Ignited Vxlor

An indie and Monster/Alien AU blog of Taichi from Digimon.

Semi-selective | OC, AU and Crossover friendly | Selective Multi-ship

May explore dark themes at times!

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Zack paused, lowering his ID just a bit to give the odd looking…panda and the way it seemed to be blocking his path ahead a suspicious glance of his own. He doubted he’d be going very far without something ‘weird’ happening, but Zack’s attention would still shift back to Tai with a raised eyebrow. 

“ I guess I can give it a shot, but you’re not even gonna try to come with me? I figured I could at least get you to translate something for me if I couldn’t understand it just from the pictures. ”

Because while Zack was able to communicate with Tai from the common language they both seemed to share, he couldn’t make heads nor tails of a lot of the written language this city seemed to use. He would’ve felt a lot better if he’d had his impromptu translator with him inside the station on his hunt for a map, but-

Was that holographic looking bear the reason Tai was hesitating on joining him? Zack shifted his weight on his feet at the thought. That panda was going to be a problem, wasn’t it?

Yes... he was absolutely terrified of that damn program, but for reasons that Zack had yet to understand. Zack could get away with a lot for being human, but Tai on the other hand? He didn’t want to take the chance of getting caught by the corporation that now took over most of Tokyo. Last thing he wanted to be was locked in a cell to be some scientists’ new plaything. However... Tai’s more human side was getting the better of him, thus he was at a crossroads, trying to decide what he wanted to do.

Dropping his head back a bit, his eye slipped shut as he sighed, then said while scratching his head, “The bear can translate. It has lots of language in it’s program. I’ll go in for you though...”

Afterward, he crossed his arms, bringing his head back as he opened his only eye to leer at the bear still eying him. It’s lifeless eyes staring into his soul while it grinned all ‘cutsie-like’ at him. A barely visible tremble ran throughout his body before he swiftly made his way to the doors. As they slid open with a ‘shhhh’, he walked in slowly while pulling his shades over his eyes. While doing so, he made sure to keep his distance from the bear, refusing to acknowledge it as it watched him eerily. Then, the floor lit up below the bear’s feet as the spectral hologram made it’s way toward Tai and created him in Japanese.

Tai halted, but refused to respond to it’s greeting as a moment of silence fell between them. Then, the bear switched to English upon default.

[𝙰𝚑, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚎. 𝙼𝚢 𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜. 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚛! 𝙸’𝚖 𝚔𝚞𝚖𝚊, 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗! 𝙸𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞?]

Again, no response. Then it gave a curt nod. [𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚎]

Afterward, it’s gaze fell upon Zack as it flashed him a smile that did not reach it’s eyes.

Zack would answer Tai’s apology with a small wave, even as the SOLDIER’s attention lingered on the small service robot and its job. Midgar was sophisticated, but even the overly famous and large scaled ‘city of mako’ that he was trying to get back to didn’t have robots waiting on its people like Tai’s city did here. It was actually kind of nice and Zack couldn’t help but wonder how long it’d be before Shinra caught up on the trend as he followed along.

“ ID? ” Zack would eventually echo. “ Wait, you mean you actually need ID’s just to get into the stations here? ” 

Weird, but Zack would take the question in stride; pausing to fish around in one of his pockets before pulling out a small, plastic card. The card in question was his Shinra issued SOLDIER ID, complete with his name, birthday, a picture of himself, Shinra employee ID number, division, rank, and security clearance level that Zack would hold up to show off to Tai.

“ Does it matter what kind? ‘Cause all I’ve got on me is this: my Shinra ID. I know they probably won’t recognize something like this here, but…at least it shows off my credentials back home. ” At least, he thought. As long as his ‘credentials’ here and the ones he’d earned back home were one and the same.

Taichi only nodded, then watched as Zack fished for is ID. As he showed him the item, Taichi’s eyes widened. He hadn’t quite seen anything like that; especially here in Japan. 

“Not sure. Never got an ID myself,” he answered, gaze still lingering on the ID. His eyes narrowed at the information that he was unable to read. It was in a language he was unfamiliar with....

“You could give it a shot though,” he finally added, gesturing his head in the direction of the building beside them. As he did, he briefly noticed the holographic panda staring right at them with an ominously inspecting gaze. Tai quickly averted his gaze, then lifted his shades to expose a tired look on his face.

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Here comes Tai, here to steal his headphones!

He plucks them off Lilacs head and puts them over his own.. which barely fit, but whatever. The music was what mattered, because he was here to remind him of what was supposed to be his.

Having the music playing part of the headphones still in his hand, he cranked up the volume to as loud it can go while the headset was still on Tai’s head.

“This isn’t the one I took from you, asshole. Not nice to invade a man’s space bubble. I was contemplating the meanin’ of life and now I lost it.” He’s lying. He wasn’t thinking about anything. Just void staring.

Though Rhyme always did their best to be as polite as possible, they couldn’t help the slightly nervous laugh that escaped them as the other sat next to them and explained how they usually handled tech issues. Rhyme shifted their laptop a bit further away from the stranger, just in case. This guy sounded a bit like their own brother, in that regard, so they probably didn’t mean anything bad by the comment. Still though. Beat giving their desktop at home a small smack or shake wasn’t going to harm it too much, but their laptop was a bit more fragile, especially outdoors. One wrong move and instead of dropping to the nice, carpeted floor of their bedroom, it’d likely shatter on the concrete below.

Rhyme’s excited energy was quick to return as they asked them what kind of app they were working on, though. They did their best to push their nerves aside for the time being as they shifted a bit to face the other a bit better.

“It’s a card simulator! They have a lot of games programmed in, but the saves keep messing up, so I’m seeing if I can help fix it. Most people don’t finish an entire game of solitaire in one sitting, and it’s sort of annoying to have to start over every time you re-open the app…”

Their eye widened beneath their shades. While Tai didn’t fully understand techy talk, he could admire those with brains to figure such out.

With a bright smile he face the kid and admitted excitedly, “I like games! I used to play this Pac-manish game at an arcade I used to visit.”

Their hands motioned about animatedly as the creature remembered his childhood days. If they could see their eye, the kid would’ve noticed a twinkle to them, however, an almost solemn look took over him suddenly, and he sighed, “Unfortunately, I can’t go back to that place anymore.”

Tai grew quiet then, thinking about their time with an ex-friend of their’s before clearing their throat, “Pretty cool that you’re trying to fix something that’s pretty annoying otherwise. I probably would’ve bust my own computer out of anger for losing so much progress...”

Don’t mind him, he’s just dissociating from not sleeping enough. There was soft music playing out of the headphones around his neck. He couldn’t even remember if he ate today. What a mess.

Here comes Tai, here to steal his headphones!

[[ I need to be on here more...

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Curious about what she was doing, the tall figure approached, eyeing her computer screen as he asked, “Watchya doin’ there kid?” He was wearing shades and smiled in a way that exposed the points of his fangs, but in a more cute sort of way than creepy. 

Though it wasn’t often that Rhyme found themselves out and about by themselves, it was a bit more common now than it had been in years prior. Beat was still incredibly overprotective, that much was likely never going to change, but he seemed to be slightly less intense about it now, so long as Rhyme reassured him that they would be fine, and not talk to strangers. Of course, that last promise was usually made with their fingers crossed behind their back. It was hard getting on with a day in Shibuya without encountering people you didn’t know, after all, and so long as people were nice, Rhyme liked to give them the benefit of the doubt!

The person that approached them as they coded on their laptop was likely someone Beat would shoo away if he were here with them. His appearance was one that would likely elicit a fair amount of suspicion from their brother, but he seemed nice enough to Rhyme, despite the awkward pointed smile. Besides, Rhyme sort of loved to talk about their newly discovered passions.

“Oh- I’m writing some code for an app one of my friends online made. He’s having a hard time getting files to save correctly, so I’m helping him out!”

With the faintest tilt of their head, Tai’s gaze would fall onto the human’s computer screen for a brief moment. A question formed in their head, but it was one they chose to ignore for the time being. Instead, they kept a smile on their face as they spoke.

“The techy type, huh? Cool!” Soft chuckling emitted from the taller being as they moved to take a seat next to this kid. Their small size reminding the creature of their sibling, which silently fueled their more protective instincts.

“I usually just give stuff a good ol’ whackin’ if it doesn’t work. Nice of you to help them though.” There was a pause as Tai turned their gaze away to breath in the fresh air. As they did, they caught the faint scent of something delicious, which made their nose twitch as they sniffed momentarily. However, the strange display was cut short when their attention fell back on the younger individual.

“Whatcha watchin’?” Suddenly a pink haired women popped up beside him. Where did she come from? Who knows.

“ …Guess that’s reason enough. ” Zack hadn’t meant for that question of his to be anything intrusive, so hopefully Tai’s trailing off hadn’t meant that he’d accidentally overstepped his bounds. In his opinion though, it’d been an innocent enough question – Tai had sounded indifferent about the city and Zack couldn’t help but ask. Obviously, he hadn’t been too far off with his assumption either, but-

Either way, Zack wouldn’t press his luck. He’d trail along behind the other in silence for a few steps, taking in the city and its scenery again before he’d dare speak up again. 

“ This place already seems pretty lively though. There’s probably only gonna be even more people standing around by the time we get to the station, huh? ”

From Zack’s own experience, the stations in Midgar were usually one of the more busier areas around the city, and with this town being so similar, he couldn’t imagine finding anything else different.

“Heh, yeah, it gets pretty busy around here,” he remarked with a small smile. He wasn’t offended by the question, it was just that it brought on a lot of memories; both good and bad, and reminded him of why he was there.There was a faint cry above, which prompted Tai to gaze upward to see a family of birds soaring the skies. It made him think about his younger sister for a moment, then his foster parents. He was diving deep into his thoughts until he walked into something solid. He gasped, stumbling back to see he had run into one of the station’s service bots. The little machine turned around on it’s stubby feet to face Tai. It was pretty humanoid in shape, white and black with sleek plate coverings and an oval head with an animated screen for a face. Two dots and a middle line that instantly turned into a cheery grin as it greeted Tai with a bow. It spoke to him in Japanese, while Tai responded back, albeit, nervously while patting out his jacket.

The two exchanged a few sentences before departing, with the machine going back to work, which was blowing away leaf particles from the station entrance.

Tai looked back at Zack and apologized before making his way to the entrance of the station.

“Here it is,” he said, allowing a group of teens to rush inside before he gestured toward the large building with his head. It was made of glass windows and doors which showcased a large holographic map on display in the center and a strange animated panda on the side, talking to a couple of foreigners, which was also a hologram.

“Japanese lessons from a cranky guy like you? No way. You’d probably stab me or somethin’ if I got the answer wrong. ‘Sides I’ve been pickin’ the language up pretty well travelin’. Could just steal food. Don’t need a tour been kickin’ around here for a while… Hm.”

He pondered a bit, taking a swing from the bottle once more, “I am looking for somethin’… Somethin’ real important… Humans stole it from my home-” He paused and waved his hand submissively, “Baahhh, who am I kiddin’ you wouldn’t know shit. Get more vodka and I’ll call it even and give you the album.”

As Lilac listed off his crap, Tai made a small ‘che’ sound as he pulled out a toothpick and placed it in his mouth. He rolled it around, until the other said something that intrigued him. He stopped, then blinked.

“Nah, Nah, go back, what’d they steal?” 

“Man… That explains why everyone is speakin’ Japanese. Wild.”

He genuinely sounded suprised by this fact. Like he’s just been wondering around not putting things together on his own. One would think he was being sarcastic but he really wasn’t…

“That’s called foreplay, my guy. An offer?” He rubbed his chin a moment, then grinned, “Naahhh, I like it here. ‘Sides I might die if I go back home. Trade me somethin’ else and I’ll give you the album.”

Oh man, the urge to slap his palm against his own forehead was so strong. 

What a damn fool.

Tai rolled his eyes at the foreplay joke and chose to ignore that for his other reply, “Die?”

Lilac just stared at him for a long moment.

“….I don’t actually. I fell asleep on a cargo ship and landed here. I have been reeaalllyyy out of it man. Pretty sure I’m not in the Nordic countries anymore.”

How could one be so casual about being lost like this? He swirled the liquid in the bottle before taking another drink. Again Tai was gifted the sounds of Lilac’s mocking laughter.

“Sorry, only chicks are allowed to punch me there. Please, you look like you crawled out of a dumpster and hasn’t touched a bar of soap since. Like you have a right to call me smelly.”

“. . . You’re in Japan . . .”

This guy... really got himself lost in an entirely different country. What human does that crap? He eyed the bottle momentarily, and then an idea struck.