The sun was coming up. Like it was waking the world up from a crazy dream. Honestly, giant flame-spitting dinosaurs fighting equally giant parrots that not only had arms but could shoot lightning? It had to be a dream. And yet… there were two people, two children looking over the ruins of a destroyed bridge not wanting to wake up.

"Greymon," a small girl in pink pajamas called. "Don't you want to play with me anymore?" No one answered the small girl's plea. Her brother merely stared at the carnage as the events of the last two days caught up with him. An egg from their father's computer, it hatching into a small black… thing- for lack of a better word. That thing changing, and telling his sister and him that its name was Koromon. Feeding Koromon from Miko's bowl, and the disaster that had brought about. Koromon getting big and jumping out the window with Kari on his back. Him chasing the two down. The giant egg in the sky. Koromon calling himself Greymon after he changed again. Greymon being knocked out. Him waking Greymon up with Kari's whistle. The final climatic battle. Had it… all of it merely been a dream?

It had to be… but then what about all this? What was real and what was fake? Was it too much to ask for a sign? "Kari," they heard. "I'll play with you and Tai again. Just let me sleep for now… I'm so tired."

The two raced to where they heard the noise coming from and found that their friend had reverted to a small pink blob. "Koromon?" the boy, Tai, nervously asked. He quickly cradled the digimon in his arms.

"That's me alright," the In Training replied. "Now can I please sleep?"

"No, mommy says you shouldn't sleep in times like this, you've got to stay awake!" Kari pleaded.

"Kari," Koromon told her. "I promise I'll wake up and play with you. I'd never break a promise. But I'm so tired. We've been up all night! And that last attack… I really need to sleep. But I'll wake up. We'll definitely play again." And with that the digimon drifted off to sleep.

"He's still breathing," Tai told his sister after awhile. They began to hear sirens in the distance. The rest of the day blurred together as the siblings saw many faces that they did not recognize and were asked many questions that they didn't understand.

One thing they did recognize was seeing their parents who ushered the two away while Tia still held the sleeping Koromon. "A break in and a terrorist attack that our children were in the middle of on the same night?" their mother asked their father. "Honestly, Susumu, if that is what this neighborhood is coming to I refuse to stay another night! I know it will be hard, but for the children's safety we have to move! It's just a miracle they weren't hurt!"

"I understand completely, Yuuko," their father stated. "I'll start looking for a place, and let my boss know my intentions."

"Thank you," she said sighing. "I'll do the same I suppose. This will be a huge change for them; I hope they will be able to understand when they are older."

Susumu looked at the children they were carrying in their arms, as their car had been mysteriously stomped flat. "I have a feeling they will be just fine. After all they already have a new friend," he joked motioning to what he thought was a plush doll in Tai's arms.

Yuuko laughed. "You're right, I suppose," she sighed contentedly. "You always are."

"Tai do you have all you're things packed the way you want them? The movers will be here soon," his mother's voice flittered to him as he looked through a cardboard box with most of his and Kari's worldly possessions inside as Koromon bounced up and down to look at the contents.

"Yeah, mom! But what about Koromon? He won't like being in the box all the way to Odiba!" Tai replied.

Yuuko smiled, the boy still thought that stuffed animals could be alive? Best to humor him, who knew how long it would last? "Then he'll come in the car with us how does that sound?" she called.

"Okay," Tai responded loudly before lowering his voice to what he thought his mother couldn't hear. "Now you've got to be quiet and still while were in the car got it, Koromon?" She laughed to herself again, 'Kids.'

Fortunately for her world view she did not hear Koromon's assent and went on to check that everyone's things actually had been packed, after all children- and husbands- could be so forgetful.

"Here, Miko," Kari called to the family cat, who was steadfastly on the TV ignoring the girl. Her mother sighed, deftly snatched the cat off of her perch and had it inside a carrier before the animal had realized what had happened.

"I'll take care of Miko, sweetie," she told her daughter. "You run and tell Tai I'll be in one more time before the movers get here, alright?" Kari nodded and ran back into the room already yelling to Tai what their mother had told her.

Yuuko sighed as she thought over the last few weeks. Things had been so hectic. For the first few nights she and Susumu had refused to sleep away from the children afraid that whomever had come in would return to finish the job. No one ever did, however that didn't change the two parents' minds on the matter as they had told their bosses. Thankfully the issue was one the people at work could understand and they were able to leave on friendly terms. Actually both had recommended the same building they saw advertizing room in Odiba. A couple of quick calls to the owners, job searches, references, and money transfers- to the local bank and the landlords- and it was done. And today was moving day. A friend who owned a minivan was taking them out to Odiba while the movers brought along their packed items and furniture. 'Oh, have to remember to bring Granddad's old journals. Not only will they make great bedtime stories but those recipes- I can't afford to lose them.'

"Hey Koromon," Tai said when only he and Kari were around. "Not that I'm complaining, but… why haven't you gotten bigger… again?"

"I'm not quite sure myself, Tai," Koromon responded. "But then again neither you nor your sister has given off a weird energy spike.

"Energy Spike?" Tai parroted.

"Yep, whenever I'd change, or digivolve, I'd feel a spike in the flow of energy between one or both of you. I'd also get a hint of a desire too. Like when I went from Botamon to Koromon Kari wanted to be able to talk to me more easily. When I grew into Agumon you wanted proof that I could actually do it. And with Greymon you both wanted someone to protect you, and I wanted to fill the role, so I did," Koromon replied.

"Why do you call yourself so many different things?" Kari asked.

"See when we digimon digivolve we change species so to speak. Koromon is my In Training name, Botamon Fresh, Agumon Rookie, Greymon Champion. All digimon call themselves by their species name, it's a custom."

"Kari? Kari! Come on, get up! You'll miss the bus to camp at this rate! You've been waiting for this for all of summer break!" Tai said trying to shake her awake. The girl did not respond but her head brushed against his arm- it was too warm. He quickly got out a thermometer and took his sister's temperature. "Humh, too high to not be sick, but too low to call the doctor. Oh man, and since mom and dad have already left for grandma's, the fact that they have the camps number, I have to go and explain what's going on or they'll call the cops! And they probably won't let me go back after I show up either- at least not without parents," he spoke to himself. "Good thing I won't have to leave her alone."

"Koromon!" Tai shouted through the flat. "Take care of Kari while she's sick, okay? I'll try and fix everything at the camp. With any luck either we'll all be up there or back here by tomorrow!"

"Got it, Tai, but before you go you might want to take a look at this!" Koromon replied from the living room. Curious Tai walked in to see the digimon watching news reports on the recent disasters that were occurring around the world today.

Then he noticed things that they all had in common. "Digimon?" he asked aloud. "But what are they doing here?"

"No clue," Koromon replied. "But they seem to be making a mess all over the globe! I mean look at where these videos are coming from: South America, Africa, heck this one is from another area of Japan!"

"Too true." Tai put his hands behind his head. "Oh well, nothing we can do about it now. Just keep her safe alright?"

"Count on it!"

"I know I can," Tai said as he stepped out the door.

This chapter has been edited. One of the few retroactive things I will do.