Miyako wondered if the rest of her friends had ever learned anything from times like this before.

Sure, there were crazed Digimon around here that had somehow found a bunch of old Dark Rings and somehow a control spire still existed here. Sure, Ken had no idea where it was, and there was no other sign of it, but this whole area was riddled with potholes and caverns according to Koushiro. It could be anywhere, and the Digimon that had gone nuts could be anywhere as well.

But Daisuke had suggested splitting up and covering more ground. She'd objected, everyone else hadn't. Even Tai, Matt, Mimi and Sora had been fine with the idea of everyone wandering on their own and she'd hoped that they'd have been able to put two and two together. Ten people and their Digimon partners wandering around a treacherous area full of potholes, sinkholes, caverns, caves, and crazy Digimon... It couldn't end well.

"You seem a little distracted..." Hawkmon noted.

"It's just going to get someone hurt, everyone splitting up like this..." She replied.

"Well, if you don't pay more attention to where you're going that would probably be you."

She stopped, looking at the ground in front of her.

"There's nothing there."

"But there could have been. This place is supposed to be bad for things on foot because of all those holes." He pointed out. She knew he was right, that worrying about the fact someone was bound to get hurt doing this stupid thing was just going to make sure she'd get herself injured instead.

"Don't remind me. I bet Daisuke's already halfway to the Digital World's core already..." She sighed.

"Why are you so concerned about all this now though? It just seems a little odd."

"I don't know, Hawkmon. I just have a really bad feeling about this."

"Well, we'd better both pay attention anyway, it's when we get distracted trouble happens..." Hawkmon said.

"I know th-aaaa!" Miyako replied, her sentence interrupted by suddenly going down in the world. Hawkmon turned just in time to see her vanish down a hole that had been almost invisible below the grass. It was now a lot more obvious thanks to a girl-sized gap in the overgrown grass.

"Miyako?! Miyako!" He shouted down the hole, but got no reply. It was too small to fly down as well, but had been just wide enough to let his human partner slip down into the murky depths below. In a panic, he flew off to try and find some help.

***

Miyako groaned as she regained consciousness. It hadn't been a bad fall, but it had been enough to cause her to bump her head on the way down and stun her for a few moments. Unsteadily getting to her feet, she found that thankfully her glasses were still on, and then looked back up the hole she had fallen in. A little light came in, but she couldn't see anything except that the walls of the pitfall were just dry, crumbly mud, and bound to fall apart if she tried to climb back up.

"Hawkmon? Are you up there?" She shouted, but there was no reply.

'Nice work, Miyako, you just walked right into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or fell down one, rather.' She mentally chastised herself and hoped Hawkmon had went to get help.

Letting her eyes try to adjust to what little light there was, she realised some of it was coming from a wall nearby. On closer inspection  she found that there was a small gap. She pondered her options.

'Do I wait for help, or try and see if this goes anywhere... Wait, my D-Terminal!!'

She reached for the palmtop, but found to her horror both it and her Digivice were gone. She hoped they were at the top of the hole, for she would never find them down here.

'Well, I can always see what that light is...' She thought, making her way past the small gap. It was thin, but she could make her way through without much difficulty. She found the source of the light was a crystal.

It was above the centre of a small mostly circular cavern about twenty meters in diameter, illuminating the whole room in a soft blue glow. A small pool of water, crystal clear and barely knee deep, was directly below, and there was wind blowing in from three small gaps in the walls. There was also two other gaps, exits leading deeper into the cave. However, Miyako noticed the walls appeared to have been specifically carved out of the rock and soil here.

'I wonder what this place is.'

She examined the cavern more closely, then looked at herself now she had some light. As expected, she had dust all over herself from her fall. As she patted herself down and tried to shift as much of it as possible, she noticed something glowing in the middle of the water.

'Wonder what that is.'

With nothing better to do, she decided to take her boots and socks off to wade in. She considered taking off her red cargo pants as well, but decided against it and opted to just roll them up past her knees.

'Not a good idea. They won't get wet but if Hawkmon brought help and it's one of the guys I'd never live it down.'

She shuddered slightly at the idea of being caught standing naked bar her underwear from the waist down in a pool of water by any of the male Digidestined, but her especial dread was that Ken would be the one to blunder in. Damp trousers were better than death from embarrassment. She waded in towards the mystery object.

'Wait, I need to reach down to fish it out...'

She sighed, removing her gloves and throwing them back beside her boots and socks. Rolling up her sleeves, she bent down to pick the object up, pulling it from the water...

"A digivice?!" She said aloud in surprise.

It was slightly bigger than a D3, and mostly one colour. There was a hexagonal shape around the screen, and four or five buttons. It seemed to be glowing of its own accord.

And then the glow intensified.

"What the..." Miyako exclaimed as the glow expanded to cover her as well. She shrieked in surprise as she felt herself lifted off the ground as the light became blinding. She felt strange, like she was getting larger. She felt like her whole body was tingling. Unseen by her enveloped in the bright glow, her clothing was flying off. Her cargo pants she had taken care to keep dry flew straight down. Not long after, her underwear went in the same direction, both garments landing in the water and getting immediately soaked. Meanwhile her helmet flew out across the room, and her glasses followed suit as well, luckily for her landing undamaged.

Her backpack was hurled onto dry land fortunately, but her vest flew roofwards, fast enough to bounce off and then join the soaked cargo pants and underwear in the water below. It  followed by her blue shirt, which soon was darkened with the water it too in, and shortly after her bra was tossed into the air, joining her lower underwear in getting soaked. As the rain of unknowingly discarded clothes ended the glow faded, she fell back into the water, confused.

"What just happened..." She mumbled, then looked across the room, seeing her vest lying beside the way she had came in. She glanced down.

First she saw her cargo pants floating in front of her. Along with her shirt, and her bra

Second, she saw herself.

Both sights gave her reason to scream. In a panic, she ran, not paying any attention as to where she was going.

***

Hawkmon had managed to find Mimi as he searched for help.  Sora and Hikari were both also nearby, but the boys were much further away. Finding the hole Miyako had fell down was easy thanks to her dropped Digivice and D-Terminal.

"It looks pretty deep... Maybe we should wait for the others." Palmon noted.

"Yeah. I'll wait for Sora and Hikari in case we need some help." Mimi agreed reluctantly.

Sora and Hikari arrived soon after.

"Okay, Palmon's going to lower me down." Mimi said.

"Okay. We'll wait here in case you need help" Hikari nodded. Palmon extended her vines, lowering her human partner down.

"Is she down there?" Sora shouted.

"No. I think she went deeper into these caves."

Sora sighed.

"Okay... Hikari, you, me, Tailmon and Palmon go down and help find wherever she wandered off to. Piyomon and Hawkmon, wait up here and guide the guys in."

"Right, we can fly above and see them coming." Piyomon agreed.

Sora was lowered down as well. Soon enough, the girls and the two digimon that came down were heading for the light. Mimi was first in.

"Oh no..." She said. The others saw the sight before them. Miyako's clothes floating in the water, but no Miyako.

"Well, best case scenario is she's naked somewhere." Sora sighed.

"We'd better get her clothes together... How did they get in the water anyway?" Hikari wondered as she walked over to fetch Miyako's helmet and glasses, unaware of the small object the helmet had landed on. Her hand brushed against it, causing it to glow.

"What's that?" Mimi asked. Hikari picked it up.

"It looks like..." She began, but then the glow intensified.  Hikari became enveloped in the glow and rose into the air, her arms moving out into forty-five degree angles away from her body with her legs together.

"Hikari?! What's happening?" Tailmon cried out, as Hikari began glowing brightly, hovering a few feet off the floor

As the others watched, they were surprised to see Hikari's camera fly into straight the air, but land safely and surprisingly gently. Soon after, her pink shirt went up in the air, fluttering across the room and narrowly avoiding going in alongside most of Miyako's clothes. To their further surprise, her bra also went vertical and was less fortunate than the shirt, landing entirely in the water. Her gloves shot off her hands, one landing in the water, another on dry land.

Meanwhile her shoes flew off, hitting the ground. Each of her socks then landed together onto the fallen shoes, Her shorts followed, the khaki garment creating a small pile atop the shoes and socls. The pile of clothing from Hikari's lower body was finished when her underwear came down and landed atop the shorts, leaving Hikari glowing and floating above the ground, her modesty only preserved at the moment from the watching eyes by the light.  

As the last of the clothes landed, inside the light the girl began changing. She grew larger, taller. Her chest expanded considerably, and her hair appeared to become lighter, changing from brown to blue. Wings began to emerge from her back and from the sides of her head. As the wings on her back became full sized, clothing materialised around her. First, a shirt-like portion and a pair of panties or bikini bottoms, both skimpy, both purple. Next, a shoulder harness and long boots/leggings appeared, with suspenders materialising that connected the top of the boots to the bottom of the small shirt.

Finally, a mask covered her face as a long black neck guard, with a long portion extending down her back between her wings appeared, as did a set of long, armoured gloves. The Hikari they recognised was no longer there, the teen girl replaced by a winged humanoid that appeared to be in its twenties.

What was there blinked and stared at the surprised eyes watching her.

"What... Is something wrong?" It said, with Hikari's voice.

"You're a Shutumon!" Palmon said first. Hikari looked down at herself.

Hikari was understandably stunned by her change, especially since the first thing she saw staring down was her now much-expanded chest.

"What... What happened to me?! Did I get older?!"

"I thought that was just a legend..." Tailmon said in awe.

"...What was a legend?!" Sora shouted. She had just seen her friend transform into a tall, busty, winged Digimon she had never heard of.

"Spirit Evolution! It was supposed to be something that could let a human into the digital world back in the past before the Digidestined were needed. It transformed the human into a digimon." Palmon explained.

"Is this permanent?!" Hikari cried out.

"You should be able to change back if you want... I think. You should just need to concentrate on it if it's anything like how I dedigivolve deliberately." Tailmon said.

Hikari/Shutumon took a breath, and stood still for a moment. She began glowing again, the same process, but this time, what emerged at the end was the familiar brunette Digidestined of light. Unfortunately, her clothes were still scattered around the area and this time there was now glow around her body to help conceal her.

"Eeep!" She said, as she realised she was naked. She had began to cover herself instinctively, but realised there were only girls here with her. Blushing slightly she began collecting her own clothes together.

"Wait...  Hikari, don't get dressed. Just turn back into Shutumon. I'll get all you and Miyako's clothes together, try and dry hers out as much as I can. You'll be much more useful than me if there's something nasty down here." Palmon said.

"I'm not too thrilled at the idea of having to fight something myself to be honest, but I guess we should find Miyako fast." Hikari agreed.

"Hikari, if I were you I'd change back into the Shutumon now. It's less naked..." Sora advised. Hikari nodded and did so.

***

Up above, the boys had arrived. Iori, Takeru, Daisuke, Ken, Taichi and Yamato.  Only Jyou and Koushiro were not present, the former busy with school work, the latter watching over the others from his computer in the real world.

<Why are the girls in the caverns?> He asked in a message to Taichi's D-Terminal.

"Miyako fell in." Piyomon said.

<Miyako fell in>

<I know that, why did the others follow?> Koushiro replied.

"They wanted to make sure she was okay. Should they have waited or something?" Ken exclaimed.

Taichi typed the response.

<Yes. These caverns are prone to seismic activity.>

"...Do they know that?"  Takeru asked.

Taichi typed this, adding his own question

<....And why didn't you tell us before?>

<It's mostly just underground. I didn't think you'd go in.>

"For a smart guy he can be really dumb sometimes." Yamato sighed.

"Remind me to hit him when we get back." Taichi agreed, as he typed his own reply.

<Warn them, now.>

***

Leaving Palmon guarding and trying to dry the clothes, the other girls split up to try and find Miyako. As it happened, Hikari found her not that far away from the main room.

"...Miyako? Is that you?" She asked the shape before her.

Green skinned, dressed in strange blue clothes, humanoid, feminine, but with some obvious aquatic features, the shape was sitting in a corner sobbing.

"Hi... Hikari?! Did something happen to you too?! Are we both freaks?!" Miyako said, her voice filled with fear.

"It's okay! This isn't permanent! It's a kind of Digivolution." She replied, rushing over to reassure her friend.

"Really?"

"Yeah, watch."

Hikari demonstrated. Miyako, even with her green skin, blushed at what Shutumon turned back into.

"Um... You're naked."

"I know. Our clothes are back in that cavern." Hikari said sheepishly.

"How do I turn back?"

"Just think about it and you should. It worked for me."

Sure enough, Miyako changed back. Hikari smiled.

"See? I think we should go back to Digimon forms to go back. It's a little chilly down here."

"Good idea." Miyako agreed, and concentrated.

Her transformation went like Hikari's but Hikari had of course not seen it happen. With no clothing to be removed by the change, Miyako was simply enveloped in the light, and changed. First she grew taller, and like Hikari her chest expanded. Her hair vanished and her ears expanded into large fin-like shapes, while unseen thanks to the glow, her skin went from pale pink to light green. A small pair of fins emerged at her lower back like a tail. Soon after, a blue bodysuit materialised around her, along with similarly coloured leggings and gloves. The last object of "clothing" to materialise as the change finished was a helmet-like object that appeared on her head, with a long protrusion curving back.

'But... Neither of us are really wearing much come to think of it.' Miyako thought, as Hikari also changed into her newly-acquired Digimon form. She felt a slight tinge of jealousy at what Hikari could now become, thinking her friend's new ability resulted in a far prettier "evolved" form.

They soon found the others as well, and regrouped in the cavern.  Palmon had used her vines to dry Miyako's clothes mostly, by absorbing as much of the water as she could, but for now, she wasn't ready to change back and get dressed again.

"So... What am I?" Miyako asked, after Palmon and Tailmon explained. She had managed to get a proper look at herself in the water, and had to admit she could have transformed into something far worse.

"A Ranamon." Tailmon said.

"What's that?"

Palmon was about to explain, when the three D-Terminals in the room beeped. Sora opened hers first but Mimi read hers aloud

"It's from Koushiro. He says... Oh, wow. This whole place is prone to... Prone to what?"

"Seismic activity. He means earthquakes. Something New York doesn't get." Sora said teasingly.

"I know what he meant! It's just a...." Mimi shouted, but cut herself off as she realised the problem.

"Just a what?" Hikari/Shutumon asked. A low rumble answered.

"...Just it'd be bad for a cave in or an earthquake down here." Mimi said in a cringing whisper. The rumble grew louder.


***

"Oh great..." Taichi muttered as the ground shook.

"Go back!"  They heard from down the hole, followed soon after by a loud crash. Dust billowed from the hole, and Taichi, alarmed at the thought of his sister having been hurt or worse in a cave in, rushed over.

"Hikari! Are you okay?!" He shouted.

"Taichi! Stop shouting!" Tailmon said.

"What happened?" He said more quietly  but still alarmed.

"The girls were in the cavern when the quake began, we tried to get back here and get out fast but the entrance fell in." Palmon said back up.

"Are they okay?"

A pause.

"Yeah. It was just this part that fell in. No one's hurt, but me and Palmon are cut off from them."

The boys breathed a sigh of relief, then realised the new problem.

"They're going to need to find another way out."  Takeru realised.

"Well, maybe Armadillomon could dig down..." Daisuke began, then paused.

"... No, there'd just be another cave in."

"I'm impressed you realised how stupid an idea that was so fast." Takeru taunted.

"Bite me."

"Daisuke might be on the right track..." Ken mused. He sent a message to the girls.

"You two climb out, we're going to go look for another exit. Wait here." Taichi told the two Digimon down the hole. Before they could get back up and explain what else had happened down below, the boys had once again split up, taking Hawkmon and Piyomon with them.

"You know, I hope they find a way out and surprise the guys..." Tailmon grinned.

"Yeah. I'd love to see Taichi's face when a Shutumon says she's his little sister..." Palmon grinned.

***

"He wants us to look for another way out. If it's a small hole that already exists he thinks they might be able to dig it wider without risking another cave in. They'll look from above." Sora read from her D-Terminal.

"Okay... But what about the risk of something down here? And Hikari's digimon form has wings. Can you fly?" Mimi pondered.

"I'm not trying it down here." Hikari/Shutumon said.

"Hey, wait... I just realised..." Miyako/Ranamon said. She lay down in the water, covering herself over.

"...What's she doing?" Sora asked.

She sat back up triumphantly

"I can breathe underwater like this!"

"Good for you, but we need to dig. Or find somewhere Hikari can fly us out."

At that, another rumble began, but it was more like something distant striking a wall.

"It's coming from this way!" Sora realised.

The four ran off, and found after a few minutes, the source of the problem. The cave-in had been caused by a trio of Gotsumon, wearing Dark Rings. Under no ones control, but driven to madness.

"Okay... I think we found some of those crazed Digimon..." Hikari/Shutumon noted.

The three rookies regarded the two new Digimon. In their madness, they responded with attacks, a hail of rocks flung at the two humans and two Digimon-human hybrids.

"Yikes!" Mimi exclaimed as the four dodged the rocks.

Hikari/Shutumon and Miyako/Ranamon however went forward. Hikari/Shutumon attacked, glowing red energy around her hands carefully cutting the Dark Rings off.  To her regret though, Miyako discovered what attacks she had were useless for removing them. The Gotsumon she had picked simply punched her

"Ow! That hurt!" She cried, as Hikari/Shutumon sliced the Dark Ring off. The three Gotsumon paused, and then blinked in confusion.

"Wow... What happened to us?" One said. The other two stared at Hikari and Miyako.

"Um... Aren't you supposed to be legends?" Another asked.

"Apparently not." Hikari/Shutumon replied.

***

The three Gotsumon had come back to the lit cavern with the girls. Neither Hikari nor Miyako had reverted.

"So, do you three know how we can get out?" Mimi asked.

"Well, if you two humans could fly like her or climb like us, there's a gap near here that leads out the side of a hill. " One said.

Mimi sighed.

"Flying's out. We'll have to try and climb I guess unless Hikari carries us up or we can guide the guys towards us."

"Uh, girls... I just found another two of those weird digivices." Sora said.

Hikari took a closer look at "Hers".

"Hey. I just noticed. My crest's on this one."

Miyako looked at hers.

"Mine too." She noted. She went over to the others Sora had found.

"These have your crests too." Miyako/Ranamon said, and grinned.

"Here, catch..." She said, picking them up, tossing one to Mimi and forcing one into Sora's hands.

"Hey, wait!" Sora cried out, but it was too late.

Both her and Mimi glowed, hovered slightly into the air, and their clothes too began to be hurled around the room.  Mimi's blue and red star-shirt went skyward. A second later, Sora's blue and white neckerchief was also in the air, giving Mimi a slight head start. Mimi's boots each clattered to the ground, and then her socks landed upon them. Sora's sneakers likewise hit the ground, and her socks also came to rest atop her footwear. Mimi's miniskirt then joined her pile, and Sora's pleated green uniform skirt came down too

Mimi's lower-body pile was finished off when her underwear dropped, but Sora had also worn a pair of bike shorts below her skirt, meaning her change would wind up taking another second longer as they landed. Her underwear landed atop the shorts a second after . Meanwhile, Mimi's bra flew off, heading towards the roof like her shirt before her. Sora wasn't that far behind, but her neckerchief and shorts had slowed her transformation slightly, meaning that as her green uniform jerseu flew away there was still the white blouse below, which also came flying out. Finally, when Sora's own bra came flying loose, the two girls now had their modesties concealed only by the glow like Hikari and Miyako had done so less than an hour before, and almost right away began to gain their new "clothes".


Both girls first gained altered hair. Mimi's hair became purple, while Sora's turned blue, though the glow of the light obscured this from the observers. Their chests also expanded as they grew taller, and in Mimi's case, large fairy wings rapidly appeared from her back. The pair began to gain clothing now, Mimi gaining a purple pair of panties/bloomers as well as a matching top/bra and belt, while Sora gained a white top with silver shoulderguards and bloomers. The pair then both gained leggings/boots, both girls getting the same colours as their previous clothes, though Sora's had an obvious jet engine motif.

Mimi also gained a suspenders that linked form her boots to her belt and bra, and as it emerged, a shoulder portion. Both then gained gloves, Mimi getting first purple skintight gloves that were topped off by white gauntlets that had their own small butterfly wings above the top of the hand. Sora's also had wings, but remained white and matched the jetplane look. However, rather than gaining any additional shoulder portion, she gained smooth mechanical-looking wings, further enhancing her jet-plane appearance. To finish off, Mimi gained a silver visor and a headband with wings, while Sora's costume became even more obvious with the addition of a hat that resembled a small aeroplane as she also gained a white mask over her lower face. Sora lastly gained a strange staff that resembled a large windmill.

The two transformed girls were embarrassed to see that their clothes were everywhere. A puzzled Gotsumon had Mimi's pink bra dangling from his head. Sora's shirt had landed on Hikari/Shutumon's wings. On top of that, the two could only stare in confusion at their new forms. Since their friends had changed before them, the pair took this change with far less alarm and instead were simply more annoyed that Miyako had tricked them like that.

"Thanks, Miyako, turning into a whatever-the-hell-I-am and throwing my clothes around the place is just what I needed." Sora sighed.

"What exactly have we become?" Mimi asked.

"You're a Kazemon!" A Gotsumon said.

"And she's a JetSilphymon!" Another said.

"Wait, Silphymon?" Miyako/Ranamon asked.

"Yeah. I know there's not much resemblance but I don't know which one came first. I think it was her though." The Gotsumon explained.

"Hey, now three of you can fly!" Another realised.

"He's right. Where's this exit?" Sora/JetSilphymon said.

***

The boys were surprised by what emerged from the possible entrance they had found. Just as they were sending messages to the girls, three strange flying Digimon emerged from the gap. One carried another that was unable to fly.

"Who are you?" Taichi challenged them.

"It's us!" Sora/JetSilphymon said. The boys stared.

"...Sora?"

"Oh. Uh, well, it's tricky to explain, but well... Me, Miyako, Mimi, and Sora kind of found new Digivices that let us turn into Digimon. We can turn back though, watch..." Hikari/Shutumon said.

"Hikari, no!" Miyako/Ranamon cried, grabbing her arm.

"What is it?"

Miyako/Ranamon pointed.

"Boys!"  She said, hoping this would explain enough about why devolving now was a bad idea.

Sure enough, Hikari/Shutumon realised the problem. Fortunately, she had a facemask to cover her blush.

"Uh... Okay, wait here. I'll be back in a minute." Hikari said, going behind a tree. She changed back, devolving into her human self.  

She'd walked far enough away so as to hear if anyone was approaching, but (correctly) assumed the other girls would block anyone from coming over. She began to get dressed again, and despite no one seeing her couldn't help but blush at the notion she was naked with nothing but a tree between her and a number of boys, not to mention how she'd almost gone and changed back into her human form right in front of them...

She decided to get dressed quickly, pulling her panties on and then her shorts. Once she had done her belt back up, she hooked her D3 and her newly-found Digivice onto it, the older D3 at her right hip, the new Digivice on her let. She then put on her socks and shoes, before moving onto her bra, quickly putting it on. She tugged her shirt over her head, and looped her camera back over her neck, before deciding she could pull her gloves on as she went back.

At the same time she did this, the others spoke, Daisuke a little puzzled.

"What's up... Why did she have to go over there to show us?" Daisuke pondered as a glow came from behind the tree., then realised something else.

"Uh... You're all carrying... Clothes."

He began to head over, when Miyako/Ranamon blocked his path. Hidden behind the tree, Hikari had only just began to pull her shorts back up.

"No way. I see what you just figured out." She said. Daisuke looked crestfallen.

"Wait. You four turn into really hot humanoid Digimon now?" Yamato realised. He didn't add that he was surprised and impressed by the fact all four had grown significantly in the chest area...

"Yeah. And thanks, Yamato!" Mimi/Kazemon grinned.

"Why are you carrying your clothes?" Takeru asked, as Hikari returned, back in human form, and now fully dressed.

"Because when we Digivolve they seem to fly off." She said.

"Oh... Wait, what?" Ken realised.

"Damn it, I was right!" Daisuke cried out. Then the other guys realised what he had been trying to do.

"....Daisuke, you've got ten seconds to run." Taichi said.

The younger Digidestined bolted, and far less than ten seconds later the Angry Overprotective Big Brother chased after him. The others watched them vanish, Hikari blushing slightly, embarrassed at her near-miss and the fact Daisuke had been moments from peeking on her.

"Okay, girls, we're only going to use this in emergencies since Daisuke just reminded us why it's a bad idea to wind up naked." Sora noted.

"We'd better go catch them before Taichi hurts Daisuke." Hikari mumbled.

"Or those two morons run right down another hole... You all go on ahead, I think we had better change back. " Mimi noted.

"Okay. I'll make sure none of these guys double back." Hikari replied.

"Like we would!" Yamato said, obviously lying.

"You would..." Sora noted, seeing right through it.

They went on anyway, Hikari keeping a close eye on them. When they were well out of sight, each of the three girls changed back, picking their own tree to hide behind.

Mimi wanted to be covered up as fast as possible, so she pulled her skirt on. She then out her bra on, covering herself up mostly. She then pulled on her shirt, and, with the parts she wanted hidden concealed by her skirt, was free to carefully pull her underwear up her legs. She then took her time to make sure her socks went on carefully, since her long boots made it hard to adjust them. Once the socks were on to her satisfaction, she put her boots on. Now clothed, she adjusted her clothes more carefully, and was soon her usual neat self.

Sora however was likewise seeking speed, but did so by simply throwing her underwear on quickly. She then quickly put her bra on, and then pulled her blouse over her head, glad that somehow none of the buttons had burst or come undone. Her bike shorts that she wore below her skirt were next, and then the skirt itself. Her socks were then pulled on swiftly, and her sneakers followed, before she pulled on her green jersey and adjusted her neckerchief.. She didn't spend as much time as Mimi adjusting, but was finished far before her, even with more clothing to put on.

Miyako simply pulled her socks on, then her underwear. She then put her bra back on, surprised to note how dry Palmon had got her clothing. The red cargo pants came on, and she was careful to ensure the belt was done up properly as she did so. The blue shirt was next, pulled over her head, followed by the vest. Leaving her gloves off to put her helmet back on, she then picked up her glasses, thankful they were undamaged by their forceful removal earlier. Once done, she finished with her gloves, and pulled her boots on. Walking back out to where Mimi and Sora waited, she put her backpack on once again over her shoulders.

"I guess we should catch up?" Miyako asked.

"Yeah. And this time, watch out for the potholes. I don't want to have to get dressed in a forest again any time soon." Mimi said.