Maxwell found himself awoken by a leaf landing on his face. It tickled his nose a little, and nearly made him loose his balance. "Okay, this time, I swear it, this is the last time I sleep under a tree".
"Hey, Max!" his brother's voice yelled. It was his younger brother, Matthew. "We are going to be late!"
"Alright, hold on Matt!" Max told him, as he jumped out of the tree. Matthew might be younger then him, but for some reason was considered to be the smart sibling. Matt was barely over half his height, for that matter. "I don't see why we need to get home so early",
Matthew stopped as the got to the door, and frowned. "You forgot, didn't you?"
Maxwell tried to remember what his brother meant, but failed too. Before he could ask though, a freak thunderstorm started overhead, and it began to rain like crazy. Within seconds they were soaked. Matthew tried entering the door code for their alarm system, but the alarm just sort of bugged out. "Please Re-Re-Re enter pa-pa-password".
"What did you do this time?"
"I didn't do anything! The thing is buggy for some reason! Here, let me try again" Matthew said, pushing past his brother and entering the code again. Suddenly, it seemed like datacode came out of the alarm pad and surrounded Matthew, engulfing him before it disappeared completely, along with his brother.
Maxwell just sort of stood there in shock for a minute, before running to the keypad. "What did you do! Give me back my brother!"
"I am afraid it is too late for that" a voice spoke. "Your brother is out of our hands".
"What do you mean! Where did you send him!"
"Somewhere far away. We have no control over him, or what brought him here. I am simply telling you that we cannot return him" the voice told Maxwell.
"Then...then take me to him!"
"That...we can do" the voice said, and suddenly datacode emerged from the keypad and engulfed Maxwell.
"Digi-Transfer engaged. Subject: Maxwell Graves. Energizing!".
Maxwell found himself flushed in a strange, weird feeling. Like, something about him was changing. Also, there was this feeling of falling or flying he felt. When he finally did start coming to his senses, he landed in a tree of all places. Additionally, this strange device was in his hand. He had no idea how it got there, where he was, or what just happened. To be fair, he should have probably thought about this before just charging in.
He looked around, but he did not see his brother. All that was around him was a massive jungle. He was lost, and worse of all, he did not know where Matthew was. To be fair, he did not know where he was, or how they would get back. But that could be dealt with later.
Once he finally got to ground level, his device began going off like crazy. It seemed to be detecting something nearby. Maxwell had a deep hope it might be Matthew. He ran towards it, hoping that he was right.
However, what he came across instead was some sort of strange creature that lept out of the bushes, and tackled him to the ground. "Hello! My name is Guilimon!"
"Ahhh! Giant monster!" Maxwell yelled, without thinking of what he meant.
"No, I am a Digimon!" Guilimon told him.
"A...digimon?" Maxwell asked, either Guilimon or himself. "Wait...did you eat my brother!?"
"What, no! I don't eat humans!" Guilimon told him. "Wait, are you that human's brother?"
"Yes. What do you know about my brother!?"
"Yeah, just a few hours
"Wait, what? Lives here? Exactly how long has my brother been here?"
"A few hours. He fell from the sky! Just like you! There was this burst of light, then there you were!"
"A...few hours?" Maxwell asked. "But, I was only a minute behind him. Anyways, who are you, and why are you telling me this?"
"I am your Digimon partner!" he told Maxwell. "And that in your hand is a Digivice. It links us together! Your brother has one too! And this is the Digital world! Its different to your world, parallel, connected. And you have been chosen, to, uhh...I don't know. Have fun? Or maybe it was safe the Digital world. It might be the second one, but that does not mean we cannot do the first one though!"
"Okay, okay. We can get to all that later. Where is my brother?!"
"He is at the center of the Data Jungle! I thought about investigating, but its dangerous there. A very tempermental Ogremon lives there".
"Wait, he is in danger!" Maxwell said in panic. "We have to save him, quickly! Which way is that the center?"
"Follow me!"
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"Of all the stupid things" Matthew said with tears running down his face, having taken cover inside a hollow tree. There was a crazy storm overhead. "I mean, can you believe this? My own brother forgot my birthday!"
"Well, to be fair, I did not know it was your birthday either" Gomamon told him.
"But I just met you! And you gave me this cool, what was it, Digivice? So you did give me something for my birthday. BUt my brother? He forgot! My own brother forgot my birthday!" Matthew whailed. "And what is worse is that I am really hungry. We were just headed home, my parents probably had a great cake and everything".
"Don't worry, it will be okay" Gomamon told him. "When you get back, we can get two cakes!"
Matthew still continued to cry, but he was crying less. "Really?"
"Yeah! FOr sure! And maybe we will find some cake along the way!"
"I don't suppose you have some food right now? I am still hungry" Matthew asked, wiping away his tears.
"Yeah, I think I saw a fruit tree outside" Gomamon told him. They started to climb out, and fell to the ground.
"Well well, look what I found! A human in my kingdom!" Ogremon yelled, walking towards them. "I guess you do not know what happens to intruders!"
Ogremon charged forward, but Gomamon blocked the attack with his Snowray attack. Still, it blasted through and knocked him right back into Matthew.
"Ready to say goodbye, DigiDestined?"
However, before anyone could do anything, Matthew heard a familiar voice. His brother's voice. "Matthew! Hold on, we are coming!"
"Max?" Matthew noticed, but Ogremon started his attack.
Maxwell was too late though, as Ogremon hit both Matthew and Gomamon, knocking them into a tree and seriously hurting both. Datastreams appeared around both of them, but they seemed a bit bugged. Matt's datastream seemed unusually stronger then Gomamon's though, even if they both seemed fractured.
Ogremon swatted away Maxwell and Guilimon. Matthew managed to crawl over to Gomamon. "Gomamon?"
"Its okay...you need to run. Save yourself..."
"I am not leaving you!" Matthew told Gomamon, as he crawled up to Gomamon and help him in his hands. His datastream was fading.
"Both of your Datastreams will be mine! Then I shall enter the Human world!" Ogremon yelled.
"No, you cant have him!" Matt yelled, as he and Gomamon's datastreams intersected each other. Then, there was a glow.
====Datastream Fusion! Matthew's Gomamon Augment to...Kumamon!====
Ogremon looked in shock. "But, that would mean...you are a Digimon Ranger!"
"Snowblaster!" Kumamon yelled, hitting the Ogremon with a large freezing block of snow that did significant damage to Ogremon, enough to knock him down and do more then enough to reveal his datastream. Kumamon quickly absorbed it, taking its power.
Maxwell and Guilimon finally arrived to see what had happened. "Matt...what happened to you?"
Uh oh! that was a close call! But did Max just lose his brother, or did his brother just manage to save himself and Gomamon? Find out next time on Digimon Rangers!