Besarki: I wonder how this is going to go…probably not well. Let's put it this way: This is my first attempt at Digimon. I saw very little of season two so my info is from research. On the other hand, I have seen every episode of season 3 so I know a lot about that.

Overall, this is a Tamers story. Adventure 02 can die. I hated that season, but I needed them in this case.

Okay, this takes place several years after the D-Reaper incident. In order to cross Digimon Tamers and Digimon Adventure 2, I had to mess with some of the details. I also threw some of the details from the games Tag Tamers, D-1 Tamers, and Brave Tamer (I'm guessing that these only came out in Japan because this is the first time I've heard of them). If I make a mistake with the original line-up (meaning the characters from season 1 and 2), let me know. I'll see if I can fix it. However, chances are that if there is a mistake with the Tamers, I did that on purpose. Last confession…I know next to nothing about Japan. I'm American and I don't know much about other countries. That's really bad, I know.

The main pairing is Ryuki. There will also be Jerato. I think that's it though. Maybe TKari (whatever that pairing is called. I'm new at this. Gimme some credit.)

I had to majorly de-age the season 1 and 2 characters. That 2027 thing? Forget it. I saw that in my research and thought "Um, yeah. That has to be overlooked." Sorry.

Ages:

Ryo: 18

Rika: 16

Henry: 16

Takato: 15

Jeri: 15

Kazu: 17 (I don't know if I'll use him though. He might not be in this.)

Kenta: 17 (Ditto)

Tai: 18

Kari: 15

Davis: 15

TK: 15

Matt: 18

Cody: 12

Ken: 15

Yolei: 17

Izzy: 16

Oi, did I forget anyone? Mimi, Sora, and Joe will most likely not be in this. If they are, I'll tell you first. For the time being, we'll say that they are on vacation in...I dunno. How about Poland? This…was hard. I had to try to properly add up ages and guess for those whose age is never mentioned. Ryo should have been 17, but I made him 18 instead because I wanted there to be a slightly larger age gap between himself and Rika. I can almost garantee that I screwed some of them up, but it really doesn't matter

Oh yes, judging by Rika's shirt (the solid heart), Runaway Locomon took place after the season officially ended and they had their digimon back in the movie. Therefore (since this takes place after Runaway Locomon), the digimon will be present in this story.

(Out of breath) Anything else? Um, I certainly hope not. Well, if I forgot anything or anyone has more questions just let me know.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or anything related to it. However, this plot is mine. Rawr. (Too tired to make any bad jokes)

It was dark.

The streets were quiet and roads were nearly deserted save for the few cars which glided soundlessly down the lanes.

Since the defeat of the D-Reaper, the area had been relatively…uneventful. There had been, of course, a few incidents which mainly involved rouge digimon or human criminals, but they had all been considered minor after the prior events.

For the most part, digimon were no longer feared. If they seemed friendly, they were welcomed. To Japan, a digimon with a smile was a digimon to be trusted. This was a great relief not only to the digimon but also their tamers. Takato had been thrilled to finally throw away Guilmon's box. Truthfully, some people came to the bakery solely to actually see Guilmon. The Matsuki's didn't mind. The little dinosaur had caused their sales to skyrocket.

Besides Takato and Guilmon, the other tamers and their partners were beginning to adjust to their new lives as well.

Henry and Terriermon spent most of their time keeping Suzie and Lopmon out of trouble. The little girl was really rubbing off on her partner. The elder two were also working on programs to help the digimon. They had already created one that returned their partners to their respective digivices as Digitama when they were defeated in a battle. It had been installed in everyone's digivices. They were all very grateful.

Kazu and Kenta spent the majority of their time playing cards or arguing over who had the better digimon. In cards, Kazu usually won. In friendly battles, Kenta always won. Mega level MarineAngemon vs. Champion level Guardromon…the result was always the same.

Jeri was one of the most popular girls in school because she was dating a tamer. She still had her puppet. It was her trademark. She never left home without it.

Unfortunately, not everyone returned to a semi-normal life. The two remaining tamers vanished. Ryo disappeared first. He and Cyberdramon left one night and never returned. The police looked everywhere for him, but their search ended up being fruitless. He was assumed dead.

Rika's disappearance was even worse though. Her mother had made an agreement with her to fully accept Renamon as a member of the family if she at least tried to model. Reluctantly, she agreed, only to be kidnapped. She came back on her own a week later, but there was obviously something different about her. Rumiko bombarded her with questions to in an attempt to find out why, but all of her daughter's answers were completely useless.

For the following two months, Rika'a behavior became more and more mysterious. She left every night and didn't return until daybreak which led her to be beyond exhausted. She was also returning home with more and more bruises. It eventually came to a point where it became so strange that the police began to monitor her. They had no idea that they were acting just as she had hoped.

As the second month neared its end, she began acting extremely bizarre. She was always in a hurry and she started blankly walking around in alleyways. They had honestly considered locking her in an asylum until her motives suddenly became clear.

After tracking her for about a month and a half, the police were awestruck when they realized that she had purposely been leading them around. By randomly starting to act very strangely, she knew that they'd follow her, and were they ever glad they did.

After their persistent pursuit of the teen, they had finally realized that all along she had been leading them little by little to one of the most dangerous gang of bandits in all of Japan. It was now that they understood her actions.

Unfortunately, despite their efforts, they were only able to catch two of the nine bandits. They had her as well, but her involvement had been justified. She was only a part of the group because if she had declined, they would have killed her and her family. Because of this they excused her, but, regrettably, her gang didn't. Her betrayal hadn't gone over well with them. In fact, they were so enraged that they dropped all their other priorities and put their full attention on killing her.

She disappeared before they could.

Most went on with their lives normally. As they had done with the digimon, they moved on. Because of this, no one paid much heed when digital fields appeared, especially when they couldn't see them.

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In an area just around the middle of the park, a tiny cloud hovered slightly above the pathway. It swished around for a moment before expanding then dropping a large group of teens and their digimon partners on to the dirt path.

"Ow!" One of them yelled, clutching his head. "That HURT!" He was a teenager with dark brown hair and goggles.

A little blue digimon with a V on it's forehead sat up as well, mimicking his partner's actions.

Another teen, this one with brown hair that was slightly less spikey staggered to his feet.

"Ugh, where are we?" He asked, glancing around. The area was foreign to him even though they were obviously still in Japan.

The large group of eighteen slowly pushed themselves to their feet and gazed around, taking in their surroundings. By the looks of things, they were in some kind park. Evidence of this was a playground and many trees and benches.

"I'm sure there's someone we could ask." Suggested a girl wearing a mostly pink outfit. Beside her, a small white cat was looking around the park for any sign of human or digimon life. "There has to be at least one person here."

"Maybe we should keep walking." Her loyal cat-like digimon put forward. It seemed like a reasonable idea.

"Or flying!" Said another digimon, this one an orange and cream colored creature, as it leapt into the air.

"Patamon! Get down here!" A blonde boy, predictably the digimon's partner, ordered, "We don't know whether or not digimon are welcomed around here!"

The orange digimon blinked as it landed on a high branch of the tree beside them.

"Why wouldn't they be?" Patamon asked, staring down at his friend, "They're welcomed in your city."

"But this isn't our city!" He reasoned, "The people here are different. Maybe they don't like digimon."

"TK's right, Patamon." said the girl from earlier, backing her friend.

Patamon clearly wasn't convinced. People all over the world already knew about the digimon. What reason would they have to fear or dislike them?

"Patamon, come down before I make you!" Said the cat.

"What are going to do? Throw something at me?" He teased. He was good friends with this cat digimon so he wasn't afraid to push a few buttons. Unfortunately for him, his "good friend" took his suggestion to heart.

As the cat began to draw her paw back in preparation for an attack, it was only her partner who was able to grab and restrain her before she loosed her signature Lightning Paw attack.

"Gatomon!" She scolded against her digimon's struggles.

Away from the arguing four, another teen, older than all but three of them, turned his head towards the lake. He jumped slightly when he noticed the two shadows leaning against the railing.

"Guys look." He said with a somewhat soft voice.

"What is it Matt?" The small wolf beside him asked.

"Over there." He nodded towards the fence, directing the digimon's attention towards the fence and the two strangers.

"Oh! Do you think they're people?"

"I don't know, Gabumon. Maybe."

"We should go and see!" Gabumon eagerly suggested, "Maybe they can help us!"

"I don't know." He contemplated.

"Oh come on Matt. What have we got to lose?" At the digimon's question, Matt glanced down and made a semi-annoyed face.

"What?"

After he finished his staring contast, Matt returned to his normal posture and noted that everyone was staring at him, eager to hear about his findings.

"Well?" The elder of the two brunette boys asked.

"Over there, by the lake." As he finished, he turned towards the lake, as did everyone else.

"PEOPLE!" The blue digimon yelled out in excitement.

"Veemon! Ssh! They might digimon haters." said his partner.

"You pick now of all times to actually use your brain for once?" asked the girl with an odd looking hat.

"Maybe they are friendly." said the elder brunette, Tai.

"We might as well go ask." Gatomon's partner suggested.

Gatomon nodded in agreement.

Carefully, they edged forward, slowly closing in on the two. After about twenty seconds, they were close enough to clearly see both of them.

As said before, there were two: one of them male (clearly the elder of the duo) and the other female. They were both seated: the elder leaning against the fence and doing apparently nothing and the junior seated to the side leaning against the elder rather than the fence itself. She seemed to be sifting through a deck of cards.

The girl had long red hair which she wore down. She also wore loose blue pants (not jeans) and a long-sleeved top. She was a teenager, probably about sixteen years old. Of the two, she seemed quite a bit more content.

The boy had brown and wore a much more complex outfit. It was a mixture of quite a few colors though mostly brown. His blue eyes seemed slightly colder than hers for some reason as he stared at the ground. However, his face proved to be much more familiar than hers.

"Ryo?!" Yelled the group's blue-haired boy, slightly startled and very ashamed that he had just suddenly remembered his name and his existance.

"It...it's you, b-but we thought you were dead." Tai remarked, awe-struck. Without much warning, a big, warm smile began to form across his face.

At the sound of his name, Ryo glanced up at the group. His expression turned angry.

"Friends, fans, or enemies?" Asked the red-head leaning against him, her full attention still resting on her green-backed cards.

"I'm not sure," He growled, "but I'm leaning towards foes." They all gasped at his reply and Tai's happy smile faded completely.

At his answer, the red-haired girl turned her head slightly to the side, facing the strangers, yet looking at Ryo.

"That wasn't one of the choices." She teased, revealing an apparent sense of humor.

"It's a synonym."

"I know." She chuckled to herself, "Relax Ryo. You're way too uptight."

Veemon apparently didn't take lightly to being identified as an enemy. He had absolutely no idea who this Ryo kid was, but the others apparently did and it was his job to stick up for them!

"What? What do you mean foe? They helped you, remember?" When Ryo just stared at him rather than answering, the little digimon grew tired of waiting and sprinted off toward them, springing up and readying an attack that he hoped would make them talk, even though they didn't seem even the least bit fazed by his attempt. "Vee--" Unfortunately for him, he couldn't even launch his attack before something caught him in the air and thrust him at the ground. Upon impact, Veemon cried out and glanced up at his attacker only to find that it had in fact been another digimon, this one in the form of a tall, yellow fox. He could only gawk helplessly as the fox kept him pinned to the ground by pressing her white foot against his chest.

"That hurt." The girl beside Ryo chuckled as she returned to sifting through her cards. Predictably, the yellow fox was her digimon partner. It was too feminine to be Ryo's and they doubted that a wild digimon would just so happen to be passing by at that very moment and decided to help them.

The tall digimon reached down and picked Veemon up by the back of his neck with her paw. Holding the struggling digimon in front of her, she smirked, "Doesn't this look familiar?"

"Renamon, put him down. He's not worth the effort." Her tamer ordered softly. She still wasn't looking at them.

"As you wish, Ruki." With a casual flick of her wrist, Renamon sent Veemon flying into Davis, knocking them both over.

"What do you want?" Ryo demanded, rising and in turn causing Ruki to nearly topple over.

"Good to see you too." Tai growled.

Ignoring Tai's comment completely, Ryo took the initiative to question them further.

"What the hell are you doing here?" He narrowed his eyes.

As everyone else gawked at Ryo, Ruki finally took the time to glance over at the large group. With every passing second they began to look more and more familiar to her, but she just couldn't put her finger on it. She knew them from somewhere, or maybe it was sometime. Perhaps she had seen them? A long time ago, maybe.

She pondered for a little time longer until realization finally struck her.

"Hey, I know you!" She said with unusual excitement in her voice as she pointed at them, "You were on the digimon TV show! How could I have forgotten?"

"Haha! I knew I'd be on TV one day!" Davis suddenly cheered, rising a bit more quickly than he should have. The result was a dizzying sensation which caused him to collapse again.

"Davish?" Veemon asked, glancing down at his partner to see if he was okay even though the little digimon's tone didn't have much concern in it.

"What do you mean by 'TV show'?" Matt asked skeptically.

"Oh, right. You wouldn't know about it." said Ruki, "Sorry, I was getting ahead of myself. Anyway, the Digimon Adventure series only recently went off the air. For a long time, everybody would rush in front of their television set as soon as they heard the Digimon Theme music start. We always looked forward to seeing the digidestined and their digimon partners." Her next comment was more of a confession than anything, "For a while, Digimon was all I ever thought about. More the cards than the TV show, but still...I didn't really have any friends back then. No one liked me because I was so obsessed with being the best opposed to actually having a good time playing the game. That was my own fault, but...well you know." Clearing her throat, she resumed, "Sorry, I got sidetracked. Anyway, the Digimon Adventure show was probably the most popular show in all of Japan. I heard that it was pretty popular in other countries too. All of you," She gestured toward them, "were the main characters. And I can name every single one of you." She finished with a small, yet devious grin. Ruki glanced over at Yolei. "Oh, and by the way, nice hat."

The older girl fumed. Why did everyone feel the need to make fun of her hat?

"Ah, good times, but I digress." The red-head glanced over at Ryo, "So, you really don't like these guys?"

"Not at all." He answered through gritted teeth.

With that, Ruki shrugged. She required no explaination. To her, Ryo's word was law.

"Well, okay then. I'll get rid of them." She smirked as Renamon landed in front of her.

"What?!" Davis yelled in shock, "I thought you were going help!"

"I am," She replied simply, "just not you."

With a great leap, Renamon jumped high into the air.

"Diamond Storm!" As she spoke, a large amount of crystal shards materialized around her then suddenly rushed toward the large group.

"Nova Blast!" A giant striped, orange dinosaur roared as he spit a gigantic fireball at the shards, incinerating every last one. Agumon had digivolved into Greymon without anyone noticing.

Taking advantage of the temporary confusion, Greymon dashed toward Renamon, preparing to launch another attack and snatch victory from the claws of defeat. Unfortunately for him, his attack was cut short by a pair of sharp, razor-like claws. His attacker threw him into a tree with no trouble at all. Whatever this digimon was, it was a force to be reckoned with.

"What is that?!" TK shouted in horror as his eyes locked on to the great armored dragon.

"That," Tai answered swiftly, "would be our cue to get the heck out of here!" With strength like that, Tai knew that fighting these two on unfamiliar ground was suicide. His newly aquired wisdom took him and the almost all of the other digidestined as far away as possible.

That left only Ken. He hadn't been able to run like the others. He just couldn't understand. Ryo had assisted wormon in nursing him back to health when he had been injured. How could he possibly betray them like this after all that had happened. Ken couldn't help but wonder if Ruki had anything to do with it.

"Well, are you going to run or just stand there and let Cyberdramon rip you to shreads?" Ruki asked curiously. However, it wasn't her threat, but in fact Ryo's unforgiving eyes which led him to finally flee.

As he ran, he could think of only one thing: Ally or not, he was still breathing. Ryo was still alive.

Besarki: I know, you're all probably like "What the hell? Why is Ruki being nice and Ryo being an ass?". Well, that will probably be revealed next chapter. Ryo's outfit is exactly the same as his debut Tamers get-up. Obviously, it has to be a little bigger because of the passage of three years. I guess there could be minor modifications. Use your imagination. Sorry about my intro. I'm not normally this serious. Yeah, so I apologize for butchering some of the details. I needed to in order to write this. Don't be mad! I know that there probably isn't a lake, but just go with it.

Lastly, I'm not going to continue this if no one likes it. I have Final Fantasy stories that I need to work on as well. If no one likes this idea, then I won't waste my time updating it. If I can get at least one review, I will update the story, but not until then. Ugh, now I have to go work on The Broken Road. Oh well, if anyone does like this, let me know ASAP! Review!

Disclaimer for entire story: I do not own Digimon and I never will.