For over an hour Ryan sits with his back against a large grey colored boulder, knees cradles against his chest in a state of shock about the events that had just occurred. Okay, Ryan, think…you were running from them, you fell into the pit, there was a light and now you're on another planet!

Although there was an infinite amount of space around him he felt as if walls were closing in on him. His breathing became shallow and his nerves were whittled down to almost nothing. Every sound from the dense forest he was now in only added to his paranoia. The only thing keeping him from losing his mind were the thoughts of his family: his father, his sister, his mother and even his Siberian husky, Storm, whom he had forgotten to feed that morning.

Out of nowhere he began to hear the faint sounds of something approaching the area extremely fat. The ground began to rumble as if an earthquake was occurring but Ryan knew somehow that it was far from what he thought it was.

Ryan quickly jumped to a vertical base and looked down the trail he was sitting just off of, noticing a large cloud of dust rapidly moving in his direction. "No way…that's impossible!" Out of the dust appears a herd of Monochromon stampeding straight at the awe struck boy who snaps back to reality and realizes the danger he is in. "Holy shit!"

Having no place to go to in order to get out of their way he tries climbing up one of the trees but cannot manage to secure a grip due to its sheer size.

Seconds left before being trampled he closes his eyes in preparation for the inevitable. "Hold on!" Ryan hears the female voice followed by a grip around his waist before getting an assisted jump up to the safety of a tree branch while the Monochromon move through the area uninterrupted.

"Thanks. I thought I was…" Turning to look at his savior his expression changes from that of relief to a mixture of surprise, fright and complete numbness of thought. "…I don't feel so good." His eyes roll back as he loses consciousness almost falling out of the tree in the process but is grabbed by a pair of white paws clad in purple colored gauntlets and labeled with yin-yang symbols just above the wrist.

"You're welcome." She sarcastically replies, cradling his now limp body in her arms.

Ryan's vision slowly comes back into focus as he begins to reawaken from his deep slumber, greeted by a calm night sky and a warm fire illuminating the surrounding area in a visually pleasing orange-yellow glow. "What…what happened?"

"You fainted after I saved you from that stampede." The same voice Ryan had heard earlier seemed to appear out of nowhere. He frantically looked in all directions trying to find the source. Being unable to do so he decides to try and make a run for it only to be stopped by the same creature that had rescued him hours earlier, silhouetted by the night. "Relax. You don't have to be afraid of me. My name is Renamon."

As she stepped into view he could see that she indeed meant him no harm but was still amazed at the fact that he was talking to a yellow furred fox standing on two legs. "I'm Ryan. Ryan Riley."

"If you don't mind my asking, Ryan, how exactly did you get here from your world?" Renamon had posed the exact question that he had been trying to answer since his arrival.

"I'm really not sure. I was being chased by some guys from school and the next thing I knew I was here." While answering her question he continued to study her with a lot of curiosity. "Can I ask you something? You're a digimon right?" Renamon nodded, confirming what he had known since he had seen the Monochromon. "Then that means…I'm in the Digital World!"

Ryan couldn't believe the words he had just spoken because he was under the assumption that Digimon only existed within the realm of a television show. A million questions began racing through his head: Was this real? Was he dreaming or worse? How was he going to get back home?

"I found some food while you were asleep. Are you hungry?" Seeing that he was still out of it a little, Renamon opened the small sack she had with her. Inside was an assortment of fruits and vegetables that looked very ripe. "Go ahead. Take whatever you'd like."

Although hesitant he reached over slowly and seized a perfect looking red apple in his hand, inspected it thoroughly before taking a bite. "It's good. Thanks." The nourishment helped take the edge off of everything. For the first time since he had arrived Ryan was able to calm down despite the fact that there were still many problems ahead. "I don't want to sound rude or anything, Renamon, but how come you're helping me out so much? And how is it you were in the right place at the right time to save my life?"

"I've been travelling through the digital world, waiting for the tamer who will help me digivolve and grow stronger." Ryan had no idea what she was talking about but tried piecing together her cryptic statement with his own intellect.

"Tamer? Is that the same as a digidestined?" There was no doubt in his mind that this digital world was not the same one from the show. It looked and felt like it had a more realistic tone than the one Tai Kamiya and his friends had traversed through in the first season. But it also had many similarities including the fact that digimon themselves needed humans in order to reach a higher digivolution. And then it dawned on him. "Wait. Do you think I'm your tamer? Is that why you're doing all this for me? Why you saved me?"

"I do believe that you might be my tamer, yes, but it's not the only reason I helped you if that's what you're implying." Her icy blue eyes went right through him as she seemed to take his comments as an insult to her integrity. "Tamer or not… I wouldn't have left you to be destroyed.

Ryan began feeling a tremendous amount of guilt over making her out to be selfish in her actions. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make it sound the way it did. I've just had a very weird day. Not to mention that my mom is probably going crazy trying to figure out where I am." Again his thoughts went back to his family having no idea when or if ever he would see them again. "But about being your tamer…shouldn't I have a digivice or something if I was?"

He's right. If he was my tamer then he would have a digivice. But if he isn't my tamer, then what is he doing here in the digital world? Humans don't just show up here for no reason. And now that I've found him I can't just leave him to roam the digital world alone. He wouldn't survive. "You have a point. Regardless I'm leaving this place when it's light. You're more than welcome to join me if you want."

"That sounds good to me. Who knows? Maybe I'll find a way to get home by going with you." A great yawn escapes from his mouth reflecting the stress on his body from the interdimensional travel as well as the day in general.

Renamon rose to her feet and motioned towards the forest. "I'm going to gather supplies to build a shelter with. I'll be back soon. Don't go anywhere… unless you want to meet some digimon who are a lot less pleasant as I am." With the sound of an electrical crackle she disappeared leaving Ryan stunned at just how blunt she had been with him.

Nearly an hour later, in human world time, the two were lying on separate beds of leaves in a small hut the vixen had erected for the night. As Renamon slept quite easily, Ryan was having difficulty even closing his eyes which were transfixed on the distant planet above through the spaces in the wood. I always thought it would be cool if something like this happened to me. But that was when it couldn't have. Now I just want to go back home. Why am I even here? I'm not a digidestined or Renamon's partner. And if digimon exist how come they've never been seen in my world? Well, whatever, I guess I should try to get some sleep.

Elsewhere in the forest, a ways off from where Ryan and Renamon are located, a lone Wizardmon is sitting by his own fire when he hears a noise behind him followed by the sight of a shadow from the corner of his eye. "Who's there? Show yourself!" Staff in hand, he goes to investigate. He hears another sound from behind some brush which puts him on high alert. "Electro Squall!"

The foliage is instantly incinerated by the attack but there is nothing there. Wizardmon turns to go back but there is a gust of wind that literally changes the entire environment around him. The once warm, comforting night air now weighs heavily with a cold, depressing feeling. From afar he watches as his fire goes out leaving nothing but a cloud of billowing smoke in its wake. A familiar face…and ironically…my first meal!

Having heard the devilish voice, Wizardmon spins around and begins firing multiple attacks but they have no effect on his target and he is easily overwhelmed.

A blood curdling scream pierces the quiet and comforting night air. Renamon's eyes open, having sensed the distress of someone in the distance. She phase shifts out of the enclosure and begins looking in different directions. "Renamon, what is it? What's going on?" Ryan asks, awakened by the fox's quick yet noisy actions.

"Someone's in danger." She stops while facing to the north of their camp. "We have to go."

"Go as in help or go as in getting the heck out of here before whatever it is comes after us?" Ryan had no intentions of getting involved in anymore danger. The only thing he wanted to do at the moment was rest. But Renamon shot him a rhetorical glance which was enough to assure him she had meant the former. "Okay, never mind. I just hope you know what you're doing."

After getting some light from the dwindling fire, and putting it out afterwards, the two set off into the darkened forest with no idea of what they would find…or what would find them.