I'm Blue

Kooper was walking through his peaceful village located on Pleasant Path, greeting some of his fellow neighbors while simultaneously doing some of his chores. It was beautiful in Koopa Village, as always and the sun was beaming down upon the happy koopas. While looking for a koopa leaf, his friend Koover waved and said "Hi!" to him.

"How's it goin' Koopster? Running another errand for old Koopa Koot again?"

Kooper sighed heavily. "Sadly, yes. My mom coerced me to go see him and, like I told her, he made me do some chore that only fuels his needs."

Koover laughed. "What'd he make you do this time?"

"He wants me to go fetch some koopasta…again. Is that all this guy eats: Koopasta and Koopa Tea?"

"Hey, just be glad he didn't send you halfway across the Mushroom Kingdom. That old Koopa made me go all the way to Fahr Outpost just so I could record how thick those bob-ombs' accents are! Do you have any idea how long it takes to not only get to Rogueport, but find the pipe vault that leads to Fahr Outpost?!"

"Pretty damn long."

"Exactly."

"Well…I better go find that leaf. Then I'm off to Dry Dry Outpost to buy some pasta."

"Have fun!" said Koover.

Kooper walked behind a few houses and searched the bushes for some type of koopa leaf, but he found nothing. It was kind of ironic; the village was littered with bushes, yet none of them contained any leaves.

"Come on, where are those damn leaves?!" grumbled Kooper.

Kooper adventured further out into Pleasant Path to find more bushes on the barren road, but once again, all of them seemed to be completely leaf-less. It was like someone already ate all of the leaves of if they mysterious vanished.

"Somethin' fishy is going on…" said Kooper.

Kooper heard a faint cry come up from nowhere and looked around the area, trying to determine the source of the outbreak.

"What is that?"

Kooper walked back into Koopa Village and the sound got louder, slowly increasing as he progressed further down the village. He went back into his house and walked out the back door, entering a section of the village housing the river. Now the sound was identifiable. It was a scream.

"Wait a second…this is Fuzzy territory. I bet those fuzzies jumped some poor Koopa when he or she wasn't looking!"

Kooper, realizing the type of danger the person screaming could be in, raced into the Fuzzy HQ, the little forest behind his house where they took his shell, and waited for the fuzzies to make their move.

"Come on out you black parasites! I'm not scared of you!"

The screaming only continued to grow louder and it was getting closer to Kooper, like a car racing down the street. Perhaps…it wasn't the fuzzies…or a Koopa for that matter.

"I don't get it. Why's the sound getting louder?"

Kooper looked down and noticed a tiny shadow appearing on the ground.

"Huh?"

Kooper looked up and saw a tiny blue object flying straight out of the sky as the screams continued to grow louder and louder. For some obvious reason, Kooper felt the need to move out of the way.

"I'm thinkin' I should move now…" said Kooper, shifting to his right.

But for some ridiculous reason (or maybe due to the laws of physics) the blue item falling from the sky landed right on top of Kooper, whacking him in the head and knocking him to the ground. After a few minutes, Kooper woke up from his unconsciousness and planted his hand on his forehead, which was now red and throbbing profusely.

"Ergh…what the hell was that?" asked Kooper.

The creature that landed on top of him quickly jolted awake as well and started to pant frantically, wary of something.

"Where is it? Where'd they go? WHAT'S HAPPENING!??!" asked the creature.

"Something wrong dude? You look like hell."

The creature turned around to face Kooper. It was very short, at most two and a half feet tall. All of his skin was blue, except for his white belly and mouth. Kooper couldn't find his ears so he guessed that the conical appendages on the back of his head were the ears, and his nose was a tiny, spiky horn. However, what gave the creature away was his large yellow "V" planted right in-between his giant reddish-pink eyes. It was Veemon.

"I haven't seen you around these parts before. What's your name?"

"Veemon. You didn't see any giant or disgusting Digimon follow me here did you?"

"Digimon? You talking about that Internet game, that type of Digimon."

"Err…sure. Computer… Anyways, did you see someone following me?"

"No. You fell out of the sky and clocked me on the head."

"Sorry. It's just that I was battling some BlackAgumons when this DarkTyrannomon swooped in out of nowhere…"

"…Tyrannomon?" said Kooper, confused.

"…and then, a whole bunch of them just started attacking me after coming through this unknown portal! It was brutal man."

"Sounds like you've been having a rough day."

"Yeah, I know."

"All right, so how'd you get here?"

"Um…I was running and then I saw this black blur form on the ground and I stepped into it…and fell. It must've been a portal; I've never seen this part of the DigiWorld before."

"DigiWorld? I think you got the wrong place dude."

"Huh?"

"This is Koopa Village, a small community within the Mushroom Kingdom."

"…Huh???"

"I think you just traveled to a whole new universe…"

"…HUH???"

Kooper sighed.

"Maybe you should chill with me for a while until you remember what happened."

"I can't chill! My world's in danger right now! How am I gonna save my world when I'm in a whole other universe?!"

Kooper chuckled. "I don't see how a little guy like you could save the universe. No offense, but you're friggin' two feet tall!" laughed Kooper.

"AVee-Headbuttinthecrotchsayswhat?"

"…What?"

Veemon charged right into Kooper, slamming his rock-hard skull into Kooper's crotch. Kooper grunted loudly and gritted his teeth, turning red and falling to his knees. Kooper slowly looked up and realized he was looking directly at Veemon, who was smiling widely with his eyes shut, feeling triumphant.

"Did you just head-butt me in the balls?!!?"

"Basically."

Kooper quickly made a fist with his right hand and punched Veemon in the crotch as well, and he did the same thing that Kooper did. Now both of them were lying on their knees, coughing and groaning while holding their groins.

"Payback's a bitch ain't it?!"

After the two recovered from their painful encounter, they returned to Kooper's house and Kooper fixed a light lunch for himself and Veemon. Veemon was eating ravenously, as though he never tasted food for the past five years. It had only been three minutes and he was almost done eating his meal.

"OH! SO DELICIOUS!!! What do you call this delightful dish?!"

"Spicy pasta. I added a couple shrooms to it to give it more flavor."

"What's a shroom?"

"It's this special kind of fungi…"

Kooper noticed Veemon wasn't paying too much attention to him, so he stopped talking and just said, "Never mind."

Kooper was about to take a bite out of the shroom he picked up with his fork, but Veemon veered his head in and snatched it off the fork with his mouth.

"Hey!"

Kooper was going to get another shroom off his plate, but Veemon snatched that away too and slammed the plate into face, noisily slurping up the dish.

"HEY!!"

Veemon gulped loudly and put the plate down, sighing contently and licking his fingers.

"Is it that good?"

"I've never eaten food this wonderful before!! It's so spicy and has this zing that makes my taste buds go wild!"

"Well, since you ruined my lunch, why don't you tell me about this danger your world's experiencing now."

"It's kind of hard to describe. Everything just happened so fast. All I know is that packs of evil Digimon appeared from an unknown portal and have been plaguing our world for the past several weeks, killing anyone that stands in their way. If it weren't for the Primary Village this massacre would be a whole lot worse."

"What is this Primary Village?"

"The Primary Village--you got anything else to eat here? I'm starving!"

"You just ate two plates of pasta!"

"So?"

Kooper sighed. "I got a cookie in the cabinets; you can eat that."

"Thanks!"

Veemon sifted through Kooper's cabinets and found a large brown cookie with white stripes on it.

"What's this?"

"A Kooky Cookie. I don't think you should eat it because it can--"

Veemon stuffed the crunchy pastry into his mouth and chewed on the cookie, sighing with glee once again and swallowing very hard.

"Anyways, Primary Village--"

Veemon suddenly fell forward like a telephone pole, unconscious. If Veemon had been an inhabitant of the Mushroom Kingdom, he would've known that Kooky Cookies can sometimes make their host drowsy and fall asleep instantly. Kooper sighed exasperatedly and looked at the tiny blue reptile, who was snoring and twitching in his own little dream land.

"I warned you."

Meanwhile, another Digimon was overlooking Kooper's house from afar, observing his victim. The Digimon growled lowly and looked through a window, seeing Veemon lying on the floor and Kooper pacing across his kitchen, fixing another batch of spicy pasta so he could eat it before Veemon woke up. The creature chuckled evilly.

"Looks like you messed up Veemon. You should know by now that you're not the only one who can use the portals. Hmm…not familiar with this part of the universe. No matter, it'll all be destroyed soon…"

Two hours later, Kooper smacked Veemon on the forehead and he jolted awake, twitching his head like a bird.

"What happened? I fall asleep?"

"I was gonna tell you that if you eat a Kooky Cookie, you could fall asleep."

"Seriously? I was knocked unconscious by a cookie?!"

"Hey, you wanted it. Now, continue your story."

"Okay. Well um…a bunch of bad Digimon started to spawn out of nowhere and all of us allies were slaughtered. Some of us came back to life, but when you're spawned that many times…the Primary Village doesn't always bring you back to life."

"You Digimon can die for real?"

"Yeah, if we're damaged too much then we can die for real and never come back…which sucks ass!"

"Why are you complaining? We only get one shot at life in this universe."

"…Isn't this the human world?"

"No, the rules are different here. Unless someone has a life shroom of lucky candy, we're screwed. I'm not sure if the same rules apply to you creatures though."

"Awesome. That just makes my job easier. Well, do you know how I can get back to my world?"

"I doubt there are any portals that lead to this…DigiWorld but you can check out Shooting Star Summit. I'm pretty sure if see the Star Spirits then they'll help you out."

"Cool. Let's get going!"

Veemon got up and started walking towards the door, while Kooper stayed behind and eye-balled Veemon oddly.

"What do you mean 'Let's'?"

"As in the both of us?"

"You impaled me in my groin and you ate all my food. The fact I haven't considered kicking your ass yet is because I don't feel like and, after hearing your story, it wouldn't be right. Plus, you might head-butt me in the crotch again."

"C'mon dude, think about it! You know about this massacre in my universe too and if any evil Digimon come through a portal the same way I did, you're not gonna be so lucky and you're not gonna have any backup. So I suggest you do a little 'escorting' business for me until you see this through. Besides, you'll like my universe! It's fun!"

Kooper sighed exasperatedly and nodded his head.

"It beats traveling to a scolding hot desert just to buy pasta."

Kooper and Veemon opened the front door and instantly saw a giant red creature with a spiked shell on its back. The koopa and the small blue Digimon looked up to see that a giant tortoise-like maw was formed into a smile, and that it was chuckling under its breath.

"Well, well, well!! Looks like I found you Veemon!" said the creature.

It had a loud, guttural voice and sounded like a gruff bouncer or irritated office worker. Maybe that was why it was nicknamed a Roaring Digimon.

"Tortomon?!?" yelled Veemon in disbelief.

"What, is that a Digimon/tortoise?" asked Kooper.

"Basically. What the hell's a red Tortomon doing here?!"

"I followed you through the portal! You should've been covering your tracks you ignorant klutz! And now…I'm going to kill you, and your little friend here!" said the giant red tortoise, pointing to Veemon and Kooper.

"Oh, shit."