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Caution: Smartypants At Work [Open]

If there was one thing that made Miyako stand out amongst the second generation Chosen Children, it would be the fact that she was one of the smartest of the bunch. Keyword here: one of. There was also Ken, but she'd let that slide. Right now, she was using her smarts to do what she does best:

Tinker.

A brief search across the City had lead Miyako to discover a leftover desktop computer. However, the lack of power supply (or rather, the lack of plugs to slap the machine in) has lead Miyako to get creative and had her in Engineering to do something.

"Just what did you have in mind, Miyako-san?" Hawkmon asked, his wings crossed over his chest.

"Simple - if I can get this computer working, maybe I can start trying to build a Digi Port!" Miyako said, digging through some tools.

"Miyako-san, that's dangerous! You don't know if the Digital World survived and even if it did, this ship's too dangerous to attempt it!" Hawkmon said.

"Even so, we have to try!" Miyako replied, pulling out a strange device. "...what the heck is this?"

"...see? This is why doing this is next to impossible!" Hawkmon said. "We don't know what this stuff can do!"

"...jeez, you're such a party pooper! I'm going to do this anywayyyEEEEEEE!" Miyako yelped, the odd device shocking her. Dropping it, it took her awhile to recover, not caring that her hair just frazzled and parts of the plantsuit were damaged by the shock. "...okay, we need real tools here!"

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"[Are you all right?]"

It might take Miyako and Hawkmon a moment to locate the voice -- it depended on how long it took one or both of them to look up. Jonas hovered overhead, watching the girl and her bird-like friend with a curious expression.

"Y-Yeah... I'm fine, I..." Miyako began before realizing the voice wasn't coming from the sides or behind them... but above. "YEEP!"

"Okay, now I've seen everything. So far." Hawkmon added, a little on the defensive side. No offense, Jonas, but he doesn't trust you at the moment.

Jonas merely quirked an eyebrow at the bird-creature as he floated down to land in front of them.

"[I am hardly the strangest thing that you will even encounter,]" he said dryly. "[My name is Jonas; I am the head of the Programming sub-department in Engineering. Is there anything that I can help you with? Either of you?]"

"So are you..." Hawkmon quipped.

"H-Head?" Miyako uttered. She'd been busted. "Ah, well, I've been wanting to get this old computer working, and seeing as there's no plugs here, I'm wanting to try to get some sort of power running through it. Just, well..." she held up the tool that electrocuted her. "...I don't know what most of this stuff does."

"[I would not suggest picking things up at random in here,]" Jonas said, taking the tool and inspecting it. "[Especially if you do not know how to handle them. This could have ended worse.]" He sets the tool back down and regards the girl seriously. "[May I ask your name?]" he glances over at the bird-creature. "[And yours as well, of course.]"

"Ah, sorry. I guess I did get a little carried away." Miyako admitted, blushing slightly. "Oh, names! Right! I'm Miyako and this is my Digimon partner, Hawkmon."

"I hope you have a name, as well." Hawkmon pointed out. "It would be awkward to call you some sort of nickname all the time."

"[As I said, my name is Jonas,]" Jonas replied, nodding to Hawkmon. "[Though I also go by 'the Vision', if you would prefer a nickname.]"

He is teasing them, just a little.

"[Have you been invited to join Engineering yet, Miyako? I assume that it is at least something that interests you a little.]"

"...I think we'll go with 'Jonas', if that's okay." Hawkmon responded, teasing in kind.

"Invited? Ah, n-no, I haven't! Then again, between everything that's gone on since I awoke - again - I haven't had the chance to really see about anything here!" Miyako said. "Is it okay?"

"[Well, if it is something of interest to you, we can use all the help we can get,]" Jonas said. "[Those inclined to tinkering or designing and building things are not under my charge here, but I can point you to the people who are in charge. Or you can tell or show me what you can do, and I can shuttle you off with my recommendations to the Head of Engineering.]"

"That looks. . .dangerous." Ken commented as he stepped up behind Miyako, eying the old computer and the strange tools she was trying to work with.

"Don't want to hurt yourself, right?" He picked up a tool and turned it over in his hands.

". . .Do you even know what this one does?"

Miyako jumped slightly, hearing Ken's voice, before turning to face him. "I, ah... no, I don't."

Getting to her feet and trying to make herself a little more presentable, she continued. "All of this stuff is just so... alien. I guess I should have been more careful..."

"Yeah, I've never seen anything like it before." He hunkered down, looking at the old computer.

"What are you working on?"

"Well, I've been thinking back about the Digital World and I'm certain that it's survived. Or at the very least a part of it did." Miyako said. "But, to find that out, we need a DigiPort. So, I'm using this old computer to do that. Just... I need a power supply to get it running."

"Have you tried those omnicomms?" Hawkmon pointed out.

"I would, but I don't think the guy who runs it would like DigiPorts popping up all over the place."

"Maybe someone in the Engineering department could lend you a power source. Or something." Ken put the tool he'd been handling down, leaning over Miyako's shoulder to look at what she was working on.

"I wish Izumi-san was here. He'd probably be full of all sorts of ideas and theories."

"Admittedly? I wish he was, too." Miyako said, a little down.

At the moment, though, what she was working on wasn't much - the actual desktop computer wasn't opened, but some of the bolts were undone. It looked like she was getting ready to pop it open to find the power source.

"Well, I guess we should start with the power source." Ken grinned (as much as Ken grinned, anyway).

"I'll give you a hand. Is there a screwdriver or is it all this weird stuff?" He poked through the pile of tools with one hand.

"Thanks... that really means a lot!" Miyako said, beaming. Hearing him ask for a screwdriver, she couldn't help but help him look.

"That's a good question. I was trying to find one myself."

He sifted through the various tools, a brief flash of exasperated annoyance entering his voice.

"I don't see one, either. . ."

"Uuugh... and I really don't want to go back to the City to dig around again!" Miyako griped. "That's how I found the computer and it wasn't pretty!"

"I'll say...!" Hawkmon replied.

"Maybe someone in engineering could lend us one?" Ken scratched his chin.

"Because otherwise we're not getting this case open."

Atom came running at the sound of someone wailing in shock, only to find Miyako and Hawkmon there, looking a little disheveled.

"Are you guys okay? What happened?"

"Eh-heh... we're... we're fine." Miyako admitted, sheepishly. "Just, well... it shocked me." She held up the odd device to show Atom.

"Oh, that's a relief." Atom peered at the device in her hands curiously. "Um... what exactly is it?"

"Good question." Miyako mused, looking at the device again. "Whatever it is, it gave me quite the shock."

"So it's not yours? Um, are you part of the Engineering team? This is Engineering, right?"

Maybe Miyako wasn't supposed to be here... it was awfully hard to tell who among the crew was a normal human kid, and who wasn't.

"Actually... no, I'm not." Miyako admitted. "I just came here, but with everything going on, I never really had a chance to introduce myself to anyone or anything..."

"Oh, that makes sense. There is an awful lot going on, isn't there?"

Atom stuck out a hand, smiling. "I'm Atom. I'm in Engineering, I guess, but I'm kind of new."

Miyako couldn't help but blink slightly.

"'You guess'? I'm guessing this ship doesn't have much on order?"

Atom lowered his hand. "Well, it's more like I just got here the last pod release. I still don't really know how everything works yet..."

...Every so often, Allenby made a noise like that while tinkering with something down in Engineering. She hurriedly put down the chunk of would-be beam emitter and ran to the source, skidding to a halt when she saw the source: a kid and her talking hawk friend.

"Whoa! Hey, you all right there?"

"Yeah... I-I'm fine..." Miyako uttered, trying to put down her static-induced spiky hair. "I should have realized that most of this stuff wasn't meant for people..."

"Heh heh... yeah, some of the gadgets in here can really surprise ya if you aren't careful." Allenby looked at the thing the girl had tried to pick up. It didn't look familiar to her--must've been someone else's project. "Don't think I recognize you! Are you one of the new pops?" she asked with a friendly grin.

"Ah, y-yeah, I am! I'm Miyako!" she said, nodding quickly. She then pointed to her winged companion. "That's my Digimon partner, Hawkmon."

"A pleasure." he replied, bowing slightly.

"Nice to meetcha!" Allenby said. "I'm Allenby Beardsley."

She looked at Hawkmon curiously. "Digimon, huh? Hey, do you two know Hikari?"

Takato ran in once hearing the explosion, Guilmon at his heels literally sniffing the air around them and pointing toward Miyako as the 'source.'

"...Yeah, I get it boy. Something happened. Are you okay, Miyako-ch...Miyako-san?"

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