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Post by yuuki on Mar 23, 2024 0:48:26 GMT
A pale purple haired gentleman briskily walked through the hallway of the second floor of the campus in between subject breaks. This ten minutes window generally are for students to borrow textbooks in case they forgot to bring theirs, or perhaps to move between classes. As such, it's not strange to see many students moving about in hurry. Some spared him some nods and friendly smiles, some outright greeted him... whichever it was, he returned the same gesture, but his mind is honestly elsewhere.
His red eyes passively glancing at the other building in the campus ground, the high school building. Slowly, he waved his finger, as if tracing something unseen. To the uninitated, it might looked as if he's just playing with the condensation on the glass instead... but that wasn't the case, obviously.
...Strange he thought, as he looked toward the building again. There haven't been any digital incidents, nor there are anything major that needed even half my attention... Too quiet doesn't even begin to describe it... it feels... eerily quiet. as if the storm is coming... but where or when?
"Lux-sensei! Are you getting lost in your thoughts again?"
"Oh!" his musing broken by class rep of the class that he was supposed to teach at that hour. The lass looked puzzled as of why he would be standing here, right outside the class, index finger still on the window's glass. "Pardon me, Tanabe-kun. The scenery looked quite mesmerizing."
"Is it? Is it not the normal everyday scenery?"
"Haha, perhaps for you, but for a literature teacher such as yours truly.. tis is a muse," he lightly deflected.
....Despite the small talk, the disguised Digimon's mind is still stuck in this strange premonition that something will shake Shibuya once more... But what? Or why?
While this is happening, under his nose, a change happened in the high school building... it all started about few minutes before the first bell's ring.
It was around thirty minutes before the school's morning bell.
It's a normal day like any other day. Unassuming, idyllic, and even blissfully peaceful. Unassuming is supposed to be the descriptor of some of the uninitiated students in this school. After all, when you got Digimons what could be more unique than that? But... that day, a student from 1-D found himself... lost.
Oogata is his name. His first name? No one really remembered it but himself. He doesn't have any close friends either, just perhaps "comrade"... in otakuness that is. Oogata is just a simple "mob" character if he have to describe himself. Dark brown hair with bangs that kinda curtained over his chestnut colored eyes, freckles, standard height with slightly plump body. Can't be called fat, but definitely unfit. He perfectly attended class... his scores are normal, his physical achievements are also normal... but even then, this Oogata... has been strangely absent from his seat. Even when he was supposed to not be a delinquent type. He too hates being punished and standing out due to that, so without fail he would have entered the classroom by now but...
This Oogata... is looking around like he's completely lost, in a secluded place of the school too.
"Are? ...Wait... I was supposed to go to the class, right? Why... can't I seem to remember the way?" the boy mused out loud.
And that... is when his eyes met with the ACTUAL delinquents who decided they can't be assed to attend the first period. They're smoking, squatting while talking unimportant random things that went past Oogata's head. ...well, why would it be important anyway? They're now stopped talking and is glaring at him!
"What are you looking at, nerd?"
"Don't tell me you're being goody two shoes? Teacher asked you to fetch us, ha?"
Oh God...
"Ha! Isn't it Oogata!" suddenly a familiar voice called out to him. A boy with clearly dyed hair approached him and put his arm around his shoulder. "...What business do you have getting to our turf, eh?" ...Aritaka, the class' delinquent. He's a huge bully... Oogata has mastered the art of being completely unassuming that he actually managed to fly under Aritaka's radar, but Oogata has now.... well, screwed himself over by getting lost. His legs trembled like a newborn deer as Aritaka's hand squeezed on his arm.
"...Oh, scared? Scared are you? Why should you? We're all friend here, aren't we?"
"Y-yes..."
"That's the spirit, Oogata!" Aritaka slapped his back hard, making him almost stumble. It's clearly not a friendly gesture... "But you see, sometimes there are places that you're not supposed to enter. Like, some exclusivity club or something, you know? And thing is, ours is reeeeally exclusive... And you waltz in and ruined the mood!"
"I-I'm sorry...!"
"Oh good, good, apologizing is swell and all, but..." Aritaka leaned closer to his side, while pressing down on his shoulder. "....How about more sincerity eh? Buy us lunch or something? Oh, and toss in some juice while at it too. Let's see... 500 yen for each of us four should be good, right?" Obviously, Aritaka did not count Oogata in this "four"
"T-that''s... my whole allowance money...!"
"Nice nice! 2000 yen exactly? ...What are you waiting for though? There's no issue, right? You got exactly 2000 yen?"
"B-but my lunch..."
"Why... just think of it as a diet day? You should probably not eat so much anyway... Or perhaps..." His fist pressing into Oogata's stomach slowly "you want a better diet method? Hm?"
Oh dear.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 23, 2024 1:12:14 GMT
Despite Lux-sensei being worried about the lack of a major digital incident that needed his attention, a minor one is the reason that Yuji Moriyama ended up being late to class. The multi-color-haired teenager and his Tentomon partner Kazuo had been chasing after a rogue Fanbeemon, who wanted to send an entire hive of bees at the school as a practical joke. Kazuo and Fanbeemon had a thrilling battle in the Digital Field Generator before Fanbeemon finally gave in and accepted defeat, allowing Yuji to send him back to the Digital World with no problems.
"Mission accomplished, buddy," Yuji said to Kazuo, extending his fist out for a fist bump.
"You sure said it," Kazuo replied, giving his own version of a fist bump to Yuji with his claw. "Shouldn't we be going back now? Hamelin-sensei might be mad if you're late."
"Ah crap, you're right," Yuji said with a sigh. He remembered that the morning bell had already rang, and Yuji was officially tardy. He figured if he booked it now, he could make it back in time without too much of a scolding from his teacher. Turning off the AR field and allowing Kazuo back into the V-Pet function of his wrist-mounted Digivice, Yuji appeared quite suddenly in the middle of the hallways as he quickly ran towards the direction of his class.
And that's when he stumbled upon a distressing scene. Yuji hid behind a corner and watched as this portly kid -- Oogata, if he remembered correctly, based on the hair and body type -- get harassed by a bunch of delinquent types trying to shake him down. Yuji wasn't close with Oogata, but he did hang out with him on occasion due to their similar interests in all things nerdy and otaku-like. Seeing these bullies try to shake him down for money angered him on the inside, even if on the outside he looked slightly annoyed at most.
"Leave Oogata alone, Aritaka," Yuji said, finally revealing himself to the delinquents. Yuji was very slender and of an average height for his age, so he wasn't exactly intimidating, but he was able to keep his cool much better than Oogata was able to. "You four want money so bad? Because I can pay for him. What was it, 500 yen for each of you?" The nerdy teen pulled out 2,000 Yen in bills and handed it all to Aritaka for him to split it among his groupies. "But for the record, I wouldn't recommend keeping up the delinquent act. Those rumors about monsters are getting pretty intense. One might choose you for their next target, if the rumors are real."
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Post by yuuki on Mar 23, 2024 2:53:20 GMT
An unexpected arrival. Aritaka clicked his tongue. "Who are you, chump?"
"Huh, look at this... who was it again? Morimoto was it?" one of the older delinquent quipped, clearly forgetting about Yuji's name despite probably being in the same class as he is. "Whatever you're doing here? Can't you see we are busy?"
Oogata is still shaking in his shoes, obviously, but there's a spark of hope in his eyes that Yuji would save him.
Aritaka looked at the bill that Yuji offered him... then pulled it swiftly "....Well, as I said to him, 2000 yen is a tax for interrupting. Now that you're here you should pay 2000 yen too... which you just did. So that wouldn't be 2000 yen, but 4000 yen... got it, Senpai? Or are you just going to play a silly hero?"
Hearing Yuji's talk about monster tho... the four delinquents looked at each other... then at Yuji again... then at each other again. The silence... was unbearably long for the terrified Oogata, even though it must have just been about ten seconds...
"Pfft..." The delinquent in same grade as Yuji broke the silence. The four's roaring laughter definitely didn't make the situation any better.
"Hey, hey Oogata! Listen to this! This guy, this Morimoto-what-his-name is definitely a late blooming chuunibyou! Talking about monsters.... Hahahaha! What the hell, man! Oh that was the funniest threat I ever heard! Wasnt that funny!?" Clearly finding it absolutely hilarious, Aritaka pointed at Yuji while still keeping his firm grip on Oogata.
"Ahaha..." Oogata laughed, but mirthlessly. His eyes still glued hard to the ground... He's thinking that the situation is getting worse and worse by the seconds.
"Hey dude... if you wanna live in fantasy you should just stick to your manga and anime. Too much isekai genre lately must have made your brain rot, huh? But man, clowning like that... pfftt... man you're funny. Well, we're in good mood today," the biggest of the delinquent declared. "...So we'll be letting you scram. Now leave us with this guy here and we'll pretend that we didn't hear you clearly threatening us."
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 23, 2024 3:10:05 GMT
"Moriyama," Yuji corrected the older delinquent, fully realizing that it would be in vain. "And yes, I can see that you're busy... busy picking on someone for no good reason." Yuji could see the spark of hope that was in Oogata's eyes; whatever were to happen now, he couldn't just leave him to fend for himself against these apes. He tried to give Oogata a look that said "trust me, I know what I'm doing."
Aritaka swiftly took the pile of bills from Yuji's hand. Of course, he did the usual bully move and said that the 2,000 Yen that Yuji just paid was his tax for interrupting being paid, not Oogata's. "Well, consider that to be paid for Oogata then, and you can do whatever you want to me since I have no money left. But remember what I said about those monster rumors."
Speaking of those rumors, it seemed that these four weren't the gullible type. They all simply looked at each other and laughed, joking about how Yuji was an up-and-coming chuunibyou. Of course, while they were all distracted with their laughing, Yuji quickly raised his watch hand up to speak directly to Kazuo inside. "You know what to do, bud?" Yuji whispered.
"Clear as crystal, I promise. Let me at them!"
Yuji held his hands behind his back, messing around with the Digivice while the others were still distracted. Now with Kazuo out of the V-Pet, and in hologram form, he'd hover around behind the delinquents to get into position for when he would be queued in.
"Oh yeah, silly me, huh?" Yuji said, doing the "ah, eto bleh" meme pose. "I've just been hearing those rumors go around about monsters popping up lately, and I thought you would've heard them by... now..." Yuji's face went white as he looked behind the delinquents, as Kazuo had turned off his holosuit. Oogata and the delinquents could then hear a buzzing wing sound coming from behind them. When they turned around, a large three-and-a-half-foot tall ladybug-like monster would be screaming and waving all four of their arms at the group in an attempt to scare them.
"RAAAAWWWWWRRRR!!!"
"No way... it's one of them! IT'S ONE OF THEM! I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!"
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Post by yuuki on Mar 23, 2024 4:11:57 GMT
"Ha? What would we do with a killjoy like you anyway? You don't interest us now. Scram!" the older thug shouted when Yuji suggested that he'll be their hostage instead. Light of hope seem to disappear from Oogata's eyes as he braced for what to come... at least, until something unexpected happened. He saw Yuji's face turning pale... then... it happened.
The appearance of a waist-height bug. Monster bug. Whatever it is made the bullies scream back. But their instinctive reaction is not to SCRAM but instead to swing a punch at Kazuo.
"WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT!?"
"EW, DISGUSTING! A HUGE BUG!"
"OI THIS CAN'T BE AN ACTUAL BUG! THIS MUST BE MORIMOTO'S ROBOT OR SOMETHING!"
"YOUR SHITTY ACTING CAN'T FOOL US!" that sounded more desperate than the bully hoped, but it's definitely a bravado.
But in that panic, the one that looked the most pale was Oogata. Not only that he was losing his colors quickly, but he's also hyperventilating. Slowly, he started to keel over, clutching his head. He whispered something almost inaudible. His breathing gets more and more rapid with each seconds. His body started to twitch and tremble, as if he's starting to having a seizure
Uh Oh.
Oogata let out a faint but long, groan that sounded like someone being exposed to immense pain.
"OI, OI THIS DWEEB IS SPASMING!"
"WHAT THE FUCK, DID HE GOT SCARED SHITLESS FROM SEEING THIS CHUMP'S ROBOT!?"
This is not good.
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Clayton Herron
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Even if you're weak struggle.
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OOC Name: Shi
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Post by Clayton Herron on Mar 23, 2024 5:03:51 GMT
Clay was walking down the hall, swinging a small pass in the air with his index finger as he walked down the halls, unlike all these delinquent kids Clay had actually made it to class on time, but nature calls as nature does do at the worst times so Clay was on his way. However it would be cut short as he heard someone getting loud. "IT'S ONE OF THEM I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN." followed by a quick. "RAWR" Or wait one happened before the, doesn't matter what did matter was that peaked his interest far more then getting to the restroom so rounding the wrong corner Clay headed towards the noise just to find a weird sight.
It was some faces he recognized, namely Aritaka a pretty big bully. The other two Clay sorta recognized due to being in the same grade but they were definitely not into the same interests as Clay, he was more of a jock then an otaku. But he sure as hell wasn't a bully or cared for that kinda thing.
The biggest problem though was a Tentomon that had jumped out, what a digimon was doing here he didn't know but regardless this whole situation looked like a cluster. Instead of being met with fear though they had actually aimed to swing at the bug digimon. This was Clayton's moment to jump in though as he rounded the corner springing and full head on tackling into the bullies closest to Kazuo from the side. "Pick on someone your own size!" Clay shouted as he got between the two groups.
"I dunno what's going on here but if you're involved Aritaka it can't be good, how bout you leave these guys alone or i'll show you what happened to the last guys I had to step in on." Clay said cracking his knuckles, he was pretty well known for not letting bullies have their way around him. It'd be a harder fight against them all but Clay couldn't just sit by, especially when one of these guys was trying to use a digimon to solve the problem.
'Oi Clay me boy, that fella be looken like he's havin a breakdown over thar.' Clay immediately looked at Yuji wondering what the captain was talking about. 'No boy, the otha fella.' Clay switched views and saw Oogata shaking violently.
"Hey man it's ok, I won't let them getcha, just breathe." Clay tried to reassure, not knowing exactly what's wrong with em.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 23, 2024 5:16:46 GMT
Well, this was not what either Yuji or Kazuo had expected. Sure, the bullies were freaked out (and so was Oogata) but instead of running away like they were supposed to do, the delinquents began throwing punches at the Tentomon in an attempt to squash the giant bug. One that they assumed was some robot that Yuji had built, at that.
"Oh! Ah! Whuh! Hey!" Kazuo yelled after narrowly dodging each punch thrown by one of the delinquents. "I am an actual bug! I just wanted to scare the lot of ya, but I will zap you if you don't cut it out! Ah, not the stomach! Not the antennae, either! Stop it!"
Yuji sweatdropped; this was not how he wanted this situation to go at all. As if the situation couldn't get even more hectic, another student had come from around the corner and started tackling the bullies that they were closest to. This kid looked like a jock, and thankfully not one of the types that went around squatting in groups and shaking down innocent people. Kazuo just hovered in mid air and watched, assuming the bullies would instead focus on the new kid that had shown up.
Then something weird started to happen to Oogata. His color was fading, his breathing got heavier, he was clutching his head and muttering something indecipherable. His body then started to tremble and twitch... it looked like he was beginning to have a seizure, and he started groaning in pain as well. Yuji would be the one who would grab onto Oogata, with the intention of guiding him to the nurse's office.
"One of you, go get a teacher or the nurse, he's having a seizure!" Yuji cried out to the others, although he was mainly talking to Clayton as he was the only one that seemed to care about anyone other than themselves. He then attempted to walk towards the nurse's office with Oogata. "Just breathe, Oogata, the bug is with me, he's not going to hurt you. We're going to get you down to the nurse's office and you're going to be alright."
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Post by yuuki on Mar 23, 2024 5:37:56 GMT
It wasn't a good look. The bullies do want nice things but they don't want Oogata to die or them being somehow linked with this event. Ignore the talking bug, ignore the third party that just came. This is... a massive trouble just waiting to happen. Yes, the four was about to leave the spasming Oogata with the jock and the nerd... and they would just skeddadle... or at least that was the plan had something unthinkable not happening first.
Between his laboured breath, Oogata's hand would begin to burn... but not with normal flame, no. At first it was just a spark, but soon it begins to burn bigger... and bigger. Black flame dancing inside crimson one, a duet of color that just unexplainable. To those who have seen Digisoul, they would perhaps make a connection, albeit not immediately... But for a Digimon, the scent is unmistakable... Yet, it's also alien. Almost as if it was outworldly, and at the same time, much more potent than this world's.
Oogata's grunts grow into louder and louder scream as he clutches his head with increasing pressure in hope to stiffle the pain... to no avail. And then... it began.
CRUNCH.
It was so audible, sound of a breaking bone. A bruise quickly appeared in Oogata's arm.
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH.
The sound of the bone breaking was repeated multiple times as the bones on his body breaking rapidly... and at the same time healed in split second later. They elongate, they widened... and in the same moment, the flame exploded outward, burning the grass around them, creating a vortex of digisoul that burns brightly. It was like a wild fire tornado. Oogata's screams of pain is getting louder and louder as his whole senses assaulted with pain. His changes continues. The extra fat under his skin burned away, in metabolical manner that is. Those layer of extra weight is quickly replaced by rapid increase of muscle mass. He looked ripped. Not huge, but definitely ripped, as if he has been trained for years. With each second, the pain intensifies, the flame burns wilder and wilder, until it can no longer be contained... and shrunk into a cocoon.
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A bright flash of light.
And an explosion that broke the sound barrier, causing a temporary deafness.
When the group was conscious again, they would saw a crater in place where Oogata was. The boy is there, with his new body. His left eye was burning with the same flame... it got extinguished not three seconds later when the boy's fatigue caught up with him and he fell to the ground, unconscious.The wall of the surrounding building was reduced to rubble, as if a bomb just went off. Several trees got uprooted, and the entire building's windows are now shattered. When they got their hearing back, they heard the clear evacuation alarm. What about the four bullies? Well.... from what it looked like, they got pushed back far. Aritaka laying limp in pile of broken metal chair and desk, his arm dangling like it's broken. He's definitely still alive, though... As for the other three? One stuck on top of a tree, another went flying fifty feet away from his previous position... and another was lucky that a netted fence caught him. The fence however is broken beyond repair.
What was left was the embers of the clearly digital flame... red and black, dancing together.
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Clayton Herron
Champion
Even if you're weak struggle.
Posts: 146
OOC Name: Shi
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Post by Clayton Herron on Mar 23, 2024 6:43:46 GMT
Shit this was bad, Clay was hopping a bit as he looked between the bullies and Oogata, not sure what to do for a moment but he quickly got his composure and started moving towards the nurses office. "This ain't over." Clay threatens as he starts to run off, only to be stopped suddenly. Something in him was going wild, he felt his senses flare up like crazy at the same time as Oogata started screaming. "Ughh, the spirit?" Clay fell on his knees as the two spirits within him seemed to go haywire with what they sensed. It felt just like when Clay was in danger or fighting, something within him sending a massive warning but at the same time the sheer panic of it was making Clay feel sick.
'Mate, focus. I'm sensing something bad's going to be happening.' the captain got Clay's focus back to what was going on now, as Clay managed to balance himself on one knee and turn around, just in time to hear the first crunch of Oogata's body being ripped apart. Clayton got to his feet, reaching into his pocket he managed to grab his D-tector. Obeying the warning Clayton reached forward with his free hand as the broken blade of his armor form appeared. "Kowarenai! Appear." As Clayton called out the name of the spirit he would start to transform into his more defensive evolution... Too late, mid transformation into Leomon X a bright flash of light would appear, then silence for Clayton.
Clayton felt weightless, despite such a bright flash at the moment everything was dark. The only thing Clay could feel was his own shallow breath, he couldn't even hear the captain at the moment. Nothing but absolute silence.
"This isn't enough to take you down is it?"
Something broke the silence, it was a voice that sounded like his own but the tone was, different. Unfamiliar. Like something was talking as him but not like him.
"The inheritor of my sword is not permitted to die in such a place."
Their sword? Who's sword was he inheriting? Was this his main spirit talking? This was the first time Clayton had ever heard it talk to him before.
"Rise human."
As soon as Clayton heard that his eyes opened, he was currently against the wall, a massive crack was against it that threatened to give way to the hallway behind him, at his side next to his head was Kowarenai's sword sticking out of the wall itself. Clayton reached up and grabbed it, with a sharp tug he pulled it out of the wall, as he did it faded into data inside his body. Standing up Clayton felt pain throughout his whole body but thankfully since he was partially transformed he managed to avoid any lasting injuries it seemed.
Walking slowly over to the crater he saw Oogata, or at least where Oogata was last standing, whoever was in the crater didn't look like them in the slightest. He looked even more ripped then Clayton was. Clay would reach down and try to feel a pulse to make sure he was still alive after that, though his free hand still cluched his D-tector due to the weird fear his spirit was still giving off.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 23, 2024 14:54:49 GMT
What the...? Oogata was burning up, and not in a normal way either. His hands would light up with a kind of fire that Yuji hadn't seen before, and he let go of Oogata in surprise. This fire was like black and crimson flames were dancing around and fighting for control. This looked somewhat familiar to Yuji, but Kazuo would be the one to make the connection instantly.
"Digisoul...? But it's not normal Digisoul..."
"What do you mean 'not normal' Digisoul?" Yuji asked his partner, a look of concern on his face.
Kazuo's voice shifted to his "danger sense" mode, sounding much more mature and focused. "Yuji, this doesn't feel good. Something really, really bad is about to happen."
Then, something began. A loud sound of breaking bones could be heard. Oogata's pained grunts became full-on screams, and a fiery blaze surrounded the poor kid. Oogata's body was morphing before the group's very eyes, his extra fat being burned away and replaced by an increase of muscle mass. The flames around Oogata burned brighter and brighter before shrinking down into a cocoon that encased Oogata. Kazuo bolted towards Yuji.
"Tentomon, Digivolve to-"
Kazuo didn't get the chance to digivolve before the cocoon exploded, and it was silence for both him and Yuji.
This explosion did not go unnoticed by the rest of the school. For middle school students like Serena Isono; for high school students like Kaya Matsui, Hikaru and Kaoru Ito; for college students like Jacob Faulkner; or even the teachers like Weston Sparkwood. Each of them was simply going through the motions of their daily life, and each one of them were caught off guard when their classrooms' windows all shattered at once, at the same time as a loud exploding sound is heard and the building rumbles with the impact.
A mass panic started as the evacuation alarms went off. Students of all ages were fearing for their lives, what kind of an explosion like that would happen here? Kaya could see Weston assisting students with evacuating along with the other teachers, not like anyone was listening with how hysterical they were. She heard one of the Ito twins talking to what sounded like no one as he walked past her, but she couldn't figure out which one it was or who they were talking to. They sounded like they were trying to stay calm, but were just as scared as everyone else.
Kaya started to realize that Yuji wasn't anywhere to be seen. She wondered if he was home sick, or if he was somewhere else in the school. She pulled out her phone and began to call him.
Please pick up...
Yuji would start coming to by this point, hearing the sound of his phone ring. All he could hear was a deafening ringing noise from just how loud that explosion was. Everything about his body hurt. When his eyes fully opened, he saw that he was no longer where he was initially standing. No, Yuji had got pushed back into the school itself, where he could now see a giant hole in the wall that used to be a door, and a smouldering crater where Oogata laid unconscious. The phone's ringing would stop by this point.
Kazuo was resting on top of him, the poor bug's body limp. While Yuji's body was still hurt, Kazuo's looked far more damaged. The last thing Yuji could remember was Kazuo jumping in front of him before the explosion...
Oh god, no.
"Kaz? Kazuo, buddy, wake up..." Yuji said to his partner in a hoarse whisper. The bug didn't respond. "Kazuo... Kazuo!"
Naturally, Yuji began to fear the worst for his best friend, the one who leaped into the line of fire just to save him. It couldn't end like this for the Tentomon, could it? Yuji was on the verge of tears when he saw that jock from earlier walk up to Oogata, reaching down to check his pulse. "Get... away from him..." Yuji tried calling out to Clayton, although whether or not Clayton would hear him was anyone's guess.
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Post by yuuki on Mar 23, 2024 15:37:20 GMT
Hikaru let out a string of expletives. Right when he thought that the day would be uneventful, something like this happened. The digital stench was completely unmistakable. It was so strong that even in his disguised form, Hikaru could sense it. His barrier was broken... broken so easily. He spent MONTHS strengthening it and it's still broken like it was nothing!
"Everyone, make sure to go to the exit in orderly manner! Don't push! Please follow the evacuation protocol thorougly! Remember your drill lessons! Please do not push! Do not haste when you walk down the stairs! Prioritize the disabled and the hurts! Watch your steps also! The glass shards are sharp!"
Homeostasis, this feels like a massive chaos. Who could he call at this moment? His duty as a teacher prevented him from breaking from the rank and investigate...
He tried to dial one that probably wouldn't be encumbered by such need of social obligations. He summoned his D-NexT and dialled a number.
"...Hikaru to Mantis, are you there? I'll be short: I'd like you to break away a bit from the crowd and I'll stick with Miya. Please investigate the source of the damage... If it's needed, I'd like you to contact AEGIS too. Tell them to delay any countermeasure squads. The last thing I want to happen is for JSDF to actually come to this school and worsen the situation."
Too little information to go with. For the meantime he should continue the evacuation.
In the epicenter of the mess, the smouldering crater that is Oogata... Clayton's checkup on the boy at first was obstructed by thin barrier of digisoul, some embers that flares up as his finger about to touch the boy... but should he try again, the ember did not trigger... It seemed to be residual force of whatever just happened. Anyway, the good news is that Oogata is alive... and his pulse has went back to normal... if anything, the boy looked absolutely spent.
...But their surprise did not end there. A bright laser descended downward to where they are, dissipating as quickly as it comes and revealing an androgynous looking figure clad in white and red, very stylized business outfit. Her hair was white with several crimson streaks on the bangs. Most of her hair are shoulder length, with the exception of a really long rat tail that nearly went past her knee in length. Her red eyes glanced at Oogata... then toward the chosen. She ignored Clayton for a bit, and briskily walked toward Yuji and Kazuo. The clacking of her high heels sounded like it was the only sound they could hear somehow.
As if not caring at all about personal space, she was practically looming beside the two, with oddly mechanical-- or perhaps, otherworldly feel about her. Yuji could now see her the details of her eyes... Her red iris are shining, with star shaped pupil. Definitely not human. Without even sparing a word, she took off her right hand's glove, revealing a see through hand... but that's not all. The hand was clearly made out of red wireframe. Then, just as bewilderingly, she took out a knife out of her pocket, and slashed her exposed palm. Blood of data surged out from it, and falling into Kazuo...
It would looked quite morbid had it not cured the bug out of his damages. The figure wiped her hand with a handkerchief, only to unceremoniously tossed it aside.
"...I do not know how to patch a fully analog human, unfortunately," the figure spoke her first sentence. "But that should pull your Digimon out of mortal danger. You are... not... gravely wounded, I trust?"
Then she addressed Clayton. "Careful... That child is still unstable... possibly from the merger. It would be wise for you to instead tend to yourself first."
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Post by Miyako + Mantis on Mar 23, 2024 16:58:53 GMT
It finally happened, didn't it? Someone finally made good on that terrorist threat that kept getting taken down on Tamernet, the threat to blow up the high school...again. In the midst of a field trip where he was chaperoning Miyako as a family friend, 'Dan' picked up the D-Terminal.
"Hrm? ...Right, regarding what we just heard. Yes, please do. She's raring to go at it, and...Her grades have been on the upturn since we opted to take that break from the Digital World." Pretty simple response.
Plus, he had Luke's contact info as well. Contacting AEGIS was the easier part of the whole deal. "You've a good point, though. Last thing we need is the Nerima Red Dragons to show up and be humbled for the third time."
With some quick conversation, 'Dan,' actually the Kotemon known only as Praying Mantis, broke off from the crowd of students and teachers. He steeled himself, feeling an ill omen wash over him. It was very likely that this was going to be a long day. And a long day in the Human World was always a trying day.
Golden Week. The incidents since...
Later, as the group was beginning to recover their bearings and assess damages (while also being tended to an unidentified figure that, quite honestly, gave Mantis the same vibe that a certain woman Naoki was familiar with did), a figure crept through the doorway. The term figure was used, given...
Yaksamon's holosuit was flickering between the man in the suit and the puppet man. "I heard the term 'merger', and I am going to assume you're not talking a corporate merger." Mantis spoke plainly, staring dead-on at the white-haired woman. "Explain who you are. Quickly."
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Post by Octavio on Mar 23, 2024 18:50:43 GMT
Well, this day certainly went from bad to worse. First, Octavio got called in due to Belle getting suspended for starting a fight with a bully that had been bothering Cecilia (again), but not even two minutes after stepping out of the school with his delinquent ward in tow, an explosion went off that literally rocked the entire building. As was usually done when in theHuman World, the four members of the Xros Army without their own holosuits were currently tucked away inside Octavio’s Xros Loader.
Octavio turned and looked at Belle and raised an eyebrow, silently asking if the disguised Tinkermon had anything to do with that. Belle’s response was to immediately raise her hands and shake her head. “For once, I had nothing to do with this. Not even I would go that far!”
“Alright, fine. I believe you. Laserbeak, get out here!” Octavio wearily said, as he pulled out his Xros Loader. After Octavio pressed a couple of buttons on it, the familiar form of a mechanical bird Digimon emerged and flew onto Belle’s shoulder.
“[Yeah, Boss? What do you need?]” Laserbeak asked. Octavio pointed in the direction of the explosion, and the Laserichmon winced as he saw the damage. “[Oof, yikes. Haven’t seen this kind of damage in a looong time.]”
“Look, I need you to go find Cecilia and make sure she’s okay before regrouping with us.” Octavio explained. “I’m taking Belle and the others to go track down what caused the blast.”
“[I’m on it!]” Laserbeak replied with a nod, turning invisible as he took off to go track down Cecilia. Once he was gone, Octavio and Belle both took off running towards the source of the explosion.
Meanwhile, Hana was in the middle of class when the explosion went off, with a Puroromon Rush lazily dozing on her head in his hologram ghost mode. As the loud shockwave shattered the windows, poor Rush was rudely awoken as he was blown off of Hana’s head and into the wall of the classroom. As the class began evacuating, Hana made sure to discreetly go and pick up her dazed partner, the tiny bee Digimon easily fitting in the palm of her hand as she rejoined the rest of her classmates.
Like everyone else, Hana was freaking out about the explosion that went off. Having been sitting close to the window when the blast went off, the sheer intensity of it all left her ears ringing. Despite that, though, there was one thing on her mind as the school was evacuated: she had to find Himiko and make sure that her younger cousin was okay!
Laserbeak:
-Optical Camouflage: Laserbeak uses holographic technology to render himself completely invisible for up to two turns, although the invisibility will be broken if he attacks or takes damage. 2 post CD. (Duration: 0/2)
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Clayton Herron
Champion
Even if you're weak struggle.
Posts: 146
OOC Name: Shi
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Post by Clayton Herron on Mar 24, 2024 3:20:54 GMT
Clay 100% didn't hear Yuji, though even if he had Clayton probably wouldn't of listened anyway considering what was going on here. Reaching out to check Oogata he first felt his fingers collide with something, the small embers around him seemed to flare up to stop Clayton for a moment causing him to pull his hand back in shock. However stubborn was Clayton's middle name so he reached out again, this time unobstructed to check.
He was alive, Clay didn't know how or why but he was alive. That alone made Clay breathe a sigh of relief. Now that he was sure that he wasn't dead Clay was able to check on himself, or at least he would've been able to had some lady not appeared with a massive bright laser from the sky itself. Clay pushed himself back to standing up, D-tector still in his hand. "Who are-" Clay was cut off as she fully ignored Clayton to head over to Yuji and Kazuo
The next scene that happened was, odd to say the least. Taking out a knife she slashed her own hand and let the blood, no. Data fall onto the bug digimon that seemed to take the brunt of the blast for Yuji. "What the hell? Who are you." she then mentioned that the child is unstable after the merging, whatever the hell that meant, and that Clay should tend to himself.
It was now that Clay gave himself a look over, his uniform was ripped up a decent amount, considering that wall he hit that meant his back was also messed up pretty badly, the fact he was standing now was more of due to his determination rather then any sane movement. Touching the back of his head he felt blood starting to pool around the back of his head. "I'll be fine, I'm more worried about him."
Ripping off the sleeve of his shirt Clay tied it around his head tightly to stop himself from bleeding too badly, he was going to be feeling this in the morning but at the moment he shoved the pain he was in down and stood tall, as someone else came in asking the new figure the same questions that Clay had. "Yeah, mergers. Explosions, this weird digital energy. The hell is going on?" despite all this weirdness Clay felt the need to get to the bottom of this, and so far there was only one person here with any possible answers.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 24, 2024 4:19:46 GMT
Today was not going well. Today was not going at all as expected. These two truths were drilled into Yuji's head the moment that he saw the laser descend from the sky into the crater. This laser formed itself into an androgynous figure with white and crimson hair, wearing a stylized red and white business suit. Yuji simply watched as this lady walked over towards him and Kazuo, all while he was unable to do anything against her if she turned out to be evil like he was expecting. He wanted to back away, but his body refused to move. Now that she was looming over them, Yuji could see clearly that she was definitely not human, considering that the irises of her eyes were red, shining stars, and that her hand was see-through and made of red wire frames after she took off her glove. She took out a knife and stabbed her palm, allowing data to bleed from her hand and drop onto Kazuo's body. And in an instant, the Tentomon's wounds were fully healed. *cough* *hack* *wheeze*
Kazuo started coughing as he was snapped back into consciousness. He looked up and saw that Yuji was looking down at him, with no visible injuries aside from some scratches and scuff marks. "Yuyu... you're alive... did I do good in saving you?"
Yuji began tearing up, pulling his partner in for a strong hug. At the same time, he looked up at the strange digital being that helped him, who in turn was asking if Yuji himself was alright. "Thank you for saving my partner," Yuji said. In this moment, he didn't care about himself. He had a few bruises, yes, but all that mattered to him in that moment was that his buddy was still alive. Of course, after that moment passed, some answers were definitely warranted. This woman mentioned something about how the child was still unstable after the merger. A new Digimon came in, having overheard what she said and, along with Clayton, demanded to know what the hell she meant by that. Yuji picked himself up and joined the others in the answer-demanding department. "Yeah, I'm with them. Mind telling us what the hell happened to cause a kid to go all Stamford, Connecticut on us?"
Every morning, Hawkeye, Kazuo, and Gem would all hang out with each other in Hikaru's office at the school while their partners were in class. Today, Hawkeye and Gem were wondering why Kazuo was so late today, since that usually wasn't like him. Then the explosion went off, the building rumbling and the windows shattering, and scaring the hell out of them.
Both Digimon rightly panicked, thinking the worse had happened to their partners. While the school was evacuating, Kaya and Serena both had gotten into contact with their Digimon via the comm links, and they were both asked to investigate the source of the explosion in hologram form while they were stuck on evacuation. Both of the Digimon accepted this task and turned on their hologram modes, flying out the window and towards the source of the explosion. Moments after this, Serena got a text on her phone from Kaya: >Yuji's not answering his phone and I'm scared. Please make sure Mari is ok. As if by coincidence, after Serena read the text, she heard another voice coming from one of the teachers of another classroom. "Matsui-san, it's not safe in there! We need to leave!" "Suzuki-sensei, what's wrong?!" Serena asked, jogging up to him. "Is Mari Matsui in there?"
The middle aged man nodded. "I'm trying all I can to convince her to leave, but she just won't budge."
"Here, let me try, I'm friends with her sister, so maybe I can get through to her." Serena said as she walked in. The broken class cracked under her footsteps as she approached the first year student, who was curled up in a ball in the corner of the room. "You're Mari, right? Mari Matsui?" Mari nodded her head. "Come with me, we need to evacuate the school."
"No!" Mari cried out, tears rolling down her face. There was a bit of blood rolling down her forehead, a telltale sign that she had gotten hit with a shard of glass when the window shattered. "Something might explode again if I leave! I don't want to die!"
"Hey, listen to me, no one is going to die today," Serena said, kneeling down closer to Mari. "I'm Serena Isono. I'm a friend of your sister's, and she's worried sick about you. You don't want to scare her as much as you're scared now, do you? So if you stick close to me until we get out of here, then nothing bad will happen to you."
"*sniffle* Promise?"
"Cross my heart and hope to die." Serena held out her hand to Mari, extending only a pinky finger towards her. "We'll make it official with a pinky promise; the most unbreakable promise there is."
Mari was hesitant for a moment, but eventually she wrapped her own pinky fingers around Serena's, and the two hands shook. Serena smiled as she got up, offering a helping hand to help Mari get back on her feet as well. As they headed out towards the classroom door, Serena would say to Mari, "Just remember what I said; stick to me, and we'll make it out of here safe and sound."
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