A/Nthe ages of the 02 digidestined have changed; they are now fourteen and the original kids are sixteen and seventeen. The story takes place while the Digimon Emperor has been trying to take over the digiworld.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and Alexia Summers.
And now on the most important part... The story!


A New, but Old Digidestined
Part One
By Songbreeze

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Last time:
"Hi I'm Alexia Summers, but please call me Alex." She didn't notice that her necklace had fallen out of her shirt or the girl who couldn't take her eyes off of it.

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Alex stood patiently for the teacher to tell her where to sit.

"Alex, please take a seat next to Kari Kamiya," said the teacher, Mr. Fujiyama, as he pointed to a girl dressed in a pink and white shirt with a camera around her neck.

Murmuring thank you, Alex walked over to the girl. "Hi, my name's Alex." Alex held out her hand in a gesture of politeness.

Kari looked up at Alex. "Hello, my name is Kari Kamiya." Kari told Alex as she shook her hand. Kari looked at Alex' necklace. Questions were evident in her gaze. "Hey Alex?" she asked, "Can I see your necklace?"

"Umm, why?" responded Alex, looking uncomfortable.

Kari was taken aback by the answer. She didn't know whether or not Alex was hiding something. Taking a deep breath Kari said, "Oh, I thought it looked cool and I wanted to get a better look at it." Under her breath, so that Alex wouldn't hear she added, "I also wanted to see whether or not it was a crest."

"Oh, okay," Alex replied cheerfully. Alex pulled the necklace over her head and handed it to Kari.

Kari looked at the shiny gold, silver and bronze pendant-or crest- on a silver string. She found it strange how the pendant's shape looked identical to the shape of a tag, and yet she had no clue what the crest, assuming it was one, stood for. Kari decided to have a talk with the redheaded genius, Izzy after school. "Thank you for allowing me to look at you necklace." Kari said politely, almost too politely. It was as if she was trying to hide something.

"You're welcome," Alex replied, oblivious to Kari's sudden mood change. After receiving her 'necklace', she put it on and listened to the teacher as he explained polynomials.

As soon as Alex started paying attention to Mr. Fujiyama, Kari took out a piece of paper and sketched the symbol of the supposed crest. When Kari had finished her drawing, it looked like a Z with coils on the ends. The Z had a diagonal line running through it with coils on each of its ends. Kari was almost positive that it was a crest, but which crest was it?

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"Have a good day class", said Mr. Fujiyama as all the students rushed out of the classroom as fast as their legs would allow them to. After about thirty seconds only one other person remained in the room, Alex Summers.

'Beep! Beep! Beep!'

"Wha?" asked Alex as she pulled out her 'pager,' "Oh my gosh!" She gasped. Quickly she gathered her things and flew out the door while yelling, "Bye, Mr. Fujiyama!" Alex ran down the hallway to the computer lab as fast as she could. She figured that since the Digiworld was made of data, she could possibly transport herself into that dimension.

"Ooof!" yelled a startled fourteen-year old guy with reddish-brown hair and blue goggles.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, um, I have to go. Bye!" Alex yelled leaving behind a confused teen.

Alex made her way to the computer lab without a problem. She sat down at the computer with the digi-port. Alex held up her 'pager' or rather a digivice to the computer screen. "Please work," she prayed softly, but God (A/N: If you don't believe in God and this offends you, I apologise.) either didn't listen to her or couldn't help her. "Why me?" She sobbed, "Damn digivice." Alex looked at her 'pager' as she swore. Then it hit her, she tried her crest, but it too failed. The new, but old digidestined, known as Alex, not knowing what to do; sat in front of the computer screen and cried.

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All the new digidestined, joined by Joe, Izzy and Matt, were silent in thought over the matter of the new crest. Kari cleared her throat to gain their attention. "See, this is a sketch of the crest." Kari showed the redheaded Izzy her sketch. Izzy was about to respond when the D3's went of, signalling that there was a Digimon in trouble.

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T.K. and Matt were the first ones to reach the computer lab. When they went inside they found a girl with long brown hair crying. The girl, Alex looked up and quickly stuffed her digivice and crest away. "Um, h-hi. I was just leaving." She turned to go out the door, but then she stopped and turned around, "Matt? Matt Ishida?"

Matt looked around, "Yeah?"

"It's me, Alex. Alex Summers."

"Alex?"

As soon as her name left his mouth, Alex flung her harms around him and started sobbing as she told him her Digimon was in trouble and she couldn't help him.

T.K. watched the scene Alex and Matt were making with wide eyes and a confused look on his face. Just then, as if on cue, the rest of the Digidestined came into the room.

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"Um, did we interrupt anything?" asked a fourteen-year old girl with purple hair.

Alex and matt jumped apart as if they had been electrocuted. Matt, being the first to recover of the two says, "Oh no, your aren't." While waving his hands in the air. "Guys, this is my friend Alex," Matt said. "Alex, this is Joe, T.K., Kari, Izzy, Yolie, Davis, and Cody." Matt said as he pointed to each of the Digidestined. "I met Alex when we went to the Digiworld four years ago."

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Matt is wandering around the Digiworld with Gabumon at his side. Gabumon hears a noise, so him and Matt go and see what it is. They find a ten-year old girl with brown and copper hair playing with a short white bear-like Digimon. "Um, who are you?" Matt asked, startling the little girl.

"I'm Alex Summers. Who are you? What do you want with me?" She asked defiantly as the Digimon stepped in front of her protectively. However when the Digimon sees Gabumon, it relaxed, knowing that Gabumon is one of the Digimon sworn to protect the Digidestined.

"I'm Matt Ishida," replied the blond boy. "Why do you have a Digimon and how come you're by yourself?"

"I have a Digimon because I'm a digidestined. And I'm by myself because I haven't seen any other humans around here, excluding you of course." Alex told Matt in a tone that was rather snobbish.

"Oh, do you have a crest?" Matt asked with sudden interest.

"Yea, do you?" Alex asked suspiciously.

"Yes, my crest is the crest of friendship." Matt answered some what glumly.

"If you have the crest of friendship, where are your friends?" Alex asked curiously.

"They are not with me. I need some time alone." He answered seriously. Changing the subject he asked, "What crest do you have?"

"Me, I have the crest of truth." Alex said proudly. "Matt, I was thinking. Maybe it would be safer if we were to travel together."

"Yea, I guess it would." Matt blushed as his stomach growled reminding him it was time to eat.

Alex smiled, "How about we eat before we leave?"

"Sure," Matt said, smiling for the first time in days.

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"Uh, Matt? Sorry to interrupt the trip down memory lane but I need to find a way to help Bearmon." Alex said impatiently with her hand on her hips.

"Sorry." Matt said sheepishly.

"Who's Bearmon?" asked the little boy named Cody.

"He's my Digimon. So how do we go to the Digiworld?" Alex asked the group of people.

"Like this," said the boy with goggles on, named Davis. He held his D3 out and shouted, "Digiport open!" He was sucked into the monitor and the rest of the teens followed his example.

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INSERT TRAVEL SEQUENCE TO THE DIGIWORLD HERE

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The teens landed in a big heap on the side of a mountain range, known as the Snowy Mountains.

"I hate cold places! I really, really, hate cold places!" Davis whimpered through shivering. "Why couldn't we *sniff* just go somewhere warm?"

As soon as Alex had landed, she jumped up and brushed herself off. She paused for only a moment before heading Southeast.

"Alex, might I enquire where you are going?" asked Izzy as politely as he could.

"Where I am going is none of your business, but if you wish to know I am going to find Bearmon. If you want to you can help me, but if you aren't then stay out of my way." Alex told Izzy a bit more harshly than what was needed.

"Alex I think that we should stay together. We aren't positive that this area is safe, Ken may attack us again." T.K. protested.

"T.K.'s right. We should stay together." Kari said. "Izzy, is there any chance that Gommamon, Gabumon and Tentomon are any where near here?"

"I don't know," said Izzy, "They could be. We should find someway to contact them."

"I know Gommamon is somewhere around here, his region to protect is near by," said Joe. "If we could find him, he may be able to help us find Bearmon."

"We could split up to look for Gommamon and meet here in an hour," suggested Cody.

"That's a good idea, but I have something that will help us." Alex held up her light blue and white crest.

"It's a crest," T.K. said, his voice full of disbelief.

"Which crest is it? I've never seen it before." Izzy asked and as always, his voice was full of curiosity.

"What's a crest?" asked Yolie as Kari said almost silently, "So I was right after all."

"Ya, I agree with Yolie," said Davis.

"This crest is the crest of Truth, Izzy. This crest lets Bearmon warp-digivole if nessecary. It also lets Bearmon's champion form digivolve to the ultimate form." Alex said as if she was explaining this all to a bunch of three-year olds.

Matt looked confused. He decided to voice his thoughts, "How can Bearmon digivolve? The only digimon that I know of that can warp-digivolve are Gabumon and Agumon and the only reason they can do it is because Tai and I were hit by the arrows of Light and Hope."

Upon hearing this question, Alex nervously shifted from one foot to another, "I... I... I,"

"Go ahead, it's not like we haven't seen anything weird happen before. I mean look at us. We're in another dimension."

"I nearly died. Bearmon saw this and he digivolved with the help of our friends. They gave their lives so he could digivolve." Alex said, her voice slightly cracking at the end.

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Alex stood in Piedmon's way defiantly. "Stay out of this little girl," he said with a slight sneer in his voice.

"No! You have already caused too much pain. I won't let you hurt others like you have done to me." She said more confidentially than she felt.

"You stupid girl," he said, "I guess this will be the last mistake you will ever make, Clown Trick!"

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Alex screamed as the energy rushed at her. Suddenly her digivice created a shield, protecting her, as all the souls of the Digimon Piedmon had killed merged with her crest. With an explosion of power, Bearmon warp-digivolved for the first time into Polarfridgiemon, he jumped in the way of the blast. Alex was devastated as the coward, Piedmon, left. He had left in the middle of a battle. Shaking with rage she screamed, "This isn't over! It'll never be over!"

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"Well. I guess we should go and look for Bearmon now!" Davis said, breaking Alex' private trip down memory lane.

"Yeah, maybe we should go that way," Matt said as he pointed down the mountains and over toward a dense green forest.

"Good idea, I'll lead." said Alex as she was snapped back into reality.

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Meanwhile in The Digimon Emperor's Hideout:

"Hmm. Wormmon! How's our guest doing? Is he ready for his grand debut?" The Digimon Emperor, aka Ken Ichijoji, aka The Boy Genius, asked the pitiful, green, worm-like Digimon.

"Yes, master," Wormmon replied, his voice laced with fear.

"Perfect," Ken purred evilly.

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