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[The feed opens on a park at night. It should be a peaceful sight, but it's far from it. There's two people, a couple from the looks of it, screaming and running away, as small fireballs hit the ground behind them.

As they run, you can see a small figure jumping after them. He stops after a while, laughing as the couple disappears from the park.]

Ahahahaha, that's right, you'd better run! Here, take one for the road! Baddaboom! [He snaps his fingers and another fireball appears, flying after them before hitting a tree.] Hahahahaaaa... Ahhhh, that never gets old.

[The figure walks forward and the camera finally decides to focus on him, revealing... a small, purple imp. Not exactly imposing.]

Huh? What's this now? [He turns to look at the camera and walks towards it. Whatever's being used to record this is getting picked up.] Guess one a' those humans musta dropped it. What's this piece a' junk do, anyway? [He starts randomly pushing buttons, but nothing really happens. He frowns as he takes a closer look at it, but then shrugs.] Well, finders keepers!

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Are you actually trying to hurt those people or just scaring them?

[ There's a difference, after all. ]

Well now, that depends on them, toots. If they're dumb enough to stick around, then I don't have much of a choice, do I?

[Not that he'd actually hurt them badly ~~yet~~. Just singe them a little.]

[ Well that's certainly not as bad as it could be. Lydia's used to dealing with fairies and that seems to be a pretty similar attitude. ]

You could share the space, but I doubt that's crossed your mind. What's your name?

Why would I wanna share anything with a buncha disgusting humans? Just the thought's enough to make me sick, blegh!

The name's Impmon.

Are you a kind of fairy, Mr. Impmon?

Again with the 'fairy' business. No, I'm not a fairy, toots, I'm a Digimon. Sheesh!

Have others asked you about fairies? I wasn't aware anyone besides myself was involved with them.

What's a Digimon though?

Yeah, this one other guy. I think it's pretty stupid, I mean, I don't look anything like a fairy, but I guess I'll let it slide just this once, 'cause I'm such a nice guy.

Sheesh, pretty much no one on this thing knows about Digimon, huh? It's short for Digital Monster. It means I'm a program, you know, like from a computer?

Well there are plenty of fairies with different appearances, so it's easy to wonder if you are or aren't. Though for the most part humans can't even see fairies. Only a select few, who usually become fairy doctors like myself.

Not really. Someone's told me about a computer, but I'm from 1865 so I'm afraid I don't have any experience with them.

So that part of everyone on this thing being on different worlds is true, huh? Guess that's not so unbelievable. [It really isn't. No reason why the Real World and the Digital World had to be the only worlds out there, after all.]

Wait, are you serious? Sheesh you're far in the past.

It's pretty easy to accept considering most worlds either have suspicions of other worlds or access to them. I've never quite understood when someone didn't believe it.

I bet you're far in the past to someone too, you know. It's not like I can help it.

Ha! Typical human stupidity. Won't even believe the stuff they see with their own eyes.

Hmph... Guess you do got a point there, toots. So how many worlds does this thing connect to, anyway?

Well, I won't argue that they do that.. [ Lydia's part of the doesn't-always-understand-humans crew. ]

It's difficult to get a count since they're often changing and there are some people from the same worlds.

They can be really dumb, especially the humans in my town. Most of 'em don't even realize us Digimon are here! I mean, how blind can you get?

Huh, that's weird. Guess I'll have to see for myself then.

Are you sure they can all see you? I know you're not the same as fairies, but most humans can't see most fairies. There are some fairies who can make themselves visible to humans, like Nico or someone from Ibrazel's royal court, but most of them don't have that kind of ability. Human-wise most people can't see fairies at all, but then there are some people like me who can see all of them. Fairies can always interact with the human world though. Perhaps a situation like that is the cause of it?

You can visit them too-- the other worlds.

Heheheh... trust me, toots, they can see me alright. They're just too dumb to realize what they're lookin' at!

Yeah, I heard that. How's that supposed to work, anyway?

Well have you spoken to them to explain it?

I think it works differently for different people. I have to have someone take me.

Why'd I wanna do that? It's not my problem if they're not smart enough to understand what's going on, I've got more important things to worry about. I'm not gonna waste my time talking to humans. [Of course, he's doing exactly that right now. He's a hypocrite like that.]

Any way of doing it without havin' to hitch a ride with someone else?

Well if you're not sharing information with them of course they're not going to be able to know it. That's like saying someone should know exactly how you're feeling when they're not a mind-reader.

You have to find a way to get or make your own, I suppose.

Y'don't have to be a mind-reader to realize that a buncha monsters are running around town causin' trouble, toots, you just need eyes! [In the defense of the random citizens, the government is covering it up. Not that Impmon knows this.] Not that I really care, I'm fine with them thinkin' I'm not real. It means they scream more when they see me!

Hmf, regular fountain of information all of youse are. Whatever, I'll figure something out myself. How hard can it be?

You mean they don't realize you're there at all even if they've see you? I've seen some cases of denial but that seems a little extreme.

I'm a little busy with things in my world and I have someone who will take me places so I never felt the need to investigate it.

They make up phony explanations, far as I can tell and they're even more ridiculous than what's actually going on! Like I said, human stupidity. [He shrugs.] Eh, it's only a matter of time before a Digimon big enough bio-emerges that they just can't ignore it anymore, if you ask me.

Well, you're goin' at it all wrong then, toots! You can't go depending on someone else to take care of stuff for you, you gotta do it on your own! That's what I'm plannin' on doing.

It sounds like what they do about fairies too. Completely accept every single part of a story as truth except for the fairies, even though they're just as likely as the rest of it-- sometimes even moreso.

The one who does it for me is a fairy who I work with. I don't worldhop often enough to need my own, anyway.

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