A tiny Minomon was lowering itself down from its tree. "Mino! Mino!" it said.
Otherwise, the night was quiet.
All of the Digimon in Minomon village were fast asleep, including the Hybrids in the two guest huts.
Kitsunemon, Brawlmon and Ryo were sharing the smaller hut, while the others were sleeping together in the bigger hut. Bariomon and Megalomon wouldn't have fit into the smaller one, anyway.
Since Rika still wanted to ask Ryo some more things about Millenniummon, she decided to sleep in the same tent as he did. She didn't really care about the fact that she and her sister had to share the room they slept in with a boy, since she was a nine-tailed, four-legged fox at the moment.
After having talked for nearly an hour, they had fallen asleep.
Kitsunemon shuffled around in her sleep, twitching her ears when a fly came too close. She wiped her nose, grunted, turned around so that she was lying on the back and kept on sleeping.
Brawlmon was sleeping peacefully in one of the two hammocks inside the wooden hut, while Ryo was lying in the other one. Kitsunemon was lying on the floor beneath them.
Suddenly, Brawlmon blinked. Something woke her up. She looked over to Ryo and saw that he was awake as well. "Ryo," she whispered. "Did you hear that?"
"Yes," he whispered back. "Some strange noise... I wonder what it was..."
They both sweat-dropped when the noise repeated itself and they realized where it was coming from.
Kitsunemon was snoring.
"Sis!" Brawlmon hissed. "Rika! Wake up!"
"Guh... wha... whazzup...?" the vixen murmured sleepily as she slowly opened her eyes.
Brawlmon had to suppress a chuckle. Her sister was looking too funny: Kitsunemon was lying on her back, her legs spread and her head was lying groggily on the side.
Kitsunemon suddenly noticed that Ryo was staring at her underside. She quickly turned around and hissed: "Pervert!"
"What?" Ryo wondered. "Now what did I do... oh! OH! Sorry! Rika, I'm sorry, I didn't even notice..." He was blushing.
Brawlmon snickered. "You two are funny. If you are finished, can we go back to sleep now? And Rika, please, no snoring!"
"All right, all right..." the vulpine Digimon grumbled.
"Wait a minute..." Ryo then said as he sat up in his hammock. "Did you hear that?"
"I didn't snore this time," Kitsunemon defended herself.
"Not you," Ryo said. "No, it was coming from outside..."
Kitsunemon perked up her ears. "You're right," she whispered. "Something's walking around our hut..."
"Let's pretend we're asleep," Brawlmon whispered. "So we can surprise whoever that is if he plans to sneak up on us..."
So the three of them layed down again, closing their eyes. But Kitsunemon kept one of her eyelids half open, so she could watch the entrance.
Finally, the wooden door slowly opened, and a dark silhouette stepped into the dark hut. Slowly, the figure approached the sleeping form of Kitsunemon. Something shiny was glinting in its right hand.
Suddenly, Kitsunemon jumped up with bared fangs and pressed the invader down to the floor. The syringe the person had been holding fell down to the floor and broke. Brawlmon and Ryo jumped out of their hammocks.
"Good job, Rika!" Ryo said. "Now who is it?"
"It's the woman who welcomed us," Kitsunemon said, and they all recognized the dark-haired woman in the elegant, yellow kimono.
"Release me!" the woman shouted again and again as she flailed around. "Release me!"
"Why should I?" Kitsunemon barked. "Now tell us what you were planning to do... and what was in that syringe?" She looked down at the reddish liquid that was seeping out of the broken syringe. "Did you plan on poisoning us?"
"Did Millenniummon send you?" Ryo asked.
"Take a look at this, guys!" Brawlmon said in surprise. The human-like Digi-girl was holding a thin thread of silk that was attached to the woman's head. The other end was leading outside.
"What's that?" Kitsunemon wondered.
Brawlmon narrowed her eyes. "I have a hunch..." she murmured... and forcefully yanked on the thread.
Seconds later, a green shape came stumbling into the hut. It was a small, insectoid Digimon that looked like a green worm... and the thread leading to the woman was coming right out of its mouth.
"A Dokunemon!" Brawlmon realized. The Dokunemon turned back to its feet and clicked at them menacingly. Obviously, it was a feral Digimon, as it couldn't even speak the human language.
"I doubt this Digimon has been a human once," Brawlmon grumbled as the Dokunemon spit out a small glob of venom. It missed her, and so she prepared too attack herself.
"Twirling Fox Kick!" Brawlmon shouted and spun through the air, until one of her flailing feet hit the insect Rookie on the head. The Dokunemon dissolved into a tiny cloud of data particles, which Brawlmon absorbed.
Suddenly, the strange glance in the woman's eyes vanished, and she stopped struggling. "What... what happened?" she murmured. She then saw Kitsunemon's sharp teeth in front of her and yelped with fright.
"Calm down! I won't hurt you," Kitsunemon told her. "At least not if you tell us what is going on here. Why did you sneak into our hut?"
"Wh-what are you talking about?" the scared woman stuttered. "Who are you anyways? I've never seen you before..."
"But you lead us into your village yourself," Brawlmon tried to remind her. "You brought us into this hut and our friends into the bigger guest hut."
"I... I only remember that we have been attacked by Dokunemon..." their hostess groaned as she shook her head. "I tried to warn the others, but then something hit me from behind... and then, nothing!"
"The Dokunemon's thread was attached to the back of her head," Ryo realized. "Maybe it was controlling her, somehow."
"Dokunemon have that ability," the woman nodded. "Oh my gosh... my friends! My husband! What if... what if those nasty little worms did something similar to them..."
"We should check up on our friends first," Kitsunemon said. "If someone wants to surprise them in their sleep as well..."
"But... but my husband..." the woman weakly protested.
"If we save our friends, they can help us," Brawlmon explained. "Don't worry, we'll save you. Whoever did this to you won't get away with this."
"Millenniummon..." Ryo grumbled. "This has to be his fault..."
"Quick, we have no time to waste," Kitsunemon shouted.
The woman sighed. "All right, I guess it's best if I trust you. Come, it's this way!"
"Thank you, Miss..." Ryo hesitated.
She smiled. "My name is Yoko Matsuki... but you can call me Yoko."
"Twirling Fox Kick!"
"Flare Blaster!"
The two Ninjamon that were standing in front of their friends' hammocks went down as Kitsunemon's and Brawlmon's attacks hit them.
"Oh no!" Yoko shouted as she entered the big hut behind them. "Please, don't hurt them!"
"No worries, we just knocked them out," Brawlmon said. She looked around and finally saw two shiny threads of silk that were coming from a dark corner. In that corner, she saw the shapes of two other Dokunemon. "There they are! Rising Kitsune Punch!"
"Flare Blaster!"
And again, the Dokunemon dissolved into data that got absorbed by the two sisters. While Yoko knelt down to check up on her Ninjamon friends, Ryo and the Nonaka sisters ran over to their friends.
"Takato!" Kitsunemon shouted. "Jeri, Harmony! Are you all... right?"
A tiny ball of fluff blinked at her. "Doggy!"
Kitsunemon stared. The little Digimon lying in Jeri's hammock was nothing more than a tiny lion cub with a pink headband. It was so small that it would fit into her muzzle.
"J-jeri?" Kitsunemon murmured.
The Baby Digimon smiled and waved its adorable little paws through the air. "Doggy!"
"Whaaaaaahh!" This loud cry was coming from the other side of the hut, where Brawlmon was cradling two scaly, little balls with pointy faces and floppy Guilmon ears... one of them blue, the other one red.
"Takato? Guilmon?" she asked in confusion.
"Terriermon!" Ryo said as he ran up to the dog-rabbit, who was sitting with his back to him. "Are you..."
"I'm fine..." Terriermon sighed. "Your attacks woke me up just as one of those guys wanted to stick the needle in me... but I'm afraid they got the other ones." And he turned around, revealing a tiny puppy with light-brown fur and a white pacifier in its mouth.
"Goo goo!" Harmony mumbled.
"What the heck happened to them?" Brawlmon wondered.
"It must have been that stuff in the syringes," Kitsunemon realized. "Maybe Yoko was ordered to do the same to us..."
Brawlmon pulled out her D-Power and held it towards each of the little Baby Hybrids. "Fluffmon," she read when looking at an image of Jeri's new form. She then held it over to the two babified brothers. "BlueTinymon and RedTinymon." And finally, she checked Harmony's new species. "Pupmon," she read.
"Do you know anything about these syringes, Yoko?" Brawlmon asked the distraught woman, who was kneeling next to her unconscious friends.
"No!" Yoko said with teary eyes. "And I never wanted to do anything to you! Oh god, why are those Dokunemon doing this to us?"
Suddenly, Terriermon remembered something. "Hey, Rika! Something similar happened to you, back when we searched through that old laboratory. You stepped onto a tile, and it turned you into your In-Training form. My guess is that there are certain traps, attacks and venoms in this new 'game' that can force you to digivolve backwards."
"Just what we needed..." Kitsunemon groaned.
Fluffmon giggled as she rubbed her head against Kitsunemon's soft leg fur. "Doggy, doggy!" she said again and again. "Big doggy!"
Meanwhile, the two Tinymons seemed to try out who could cry the loudest. "WHAAAAAAAHH!"
"Calm them down, will ya?" Kitsunemon winced. "That noise is getting on my nerves."
"Yeah, and it will attract more Dokunemon," Ryo nodded.
"I'm trying to," Brawlmon winced. "But they don't want to listen."
"Maybe they're hungry," Terriermon assumed. In his arms, Pupmon was quietly sucking on her pacifier.
In Harmony's mind, Henry was staring down at his female self. "Really, Harmony, snap out of it!"
"Goo gaa gaa!" she said as she sucked on her thumb. Here, in the empty landscape of their shared mind, she looked like a human, female version of Henry... only that she was acting like a baby.
Henry tried to take over, but realized that he was stuck. As long as she was still in her baby form, he was forced to helplessly watch everything from inside.
"Just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder..." he sighed.
A few minutes later, the whole village had been freed from the Dokunemon. Although they had been controlling a few powerful Champions, Brawlmon, Terriermon and Kitsunemon had been able to handle the situation by simply severing the connection between the worm Digimon and their victims.
Finally, all of the villagers were sitting in the huge guest hut. Yoko had managed to calm the babies down, and the two Tinymon were now peacefully drinking milk from two bottles. Fluffmon had curled up on Kitsunemon's back, and Terriermon was playing with Pupmon.
"We really can't remember anything," one of the Ninjamon said. "But this isn't the first time the Green Syndicate has attacked our village. But usually, we always had managed to fight them off."
"They must have some new leader," Yoko pondered. "They normally only try to attack us when the old leader is being replaced by a new one."
"Gee, I wonder who that could be," Ryo said sarcastically. "The Green Ones you mentioned... do you mean the Dokunemon? So you already know them?"
"The Green Syndicate is an organization of hostile insect Digimon that plague this area of the island for quiet a long time," an elderly man grumbled. "But never before have they tried to take over our minds like that."
"I wonder if Millenniummon now knows what happened," Brawlmon said.
"We must be prepared for the worst," Kitsunemon said while Fluffmon snuggled against her with a purr. "And we still don't know where his hideout is situated."
"We could always ask the Yellow Syndicate for help," Yoko suggested. "The second tribe of insect Digimon that live on the island."
"But... are you sure they are on our side?" Ryo asked.
Yoko smiled. "Of course! They have been helping the residents of this village ever since they settled on this island. We have become peaceful neighbors, and they regularly help us against the Green Syndicate, which is their sworn enemy."
"Okay, but does this syndicate have some sort of leader?" Terriermon asked while Pupmon was tugging on his ear.
"Yes," Yoko nodded. "Their chief KingFlymon and his mate, QueenBeemon, are the wisest Digimon I have ever met. Surely they will do everything in their power to help us."
"Well, that doesn't sound too bad," Brawlmon said. "Can you please arrange a meeting with them? It really is urgent that we find Millenniummon soon. Okinawa will never be peaceful again, as long as he stays around."
"You seem to know much about this 'Millenniummon'," Yoko pondered. "Fine, I will do what I can. Just let me prepare a few things, and then I will lead you to the hive of the Yellow Syndicate." Hastily, she left the hut.
"And what about the babies?" Brawlmon asked and looked down at the two Tinymon. BlueTinymon had just finished his milk and was yawning, while his brother already slept peacefully in Brawlmon's arms. "Taking them all with us may be too dangerous... we don't know when they will digivolve again."
"You are right," Kitsunemon frowned. "Terriermon, maybe you can stay here in the village and watch out for them?"
"Mou-man-tai!" Terriermon said with a smirk.
"By our honor, we will protect the village and your friends from any danger," the Ninjamon swore, and all the other present Digimon nodded.
"Thanks, we really appreciate that," Kitsunemon smiled. She then reached back and carefully picked up Fluffmon with her teeth. After placing the little cub on a soft blanket, she smiled down at her and said: "We have to go now, Jeri, so you be a good girl, okay?"
Fluffmon sniffled. "Doggy stay!" she whined.
"We'll be back very soon, I promise!" Kitsunemon said and gently licked her face.
When she turned around, she saw wide grins on Brawlmon's, Terriermon's and Ryo's faces.
"What?" she snapped.
"Oh, nothing!" Ryo chuckled. "It's just funny to see that you have a motherly side as well."
"Oh, shut up..." Kitsunemon growled.
Then, Yoko returned. She was carrying a bag and something that looked like a folded map. "I have everything," she said. "The Minomon told me that no members of the Green Syndicate are nearby. Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's go!" Kitsunemon nodded.
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