"Beelzemon? Now why am I not surprised?" Rika sighed and groaned.
"But wait a minute!" Harmony protested. "Beelzemon has already redeemed himself. He's one of us as much as Suzie and Ryo are."
"Right!" Jeri nodded. "I already forgave him for what he did. Well, okay... it was a hard time for me after my cousin died, and D-Reaper used that to its advantage, but... Beelzemon was also the one who rescued me from my prison within D-Reaper, correct?"
"Cousin?" Rika blurted out. "Jeri, you never told us you had a cousin!?"
"Oh, now you're acting all funny again, Rika," Terriermon sighed. "Her COUSIN, remember? The one that had also been her Digimon partner... You know, Leormon?"
Rika and Renamon exchanged a confused glance and looked over to Takato, who shrugged as well.
"It appears that this is yet another change in reality that Takato, Rika and Renamon noticed, but no one else," Azulongmon spoke up.
"Why?" Jeri asked in confusion. "Are you gonna tell me that Leormon wasn't my Digimon partner in the other reality?"
"Jeri, as far as I know, you never had a cousin in the first place," Takato spoke up. "I believe this is once again something that I caused by wanting to do something good..."
"Our Takato is speaking in riddles," Terriermon sighed. "I'm used to that from Azulongmon, but not from you, you know?"
Takato was really uncomfortable now. "Jeri... I suppose you should now. Previously, your Digimon partner was none other but... Leomon!"
"My dad?" Jeri gasped. "But how? You said that in the previous reality, Digimon wouldn't live among humans."
"That's right," Renamon nodded. "Leomon hasn't been your father then. Well, at least part of him..."
"I don't think I understand..." Jeri said in confusion.
"Let me try to explain..." Azulongmon said.
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"I think I get it now... you just wanted to bring back Leomon, but somehow, you mixed him with my dad. So, in a sense, he HAS been my father... and at the same time, also my Digimon partner, yes?"
"Yeah," Takato nodded. "Even though they had been two different persons back then."
"Oooh, all of this makes my head hurt," Terriermon whined.
"Well, I suppose history had to be rewritten in some way," Renamon figured.
"You are right," Azulongmon spoke up. "When Takato's decision merged Jeri's father with the spirit of Leomon, the game had to choose someone to fill in the gap of history, as Jeri's father couldn't possibly have been in two locations at once. And so, the game turned Leormon, a Digimon that neither of you would have met otherwise, into her cousin. The way they met was nearly identical to how she met Leomon in your previous reality."
"So that means he fought Kumbhiramon?" Takato asked.
Jeri nodded. "Yes, I remember as it had been yesterday... He looked so cute when he came out of that digital gate, I just wanted to cuddle them."
"Yeah, I remember!" Guilmon chuckled. "He sure was irritated when you wouldn't leave him behind."
"And later, it turned out he was my cousin all along," Jeri snickered and wiped a tear out of her face. "Takato, I cant blame you for anything now. I mean, Leormon was practically your gift to me. I would have never had a cousin without the game's actions. And if it hadn't been him who died, it would have been Dad... I mean, Leomon." She giggled. "Terriermon is right, this IS confusing."
"Excuse me," Lopmon suddenly spoke up. "But didn't you come here because you had a question for the great Sovereign?"
"That's right, I almost forgot!" Takato slapped his forehead. "Azulongmon, since you and the other three Sovereigns turned the power of digivolution into a Digimon we all know and love as Calumon, would you know something about our own Hybrid powers? I mean, sure, the actual reason why we have these abilities is the game itself, but I'm pretty sure the game would 'design' another reason for why we turned into Hybrids, right? And does our power to digivolve come from Calumon?"
"I'm not sure if I can answer all of your questions, I'm afraid," the Sovereign said with regret in his voice. "But I'll do what I can. At first, no, the source of your digivolution power is not Calumon himself. I have an idea what might have caused your transformations, though... Lopmon, did you bring what I asked you to?"
"Yes, Oh Azulongmon!" the former Deva said and bowed. She then pulled out the papers she got from Harmony's and Suzie's father. "According to this, a human that had once been a member of Mr. Wong's group, already experimented with mixing human DNA and Digimon data. Mr. Wong told me that this person was expelled from their group, but it might very much be possible that some of his experiments were successful."
She pulled out a certain sheet. "According to these documents, the man whose code name has been 'Dolphin' was even able to create a source of digital energy, copied from the true power of digivolution, back when Calumon hasn't been turned into a Digimon."
"And you want to tell us that this copied energy source is the reason why we turned into Hybrids?" Rika asked. "How could it affect us? We never saw anything near us when we transformed for the first time."
"Well, it might already have turned you into Hybrids before you digivolved for the first time," Terriermon guessed.
"I also want to remind you that there is still the possibility that this energy source has also been turned into a Digimon, along with Calumon."
"No way!" Takato was not the only one to gasp. "That would be possible?"
"If it really is a copy of Calumon, I see no reason why it couldn't be possible," the dragon god said.
"Well, the question is, how reliable is that power?" Harmony asked. "I already managed to reach the Champion level once, but how can we know that we can use it anytime?"
"As long as we don't know more about it, I figure we should expect it to act like Calumon's powers did... This 'source', whatever it is, just has to be in range when we need it..."
"Doesn't really sound too encouraging," Takato sighed. "But I guess we have no other choice, huh?"
"I'd say so," Harmony nodded. "I mean, with Yamacus and those sins running around, we really need our new abilities."
"Um, sorry to interrupt," Terriermon suddenly said. "But am I the only one wondering where Suzie has wandered off to?"
Lopmon gasped. "Oh no! I was supposed to protect her!" She whined and let her long ears droop. "I promised her parents nothing would ever happen to her."
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