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White Space [It's Been Closed All Your Life]
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Mar 28, 2021 21:07:16 GMT
Life can throw a lot of curveballs someone's way. This was an unfortunate truth that many either accepted or learned to live with. Of course, for Aizawa Naoki, he didn't really know why or how he got here.
A sea of white sand, that happened to be monumentally chilly. It was odd, too. At one moment, he had been at the computer lab at the university, and at another, he was standing here. It felt odd. Like he had been here for a longer while than he thought, but...
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This place still felt very alien, for how empty it was. There was the looming specter of structures in the distance, but... He didn't even know what that was, either! "...There's way too few safe places I can think of here." Naoki muttered, mostly to himself. Useless as that had been because guess what?
It's a desert.
A cold one.
There's nobody here.
...The only real path to take was to that city-looking place. See how things look over there. Maybe see if there was any way to get home. And the youth started walking...
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Mar 28, 2021 21:33:04 GMT
Again. She was in the Northern Prominence again. Stacy shook her head as she walked along. Despite having an Evo Suit to keep out the cold she still shivered at the thought of it as she gazed out at the long stretch of snow in front of her. Zipping up her black leather jacket she carefully trudged along glad the AEGIS uniform she wore had boots because she would of hated dealing with all this snow in sneakers. Wet socks was never any fun to experience whether used to snow or not.
The wind seemed to gently blow but it hardly bothered her until soon she spotted a young man alone in the distance. Curious of this she carefully made her way to the young man careful not to end up slipping on some potential ice that may be beneath the snow. Soon she was only a few feet from him and approached as she called out in a friendly tone. "Hey there. Funny place for a teenager to be wandering on his own don't ya think?"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 21:56:17 GMT
Okay. So there were places in the Digital World colder than Hokkaido. Misaki probably should have taken that into account. But for reasons that would take a long time to explain, Misaki found herself appearing in the Shining Sea. And perhaps a little underdressed. Still, as any self-respecting Northerner, she wouldn't complain about the cold. Or even show the fact that it bothered her. She had her pride, damn it!
Well... not that there was anyone around to show weakness to. Oh, except there was that one guy off in the distance with glasses. And some other old lady who was totally already there by the time Misaki had jumped into this area. Well, traveling with a group of strangers was probably safer than traveling alone when there was a world of monsters willing to eat your face off. And Misaki would rather keep her face, thank you very much.
So she approached the pair, trudging through the cold desert, remaining perfectly silent, the only thing coming out of her mouth was her breath made visible by the climate. She didn't bother trying to sneak up on anyone. It was too damned cold.
Still, a smile and a wave would suffice, right?
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Post by ryouta on Mar 28, 2021 22:04:57 GMT
"Oyabun, what are we doing right now?"
"Who's Oyabun...? I'm not a Yakuza you know!" Ryouta refuted toward a Pulsemon that dangles on his shoulder. "Why are you calling me Oyabun anyway? Actually can't you just call me normally with something else? It's going to cause some misunderstanding!"
"Then, Kashira?"
"Aren't that just the same!?"
"Dunraz, don't tease aniki so much," Valt chided halfheartedly between snickers. "You should call him something like "Banchou"."
"Banchou~"
"Oi!"
The father and son duo laughed merrily. "But no, seriously, what are we doing this far anyway? It's rare for you to dispatch like this. You're quite in hurry too."
"Well basically we're here for rescue operative. Normally, people would send SOS Signal to Ys in case of something goes wrong, like if their car getting snowed in..." he remembered a certain leader from other city having her car buried under snow and had to be cleared out from it. "But in case of it being unidentified personage, especially one with analog signal rather than digital one, we instead rule in they might be newbie getting knocked here for unknown reason."
"Basically, a freak teleporting accident?"
"Or incident. I just hope they didn't go through the Shibuya River. Some madmen still trying to enter Digital World through that portal. Last time I hear, one of them hit their head on a darn fridge..."
The trio are talking casually as they're taking Grand Locomon Ilbert to the location of the signal. There are... other signals around now. Huh, looks like this is more of a handled situation, but just in case perhaps they should take these guys to Ys in case they needed some help, who knows!
And then the Grand Locomon made its stop, right in front of Naoki. The compartment door opened, blowing warm air toward the young man. Ryouta came out from the train and....
"...Huh what? Naoki?" the tall youth wasn't sure that he's ot seeing things. "What are you doing he--"
"Huh what? Naoki!?" Valt echoed. "What is he doing in Digital World? Last time I heard the poor guy got partial amnesia!"
"Nnnnot the best time to talk... anyway, uuuh..." Ryouta looked around and found a lady... probably in her fourties... man that's a rare age group. They're almost as rare as bigfoot. He thought they're practically cryptids in Digital World like this. The other one is... probably a young lady about their age? Eh Ryouta is probably older though.
"...Uuuummmm, are you guys also lost or something? If you guys need a lift to nearby city, or perhaps warm up inside..."
"He's saying you're fine to enter if you want," Valt commented. "But Naoki, you should go inside before you get frozen to death. Shining Sea's coldness is not a joke.'
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Mar 28, 2021 22:26:50 GMT
He had underestimated the cold of the area, because it was quickly getting worse by the second. And despite having not called out, or anything of the sort, there were still...people here? Really? In...such a desolate-seeming place?
Snap out of it. "I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic or not, this is the last place I'd expect anyone to be. But, nice to meet you too." ...Oh, there was someone else there, too. Someone way redder than the older looking lady. He returned the wave. Might as well, right? "...Oh, hi."
At the very least he wasn't on his own in the middle of-...Hold that thought, was that a...-
Naoki turned to face whatever that sound was, and found himself face to face with a gigantic train. And when confronted with something as MENACING as a GranLocomon staring you down? Naoki couldn't help but let out an actual shriek of shock!
After taking but a second to calm himself, the train door opened to reveal... "Ryouta?" Naoki had to take a pause at that. He knew him. Why was he here? Why was he on a train? Who was saying what about partial amnesia?
"I'll...ask about that later." He turned to his newly gathered posse of strangers. "The train's definitely better to be in than the...whatever this is. It's too cold. So...I'll just head inside." He nodded, before going to do just that.
"So, do you want to explain what this is...?"
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Mar 28, 2021 22:39:27 GMT
It seemed this desolate plain was suddenly more popular as there was more than just her and the young man all of a sudden. A tamer possibly with twins possibly had appeared as well as a teenage girl. The young man wasn't looking to good but a sudden shriek from him made her yelp as she clasped her hands over her ears and take a couple steps back. One of the curses of autism was her hearing was hyper sensitive but how was the young man supposed to know that. After taking a deep breath to calm herself she removed her leather coat and held it out to the young man before she said "Here until we all get on the train this is better than nothing. Don't worry about me I have something to help keep me warm in this enviroment."
Looking at the others Stacy said "Nice to meet the rest of you. I'm Stacy."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 23:37:52 GMT
Welp. A train came out of nowhere. And seemed to know the dude that was just standing around out in the open in the cold. How convenient! Naturally, the train dude offered the other dude a ride. Train dude's name was Ryouta, and the other dude's name was Naoki. Apparently. And the older lady who apparently looked 25 but was way older was named Stacy. And she apparently hated loud noises. Welp. Wouldn't have much of a problem with Misaki, then.
She nodded to train dude and his Digimon and pulled out a notebook she kept at her hip. She opened it up to the first page, and written across there in huge, bright pink letters
Fujimoto Misaki ~ It's a pleasure to meet you! <3
And with that she stepped onto the train, if allowed. Was this post 150 words? Probably not, but what else was she supposed to do?
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Post by ryouta on Mar 28, 2021 23:58:09 GMT
"I'll explain later. Get in, it's cold. Anyway, uh..." he guess he can't really haul these people just like that. The woman seem to be quite the veteran but it can't be said with the other two... well Naoki is technically a veteran, except... things happened. When they come in they would be exposed to the warm lobby of luxury liner train. The carpet is extra soft, the chair looked modern, and there are also numbers of amenities inside like charging port, drinks and many more.
"For the meantime if you need any snack or drink do tell me. If you're hungry I can whip something up first. But for the meantime sorry, we're not going to move to the city. Gotta make sure the protocol is followed, you know... ahem. Yeah so just tell me what you need."
Ryouta looked at the red haired girl who... apparently was mute? Oh right, he remembered that he knows sign language, so he immediately repeated what he said in sign language. He hoped that she's either just mute or knows JSL. Sometimes when your far cousin is a mute, talking with this rather than with him having to type out sentences in his phone helped a lot. Poor his thumbs.
Valt pulled a chair nearby together with Dunraz, making themselves comfortable again.
"Anyway, introduction. Name's Noguchi Ryouta. I'm... you can say..."
"This person is the master of this train if you could say," a butler appear out of a data projection. He's solidly built man in his sixties with very formal look. "And my name is Ilbert, this Grand Locomon itself... the train that you're currently in."
"That's my Digimon partner, Valt and that's his son, Dunraz." Ryouta introduced. "Now if you don't mind, can I ask what you're doing here? Or better question: Why are you here? And Naoki... Do you still have uh..." Crap, his D-3 has gone too far of iterations... it's no longer D-3 or Holy Device but his D-NexT. Naoki never seen that one before...
"Er, Ilbert, Project D-3 please."
"Right away, Master. Aizawa-sama, my Master means this." Ilbert procured a solid projection of D-3. Of course it's just a solid hologram.
"....Eh? Aizawa--Eh? Huh, Hisato and you are like...?" Ryouta seem just noticed something that he have been missing. "Eugh, whatever, my head hurts! Anyway, just answer the question, please!"
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Mar 29, 2021 1:57:10 GMT
Well, a coat plus the heating of the inside of the GranLocomon meant that hypothermia was no longer a danger. Also, Naoki did shoot a look of concern to the lady. Shoot, did he cause that? "Sorry. Thank you for the help, though." He uttered, quietly. He turned over to Misaki, who had been holding out a notebook, and...tilted his head.
Not a word. Using a notebook. She may be a mute. "Aizawa Naoki, it's nice to meet you, Misaki." At the time of stepping onto the train, the post was 75-85 words. So, taking a seat in the train, Naoki let out a sigh of relief. "...I can actually feel my hands again, great!" Of course, paying more attention to Ryouta and co...Naoki did feel like at least one of these two...things were familiar.
"...Huh, I...thought you were a dragon. We've met before, right...?" Did they? Naoki winced a bit, before looking to the D3. That looked like a... "...No, I don't have anything like that on me." He reached into the pockets of the coat underneath Stacy's coat--a labcoat from the Shibuya university, and pulled out a D1--also known as the Holy Digivice. "I've got this, though. It...looked a lot more busted when I was at the campus, though." It seemed repaired for one reason or another. Why?
And another thing to note...
"Hisato? ...That's my cousin. Is he...around here? Wherever 'here' is? Actually, wait, where 'is' here and why's it...feel like I've been 'here' before?"
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Mar 29, 2021 2:21:30 GMT
The young man now known as Naoki accepted her coat and thanked her and climbed on the train. The teenage girl now known as Misaki who appeared to be mute but at least she had found a way to communicate with everyone even those like Stacy who knew neither American Sign Language or Japanese Sign Language. Hell Stacy barely counted as bilingual with her Japanese barely conversational so she just spoke English out of habit.
The other man was a tamer Ryouta and with him on the train was his partner a Vmon and his son which was a Pulsemon named Dunraz though Stacy had never seen either species but she had seen a couple digimon with similar traits. The Flamedramon variants in AEGIS named Speed and Psych were examples but Valt lacked armor and was kind of cute. So the GrandLocomon and Pulsemon were likely mercenaries that were with Ryouta.
Climbing carefully on the GrandLocomon with the others Stacy sat in one of the chairs and when refreshments were mentioned she said "I'm fine. I don't need anything right now but thanks for asking." Then as if she suddenly remembered she said "Speaking of digivices I can't believe I left mine in my left pocket of my coat. Naoki could you hand me my D-Tector please?" she asked politely before lifting up her left hand so her digivice could be placed in her hand.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2021 21:37:45 GMT
Welp, this was all fascinating. Apparently Naoki was all kinds of confused about stuff. How odd. And there were both humans and lizard-creatures that looked liked they towed trucks for a living. With their arms. Probably not the most efficient way to make a living though. But to each their own, she supposed. Especially when they owned a train. Regardless, everyone started pulling out their Digivices for some reason. Anyways, Stacy wanted a D-Tector, so Misaki pulled out her own and put it in Stacy's palm. Was this just a joke? Misaki wasn't going to say.
Oh yeah, and when Ryouta started making all sorts of weird arm gestures, Misaki just smiled politely and shook her head. She never bother to learn how to sign. Not when phones and paper existed. Plus talking with your hands too much just seemed rude.
Anyways, they kept bringing up someone named Hisato or something. So they seemed to know each other and they were just catching up, she supposed? Well, it wasn't any of her business. Instead, Misaki took a seat, setting down her notebook in though. Welp, the train butler guy offered drinks and snacks, might as well order something while waiting for 'protocols' or whatever!
I'll have the angel-hair soufflé, almond-crusted sea bass, and of course, the tiramisu. And a bottle of water. She wrote down, more of a joke than anything else. She was more expecting something along the lines of a bag of chips and a 25g can of coke. Or looking at the train's residents, nothing but raw protein supplements. But hey, if the train butler guy could actually prepare her order... win-win.
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Post by ryouta on Mar 29, 2021 22:04:34 GMT
Valt looked at Naoki. "Yeah, I'm a dragon, well no one would think a Vmon is a dragon immediately upon looking, so any confusion will be forgiven. But yes, we're dragon... and... right, this is not our first meeting, Naoki." though the question is how to explain to him about their first meeting?
"Hmmm, looks like it fixed itself," Valt mused at the D1. "...Or more like, it's seem calling you back to this side. The last thing I want is for you to return to this side personally, but... I'm sure Xu and Fillia would be happy to meet you again... who knows..." ...He does know that Xu apparently was a grandfather long before Hikaru is. Which is interesting! But even then...
"Well that explains something," Ryouta nodded. "What about you, miss? Why are you here? LIke, what happened that you got to the north like this? Like, did you get into some funny portal or anything?"
The girl, Misaki, doesn't seem to understand sign language... which probably mean that her condition either just affected her recently, or she's not deaf. He'd go with the latter considering how she could joke around putting a digivice on someone's hand like that. And then, as of what she's asking... Ryouta squinted at the writing before...
"...I see I have been challeged," he grinned. Immediately, he walks into the kitchen, putting on his apron."
"Hoo, boy... well sit on tight. The meal gonna come out in thirty minutes I think.' Valt commented. "Really, Aniki is a cooking school student. If you ask him dishes like that he gonna whip it out like his honor on stake."
And then Ilbert quickly walked to her with a bottle of spring water. "For you while waiting, honored guest," he presented it to Misaki. "Do you have any allergy, Miss? Will tell that to the Master."
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Post by Naoki + Xu + Filia on Mar 30, 2021 4:20:01 GMT
Naoki would reach into Stacy's coat pocket, and would pull out...Oh. A D-tector. He compared it to the Tamagotchi looking thing, before he would hand it over to Stacy. It seemed like Misaki had the same thing, but it was decidedly different. "Pink and red, compared to...Blue and red. ...How different are these compared to the one I've got?" Compared to orange and gold?
...Weird.
Moreover, the fact that he had apparently met Valt before was starting to cause a bit of a headache than anything. He'd wince. Especially at the mention of those two names. Xu and Filia. They...held significance, he could tell that much, and he could put some faces to their names...
Yet they were blurred. He could not tell who they were. "...They sound like they were close to me. Who are they?" Naoki could at least tell that something was wrong here. Or at least...wrong with him. There was no way people could sound so familiar with him, while he had such a gap in his memories. Were they from those two years? Taking a look at Misaki's next decree in scripture, he snickered. "Those are some...really tall orders...!" All the more snickerworthy when Ryouta decided 'ah, I see, you have CHOSEN DEATH,' and gone off to actually go fix them up.
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Dang.
"Honestly, Valt? That sounds about right. He's damn good at it, too." So, there's some questions hanging in the air. Hopefully, some answers could be had. The lack of knowledge of anything here was starting to bug Naoki a bit, and the idea that this could be connected to that gap in his memory was...getting stronger.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Mar 30, 2021 4:35:55 GMT
When Misaki placed her own in Stacy's palm she assumed the teen misunderstood as she handed the D-Tector back and said "I was asking for the one I left in my coat pocket not yours. Sorry if I wasn't clear." When Naoki brought out her blue and red one and handed to her, she said "Thanks. I should of remembered to grab it before lending you my coat. I can be forgetful at times but at least it's only a minor annoyance to me at worst."
She never thought of why there were such differences in digivices in general but after hearing Naoki's words she said "Maybe the different colors and patterns make it easier to tell them apart so there are less issues with confusion with owners. Personality of the owner could have some influence too but I'm not to sure. I've only had this thing for a year."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 0:32:28 GMT
Stacy didn't seem to realize that Misaki was joking. Which kind of made it funnier for Misaki. Oh well, she had taken her seat and ordered her food, and the Olympic bodybuilder/representative for a steroid abuse hotline took it pretty seriously and went off to actually prepare the food. Pretty surprising if he actually had the food, considering this was a train and that they were essentially on an alien planet. But Misaki wondered if the guy was going to dump 987g of raw protein in there as well, like probably did for all his other meals.
Well... according to the maybe-amnesiac's account, as well as Ryouta's partners, it sounded like the chef knew how to run a kitchen. So she was excited to find out what. But other than that, she didn't really know what else to do. Maybe ask, "Hey there, did you check out the game last night? Crazy weather we've been having, am I right? What is the deal with airline food, anyways?" Well... not that she was gonna say anything of the sort.
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