Digital World: Unknown Time, Unknown location.
"HEY YOU DAMN VIRUSES GET BACK HERE!" A voice shouted as two rookie leveled virus type digimon sprinted down a street and swerved right into the alleys. Navigating through them was completely second nature for them from how easily they ran though and even went through a few quick hidden ways until they could confirm they were safe.
"I can't believe how easy we got away with that!" the smaller one, an Impmon laughed as he went into the bag he had and pulled out some food. His accomplice, a Guilmon lowered his finned ears a little bit out of guilt for stealing but still his tail wagged just a little bit in joy at even having food.
"How long do ya think this will last us brother?" Guilmon asked as he poked through his own bag of food, being much bigger than the smaller Digimon's as he could carry more. Impmon took up a thinking pose as he counted through his own bag and muttered something about the red dino's own bag before snapping his fingers.
"Rationing everything out, I'd say nearly two weeks little bro."
Guilmon gasped in joy and glanced down at his bag for a moment then back to his older brother.
"That long?!"
"That's just rationing Guilmon. Two pieces for each of us every day, one for earlier morning, the other for later evening and we can probably make it last a little longer than two weeks… if they don't go bad first that is," Impmon pointed out as he thought about it a little more than, Guilmon getting a little bored as his brother seemed to be lost in thought for a moment before snapping back once the smaller Virus finished up his calculations.
"Well we'll have enough for three meals each day for a week give or take a day or two."
Guilmon felt like he was going to cry from joy at hearing that… it was rare when they would be able to eat that often after all. Even when it was just Impmon going out for food back when he was still an In Training level, a full three meals was still rare for them.
"Am I dreaming or is this really happening?" Guilmon asked with the beginnings of his tears of joy peeking out in the corners of his golden eyes. Impmon smiled up to his younger brother, pride and joy clearly shining in his emerald colored eyes.
"It's really happening, ya can eat some now if ya want."
Not needing to be told twice Guilmon grabbed some of the food from his bag and started to chow down. Impmon smiled and let Guilmon eat first before he even grabbed any food for himself. As he took a bite though, the brothers heard some screaming coming from outside the alleyways. Guilmon's ears lowered as did Impmon's but unlike the larger Virus type, the smaller one looked a little more impassive.
"More prejudice going on again?" Guilmon questioned, face and heart dropping at his own words.
"More like a riot of some kind…" Impmon muttered as he took another bite, spaded tail twitching a little as the screams got louder outside where he and his brother resided.
"F-For us?" Guilmon shuddered and made himself seem a little smaller out of fear. Impmon perked up and instantly went over to Guilmon's side and pulled him into a comforting hug.
"Shh, it's alright… They'll have to get through me first…" Impmon gently patted Guilmon on the head, trying to comfort and calm his younger brother first. "Besides, it's too many to be for us…"
Guilmon slowly began to relax in his older brother's embrace and nuzzled a little closer, enjoying the comfort his only family gave him. The two sat like that for a little while until the sound of something completely different played outside of the alleyways, both of the brothers growing confused. The sound of combat between Digimon wasn't new to the brothers… but this sounded much more different than a petty squabble for a free meal, or to take down a thief.
"Impmon…"
"I don't know…" The imp muttered and carefully walked to where the sound was coming from. Guilmon trailed after, paying attention to his brother's hand signals to stay low and quiet as they reached the entrance of the alleys… only to see a white knight with a sword coming out of a WarGreymon head on his left arm slashing through a wave of Nightmare Soldiers and using the cannon coming from the MetalGarurumon head on his right to blast a few back.
Impmon and Guilmon watched in awe seeing the Royal Knight hold his own against the large number of Digimon. Both were distracted and absorbed in watching one of the Digital World's protectors neither noticed one of the Nightmare Soldiers drop down behind them until they were both picked up in the giant skeletal hands of the SkullGreymon.
"IMPMON!" Guilmon screamed in fear as he struggled in the grasp of the skeletal Ultimate Level. Impmon's eyes widened in horror as he struggled to get out of the grip and get to his brother.
"HOLD ON!" Impmon screamed, able to get out of the grip a little easier due to his smaller size… but was soon thrown down to the ground hard before he could even crawl completely out. The smaller rookie gasped then screamed from the pain upon impact.
"IMPMON!" The larger rookie screamed as he saw his older brother slam into the ground, small bits of data jumping up off of him from the force and from the street below as well. The Ultimate paid no attention as they instead stepped out of the ally with their hostage, fully intent on using the rookie to get leverage and ignoring the injured one behind them.
D-Damn it! Impmon tried to turn himself around to push himself up, only to stumble a little from the pain. Bits of his own data still falling off of him as he stubbornly pushed himself up to stand again. His vision blurred as he watched the skeletal looming Figure get a little ways away from where he was.
"Let… My b… brother… go!" Impmon shouted as he forced himself to stand up. The Ultimate Level ignored the Rookie and instead sent an attack at the Royal Knight. Impmon growled, his fanged teeth baring as he summoned up a fireball.
"I SAID LET MY BROTHER GO YOU USELESS SACK OF ROTTEN LEFTOVERS!" Impmon screamed as he threw the fireball at the large skeletal figure's leg… only to find it did next to nothing but leave a small black scorch mark on the once white bone. The skeletal Digimon stopped what it was doing for a moment and glared down at the tiny rookie with it's beady green eyes.
For a moment, a spark of fear went through Impmon… the knowledge of how weak and small he actually was next to the large hulking figure hit him like the ground did not to long ago. His spaded tail quivered behind him in fear and it felt like his whole life flashed before him to the very moment he was in… the feeling of being weak and unable to do anything making his fear turn into anger at himself. His eyes stared right up into the Ultimate's own and the Rookie refused to close them… or back down.
Before he could be attacked by the larger Digimon, a blade cut through the SkullGreymon and turned the Nightmare Soldier into data. Guilmon dropped to the ground, having been released and immediately ran over to Impmon's side.
Impmon on the other hand looked completely shocked and was frozen as he stares up at the Royal Knight who saved him and his brother. Omnimon stood there, having his sword pointed down and away from the two young ones.
"Please stay behind me. I'll get you two out of here and to safety," Omnimon spoke gently, quickly turning back around to take out any of Lucemon's forces that dared to attack the city. Guilmon looked up with awe inspired eyes at those words… while Impmon seemed to be lost more in his own world.
Human World: Present Time
Guilmon blinked in confusion and surprise at Impmon's words. Friends? Guilmon was always happy to make new friends… but Shizu didn't seem too keen on being friends with Impmon… not to mention the smaller virus type did attack Dorumon unprovoked.
Then again… maybe he's willing to try to be nice. Guilmon thought for a bit and smiled.
"I like having more friends! I'm Guilmon by the way!" The red virus exclaimed proudly, his clawed hands (paws?) picking up one of Impmon's three fingered, red gloved hands before shaking it rapidly and both startling, and shaking the small purple imp.
"... You can't be serious…" Shizu muttered, staring at Impmon and practically calling out any bullshit he might have had. Not that it was clear from how the imp seemed to be trying to keep his arm from possibly being pulled off from the friendly Guilmon.
"Okay, ya can stop now!" Impmon exclaimed, wanting to be done with the shaking going on. Once Guilmon did stop, Impmon shook his hand a little bit before rubbing at it. "Geez ya trying to take a mon's arm off or what?" he muttered quietly to himself, before straightening up and clearing his throat.
"Course I'm serious toots, I'm usually 75% serious on a daily basis."
"That's a big percent." Guilmon muttered.
"And the other 25%?" Shizu questioned as she rose a disbelieving brow.
"Sarcastic comebacks and bad decisions. Ya know everyday normal things." Impmon shrugged, not seeming to care much about Shizu's critical gaze or obvious distrust. He was used to it by this point in his life.
"So what's different with tamer towns?" Guilmon spoke up with a slight tilt of his head and a claw at his lower lip as he remembered Impmon saying something about Tamer Towns being different than what they think. Impmon's ear twitched a little before a sarcastic grin spread across his face.
"Let's just say THIS particular town ain't too friendly towards Virus types or their tamers," Impmon explained, leaning his back on the trunk of the tree he had hopped out of earlier and crossing his arms. "I could explain more… but from the sound of things yer tamer's phone had been buzzing with texts for the last few minutes."
Shizu at first didn't believe him… but pulled her phone from her pocket and checked it and saw that she had five missed texts from her mother asking where she was and to please respond. What was worse however… was that according to the time she was supposed to be home for dinner fifteen minutes ago.
"OH CRAP GUILMON WE GOTTA HURRY!" Shizu frantically exclaimed as she grabbed her partner by the arm and started dragging him away back home.
"W-Wait Shizu, I wanna hear more!" Guilmon protested as he kept being dragged away.
"Just met me back here tomorrow!" Impmon called out, before the two were completely out of earshot. Once they were however Impmon sighed but smirked a little before he left the area himself in a different direction, wondering if his fellow virus type would come tomorrow or not.
Human World: Anna's House, two hours later.
Anna was sitting with her knees to her chest in front of her computer set and had been drawing with her tablet for a new video she was working on. There was a recording symbol on the screen as she did her little chibi style as she drew a few types of digimon on the screen while also reading over her own notes for the topic.
Request topics are always pretty interesting. Anna thought as she started to sketch up some chibi humans on the other half of the screen, all looking surprised and shocked at the digimon. The request was a condensed version of how Digimon first came to the human world and began to be integrated into society. In all honesty this was a subject she was looking forward to researching as it did take place nearly two hundred years ago now.
Not to mention she really wanted to draw for this summary as it was also had pretty funny moments. Like when someone mistook a Sakuyamon that had a male's voice for a female Digimon. That was one one thing Anna always liked about Digimon was that you could never just look at one and just assume what they were until you talked to them or even got to know them.
"Hey Pajama Monkey," Nathan called to her from the doorway, the young teen took a deep breath before sighing from the nickname.
"Yeah dad?" Anna reached over to her keyboard and hit a button to stop her recording.
"Your mother wants to say hi." Anna nearly dropped her drawing tablet and pen from those words. She bit her lower lip but got up and got the phone from her father. "H-Hi mom…"
"Anna! I saw your newest video recently. You're improving so much sweetheart." The woman's voice praised, though Anna herself didn't feel accomplished.
"Thanks mom… h-how's… How's Germany?" she asked, more out of obligation rather than being actually curious.
Her mother then began to ramble on about how it was over there, along with her trip to France as well as a few other places around there that Anna couldn't even bother to completely remember as the blond girl simply picked up her turned down photo frame and stared at it with a saddened gaze.
It was a picture of her seventh birthday… and the last day her mother ever stayed around home for more than one week a year. Her mother had blond hair like she did and it was tied up into a bun in the picture, her blue eyes shone with love and pride, a Lunamon was at her side both looking so happy and proud as they hugged the younger Anna along with the girls father and Coronamon… as well as the form of a young In-Training level Digimon in the young blond's arms.
Anna had long since given up any hopes of having her mother home for long periods of time… but her green eyes stared almost longingly at the In-Training Leveled Digimon in her arms in the picture.
"... I should be home in time for yours and your partner's birthday dear. You want me to bring either of you something?" Her mother's words snapped Anna out of her thoughts and made the girl freeze up.
"I uh… I… I don't know…" Anna muttered, feeling an almost cold sweat crawl down the back of her neck. She turned to her father still standing in the doorway and gave him a look pleading for help. Nathan knew exactly what that meant by now and walked over to her and held his hand out for the phone.
"I-I gotta go mom, dad want's the phone back."
"Oh! Uh… A-alright. I'll call again within the week. I love you!"
"... love you too…" Anna then quickly handed the phone back to her father and went to bury her face into her knees soon afterwards. Nathan put his free hand on his daughter's shoulder in a comforting gesture before leaving the room to not further upset her with anymore discussions with his wife at the moment.
The blond haired girl had started to cry into her pant legs and her whole body shook as she did. She didn't look up and she barely reacted to anything… even when Coronamon came in and Digivolved to his Mega level, Apollomon, to pick her up for better comfort. Not even when Nathan came back after finishing up the conversation he had on the phone and joined in trying to give his only child comfort.
This is all my fault… Nathan thought to himself as he tried to comfort his daughter to the best of his ability with the help of his partner.
Human World: Shizu and Katsu's Home, Next Morning.
Shizu jumped up out of bed a whole hour before the alarm that was set and was rushing to prepare for the day… after all this was the first day of Tamer School and she just had to make a great first impression… plus she was kinda grounded for being late so she really couldn't get up, get ready then watch a movie like she normally would.
Then again many of the movies seemed to be locked away due to her brother and Dorumon doing something while she was out the other day. So she couldn't really sneak one of the movies she usually watches anyways.
"Shiizzuuu…" Guilmon yawned as he crawled out of bed… and landed practically face down on the ground as he did. Unlike yesterday though, Guilmon was much more awake now thanks to that.
"Oh my god! Are you alright?" Shizu worried as she hurried over to her partner's side. The red Dino groaned as he slowly pushed himself up.
"Yeah… yeah I'm fine… owie…" Guilmon hissed as he rubbed his head in pain. Even Shizu couldn't help but hiss from the pain herself.
"That looked like it really hurt…"
After the… painful wakeup call of Guilmon the two finished packing for school and were now having a simple, or in Guilmon's case excessive, breakfast. Katsu and Dorumon had left their room only half an hour after Shizu and Guilmon had. Katsu looked like he'd rather be back in bed while Dorumon looked like he was dozing off again in the boy's arms when they sat down for their own breakfast.
"Good morning sleepy heads," Shizu grinned as Katsu just groaned and laid his head on the table like he was about to pass out on it.
"What's… so good… 'bout it?" Dorumon yawned and tried to get comfortable again but found no such luck. So instead the little furred dragon went about eating his cereal like it was the hardest thing to do in the world.
"Well for starters School starts up today." Katsu and Dorumon's groans were the immediate response to the word "School."
"Plus we'll finally get ta be in class with Shizu and Katsu!" Guilmon exclaimed happily after devouring his third piece of toast. His tail wagged in excitement as he brought up another point. "We'll also get to make new friends that have partners as well!"
"Can't we just say we did all that and go back to bed?" Dorumon groaned, thinking that it's way too early in the morning for this.
"... can't we just go to bed now? School doesn't start for another hour…" Katsu mumbled as he began to nibble on some of the toast that Guilmon hasn't grabbed yet.
"Because Mom and Dad want us to actually eat before we go to school. Oh and Mom's already at work and Dad has to leave in twenty minutes," Shizu pointed out as she picked up her plate and set it in the sink to be cleaned later. Her brother and his partner both groaned loudly at being told the time limit they had. Guilmon however was practically licking his plate clean before bringing it over to the sink as well with a happy tail wag and smile on his face.
Once the boys were done and all the kids and their partners had their bags for school the twin's father drove them to school and Shizu's and Guilmon's excitement grew when they saw some of their fellow peers walking into said school building with partners of varying types and appearances. Neither of them really had seen this many tamers before with their last school… or home in general.
As soon as the car stopped for the kids and their partners to get out, Shizu and Guilmon had practically leaped out of the vehicle and ran to the school… bumping into one fellow student on their way in.
"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" Shizu exclaimed after bumping into the student, a boy around her age with bright red hair, chocolate brown eyes and freckles dotting across his face. A smile crossed his face before he started to address her.
"Hey no worries. First Day right? I mean I haven't really seen you before in the past three years I've been here so you must be. Anyways Hi I'm Tyler, First year in the High School Section. Oh and this is my partner Gomamon," The boy rambled… and the further he went on the smile on Shizu's face dropped until he pointed out his partner… who was on the ground waving at her with one of his clawed flippers.
"Hiya!" The seal like digimon smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about Tyler. We're still working on getting him to learn how to be quiet for very long. Well that and also cutting down on how long he talks really."
Guilmon and Shizu both just shared a look as the sinking suspicion that they just ran into two people who would talk them into next week if given the opportunity.
"So who are you if you don't mind my asking? Or should I just call you newbie or-" Tyler started again only to be cut off by something tan and white landing on his head.
"Word to the wise, ignore Tyler if you want to keep your sanity." The thing, a Patamon said from atop their perch of Tyler's head.
"Rude!" Tyler protested.
"He's not completely wrong though Ty," Gomamon shrugged as best he could. As soon as he said that a tall teen with long black hair tied into a ponytail came on over and patted Tyler on the shoulder.
"Remember you need to pause for responses Ty," The boy sighed, his blue eyes giving an apologetic look to Shizu and her partner. "Sorry about him. I'm Sven by the way."
"... Shizu…" The black haired girl finally spoke, extending her hand and the taller boy took it into a friendly handshake.
"Shizu huh? Sounds Foreign. Are you Japanese or something, I mean you look pretty asian so-" Tyler began only to get cut off again by the Patamon on his head.
"That's pretty rude to point out Tyler." Tyler looked like he was about to object before pausing and actually thinking about it… and getting embarrassed by it.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry…"
"That's why you need to think things through before speaking buddy," Gomamon commented as he patted on Tyler's leg in a form of comfort.
"... They're weird Shizu…" Guilmon whispered, noticing how his partner was also starting to get a little uncomfortable at the moment.
"... And kinda rude…" Shizu whispered back, her brown eyes on Tyler mostly as she said that.
"Hey Shizu! You gonna look for your class rooms with Katsu and I or not?!" Dorumon's voice shouted, immediately gathering some attention towards the twins and making Shizu embarrassed by it… as well as Katsu looking like he wants to go hide in his locker.
"Who's that? If you don't mind my asking that is," Sven questioned, curiosity being the main thing on his mind… along with the passing thought of how Katsu reminded him of a scared kitten.
"That's Shizu's brother!" Guilmon exclaimed proudly before waving for the mentioned boy to come over excitedly… and also as a way to help ease any awkward tension that had already begun, even though it was already too late for Shizu at the moment.
What I wouldn't give to be Anna right now… Shizu couldn't help but think as Tyler began to ramble once again.
Meanwhile at the same time that Shizu was thinking that the mentioned blond was actually still sleeping in her bed comfortably and didn't look like she was even close to waking up anytime soon.
Human World: Unknown Location
A tear in dimensiones opened up with bits and pieces of data spilling out before dropping off two small figures before closing up and sealing itself off like it was never there to begin with.
"Next Rift won't open again for four months… We gotta make that time count kiddo," A small green aquatic looking Digimon with a large orange fin on it's head and six blue stripes on it's back commented. His red eyes focused on the white quadrupedal, metallic dragon looking Digimon with a tattered red hood tied around his neck. The white Digimon's golden eyes had a look of nervousness in them but also a glimmer of excitement.
"I-I… Am I really ready for a mission like this Betamon?" The aquatic digimon turned to the metallic young dragon and then pulled himself over with his clawed legs with ease before gently using one to pat his fellow Rookie on the side.
"Kid they made you a Royal Knight the minute you finished doing ACTUAL training. Of course you're ready for a mission like this Hackmon." Betamon responded calmly… though a twinge of jealousy still slipped into his voice. Hackmon glanced over to Betamon.
"... Alright…" Hackmon took a deep breath and straightened up, a critical look in his eyes as he went over to a tree and began to mark it. "Rifts in the human world usually open up in the same place. First things first is to mark the area and check back when needed."
Betamon nodded, letting the younger Rookie Level take charge and following suit with marking up a few trees in the Digital Worlds writing symbols. Hackmon was doing the same. Once they marked up a good amount of trees for where the rift would reappear, the two began their journey away from the location they appeared in.
"So what's the game plan Kido?" Betamon asked, completely willing to let the kid take the lead.
"Take our time, look out for any and all signs of the missing Gallantmon and Beelzemon… then track them down and return them home." Hackmon recited then took a deep breath. "And if we find any signs of Alphamon… we take him out."
"Now that is a plan I can get behind kiddo," Betamon grinned evilly as the two left to begin their mission.
Human World; School Building, Lunch Time
Shizu and Katsu were both relieved to have the same lunch together… and at least two classes together along with homeroom… though sadly for Shizu, she also had homeroom with Tyler… and three whole classes with the chatty cathy. She did have to admit he was a nice guy… him and Sven did show them around a bit before school officially started, but god it was like he never learned the meaning of shut up.
Both her and Guilmon were socially exhausted thanks to the red haired boy… and neither of them ever thought that would happen.
"Who knew someone could talk that much about nothing?" Shizu groaned as Katsu handed her, her bag lunch. The black haired girl paused and looked between it and her brother for a moment before speaking up. "... I forgot to pack this didn't I?"
"Yup…"
"Seriously Shizu, you really need to pay attention when you're packing," Dorumon scolded as he ate some of his own lunch.
"Hey Shizu!" The girl cursed quietly as she heard the ever familiar voice of Tyler approaching. Katsu himself tried to see if he could hide somewhere to avoid another social conversation with the talkative boy.
"Damn it, it's the talking Tyler coming back for a sequel…" Dorumon hissed as he started to push Katsu's head down. "Don't make eye contact or he'll talk you to death."
"Nah Tyler's more like a T-Rex my fluffball friend. Don't move much and he won't notice ya!" Gomamon chuckled as he pulled himself up onto one of the table's seats next to Dorumon.
"This is so cool! I didn't know we had lunch together as well!" Tyler cheered, seemingly already thinking they were good friends while Shizu just laughed nervously and tried to back up from him a little bit.
"Yeah… cool…" Shizu muttered and tried to ignore as Tyler started to yammer on about something… and wishing she could be like Guilmon at the moment and hide under the table and cover her ears to avoid this situation.
"... How the hell can you stand him?" Dorumon questioned Gomamon as Katsu seemed to have joined Guilmon not long after the red haired boy started talking.
"Simple, I know he's a good kid who gets a little too excited about things and can be a little too friendly for his own good. Oh and it's called selective hearing, I just tune out the unimportant things often." Dorumon stared at the seal like digimon who was smiling along and eating his own lunch like he didn't just say anything wrong at all.
"... Also quick question. What's got your brother and Guilmon so interested in the floor then their own lunch?" Tyler questioned after taking a breath after talking about something involving internet videos, Shizu wasn't completely sure but was completely thankful that he actually paused for once after his question.
"... Probably counting the gum under the table for all I know," Shizu offered and soon after one of the two seemed to have jumped up under the table and hit it.
"EW SHIZU! I GOT CHEWED GUM ON MY HEAD!" Guilmon shouted as he crawled out immediately with a slightly horrified look on his face… and no gum on his head like he claimed. Both Shizu and Tyler got looks of disgust on their face, neither one wanted to know if it really was gum or not.
"Let's… Let's go get you washed up buddy," Shizu immediately said as she started to push her partner in the direction of the bathrooms.
"You know what, good idea… Hey Katsu, I don't think you want to be down there anymore." Tyler practically pushed his lunch a little ways from him as he lost his appetite. Katsu himself did crawl out from under the table with a horrified face as he got back into his seat.
"... That was a lot of gum…" Katsu whispered in horror, getting a disgusted look out of Dorumon and a confused look from both Gomamon and Tyler as they could barely hear him.
"He said there was a crap ton of gum down there," Dorumon translated, getting Katsu to turn to him with wide eyes as if to say "That's not what I said at all!" Unfortunately for Katsu… Tyler and Gomamon both believed Dorumon's translation and turned to Katsu in surprise.
"Wow… quiet kid has a mouth on him Ty…" Gomamon spoke up first.
"Yeah. Dude my parents would kill me if I even came that close to swearing, though that really doesn't stop me when I'm out of the house… Except for when I'm as Sven's place because you know young ones running around. Don't wanna teach them bad words right away, especially before many of them go to their first tamers or new homes. Not to mention his parents might actually kill me for teaching any of the little ones words like 'damn' or even worse 'fuck' and Gomamon don't tell mom I said the f-word alright? Alright."
As Tyler continued to talk, Katsu felt like he was slowly shrinking in his seat and sweating a lot. He really didn't like his position now… and really wanted his sister back so he could at least use her as a shield to avoid this social situation. Hell even Dorumon was both uncomfortable but also questioning just what this kids lungs were made of as he was pretty sure the kid barely took a breath the entire time he was talking.
Shizu during this time had taken a few paper towels, got some of them wet and began to help Guilmon with cleaning his head to comfort him after the… gum incident as they decided it would be referred to from now on. Guilmon was still shuddering and a little grossed out from the moment.
"For the last time Guilmon, there's no gum on your head buddy…" Shizu sighed as she took the dry paper towels and went about drying the spot she had cleaned.
"It was so sticky Shizu!"
"I know buddy, I know…. But we're gonna pretend this takes longer than it actually did so we can avoid talking to Tyler again," Shizu winced at the end. Guilmon looked up with wide golden eyes.
"But what about Katsu?"
"... His sacrifice is not in vain…"
"What are we gonna tell your mom and dad?"
"He passed on for a noble cause…. And totally wasn't abandoned because I couldn't handle talking to one guy for another hour."
"And the guys seal?"
"And the guys seal."
Both practically shook on it after confirming everything in their over dramatic fashion. Even though that conversation would never come to pass when they do finally get home… and Katsu would just lock himself in his room till dinner time to relax from the intense social experience he would have.
Human World: Unknown Location
Impmon had been out and about trying to pass the time until school would end to see if Guilmon and his tamer would show up again. He figured they were too much of a pair of goody two shoes to skip school anyways. So he spent his day as usual… got into a few fights here and there, stole some food to eat, insulted a few of the usual Digimon and tamers he would see about his day and finally just took a nap. Well more like that's what he was doing at the moment out of having nothing else to do at the moment.
As he was resting, one of his ears twitched a little from the sound of two voices approaching his location. Opening one of his eyes and peering down from the branch he was resting on and spotted an unfamiliar metallic figure wearing a red hood walking by with a green aquatic looking thing with a large orange fin atop its body.
He couldn't completely pick up what they were talking about… but the closer they got the clearer it became and he picked up a few things that didn't make too much sense to him.
"... By Yggdrasil the Human world is a lot different now!" the Betamon exclaimed as he took everything in as they walked… or rather kinda waddled in Betamon's case. "Never saw this many fancy buildings or vehicles that could put Behemoth to shame last time I was here… nor were there this many humans and Digimon walking together naturally!"
"When was the last time you came to the human world Betamon?" Hackmon inquired, looking around at the town in aw himself at everything. It all looked different from how the Digital Worlds towns did.
"... How old are you again?"
Impmon had to hold back his own laugh at the question he heard. He had no idea who these two, clearly wild Digimon were but he also didn't feel like letting himself get caught by them. He had enough fights for the day and honestly just wanted to nap until he had to deal with Guilmon and Shizu again… whenever that would be that is.
"... In the words of one of the Demon Lord's, Holy shit. That was a long time ago…" Hackmon muttered, only to get one of Betamon's claws get gently placed one of his legs.
"Leave the swearing to me kiddo… It doesn't suit you, trust me."
"Oh, uh… Okay… Does anything at least feel familiar for you to get a good feel of where we could begin looking?" Hackmon questioned, feeling hopeful that there could be at least a hint for their mission.
"Sadly… only the statue over there with all the white gunk on it seems familiar… except for the extra white stuff on it."
"You mean the bird shit?" Impmon couldn't help himself and laughed outloud. His voice causing both Betamon and Hackmon to jump in surprise for a moment before turning their attention upward to the virus type.
You fucking idiot! Why the fuck did you think that was a good idea?! Ugh! Okay, play it cool… don't let them see you're panicking and… say something sarcastic or witty! Was what was going through the mind of Impmon at the moment. He was able to keep up a relaxed position and was successful in masking these thoughts from entering his face.
"Even a toddler or Intraining level knows that white on statues equals bird shit. Ya must either be heavily sheltered for a special kind of stupid to not know that."
Damn it! Could have thought of something better… can't take it back now though…
Betamon and Hackmon both shared a look between each other for a moment before Betamon spoke up. Surprisingly calm at having just been insulted.
"Honestly we're new here and never saw anything like that before," Betamon shrugged as best he could given how his body was shaped. Impmon instantly looked down at the aquatic Digimon with an expression that read "What?"
"Since you seem to be so knowledgeable of the area though… Would you mind if we asked a few questions?" Hackmon questioned, only to further Impmon's "What?" face until he finally registered what was going on for a moment.
"No. Why the hell would I do that?"
"Well you were the one to initiate conversation… Plus there's really nothing here to say you couldn't help at least a little," Betamon brought up, making Impmon's expression turn to one of annoyance.
"Well I'm here to disappoint you and say, NO! I ain't helping a bunch of idiots who have no idea what shit even looks like." Impmon jumped from the tree and began to leave the area, not wanting to deal with the two quadrupedal Digimon. While he was leaving the two Digimon shared another glance between each other but let him walk away.
"... Think we found Beelzemon, Betamon?"
"Attitude is about right… but never assume until you have concrete evidence about anything kiddo."