Lazy Waiting Game

[Thomas Cathal]

For once he wasn't being a hermit inside of the hut. It did feel nice to be outside, and on top of that is showed the teenager was actually alive. Now there was a downside to all of this. Specifically, Thomas was sitting in a wooden chair, reading his slightly old book on physics. This was the point where it was obvious that the kid wasn't planning on doing anything out of the norm. Of course, that was somewhat far from the truth. In reality, he was waiting for a representative from the Resistance to come and get take him to the base. With a sigh, Thomas merely turned a book in his book, eventually putting his feet up on a small stump in front of him. He didn't know how long or how short the wait would be.

There were quite a few things wandering his mind that gave him feelings of regret for his decision. His out of the ordinary choice of joining the Resistance meant he would likely be traveling to new places. This was the complete opposite of his typical nature, being a coward and all. Was it really for some cause he believed in, or more so that someone told him to join this war? Quite frankly the answer was much more complicated than that, and intelligence didn't necessarily mean having the information to deal with it. On top of that, his surrogate father of a WereGarurumon seemed to have gotten on his case the night before. It was along the lines being sternly told that the moment Thomas joined the Resistance, he better stick with it and not come crying back home. A mix of feelings about being told off like that remained in the boy.

With an aggravated sigh, the human gently smacked his open book on his forehead a couple of times. He needed to stop thinking about this entire mess, and just go along with it. Either this was going to be a stupid thing to do, or he could easily just get this over with and continue on with his life. But of course, that didn't stop other thoughts from going through his mind. How would others react to a human kid who lived around here in the Digital World suddenly crawling out of his hole into the open world? Another groan came from his throat, the overweight kid closing his book and leaning back in the chair. There wasn't much to look at aside from huts, trees, and more trees. Granted, he wasn't leaving the forest due to the scenery, as he really didn't care in all honesty.

Sitting up finally, Thomas took a glance around the area. Nobody had shown up yet, although it probably hadn't been that long to begin with. Perhaps there was something he could munch on back inside the hut. Then again there wasn't much food at the moment, so he probably would've gotten an earful about it. Yet another plan going down the drain. Taking his feet off the stump, he stared out through the trees... just waiting.

[Steve]

After a few moments a digimon came walking up towards the boy with a rookie digimon at his side. The digimon at his side was Kamemon, but he didn't speak only stood there basically in attention. The larger digimon was standing on all fours and looking the boy over. "Thomas... I assume that's your name at least, lets get this over with as quickly as possible." The digimon said as he pulled out a file and began reading it over then looking at the boy. After a moment of signing a few spots he looked up at the boy again and shook his head.

Flybeemon walked up to him and handed him the clipboard with a pen and pointed at a spot, "Thomas Joshua Cathal, age 15, you have been accepted into the resistance. If you have any questions you can ask me now or you can ask them once you come to the base. Just sign where I have pointed and we can get this underway."

"I forgot one thing, this is Kamemon, he will be your digimon partner, where you go, he goes, you will battle together and grow stronger together. He is a rookie digimon and has all the potential in the world to grow. Once you are ready you can teleport to the digital world using this." He reached out a digivice for Thomas to have, "This Device is for you to use, if is used to power your digimon, communicate with the resistance base, it has a map of the digital world, and it allows you to telleport to and from the base. Though you are still new it has been programed so that you can come to the base this one time and meet with the superiors. Then after that you may teleport to an area in the digital world and back only once before you have to walk until we feel you are strong enough to teleport around the digital world on a whim. Do you understand all this?" Flybeemon knew he was going rather fast but they were at war there was not much time for this nonsense, in fact he was a member of solar he shouldn't be out here picking up recruits he should be out fighting the forces of The Tamer and getting stronger himself. He was visibly disgusted, but he tried to keep his cool and follow his orders.

[Thomas Cathal]

A few blinks and he felt himself blacking out. Perhaps it was the chair, but he felt rather sleepy all of a sudden. He tried to stay awake even though he was a bit too comfortable where he was. Having gotten used to wooden chairs and what not, in a sense he felt right at home being in one. Besides, a quick nap probably wouldn't have been too bad with nobody else around to disturb him. The moment he closed his eyes however was when he immediately was disturbed. With a jump his eyes shot wide open, frantically looking around until he saw the digimon that arrived. "H-Huh?! Eeer... y-you're not wrong, I-I'm Thomas.", the teenager managed to sputter out. Upon further examination it appeared that the Flybeemon was already getting some work done. While not necessarily a friendly gesture, it at least meant that Thomas wouldn't have to talk all that much.

Soon after a clipboard was shoved towards him. With another blink he took the board and pen to do as he was told. Here was the point where he had one last chance. Either he could walk away and never have anything to do with this war, or go through with the deal. Quite frankly it didn't take much to realize the latter would be what he had to do. Before being able to read the papers, he was interrupted again. It was important however, as his gaze was turned towards the Kamemon. So this part about digimon partners and all of that was completely new to him, but he would have to deal with this guy. For how long he wouldn't know. Sighing a bit, Thomas gave a simple reply, "Y-Yes sir, I understand. His thoughts were a bit different about Flybeemon though, "Could this bloke be anymore cranky? What an arse..." The wonderful things about thoughts though was how pretty much nobody could read someone's mind, especially in this case.

There was business to take care of however, and without further pause he held the pen firmly in his left hand. Bending his arm towards the clipboard, he signed where he was told. It felt like he was signing his soul over or something of that nature. Afterwards, he handed the clipboard back over and stood up. Thomas placed his physics book back into his satchel, which he placed around his body. Being given the digivice, he eyed it for a moment. It was a curious device, that much was certain. Thomas held it in his hand, and eventually spoke up, "A-Aight, where is th-the button to...", he began to mutter, but the Kamemon who was with the larger digimon wandered up quickly. Apparently the turtle like monster didn't seem to care about personal space all that much, and hopped up to press a button on the digivice, "Right here."

With that press of a button, it began to light up a little before engulfing Thomas and Kamemon in what would be the teleportation mentioned. "HOLEY DOOLEY!", the teenage human shouted before him and his apparent partner were simply transported elsewhere away from the forest. Looked like he was in for a crazy time with Kamemon already...

((Notes:

'Holey dooley' = Australian slang for an exclamation of surprise, similar to 'Good grief' or 'My goodness'.))