Welcome to the first chapter of my interactive story. It is focused on my charactuer and how he got his digivice and digimon because I am still waiting on characters. Anybody who has watched the 3rd series will probably recognise the bases of the story, but I think I've made it slightly unique. Anyway, I'm half way through the next chapter where more people will be in so don't worry about that.

Disclaimer: These are the standard disclaimers that appear in all my fics. 1. I do not own digimon, I do own Shawn Williams, but other than that I own nothing. 2. Being based in the UK, my laptop's spellchecker is English UK and not English American. Therefore all spellings are in UK English as I am unwilling to change the spellchecker as I have lots of coursework that requires good spelling – so don't complain about my spelling!

Now on with the fic – the title will make sense in a few chapters time.



Digidestined United: The Tamer start here?

"I'm Home!" Shawn Williams shouted as the door slammed shut. Shawn shuddered and yelled "Sorry!" as he took of his coat. His mother walked into the hallway of their American home as Shawn started to hang up his coat.

"Don't slam the door!" His mother said.

"I didn't mean to. It's not my fault the door likes to slam shut." He said as his mother gave him a bit of a death glare, but she gave in a bit.

"Ok" she said "But hurry up cause…" She got caught off when Shawn's coat fell to the floor, and three small rectangular foil wrapped packets flew out of the coat and across the floor. Mrs Williams bent down and picked up the packet before looking at it. She then turned to her son and asked "And what are these?"

"Well, they say digimon cards, they have a digimon logo on it. I don't know… maybe drugs?" he replied.

"You bought more cards" his mother raised her voice.

"Yeah I did." Shawn replied.

"WHY?"

"Well you wont let me go to the world championships…" Shawn started

"Cause its in London, we're in America."

"But were from London. The only reason we're here is cause Dad dragged us."

"That gives you no excuse."

"I'm entering the world online tournament, which you said I could." He stated before another sub-argument started up.

"Yeah I did, but why did you buy the cards!" She asked again, and she was starting to get frustrated.

"I need the cards to play the online game. It works just like the card game, the modify cards are needed in the battle." Shawn explained

"But how do you use them?" She asked, she knew they couldn't be used.

"By slashing them through the card scanner plugged into the computer." And he knew they could!

"And When did you get this" Mrs Williams was practically shouting now.

"I got it when I got the game" Shawn shouted back. His mother, realising that she had been beat, gave in

"Ok." She sighed to regain her composer "Well at least you didn't get one of those special super thingy cards." She said as Shawn walked towards his room.

'Thank god I hid that one in my back jeans pocket' He thought as his mother called back

"Here's your cards," She said as she threw them to Shawn "I suppose your going to get your digimon ready for the tournament right now?"

"I was planning on it yeah."

"Fine, but only till your father gets home." She said as Shawn walked into his room

"Okay" Shawn yelled back as he shut the door. The 16 year old turned on his computer as he walked across the room to his mirror. He ran his hand through his short hair, keeping it slightly spiky. He sighed as he looked at blue eyes, checking for signs of the lack of sleep he's had recently. He turned back to the computer and viewed his card layout. It was the reason he preferred the online game, he could have every card in order for quick access. It was the reason he won the UK Online tournament before he had to move to America. He dialled up his Internet connection, and started the digimon game. As it started however up popped a message on his screen.

'The Digimon expert would like to speak to you, accept the conversation.'

Shawn hovered the mouse over yes as he dug out his microphone and earphone set. He plugged them and clicked yes as he did he heard.

"Well, well, well. If it ain't Shawn Williams gracing the Internet."

"Hey man, sup." He replied as he started to log into his digimon account.

"Just checking if your gonna be ready for the world championships next week."

"Well let's see." Shawn answered as he pulled up his digimon stats. "Terriermon, Rookie level. Power 408, Speed 306, attacks Terrier Tornado, Bunny Blast. Estimated world ranking top ten. Notes Picture Patch approved."

"Yeah, yeah, I get the idea."

"I'd say I'm gonna be ready for the championship."

"Yeah, well I'm gonna BE at the championship."

"You know as well as I do that if I was still in the UK, I would be there as well, kicking your ass and all." Shawn quipped

"Ha! Ha!" His friend said dryly "So sup."

"Just had a fight with my mom about buying three refill packs"

"Damn. What did she say when she found out you had the card scanner."

"I told her I got it with the game, which I did. I just neglected to mention that it was a separate purchase."

"Nice. Listen I've got to go man."

"Err… why?"

"Cause I've got to go to bed man."

"Bed, but it's 5 o'clock."

"Well yeah there, but it's like 11 o'clock here, which means sleep now."

"Alright man, I better get Terriermon's training underway. See ya man" With that the line went dead, so Shawn unplugged the headphones and microphone and stared at the screen. "Ok, Terriermon, are you ready?" he typed something into the computer and the screen display changed from a blue stats screen to a green field with a pixelated Terriermon walking upwards.

"Well let's see if we can get some training huh, ah bingo." Shawn said as the Terriermon on the screen approach another digimon, who didn't seem to like Terriermon walking up to him and attacked. "Damn! Let's see who we got here." Shawn said as he pressed a key and an analyser popped up. "Leomon, Champion type. I thought Leomon's were meant to be peaceful." The Leomon fired his Fist of the Beast King attack again at Terriermon. "Guess that's a no. Alright lets get to it."

Shawn skimmed his finger along his cards and slid one off the table into his index and middle fingers and proceeded to spin the card around. He then thrust the card forward and grabbed it between his thumb and index finger before swiping it through his card scanner.

"Digi-modify: Hyper Speed activate." Shawn said as Terriermon's speed increased and he was able to avoid the attacks. "And now for the offensive." Shawn repeated the process for swiping another card "Digi- modify: Power chip activate" With that Terriermon started to charge at Leomon, but Leomon kept firing his attacks, and one connected to Terriermon and he went flying back. Terriermon landed in a heap and Shawn panicked. "Damn, where is it." He said as he flicked his eyes between the screen and his card deck, looking for the card he knew would not only win the match but also keep Terriermon alive, something he needed. "Got you." He grabbed it and quickly ran it through the scanner as Leomon fired another Fist of the Beast King at the seemingly sitting duck. "Digi-modify: Counter chip Activate." The attack wrapped around Terriermon before firing back at Leomon and connecting. Although this is what Shawn was expecting, he was also expecting Leomon to be destroyed, but instead he just ran away.

"No, you can't run! You're meant to be dead. Aghhh I needed that energy. Now what am I going to do." Shawn had to think quickly as Terriermon didn't look too good. Shawn rushed to his new cards that he had bought and hoped that the card he was looking for was in there. "Damn not there." Shawn got frustrated and threw the cards to the floor. This was HIS Terriermon. He cared for it more than any real pet. He couldn't sit there and let him just die. Him, it wasn't even a computer pet, it wasn't a bunch of 1's and 0's, He was real, and now he was dieing. Shawn's eyes then dropped to the floor and noticed an interesting card. It wasn't a standard card, and it wasn't there before either. Shawn, desperate enough, picked up the solid blue card, except for a small symbol in the centre, and took it to his scanner. He swiped the card through and a small electric shock caught him and he dropped the card back to the floor. He then noticed his scanner changing shape into, he wasn't sure yet. It turned into a small red circularish object. Shawn then realised what it was. "A D-arc, How?"

Shawn picked up the D-arc and examined it. It looked real, it felt real, and it had a very different display to the toy version. To say he was amazed would be an understatement. But then Shawn remembered Terriermon and looked at the screen. Terriermon seemed to be losing it and would probably be deleted in a matter of moments. Shawn decided to try a long shot, a recharge card. It's better used to recharge Terriermon's championship stage, but if it could revive Terriermon long enough, he could be able to leave and let him heal for the championships. So he picked up the recharge card, plugged the D-arc back into the computer, and picked up the card. Shawn then proceeded to swipe the card, but had failed to notice that the card was no longer a recharge card. The card instead put a strong power into the D-arc and fired a bright beam onto the computer screen that blinded Shawn. When the light faded, Shawn turned back to his computer to see Terriermon lying on his computer keyboard, unconscious. He was amazed that a recharge card could do this, but when he looked at the card, he could see that it had changed. Shawn dropped the card in shock but then rushed to help his fallen digimon. As the card hit the floor, it returned to the recharge card as quickly as it had changed.

"Terriermon, Terriermon speak to me, come on man, speak to me." Shawn said as he carried the digimon to his bed. Terriermon groaned as he regained consciousness.

"Technically, I'm a mon not a man." Shawn burst out in a smile.

"Oh thank god, I'm sorry I did that, it was a stupid move I made."

"No kidding, my head hurts. And my arms, and legs, and…"

"I get the picture. Other than pain in every part of your body, how you feelin?" Shawn asked

"Little hungry, could do with some sleep but other than that I'm fine." The digimon weary answered.

"Ok, some food, I can get you some food." Shawn said as he rushed out of the room, much to his mother's surprise.

"What are you doing?" she asked as Shawn rumbled through the refrigerator "Aren't you on the computer?"

"Was on the computer. I got hungry, so I'm going to eat."

"But you sit on that thing for hours, food has never gotten you away from it."

"Never felt hungry while on it. But I'm hungry, so I'm getting food." Shawn said as he took out plates full of food.

"Oh, ok" His mother said as Shawn walked back into room and placed the platefuls of food in front of Terriermon.

"Right, I don't know what digimon eat, but this is the stuff I like so whatever you don't eat I will." Shawn explained

"Ok, I'll start with the cheese sandwich." He said and reached for the sandwich as Shawn looked at him puzzlingly "What, we're not uncivilised, we have sandwiches!" the digimon quipped

"Oh, of course you do." Shawn said as he picked up a sandwich himself as the two ate and talked the most of night, unsure of what was to happen next. But one thing was sure, Shawn and Terriermon wouldn't be entering the world online championships!



Thus ENDS the first chapter – second chapter soon, third chapter soon after that

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