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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 8, 2022 0:54:56 GMT
"Ah yes, I believe that is called collateral damage which can easily get out of hand even without an adrenaline rush. Good thing for bystanders major incidents are rare even in the Digital World or people would be rebuilding every five to ten minutes and that would be not so good for anyone's moods."
"Sheesh no kidding Harmony. Good thing you and I may get up to a bit of mischief but we generally aren't all that destructive most of the time." Blackjack said before Zack mentioned how they bashed a cart full of fruit over an Ikkakumon's head specifically it was a watermelon cart and Blackjack said "Sounds like with you two if the worst collateral damage is some random fruit cart the Digital World should consider itself lucky but boy that poor vendor must of been furious at not just you but Ikkakumon as well depending on if the furball started the conflict in the first place."
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Post by supesman on Mar 8, 2022 15:59:02 GMT
"She wasn't actually that upset considering the charging Ikakkumon had almost skewered her kid. Bashing her cart over his face to stop him from trampling her son seemed to be a worthwhile tradeoff as far as she was concerned. Besides it's not like the fruit went to waste remember?" Marigold said, reminding the twins of her "plant based" diet which would probably mean that a lot of shattered and splattered watermelon would be some version of heaven for the little bee.
"We paid a local carpenter for a new cart as well as paying for the "lost" merchandise, which didn't turn out to be as lost as people thought when Marigold spent a huge chunk of the clean up digging through the rubble like a scavenger hunt and munching up any watermelon remains that she found. It was like when you hide treat for a pet in the center of a toy or under the carpet, she was just nosing around in the rubble making sure the watermelon we paid for went to good use." Zack said, looking over at Marigold with a raised, incredulous eyebrow. She was grinning, very pleasantly remembering an entire afternoon of hunting for fresh watermelon chunks.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 8, 2022 22:55:17 GMT
"Oh my gosh, I didn't know a kid was in the crossfire. I'm glad the little one wasn't hurt or you probably would of mentioned it." Harmony said her mouth gaping open in shock before she felt like a moron for what she said.
"Good that you two were there for the sake of the kid." Blackjack then said before he grinned and said "That and it's also good the fruit didn't go to waste since you likely still scarfed it down, Marigold."
Then Zack said that he and Marigold paid for a local carpenter and the lost merchandise. The lost part was due to Marigold scarfing it down after searching for it like she was involved in a treasure hunt digging in the rubble eating the various remains of watermelon which the image of Marigold chowing down made Blackjack and Harmony begin to snicker before the two burst out laughing when Marigold began grinning knowing what she had been up to that afternoon.
Harmony managed to stop laughing while her twin hadn't before she said "Sorry. We couldn't help but laugh as the story you told was very funny." Speaking of Blackjack he was sitting next to Marigold rolling with laughter before gradually ceasing while panting to catch his breath.
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Post by supesman on Mar 9, 2022 14:35:40 GMT
"Oh don't feel bad about laughing. it was exactly as silly as it sounded. This digimon who had just saved the city, rooting around in the rubble and dust like a pig looking for truffles. She'd pop he head up every few minutes, scanning the ground like a meerkat before darting off to the next buried stash. At the very least she was able to clear a lot of the rubble by herself." Zack chuckled. Marigold had been acting more like a hound than a digimon which didn't seem to both her much as the memory of an afternoon of free watermelon played out in her mind.
"It was like a scavenger hunt. Dig out some rubble, get some melon, sweep out a crater, get some melon. If only all of our cleanup operations were that much fun." Marigold said, turning to her father who rolled his eyes but couldn't help but nod. All's well that ends well after all, so the memory of the fight didn't seem to weigh on them too heavily.
"Nah, the kid was fine. His mother wouldn't let him out of her sight for the rest of the day and he spent the clean up nipping at my heels in that way that kids do, you know. Asking me "why" this and "why" that, just endless questions. Man I wish I could maintain that kind of jumping enthusiasm." He said, shaking his head. He wasn't THAT old, not even by human standards and certainly not by Digimon standards but he was mature enough to lament not being a kid anymore.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 9, 2022 22:25:35 GMT
By then Blackjack had stopped laughing and faced the group before him before he said "Looking for food sounds like the best kind of scavenger hunt to me. Eating food while searching for it sounds like the best thing for a digimon and best of all it didn't go to waste during cleanup."
"Leave it to us digimon to think about food during a cleanup operation while following our foraging instincts. I think Blackjack and I would of done something similar in Marigold's place." Harmony said with a large smile before snickering a bit when Zack rolled his eyes.
"Come on, Zack. You can't tell me your instincts weren't telling you to do the same. After all in many ways humans and digimon are supposed to be alike in many ways." Blackjack said with a mischievous grin spread across the young Cardmon's face.
Not paying much attention to her brother at this point, Harmony said "Good to know the little one was okay. That and doing what comes naturally in their quest for knowledge while pushing an adult's patience. At least you know not to try and let it bother you, Zack."
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Post by supesman on Mar 10, 2022 15:29:30 GMT
"Well I...won't confirm or deny that I may have nipped up a bit of watermelon here and there while we were working." He said, Marigold grinning up at him with a "I knew it" sort of insufferable smugness in her glare. Zack looked away, arms crossed over his chest. "WHAT?! It was hot and I was working myself to the bone!" He said, trying to ignore Marigold poking him in the ribs and giggling to herself at the idea of her father checking over his shoulder as he popped a watermelon chunk into his mouth.
"We're all just lucky it wasn't a honey cart. The last thing anybody needed to see was me, in stingmon form, on my hands and knees scooping up honey by the pawful like some kind of bear." Marigold said. She had to admit the catnip like effect that honey had on her. It was partially a natural instinct and partially her very minded obsession with the sweet goo. She might have been able to stop to herself up to a point but it would have been very, VERY hard for her to avoid a cartful of honey being offered to her basically for free.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 11, 2022 0:44:41 GMT
Harmony snickered when Zack made his confession and when Marigold glared at her father in that knowing way. "It seems you two are quite a like in more ways than I thought. Seems you both have a weak spot for watermelons."
"That and being sneaky." Blackjack said with a snort of laughter as he found he couldn't help joining the conversation. Apparently the term the apple doesn't fall far from the tree applied to this pair all too well.
Then when Marigold mentioned it was lucky it wasn't a honey cart both siblings seemed all ears as they listened to how Marigold mentioned how she would of been Stingmon and shoveling it up like a bear and the sight made both Blackjack and Harmony explode into laughter before Blackjack gasped out "What is honey like catnip to you, Marigold?" With that he began laughing once again trying his best to stop. Harmony had already stopped laughing and sighed at her brother's question.
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Post by supesman on Mar 11, 2022 14:19:42 GMT
"Oh we're being serious. I will demonstrate." Zack said, getting up from his seat and beginning to walk back toward the snack counter. Marigold spun to try and stop him.
"No, wait! Dad-...oh my god he's already doing it..." Marigold said, turning her head away as he returned with the small amber jar that he could hold comfortable on the palm of his hand.
"Three, two, one..." He unscrewed the top of the jar with an audible pop of the lid unscrewing from the glass and Marigold instantly changed. her pupils shrunk to pin pricks the second she caught a whiff of the smell, sweet and perfectly sugary. Her head began to dart back and forth, pointing directly at the jar as Zack waved it back and forth in the air, no matter how sudden the motion Marigold's eyes were always directly following the little jar. "See? Honey, right there and it's like her head turns into static." He said, setting down the jar in front of her, Marigold's mandible clamping around it and tossing her head back, upending the jar into her mouth, audibly gulping the thick sludge until the glass was sparkling clean.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 11, 2022 23:24:45 GMT
"Zack you don't need to demonstrate. I don't think Blackjack meant that when asking if catnip was like honey to Marigold." Harmony said waving her invisible hands before facepalming as she remembered no one could see them anyway.
"Should we stop him?" Blackjack asked looking back and forth between Marigold and his sister before he said "Too late."
After a countdown of three, two, one Zack unscrewed the jar and when the scent of the honey hit the wind it was like the was a different person following the jar with her narrowed eyes as Zack waved it around. Before either sibling could ask if Marigold would leap for the honey when Zack set it down and Marigold's mandible somehow clamped around the top of the jar and before the twins could say anything the Fanbeemon gulped down the honey. All this was done so effortlessly that both Blackjack and Harmony could only gape in shock at the sight before them.
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Post by supesman on Mar 12, 2022 14:09:30 GMT
Marigold blinked hard, having to flutter her eyelids a couple of times before she actually felt her senses come back, shivering as the taste of the sugary goo faded from her senses leaving her looking over the pair as they gaped at her.
"So uh...yea, that happens." Marigold said, blushing sheepishly at the behavior. Just the small handheld jar of honey was enough to make her senses and her mind just get up and go until the honey was gone, fully and totally, from in front of her.
"Anything with honey in it, even the smallest trace of it as an ingredient will just make her freeze in place and turn to lock her head onto whatever the smell is coming from, I have to drag her away from a LOT of bakeries." Zack said, recalling all of the bakeries in Terminal or Rosewood that he'd had to throw Marigold over his shoulder to get away from before she busted in the front window and started stealing cakes by the armful.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 12, 2022 22:54:57 GMT
Marigold came back to her senses slowly noticing the still gaping pair of Cardmon ending her fluttering of her eyelids with shivering a bit. Now she was blushing at her behavior as Blackjack blinked cluelessly not knowing what to say. It was as if his brain had short circuited. Realizing her twin was seemingly at a loss Harmony could only say "Wow." Okay so she was barely any better it seemed.
"Wait. Wait. Wait. So even the smallest sliver of honey and you get the honey craving zombie from before?" Blackjack said fully recovered it seemed.
"Not exactly putting it delicately are you, Blackjack?" Harmony said with a sigh.
Sorry. I guess my brain vanished when Marigold's did and hasn't recovered from the shock yet." he replied in response to his twin's sigh before he said "Passing bakeries must at times be a challenge for the two of you since it doesn't seem to take much to trigger her."
"That and the fact that digimon are naturally stronger than humans."
"Yeah. That too."
It seemed this father and daughter pair were just full of surprises and there were likely traits to them that Blackjack and Harmony didn't know about. This made Zack and Marigold more fascinating to Blackjack and Harmony.
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Post by supesman on Mar 13, 2022 13:52:45 GMT
"It's not as if she violently pounces on every amount of honey that she can smell. We almost certainly would have gotten arrested more than once if she did." Zack said, patting Marigold on the head and smiling. He didn't want her to be embarrassed, especially since at least a large chunk of the honey craving seemed to be a biological instinct more than anything.
"Yea I just get...distracted more than anything. Grabbing me by the leg and dragging me away until the smell fades enough for my brain to switch back on usually works well enough." Marigold said with a nod to her father, who returned the nod in agreement. It usually wasn't THAT hard to get her back on task as it were.
"it's really just that instinctual snap to attention more than any sudden violent lunging. it's not so much that she's grabbing right for it when you put it in front of her, it's more that all of her attention becomes focused on the source of the smell." Zack said, taking the small glass jar and tucking it gently into her backpack. You never knew when a glass jar was going to come in handy after all, especially with all the scrounging they had to do for the shelter's sake.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 13, 2022 22:31:45 GMT
Phew, that's a relief that it isn't some violent urge but I would still be one of the last digimon to travel with honey in my bag if this is typical for Fanbeemon, ya know?" Blackjack said still looking amazed at how Marigold behaved. Looking over at Marigold he then said "You don't have to be embarrassed over who you are. I know Harmony and I won't go telling everyone we see. Telling embarrassing things about others is a good way to not have potential friends in a world as dangerous as the Digital World can be."
"Your urge reminds me of Blackjack's strange new urge to climb. Sounds like it may be an instinctive urge." Harmony said before being proven right by Zack moments later.
"So it is an instinctive snap. You sure called that one Harmony. That means it's definitely nothing to be ashamed of as you are just following your instincts." Blackjack said as one of his invisible hands gently began patting Marigold's back.
"We digimon are different from humans in this crucial way as we are more prone to follow what our instincts tell us while many humans try to ignore them or pretend such things don't exist. This can be disastrous at the best of times in the Digital World as the partner digimon can't cover everything for the human."
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Post by supesman on Mar 14, 2022 15:27:00 GMT
"Embarrassed? I've got nothing at all to be embarrassed about. I am who I am and that's not going to change. If it makes me look a little bit silly here and there then so be it, everyone looks silly sometimes. If I was going to be embarrassed about anything I can't change it would be the habit my father makes of running around dressed up like a carnie almost getting himself killed making stupid jokes." Marigold said, turning to her father and chuckling. She and her father were an open, uncynical sort, they didn't feel the need to hide most things. They much preferred embracing them outright.
"She's got me there. It's almost a blessing in disguise that she doesn't got to a regular school, god forbid any hypothetical classmates found out what her father did in his spare time." Zack agreed. He was always willing to look at himself honestly and laugh, someone trying to be a superhero in real life without any amount of self awareness is a person who was going to get themselves and other people hurt, so he preferred the self awareness.
"Dad...you're a SUPERHERO. Kids already think you're the coolest thing since chocolate milk so don't feed them that." Marigold replied. She knew for a fact that kids, especially Digimon kids would always flock to tug at his ankles when he came around and that Blackjack and Harmony were more than smart enough to figure that out.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Mar 14, 2022 15:46:28 GMT
Blackjack laughed before he said "Exactly you have no reason to be embarrassed about being who you are. Yes we all sometimes act a bit silly even though not everyone will admit to acting silly."
"Such silliness doesn't seem to always be influenced by age as Blackjack and I have seen some older digimon act pretty ridiculous on the surface but we never paid it any mind as long as no one was getting hurt by such behavior." Harmony said remembering having to distract an angry older digimon as Sakkutomon and using not only cuteness but logic to cease the odd behavior. She may of blown that digimon's mind for all she knew.
"Yeah I can only imagine how you would explain such activities to the parents of human children. I don't think the concept of vigilante superhero work really flies with humans above a certain age. Why aren't all adults more chill about that sort of thing like you are?" Blackjack chuckled hoping when he and Harmony grew up they would be more of the fun kind of adult.
When hearing of kids flocking around Zack the image of being swarmed by digimon kids asking to be told stories of his adventures made both siblings explode with laughter. It was both funny and cute to think about.
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