Lucemon sighed when she entered the room. Almost every single one of the present officers had chosen to take on his or her Rookie form, and so the scene in front of here resembled more a playground for little children rather than the military briefing room it actually was. And the few Disciplinarians that had stayed in their Ultimate forms just watched how their smaller companions played, with amused grins on their faces.
Lucemon clapped her hands and caught everyone's attention. "Okay, that's enough playing for today! Can we please go through the daily reports, ladies and gentlemen? And I mean in a calm and professional manner, if you please!"
"Aw, cut us some slack, Ai!" a little KidDevimon whined. "We're forced to stay serious adults the whole day, so the people in town really take us serious. Can't we at least stay Rookies for the duration we're in your tower?" Several nods of approval were the reaction to his question.
"Stay in whatever form you want," Lucemon said. "But don't play in a business meeting, okay? We HAVE to keep our control over this city, or else our reign will be over before you know it."
"Aw, who could ever come up against you?" a SmallLadyDevimon asked. "And with the shield surrounding us, no one can enter from outside."
"That's true, but we still need to be careful. To order now, gentlebeings! Any important matters I need to be informed of before we start with the daily procedure?"
"Two things," one of the adult Succubimon spoke up. "For one, we've detected an unusually high amount of volcanic activity underneath the city. I've asked the responsible department for underground construction, and they told me that no Fire Digimon has currently a permission to dig any sorts of lava trenches down there."
"Maybe just a couple of enthusiastic fire Rookies," Lucemon shrugged. "Send an investigation team down there as soon as possible, but I doubt it's worth any trouble. Anything else?"
"Yes," the Succubimon nodded. "I'd like to remind you that today is the day of the kids' tour around your tower."
"Ah, so it's Friday again, isn't it?" Lucemon sighed. "Oh well, we just need to cut our meeting short... after all, we all know how impatient little kids can be. And they just LOVE to take a close look at my pets." A devious grin appeared on her face, and numerous giggles sounded through the room.
An hour after that, the meeting was over, and the tower staff was getting ready for the visit of the group of children and their guardian that were scheduled to take today's tour.
The young teacher (a former Grade A school kid) and her little charges were waiting outside, in front of the gates.
"When can we get in, Ma'am?" little Takehiro whined. "I'm getting bored!"
"I'm pretty sure our guide will arrive here very soon," his teacher smiled. "Just take a look at the impressive architecture, children... and everything was created by Lucemon's powers! We can be glad to have such a powerful empress who protects us from the outside world, don't you agree?"
"Architecture, schmarchitecture!" a small Lizzimon grumbled. "I wanna see the PETS! I heard they're so cute..."
Just then, the door opened, and a smiling Succubimon, dressed for once in a clean, blue guide uniform instead of a tight leather corset, stepped in front of the assembled children.
"Hello, everyone!" she said. "And welcome to the tower of our protector, the great Lucemon! I'm sure you must all be pretty anxious, but I just know you will have a great day, and I hope that we all can become good friends!"
She smiled, and no kid dared to protest... they all were smart enough to recognize a member of the Disciplinarian Squad, even if she was clad in something not quite as intimidating or... revealing.
Lucemon knew that ChibiD'arcmon and Garmon could cause some trouble, so she ordered her daughter and guardian pet to stay in their room and kennel, respectively.
While their guide was prattling over how amazing Lucemon was and with how little effort she managed to create everything within the tower, quite a few of the children were quickly becoming bored. They were all looking forward to seeing the personal pets of Lucemon, but they were only going to the visitor room in which they could see into the dimensional pockets of the pets, after the main part of the tour was over.
Lizzimon wasn't going to wait this long, however.
When the guide was telling the other kids about the security within the tower, and the teacher was listening intently, she took Takehiro's hand and pulled him around the next corner.
"Huh? M-mie, wh-what are you doing?"
The Lizzimon smirked. "Duh, we're going to visit the pets! What else?"
"But the guide told us not to go too far away from the group, and we will see them at the end of the tour, after all..."
"You wanna wait that long? C'moooonnnn, this is the perfect chance! They won't even notice we're gone. We go and see the pets, and by the time the others come as well, we just pretend we had never left. Easy as that!"
"Um... and you're sure that we won't get into trouble?" Takehiro asked hesitantly.
"Just shut up and come along, you big worrywart!" the reptilian Rookie sighed and pulled the human boy after her.
"D-do you even know where you're going?" Takehiro asked.
"Didn't you hear? The guide said the pocket dimensions where she keeps her pets are on the seventh floor.
Reaching the elevator, they looked up into the dark shaft. Takehiro looked around. "Um, do you see any elevator button around here?"
"No... but we don't need any," Lizzimon smirked. She wrapped her long and strong tail around her friend's waist and jumped high up into the air.
Takehiro let out a yelp of surprise, but before they were falling don again, Mie managed to sink her claws into the wall of the elevator shaft.
"See?" she smirked. "Now all I have to do is to climb up until we reach the seventh floor. Easy, isn't it?"
"B-but please, don't let me fall!" Takehiro pleaded.
"Hey, I'm our school's tail wrestling champion," Mie chuckled. "I won't let you fall, trust me!" And then she began to climb up the shaft.
Seven floor later, they jumped out of the shaft and looked around. "Now where are the pets?" Takehiro asked as he freed himself from Mie's tail.
"Let's try over there!" Mie shouted and ran towards a door. Takehiro hurried after her.
Behind the door, they found a small room that was empty... except for the glowing barrier of energy that separated this room from the wide, barren plains that lay behind it.
"That has to be one of the pocket dimensions our teacher was talking about," Mie said excitedly. She ran up to the barrier. "Can you see anything?"
"I only see rocks... and a few geysers here and there..." Takehiro muttered. "And is that a small volcano over there?"
"A miniature volcano, cool!" Mie smiled. As a lizard Digimon that was able to breathe fire, she absolutely loved the warmth of fire and everything hot and warm.
"But no pets anywhere..." she grumbled. "Pooey, what a scam..."
"Maybe they are further inside," Takehiro suggested. "You can't expect them to hang around this window all day, can you? Besides, our teacher explained that they can't even see the windows... for them, their pocket dimension is the only place that exists."
Lizzimon smiled. "You know, when they won't come to us... we just have to go to them!"
"What do you mean?" her human friend asked confused.
He gasped when he saw how Mie was climbing through the barrier as if it didn't exist. "M-mie! What... what are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" she asked. "I'm going to visit the pets!"
"But you can't... we'll get in trouble... how can you go through there, anyways?"
"How am I supposed to know?" she grumbled. "I'm a grade schooler, not a force field scientist. Are you coming or what?"
Takehiro nervously looked around as he followed her. "We are sooooo going to get it when our teacher finds out..."
"C'mon, you big baby! Where's your sense of adventure?" She jumped onto the rocky floor on the other side of the barrier. She giggled. "Wow, this ground is really warm... feels nice between my claws."
"Are you kidding?" Takehiro gasped. "It's too hot in here! Let us go back, please!"
"Just lemme take a look, okay?" Mie sighed. She took a few steps. "I just wanna see what's behind this big boulder... GAH!"
She jumped back in surprise when she saw a tiny, blue ball with a little snout and floppy ears.
The In-Training Digimon looked up at her. "Hi! I'm BlueTinymon! What's your name?"
The Lizzimon was taken aback. She always thought the pets Lucemon kept were feral Digimon. "M-me? I'm Mie..."
BlueTinymon smiled. "Neat! You wanna play?"
Mie didn't know what to say. But somehow, she had the feeling as if she had met that little guy somewhere before...
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