Rated M for cursing. Yeah, a Digimon story going rated M for lots of chaos, destruction, blood, and heavy cursing.
The world we live in has been a digital-reliant world ever since the first computer was made. It has only since grown, to the point where everything relies on technology, from banking information to entertainment. Self-driving cars were in the works, prototypes of hoverboards were being created, and video games became more and more like looking like real life. We even have better ways of getting people around the world, expanding it for everyone. Yes, technology has had a huge impact on this world.
In fact, technology has a way bigger impact than people realize. And you won't believe it if I told you. No one would.
You see, the exact moment that first computer was turned on, something incredible happened: a new world was born. A world separate, yet similar to our own. A world made up of nothing but information.
The Digital World.
At first, the world was barren; it didn't really look much like a world at all. It was mainly just hills and sky, all with the trademark green and black grid-like pattern. No signs of life anywhere. It was just a thing that existed.
This wasn't the case for very long, as technology got newer and newer, such as the invention of game consoles, smart phones and tablets, the digital world became more defined and detailed. The sky turned a light blue and formed clouds, hills and pastures began to have dirt and grass. A sun was even present in this world now. Trees of many varieties were popping up around the digital world; mountains formed, snow started to fall, the ocean formed, and many lakes and rivers were made. Until finally, the first life forms of this planet surfaced.
They were called digimon, short for digital monsters. These creatures were life-forms made entirely out of digital information, much like the world itself.
Each digimon was different and alike in their own ways; each had their own power moves, appearance, and personality. Some were wild, while the others became intelligent. Some might resemble birds, some resembling wolves, and others resembling dinosaurs. Each individual digimon even had their own personal tastes when it came to food, music, and entertainment. Yes, the digimon were clearly the dominant race of this digital world. And soon, they even began to have their own goals in life, such as becoming rock stars, becoming rich, and just being all-around famous. Other digimon weren't like that; they actually wanted to help their world be more habitable, to make it better.
The digimon built a civilization that could rival the likes of ancient Rome. Cities were appearing everywhere all around the digital world, many with huge skyscrapers, rivaling real-life cities like New York and Tokyo. Average small towns were being built as well, giving digimon an escape from the hussle and bussle of the big cities. There were even areas of nothing but nature, meaning that digimon could have the chance to become farmers, if they so please to. Many digimon took up jobs to support themselves, as they needed to eat, sleep, use the necesities, and socialize just like us humans. They had homes, their dream jobs, and some even decided to settle down, and raise a family of their own.
War barely happened in the digital world, either. Yes, crimes happened here and there, but when that happened, Chrono-League was always there to stop it.
You see, this world was possible by one special property holding it all together: Chronotic Energy, or Chrono, as the digimon have likened to call it. Chrono is the energy that ties all aspects of the world together, either for creation or destruction. Digimon themselves, with plenty of training, can even harness this energy for themselves, along with their standard moves. And those digimon who are masters of this energy created Chrono-League, a group of digimon who protected the digital world.
Of course, you all probably think I'm full of shit. Taking every single drug I could get my hands on, and just thought this up after tripping balls for hours on end. Hell, if someone had tried to tell me this, I would definitely think the same way.
Believe it or not, what I am telling you is the absolute truth. These creatures, this world, it all is true, it exists! How do I know this? Have I ever seen them? Yes, I have. Hundreds, no, THOUSANDS of them. And I was one of the many humans who were given the power to save not just the digital world, but the world us humans live in as well.
Let me back up a bit. I'm going to tell you everything about the digital world, and the mysterious power of Chrono, which helped to save the two worlds from an evil digital entity. To when the biggest event of my life started...
...
(Music starts playing as the camera pans across the green plains. Zooms up and sees two silhouettes on top of a hill; one short and one tall.)
(The camera then cuts to the two silhouettes, revealing them to be Adrian and Shoutmon, looking at the distance. They then look at each other with a smile, nod, and then turn around. White flashes to the two of them running, with Shoutmon in front of Adrian.)
saa ryoute hiroge ano kumo wo koete
(To their right appears Seina, with her partner, Hawkmon.)
niji no aachi kugutte
(Then to their left appears Connor with his partner, Dorumon.)
mezasu basho e
(Camera flies over Adrian's head and into the sky; title appears.)
"DIGIMON: CHRONO"
FLY AWAY!
(mukaikaze datte dekai kabe datte oikaze matotte mezasu basho e)
(Cuts to the six of them stopping at a hill and looking at the distance. Cut to what they are looking at, which is then revealed that they're looking at their hometown, Woodland River.)
kimi ga soba ni iru kara
(Cuts to Woodland Senior High School. The camera goes through the doors to reveal Jessie, Sheala, and Eric, who are all talking and laughing, then they look at the camera and wave.)
I held you hand cuz you said
"Take you to the shining place from a maze"
kimi wo shinjite
(Cuts to Derek, Jake, Amy, Brady M, Brady G, and Luke talking and laughing with each other, then notice the camera, turn to it, smile and wave.)
tsukanda sono te atatakakute
mitsumeru sono hitomi ni kumori wa nakute
(Cuts to a pink background. Seina and Hawkmon float by, with Seina holding a cyber-staff and pink glowing marks on her left hand. They then float away, with the background turning orange, as well as Connor and Dorumon taking their place, Connor holding a cyber whip, and orange glowing marks on his hand.)
kodoku wo tsumikasaneta omoi ga kareta daichi ni otoshita namida
(Cuts to a small pond in the forest. Two silhoettes are standing at the edge of the pond. Again, one shorter than the other.)
hitotsubu no shizuku ga hirogatte
(Cuts to a close up of Iki and his partner, Gabumon, who has a worried look on his face. Iki then turns his head in the opposite direction with a serious look on his face.)
iro toridori no hana wo sakashiteku
(Cut to a ruined city, with many Digimon either destroying things or lying on the ground. A giant figure is shooting off a purple energy beam, destroying everything the beam touches.)
tsuyogari no naifu wo furimawashite
(Cut to Shoutmon's left side, which shows his hometown in the digital world in flames.)
kizutsukete
(Cut to Shoutmon's right side, which shows what seems to be his digimon friends lying on the ground, battered, bloody, and possibly dead.)
kizutsuite
(Cut to Shoutmon's eyes, which are closed and crying, but then open up, showing that the eyes are now glowing red.)
kurayami de sakendeta
(Cut to Connor, a confident look on his face, with his hand glowing orange as he extends it out. Dorumon jumps in, and then digivolves into Dorugamon, then digivolves into DoruGreymon, and finally both human and digimon glow a bright orange, and after the shine ends, stands one tall silhouette with a sword.)
ima hikari terasu ano sora no hate e
(Cut to Seina, with her face stern and serious, and extends her glowing pink hand. Hawkmon jumps in, who digivolves into Aquillamon, who then digivoles into Hippogryphmon. Him and Seina then glow bright pink, and as the glowing ends, there stands a tall silhouette with wings.)
kimi no te o tsukande hanasani you ni
(Cut to Adrian and Shoutmon, both with a determined, angry look to them. Adrian extends his hand up in the air, which is glowing red. Shoutmon then digivolves to SilvShoutmon, then digivoles into OmniShoutmon. Adrian and his partner then glow a bright red, and the glowing end reveals a giant silhouette.)
FLY AWAY!
(mukaikaze datte dekai kabe datte
oikaze matotte mezasu basho e)
(Close up of the silhouette as it raises what seems to be a sword. Cuts back to the first shot, and the figure slashes. Cut to Adrian and Shoutmon, talking and laughing on top of the roof of his house, watching the sunset.)
Boku ga soba ni iru kara
Created by: Russell the Dragon
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EPISODE 1: An Adventure Begins!
I groggily open my eyes after a night of peaceful, relaxing sleep (and some very odd dreams) to see a very plain-looking white wall above me. A white wall without anything. No posters, no drawings, nothing, except the brown ceiling light/fan.
It wasn't my ideal choice for a room setup; I just didn't have the money for posters or stuff like that.
I spent the next ten minutes just thinking about myself, see what I remember. Name's Adrian? Okay, got that down. Now how do I look? Let's see... dirty blonde, long hair on the top of my head, with light stubble. I was tall, and a tiny bit fat, but still could look attractive. Greenish blue eyes? Yeah, that's my eye color. Okay, no total amnesia yet, so that's good.
I wasn't entirely ready to wake up yet, but something told me I had to. I usually forget things when I wake up in the morning. By usually, I mean all the time. It ranges from one little thing, to about a hundred things, depends on the morning, really. One time I had complete amnesia for a solid ten minutes. You know how scary it is not even knowing what your name is?
Oh yeah, you don't, because you never hit your head that hard, and because you aren't some TV or movie character. Kind of what I wish to be.
I got out of my bed, which had blue sheets and a blue blanket, and rested my feet on the tan carpet flooring of my bedroom, trying to go through why it was that I had to wake up early. I usually sleep in until 10 or 11, sometimes 12. But today, I had to get up at 6:25 AM. But why, exactly?
"Is it my birthday?" I asked myself out loud. I like to do that when I'm alone. When with others, I try not to. People usually associate those who talk to themselves as... how should I put this... crazy? Mentally insane? Yeah. One of those two.
"No, my birthday's in the summer. It's fall now." The word "fall" gave me a clue as to what I was supposed to remember. "Wait... fall..." I spent the next five minutes pondering the word "fall."
See how bad my morning amnesia is?
Suddenly, my sleepily eyes jolted open as I looked at the calendar hanging against the wall by my desk.
Tuesday, September 6th.
The first day of high school.
"CRAAAAAAAAAAP!" I yelled at the top of my lungs as I rummaged through my dresser to find a decent pair of clothes. Thankfully, it didn't take long, as I had filled my dressers last night. I put on what some would call "basic": A bright red T-Shirt, a pair of blue jeans, white socks, and a dark grey unzipped hoodie on top of it.
Oh, I almost forgot the important part, too! I looked to my hangers, where I saw my pair of goggles with silver frames and red lenses. I grabbed the goggles and put them on my head.
I don't give a fuck if people make fun of me for wearing them, like they do everyday. These goggles are important to me. They were a gift from my brother Aaron for Christmas one year. He's 21, soon to be 22, and he's out-of-state in college, so these goggles are a sentimental item to me, so I wear them everyday. Man, I miss Aaron...
Wait, there's no time to think about that, I gotta get going! I ran out into the kitchen and grabbed one of the cinnamon rolls my parents had bought the night previous, then washed it down with some milk... straight from the carton.
Hey, don't judge! I was in a rush!
...or, I thought I was. You see, the bus appeared at the corner of my block at 7:05 AM every morning. It always has each year. I was just getting my shoes on when I looked at the clock, which said 6:50 AM.
So the rushing, and carton guzzling, wasn't even necessary. I had plenty of time to get myself ready for school
I just stood there for a solid minute, with one shoe on, staring at the clock, and wondering why the hell I'm such a dumbass, when I heard a voice coming from downstairs, into the basement. "Adrian, is that you?"
That voice came from my mother. If I had continued the rush, I probably would have forgotten to say goodbye to her, which would have made her worried and angry with me.
"Yeah, it is, Mom," I yelled back downstairs. "Good morning! Is Dad at work?"
"Yes, he is, honey," she called back, now appearing in front of the stairs. "And good morning to you two." She is a short woman, with long blonde hair. She greatly resembled me, except that I'm one of the tallest kids in my grade. "He wanted to tell you to have a good day at school today. We're both so proud; you're a high schooler now!"
"It's just going to high school," I told her with a blush. "I didn't discover a new inhabitable planet or anything."
She smiled at me. "I know, honey bunny. We just love you so much. Oh, and don't forget your backpack when you go."
That's another thing I almost forgot: grab my backpack. I facepalmed so hard I actually hurt myself. I deserved it. "Almost forgot," I said with a slight chuckle. "Thank you so much!" I ran to my room to grab my pack, which I had stuffed with school supplies the night before, when I noticed something off about my computer.
It was doing something... odd. I can't describe it. The computer was shut off, I know that for sure, but weird digital effects were still appearing on the screen. I was about to see what was happening, but then I looked at my clock. It said 7:02.
The computer could wait. I grabbed my backpack, ran to the fridge to get a soda for later, said goodbye to Mom, and then ran to the bus stop, which was at a red one-and-a-half story house at the end of my block. When I got there, it was merely seconds before the other kid who rode my bus, Rick, walked by from his log house across the street.
"Well, time for nine more months of boredom," I said jokingly to Rick.
"Eh," he replied. Some days he was a talker, and others he isn't. This is one of those "isn't" days, I assumed. "How was your summer, Adrian?" he asked.
"It was alright," I replied. My summer was actually kind of cool. I went to two fairs, each of them with rides, over the summer. Summer was my absolute favorite season, and to see that it was fall just made me sad.
"Same," he said. Man, what a boring conversation.
"Hey, Rick, you're good with computers, right?" I asked, changing the conversation.
"Yes, I am. Is something wrong?"
"Yeah. You see, before I left, my computer screen was showing something weird. You know those green number things from the Matrix? Well, it was something like that, but red instead of green."
He rubbed his chin for a while. "You're right, that is weird," he finally said. "I can't really help you."
I lowered my head in disappointment. My computer's just broken, and that's just wonderful.
At first, I thought this day would be like any other, with the exception that I was going to high school now, with bigger responsibilities and all that.
How wrong I was.
The bus ride was, largely, uneventful, besides the fact that everyone else was catching up with each other for the whole ride. I barely knew anyone on the bus, besides Rick, and my mixed-family neighbor friends, Brady G and Brady M, who were my age: Ben, Brady M's younger brother, who was starting 5th grade; and Aster, Brady G, M, and Ben's younger brother, who was starting first grade.
We got to the school, and I went to my homeroom to get my class schedule:
Choir - 1st Period
Physics - 2nd period
Literature - 3rd period
History - 4th Period (B Lunch)
Phys Ed - 5th Hour
The only class I didn't like was history, but other than that, I was happy with my schedule.
Throughout the day, I got to catch up with some old friends who I hadn't seen since June. My best friends Jake and Amy talked for quite a while before the bell rang.
Jake was the ideal nerd. He had short hair, the same color as mine, and was very skinny. He is also usually doing some weird bendy things with his hands. He liked to wear T-shirts, relating to music or groups he was in, jogger pants, and tennis shoes. He sometimes wore glasses as well.
And Amy, she was a geek as well, but you probably couldn't tell that. She had long hair, same color as me and Jake's, with a hair band on her forehead. Today, she wore a purple dance team jacket with a green tank top, jeans, and sneakers. Amy also wore glasses, occasionally, as well.
We had been best friends since kindergarten. At first, it was just Jake and Amy, but then I got to know them quite a bit, and started hanging around with them more often.
Jake and Amy are quite different compared to me, in terms of personalities. They like to study, and I'd rather play video games. Jake was a pretty smart kid, and Amy was a dancer. The one thing that we all have in common is that we all loved music. We are even in the same choir class!
After that, I ran into my long-time crush, Jessie Anners. She was beautiful; she was one of the shortest kids, with her being 5'2'' or 5'3'', with me standing around 6'2'' or 6'3''. She dyed her hair to a light blue late last year, and it still hung around. She also was kind of a punk, usually wearing black. Her favorite movie of all time was Nightmare before Christmas, so she had something related to that around with her as well.
Today she was hanging out with her two best friends, Sheala and Eric. They liked to have these walks around the school before first hour, which usually lead to going outside. I watched her talk and laugh (an amazing laugh she has, by the way) with her friends, just wanting to talk to her, Man, I always wanted to tell Jessie how I felt about her. Maybe one day, but not now.
She has a boyfriend. I cried myself to sleep that night when I found out.
Lunch... wasn't the best. I just sat by kids that I at least knew. Wouldn't call them friends or anything. Actually, scratch that, I had one good friend in the same lunch as me: Derek Colaski. We were friends since 7th grade, and really good friends since 9th grade, so it was good having a familiar face to sit with. Making fun of the poor quality food was fun, too.
...
I got off the bus by 2:45, and started to walk towards my house. School was actually kind of entertaining today, probably just because everything was new to me. I got lost quite a few times, that school is just so big. Still, I was glad the school day was over, and I could go home and play some video games. Hey, maybe the computer is fixed by now.
When I got to my room, I set my stuff down, and sat in my black traditional office chair, staring at the now vortex-like structure of these digital particle effects on my screen. What the hell was happening? It's forcing my computer to stop working, and I don't know how to fix it. I just want to play some Sims, man! The effect was creeping me out, so I unplugged the computer. The effects went away, just like that.
Of course, like anyone would do, I decided to Google it. I got out my gold smartphone, but it wouldn't turn on for some reason.
"God damn it, not my phone, too!" I yelled as I threw the useless device onto my bed. "How am I going to explain this to my parents if they try to call me?" I looked at the phone, and noticed a small red light coming from it. Out of morbid curiousity, I decided to pick it up to see what was happening.
And, I shit you not, that same particle vortex effects started to appear on my phone's screen.
What the fuck...
I freaked out and slammed the phone into one of my desk drawers. I needed to calm down after what was happening. And what better way to calm down, than to hop onto one of my video games and kill some virtual people?
...I'm perfectly sane...
I pressed the "on" button on my game console. Didn't work.
Pressed it again. Didn't work.
Pressed it five more times. Didn't work times five.
Why are all my things being stupid and not working?
After that, I was weary, but I decided to watch some TV. I grabbed the small television remote that was on my dresser and pressed the power button.
And this time, it actually turned on! With a catch...
...and by catch, I mean that same vortex effect from my computer screen and phone. I was basically shitting myself out of fear at this point.
As a kid, I used to have these horrible nightmares. In them, I'd be watching TV or playing a video game, when the TV would go crazy. Then a monster would pop out of the TV and kill me, usually by pulling me into the TV with him to their dimension, and I'd wake up. This happened to me for years, until I was ten years old. So guess how I handled this whole situation with the technology?
I freaked out like the coward I was.
I ran out into the living room, and I decided to turn on the smart TV to see if it would do the same thing as everything else that has a fucking screen.
And sure enough, it was. That TV did not stay on for too long.
Mom and Dad were both at work, so I was alone. It was just me and my two cats, Cecil and Shadow. I ran back to my room, rummaged through my closet, and grabbed a bat, so that if anything decided to jump out and kill me, I would be ready. I am not going to die today; I'm only 16!
And sure enough, something did jump out of my television, but not anything I was expecting. It was a ball of red light, slowly squeezing out of the screen like a bubble, and began floating around my room. I held the bat at hand, ready for anything to happen.
The ball suddenly started to take on a different form after a few seconds of floating around. It started to grow arms and legs. A pointy tail sprouted out as well. The ball of energy got more and more creature-like until it resembled a red dinosaur. I could not believe what was happening in front of me.
The dinosaur opened its eyes. They were big and green. It had a red V on its forehead, and its arms, legs, and torso seemed to be held together by nuts and bolts. It was even wearing a pair of white and green headphones. It turned its head towards me, smiled, and said...
"Hey, what's up?"
SMACK!
I was so freaked out by what was happening that as soon as it spoke, I hit whatever the creature was in the head with my bat. Besides having a bump mark and lying on the ground, he seemed completely unphased. He then got up and turned back to me with an angry look.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" the dinosaur yelled. Freaked out by his voice and facial expressions, I nervously laughed and slowly put the bat down in front of him.
"Hehe... whoops?" I shakingly muttered. His already angry looking face got angrier. I raised my hands up. Thank god I didn't have to pee, or else I'd be walking around in smelly, wet jeans.
"I'm just going to ignore what you did to me," the dinosaur said, rubbing the back of his head. He then began to observe me.
He walked circles around me, looked through each and every corner of my body, leaving no part unturned. He then just... stared into my eyes. This whole situation got really creepy for me, but every time I turned to leave, he'd growl, which did its job, I guess. Finally, after what seemed like hours, he smiled.
"How about we get off to a better start, okay with that? My name's Shoutmon, and we're partners from this moment on." His smile returned and he held his paw towards me, wanting me to shake his hand.
"Wait, partners?" I asked. "What do you mean, 'partners?'"
"Just shake my hand, and everything will be explained."
I didn't really trust this "Shoutmon" guy at all, so I hesitated on giving in and shaking it. I didn't know what to do. If I left, he might try to kill me, but he expects me to just trust him like THAT.
I don't know if what I did next was the smartest move in the world, but I took him up on his offer and shook Shoutmon's hand. And at that moment when I grabbed his paw, I suddenly got what felt like 1000 volts of pure electricity through my hand.
I immediately let go, and looked at my hand. It started to get this weird pattern, like what the screens had, except it was scarring itself onto my hand.
And it hurt. Badly.
So badly, that I passed out fifteen to twenty seconds after it started from the pain.
"What... the... hell..." were the last words I muttered before blacking out.