Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, as many as there are. You've heard this crap before. I only own my OCs.

Shattered Glass

Part 1

It was a quiet day in the digital world, or as quiet as it gets anyway. Any of the digidestined or the new chosen would be relaxing or exploring the digital world now that MaloMyotismon had been defeated. Indeed, three digidestined were sitting on a green hill over looking a pristine forest and crystal clean lakes but they were all crying because of their ultimate failure.

These were not the children who helped the chosen digidestined fight against the ultimate evil, they were refugees from an alternate reality where they had failed to protect it from the forces of light.

Their digimon were all likewise depressed, all their friends were now going to be either destroyed or made into slaves of the three remaining 'Digimon Saviors'. They had been summoned to set the digital world right by undoing the damage these other children had done, eight children to defeat eight other children. In the climatic battles these children had to face death, destruction, fear, and horrors that were beyond their years. The death of five of their comrades and their digimon only compounded the situation. But in the process they had restored half of their digital world to normal and brought down five of the Digimon Saviors. But in the final battle between their digimon and the angelic digimon of the remaining 'Saviors' these dark digidestined were all sucked into the Gate of Destiny, an attack by MagnaAngemon. It was only because of a gift given by Apocalymon during their stay in the Dark Area that they were able to survive and cross into this backward world.

The names of these dark digidestined were Joel who was partnered with Demidevimon who possessed the crest of Loyalty, Sarah who had Blackgatomon and the crest of Honesty, and Nick who worked with Dracmon and possessed the crest of Curiosity. There were others, they were no longer counted among the living.

"Joel... what do we do now?" Sarah asked, holding her Blackgatomon close to her for security, much to Blackgatomon's discomfort as she didn't like being cuddled like some sort of stuffed toy.

Joel buried his face in his hands, utterly lost. Without the others it seems as if he was promoted to leader of the group. Something he was uncomfortable with, as he had always willing to help the others while another shouldered the responsibility of leadership.

"I... don't know..." He said, raking his black hair with his nails in an attempt to calm himself down. "Without Apocalymon's... whatever we can't go back and it doesn't look like we're really needed here."

"Yeah, there's shadow here, so the balance between light and dark is perfectly fine." Demidevimon said as he perched on top of his partner's head.

"Yeah, doesn't look like we're really needed here." Nick agreed, laying down in the soft grass. "Looks like we can breathe easily for once."

Dracmon grinned and plopped down next to his tamer, happy to take it easy for once. "Bout time."

"Hey, maybe that time warp sent us back in time to when the Digital world was balanced." Sarah smiled, hoping that there was a chance to redeem themselves for failing to right the wrongs of the Digimon Saviors.

"If that's the case then we'll have to..." Joel paused, not liking to have to be the one to state this; "Find the eight children who came before us and either make sure they never become the Digimon Saviors, or destroy them before they come to power."

"You mean before they got all those nasty angel digimon? Peice'a cake!" Dracmon said, enthusiastically pumping his fist in the air. Nick followed suit with his own fist.

"I think Nick's finally cracked." Demidevimon whispered, which Joel silently agreed with him. Of course Nick had never really been 'all there' since the beginning.

"Well if we have to find them, where do we start?" Sarah asked, "I don't think Apocalymon, Icedevimon, or anyone else is going to show up and offer us any cryptic advice to help us..."

"Sitting around here won't help us. If we're going to find them then we have to get going." Blackgatomon said, wanting to get back on the road as soon as possible.

Joel stood up and stretched, "Blackgatomon's right, we should get going. We shouldn't have any trouble since there aren't armies of Angemon flying the skies."

The trio of humans and their digimon began to walk down into the field of grass and into the thick woods. On their way they encountered benign digimon like Kunemon and Betamon, rare sights to the trio since most of the viral digimon had been captured in their... time? reality?

As they walked Sarah, Joel, Blackgatomon, and Demidevimon discussed where they were exactly. It seemed like they were somewhere in the southern section of the Digital world but the exact position wasn't showing up on their digivices, either the portal had damaged them or something else was wrong.

Nick and Dracmon were lost in their usual discussions about old TV shows, games, and other irrelevant things. Completely oblivious to everything around them.

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"Come on Kari, I'd like to get the tent up before I start to get gray hair." Yolei moaned as she had been holding the tent stake as her friend had been timidly tapping with a hammer for fifteen minutes. So far they had only gotten one stake set up while the boys had gotten all of theirs up now.

"Sorry, but I don't want to hit your hand." Kari said apologetically.

Yolei snorted and took the hammer away from Kari and started to pound the stake in herself. Kari was a little put off but then again she had been taking a while. The boys were now fishing by the stream for some fish to cook for dinner over the fire. Their digimon were all doing their best to catch some fish down stream by the rocks. Gatomon having the best luck while Armadillomon having the worst, meaning he fell in the cold water three times.

Kari and Yolei had agreed to come on a camping trip to the digital world with Ken, TK, Davis, and Cody to celebrate the one week anniversary of Malomyotismon and they intended to have a good time. They had brought a cooler full of soda and snacks in case they didn't catch anything. But surprisingly the fishing was pretty good, as they already had a few dozen fish in buckets of water to keep them alive until they were ready to cook them. Ken was already starting the fire to start their dinner.

"So Ken you have any experience cooking?" Cody asked, looking back from where he was fishing.

"Not really, nothing more than grilling the fish on stick over a fire..." Ken said, "Anyone else know anything about cooking outdoors?"

"I know how. I learned it while we had all off our adventures when we were younger." TK said, walking over and readying the fish to cook. "Matt taught me how after we beat Devimon all those years ago."

The group slowly gathered around the fire and began to roast their fish, all the while telling stories of their life at home and their adventures both together and apart. Their jokes and stories lasted as the sun began to go down, but their little party continued to go on thanks to the caffeine from the sodas. Little did they know they were about to get some odd visitors.

"Hey do you smell that?" Nick said, sniffing the air as they walked through the dense foliage.

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The other dark digidestined took a deep whiff, it was the unmistakable smell of fish roasting on the breeze. Tired and hungry from all the walking, they hoped to find a small digimon village cooking their supper and hoped even more that there would be leftovers to spare to some young travelers and their digimon.

What they found was a group of humans and digimon sitting around a fire talking and laughing as if they didn't have a care in the world. The three displaced humans and their partners were not eager to meet them, as these could be the dangerous people. The three dark digidestined had so little human interaction and so many harsh experiences during their stay in the digital world that they had learned to be cautious. However this caution was through out the window when a drooling Dracmon burst from the bushes, making a mad dash for the roasting fish.

The group that had been enjoying their meal nearly leapt out of their skins as an ugly little undead digimon began to grab at their fish and began to gobble it down.

"Ugh what is that?" Davis asked, watching as Veemon tried to keep his fish away from the imputent little monster.

"That's Dracmon," Patamon explained, "a mischievous bloodsucking digimon. If his mischief involves danger, he won't shrink away from it in fact he'll see it as a challenge, his Undead Fang and Eye of Nightmare attacks make him tough to beat." (1)

"Food food food!" Dracmon happily chanted in between mouthfuls, utterly oblivious to the people he was irritating.

"Hey you weren't invited. Please leave." Wormmon said in his usual polite voice.

Dracmon stopped his gluttonous assault to look at the green caterpillar for a moment, before pointing at Wormmon with one of his red claws. "Fish bait!"

In a flash the two were wresting on the ground, Dracmon intent on taking Wormmon to the stream to catch more fish and Wormmon just wanted to get away from the creepy undead digimon, but it wasn't long before Dracmon was partially cocooned in a mass of sticky thread thanks to Wormmon.

Dracmon continued to struggle for a few moments until he looked up at Wormmon with a grin, "Okay, we'll call it a draw."

Wormmon sweat dropped. "This guy is weird."

"You said that right." Armadillomon said, poking Dracmon in the back of the head with his paw. "Where'd ya think he come from?"

"He's with us."

The second team of digidestined from japan turned to see three humans (roughly their age) and two digimon step out of the bushes, all of them looking dirty and tired. It was the two digimon that was with them had the older members a little worried.

The first of the two groups to approach where Gatomon and her black counterpart who circled each other out of curiosity. Gatomon noted that only difference between them was that her twin had black fur, yellow eyes, her gloves were dark purple, and she lacked a tail ring.

"It's like looking in a mirror..." Gatomon said, "Who are you?"

"I'm Blackgatomon." The black cat digimon said. "I may look cute like you but I've got a real mean streak in me. My Cat Punch and Cat's Eye Hypnotism will teach you not to cross my path."

"Okay, and who's the bowling ball with wings?" Yolei asked.

It was TK's turn to explain things. "That's Demidevimon, a wicked and untruthful evil digimon, he can fool almost anyone with his sweet-sounding lies. His Demi Dart is something that should be avoided at all cost!"

"Seems like you know us pretty well. But we've never met you before." Demidevimon said from his perch on Joel's head.

The children that accompanied these three digimon introduced themselves. Joel was the tall pale young man with shot brown hair and he was wearing a nondescript black shirt with tan shorts. Sarah had long black hair that went down to her shoulders, and she was wearing a red t-shirt and blue jeans. Lastly was Nick who was the lanky red head boy with a blue baseball cap, gray shirt, and blue jeans.

"Nice to meet you all." Kari said, a little put off by the other children's partners but didn't that they meant to cause any trouble. Still there was one little detail that stuck out. "Hey you all have digivices?"

Joel stepped forward, he guessed since he was in charge he had to speak for the group. He pulled off his black hand held device off his belt and showed it to the other children. "Yeah, these are called Syphon Digivices. Lord Apocalymon gave them to us when we entered the digital world."

"Lord Apocalymon?" Kari and TK gawked, having not heard the name of that evil digimon in nearly three years.

Sarah backhanded Joel in the back of the head. "Just blurt out all our secrets why don't ya?"

Joel rubbed the back of his head. He wasn't in pain, but he did send a glare back at the black haired girl. "Sorry, I haven't been the leader very long have I?"

Sarah snorted and turned away from Joel. Nick however was doing his best to untie Dracmon from his silk prison.

"Why did you call Apocalymon 'lord'?" TK said, more forcefully than he meant. "He was a monster that wanted to destroy both the digital world and the real world!"

"I think explanations are in order..." Joel said, eying the fish and cans of soda. "But first do you mind if we eat?"

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To be continued.

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AN: Okay, I just want to say I wanted to have this beta read but I couldn't find anyone who would respond to me writing this. I hope this is original enough to spark some interest... and a lot of reviewing.

(1) The italics parts are meant to indicate parts where new digimon were introduced in the shows. On a side note, if you want to see pictures of the digimon I suggest googleing 'digimon wiki' to locate an entire wiki site (not a single page, a whole site) to digimon!

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