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[Hello, Terminal Tokyo. It seems someone has opted for the 'start pushing buttons and see what happens' method of getting to know their D-Terminal, with the initial result being a nonsensical text message. A moment later, though, the audio cuts in, with a little girl's voice coming over the airwaves.]

-nk I got it to do something! Did that message just get sent? [slight pause] Oh wait, it's sending now! I think...? Wasn't there supposed to be pictures too?

[There's the faint sound of a few more buttons being pressed before a second voice pipes up, also sounding young and female, its tone fondly amused.]

Here, let me.

[A moment later, the video turns on, showing Terminal Tokyo a close up of the smiling face of a Salamon, who seems to be the owner of the second voice.]

There we go.

[The Salamon moves out of the way and the owner of the first voice can finally be seen, a little girl with big orange eyes and a face that's two-tone tan, as well as oddly soft-looking. The girl's face is framed by what looks like equally two-toned hair, mostly red with a broad purple stripe, that's pulled back into a short pony tail atop her head. Those looking closely might notice a few oddities, like the fact that her eyes have slit pupils, rather than round, and that a set of tiny fangs can be glimpsed in her mouth when she speaks.]

Thanks! So... um... hi, everyone. [waves to the camera with a bit of an uncertain smile] First of all, I'm Wily-Kit, and this's my partner, Emerick.

[She briefly turns the camera back on the Salamon, who waves a fore-paw, before turning it back on herself.]

Second... um... does anybody know where I can get a winter cloak, or something? I'm not really dressed for the weather around here...

[Skilled observers of backgrounds will notice that she's still in the main terminal building, apparently having opted to stay there for the moment rather than trying to find her way to her apartment in the cold, so anyone who wants to find her can do so there.]

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OK! See you there!

[There's a bit of fumbling before the feed cuts off from Kit's end.

Time passes, during which Kit has a few more conversations and makes her way to the newbie apartments. It's not too long, though, before Emerick is following the signs and Kit is following her nose to the cafeteria.

Upon entering, they both pause and look around, hoping to spot the pink-haired girl.]

She wasn't hard to spot given her hairstyle. She was bundled up in a thick jacket and her pale face was flush indicating she had just come in from the cold herself.

In front of her she had two cups with lids on them and her sharp pink eyes (with catlike pupils no less) focused on Kit and a smirk slid across her features in an almost snakelike fashion.

Kit spotted her and smiled, waving to her to let her know she's been spotted. Kit took a moment to smooth the fur of her tail down a bit before approaching, though. The prickly-cold air on the walk over had made it extra fluffy.

With Emerick trailing at her heels, though, she quickly makes her way over to join the older girl. "Hi!", she greeted cheerfully. "Thanks for the directions; they helped a lot."

She then looked at the cups, a sweet, warm scent wafting out of them despite the lids. "Is that the hot chocolate?"

Jinx nodded and glanced over her shoulder. A Tsukaimon and Keramon were making their way through the tables, The Keramon with three cups and the Tsukaimon with a baggie of little cookies.

"Yep. Drink it carefully though because...well hot." She reasoned though it was tempting to watch the girl learn the hard way as so many others had to.

She really had to be getting soft.

The Keramon arrived and set down a cup for Emerick as well as herself and the Tsukaimon, "Sheesh you really lived in this dump?" The Keramon asked out loud and Jinx rolled her eyes. "It's not a dump it's just...bland."

Kit took a seat at the table, Emerick hopping up to sit next to her. She gave a bit of a confused blink when the other girl warned her about the hot chocolate, though. "Course it's hot," she said in a tone that clearly stated that she wondered why anybody would need to be told this. "I mean it's right there in the name, and all. Plus I can feel it through the cup."

"Oh yeah!", she said, remembering something. "There's a boy named Duo who might be coming to have hot chocolate with us. He talked to me on the way over and I didn't see why he couldn't come so I said OK."

Which reminded her... "And uh, I never did get your name. Or your friends' names." She indicated the two digimon holding the cocoa and cookies.

Jinx chuckled and her Tsukaimon rolled his eyes "You'd be surprised how stupid some people are when they get here." The little purple Digimon noted.

"I'm Jinx." The pink haired girl introduced herself. "The little ball of sunshine here is Noir." She nodded at the Tsukaimon "And this lovely lady is Charm." Charm was a Keramon who was at least five and a half feet tall. She grinned a creepy grin and her wide eyes focused on Emerick in an unsettling way.

Kit giggled a little at the fact that apparently some people apparently did need to be told that something called 'hot chocolate' was, in fact, hot. She smiled at all three as they were introduced, though she did quirk an eyebrow at Charm's creepy grin. Still, she'd seen way creepier things before, and thus put it down to just another bit of local weirdness.

Emerick, however, didn't like the way the Keramon was eying her. She sort of hid behind Kit, peeking out around her partner's body to watch the ghost-like Digimon suspiciously.

"Nice to meet you," Kit said, nodding politely to all three, before taking a cautious sip of her hot chocolate, mindful of it's temperature. Her eyes widened in surprise at the sweet taste and took a bigger sip before swallowing. She swallowed it with a satisfied noise and grinned at Jinx.

"That's really good!", she said, then noticed the three cups the other Digimon were carrying. "One of those is for Emerick, right? She really needs to try this stuff too."

"Of course. Consider it some good will. It is the season of kindness after all."

And not for the first time Jinx was aware she normally would have gagged at such a remark. Charm in fact did it for her turning and making an overwhelmed gross sound that made Noir roll his eyes.

Kit gave Charm a questioning look at the gagging noise she made, but Jinx's comment proved much more interesting. "Huh... you're right," she said thoughtfully. "Things've been so crazy lately back home, I kinda forgot it was almost Rammastide."

She briefly hopped down from her seat, going over to retrieve one of the other hot chocolates, as well as a bendy straw after a moment's thought, since Emerick didn't really have hands. When she returned with the chocolate and straw, she got Emerick set up before returning to her own.

"Thanks for doing all this for us," she said. "It was really nice of you. Even if Charm doesn't seem to think so."

"She's just having fun." Jinx excused her digimon with a dismissive handwave. "She's alot like me when I was first getting started."

That seemed of interest to Charm who raised an eyebrow "I am?"

"Or sure. Kind of creepy, likes to play things off casual but you're really very invested."

Charm turned up her nose as if she wasn't willing to buy it. "Yeah sure. whatever you say boss." But Noir was smirking. Perhaps Jinx had hit the nail on the head.

"We chosen, we look out for one another...mostly." She explained. "You get a few sometimes who aren't into it. Who'd rather stick to their old ways, who are suspicious of others or who'd rather hold peoples pasts against them. But for the most part we're all on the same team. It just makes more sense."

"Yeah," Kit said, sipping her hot chocolate. "Working together usually makes more sense. Which might be why we have partners in the first place; to prove that we're stronger together than either of us is by ourselves."

"Back home, Lion-O is trying to get all the animals of Third Earth to work together too," Kit said. "That's the only way we'll be able to beat Mumm-Ra for good."

Ah the age old story of heroes being able to work together better then the villains.

"What was Mumm-Ra like?" She inquired. The name itself offered some ideas but she was always curious about a villain and their themes.

"Well, usually he looks all ancient and creepy like you'd think a mummy would," Kit said, briefly hunching her shoulders and curling her fingers like claws to demonstrate. "But then he goes 'Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, the Ever Living!' Then he grows like ten feet tall with big muscles and bat wings! And now that he has the Tech Stone, he can turn into an even bigger, tougher form that's all covered in armor and stuff!"

Kit gestured at appropriate intervals to indicate Mumm-Ra's increased size in his Ever Living and armored forms before settling down. "But even when he's just old and creepy, you gotta watch out for his magic. He's really powerful."

Jinx had a spark of excitement in her eyes. Curious and fascinated by the evils of another world.

"So he has beaten him before, just not a long lasting victory?"

Kit shook her head. "No, it lasted a long time," she said. "Long enough for everyone to start thinking that he was just a story."

"But yeah, when the animals rebelled against him, one of the cats locked him up in a coffin-thing, and he couldn't get out until he got Grune to help him. The animals all used to be Mumm-Ra's slaves, see. All except for the cats, who worked for him willingly. Well... mostly. And now I guess he wants the four Power Stones so he can make everybody his slaves again."

"So a long lost force of great evil returns to plague the world, and only a rag tag team of heroes stand between him and total world domination...that about cover it?"

When it was put like that it gave her chills. Most of the time she'd be rooting for the villain but she liked this kid well enough.

"Pretty much, yeah," Kit said with a bit of a sigh.

"We've got two Power Stones now," Kit said. "The War Stone- the one we've always called the Eye of Thundera, that's in the hilt of the Sword of Omens- and the Spirit Stone that Lion-O found in the astral plane. And thanks to Pumyra, Mumm-Ra has the Tech Stone now. We don't know where the fourth stone is or what it does yet. I just hope Mumm-Ra doesn't either."

"But it's not all bad," Kit added, sipping her cocoa. "We've made lots of friends while traveling around Third Earth. And they've all shown that they'll help us when we need it. The Fish-men, the Berbils, the Elephants, even the Dogs... they all came to help us against Mumm-Ra when we asked. It's the first time in a really long time that the different animal tribes have come together like that. Maybe even the first time ever."

Jinx absorbed the information as best she could but shook her head smiling.

"It's like I've walked in near the end of a really great story. And good on you for being able to explain it so clearly." Despite how much Jinx was still wondering about. After all she had no idea who Pumyra was or what the different stones would do.

"Have you had to tell this story before?"

"Thanks," Kit said, sipping her cocoa. "I could tell you the whole thing from the beginning sometime, if you wanted."

"But it's usually Lion-O or one of the other grown-ups that tell folks what we're doing," Kit said. "The only time we really had to tell people stuff was when me and Kat left Evista City to go get back up. We told them that Lion-O was in trouble, and needed them to help him the way he'd helped them. They all listened to us and sent help back with us riding in the Forever Bag!" Kit's clearly proud of this, because how often did grown-ups take kids seriously, really?

And Jinx could tell.

"Oh come on, I get the feeling that you are a very important member of the team even if the grown ups are too wrapped up in their own business to realize it." She offered.

Kit grinned. "Course we are!", she said. "Back home, I could put people into a trance or even put them to sleep when I played my flupe, and my brother has his flink."

"But the grown ups are, well, grown-ups," she said with a slight shrug. "They're bigger and stronger and have to do most of the real fighting. Cheetara's super-fast, Tygra can turn invisible, Panthro's really strong and good at building things, and Lion-O has the Sword of Omens and everything. Kinda hard to compete with that most of the time."

Jinx's grin radiated warmth, such tricks were particularly useful in the right hands, though she had to ask "What's a Flupe and a Flink?"

She sighed shaking her head "Yeah of course. Trust me I know. I grew up the only kid I knew unless you counted the circus animals. No one wants to admit that the kids might be able to see or do things that they can't."

She looked conspiratorial and leaned in with a whisper "Of course you know the greatest asset young girls have?" She offered secretively.

"Because grown ups have already finished growing. You've got so much more to learn and grow that you could be greater then all of them." She purred.

"Well, this is a flupe," Kit said, pulling the ring-shaped instrument out of her belt pouch and showing it to Jinx. "It doesn't do anything magic here, but it can still play music. And a flink is a set of little hooked claws on the end of a line. It's attached to a reel on Kat's belt, and throws the claw part out to hook onto things. Then he can either tie people up with it, or swing and climb on the line. He's really good with it."

Curious about this big secret, though, Kit leaned in a little too and lowered her voice. "I dunno. What?", she whispered.

"And yeah, I guess," Kit said. "Don't think I'll be greater than Lion-O, though, since he's our king and all."

Now Jinx really wanted Gizmo to make her a Flink. Too bad he was in another universe.

She sighed and gave Kit a pet. "Not with that attitude you won't. If you'd have asked me when I was a kid if I was ever gonna be greater then the acrobats in our circus I would have said no. But now? I can do anything they can do and I can do it better."

Kit giggled a little at the petting. "Well," she said. "I guess I could be greater than him at some things, yeah. But I can't be greater than him at everything. Like using the Sword of Omens; only the Lord of the Thundercats can do that."

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And wrap, I think? :3

Seems like a good wrap to me!