Luck Runs Out
SeekerofDreams
Aspiring Farmer
- Location
- Selphia
There's a shovel in your hand. It's what you came here searching for, you're pretty sure, and turning it over in your hands, you have an idea. "Maybe we could dig out."
"We could-" Rikuto stops himself, for a moment, though it's too dark for you to see the look on his face. "...Right. That. Good idea." He sounds nervous, which is not a thing you expected from him at this point.
Really, if he was going to lose his nerve, he should have done it before you decided to risk picking a fight with Puppetmon and ended up setting his building on fire. Something tells you you're going to have to deal with the consequences of that at some point.
You've never claimed to be good at digging. And the walls aren't exactly made of the softest dirt around. Can you even break through it? Or is it too firm, while you're too weak?
But you're determined to get out, and so you take your shovel to the wet, salt-encrusted stone, before pausing. "...Do you want to be the one that digs?" You ask Rikuto. You'd extend a similar option to Biyomon, if she had a form with hands that wouldn't bring the long, dark tunnel down on top of you just from showing up.
For the longest time, he's completely silent. "...I think it's best that you dig," He finally says, and gives no explanation for why he thinks that.
That's fine. You don't need to know everything that he thinks. What's it even matter, anyway? The only thing he's got going for him is his own good fortune. Compared to most of your predecessors, he's basically a stick.
You press the shovel into the stone, thinking about how much you want to get out of here and go someplace safe, to get to Primary Village and provide food for the young Digimon, and part of the wall gives way, sending a shower of dirt and pebbles to the ground around you, and releasing a strong smell of dirt and salt into the air.
Your eyes sting a bit. Maybe you shouldn't have been doing this without goggles like Tai's or Daigo's. Maybe you shouldn't be doing this at all.
But it's the fastest way out, isn't it? So you screw your eyes shut, and take another swing at the ground you're trapped underneath.
And you dig, and you dig, moving upwards with your new tunnel, until the world starts shaking beneath you. "Wh-what's happening?" You call down. "An earthquake?"
"I hear water!" Biyomon reports to you. "I think the tunnel's flooding!"
"The tunnel-" Rikuto repeats, again stopping before he can finish his sentence. "...Sora, you need to dig faster."
"How?" There's enough ridges in the side of your tunnel to make good handholds, so your digging is more vertical than most people would expect. It's not easy. "I'm already going as fast as I can!" And the shaking earth doesn't exactly make your job easier. It just means that you're more likely to miss with your shovel.
(Ground stability: 23)
But you attack the world above you with all the vigor you can muster, and suddenly, a small crack of sunlight appears in your vision, prompting you to quickly look down as another shower of dirt and pebbles falls, getting into your hair and letting actual fresh air come flooding in, hearing splashes as what falls past all of you hits water that wasn't there just five minutes ago.
Even looking down, the sunlight is almost blinding.
But Biyomon flies out ahead of you into the sun. "We're free!" She cheers, despite how you still have some distance to climb to pull yourself out. Below you, Rikuto has squeezed himself into the tunnel you've created as best he can, probably to get away from the swirling movement you can sort of register below.
But you can hear the water, and smell the salt, and you don't really like the way it moves below you. It doesn't catch the light the way it should, as if it were liquid shadow rather than water.
Maybe it is. There's very little in this world that would surprise you.
And besides, you're pretty sure that MetalSeadramon's stolen all of the world's actual water, anyway.
...So why is so much of it gathering below?
(Sora's Climbing total: 52 vs. DC 77 (Unstable ground))
You reach to try and climb higher, but the dirt keeps giving way beneath your fingers, slipping through and showering more dirt. "I-I can't get up!" Every bit of progress you make, you just slide back down again.
You can't see Rikuto, so focused you are on getting out, but you can hear him. "Sora... You know how Kaz'd kill me if anything happened to you?"
"...Rikuto?" Why's he saying this now, of all times?
"...I promise. It's going to be all right."
(52 + 64 (Rikuto assist) = 116 vs. DC 77 (Unstable ground))
And then, without any kind of warning, you're shoved upwards, onto the steady ground that had previously been above you. Biyomon gasps. "Rikuto!" She calls out.
You hear a splash.
When you turn around, the ground behind you is unmarked, as if nothing of the past few minutes had even happened.
There's a message on your Digivice.
I'm sorry. -Riku
You're not really sure what to do, now. You think you'd had a goal in mind, at some point, but... You're not sure what it was, anymore. "Biyomon? Do you remember what we were supposed to be doing?" You ask, still staring at the spot where Rikuto disappeared.
"...We were helping Elecmon," She replies. "But..."
But Puppetmon's probably looking for you, since you set his house on fire. But you've been underground for so long, you don't even know where you are in relation to them anymore.
But that was before you lost Rikuto.
Your shovel is still in your hand. If possible, you think it's even heavier, now.
[ ] ...You should try and find your way back to Elecmon. Just to make what happened worth something.
[ ] ...You should try and figure out what happened at Puppetmon's place. It'd be dangerous, but... You don't think it can be much worse than what just happened.
[ ] ...You should try and find your way to the other DigiDestined. This wouldn't have happened if there had been more more you.
[ ] ...You don't know what you should do, anymore.
"We could-" Rikuto stops himself, for a moment, though it's too dark for you to see the look on his face. "...Right. That. Good idea." He sounds nervous, which is not a thing you expected from him at this point.
Really, if he was going to lose his nerve, he should have done it before you decided to risk picking a fight with Puppetmon and ended up setting his building on fire. Something tells you you're going to have to deal with the consequences of that at some point.
You've never claimed to be good at digging. And the walls aren't exactly made of the softest dirt around. Can you even break through it? Or is it too firm, while you're too weak?
But you're determined to get out, and so you take your shovel to the wet, salt-encrusted stone, before pausing. "...Do you want to be the one that digs?" You ask Rikuto. You'd extend a similar option to Biyomon, if she had a form with hands that wouldn't bring the long, dark tunnel down on top of you just from showing up.
For the longest time, he's completely silent. "...I think it's best that you dig," He finally says, and gives no explanation for why he thinks that.
That's fine. You don't need to know everything that he thinks. What's it even matter, anyway? The only thing he's got going for him is his own good fortune. Compared to most of your predecessors, he's basically a stick.
You press the shovel into the stone, thinking about how much you want to get out of here and go someplace safe, to get to Primary Village and provide food for the young Digimon, and part of the wall gives way, sending a shower of dirt and pebbles to the ground around you, and releasing a strong smell of dirt and salt into the air.
Your eyes sting a bit. Maybe you shouldn't have been doing this without goggles like Tai's or Daigo's. Maybe you shouldn't be doing this at all.
But it's the fastest way out, isn't it? So you screw your eyes shut, and take another swing at the ground you're trapped underneath.
And you dig, and you dig, moving upwards with your new tunnel, until the world starts shaking beneath you. "Wh-what's happening?" You call down. "An earthquake?"
"I hear water!" Biyomon reports to you. "I think the tunnel's flooding!"
"The tunnel-" Rikuto repeats, again stopping before he can finish his sentence. "...Sora, you need to dig faster."
"How?" There's enough ridges in the side of your tunnel to make good handholds, so your digging is more vertical than most people would expect. It's not easy. "I'm already going as fast as I can!" And the shaking earth doesn't exactly make your job easier. It just means that you're more likely to miss with your shovel.
(Ground stability: 23)
But you attack the world above you with all the vigor you can muster, and suddenly, a small crack of sunlight appears in your vision, prompting you to quickly look down as another shower of dirt and pebbles falls, getting into your hair and letting actual fresh air come flooding in, hearing splashes as what falls past all of you hits water that wasn't there just five minutes ago.
Even looking down, the sunlight is almost blinding.
But Biyomon flies out ahead of you into the sun. "We're free!" She cheers, despite how you still have some distance to climb to pull yourself out. Below you, Rikuto has squeezed himself into the tunnel you've created as best he can, probably to get away from the swirling movement you can sort of register below.
But you can hear the water, and smell the salt, and you don't really like the way it moves below you. It doesn't catch the light the way it should, as if it were liquid shadow rather than water.
Maybe it is. There's very little in this world that would surprise you.
And besides, you're pretty sure that MetalSeadramon's stolen all of the world's actual water, anyway.
...So why is so much of it gathering below?
(Sora's Climbing total: 52 vs. DC 77 (Unstable ground))
You reach to try and climb higher, but the dirt keeps giving way beneath your fingers, slipping through and showering more dirt. "I-I can't get up!" Every bit of progress you make, you just slide back down again.
You can't see Rikuto, so focused you are on getting out, but you can hear him. "Sora... You know how Kaz'd kill me if anything happened to you?"
"...Rikuto?" Why's he saying this now, of all times?
"...I promise. It's going to be all right."
(52 + 64 (Rikuto assist) = 116 vs. DC 77 (Unstable ground))
And then, without any kind of warning, you're shoved upwards, onto the steady ground that had previously been above you. Biyomon gasps. "Rikuto!" She calls out.
You hear a splash.
When you turn around, the ground behind you is unmarked, as if nothing of the past few minutes had even happened.
There's a message on your Digivice.
I'm sorry. -Riku
You're not really sure what to do, now. You think you'd had a goal in mind, at some point, but... You're not sure what it was, anymore. "Biyomon? Do you remember what we were supposed to be doing?" You ask, still staring at the spot where Rikuto disappeared.
"...We were helping Elecmon," She replies. "But..."
But Puppetmon's probably looking for you, since you set his house on fire. But you've been underground for so long, you don't even know where you are in relation to them anymore.
But that was before you lost Rikuto.
Your shovel is still in your hand. If possible, you think it's even heavier, now.
[ ] ...You should try and find your way back to Elecmon. Just to make what happened worth something.
[ ] ...You should try and figure out what happened at Puppetmon's place. It'd be dangerous, but... You don't think it can be much worse than what just happened.
[ ] ...You should try and find your way to the other DigiDestined. This wouldn't have happened if there had been more more you.
[ ] ...You don't know what you should do, anymore.
