3937/Training and sparring between digimon.

Training and sparring between digimon.
Date of Scene:	23 March 2016
Location:	Crystal Valley
Synopsis:	Gaonoir spars with some of Alden's digimon friends.
Cast of Characters:	Gaonoir, 930

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Alden (930) has posed:
Alden had been talking with Erika! (and Gaonoir) discussing things to do, adn ways to get stronger, and perhaps try to get her used to being in the middle of... trouble. One of the first ideas involved simply training together and spar a bit, and he hoped the two might agree to the idea!. Alden was still intrigued about just how strong Gaonoir was, and hoped to get a better idea!.

     The coordinates were a fair bit from the manor of Ainsley, far enough there was no chance of any accidental damage to anywhere important!. With Alden, were a couple of digimon, a black Galgomon, and a Fangmon. The first looked... cute for the most part, an anthropomorphic creature, with long ears, a bandolier full of ammo, a pair of jeans, and guns for hands!, they looked more like the barrels of a revolver than guns.      The other digimon tho? it looked... unnerving. It had the fur coloration of a fox, but it was tall and spindly, impossibly thin, with a long tail, and long limbs ending in wicked long claws, each of the legs of the quadrupedal thing wrapped in leather. The scariest detail?, the creature's head, a very, very long, unnaturaly so, muzzle, full with sharp teeth. Surprisngly, the trio seemed to be talking casually, enjoying a bit of meat!. ( http://wikimon.net/Fangmon http://wikimon.net/Black_Galgomon )

Gaonoir has posed:
Making sure to get some distance away from the manor or any other settled area was likely Gaonoir's suggestion. Knowing his own ability to cause collateral damage during a fight. Better to not break something that might piss off a friend of the few friends he has. Even if that whole concept of concern for such things was still a new and slightly awkward concern in the first place.

The electric scooter putt-putts onto the scene though, the black canine hopping off while Erika parks the small vehicle. "So, someone was looking for some friendly busting of each other's faces?"

Erika is a few paces behind him. "Hi Alden!" Though then her attention hones in on the Black Galgomon. She looks at him, down at Gaonoir, then up again. Points a finger between the two of them. "He's not... like you, is he?"

"More likely just a color variation. A... palette swap? Like you complained about that game the other night."

"Oooooh. And the other one looks like it came out of a fairy tale." Reference seems to a reaccuring thing amongst Digimon forms. Though the question is still out on which world is referencing the other one first.

Alden (930) has posed:
Appropriately enough, the first of the group to hear the scooter was the oversized, dark colored bunnyish one, waving one of the gun hands cheerily to the air, followed by a few yips from the fox digimon. Alden finally joins them, getting with a broad grin, "Erika!, Gaonoir!" he chirps. He moves closer, offering the girl a hug, and a friendly pat to the dark Gaomon. "Glad you two would make it." he says, pointing to the pair near him. "Please, meet Fangmon."

     The long, skinny looking fox bows and smiles as warmly as it can, "A pleasure to meet you two." he growls, a surprisingly nice voice, for a creature so scary looking, it even pads closer to politely sniff at the pair. "Alden told us you are really, really strong." says the fox digimon.

     "I'm BlackGalgomon." says teh other digimon, standing up and smiling broadly, apparently a rather happy digimon, moving quickly, and admiring Erika curiously for a few moments, before Fangmon lets out a soft rumble, "Oh, sorry, never met a human before!, you are cute." comes from the oversized, jeans wearing digimon.

     Alden grins, "Yeah, I thought perhaps some sparring might be good, both practice, and perhasp get Erika used to being near such things..." he explains, "These two are friends, and were eager to meet you and Erika, plus they offered to help us spar."

Gaonoir has posed:
"Strong, yeah, you could say that," Gaonoir replies, crossing his arms and maintaining his usual act of indifference.

Which is promptly ruined by Erika returning the cute remark by giving BlackGalgomon a big hug. "And you're pretty cute for someone toting a pair of giant guns for arms!" Fangmon gets a pat on the head too if he allows it. But then she steps back afterwards. "Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Nagato said I should get more accustomed with being near fights before I go on any dangerous missions with Gaonoir." At least she doesn't seem to be too upset over the other night.

Gaonoir just unfolds his arms to rub his face in one gloved palm for a moment and the girl's antics. Then shrugs it off again. "So, what, the three of you against me?" Just the hint of a smirk parts his otherwise stoic expression. "That might be fair odds.. For you guys."

"Gaonoir!" Erika shakes a finger at the dark pup. "There is no need to be rude about it."

"What?" Another shrug is all she gets in return. "I have a reputation."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden grins as his digimon friends get along with Erika, like he hoped they did!. The BlackGalgomon hugging back, chuckling softly, "Thanks, you should see me as a blackterriermon, but I haven't been tired enough to devolve to that point in a long while." he says, "Maybe after the spar." he says, letting go for a moment and offering a grin to Gaonoir at the 'three versus one' idea. "I think me and my friend Fangmon might be able to give you a decent fight on our own." he says, and somehow cracks his knuckles, the guns spinning for a moment.

     Fangmon is more than happy to be pet, long tail wagging, "IT's nice to meet someone that is not affraid on first sight." he says, eyes softening a bit as he offers Erika a playful lick. The fox looks back at Alden, "Are you sure we can go all out?" he asks softly. Alden nods, "Yes, I hope you two can give him a good workout." he says softly.

     The two digimon nod to eachother, and smile, slowly moving away a bit of distance, digicode glowing brightly around their forms. "BlackGalgomon digivolve to!" "Fangmon digivolve to!". Alden just chuckles a bit, "They like showing off." he mumbles softly to Erika. The two burst into a flash of light and voxels, revealing their evolved forms. "Black Rapidmon!" "Caturamon!".

     The rapidmon keeps the bunnish motiff, if only due to the oversized ears, and the 'nose' marked on the dark armor, most of it's body covered in dark colored armor, the gun hands turning into a large calibre ones apparently!, with the old ones attached to its back as decoration. http://wikimon.net/Black_Rapidmon

     Caturamon looks rather regal!, mainly looking like a foo dog, or lion dog, ancient chinese guardian creature. It looks like a statue of a canineish creature, with a large piece of fabric tied to it's back. http://wikimon.net/Caturamon

     The pair streetches and seems to take a few moments to get used to the change. "Think we might provide a better fight like this?" the Caturamon asks, oddly, it does not sound somuch as him teasing Gaonoir, as an honest question. "Alden said you were really strong." (Yes, Alden is really impressed at Gaonoir.). Alden rubs the back of his head a bit, "I just told them what I saw so far, we never really fought eachother, but I do think you are strong, stronger than me most likely."

Gaonoir has posed:
"Alden doesn't strike me as being very good at lying, so." It's a bit backwards but it is a compliments of sort. "You better stand back a bit." Gaonoir clenches his gloved paws into fists and settles into a boxer stance, rocking back and forth from one foot to another to keep on his toes.

Erika does step back a bit, but cocks her head to the side a bit. "Shouldn't you evolve too?"

Gaonoir snorts softly as he ducks his head down partway behind raised gloves. "Only if I have to. I didn't get where I am by jumping forms at the first chance. Come one, lets see what the two of you can do."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden moves to join Erika, just in case, a bit surprised that Gao is not... evolving, wondering if he is not taking things seriously. "Let's move a bit farther, just in case." he tells Erika, "I think he has a point on what he said, but I wonder if he is not over stimating himself." he says softly.

     The two digimon seem a bit surprised at that, but they don't seem offended. "Ok!" the rapidmon chirps, taking to the air, "Rapid missile!". He aims his 'hands' at the Gaomon, launching a couple of missiles from his hands. At first, the projectiles seem to be just warning shots, since they were pointing away from Gaomon, before suddenly they turn to face him and gain a burst of speed!.


Caturamon crouches, trying to size up the boxing canine, then he jumps closer, "Howl of the heavens!" he... well... howls!, a loud, deep howl that produces a series of shockwaves of wind aimed in Gaonoir's direction. They don't look that large, so perhaps he was holding back a bit.

Gaonoir has posed:
Well it seems like Gaonoir is set on getting smacked around as is at first, so Erika takes the D-PORT out of her bag and holds it up. "Now if this works like it did before..." She taps an icon with her thumb and the 'Digipedia' as they previously dubbed it comes up. The screen flashes through various strings of code and shilouettes before finally stopping on one resembling the armored bunny, and filling it in with an animated version of the light voxels effect evolution had. Then brings up a second image of a green and white version, forcing Erika to flip the device sideways to show both at the same time. "Huh, guess he was right about the palette swap comparison."

The missile fire going off in a different direction does not fool Gaonoir one bit. He jumps to the side with a series of hops and jukes to avoid the projectiles. Except for the last one, as he cocks back one gloved paw as it starts to glow black. Shadow Counter! And he swings to punch the missile and deflect it back in Rapidmon's direction!

Almost reflexively he snaps his attention to the second digimon rushing towards him. Gaonoir shifts his weight and lunges to meet the charge, only for Caturamon to pull up short and blast a howl not unlike some of his own evolutions attacks. The abrupt tactics switch is still enough catch his guard down and the sonic windblast tosses him backwards into one of the crystal formations. It crumbles down in a cloud of glittering crystalline dust around him.

Erika is about to say something, but it's distracted into "Hmm?" when the D-Port bleeps at her and flashes back to the status screen for Gaonoir. "Oh, I think he realized he started off a little too lightly."

Sure enough a few brief flashes can be seen within the settling dust though, followed by a roar and the pair of clawed scarf ends lash out of the debris to try and swat Caturamon away. Followed by the much larger bear-huskie form of Gaonoir's evolved state. "Guess you two need a stronger lesson after all."

"I bet you could drown them in your fluffiness in that form!~"

Gaonoir sweatdrops at Erika's outburst. "Fluffiness isn't a combat tactic!"

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden seems more interested in Erika and the D-ark than the battle, at least for now!. "I still think that information is neat, remember to let you scan my evolutions later." he says softly, wagging his tail. "Yeah, there are a lot of color variations, I know at least three agumons." he comments.

     The returned missile seems to take the BlackRapidmon by surprise, moving his arms in a defensive position, and receiving the hit!. "That was a great defensive move." the black colored, armored bunny exclaims. He winces when he sees Gaonoir getting tossed to the crystals, about to mention something about 'overdoing it', when the fluffy beardog emerges!... Erika manages to destroy the impact of the change with the comment of fluff, chuckling loudly!. Alden sweatdrops at that, "That... won't help Black Rapidmon one bit...".

     At least Caturamon is dutyfully impressed, the swat pushing him away!. "Not bad!" he growls, crouching a bit. "Ok, let's try again." he mumbles. "You go first this time." he offers, while the Rapidmon quickly flies to one side, trying to get a better point to aim.

Gaonoir has posed:
The chuckle earns BlackRapidmon a bit of a death glare, but Gaonoir isn't going to lose his cool over some annoyance over how 'cute' certain people find this form.

"Still kind of figuring out what it can do," Erika admits as she thumbs back to the previous info screens. "This say BlackRapidmon is a Cyborg type, and Caturamon is a Holy Beast type... Whatever the second one means. The first is kind of like MachGaogamon then."

When they say he should go first, Gaonoir actually takes a step back... But it's not quite a retreat, as the backwards step somehow seems to fade down -into- the shadows around him like it was some sort of liquid portal. A few moments past, just long enough to leave his sparring partners to wonder just what happened...

"SHADOW BEAST" And then Gaonoir almost literally erupts out of Caturamon's own shadow, grabbing the Holy Beast as he does so and flinging him into the air towards BlackRapidmon!

Alden (930) has posed:

     Alden nods a few times, "I'm sure you will figure what it does, you seem really smart." says Alden, wincing a bit as he sees Gaonoir glare. "This is not going to be pretty." he says quietly. Caturamon is caught by surprise, letting out a loud yip as he is lifted, as heavy as hwe was, adn flung away!.

     Unfortunately for Gaonoir, BlackRapidmon is really fast, and is very good at detecting enemies, so he can see, and react to the throw. Unfortunately for Caturamon, the reaction is 'dodge, then blast the bear husky'. "Rapid fire!" he chirps loudly, the neck protector raising, hidding his face, as several missiles are launched, both from his back adn gun hands towards the beaddog.

     Caturamon lands... less than gracefully, a heap of metal screeching to a stop. "That hurts." he mumbles, before getting on his feet and charging at Gao, if he can get close enough, he jumps high in the air and begins to do a somersault, the metallic frame shifting quickly until it turns into... a giant hammer? (at least, one as big as Caturamon was), "Bao Tsei!", the hammer turns and tries to slam into Gaonoir's side.

Gaonoir has posed:
Gaonoir hits the ground after his shadow maneuver throw, just to get pummeled with another barrage of missiles. The cascade of explosions leave a bruise like distorted effect across his fuzzy shoulders, but despite being a level lower than his attacker the bombardment doesn't seem to have done more than it would to another digimon of the same level. "That better not be the only attack you have, bunny boy."

Erika raises both eyebrows as Caturamon turns -into- a hammer to launch his attack. "That's something you definately don't see every day."

Gaonoir rears up on his back paws to grab onto Catura-hammer, though it's still enough force in the impact to make him side backwards before digging in with his claws, and shoving Caturamon to the ground. But it's just to hold him there as he turns his attention back at Rapidmon. The cyber-rabbit is dangerous he keeps getting potshots while he has to deal with Caturamon at close range.

Instead the BlackGaogamon unleashes a howling roar of his own. Unlike Caturamon's this roar is crackling with electrified energy, an attack manifestation of his disruptive Howlback effect. That might not be pleasant on the partially mechanical nature of Rapidmon at all.

Alden (930) has posed:
BlackRapidmon smiles, "No, but I don't want to blast my friend if i can help it." he says, watching Caturamon do his strongest hit and... getting caught!. The metal dog digimon remain in hammer form as it gets slammed to the ground, before uncurling back to normal on his back. The large metal wolf trashes a bit, large paws pushing at the fluffy beardog.

     Any hesitation the bunny had about using his stronger attack stops when the electric blast goes his way!. He seems to go still in the air, extending his arms and legs, energy gathering on them, as a golden triangle barrier seems to form in front of him!. It seems to deflect most of the howlback, but it is obvious he did feel something, electricity and marks appearing on the armor as he was pushed back. "Golden Triangle!". A large beam emerges from the triangle barrier... shaped as a triangle, not so much an explosive attack, as one meant to erase teh target, so if well aimed, it should not hit Caturamon! (let's say at worse it might scrape and leave marks all over teh impact area). Inmediatly as the attack finishes, the BlackRapidmon lands, sparks flying from his 'ears' and one arm.

Gaonoir has posed:
It might be hard to notice in middle of all the scuffling about, but Gaonoir actually pushes Caturamon out of the way when he realizes what BlackRapidmon is going to do. Or maybe it was just an attack to knock him over timed like that. It's really hard to tell, and the dark dog is likely going to try and claim the latter later.

Regardless of why, it's only Gaonoir that takes the triangular beam with force, engulfing him in the sheering energy.

Thankfully he is strong enough that it's not going to directly erase him or anything like that. It does however appear to have damaged the 'texture' of his form enough that it's cracked open. Which is kind of weird in its own right since Gaonoir just shows a black and purple churning of data on his insides instead of the voxels and grid patters other Digimon would show when heavily wounded.

Claws scrap the crystallized ground as Gaonoir growls despite the damage, a flashing of something much more feral looking in his eyes, leering a little to one side but still managing to slink towards BlackRapidmon.

"Gaonoir!" And before anyone else can stop her Erika darts over and smacks him on the nose. "No! It's just training remember?!"

Despite being a lot larger than her Gaonoir yelps and drops back on his haunchs, putting his paws over his nose. But the savage look fades from his eyes... And a moment after he flops over on his side with a groan.

Erika uuuhs. "...I didn't actually hurt him, did I? But it looked like he was going to flip out."

"Ugh.. Form.. still has feral insticts..." The big bruiser manages to growl from on the ground.

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden whimpers, worried a bit, as he leaves Erika and moves towards Gaonoir. Thankfully the metal dog is not very harmed, except perhaps his pride. The Rapidmon squeaks, the damage from the previous attack stopping him from flying. The bunny digimon is both worried... and scared, at least until the Gaogamon stops and flops, ignoring his own damage to approach, while Alden checks on Caturamon. "Are you ok?... I am sorry if I over did it." says the cyborg bunny, flopping down, "You ARE tough." he finally says, "I was about to ask Caturamon to try and bring things a step up just to keep up with you." he says softly. Alden did see the situation, "No, but it seems you snapped him out of his momentary rage... so you did great, Erika." he praises the girl. He tries to help Caturamon up, and the pair move a bit closer. "Gaonoir...?"

Gaonoir has posed:
Erika ahehehes softly, rubbing the back of his head. "He's still basically a dog. When a dog misbehaves, you swat their nose. I didn't want to do something he'd regret."

"Yeah... I'll be fine." There's a reverse surge of energy voxels as he devolves back to his usual form and plops down on his rear, rubbing the side of his head with one gloved paw.

Erika manages to reset scooping him into a hug but she does kneel down next to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "What happened? You muttered something about feral insticts."

"Yeah. Sorry 'bout that BlackRapidmon." Gaonoir cups his chin with the paw and twists his head to the side a little like trying to stretch a kink out of his neck. "The Dark Digitron gives me an higher resistance to attacks that can cause deletion. But the experience caused Gaogamon's survival insticts to flare up from the threat."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden does not get in the way, but listens closely, perhasp taking notes of how to react in case... he finds himself in a similar situation. "I... can relate do that Gaonoir... sometimes in bad situations... you can get out of control." he muses quietly, before smiling to Erika, "That was clever." he tells her.

     The BlackRapidmon shakes his head, before letting out a soft growl and bursting into voxels... only, instead of the BlackGalgomon, there is a rather small, cute Terriermon!. The small long eared digimon cracks his neck a bit, "No worries, I am ok, I was worried me and Fangmon were going to have to take things to the next level!" he says softly.

     The metal dog moves closer, the armor apparently scraped and dented on places, before he too explosively devolves all the way to child level... A Bearmon!. A small, bipedal dark furred bear wearing a cap that has 'bears' written on it and leather straps on his forelimbs, "You ARE strong, I don't think even if we went to our full combined power we might be able to do more than inconvenience you." says the Bearmon.

Gaonoir has posed:
And almost immeadiately both the Terriermon and Bearmon are scooped up one in each arm by Erika. "I swear cuteness must be a natural attribute for low level digimon~" Apparently cuteness is still enough to get hugs even when they were large fighting monsters mere moments ago.

By this point Gaonoir is just rolling his eyes at her. At least she's not squeezing him to death right now. "To be fair I've had a lot of combat experience. And training from some of the Royal Knights." Though he says that in a flat tone, just saying it like it was something that happened and nothing more. "You might of forced me to evolve another stage to keep going though."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden chuckles abit, and surprisingly, the pair of friendly digimon seem more than content with the hugs, chuckling and hugging back, the Bearmon with his paws, and the Terriermon with the oversized ears, making happy noises. The Bearmon grins, "I am not cute, I am cool looking." he teases, stubby tail wagging.

     Alden sits besides Gaonoir, reaching to pathis shoulder, "That was impressive, I bet you would have handled them easily if you didn't get caught directly under the beam." he says softly, seeming impressed. The mention of evolving made them nod, "We were about to jogress, to try to keep up." the Terriermon says. "We still can, if you recover and want to try that as well." he offers helpfully, "Perhaps after a snack." interrupts the Bearmon. Alden tilts his head, "Royal knights... they sound important... like the Devas from my world, or the Sovereign."

Gaonoir has posed:
"Tell her that all you want, she's not going to listen," Gaonoir deadpans in response to Bearmon, doing his best to sound extra grumpy with the flat tone.

"Oh, snacks!" Erika grabs her satchet and tugs it open. "I've got some granola bars if you guys like."

Gaonoir waves it off with one paw. "I think one thrashing on all sides is enough for a session boys." Then shrugs a little to Alden. "Something like that, yeah. They fought a big war to keep the Demon Lords from taking over.... But let's just say everything didn't end on a pleasant note, and a lot of digimon from my Digital World are stuck here because of it."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden pats Gaonoir's shoulder gently, "That was impressive, I mean teh spar, I hope we can do some more later. I do plan to spar with them now and then, to try to get stronger."he says softly, before being derailed about tasy snacks. "Can I have one?" he asks, and carefully unwrapping and eating it.

     The Bearmon nods to Gaonoir, not quite grumpy, but apparently realizing he was not going to win, "Guess I am kind of cute." he finally admits, giving her a tight hug, and playfully pulling his cap to place it on Erika's head, "It looks cute on you." the bear says. The Terriermon eats a couple bars while the Bearmon is distracted, at first he gnawed on the wrapper, but figures out he has to peel it, "These are good."

Gaonoir has posed:
The hat sits a bit flopsided due to the large bow in Erika's hair, but she laughs all the same at the gesture. "Thanks." Carefully she takes it off and puts it back on Bearmon's head. "But it definately looks better on you."

Gaonoir snatchs one of the granola bars while Erika is busy, for lack of better words, playing with the other digimon, biting off the end of the wrapper and sitting back down next to Alden. "I was trained to be able to handle myself in situations where help wouldn't be available. I'm use to having to work and fight on my own.... And that's why this arrangement is kind of... awkward for me." He sighs a little, and takes a bit out of the bar.

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden nods, "I can understand, I was not too happy about having a boy follow me, but trust me, there must be a reason she became your trainer." he says softly, "I am glad you are doing your best to... get used to this situation, rather than trying to leaveher alone or something."he says, "I knew of a digimon that did that... he spent a rather lousy time until he realized he should have tried to stay with his tamer." he says softly, patting Gao's shoulder again, "She is very nice, and smart, and I am sure things will work out." he says softly. The Bear grabs the cap again and carefully places it again, "Thanks." he beams, then looks at the bundle of bars, only to stop Terriermon trying to devour a third one. "Hey, leave some for the rest of us!" the bear protests. The Terriermon mumbles around a mouthfull, "Iph you don't eat them it's ot my fault." he manages.

Gaonoir has posed:
Gaonoir pfffts and rolls his eyes. "I wouldn't be able to get rid of her if I wanted to. She's... persistant." Breaks off a chunk of granola and flicks it in his mouth.

He's mostly ignoring the antics going on in the background as Erika and Bearmon try to get the snack bars back before Terriermon eat them all. Which ultimately comes down to the girl grabbing him in another hug so he can't reach them! ... Which doesn't work when he can use his ears, but its the effort that counts.

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden chuckles a bit, "That can be good at times." he says softly, finishing his own bar, "Do you want something to drink?" he asks, "We brought some water and soda." he offers. The terriermon is eventually subdued, the bearmon carefully stuffing the oversized ears of the bunny digimon in the arms of the hugging girl, which made the bunny 'mon struggle a bit before letting out a dramatic sigh, "Ok, ok, I'll let you eat." he says, now hugging Erika instead. The bearmon eats a couple bars, licking his lips, "Very good, never ate one of these before."

Gaonoir has posed:
Which gets Erika to laugh while he's wiggling around. "That tickles!" But Terriermon finally settles down and promises to share so she sets him back down. "They're suppose to be good for energy. Which Gaonoir says is important for you guys to be able to evolve and stuff... Though how you guys can eat in the first place would probably give scientists nightmares. Or coders."

Gaonoir pffs softly as he grabs one of the soda cans. "I could say the same thing for how long you spend in the bathroom in the morning."

Erika rolls her eyes. "You think I'm bad, you should be glad you're not living with someone that feels the need to apply tons of makeup just for a -casual- day."

Alden (930) has posed:
Alden chuckles a bit, "I guess I am glad my tamer was a boy, he was rather swift on most things." he says, snickering at the talk about coders. "I will be the first to admit we are weird." he says. The Terriermon seems happy to be hugged, and refuses to let go for the most part, only leaving to get a bit of bacon, before returning to hug Erika with one ear, nibbling on the treat. Bearmon eats 3 bars and settles down, "Alden, you need to get us more of these energy bars." he says, smiling.

     Alden grabs a bit of soda and drinks softly, "So, Erika, anything exciting between our last time together and now?, did you learn anything about your device?, or ran into any other digimon?"

Gaonoir has posed:
"I'll have to leave some here for you guys." Erika opens a bottle of water for herself. "Gaonoir has been busy helping the Hikari Seaport fleet so we haven't had much time for exploring more."

"Most of the Fleet is aquatic, so I'm one of the few air superiority resources they have," Gaonoir explains for some better context to the others.