Leomon was sitting in his dojo, eyes closed. He was in deep meditation.
Through the open door, Calumon suddenly flew in.
"Hi, Leomon!" he shouted cheerfully.
Leomon suppressed a sigh. With this little bundle of energy around, he could forget about his meditation. Still, it was nice to have the little Digimon around.
"Hello, Calumon," he said after opening his eyes. "What brings you here?"
Calumon plopped his little behind down on the wooden floor next to the leonine Champion and sighed. "Well, I feel bored... and since the others are all out, fighting bad guys... I thought I could find someone else to hang around with.
Leomon smirked. "So, since I am the only one you found at home, I have the pleasure to 'hang around' with you now?"
Calumon grinned. "That's right! So, what are you doing? Why aren't you fighting?"
"I am preparing myself for the time I am needed," Jeri's father replied. "I wanted to accompany Takato's mother on her mission, but she figured it would be best for me to stay behind as a reserve warrior."
"Oh... and what about the dog-lady, Henry's mother?"
Leomon smirked. "Well, she's on her own, personal mission right now... wait..." He blinked. "Did you just say 'Henry's mother'?"
Calumon blinked. "Yes, I did! Strange, I wanted to say Harmony... why did it come out like this? I don't know a Henry... or do I?"
Leomon gave the little Digimon a thoughtful look. "You know, I'm starting to believe that Rika, Renamon, the Game Masters and I aren't the only ones who remember the old reality..."
"Is Henry someone I should know?" Calumon wondered. "Because his name sure does sound familiar..."
"Henry is what Harmony was before the change," Leomon explained. "A boy her own age, who was replaced by this female twin. From what my daughter told me, they now share the same body."
"So... there are both Harmony and Henry now?" Calumon wondered. "But why do I remember his name, but not his face?"
"I can only take a guess, but maybe you aren't quite affected as a normal human or Digimon, because or your... special background. You are the embodiment of the powers of Digivolution."
"Yeah... but ever since Takato, Rika and the others got all these new powers, they barely need me any more... that's why I'm so bored."
Leomon smirked. "You can stay here as long as you like... at least until I am needed. And if you want, I can tell you a few things about how things have been before the change..."
Calumon beamed at the lion Digimon. "You'd do that?"
"I don't see why not," Leomon chuckled.
"Oh boy!" Calumon shouted, scooting closer to his big friend. "I love stories!"
"Well, where to begin...? You see, before the change, there was no such thing as 'Hybrids' at all..."
And while he continued to tell his little friend of the old reality, Leomon was silently hoping that whatever caused him to remember Henry's name, would also cause him to regain some more memories after having heard about the old reality through his stories.
And maybe, just maybe, this was the first step in finding a way to bring those memories back to ANYone.
"Aren't you done yet, servants?" DemiDevimon shouted. "I want my new Hybrid body today, understood? So hurry up!"
Janyu gritted his teeth. "Yes, my master..." he muttered while putting a heavy box down in the central research lab, the only room with a few intact tubes left. He then went back into the storage chamber to get the next box.
In there, Shibumi was still searching through old records for the activation code of the Hybrid Creator, the huge machine which their old friend Dolphin had used to infuse humans with Digimon DNA.
Shibumi grimaced. "You know, this is exactly what we would have done anyways, even if we hadn't met the little devil."
"Yes," Janyu nodded. "Only that I wanted to create a new body for my son, and not turn this brat into a hybrid..."
"Honestly, Janyu," Shibumi sighed. "How were you planning on doing that anyways? I mean, Dolphin created Hybrids by infusing humans with digital DNA... but his machine can't just create a new body out of nowhere."
"Well, I have an idea... but to find out if it works or not, we first have to get rid of that little bowling ball with wings. Have you found the activation code yet?"
"Do you think I'm reading these old records for fun?" his friend frowned.
"All right, I got it, you haven't found it... still, we might be able to trick the little devil if we can make him believe that we do this for him, and then..."
"HEY! What's taking you so long?" DemiDevimon shouted. "Get a move on!"
Not being able to resist the hypnosis, Janyu picked up the next crate and carried it over to the evil Rookie. "Yes, Master!"
Sheperdmon ran through the underground tunnel, jumping over debris that was lying on the ground, and kicking any Numemon that was unfortunate enough to get in her way.
When she saw how a larger group of the slime Digimon had appeared in front of her, she narrowed her eyes.
"This is as far as you go, babe!" one of the Numemon grinned. "DemiDevimon has promised to pay us with the most delicious garbage in town if we guard him from any intruders."
Sheperdmon drew her crossbow. "VOLT LANCE!" The electric projectile blasted the assembled Numemon away like the pins during a bowling match.
"How shocking!" one of them proclaimed before passing out.
Sheperdmon never stopped once as she hurried through the ruined lab. She knew her husband was down here, and now that she knew from these maggots that the escaped DemiDevimon was here as well, she had already a feeling of what had happened.
"Janyu Wong, you and your stupid ideas..." she grumbled. "If I manage to bring you out of this in one piece, there will be no TV for you the following two weeks..."
She stopped when she heard a loud voice coming from ahead... a child's voice.
"HEY! What's taking you so long? Get a move on!"
"I know who that is..." she grumbled. "Damn that kid... first he attacks my daughter at school, now he kidnaps my husband. And that mother of his kept on claiming that he was a good boy... Well, I know what I'll do to those who threaten my family..."
And with a resolute expression, she reloaded her crossbow.
Meanwhile, Janyu was carrying the fifth heavy box of equipment into the main lab. "C-can't I take a break, master?" he panted.
"No way!" DemiDevimon shouted. "You couldn't tell me which of these boxes contain the parts we need, so you're gonna carry all of them in here!"
Janyu winced. If the little devil wouldn't keep such a watchful eye on his mind-controlled prisoners, he would have had an easier time of tricking him. Actually, Janyu already knew which box contained the parts needed to finish the machine... but he tried to delay this as long as he could, so he could come up with a plan how they could trick the little devil.
'He doesn't know anything about genetics and digital processes, so he wouldn't know if we prepare the machine for his new Hybrid form or Henry's new body... but as long as I can't break free of his hypnosis, I can't do anything to keep him from entering the tank...'
Originally, Janyu had planned to create a clone of Henry's body with his own, maternal DNA... after all, Dolphin's records suggested that all one would need to create a Hybrid was a sample of human DNA, and a sample of digital DNA... he never stated that a whole body would be needed as a template.
Alice and her companions had been created by splicing their own DNA with Digimon DNA... but Janyu believed that it should be possible to create a clone with his own DNA, which then could be turned into a Digimon Hybrid as well.
Well, theoretically speaking. After all, Janyu was no geneticist... but after having found out that the Digimon truly were living beings, he had learned quite a few things about their biological makeup.
Now if only he could distract DemiDevimon for a while...
"What are you doing, servant? I told you to hurry up, didn't I? Now bring me the last boxes so we can..."
"VOLT LANCE!"
"YAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!" the Rookie screamed when his body was electrified. With twitching wings, he turned around and faced the Digimon who had attacked him. "What the... hey, it's you!"
Sheperdmon's crossbow was aimed at DemiDevimon's face. "So we meet again, brat! You will let my husband go, right now!"
DemiDevimon gulped. He knew he wasn't strong enough to take on Mayumi... after all, the only reason he had been able to fight her the last time they met was because he had been in his Devimon form.
"Daaamn, no fair..." he whined as he dropped down to the ground.
"Mayumi!" Janyu shouted, glad to see his wife. Then he frowned. "A couple more minutes, and I'd have come up with a plan to save us by myself."
"Suuure you would..." his canine wife said in a mocking voice and winked at him.
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