Hello all and welcome to what promises to be the most challenging and exciting project that I have ever tackled in my entire FanFiction career so far. I am going to do a re-write of Adventure 1 with Star Wars tones so it is in an alternate universe where the kids are the "Destined Jedi" rather than just the Digidestined.
The original title belongs to a fic that Goku Skywalker and I are writing together, also called the Destined Jedi, so I give him a big shout out for him allowing me to use the title for the first story in the trilogy. I will also be doing 02 and Tri as well once the time comes. Fair warning ahead: some events will be moved up, backed up, and gotten rid of entirely from the original series just so you know ahead of time.
Enough rambling now. It's time to get to the story!
(Cue Star Wars intro music)
Digimon
Episode I
The Destined Jedi
The real world has been thrown into chaos. Reports of strange weather patterns occurring all over the globe have run rampant. No one knows what to make of it. Another world, a digital world, has also been thrown into chaos with a hidden evil slowly making its presence felt.
There exists a prophecy that foretells of eight chosen ones known as the Destined Jedi that will rise to destroy evil and save the universe from destruction. Only they can bring peace.
In a desperate attempt to restore peace, Homeostasis has instructed the being known as Gennai to find the eight Destined Jedi and bring them to the digital world….
August 1st, 1999
Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan
"You sure you're ok?" Tai Kamiya asked his little sister Kari as he placed a wet washcloth over her forehead. He tucked the covers in just a little tighter so that she was comfortable. The poor girl was shivering with fever under the covers but gave him the best smile she could.
"Yeah," she said in a shaky voice. "I'm sorry I can't go to camp with you."
"You have nothing to be sorry about," he reassured, giving her a kiss on the forehead. "Just get well while I'm gone."
The eleven-year-old boy frowned as he stuffed away more clothes into his duffle bag. His chocolate brown eyes narrowed as he thought of the events the day before. Maybe that was when she started showing signs of being ill but they were not at all obvious to him, which made Tai feel worse about the situation then he already did. If he had caught them early on, maybe he could have been proactive about the situation and made sure she got some rest. Then maybe she would have been able to go on the camping trip with him.
The two of them were watching news reports about the abnormal weather conditions around the world that day as well. Even though it was the middle of summer, the United States and Canada were blanketed in snow, the Middle East was wet with torrential downpours, and the jungles and wetlands of Southeast Asia were dry as a desert. It may have seemed unusual to him but what was even stranger was when he tried to reach for his soda can. He was so comfortable in his position on the couch that he didn't want to lean over and grab it so he was about to ask Kari to grab it for him until the can mysteriously floated over to his outstretched hand. It was almost like magic. He freaked out the second he realized what had happened, thinking he was losing his mind for believing that, but he had no explanation for it.
"Tai?" Kari squeaked out, still shivering despite being tucked in nice and tight.
"Yeah, what is it?" he asked softly, getting to the bed in less than a second. He ran his hand through her hair to try and put her at ease.
"Mommy's close," she said.
"Tai, come on! Let's get going or you're going to be late! Don't forget that we have to get Sora too," their mother's voice came, peering into the room. "Say goodbye to your sister."
Tai looked at the door in amazement. How did Kari know that their mother would be coming in at that moment? In his shock, he stayed put rather than rushing to get his belongings together.
"How did you do that?" he demanded.
Kari shrugged. "I don't know," she replied. "Something just told me that she was."
"Tai!" Mrs. Kamiya yelled from the foyer of the apartment.
Tai decided to let it be for the time being. He'd have to ask Kari about how she knew when he got back. Planting a quick kiss to her forehead, along with a "love you", he gathered his things before his mother could get even angrier.
"Sora, are you ready yet?"
An auburn-haired girl rolled her crimson red eyes as she zipped up her bag. Her mother had been calling her for the last two minutes and it was starting to wear down on her nerves. It wasn't like her mother was going to accompany her to the bus anyway; she was busy with her flower-arranging class and Sora's father was in Kyoto working as a college professor so he couldn't take her.
Sora didn't mind, of course; she had learned to fend for herself quite well over her eleven years of life due to her mother always being busy and her father being away. It was what earned her the reputation around school for being a tough-as-nails girl who also had a caring and warm personality.
"Yeah, I'm ready," Sora shouted back. Throwing her duffle bag over her shoulder and her favorite blue hat on her head, she walked out of her room and into the foyer of her family's apartment.
"I'm heading out," she called. "See you when I get back."
Without even waiting for a reply, Sora closed the door behind her. Looking down at the streets of Odaiba below, something told her that Tai was nearby. She couldn't explain it but she always seemed to know whenever he was close just by this feeling she would get. The two had been best friends their entire lives and they played on the same soccer team together, despite Sora being the only girl on the team.
Sure enough, she spotted Mrs. Kamiya's car in the parking lot and began to walk towards the elevator.
Matt Ishida watched the scenery go by without any real interest in it as the bus made its way through the countryside, leaving the urban sprawl of Tokyo behind. Trees, mountains, and other cars breezed by as he watched with an indifferent expression. The handsome blonde-haired boy drifted off into his own world while his Nirvana tape blared in his ears.
"Hey, Matt," a smaller blonde-haired boy poked him in his side to get his attention.
Matt stopped the tape and pulled the headphones down to around his neck so that he could give the boy his full attention.
"What do you want, TK?" he asked.
"I'm bored," the younger boy whined. "Show me that trick that you can do."
Matt anxiously looked around to make sure that no one would be peaking over to watch what he was about to do. It had not been long since he had discovered this ability and no one other than his younger brother knew about it. A couple of rows back, girls were singing the Backstreet Boys' new single at an extremely loud volume, hence why he had worn his headphones in the first place, and others were too busy looking out the windows.
"Ok," he whispered. "But don't tell anyone else about it."
TK quickly nodded his head, bouncing in excitement at what he was about to see. "Ok," he smiled.
Matt gave a small smile of his own. "Good. Hold out your hand."
TK followed his brother's instructions and put his hand out.
Taking a coin out of his wallet, Matt set it down on his knee. He then closed his eyes and concentrated on the coin, willing it to go to TK's outstretched hand. As his mind relaxed, everything around him faded away and the coin became his whole world.
TK's eyes widened in awe as he saw the coin begin to rise from his brother's knee and come down towards his hand. Once it made contact, a thrill of excitement went through the young boy's body.
"How do you do that?" he demanded, a wide smile never leaving his face. "I want to learn how to do it."
The older brother shrugged in response. "I'm not sure. I just woke up one day and I was able to do it all of a sudden."
"Hm," TK's face turned into one of general thought. "Ok. Can you take me to see Phantom Menace after camp?"
Matt could not help but chuckle. "Again?" he asked. "TK, you have seen it four times already. Don't you think that's enough?"
"Of course not," TK indignantly replied.
"Plus it may not even still be playing when we get back," continued his brother. "We can wait for it to come out on video to watch it again."
TK's lower lip trembled, signaling he was about to start crying if Matt didn't cave in. The older brother did not want to have to deal with that right now.
With a sigh, Matt conceded. "Alright, fine. When we get back from camp, I'll take you to see it if it's still playing."
The pouty face quickly turned to joy as TK wrapped his arms around his brother's neck. Matt's eyes widened in shock and reluctantly patted TK on the back.
"Thank you, Matt!"
"Heh. You bet, little dude," he chuckled nervously.
It had been four years since their parents had divorced, and it never seemed to get any easier for Matt. He was only seven when he went to live with his father in Odaiba, while four-year-old TK went to live with their mom in Sangenjaya. The little boy was eight now but did not show any signs of being affected by the divorce, and Matt wanted things to stay that way.
Last week when TK came to visit him in Odaiba, as a part of their parents' visitation schedule, his eyes flashed across the calendar, which had the words 'school camping trip' in big letters and was circled. Immediately, he declared that he wanted to go too. Matt and their father were very apprehensive about the situation, especially Mr. Ishida, because it meant he would have to call his ex and convince her to let him go. It wasn't pleasant, but their mom gave her consent, realizing it would give the boys a chance to spend some time together. After pulling some strings with the main organizer, who was also Matt's teacher, Mr. Fujiyama, TK got permission to go on the trip.
Matt then pulled his headphones back onto his head to continue playing his tape, not wanting to dwell on the unpleasant thoughts that were running through his head.
A couple of hours later, the bus finally arrived at the camping grounds. Mr. Fujiyama had them all organized into groups with leaders being signified by the wristbands that they wore. Tai saw that he and Sora were assigned to the group headed by sixth-grader Joe Kido. The group also included the Takaishida brothers, as Tai liked to call them due to Matt's last name being Ishida and TK's being Takaishi, and fourth graders Izzy Izumi and Mimi Tachikawa.
Tai knew Izzy from their school soccer club, but Mimi was a bit of a mystery to him. He had seen her several times around school but did not really think much about her. Sora knew her a bit better than he did and told him that she was the high-maintenance, princess type. That information was all he needed to know.
Izzy was a nice enough kid, and Tai did like him, but he never traveled without a computer, or at least an electronic device, on his person. He was one of those computer nerds who could tell you everything about the square of the hypotenuse and recite 'pi' in its entirety.
'Whatever that is,' he thought to himself. 'He probably should have gone to computer camp or something.'
And whoever decided that age determined leadership obviously had never met Joe Kido. One look at him and Tai instantly concluded that he would be a pushover. Limp-wristed, stiff, pale, and big round glasses, Tai knew that he was not going to be taking orders from a guy like this. It wasn't his instinct to follow and he was not about to start now.
After carrying their belongings off the bus, the groups were instructed to get together and start on their assigned chores for the afternoon before they had their first activity: canoe races.
"Ok, group," said Joe, carrying a bag that was labeled "Emergency Food" on his left shoulder. "We have a lot of things to do in order to make ourselves ready before the canoe races, so let's get cracking."
He handed them all slips of paper that described what tasks they were supposed to carry out and how to do them. One look at it and Tai rolled his eyes while Mimi gave a cry of displeasure.
"I can't do any of this," she complained. "I didn't even want to be here in the first place!"
"Well too bad," Joe grumbled with a stern expression. "We're all a group and we need to do our part, Mimi."
"But carrying water? Chopping firewood?" Mimi whined even more. "That's a bunch of work."
"That's the point!" Joe's face became beet red.
Sora stepped in-between them to calm things down. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Take it easy," she said before turning to the despaired girl with a warm smile. "Mimi, I have an idea. Why don't you help me out by gathering some twigs we can use and I'll take care of the rest. Does that sound good?"
"Oh Sora," Mimi exhaled an appreciative breath. "You're a saint!"
Sora giggled, not used to being heaped with praise from her female peers before.
"Well come on then," she nudged Mimi along, leaving the five boys standing alone as they walked away.
Matt shrugged. "Guess we better get started. Come on, TK."
The blonde-headed brothers walked off while Joe went off to do his section of the chores, leaving Tai and Izzy as the only ones left. Izzy was typing away on his computer, obviously finding much more interest in that than doing chores, while Tai just walked away without a word. It was at that moment that Tai realized just what a beautiful day it was; too beautiful to be spent doing boring chores and laboring in the intense humidity.
"Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day," he hummed to himself as he strolled through the forest until he found a tree that looked high enough that no one would notice him slacking off of his chores. Like Spider Man crawling up a building, Tai scaled the tree until he reached the sturdiest branch. With his hands behind his head, he reclined back on the branch and began to doze off.
(A/N: Here is where things become more familiar.)
A sudden chill hitting his face woke Tai up.
Bolting upright in a flash, he looked around to try and find what it was that had touched his face. Maybe he was imagining things.
'No way,' he thought. 'That's impossible. It's the end of July for crying out loud.'
Just as he thought that, a flash of white floated in front of his face….then another.…then another until a full-blown blizzard was in effect. The wind tossed his gravity-defying hair in all directions as he ran to find shelter from the howling wind and falling snow.
"What is going on here?!" he demanded to no one in particular as he raised his arm to his face to try and shield it from the snowflakes smacking into his face. To help better the situation, he pulled his aviator goggles from the headband on his forehead to help keep the snow out of his eyes.
It was not long before he found refuge in a nearby shrine. Closing the door behind him, he pushed the goggles back into their place on his headband and wiped off some of the melted snowflakes on his exposed arms and legs. Looking up from that, he quickly noticed that his group had thought of the same idea as he did because the six others too sought refuge in the shrine.
"You too, huh?" Sora had to almost shout over the howling wind outside in order to ask him.
"Yeah," he nodded. "You guys ok?"
"If it weren't for this snow, I'd feel a heck of a lot better," Matt grumbled, folding his arms across his chest.
Eventually the snowstorm passed. An eerie silence fell over the shrine as no one knew what to do at that moment. Finally, Tai opened the door slightly to look out onto the landscape. The sight of snow and grey skies seemed incompatible to what the typical look of summer should be.
"Looks like no canoe races for us this afternoon," Joe sighed.
"So let's have toboggan races instead," Tai suggested as he ran out into the snow.
TK soon followed with a cheerful laugh.
"I'm gonna build the biggest snowman!" the young boy declared happily.
"TK, be careful," said Matt, following his brother step for step. "Slow down."
As soon as the cold air touched her exposed skin, Sora immediately wrapped her arms around her torso in reaction as goose bumps made their way up her arms.
"Brrr! It's freezing!" she shivered as she made her way outside. "And I didn't even bring a jacket. Didn't think I was going to need one in the first place but oh well."
"Man! And here I was afraid I was going to catch a summer cold," Joe complained as he looked at the frozen landscape, pushing his glasses up his nose. "But this is even worse."
Shoving him aside, Mimi gaped in awe as she saw the freshly fallen snow.
"Why didn't I pack my fluffy pink snow boots?" she cried in excitement as she joined TK in piling up a large snowball for his snowman.
Joe tilted his head back and let out a loud groan before joining the other kids. He didn't want to come to camp at all this summer either but his mother insisted that he find "something fun to do" rather than just stay in cram school all summer. He had relented, thinking that something good could come out of it, but now he was wishing he hadn't.
Izzy groaned as his infrared Internet connection failed to connect. It had to be the snow interfering with the signal because his modem could normally find one in even the most isolated of places. The young computer expert knew more about computers than even those twice his age. Looking at his mobile phone, he was met with the same results: no signal.
"Bummer," he muttered.
"Hey, what's-your-name…Izzy. Come out here! You've gotta see this!" Tai's voice called to him.
Realizing his electronics were useless at the moment, Izzy decided that he may as well go out and see what the excitement was about. Looking up in the sky, lights danced in a display that the children had never seen before except on video.
While the sight before them amazed everyone else, Izzy was simply perplexed. How could something like this even happen in Japan? It didn't make any sense.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Maybe an aurora," replied Sora with a far-off tone.
"You mean the Aurora Borealis?" he replied incredulously. "The Northern Lights? That's impossible. You see that up in Alaska but we are way too far south."
She scoffed. "Tell that to the snow."
"I think we should all probably get back inside before we come down with pneumonia," Joe suggested, not feeling good about the situation at all.
"And miss this?" Matt replied. "The sky is like short-circuiting right now."
Upon closer examination, Tai could see that something was happening behind the light display. The sound of thunder reached their ears but before they could wonder if rain was coming too to rub more salt in the wound, so to speak, Tai saw a green vortex forming behind the aurora.
"Hey, what's that?" he asked, not knowing what was going on at that moment. Feeling the fear rise up in his stomach, he saw something break free from the vortex and split apart into seven pieces. It could have been meteorites. That seemed like the logical explanation but the seven pieces of this "meteor" started falling towards them.
"Incoming!" Tai cried as everyone hit the dirt (no pun intended) before the falling objects collided with the ground, sending snow two feet into the air and covering the kids in it when it came back down.
Sora immediately stood up. "Everyone, are you alright?" she demanded, wanting to make sure that no one was hurt.
"I'm good," replied Tai, dusting off some snow.
"We're still here," said Matt, clutching TK close to him.
"That was scary," Mimi almost laughed after being frightened.
Joe had never felt so embarrassed in his life. The sound from the impact of the objects meeting the ground had frightened him so much that he felt a warmth run down his leg. He had peed his pants! Thankfully everyone else was too preoccupied with what had just happened to look at him.
"What was it?" he said, trying to deflect some of his embarrassment.
"Meteors?" Izzy suggested as the holes in the ground began to glow.
Seven long metal objects, at least nine to ten inches long, floated out of the ground. The glowing effect ended when the children grabbed one in their hands. Once their hands grasped the objects, another glowing sensation made its presence known: this time on their arms.
Tai looked down to see a symbol that looked like a sun had appeared on his arm.
"What are these?" he asked the obvious question, twirling the metal object in his hand to inspect it closely. It had the resemblance of a sword but there was no blade. Instead there were just buttons on it and a metal ring at the bottom, presumably to attach itself to their waists.
Joe saw the symbol on his arm, a crucifix with arrows pointed out of each corner, and instantly groaned. "My folks are gonna kill me when they find out I got a tattoo," he complained.
"I'm not even sure they are tattoos," replied Sora, who was inspecting her symbol: a heart.
"Then what are they?"
"I'm not so concerned about what these symbols are," said Izzy, inspecting the "sword" in his hand. "I'm more concerned about what the metal things are."
Before anyone else could say anything, an enormous wave of water jetted up to the sky. As if a magnetic force was acting on them, the kids were sucked into the wave one at a time.
"I knew I should have gone to Disney instead!" TK cried as he was pulled in.
A cliffhanger ending. Wonder what is going to happen next. I was not sure exactly what it was that TK had said when they got sucked in so I just added in what I thought he would say at the end there. Hope you all enjoyed this first chapter. I think it kind of set the story a little bit better in terms of first impressions on the kids and such than we ultimately got but that is just my opinion.
The symbols on their arms...I'm sure you can guess what those are without me telling you. They will be of great significance as the story goes on.
I combined some elements of the novelization of the series, which can be found online if you are interested, in the beginning and then merging with the canon of the series at the end there. The tune that Tai was singing to himself was "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" from the musical "Oklahoma!" so the credit goes to Rodgers and Hammerstein for that wonderful tune.
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