Now I recently found the game Digimon World 3 at around Christmas time last year and finally beat it this past April after its release eight years ago. For a Playstation one game it was very well done and I felt it had a really cool story. But the only thing that I felt it was missing, in my opinion, was the interaction between Tamer and Digimon. I figured it'd be a cool story for people who hadn't played the game and one of my friends, who is also into Digimon, said it was a good idea so I decided to go ahead and do it. It still keeps the basic plot and a lot of the human dialogue comes from the game itself, but the lines of the Digimon talking, the interactions, the fights, and other things will be of my own creation. Now to those that have read my other Digimon fanfiction, I'm using the three exclusive Digimon that came out with the game: Kumamon, Kotemon, and Monmon in a "custom party" option that I made for the fanfiction. I always thought that these Digimon were really interesting and I felt like they never got any recognition outside of the game so hopefully they'll get plenty here. The Kumamon in this story is not the same one from my other story and you'll see that right away. Now again, I beat the game already so I'm having to go back and replay as I write this so I'm not sure how often I'll be able to update it, but I will definitely update it. Hopefully you will all enjoy this and send encouragement, and if you're interested read my other two fanfics: Path of the Chosen and Kamen Rider Rekka. Now that all of that is out of the way, on with the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Digimon World franchise or Digimon period. If I did we would have more than six seasons by now.
A large blue eye blinked before pulling back and revealing a bipedal bear, wearing a blue baseball cap backwards with the word "Bears" on the the back. He was shoved aside by two dinosaur looking creatures, one yellow and the other red, as the three of them looked to the sky at what looked like a circle of data. The data then began to shift into an eye as a portal opened up and a very large creature, with a dinosaur head and a dozen spider like arms stepped through the portal and landed on the ground with, causing a small tremor as it stalked towards the three creatures who had ran away at the sight of it. The sound of a motorcycle could be heard in the distance. The large creature let loose a great stream of flame that blasted that two dinosaurs and the bear away. A motorcycle could be seen zooming down the cobblestone streets of the city as a black feather fluttered into view. The figure on the motorcycle smirked. The three small creatures stood against a building and the bear coughed as the large monster stood over them. Suddenly a black motorcycle skidded to a halt right under the the monster and grinned at the three cowering digimon. The bear and red dinosaur looked at one another before the bear nodded and balled his paw into a fist, his claws coming out. The two monsters jumped into the sky, enveloped by a white light and surrounded by what looked like to be an area of data. The two streams of light danced around each other as they went higher and higher, until they suddenly slammed into each other making a small explosion of light. The light faded and a large knight with white and red armor now floated in place of the two monsters. The knight flew down towards the ground as the biker glared at him, pulling out two sawed off shotguns and began shooting at the knight. The knight twisted his body and rolled out of the way of the bullets, much to the biker's distaste. The biker left his bike and sprouted large, black wings, then flew up towards the knight. The two swirled around each other. The knight began to charge the lance attacked to his right arm with energy as the now winged biker shot at him again with his guns. The knight charged at the biker as the biker kept shooting, his bullets missing every time. The biker's right arm shifted into a large cannon and it charged with energy as he charged at the charging knight. The two charged but passed right by each other, their energies reacting off of one another and sending them to the ground. The biker landed on the cobblestone street and turned to face the knight, his cannon charging with energy once again. The knight was facing the biker, kneeling with his shield pointed forward as it too charged with energy. Before the two could fire off their attacks, a loud rumble was heard. The two turned behind them to see a large mechanical creature, a dozen times larger than the dinosaur headed spider legged monster, emerge from some place unseen. And a great shadow cover the town as its large form blanketed the sky.
The preview for the new game, Digimon Online played over and over on the screen in front of the store in Kusanagi City in Japan as a young boy stood on the corner impatiently, his foot tapping in a steady pattern.
"They're late. What are Teddy and Ivy doing?" the boy asked himself out loud. People stared at the boy as he talked to himself. He wore blue jeans, a white long sleeved shirt with a brown sleeveless jacket vest over the top. The strangest thing about the boy, Junior, was the pair of goggles he wore over his blue hat, which he wore backwards on his head. "We won't have time to play Digimon Online." He walked a little closer to the door of the store but turned around with his arms crossed. "I didn't even want Ivy to come, but Teddy and his big mouth told her. They should have gotten a Login Pass ahead of time." He shrugged and waited a few seconds before walking a little to the side. A little ding sound came from the various televisions in the store window as an announcement came in.
"This just in...International Police, S.A.P have located the European HQ of the crime group A.o.A. Together with the army, they raided their headquarters at midnight last night and have arrested the leaders of the A.o.A. Inside the compound. Officials believe these arrests will connect recent internet terrorism to the A.o.A."
Junior turned away from the television as the broadcast ended. "A.o.A...that's the group that did bad things with Digimon. I can't believe anyone would make Digimon do bad things!" The doors of the store finally opened and two kids around Junior's age stepped out. One was a boy wearing shorts, a white shirt with a green jacket, and yellow bandana on his head. The other was a young girl who also wore blue jeans, a bluish jacket, and had red hair that was tied into two ponytails that seems to stick up straight back. These were his friends Teddy and Ivy. The two turned to junior and saw that he was talking to himself.
Teddy didn't think anything of it. "Thanks for waiting, Junior. Sorry we're late!" Ivy, on the other hand, wasn't about to let Junior's weirdness go unnoticed.
"Junior, why are you talking to yourself? It's creepy."
Junior noticed the two and faced them while shaking his fist in a threatening manner. "About time Teddy!" He then turned to Ivy. "And why is Ivy here in the first place?" "You always say that Digimon are for kids!" he said to Ivy.
Ivy got irritated and walked up to Junior. "Hey, I'm interested in Digimon Online, OK? And I never said that I hated Digimon!" The two glared at one another and shook their fists as Teddy spun around on his tiptoes and began to walk off.
"Junior, Ivy – come on, let's go to the Online Center!" The two friends stopped their argument and followed Teddy across the street as they headed for the Online Center.
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Sometime later the three entered a building called "MAGAMI Online Center". It looked like a highly technological place as the three looked around. Various capsule like object surrounded the area as three receptionists stood at the registry.
Junior couldn't help but admire the surroundings. "So this is the MAGAMI Online Center? Cool!"
Teddy turned around and took notice of a large tube that sat behind the the registry, a large jewel looking object glowing inside of it. "Yeah, this is the Matrix System! It digitizes out ideas and thoughts and sends them to the net. I wonder how it works? I want to see what makes it tick."
Junior started to get impatient again as his two friends just stood around. "Hey, what are you two doing there? Come on, let's set up an account and login to the Digital World!" The other two nodded and followed Junior to the registration desk.
The receptionist in charge quickly got ready to put in data as the three kids walked up. "Welcome to the MAGAMI Online Center. This service if for those traveling to the Digital World. Is this your first time playing Digimon Online?" The three of them nodded and the receptionist smiled. "Before we set up your account you will have to choose your partner Digimon." The kids paid close attention. "You can either choose one of the Starter Packs: A, B, or C. Or you can make a custom party using any three digimon from the starter packs. Each Starter Pack has three types of Digimon." The three kids nodded again. "A is a Balanced Pack: Kotemon, Renamon, and Patamon. B is a Powerful Pack: Monmon, Agumon, and Renamon. C is a Maniac Pack: Kumamon, Guilmon, and Patamon. Remember these as you can also those any three for a custom party. Now, which of the three would you like?"
Junior scratched his head as he thought about what he wanted. Ivy shook her head and motioned the receptionist before walking a little bit away. The other two followed her. "Come on, Junior. What are you worried about? Just pick a pack that has a Digimon you like!"
"I can't help it! All of the packs have Digimon that I like!"
Ivy shook her head again. "Which Digimon don't you like then? Don't get the pack that had Digimon you don't like, and pick!"
"There are no digimon I don't like! I love all Digimon!"
Teddy ignored their arguing by imagining himself traveling the Digital World with the Maniac Pack, since it was the only Starter Pack with a Guilmon.
"Well, if you like all Digimon, then you don't have to worry. Just choose the custom pack and pick three digimon that interest you. Come on – choose, and let's go to the Digital World!"
Teddy and Ivy walked back up to the receptionist but Junior stayed stationary, still in thought.
"Junior! You still haven't made up your mind?" Ivy asked, growing more impatient by the second. "You better made up your mind or I'm going ahead!"
"Well to be honest I've never heard of Kumamon, Kotemon, or Monmon. They must be game exclusive digimon. I might pick those since I'm curious about what they're like." He walked up to the receptionist desk with the others.
"Have you all decided? the receptionist asked. Teddy and Ivy nodded but Junior still looked like he was thinking. Ivy was a second away from snapping at this point.
"Junior! I'm really going to leave you here."
Junior finally decided on getting the custom pack with the three relatively unknown digimon and nodded finally.
The receptionist smiled at the boy. "Okay, then I'll register you and your partner Digimon now." The three nodded as the receptionist began to put in data.
A screen with a two dimensional dinosaur head and the words "DIGIMON ONLINE" in a digital like font appeared at the bottom. Several layers of hive like screen savers with the same dinosaur logo moved around behind it. A text screen showed up at the top of the screen.
"Welcome to Digimon Online. We will begin the registration of your online account and partner Digimon. The account name will be your name in the Digital World. Please choose your partner Digimon from one of the three Starter Packs, or choose three Digimon for the custom pack. We will now start the process."
Junior went first. The image on the screen turned into a keypad of sorts as a light scanned over Junior. A picture of Junior appeared near the top followed by his name. Under it were a set of upper case letters, lower case letters, and numbers followed by okay button at the bottom. "Guess I'll pick a name then first." He thought about going with "Junior" but felt his name was a little lame like most kids his age thought about their own names so he opted for a new name for the game. "I think I'll go with Kenja."
He typed in his name then the screen changed to another screen with the starter Digimon on it. First was the balanced pack with Kotemon, Renamon, and Patamon. This pack focused on weapons, magic attacks, and healing and was the best pack for team work. At the side of each avatar of the digimon was a small bit of data about them. Beside Kotemon it said, "Balanced swordsman, can also learn to heal." Beside Renamon was, "Gets the enemy with lightning and ice." And beside Patamon it said, "Healing specialist. Very likable."
Junior took note of that then looked at the digimon in the second starter pack with Monmon, Agumon, and another Renamon in the Powerful Pack. This pack was "for the fearless who think that offense is the best defense". Beside Monmon it said, "Has various guns and is an expert marksman". Beside Agumon it said, "Likes to spew fire and is very aggressive." Renamon's information was the same as in the balanced pack.
Lastly was the Maniac Pack with Kumamon, Guilmon, and another Patamon. This pack almost seemed insulting to digimon in it. "They're all quirky and difficult. You can only count on Patamon," said the text at the bottom of the screen. Junior scoffed at that, his unbiased love of all digimon wouldn't permit him to listen to something like that. He looked at the data for Kumamon and Guilmon. "Powerful martial artist who's pretty fast," it said for Kumamon. And beside Guilmon it said, "Mischievious Digimon. He'll learn odd moves."
Junior took notice of the three new digimon. "So a swordsman, and gunman, and a martial artist. Yup, I'm definitely going with the custom pack." The receptionist put in the data and registered the account. In a few short seconds the account was completed and good to go as Teddy chose the Maniac Pack and Ivy chose the Balanced pack.
"Registration complete. Please head to the Chamber Room," the receptionist said to Junior.
Junior looked to Teddy and Ivy with an excited grin on his face. "Ok, Teddy, Ivy! Let's go to the Digital World!" He turned around and headed off towards the chamber room without realizing that Teddy and Junior still weren't finished with registration yet.
"H-hey! Wait up Junior!" Ivy yelled.
"I'm not done registering!" shouted Teddy.
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Junior entered the Chamber room and looked around. "Wow! So this is the Chamber Room?" He stood on a platform with a receptionist standing at a computer in front of one of the many capsule which he would be entering soon. "I can start playing the game. This is exciting!"
He walked up to the receptionist who quickly took notice of him. "What is your registered account name?"
"It's Kenja!" Then he turned around and crossed his arms as the receptionist brought up the account.
"Confirmed. Thank you," she told him. "Please enter the chamber capsule over there."
"Ok!" He walked into the capsule as Teddy and Ivy finally walked into the Chamber Room.
Ivy jumped up and down then shook her fist angrily at the capsule that Junior just entered. "Hey! Are you leaving without us?"
"Junior, wait up!"
The capsule activated and Junior's mind was send into cyberspace. He went through several streams of data before appearing at one that said. "Logging in. Welcome to the Digital World." He entered this data stream and materialized inside a portal room. He body looked the same as it did in the human world, save for a glowing red orb the size of a baseball floating above his head with three smaller blue orbs rotating around it.
"Wow, so this is the world of Digimon Online? He stepped down from the portal and walked up to another receptionist that was standing near the doorway of the room.
"Kenja, welcome to Asuka Server!" she said to him. "Please retrieve your Digimon data at the lobby."
Kenja looked confused. "Huh? Digimon? Oh, I understand. I'll go right now!" He turned and walked out into Asuka City's main lobby.
The first thing he saw was people, but he could talk around and make friends later. He had to get his digimon first. The second thing he noticed as he walked around was that the lobby was on an elevated platform surrounded by water. "This is pretty cool." he thought to himself. He walked up a set of stairs and noticed a woman with glasses over at the far wall who looked like she was waiting for someone. "Maybe she has my digimon." He walked over to here and said hi.
"Hi," she said. "I'm Digimon Fan Mary. I want to digivolve my Digimon into Gallantmon." Kenja blushed in embarrassment as he realized his mistake.
"Ah, I'm sorry. I was looking for someone to tell me where I could find my digimon. You had on a lab coat and glasses so I assumed you might've known."
Mary smiled and waved him off. "Eh, it's not a problem. I actually get that a lot. Go up to the receptionist desk and she'll summon them for you." She pointed up to the large, square receptionist desk where two receptionists were taking digimon orders.
"Ah, thanks Mary. I'll see you around. The name's Kenja."
"No prob. Later Kenja."
Kenja turned and ran towards the receptionist's desk, his heart pumping in excitement. "This sure is realistic."
The receptionist took notice of Kenja and smiled. "Hello. Welcome to Digimon Online. We here will take care of any needs or concerns you may have. Now then, should I call out your partner digimon?"
Kenja nodded in ever growing excitement. "Yes, please!"
The receptionist nodded. "I understand. I will download the Digimon data from your satellite now. Please wait at the online mark on the floor. " Kenja looked up at the orb floating above his head. "So that's what that is."
He took a few steps forward and stood on the dinosaur emblem. He excitement was at it's peak. "Wow! I finally get to meet my Digimon. I can hardly wait!" It was at that moment that Teddy and Ivy walked into the Lobby.
"Oh! Hey Kenja!" Teddy shouted.
Kenja turned around and noticed that his friends had finally shown up. "Hey, what were you two doing? You're so slow."
Teddy took offense to that. "What? No, no, you're the one that's fast. Right, Ivy?"
Ivy suddenly rounded on Teddy. "No, my name is Kail! Don't forget it!"
"Kail? That's your account name?" Kenja questioned. "That's weird. It sounds like a guy's name."
Ivy, now Kail, then turned on Kenja. "Hey, it's my choice. OK?" Teddy chuckled to himself.
"I was too lazy so I'm still Teddy."
Kenja's satellite suddenly began to whir and glow bright red as three pillars of blue light appeared behind him. Out of the first pillar came a bear like digimon, Kumamon. He came up to Kenja's neck and was the same Digimon from the preview he saw. Next up was a slightly shorter Digimon in kendo attire. He was Kotemon. Last was a green, monkey-like Digimon that was Kumamon's height. He was Monmon.
Kenja nearly wet himself in excitement. "Oh cool! Here are my Digimon!"
Teddy seemed just as excited. "Wow! I wonder who came up with this?"
"Me too," said Kail.
Kenja waved to his three Digimon. "Hey everyone! I'm Kenja. Nice to meet you."
Kumamon flicked his right arm, making a slight clicking sounded before cracking his knuckles and bouncing on his tip toes getting into a fighting stance. All the while he wore a large, friendly smile on his face. "Nice to meet you Kenja. Now let's rock!" he said, punching his fist into the air. A large projectile like attack shot from his extended fist into the ceiling and people had to jump out of the way to avoid any falling debris. "Whoops," Kumamon said with a slight blush of embarrassment on his face.
Kotemon sighed to himself while shaking his head before bowing in front of Kenja. "Please don't mind him, Sensei. He can get quite excited at times. I hope we can all get along well," he said in a polite voice.
Monmon turned to Kenja and twirled a large, wooden sling shot in his gloved hands. "I fight good! Everyone good! Let's go!"
Kenja looked over the three Digimon. They were very vastly different from one another and it was gonna take some getting used to, but Kenja's excitement never wavered. "Ok, everyone. I'm counting on you! Let's go!" All three Digimon nodded in unison. Kenja then turned to his two friends. "Ok, I'm heading out!"
Kail was silent for a moment in thought before speaking. "Alright. Let's split up from here."
"See you later," said Teddy.
As Kenja got ready to leave the lobby all of his Digimon walked up and got behind him. Then the four of them walked out into the City.
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Central Sector: Asuka City
The four of them stepped out of the lobby and onto a cobblestone road. An old man to the side took notice of them and walked over to them. "Ho ho ho. I haven't seen you before," he said to Kenja and his Digimon. "My name is Tamer Genji. Are you new here?"
"Yeah!" said Kenja. "I just got my Digimon!" he said excitedly.
"Then I'll battle with you boy," said Genji. "Don't worry if you don't understand the rules. Gaining experience is the important thing."
Kenja grinned. "I'll accept your challenge!" The moment he said that all of them were transported to a digital field. It was mostly black with purple patches of data all around it. In various places were screens that showed the stats of the combating digimon. The biggest surprise thought, was the overly large stag beetle Digimon that had appeared in front of the old man, a Kuwagamon.
"Where are we and where did HE come from?" The old man smiled and patted the side of Kuwagamon's leg as the large insect digimon chattered in affection.
"No need to stress out. This is the digital field that appears whenever two tamers do battle. We're transported here so that the city doesn't get damaged. And this guy is my partner, Kuwagamon."
"So is he your only Digimon Genji?" Kenja asked.
"No no. I have others, but I usually just use my Kuwagamon to 'welcome' new tamers to battle. Now choose your Digimon. We fight in one on one battles, but you can switch out digimon anytime during the fight."
"Alright," Kenja said. Then he looked to his Digimon. "So which one of you wants to fight?"
"Well I'm a close range fighter and he's so much bigger then me. I might have trouble hitting, especially if he starts flying," said Kumamon.
Junior nooded. "What about you Kotemon?"
Kotemon shook his head. "While I do have a slightly longer range than Kumamon with my sword, I'll have the same problems that he would have. We would need a long range fighter for this, and that would be Monmon."
Monmon grinned in excitement and pulled his large slingshot from his loincloth. "Hehe. Me fight now?" Kenja smiled and patted Monmon on the head.
"Yeah. Show him what you're made of!" Kumamon and Kotemon stood back as Monmon ran to the middle of the field along with Kuwagamon.
"Ho ho! Interesting choice Kenja. You ready?"
"Yeah!" Shouted Kenja.
"FIGHT!" The two tamers yelled as the two digimon charged at each other.
The next chapter will have the fight between the two and other things. Hope to update soon. Be sure to review and tell me what you all think, or give hints on things I could work on to make it a better story. Laters.