CHAPTER ONE

A Wonderful Discovery

Tina woke up from her nap, just as the SCHOOL BELL rang, signaling that school had ended for the day. She woke up abruptly and started copying the note on the board on her notebook while everybody else packed up and left.

The teacher said, "Tina, it would actually be nice if you wouldn't sleep in class so much. Soon it'll start affecting your grades."

Tina finished copying her notes and as she packed up replied, "Sorry Mrs. Margaret. I just can't help it. I'll try not to next time."

As she came out of class, as usual she met her friend Zack, who looked her over and said, "I heard Linda and the rest of her clique saying you were sleeping in class, AGAIN."

Linda shot back, "Well, well, what were you doing 'hearing' them, eh?"

Zack scratched his head and said, "Good point."

They went to the McNugget, a medium-sized, white, red and orange-colored shack with large, white umbrellas all over the place, covering small tables with chairs. Tina waltzed over to the stall, spare change jingling in her pocket, warning her that this little meal would deplete all of her remaining money. She ordered a mini pack of chicken fingers while Zack got a classic mini pack of chicken McNuggets. While they were waiting, something strange happened. A big EMP wave swept through the whole place. Car alarms went off, the cash register was sparking, the traffic light started malfunctioning, all of the usual works. Then one visible, electric bubble exploded, sending everyone running. Zack grabbed Tina's hand, and started running. She knew that his father was a ninja, but this was too much for her legs to bear.

She yelled out over the sound of the people running around and the wind rushing as they sped through, "Zack, slow down, alright!"

Zack just looked back at her with narrowed eyes.

Tina thought, "Whoa, I've NEVER seen Zack this serious before. If I think about it, for once he actually looks manly. But if i keep up this speed i know I'm gonna faint..."

They arrived in The Park, a large area of green grass with trees all around. There they stopped for a breather; Tina's vision was already blurred out, and as according to her thoughts, she fainted in the park out of exhaustion.

"Tina...you gotta see this!...Its...WAKE UP!"

Tina woke up with a start, looked around, let her mouth hang agape from the sight, and fainted again. She woke up again with an aching jaw; Zack's fist connecting with it. He regained his normal fun-loving composure and said with a smirk,

"Isn't this amazing! I mean we're looking at..at-"

Tina finished his sentence for him as she looked in that direction again and surprisingly calmly said, "Monsters. We are looking at monsters."

Beside a tree in a clearing, were two monsters fighting. The first one was purple, with black round highlights at the claws, eyes and feet. It was scaly with a mouth full of teeth. Its arms were longer than its whole body and it had an evil, constant grin on its face. It looked like a salamander. It was fighting what basically looked like a seven year old in a Taekwondo suit. It had a leathery, brown mask on its face with a small horn sticking out and orange skin. It yelled,

"I have found you, Salamandramon. This time i shall end-"

Salamandramon sighed and replied, while effortlessly catching an attack with a fist in the air,

"When will you ever get tired of losing Kwandomon. I'm gonna end you and this useless battle. I'll-"

Suddenly both noticed and looked at Tina and Zack; both looked amazed at the other. Salamandramon hissed at Tina, looked at Zack and said to him,

"Come boy, merge with me, together we will take over this planet! Come, this is no trap, join me..."

It stuck out its claw. Zack entered into a trance like state and started to reach out his hand. Tina was also looking but at how absurd the whole situation was; Kwandomon was desperately dragging like a little baby at Salamandramon's tail, trying to stop his hand from connecting with Zack's. Tina looked at Zack and discovering the imminent danger, tackled him away.

When he fell, he regained his senses and immediately asked angrily, "What the heck did you do that for?!"

She shrugged and said, "Sorry. Hey, the Kwandomon is getting pummeled!"

Zack turned and sure enough, Kwandomon was being blasted away with black lightning from the Salamandramon's mouth. At intervals he would say, 'Wrecker Zap!' Tina's face turned red with fury. She stomped right up and shielding the bruised Kwandomon, looked at Salamandramon straight in the face and spread out her arms to act as a human barrier in-between the two monsters.

Salamandramon laughed very hard and said, "Ehm, excuse me, but i am trying to kill a more worthy punching bag than this little sailor doll in front of me. Now step aside."

Tina shot back, "NO! We're gonna protect that guy, right, Zack?" She looked around only to find Zack shivering behind a tree."

He said, "I'm gonna sit this one out, Tina. Not to take all the credit."

Salamandramon laughed.

Tina said to Kwandomon, "Don't worry Kwandomon, I'll help. Cause I care."

At that moment, a bright white light erupted from Kwandomon's little horn and it spawned a black and white wristwatch that rested and clamped on Tina's wrist. She instantly received wisdom on what to do.

"Just like Monster Ranchers. I'm the tactician and you're the real fighter, right?"

Kwandomon nodded.

In his mind, he thought, Wow, this is the power from a bond of tamer and digimon…

Tina said, "Well, you need to smash his head, for sure."

Kwandomon started to run towards Salamandramon, who realized too late what was happening. With a sharp cry of 'Diamond heel!', Kwandomon gave Salamandramon a sharp front flip kick on the head with his heel that started shining. A large, gaping wound opened on Salamandramon's head. Sam and Tina shielded their eyes, expecting to see a lot of blood, but instead, streams of data gushed out of Salamandramon's head. In death agony, the digimon tried to slash at the kids, but Kwandomon gave him a straight to the stomach, and he shattered into bits of data, which quickly disappeared.

Kwandomon smiled at both of them and said, "Now that that's over..."