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Of Winter and Quiet.... Sorta [Ask]
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Post by Daichi on Dec 11, 2022 3:10:12 GMT
"It's now... 7 AM. Dai are you here? In case you are, you should probably wake up... unless you're tired theeen I guess one extra hour of sleep is fine, heh. If you're awake already and is cooking something... maybe you should try to experiment with seasoning more. Some more basic meals are fine, and there's nothing bad about canned ones, but you really need to experiment how to cook, yeah? ...Maybe if you do that, jot those down on the book. I'll read it when I get home, and I'll share you some new recipe with you, what do you think of that eh? Love you always. Your mom, she doesn't say it a lot, but I think she would appreciate it if you said that you love her, you know."
The hourly reminder once again played. Daichi is indeed awake, but is dressed for a little bit of a jog.
"Not taking a breakfast first?" Geo asked.
"I just prefer to jog first before breakfast. Are you coming?"
"Mmmmm, sure, I'd love that!"
Daichi warmed himself a bit. "Make sure to warm yourself up before running. I don't really know how Digimons work, but I imagine you'll need some warming up too, right?"
"Mhm!" Geo answered positively. "But it's sure cold! Very cold! The snow also piled up a lot in this forest!"
"Because there's no one cleaning the snow in the forest like this after all. Well, the lot where the bus parked is my responsibility, but I pretty much not always there, so... ah well. Anyway! Let's go shall we?"
Daichi began to jog. "Oh if you found any edible mushroom..."
"I'll see if I can harvest them!" Geo answered, looking happy.
Hmmm, anyway... "....Say, Daichi, that one voice there back in the bus, is that...?"
"My Dad, yeah. He went missing, it's... been a while, but I still believe he's out there... He might be in digital world."
"...I see... From his voice I can hear how much he loves you, Daichi. There's... some worry there. I guess he's worried that he made you wait for too much."
"Heh, that sounded like him. His field study and expeditions are always long and tends to take months, and sometimes even years. He never failed to call though, and never failed to return home for special occassions. Even if it is only three to five days, we still enjoy our time together."
"....Daichi."
"...It's OK, I'm sure we'll be able to find him. I will not... give up."
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Post by Carlos Rey on Dec 11, 2022 4:15:12 GMT
Winter in the human world was...weird, to say the least. It oddly felt a lot less predictable than that of the digital world. Some years it was just cold, others like this it suddenly snowed hard enough to make it dangerous to stay under a tree for too long. Maybe being unable to properly gauge the weather was just Dio's shortcoming, which seemed like a logical conclusion for someone that was largely unselfaware about himself, much less his surroundings a lot of the time.
After finally making his way back to the human world alongside his tamer he...let's just say didn't feel like staying at his place for too long this time. As such he figured a better use of his time would be to just walk outside for a bit, trying to lay low and get some thoughts cleared up in the meantime.
Despite this, for some reason he didn't care about using a holosuit, the impmon simply making his way through the snowy forest with little else but his usual impmon garments and cozy black jacket (had he followed Carlos' advice and wore a beanie for the cold too, he might have even looked like a miniature Beelzemon from a distance). He figured in this weather it would be fairly easy to outmaneuver any regular human that came around and saw him, so it's not like he had to worry about being secretive. Besides what would be the worst case scenario? Some pictures being leaked online? Even if they did what were the odds they could somehow track him or Carlos down with them?
He stopped in his tracks, biting his lower lip as he kicked a handful of snow to the side. Despite his best efforts, he kept thinking back to both human and his brother. Maybe, just maybe, they really oughta talk more like Bloom suggested.
"Whatever, it's supposed to me time now anyways." He muttered to no one in particular, leaning his back against a tree, letting his thoughts drift for a bit as he sulked.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Dec 11, 2022 4:50:28 GMT
Kaya Matsui didn't quite know why she was up so early that morning. It was winter break, yet she felt herself unable to get back to sleep by 6:30 AM. She sighed, rubbing her face with her hands as she put on her slippers and walked over towards the window to open up the blinds. She was met with a beautiful winter day outside, like something you'd see on a post card. She smiled; she appreciated pretty sights like this. And then, that's when that one particular thought was placed into her mind:
I wonder what the Shibuki Forest looks like right now!
She wasted no time getting ready after that. Thankfully for her, her Hawkmon partner Hawkeye was beginning to wake up at around this time, and he seemed to agree at the notion to take an early morning walk around the Shibuki Forest before breakfast. And so, Kaya put on a winter outfit that she painstakingly prepared for herself: a white puffy jacket with a pink winter sweater underneath, blue jeans, black thigh-high winter boots, white knit gloves and a pink scarf, along her trademark beret hat, of course. Hawkeye opted to not wear any winter accessories, as he was perfectly warm in the cold already thanks to his feathers. With that, the two of them were on their way to the forest.
"It is amazing how much snow there is here," Hawkeye said as he slowly flew alongside Kaya as they walked. "It is all piled up unlike how snow is cleaned in the city itself. It feels more natural this way."
Kaya nodded in response with a smile. "Yeah, it really does. It's exactly as I was hoping it would look."
"I assume you are planning of taking photographs of the scenery?"
"Yeah, but not just that; I wanna find and draw the most perfect scenic spot in my journal. That way, I'd be able to remember it forever, you know?"
"Do you truly need a journal for something like that? If a memory is truly special, it will be difficult to forget it entirely."
"It makes me feel better to write down the really important stuff. I've had this journal since I was a kid, and I still have so many pages left for memories. And right now, a nice wintery morning like this deserves to be preserved."
Hawkeye gave a happy sigh. "I hope you never change, Kaya. Alright, I'll help you find the absolute best location in the Shibuki Forest! Come, let us get to searching!" Hawkeye then excitedly flew farther into the forest, laughing wholeheartedly as Kaya was forced to chase after him, also laughing as well.
"Wait for me, Hawkeye! I'm supposed to be the one to run off like that, remember?!"
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Post by Daichi on Dec 14, 2022 3:16:03 GMT
At first, the jog was nothing different than the usual, just more snow and sometimes having to watch their steps. However, as they went deeper, something feels... different... it feels like the temperature dropping at crazy speed. Not only that, the thickness of the snow---
"DAICHI!!"
Geo quickly tackled Daichi from behind, making him fell facefirst into the ground, something like a beam narrowly passed him. It's when he noticed that the 'snow' that he experienced before wasn't falling, but felt like it was blown from somewhere... somewhere deeper. Geo hunches arced, as if trying to make himself bigger, teeth bared. Could it be... another aberrant?
It's at this point that the snow gave way to show the surrounding. Daichi has wondered why lately he never seen any joggers... he pinned it as some sort of human thing... like, well, weather is cold, snow is dreadful, therefore people prefer to bundle up and just stays inside... with their cup of warm tea or coffee... Oh how he wish that was the case, that these people are inside Kotatsu. No, these people are trapped inside ice. Not only grandpa and grandma, but also children and even a full family of three...
"...The fu-"
"Oho... a feisty prey..."
A Hyogamon appeared out of nowhere. Unlike most Hyogamon, this one... is drooling through his open mouth, which sends chill to Daichi. He have heard about maneater Oni, but this is the first time he encountered such Digimon that might fit that bill of "man eating". Geo quickly shoot blast of energy from his mouth. However, said blast was transformed into ice element that barely hurt the Hyogamon.
"...Oh? You're trying to do something against me, huh? Too bad you possessed the power of ice. That will not help you any... So why don't you just surrender? Human flesh... flesh.... juicy flesh... with crunchy bone texture..."
Has anyone been killed by this Digimon!? The spike of Daichi's emotion resonates with Geo, triggering an evolution. Blue light descended, and Mare Vishamon appeared from burst of water. He knew that Mare Vishamon won't be a great match for this Digimon with it being water and this Digimon being ice, but even so...
"Geo... How long could you handle this?"
"I'm unsure," Geo answered. Honestly, even now his blood ran cold. "But I can try to hold him back as much as I can."
Daichi activated SOS signal just in case. "...Let's do our best."
"Oh? Fighting is it? Fair, fair... Well then, you better give me a challenge to clear my stomach before I feast on you two!"
"In your wildest dream!" Geo retorted. He quickly activated his water jet, blasting toward the opponent.
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Post by Carlos Rey on Dec 17, 2022 3:38:35 GMT
After a good millennia or two of sulking against a tree (though it probably was something closer to five minutes), Dio decided that was more than enough alone time putzing about without doing anything productive. If he was gonna be annoyed at everything today, the least he could do was discharge that negative energy in a somewhat constructive way.
He resumed walking into the forest again, taking note of how the cold only seemed to get worse the longer he went on, though he didn't quite put two and two together about how unusual this steady temperature drop really was. At least, not until he heard it.
His ears lightly perked up as he turned to the side. Yep, that sounded like a fight alright. Had Dio been more keen about self preservation he would have probably ignored it and continued on his merry way, never to think about it again. Of course, that would mean ignoring a fight happening on the human side of reality...and that was a bit too bizarre for him to simply forget about.
With a shrug to himself he broke into a sprint, getting closer to the sounds of fighting as he tried his best not to trip on the snow or some uneven tree branch on the way. To say he met with a bizarre scene would be a bit of an understatement. On one side, a rather wicked looking Hyogamon traded blows with a muscular blue lizard, a human that couldn't be anywhere older than fourteen standing close by. And not far from this merry trio the icing (or ice in this case) on the cake: a group of what were either human shaped ice statues or...or...
Yeah he wasn't even going to attempt to give them the benefit of doubt here.
"Hey!" He yelled out, flames flickering on his palm as he threw a fiery projectile at the icy ogre, mostly to get his attention than anything else. "Pick on someone your own element, you frozen regurgitation."
A good couple of blocks away from there, Carlos' digivice would begin to glow intermittently, the words SOS continuosly flashing in bright orange letters on it's screen. The man would take a second or two to notice it, tearing himself away from his cup of hot coffee with a groan as he raised the device up to his face. He fiddled with the buttons for a moment, trying to parse where the signal was coming from and how much of an ass he would be if he just ignored it this one time.
Look, it was cold as shit outside, ok? Unfortunately for him though, seeing the general location where it originated from, he knew this wasn't something he could ignore. Not because it was so close...but because Dio was in the thick of it.
"Just. Like. Every. Single. Time."
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Dec 17, 2022 4:30:45 GMT
Now, Hawkeye had the hindsight to take a look at the weather before he and Kaya went out to the park today. According to the weather station, it was supposed to be moderately cold, but nothing that a jacket, hat and gloves couldn't handle. So that's why it was starting to concern him that it was getting much, much colder the deeper into the park that the two of them got. "Kaya, I believe we should-"
And that's when the two of them heard the sounds of fighting coming from not too far away. They exchanged no words as they only had to look at each other and nod; whatever was going on, they had to do their part and prevent it from getting worse. So with that, Kaya and Hawkeye followed the sounds of fighting deeper into the forest.
Like Daichi, Kaya was a bit curious as to why she didn't see any joggers in the forest like there usually would be. She was so engrossed by the beauty of the winter day, however, that she didn't pay it any mind. Well, now she was kind of forced to pay mind to it, considering that she turned a corner and saw said jogger trapped inside a block of ice. "AH-!" Kaya shrieked, her eyes widening as she covered her mouth to cover the rest of the scream.
"Homeostasis..." Hawkeye muttered, horrified at the sight of a living human trapped inside an iceberg. It wasn't just the jogger, either; more and more humans were trapped in ice around the forest, including children and even entire families. Was a Digimon behind this? An Aberrant, possibly?
"This is..." Kaya began, before shaking her head and putting on a braver face. "Come on, Hawkeye, we need to find whatever's doing this and save these people before they die."
It wouldn't be too much longer before the two of them would find the culprit. They seemed to have walked into an ongoing battle; an icy ogre-like Digimon fighting an Impmon in a leather jacket, and a blue water lizard Digimon... and was that Daichi Shiki by the lizard's side? Not only that, but there were even more humans trapped in ice surrounding them... yeah, it was clear as daylight which side to join.
With no hesitation, Kaya pulled out her Digivice and activated her Digisoul. "DNA Charge!"
"Hawkmon Evolution! Aquilamon!" The newly evolved eagle-like Digimon wasted no time gliding into the fight, charging two feathers with fire and wind energy respectively before firing them both at the Hyogamon. "Exploding Feather!"
"Shiki-kun!" Kaya shouted, running up to her underclassman's side. "Let me guess: this thing's an Aberrant, right?"
Hawkeye evolves to Aquilamon and uses "Exploding Feather" on the Hyogamon.
Moves
Exploding Feather: Two feathers are shot at once, one charged with fire and one charged with wind. They combine together, creating an explosion once hitting contact with something. Cooldown is three posts.
Passives
Deadshot (Combat Passive): Hawkeye's aim is far superior to most Digimon. Each attack has its accuracy increase by 30%, making it more likely that his attack will hit its target.
Cooldowns -Exploding Feather (0/3)
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Post by Daichi on Dec 17, 2022 15:20:08 GMT
Geo fought fiercely with the Hyogamon. It was clear however, that his elemental disadvantage made him unable to exert his power. Not to mention, winter is the time for the planet to hibernate. He's... losing energy, qucikly. With each blows, claws to club, he's getting weaker and weaker. His jets has long frozen, he noticed that. If he blast water from the jet, he fears that it will only damage the water shooting organ instead. While plenty of water is available to heal him, that won't work when it comes to stamina.
"Hehehe, what's wrong, little dragon?" the aberrant taunted. "Getting tired, are we? The winter ice is merciless. Only those who are ready to kill each other could survive. It doesn't suit such a purehearted being like you!"
The Hyogamon swung its club with all its strength at Geo, who put shaky arms to defend himself. Geo was sent backward, far enough until he hit a tree and devolved.
"Ugh... Daichi, sorry!"
"Geo!"
"Hehehe... feast.. feeeeeasttttt---"
But was quickly interrupted by attack from the Impmon. The fire sizzled on the Hyogamon's skin. For once, it feels actual damage from opposing element. "I HAVE NO INTEREST ON WEAKLING DIGIMON LIKE YOU! AWAY OR BRING YOUR HUMAN HERE SO I CAN EAT ON THEM!" the Hyogamon then aimed a projectile full of freezing energy at Dio.
But before it could resume on attacking Geo and Daichi, another attack stopped it. "Nuuuaaaaargh! Curses you! Curses all of you! Trying to stop me from enjoying my meal!"
"Matsu-senpai!? W-well, yes, that's Aberrant, but more than that, I think you should avoid using explosion attack! I think it can cause the ice that encased those people to break."
"They're alive!" Geo called out just so they knew. "They're in coma, but they're alive! That's why we must defeat this thing now!"
It's at that time that Daichi's phone beeped with a message. It's a simple one. 'Hold on for five minutes'. It's from Yuuki. Eh? Five minutes? But he lives somewhere quite far from here, right?
"Each one of you... I will kill you---"
[Cross Claw Charge]
"CROSS CLAW CHARGE!!"
Geo quickly activated the jet on his back. As the element now returned back to fire, he managed to melt the ice sticking there and tackled the Hyogamon squarely on his stomach, making him launched backward several feet.
"FORCE HIM AWAY FROM THE VICTIMS!" Daichi urged.
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Post by Carlos Rey on Dec 18, 2022 2:08:53 GMT
While Dio couldn't help but grin with wicked satisfaction as his attack met it's mark and got an audible reaction, any type of celebratory taunting would have to wait. The frozen oni's retaliation was swift in the form of an icy projectile not unlike his own. Dio threw himself on his side, jacket being damped by the cold snow below sure, but he managed to stay relatively unscathed.
His ego however, was not. What the hell did that dimwit imply, that he really needed a human to even be worthy of killing?
"Tch, what, can't even handle a single rookie so you pick on humans instead?!" He spat back, rising back to his feet. Before he could even add more to that however, even more people joined the fray: a girl and her partnered Hawkmon made a quick, windy entrance to the scene, distracting the towering slab of concrete that was Hyogamon. Well, ego or not Dio was not one to turn down reinforcements.
He considered following in their footsteps and evolve but...that ogre had reacted pretty strongly against his last attack despite being just a rookie. Without his brother or Carlos around, there was only so much time he could fight seriously on a Champion form on his own, so as much as it pained him, being restrained by this small body was simply the best call.
He didn't overhear most of what the humans told eachother but overall managed to understand the important gist. They had to keep it away from the frozen victims if at all possible.
As for how...well Dio had an idea or two on how to proceed.
"Want a feast? Then have some SPICE!" He declared, leaping right in front of the ogre and landing but a feet or two away, fire wreathed fist planted deep into the ground as a fiery pillar shot from underneath and with luck, right into the ogre.
Pillar of Fire: Punches the ground and either surrounds himself in a fiery pillar or creates a small wall of fire. Said fire can last up to one post. Two posts cool down.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Dec 19, 2022 3:36:17 GMT
Okay, things were looking very bad for Daichi and Geo before Kaya, Hawkeye, and some other Digimon had joined the fray. Heck, Geo was about to become a pancake due to the Hyogamon's icy club if no one had intervened like they did. And boy, was this thing angry that something came out of the blue to interrupt his meal like that, judging by the way it fired that icy projectile at the Impmon.
Kaya stood beside Daichi's side, the young man warning her about not accidentally breaking the ice that the people were trapped inside. "Yeah, Hawkeye and I saw more people like that on the way here... so they are still alive..." There was a hint of relief in the tone of Kaya's voice when she said that. "But don't you worry about it, we'll be careful. Together, we're gonna stop this thing and save all those people!"
And at that moment, Daichi got a message on his phone. The notification sound was loud enough for Kaya to hear, so she too looked at the message. It was from Yuuki, saying he'd be there in five minutes. "Itou's coming? We'll just have to hold out until he gets here."
For right now, however? The goal was simple on paper: force the Aberrant away from the humans. "Hawkeye, did you hear that?" Kaya asked into her Digivice, using the human-Digimon link comm. "Yuuki will be coming soon, but in the meantime, get that Aberrant away from the victims by any means necessary!"
"Affirmative, Kaya!"
Geo had already gotten that plan started with his attack, and the Impmon helped out further with his own fiery pillar move that would likely send Hyogamon right into the air. And that would be Hawkeye's opportunity to ram right into the Hyogamon with his horns at full speed while he was still airborne. Hopefully this combination would be enough to get the Aberrant away from all the other frozen humans.
Cooldowns-Exploding Feather (1/3)
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Post by Daichi on Dec 28, 2022 3:14:04 GMT
The battle rages on. The attack from Aquilamon, Dio's combo with Geo, pushed the Hyogamon to the sparser area. Daichi forces himself to not look around. He swore, if he saw any speck of red or iron-y brown here, he'd probably vomit. But thankfuflly there are none at the moment. The Hyogamon however, was beyond pissed.
"ANNOYING PESTS! PETS TO HUMANS! WHY DON'T YOU GET THE DELICACIES THAT THEY ARE!? WHY ARE YOU PLAYING HOUSE WITH YOUR FOOD!?"
"Daichi... is no food!" Geo growled.
"Ignoramus, every single of you!"
The Digimon let out a strong blizzard. Daichi's phone suddenly blipped. It's a warning from the weather report, citiing that there will be a snowfall tonight. It's when he noticed that the blizzard from this Digimon is affected externally by the weather too!
"This is getting worse and worse by the miute," he muttered. "Matsui-senpai, can your Digimon somehow blast off these blizzard or turn away the flow of the attack?!"
It's a losing battle, he felt. This Digimon is empowered by the Frags. Geo cannot fight in higher level because it will only cause him to get defeated faster due to his elemental weakness. The ice freezes the water, and even if it's saltwater, which would make the water freezes at lower temperature than 0 degree, Hyogamon's blizzard is probably colder than that anyway.
With little choice, currently the best way for Geo is to keep attacking. But it was true that he's weakened from the amount of snow around here... What to do... what to do? Think, think... there must be something that he can do, surely?
"...........Hello, Mr. Imp over there! Can I request you to shoot my parter with your flame!?"
That's the only way he can think to awaken Geo's active side more. Geo seem to notice this and nodded as if to give him consent. At the moment, shooting fire at the Hyogamon won't help much. But at the very least if Geo could somehow run better, there might be a chance for a table turner...
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Post by Carlos Rey on Jan 3, 2023 17:43:44 GMT
Delicacies? Playing house with food? Either this digimon was too far gone, or they came from a place with absolutely lousy cuisine. Despite Dio not being too strongly against the idea of loading in general, the mental idea of trying anything similar to that with humans, let alone eating them was not just reprehinsible, it was downright disgusting.
"You should reconsider your diet. So much junk food is bad for you." He said, only sounding partially sarcastic about it, though ultimately choosing not to even entertain the "ignoramus" insult. That oni wannabe would need more than a thesaurus to get under his skin...unfortunately it seemed it the same couldn't be said for one of his unlikely allies, as the increasingly cold temperature seemed to be doing a number on them. And if they were to beat something a level above them they needed all the firepower they could muster. So imagine his surprise when one of the humans outright asked him to turn said fire towards the Vishamon.
"Huh?! You sure?" Dio asked in disbelief, a stunned look in his face. Neither human nor partner seemed to back down from that idea, so with slight hesitation the imp made a quick leap next to Geo. "Suit yourself then, but this might sting a bit." With a snap of his fingers he'd blast a focused sphere of flames right on top of the Vishamon, trying to focus on making it more hot than actually harmful, if such a thing was even possible.
As it turned out, trying to run in the snow was no easy task. Doing so in a blizzard was a slow, debilitating crawl that Carlos was beggining to regret. And yet, here he was, braving the cold for a digimon that more than likely wouldn't care for his help. Stupid empathy, it was going to get him killed one day no doubt.
As he squinted through the snow into his digivice's screen, he could at least make out a couple of glowing dots close to the one belonging to Dio. If nothing else, the concern that mounted was at least partially mitigated by the validation he felt right now, knowing that once more, he had been right to worry.
"God I hate being right."
Never said it was positive validation...
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jan 4, 2023 3:53:55 GMT
Thanks to their combined efforts, the Digimon had managed to push the Aberrant into a more sparse area, away from any of the frozen humans that could be caught in the crossfire. The Hyogamon in question was not happy, as evident by the way it was yelling at the Digimon for being the humans' "pets" instead of trying to eat them like he was. Kaya's eyes widened... this thing wanted to eat humans? The very thought of that made her sick.
"I find that strawberries are much easier to digest than the disgusting bones and organs of human beings," Hawkeye sarcastically responded to the Aberrant.
Hyogamon let out a strong blizzard attack. Like Daichi's phone, Kaya's one phone started beeping, giving the same weather report of a snowfall later that night. Kaya had to cover her face thanks to the sheer force of the blizzard, and Hawkeye was not doing much better despite his warm feathers, as he struggled to even stay airborne. Daichi asked Kaya if Hawkeye could blast away the blizzard somehow, and just like that, a light bulb turned on in her head.
"Hawkeye!" Kaya called out to her partner, still covering her face from the strength of the blizzard. "Use your wind feathers to push the blizzard back to him! I'm sure it'll work!"
"Understood!" Hawkeye called back. He then opened his wings and the feathers on the inside portion began to get charged up with white-colored wind energy. He furrowed his eyes before he flapped his wings towards the Hyogamon, sending all those feathers out towards him in the form of a powerful gust of wind. And in the moment, even the Aquilamon couldn't resist the allure of a pun. "Return... to sender!"
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Post by Daichi on Jan 4, 2023 4:50:39 GMT
The situation is getting worse by seconds. He's not even sure if there is any way of winning this fight. Their best bet is the imp who's probably unable to evolve or something? But all in all, they're not looking too hot. Geo does wince a bit when the fire heats up his cold scales out of sudden but he did feel the rush of more energy returning. If only he could fight at spring or summer, where Vishamons are the strongest... But of course he can't.
Hawkeye's effort is very much appreciated but it was lacking. the Ogremon is gaining more and more power. Daichi grits his teeth, wondering what option do they have here. It's getting more and more hopeless... at least until suddenly, a ringtone broke the otherwise tense mulling on the young teen's part. He answered the phone, and the one on the other side only said one thing:
"Duck."
Huh!?
Before Daichi could understand what's going on, a roaring engine sound tore the raging blizzard's sound. A royal, futuristic ferrari looking car practically T-boned the Ogremon subspecies after FLYING from god know where. The Hyogamon ragdolled across the forest, letting out some pain filled groans as he skids across the battlefield.
"I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS! OF ALL TACTICS THAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE, YOU FUCKING TOSSED OUR GODDAMN CAR TO FUCKING DO A VEHICULAR MONSLAUGHTER! GODDAMMIT, YOU'RE AN IDIOT YOU KNOW?! WAIT UNTIL YOUR WIFE HEAR THIS I SWEAR TO HOMEOSTASIS! YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE A FATHER AND YOU DO CRAZY CRAP LIKE THIS!? AT LEAST SEND ME OUT OR WHAT!"
"I wouldn't do this if I don't know if I can do this... or if I know I can't. But I know I can and I have tons of faith in our enigneers."
"YOU FUCKING DUMBASS! AND WIPE THAT SMUG GRIN OFF YOUR FACE!"
"More... pest...?" The Hyogamon questioned between pained grunts. Hikaru's eyes bulged at the sticking out rib at place where the car's front have hit him.
"EGAD, IF THIS IS TERMINUS WE'RE SO IN DEEP TROUBLE. I CAN IMAGINE THE HEADLINE: KING ATTEMPTS VEHICULAR MONSLAUGHTER."
"Well thankfully we're not." Yuuki pulled out his Digivice. But it was unneccessary. The Hyogamon immediately retreated, along with the blizzard. The snow quickly died out and the forest was back to its normal state.
"...That was a risky gambit either way. Are you guys alright?" he asked the others.
"...U-uh, Yuuki-san...? Did you seriously...?"
"I had no choice," Yuuki answered. "I don't know if they would evolve or not if we fight them two adults two child. So I decided to harm them critically for them to escape. That's why I rammed the car to them."
"AND IT WAS DUMBASS MOVE I SAY! Oh God, never have my poor digicore raced so much... Homeostasis help me... my legs gave up..." Hikaru tearfully ranted. "HEY DUMBASS, YOU'LL BE A FATHER SOON! DON'T DO CRAP LIKE THIS! KARIN WOULD KILL YOU IF YOUR SOON TO BE BORN SON IS LEFT FATHERLESS!"
"Like I said, I only pulled the trigger if I knew I could pull it off."
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Post by Carlos Rey on Jan 11, 2023 4:54:22 GMT
As dire as things might looked, Dio still felt pretty confident in their chances if they could keep this up. Really it was a miracle that ogre was too busy fighting them to realize he could probably help himself to some human popsicle unimpeded. Regardless it would soon come to a screeching halt, literally, as the Hyogamon was sent tumbling and flying away not from any attack...but by a car.
"...what in Homeostasis was that?" Was all the imp could muster by the time things calmed down, more baffled at the sheer audacity of it than anything. "Bit on the ungraceful side but I can't argue the results."
At the very least it was clear the owners (at least he HOPED they were the owners) of the car seemed to know the the other four, so it was clear this was less a lucky happenstance and more a deliberate risk they took.
As he vaguely paid attention to their back and forth, he'd squint a bit as he looked in the direction of the driver's partner. There was something about him that seemed familiar, as if he had seen him elsewhere. Ultimately he shrugged, it wasn't something worth dwelling on right now and Yuuki's copilot didn't seem to be in the best of moods to answer any questions. If anything it felt like it just made things more awkward, so this felt like the perfect opportunity to slip out of the scene.
Why not? Dio had just let out some pent up agression and helped someone else while doing it, all in all a very fulfilling outing. So of course this meant as soon as he turned around to leave he'd come face to face with probably the one person he'd rather not see.
"The hell just happened? You were gone for less than an hour and this looks like a battlefield already!" Carlos exclaimed, trudging through the accumulated snow, his arms open to the side as if trying to point at everything around him at the same time.
"I should have known you'd go through a snowstorm just to berate me."
"FIrst off, it's called basic empathy. Second off, the snowstorm just cleared up." The man said with a sigh, making his way closer to the rest of the group. "Please tell me you teamed up for once and didn't fight everyone again?"
"Clearly, they're all still standing." Dio smirked in return, which Carlos did his absolute best to ignore.
"Hey, is everyone alright? My partner claims innocence but I want to be sure he didn't make things worse for you a-" He quickly trailed off, eyes glued on the row of frozen humans standing in the background as his eyes widened with existential dread. "Y-yo, we have to get them to a hospital!"
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jan 11, 2023 5:37:15 GMT
Well, things were looking less than good right now. Despite their best efforts, this Aberrant was just too strong; Geo's champion form wasn't able to combat against an ice type of this caliber, and the Hyogamon was gaining more and more power, enough that Hawkeye's wind counter-attack just wasn't working. Kaya kept praying more and more that this wouldn't end up being the end for them, though she honestly didn't have much hope of that...
THEN OUT OF NOWHERE, A MOTHER-EFFING FERRARI-LIKE CAR CAME FLYING IN FROM NOWHERE, CRASHING RIGHT INTO THE HYOGAMON JUST LIKE THAT! Thankfully Hawkeye had managed to be out of the line of fire at the time, but the event in general caught him by surprise, just like it did Kaya.
"HOLY CRAP!" Kaya yelled out as she saw the Hyogamon get decked by the magically-appearing car. "What the heck just happened...?!"
Just like Hikaru, Hawkeye noticed a rib sticking out of the Hyogamon's side after the car had been rammed into him. The Aberrant had been badly hurt, and thus it retreated along with the blizzard it caused. Hawkeye was still stunned by this sudden turn of events, but he still let out a sigh of relief. At least they could regroup and form a new plan now, considering how badly their butts were being kicked before help arrived.
Sure enough, it was Yuuki Itou and his partner Hikaru that were inside the car when it crashed. Hikaru was absolutely losing it, chastising Yuuki for such reckless driving, a sentiment that Hawkeye had to side with Hikaru on, as helpful as the last-ditch maneuver was. With Hawkeye coming back down to the ground and reverting back to Hawkmon, he and Kaya ran up to Yuuki and Hikaru. "We appreciate the save, but do you have ANY IDEA how reckless that stunt was, Yuuki?!" Hawkeye angrily asked, basically just parroting what Hikaru was screaming about.
"Yeah, please don't do that again," Kaya added. "We're fine, by the way. You came right in the nick of time." Of course, Hikaru was still yelling at Yuuki about crashing the car like that, stating how Yuuki was going to be a father soon and he couldn't leave the child fatherless. Kaya and Hawkeye stood there with their mouths hanging open in surprise at that revelation, in quite a humorous fashion, as well. "You're going to be a what?!"
Next, the Impmon from before plus a guy with white hair showed up. Kaya and Hawkeye of course recognized them; Carlos Rey and one of his two partners, Dio the Impmon. They had met a couple of times before, particularly during one incident involving pirates kidnapping them. Carlos was seeing the frozen humans for the first time, and he stated that they had to get them to a hospital. "We need to melt the ice in order to free them. I could use my Phoenix Feathers to aid with that, unless there is another way."
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