A Flash From the Past....I think. [Entry #1 digital_dive]
Who: Anyone
What: First dive
When: August 15
Where: Dakako Jungle
Willy sat behind his desk and waited for the invoices to arrive. His trusted mailroom helper, Walker Loompa, entered his office wearing his postal uniform. Willy thought this to be a normal occurance. He was pouring over his notes that he concocted at the breakfast table that morning.
Walker had pushed the cart forward and pulled out a box that had no return address and slid it on Willy's desk without a word. Willy was a bit too distracted to pay much attention to the package and waved the little worker along jovially. "Thank you, Walker. I'll see you at lunch."
The Oompa Loompa simply nodded and quietly left the office without looking back despite his curiosity to see what it was that his master, boss and friend had recieved. Outside the door, giggles could be heard and that got Willy's attention to look up from his work and stood up from behind his desk. He opened the door and the little people in many different colored rubber suits that represented the department that they worked in scattered like cats in all directions. Willy managed to stop one of the ones in the black suit.
"What's so funny? I want in on the joke." Willy smiled widely as he knelt to listen.
"Sir, the others think that you have a secret admirer." The little person said as plainly as he could manage and stiffled his own laughter.
Willy's eyes widened. "Oh I see. And what gave them that idea?"
"It's the box that you received. Walker thinks that you're playing the field a little." It was then that the little guy couldn't stop his laughing from errupting.
This earned a strange reaction from Willy as he raised his eyebrow. "Since when? I've never left the factory so how could I play when I'm here? The only field I play in is the one in my garden and even then it's only....." Willy shrunk back and gave a nearly disgusted look. "You've got to be kidding me?"
The little man was now on the floor laughing so hard that he could hardly breathe. Willy stood up and shook his head with his own laugh. "Always with the jokes." He said with a smile and turned toward his office. He walked toward his desk and found the package that was the butt of it all.
"Uh huh. So you're the culprit!" Willy picked up the package and opened it without checking for the return address. The box seemed plain enough and he didn't think that it would come from anyone on the outside. Inside the box was a plastic and metal device that was red and gold with his famous "w" symbol on it. "What's this?"
Willy picked up the device and tilted his head. He didn't know what to make of it and there was no note inside that gave him instructions on how to use it. "Well, isn't that something. I get a thingy. I can't eat it and I don't see how it could be of any real use to me either." Willy shrugged and moved toward his couch with the device in his hand.
It flipped open by itself which caused him to jump up from the couch. It resembled more like cellphone than anything else and he never owned one before which he thought was pretty nifty. Once his curiosity took hold again, he tilted his head and looked at it. He lifted it between his thumb and index finger as if it were going to bite him. He turned his wrist to get a better look at it, which to his surprise matched what he wore. "Huh."
He heard a giggling somewhere in the room but it was mostly in his head. "You're funny. I like you!"
Willy whipped his head around to find the source of the sounds he heard but was unsuccessful in his panicked search then resolved that it was another prank. "Okay, okay, you got me back, Java Joe. I still say that it's not my fault. Ha ha!"
"Who's Java Joe?" The voice said again that sounded like a child.
Willy's eyes looked to the left and right. He knew that he wasn't exactly normal, but he didn't think that he was completely out of his gourd just yet. "Uh..."
Before that Willy could answer, his physical body started to break up and started to change which caused Willy to panic. In a flash, he was gone.
Dakako Jungle
Willy opened his eyes to see that he was no longer in his office. He lifted his head and tilted it with curiosity. It was then that he realized that he wasn't where he last remembered. His cane wasn't anywhere in sight and he was lost and confused. "Weird."
He pushed himself up off the ground and looked around. His dark blue eyes widened. He never felt so awkward. He remembered that he had a chocolate bar that he took off the assmebly line earlier that morning and sat up to remove the bar from his inside pocket. It was intact though a bit smooshed. "Huh. Weird."
In the distance he heard rustling and he immediately tried to find a place to hide. He started remembering the times that he had to do the exact same thing when he was in the Loompa Land jungles 10 years before. His dark blue eyes were barely seen behind the brim of the top hat but he had no camoflauge to protect him in the slightest which made him a prime target for anything that saw red as a color of its food.
The rustling revealed a small pink creature that resemebled a puppy. Willy tilted his head with curiosity and the little creature approached the bush where he was hiding behind.
"You stand out. That's not good and your head's too big. You're easily seen," the little creature said.
Willy stood up and tilted his head. "You're not going to eat me?"
The creature giggled. "Now why would I do a thing like that? You wouldn't taste very good. I prefer digiberries and digiplants. I'm called a Plotmon and I'm here to guide you and give you the reason why you're here. Since our world is growing so fast, we need someone that can help our tamers stay happy." The little creature looked down at the ground sadly. "We've hit a pretty dark time and we need someone to make us laugh again."
Willy raised his eyebrows and leaned down to look into the purple eyes of the Plotmon. "I have gone, you know, " he whistled as he pointed toward his head and made a few circles around his ear, "a little crazy?"
"Uh uh. You were chosen by the Great One so I don't have any say. I was told to meet you and be your partner. Come on...we better get out of this place or we'll be lunch."
Willy gave no hesitation and followed after his new friend. "So your name is Plotmon? It sounds....oh I don't know.....not very friendly. How about I call you Marshmallow."
"Marsh....mallow?" The little pink creature looked up as she walked. "Well okay. But everyone else will call me Plotmon since that's what I am."
"Okie dokie." Willy continued to follow Marshmallow through the jungle. "So what's this thingy?"
"Oh, that's your digivice. You can use it to get a hold of people through the giant web. It's very useful here and when you're in the other world, we can still communicate. It's really simple and it's really complicated too. You're smart. I'm sure that you'll figure it out." Marshmallow explained.
Willy only looked at it and tilted his head and walked into a tree knocking him down. "Whoops." He stood up and brushed himself off. "Don't worry. I do that a lot."
"Marshmallow finds you funny." She giggled and walked toward her partner to help him stay on track. "You're kinda clumsy."
"Thanks. I really needed your vote of confidence." Willy said flatly which caused Marshmallow to laugh even harder.