Author's Notes:
Hello You, and welcome to my first Digimon Fanfic on Fanfiction and fourth Digimon Fic overall (I have three others on DeviantArt), if you're familiar with me for fanfics about a certain purple dragon of legend, then there's an explanation at the end for you guys as to why I'm doing this instead. (And as an aside, if you ARE familiar with my previous work, you may recognize some of the human characters. Because recycling Ocs is good for the environment. )
I have to admit, getting back into Digimon is not something I expected to happen, but I can't deny that I kinda missed this fandom, and I want to see if I can still write Digimon, or if I'm doomed to forever sit in front of a blank word processor document, wondering what went wrong with my life.
So this story is gonna serve as a little experiment, to see if I've still got it or not, if I can still have fun writing this series like I used to on DeviantArt. And if it goes well, you people may see more Digimon stuff from me in the future!
I do not own Digimon (If I did, Digimon World Re:Digitize would have a US release, seriously guys what the hell?!) Digimon is © Toei Animation and Bandai/Namco. I have no affiliation with either, I'm just some typo happy idiot with bad facial hair that likes writing about it.
Prologue
Digimon Champions Goes Free To Play Amidst Controversy
Publisher Nexion Games has announced that Digimon Champions Online will now adopt a Free to Play model come next week, the Digimon Champions MMO has already accumulated quite a hefty userbase already and has proven quite popular with both young kids, and the Digimon nostalgic alike, and now that anyone can create an account for free, Nexion Games expects to see that number triple once the move is made. "We at Nexion Games are excited about this new model" Rex Nexion, CEO of Nexion Games told us in an interview. "We see this as a chance to help the community within the game grow stronger and stronger as time goes on." He added.
However, some more cynical gamers claim this move was done as a means of saving face after the game's developer, DragonSoft, made claims that Nexion Games had underpaid them for their work on DigiChamps Online. Nexion refused to comment on the issue, claiming not wanting to create "bad blood" between the two companies as the reason. Although this controversy has some players up in arms, DigiChamps Online continues to have a large and healthy player base despite the bad blood.
However, DragonSoft head Venitary McMahon had a few interesting comments on the situation. "Going Free to Play was Nexion's idea" He told interviewers, "And while we here at DragonSoft are happy to welcome new players into our game, we still have staff members waiting for their paychecks." Venitary also claimed Nexion was being quite secretive about the game, not telling DragonSoft of any updates or planned content. Even noting that Nexion had taken the source code and refused to allow DragonSoft to retain a copy claiming "business reasons".
Well, whatever bad blood may brew between the publisher and developer of the game, there's no denying that DigiChamps Online has been a huge success, and will be here for years to come.
Author's Notes/Explanation:
What's this?! Foowd's writing something that ISN'T Spyro?! This can't happen! This is unpossible! This is MADNESS!
Yeah I bet if you know me for my Spyro fics you have plenty of questions for me right now, and if you don't I bet you're nodding wistfully pretending to follow. Well allow me to explain.
I moved shop from DeviantArt with the intent to not let myself be confined to one fandom when it came to fanfics. And I kinda saw that happening with the Spyro fics, so I decided to take an extended break from that franchise to end that before it began. Don't worry, I'll get back to you guys some day... eventually.
But I had recently gotten back into the Digimon series after seeing a few episodes of that new fangled Digimon Fusion series there one day when my body decided sleep was for chumps and I decided to watch early morning television to at least give me something to gawk at while I battled insomnia. (And when your options are either kid's cartoons or infomercials, the choice is pretty obvious now isn't it?) And I wanted to try another crack at Digimon again.
If you're just a random Digimon fan that looked at my story and said "I would very much like to read that good sir". Then this is all pointless prattle to you. But I felt if I didn't explain this my inbox was going to be filled to the brim with people asking me why I suddenly switched fandoms on them. And no one wants that.