"The air shaft..." Takato sweatdropped. "Why is it always the air shaft?"
"Hey, I don't complain," said Reppamon, who was crawling in front of the goggled boy. "Most self-proclaimed 'villains' forget about them when putting their prisoners into an otherwise locked room... it isn't the first time I've been in such a situation."
"Oh yeah?" Kenta asked from further back. "Have you been in many missions?"
"Actually, yes, but in most of them, I worked with a partner. This is only the third time I'm working by myself."
"Say, I've been thinking..." Takato said. "If you are a government agent... why are you blowing your cover like that? Aren't you afraid that we might tell others?"
Reppamon looked over his shoulder with a wink. "You wouldn't do that, would you?"
"No... but I'm still curious."
"Well, for once, I know you are tougher than you look. During the D-Reaper crisis, you really proved yourselves to be up to any big challenge... and besides, you've already worked together with the government back then."
"But that was..."
"It was Yamaki, I know, but no one could have known what he was planning, back then. What I'm trying to tell you is that anyone who is willing to risk his life for his home country has my trust."
"Kinda naive, dontcha think?" Kazu whispered to Kenta, who was crawling in front of him.
"Maybe... but I still think he's cool!"
Reppamon smirked to himself. He could easily follow the whispered conversation between the two boys with his sensitive ears, but he didn't feel offended. Besides, he knew that his partner would have felt the same way about these kids, would he be here...
"So now that you know what I am here for... want to tell me your story? You said something about some old documents to Myotismon..."
"Oooh, he's a smooth one," Terriermon grinned.
"Well, he told us his story, so I think it's only fair we tell him ours as well, right?" Takato asked.
Kazu shook his head. "Another naive one..."
"Well, we know there was this one scientist who once worked here... and Harmony's father was a colleague of him. We heard he might have left some old documents about his work down here, and we came here to see if we could find them."
"Harmony? She's the cute dog-girl, right?"
Terriermon giggled. "She's actually as old as we are, you know?"
"Oh, I see..." Reppamon said in a disappointed voice. "So Renamon is really younger as well?"
"No, only Harmony and Jeri," Guilmon replied.
Reppamon perked up. That didn't sound too bad. Maybe he should ask the cute vixen for her phone number...
Then he realized something. "Wait a minute... you KNOW that Prof. McCoy illegally created Digimon Hybrids? But that's classified information!" He frowned. "If Harmony's father told you about that, I might have to hold him responsible, you know that, right?"
The boys realized they might have made a big mistake just now. "Wait... it's not as you think... he told us for a reason!"
"Oh really now?" The frown on Reppamon's face didn't vanish.
"Yeah, it's because we... we are Hybrids as well. Well, not like those he created, but... our parents are both human and Digimon."
"I think I'm starting to understand..." Reppamon said as he reached the end of the air shaft. He opened the chute and climbed outside.
"No one's here," he said after looking around. He helped Takato get out of the shaft. "So you hope that these documents help you find out more about your abilities as Hybrids, right?"
"That about sums it up," Guilmon nodded. "Still, we already searched the whole upper level, and couldn't find it."
"I think Myotismon knows where it is, he just didn't tell us," Terriermon said with a nod. "I say we pay him a visit and make him talk... besides, we still have to save Harmony and the others."
"Yeah, I'm with you!" Kenta said. Kazu nodded.
Reppamon seemed to think about something. Then he smiled. "Well, why not? I also want to ask our vampire friend a few questions... so, as long as you leave enough of him I can hand over to the police, you may do with him what you want."
Kazu grinned. "Sounds good!"
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Shortly after, they found the door to Myotismon's private chambers.
When they heard a loud crash, they all got startled.
"That's coming from inside!" Terriermon said in a worried tone of voice. "Hurry, the girls might be in trouble!"
Another crash came from inside, followed by a pleading voice: "Please, no more! I'll be good! Ow, ow, ow, not the FACE!"
Takato blinked and exchanged a quick glance with his friends. "Do you think..."
Reppamon laughed. "Sounds more like Myotismon needs some help. Oh well, let's make sure they let him live for now..."
They opened the door and looked inside a bedchamber that looked like a herd of Mammothmon had rampaged through it. Renamon, Cubmon and Dachsmon were standing near the bed, together with an unknown Rookie Digimon, while Myotismon was crouching in one corner of the room, cowering as a four-legged, menacing-looking fox Digimon was standing in front of him.
Kitsunemon snarled. "You better tell me what you did with our friends, or I'll make you eat your cape!"
"Th-that won't be necessary, I think," Takato said as he stepped into the room. He stopped when the fox turned her head and looked at him. "Um, Rika?"
"Yeah, it's me! So what?"
He chuckled. "You do realize you aren't wearing any clothes right now, do you?"
Kitsunemon looked down at herself and realized he was right. No pants, no top, just a furry body.
On four legs.
"Damn..." she muttered to herself. "Did I really need goggle-boy to realize just NOW that I've turned into Rin Tin Tin?"
When she saw that Myotismon was trying to crawl away, her jaws snapped into the direction of his face. "You stay!"
The vampire yelped. "Yes, ma'am..."
The other boys and Reppamon came in. "Um, did we miss anything?" Kazu asked.
"Harmony, are you alright?" Terriermon asked as he rushed to his Tamer's side. "Did he hurt you?"
Dachsmon chuckled. Terriermon could be really sweet when he was worried about her. "I'm fine, nothing happened! We got it under control."
"Well, um... that's good," Terriermon said. He looked down at the ground. "Um, it's not that I was worried or anything, it's just that..."
Cubmon and Dachsmon giggled.
Takato looked around the room until he noticed the black-clothed Gaomon standing in one corner of the room.
"Wait a minute..." he murmured. "Those clothes... and those ponytails..."
He gasped. "Alice?"
She grinned sheepishly. "Hiya, Takato! Long time no see, huh?"
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