Chapter 6: I'd put a smart ass comment here – but I cant think of one!!!

Disclamers: Digimon is not my idea! Most of these characters are not my idea. This story was not my idea – damn wasn't meant to say that!!! (that's a joke by the way – this is my idea!)

The spellchecker is still UK English and I aint about to change it. Since UK and US English are different written languages, if you see something spelled wrong chances are its not – unless it's a name, then I'm wrong!



Chapter 6: Not a million miles away…

Kyle Novich became the fifth tamer when Drakemon appeared from his computer, though he didn't know it at the time. Shawn had known he was fifth tamer that he knew about, and thought that Joanna probably had the same thoughts as him. What none of them realised is that at the same time another tamer was being born. It was not a million miles away from the rest of them, but to Randa Zash, it was pretty damn close.

Randa Zash, a somewhat shy, fourteen year old. Randa lived in Alaska, something she wasn't happy about. It's cold, distant and the only thing good about it is the digimon tournament, which she was preparing to enter the final of.

"Ladies and Gentlemen." The announcer on a stage started "Welcome to the Final of the Alaska Digimon tournament." By this point Randa was getting very nervous. "First introducing, with a Players of the World Digimon Association ranking of one hundred and thirty six, Richard Robinson." The fifteen year old walked onto the stage and handed his deck of cards to an official, who looked through it, handed it back and Richard sat down on the right side of the stage. "And now introducing a member of the Digi-Card Players, She won the Alaskan card players tournament last year, Randa Zash." Randa Zash walked onto stage and handed her deck to the official, who checked it through and handed it back. Randa sat down and faced her opponent, and only obstacle to wining the tournament again and getting a ticket to the US tournament. That was the reason Randa joined the DCP. Each groups had their benefits, and the DCP guaranteed winners of regional tournaments a place in the nationals, and winners of nationals a place in the world championship. What's even better is that they included transport and accommodation.

"You ready." Richard said, snapping Randa out of her thoughts.

"Always." She responded calmly. Apart from the crowd's response, the match was played in silence. The match seemed very close, but Randa was sure that the match was hers from her third card, a hyper wings card. Randa is one of the more gifted players as she can sometimes see matches won on the most simplest cards. There are only a few players like this in the world, some of the others being Joanna Lang Zing, Shawn Williams, Kerry Moniko, Riku Kakera, Kyle Novich – sense a pattern!

However, to the crowd the match was intense, every card countered, bettered. The big screen on the back of the stage showed the table, the cards down in play. A scorecard kept track of the health levels.

"1 point apiece left, and Randa's to move." Someone in the crowd whispered.

"It's just a modify card, she can't take it on this move, the match is Robinson's."

"Digi-modify: Radiant Faith activate." Randa muttered as she dropped the card to the table. Richard's jaw dropped with it.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!" he yelled. The crowed cheered. The official whispered something into Richard's ear who nodded in response and kept his head down staring at the floor.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please." The official started. The crowd quieted down. "Richard Robinson can not increase his health, nor take out all of Randa Zash's health in this move. Therefore the winner of the Alaskan Digimon tournament is Randa Zash." (AN: like conceding in snooker when you can't get enough points to win) The crowd cheered loudly as Randa stood up and faced the crowd. She accepted the winners trophy and after the winners ceremony, as the crowds were leaving, she was pulled aside the head publicist of the DCP, David McGrath.

"Congratulations Miss Zash." The publicist started. "I believe you're a member of ours?" He asked.

"Yeah." Randa said pulling out a membership card. "Here." She handed him the card, and he took a note of the number.

"Ok then, thank you very much. Your arrangements for the US tournament will be processed as soon as possible." David said still writing. "Will you be able to give an interview there?" He added.

"Err… yeah?" Randa puzzlingly said.

"It's just that your one of our highest ranked members and we'd like to do our quarterly players piece in the DM on you this time." Mr McGrath explained.

"Wow" Was all Randa could say. After all she was going to have a biography piece on her in THE digimon magazine… Digimon Magazine! It was an honour for people to be interviewed for this newsletter, mainly published online. All the world champions had been interviewed, along with the number one ranked players in each official group, and to be asked to be among them is, in some eyes, even better than winning the world championships.

"Oh yeah." David said, turning around and reaching for something behind the DCP recruitment desk. "I know it's not like a cup or anything but it's something from us to say congratulations." He said as he handed her a Digimon Booster pack. "I hope this bring you some good things!"

"Thank you." Randa said, a little disappointed.

"It's just to give you something now since you won, and we know you can always use cards." He explained.

"Yeah." Randa agreed. "I have to go now." She excused herself and left, knowing she would be in the US championships in New York in less than four months.



Randa finally got home late the next day, after travelling across half the state. After saying her hello's to her family, she entered her room, taking her trophy out of her travel bag and placed it on a shelf with several other trophies.

'This year, the US championship trophy WILL join it.' Randa thought, staring at the newly won trophy for several seconds. When she snapped back to reality she went back to her travel bag and started to unpack. After removing a few items from the bag, she took out the still unopened digimon card booster pack that David McGrath had given her the previous day. She decided to open the pack at that moment and went to her desk to pick up her card reader. Her card reader was a special edition card reader, blue with the digimon symbol on the side. She had received it as a special introduction when she joined the Digi-Card Players at the Alaskan tournament last year. She sat down on her bed, opened the pack of cards and started to slash them through the reader one by one. She slashed through a hyper wings card followed by a golden shield and a Meramon's magna bomb with out paying much attention to the cards, but just what the reader said. It was then she swiped the fourth card she pulled out of the pack. The slashed it through the reader, not paying attention to the card. The numbers kept 'spinning' round, not stopping once. This caught Randa's attention slightly, until the a small electric shock forced her to drop the reader. Her eyes moved from the reader lying next to her on the bed to the card in her hand. It was a fully blue card, something she had never seen before, except…

"The show?" She muttered as she thought she saw the card somewhere before. Although the card in the show looked very different from the card in her hand, it did have similarities, for instance being covered in blue and a small holographic symbol in the middle of the card. She then turned her focus back to the reader, which began to metamorphose. It shrank in width, but grew slightly in height and largely in depth, changing onto a cylindrical shape. Randa kept staring at the icy blue D-Arc that sat where her card reader had been, scared to even touch it.

"Wow" Randa said as she finally found the courage to pick up the D-arc. "Amazing" she commented as she pressed one of the buttons under the circular screen, which began to glow brightly. Randa quickly threw the D- arc away from her and as it reached the middle of the room, a bright beam fired from the digivice towards Randa, who covered her face bracing for the imminent impact.

After a couple of seconds, Randa realised that nothing hit her, so she cautiously looked towards the middle of the room. The beam had stopped in mid air about a foot away from the digivice. A 'slit' had started to appear where the beam was now hitting, and it slowly opened up to the size of a television. Randa tried to see something in the pure white light 'window' now in front of her, but couldn't until something jumped out of it in her direction and landed on the bed next to her, almost hitting the wall.

"Ow" The creature said as it composed it self and 'stood up' "That was not the best entrance." It said as it started to look around the room. Its eyes then came across Randa, who, for the first time, got a good look at the creature. It looked like an average cat, but it was slightly larger with larger ears. It had blue strips on its long tail, along with its feet, arms and ears. It had a maroon wristband on both its front paws. The rest of it's body was white. "Hi." It said in a feminine voice.

"Gatomon?" Randa asked, giving the name of the digimon it slightly resembled.

"No, my name is Zolimon, I'm much better looking than a Gatomon, stronger too." Zolimon said. "And you are…?"

"Randa." Randa shyly said.

"Well hello Randa." Zolimon said. "I believe that is yours." She said pointing the D-arc lying on the floor, where it fell after Zolimon jumped out of the portal.

"Your…a digimon?" Randa said, shocked at what was happening.

"Yes, and in answer to your next question, I am a real digimon." Zolimon said before twitching her head around. "Damn." She said.

"What?" Randa asked.

"Rouge digimon on the loose, must have come through the portal with me." The cat digimon said.

"But wouldn't it be here?" Randa questioned.

"I didn't come through a conventional portal, thus the rough ride." Zolimon explained rubbing her head near her left ear. "Those portals don't stay in the same place very long, and they don't close very quickly either."

"So what are we going to do?" The new tamer asked

"Grab your cards and D-arc then follow me!" Zolimon said with a smile. Randa complied and soon both digimon and tamer were climbing out of the window, at Randa's request, so not to alert her parents. The athletic Randa had no trouble keeping up with the speedy digimon, as the two ran down the streets trying to find the rouge digimon. It wasn't long after the duo hit open space that they found a large yellow object hovering in the air. Randa stopped, and Zolimon looked at her, questioning what she was looking at.

"A big yellow thing flying in the air, I'd say we found our rogue digimon." Randa explained pointing to the thing, which turned around. It was basically a giant yellow fly. Randa looked at the D-arc, and pressed a button. The analyser popped up as the digimon started to fly in their direction. "Flymon, insect type. That tail is very sharp and dangerous so avoid at all costs." She read before thinking 'Just like the TV show.'

"BROWN STINGER" The Flymon said as it shot the tail towards Zolimon, who jumped out the way.

"Thanks for the warning" Zolimon said. "Now it's my turn. WHITE FIRE." Zolimon said as a wave of white flames singed Flymon's wings. The Flymon hovered out of control for a few minutes, but eventually regained its composure and started back on its attack. "If only my fire was stronger." Zolimon commented moving out of the way of another brown stinger attack.

"That's it." Randa said, going through her coat pocket. She pulled out a card, and looked at the D-arc. "I hope this is like the TV show. Digi- Modify: Meramon's Magna Bomb."

"Flames ahoy." Zolimon said as a large ball of fire stared to collect in her paws. "At times like this I wish I were a Gatomon, then I'd be wearing some gloves. MAGNA BOMB!" Zolimon threw the ball of fire at the oncoming Flymon, who got completely engulfed in the flames and burst into data. Zolimon absorbed the data before walking over to her tamer. "Well…?" The white cat asked.

"Well what?" Randa asked.

"How does it feel to be a tamer?" Zolimon enquired

"Well if it means I get to be friends with you, pretty good." Randa said. The two new friends walked off into the night, finally getting a chance to learn about each other.

"So do you think theirs more tamers out there?" Randa asked

"Don't know. I know there are digidestined out there." Zolimon said walking along side her tamer.

"How do you know that?"

"I'm friends with Kitleymon, Squirrelmon and Terimon who are three of the digidestined's digimon." Zolimon explained.

"Oh." Randa said. "So what about that portal, is it closed now?"

"Well if it's not, we'll take care of anymore rogue digimon." Zolimon confidently said.

"Yeah." Randa said enthusiastically. The two continued to walk back to Randa's together, wondering about the future and what they will play in the digidestined saga. But one thing for sure, Mr McGrath was right when he said the cards would bring her some good things!



Yeah… 6 down and an unknown number to go! This chapter has taken the longest to write, it's the only one not written in the same day. Oh well, cant write them all the same way – that be boring. Next chapter, it turns out they've all had to do it and now it's Kyle's turn, he has to take out a digimon! How will he cope, and will the others actually sit on the sidelines and watch, find out in The Initiation next week!

Now please, for my sanity REVIEW!!!