"Oh, man we're going to be late!" yelled out Aquaria as she barreled down the escalator. Dashing down the platform with Unmon cradled in her arms she dove and managed to stumble into the last compartment on the subway as the door closed a second later. Collapsing into an empty seat she took a deep breath and looked down at Unmon and said, "Man, I didn't know you could eat that much food!"

"What about you?" asked Unmon, "You had third helpings too you know!"

"Yeah, yeah," said Aquaria as she gave a little giggle, "What do you think they want to do on a Saturday though?"

"I don't know, you took the call," said Unmon, "Where are we suppose to get off again?"

"Two more stops," said Aquaria as she settled into the seat and tried to look inconspicuous as a group of old ladies entered the nearly empty compartment. Two stops later, she and Unmon exited the train.

"Hey Aquaria!" yelled out Izzy as she nearly walked right by him and Davis at the front.

"Hey Izzy. Hey Davis," said Aquaria as she ran over to meet them, "So what's the big surprise?"

"We're going on a picnic to celebrate the newest digidestined," said Izzy happily.

"He means you," yelled out Davis and managed to get a few stares. Feeling his cheeks go red, he mumbled, "Come on, we're going to be leaving from Izzy's house."

After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at Izzy's house. As they walked in, a beautiful voice called out, "Oh, Izzy, your back. Your friends are in your room."

"Thanks mom," said Izzy as he led them to his room.

"Oh, and Izzy," said his mom as she leaned her head out of the kitchen.

"Yeah mom?" asked Izzy.

"I have the stuff for your picnic, and I added extra rice balls for your friend Tentamon."

"Thanks mom, and I'm sure that Tentamon will be thankful too," said Izzy as he took the big picnic basket from his mom. As they finally entered Izzy's room Aquaria was surprised to find a group of people waiting. Sitting on the bed were a boy in a white hat and a girl talking with what appeared to be a glove wearing cat and flying piglet. Next to them a boy that looked strikingly similar to Davis, except that that he had better hair, stood talking to a girl with red hair and a beautiful smile. Over by the small bookcase a smaller boy that looked to be about ten sat with a large book opened on his lap and a little head that looked like Unmon was perched on his shoulder. Over him, an older boy of about sixteen pointed out and said something as the boy nodded in understanding. Off by the window another boy with unruly blonde hair stared out the window, seemingly aloof from the others. Finally off on the computer was a girl with bright purple hair that seemed awfully familiar to Aquaria. As she turned around she realized that it was Yolei, the girl that she had met at the convenience store.

"Hey I was right for once," said Yolei as she spotted Aquaria, "You really are one of us."

"Hey everyone, I want you to meet Aquaria and her digimon Unmon" said Izzy as everybody turned to stare at him, "Aquaria, that's T.K. and Kari."

"Hi," said T.K. and Kari together as they gave little waves.

"And next to them are Tai and Sora. Tai was the original leader of the digidestined."

"Don't remind us," said Sora with a laugh as she flashed a smile to Tai to show that she was joking.

"That blonde guy who looks like he has a rod sticking into his back over there is Matt. He's an up and coming musician."

"Don't listen to a word he says, me and my band are going to be the biggest thing since sushi on a stick," said Matt as he rolled his eyes at Izzy.

"I think I went to one of your concerts," said Aquaria.

"And over there with the book in his lap is Cody, and his digimon, Oopamon. And that tall guy with the glasses and the long hair is Joe."

"Pleased to meet you," said Cody solemnly as he inclined his head towards Aquaria.

"So you're the one that Izzy was telling us about," said Joe as he pushed up his glasses on his small nose.

(Author's gripe: Why the hell does everybody in anime have to have small noses? Really what would be so hard about having a large nose? Really! Although that would explain the lack of Jewish people in anime. Anyways, back to the story!)

"And I guess you already know Yolei," said Izzy.

"Don't forget Poramon," said the small head in Yolei's lap that was flapping in the air.

"So that's everyone," said Izzy as he thought for a second, "Hey wait a minute, where's Ken?"

"He sent us an e-mail. He said that he would meet us later because he had to run errands for his mom," said Yolei, whom Aquaria noticed got a strange gleam when she said his name.

"Come on I'm starved," declared Davis. "Digiport Open!"

Everyone held out their digivices and Aquaria followed suit. Once again, Aquaria felt the strange pull on her body and with everybody else got pulled into the digital world.

Once again Aquaria landed on her butt but this time it was because Unmon had just digivolved to Gilamon in her arms.

"Oh yeah, we should have mentioned that," said Izzy as he helped her up, "Digimon automatically digivolve from their in-training level to their rookie level when they pass through the Digiport. Kind of like a free fill-up."

"Thanks for the warning," said Aquaria with just a hint of sarcasm tracing her voice. As they hurried up to catch the others they heard a group of voices coming up behind them. Turning around, Izzy barely managed to get his hands up as Tentamon smashed into him.

"Izzy!"

"Tentamon!"

"Um, who's she?" said Tentamon as he pointed an arm at Aquaria.

"Tentamon, this is Aquaria. She's totally prodigious!" said Izzy as Aquaria felt herself blush slightly.

"Hi, I'm Tentamon," said Tentamon as he extended a hand to Aquaria and then to Gilamon as each shook his hand.

"Where's all the other digimon?" asked Izzy.

"They're probably with the others now."

"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Aquaria and sprinted off in the direction of the others.

"Wait for me!" yelled out Izzy happily as he sprinted after her.

After a little bit of racing, they found the others and their digimon. Aquaria was introduced to them and they settled down for lunch. As they were just getting into the macaroni salad that Yolei had brought Ken and Wormmon came around the corner with Mimi and Palomon. More introductions were made and then everybody began to dig in. As they ate and talked, Aquaria noticed that some of them were obviously more than friends. Everybody except for Davis noticed and accepted the fact that T.K. and Kari had something special together. To Aquaria, it also seemed that Tai and Sora had something, as well as Matt and Mimi. What she didn't know though, was that everybody, even Davis for once, noticed how Izzy and Aquaria were already close to each other. They sat next together at lunch, so close to one another that Joe asked if there was two of them or if he was just having double vision, which resulted in another smart remark from Gomamon. Suddenly, just as they were going onto dessert, a loud screech echoed through the trees.

Bursting into the digidestined's little meadow came a trio of Darktyranomon. Everybody screamed and began to run away when a huge blue and green Venus Fly Trap popped out of the ground.

"Somebody call a gardener!" yelled out Davis.

"Forget that Davis, that's Venusmon, a plant type digimon with a dangerous Acid Vine," yelled out Veemon.

As if that wasn't enough, a Phantomon with a group of Bakumon appeared out of the ground behind them.

"Agumon, digivolve!" yelled out Tai.

"Agumon digivolve to...Greymon!" yelled out Agumon.

"Come on Gabumon, let's get'em!" yelled out Matt.

"Gabumon digivolve to...Garurumon!" yelled out Gabumon.

"Hey, leave some for us!" yelled out Sora.

"Yeah!" yelled out the others.

In a flash of light, all the others digivolved to their Champion form, except for Gilamon.

"How'd you guys do that?" asked Aquaria to Izzy as Kabutarimon took off.

"Our digivice's allow them to transform into the next level. I have some diagrams on my computer that I can show you when we get back," said Izzy.

As the children watched the digimon began to fight the invaders. Greymon, Kabutarimon, and Ikkakumon took on the three Darktyranomon, while Birdramon, Togemon, Angemon, and Gatomon took on Venusmon. Over to their left, Stingmon, Exveemon, Aquillamon, and Ankylomon tried their hand against Phantomon and his gang.

"Acid Vine!" screeched Venusmon and knocked aside its attackers.

"Togemon, do it!" yelled out Mimi to the left of Aquaria.

Aquaria watched in utter silence as Togemon suddenly began to glow. Togemon's tall cactus body peeled away and standing in the center was a beautiful pixie.

"Flower Cannon!" yelled out the pixie as she shot a beam of green light out of a flower that had appeared on her hands.

"What's that!" yelled out Aquaria to Mimi.

"That's Lilymon, she's the ultimate form of Togemon," said Mimi.

"Can you do that Gilamon?" asked Aquaria in amazement.

"If I can learn how to digivolve," said Gilamon.

"Aquaria look out!" yelled out Kari.

Aquaria turned around and screamed in terror as Phantomon came flying towards her with his scythe outstretched.

"Aquaria!" yelled out Gilamon and knocked her out of the way. Suddenly Aquaria's digivice began to glow, and she instinctively yelled out, "Gilamon, Digivolve!"

"Gilamon...digivolve to...Dracomon!" yelled out Gilamon.

Gilamon's small thin frame glowed gold as it grew and enlarged itself. In place of Gilamon now, a large dragon like digimon. It stood on two muscular, lizard-like legs and had long arms that bared powerful muscles. Its entire body was covered in silver armor and large tubes and wires connected from its neck to its shoulders and from the back its knees to its ankles. On each forearm it had a gun barrel in place and its eyes glowed a deep green color in its large head.

"I am Dracomon, a champion level dragon-type digimon. You don't want to get in the way of my Dragon's Inferno Attack!" said Dracomon in a robotic sounding voice.

"No matter, Shadow Scythe!" howled Phantomon. In a blurring movement, Dracomon had stopped the incoming attack and had hurtled it over towards a Darktyranomon that was overpowering Ikkakumon. Raising its arms towards Phantomon, Dracomon yelled out, "Dragon's Inferno!"

From each gun barrel a blast of fire burst out, combined into a wall of flames, and smashed into Phantomon, sending him spiraling away into the forest. Turning, Dracomon said, "Lilymon, let's combine our attacks and finish Venusmon."

"I'm all for it," said Lilymon, "Flower Cannon!"

"Dragon's Inferno!" yelled out Dracomon. This time though, instead of producing a wall of fire, Dracomon controlled his attack so that each one spiraled around Lilymon's attack, amplifying it. The force of their blasts were enough, and Venusmon too was sent flying.

"Great work!" yelled out Aquaria and Mimi together, as both burst into giggles. Behind them, the rest of the digimon managed to fight off the attackers. As the last of their attackers fled, the digimon returned to their rookie forms.

"Cool trick Gilamon," said Aquaria as she gave her lizard friend a hug.

"Thanks Aquaria," said Gilamon.

"Wow Aquaria, I don't think we've ever had a digimon that was able to digivolve that fast," said Tai.

"Yeah, you two should be really proud," said Kari with a smile, "That shows good teamwork."

"That's all great, but what about our cake," moaned Davis as he clutched his stomach, "It got smashed to pieces."

"Yeah," said Veemon as he imitated Davis.

"Come on everybody, I think we have some apple pie at my house," said Ken as he picked up Wormmon.