A/N: Okay...for those of you who think of me as "that girl who wrote all those badfics about the Digimon villains"...you can think of this as an apology of sorts. I deleted most of my pre-2010 stuff, anyway. That's how ashamed I am. From now on, I'll try and make more of an effort to keep people in character. Also, I'll try to think of better jokes than in the past, where I just used generic random humor with no rhyme or reason and called it funny. And no, this fanfic is not about Season 1 or any villains from that season. In fact, this is a Season 2 fic, and it stars Datirimon, who was Oikawa's partner digimon from the last episode. Hey, I thought there was potential! And I wanted to do something a little different from the norm...

But enough about that. If I keep this up for very much longer, the author's note will be longer than the actual story. So let's start this, already!

Heroes Wear Green

All around him, he could see grass. Miles and miles of grass, swaying in the wind. There were a few rocks, and he thought he could see a tree or two in the distance. He was sitting against a small rock, and he felt like there was something he needed to do. Right now, though, he felt a little sleepy. He thought he could hear the faint sound of waves rolling onto sand, but he wasn't sure. The sky was overcast, which wasn't too strange for this time of year. As long as it didn't rain, he would be fine.

He leaned back and let out a huge yawn. As he shut his black eyes, he felt he could drift off. However, he soon felt something on his forehead. Groggily opening his eyes, he discovered a little white butterfly perched on his forehead.

"Oh...hi!" he said to the butterfly. The butterfly flapped its wings a little, then quickly took flight and sped off. Before he knew it, the butterfly had returned with a swarm of many identical butterflies, and his eyes widened in awe. He was about to say something, but suddenly, the butterflies flew underneath him, scooped him up, and started flying around.

"Whoa!" he shouted, before chuckling nervously. "So, where are we going?"

As he expected, the butterflies said nothing, but the flight path did the talking for them. They flew high into the sky, breezing over the grass like it was no big deal, weaving in between the trees of the forest they passed through, and all the while he was enjoying the ride. Sure, the friction of the air blowing in his face stung a little, but if it mattered right now, it didn't matter enough for him to complain.

After what felt like forever, the butterflies finally slowed down before completely stopping at a beach. They gently set him down onto the sand, and he stared at the ocean, watching the waves roll onto the shore. He turned around to look at the butterflies, but he noticed something odd. A very faint humanoid shade was starting to form around the butterflies, who were swarming in circles. It almost reminded him of...

"Yukio?"

In that instant, it seemed as if something flashed, and before he knew it, he was no longer on the beach. Instead, he was lying on the ice-cold stones of the floor of a dark castle. While it was almost pitch-black, he could still faintly see what appeared to be a demonic, dark purple dragon, bigger than anything he had seen before. The look in the dragon's eyes was filled with pure malice, and he almost felt its glare piercing his soul, almost willing him to just give up on everything.

But then, he heard a voice from far away...

"Dati?"

This was weird...

"Hey! Dati!"

Was this voice calling him from another world, or...

"Datirimon!"

The little green digimon finally opened his eyes drowsily. "Huh...?"

He had been sleeping in a little bed inside of a small one-room hut. Two other digimon were looking at him curiously; one of them was a little black blob with round ears and yellow eyes, while the other one looked like a red rabbit with blue stripes and nine tails.

"Yay, you woke up!" the blob cheered, hopping up and down. "Elecmon's gonna show the movie pretty soon! Wanna come with us, Dati?"

"Okay, Botamon."

"Woohoo, I can't wait!" Botamon said, hopping out the door.

Elecmon ran after him. "Careful, Botamon! Don't run into anyone!"

Datirimon, or "Dati", as he was more commonly called, was now all alone in the hut. As much as he would have liked to watch the movie, he found himself just sitting in the bed, feeling like his mind was swimming in confusion.

What was that dream...?

Elecmon poked his head into the hut from the nearby window. "Coming, Datirimon?"

"Huh? Oh, right, the movie!" Dati said, running out the door and meeting up with Botamon and Elecmon outside. The sun was beginning to set in the sky as Dati, Elecmon, Botamon, and several other babies walked across the colorful and whimsical landscape of Primary Village to get to a larger building, which was where Elecmon would show the movie to the babies.

As he walked, Dati couldn't help staring at the ground. His train of thought was overloaded on fuel right now, and it was all thanks to his dream.

Those butterflies...Yukio's butterflies...why can't I stop thinking of him? He was my purpose; we were going to do great things together...it's only been two months, and I can't let go...

"You okay, Dati?" Botamon asked.

"He'd better be. I hate crybabies!"

Dati gasped and his heart started with a jolt. Botamon turned to look at the source of the voice: a little red blob with eyes, a mouth, and bat wing-shaped ears. He was sitting off to the side, out of the crowd's way. The smirk on his face screamed "I am so much better than any of you".

"Back off, Jyarimon," Botamon said with a glare. "You'd be sad, too, if you lost a friend."

Jyarimon rolled his eyes. "Whatever! At least I wouldn't whine like a baby about it like he's doing."

"You've never lost a friend, have you?"

"Well, have you?"

"No, but-"

"Ha!" Jyarimon laughed. "You haven't lost a friend, so you can't speak for him!"

Botamon growled. "At least I listen to him! All you do is call him names!"

Elecmon stepped in between the two babies. "Calm down, you two."

Jyarimon scoffed. "You're telling me to calm down when you're the one who punished me for telling the truth?"

Botamon leaned over from behind Elecmon. "Well, you could've been nicer about it!"

"Boys, boys!" Elecmon said, and the digimon stared at him.

He turned to Jyarimon. "Jyarimon, this is your last chance to get your movie privileges back. Either tell Datirimon you're sorry, or you're staying out here."

This only made Jyarimon burst into laughter.

"This is hilarious! He wants me to lie to someone I don't like just so I can see a stupid movie!" he said as he rolled on the ground. "What kind of caretaker acts like that? And he said honesty was a good thing!"

At this point, Elecmon decided that there was no getting an apology out of Jyarimon. "Come on, everyone, let's go in."

Elecmon and the babies all entered the building, leaving Jyarimon on the ground, howling with laughter.

"Don't listen to Jyarimon, Dati," Botamon said as they entered the building. "He's a jerk. And the worst part is, he always makes up some weirdo logic for why he's 'right'. The other day, he stole my toy car and told Elecmon that he took it because I wouldn't share. I would've shared, if he asked me nicely!"

Dati leaned in and whispered, "I'm not surprised..."

"I know, right? No one wants to hang out with him because he only cares about himself!"

Elecmon turned on a TV. "Okay, everyone, let's watch a movie!"

Most of the babies cheered. Dati, however, still couldn't help but think about things.

The movie was called "Salamon's Summer". In it, Salamon (a puppy-like digimon) wished for every day to be summer. The wish came true, and naturally, it led to chaos. While many funny things happened during the movie, Dati only laughed a little bit. Even so, he continued watching.

However, about an hour into the movie, there was something that made him change his mind:

Salamon walked up to the blue dog-like Gaomon and tried to talk. "Gaomon, I-"

The panicked Gaomon started hyperventilating. "No! I gotta get out of here!"

Suddenly, a light began to envelop him.

"Gaomon, digivolve to...Gaogamon!"

With that, the bigger, more lupine Gaogamon started darting across the grasslands, and Salamon tried to run after him.

"Wait!" Salamon yelled. "We have to find the Wizardmon who did this, so he can fix it! Come on, Gaogamon! You can't leave me! We have to go together! We're partners!"

Those last words hit a very tender nerve for Dati, and before anyone knew it, he was running upstairs into a second-story room, bawling his eyes out.

Botamon gasped. "Oh, no!"

With that, he made his way upstairs after his friend.

Meanwhile, Jyarimon was sitting outside of the building, staring at the night sky.

I bet they're having so much fun in there, he thought. Probably watching some goody-two-shoes movie...

"Hey, Jyarimon?"

Jyarimon looked and saw a purple jellyfish-like digimon floating nearby. He was holding a plastic bag filled with various things, including chips and soda.

"Hey, Keramon," Jyarimon said. "I see you got the stuff."

"Yep," Keramon replied, sitting down next to Jyarimon and giving him a bag of chips and a can of soda. "So, what are you doing out here?"

"Everyone else is in there watching a movie," Jyarimon said, opening the bag of the chips. "I wasn't allowed."

"Too scary?"

Jyarimon ate a chip. "Nope. Elecmon wouldn't let me watch it. He wanted to punish me."

Keramon tilted his head. "Punish you?"

Jyarimon nodded. "Yeah. You see, there's this new digimon named Datirimon. Apparently, he had a human partner, like a Digidestined or something, but the human died and now he's on his own. Ever since Elecmon brought him here, he's been crying about it all the time."

"Did you yell at him or something?"

"Yeah, this morning. Told him he needed to quit whining, and his human partner was dead and he needed to deal with that. And I mean, c'mon, whining about it won't bring him back! So yeah, some baby digimon heard me and decided to rat it out to Elecmon. Elecmon started lecturing me like 'blah blah blah, that wasn't very nice', and then before I knew it, he told me to tell Datirimon that I was sorry."

Keramon opened a can of soda. "So what did you do?"

"Simple. I told Elecmon that I wasn't sorry, and that if he wanted me to apologize, he basically wanted me to lie. And why is he making me do that if it's bad to lie? So long story short, he put me in time-out and told me I couldn't watch the movie. And frankly, I don't care. It sounded like a dumb baby movie anyway."

"Well, I brought some stuff that's even more fun than some movie," Keramon said, pulling out some cheap water guns, uninflated balloons, and other toys. "Why don't we go into the forest? You've always wanted to run away to where Elecmon couldn't find you, so..."

"Do you even have to ask?" Jyarimon replied with a grin.

With that, the pair of delinquents quickly made their way across the landscape of Primary Village and exited into a nearby forest, where they spent time having water fights, playing games, and basically being rowdy.

Meanwhile, Dati was on the upper floor of the building, standing in a corner and wailing. Botamon hopped up the stairs and entered the room.

"Dati? Are you okay?"

Dati stopped crying, but he didn't even turn to face him. "...No."

"Look, Dati, is there anything we can do for you?" Botamon asked, almost ready to cry himself. "I don't like it when my friends are sad..."

For a short moment, neither of them spoke. Botamon really wanted to say something, but the words just wouldn't come out; what if they only made things worse?

Before either of them could decide what to do, Elecmon came up the stairs. "You okay, Datirimon? Sorry, I didn't know the movie would upset you..."

The only response was more silence from all three parties. It felt like forever before Dati finally broke the silence.

"...Is this how it's supposed to be? Just me staying here?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Elecmon asked.

Dati didn't bother to turn around as he explained.

"If Yukio's gone, and he was my partner, am I supposed to just stay here? Will I get a new partner or something? I don't want a new partner; Yukio and I were going to be heroes together..."

In that instant, it felt like a lightbulb in Dati's mind switched itself on.

If Yukio got to be a hero, then why not me?

"You know what?" Elecmon asked. "This is the first time this happened, or at least one of the first times. So you can make the decision."

"Well...I have an idea," Dati replied.

Botamon hopped into the air. "Ooh! Tell us!"

"Okay...I said Yukio and I were going to be heroes, and I remembered that he became a hero, so..."

"Yeah?" Botamon asked. "Go on!"

"I don't want to just stay here. The digimon in the Digital World might be having troubles with things. I know the Digidestined saved the world twice, but they can't be called on all the time, can they? I mean, they have lives beyond this, just like you told me, Elecmon. We need to start defending ourselves in case some other evil decides to take over the world. So, Elecmon..."

"Yeah?"

Dati turned around, walked up to him, and looked him straight in the eyes. "I want to be a hero...just like Yukio."

"Whoa!" Elecmon replied, laughing nervously. "I got no problems with this, but...if you wanna save the world, that might be a little too dangerous. If you ask me, you gotta start small first."

"I know. I wasn't thinking of saving the world right now. It's just...maybe one day I could do it. Right now, I wanna follow my dream. If I can help people when they really need it, maybe I'll become a hero."

"Neat!" Botamon said. "Just remember, if you ever need my help, all you have to do is ask! I'm gonna go to Mesozoic Isle when I'm strong enough. I've heard there's a mechanic there, and I hope he can teach me how to be an engineer. If we meet each other there, you can ask me for anything!"

"Thanks, Botamon."

"So now that everything's okay, you wanna finish the movie?" Elecmon asked.

"Sure!" Botamon replied, and the three headed back downstairs.

Back with Jyarimon...

"Oh, man, I had so much fun!" Jyarimon said as he and Keramon walked back to the building in the night. "It was better than any movie Elecmon would show!"

"Yeah, I'm glad you had fun," Keramon replied as he reached into his bag. "More chips?"

The duo stopped in front of the building. "Yeah, all that fun made me hungry!"

Keramon opened the bag of chips, and Jyarimon began scarfing them down. When he finished the last chip, he began feeling a strange tingling sensation.

"You okay, Jyarimon?"

"Whoa...I think it's probably time for me to...!"

A bright light engulfed Jyarimon, and he began morphing. Keramon watched as Jyarimon's silhouette grew a longer body, four legs, and a tail.

"Jyarimon digivolve to...Gigimon!"

The light dissipated, and Gigimon stood in front of his friend. "Did I just...?"

"Yeah, I think you digivolved."

The two partners in crime stared at each other for a brief moment, but then Keramon broke the silence. "You know what this means, right?"

Gigimon nodded. "I'm an In-Training digimon now, so..."

He paused as the realization hit him. Slowly but surely, a smirk began creeping across his face.

"I don't have to stay here anymore! Aw, yeah!"

Just then, the door to the building opened, and Elecmon began walking out with the babies.

Gigimon jumped in front of them. "Hey, lame-o's! Guess who just digivolved?"

Botamon's eyes widened. "Is that you, Jyarimon?"

Gigimon laughed. "You got that right! Except now, I'm Gigimon! And since I'm an In-Training digimon now, I can blow this popsicle stand and move on to someplace else, hopefully where nobody's an idiot, a liar, or a crybaby! And the best part?"

He looked directly at Elecmon and smirked. "You're not the boss of me now! So you can't tell me I'm wrong or make me apologize to anyone! I'm finally free, and I couldn't be happier! Now, if you'll excuse me, Keramon and I are outta here. So long, suckers!"

The two delinquents darted off into the night, screaming, "Look out, world!"

Elecmon and the babies stared off into the distance, warching them until they disappeared. Afterwards, most of the babies went back to their cradles, leaving Elecmon, Botamon, and Dati standing together.

"I don't know what his problem is," Botamon said. "We're not idiots, liars, or crybabies."

"He thinks we are," Elecmon said. "But the important thing is he's gone and he doesn't want to come back. I still wish he apologized, though."

"Elecmon?"

Elecmon looked at Dati. "What's up?"

"If you don't mind, I'm going to start training tomorrow. Is that okay?"

"Of course it is. I think we should all go to bed right now, though. Tomorrow, I'll show you where you can train."

"Okay, Elecmon. Thank you!"

With that, Elecmon and Botamon left to go to bed. Dati, however, remained where he was, and stared up at the night sky.

"Just watch me, Yukio," he whispered, "I'm going to be a hero like you. If any digimon need help, I'll be there for them. Maybe we can even meet up with each other one day...but I'm going to do it. I'm going to start training tomorrow, and then when I digivolve, I'll leave Primary Village and see where the road takes me. I'm going to fulfill my destiny as your digimon partner!"

With his resolve clear in his mind, Dati decided to go inside the house he was in earlier that day and get some rest. His adventures were just about to begin...

A/N: You know, I was thinking of writing something to commemerate the release of Pokemon X and Y, but then I thought, "It's my fifth anniversary of being on this site. Might as well publish the first chapter of my big project. You know, the one I've been teasing for over two years now?" So here we are. I hope you liked the first chapter of this story. If there are any ways I could improve, please let me know. Thank you!