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DIGIMON HEROES

Episode 1 - Vacation?

REAL WORLD

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

12:30 PM

"Remind me again, JJ."

"It's Mr. Hendik's grandma's birthday, so we're taking a field trip across the border to Rimouski."

"That's like a five-hour drive!"

"I don't know, he's always been a whack job. Think of it this way, Ross, we're getting out of school."

"Uh, it's Satur-"

"That's not the point. The point is this trip sort of affects our weekend homework if we aren't home for the weekend."

"Yeah, but how did he ever get permission from the school board to do this?"

"Maybe he's escaped from a mental asylum and the school's low on teachers so-"

"Shut up, Ross."

The two 14-year-old boys walked toward the greyhound, animatedly chatting, followed by 23 other History students all the same age. All the same age, except for Willem, the boy genius, who was currently spending his brainpower dodging questions sent his way by three, popular, ditzy, and aggravating girls, one who went by the name of Ashley.

"So you're, like, 12 years old, but you're still, like, in our class?" said one, an obvious blonde, even though she had brown highlights streaking her hair.

"Yes, I am indeed 12 years old, even though, like, I am in your class," he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. You're destroying the English language.

"Oh. My. God. You are so adorable!" they giggled. Willem rolled his eyes. Tedious.

"Am I that cute?" he drawled. The girls didn't catch the sarcasm. They just giggled and patted him on the head.

This Ashley, however, intrigued him. She didn't join in the mind-numbing chatter; she just stood there, a distant look on her face like she was bored. Maybe this one did have an intelligent mind. Maybe I miscalculated. He reconsidered. Or, maybe not. Satisfied, he left the girls behind, and strode toward the greyhound.

Sarah called out, "Hey, JJ! Ross! Wait up!"

One of the boys, presumably JJ, turned around.

"Oh, hey Sarah!" he answered, "excited about the field trip?" He was dressed in a buttoned-up collared T-shirt with a blue, long-sleeved undershirt beneath that. His friend Ross was wearing a gray hoodie with beige khaki shorts, and a hat was perched on top of his light brown hair. Oddly enough, he had a pair of goggles slung around the headwear.

She snorted. "Are you kidding? It's probably another one of Mr. Hendik's wild journeys outside of the country." She stepped up into the bus. "How's your soccer team doing, JJ?"

Ashley exhaled. Finally, they're on the bus and she could get away from these girls. Sometimes they are so tiring.

The girls started making their way to the end of the bus. "Er, I dropped my lunch back at the front. Be right back!" she smiled facedly. The girls nodded and Ashley ducked down into an adjacent seat. Which, it turned out, was right next to that genius she was talking to earlier.

"Uh, hi Ashley," Willem said, obviously embarrassed. He wasn't used to popular girls sitting next to him.

"Oh, hi, Willem." She cast a furtive glance backwards. "I just needed to get some time away from those girls."

"I know what you mean." Maybe I was right. Maybe she does have something between her ears besides fluff.

He probably thinks I'm a complete ditz. Well, I can stereotype too. "So, what do you smart kids talk about? Math?" Ashley said. Willem's ears reddened. Oh no, that went too far. Now you'll make him cry. Real sensitive, Ashley.

"Very funny. At least it's better than talking about boys and celebrities' errands," he retorted.

Oh, he wants to play rough, eh? Well, no more Miss Nice Ashley. "Well, at least I have a life, other than homework and computers."

"Maybe your makeup is leaking into your brain. That would explain a lot."

Ouch.

"Well, maybe your brain's stunted from too much computer."

Oh, snap. He's a boy genius, for crying out loud.

Ross leaned over from the seat in front. "What're you two bickering about? I can't even hear myself think."

"Yeah, seriously," JJ's head popped up from the seat ahead, shortly followed by Sarah, a girl who sat next to Ashley in History.

Willem and Ashley huffed and turned their backs on each other.

Sarah spoke up. "You'd think you two are an elderly married couple, the way you argue. Settle down for a bit; let us have some peace." The others piped up in amused agreement.

"We do not!" Ashley protested. She turned to Willem. "Do I really look like an old woman?" she whispered.

"Only the eyeliner."

As she sputtered off comebacks and the rest of the group chuckled, a shadow darted from a lamppost. In the vacant air there was left a ghostly voice.

"They are coming, Master."

"That certainly was bad."

Exhausted, mumbled agreements came stumbling out of the kids' mouths as they stretched after the long bus ride.

"Hey, does anyone know where we're staying for the night?" yawned JJ as he stretched out.

"Uhh... campground?"

Ashley groaned. "Camping? I heard that sleeping bags were bad for your hair."

"Hey you kids! Aren't you excited for my fantastic mother's mother's birthday? We're staying in a tubular group of cabins!"

"Tubular?" JJ raised an eyebrow.

"Cue in, Mr. Hendik. Right on time, man!" Ross said with an eerie amount of enthusiasm.

"All right! Glad to hear someone's syched!" He turned and left, and started cheering at another group of students.

"I know I'm syched," JJ said dryly. Sarah giggled.

"C'mon guys, lets get to a cabin before the other kids take it," Ross said, swinging his backpack over his shoulder and strolling off toward a cluster of buildings. The rest followed.

"Hey, did Mr. Hendik give us a gift or something?" Sarah inquired as she picked up an odd-looking device that had been laid on her pillow. It was teal-coloured, shaped like a square, except for the indents in the corners. It also had a screen and buttons, but those seemed to have no effect.

"What's that, Sarah?" JJ asked as he leaned over her shoulder to get a better view.

"Check your pillow."

JJ climbed up to his top bunk. Sure enough, there was another device identical to Sarah's resting on his pillow.

"Hey," Ross called from the far back of the cabin, "I got one too!"

The others shouted out confirmations that everybody had that weird device on their pillows. Willem scratched his head. "Maybe they are some sort of communications device."

Ross yelled into it. He raised his head, "Nope. It's not a walkie-talkie."

"Huh." Ashley tapped the screen. No response came from the device.

"Maybe it's a... teleporter?" JJ asked.

"Be serious here." Willem scorned.

"You come up with something, then."

"Maybe I will."

"Go ahead."

"Fine."

Willem took from his backpack a palm pilot the size of a book, causing a remark from Ross, "Man, do you go anywhere where you're not connected to the internet?" Willem ignored him, and booted the thing up.

"Hmm..." he said after five minutes of the group watching him intensely as he tapped things into his mini computer.

"It appears that no site on the information superhighway known as the internet has no information on this device. However, I have discovered that it is electronic." The others groaned.

"All that for nothing?" Ashley whined.

"Hey, hold on a second!" Ross had his hand up and was staring intensely at the device in his hand. "When I bang it against the wall," he preceded to do so, "something flickers on the screen! It looks like a compass!"

The cabin echoed with four thumps as they all checked Ross' discovery.

"Hey, what's up with this? Ross is right!" Sarah exclaimed as she stared at her device.

"Hey, I'm right about some things..." Ross trailed off, looking hurt.

"Maybe we should go to the red dot thingy?" Ashley asked, cocking her head.

"Sure, why not." Ross hopped off his bed and sauntered out the door.

JJ gritted his teeth. "I hate when he does that."


A/N: I hope you don't expect all chapters to be this long ;)

And yes, I did steal a joke from Adventure 02. Ooooo.