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[Well, being more powerless than what he's been for a while sucks tremendously. Not like that's visible by looking at the transmission! The screen shows a teenage boy, perhaps a little skinny and pale for his years, a miniature fox in his arms and a smile upon his lips. Obviously, his partner, being nocturnal and all, is just about tuckered out from all of the excitement of her first day. It's sort of endearing actually. Perhaps the only reason he's carrying her along back to the apartment block he's been situated, perhaps not.]

...Say. What do all of you do for entertainment here? Other than saving the (digital) world, of course. Call me curious. Also, if a place to eat can be recommended, It'd be much appreciated since I'm pretty new at all this.

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[That evil, evil game.]

Edited 2013-05-06 07:03 (UTC)

And....we're kinda stuck here for the long haul, boss.

...You're kidding.

Edited 2013-05-06 07:06 (UTC)

It's hardly as if you need any reminding, but Shibuya does have a time limit of it's own. With all of the Taboo still there (and no Conductor, by the way. I haven't exactly got around to fishing Megumi out of all of the Reaper space dust Neku left in his wake after the last week), I doubt it can take another Emergency Call. We don't have the luxury of staying away from it for any kind of "long haul".

...
[An irritated sigh.]

You can do something, right? Even if it's getting in touch with one of my alternates?

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[The Fallen Angel smiles wryly, as if to give the boy hope.]

[He however turns his D-Terminal around, to show his Composer, the bars of his jail cell.]

There ain't anythin' I can do here, boss. Been stuck in this world for a month, and this cell for almost a week.

[He merely frowns at the smile. He's been around this person a little too long, half of his own lifetime in fact, to be able to fall for something like that. Since he's never been able to use his ESP on Hanekoma, he's had to read other things like body language. And that smile is bogus.

...though admittedly, the bars surprise him. The other's spent a month here... He checks the date on his D-unit. There's no way of telling if this is his Hanekoma or another one. The date here isn't 2007. There's no way of knowing, aside from the fallen angel thing.

Time to test the water. ]

I see you're taking the time to attune yourself to what angel jail must be like. How proactive of you.
...Tell me how much bail is. I'll come and get you. I owe you.

Anyway... There's things I need to speak to you about and I don't trust these things to not be bugged. Put it this way - You'll have to think harder. I'm not prepared for Shibuya's deciding game and the fun learning experience that was to be for nothing.

[Ah darn. He missed the days when he could pull fast ones over on Josh, easily.

C'est la vie. He shrugs at the boy, once he flips the camera around. His face is set in a bit of a frown. He really began to miss those days.]

2200 bits, boss. Though I wouldn't worry that much about bail. After everything that happened in that Game I think I ended up owing you.

[Despite everything that happened. Despite all the lies and plots and backstabbing Mr. H did, he was happy to see the young Composer after a month.

Trust your partner. He said those words to Neku many times, but for the first time in a while they came back to him. He had and still does trust Joshua to change. There was so much more that he could of done to utterly disrupt that Game between the Conductor and the Composer. But he did not. He held hope that Joshua would or could be made to change his mind.

Trust your partner....that is the key to surviving Shibuya and the Digital world it seems.

In the end Joshua was a friend, boss, and partner to him...and that made him a special existence. He was someone that the baristia could talk too on an equal level.]

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I know what ya mean. We'll talk in length later....about a few things.

[He pauses again, before smirking.]

Piece of advice though? Stay away from Neku, at least for a while.

[Oho.
Well... there's such a thing as choosing what information you want to disclose. Of course he's seen Neku already. Perhaps they're destined to be around each other for a little while yet, if the other being parked right outside the Terminal doing his very best Minamimoto impression indicated anything. ]

...Why would that be a good idea?
By the way, I'll want what Neku that is. Pre-game, Post? It's not as if I want to inadvertently change the outcome of the Game and risk Shibuya by letting him know things he really shouldn't when it's a good idea to speak to him.

Edited 2013-05-06 08:05 (UTC)

Because he's still unstable.

[He sighs. He knows that tone of voice Joshua, and he dislikes it.]

Personally, I think he's right before the end of the game between you two. Had to tell him the results of it nonetheless, though.

Please. I have no vibe here, it's not like I can cause any kind of destabilization in his Soul.

[...Unless you mean his personality? Have a small laugh and a very knowing look.

...But that turns to an exasperated sigh. Migraine? Migraine.]

I'm going to have to clean out his memories again, aren't I. Thanks for blabbing, by the way.

Edited 2013-05-06 08:20 (UTC)

Its not just his Soul I'm worried about. He was pretty close to having a breakdown because of you, ya know?

I'm kinda afraid that he might lash out at you, if he doesn't stabilize his Soul, thoughts, and feelings.

[And then it dawned on him. He remembered the scene at Hachiko. At how depressed J looked.]

You of all people should know how hard those three weeks were, on all five of you.

Who knows, maybe this place is drawing you and the others in, so you can finally meet at Hachiko.

...He can whine all he wants.
Mr. H... I've spoken to him already. It was unavoidable. But I'll keep my distance from now. It's hardly as if he's going to be useful here.

As for the other thing, You have it wrong.

I don't belong in the RG. I never have, and having "friends" all of a sudden (even though they're not my friends) won't make anything change with that. Besides. They're quite happy now, but they'll move on. You know as well as I that they're refined now. They'll all change the world in various ways, and lingering around Shibuya is hardly worthwhile to upstairs or the RG.

...I have no interest in making friendly with them here. This isn't a "what if" to me. I have things to do back in Shibuya, and I intend to get back as fast as I can. If anything, so whatever happens to you isn't meaningless.

Tch.

[He wasn't going to harp on him about this though. Small, baby-steps. And it was true, neither of them truly belonged in the RG (and in Mr. H's case, the UG,) as they were. But that didn't mean they didn't the right to exist as something there. Even if it was just to watch.

He tried to tell Joshua that before...but he just flew off in a huff.

He laid down on the bed of the cell, scratching Labramon's ears.]

So what mon did ya get, boss?

...Maybe the planes collapsing in on themselves got you a ticket out. It'd be ignorant to assume the Higher Plane don't have any way to stop this, but I'm sure they've got way more pressing things to deal with than you at the moment. So it's not like we have to worry about the cavalry arriving to take you back.

You know way more than me when it comes to alternates and parallels and all that. You're made for this stuff. Do you think the Taboo in our Shibuya were any indication the planes were unstable? ...I also noticed you taking quite an interest in the Noise when you visited Pork City in the Tin Pin parallel. I gave that world's Neku an unbranded starter set so he could get past Pork City's brand restrictions to see what you were doing.

...And I have a partner. Her name is Viximon. She's asleep right now. She's kind of nocturnal.

If this whole thing isn't just a "Fish people out from where-ever you can, tell them they're special and they can stop this, it's worth a shot" type deal, if we can do something to stop or even reverse the planes falling in on themselves here, the Higher Plane have to look at your case a little more favourably.

[It was a small comfort that Josh was worried about that. But this was a bullet he had to face at some point. He felt rather uncomfortable not facing it, truth be told. However...there were more pressing matters at hand.]

I doubt the Higher Plane is even aware of this, J. They would of taken action already, if they did. So even if we managed to do something, it's not like its gonna absolve me or anythin'. Nor should it.

[It was a somber thought, but it was the truth.]

Noise, huh. I honestly can't see it being the work of them, Taboo or not. We'd be seeing a lot more people being pessimistic and lethargic. While Taboo Noise are essentially like locus for Soul...it's not like they destabilize a world. Its just odd to see two world have a similar amount of Noise floatin' around, ya know?

Though, I gotta thank you for sending that Neku over to Pork City, it was fun.

Haven't been able to cut loose like that in a long time. [He chuckles.]

But back to business. We have very few leads to go here. Some anomaly popped up and a swarm of bee type Digimon attacked the city at the same time. Doubt they aren't related.

All I really know is that everyone has been essentially brought down to normal. Which leads me to think, that whatever brought us here is in a severe panic. You being in your RG form is more or less proof of that.

How could they be unaware of so many planes falling in? The amount of people here really is quite shocking.

[It's a small question, and for once his voice is showing quite a lot of doubt. Other than Hanekoma's stories, it's not like he knows anything about the Higher Plane and what they control and what they don't. He merely sighs, more than slightly unhappy at that continuation of the story.]

...I was thinking more how they got into that Plane. Noise by themselves are hardly anything special - I was speaking of them in regard to them indicating something else - there must have been cracks somewhere for them to spread. ...Unless I dragged a lot of them with me in my jump, but that's a little ridiculous. It's rather a lot to be carried with little old me. And~ it's not like there were that many on Pork City after Neku had finished doing his thing to even begin with.

Edited 2013-05-06 19:20 (UTC)

[There's a small laugh as Hanekoma thanks him about the Pork City thing, and he tilts his head. This is the only person he can be, god forbid, affectionate to, and on rare (private) occasions like this it shows.]

Mhm. All work and no play and all that. You looked distraught when I caught sight of you leaving Cat street. I thought you might need a little cheering up.

[But back to business! His smile soon turns a touch mischievous.]

If you're thinking of investigating, count me in. I'll probably die of boredom if I don't have some kind of outlet.

Well, I believe, when I told about the plane jumping, I used an analogy about a radio, right? Going off that analogy, this could easily be an FM station, where as the world we know is an AM one.

[After all just because you can do something, doesn't mean you know everything about it. They are still researching Soul and Life and Death, after all.]

Don't know what to tell ya about the Noise thing, tho'. Kinda a mystery best left alone, I think.

Edited 2013-05-06 19:32 (UTC)

Ha! Glad to have the company then, boss!

Or should I say Watson?

[For all their evolution, angels aren't exactly a far cry from human in some respects, and this is indeed one of them. He merely makes a thoughtful sound. It's not like he's going to voice it, but having Hanekoma around for a while might make this whole kidnapping thing sit a little better with him.

...Shibuya, though. That's a can of worms. He's not dense. Never has been, never would be. He understood well that if Shibuya's UG was erased as a result of that game, he'd have dissipated with it. He's as much Shibuya as the buildings. And if it goes on Emergency Call again and cannibalizes itself while he's here, when he's returned he should suitably go pop and vanish too.

But it doesn't need mentioning. Of course Hanekoma's aware. He merely allows himself a small smile.]

We'll have to get you out of there first~
I don't exactly care what you said before. I've got 1000bits, and they're yours. How much do you have?

Ahaha, subtracting food andpaint expenses....about 100 bits to my name. Don't worry to much about it though.

[Huff.]

... Fine.

[Mr. H laughs at his friend]

Seriously I'll be out soon enough....try not to get into too much trouble without me, boss.

...If I do, it's all your fault because you want alonetime. I'll avoid him. Don't concern yourself over that.

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