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Penny was seated on a bench in the park. She had managed to convince her handlers to let her have a moment for herself there, although she had been strictly forbidden from contacting Ruby, or any of her friends.

So for now she would have to settle for trying to enjoy the fine weather, despite her body's inability to feel the temperature or wind. Even so, there was something deep within her that felt joy at it, so it did have some worth…

Her reverie was broken when she spotted an unusual person approaching.

Purple hair… red je- *static* (in?#rf χe) wel…

Huh? This error…? Again?

She shook it off.

That is Riina Onyx. Student at Heaven Academy. Leader of team ROAL. Combat ability, unknown. Semblance, unknown. Not registered for participation in the Vytal festival tournament…

"Hello. You're that girl I saw at the dance yesterday, aren't you? The one accompanied by Atlesian soldiers?" By the time Penny had completed dredging up all information on the person she had already reached her, and called out.

This caught the artificial being off guard, as she hadn't expected anyone to try to speak to her.

"That might be correct, miss Onyx!" In her haste to respond she made an error, and a dangerous glint appeared in the eye of the other person. "Why do you ask?" She quickly added.

"I wished to talk to you a bit, if you don't mind?"

Penny rose from her seat. "I'm not certain I have any time to talk right now."

"Then I guess we'd better make this brief…" The purple-haired teen responded, and before Penny could react she had closed the distance between them.

Then two hands gripped her shoulders, and she only had a few moments to note the incomprehensible strength in them before her forehead met crystal…

She could only barely catch a few of her security protocols being breached before everything turned to white.

When her vision returned, she was in an unknown place, and her body felt… distant.

Looking down she saw nothing but a faint green mass, faintly resembling a young girl.

Still, if she had to ascribe a feeling to this place she now found herself in… it reminded her of residing within a network, although she had only done so once.

"Where is this?" She wondered.

"This is a private connection between thee and myself, existing only for the two of us, through our direct connection." A voice responded from behind her.

She whirled, expecting to see Riina Onyx there, even if the voice was different.

Instead she was greeted by a breath-taking figure, resembling a large knight, clad in black plate, with golden trims and a pair of golden armlets. A white cape flowed from behind the figure. Atop its head perched the red jewel-like interface that also adorned Riina, betraying a connection.

But this figure was not Human. While the size was hard to estimate in this environment where nothing that could be used for scale existed, the being before her towered above her, easily three times larger.

Furthermore, while there appeared to be an opening for a mouth, behind it was solid red, and in the eye slits two large eyes, golden in colour could be seen, placed in such a manner as to suggest that what appeared to be a helmet was actually the being's head.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"In the Human World I am the one known as Riina Onyx, but thou mayst know me as Alphamon." The being replied.

Penny wasn't sure how to interpret this turn of events. On one hand, she was completely unable to equate the being before her, Alphamon, with Riina Onyx. Yet on the other she already knew, deep inside, that it was.

"What do you want?" She asked, filled with a deep sense of apprehension.

"As I said, I merely wish to converse with thee. Thou hast no need to fear, I shalt not hurt thee, as long as thou vow to keep mine identity and our discourse a secret."

"I-I'm not sure I can keep any secrets from my father…" She responded, averting her gaze and trailing off.

"Thou hast no need to worry, there will be no records left of our discourse within thine mechanical frame."

"Huh?" She looked back up at the being that called itself Alphamon, filled with confusion. "But that's-"

Alphamon, clearly sensing her confusion, chuckled sympathetically. "Fret not. All thou need to know is that the thee here, and the mechanical frame called Penny Polendina, are not quite one and the same."

Those words caused her to reel, unable to completely process or accept them as she stared down at the figure that was 'her' in this place.

Who is she? What-

"There is no need for thee to overthink it. Thou are thine own self, no more, no less. Even I myself find it troubling to consider existence."

Her gaze returned to the other being. While she remained confused, the words rang true, and somehow calmed her, allowing her to recover.

She took a few deep breaths, or at least performed an action that mimicked doing so.

"Okay… What do you want to talk about?"

"First, a question. What doth thee know of thine own creation?"

She considered the question, rather certain that anything less than the truth would end poorly. Assuming the being before her would believe the truth…

"I… don't know. There are some very early vague memories of sensations and… a crystalline palace…?"

"A crystalline palace?" There was a distinct spark of interest in Alphamon's eyes.

"I don't know, my consciousness was still fragmentary back then, it could be anything from stray data to… I don't know." She looked down at her 'feet'. "Any information about my actual creation is heavily classified, and I haven't been granted any access to it."

"Hum, mine thanks for thine honesty. In return, I will answer a question of thine."

For a while, she stood there, slightly flabbergasted, with no clear question she would like to ask.

"What are you?" She then asked, the words slipping out before she could realise.

Alphamon chuckled amusedly.

"I am a Digimon, a digital lifeform from a world born out of the Human World's data, known as the Digital World. There I act as the leader of the thirteen Royal Knights, loyal servants of Yggdrasil, the core of our world and our liege."

She tilted her head in confusion.

Alphamon started laughing softly.

"Alas, it seems our time has run out, and our discourse must be cut short. I leave thee with a small parting gift." A ball of light emerged from the Royal Knight's palm travelled over to her, and melded into her form.

Suddenly she felt herself surge with new power, although she could not comprehend of what kind.

"I am afraid this gift will have no bearing upon thine frame, but with it thou should be able to rebuke at least lesser Digimon, if they attempt to inhabit it."

She became even more confused upon this comment.

Alphamon shook…her? head sadly. "Merely know that not all of mine kin are benevolent, and might exploit, corrupt, or even devour thee."

Actually, for some reason that made perfect sense to her. If they were lifeforms, then there was no reason for all of them to be 'good'.

Then everything went white again, before she dizzily found herself back in her body, staring at Riina as she pulled away.

Penny couldn't help but stare a bit at the interface that adorned the other person's head, before shaking her head.

"Sorry if that left you a bit dizzy." Riina said, her voice and apparent personality in stark contrast to Alphamon's.

"It's fine Riina, I'll be okay." The robot girl replied.

Hearing this caused the purple-haired teen to smile widely.

"Thanks for your time! Maybe we can talk again under better circumstances?!" Riina said and turned to leave.

"Thank you!" Penny replied. "Let's hope so!"

She even honestly wished for it a bit.

The older girl laughed heartily.

Once the mysterious being was gone, she checked her internal timer. Only a few minutes had passed, despite the conversation feeling like it had gone on for much longer.

How curious…

-Break—

"So wait, you think one of your friends are somewhere around here?" Yang asked their new friend, or at least Ruby's new friend.

"Yeah! It was really brief, and I haven't sensed it since, but I know that was one of them!" Huckmon replied while bouncing up and down excitedly.

"How does this friend of yours look?" Weiss asked.

While she found the creature rather… annoying, at times, she had yet to find a reason to truly hate it, so she settled for trying to help it achieve its objective faster, so that it may leave their lives.

"Let's see… Dukemon's really tall, so… Wait… considering his size there's no way you could have missed him…" The little dragon tilted its head in confusion.

"Wait, how tall is this guy?" Ruby asked.

Huckmon seemed to start looking around, while thinking intensely.

"Man, it was so long ago I interacted with my comrades-in-arms in this form, I've forgotten how they scale compared to myself…"

"Uh… what?" Yang said.

"I think he should at the very least be taller than this window." The small Digimon then said.

"That doesn't seem too-" Ruby said, looking at the window.

"Wait, do you mean inside or outside?" Blake asked, causing her teammates to look at her with incredulous looks.

"Of cour-" Weiss started, but was interrupted by Huckmon.

"I mean on the outside, it should at the very least be able to look inside." It said carelessly.

"WHAT!?" Came four simultaneous outcries.

"No no… if something that monstrous was around we'd have noticed long ago…" Weiss said.

"Are you sure? There's no way we'd have missed something like that." Blake queried.

"I'm not perfectly certain, because I'd need to consider things better first, or find something that I could easily relate the scale of…" Huckmon said. "But now that I think about it… I think they had prepared a set of disguises and anchors…"

"Disguises? How would something like that allow something that large to go unnoticed? Are you telling me the guys a tree or something?" Yang interjected.

"No, human disguises. Yeah, now that I think about it, they should look like humans right now… Crap, I can't actually remember what they look like, even though I'm sure I saw them." It said, clearly lost in thought.

"Oh crap!" Ruby suddenly said. "I need to go meet with Headmaster Ozpin!"

She quickly dashed out, leaving their conversation unfinished, and interrupted.

-Break—

"Why did Roman want to look at the virus anyway?" Emerald said as they were lounging around in their room. Cinder wasn't there at the moment, rather being off doing whatever it was she might be doing.

"Beats me, said he was a curious about how it worked, and how well it was working or something." Mercury replied.

He had recovered from his humiliation at the hands of Albion, and he was currently idly considering ways to take revenge.

"Do you really think it was a good idea to let him look at it? We can't exactly trust him you know."

"True, but what do you think he can do? It's super complicated, and I'm not sure even Cinder knows how it works." The grey-haired teen replied with a nonchalant shrug. "Besides, he's also going to be making use of it in the future. Can't really argue with that."

"Just don't blame me when Cinder roasts your ass."

"She won't if nobody tells her. Besides, I really don't think it's that big of a deal."

"If nobody tells her? What makes you think I won't?"

"Why bother? Besides, if you do, I'll make an 'accident'."

"Are you threatening me?"

"Are you daft? What does it sound like?"

The two teens narrowed their eyes at each other, each entering battle readiness.

In their distraction, they failed to notice the black queen piece on their scrolls flash purple, shift into the mark of Saturn, and display the text:

"Code: Saturn, Level: 5"

Then it shifted back, leaving no trace that anything ever happened.

Author's notes: I know, I know, I'm terrible. And also deeply regretting my choices for Alphamon's manner of speech. If anyone feels I got the scale completely wrong, please, do tell, while providing a better one. I do honestly suspect that Dukemon, Alphamon and Omegamon are probably taller than their dorm in all actuality, but I'm not entirely sure exactly how tall their dorm actually is. Or how tall the Royal Knights actually are. Not only am I bad at figuring that kind of stuff out, I think it varies from depiction to depiction.

I hope you enjoyed, and that you have a nice day.