Yeah, couldn't really figure out Cody's specific address, so just gonna go with 'Hida Residence', if that's fine.

Odaiba, the Hida Residence, 7:41, February 22, 2004

Suzie was lying on the living room couch with Lopmon right beside her, pondering what to do next.

Was this how Ryo had felt when he had been flung through space and time, at the end of D-1 Tamers? Unless she found some way home, she'll never see Henry again, or Jaarin, or Rinchei, or Mom and Dad, or Rika, or Takato...

More than anything, she just wanted to curl up and cry for a bit, but she couldn't afford to do that; how could she help Lopmon if she did?

"What would Henry, Takato and Rika do?" She whispered almost imperceptibly. Lopmon doubted that anyone else would have heard her. It was well-known among the Tamers that Suzie had come to view the main three as her heroes and ideals over the two years since the D-Reaper invasion.

Privately, the rabbit was less than certain of what to make of Suzie's opinion that the three of them 'looked cute' together...

Of course, she knew perfectly well the answers to her own question, Lopmon thought.

Henry would think it through, consider all options available to him, and never stop looking for a way to get home.

Takato would try to make the best of his situation.

Rika would find a way home, no matter who stood in her way.

Suzie had briefly considered offering the Digidestined some help against the Demon Lords, but on the other hand, that wasn't really her fight, and besides, there was no real reason for her and Lopmon to get involved in this battle - though that hadn't stopped Henry, Rika and Takato from helping out in the DigiQuartz over a year ago.

"Is something wrong, Suzie?" Mrs Hida inquired softly. She'd had her strong misgivings about her son bringing the girl home with him (he was barely fourteen, after all), but it had turned out to be relatively innocent. Indeed, her Lopmon had proven a considerably more house-guest than his partner, Armadillomon, though she wasn't sure why her son and his Digimon had given the rabbit wary looks yesterday...

"No, I'm fine. Thanks for letting us stay here, Mrs Hida." She replied, before her expression turned pensive, wondering how much to tell the woman. "Cody, could I borrow your Digivice for a moment?"

Cody, who was in the middle of eating his breakfast, froze when he registered her question. "Why?"

"Oh, I just want to try a trick from my own universe, called Bio-Merging," She explained, while Lopmon gave her a quizzical look.

Mrs Hida blinked. Own universe? Bio-Merging? "Yo-You're from a parallel universe?" She stuttered. It seemed so impossible. Certainly, Armadillomon wasn't native to their level of reality either, but if she had understood everything correctly, the Digital World wasn't a separate dimension, being more akin to a... different viewpoint on the same universe, or another layer in the same cake, to use those analogies. And she claimed to actually be from another universe? Was it even possible to be so, while looking so human?

"Why do you need Cody's Digivice for that?" Armadillomon asked, confused.

"Because mine can't open portals like yours can," She replied, holding up the device. Armadillomon noted that there were indeed differences between their Digivices.

Whereas Cody's was more thin, largely grayish-white with yellow rubber-like grips and an antenna, Suzie's was more rounded and bulky, largely soft-white with a minutely elevated pink ring framing a small rectangular screen, and attached to a pink strap. Strangely, hers had a small slit on the side.

"If yours can't open portals to the Digital World, how do you go there?!" Cody exclaimed.

"We don't go there all that often," Suzie shrugged. "I've been there about four or five times, in the last two years."

Cody and Armadillomon was more than a bit taken aback by her reply; If the Digidestined of her world didn't travel to the Digital World very often, then what did they do?

"Can't you just do whatever you need to here?" Mrs Hida asked.

Suzie shook her head. "Outside of the Digital world, I'm made of flesh and blood, and in order to be able to Bio-Merge with Lopmon, I need to be made of computer data."

Cody figured that she seemed to know what she was talking about, although something about the situation kept nagging at him.

"Well, it's not like you're doing anything today," Mrs Hida shrugged. "Just try to keep yourselves safe." She asked, sounding vaguely pleading.

"Don't worry," Suzie smirked. "This version of the Digital World is a lot safer than my own."

Armadillomon and Cody stared in disbelief. Had she seriously just written off the Digital World as harmless? Wasn't it enough that she had already chewed him extensively for being nearly useless? Cody was starting to seriously dislike the girl.

"Let's just go..." He told her, peevishly. Shrugging, she went with him into his bedroom, where he turned on the computer, and held his Digivice at the screen. As if on cue, an elaborate black design unfolded on the screen, containing a pair of smaller screens that were alive with crimson and navy light, respectively.

Suddenly, a less-than-blindingly bright beam was emitted, engulfing him and Armadillomon, and they shrunk into the Digital World.

She remembered that TK's original Digivice had allowed access, once the connection was established, as easily as the D-3 had, so she figured that her D-Arc might work too.

She was proven correct when she and Lopmon was swallowed into the screen as well. The transit was almost instantaneous; she registered the psychedelic tunnel-like surroundings for only a few seconds.

The four emerged in a forest clearing. "So, how does this Bio-Merging work?" Cody curiously asked.

Suzie shared a nervous look with Lopmon. The exact mechanics of it wasn't something she had given much thought; she'd pretty much just decided that she wanted to do it, and from what Henry had told her, that seemed to be all it took. But she couldn't give up; Henry wouldn't give up so easily, and neither would Takato or Rika.

"As far as I know, pretty much by wanting it..." She responded, before closing her eyes, and whispering, 'I want to fight with Lopmon...', over and over, each repetition being as pointless as the previous and subsequent one.

After a minute, Lopmon finally cut her off. "I'm sorry, Suzie. It might not even be possible here, and even if it is, you know as well as I do that Bio-Merging comes in response to a need, not a want."

Any replies she might have had were shushed by a rustling in the trees around them. One second, Suzie heard it come from behind her, the next from her right, then from her left.

"It's fast..." She murmured admiringly. "Lopmon!" She shouted, sliding the Digivolution card through her D-Arc, ignoring Cody's bewildered question of what exactly she was doing, as Lopmon assumed her Ultimate form. No matter how powerful her Mega form was, she needed to fight longer than a couple of minutes.

"You too, Armadillomon!" Cody shouted at his partner, ignoring Suzie's annoyed glare. Bright light erupted from his head and shell, and a few seconds later, Ankylomon stood in his place.

"Cody, we had this talk just yesterday!" She groaned in exasperation. "Just cover our backs!"

"Right," He muttered, sounding bored, though they acceded to her command regardless.

Soon, their new adversary had ceased scuttling around in the bushes, and emerged to face them. It was a tall humanoid insect, with an emerald-green carapace, yellow nodules on his legs, and brandishing a crimson spear. Suzie's Digivice's display activated, listing it as JewelBeemon, an Ultimate-level, Vaccine-attribute, Insect-Digimon.

"And here I though me and Lopmon were in trouble..." Cody could practically hear Suzie's confident grin.

He paused slightly, hoping that she wasn't implying what he strongly suspected. "What'ya you mean, 'you and Lopmon'?!"

"All yours, Cody." Suzie said, placing her hand on his shoulder. "And JewelBeemon's an Ultimate-level by the way."

There was a pause...

"I think I hate you."

"You said that you and Armadillomon were no less useful to your group because he was only at the Champion-level. What better way to prove that than this?" She sardonically asked.

There was another, longer pause...

"Yep, I definitely hate you."

"Cody, every inline function in my body is calling me an idiot for listening to her... SO I GUESS I'M AN IDIOT! TAIL HAMMER!" He roared, leaping into the sky, flinging his tail at JewelBeemon, who countered the attack with his spear. Not to be deterred, Ankylomon did a flip, and as soon as he landed, he performed a somersault, intending to crush him which JewelBeemon deftly managed to dodge.

"Aren't you going to help out?!" He exasperatedly asked Suzie, who merely gave a soft smile in return, while Lopmon watched her, worried.

"Trust me, you two don't need our help," She replied. Why Cody found that particular response so oddly reassuring, he wasn't quite sure, though he didn't dwell on it for long.

Suzie gave Lopmon a faintly concerned look, which she understood full well the meaning of. If Ankylomon was about to be deleted, Antylamon would step in and end the battle.

"Ankylomon, you can do it!" Cody shouted, hoping to encourage his partner. For a few minutes, Ankylomon seemed to hold his own, but to Cody's horror, JewelBeemon was just that bit faster, and hit that bit harder, that Ankylomon was thrown towards a nearby tree, reverting to Armadillomon before he hit the tree. "Armadillomon!" He cried, rushing to his partner's side, while JewelBeemon decided to take a minute to savor the suffering and despair of his latest victims.

"I'm sorry, Armadillomon, this is all my fault," Cody whispered, hugging his partner, determined not to let anyone hurt him further. "Suzie was right, I should've thought to have you Digivolve to Ultimate or Mega sooner!"

Armadillomon gave a pained laugh. "Don't worry about it, it's my fault too for not bringing up the possibility. And hey, even if we're not as strong as everyone else, we won't stop trying to help out, right partner?"

"You're right, Armadillomon!" Cody agreed, holding up his Digivice. "I'm a Digidestined, same as them, and you're my partner, same as them!"

"That's the spirit, Cody!" Armadillomon grinned, wincing as he got on his legs. "Now let's show this overgrown larva what fo-" He froze, when he saw Cody's Digivice begin to glow brightly, and change it's shape. When it stopped glowing, it looked mildly different.

It was still the slimmer and sharper design of the D-3, but it had gained the elevated screen that Suzie's had, with twelve rune-like engravements on the golden circle framing the screen, with the same character appearing in what Cody surmised to be the first, fifth and twelfth position of whatever it meant. Rather than having the antenna and yellow grips, it now had the same strap that Suzie's had, only golden rather than pink.

Their bewilderment was only exacerbated when the new Digivice spoke, in a vaguely-female voice, 'Bio-Merge Digivolution'.

"WHAT!?" JewelBeemon, Suzie and Lopmon exclaimed in shock, JewelBeemon more at hearing of a new form of Digivolution, and Suzie and Lopmon more at the fact that Cody was doing it.

Bio-Merge. That had been what Suzie tried to achieve, Cody thought, though he didn't have long to ponder the implications, as suddenly, he felt... Power. More power than he had ever dreamed possible, coursing through every cell of his body, threatening to overwhelm him.

And then everything went dark.

Well, there's a shocker.

For anyone who cares or haven't worked it out, Cody's new D-3... D-Arc... D-Arc 3? D-3 Arc? Digivice reads 'Digidestined', similar to how Takato's reads 'Digimon Tamers'.

Well, anyone care to guess what his Bio-Merge Mega is gonna turn out to be?

And let me assure that not everyone will get a Bio-Merged form. In fact, I pretty much doubt that anyone beyond Cody will.