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| - Key Tools are small devices that Guardians wear on their left arms. These tools are alive and intelligent, with the ability to turn themselves into many other objects for a given task. Key Tools are also one of the few things that can create a portal, and are the most efficient method. Bob's key tool is named Glitch, and Turbo's is named Copland. When a key tool is assigned to a Guardian, they will exchange code with each other. A key tool chooses its operator and will ordinarily respond only to its bonded Guardian, though it may obey another if given express permission, or choose a temporary operator if the bonded Guardian is unavailable. (The Quick and the Fed) This bond allows the Guardian to issue commands from outside hearing range, as Glitch once responded to a return command from Bob halfway across Mainframe. (Painted Windows) Key tools run on stored power and must recharge their battery every so often. A key tool's body consists of a flat base, a cogwheel and a small bar attached at one of the sides. These three pieces can reform themselves to replicate the function of many devices. The things it can change into range from simple devices such as a telescope to more elaborate items like a hang glider. The only limitation seems to be that it cannot become a complex vehicle. Key Tools can also fly, and perform several types of detailed scans. Adding to its impressive list of functions is the ability to form solid energy constructs. Bob used energy rings to protect Dot and Phong from Megabyte, and Turbo used similar rings to restrain Matrix. (Infected) For the most part when joined to a Guardian, Key Tools remain silent, but as they’re sentient will sometimes talk to another Key Tool through a series of clicks, beeps, flashes and whirs of their cogwheels. Copland and Glitch recognized and spoke to each other. Apparently only Guardians can understand this complex language as Turbo was surprised and happy to see his old friend in the Desert Port System. (The Episode With No Name) Key Tools can be crushed if enough force is applied. Some viruses, like Megabyte, are strong enough to crush a Key Tool with their hand. If damaged, a key tool loses access to its higher-energy functions, such as shape changing and portal forming. It will still be able to perform system scans and Game stats. (Web World Wars) (To Mend and Defend) A key tool can join with its Guardian, downloading into them. However, the process is irreversible. Bob is the only known sprite to do so when he joined with Glitch. (Mousetrap) When Daemon infected the Guardians, their key tools left them to keep Daemon from controlling their portal forming abilities. The key tools had hidden themselves in a pocket dimension of cyberspace. Bob hated it that Dot choose to marry a copy Bob. So he tried to separate from Glitch to look like he used to. In the process he was almost deleted. Bobs last attempt paralyzed him, covering him in a hard black substance. The key tools later returned to save Bob and Glitch's lives, separating them from each other. The Key Tools then return to their respective Guardians. (Null Bot of the Bride) There appear to be only 32 key tools in existence. While a sentient race that occupies the Super Computer, it is unknown how they were first introduced into Cyber Space. All Key Tools have a huge list of various commands that their Guardian can make use of. To activate their higher level functions a Guardian must first state their name, and then the required action.
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