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Post by supesman on Jun 28, 2022 13:27:48 GMT
"My god why does it always have to be the world ending kind of psycho in the digital world? Just once, instead of a Darkseid or an Anti-Monitor I'd like to be able to run into a Calendar Man or a Killer Moth." Zack said, slumping again onto his back in the sand. His reference would basically be a riddle for anybody who didn't already know what the hell he thought he was talking about but at least he seemed to have the conviction to keep going with it even if he felt like complaining.
"You're the one who keeps throwing rocks at people bigger than you." Marigold said with a raise of one of her brows, turning to face her father. His complaints were earnest but she already knew he would never stop picking fights when he saw something wrong in front of him.
"Well I never expected it to end up being this much of a pain." he said, rubbing the front of his helmet with both hands is frustration. There was always some new idiot thinking he was entitled to be king of the universe.
"Disbelief: Your exact words were..." Violet pointed their projecting and scanning eye at the dune in front of them and a message began to play, a recording of Zack as he was scrubbing a pan in the sink.
"...always take the important fights. Even when he's bigger than you..." The recording echoed and then flickered away, Zack sitting up and propping his arms up across his kneecaps as he glared at Violet.
"Oh good. I now have a kid who records every stupid thing that comes out of my mouth. Wonderful." He said, dropping the words "I now have a kid" as if they didn't rock Violet right there and then, the little machine openly pausing and looking up at him as he smiled.
"...E...explanation?" Violet said, the hope of what they thought Zack meant trying to be tamped down by this sense of realism, like there was no way that perfect an outcome was what he meant. Zack's grin grew larger still.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jun 28, 2022 22:51:18 GMT
While Kazumi would of gotten the comic references Zack made it was still unclear at that point if she was in any shape to communicate. Sure she was calmer than before but was looking in Marigold's direction warily making Vemmon relax a bit. Kazumi's team, however, for the most part didn't understand the references and just assumed it was something from some form of human media. Vemmon was most aware of human culture but the best he knew was video games not comics. Finally after being silent for quite sometime Kazumi finally said "Unfortunately in the Digital and Human Worlds things rarely are ever that easy." Hearing Kazumi speak again made her army relax a bit since it seemed she had recovered from her freakout. "Sorry about the earlier freakout. I have a phobia of bees."
The interaction between Zack, Marigold, and Violet managed to make Kazumi chuckle and she wasn't the only one as some of her forces were also chuckling as well. Zack and his err children were an interesting group indeed. Then the next words between Zack and Violet regarding the Proto Gizmon's words regarding his fighting habits made the chuckling devolve to full on laughter. Soon Yuki managed to compose herself before the BlackAeroAgumon briefly fluttered her metal wings before folding them. Sure they were a bit dirty but that could easily be fixed a bit later. "One thing I've learned in all my lifetimes is that one should always try to be mindful of what they say especially around children since they seem to be living tape recorders. In Violet's case that appears to be literally true." Yuki said.
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Post by supesman on Jun 29, 2022 13:21:20 GMT
Zack smiled, reaching out and placing his hand on top of Violet, running his hand across what was now a dusty, sandy and scratched surface of purple metal.
"That's what we were trying to tell you before we were so...rudely interrupted." Zack said, feeling the soft thrum of whatever battery or motor Violet was running on working up the fingers and palm of his hand and into his arm. It was a warm and comfortable feeling, like sleeping in the room above a washing machine as it ran.
"Yea, dad and I have been talking. Since you didn't seem to have anywhere else to go and up until...recently we hadn't gotten many leads on where you came from. We were talking about you joining OUR family on a more...permanent basis." Marigold said, propping her head up on a crossed nest of her front limbs, smiling at the little machine that she often found so obnoxious, but in a sibling sort of way.
"C...clarification: Are you two proposing to...proposing too..." Violet didn't even have a mouth and yet it was clear that it was totally dry as they stammered, looking back and forth between the grinning human and the equally grinning bee.
"Adopt you? Yes I suppose that's exactly what we're doi- OOF!" Zack had the wind knocked out of him mid sentence as Violet rammed themself into his stomach and wrapped their silver tendrils around him tightly, pulling Marigold into the embrace until all three of them were bundled up. Zack and Marigold got over the surprise quickly and leaned into the hug, leaning over the purple Gizmon and wrapping their arms around them until the family was tucked up tight against one another.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jun 29, 2022 13:40:13 GMT
Kazumi and her group watched the whole interaction between the three of them not interrupting and Hudiemon was smiling at the sight finding the whole interaction between the trio to be adorable. It was known by not just her general Kazumi but the rest of the army that she had a major soft spot for such cute things.
When the trio embraced each other Hudiemon said "Aww! Aren't they just cute?" Before anyone could say anything the butterfly winged woman had hopped to her feet as if invigorated by the sight and walked up to the trio getting involved by bracing them herself. "Uhm, Hudiemon......?" Dorulumon asked not sure as what else to say but Hudiemon didn't seem to hear him. "Never mind."
Meanwhile Kazumi adjusted her weight and patted Vemmon's arm in a way to reassure him that she was fine and he released her arm before she said "All this craziness with the UFO and Gizmon made me forget we never had the chance to properly introduce ourselves. My name is Kazumi and these are my partners Vemmon, Dorulumon, Hudiemon, Yuki, Koko, Shadow, and Lalamon." As she introduced her partner digimon she pointed to each of them in turn.
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Post by supesman on Jun 30, 2022 13:08:47 GMT
Zack broke out into a deep laugh when Hudiemon joined in on the group hug. Marigold grumbled a little and Violet, as always, just seemed curious about the whole thing. Zack gingerly reached out and patted Hudiemon on the head. He really did have something gently paternalistic about him. Something gentle and protective behind those weary eyes and the smile he offered.
"Nice to meet you all. I'm Zack, these are my kids, Marigold and Violet." He said, pointing with a gloved thumb to each of them in turn. Marigold gave off a haughty shrug without looking at any of the group in particular and Violet bowed their head and spread out their silvery tendrils in what seemed like their best approximation of a curtsey. "We really can't think you enough for jumping in with us. You had no reason to care one way or the other, makes me even more grateful that you decided to give a crap." He said, placing his hand on the top of Violet's body, sparking a wide "eyed" look from them and another soft and gentle grin from him.
"Correction: They did have at least a couple of reasons to care. They were standing around where XT was blowing things up and the conquest of the entire world by droning robots would eventually include them by definition." Violet said, Zack laughing at their totally deadpan delivery of those technically true statements, not that it would stop him being grateful.
"Well, when the kid's right they're right." Zack said with a shrug. he couldn't argue that XT's goals would eventually be EVERYONE'S business, didn't mean people couldn't stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jun 30, 2022 21:45:00 GMT
Zack didn't seem all that put off by Hudiemon joining in on the group hug while Marigold grumbled about it likely annoyed at the sudden hug from someone who was a stranger. Reading the vibes coming from the bee Hudiemon backed off and sat back down near Dorulumon before Kazumi said "Sorry about, Hudiemon. She is a bit odd sometimes. Maybe at times she is a bit overly affectionate."
"There is no such thing as overly affectionate in my eyes. I am just the friendly type as you know all too well Kazumi" Hudiemon said noticing how Dorulumon was staring at her weird before she cooed "Aww! Don't worry Dorulumon. No matter who I interact with you will always be my favorite." Dorulumon, as if used to Hudiemon's shenanigans, lay his head on his paws choosing not to respond as Hudiemon smiled at him.
"If w-we didn't come across that Gizmon today it would of likely been a matter of time before it and S-Snatchmon's army crossed paths with one another then we c-could of been in a worse situation then facing one army." Vemmon said his soft spoken voice speaking up now that Kazumi was calmer.
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Post by supesman on Jul 1, 2022 13:32:18 GMT
"Have to agree with the butterfly on that one. Life's short and it's more than hard enough. If there's hugs to be had, let them be enough to go around." Zack said, nodding sharply. he kept his hand propped up on Violet's head. If anybody needed some affection right now it was the little machine who had just had their whole world turned upside down. There would be plenty of time for adjustment in the coming days.
"Something tells me that if your crazy robot and our crazy robot crossed paths we might actually end up with a smaller problem to deal with. XT certainly didn't seem like the kind of share his toys." Marigold said, shrugging. It was an old cliche, two bad guys of massive size and power unable to coexist, doing more to undermine and defeat one another than the heroes could ever hope to accomplish on the same scale.
"Agreement: XT had no intentions of "teaming up" with any other similar digimon to his position. If anything he saw them as rivals to be destroyed." Violet said, the connection that XT had hooked into them seeming to linger at least for a while after the fact, giving Violet insight on the machine's feelings, plans and designs.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jul 1, 2022 23:20:01 GMT
"I couldn't help myself. No matter how much Dorulumon is my favorite you have adorable children, Zack. Though Violet seems to be the logical type much like the likes of Dorulumon and Yuki. Oh why does being logical sometimes align with being stiff and formal?" Hudiemon said as she leaned back laying on the ground with her hands behind her head as she sighed while Dorulumon merely snorted at being called her favorite.
Vemmon placed his clawed hands in his lap before he said "If t-those two cross paths I don't know how things would go g-given that I don't know if XT can digivolve to mega like Snatchmon can. If XT c-can reach mega I wouldn't want to be near them if they met head to head. If t-they met at least one of our groups would be cleaning up the mess that's f-for sure."
"After being killed by Snatchmon's mega form in my last life I know full hand that ego maniac would be unlikely to be willing to share any glory with any one given his soldiers are no more than mindless drones used as tools to achieve his needs. This makes me feel bad for how Vemmon's siblings were programmed." Yuki said tapping her short claws on the ground.
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Post by supesman on Jul 2, 2022 13:07:50 GMT
"Hey, at least you look like you were able to walk it off alright. Puts you in the same company as most of the Justice League, it's a good voucher for your character." Zack said to Yuki, hooking his thumbs under the hem of his helmet and pulling it away almost with a puff of steam to go along with it. it was good for keeping his brain all in one place and his head attached to his shoulders in a fight but it wasn't exactly the most breathable thing in the world.
"Hmph. I'm not cute." Marigold said, making an exaggerated show of crossing her front arms under her face and turning away from the group. If she had any lips to be pouting with there's no doubt that she would have been doing that too. She felt something rubbing against the top of her head and turned to see Violet there, tickling the top of her head around her antennae.
"Correction: You are VERY cute." Violet said, with what almost sounded like an edge of sarcasm or mirth on their tone, which made both Zack and Marigold turn to face them.
"Now hold on there, Violet Zello, was that a joke I heard?" Marigold said, leaning in, tilting up one side of her head as if she was trying to hear Violet's speech better from where she was sitting.
"Assertion:.. I plead the fifth." Violet said, the clumsy deflection putting Marigold in stitches, giggling before breaking out into a deep belly laugh at the simple exchange.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jul 2, 2022 22:57:37 GMT
"Being a warrior through several lives for over three hundred years one learns to walk it off as you put it." Yuki said her unusual tail curling over to her feet but the point on it not causing any damage.
As Zack was removing his helmet a question that had been rolling around in the digimon that made up Kazumi's army came up as the blind Gaomon known as Shadow turned his head in Zack's direction and asked "I've noticed you have been mentioning beings whose names we don't know but who are the Justice League anyway?" Kazumi smiled deciding to leave it up to Zack to explain.
As for Marigold, despite Kazumi's fear of bees, the general couldn't help but find the little ones' exaggerated pouting cute which Violet only made it more difficult to hold back laughter with their words and the words I plead the fifth was the final nail in that coffin as Kazumi started laughing although quietly.
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Post by supesman on Jul 3, 2022 13:26:22 GMT
Zack's expression openly balked at the question from Shadow, turning to Kazumi with his mouth open, gesturing wildly to the group of digimon following her around.
"Alright here, missy, explain yourself. What are you teaching these kids anyway that they don't know what the Justice League is? It's criminal I tells ya." Zack said. He was sure of the fact that Kazumi at the very least would get the joke, it would be very surprising for any human being FROM the human world to not be at least broadly familiar with the broad stroke of the Justice League as a concept.
"They're...a story. A team of the world's greatest heroes teamed up to take on threats that no one hero can face alone. From different worlds, different walks of life, all united in one goal. Truth, Justice and Hope." Marigold said, expanding upon the actual question that was asked. Zack beamed with more than a little bit of pride at her explanation.
"Technical details: The Justice League are a team of fictional superheroes first premiering in DC Comics' Brave and the Bold #28 in March of 1960. Since then the team has served as a gathering of the company's superhero characters with most DC comics heroes serving at least short stints on the League's fictional membership." Violet said, seeming to take the same kind of relish in the team's technical details as Marigold took in the story itself. Zack shrugged, those were his kids alright.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jul 3, 2022 22:38:15 GMT
Kazumi scratched the back of her head before she answered "Well I am not exactly working with kids for the most part seeing that as far as I know Vemmon is the youngest one in my army. Hell Yuki has to be my oldest at three hundred fifty six with all her lives counted together since she remembers all her past lives. Not only that the primary source of fiction they seem to absorb is video games and sci fi despite me having a few various comic books from my childhood in the apartment that somehow has gone unnoticed amongst my other fictional books."
"This Justice League is starting to remind me of the group of digimon called the Royal Knights. I'm willing to bet that, just like the Royal Knights, this Justice League have trouble agreeing on big issues at times." Dorulumon said which surprised Kazumi as the large orange and white canine was not the most chatty of the group.
"We're hardly any world's greatest heroes though. Just a ragtag group of oddballs funded mostly by my side hustle as a wandering merchant and Shadow has been like my bodyguard." Lalamon said and Shadow didn't correct the little plant digimon.
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Post by supesman on Jul 4, 2022 13:59:58 GMT
Zack simmered on all of that for a moment, rubbing his chin with a furrowed brow before turning over to Marigold with a slightly impish twinkle in his eye.
"Alright, marigold, what have we got in the bag?" He said as both he and Marigold scrambled up and unrolled his backpack off of his shoulders, zipping open the front pocket. There was nothing IN the larger rear pocket considering that's where he put the helmet when he wasn't using it.
"Looks like...JLA Vol 2, Kingdom Come, Essential All-Star Squadron and...Young Justice. The tie-in comic, not the original." Marigold said as she pulled the books free and stacked them up on the sand, settling back into the dune as they considered the stack.
"Well then, looks like we're making a donation." Zack said, picking up the whole stack by the bottom and hoisting it up against his chest, walking the foot tall stack over to the group and setting it in front of Kazumi. "There. Educate yourselves." Zack winked and giggled. He had endless comics to go through, and digital subscription services on top of that so no matter what he always had copies of stories that he seemed to just be giving away.
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Post by ricochet3-Kazumi&Vemmon on Jul 4, 2022 22:56:54 GMT
Kazumi watched the impish twinkle appear in Zack's eye which led to Marigold removing the backpack from his shoulders. Despite her visible shudder at the sight of Marigold part of her brain knew that bee wouldn't hurt her unless she started a fight first. Start a fight with a bee that large? Fat chance of that happening when she avoided most bees on principle. She and a bunch of her partners watched as a large stack of books came of the bag forming a tall stack ending up about a foot tall.
"T-That sure is a lot of comic books." Vemmon said as Zack approached them. Shadow's ears flicked as Zack got closer and the blind Gaomon rose to his feet and headed over to the superhero his boxing gloves touching the books balancing them out so they wouldn't fall.
"Here. Let me help with that gargantuan pile. A foot tall stack of books is a lot for even a human." he said as he glanced in Vemmon's direction before he said "Hey, Vemmon. Yuki. Hudiemon. Could one of you help out as well."
Vemmon, while hesitant to leave Kazumi, recieved a nod from Yuki who moved over to sit next to the general while Vemmon walked over to Zack and said "H-Here let me help too."
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Post by supesman on Jul 5, 2022 13:25:22 GMT
"You know if you're all volunteering to help, you don't need to help me carry them all when my intention was to hand them out. Everybody can take one and leaf through it at the very least. Keep them, my gift to you for helping us out." Zack said, helping each digimon to slip one of the comic collections free from the top of the stack as they walked away with one each for as long as they lasted until his hands were empty. He swiped his palms across one another with a clapping noise and grinned. "...hey Marigold do we still have that..." His train of thought was cut off when Marigold handed him a small compact disk fit for just about any computer or other such device he could want.. he dusted it off with his thumb and handed it over to Shadow. "Audiobooks, my good man. JLA: Exterminators. The cast is excellent." He said, of course not wanting to leave out Shadow just because the little canine digimon couldn't enjoy comics the way most people could.
"We'll have to stock up next time we hit the house. We always seem to be giving away the good stuff when we run into people." Marigold said, zipping up the pocket of the backpack so that it laid much flatter than before now that it was mostly empty.
"Clarification: You two stock the backpack full of books, DVDs and other such superhero media with the express intent of giving them away upon request." Violet said, poking holes in their little "coincidental Samaritan" act that left father and daughter grinning at one another with a shared shrug, very pointedly NOT denying Violet's accusations.
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