"Welcome to Chapter 2 of Backup Tamers everyone!"

Sean: "Hey, how come Lucas got his Digimon before me and Doran?"

"Well, in The Chosen Three, you got Renamon almost right away following a fight. So Lucas got his Digimon during his bored and stuck situation, but he only got his Digimon in his In-Training form. So if he DID get down, he'd only be seen as having a stuffed toy in his arms."

Sean: "Oh, okay. I guess that makes sense. So who's getting their Digimon next?"

"Once again, you'll have to follow the story just like everyone else to be able to find out. Besides, it wouldn't be any fun to just tell you flat out. Now do the damn disclaimer."

Sean: "Fine. Drago3511 does not own Digimon or any other element that is not solely original. He does own me and my friends and this fanfic."

"Thanks Sean, now let's get this show on the road!"


(Sean POV)

Well, I've been walking around the city, which is known as Shinjuku, for at least three hours now. I haven't seen any sign of Doran or Lucas, and I haven't seen Rika either. But maybe it's for the best. I was walking around downtown for a little bit, when I noticed a building that said 'Card Shop'. I noticed in my walk around that there were kids every now and then talking about a Digimon card game. Maybe I could find some in there. I also noticed a while back, a narrow channel in the side of my Digivice that looked like it could fit one of those cards. So I decided to walk in.

It was a small shop with collectibles, cards, plush toys, you name it. The back wall was filled with Digimon items, from trading cards to plush In-Trainings. I grabbed a starter deck and a few packs from the wall and walked over to the register.

"Hi there, I'd like to buy these." I said while placing the cards on the counter. The guy behind it looked like he was around maybe seventeen years old. He had short black hair and a single black heart earring on his left ear. He didn't have any facial hair whatsoever and a calm look on his face.

"No problem dude. So, you just getting into Digimon?" He asked while scanning the items.

"Yeah, I heard it's a really popular game and that they even held national tournaments." I said. He nodded his head and scanned the last booster pack.

"No doubt about that. Anyway, your total price comes to about 1,235 yen." He said. I nodded and pulled out my munny pouch and grabbed some of the larger crystal orbs. They changed themselves into a few bills and some coins. I pulled them out and placed them on the counter for the cashier to take. He did so and placed my newly purchased cards in a plastic bag.

"Here you go. Have good day and enjoy your new cards."

I walked out of the store and walked over to a nearby bench. I took the cards out and put the bag in a crumpled state to fit it in my pocket. I opened the starter deck first. In total I got:

3 Greymon cards

2 Power cards

1 Speed card

1 Hyper-Wing card

2 Gotsumon cards

2 Angemon cards

1 Agumon card

1 Digi-Egg of Courage card

1 Digi-Egg of Sincerity card

3 Stamina cards

2 Wizardmon cards

and 1 Snimon card.

Then I opened the four packs that I bought and got:

2 Positron Laser cards

1 Angewomon card

4 Salamon cards

3 Gabumon cards

1 Andromon card

2 Frigimon cards

3 Digivolution cards

2 Hyper-Sonic cards

1 Gatomon card

and 1 VictoryGreymon card.

"Wow, I even got a Mega level in one of these packs. How sweet is that?" I shouted while putting the forty cards in my card case and finding a nearby barrel to throw the plastic bag away. I started walking towards the cross-walk to explore the city a little more, when I bumped into a familiar guy in a brown blazer.

"Oh, sorry." I said.

"No I'm sorry, Sean." He said while he tried to register what he just said. "Sean?"

I looked at him blankly, "Doran?" We just looked at each other for a second, looking like a couple of idiots.

"Sean!"

"Doran!" We gave each other a high-five and then settled down. "I've been looking for you everywhere!" I said.

"Same here, plus I found this AWESOME bakery!" He practically yelled.

"Wait, where's Lucas?" I asked.

"I thought that he'd be with you by now." he said. Suddenly, I felt a familiar shock and my hair started to stick up more than usual. I looked up to see a mess of brown hair and orange standing on the roof of the card shop.

"Lucas." I said.

"How'd he get up there?" Doran asked.

"No clue, but let's go get him." I said. We both looked around and as an alley between the card shop and another building. We both ran to the alley and stopped when we figured we were in deep enough so that no one would see us.

"Alright, ready to climb?" I asked. But Doran spread out his arms, both of his palms connected to the sides of the alley.

"How are we gonna walk up there using chakra when neither of us a short enough to fit?" He asked. I demonstrated by putting both my hands on the wall that connected to the card shop and focused some chakra into them and my feet. Then I slowly put up one foot to the wall, then the other.

"Easy, we scale it like Spider-Man." I said while crawling up the wall to get to my electro-maniac friend. Doran followed closely and we eventually made it up the two story high building.

"There you guys are, I've been waiting for you for the past half an hour." Lucas said while carrying a little green dragon in his arms.

"Uh, is that your Digimon partner?" I asked. Lucas just nodded and looked down at the little dragon.

"Yeah, this is Babydmon. He hatched from the Digi-Egg and came out of my Digivice when I swiped that blue card through a channel in the Digivice." He said. So I was right, that channel in the Digivice is for cards. I opened up my now loaded card case and pulled out the blue card, with Doran doing the same.

"Thing is, once I used it, it just disappeared." Lucas said. If this thing is the key to hatching our Digimon, it didn't matter to me if the card disappeared. I took the card to the channel and something that Rika said came to mind, 'DIGIMODIFY... POWER ACTIVATE!'

"Digimodify." I said as I swept the card through the channel. The screen started to glow and a glowing blob started to form. The blob fell out of my Digivice and landed in front of me. It started to take shape and the glowing died down. When it stopped, a gold colored dragon with a grey underbelly with three ears on each side with purple tinting the top ears and red tinting the bottom two, with sharp green eyes and little flippers for hands and feet took its place.

The little dragon looked up at me and jumped into my arms. "Yay, you're finally here! I've been waiting in that Digi-Egg for so long, but now you're here! My Tamer! My name's Kyokyomon!" The little dragon said with a happy look on his face. Lucas pulled out his Digivice and looked at the holographic info on Kyokyomon.

"Kyokyomon is an In-Training Lesser Digimon and a carrier of the X-Antibody. If he gets angry he can stretch up to nearly nine times his normal length to attack the opponent. However, because he only extends forward, the opponent usually avoids this completely. His attack is Metal Straw."

We both looked to Doran, who already had a blue and white Digimon in his arms. Once again, Lucas looked up the info on the Digimon.

"DemiVeemon is an In-Training Baby Dragon Digimon. Unusually for an In-Training Digimon, he possesses a body, hands, and feet, and so is able to grip objects with both of his small hands, and move while hopping about with both feet. He rams into his foes with his Hop Attack."

"Well, we got our Digimon. Oh yeah, I stocked up on some cards in the building right under our feet. I have some for the both of you." I said while putting Kyokyomon on my head. I grabbed my new assortment of cards and pulled out two of the three Digivolution cards, the Digi-Egg of Courage, the Digi-Egg of Sincerity, two of the three Gabumon cards, two of the three Stamina cards, and two of the three Greymon Cards. I evenly distributed the cards to the two, but gave Doran both of the Digi-Egg cards. "Doran, those cards will work well for DemiVeemon's digivolved form of Veemon. They'll allow him to Armor Digivolve into Flamedramon and Yasyamon."

They both nodded and put the cards in their cases on their belts.

"Well, we should probably get down from here. Lucas, I surprised that you just didn't scale the wall using your chakra to get down." I said, while earning an angry glare from my friend.

"Just shut up and climb." He said. So we did just that, while Kyokyomon and Babydmon hovered down and DemiVeemon clung to Doran's head to make sure he didn't fall.

(Time skip: Six hours later)

Well, it's kinda hard to say that it was an eventful day. We just walked around the city for a couple of hours, had some lunch at a cafe, talking to pass the time, and eventually getting to the park now at around 2:30 in the afternoon.

"So, what do you guys want to do know?" I asked, while carrying Kyokyomon in my arms.

"I don't know, we've done all there is to do so far. There isn't a ton to do around here." Doran said with DemiVeemon riding on his right shoulder.

"I know what you mean. Even if we went back to the Pocket Dimension to stock up on supplies, get some training in, play some video games, and maybe take a nap, time doesn't move outside of it. So we'd still be back at the same time as we left." Lucas complained while carrying Babydmon in his arms.

The three of us sighed simultaneously. After that, I caught the sight of a boy with brown hair and a red dinosaur-Digimon out of the corner of my eye. They were climbing up a set of stone stairs.

"Guys, I think I just found something. Follow me!" I said while sprinting to catch up with the boy. Lucas and Doran followed with Doran putting DemiVeemon in his arms to make sure he didn't fall off his shoulder. We met up with the duo half-way up the stone steps.

"Hey there, what's up?" I asked. The boy looked nervous and failed at attempting to try and hide the Digimon behind his back.

"Um, hi. Nice day." He said.

"Takatomon, why are we hiding from these people?" The Digimon asked. The boy, Takato, just face-palmed and stepped to the side to allow the red-dinosaur Digimon to be seen.

"Um, why'd you hide your Digimon from us? We're not working for the government or anything. Besides, we wouldn't take him; we've got partners of our own." I said while holding up my Digivice and Kyokyomon just waved at the two. DemiVeemon jumped onto Doran's head while he pulled out his own Digivice and Lucas let Babydmon float while getting his Digivice out. Takato just sighed and pulled out his Digivice from under his shirt. It was attached to a string around his neck.

"Well that's a relief. I thought you guys would have freaked out at the sight of Guilmon." Takato said. We shook our heads and walked up the steps with him and Guilmon at a steady pace.

"So, what are you doing here anyway Takato?" I asked.

"I'm trying to find a hiding spot for Guilmon. If you couldn't tell, he isn't as discreet as your partners. They're probably In-Training right? I only think that because I already know about one of your Digimon, which is DemiVeemon." He said while we reached the top of the stairs.

He looked around and didn't see any suitable hiding spot. "Nah, this is too out in the open. Where could we hide you?" Takato said while walking along next to a gate. Guilmon followed him, but he stopped and turned towards the trees. His pupils were dilated and he was growling like some sort of wild animal. But he was knocked back by a familiar fox-like Digimon and went crashing into the gate behind him.

"Guilmon!" Takato screamed while running over to his partner.

"What a lousy fighter, but a fight's a fight." I heard another familiar voice say.

I turned over to the direction of the voice and saw Rika standing under a tree with Renamon standing on top of one of the branches.

"Rika, what the hell are you doing?" I shouted. The others turned and looked at me.

"You know her Sean?" Lucas asked. I nodded my head and held Kyokyomon near me.

"Yeah, it was only early this morning too. I was standing in another part of the park and I was jumped by a Goblimon. I fought him off using the Sharingan and I thought I finished him off using the Lion Barrage. So I started to walk away and was stopped by Rika and her Renamon. They then took control of the fight and almost beat him too. But he Digivolved to Fugamon and I thought that it would be trouble. But before I could step in to help, Rika swiped a card through her Digivice to power up Renamon. Then they took out Fugamon with a Diamond Storm. I was going to leave, but they stopped me and asked how I could fight off a Digimon, even if it was a Rookie. I answered and disappeared using the Sunshin no Jutsu/Body Flicker Jutsu to disappear and went off to start looking for you two." I said, relaying the whole story.

"So, red-eye's returned with some friends and a couple of In-Training weaklings. Sorry boys, but my fight's with the dinosaur. Renamon, walk all over him." Rika said, with Renamon charging in Guilmon's direction. But before she got there, our three partners jumped in her way and were surrounded by a bright light.

"DemiVeemon Digivolve to... Veemon!"

"Babydmon Digivolve to... Dracomon!"

"Kyokyomon Digivolve to... Ryudamon!"

In the place where our partners once stood, were a taller version of DemiVeemon with a horn sticking out of its nose, yellow markings under its eyes and on its forehead, fully formed fingers with sharp nails sticking out of the tips, and claws sticking out of its toes. A short teal dragon with a white underbelly, three fingers on each hand ending in white claws, three claws coming out of each foot, little orange wings on its back, orange horns sticking out of its head, and large orange eyes. Where Kyokyomon stood was an orange-furred dinosaur with a white underbelly, three claws sticking out of each hand and foot, black samurai style armor with purple decals, and a red jewel embedded in its forehead/helmet.

"They Digivolved, but how?" Rika asked, shocked. Our partners all rammed into Renamon's stomach and knocked her back, protecting Guilmon.

"Don't worry buddy, we've got ya covered." Veemon said, while Ryudamon and Dracomon nodded. I looked to Doran and Lucas, who looked back at me.

"Guys, I think we should show those two that if they can't handle the heat... then stay away from our friends!" I said while pulling out the Greymon card. Lucas and Doran nodded while doing the same thing. We all slashed the card through our Digivices and shouted:

"DIGIMODIFY... GREYMON'S NOVA BLAST ACTIVATE!"

Each of our partners opened up their mouths and charged up a large fireball, while simultaneously calling out, "Nova Blast!" The three Rookies shot large fireballs from their mouths, which merged together to form an extra-large fireball.

"Wow, even the Gokakyu no Jutsu/Fireball Jutsu pales in compare to that thing." I stated, earning nods from my friends. Renamon dodged the combined Nova Blast in mid-air, allowing the attack to completely decimate a tree, not even leaving behind a trace of its existence.

"What was that all about?" Takato asked, completely ignoring the rest of the fight. Renamon landed next to Rika in a crouching position and stood up.

"That was your Digimon eating dirt." Rika plainly stated.

"Now that was cold." I muttered to myself.

"I saw you in my dream, no way... it can't be." Takato said, earning looks from me, Doran, and Lucas.

"So, you're a lousy Tamer and you're weird. Now am-scray, unless you think you can handle us, little boy." Rika said, almost hitting the nail on the head unfortunately.

"I am not a lousy Tamer, and what do you mean little boy? Guilmon's just young that's all." Takato said.

"Takato, how long have you had Guilmon?" I asked.

"Um, about a day... why?"

"Dude, our Digimon literally hatched from their Digi-Eggs six hours ago, just Digivolved to Rookie, they're able to hold a slightly intelligent conversation, and were able fend off Renamon. What's your excuse?" I explained/asked him.

"While I'm interested in your little discussion, I'd prefer if we could get this over with." Rika said, with a vexed tone in her voice.

"Man, can't we just catch a break? For once, is that too much to ask?" Doran complained. I wish it were that simple Doran, but we just seemed destined to fight no matter where we go.


"And there goes Chapter two of Backup Tamers!"

Sean: "I'm actually impressed. This was well worth my wait. We all go our Digimon and they all were able to Digivolve to Rookie level so quickly."

"Yep, and there's even more excitement to come in the next chapter!"

Lucas: "So please review and put in what pairings you think should be in the story."

"We'll see you next time!"