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Afterschool "Meeting" (w/ Kaya)
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 12, 2022 14:32:12 GMT
He wasn't making any noise. He wasn't DOING anything about it at all. Ollie, as usual, was just curled up with his hands around his head as three boys from his grade took turns kicking him and raining him with insults. If he didn't fight back usually they left his rucksack alone and didn't try to take anything or ruin it. And right now he REALLY needed to keep them from looking inside his rucksack. He also just wanted it to be over, even as the stinging impact of shoes against his arms, thighs and back meant he would be nursing nasty bruises for a few days.
"Man this isn't even fun anymore." The lead bully said. They weren't getting the one thing that every bully wanted from their victims...a reaction. Ollie was just sitting there, silently gasping through his sobs as tears rolled down his face. If he ignored it, covered his ears and let the hate wash over him eventually they would get bored and leave him alone. It worked with the other kids at the orphanage, it worked with the bullies at school, it even worked with the staff at the orphanage and the school themselves. Everyone hated him for the same reasons: He was an orphan, the son of low class probably illegal immigrants, he was an unaccompanied foreigner in the overwhelmingly homogenous society of Japan, and he made himself an easy target with his emotional sensitivity, nerdy interests and lack of ability or will to fight back or stand up for himself.
"The little roach could at least like cry a little louder. No wonder if trash parents didn't even want him, what a bore, even for a nerd." One of the other bullies said, at least Ollie thought it was one of the other bullies. His head was throbbing from crying so much, every heartbeat made a hot sting run up and down through his skull and most of what he was hearing was his own haggard breathing and the rush of blood in his ears. He just clutched his head, planted his face in his knees and eventually it would be over. "Let's see if he's got anything interesting in here." The same bully said, reaching down and grabbing one of the straps of the old fashion, clasping rucksack that Ollie always had stuffed nearly to bursting.
"Hey wait! Don't! Let go of that!" Ollie shouted, his heart sinking as he realized he'd given the bullies exactly what they wanted. An in, a chink in his armor that they could exploit.
"Well let's just take a look inside and...huh?" The bully placed a hand on the body of the rucksack and felt something...moving inside? Something that was moving very fast actually, pumping and thumping against the inside of the sack. If he listened in close enough he could even hear something grumbling and snarling from inside of the bag, making the bully drop it and back up. Before he could even think about it too much they were interrupted by a newcomer...
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Apr 17, 2022 4:59:04 GMT
And that newcomer was none other than Kaya Matsui, Ollie's classmate. She had actually known the poor boy for a couple years, as they just met when she briefly glanced at him during their first ever homeroom together. What Kaya didn't expect out of that was for Ollie to cling to her like glue, and since then the two have been decent friends. Kaya always had to step up for Ollie when he was being bullied, and today was no different.
She had just finished up in the school and was leaving the building when she saw it happen. Poor Ollie was surrounded by three other boys from their grade, all taking turns kicking the crap out of him. Kaya's fists clenched; it always angered her when she saw this, no matter how many times it happened. She was used to scaring away the bullies by this point, but it still upset her that they kept trying and trying, despite how many times she told them off or told the teachers.
"HEY!" Kaya screamed at the bullies as they picked up Ollie's bag. "Are you seriously picking on Ollie again, you jerks?! You're just asking for another ass-kicking at this point!" Surely these bullies will remember the time that she fought all three of them one after the other and kicked all three of their asses... when it came to stopping bullies, this girl really did not mess around!
After the three of them would justifiably run away, Kaya huffed and kneeled down next to Ollie. "Hey, Ollie. Are you okay?" She offered a hand to the poor boy to help get him back on his feet. "You know why they pick on you, right? Because you have no backbone. You gotta stand up for yourself sometimes, and not just take the beatings like you always do." She then picked up Ollie's rucksack by the strap and handed it to him. "I'm not always going to be there to help you out, and I worry about you. A lot."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 17, 2022 13:31:23 GMT
Ollie took Kaya's hand like a puppet reaching out to grab it. His grip was loose and shivering and the look on his face said that he wasn't thinking about it as much as he was just acting on instinct, taking the hand and pushing himself to his feet because that's what he had done a thousand and one times before.
"Thanks Kaya." Ollie said, clutching his rucksack to his chest. That dusty, fraying old bookbag was the only thing that had been left with him at the orphanage. The golden plate with "Reynolds" written across the clasp is where Ollie took his surname from, even if everyone was unsure if that was a personalized monogram on the bag or just the brand that had made it. It was the only thing Ollie had ever had to hang onto. The shape of it was...odd today though. Kaya knew that bag by heart at this point, Ollie trundling along with the thing so overstuffed you could only see his feet from behind was the most common sight she could associate with Ollie in her mind and yet today he was holding it and the bag compressed slightly around his wrapping arms, something plush and soft seeming on the inside, not like the solid dusty tomes that Ollie always carried around. "They dump out my bag and rip up my notes if I try to fight back. And I couldn't let them se-...I'm carrying something important today." Ollie said, holding the bag closer to his chest and stomach although on closer inspection Kaya could swear...something inside the bag was moving, shifting under it's own power, the bulging and wrinkling of the faded leather not exactly matching with Ollie's clutching pressure. Had the young man gotten a hold of a pet he had decided to bring to school? Maybe a stuffed animal that made him feel better? Honestly anything at this point so Kaya didn't have to worry so much about the boy's total lack of emotional support the second she took her eyes off of him.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Apr 18, 2022 3:35:18 GMT
Kaya definitely felt like something was off with the rucksack as she handed it over to Ollie. She didn't think too much of it though, since she was more concerned with whether or not Ollie himself was okay. But the way Ollie was holding onto it today made Kaya question it even more... it was as if there was a plush thing inside instead of the usual books that Ollie was known to carry around.
Ollie told Kaya that the bullies would've just dumped out his bag and ripped up his notes if he tried to fight back. "Looks to me like they were going to do that anyways," Kaya said, putting her left hand on her hip, "so what do you really have to lose by fighting back?"
He had something special today? What was that supposed to mean? Kaya raised an eyebrow at that statement. Though now that she had a closer look, Kaya could swear that she could see something moving inside of Ollie's bag. "Please don't tell me you brought a pet to school today," Kaya said as she walked up to Ollie, opening up his rucksack. "You should know as well as anyone that animals aren't allowed in the-"
And that's when she saw it. A grey little Tsumemon with one eye looking right up at her. Kaya's eyes widened before her fight or flight instincts immediately kicked in. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" She let out a high-pitched scream as she stumbled backwards, dropping her own bag in the process. And of course, her own silver and orange Digivice slid right out of that bag, sliding to a stop right by Ollie's feet. Would he be able to recognize what it was?
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 18, 2022 19:16:15 GMT
Ollie took an instinctual step back when Kaya stepped closer to the bag tensing up and turning his shoulders slightly away from Kaya to try and dissuade her from reaching in and opening up the bag.
"Hey, wait don't-" Ollie said in that typical mousy tone of voice. There was nothing he could or would actually do to stop Kaya though. She was taller than him, stronger than him and much more driven than him in ninety-nine percent of scenarios, if she wanted to flick that rucksack open then there wasn't much he could do to stop her.
"Ollie what the he-AAAHHH!!!" Procopius said as the bag was flung open, originally assuming that it was Ollie flashing it open right into the daylight only to see the unfamiliar face of Kaya staring down at him, making him look straight up into the sunny blue sky, the pupil of his eye contracting sharply as the panic of the sudden shouting mixed with the stinging pain of the sudden change in light level made him howl to match Kaya, shoving his weight back hard right into Ollie's stomach and chest sending the short young man slamming onto his rear end with a grunt the same as Kaya.
"EVERYBODY STOP YELLING!" Ollie shouted, red in the face and clutching Procopius even tighter, looking like he was about to have an anxiety attack, something that Kaya could one hundred percent believe is something that could happen to the little man if she pushed him. "...*pant*...*pant*...Kaya. This is Procopius, he's my Digimon partner. Procopius, this is Kaya, she's my friend I told you about." He said, trying to get everyone's heads put back on in the right direction before somebody, namely him, blew a gasket from the sudden panicked rush.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Apr 23, 2022 3:59:00 GMT
Procopius was just as startled to see Kaya as she was to see him. Both their screams synchronized as Kaya backed away and dropped her bag in the process of falling over. Not only that, but Ollie was knocked over as well! "Ollie, why on Earth is there a-"
Kaya didn't get to finish her sentence as Ollie yelled at her and the Digimon in his bag to be quiet. Kaya could tell that Ollie was going to have an anxiety attack, as he was showing the signs she had seen before, so she kept quiet and let the little guy do his thing. She picked herself up as Ollie explained that the creature he had was named Procopius, and that he was his Digimon partner. "Ollie... you're a Digimon Tamer?"
That's when Kaya decided she wouldn't make the same mistake that Luneth did with her. She looked back and forth, seeing that there was no one in the immediate vicinity, before she walked up to the strange device that fell from her bag and picked it up. She extended it out towards the closest open space. "Hawkeye, Realize!"
A bright yellow glowing energy shot from the device and formed itself into a three-foot bird-like creature next to Kaya. He had red and white feathers with a yellow beak, blue eyes, and a headband that housed its own colorful feather. He couldn't quite see Procopius yet, so naturally he was very confused. "Kaya?"
"Ollie, this is Hawkeye... my own Digimon partner," Kaya explained. "One that I've had for almost three years now."
"So, this is this Ollie you've explained to me about," Hawkeye said as he calmly approached the boy. "He's exactly as you've described him to me. It is a pleasure to meet you, Ollie."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 23, 2022 12:39:45 GMT
Ollie took a moment to center himself. He hadn't even been the one screaming and yet he seemed the most out of breath of anyone present, the heart thumping inside of his chest at a mile a minute was almost visible against his scrawny chest as he picked up Procopius in his arms and lifted him up as he stood, leaving his bag, uncharacteristically, unattended for the moment.
"It's nice to meet you Hawkeye. I apologize that we've never had a chance to meet before now." Ollie said, bowing slightly at the waist as he turned to the avian digimon. He tried to contain his shock for the sake of being polite to the little bird before he turned to Kaya. "Three years?...three years." Ollie said, rolling the idea around in his head, all of the things he and Kaya had done together while she had been keeping this secret. Though it wasn't as hurtful as it could have been when he considered what Procopius had told him about the fact that Digimon had to keep themselves secrets. There were laws about it and everything. Something called AEGIS. "I was going to tell you this afternoon on the way home. Procopius has given me some real inspiration. He's going to take me to the Digital World and I'm going to write down everything I can find. Make the Digital World's first, most up to date encyclopedia." he said and Kaya could have predicted the way his eyes would light up saying it ahead of time. She knew the boy too well to think he'd have any other reaction to a whole undiscovered land full of undocumented tales and unrecorded secrets. It was like the actual calling he had always been missing, especially because she knew full well how rough his "home" life was.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Apr 30, 2022 3:39:11 GMT
"Yeah, three years," Kaya confirmed after Ollie seemed to be repeating it to himself. "Before middle school started, a jerkwad on a bike pushed me into the Shibuya River. Turns out that that's a huge Digital portal, and I ended up in Hawkeye's village in the Digital World. He helped bring me home, and we've been partners ever since. I'm sorry I hid it from you, Ollie... but I never expected you to have your own Digimon partner!"
"Surely, you know how important it is that we remain hidden from the public eye," Hawkeye said, putting his wings on his hips. "The humans of this world aren't ready for us yet. You saw what happened when Kaya saw Porcupine here."
Wait, what did Hawkeye just call him?
Kaya couldn't contain her laughter after she heard him completely butcher Procopius's name like that. Hawkeye himself was very confused, as if he didn't know about his Freudian slip. "What? What's so funny?"
"You just called his partner 'Porcupine,' you goof," Kaya said in between her laughter.
"Wait, I did?" Hawkeye asked, his blush very visible on his face. "*Ahem* Accept my apologies for that mix-up, Phillidia."
"THAT'S EVEN WORSE," Kaya cried as she was just dying with laughter. The normally calm, cool and collected bird was now fully red in the face, as there was no way he was going to come back from that one.
After that incident got wrapped up, Ollie told Kaya that he was going to tell her about him this afternoon, before also stating that he was going to the Digital World to make the first Digital World encyclopedia. "An encyclopedia... that would actually be very helpful," Kaya said with a slight smile. "But with Proceppa's current level, I don't want you going there all by yourself. The Digital World is very dangerous."
"Kaya?"
"Hm?"
"You just called him 'Proceppa.'"
Kaya face-faulted upon hearing that. After recovering, she looked over at Ollie. "Here... I'm gonna go home and change into my everyday clothes, and you should do the same. Meet me by the Shibuya train station in an hour, alright?"
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 30, 2022 14:18:34 GMT
Procopius silently steamed at the two of them getting his name wrong. He had never had a name before, certainly not one that sounded so noble and important, it was becoming something of a badge of honor in his mind to be wearing the name of someone that Ollie admired to no end, someone who seemed to have left the kind of mark on history that the Tsumemon himself could never have dreamed of.
"PROCOPIUS. PRO-CO-PI-US! Four syllables! My god I don't even know how to read and even I have the common decency to get someone's name right when I'm meeting them for the first time!" Procopius finally shouted, taking the round of joking badly. Where he came from it was respect or nothing, being respected and having credibility was the only currency he knew how to use so to be laughed at for something about himself that he was starting to consider important got right under his skin...he hadn't even realized he'd been glowing and was now standing before the three others present...a pile of black construction blocks in the shape of a little dinosaur.
"Uhh Procopius...what...just happened to you?" Ollie said, now openly gawking at the Black ToyAgumon that was standing in front of him with his feet planted to the floor. It was only after Procopius stopped steaming that he looked down at himself, he actually smiled, well, as much as a Digimon with no moveable lips could smile.
"Oh sweet! Now this is more what I remember lookin like!" He said, glancing down at himself as Ollie picked his digivice out of his pocket. He had been worried about Procopius being so upset and Procopius' emotional energy had obviously been running high, the screen of the digivice blinked and shimmered in his hand as he observed it closely.
"Well...you could have at least given me a warning. I'm gonna have to sketch you all over again." Ollie said, smiling more gently than Kaya had seen him do in...ever, really as he placed a hand on the top of Procopius' shimmering plastic head.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jun 17, 2022 1:56:26 GMT
Kaya and Hawkeye both jumped when Procopius understandably got upset by the two of them getting his name wrong. But that wasn't the only reason they were pretty freaked out though... it was because Procopius had digivolved right in front of them as he was yelling at them! He had digivolved into a BlackToyAgumon, a dinosaur-like Digimon that appeared to be made out of sentient black Lego bricks. At least the actual digivolving seemed to calm the guy down somewhat. "That, Ollie, is called Digivolution," Kaya explained to her friend. "It's basically when they get so much energy that they just jump right to their next stage of evolution. As Tamers, we give some of our energy to our partner to help them digivolve to a higher level that they can't normally get to on their own." "Apologies for the name mistakes, Pro...copius," Hawkeye said, saying the name slowly just so he didn't accidentally goof it up all over again. Kaya couldn't help but smile when Ollie smiled back at his partner, mentioning how he'd have to sketch the little guy all over again. All throughout school, she hadn't seen him smile this warmly before, not even around her. Digimon truly are a gift to the world... Kaya thought as she watched Ollie and Procopius interact. "Anyways, like I said, meet us at the Shibuya train station in an hour, alright? We have something cool to show you."
An hour later, the Shibuya train station was precisely where Kaya and Hawkeye were waiting. Specifically, they were waiting by the shut down platform, the very same platform that Kaya had texted Ollie to go to. Kaya was currently in her everyday clothes while Hawkeye was standing next to her, eating fruit-flavored candy from a bag."I hope my instructions were clear enough for the both of them..." Kaya muttered as she waited.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jun 17, 2022 13:58:41 GMT
"Fascinating..." Ollie said as he etched down a small note about digivolution as well as like three hundred follow-up questions he would have to investigate. It put Kaya at ease somewhat. The only time the weight of his hard knock life didn't seem crippling to the boy was when that knowledge worm lodged itself into his head and lit that sparkle in his eye. The whole world was so painful and unfair to him and yet he still wanted to know its every secret edge and detail. "Now Kaya, that's not fair, you know I can't resist a good mystery! We'll meet you at the station then!" He said, turning and beginning to shuffle off, having to readjust that absurd bag of his, for a moment not even noticing as Procopius paused and turned to Hawkeye.
"Hey...I might, MIGHT have overreacted. I've...never really had a name before. And he gave me one that's...like, important, I think. Someone who made a real mark. So, I...we'll meet you at the station." Procopius said, very conspicuously avoiding any use of the word "sorry" as he clopped along after Ollie with the sound of clicking plastic like laminated clogs.
"Kaya!" Ollie shouted, Kaya just BARELY able to see the tips of his fingers up over the shoulder of one of the people walking by. My god that boy was short and somehow his diminutive stature was not helped by the fact that he was just the kind of shy, nerdy and awkward that blended into a crowd like the contents of a water bottle faded into the ocean depths.
"We figured out a way to get me here." Came a voice from the digivice hanging off one of Ollie's backpack straps. They'd gotten the V-Pet working with some help from the D-Terminal.
"I somehow discovered Digimon online shopping and that...is a question for another time." Ollie said, just glad that they had gotten the V-Pet option unlocked through the terminal that had appeared in his room, his only other idea was throwing Procopius under a tarp and pretending he was a janitor's cart.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jul 18, 2022 4:08:48 GMT
A small smile formed on Kaya's face when she saw how excited Ollie was while writing Digimon-related information down in his journal. Finding out more about the world was the magic trick for getting the little guy to momentarily look past the woes of his difficult life. Surely finding out about an entirely new world was doing wonders for him. "Yeah, we'll meet you at the station."
Before they left, Procopius began to talk to Hawkeye, as if he were apologizing for overreacting about the name situation. Well, he didn't TRULY say sorry, at least not literally. Right when one thought he would say it, he bailed and just said he'd meet Kaya and Hawkeye at the station before running off. Hawkeye blinked for a few moments before chuckling, putting his wings on his hips. "Those two are almost polar opposites, aren't they?" "Just like we are," Kaya said, smiling back down at Hawkeye.
Kaya and Hawkeye could suddenly hear a voice as they waited for Ollie down by the shut down terminal of the station. Kaya could just barely see the tips of the boy's fingers over one of the passersby. It always amazed her just how ridiculously short he was even though Kaya herself wasn't that tall, around average height."You know, Ollie, if you were on the run from the police, they'd never be able to find you in a crowd like this. Remember that." Questionable advice aside, Ollie showed off that he had gotten the V-Pet function working thanks to "Digimon online shopping." "Oh yeah, I have one of those on my Digivice as well! Hawkeye pretty much comes to school with me almost every day thanks to it. But where we're going, it's safe to let Pro out of it now. Trust me." Once Procopius was out of the V-Pet (if Ollie chose to do so) then Kaya and Hawkeye would lead Ollie and Procopius to a sealed-off door with what looked like some kind of scanner device. Kaya simply placed her Digivice by the scanner, and low and behold, the door opened up to reveal an elevator. "We just take this elevator down. Once it opens up, it's gonna blow your mind." So yadda yadda yadda, the group gets onto the elevator and takes it down. Hawkeye looked over at Procopius as they went down, before handing the bag of sweets he had towards him. "Would you care for them? They taste phenomenal." Finally the elevator came to a stop. A ding was heard before the doors opened up... and revealed what looked like an underground train terminal for exclusively Digimon. A series of various types of Digimon trains were lined up as well, constantly moving much like a real train terminal.
"Welcome to the Trailmon Terminal, Ollie. This is how we're gonna get to the Digital World."
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jul 18, 2022 12:25:43 GMT
"Why would I ever be on the run from the police?" Ollie said, looking up at Kaya with a dewy eyed innocence that might make her feel guilty for every jokingly suggesting that outcome. Even from the V-Pet it wasn't hard to see Procopius openly and exaggeratedly rolling his eyes the moment that Ollie wouldn't see. It seemed that the little gangster's patterns of behavior hadn't been totally undone via his connection to the sugary cinnamon roll that was Ollie.
"You guys have to do that school thing AGAIN?" Procopius said as he was let out of the digivice in a sparkling beam like that kind from an old movie projector. He clopped along beside the group, maybe cancelling out what Kaya said about Ollie being able to get lost in a crowd. It wasn't all that easy to miss the sound of a dinosaur made of Legos, especially if Procopius tried to run in his current state.
"Five days a week for quite a few years yet." Ollie said as they approached the "security checkpoint". Ollie mimicked Kaya as best he could, almost dropping his Digivice which was just typical of the boy, all brains and heart and not an ounce of physical grace. "How has no one ever noticed that this is here?" he said idly, unable to not question anything around him. Terminals, especially one as large and important as the one in Shibuya, tend to be constantly swarming with maintenance men to keep them up and running and somehow they'd never noticed or questioned the Digivice scanner stuck into a door that's never not condemned.
"What kind of guy says no to free candy?" Procopius said, reaching his non-hand into the bag and somehow pulling away with a single piece of candy without having any visible fingers, a note that Ollie had already made for study later. Procopius handed a candy to Ollie who stuck it idly in his cheek and adjusted the straps of his backpack, his eyes slightly wandering before the door slid open in front of him.
He very nearly choked, swallowing some spit down the wrong pipe as the doors opened and his entire world got turned upside down. he pounded on his chest with the side of his fist, his face red, half with the coughing and hacking and the other half from embarrassment at the first half. Welp, there goes that candy, he had 100% swallowed it in the commotion, not that he seemed to mind, or notice, or care about literally anything else in the universe right now other than the vision of the Digimon crowds moving along around him, gawking openly up at the titanic Trailmon blinking down at him as they were boarded. His phone came out and he started to snap pictures of every scene in sight, recording everything with the press of a button.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jul 22, 2022 4:08:48 GMT
"I mean, anything could happen," Kaya said as she shrugged her arms, feeling a little bit bad about suggesting such a thing. "It was just the first thing that popped into my head. Would it have better if I said that your bullies wouldn't be able to find you in a crowd?" Yeah, even Hawkeye was rolling his eyes a little bit thanks to how Ollie reacted to an innocent little suggestion.
As Procopius was let out of the V-Pet, he asked if the kids had to do that "school thing" again. "Well, yeah, of course. We go to school Monday through Friday." Though Ollie already answered for his partner, Kaya felt like she had to reaffirm it. "Ollie and I are middle school third-years, so we still have some time left to go... high school and all."
Once they arrived at the shut-down terminal, Ollie asked how no one ever noticed that something like this was here. "Humans do not tend to be very observant," Hawkeye answered, putting his free wing on his hip. "Besides, it is locked off to the public; only those with a Digivice can even enter here in the first place." Hawkeye smirked a bit when Procopius brought up that good point; what kind of guy says no to free candy?
As soon as those elevator doors opened, it was all over. Ollie was completely enamored by the sight he was seeing; this WAS a massive gathering of all kinds of Digimon and humans alike, after all, it was only natural. "It's so cool, isn't it?" Kaya asked her friend with a smile. "All these different creatures walking around, interacting with each other and- are you taking pictures of them all?!"
Kaya and Hawkeye were quick to notice how frantically Ollie was taking pictures of the Trailmon terminal with his phone. Of course it was his phone and he got to choose what he did with it, but Kaya still felt like taking pictures was a bad idea. "You might wanna delete those pictures, Ollie... imagine what would happen if one of your bullies got your phone and started looking through your gallery."
"Unless you're confident you can keep those photos to yourself, of course."
"Well, what are we waiting for? There's so many different places in the Digital World, Ollie... too many to explore all in one go. Rosewood, Terminus, the Backup Bayou, Server Woods, Binary Archipelago..."
"And each of these Trailmon will take us to a different area of the Digital World. You should be the one to pick and choose which one we go on today."
Ollie would notice that there were seven Trailmons docked at the station, each one taking its passengers to different sectors of the Digital World: the Northern Prominence, Western Flatlands, Eastern Timberlands, Southern Tropics, The Digital Core, the Empyrean Skies, and just straight to the Moon. Which Trailmon would Ollie choose to go on?
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Jul 22, 2022 12:37:50 GMT
Ollie clicked the power button on the side of his phone, shutting the screen off. He then turned it back on and showed that in order to even get INTO his phone he had to put in his fingerprint, a four digit pin AND a pattern lock just to get the screen to open. All of which, incidentally, he did VERY quickly and with only one hand, not even looking at the screen. The amount of information the little man could maintain and put to use in quick succession was maybe just the littlest bit scary.
"Having gotten my phone stolen more than once, I've become a bit...overly cautious about making sure that I won't fall into the wrong hands in the first place." Ollie said, closing his phone again, satisfied with the reference photos that he had already collected from the crowd rushing around them like the flow of a mighty river.
"Besides the fact that soon enough, he won't have to worry about his bullies that much anymore." Procopius said to himself, though he wasn't exactly trying to hide the fact that he was saying it, nor was he fully intent on explaining what exactly he MEANT by that. The little former gangster could mean everything from scaring the bullies shitless to fitting them for a pair of cement shoes, he was that unflappably casual about his tone when he spoke about it.
"I..." Ollie started to respond to Procopius before the choice of knowledge was dangled in front of him, making the hair on the back of his neck stand up as he extended to his full height and looked around. It was an overload of choices. So many things to do, so many places to go, each of them he assumed would be fill to bursting with their own amounts of knowledge and understanding to conquer. "Well, might as well simply...go with the flow when one cannot choose." he said, pausing in place and spinning around, shifting one foot past the other until he had done about three rotations. he stopped at random, not having spun around nearly enough to actually make himself fully dizzy but needing to stop a wobble for just a moment. "it seems the fates have decided." he said, not even looking up at the sign for which one he had chosen.
Procopius rolled his eyes a little but followed behind Ollie without question. The two of them were already a duo bound at the hip and if Ollie wanted to wander off to a random part of the digital world with Kaya and Hawkeye in tow, well, Procopius wasn't exactly going to pretend as if he had a snowball's chance in hell of stopping him.
"Pardon me, Pardon me, 'scuze me." Ollie said, his MASSIVE backpack causing a headache for the passengers around him as he struggled toward either an open seat or an open area of floor, having to actually lift himself up on his feet to reach any standing strap dangling overhead.
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