Disclaimer: I only own the tamer's children (that sounds a little weird) but everything else, Toei + other peoples owns.
Notes: Swearing w/ all sorts of (gay, straight, crossbreeding) pairings and dark themes. And all text is supposed to be spoken in Japanese but translated merely for your reading pleasure. Now onto the show!

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Last time Matsuda Akio came upon a girl and an Andromon in the Lady Devimon Bar. From there, they are taking him to a safe place

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The two humans eventually landed and after a few minutes, came upon a small hut. It reminded him of the holographic African plain landscape he saw during history.

"As I was saying, Yuan John was my third boyfriend and," Dear god! How long can she talk?! He looked up to watch the girl bubble about her batch of ex's and looked back at his sneakers. How can Andromon stand her? Can he turn off his hearing? Lucky son of a bitchWhoops must have spaced outand I'm doing it again, aren't I? "And he had the cutest little sister! Except she was so damn tomboyish! She didn't even wear make up! And look!" she exclaimed pointing to the hut briefly described in the previous paragraph. "We're here!" And as she stated this, a clump of 'roof straw' fell into the hut and causing Ibuki to sweat drop.

"Well, it not perfect but it'll do!"

"Nail Crusher!" exclaimed a voice. A blur of yellow smacked into Andromon and caused him to fall on his butt. "Gatling Missile!" the android exclaimed in response. Two fish like missiles flew out of his open chest and slammed into the yellow blur revealing some sort of lion. He wasn't still for long as he head butted into the still ever sitting Andromon. After two Gatling Missiles and pushing the fiend off with a Spiral Sword, did we notice the lion was getting a little scratched up.

"Shit!" Ibuki exclaimed. Akio gave the girl a quick glance before she continued. "That thing's an Ultimate!"

"And?" the boy asked.

"Andromon's only a Perfect!" she shrieked near hysteria.

"I still don't get it!"

"Ultimates are stronger than Perfects!" Ibuki exclaimed.

"Ohhohh! Why didn't you say that in the first place?" Akio asked a little confused.

Ibuki was about to reply but gave a quick glance to the losing Andromon and sighed. "I'll tell you later! Right now I have to help Andromon!"

Help Andromon? That's ridiculous! How? But before he could state any of these thoughts, Ibuki was long running to the battlefield, blue skirt and white tee whipping into the wind along with magenta locks of hair. Stop staring. She'll think you're a perverted freak. He looked back to the two battling monsters were wide eyes. How two beings could fight without reason was beyond him. At least the bullies at school beat him up because he was different, not a good reason but a reason nonetheless.

Andromon had gashes all over his metal 'skin'. Data was leaking profusely as he tried to stand. "Card Slash!" Ibuki exclaimed as she whipped a card out of a brown card pack at the side of her hip (and which the boy had just noticed) and placed it at the side of her hot pink watch. She slid it through the slot and continued, "Seed of Health!" A faint glow enveloped Andromon as some of his bigger tears healed.

"Thanks. Spiral Sword!" He luckily caused a big gash in the lion's right flank and thus slowed it down.

"Andromon, keep aiming missiles at Saber Leomon's cut!" Ibuki ordered.

Saber Leomonso it has a name "Yeah! You can do it!" the boy cheered.

"Gatling Missile!" The robotic digimon's chest opened up and let loose a barrage of fish like devices. Saber Leomon skillfully dodged and let out a feral roar before attacking with another Nail Crusher.

"Card Slash! Defense Plug-In C!" Ibuki replied. Andromon aimed more missiles at Saber Leomon's gash and fired. A few actually hit and sent the beast hollering in pain. The ones that missed smashed into the ground and sent clods of dirt flying. Akio used his arms to shield his face. "Arg, this is gonna be harder than I thought!"

"Fox Leaf Arrowhead!" Diamond like objects rained upon the lion. All Saber Leomon could do was open his mouth before being deleted. Red data transformed into blue as a yellow fox, high in the air, absorbed it.

Renamonyes it's a RenamonI saw purple ones at the Lupine Spa but never a yellow oneAkio let out a laugh before racing to the battlefield. He abruptly stopped in front of the fox and bowed. "Thank you" The Renamon landed and tapped his shoulder. "Huh?"

"Tell me your name," she quietly demanded.

"Matsuda Akio."

"I'm Shiota Ibuki," the girl stated. The Renamon's eyes widened before a small smile crept on her face. She hadn't smiled in a long time, as it looked a little uncomfortable.

"So it is true. The children of the tamer's have come," the fox replied. "Come, Master Prairiemon has much to discuss."

"Who's Master Prairiemon?" Akio asked elbowing Ibuki. She merely shrugged before following the fox into the hut and with Akio being the caboose. Andromon sat outside of the hut, partly because he was too big to fit through the doorway.

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In side the hut were straw walls, a straw table and a straw chair where a large rabbit sat. The rabbit was slightly smaller than Renamon but may have looked more dangerous, sporting metal claws and ears. "Welcome, I believe you are the children of the tamer's, am I correct?"

"What do you mean, 'children of the tamer's'?" Akio asked.

"And where's Master Strikedramon?" Ibuki asked.

Prairiemon's head fell to the floor before letting it rise again. "He's fallen to the Chaotic Lights. I'm sorry but we were too weak to stop Cherubimon." Ibuki fell to her knees, eyes welling with tears and dropped her face into her hands. Akio softly rubbed her back as she sobbed. "But, we have one of the D-Cards." Ibuki looked up from her sobbing in disbelief.

"What? How-"

"That information is confidential," Renamon cut in.

"As I was saying, we have one of the five D-Cards. Therefore evolving to Ultimate should be no problem for Andromon," Prairiemon continued with a smile.

"Yippee!" Ibuki shouted, quickly forgetting about her sorrow.

"What is a D-Card?" Akio asked. The others stared at him in shock.

"Y-you don't know?!" exclaimed the fox and human girl.

"is it important?" Akio replied with uncertainty and bugged out eyes. What is up with these people?

"Important?!" Prairiemon screeched. "Of course it's important! What's your name human?"

"Matsuda Akio," the boy replied shyly then added, "sir."

"Hmmm" the rabbit murmured while scratching his chin. "Renamon, I told you to find Lee Senichi and Shiota Ibuki. The boy of fire was not to be touched until he found his partner."

"I'm sorry Master," the fox replied.

"What do you meanpartner? And why didn't you answer my first question?"

"All to be explained in good time." The rabbit then stared at the boy and grinned, "No, I have a better idea. I'll tell you if you take Renamon as your temporary partner and find Lee Senichi. Can you do that?"

"Sure," the boy replied. Anything to get some answers, right?

"Well, bye and good luck. Ibuki, I'll show you the card," Prairiemon stated and the two tamers went their ways. Akio out of the hut and Ibukionly God and Prairiemon know where.

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Akio learns about being a tamer as Renamon searches for Lee Senichiand why is a Marine Angemon following them?

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