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001- Demons Galore [video]

[It seems that Floramon has taken Hibiki's d-terminal. It also seems that she's convinced him to go back and get his d-terminal.]

Alright, this is a question for the digimon in the audience.

[She sighs.]

How do I convince my partner that I am not a demon? This is getting very old, very fast.

[She looks remarkably grumpy.]

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[Floramon makes a disgusted noise.]

Even bad digimon wouldn't eat a human! Kill them, perhaps, but not eat them!

[She gets over that horror fairly quickly.]

I've found the comparison to virus types to be effective so far.

I mean, killing them is still pretty bad.

[Crabmon sighs.] Percy, I don't think you're being helpful.

Sorry. [He does actually sound it, too, and leans over so he's actually sort of in frame too.] Is your partner around? I mean, maybe we can help. It sort of helped me get used to it when Crabmon-

Steve!

... Steve jumped in the river to help me out. I mean, if he wasn't on my side, he probably wouldn't have done that.

[. . . . . . .]

I'll get my partner, but... Why on digiworld were you in the river?

It's a long story.

[Percy may have created a monster.] See, you're catching on.

[Floramon gives the two of them a judgemental look for a long moment before sighing and calling to her partner.]

Hibiki, darling, come here, please!

[There's some shuffling for a long moment before Hibiki takes the d-terminal from Floramon.]

Hello?

[Percy carefully nudges Steve a little out of frame, if only so that Hibiki's getting a picture of a normal human teenager (... or you know, what looks like a normal human teenager, anyway) instead of a giant, talking crab.]

Hi, my name's Percy Jackson. I know this might be kind of hard to believe - seriously, I do - but that plant thing following you around isn't whatever you think it is. She just wants to help.

[Oh, hey, that's an American name. Hibiki's starting to guess that there are a lot of foreigners on this network.]

I've actually had helpful demons before. They just never... talked before. Have you had yours long?

[Maybe someone else around here's a longer-term demon summoner who can give tips!]

No, I just met him yesterday. And they're not demons, they're apparently called Digimon. [Which he is saying like I don't even know, man, this is all way beyond me.]

There should be a note on your D-Terminal explaining things!

What are digimon, if they aren't demons? I thought it was their demonic family. To be honest, the note just made things more confusing.

You're asking the wrong guy. I'd never heard of them before I got here. I'm still not even sure how I got here.

[Steve pipes up again, apparently stuck on trying to explain this to Percy.] I told you, Percy, we're digital! This whole world is like a giant computer program.

Do they have computers where you're from?

We can't figure out how we got here either. Where were you before?

[. . .]

Are we in the summoning program?

[Pause.]

Wait, that doesn't make sense.

I was in New York. What's a summing program?

[New York? He's going to... carefully avoid that question about the summoning program, he's really not supposed to tell people about that if they don't already know.]

I was in Nagoya! Was the transfer instant for you too? I didn't question Nagoya to Tokyo, but New York?

It was pretty instant, yeah. Maybe distance doesn't matter.

I was thinking we might have been drugged and then brought here, but New York is a long way away...

I mean, I noticed a lot of people are from Japan, but I've met a couple people who don't live anywhere close to it. Why would you think we'd been drugged?

I have no memory of how I got here. At all.

I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean you were drugged. Or that we all were.

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