Chapter 1

Tai woke up early. It was the start of a new year at the Digicademy, and he had to wake his Digimon up in time. He turned on his Digidevice.

'Agumon, activate!' he yelled.

Agumon was zapped out of the Digidevice and appeared in Tai's room. He looked like an orange dinosaur, Tai's favourite kind of dinosaur.

'It's time for Digimon school!' said Tai cheerily. He was a morning person, unfortunately for Agumon.

'Shut the hell up,' the Digimon snapped, and went back to sleep.

Tai sighed. He always had to wake up an hour earlier than he needed to to give Agumon time to wake up.

Eventually they made it out if the house, not quite running late, and grabbed their bikes. It was exciting to be getting back to Digimon school and Tai couldn't wait to learn new stuff about his best friend Agumon. Agumon felt differently and grumbled the whole way to school.

'Hey Tai!' a voice called from behind them. It was Tai's neighbour, Mimi, and her Digimon Tentomon. Tai had forgotten they were meant to wait for them. Mimi and Tentomon pedalled faster to catch up with them, Tentomon's tentacles blowing in the breeze.

'School this year is going to be so great,' Mimi said.

'Why am I surrounded by fucking nerds,' muttered Agumon, who was super mean if he hadn't had 3 cups of coffee in the morning.

'Agumon!' Mimi scolded. 'If you use language like that at school, you'll be expelled and Tai will have to get another Digimon from the Digicupboard.'

Agumon muttered a few more choice words but was ignored, they were used to this after all.

'I'm so excited that we get to learn about Digirunes this year!' Mimi said. 'I've been studying all summer, but I don't think I could write anything more than a simple essay.' She sighed. 'What about you, Tai?'

'I can't wait for Digidoctoring, so I can heal my Digimon when he gets sick instead of going to a Digimon Centre!' said Tai.

'I'd rather you let me die,' said Agumon.

They walked up to the school doors and passed by their friends Kari and Matt with their Digimon, Palmon and Biyomon.

'Guess what?' said Kari after greeting them, 'Our first class is Digirunes this year!'

Mimi screamed.

'I can't believe we're finally learning how to write,' said Matt.

Then Tai felt someone shove past him. 'Outta the way, nerds!' the person said. It was his archenemy, Joe, and his cronies: his sister Sora, his Digimon BlackWarGreymon and Sora's Digimon, Gabumon. They were smoking and doing Digidrugs.

Tentomon shook her head. 'They are a disgrace to Digimon and should be locked up in the Digicupboard even more than Agumon without coffee should be,' she said sadly.

They made their way to class half an hour early because they were nerds. They should have used this time to get Agumon a third cup of coffee but they were too excited for school.

After going to their lockers to get out some Digisnacks, they went straight to the Digirunes class. They caught each other up on what they did over the summer (studying) and made plans to hang out (study) later. They all just really loved Digimon and wanted to become Digimon professors when they grew up.

'OK class,' Professor Ken said, 'Does anyone already know a little about Digirunes?'

Before Mimi could even raise her hand, the door slammed open and Joe and his gang walked in. BlackWarGreymon, a Digimon that looked like a mean rock and was followed around by a dark cloud of fog, spat at Tentomon, who she seemed to particularly hate for some reason. Joe was wearing a black leather jacket with flames on it and his Digidevice was black instead of the regulation red since he was hardcore. Sora had drawn a skull on her face with black eyeliner, and she'd also drawn one on Gabumon's face.

'Hmmm, late again I see,' said Professor Ken. 'Not a very good start to the year, is it?'

'Shut up,' said Sora.

'Now, now,' said Professor Ken. 'Do you want Gabumon to end up in the Digicupboard on the first day of school?'

There was a quiet rumble from the cupboard in the corner of the classroom. Sora said nothing, just smirked at Joe and took a seat next to him at the back. Palmon started crying since she didn't like conflict.

'Why are they so mean?' whispered Kari, while trying to comfort her Digimon. Sora overheard and sneered at her.

'Digirunes!' shouted Professor Ken, trying to get the class back on track.

Just as Mimi was about to raise her hand and say one of the many interesting things she had learned about Digirunes over the summer, two Digidevices started ringing. Everyone knew that if a Digidevice rang, it could be an emergency. Everyone scrambled to check their Digidevices. Professor Ken nearly had a breakdown, this was not a good start to the year.

Tai's Digivice was flashing so he answered it. The message on the screen said 'PROCEED TO DIGIVERSE AND AWAIT FURTHER NOTICE'. He had never been summoned to the Digiverse before. Then he heard someone else read the message aloud. He looked up, and it was Joe, reading from his own Digidevice! Excitement warred with annoyance that he had to go to the Digiverse for the first time with Joe. Joe just looked annoyed, but then he always looked annoyed so that wasn't helpful.

'Oh Tai you're so lucky!' said Kari. 'I wish I could go to the Digiverse!'

This gave Tai a great idea. 'Why don't you guys come with me!' he offered. Then he wouldn't have to be alone with Joe.

'But, what about school?' asked Mimi, looking like she was about to cry. 'We haven't even got through one lesson yet, I could never miss school!'

They heard Joe and Sora and their Digimon laughing at them.

'Shut up you nerds, while you cry about missing school we'll be going on ahead!' shouted Joe, and he pushed a button on his Digidevice that made his gang disappear into the Digital world.

AN: you may be surprised to hear that we don't know much about Digimon, but our friend asked us for a Digimon fanfic, so we did our best with our limited knowledge. Enjoy!