Floppy Eared Tales

Only due to Lopmon's persistence, they took a break. There were other digimon spawned a good distance away from them, but they didn't attack. In fact, he was sure that they didn't notice them, which was good because Lopmon was going to be annoyed that he didn't pull out some "hocus pocus" -- as the digimon liked to call it --- and make them go away. Unnecessarily hacking the game to his whim is not something he liked doing unless absolutely necessary. It was a rule among both staff and players (well, players weren't supposed to be able to hack in the first place, but that's beside the point).

"But ... we have to get to adult level, Lopmon."

His ear twitched slightly, and Kouichi knew he'd hit a soft spot. He knew that the bunny digimon really disliked his current form. The soft and -- ugh -- cute form that he was currently stuck with. Funny how things worked out. They already had another form in mind that they'd saw and if it wasn't for the digimon's pride, he would have pestered Kouichi to get it for him. "We will get to it. Later." He emphasized as he noticed a pair run up to them.

He chuckled at their interactions. They were warm and light hearted. It was hard to tell that it had only been recently since these two were brought together. "It's fine, we just finished talking." Kouichi said easily, offering a friendly smile. It was then that he took a note of the partner they had. It was true. Other than the difference in the number of horns, lopmon looked like a chocolate version of the other. He recognized it easily as Terriermon. He wasn't particularly Kouichi's design, but he did like it. He nodded in approval, glad to see that he managed to pair up with someone he got along with so well. "Oh." He held out a hand to the chocolate bunny, knowing that he'd like to introduce himself.

His partner was restrained in his action, a bewildered look crossed his features as the two before them fooled around. He didn't have that kind of closeness with his partner, so it was interesting to see how others were with their partners. "I'm Lopmon." The chocolate bunny nodded.

"I'm Jäger."

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kouichi smiled. "that's right." jen didn't at all look german, but to be able to pick up on it was amusing, to say the least. it did cause him to relax, even just a little bit. "it's a pleasure to meet you as well, jen."

feeling jen eyes linger on him made kouichi a bit self conscious of himself. he wasn't sure what to do ... well, other than stare back, but that didn't seem quite right, or polite really. so, he didn't. instead, he let terriermon and lopmon do whatever it is they were doing.

lopmon moved a little, not behind his partner, but enough to give the other space when he jumped off jan's head. easy landing, but that wasn't too surprising with their parachute ears to soften any fall. unlike his partner, terriermon was not at all subtle with his observations. the digimon was looking at him in such a funny way that lopmon was at a loss of what to do. he scratched his head, beside one of the horns on the side, wondering and staring at the other. lopmon nearly sighed visibly when terriermon looked away. if there was something that kouichi and lopmon agreed on it was that terriermon was a lively one.

kouichi had to cover his mouth with his right hand to muffle his laughter at jen's comment. he couldn't agree more with him more. they were cute and would probably "take down" plenty girls with their looks alone. add in terriermon's charming personality and lopmon's obliviousness and they'd probably collapse.

noticing his partner laughing caused the digimon's right eye to twitch slightly. oh, he'll be getting back at him later. in the office, when there's work to be done. terriermon, on the other hand, didn't seem as affected. sure, he did roll his eyes in annoyance, but he didn't seem too mad, going as far as showing off those odd moves of his. lopmon actually wondered if they were really useful in a battle situation. their arms and legs were far shorter than their legs, so it might actually be more beneficial for them to use them as weapons. that is, if they were doing "hand to hand" combat of some sort.

as for jen, he thought he was a nice guy as well. the boy certainly knew how to handle terriermon well. he nodded from jen's apology, he clearly understood his "twin." they were the underdogs. no one would think of them as threatening with their cutesy little forms. unfortunately, that was exactly what they didn't like. if they were to evolve into something more like what jen was suggesting. he mentally shivered at the thought.

kouichi looked at lopmon reassuringly. "they could, but somehow i doubt it." he commented, not intentionally trying to soothe terriermon's ego.

he looked to terriermon, seeing his ear floating before him. it took a second for it to click in. he grinned, matching terriermon's. "we might not tear down cities, but we'll be strong and cool." he said before giving the digimon a high five with his ear.

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kouichi was a bit surprised as to how much jen trusted their abilities, to be powerful enough to take an adult. he was flattered, even if one of those adult level digimon was something like weedmon (which even they could take out on their own with ease).

lopmon reacted similarly. not that he was against the idea. he would like to see just how he fought in battle, and, at the moment, terriermon was the closest thing to it. he hoped that they didn't look too cute ... he mentally grimaced at the thought. the idea of being cute at all was just terrifying really. not that they could help it, he had to keep reminding himself.

kouichi merely listened as jen and terriermon's interactions went further. he wasn't sure if he should interrupt. it felt invasive almost, like he was watching a scene from a television show. it was something he had always wanted to try. maybe, he could have had a younger sibling now if things had ... he frowned, remembering something that he didn't want to remember. the hate he had for his father for leaving them, for leaving him at such a young age and fend for themselves on the streets, if he hadn't ...

he snapped out of it when he heard terriermon's comments regarding the kunemon. it made him smile a little inside. kunemon were kind of boring. he knew that even lopmon was getting tired of those mindless little drones. they were so easy to eliminate and proved only to be a challenge when one didn't carry hp disks or headed to the inn every now and then.

he didn't even notice when terriermon held lopmon's hands in his. the excited cream colored bunny was practically ecstatic of the idea. and, while his emotions were far more contained and reserved than terriermon's, lopmon nodded as well, clearly agreeing with him.

"it's fine." kouichi said rather strongly. he didn't want to be a spoil sport. and, despite the fact that the two did have their moments, they were very easy to get along with. he wasn't at all bothered by the idea of having someone else join them in battling. in fact, it could be fun. still, he looked over to lopmon to make sure that he was alright with it. lopmon nodded in approval and kouichi smiled as he looked back to jen. "why not?"

"i think there might be some weedmon at the edges of this area, close to the next areas, that we can start off with." he didn't add that they were probably as easy to defeat as the kunemon, but it was only a suggestion. if they wanted something else, he wasn't going to protest. something easier though, for a start, might be a good idea. besides, those vines of theirs weren't exactly pleasant to deal with.

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kouichi honestly had a hard time feeling rather light hearted as he watched lopmon's interactions (abet forced) with terriermon. the brown bunny wasn't quite sure how to react. anger, though, appeared to be the last thing on his mind. he actually went along with it, even if his movements were somewhat stiff and awkward.

he did yelp at first, somewhat surprised. even kouichi stared at him for a second, but he quickly brushed it aside and went on with whatever terriermon was doing. he nodded at his words. "no more kunemon or bakumon!"

"la, la, la?" he tried to sing. as his odd movements from before, his voice was rather wobbly and unsure of himself. but ... at least his marching was right. he was right to the beat.

kouichi pressed his lips together at the digimon's efforts to match terriermon's vivaciousness. it was funny and strange to see him act in such away. hearing jen snickering beside him made him realize that he was not the only one. but it was nice. two funny (and cute) little digimon, mucking around and having fun. it was nice to see how the two sort of "clicked." lopmon really was one of those conservative, serious types (not that he wasn't) and getting him out of that shell was refreshing.

besides, he was beginning to follow terriermon's pace. the wobbly, clumsy actions from before were being replaced to closely match terriermon's, adding his own little flair to the entire thing.

his gaze snapped away from the two to jen's as hearing the player talk. he tried his best not to look too happy or interested in what he had to say, at least when referring to digimon online. he didn't quite want to ... ah, tip him off or something. "ah, you think so?" the words came a little hesitantly. and then he went on, going more into detail as to why he believed so. he couldn't help the warmth pride and confidence grow inside. jen would probably never know how much he wanted to hear words like that from players, nevertheless he was glad. "they really do. you can almost forget that this is a game."

kouichi shook his head. they weren't a bother in his mind. in fact, they were helping them. in mmorpgs, this would be considered a "party," right? to help each other to defeat a common enemy (or more) to grow stronger was something that came almost naturally. "it's alright. lopmon doesn't seem to dislike this." he said easily. "it's a nice change. i hope lopmon and i aren't boring to you two."

kouichi stared at jen for a second, confused. was he acting strange again? what would he have to do to fix that? " o - okay then. " he wasn't sure what else to say. he hoped that was a good enough answer.

" i think .... " he smiled. the world of his creation was amazing, despite having the efforts of others go into his creation. it wouldn't have been finished if he hadn't recieved the help. there were little edits to his design in almost everything, but he didn't hate it too much. jealous, perhaps, because he had not calculated it just right, but ... " i think the game is surreal. " he decided.

" lopmon can be a worry wart. he just doesn't act like that around others. " he found it strange that jen was easy to talk to. there was some sort of "feel" to him. charisma? that helped kouichi feel at ease. " even if terriermon tires you out, don't you feel kinda ... happy about it? " he looked down, a frown marring his features, and thought. " no, i meant, it's more exciting? "

" wait. i don't think we should -- " but his voice was cut as terriermon used his technique and spun forth to hit the caterpillar like digimon. it was too late. all he could do was watch what happened next.

and what he saw nearly caused him to face-palmed as the rest of the kunemon shown themselves to assist the one terriermon had harmed.

" ... do that. " he finished.

as the unhappy kunemon decided to reveal themselves, a light began to form before lopmon's mouth. a cool translucent blue flame shot forth at their enemy. " blazing ice! " he cried out. there wasn't going to be time. they'd have to attack. it flew forth hitting one of the

" are you alright? " he called out to the two rabbit like digimon. of course they were. they hadn't gotten seriously attacked, and it was terriermon who spurred their ire. " get ready! " he told his "sibling" and his partner. kouichi nodded as lopmon sent another shot. this time at the kunemon that terriermon had harmed earlier.

Kouichi nodded thoughtfully. He understood what Jen meant. Terriermon and Lopmon were amazing examples of how far artificial intelligence had come. When he had first heard of it, of course he was amazed. He thought it was even more amazing than his own invention. As a child, he would never had imagined that he would obtain a creature that was like lopmon. He seemed to evolve, not only with his form, but with his personality. The bunny like digimon was learning like a child ... which Kouichi found amusing. Lopmon acted far less like that now.

He opened his mouth to say something, but was promptly interrupted by the disaster that was happening with their digimon.

The dark haired teen would have run to them if they (Terriermon and Lopmon) weren’t suddenly surrounded by the Kunemon that were left. He looked over their situation quickly. They should have been able to take care of them, if they attacked right. Three. That meant they would only get attacked by one if they had shared a unison attack.

But, before he could do anything, Jen acted. Using an attack mod, Kouichi understood just what they were going to do. Lopmon nodded, feeling Terriermon’s ear around his and held on tightly. Even without the attack mod, he mimicked Terriermon’s action. ”Blazing ice!” He called out, sending his own blue ball of energy at the ground.

The blast didn’t only push them off the ground, but it had damaged the terrain. Bits of data in the shape of debris flew, many striking the Kunemon that had surrounded them. They fell back due to the strikes and fell “dead.” A second later, their data disappeared.

By now, the two would have already landed back on the ground. Their ears would have provided a very good parachute for the two of them. Wearily, Lopmon let go of Terriermon’s ear. “Let’s not do that again.” He said with a sigh, not disappointed, but relieved that neither of them really got hurt.

Placing a hand right at the center of Lopmon’s triple horns, Kouichi wouldn’t help the small smile growing. “Still think you’re up for an adult level digimon?” Yes, he was glad that the two were alright. He had seen what happened. Terriermon had gotten them both in trouble, but they were still child level digimon.

In response, Lopmon acted childishly for once. His cheeks puffed up and he looked away.

”I know, I know. They jumped you.”

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