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Into the Depths (Partner hunt) (Invite)
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Post by Octavio on Apr 20, 2021 0:36:50 GMT
While Zero tried to pry open the door to the lab, Tartar darted over to Octavio and grabbed the cephalopod's Xros Loader. "Hey!" Octavio cried indignantly, as Tartar fiddled with the Xros Loader and used it to try and DigiXros with Soundblaster. "Kokuwamon X and Ballistamon DigiXros to AtlurBallistamon!" The two exclaimed as they fused into a powerful-looking, blue-and-red mechanical Digimon. The newly-fused X2 Digimon charged at Zero and intended to deliver a punch infused with electromagnetic energy and punch Zero through the broken door. Whether Zero managed to dodge the punch or not, the force of the blow would punch the door off and send it flying against the opposite wall of the tunnel. After Johan and Dokamon turned invisible, Cecilia would flinch before scanning her surroundings. she managed to turn around right as Johan and Dokamon de-cloaked and struck her simultaneously. the attacks knocked her on her back, but the Rubescemon's tactical training allowed her to quickly roll from the impact with the ground and get back to her feet. Realizing her disadvantage, Cecilia decided to try a risky tactic to use in an enclosed space, as she didn't really want to risk killing the human if she didn't have to. "Well, it seems there is only one thing to do in this situation. *deep inhale* SCRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Cecilia exclaimed as she unleashed a Killer Wail. The sheer force of the sound would likely stop the two long enough for Cecilia to book it, unknowingly heading in the direction of Tartar's lab.
WC: 1430/2000 Electromagnetic Knuckle: AtlurBallistamon's wrist bracers spin to generate an electromagnetic force that is discharged through a powerful punch. 3 post cooldown, full piercing. Killer Wail: Kelp let's out a powerful shockwave of sound as she screams, dealing heavy damage to the foe. Full piercing, 4 post cooldown.
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Post by ricochet2-Ryuji&Calumon on Apr 20, 2021 2:52:34 GMT
Apparently surrender wasn't on the AppHackmon's mind but fortunately Soundblaster had stopped the shooting. Yoshihiro watched as the stranger was trying to force open the door and it seemed the task would be a hard one for the rookie digimon but Yoshihiro wasn't about to just let the intruder make a run for it so easily as he ran over towards Zero during his efforts to escape and grabbed one of the AppHackmon's wrists tightly and pulled before he said Nuh uh. Not so fast pal. I want to know why you snuck in here and what you want."
Ryuji watched for a moment while Yoshihiro was restraining one of the stranger's wrists before he, while staying behind Soundblaster, took action as he said "Anyone who breaks into a place from the shadows can't be up to any good but you shouldn't have broken into this place while there were digimon here to deal with you. You must not be very experienced at breaking into places to make a mistake like this." No, Ryuji wasn't calling the stranger stupid nor was the teen stupid enough to since he knew that even rookies could mop the floor with him so around digimon he had learned to watch how he spoke.
OOC: WC: 1117/2000
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Post by Johan Walker on Apr 20, 2021 3:15:04 GMT
While Zero was trying his hardest to pull open the door, he could hear something happening behind him. He got the door lifted up almost enough before he heard the words "DigiXros." Zero's visible eye widened as he turned around behind him, seeing a seemingly upgraded version of that Soundblaster guy from before. They had the power to DigiXros! Zero had only heard stories about that kind of power! He didn't have time to be impressed though, as the new X2 form delivered an electromagnetic punch right at the AppHackmon.
"Son of a-"
He didn't get to finish that thought as he was punched right through the metal door. He could be seen T-Posing as he flew through the air before he hit the ground, bouncing a couple of times before sliding to a stop not too far away. Zero winced as he tried to pick himself up, that hurt quite a bit. But he got what he came for, and he remembered where the location was; he would simply come back later and retrieve the rest of the data alone.
The Calumon from before ran up to Zero and grabbed his wrist. He of course wanted to know why Zero was here, along with the Calumon's Tamer suggested that he should have broken in while the Digimon were gone. "Well that thought DID come to mind, but then again I couldn't wait to see what goodies were stored in that computer system. And man did I get some good stuff." Hacking wires would come from the claws that Yoshihiro was gripping onto, and attach themselves to the Calumon himself. "A martial artist, hm? That's unique for a Calumon. What else... ooohkay, did not really care to know about what kinda 'mons you prefer." Zero retracted his hacking wires. "Well that was a waste of a hack. Can I go now?"
After Johan and Dokamon attacked, the Digimon did an impressive maneuver by rolling back on her feet after collapsing onto the ground. They both now had the advantage against her if she tried anything, she didn't have any leverage to attack or threaten them with that they couldn't see coming now. So what did she do?
She unleashed a killer scream-type move that rendered Johan and Dokamon immobile long enough for her to run away as they tightly held their ears in order to stop the ringing sound. "AAAAAAUGH, DAMMIT!!!"
"This is worst than Shoutmon's yelling," Dokamon said in a monotone-esque voice.
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Post by Octavio on Apr 20, 2021 4:27:21 GMT
"Well, you destroyed your door." Octavio snarked after AtlurBallistamon had punched the AppHackmon straight through the door, thus rendering it completely ruined. "Can I have my Xros Loader back now?"
The X2 digimon casually tossed the device back to the ShogunOctomon before heading out of the ruined door after Zero. He noticed Yoshihiro grab the hacker to restrain him, and the hacker tried hacking the Calumon, but apparently found nothing useful on him. AtlurBallistamon went up to the two and went to grab the AppHackmon's head with his large hand. As he held the rookie, a hacking cable extended from the AtlurBallistamon's chest and plugged into the AppHackmon's forehead.
"Time for me to take back what you have stolen, thief." AtlurBallistamon said as he began attempting to take back the data that Zero had stolen from the lab's computer. "Your hacking attempt may have been somewhat successful until now, but you will not get a second chance. Once you have been dealt with, I will simply purge this compromised lab's servers and transfer the data to one of my other bases."
"You have other labs?" Octavio incredulously asked as he caught up with the others.
"I am not so foolish as to store all of my work in a single location, specifically because of situations like this." AtlurBallistamon replied, not looking away from the AppHackmon.
A loud scream could be heard in the distance, one that was very familiar to Octavio.
"Cecilia!" Octavio shouted as he moved in the direction of the noise.
WC: 1682/2000 Ink body 4/4 Electromagnetic Knuckle: 1/3 Killer Wail: 1/4
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Post by ricochet2-Ryuji&Calumon on Apr 20, 2021 4:55:52 GMT
Ryuji watched as the door was not only damaged in the confusion he observed but practically destroyed as AtlurBallistamon punched the AppHackmon through the door. At least the intruder didn't get away since AtlurBallistamon had ahold of AppHackmon now. Yoshihiro had lost his grip after the shock of having being hacked himself.
Ryuji went to Yoshihiro who looked stunned and asked "Yoshihiro, are you alright? What's wrong?"
Apparently his tamer had not hear the AppHackmon's words regarding his preferences in digimon but, since he was not ready to mention such to Ryuji, Yoshihiro composed himself before he said "I'm fine, Ryuji. Let's go. We can't let the intruder escape so easily."
Both Ryuji and Yoshihiro began following the others and they heard from AtlurBallistamon that he had more labs. Seeing as there were likely others like that AppHackmon such a precaution was a wise one. Before either Ryuji or Yoshihiro said anything more though a scream was heard by all and Octavio obviously recognized the voice as that of his daughter, Cecilia, and ran in the direction of the shout while calling out to his daughter.
Figuring that AtlurBallistamon had things well in hand Ryuji followed Octavio. Before Yoshihiro did the same he looked at AtlurBallistamon and said "I assume I can trust you to keep an eye on our friend here while I help out Octavio and Ryuji." With that said the martial artist followed after his tamer easily catching up to the teen.
OOC: WC: 1362/2000
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Post by Johan Walker on Apr 26, 2021 3:22:20 GMT
Apparently Zero would not be able to go. As soon as he was done seeing what the Calumon had inside of him, the AtlurBallistamon grabbed the AppHackmon by the head, lifting him up and attaching a cable from his chest right into Zero's head. He was obviously trying to search for the files that Zero had stolen and take them back. Now Zero of course thought this through, so while Tartar searched and searched all he would find were .mp4 files of cat videos found all across the Internet.
"You think I would've just kept all that data within myself?" Zero asked with a chuckle, pulling a USB Flash Drive that was completely empty out from his cloak. "I stored it all right here on this very flash drive. I'll happily give it to ya if you let me go." Of course the flash drive was empty and worthless but Tartar didn't know that. Zero felt that he was a pretty good liar too, so maybe they'd be able to fall for his bluff? Not only that, but unbeknownst to Tartar, hacking Zero resulted in a secret tracking malware being implanted on Soundblaster's half of the Xros form. Wherever he goes must be where one of the other labs would be...
Suddenly a loud scream could be heard from the distance. The octopus Digimon apparently recognized that voice and darted after it. Zero looked at Tartar. "So uh, are you gonna follow that guy?"
Back with Johan and Dokamon, once they had recovered from the sudden scream attack the squid girl Digimon was long gone. "Well, there's no use chasing after her now."
"Agreed. Come on, we need to start looking for Zero. I cannot believe the bastard would just ditch us like this."
"I could. He's not very trustworthy."
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Post by Octavio on Apr 26, 2021 19:05:59 GMT
AtlurBallistamon growled as he rummaged through the AppHackmon's memory, finding nothing but useless cat videos that he promptly attempted to delete without actually trying to download. One piece of malware almost managed to sneak its way into Soundblaster's half of the Xros form, but Tartar's consciousness caught it in time and quarantined it behind a firewall for deletion
"Do you think that I'm a fool who would just blindly trust what you're offering, hacker? All that effort to steal my work, and you immediately offer it back if I let you go? Not to mention you're feeble attempt to infect us with malware." AtlurBallistamon scoffed. This thorn in his side was starting to get on his nerves. He retracted his hacking cable, as he knows that the Data is not inside the AppHackmon himself. "That drive is most likely a dud, or otherwise infested with more malware. Of course, even if it is the real deal, I don't need to release you to do this."
While keeping a firm grip on the hacker's head, AtlurBallistamon used his longer reach to try and grab the flash drive from Zero so that he could crush it.
Meanwhile, Cecilia stopped running when she realized that the Dokamon and the human were making no attempt to follow her. She scanned her surroundings to get her bearings when she heard the sound of something scuttling towards her from the opposite direction from which she came. She spun around to point an ink blaster at the oncoming entity, only for the blaster to be knocked from her hand by a tossed piece of wasabi. The rubescemon froze as she saw who had thrown the Wasabi.
"Dad?" WC: 1962/2000 Electromagnetic Knuckle: 2/3 Killer Wail: 2/4
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Post by ricochet2-Ryuji&Calumon on Apr 26, 2021 19:28:18 GMT
Ryuji's long legs served him well as he easily caught up to Octavio and was not far behind the ShogunOctomon. The sound of a gun made him nervous but Octavio disarmed the digimon he didn't yet get a good look at by throwing his wasabi. As Ryuji rounded the corner stopping behind Octavio he caught sight of Cecilia hearing her call Octavio Dad. Catching his breath, Ryuji looked around before he said "You must be Cecilia. Were you being attacked or something cause I don't see anyone now."
Meanwhile in Yoshihiro's attempts to catch up with Octavio and Ryuji he almost ran head long into Johan and Dokamon the Calumon(Rookie Form) managed to stop in the nick of time before he said "Sorry about that. I'm in a bit of a hurry. I have to catch up with my tamer. You haven't seen a teenage boy with wearing a red hoodie and sporting a messy mop of black hair have you? As tall as he is I can't believe I lost track of him."
Since Yoshihiro had no idea that Zero came to that area with them his usual friendly demeanor was in full force as his long tail curled back up into its neutral position now resting on his back but could uncurl super quick if need be.
OOC: 1582/2000
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Post by Johan Walker on Apr 27, 2021 3:59:30 GMT
Damn, Zero could feel that his attempt at a malware infection didn't work. The Kokuwamon half of this Xros form was pretty dang smart. He'd have to upgrade the malware to make it not as easy to pinpoint or firewall. Not only that, the dude was deleting Zero's cat videos! Not cool! Granted he just took them from the internet so he could easily find more but still, how could you delete a cat video?!
Naturally Tartar didn't fall for the BS-USB flashdrive schtick, but at least he didn't truly call his bluff. The truth was that the data was inside of a flash drive that Zero had, but it wasn't in the same flash drive that Zero was showing the AtlurBallistamon at this current moment. Regardless, without letting Zero go, he promptly took the flash drive and crushed it. "Damn, that was my favorite flash drive too. Ah well, at least I can say that I stole some pretty important shit once, even if I did end up losing it. Can I go now?"
While that was going on, Johan and Dokamon were still searching the surrounding area for their AppHackmon companion. He was still new to AEGIS and not nearly as disciplined as some of the other members, so it wasn't unexpected that the guy would just run off like that. Still wasn't a cool thing to do, however. "He's probably hiding from us somewhere around here. Or maybe he found something interesting."
"Johan... may I ask why you even keep Zero around? He hustled his way into AEGIS, he has easy access to any technological thing in existence, and he doesn't even seem to care about anyone or anything, including himself. He's too much of a hassle to have around, I feel."
"...honestly? I-" Johan never got to finish that thought as someone immediately came to a sliding halt beside them. It looked like a slightly bigger Calumon, He was asking if anyone had seen his partner, a human with a red hoodie and messy black hair. "I'm sorry, but no. The only one we saw here was this octopus Digimon recently. We're actually looking for someone ourselves; a blue Hackmon, goes by the name of Zero. Have you seen anyone like that around here?"
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Post by Octavio on Apr 27, 2021 4:45:22 GMT
"You are really making it difficult for me to fight the urge to pop your skull like a grape, you irritating piece of vermin. After all, you can't make any use of your stolen data if you're reformatted." Even if his almost emotionless tone kept it from being obvious, this was actually a bluff on AtlurBallistamon's part. While Tartar did hate organics and had no problem with forcibly rooting around in a Digimon's mind or even reprogramming them, outright murder was one line he wouldn't cross. Not that the hacker needed to know that.
Deciding that he was tired of dealing with this hacker and his incessant chatter, AtlurBallistamon moved to follow after the others, although his heavy form meant that he couldn't move particularly quickly. Soon, this troll would be someone else's problem.
Back with Octavio and Cecilia, both father and daughter started running at each other the moment Cecilia spoke and the Rubescemon picked up the smaller octopus and swung him around in her arms. They were both so happy to be reunited that neither of them could form proper words. wc: 2145/2000 Electromagnetic Knuckle: 3/3
Killer Wail: 3/4
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Post by ricochet2-Ryuji&Calumon on Apr 27, 2021 5:09:36 GMT
When Yoshihiro heard that they hadn't seen his tamer he said "Damn one would think a five foot eleven teenager with a necklace identical to my own would be easy to spot." Yoshihiro then sighed and was getting ready to leave before they mentioned a blue Hackmon named Zero he stopped and said "Yes, I've seen this Zero you speak of. He broke into a lab belonging to a Kokuwamon X named Tartar. My tamer and I went to that lab with Tartar and his general Octavio making a stop over before looking for Octavio's missing daughter but Zero ran off. Tartar xrossed with a Ballistamon and seemed to have caught him when I saw him last." Then he gestured in the direction he came from before he said "If you want to find Zero he is in that direction. I myself personally don't want to be near him after he hacked me."
Back with Ryuji, Octavio, and Cecilia, Ryuji had remained respectfully quiet while the father and daughter hugged it out. It was then Ryuji realized something was amiss as he looked around. "Wait, where is Yoshihiro? He should have caught up to us well by now." Ryuji said wondering what happened to the four foot tall rookie that he was partnered with.
OOC: 1796/2000
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Post by Johan Walker on May 2, 2021 17:14:05 GMT
"Aw, I'm annoying you that much? I'm so flattered~" Zero said in a mockingly sentimental tone. He took joy out of the little things, such as being a nuisance to Digimon who were arguably way worse than himself. "But really even if you tried it probably wouldn't work. I can get outta here whenever I want. I was just waiting to see if you would let me go. Which apparently you won't."
Whether or not Zero was bluffing about that was anyone's guess. Zero just... well, hung around there as the AtlurBallistamon followed after the others, at a pretty slow pace as well. This was clearly because of his bulky stature, but that didn't mean Zero wasn't gonna have any fun with it. "Are we there yet? How much longer? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? I'm hungry. Are we there yet? I gotta pee. My leg's cramping. Are we there yet?" Yeah, this would annoy his captor in no time...
Back with Johan and Dokamon, while the Calumon was disappointed about not being able to find his partner, he was able to give some information on where Zero was. Apparently he broke into someone's lab and stole some of their data, and he was now caught by some Xrossed Digimon. Not only that, but the Calumon made a mention of Zero hacking him! "I warned you, Johan."
"God damn it Zero..." Johan groaned, rubbing the bridge of his nose with his thumb and pointer finger. "I'm so sorry for the trouble he's given you guys. Thanks for your help," he would say before running off into the direction the Calumon pointed towards with Dokamon. When they catch up to Zero, he is gonna be in a whole world of trouble...!
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Post by Octavio on May 3, 2021 23:21:08 GMT
As he walked, AtlurBallistamon tried to keep his temper under control as the AppHackmon kept taunting him. Soundblaster's emotional coldness served as a stabilizing factor, but even then the Xros could only withstand Zero's annoying behavior for so long before he snapped.
With Octavio and Cecilia, the reunited father and daughter broke up their hug so that Octavio could explain the current situation to Cecilia.
"Oh, yeah. I ran into a couple of guys back that way that got separated from a guy named Zero." Cecilia said, pointing back towards the way she came with her thumb. "If I had to guess, this Hackmon guy is probably the guy they're looking for."
"Well, then I guess we'll just have to go and ask these guys some questions, then" Octavio decided.
"Yeeeaaaaah, about that. I kinda... got into a fight with them and ended up having to fall back?" Cecilia nervously said.
Octavio facepalmed at her words, and sighed in resignation. "Wonderful."
At this point, AtlurBallistamon and the captive Hackmon finally caught up to the trio right before the Beetle Digimon's patience finally ran out. Holding the Hackmon out to the others, AtlurBallistamon said, "Someone take this miscreant before I use his face to repaint this entire tunnel." WC: 2354 killer Wail: 4/4
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Post by ricochet2-Ryuji&Calumon on May 3, 2021 23:53:32 GMT
Sounds like Zero was a force that made Yoshihiro's pride and arrogance when he and Ryuji met seem minor by comparison. At least the martial artist didn't break into places except to rescue others from those with malicious intent. Yoshihiro watched as Johan and Dokamon ran off in the direction he indicated before floating into the air and following them. With luck he would spot his missing tamer by doing so.
Meanwhile with Octavio and Cecilia, Ryuji shuffled on his feet awkwardly feeling like a third wheel. "Uh I hate to interrupt the two of you but I seem to have lost track of Yoshihiro so maybe we should look for everyone." Ryuji said hoping father and daughter would hear his words.
Meanwhile with Johan and Dokamon, Yoshihiro soon spotted AtlurBallistamon arriving with the problematic Hackmon and couldn't help but chuckle but did nothing to interfere since the Hackmon made the rookie level Calumon uncomfortable. Besides he still hadn't found Ryuji.
OOC: 1957/2000
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Post by Johan Walker on May 22, 2021 21:41:13 GMT
Zero took pride in the fact that his intentionally being annoying was getting to the Xros form in some way. If the AppHackmon was being honest with himself, the Kokuwamon X half of this Xros was both super fun to mess with and also getting on Zero's nerves as well. It's clear that these two were going to have some kind of bitter rivalry against each other. For now though, Zero just kinda hung around as the AtlurBallistamon tried his best to catch up to his own group.
Eventually the Xros form managed to catch up with the Octomon, and this time there was a squid-like female Digimon alongside him. Zero assumed that she must be the Octomon's daughter or something. Tartar was VERY keen on getting rid of Zero by this point, begging for someone to take him from them. "You know, you could've just easily let me go instead of carrying me around like this," Zero taunted. "I'm amazed you held on for so long. You must secretly like me~"
And at that moment was when Johan and Dokamon came running up to the group. From there they saw Zero being held by some sorta Ballistamon variant, a human that the Calumon must've been talking about looking for earlier, a variant of an Octomon, and that same squid-like girl Digimon from before. As much as Johan wanted to point out their encounter earlier, there were more important things to deal with.
"Zero, there you are," Johan said, running up to the AppHackmon and Ballistamon variant. "Could you please let our friend down now there?"
"You have a LOT of explaining to do, Zero," Dokamon said with his arms crossed as he glared at the AppHackmon. Man, did the little cyborg look scary at this moment.
"I told you I wasn't very interested in what you two were doing. I saw something more interesting going on, and I went over to check it out. I got some pretty amazing data as well!"
"Data that you stole, I'm assuming..."
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