Additional Author's Notes: I guess I should apologize for my rather blatant exploitation of original characters (including digimon). There is really a very simple explanation for how this whole mess came about. I became addicted to Digimon Xros Wars and lacking the inclination to seek out prospective role-players I thought I could satisfy my obsession by working it into a fanfic. Somehow, over the course of several months, it expanded from a simple one-shot into a five chapter story arc of increasing absurdity. If nothing else, I suppose this is worth submitting here just because Imperialdramon makes such an awesome airship.

I would also like to note that this was all originally submitted in a community I maintain over on LiveJournal where I was able to take certain creative liberties with some of the formatting. More specifically, the Digi Xros sequences are a lot more colorful.


Disclaimer: Although the severely warped and twisted imagination is my own, Digimon Xros Wars and its characters are the property of Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, Toei Animation, and TV Asahi.


| Digimon Xros Wars | Xtra | Part 1 |

No one ever plans for these things to happen. One minute you're walking home from school. The next, the sky tears open and you find yourself being whisked away to another world. Alright, so it doesn't happen to everyone. In fact, such occurrences are probably extremely rare. Nevertheless, this is roughly what happened to Crystal Mizuka.

Crystal was your average teenager. She had blue-green eyes and blond hair that came down a little below her shoulders with a small braid dangling in front of her left ear and bangs that could be considered somewhat unruly. She was a bit of a tomboy dressed in blue jeans with a black tanktop under a short-sleeved orange hoodie vest, black sneakers with barely visible navy blue trim and a matching pair of fingerless gloves. There was also a stainless steel chain around her neck with a small pendant in the shape of a dragon hanging from it.

Crystal was the kind of person who was more comfortable climbing a tree or sitting in front of a computer than she was with people. She liked to dabble in a little bit of everything, but she wasn't so great at math or history. And she was even worse with geography. Still, she could get around just fine on her own as long as she could spot familiar landmarks to refer to. However, none of that had prepared her for the day when she would be swept away into the Digital World.

It happened suddenly, but with plenty of warning. First clouds began speeding across the sky. Then the sky itself flickered from it's familiar reassuring blue color to a strange luminescent green in patches that seemed strangely pixelated. In the next instant the sidewalk beneath Crystal's feet suddenly split forming a narrow pitfall filled with the name eerie green light. Crystal started to fall and it seemed that tunnel beyond the narrow opening might just go on forever. As Crystal continued tumbling downward she eventually lost consciousness.


A Gururumon chomped onto the right flank of an approaching Tuskmon in the midst of a battle taking place to guard the entrance to a narrow canyon. A Raptordramon nearby rammed headlong into another. A Lighdramon unleashed a powerful blast of lightning on several others. And a Togemogumon pelted even more of the advancing Tuskmon with a barrage of the diamond spears from its back. Still, they were gravely outnumbered.

That was when the human girl appeared on the ground in the midst of the battlefield just beyond the mouth of the canyon. A small green-eyed black dragon with a pattern of silver and gold lightning bolt stripes took an immediate interest in the unconscious human. The dragon had fleshy ear-like or horn-like protrusions extending from the back of its head and a pair of golden, bat-like wings on its back that were clearly much too small to be of any use for flying. It also had five fingered hands with each digit ending in a pointed silver claw and three-toed, silver clawed feet.

Meanwhile, a red raptor-like digimon with black tiger stripes was preparing to intercept an approaching Deltamon. The raptor-like digimon had a pair of metallic spikes protruding from the back of its skull as well as metallic horns above each of its blue eyes and another above each nostril. It was roughly four and a half feet in height and perhaps six and a half feet in length from its snout to the tip of its tail. It had three wickedly curved white claws on each hand with matching claws on its three-toed feet.

The Deltamon aligned the metallic serpent and skull heads on each of its arms into a triangle with its main head so that all three mouths would be in position to unleash the devastating blue-colored beam of its Triplex Force attack. The raptor-like digimon exclaimed, "Spit Fire!" in a decidedly masculine voice before exhaling a golden burst of flames to intercept the beam. Where the attacks collided there was an explosion and the shockwave pushed the raptor-like digimon back several meters, but he refused to back down.

"Slashmon," the black dragon attending to the unconscious human girl called out to the raptor-like digimon in a distinctly feminine and incredibly arrogant voice, "you're going to scare our new friend doing that!"

"Well then Zapmon," the raptor-like digimon called Slashmon grunted, "if you're concerned about that, then perhaps you ought to find someone to help you move the human away from here."

The explosion, along with the strange voices that followed, finally brought Crystal back to the domain of consciousness just in time to see Deltamon unleashing a second wave of its Triplex Force attack. Slashmon's claws began to shine as he charged into the attack and proceeded to cut through the beam with his claws while exclaiming, "Battle Claw!" This caused the portions of the beam that had been struck by Slashmon's claws to become redirected back on Deltamon causing the large, three-headed blue dragon to reel backward from the impact.

Slashmon seemed to smirk, "I'll handle things here."

Crystal sat up in considerable confusion. Zapmon tugged at her sleeve speaking urgently, "Hey. Think you can walk? We need to get out of here."

"Uh," Crystal started slowly. "Yeah, I think so."

She managed to get up on her feet. Zapmon seemed satisfied by this and started dashing into the canyon waving over her should for the girl to follow, "Come on, this way!"

Crystal hesitated, but considering what she had just witnessed she couldn't think of a reason to argue so she reluctantly followed after the small dragon.


Zapmon led Crystal to a spot where there were already a Yuki Agumon, Dorumon and a Tokomon hiding with a group of Dodomon and Dorimon behind a row of boulders. Crystal was trying to find her bearings and failing spectacularly with all the abnormal visual stimuli that the Digital World had to offer. After several long moments of this she couldn't tolerate it anymore.

"What the heck is going on here!" she demanded of no one in particular. She already knew that the red raptor from before and the black dragon that was with her could talk which meant that the other creatures that were now surrounding her could probably speak as well, but she had trouble finding any comfort in that knowledge.

"We're under attack," Zapmon supplied helpfully. "You picked a pretty nasty time to show up here."

Crystal's mind struggled to interpret what she had seen when she had regained consciousness. Monsters fighting with monsters and some of them were huge. But wait, why were they fighting each other? She quickly realized that the monsters on the side she had fallen on, because she distinctly remembered falling before she got there, must have been trying to protect all the smaller monsters that she was hiding with. When Crystal thought of it like that, she began to wonder if monster was even the right classification for these strange creatures. The small ones were cute and harmless looking enough that it made her seriously doubt her previous assessment.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Crystal offered dumbly.

"Probably not," Zapmon responded doubtfully. "Just stay here and stay out of the way."

Crystal didn't like the sound of that. She wanted to help. And that was when she thought she heard a voice that didn't belong to Zapmon or any of the other surrounding digimon.

To Be Continued...


Author's Note: I thought I could make this a simple one-shot, but with the way things are going it looks like that's going to be out of the question now. Obviously, I should have known better. This is Digimon after all.