Something I have been always fascinated by is the scene where Takeru and Hikari are in the cave with the Digimentals. While it turned out that all that happened was that their Digimon got the power to Armour Digivolve, the other things that might have happened are very interesting. So, finally, I have decided to write about what would happen if when she moved the egg, rather than Tailmon getting the power to become Nefertimon, Hikari gets a pink D-3 while keeping her original Digivice, and a Child-level Tailmon, though her Adult-level one will remain her partner as well.
Notes:
Tailmon still has her Holy Ring: The only reason the writers removed it was so that Tailmon had a reason to Armour Digivolve. With me giving Hikari a second partner, Tailmon isn't going to Armour Digivolve, and therefore gets to keep it.
Terminology: Because having two Digimon with the same name would get frustrating to work out whose who, or boring to read 'The Adult-level Tailmon' or 'The Child-level Tailmon' constantly, the Adult level one will keep Tailmon, while the Child-level one will use Gatomon.
Storyline: Will remain the same as the original 02, though I will fill in plotholes as best I can while I go without causing more.
Takeru and Hikari stepped towards the Digimentals that bore their crests, encouraged by the insitance of their Digimon, when a glow began to shine in their pockets, pink in Hikari's and yellow in Takeru's.
"The Digivice is glowing!" Takeru exclaimed, raising his into the air. As he looked at it, it changed shape, becoming one of the Digivices that Daisuke, Miyako and Iori carried, but green. Next to him, the glow of Hikari's Digivice jumped from her Digivice to her open hand, leaving it unchanged, but formed a pink version of the new Digivice. Hikari blinked, shocked.
"Two Digivices…?" She murmured, but shook her head, and put both away, clasping her free hands around the Digimental of Light as Takeru did the same to the Digimental of Hope. The two lifted them easily.
"It's light…" Hikari breathed.
"We lifted them…" Said Takeru.
Where the Digimentals had sat, lights erupted. The yellow one beneath the Digimental of Hope wrapped around Patamon.
"Patamon, Armour Evolve! Soaring Hope, Pegasmon!"
However, inside the pink light beneath the Digimental of Light, a shadow formed, which developed into something that looked like Tailmon at first glance, though the second glance would unveil differences, like the lack of a Holy Ring on its tail, and its smaller stature. The white cat opened its eyes, say Hikari, and leapt at her.
Gatomon! A curious Child-level Holy Beast Digimon!
"Yay! I've finally been woken up! I'm Gatomon, are you my partner?" Gatomon cheered, her voice revealing her to be female.
Tailmon but her lip and looked away, but Hikari's words surprised her, as well as the other occupants of the cave.
"Yes." The brown haired girl said calmly. "But not my only one." She raised her voice. "Tailmon."
Tailmon looked back at her (former?) partner, and walked over to Hikari, who smiled at her.
"Gatomon, this is Tailmon, my first partner. Tailmon, Gatomon, my second."
Tailmon stared at Gatomon for a few moments, before extending a paw, which Gatomon stared at hesitantly, before shaking it.
"Hikari-chan," Takeru said slowly. "How do you know you have two partners?"
Hikari put down her Digimental and reached into her pockets and showed him both Digivices. "Two." She stated. "So Tailmon is still my partner, but so is Gatomon."
Iori cleared his throat. "We should worry about this later, Daisuke-san and Miyako-san need help."
Hikari nodded, and raised her Digimental. "Digimental Up!"
"Gatomon, Armour Evolve! Light of Smiles, Nefertimon!"
The second the evolution had finished, Hikari was hoisting herself onto Nefertimon's back, and Tailmon leapt up to sit on her back as well, and turned to look at the still-dumbstruck boys.
"Well?" She said. "Should we not get going?"
Snapping out of his stupor, Takeru nodded, and both he and Iori got on Pegasmon's back, and the two Armour Digimon left the cave, hurrying to aid their friends.
Daisuke and Miyako stood at the very edge of a cliff, Fladramon, Holsmon and Digmon having reverted back to their Child-level states and lay whimpering in pain before them, but the Kaiser and his five Tyranomon faced them still.
Atop ones shoulder, the Digimon Kaiser spoke. "Giving up already?"
"What!?" Daisuke snapped back.
"Look behind you." The Kaiser stated. "There's nowhere left to run."
Slowly, Daisuke did so, and grunted when he saw the drop, but just because there was nowhere to run to, did not mean this situation was going to end with the Kaiser's win.
"Daisuke-san!" Iori cried, and the two grounded Chosen Children looked into the sky to see Pegasmon and Nefertimon descend.
"What?" Miyako cried, surprised, for she had not been expecting to see two Armour Digimon.
The two Armour Digimon landed to let their passengers off, and their appearance shocked V-mon, Hawkmon and Armadimon into getting to their feet. The passengers getting off shocked Daisuke and Miyako again, for they could see Tailmon at Hikari's side, but also a much larger flying Digimon.
Pegasmon! A Holy Beast Digimon who is strong against evil. His attack is a holy beam, Silver Blaze.
Nefertimon! A Holy Beast Digimon who fights darkness with the power of light. Her attack, Curse of the Queen, fires red hot beams from her crown.
The Kaiser leapt down to the ground. "It's just a temporary evolution." He said. "You think you can use that against me all the time?" Then, he noticed Tailmon, and looked between her and Nefertimon. "Tw-two partner Digimon?"
"Fire Breath!" The Tyranomon snarled, and all five of them spat crimson flames from their mouth at the Armour Digimon. Nefertimon and Pegasmon took to the air to avoid them, while Tailmon dashed forwards, her eyes focused on the middle Tyranomon.
"Cat Punch!" She said, and leapt at it, punching its collar. The impact shattered it, and knocked the large red dinosaur to the ground. In the sky, the armour covering the forelegs of the two Armour Digimon began to glow.
"Sanctuary Bind!" The two yelled, and crossed each other in the sky, their glowing armour now connected by a strand of yellow light, which the wrapped around the four remaing slaves, trapping them in place.
"Needle Rain!" At Pegasmon's cry, his white mane hardened, and lots of little hairs flew at the bound Tyranomon.
"Nile Jewellery!" The pink diamonds on the front of Nefertimon's foreleg armour glowed pink, and from each came a small red rock that shot at her target.
Their attacks hit their prey in the collars, which broke apart after a few moments of attacking, and the Tyranomon crashed to the ground, their eyes back to their normal blue colour rather than the blood-red they had been under the servitude of the Kaiser.
With no more enemies in front of them, the two Armour Digimon landed, and shone with a yellpow light, reverted back to their Child-level, a pink light flowing from Gatomon into Hikari's D-Terminal and a yellow one from Patamon into Takeru's.
As the sun set, the five humans and the six Digimon waved goodbye to the freed Tyranomon, Hikari taking a picture using her camera. Once the dinosaurs had disappeared from their sight, they turned and walked back to the Digiport, and though they encountered no slaves of the Kaiser, their journey back was not uneventful, as they all had questions for Hikari.
"Two partner Digimon?" Miyako asked. "How cool!"
"I wonder why it's only Hikari-san though." Iori mused. "Why did Takeru-san not gain two partners, and why are our partners not second ones for other Chosen Children?"
"It might be because Tailmon is already at the Adult level," Takeru said thoughtfully. "While all the others are Child levels."
Daisuke shrugged. "Who cares why Hikari-chan has two Digimon?" He said. "She just does, simple as that."
"I agree with Daisuke-kun." Hikari said, making the boy blush. "I just do, and that's that."
The Digimon were likewise loaded with questions for the two Digimon who shared a human.
"Two Digimon for one human." Hawkmon said. "Are you sure you're both partnered to her?"
Though Gatomon looked unsure, Tailmon nodded. "Yes." The Adult level said. "My bond with Hikari is as strong as ever, and Gatomon can Armour Digivolve thanks to her. She carries two Digivices, one for me, and one for her."
"But," V-mon said. "Will you be able to share her? I waited forever for Daisuke, and I know I'd hate to have to share him with another Digimon."
Tailmon opened her mouth to answer, but Gatomon spoke first. "We'll manage." The smaller cat said. "After all, she's both out partner, so we both want to keep her, so we'll compromise for each other, right?"
Tailmon nodded "Right." She agreed, and then all further conversation ceased, for they were at the Digiport.
Back in the Human World, Gatomon had gone back to her Baby II level like the other new Digimon. Hers was a yellow cat head with red eyes and a purple striped tail. "I'm Nyaromon now!" She declared. "And I'm really hungry!"
Hikari giggled, lifting her up. "I imagine you are. Tailmon, could you-"
"Get her something to eat?" Tailmon said, already at the food bag Miyako had brought earlier. "Already on it." She quickly got something out of the bag, before Chibimon, Poromon and Upamon descended on it, tearing it apart to sate their hunger.
"It's good I brought so much." Miyako breathed in relief. "Otherwise, we wouldn't have enough."
As the other humans nodded in agreement, Tailmon leapt up to the table Hikari was sat against, opened the bottle she'd brought and held it up to Nyaromon's face.
"Have it slowly," Tailmon instructed. "It lasts longer, so you get more out of it that way." Nyaromon's head bobbed in acknowledgement as she drank, doing it much slower than the other Baby II Digimon. Takeru shot Tailmon a quizzical look, for she hadn't done that for the other Digimon.
"If she's Hikari's partner, then she's my partner too." Tailmon, guessing what the look was about, justified her actions. "So I'll look out for her, and teach her about the Human World properly."
With Tailmon looking after Nyaromon, Hikari swivelled in her chair, and plugged her camera into the computer, loading the picture of the Tyranomon, and as she did so, a thought occurred to her.
"I can't forgive that kid." She said. "Going after Patamon, when he couldn't fight back."
"Exactly!" Daisuke yelled next to her, smashing his hands together. "I'll beat him to a pulp!"
"Don't you agree, Takeru-kun?" Hikari asked, oblivious to Daisuke's sudden loss of enthusiasm and expression change at her words.
"Of course!" The blonde boy said. "I can't believe he's a human like us." He paused briefly. "And he thinks the Digital World belongs to him... he's crazy."
"By the way," Iori said from next to the food bag. "Our Digimentals seem to be different."
"Huh?" Daisuke asked, not understanding, as seemed to do the same thing, letting Digimon Armour Evolve. "What do you mean?"
"Daisuke-san, Miyako-san and I, we all met our Digimon through the Digimentals, but it was different for Takeru-san and Hikari-san." Iori clarified. "Patamon gained the ability to Armour Evolve, while Hikari-san got a second partner."
"Yeah…" Takeru agreed. "I didn't expect it"
"But I'm really happy." Hikari smiled. "Two partners, I bet that even shocked the Kaiser."
"I can't stand that guy." Miyako scowled.
"I wonder who he is…" Iori thought aloud.
"Whoever he is," Daisuke said. "What he's doing is unforgivable!" His words generated a sign of agreement from everyone, except Iori.
'But I can't bring myself to hurt people…' He thought.
"Hey, this is kind of like an adventure game!" Miyako giggled.
"Hey," Daisuke responded, "I thought you were afraid!"
The purple haired girl bent down to smile at the three Baby II Digimon on the ground. "Who cares?" She asked.
Once outside her apartment building, Hikari passed the sleeping Nyaromon to Tailmon. "Hurry into my room." She said. "Mum'll freak if she sees either of you." Tailmon nodded, and Hikari opened the door. "I'm home!"
"Have fun with your friends?" Yuuko asked, cooking something in the kitchen area, allowing Tailmon to sneak past that unnoticed, and since her dad was watching TV, Tailmon got to Hikari's room door unnoticed by the adults. Taichi did notice the two Digimon, and looked at Hikari with his question very visible on his face.
"Yes." Hikari answered, walking to her room and opening her door. "Call me when tea's ready, I have homework to do. Can you help me with it, Big Brother?"
"Sure." Taichi said, getting up from watching TV and walking into her room. Once sure their parents weren't listening in, he turned to his sister. "What's with the cat face, Hikari?"
Hikari related the events of today's venture in the Digital World, and once she was done, Taichi was scratching the back of his head.
"Two partner Digimon?" He said. "I'm jealous." He paused, then grinned at her. "But it means I won't have to worry about you as much, with two Digimon watching over you." At his words, Hikari laughed, her worries gone. "I've got nothing planned for tomorrow, so I'll join you guys in freeing some Digimon, so I'll see your new partner in action then."
"Good." Tailmon said. "Remember to sneak plenty of food back here Hikari, you need to feed both of us now.
Blushing, Hikari nodded, and got out her books from her back, needing to at least do some homework so her excuse to stay in her room wouldn't fall apart.
In a dark room, a boy with emotionless eyes scowled. The girl in pink had two partners now. He had to prevent the others from getting more too, and the amount of Digimon who could fight his slaves effectively had grown to six, meaning he would have to bring even more when he combated them. His scowl switched to a smirk. The game had got even more interesting than it had been before.