Author's Note: This story is based on information available as of now. Several of the elements I use in this story are my own
guesses or personal opinions. Many things I've changed, such as some popular Digivolution lineage theories (except, of
course, those that are already common DD'ed evolutions appearing on the show; Gomamon still becomes Ikkakumon, and
Garudamon didn't mysteriously become Aquilamon's Ultimate instead), I've changed just to give it a cooler feel. Also, as I
didn't much care for the idea, you can throw away that whole "25 Years Later" scenario from the last episode of 02,
including the part about EVERYBODY worldwide getting their own Partner-Digimon. So don't get on my ass about continuity.
Chapter 1: RSVP
"Perfect."
This was not the only word used to describe this summer day, but it pretty much summed it all up. TK, Izzy, Joe, Yolei, Davis, and Sora were sitting out in the park one day in July, procrastinating work to their fullest. Joe was helping Yolei with some textbook problems she was having trouble with, TK and Davis were playing some American game called "football" with some other kids, and Sora was just laying back, absorbing the sun. Izzy, on the other hand, was hard at work on his trusty laptop, surfing the net, when all of a sudden, he received a new e-mail.
He went to see what it was. It was entitled "5th Anniversary Reunion", from someone calling themselves "Old Friends". He didn't know who it was, but the domain was one he recognized: it was the Digital World! He called the others over. "Hey, guys, come look at this!"
"Huh?" replied TK, before being pummeled into the ground, unaware of oncoming opponents.
"What is it now, Izzy?" asked Joe. "It's an e-mail," replied Izzy. "So?" inquired Davis.
"It's from.... you know.... old acquaintances......." informed Izzy.
"Wait..... you mean.....?" Sora asked. Izzy nodded. "Well, what does it say?" asked Yolei.
"Come here and see," he replied. The kids came over and looked at the screen. Izzy was ready to click to open the message. "Do you think maybe it's Gennai?" asked Joe. "I don't think so," replied Izzy, "This isn't his e-mail address, unless he's changed it. Enough time's gone by by now down there, it wouldn't surprise me." "So who DO you think it is?" inquired TK. "We're about to find out," informed Izzy, as he got his index finger ready.
He clicked on the message.
"We've got a problem here," gulped Izzy.
Chapter 2: To The Digital World
"What's going on?"
Izzy's room soon became very crowded, as the other DigiDestined children came in, almost simultaneously. Tai, Matt, Kari, Cody, Mimi, and Ken all rushed in, a look of worry in their faces. Tai was the first to speak.
"Yeah, you sounded urgent when you called us!" stated Matt.
"This had better be important; I was in the middle of a lesson with my grandfather," said Cody, coldly as ever.
Izzy showed them the e-mail.
The room turned silent, then to whispers, then to questions.
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"The Dark Masters? Who...?
"But... we destroyed them!"
"Everybody settle down!" Izzy finally shouted. Once again, silent.
"Ok, first off, what are Dark Masters?" inquired Cody.
"The Dark Masters were 4 Mega Digimon who took over the DigiWorld in the time it took us to destroy Myotismon. Aside from VenomMyotismon, they were the first Megas we had ever encountered; MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, and Piedmon. It took a long time, and a LOT of energy, but we managed to defeat them, one by one. In the end, our biggest cards in the deck were WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, and, soon after he finally Digivolved, MagnaAngemon."
"Wait.... you mean, they were NATURALLY evil?" asked Ken, the ex-Digimon Emperor, who had just recently been set free from the control of a being of immense power and evil. He had come to believe that Digimon THEMSELVES were not evil, rather they did bad things when commanded by a human, so the idea that a Digimon did evil deeds for no reason was foreign to him.
"Well, you could say that. As a matter of fact, they were created by an evil being named Apocalymon, whose very existence distorted the DigiWorld, and threw time out of whack."
"But we destroyed them! How could they have possibly survived?!?" asked Kari.
"I don't know. Perhaps they've reformatted by now. Remember, Digimon don't die like us; when their life energy runs out, their information is simply reconfigured, and they're reborn in the Primary Village. By now they may have had enough time to become reborn and re-evolved."
"Well, whatever the case, we've got to go stop them!" shouted Davis.
"No.... not we," replied Izzy, "Just the original 8 kids."
"But you said yourselves, you just barely beat them last time! You're going to need help!" pointed out Yolei.
"No way, you read what it said about anybody else coming! You're our last line of defense here. Besides, even if we DID need you, there's no way you could get through their firewall!"
"Couldn't you just hack through it?"
"No." The room fell silent, as they turned to see who had decided to step up and have their say; it was JOE! "It's been a long time since the 6 of us have been in the DigiWorld battling. We kind of miss it, and I think I speak for all of us when I say I need to know if we've still got it in us after all this time!" The silence resumed. Who would've thought that, of all people, the timid JOE would speak his mind and say they HAD to go back and FIGHT?
"..... Alright," Davis finally sighed, "but please... be careful."
Chapter 3: Well THAT'S a Fine "How Do You Do"!
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?!?"
Not the most colorful words heard at this point, but it pretty much summed things up as to the feelings among the DigiDestined children. One minute they're standing around a computer, preparing to transport to DigiWorld; the next minute they're stranded in the middle of what seemed to be a very ill-tempered ocean. Oh, believe you me, they've experienced raging rapids. This made those seem like a leaking faucet.
As the 8 kids were rushed down the falls, they then remembered why they preferred to stay OUT of the DigiWorld.
Finally, Matt caught sight of a branch near the end of the waterfall, and called to the other kids to grab it. But just as they were about to grab it, large spikes, about half the size as the kids themselves, shot out of the water. They narrowly missed the kids. Just as they heaved a sigh of relief, they saw the spikes' true target: the branch; the ONLY thing between them and the ever-dropping waterfall. They held onto each other as long as they could, as they went over the edge, falling, falling.... Then something miraculous happened.
They stopped.
In the middle of the fall.
Suddenly, they were now being carried UPWARD, toward the top of the fall. Higher... higher.... higher......... higher STILL..... until they had PASSED the top! Although the context between the kids was a bit jumbled, one that stood out was Joe; "I think I'm gonna barf."
They then began to look around, in an attempt to see what exactly had just happened. "Whatever it was," Mimi said, "I'm just glad we're-"
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"Are you the one who saved us?" asked Kari, hoping the OPPOSITE wasn't the case.
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"Who are you?" asked Tai, in a brave, demanding voice.
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The next thing the kids saw was..... the spikes exploding. One by one, exploding. They looked closely, and saw that camouflage-colored missiles were intercepting each and every spike. Joe looked on with a smile, a hint of pride building inside him. They then saw a large, blue beam of ice intercept the fish monster. The monster became somewhat frozen. Matt looked on with a look of confidence, for although they knew it wouldn't hold the beast for long, it would be just long enough for them to escape.
The children then noticed that just as the beam was freezing the enemy, the water was becoming loose, losing its grip on the DigiDestined. As they began to fall, Joe, not surprisingly, seemed the only one not worried, as they suddenly landed on the back of a large, white walrus-like creature with a large, black horn. Ikkakumon. The kids now knew they were safe. Soon, as they sped away down the stream, a blue-striped wolf with a large snout and thick, almost magical fur, caught up to them. Garurumon.
"You guys keep going. Me and TK are switching trains!" shouted Matt, as the 2 jumped from Ikkakumon to Garurumon's back. And with that, they finally fled from the fish monster's sight.
"Ikkakumon! You have no idea how glad I am to see you again!" cried Joe.
"Yep, I missed you too, little buddy," replied Ikkakumon.
"So, where are the others?" asked Izzy.
"They should be here, or at least close," answered Garurumon. "Gennai sensed that you guys were in the DigiWorld, so he e-mailed us to a place as close as he could get us to you guys."
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They looked over the cliff, and just as they approached, a strange, striped creature emerged from beyond and below the edge. It had large, eagle-like claws, leathery, bat-like wings, and a masked bird-like beak and head. It had a snake for a tail. Before they could inquire as to the origin or identity of this beast, it had grabbed the 8 children with its front claws, and knocked Garurumon off the edge with its back paws. Garurumon managed to grab hold of a small ledge with its large front paws. It held on, as the flying beast flew off with the children over the canyon.
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The creature then stopped, and began to sway left and right as it squawked. Joe began to get airsick. The kids looked up to see a glimpse of a small white cat with large paw-gloves covering the creature's eyes. "Peek-a-boo, fly-boy!" Kari began to cheer. She'd recognize Gatomon anywhere. Just then, the creature let the kids go, as its shaking caused Gatomon to fall off the creature's noggin. The kids were crying for help, but Sora remained silent, as she had a gut feeling something was about to happen.
Sure enough, they soon heard a loud cawing, followed by the feel of impact after landing on the back of a fiery-orange bird with huge fangs. Sure enough, Birdramon came to their rescue. "Yes, Birdramon! Thank you!" cried Sora. "Later, Sora," replied Birdramon, "right now, we need to deal with this problem right here. Hold on, everybody!" as she spun in the air and shot several decent-sized fireballs at the face and wings of their opponent. Ikkakumon joined in on the action by shooting some missiles around the enemy, detonating just right that they created a smokescreen around the enemy. Garurumon had just managed to pull himself up over the ledge, and climbed his way back to the top of the cliff. They then continued to flee, as fast as their legs (or wings) could take them.
Finally, they managed to reach a series of mountains. It seemed safe enough for them. It was too out-of-the-water for that fish, and that... griffin, was it?... was passing overhead, apparently unable to detect them. They heaved a sigh of relief.
That is, until the mountain behind them shattered to bits.
The kids, shaken, turned to watch the debris. Eventually, the dust cleared, and as they watched, a large figure emerged from within. As it got clearer, and the creature closer, they realized it had a relatively human figure... except it was green... about 13 feet tall... and had big metal bolts coming out of its head and arms... and spikes on its feet... and a weird reddish-brownish visor covering its face... and a really, REALLY big axe. Other than that, perfectly human.
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Mimi had no more time to finish her sentence than they had to say "A large cactus with boxing gloves just punched this big
green guy's fist out of the kids' path!" Mimi should've known Togemon would come to her rescue. "
Futile.
Although the first blow may have somewhat phased him, now that he was truly aware that something was happening, he brushed her away like swatting a fly. She slammed into the mountain, directly behind the Chosen Children, crumbling away a portion of the large rock. The monster then reached back, and gripped his axe. He wound up, then proceeded to fling his powerful weapon at the children and their Digimon. The Digimon didn't have the energy to protect the kids, so there was no hope. They closed their eyes. They heard a loud, slashing, slamming sound.
Next to them.
It had missed them by a mere foot. They opened their eyes and saw that it was on fire. And since Birdramon hadn't the energy for a Meteor Wing, they knew there was only one other place it could've come from. "Yeah, Greymon!!!!!" Tai shouted, "Perfect timing."
"And a nice shot, might I add," added Matt.
"Thanks a lot, but right now, we need to get out of here, before the fog clears and he sees what's happening," replied Greymon. The kids nodded, and, divided amongst their digital partners, hurried away. As they watched the strange monster disappear in the distance, they soon found shelter within a nearby dark cave. There they hid, until all sound had disappeared. They heaved another well-deserved sigh. There they sat, just still, taking in their surroundings.
They sat there, until they heard a noise... a whisper almost... coming from deeper inside the cave... then a dim flicker of light. The kids slowly stood up. Then, just as they jumped for cover behind some rocks and small openings, a wave of energy as large as the passageway roared by with a scream. It reeked of power. As it was, it still demolished some of the ceiling and floor as it passed by. Finally, the wave stopped. The kids peeked around to see if it was safe. They then saw something else... a sort of glimmer... an outline of a body... not human... larger than the hole... and what looked like 2 tusks. It was plowing through the ceiling, and crushing the floor and walls. And it was headed their way.
Needless to say, the kids decided this was a good time to run.
They ran and ran, as there was no room to fly, no room to ride, and no water to swim in. The creature - yes, it was DEFINITELY a creature - was gaining on them. The entrance to the cave was close. But the creature was bolting through too fast. Even if the kids made it out, it would be only seconds before he would crush them anyway. Still, there was nowhere to hide, so they had no other option. Suddenly, the kids saw a large pair of blue, 3-toed, insectoid legs just outside the opening. They knew they would make it now. "Hurry Izzy! Get everybody out of there!" shouted the newly-arrived Kabuterimon. The kids ran and ran, the creature getting closer and closer. Finally, as the kids exited the cave, Kabuterimon jumped into the air and yelled "Electro Shocker!!!" as he shot a ball of electric thunder at the top of the entrance, causing a cave-in. They heard the movement inside the cave stop. Could the creature have finally been stopped?
Not likely.
They heard a rumble, then the enormous monstrosity emerged through the rubble, roaring. In the light, they could now see it more clearly. It was completely skeletal in structure, elephant-like in form, and had a gold-plated mask, trunk, and tusks. They watched the creature's exposed heart beat as it looked down to face them. Its eyes were horribly red. As he towered over them, his shadow was cast upon the whole group. They stood there in horror.
They heard a noise behind them. They turned and looked up to see the strange bird-like creature once again. "
He couldn't finish his sentence before being blown away by a blast of white energy. A similar blast landed upon the elephant monster, who merely flinched. They heard something accompanying the blast. A voice. It seemed to say "Hand of Fate!!!".
At last, they saw their heavenly savior. It was rare to see anything, much less a Digimon, of this power and awe. His name was Angemon. Finally, with TK's Digimon, the most powerful of the Champions, the team was fully restored.
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Tai was startled. There was something ghostly familiar about this creature's tone. Even its accent.
Suddenly, something broke up through the ground. It was the green manlike monster, followed by a geyser of water and the blowfish. All 4 of them, including the now recovered griffin, were now surrounding the 8 children and their Digimon.
"Who are you?" TK demanded, "and what do you want from us?"
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"Oh no," cried Izzy, using TK's Terminal, "They're all MEGA Digimon!!!"
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To Be Continued.....
