TK didn't know what was happening. One minute he was in his room then the next he was floating around inside his computer. TK looked around and saw that the walls, floor, and ceiling were made of computer chips. There were also different colored wires and circuits lining the walls and the floor. Suddenly words started to fly past him, TK studied each word and saw that they're in the form of sentences. More sentences flew by him, some long, some short, and others were in different languages, but the one thing they all had in common was that they went into short windows of light.
"What is this place?" TK said out loud. He looked ahead and saw a bright light and started floating towards it. He passed through the light and saw that he emerged from a tunnel into a wide-open space. TK saw that this space's walls, ceiling, and floor matched the tunnel he came from, but he noticed other tunnels were leading to this place as well. The sound of a girl screaming drew his attention to one of the tunnels. Exiting the tunnel next to the one he came out of, TK saw both Catherine and Chloe with Catherine clinging onto her sister.
"Woah, this place is amazing!" Chloe was awestruck as she looked around the area. "Catherine look around and see how cool this place is."
"No! All I want to do is go home and never use a computer for as long as I live!" Catherine wailed and held onto her sister tighter.
"Chloe! Catherine! Over here!" TK called out, drawing both of their attention to him.
"TK! What are you doing here?" Chloe asked as both her and Catherine made their way over to him.
"Better question. How do we get out of here?" Catherine asked, trying not to freak out more than she has been. Catherine was looking around the room to see if there was some exit for them to get out of this place. She looked at the tunnel that she and her sister came from, praying that maybe if they go back the way they came, they could get out of this place.
"I don't know, I was finishing up some emails for my friends back in Japan then my Digivice started beeping," TK began to explain.
"Digivice? What's a Digivice?" Chloe asked. TK started to panic a little, no one is supposed to know anything related to the Digital World unless they're a Digidestined. TK began to backtrack his previous statement when Chloe pulled out a Digivice of her own.
"Is this a Digivice?" Chloe said as she held up the device.
"Where did you get that?" TK asked as he pulled out his own Digivice to compare. They both look exactly the same with both of them being the same size and the buttons being in the same place.
"It came out of Catherine's computer, she even got one too," Chloe then turned to her sister who is still looking for an exit. "Catherine show him yours."
"What?" Catherine said confusedly because she wasn't paying attention.
"Show him the device that came out of the computer," Chloe told her, holding up her Digivice.
"Oh, that," Catherine said as held up her Digivice. "What about it?"
"TK has one too," Chloe said as TK showed his Digivice, and just like Chloe's, Catherine's Digivice looked exactly like TK's as well.
"Wait! How did you know what they're called?" Chloe asked when she realized that TK knew what the devices in their hands were called.
"Do you know how to get out of here?" Catherine asked as both she and her sister began to lean closer to the blond boy.
"Um, well, y-you know," TK stammered as he rubbed the back of his head. He began to sweat as both girls were in his face. He didn't know how he was going to get out of this situation with Chloe hearing him call the device a Digivice and Catherine wanting to escape from this strange world. All TK could do was pray that some outside force would save him from this situation. As TK was trying to form some kind of answer, his prayers were answered as a blinding light surrounding the three French kids.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Catherine shouted.
"I don't know, but I think we're about to find out," TK screamed in response. The three kids screamed as the light swallowed them whole.
As the light faded the three kids were missing from the world.
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Catherine was scared. First, she was transported to a strange computer world with her sister. Then TK knows about the device that brought them to that world. Then finally, they were all engulfed by a bright light that's taking them to who knows where. To say that Catherine regrets asking her parents for a computer for Christmas would be the understatement of the decade. After the light engulfed them, it felt like they were falling yet flying simultaneously, and all Catherine was hoping for was to feel the sweet feeling of the ground again.
After what felt like an eternity of being off the ground the kid's touched down on a squishy, wet terrain. Looking around they saw that they were in a forest with fallen over trees, patches of dirt where pieces of land were, and rocks strewn all over. Looking up they saw a dark cloudy sky with a light drizzle falling upon them.
"Where are we?" Chloe asked after looking around.
"I don't know, but whatever we did to get her let's never do it again," Catherine groaned as she rubbed her neck.
TK was looking at his Digivice to see if it confirms his suspicions of this world. He looked at the screen and saw three different colored dots close together. One being light yellow, his Digivice, and two red ones, which he assumes are Chloe's and Catherine's Digivices.
"TK!" Catherine shouted to get his attention. "Did you hear us?"
"Huh? Sorry, my mind was somewhere else. " TK said, drawing his attention to the blond girl in front of him. "What did you say?"
"We said, do you know where we are?" she told him.
"Maybe, but I need to check something first," he answered.
"What do you need to check?" Chloe asked and held up her Digivice. "And you didn't answer my question of how do you know what this device is."
"I'll tell you later, but I need to see something to confirm my suspicions," TK said and began walking in a random direction. The twins chased after him, not wanting to be alone in this strange world.
They walked in complete silence, well TK was silent, Catherine was slightly panicking over every little noise she heard, and Chloe was trying to calm her sister. They made it to a clearing and TK stopped and signaled for the two girls to follow him to hide behind a knocked-over tree. They sat behind the giant log and watched the wide-open space in front of them.
"What are we doing?" Chloe whispered.
"Waiting," TK answered quickly.
"For what?" Catherine asked, starting to get annoyed.
"The answer to your questions," TK said, never taking his attention away from the clearing. They sat there for a few minutes waiting for this "answer," TK spoke of. A few more minutes passed and Catherine was getting impatient and annoyed with TK dodging their questions.
"What exactly are we waiting for?" Catherine said suddenly.
"I told you-"
"Yeah, the answer, that's not answering anything!" she said, cutting him off. "Why don't you just tell us what we're waiting for and what these devices are?!"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," TK answered. That seemed to irk Catherine even more as she grabbed the boy from his shirt.
"We were sucked into a computer, transported to some technologic, swallowed by a bright light, and landed in this forest!" she said as she shook him. "And you think I wouldn't believe whatever you tell us! I would believe you if you said that you were the son of Marie Antoinette after all that we went through today!"
As Catherine was arguing with TK, Chloe kept her attention on the clearing, trusting her friend. The sound of a rustling of leaves drew her attention as she saw a tiny creature made of rocks walking across the field. She couldn't believe her eyes as she saw the creature pick up sticks that were in the surrounding area.
"Uh, Catherine," Chloe said, trying to get her sister's attention.
"Not now, Chloe, I'm gonna turn our friend here into a pretzel," Catherine sternly said as she twisted TK's arm.
"But you need to see this," Chloe said and reached for her sister.
"I said not now," Catherine said, shaking off her sister's reach.
Knowing that her sister won't listen to her, Chloe grabbed her twin's head and turned it in the direction of the clearing. Catherine gasped and let go of TK as she saw the rock creature picking up sticks. With everything that happened today, seeing this creature has to be the weirdest thing that has happened. She pinched herself to see if she was dreaming.
"Ow!" she said, rubbing her arm.
"Why did you do that?" TK asked, confused as to why his friend hurt herself.
"I just wanted to make sure that I'm not dreaming," Catherine said and pointed to the rock creature. "What is that thing?"
"Yeah, you said it was the answer," Chloe recalled.
"That creature right there is a Digimon, a Gotsumon to be exact," TK told them.
"And what is a Digimon?" Both girls asked.
"Digimon, or digital monsters, are digital creatures that inhabit this world that could take the form of animals, plants, or robots. Digimon can be friendly creatures or very dangerous," TK explained.
"Ok, but how did we get here?" Catherine asked.
"Because of this," TK held up his Digivice. "This strange device that came out of your computer is called a Digivice. Only the Digidestined will receive a Digivice and seeing that both of you got one I guess that makes you a Digidestined."
"And how do you know this?" Questioned Chloe.
"Two years ago, August 1st, me and six other kids were summoned to this world to protect it, but unlike the way you got your Digivices, ours fell from the sky," TK told them.
"But what about that computer world we were in before?" Catherine inquired.
"That I don't know," TK said.
Suddenly their Digivices started beeping. TK raised his Digivice to his face and saw two new blue dots on the screen to the east of them.
"What does this mean?" Catherine asked, worried about what the dots mean.
"It means there are other Digidestined close by," TK told her and began moving in the direction of the other two dots.
"Is it one of the other Digidestined that you came here with two years ago?" Chloe asked, following him.
"No, if you look on your screen you see that there is a yellow dot," TK said. "That's mine."
"And why is yours a different color?" Catherine interrogated.
"I'll tell you later, but right now we need to find out who these two dots are," TK told them and they began to run towards the two dots.
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Ken was tired and sore after the craziness that he went through. After being sucked into his computer he found himself in a weird computer world and after a few minutes, a blinding light transported him into an open field. Ken felt some familiarity with this place but he couldn't put his finger on it.
"Ah, if that's what being downloaded feels like then I feel bad for all the games I bought," a boy groaned, reminding Ken that he wasn't alone. Ken looked to his left and saw the boy he met in the computer world. If he recalled the boy said his name was Ryo.
"So, where are we?" Ryo asked while looking around. "Because if you ask me, it looks like we're in some field in the country."
"I don't know, but I don't think we're in Japan," Ken told him.
"What makes you say that?" Ryo said.
"Well if you look in the sky, even with the clouds, you can see that it's daytime and in Japan, it was about 10 at night," Ken stated.
"So what you're saying is that we're not in Japan anymore," Ryo said.
"Yes," Ken calmly answered.
"So what do we do now?" Ryo queried.
"I think it would be best if we find some form of a water source and food," Ken suggested.
And that's what they did as they moved to find a water source. They walked through the forest looking at every tree and bush that held berries and fruits that they might be able to eat. They kept their ears peeled for the sound of running water. Ken suggested that they should also pick up some loose sticks and some broken branches to make a fire and a shelter, only if they didn't find a cave.
They emerged through the forest and found a river close by to a cave. They race to the cave to check how far it goes in. They walked through the cave entrance and saw some smoke leading towards the exit.
"Do you think we should check out where the smoke is coming from?" Whispered Ryo.
"No, we don't know what made the fire or if it's still there," Ken whispered back. "We should leave the cave for now, but not go too far from the river."
They left the cave but stayed close to the river because they didn't know how far the next water source was. They walked back into the forest to collect more of the berries and fruits that could feed them for a little bit. They met back close to the cave to look over what they collected. Ken collected large amounts of berries while Ryo collected more sticks for a fire.
Suddenly their Digivices started beeping. They looked at their screens and saw three dots, one yellow, while the other two were blue, and they were heading straight towards them quickly. They looked up in the direction of where the three dots were coming from and saw three blond kids, a boy, and two girls. The boy started to speak but neither Ken nor Ryo knew what he was saying.
"Huh," Ryo said.
Then the short-haired girl started to speak in the same language as the boy and they still didn't know what they were saying.
"Do you know what they're saying?" Ryo asked Ken.
"Maybe it's how the natives talk around here?" Ken said.
"Actually, it's French," the boy said, surprising both Ken and Ryo. "Hello, my name is TK, the one with the short hair is Chloe, and the other one is Catherine."
"You speak Japanese," Ken said.
"It's my native language," TK responded. "And no this isn't France."
"Well if we're not in France, then where are we?" Ryo asked.
"The Digital World," TK answered.
"What is the Digital World?" Ken questioned.
TK told them what he told Catherine and Chloe and about the Digimon that live in the world. Then both Ken and Ryo introduced themselves to the French kids and TK translated for both of them. Ken then led the group to the cave and told them that there could be Digimon living there and asked what they should do. Ryo suggested that they go explore the cave and that there probably wasn't any Digimon in the cave. Catherine said that the idea was dumb and that they should just abandon the cave altogether. TK decided that he and whoever wanted to follow him were gonna go check out where the fire was coming from and whoever wasn't going with him would wait outside of the cave.
Both Ryo and Chloe decided to follow TK down the cave while Catherine and Ken chose to wait at the entrance. TK suggested that they should each grab a stick for protection just in case that if there were any Digimon in the cave they weren't defenseless if the Digimon were dangerous. The group walked deeper into the cave, keeping their voices down so that if there was anything in the cave it wouldn't hear them coming. As they got deeper into the cave it got bright, as to be expected due to the smoke.
As the cave got brighter the deeper the group was able to hear the cracking of fire and were able to see some shadows on the wall. Now confirming that there were Digimon in the cave the small group began to walk slower and gripped their sticks tighter. They heard voices and to their shock, they were able to understand the voices. They moved closer and were able to identify the Digimon, a worm, a dragon, an orange ball, a green ball with feet and a plant growing on its head, and a guinea pig with bat wings.
TK dropped his stick and began walking towards the fire revealing himself to the Digimon. Both Ryo and Chloe tried to stop him, but when the Digimon turned their attention to the blond boy the duo backed off. Then TK surprised the duo by talking to the guinea pig.
"Patamon?" TK said, moving closer to the group of Digimon.
"TK!" Patamon then took flight and flew into the open arms of the boy. "It's been so long, I missed you."
"I know buddy I missed you too," TK told his partner.
"What are you doing here?" Patamon asked.
"That's what I want to know, but what are you doing in this cave?"
"I was with the others when this huge storm happened out of nowhere," Patamon began. "We were separated shortly afterwards. I was lucky enough to run into these guys."
"And who are these Digimon," TK said, looking over the group. "I know about the Tsunomon and the Tanemon but who are the other two?"
"Well the worm-looking Digimon is Wormmon," Patamon said.
"Greetings," Wormmon politely introduced itself.
"And the dragon Digimon is Monodramon," Patamon stated.
"Yo," Monodramon waved its claws.
"It's nice to meet you all," TK greeted. "And if we're introducing people then I want you to meet some people." TK waved over to Chloe and Ryo to introduce themselves and seecome and introduce themselves and seeing that TK wasn't in any danger they revealed themselves.
"Hello, my name is Chloe," She said with a wave.
"I'm Ryo," He said with a two-finger salute.
Tsunomon bounced over to Chloe with stars in its eyes. "You're really pretty Miss," it said after it reached the girl. "I'm Tsunomon," Chloe bend over and picked up the orange creature.
"Thank you, I really like your horn," Chloe complimented the creature.
"You think so," Tsunomon said with rosy cheeks. "No one ever said that to me before."
"Definitely, it suits you," she said, pointing the tip of its horn.
Ryo walked over to Monodramon in awestruck. "Are you really a dragon?" he asked after reaching the dragon.
"Yeah," Monodramon answered, confused as to why this being walked over to it.
"That's so cool!" Ryo exclaimed with joy. "I never thought that I would ever meet a dragon that wasn't in a video game. Monodramon felt uncomfortable from Ryo's reaction and felt a sweat drop form on the side of its head.
"Are the others here with you?" Patamon asked. "Because I think it would be easy to find the others with their help."
"I don't think so, they're not showing up on my Digivice," TK told his partner. "But there are two more people waiting at the entrance to this cave."
"Well then what are we waiting for let's go," Patamon said and began flying towards the exit.
"But what about the other Digimon," TK said.
"Why don't they come with us," Chloe suggested. "The storm has calmed down and it beats staying in a cave."
"It would be nice to get some fresh air and feel the damp ground," Tanemon said. It started to crawl to the exit, but due to its small legs, it wasn't going any fast. Seeing this TK picked up the Digimon and chased after his partner. He heard the footsteps of his friends and the other Digimon following behind him as they quickly ran through the cave. As they were running TK realized something and turned to Chloe.
"Catherine doesn't know that Patamon is a good Digimon," he told her.
"So, Patamon doesn't look dangerous," she responded while scratching the top of Tsunomon's head.
"But she never met a Digimon before," TK retorted.
"What's the worst that could happen," she told him. A high-pitched scream echoed throughout the cave, causing the small group to run faster. They emerged from the cave to see Catherine hiding behind Ken. They looked down and saw Patamon with a confused look on its face.
"I guess screaming is the worst thing that could happen," TK told Chloe. He got a laugh in response as they both made their way to Catherine to attempt to calm her down. "Calm down Catherine, you're freaking out over one of the most friendliest Digimon there is."
"Well excuse me for not knowing what's friendly and what's dangerous in this world," Catherine said, agitated at her friend. "Anyone would've done the same."
"I don't know," TK said with a sly grin. "Chloe is currently petting one and Ryo tried to befriend the dragon." Catherine smacked him in the back of the head and made her way to Patamon. She crouched in front of Patamon and scratched it behind one of its batwings causing Patamon to cry out in delight.
"You're not so scary when I got a second look at you," she told the small Digimon.
"You can make any assumption about me as long as you keep doing this," Patamon said, enjoying the treatment that it's getting. Tanemon walked over to the two with a curious look on its face.
"Does it feel good?" It asked with wonder and a little jealousy.
"It feels amazing," Patamon responded. Catherine looked at the plant Digimon and stopped scratching Patamon and picked up Tanemon and embraced it with a hug.
"Aren't you precious," Catherine squealed, tightening the embrace. "What's your name?"
"I'm Tanemon and I like breathing," it squeaked out, causing Catherine to loosen her embrace. To make up for suffocating the poor creature, Catherine started to scratch around the plant on top of Tanemons head.
"What about me?" Patamon asked, missing Catherine's touch. TK walked over to Patamon and rubbed the top of his partner's head.
"You have me," he told Patamon and placed the Digimon on top of his head. "So is that everyone?"
"Everyone but Wormmon," Patamon said.
"Where is Wormmon?" Tsunomon asked, still in Chloe's arms. "Wasn't Wormmon behind you, Monodramon?" Everyone turned their attention to the dragon Digimon who then pointed towards Ken, who was hunched over near the cave entrance. At first glance, it looked like Ken was injured, but when they looked more closely they saw Wormmon in Ken's arms.
"I take it you two know each other," TK said, drawing their attention.
"We met about a year ago," Ken told them. "This isn't the first time I've been to the Digital World, but I didn't spend enough time in this place to learn everything about it."
After Ken revealed that he's been to the Digital World before, everyone started talking with each other, with the help of TK. TK and Ken caught up with their respective Digimon partners, telling them stories of what they did since they last saw each other. Catherine started to get more comfortable with her surroundings with the help of her sister and Tanemon. Ryo tried to talk with Monodramon without making the Digimon uncomfortable, but it was really hard to do for the boy.
Then all of a sudden their Digivices went off causing everyone to jump. They looked on their screens and saw a single blue dot to the North of where they are.
"Another Digidestined?" A surprised Catherine said.
"Looks like it, come on," TK said and began making his way to the location.
"But what about the cave?" Chloe asked, making TK stop in his tracks. "If we go searching for this person we'll probably forget where this cave is."
"She's right, and if we stay at the cave then we at least have shelter and food," Catherine said logically. This made TK think because he wants everyone to be safe, but he also doesn't want to put the life of the new Digidestined at risk if they don't go searching for them. Then he came up with the idea that a small group stays at the cave while the others go looking for the Digidestined. He relayed his plan to everyone, switching between languages, and they agreed to it.
They Decided that to make it easier on TK, and not wanting to leave her sister behind again, that the twins would stay at the cave while the boys, Patamon, Wormmon, and Monodramon would go searching for the Digidestined. As the boys were beginning to leave, TK turned to the girls and gave them certain instructions.
"If you both sense that you're in danger don't go into the cave because we don't know how deep it goes or if there is a dead-end," he ordered. "Use your Digivices to find us and don't attempt to fight anything, ok."
The girls agreed and the boys began their trek to find the Digidestined.