Digimon (Xros Wars 11) Xros Epoch
"Man, school is so boring."
On top of a stereotypical junior high school building located in town called Cocoyashi, a young thirteen year old with dark browny-red hair and even darker brown eyes laid down on a bench as she looked up into the sky with a bored expression. She wore a red-orange shirt with white short pants and wore red shoes. Around her neck, she wore two different objects; one a necklace with a unique pendent and the other a pair of goggles, both objects she had received from her family.
"School wouldn't be so boring if you just joined one of the clubs or sports." Mika turned her head to the side, looking very uncaring, as she looked at her childhood friend, Akio. Said childhood friend was sitting right across from Mika along with many of her other friends. Akio was a teen one year older than herself with dark brown hair wearing a white tanned shirt with black pants and shoes.
"Honestly, she's too good for most of them." Next to him was a girl, a grade below the two and one year younger than Mika, speaking up after removing her blue lollipop. She had shiny, long, jet-black hair; long enough to cover her hair on occasion. She wore a yellow shirt with silver tribal-like markings in a white pants and shoes.
Akio sighed at the younger student's comment. "Unfortunately." He then threw his childhood friend an unsympathetic look which the girl replied by sticking her tongue at the teen.
"But if she really wanted to, she could join a club or sport. Right?" Across from Akio and the underclassman-or women- another teen spoke up, she being a grade above Akio and Mika. She was a skinny, very attractive woman, with light brown skin, long flowing dark brown hair, and deep emerald colored eyes. The upperclassman wore a simple light blue, causal dress that stretched to her shins with yellow sandals.
Akio and the black haired female only sighed in reply to their older friend's question, along with another student sitting next to her. He was a big fellow-possible football player sized- with a rare skin condition that made his skin unusually red. He had black hair formed into rows across his head with a unique fish bandana covering his forehead. He wore a black shirt with the logo 'Water 7' in red across it with white shorts in brown sandals. He replied rather solemnly looking at his upperclassman. "A lot of them would just misuse her eagerness and go-get-them attitude."
"And yet she still offers her help." The jet-black hair girl spoke up again, wearing a proud smile looking over to the girl lazing about in front of her. Mika only replied with a shrug as she spoke up.
"I can't just let a whole sports team miss out on the fun, Lena." The whole group sighed in unison though smiled seeing as this was who their friend was; always helping people she didn't even know. And unfortunately, it had a bad effect on Mika as she took on multiply task at once.
"I see nothing wrong with that." One last person spoke up, sitting to the opposite of the upperclassman and big fellow was a silent, yet stoic, upperclassman. He had placid gray eyes and black ruffled-ear length-hair while wearing a simple white shirt with a small towel hanging around his neck along with white Thai Fisher-man's trousers.
Akio only sighed. "Yeah, but she's tiring herself out." Being Mika's childhood friend, Akio made it his job to keep up with Mika and her 'appointments', as he called it, so she wasn't swamped. Though staying silent, black haired man seem to agree with the underclassman.
After a while, the group got off the topic and returned to eating their lunch as they had been. Of course, Mika had her extra-large meal followed by quick steals from her friends and replied with yelling and threats. But this was normal for them. Soon the warning bell sounded, signaling the end of the lunch hour. With heavy groans from some, they all packed up and made their way inside and down the stairs. With Akio and Mika being last, Akio tried reminding Mika that she had something scheduled, but was quickly overshadowed with something else.
"Help Me, Biri!"
"Huh?" Mika quickly stopped herself just under the doorway as she heard a cry for help. As she looked back at the roof, all that she could see was the empty benches and only sound that could be heard was the wind.
"Did you forget something Mika?" The girl looked back inside seeing Akio come back after realizing she wasn't behind him. He seemed concerned as he saw that Mika herself looked almost worried. Mika didn't answer his question, instead she asked her own.
"Did you hear something?" She spoke almost concerned yet also confused as she asked her best friend if he had heard the voice. Akio looked at the girl with a raised eyebrow not sure what she was talking about.
"I didn't hear anything." He spoke with almost certainty, though that still didn't seem to settle Mika as she looked back outside in a daze. Akio wasn't sure what his friend was looking at or what she was even searching for, but all he knew was they were going to be late.
"Come on Mika, or Miss Robin is going to make you stand in the hallway again." This time Mika seemed to have listened as she turned back towards him and followed him down the stairs. However, she still had a concerned look as she was almost certain she had something.
Once they two had finally left, a sudden disturbance rippled in mid-air in the middle of the roof. What had appeared seem to be like a patch of green and yellow pattern data that slowly revealed a strange world similar to what was there yet different due to a mold like appearance, but it soon disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. Though in its place, a bright light forming a clock-like appearance shined in the exact spot and soon a shadowed figure walked out of it. The figure, clearly a man, smirked as he stood in the tunnel-like light while rubbing his chin in thought as he spoke to himself.
"It would seem like it's time, Monkey D. Namika."
[Mika speaking]
I'm Monkey D. Namika
Or Mika to all my friends
The adventure is starting today in a place called DigiQuartz. It is the surprising world where in which Digimon live, spreading near our human world.
Now, everyone, let's start our new adventure, to search for the cool and fun Digimon!
Stand Up For Your Dream!
Episode One: I Am A Hunter!
"Go Mika!"
It was now later in the day as the junior high school had begun letting its students out for the day. Meanwhile inside the school, a heated battle had begun as two rival female basketball teams fought to win. However, today the home team had a new line-up, and a new player.
"She caught it!" While the group of friends watched the game from the second floor of the gym, on the floor the one they were cheering for had intercepted a pass. With great skill, Mika spun around the oncoming blocker leaving him dumbfounded while the girl herself had a large smile from all the excitement.
As she raced towards the opposing team's basket, she soon found herself being ganged by the other team. With only a quick glance, she shot the ball to an open teammate who, thanks to Mika, was free to make the basket. The crowd cheered as their home team scored another point, thus winning the game. While the home team players congratulated each other on a job well-done, the other team was bummed out as they slinked to their benches.
"Hey, don't be so down." The rival team's heads quickly shot up as they turned back to the court to see Mika addressing all of them with a friendly smile. At first they seemed hesitant about the girl, but it was soon washed away as she approached the team extending her hand, all while still smiling.
"You guys played really good. It was fun!" The opposing team gawked at how overly friendly the girl was being to them, especially since she didn't brag at all about her team's victory. Replacing their grim and confused expressions with smiles, the team captain took the girl's hand giving it a friendly shake.
"Thanks, you played really well out there."
"I did?" The captain looked surprised at the girl, but gave her a confirming nod. Immediately, Mika starting laughing confusing the opposing team again. "And to think, this is my first day of playing."
The whole opposing team crashed to the floor instantly upon hearing Mika's statement. All of them had speechless looks on their faces as they twitched ever so often from shock. As soon as they recovered, Mika reported back to the team as she gave the other team a friendly wave good-bye, but not before saying her famous quote. "Remember, stand up for your dream!"
"Man Mika, you were unstoppable out there." Once Mika joined the team, she was instantly showered with praise from all the team members. However, Mika just kept saying that she was just lucky, to which none of them believed.
"But thank you for replacing Akari while she was out due to illness."
"Oh, it was nothing really." While the temporary teammate was humbling herself to the team, having to scratch behind her head in embarrassment, the teen soon stuck her hand with her palm open. Instantly, the smiles and praise from the female basketball team turned into nervous and somewhat scared expression.
"Now, about my pay." From happy and bashful, the girl's personality underwent a sudden change. The aura around the whole group went sour as Mika was now practically glaring into their souls demanding her payment.
"There she is!"
With Mika's group of friends waiting patiently outside the gym, the youngest of the group soon pointed out Mika as she carried a bag waving to the group with a large smile. She had changed out of the basketball team uniform and dawned back her earlier clothing. The only thing that had not changed was the necklace and the goggles that she still wore around her neck. Even during the game, she had refused to take these two items off.
As Mika meet up with her friends, she had an extra cheery grin on. One that the entire group knew meant something bad. Digging into her pockets, the young teen pulled out a small amount of belis, both in dollar and coin form, as she showed it off to the group. "I got my pay!"
"Ugh, she'd be almost perfect if it weren't that one flaw." What Lena was getting at was, while Mika is known to offer help and her assistance with anything one desired. She was uncharacteristically greedy. Her prices were fair, but the simple fact that she charges period was enough to question the girl's morals.
"One flaw?" Akio countered with his own question as he was sure that Mika still had many. The group looked at Akio with sweat-drops, unsure if he really was Mika's best friend.
"So Akio, what's next?" Being oblivious to the small jabs at her personality, Mika addressed her self-proclaimed manger to see what she could do-and get paid for-next. However, just as Akio was about to speak, Mika started hearing a bit of static that was soon followed by a voice.
"Help! Biri!"
Mika's attention was quickly drawn away from Akio, as he seem to bring out a list of things-to-do, instead taking a more concerned interest in the somewhat static voice. This time she was sure she heard someone calling for help. However, she caught something even more. Soon followed after the voice, a melody played sounding soft yet frantic. She didn't know how, but she knew that this melody was the person calling for help. So, she followed it completely forgetting her friends and duties.
"Mika?" Mika didn't take the time to answer her friends as she felt that this melody-or whatever- needed her more. Everyone in Mika's group stared rather dumbfounded at their friend's sudden need to run. Of course, only Akio seemed peeved about it.
"Where are you going Mika!"
"Where are you!" As Mika ran pass people on the sidewalk, she began shouting out to the voice in need. She could hear the melody so clearly, yet no one else that she passed seem to hear it. Her rescue dash soon brought her further into the city; she turned down an alley where the melody was starting to get louder.
Not too far, Mika's friends were trying to catch up to the determined girl. Unfortunately, Mika had already gained a big league over them and were quickly losing sight of her. The brown haired female was the first to take notice. "Hurry! We're losing her!"
"She won't get far Nicole; I was always the better runner." With great determination-and a little anger-Akio picked up his speed leaving the others in the dust as he tried to catch up with Mika. As he gained ground, he saw his childhood friend turn into an alley. He instantly looked back to the group, somewhat far behind as he pointed to his right.
"Mika's running down the alley!"
However, this was not the case. Mika immediately froze when she saw that the alley was already occupied. A cloaked man stood right in the middle of the alley, his face unrecognizable due to it being both shadowed and covered. The first thought in Mika's mind was that she didn't have time to deal with this creep, and as she took a step forward she was ready to knock the guy out if needed. Luckily, that wasn't the case. Once she took her step forward, determination to help written across her face, the man chuckled as he spoke.
"Yo! Do you want to help 'that' melody?" Mika froze in her place as the man spoke. She looked confused at him, not sure what he was getting at. However, with the melody becoming increasing more frantic, she just told him her answer straight out.
"Nothing is going to stop me from helping those in need." The man smirked behind his mask, accepting the answer with great approval. The man then brought up his right arm, which had been hidden until now, as he revealed a small grey device looking like a cross between a microphone and an old cell phone (Like from the late 90's early 2000's) with a large button below its screen. Mika looked confused at the device than the man wondering what he was trying to do.
"Mika!"
"Then you're going to need this." With both ignoring the calls from Mika's friends, the man tossed the device in the air heading straight for Mika. Without hesitating, Mika caught it with one hand then brought it in front of her to look it over. However, the moment she saw it properly, its grey coloring shifted into a red-orange color surprising the teen.
"Hehe, looks like you're a chip off the old block." Mika looked back up to the man confused about what he was saying.
"What do you mean-" Before she could finish, a small booklet came right at her. Though surprised, she had quickly caught the small book. She then gave the book a glance over reading the title. "The Xros Loader and how to Digimon Hunt?"
"Mika!"
"If you want to help the melody, all you need to do is hold your Xros Loader up and yell 'Time Shift'. Then just run in and enjoy the hunt." As Mika looked up from the book, her eyes widen in shock to see the man gone before her sights. She looked around the alley trying to find him, but was unsuccessful.
"Mika!"
With her friends getting closer, Mika had to decide now and then what she would do. Though to her, the answer was quite obvious. With a smirk, she pulled her goggles from her neck to right on her forehead then raised the Xros Loader straight in front of her. She had never been more excited in her whole life, so much so that she dropped the booklet the man had given her.
"Time Shift!"
"Mike! What are you do-" Knowing that he had heard Mika's voice yell something, Akio finally rounded the corner missing the bright light that had enveloped the alley for a short time. As he finally believed to have caught Mika, he soon found he was dead wrong. Mika was not there. He stood there stunned for some time before taking notice of a book that lay on the ground looking like it shouldn't be there. As he went to pick it up, he soon heard the rest of the group finally catch up.
"Akio! Did you catch Mika?" The youngest girl spoke up as she was the first to enter the alley followed by the rest, all looking very tired. Akio didn't speak at first as he looked over the book he found curiously almost to the point of ignoring them. Seeing as he wasn't answering, the group stepped forward looking very much worried.
"Akio….Where's Mika?"
"Whoa! What is this place?" Having done what the man had said, Mika had ran forward through a tunnel of light only to end up in the exact same spot. However, something was very different about it.
As Mika looked around, she recognized the whole moss covered town as Cocoyashi Town, however, it looked far too desolate and ruined to be the actually town. As she wondered the moss covered streets and sidewalks, she soon noticed that the place she was in was actually almost like the town; down to even the cars that were parked along the street. Something she had found really….
"Cool! It's like the town was abandoned!"
"Someone, help me! Biri!" Mika instantly recognized the voice as she stopped her sightseeing and turned around. It was the same voice that had called for help earlier along with the melody. She quickly took off towards where she heard the voice looking all around.
"Hey, where are you? I'm here to-Ahh!" As Mika turned the corner, she was quickly met with a large fire burning practically everyone down the street. As she stared at the scene in shock, she had failed to notice a small being rush its way out of the fire frantically.
It looked to be a small, yellow bird yet had a more evolved look allowing it to stand much like a human. It looked kind of like a duck with the orange bill, however, had features of a peacock, like its fanned tail and crow on top of its head. The poor thing was frantically running from bawling its eyes out, not even paying attention to the fact that it was running right into Mika.
"Ooof!" Both the teen and the weird bird fell down with a hard thud nearly dodging the fireball that had whizzed above them. While both looked as if they were taken for a spin, Mika was the first to recover as she raised her upper body to look at the bird.
"Hello?" The bird quickly recovered hearing a voice and looked up to see the human staring curiously at him. He instantly freaked, jumping off the teen and doing a weird pose like it had been caught.
"W-W-Who are you? Biri." The weird bird spoke rather nervously not sure what to make of the teen in front of him. Mika was just as nervous as the bird, but her determination to help pushed her forward.
"You called for help." The bird blinked in surprise as he relaxed his stance staring at the teen unbelievably. Seeing the bird becoming lax, Mika smiled as she continued to explain.
"I'm here to help."
Despite the teen's reassuring smile, the weird bird didn't look convinced "But what can you-"
"Cold Flame! Before the bird could argue against the teen, both looked back to the flames as a single blue flame came bursting through the red and orange flames. Both quickly separated as the blue flame crashed to the ground.
Both joined back together after circling back as they stared back towards the fire in shock. Soon a figure appeared in the flames and eventually stepped out revealing a tall blue fire monster. Mika was quickly freaked while the bird was just fearful.
"What is that!"
"That's BlueMeramon; he's got a hot temper stronger and hotter than a regular Meramon. He just loves to see everything around him burn."
"Get back here you little twerp! I haven't finished cooking you up!" The bird flinched in fear as the monster, BlueMeramon, roared in fury. The creature wore a cruel smirk as he soon spotted the bird, right next to a human.
"And you brought a little human as a main course."
"Run!" Mika looked back to see the bird running away panicky. She looked back to the monster seeing that he was preparing another attack, and followed his lead. The flame monster smirked loving the aspect of a chase.
"Where are we going!"
"Anywhere that's not back there! Biri!" As the two kept running from the blue flame monster, all they had been doing was running through buildings trying to lose the crazed monster. Of course, while the current situation had called for Mika to run, she didn't like giving up.
"Hold on!" Having rounded their last building, Mika grabbed the bird before either one could take one step further. The moment they made the sudden stop, the bird freaked out overtime. He suddenly released a large charge of electricity shocking Mika.
While the bird closed his eyes in fear, she soon realized that he wasn't in danger and looked to Mika. He gasped as he realized he had accidently shocked her and ran to her side. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Biri!"
"I'm fine." The bird stepped back as Mika sat up, her hair looking a mess, as she gave the bird a wide and friendly grin. The bird was shocked to see the girl fine, since most would just yell at him for doing such. As she fixed her hair, she looked back at the bird with amazement.
"That was so cool!"
"R-Really? Biri." The teen nodded her head excitingly once again surprising the bird. In a burst of courage, the bird brought out his wing, albeit a bit shaky, as he introduced himself.
"My name is Birimon. Biri."
"My name is Mika." Without hesitating, Mika took the wing and gave the bird a friendly handshake. The bird, now known as Birimon, looked wide-eyed at the girl again surprised at how she treated him. Once they let go, Mika stood up dusting herself off before she looked back at the bird.
"So Birimon, what are you? Some kind of rooster?" Birimon sweat-drop at the teen's comments, not sure how to answer that last part. The bird recomposed himself as he spoke with pride.
"I am no rooster. I am a Digimon, short for Digital Monster. Biri."
"A Digimon?"
"Yes, and you are currently in DigiQuartz. Biri."
"DigiQuartz?" As Birimon explained, it only made Mika more confused as she wasn't familiar with the terms the little bird was using.
"Wait? Was that blue thing a Digimon too?" Biri nodded his head rather solemnly. Unfortunately it just made Mika more confused.
"But you just said you're a Digimon?"
"I am. Digimon come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but not all of them are nice. Biri"
"Wow." While only getting so much, she seem to understand that there were more than just Birimon and the blue flame creature. An aspect that seem to only excite her even more about this 'DigiQuartz', something that didn't sit too well with the bird Digimon.
"Uh, what are you doing here again? Biri." Breaking Mika out of her excitement, the teen looked at the bird as he seemed curious about her being her. She then instantly remembered why she was here.
"Oh yeah! I'm here to help you!" Birimon stepped back in surprise as they girl, wearing an excited smile, pointed to him in realization. He then pointed to himself in confusion.
"Me? Biri"
"Yeah, you called for help earlier didn't you?" The bird stared shockingly at the teen. He had indeed called for help, several times in fact, but no one seem answer him. And now, this girl, a human, had heard him from the human world and come to help.
"R-Really? Biri." The teen nodded with a confirming smile, no hint of lying whatsoever.
"Where are you?" Birimon froze in fear as he and Mika heard the mad ramblings of BlueMeramon searching for them. However, Mika wasn't scared as she bravely peeked around the corner to see where the monster was.
"Come out and play~." She could see the Digimon a block or two away smirking cruelly as he set a building on fire. While horrified at the action, Mika knew they need a plan. As she turned back to the bird, she quickly remembered what the bird was.
"Ah! Birimon!" The bird Digimon looked back to Mika, now broken out of his fear, as he seem to be ready to listen to whatever the teen had planned. Which came to a shock to him when she pointed to him with a grin.
"You can take him on!"
"Ehhh!"
"Come on, you could use that electrical power to beat that asshole!"
"So you're abandoning me!"
"No, I'll help too!" Looking around, Mika quickly grabbed a random pipe that had been lying casually to the side. Birimon wasn't sure what he was hearing; that a human was going to fight a Digimon!
"No way! There's no way you could take down someone like BlueMeramon!" Mika didn't like what the tiny bird was saying as she glared back at him. The bird flinched back a bit under her glare, but continued to try to get her to think logically.
"You'd have to be one of the Digimon King's Eight to defeat him!"
"Digimon King's Eight?" Mika's glare quickly shifted to a confused expression not familiar with the new term. Birimon looked at the teen dumbfounded then suddenly freaking out on her.
"You don't know! The Digimon King is the strongest Digimon in the whole Digital World! He and his generals helped free the Digital World from Bagramon and his army! The Eight are the next strongest Digimon that helped him during those conflicts twenty-one years ago! Nothing can beat them!"
With Birimon done with his explanation, he noticed Mika was now smiling at him something that kind of freaked him a little. Until Mika spoke with confidence. "You sound like a fan."
Birimon gasped a bit then started to act rather bashfully. "Well, it's kinda been my dream to kinda…wanna…be like them." Mika blinked in surprised as the bird looked down on the ground looking like he was ashamed of his dream. Something she couldn't stand for. However, before she could speak up, a sudden blue fire came crashing through the building shocking both.
"Haha! Found you!" Walking through the crashed building, BlueMeramon smirked as he found his targets. While the bird freaked at the sight of the tall flaming monster, Mika seemed unmoved and determined to stand her ground. She quickly grabbed a broken pipe and held it in front of her defensively.
"Hey! Leave Birimon alone!" The bird looked back at Mika as she stood determinedly between him and BlueMeramon. In return, the flame monster just laughed at her determination.
"Foolish human. You really think you can defeat me?"
"No, but Birimon can!" The bigger Digimon stopped laughing as he was caught off guard by the teen's comment. He then looked at the small bird that semi-hiding behind Mika with a scared expression. This only made the flaming Digimon laugh even harder.
"Ahahaha! What? That puny excuse for a Digimon, beat me! Ahahaha!" As the BlueMeramon laughed, it only made the tiny Digimon feel ashamed of himself as he looked sadly away to the ground from the blue fire Digimon.
"Shut Up!" The BlueMeramon quickly stopped laughing and Birimon looked back up to Mika as the girl, now looking enraged, glared furiously at the Digimon. As she gripped the pipe tighter, she spoke up with great magnitude.
"Birimon will beat you! His dream is to become one of the Digimon King's Eight or something! He can definitely beat you!" Birimon was stunned. The teen, who had only met him a few minutes ago, was defending him like they had been friends for years. While he stared amazingly at the teen, the BlueMeramon just scowled at Mika's comment and retorted.
"Him? One of the Eight Warriors? Ha! I have more of a chance to become King then he could be one of the Eight!" As the BlueMeramon mocked the tiny bird's dream another blue fireball formed in his hand. Birimon began to gear himself to escape when he saw that Mika was still holding her ground. The bird gasped in fear for his new friend.
"Mika!"
"Now prepare to-BAM!" Before the Digimon could attack, he was quickly silenced when Mika attacked first bashing the flame man's head with the pipe. Biri stood where he was amazed as he saw Mika strike the Digimon and succeed sending BlueMeramon to the ground.
"Don't Make Fun of His Dream!" Birimon looked back to Mika as she still held the pipe, though now partially melted, and still determined to fight. As BlueMeramon slowly recovered, he gasped to see the stern glare of the teen gaze into his digital soul. But he wasn't going to back down without a fight.
"You little bitch!"
"If you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything!" Birimon was completely mesmerized by the girl's fierce determination. It almost seemed like it was giving him energy; a new found strength that had been hidden until this girl appeared before him to help him. Meanwhile, BlueMeramon was now furious as he prepared an even bigger attack, one that would surely kill them both. All the while, Mika continued to speak with confidence and determination.
"As long as you stand up for your dreams, you can do anything!"
"Die! Both of you! Ice Bomb!"
"Spark Flash!" Just as BlueMeramon was about to strike, Birimon shot forth pass Mika glowing brightly with electrical power and launched it at the blue flame Digimon. BlueMeramon couldn't do anything as the attack cashed into him sending both him and his attack into the next building.
At first, Mika was stunned seeing how powerful the tiny bird had been, but then was now happy as now they were fighting back. Dropping the pipe, she ran over to the bird, flying in the air, to give him her support. "You did it! You fought back!"
"I…I did! Biri!" The bird shouted back victoriously. For some reason, Birimon was feeling a new wealth of energy in him. It made him feel powerful and undefeatable, but he wondered where this new sensation came from.
Instead of looking further into this new sensation, he immediately went to his new friend as he floated towards ready to go into a hug. However, with a sudden crash from the building BlueMeramon was in, both froze and looked shocked to see the fire Digimon still alive. And even more pissed.
"Raaaaw!" With his rage consuming him, BlueMeramon began shooting blue fireballs towards them. Instantly, the two moved away, but this time they headed straight for the enraged Digimon.
"Let's get'em Birimon!"
"Aye!" With a nod, the two shot forward ready to fight the Digimon head on. Seeing the two coming, BlueMeramon began shooting even more. While Mika simply dodged them, Birimon went head in as he begun to glow once again, but this time went it a spin looking much like a drill.
"Lightning Peck Driller." As his attack launched him forward, the blues collided with the attack instantly dissipating without harming Birimon what so ever. In fact, the attack kept going until I collided with BlueMeramon.
The blue fire Digimon screamed in pain, stopping his attack, as he and Birimon moved back with Mika following behind. While the attack did take its toll on the Digimon, he quickly countered as he raised his fist above Birimon, glowing bright with blue flames. Quickly seeing his attack, Mika tried to warn the bird.
"Birimon!"
"Frost Knuckle!" Unfortunately, it was too late. BlueMeramon's fist connected with Birimon, stopping the bird's attack, and sending the poor bird into a moss covered car. Mika immediately gasped.
"Birimon!" She immediately ran over to Birimon's side picking the bird up. Birimon came to at that moment, opening on eye to see that it was Mika picking him up. For the first time since they had met, she looked worried.
"Are you okay?"
"Not really." The bird spoke though with a smirk as he pushed himself out of Mika's arms, wobbling a bit trying to find his balance, then stand in front of her as BlueMeramon started to walk over to them.
"But if I'm going to be one of the Eight, I've gotta be tough." Mika was surprised to hear the bird, at one time timid and nervous, now speaking with confidence strength. It made Mika smile as she stood up while the bird continued to speak.
"You should get out of her Mika, you'll be in-"
"I'm not going anywhere." Birimon looked to his side to see Mika now standing with him instead of behind him. With BlueMeramon getting closer, Birimon was becoming increasingly worried for his friend, but before he could speak Mika beat him to the punch.
"We're more than just friends." As Mika spoke she took out her red and orange Xros Loader, for the first time, revealing to the little bird. Immediately, the bird gasped recognizing it.
"Mika, that's-"
"From now on, we're partners." Birimon went quiet as Mika continued her speech, once again, mesmerized by her confidence and strength and all with that confident grin. But what neither two had notice, was that the screen on the Xros Loader was beginning glow while Mika spoke.
"And as partners, we never fight battles alone. Always together-"
"Raw! Ice Phantom!" Before them, BlueMeramon was preparing-what looked to be-his final attack to get rid of them. Blatant of the glowing device in the girl's hand. With Birimon, he was now feeling a new energy, one that made him want to explode with power.
"-and together, We'll Stand Up For Our Dreams! Cho Shinka!" Almost like instinct, Mika threw up her Xros Loader as it shined brightly blinding the BlueMeramon and stopping his attack. Meanwhile, something fantastic was occurring before him.
"Birimon, Cho Shinka."
Birimon was now being wrapped in a pillar of light beaming down from who know where as rings formed around it as well. Inside the pillar, Birimon's tiny body was being reconstructed body part by body part as he metamorphosis. As the change occurred, the first was his mid-body, once just plain yellow feathers, now transformed into a more human-type body with gold and purple clothing similar to Native American tribal clothing. His wing-arms came next as they literally turned into human arms with anthropomorphic bird hands. The legs, once looking like chicken feet, now transformed into gold feathered human legs with a tribal cloth flowed in between them hands. On his back, giant gold wings with purple lining appeared behind with markings his fanned tail once had, and lightning like feathers sticking out. Finally, Birimon's head as transformed into a human-like head with a gold eagle-like helmet, with shiny gold feathers coming off the back, covering all but his mouth and eye and a lightning bolt sprouting off the helmet.
Now complete, the pillar disappeared from around the new being and then shook off the bright light that had been on it during metamorphosis revealing a new creature in Birimon's place. "Cho Shinka, Thunderbirdramon!"
"Wow!" Mika stared in amazement as her once little partner, was now standing taller than her and right with BlueMeramon. With the light finally dimmed, BlueMeramon was about to continue with his attack until he noticed that huge change in his opponent.
Thunderbirdramon stood with his arms across and wings folded as he glared at his opponent no longer with any fear and nervousness as a Birimon he once had. Now he was ready to fight, and so was BlueMeramon as he summoned his blue flame. "Cold Flame!"
Neither partners moved as they watched the blue fireball head towards them. With a confident smirk, Thunderbirdramon electrified his hand and swiped the flame away. BlueMeramon was shocked while Mika was gleefully impressed. The bird-man Digimon then unfolded his wings and stared at his opponent still wearing a confident grin. "My turn now."
Thunderbirdramon took to the skies in a burst of speed, picking up dust that Mika covered from. BlueMeramon only watched as the bird-man readied his new attack. Above the flame Digimon, Thunderbirdramon's arm was glowing with electricity and slashed down upon the enemy at a blinding speed. "Lightning Strike Mach One!"
"Gah!" The attack struck the flame Digimon sending him flying back. Mika cheered with joy seeing as they now had the upper hand over BlueMeramon
"Yeah! Finish him Thunderbirdramon!"
"With pleasure; Thunder Blitz!" Agreeing with his partner, the bird-man's entire body glowed bright with electricity than charged downward to the recovering BlueMeramon. The moment BlueMeramon looked up, he saw his opponent coming straight towards him in a ball of electricity, and instantly decided to attack.
"Ice Phantom!" As BlueMeramon tried to defeat Thunderbirdramon, he summoned a massive blue fireball and launched it towards the bird-man. With Thunderbirdramon not stopping, his attack went straight through the fireball and continued until finally.
"Gaah!" The attack impacted BlueMeramon. Thunderbirdramon then slipped out of the sphere as it continued forward with the flame Digimon taking major damage until it finally exploded. As Mika and her partner-now standing next to her-looked through the smoke, they could see BlueMeramon suddenly appeared though frozen in mid-air as a purple band circled around it.
"What's going on-" Before she could finish, Mika noticed her Xros Loader's screen glow once again. As she held it out, a light blue cube appeared and BlueMeramon disappeared into data. Then seconds later, reappear in the box surprising both of them.
"What's BlueMeramon doing here?"
"Well, he's your first captured Digimon, of course." Both partners looked up to where the voice originated to find that the mysterious man was now gazing over them. Followed up behind him, a strange blue lizard-like Digimon with a V symbol on his forehead appeared next to him throwing out a victory pose. Mika seemed confused by the idea, and even Thunderbirdramon didn't seem to know as well.
"First captured Digimon?"
"Yes, didn't you read the book?" This the blue creature, Veemon, spoke up sounding rather intelligent. The bird-man Digimon looked at Mika curiously, wondering if she had read the book. The teen only gave a nervous smile and a shrug, signaling that she hadn't. Luckily, the only thing it did was make the stranger laugh.
"Ahaha! You really are 'his' child." Once again, the man made some reference about Mika that she couldn't get. So, she stared at the man furious because of it.
"What the hell are you talking about!"
"Another time, but just so you know. You can use you're captured Digimon to help your partner become stronger whenever he is in a pinch."
"Okay, but why do I need to capture Digimon?"
"If you don't, both the Digital World and the human world-your friends included-will be in danger." Both human and Digimon gasped at the sudden realization. Could it really be possible for a Digimon to put the human world in danger? Mika and Thunderbirdramon looked at each other concerned, neither of them had signed up for something so big. However, with their friends in possible danger, how could they refuse.
"What do you say? Up to the challenge?" With Veemon asking, both partners nodded their heads and looked straight at the man and Digimon.
"You bet!"
The man smiled once again, very pleased that things were going in the right direction. He then tossed another small booklet that Mika caught once again. She and her partner looked it over with Mika realizing that it was the same book as before. Looking back up, the man and Digimon were gone, yet his voice still ringed through the air."
"Until next time, young hunter. And please don't lose this one. Ja Ne!"
Now with everything silent and calm, Mika looked back to her partner as he now devolved back to Birimon, looking tired out. As he fell back in exhaustion, Mika smiled as she joined him on the ground speaking. "Looks like you and me really are partners now."
"I couldn't ask for a better one. Biri." Mika looked at the bird and vice versa as both gave each other a cheerful grin then falling back tired, but laughing. Thus the start of Mika's adventures begins.
Of course, meanwhile, some blocks away from out tired hunter team. The mysterious man and his partner were looking a 3D map of the Cocoyashi Town from his sky blue Xros Loader. On the map, several blimps-each a different color-were marked on the map. The man smirked as the map disappeared then began walking.
"Looks like the Hunt is on!"
Author's note:
Ugh, this became far longer than it should've been, but what you gonna do. There were no cutting corners with this story.
Anyway, I like to thank all the recent reviewers for all their suggestion, which most were pretty awesome ideas. And I thank RotPQFan for suggesting this little beauty to me. I've been thinking of doing a Digimon Xros Epoch, I just didn't have any ideas at how to do it.
Hopefully, future chapters won't be as long, but I won't sacrifice quality over quantity.
Until next time! Ja Ne!