This story will have elements from Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, as we as Hacker's Memory.

Just a reminder, as it's been a while.

Shinjuku Park

Takato had spotted the lanky male that appeared to be cosplaying as a Beelzemon, but was shocked when all three eyes the man had turned to address him.

"'Sup Tako… whoa, someone got big." The familiar voice caught the brunette of guard, "How's it goin' Guilmon-or whatever you are now."

Menma leaned off the wall of the 'pen' that Takato kept Guilmon of an evening, he'd been waiting for the boy to speak with him, but didn't expect him to rock up with a giant version of the reptile, rocking horns and hair.

'Guilmon' sniffed the air, "Menma, why do you smell like old data?" The same voice, strangely enough.

"My Digivice and I had a disagreement." Menma informed with a smile, showing his fangs off, "Don't stress though, we resolved it."

Once more Takato felt those three eyes go over him, "So what's with your bud, bud?"

"Guilmon digivolved into Growlmon and can't seem to go back." Takato informed miserably.

"Sorry Takatomon." Growly-boy said, with equal amounts of misery.

"Huh, weird problem. I saw you guys at the bridge and you seemed fine." Menma pointed out.

"Yeah, Henry thinks he's just got too much data at the moment so his body isn't able to go back to Rookie. I guess it makes sense, it happened the first time as well." Takato said with a helpless shrug.

Menma rubbed his chin with his clawed fingers, "Interesting…"

The human-digimon pulled his phone out and held it up, scanning the red lizard curiously, it filled alarmly fast and created a ready-to-hatch copy.

Opening the information tab Menma lowly hummed to himself, "Here's your problem, according to my 'vice, he's ready to go further, but something has capped it, so he's got all this extra power ready to be unleashed but for some reason the poor guy just can't unleash it."

"Wait-what!? Already? But he's only been able to reach Champion for a week or so!"

Menma shrugged, "What can I say? With all the Data that me and mine are leaving around in the air of the park he's probably been absorbing it, from what Shu tells me their world is chocka-block with the stuff, which makes it so they go through our version of aging."

Menma cocked a brow, though Takato couldn't see it behind the older males mask, "Didn't you think it was weird that Guilmon and Terriermon revert back to Rookie after digivolving? They're still maturing power fluctuates with the Digivice, so their bodies haven't acclimated properly like they would in the digital world. Either Growlmon will Digivolve in the next few days, assuming he stays this way or he'll revert back to a Rookie once your 'vice philters the data into storage."

"Wow… you're phone really has a lot of information." Takato said with an owlish blink.

"Comes with all the bullshit that's been goin' on in my personal life recently." Menma said with a shrug, "Either way, I can probably fix the poor boy but it'll push back his evolution a little longer."

Takato weighed his options whilst Guilmon looked on, curious, if he allowed this to happen and another Deva came through he'd be screwed, but by the same token if he didn't, Growlmon wouldn't be able to fit properly in his little house, and would be caught.

Knowing that Henry and the human-digimon hybrid had each other's backs, for the most part, made him err on the side of caution, "If you can do that I'd appreciate it."

Menma snapped his fingers into a thumbs up and smiled, though looking more like the devil than a friendly friend of friendliness.

Holding his hand up and placing his palm against Growlmon's flank Menma sapped a few levels of power out of his fellow Virus Type, pushing the data into his phone the process took all of two minutes and Growlmon yawned, receding into a sleepy looking Guilmon.

Doin' the smaller boy a favour, Menma slung Guilmon over his shoulder and took him into his nest. Laying the red dino down in his dugout the Beelzemon smiled to himself.

Walking back out with the human Menma rubbed his chin, "You cool if me and my crew pimp out this place for the guy?"

"What do you mean?" Takato asked, mind having wandered for a moment.

"Well I mean...he sleeps in the dirt and stuff, sure he's happy enough with it, I assume at least. I just figured, I've got a lot of disposable income right now, so if you're okay with it I could get him some proper bedding and stuff."

Takato blinked before his brain rebooted, "Oh! Yes, that sounds great! Is there anyway I can repay you?"

"Your parents are bakers right? If you could bring me some donuts I'll pay you for 'em." Beelzemon grinned brightly, getting a chuckle from the younger male who nodded, the two shook hands and bid each other goodnight.


Ueno Museum

Having wanted to check out the museum for a while Menma took Shu - in rookie form - out and about, having figured his little partner would appreciate it.

Although somehow whenever Menma ran about a motorcycle would appear, so he didn't have to take busses or trains anywhere, and got a free, magic bike.

Win win.

Shu seemed to be the only one of his digimon that behaved like Henry and Takato's, the others were fixed in whatever state they were in. Not that Menma minded much, it was convenient.

Also made having the rest of his team bar a few wait around for wild digimon to appear easier. He made them all travel in groups of two, and kept it that way. Between he and Shu though not a lot could really survive.

"Look'a'these boners boss." Shu said, snickering at the massive skeletons on display.

Menma's gaze drooped by half and his face blanked, "No more internet for today."

"Oh 'cmon!" The DemiDevimon complained passionately, "My friends will be lonely!"

"Posting with people on Reddit doesn't make them your friends." Menma said as he walked off, the little ball of bat growled and flapped angrily after him.

"Besides, they're probably a bunch of neckbearded losers." The Beelzemon said with a shrug, a small - private - grin on his face as he knew that would just annoy the little creature.

"Hey! Justin is a great guy! He always makes sure to speak real propper to women!" Shu defended passionately, "What other guy says 'Milady' nowadays!?"

Menma snorted a laugh and began quietly and respectfully - to the others around them - losing his mind with laughter.

Shu never was super good at picking up on jokes.


Shibuya

Menma had to almost jump out of the way as a rushing redhead in yellow and black ran past him and Shu, shaking his head with a chuckle he decided to get something to eat from one of the local restaurants.

From what the online reviews said, the rice omelette platter was exceptional according to 'YuukoEats'.

Look he follows some people on Twitter, leave him alone.

Besides, everyone thought he was cosplaying as Beelzemon, so he was getting followers for literally just taking selfies, and he liked attention-

I don't need to explain myself to you!

Though given how he was slowly getting more and more info out of his D-vice, especially from the Field Guide app, which had all the info on the Digimon he'd scanned, hatched or evolved.

Perhaps he'd change it up at some point, perhaps not, it was a thought for later, but he did need to get himself a high-tier Data and Vaccine Digimon, as Beelzemon was a Virus, and the spread would make his life easier.

He hatched his new Guilmon, not exactly having a name but needing one made him just call it Epsilon. Menma knew not why but he just did.

He also bought a new phone that he could use as an actual phone, because contacting people is important, and finally he bought a few manga to entertain himself.

He wanted to keep up on Overlord, it was a personal favourite.

Mostly because anything involving magic is cool, also it shits all over other series with a similar base plot, like that shitpile Sword Art Online.

Ugh.


Weekend; Shinjuku Park

Beelzemon sat against a tree as his Digimon ran about entertaining themselves, because subtly was meaningless to him.

Seeing a giant blue reptile like Greymon(B) giving Dorumon a piggyback was hilarious.

Also Epsilon was a bit of an oddball, it was very audibly female, unlike Takato's partner who could go either way. Perhaps his Digivice did more than just allow for more Digimon at once?

Regardless, Epsilon was a huge sweetie, and ran around following Angel and Lilith about, though the Angewomon was stalking the LadyDevimon whilst the Guilmon stalked the angelic woman.

God, it was so weird to watch.

Leomon and Shu were sparring, though with BlueMeramon being an Ultimate, they had to keep it to fists only.

Menma was blessedly left alone, sitting contently watching over the group, well alone as he could get with his Taomon shadowing him all the time and Hackmon sleeping on his like a cat.

After the first day of being Beelzemon he cooled off considerably, and actually started to function properly, the voice that lived in his head was all but dead and barely managed to whisper it's bullshit.

Speaking of function.

He activated Function Call and summoned up a batch of random Digimon, just leaving his D-vice on auto-scan he leant back into the tree more and closed all three of his eyes.

It was fun being him, he liked it.


Hope you enjoyed this return, short yes but I didn't really have an earth-shattering revelations to put in this chapter.

And I doubt everyone wants to read grinding.

Because I don't want to write it.

Kaiser Digimon

Angel (Angewomon)

Lilith (LadyDevimon)

Shu (BlueMeramon)

Leomon

Sol (Greymon.B)

Miya (Taomon)

Dorumon

Guilmon (Copy) (Epsilon)

Hackmon

Raxychaz!