That Time I Died And Went To Furry Heaven [Ask]

The "holy" realm of the digimon was a new place for Mae-Mae, mostly because it was very hard to get to for a digimon who couldn't fly freely, and while Mae-Mae could float, she couldn't fly, not yet anyway. Thankfully, Surfimon had a jet-board. Now that they were friends borrowing that jet-board wasn't a problem, especially since Surfimon could just summon it back to him from seemingly any distance! That was a cool move, and a little infuriating since, well, now Mae-Mae couldn't "borrow" forever.

The digimon here seemed really nice, though! The major problem so far was the lack of things here to take, pr rather, her ability to do so. It seemed every time Mae-Mae even had the thought of slipping a souvenir, there'd be a scary angel right there to interrogate her! There were only so many excuses Mae-Mae could make for why exactly she was trying to tear a hunk of gold out of some fancy gate or building or trying to take pristine pearls from a pedestal...

Mae-Mae was slowly regretting her decision to come here. She didn't have the money to buy anything here, given how overpriced it was! Was heaven so expensive because only rich digimon lived here? Or was it because they were finessing ground walkers out of their bits?! Mae-Mae couldn't see how the former was true, since no sane person would buy anything here for asking price, so this was clearly a paradise for hustlers...

The gilded city of Luminas was clearly a place where Mae-Mae would need to spend more time, since clearly, these were the masters of the grift, something she was familiar enough with. However, what Mae-Mae was not at all familiar with was the sight she was drinking in before her.

There, stood in a picturesque clearing was a... something! It didn't smell like a digimon from where Mae-Mae was, and the scent didn't get much better as she neared. Even the reliable denizens of Terminus City's sewers still smelled like digimon! This thing was definitely not a digimon... but then what was it? The thought of getting some digimon bigger than her crossed her mind briefly, until the telltale scent of bits punched through the unknown odor.

There wasn't a whole lot, so this creature was either poor, or had lots of things to borrow and never give back! They had skin-ny bits like a few digimon she'd met here, fair skinned, and it was dressed! Head to toe, in fact! Most digimon only managed pants, or a hat... this thing had both!

This thing was a new thing! A new thing with bits! And clothes! And really, that was more than enough for Mae-Mae! She approached the creature unafraid!

Slowly... from behind. She'd reach up slowly with a small paw and gently tug at the strange bipedal monster's pant leg. "Hey hey, are you, lost? You look lost..." Mae-Mae asked, her head cocked to one side in curiosity.

Mae-Mae nodded along sagely to the strangers words. They were a mark. Or crazy. Or a crazy mark! This would have been bad, had anybody else found them. But Mae-Mae didn't let one's depravity of sanity stop her from making friends or money!

"In order? Mae-Mae is Mae-Mae," She began, gesturing to herself with her tiny paws, patting her smooth, velvety chest. "and this," she said as she gestured to the area all around the duo "this is Luminas! It looks like heaven 'cuz that's the rub!" Mae-Mae explained with a sage-like nod, smiling with smug self satisfaction with how right she simply had to be.

"At least, that's what Mae-Mae thinks is why..." Mae-Mae continued after she shrugged, "B'cuz digimon don't go here when we get deleted! So it's gotta just be for marketability, yeah? Like, look!" The rabbit digimon said whilst she pointed at a passing angewomon "See! Marketable!" the bunny exclaimed with a hint of envious wonder, tugging on the girl's pant leg in excitement. "One day, I'll be that marketable..." she mumbled as she watched the archangel pass by, listlessly floating. A moment of silence passes before Mae-MAe continued; "Anyhow, Mae-Mae has good news for you, Stranger! You cant be dead! This isn't the village of beginnings..." the lopmon explained with a beaming grin, holding her ear 'palm' side up, seemingly expecting payment.

Mae-Mae could see this creature was clearly in shock, she might be too if she thought she'd died! She made a mental note to be more considerate to non-digimon going off the deep end.

She was about to answer the rambling non-mon's questions when a helpful Keramon casually passed by, earning them a passing wave of politeness from the lopmon, like two neighbors sharing a greeting.

"In order? Again? No, Mae-Mae is a lopmon!" Mae-Mae exclaimed with a happy twirl. "Mae-Mae picked Mae-Mae's name because going just by lopmon in a village full of lopmon was, like, super confusing... anyway, that angel was Angewomon! She's wearing her clothes, like you're wearing yours!" Mae-Mae explained with a giggle, politely covering her snickering mouth with a large fluffy ear. "A digimon is me! And her! and that Keramon! We're digimon! Digital monsters!" cheered the rabbit, taking a proud, heroic stance with either ear folded and pressed into her hips, with her arms lifted up to the sky... and at the foreigner. She'd been awfully nice, serving as a guide.

"Here, it's like, pretty customary to tip your guides!" Mae-Mae invited gently. Hoping that maybe this stranger was just from a place where money had no importance! Then they maybe wouldn't mind sharing a lot of it...

"What's your name, anyhow? What kinda thing are you?"

Mae-Mae's eyes lit up at the sight of the paper pulled from this "humon's" pocket, and inspected it. It wasn't shiny, but it was very crisp! Crumpled but crisp. The idea was a nice gesture, but not something Mae-Mae was interested in...

Well.. that wasn't entirely true at all, she took the bill and held it up in abject wonderment. "Woooooah~ is this, like, money where you humons are from, Sumi? Sumae?~" the lopmon teased before shaking her head. "I've like, never met a humon. But like, a lot of really, really, really powerful digimon look like you! Though they don't usually have so much clothing as you do..." Mae-Mae pondered aloud, looking at the humon up and down. A few modifications and they could probably be showing as much skin as Angewoman. "Is power for humon forms directly related to how little clothes you wear? That could be the case... Angemon is really strong for a champion and he only wears pants, angewomon is really strong, Lady Devimon, Venusmon, Lilithmon, Beelstarmon for sure! She shows off a lot!" The waist height rabbit monster listed off before excitedly mentioning the infamous gunslinger digimon, gesturing on her own body how much the leather clad shooter exposed "Her whoooole tummy and like, right here, the underside of her chest but it comes wayyyy~ out to here!" Mae-Mae approximated to the best of her bunny abilities the general proportions of the nightmare soldier with a wholesome enthusiasm.

"That's another digimon who people don't mind borrowing their stuff for forever, but that might also be b'cuz she has guns in her heels and nobody wants her to shoot them when she steps on them..." the digimon mused thoughtfully, remembering the one time she saw the said digimon, stepping on another digimon who was excitedly surrendering thousands of bits to her at her command!

She was so cool...

Mae's thoughts turned to fantasies of doing the same, being so cool and awesome and powerful and pretty that digimon would flock to just give her things! The "Hampfy" life. As they did though, they lost the conversation. "Eh? What? What we were we-? Oh! Food! Well, yeah but it's all super expensive here! A hundred and eighty bits for a burger?! That's robbery. Trust Mae-Mae! You're paying for having a 'heaven' burger, even though it's just a burger! Mae-Mae won't let anybody get fleeced while Mae-Mae is on the job!" she'd declare with honest offense and genuine concern.

"If... you don't mind borrowing things you wanna put in your tummy though, Mae-Mae... might have a few ideas?" the rabbit suggested with a sincere, faintly mischievous sway.

Mae-Mae shook her head, "Mae-Mae is technically naked, if you really think about it... at least, like, compared to a humon like you!" Maee-Mae said, lifting her ears whilst she swayed a bit forward and back. "So clothes are probably optional..." Mae-Mae didnt's mean to imply Sumire could go naked, or that she should.

"I also have a...sincere doubt most of those are even like that..."

The words made Mae-Mae's ears perk up. The doubt in this humon's voice was enough to make Mae-Mae's face bull into a mischievous, knowing smirk that crawled out from a tiny little smirk to a full bodied, ear-to-floppy-ear grin. "Oh, oh you. Have. No. Idea!" she'd say as the girl continued. It was Mae-Mae's dream to be so beautiful, as many of the most powerful and worshiped digimon were.

"Then there's Mervamon! Mae-Mae's never met a Mervamon? But, like, Mervamon is like you! But her chest is like-!" Mae would try to demonstrate 'bust' with her ears, them covered this poor facsimile with her tiny arms, "And her clothes are like this! Mervamon also has a really cool hat! And a cool sword and a cool..." Mae-Mae would continue to talk about the mythical Mervamon's 'cool' features, describing the super stripper digimon in great detail, whilst walking along, having totally forgot her new humon's question about Bits.

"Anyhow. Mae-Mae passed a fruit stand earlier today? SO like, Mae-Mae thinks that you could like, get the shop keepers attention? And then Mae-Mae could like, use your hat to stuff some yummy fruit in it while he's trying to sell to you!" Mae-Mae suggests excitedly, as she thew her arms up happily. She did want that hat, and using it to help fill their tummies was a fair enough trade for it, in her mind.

Mae-Mae perked up as she was reminded of Bits, the wonderous lifeblood of the digi economy, and what made this Humon not as smelly as they seemed!

"Bits! Right! You have some, like...: Mae-Mae said as she sniffed the air, nearing Sumire's pockets, nuzzling her face against one in pacticular, "It's here! Something in here..." she sumbled, then casually fished into the offending pocket, her ears perked up as she retrieved an odd device.



"Aha! Herehere! They're in this thing!" the lopmon exclaimed triumphantly, then immediately started tapping and working over the device, to no actual effect. "Bits are currency! You use them to buy stuff. Don't eat them though, they dont taste good!" Mae-Mae admitted with sincerity. "Now how do you get them outta this thing..." Mae-Mae mumbled, this time, she chose to ignore the final bit about returning the hat...

At least for now.

"I dunno, but you fixed it!" Mae-Mae exclaimed just as Sumire's touch seemed to get the device in operation. Staring curiously at the screen, it did in fact read 2000 bits. That was a lot of bits to have for a person who didn't even know what bits were, that's for sure...

"Hmm..." Mae-Mae wondered aloud. Then she put the device partially into her mouth, figuring she could try to suck out the Bits! This did not work, so she spit it it out with a disgusted look on her face "Tastes funny!" Mae-Mae decried in disgust. "Dont eat it." She sagely advised as she shook her head. "Maybe... point it at Mae-Mae? Maybe it works like a TV remote!" Mae-Mae suggested, her thoughts of stealing some food and a hat taking a back seat to this strange new device, and the bits it contained within.