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[It's a video. Terra's somewhere outside of HospiTown by the forest in the background; it's late but not so late where he can't be easily seen. He looks like he hasn't been sleeping well, but otherwise alert.]

Hey there. I don't know most of you and most of you don't know me, so ... I'm Terra. I've been told in some detail we're here to save this place, and I intend to get to it.

['Now', apparently.]

Minervamon said she'd be leaving more detailed information later on, but for now I know we need to find Titamon and find the ARCloner as some first steps. It's a lot better than nothing to work with at all, but this world's a lot larger--

[A lot larger than most worlds he's been to. He can't say that, and continues after a moment of thought.]

--Than I expected. There's a lot of ground to cover. So I'm hoping to find some people willing to do some traveling. ...A lot of traveling actually. And willing to share what they find when they're traveling with everyone else. If anyone out there's got experience with uh, scouting, reconnaissance, that sort of thing, and willing to help, I'd like to hear from you.

[It's pretty clear Terra's not used to doing this sort of thing, it's all pretty awkwardly stated, with a bit of fidgeting here and there too, but he manages to stay pretty calm. This was a thing he was sure would help. Now if he could find enough people willing to help..]

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[You're speaking his language in more ways than one, Terra.]

If scouting and recon is what you need, I'm your mech.

Good to see someone as eager as I am to remedy what's happened to our worlds.

Edited (typo) 2014-01-20 19:34 (UTC)

[It takes Terra a while to figure out the text option for this thing, probably with Dorumon's help. And then it takes a little while longer to actually get a text-based response out. Maybe the person responding couldn't respond to video for some reason! He's obliging enough at least.]

You're a mech? That's useful! I didn't know sapient AI existed in the digital world, beyond the digimon themselves.

If you're volunteering then I'll happily put you to work. There's a lot to do, I think, and who knows how much time there is to get it done in. You're trained in recon, or is it more of a hobby thing?

[Given the choice, he'd be using video or audio to communicate. Unfortunately, the story behind why he can't is a long one filled with unpleasant details.]

[Bumblebee realizes his mistake. He's still not used to this body. (He isn't about to get used to calling himself human though. Because if they play their cards right? They can fix this in due time and he can go back to being about 16 feet tall and being significantly less squishy.)]

Sorry. Force of habit. I'm human here, but I wasn't always. I was a robot where I come from. Different body maybe, but my processor's still got all the same circuits.

And I've got the necessary training, sir. I'm currently ranked Warrior class, but I've served as a Scout since the beginning of the War. It's something of a specialty.

[This world forced people to conform to its norms, then. He's heard of it, been warned by Master Eraqus that some worlds simply rejected someone's natural form and reshaped it to better suit its own nature. There was a world of lions..

Guess this place was the same way.]

It must be quite a learning curve for you then, being in a new body and a new world.

No need for 'sir', I don't hold any rank anywhere. Terra works well enough for me! But it sounds like you've got more than enough experience for what I'm looking for, that's great. I don't think we're technically at war yet, but depending on whether or not this Titamon fellow gathers up some supporters we might be sooner or later.

Do you have a name?

[There's a pause before he finishes the message. Robots didn't need to rely on verbal speech the way humans did...]

One that a human might be able to pronounce?

[He's a little proud of this first part:] Autobots like me are known for their adaptability. It's how we've survived this long.

[But he would have appreciated a crash course, that's for sure. His first week was a ridiculous trial by fire, figuring out all the ways that his human body was infinitely more fragile than his own Cybertroninan form.]

No war yet, but I'm told that the more powerful digimon are showing up with more frequency these days. Might be a sign of things to come.

And don't worry. If you're human, my name is right up your alley. My name's Bumblebee. Not too bad, right?