Original Digimon Series 01 Episode 01
Major Jetlag
It was just another day for fourteen year old Kristi Morletta, flying from America to Japan to start the new school year, and leaving her father behind was very hard on her. Her mother wasn't terrible… just absent in Kristi's life to begin with. Her father and mother met in New York one year during a conference for her father's shoe company, her mother was a young up-and-coming fashion guru in charge of a major shoe retailer in Japan, since then it's been traveling nonstop for her family. Just hours after Kristi was born her parents took her cross-country through Siberia to get back to the hotel her mother was working remotely from that year. Her parents divorced shortly after her fifth birthday, but they still are good friends. Her life ever since was a nonstop plane ride over the Pacific Ocean, but at least this time going into school she actually knew someone before starting. Her pen-pal and close friend of seven years, Saylie Satovy was waiting for Kristi to arrive at the airport with her mother, Gia.
When Kristi finally disembarked from her plane, attended to her luggage in the baggage claim, and found Saylie with her boyfriend Danny Yamazi. Kristi was so excited to be back in Japan she couldn't contain herself, "Well Saylie, mummy has a pre-paid bank card waiting from me at home, so I think it's time for some shopping," the two teens laughed adamantly while Danny and Saylie's mother looked on with puzzled faces. As soon as they had finished their laugh it happened; a cloaked man had snatched Kristi's purse from right off her shoulder, "Oh no, stop him he's stole my purse!" Everyone was caught off guard by the incident, but an enraged Kristi took chase in her wedged sneakers with Saylie and Danny in tow. Gia had gone off to alert a security guard of the felon who had made off with her daughter's friend's purse.
Danny was always a champion sprinter, so naturally he was closing in on the thief with quicksilver movement. He was so close he could almost take hold of the perpetrator's trench coat, but as he reached out another young kid had ran right into him. The two collided in a way that made them both fall back, "Watch where you're go- Theo?" He was looking into the eyes of his own brother, "What are you doing here?"
"Grandpa's in town. Mom and I came down here to pick him up, what are you doing here?" He was rubbing his tender chin that had smacked into his brother's rock-hard chest.
Danny got up and helped his brother to his feet when the girls ran by, "He's getting away with my purse!" They all started running after the thief again, and hopefully this time they'd catch him. The thief had made a sharp right at the other end of the corridor leading to baggage claim, so naturally they followed getting closer. They followed him down towards a dead end, and with no way out, the thief was trapped, "Give up now! We've got you surrounded!" Danny yelled at the stranger whose face was hidden under a large hat.
The stranger began to laugh as a marvelous thing began to happen: it was as if the bay had flooded the airport out. The dead end was starting to fill up with water at an alarming rate, "If I knew we we're going to the ocean Id have packed my swimsuit," Kristi awkwardly said to lighten the mood, but the dead end was starting to fill up above their knees and soon enough to their hips, "What the hell is happening?" Kristi screamed as the others panicked screams filled the waterlogged space.
Everything that had happened next was like a dream. The floor had opened up and the water, along with the teens, was swept away into the newly made cavern.
Waking up was one of the most odd experiences as well, it felt like Kristi had woken up after laying out in the sun for a few hours. She was lying on the beach when she woke up, and with no recollection of how she had gotten there she stood up fast. She looked left and right to see if any of the others where around, but her growing disappointment she was mistaken. She waded up to the shoreline still feeling alone, but not quite affected by it. To her that was normal. She stayed at the water's edge for a few moments until she heard a loud bang, like a cannon firing, to her back. She whipped around quickly and looked up just in time to see a small creature flying right down at her. The creature was screeching in a squeaky voice as it plummeted towards her. With no time to move the creature had smashed right into Kristi, toppling her over, into the ocean.
"Oh my gosh! Are you hurt?!" The tiny creature squeaked out truly concerned. The darling little thing rushed over to help Kristi to her feet, "I really hope I didn't hurt you too bad," the little thing pouted as Kristi regained her stance.
Kristi was amused at the little creature's cuteness: the little dear head a bright pink heart-shaped player's mask with a hot pink ponytail emerging from the back of the mask, and its body was draped in an oversized black onesie that trailed it when it walked, "I'm okay, but you're just adorable!" Kristi gushed as the tiny creature blushed, "What is you name by the way?"
The little one seemed flustered when asked that, "Oh dear, how rude of me. I fall out from the sky on top of you, and I don't even introduce myself to you," the little creature bowed, "My name is Amomon, an in-training level digimon with a fierce candy heart blitz attack, and I'm your digimon partner, it's nice to finally meet you Kristi."
Kristi was slightly taken aback after hearing that, "How do you know my name… and what exactly do you mean by digimon partner?" She had so many questions beyond just that, but she didn't want to overwhelm Amomon with too many questions.
Amomon cleared it's throat, "Hem-hem. Well you see I know more about you than evn you know. I was born to be your partner. Now I am also a digimon, which means I can digivolve and get stronger when we battle side-by-side. I really have a lot to teach you, don't I?" They both laughed nervously.
Kristi had more she wanted to ask, but what she was given now was sufficient for their first meeting. It was that moment she'd remembered her friends were still missing, "Hey Amomon I know we've just met and everything, but have you seen my friends anywhere?" Amomon nodded no with its head down in shame. The cannon sound returned, but went off twice this time, "They must've just woken up too. They'll meet their partner digimon and then we'll all regroup at Cyber station."
Kristi looked off into the sky, and noticed a small black speck hurling down into the jungle just a little north of the beach, "I wonder if that's Saylie and her partner digimon?" The silence was long before it was cut by the sound of a girl's screams. It was coming from the same direction the black speck had fell to, "Come on Amomon!" Amomon leaped up onto Kristi's left shoulder, and the two started making their way towards the screaming.
Kristi and Amomon were stumbling through the lush jungle with no idea what lay ahead of them, and for all they knew some larger digimon could, at any time, eat them. Kristi was starting to get fed up with walking in circles so she started to shout for Saylie, "Saylie! Where are you? It's me Kristi!"
"Do you mind keeping your voice down a little?" A young girl's voice had boomed from the tree above them. A short-cut red-headed young lady had jumped from the tree and landed impeccably smooth. She was a little shorter than Kristi and way tanner. She smiled at Kristi, and immediately Kristi was smitten, "Sorry to scare you, but you really shouldn't start to yell in the middle of a jungle, a carnivore might hear you."
Kristi was blushing slightly in her embarrassment, "Right! Of course, erm… I'm Kristy… Kristy Morletta, and this is Amomon." She gestured to the muse-like digimon perched on her shoulder.
The young lady smiled again, but now her eyes had drawn Kristi in. Kristi was confused, she'd never felt so on fire before, it was as if this girl had radiated enough heat to make her sweat. The girl took her hand and Kristi's heart skipped a beat. She locked eyes with the girl, and felt butterflies when her green pools of light burrowed into Kristi's deep blue iris, "Lovely to meet you! My name is Carrie Niigata, and…" She looked around, "if you'd ever come out of hiding… ChibiBatamon is around here somewhere." Chibibatamon poked it head out from behind Carrie's left leg. ChibiBatamon looked like a floating seal with a huge egg-like mask covering its eyes; the mask resembled bat wings, "So Kristi was that you I heard screaming earlier?"
Kristi couldn't speak; she was still too flustered by Carrie to even get a single word out, "Y-yes… I mean no… I mean, uh?" Carrie giggled like a cherub and Kristi felt herself melt in the laughter's echo, "No, wait that wasn't you?" She asked still blushing, but Carrie merely nodded no, and they heard a loud roar come from behind them. The roar was followed by frantic screams and a lot of running. A heard of digimon started to move fast towards them, all screaming and running as if their lives depended upon it. From the corner of her eye Kristi caught sight of Saylie running towards them at a high-speed gallop with a child-size digimon resembling a Christmas elf. The two were yelling at Carrie and Kristi, but they weren't heard until they ran by, "Run for your lives!" The two looked at Saylie who was still running far away from them with her digimon. The two turned when they heard the roar again, and both started to run with their digimon as the sound crept up on them.
They all met back up with Saylie on the beach with her little brother Scotty consoling her with his digimon who resembled a green monkey head with tribal paint on its cheeks, "Saylie! Scotty?" The two teen girls had stopped short in front of the distraught siblings.
Carrie took a good look at Scotty before saying, "Hey I know you! You were waiting in the same train car as I was before the ground swallowed us up." Scotty nodded his head 'yes' as Kristi turned to Carrie.
"Wait the ground swallowed you two up as well?" Kristi sounded alarmed when she heard that.
Carrie was pausing for a moment trying to remember clearer, "Yep, it was me, this boy," she pointed to Scotty, a black boy, and some goth chick. The ground swallowed up the train car, and the next thing I know I'm in the jungle with no recollection of how I got there." The others all had a similar story, and believe it or not, they had soon found out that that wasn't the only thing their strange ground-swallowing episode had in common. Before Carrie and Scotty had gotten onto the train car that fell into the underground they two were chasing a thief that had stolen Scotty's watch that his father had left him. Before they could put any kind of thought into their predicament and find a permeable solution they were interrupted by a giant, brown, fur-covered digimon.
"What is that thing, Elfmon?" Saylie asked her partner with fear now, since earlier they had no idea what was chasing them, since they were just running away from it.
Elfmon cleared it's throat, "Oh no, It's a JungleMojyamon! When it comes to polar opposites a regular Mojyamon is docile and calm, but it's counterpart that lives in the jungle is fierce and primal. Watch out for its Jungle Punch attack or you'll end up in the trees with the Apemon."
J-Mojyamon belted out another roar that nearly blasted out the teenagers' eardrums, "Jungle Punch!" J-Mojyamon jumped high into the air above them and was about to come down hard with its fist and ram them all into the ground.
The entire slew of teenagers screamed and held onto each other expecting the end when Elfmon came out of nowhere, "Holiday Bomb!" Elfmon pulled, from nowhere, an oversized Christmas ornament, and hurled it at J-Mojyamon who was knocked away from them all. Once the bomb exploded in J-Mojyamon's face a light started to emit from the exploded ornament. Eight beams of light emerged and shot small fireballs from the nuclei of the explosion. Four of the lights headed straight towards the teens as the other four scattered and went elsewhere. After the intense light-show all of the digi-destined there found in their hands, small devices that had the time and a symbol on it. It was almost like a videogame controller, but more thinned out and cross-shaped, "With your digivices in hand, now the others can digivolve and help me defeat JungleMojyamon!"
"Jungle Pummel!" J-Mojyamon got back up and struck Elfmon in the face repeatedly.
Carrie, Scotty, and Kristi all looked at their digivices with blank stares, and with nothing else to lose they all looked at each other, then to Saylie who was helplessly watching Elfmon be beaten upon by this brute of a digimon, then back at each other , and then to their digimon, "Go help Elfmon now, Amomon! Digivolve!" She held up her digivice to Amomon, and as if the magic words had been uttered, it began to be shrouded in an intense light. It was digivolving for the first time.
"Amomon digivolve to!" The small creature was tripling in size now. It was forming legs with black warmers covering its newly exposed pink shins. It's onesie had turned into an overall-style dress, still black. Her ponytail was now just a long rush of hot pink hair falling to its butt. To finish of the new look it brandished a heart shaped hammer in its gloved hands, "Lovelymon!"
Lovelymon stood majestically glistening in the sunlight with it's hot pink hair blowing in the breeze it raised its hammer to staff level, "I am Lovelymon, a Rookie level digimon with new-found strength that only Amomon could dream about. My Crushing Hammer attack will leave my enemy's infatuated."
Scotty and Carrie both looked at each other, then to their partner digimon and uttered the same phrase that had helped Amomon evolve. Once again brilliant beams of light engulfed ChibiBatamon and Primimon.
"ChibiBatamon digivolve to!" The small floating undead cherub had doubled in size similar to Lovelymon, but the new digimon was growing longer more suitable wings, a more rodent-like face, and legs bent backwards at the knee. "Batamon! I am Batamon a Rookie level digimon with more guts and bravery than my pre-evolution. Enemies beware of my Vampire bite attack, it'll leave a mark, I promise!"
"Primimon digivolve to!" The disembodied head was no longer bodiless as it had grown a torso with four appendages and a tail. The new digimon was a foot and a half taller than Primimon, but maintained the same broad expression. It was now gloved, draped by an animal print toga, and sporting a large slingshot on its back. "Koemon! I am Koemon, another Rookie level digimon not to be laughed at. I can climb high trees and pelt you with things I find on the ground using my slingshot!"
J-Mojyamon was still beating up on poor Elfmon when the other three newly digivolved allies approached, "Hey sasquatch, looks like you could use a trim!" Lovelymon taunted the J-Mojyamon who turned its attention to Lovelymon once it spoke, "Why don't we take a little off the top?" she joked as the three new Rookies jumped into action. J-Mojyamon, in turn, started to run full-speed at them.
"Banana Slip!" Koemon yelled out rocketing a banana peel in front of J-Mojyamon's path. J-Mojyamon slipped on the peel as expected with a really loud thud when it hit the ground.
"Vampire Bite!" Batamon flew over to the grounded J-Mojyamon to hold it down as Elfmon and Lovelymon went in for the kill.
"Holiday Bomb!" Elfmon screamed as she tossed another bomb at J-Mojyamon in unison with Lovelymon's attack.
"Hammer-rang!" Lovelymon gained momentum by spinning in a complete circle a few times then hurled her hammer towards J-Mojyamon. The two attacks hit their mark without and drawbacks, and J-Mojyamon roared as his data had been absorbed by the three Rookies' and Elfmon the Champion.
After J-Mojyamon returned to the jungle the girls and Scotty all huddle to discuss their next course of action, "Well Lovelymon was telling me about some place call Cyber station where we should meet up with the others," Kristi had mentioned after the quartet and their digimon had discussed meeting up with the others.
"So to Cyber station then!" Scotty and Saylie chirped in glee.
In Kristi's mind all she could think about was Carrie and how she can make her mind go blank. There was so much they were about to discover and learn for themselves, and everyone was going to learn more about themselves then they had never knew before. It was just like Lovelymon had said earlier before it digivolved: the digimon do have a lot to teach us.