"What's up, fish-breath?" Impmon mocked and raised his fists. "C'mon, put'em up! Ya scared to lose or what?"
"Oh cool, a fight!" Mako said excitedly. "Go get him, Impmon!"
"Oh no, you'll hurt each other," Ai said in a worried tone of voice.
Betamon just smirked at the purple imp. Then he closed his eyes. "I see. If my appearance has offended you or the children, I offer you my apologies. I merely asked them if they were interested in any sort of game. We could have always played together, you know? But if you prefer not to include me in your activities, I will simply retreat..." And he started to turn around.
"Hey, I'm not done with you!" Impmon yelled. "Come back you big wimp!"
"No! Impmon, don't!" Ai shouted. She quickly jumped off her swing and fluttered over to Betamon. "Please, don't go! I would love to play with you. We can always play together, the four of us?" She smiled back at her purple friend. "Right, Impmon?"
Impmon sighed. Dang, every time that girl was showing him the puppy-dog eyes, he grew weak. But he couldn't bring himself to resist the cute smile of that girl. "Fine, fine..." he grumbled. "We'll play with the tadpole..."
Ai beamed back at him. "Great!" She turned back to her new 'friend'. "So... what was your name again?"
Betamon grinned. "My name is Betamon, and who are you?"
Ai smiled. "I'm Ai, that's my brother Mako and our friend Impmon."
"Hiya!" Mako waved.
"I am pleased to meet all of you!" the amphibian Rookie nodded.
"So, Betamon, what do you want to play?"
"Well..." Betamon thought about it for a while. "How about hide and seek?"
"Great!" the female Cupimon shouted with joy. "That's our favorite game!"
"May I be... how do you say... 'it'?" Betamon asked.
"If you must..." Impmon grumbled, not happy about having to play with that Rookie.
"All right, then go to that tree, close you eyes and count. And we will go and hide."
"Yaaaayyy!" TinyDevimon shouted while fluttering through the air. "Bet he'll never find me?"
Betamon leaned against the trunk of the tree, closed his eyes and started counting backwards. Inwardly, he chuckled.
'It all is working according to plan, Fifth One!'
'Excellent work, Second One!' another voice replied in his head. 'Continue gaining their trust until even the Sixth One will see you as your 'friend'.'
'Understood, Fifth One...'
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"If what you said about Yamaki is true, we should be extremely careful about how we operate," Takato's mother said while pacing through her son's room. "His spies might be anywhere..."
Takato was surprised. His mother had never spoken like this before. Then again, she had never been a fighter before... and every Digimon develops into a fighter sooner or later.
Suddenly, his father's cell phone beeped. He pulled it out of his pocket. "Yes? Yes, they're all here. What do you... WHAT?" His voice suddenly sounded extremely alarmed. "At your daughter's school? All right, they will come right over."
"What happened?" Takato asked his father. "Did something happen?"
Takehiro sighed. "It's Harmony's mother... The principal of the school her daughter and Rika are attending has called her. It looks like they are fighting an evil Digimon. And from what they told me... it is a Devimon."
"A Devimon..." Mie gasped. They were infamous throughout the Digital World for their ruthlessness and cold-bloodedness. Only their cousins, the IceDevimon, surpassed them in that category.
"Harmony and Rika still aren't used to fighting Digimon," Guilmon said. "We have to help them."
"And we will..." Mie growled with determination. "Takehiro, tell her to call Tadashi as well. If Yamaki wants to start a war by attacking our children, then I'll give him one."
"You don't mean...?"
She nodded and bared her teeth in a feral snarl. "We'll break out the old weapons... and fight alongside our children!"
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