"Takato! Hurry up or you're going to be late!"
"Just a sec, Mom!" Takato shouted from his room.
He just wanted to save a few more changes he made with his RPG Reality game, a character based on Jeri. Thinking of her deceased Digimon partner Leomon, he came up with a leonine Hybrid form for the cheerful girl.
For a while, he thought if this would be sensible, regarding the fact just how much Jeri had suffered from Leomon's death. But then again, it was just a game, right? And even if Jeri would see this character sheet, he supposed she would just think it would look cute.
"Cubmon..." he murmured. "Attacks: Leo Scratch, Fierce Pounce and Propeller Toss..."
"Takato, did you hear what I said? Get going!"
"Geez, Mom," the goggle-wearing boy groaned. "Gimme a break! It's not that late. It's only..."
His gaze fell upon his clock and he gasped as he realized just HOW late he was.
"Gaaah," he screamed, while quickly saving the changes and ending the program. "Guilmon, why didn't you tell me how late I am?"
"Because your Mom already told you, and I thought that would be enough..."
"Man, Guilmon... Moms ALWAYS tell their kids to hurry up, if they're late or not. But to think that she was actually RIGHT this time..."
He quickly snatched his bag and hurried out of the house. "Guilmon, I'll see you later! Bye, Mom!"
His mother watched him from the bakery as he ran out of the house. "Seriously..." she said while shaking her head. "It's always the same with that boy... he can't be on time one day."
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A handsome man in a business suit walked over the parking lot next to the supermarket. He reached his car and carefully put the bags with his groceries on top of the car's roof.
While he was searching for his keys, a gloved hand came out of the branches of the tree standing nearby, and sneakily slipped into one of the paper bags. It quickly snatched something out of it and retreated back into the treetop.
The handsome man looked up. "Strange, I could have sworn I heard something..."
Looking down from the treetop, Impmon giggled devilishly and jumped from branch to branch, until he landed on the other side of the wall between the parking lot and the street.
He landed right between two little kids. While the boy was watching him in awe, the little girl looked like she felt guilty about something.
"See, kids?" Impmon grinned. "If you're not as strong as the big guys, you have to be quicker than them... and sharper."
Mako was impressed. "That was cool, Impmon! Can I try it next time?"
Impmon giggled. "Sorry, kiddo, but not until you can climb trees as good as I can."
The boy seemed disappointed. "Awww, bummer..."
"I don't know, Impmon..." Ai said in a quiet voice. "Is this right? I mean, that man paid for his food, right?"
"Don't be such a killjoy, Ai," Impmon told her. "Remember one thing, girl: It's a harsh world out there, and only who strikes first strikes best."
"Um, if you say so..." She still didn't look convinced.
"Let's see, what do we have here?" Impmon chuckled while opening the plastic bag. "Bingo! Kids, would you look at that? Cookies, fresh from the market!"
"Wow!" Mako shouted. "And even Chocolate Chip Cookies! I like those the best!"
The boy quickly took some out of the bag, while Impmon held one in his sister's direction. "Here, Ai! Have one!"
"Uh, thanks..." She reluctantly accepted the offered cookie.
"Hey, what are you doing?" a well-known voice suddenly shouted.
"Uh-oh..." Impmon said and gulped. "Busted..."
Jeri angrily strode up to the little devil Digimon. "Just what do you think you're doing, Impmon? Teaching those little kids how to steal. That's awful!"
"Well, aren't you little Miss Perfect..." Impmon grumbled. "You just want to spoil our fun."
"Well, I do know what is right and what is wrong." She turned around to the two children. "Now, Ai and Mako, listen to the sock puppet!" And she raised the little sock puppet she always carried around with her. In a squeaky voice, she spoke: "Stealing is bad! Good kids only get things if they ask nicely or pay with money they got from their parents. Understood?"
"Y-yes, understood," Ai said. Mako just nodded.
"Good!" Jeri smiled. "And about those cookies... I think I'll just confiscate them." And she snatched the bag out of Impmon's grasp.
"H-hey!" the little Digimon yelled. "Go get your own!"
"You think those are for me? Nope, I'm just giving them back to the man you stole them from."
"Oh yeah? I just think you want to have the whole package for yourself."
"You wish! See you later, Impmon!" And she ran around the corner.
"Hey! Come back here!" And the angry Digimon leapt after her.
Mako looked at Ai. "Um, should we go home now?"
----
Of course the man Impmon had stolen the cookies from had already left. Jeri just wanted to teach the little devil a lesson.
"Give those back!" he shouted while running after her.
"Try and catch me!" she giggled and blew him a raspberry.
That made Impmon furious. "You little... BADDA-BOOM!"
Jeri gasped as Impmon threw two of his little fireballs over her head. They hit some branches of a tree ahead of her and made them fall down to the ground.
"GAH!" she yelped. "Hey, are you crazy? Those could have hit me!"
"Then just give back my cookies!"
"You sneaky little..." Jeri was getting angry herself. She knew that Impmon wasn't as bad as he had been after turning into Beelzemon for the first time, but he still could be a little troublemaker at times.
A troublemaker that had to be taught a lesson.
Normally, this would be when Takato or Rika would show up to help her, but as she was the only person around at the time, she would have to take care of this problem by herself.
Strangely, she felt like she could take him on. She wasn't even afraid of his attacks.
Within her backpack, her old D-Power, which she still carried around with her (even after Leomon's death) began gleaming in an orange light, and that light spread until it covered her whole body.
"Hey, what the...?" Impmon gasped.
Jeri had never felt this confident before.
"JERI HYBRID DIGIVOLVE TO... CUBMON!"
And after the Digivolution, Jeri had changed into a humanoid lion-Digimon that looked like a mix of a female, child-like Leomon and her usual features. Her clothes had changed into an orange bodysuit complete with rubbery kneeguards and armguards.
"Still wanna have those cookies?" Cubmon grinned. "Come and get them!"
"What the... how did you do this?" Impmon asked in shock.
"I suppose you're too much of a chicken to get them, right?" She chuckled. "Digi-Chicken, bawk bawk bawk!"
Hearing such words made Impmon furious again. "I'll show you who has the last laugh... Badda-Boom!"
Jeri reacted swiftly and jumped right over the fiery projectiles.
"Leo Scratch!"
"YEOUCH!" Impmon cried in pain as the hybrid girl's sharp claws scratched over his face. "Damn, that HURTS!"
"And just so you don't forget it..." She grabbed his right arm and began spinning him around.
"Stealing... is... bad! PROPELLER TOSS!"
"YAAAAAAAAH!" Impmon shouted as Jeri hurled him through the air, until he turned into a twinkling spot in the sky.
Jeri grinned and flexed her knuckles. "There, how did that feel?" She looked down at herself. "I don't know how this happened, but..." She smiled. "I like it!"
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