Quoted By:
>Write-in
You need to get them away from here as soon as you can, so you can fetch your partner. And you don't have much time before they get suspicious. You only have a few moments to talk. You've already acted suspiciously by emerging from a ticketing machine, and your nerves are fried from the adventure you've just been on. You start trying to boss them around.
"Hey, what're you two still doing here? There's an evacuation order, isn't there?"
The backwards cap guy blinks at you. He lowers his camera, and you thank your lucky stars you don't have to attack it with your image-wiping .app.
"Uh, yeah. In the district, right? We're outside of it. In fact, we're on the way home."
He motions to the ticketing machine for the train station. They're indeed in a public space and using a service that's still running. Damn. That's one thing wrong already.
"Well, uh... There are a whole bunch of big bugs and plants running around in there. So..."
Nemu inadvertently comes to your rescue with her own realization.
"Oh! So that was what Brigadramon was doing! I told you there were explosions!"
"Yeah, you did. Huh. Big operation going on? Involving Digimon? Oh, then we REALLY should call someone for this guy! He came from there!"
He motions to Phascomon, who has rolled over onto his back. A big snot bubble is forming on his nose. All of the most devastating injuries have been banished by his form change, but cuts and scrapes proportional to his current size are still covering him.
"And speaking of coming from the district, how were you inside the terminal in the first place?" She asks. You don't really have a direct explanation thought up for that, so you just keep talking and building up your narrative.
"I'm... an auditor!"
"An auditor? You? Little kid like you?" Cap guy asks, furrowing his brow. He's got a bit of a snaggletooth, which sticks out from his bottom jaw. He chews on his lip while staring you up and down, having trouble buying that.
You get behind him and start pushing him towards the platform. He obliges in confusion, and Nemu follows along.
"That's why I was going around this morning. You two passed, by the way. Quality of public services is good enough. But this is a serious situation, you know? Lots more Digimon are gonna be showing up soon. Tomorrow morning, there'll probably be a lot of repairs needed. Just get going! I'll call someone. Stay right there."
You look at his skeptical face, and feel your cover story rapidly unraveling. You're out of things to say. You don't have an excuse for what you were doing in the partition, and your auditor angle isn't strong enough. You're not establishing yourself well enough as some kind of special agent assigned by the City. These two are adults with their own jobs, surely they know how work is assigned, and are seeing holes in it. This is why you hate talking to career folk.
