An egg wobbles, cracks, falls over, and then finally breaks apart, revealing a dark blob with little leaves. 

...Woooooow. This isn't the inside of an egg at all. 

If it was, it would have to be a very large egg. There's a wide field of green grass, with colorful shapes dotted about it which might be more eggs. In the far distance are larger shapes, and up above there's a blue and white sky.

Gosh!!! So many things!!!

She hops towards the nearest colorful shape. 

It wobbles in place, as though to say hello.

Ooh! Ooh! 

What happens if she does not stop when she reaches it. 

Bop! She hops right up to the shape and bounces off it, causing it to roll back and then forward again.

It follows this with a double wobble.

Gosh!!!

She hops at it again. 

Bop roll roll wobble wobble! Wiggle wobble crack!

There's now an irregular fault line running up and across.

Hey! Her egg did that! And now she is out here, where there's so much stuff!!!

She hops at the colorful thing again. 

Crash! The egg caves in, bits of shell falling all around. She tumbles into the middle, bumping up against another blob.

Another blob??? :DDD

"Puu pu," it says. She's got it kind of squished upside down and sideways into the shell, with its wings underneath it.

She hops away from the blob. "Nyo!" she chirps excitedly. 

"Pu," it accedes, righting itself. It hops out after her, floating more gently to the ground.

Whooooah. 

"Nyoki!" she says, hopping vertically and wiggling her leaves. 

The leaf-wiggling doesn't do much to augment her jump (yet growth mindset), but it does get the translucent blob to hop vertically and wiggle its wings with her.

!!!

She hops and wiggles some more. 

It copies her again, slower than her due to its floatiness.

(A ways off, more eggs are hatching.)

She waits for it to land before hopping again. 

In this manner they can try various hops, until the point at which rather than copy her, the translucent blob starts eating the grass.

She might be hungry by now, too.

!!! What is this bizarre sensation. 

She decides to copy the other blob and also try eating grass. 

The grass tastes light and leafy, with the feeling of a breeze lifting your leaves.

!!!!!! What a GOOD TASTE. She happily munches grass. 

Then the two blobs can munch grass together, for a while.

After a few minutes, a metal, blob-shaped creature comes zig-zagging through the grass, and bumps nose-first into her. It beeps "choro," backs up a length, and resumes, bumping into her again.

Whoah. 

She...isn't sure she likes being bumped into?

Next time it tries it she will HOP. 

She hops over its ears!

She lands on its rigid tail, flipping it over sideways and throwing her landing off somewhat as well.

"Choro. Choro," it beeps plaintively, from its position balanced on side, ear, and tail.

...Oops. 

She attempts to nudge it over and upright. 

With a little experimentation she can figure out where to throw her weight to flip it back over.

"Choro," it beeps, and it rolls on the way it had been going.

...

She eats some more grass. 

Grass! Delicious grass! Over enough grass the airy taste goes down, but the fresh taste persists.

Eventually the winged blob leaves off eating and starts hopping again, flapping its wings.

The airy taste was the BEST PART, though. Once the airy taste goes away she starts hopping and wiggling again too. 

Her leaves must be bigger now, or they catch the air better - she can nudge herself around in the air with them! They can get her some more height and air time, or she can push herself to the side of where she had been going to land.

!!! She will hop SO HIGH.

Had to have high, high hops for a living. Didn't know how but I always had a feeling, I was gonna be that one in a million. Always had high, high hops.

(It hops along with her.)

She LIKES hopping!!! Hop hop hop. 

Her hopmate experiments with variety in hops - long hops, sideways hops, hops with flips.

(Around them, eggs continue to hatch, and other blobs try other explorations.)

After a while, another blob comes hopping up. It's round and yellowish, with a big fin on its head.

Another blob! 

She cannot flip, but she can do a sort of welcoming sideways hop?

It hops up and bites one of her leaves.

!!! She does not LIKE being BIT. 

She wiggles her leaves furiously to dislodge the biter. 

The finned blob, knocked back, giggles "bububu." It goes in for another bite.

No!!! She will HOP ON TOP OF IT.

This knocks the blob back and squishes it somewhat. It hesitates a moment, then bounces off crying.

...That's not fair. It bit her, she was just defending herself!!! Why is it crying?

...

...

She hops off after it. 

A much bigger red creature walks up alongside her, matching her pace and keeping out of its paw range.

When she reaches the crying finned blob she bites a piece of grass off the ground and nudges it towards it. 

The sobbing creature takes a moment to notice, but when it does it looks up and hesitantly nibbles at the offering. Then it cheers up somewhat and continues eating grass.

"Tsubu," it says.

(The red creature watches at a distance, still and low. The floaty blob is nowhere nearby; presumably the chase left it behind.)

"Nyoki!" she says brightly, then turns back to...

...

Where is floaty friend?

...Floaty friend is not here. She must have gone a ways. 

Whoah! Big person???

She hops up to the larger creature. "Nyoki!" she chirps. 

"Hello to you too, seedling! It's nice to meet you. I'm Elecmon, I guard this place."

After greetings, it continues, "That was a very thoughtful thing you did for Tsubumon there."

"Nyo," she nods solemnly. It was crying! That was bad!

"Want to help me with another problem?," he asks conspiratorially.

"Kiki!" she says excitedly, perking up. 

"There's a little ’mon around here who is very shy and doesn't like to show herself around others, especially big or loud ’mon. If I pointed her out to you, would you be willing to make sure she has some snacks available every now and then, in case she gets hungry and doesn't want to come out?"

"Ki! Ki!" She bounces slightly. 

"Look over there and you might just see her tail," Elecmon says, pointing with a claw. Indeed, she might see just a bit of yellow poking out from behind a rock.

She plucks several pieces of grass with her mouth and hops over to the little yellow tail. 

She can find the rock, which does indeed have a little tail poking out from behind. But hopping around the rock doesn't reveal any owner of the tail - they seem to keep just out of sight.

She sets the grass down and hops backwards a bit. 

The grass stays put. The tail twitches slightly.

She thinks about this, then firmly closes her eyes for several seconds. 

By the time she opens them, the grass has been snatched up. The tail is in a different position, and the scene is otherwise unchanged.

Mission success!!!

She hops away delightedly to see what else will happen. Maybe she will find floating friend again! Or someone else! Maybe if she's very lucky she will find a new mission. 

Now that she's hopped over near the edge of the field, she's close to a colorful plant.

Out in the middle of the field, two blobs seem to be circling each other and occasionally making a lunge, but mostly not connecting.

Or this egg seems to be shaking a fair amount without actually opening.

Oh! Oh! She hops towards the egg determinedly. 

It continues wobbling, to no obvious effect.

She hops into the egg. 

The egg rolls back with the impact, then returns and continues to wiggle, showing no visible mark.

She hops into it again. 

Same result. This egg is less cooperative than the yellow and black one.

...

She attempts to hop on top of it. 

She can impact the top of the egg! Then she tumbles down one side and the egg rolls to the other.

She tries again. 

She can tumble down a different side, but she cannot produce a crack.

...

She considers this, then hops over to the two circling blobs. 

"Chiii KO!," says the blue one, launching a spinning kick hop at the orange one's side. The orange blob turns to face the blue one's new location, incidentally placing her right in its line of sight.

"Nyoki!" she chirps to the two of them. 

They don't much notice her at first, being caught up in… whatever it is they're doing.

She can wait. Patiently. And eat some more grass. 

The two blobs continue performing various athletic maneuvers of unclear purpose. The grass continues to taste like grass, which is to say fresh and restorative but no longer exciting.

If she pays attention and chirps again when they're between maneuvers, she can get their attention properly onto her.

She does chirp periodically when they look like they might look her way!

Then after a bit, they'll notice her persistence and turn to see what she's about.

"Nyo," she says, and gestures with her leaves at the still unhatched egg. 

They hop over towards the indicated egg. The blue one tries mirroring its wobbles.

She hops into the egg again. 

Hop! Hop! One at a time they copy her.

This pushes the egg around in a little circle.

She hops over to the other side of the egg and attempts to hop into it at the same time one of the others is doing so from the other side. 

A firm impact and a visible crack!

Yes!!! She does it again!!!

Cracks spread across the surface of the wiggly egg!

A squishy white blob bursts out and flops on the grass.

"Nyoki! Nyonyokiiiii!" she says, hopping excitedly. 

"poyooo~," it says, raising a tired bit of its edge in acknowledgment, then resumes its rest.

Job apparently complete, the orange blob moseys off toward one of the colorful plants.

The blue blob, on the other hand, noses up to the white one and starts prodding it inquisitively.

She considers this, then plucks several stalks of grass and lays them within easy nomming range of the white blob. 

"Yoyo," it says, gratefully. A minute later it picks itself up enough to start munching, still ignoring the blue blob's investigations.

She eats companionably with the white blob, occasionally plucking another piece of grass and nudging the food in range of it. 

As it eats it perks up, and makes more appreciative noises. It also gains the energy to kick halfheartedly at the blue blob.

Who, undeterred, attempts to hop on top.

Oh no. Hopping on people never ends well!!! She attempts to knock the blue blob off-course by hopping at it. 

Stop! You must not hop on top.

The blue blob is knocked from its course! "Chico," it says crossly, turning to face her.

Then it starts in on what looks like one of its athletic maneuvers.

"Nyo," she says apologetically. "Nyo~okiiii." She mimes hopping, then squishes down and hops a few hops away, making a crying face. "Nyo." 

It stops its maneuver and plops down. This strange behavior might take some pondering.

After a bit it says "Chico?" Then it does a big hop in place, hops three paces away and makes a sad face, and looks back inquisitively.

She considers this. 

After a moment, she plucks two pieces of grass, and makes each one of them hop in place for a bit. Then she hops one of them onto the other, then mimes the one hopped onto running away crying. 

It ponders this for a minute, then scrunch nods a couple times - "Chico, chico!"

It grabs a pebble in its mouth, flicks it up in the air, and stands underneath. Once the pebble bounces off its head, it makes an exaggerated show of rolling backwards with a crying face.

Then it sits up and makes an inquisitive noise?

"Nyo!" she bobs in agreement. 

It scrunch-nods again and hops industriously off in another direction, leaving her alone with the significantly recovered white blob.

"Kiiiii," she sighs, and nudges the grass pieces towards Poyomon, then munches some more herself. 

After some continued eating, it solemnly says "Poyo poyo," rises to its feet wiggly parts, and watches her.

"Nyoki," she says happily. "Kiki nyoooo~" She looks around. 

By now, all the eggs she can see have hatched, and various babies are hopping about or nibbling on things.

There are more colorful plants - this low, red and green one seems popular.

A floral creature seems to be leading some sort of wordless singing group.

And a black blob is hopping up in the air, over and over, towards a flying creature which is always just out of reach.

Hmm. Hmmmm. So many things. 

She takes a few hops in the direction of some fruits, then turns back and looks at Poyomon, hesitating. 

Poyomon is following by scrunching along.

Okay!!!

She hops the rest of the way to the fruits, pausing every so often to make sure Poyomon is keeping up. 

Then she and Poyomon will arrive at the fruits! Several blobs are here eating the red fruits; the leaves seem less popular. There's plenty of room to join them in eating, if she likes.

One fruit-eater is a familiar face.

"Nyoki!" she says to Tsubumon, then bites a fruit off the thing. 

It bursts in her mouth with flavor, sweet and juicy and layered with the assurance that things are going to turn out just fine.

Tsubumon returns her greeting with a "’Tsu," then gets back to supplementing his fruit with a side of greens.

Poyomon follows her lead in tasting a berry, then bounces with a "Poyo poyo!" and has another.

Oh wow!!! This fruit tastes so good!!! She has some more, yum. 

It won't take very many berries before she's feeling pretty full. The berries are still tasty, but it's getting harder to eat them.

She could make herself keep eating, or she could break off and do something else. Or... there's some sort of thing she could do to stretch bigger? Maybe?

If she were BIGGER she could fit more GOOD FRUITS. She will get BIGGER. 

(Digimon! D-D-Digimon!)

She starts to glow with a bright light, and lifts into the air. Her leaves merge into one, large and swept back.

("Nyokimon! Digivolve to...!")

She expands to maybe half again her former size, as her one leaf moves to her back. Techno music might be playing from somewhere.

(Digital monsters! Digimon!)

Her clear skin fills in an opaque, leafy green, with a few rays of light shining out a symmetrical pattern of holes; those holes then fill in with fresh, green-brown thorns, as she touches back down to the ground.

("Budmon!")

Oh wow!!!

She experimentally wiggles her leaf. 

It wiggles, and pushes air around besides! It's quite good at catching the air.

"Poyo!," her friend exclaims. Several other blobs have paused eating to stare as well.

Eee! She hops and wiggles her leaf some more. 

She can push herself around in the air quite easily with it. If she holds it right she can even glide, covering more horizontal distance than vertical.

!!! That is so cool. 

She attempts to use this fantastic new ability to eat HIGHER FRUITS. 

That plant doesn't really have anything outside of her previous reach, but there's another plant here supported by a wooden lattice, with fruit clusters up off the ground.

Hmm she will try one of those. 

With her new leaf skills, it's a simple matter to hop up onto the trellis and bite a fruit off a cluster. It bursts with tangy juice-and-flesh and the flavor of having a thick sturdy shell, with her thorns sharpened to needle points so that no one can come close enough to hurt her.

Huh! How peculiar. 

She can't think why someone would want to hurt her, though, and she likes being near people. She bites off a cluster of round fruits and hops back down with it so the other, hop-impaired blobs can try them, and goes back to eating the Good Fruits. 

Some of the other blobs try the round fruits and make appreciative sounds in her direction.

She and Poyomon are unimpeded in eating more Good Fruits.

If she ponders while she's eating, she might notice that she knows a little more about her body than she used to.

Nickname: 
Form: Budmon
Field: Wind Guardians
Attribute: None

Data:
GB  kind (form) [tags]
 5  Unbound Soul (Nyokimon) [WG]
 3  Leaf Wing (Budmon) [WG]
 2  Poison Thorns (Budmon) [JT]
 5  unknown
Total weight: 15 GB

???:
???  ☆☆
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ○
???  ○
???  ○

...Huh. She is not sure what all this stuff means. 

She thinks about how long it took Poyomon to get out of its egg, and how long she sat with it afterwards, and bites a Good Fruit off the plant without eating it and hops over to the rock where the shy blob is. ...It's still there, right? 

Its tail is!

She leaves the Good Fruit there and goes back to the Good Fruit plant. 

"Poyo?"

"Buuuuud!" 

"Poyo," it shrugs. More delicious fruits, perhaps until this group of plants runs out.

Fruits!!! These fruits are so good. She is continually delighted by them. Buuut actually she will try a leaf too. 

The leaf tastes green and a little bitter-sweet, flavored with the memory of hopping with her translucent friend.

Oh! That's a good taste! She eats another leaf and looks around to see if she can see her translucent friend anywhere. 

This leaf is green, bitter-sweet, and reminiscent of opening her eyes to see the grass she'd offered the shy blob was gone.

There's lots of blobs around, but none of them look quite like she remembers her translucent friend.

There might be something familiar about the blobs playing jumping tag, though?

!!! This leaf tastes slightly different. She eats another one. 

How far off is the jumping tag? 

This leaf tastes like miming concepts to the blue blob.

The jump-tag group (which has been joined by a third blob) is close enough that she can see between pretty easily, but not so near that she could keep a close eye on both at once.

Hmm. Hmmmmm. 

She eats another Good Fruit and looks at Poyomon. 

The Good Fruits continue to taste sweet and reassuring.

Poyomon looks up from its fruit at her. "Poyo?"

"Bud," she says, and nods at the jumping tag. 

"Poyo," it nods, and prepares to follow.

She hops over to the jumping tag! "Nyoki," she says to the familiar-looking blob. 

"Prrrrr," buzzes the flying creature, circling down near the ground. It peers at her, tilting its head.

Then it lands on all fours, says "Pu! Pu!," and hops straight in the air, gently flapping its wings to slow its descent.

Hooray!!!!!!! She has found hop friend again!!!! And Poyofriend is here!!! She hops delightedly. "Bud! Bud!" 

It hops along with her!

Poyomon and the other two blobs look on uncertainly. One starts tentatively hopping along.

She sort of wants to tag someone but she has these sharp parts. Oh! She can show hop friend her new super-hopping!!!

Wow! It tries to copy her with its wings, with partial success - it can produce much more lift (relative to its mass), but she can do more sudden movement and smoother gliding.

She will attempt to copy hop friend's moves too. 

The other white blob starts jumping too, though more simply.

Poyomon tries stretching up, but can't manage much height or really any bounce at all.

Hmm. Hmmmmm. 

She lands on the ground and nudges her big head spike under Poyomon. 

Poyomon is not quite sure where she's going with this, but cooperates as best it can, lifting its fringe out of her spike's way.

She carefully nudges the spike under it and then straightens carefully so Poyomon is balanced on top of her without any of her spikes poking it. "Bud!" she says cheerfully, and hops again. 

"Poyooo! Po poyoo!," it laughs, as it wiggles up and down with the force of Budmon's bouncing.

She is careful not to dislodge it or impale it, which means sometimes taking longer glidey hops instead of just up-and-down up-and-down. "Bud! Bud bud!" she chirps happily. 

"Po poyoooo"mon Digivolve to...

The white blob on her head starts to glow from within.

Its fringe firms up and shapes itself into little limb-nubs, as its overall surface hardens from jelly to skin.

Digimon! Digital monsters!

It grows a pair of long ears (not that Budmon can see those yet) and some little teeth.

Digimon!

And, finally, it grows to nearly her own size.

"Tokomon!"

???What just happened???

"...Bud???"

"Hi!!," it says, then carefully tumbles around her spikes to flop on the grass.

"Hi! You changed!" 

"I changed!," it says. "You changed and you jumped and I wanna jump and I changed!"

And it proceeds to attempt to hop with its little legs.

"I changed!" she agrees. "You changed," she adds to hop friend. 

"Yeah! I can hop UNLIMITED HIGH!"

"Bota!"

"They cannot hop as high so we are doing HOPPING PRACTICE," it explains.

"Oh! Oh! That sounds good! Do you want to practice hopping?" she asks Tokomon. 

"Yeah!!"

Hopping is going poorly with its unjointed limb-nubs. It switches to copying Botamon's blob-style squish-hopping.

She boops Puroromon with her leaf and leaps into the air. 

And they can hop!

Hopping practice seems to work like this: Puroromon flies around within reach of the ground. The other players try to hop at it. Puroromon tries to dodge out of the way.

Budmon is a much more agile hopper than her squishy friend or the white and black blobs, but she might find that advantage somewhat balanced by the need to keep her spikes from touching anyone, making contact only with her leaf.

She very much does not want her spikes to touch anyone! She tries very hard to make her leaf the easiest part of her to boop. 

Hip, hop, hippity hop. Hippity hop and you just can't stop.

They can easily continue practicing this way for a good while. Tokomon will get much better control of its body and jumps, and everyone else will see some effect too - the two smaller blobs more in their jumping power, the two flying ones more in their finesse.

Eventually the white, fuzzy blob will be hungry.

Oh! Budmon can show it the Good Fruits!

Budmon can indeed show it to the Good Fruits! ...Which seem to have gotten quite popular. A few of the plants have no berries left, and the ones with berries are crowded enough that she'd have to squeeze in if she wanted any.

...She cannot squeeze in, she might poke someone with one of her sharp parts. The white, fuzzy blob has no sharp parts, though! She can fetch it some High Orbs! That will presumably not taste like thorns to it because it does not have any. 

Orbs!

It investigates the orbs, finds them much tastier than grass, and sets to eating them by halves. "Bo-ota!," it says, in gratitude.

And its friend, having followed along, starts eating at the other end of the cluster.

Tokomon starts attempting to climb the trellis itself.

She watches it carefully to make sure it doesn't fall or she is there to catch it (with her leaf) if it does, and starts eating Good Fruit leaves on one of the plants that has had all the Fruits eaten off so people aren't crowding it. 

This leaf tastes of bitter-sweetness and offering Tsubumon her grass.

With use of its limbs, ears, hops, and teeth, Tokomon is able to make it up onto a crosspiece with hardly any falling.

Then it bites off a whole cluster in one go.

Whoah. 

...

Where...does food go...once it is not in your mouth anymore???

She eats another Good Leaf as she contemplates this. 

This leaf tastes, recursively, like going back for a second Good Fruit. (But not like the fruit itself.) It has no insights to share on the ultimate destination thereof.

While she's feeling contemplative, she might check her stats again.

Nickname: 
Form: Budmon
Field: Wind Guardians
Attribute: None

Data:
GB  kind (form) [tags]
 5  Unbound Soul (Nyokimon) [WG]
 3  Leaf Wing (Budmon) [WG]
 2  Poison Thorns (Budmon) [JT]
 2  Leaf Slap (Lalamon) [JT]
 2  Charming Chirp (Piyomon) [VB]
 1  /3 Avian Body (Piyomon) [WG]
 1  unknown
Total weight: 16 GB

???:
???  ☆☆
???  ☆☆ 
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ☆
???  ○
???  ○
???  ○
???  ○

...Nyokimon is what she was before she changed, and Budmon is what she is now, but what are Lalamon and Piyomon? 

Leaf wing is probably using her leaf or leaves to hop higher. She doesn't like the sound of Poison Thorns. What happens if she slaps the ground with her leaf? 

She can hit exactly where she means to, and if she likes she can hit with more force than her leaf ought to have, perhaps even as much as hopping bodily (but without the thorns).

Oh!!! Hopping with no thorns! She does that. 

She can indeed now launch herself off the ground and into the air by pushing off with her leaf! As a projectile she's still just as thorny, of course - her leaf is still her thorn-free part.

Can she land on her leaf too? 

She can absorb the impact of landing with it, yes! She can't balance on it or support herself on it for more than a few moments, yet, but that might yield to practice.

She considers this, decides that practice can wait until eating time is done, and then decides to see what happens if she eats two Good Fruit leaves at once. 

Together, the two leaves taste like a more abstracted feeling of sharing her grass with someone.

Speaking of eating time, now that she's feeling more vertically confident maybe she'll want to use that to get at some less-crowded fruits?

This tree, for example, has fruits of a similar red but much bigger; while it's too tall to straightforwardly climb, some of the fruits hang down close to the ground.

...Ooh! High fruits! She attempts to hop up to where the fruits are and bite one off. Nom. 

With her leaf-assisted jumping, she has no trouble hopping as high as the closest one. Biting it off might require a little planning: it's nearly as big as she is, and her mouth doesn't seem to stretch as wide as Tokomon's.

Can she bite part of it off? 

She can knock it around with her face, but it swings back from any attempt to sink her teeth into it.

...

What if she hops up on TOP of the branch, and tries to bite the part of the fruit that's attached to the tree?

This she can do!

The fruit falls to the ground and cracks open, revealing many tiny fruits inside.

!!! MANY TINY FRUITS. Maybe this is why she couldn't properly bite into it before. She hops down to the ground gleefully and starts eating tiny fruits. 

The tiny fruits taste tart and rich and royal and purple, with a feeling of doing an easy job well, secure in the knowledge that your friends are doing theirs too, which makes the whole system go.

Oh WOW these are ALSO REALLY GOOD FRUITS. 

She hops up to the tree branch and bites another large fruit off. 

It falls, but this one doesn't immediately crack open.

(Hop friend flies over and watches what she's doing.)

Oh. 

OH. 

Maybe THIS is what she has sharp parts for!

"The tiny inside fruits are good!" she calls to hop friend, and then attempts to open the second fruit with her big head thorn. 

She can jab it with her big head thorn! Now it's got a hole in it, and she can pick it up on her thorn too if she wants, though it's a little awkward to carry since it's nearly half her size.

Her friend buzzes a happy acknowledgment and copies her in biting a fruit off.

She attempts to use her thorns to make the hole BIGGER. 

Some prying can get a section of the outside off!

Her friend is puzzling over its own fruit, which also didn't crack open. It tries copying her with its little tail thorn(?), but can't make much of a dent that way.

She hops over to open its fruit for it. 

"Thank you!," it says. After trying some of the inside fruits, it adds, "Really good!"

Her second fruit is just as tasty as the first.

"These are so good," she agrees. "We should see if the others want some!" 

Her friend follows her back.

Tokomon is still climbing around the trellis.

The two little blobs have finished their orbs, and seem to be doing a smaller hopping game.

And the good berries continue to run out. Competition is getting fierce for the plants which still have fruit.

"You guys you guys I found another good fruit!" 

Her friends turn to her, as do some of the blobs left out from the berries.

Tokomon, in turning, teeters on its perch.

Oh no!!! She darts over to the trellis so she can try to catch Tokomon on her leaf if it falls. 

She arrives in good time to make the catch, then. "Whoaoah! Thank you."

(Some of the other blobs cheer the rescue.)

"You're welcome!" she sets it down gently, then points at the tree with her leaf. "That tree has large fruits that if you get them down and get them open have VERY GOOD TINY FRUITS inside! My sharp parts are good for getting them open." 

With an inquisitive murmur of "yura," "bota," and other blob sounds, a group sets out for the tree. Her more specific friends form up to follow her.

She hops over to the tree and starts biting down fruits! She will also open them if no one else has good fruit openers. 

Fufumon can't get them down, but it can help open them.

And Puroromon conversely.

Working together, soon they're supplying fruit to a tiny mob of tiny blobs.

Hooray!!! Once everyone has fruit she gets another fruit for herself and sets to eating again. It's so good to have helped this many 'mon. 

Some of the smaller blobs grow into new forms that can help fetch or open the fruits, and join in the work.

And before long, plump with fruit and accomplishment, she'll recognize a full, ready-to-grow sensation. This time it comes in two flavors - the sweet good cheer of Good Fruit, or the tart grand teamwork of Inside Fruit. She can't do both.

Oh man those are both such good things!!! But...if she has to pick...she will pick Inside Fruit. She couldn't help very much with Good Fruit, and helping and teamwork are more important. 

"Digivolution."

Geometric columns of golden light rise around her, lifting her into the air. Di-Di-Digimon. Her thorns and leaf dissolve into green fragments, swirling around her. Sourceless music fills the air.

Digivolve into— Digimon. Her body grows and sprouts little arms and legs, as the cloud around her turns from green to pink and pours down on top of her. Di-Di-Di Digimon.

The pink fragments coalesce into a flower with the shape of a face. As the music concludes, a pair of leaves complete her form, and she touches down.

"La~la~la~" she says happily, "I'm not sharp anymore!!!" 

      
Nickname: 
Form: Lalamon
Field: Jungle Troopers
Attribute: Data

Data:
GB  kind (form) [tags]
 5  Unbound Soul (Nyokimon) [WG]
 3  Leaf Wing (Budmon) [WG]
 2  Poison Thorns (Budmon) [JT]
 3  Nut Shot (Lalamon) [Technique] [JT]
 2  Leaf Spiral (Lalamon) [Technique] [JT]
 3  Lullaby [Technique] [WG]
 2  Charming Chirp [Technique] [WG]
Total weight: 20 GB

Connections:
Tokomon   ☆☆☆
Puroromon ☆☆
Tsubumon  ☆
Elecmon   ☆
Ranamon   ☆
Chicomon  ☆
Kyokyomon ○○
[+ ×17]   ○

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"Yayyy!," says Tokomon, and tackle-hugs her as best it can manage. (She's now two to three times its height, not counting her leaves.)

(Other ’mon are impressed too.)

Eeeehehehehe! She hugs Tokomon back. "I'm bigger now!!!" 

"You are! You're so big I think you can reach everything!"

"Let's find out!" she reaches up for the fruits with the insides. 

She's already harvested all the lowest ones, but with a little jump she can stick her arm/hand to a fruit and drag it down into her reach. The branch pulls back on it, fighting her hand's adhesion.

She resolutely pulls the fruit off the branch. 

"I dunno about everything but I could reach this! Without even hopping!" 

SO COOL. Tokomon has metaphorical stars in its eyes.

Apparently there's a lot to look forward to in growing up. Puroromon tears into its inside fruit with renewed vigor.

Lalamon attempts to break open this fruit with her new limbs. 

Her limbs aren't as pointy as her thorns were, and just jabbing at the surface with them doesn't seem to make a hole.

Her hand has some kind of adhesion, right? Can she adhere her hands to opposite sides of the fruit and pull it apart? 

That works to tear a piece off, yes!

(So STRONG.)

She is ALREADY BIGGER she should probably give this fruit to someone who is not. And then hug Tokomon some more? 

Yes. Good plan. Apparently Tokomon is able to purr. It had not known this.

!!! Purring is extremely good, apparently. She snuggles her friend delightedly. 

After a little while, there's some sort of commotion among some of the blobs eating.

Uh-oh! She looks up from her snuggle to assess the problem. 

An orange snake creature that had been helping open fruits now seems to be fighting with a blue bipedal creature.

Nearby, a purple-and-white blob with a helmet is crying.

Oh boy. First things first. 

She hurries over to the crying 'mon. 

"Are you okay?" she asks. 

"He, he pulled my tail," the crying ’mon sniffles. "I wasn't even doing anything and he wouldn't stop."

"Who did?" 

"That, that blue guy," she says, waving her tail in the direction of the combatants.

Who are definitely getting scratched and dented from the fight.

She considers this, and then attempts to tackle the blue one. 

He's moving around a good bit, but she's twice his height. She makes the tackle.

"Owwh!," he says.

"I'm sorry!" she says. "But you hurt someone! I didn't want you to hurt anyone else!" 

"He started it!," says the blue creature. "He bit me!"

"He" is in fact circling around Lalamon for another go.

"I meant the one whose tail you pulled." 

"You're worrying about tail-pulling while I'm being attacked?!," he says, squaring up to fight back against the orange one.

"The tail-pulling hurt!" she says, getting between the two of them so no one can attack anybody. "That 'mon was crying!" 

"I'm not pulling her tail now," he patiently explains. "I don't know why she's still crying."

"People cry after bad things too, not just during. I think. Like, this one time, someone tried to bite me, so I hopped on them, but then they hopped off crying, so I hopped off after them and gave them grass to eat until they felt better." 

He takes advantage of Lalamon's protection to ponder this for a moment. "So... you want me to go give her grass?"

"I want you to not pull anyone's tail! Or do other things that will make them cry. Anyway we are all eating tasty fruit now, grass is probably not going to help." 

"That's a lot of things. I don't know all of them yet but I know a lot."

"Well, you can just not do the things you know will make people cry, I guess, and then if you do something and it makes someone cry you can apologize and add it to the list," she suggests. 

He ponders that for a moment.

"Okay!," he says.

"Good! Have you tried the inside fruit? The inside fruit is very good." 

"I don't like it. It's too sour and smallening."

"Smallening?" 

"Like doing the same boring thing over and over and it doesn't do anything!

"I like the long red fruits. They taste like FIRE."

"Huh. That's weird. They don't taste like that to me. Doesn't fire hurt?" 

"Yeah but it's exciting and it fills me up with energy!"

"And there aren't any things that do that but don't hurt?" 

"I don't think you understand fire.

"...Maybe there's fruits that taste like something else good, like flying or jumping or biting. But I haven't found any."

"I don't know, I've only tasted two fruits and at least one of them tastes different to me than to you." 

Chibimon wanders off towards other fruits.

Kyokyomon attempts to slither after him.

"Are you gonna try to fight him more?" she asks Kyokyomon. 

"Yes," it nods.

"Why?"

"Because he hurt someone," it says, solemnly.

"But then I explained what was wrong and he agreed not to do it again." 

"She is still hurt," it explains.

"Fighting him won't make her not hurt anymore." 

"It will make him hurt the same."

"But then there will be more hurt." 

"That is true."

"Hurt is bad." 

"Hurt is a debt that must be repaid."

"...No?"

"Is too!"

"How would that even work when someone gets hurt by something that isn't another person?" 

Snake-shrug. "Fight if you can. If not, no shame."

It moves to slither around her.

"How do you fight stepping on something sharp?" 

She moves to stay between Kyokyomon and Chibimon. 

"Thorns can be burned away."

"What if the fire gets on other things?" 

"One does one's best," it says, gathering its tail under itself. "Too much damage is not honorable."

"But if you hurt people because they hurt other people then there will be more hurt and hurt makes people upset and that's really bad!!!"

"If you do not then there is dishonor, and theft, and rampancy, and in time more hurt. That is worse."

And it pushes itself into the air from the ground, briefly stretching to several times its usual length, and begins to glide over her head.

There wouldn't be much she could do about that even if it weren't enough of a surprise to leave her gaping for a couple of seconds. 

She can chase after him, though. "Wait! He didn't know it would hurt her! You shouldn't hurt people over mistakes!" 

...It turns and glides to the ground. "Say more about mistakes?"

"We're really new and there's a lot of things we don't know! If Chibimon doesn't know what hurts people then they can't avoid hurting people perfectly, they can only try to make it better after, so if they get hurt every time they mess up then they'll just get hurt all the time without being able to avoid it and then they'll be really unhappy all the time and maybe not want to not hurt people. So, so maybe it would make sense to go after him and ask him to say he's sorry and maybe bring her some of a kind of fruit she hasn't tried, but hurting him won't fix anything." 

"Okay," it nods. "I will try it."

"I'll help!" 

Lalamon and Kyokyomon follow the direction Chibimon went, leaving the purple-tailed blob and the rest of their friends with the fruits.

These might be the long red fruits he was talking about, but he doesn't seem to be there.

If he's figured out how to climb trees, he might be somewhere up in this one? Kyokyomon could go up and check.

...While Kyokyomon is doing that, Lalamon will try a long red fruit. 

It's crisp and crunchy and most especially spicy. It tastes like her face is a little bit on fire, and like if she wanted to, she could spread that fire around.

The spiciness persists for a bit even after swallowing the bite.

Bwaaaaaaack! She attempts to blow the fire out of her mouth. This probably isn't going to work but it might be funny that she falls over backwards in surprise while doing so. 

Then perhaps the absence of laughter indicates she's unobserved. Despite the burning feeling, no actual fire comes out of her mouth when she blows.

As the spiciness subsides, she can notice the more subtle flavor of being more on edge, more amped up, more antsy to do stuff.

Huh. Okay. She will put this antsiness into catching up with Kyokyomon. 

Kyokyomon is still up in the tree. Is she trying out how well her new leaves can carry her?

Yesssssssss. 

Spin, spin, spinspinspin UP! Her two leaves are slower at lifting her increased mass, but once they get going, it's a lot easier to hover bobbing in the air rather than have to keep hopping through the air on her onetime leaf. Similarly she can't make such sudden course adjustments, but she can set her sights in most any direction and fly that way.

Being big is NICE. 

So is Chibimon up in that tree Kyokyomon decided to investigate?

Kyokyomon hasn't found any sign of him. And the fruits are sweet on the outside but too crunchy on the inside.

Glide onwards? There's huge orange fruits on the ground over there and one of them is wiggling.

Oooh, wiggling fruits. Looks promising. 

She nabs a sweet-and-crunchy fruit to try first, though. 

Another great thing about being big: hands. If she practices a little, she can grab a small red fruit and pull it off without having to land on anything.

In her mouth the fruit bursts with juice, sweet and slightly tart and suffused with the tingle of sunlight all across her, as though relaxing her and making her bloom.

(The center, though, is not just crunchy but hard. It's not obvious if she can even get into it.)

And onwards we glide! Kyokyomon squiggles its descent back and forth to make sure she can keep up.

Lalamon gnaws on the hard bit for a little before swallowing it whole. 

Wiggling fruit! What is up with the wiggling fruit. 

Well it's big for a fruit, still a little bigger than her. It sits right on the ground with its non-wiggling brethren amongst a cover of vines and large leaves.

Wow that is big. She walks around the fruit, inspecting it from all sides. 

She'll find some scaly blue legs poking out of a low hole in the fruit. It seems its wiggles are driven by this attempt at burrowing.

Oh no cute???

"Hi!" she says to the legs. 

It seems wiggling out is at least as hard as wiggling in.

Hmm. Hmmmmmmm. 

What happens if she grabs the edges of the hole and tries to pull them apart?

Hard to get a grip with legs mostly filling the hole.

What if she TRIES VERY HARD.

(Kyokyomon spirals up the vegetable to get a look at the top.)

Lalamon and the legs make a valiant effort at pulling, but mostly only wear themselves out.

And then the legs glow white, and shrink down,

dropping out of the hole in a more familiar form.

"Hi Chibimon! --Sorry to bother you." 

"Consider it forgotten. —Want some of this fruit? The orange part is boring but the seeds are really good!"

"You thought the fruit I liked was boring so I will try some of both," Lalamon decides. 

At his reduced size, it's a simple matter for him to dip inside, and emerge bearing a little pile of stringy orange goop full of crisp white seeds. "You could try the outside if you can figure out how to get more off. But it's just as boring," he says, offering her the pile.

(Kyokyomon is intently watching from the top of the fruit, a bit higher than Lalamon's leaves.)

She stuffs the goop and seeds in her mouth. 

The orange goop has a mushy, stringy texture and an earthy, buttery flavor, bitter with the promise of getting back at whoever wronged you.

The seeds are smoky and crisp, flavored with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice and nutmeg, and clouded with the potential of dreams made real.