Kari didn't know what to say. Here standing before her was a digimon claiming to be the deceased friend she loved. "If you're Ryan then what were his last words to me." Kari said. Nuva kneeled down a placed a finger over her heart. "I would always be with you in here." he said tapping the spot. "and that I believe in you." nuva said smiling the exact same smile he gave Kari in his last moments as Ryan Connors "It is you." Kari said crying as nuva pulled her into an embrace rubbing her back.
Meanwhile
"Uh guys. Where's Kari?" TK asked. Tai glanced around until he saw Kari being embraced by a renamon who seemed vaguely familiar yet was a stranger. "Agumon." tai said looking to his partner. "On it. PEPPER BREATH!"
Nuva's ears perked up as he heard the name of the attack. "Kari get down!" he said pushing her away before bringing his right arm up. "RYAN!" Kari screamed as the attack hit nuva. "Kari he didn't hurt you did he." Tai asked as he came up. What he didn't expect was Kari giving him a left hook to the face. "How could you." she said before hearing a voice. "Thank god for this digizoid armor. And agumon please don't do that again." the destined plus Davis were shocked. "whoa not even a scratch." izzy said. "you OK?" Kari asked approaching nuva. "yeah I am." he said brushing dust off his armor. "I missed you," Kari said wrapping her arms around nuva's neck burying her face in his mane "Ryan." Nuva smiled before noticing tai. He winced seeing the bruise. Nuva looked at Kari then at Tai. "You're scary when you're angry you know that right." Kari blushed. It was true. She was scary when she was angry.
Nuva sighed as his hands began to give off a green glow. "Don't worry. I'll heal it." nuva said as he walked towards tai. Tai looked at Kari as the digimon tensed if the renamon tried anything. She nodded to let him know this nuva wouldn't harm him.
"Let me get this straight Kari. You think this renamon is Ryan just because he has the necklace you gave him 2 months before his death and he said a few words." TK said skeptically. "yes and I asked him what Ryan's last words to me were and he knew them." Kari said. "Suspicious." Matt said. "It's not suspicious Matt." Tai said coming to his sister's aid. He knew when Kari was making things up and right now her body language meant she was telling the truth. "Really answer me this 'Ryan'. If you were alive then why didn't you come back and tell us you were OK." Joe asked. Kari's eyes widened and looked at nuva with a hurt expression. Nuva looked away not able to look at her. "Because four eyes," everyone turned to see a gatomon being accompanied by a weregarurumon. "he lost his memories. "Grace!" Kari and Davis said in sync as said gatomon lept onto nuva's shoulder. "The poor guy didn't know who he was when I found him nor how he got there." Kari gave nuva a sympathetic smile while placing a hand on his paw
"I'm guessing you're Frank." Davis said pointing to the weregarurumon. The weregarurumon nodded. "I practically saved him and he owes me one." grace said jabbing her paw's thumb at nuva. This got an amused raised eyebrow from the person of topic. "Really. Last I checked we were even." nuva said referring to the incident they got into in the southern quadrant. "Touche. And don't remind me." grace said a comical cloud of depression over her head. Everyone, but nuva sweat dropped. "what happened?" Davis asked. "We, along with other destined not of this quadrant, fought against a tyrannomon." Grace said as her gaze hardened remembering how close she had come to dying. I was hit hard by one of its attacks while pretty boy here (again pointing at nuva) was standing still." Kari grew upset at this. "That's because he was formulating a plan grace!" she spat shocking everyone but nuva and tai. "A little spitfire you got there eh, nuva?" Frank asked grinning.
Nuva looked at him out of the corner of his eye. "That's why I like her. Anyways continue grace." he said. "Anyways as I said I was hit bad and he went ballistic before digivolving." this got some shocked faces from the destined. "YOU DIGIVOLVED!" They yelled. "I am a digimon aren't I." nuva deadpanned stating the obvious. Every destined except Kari face faulted at this. "You are a digimon, yet to my calculations," nuva rolled his eyes as Izzy began to speak science which was something he didn't miss. "You're half digimon and half human." this got some raised eyebrows from everyone. "Half Human?" nuva muttered before getting an idea. "Joe do you have a syringe?" he asked. "Yes why?" Kari snapped her fingers. "DNA test." she said. Joe inserted the needle into nuva's left arm and to his shock the syringe filled with blood.
A few hours later
everyone filed into the biology lab at joe's school to see if nuva was telling the truth. "So, grace what do you think of Ryan?" Kari asked. She was curious of the relationship her crush was in with the gatomon. Grace, who had been sipping on a juice pack at the time, looked at her. "OK, first off his name's nuva. Second, it was a love hate relationship." she said before hearing nuva reply. "Forget it grace. She'll always call me Ryan." Kari noticed grace and gatomon would be hard to tell apart. Thankfully she had Ryan's bandana that he had worn during the battle against myotismon. "Kari, what are you doing?" nuva asked. "Giving Grace your bandana so we can tell her and gatomon apart Ryan." Kari said "For someone who I haven't met before you're being extremely nice. It's a little creepy for me. No offense." Grace said. "None taken." Kari said eerily calm. (think of yamato's tone when he scares naruto with his draconian look from naruto) Nuva knew that tone. He glanced worriedly at her. "easy Kari, she's not stealing me from you." Grace blushed. "in fact I owe her. She helped me regain my memories." it was true. Grace had helped him regain his memories, for the part with understanding the visions he had. It was at this point joe returned, but his face was extremely pale.
The destined minus Kari and tai (he believed his sister and nuva) looked at him in worry. "Joe what is it?" matt asked. "The dna test... was a match." everyone's eyes widened as they looked at nuva. "Nuva is Ryan Connors." nuva looked at them. He grinned. "it's been a while eh guys." little did the rangers and digidestined know was that they were being watched by a human. "This is troublesome." the human said. "I must inform my master."
"So the child of infinity lives." a deep sinister voice said to the human. "Yes, but he is a digimon now my lord." the human gazed up at the wall of shadows in front of him when a pair of blood red eyes shone through the shadows. "Do not make me regret reviving you myotismon for I can take your life away." the human bowed his head before turning into myotismon. The very same one whom had killed wizardmon and nuva's former self. "Now go my servant destroy the children of light and infinity." myotismon rose and bowed. "As you command my lord." he said as the eyes receded and sinister laughter filled the chamber.