The last thing Sora saw was the colour drain from Matt's face and then everything went black.

She was aware that she was on the ground, lying down, maybe this had all been a dream? Her head hurt a little and she sat up and groaned. Then she blinked and gasped, she was somehow lying on the floor of some sort of tropical rainforest. She was lying on grass and surrounded by trees and plants and bushes, some of which she didn't even recognise. Where was the car? Where was Matt and the others? What happened to the snow? Where was she? So many questions raced through her mind that she thought her head would explode. She stood up and looked around, maybe she was having some sort of hallucination but sadly the vivid coloured plants seemed all too real and there was no sign whatsoever of any of the buildings she had been standing by only moments before. Worst of all she couldn't see anybody else, no Matt, no Tai no Izzy not even the guy Joe. Worried and confused she sat down on a rock and tried to piece together what had happened. First the snow – that had been weird, very weird, then Matt's car had been hit by some other girl's car. Sora remembered getting out of the car into the snow and seeing Matt and the brunette arguing. Then those strange objects had fallen from the sky, smashing into the ground in front of them. She remembered picking up the one closest to her when they floated back up and then – that was all she could remember.

Wait! Matt had said something hadn't he? Something about a wave? It suddenly all came back to her. Matt had pointed at a huge wall of water that had appeared from nowhere and was rushing towards them. Sora remembered seeing in and being unable to move, unable to run. It was bigger than anything she'd ever seen before – even in the movies – eventually she tried running but the wave was already upon them and she had screamed as the wall of water collapsed on top of them all. And now she was here. She had survived that was for sure, she was alive. Maybe the waters had transported her away from the initial scene, that would make sense. Sora tried to think of nearby areas that may look like this, there was no zoo in the city or a wildlife park and the nearest national park was miles away, even a wave as big as the one she'd seen couldn't take her that far away. Anyway, it didn't matter where she was, she needed to find the others or even find help. She got up and wandered into the trees,

"Hello!" she called "is there anybody there? Tai! Matt! Hello!" there was no sound other than the echo of her own voice but she wasn't going to give up, they might be hurt, it was important that she found them sooner rather than later. She called out for a little longer then headed back to the clearing where she'd woken up. She sat back down on her rock and pulled out her phone from her pocket, maybe she would have some signal and could try calling them. But to her dismay her phone was wrecked by the water and wouldn't even turn on. Angry and upset she hurled the phone into the bushes and began to cry.

"Ouch!" cried a high pitch voice from inside the bush, startled, Sora wiped her eyes and peered at the bush which was rustling. At first she thought it was an animal but then again, most animals don't say 'ouch.' The bush moved again and this time a large, round, pink plant emerged from it. Sora backed away from the strange creature, it looked like a sort of giant bulb sprouting blue and yellow flowers but Sora was horrified to see that it was moving by its own accord. She saw little pink feelers moving it along the ground and even more terrifyingly – two huge eyes!

"Stay back!" Sora warned it feeling slightly foolish for even considering talking to freaky plant thing.

"Don't be frightened of me Sora," it spoke, it actually spoke, words came out of a mouth! And it knew her name! Sora felt faint, this had to be some kind of dream or a weird trip – what was it Tai had been smoking? "I'm Yokomon," the creature said "please, don't be scared, I'm your Digimon! I've been waiting for you Sora!" the thing, the 'Yokomon' crawled towards her and nuzzled its face against Sora's leg.

"H...how do you know my name?" Sora gulped staring down at the round pink thing by her leg.

"Because I'm your Digimon partner!" the thing cried happily "I've been waiting for you for so long Sora!"

"I don't understand," Sora said standing up and taking a step away "what do you mean you've been waiting for me? And what's Digimon supposed to mean?"

"Digimon is short for Digital Monster," it replied "I can't believe you're finally here in the Digital World! I've waited so long!"

"Digital World?" Sora asked "wait now, what are you talking about, there's no such place as the Digital World! Why am I even talking to you? You're a...a..."

"Digimon!" and the pink thing bounced upwards into Sora's hands, Sora screamed and quickly placed it back on the ground. Before Sora could respond in anyway there was an ear splitting screech. It was unlike anything Sora had ever heard before, it sounded like some sort of animal.

"What was that?" Sora asked the 'Digimon' which had suddenly become less chirpy at the sound of the noise.

"Kwagamon," it replied in a serious voice "we should hide Sora, we're in his territory and he can probably sense that something strange is going on!" the little creature began to bounce away. Thank goodness, Sora thought she was worried she'd never be able to get rid of it. Suddenly the air was filled with that screech again only this time louder, it seemed to be coming from up above. Sora looked skyward and gasped: high in the air was what could only be described as a giant flying red beetle. It had to be at least twice her size, Sora squinted at the sky trying to get a better look, she saw pincers and black markings on the front and wings of the bug.

"Sora! Quickly come and hide!" the little pink thing, the Yokomon was back, this time Sora didn't need to be told twice she hurried after it through the forest. For such a small creature it was pretty fast, Sora was panting to keep up, soon they came to a dense patch of shrubbery and the Yokomon told her to hide in the bushes. Sora got down on her stomach and held her breath, whatever that thing was in the sky it didn't look friendly and somehow she didn't fancy her chances up against it. Minutes past and the sound of the monster seemed to dies down, Sora made to get up but the Yokomon hissed at her;

"Not yet!" Sure enough a second or two afterwards the giant beetle screamed again louder than ever before, Sora felt her heart thudding in her chest and she held her breath. There was a sudden snapping sound and Sora saw several trees fall to the ground followed by a gust of wind which was the wings of the creature. She stifled a scream and threw her hands over her head as branches and leaves fell onto her and the Yokomon. The monster rose back above tree level and screamed, then Sora heard another voice – a familiar voice.

"Run Izzy run!" it was Tai she was one hundred percent certain of it. The voice was loud and there was movement up ahead and then she saw Tai and the other boy Izzy running full pelt along with two pink blobs which looked awfully similar to the little pink Yokomon which was crouching down next to her. Another smashing sound and the bug came ripping through the trees ready for round two. Tai was headed right for her but there was nowhere else to run and there were too many trees between her and the boys, the bug would surely reach them first.

"We've got to do something!" Sora whispered to the Yokomon "it's going to kill them!"

"Hold on a second," it replied with its eyes staring at the two blobs with them.

"But-!" but before Sora could argue Tai, Izzy and the pink things disappeared. They were gone! Just gone! The red bug gave a deafening screech and then rose out of the trees and flew away in the opposite direction. "Oh my God!" Sora gasped once the bug was out of view "what happened? Did it – did it get them?" she asked the Yokomon

"No, I knew Motimon would have a trick up his sleeve," it replied and hopped away to the nearest tree. Sora followed unsure what to expect to see behind the trunk but to her surprise there was no sign of either Tai or Izzy at all. It was as if they'd gone through the tree or something. As if reading her mind, the Yokomon said;

"Why don't you call them out?" and she nodded her head at the tree.

"Call them out?"

"Go on!"

Sora looked at the creature and then to the tree and then back again – she must be going crazy.

"Tai! Izzy! You can come out now!" she called. To her amazement Tai's head materialized from the tree and he grinned.

"Sora!" he exclaimed "are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"N-no." Sora replied staring in shock as he and Izzy both emerged from the tree alongside two little creatures, the pink blobs from earlier. How was this happening? Before anybody could say anything else a fourth creature scurried over to join them, this one looked like some sort of white piglet with long ears.

"Hey come back!" called a voice, Sora turned to see TK, Matt's younger brother emerge from the bushes, smiling at the little thing. "Oh hey guys!" he said upon seeing the three of them "pretty cool huh?" he pointed at the group of little monsters "mine's called Tokomon isn't he awesome?"

"Do you even know what it is?" Tai asked looking and sounding incredulous. TK shrugged;

"Sure, it's a Digimon."

"So do you know what a Digimon is?" Sora asked intrigued by TK's apparent knowledge, maybe this was all part of some new reality program that she hadn't heard about, that would explain a lot.

"Nah," TK said sheepishly "That's just what he told me." He pointed at Tokomon.

"Hey guys! There you are!" Sora turned to the sound of Matt's voice and saw him emerging from between some trees with yet another creature in tow. It was round and furry with a great big grey fin sticking out of its head, it was definitely the oddest looking one so far. "Is everyone alright?" he asked "anybody hurt?"

"No, thankfully," Tai replied "we're all oka-"

"HEEELLLPPP MEEEEE!"