MARK II ⊚ [Video]

[arrogantalloy]

[The screen comes on to show Salamon, it's kind of dark like she's hiding in something. She looks both sad and worried.]

Does... Does anyone out there know how to get their Chosen to stop hating them?

[She glances to the side, as if looking in the direction that Tony should be in.]

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[arrogantalloy]

You mean, ask him why he hates me?

[strengthinkindness]

Yeah...that, or what you can do so he won't hate you...I mean, we can try to help all we like, but it'd be up to him whether he likes you or not. So you might wanna know what he likes...

[arrogantalloy]

He just huffs at me and starts talking about how one is too many, and that he didn't even have a dog growing up.

[She then looks a bit sulky.]

He only likes Port and Bruce.

I'm so sorry I forgot, is Dorumon a boy or girl? XD;

[strengthinkindness]

Port...? Oh, his other Digimon. I didn't think he liked her all that much either.

Didja ever talk to her about it?

LOL All Tony's Digi's are girls

[arrogantalloy]

All Port does is scold me for upsetting him. She keeps calling me a brat. But I know Tony's my partner, and that she's just a intruder...

XD Just making sure

[strengthinkindness]

[Sprout hesitates at that.] Hmm...I see...

So uh...you ever hear anything about the SCOPE virus before?

It's alll good!

[arrogantalloy]

Scope? Like the things you look through?

[She tilts her head curiously.]

[strengthinkindness]

Well uh...no, not really. See...there was this virus thing that had been going around for a while...and somehow there were, uh...copies...made of the Chosens' partners...

[arrogantalloy]

[Salamon sits there for a moment and thinks about what was said. Then gasps.]

I knew she was a fake!

[Then she realises how loud she was and goes very still for a moment, then realises that they either didn't hear here or are just ignoring the fact there's a Salmon in a cupboard talking to someone on the terminal.]

[strengthinkindness]

Now hang on a minute there...See, when the virus was taken care of, Chosen who arrived later - ...like Tony - started getting their original partners...and their, uh...their SCOPE partners started showing up afterwards...

[arrogantalloy]

I... Can't be the fake. I was waiting for him. I'm... I'm not...

[She looks really shaken.]

So he's right? I'm not his digimon...

[strengthinkindness]

Well...no...technically you weren't his original partner...But you're still his Digimon. Like you said, you've been waiting for him...and even though you were made from a part of the other one, you're still here...that makes you real enough...

[arrogantalloy]

I.

I was made from Port? Like sisters?

[strengthinkindness]

...Yeah, kinda like sisters...

[Sure, let's go with that.]

[arrogantalloy]

But not a intruder, or a fake?

[strengthinkindness]

Nah, I wouldn't say that. Since you were made from a part of Port, you're just as much Tony's Digimon as she is. Just uh...younger...

Maybe just try to go easy? As Port what you can do to help, and let Tony get used to you for a bit...

[arrogantalloy]

He doesn't want to get used to me...

[She thinks for a moment.]

Wait, you know them, right? Did he yell a Port a lot too?

[strengthinkindness]

Well, he got really annoyed with her sometimes, from what I've seen...Kinda snippy really, if you ask me...

[arrogantalloy]

Very, very snippy. Especially when I try to protect him.

[strengthinkindness]

What've you been protecting him from?

[arrogantalloy]

[She's quiet for a long moment.]

Everything?

Well not everything but I've just being making sure that everything is okay before he goes anywhere

[What she means is she walks directly in front of him and has smaller legs so he keeps nearly stepping on her.]

[strengthinkindness]

Hmm...maybe you should tone it down a bit? Try not to do so much at once...

[arrogantalloy]

B-but! I've missed out on looking after him so much already. And Port already digivoled... It's how I found Tony... I...

[She sags to the floor.]

Just want him to be proud of me.

[strengthinkindness]

Hey, don't sweat it. Listen, you'll get your chance. You just gotta be patient.

And Digivolving isn't everything. Y'know, I haven't Digivolved yet...and I'm the original partner...

[arrogantalloy]

You promise?

[She's starting to look a little hopeful now.]