Harmony was more than enthusiastic when she saw Jeri's new form.
"Wow, Jeri! That's great! Now I'm not the only one with a Champion form anymore!"
"Um... hello?" Terriermon asked, a bit offended. "You are not forgetting about us, are you?"
Guilmon chuckled. "Aw, let them have their fun... until they remember that they still have to reach two additional levels until they can compete with our league..."
"Don't listen to the boys, Jeri!" Harmony said. "Why, at this rate I'm sure all of us will reach the Ultimate Level by next week."
The lioness wagged her finger. "Please... it's 'Nalamon' in this form, Harmony..."
Rika was getting impatient... again. "Well, why did we have to come here, Harmony?"
"Well, my Dad told me that there was this former colleague of his, Professor Rob McCoy... and he was the one who did those early Hybrid experiments."
Kazu whistled. "Wow, small world, isn't it? Maybe he knows where that guy is now, so we can ask him some questions..."
"Well, he won't be asking any questions anymore, I'm afraid..." Harmony sighed.
"What do you mean by that?" Renamon asked.
"He's dead! Remember what Azulongmon told us about that human who misused three of his Hybrid creations? That was Prof. McCoy! When the Digimon Sovereigns learned that it was him, they wanted to stop him, obviously. Zhuqiaomon offered to send his Devas, and the other Sovereigns accepted. Well, after our experiences with the Deva, you might already guess how it ended..."
"Lemme guess, they attacked him with all they got, right?" Takato sighed.
Harmony nodded. "Yes, after they found his hidden laboratory in the human world, they attacked it for four days. In the end, Vikaralamon leveled the whole building, after Kumbhiramon sneaked inside and assassinated the professor."
"Wretched rat..." Nalamon grumbled.
"The government and the Sovereigns came to the agreement to cover the event up. They told the public there was an accident in the laboratory, and only my Dad and his colleagues knew the true story behind it."
"But what about the three Hybrids?" Rika wondered. "Did the Devas kill them?"
Harmony shook her head. "No, Dad told me that the Devas managed to capture them alive. While two of them were put into human custody, the third one, their leader, was brought directly to the four Digimon Sovereigns. No one knew what happened to that Hybrid, although the other two had been locked up in a special, high security prison for criminal Digimon."
"Just great..." Terriermon sighed. "And as we know Zhuqiaomon, I wouldn't wonder if he has already executed that Hybrid leader for treason or something like that..."
"Dad couldn't tell me anything about that," Harmony said. "The Digimon Sovereigns never stated what they did with him. But what he knew was that most of Prof. McCoys research results have been destroyed during the battle with the Deva... only very few documents found their way into the governmental computers. And I suppose that's how Yamacus learned about the existence of Hybrids."
"Isn't it just great how everything fits together like a puzzle?" Terriermon asked sarcastically.
"But your Dad said there might still be something useful that could help us with our own Hybrid forms, right?" Takato asked.
Harmony nodded. "Yes, there was something he and his friends never told the public authorities... there was a hidden basement underneath the laboratory, and the chance that there might be still some results or even documents regarding his studies is actually pretty big."
"So, we have to go to that ruined laboratory, find the secret entrance to that basement and find out if those documents exist?" Kenta asked and shrugged. "Works for me..."
"Okay, that doesn't sound too bad," Nalamon spoke up. "But where is that laboratory?"
"At the edge of town," Harmony said. "Dad marked the exact location on this map, we only have to get there."
"Okay... so why didn't we meet up there instead of in the park?" Rika wanted to know.
"Well, would you know where we have to go without the map?" Takato asked.
"Um... no, actually..." Rika admitted. "Well, we can always use the subway, then..."
Terriermon winced. "Do we have to? I'm still feeling kinda nervous about subways, ever since that incident with Sandiramon..."
----
A short ride on the subway and an even shorter walk later, the Tamers were standing behind a high wire-mesh fence, which surrounded the premises on which the laboratory had once stood.
All that remained was rubble. Here and there, they could see a part of a wall that was still intact, but not too often.
Kazu shook his head. "Well, I don't know about you, but I wonder if we will ever find something under that big pile of rubble..."
"Stop complaining and start digging," Rika commanded. "The sooner we start, the sooner we find something."
"Um, can we just enter the premises like that?" Takato asked. "Aren't they off-limits for trespassers?"
Guilmon looked around. "Well, I don't see any signs that tell us not to enter."
"Besides..." Nalamon smirked. "You have always me as a responsible adult at your side, so no worries!"
"Are you planning on turning back to normal this very day?" Takato asked her with a frown.
Nalamon grinned. "Later, maybe."
----
On the other side of the road, a certain trio of onlookers was watching the Tamers.
"Seems like we aren't the only ones interested in the ruined lab," the blonde girl in the black dress said with a frown.
"Who are those brats?" the tall, blonde man wondered. "Should we just scare them off a bit?"
"That female lion Digimon looks pretty attractive..." the other man, a burly giant with close-cropped, gray hair was muttering. "Maybe I should ask her out for a date... Oh, I have to be careful not to say that out loud."
"You just did..." Kouki grumbled.
"I know them," Alice stated. "They are those Digimon Tamers... I haven't seen them ever since Dobermon sacrificed himself, so they could beat the D-Reaper. Well, I might be grateful for what they did, even though I still miss Dobermon... but that's beside the point. Fact is, they are hindering our own investigations. Ivan, I will need your help to move the rubble. If there is anything valuable for us down there, I want to find it before those kids. It might be inevitable for us to meet them, but... they don't necessarily have to know who we are, right?"
"So, you have an idea?" Kouki asked.
Alice nodded. "Kouki, I want you to distract them as long as you can, so Ivan and I can search for the entrance to the basement in the meantime... but make sure not to hurt them, okay? We don't want to attract any unnecessary attention. Just hinder them from going any further until I give you a sign. And another thing: Make sure they don't see you transform! We don't want them to know that we are Hybrids as well."
"Consider it done, boss-lady!" Kouki grinned, moving the piece of potato chip from one corner of his mouth to the other.
"Didn't I tell you not to call me that? Now go! Ivan, come with me!"
Ivan nodded and followed the girl that was so much smaller than himself.
Kouki, on the other hand, sneakily approached the group on the other side of the street, from behind. He hid behind a lamppost and waited for the right moment...
Then he activated his Hybrid powers!
"Kouki, Bio Hybrid Evolution to... BioThunderbirmon!!"
And in a flash of purple light, he transformed.
Takato and his friends heard the flash and turned around in surprise.
And looked up at a big, airborne bird with blue feathers, sharp claws and a red mask overing its face.
"What the heck...?" Terriermon shouted. "Where did that guy come from?"
"I never saw a Digimon like that before," Renamon said. "Doesn't look too friendly, though..."
BioThunderbirmon looked at them for a while... then he swooped down at them while firing electrical discharges from his wings.
"THUNDERSTORM!"
"Ya think?" Kazu replied as they all had to jump away to dodge the dancing thunder.
'Alright then, Hybrid Tamers...' Kouki thought to himself as he circled above them. 'Let's see how strong you are...'
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