AN: Hoo boy quite a delay we've been having as of late, isn't it? Can't exactly help but feel myself at fault for some of it; I was kind of lazy during the work on these chapters coming up, but at the same time I kept procrastinating on being able to get them done on time. Either way, I hope you enjoy my introduction to what you'll see here.

Digimon Re: Tamers Chapter 1:

Early in the morning, Impmon is fast asleep next to the wall in Jeri's room; lying on top of the old television in his tamer's room, Impmon was quietly murmuring in his sleep for who knows how long at this rate.

"… Zzz… Impmon digivolve to… Devidra… no… Impmon, digivolve to… Ogre… no, no… What was it now…?" Impmon, talking in his sleep, didn't realize he is slowly beginning to stir, and thus his words are more thoughtful than he thinks right now. As Impmon's green eyes open, slowly widening as he moves to sit up on top of the television, Impmon scratches his head in confusion, trying to take the waking world in.

"Huh… what do I digivolve into aside from Beelzemon?" Impmon asks himself as he takes in his surroundings; looking over towards the clock next to Jeri's bed, it read 9:24 AM. Jeri, for that matter, was nowhere to be found. Impmon took a moment to register this fact, but once it hits his mind, his eyes snap open wide as he looks around frantically.

"Holy sugar honey iced tea, where the heck did Jeri wander herself off to without me?!" Impmon asks himself as he moved to jump down to the floor, before quickly moving to open the bedroom door; the immediate room was a hallway with another bedroom door just right next to Jeri's own, having a more secure lock on it. Compared to the colorful surroundings in Jeri's room, though, the hallway looks oddly plain.

Impmon looks rather bothered as he walks through the hallway, before entering the main living room which connects directly into a kitchen; the kitchen contained an oven, a sink, a dishwasher, and a refrigerator. Nothing unusual, but some of the hardware looks as if they haven't been used in years. As Impmon goes to check on the fridge first, he sees a note on it in adult handwriting as he takes it down and looks at it.

"To Jeri,

Money is tight ever since last week at work, so be sure to spend no more than $15 per day out at school. Do not worry about me, I'll just fend for myself; just be sure to be polite and considerate as you do your chores for Ms. Hata next door, alright? I'll be home after work.

-Be good at home and be nice to people, Tadashi Katou."

"Prickish move for Jeri's old man I see; he doesn't even address himself as dad, yet alone even appear to give a sign he's even here." Impmon commentates on the note left behind, as something occurs to Impmon as to what was on the note; spend no more than $15. Upon thinking about it, Impmon opens the fridge and finds various spices such as ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise, but in terms of what he could find in terms of food.

It appears there to be only large quantities of boxes for junk food from numerous restaurants and fast food. Impmon, checking them out, noticed the contents of the boxes didn't appear like anything someone of Jeri's age would like to eat, but regardless, the implications he was getting for both Jeri and her father was loud and clear.

"Jeri can't even seem to afford normal groceries… What did I miss after all of these years?" Impmon asks himself, as he notices a small pouch on the table between the kitchen and the living room; as Impmon inspects it, he notices the bright, colorful pink plaid on it as he opens it and very clearly sees $15 within it.

"Greeeat, just great; got to find a way to make sure Jeri gets this today, but how can I do that when the folks outside are walking around in the brightest day and-"

Before Impmon could react the small purse was swiftly taken from his own hand in the blink of an eye; Impmon hurriedly looks around, as he spots an illusion of another Digimon in the room clear as day; a very tall vixen in sheen, yellow fur and a white underbelly, equipped with violet gloves and having soul-piercing green eyes.

"どのくらい前に彼女はこれを後に残しましたか？" The vixen spoke, but Impmon was confused as to what the clearly feminine yet very harsh sounding tone this Digimon spoke; she sounds as angry as her expression already implies.

'Jeeze maybe she's just speaking Japanese because she doesn't like me here… uh…' Impmon thought, before speaking up, "Say again? I can't speak Japanese." Impmon asked the Digimon, as he feels a sudden jolt along his spine as he heard a harsh growl from the vixen.

"ふざけるな。 なぜあなたは私たちの故郷の言葉で話さないのですか？" The vixen's words begin to grow more intense and frustrated as she steps forward; disappearing in each motion she made forward every few seconds, as her delicate, and much more humanoid form towered over Impmon in height alone as she has him against a corner.

"No seriously can you speak English at all?! You're beginning to freak me out!" Impmon asks the vixen before him, as he quickly gets picked up around his scarf as he's lift into the air and lead back towards the front door; the vixen opens it, as she glares straight into Impmon's scared eyes.

"Get out."

"WAIT, HOLD ON NOW, PLEASE! I'm Jeri's partner Digimon! Why else would I be here?!"

"Then where have you been all of these years, pest?! A true partner Digimon would've never allowed their Autism cursed tamer to be allowed to be unguarded in an unfriendly environment like this! What are you playing at with why only now you're here?"

"Me, a pest, you seriously think that? Says the Digimon who barges in without asking!" Impmon yelled towards the Digimon in question, as he was set down by the Digimon as the towering Digimon moved to raise her hand, armed with sharp claws and-

"Renamon?"

A girl's voice broke the tension in the Digimon, called Renamon, away from her focus on Impmon, as she moves to lay her sight on the older girl towards the right at the steps of the porch.

"ルキさん...？なぜあは学なた校にいませんか？"

"Jeri's aide asked for me to get something for her, and unfortunately my digivice went off not too long before I got here. Now why are you picking a fight with Jeri's partner?" The girl asks, as Impmon has a good look at her and notices her rather cold demeanor; it didn't seem to be aiming towards him, but rather towards Renamon considering her gaze fixated solely into the vixen's own eyes.

"My apologies, Ruki; I'll be off, then." Renamon spoke, as she vanished into a ghostly blur as Ruki took Jeri's purse into her hands as she sighs.

"The BS Renamon can get into at times over the pettiest things, I swear…" Ruki spoke, as she looks over at Impmon. "So you're the partner of Jeri I've been hearing rumors about all across the school club. I was expecting an Elecmon oddly enough." Ruki spoke towards Impmon, before she has a look at her digivice and notices the time.

"As much as I'd like to talk, now isn't the time; I have a purse to give back to Jeri before lunch break." Ruki spoke, as she moves to turn and walk off of the porch and head off towards Jeri's school. Impmon simply looks at Ruki completely baffled for better or worse; while Renamon was harsh in her introduction towards him, he had known of her lineage to normally be a lot more bloodthirsty than what he had seen, at least, while they were still younger in form. Ruki's Renamon didn't exactly disappoint, but Impmon is impressed with just how much restraint Renamon shows around Ruki.

"Oi, Ruki is it? Mind I ask what makes you so special as to have a Renamon of all things obey your every whim?" Impmon asks, as Ruki looks back towards him as she sighs.

"Look, just lay low for now until Jeri gets home; I have to hurry lest Jeri gets in trouble again." Ruki tells Impmon, as Impmon scowled as to how Ruki avoids trying to answer him.

"Hey! I may be late to being by Jeri's side, but I could at least deserve some answers as to what the heck I've missed after so many years! Capiche?!" Impmon yelled at Ruki, but Ruki doesn't answer and continues her way off towards Jeri's school. Impmon growled at the fact he was being ignored, but he knew he couldn't easily give chase because of the broad daylight with everyone bound to see him…

… Without a disguise, anyways; Impmon sees a rather large, bulky trench coat hanging off of the inside of the door in the house, as well as a rather large hat; both of these could be used to hide him from plain sight from the humans, but while Impmon could still draw attention for being incredibly small, it's better than not having any disguise at all.

As Impmon had been walking out in the light of day throughout the neighborhood, Impmon had to walk for at least a mile before he finally came across the school in which Jeri is attending. Standing outside of a window and looking into the classroom inside, Impmon could see Jeri trying to work on schoolwork, but it appeared that she was drawing in the middle of class instead.

"What is she doing…?" Impmon whispers to himself, as he has a close look as to Jeri's drawing; it didn't look like a random sketch off of the top of Jeri's mind, but it seems like she was drawing something with more thought put into it. Impmon was stunned either way that the teacher simply went on with a lecture and seemed to not acknowledge Jeri clearly, but rather quietly, being distracted by her drawing.

As Impmon tries to get a closer look, he could vaguely see Jeri was, attempting anyways, to draw a person in her sketch, but it wasn't clear from this distance as to who it was supposed to be. As Impmon kept trying to keep watch on his tamer, he noticed a few things as time went by; Jeri had gotten most of her work done in relatively little time the moment it was handed to her, and once she was done, she began drawing on clear paper until the next assignment was ready for her.

"I can't help but notice her attention is elsewhere right now…" Impmon murmurs to himself; true, Jeri was drawing as she was doing work, but since she was so close to the windows, she appears to be looking outside every now and then, which Impmon turns to face in the same general direction in which he sees what- or, rather, who Jeri was looking at outside.

Alone in the courtyard of the premises, was a boy approximately the same age as Jeri; looking rather timid as he kicks around a soccer ball by himself, he wears an easy to distinguish, blue shirt and aviator goggles.

"So where's his own Digimon when he's wearing goggles like that?" Impmon raises an eye as he speaks up, as there didn't appear to be a Digimon in sight besides the lone boy. Impmon was intrigued by the circumstances either way; Jeri's attention was caught by the boy, as Impmon looks over towards Jeri and notices a luminescent blush on her face. Jeri is clearly smitten with the boy playing soccer by himself, as Impmon looks over towards a large clock in the courtyard and checks the time.

"10:58 AM. I must've taken a lot longer to get here than I thought." Impmon murmurs to himself, as chuckling can be heard behind him as Impmon turns around and faces the source directly.

"… Vilemon, go figure you would want to ruin the mood right now." Impmon replied to the large mouthed demon Digimon.

"Whatever do you mean, Impmon? I'm just here to enjoy the show." Vilemon answered, as it pushes Impmon out of his disguise clothing and tosses Impmon down into the courtyard where the boy is. The boy, noticing Impmon crash not far from him, jolts a bit in surprise as he moves to quickly run off in a hurry. Impmon quickly gets back up, as Vilemon floats down chuckling all the while.

"What's the matter, Impmon? Couldn't foresee my little teasing?" Vilemon taunts Impmon, as Impmon grits his teeth as he manifests a dark flame in his right hand.

"Oh yeah, foresee this then! BADABOOM!" Impmon yells as he ignites the dark flame into a larger one and tosses it directly into Vilemon, as the demon Digimon is quick to dodge and decides to blow a raspberry to Impmon, only to suddenly feel its own tongue burning as Impmon quietly launched more fireballs towards him as Vilemon begins to freak out from Impmon's enraged onslaught.

"Is that all ya got, vile beast?!" Impmon asks, as Vilemon gets back up after the numerous attacks against it and launches itself towards Impmon.

"Scratch Beat!" Vilemon yells, as Impmon quickly dodges and launches a larger dark flame into its back in an immediate counterattack. "Drat! Will you cut that out already?!" Vilemon yells back towards Impmon, as Vilemon gasps upon seeing Impmon's eyes glow a bright red as a shadowy veil appears around him in the form of a tall, dark humanoid figure with wings; far larger than Vilemon itself ever would be.

"Filthy rat, you shall know the Touch of Evil!" Impmon spoke in a deeper voice as Vilemon hears the school bell ring as Impmon's shadowy form looms over him as Vilemon simply ran off laughing in terror as to Impmon's imposing form, before the shadowy veil around Impmon forcefully drags Vilemon back over to him in which Impmon finds the nearest dumpster in the courtyard and immediately smashes Vilemon into the dumpster and shuts it inside of it.

"Huh? Wha?"

Impmon nearly freaks as he only just now realizes an old, bearded adult stirring right next to the dumpster; the janitor looks around to check on what exactly had just happened before he was rudely woken up, as Impmon was nowhere to be found and as the janitor checked the dumpster's contents, Vilemon was too buried in it for the janitor to notice it.

As Impmon hides back in a tree, Impmon watches as the janitor proceeds to head back to sleep all the while Impmon sighs in relief as to Vilemon having been dealt with now.

"Impmon?" Jeri's voice could be heard directly behind Impmon, as Impmon jumps and moves to face her.

"Jeri? When did you-"

"The bell for lunch went off a few minutes ago, so I came to check on you after I heard you outside." Jeri speaks up, as Impmon groans.

"Did Ruki happen to give you back your purse yet?" Impmon asks, as Jeri blinks.

"What do you mean? I have it right here." Jeri says as she moves to check her pockets, as she is quick to discover she didn't have it on her this whole time, to which she hears someone sigh as Ruki moves over towards Jeri and Impmon while handing Jeri her purse.

"Do you mind if we head into the VIP room to eat? I think it'll be easier for Impmon to fit in there." Ruki asks, as Impmon nervously chuckles, all the while Jeri's eyes widen.

"The VIP room, but isn't that only for Digimon tamers?" Jeri asks, as Ruki gives her a questioning glare as she nods her head towards Impmon, as Jeri nervously laughs as she realizes what Ruki is getting on to.

"O-Oh… Right, I'm a tamer now, so I can officially enter the VIP room now, right?" Jeri asks Ruki, as Ruki nods.

"There's going to be some paperwork you'll need to fill out, so make sure you have your digivice on hand because you and Impmon will be doing some entry-level exams while you're there." Ruki says, as she moves to take her leave as Jeri looks over towards Impmon, then looking around the courtyard again.

'Odd… I wonder where Takato had run off to.' Jeri thinks to herself, as she moves to follow Ruki alongside Impmon, as the boy, named Takato, could be seen moving out from hiding behind a corner after having been listening in on Jeri and Ruki's conversation.

"Jeri's going to be a tamer now? That's a lot to take in." Takato murmurs to himself, as the janitor yawns as he moves to wake up; shades covering his eyes as he looks at Takato to wonder what had happened.

"Care I ask if you happen to know what had happened earlier, kid?" He asks, as Takato shook his head.

"No, why, did something happen?" Takato asked, as the older man sighs as he moves to push the dumpster out of the courtyard.

"Could be mistaken, but I could've sworn I heard a fight going on; guess I might've been wrong. Just do me a favor kid and stay out of trouble, alright?" The janitor asks, as Takato nods and moves to leave for lunch all the while the janitor lifts the whole dumpster and shoves all of the trash inside of it into a compactor, all the while Vilemon could be heard shrieking from within the pile of trash.

"Wait! Don't start the compactor yet! Let me out!" Vilemon begs for mercy pathetically before the janitor, all the while the janitor closes his eyes as he sighs and moves to grab hold of Vilemon and pick him out from the trash, as the janitor's shades are off as strange-looking eyes pierce directly into Vilemon's own.

"Then do tell; what exactly happened while I was snoozing?"

AN: This chapter had some of the longest delays since some of my other fics had been published yet lone being updated regularly. Digimon Re: Adventure is currently going the second longest without an update so far in the history of this whole account ever since Truth and Ideals, but the fact I managed to get Chapter 1 of Digimon Re: Tamers up after so long is a miracle in and of itself.

Also some of the Digimon names Impmon was saying when he was dreaming of him digivolving beyond Rookie but not yet to Mega, the originally planned Champion for Impmon in this fic was going to be Devidramon, but I decided against it considering what the basis for the v-pet turned digivice in the prior page had the line be, as well as the fact all of the main forms except Beelzemon Blast Mode are on the cover somewhere.