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[Teo Sage]

Yami slowly awoke from his slumber to see a very similar sight only this time with the newcomers as an addition once more he found himself on a futon next to a sleeping Teo in the same reptilian patterned pajamas with the same sleep bubble coming from his nose. His clothes cleaned, ironed and folded ever so neatly at the end with his digivice on top of them.

He was already in his regressed form so there was no change with him except his body felt oddly renewed like the exhaustion was non existent. He looked around "We are back here again...." he said as he looked around to see everyone else on their futons as well.

Yami touched his face and body "I am clean to..........Teo as well" He said as he examined his partner "Seriously whats with these clothes Teo has?" Yami closed his eyes, crossed his tiny arms and tapped his foot. "That four arms creeps me out how he does this." As Yami said that he could feel the others were starting to come out of their slumber as well.

"Hmm." Yami said.

[Dante]

Dante awoke having been surrounded by light. He looked down and found himself in pajamas with a purring feline curled up atop him. He chuckled quietly, then sat up slowly.

Salamon was awakened by something beneath her moving. She tumbled down into Dante's lap and awoke looking up at him.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Reasonable question," he replied, "It would seem that someone won't let me be rid of them just yet."

He looked around and found his stuff, sighing with relief. It was all there, at least. Next, he began searching for a place to change.

Salamon watched her partner survey the scene. He wasn't happy about this recent turn of events. He'd been dead set on leaving behind a group of people he wouldn't trust as far as he could toss, and someone swept through and basically abducted them to wherever this was. So long as they were together, though, Salamon didn't much care what happened.

For Dante's part, he could take the whole thing pretty philosophically. After all, this whole thing had started in a similar fashion during a trip to Tokyo Tower. He chalked it up to a rule of this crazy world that every so often one must have something incredibly weird happen.

Still, this might be a chance to figure out who's behind this craziness...

[Inori]

Inori's first reaction to waking up was perhaps understandable.

"I swear to whatever greater power you all believe in...if I find out some guy changed my clothing while I slept, I will beat them over the head with Wizardmon's staff. And I mean with the pointy end." She snapped. Apparently this was one of those buttons that should never ever be pressed.

Wizardmon awoke at Inori's somewhat loud ranting, sitting up quickly and grabbing for his staff. It took him a moment to register what she had just said, and a moment longer to see exactly what had set her off.

"I suspect there are other things you should be worrying about as well." He noted, making a vague gesture to their surrounding area...or more importantly how it was not where they were before. This earned a scowl from the girl, but only briefly.

"Ok, I will give you that." She conceded, then glanced towards Dante and shrugged.

[shivdeeviant]

Shiv woke with a start, instantly realizing that the pain in his leg was gone. He shot up into a sitting position, launching a snoozing Yang, somehow back into his Motimon form, into the air. Yang let out a squeal as he shot through the air and knocked Wizardmon's hat off of his head before hitting the wall with a sound that emulated a squeaky toy being squeezed suddenly. Yang landed on his rear, Wizardmon's hat falling over him. Yin's eyes were alert as he heard his brother's cry.

What was that?! thought Yin frantically, I don't recall falling asleep! How did we get here?! Where IS here?!

Shiv looked to his side, saw his clothes, repaired and clean, next to him, realized what that meant, and looked to see what he was wearing. Upon lifting his blanket and checking, he saw that he was wearing nothing but boxer shorts. He looked up at the other children in the room, his face flushing slightly. He quickly grabbed his clothes and pulled them under the blanket, then threw the blanket over himself completely. A minute later he rolled out of bed, fully clothed. He looked at the other children, examining them closely for the first time. Then he looked at his surroundings, trying to get a read on what might be going on and what might happen next.

"Daaaaah!" Shouted Yang desperately from underneath Wizardmon's hat as he began running around in circles, "I'm blind! I'm Blind! What happened to me?! I can't SEE! Aaaaaaaaaah!"

[Atlas Jiruga]

Renal awoke hearing all the commotion and looked at Atlas then realized he was in an unfamiliar place. "AAAAHHHHAAAHAAA!" Screamed Renal not knowing what was happening. Hearing Renal's scream, Atlas awoke thrusting his arm and accidentally punching Renal in the face. "Oh! Sorry." Atlas said after he realized what he did.

"Atlas, why!!?" Renal said holding his nose. "I was sleeping and heard you scream. It was a reaction." Atlas said starring at Renal. "I thought you were awake." Renal said. "What would make you think that?" Atlas asked. "Your eyes were open..." Renal said a little weird-ed out. "Oh yea I tend to sleep with my eyes open sometimes." Atlas said.

Atlas then realized he was not in puppetry fields. "Where am I?" Atlas asked. "I don't know I just woke up." Atlas looked and saw his clothes cleaned and ironed. He then looked under his blankets and was in a white wife beater and black shorts. "I don't remember coming here and I'm not in my normal clothes. Someone wants to die." Atlas said looking around.

"OOOK Atlas i think we can handle this in a more civilized way." Renal said. Atlas took off his blankets and stretched. He then looked for a place he could get dressed.

[Usachan]

Usa woke up with a start, hearing a scream then frowned at the boy with the purple dragon digimon. "Thats one way to wake someone up." she muttered. She looked around the room and tilted her head. "We're in the Capital again?" she looked to Vee then blinked as she looked at what she was wearing. A pink nightie. "If this is Asuramon's idea of a joke, he's so dead." she grumbled to herself, looking for her clothes and things.

Vee laughed quietly, sitting up. He knew Usa hated pink. He then looked around. "Wonder what three-face wants with us now." He looked over at the small white digimon, still asleep.

Usa felt eyes on her and she looked around then spotted a figure in the doorway. "Staring is considered rude you know." she said softly, her bed was near the door so she didnt have to raise her voice.

A calico colored she-cat like digimon stepped out from the doorway. "Begging yer pardon miss. Its me first time seeing humans and my are you all a sight." The cat said with what sounded like a Irish accent. "You seem displeased with the night wear I put on ye. Was it not warm enough for ye?" She tilted her head.

"I just dont like the color. You're the one who changed all of us?" Usa asked.

"Aye miss, I did. I also washed all the clothes ye had on at first, left the Holy Devices on the bed side. Hopefully I didnt mix up anyone's clothes." She said, as if the thought just occurred to her

[Teo Sage]

Yami fell back after the scream taken by surprise Teo was snapped from his slumber slowly rising to a sitting position it took him a while to realize where they were and what he was wearing.

"O......Onee-chan..........." Teo whined rubbing his eye then he saw everyone else. "Huh...........?" Teo said as he climbed out of his futon and stood staring at an odd colored cat that spoke funny.

Yami hopped down to the floor "hmmm...............I'm not familiar with that feline..........." Yami then looked up at Teo and tapped his leg. "Hey, Teo, make with the changing already I don't want to be seen around you in that get up."

Teo looked down at himself "Why is it I'm always in my old pajamas?" Teo stated he then stripped down into his underwear as he reached for his pants he instead pulled out of the folded garments.

Well, panties an obvious Mikemon mix up with one of the girls, Teo nor Yami had ever seen this article of clothing before. "Huh? This isn't mine." Teo said holding it out. Yami looked at it "hmmmmm...........I've never seen this before."

Then Yami got an idea "Maybe its a hat!" Yami said as he jumped up and took it from Teo and placed it on his head "Its certainly comfortable as a hat." Yami said.

"Its certainly a weird hat." Teo said staring at his partner as he strutted back in forth in a joy that he thought to be a new hat.

[Dante]

Dante made peripheral note of the hijinks of the other children, searching instead for a changing area. He settled for under the blankets. He emerged properly clothed with his digivice back in its place on his belt just in time to see Gatomon at the door. How had she gotten all dirty in so short a time? He stood up, standing next to Salamon, who was staring at...wait...

His gaze fixed on the cat at the door. She looked like Gatomon in a different color kind of way, and talked totally different. Apparently she was the one who changed all of them. Not important. What was important was that she and Gatomon looked like they were the same kind of digimon, only not. This warranted a moment's consideration.

Salamon couldn't agree more. The newcomer was so similar to Gatomon that for a second she felt like she was having an out of body experience.

"Woah," she said, looking at the calico in the doorway.

Dante nodded.

"Yeah," he commented, "Woah."

[Inori]

Inori was thankfully distracted by one Yang lost under Wizardmon's hat to have noticed the happenings with Teo and his partner much to the champion's relief. He didn't know if Yami's new hat was something which belonged to Inori or Usa, but irregardless, his reaction was the same.

The hat-less Wizardmon walked purposefully towards Teo and Yami, with what was likely an angry look on what was visible of his face.

"Have you no respect for others?" He demanded in a harsh whisper, quiet enough to ideally not be heard by anyone aside from Teo and Yami. His attention shifted to Yami as he continued. "Regardless of who those belong to, they are not yours, and you should not be going around parading them about when someone might be offended that you are wearing their undergarments so openly on your head. Especially as I am fairly certain those belong to one of the girls. Do you have any idea what they might do if they find out?"

Wizardmon paused, rounding on Teo now. "And you...allowing your partner to do such a thing. You should know better. I am simultaneously ashamed and appalled to be associated with you, even just in passing. I cannot even imagine what another human such as yourself would feel knowing what blatant disrespect you are allowing your partner to show towards your fellow humans. If I didn't wish to spare whichever one owns those the embarrassment, I would tell them what you were allowing just so one of them might force some sense into you."

Wizardmon suspected it would be more along the lines of slapping some sense into the boy if Inori had anything to do with it.


Meanwhile, Inori grabbed Wizardmon's hat off of Yang, and smiled slightly. "Good to see you're alright, though you might want to dial the volume down a notch or five."

She glanced at Wizardmon's hat, examining it momentarily before glancing back to him. She considered bringing it back to him, but he seemed a bit distracted with one of the small blue digimon and his partner. She didn't wish to intrude, as whatever he was discussing with them...he seemed quite adamant about getting said. With an idle shrug, the girl returned to where her things were. She quickly placed Wizardmon's hat on her head, and began gathering up her normal clothing, then glancing around the room to see if there was somewhere she could change without any potential prying eyes. The fact that she had no idea where she was or how she got here nagged at her briefly, but not the highest priority at the moment.

[shivdeeviant]

The first thing Yang saw when his vision was returned was a beautiful maiden. She smiled, and it was as though the sun had dawned. His eyes grew to the size of dinner plates, stars glinting in the corners of his pupils. As she walked away, retreating to her pack, Yang followed as if in a daze. He idly watched her put wiz-pon's hat upon her head, and felt as though the addition only completed her angelic perfection. It was as though Inori were bathed in light, and Yang swooned at her crouched form, a smitten sigh escaping his lips.

"... wearing their undergarments..."

Those words blazed through Yang's consciousness like wildfire to dry grassland. For a moment, it seemed as though Yang had grown cat ears, his eyes becoming momentarily feline. Taking a few moments in preparation, Yang gathered his strength. Just as wiz-stamos finished his tirade, Yang launched himself at Yami. More to the point, he launched himself at Yami's head,his eyes shining with lecherous glee. He shot between wizardmon's legs, a pink blur against the wooden floor.

Shiv watched the developing incident with all the horrified curiosity of a witness to a train wreck. He tried to cry a warning, but the message was too slow in transit from thought to action.

Yin was faster, and far more accustomed to this behavior. Still in Ryudamon form, Yin was suddenly before Yang.

"Shield Return!" he cried.

Yang bounced off the suddenly huge helmet into Shiv's arms, who promptly caught and detained his errant partner.

"Awwwww Yin!" whined Yang, "Why can't I ever have any fun!?"

Shiv huffed stifling a laugh then turned to the Gatomon mark II. Most obvious of the changes, aside from the color, was that the calico bore no tail ring. Shiv wondered if that meant it couldn't deflect attacks like Dante's partner could. Shiv logged away that thought in the event this whole encounter became a scrap.

"You have me at a disadvantage," said Shiv politely to their erstwhile guide/guardian/jailer, "I have no idea who you are or where I am. Please rectify this state of affairs lest I am forced to assume I am a prisoner and seek to remedy my situation."

[Atlas Jiruga]

Atlas was all dressed and ready. He then turned to look at Renal but he wasn't standing on the bed anymore. "Renal?" Atlas said looking for him. He was looking around and found him walking toward Yami.

"Hey! Yami! I don't think that's a hat. It looks like a fancy napkin." Renal said. Atlas looked at Renal when he said that. His eyes widened a bit. "Renal! If you don't know what something is you leave it alone!" Atlas said. "But what if i need it to wipe my mouth?" Renal asked. "You certainly don't use that." Atlas said. "What is it?" Renal asked. "Off the subject." Atlas said.

"Oh" Renal said looking at the digimon in the doorway. "Hello." Renal said with a smile. Atlas then grabbed his digivice. Atlas then walked up to her. "So your the one who changed us. I don't appreciate you touching me in my sleep. But aside from that why are we here?" Atlas said glaring at her. "Atlas that's no way to treat a digimon that nicely took us in. Excuse my partner." Renal said.

[Usachan]

Mikemon smiled to the Salamon then looked at Shiv. "The Young Master is not a prisoner. I take it ye were absent when Master Asuramon first summoned the Chosen. Ye are here to discuss the affairs and going-ons of the Digital World." She then looked over to Atlas and Renal. "Oi, no need to get angry or glare." She then spoke to Atlas. "Next time, I shall leave ye alone then. As I said to the other Young Master, you are here to talk to Master Asuramon." She looked at Usa next. "I'm Mikemon and Master Asuramon said to tend to you all. If ye need to change with privacy, I can direct ye to the changing rooms Miss." She inclined her head.

Usa was distracted by Mikemon to notice Yami. She smiled and got up, grabbing her clothes. "Lead the way please."

Mikemon nodded then looked to Inori. "Will ye be needing a changing room as well?"

Vee watched his brother and then Yang and then Renal try to get the strange clothing Teo had found. He shook his head, KNOWING those would bring trouble. "Yami! Get those off of your head this instant!" He called out.

[Teo Sage]

Yami was very proud of his hat well, until he found out from Wizardmon it wasn't. He was being scolded but was to distracted by the fact he was wearing underwear to pay much attention apparently he wasn't the only one interested as a Motimon and that Renal had taken notice as well.

He quickly took them off his head as a small red stream found its way out of his nose. He was imagining things.....he probably shouldn't be.

Teo listened to his scolding on the other hand "Gomen, I had no idea I would never mean to disrespect someone like that. Yami, give those to Wizardmon he will return them to their rightful owner......Yami?" Teo said as he looked at his partner. Yami seemed to be in a daze stars glimmering in his eyes.

".....such.......fantastic............" Yami mumbled Teo frowned and looked over to Vee "Vee-san could you?" Referring to the usual punishment that Vee had ready at any given moment for Yami.

Sure enough.........their it was the resounding SLAP to the back of Yami's head the sound echoed through the vast cathedral Yami's face was buried into the tiled floor cracks all around where the impact took place a knot the size of a human hand appeared on his head.

"nii-saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan................................." Yami said

Teo handed Wizardmon the undergarments "I'm really sorry." He said. He then turned and finished dressing himself.

Shortly after everyone had changed and was present in the room, two massive doors opened outward and a tall digimon dressed in a robe whose yellow face was visible through the hood his four arms in a praying position.

"Hello children welcome back and to some of you welcome, We hath been expecting thine return! If you please, make thine way to the center room. I shall't be waiting Mikemon, please guide them there." He turned and then walked down the hall till he was visible no longer.

Teo turned to Usa "Lets go Asuramon might know what happened to Aniki." Teo said grabbing hold of her hand Yami rubbed the back of his head as he began to walk alongside Teo "I wonder what he wants this time." He said.

[Dante]

Dante was snapped out of his reverie by two things.

First, there was something going on near where the smallest lad and his irritating little piece of crap were. One of them had said something that caught the pink blob's attention, and he went hurtling towards the scene, only to be stopped forcefully by his brother, the perpetually irritated one who hated everyone in varying degrees. Wizardmon seemed to be trying to mediate, but with limited success. Whatever was going on was nearly resolved, though, so not so interesting.

Second, the little calico reflection who spoke some kind of crazy imitation of a recognizable accent was joined by a much taller being with entirely too many of pretty much everything who spoke a different crazy imitation of a recognizable accent. The difference being he actually understood the calico.

"Wait, what?" he asked after the tall...thing...had left.

Salamon's reverie went largely uninterrupted until her doppelganger's boss walked in. She was about as confused as her partner, but she actually understood what he was saying...a bit.

"Not sure, but I think we're supposed to go somewhere..."

[Inori]

((Holy wall of text batman! Inori freakout time go!))

Before Asuramon came in, Inori had managed to change (after a nod to Mikemon, and a dressing room shown/provided), and slipped back out...concerned. All of her clothing had been present sans one thing. She hoped desperately that it was not out somewhere awkward. Somewhere like not on Yami's head. What made it worse was how so many others were aware of it.

Wizardmon had shoved the underwear into one of his pockets as soon as he had received it, hoping luck was on his side and Inori had not seen. He saw her in his peripheral vision, but her expression was blank. He was not sure how long she had been standing there watching. Luck was about as far on his side as it was on hers now. Something was wrong. He could feel it.

She watched the exchange, as Teo took the garment...and handed it back to one very cross looking Wizardmon. It was like something in slow motion. She didn't know what they had said...but the Monodramon seemed cheerful in the brief time she had caught him interacting with Yami over her underwear. It did not take much for her to figure out Yami's reaction at all.

Her mind instantly tried to grasp for some form of solution to the situation, but only one thing came to mind. One thing she knew, and one thing she had often come to rely on. She completely missed Asuramon's entrance, his words, and what the others were saying. That one thing was all she could think of...and once the larger digimon blocking the door had moved, she took action.

Inori was by no means nearly as fast as Shiv probably was. She wasn't trained as a runner. She was, however...very good at running away from bullies, and jerks who teased her and embarrassed her in front of others. In a blur of blue, black, and brown...Inori ran past everyone else, nimbly dodging around any chose, and over any digimon keeping her from her goal.

"You're awful!" She screamed angrily at nobody in particular as she took off down the hall, not caring what direction it was. That somewhere...was a door down a hall into a dark, mostly empty room.
Wizardmon muttered something under his breath before taking off after Inori. He was not quite as graceful as Inori when it came to dodging people, but somehow he managed.

"I'll get her back. I will need a little time however. Go ahead if you wish." He stated loud enough for the others to hear before vanishing from view of those in the room.

When Wizardmon finally located Inori, he found her in a rather sad state. She sat in a corner, face buried in her hands, shaking as if she was crying. The champion level digimon approached his partner slowly, stopping just in front of her.

"Inori, I--"

"It's always like this!" She interrupted. "Someone finds some way to make a fool of me. I try so hard to keep these things from happening, but it always happens to me!"

"I wasn't sure whose they were. I didn't want to see this happen." He replied, reaching forward to try and grab Inori's wrists. The girl was faster though. She grabbed her partner by the shoulders, and fixed him with a look. In that moment, he registered exactly why she had been shaking. It was not because she had been crying so much as unbridled fury.

"I hate them all! Every one of them! All those horrible people who make me feel like this! "She screamed, shaking Wizardmon lightly as she did. "I hate them all!"

Wizardmon grabbed onto Inori's arms for support as she shook him, and tightened his grip as she yelled. He felt something unwelcome wrap around him like a snake constricting around him. It was getting hard to breath. Something dark whispered in the back of his mind...urging him to lash out at everyone on her behalf...to hurt them all. It was hard to ignore...and it hurt. She didn't seem to notice however.

"Do you see now?" She hissed, digging her fingers into his arms. "Do you see why I don't do well with others? Why I never trust them? They do things that hurt those who don't deserve it! People are awful! Awful!"

The whispers were becoming louder, clawing at him and digging in worse than her fingers were.

"Inori." Wizardmon gasped. "You're hurting me."

The girl's eyes widened as everything snapped back into place.

"Oh god, Wizardmon I---" She quickly let go of her partner, and wrapped her arms around herself. Wizardmon stumbled forward a bit at the sudden loss of support, but managed to keep on his feet.

"It's not your fault." He murmured. "I tried to protect you from that...though I must admit, I didn't expect this."

"What did you expect?" She glanced to her partner, not quite certain of herself.

"You to go over there and slap them all." He grinned, clearly attempting to cheer her up. He got a sad sort of laugh out of her in response.

"Maybe if it was anyone else but me." She smiled half-heartedly. "Can...can we pretend this never happened? I don't like being like this."

"I cannot forget." He replied in a brutally honest tone, causing her to wince. "But I can promise I will do everything I can to not let you be like this. Is that fair?"

Inori nodded slowly.

"Regardless, we should likely go meet our host. I have a feeling Asuramon will not be thrilled if we are not all there." Wizardmon noted.

"Alright." She paused. "Oh! Here, it looks better on you anyway."

Wizardmon chuckled as his hat was returned to it's normal resting place. "A matter of opinion I am sure."

She made a face at him, then moved to stand...letting her partner lead the way out of the room.


Somewhere within the dark room, Alchemon grinned wildly to himself. It had been glorious! As the girl had started screaming, all her rage felt like a wonderful form of energy wrapping around him...and for a moment, he had no longer been Alchemon. He'd hoped to have enough time to make his way to the other room and inflict some sort of damage to the others, but the meddling champion she called her partner had ended his newfound source of power just as quickly as it had granted him a new form. Storing this turn of events away in the back of his mind, the rookie made his way after Inori and Wizardmon, keeping a very measured distance behind them, so they would not really note his presence. Oh, there would be much to do later on.