Danger Room [Shino/Closed]

Nero Adesso

Shino sighed as she entered the doorway of the entrance to the base. She had finished school and decided it was time for her to visit the HQ of the Troopers again. She came there for her own research and hacking pratices. It was far safer for her to do it there than using her home computer or her laptop at the local coffee shop. Even with free wifi-- there were means she could be traced if she was ever caught. With the resources of the Web Troopers, she could polish her skills and access the network. Not to mention as a Digimon tamer, it was a relatively safe place for Commandramon to run around and not need to be in stealth mode.

Now if only he didn't go causing problems for the others...

"Hey! Drop those dounuts! Those are for everyone!" one of the Troopers shouted.

As Shino was focused on a data structure from the network, Commandramon ran with an armfull of doughnuts and one in his mouth as one of the troopers chased him. She tried her best to focus but it was growing more and more annoying. She really should of brought headphones to block out the noise or something. Still, it was clear Commandramon, AKA Vector, was causing trouble as he always did.

"Hey get out of there! That's not a toy!" the man shouted, "Chidori-kun!"

She sighed as she stopped typing and spun around slowly in her computer chair. "Yes?" she asked with a hand on her forehead.

"Will you do something about your partner?" he shouted, pointing to Commandramon. "I swear, I want to delete him!"

Shino stood up from her chair and marched over to Commandramon. The military-dressed dinosaur just blinked at them. "What? I'm a growing mon!" he said and shameishly swallowed the second dounut.

She looked to the other Web Trooper member and waved a hand at him, telling him she would handle it. "Fine, you can have your snacks-- but then we are going to train it all off, got it?" she said with a stern tone.

Hearing that, Commandramon paused as he was about to stuff a third one-- then soon waddled it over to a table where his rifle was leaning against. He put them down and took his gun back. "Point taken. Sorry, but lets go! I want to have some fun training for a change!"

Shino shook her head and withheld a laugh. "Fine, lets go. Maybe making you work for a change will give me a moment's peace later..." she said and waved him to follow her.

With her cards in her card holder pack behind her, Shino approached the simulation room the others had talked about-- but was met by the strange sliding door that was not really fitting with the cold stone atmosphere of the hall. "Huh?" Shino said, finding the decore different. With his rifle in hand, Commandramon too looked to the door, curious.

Slowly, she reached for the door and opened it-- revealing a bright light as if the sun had shown through. Stepping through, the two found themselves in an old Japanese castle landscape. It was realistically pristine-- a hologram created for training purposes, but it was surprisingly realistic. Even cherry blossom petals fluttered around the air as they walked in.

There, sitting in a japanese sand garden in the main square, Shino saw a strange man. He seemed significantly older than she was, but she had never seen him. For a moment, she thought he was part of the hologram but the fact he was there meditating seemed unlikely. Slowly she approached cautiously, Commandramon following behind her.

"Um, excuse me?" she asked, "Who are you? If your one of the Troopers, I don't know you. Are you a new recruit like me?" she asked in a calm tone.

Commandramon kept behind his partner, peeking from behind her, blinking at the cloaked stranger.

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Shino just looked up at him with a silent stare, waiting for him to speak. After a good period of time, he didn't say a word and just glared at her angrily. Maybe she was in the wrong to interrupt him, but how would she know the room was being used when he was just sitting there doing nothing. ANd him not saying anything was causing more questions. "Um... you heard me right?" she asked, unaware of him. Despite her knowledge of things, she honestly didn't know him.

Commandramon came out of hiding to stand up in front. The nervous tension caused his chameleon-like ability to have his pixilated skin change to that of the new terrain. "Maybe he is a mime." Commandramon suggested, breaking the silence with his lame jokes/opinions. "You know, one in training?"

Shino glared at Vector, not as funny as he thought he was. "Somehow I doubt that..." she said.

The quiet attitude however, like Vector worked to break, was returned as the man refused to speak. "Um... look I came here to train but if your busy..." she stopped, hoping he would answer.

Still, it seemed unlikely he was gonna talk at all. He just continued to glare like a death-stare.

"Maybe he's a mute..." Vector whispered to her-- and caused her to give him a somewhat gentle kick to his side. "Ow!"

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Shockingly, Vector/Commandramon was right on the money regarding his lack of sensitivity or tact to the situation. His hand gestures seemed to indicate he couldn't talk. Commandramon gave a happy jump. "Oh! Oh! I was right," he said and smirked at Shino.

Shino shook her head and sighed. "I guess so. I'm sorry," she said.

"Does that mean You will kiss my boo-boos you gave me?" he asked, wagging his tail.

Considering where she had kicked him... she cringed and shook her head again. "In your dreams, metal-head"

Commandramon gave an 'aww' of disappointment but continued to watch the man. They noticed his gestures but wasn't very clear. Shino didn't even know if he could communicate right-- but his eyes. There was intelligence in his eyes all the same. She doubted this guy was some nut, but still... it was hard to communicate with him.

"Can you... understand me at least? Nod if you do," she asked.

Looking at the sand, she wondered if there was a way to communicate. Could he write? "Hey, write your name for me? You can write, can't you?" she asked-- unaware he was Dyslexic.

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Once again, Shino was baffled-- till he soon gave a sharp whistle. At least his motor skills were sharp as a knife-- and with it, something popped out like a ninja-- an oddly dressed green Digimon with a monitor for a head. He was a strange one-- like a cross between a computer and a pig.

Commandramon suddenly let out a soft bit of drool from his lips. "Is it just me or does he look like bacon?" he asked. Shino growled at him and threatened to kick him again. He quickly reacted and flinched. "No more kicking! I'm joking! Sheesh..."

The Monitamon made a well written description on behalf of his master and soon things became clearer. Shino let out a breath as she realized she needed to call him something. "Well... if we don't know his name, might as well give him a code name." Shino suggested. " At least if we don't know his name. "

"Like me?" Vector asked, " You did name me Vector."

"Yeah, because of your skill with the gun." Shino said and looked over at the man in white. "Hmmm... how about Ghost? Or maybe with your italian garb... maybe Dante? " she suggested.

It was then he gave the OK for them to use the training grounds. This was a welcomed relief to Shino as she nodded at him. "Um... thanks, " she said and bowed to him in a traditional means. "Guess we are gonna train, though not sure what we are going to be shooting at."

Commandramon unstrapped his rifle and aimed via his sniper scope. "Show me the bad guys. I'll knock em flat on their butts before they see the bullet. Phew!" he boasted, showing off his modified rifle. Before he was reformatted by Shino's hack. Commandramon had a standard rifle-- but when he met Shino it became to double as a sniper rifle, reflected by Shino's preference in the program he tried to hack into.

Long story...

(OOC: My mistake got confused by your small text)

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They saw the name scribbled in the sand, and soon Shino corrected herself. "I'm sorry. Nero. Well, nice to meet you," she explained and gave a small polite bow of her head. She had not been noticing it since Monitormon was so quiet in his actions-- and Vector so distracting with his stupid antics.

With the start of their training however, the Monitomon got their attnetion once more. It was confusing for Shino but she looked at the little menu-- and Commandramon squeezed in to see as well. What ran was an odd prompt for a program. It seemed Monitomon could communicate in programing code as well-- something Shino was familiar with but not familiar with the context of 'shinto_panorama.asp'. Clearly it was a program command, but what it did or run--- she didn't know, as it was exclusive to the digimon's aptitude.

"Ooooh? I want to hit no just to see what happens..." Commandramon commented as if it was a video game option.

Shino elbowed him in the shoulder to move him away. "Knock it off, you dork. Its for the training exercise." she said, "We accept?" she asked, assuming it was Monatomon's way of asking them.

Though not waiting for a response, Commandramon raised a claw and pressed the "YES" option, as if it was a touch-screen option-- and probably not be welcomed by the digimon.

Now all that was left was to wait and see what happened.

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The sudden emoji face caused Commandramon to give a jolt back, realizing his error-- and a sigh from Shino. "Wha! Sorry-sorry... Jeez, everyone so touchy," he said and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Maybe because you do such stupid things," Shino growled at him, "For someone who 'wishes he had a heart' you could use more brains, to be honest..." she half joked-- using the Wizard of Oz reference. Ever since Vector had seen it as part of learning about human culture, he identified with the Tinman. Like him, he was technically a machine-- and yet, he longed to feel what it was like to 'have a heart'. Of course, digimon and machines acted differently. Still, it made no excuse for his nosey personality.

As Nero reined in his Monitomon, as suddenly coding filled his screen. Shino only could grasp a few of the codes-- moving relatively fast for her eyes. The hot springs looked like something Vector would enjoy... but moving on, the enviorment changed.

The sunlight suddenly turned to night-time and moonlight lit up the holographic arena. If the battle stage was set-- there was no enemy just yet. COmmandramon looked around but shrugged his shoulders as well-- while Shino was a bit more on point.

She took a deep breath. "Commandramon, go set up your position. You know what to do," she said as she calmly slipped her hands into her pockets.

"Yes, Ma'am!" he said in military lingo and quickly scurried towards one of the stairs that led to the upper tiers of the japanese mansion. The little dinosaur quickly found the stairs and climbed it with his stubby little legs. All the while Shino casually walked into the open. It was eerily quiet as she kept calm and still there. Even though it was a virtual test field... she could feel the cold air on her limbs. She would have to complement the engineer on the excellent coding work.

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Shino stood calmly in the midnight Japanese setting. It actually felt good to her, even if virtual as she heard Commandramon take point and get ready into position. At first, she thought the enemy target would go after her. It was natural to think so. Many enemies went after the weakest link... but in reality with the range, it gave COmmandramon time to take action too. However, what Shino didn't expect was the enemy to reveal itself and attack Nero of all people.

She turned and saw the Samurai Digimon-- Musyamon. From his perch, Commandramon saw it through the scope of his little rifle. From that view-- it relayed right back to Shino's digivice. She held the green device, and it lit up to reveal exactly what Commandramon saw through his scope. Not long did the radar appear-- revealing his data. "Champion Level. That's annoying..." she said, then reached into her pocket, to find her cards.

The sight of the giant, sword wielding digimon did concern her... but she knew Vector was working on it.

From up in his perch on the nearby awning, Commandramon looked through his scope, lining up the shot. Clearly, Nero was agile and moving to avoid the hit by the annoying enemy-- but he needed a perfect shot. With all his armor, Musyamon would be a tough foe to damage. So he had to wait ... wait for the appropriate moment.

"Cmere to little Commandramon..." he sang to himself, his tail twitching as he waited to shoot, like a child waiting for a pet to come to him. "Smile for the birdy... come on..."

(OOC: Charging shot for extra effect of Panthom)