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[oni_on_my_back]

Who: Mion and Konata
What: Little kid's lost? Call Sailor Konata!! (OR, Ari procrastinates writing a log until it's time for her to leave and then can't post it until late because of a storm in the Midwest!! :D)
When: April 29th, 2010, after Mion's post
Where: The Royal Base, Honey Fields

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[konatamer]

One of Konata's best friends had been turned into a little defenseless girl who had promptly turned and fled from the one creature that actually would've been able to protect her from danger. Of course, this being the Digital World and Mion being from before she'd taken fifty levels a level of badassery, just about EVERYTHING was dangerous. No matter which way you cut it, this was serious enough to warrant Konata getting over there as fast as possible.

All that aside, Konata now had a reputation to maintain. And she'd always wanted to do something along the lines of, well...

"What is... a hero? A true hero- ... aah, sorry, give me a second."

The mysterious cloaked stranger took a moment to catch her breath. She HAD been running for a while, after all.

"... anyway!" She cleared her throat before clenching her fist dramatically.. "A true hero is one who beats the game using only three lives, no continues, and no resets! A true hero is one who believes in those who have no one else to believe in, and takes down those who would make the black wind howl! A true hero is one who leaves no background character behind! And finally, a true hero..."

The mysterious stranger cast aside her cape, revealing a grinning lunatic otaku. "... always enters the scene with an amazingly cool pose!" She thrust an arm up, pointing dramatically at the sky. "Konata Izumi... has arrived~!!"

Vi-Elecmon, trailing Konata by a few paces, was too busy trying to call up Mion's partner and fill him in on what was actually going on to snark at Konata being Konata.

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The response?

"...You're really short for a hero."

fffff those two lines out-epic'd that entire last post

[konatamer]

"Wh- a billion things to snark about in my dramatic entrance and THAT'S the first thing that came to mind!?" Konata yowled, tears streaming down her face. "A-As expected, I can't let my guard down, even in front of a kid like you..."

She cleared her throat. "Anyway! Ignoring my height for a moment..." Konata extended a hand out to the shorter girl, grinning widely. "I've come to take you to a safe place!" Or at least a place where Konata could keep an eye on mini-Mion.

LOL Noooooooo. XD

[oni_on_my_back]

Oh. So this was the superhero she was waiting for. No matter. Mion looked her up and down and then spied Vi-Elecmon.

"Wh-why's a giant rabbit-thing following you?" She asked, edging back.

Rabbit-thing. Okay, why not.

[konatamer]

"She's my cute fuzzy mascot," Konata replied instantly, having been completely prepared to answer this very question. "Ah, but you shouldn't call her a rabbit-thing. She's more of a rabbit-lizard."

Vi's friendly, specifically-non-intimidating smile twitched slightly. "That doesn't really HELP, Konata," she said in a pleasant singsong voice.

"... so don't worry, she's an ally of justice, too!"

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Mion seemed to accept this after a few moments and asked, "And you two go around killing demons?"

Because naturally, that's what the little kid believed.

[konatamer]

"... yes and no? I mean, it's not like we're making them FAINT, but there's the whole blasting-them-into-data thing, which is really kind of bloodthirsty for a world based on a kid's show, so-"

"We try not to kill if it's not necessary," Vi translated, interrupting Konata's monologue. "By the way, did the demon follow you out into the fields, or...?"

[oni_on_my_back]

"I didn't look back," Mion said proudly. "I hit it real real hard and it hit the wall and I ran out here, just like On-- Shion told me."

Oh, that would be difficult.

[konatamer]

As one, Konata and Vi looked toward the Royal Base.

"At the very least, Impmon died as he'd lived: tormented by girls who could beat the everliving crap out of him," was they didn't say.

Instead, Konata reached out to pat Mion on the head. "Good job. You sure showed him. And don't worry, we'll take it from here! ... Vi, go make sure he isn't dead won't be bothering Mion anymore," she added.

"Right, right... why did we ever worry that Mion couldn't take care of herself?"

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With a sudden burst of courage, Mion nodded. "Good, because all the oni demons come out when little kids get lost and take them to swamps and eat them, an' it sounds like there are a lot of lost kids, so it should be taken away very fast."

Was this the kind of story little kids in Hinamizawa were told to make sure they didn't wander off...?

(Impmon, of course, was inside the Royal Base, near Mion's room, groaning on the ground. Wimp.)

[konatamer]

Aah, Hinamizawa. Scenic, traumatizing, potentially-horror-filled Hinamizawa.

Konata's grin nearly cracked. "N-No one's going to get eaten if I have anything to say about it, okay? I'm going to make sure that... that..."

Honestly, Konata was still having trouble wrapping her mind around the current situation. How was she supposed to reconcile this tiny little go-getter with that busty tsundere mischievous-yet-dependable badass!?

(Vi could barely suppress a groan of her own. "Why am I not surprised by any of this?" she muttered, moving to help Impmon up. "Come on, every second I spend away from my partner is another opportunity for her to do something really, really dumb.")

Konata suddenly tried to wrap her arms around Mion, pick her up, and start twirling the little girl around. "How could they tell you a story like that!? You're so adorable!! As expected of my future wi- ally! There shouldn't have been any way for you to turn into a gunslinging old man!!" she gushed.

("... though I'm probably way too late to stop her already," Vi added.)

Oh my god konata. XD

[oni_on_my_back]

A yelp escaped Mion as she was lifted off the ground. She squirmed a little, her face flushing. Not once had she been spun around like that. She flailed her limbs futilely, not really understanding any of Konata's squeals.

How could a little girl turn into an old man? And guns? Her mother's friend Kasai had one of those, but she wasn't allowed to use them, because they could hurt someone. She would never go against her mother's -- or worse, Onibaba's -- wishes, not unless they were being unfair to her sister.

"K-Konata-oneechan!! I-I'm getting dizzy!!"

(Impmon roused, rubbing his nose. It was darker than usual -- a bruise. "She's a kid, right? Not just a really small adult? Jeez, how hard can a kid punch?"

Naturally, he wasn't listening to Vi.)

AFTER THIS IS ALL OVER, NEITHER OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE THIS DOWN

[konatamer]

"Ahaha, sorry, sorry! I just couldn't help myself." Konata stopped spinning... though she made absolutely no move to put down the little girl. Come on, how many OTHER chances would Konata have to carry MION around like this, of all people? Any attempt to do this with a NORMAL-sized Mion would be 1) awkward and/or 2) filled with pain, both Mion-inflicted and size-difference-inflicted.

"Anyway, Vi will catch up to us later. Big sis'll take you to a safe place up in the sky, okay?" Konata said, resting her chin on the top of Mion's head. (Only later will Konata realize just how much she's taken after her father's clingy ways.)

("Hard enough to almost break your nose, it looks like," Vi retorted, handing Imp an ice pack (which she's made a habit of bringing whenever they go to visit Mion and Impmon). "Now, exactly what happened?")

THAT MUCH IS INEVITABLE. IT WILL BE WONDERFULLY AWKWARD.

[oni_on_my_back]

Though Mion wanted to get down and walk herself -- because the big sister was supposed to be strong and fiery and do things on her own -- she was still a little dizzy from the sudden spinning. Thus she let herself be held, actually grabbing Konata's arms to make sure she didn't fall.

"Where're we going?" She was starting to get back into her mind that she was supposed to be acting like a big sister in case anyone from Hinamizawa found her.

(Impmon leaned against the wall, wincing at the ice pack but also letting out a sigh of relief. "Mion turned into a kid over night. I was trying to figure out just what to do with her, how to explain it and then...what kind of prank to pull," he said the last part very fast. "But then when I tried to move her she woke up and started screaming. She ran, I tried to catch her, she unleashed her Megaton Punch."

Both of them hung out around Konata too much.)

[konatamer]

"A safer place! This's a pretty strange world, so it'll be too dangerous for you to live alone." That much was true. The inns probably stood a better chance of avoiding, say, any villains who'd try to take advantage of this virus to mess with DATS... not to mention the fact that lil' Mion might try to punch out OTHER scary Digimon not that Konata wouldn't pay good money to see that.

"For now, you're gonna live with big sis until we can figure out how to get you back!" Back to being normal Mion, that is. Konata didn't have the heart to tell her that she wasn't technically going to be able to go back to Hinamizawa.

(That much went without saying.

"Figures." Vi decided to let the prank part slide. Impmon was just socked in the face, after all. "But it's not like you'd know that she'd come back without her memories. Anyway, your story basically matches up: Mion seems to think that you're some kind of nightmare plot monster come to life," she continued briskly. "She'll be staying with us for a while."

Vi paused. "... though I'd appreciate it if, um..." She trailed off, looking a little bluer than usual.)

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Instantly, Mion asked, "World?" She thought she'd somehow just been taken a little far from home, like between Hinamizawa and Okinomiya because naturally that was the farthest someone could go without falling off the edge of the world.

The fact that she wasn't on Earth or even in Japan anymore had not crossed her mind.

(Impmon was about to make some comment about how he couldn't even protect her when she was a kid, that she could protect herself better, that he couldn't do anything right it seemed--

But then Vi looked really weird. "What? Got something stuck in your throat?" Was she choking?