Yurei-n It In or You'll Be Sorry! [Meta]

"Okay, these reports are just getting outta hand," a tuckered out AppHackmon would say to himself at AEGIS HQ as he looked through the many, MANY reports of people running and screaming out of some manga shop in the Entertainment District. According to the reports, many people were seeing a GHOST of all things in the store before booking it out of there, screaming all the way home. "Johan, I really think we should check this out."

"Zero, there are no such things as ghosts, I keep telling you that," Johan said with a sigh. "Whatever those people are seeing in there isn't a ghost, there's just no such thing."

"You'd probably say that about Digimon if you didn't have a partner yourself..."

"Zero has a point, Johan," Dokamon added as he entered the room, "if it is not a ghost, it has to be something. Perhaps even a Digimon. It would be worthwhile to observe the scene."

Johan was hesitant about this; he adamantly believed that ghosts and spooky things truly did not exist. He didn't like even giving into the idea that such things were possible, as a firm believer that there was no afterlife. Even playing alone with the idea slightly angered him. But looking through the reports... it was clear that these people were running from something. The young British teen groaned. "Okay, we'll go investigate the scene. But if there really is no ghost then you lot are both paying for dinner tonight."

And so that's why Johan Walker was in the Entertainment District today. With Dokamon and Zero both inside of the digivice's V-Pet, Johan would go investigate the scene. He was decked out in his usual attire, a light grey AEGIS outfit and a black leather trench coat to compliment. When he got there, he could see some woman with green hair was already at the scene. Clearly she was trying to do an investigation of her own. Johan would put on his game face and approach the woman with a mature tone. "Ma'am, I'm Agent Walker, and this establishment is currently closed for an investigation. I politely ask that you please step away from the premises so that I can do my job."

Hopefully this woman would comply, that would make Johan's job a lot easier...

Oh great, this was going to be a problem, wasn't it? Not only was this woman refusing to cooperate with a special agent, but she just so happened to be conducting her own random investigation too, claiming it to be a paranormal event. Johan sighed. "For one, this is not a paranormal incident. That simply cannot be the case. I am here to determine the real cause of it. Two, I have been given permission by the authorities to search this place, and I can call them to remove any unwanted individuals to properly do my job."

What agency was Johan from? Easy question. "Tokyo Special Security," Johan responded, looking into this girl's eyes as he did so with a slight glare. "A second set of hands? That implies I'm going to let you in the shop until my search is finished."

Then the girl would look into her bag and handed Johan a little red pouch, claiming it was for protection from evil. Johan sweatdropped as he raised his left hand, which was covered by a black leather glove. "I don't believe any of that stuff. Trust me, whatever the problem is, it is not thanks to a ghost or any of that nonsense. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a job to do."

With that confrontation hopefully wrapped up, Johan would finally enter the manga shop and begin looking around for any signs that a Digimon could be the culprit here, or if it was probably just some dumb trick to scare customers for whatever reason. It was October, after all. "Where are you, Digimon..." Johan muttered barely loud enough to hear as he searched the place.

"Best not to assume how old I am, ma'am," Johan said with a smirk and a wink, implying that he was probably somewhere in his mid twenties when in reality she was only one year off from his actual age. When you deal with Digimon you learn how to lie fairly well, in order to keep the secret in check. He could tell that he caused her to blow a gasket, however...

While Johan was investigating the shop, something happened. One of the lightbulbs above the sales counter shattered all of a sudden. The young teen turned his head to the noise, and as he did he could hear what sounded like a faint giggle going deeper into the store. Johan raised his left arm, which housed his Digivice cradle. "Get ready, I think we have our culprit," Johan whispered to his Digimon as he walked closer towards the source of that giggling-

And just like that a couple books fell from a shelf just in front of Johan, causing him to step back a bit. "Might not be a ghost, but it's definitely acting like one," Johan concluded. Whatever this was, this was DEFINITELY a Digimon at this point.

Suddenly that woman from before stormed into the store, declaring that she wasn't going to stand by while Johan investigated. Johan was going to tell the lady to get back outside before another book was thrown, this time right at her face. Johan winced a bit, realizing that this meant that he was stuck with this woman now. Fan-flipping-tastic.

The woman lit up with excitement, basically pushing Johan to the side and practically skipping into the store to continue her own "investigation." "Oh you sonuva- get back outside! I will call the police to have you escorted away from here, you know!" Johan angrily called out as he followed the green haired woman. This was just supposed to be a simple investigation, why did this civilian have to make it so damn complicated?!

Of course she's going to try and document this, Johan bitterly thought as he saw the woman pull out her phone and start talking into it. Apparently she was going to try and get this Digimon to talk through the phone like an electronic voice sort of thing. She held out her phone and asked the Digimon in question to tell her its name. The voice that answered did not come through the phone at all, and that clearly startled the girl.

"And what do you mean by 'play', exactly?" Johan asked out loud, not an ounce of fear detectable in his voice. "You do realize that you're scaring customers that come into the store, right? Is that your intent -- to scare humans?"

Naturally the green haired girl was completely flabbergasted by there being ANY voice at all -- and not only that, but that the voice didn't come through the phone like she thought it would. She was frantically flipping through the pages, as she clearly had no clue what was going on. "This isn't a yokai!" Johan would call out before the Digimon, still invisible, grabbed the woman's phone and started floating away.

"Doing this the hard way then, it seems," Johan said as he ran towards the phone and jumped up in an attempt to grab it. He would then land and effortlessly slide down the aisle a bit before looking back. "Taking other people's property is not allowed in this world, you know!" Hopefully undetectable to the woman, Johan would pull out his D-Terminal and attempt to scan around the room for the Digimon. It may be invisible, but if it was there at just the right time then Johan would be able to know what this Digimon was and even two of its attacks!

"Among many things, an extremely elaborate prank," Johan said, despite knowing what the actual cause for this disturbance was. He watched as the girl ran to chase her phone, only to be stopped by books falling from the shelves and tripping her up.

If I weren't here, this Digimon would be throwing this girl around the room like a ragdoll, Johan thought as he watched the scene play out.

On the D-Terminal, it turned out this Digimon was a Ghostmon. Well, the girl was half right it seemed, but it still wasn't a true ghost in the sense that she was thinking. This Digimon had moves to reduce other Digimon's accuracy and to turn invisible and strike from behind. This would be tricky to combat against, but certainly not impossible.

The yelling of the girl telling Johan to get off of Twitter was what snapped the young man back to reality. He looked up and saw the phone speeding down a different aisle. "Right, right, sorry!" Johan said as he put the D-Terminal away and ran down the aisle to chase after the phone as well.

"You have no place in this store," Johan said out loud to the Digimon as he chased him down. "Return the girl's phone and stop scaring the store's customers or I will use force to make you stop!" What kind of force would Johan even be talking about here...?

"Does this look like we're having fun to you?" Johan asked, both his face looking and his voice sounding very annoyed at this spirit Digimon at the moment. Johan watched as the phone was politely placed on a shelf before the voice was suddenly right next to him, asking if he had a friend as well. "What the-"

Before Johan knew it, that girl appeared again, holding up one of those charm things that Johan declined to take. The invisible ghost became visible very quickly, looking exactly like the image provided from the D-Terminal scan. This Ghostmon was screaming for dear life at the sight of the charm that the girl had, only to stop and realize that he wasn't burning. He poked at the charm, stating that it was only for evil spirits. "You... honestly thought that was going to burn you?"

The girl was definitely confused by this as well, saying that it looked like a jack-o-lantern crossed with a will-o-wisp, whatever that meant. The Ghostmon explained that spirit charms usually made him feel like he was melting, which Johan was unable to believe. He just groaned and facepalmed, not even wanting to get into a discussion about how all that stuff was just nonsense. He was sure it was just all in the Ghostmon's mind.

She did bring up a point though, the Ghostmon was no longer doing that scary voice. He explained that it was just a part of the game, asking the AEGIS agent if he could still keep playing with the humans. This is where Johan would step in. "That's why I'm here. The humans you're 'playing' with aren't playing, they are legitimately terrified. There have been rumors of an evil spirit haunting this store, and it's costing the store its business. I won't force you to leave this world but you can't keep doing what you're doing here." Johan turned around back to face the girl. "You've already seen him so I feel more inclined to explain to you what's going on. But not a word of this can go public. Do I have your word that you'll keep what I am about to say a secret?"

Once the girl would give her answer of "yes," Johan would begin. "You were half right about the poltergeist. This creature right here is what is known as a digital monster, or Digimon for short. This specific one is called a Ghostmon. I'm not of Tokyo Special Security, but I am an agent. Agent Johan Walker, of AEGIS." Johan pulled out his real badge to show the girl. "We're a private organization that ensures that law and order in regards to Digimon is kept on Earth. We stop potential Digimon threats before they raise all kinds of hell, including like what we assumed our Ghostmon friend here was trying to do. Do you understand?"

"What precisely do you mean by 'censored'?" Johan asked. "What I'm going to do is prove to the store owner that it was simply a kid playing pranks on customers in hopes of making friends, and that the child has been rightly scolded for doing such a thing." He said that last part while looking at the Ghostmon with a slight smile, implying that no further punishment would come to the little guy so long as he stops what he's doing.

After he gave the girl's phone back, the Ghostmon admitted that he didn't know he was scaring the customers since customers liked scary movies. "I can see the confusion. We humans like scary movies since it's fun to watch from a safe place, but most of us do not necessarily wish to be in them. Just try not to get yourself caught or get into any more trouble."

But then the girl had an idea, and asked if she could take the Ghostmon in. Johan almost did a double take; that was not something he expected to hear at all. "U-Uh... I would be more comfortable with the idea if you had one of these," Johan said as he rolled down his left sleeve, revealing a bionic arm with a Digivice inside. He took it out of the holder and showed it to the girl. "This is called a Digivice. It's a special device that bonds a human like myself do a Digimon like this. Dokamon, realize!"

A bright light shot out of the Digivice towards the floor. That light would then form and materialize into Dokamon, a blue cyborg-like Digimon with a black shirt and robotic arms and feet. "Greetings. I am Dokamon, Johan Walker's Digimon companion. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." The way this Digimon would speak almost sounded monotone.

"To be fair," Johan says, looking back at the girl and Ghostmon, "I can see you as partners for sure. But to be truly bonded, you must have a Digivice. Then us at AEGIS would be more than willing to help you ease into the world of Digimon... er..." Now that Johan was thinking about it... he never got this girl's name!