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Dayshift 43: Library, third shift
Kibitoshin left the cafeteria in what could only have been described as a state of sheer, unleaded anxiety. Why did he have to be the one Dory had spoken to first? With everything he’d said and failed to say she’d probably ended up with a reverse education. He wouldn’t have been surprised if she came out of it knowing even less than she had when
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As soon as he was left on his own and went over to the shelves, Lockdown got something of a surprise. There were no datapads. The shelves were lined with cardboard rectangles with words (which he guessed were the titles) on them. Just what kind of library was this?
Lockdown slid one of the things, labeled "Watchers", out and examined it curiously. He could now see that the thin cardboard wasn't the whole thing, but just the binding for hundreds of paper pages stacked together. It was like his notebook, only thicker. The bounty hunter opened the thing to a random page and skimmed through it. What he read was interesting, to say the least. It detailed a human male and female interacting with some sort of canine, talking about some sort of monster that was after them. The bounty hunter read a few more pages before putting the thing back. He picked up another one, a thinner one, which turned out to be some sort of romantic tale that made Lockdown want to empty his stomach. The bounty hunter did this a few more times, before gathering a few into his arms and finding a place to sit down and begin reading.
Writing fiction wasn't unheard of on Cybertron, but it was rare. Most reading material consisted of essays, policitical reports, and history. Fiction was usually accounts of myths or other such things. Lockdown wasn't sure if what he was reading about was true or not. Sure, almost none of it sounded true, but after everything he'd seen at this institute, he wasn't sure anything in these works could be false or not. The monster in that "Watchers" book certianly sounded like something the Institute would cook up.
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...But seriously, why'd she have to drag him here? What exactly was he going to do with books?! He glowered at the human as she left, then looked around to see if Loz was there. He wasn't, but... There was a guy with weird marks on his face. He'd never seen a human that looked like that before. And Renamon had marks on her face too! Maybe this guy was one of them!
"Hey!" He said, totally shattering the general rule of 'when in a library, stay quiet' "Are you a Digimon?"
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This was one of the stranger looking humans. Like himself, the man was tattooed, although his was a single human-optic on his forehead. Lockdown also noticed the pointed teeth.
"No," The bounty hunter stated. "What the frag is a Digimon?"
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Looking back down at his reading material, the bounty hunter snorted and murmered, "You think it sucks for you? Try going from being a powerful transforming robot to a human."
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"...Sounds just like a Digimon ta me. 'least the metal ones, anyway." Complete with Digivolving or something! "Used ta be able ta take on other Megas, no problem. Even without guns. Now I can' even punch down a damn door." His knuckles were actually bruised from that now.
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When the man, or 'Digimon', compared Lockdown to a 'metal Digimon', Lockdown looked up from his book to glare at him, "You sayin' that I'm some technorganic? Because let me tell you, I'm not." Who did this guy think the bounty hunter was, Blackarachnia? Also, 'Megas'? What the slag did he mean by that?
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"I don' even know what yer talkin' about!" Sheesh. Some people were touchy. "Org--Like a human? Nah, Digimon 're made of data, like I said!" And whatever they were in the real world, but that was too confusing for him.
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"As you can see, I'm not some spider or anything weird or gross like that."
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"...Never said you was a Dokugumon." That would be weird.
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After listening to the explaination on Digivolving, the bounty hunter said, "Sounds more like reformatting than transforming." Although, the 'Mode Change' part sounded closer to transforming. Lockdown knew what he was talking about, since he'd been created rather small and thin, before the heavy modding had started. Anyone who saw what his original body looked like would probably never guess that it had become the large, fearsome mech of today.
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"If ya say so. 's what every Digimon does. 'cept for Mode Change, not everyone c'n do that. But 's damn awesome when it happens!" Beelzemon replied, all boundless enthusiasm. And volume.
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Thinking about said scrapheap made Lockdown think of the others in that group. The medibot with the EMP generator, Optimus Prime, the big bot with the wrecking ball, and... Prowl. The bounty hunter couldn't hold back a sigh as he thought about Prowl.
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"You wanna think otherwise then go right ahead an' I'll prove ya wrong."
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