As fate or luck or whatever you might call it went- Mikey was given no true opportunity to string Jeremy up in a tree. Which was good for Jeremy, but somewhat frustrating for Mikey.
So for the time being he had to put his anger towards the mouthy dumbass on the back burner in his mind which then occupied itself with other things. More pleasant things. Such things being, wondering what his girl back home was doing right then. He'd been worried about her ever since the first few days he and the others had been in the digital world with their new friends.
He knew that she likely knew something was up otherwise he would have been visiting her regularly everyday like he usually had since the accident. Was she pissed at him for disappearing without a word, He wondered as he walked in between Shoutmon and Dorulumon.
Both of who had taken up the ranking of his second in command and his bodyguard.
Both of which Mikey secretly understood and felt was hilarious. Shoutmaon, as his partner digimon he knew what he was thinking. But for Dorulumon to up and out of the blue- just decide that he needed a bodyguard... Well to say that Mikey was tempted to show the wolf like digimon the error of his ways would be an understatement. But since things were unstable as far as the digimon's relationships with him and his friends- he felt it best at the moment to simply humor the two.
So he left them alone and let them run themselves ragged trying to do whatever job they had set themselves up for while silently observing (and yes at times, laughing at them) as they moved.
Mikey was still somewhat lost in thought when he felt Dorulumon brush up against his side and nudge him to gain his attention. Mikey glanced down at the wolf digimon before Dorulumon asked, "Is something wrong? You're very quiet today." As if just really starting to notice just how quiet he really was.
Mikey reached out and rubbed the digimon behind the ear. Quietly letting him know that everything was fine.
Well, as fine as things could be with him stuck in a world of digital murderous and homicidal digital monsters out to end him and his friends anyways. They had been walking for a good while when they made it to a nice secluded area in the woods of the cliff zone, when Mikey sighed and suddenly said. "Guys let's stop here for a bit and rest."
Everyone looked at him funny with the exception of Angie and Jeremy, both of whom had started to notice the faint signs of fatigue that were beginning to show through Mikey's usually carefully controlled facade. The dark smudge like circles under his eyes, and his paling skin should have given his current condition away to all of them. But since the other two kids had known him longer than the digimon- then it only stood the reason that they knew what to look for.
"But Mikey, we need to move on to another zone." Shoutmon started to argue when Angie placed her hand on the little dragon digimon's shoulder and shook her head as Mikey meandered over to a nice shadey spot under a tree and dropped down to the ground and leaned back against the trunk of the tree and drew one leg up against his chest and rested and arm on his knee.
Shoutmon opened his mouth to say more when Jeremy walked over and asked in a tone barely above a whisper, "How long do you think he's been going without sleep?"
"Must have been a while now. This is an unfamiliar world after all. And he is the reason that we're here. So couple that with the fact that there are evil digimon who'd gladly see us all dead..." Angie said, letting her sentence trail off a bit. Jeremy sighed and ran his fingers through his hair as he gritted his teeth. Damn. He should have known that Mikey would lose sleep.
After all Mikey was responsible for their lives. One screw up from him and they were all dead. And that was a lot of fucking pressure for a teenage kid to cope with. Especially when he had enough back home to worry about- and he didn't really need to worry about anything else. At this rate he was likely to have a nervous breakdown or something.
"Is everything okay?" Cutemon asked as he jumped down off of Dorulumon's back as the wolf brushed past the kids and walked over to Mikey and stared up at the red general curiously. Mikey's gaze flickered to the small pixie like digimon and he gave him a tight lipped smile then reached out and picked the youngster up and set him in his lap and tickled his sides. Causing the kid to squeal and squirm and laugh until he couldn't breathe.
Chuckling once he had the pixie digimon twitching and wheezing, Mikey set his limp body on the ground and ran his hand along the digimon's downy soft fur. "Everything is fine. I'm just a bit tired." Mikey confessed softly as Shoutmon walked up to him and sat down on the other side of his human partner. His sapphire blue eyes studying Mikey's face, noting that he did look a little on the tired side. Frowning to himself for not noticing sooner, he scooted a little closer to his human and leaned his shoulder against the teen's side.
Causing him to pull his gaze away from Cutemon to look at him as Shoutmon said, "Ya know, I'm suddenly feeling kind of tired myself. Maybe we could take a nap or something."
"Sure man." Mikey said.
"I'm game." Dorulumon said eagerly despite not actually being tired. As Cutmon finally jumped up and ran over to him as he laid down and waited for the smaller digimon to curl up against his side before he slipped one of his front paws around him to keep him warm since the little digimon was apparently like Angie and had circulation problems or something.
Angie stifled a yawn behind one hand and looked at Jeremy who followed her lead as she flopped over and said. "I'm sort of sleepy too."
"Yeah me too." Jeremy hesitantly said before dropping to the ground next to her. And with that the rest of the digimon fell in line and each crowded in close and made a place for themselves around Mikey and the others.
