The next morning, Imperius Angewomon calls your squad together in the courtyward to distribute the next set of deployment orders. They're... really not what you expected.
"Alright you freaky bastards listen up! We'll be parting ways for now!"
Parting ways... is the squad being split up?
"Hn?"
"Did something else happen ma'am? Did the accursed Gloaming Strike somewhere else!?"
"No. Well, yeah I fucking guess. Those shitheads are always attacking fricken Astamon. But no this is something different, so shut up and listen already. Mr stick up his butt-" Pit flinches at her disrespectful nickname for Cherub HolyAngemon and you have a hard time not following along. "-needs the help of me and Ironsides on a mission. Escorting some Travel bread Co blowhard for some stupid-ass *diplomatic talks*."
"I see."
Are... the mon running Travel Bread really that important? They make bread. Why would one of those mon need two Ultimate's to guard them?
"Good luck ma'am! May the Lord be with you!" Pit beams a little too happily. "Does that mean we're getting a new commander?"
"Oh fu-ergh. No. HolyAngemon has decided that it's time for you to *spread your wings* and take full command. Fucken'." She points accusingly at you for some reason, then sweeps her finger over the other squadmembers. "You bastards get to go off on a wild adventure with Bulkwark while I have to go on goddamn escort duty!" Beside you Sparks smothers a chuckle in the crook of his arm, taking great amusement in her *pain*.
"Bulwark?" Beat leans forward, finally interested in the discourse.
"Yeah. Since those dark zone be damned idiots couldn't protect the fields from Astamon, the Host is running on *a deficit*. So they need some extra cash for bounties and other important shit." She shrugs at that and pauses to take a long pull on her flask.
A deficit? A deficit is an amount by which a resource, especially money, falls short of what is required. Ah
"Heh, interesting." Sparks muses. "So yonder article wasn't misinformation."
"So yeah! You lucky fucking bastards are going to be heading all the way down to the Savage Wilds to meet up with a hunter from Bulwark and go hunt shit good luck pricks."
"Erm, ma'am?" Pit coughs. "Why are you so..."
"-frustrated? Lord Pit?"
"Yes comrade Sparks! Thanks!"
"Blegh. Fine, fighting aside and how I have no fricken' idea, but hunters from Bulwark have the best fucking food around. I'm going to be stuck with shitty old Travel Bread for like the next month."
Ah... that is... an odd thing to be upset over.
"When do we leave?"
"Today. Bastard didn't even give us proper warning. We're catching separate Locomon caravans. I'm taking the first and heading north. You jackasses will be taking a later one going south."
"To the savage wilds Ma'am?"
"Yeah. That big piece of Daemonshit. Has a fuckton of feral digimon, more than anywhere else except maybe the Hazard Coast... hehehe." The officer takes a second drink then smirks towards him. "And you're going to love this one *Mr Holy*."
"Huh?" The Pidmon blinks, his body tensing in sudden wariness. You can't blame him. Whatever she's about to say...
It cannot be good.
"There was a bunch of stuff in the mission notice. Yadda yadda, all the shit I said before. But here's the kicker. The Gloaming will be supplying squads to the hunts too. And so long as they're technically working under a Bulwark hunter we're all under truce!"
"What?!" Fire erupts from the Pidmon's wings, only bringing another chuckle from the officer.
A... a truce? With the Gloaming?! That's... madness!
"Tis... not a wise policy."
"Yeah, hehehe. I figure you'd be pissed about this shit. Word of advice, don't trust any of those shitheads. They won't hesitate to fuck you up so long as they can get away without the handler noticing. So have fun with that!" Her only answers are a grunt from Beat and Pit's furious scream.
===Voting:
This is going to be another Tier based vote. Ranked from most time spent to least time spent. Verge will be doing Kata Training (Endurance/Skill) and studying his remaining spell every day no matter what's picked. But certain characters may give bonuses to certain actions.
Like this:
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There are four options for the first half of the Locomon ride.
[] Personal Meditation
[] Sparks
[] Pit
[] Beat
Example:
[] Personal Meditation
-[] Sparks
--[] Pit
---[] Beat
===Authors Note: This vote won't make the last one obsolete. Any ideas for letter writing stuff in return are still appreciated. Just please keep it to Ardat and Warren.