When Lopmon woke up, the first thing she noticed was that a strong arm was wrapped around her body. The second unusual thing she noticed was that she was lying in the bed of Harmony's parents.
"By the Sovereigns... what am I doing here?" she muttered. She turned around to see that the arm belonged to none other but Gargomon, who was snoozing softly. He also wasn't wearing anything at this point, not his armguns, not his pants, nothing.
When she noticed that she was as tall as Gargomon, she looked down at herself, and saw that she had a tall, thin figure and was covered with purple fur. She also wasn't wearing anything, but on the floor next to the bed, she could see Gargomon's clothes in addition to a yellow battle outfit and a blue scarf.
"Why... why am I a Turuiemon?" she murmured, recognizing her Champion form, even though she had never used it before.
Gargomon snored loudly and turned around, his heavy frame leaning against her slender figure. "Hey, wake up!" she said in annoyance. She pushed him to the side and wondered how they ended up in this situation. She had dreamed about waking up with him lying next to her, but she never imagined it would actually happen... and especially not in the bed of Harmony's parents.
When Gargomon didn't wake up, she gave him a few thumps against his tummy. Gargomon blinked and turned his head around.
When he saw Turuiemon lying next to him, he stared. "Whoa..."
Turuiemon blushed under his stare and pulled the cover up to her chest. "Don't stare at me like that, put some clothes on!"
Confused, Gargomon stumbled out of bed. "But why... how... what...?"
"Yes, I would like to know that as well," Turuiemon nodded.
Gargomon slipped on his pants, but couldn't turn his gaze away from the lovely vision that was Turuiemon. "When did we digivolve and how did we end up in Mr. and Mrs. Wong's bed?"
"I don't know," Turuiemon said. "I was waking up and found you lying next to me."
Gargomon gasped. "We... we didn't do IT... didn't we?"
"Of course not!" Turuiemon proclaimed, but didn't feel as convinced as she tried to make it sound. "Maybe... maybe all of this is just natural." She blushed. "I mean, you just declared your love to me and... maybe that caused us to digivolve..."
Gargomon sweatdropped. He was silently hoping that she wouldn't find out about his little lie.
Still, if he was in love with Harmony, why couldn't he keep his eye off Turuiemon's body?
She fumbled around with her long ears. "Maybe... maybe I should get dressed..."
"Um... if you say so," Gargomon muttered.
She looked at him in annoyance. "Would you turn around, please?"
"Um, s-sure, no problem, right away!" he stuttered and turned around. 'Damn...' he thought. 'I'd have liked to enjoy that view a bit more...'
Turuiemon slipped out of bed and quickly put on her suit and tied the scarf around her neck. She found a pair of curved blade weapons lying next to the bed and realized that those must belong to her.
"Why did we fall asleep anyway?" she asked. "As far as I remember, it was the middle of the day when we talked to each other."
"Yeah, but then... everything became black," Gargomon said.
Turuiemon gasped. "Oh no! I must go and see if Suzie is all right..." She ran out of the door and into Suzie's room.
She was very surprised when, instead of a children's room, she found a bedroom that looked very similar to that she and Gargomon had just woken up in. She was even more surprised when she saw the young woman with the two long ponytails descending down her back. She was clad in an evening gown and stared at her image in a big mirror that was hanging on the wall.
She turned around and raised her trembling finger. "L-lopmon?"
"Are... are you... Suzie?" Turuiemon asked.
The young woman nodded. She looked very nervous and frightened. "What happened?" she asked. "What happened to my room? Why am I a grownup? And you..."
Gargomon appeared behind Turuiemon at that moment. When he saw Suzie, his eyes widened. "Whoa..."
Turuiemon quickly put her paws on his eyes. "Enough for today, buster! You go on and wait for us outside, like any proper gentleman would."
"But I'm not a gentleman..." Gargomon protested, but he was being shoved out of the room and the door was closed in his face. Well, that was rude..." he grumbled.
Suzie and Turuiemon sat down on the adult-sized bed, and the violet rabbit Digimon gave her Tamer a hug. "Don't worry, being big isn't all bad... and I'm sure there's a good explanation for this. We'll find a solution..."
Suzie sniffed. "I don't understand this... why does this happen? I'm not a grownup! I'm a little girl... and take a look at those pictures!" She gestured at a few photos standing next to her bed. "I don't remember them ever being taken."
Turuiemon looked and saw a couple of family pictures. One of them showed the adult Suzie standing next to a couple of young children, a pudgy, but cheerful boy, and a shy girl wearing glasses.
"Those two... somehow look like your parents," she murmured.
"I know," Suzie sighed. "And that's not everything. Look, I found this..." She took the purse that was standing next to the bed and pulled out an ID card, a bank card and several other things. "See? According to this stuff, I'm supposed to be an adult... and look, this is a taxi driver's license... I've never driven a car before in my life, Lopmon!"
"Better call me Turuiemon, that's my Champion Level," her Digimon partner said. "I don't understand it either... Terriermon and I woke up in our Champion forms in the bed of your parents, but why...?"
"Lop... I mean... Turuiemon! Come and take a look at this!" Gargomon shouted from outside.
"I'm coming!" Turuiemon said. "Okay, you get dressed, we'll find out what happened, okay?"
"O... okay..." Suzie muttered.
Turuiemon left the room and closed the door behind her. "What's the matter, Gargomon?"
Gargomon showed her another photograph. "This... this stood in the living room..." he stuttered. "Can you... can you believe this? That's us! Us! No way!"
Turuiemon took a look... and nearly dropped the picture in shock.
It showed Gargomon, dressed in a tuxedo. He looked pretty handsome for a bulky Digimon like him. And next to him... she saw a beautiful, female Digimon with purple fur, long rabbit ears, clad in a gorgeous, white wedding dress. She was holding Gargomon's hand and looked very happy.
It was a wedding picture. And that Digimon in the wedding dress was her.
She nearly swooned. "M-married?" she squeaked. "Y-you... and I... married? H-how... we've just been Rookies yesterday!"
"That's not everything," Gargomon said. "Look!" And he opened the window.
A mixed assortment of children's voices came in from outside. Taking a look, Turuiemon saw many children running around on the streets, with only a few adults watching over them. There were almost no cars around, just many, many toys that littered the street. A big Ankylomon with gentle eyes was carrying a couple of children on his back, careful not to step on any of the kids that were running around him in excitement. The billboards that previously had promoted a well-known brand of cigarettes and a new casino at the edge of town now showed the colorful image of lollypops and a new playground that was supposed to be at the same place where the casino should be.
The two long-eared Digimon looked at each other. "The RPG Maker?" Turuiemon asked her 'husband'.
Gargomon sighed and nodded. "The RPG Maker..."
Suzie came out of her room, dressed in a blouse and a pair of tight pants. "I have to call Mom and Dad," she said. "They have to come home. And if everything has changed... I don't want to know what happened to them.
At that moment, the phone rang. Suzie ran over and looked at the display.
"That's Dad's phone number!" she gasped and picked up. "Dad, is that you?"
"Oops, sorry, wrong number..." the confused voice of her father spoke up.
"Wait! Dad, don't hang up!" she pleaded. "It's me, Suzie!"
"Who is that?" Janyu asked angrily. "Why are you trying to impersonate my daughter? Suzie is barely eight years old..."
"Dad, it's really me! Everything's so weird... I mean, I'm a grownup now, so are Lopmon and Terriermon, and all our neighbors are little kids... you and Mom have to come home, quickly!"
For a while, her father did not reply. "I'm... I'm on my way," he finally said and hung up.
Suzie put down the phone and sighed. "At least Mom and Dad are okay..."
"Yes, but wait what they're gonna say when they find out that we've slept in their bed..." Gargomon mumbled.
"But wait..." Turuiemon said. "Does that mean your parents are still grownups? I mean... to me, it looked as if everyone has changed. So many children on the street... the three of us have turned into adults... why haven't they changed?"
"We should call Kei," Gargomon suggested. "Maybe she can clear up what happened..."
"And what about my sister?" Suzie asked. "Harmony's still out there, fighting Lucemon..."
"Well... according to the clock, she has left more than 15 hours ago," Turuiemon said. "I doubt they're still fighting..."
"Then... maybe they have won," Suzie said hopefully.
Turuiemon walked up to the window and frowned when she saw the top of what was Tokyo Tower in the far distance. "I doubt it, Suzie..." she muttered. "I seriously doubt it..."
In the place of the normal Tokyo, she saw a tall tower with many, spindly spires, which looked like it was made of white marble. The white tower was gleaming in the morning sun, and a huge statue of a Digimon with twelve wings was standing on top.
"Lucemon..." Gargomon murmured.
Unbeknown to them, a dark, little shape was watching them from the roof of the house on the other side of the street.
"I repeat, two of the Tamers' helpers have turned into adults as well," a high voice whispered. "What shall we do?"
"Looks like I made a little mistake when changing the city," the voice of Lucemon spoke up. "I completely forgot about these two. Oh well, just watch them. I doubt they can cause too much trouble. But if they do... bring them to me!"
"Will do, Mistress Ai!" the little spy nodded.
Little Takehiro Matsuki was sitting in the sandbox, humming to himself happily while piling the soft sand up to a big hill with his plastic sand shovel. All around him, many other children were playing and laughing.
"Watcha making?" somebody next to him asked.
Takehiro looked up and saw a little Digimon standing next to him. It had yellow scales, a short, reptilian tail and a cute little snout. It wasn't wearing anything, but he somehow could tell that it was a girl.
"Making sand cakes," he told her.
"Looks like fun," she smiled. "Can I help too?"
He shook his head. "Nu-uh! Girls are yucky! And you're all scaly, ewww..."
He focussed back on his pile of sand. He tried to form it into the shape of a cake, but failed miserably.
"You need a proper cake pan," the Digimon girl smiled and held up a little plastic sand mould. "You can use mine."
Takehiro still seemed uncertain. Girls couldn't bake any cakes, everyone knew that. "I dunno..."
She grinned. "I can also bake it, if you want," she said and let a few sparks of fire come out of her nostrils.
"Wooow!" Takehiro said in awe, forgetting that this was a girl. "Can you do that again?"
She grinned. "Let me help make the cake, and I'll do it as much as you want."
"Okay," he grinned and she knelt down next to him. "I'm Takehiro."
She smiled. "My name is Mie! I'm a Lizzimon!"
And together, they baked their sand cake.
From the next bench, Takehiro's guardian was watching.
"All is progressing fine," the young man spoke into his phone. "The meeting of the two went off without a hitch."
"Good job, Kenji," Lucemon's voice spoke up. "It would be a shame to force them apart. If they have been married as adults, I want them to be as close as possible. And if they can't be siblings, I want them to be at least very good friends."
The disguised Azraelmon smirked. "Wouldn't Takato and Guilmon miss their parents?"
"They don't even remember them," Lucemon replied. "You should take a look at them now, they are so happy with their life at my sanctuary... I will make sure that they never leave this place again. Trust me, they won't miss their parents. Just make sure Takehiro and our little Lizzimon don't come too close to my tower."
"Roger that, boss!" Kenji grinned.
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