The virus Simon had stepped away from seemed to have its attention taken fully by the two digimon, Wormmon and Candlemon, and was ignoring him now that they'd changed. It seemed that Lily's desperation had been the trigger needed for her partners to digivolve into their Child stage, finally battle-ready. Though the box's contents remained a mystery, and likely would stay as such for now, at least now there was a fighting chance for the two children on that side of the hill, perhaps more-so now that Solarman had awoken.

As Enma activated the chip, inserting it into one of the small slots near his wrist, his partner Fefnir.exe's silhouette appeared in red in the world in front of him before filling from the bottom up with red 1s and 0s, his form realizing as they passed each part of him. Within a second, he was standing there in full force, ready to fight. It seemed that the egg in Enma's vision was unaffected by the chip, however. Perhaps the user's intent had something to do with its effect?

Similar to Lily, Suzi's desperate command had brought about digivolution for her partner, and though it remained safe and secure within her Expanse Caller, it was now in its In-Training II stage and closer to being ready for a real battle. 

Aki's hand went to the pickaxe, and to the virus' immense surprise, and likely to everyone else's as well, the pickaxe stopped as it bounced off her hand. The force behind it was enough to injure her where it connected, but she had managed to stop the attack before it finished, and in some miracle of timing, had -COUNTER-'d the attack, stunning the Mettaur for several seconds. Unfortunately, the Mettaur that had ignored her before in order to continue to the tower seemed to sense this, instantly turning back around and jumping up to its full size. It stared at her for a moment before firing a bullet of energy at her. It seemed that these viruses weren't just limited to their pickaxe attacks as they were in the games some of the children knew them from, but could use the attacks of their predecessors from the earlier Megaman games as well.