The ground shook as an earthquake ravaged this part of the digital world. Mountains cracked, trees toppled, rivers changed course, and fissures ripped open... but it was isolated, and there were few Digimon in the area when it happened. But as a cliff face crumbled, a spike of energy broke loose... a new cavern exposed, and attention caught...

***

A few hours later, a golden-furred Digimon neared. She was Canewomon, a Mega-level spellcaster, who sought to investigate this strange energy. White dress blowing in the wind and staff at the ready, she neared the newly exposed caves. She looked over the scene and with a glow of her wand, opened a small orb of light nearby, communicating with her two sisters.

"I'm at the location of the signal, and I can't sense anything else from out here... just the residual energy of the first spike. I'll have to go inside," the anthropomorphic canine spellcaster said to them.

"Be careful, sister. We'll meet you there soon enough." CrimsonCanewomon, her red-furred sister replied.

Dismissing the orb, she began picking her way over rubble, heading in. Staff glowing to light the way, she saw the caverns seemed to be very deep, leading far into the centre of the Digital World.

She walked down the darkening way, her staff the only light after some distance, until she came to a wider cave, that seemed to have branching paths. She went into the middle of it to examine the ways...

...And heard a squelch under her bare feet.

Looing down, she saw that her paw had went right into a strange patch of purple goo... that felt slimy and disgusting.

"Ugh.... This is maybe why I should wear shoes," she muttered, about to wipe off the odd substance until her senses noted... it felt like the spike.

Confused, she paused. And then the ooze sparked with energy.

As she yelped it rapidly expanded, coating her foot and racing up her leg. Panicking, Canewomon tried to ready a spell, anything, to counter this... but the ooze moved with speed, crackling with puple lightning bolts that made her fur stand on end before the goo flowed over and flattened it. Up her leg, to her waist, where it split and flowed down the other limb, while also heading up her torso.

She struggled to think, and struggled to move her legs and hips that were now covered in the crackling purple sludge. Up and up it raced as she failed to think of a way out, until it lapped at her neck, and raced for her ears.

With a shocked gasp that turned to one of strange pleasure, her eyes went wide. The goo slipped into her ears as it continued covering her body, and her shock-turned-pleasure expression began fading to blankness. Her emerald green eyes dulled for a moment... and then glowed with purple energy, brief sparks in her irises as the green was consumed.

She stood stiff like a statue as the ooze began to slowly drop off her, making no sound, and just the squelch-splodge of the flowing goo dropping away, leaving not even a trace of itself on her fur. And when it was done, she stood for a moment more...

...And then as she heard a call from down one of the paths, like a beckoning voice, she moved stiffly, robotically. Into the darkness she went, her staff light out, and a purple glow lighting the way from her eyes instead.

***

Some time later, two more approached the ripped open cliffside. They resembled the golden furred first visitor, but one had dark black-grey fur, and a greyish-purple motif to her dress, while the other was red-orange furred, with a pinkish-light red dress. These were EbonyCanewomon and CrimsonCanewomon, the sisters of the first visitor.

"The cave is blocking any sensing... She'll probably still be inside," EbonyCanewomon said as she tried to scan the area.

"Then I'll go find her and you track the energy," CrimsonCanewomon suggested.

"Very well..."

The sisters split up, scanning with their power down different corridors of the caverns.The red-furred sister would find 'success' in her mission first, for after ten minutes, she found Canewomon standing still in an empty room, facing away from her. The floor seemed to be a dark liquid, the golden spellcaster ankle deep in whatever it was...

"Sister? Are you all right?" CrimsonCanewomon called out, to no response.

The red Canewomon moved closer to the gold...

And with a squelching sound, realised she had placed her bare feet right into some disgusting ooze, the gooey cold substans under her soles and pawpads.

"Eurgh... Why are you standing in this muddy slime..." CrimsonCanewomon said, then gasped as the goo crackled with the purple energy.

It raced up both feet, moving fast, coating her and locking her in place as she barely had a second to squirm. Crackling and sparking, it soon reached her neck, and her ears... and with a few purple lightning bolts, she gasped, shock, pleasure, just like her sister some time before.

And like her sister, as the energy flowed into her mind, her eyes lost clarity for a moment, and then shifted. Sparkles of purple energy began replacing the light green of the red furred Digimon's eyes, until her irises glowed the same purple as Canewomon. The same purple as the crackling energy of the ooze.

And the gold-furred sister turned, eyes blank yet glowing, and locking vision with her still stiffened sister, before soon enough, both began moving, limbs jerky and mechanical, but moving at a considerable pace....

***

EbonyCanewomon had found a strange lake of a purplish... goo? Ooze? Gunk? She knelt down to take a close, but careful look.

"...This feels dangerous. And so much like the spike of energy. But this surely isn't the source, even this isn't enough for all that," She noted to herself.

She made to stand... When she felt her world flip, as paws pushed her over and into the goo! With a massive squelch the grey-black canine fell in, getting covered head to toe almost instantly.

"Ugh, who..." She sputtered and wiped her eyes, looking to see... her sisters?

"What are you two doing?! This stuff is... AAH!"

Her anger was interrupted by purple lightining over her whole coated form, her body stiffening up... and her ruby-red eyes blanking before the purple sparks consumed and recoloured her irises like her sisters that stared down at her. She sat stiff, eyes glowing, as CrimsonCanewomon picked up some of the sludge, rubbing it against her sister's pawpads, where it did not react.

"She is ready too," CrimsonCanewomon said in a monotone, reaching to help her fallen sister.

The sludge dropped away, the trio completely spotless on the outside. And now all three were standing, they began walking, the same robotic movements....

The trio eventually reached another large room of the caverns, where true lakes of the ooze flowed, glowing as purple as their eyes. It bubbled and writhed here, flowing down from cracks like waterfalls. The slapping-splodge noise of the raining goo echoed from the walls, as the three walked into the lake.

Lightning arced over the three, cries of pleasure coming from their mouths as their glowing eyes stared upwards. It sparked at their ears, their eyes glowing brighter and brighter as a voice in their heads spoke up.

Embrace the power.... 

Canewomon's eyes sparked and glowed.

Surrender your will.... 

Pink swirls span in CrimsonCanewomon's eyes as her thoughts became blanker and blanker...

Your individuality becomes one with each other....  

EbonyCanewomon's free will faded too, once-red irises a kaleidoscope of pink and purple....

Becomes one with us....

The sparking stopped, and their eyes all went dark. The ooze around them fell black too, and the cavern was devoid of light for a moment....

...Until Canewomon's eyes opened, glowing with ever more intensity. She stood to attention, the ooze starting to glow faintly once more.

CrimsonCanewomon's eyes also opened in their brilliant purple glow as she stood ramrod straight, and soon too, did EbonyCanewomon's violet gaze shine bright.

The three walked out of the ooze, in unison, halting for a moment to examine their feet, where the power of the ooze had first touched them. First blessed them. All three moved in unison, standing on one paw and lifting the other to examine it. None of them so much as wobbled, their unity keeping them in fine balance.

"Such wonderful freedom... my beautiful golden pawpads that released me from the binds of my old life," Canewomon said.

"Yes, such amazing things. We did not realise such a thing so literally beneath us was so amazing... such astonishing colour... such wonder..." EbonyCanewomon agreed

"My pads are the fiery red that burned away my old false life, letting the unity take me... take us..." CrimsonCanewomon said.

The three entranced and unified sisters admired their own paws for their part in their new reality a moment more, before as one, they put their limbs back down, and began planning...

"We must spread this power," Canewomon spoke in flat monotone.

"We must evolve our minds," CrimsonCanewomon agreed in the same speech pattern.

"We must expand our knowledge. We must add more individuality to ourselves," EbonyCanewomon added.

"We must become one with more," Canewomon said.

"The one known as Taomon. Her wisdom and her individuality will expand us greatly," Ebony suggested.

"The one known as Garudamon. Her flight shall be of value," Crimson selected a target.

"Gather the power. Take the Ooze forth, and bring them into us," Canewomon agreed.

The sisters did so, scoops of the ooze taken by Crimson and Ebony. Canewomon took her own share, a target in the mind of what she once had been coming forth. Magnadramon... No, she would be brought here directly.

***

It was a few days later as Taomon walked through the woods, heading to meet EbonyCanewomon. The Ultimate level Vixen-wizard had been invited by the dark-furred canine to see 'something worthwhile'.

....And Taomon was something of a sucker for a little mystery.

As she neared where they were to meet, she saw the canine ahead, her fur making her seem almost like a shadow standing by a lake. She seemed to be looking out at something...

"EbonyCanewomon! I've arrived!" Taomon shouted and began walking over...

...Only to halt in surprise as her foot landed in something with a squelch. Looking down at her paw, she was puzzled by the film of purple ooze on her pads... Giving off an odd sensation. It was like nothing she'd seen before, and seemed to emit an odd data...

"Did you put this here?" She asked the other Digimon, but no reply came.

It did, however, ensure Taomon did not see the crackling energy erupt.

She gasped in surprise when she felt the shock, the small patch of goo spreading, racing up her body and towards her ears. Surprise became pleasure as it entered, crackling and sparking as her eyes began to change. Blue vulpine eyes began to be consumed by sparks and bolts of purple until Taomon's eyes glowed, her expression blanking, and body stiff.

EbonyCanewomon turned, eyes glowing bright like searchlights of purple, and advanced to the newly entranced Taomon. The black-grey canine reached up, taking off the vixen's hat, and letting her silver hair loose to flow down her back.

"You will follow me, Taomon," she ordered.

The Ultimate level Digimon obeyed without a word, moving in the stiff robotic, yet speedy, manner....

***

Garudamon looked over herself in the mirror. Her altered form wasn't one she really felt that fond of. Normally, she was a huge creature, a massive bird. But CrimsonCanewomon's request to come over apparently needed her smaller.

Most higher level Digimon had a way to alter themselves to be more anthropomorphic, but it was rarely used. Garudamon didn't like using her form because not only was it smaller, it made her look more humanlike... and resulted in the redundant mammalian appearance of breasts.

Still, being the same size as CrimsonCanewomon was apparently important, so she did it. She'd always be able to undo it and revert to her true form later when her friend was done.

"Okay, I'm ready, what's this you want to show me? This stuff that's made you sound so calm and relaxed?" She asked as she left the changing room, where she had rather literally changed.

(She rather liked a calmer CrimsonCanewomon to be honest, and if it was something that worked on her too, well... it was nice to relax.)

"Please sit down," CrimsonCanewomon said, and the avian obeyed.

The canine knelt down soon after, producing a bucket of a purple slime. Garudamon watched as the red-furred Digimon took a scoop and reached for her talons.

Confused, but not objecting, the bird let her friend rub the ooze on the soles of her bird feet... and then gasped as the purple energy began flowing. From both feet, it raced up her form and entered her ears so swiftly, confusion and shock were obliterated and conquered by a pleasurable sensation in a flash.

The second gasp was of joy as the electricity flowed into her mind, and her green eyes became a thunderstorm of purple that subverted and repainted everything purple. Her lower beak had fallen open as her expression and eyes blanked, and the avian sat stiff for a moment.

"Rise up," CrimsonCanewomon said in a monotone.

Garudamon stood, almost like to attention, as the canine reached to close her open beak.

"You are on your way to being like us now. This shall be your form, eternal."

"...Yes. I... we... shall remain this way," Garudamon agreed

"Good. You will follow."

And with that command, the entranced and now transformed avian obeyed.

***

Magnadramon moved through the caverns, a little dismayed she was normally too big to fit this place. But she'd been an Angewomon once or twice in the past, so the chest her smaller form gained didn't bother her too much.

Canewomon had said she found something unusual, and so, Magnadramon had come to see it and figure out what to do next. The canine had sounded exhausted when she had made the call, so someone else around to maybe take over from whatever she was up to was probably a good idea.

She found her way into a cave-room, following the directions she'd been given, saw Canewomon in the middle of it.... And set her foot down in something squelchy.

She looked down, her pink paw now covered in a purple goop

"Canewomon? What's this purple stuff?" The dragon wondered... before it came to life.

Crackling energy and flowing goo raced up the dragon's leg, moving fast as it reached her torso, and flowed down the other leg. Magnadramon gasped in shock before it reached her neck, then hit her ears... and then she gave a sound of pleasure as her eyes grew first wide, then began to blank. Her green irises sparkled and crackled in purple until they were completely changed, glowing... and then her expression fell blank. The goo fell off her, and for a moment she stood like a large pink fluffy toy...

...until Canewomon walked over, her eyes aglow too.

"It is a gift for you. For us. It is one we shall embrace for eternity," the golden canine said, before lightly grasping the back of the dragon's head, leaning in.... and kissing her deeply.

Footsteps neared, and four more entered, eyes glowing, as Canewomon withdrew from the kiss.

"Come. We shall complete this," Canewomon said, and the other five obeyed.

***

At the lake of glowing ooze, Magnadramon, Garudamon, and Taomon stepped in, to face the Canewomon that had turned them. Golden fur faced pink, red feathers stood across from red hair, and yellow faced black.

The energy began flowing, sparking up the bodies of the three newcomers. They gave gasps of delight, as it again reached their ears, and began to let them embrace the new power. Let them become one with those around them....

Their eyes span, and the energy crackled. Pink and purple spirals formed in their eyes, and the three chanted.

"We embrace..."

"We give in..."

"We free ourselves of individuality..."

"We become one..."

"We shall evolve our minds..."

"We shall expand our consciousness..."

"We are one..."

The energy dimmed, the oozes glow faded, and a darkness fell... until first, Taomon's eyes began brightly glowing as she stood at stiff attention. EbonyCanewomon smiled.

Garudamon was next, and CrimsonCanewomon was also delighted.

Finally, Magnadramon became like them, stiffly standing, glowing, and her opposite canine smiling. As her eyes glowed bright purple her old mind dimmed.

"Thank you for breaking us of our restraints.... Our old fruitless lives as individuals. Now we are one," Magnadramon said in flat monotone.

"We are one," the other two echoed.

Canewomon entered the goo, reaching the pink dragon, to hug and kiss the new addition. Her new lover.

"Do you also wish a reward?" Garudamon asked the red canine before her.

CrimsonCanewomon's reply was to walk over and embrace the avian, as well as kissing the beak of the bird.

EbonyCanewomon moved to Taomon.

"My love, do you know of any who we can spread our power to? Any who would expand our unity?"

The vixen nodded.

"There is a female Garurumon, and a Lekismon. They are together, and reside near my own home. They would be fine additions."

EbonyCanewomon nodded.

"Yes, they sound perfect," she said, before embracing and kissing the vixen like her sisters had with their own new partners.

Magnadramon and Canewomon separated, while the other two pairs held their embraces and kisses.

"I wonder, my love... can our unity spread to humans? I know of a tamer, a Digidestined, with a Gatomon partner. She could be a way to expand beyond even this realm," the Dragon said.

Canewomon simply smiled blankly, as the idea was considered....