Approximately a second passes before Gaia's dazed confusion changes into shock.
"What the hell'm I doing here?!" Her other hand reaches up and gropes at the ledge, her feet flailing to find footholds. "Don't just gawk, gimme a hand!"
Noir let out a noise like a yelp and scrambled for the edge shifting into shadow form in his excitement. Cold but solid fingers wrapped around Gaia's wrist...and then shadows began to pour out from the fingertips to wrap around her arms giving him a more solid grip. His shoes however didn't agree with this plan and began to slide on the unstable ground.
"Catchmecatchme!" He shouted at Pico who sunk her claws into his jacket again and flapped madly to give him some extra pull. Between the three of them they began to haul Gaia out of the pit that was rapidly getting wider with each moment of the shaking island.
With Noir's strength helping, her feet firmly sink into holes in the island-- and then Gaia's eyes flash brown, the earth shifting until it's under her.
But a moment later, it launches her up like a trampoline so she's flying at Noir and Pico.
Noir scrambled backwards craning his head back watching her take flight, arms spread wide.
"I've got ya! I've got ya!" He promised until she crashed into him knocking him clean off his feet to bounce off the pavement.
His scruffy face was still slapped with disbelief, after all these years in the superhero business and he could still be surprised. The world was falling apart but as far as he knew it was all quiet. There was nothing else in the world but that red haired girl in his arms.
Though naturally less than Noir, Gaia is winded, just a bit, letting out a breath and, for a second, relaxing in his arms. Everything has been still; she's figured out fast that she was data frozen, and for how long -- based on his growth, her growth -- she's unsure. But now, in contrast to the cold, statue state she'd be in, she is warm and safe.
And confused, come to think. With the world still shaking, she pushes herself to support, looking him in the face. "What's going on? Why's Tetha-- why's it cracking apart?"
Stumbling to his feet Noir almost fell over again as another tremor shook the island.
"Right well...all the tags were found while you were frozen. Jinx even almost had one. So they brought the tags together to...well see what it was gonna do. And I guess this is it!"
Pico peeled herself off the ground stretched out her wings. "The Inn is falling apart, the whole Island is breaking up!"
Leaning into Gaia for stability (And savoring just how good that felt) Noir counted off on his fingers in order, "Terra was frozen back at the Inn, Beastboy was evacuating the customers and staff and probably her. Jinx went for a picnic with Hana to the island where the tags were gathering...so god only knows what happened to her being right in the middle of it all." He winced realizing that came out wrong but plowed on. "Suzaku...yeah I dunno. But I figure Yu is probably heading for the Funbari Onsen! It's where Jinx's daughter would be."
His mind was running a million miles a minute. With Gaia back in his life he felt like he was flying...and had to check to make sure they weren't yet because cracks were forming in the street around them.
A flash of light from behind them and suddenly the ground began to crack faster under the weight of a new being.
A female Beelzebumon with a wicked leather jacket and heavy black boots. The only way you could tell it was a lady was her black lipstick, and breasts that could rival a lilithmon.
"Aw what the hell?" She moaned looking down at herself in confusion. "We're not even fighting anyone."
"Wha-- P-Pico? Did you just?" Taken completely out of the moment by the spontaneous evolution, Gaia's stunned; this isn't any form of Pico's she's seen before.
"Believe it or not, this is the second time." Noir grumbled and Pico looked pleased with herself drawing out a dangerous looking gun and gazing around. "I don't see any trouble coming IN our direction. Just trouble in the distance, more riots. People looting."
"So unless the power of love triggered this for some reason..." Noir trailed off realizing he had just uttered the L word.
Gaia waits all of a second before kissing Noir right on the mouth, almost forceful in her assault. Her arms slink up around his neck and one hand slips into his messy hair.
There was a rushing sound in Noir's ears, a sensation like falling as his gut flipped over and over again. But instinct and muscle memory kicked in and powerful arms linked around her. One hand on her upper back the other on her lower. Each one skilled at the delicate art of cooking, and the less then delicate art of destruction.
The taste of her lips brought on waves of memories, from the very first time they met in a cave just outside of Jump City to the first time in the digital world he had heard her voice.
His body hadn't changed much since she'd frozen even in the time that had passed. But he'd let his hair go. His scruffy face.
But it was all still there, the goofy, short fused passionate madman she had fallen for.
All signals say she's going to deepen the kiss -- her mouth opening just a bit, her tongue poking out, her fingers starting to curl into his collar -- and yet she pulls back, licking her lips and nearly purring into his mouth, hot breath rushing out, "Bit too much scruff, hotshot."
And had the world not given a mighty rumble, she probably would've launched at him again.
"I...scruff...huh?" The heat of the moment seemed to have stunned Noir into complete shutdown of his thoughts and it was having trouble doing a hard reset.
"I kept telling him that he needed to shave and get a haircut. No one wants to eat at a place where the cook has facial hair. It feels unsanitary." Pico chimed in shamelessly.
Approximately a second passes before Gaia's dazed confusion changes into shock.
"What the hell'm I doing here?!" Her other hand reaches up and gropes at the ledge, her feet flailing to find footholds. "Don't just gawk, gimme a hand!"
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"Catchmecatchme!" He shouted at Pico who sunk her claws into his jacket again and flapped madly to give him some extra pull. Between the three of them they began to haul Gaia out of the pit that was rapidly getting wider with each moment of the shaking island.
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With Noir's strength helping, her feet firmly sink into holes in the island-- and then Gaia's eyes flash brown, the earth shifting until it's under her.
But a moment later, it launches her up like a trampoline so she's flying at Noir and Pico.
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"I've got ya! I've got ya!" He promised until she crashed into him knocking him clean off his feet to bounce off the pavement.
His scruffy face was still slapped with disbelief, after all these years in the superhero business and he could still be surprised. The world was falling apart but as far as he knew it was all quiet. There was nothing else in the world but that red haired girl in his arms.
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Though naturally less than Noir, Gaia is winded, just a bit, letting out a breath and, for a second, relaxing in his arms. Everything has been still; she's figured out fast that she was data frozen, and for how long -- based on his growth, her growth -- she's unsure. But now, in contrast to the cold, statue state she'd be in, she is warm and safe.
And confused, come to think. With the world still shaking, she pushes herself to support, looking him in the face. "What's going on? Why's Tetha-- why's it cracking apart?"
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A whine came from underneath Noir making him shift and pull out Pico who had unfortunately gotten smashed beneath them in the process.
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"Those things everyone and their mom's after? Yeah, 'course. I've been frozen, not mind-zapped."
Gaia rolls off him, the sound of Pico's whine reminding her that they're slowly crushing the little devil Digimon.
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"Right well...all the tags were found while you were frozen. Jinx even almost had one. So they brought the tags together to...well see what it was gonna do. And I guess this is it!"
Pico peeled herself off the ground stretched out her wings. "The Inn is falling apart, the whole Island is breaking up!"
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Gaia's mouth drops open. "All of them? And they're causin' the freakin' Armageddon?!"
She's able to stand through the tremors, used to unstable ground, so she grabs Noir's arm to steady him.
"Where is everyone? Where's Terra? Jinx? Beast Boy? Suzaku--" Her eyes go wide. "Yu."
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His mind was running a million miles a minute. With Gaia back in his life he felt like he was flying...and had to check to make sure they weren't yet because cracks were forming in the street around them.
A flash of light from behind them and suddenly the ground began to crack faster under the weight of a new being.
A female Beelzebumon with a wicked leather jacket and heavy black boots. The only way you could tell it was a lady was her black lipstick, and breasts that could rival a lilithmon.
"Aw what the hell?" She moaned looking down at herself in confusion. "We're not even fighting anyone."
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"Wha-- P-Pico? Did you just?" Taken completely out of the moment by the spontaneous evolution, Gaia's stunned; this isn't any form of Pico's she's seen before.
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"So unless the power of love triggered this for some reason..." Noir trailed off realizing he had just uttered the L word.
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Gaia waits all of a second before kissing Noir right on the mouth, almost forceful in her assault. Her arms slink up around his neck and one hand slips into his messy hair.
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The taste of her lips brought on waves of memories, from the very first time they met in a cave just outside of Jump City to the first time in the digital world he had heard her voice.
His body hadn't changed much since she'd frozen even in the time that had passed. But he'd let his hair go. His scruffy face.
But it was all still there, the goofy, short fused passionate madman she had fallen for.
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All signals say she's going to deepen the kiss -- her mouth opening just a bit, her tongue poking out, her fingers starting to curl into his collar -- and yet she pulls back, licking her lips and nearly purring into his mouth, hot breath rushing out, "Bit too much scruff, hotshot."
And had the world not given a mighty rumble, she probably would've launched at him again.
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"I kept telling him that he needed to shave and get a haircut. No one wants to eat at a place where the cook has facial hair. It feels unsanitary." Pico chimed in shamelessly.
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