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[brthrs_watchdog]

Who: Machi, Tentomon (EMH Droid) [Open]
What: A log that has been procrastinated goes up when the mun should be sleeping Machi is haunted by her past.
When: November 20th, 2009, afternoon [backdate]
Where: Tetha, outside the Doc's old clinic

Another peaceful, silent day

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[likesitodd]

"Ooof!" A soft body collided with Machi and managed to stay on her feet looking confused and annoyed till she saw the look of terror on the young girls face.

"What's wrong?" Stormy asked the stranger scanning the crowd for an attacker or something that was obvious.

Patamon had been knocked from Stormy's shoulder upon impact and fluttered around in the air confused and nervous.

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Machi looked up at the woman's face but didn't really see anything in front of her. She only knew a person was there. And that she had to keep running, though it would do no good.

"It's here, it's here, don't you see it?!" She fought against Stormy, trying to keep running. "I have to get away... I have to get away!!"

[likesitodd]

"Hey easy EASY!" Stormy yelled trying to break the girls panic. There didn't seem to be anything coming...but Stormy was never one to leave someone in a panic.

Patamon was beginning to panic however "W-what's coming where? I can't see it!!!"

Stormy guessed roughly the direction Machi had been running from, unable to see anything coming she decided swiftly and took Machi's hand "This way!" She tried to tug Machi along through the crowd in the direction of a clothing shop.

[brthrs_watchdog]

Machi felt her arm pulled and gladly ran along with the woman. She kept looking over her shoulder - Zearth was still there, but not following of course, it couldn't without a pilot - and splitting her attention between running and watching-

-and her legs suddenly seemed to give out. A year and a half in a coma would do that. Even after months of recovery, it seemed she was still not up to full strength. She fell forward abruptly, still holding Stormy's hand.

And when she opened her eyes, she could almost hear Mr. Garaku's voice. "How would you kids like to play a game?"

She didn't know who he was talking to, but she screamed out, "No! Don't listen to him! Don't!!"

[likesitodd]

Stormy of coarse couldn't hear anyone but the girl screaming but that didn't stop her. Scooping down she picked up the girl who was surprisingly light and booked it down the street as fast as she could with Patamon behind her.

"Whatever we're running from I can't see it." She growled to which Patamon panting called back "Me neither!"

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Machi squirmed in Stormy's grasp. On the one hand, she wanted to get away from Zearth. On the other...

She reached her neck back and, horrified, saw not the streets of Tetha, but the cave where she and the other Zearth pilots had first met Mr. Garaku - Kokopelli, as he'd claimed - and signed away their lives to the giant robot.

And all of them were signing the contract...

"NO!" She screamed, struggling futilely and fighting back tears. She was useless, unable to stop it. And then...then the scene faded away and only Tetha was left. Not even Zearth stood on the sidewalk.

Machi still cried, her body shaking.

[likesitodd]

Stormy continued her brisk pace while the girl stopped struggling and didn't stop till she got back to the Cassiopia Grille. Hopefully business would have died down a little since she had her meal. Odd had wanted to close the shop for them to catch up but the customers kept coming so she'd gone for a walk with Patamon, promising him she'd be back.

Well she was back now with a crying traumatized girl.

She gently set the girl down on a cushioned bench in the waiting area just inside the doors. "It's gonna be OK, we're in a safe place now."

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Machi curled her knees into her chest and shook her head, still sobbing. "I-it's never gonna be okay! It's n-never gonna be safe! I-it'll find me again...!"

Her chest clenched as she remembered her friends, happily thinking they were going to be playing a game and instead-

"I-I killed them!" She blurted without thinking. "I k-killed...all of them..."

[likesitodd]

Stormy was a little surprised by the sudden confession of seemingly murder...but held her reservations. There was no obvious signs of a crime committed yet after all.

"Come on now, talk to me. My name's Stormy. Tell me what you saw."

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With her sudden confession, Machi was starting to regain her wits and shook her head again, shutting her eyes. "E-even if I t-told you...even if I told you, y-you wouldn't believe me. No one could e-ever believe me..."

Her hands still shook. It had been so long since she'd seen Zearth, yet it still terrified her. "I'm scared of dying..." It seemed a few years hadn't changed that.

[likesitodd]

Stormy's eyes held a sort of deepness to them like pools of liquid where just below the surface a powerful creature lurked.

"Try me, just ten hours ago I was a ghost haunting my old apartment to comfort my boyfriend, then I magically end up in this other world with talking monsters because a computer god decided that I was going to help save this world. After all that I'll believe anything."

[brthrs_watchdog]

Machi hadn't told anyone about Zearth and the inter-dimensional robot fighting. Not a single soul. That was because, she feared, the tournament would one day reach the Digital World as well. More than anything, she wanted to be free from it all.

But as long as there was life, there was the robot battles. At least, that's what she thought. Hadn't the worlds they faced been eerily similar to her own? Hadn't the world of the others' been eerily similar to her own? So then maybe...maybe this world...

No. No, she couldn't hope too much. Hope was all she had, but she couldn't allow herself to give in to it.

"...a giant robot." Her worlds tumbled out of her mouth, tripping over each other and getting caught on her tongue, but Stormy would most definitely be able to hear them.

[likesitodd]

Stormy smiled comfortingly, "See that wasn't so bad. If I saw a giant Robot chasing me I'd have run too. You can't expect to fight something like that bare handed." She was completely serious because in all honesty she'd had weirder conversations with Odd.

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Machi's mouth went dry and she mutely shook her head.

"No," she rasped. "It's the robot that my friends piloted. And the people from my world."

She realized she probably wasn't making any sense.

[likesitodd]

It seemed that Stormy could not be thrown however. Instead she stood "Wait just a moment." And slipped over to where a man behind the counter had been working so much he'd barely noticed them. After exchanging a few words with him and his Digimon Stormy returned with a pitcher of ice water and some glasses.

Filling one up for Machi she slid the glass to her, "Have some, and then start from the beginning. I get the feeling this is something you need to get off your chest."

[brthrs_watchdog]

An alarm ran through Machi's head and she looked straight at Stormy, her eyes still wide. She didn't touch the glass of water.

"People aren't supposed to get close to me. When they do, bad things happen to them."