I wandered through the streets of Shinjuku, aimless.

Not sleeping was, sometimes, a curse. I certainly enjoyed all the free time that it gave me, but that free time was subject to all the same problems as any free time.

Namely; I occasionally had no idea what to do.

But, it was something that I had grown used to.

"Hey!"

But thankfully, distractions were particularly adept at presenting themselves.

"Good morning, Calumon."

The little white Digimon jumped up, floating over to me and landing on top of my head. "It's night-time, silly!"

"It's actually around three in the morning, so I'm technically correct." I tilted my head to the side.

Calumon held on, managing to not fall off to the side. I tilted my head in the other direction, but he didn't let go.

Yeah, he wasn't going to come off. Not easily at any rate.

Oh well.

"So, what are you doing?"

"Playing!" He happily declared.

"I see."

He giggled.

"Wanna play?"

"Well, I do need something to take my mind of things."

The next day couldn't have come slow enough.

It was made worse by the fact that the children also had school today, so the explanation that I was waiting to given them was further delayed until the evening.

But time continued its inexorable march. Night turned to morning, which turned to day, which, inevitably, turned to evening.

Takato, as was quickly becoming customary, arrived at the park first, with Guilmon following closely behind.

What was unusual, however, was the fact that the boy had been carrying a giant banner, which he'd promptly hidden inside one of the little... structure things.

I honestly had no idea what they were called.

Those little oddly shaped things that were there for children to play around on. Those things.

Rika and Renamon arrived next, shortly followed by Henry and Terriermon.

And with all three of them gathered, I appeared.

"Hello." I greeted them.

"Hi!" Calumon smiled, still on top of my head.

"You're here." Rika nodded. "Now, that explanation?"

"Not just yet, Rika." I shook my head. I turned to Takato and Henry. "The conversation that we're about to have is going to be a rather sombre one." I said. "So if you have anything to say or show us-" I looked at Takato. "Now would be the time for it."

Takato nodded. "Guilmon."

Guilmon rushed over, plucking the banner out of the... thingy, and holding it up proudly in front of us. "Here it is!"

Takato smiled at us. "What do you think? See, there's Calumon," He pointed at a drawing of Calumon's face, ears extended. "Me," He pointed at a drawing of his own face. "Guilmon," He pointed at a drawing of Guilmon's face. "Rika," He pointed at a drawing of Rika's face -which was set in a frown, I noticed-. "Renamon," He pointed at a drawing of Renamon's face -which also seemed to be frowning-. "Henry," He pointed at Henry's. "Terriermon," He pointed at Terriermon's -which had a cat smile-. "And Drich." He pointed at a... drawing of my hood? It... sort of looked like it; a black circle, surrounded by a vaguely hood-shaped mass of grey.

There were also, rather interestingly, two small blue circles.

Wait a moment.

"How do you know what colour my eyes are?"

"Huh? Oh, I saw them way back when you were fighting Cyberdramon."

Back with Cyberdramon?

I thought back- and yeah, I had let my eyes become visible during that fight, hadn't I?

"Congratulations Takato, this is one of the lamest things I have ever seen." Rika said. "What is that?"

"It's our official flag! All teams have flag to represent them." Takato gave a winning smile.

"Oddly touching that you included me in that team."

"Humons are such silly creatures." Calumon giggled.

"HumAns, Calumon. They're not Digimon." I corrected him.

"We're beginning to get off topic." Rika stated. She pointed at me. "You were explaining what it was that made you want to know if we could defeat Mihiramon on our own." She stated.

"Indeed I will. But not here." I looked around. "Too open. Too much of a chance that somebody will overhear things that they shouldn't."

Thankfully, I had a solution to that.

I spread my arms, space beginning to warp around us.

"Let's head somewhere a little more private." I said, before teleporting all eight of us away.

We appeared in my pocket dimension, where there would be no overhearing.

I picked Calumon up off my head, dropping him on the plush cushions, causing him to crow in delight.

"Alright, what about now? No more delays, nothing you need to do?" Rika asked lightly.

"No."

I sat down, a table springing up in front of me, followed by several seats- one for Takato and Guilmon, one for Rika and Renamon, and one for Henry and Terriermon.

"Now, where to begin..."

"For starters, I'll answer the question you had last night, Rika. The reason that I wanted to know if you could defeat Mihiramon was simple. Firstly, do you recall when Mihiramon claimed that he was just a representative?"

They nodded.

"He wasn't joking, or lying. Mihiramon was part of a group of Digimon known as the Deva, twelve Ultimate level Digimon serving the four Sovereigns."

"Who are they?" Henry asked.

"Their names are Azulongmon, Baihumon, Ebonwumon, and Zhuqiaomon." I said. "They are all very old and very powerful Digimon, among the first who reached Mega."

"Twelve Ultimates and four Megas..." Rika breathed. "That's why you wanted to know if we could defeat Mihiramon?"

"Yes." I nodded. "Mihiramon was the first. He will not be the last."

They leaned back.

"Why?" Henry asked. "What do they want?"

"Does it have anything to do with how the symbol on Calumon's head glows whenever somebody Digivolves?" Takato asked.

For a moment, I simply had to stop and stare at him.

"Hold on." Rika cut in. "You noticed that?"

"Yeah..? I mean, Drich waved at him back with Musyamon."

He noticed me do that?

"I noticed too." Henry admitted.

"This is now, officially, the worst kept secret ever."

First it was Renamon, but had it really been so obvious that those two had noticed? Renamon I could understand, given that she was a Digimon who had a habit of paying attention to things, but those two?

"But yes." I ended the conversation there. "It does."

I leaned back. "The Sovereigns- or rather, Zhuqiaomon, is searching for Calumon. As I'm sure you guessed, that's because Calumon is connected to the nature of Digivolution."

"I can help other Digimon Digivolve!"

God. Damn it, Calumon.

They stared at him.

"Well, now that the cat's out of the bag, I may as well go full steam ahead." I slumped. "Calumon can, as he oh-so-helpfully said, enable other Digimon to Digivolve. Zhuqiaomon wants him because of that." Stupid giant flaming chicken. "I'm sure that you're aware that isn't a good thing?"

They nodded.

"Because it really isn't." I poked Calumon. "And you. Please do not go spreading that around, I would very much like it for you to remain unknown for as long as possible, lest Zhuqiaomon attempt to capture you."

He nodded at me.

"And since I've now gone off track completely, why don't you guys ask the questions? I'm sure you have many of them."