to Hana with a furrowed brow. "You must not give in to the urge to fool around and play all of these games! Only focus on what you're here for, and then leave this place!"

"This is why you don't take guys shopping..." Tsubaki muttered, jabbing the little fuzzball with her finger. "Hana, I'm not so good with all those games, but I might have a plan to get them out, depending on the security! But... how much security could a simple arcade possibly have...?"

Tsubaki shrugged her shoulders and crossed her arms in response to Data's concern. "Well, we'd be the ones committing the crimes this time, not you guys! And you're the one that said we should try to get them away from any bad guys, right? So we just shove Connie in there, he squeezes himself in with his tiny fuzzy body, grabs the Digimetals or whatever, and pops right back out! It's not technically illegal, right? Just gaming the system a little, you know?"

"I will not abide by stealing the Digimentals!" Constance piped up in nigh-outrage. "If we steal them, then we'd be the evildoers that Data said we need to watch out for! We should simply find this CatchMamemon, inform him of the predicament, and then ask for his aid in order to secure the Digimentals in a perfectly legal and honorable manner!"

"Yeah... chances are if he's got some super rare treasures in a claw-vending machine, then he's either too stupid to know what he's got, or he doesn't care about what kind of people that eventually obtain it. Either way, it's not likely that he'll be willing to help," Tsubaki reasoned.

"You... thought this out... but stealing is still the wrong thing to do, no matter what the reason! We should at least attempt to reason with CatchMamemon, first!"

"But if it doesn't work out, then he'll be onto us if these Digimentals suddenly go missing!"

"Then we simply obtain them by playing the game!"

"And if the game's rigged so no one can actually win the game, what then?"

The two began arguing back and forth. It was clear that neither one was going to agree right now. But maybe they might be willing to begrudgingly help out if Hana came up with an idea herself, or if she sided with one of the two?

"If you wanna try it, then go ahead..." Tsubaki answered Hana's attempt at mediation. "But if this CatchMamemon guy is putting magic treasures that your magic little device is leading you towards in a random claw game of all places, then obviously something's fishy... Just sayin'..." But she nodded along to signify that she was going to go along with Hana's plan. Though...

"Very well, I shall operate this claw game and obtai-" But Connie was interrupted by the sudden appearance of some flower lady who suddenly offered her services. Tsubaki and Connie jumped a little, but otherwise remained unperturbed by Knight of Flower's arrival.

"Hi. Hello. I'm Tsubaki. And this is Connie."

"She means to say Constance St. Bernard!"

"And where we come from, we introduce ourselves before butting into other people's conversations. It's nice to meet you. Unless it's not."

But whether the rude, albeit helpful Thornlillymon introduced herself or not, Tsubaki would follow along with Hana and whatever, twiddling their thumbs while some stranger apparently did all the work for them, or something.

Tsubaki nodded along, listening to Sakura's introduction and not-apology. She shrugged as she and Connie followed the gang inside, listend to CatchMamemon spout his silly intro, and nodded after sniffing Connie a couple of times.

"Perhaps... that would be for the best..." He admitted, bereaved with shame at his current appearance. Tsubaki headed over towards the bathrooms, two identical doors with strange symbols that Tsubaki didn't even remotely recognize. Welp. She had Connie with her, so either one was good, unless the symbols meant "Dinosaurs" and "Non-Dinosaurs". You could never tell in the Digital World. She stepped into the bathroom and found it completely empty. You know, because it was an arcade full of gamers? Who the hell would spend their time cleaning up?

"What do you think is going to happen?" Connie asked as Tsubaki took him over towards a nearby sink. She turned the water on, waiting for it to move to a comfortable temperature.

"Dunno," She said, then shoving Connie into the sink and thoroughly scrubbing his fuzzy body. Connie let out some gargles of protest, but realized that he probably shouldn't be opening his mouth in this situation as Tsubaki continued. "If things do down bad they go down bad. Once we're done here we'll keep an eye out, I guess." After the scrubbing was complete, she shoved Connie underneath an air drier until he was barely more than a damp Wanyamon. And his fur never looked so lustrous. What was in that soap?

And afterwards, Tsubaki headed out to keep on Hana and the gang. Did they need her help? Probably not. They didn't really feel like playing games in such a suspicious place at this point.

Tsubaki stepped out of the restroom with a damp Wanyamon in tow, Connie none too pleased with being scrubbed down, but even he realized the necessity of the situation. And they watched as Hana, Date, Rush, and plant Digimon that had some kind of flowery name or something... Sakura! that was it! They watched as Sakura managed to retrieve the first Digimental from the machine, though the methods weren't exactly legitimate. Well... it wasn't any of Tsubaki's business anymore. Hana seemed to have learned her lesson from Rush's earlier incident, and she seemed to have all the help she needed.

Sure, Hana said that she'd pay for a meal if Tsubaki and Connie helped out, but... they were off on the sidelines while Hana's new companion did all the work. So... there really wasn't any point to Tsubaki being here anymore. So she took off, figuring that Hana could handle the rest on her own.

~Tsubaki Exit~