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[Video // Second Transformation]

[For all you night owls out there, Vanguard decides that now (just five minutes past midnight in an abandoned house at the edge of HospiTown) is the perfect time to voice his displeasure.:]

As you are all my witness, there is nothing here, there's no such things as ghosts, and if this rickety old house comes crashing down on our heads, it's Bumblebee's fault.

[Bumblebee shines his flashlight back at Vanguard and the D-terminal with an amused smile, Vanguard gives an indignant scoff.]

I'm not scared. I'm annoyed

[Bumblebee laughs silently, patting Vanguard as he moves past. Vanguard murmurs irately and paws his impeccably groomed mane back into place. Ghosts may not exist, but Digimon ghost types certainly exist. Even the small ones are a pain to deal with, dispatched with a good fireball. But the higher level ones? Best to stay away from those altogether.]

Can we just go now?

[Bee sighs. Fine, they can head home, if that's what he wants. Of course, that's when the camera catches a glimpse of something: moonlight pouring in from a window flickers on the wall behind him, like a shadow dashing across the light. Floorboards in the distance give off a terrible groan, wood creaking under something's weight. The orb of light from Bumblebee's flashlight creeps down the long, dark corridor. The beam hardly penetrates the stifling darkness to reveal a room at the end of the hallway, its door half fallen off its hinges.]

[The D-terminal's camera starts to shake from unsteady hands. And as camera focuses, two slivers of light stare back at them. Soft mumbling carries down the hallway as the D-terminal's shaking intensifies.]

[Bumblebee, stricken more with curiosity and wariness than fear, takes a tentative step forward. Bewildered, Vanguard snatches Bumblebee's sleeve]

What're you doing-!?

[As if in response to the noise, the two slivers of eyes disappear into the dark. A voice that is neither Bumblebee's nor Vanguard's hisses vehemently right next to the D-terminal:]

-can't take it from me!

[The inhuman noise that comes from Vanguard is so panicked and high pitched, it's practically comical. His flailing knocks the flashlight from Bee's hand, and the D-Terminal goes sailing with it. Both hit the ground with a clatter.]

[The last thing the feed picks up is the sound of rapid footsteps in the dark. The feed cuts.]

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Ghosts? What--

[The former BP unit was totally prepared to launch into curious questions, but, the end of the transmission sort of changes that.]

What happened!

[Bumblebee's gotten a hold of his D-Terminal sometime after the scare. He's the first to reply in a text.] Just startled is all.

[Vanguard, however, seizes it and turns it to video. He's not nearly as composed. He's talking quietly at least, as if he's afraid something will hear.] This thing came flying at us, screamin' like a banshee! I'm havin' a heart attack here.

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[Text? Why text...? He blinks down at the device, leaning back in his hospital bed.]

That's--

[whoa wait what -- who is that.]

Thing? What kind of thing?

[Bumblebee leans over Vanguard, looking at the screen. He doesn't seem as talkative as his digimon.]

I dunno! It was all white and floaty and scary looking. I ain't never a ghost in person before.

[A pause before he redirects his attention back towards the person on the line.] Hey you. Uh. What's your name?

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White and floaty... like dust?

[Seriously, birdbrain, that's the best you can do?]

[He seems to shrink back a little, at the question.]

... Kagerou. Who are you?

[Vanguard looks confused for a moment. Like... dust? He's not sure that would quite describe it. He jerks a thumb back at the boy hovering over him.] I'm Vanguard and this is Bumblebee.

Kagerou, you ever run into any of those things before? You know. Ghosts?

[It worked in his head, sadly. Dust was white and it floated. So.]

[He actually bows a little, head and shoulders.]

I'll remember.

[Then he shakes his head.]

No. There weren't any where I was built.

[Don't sweat it, Kagerou. Bumblebee's made some similar, strange leaps of logic- particularly concerning human concepts. Vanguard was just as confused then too.]

Where you were... built? What, you some kind of robot too?

[Vanguard blinks. He doesn't notice Bumblebee look off screen. And then move off into the dark.]

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Japan. [And then a nod. His shoulders start to draw up.] I'm... an AI. Human beings made me.

[He tilts his head.]

Your partner left.

Huh. Well that's a new one. For a second I thought you were gonna say you were Cybertroni-

[Suddenly, it registers just what Kagerou has said.] What!?

[He stands up, looking off frantically around for his partner and failing to find him in the room.]

Where'd he run off to?!

[He leaves off the whole "AI vs Cybertronian" thing in lieu of pointing to one side of the screen with his uninjured hand.]

He went over that way. On the screen.

[Vanguard cuts the feed as he dashes off.]

[Some time later- about ten minutes, about- before the video comes back on again. Vanguard is back with the D-terminal and he looks sufficiently frazzled, but no longer panicked.]

Are all you robots this reckless?

[He just sort of sits there, confused, as the feed cuts. Okay then.]

[Just when he thought sitting here was a waste of time, the feed is back. Hey! That's good, right?]

Reckless? [He grimaces, and looks at the cast on one arm.] Maybe.

What happened?

[Vanguard scratches his head in exasperation. Yeah, he can see a part of that cast on the side of his screen. Guess that's a solid 'yes' on the reckless part.]

He just went off and decided to have a chat with it.

[More like 'listen,' since Bumblebee can't really speak.]

A chat?

Is that bad?

[No honey "chat" means talk, get up to speed on social skills here.]

[A thoughtful pause.]

A chat? You know what a chat means, right?

[It's almost like dealing with Bumblebee when he first arrived. Lots of questions about things that came completely natural to Vanguard.]

[There's a helpless sort of shrug.]

Is it like... talk?

Talking?

Bingo. You ought to ask someone to give you a crash course- er... lesson- in sarcasm and euphemisms sometime.

[Thoughtfully] Kagerou, I got a question for ya.

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It hasn't been very important, lately.

[He tilts his head a little.]

What... is it?

What's with the cast? You in the hospital or something?

[This is actually a relevant question. Because he's not about to ask this guy to go traipsing around if he's got like two broken legs.]

[Cast? Oh.]

[He looks down at his arm, and nods slowly.]

The mechanic put me here. He said I was damaged. Badly... so did others. Even though I don't remember it.

[Huh. He rubs the back of his neck guiltily.]

Well, if you're all beat up, there's no way I'm gonna ask you for a favor...

A favor?

I wasn't gonna ask the favor. That thing- that ghost digimon- wanted it.

[A pause]

... Do I gotta explain what a ghost is?

No. I know what those are.

What did it want?

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