Being transported to two worlds was not something that Willis expected to happen when he woke up that morning. Checking his surroundings he saw that he is close to a huge lake and was surrounded by a forest. Willis was glad that he was close to a huge water source, he didn't want to worry about dying of thirst, but food was another problem. Being close to a forest was a good thing for Willis because there could be food growing throughout the foliage and he could use the branches and leaves to make a makeshift shelter, but he didn't know what lived in the area or if any of the food he would find would be edible.
Willis then turned to his two companions worrying how they would fit into his equation. If he was on his own, he would have a lot more food to eat, but with the two extra mouths to feed, he would have to limit how much food they would have per meal. Willis hoped that there were a lot of edible fish in the lake for a good source of protein and a food source to rely on if there wasn't anything edible in the forest. Willis was going to ask Terriermon to go search the lake to see if there were actually fish in it, but he saw that both Terriermon and Lopmon were mesmerized by the area they were in.
"It's wonderful isn't it," Willis said, breaking them out of their trance. "To be back where you came from."
"How do you know that?" Terriermon tilted its head, wondering how its partner knew this is where they came from. "We've never been here before and neither have you."
Willis lifted his Digivice to show the dog-like Digimon. "It's because of this."
"That doesn't answer anything," Lopmon said, causing Willis to chuckle a little. He then crouched down to their level so they could get a better look at the device.
"It's because when both of your eggs came out of my computer two years ago this device came with it," he told them, hoping they understood what he was saying.
"But you told us this already," Lopmon told him.
"You're not making any sense Willis," Terriermon said, making Willis fall over in disbelief. He got back up and showed them the device again.
"We were sucked into my computer when this thing beeped and since you both came out of my computer with this device two years ago I assumed you came from this place because it looks like it can inhabit life," Willis explained to the two, receiving a sound of understanding from both creatures. Willis stood up straight and made his way to the lake.
"Anyways, I think it's best if we prepare for when night comes," he said as he reached the lake. "So what I want the two of you to do is to search the outer area of the forest for sticks and branches, but don't go in too deep because we don't know what's in it and I still need to be able to see you."
Both Digimon gave a small salute and made their way to the forest. While they were doing that Willis began to see if he could spot any edible fish for them to eat. He saw some shad, bass, and some minnows swimming around so he knew that they at least had a good food source, but he didn't know how they would catch them.
Suddenly Willis' Digivice startled to beep which startled him because the last time it made a noise he was transported to another world. He looked on the screen and saw three dots coming towards him, two blue, and one yellow. This scared him because he doesn't know if the device is warning him of danger or not. Not wanting to take any chances, Willis called out to his partners and hid behind one of the many trees that surrounded the area.
A few minutes passed and nothing happened but checking his Digivice Willis saw that the three dots were getting closer. The rustling of leaves and the snapping of twigs signaled that the unknown beings arrived. Keeping his breathing low and steady, Willis covered the mouths of both Terriermon and Lopmon as an extra precaution to not be discovered.
Emerging from the woods, Willis identified three boys, one with a hat, one with blue hair, and the last one was taller than the other two. He also noticed that they were being followed by strange creatures with their own unique descriptions. Willis saw their lips moving but he wasn't close enough to make out what they were saying. He saw the blue-haired one looking at something in the palm of his hands and then suddenly pointing to where he and his partners were hidden.
Willis was panicking as he saw the group walk towards his hiding spot. He wanted to run, but he didn't know what was hidden in the forest and he came to the assumption that the group was able to track him. All he could do was pray that the group was friendly or if it came down to it, he would be able to hold them off long enough for Terriermon and Lopmon to escape. When he heard the sound of footsteps get closer he prepared for what he was going to do. When the sound of footsteps stopped Willis took a deep breath and leaped out of his hiding spot and tackled the first body he saw.
"LOPMON, TERRIERMON, RUN!" Willis screamed and the two look alike Digimon ran out of their hiding spot to join their partner. "What are you two doing? Run!"
"We're not leaving you, Willis!" Lopmon cried.
"Yeah! What kind of partners would we be if we abandon you," Terriermon told him.
Willis felt tears form in the corners of his eyes, happy that his partners wouldn't abandon him. "Thanks, you guys," Willis wiped away his tears. "Now let's show these guys whose boss!" They turned their attention to the group ready to defend themselves when they saw the group had confused looks on their faces.
"What are you doing?" asked the flying guineapig.
"What does it look like," Terriermon interjected. "We're defending ourselves."
"But why?" It asked again with a more confusing look on its face.
"Because you were going to attack us," Lopmon answered.
"We weren't going to attack you," the worm said. "We just wanted to find you and take you back to see the others."
"To attack us?"
"No, it's because your partner is a Digidestined," the guineapig told them. "Also, can you get off my partner, he's been asking that for a while now."
Looking down Willis saw that he tackled the boy with the hat. He also realized that the group was speaking in a different language than him. Willis helped the boy up, apologizing as well, but the boy didn't seem to understand what he was saying. The boy began to speak in a language, but all Willis was able to make out was Japanese and French. Willis gave an unknowing look as he didn't know what language the boy was speaking, but suddenly the boy looked like he had an idea and began talking to the guineapig.
"My friend asks if you speak Japanese or French?" It said. Willis understood what the boy was trying to do, use this creature as a translator to communicate with each other.
"Well I don't speak either of those languages, but I can read them," he told the flying creature. It relaid the message back to the hat-wearing boy and the group nodded before speaking again.
"My friends want to know your names," it spoke.
"My name is Willis," then he pointed to Terriermon. "This is Terriermon," and finished off by pointing to Lopmon. "And this is Lopmon. What are your names?
"I'm Patamon," it said before telling the others.
"TK"
"Ken"
"Ryo"
"Wormmon"
"And I'm Monodramon"
After introducing themselves, Willis began asking questions like the strange device he has, where they are, who the other Digidestined they wanted him to meet, and what is a Digidestined. They answered his questions with Patamon, Wormmon, and sometimes Monodramon translating. With all his questions answered, Willis agreed that he would follow them to meet the other Digidestined seeing that he and his companions would be safer in a big group.
Suddenly, he saw two girls, with the only different characteristic is hair length, run out of the forest straight to the four boys. They began speaking in a panic towards TK and pointing at where they came from. They looked in that direction and saw that trees were being knocked down and felt the ground shaking. Seeing that there was no time to run, the Digimon moved in front of their human partners and got ready for whatever was coming.
(Few Minutes Earlier)
As the boys were away the girls got to work setting the cave up for when they return. Catherine and Tanemon went out to find some berries to eat and collect a large number of leaves to make some makeshift beds. Chloe and Tsunomon on the other hand chose to collect sticks to make a fire for warmth. When they returned to the cave Catherine separated the leaves, sticks, and berries into evenly neat piles, while Chloe let the Digimon eat some of the berries.
As they were working they made idle chit-chat about anything that came to mind like clothes, food, and whatever trends were popular at the moment. The Digimon didn't know what the two girls were talking about but seeing that they were happy they didn't want to butt in. The girl's conversion changed when Chloe brought up the topic of the new Digidestined.
"So, what do you think the new Digidestined is like?"
"I don't know?" Catherine sighed. "I hope they're nice."
"I hope they're nice as well," Chloe walked over to the two Digimon that finished their berries. She picked up Tsunomon and started to rub the top of its head. "What do you think of the other two?"
"Do you want me to be honest?" Chloe nodded in response. "I don't really trust them that much."
"What do you mean?"
"It's just that after being transported to this world it's hard to trust two people that we just met," Catherine answered.
"They seem nice though."
"You're right, but we barely even know them," Catherine told her sister. "And look at TK, we've known him for almost two years, yet he never told us about this."
"To be fair, would we believe him even if he told us?"
"No, no we wouldn't" Catherine felt Tanemon brush against her leg and she smiled as she picked up the plant Digimon. "But, I guess being in this world isn't so bad."
The sound of rustling leaves drew their attention to the forest across the river. They stepped out of the cave to find out what made the noise.
"M-maybe it's the wind," Catherine stuttered. "Or TK and the others are just trying to prank us."
"But they went the other direction," Chloe looked at her Digivice. "And this says that they're not even close to us."
The ground started to shake, freaking out both the girls and Digimon. Catherine wanted to run but Chloe said that the shaking was caused by nature. Knowing how stubborn her sister could be and also not wanting to leave her alone Catherine stayed with her sister. Suddenly, they both saw trees falling over, and felt the shaking growing stronger.
"We're leaving, NOW!" Catherine grabbed her sister and began running in the same direction the boys went earlier. Chloe wanted to tell her sister that it was probably the wind when an Earth-shaking roar motivated her to run faster.
(Present Time)
Seconds past and nothing happened. The sound of everyone's breath was the noise being made at this moment. Everything being too calm made everyone loosen up, thinking that maybe whatever was chasing the twins lost interest and left. Their hopes were crushed when they heard a loud roar and a dinosaur crashed through the forest.
It looked like a gray triceratops with only one large horn, black armor covering its face, back, and shins, and it has a white underbelly.
"What is that thing!?" Cried out, Catherine.
"It's a Monochromon!" TK shouted.
"A what?!"
"It's a Monochromon, they say that the armor that covers its body is as tough as diamonds and its horn can pierce through anything," Patamon explained as it got ready to attack. The Monochromon opened its mouth and a bright flame started to form in its mouth.
"What's it doing!?" Chloe, for the first time she was in this world, was panicking.
"It's going to attack!" TK started to run. "MOVE!"
Even though he said it in French, the boys understood the panic and urgency in his voice and because he and the girls were running. They all ran in separate directions with TK and the girls being in one group and Ken, Ryo, and Willis in another group. Getting out of the Monochromons range of attack the children saw it launch its attack. It was a huge ball of fire and even though none of the children were close enough to the blast they still felt the heat radiate off of it, and it landed right where they previously were.
"Alright, no more playing around!" TK raised his Digivice. "Ready Patamon!"
"Ready!" Patamon was shrouded in a veil of light and whoever was close to it could feel power radiate from it. "Patamon digivolve too… Patamon?" The veil of light disappeared, leaving behind a confused Patamon.
"What happened?" TK asked with concern.
"I don't know? I guess I ran out of energy during the storm, sorry."
"It's ok, but we need to find a way to defeat this Digimon," TK stated.
"Defeat!? You want to defeat that thing!" Catherine exclaimed. "Didn't Patamon say that its armor is as tough as diamonds!"
"But it's not covering its whole body," TK pointed at the Digimon to draw the girl's attention to the beast. "Look at its underbelly, it's completely unprotected. If we're able to hit that then we might be able to scare it off."
"And how will we be able to hit its stomach?" Chloe asked.
"If one of us can distract it then the others can attack its weak spot," TK explained.
"And who will be dumb enough to distract it?" Catherine realized what TK was going to do. "NO! You are not going to do what I think you're going to do!"
Paying no attention to Catherine, TK turned to Patamon. "Patamon, I want you to go and tell Ken and the others to attack Monochromon's stomach when I have it distracted."
"Ok, but are you sure you want to do this?" Patamon was a bit reluctant to go along with his partner's plan.
"Don't worry I'll be fine. Just make sure to join in on the attack with the others," TK said and ran out of their cover to draw the Monochromons. While he did that Patamon flew over to the boys to relay TK's message.
"Over here you rejected Triceratops!" TK was waving his arms, gaining the dinosaur Digimon's attention. It charged towards the French boy ready to pierce him with his horn, but TK moved out of the way before the Digimon reached him. "That was close," he said as the Digimon began to charge after him again.
"What is TK doing?!" Ken said out loud, wondering why the boy he met a few minutes ago is risking his life.
"I don't know but he's going to get himself killed," Ryo said.
"Maybe he's trying to fight it?" Wormmon interjected.
"Well, he's not doing a good job doing it," Monodramon was frustrated, it wanted to be the one out there fighting instead of hiding like a coward.
"Maybe he's trying to tire out Monochromon," Lopmon suggested.
"Maybe, but…" Ken looked into the field and saw that TK was beginning to breathe heavily while the Monochromon looked like it still had enough energy to run a marathon. "But who's going to tire out first?"
"GUYS!" The group jumped at the sound of Patamon's voice. They saw the flying Digimon behind them but they were confused as to why it wasn't out there with its partner. "I need to tell you something."
"Well spit it out!" Ryo said concernedly.
"TK wants you to attack Monochromon's stomach," Patamon relayed.
"Well, how are we supposed to do that?"
"I don't know but we have to get him out of there," Ken sternly said and the Digimon ran from their cover and charged the Monochromon.
TK was exhausted. He didn't think he would waste this much energy trying to dodge a stampeding Digimon. He saw Monochromon digging into the dirt with one of it's clawed feet. "You know, I take back the rejected triceratops comment," TK commented between breaths. Monochromon ignored his comment and charged at the boy. TK began to move out of the way but he tripped over his own feet. Seeing that he doesn't have enough time to get out of the way all TK could do was close his eyes and wait.
"Sticky Net!"
Opening his eyes TK saw Monochromon stuck on a giant web on the ground. He looked around trying to see who shot that attack when he saw Wormmon with a concerned, yet proud look on its face. TK felt someone's hands on his arms trying to help him up.
"Now is not the time to be lying around!" TK turned around and saw that Ken was the one trying to help him up. "You're crazy you know that."
"Hey, sometimes you need to be crazy," TK told them and they both ran for cover.
With both Ken and TK out of harm's way and Monochromon being stuck it allowed the Digimon to attack the beast. Aiming at Monochromons underbelly the Digimon used their strongest attacks.
Patamon inflated with air and then shot out a blast of air.
"Boom Bubble!"
It was a direct hit, but since there wasn't a clear shot to the stomach the attack bounced off Monochromon's armor.
Lopmon and Terriermon began to spin at a rapid pace creating two small wind vortexes from their ears.
"Terrier Tornado!" "Tiny Twister!"
Just like Patamon's attack both vortexes landed a direct hit and just like Patamon's attack they both bounced off of Monochromon's armor.
"Our attacks aren't working!"
"We need to find a way to get under it!" Patamon shouted.
"Leave that to me!" Monodramon ran straight for Monochromon, drawing back its fist to attack.
"Beat Knuckle!"
Monodramon put as much force and strength behind its attack. It landed a direct hit causing Monochromon to tumble over and out of Wormmons net. Seeing that they had an open shot at Monochromon's stomach, they attacked at the same time, using their strongest attacks.
"Boom Bubble!"
"Terrier Tornado!"
"Tiny Twister!"
"Beat Knuckle!"
"Thread Punch!"
Wormmon formed a blob of silk, shooting the silk towards the dino-Digimon's stomach, landing a direct hit. The Monochromon wailed in pain from the attacks. Realizing that it won't win the fight, Monochromon got up and started to flee from the area.
"Alright!" The boys and the Digimon cheered, but they soon realized that Monochromon was heading straight for the girls. The Monochromon was moving too fast for any of the boys or Digimon to reach the girls and since none of the Digimon had a clear shot at its stomach they weren't able to attack.
"MOVE!"
"RUN!"
"GET OUT OF THERE!"
But the girls weren't able to move as they were frozen in fear. Both Tanemon and Tsunomon began to squirm in the girl's arms. As Monochromon got closer Tanemon and Tsunomon squirmed harder until they broke free from the girl's arms and stood in front of the charging Monochromon.
"No, Tsunomon!" Chloe cried out.
"Get back here Tanemon!" Catherine reached out for the Digimon.
Suddenly both of their Digivice's vibrated and Tanemon and Tsunomon were surrounded by a bright light.
"What's happening?" Ken asked in a panic.
"They're Digivolving," TK answered.
"Tanemon Digivolve too…" Tanemon grew in size as its back legs became roots, grew a green lizard-like tail, its front legs grew into two long whitish-purple flowers for arms, and the plant on its head moved to its neck and sprouted into a large red flower with the top petal draping over its head like a mask. "Floramon!"
"Tsunomon Digivolve too…" Tsunomon grew in size as its orange fur turned purple, it grew two yellow feet with red claws, two long purple flippers with red claws, a white belly with purple markings, losing its horn it gained a long yellow beak with a purple marking at the end. "Penguinmon!"
"Who are they?!" Ken asked in shock.
"That's Floramon," Wormmon answered. "They say that when it's in a good mood the petals on its head and arms open up wide."
"And who's the penguin?" TK asked.
"That's Penguinmon," Patamon told him. "Even though it can't fly or walk really fast, it is fast when sliding across ice."
Both girls were in disbelief from what they just saw. Moments before they were holding two small creatures then the next they grew into bigger and different looking creatures. Their disbelief didn't last long as the rumbling from Monochromon reminded them that they were in danger.
"Look Out!" Catherine screamed.
"Be Careful!" Chloe shouted with worry.
Both newly Digivolved Digimon didn't say anything as their attention was on the charging Digimon. They waited until Monochromon was close to them and when it was, Penguinmon raised its right flipper and brought it down on Monochromon's cheek.
"Super Slap!"
The force of Penguinmon's slap caused Monochromon to stop in its tracks and come face to face with Floramon. Floramon raised both of its arms to Monochromon's face and sprayed it with orange pollen.
"Rain of Pollen!"
The pollen cleared to reveal a disinterested-looking Monochromon. It looked around before slowly retreating back into the forest. Seeing that the immediate danger left the Digidestined grouped together.
"That was amazing!"
"How did you do that?"
"Are you girls ok?" TK asked.
Since they were only able to understand TK's concern, they both nodded. They both turned to Floramon and Penguinmon who were both receiving praise from the other Digimon. They made their way to the two Digimon gaining their attention.
"That was awesome…?" Chloe said, trying to remember its name.
"Penguinmon," it helped her.
"Was I awesome too?" Floramon asked Catherine.
"You were more than awesome, you were amazing," Catherine told the plant Digimon, causing the petals on its arms and head to open up. The two girls hugged their new partners as everyone started to calm down from the events from earlier.
Patamon flew to the lake and began to study the water. It had a curious look on its face, Patamon felt like it might have seen this lake before. Curious as to why his partner was interested in the big body of water TK walked over to Patamon and stuck his hand in the water.
"Already thinking about lunch?" TK jokingly asked.
"Does this lake look familiar, TK?" Patamon asked, ignoring TK's joke.
TK looked at the lake, moving his hand under the water to see if he could understand what his friend was talking about. The more TK looked at the water the more he felt like he's seen this lake before. TK pulled his hand out of the water and turned to Patamon when he realized where they were. Noticing that both TK and Patamon weren't with the group, Ken walked over to the blond boy with Wormmon in tow.
"What are you guys doing over here?" Ken asked, gaining both of their attention.
"We're just seeing if we know this lake?" TK answered.
"And do you?" Wormmon spoke as it got closer to the water.
"Yeah, we've actually been insi-," Patamon was interrupted by a light that was coming from the lake. It was so bright that the rest of the children and Digimon were drawn to it. They all stood at the base of the lake when the light faded, revealing a staircase leading down into the lake. With a day that kept on getting weirder and weirder, this strangely felt normal.
TK and Patamon began making their way down the stairs, worrying the group, but TK eased their worries when he showed them a reassuring smile. Seeing that both TK and Patamon weren't in any danger the group followed them down the stairs. The walk wasn't far, but it felt like they were walking for miles. They reached the end of the steps and were met with a large wooden door and a white stone wall.
TK walked up to the door to knock when the door opened itself. Seeing this as an invitation to enter, the group walked in to see a large open field of green grass, sakura trees, and a traditional Japanese house. Standing in the center of the walled-off area was a short old man with a long grey mustache, a bald head with a ponytail growing out of the top of his head, and he was wearing a purple and red robe. He smiled when he saw the group.
"It's been a while hasn't it, Child of Hope."