2. First Year
Story Start: One Week After Arrival To The Digital World
Luna panted from her spot on the floor even as she glared at her opponent. Said opponent merely gave the 'come hither' gesture with his left hand before using said hand to take a spoonful of Frosted Flakes out of the bowl situated on his right. Gritting her teeth, the Rookie forced herself to her feet and rushed towards her enemy, jumping halfway in a manner that brought all four of her powerful hooves up and called out "Double Buck!" Just as she was about to kick her opponent with her powerful legs, her opponent's own right leg snapped up in a wide passing circle and slammed into her side sending her flying until she hit the padded wall of the training room they were in.
Daniel took another bite of his cereal as he said "How many times do I have to tell you Luna? Don't go for straight forward attacks. You are no longer one of the strongest creatures on the planet you currently reside in. Until you at least become Champion you need to come at your opponents at an angle and even then you'll have to fight smart."
"If We had our magic, thou would not be still standing." Luna ground out as she once more worked herself to her hooves.
"Yeah well, you don't, so I am." Daniel said before he tipped the bowl up to his lips and drained the last of the milk in it before putting it on the floor and adopted a fighter's stance as he said "Either way, it's a moot point now that I've finished my cereal. DODGE!"
"Wha-?" Was all Luna got out before Daniel took two leaping strides and swept her legs out from under her then kicked her away in a flowing break dance movement that allowed him to hit the much smaller Rookie. Luna had just enough time to regain her bearings before she heard "I said DODGE!" and yelped as she was sent flying again, this time as Daniel hooked his leg under her barrel and hand spring backflipped sending her into the air before grabbing one of her legs with his hands and spinning around before releasing her spinning form towards the far wall.
Two hours later, Luna was a groaning mass on the floor while Daniel looked none the worse for wear. Tiredly lifting her head up, she said "We couldn't hit you even once, what kind of monster are thou?"
Daniel chuckled and said "I'm a chronic insomniac hacker, that's what." Picking up his discarded bowl one-handed, he walked over and knelt down to wrap his other arm around her and picked her up as he went back to his full height and said "Don't worry, you'll get better once you get used to being so small again. You'll do even better once you reach Champion and can keep it as your default level."
Luna let out a grumble but said nothing more, and she was asleep before Daniel passed through the door of the training room.
Time Skip: One Month Later
Luna grunted as she took one slow step after another, slowly dragging the horse drawn slab of wood that held a five-foot-wide boulder in its center that Daniel had typed into exitance. She had been dragging the darned thing for eighteen laps around the track Daniel had created and she was more than tired. She glanced to the side as Daniel slowly passed her pulling a boulder of the same size by a harness around his chest and her expression fell flat as she said "Are thou serious?"
Daniel shrugged and said "I got tired of watching you drag that thing around the track so I got my own. If we're going to be here as long as I think we are then I can't just be your battery, I need to be able to actually help you in a fight. So, I'm seeing if I can modify my strength bit by bit with my hacking ability. It seems to be working so far if the fact I'm twice as strong as before now is any indication. Now less talking, more pulling."
Luna sighed but went with the order. She still had seven laps to go after all.
Time Skip: The Next Month
Luna once more stretched out her new wings with a sigh of contentment. This had been the first time since their first day in this world that Daniel had actually allowed her to digivolve, and they were in a clearing in order to take advantage of her wings. Two months and a week of Tartarus on Equis training all cumulated into her not immediately dedigivolving once her partner stopped sending his energy into his Digivice. They were already going on half an hour and still strong-
As if Fate itself was proving its trolling tendencies at that thought, Luna was surrounded in white light and shrank back down into her Rookie stage causing the former Alicorn to sigh and mutter "Darn it."
"Twenty-nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds, not bad, not bad at all. If this is the result of just two months training, then we should have you able to go Champion by yourself and able to maintain it for a few days within the year." Daniel said looking away from his stop watch and towards her.
"One can only hope, Daniel." Luna said even as her face attempted to pout though her hold on her emotions merely had her lips briefly twitching once.
"Hm, well, nothing to it but to get back to training." Daniel said before there was a roar as a Gorillamon came charging into the clearing towards them. Daniel sighed as his Digivice lit up and said "And look who just volunteered to help. Get'm Luna!"
"Gladly!" Luna said as her once more Champion form rushed the gorilla, an eager light in her eyes.
Five minutes later, the Gorillamon finally had enough of being used for testing out Luna's new attacks and ran out of the clearing, Luna throwing taunts at its retreating back even as she dedigivolved now that the fight was over. Daniel meanwhile had his laptop up looking at the various readings he had gotten during the fight, already thinking about the best ways to train Luna in her attacks when they got to training her Champion form.
Time Skip: Six Months After Arrival
"Be gone foul insect, the sight of thou disgusts Us!" Luna said as she slammed an Equis Beam into a Snimon sending it rocketing back a good couple of miles. Whether that was before or after the bug regained control of its flight and flew away she neither knew nor cared. Letting out a snort, she glanced up at the tallest tree of the rather unique forest whose population all only had branches on one small side, about ten degrees of a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree circle, all pointed South by South-West for some reason. Positioned twenty feet from the top on the highest branch that would hold him, Daniel was typing at his computer which was connected via Ethernet cable to a device that wouldn't look out of place serving as a ship's radar. "Are thou almost done Daniel?" Luna asked as her tail swished in impatience.
"One more minute to finish synchronization with the rest of the scanners and do final systems check Luna." Daniel said even as he pulled a futuristic looking pistol out of its holster on his right hip and shot a charging Flymon headed for him in the head with a red bolt of energy, the giant bug not even having time to shriek out in fear as it disintegrated, its data rapidly fleeing to Primary Village to be reformatted. The hacker nonchalantly holstered his weapon and put the drawing hand back on the keyboard, smoothly shifting back to typing two handed.
Like he said, a minute later his computer gave a quick tone and he pulled the Ethernet cable out of its port and closed the lap top as said cable was retracted into the device twenty feet above him. Daniel put the laptop into its sleeve in the book bag on his back with practiced ease as he stood up before he hopped off the branch and landed on Luna's back. Said Pegasusmon quickly oriented herself towards their home and started rapidly flying, gaining altitude as she went to put further distance between her and the treetops of the strange forest.
The three hour flight was spent in comfortable silence and when they approached the base a piece of the cliff slid out and up on a set of tracks allowing Luna to fly into the hangar like section of the base. Luna landed as the 'garage door' closed and Daniel hopped off. A moment later, Luna was covered in light as she dedigivolved and she sighed as she said "We truly cannot wait until we can remain in Champion form indefinitely."
"I'm rather more impatient for when you're first able to go Mega. Considering your original status as an Alicorn, it should be quite impressive, even for a Mega." Daniel said as he began making the way out of the hangar and down to the ground floor. Luna's eyes glazed over as she imagined having all of her powers back and maybe even a little more at the tips of her hooves before she shook herself and hurried after her partner.
The two made quick tracks to the base's MTAC and Daniel quickly settled into the main computer's station and began typing. A moment later, the big screen lit up as sections of a map showing a super continent began appearing. Seeing the name Network at the top left, Luna snorted and said "We still feel that thou sense of naming things could use improvement Daniel."
Daniel shrugged and said "Meh, like I said before, I'm just sticking with the naming convention of the first show. They had File Island and the continent Server so it only makes sense to have the supercontinent they'll come from named the same way."
"Not if thou can change what they're named in this world." Luna said, beginning to restart an old 'argument' between the two.
Daniel shot her a look over his shoulder as he said "Are you really going to start that again or are you going to help me see if there are any other Digidestined on this world yet?"
Luna gave a put upon sigh as she walked over to a computer station built with her body type in mind, I.E, mental controls rather than a keyboard, and said "We still do not see why thou convinced us to learn how to use this strange machine, you are much more better at using it than We."
"Because the population of your world will be a lot more accepting of any technology I bring to them if one of their rulers can actually use it and demonstrate its usefulness? Now set up a search for any human bio signatures." Daniel asked flatly, not even looking at the currently a digimon.
Luna sighed again and said "Of course, how silly of us to forget." That got a chuckle out of the hacker even as he finished his first set of typing and pulled out his Digivice, placing it in a docking port by the keyboard and making five more keystrokes before turning towards the big screen. Luna finished her mental commands to tell the computer to scan for any life forms that matched Daniel's bio signature and also looked at the big screen.
Said screen had a bunch of lines that were making circular circuits like clocks as the scanners they denoted ran their searches. Daniel bit his lower lip as he muttered "I don't know whether I want there to be other Digidestined out there and know I'm not the only human here or hope that there aren't and so no kids that have been stuck here without their parents."
"Personally, we believe that no foal should be taken from their parents either." Luna said before both of them flinched as a cluster of dots appeared in the southwest section of the map.
"Ah hell." Daniel said even as he zoomed in on them. He then blinked as he said "Luna, are you seeing a big-ass tiger, a giant two-headed turtle, a phoenix, and a dragon made out of clouds and chains apparently talking to twelve human adults?"
"Oh good, it's not just We who see them." Luna said before both felt their jaws drop an inch as one of the humans looked up and gave a wave while winking.
"Right, well Gennai appears to be as cheeky as ever." Daniel said once he recovered, slightly gratified to see the snickering Gennai get dope slapped by the hooded human on his right. The two watched as the sixteen beings finished whatever conversation they had previously been having before four digiports opened and the four Sovereigns left the area. The twelve humans quickly walked over to a set of three vehicles that honestly looked like the speeders from Star Wars only more elongated.
The group was soon rapidly leaving the area and Luna said "Should we go to them?"
Daniel narrowed his eyes and said "As much as I'd like to, it could seriously mess with the timeline that I know of. If they come to us, then we'll talk but otherwise we'll leave them alone."
"Very well then Daniel." Luna said as she moved away from her station and let out a jaw-cracking yawn as she began walking out of the MTAC, calling over her shoulder "We are feeling rather tired, we believe we'll go take a nap now."
"Sure thing Luna, you deserve some rest." Daniel said watching her push the door open and leave before he spun back around to his station and cracked his fingers before going back to typing.
Time Skip: Ten Months After Arrival Location: Base Training Room
"Needle Spray!" Luna called out and a bunch of needles made from her mane shot forward slamming into a bulls eye target that was moving side to side. Daniel let out a low whistle as he said "You've managed to tighten your grouping by forty two percent, well done."
If she was more bird than horse, the royal digimon would be preening right now, as it was, she merely allowed herself to grin as Daniel fished out his Digivice and said "Seeing how well you've managed to train your Champion form and the fact that you've remained in it nonstop for the last month, what do you say to getting a sneak peek at your Ultimate Form?"
Luna's eyes lit up and if she was a dog, her tail would be a blur as it wagged as she said "We would very much like that."
Daniel nodded and said "Then let's give it a whirl." The hacker sent his energy into the Digivice and it began to glow. However, after ten seconds, Luna still hadn't been surrounded in the usual light and his eyes narrowed even as he grit his teeth and muttered "Come on…" He pushed even more energy into it, enough to cause sweat to form and Luna started to worry for him. But just before she was going to tell him to stop, Daniel let out a grunt and sent one last massive surge of his energy into the device and finally the light shining out began blazing, turning a dark blue and hitting Luna covering her in light as well.
Luna threw her head back as the energy surged through her and shouted "Pegasusmon Digivolve to… Alicornmon!"
The light burst apart, but before she could even take a look at her new body, Daniel let out a groan before he toppled to the side and she dedigivolved even as she let out a panicked shout of his name and rushed over to him.
Ten minutes later, Daniel woke up in the infirmary with a groan. Sitting up with a hand on his head, he said "What hit me?"
"According to the scanners thou thoughtfully added when thou made this room, extreme exhaustion from using ninety five percent of thou bio energy." Luna said looking at him in concern from where she was standing by a large screen displaying the results of one of said scanners.
"Guess that's why the Digidestined from the show's first two seasons needed Crests or DNA Digivolving to get their partners to Ultimate, the drain otherwise would most likely kill them since they're not even teenagers." Daniel said as he lay back down on the bed, limbs slightly shaking from fatigue. Frowning, he said "I'm going to have to figure out how to either hook you up to an alternate power source or expand my own energy reserves if we want you to be able to go Ultimate for more than a few seconds anytime within this decade."
"Can we not simply wait until We are strong enough to Digivolve to the next stage on our own?" Luna asked with a frown.
"If we had a few other Digidestined and their partners with us I'd say there wouldn't be that much of a rush. However, we DON'T have that luxury so unfortunately we need to have a way for you to go to the next level and stay there for more than just a few seconds if we ever get into a really bad situation where your Champion form just doesn't cut it." Daniel said, his frown growing a little as he considered the problem.
"Fair enough, but We do not believe that thou must come up with a solution immediately. So long as we remain in the base then we are safe. Rest, recover your strength, and then try to solve this new problem."
"Yes mother." Daniel chuckled but nevertheless relaxed and closed his eyes, the amused huff from his partner the last thing he heard as he slipped back into the realm of Morpheus.
END
