Impmon looked left and right. With all those bad guys around, he doubted that he could win, even if he managed to digivolve to Beelzemon. His hopes were even further crushed when out of the skies, another pair of grey-colored, humanoid Hybrids dropped: BioBirdramon and BioKabuterimon!
"All right..." Impmon finally grumbled. "You win... let Mako and Ai go, and I'll give you that stupid sin data."
"Ah ah ah!" Barbamon sneered and wagged his finger. "I don't think so. Why don't we do it this way: You allow me to extract your sin data and afterwards, we may just talk about your little friend."
Impmon snarled, but he realized that there was no way he could outsmart Barbamon now, not while BioGarurumon had Mako in his grasp. "Fine..." he muttered.
Barbamon smiled and floated down to the ground. Then, he slowly approached Impmon, always keeping a careful eye on him. He never even glanced at Kei, however.
He held out the Virus Circlet, three of its crystals now glowing ominously. "Touch it," he simply said.
Impmon stepped closer and raised his hand, but he hesitated. He looked up at Ai, and the angel gave him an encouraging smile. "Just do it, Impmon! When this is over, everything is gonna be all right."
Impmon took a deep breath and finally touched the Virus Circlet. He felt as if something was being sucked out of his soul, his core data, but he didn't feel empty afterwards. On the contrary: He felt as if something was lifted off his shoulders.
At least, now the data of Envy could never corrupt him again. Now he hoped that Barbamon would stick to his end of the bargain.
Barbamon held the Virus Circlet up in front of his face and grinned. The four glowing crystals reflected his sinister face. "Yeeeesss..." he muttered. "One step closer to ressurecting the Seven Great Demon Lords..."
"You've got your stupid sin data!" Impmon shouted. "Now release Ai and Mako."
Barbamon sneered down at him and gave the canine Hybrid behind him a commanding gesture. "BioGarurumon..."
The armored wolf grunted and simply threw Mako up into the air. The little TinyDevimon spread his wings with a gasp and quickly fluttered over to Impmon, where he sobbed into his shoulder.
Impmon patted his back. "It's all right, kid," he murmured. "You're safe now. Okay, now give Ai back as well!"
Barbamon snickered as he looked up at the female angel. "I would... that is, if she still wants to stay here. What do you say, Ai?"
Ai smiled down at Impmon and her brother. "I'm sorry, Impmon, but... I promised them to come along with them."
"Wh-wh-WHAT??" Impmon yelled. "You CAN'T be serious!! You want to go with them, AGAIN? Do you remember how they lied to you? How they pretended to be your friends?"
"Please, Ai, don't go with them..." Mako sniffled. "They're bad guys..."
"I know," Ai said sadly. "But I had to say yes. They would have hurt you, Mommy and Daddy. They promised they would leave you alone when I come with them..."
"I don't believe this!" Impmon screeched. "You don't have to keep that promise. Mako is safe, now what stops you from just ditching those creeps?"
"I made a promise," Ai explained in her calm voice. "I am an Angel Digimon now, Impmon... we are not allowed to lie."
"But... but Ai..." Mako whimpered. "If you go with them now, then... then you..." Even though he was normally the mischievous one of the twins, he was afraid that she would become one of the most evil creatures on Earth.
"Don't worry," Ai smiled. "I would never hurt anyone of you... never!"
"How touching!" Barbamon mocked. "If you are finished with saying your goodbyes, can we finally leave?"
"Just one moment, Barbamon!" Kei spoke up. Everyone looked at her in surprise. They nearly forgot that the young Palmon girl was still there as well.
Ever since BioCalumon had appeared, he and Kei had been staring into each other's eyes, Kei with a hateful glare, the Calumon copy with a devious grin. Even now, when she was speaking to Barbamon, Kei was still staring at the creature she had learned to loathe.
"So, now you have collected the sin data of four fellow Demon Lords, right?" Kei asked. "And with your own and that from Ai, it makes six. Congratulations! But you still don't know where the last, the final sin data is hidden, do you?"
"How do you know of that, girl?" Barbamon snapped. "Who are you?"
"Why, didn't your new pal BioCalumon tell you?" Kei asked. "No, I doubt he would. I know everything about you and your plans. Did he also tell you what he would do to you after he doesn't need you anymore?"
"You dirty little pest!" BioCalumon snarled. "I'll turn you into a microbe when I'm done with you..."
Barbamon was irritated. Truth was, he didn't really know too much about BioCalumon. He didn't know where he came from, where he got his powers and how he managed to split the MCT into multiple, small devices that could be used on the kids... and that still wouldn't explain why they turned into these unnatural forms after digivolving.
Still, right now, he was the only ally he had, and he couldn't let a little Palmon ruin his plans by confusing him. Which didn't mean that he would have to take a closer look at BioCalumon's origins... but that could wait.
"You'll have to excuse me that I don't tear my accomplice into pieces just because of your statement, Rookie!" Barbamon said coldly. "I don't know where you got all these informations, but I don't care. You are right, I have what I want, and I don't need to listen to your useless banter."
"Oh, even if I might know the whereabouts of the last sin data?" Kei asked casually.
Barbamon narrowed his eyes. "What...?"
"Don't listen to her!" BioCalumon hissed. "That's a trick!"
"Silence!" Barbamon commanded. His eyes never left the little Palmon in front of him. "You certainly are unusual for a Palmon... say, have we met before?"
"No, and that's not important now," Kei said. "Still, I know you are interested to learn the current location of Riley, the current holder of the Lust data, correct?"
"You really did your homework, girl, didn't you?" Barbamon asked. He raised his staff and pointed it at her. "How about this: You tell me where she is and I don't blast you into pieces!"
"Simple!" Kei said with a grin. "You made the same mistake every big, evil villain in most RPGs is making."
"And that would be?" Barbamon asked, not even knowing what an RPG was.
"You're talking too much!" Kei shouted. "NOW, ALICE!"
And out of nowhere, a sleek silhouette came flying out of the skies. It was a female humanoid with a canine head, full body armor and two gloves with metal claws. In her hands, she was holding a strange device that almost looked like a cross between a drill and a whisk.
"Game over, buddy!" MirageGaogamon smirked as she pressed a button. Instantly, strange, reddish energy waves came shooting forth from the device she was holding, hitting Barbamon, BioCalumon and their minions.
All of a sudden, the tiny devices that had previously been the MCT, clattered to the floor, and the Hybrid Champions shrunk down to their In-Training forms.
"What happened?" a tiny Koromon asked in confusion. "Where am I?"
"I'm scared!" the Yokomon next to him whimpered. "I want my Mommy!"
"Hey, BioCalumon lied to us!" Motimon yelled. "There are no video games for us, right?"
"How... how did they do that?" Barbamon thundered. "BioCalumon! You assured me your control over them could never be broken!"
"Th-that's what I thought!" BioCalumon stuttered while Barbamon grabbed him and shook him around. "I d-don't understand, the creator of that device made sure that nobody but him could negate its effects while it's activated... wait a minute..." He stared up at the flying female and his eyes went wide. "She..." he murmured.
"Interesting what you can find in grandpa's laboratory if you wait until the first chapter of the game is over, right?" Alice grinned as she twirled around the weird gun she was holding. "Now Kei, get the kiddos out of there!"
"Right away!" Kei replied. "Poison Ivy!" Before Barbamon and BioCalumon could react, she extended her vines and pulled them to safety.
"You scoundrels!" Barbamon yelled. "You won't get away with this... come on, you fool!" He grabbed BioCalumon and vanished in a twirl of fire and darkness.
"Drats, he got away..." Alice murmured as she landed next to Kei. "Oh well, at least we managed to save the kids... are you okay, darlings?"
"Y-yeah..." Tsunomon murmured. "But I'm hungry..."
"I really don't know what just happened, or what you did, but I'm glad you showed up," Impmon said to Alice. "Without you, they would have taken Ai..."
"Ai is gone..." Mako whispered.
Impmon froze. He looked up into the sky, but could not find any trace of his female Tamer. "What...?"
"She vanished in a shiny light, right after the bad guys disappeared," Mako sadly murmured. He sniffed. "Impmon... what if she never comes back..."
"Those bastards!" Impmon snarled. "If they lay a hand on her..."
"I believe she made her own decision, Impmon," Kei said quietly. She turned to Alice. "Thanks for coming so quickly. I'm really surprised you believed everything I told you."
"Hey, if you're the Game Master, there's no reason I shouldn't believe you," Alice smirked as she de-digivolved into her Gaomon form. "So, where's that game's main program you told me about?"
"I managed to track it down," Kei said. "And I know where in which computer it is." She knelt down next to Mako. "Mako... could you please ask your parents if we could use their computer?"
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