[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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[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.

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[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."

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[trustheart]

"Well, Adult or not, we have to take him and his buddies in to Chief Tyrannomon," said Chris. "We can't just call it in and wait for them to-"

Then, as if on cue, heavy stomping and a rumble came from further down the street.

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[monbyanyothername]

Sheriff Tyrannomon appeared, followed by a small army of Gaossmon...with sirens on their heads.

"We got reports of a brawl breaking out down here," the Dinosaur Digimon announced. "What exactly happened here?"

[chalicejoker]

"There were a couple of DemiDevimon in a trenchcoat and they were trying to pretend to be something big and mean and attack, so then we defended ourselves, and then one of them evolved, and he beat up my Tamer real bad so I had to set him on fire!" Pucchiemon says with a dramatic point at Evilmon. "Only to protect my Tamer, you see. Look how beat up he is! Just look at him!"

Hajime's initial impulse upon being presented with the police is to leave the area very quickly without saying anything, but Pucchiemon is holding his arm and preventing him from doing so. The fact that he's had the crap kicked out of him is also preventing him from doing so. He's just standing there stone-faced with his greenish scrapes and bruises, ready for the ground to open up and swallow him. "What he said."

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[trustheart]

Chris nodded at both of them, as Missimon flew up to her side. "That's basically what happened," she said. "I can corroborate everything. Though maybe not in those words exactly..."

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[monbyanyothername]

Tyrannomon raised an eyebrow at Pucchiemon's story. He looked from the Digimon to Hajime, and took in the sight of him and how injured he was. Then, he looked at Chris, to the defeated Digimon, and then finally the discarded remains of the Devimon costume. In those moments, he managed to put two-and-two together.

"So this is the so-called 'Devimon' that was causing trouble for people," he said. "You handled it, then? Good work."

[chalicejoker]

"Yeah!" Pucchiemon says brightly. "It was very handled! Super handled." Clearly they are the best at handling things. He is punctuating this with some air punching. "We all worked together!"

"Are we free to go?" Hajime asks. He didn't know if Pucchiemon could still do Cutemon's healing thing, had no idea Pucchiemon would actually revert to Cutemon after a little bit, and was really not feeling like hanging around and dealing with a red dinosaur questioning him.

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[monbyanyothername]

"No can do, I'm afraid," Sheriff Tyrannomon said. "You're going to have to come down to the station and give a statement. It's standard protocol."

[trustheart]

Chris let out a heavy sigh. "It can't be helped, then," she said. "We might as well listen to him...that is, unless you think you'd be better off getting healed at HQ."

She just gave you an out, Hajime. Use it.

[chalicejoker]

He is taking that out. Thanks, Chris, he owes you. "I am on the verge of losing enough blood to knock a human out." And he is definitely a very normal human, just ignore that very green blood. "I need to lie down."

"I don't think I can carry him," Pucchiemon says, "so we should probably go before he falls over. You don't want a passed-out human at the station, do you?"

[monbyanyothername]

Tyrannomon snorted. He couldn't deny their logic, but at the same time, he felt like he was being played.

"I'll send a deputy to get your statement once they've taken care of you," he said. "Best of luck...I'm not sure Mummymon is entirely sure of how you offworlders are put together."

[trustheart]

Chris nodded, and turned to Hajime.

"Looks like this is goodbye then, since I'll be going to the station," she said. "Can I get a name from the guy who helped me take these guys down?"

[chalicejoker]

"I will keep that in mind." Hajime has no intention of actually going to see Mummymon, and he wonders how long he can avoid giving a statement to the deputy.

But he will actually give Chris a straight answer. "I'm Hajime. Hajime Aikawa."

"And I'm Pucchiemon!" He is just trying to hang out in his Adult form for as long as it takes to get Hajime somewhere safe, and then he can go back to being Cutemon again. This is a perfect plan! "What's your name?"