"Unarumon!" By the time he arrives below the falling 'mon, he's a purple-and-white wolf as large as Calimon and Pidmon together.

Whoa! Elecmon got so big!

He did! He's big enough to catch the falling ’mon on his back and lower it safely to the ground.

Pidmon can't fly with a cat tangled in his wings. It's over.

"You don't understand!," he yells, awkwardly pinned to the ground. "He's going to kill them!"

"If you have a complaint you will use your words." She kicks his staff away and begins methodically dismantling his wings.

"Woooow," says Hotshot, gazing raptly at this spectacle.

Unarumon has a brief chat with the hat ’mon, then reverts back to Elecmon.

Pidmon also shrinks, briefly becoming a bolt of light, then merging with his staff to become

an uninjured Piyomon. (A little smaller than Hotshot or Calimon.)

Hotshot glances hesitantly down at the fuzzy friend in his arms, then curiously up at the site of the commotion.

Nyaromon's up and bouncing-ready to go check it out.

What a good fuzzy friend.

Hotshot bounds up to Elecmon and observes, "You got in a fight!"

"I did! It's very good that we have Calimon here to protect us. Soulmon here assures me that it was all a misunderstanding and everything should be fine now.

"I'm gonna follow up with these two and see if I can figure out what went wrong, so Calimon can get back to keeping watch. Would you three like to keep Soulmon company while I check on Piyomon?"

"Okay!" He gives Elecmon a friendly nosebop, then turns to Soulmon. "Why'd the big wings mon hit you?"

"I was describing my life extension research. I believe he took offense. I confess that a few of my techniques touch on common taboos, but if you want to fix what nomon's fixing you have to try what nomon's trying, that's what I say."

"What's life extension?"

"Life extension is keeping ’mon around for longer, by making them less likely to be deleted. It's difficult research, but very important, since Digimon don't want to be deleted."

"Oh! That's good. But then why did it make Pidmon want to fight you?"

"My most promising new technique involves carefully killing 'mon only a little bit, so that their Digi-Cores learn to recognize deletion and change into a better-protected form. I think perhaps Piyomon doesn't understand the difference between partly dead and all the way dead."

"Hmm," says Hotshot. "I guess that makes sense. Death is pretty scary."