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A Hitch on the Road (Open) (artifact material hunt)
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Mar 27, 2021 1:33:50 GMT
"He was King Hikaru all this time," Kaya repeated, since it was easier focusing on that aspect for her than the nightmare abomination creature in front of them. She couldn't help but smile. "And after I told him how much I wanted to meet him again, too..."
"Kaya, we have much bigger problems to deal with at this current moment," Hawkeye said, reminding her of the said nightmare abomination that they were currently fighting. The Angemon made a "tsk" sound when his Zap Arrow failed to hit the damned thing, only barely scraping by and severing its front claw since it was faster without... without its abdomen... oh god, focusing on that would make anyone sick. Sakura's Petal Blizzard attack didn't do too much either, if anything it released more spores to release.
"It's only releasing spores when being hit by certain attacks," Hawkeye concluded. Since he didn't know what attacks did what- wait a minute. "Kaya, scan it with your Digivice!"
Kaya nodded and did as she was asked, scanning the insect with her Digivice. "Oh god... Hawkeye, you're right. Explosion and Wind based attacks just aggravate it and cause it to release more spores!"
"Explosion and Wind elements are a no-go, got it," Hawkeye said. Hopefully Hana and her group would hear what they were saying.
It was then that Hikaru... pulled a bagpipe out during the battle? Before Hawkeye could question this, the slime mold then fired a projectile attack at both Hikaru and Hawkeye. The Angemon was able to just barely dodge it, if only because he was far away enough and had a speed increase. Hikaru suggested going after the slime mold so they couldn't do a pincer attack. "Got it!"
So Hawkeye pulled out another arrow and charged it with yellow energy. He would've liked to save this for the main monster but he had to assume that this slime mold would also release spores if he used his Wind or Bomb Arrows. He pulled back the arrow and released it, launching the holy energy arrow right at the slime mold. "Holy Arrow!" Hawkeye dodges the slime mold's projectile move!
Hawkeye uses "Holy Arrow" on the slime mold.
Moves Holy Arrow: Hawkeye creates an arrow made purely out of holy energy, more powerful than a normal energy arrow. Cooldown is three posts.
Passives Deadshot (Combat Passive): Hawkeye's aim is far superior to most Digimon. Each attack has its accuracy increase by 30%, making it more likely that his attack will hit its target.
Buffs/Debuffs Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (1/4)
Spored
Cooldowns -Freeze Arrow (2/2) Ready to use! -Zap Arrow (1/2) -Holy Arrow (0/3)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Mar 27, 2021 2:11:33 GMT
"It only releases spores when hit by certain kinds of attacks? Okay, I guess I won't use Guardian Barrage then." Data said, as he overheard Kaya and Hawkeye's conversation while tanking the wind attack. "Sakura! Don't use your Petal Blizzard anymore! It reacts to Wind and Explosive attacks!"
Sakura flashed the Guardromon a thumb-up at his warning as she pondered her next move. If this thing was too fast to hit without it's abdomen (and isn't that a sickening thought?) then maybe she should hold it down. Landing on the fungus-infested ground, she stabbed her sword into the ground. "Nature's Bind!"
Vines sprouted out of the ground beneath the mutant and tried to wrap around it and hold it in place. Hopefully this would let them land some hits on it before it finished regenerating and unleashed some other disgusting ability.
Meanwhile, Rush took the wind-based attack aimed at him so that he could ensure Hana wouldn't be hit by it. It was now that Hana decided to enact her plan. Releasing a digimental from her digivice, Hana raised it up and said, "Now! Digi-Armor energize!"
The Chrysalimon was encased in a ball of light as the digimental merged with him, which shrunk down and revealed his Eosmon form. "EOSMON!"
"If an Ultimate can't hit them without making them evolve, then maybe an Armor Ultimate can act as a distraction!" Hana said with a smirk. "Now go make some noise, Rush!"
"COMMAND ACKNOWLEDGED. DISTRACTION PROTOCOLS INITIATED." The Eosmon said as he darted towards the infected mutant.
Buffs/Debuffs- Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (1/4) Spored Light Body (passive): Boosts Eosmon's speed by 50%, lowers his defense by 20%.
Actives- Petal Blizzard CD: 1/3 Dark Side Attack CD: 3/4 Thunder Break: attack interrupted. CD: 1/3 Disconnect Buster CD: 2/2 Flower Cannon CD: 2/2 Nature's Bind: Sakura plant's her sword's blade in the ground, causing vines to spring up from under the foe's feet and keep them from moving for 1 turn. 2 post cooldown. Duration: 0/1
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Post by yuuki on Mar 27, 2021 3:38:18 GMT
"There's other, much better time to get mesmerized about my fabulous self!" Hikaru retorted. "For the meantime let's do our best to get out of this situation alive!" Yuuki meanwhile already trying to formulate his next attack. At the moment he only can use Copper Ranked cards, which means he can't really overlay this Digimon's area effect with a card's. And there's no guarantee cards would work... What should he do now...? And that's... When Rush evolved-- ...there was a silence, silence that broken when Hawkeye's Holy Arrow hits the slime mold and splattered it. But for a moment there wasn't a sound... none at all.... Not even the attack that it takes seem to faze it as it just... stays stationary, held by Sakura's vine... until... it turned its head, slowly, eerily, at the Eosmon. A crackling sound heard from it. "I told them to not evolve..." Yuuki whispered in despair. Normally this would have been fine... but they have chipped its health greatly. To suddenly evolve to higher stage, it tips the scale further to their favor... but that assuming that it wouldn't evolve to begin with to counter it. The splattered slime mold immediately gathered into one once again... and entered the Flymon's open mouth, with a sickening "glob" and gurgle. Its body nearly bloated thanks to the slime now forced itself in. Its exoskeleton pulsated... more and more crackling sound could be heard, before... that happened. With a splatter, the exoskeleton BURST, sending dried husk of the vespid everywhere. What came out from the exoskeleton was something that covered in cocoon-- it grew bigger and bigger... until it too ruptured, and revealed an oddly fleshy Cannonbeemon. It still retains its original head shape, alien-like mouth that releases endless slimy gunk. Its eyes still covered with the hard crusted mushrooms. Rather than cannon pods that Cannonbeemon would have on its back, it's equipped with six gigantic musrhoom that grow on its back. Its railgun cannon is replaced with a really massive two pronged stinger, The beecomb shaped abdomen is back, except this one probably would shoot even more disastrous thing. "...Homeostasis..." Hikaru whispered. The first thing that it does... is to drop something from its cannon. "No--" Too late. The creature dropped a massive (thankfully undamaging) attack. These spores latches on body of unsuspecting victim, paralyzing them. Hikaru was no exception, he immediately plummetted to the ground. The effect of Eye of Wisdom already faded. The king hits the ground with a loud thud."Damn... it!"Horror is appparent in Yuuki's face. This... this situation felt the same as what happened when the first time on his adventure. His head felt like it's splitting... The pain... the sudden recalling... Hikaru turned into pincushion-- no! The young man quickly scrambled to his feet, grabbing his Digimon. The spores felt tingly, even mroe than ever. His EV suit is failling. It's going to stop working and he will get paralyzed too... but before then! Adrenaline pumping in his system helped him to take cover behind a tree about ten meters away from his current spot before his whole body locked from the spores. "....No, not now.. Please..." At that moment, his Digivice beeped. An incoming call? There's no sign that the ExD Digimon noticed him... or the rest to begin with... seem that its forced evolution made it temporarily a bit slow in response.... Yuuki pressed "answer" "Yuuki-san? It's Haku.""Haku!? Thank goodness, I need your help, Hikaru..." "I can pretty much guess what's going on, Boss... You're fighting against something right? I put a tracker on Pops' holosuit. I told him... 'if there come a situation where you have to fight and it's dangerous enough... don't just take it off, rip it off. I'll be there in fifteen minutes."
Yuuki bit his lips. That's too long! Thankfully, Waspmon- now Cannonbeemon, is looking around aimlessly, as if trying to adjust its senses. " From the lack of response I guess you guys are on your last legs. Yuuki-san, over the past few weeks, I have been together with Pops... I can't find anything wrong with him... which means, the problem is your bond with him.""So it's my fault that... he can't evolve?" There was a pause on Haku's response before he frankly answers. "...Not quite so.""Huh?" "Yuuki-san... You have been trying hard for Ys, haven't you? You spearheaded one of the biggest organization in Digtal World at the moment... then you built a city. For external management, you have worked so hard to make sure that Ys stayed neutral and as welcoming as possible. You tried to make it a safe haven for all of us... Honestly, it was so admirable for you to do that... but you know what I think whenever I visited your office?You're walking that path alone. It's as if you're thinking that you don't want to burden any of us... but perhaps instead you feel like you cannot let any of us share your burden because how heavy it was... You alienated people because you wanted to make them feel that everything is alright... but you know, we know that everything is not alright. We know how tired you are. We know how absolutely stressed you are.... We know how you feel like most of us are dear friends that you can't lost because you have lost too many......I admit, some of us are weak... some of us need protection... We're indeed unsure of the stormy road ahead... but it doesn't mean that we as the people can't stand to protect our leaders too! Get off from that high horse and ask for help if you can no longer do it! We're stronger than you think!! The time is over for a leader to be alone! It's time for you to walk with us, rather than walk ahead of us!That's why... that's why... please believe, once again.Show us the Yuuki-san that always smiled confidently... and say that despite the future looked bleak... There is always another way! This time, let's do it together!"A tear trickled down tthe cheek of the leader in disguise. It fell on the crest crystal on his digivice, causing it to shine brighter. Unmistakable signal of light rises to the sky, calling forth digital glyphs. At its highest, it calls forth a aurora-like portal. Said portal rained golden particles upon the downed Hikaru. "Dorumon... Shinka!" Hikaru's form is quickly replaced by a much bigger dragon. Although paralyzed, it now could do something more than just sitting still. When the light receded,a Dorugamon slowly rose from the ground, grinning rather strainedly. The ExD digimon finally noticed him again, a bit too late. Hikaru shoots an ice laser at its face. causing the Digimon to shriek in anger. "THAT THING MIGHT HAVE EVOLVED, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ITS HEALTH HAVE REGENERATED!" Hikaru told the rest. "PRESS ON TO ATTACK IT! NO MORE EVOLUTION! ANYONE WHO NEED HEALING, GET OVER HERE!"
Hikaru Paralyzed for a turn Evolved to Dorugamon Used Glacia Cannon: Chargable for three turns, with increment of 75% per turn. Hikaru is immobile while charging. Hikaru breathes out freezing laser. If it hits the target: damages them and this technique reduces their strength and speed by half for their next turn. Three turns cooldown, supplements with Mana Burst EX+, turning this move as powerful as a four turn cooldown move
ExD Cannonbeemon: Took both attack, but Evolved and Sakura's paraylsis no longer worked Used Spore Explosion. Due to level difference to balance the party's increase in power, it now only can attack once a turn. Used Explode Spore: Cannonbeemon unleashes a ball of spore from its stinger. 50 meter radius nondamaging attack that causes all target within the radius to be paralyzed for a turn. Three turns cooldown. Took Hikaru's Glacia Cannon
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Mar 27, 2021 5:03:26 GMT
"WAIT, DON'T DO IT-"
Kaya and Hawkeye both yelled at Hana once they heard her say those words. But it was too late... Rush evolved, into his armor ultimate form, an Eosmon. The creature slowly turned his head towards Rush as the whole scene stayed silent, even after the Holy Arrow had managed to splatter the slime mold. A cackling sound could then be heard from the snared Digimon.
Everyone held their breaths as they waited to see what would happen. The slime mold gathered once again, before entering the monster's mouth. The sound effects and the insect bloating up really did not help much. Seriously, this looks really fucked up, Kaya's only thirteen you monster.
It didn't end there. The exoskeleton could be seen pulsating and cackling before it it literally burst, revealing a cocoon that grew bigger and bigger until it too burst open and a very fleshy-looking Cannonbeemon crawled out, one that had giant mushrooms on its back as opposed to the normal cannons they'd have. With that alongside the other changes, this thing looked even more horrifying than the last.
"Did... did it just Digivolve...?" Kaya asked. Usually Digimon would glow and their forms would magically morph during Digivolution, not... whatever the hell this thing just did.
"I'm afraid it did..." Hawkeye responded. The first thing it did was drop something from its cannon, releasing spores that attached to their victims' bodies and paralyzed them. And unfortunately Hikaru was the prime target for these spores.
"HIKARU!!!" Kaya yelled, unable to believe what she was seeing. His partner Yuuki immediately jumped in to save him, the spores trying their hardest to attach to him as well. "YUUKI!!!"
"Kaya, you have to digivolve me! NOW!"
"I... I CAN'T!" Kaya stared at the massive bug freak in front of her, tears coming from her fear-ridden eyes and running down her face. She couldn't focus enough to spark any Digisoul...
...no.
She was not going to be feeling this anymore.
The armor hunt... the BurningGreymon... the pirates... in all of those situations she broke down like this, she would get so scared and helpless that she needed someone to pull her out of the darkness and back into the light. Kaya wanted to be that brave, badass heroine that you'd see on TV, but she always held herself back because of her own fear. And because of that, she almost caused the deaths of not only herself, but those closest to her. Well not this time. No matter how scary this horrifying abomination was, no matter what it did, she was going to look at it confidently and fight alongside Hawkeye and the others in order to defeat it.
In a positive turn of events, Hikaru would then Digivolve into Dorugamon, floating up slowly and blasting an ice laser into the monster's face before announcing that those that can fight should press on and attack. Kaya's Digisoul shot up briefly; while it wasn't enough for digivolution, it was enough to give Hawkeye even more energy to fight.
"Shoot it in the face, Hawkeye!" Kaya announced. "Shoot that motherfucker in its stupid, disgusting face!"
"You got it," Hawkeye announced, flying around to an angle where the ExD monster's face could be shot at. He pulled out an arrow, charging it with blue energy before shooting it right at the creature's face. "Freeze Arrow!" Hawkeye uses "Freeze Arrow" to shoot the ExD Cannonbeemon directly in the face.
Moves Freeze Arrow: Hawkeye turns his arrow into pure ice, which will then release cold air and freeze its surroundings. Cooldown is two posts. Diameter is 25 meters.
Passives Deadshot (Combat Passive): Hawkeye's aim is far superior to most Digimon. Each attack has its accuracy increase by 30%, making it more likely that his attack will hit its target.
Buffs/Debuffs Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (1/4) Spored
Cooldowns -Zap Arrow (2/2) Ready to use! -Holy Arrow (1/3) -Freeze Arrow (0/2)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Mar 27, 2021 21:56:25 GMT
At first, Hana was proud of her plan to have Eosmon act as a distraction... until the armor Digimon and Tamer saw that this had prompted the mutant to metamorphose (whatever that process was, it couldn't be called a digivolution) into something barely resembling a Cannonbeemon. There was only one statement that could accurately capture the duo's reaction to their monumental screw-up. "OH, fuck."
The pair didn't have very long to react before the monster released an explosion of spores that paralyzed everyone caught in its radius, freezing Sakura, Data, and Hana where they stood. Eosmon backpedaled and flew as fast as he could, barely managing to avoid getting caught by the blast radius.
"OH DEAR. IT APPEARS THAT WE HAVE GRAVELY MISCALCULATED THE SITUATION. WE CAN FIX THIS. WE CAN FIX THIS." Even though he spoke in a monotone voice, it was clear that the Eosmon was starting to panic a little as he started reviewing his memory of the battle to see if they'd missed something, while the Eosmon started flying back towards the mutant. As he remembered how the Flymon's target shifted to him and Data, he realized something. It happened right after Data started charging his Thunder Break, a very powerful attack for a Champion-level Digimon. "THIS THING TARGETS THE ONE DOING THE MOST DAMAGE. THAT'S WHY IT WENT AFTER DATA EARLIER."
"ACTIVATING PRISMATICARROWS.EXE." Rush exclaimed as he detached his wing panels. The mirror-like panels floated in a ring around the Eosmon as they unleashed a barrage of energy arrows at the creature. "EVERYONE! THIS OPPONENT APPEARS TO BE TARGETING THE ONES USING THE STRONGEST ATTACKS! BE CAREFUL WHAT ABILITIES YOU USE!" Buffs/Debuffs- Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (2/4) Spored Light Body (passive): Boosts Eosmon's speed by 50%, lowers his defense by 20%. Spore Explosion: Sakura, Data, and Hana paralyzed for 1 turn.
Actives- Petal Blizzard CD: 2/3 Dark Side Attack CD: 4/4 Thunder Break: attack interrupted. CD: 2/3 Nature's Bind: 0/2 Prismatic Arrows: Eosmon fires a barrage of rainbow-colored energy arrows from the panels on his wings. 3 post cooldown. 0/3
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Post by yuuki on Mar 29, 2021 2:55:55 GMT
"That part we already know!" Hikaru commented. He watched as the sea of spores below receded.. Is it already the time to be up, or is it because something else? Whatever it is, its evolution can't be complete. There's something absolutely wrong with it, not in how it appears, but most likely in how it tried to evolve that suddenly, it doesn't end well. Could it be...?
".............................."
More theories needed to be tested, as Hikaru doesn't quite have enough in his head at the moment. There's also thing where... ExD completely ignores all human target it seems. Hikaru checked his move database for the right attack to use in this time...
" The bigger the target, the bigger the damage!" Hikaru declared "Well then eat this!"
He called out four lasers that shoots at the back of the mutant Digimon. It shrieked in pain, trying to find Hikaru. However, whatever sensor it used seem to have been blocked by thick sheet of ice. Thanks to it, most attacks that aimed at it, like Hawkeye's attack (which further blocks its sensory) and Rush's attack takes effect! It flailed wildly, shooting slime mold everywhere.
Hikaru looked at something... something that might be crucial. it mightbe lind, but there's no way it couldn't sense anything, then could it be? He looked at the top of the head of the creature...
"OI, WHOEVER OF YOU HAVE THE STRONGEST ATTACK, SEVER THAT ANTENNAE OVER THERE!" Hikaru pointed out at two stalks sticking out from the top of the Digimon's head. "It's pattern might gonna get more erratic, but if we sever it, there's high chance that it would be unable to sense us at all! At that time, you can evolve and finish it with your best shot before it can evolve further!"
Plus Hikaru... felt that this Digimon might be incomplete. It's a bet, but he'll risk everything on this small bet. If this bet is wrong, then all he can do is to ask these people to stuff this creature to a portal he'll open. It hopefully would end up near Macro Ocean... where hopefully nothing gonna go wrong and it will die by itself.
For the meantime though, the king only could focus on dodging as this rain of slime mold is not only fast but also heavily damaging toward those who are aldready spored. Most likely it'll work the same like the spore ability it have prior... Does it pierce? It probably be best for them to not bet on it at all!
"Now unfortunately we don't have any more ice attacks..." Hikaru winced.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Mar 29, 2021 4:04:15 GMT
It seemed that Kaya and Hawkeye were the only ones not affected by the paralyzing attack, considering that they are in the air and as far away from this thing as they can possibly be while still be considered in the fight, and able to hear everyone else. Whatever, it didn't matter, they could at least still attack. Hawkeye's, Eosmon's, and Hikaru's attacks hit it perfectly, shooting slime mold all over the place. "Oh god, that's so gross..."
"It's best if we don't let that touch us," Hawkeye said, the Angemon flying nimbly to avoid being touched by the slime mold since he was already spored. Unfortunately he was careless and a piece ended up landing on his free shoulder. "AUGH!!!"
"Hawkeye! Are you okay?!"
"Tsk... disgusting slime must've landed on me... it stings like hell... I'll be fine though."
Whether it was thanks to Eosmon or Hikaru's analysis, it was then concluded that this thing was targeting those who were dealing out the highest amount of damage. Hawkeye sweatdropped in response.
"So does that mean I've been doing negligible damage this whole time...?"
That didn't seem to matter quite at the moment though, as Hikaru announced that those with the strongest attacks should aim for the monster's antennae in an attempt to sever them so it can't sense the group anymore. "Maybe a bit of lightning will help sever it," Hawkeye says out loud. He pulled out an arrow and charged it with more yellow energy and once again shooting at the monster, specifically at the antennae. "Zap Arrow!" Hawkeye is hit by the slime mold and takes double damage. He's still standing... or rather, flying.
Hawkeye uses "Zap Arrow" to sever the ExD Cannonbeemon's antennae.
Moves Zap Arrow: Hawkeye infuses his arrow with the power of electricity, causing the arrow to be lightning fast. Cooldown is two posts.
Passives Deadshot (Combat Passive): Hawkeye's aim is far superior to most Digimon. Each attack has its accuracy increase by 30%, making it more likely that his attack will hit its target.
Buffs/Debuffs Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (2/4)
Spored
Cooldowns -Holy Arrow (2/3) -Freeze Arrow (1/2) -Zap Arrow (0/2)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Mar 29, 2021 14:45:59 GMT
"SEVER THE ANTENNAE, YOU SAY?" Rush said, as he moved to avoid the slime mold flying towards him. "I'VE GOT JUST THE THING FOR THAT! TIME TO TIME TO GIVE OL' SLIMEBRAIN HERE A TASTE OF THE GOOD OLD SLICE'N'DICE! MIRROR DUST!"
The Eosmon's wing panels all detached and started flying towards the mutant creature's head in order to try and sever it's antennae. While Rush commenced his attack, Sakura and Data went to regroup with Hana once their paralysis wore off.
"Remind me as to why you digivolved Rush even though you were warned not to?" Data sternly told the young teen, as he casually used his arm to block a stray piece of slime mold from hitting Hana. It hurt like heck, but he'd honestly dealt with worse pain.
"In my defense, I thought it was blind and wouldn't evolve unless it was actually attacked by an Ultimate. How was I supposed to know it could somehow sense his armor digivolution?" Hana replied.
"Maybe because you called it out loud enough for everyone to hear it?" Data retorted in a deadpan. Hana opened her mouth to reply, only to close it and slump her shoulders in defeat.
"Maybe a little less arguing, and a little more helping to take this thing down?!" Sakura told the arguing duo as she fired off a shell at the mutant with her Flower Cannon. Buffs/Debuffs- Kingdom of Fungus: 30% debuff to attack and defense (3/4) Spored Lightweight (passive): Boosts Eosmon's speed by 50%, lowers his defense by 20%.
Actives- Petal Blizzard CD: 3/3 Thunder Break: attack interrupted. CD: 3/3 Nature's Bind: 1/2 Prismatic Arrows: 1/3 Flower Cannon: 0/2 Mirror Dust: Detaches its transparent, panel-shaped wings and sends them flying at the enemy. 2 post cooldown. 0/2
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Post by yuuki on Mar 30, 2021 1:18:36 GMT
"No time to argue! That's all water under the bridge! In fact I would say this is a good study material!" Yuuki told Hana's group. The more that he thinks about it, the more he felt like he really got some clues about ExD. However, even if their bet was a fail... in case the antennae wasn't the source of its senses... then...!
The two antennae got severed. Hikaru readied his technique just in case.
"In count of three, please evolve then use your strongest attack! If you can't then just use your strongest attack!"" Hikaru ordered. The Digimon is now enraged. It tried to regenerate its antennae, which probably signs that it's really an important sensing organ. However, Hikaru...
"GET AWAY FROM IT FOR A BIT!"
He immediately flew around and blasted energy bomb at it. He know that this is counterproductive, especially with how Light Bombardment is actually explosion of light type of attack... but as long as it's unable to regenerate those feelers, then it's probably worth it in his opinion! Unfortunately this means the King is spored. He pulmmetted down to the ground, feeling weaker than ever. Oh right, he... have forgotten that he's no longer Super Ultimate class Digimon who have tons of data in his body. With the Digivice blocked his evolution... The amount of data that he can muster is only as huge as an Adult stage.
The moment he hits the ground, Hikaru reverted back to Dorimon. Yuuki quickly pulled him away to safety..
"Now--! Do... your best!"
The Wasp however wasn't planning to go down all that easily. The mushrooms on its back pulsated and twitched. Its slowly grows brighter and brighter, until suddenly it releases countless lasers aiming at the more able fighters in the field!
ExD Cannonbeemon unleashed Green Plague Green Plague: AoE attack. Cannonbeemon releases green lasers with unknown strain of fungi contained inside. This technique deals massive damage, but due to its user's lack of ability to pinpoint its target, the aiming could be a little bit off. Bad news hwoever: it's almost like dodging touhou danmaku. 75% decrease to defense and attack to anyone who's [Spored]. Otherwise, just 50%. Duration of the debuff is 2 turns.. Once per thread.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Mar 30, 2021 2:19:18 GMT
Alright, yes! The antennae have been severed successfully, and the monster was desperately trying to regrow them it seemed. Hikaru gave the order, on his command the others had to evolve and then use the strongest attack they have. While they were waiting, Hikaru told everyone to get back before he fired an explosion-like light attack at the monster, damaging it greatly but also sporing Hikaru and forcing him to revert back to Dorimon.
"This is our chance!" Kaya announced, her entire body flowing with orange Digisoul before it all channeled into her hand, before she transferred that energy to her Digivice. "DNA... FULL... CHARGE!!!"
"Angemon, Evolution!" The Angemon would then start to glow and change shape, getting bigger and bigger but still making sure that Kaya was staying on her shoulder. When the glowing ceased, in the Angemon's place new flew a bird man like Digimon with a red mask, red feathers, blonde hair and a golden bow. "Garudamon!"
Now that its sensors were gone, the insect basically panicked and used its pulsating mushroom cannons to fire lasers at the fighters that were still in this battle. Thankfully its aim was off, and Hawkeye was able to see it coming. He successfully dashed to the side behind the wasp, pulling out an arrow and charging it with yellow energy, launching it right at the monster. "Take this, you mushroom-ridden abomination! Holy Arrow!" Hawkeye digivolved to Garudamon!
Hawkeye uses "Holy Arrow" on ExD Cannonbeemon.
Moves Holy Arrow: Hawkeye creates a bow made purely out of holy energy, more powerful than a normal energy arrow. Cooldown is three posts.
Passives Deadshot (Combat Passive): Hawkeye's aim is far superior to most Digimon. Each attack has its accuracy increase by 30%, making it more likely that his attack will hit its target.
Cooldowns -Holy Arrow (0/3)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Mar 30, 2021 3:00:46 GMT
"HAH, DIRECT HIT!" Rush excitedly exclaimed as he saw the mutated Cannonbeemon's antennae get severed. "TRY TO HIT US NOW, SLIMEBALL!"
His excitement was short lived when the Cannonbeemon unleashed a bullet hell laser barrage. "HOLY CRAP, WE'VE GONE TOUHOU! GRAZE PEOPLE! GRAZE FOR YOUR LIVES!"
As the lasers went every where, Sakura tried dodging them but ended up getting hit on one of her wings and dropping to the ground. Feeling the fungus from the laser starting to eat away at the wing, Sakura made the hard decision to grit her teeth and amputate the infected wing at the base with one of her swords. It would take a while for it to regenerate, but she didn't want to risk ending up like the Cannonbeemon.
Seeing a laser heading towards Data and Hana, the Eosmon quickly danced around the lasers towards his brother and Tamer. "OH CRAP! MIRROR GUARD!"
For a moment, the Eosmon had a smug grin on his face as he used his wing panels to block the incoming laser, which quickly faded as his panels cracked and shattered under the attack as the laser struck him dead on. The wounded Armor Ultimate ended up flying backwards into his brother's arms.
"IT BROKE... MY SPELLCARD. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE!" Rush said, temporarily stunned from the attack. "OW."
"Oh, that is IT! This bug's going down!" Data angrily exclaimed as he gently handed Rush to Hana. "Hana, digivolve me!"
"On it!" Hana replied as she raised her digivice.
"Guardromon digivolve to Megadramon!" Data cried out as he digivolved to his Ultimate form. "Screw it. I'm giving this pest everything I've got! Dark Side Attack!"
With this, Data unleashed a barrage of missiles at the Cannonbeemon, hoping to finish it once and for all. Nature's Bind: 1/2 Prismatic Arrows: 2/3 Flower Cannon: 2/2 Mirror Dust: 1/2 Dark Side Attack: 0/4 Mirror Guard: Spreads its transparent, panel-shaped wings to protect itself from all attacks for a single turn, and can reflect one attack back at the sender. 5 post cooldown. Shield penetrated, couldn't reflect. 0/5
Sakura was forced to amputate one of her wings, and can no longer fly for the duration of the fight.
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Post by yuuki on Mar 30, 2021 3:42:20 GMT
The barrage of attack were terrifying, but it managed to mostly finish what it sets to do... to destroy the plagued Digimon. Yuuki and Hikaru watched with bated breath as the smokes from the attack cleared.... And there it is... missing several limbs, and probably amost dying, but... it once again pulsated.
"Oh come on..." Hikaru muttered in agony.
If this thing evolves to Tiger Vespamon, then they're as good as dead....The insect shell contracts, twitches and turns... But in miraculous turn of event, suddenly... it fall, to the ground. Its body made a static-like noises and blurred. Then slowly... slowly... it turns greyer and greyer... until finally.
"...ank... ou..."
It crumbled into nothingness. Whatever this being is, it seems like its data wasn't enough to evolve to higher stage, causing it to instead destroyed.. Yuuki and Hikaru looked at the remnant of the Digimon. They sighed in relief. It's a surreal day, but nothing... so different from their usual one. Yuuki looked aroud the area. The spore is completely gone. The trace of the damages remain, but there are nothing... suspicious here. As if it dies with the infection. Yuuki took out his air analyzer just to be sure.
ExD Factor Contamination: 0.0005%
...It's completely negligible now. The battle is over.
"...Ah." he noted that there are something lying on the ground, near a tree. If he recalled it correctly, this was where he took Hikaru... right, this is where he first battled with Hikaru on his side. He carried him, and aimed him like some hand cannon. Remembering it made him chuckle.
"...You remembered, eh?" Hikaru happily commented
A block of data came out. It's golden in color, and seem to be far more solid than any other. It transformed into a butterfly-like shape. Yuuki checked it just in case.
Figment of Memory - Faith - Your beginning starts here. Faith toward the other, faith toward oneself, and faith toward better future... One of many moments, crystallized into butterfly shape by Digital World, to once again remind you that no matter how much you have grown, you should remember your past dearly, and use it to guide your present into future.
"I guess we can upgrade our artifact now, huh?"
"Yep!" Hikaru agreed.
"Anyway, are you all alright? If you need any healing, soon a doctor will come here. But before they come, you can ask anything, and I'll answer the best as I could."
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Mar 30, 2021 3:57:29 GMT
Kaya and Hawkeye both held their breaths at first. Once the smoke cleared, the monster was missing several limbs but it started pulsating yet again. They tensed up, expecting it to transform into some nightmare fuel version of TigerVespamon next or something. It began twitching... but then it fell to the ground, making static-like noises and turning greyer and greyer before crumbling to pieces. Kaya could've sworn that the monster... thanked them, before dying.
It was over. The monster was finally defeated.
Hawkeye hovered closer and closer to the ground, setting Kaya down gently onto the grass before he devolved back into his Hawkmon form. It took a bit for him to regain his footing since he too was exhausted by the fight. Kaya couldn't help but walk up closer to the now pile of dust that used to be a Digimon. "Why did this happen?" Kaya asked when Hawkeye walked up to her side. "What horrible thing could exist that turns Digimon into this? He didn't deserve it, Hawkeye..."
"There is not much we can do now, Kaya. We had to fight him, to protect ourselves and those in the forest. They're in a better place now."
"That's what they always say," Kaya retorted before turning away, crossing her arms. Just the sight of the corpse made her sick, for different reasons.
"Kaya..."
Yuuki and Hikaru would then turn to the others, asking if they were alright and mentioning that a doctor was going to be here soon. They offered to ask any questions that the group had, and oh boy did Kaya and Hawkeye have a few. "You know what turned an innocent Digimon into some kinda monster demon from hell," Kaya angrily said as she walked up to the two of them, her cheerful demeanor from earlier all but vanished and replaced with a more strict and no nonsense attitude, similar to Hawkeye. "I wanna know what happened. All of it."
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Mar 30, 2021 4:18:01 GMT
As the smoke cleared, Data growled when he saw that the Cannonbeemon wasn't dead yet. The growl soon died, though, when he saw it start to turn grey and thank them before dyingData then decided to revert back to his Hagurumon form, and was a bit wobbly as he floated due to exhaustion. "I pray that there's enough of your data left to be reincarnated, Cannonbeemon. You didn't deserve such a fate."
"WHAT HAPPENED? IS IT OVER?" Rush said as he came back to his senses.Seeing the corpse of the mutated Cannonbeemon, he hopped out of Hana's arms and ran over to it to poke it with a broken stick. "YEP, THAT'S DEFINITELY DEAD."
When Kaya and Hawkeye went over to Hikaru and Yuuki to demand answers, Sakura Data, and Hana went to join them.
"I'd like to know about whatever it was that turned that poor Cannonbeemon into that abomination as well." Sakura said, wincing as the bleeding stump of her top left wing continued to ache from being severed.
"Sakura, what happened to your wing?!" Hana exclaimed with a gasp as she saw the Lillymon's injury.
"That last fungal attack got my wing, and I had to amputate it to avoid the risk of ending up like Cannonbeemon over there. Don't worry about it too much, it'll grow back in a few days. Not the first time I've had a wing get damaged." Sakura replied with a pained grin, as she tried to brush off the teen's concern.
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Post by yuuki on Mar 30, 2021 5:02:02 GMT
That indeed huh... Yuuki mused of how to formulate this... He called out his D-NexT once more then pressed some buttons. "Authentication: By my name as the keeper of the lore I declare - Let the seed of knowledge be spread-"
That seems to trigger something in the digivice. it made several sounds before tons of holographic projection appeared around Yuuki himself. He operated the holographic interfaces then spin them around to the party.
"Let's start with what's going on then. This discovery was honestly... found about two years ago. By that time, Ys was still new, and it wasn't in shape of kingdom it is now. So our data recording ability was limited. It's not related to Ys but I'll start with that preface as of why there's some gaps in the recording. Anyway, let's address your question now. First... what is that, is it?"
Yuuki pulled out several images of Digimon. Tylomon, Seadramon, Mantaraymon... Then at the center of the holographic interface: a strange block of data that looked more to icosahedron. This Icosahedron is colored red with center that looked like a galaxy. Honestly would have looked pretty if not...
"What you're seeing at the center... is the virus that caused it all. We named it 'ExD'. It's shorthand for 'Extra Dimensional'. Because... that's what we believe where they came from." Yuuki gathered some of the holographic display and pushed them toward the two party. it's basically what they have found out regarding ExD.
"We believe that ExD is deeply tied to Sunken Elysium. Elysium itself is part of Macro Ocean... They said... Net Sea, a part of Digital World, is actually connected with several other Digital Worlds."
"Different universe, all connected," Hikaru supplemented.
'Our Macro Ocean is basically touching the Net Sea... and well, we believe if a Digital World ends up destroyed for whatever reason... its fragments will drift in the Net Sea. And afterward... from the Net Sea, it goes inside whatever part of other intact Digital World touches the Net Sea. That assuming they doesn't sink first. Unfortunately for us, whatever the source of this virus is, it doesn't sink to the Deep Web of the Net Sea. It instead reached here. We have no idea what is ExD and what is its goal... It might have not been a malicious program at first. It might actually meant to be something beneficial, but ended up mutating because corruption in its programming. Whatever it is, though it infect our Digimons."
And so Yuuki moved the virus images to the Digimon images... And they started to morph. The Seadramon one ended up bloated, with its mouth permanently open and with translucent body. It discharged electricity. The Tylomon ended up rusting and broken, with many blades sprouting from its body. The Mantaraymon became something alien looking, latching on some Digimon acting in vampiric way.
"...This is what happened in the Eylsium's deeper part... the quarantined zone. As long as you don't go there, you should be fine if you do want to visit Elysium. Anyway... resuming. Those who already affected are called ExD Digimon. There are... currently two known stages. Rejection... and acceptance. If your data isn't suited for ExD, the worst case is that you reject them. It will cause Digimon to go berserk. Normally, this can be easily fixed by quarantining the Digimon while healing them constantly... but if they ke[t getting exposed to ExD virus, then... after berserking they will die. That's the pattern.
Secondly... In case of it being a match... there are two possibilities. First... Is what you seen before. That one is an infected. Its element changed, its nature changed, it no longer registered in the traditional senses like ours. They don't have Virus, Vaccine and Data attribute anymore. They basically "become something beyond our world's law". As you can see before, that's not an usual Flymon, no. That's what happened. But what's scary it survived for a long amount of time... the virus would correct itself, and then leads to stronger, more perfected Digimon who's... not as suffering. It's apparently ExD's law that the lower matches always suffers..."
Yuuki showed another recording, this one of a Tylomon. Compared to the rest of rusted Tylomon, the one who leads them is about twice bigger with metallic, unrusting body and more blades on its body. Its movement is natural compared to the more robotic state of the others.
"....As an addition, these individual are treated like they're twice stronger from their natural level. Which honestly makes it absolutely deadly. Until this point, anything that you wanted to question or ask for elaboration?"
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