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Lost in his thoughts, it took a few moments for Joey realize that he hadn't been bumped into but in actuality had been robbed. He spun around to only catch a shadow of a glance of the creature that he assumed was a digimon. The digimon sped into the forest with Joey's belongings and he growled under his breath.

"What a great way to pick up in the digital world where I left off...grr.."

Not worrying about deciding on which digimon from his farm would be best to take down this thief, he double-checked his buckled black boots before taking a running leap and continuing to sprint into the wood after the digimon.

((Well he said that it took our devices...as in the tamer/digidestined/chosen/DATS member..whatever you want to call us. I don't think digimon are allowed to own those. Of course your twins...or any digimon for that matter can be on the adventure. I'm pretty sure you have to have a human to control though as well...do you not? I couldn't find a digi-farm for you.))

((Well he didn't say that they had to be tamed. He setup a scenario with a digimon stealing the human's communicator and equipment, ya know? So the twins can be there too, even seperately from your tamer...but they still have to be there 'cause their things were stolen..and it's part of the mission to have 'YOU' go find it. See what I'm saying?))

Noticing Derrik was behind him, Joey smiled and sprinted a little faster in the heat of the excitement for an adventure. His thoughts turned to his digimon that he had been without, away from the Digital World, for months...which is really much longer in their world. Pushing through the branches in the woods, Joey grew worried that this would be the end of his taming.

"Without my devices, I'm nothing...I don't even know if my digimon will come to me since it's been so long. What am I saying? Snap out of it!"

Joey shook his head, releasing himself from his thoughts for a moment, and removing self-doubt, he grabbed his silver and black digivice from his second black studded belt around his waist and closed his eyes, facing who he thought was Derrik behind him.

Still focusing on his connection with his digimon with his eyes closed, he spoke to his former commanding officer.

"I know I've been out of commission for a while but I'm not going to let some theif get away with stealing out stuff! We have things to accomplish and plenty of rights and life to uphold and protect. Actually, we don't even really have time for games...we need to be training when it comes down to it. I'm rambling, I know, I just have a bad feeling about what is to come next. This is just the beginning."

As Joey talked, he held his digivice tighter as it began to glow. Noticing the activation, he slowly opened his eyes after the bright light had faded. Leo floated in the air next to him with a broad grin on his face.

"Stop being so dramatic, Joey! You know I'm always here to help you out...helllooooo...that's why you started calling me your guardian angel...or going back to your world for so long has made you forget? Pfffttt."

The little digimon floated around Joey and continued to tease him. Hoping Derrik was up to snag this thief, he extended his hand through the brush with a smile, "Let's get this slimeball, eh?"

Joey grinned at the bird digimon and bent down to look at it closer, face to face.

"Aww, Derrik. I like your little birdy...Poe, is it? Well, Poe, of course I have a bright digimon with me. The blasted angel thinks he's supposed to protect me and keep me balanced, whatever that means," he said pushing the long blonde streaked bangs from his face as he peered down, rolling his eyes at his digimon.

"It means you like to play with fire. Well, really evil, but mostly fire. And you need ALL the help you can get! If it wasn't for me here, you'd be lost in this forest already..so be grateful!" said the flying angel digimon flapping his wings, swinging around talking to Joey overhead.

"You're probably right. That's why I put up with your blabber," he said with a wink, raising up from looking down at Poe and swatting at Leo in the air playfully, "Little pipsqueak!"

Joey quit swabbling with Leo and grabbed him around the waist and held him to his chest. "Alright buddy, let's get back to business. Glad you're here by the way..." he said with a slow growl and a wink.

He turned to look at Derrik, wondering how else he could help in the confusion. Looking back at Poe, still perplexed by the digimon, he decided to go along with Leo in tow.

Standing behind Poe, with intent to follow, Joey tried to start a quiet conversation. "Well, I'm not trying to scare away whatever we're chasing but I just figured I'd say you'd be the one to follow...really...being a creature of the night and all."

"Oh and what am I? A complete dolt? I know what I'm doing too, Joey....grr," Leo said with slight annoyance. He wriggled his way out of Joey's arms with little effort and flew a little higher into the air looking upwards.

"Nah, I just figured why not let him lead the way. You should scout the area as best as you can from up there anyways...will ya?"

"Sure, why not?" Leo said with a smile before swooping up as high as possible reaching as far up into the trees as possible, dodging branches like bullets, searching for something ahead of them that would be of benefit, "It's pretty dark, Joey, and there's lots of brush! BOOM BUBBLE!"

Using his attack, Leo caused a burst of air attack to brush away some of the brambles in his way to see what lies ahead. Joey just shook his head and looked to Poe for any sign of what to do next. He turned around hoping Derrik had decided to follow.

"How can something so simple as finding a thief be so hard? Have a really been gone so long I lost my touch? Impossible!" he thought to himself as the search continued.

It seemed to Joey that things were getting darker and the name of the forest involving darkness didn't help his worries. Not so much worried with the darkness but fear of what lay ahead wracked Joey's mind.

He instantly called for Leo to come down and fly near him as so he wouldn't lose sight of him. Reaching back to his belt, Joey pulled his digivice back out.

"Ya know, back in the day...these things used to light up in the darkness. Think it's worth a shot Derrik?" Joey said holding his device out in front of him hoping to see what was in front of them that was barely visible in the darkness, hoping he wasn't about to step off the edge of a cliff in the blackness ahead.