- What?! – said Carlos. – So, you already knew about their plans?

- No. I walked away from them when I disagreed with their idea that destructive power was the only way to improve our programming. I liked the way of life of the other digimon better; in peace and learning from the surroundings until all this mess started.

- I want to explain…….- interrupted Biyomon. Henry and Daisy paid attention to her with fascination. – Our world at first was small, but as it grew more of us started to appear. However, some had a different way to process data from the others, so two groups were formed. The first was conformed by big and strong digimon, capable of unimaginable destruction, but then we showed up, smaller and smarter. We wanted to learn using our senses instead of destroying. The first group called itself the Beast Group. They barricaded themselves inside a palace they built and none of us heard of them again until all this mess started.

- So, none of you was aware of what you were looking for in this world? – said Henry cutting in the explanation.

- Wait……don't interrupt. – said Biyomon. – Well, one day we saw a giant sphere of light drifting on top of their palace and then it burst into many moving lights in the sky. After that, we found it weird that they opened the doors of their palace and that some emissary was coming over to talk to us; they had never talked to us before. It was Cloakmon. He said he needed us to do him a favor and explained that people from another world were planning to take over without notice so they were designing a defense mechanism. But when they tried to activate it, it burst into many pieces that had landed on the boundary of our world. Since Gatomon shared some of their convictions, she volunteered to go out and look for the fragments. I joined in because I didn't trust him and wanted to make sure that Gatomon was gonna be ok.

- I joined in because I was convinced that this invading race would be a threat. – said Agumon who was distant from the group.

- I joined in because I wanted to protect my world and help Agumon in whatever he could need. – said Veemon.

- What about Lyle and Hank? – asked Aurora.

- Hawkmon and Gomamon were picked randomly among the others. The beast digimon had an estimate of the number of fragments to recover.

- What happened then? – asked Carlos.

- They took us to their crystal palace and formed us in line as an army in front of a table. On top of it there were rounded gray colored metallic discs. Cloakmon came in and congratulated us for our bravery. He assigned Veemon as commander of the mission and told us that each one of us had to swallow one of those discs.

Biyomon closed her eyes to remember the moment clearly.

- What's this? – asked Biyomon inspecting one of the metallic discs on top of the table.

- It's a tracer algorithm. – answered Cloakmon. It will allow us to pinpoint your position when you reach that place. If you get lost we will recover you instantly.

Biyomon opened her eyes returning to the present.

- Everybody took their tracer disk. I didn't took mine because I still thought that the situation was very suspicious.

- I didn't take mine because I didn't think it was necessary. – said Agumon from afar.

Veemon, Hawkmon and Gatomon stared at each other in consternation.

- We swallowed that thing immediately. I didn't want to get lost……- said Veemon.

- Hold it!! – interrupted Henry. – That explains why you got lost and lost your memory! Now everything makes sense!!

- But how? – asked Carlos.

- They designed the tracer algorithm according to their own programming. They thought it would work just as well with you , but you are different, you always have been different!!! Tell me Biyomon, do you remember if on the way you saw a field with electricity?

- Yes. When we got to the boundary of our world we had to jump in a place full of lightning bolts.

- An electromagnetic field!!! – concluded Henry. – The tracer algorithm didn't adapt well with your programming and when you got into the field you memory instructions got all mixed up and that's why you lost your memory. Also, that's why the Digimon beasts couldn't pinpoint your position afterwards. That's why they sent that guy to trick me into tracing you.

- But, why did he help us to get away?

- Because if the secret service captured them, their plan would have been unveiled and it would have turned very difficult to recover the fragments they were looking for.

- Not to mention that you would have dissected them as toads!!…..- said Carlos angrily.

- Wait! Wait! Don't argue. – pleaded Daisy. – Remember that we have to team up if we want to stop them.

- But wait!! – interrupted Clara. – Why did Alba loose her memory if she was one of them?

- Because when I decided to abandon their group they told me to hand over the object that characterized me as part of them. I handed over the golden ring I was wearing on my tail which allowed me to enhance my fighting capabilities. – explained Gatomon weakly.

- And how did Tentomon got mixed up in all of this? – asked Robert.

- I'm getting to that part…. – said Biyomon. – So, then we set out to the boundary of our world on top of Metalseadramon. Tentomon didn't trust Cloakmon so he decided to follow us in secret. I decided to sit close to the place where Cloakmon was riding with his minions. When we were getting to the site I overheard a conversation between them.

Biyomon closed her eyes again to remember better.

On the gray skies, Metalseadramon was heading for a mountain.

- Hey Cloakmon. Do you think this is a good plan? What if they vaporize? – asked Mummymon.

- Of course is a good plan. If something goes wrong nobody will miss them.

- But, if these parasites double cross us……..?

- I don't think they would. They are quite convinced of what they came to do. Now stop asking questions!!!! Or would you rather go instead?!

- I don't think I would like to….. - whispered Mummymon snickering softly.

Biyomon came back to the present time.

- I was very scared because it was the first time that any digimon dared to go to the boundary.

- That means they used you as test subjects. – concluded Henry.

- Why didn't you tell us?!! – snarled Agumon very angry from afar supporting his back on a steel beam of the fuselage of the helicopter.

- I wanted to tell you!! But I figured that they would just kill us on the site if we said anything. So I thought It was a better plan to wait and hope to survive the jump and warn you at the other side. But I never thought that we would split up like we did.

- But, Why did I find you frozen with your friend? – asked Robert.

- Oh yes. After I jumped in I saw white sparks in front of me and then I found myself in a big dark room that had machines all around with the sign posted "High Voltage". There was the terminal where I needed to extract the fragment from. I had survived the jump, but I feared that Cloakmon might have been monitoring me so I decided to take the data. As I did Tentomon showed up and got entangled into the power lines making him thundershock the whole place. After that I remember I walked out very dizzy, and the last thing I remember is that I walked outside and fell to the ground.

- Wait!! – Daisy interrupted looking at her laptop display.

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DATABASE TRACKING PROGRAM

CLOAK.mon [--------------------------------------]

Distance: 5 miles

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- We're getting close…..- said Daisy.

- What do we do? – asked Henry.

- I think we should land close by and try to attack them by surprise…..they don't know we are behind them. – advised Yamaki.

- It sounds like a good plan. We have to get hold of that machine and data container. Is everybody ready? – said Henry looking at the others in the rear part of the helicopter.

Everybody nodded their head. They were ready but indeed, fear could be felt in the air…..