Becoming Green

(Puppetmon is only a... well puppet in my story. It seemed appropriate somehow. Don't get iffy with the "level" of the digimon, it's just a story. I also decided to set the Story in Angel Grove. Also Matt's parents aren't divorced in this. Hope no one minds.)

Months had past since the Digi-Rangers first battle with Dark Leomon, The General of Ladydevimon's evil army. Many more battles had taken place since then, including a digimon made entirely of eyes, and a wooden digimon called puppetmon, which was alot stronger then it looked. During the battle with Puppetmon the digi-rangers first used there powerful battle machines "Digizords". Digizords were giant robots in the shape of each digidestined's digimon. The Agumon Zord closely resembled a dinsoaur of some sort, like a T-Rex or a Raptor of some kind. The Biyomon zord was a bird like zord. The Tentomon zord resembled some sort of insect. But the Palmon and Gomamon Zords looked nothing like any animals from earth. The Palmon zord was some kind of plant, due to the flower-like bit on top of it's head, and the gomamon zord looked vaguely like a Seal.

The five zords could combine to make two things, the Megazord Tank Mode, and the Megazord warrior mode. The warrior modes main body was made of agumon as the main body and head, ( a secert, more human looking head appeared from it's neck, the dinosaur head, sinking into it's chest. Biyomon as the chest plate with Palmon and Gomamon as the legs. The Tentomon zord made up the arms and back shield of the Megazord... and it's head was also used as a shield. In Megazord Warrior mode the young heroes had destroyed Puppetmon and saved the world from the worst monster Ladydevimon had thrown at them yet.

Taichi Kamiya had never faced an oppent as equally matched as the one he was facing now. He grinned and ran a hand through his sweaty brown hair. His left fist went forward, catching his oppent off gaurd as had been mainly oppening with right jabs. It connected, followed by a kick to the side and another jab. His apponent fell and the scoreboard now read "Taichi - 2, Yamato - 1"

"Go Tai!" Cheered Sora from the sidelines, "You can do it!"

Tai smiled and winked at her as he returned to the opposite end of the ring. In truth he was struggling, they had been at this a good long while and he was beginning to tire.

Mimi walked in, jogging up to her friend who were watching from the sidelines. She looked up to Tai and his apponent who were once again fighting.

"How's he doing?" She asked, referring to Tai, but looking at the new comer, Yamato.

"Tai's apponent has a similar fighting style to Tai, making this a fairly even match but it could go either way due to we don't know how long the new guy's being studying martial arts. His knowledge of the style may extend further then Tai's thus giving him the advantage by using some technique that Tai doesn't know." Stated Izzy

"Huh?" asked Mimi, which made Sora smile. Izzy had answered her question but as usual gone into more detail then nessicary.

"It's 50/50." Translated Joe for her.

"Oh." Said Mimi, "He's kinda cute." she added, staring at Yamato.

Tai hit the floor and got up once more, the score was now 2 - 2.

"Your tough," Tai told his apponent, Yamato simply nodded.

"You are too," he replied, "We could be at this forever. Wanna call it a draw?"

Tai grinned "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea."

The two stood straight and bowed, then each went to their corner. Tai jumped through the roaps and was handed a bottle of water from Izzy.

"Thanks Izz," Said Tai, "Hey why don't we ask Yamato to hang out with us, his new in town and doesn't really know any body."

"Yeah that's sounds like a nice thing to do," Sora agreed, "Right Mimi?"

Mimi blushed and nodded.

"Okay," said Joe smirking, noticing the way Mimi reacted, "Mimi why don't you ask him to join us."

"What?" Mimi asked in a suprised yelp

"Yeah!" Agreed Izzy, "You should do it."

Tai and Sora simply nodded in agreement and Mimi sighed, they weren't going to change their minds on this. So she decided to give in with grace rather then sulk about it. That was only because she actually liked the idea, but was too embarresed to admit it. She walked over to the young blond man who smiled at her when he saw her approach.

"Hi," she said softly, "That was a good fight."

"Thanks," he replied, smiling uneasily, as if it was something he was unaccustomed too, "Your friend is tough."

You have no idea. Thought Mimi "Yeah. My name's Mimi."

"Yamato Ishida, but everyone calls me Matt." he replied

"Listen..." she said nervously, "we're all going to go to Tai's house to watch movies and eat pizza and stuff... and we'll we wondered if you'd like to come?"

Mimi sighed "eat pizza and stuff" elegant choice of words, Meems. She thought to herself.

"Yeah, that'd be great!" Said Matt "I'll just call my Parents."

Mimi smiled as Matt walked over to the pay phone and called his parents. Mimi ran back over to the others squeeling happily.

"He said YES!" she exclaimed joyfully

"We can sorta tell, Meems." said an amused Tai "Hey he's coming over..."

Meanwhile, on the moon above... Ladydevimon had been watching something interesting. She had been studying her enemy... The Digi-Rangers and noticed they had made a friend whom matched Taichi in strength, skill and style. And she did have the digi-coin from that infernal coin toss she won long ago. What was even more interesting was the Digic-coin seemed to react to the image of Yamato.

"Dark Leomon!" screached LadyDevimon, "He is the one, I shall make him my evil Green Ranger!"

"Shall I go retreve him, my lady?" Asked Dark Leomon, "No! Not yet... wait until he's alone..."

"So Matt," Said Sora, "Tell us about yourself. Mimi was supposed to say that but she's too..."

Mimi covered Sora's mouth and shreeked in horror. Izzy and Joe were engrossed by some Sci-fi film and Tai was stuffing himself with Pizza. Matt blushed, laughing a little at Sora and Mimi's antics.

"Well, I just moved here with my parents and my little brother T.K. My dad just got promoted and we had to move... at first I didn't want to but now I'm really glad I did."

He said looking at Mimi, they both blushed he then added:

"I can't believe I just said that..."

"It's okay..." said Mimi, "I'm glad you did too."

Tai rolled his eyes and Sora knudged him in his stomach, causing him to choke on the pizza he had just stuffed in his mouth. Sora's eyes widen and she began patting Tai on the back.

"Sorry Tai..." she said like a child who had just been caughting stealing cookies.

"S'okay..." he gasped.

"Well this had been fun guys, but I best get going." Said Matt "Thanks for inviting me 'round."

"No problem," said Tai and was about to say something else but Mimi managed to pluck up the courage to say.

"Hey... do you wanna... you know, go to a movie tomorrow night. Just the two of us?"

Matt grinned.

"Yeah, that'd be great!" he replied

Shortly after their goodbyes, Matt headed home feeling rather happy that he had made some new friends. They had been so nice, and from his first encounter with a couple of would-be-punks, a skinny tall guy and a short fat guy... he thought he would of had a hard time fitting in. As he walked alone he didn't notice the odd people following him at first. They were grey, wobbling about like drunks, or the ungraceful movement of the undead. That was until he noticed a monster of some sort, a large blue lion blocking his way. He turned and ran, straight into the grey creatures. He tried to fight them off and escape... but to no avail. He was out numbered ten-to-one and that wasn't including the lion monster.

"No!" He cried, "Lemme go!"

"Congratulations," growled the monster, "You've been chosen to become the Green Ranger and to help my mistress crush the Power Rangers for good!"

With that the group, Matt included dissapeared. No one had witness his abduction, Matt was certain he was going to die... to paniced to listen to the monsters words. He had no idea the truth was far, far worse...

To be continued.