So, let's bring out the conclusion to the current chaos and problems our heroes are faced with...
But will that help with the final answer? We'll see...

"Being famous can easily bring you wanted attention along with unwanted attention. Kari Kamiya and Kylee Henke has a serious problem with this right now. As now Kylee possibly fight for the sake of Kari and herself, Regan Astrasz and Riza Ryuzaki are searching for them.

But can even the advanced capabilities of the X-D3 digivice will allow them to reach their friends in time?
Or will a miracle happen to help all of them?
Sometimes, help can come from unexpected sources…"

Chapter 5 : Bio-Modify…Control and Evolution part 2

"Are we there yet?" Riza asked. Sitting behind him, on Raidramon, Regan was keeping his eyes on his digivice.
"Soon!" Regan replied. "Turn left!" Regan said, and Raidramon nodded before turning left at the next corner…and stopped.
"Hum, Regan? What now?" Riza said as he looked at what had made Raidramon stop. A wall. They had arrived in the end of a small lane.
"Down we go…" Regan said, climbing down of Raidramon, and pointing at a manhole. "Where else?" Regan said. "After all, Kari's signal's coming out from underground. So, let's go."
Riza nodded uncertainly before climbing down of Raidramon who de-digivolved to Veemon, and then helped Regan in opening the manhole. After it was done, both looked into it.
"Okay…who goes first?" Riza asked.
Regan let out an annoyed sigh as he started climbing down the hole and touched down.
"Dry." Regan's voice said, coming out of the hole. "There's no water there. I don't think that'd be normal in a sewer…which may mean that we're getting closer…"
"Okay…I'm coming." Riza said before he climbed down, and after he was done, Veemon came.
"Alright…now where to?" Riza asked.
Regan pressed a button on his digivice, bringing back the scanning map, though it was clear that it lacked huge detail about the surroundings, yet, it detected many signals that looked all the same, except two.

And of course, one of the two symbols was near anther different one while the other was close to the big pack of the other signals.

"That way." Regan said, pointing forward and he started walking.
"It's not really bright. We should have brought a flashlight." Veemon said.
"We'll have to make due without one." Regan said. "Besides, who knows if someone may notice the light of it?"

For a good while, they walked silently, their footsteps slightly echoing in the tunnel. Regan stopped and brought his holographic map, which lightened up the tunnel slightly, but showed a more detailed map now. And on it, there was a passage right next to them, but when the Tamer and the Digidestined looked there, there was none.

"Hey Regan, why we can't see that passage that's supposedly on your map? Do you think it's hidden somehow?" Riza asked as he looked at the map.
"Probably." Regan replied as he de-activated his map and walked up to the tunnel wall. He started running his hand along the wall. "Come on, help me guys. There must be some kind of secret opening."

Riza and Veemon nodded before they too started searching for any possible switch or button.
For a while though, they found nothing…
"Hey, I got something…" Veemon said. "Hey, the wall's pushing in!" he added.

Suddenly, the wall opened up where Riza was, and he fell right through the newly appeared opening.
"Oh, sorry Riza…" Veemon said.
"Looks like we found it." Regan said with a little chuckling.
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go instead of staying here…" Riza said.

---

"Ready...
Set...
Go!"

On the mark, both Impmon and Devidramon charged toward each other. The battle between the two digimon, and for Kari's sake, had begun
"Badaboom!" Impmon yelled as he threw a fire ball at the larger dark dragon digimon, who only slightly grunted from the ball impacting on it.

"Crush him down!"Darius ordered to his digimon.
"Crimson Claws!" Devidramon roared before his claws glowed of a blood red color and he slashed down at Impmon, his claws leaving red trails of light as he slashed.

Impmon dodged as best as possible, as Devidramon's claws crashed in the ground, the large digimon roaring loudly as Impmon often moved out of the large digimon's way and claws.

Gazing strait at Impmon, Devidramon opened his eyes wide.

Kylee gasped, knowing what Devidramon wanted to do. "Impmon, above him!"

"Red Eyes!"Devidramon yelled before a flash of red light emitted from his eyes.
However, he suddenly stopped when he received a kick on the top of his head, graciously given by Impmon, who then climbed down, throwing a fire ball on Devidramon's back, who flapped his wings to throw Impmon away.

"Well, why don't we get rougher, shall we?" Darius said, raising out a card in his hand. "Digi-Modify! Hi-Speed Disk B!"

Devidramon breifly shimmered before he moved with greater speed, narrowly missing Impmon as he slashed the air where the little digimon was only a few seconds before.

As Impmon started circling around Devidramon, the larger digimon quickly kept track of him before he raised one fist high and slammed it down at Impmon, who jumped out of the way.

"There's something you should learn, blondie! You can't have the advantage in the air without wings! Your digimon's wide open now!" Darius shouted mockingly. "Devidramon!" he yelled.

As Kylee gasped and Impmon simply glared at Devidramon while he was still jumping, the large dark dragon digimon roared before swiping Impmon…

Or should have swiped him…As he struck the air where Impmon was, Impmon seemed to have vanished. Devidramon looked around, until he felt a slight weight on his hand, and looked at it to notice Impmon who was clinging on the arm.

"I actually learned from that kind of situations, compliments of a certain Lizomon. I'll owe him that one, you big bully.

And I got to say, he was way better than you did." Impmon said. "Badaboom!" he yelled and threw a fire ball strait in Devidramon's right pair of eyes.

The large digimon reared its head in pain, roaring. And as he did, Impmon jumped from the claw to the shoulder, before hopping again, coming to the face's level.

"And that one's for him!" Impmon yelled. He then threw all his might into a punch and struck Devidramon in the side of the face, causing Devidramon to stumble…and fall on the side as Impmon fell on the ground.

"Now who's the best eh?" Impmon said, giving himself a high-five.
Kylee smiled at him.
"I wouldn't say victory yet, blondie…" Darius said.
And Devidramon, growling, rose up again, the right side of his face slightly burned, but clearly, he was still capable of fighting…and he clearly didn't looked happy.
"Of course…like it'd be that easy…" Impmon muttered.
"Oh by the way," Impmon suddenly said louder. "that Lizomon I just spoke of. He's just a rookie, but I'm pretty sure he would have already taken your big digimon down!"
"Hah, really funny…A rookie that would be able to beat a champion one-on-one. In your dreams perhaps, imp." Darius replied with a snort.
Kylee tightened one fist. Despite that the batle may be evened right now, there was no idea if they would indeed be successful…

But even then, would Darius really kept his word? Kylee doubted it, and that made her worried.
"What can I do now? Even if we beat Devidramon, there's no way Impmon and I will be able to get through all of that boy's gang.

Riza, Regan…where are you?" she thought.

---

"I really think we've found their hideout. Problem is now, where to find them?" Regan said on a low tone.
"Yeah, and also, better try not to be noticed." Riza added on a low tone as well.
Riza, Veemon and Regan were still travelling in the low-lit underground corridors as they continued searching for the missing girls.

"Hey guys, look here." Veemon muttered, motionning at a slightly opened door.
Both Regan and Riza came to look inside. It was a slightly small room with only one light for lighting up the room. And on the ground, there was two ropes.

"Yep, they probably were here." Regan said.
"You're sure about that?" Riza asked.
"If they tied them before putting them there, probably. They must have removed the ropes around their feet to move them more easily…" Regan said, his expression slightly darknening.
"Anyway, that ain't really helping us. Let's search around more." Riza said.
"Right." Regan replied.

---

The battle between Impmon and Devidramon hadn't been missed at all by Kari and the one watching her as both were still observing from the 'guest room'.

While Kari continued to deseperatly watch the fight, she was still very much worried, hell, if not panicked, about if Impmon and Kylee would win. So far, both digimon seemed evened.

Though it seems that Impmon owed a bit of his improved skills to Lizomon, and some previous battles, according to what Kylee had said to Kari.

Still, Kari herself wasn't calm about it.

She then heard the sound of footsteps as her guard came up closer.
"You know, chances are that Darius' gonna win and take you.

So…" he said, thinking. "I'd like to have at least one little fun with you…" he added with a more devious grin.

Kari shuddered, quickly realizing what he wanted to do. She shook her head left and right, hoping that he wouldn't suceed, but he did managed to grab her face and force her to look at him.

The teen's face neared to her.
Closing her eyes, she yelled. "No!"

---

As Regan, Riza and Veemon continued their search into the underground hideout of the Black Spear gang, now arriving at a corner, they suddenly found themselves head-to-head with another teen, who obviously looked like a member of the Black Spear.

But before everyone could recover from their shock, since it was pretty obvious the gang member didn't expected to find intruders, Regan's digivice started beeping, distracting the gang member even more.

As he looked at Regan's 'watch', Regan quickly threw a punch in the teen's face, knocking him cold.

"Phew…well, nice one Regan…" Riza said. "Never thought you'd use your digivice to distract him."
"I didn't." Regan said. "It detected something."

The screen of the digivice glowed before it projected a series of holographic words.

'Bio-Modify overload activation detected.'

"W-What does that means?" Veemon asked uncertainly.
"Regan, I don't get it. You haven't used your…" Riza started.
"No…which means it's Kari…
But…Overload activation?" Regan said.

He then gasped. "Oh no! I get it!"
"What is it?" Riza asked.
"She didn't consciously activated the Bio-Modification. It was triggered instinctivly…
Which means that it's not really her in control…but the digimon instincts instead…" Regan explained.
"I'm not sure to really get what it means…but I don't think that's a good thing…right?" Veemon asked.
"Really not good at all…You could say that Kari has gone berserk right now." Regan said darkly.
"I don't like the sound of this…" Riza said worringly.
"Come on! We gotta find her, and try to get her back in control!" Regan said before starting to run ahead.
"Wait up!" Riza said, hurrying after him, along with Veemon.

---

The teen never managed to reach out Kari's face, as now pain had spread in his face…
And Kari's foot right between his legs, having ripped out the robes binding it.
"Don't…even…think…about…it…" Kari spoke…finishing her sentence with a cat-like hiss.

But her expression was filled with dread anger, and the expression in her eyes clearly weren't hers.

Along with that, Gatomon's ears could be seen coming out of her hairs now.

As she lowered her foot, the teen gasped before he collapsed on the floor.
Kari then ripped out the ropes binding her to the chair, and raised up, her Bio-Modify clearly present since she had Gatomon's gloves adapted to her hands, along with claws, and not only the ears, but the long white and purple striped cat tail that ended in three points.

However, the expression in her eyes was extremly hardened…drastically much more like if she actually was Gatomon…

With a small hop, Kari leapt out of the room in which she was before looking around…
Before going toward where the fighting currently was.

As she arrived at a corner, a gang member noticed her, accompanied with his Demidevimon.

"He-…what the hell's wrong with you?" the teen said, completely astonished about how different Kari looked.
She didn't gave him time to react as she lunged at the two with a hiss, slightly opening her mouth…

Mouth that clearly had cat fangs.

---

Devidramon took off to the airs, looking down toward Impmon.
"Well, let's see how you're going to be able to get out of this one, Kylee Henke." Darius said while pulling out another card. "Digi-Modify! Greymon!"

Devidramon roared before opening his maw. "Fire Nova!" he yelled before shooting out a large fire ball down at Impmon.

Impmon quickly ran out of the fire ball's way, which exploded on the ground, and the shockwave threw Impmon further. As he struggled to rise hurryingly, Darius laughed.

"Yes! Crawl in the dirt while you can, before you're going to be blasted out!" he said.
"Before Kari will be mine…" he added with a sinister grin.

"Fire Nova!" Devidramon roared again, breathing out another fire ball.

Impmon had no choice but to jump out of the way.

---

Her latest opponents knocked out in a wall, Kari continued running toward her goal.
She suddenly leapt ahead, one foot raised…
Before she struck out a gang girl that was coming out of a door and slammed her down.

Kari gritted her teeth, as her expression still remained hard while she looked around, her cat ears twitching.

She ran off again before she encountered anther gang member in the way.
While she neared at him, the teen quickly pulled out a knife and attempted to stab her.
But Kari nimbfully dodged it before breaking the blade with a simple kick, and followed it with a punch in the teen's face.

As she had finished with this boy, she heard a yell before an Ogremon came out from behind, club raised.

She leapt out of the way as the bone club crushed in the ground.
Landing back, Kari leapt out at Ogremon, landing a knee kick in the digimon's face before swiftly catching his head in mid-air and threw Ogremon above and ahead of her, making the digimon land on the ground hard, cracking it in the process.

Kari rose to regain her bearings again, and as she started to move…
A gunshot was heard…
Kari quickly reacted, but her eyes suddenly opened wide with pain as she fell on her knees, holding her right arm, which was now bleeding.

She looked behind her, to see the gang member with the knife that she had knocked out earlier slowly advancing on her, a gun in hand, in his left hand, considering that the right arm was dangling at his side, which obviously showed that Kari had broken it when she attacked him.

"I…I don't know if you're really Kari, but whatever the hell you are, it'd be better to kill you…" he said, his own voice mixed with some uncertainity and fear, probably about what Kari was.

Kari's eyes no longuer reflected the same expression than before, and now, fear seemed to mainly dominate her.

But as the boy rose his gun with his left hand…the wall to his left suddenly collapsed, a few rock striking him and knocking him cold on the ground.

And coming out of the hole in the wall, there was Regan, Flamedramon and Riza. Obviously, Flamedramon had punched through the wall.

"Re-Regan?" Kari asked.
"Kari! Are you okay?" Regan asked as he came up and kneeled close to her while Riza and Flamedramon approached as well.
"N-no…" Kari said, gritting her teeth in obvious pain as she slightly removed her hand from her injured arm.
"Wait a minute." Riza said. "I thought you said she went berserk."
"I…I'm not sure…what happened, right after that boy tried…to kiss me…" Kari said, making a face when speaking about the boy. "But…I think I must have let Gatomon's instincts control me…"
"Kiss you?" Regan said. "Nevermind. I guess that because you got hurt, the pain made you come back more to…'yourself'.

Hold on, I'll see what I can do for that wound." He said.

He then clapped his hands together before touching Kari's wounds with his right hand. Kari slightly gasped with some pain when Regan touched her, but then, a warm red glow came out of Regan's hand, surrounding the covered wound.

When the glow ceased, Regan removed his hand from Kari's arm, and everyone could notice that the wound was gone.

"Thanks Regan." Kari said with a small smile.
Regan nodded with a smile as well.
"H-How could you do this Regan?" Riza said, astonished. "I thought it was AtmaRyumon who could do that."
"Actually, as AtmaRyumon, the power is amplified. But the real power comes from me, and my crest." Regan replied.
"Kari. What happened to you? And where's Kylee?" Riza asked.

"After that we were finished with our shopping, we were attacked by that…gang…
And when we woke up, we had been imprisonned by them…
Their leader…Darius Duke…
He…kissed me…" Kari said, in a very obvious way that she hadn't liked that at all… "And Impmon wanted to challenge him to a fight, so that we could get out…
And if Kylee loses…he gets me…" Kari said…

Regan clutched a fist tightly. "That bastard…if he thinks he's going to get away with that…
Come on, we have to help Kylee now. Kari, can you lead us to her?" Regan asked.
"I'll try." Kari answered as she rose.

They soon all hurried again, Kari leading the way…

---

Impmon was panting hard as he was struggling to stand, his body slightly burned, but his determination unwavered.
"Well, I guess that's kinda obvious of who's the winner now." Darius spoke.
"You haven't won yet!" Kylee said, eyes burning with determination as well. "And even then, you had cheated on us! Impmon wasn't even at his best because you had battered him before the fight! That was plain unfair!"
"'All is fair in love and war.' Haven't you heard of that one?" Darius replied. "Devidramon! Finish him!"

"Fire Nova!" Devidramon roared, shooting out one last fire ball.
The fire ball flew down toward Impmon…

"Flame Fist!"

Multiple fire balls impacted on Devidramon's attack and destroyed it.

"What?" Darius looked toward where the attack came, and saw Riza, Regan and Flamedramon.

"Kylee! We're here!" Riza said, waving his hand…and jumping so he could be noticed(considering his small size caused a slight problem)…

"Riza! Flamedramon! Regan!" Kylee shouted, smiling. Then she gasped, remembering. "They got Kari elsewhere!" she added.
"Got it!" Regan replied.

"There's no way you're going to get her! Kari will be mine! Black Spear, get them!" Darius spoke.

Flamedramon put himself in front of Riza and Regan as the gang members of Black Spear approached them, while Regan was holding his digivice in front of him, ready to use his Bio-Modify.

Darius grinned as he saw that his members would easily outnumber the intruders.
Then he felt a small sharp tapping on his shoulder.
He turned backwad…

And got struck in the face hard before being knocked on the ground.

"That's for the kiss!" Kari said, and gripped his collar before lifting him.

As Darius' vision cleared, he noticed that Kari had somewhat changed.
"W-What's wrong with you?!?" he said. "You can't be the real one!"
"I'm the real Kari Kamiya, believe it or not." Kari said. "But things have gone beyond the show, and that's something you hadn't realized."

"Everyone! Stand down or I'll strike him!" Kari shouted.
"Nice work Kari!" Regan said, giving her a high-five.

Everyone of the Black Spear looked uncertainly toward their threatened leader, and especially surprised about the 'changed' Kari.

Kari let out an exhausted sigh. Despite her actions, and the necessity of doing that, she never truly liked fighting…but sometimes…it had to be done…she had learned that enough times already…

Suddenly, darkness spread on the ground right beneath Darius before it rose upward and envelopped him, causing Kari to release her grip on him, surprised.

"Kari, watch out!" Regan uselessly warned.

Everyone heard Darius scream as he was engulfed by the darkness…and a clawed black arm suddenly lunged out of the darkness, gripping Kari by the neck with extreme force.

The darkness sinked into Darius' form…as it revealed a demonically transformed Darius. He was completely black now, with a more muscled form, with lang fangs and horns, along with a large tail and wings.

A 'blast' of darkness also shot out from his back before it went toward an uncertain Devidramon. The darkness envelopped the unfortunate digimon before it transformed it as well, making it larger, growing a new pair of eyes, increasing the size of the horns and of his fangs.

The darkness enhanced Devidramon released out a huge roar before it opened his mouth and breathed out large blasts of dark flames all around.

Now, every member of Black Spear fled around in panic.

But for the two Tamers, their digimon, and Regan, their attention was fixed on the transformed Darius, and Kari that he had caught.

"You leave her alone!" Regan yelled as he ran toward him.

'Darius' turned toward Regan before holding his hand toward him and shot out a ball of black flames from it at him.

As the ball exploded on the ground at Regan, he leapt out of the smoke unleashed out of the explosion, in his Bio-Modify form.

Holding his two hands together, Regan threw a ball of multi-colored energy at 'Darius', who opened his wings and moved himself sideways, while still holding Kari, who struggled to get free of his grip.

Yelling, Regan charged at 'Darius', one fist held tight as it burst in flames, seemingly propelling Regan forward…

---

Flamedramon also rushed toward 'Darius', but 'Devidramon' breathed down a wave of black flames to block his way.
Flamedramon stopped, glaring upward at 'Devidramon'. "Guess I'll have to fight you to get to your master!" he said. "Fire Rocket!" he shouted, bursting in flames, and rocketed in the air toward 'Devidramon'.
As he did, while Riza ran closer, Kylee went to Impmon. "Impmon! Are you all right?" she asked worringly.
"I'll…I'll be okay…" Impmon said as she held him. "But looks like I've been tagged out of this one…"
'Devidramon growled as Flamedramon slightly struck him in the side, but he roared and slashed toward Flamedramon, seeking to strike him. "Crimson Claws!" he shouted.
Flamedramon stopped his charge in mid-air before managing to spin himself and threw a series of flaming balls at 'Devidramon', yelling "Fire Rocket!".

A few fire balls struck 'Devidramon' on the claws, and also on the wings and on his body. The 'dark' digimon grunted from the pain as Flamedramon managed to land down safetly.
"Alright Flamedramon, we gotta get him and fast!" Riza said.
"But that won't be easy." Flamedramon replied. "Looks like he doesn't want to land anymore."
"Well, you'll just have to get to him." Riza said, taking out a card off his pocket. "Digi-Modify! Air Wings, activate!" he said, slashing the card in his D-Arc.

Flamedramon's back glowed before large wings grew out of it. He flapped his new wings once, then took off to the skies to face off against the transformed Devidramon, who sneered at him.

---

Regan lunged at 'Darius', narrowly missing him as 'he' moved out of the way, then opened his mouth to breathe out a blast of dark flames at Regan, who barely avoided being burnt…or worse…

Eyeing 'Darius', Regan thought about his next move. As long as he held Kari, he could use her as a human shield, and Regan didn't wanted that.

Kari suddenly vaulted her feet above Darius' arm and struck him in the face. Despite that he stumbled back, the darkness enhanced human kept a death-like grip on Kari.
However, this was the opening Regan needed. He rammed, flaming fist first, into 'Darius''s chest, causing the monster to stumble back more, and Regan then followed by shooting out a multi-colored energy ball at point-blank range, right into his stomach.
The 'monster' fell on one knee, but used one of his wings to slap Regan back. Kari also tried to flee again, but once again, the monster was having a too strong grip.

However, in the look of the monster, it seemed that it was considering something about Kari…

Raising his head above, he breathed large amount of dark flames to the rocky ceiling, destroying it and creating a way out of caves and back to the surface.
Seemingly grinning at Regan, the monster fully opened his wings, flapping them.

Shaking his head from being partly stunned, he started to notice that 'Darius' was going off in the air.
"Regan!" Kari shouted.
As Darius started leaving the ground, Regan leapt at him, and collided with his dark form. However, if 'Darius' didn't lost his balance and fell to the ground again…
Regan had clingned himself to 'Darius' instead…
The monster simply continued to grin as he flew higher and higher, and out of the hole to fly to the surface…and went higher…

---

While 'Devidramon' breathed out more series of black fireballs, Flamedramon constantly released some "Flame Fist!" to either strike out 'Devidramon' with his own fireballs, or trying to punch him when the demonized digimon was getting too close.
"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon yelled, bursting in flames and rocketed toward 'Devidramon', who started moving sideway to dodge…
And got struck first by a small fireball from Impmon below which distracted him…then the Fire Rocket itself.
'Devidramon' roared as he lost his balance and started falling, but managed to recover his balance and remain aloft.

Flamedramon flew toward and above 'Devidramon' but his opponent twisted his head toward Flamedramon before breathing out more dark flames, forcing Flamedramon to drop lower.

However, as he did, 'Devidramon' glared at his with his eyes and smiled.
"Red Eyes!" he shouted, a flash of red light emitted from his eyes, catching Flamedramon in them, and freezing him in the air. He quickly lunged and grabbed Flamedramon before plunging downward and slammed Flamedramon on the ground.

"Flamedramon!" Riza shouted. He started taking out another card from his pocket…only to notice a growing shadow above him.

"Riza, watch out!" Kylee shouted.
Riza obeyed…and just in time…as he jumped away and slammed on the ground, as Devidramon's free hand smashed the ground right where he had been standing.

Hurrying to rise, Riza looked back toward his partner who struggled to get out of 'Devidramon''s grip. The large demonized dragon digimon raised his free hand toward Riza once again…

But as he dropped down, 'Devidramon' felt a very nagging burning sensation in his other hand…as Flamedramon had activated his "Flame Shield!"
Roaring from the increasing pain, 'Devidramon' dropped Flamedramon, who didn't wasted time throwing fireballs at one of 'Devidramon''s feet.
'Devidramon' growled, seemingly more angered than pained as he glared right at Flamedramon.

Riza pulled out a card from his pocket, looking uncertainly at it. He started putting it back in his pocket, clearely seeking another one…
But suddenly looked toward Flamedramon as a roar came from Devidramon. The large digimon had slapped Flamedramon away and more toward Riza, Kylee and Impmon.

"Flamedramon! Are you all right?" Riza said as he started going for his digimon.

"Riza! Watch out!" Kylee warned as a growing shadow covered Riza and his digimon…and Devidramon slammed his large clawed hands on them, trapping them beneath.

The force of the ground striking claws also threw Kylee backward, who dropped Impmon.
As she shook her head to regain her bearings, she noticed that Devidramon was right on top of Riza and Flamedramon, glaring at his two prey before clearely readying to deal the finishing blow.
But then, Kylee noticed something on the ground. A card.
Hurrying, she went up to it and picked it up.

It was Riza's Digi-Egg of Friendship card…and oddly enough, a slight electric pulse was going along it.
"Could that be somekind of sign?" Kylee thought.
But considering that Riza and Flamedramon may not have much time left, Kylee took a breath…

"Digi-Modify! Digi-Egg of Friendship, activate!"
She swiped the card in her D-Arc.

The digivice glowed before Impmon also became encased in light.

"Impmon, armor digivolve to…Thunderbirdmon!!!"

From the crackling ball of electricity emerged a large bird-like digimon. Most of his body and feathers were of a dark blue coloring, along his wings ended up with golden colored lightning shaped rigid 'feathers'. The neck was covered in white fluffy feathers while the face was covered with a mask much akin to Raidramon's, but coloured dark blue with the edges of the mask being golden, along with a golden lightning shaped horn coming out at the front of the mask. A few golden colored lightning shaped marks were visible on the wings, and on the sides of the fluffy crest of white feathers that ran on all of the digimon's back. And while his feet ended with golden lightning shaped claws while his dark blue tail also had a few golden lightning colored marks, and was shaped much like a lightning bolt.

Kylee stared with some awe at how Impmon had changed with the card.
Thunderbirdmon even seemed to look a bit surprised at himself.
Regaining her priorities, Kylee pointed at Devidramon. "Come on! Go help Riza and Flamedramon!"

"No need to tell that twice!" Thunderbirdmon replied as he flapped his wings and threw himself toward Devidramon, and impacted hard on the demonic dragon digimon, throwing him sideway, and freeing Riza and Flamedramon.

"Are you all right Riza?" Kylee asked as she came up to him.
"Y-Yeah…I'll be fine." He said. "Flamedramon?"
"Could have been better, but I'll be okay." Flamedramon answered as he rose and looked toward Devidramon. "Now if you don't mind guys…" he added as he ran toward Devidramon and Thunderbirdmon.

"Never thought you could do that with my card Impmon." Flamedramon said.
"Let's talk about this later, okay?" Thunderbirdmon said. "It's kinda weird to be like this."
"Okay then. Flame Fist!" Flamedramon replied as his fist burst in flame and he threw multiple fire balls at Devidramon.
Thunderbirdmon closed his wings on himself, which started crackling with electricity. He then opened his wings, yelling "Thunder Stormer!" and unleashed a large wave of thunder at Devidramon.

The demonic digimon screamed as he was struck by both attack..and finally fell on the ground before a dark smoke faded out of his body, his appearance finally returning to normal…before Devidramon dissapeared in thousands of bits…deleted…

"Whew…we did it…" Riza said, relieved. He then looked toward Thunderbirdmon. "But Kylee…I'd never thought you could have used my card for Impmon…"
"Well…I didn't thought of it either…" Kylee said. She was partly guessing what Riza may tell. "Look, about that card…it still belongs to you."
"Well…okay, here's what we can do. If we really need Impmon to be stronger, I'll lend you my card, okay? Since I already have one for Flamedramon, you can borrow the one for Thunderbirdmon." Riza said.
"It's okay with me." Kylee said, more relieved. "And thanks a lot that you came to rescue me."
"Well…we kin-Oh crap! Regan and Kari!" Riza said, realizing he forget about the two Digidestineds.
Looking back toward where 'Darius', Regan and Kari had been, they were nowhere to be found, except for a large hole in the ceiling high above.
"Let's go help them! At least Thunderbirdmon's gonna really help on that one." Kylee said.
Thunderbirdmon frowned at that. "Well, I'll help you guys getting out of the hole, but I'll let you drop after that, since it won't be that easy for me to carry out all of you."
Flamedramon nodded before he de-digivolved back to Veemon. "Right. Let's get out of here."
Riza, Veemon and Kylee all went to Thunderbirdmon and the two Tamers held tight on each of his legs while Veemon clutched on the tail.
"Hold tight!" Thunderbirdmon warned before he flapped his wings and took off to the air, and then, after some effort, got out of the hole and landed again, letting the others get off him.

"Now, where are they?" Riza said.
"Up there!" Kylee said, pointing upward, noticing small figures in the sky…

---

Regan was still struggling hard on 'Darius', while he was still holding Kari, and continued to fly higher. Raising a hand, Regan slammed it repeatedly on 'Darius''s chest, but not really be able to do much.
'Darius' simply continued to grin maniacally at them, and Regan knew well why. The monster that had taken both Darius and his digimon could easily fly, while none of the two Digidestineds, even with they Bio-Modification present, could.
And no doubt that the fall could be deadly now…

'Darius''s grin finally faded to annoyance as he slammed his free hand on Regan's side of his head. Despite being partly knocked out, Regan still held on, gritting his teeth hard. He slammed one of his feet against 'Darius' in reply.
Growling, the monster clutched his fist tightly…and struck Regan with a much stronger blow…

And this time, Regan lost his hold…before he fell…
"Regan!!!" Kari screamed, trying again to escape 'Darius''s hold.
As he started to fall, 'Darius' kicked on the partly knocked out Regan, seeking to make him fall even faster.

---

"Come on Thunderbirdmon! Go get him!" Kylee said.
Nodding, Thunderbirdmon soon went off in the air, hoping to catch Regan.

---

"So…is this how I'm gonna die?
And I wasn't strong enough to save Kari…"
"Come on! Get a grip on yourself!"
"Huh?"
"Geez! Why do you always seem to be so down often?
Look, I'm sure that you'd like to fly, wouldn't you?"
"I'd like nothing more than that right now…"
"Sure, of course because it'll allow you to not die.
But of course, you'd really need them.

That's why I'll lend you my wings to you Regan."

---

As he fell, Regan started glowing more and more. Of course, this didn't went unnoticed by Kylee, Riza, Veemon, Thunderbirdmon, Kari, and 'Darius'.
Right now, Regan looked nothing more than a shining ball of light that fell…and then stopped in mid-air…before going upward again…

The light dispersed from Regan as he finally went back to 'Darius''s level and eyed him sharply…
But Regan had changed…
His horns and tail had grown more, and his claws and arms looked more powerful, more stronger, and now his changed skin, tail and horns was colored of a more deep red instead of orange…
And among that, a large pair of red wings had sprouted in Regan's back.
"You let go of Kari now, you creep…" Regan said.
'Darius' snorted before grinning…and released Kari who fell.

Regan quicly dove down at Kari and grabbed her with his arms. She panted hard from the panic.
"Regan? What happened to you?" she said, astonished from Regan's sudden change, but suddenly, "Watch out!" she warned.
'Darius' came diving at them, his claws readying to tore Regan to shred.
Despite weightened by Kari, Regan flew away, and spiralled above him.
"Kari, hold on me! I'll need to have at least one free hand to fight him." Regan said. She nodded and clutched hard on him, while he held her with one arm, and the free arm was now balled into a fist, a fist which crackled with multi-colored energy.

He held his hand toward 'Darius', and it shot out a larger energy ball at him. It exploded on one of his wings, but he managed to stay aflot.
'Darius' turned toward Regan and Kari, glaring hard, obviously readying to fight.
"Thunder Stormer!" Thunderbirdmon shouted, sending out a wave of electricity at 'Darius'. The electric blast struck him hard in his back, distracting the possessed Tamer a lot.
And Regan quickly took the advantage to go down to 'Darius''s level before holding his hand, readying to deal the final blow.
"You…would kill him?" 'Darius' suddenly spoke in a gruttural voice.
Regan slightly gasped, and so did Kari. The one that had spoke was not the Tamer, but the thing that had possessed him. And clearely, it mentionned Darius now.

"You already killed him." Regan said, glaring hard…and threw his clawed hand at the monster, ripping out through his chest.
The beast wailed hard, wings flapping uncontrollably while Regan pulled out his bloddied clawed hand, and pulled back from the monster. It started falling down without all control before a burst of smoke came out of him, and left him, 'transforming' Darius to what he once was.
Thunderbirdmon wanted to go get Darius before he was going to fall down, but he then noticed something as he neared the falling boy.
There was indeed no life in his eyes. He was already dead, just like Regan had said. And it wasn't because Regan had 'killed' the beast…
Continuing to dive down, Thunderbirdmon and everyone else watched as the lifeless corpse crushed on the ground.
"Thunderbirdmon...why?" Kylee said hesitantly as the digimon landed near her, Riza and Veemon.
Thunderbirdmon glowed and de-digivolved to Impmon before replying, looking down. "Sorry Kylee. He was already dead…" Impmon said.
The Tamers remained silent.
"But, what about Regan and Kari?" Riza asked.
All of them looking up, they could see their small forms flying away. No doubt they were returning to their hideout.
"Come on…let's go…" Veemon said.

---

Kylee, Riza, Veemon and Impmon went back to the hideout, with food from the grocery stores they went on the way, to find Regan sleeping on the couch, and Kari sitting at the table, eyes closed and her expression very thoughtful. Both of them looked normal now.
"Hum…Kari? Are you okay?" Kylee asked a bit uncertainly.
Noticing them, Kari opened her eyes and looked at them. "Oh yeah, we're okay now…" she replied. "What's that?" she asked, mentionning about the bags the Tamers were having.
"Oh, before we went to help you, Regan and I were going to the grocery store to buy food for you two." Riza explained. "Kinda thought it should be done."
Kari smiled a bit tiredly and nodded. Entering in the appartment, Kylee looked at the sleeping Regan. "Is he…okay?" she asked worringly.
Kari's eyes filled with concern. "Yeah, he is okay…which I find weird. When we came back here, he removed his parts, and didn't seem really pained, but tired instead. He just went to sleep after that."
"Weren't you guys normally pained when you were over with that Bio-Modify?" Riza asked.
"Well, after we're using it more often, we can bear the pain more easily." Kari explained. "But I'd rather thought Regan would really be in pain after what just happened."
"But…what happened to him?" Kylee asked.
Kari closed her eyes again, thinking. Then she opened them and looked at the Tamers again, more seriously. "I think he…digivolved…"
"Digivolved?" Riza asked.
"You should have seen how he looked like…more like Ryumon instead of Lizomon." Kari said. "It's probable that this form, and even the other forms of Lizomon, are also within the data that Regan has in his body, as much as Lizomon himself has.
Perhaps that because he got really threatened, he digivolved." She added.
"You've been thinking about this a lot?" Kylee asked.
"Yeah…" Kari answered. "But I'm still worried by much more…
Like what was that thing attacking us? Or, are we really going to be able to go home?" Kari asked worryingly.
Kylee, Riza and their digimon remained silent as they watched Kari that was obviously much worried…for all of them were worried as well…