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Ever since their talk, Taichi's been spending his time in the Media Library going over the cache of Gennai's notes. He had been able to find various files from different groups that cited themselves on Digimon things. One of them spoke about containment called Hypnos. The other was a recovery and containment and restoration group called DATS. All of them pointed however to various things that were making him ponder things over.

With access to Gennai's notes, and the notes on various Digivices, he was moving through it. He hadn't found anything on Izumi's world but figured that in time, he'd find something from their world literature-wise. Until then, he was browsing through a few other things, most importantly notes on Takato's D-Arc.

Leaning back in his chair, Taichi examined it. "So it interfaces with cards, and then grants the digimon power ups. Digimon rarely come back from a process called data absorbing, which strengthens the winner of the battle. Pretty straight forward."

That was another thing worrying him. What if one of the digimon fell in battle, and couldn't revive without a Primary Village? What then?

Just another thing to research too, as he passed over a small footnote about DigiXros.

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Later on, Taichi was driving through the city. It wasn't like he wasn't skilled at driving, but he was taking it easy. With Agumon in the back seat, he turned the corner and hit the brakes.

"What's going on, Taichi?" inquired Agumon.

"Agumon... look at that." Getting out of the car, he and Agumon hopped out as there stood a familiar row of toy-like blocks, childrens pens and a familiar tree.

"It's... Primary Village," said Agumon. "How...?"

"I dunno," said Taichi. "I was sure we passed by this place before..."

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"Yagami-san!" Ken had wandered by earlier, and shocked to see Primary Village, had been wandering around the familiar building blocks and hills of the village with Minomon in his arms, as usual.

"I don't understand. How can a place from the Digital World be in the real world?" He frowned, looking around the edge of the village at the other buildings and avenues in all their disparate forms.

"I wish Izumi-san was here. He'd probably know more about this and how it's possible." He shrugged helplessly.

"I wish everyone was here, honestly. It would make things easier."

"Ah, Ken. Well it seems that Stacy has preserved a lot of places. Which is odd because this is the first place I've looked for before. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough."

He nodded at the last bit. "Everyone's asleep, so we have to cobble together what we can and work with people."

"This place is strange. It almost reminds me of the Digital World, with all the weird, out of place things." He gave a nod.

"You're right, we do."

"In a way it's almost inviting," said Taichi, folding his arms. "The people here are all binding together, either they like it or not."

He grinned at Ken. "That's right. So, have you settled in okay?"

"I guess I have. It's kind of like being in the Digital World. Except. . ." He shrugged, not really sure how to put the difference into words.

"I'm used to us doing things, but it doesn't seem like any of the adults here want our help."

Taichi snorted. "They have this mentality that kids under 18 shouldn't be fighting wars. The whole idea that kids can be useful in battle horrifies these people."

"But I don't care. We're not here to impress this fact that we're more than capable and have seen the end of our worlds even before the Ohm anyhow." Taichi smirked. "We'll do this and show them that we're capable. Right?"

Devlin had been let out of medbay a little while ago, but he'd been in too much pain to do much of anything. That led to a lot of trips to the Media Library, where he was slowly making his way through Akira Kurosawa's resume and about every action film he could find (comedies, he'd decided, would have to wait until it didn't hurt his ribs to laugh).

"Taichi?" he asked, seeing his girlfriend's brother researching something.

"Hey Dev," replied Taichi, looking up from his research. "I see you got out of the hospital."

It was a statement, rather than a question. But he did wear a concerned expression. "Ben got repodded while you were out. He left me his car, or rather Negi but Negi let me borrow it. In any case, how're you holding up?"

"Had a feeling," Devlin admitted. "Since he disappeared from medbay."

He tried to shrug, but it still hurt too much, so he just held up the player he'd borrowed. "Been watching movies lately. Just found Seven Samurai."

"Ah, Kurosawa. Great set of movies that guy has." said Taichi, grinning. "Maybe I should take in one of his classic films."

Devlin managed a smile. "Yeah, might be a good idea. Watched The Rashomon earlier. That was crazy."

"Yeah they're fun stories," said Taichi. "Sit down, you look tired still."

"I've been doing research lately. Found a lot of Gennai's notes in a small section of the library." said Taichi. "Trying to find a way to make the Chosen on the ship a little more unified."

Devlin didn't argue, carefully getting himself in a seat with a slight wince.

"Really, how?"

"I'm trying to find some way to make sure that all our different powers could work as one. Gennai left some notes here that I've been going through for a while now, and while I've been able to make sense of them, I don't have the technological skills to make any of this work."

"Here," said Taichi, pointing at the complex looking schematic in front of him of a Xros Loader. "This is another digivice he theorized. One that allows a different form of Jogress Evolution. Heck it's not even evolution but some kind of new ability called DigiXros. But I'm stumped on even figuring this out, and I don't want to bring it to Engineering without having solid proof it CAN work."

Devlin took a look at the notes. Most of the language was too technical and went way over his head, but the diagrams gave him some idea of what was going on.

"So it kind of makes the other digimon into armor? Would you be able to work with Hikari's Digimental for that?"

"In the closest laymans terms yeah. It adds the digimon's strength to the base digimon, causing a Xros-Fusion which is augmented by the number of digimon, like X2 or X5." said Taichi, nodding. "Admittedly if I can make this WORK it's be a X5 and from Gennai's notes it said it'd be equivalent to an Ultimate level digimon."

"Maybe the digimentals could work... but I have no idea how to get that started."

"Well, you said there are others, right, not from the same world? What kind of evolution can they do?"

"Well one can evolve herself into a digimon, kind of like a transformation rather than an evolution. The other uses cards to augment his digimon's abilities but he has different evolutions at hand as well." Taichi tapped his chin in thought. "The problem I'm having is how to make it so that they can STILL use their powers. The last thing I want to do is screw things up."

"Hmm," Devlin said, thinking. This was a problem. Mixing powers could be a bad thing. Sure, in the case of his alien form, it had worked out, but at the cost of his father's sanity long before Devlin was born.

The only thing that came to mind was something that might just haunt him later on, he figured. "What about some kind of synchronization? Like how Philip has the Kamen Rider W powers?"

"A synchronization... that'd be neat, if only for the fact that Jogress requires a high compatibility with the other person. With DigiXros it's point and click so to speak."

Taichi folded his arms, thinking. "Hard to say really."

"But if you can find some kind of device that can set up the synchronization, that might work," Devlin suggested.

"Like some kind of, what's it called, adapter. That sounds like an idea actually." said Taichi, thinking about it. "Yeah, there might be something in the notes about it."

"That's good, then," Devlin said. "And then maybe it can pool together your powers instead of them working completely differently."

"Sounds like a smart plan," said Taichi. "Thanks Dev."

"You're welcome," Devlin insisted with a smile. It was still a little awkward with Taichi being his girlfriend's brother, but something like this put him a little more at ease.

Yeah it really did. And Taichi had grudgingly gotten used to the idea. Besides, he was no one to talk anyhow. "So, how's the situation going with Hikari? Okay?"

And there it went into awkward. Trying not to sound nervous, Devlin answered, "Pretty good, I guess. I think she's still a little worried by what happened with Tailmon."

"Yeah she's worried too. But some rest and good food and she'll be back before they know it." He grinned. "You're doing a good job with her. Don't worry, I'm not about to evolve Agumon to War Greymon on you anymore."

Devlin gave him a relieved smile. "Thanks. That's a little less to worry about."

"Not a problem. Besides, I wouldn't be much of a big brother if I didn't calm down." smirked Taichi.

Devlin laughed slightly. "Good point."

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