Digimon: Tokyo Data Rumble

April 4, 2017

Kanbe leaned up against a wall as he checked the social network chatter about the Crews activities. It seemed like the Odaiba All-Stars had gotten into a full-on Digimon battle on the roof of the Midtown Tower in the Roppongi district with the Roppongi Raiders and got thrashed heavily. There were rumors that the Raiders were going to be headed to Ikebukuro.

Kanbe grunted in annoyance when he read that tidbit. The Raiders were all a bunch of spoiled rich brats who thought they were better than everyone just because they came from money.

He opened the email app on his D-Phone, putting the addresses of the other Ronin members into the address bar:

From: kanmatsu@biglobe.ne.jp To: All Ikebukuro Ronin

Heads up, there's rumors about the Roppongi Raiders coming down to Ikebukuro. They might be looking for a fight.

He hit send, adjusting his hat. "We're gonna beat these guys, right?" Bearmon asked from the D-Phone. "Probably. These guys are fresh from a fight, so they're probably hurting a bit." answered Kanbe.

Ash opened her email, with grin she get up."Reaper, are you ready of a fight?". The black ryudamon flash on to the screen. Reaper repyled, "Yes my lady. It been awhile since I got to taste battle".Ash slipped the d-phone into a belt holster, then she zip her hoodie. Once Ash hit the loddy of her apterment building, she replies to the email. It simple reads "on my way".

Michiru was reading a book when her D-Phone beeped. She marked the page and closed the book — History by Herodotus — and flipped the D-Phone open.
“Oh my,” she muttered — not too loudly, though, since she was in a library — “the Roppongi Raiders?”
Tapping quickly on the phone's screen, she sent a short affirmative to Kanbe, then opened the Digimon Storage app. Tap, tap, tap went her fingers.
“Worry not,” came the reply, “I will protect our friends, Matsudaria-san.”

Yuki and Demidevimon were sitting at the table, enjoying a nice meal of pepperoni pizza and Mountain Dew when Yuki got the email about the Raiders. Not willing to let a few spoiled rich kids whoop him, Yuki immediately responded to the email from his phone....

"Don't worry Kanbe, I'll be there. Time to get this show on the road and get ready to rumble!"

Yuki turned to Demidevimon and said "Hey kid, you ready for a fight? Time to kick the asses of some spoiled brats. Good thing we just ate!"

Demidevimon said "I'm ready as I'll ever be, Yuki." before taking off with the goggle-headed rocker.

Tatsuki groaned when he heard his D-Phone go off. "Why did you have to talk me into this, FanBeemon? I mean, why do I have to keep getting into these pointless Digimon battles?" he asked his partner Digimon. FanBeemon simply buzzed a bit, obviously excited to get his first true taste of a real Digimon battle.

"I wouldn't know for sure, Tatsuki," FanBeemon replied from inside the D-Phone. "But I'm ex-z-z-zited! Just think! There'll be so many skilled Tamers! And you and me, we'll rise right to the top!" Tatsuki checked the email.

"Already? Oh well..." He stood, straightening his outfit. FanBeemon took this opportunity to buzz even louder, which caught Tatsuki off guard. "And would you please stop doing that? It's bad enough buzzing like that when you're right next to my ear..."

"Sorry, Tatsuki. I'm just so pumped! Our firz-z-z-zt Tamer battle!" FanBeemon joyously replied. Tatsuki pocketed the D-Phone.

"Whatever.... let's just get this over with," he sighed. He then started for the door, exiting and hopping on his bicycle. Ikebukuro was relatively distant, but he could bike there. There wasn't many on the streets yet, which was good because he was hoping not to have a random Digimon materialize in and try and battle him again. He remembered his disastrous first encounter with an angry Gotsumon in Shinjuku.

Bzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzz.

"Hiroyuki! Hiroyuki, check the email!" Hagurumon said as he kept nudging.

"Can't you see I'm trying to work on homework?!" Hiroyuki snapped.

"But I might be able to do something fun instead of just watching you do boring stuff!" Hagurumon protested.

"Tch. Fine, I'll check the email." He read through the email. So we have to fight the Roppongi Raiders, huh? Well, those guys were abusing their Digimon to bully others. Might as well go.

"The others need us in Ikebukuro. Let's go."

"All right!"

Running through the streets, he sent a reply saying that he was coming.

Not much long after Kanbe's text went out, Yuki got an email from the email address 'Yo Shi@biglobe.ne.jp':

To the Ikebukuro Ronin leader:

I am Yosuke Shimakage. I challenge your Crew to a battle. We will be waiting for you on the roof of the Sunshine 60 building. You have 60 minutes to show up. Fail to show up, and your pathetic little Ronin will be forever known as cowards.

edited 23rd Nov '14 10:28:59 AM by fearjunkie

Masami was in her room, dressed in a dark blue kendo uniform. She was practicing some kendo techniques against the air as a way of warming up before going off to do some actual training. It didn't take too long for a voice to come out of her D-Phone that she had left on her computer table.

"Mistress, it seems a group of Ronin is coming to Ikebukuro. We may need to get ready for combat."

Masami sighed, before giving her wooden sword some swings "Got it, Kotemon. Let's just hope they have better timing, I don't want to miss my kendo class again. My sensei would never let me hear the end of it."

"I assumed you were already used to that, considering you have a tendency to oversleeping and getting late to your classes." Kotemon pointed out, calmly.

This was enough to throw Masami off, she came out of her combat stance and put a hand on her head before giving a disgruntled sigh "It's hard to balance a Tamer's life with a normal girl's you know? I have to train for a kendo tournament and I don't want to become the laughing stock because I couldn't get any real training done."

"I understand, mistress." Kotemon answered, he tried to hide his concern, but some of it still made it thought his voice, not that his tamer had noticed.

Masami then moved to pick up her D-Phone "Well, since I already got distracted, might as well reply to this." she said as she read the message she had gotten.

After being done with the message, Masami proceeded to change back to her usual attire, storing her kendo equipment in a large yellow bag.

"Here hoping things work out today." she said, taking a deep breath as she stored her D-Phone on a small pocket on the side of her bag that was very easy to reach and pick things from without having to take out the bag from her back.

"Here hoping." said Kotemon, his tone having a slight hint of concern, but for the most part he sounded optimistic even if it was still in his usual serious entonation.

They then proceed to move out, Masami picked up a black and red skateboard and skated her way out. Fortunately both of her destinations were fairly close to each other.

edited 23rd Nov '14 11:08:03 AM by FullMoon

At the moment, Megumi laid soundly asleep in a precarious position, head over her room's desk. She had spend most of the night and early morning tampering with her D-Phone in order to unlock more of its functions, or to try find anything else of interest about it, like the significance behind that mysterious interface port. Unfortunately, her efforts were in vain, as the little machine was far more complex than it appeared at first glance, so she couldn't find anything they didn't know already.

Still, the mental effort had left her exhausted, making her fall in a deep sleep that prevented her from hearing the alarm triggered by Kanbe's incoming message. However, someone else on her room was awake to read the message: A certain turtle-like Digimon with a serious attitude problem. Ready to attend the call of duty, the creature proceeded to awake his Tamer in a rather violent manner: By loudly banging a pot and a frying-pan against one another. The commotion startled the poor girl, knocking her along her chair and making her fall on her back.

As she laid on the ground, she saw the miniature tyrant staring back at her. Moments like these made her regret the decision of allowing him to wander around freely so regularly, but the little guy insisted on being on watch whenever she was asleep, so they were never caught off-guard by an enemy's surprise attack; something that had already happened before, (sorta...) so she had no choice but to concede him that indulgence. Then, the “sergeant” spoke with his dissonant raspy and strident voice:

-“Wake up, soldier! We've just received orders from the HQ! It seems a group of good-for-nothing posh kids are looking for trouble in the Ikebukuro sector! That kind of insubordination won't be tolerated! We have to go there and teach them a lesson they won't forget!”

Moving from the currently uncomfortable position, Megumi sat on the ground as she looked back to her Digimon partner, while she tried to negotiate with him.

-“...Do we really have to go? I mean, Watanabe-kun and the others are pretty strong, I'm sure they can handle this just fi-”

She couldn't even finish her sentence before being smacked in the head by a paper-fan that Kamemon seemed to materialize out of nowhere, before he started to scold her back:

-“What is your major malfunction, Private Noodles?! I won't tolerate this kind of pusillanimous attitude in my beloved Corps! Underestimating the enemy while overestimating our own force only leads to defeat and tragedy! We have to support our comrades no matter what! Now, digitize me! There's no time to lose!”

Looking slightly mortified, both for the smack to the head and the fact that the hard-shelled dictator spoke with truth, Megumi replied with resignation...

-“...Darn, you're actually right, we have to help our comrades as much as possible.”, she hastily stood up and reached for her D-Phone before pointing it towards Kamemon, “Stand still for a moment.”

She said before tapping the screen, triggering a beam of light that disassembled the Digimon's physical body before storing him inside the device. Then, she quickly changed her pajamas for her street clothes, before taking some of her personal items and leaving home. Fortunately for her, she was alone at the moment, so she didn't have to give anyone a contrived excuse... Though, she felt it might be necessary later that day. She was already half through the way to her personal vehicle, when she heard her partner's voice, coming from the D-Phone, making a quick remark.

-“Aren't you forgetting something, Cinderella?!”

Momentarily baffled after hearing Kamemon using what it seemed like a new nickname, Megumi soon understood what he was talking about when she looked down to the ground and noticed her bare feet.

-“...Right, right. Sorry, I'm still kinda drowsy.”

She said before tracing back her steps, as she reached for her home's threshold. She was so used to spending most of her time in-doors, that she rarely bothered putting on shoes. Even at school, her uwabaki were usually gathering dust at her locker 97% of the time, as she just felt more comfortable without them. That said, the “sergeant” didn't approve that kind of “hippie nonsense” on “the battlefield”, saying it was dangerous and (more importantly to him) against army's attire regulations. (despite the fact that the rest of her outfit wasn't up to army's regulations!) So, she had to wear a pair of sturdy boots, that Kamemon choose for her, whenever they were “on a mission” so the turtle wouldn't step on her toes... Literally, as he did that once to “demonstrate the importance of proper footwear in the battlefield”.

Having reached the doorway, she quickly put on and tied the only pair of boots that were on the entrance, before closing once again and hurrying up her pace to compensate for the delay. Then, she reached for the garage where her scooter was stored, and after putting on her helmet and making sure everything was in order, she was already on her way towards the Ronins' gathering point. However, Kamemon notified her about a piece of information that forced her to chance her route.

-“We have an update: Those decadent snobs will be waiting for us at the Sunshine 60 building! Tackling them on our own would be reckless, so we'll have to reunite with the others and analyze the situation before making a move.”

With a certain nervousness on her voice, Meg spoke back...

-“That goes without saying. Why would we even want to fight against them on our own?”

Before the turtle chastised her once again...

-“Don't sass me back, Private Noodles!! An underling should always listen to her superior officer, even if the information is otherwise 'evident' to her, because everything goes to hell if you start questioning the chain of command!”

Kinda disturbed by the idea of the creature being in charge instead of the other way around, like it seemed to be for the other Tamers and their Digimons, Megumi nonetheless resigned to the circumstances, as she just didn't feel she had what was necessary to be a leader.

-“...Sorry Sergeant... I was just thinking out loud.”

edited 23rd Nov '14 3:34:49 PM by VPhantom

Yuki, angered upon reading the text from the Roppongi Raiders, immediately fired back.

Angrily speaking out loud what he texted, Yuki wrote "You're on, you lame-ass spoiled brats! Nobody messes with the Ronin and gets away with it!"

Turning to Demidevimon, Yuki said "Alright, let's get a move on!" before rushing out to the location of the rumble. Running frantically with his Digimon partner in tow, Yuki thought to himself "There's no way a few spoiled rich kids can mess with a rocker like me! Especially not when I have Kanbe and the rest on my side!". Yuki was always confident, but at times, this confidence would be a weakness. He just hoped that this would not be one of those times.

Soon, the wild delinquent met the rest of his crew at the Sunshine 60 building, and greeted them warmly and loudly.

"Alright dudes, what's the situation? Those lame-ass Raiders show their ugly faces yet? 'Cause I'm ready to rumble!"

edited 23rd Nov '14 3:04:50 PM by PaulieRomanov

Ash stepped out of the shadows, Then Ash asked in her bored and emotionless voice "Do you allows have to be so loud?". Ash pulls up her hood as she walk toward her leader .

edited 23rd Nov '14 3:36:31 PM by thestonedog78

Kanbe's arms were crossed as he walked up to the building. "I didn't seen any of the Raiders on my way here," he announced. "Safe to say they're probably on the roof already." He looked up, squinting at the sun. "Why are almost all these Crew fights on rooftops? I get it's too keep the civilians out of the way, but it's a massive pain in the ass getting to these roofs..."

"Hey! Hey Kanbe! Can you let me out? I'm booooored." Bearmon pleaded from Kanbe's D-Phone. "Alright, alright..." sighed Kanbe, pulling his D=Phone from his jacket and tapping the touchscreen. There was a flash of light as Bearmon materialized beside him.

"Let's do this." Kanbe said calmly as he headed inside to the elevator, getting stares from people within as a delinquent and a bear in a backwards cap and leather belts walked through as if there was nothing weird about it.

Tatsuki reached the building, panting from his bicycling. "If you're getting so exhausted, why don't you take the maglev?" FanBeemon helpfully pointed out. Tatsuki shot the D-Phone a look.

"Please. We're already here. Let's just get up to the roof already," Tatsuki stated bluntly. FanBeemon simply buzzed in happiness, making Tatsuki wince. He parked the bike, then ran into the building, heading up to the elevator.

"You know, it'd be quicker to take the stairz-z-z-z-z...." FanBeemon pointed out.

"Whatever," Tatsuki sighed, as they started going up the floors in the elevator.

Masami reached the building in her skateboard and entered it with the thing being held horizontally by her hand, she recognized Yuki from among the people in the building and walked over to him.

"Hey, is the whole fight thing going to happen now? I have kendo practice right now and my sensei is going to bite my head off if I don't show up." said Masami, looking clearly uninterested in what was going on.

After a quick trip without any further complications, Megumi managed to reach the building where the Ronins were summoned to. Getting there as fast as she could, even with the help of a vehicle really put a dent on her stamina, as she was mostly out of breath after climbing the stairs. Nonetheless, she tried to regain her composure, as she walked towards Yuki in order to report herself, but her partner beat her to the punch, as it shouted from the D-Phone:

-“Sergeant Kamemon and Private Noodles reporting for duty, Sir! We await for instructions!”

Even though she could tolerate the turtle's insistence of using weird nicknames for her, she wasn't too comfortable with him using them in front of her teammates, out of fear they might start to catch on; not to mention that rude custom of giving nicknames to them, too. Still, she just gritted her teeth and rolled with it, because she knew they wouldn't go anywhere if they started discussing it right now.

-“...What he said, Watanabe-kun. We came here as fast as we could... I hope things don't turn too violent.”

However, in the heat of the moment, as she saw her leader clad in his anachronistic outfit, she couldn't help but to let out a less than subtle laugh as the absurdity of the situation dawned upon her. She hadn't noticed before, (mostly because in the previous fights she was too scared to even think about it) but they way the Crews fight against one another while exchanging taunts and trash talk was something that reminded her a lot of West Side Story and other similarly cheesy stories involving overly dramatic fights between rival gangs.

-“What's the matter Noodles?!”, the turtle Digimon asked in a clearly annoyed tone

-“No, it's nothing... I just thought it would be rather appropriate if a guy started to clink a bunch of bottles while chanting: ' Ronins, come out to play. Ronins, come out to play! '”, Megumi said while still laughing as she tried to imitate Luther's strange intonation in that famous scene from The Warriors.

-“This is not the time to reference cult movies from the 70's, soldier! We have to stay focused, or we might get ambushed because we were talking about inconsequential nonsense!”, Kamemon exclaimed, clearly angered at his Tamer joke.

-“Yeah, sorry, sorry... I'll calm down.”, she said as the laughter subsided a little bit, though she was still smiling because of the idea, “OK, let me get you out of there.”

She said as tapped the screen of the D-Phone, before tracing the special gesture she used to summon Kamemon into the material world. In the blink of an eye, the turtle Digimon was tangible, alert, and ready for battle.

edited 23rd Nov '14 9:21:02 PM by VPhantom

Yuki and Demidevimon both surveyed the Ronin and saw that the full roster was available. Yuki addressed the crowd and said "Alright, anyone who has prior obligations can opt to go home to their sensei, but I'd prefer it if we all pitched in and whooped the Raiders' candy asses. C'mon, let's head to the rooftops and rumble! Time to show these motherfuckers that the Ronin don't play!"

Ash replied with a simple "Aye.", as she reached for her D-phone. She flip the simple lock of the holder. Ash simple point the D-Phone at the ground so Reaper could safely appear. The small black dragon wore simple samurai head piece. The two made a odd pair, Reaper while restrained was clearly excited for the up coming fight. Ash on the hand seemed to not care, She had on her crimson fox face, Which meant nothing was going to get to her til after the battle was over.

"Let's go,"Hiroyuki said. He pressed a button and the gear Digimon came out.

"All right! Let's get this party started!" Hagurumon said. Blinking in confusion, "Huh? Where are the enemies?"

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:01:55 PM by Nouct

Upon entering the rooftops, Yuki noticed something was up. The Raiders were nowhere to be found.

Looking at Demidevimon, Yuki said "Hmm, guess the Raiders were too chickenshit to actually show up."

Having arrived early at the Sunshine 60 building, Michiru and Lunamon were already waiting for their crew on the roof. Michiru, of course, was reading a book, leaning on a wall. Lunamon was waiting, patiently, near her Tamer, arms crossed.

As the Ronin congregated on the rooftop, the Raiders filed out onto the roof- four boys, six girls, all in trendy, expensive-looking clothes. "How kind of you to show up early!" said Yosuke, a teen with dyed blonde hair and designer sunglasses. "It means we'll be done trashing you slackers sooner." Yosuke's Digimon Coronamonstood beside him, arms crossed and smiling smugly. Bearmon bristled, hopping up and down and flailing his arms. "Just you wait, we'll show you!" shouted Bearmon before Kanbe gestured for his partner to calm down.

A boy with messy brown hair and thick glasses laughed at Bearmon's antics- from what Kanbe knew, the boy's name was Kouji Nakamura, who was partenered up with Otamamon. "Look at that, your Digimon behaves like a child!" taunted Kouji. Kanbe rolled his eyes.

"We're doing this one-on-one or everyone at once?" Kanbe asked coldly. "I dunno, what's your leader want?" Yosuke asked smugly.

Upon seeing the Raiders, Yuki said "Alright, let's do this fair. One on one. Mano a mano. Any other way and I know you spoiled rich kids really are chickenshit wimps who can't hold their own in a fight."

"Alright, then. Me and you go first." Yosuke said to Yuki. Coronamon stepped out towards the space between the Raiders and the Ronin, arms up and fists clenched as it waited for Demi Devimon to make the first move.

Yuki turned to Demi Devimon and said "Alright kiddo, you know what to do! Wipe the floor with this motherfucker!"

Demi Devimon then readied himself and with a shout of "Demi Dart!", launched a poison syringe at Coronamon, hoping that it would hit.

Coronamon cringed, falling back on its back when the needle struck. It stood, flames glowing brighter and larger. Coronamon charged at DemiDevimon as its fists became wreathed in flame. "Corona-knuckle!" shouted Coronamon, swinging a rapid flurry of flaming punches.

Kanbe watched silently. Meanwhile, the Digimon not involved in the fight began feeling a sense of unease, a gut feeling that something bad was about to happen...