themainframe | Fifth Verse: Accidental Video (Sort of)

[When the feed comes on, Hawkmon's face is extremely close to the screen. There's...Is that music in the background. The bird Digimon sits back a little bit and holds a feather to his beak with a wink.

Things shift around, the scene of the bedroom Hawkmon shares with Marley passing by rather dizzily until what could only be the living room comes into view. The music, now easily made out to be just one person singing, can be heard clearly, and when the D-Terminal finally focuses on a single point...

That's Marley...dancing and singing on the couch.]

Tonight's the night, let's live it up
I got my money, let's spend it up
Go out and smash it like oh my God
Jump off that sofa, [It's here that she actually jumps off the couch and continues to dance.] let's get, get off!

I know that we'll have a ball
If we get down and go out and just lose it all
I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go
Let's go way out spaced out and losing all contr-- HAWKMON!

[Uh oh! He's been spotted! Rushed, the D-Terminal is shut off right as Marley comes running up.]

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Why is it so embarrassing? You have a really nice voice. You deserve any compliments people might throw at you in response to this.

If it's because of the dancing... [She can't help but laugh a little.] It wasn't that bad, honest.

I-I mean, being recorded like that...it's a bit different than actually being on stage. I'm use to dancing with the whole glee club. It was all choreographed, the performances. This wasn't...a real performance. I was just goofing off.

I don't know, doing something like that over video should be a little easier than doing it on stage, don't you think? The people watching aren't there in person, so it's... different.

[She's not much of a performer, but she was in the company of one for long enough to know that there would most certainly be a difference between the two.]

Oh... what's a glee club?

It's different because he didn't ask me permission...

[She sighs, the blush slowly receding from her cheeks.]

A glee club...it's a show choir. We do more than just sing, but we dance and perform and compete...

... Huh. I didn't know choirs competed like that. What was that like?

I'm sure there are normal choir competitions, but we do more than just stand in place.

[Memories of the regional performance flashes in her mind, her passing out and costing the New Directions a trophy they deserved, and she's silent a moment before she speaks again.]

Performing in a competition is really stressful, especially if everyone expects so much from you. Solos are a big deal, and can make or break a performance. It can be fun, but very scary at the same time.

That does sound pretty stressful...

[Not quite to Holy Grail War levels, but... she didn't think it would be that bad.]

But if it's fun... that's what really matters, right? Sure, it's a competition, but the point of being a club you enjoy performing in is kind of lost if all that matters is being the best.

Some people...take it very seriously. [Like the seniors who all blamed her for the failure at Sectionals.] But I can't blame them. For some, that's really all they have...

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