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Date 20

What a Doll

Out of all the people who could possibly show up here, it just had to be him. We couldn't have gotten Rei, Eri maybe? Heck, I would settle for Yuujin being here. Even if he is a boring piece of robot flesh.

Don't get me wrong, while I don't quite agree with my creator's opinion that this 'chosen' should have been thrown into a far-off corner never to be seen again, he really should've been a side character. Like seriously, how the fuck does one create a character whose entire arc consists of giving other characters that are not him an actual backstory and resolution. Outside of him being an agent of chaos in the face of Leviathan. That shouldn't be possible. I think.

"I can't hear you!" Astra announced as his partner, a giant golden storm cloud for some reason floated on down. "I didn't badmouth your place! At least give me some respect on that front."

Respect is something earned, not asked for. Are you sure that's what you want?

"Absolutely!"

After, his attention returned to his partner. As if there was somehow a camera none of our heroines could actually see and it's focus was just on these two.

"What now, Astra?" the cloud appmon remarked and got a thumbs-up from Astra.

"Just wait, Ouranosmon." the apptuber continued. "These idiots will make for a wonderful show."

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Ouranosmon

God; Arousal

Special Moves: Astral Eruption, Halo Halo

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Ouranosmon: No Oranosmon, no life!

Ryouma: Go away, you ball of puss!

Airu: Uh…

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"Okay then." Cho remarked and let her focus turn to her girlfriend. "What's the plan, Sugar?"

Airu took a deep breath.

"For the moment, we figure out why he's here then just work from there."" the trapper remarked and their gazes focused on that man. But that attention wasn't returned by the apptuber. His attention was on the bomber. Who wanted no part of this dude. And I can't blame him.

"Is there a Mr Ryouma nearby?" Astra announced and looked towards Ryouma. "You don't look like him."

His gaze shifted over to Ren. While I doubt he has any idea what an apptuber even is, he looked quite ready to be done with Astra. Actually, all of them looked like they had their fair share of him. Not that this has ever stopped the apptuber in the past.

"Not him at all." he continued and got quite close to the bomber, his hand moving towards a place it most definitely shouldn't be. "I wonder…"

But before he had a chance to wonder about this thought much further, he got a punch to the groin. Serves him right.

"You little…" Astra screamed and made a glance towards Ouranosmon. "I was hoping to do this the easy way. But you've pushed too far."

Ren shot the boy a glare and pushed him away. But then he follows it up by fishing out a grenade from inside his dress. Doing a really great job at freeing yourself from those sorts of remarks.

"No comment." Ren muttered and watched the explosive blow up. It did far too little damage to actually do anything. A good effort, but not enough. Sadly

But before Astra had a chance to go through with the supposed 'hard way', Ryouma grabbed hold of the boy's pants and climbed up. Once she had reached the head, she took a seat. Or would it be a laying on top of his head? Oh well.

"If you're looking for me, I'm on top of you."

Carefully, Astra picked the doll up and held

"Wait, I was told you were a boy." the apptuber remarked and got a shrug from his partner. "What?"

"Nothing." Ouranosmon remarked, letting out a snicker afterwards. Though, his attention then turned to Cho. "Hey, Astra!"

"Yeah, Ouranosmon? Astra answered and placed Ryouma down, getting a slap to the leg. This is just getting silly. "What is it?"

"Didn't we just review a doll that looked kind of like her?"

Both Airu and Cho's gaze shot over to this mysterious duo, unsure of what to really make of this.

"Yeah. Wasn't it that weird paid promotion with Eri?"

Astra gave a nod and placed a finger to his chin.

"That's the one." he remarked, only to stop. "It was Chloe from the relaunched Mage Girls line, I think."

Okay. That's a weird coincidence. Though, it's nice to see that Kaze's stuff is still getting attention. We should get our own set.

Offscreen, Chaos got a look from her wife. While a set of dolls would probably look nice, I doubt it would be as nice as that large teddy bear she was babbling on about the other day.

"Doll?" Cho whispered and turned her gaze to Airu. The trapper stared back, unsure as her girlfriend was. "Sugar, do you know anything about this?"

Airu shook her head, her attention turning to Astra. While the trapper was willing to play along, she had her limits. Limits that were being quickly approached at this rate.

"How can you be so certain?" the trapper added, carefully digging into her backpack. "I can assure you that Cho is not a doll."

Astra just rolled his eyes.

"Prove it then!" the apptuber announced. He then followed it up with a bit of chest pounding, then shoving the camera into Airu's face. "Or you'll be a liar all over the internet. Your reputation will crumble to nothingness. All that sort of wonderful stuff."

I feel like being on the internet is the least of her worries. Getting drugged filled candy when you didn't ask for it is a far greater concern. Especially if it's addressed directly from the internet to you. Then there's a problem.

"If Cho was a doll, she wouldn't need to eat. Or drink." she countered, handing Cho what looked to be a bottle of water. The baker took a quick sip and gave the bottle back.

"Does that settle this debacle?" Airu inquired, only for Astra to shake his head. If anything, I'm not entirely sure how proving Cho is a doll or not actually proves anything. She could be her own mother for all we know and even care. It still wouldn't change the fact that she's Airu partner. This idiot is just trying to push your buttons for the sake of pushing buttons.

"Now, have her eat something."

Cho muttered something under her breath, letting her gaze shift away from Astra and to the nearby area. Out in the distance, one could just make a weird little man with a tv for a head at the edge of a nearby roof.

While Astra continued to argue with her girlfriend, the baker let a small ball of fire form in her hands and flung the projectile towards her target. For as straight as her aim may have possibly been, the fireball didn't hit the target and instead hit just below the ledge. Freaked out, the tv man began to flail about as he lost his footing. A tumble through the air followed, with it landing right in front of Cho.

"Don't kill me…" the weird midget remarked, watching their attacker slowly approach. When Cho did get in front of them, the midget crumpled to the ground.

"I just want to talk to you." the baker answered and grabbed her rake, which she had left behind the day before. "Why are you watching us?"

The midget just stared at her. After, they did their best attempt at clearing their throat. It sounded more like one of those loud fans you put under a laptop to prevent it from overheating. A low hum of what we guess is that could still be heard.

"To keep an eye on you people, of course." the midget answered, getting a look in return. "While we could ignore you, our boss wants to know the full extent of your abilities."

Cho took a deep breath, only for her friends attention to focus on them. Though, Airu made her way over.

"He was spying on us, Sugar." the baker whispered and held the midget up. Astra ignored them, seeming more focused on the whole 'Cho-being-a-doll' or something like that. When you know, actually be helping investigate or something. Makes one wonder why the heck this person even a chosen? I get that he comes from a different place and all, but that doesn't excuse his assholery.

In response, Astra flipped it the bird. Which he probably taught millions of viewers on his apptube channel. Truly, this is a wonderful person that millions should give money too. No wonder he is seen as a wonderful source of good morals in the eyes of parents and authority.

"Just shut up." Astra mumbled and walked over to the midget, deciding that engaging in a fistfight a wonderful idea. Blow after blow he went, while his partner just watched on. The midget didn't answer this call, instead taking each blow without a word.

"Stop…" Airu mumbled and caught the attention of her partner. "It's not his fault."

They turned their attention to her.

"If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at me." she continued and watched Astra's attention shift to her. "Whatever I did, it can end right here."

The swish of what appeared to be a butterfly knife filled the air, with the weapon being pointed towards the trapper. For as threatening as it was, this feels… kind of melodramatic? Yeah, that. Like seriously Astra, this overkill.

But Astra doesn't listen.

"Fine the-"

But before Astra had a chance to go through with any of that, a piece of string had found a place on his neck and pulled back.

"Good riddance." Ouranosmon remarked and watched Ryouma climb back down, helping herself to whatever was in this idiot's pockets. Which in this case, was a tiny digivice and a spare minerva band. Which begs far more questions than we're willing to deal with in this moment. It'll probably sort itself out eventually.

"Okay…" Airu whispered and gave her girlfriend a slight tap. "Sorry about that, Cho."

Cho took a deep breath and let her arms wrap around the trapper, watching Airu's hand grab hold of her's.

"It's alright, Airu." she whispered and carefully shifted her gaze towards her girlfriend. "So what if there's some weird connection? Or even that your memories were altered and stuff."

Airu let out a chuckle. Though, I feel you should be far more worried about that than you are. Sure, it could just be that the extent is quite minor, there's still a chance that

"Thanks." the trapper remarked, letting out a deep breath. "I'll keep that in mind."

They made their way back towards their teammates, finding them dressing the still currently knocked-out Astra up in a dress. More specifically, the dress that Yasyamon got the other day. I would pay to have pictures done of that. Just saying.

"You going to be alright?" Ren asked and watched the trapper give a nod. "Good. Wouldn't be much of a fight if you were all down and stuff."

Cho shook her head, resisting the urge to let out a snicker. After, they let their attention return to Ryouma. At the moment, the doll was messing with the doll-size digivice. If I had to hazard a guess, it she was trying to figure out the mysterious activation sequence.

"If you don't mind me asking Ren, what did you have to do?" Airu inquired and got a groan from Ren.

"I don't want to talk about it." Ren whispered, letting his gaze fall to the ground. Of course, his partner was having none of that and pulled out his scrapbook. "Yasyamon…"

But the photographer was ignoring his partner for the moment and opened the book up. Inside, an entire page had devoted to what looked to be the bomber performing a magical girl transformation sequence. Except without the clothes changes and sparkles. Thankfully, the glitter was provided.

"You look really cute, Ren." Airu remarked and watched the bomber looked away.

"Thanks." he groaned, making an attempt to grab the scrapbook away from his partner. But try as he might, that book always moved right out of his grasp no matter what he did. Yasyamon then let out a laugh and slung his master on his back. "No, I do not want a piggyback ride!"

Airu and Cho watched on, occasionally let out a slight giggle and/or snicker. As tempting as it may be to join them in their fun, their focus was still fully on Ryouma and her digivice activation. By this point, it was just the doll spamming various phrases at the device in the hopes that something she said would do the job.

"Do you feel it? Don't I? I totally do!" Ryouma announced and watched the device's screen light up.

Thank you for activating this digivice. All future activations now require that you hold your finger down on the screen.

"Thank god for that." she thought and began jumping and down in excitement. "We can go now."

Both Ren and Airu gave a nod.

"Want a ride, Sugar?" Cho inquired and watched Airu perk up. "I'll take that as a yes."

Carefully, Airu got up in the bakers arms and grabbed hold. Once Cho was certain that her girlfriend was snug, they headed off at a brisk jog.

On our next date: What a lovely birthday party, I do hope no one comes and ruins it...