The TinyDevimon easily slipped out of his bonds after de-digivolving back to his Rookie level.
Mako grinned. "Sis never was able to keep me in one place for a very long time. But she must be slipping if she couldn't foresee this."
He then fluttered over to the room's only exit. "I need to find a way out of here..." he muttered. "Sis might be scatterbrained at times, but she also can throw a pretty nasty temper tantrum."
He peered through the half-closed door, half expecting to be jumped by one of Lucemon's guards.
But our little devil was in luck. No member of his sister's Disciplinary Squad or any other bad guys were around. So he beat his little wings as fast as he could and hurried to find the exit.
The tower had a pretty strange atmosphere, he realized. Light was pouring in from the many big windows he passed, but it still didn't manage to drive back the darkness that seemed to loom in every corner. The architecture looked like a mixture between 'Greek Temple' and 'Gothic Cathedral', and Mako had the feeling that the many statues and reliefs were watching him.
He shook his head. It was just a bad feeling, nothing more.
He came past many doors, all of them looking the same, but nothing that looked remotely like a stairway or an elevator.
He then slapped his forehead. "I'm so stupid..." he muttered. "What do I have wings for?"
He hopped on the closest windowsill and giggled. "Ai really is silly. If she wants to keep anyone from coming in here or from going outside, she should have installed metal bars... or at least windows.
He then spread his wings and took off...
...just to bounce into an invisible force field that was in front of the window.
He fell down on his little behind and rubbed his nose. "Owie! Okay, Ai is not as dumb as I thought... looks like that way is a no-go."
Just then, one of the doors behind him opened up and a sleepy and cute face looked out. "Hey, don't be so loud... I'm trying to sleep here."
"Oops, sorry!" Mako chuckled. He then realized something. "Wait a minute... you're not one of Ai's goons, aren't you?"
The little girl standing in the door giggled. "You are funny! Did Mommy invite you?"
Mako took a closer look at the girl. She didn't look like she was much older than himself, she was wearing a pink nightdress and had a couple of little angel wings on her back. Somehow, she seemed familiar...
"You aren't gonna call the guards or anything?" Mako asked her.
She giggled again. "Why would I do that? You don't look like you're a bad guy... hey, you wanna take a look at my watch collection?"
Mako blinked. Since when were girls interested in collecting watches? "Um, sorry, but I really have to go now..."
"Aw, c'mon! Just for a second!" And she pulled him through the door. Mako now was standing inside a typical little girl's bedroom, everything colored in shades of white, pink and gold.
The little girl gestured at a shelf hanging at the wall. "See? All those are the watches Mommy gave to me. They don't work anymore, but I still think they're cute, so I collect them."
Mako nearly let out a gasp of surprise when he saw the so-called 'watches'.
'Those... those are the D-Powers of Takato and the others,' he realized. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his own. He was very glad that Ai had let him keep it this week, and that she hadn't been able to take it with her after being turned into Lucemon.
Still, what good did it, with Impmon transformed into Garmon?
Then he thought of something. "Your Mom... who is she?"
The winged girl giggled once again. "You don't know that? I thought she invited you. She is the owner of this tower and the guardian of our town. My Mommy is the Lady Lucemon!"
It then dawned to Mako. 'Of course...' he thought. 'She sees Ai as her mother... and she's a little kid, so she must have been an adult before. And that means she is...'
"Wh-what's your name?" he stuttered.
She smiled. "I'm ChibiD'arcmon!"
Mako realized that the girl standing in front of him was his mother. Of course she would be Ai's daughter in this new, twisted world... and she didn't even recognize that this was not how things are supposed to be. His first impulse was to bring her away from here, to safety.
But she was safe here, wasn't she? Obviously, Ai didn't want to hurt her, or else she wouldn't have made her her daughter. More important was now to bring the D-Powers to their respective Tamers... maybe he could use them to somehow bring them back to their senses."
"Say... those watches are pretty neat," he then said.
ChibiD'Arcmon smiled. "I'm glad you like them."
"I sure do. I was just wondering... can I borrow them for a while?"
She frowned. "All of them? But why? Can't you just take one?"
"I will return them to you," he said with crossed fingers. "And it's not like I can break them if they're already broken..."
She crossed her arms. "I dunno... Mommy told me to never bring them out of this room..."
"Please, just for a short while? I want to show them to a couple of my friends."
She then smirked at him. "Okay! You can have them... on one condition!"
He sighed. "And what is that?"
She grinned. "You have to introduce me to your friends. If they are as cool as you are, I'll let them take a look."
Mako was taken aback. His Mom thought he was cool? The very same person who always told him and Ai to pipe down when they were playing tag in the kitchen? The same Mom who always turned down the TV's volume when they were watching Inuyasha and Dragon Ball Z?
He grinned. "Okay, sure! But we can't tell your Mom, you know? You said she'd be mad if she knew that you took those watches out of your room."
"Okay, then we're James Bond now," she giggled.
Mako frowned. "You can't be James Bond," he said. "You're a girl!"
She pouted. "Aww, no fair... okay, then I'm Rouge the Bat!"
"What?" Mako gasped. "A Sonic character? But Sonic is for babies!"
"Not true!" ChibiD'Arcmon whined and stuck out her tongue. "Rogue is cool... and she's a really great secret agent, too."
Mako sighed. "All right, I get it, you're Rouge the Bat and I'm James Bond... can we go now?"
She nodded happily while putting the D-Powers into a little bag. "Sure!"
Fuchsmon (or Romi, as she was now called) was sitting in 'her' room on the bed, brooding.
"I can't stay here," she muttered. "I need to find out what happened to my little girls... and Mie and the others, too."
She heard how in the next room, Bimon and Seiko were playing on Seiko's Playstation 2. She chuckled when she recalled how at first, Bimon had refused to play such a 'child's game', but when Miss Manami had threatened to lock him in the bathroom, he reluctantly agreed.
Fuchsmon heard a whoop of joy coming from Seiko. "All right! I win again! Sucks to be you, bro!"
"That's not fair!" Bimon shouted. "How come you win all the time? Are you cheating or something?"
Seiko giggled. "Shows how bad you are at Tekken! If you would choose an actually decent character... honestly, who uses Yoshimitsu? He sucks! Paul Phoenix is the way to go, bro!"
A loud clatter indicated that Bimon had just thrown his controller to the floor. "Whatever!" he snapped. "I still hate those childish games... I'd rather go terrorize some humans!"
Fuchsmon then noticed how Miss Manami was walking past her door and heard how she entered Seiko's room. Quickly, the little vixen ran over to the thin wall between their rooms and pressed her ear against it to better hear what they were saying.
"So you are keeping this attitude up, little boy?" Manami asked in a cold voice. "I thought you'd have learned your lesson... come along, I want to talk to you in the kitchen."
"I really don't wanna..." Bimon grumbled.
"NOW!" Manami shouted. Seiko giggled. "See ya later, bro!"
Fuchsmon watched how Manami was dragging her regressed father past her door. Now what was she going to do to him? She liked the idea that he was getting punished, but... somehow, it was filling her with dread.
She waited a bit, then she tiptoed out of her room and over to the kitchen door, which Manami had closed behind her.
"What I'm going to do now is to your own good!" Manami said. "I didn't inform Lady Ai about you because I wanted to give you a chance. Now you've thrown away your chance!"
And then she began to sing in a very beautiful voice. It was making Romi's fur bristle, though, and when she was finished, she asked Bimon in a very friendly voice: "So... will you behave now, Bimon?"
And Bimon replied in very scary way... it frightened Fuchsmon to no end to hear him like this...
He sounded nice.
"I promise I will never ever do anything bad again, Miss Manami! Can I now go back to play with big sis?"
Manami smiled. "Go ahead and have fun!"
"Yay!" Bimon shouted and ran to the door. Fuchsmon jumped back in surprise and managed to run back into her own room before they came back out. She quickly picked up one of her mangas (which previously belonged to Rika) and pretended to read it. She watched Bimon when he came past her room, however.
"Seiko, can we play one more time? I promise I won't shout at you anymore... pretty please?"
"Aw, you can be cute if you want to, bro! Okay, why not? But try not to take such a sucky character anymore, okay? Yoshimitsu really is crap! How about Ling Xiaoyu?"
"Okay!" Bimon said happily.
Romi took a deep breath. Her father was the worst scum she had ever met in her life. And Miss Manami actually had turned her... into a nice little boy.
She thought her heart stopped when she heard her caretaker's voice as she called: "Romi-chan! Can you come here for a second? I have something to tell you!"
'No way!' she thought. 'There's no way you're gonna do that to me as well, you creepy witch! I'm out of here... I feel bad for leaving Rumiko and Seiko behind with her, but I can't stay here... I have to find Rika and Rena!'
And before Manami entered her room, she had opened her window and jumped outside.
When Manami entered and saw the open window, a deep frown appeared on her face. "Well, this is a real shame, Romi... I thought you'd be better behaved than your brother and I just wanted to praise you. But it looks like you're a baaad girl... too bad!"
She reached for the phone. "Disciplinary Squad, attention! There is a misbehaved child on the loose! Name: Hiromi Nonaka! Species: Fuchsmon! Bring her back to me, so I can give her good, proper thoughts. If you've got problems with her, feel free to do it yourselves."
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