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The Idiot in the Motorcycle Helmet
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Post by supesman on Jun 7, 2021 2:15:41 GMT
This part of town was a bad place to hang out, especially in the middle of the night when whatever cops even bothered to try and keep a lid on the neighborhood's worst aspects had all gone home to the safer parts of metropolitan life. The kind of place that was a mixed up jumble of criminals, low class villains and the poorest layer of innocent people just trying to make lives for themselves with nowhere else to go. It was the epicenter of a thousand tiny tragedies, lives broken apart and scattered to the four winds without so much as a care. One of those stories looked to be playing out tonight, a young man pulled into the depths of an alleyway between two condemned buildings. The man and woman surrounding him threatening him in hushed tones. Nobody would have ever seen the outcome of this little morality play if it wasn't for one voice, unafraid to speak much louder and more firmly.
"Hey. You wanna pick on somebody. Pick on somebody your own size." Said the figure, drawing the attention of anybody who would happen to be in the area as the confident tones of his voice reached out and bounced off the walls. He was dressed in a standard motorcycle helmet with a distinctive set of modifications. The visor had been removed, replaced with a nose guard screwed into place, the gaps over the eyes covered by blue tinted lenses that glittered under the street lamp's flickering above. It was spray painted golden yellow with amber-bronze stripes around the sides and two black painted on antennae on the brow. He wore a similarly colored motorcycle jacket with a sewn in pattern of three bees in flight on the coat pocket and across the back, golden leather gloves, thick boots and baggy pants.
"You have GOT to be kidding me, dude." Said the female assailant, actually pushing away from her quarry to just gawk with her partner at this idiot in the motorcycle helmet, thinking he was a god damn Kamen Rider. "I mean, we have to mess you up. Just on principle." She said, the would be victim taking the time to scram post haste as the two toughs rushed the masked figure.
"You know what's nice about criminals here in Japan, sweetheart?" He said, grasping a discarded piece of scrap wood from the garbage pile to his left hand side, sidestepping the blind bull charge of his attackers and busting the wooden prop over the male assailant's neck. "No handguns. Which is always nice." He said, tripping the woman as she ran past, leaving her skidding and rolling to a stop, pushing herself back up to a stand as she pulled a common household kitchen knife out of her ratty jacket.
"Don't you DARE call me sweetheart!" She would shout, trying to stab down at him only for something to arrest the downward momentum of her arm, holding her sleeve in nearly a half a dozen place. It was hidden in the shadows from a view at any real distance but the thug looked up, clearly able to see from directly below and she SCREAMED.
"Oh don't worry, I wasn't talking to you. Just wanted to make sure my kid is getting all of this, yknow?" He said with the cockiest possible air, cocking his hips to one side with his hands on his waist. The female thug getting shoved to the ground by whatever had held her arm before it somehow vanished back into shadow and both of the toughs ran as fast as they possibly could, gibbering terrified nonsense that would draw the attention of more than one of the admittedly few people walking these streets at this time of night.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jun 7, 2021 2:36:11 GMT
LJ was walking past this bad part of town. If the young disguised digimon knew any better he wouldn't likely be there without a good reason. At least a mix of knowing karate and being a digimon didn't make him an easy victim even in his holosuit disguise.
A ruckus caught his attention which sounded like a fight and he became more alert as he picked up the pace soon running. Picking up footsteps he slowed down just in time to avoid to terrified thugs as they dashed by seemingly not noticing him in their haste. The sounds had stopped so it was easy for the disguised Leomon X to conclude that the fight was more than over and the winner had managed to terrify those two who ran by him badly.
Curious about what had happened and, despite knowing that it might lead to trouble, he continued in the direction the thugs came from soon spotting someone dressed strangely but also sensing something else. There was no mistaking it, there was a digimon nearby. Keeping his guard up he approached the stranger and said "Excuse me. I heard a commotion. Are you alright?"
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Post by Speed & Psych on Jun 7, 2021 3:01:01 GMT
I have a bad feeling about this... Psych told his brother Speed as the two of them floated high above the Udagawa back streets of Tokyo. Why were the twins in such a sketchy and dangerous part of the city all on their own today? It was because of a thought that Psych managed to intercept as the duo were out doing some late night shopping. It was a thought that someone had about actually going to Udagawa to fight crime as a "Digi Rider", whatever that was. After telling Speed about this, the two agreed that they were gonna patrol that area tonight and hopefully stop whatever was about to happen.
"You really think some human's gonna be dumb enough to play superhero, Psych?" Speed asked.
I don't know... I hope not. Even without the knowledge of us Digimon, this area is far too dangerous for a human at this time of night... wait, I sense something. Three... no, four humans. Down here.
Psych would then allow himself and his brother to hover somewhat above the alleyway, low enough to see what was going down but high enough to not be spotted so easily. They saw what looked like two muggers assaulting someone... and a human that seemed to be cosplaying as a Fanbeemon? Naturally, the twins were both confused by this. That's when the two muggers would rush towards the cosplayer, and Psych was initially going to intervene, but then one of them screamed. The two muggers would then run away as fast as they could, which would definitely draw the attention of other passersby. "Bro, I think I sense a Digimon down there... a Rookie level one."
That must be why those two ran away. Using a Digimon as a tool to fight petty criminals like this... come on, we need to go down there and stop this.
Psych then hovered himself and his brother down, towering over the... weirdly dressed human by at least a foot. Neither of them looked too happy at this human. I was hoping I was wrong when I overheard thoughts of someone doing exactly what you're doing. Explain yourself. The human would hear these words being spoken to him within his own mind, it was clearly the purple dragon that was doing this.
And that was when the next person showed up, clearly a passerby that had heard the commotion from earlier. Speed looked up, concerned that they were just another human that are now staring at a Kamen Rider and two dragon-like creatures. Psych was more concerned with said Kamen Rider, however...
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Post by supesman on Jun 7, 2021 3:11:40 GMT
Zack turned and smiled to LJ, not that his expression could bee seen much underneath the heavy helmet that eh was wearing. Though he did have this kind of...energy about his body that made it very clear that he was certainly proud of himself if nothing else.
"Who me? Yea I'm fine. Saw some injustice in the world and I corrected it. What else can you do when the right means drop into your lap?" He said, leaning with his back against the wall, his arms crossed over his chest as he saw two shadows descending into the alley.
"Dad I..." Marigold peaked out of the flap of his coat, her twin, short antennae bouncing softly back and forth like length of thick steel wire. Zack held one finger to her face to hush her up as the duo lowered themselves down in front of him and began to tell him off. He didn't react harshly, he didn't even really seem to react at all.
"Ah, Professor Xavier, I presume." He said as he got that little admonishment inside of his head, though it didn't seem to break his stride all that much, mixing that famous movie quote with another comic book reference.
"Dad just..." She said, her voice muffled as he tried to keep her hidden and protected under the hem of his coat even as she squirmed a little bit wanting to get a peek at the action.
"Explain myself? I think it's pretty self explanatory, all things considered. My daughter and I are gifted with the power to see some justice done for people. Are you going to stand here, look around at this place and tell me that they don't need it? That they don't deserve it?" He said, sniffing and pushing himself away from the wall, standing tall and planted on his own two feet, looking up at the twins without a single flinch in his convictions as the small Puroromon burst free of his coat.
"DAD! All three of these guys are Digimon!" She said, pointing wildly at the trio flanking them in the alley, which made a soft chuckle escape Zack, he pushed his thumbs into the hem of his helmet and pulled it away.
"Well doesn't that make things interesting. Hey there. My name's Zack, this little buzzer is my partner in crime, Marigold. Pleased to know you." He said, grinning genuinely without a hint of cynicism in his response. "Like I said, Marigold and I are just doing the tried and true "Power and Responsibility" routine. We have the ability to help people that slip through the cracks, both in this world and the Digital World, and that is exactly the path we plan to take. Hell or high water." He said, Marigold backing him up by hovering at head height of Psyche and Speed and nodding with a brisk determination.
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jun 7, 2021 3:30:23 GMT
Shortly after the twins dropped down began explaining himself coming off to be somewhat nuts as he was carrying himself as a superhero and the purple dragon didn't appear to be happy about it. Then the digimon with him exclaimed that he and the two dragons were digimon. 'So much for keeping a low profile.' LJ thought as he checked to see if anyone else was coming. When he was sure it was clear he deactivated his holosuit revealing his true form of Leomon X flowing blue cape and all.
"Nice to meet all of you. I'm LJ. As for helping others I'm normally all for it but you have to do more than simply desire to help. If you make a wrong move someone innocent could be hurt. Not that I have much experience with the whole hero thing." LJ said as things had just gotten more interesting than he could bargain for.
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Post by Speed & Psych on Jun 7, 2021 4:41:24 GMT
Professor X...? Psych thought to himself, confused by the reference as the Psychdramon never really got into the idea of superheroes and the like. No, that is not my name... and frankly that name is utterly ridiculous. My name is Psych, and this is my brother Speed. We both would like a word with you.
The human that had just arrived was still there when the human in the suit, now known as Zack, seemed confused why he needed to explain himself since he thought what he was doing was fairly obvious. He and his "daughter" were apparently gifted with the power to stop criminals like those two that he was just fighting. "Look, those people were probably creeps, I agree, but seriously? Most humans like that have knives, dude, that's not safe... and what do you mean by daughter?"
And this was when Zack's Digimon made herself known, telling Zack that the twins and the other human were actually Digimon. This surprised Speed and Psych, especially the latter since he should've known. He must've been too focused on Zack here to notice. He deactivated his holosuit, revealing himself to be a Leomon X and introduced himself as LJ. And thankfully he was on the twins' side of this debate, arguing that he could very much hurt other innocents as much as himself. "There's people and Digimon that do that kinda thing already. Hell, Psych and I are actually members of an organization that handles Digimon problems in the human world."
Zack and his partner Marigold seemed optimistically stubborn about the whole thing though, these two really seemed convinced that they could potentially take on the world. Psych crossed his arms, shaking his head. You are both utterly foolish. You don't know how much power a Digimon can have, boy. If you don't end up getting stabbed by one of these criminals you choose to fight, the other alternative is that your Digimon won't know her own strength and end up accidentally killing one of them. Humans are not invincible, so I highly suggest you cease this activity at once, for your own sake.
"Yeah, this isn't really something we can let go of, guy," Speed said, showing that he was definitely the more energetic one of the pair. "There are other ways you can go about the whole hero thing without actively throwing yourselves into whatever seems dangerous."
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Post by supesman on Jun 7, 2021 14:03:33 GMT
Zack simply shook his head, Marigold for her part wanted to be as big an asset on his side of the "debate" as possible, her body glowing and glittering until she took on her Rookie form, turning into a bee about the size or larger of the largest kinds of dogs, taking a stance that wasn't exactly hostile but was tense and wasn't even in the neighborhood of backing down.
"Yea, and the risk of letting people like that run around is that the normal, regular folks of this burg get shanked in the dark and nobody even shows up to mark the body the next day. I won't stand for that." he said, turning to Speed and making an effort to fully demarcate his point. "This isn't ABOUT solving "Digimon problem in the real world" this is about doing whatever we can whenever we can to make the world a better place than we found it. You G-Men types are exactly why this sort of work needs doing. Sure you go out there, you save the day, I won't argue on that point." He said, before Marigold took over, evidently having her own shots to take in the argument.
"But when the little guys are getting stepped on by low class rats like that pair, where the hell are you? And what the hell good are you if you never show up for the people that need it?" She said, speaking in personal experience as someone who is well aware of the consequences when the big defenders let the little guys slip through the cracks. Zack turns his head to face and address LJ.
"Everything is a risk, especially considering the new...factors in my life that I've been forced to accept. This whole thing dropped into my lap whether I liked it or not. And I decided I did, and so did she. We know what we're getting ourselves into and there's nothing on Earth or the Digital one that's going to change that. I saved a man's wallet tonight, if not his life. People in a place like this can't afford to be getting picked on by vultures, literally...they can't afford it." He said, snarling seemingly at the dilapidated circumstances all around them, as if he was pointing out something that should be obvious just by looking. "If I had stood by and done nothing, what becomes of that guy when he doesn't have enough money for food, or rent? You think the police are going to take one more mugging in the worst part of town and actually do right by it? You wanna look me in the face and tell me you buy that?"
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jun 7, 2021 22:14:06 GMT
Marigold digivolved into Fanbeemon and didn't look like she was willing to back down but LJ kept up his calm non threatening posture. He did feel his magic spike but didn't think anything of it at the time since he wasn't feeling the energy in his brown eyes so they weren't glowing or sparking with his power. He patiently listened to the twins' and Zack's and Marigold's points of view and when Zack spoke to him, LJ replied "While I agree someone has to stand up for the 'little guy' you also have to consider what happens when you don't handle the big threats. Those monsters you don't fight tend to make a habit of stepping on the little guy."
Out of the corner of LJ's eye he caught sight of something light purple and getting a bad feeling he looked at himself. He was glowing with a light purple magical aura and he began to gradually float into the air before he said "Oh no, no. Not again!" LJ managed to grab ahold of a nearby wall before he floated any higher but he looked visibly embarrassed.
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Post by Speed & Psych on Jun 16, 2021 3:51:34 GMT
Now to Speed, these two were both making sense and seemed to be absolutely stupid at the same time. Sure, organizations like AEGIS could potentially gloss over petty crimes like the one that Zack and Marigold had just stopped, but still... someone using their Digimon partner to go out and play superhero just didn't sit right with him. "I agree that the human cops should really pay more attention to this area, but that's the thing, the human cops should do that. Not you. Not only do you look ridiculous, but you're increasing your own chance of getting 'shanked' yourself."
Imagine how Marigold here would feel if you were killed doing this sort of thing, what would happen to her? Where would she go? Besides, Digimon are on shaky enough ground with the government as is, you doing this stunt will only make it worse if you're caught.
"We work with people like you all the time. Humans who were paired up with a Digimon and given a chance to actually, you know, do something impactful in both our worlds. What you're doing... I swear I can see where you're coming from, but it's still a dumb thing for you to do!"
If you insist on doing something to help, come with us to AEGIS HQ. There are good people there who want to help others just like you do, and I can assure you they can provide you with the knowledge you need.
As soon as Psych was done "speaking," that was when the Leomon X started floating upwards. "How's the weather up there?" Speed quipped. "Have too much helium for dinner?"
Hold on, I have got you, Psych responded, extending his arm towards LJ and attempting to use his telekinesis to bring the poor Leomon X down. He was met with resistance of some kind, but Psych was still at least able to bring him down. He briefly let go of his hold on LJ to see if he would fly again...
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Post by supesman on Jun 16, 2021 14:25:09 GMT
Zack and Marigold reacted in only a moment to LJ's sudden levitation act, Marigold bolting upward, taking a bit of a leap off of Zack's shoulder and gripping a hold of the feline digimon's leg with multiple pairs of her grasping appendages, her wings buzzing downward against the air in order to place LJ softly on the ground. She kept at least one grabber on LJ's pantleg in order to make sure that the Leomon didn't begin to float away again.
"And then what? What if I do go with you? Become one of your digital world G-Men solving the big, world saving problems from on high?" He said, directly laying out his issue in no uncertain terms. "I think you misunderstand. We'll be there to fight the big threats. Same as anyone. But we won't be tied down by your regulation or your rules of engagement or your acceptable losses." He said, looking down at Marigold as she stood against the ground of the alleyway, nodding up at him with her own determination etched onto her insectoid face.
"Yeah. We're going to help everyone we can, just like my dad helped me. Where was AEGIS while I was starving to death all by myself in the middle of the forest?" She said, confronting them strongly with her own suffering, her wings buzzing slightly on her back as she puffed herself up.
"Nowhere, because that's where people like you are when lives are getting ruined. Oh sure, you're invaluable when some big monster is about to eat the planet but you somehow make yourselves scarce when the time comes to actually make that planet a better place." He said, his motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm as he looked up at the twin superpowered digimon without an ounce of give in his entire being, planting his feet and declaring his "manifesto" to all three of the beings there to hear. "I won't give up on my drive to make lives better, everywhere I go. If I did then I wouldn't be the father I promised Marigold I would be. So chew on that before you wave my daughter's welfare in my face as if I don't keep myself up at night thinking about it."
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Post by ricochet7-LJ on Jun 16, 2021 22:10:36 GMT
LJ found Speed's compliments towards his situation mildly annoying but kept his cool as he said "No it's my magic. It's acting up again." The embarrassed blush had not faded from the Leomon X's face as both Psych and Marigold tried to help him get down only for the combination of Marigold grabbing him and Psych telepathically trying to pull him to the ground had resulted in his light purple magical aura vanishing again as if the plug was suddenly pulled. Fortunately he had been almost to the ground when Psych stopped but unfortunately he began falling out of the sky hitting the ground in a painful looking belly flop.
"Ow." LJ groaned as he pushed himself to his feet brushing himself off before taking off his blue cape and shaking the dirt free before putting it back on again. "I guess cats don't always land on their feet after all. Shame for me."
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Post by Speed & Psych on Jul 9, 2021 2:57:39 GMT
"Wait, magic?" Speed asked in response to LJ's claim on what was causing his sudden floating. "That Wisemon we know uses magic doesn't he? I've never seen him float away like that before."
That is because Weston has a proper grip on his power so that something like this doesn't happen, Psych responded as he and Marigold used their combined strength to pull the Leomon X back down to the ground. Although I've never seen a Leomon of any variant be able to use magic like this before...
Once LJ was back down, the argument between the twins and the wanna-be superheroes continued. Speed and Psych simply wanted to help Zack and Marigold find better ways of doing what they wanted to do to help the human world and Digital World, and how did they respond? They basically said they didn't want to be "G-Men," whatever those were, and said they would help everyone they can. "Just what do you mean by that, exactly?" Speed asked with a slight growl, getting real worked up by what Zack was implying.
Marigold spoke up next, asking where AEGIS was when she was alone in the middle of the forest. Psych knew where this was going to lead. I̵ ̷w̷o̵u̴l̵d̴ ̸a̶d̷v̸i̸s̸e̷ ̴y̸o̸u̸ ̴t̶o̵ ̴N̷O̷T̵ ̵m̷a̸k̸e̸ ̴s̴u̶c̶h̶ ̵a̴s̶s̸u̴m̷p̶t̶i̴o̵n̵s̷ ̴l̷i̸k̷e̸ ̴t̶h̴a̶t, Psych warned her, his telepathic voice starting to sound a bit distorted.
Of course Zack had to continue speaking, accusing them more and more of just ignoring smaller threats in favor of the much bigger ones, which apparently happened all the time in this fanboy's mind. He accused them of not even trying to make the world a better place. That was the last straw... "You don't know what it was like for us..." Speed muttered. "You think we don't know the utter hell that Marigold has gone through? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT OUR DAYS ARE LIKE SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT SAYING WE'RE NOT DOING OUR DAMN HARDEST TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT!" Speed shouted at him, with tears running down his face at this point. "How often do you even think world-ending stuff happens, huh?! We're out there every day actually trying to protect people and Digimon like yourselves, even if that sounds so hard for you to believe."
I would highly recommend that you actually learn what we do and how we do things instead of making false accusations to make us sound like the ones in the wrong, Psych said in a more serious tone than before. You are to cease this nonsense at once. You are severely testing my patience, young one. I will not stand by and knowingly let someone idiotically throw their lives away the way you are doing.
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Post by supesman on Jul 9, 2021 3:39:19 GMT
Zack and Marigold's faces totally, completely unmoved. They stood there, shoulders squared, eyes focuesed front and center on the pair that were trying to shout them down and neither of them budged an inch. None of the threats, none of the warnings, none of the shouting seemed to move Zack's feet or his mind in any way, all he did was keep staring slightly up at the two of them with that same burning determination
n just behind his eyes, like there was a coal lit somewhere just behind his expression.
"You're right. I don't know a goddamn thing about me. So you come down here and you step in my face and you make threats into my head like what? like that's going to change who I am and what I know and what I think? Well here's a newsflash for you." He said, pointing down at Marigold, using her as the demonstrative to make his point. "You WEREN'T there when she needed you, and I bet you, I bet you good money that there are dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands or more digimon and people just like her. You both have more power than I will ever even shake a stick in the vague direction of." He said, pointing to both of them in turn. "Both of you could use that incredible power to save so many lives outside of the sphere of the extranormal, in the mundane, tragic, heartbreaking ways that life chews people up and spits them out every damn day. You could build homes by the hundreds in an hour, you could transport water by the shipload with your MIND and you're standing here arguing with me about doing one thing, making one small move to make a life better tonight. So you tell me who here needs a reality check."
For her part Marigold buzzed over to LJ and smiled, her bright, bauble insectoid eyes skirting up and down the embarrassed lion's body.
"Sorry, as you can see my dad can get a little...heated...Are you alright?" She said, handing out a little pre written scrap of paper. "In case you need a friend, he really is a good one, promise. You just have to give him a second." She said, trying her best to mediate, even turning to the duo, clearing her throat. "DAD. STOP. NOW." She said, one of her sharpened leg limbs shooting out and grasping him by the lobe of the ear.
"Ahh...ahh-hhh...Honey, honey that's my ear." He said, mumbling along those lines as Marigold reached out with one of her claws and handed the twins an identical slip of paper.
"You might not like him very much right now, but if you need us, we'll be in your corner. No questions asked. Now c'mon you, before we start waking up old ladies and someone calls the cops on all of us, last thing any of us need, and another thing..." She said, her ranting barely audible over her buzzing away as they both vanished back into the darkness of the interlocking alleyways.
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