[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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[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

"That's not the last major thing I remember. It's pretty close, but there was something else after that. Pretty soon after that." Which, well, wasn't something she thought she was going to have to explain and honestly didn't really want to.

"Your... that reaction isn't... I..." She shakes her head again. "You weren't wrong. About why I have this now."

Solarmon looked over at Miku for a moment, not entirely sure what was going on but he realized that Miku was upset. "Maybe you two should talk about this somewhere else?"

[trustheart]

Chris was about to reply, when Solarmon said what he did. She gave a little growl of frustration, before nodding.

"Come on," she said. "We can finish this discussion at my place."

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

Miku blinked, looking over at Solarmon for a moment. Was he... actually showing some concern for her? He definitely never cared about creating a scene or anything before so it couldn't be that.

Still, he did have a point, so she nods. "Okay. Let's go. It's... well, depending on how much you want me to tell you it might take a while."

[trustheart]

Chris nodded, and led them along. Eventually they reached Chris and Missimon's home, which was sparsely decorated...given that Chris had just arrived in the Digital World.

"Sorry I can't offer you anything to drink," she said, while indicating the places to sit. "Now...what can you tell me without causing a time paradox or whatever?"

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

"It's okay," Miku said, before thinking over the answer to Chris' question. She wasn't surprised by Chris' place being sparsely decorated, honestly hers was in a similar state right now.

As for Chris' question... "Honestly, probably nothing." She knows that's not really an answer Chris was going to like, and while she doesn't want to really talk about it she doesn't want to hold things back either. "Basically I got kidnapped again. And possessed."

Solarmon's eyes widened a little at Miku's words, having not expected to hear something like that. Though for the moment he wasn't saying anything.

[trustheart]

Kidnapped. Possessed. Hearing that made Chris's body tense up, and her blood boil, to the point she grabbed the edges of her skirt tightly and grit her teeth.

But the person she was most angry with, actually, was her future self.

"So..." she said, voice heavy, "We couldn't protect you."

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

"It wasn't your fault," Miku said as soon as Chris had finished speaking. "They... well, the group of alchemists that you were fighting with at the time had help. Help from people above the commander in the government. Even if you had known they wanted to kidnap me, they probably would've been able to get around all of you."

[trustheart]

Chris tensed up. More alchemists? Help from the government?! None of those were things she liked at all.

"Help from the government?!" she said, focusing on that in particular. "What kind of help?"

The only possibility in her mind felt too ominous, too dangerous to really be reality. But even still, she wouldn't take that kind of betrayal lightly.

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

Yeah, Miku's not surprised to hear Chris being upset about that. Honestly, she was still pretty upset about the whole everything with that herself. But she's also not really all that inclined to hide that from Chris either.

"They were working with Tsubasa's grandfather. He thought that he'd be able to control the 'god' that they were having possess me."

[trustheart]

Chris's eyes widened even more, and her nostrils flared. Her fists shook, and she had to force herself from standing up.

"That bastard?! It's not enough he pulled all the crap he did, but he did that to you?! What about senpai?! What did she have to say about all this?!"

[sunshinethatwarmsherup]

...Ah. Right. Now she needed to talk about what happened to Tsubasa-san.

"Well, she was upset about it after everything was over. But one of the alchemists had the ability to... I guess hypnotize people. He had Tsubasa-san put under that at some point, so for at least some of it she was helping him. I don't think that happened yet by the time I got kidnapped though."

Solarmon just stared at Miku after hearing that, at least for a moment. "You're life's been pretty nuts, hasn't it?"

Miku turned to Solarmon and nodded. "Yeah. It's been a real hectic couple of years..."