It seems in Tokyo, it's like any normal day. Well, only for the ordinary people in the country. As for the tamers, they left with their Digimon partners in the Digital World, the home world of all Digimon.
For this normal day, it's a little boy and his mother walking down the street. Suddenly, they stop to a store to see a monkey puppet on sale. They ended up buying it as the boy started to play with it. While looking at, he finds an inscription.
"To free me of glitches and put you in stitches, this merry ape begs: Pull my leg."
The boy started to pull it's leg. Suddenly, the puppet goes into creepy laughter and its eyes started to glow red. A pink energy swirls on the boy as it covers him. In his place is a tall monkey-like being carrying his staff.
"The Monkey King is back!"
The mother is shocked to see her son has been turned into a puppet. It is made clear that whoever pulls the Monkey King's leg will turn him into a living thing while his victim turns into a puppet in his place.
"Thank you for pulling my leg, little boy," the Monkey King said in happiness as he grabs the boy and tosses him to his mother's hand.
"E-Ethan?"
"Wax him up once a week to keep the shine up," the monkey hands over wax to her and wiggles his eyebrows. Then he creates the statues of a girl named Rika Nonaka and her Digimon partner, Renamon. "Now, tell me, where can I find these two?"
The mother looks in recognition of the statue to her left. "I know her. She's Rika Nonaka, the daughter of famous fashion model, Rumiko Nonaka."
"So you do know her," the Monkey King is amazed by this turn of events.
"Yes, but I don't about the fox mascot she is with. I never seen her in my life. What did those two ever do to you?"
"Well, if you want to know, here is my story."
As the Monkey King looks in the woman's eyes, he recalls on what happened when he encountered Rika and Renamon. First, he comically pulled a prank on the two by throw pies on their faces. Next, Renamon attempted to tackle him, but he jumped out of the way and hits her with his stick. She digivolved into Kyubimon as she started to throw blue flames at him from his tail. With the use of Dragon Wheel, she gravely injured him.
"They are the ones who almost burned me to death and sealed my fate! It really makes me sick, but the last laugh will be on them," the Monkey King jumps up high with his staff turned into a mallet, hitting the heads of the statues of Rika and Renamon. "Cause it's payback time!"
As the heads fall out of place, that could mean a sign of trouble for both of the two.