"Y-YOU are Kei?" Stingmon gasped.
"It's true," the adult Lillymon replied with a sigh.
Stingmon looked at her closely. "But... you look like you're older than me! Almost as old as mother, to be exact..."
"It's that stupid game!" Kei cried. "It's changing everything... not that I didn't want to get older again soon, but not THIS old! ANd I'm still a Digimon... and Mom..."
"What about her?" Stingmon wondered.
"I mean, my foster Mom," Kei said and gestured at the little Tanemon in her arms. She was peacefully suckling on one of her leaves. "That's her..."
Stingmon scratched his head. "On Okinawa, I told your friends I would believe in this reality-changing stuff, but... this is just TOO weird! I mean, I have a sister I never knew about before, she's not even supposed to be female, and now that I finally meet her, she's even a grownup."
"That's why I have to go back to the computer," Kei said. "I have to bring the game into the correct direction... who knows what else will happen?"
Suddenly, Eiko flew up next to them. The vampiress' cloak was waving around her like a pair of wings. "Hey!" she smirked. "Don't you wanna introduce me?" She turned to Stingmon and winked. "Hi there, cutie, what's your name?"
Stingmon blushed. It didn't happen too often that an attractive, young woman like that addressed you out of the blue and asked you for your name.
"Um... I'm Stingmon. Not all of my tribe's members have regular contact with humans, that's why I didn't choose a name..."
"Eiko, meet my brother!" Kei sighed. "Sting, this is my friend Eiko."
Stingmon smiled. "Charmed!" he said and took Eiko's hand, kissing it like a gentleman would. Even though he was a warrior and special ops soldier, his parents taught him how to act in the presence of a lady... after all, he was also a prince among his people.
Eiko giggled. "Aw, don't be so formal, handsome," she chuckled. "C'mere, you..." And to Kei's, and even more Stingmon's surprise, she wrapped both of her hands around his upper body, pulled him close to her and planted a big kiss on his mouth... or rather, at the place where his mouth would be, if he had one.
Stingmon struggled to get free, while Kei wondered how far the little angels had changed their minds. What if she would, given some time, never want to be a boy again?
Suddenly, Eiko opened her eyes wide, pushed Stingmon away and spat on the ground.
"Pteh! Pfeh! Ptooie! Bah! Oh god, what did I do? I kissed a boy! Yuck! I'm gonna get cooties..."
Stingmon was dumbfounded. First, this beauty of a woman had literally wrapped herself around him, showering him with kisses, and now she was acting like a... well, a little girl...
"Wait a minute..." he murmured and looked at Kei. "How old is Eiko...? And please, tell me her TRUE age!"
Kei chuckled sheepishly. "Well, you see... she's really even younger than I am... she still goes to kindergarten."
"Yeah, but I'm much more mature than all those little kids!" Eiko proclaimed. "Oh, I need some water to wash out the taste of boy... gack..."
"I... I kissed a little girl?" Stingmon gasped. It wouldn't bother him that much if it had just been a little peck on the cheek... but he was pretty sure that Eiko had been ready to french him, if he had a mouth.
"Don't you get any ideas, pal!" Eiko shouted. "That was an accident and will never happen again... I'd rather have those hunky street workers..." she murmured while looking down.
Kei sweatdropped. It looked like they still could fight against the mind control of the angel kids, as Eiko's spontaneous relapse proved.
"We've got to go back," she murmured. "We have to think of something... we would have never left the PC, if not for my Mom..."
"Is there any way I can help?" Stingmon asked.
Kei sighed. "Well, you can't really see the program itself or even HolyCalumon... but if you have some helpful ideas, feel free to share them with us. C'mon, Eiko, we've got to go back!"
Eiko looked up from where she was just sensually rubbing up against a surprised street worker. "Awww, can't we stay for a bit? These guys are sooo handsome..."
"Cut that out, we must hurry!"
Eiko pouted. "Aw, okay... later, guys!" She winked at the baffled workers and flew after her friend.
While they were flying back to Miss Asaji's house, Kei shook her head. "Why is she acting like this? Eiko never liked boys, she told me herself."
Stingmon shrugged. "Well, LadyVampimon's are supposed to be pretty sensual Digimon... those that hunt other Digimons to suck their data mostly prey on male, humanoid Digimon. Others that are more sociable still tend to change their boyfriends quicker than their underwear... and their libido is accordingly high."
Kei frowned. "What would you know about the underwear of female Digimon?" she asked him in a dangerous voice.
Stingmon chuckled sheepishly. "H-hey, that's just a manner of speaking..."
Eiko flew up to them. "Hey, watcha talking about?"
Kei looked at her closely. "I'll tell you when you're older."
"Well, I am older!" Eiko grinned, gesturing at her adult body.
"You know what I mean!" Kei sighed.
"Let me sum that up..." Janyu Wong said to his daughter, who was sitting in front of him. "You're telling me that you are sharing your body with a boy who is your age and basically was replaced with you when reality changed? And he remembers all of us as his family?"
"Well... except for me," Harmony said. "But I think that by now, I've started to see him as the twin brother I never had... it's amazing how similar we are to each other."
"Well, that's not that big of a surprise, if he really was you before all of this started. And his name is Henry, correct?"
Harmony nodded. "Yes, that's right!"
"Any chance I might talk to him?"
"I'll ask him, wait a second..." Harmony closed her eyes, and Janyu couldn't help but wonder how it would be like to have a second personality in your head only you could see and hear.
Then the girl opened her eyes again. "Dad?"
"Y-yes?"
She smiled. "It's me, Henry! Harmony allowed me to talk to you for a while." He looked downwards and sighed. "To be honest, I don't take control like this too often... I'm still not that thrilled about having a girl's body..."
"I... guess I can imagine," Janyu chuckled. "I wouldn't want to wake up in a woman's body, either." Not to mention what his wife would say...
He then looked at his maybe-son closely. "So... the way I see it, there are three possibilities. First, you could have made all of this up and lie to me... and while I don't believe you would ever do that, it still is a possibility."
Henry sighed. He was afraid his father would say something like that.
"The second possibility is that there's something wrong with your mind..."
Henry blinked. "You mean... that I have become crazy?"
"I wouldn't put it as bluntly as that, but you may have heard of multiple personality disorder."
"Yes... but Dad, I don't really think that is the case..."
Janyu sighed. "To be honest, I didn't really believe in any of these possibilities either. It's just that I always tend to take a look at everything conceivable before coming to a conclusion."
Henry smiled. "I don't blame you. It's what I would have done as well."
Janyu laughed. "Like father, like son, eh? Or like daughter, since Harmony always does the same..."
"So you believe us?" Henry asked in a hopeful voice.
"Well, I wouldn't be a very good father if I didn't believe my children," Janyu smiled. "The question is, what shall we do with you?"
"What do you mean?" Henry wondered.
"We can't let the two of you stay in one and the same body for too long," Janyu said. "I don't think that would be very healthy for both of you... the human body is not made to hold the identities of two persons at once. You could still turn insane, or even worse... one of you could be rejected by the body and die."
Henry gasped, and at the same time, heard the mental gasp of his new twin sister. They hadn't thought of that possibility...
"B-but... we are Hybrids," he said. "Or rather, Harmony is, since this is her body. She's half Digimon..."
"And I think that is the only reason why both of you haven't gone insane yet," Janyu said in a very serious voice. "There's no time to lose. We need to find a place we can take you to... I don't know how we are going to do this, but we have to..."
Just then, the door opened and Sheperdmon entered, startling both of them.
"There you are, young lady!" she frowned. "Janyu, I hope you've had a serious word with her already... can you imagine, she skipped school!"
"Um, yes, we already talked about that, honey, but..."
"No time for explanations, we'll talk about this tonight. For now, Harmony has to come with me. We captured Barbamon!"
"Really?" Henry shouted, not pointing out that he wasn't Harmony. "Where is he?"
"At the police station," his mother explained. "Although he digivolved back to a Rookie and is now called Bimon... but I'll explain on the way. Come on, the others are waiting for us."
"Um... okay, Mom! Bye, Dad! We'll talk later, okay?"
"Yes, of course! Take care, you two!"
"Don't forget to digivolve, dear!" Sheperdmon pointed out.
"Oh, right!" Henry realized that in the old reality, his mother would have never said something like that and chuckled.
"Now what's so funny?" his mother frowned.
"Oh, it's nothing! Henr... I mean, Harmony, Hybrid Digivolution to... Dachsmon!"
He digivolved into Harmony's canine Rookie form, and during the digivolution process, Harmony once again took control.
And after she and her mother had left, Janyu paced up and down his office and murmured to himself.
"How could we put Henry into a new body, even if we had one... that's impossible! I don't know of any Digimon who has the ability of transferring consciousnesses, mind, souls or whatever remains of Henry, into another body."
He suddenly came to a stop.
"New body..." he murmured. "Creating... bodies? A Hybrid body... creating Hybrids... THAT'S IT!"
He quickly went to the phone and dialed a number. "Hello, Shibumi? Quick, you have to make sure we're provided with a permission to enter Dolphin's lab... and remember to arrange for a Digimon guide who will provide security, in case some of those Numemons should still be around... no time to explain, I'm gonna tell you once we're there. We have to start up his old machines, and there's no time to lose. Understood? Good! See you then!"
He hung up and put everything he needed into his suitcase.
'Just you wait, my son,' he thought. 'No matter if I don't remember you or not... but we will create a body for you, or my name is not Janyu Wong!'
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