Just a quick note to begin. This is a story that tries to explain the different worlds in Digimon. I especially became intrigued with the concept when I figured out that Ryo was in both the 02 season and Tamers season. I know that this is not the way that it is explained in later seasons. It is based solely on watching the first 4 seasons and their movies. Basically, the events take place not long after Locomon's attack. The events of the 02 season happen during the year prior to the Tamers season. So, soon after the defeat of Armegeddemon the events of Season 3 start. This story also puts season 4 events before the events of season 1. It is set in the present so the technology is possible. Other than that, sit back and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, I just like to play with their characters.

'It was a year ago today,' thought a teenaged red haired girl as she jostled through the LAX airport to get to her flight. 'I lost her a year ago. That's why I've got to go back. I don't care what Gennai says. I've been careful and patient long enough. If Annalismon and I are separated forever, then we're sunk anyways. I can't be alone any longer.'

The girl thought about the events a year ago with a shudder. She and Annalismon had been sent to Japan to do some scouting work. Zhuqiaomon had ceased all contact with the other Sovereigns for almost an entire year, and they had become worried about what was going on. They had gotten the email, and since the two were on our own until an undistinguished time because of a dumb prophesy, they tended to do a lot of the behind the scenes work for the digital rulers. The other 3, particularly Azulongmon were worried about what exactly the phoenix was up to. He had never been in favor of using humans to save the Digital World, but had been overruled by the other 3 Sovereigns as well as the Celestial Digimon. However, that did not mean that he couldn't go rouge and start acting on his own. The guy was powerful and was infamously stubborn with a hot temper.

They were particularly worried because there was major activity in his quadrant from the D-Reaper, a program designed to keep the Digimon from becoming some kind of Terminator catastrophe. It was also time for the chosen from that quadrant to start appearing. There was already one there, and they had been hoping to recruit him to help train the newbies. There had also been some problems with his partner that they wanted to check up on.

She remembered flying to Tokyo at Gennai and Azulongmon's request to see what the problem was. When they arrived, they found a weak spot between quadrant borders. The girl had pulled out a tag and crest and a D-3. The two items worked in conjunction and created a passage to the next quadrant, just as the pair intended.

Really everything had gone as they intended, at least to start out with. The first thing that went wrong was when they sought out the older Digidestined. He was nowhere to be found. In fact, rumor had it that he had disappeared into the Digiworld a year prior and hadn't been seen since.

Azulongmon had provided them with information on the chosen children. The pair checked each child. Three of them had gotten their digimon, although they didn't really know what they were doing. Even the one they considered the most experienced didn't understand, refusing to work with the other two as a team. There had been another surprise. The new digivices were not so much tools for digivolving so much as tools for enhancing their partner. Somehow, the Digiworld had changed the digivices to suit this new environment without the intervention of the Sovereigns.

The two had planned to go back and report all that they had found to Gennai when Makuramon attacked them suddenly. To say that they had been surprised was an understatement. They were essentially being attacked by friendly fire. Though it seemed that Zhuqiaomon was acting outside his authority, they never expected to him to have the nerve to actually attack a Digidestined. Though it took them by surprise, it should have been an easy fight. Annalismon's digivolved form should have been enough to take him out. But for some reason Annalismon could not digivolve. It was not until later that she found out that the Digievolution power supply had been warped also. It was now held within one digimon (another one of those unexpected things that the Digiworld did to itself).

The teenaged girl had stood by helplessly as Makuramon stomped all over Annalismon. It was one of the hardest things that she had ever watched. Just as she thought she would see her digimon die before her eyes, Makuramon stopped and laughed, "That should put you in your place. Now to the Digiworld! My master has been dying to see you!" With that, Makuramon took a hold of Annalismon's body and disappeared out of the foggy field that had appeared during his arrival.

The girl looked everywhere for her partner. She scoured Tokyo in all four quadrants, looking for her. And she scoured the Digiworld, but she couldn't find her. Eventually, she had to go home, and face the truth that Annalismon was kidnapped somewhere in the southern quadrant and under the warped mind of Zhuqiaomon.

The girl shook her head. She couldn't think about that now. She had a plane to catch and she did not want to be late. She was headed to Tokyo for a semester as an exchange student. And maybe there among the other digidestined she would be able to find her long lost partner