[Forte doesn't even get the chance to open his mouth again before the words hit him like a sledgehammer. Masaru says "partner," and for the second time that day, it isn't Tsukaimon that Forte sees, but Gospel.
He'd never forgive himself if he let something like this happen to Gospel. He'd convinced himself so thoroughly that Tsukaimon was this world's pathetic attempt to replace his real partner, a fraud, a phony, a cheap knock-off. The worst insult to the only robot he truly considered his brother and friend that he could imagine. But for an instant, those words let doubt into his mind, and it sent cracks running all through that conviction he'd forged in his anger...
Being called weak like that shattered it.
He choked, almost falling over as his legs refused to work quite right, and grabbed at Masaru's wrists.]
I-I didn't... I'm not...
[But the look on his face is enough to see that it's hit home. Forte's digivice hums, the sickening purple energy around it slowly dissipating as it's replaced by a softer teal. Behind him, DexDorugamon screams in pain as the last of Seasarmon's attacks hits, and the sound causes Forte to flinch.
The Digimon begins to glow, the dark energy leaving it, and shrink.]
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He'd never forgive himself if he let something like this happen to Gospel. He'd convinced himself so thoroughly that Tsukaimon was this world's pathetic attempt to replace his real partner, a fraud, a phony, a cheap knock-off. The worst insult to the only robot he truly considered his brother and friend that he could imagine. But for an instant, those words let doubt into his mind, and it sent cracks running all through that conviction he'd forged in his anger...
Being called weak like that shattered it.
He choked, almost falling over as his legs refused to work quite right, and grabbed at Masaru's wrists.]
I-I didn't... I'm not...
[But the look on his face is enough to see that it's hit home. Forte's digivice hums, the sickening purple energy around it slowly dissipating as it's replaced by a softer teal. Behind him, DexDorugamon screams in pain as the last of Seasarmon's attacks hits, and the sound causes Forte to flinch.
The Digimon begins to glow, the dark energy leaving it, and shrink.]