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Post by ollieandprocopius on May 29, 2023 16:43:30 GMT
Trying to get Ollie to let go of Procopius in that moment was like having to pry open a vice with her bare hands, the young man might be small but it seemed he was using every inch of his strength to remain attached to his partner. Scrambling and clawing out when Kai finally managed to part him from his partner.
"No, no! Let go of me, let go!" He kicked and thrashed, his face thickly coated with blotches of red and pink as tears rolled down over his face and he clawed at Kai's arm. "I don't, I can't be alone anymore. Not again, not again, not again..." Ollie dropped onto his rear end, totally shutting down from the world around him, his hands covering the back of his head, pulling his knees to his chest and rocking back and forth, whimpering and mumbling those words to himself. His entire body was shaking, his voice sounded weak and strained. It wasn't the monsters that scared him, it wasn't the danger to himself that made him lose a single step, it didn't seem to be the digital world at all that stabbed into the heart of this overwhelming fear. It was the idea of going back to the human world, to that orphanage, to that LIFE on his own. To long nights of staring up at the ceiling knowing no one would care if he vanished without a trace, that any mark he left behind in the world would fade in an instant.
"Mmmf, hmm? Hey what...where...god that hurts like a bitch, I feel like I feel hit by a..." Procopius groaned, shifting his weight back and forth as he felt the ache from his face radiating across his head. Then he heard the whimpering. In an instant it was like all the pain and weariness shot out of his body at once and he sat up stock straight. The physical stress and the quick change in temperature making him grunt and snarl as a hairline crack traced down from the bottom of his left eye across his cheek. "Ollie? Where is-!" His eyes locked onto his partner and he shoved the two digimon caring for him off, stumbling over to Ollie and hunching down in front of him. "Hey, hey. Listen to me." Procopius said, Ollie looking up at Procopius grabbed hold of his shoulders, pulling him in, rocking back and forth until Ollie's shaking and sobbing started to ebb. "It's ok. You're ok. I'm not going anywhere, ever. You are never going back to that place by yourself, not ever, ever again." He said, running his hands up and down Ollie's back and shoulders until the young man managed to steady himself.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 2, 2023 5:25:52 GMT
"I see, I misread the situation." Kai said as she assumed Ollie was just some kid who got overexcited about the fantastical elements of this other world, that the depths of the horrific weren't present. It hadn't occurred to Kai about the dangers of loneliness because she spent time adjusting to being without for so long. Her own family was quite distant and the relations broke down rather quickly in recent times. "Sorry about that Ollie, I guess I backed the wrong horse in my train of thought." She said with genuine remorse on the subject.
"Whatever, it ain't your fault, if Procopius backed off and joined you two on Mach things wouldn't have ended this way. Mailbirdramon and Yuki Machmon were more then enough." Solarmon said as he spoke his mind bluntly and without any reservation or empathy. He was the blunt one in the group who was rarely afraid to drop harshness on others, mostly because he expects the same to come for him tenfold. "Procopius clearly knows he's the only thing going on for the kid and entertained the search for knowledge instead of trying to build the kid a proper support network and basically nearly shattered it by nearly killing himself, who knows how long it'd take for him to come back. Like you burner brains, how long was it between your two dozen reincarnations?" He said looking at Tera who looked aside as she was clicking her tongue trying to think about it. "About a few days to a few months at times. Once nearly two years. Roughly guessing." She said honestly with her usually laid back attitude, which seemed to tick off the older Digimon.
"Before I move on to someone else, let me handle you Tera, you could've saved Procopius from all that suffering but you were the one who made the choice to prolong it when we could've stopped him from getting to nearly this point. You had the time, the shot, if you fired right we wouldn't have needed to make him bare so much." He said as he was laying into the primary partner who was not exactly taking the words kindly. The hovering jet like Digimon's claws tensed at that as she gritted her teeth. "It was not that simple and you knew it." She bitterly said before the three missile Digimon came to Tera's rescue with their normally high and cheery voices now squeakily angry. "If Big Sis Tera didn't do what she did and take proper care of the situation, the vial might've exploded and forced him to dose, if she did Procopius would've be toast!" They said one at a time with their identical sounding voice, even in tone.
"Alright, that's enough old chap. Please, let's be civil right now..." Snowball said trying to break up the argument as he was standing in front of Solarmon while Kai and the Missies were in front of Tera, each trying to stop the internal conflict.
"And you, coward, you do nothing for us in danger except cower until we can slap you into a Fusion. For an Agumon you're the most spineless in the room, and there's one without a literal spine." He said viciously to Snowball who was trying to muster up some courage but failing miserably and ran off, crying. "Alright, you had your moment, that's enough!" Kai said before pulling out her Fusion Loader and returning Solarmon inside. Kai took a deep breath before rubbing her temples, wanting to scream into her hands for once. The girl had a lot to deal with and tempers and emotions were definitely running high at the moment.
"I get he's about as social as anyone after being trapped in a dark room and tortured for years but he's not making this any easier for us. What am I going to do..." Kai thought as she did feel responsible for Solarmon in a way as he did choose to follow her, but his attitude was definitely a problem at times. She took a deep breath before lowering her hands.
" Missies, fetch Snowball before he gets kidnapped, again." She said as the small Digimon saluted her. "Roger! Right Away! Recover the Snowball!" They said before flying off.
Kai turned to Ollie and Procopius as she was barely able to find the energy or strength to go into spin control mode, however much to her chagrin her father taught her well. She was able to remain calm outwardly as she would try her best to avoid anything offensive. "I can't really apologize enough for him. He's... straightforward in a way that isn't always liked, and leads him to act like a bit of a jerk at times. He's been through something no sentient being should and that changed him for the worse, he does mean well in his own way." She said as she wasn't trying to sugar coat it but not deny the good inside the Digimon either.
"Honestly was curious what he was about to say about me." Mach said as he was nearby, the motorcycle Digimon cutting the tension. "Only damn moron who did his job right!" Solarmon called out from Kai's wrist until she flicked a mute option on her Digivice. "Can we replace him at some point? Maybe with a happier Solarmon?" Tera asked as Kai grabbed some acetaminophen pills from her purse and took some before sipping water. "Probably too late for it. Anyways, as I was saying before we nearly got roasted by ghost flames, I think I figured out the location of the first ingredient. Ollie, I know you're excited when it comes to discovering lost secrets of the Digital World, but this might be a situation where once the danger of Neo Dialus passes it's safer to visit. If Procopius can't go to Ultimate against another Ultimate..." She said as she would try to be honest and didn't want Ollie to suffer.
"Omegamon Zwart D will knock him beyond death without even trying. Definitely risky as long as the elemental component is there. Where are we going exactly?" Tera said before getting immediately less sure of herself as she was still in the dark.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 2, 2023 11:59:57 GMT
"Let's make one thing. PERFECTLY clear, you hopped up little bastard." Procopius spun the second he heard Solarmon begin talking that garbage. Stomping up to him without hesitation or care, getting as close to him as possible while looking straight up to stare him down. "I stepped in because that kid over there." He pointed to Ollie who was still sniffing slightly into a handkerchief and settling himself down a little bit at a time. "Is my ONLY priority in this life. I planted my feet, I held the line, the hell did YOU do exactly? Other than bounce out here when the hard part was over and start criticizing the people who actually got their hands dirty?" Procopius said, speaking with an old tone of voice that he was very certain he would never let fade. This was his "boss" tone, the one that let him look up at Digimon like Solarmon and tell them exactly what he thought of them without a moment's hesitation. "I will lay down my life for that kid. HAPPILY and without hesitation but no matter how quickly the bastard who wants to hurt him kills me, they will not get PAST me. I will die standing straight up and holding the space between them and him and I will do it while you're still floating there, running your yap." Procopius said, more hissing heat entering his voice as he spoke, his shoulders rising before he let them softly drop back down to a rest as the Solarmon move on to other easy targets.
"I...*sniff*...WE will not be scared off by bullies, especially when we know exactly why they should be scared of us now." Ollie said, his own shoulders rising as he spoke, looking up at Kai with a determination twinkling behind his gaze. "If the threat of violence kept me from seeking out knowledge I'd bury myself in bubble wrap and be done with it. Whatever these people are doing, they are BANKING on the fact that no one can see or will care to see their outline in the details. And they're hurting people." Ollie said, walking back to the table and collecting his things that had been tossed about by the struggle, including the miniature notebook he had put the chart into and the map that had outlined everything. He handed the mini notebook to Kai. "Here, take this, it has all the information we correlated today. I can make another copy from my notes at any time if you need to spread them around. I want these people to know that we're not just fighting them, we're dragging them into the light. Make this information public, obvious and free and they won't have anywhere left to hide. Knowledge is power, and that means it isn't just the best method to fight injustice, it is the ONLY method." He said. He wouldn't budge of this. He would not be cowed by bullies throwing their weight around, especially not when their reaction to him and his notes made it clear they were VERY afraid of him and what he held.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 4, 2023 7:31:32 GMT
"Ollie, the only way to finish what Transcendental Dial started and prevent anyone from ever getting the two natural sources ever again." She said honestly as she looked through the notes to refresh her memory. "Again, broken record, where in Yggdrasil's creation are we going?!" Tera commented as she would starting to get annoyed. Kai pointed at one story in particular before starting to read aloud. "There's a story Ollie and Procopius stumbled across a while back, one where the members left after the single dose wore off after allowing for a Digimon to protect their village, but a young one followed the group into the sky. They few towards the northwest and in the words of the story 'Aligned the floating archipelago of gems under the light of dawn, creating and passing the gates into the world of gods', followed by mentioning no attempts could ever reopen it."
She said as Tera seemed to ponder the story. "So this crystal archipelago... is what?" She said as appeared to start to wonder what it was at first, before dropping the ball. "Weston mentioned there are other Digital Worlds so my original theory was that this was a portal between them, however... I do have another theory, if there can be a human world, and a digital world, that does not proclude any other. Remember when we had the component's analyzed in Deeplane, the two ingredients were found to be extradimensional to both the human and the digital world, and they have to come from somewhere..." She said as Tera started to see where things were going before Mach interjected. "I see, so you think this archipelago is some sort of portal they figured out how to activate, leading to the world the ingredient comes from?" He said as Kai nodded.
"Potentially, or perhaps some middle ground. Odds are they researched the formula close to where the ingredients come from, and if there is a middle ground, the portal might lead there. It's all theoretical but this does answer a huge question about why the drug induces glitch like effects and if it comes from a third world type this would explain a lot.
She said as she would close the notebook for now. "How so?" Tera asked and Kai took a deep breath. "Okay, taking several facts into this analysis: The Digital World Operates under different laws of physics, all of which are similar to if not exactly like a computer program, Digital Worlddd Laws happen to function in the human world to a limited degree with exceptions including their immortality through reincarnation is nixed in our world, and it is conceivable for there to be more the two types of worlds. Imagine the human world and the Digital World as two games made by the same or similar developers that use the same engine, same format. Item A works in Word B since they are so similar. But let's say you wanted to port over a gun from a first person shooter into an 2-D RPG game without violence." She said as Tera looked at her blankly. "That's dumb, that wouldn't do anything except probably corrupt the game and maybe make the save files unretrievable- oh..." She said as she pondered the implications.
"It's very much possible that the mixture of the components for Beyond Eclipse are merely exploiting a glitch, and in this case it might very well be corrupting the cores of Digimon, in essence making them mortal even in this world if they take enough, even if they stop." Kai said grimly.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 4, 2023 13:27:07 GMT
"If that's what it takes then that's what it takes. I don't like people who feel the need to hide in the shadows, especially when the only thing they're hiding is the harm they do." Ollie said, standing up rather tall for a young man who was as short as he was. It was clear that whatever this organization had accomplished by attacking them it they hadn't even come close to scaring the young man off.
"You had best listen to him. I haven't found any combination of hell or high water that can dissuade him from going snooping, especially when he gets like this." Procopius said, still sitting down with his back leaning against a bookshelf, running his hand down along the scarring crack that had appeared under his left eye. "In trying to scare us off I think those enemies of yours just put themselves at the top of our list for dragging out into the light." Procopius said, showing no small amount of pride in his face at Ollie's courageous insistence even as it warred with the worry on his face.
"If one of the stories I gathered tracked them that far, then following that lead will either show us right to their doorstep or help us find someone who got a much closer look. No group, especially a group this active and creating results this violent can ever truly be hidden. The best they've been able to do is fragment accounts, obfuscate the details and hope that no one cared." Ollie said, throwing his backpack over his shoulders, the weight settling down on top of him not seeming to do anything to dampen the solidity of his stance facing Kai.
"They didn't count on the fact that there was someone out there who was, totally without realizing, piecing accounts together, clarifying those same details and who cared enough to take every single part of it down in writing. In short..." Procopius grunted as he pushed himself to his feet, walking over to Ollie and placing a hand on his back which seemed to make Ollie's beaming confidence even more powerful. "They didn't count on this kid's very singular nature. And now they've told him NOT to stick his nose in any deeper. If only I could have warned them that it would only make him follow them right to their front door." Procopius said, patting Ollie on the back who smiled at his partner and nodded.
"You tried to warn me, Kai, back when I first met Procopius. You underestimated me then. They're underestimating me now. So let's not make the same mistake a third time, shall we?" Ollie said, stepping closer into the circle of Kai and her digimon allies. They were a part of this now and no amount of threats, violence or mystery would scare them off. Kai was either going to let them into the investigation right here and now or they would keep tracking it by themselves. And Kai didn't actually get much choice in the matter.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 5, 2023 6:01:50 GMT
"I'm not convinced that's why Meramon attacked though. Zwart D seemed to have taken an interest in me, it's possible Ollie was meant to be a warning but Death Meramon didn't see he was more valuable..." She said as Mach was definitely following along. "Right. These Neo Dialus seem to be able to examine from their base, they probably followed you home to the human world and at school. As soon as they caught wind of your title as Princess, socking a nerd and making him charred ash seems definitely the way to make you, play their game. No offense Nerdy boy." Mach aid as he did see where this was going.
"Alright Princess, so you know where we're going, so why don't we juts shove off?" Tera said as she was greatly annoyed. "In hindsight we might very well need Procopius's help as we'll need all the flyers we can get. Maybe Ryuji and Yoshihiro if they're available." Kai said as she was thinking logically. "Screw them, we need Marigold. Someone that can deal out a massive load and fly about, and having a tamer who's less of a liability helps too." Tera said immediately as Mach glared at her for a second, there was almost a twinge of jealousy in his expression. "Wasted no time on that one, but we must be careful as well. While they have the advantages, best not to provoke unnecessarily. Zwart D found him as a rival, and he seems constrained aside from emergency situations." Kai said as she was trying her best to avoid danger unnecessarily.
"Besides, Ollie might actually be a good hostage in this situation. We can always threaten to scramble his brains and neither side has an advantage- wait, no, that doesn't work. Yeah, so why aren't we heading out right away?"
"That's the rub, the light needed comes only one every few days." Kai explained. "Best we make our moves concise."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 5, 2023 11:34:13 GMT
Procopius gave a slight smile and spoke to Mach without even turning to face him.
"Even joke about that and the only thing that's going to be scrambled is the arrangement of your limbs when I toss you in a ditch." Procopius said, without any seeming acknowledgement that he was outgunned, outmanned and surrounded in this situation. Even after just getting himself nearly killed in one fight over Ollie's safety he wouldn't hesitate to jump head first into another one.
"I don't care if they're after me specifically. I care that they're hurting people and trying to hide it. From everything you've said, from everything I've found these guys are everyone's problem and that means everyone has the right to step in and help take them down." Ollie said, still not backing down as if he hadn't even heard Mach making idle threats against his safety. With Procopius standing beside him he didn't feel afraid of much of anything.
"Unfortunately I can't actually fly. Or uh, Raptordramon can't at least. The wings are mostly for blocking movement and taking up space and they're not nearly big enough to get me off the ground. Trust me, we tried." Procopius said, turning to Ollie who had conducted multiple in depth experiments to see if it were possible for Raptordramon to hold his own weight in the air. All of which had ended with Procopius landing face first in the middle of a crater.
"Bottom line is you can either cut us in on your plans or we can do our own mudslinging but we're not just going to leave this alone." Ollie said, readjusting his hands on the straps of his bag. He met everyone's eyes eagerly and without hesitation which was very unlike the usually shy and non-combative young man. He wasn't attempting to argue with Kai, for him there was no argument, he was coming along one way or another and if he had to undercut Kai to do it, he was more than smart enough to find a way.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 6, 2023 0:46:47 GMT
"Then go do your own thing so the big kids can just ace through the next part-" Tera tried to say before Kai pulled a zip tie from her purse and actively tied Tera's mouth shut. Tera blinked twice before looking at Kai, Mach just chuckled at the thought as he looked at what happened. "Honestly this was well built up to, Tera does have a bit of a motor mouth. Though with Procopius wingless and I doubt Ollie carries a grappling gun in his purse, where does that leave your stance?" Mach commented as Kai nodded. Tera struggling to remove the binding was a comedic sight to behold.
"But Raptordramon not being a flyer does make things... difficult for this next leg of the trip if the other side of the gate doesn't have terrain. But for just getting there, Tera and Sarge can fuse into Blimpmon for transport. But if I am right there should be some ground or floor there if Transcendal Dial set up anything there. So in effect Procopius flying shouldn't be too big of an issue." Kai said as she did consider both sides to the equation and figured that there must've been non flying members of the ancient group.
"Besides, there are two options, we bring them along, or Ollie's going to insist on going into the Dark Area to figure out where the second point of interest is. I don't like their odds alone in the dark area as opposed to taking them along with us." Kai said as she was definitely the voice of reason of her army. "Kid needs an EV suit." Mach said putting a wheel down. "Not gonna have him freeze or suffocate from high altitude and have to fix either." He said reasonably as Kai looked over the rest of her army out at the moment. The Missies shrugged while Snowball was drinking from a two liter bottle of iced tea. Tera tried to say something through the muffle.
"I do agree with Mach though, Ollie if we're going to go high into the sky, having the EV suit will definitely help- Wait, how'd you go into the desert without one- " Kai said with a bit of disbelief.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 6, 2023 11:54:53 GMT
"...who on earth could possibly need an entire EV suit just to walk around in the desert? I bought an umbrella and a head scarf for like 800 yen. You don't have to default to super tech every time the weather gets nasty, our collective ancestors were more than capable of figuring out "low tech" solutions and the internet search is free." Ollie rummaged around in his bag and produced a simple, light colored umbrella and an equally light colored length of cloth at a few feet long that was just like those used by Bedouin nomads or other desert traveling civilizations. "These plus some baggy, light colored clothing, a cheap water bottle and good boots meant I was sitting pretty the whole way." He said, tucking them away. Procopius grinned slightly and nodded.
"He's fairly creative when it comes to overcoming challenges like that. Especially when it's solutions to problems other humans have already had to solve at one point or another. He identified the routes that traders were already using to cross the desert, made sure to map the whole way so we were never more than a couple hours walk from the oasis and loaded up on as much water as we could carry. Altogether it was one of our more painless excursions." Procopius said, giving Tera a quick sidelong glance. He was used to people underestimating Ollie. His own overprotective nature meant that he underestimated him plenty on his own but when it came to looking at a daunting problem and picking it apart like a jigsaw puzzle there was no one he'd rather trust.
"If I need one of these suits to accompany you, I will get one, though I suspect a puff jacket and an oxygen tank could fulfill the same role in a pinch. We would not be the first humans climbing higher than we were meant to, you know." Ollie said with a smile. While the Digital World's extranormal solutions were fascinating in their own way, he couldn't lie and say that overcoming them through his application of mundane knowledge and skills didn't seem more than a little satisfying, showing that he, and by extension humanity at large were much tougher than Digimon often gave them credit for.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 6, 2023 19:20:19 GMT
"Alright, if you're sure then that's your prerogative. I'm pretty sure the EV suit is cheaper then an oxygen tank. or at the very least more accessible for a human and digimon to acquire then a fourteen year old boy trying to get a 25,000 Yen Oxygen tank." Kai said after listening to the pair talk about Ollie's ingenuity. She wasn't genuinely trying to talk down to him but she did try to keep a pragmatic approach. While the solution proposed by Ollie of a jacket and oxygen tank would most likely work, the latter wasn't exactly cheap.
"How would the Teenage girl with billions of yen know about what others have-" Tera said after getting free of the zip ties, before the Missies would instinctively closed Tera's mouth shut again. EV suits protect the skin, Kai's beauty never blemishes from the sun or heat, also they are quite cheap!" They said a Mach stared at them. "Did... they really just speak in Haiku?" Mach asked confused and Kai shrugged. She had been around the Missies long enough tht things wouldn't bother her. "I gave up on ever trying to figure out what they do, they end up confusing people who ask before being adorable enough to make them not care."
"Besides, the issues of ground do bother us more then Procopius. Me and Sarge need solid ground for movement and not exactly easy to carry for other Digimon as we're more carriers then those meant to be carried." Mach explained. "Not to mention the lack of combinations we have that can fight effectively on Blimpmon." Snowball explained.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 7, 2023 11:23:54 GMT
"We'll pick up an EV suit, the last thing we need is for Ollie to end up with some kind of altitude sickness if it can be avoided. I think it would kind of put a halt to his heroic potential if he spent the entire fight throwing up." Procopius said and Ollie nodded to that at least.
"It would be slightly unfortunate to end up with a bad case of the bends from unpressurized air travel, especially if it were my first ever air travel at all." Ollie said. His poverty stricken background as a ward of the state meaning he had barely even seen an airplane up close, let alone ever been inside one in motion.
"Seems we have a shopping spree that we need to go on before we're ready, if you want to give us a time and a location to meet up with you to take the fight to these guys then we'll take it. So long as you promise it's not just a dumb ruse to try and get rid of us, because if that's the case we WILL find a way to chase you. Like I said, your options at this point are to cut us into the plan or let us bumble in without one because we're part of this now." Procopius said, a sentiment that Ollie echoed with a simple nod of his head, the partners presenting a united front of Kai and her team. Even if Ollie was already surfing the tamer-net looking for a good EV suit. Some of them were explicitly advertised as working for going into the sky high lands.
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Post by Kai Aizawa on Jun 8, 2023 20:38:04 GMT
"Alright, let's meet at Rustport town in about Thirty six hours Digital World time. It should be a two hour trip from there." Kai said as she checked her watch before adjusting her clock. She was careful to caculate her moves in advance as she knew there was going to be a bit of a time crunch given this was also a race.
"Gives us enough time to swing by Deeplane and toss what we just took off DeathMeramon into secured custody within the research and development department right?" Tera asked as she was trying to see what Kai was thinking. Kai nodded as she brought another sample before and Neo Dialus doesn't seem to want to risk invading the city, at the very least not with brute force. Kai assumed that for the moment it was safer there. "The vials of the synthetic elements react badly to portals so if we're going to one I'd rather it be in a safe place, and one that can't be interrogated out of any, weak links." She said as everyone in her army active was staring at Tera. "Oh you mean you don't want Ollie to squeal?" She said as she would start to notice the stares.
"Procopius?" She asked as even the Missies stared in disbelief. "She means you airhead. I probably can't get a lunch menu out of Procopius if I tried and Ollie might pass out at any aggressive interrogation methods ironically making him more secure. Anyone who captures him might have more trouble keeping him conscious let alone making him sing." Mach said as the rest of the army wasn't in total agreement but had similar feelings. "Probably not to that extreme but I do concur his anxiety would ironically shield him from giving knowledge." Snowball explained.
"Sometimes shyness has advantages. But you are the loose variable in this equation." Kai said as she wasn't trying to be rude but she was trying to see it from an objective perspective.
"However, we should probably be going." Kai said as she would raise her arm, and every member of her army except for Mach was loaded back into her Digivice before she would slowly climb onboard the saddle.
"Aight, guess we're off! See ya!" Mach said as Kai was opening a portal back to Deeplane. "Remember, Rustport, thirty six hours." Kai said before Mach drove off into the portal that closed behind her.
EXIT
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 9, 2023 11:38:20 GMT
Ollie brought out his digivice, literally synchronizing his watch with Kai so that their 36 hour timers would go off at the exact same moment once they hit the button at the exact same time.
"We'll have all the supplies we need and meet you there, more than ready to cause some havoc if need be. And you can be sure that even if my blood pressure were to allow me to remain conscious during an interrogation, I wouldn't say anything to anyone. Knowledge should be free but one can cross moral lines that mean certain knowledge must be withheld from them specifically." Ollie said, looking at Tera sidelong as well. Even only knowing her for a little while Ollie was getting just as tired of the blabbermouth's constant misdirection of things onto him. He got enough bullying and blame in the human world and he was not especially thrilled to be taking it from someone even if they WERE a pterodactyl he wanted to study for his tome. "You are right, though. The only thing they'd get out of Procopius is something they couldn't repeat on television." Ollie said, looking over to his partner. Procopius knew enough brand new curse words to Ollie's ears to require a table all their own just to keep track of them all.
"If they did kidnap you they wouldn't get the chance to interrogate you all that well after a ripped all their arms off and beat them to death with it." Procopius said with a tone that was half sarcastic but made the easy conclusion that he was dead serious. The casual ability to had to conjure violence whenever Ollie was threatened even theoretically made him a good guardian but often meant he was left standing in the middle of a momentary silence as every processed whether or not he meant the crazy thing he just said. He always did.
"A short spending spree is in our future. We best get to it." Ollie said, hefting his pack onto his shoulders and beginning to turn out of the room, waving slightly to Kai upon his exit.
"And food. And sleep. Don't think you're weaseling your way out of those if we're going to be going into something dangerous." Procopius said and Ollie almost seemed to pout at the reminder that he had to put some self care in there before he could go gallivanting off on an adventure.
[EXIT]
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