[color=#85c885][u][h3]Dustin[/h3][/u][/color]
Dustin examined the "Digivice" thrown to him, fiddling with it as much as possible (which is to say, hardly at all) before concluding the thing wasn't meant to be manually operated much at this stage. He could look up a couple of details on Cardmon, but only Cardmon, and there wasn't much about it to find. The "evolution" tab had a lot of implications, but it only showed Cardmon and its previous forms, of which there were apparently two, both labeled babies, which is saying something considering how babyish Cardmon was already. Cardmon's only "skill" was listed as "Card Curse", though skills didn't seem to have a description of any kind. He pulled out the six cards he had pulled from the booster pack Cardmon gave him and eyed them warily. Magic is real, so superstition logically required reexamination.

[color=#85c885]"These cards wouldn't happen to be cursed, would they, Cardmon?"[/color]

[color=#F8F80E]"Nooooo?"[/color] Cardmon answers in a tone of voice that Dustin can't discern as being either genuine confusion or the denial of a child caught red-handed.

Before the interrogation can continue, however, a freakish fish monster emerges and greets them with a poorly-aimed jet of water. Its arrival certainly came as a surprise, but it was perhaps more surprising that it was allegedly intelligent, or at least intelligent enough to be interested in the bounty Dorumon mentioned off-handedly, while still thinking that attacking now was a good idea. Despite the cognitive ability to act independently, it seemed to think going toe to toe with the ten or so digimon here all at once was just fine, so either the gap in power is outstanding or the fish is just an idiot. Either way, it was rather captivating to see a super-powered monster in action. There's a lot of exotic animals on Earth capable of bizarre feats, but that jet of water couldn't have realistically been bodily fluids or stored sea water.

Klara and her bean-shaped purple flying gecko were the first to launch an attack, and, belatedly, he realized that it was still possible that their numbers advantage would mean nothing when they were all so new to human-digimon partnerships. The power to produce ambiguously cursed trading cards when no one was looking wasn't [i]quite[/i] as... well, [i]flashy[/i], let's say. Still, based on what he's been told, Cardmon is supposed to fight for him, using his emotional energy, and if it's at all possible, he should at least try to understand what he's working with here. Thinking to give it a try, he clutched his digivice, and in turn, couldn't shake the feeling that it was responding to him... Probably. Looking at Cardmon, the spherical tyke didn't seem to notice the attempted effort, its attention fixed on the fish monster as it began to fidget in place, its spinning card rotating a bit more erratically.

[color=#85c885]"So, Cardmon, as a Digimon, you can fight, right?"[/color] He felt the need to ask.

Cardmon turned to look at him, his face betraying his lack of confidence, but seeing Dustin's ever-stoic expression, he steeled his nerves before answering, [color=#F8F80E]"Yes! I can fight. If there's one thing Cardmon are known fow, it's our curses!"[/color]

[i]...Not their cards?[/i]

Not hearing Dustin's thoughts, Cardmon floated up a bit higher off the ground before reeling back, then launching the card atop its head with a surprisingly violent spin. The card is launched away after a couple of rotations as if it were an olympic discus, flying off towards the fishy creature like a missile, coated in an inexplicable ominous aura.

[color=#F8F80E]"Card Curse!"[/color]