"You know Kei?" Yoko asked in a surprised voice.
"Now calm down, honey!" KingFlymon said in a calm voice. "There are many girls with the name of Kei... I'm sure they mean someone else..."
"I don't think so..." Kitsunemon sighed. "Not after she told me that her parents were from Okinawa..."
"What do you mean?" Yoko asked in confusion.
The multi-tailed vixen shook her head. "Never mind... listen, we know Kei, and I really think it might be your daughter. She's a young Palmon girl, and her babysitter is one of my friends..."
"REALLY?" Yoko shouted. Kitsunemon plopped down on her behind in surprise when the QueenBeemon came buzzing at her all of a sudden. "Ho is she doing? Has she made many friends? Oh, this is so exciting..."
"P-please calm down for a moment... Your Majesty!" Kitsunemon muttered.
"Please, call me Yoko," QueenBeemon said while taking a step backwards. "And I'm sorry... I shouldn't have startled you like this."
"Eh, that's okay. Well, Kei still goes to kindergarten, she has a friend called Eiko, she and her Mom... I mean, Miss Asaji... are doing fine. Oh, and there's something else..."
"What?" Yoko asked. "Please, tell me everything!"
"So she really is our daughter?" KingFlymon smiled. "These are joyous news indeed."
"Rika, I'm not sure if we should tell them..." Ryo whispered.
"No, they... they deserve the truth," Rika said. "I know the situation Kei is in. Her family's not the only one that got changed." She took a deep breath. "Your daughter Kei, she... actuallyshe'sreallyyoursonKaiandyou'renotreallyDigimonbecausearealitychangingcomputergametransformedyouintoDigimon!" she blurted out.
"Bwaaaah...?" Yoko muttered. "Run that by me again?"
"Calm down, Rika!" Brawlmon told her four-legged sister as she stepped forwards. "Yoko, you better sit down... this will take some time."
"A... reality changing game?" Yoko murmured. "Can that be true?"
"You... want to tell me that we've been human once?" KingFlymon asked. He was so surprised, he didn't even budge.
"See, I told you it was a bad idea to tell them," Ryo sighed. "Now they think we're crazy..."
"No... no, not at all!" Yoko protested. "Actually, I'm rather surprised... because... because that's what I always believed as well."
"Yes," the king nodded. "Me, too."
"Come again?" Kitsunemon gasped. "You can't be serious!"
"But it's true," Yoko sighed. "The past few days, I had the feeling as if... as if everything here on our island, was a false truth. I couldn't quite grasp why I felt that way, or what the truth was supposed to be, but..." She ran her hand across one of her wings. "This body... it somehow felt... wrong."
"Even more so did my body," KingFlymon nodded. "Don't get me wrong, I like this body, and I like being king, but... something is telling me that this is not how things are supposed to be. And if Kei... Kai... really is our son in that other reality... and he kept his memories even after that 'change'... he must be feeling really lonely."
"Is there... any way to change things back?" Yoko asked. "The way they were before?"
"I... don't think so," Kitsunemon finally said. "We've tried many things, but the RPG Maker doesn't allow just any sort of change. Changes that have been made can't just be revoked like that. Add the difficulty that only Kei and Eiko can use the game, and there's not much we can do about this. We're trying our best to fight those enemies that have appeared because of the game."
"Just like Millenniummon..." Ryo murmured.
"But... but that's horrible!" Yoko gasped. "My baby... no, my son... being trapped not only as a different species, but also a different gender AND at a different age?"
"To tell you the truth, those changes don't seem to bother her as much anymore," Kitsunemon told the two distraught parents. "But she's very sad because she believes her parents have forgotten her..."
"You talk about him... her... as if she had always been a girl," KingFlymon frowned. "Aren't you making the situation even worse for him?"
"Not really," Brawlmon said. "Kei told us that we should call her by her new name, since that's pretty much what everyone else knows her by. And as Rika told you, she seems to start feeling content in her new role."
"All those false memories..." the queen sighed. "And none of them are true..."
"They are true... regarding this new reality," Kitsunemon explained. "You must remember, everyone else remembers all those events happening... and so do you. And think about it, the program can't change everything just like that... you still are her parents in this new reality, aren't you?"
"That's... that's true!" Yoko said in surprise. She then smiled. "And now that we know all of this is just a farce, we can see her every time we want."
"Honey... I don't think this is a farce," her husband spoke up in a very thoughtful voice. "Don't you remember all those years in which we built up this hive? The years we used to guide our people, the sacrifices we had to make in the battle against the Green Syndicate? It might be that all of this happened because of this unbelievable piece of technology, but... it actually happened! And I am not ready to give all of this up either. It's true, it will be a relief for both us and Kei that we can see her again... but we should try to accept everything else as well. We don't really remember this old reality the children are talking about. We know nothing about those humans we've once been. Instead of trying to be someone else, we should try to make the best out of our current situation."
"Well, I'm sure there's lots to discuss regarding this situation," Ryo spoke up. "But I really think we should go back to the situation at hand. Our friends have been forced to de-digivolve to their In-Training levels, and Millenniummon is still a threat to your island..."
He stopped in mid-sentence, when suddenly, the walls around them started shaking.
"What's going on here?" KingFlymon shouted. "What was that?"
A HoneyBeemon flew in. "Your Majesty, it's the GreenSyndicate... we're under attack!"
"What?" the king shouted. "But how can this be... I thought our hive entrance was well hidden?"
"Not anymore, Your Highness," the HoneyBeemon gulped. "The green insects have found it... and they are not alone. They are accompanied by Ebidramon and other sea Digimon... and an incredibly powerful, humanoid dragon Digimon. He seems invincible..."
Ryo gritted his teeth. "Cyberdramon..." he grumbled.
Meanwhile, a certain Palmon girl was sitting at a computer, in the house of Ai and Mako's parents, and stared at the screen with teary eyes and trembling fingers.
"Mom..." she murmured as she looked at the image of the Yellow Hive map that was displayed in front of her, along with all of the events that were happening at his moment. "Dad..."
She switched to the map of the hive entrance... where she saw dozens of tiny enemy sprites, most of them members of either the Green Syndicate or Mermaimon's pirate gang.
And in their middle, their leader, an armored, cybernetic dragon Digimon that was in the possession of two souls at once.
Kei sobbed. "It's not fair!" she cried. "It's just not fair! Now I know my parents are fine, they even remember me and... and now I can't stop all of this from happening?" She selected a Digimon sprite from the Green Syndicate and tried deleting it.
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"CURSE YOU, BIOCALUMON!" Kei screamed. "CURSE YOU AND YOUR HORRIBLE GAME!"
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