Kei was looking at the screen intently. "Damn, what is wrong with me? It's like my mind is blocked or something. Why can't I come up with a good Ultimate Form for Rika?" She sighed and wiped her petals. "Takato really was better at this..."
She had to congratulate herself for coming up with a second Calumon, though... not only as a source of Hybrid Digivolution power, but also as a Save Point. She still didn't know what exactly would happen, but she knew that Takato and the others wouldn't really die whenever they lost 'all of their HP', so to speak.
"I wish someone was here to help me," she groaned. "I know I could just trust in them, but... what if the Demon Lords are too powerful for all of them? I tried to change their parameters, but the program wouldn't let me do it. Please, guys, don't disappoint me now..."
"Is that your friend?" a voice behind her spoke up.
Kei turned around... and saw a tiny, white Digimon with huge ears sitting in front of her. "Calumon?"
Calumon tilted his head. "Um, do I know you? I know this is Takato's house, but I don't think I ever met you."
His grey-skinned twin came floating into the room. "Yeah, she's the one! Thanks, pal!"
Calumon grinned up at him. "Sure, anytime!"
Kei boggled. "Wh-what...? BioCalumon? Wh-what are you doing here?"
BioCalumon grinned at the young plant Digimon. "Well, as I wasn't needed anymore, I thought I could fly to town, play a few games with Calumon here... take a look at the RPG Maker..."
"B-but you're supposed to stay back there in case I come up with an Ultimate form for Rika... Wait a minute... What did you say?"
The artificial Digimon grinned. "Caught your attention, didn't I? Don't worry, you've been a great help, but now you're not needed anymore. But I have to thank you... without your help, I would have never been able to get a new body."
While Calumon blinked in confusion, Kei couldn't help but shudder. "What do you mean?"
"It's pretty easy, actually," BioCalumon grinned. "See, that guy as trapped me on that stupid piece of hardware... by turning me into software! For a while, I thought I would be able to get free after causing enough chaos in this world, by changing a few realities and so on... but that didn't quite work out as I thought. I quickly realized I would need a new body to get out of here. The stupid thing was just, I couldn't just possess a body that was already occupied by another soul. I needed a new, empty shell... and I couldn't create one by myself. See, my powers are really overwhelming as long as I'm in there... but sadly, I can't do anything by myself. I need a user such as you to give me commands. I can fill in many missing pieces by myself, but only as long as it is part of an RPG."
"You... you did that?" Kei murmured. "All those changes the RPG Maker did by itself... that was you? But who...?"
"I'm getting to that, don't be so impatient, girl! As I said, I needed an empty shell as my body, and I couldn't really ask you to make one for me. After that bonehead Takato turned himself into a game character as well, I was afraid that everything was over... Same thing when that brat Eiko turned you into her playmate. Fortunately, I was able to bend the rules in a way that allowed you to keep your old memory set, so you could come back to the PC. And look at what you did, you created a character that had to be created out of nowhere. Previously, when you or your cousin decided to use a new character for your 'game', I had to choose a person that existed previously. For your new Mommy, I used his teacher, for Barbamon, I used Rika's grandfather, for DemiDevimon, I used..."
"That can't be!" Kei shouted and grasped her head in disbelief. "All of this just... just so you could get your own body? That's INSANE!"
BioCalumon chuckled. "I know! That's why I like it so much! Both your friends and those so-called 'Demon Lords' are busy going at each other's throats while we speak. And they will never realize that they would have never been that way if not for me. In the previous reality, the Demon Lords really have been just that... a myth! Funny, isn't it?"
"Not in the least!" Kei frowned darkly. "Because of you, Harmony doesn't remember being a girl! Because of you, Riley and her sister had to suffer! Because of you, Yamaki had to act like a madman!" She gritted her teeth. "Because of you... MY PARENTS DON'T REMEMBER ME ANYMORE!"
BioCalumon yawned. "Are you quite finished? I'd like to take my soul out of that CD now, if you would let me..."
"Your... soul?"
"Of course," the being that looked like Calumon grinned. "You think this is really me? No, I'm just controlling a soulless body that wouldn't be able to do anything on its own. Souvereign or not, Zhuqiaomon would have NEVER been able to animate BioCalumon on his own. I don't really know what Azulongmon did to create Calumon here, and I really don't wanna know... Heh, maybe he did actually sacrifice a young Digimon for that, imagine!"
"Cut that out!" Kei said angrily. "I might have never met him, but I'm sure Azulongmon would have never done something like that!"
"Um, what are you talking about?" Calumon asked. He was getting more confused by the minute.
BioCalumon ignored him. He was getting impatient. "Enough of this now! Give me the CD or else I'm gonna take it!"
Kei gritted her teeth. "Over my dead body!" she hissed and raised her thorny claws.
The being that was controlling BioCalumon giggled. "You think you can stop me like this? You never have fought before, let alone had a Digimon's body before. Go home and play with your dollies, little girl!"
"I'm NOT a little girl!" Kei shouted. "POISON IVY!"
Her thorns grew out into purple vines that shot out to hit the Calumon-impostor. But Bio simply slid out of the way.
"Oh, it seems you do have some battle spirit in you!" he chuckled. "Unfortunately, I don't have the time to play... I need to put my soul into my body. And after that, no one will be able to control me anymore... I'll be able to play by MY rules!"
"I don't think so!" Kei spat. "I still need the RPG Maker... to make everything right again. Whoever those other people have been that you turned into Demon Lords... you had no right to do that!"
"What, you think they all have been little angels like Ai?" BioCalumon asked. "I never really changed much of their personalities, you know? Take Rika's granddad... before he became a Digimon, he was a corrupt business man whose only interest was to acquire as much money as he could! Leviamon was a freeloading thug from the streets who couldn't care less about others! And DemiDevimon..."
"It doesn't matter, they still are living beings! No one has the right to change their lives like that! Now get out of here!"
BioCalumon's eyes were glinting. "Never..." he hissed and dove right at the plant girl.
Kei braced himself for the impact... but nothing happened.
"Look out!" Calumon gasped, who still didn't know what was going on, but still realized that his dark double wasn't as harmless as he had thought.
Kei turned around... and saw how Bio was heading right for the PC!
"Oh no, you don't!" she yelled. "STINKY STENCH!"
And she exhaled a horrible smell, just like certain flowers in the wild would do to protect themselves against herbivores.
BioCalumon coughed and wheezed as he inhaled the horrid fumes. "You... how dare you...?"
Kei grinned. "Having a body means having a sense of smell, pal! Now then, where were we...? Oh yes, I remember... GET OUT OF HERE!"
She grabbed BioCalumon with her vines, flung him around a couple of times and threw him out of the window. "And don't come back!" she shouted. Then she closed the window.
Calumon looked up at her uncertainly. "Um, I'm sorry for bringing him here... I thought he wanted to play with me, and then he said he was looking for a friend..."
"You couldn't know," Kei said as she gave him a smile. She then grasped her head. "Oh god, what am I supposed to do now? All of this time, I've been using the powers of a silly creature who only played with us... now what shall I do? He might have to obey certain commands that I put into the RPG Maker, but what if he decides to use these commands again to ruin somebody else's life?"
Calumon looked at the distraught Palmon and wondered if there was anything he could do to help.
"I wonder who these Demon Lords have been in real life before reality changed..." she sighed. "Do they have family? I wonder if there's a way to find out and contact them... maybe they know how to bring them back to their senses."
She winced when she realized that since the RPG Maker made the changes to reality, they have actually become the new Demon Lords, and there was no way she could change that.
She then realized something. "But if Ai, Beelzemon and Belphemon can decide not to fight the humans... why can't the others do the same?"
She sat down in front of the PC and stared at the running RPG Maker. "What if... we do the same thing I've planned for Yamaki and Riley? To make someone show them the errors of their ways?"
She shook her head. "But how am I gonna do this if I don't even know who their relatives are...?"
The phone was ringing.
"I'll get it, Kenta!" MarineAngemon said as he floated out of his Tamer's room.
He picked up. "Hello, Kitagawa residence?"
"MarineAngemon, is that you?" a woman's voice spoke up. "Oh, thank heavens!"
"Mrs. Futsuki?" MarineAngemon asked and sighed inwards. "Is this because of Tako? Listen, I had a very stressful day and..."
"But you don't understand!" the distraught mother said in a pleading voice. "I found something that belongs to Tako!"
MarineAngemon blinked. "Seriously?"
"Yes, I found the red bandana he was always wearing back home. Maybe we can use this to finally find him!"
"But, Mrs. Futsuki, shouldn't you tell this to the police?"
"Well, yes, I know I should, but... I know how he acts around police officers. And I know he respects you, so could you please take a look...?"
MarineAngemon nodded. "Of course, you can count on me! Now where did you find his bandana?"
"In the middle of town, near the old governmental building... you know, the one they showed on TV when they arrested all those criminal Digimon that were working for this terrorist?"
"Hypnos Building..." MarineAngemon frowned. "I should have known... Don't you worry, Mrs. Futsuki, we'll take a look! And if we find Tako, we'll bring him back to you!"
"Oh, thank you! Thank you so much! I'm so hoping that you'll find him..."
MarineAngemon hung up after he was finished. "Yo, Kenta!" he shouted. "Get your butt in gear! I'm calling Kazu and Guardromon... and together we'll take a little tour to Hypnos Building!"
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