Eiko was hovering along the streets. Normally, she loved to float high above the rooftops, and stuck out her tongue at the adult pedestrians that called up to her and told her that it was too dangerous for a young girl like her to fly that high.
But today, she felt sullen and unmotivated. She wanted to talk to Kei, but when she tried to reach her at home, her mother told her that she still hasn't come back.
She already searched at the playgrounds in the park, and even at kindergarten, but there was just no trace of her Palmon friend. What if she was at Takato's house again?
But before Eiko went over there, she overheard a report her mother was listening to in the living room, on TV. She carefully had looked around the corner and saw a scene in front of a big building. She could see many policemen and other people.
"We still have no evidence as for who is behind this attack," a news reporter just said. "Hiroshi Taomon Nonaka, officer of the Digimon Security Squad, stated that he is convinced that a Digimon caused the explosion. As of now, no proof of that statement could be found, though."
Eiko gasped when she recognized the group of humans and Digimon that had just appeared on screen. Actually, she only recognized four of them: Takato, his brother Guilmon, that Renamon girl her big sister was so crazy about... and her friend, Kei. They were crowding around a police car and talked to another Digimon who was sitting there.
Eiko never told her mother that she left or where she was headed, she just floated through the living room's wall and out onto the street. She had to find Kei, and she even knew where that building was. Her mother often took her along when she went shopping to that big mall, and their way took them along that street.
When Eiko arrived at the scene, even more police cars were standing around, also a few Digimon, but fewer civilians than before. The huge hole in the apartment building was still visible.
She quickly turned invisible and searched around the street. She made sure that she didn't get too close to other Digimon that could easily smell her. She didn't want to be sent home now. She carefully inspected all of the cars, but Kei and her friends were nowhere to be found. Finally, she decided to take a closer look at that huge hole. She was curious what really happened here, and she wasn't even afraid that it could be dangerous in a ruined house... after all, she could fly and turn herself invisible AND intangible.
When she reached the gaping hole, she peered into the ruined apartment behind it. Her first peek told her that nothing dangerous was around. The second peek told her that Kei was sitting in front of a computer, staring at the screen. She was sitting with her back to Eiko and hadn't seen her yet.
Eiko frowned. What was Kei doing here? And she was once again sitting at a computer... was it because of that game? Maybe she and her friends were in trouble... should she help as well?
Eiko slowly came around the corner and floated closer. She hovered over her friend's shoulder and looked at the screen. She realized that she was still invisible and Kei would probably not see her, so she prepared to make herself visible again.
But before she did that, she took a closer look at the screen. What was she doing? She seemed to have quite a serious and agitated look on her face. And on the screen... was that the character creation menu? What kind of character was she creating?
Eiko gasped when she saw Kei's name standing above the character image... or rather, the character images, as there was something that looked like a powerful Hybrid form next to her smaller Palmon form.
Kei looked at her creation and nodded. With this battle form, she would be strong enough to save her parents and make BioCalumon pay for everything he had ever done to her. All she now had to do was to click on the 'create' button and...
"NOOO!" a squeaky voice suddenly shouted, as a pink blur appeared in front of her face. "Don't do it, Kei!"
Kei was taken aback and nearly fell off Ryo's chair. "Ei... Eiko? Wh-what are you doing here?"
"Don't make yourself into a character, Kei!" Eiko pleaded. "You told me yourself what happened after Takato did the same... he couldn't use the game anymore!"
"I don't care, Eiko!" Kei replied with an angry frown. "BioCalumon has ruined my whole life! And now... now my parents are in danger. I have... I have to get over there and help them!"
"I don't understand... where do you want to go?" Eiko asked in confusion.
"Okinawa!" Kei explained. "My... my old home... where I lived, before I... I changed..." She sobbed as she looked down at her vine-like fingers. "Into a Digimon..."
Eiko still didn't understand, but she gave her friend a consoling hug. "It's okay, Kei! Everything is going to be alright. I'll help you, and nothing will happen to your parents. We can both use the RPG Maker, remember?"
"But... but WHAT can I do?" Kei cried. "As long as Bio's other half... his soul... is still in here..."
Eiko soothingly petted Kei's soft petals. That always calmed her down when her own mother did that to her own head. "We'll think of something, but Kei, please... please don't become a Hybrid as well! I can't help Takato as well as you can... I need you."
Never before had Eiko told anyone that she needed them. Even Kei, who didn't really know her for a very long time - at least according to her memories - knew that the little ghost girl had to be serious when she talked like this.
"Okay..." she mumbled and wiped her tears off her green face. "Maybe I was overreacting a bit... and maybe I can use your help."
"That's right!" Eiko smiled, happy to see how her friend cheered up again. "We'll think of something and..."
"ELECTRO SHOCKER!"
A large blast of pulsing electricity came flying out of nowhere. Kei had barely time to shove Eiko out of the way, before the deadly projectile hit the computer and made it explode in a shower of sparks and scraps of plastic, metal and glass.
'Oh no!' Kei thought while she shielded Eiko with her own body as they rolled across the floor. 'Not again...'
Two dark figures had appeared in the gaping hole in the wall. They both were sleek and humanoid, although one of them was clearly female and avian, while the other one had a more male and insectoid body structure. Kei looked closer and realized that they almost looked like human-like versions of the Digimon Birdramon and Kabuterimon. They were also both wearing black armor plates on their body, which were adorned with golden brims. They were unarmed, but their talons and claws seemed deadly enough. Not to mention the dangerous special attacks they could launch.
"The master was right, BioBirdramon!" the insect said as he lowered his four claws that had just shot the electricity blast. "If we follow the ghost girl, we find the Palmon... and she also was sitting at a computer, just as he predicted."
"Go and make sure that nothing more than scrap remains, BioKabuterimon," the bird-woman replied in a cool voice. "I'll take care of those two..."
The insect-man nodded and stomped over to the remains of Ryo's computer, while his companion turned to face the two girls.
"Eiko, stay behind me," Kei whispered. Eiko shivered. "Ok-k-kay..." she whimpered. In her fear, she didn't even think of escaping through the wall.
BioBirdramon spread her impressive wings... now Kei could see that her feathers, just as BioKabuterimon's exoskeleton, was colored a dull grey. She frowned... where had she seen this color before?
"I'm here on behalf of my master," BioBirdramon explained and pointed a sharp talon at the Palmon girl. "And I also have a message for you."
"What kind of message?" Kei asked suspiciously.
The bird-woman grinned. "BioCalumon sends his regards... and hopes that your death will be long and painful!"
Kei gasped. "BioCalumon..." she then growled. "Those two have been sent by BioCalumon..."
"Say your prayers!" BioBirdramon shouted, and her wings started glowing. "METEOR..."
"FLOWER CANNON!" another voice yelled, and then a green-glowing energy shot came flying into the ruined apartment, hitting the armored Digi-woman and throwing her against her insectoid companion. Both of them fell to the floor with a grunt.
In front of the big hole, the silhouette of a beautiful Digimon was visible in front of the bright sun. Her leaf-like wings were humming loudly as she hovered on the spot, and her flower-tipped right arm was aimed at the two collapsed Digimon.
"Stay away from my daughter, you creeps!" the Lillymon shouted furiously. "I mean it!"
"M-mom...?" Kei stuttered. "But... but how...?"
BioBirdramon and BioKabuterimon slowly got back to their feet. "Stay out of this!" BioKabuterimon hissed. "This is our prey!"
"Prey?" Miss Asaji's voice rose even more in pitch. "PREY? Those are just CHILDREN, you monsters... be thankful that we aren't in the Digital World, or I would have turned you into fragments of data on the spot!"
"We can't beat an Ultimate yet..." BioKabuterimon whispered to his team mate. "What do we do?"
The female smirked. "We escape... for now!"
And she took aim at the wall to Lillymon's left. "METEOR WING!"
The fiery mini-meteors came lasting forth from her wings and created another hole in the wall. Kei and Eiko cried out when suddenly, rubble came raining down on them.
"KEI!" Lillymon shouted and dove for the children, allowing the two other Digimon to escape.
Takato's homeroom teacher grasped the two little girls closely and covered them with her own body. "I knew it!" she half-growled, half-sobbed. "I knew it was wrong to let you go by yourself! When we get out of this alive, you'll be grounded, young lady!"
Still the rubble continued to fall down on them, and it seemed as if the whole ceiling was collapsing on their heads.
And just as both Miss Asaji and Eiko feared that they would be buried alive, a bright glow surrounded Kei's body, and she shouted:
"PALMON DIGIVOLVE TO... TOGEMON!!"
A large body shot up next to the surprised mother and the In-Training ghost, as a tall cactus-like Digimon with boxing gloves held up the ceiling and kept it from crashing down.
"MOM!!" the Togemon shouted with Kei's voice. "Grab Eiko and get out of here! I'll be right behind you!"
Miss Asaji wasted no time, held Eiko close to her body, pushed away a some rubble and quickly flew out of the collapsing apartment.
Kei, while almost overwhelmed by her new body's sudden strength, still could not support the weight of an entire house on her shoulders, and her knees were slowly growing weaker.
"Time... to get out of here..." she moaned. With a loud yell, she pressed her powerful arms upwards one last time, before she let go and jumped towards the hole that was leading outside.
The policemen on the pavement were surprised enough when they heard the sounds of battle coming from above, and the explosion. They were even more surprised when the tall body of a Togemon came crashing down next to them, nearly squashing them.
Kei moaned and rubbed her head as she sat up again. "Ohhh, lucky thing that plant Digimon are resistant against hard impacts..." she murmured.
Lillymon came flitting down next to her, with Eiko in her arms.
"KEI!" she shouted. "Baby, are you hurt?"
"I'm fine, Mom..." Kei muttered. "Although a bit shaken..."
"I don't get it, Kei..." Eiko murmured. "I know I stopped you from creating your own character... so why did you still digivolve?"
Kei smirked down at her. "Hey, player character or not, I'm still a Digimon... and even NPC Digimons are able to naturally digivolve, right?"
Then another glow enveloped her body, and she shrunk down to a much smaller size.
"Although it's taking much out of me..." the little Palmon girl groaned and rubbed her tummy. "Oooooh, I'm so hungry..."
The policemen standing around them just blinked.
"Oh my god!" somebody then shouted. "What the heck... what on Earth happened here? Oh no..."
"Um, excuse me, sir!" an officer said as he held back the tall man in the business suit. "Please step back behind the barrier, this place is too dangerous."
"But... but I'm living here!" the stranger stuttered. He gestured up at the destroyed apartment. "And... oh god... that's MY apartment!"
"What is your name, sir?"
"Akiyama..." Ryo's father groaned as he leaned against one of the police cars.
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