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Conundrum in the Tundra (Closed, 2/2)
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on May 15, 2022 4:08:46 GMT
As Luna unleashed her makeshift snow grenade, seemingly missing Rush calling for a time-out, Rush found himself unable to react quickly enough to avoid the snow (let alone protect the little Mamemon fellow). Luckily, the little guy would be rescued from an imminent snow burial, as a golden blur literally appeared out of thin air and slid across the snow, grabbing the little guy and carrying him to safety.
After the golden form of Kaito the Tuwarmon barely escaped the snow grenade's blast radius with his passenger in tow, the ninja would set the little Digimon in his arms back on the ground as he got to his feet and brushed the snow off of his body.
Meanwhile, Rush shook the snow off of his shell like a dog, before giving Luna a flat look as she had apparently only then realized that he'd called for a break. "Liiittle slow on the draw there, Luna."
After Luna asked the little Mamemon if he was hurt at all, the little Digimon merely shook his head and gave her a thumbs-up to signify that he was fine. Seemingly unable to talk, the little Mamemon would attempt to communicate via sign language (which was somewhat difficult due to having mitten hands instead of fingers). [Not lost. Just waiting for ???.]
"Hm, he says that he is not lost, but merely waiting for someone or something." Kaito translated, for those who didn't know sign language. "The last part is not easy to make out, due to his lack of fingers."
"I didn't know you knew sign language, Kaito." Hana stated, visibly impressed by that tidbit of info.
"All ninja of our clan are trained to communicate via sign language, Mistress Hana. it allows for stealthy communicate without revealing your location to the enemy by speaking." Kaito explained, bowing as he addressed the teen.
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Post by Luna on May 20, 2022 8:31:51 GMT
Luna felt a bit bad about what just happened but to Rush's comment she'd just shrug a bit before responding. "Sorry, used to people saying time out instead of doing a gesture, must've missed it while I was setting that up." After all it was pretty hard to make a barrier that small surprisingly! Took a lot of focus considering she was used to using her giant ones more often. "After all these ears are way better at hearin then anything else." Luna joked tapping her ears for a moment, she could hear a pin drop from miles out but she can't hear hand signs.
Sign language huh? That was a human thing usually. There was a human Luna knew at a time that knew sign language but she wasn't able to learn it herself. "Wonder what they're, oh wait I know!" Luna reached over to the sidecar on her Motorcycle and pulled out a small notebook with a pencil sticking out the side.
"I use this when I need to pick up medical supplies in the human world, also Dust writes down directions on where to go for me sometimes, I tend to get a little lost." If they could do sign language surely they could write as well!
"Do you know how to write? If so this might be a bit easier then doing those gestures with those hands like that." Luna offered the notebook to her, the design was simple though it had a crudely drawn image of an Impmon on the front and a well drawn image of a Lunamon next to them.
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Post by ricochet4-Hiroshi&Leroy on May 20, 2022 9:06:15 GMT
The snow grenade sent Leroy tumbling over onto his back before he pushed himself out of the snow setting his large sword on his back before brushing off the snow on his body as he said "That snow grenade was pretty awesome. I'm glad I met two digimon that are so much fun in a snowball fight."
Meanwhile Hiroshi's attention was fully on the Mamemon variant while Luna asked if the little guy could write. If that were the case then the little one would be easier to understand. "So, friend. Who are you looking for? Do they have a name?" Hiroshi then pointed at himself as he said "My name is Hiroshi. The Dinohumon with me is my twin brother Leroy. Who are you?" Hopefully the little guy could explain everything since neither Hiroshi and Leroy could understand sign language. Maybe that should be a language they should spend time learning.
The Tuwarmon named Kaito not only knew sign language but it was something members of his clan were taught. There were definitely advantages to that especially from the stealth aspect since he could imagine Kaito's fellow clansmen communicating silently when out and about.
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jun 25, 2022 21:46:35 GMT
The little Mamemon's eyes lit up when Luna offered him the notebook to write in, signing a quick 'thank you' to the Crescemon before accepting the book and starting to write in it. My name is Sweeps. It is nice to meet you all.
"Aw, that's a cute name." Hana said after she read the little digimon's message. The teenage girl was desperately fighting the urge to just pick the little guy up and hug the heck out of it.
Sweeps blushed at the compliment, before the sound of a horn in the distance rang through the town while a dense fog bank rolled in.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Loud footsteps could be heard as a massive, shadowy figure appeared in the fog. Sadly, the fog would be too thick to make out more than a silhouette with two glowing red eyes. The giant shadow raised one arm and let out a loud "Waaaarrrrk!", upon which a literal swarm of mini Mamemons identical to Sweeps poured out of the fog, pulling a large sled before spreading throughout the town.
The mini Mamemons would constantly be flitting in and out of any unlocked doors, grabbing and stealing anything food they could get their tiny hands on and piling it on their sled. Sweeps quickly handed the notepad back to Luna before going to rejoin his fellow ChibiMamemons. When he approached the sled that the swarm was depositing their stolen goods on, a Thundermon revealed himself on the sled and addressed the ChibiMamemon.
"Ah, Private Sweeps! There you are! I was worried you'd gotten lost, and was about to organize a search party for you!" Thundermon said, visibly relieved to see Sweeps. "Anyways, you know your job, soldier! Help the others grab as much food as we can carry! We can't keep His Majesty waiting, after all!"
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Post by Luna on Jun 30, 2022 4:46:29 GMT
"What can I say, only the best techniques from the one and only Luna." It was totally just made up on the spot and basically a carbon copy of her normal barrier moves but even still they didn't need to know about that, so it was fine. Apparently the now dubbed Sweeps could write which made understanding them a lot easier in the long run. "Aww that is a cute name, Mine's Luna. Nice to meet you." Now that introductions were out of the way just what exactly where they doing here?
A thick fog and a loud noise that was even worse for Luna thanks to her great hearing would soon be the ones to answer that question, coming out of the fog itself seemed to be a swarm of tiny digimon that were almost countless, though that was mostly cause they all looked alike and it'd be easy to confuse fast. In reality there was a bunch but just enough for the sled.
Getting her notebook handed back to her Luna didn't even pay it much mind before she quickly tossed it back into the sidecar of her bike before walking over to the smaller digimon. "Hey, what's the big idea?" Luna asked hands at her side.
"Who's this majesty anyway? Regardless I don't think this food is yours. It's not right to take things from others." Luna would at least give them a moment to defend their actions before jumping straight into trying to stop them, she was pretty close to the sled and put on her best annoyed face which still looked like she was mostly happy and chill but that was just how she naturally looked.
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Post by ricochet4-Hiroshi&Leroy on Jun 30, 2022 5:08:33 GMT
There was something about this Sweeps that Leroy couldn't put his finger on. Sure he hadn't done anything suspicious but something felt just wrong but without evidence he wasn't just going to start accusing the little guy of being suspicious.
Then Hiroshi's ears wiggled as the scaly larger than average Cutemon also picked up the sound of footsteps incoming. It was relatively quiet at first before growing louder. Then there were red eyes followed by what looked like a swarm of digimon the same species as Sweeps. Getting a sinking feeling as he listened in. Sweeps was definitely one of them and the little buggers were actively trying to steal the food from the town. Then he looked over to where Leroy was standing only to find his twin was on the move. "Damn it, Leroy." Hiroshi muttered soon spotting his digivolved twin marching over to where Luna was. 'Shit. This could be big trouble.' Hiroshi thought silently hoping his little brother wasn't about to unless his inner chaotic nature.
"She's right. That food is not yours. Nor does it belong to this so called leader of yours, birdbrain. So I suggest you leave and take your forces with you. Otherwise..." Leroy said drawing his sword before he continued "I may have to play rough." Well crap. Leroy's hotheadedness was just as problematic as his choas so Hiroshi was braced for some serious trouble.
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Jul 10, 2022 21:04:14 GMT
When Luna and Leroy went over to Thundermon's location and started telling him off /threatening him, Thundermon jumped in surprise before turning to face the two. "Hmph, I am Captain Thundermon, loyal commander of His Majesty, King Dedede's army! We have been tasked with the important task of gathering provisions for the king and his men! And I'm afraid I can't let you stop us, or else His Majesty will be very cross with me for letting our people go hungry! A-Squad, help me keep them busy. B-Squad, full retreat with our current haul!"
With that command, half of the ChibiMamemons dropped what they were carrying and swarmed towards Luna and Leroy, intending to bury Luna under a literal pile of ChibiMamemons while Thundermon leaped off the sled and flew right at Leroy's face with an electrified fist. "Taste my Thunder Punch, vile interloper!"
Meanwhile, the other half of the swarm finished carrying what they had to the sled before they worked together to literally lift the sled off the ground, food and all, and start carrying it away as quickly as their tiny legs would carry them. Of course, the ChibiMamemon's were too oblivious to notice as Kaito hitched a ride on the sled by clinging to the giant sack of stolen food. The Tuwarmon planned to let the thieves lead him right to their base so he could later guide his comrades to their hideout.
"Well,so much for a peaceful trip." Data snarked as he and the rest of his remaining allies watched the madness unfold before their eyes.
Thundermon cooldowns: -Thunder Punch: Thundermon electrifies his fist and slugs an enemy right in the face. 2 post cooldown. (0/2)
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Post by Luna on Jul 12, 2022 11:17:59 GMT
"There are other ways to get food you know! Stealing from others is the cowards way. As a Captain you should know better!" Luna let out a small sigh, she probably wasn't going to get anywhere by talking, someone would say something stupid and start a battle...
Well it would seem they were going to hafta fight now, though Luna didn't want to Leroy already decided to go down the violent path so violent path they shall go! While a buncha small chibi digimon were trying to swarm her Luna simply raised her hand. "Dark barrier." They would find it a lot harder to try and swarm her with that up, though there was one more function to the barrier that she would activated right after casting it. "Burst open!" With that the barrier would instantly erupt sending a shockwave throughout the area around Luna, it wouldn't deal any damage but anyone who wasn't on her level would find themselves flying backwards quite a distance away.
"Alright, didn't want to hafta fight today but I guess I don't have much of a choice, bring it on!" With that Luna raised her hands in her typical fighting stance, it was on.
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Post by ricochet4-Hiroshi&Leroy on Jul 12, 2022 22:39:59 GMT
"I agree with Luna. There are plenty of trees and bushes around here to find food in the nearby woods and there is more then enough to feed your people. You don't need to steal from the people here." Hiroshi said but unfortunately things had gone completely to hell in a handbasket in the blink of an eye as the ChibiMamemon swarmed Luna and Thundermon came at Leroy. "Cutemon digivolve to..Turuiemon." Now he was a larger rabbit like digimon but unlike other Turuiemon he was covered in pink scales and had blue eyes. His clothes and gloves were both red and his shoes were blue like his scarf.
With a mighty leap he made his way over to Luna swatting aside various ChibiMamemon while she brought up a barrier. "Miss Luna are you alright?" he asked as the shockwave spread out. "Never mind I guess you are."
Meanwhile as Captain Thundermon came at Leroy with a punch the furry DinoHumon smiled bringing out his arm mounted weapons leaving his large sword on his back before he said "Too slow sparkles, Lizard Dance!" He then began dancing around swinging the blades on his arms at Thundermon. Though he clenched his teeth as he met the electric punch with his blades causing his fur to stand on end he continued to press the crazy attack. With any luck Thundermon would back up thinking the DinoHumon was batshit insane and back up. It was not as if Leroy was planning running on impulse alone.
OOC: Hiroshi digivolves to Turuiemon.
Leroy uses his Lizard Dance. Lizard Dance: Slashes at his opponents with while dancing.
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Aug 3, 2022 18:24:10 GMT
Leroy's Lizard Dance would end up knocking Thundermon backward, sending him rolling across the snow until he became a large snowball. The snowball would remain stationary for a few moments before Thundermon burst out of it. After freeing himself, Captain Thundermon would ponder Luna and Hiroshi's words, noting that they did make valid points, before ultimately shaking his head. "You make good points, but be that as it may, our orders come directly from the king! If you have a problem, you'll have to take it up with him. Until then, we still have a job to finish!"
"What if we went with you to talk to your king? Maybe we could help him find an alternative to stealing food!" Hana piped up, taking cover behind Data's bulky form.
Thundermon, who had been preparing to unleash another electrical attack upon Leroy, paused as he considered Hana's request. He gestured with one hand, instructing the ChibiMamemon swarm to back off and give Luna and Hiroshi some space. "Hm, I suppose that might be okay. Tell you what, if you promise to let us finish delivering our cargo back to base, then I'll personally escort you to His Majesty so you can speak with him in person! Is that acceptable?"
The small Digimon was offering to reach a compromise with the group, and it would be up to them to decide if they would accept the offer or not.
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Post by Luna on Aug 9, 2022 0:52:52 GMT
Luna put her fist to her hip and listened to the smaller digimon for a moment before responding. "The only king I know around here is the king of Ys and last I checked they didn't make the round in stealing other people's food. Just because someone calls themselves a king doesn't mean anything!" Heck Luna could declare herself queen of this place, doesn't mean anything without any context to show for it.
Then Hana offered the idea of going with them to talk to him, Luna put her hands on her hips for a moment with her eyes closed. "Hmm, I don't know, I don't like the idea of letting them get away with any of the food. But I suppose it'd clear the way to stop any future robbery." Luna felt a little bit off on either choice, on one hand if she didn't agree they'd probably start fighting again and on the other hand if she did then they would get away with all their food in tow, though they could return it if they managed to convince the king.
"Fine, I guess that's fine with me. Ain't like we have much of a choice in the matter. I don't exactly like fighting in general." Luna sighed for a moment before looking back up at the Thundermon with her eyes narrowed and serious. "Just know though that if you try and backstab us or something on the way there." Luna punched her fist into her open palm sending a small shockwave from the point of impact outward to show off her strength. "Then I ain't holding back! We clear on that?" Luna didn't like making threats like this but she had to be sure they weren't going to try anything.
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Post by ricochet4-Hiroshi&Leroy on Aug 9, 2022 1:29:16 GMT
Leroy smirked feeling a sense of satifaction as his Lizard Dance knocked Captain Thundermon backwards ending up rolling up into a large snowball before bursting through. Hana's words made Leroy chuckle as it seemed the human had some guts and smiled as Luna proved she was feistier than she initially appeared. "I agree with Luna. I have only heard of one king in these parts and your 'king' doesn't sound like he is worth leading if he is stealing food from others."
Seeing his brother was close to becoming a potential problem leapt to his twin taking hold of his shoulder before he said "Leroy, take it easy. If we can settle this problem without fighting wouldn't that be better?"
Leroy took a deep breath before he said "Sometimes you are too nice for your own good, Hiroshi."
Fortunately Thundermon seemed to be considering Hana's words as the girl had been attempting a more diplomatic approach on the situation but still insisted on taking the stolen food. "How bout you leave the food there and we can grab some food from the trees nearby on the way so we can likely find a lot with minimum risk." Hiroshi offered as he and Leroy had seen various food trees while skiing so why they were stealing was baffling.
When Leroy noticed Luna punching her fist into her open palm he opened his mouth planning to say something only for Hiroshi to intercept his chaotic twin by placing a hand over Leroy's mouth and in a corrective tone said "Shut up." Leroy rolled his eyes and pouted but didn't say anything.
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Post by Hanako Hoshidate on Aug 10, 2022 3:31:18 GMT
"Well, King Dedede's domain may be more isolated and less grandiose than Ys, but His Majesty has earned the right to be called our king. He has lead our community and kept us safe for many years as a wise and just leader, and I ask that you at least respect his title." Captain Thundermon sternly told Luna and Leroy. The Thundermon wasn't happy to hear those two bad-mouthing his leader like that "Like I said, if you have a problem with His Majesty's methods talk to him about it!"
When Hiroshi suggested leaving the stolen food and harvesting fruit from the trees, Thundermon calmed down a bit and shook his head. "That won't do at all. Most of the local trees have already been stripped recently to help feed our numbers, even before we started having to steal food to support ourselves. And just leaving the food out here in the open wouldn't do anyone any good. The food might go bad, or some random scavengers might just take the food for themselves, and none of us would be able to use it! This load will be taken to the castle, but we'll hold off on taking anymore food until after you talk to the king. End of story."
Since the Thundermon had drawn his metaphorical line in the sand, Hana and her partners would try to bring Luna, Hiroshi, and Leroy over for a group huddle, where Hana was trying her best to be diplomatic. "I don't think we should antagonize this guy, even if we can take him in a fight. As long as they don't eat all the food the moment it gets to their base, we can still convince their leader to give it back after we talk to him."
"Not to mention that they already left with the food while we've been talking with their 'captain'." Data chimed in. "Kaito snuck onto their sleigh, though, so we probably shouldn't be too concerned."
"You didn't mention that earlier?!" Hana harshly whispered to the Guardromon.
"You guys looked like you were handling it." Data replied with a nonchalant shrug. Thundermon: -Thunder Punch: 2/2
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Post by Luna on Aug 10, 2022 4:51:39 GMT
Luna let out a calming breath holding her hand to her side. That attitude he seemed to have didn't sit well with her one bit. "Look, lets just lay everything out here. You all came in here rushing in and taking food and when I questioned you on it you saw fit to attack us while I won't make excuses for my allies threat I had not made any moves to combat you or your squad, if your king is truly as you say then I'll try and get through to them, but you have to understand from our point of view you came in like a random storm, started stealing stuff and then attacked us when questioned what was going on. I'm more than willing to settle this without resorting to violence and I truly don't want any of your kind to starve I just want to make sure we're clear on that." Luna did her best to mediate this whole thing, he seemed to be getting mad at them which wasn't what Luna wanted in the slightest.
"I'll talk to them, try and reach some sort of way you can still get food without resorting to stealing. I'm sure there has to be a way that both this village and you can reach an agreement of some sort." Luna threw her hand on the back of her head rubbing it a bit while looking away for a moment. "Also I am sorry, if your king has helped you as you said then I do apologize sincerely, I just hope you can understand from my point of view you came across as nothing but thieves stating a wish in a king I had never heard Of's name, but if you're willing to take us to him then I'm more than happy to do what I can in a peaceful manner." This was overall what Luna would prefer, she had mentioned her dislike of fighting before.
Though then she was pulled over to the huddle where Hana seemed to share Luna's point of view. "Yeah that was my idea, should try to be as diplomatic as we can about this. if we can get away without having to fight that would be for the best." Though she did hear that part about them leaving with the food. "Ahh, heck. Well too late to worry about it for now, best just focus on actually meeting this king, Dedede I think the name was?" Luna could swear that name sounded familiar, something from the human world but she couldn't place her finger on it exactly. So in the end she decided just to ignore it and focus on whatever the captain has to say about all this.
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Post by ricochet4-Hiroshi&Leroy on Aug 10, 2022 5:22:08 GMT
"Forgive us for sounding disrespectful, Captain, but aren't there other solutions other than stealing. Like maybe you could of opened a trading agreement with places like Ys to trade for the food your people need. Maybe we could try to bring this up with your king. If he is the ruler you say he is then maybe he might take such a suggestion to heart." Hiroshi said his ears twitching as he faintly heard Kaito's movements but said nothing to his impulsive twin brother since the last thing he needed was for the fur covered dino to go all 'Leroy Jenkins' on what remenents of a plan the group had.
Though they failed in convincing them not to take the food at least they had a chance to make things work out. Then when Data mentioned that Kaito snuck aboard the sled, Hiroshi said "So that's what I faintly heard. He definitely is talented at sneaking to almost fool my ears."
"Wait? I agree with Hana. Why didn't either you or Data mention anything?" Hiroshi whispered harshly in turn.
"Because I know you, little bro. You are an impulsive hothead." Hiroshi said flatly.
"Okay. Fair enough." Leroy muttered before Luna spoke up and a random thought came to mind that didn't enter his head at first as he said "DeDeDe sure is an unusual name, isn't it? Why does it sound faintly familiar. I think I saw something like it on the internet some months back."
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