With the test addition to the manual and the updated notes section, I looked over the upgrade that I repced sitting on the table. It really did just look like a hard drive... If I connect it to a computer, could I read the data?

  The answer felt obvious, No.

  It was the same as with cultivation manuals, and any other nguage I've encountered taken from the Otherside, completely unknown and incomprehensible. The only difference was that this time it was digital. It looked worse than the moon runes you got when trying to py foreign games.

  Even so, it was a blessing that I could connect it at least. (The cable was compatible).

  While I was busy looking over the corrupted runes of the Upgrade, Kuramon squeezed its way out of the watch and jumped its way onto the Upgrade.

  When I finally noticed, I saw green code running from side to side across his rge red eye and his little ears were pointing straight up.

  When the code finished fshing, he looked up at me with his rge red eye before a rge tear started forming.

  I don’t know what he did, but I assume it failed. Whatever it was he tried to do. Petting his head I tried to console him. Even if he is Digimon, in his current form he's too young to be capable of much.

  Like the Porygon he might need to download the dictionary, and some csses in coding before he could complete this mission... “Humm…” I felt a lightbulb.

  Quickly grabbing a fsh drive and a cable I started moving some useful data onto the drive. I added the English dictionary that comes preloaded on the system and a couple different programming software.

  Holding out the drive at the end of the cable “Here,” I wiggled it around like a cat toy.

  Seeing it, Kuramon's teary eye dried up, following the drive from left to right, before he pounced. His little tentacles csped around the drive to prevent its escape, his eye closed happily and ears wiggling as he began sucking on the drive like a binky.

  Leaving him to his ‘diginip’, I moved to remove the Beldum egg from the TV, hatching the egg in game and removing it once the animation started.

  Even with my current strength, this one was heavy! It easily weighed over 200 lbs. while only being a foot and a half in size. Pcing it over to the other side of the couch, like the Porygon egg, the Beldum egg had changed once I brought it out. Taking on a distinct blue metallic appearance with lines etched into its surface, a prominent rge silver X crosses over from one side to the other. On the bottom of the egg were three simir metallic circles.

  I was about to take it to a secure location to wait for it to hatch but, Kuramon let out a noise “Awaaa~” its squishy body undiluted with discomfort before…

  On this day, I learned that Digimon do in fact poop.

  "How did that come out of you!? You’re like the same size!"

  “~AwA!~”

  The clean-up of the mess only took a couple minutes since I could easily toss it somewhere else, but while I was wiping and disinfecting the table, the metallic blue egg started to glow.

  “aWa!” Kuramon’s eye went wide seeing the process of the egg transforming into energy before rematerializing.

  The egg had transformed into a simirly blue metallic ‘leg’, at around 2 feet long (0.6m) the main body of the leg was a rge octagonal section ending at the back with a ring structure before becoming ft. On the back of this ft side were three shovel-shaped cws that stuck jutting back around 3-4 inches in length. On the top of the octagonal midsection, a sort of crest extended over its round head. The head was a little rough to be called a sphere and in its center was a dark hole where a mechanical red eye sat inside.

  It was very mechanical, more so than the Porygon’s crystal body, Kuramon seemed natural by comparison. Even while being a head-sized purple jellyfish with a simirly red eye.

  The newborn Beldum in question looked around the room, the mechanical red lens twisted inside its inid socket the rge bck pupil ditating as it looked at me. Reaching out my hand to touch its metallic surface, it was quite cold and felt like hard steel. My hand sat atop its surface for a moment before the leg leaned into my touch. “Woah, you're still heavy.” I almost fell over as it made the slightest move.

  From what I understand it controls magnets specifically the magnetism around its body granting it weightlessness. It seems it's not as weightless as it appears.

  After nearly pushing me down Kuramon started talking to the blue leg. “Awa Waa aaW!” Beldum responded by turning towards him and they seemed to be locked in some sort of communication Kuramon continued with his barrage of “Awa’s” while the Beldum remained silent. Its mechanical red eye twisted in its socket and the shovel-shaped cws ccked as they moved up and down.

  Not knowing what they were doing and not wanting this to grow into a bigger issue or a fight I pulled out a magnetic chess set that I had prepared.

  *Cp*

  I cpped my hands breaking up the two from their heated ‘debate’ before pcing the checkered board down on the table. Taking out the white pieces I began setting them up on my side of the board. Once my pieces were all on the board, “Now you.” Beldum followed suit copying their pcement with the bck pieces. Taking a moment to look at each of them before pcing them down on the board.

  Taking the first move I began expining the game, “Pawns can move once or twice on the first move.” (Pawn E2 to E4) J

  Following my move Beldum moved (Pawn E7 to E6) B

  “Bishops move diagonally following their color.” (Bishop F1 to B5) J

  “Pawns can only take diagonally forward.” (Pawn C3 to C4) B

  (Bishop B5 to B4) J

  (Pawn B7 to B5) B

  (Pawn B2 to B3) J

  (Pawn B5 to B4 Bishop captured) B

  After capturing the first piece Beldum pulled it over and started floating it around its head.

  (Pawn B3 to A4) J

  (Pawn D7 to D5) B

  “Knights can move three up and one over, in an L, always onto the opposite color.” (Knight G1 to F3) J

  (Bishop F7 to C5) B

  (Pawn D2 to D4) J

  (Pawn D5 to D4 Pawn captured) B

  The pawn was added to its floating collection.

  (Pawn D4 to C5 Bishop captured) J

  (Pawn D4 to F3 Knight captured) B

  “Queen is the strongest piece and can move and take in all directions” (Queen D1 to D8 Queen captured, Check) J

  “You are now in Check and must take the Queen otherwise it will take your King. The King is the most important piece. If you lose it, you lose the game. They can only move once in any direction and can take when it won't put them in check. If in danger of Check, it must move or take. It cannot take if it would be put in check”.

  (King E8 to D8 Queen captured) B

  “Rooks are special, while they can only move and take in direct lines. And before either makes their first move they can Castle with the King, the two pieces meet in the middle.” (King E1 to G1, Rook H1 to F1, Castle) J

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  The game progressed and Beldum turtled up, I was able to break it using my remaining Bishop and Rooks but, in the end, “And that’s checkmate, I lost. You turtled up pretty good after you understood the rules.” I can’t tell whether it was happy, but it certainly enjoyed rotating the pieces it captured around its head.

  After I admitted defeat, Beldum started returning all the pieces onto the board. “You want to py again?” It didn’t move.

  Shaking my head left and right “No”?

  Shaking my head up and down, “Yes”?

  Beldum began tilting up and down. “Okay, we can py again.” The three of us proceeded to py for the next several hours until Porygon returned from the computer screen.

  "That certainly took a while," I said looking away from the test match with Kuramon sitting on Beldums head. The two appear to be able to communicate wordlessly and because of Kuramon's tiny limbs, he couldn't move the pieces on his own.

  In the middle of this test game, Porygon reappeared, coming out of the computer in a ball of light. It had been about five or six hours since I sent it off; it seems that there is still travel time when traversing cyberspace.

  "Let's see what you got."

  Plugging the drive into my computer, it was full... a complete 12 terabytes. But woefully and wretchedly disorganized. Now came the next problem, combing through 12 terabytes of juicy government data for actually useful information.

  It would take me weeks to sort this on my own, but I created some folders and started separating things like bill proposals and emails and all sorts of other miscelneous junk between each other.

  After sitting there for a while Kuramon wiggled its way over to see what I was doing. Leaving Porygon to attempt to py chess against Beldum having learned by watching the two py.

  Kuramon watched me with its big red eye for a little before it went over entering the computer screen creating a simir-looking ripple effect. On-screen, a little pixeted version of him was looking around. Minimizing the tabs Kuramon opened a coding application and started writing. Code was quickly fshing by on the screen, within a couple of minutes a new icon appeared on the screen. It looked like two pieces of paper being moved into a folder.

  Exiting the screen Kuramon gave a happy "AwA!" and expected to be praised. Rubbing his head I took out another pte of steak for him to eat.

  Even while seeing Kuramon eat Porygon continued to focus on the chess game (it was losing) while Beldum stared at me with its mechanical red eye. Porygon was completely non-biological and didn’t need to eat, sleep, or anything for that matter. From what I’ve read, Beldum needed to sleep but they didn't necessarily require food. They liked to eat magnets/magnetic metals, but it wasn't something they needed to do as a survival process. (They did enjoy hunting metallic Pokemon for these metals).

  Pulling out a rge U-shaped red magnet from the screen, the moment I held it up, presenting it to Beldum, it started floating. Pointing the prongs of the U towards Beldum it was quickly taken towards its eye where a smaller hole sat. Once it was close, the magnet was harshly bent into an I-shape within a second and drawn into the hole where a harsh grinding noise filled the room.

  *Gurrrr*

  The rest of the table stopped what they were doing and just stared as the magnet was quickly ground down. Once it finished and looked around, I think it got embarrassed, due to a ck of capable features I can’t really tell. Then it started to hover lower.

  “Are you tired?” I asked. It was freshly hatched and was probably pushing itself because it was having fun.

  It didn’t move at first instead turning to communicate with Kuramon. Then began moving in the affirmative up-and-down motion it had been taught.

  “Alright let’s get you a ball.” Bringing out a Heavy ball, a Pokeball with a silver top and four blue hemispheres on it. It weighed about twice what a regur Pokeball did. Bringing it close I touched the button on Beldom’s head. The ball opened and Beldom’s body converted into energy before compressing inside. Once the ball closed it immediately released a familiar, *DING!*

  I chose a Heavy ball because it would be easier to differentiate between them if I added more Pokemon in the future.

  Pcing the ball down on the table, “Do you want to return too?” I asked the Porygon who didn’t seem to care either way. With the two Pokemon put away it was just me and Kuramon who had returned to eating his steak after the interruption.

  Opening the program Kuramon created, it requested me to choose a file. Selecting the drive Porygon brought back the program started scanning the files. After a slow initial load, it then found the assorted folders that I had already sorted. Scanning these folders the program started adding simir-looking files to their respective folders.

  "An AI sorting program…" I see why people would use them for hacking. Digimon are OP when it comes to computing and it's still only a baby… Checking the task manager, it wasn’t exactly low-end friendly but for any of the computers I use, it shouldn’t be an issue…

  I say that, right before it hit a snag. “Looks like version 1.0 needs to be updated”.

  After Kuramon finished eating it came over and we started working on updates. While he worked to update, I gave each version a stress test. Together we worked into the evening. Adding features and functions and a couple redundancies in case things fell apart while it wasn’t monitored. In the end, the program would have to run all night for even a fraction of the files to be sorted.

  “Okay, it's time for bed. And if you’re going to poop, do it in the toilet this time”.

  END

  Spoilerkidmonkey94

  Did I use Chess.com to help me write this chapter?

  Yes, I had fun.

  How many undoes did it take?

  Surprisingly on their first go, it went up until the queen trade without any.

  [colpse]