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As Plain As the Scar on His Face

Who: Kovu, anyone! (particularly Fluttershy and Ed and probably Hollyleaf and Nala too)
What: Kovu's journey on the Trailmon
Where: Primary Village, the Trailmon, any Terminals/rest stops along the way, maybe nearby towns?
When: Starting the morning after the city disappears on 1/1, all the way up to the arrival in Hospitown (sometime between 1/8 and 1/12 maybe).

Even just watching Kovu these past couple of weeks has been heartbreaking for Lopmon. He'd never thought that someone could go through so much pain just because of what had happened to them in their past, but Kovu...he'd barely even spoken to his own partners in the last two weeks, or to Hollyleaf, and she was at his new apartment checking on him all the time. Lopmon had been worried they wouldn't be able to get Kovu out of the apartment, after he heard what Jupitermon had said about the entire city of Chosen. The guy could barely even move after that, but at least he let them lead him out and get to Primary Village safely.

The Trailmon headed for the first stop on the way to Hospitown has just started boarding, and Lopmon is right beside Kovu, trying his best to stay at least a little more cheerful than his two partners. Strabimon was there, and he's been feeling worse and worse since that Liamon attacked Kovu and Hollyleaf. After Kovu broke his mirror, Strabimon had started to retreat into himself the same way Kovu did. Lopmon's been getting worried for both of them, and that if this keeps up this way, he might lose both his partners. If only he could think of some way to try to help them both feel better...

[ooc: This is the catchall log for most of what Kovu'll be doing during the migration. Just pick whatever day and place you want and put that in the subject line when you reply. If you want Kovu somewhere other than the train just PM this journal and we can work it out, or if you've got me on plurk hit me up there :3]

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Beastboy had been busy for most of the trip, either spending time with Terra trying to ensure their relationship was as solid as a rock, or popping in and out of compartments looking for his friends.

But he hadn't spotted Kovu until this most recent rest stop and waved eagerly.

"Dude! Over here!"

Rita also offered a polite wave while Chili only gave a curt nod.

The chance to stretch from the train ride is a welcome one. Kovu's never spent so much time in such a cramped space in his life, and the journey - and the lack of sleep - have been taking their tolls on him. He rolls his head as he steps out of the train, then stretches his arms high, the motion mimicked almost perfectly by Lopmon and Strabimon at his sides.

Kovu should've known better than to think he'd run into someone sane. Then again, Beastboy can't be worse than Ed, can he? At least he knows when to back off. He's in no hurry to make his way over to the green guy and his partners, flanked by his own two. Their "original" partners didn't really have a chance to meet, so this should be...interesting.

"Been a while," Kovu offers. After the...ordeal with Ed, and Fluttershy's first aid, he's not as self-conscious about the scar. But still...he's trying to hide it behind that tuft of hair that falls in front of his eyes.

"No kidding right?" He grinned and held out his hand for a knuckle bump.

"We found this vending machine and were about to have ourselves some snacks. You want in? My treat!" He offered hopefully.

"They've got Beef Jerky." Rita threw in temptingly while Chili arched her eyebrow curiously and moved to inspect the stock of the glass case.

Kovu hasn't quite been around humans long enough to know what Beastboy is doing holding his fist out like that, so he just stares and tweaks up one side of his face in confusion. Before he can ask what's supposed to happen, though, his stomach answers the other question with a loud growl.

"Yeah, beef jerky sounds great," he says, continuing to leave Beastboy hanging.

Rita pumped in some bits and watched as the little metal bar began to twist and twirl moving the stick of dried meat to the front.

And then it stopped. Stuck.

"Aw dude unfair!" Beastboy struck the side of the machine with his fist and then yelped, shaking his hand where apparently it had been hurt from the strike.

"I'll just put some more bits in." Rita offered but Chili sniffed in irritation.

"You call that a punch?" She scolded Beastboy ignoring Rita's totally honest and responsible idea.

...And another vending machine that doesn't work. Kovu has to wonder why these things are so popular when they do this all the time. He rolls his eyes, knowing better than to try hitting it like Beastboy did. The one time he did that he couldn't use his hand for a few days, and it wasn't worth it.

"Just put more bits in so you don't break it, I'll pay you back" he says, hoping the Gaomon will listen.

Rita was already stepping up to put more bits in but as she began it seemed Chili was unwilling to let things go without proving her superior punching. She took Beastboy's place and slammed into the side of the machine with a devastating right hook.

The machine rattled and shook letting out a groaning sound...and sure enough Kovu's jerky fell from the hook into the catch tray.

"Heh." The blue dog folded her arms smug and Beastboy grinned fishing out the pack and throwing it to Kovu "Score!"

Before further celebration could be had however there came the sound of grinding gears that sounded like growling. The machine rattled and made a loud banging noise as it began rattling and shooting out snacks at a high velocity at the digimon and chosen.

"Hit the deck!" the green teen yelped before taking a back of chips in the face knocking him clean off his feet.

The former lion's eyes snap open as he catches the snack, surprised that -

No. No. Why.

"What did I just say?!" Kovu's lack of sleep catches up with him pretty suddenly, and he has to try rather mightily to resist grabbing the Gaomon and using her for a shield. Instead, he simply steps right up against the side of the machine - since it can only spit forward - and then yanks Beastboy after him. The Digimon can handle their own problem, since this is kind of their fault.

Edited 2014-01-13 05:53 (UTC)

Beastboy is easily yanked given his small size leaving Gaomon looking sheepish and embarrassed as Rita dances and dodges gracefully around a flurry of flying snack food which continue to be spat out and high enough speed that other Digimon and chosen are now getting hit with them much further away.

"Dude...talk about fast food." Beastboy joked rubbing his face where the chip bag had left an impression.

Chili bowed her head "I am deeply sorry. My pride got the better of me." She then turned back to the machine and gave it another thump trying to shut it off. This did not help.

"Stop hitting the thing!" It's taking every bit of self-control Kovu has to keep from doing anything to the Gaomon, but he's seriously about to lose it.

He's just glad his partners aren't here. Strabimon would've attacked her by now, and Lopmon would keep getting hit. He smacks himself in the forehead, trying to think of something they can do about this thing.

Goamon flinched at his shouting and shrinks back, for the first time since Beastboy's known her, she looks upset.

"Maybe try unplugging it?" Rita suggested sounding much more relaxed then she looked as she began swatting the snacks out of the air to protect others from their flight.

"Oh...duh." Beastboy face palmed and tried peered behind the rattling machine. "We're gonna have to push it away from the wall. I can't reach the plug from here." Despite his skinny arms.

Kovu plants his feet and tries to pull the machine out, but his muscles are still built too much for fighting like a lion - so he doesn't have much luck with moving it. "A little help here?" he shouts to Beastboy and his Gaomon.

Beastboy throws himself into the machine as well, but as to be expected his scrawny arms and legs weren't of much use.

Feeling compelled to redeem herself Chili seized him with one of her boxing glove clad fists and hauled him out of the way "I'll do it." She growled.

Throwing her shoulder into the machine, her powerful legs dug into the grown, claws scraping on the pavement as she growled and strained.

Slowly...ever so slowly the heavy metal machine groaned and began to screech as friction fought it's motion every step of the way.

"Got it!" Beastboy lunged underneath the Gaomon putting his skinny arms to good use and yanking out the plug. The machine sputtered and fell silent...though already completely empty of snacks.

Snacks which Rita was now shamelessly gathering up from the surrounding area and putting in Beastboy's bag.

Kovu steps back, and with the same motion smacks his hand against his forehead. He can't believe that just happened. He can't. He knows he should've been expecting something to go wrong, with Beastboy involved, but that was definitely not what he was thinking would happen.

"Do you do that all the time?" He glares at the Gaomon, wishing he knew her name so he could berate her more personally.

Chili's frown deepened and she turned away, head bowed shamefully "Not all the time no..."

Beastboy tried to defuse the situation in vain "Aw come on dude we all make mistakes. Let's just laugh it off huh? No one got hurt and now we've got all this free junk food!"

"It sort of feels wrong but...well it's not like we can put it back." Rita commented bringing over the spoils of their misguided attempts to fix the machine.

Beastboy plucked a chocolate bar out of the pile. "Here dude, try one of these. Chocolate makes everything better." Secretly he was more excited to see yet another non-human try what was arguably man kinds greatest invention.

A few moments pass before Kovu finally seems to accept Beastboy's suggestion to let it go. He's still annoyed though, and scowling at the Gaomon for a couple seconds longer.

But then Beastboy is handing him something and he's backpedaling because he has no idea what it is. He looks at the...chocolate suspiciously, then eyes Beastboy with much the same expression. He takes the item and unwraps it, only to stare at the brown block of candy he's left with.

"...You guys eat this stuff?" It doesn't even smell that good...

Beastboy looked suspicious and a little disappointed. "Just try it dude. It's made from Choco beans and milk...and probably some wax and a bunch of chemicals, but it's awesome!"

So far in his introductions to being human he had found only two non-humans who didn't care for Chocolate. The rest had had their minds blown by the melty wonderful flavor.

...Chemicals. Appetizing.

Kovu sniffs at the bar and wrinkles his nose. He's smelled chocolate before around the cafe, but he never actually grabbed any of the stuff. It's...really weird. He takes a small bite and slowly chews it, but the longer it's on his tongue the more sour his expression becomes, until finally it looks like he'd just taken a bite of rotten meat. He blanches, but swallows it.

"Ugh! That's supposed to taste good?" He starts licking the back of his wrist, trying to get the bitter taste off his tongue.

"DUDE!" Beastboy's face fell and he buried his hands in it groaning.

"Oh come ON! It's gotta just be lions right? Maybe something's wrong with your tongue!"

Rita chuckled politely and offered to take it off Kovu's hands "Nala didn't like it either. And neither did Black Wargreymon if you remember."

Beastboy sighed and smiled again "Yeah well, no accounting for taste. I guess that means more for us. You can have all the jerky though if you want?

"Go ahead, pick anything else out you'd like to try, do you like spicy things?" Rita encouraged as she separated the pile into two smaller piles.

A few moments of licking himself pass before Kovu remembers that humans don't really do that, and he stops abruptly. Quickly he tries to look like he wasn't doing anything special at all, though he's not doing a terribly good job.

"Y-yeah. Just gimme all the jerky." The stuff was cooked so badly it was tough and chewy, but at least it's meat. Better than that bitter chocolate.

Rita nodded and continued to sort through the piles as Beastboy plucked another bag from the pile. This one was black and had what looked like a jar of something red on it.

"Alright try these." He insisted popping open the bag and digging out a barbecue flavored potato chip.

"We'll find some junk food to blow your mind if it's the last thing I do." He insisted. "I mean I get it, wild kingdom and all that. You know what you've been raised with...but there's a reason humans are the dominant species on our planet."

"I don't think so." Kovu recoils from the chip, not having any idea what that would taste like. He can't even figured out what it smells like.

"Aw come on dude!" Beastboy insisted leaning closer with the chip. "Where's your sense of adventure? I mean...I'm all for all natural foods. Chemical free fruits and veggies and all that...but junk food is one of life's simple pleasures!"

Chili muttered under her breath "If your life consists of sitting around reading comic books maybe."

Kovu's gotta agree with the Gaomon on this one. "I know most of the stuff humans eat doesn't even look like food, but that looks like it's not even edible."

Beastboy's usually cheerful face pouted like a child and he flicked the chip into his mouth crunching away.

"Delicious. I'm getting some serious lack of trust here dude. We're friends aren't we? I'd never steer you wrong!"

"At least not on purpose." Rita supplied completely unhelpful. It made Gaomon smirk though.

[Eh, day 3 rest stop? How's that fit?]

[Fits just fine~]

Yay!

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