Mayumi Sheperdmon Wong shook her head while her daughter took off her shoes after coming home from the ruined laboratory.
"Unbelievable! There isn't one day where the actions of you and your friends don't attract the police."
"I'm sorry, Mom," Harmony said. "But the police was after Myotismon, so we would have run into Reppamon either way. If we knew he was there undercover, we probably would have waited until later until we came back for the documents."
"Still it's good you were there to kick his ass, right, sis?" Suzie smiled happily.
"Suzie! Don't use those words!" Sheperdmon scolded.
The youngest Wong child winced under her mother's stern glare. "Sorry, Mom..."
"These are some interesting reports you brought with you, Harmony!" her father said from the living room, where he was sitting and looking at the documents Harmony had brought home with her. "I knew Dolphin was a brilliant scientist, but I'd never imagined some of the things he did during his experiments."
"By the way, we met his granddaughter in the lab," Harmony said as she joined her father. "Remember that goth girl I met when Dobermon helped us fight the D-Reaper? Alice?"
"She is Dolphin's granddaughter?" Janyu wondered. "Of course he mentioned her once or twice, but I've never met her."
"Well yeah, she was imprisoned by Myotismon as well, but you know what surprised me as well? She was a Hybrid, just like us!"
"How can that be?" Sheperdmon wondered as she brought some tea from the kitchen. "I thought at least one of your parents must be a Digimon to obtain Hybrid powers."
Janyu sighed. "Of course..." he murmured. "I must have been blind not to realize the truth... She was one of the volunteers Dolphin experimented on."
"On his own granddaughter?" Sheperdmon gasped.
"She said she didn't mind," Harmony shrugged. "She said she likes the new powers. Her Digimon form is a blue dog-Digimon called Gaomon."
"Another dog, eh?" Janyu chuckled. "Maybe the two of you can become good friends."
"Yeah, and together with Rika, you can open a 'Club for Canines!'" Terriermon chuckled.
"Very funny," Harmony growled and mockingly pulled one of her partner's ears.
Meanwhile, Lopmon was sitting on a chair in front of the window, deep in thought. "Alice...? Alice...? Gaomon...? Somehow, this sounds familiar to me..."
Suddenly, Harmony gasped. "Of course! Lopmon! Didn't Azulongmon tell us that Zhuqiaomon had sent his Devas to deal with Prof. McCoy and his illegal experiments? Then you must have met Alice as well, right?"
"You're right!" Lopmon said in surprise. "How could I have forgotten? She was one of the three first Hybrids the professor created. We captured the two male, adult Hybrids but... after Azulongmon found out that one of the Hybrids was a young girl, he insisted that he should take care of her."
"I take it Zhuqiaomon wasn't too thrilled with that idea," Harmony assumed. She vividly remembered her first meeting with the avian Digimon god.
"No, he wasn't," Lopmon said, shaking her head. "Neither were many of the other Devas, among them Makuramon, Vajramon and Chatsuramon. I expressed my concern and my opinion that a young girl would in no way be a threat to us. The other Sovereigns, Baihumon and Ebonwumon, shared Azulongmon's opinion in this matter, and reluctantly, Zhuqiaomon agreed. He put Alice under the care of Azulongmon and his mate. Dobermon was her companion for all those years... she didn't come back to the human world until Dobermon volunteered to bring you the power to reach the Mega Level, sacrificing himself.
"So she was a Hybrid all the time, and we never knew..." Harmony sighed. "I wonder why she is so secretive. She never talks much with us, and if she does, it gives us more to wonder about. And every time we meet her, she's gone so quickly. I'd like to know what her motives are..."
"Does she still live with Azulongmon?" Janyu asked.
Lopmon shook her head. "No, she didn't come back after Dobermon's death. Rumor in the Digital World has it that she's trying to get used to her powers."
"Ah, I see," Terriermon spoke up. "That's why we met her in the ruined laboratory of her grandfather."
"Yes," Harmony nodded. "She was hoping for the same thing as we did... to find some more information about the abilities of a Hybrid."
"So why didn't she stay?" Terriermon wondered. "If she had just stayed a bit longer, we would have been able to show her the documents."
"A strange behavior indeed..." Janyu said, rubbing his chin. "Lopmon, those other two Hybrids you mentioned... Who were they?"
"In their previous life, they both had been regular human men. I don't know their real names, but one of them was a burly and muscular man who didn't seem to bright. He volunteered for the experiment because of the money Prof. McCoy offered him, I believe. His Digimon form was a huge dinosaur called BioStegomon."
She tapped her head. "The other one, I think, was some sort of Street Fighter, a very violent young man. He always wanted more power, and as the professor promised him power, he agreed to be the second Hybrid. His Digimon form is a huge bird called BioThunderbirmon."
"BioThunderbirmon... BioThunderbirmon..." Harmony muttered. Then she gasped. "That guy... I believe he was the one who attacked us before we entered the ruined lab!"
She and Terriermon looked at each other. "Perhaps it's just a coincidence?" Terriermon wondered.
Harmony frowned. "I don't know... either Alice didn't know he was there or the two of them are in cahoots... either way, I have the feeling that guy was there for the same reason as Alice." She sighed. "How does all of this add up?"
"Ah, mou-man-tai!" Terriermon said as he patted his partner on the back. "We'll sleep it over, and by tomorrow, we'll somehow figure it out!"
"I wish I had your confidence..." Harmony muttered.
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Devimon yelled out in rage and slammed his fist into the room's wall, causing the marble surface to crack.
"I can't believe it!" he shouted. "How many games to we have to play with her until she finally succumbs? But no, all she talks about is her home, her brother and that brat Impmon!"
"Calm down!" MegaSeadramon scowled from where he was coiled up in the room's corner.
"Calm down? Calm down? Fifteen games, oh Master of Envy! We had to play fifteen games with that immature brat, and each time, you told her how well she had fared. And did it do anything? Well, I couldn't see any results!"
"Pride is a sin that takes time to bear fruit," MegaSeadramon said. "But unlike us, she only has to reach the Rookie level, and her powers will already rival those of a Mega Digimon."
"And what if Yamacus uses Belphemon to take over the world in the meantime?" Devimon asked. "How can she help us when we're not even complete? We don't have any more time, you big worm!"
"I'm a serpent," MegaSeadramon said offended. "And we don't need Pride to take back Belphemon... as long as we attack before he's able to control him. Still, Lucemon is our most valuable member, and we can't continue without her..."
"So, any suggestions?" Riley asked from above. Today, she was in her Champion form as BlackGatomon and had used her feline agility to climb up onto the room's chandelier, where she was lying lazily, swinging back and forth.
"Well, let it put me this way..." MegaSeadramon smiled. "If Pride doesn't want to come out to play... we have to force her out of the girl."
"You seem to have an idea," Riley said as she leaned over the chandelier's edge. "Tell us about it."
The massive serpent chuckled. "Yamacus wants to force Belphemon to work for him, and he plans to do so by... convincing him via that convenient little gadget. So why don't we use the same tactic and... convince our little Cupimon to bring out her 'inner Lucemon'..."
Devimon raised a non-existent eyebrow. Then he grinned. "MegaSeadramon, you cunning bastard of a villain... that was the most devious, back-stabbing and malicious thing I've ever heard... I like it!"
"Yeah, sometimes, you have to force people to their luck!" Riley giggled.
"If all goes according to plan we will need to finish only one more operation, and we will be almost complete," MegaSeadramon laughed.
"But that still leaves Beelzemon," Devimon pointed out.
"He will have no other choice but to join us," MegaSeadramon said. "Unless he willingly aids us as the Master of Gluttony, we'll never let his precious darling Ai go."
"And we don't even have to tell him that she'll become one of us," Riley added. "At least not until it's too late... for both of them!"
And the diabolical laughter of the three Demon Lords echoed through the darkness.
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