Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. If I did... (rants for awhile) ... Okay, this is the second chapter. The chapters from here on in will only bare a minor resemblance to the show. I haven't seen many of the Devimon arc episodes, and due to there being e

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. If I did... (rants for awhile) ... Okay, this is the second chapter. The chapters from here on in will only bare a minor resemblance to the show. I haven't seen many of the Devimon arc episodes, and due to there being eight kids now, I'll have to rearrange things a bit. Oh yeah, in my fics, I'll always have X-Veemon use X-Laser instead of V-Laser. I think it makes more sense.

(If anyone is wondering why I suddenly put out two chapters it is because I had them done on my computer, but then Fanfiction.net went down, and I couldn't upload.)

And now on the story.

Lost Destiny

By The Traveler

Davis here. You wouldn't believe what happened. I was at summer camp with my friends, when it started snowing. In the middle of August! Then we found these weird Digivices, and then we're swept up into the Digital World where we meet up with our partner Digimon. Bizarre, huh? I got this cute little blue thing called Demiveemon. And then, we were chased by this big beetle called Kuwagamon. Our partners "digivolved," whatever that is, and managed to chase it off, but it got the last laugh by dropping us off a cliff. So right now we're falling to our deaths. I'm too young to die! I haven't married Kari yet!

"The Birth of X-Veemon!"

"Ahhhhh!"

The eight Digidestined fell screaming to what they thought was their doom. Hawkmon and Patamon tried to grab hold of their partners, but Yolei and TK just weighed them down, causing them to fall also.

They were about to hit the water at breakneck speed when a voice shouted "Marching Fishes!"

Suddenly, multicolored fish leapt up out of the river and formed a soft bed for all the kids to fall.

The eight kids landed, luckily with no injuries, and all the rocks of the cliff fell around them.

"Hey, where did these fishes come from?" Davis asked as he looked at their saviors.

"They're my friends, and I asked them to make a mat for you to fall on," a voice said.

Out of the water, a white head with a buzz cut appeared.

Before it could say anything else, Yolei grabbed it out of the water and started hugging it like crazy.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou," she repeated over and over as she nearly strangled the seal-like creature.

"Can't breath," it said faintly as he started to run out of air.

"Uh, Yolei," Ken said, tapping his semi-girlfriend on the shoulder. "He can't breath."

Yolei abruptly realized that the creature was gagging and let go. "Sorry," she said sheepishly.

The white Digimon massaged his throat with one paw. "One thank you is enough, next time," he said grouchily.

Cody stood up and bowed to him. "Thank you for saving us, Mr. uh, uh, what is your name?"

"The name's Gomamon," he said as he jumped back into the water. "And I just couldn't let a bunch of kids die."

"Uh, how do we get off this ride?" Micheal asked as he looked around. The river was starting to widen, and Micheal looked slightly green.

"It depends," Gomamon said, shrugging. "Can anyone of you swim?"

Betamon raised a paw. "I can."

"Anybody else?"

"Not with this strong current," TK said, sticking a hand in the river, and having it nearly yanked off.

"Well then, I guess I'll just give you a free ride to the beach then," Gomamon said, shrugging.

"Thank you," all of the kids and Digimon said.

***

Once they reached where the river emptied out into the ocean, they all jumped from the platform of fish onto the sand.

Gomamon started swimming away, not looking back.

"Thank you, Gomamon," Yolei called to the departing Digimon

After Gomamon was gone, they all huddled together, trying to decide what to do.

"Hey look, phone booths," Micheal said as he noticed six phone booths on the beach.

"But why would someone put a bunch of phone booths on the beach?" Cody asked as they all ran towards them.

"Who cares, now we can call for help," Yolei said. She immediately picked up the receiver and started pressing buttons. "Hello, operator, anyone please, we're stuck on this island, and there are all these weird monsters and..." Yolei rambled on, hoping to connect to somebody.

The others were a bit calmer as they picked up the phones. But every time they dialed a number, all they got was a bunch of nonsense.

"This is bizarre," Davis said as he stared at the phone. "Hey Kari, check out this weird operator."

Kari came over and listened to the receiver for a moment. "At the sound of the tone, the time will be October the Sunny, with light showers, and low gusts."

The others weren't having much luck. TK heard "Your area is currently not in service. Please hang up and don't call back."

Micheal's phone was saying "You may have already won a million dollars. If you wish to enter the contest please press one, if you don't wish to enter the contest, press one, if you wish to talk to an operator, step outside and do a hundred jumping jacks."

(A/N: I forget what those phones said, so I'm making it up as I go along.)

"That was a complete waste of time," TK said as he stepped out of the booth. "And hey, why do Davis, Yolei, and Cody have new clothes?" TK said, pointing out something they had forgotten to discuss during the chase by Kuwagamon.

Davis looked down. When he had gone to camp, he had been wearing a blue stripped shirt, along with a blue vest, brown shorts, and his goggles.

Now he was wearing a jacket that had flames on it, white fur at the top, and yellow gloves. He was still wearing his shorts and his goggles, and he suddenly realized that he was now wearing a blue backpack.

Yolei, who was still dialing in every number that she could think of, was now wearing a brown helmet and vest, with a green strap over it, and long pants with boots. She still had her glasses on, her pink laptop was still on her back, and she was carrying a large red bag with a side strap.

(A/N: You know the type Joe carried around in 01?)

Cody was wearing a long, brown shirt, a similar design to his original clothes, but it was thicker, and of better quality. He was wearing a yellow backpack.

Everybody except Yolei now had backpacks, each a different color, each the same color as their Digivice.

"And what happened to Minomon?" Ken asked, looking around a bit worried. He couldn't shake this feeling that for some reason he had seen Minomon, or something resembling Minomon a long time ago...

"I'm right here Ken," said a quiet voice at Ken's feet.

The green worm from earlier was hugging Ken's leg now.

"But you look so different..." Ken said. In fact the only similarity between the Digimon now hugging his leg from the earlier Digimon was that they were sort of the same green.

"That's because I digivolved Ken," Wormmon explained. "I used to be Minomon, but now I'm Wormmon."

"And I used to be Demiveemon, but now I'm Veemon!" Veemon chimed in.

They went around the group, each Digimon explaining what they had done. Only two Digimon didn't "digivolve," Betamon and Floramon, and that was because they were already at the Rookie level. And Gatomon said that she was now a Champion. Whatever the Rookie and Champion levels were.

"Why is this thing so heavy?" Catherine asked as she put her backpack on the ground beside Floramon and opened it up. She blinked in surprise. It was crammed full of food, from candy bars to sandwiches to crackers. There were also some empty water bottles.

Everybody else deposited their backpacks on the ground and checked the contents, and each had the same selection.

"At least we won't have to worry about food," Ken said. "Does anyone else have anything useful?"

Ken pointed at his own school uniform. His decision to go to camp had been nearly spontaneous, due to Davis' last minute bargaining, so he had only had time to pack a couple of school uniforms. His school uniform was completely grey, a buttoned shirt, with pants. Unfortunately, the pants didn't have very large pockets.

Davis started emptying out his pockets. He came up with his telescope, some gum, some string, and some other odds and ends.

Yolei, who had given up on reaching emergency services, pulled out her cell phone, but it still wasn't working, and they all doubted there was a nearby satellite for it to hook up to. They found that now they all had tiny computers with a D on the front which had an E-mail program. Other than that, nothing.

"Okay, now let's see," Ken said, looking through his black backpack. "If we have three meals a day, seven days a week, and then... we should have enough food for three days."

"But if you factor in the Digimon, then we only have food for about three hours," added Catherine.

"Don't worry about us," Wormmon said.

"Yes, you needn't bother to factor us into your calculations," Hawkmon said, "we Digimon are able to forage for food for ourselves."

"Well, tell that to Veemon and Davis," Yolei said jerking a thumb towards the two.

Davis was currently introducing Veemon to candy. After tasting one bar, Veemon started gulping down as much candy as possible.

Everybody else sweatdropped.

Davis looked up at them. "What are you all looking at?"

"DAVIS, YOU SHOULDN'T BE WASTING FOOD! WHO KNOWS HOW LONG WE'LL BE HERE AND..." Yolei screamed into his ear.

Davis jerked up. "Geez, could you please lower the volume a bit Yolei?" he said rubbing his ear. "Sorry, but Veemon was hungry, so I decided to give him some of my food."

"It's okay, Davis," Kari said, coming over and patting his shoulder. "Just don't do it again."

Suddenly, they saw a huge wave coming towards them from the ocean.

All of them backed away, and luckily the water didin't hit them, but what the wave brought in was even worse.

"Oh no, that's Shellmon! He hides under the water and then attacks his prey with his Aqua Blaster!" Patamon said as they all backed away from the much larger monster.

Gatomon stepped forward. "He's not so tough, let's get him! Lightning Claw!"

Gatomon jumped forward, paws ready to attack, but unfortunately, Shellmon's shell started spinning and an Aqua Blaster shot gallons of water from the top of the shell, and sent Gatomon crashing into the wall.

"Gatomon!" Kari ran over to her partner to try to revive her.

"Rain of Pollen!"

"Beta Slugger!"

The two Digimon tried their attacks, but neither had enough energy to pull it off.

"What?!?" Micheal and Catherine said as they saw their dumbfounded Digimon get clobbered while they were distracted.

"Silk Thread!"

"Boom Bubble!"

"Feather Strike!"

"Claw Chop!"

"Vee Head-butt!"

The first three attacks sputtered out, and Armadillomon couldn't get close enough to attack with his claws, but Veemon actually managed to push Shellmon back a bit.

"Yeah, that's the way!" Davis shouted as his Digimon headbutted Shellmon again.

"Why are our Digimon so weak, when Davis' Digimon is still fighting?" TK asked, a bit disgusted that Davis was outstaging him.

"We're still too weak from our last fight," Patamon said weakly from TK's arms.

"Need food," Armadillomon said.

"I get it," Cody said suddenly. "Our Digimon need food for energy, and they need the energy to fight, and because Veemon is the only one who pigged out, he is the only one who can fight."

"Really?" Davis questioned. "Right, Veemon, it looks like its up to us to save Kari- I mean everybody else."

Kari couldn't help but smile at Davis' concerned look. It did help her confindence a bit to have a boy proudly proclaim that she the was the best girl in the world.

"Hey, over here, you overgrown shellfish!" Davis shouted at Shellmon, hoping to distract Shellmon from his attacking partner.

The result was Shellmon blasting Davis with his Aqua Blaster, causing Davis to slam into the rock wall hard.

"Davis!" Veemon tried to run over to help his partner, but then he was pinned by Shellmon.

Shellmon moved more towards Davis, to deliver the finishing blow, but then, Davis' digivice started to beep like crazy.

Veemon started to glow with a bright blue light as he started gaining strength and then he jumped out of Shellmon's reach to in front of Davis to protect him.

"Veemon digivolve to... X-Veemon!"

Suddenly Veemon had turned into another larger version of himself. A large horn jutted out of his extend snout, and large white wings had grown from his back. A large x was imprinted on his chest.

"Don't worry now Davis, I feel like a new 'mon," he said as he made sure that his partner was still alive. "Wait till you see my new X-Laser! It'll make my Vee-Headbutt look like a tap on the shoulder!"

Shellmon looked a bit surprised that his opponent had suddenly gotten much, much bigger, but still seemed more than willing to fight. He dragged himself along the sand, but received a punch for his trouble.

X-Veemon charged forward with a battle cry and started punching and kicking Shellmon, until he was halfway into the ocean again.

"Now to finish you off," X-Veemon said as he crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"X-Laser!"

A laser flew from the x on his chest and hit Shellmon with explosive force, sending him flying far, far away into the ocean.

With the danger gone, X-Veemon glowed and shrunk back to Veemon.

Davis was in awe. "That was awesome!" he shouted as he ran over to his partner.

Veemon reached up and shook Davis' hand. "It was nice working with you, we should do this more often.

***

From a distance a small white Digimon watched the brief battle and then saw how far Shellmon flew.

He turned to a screen. "This is Gomamon reporting in. I saved the Digidestined as ordered. And one of the Digidestined Digimon has managed to evolve to the Champion level and defeated Shellmon."

"Interesting," answered the figure on the other end. "How are they progressing?"

"Well, other than when I had to save them from drowning, they're doing okay."

"Very good. Once they reach full power, then they will be quite a challenge. Finally, something interesting. Tell the other Digimon to keep testing them. It is getting far too boring up here. Also, whatever happens, do not let them out of your sight, or there will be severe consequences. Understand?"

Gomamon shuddered and nodded. He remembered the last time he had failed an assignment. He still had nightmares about that.

"Yes, sir. This is Gomamon, out."

The screen went blank, and Gomamon's commander gave a wicked smile to his three companions.

"Once the Digidestined reach full power, we'll tell Myotismon to initiate his plans to find the Ninth Child. The Digidestined will follow him back to their world, and then, we can begin our conquest."

A walking skeleton, wooden puppet, and iron dragon nodded affirmation to the clown's announcement.

Piedmon turned back to his telescope. "The first scene has just ended. Let us see how the characters fare."

***

"I highly suggest, we get as far away as possible from here right now!" Yolei screamed hysterically. "Who knows when that big monster will come back and he'll be really mad, so I really, really think that we should get out of heeeeeerrrrreee!!!"

"Calm down Yolei," Ken said as he gently shook his girlfriend.

Yolei shook her head, took a deep breath, and visibly calmed down. "Thanks I need that."

"For once, Yolei is actually right," Davis said, and he backed away slowly as Yolei glared at him. "Let's go find somewhere to spend the night."

Everybody else agreed, and they started moving inland again, hoping to find someplace safe to rest- if there was any safe place on this island.

They picked their packs, and walked away, all of the Digimon now chewing on some candy. Veemon had said that candy tasted great and the other Digimon had believed him and assaulted their partner's backpack looking for candy. After seeing how strong Veemon was with some food, they all agreed that keeping the Digimon well fed was essential to their survival.

They trudged on, hoping that they would find a way to get home... soon.

To be continued...

Will the Digidestined ever find their way home? Will they find out their purpose in the Digital World? Keeping watching Digimon: Digital Monsters to...

X-Veemon: X-Laser!

The stupid announcer guy is thrown far away into the next Digimon author's fanfic.

Sorry about that, don't know how that happened. I guess when the rest of the 02 cast signed on, he also signed on. Oh well X-Veemon remedied that situation. Anyway, I'll try to update regularly, but Fanfiction.net isn't working very well right now, and my Internet connection is acting up.

Oh yeah, can anyone here guess who will be the next one to digivolve? And I might bring the Digieggs, which I will be calling Digimentals. Digieggs are what Digimon are born from, the Digimentals are used for armor digivolving. Stupid dubbers.

This is the traveler signing off.