During a debug team meeting, Cool Boy, backed up by Omekamon, confirms the existence of Avalon within the Garden. They bring Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki to the stage, and introduce everyone to the newest members of the debug team. As they introduce themselves to the crowd, Shoto notices Owen Dreadnought hadn't show up and figures he was avoiding them. Shoto also notices Close, recognizing her from when he saw her running away from Frozen Knight. Cool Boy is surprised when he notices Shoto recognizes someone, though Shoto denies this being a thing. Doubting his denying, Cool Boy simply laughs and says that he'll be even more surprised very soon. Cool Boy tells the crowd that they had been accepted into the team as Shoto had defeated admin Yao Qinglan in a duel, and that Arisa had defeated a member of the debugging team. This confuses Arisa, who says she had never defeated anyone from the team — with Cool Boy, Omekamon, and Espimon insisting she had. Cool Boy's earlier statement then comes to life, as Violet "Vi" Inboots arrives and apologizes for being late. A shocked Shoto and Arisa learn she had been a member of the debug team this whole time. She then personally welcomes the duo as the newest members of the debugging team.
Two months later; Shoto, Owen, Arisa, and Violet chase a Maquinamon around the Obsidian Desert with the goal of capturing it to turn it into a trading card. It proves too fast for the humans, leading Owen and Shoto to use their unique emblems to digivolve Elizamon and Muchomon to Dimetromon and Kokatorimon outside of a duel. Now on the backs of their bigger faster Digimon, they are able to get closer to it. Owen figures out where it's going to go, and as Shoto is closer he relays a message for him to capture it. Shoto and Kokatorimon hide behind the corner, with their ambush allowing Shoto to turn Maquinamon into a card. As most of the group celebrate the success of the mission, Shoto tries to get Owen involved though Owen wasn't interested in doing so. Once the celebrations wear down, Shoto complains at being overworked by the debug team, with Violet seemingly trying to comfort him by saying things hadn't been this hectic until he and Arisa had joined. Unlike Shoto though, Arisa had been enjoying her time. This pleases Shoto, since he felt like she hadn't been able to have fun and explore LACUNA since she had spent all her time training him to get better at duelling. Violet tries to invite her "rivals" to do something with her, though is cut off when they receive messages on their D-STORAGEs. Shoto is told that a rogue NPC had been sighted nearby, whilst Arisa is told that another Maquinamon had been seen. The four of them split up to deal with both issues, with Owen and Shoto going after the NPC and Arisa and Violet going after the Maquinamon.
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Cool Boy and Unchained have a video call about T.A.L.E's products. Cool Boy informs Unchained that development is mostly going well, though they do have some issues in Digimon Liberator such as synchronization with the D-STORAGE. Unchained figures that must be why Cool Boy is doing field work within the game, and expresses concern about if he's over working himself. Cool Boy plays down their concerns, as he feels he needs to take action so that LACUNA can have peace. After the call ends, Cool Boy leaves for a meeting, whilst Unchained ponders over his words of peace — figuring that whilst they both want world peace, the current set up where Digimon and humans exploit each other was actually much better — though still hopes they could get along with each other. Finding it fun to "mess with heroes", Unchained opens up a screen so that they (and a group of Maquinamon) can watch what Close was up to.
Whilst riding on the back of their partners to get to the rogue NPC, Shoto Kazama calls out to Owen Dreadnought about the fact he knows Owen is trying to avoid him and feels they need to have a conversation. Owen cuts him off though, and brings up that Shoto had forgotten his promise to him from when they were children. Shoto confirms he does indeed not remember making a promise with him, but that even then they need to be able to work together since they had been assigned as partners by Yao Qinglan. Done with the conversation, Owen has Dimetromon run faster so that he wouldn't have to talk to Shoto any more. Pteromon, from inside Shoto's D-STORAGE, tells Shoto he can tell the two of them are close — though Shoto denies this since the conversation was awkward and Owen ran away from him. It tells Shoto not to give up, and that if he does want to get along with him better there will be many more chances for them to do so.
Everyone comes to a stop, as a giant battlefield forms in front of them — with Shoto confused since they were 200 meters away from the rogue NPC. Owen contacts Shoto via voice call, and tells him to get his Emblem ready as a debug team member was about to fight three NPC at once and as such the duo should join in to even up the numbers. Shoto worries over the fact he had never actually been part of a 3v3 duel, though Owen says it doesn't really matter if he loses as to win a 3v3 duel — one side simply has to win 2 of the 3 duels and that Shoto is just a place filler since he and the other member will win anyway. This mockery angers Pteromon, with Pteromon demanding Shoto win his duel so that Owen can see what he's made of. When the duo arrive, both are surprised to see said debug member was Close since she was known for not actually doing debug team work despite being a member of the team. Close apologizes to the duo, telling them that the trio of NPCs were actually just regular NPCs that had all challenged her at the same time and weren't the out of control NPC they were looking for. Owen points out that even if they're not out of control, there is no storyline content in the game that requires a 3v3 duel so something is still wrong and so should still be investigated by the debug team. Close thanks them for coming to help her, as she feels she would be unable to defeat all three of them, though Owen stubbornly tells her she can thank them after they win. As the 3v3 duel begins, Owen tells Shoto to prove to him that he isn't just here as a place filler.
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