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Kid's Stuff (107A)(OPEN)(COMPLETE)
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 1, 2023 9:45:12 GMT
MPC Name: Kid's Stuff MPC Number: 107AReward Requested: Bits Stacy blinked her brown eyes clearing the spots from them before she took note of where she was realizing she wasn't in Shibuya anymore. Where ever she was was dark and creepy looking and her Jellymon sidekick Adhira was with her. Adhira was floating beside her silently as the pair walked along the creepy area that had a faint musky smell to it and there were various floating landmasses connected by what looked like stony bridges. What was most concerning of all was the sheer number of not only humans all above 12 and champion level digimon or higher that seemed to be scattered about the area. Last thing she remembered was a bright flash before she and Adhira were here. As the pair continued walking in silence a familiar pair to Stacy was seen only a few feet from them. One of them was a tall man that was five foot eleven with short dark brown hair but was still longer than hers and he had a goatee and was wearing glasses. The other man with him was looking disgruntled and was six foot two with short really dirty blonde hair that could be mistaken as brown and he also had a goatee of his own. However he was not wearing glasses and both men were of a petite body frame. "Chris? Tim? You're here too?" Stacy asked as she and Adhira approached them.
Chris and Tim spun around spotting Stacy and Adhira before Chris said "Stacy? You're here too? I guess this isn't some kind of crazy nightmare after all. All I remember is that Tim and I were in the Digital World before there was a flash and then well we were here."Tim was looking at Adhira whom he didn't recognize before he asked "So who is that with you?" Sure his tone was blunt but Stacy paid it no mind before she answered "The Jellymon with me is named Adhira. You might call her my sidekick. The two of us met a short time ago. Adhira those two are my younger brothers Chris and Tim." She indicated each brother in turn with Chris being the shorter of the two brothers even though Tim was the youngest of the three siblings. Adhira smiled and waved at the two of them.Tim nodded accepting his big sister's answer while Adhira was floating near them squinting before the Jellymon said "Stacy-sama. Something's wrong. So far I haven't seen any human children over twelve around here nor have I seen any other rookies."
"The reason for the lack of young ones is all too clear my dears and that is because a young one is responsible for this." an unknown feminine voice said causing the group to spin around spotting a Lilithmon approaching them. However she didn't appear to be aggressive at first glance so Stacy was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. "And if there is a rookie here then your companion must be able to digivolve past this form and must prefer being in a rookie or lower form." Lilithmon said as the mega digimon came to a stop taking in Tim's suspicious gaze but said nothing about it.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 1, 2023 22:34:32 GMT
MPC Name: Kid's Stuff
MPC Number: 107A
Reward Requested: Bits
"You sure you're okay? It was a decent thing to do and all, but doesn't that stuff kinda hurt you inside? You're an amazingly organized person and you did save them a lot of stress but you did it by gripping the business end of a psychological knife!" Tera in her Holosuit said to Kai as they were leaving a large arcade and fun center to wrap up efforts. Kai seemed to hold her emotions in like a steel trap behind her gentle smile and faux demeanor effortlessly. "They did need the help, Mr. Sato got wrapped up with business and Mrs Sato's medical appointment got moved up early." Kai said as she stretched her back a bit. "The girl who never had a birthday party in her life just gave up a whole weekend to build one for another child. Seriously? Like even your all mighty Princess self has to break at that." Tera said folding her arms as she was right.
Kai had volunteered to help set up a Birthday Party for her friend Natsue Sato's Younger brother. While not exactly best friends, Kai had come over to Natsue's house several times for group study and projects, even staying for dinner at Natsue's parents insistence a few times. She was trusted and when things were in a bind they trusted Kai to handle this discretely to keep the surprise, having Kai act stealthily. She did require Tera's assistance but she did keep things well within time. She would then meet up with the family at the arcade, which was the true thorn in Kai's throat. She had no choice but to note the kids having fun, careless, enjoying the arcade games and other stuff available. She managed to keep her envy, jealousy, and other dark emotions from affecting her behavior for a moment as she discretely returned the keys and left.
She wanted to go home and just unwind to avoid being overcharged emotionally. However she blinked and suddenly the sound of a busy street, smell of pollutants and fast food, even the sensation of the concrete ground beneath her shoes, all vanished in an instant. The sudden transition was disorienting and Kai felt sparks from her wrist before suddenly her entire army unloaded from her Xros Loader and Tera's Holosuit fizzled out. "Wha- what happened?" Tera said confused as Kai was doing a quick headcount. "Extradimensional space, my guess is it interferes with Holosuit and dimensional storage technology... Don't reach for the Infinicube." Snowball said as his entire head was covered in a brown liquid and holding a tea cup.
"Tea time?" Tera asked Snowball as Kai was looking around, noting the company. "Anybody else notice a lack of Humans under teens and lower level digimon?" She asked as the Missies flew around the group. "Just us for In Training! No little kids either, also from the sounds of it they took both from human and Digital World..." They said as Kai started to get on Mach's saddle before Snowball followed, Deac on Sarge's back. The group would start moving around, not wanting to be suspicious to normal humans and wanting a clear answer. Kai subtly lead Mach towards a familiar figure in the distance as she saw Stacy.
Mach slowed down as the group was able to hear the Lilithmon in front of her. Mach and the others came to a stop. "I see, that appears to have also extended out to affect lower level Digimon who have been a part of Xros as well as the Missies came with us too." Kai said as she got off Mach, gesturing to the Missies who were riding on top of Tera's wings, when mentioned all three Missies waved their right arm.
"Kai Aizawa, Missies, Tera, Mach, Snowball, Sarge, Deac, and Diggy. Formal introductions later as right now we're in a bit of hell if every adult from both worlds is here. How did we end up here and is there a way to undo it from this side?" Kai said as she was starting to get used to the Digital World, back to her usual self even in the weirdness. Kai had a strange confidence about her as she was always used to being the mature one that has to hold things together, and even as she was practically reaching a new breaking point she still tried her best.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 1, 2023 23:10:19 GMT
It seemed Stacy would meet more familiar faces as she heard voices turning and asked "Kai?" Then she shook her head at her own stupidity before she said "Never mind I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to cross paths with any of my previous acquaintances seeing as most of them are teenagers and adults with a handful of rookie digimon that can digivolve."
"Uh Stacy...." Chris said catching the forty one year old woman's attention before she turned back to Kai and her army.
"Oh where are my manners?" Stacy began before she, while indicating to each person in turn, said "The two men with me are my younger brothers Chris and Tim. As for the Jellymon with me. Well since I am much like a superhero you might say she is my sidekick and her name is Adhira."
Then thoughts of the Lilithmon came back to mind as Tim said "You seem to suspiciously know just what the hell is going on and I find that quite suspicious given the situation at hand."
Lilithmon with seemingly saint like calm merely looked at the group at hand before she said "And with good reason but I assure you I am not your enemy." At Tim's doubting look Lilithmon merely continued "Like I said a young one is responsible for the current situation at hand. You see one of the children from the village not far from my cabin snuck into the woods I call home. This Agumon has had a nasty urge for power and is not against things like attempting shortcuts to obtain it. In my cabin was a special magical amulet that had been in my family's care due to its potentially dangerous nature. The amulet has magic that can do almost anything the wielder desires so it seems the Agumon decided to use it to imprison all digimon capable of champion or higher and humans above twelve in this pocket dimension while he rules both worlds."
"Then can't we just find someway out of this dimension to get the amulet back and restore things to normal?" Chris asked.
"Unfortunately due to the amulet that would be easier said than done as no one in this dimension can't leave unless...." Lilithmon said the pause catching Stacy's attention.
"Why am I getting vibes that none of us are going to like where this is going?" Stacy asked with the shake of her head.
"My magic can help your group get out of here and to the Digital World where Agumon is. However my spell won't have any effect on me. Since the amulet would send you right back here in your current forms but since the spell doesn't affect those who are under twelve or unable to digivolve past rookie then I could use my magic to turn all of you into children." Lillithmon said.
"Hoo boy I was right about those vibes." Stacy said with a sigh.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 2, 2023 4:41:44 GMT
Kai kept her army silent as she patiently listened along to the Lilithmon after all introductions. She was focusing on the chain of events and saw the logical progression as best she could. She had a bad feeling the moment the Lilithmon mentioned a young Digimon and a Magical Macguffin in the form of an amulet. Kai silently wondered if such a device existed how someone incapable of Champion could have stolen it, especially from a Mega. However the other part was Magic seemed to bother Kai as while she wasn't a staunch believer of science and spits on the notion of magic, but Magic in of itself seemed to disturb Kai as it seemed to ignore Natural Law. However when it comes to the Digital World, she was able to accept magic given the Natural Laws of the world were based on computer programing; with that in mind she was able to perceive Digital World Magic as a way to slip through the cracks and bend the Natural Laws. Though this medalian definitely seemed to be something different.
"Sounds more like this amulet gives Administrative Privileges if it's capable of doing something like this as he seemed to have created a rule. So we need to bypass that rule by following it- no..." Kai said during the pause of the Lilithmon. A look of dread p She was quick on the uptake and understanding as Snowball was also on a similar wave length but kept silent. Before anyone could say anything the Lilithmon came clean with the way around the rule.
Kai turned pale as the entire Xros Army would shift awkwardly.
"Well none of us are able to Digivolve independently beyond Rookie and our residual Xros normally doesn't come into play-" Snowball said as Solarmon would use one of his gears to slap him upside the head. "While we are unable to pass Rookie, we'd all be in the other side if we didn't have a connection to Kai, or weren't in the Xros Loader when this happened. Meaning Kai's the only thing anchoring us here so the moment she loses some height and fat and becomes a scamp again we all get out of here." He said bluntly before Diggy grabbed him to get him to stay silent as she was aware of the scene.
"My Seismic sense is skewed but even I can sense how bad your tact is." She muttered as Tera, the Missies, and and Mach were gathering around Kai. Kai was visibly shaking at the thought, holding one of the Missies in her arms for emotional support. Kai's childhood was... traumatic- neglect, emotional abuse, loneliness, a sense of vulnerability she hates to imagine she can have. This is all a really bad time for this too as Kai just had a flash of everything she missed out on cause of her horrible parents. Probably best to rip off the bandage quickly and just get this over with."
Tera said as Kai was still silent, clearly torn between the notion of revisiting her past from such an angle and doing what needs to be done for the greater good. A clear tear between her normally repressed emotions and her diligent intellect.
"Come on, I've been capped at Rookie for over seven hundred years. Being stuck at a lower form isn't that bad." Solarmon said as Deac would speak up. "Well having a full strike force would be better, and at the moment the longer we let this go on the worse things will get. The Digital World can survive a day with everyone else gone but from what I understand the Human World is very different and things can be going to the void in an hour if all grown ups disappear." Deac said focusing on the mission at hand. Kai slowly composed herself again as she slowly let go of the poor Missimon she was holding onto for dear life.
"He's right. Too much time and too much damage can be done. The temporal differential between Digital World and Human World buys us time. We need to get this done." Kai said as she was pretending to ignore what was on the other side.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 2, 2023 5:22:51 GMT
Stacy looked over at Kai noticing that she was far more uncomfortable with being a kid again than Stacy or her brothers were. At most Chris and Tim were annoyed at the concept. Stacy was also annoyed as there would have been better advantages provided by her stronger forms but her rookie of Hinookamimon would have to do. At least that form was fairly fast and agile so that was one advantage she had at her disposal.
Then taking in what Kai's partners said about the teen's childhood the compassionate and protective nature lurking within Stacy flared up as she said "It'll be okay, Kai. Not only those who may have tormented you won't be there but you won't be alone either. I'll be there to help you out and, though Chris and Tim don't know you I know them well enough to know that they'll be willing to help out too. Not only that you have your army to look out for you too."
Yes it was best to rip off this bandage quickly. They just had to be ready for the fallout that could happen. Lilithmon looked at the group as it was clear they knew just how severe things were gently asked "So dears, are you all ready?"
Though Stacy didn't know if Kai was she knew things couldn't wait for a long time as human children without partner digimon were quite vulnerable to harm. Hopefully some friendly disguised rookies were tending to the unpartnered children in the Human World. Stacy then said "We're ready."
Lilithmon nodded and raised her hands them taking on a soft glow before a becoming a wispy cloud enveloping the entire group causing them to glow as the spell took effect and they vanished from the pocket dimension.
Later-------
Stacy looked out over what looked like a large castle surrounded by a large field with various digimon walking around. As for Stacy and her group one could say the spell worked as she, in a child like voice, said "I hope this is temporary." Those who would notice Stacy now would notice that she was still petite in frame and she was wearing child sized versions of the clothes that she was wearing before but other than that there were some differences. Stacy blinked as she pulled her glasses off her face as they weren't helpful to her at this age as she said "These glasses aren't going to do me any good at this age as I didn't start wearing glasses until I was a teenager and I am now nine years old." Said newly returned nine year old now had long thick hair down to her butt which she hated and stood four foot eleven inches tall. Basically this was the only time in life she was a giant amongst others her age.
Chris looked like he had become a shorter than average seven year old who still wore glasses and no longer had a goatee. He still had his short dark brown hair from earlier as he had always kept his hair short. "You think you have it bad, Stacy, at least you're still tall. I hated being this age cause I didn't catch up height wise till my mid teens." Chris said voicing his annoyance.
As for Tim, though annoyed, he seemed okay with his new appearance. He had taken on the appearance of a somewhat taller than average five year old and his dirty blonde hair was lighter in tone than it was as an adult. Like Chris he also obviously lacked a goatee that he grew in after puberty. As for Adhira the said Jellymon was floating around near Stacy while keeping an eye out for trouble.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 2, 2023 8:40:41 GMT
Emerging back in the Digital World, all of Kai's army were practically untouched as independently none had surpassed Rookie level, and their connection to Kai had brought them to the pocket world. Without a teenage General they were soon returned evacuated. The state of the general however was another subject entirely. Despite being six years old now, Kai was the shortest of the group, her high school uniform had since been replaced by a primary school dress uniform. Her long hair had lengthened out and was styled into a pair of pig tails, her once sharp bangs had been shifted to a more flat style with longer sides. Her purse was traded in for a backpack and even her cosmetics were altered as her demure black lipstick was replaced with a more natural pink gloss.
"Least you get to be a boy and retain more strength." Kai said in a much softer and child like voice as she would see the castle in the distance. She was adjusting her Xros Loader on her wrist only to notice there wasn't a wrist mount anymore as it had been replaced by a necklace given her petite and frail arms were not exactly as strong as the once athletic build was. "Oh dear Yggdrasil she's so adorable!" Tera said fawning over Kai as her army looked around and saw her new form. Kai was feeling a flood of emotions, embarrassment, but even a bit giddy somehow. She would walk over to Mach, who while a teenager as barely large enough for her to easily get on and off. "We should be able to move out towards the castle, Missies, Tera, you wanna scout ahead-" She said as she was physically trying to climb onto Mach's saddle. The Motorcycle Digimon stood still, an awkward look in his eyes as he turned his gaze towards Stacy. Not ready to convey anything yet but Kai's attempts to climb up onto Mach were repeatedly met with failure, she landed on her feet until she got higher up and was about to fall onto her back until Diggy intervened with the back of her paw and slowly lifted Kai onto Mach.
"Thanks Diggy!" Kai said before she would try to reach out and grab the handle like horns of Mach, only to be greeted by a distance between her hands and the handle, as well as an obscured perspective as she could barely see in front of her. She kept trying. "Almost... there-" She said before finally reaching. "Nothing to worry about...." She tried to say with confidence.
"You're standing on your toes!" Solarmon commented as Kai looked down, realizing it wasn't safe before she lost her balance again and was a bout to fall over, but once again Diggy reached out her paw and caught Kai before hitting the ground. "This ain't gonna work, I agree a caravan might be best, but... Kai, you're gonna have to sit on Stacy's lap, or someone elses. The Boys can ride Sarge." Mach said awkwardly. "I'm inclined to agree." Kai slowly got onto her feet, visibly embarrassed. "I.. I can manage."
"Wait, how is she supposed to ride on Mach if all the boys are going on Sarge?" Deac asked confused before Tera rolled her eyes. "Even this small Kai and Stacy are still girls." She said as Kai was trying to take control of the situation but looking around a bit confused. "We could just try Locomon- wait, no, can't fuse..." She thought out loud. "Orders are orders general, if we need me to act as a transpo, I'm a transpo." Sarge said not going against Kai but acknowledging what he thought was the best deal.
Kai scratched her head a bit confused. "Might be for the best..."
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 2, 2023 9:29:19 GMT
Stacy and her party took notice of Kai and her army and how adorable Kai looked. Stacy shook her head as her unfocused mind was trying to wonder off on it own tangent. This was a problem her autistic mind always struggled with but as a child it was way worse. At Tera's comment Stacy giggled before she said "While I agree with you on that, Tera, don't forget that Kai isn't the only adorable girl here as I have been called cute before throughout my life." Stacy was now giggling like a school girl as if her brain had drifted off on its own.
Chris, the only sibling that had similar issues, walked over to his older sister before gently punching the much taller girl in the shoulder causing her to snap back into focus as she looked at him and said "Thanks Chris. I needed that."
"No problem." Chris said stepping back from Stacy. Adhira had said nothing as she was trying to understand how Stacy and her siblings interacted as this was the first time she met the boys.
Meanwhile Stacy and her group watched as Kai struggled to climb onto Mach having to rely on Diggy to help her out with getting on Mach's back. However there was now the problem of Kai being too short to grab the motorcycle digimon's handles. This was quite the problem indeed as it was definitely best if the group stuck together.
Then an idea came to Adhira's mind as the Jellymon asked "Uh....Stacy-sama?"
Turning to Adhira, Stacy cocked her head before she replied "Yes, Adhira, what is it?"
"Well..." Adhira began bringing up her hand and rubbing the back of her neck before she then continued "Don't you have a motorcyle of your own? And are you tall enough to ride it?"
"Adhira! I'm nine! I'm legally too young now to drive a motorcyle." Stacy exclaimed causing Adhira to giggle.
"In the Human World that is true, Stacy-sama, but here in the Digital World that is hardly the case."
"Well I am just tall enough to drive it in theory but what about everyone else? I can only put one person in the sidecar." Stacy said before she facepalmed. "I can't believe I was so stupid. Kai can ride in the sidecar and the boys can ride on Sarge according to Deac. This way we can save energy for a potential fight."
Stacy then brough out her D-Tector bringing her motorcycle into existence before she turned to Kai and said "Okay, Kai. Climb in the sidecar. There is an extra helmet in it for you to wear." Stacy grabbed the other helmet and placed it on her head getting ready to go.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 4, 2023 6:28:51 GMT
"Right... guess the boys will be safer on Sarge."
Kai and her army watched as Stacy and her partners discussed on what they could contribute to a transportation effort. Kai was glad to hear Stacy had her own vehicle and not surprising, Kai always meant to look into getting a Digital World Vehicle but never felt the need for one soon as Mach and Tera were plenty for travel needs. "Also laws are only valid as much as they are enforceable, technically no adult human in the world is able to enforce illegal driving laws..." Snowball said as Kai would slowly approach the Motorcycle. She would start to climb into the side car as her Digimon partners looked amongst themselves.
"Though if Princess is in the side car, the boys can ride atop my saddle-" Mach said before Solarmon would clear his throat, or at least make a noise as such. "No way speedfreak! Little boys and a Motorcycle creature obsessed with speed are a bad combination. You'd go way to fast at having any insistence." He said before Tera started to lower a bit as she was next to speak up.
"Bingo, that's why they should get in my courier crate- let me fish it out..." She said before the Missies got in her way of trying to access the compartment where she stores the compressed cube. "You're crate isn't built for frail children! You'd break a bone for sure! Let the sturdy Sarge take over!" All the while Kai was trying to speak up but her Digimon were too loud, her words left unintelligible as she felt a bit stressed before standing up and practically screamed at her Digimon.
"That's enough! Sarge is carrying them, Deac, Snowball, get on Mach. That is an order!" She said before sitting back down, looking away crossing her arms as her Digimon were stunned silent for a moment. "Orders are orders. Climb on." The Tankmon said as he approached the two boys, letting them climb onto his back. Without a word Deac and Snowball got onto Mach's saddle.
Tera and Mach exchanged a silent look before one that went to the riders, Kai was unaware of her Digimon silently communicating through expressions around her. "Look this isn't an easy arrangement for any of us, let's take it easy on eachother before we get hurt or hurt eachother. Got it?" Diggy said as she was sensing the tension in the air and trying to cut it. "GOT IT?" She repeated when she sensed a bit of hesitation before everyone else in the army slowly fell in line. "I'm surrounded by blind idiots and the brains is vulnerable... Yggdrasil wasn't taking sight enough?" Diggy thought to herself.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 4, 2023 6:54:58 GMT
"You have a good point about those driving laws here. I was just concerned seeing as it is odd to see a kid riding a motorcycle." Stacy said to Snowball as she made her way over to her motorcycle while Kai was making her way into the sidecar. Stacy pulled herself onto her motorcycle balanced and ready to go when everyone else was.
Meanwhile Chris and Tim listened to Kai's partners going back and forth with Tim getting visibly irritated which made the beta like Chris nervous and step a bit away from his younger brother. "Watch who you call a little boy. I may be temporarily five but I assure you my adult mind is in tact." Tim said with his arms crossed his face showing how unhappy he was.
"Not to mention him always being scary strong for his age." Chris muttered resulting in Tim glaring at him and shaking his head. Sure all three siblings had fiery tempers which were harder to control as children which made Chris wonder if that would be a factor in all this craziness.
Stacy was about to speak up when Kai shouted the result being her partners becoming stunned into silence. Stacy smiled though it wasn't visible due to her helmet covering her entire face. "Well. Well. Nice going, Kai. It seems you have quite a bit of fire in you." Stacy said after turning in Kai's direction.
Chris, Tim, and even Adhira climbed onto Deac's back as Diggy spoke up her words cutting through the tension in the air. Seems like Diggy definitely had Kai's back and was trying to help her general out. Then a thought came to Tim's mind as he asked "What about Diggy? How is she gonna keep up? Drimogemon can't exactly fly after all."
It was a good question but Stacy was now focused on the castle ahead of them before she said "I say when we are sorted out we should make our way closer to that castle before planning a way to sneak in."
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 5, 2023 6:00:08 GMT
As the boys climbed onto Sarge's back, Mach was preparing to take point. "Don't worry about her, above ground she might be one of the slowest but she can track our position and follow through underground." Mach said as Diggy was already drilling a tunnel underground. "Better to cover our basis, Tera and the Missies from the sky as a look out, but Diggy can remain aware of anything on the ground better from bellow. Not to mention if we get ambushed, better to have a counter strike ready." Sarge said as the Missies once again held onto Tera's back. "Shame I gotta be so far from Kai, she's like the human I've always dreamed of now!" Tera said as Kai would shoot her a glare. "At six years old and you can still be that cold... Your parents have a very harsh punishment coming for them in the afterlife." She said awkwardly as she would start to fly about 20 feet in the air and would try to be close to the middle. "Right, caravan style, I go ahead since I got Deac on me, followed by Stacy and Kai with Tera and the Missies above them, and Sarge and the others take the rear."Mach would take point with Deac and Snowball riding atop, the gentlemen Yuki Agumon almost screaming as Mach suddenly took off, with Sarge waiting for Stacy before following behind. Meanwhile Diggy was following along side, occasionally the impact of her drilling along side could be seen but nothing substantially dangerous. "I hate this body... it's icky- Wait these clothes- oh no..." Kai said as she had a good chance to realize what she was wearing. Before this she was in her high school uniform, but after aging down it turned into a copy of her old primary school uniform. "It's my old private school uniform..." She said having mixed feelings as she was adjusting her hair.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 5, 2023 6:31:56 GMT
Upon hearing that Diggy could track their positions and follow underground while the Drimogemon began digging into the earth and Tim said "Ah okay I was just curious. She must be able to dig pretty fast to keep up with us if that is the case."
Sarge suggested covering their bases which made Chris think before he said "Should I digivolve too since I can fly even in rookie form? Though I don't know if my little body could keep up with them."
"I think it would be best for us to wait to digivolve till we get a bit closer to our destination so we can save on energy." Stacy suggested making Chris nod before she continued "Besides even though you can fly your rookie form isn't exactly built to be speedy nor for high altitude until you reach your champion form."
Chris began taking on a child like pout that was cute considering the situation they were in before he said "I have a feeling I'm gonna miss being able to digivolve to Buraimon. Bummer since that form was both strong and fast." Sure all of Stacy's champion forms were faster by comparison depending on circumstances but he had always figured he was swift enough.
"I see what you mean, Tera. Kai is quite adorable as humans go." Adhira piped up cringing at the harsh glare directed at Tera hoping the girl's wrath wouldn't be turned upon her next.
So now the group began moving caravan style Mach taking point before Sarge followed. Stacy revved her bike before she followed along as well. At Kai's words and without taking her eyes off what was ahead, Stacy said "At least you still look good in that outfit even if you hate your body. The only thing I hate about my nine year old body is this thick long mess I call hair. I wish when I was aged down that I kept my easier to maintain pixie cut."
The group traveled in silence at least for a little while that is until Chris grew restless and bored. When fidgeting didn't satisfy him he began to poke and pester Tim only for his little brother to not take it too kindly and a slap fight ensued between the two siblings. "Stacy-sama!" Adhira rang out not knowing how to handle the chaos caused by two bored children.
Hearing Adhira's cry but keeping her eyes ahead of her she shouted with a volume surprising for the usually mellow woman turned nine year old girl. "Knock it off you two! I swear if I have to stop and get off this bike you won't like where my foot will end up shoved!" Stacy was used to breaking up her brothers when they were acting like children even in their adult bodies but remembered the boys were worse as children since they had virtually no patience and Chris had the shortest attention span unless a book was in his hands. Her yelling at them was indeed quite effective as they stopped before scooting away from one another. Adhira breathed a sigh of relief as it seemed the boys still listened to their sister at least most of the time.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 12, 2023 7:24:53 GMT
"Much obliged." Sarge said to Stacy after she threatened to get th boys in line. Sarge didn't react much when the boys were horsing around, mostly because he didn't want to risk hurting them. Sarge knew his strength and that he would probably hurt the boys if he tried to physically separate them. All the while he hid his own issues about being poked as well. The other remaining Digimon began adjusting their heads discretely, switching to a secure channel on their comms so the Humans wouldn't hear.
"Should me and one of the boys trade places?" Snowball asked trying to think of a solution. Negatory, that'd just spread the misery and mischief while putting one in danger, best let the lead stay pure Digimon." Mach whispered over. Tera flew a bit higher so the girls wouldn't notice she was whispering into comms as well.
"Yeah, should we just put Kai in a box or send her back to the human world and let us handle this? She can't fuse us and if she can't be Kai... well... if grown Kai was here right now she'd bench tiny Kai." Tera said trying to spare Kai humiliation as well as try to speak for what she believe Kai would've really ordered in this situation. The Kai she knew was tactical, and if someone had no tactical advantage and had liabilities outweigh their benefits, she'd bench them however she can. In that respect she knew that whatever was coming out of the young girl's mouth was not what the proper Kai would do, but rather behaving more like a child trying to act like a grownup, ironically making her little display of maturity childish in of itself. "As much as I'd love to agree, there is one flaw. Kai is only able to be safe mentally around us, she's barely holding up because there's an audience she feels can support her. Say we ditch her and the kids, then what?" Solarmon whispered into the comms as everyone went silent for a moment. Everyone knew how Kai rarely let herself be vulnerable and those were under controlled instances where she let herself deal with the overwhelming emotions.
"It'd probably put her into a permanently regressed state from the trauma. Which means she has to stay on mission." Diggy added breaking the silence. "Don't think I don't see you all turning on her. She's still Kai, just more physically frail." Diggy commented over the comms. Meanwhile Kai was looking around, not even aware of her Digimon talking behind her back which seemed to make Tera feel a bit sad as she looked down. For once she wanted to be scold, called out on the plotting she at one time believed she could slip past the always calculating Kai. Now it seemed she had lost a few steps of her awareness.
"Miss Tera watch where you're flying!" The Missies shouted in unison before forcing Tera into making a barrel roll to avoid her crashing into a tree. Kai giggled a bit as she looked up. "If you crash and burn again I'm not able to carry you across the desert- like... that time-" Kai said before remembering the Wiseman incident, that even shook her as a grown woman and still lingered. Kai was about to shake before Tera's eyes opened wide, she flew in low and dropped the Missies into Kai's tiny arms for her to hug. "I think it'd be best if we refrain from mentioning any horrific incidents from our past. Whether they happened at present or former ages." Snowball said awkwardly.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 12, 2023 7:56:42 GMT
"Don't worry about the boys as they usually listen to me. Sorry about them. They normally are fairly easy going fellas but if bored they can become well you all witnessed with your own eyes." Stacy said not taking her eyes off the road as the group continued on. Soon she spotted a large boulder not far from the castle gate and exclaimed"Look at that boulder there! We can take shelter behind there and digivolve. Then we can make our way into the castle from there."
"I can stick close to Kai when we enter the castle." Adhira said volunteering to help out the Jellymon figured Stacy wouldn't need as much protection with her younger brothers along for the ride on this.
As the group made it to the boulder Stacy climbed off of her bike before she looked at Kai and asked "So is Tera always clumsy in mid air or something?" Meanwhile Chris was peering around the boulder seeing various rookie level virus attribute digimon roaming around and he elbowed Stacy and pointed causing Stacy to also peer around.
"Sure are a lot of digimon guarding the gate but I have an idea." Tim said bringing out his D-Tector where he then said "Execute! Spirit Evolution!" He glowed before becoming what appeared to be made of stone before he then continued "Gotsumon!"
Tim then looked at the boulder the group was taking cover behind before the now Gotsumon smiled taking hold of said boulder with both hands before rolling it much like one would roll a bowling ball only much much bigger. The boulder rolled toward the rookies who fled upon seeing it coming at them. "Looks like Tim's natural gift for bowling has come in handy. Yikes." Chris said clutching his D-Tector not sure if he should also digivolve.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jul 13, 2023 3:45:37 GMT
"Tera can't really think hard and fly at the same time. Fighting is one thing but anything else aside from navigation and she's prone to crashing." Kai answered Stacy as she would slowly get out of the sidecar. She would look around while the larger members of her army would use the large bolder to remain out of view. Kai and the Missies would peek around the corner as she saw that while everyone in an guarding the castle was just rookies and under, she knew that they were outnumbered. "In terms of Digimon alone, they outnumber is at least six to one." She tried to say as none of her partners were disagreeing.
"Outnumbered, but not outskilled. Hear their reactions to the boulder? They're all utter novices, unskilled with coordination and possibly a lack of actual experience or training. Even the Missies here could take out a dozen before things get bad for them." Deac said confidently after he could hear the commotion started when the boulder rolled up to the castle. It was clear that there wasn't a real sense of structure in the order as others were mostly trying to find another to pass the buck of responsibility unto ti find out how to move on, rendering the army and spirit users still undetected behind the boulder.
"Maybe but if we still charge we're going to lose, it's not going to be easy." Snowball said as Deac clicked his tongue, wagging his gun thinking before realizing Snowball was right. Kai was pacing back and forth until she accidentally tripped over Diggy's drillbit, falling onto her side.
She winced as she grabbed her knee, almost ready to cry from the pain and curse out Diggy. "Diggy you big- solution to our problem!" She said smiling a bit as she would get back up. Diggy dug a bit further so part of her face was exposed. "Aight boss, lay it on us, whatcha got?" Diggy said trying to keep Kai engaged.
"If they can't play nice and get along, we don't give them a clear reason to. We faze them out by confusing them with Tera, Machy, Mr. Sarge, and Diggy attacking from all four sides. On their own each should be able to distract them enough to keep occupied and raise alarms. But first, Diggy creates a tunnel for the rest of us to sneak through and enter the castle underground. So while everyone is confused and in panic, we can get through the castle quicker and easier." She explainde as her army was nodding along, seeing the benefits it had. However they did notice the slight impact regression was having on Kai's mannerisms as she was not exactly able to maintain her present day level.
"Great idea, solid strategy. On an unrelated note, you okay Kai?" She asked Kai concerned but Kai nodded. "I'm fine." She said as Snowball would think for a moment. "Kai has an eidetic memory, flawless. She can remember everything, it's possible her subconscious is the same and is starting to recognize the hardware components have reverted so it's compensating by stimulating the old trained mannerisms." Snowball posited to the group and all of the Vehicle expedition was starting to understand, even Tera but Kai was visibly confused. "Snowball? Are you feeling okay? I think you mispronounced a few words or something there, you were sounding a bit silly and not saying any real sentences. You sure you're up for this?" Kai said as every member of her army looked around, no one wanting to say anything.
"Kai, he said your mind is starting to catch up to your body." She Tera said breaking the ice a little bluntly. Everyone stared at her for a moment as they were worried about a tantrum coming their way but it seemed for once in their relationship, Tera was saying things that went over Kai's head as she interpreted that in a far different way then it was intended, much to the relief and chagrin of her digimon. "Yeah, guess I was a little down and stuff, don't worry! I'm ready to go and totally in charge so those baddies can get their buts kicked!" Kai said unaware of how childish she sounded.
"Oh Yggdrasil I gotta be the responsible one?! I'm not ready for a human child..." Tera said as her expression went grim as she realized she was supposed to be the mature one, which somehow stumped everyone else. "Did... Tera just learn maturity and responsibility at the same time? We really need to get things moving... Anyways, any objection to the battle tactics? Divide and conquer? Tera and I should be fast enough to evade, Sarge can take a few hits and Diggy's her own breed. We use comms we should be coordinated enough if we need help." Mach said trying to get things back on track before things start to get any worse.
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Post by ricochet-Stacy on Jul 13, 2023 4:26:50 GMT
"Ah I see. Tera is kinda reminding me of Chris at times then. He isn't stupid just struggles to learn new things. Then again I have the same problem but less severe and am a major klutz when not in digimon form but was worse at this age." Stacy said.
As for Chris he was watching the rookies scurrying around trying to avoid the boulder before he asked "So should I digivolve too or wait till we sneak into the castle to do so?"
"I think that you and I can wait until we get inside the castle to digivolve so don't worry too much." Stacy said taking notice of the fact that Chris had ahold of his D-Tector.
"I guess it's a good thing that we are up against such novices." Adhira piped up before she continued "Since they are novices we might be able to sneak past them undetected. Even more of a chance seeing as Tim becoming a Gotsumon and treating those younglings like glorified bowling pins is also in our favor."
"I have to admit Diggy making a tunnel for the group to sneak inside the castle is a pretty good idea." Stacy said before she continued "And with her drill that means I won't have to try and dig a tunnel myself. After all wolves can only tunnel so fast."
"I can also help distract the goons with Chris helping us out too. Stacy's speed would be more effective in meeting that Agumon head on." Gotsumon otherwise known as Tim said.
When Snowball mentioned Kai's eidetic memory Stacy's eye brows raised. Even as a nine year old she had an insane vocabulary to work with. "Kai, the word eidetic is real and it just means simply that you have a perfect memory. I guess my insanely high vocabulary as a child is kicking in." Stacy said scratching her head. Even at nine years old she read at the college level at least back then anyway.
Adhira floated over to Tera and said "Don't worry, Tera. I'll help you out with the kids. Maybe we should be lucky they have been fairly mellow and easy to handle so far."
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