themainframe | V-03 [video]

[Kaldur begins the video outside again. He appears to be in one of the public training areas. Gizamon isn't too be seen which probably means she's holding the D-Terminal to broadcast.]

I suppose those of us who have been here for some time are starting to become accustomed to the occasional earthquakes that herald the arrival of new chosen. Before I begin my original intent for this message, I would first like to welcome you to the Digital World. I am sure Koushirou has given his usual greeting and that you are still adjusting to the changes of being in a new world...but suffice to say it will not always be so welcoming.

[From offscreen a rough female voice berates him.] Ugh, Kaldur, just get to the point!

Right. I believe a suggestion has been made before regarding this matter, but I would like to again propose either combat training or even just team building between not just yourself and your partner but amongst all of us. Many of you were not here when we rescued Taichi or the Beemon attack, but those events were hard fought. We succeeded, true, but it would not hurt to work on becoming better prepared to handle such incidents...especially if we are going to have to work together to achieve whatever our destiny might have in store for us.

There are many of us and we can be a great force if we start working together. Teams are not forged overnight and if we are thrown into battles like the Beemon attack or even the Dark Area again without the right preparation...it may spell the end for us.

[There's a huff from offscreen.] Why do you have to make things so complicated? [Gizamon turns the D-Terminal to face her, she's scowling but that's her usual expression.] What Kaldur is trying to say is that we're going to start some battle sessions and training in these arenas that are for public use. A lot of you guys are newbs and haven't even evolved yet so you especially need some serious help. But, even if you have, Kaldur thinks we need to work more on teamwork or something so we don't get overrun next time a hoard of digimon stomp through here. I'm still trying to convince him to let us go out into the wild though and fight actual digimon there.

But anyway, start showing up early in the morning and Kaldur has some strategies and stuff he's learned from his team to work with you on...or something. Sound good?

[She turns the D-Terminal back to Kaldur who just nods. He realizes he was probably a bit too formal but he can't help himself sometimes.]

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Okay! Guilmon will do his best.

[Though, hmm, this does raise an important question.]

What kind of things do you think Guilmon should focus on? There's a lot I could talk about!

Thank you, Guilmon.

You could share stories about your experience in battles in the past, perhaps advice to other partner digimon. And I believe help in sparring would not hurt either if you are up to it.

Perhaps you have some ideas yourself.

Well, Guilmon has fought a lot of mean Digimon before, like the Devas! Those were Ultimate level Digimon, too, so they were really strong. Guilmon could also talk about biomerging. That's how me and Takato reach the Mega level, and that's the strongest level ever!

[He emphasizes this strength by stretching really tall and slashing his claws... before losing his balance and falling on his rump. Oops.]

Um... I'd talk about cards, but I don't know if your Digivices work with them. Takato would sometimes slash cards through his Digivice to make me stronger in fights!

What did you do to beat these stronger Digimon? Or is it really only a matter of making ourselves stronger, too.

[Kaldur held up his Digivice, also examining it.]

I do not see a slot where cards would be used nor have I seen anyone mentioning even having cards provided. I imagine that means the cards would not be compatible with this particular digivice.

[But he is now even more curious about these other digivices out there. Perhaps another time though. He decides to focus on evolution.]

Biomerging? Could you explain that more Guilmon?

Well, sometimes I worked with other Digimon, sometimes Takato slashed cards, and sometimes I just fought really hard! Plus, when we beat Digimon, Guilmon absorbed their data to become stronger. That helped!

[It's allowed him to take on Champion level Digimon without evolving. That's always a plus.]

But I wonder why your Digivice is different... All the Tamers I know can use cards to help their partners. And Biomerging's when we evolve with our partners to the Mega level!

[Yes, with their partners. You heard that right.]

[Kaldur thinks about that for a second. Koushirou had not mentioned that form of evolution before and it also made Kaldur wonder about the possibilities and perhaps powers that the digivices might have. He'd have to look into it at some point, but technology wasn't exactly a strong point.]

It sounds like it boils down to factors that determine any fight: team work, strategy, tools, and experience. I'm not sure why the digivices are different, perhaps one of the other chosen would have a better answer for it.

It could just be because this is a different world! Where Guilmon comes from, everything's really different. Lots of the Digimon here thought it was weird when I talked about Digimon cards and video games.

[Frankly, he didn't think it was that strange, but it's all he's really known up until this point. This other Digital World and its brand of logic differs considerably. Still takes some getting used to, really.]

That would make sense I suppose given that there are multiple other worlds. If there are different digital worlds that is not too far of a stretch.

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