A small procession of human children and Digimon was walking along the pavement in front of the tall apartment buildings. One of them, a young Palmon girl, was talking to the others in a very agitated voice.
"First of all, we need to make sure that the RPG Maker will still listen to me," Kei said firmly to her maybe-cousin. "Don't you understand, Takato?"
"I'm just saying that at least some of us should make sure BioCalumon won't appear back in my room," Takato replied. "Maybe he doesn't even know that the computer was completely destroyed."
"I'm convinced that he knows everything that happens to 'his' game, Takato..." the young flower-girl grumbled. "He told me that his soul was trapped inside that game... and now that Ryo's version has the powers of the original, I would guess that his soul - or whatever it is - somehow ended up in Ryo's computer as well."
"Mom will be all right, Takato!" Guilmon tried to calm his brother. "She can take care of herself, you know that. And I doubt he'd want to hurt her in the first place."
"But he's so ruthless..." Takato insisted. "The fate of a single person means absolutely nothing to him, we know that by now! We all know what he did to Kai, right? And if he does anything to Mom..."
"Takato, it's not like he could do anything to your mother like that," Jeri said in a soft voice. "As long as the RPG Maker isn't being used, all he can do is to use his powers to let Hybrids digivolve."
"And neither of your parents is a Hybrid, right?" Henry smiled. Right now, he was in control of the body he shared with Harmony. Although he was glad he could talk to his friends again, he tried very hard to ignore the weird feelings he received every time the prepubescent breasts on his chest were jiggling on his chest as he walked alongside his friends.
"I agree with Kei, we should hurry and test the RPG Maker before BioCalumon finds out where it is," Rika spoke up. "I'm kinda worried... do you really think Monodramon will be able to keep his paws off your PC while you're away?"
"Of course he will!" Ryo replied. "Well, at least, I'm pretty sure of it..."
Rika raised an eyebrow.
"Rika, if Ryo trusts Monodramon, we should do the same," Renamon said. "You would do the same if I gave you a similar promise, right?"
"That's... that's different!" Rika proclaimed. "You're my sister, after all!"
"Is that the only reason? Rika, I know you, and I believe you would have done the same even back when reality hasn't been changed by the game."
Rika had to admit that Renamon was right. "Sorry 'bout that, Ryo!" she sighed. "It's just that... It's all just so frustrating, you know! There are still so many things we have to fix... and still I am really the only one who can truly remember how things have been."
"That's not true!" Takato protested. "Guilmon, Renamon and I can remember everything as well. And so does Kei." His cousin nodded.
"To tell you guys the truth, I'm a bit worried as well," Ryo admitted. "Monodramon is a reliable partner and the best buddy I could imagine, but I know how absent-minded he can be... besides, he might get the idea to just try it out a little bit, or try to help on his own... I know he promised me, and I would like to trust him, but... I think we should hurry up!"
"Well, we're almost there, aren't we?" Terriermon asked.
Ryo nodded. "Yeah, it's that building over there!" And he gestured at a block of apartments on the other side of the street.
Terriermon flapped his ears and rose up into the air. He peered up to the building and frowned. "Say, was there always a big hole in the wall?"
"WHAT?" Ryo gasped, but Terriermon was right: The wall of the apartment building he was living in with his father and Monodramon was destroyed by an unknown force, and through a gaping hole, his own room was visible. Only now did they notice the agitated crowd that was standing on both sides of the road. Policemen were trying to keep the people back, as there was still rubble raining down from above.
"Wh-what the heck happened here?" Ryo stammered.
"Oh no!" Kei yelped. "What if Bio Calumon..."
They ran across the street and tried to get into the building, but the policemen held them back.
"Whoah, kids! That's dangerous, so stay back!"
"But... but I live here!" Ryo insisted. "Please, my friend was back in there... I need to know what happened!"
The officer frowned. "Is that the friend you speak of?" he asked and gestured at a police car that was standing close by. A rather attractive policewoman was talking to a Rookie Digimon who seemed very upset... and they all knew his face.
"Listen up, toots, you can treat me like a kid if ya want, but that still changes nothing! I need to tell my friends so they know what is going on!"
"Just a couple of questions," the policewoman pleaded.
"Impmon?" Takato asked with surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Ah, there you all are," Impmon sighed. "Can ya tell that broad to leave me the heck alone?"
"Now mind your mouth, young man!" the policewoman scolded. "And tell me what you saw when you were in that apartment."
"You were in the apartment?" Ryo asked. "Where's Monodramon?"
Impmon looked up at him with guilty eyes. "Ryo, I'm sorry I couldn't do anything... but he just threw me to the side when he digivolved, and then he just took off!"
"Who did it?" Rika asked. "Was it BioCalumon?"
"Who?" Impmon blinked. "No, it was Monodramon! He suddenly went all mad on me and started shouting crazy stuff, and then he digivolved and tore right through that wall."
"You... you mean to tell me Cyberdramon did all of this?" Ryo murmured.
"I'm sorry, pal... but yeah, it was him," Impmon nodded sadly.
Ryo was confused. His good buddy did this? What was wrong with him? And how did he digivolve without his D-Power? A dreadful suspicion started to well up inside of him...
"Did he use the RPG Maker?" Kei asked in a voice of panic.
The policewoman blinked in confusion. "What are you kids talking about? Hey... I know you, do I? Of course, you're those Tamers that took on the D-Reaper, aren't you?"
"Yes, we are," Henry nodded. "But we don't know much more about what happened to Cyberdramon than you, miss!"
"Ya know, he really acted weird..." Impmon muttered. "He kept screaming and tearing at his head, and then his voice got all spooky and it was as if he was talking to himself... and just before he digivolved, I thought I was able to held him back. But... for a while, it seemed to me as if he knew what was going on. And he said that strange name... I never heard of it before... Millimon or something like that..."
Everything around Ryo seemed to freeze as the horrible memories of the past reached out for his heart and threatened to shatter it into thousands of tiny pieces. An icy chill crept down his spine, and his heart started beating twice as fast.
"Millimon?" Guilmon asked and scratched his head. "Never heard of him..."
"Was... was the name he said... was it Millenniummon?" Ryo whispered.
Impmon nodded. "Yeah, that's it! Such a twisted name, no wonder I have trouble remembering all of it..."
Ryo sank down on the pavement with a look of horror on his face. "No..." he whispered. "No, it can't be true!"
"Ryo!" Rika said in surprise. "What's wrong all of a sudden? You look like you saw a ghost..."
"You know that name?" Takato asked.
Ryo looked at them, his face ashen. "I... always thought he was gone..." he whispered. "I thought I was rid of him for good... how could he have come back? Oh, Monodramon..."
"Hey, are you okay, boy?" the policewoman asked in a concerned voice. "Hey, you guys!" she called to her colleagues. "Call a doctor, this boy looks sick!"
But Ryo shook his head. "I'm... I'm not sick..." he murmured. "Just... a bit shocked..."
Henry looked around. "We need to continue this discussion in private," she decided. "But I doubt we'll have our peace and quiet in your room, Ryo. We somehow need to get away without catching their attention..."
"You guys go without me," Kei said. "I must make sure that the RPG Maker still works."
"Okay, but how can we get away unnoticed?" Jeri asked. "There are policemen everywhere. Now if someone would distract them..."
Terriermon grinned. "Leave that to me, guys!"
And he ran over to the policewoman and shouted: "Hey! I think I just saw who caused this mess!"
"What?" The policewoman wasn't the only one to look around, her hand on her weapon. "Where?"
"Up there, up there!" Terriermon shouted.
And while the police was busy searching the skies for a perpetrator that wasn't actually there, the Tamers and Impmon managed to sneak away from the 'site of crime'.
Only when they had left a couple of blocks behind, they slowed down their pace, and Rika said: "That should be far enough. Now, Ryo, what's with this 'Millenniummon' guy?"
Ryo looked at her. "Rika, believe me when I say that you would never, ever want to meet him! And I am not joking when I'm telling you: He is worse than the Deva, D-Reaper and the Seven Demon Lords combined!"
While Terriermon was successfully distracting the police, Kei had managed to sneak into the building. The stairway was blocked by some striped security tape the police had put there to make sure that nobody would go up there, thus endangering himself. But Kei was able to pull herself over the barricade with her vines.
She ran up the rest of the stairs and finally entered the apartment Ryo shared with his father. Everything was looking fine, until she reached Ryo's room. One third of the room was just missing, being blasted to pieces when Cyberdramon violently broke out of the building. Half of Ryo's bed was missing, but fortunately, his desk was in one piece, as it was standing in the opposite corner of the room. It didn't even get hit by any shards of rubble, as the explosion went outwards from the middle of the room.
Kei let out a sigh of relief before pulling the chair up to its feet, which had been thrown through the room by the blast. The PC was still running, as was the RPG Maker program. Kei was very relieved to see that she could see its menu clearly, and not static.
"Looks like I'm still the Game Master..." she murmured. "Now to try it out... just a simple command, so I know I can still use it. Ah, I know... I'll try to find out where Cyberdramon went."
Although, searching through all of Tokyo could be costly in terms of time, even if she's use the RPG Maker, as she would have to call up a map of every part of Tokyo first.
Then she found something, a tiny option in the corner of the menu. It was one of those options she had to unlock, using those strange 'Maker Points'.
Kei frowned. "I only used them once, so I have many of them left..." she muttered to herself. "But should I risk using them? They could be a trap of BioCalumon..."
Still, she decided that they had to find Cyberdramon quickly, and she could think of no method that was quicker than that.
She hesitated a bit. "Strange that I find this option just when I need it and not before..." she muttered. But then, she just clicked on the button.
Instantly, a new window with the title 'NPC Finder' opened up. Kei could easily enter any name, and the location of that person would be marked on the map.
She entered 'Cyberdramon', and instantly, a map opened up. It took her a few minutes until she recognized the area.
"It can't be..." she gasped. "He's heading to... Okinawa??"
Her shivering hands let go of the computer and she stared at the map with teary eyes. "Mom... Dad..." she finally said. "I'm coming home..."
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