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Post by supesman on Mar 11, 2022 14:33:13 GMT
Zack was not about to waste the loss of Zaan's focus and the blocking that Shi had given him. he reached for the hand that had failed to connect with his face, grabbing all of Zaan's fingers and twisting backward, straining the grandmaster's wrist with all of his might, his other hand braced against Zaan's face to give him as much leverage to push, push, PUSH until he felt the wrist sprain underneath the pressure as the carpal bones of Zaan's wrists were popped out of alignment, grinding nerves and muscle between them and hopefully breaking enough of his concentration with the sudden shot of lava hot pain to give the digimon the room they needed.
"He loves you, and he's waiting for you!" Marigold said, not trying to swipe at Psych as much now as she was trying to grab hold of him by the upper arm or the shoulder, to hold him in place so that he could hear what he needed to hear beyond a shadow of a doubt. She wasn't going to stop fighting, not for a second. Her father was down on his knees just trying to keep the villain distracted long enough for everyone else to win the real fight.
"Do you feel that? You're slipping." Zack said, releasing the grandmaster's hopefully injured hand and then continuing to wail on his face, gloves fists pounding away at Zaan's cheeks until impact cuts began to open on the skin and hairline fractures were bashed into his cheekbones, only adding to the pounding pressure in his head. "All the evil that you've wrought is slipping out of your hands. All the arrogant assumptions you made, all the calculations you did, it's all coming down around your ears. Soon enough you'll be standing in the rubble of what you made with NOTHING to show for any of it." Zack said, reaching down to grab Zaan by the collar of his shirt, wobbling up to his own feet so he could haul Zaan to a half stand and then toss him harshly to the floor. Zack winced, one of his ribs was probably bruised if not worse, his hands stung like the dickens, the only thing keeping him going was the red hot adrenaline that was moving like magma through his veins. He had to keep going, he was the big, colorful problem right in the center of Zaan's vision and so long as that was true it was taking a larger and larger chunk of his brainpower trying not to get openly clobbered by the hero.
Marigold equally felt the aches of exhaustion setting in. Trying to keep up with Psych, trying to pin him down was like trying to catch a fly out of the air with chopsticks but she had to keep going, she had to keep trying.
"I'm taking you home. That's a promise. I'm taking you home!" Marigold said, chanting it as much to herself as to the psychic digimon in front of her. She could make him believe it if she made herself believe it too.
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Mar 18, 2022 4:24:41 GMT
With Zaan's punch successfully blocked by Shi putting his infini-store in front of Zaan's fist, Zack wasted no time grabbing a hold of that same hand and pulling it out before grabbing all of his fingers and twisting backwards. Zaan angrily screamed in pain until a loud "crack" sound was heard. Zack had successfully dislocated Zaan's wrist, and the sudden hot lava-like pain shot through his arm. Still though, he was determined... he couldn't give up control of his psychic drake! Not yet!
By this point, Yuudai, Yasuo, Stacy and Marigold were all shouting to Psych, in some attempt to get him to snap out of his controlled state. Even Stacy had something happen to her in this time, evolving into a seemingly more powerful Sarumon form and putting a hand on his shoulder. When she did that, Psych could start hearing everyone's voices more. And with everyone joining in, Adrian and Shoutmon began to show their encouragement as well.
"Speed has done nothing but try to think of ways to bring you home! You're all he talks about! You have to fight through this, Psych!"
"A-Adrian..."
"Come on! You're Psychdramon, master of the mind! You gonna let some dumb mind virus tell you what to do?! I don't think so!"
"Shoutmon... Stacy... Marigold... ZACK!"
The memories came flooding into Psych's mind... the anguish that not only Speed went through, but Zack and Marigold as well. He remembered how he used his powers to get them all out of that building... and how he used them to completely topple the building on top of him and Grandmaster... no, no, it didn't work! He wasn't quick enough! And now he was... he was... no. He wouldn't.
"I... will not... be a slave... anymore!" Psych screamed in agony as the last of the virus was cleansed from his digicore, thanks to not only Stacy, but to everyone who was calling out to him, trying to bring him back into the light. It would be now that Adrian's, Shi's and Zack's Digivices were all successfully returned to their respective owners.
"No... NO NO NO! It's IMPOSSIBLE!" Zaan yelled before Zack continued to wail on his face, pointing out how everything was crumbling down around him, before Zack picked him up and shoved him to the ground once again. Zaan yelled in pain as he held his dislocated wrist out, but by this time it was too late. Psych reopened his eyes, which were back to their original form. He looked around him, and saw plenty of familiar faces... and even a couple new ones.
"Zack... Marigold... Stacy..." He began to say... with his VOICE. He coughed and held his throat afterwards. "I... have a voice... this feels peculiar..."
"Psych... is that you?" Adrian asked. "Do you have control again?"
"I believe so..." Psych said, looking down at his claws and bending them back and forth. He looked up and saw Zaan laying down on the ground, a look of absolute horror on his face when his eyes locked with Psych's. "You."
"Stay back!" Zaan yelled as he tried to crawl away, but Psych was too fast for him. He hovered over to the pathetic supervillain and lifted him up with telepathy, shoving him out the window and breaking it, but also holding him up so that he didn't fall. "No! Please! Let me go! If you drop me, you'll just prove that all I've said about you is right!"
"You beg for mercy after all that you've done to us? You're beyond pathetic, Niku Zaan," Psych said in a cold tone. "Before I kill you, I'm going to dissect the truth from you: what is the REAL reason that you're doing this?"
Zaan and Psych would merely float there for half a minute, so for the others it would just look like they were having one hell of a staring contest. Suddenly, Psych's eyes would widen with surprise as he began to float backwards. "What kind of trickery is this? His memories... his memories are not real!"
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Post by Shi on Mar 28, 2022 1:44:18 GMT
Wow did Shi horribly regret helping Zack out there for a moment, obviously there was some massive amounts of information that Shi did not have on the situation at hand. Then again considering who they were dealing with and the very insane reasons they gave for doing what they did Shi almost immediately stopped feeling bad in the slightest and decided to just focus on what was going on in front of him, no one would know about this raging surge of thoughts going on in the teenager's mind because of his face but I had to fill out this post somehow despite not knowing Psych or have context for most of this so there you go.
Revealing that he was now not being controlled and had a voice, if he didn't have one before Shi had no idea how being mind controlled would do that but at this point he didn't care enough to question it, Shi reclaimed his digivice spinning it around in his hand before returning it to its proper place in his jacket pocket.
Yuudai and Yasuo degenerated as the threat seemed to stop. "Ahh good, nice to meet ya! I'm Yuudai and this is my brother Yasuo!" All sense of urgency and possible danger was completely taken away from either of the twins who seemed quite sure that this was enough and would be fine. At least until the psychic dinosaur was about to fling the dude out a window. Yuudai and Yasuo looked over at Shi who seemed to just sigh and crack his neck walking over to the digimon.
"Look, I don't know you and you don't know me but while I'm around no one dies, even scum like him so please don't make me save him Besides we should draw as little attention as possible since there are still some more digimon that need saving at the moment. There's nothing more attention grabbing then a dude falling off a massive building. Also knowing egomaniacs like him the only way to get to the digimon that are about to be mind controlled might be through some sort of DNA scanner. Don't Kill Him." Shi had his digivice in his hand and the word 'warp digivolution' were pretty clear on it, if Psych dropped Zaan it was pretty clear that Shi and the twins would be right on it. Even if Psych pulled the same digivice grabbing trick Shi's hand was on the button, he'd press before Psych could take it.
Then came out the whole false memories' thing. "So you mean he's not from an alternate universe where everything was similar but digimon were revealed and randomly decided to blow everyone up for no reason really explained thus far, color me surprised." Despite his tone it was pretty clear he was being sarcastic
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Mar 28, 2022 3:59:55 GMT
Though her normally glowing red eyes were dim in color and she was sitting on the floor on her knees and she was catching her breath, she was still conscious and hearing everything going on around her from Marigold reaching out to Psych to the cracking sound coming from Zack's hand. Though the sound was satisfying for her to hear she didn't react other than a mild twitch of her drooping leathery black wings.
Then when she heard Psych had a voice now her dimmed eyes lit up just as brightly as before as she looked at the Psychdramon in shock. She had thought Psych was mute. Pushing herself to her feet she walked over to Psych and said "Wait I thought you couldn't speak. Now I'm confused. Was your mute state the result of some kind of virus as well?"
When Shi tried to convince Psych not to kill Zaan, Sarumon sighed before she said "Shi's right, Psych. Not only do we not need the unnecessary attention that would draw but, ask yourself, would you be proud of yourself if you murdered this pitiful slimy coward for such a senseless thing like revenge."
So Zaan's memories were fake meaning he wasn't from another dimension. Which then begged the question, who or what planted the memories to begin with? "I think the question we all should now be asking is where did these memories really come from?"
OOC: Amaterasu's Blessing: Her body glows with a pure holy light as a wave of holy energy engulfs the battlefield curing up to two allies within of one viruses/debuffs they have be they artificially created or not in a radius of 30ft. This counts for human or computer viruses. (Cooldown of 3 posts) Cooldown 1/3 posts.
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Post by supesman on Mar 28, 2022 14:15:39 GMT
"Psych...listen to me. I know you and I have not always seen eye to eye on...much of anything really but you can look as deep into my head as you feel like and figure out that I know what I'm talking about here. Don't go somewhere the people who love you can't follow. They just got you home, don't become someone, someTHING they can't recognize anymore." Zack said, holding out his hand toward Psych to try and calm him. His heart was still thumping heavy enough in his chest to feel like he was getting bludgeoned with a sledgehammer. He was equally ready to jump out of the broken window after Zaan if Psych decided to make the wrong choice, it was in his blood to save someone in trouble, even if that person was scum of the earth.
"You're hurting. Your mind is scanning through every second of pain this guy put you through. I know. I've been exactly where you are down to the pounding in the back of your skull, that animal drive to get even, to settle the score, to make sure they can never make anyone hurt the way they made you hurt. Killing him won't make it all go away, it'll just add new hurt." Marigold said, flashing back to the image of her own "mother" in a crater underneath her, a few more heavy blows from shattering underneath the Stingmon's onslaught. Her father had talked her down then and she sent up a silent, frantic prayer that she would be able to stop Psyche from making the same mistake she nearly made in his shoes.
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 5, 2022 1:37:56 GMT
"Greetings... Yuudai... Yasuo..." Psych managed to say to the unfamiliar Agumon that introduced himself and his brother to the psychic dragon. "My name... is Psych." Yeah, that new voice was still odd to Psych as he rubbed his throat after he talked. Stacy was the first one to ask about it, asking if the virus had anything to do with it. "I was... born mute... the virus must have changed my data enough to give me a voice."
"It must be one hell of a virus, then..." Shoutmon commented in response.
Things went bad again as Psych flew towards Zaan and had him hovering high above the city, the psychic looking dead-set on either dropping Zaan or snapping his neck. Naturally, the others were doing their best to try and talk Psych out of it, since murdering a human is a pretty big no-no move to do. Zack's and Marigold's arguments were the most convincing, as Marigold knew what Psych was going through and Zack channeling his inner Batman with the "no killing" philosophy. Since everyone else had their say, Adrian felt like he needed to say something, too.
"Psych, you're right, he probably does deserve it, but that's not what we do," Adrian says. "That's not what AEGIS does. If you kill him, there's a chance that you'll never be able to go back. Please..."
"...come back to me after you've experienced what I have," Psych said with a growl, his eyes glowing more and more by the second. "The pain of being taken away from your family for months, forced to do whatever this worthless human filth wanted me to do! I shall do more than kill him; I'll tear this asshole apart, limb by limb, and watch as the life fades from his eyes!"
"PSYCH, NO!"
Thankfully, Psych never went through with it after he dove deep into Zaan's memories. In pure shock, he threw Zaan back inside, the now defeated villain sliding to a stop on the floor of his destroyed office. "Psych... what do you mean, his memories aren't real?"
"Tampered memories have a much different feeling than genuine ones," Psych explained, not taking his eyes off of Zaan. "This man... he genuinely believes he is from another universe, one where Digimon took over... I could see all of it... but they aren't real. They were implanted into his subconscious!"
"That is the most... absurd thing I have ever heard..." Zaan weakly said as he tried to pick himself up. "I remember it all clear as day... you Digimon are heartless creatures, and I won't stop until-"
"Oh, for the love of- can it already, would ya?" Shoutmon asked as he threw his mic staff at Zaan's head, knocking him out but thankfully not harming him more than that. "Psych... if what you're saying is true..."
"Zaan isn't the endgame," Psych concluded. "He's merely an unwilling henchman."
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Shi
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Post by Shi on Apr 5, 2022 11:26:08 GMT
Seems everyone was in agreement on not letting this psychic digimon murder and undo any work they had done to get here, well by everyone Shi meant everyone in the group of course. It would seem the psychic wasn't about to let them go despite the group's best efforts. Well guess it was time for Shi to show he wasn't just making an empty threat. Yasuo and Yuudai would know what to do, with Yasuo's abilities he could force Psych to attack him instead while Yuudai keeps Zaan from hitting the ground, it left a bad taste in the tamers mouth to save someone like this, but he wasn't about to take any chances due to some digimons blind rage.
"Yuudai, Yasuo. Warp digi-" Before Shi could put his grand plan into action though it would seem the shock of the whole memories thing caused Psych to throw him to the ground anyway, well guess that made all that talking Shi just did absolutely pointless in the grand scheme of things if it was going to be like that anyway, with a sigh and pulling his hat down lower over his eyes Shi let his digivice fall back into his pocket.
"Endgame or not that's not really relevant now, There's still those digimon that are going to be turned into helpers right? We have to help them first." The trio had their priorities set, all this over arching stuff could wait till the threat was neutralized and they could deal with it after.
"Mhm, He seems done for now so we can deal with him at our leisure, after all if he does have fake memories there's no sense in asking questions. After all he seems pretty convinced his memories are real." Yasuo felt a bit sorry for the guy, while this was all extreme knowing that it came from someone else tampering with his mind, well maybe him and Psych were a lot more alike then Yasuo would care to admit, mindlessly following someone else's orders without knowing why.
Shi meanwhile had lost interest in the thread of conversation for the time being, this was usually around the time people stopped listening to him anyway when this sorta thing was involved so he just stretched his arms and waiting for the talking bit to be over, that coffee was beginning to wear off on him and he was starting to get a bit sleepy.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Apr 5, 2022 22:18:21 GMT
"You could of also been born with a virus that made you mute too. Perhaps when I cured all the viruses around here that could be the reason you can speak." Sarumon said trying to process how a mind altering virus could of been responsible for how he can talk. It seemed to not make sense but, then again, Psych was a digimon and what about digimon was always logical?
Everyone else had been trying to reach Psych as Sarumon found strength she didn't know she had as she flew over to Psych placing a clawed hand on his shoulder before she said "Please, Psych, if you do this you'll only regret it later. Don't make me also fight to protect Zaan from being murdered by you. What you have in mind isn't self defense as Zaan is no threat to you any longer. That and he has been driven to madness by false memories, remember?"
Fortunately Psych didn't go through with murdering Zaan as he threw the human back inside. When Zaan began to speak Sarumon glared at him before she said "So you would of rather Psych murdered you in cold blood? Perhaps you should listen to Shoutmon and keep your trap shut." Zaan wasn't able to say anything more since Shoutmon lobbed his microphone and knocked him out. Sarumon shrugged not put off by that as she was tired of that human's nonsense anyway.
"So the big mystery is who and what started this whole thing in the first place." Sarumon said before thoughts of the Zaan's victims came to mind before she said "Maybe we should go to where the infected digimon are so I can cure them of the virus. I hope we can find some food though. That first wave of power curing Psych was draining." Due to her nature as a speedster in digimon form this made sense.
OOC: Amaterasu's Blessing: Her body glows with a pure holy light as a wave of holy energy engulfs the battlefield curing up to two allies within of one viruses/debuffs they have be they artificially created or not in a radius of 30ft. This counts for human or computer viruses. (Cooldown of 3 posts) Cooldown 2/3 posts.
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Post by supesman on Apr 6, 2022 13:24:12 GMT
Zack let out a gentle sigh when Psych finally threw the villain to the floor, trying to banish the trembling that was running through him, his veins ached as the adrenaline running through them turned cold and empty. He very nearly snapped back to attention when Zaan got up but was able to settle again. He worked without thinking, walking to the remains of the computer desk and pulling out a long length of compute wire, ripping it out of the remaining sockets in the computer scrap and the floor, ending up with two long links of black wire. He pressed one knee into Zaan's back, roughly tying his wrists together, then his ankles and finally tying both bonds to each other.
"Never bet money on a knocked out bad guy STAYING out cold." Zack said, tossing the hogtied megalomaniac over his shoulder. He was not letting this bastard out of his sight for as long as he was still breathing.
"They've got a point. We're here to rescue the victims, we can piece together the big plan when we're all somewhere that ISN'T here." Marigold said, keeping her eyes flicking to her father every so often. The superhero wasn't standing as high and steady as he had been at the start of the encounter, looking at his hand, flexing the fingers in and out, feeling the rattling grind of dislocated bone rolling up his arm. "Dad? You did what you had to." She said, placing her hand on his shoulder, seeming to shake him out of his stupor for the moment at least there were people to save, that took priority, always.
"Yeah I've just...I've never intentionally hurt somebody like that." He said, trying to keep swallowing the bile that wanted to climb up his throat and banish the dizziness that was mounting in his head. For the moment the others would have to locate where the digimon were being held.
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 12, 2022 2:51:10 GMT
"Psych, can I talk with you for a moment?" Shoutmon asked the purple drake before they both went over to the other side of the office for a private conversation. Shoutmon did not waste any time showing how unhappy he was. "What the hell was that?"
"What are you referring to?" Psych asked, as if he were playing dumb.
"You were about to kill a human in cold blood. You're better than that, Psych! I don't care who he is or what he did, but murdering humans here is the same as loading a Digimon's data. They don't come back. Surely you of all people should know that."
"I did know that. I simply did not care. Scum like him do not deserve to live after committing such atrocities, and I shall not allow him to do so."
Shoutmon looked visibly disgusted at the Psychdramon's words. "I take that back; you are a horrible Digimon."
"Omni was worse."
"Bring up Omni again and you'll regret it," Shoutmon growled through his teeth. "All I'm saying is that Zaan is this high-up bigshot, and him suddenly dying is going to be news here. If I end up hearing about his 'mysterious death,' then I will not hesitate to let Sophie know exactly what happened to him. And as far as I know, killing a human is grounds for instant firing over at AEGIS, isn't it? And I can't even begin to imagine how Speed would feel about that."
Psych's scowl intensified after that. "Alright... I know when I am beaten. But do not assume that he will not eventually fall by my hands, if I cannot find the one who altered his memories in the first place."
After that discussion was finished, now that Zaan was back inside and properly defeated this time (and now tied up thanks to Zack's quick thinking), the group had two new goals they had to discuss: where were the other Helper-ified Digimon, and who was behind Zaan's mental manipulation. It seemed to be agreed that they should help the other infected Digimon first.
"I know where they are," Psych said as he telepathically sent clear directions to the group, which lead to a server room of sorts. "This is where they keep the data for all the Digimon, infected or not. All we have to do is free them, cure them and send them back to the Digital World."
"Why does that all sound a little bit too easy?" Adrian asked. "Surely it can't be that easy, it never is."
"I doubt there will be much resistance now that Zaan has been defeated."
"How would we be able to send all those Digimon back to the Digital World, anyways? Our Digiports can only send through a few at a time before needing to recharge. And there's gotta be hundreds there."
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Post by Shi on Apr 12, 2022 3:52:10 GMT
Well Shoutmon and Psych apparently walked out the door, probably to recreate some talking in hall scenes Shi had seen in a few movies away from everyone. Though the teenager was absoultely sure he knew exactly what the two of them were talking about Shi decided to back off from the group and sit next to the wall for a moment, followed quickly by Yuudai and Yasuo away from earshot of hopefully everyone. "So Zack's probably not in any mood to talk, Adrian and Stacy seem to know this digimon so I figured I'd better get your views on em." he asked his partners glancing over at the others, they already all probably had some bias for the Psychic dragon after all, best to get his own little groups thoughts in order.
"Don't have much to say, can't say I agree with what happened there. Even if he was mad we were all pleading for him to stop. Almost even had to evolve and fight him which would've left a bad taste in my mouth." That was a pretty basic idea on the situation, Initial impressions weren't that good it seems for any of them.
"Maybe he should sit this out, if he's not gonna listen to any of us like that again we could get in some real trouble. I want to believe it was just because of who it was but I can't know for sure." That seemed fair, majority rules and all that. Can't have anyone try and go Rambo against the group after all.
"If something like that happens again I'll raise a concern, best to play it by ear and hope this was a one time thing." With that Shi pulled out his phone and shot a quick text to his mom, telling her he was alright and not dead yet.
After that though the two digimon came back, putting his phone away Shi stood back up alongside Yuudai and Yasuo. There was the big concern on how to get them back to the digital world. "That's actually something I've been suspecious about since we've gotten here, with how many digimon he took how exactly did he get them all here? If it was through the Trailmon or the regular portals that would've raised suspicion a long time ago." Digiports was an idea as well but that lead to a few more problems with the lack of a proper digivice.
"Maybe they have their own transport or something? A way to and from the digital world?"
"Like a backdoor no one but Zaan knows about, guess the psychic among us would be the one to know for sure." Yeah there was no way they were getting anything outta Zaan anytime soon.
"Regardless if that's not a thing then getting as many through the digiports is the only idea so far, they only take five minutes to charge so between us we should be able to get a decent amount out and try to figure out what to do with the rest." Obviously not the best plan but those were the few options they had.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Apr 12, 2022 4:29:20 GMT
Sarumon flew over to a nearby desk sitting on it looking as if in deep thought. Sure she understood that Psych had every right to be angry at Zaan but to go so far as to kill him. No matter what evils the human committed that seemed excessive to her. As she thought the tip of her tail lazily swished back and forth before she looked at the unconscious villain which spurned a new line of thought to float through her mind. If those memories were implanted then couldn't Zaan's original memories be somehow restored? Looking over at Shoutmon and Psych she noticed how neither seemed pleased with each other but given what just happened she couldn't blame them.
Sighing the two foot tall demon monkey rose to her feet before taking flight over to where the two dragons were while keeping a respectable distance before she said "Excuse me. I hate to interrupt you two but I have a question regarding Zaan's implanted memories. Psych, if someone could alter Zaan's memories like that can't someone like a powerful psychic change his memories back to normal? That and shouldn't we figure out a way to keep such a thing from happening again so as not to murder some kid's dad?"
Her questions asked she flew over to where Adrian was and noticed how he was asking if things seemed a bit too easy before she said "I agree with you. It is wise we make our next moves cautiously since we don't know what or whom we'll be up against when I use my new technique to cure the others."
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Post by supesman on Apr 12, 2022 14:02:17 GMT
"Push comes to shove we can move the digimon toward the terminal under the cover of darkness. We can break it up into smaller groups if we have to. It'll be tense enough to turn your hair grey and it'll take all night to move them in shifts but it's a nuclear option if we need it." Zack said, picking his head up from hist internal reflection and shifting his shoulder to make sure he kept a solid hold on Zaan. Psych might notice that he was keeping the shoulder he had the villain resting on facing AWAY from the psychic agent and with a grip on the villain tight enough to make it clear that Psych wouldn't be snatching him again without a fight.
"They have a point. There's no way that Zaan was moving them to and from the Terminal without anybody being noticed, especially with all of the kidnapped digimon's families looking for them left and right AFTER Zaan had already made himself public enemy number one. There has to be some way he was moving the digimon back and forth from a defensible position, we just have to find it." Marigold said. She knew for a fact that she and her father at least had been searching for any hide or hair of the masked nutjob since the last they had met, if he had been marching caravans of a kidnapped digimon into the digital world, there would have been SOME alarm bells rung before now.
"Together. Nobody splits up. We made it all the way up here moving as a unit and checking as we go and we can't get cocky now." He said, agreeing with a few other opinions that had been expressed. There was a good chance the hard part was over but that didn't mean there wasn't any security left to contend with.
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Post by Adrian Boriker on Apr 22, 2022 4:11:25 GMT
Stacy asked Psych if it would be possible for him to restore the original memories, since he was a powerful psychic and all. "Hm... you have a good point... I shall try." Psych slowly floated over to the unconscious Zaan and used his psychic abilities to enter his mind. He got brief flashes of the original memories... his wife and child... coming to work... but then something else came. Something... sinister.
"AAAH!" Psych couldn't even describe the horrific... THING he saw in those memories. But as soon as he did, he snapped out of that mind as quickly as he could, catching his breath in the process. "No... I can't..."
"Psych! What happened?" Shoutmon asked, taken aback by the Psychdramon's sudden reaction.
"I... believe I saw what altered his memories... it was horrific. Sinister yellow eyes... a twisted smile... black mist... I refuse to go back in there. I'm sorry, Stacy."
Adrian and Shoutmon would definitely have questioned Psych more, but right now they had bigger problems to deal with. The others were raising good points... how WAS Zaan getting all these Digimon here in secret so easily? "You're right. I briefly remember... there's a DigiGate underneath this building. It's how he was able to sneak Digimon out of the Digital World."
"Wait, Zaan BUILT a DigiGate? How did no one- wouldn't it give off at least SOME kind of energy signature?"
"Well, this building's clearly not normal, I'd bet there's some kinda signal jammer. Up until the end, Zaan certainly was a pretty smart fella. Not so much anymore, though."
"Then that's it, then?" Adrian asks. "We go down to the server room, cure the Digimon, use the DigiGate to send them all back and then destroy the gate for good! Surely the police don't have to one hundred percent understand what Zaan's been doing with this stuff to arrest him, right?"
"It's just the part about Zaan's memory that worries me, however..." Psych said. "The deeper I dive in, the more that that... THING shows up. I cannot describe it well at all without actually showing you, but I do not wish to do that. But with his memories as they are..."
"How about therapy?" Adrian asked. "He's technically insane, with the false memories and all... maybe actual doctors could help him better than we can?"
"That's... not a bad idea," Psych said with a slight smile. "So... shall we get a move on to save the Digimon?"
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Post by Shi on Apr 27, 2022 9:30:34 GMT
Shi wasn't no memory expert, and he was sure that Yuudai and Yasuo were definitely not experts either, but he had a feeling whatever was done to Zaan couldn't be so easily undone even with psychic powers, the human mind was a very fragile thing after all so one slip up could easily spell doom for Zaan or maybe even Psych if his powers worked like Shi thought they did. Apparently it didn't work but for different reasons then Shi imagined, this was all too much of a headache best just get the dude to some therapy or something.
Thankfully Shi's idea did end up having an answer, one they could use as well. Though the part of Zaan being a smart fella did make Shi glance over at the guy currently on the ground with his wrist probably not bending the right way. "Intelligent maybe, smart no." Intelligent enough to be able to pull this all off, provided it was under his own merit and not the result of whoever the shadowy jerk was, Not smart in the fact that he couldn't realize all the flaws in his own plans and ideas. "Remember you two, similar words but there's a difference between them. Doesn't matter if you're intelligent if you use it for stupid stuff like this." Shi advised his brothers who both nodded, mostly understanding what Shi meant.
"Alrighty then, lets get moving. Operation save a buncha nerds is a go!" Yuudai was back to full energy as his Holo-suit quickly switched back on jumping up from where he was standing throwing his arms over Shi and throwing all his weight against the tamer dragging him to the left.
"Digi-port here we come. Then we can get home and mom and dad will cook us dinner!" Yasuo added switching back to his Holo-suit and throwing his arms over Shi throwing all his weight against the tamer dragging him to the right.
Shi being weighed down by the two of them just sighed and adjusted his hat for a moment. "You two make it sound so simple, I hope it is though. I need a nap." This was too much excitement for one day, plus he was pretty sure he had classes in the morning. With a yawn showing this off Shi was ready to go do some good.
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