[OPEN]

[trustheart]

Who: Chris, Missimon, and you
What: Catch-All/Quests
When: Early May
Where: Access City
Warnings: N/A, will update if anything comes up

Access City, soon after arrival

Chris had to say, she wasn't happy with what circumstances she found herself in. Of course she'd said yes to the question that appeared before her—how could she not?! But she hadn't expected to be taken to another world, least of all one with monsters that had a vague at best plan to accomplish their goals.

Still, she couldn't ignore the threat to her home, or the creatures in need in this world. She had to do something.

Right now though? All she could do was sit on a bench in the park, leaning her head on her hands and generally looking sad. Her partner hadn't shown up yet, and she had no idea where to go to end up looking for one. So all she could do is wait..

"The home I fought for..." she said, sadly. "Is it really so far away?"

The Great And Powerful So-And-So

By now, Chris had met her partner, and... well, they were partners. She couldn't say whether they would get along or not, but this Missimon seemed pretty cynical and hard to convince. Nevertheless, Chris knew they had to get to work accomplishing something, so she'd pursued one of those jobs that were on offer.

The one she selected meant walking the streets at night. Apparently something called a "Devimon" was attacking and scaring people. She checked the handbook on her phone, err, "digivice", and gotten some eyewitness testimony, and something immediately felt fishy. Her time in S.O.N.G. had taught her a thing or too, so she was able to get a sense of where the attacks usually occurred, so she started looking there... and it paid off!

"Hold it right there!" Chris announced to a shadowy figure in an alleyway. "Come on out, you pretender!"

Said shadowy figure loomed over her, rickety wings spread against the knight sky and red eyes gleaming like flashlights. It cried out, its voice legion, and demanded: "Who dares disturb Devimon the great and powerful?!"

Missimon shook her head from behind Chris. "This is going to end in disaster," she sighed.

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The Great and Powerful So-And-So

[chalicejoker]

There's a sound of tiny footsteps frantically running towards that alleyway. "Over here! I heard something over here! Hajime, you gotta hurry!" A Cutemon skids to a halt nearby, eyes growing big and round at the sight of the shadowy figure that is...menacing?...Missimon and Chris. "Holy cow!"

He does not think about what a cow is. He does not know.

[trustheart]

Chris was about to answer the "creature" before her, when she heard Cutemon's voice. She wheeled around, snarling. "Are you stupid?!" she shouted. "Get out of here!"

That gave "Devimon" the opportunity to attack, swooping low, forcing Chris to duck down. The so-called Fallen Angel sailed over her and Missimon, and rose up into the street.

"You will pay for your insolence!" three voices called out, slightly out of sync. "Demon's Ray!"

The attack, however, came not from its eyes, but its mouth, and it wasn't a ray of any kind... but rather, a large needle and syringe, which flew at Cutemon.

Their aim was clearly bad.

[chalicejoker]

Bad aim or not, a dark figure leaps out, grabs Cutemon, rolls away, deposits Cutemon safely off to the side, and then as soon as he's back on his feet, immediately and aggressively lunges at the dark figure in a flying tackle. "No one attacks him and gets away with it!"

Enjoyed a keyed-up and fighty Kamen Rider, kids.

[trustheart]

Chris barely had time to react, before a figure from outside of some tokusatsu show came barreling out of nowhere and saved Cutemon. She grit her teeth and followed the direction of the attack...just as the tackle knocked Devimon out of the sky, disconnecting it from its head.

Said head fell to the ground, with a pair of clawed feet sticking out, flailing wildly.

"F-Fool!" the "head" said. "This is but a minor injury!"

"NOW RELEASE US!" the body cried, wriggling in its attacker's arms.

Chris blanched, and ran over to the head, putting her foot down on it. "None of you are going anywhere!"

[chalicejoker]

Hajime was not expecting the creature to split into two, but at least he still had a hold of a third of it. He considered the demand to be released and responded by punching the bit he was holding. Not hard, just enough to remind it who was in charge here. "If you want us to make this harder for you, that can be arranged."

Cutemon's walked a bit closer now, looking over curiously. He considered what Hajime was doing, then punched the one Hajime was holding too. The force of this punch would likely go completely unnoticed. "Yeah! What he said!" His Tamer's so cool! And a bad influence!

[trustheart]

Chris couldn't fault Hajime for his methods, considering she was standing on one third of her perp. "Keep a hold on them," she said, before reaching down and pulling the occupant of "Devimon's" head out, revealing an upside down PicoDevimon held by his leg.

"INSOLENCE!" the bat-like Digimon cried. "Place me back inside my head at once!"

Meanwhile, another PicoDevimon poked out of the "body", its eyes glinting as they made eye contact with Hajime. "Evil Whisper!" it sighed, sending hypnotic waves at their captor.

[chalicejoker]

This is not an attack vector Hajime had not been expecting. He suddenly went very still, shuddered, and growled softly before his form rippled and pulsed into some sort of large humanoid insect monster. He then bellowed a roar of challenge at the top of his lungs. Surprise, everyone!

Because he has not discussed his tragic backstory with Cutemon, Cutemon had no idea what was happening. He squeaked in alarm and fell back down onto his butt. "H-Hajime?"

[trustheart]

Chris's eyes widened. "What the hell?!" she and the PicoDevimon both cried.

"Uh...did we do something bad, boss?" said the second PicoDevimon poking his head out of the body.

"That monster evolved!" the first PicoDevimon shouted. "Get out of there!"

"I knew it would end up like this," Missimon whined from her hiding spot.

[chalicejoker]

The monster jerks suddenly when the PicoDevimon is no longer trying to play games with that attack, seemingly comes to, and starts kind of frantically fumbling at the card box on his waist. "...the hell?!" There is a very definite note of distress in his voice.

Cutemon's still sitting there looking confused. "Um..." He looks back at the PicoDevimon as he stands up. "I think you guys better go before he gets really mad! Really really mad! And you better not do it again, or, uh, we'll find you! Yeah!" There is a bit of air punching there, but really, he's just trying to stall for time. Keep everyone distracted! Yeah! He decides that this is still Hajime, and so he jumps up onto one of Hajime's shoulder spikes for good measure. Still his Tamer! He staggers a bit when Hajime's swiped another card and resumed his usual armored form, but somehow remains.

[trustheart]

Chris stared. "What...what the hell just happened?!" she cried, before shaking her head. "You know what? Nevermind. This is all too much for me."

She held up the shrieking PicoDevimon leader. "We can't let them go, we need to take these little monsters to Sheriff Tyrannomon. They've frightened and injured people."

"The weak will perish!" the leader shouted. "Release us at once, large chested human!"

Chris didn't even have to look at them before she punched them.

[chalicejoker]

"He'll do the scary thing again if you don't cooperate!" Cutemon is just rolling with this now. "And she'll keep using you as a punching bag, too!"

Hajime sighs and goes to grab one of the other PicoDevimon. He'd rather go brood somewhere now but he's not going to be afforded that luxury yet, is he? "What does the Sheriff do with them, anyway?" He considers it. "Where I come from, such troublemakers would be sealed away for ten thousand years."

Look, Cutemon, he can scare them without calling back to what just happened, thanks.

[trustheart]

Chris shrugged. "I'm not sure," she said. "I guess he'd just throw them in jail for a while."

"J-jail?!" the leader shouted. "One thousand years?! N-No! No way! I'm not going!"

It was then that his entire body started glowing, causing Chris to let go of hip with a yelp. The PicoDevimon screamed, and rose up, as his body became consumed in the light of evolution.

"PicoDevimon, evolve...Evilmon!"

The light faded and revealed...a short, but nonetheless-adult level hideous bat-monkey thing, with an enormous mouth full of fangs.

Chris...did not look impressed.

"That's it...?" she said.

[chalicejoker]

Hajime was not expecting this. Reflex kicked in, and he hurled the PicoDevimon he was still holding at the Evilmon, using it as a projectile for an attack.

Cutemon remained holding onto his shoulder armor, looking concerned at the whole thing.

1/2

[trustheart]

"Ahahahahahaha!" the Evilmon shouted. "You'd better not under-estimate me! I'm now an Adult, and—OW!"

The Evilmon grabbed his eye as the other PicoDevimon struck and bounced off of it. "Who threw that?!" he demanded.

Meanwhile, the third PicoDevimon poked his head out of the remains of their costume...and immediately ducked his head back in, not wanting to get thrown like his friend, who hit the ground and lay still.

Chris let out a bothered sigh, shaking her head and walking forward. "Here, let me handle this," she said. With that, she grabbed a pendant hanging from her neck, and sang:

"Kiliter ichaival tron."

2/2

[trustheart]

Moments later, in a flash of light, Chris stood before them as a red-armored, gun-wielding warrior.

"Take this!" she shouted, pointing one of her weapons forward. She pulled the trigger...and bubbles flew out.

"Wh-what?!" Chris exclaimed.

"That's probably my fault!" Missimon shouted from her hiding place.

[chalicejoker]

Sudden transformations are not at all a thing that phases Hajime much, this is just par for the course. There is still a quick double-take--there's no belt, no card--and he reflexively braces to be shot at, but no, she's attacking the Evilmon and there's...bubbles.

"Your bubbles are pretty!" Cutemon says helpfully.

"Hang on," Hajime tells him.

"Wh--YYYYY!!" Cutemon yelps and does as instructed, because Hajime has just jumped into the air and is now sailing at that Evilmon in a flying kick.

Sometimes, the old ways are best.

[trustheart]

"Kekekekeke!" Evilmon snickered. One of his opponents was too weak to do anything, and the other he saw coming. He was a weak Adult-level, but an Adult-level nonetheless.

"SCRATCH BEAT!" the Small Demon cried, slashing its arms through the air. It sent out two waves of energy blades at Hajime, intercepting his attack.

1/2

[chalicejoker]

That did not go as expected--even if the Digimon was tiny, it packed more of a punch than Hajime was at the moment. The hit's impressive, there are small explosions, and Hajime goes down. He's dripping green blood on the ground, lying there with the wind knocked out of him. Direct hit.

Yet somehow, he's managed to shield Cutemon. "You're alright?" He's breathing very heavily. "If he got you, I'll kick his ass." He does not sound like he's going to be kicking anyone's ass for the time being.

2/2

[chalicejoker]

"Hajime!" Cutemon gasps and gets to his feet. "I...you...I'm supposed to be protecting you!" He hasn't been doing his job! He'd gotten so wrapped up in being partnered to a cool superhero that he hadn't been doing his job! He had to protect Hajime!

Cutemon felt a little warm as he turned to face the Evilmon. "You can't do that to my Tamer!"

And with that, Cutemon started to glow. "Cutemon, evolve! Pucchiemon!" He was still cute, but bigger now. "Love and Fire!" With that, he shot a fireball shaped like a red heart at the Evilmon.

[trustheart]

Evilmon cackled as he saw Hajime go down, only to be taken by surprise as Pucchiemon evolved and attacked him. Eyes widening, the monster narrowly dodged, and growled, preparing to launch another attack.

"Impudent whelp!" he seethed. "Nightmare Sho—!"

Before he could get the attack however, Chris rocketed up from beneath him, slamming one of her pistols into Evilmon's lower jaw. She quickly followed up with a swipe from her other weapon, pistol-whipping him across the face. Immediately after, Chris got out of the way, calling out to Pucchiemon.

"Hit him now!"

[chalicejoker]

Pucchiemon could be nice about this and just get Evilmon to settle down with Heartner Beam, but no one beat up his partner like that and got away with it! "LOVE AND FIRE!" He hurled the biggest heart of fire he could manage right at the Evilmon.

Hajime, for his part, is still sort of lying there, breathing heavily. He rolls to observe the fight while lying on his side. This is absolutely not at all how he was expecting this fight to go and he's still wondering if he got hit harder than he realized.

[trustheart]

Evilmon had been stunned by Chris's pistol-whipping...which left him wide-open to be hit by the Love and Fire technique. He let out a scream as he hit the wall of a nearby building, before collapsing in a heap, still covered in embers of flame.

Chris grinned, and turned to Pucchiemon. "That's pretty good work," she said. "You've got a lot of spunk for a little guy!"

[chalicejoker]

"Yeah!" Pucchiemon gives Chris a thumbs-up. "You did pretty good, too!" He seems satisfied that the Evilmon is still smoldering.

At this point, Hajime figures the worst is over, runs his Two of Hearts down his belt buckle, and just decides to lie there until he feels better. He's a bit banged up, but he'll live. The damage to his ego is probably worse than anything.

"Hajime! Hajime, did you see--" Pucchiemon cuts off when he realizes his Tamer is not in the greatest of shape right now. His antennae droop a bit. "Ohhhhh, I didn't do a real good job of that whole protecting my Tamer thing."

[trustheart]

Chris glowed for a moment, before dispelling her armor. "Didn't protect him?! Isn't that what you just did!?" she said, stepping over to try and help Hajime up.

"Just because you didn't manage to stop him before he got hurt doesn't mean you didn't do your job," she continued. "Why, he's in one piece because you stepped up in the first place!"

Meanwhile, over by the trash cans, Missimon felt a pang of shame.

[chalicejoker]

"You did well," Hajime tells Pucchiemon as he somewhat sheepishly accepts the help getting up. "I was the one who charged in at it to begin with."

Pucchiemon looks between the two of them. "Ooh, that's how it works, then? Hajime gets into trouble and then I get to clean up?"

Hajime decides he'll let Pucchiemon have it for now. "Something like that." He looks back towards the fallen Evilmon. "What do we do with him now?" Instinct says to throw a playing card at his fallen opponent in order to seal it, but logic says that won't do a damn thing in this scenario.