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Please keep in mind that this story has nothing to do with the 01, 02 or Tamers adventures.

The Unity Saga (Part 1)

Chapter 1:

First Encounter

Background

In the year 2010, there were the Digital Wars. Since the internet was first created viruses and corrupted information created a mountain of bad data, which in turn created the most horrible digimon imaginable. By 2010, the amount of negative data almost equalled that of the positive data, so the corrupted information decided to revolt and claim the Digital World for themselves. Qinglongmon (Azulongmon's japanese name) gathered the bravest and most noble digimon against his adversary Hadesmon. Qinglongmon, white and bright, and Hadesmon, black and dark, were two large dragon digimon about equal in strength, and whose bodies clouded the sky because of their emmense size. The Digital Wars carried on for 5 years without any hope of letting up anytime in the future. Hundreds of thousands of digimon, vaccine and virus, were destroyed during the war. Also, Hadesmon devised a strategy for taking over the Earth and enslaving all humans. If he couldn't have the Digital World, then he would take over the human world, and the Digital World would fall soon after. As a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter, and save humanity, Qinglongmon called for children of Earth to help turn the tides of battle. They succeeded, and all the evil digimon were sent to the Dark Digital Realm: a sort of purgatory created by Qinglongmon that existed between Earth and the Digital World but didn't have access to either worlds. When this happened, corrupted data on the internet vanished and the Digital World became peaceful and once again flourished with life.

However, before Hadesmon was completely banished, he purposely transmitted a minute piece of his own data onto Qinglongmon, and Qinglongmon without knowing brought this little piece of viral data to the Digital World, where it detached from the white dragon. Hadesmon's data, now calling itself Darkmon, picked a very secluded area of the Digital World and stayed there for years and years without anyone knowing it was there.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Darkmon served as a gateway to the Dark Digital Realm, and when it felt the moment was right to strike, he brought a champion virus digimon into the Digital World after there had been no viral digimon for years. The champion's objective was to kill as many digimon as he could so that when they were destroyed, it would absorb the destroyed digimon's data and after doing this countless times, become the complete Hadesmon again and seek revenge on Qinglongmon. It wasn't going to be easy. At this point he was only strong enough to send champions from the Dark Digital Realm, but it wouldn't be long before ultimates would be able to come through, and then it would just be a matter of time....

Qinglongmon, after sensing evil digimon in this time of peace, realized what he had inadvertently caused and sent for six new children to enter the Digital World and stop the chain of events that would eventually lead to Hadesmon's resurrection and another Digital War. Since Qinglongmon didn't know where or when these evil digimon were going to strike, and to protect himself, he sealed himself in the Unity Stones, and could only be released when the six children come together as a team and unite the stones in search of his wisdom, or when Hadesmon had finally been vanquished.

And it just so happens that the six children have just arrived in the Digital World....

Darkmon awoke from his deep hibernation, sensing a rip in the Digital World. This could only mean one thing....

The black mass of data turned to his left. "The children have arrived..." he said with a cold, raspy voice.

Out of the darkness, Mephismon emerged. Cold red eyes, a white ghost-like face. The fallen angel digimon kneeled down to Darkmon, lowering his head to the ground. He then picked himself up and began to speak: "Tell me again why I shouldn't just destroy you now and load your data so I can digivolve...."

If Darkmon had a face, mainly a mouth, he would've smiled then. "Because I am not normal data. I'm more like a virus. If you were to load me, I would poison you. In the end, you would die, and I would load you're data. But you don't have a death wish do you Mephismon?"

Mephismon lowered his head. "I'm sorry master. It's just that....well....I'm not used to serving something so helpless. I almost found it hard to believe that you were once Lord Hadesmon. But you are far more viral than any digimon I've felt. I'm....sorry."

"You worry too much my boy. Besides, I need you to look after me as my source of protection. Although no digimon can harm me, those Chosen Children may be able to. And I'm helpless against them. That's why we must strike now and quickly."

"Are you ready for the release my lord?"

"I am," Darkmon said as he stretched his blob-like body to the limits of its consistency. Mephismon covered his soulless face as a blast of purple light filled their entire environment. The digimon then walked over to the new portal which lead to the Dark Digital Realm. He took his staff and called out: "AWAKEN KNIGHTS OF HADESMON!!" As he did, roars, howls, banshee like shrieks filled the air. Mephismon looked down to see a pool of destroyed evil digimon, their soulless data floating around like tortured ghosts. A moment later, five of them began to glow and rose up through the portal into the Digital World.

Mephismon smiled. "You are the warriors of Hadesmon. Your mission is very important and may cost you your lives, but it must be done nonetheless. Go! Find the Chosen Children and the Chosen Digimon! And when you do, kill them! Kill them all! As quickly as you can!"

File Island.....

"C'mon Katherine. You can do it. Wake up. Wake up. You're hallucinating. This is a dream..."

Katherine Ugami (Japanese/American, long blonde hair, 14 years old, wearing a pink jumpsuit) has been chanting the same words over and over again for the past ten minutes. Because ten minutes ago, she was in her mansion exercising with the Taebo workout. She'd been at it for an hour when she began to tire. She went to the door, grabbed a towel, closed her eyes, and cleansed her face of sweat. Then there was a huge burst of light. When she removed the towel from her face and opened her eyes, she realized that her entire environment had changed. She was no longer in her five million dollar mansion, but was now in the heart of a jungle. Fronds, palm trees, thick foilage, and steamy temperatures blanketed her. She couldn't speak. She was frozen in shock. But instead of panicking, she calmly sat on the damp ground and began telling herself this was a dream. She believed she'd passed out from exhaustion after working out so hard, and she was convinced that this was a dream and that any minute now, she'd wake up and be sipping on a cool glass of her mom's home lemonade. But, there was just one problem....

"WHY CAN'T I WAKE UP! DAMMIT KATHERINE! WAKE UP BLAST IT! WAKE UP!!!"

"HEY! HEY! HEY!"

A carrot-top teenager with a hidious expression on his face burst through the foilage and caught Katherine completely by surprise. The blonde girl screamed at the top of her lungs and almost ran away, until she realized that he wasn't a Tyrannosaurus Rex and she wasn't in Jurassic Park. The red-haired, freckle faced teen boy then rolled on the wet ground bursting into laughter. Tears streamed down his eyes as he pointed to the blonde teen who he'd just scared the living daylights out of and was now gasping for air.

"Man....I'm sorry...hehehe....that I scared you. But...haha....you should've seen the....look on your face...hahaha. Talk about a deer in front of headlights. Man, I wish I had a camera..hoohoo."

Katherine was still in a state of shock. How could this be? It was impossible to be scared in a dream. She should've woken up. And where did this boy come from? There was only one explanation. This place was real. Not an illusion, but real. And so was the boy in front of her.

Samuel Ohnishi (Japanese/American, wearing a cherry red basketball jersey, fourteen years old) faced the other way and yelled, "Hayato! I found someone!" He then turned back to Katherine who finally picked herself up from the ground and introduced himself. "Hi. My name is Sam. Nice to...make your aquaintance," he giggled.

The blonde girl gave Sam a very cold look and looked straight into his eyes as she said, "If you ever do that to me again, I'm going to hit you so hard that for the rest of you're life, you'll be laughing out your ass. Got it?"

Sam, with a misplaced look on his face replied, "Well that's one way to say thank you."

Katherine looked at him bewildered. "Excuse me? I don't remember hitting you with a stupid stick. But did you just say I should be thanking you for scaring me half to death??"

"No. For finding you. Listen Barbie, if I hadn't heard you talking to yourself out here in the woods, we would've left you stranded here. We were just about to leave."

"No offense, but I think I'd be better off on my own. In the couple of minutes I've known you I can already tell you're a jackass."

Samuel absorbed that blow to his pride, cleared his throat and began. "Listen, we obviously started on the wrong foot here. My name is Samuel Ohnishi. It's a pleasure to meet you." He extended a hand of friendship and gave Katherine the biggest smile he could make.

Katherine, slightly frightened, then said, "Congratulations carrot-top. Now I think you're stupid and ugly. Look, enough with the pleasantries. Didn't you say there was someone else with you?"

Samuel turned his smile off, put his hand away, and waved good-bye to what was left of his ego as he guided Katherine through the foilage.

"I don't want to build false hopes so I'll tell you now. I have no idea where we are or how we're going to get back home."

"Have you tried wishing upon a star?"

"Kiss my butt Reiko."

"Ooooooo. Wait till I tell mom you said the "b" word."

"Wait till I tell mom I lost you in a jungle in the middle of nowhere. But don't worry. She probably wouldn't miss you too much."

"Shup up Hayato."

"And if push came to shove, we can always buy a chimpanzee to take your place. Noone'll know the difference."

"I got your chimpanzee right here," Reiko Matsuni (ten years old, shoulder length black hair, Japanese) threatened while shaking a balled fist at her older brother.

"Well. Can't argue with that," Hayato Matsuni (fourteen years old, short black hair, Japanese) said with a crooked smile. He was really impressed with how his sister was handling herself. They'd been in this world about half an hour with no explanation for how they got here or if they'll ever get back home. But instead of panicking, his sister was keeping a cool head, as if everything would be alright. Then again it might be because she's young. He on the other hand always maintained a cool head. He guessed that's where she gets it from. Besides, someone had to.

A moment later, Sam and Katherine made their way through the wet foilage. "Gee. Took you long enough," said Hayato.

"Katherine, I'd like you to meet Reiko and her older brother Hayato." Samuel stated.

"Hi." Reiko exclaimed cheerly. She extended her hand for a friendly shake, but Katherine, without even looking at her, just walked in the opposite direction and sat at the stump of a tree.

"The heck's wrong with her?" Reiko asked.

Sam grabbed Hayato's arm and took him into a corner away from Katherine so she wouldn't hear what he was going to say. "So, whadaya think? Is she nice or what?" asked Hayato.

Sam looked back at Katherine still sitting at the tree stump and nodded his head in a dissapointing matter. "I'll say this," he began. "There's a word I like to use to describe people like her, and it rhymes with "itch."

Katherine didn't show it, but she was very thankful to be seeing other people in this strange world. At least this meant that if she was kidnapped by aliens, she might have time to escape after she gladly gave the carrot-top kid over to them . She really just hoped she wouldn't be stuck with these people for too long. She wasn't what you'd call a "people-person."

The blonde heard footsteps coming up behind her. She turned around, looked up, and saw Hayato standing over her with a small smile. "Listen, we're about to take a walk and see if we can get out of this jungle. Maybe see if there's any intelligent life anywhere. You're welcome to tag along."

Katherine, after staring at Hayato for a few seconds, finally spoke: "How'd you get here?"

"Sam, Reiko and I were on our way to school. We're crossing this street that's packed with traffic. Then, when we blink our eyes, all the cars are gone, and this lone school bus starts coming at us at ludicrous speed. Before we have time to think, we shut our eyes, thinking we're gonna get hit. Then there's this bright flash. When we open our eyes we end up on the movie set of George of the Jungle. Bizarre huh?"

Katherine realized that his story wasn't too far off from her own. Very similar in fact. She finally got up from the stump she was on and looked Hayato in the eye. "Okay. Listen Hayamo..."

"That's Hayato..."

Katherine beamed him a cold look, as if he'd just done the stupidest thing in the world by interrupting her. "I'll let you know when I start to care. As I was saying," Katherine began to speak loud enough for Reiko and Sam to hear. "From here on out we'll be following my rules and doing as I say, since I'm obviously the smartest one here. Just stay behind me and please don't speak to me unless you're bleeding to death alright? If you say anything to me, especially anything stupid, I'll make you cry. Got it?"

The blonde then began to walk through the jungle in search of some answers to them being here. But when she turned around, noone was behind her. Instead, she saw Sam, Hayato and Reiko in a group huddle.

"Contemplating my fate," Katherine said to herself

"What? Why not?" Reiko asked.

"You know why not Reiko. We can't just let her walk off into the woods alone. What if we go one way, stumble upon some kind of alien transporter that can take us back home, while she's still wandering around? And worse, what if she stumbles upon a way to get home while we're still wandering around?" explained Hayato.

Samuel put on his thinking face. Reiko and Hayato looked at him as the tie breaker. After a few seconds he spoke: "Man........I still think we should leave her."

"Me too!" Reiko joined.

"Look! We're not leaving her! Get over it! If thinking she's in charge is the only way for us to stay together then so be it. Besides, you don't have to do what she says. Just ignore her." Hayato said.

"You're too nice sometimes Hayato....." Reiko pouted.

"I know. I know. I really wouldn't mind leaving her either. But we have to do the right thing."

"And if she does have words, she'll have to deal with me." Sam stated fearlously.

"Shut up man. You know you wouldn't do anything. Remember that girl Samantha who kicked you while you were bending over to pick up your school books?"

"Dude, she ran away while I was recovering. Besides this girl's different. She's a girl I'd actually want to hit."

About fifty yards away the three of them could hear Katherine's voice: "HEY! THE MORON MEETING IS OVER! LET'S GO ALREADY!"

The three of them just looked at her with cold eyes. Reiko spoke: "I wouldn't mind taking a whack at her myself."

"Let's go." Hayato said as he emptied his bookbag of his school textbooks. Hopefully they'd find some fruit or something in this crazy place.

Samuel gladly chucked his Algebra and World Geology books into a murky river. "Never to be seen again," he said proudly.

The three of them then joined Katherine as they carefully followed her through the warm jungle.

to be continued.....

Next Chapter: Two more Digi-Destined and everyone gets their digimon.....