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Author's notes: Wow, people actually reviewed?! I'm so happy! Thank you!! And to thank you all for it, here's chapter two. It mightn't make much sense and it's short, but this is all so far. (smiles) Read and review!

CHAPTER TWO

They Arrive in the Digiworld

The doorbell rang at the Izumi household the next afternoon. Koushiro looked up from his laptop in the living room and remembered that his parents were out today. He rose and went to the door as the doorbell rang persistently.

"I'm coming!" he called, hurrying.

He opened the door, and what looked like a goggle-wearing rocket ran into him. "So where is it?" the rocket asked. "Where's that Archives thing?"

Koushiro groaned as he got to his feet and said, "Hold on a minute there, Daisuke."

Daisuke Motomiya turned to look at him and said, "Why?"

"I haven't opened it yet, and besides, the others aren't here yet." He got up and saw Hikari Yagami and Takeru Takaishi standing there.

"Hello, Koushiro," said Hikari, smiling. "The others can't come today, but big brother and Yamato are coming."

"Miyako and Ken are on their way," said Takeru. "Iori's with them."

So I'm going to be babysitting the new ones, huh? Koushiro smiled to himself. Oh well…at least Taichi and Yamato are coming.

"All right then. Come with me to the living room. I got my laptop there."

Daisuke didn't walk—he ran, obviously excited to see what the fuss was all about. As soon as he did, Taichi came hurtling into the doorway. "Hikari! I told you to wait for me!"

Hikari looked embarrassed. "I'm sorry, big brother. But really, I'm feeling much better."

Taichi frowned and said, "Still, you've just come from an illness. Now stop running around, okay?"

"Okay," Hikari laughed.

Takeru felt a set of knuckles rap on his head and he winced as he said, "Uh oh."

"Uh oh is right," said Yamato, materializing next to him. "You shouldn't have taken Hikari out so quickly after she'd been sick! Didn't I tell you to wait for us before coming to Koushiro's?"

"You did—sorry, big brother," Takeru said sheepishly. "We'd just been so excited about the Archives."

"Telling them so soon was a bad idea, Taichi," Yamato sighed.

"I can tell just by looking at Daisuke over there," said Taichi, jerking his thumb over at Daisuke, who was bouncing up and down the living room. Hikari giggled and went after him. The group hurried into the living room, but barely had they settled in when the doorbell rang.

"That must be Miyako and the rest," said Takeru. "I'll go answer the door."

Takeru rose from his position and walked to the door. Upon opening it, Miyako Inoue rushed in. "Wow, so it's actually real? Where is it?"

"Whoa, I've never seen her move that fast," said Iori Hida, grinning. "I think she's as excited as Daisuke is."

"That's all right," said Takeru. "Come on."

The rest of the group filed into the living room, and Hikari asked, "So can we start now?"

"All right," said Koushiro. He began typing on his laptop as he said, "So I guess the rest already told you about what happened earlier. We'll skip the first part and go straight to their arrival in the Digiworld."

Nobody seemed to be too bothered about this. Koushiro pulled out the hologram screen, and they began reading the Archives.

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When Shinichi opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a lot of blue sky, very different from the dimly-lit darkness that his eyes had grown accustomed to not too long before.

He groaned as he sat up, rubbing his head. "What happened?" he asked to nobody in particular. He expected for Charlie or the others to answer, but there was no reply.

Blinking, he looked around him and took in his surroundings. He was in the middle of a clearing in a strange forest. Everything looked odd to say the least, and it had a strange silent quality to it. "Charlie!" he called. "Anybody! Where are you guys?"

"Shinichi!" he heard a call from somewhere. "Over here!"

Shinichi ran to the direction of the voice, and saw Gio hanging on a tree branch of a tall tree. His shirt had been snagged. There was no way he could get down without crashing to the ground ten feet below.

"Whoa…" Shinichi squinted as he looked up at him. "How did you get up there?"

"Don't ask," said Gio. "I just found myself here when I woke up."

"Okay, don't move," said Shinichi. "I'll try and get you down, buddy."

He looked around for something he could use, somehow, but there was nothing. He sighed and said, "Okay. How about we snap the branch your hanging on, and I'll break your fall with something?"

"What?!" Gio demanded, kicking in the air. "I'm not about going to fall of purpo—aaaah!!"

There was the snapping sound of a branch and a scream, and a crash soon after. When the dust cleared, Shinichi's muffled voice said, "I didn't say that I'd break your fall with me."

"Sorry, Shinichi," said Gio, sitting up with Shinichi, who was rubbing his head. "Hey, what's that sticking out of your backpack?"

"I was just about to ask you the same thing," said Shinichi. He reached up and grabbed the thing in his backpack. It was some sort of pointed wand or baton. It was colored in gold. It had two red buttons on the part where you hold it, and a red point at the tip. Gio's was the same, only they places where there were red were green on his.

"Great," said Gio. "This could all be a stupid prank."

"No way," said Shinichi.

"How could you say that?"

"I dunno…these things are just…weird. Too weird. And this god forsaken place is weird! Where the heck are we?!"

"I haven't the foggiest idea, Shinichi," Gio sighed. "But when you look at it…it looks like you're looking at it through a computer screen." He got up. "Come on. We have to find everyone else."

"They could be anywhere in this jungle," Shinichi pointed out.

"Well…we still have to try," Gio shrugged.

Shinichi sighed and toyed about with his wand. "So what are these things supposed to do?" He pressed a button, and from the red point on the top, a blast of red light leapt out and vanished.

"Whoa," said Shinichi, dropping his wand. "What was that?"

"It was just light," said Gio, blinking. "It doesn't seem to be much harm."

Shinichi picked it up again and pressed the button. The light leapt out again and vanished. "Hey, cool. I wonder what the other button does."

He pressed it, and the tip of the wand pulsated in red light. The light didn't go away until Shinichi pressed the button again.

"That's weird," said he. "What's it for?" He pressed it again, and the light pulsated again. He waved it around, and Gio grabbed it. "Hey wait! Look."

He pointed Shinichi's wand in a certain direction and the pulsing went faster. The pulses changed when he moved it.

"It's some sort of tracker," said Gio.

"Hey, maybe if we got these, the others must've too! Maybe it's tracking the others!" Shinichi said excitedly.

"Worth a shot," said Gio. "We've got nowhere to go." He waved his wand and pressed the button. Green light leapt out. "Whoops. Wrong one." He pressed the other button, and it pulsated like Shinichi's. "Okay. Let's go."

The two of them walked down the direction that the wands directed. They walked for a few minutes, and Gio stopped. "Hey wait. There's someone near us."

"But it's pointing in this direction," said Shinichi, pointing his wand ahead.

"Well there's someone to our right," said Gio. "My wand's pointing that way."

Shinichi pointed his that way as well, and he said, "Hey, you're right. Let's go check it out."

They followed the wands, until they saw a blue flash. "Hey, what was that?!" Shinichi stopped. Silence reigned in the woods.

"Who's there?" Shinichi called.

They stayed still for a moment, staring at the shadowy spot where they saw the blue flash. After a few moments, a pulsating blue light like theirs appeared. There was someone walking towards them. A wand appeared, then the figure of someone they knew.

"Kojiro!" they chorused.

"Guys!" Kojiro ran forward to them, waving his wand and shutting off the pulse. "What happened? Where are we?"

"We don't know either," said Gio. He motioned to Kojiro's pants. "What happened to you?"

"Eurgh, I stumbled into a puddle of mud," Kojiro said, pulling at his pants in disgust. "And that was after I woke up in dead leaves." He looked up at them. "Are you the only ones? Where're the girls?"

"We haven't found them yet," said Shinichi. "But since these things obviously can help us find each other, let's go."

Kojiro nodded and also set his wand to pulse. The three of them then walked back out into the path, following the direction of the pulse.

A few moments later, Shinichi said, "Okay, this is the right way. It's getting stronger."

Kojiro sniffed. "I smell water."

"So do I," said Gio.

"Hey, stop, stop," said Shinichi, putting out and arm. "Wait for a second."

The three were all silent, and they looked around. Suddenly, they saw what looked like a purple flash light from a hundred yards from their direction. It was immediately followed by a pink one. Laughter could be heard.

"Let's go," said Kojiro, and they all ran for it.

They followed the pulses and sound of laughter and the pink and purple light.

They saw what looked like a huge lake, and there were three figures running at the shore, two of which were waving wands like theirs and chasing each other.

The three boys stopped. "Hey, it's the girls!"

"Look!" said Aiea, stopping in her tracks. "It's the boys! Hey, guys!" She waved her gold and pink wand. Miyuki was sitting on a nearby tree stump, smiling.

"Hey!" said Charlie, waving the purple and gold wand. "Where've you guys been? We were wondering where we went."

Shinichi's eyebrows jumped. "We are lost in goodness-knows-where. And you guys were playing?"

"Well…we didn't…know that we were…lost," Aiea and Charlie looked at one another. Their faces went pale. "We thought that it was some sort of virtual reality display."

"Oh yeah, then what are these?" Gio waved his wand.

"Oh, so you got them too, huh?" said Charlie. "Miyuki didn't get one."

For the first time, they noticed that she wasn't holding a wand like theirs. Her hands remained empty. "So all of us have these except you?" asked Kojiro. He looked at his and handed it to her. "You can have mine if you want."

"It's okay," said Miyuki, shaking her head. "Really. Keep it, Kojiro. I don't want one of those toys anyway."

"They don't seem to be ordinary toys," said Gio, studying his wand. "They track one another. Exactly how is I don't know…"

"We didn't know they could track each other," said Aiea. "All we could do was this."

She pointed her wand at Shinichi and pink light leapt out.

"Aaah!!" Shinichi screamed as the light hit him and he was blasted off his feet and flew a full ten feet from his original position.

"Shinichi!" they chorused as Aiea dropped her wand.

"Are you okay?" asked Miyuki, helping him up with Kojiro.

"What happened?" asked Charlie, aghast.

Shinichi shook his head, brushed himself, and glared at Gio. "Don't do any harm, my butt! That thing nearly killed me, Gio!"

"You're exaggerating," said Kojiro.

"Am I? I feel like a giraffe kicked me," Shinichi said. "It's rather painful, if you care to know!"

"It doesn't hurt anything else, though," said Charlie. "Not the trees or anything." She breathed a sigh of relief. "It's a good thing Aiea and I didn't hit each other or…" She shuddered.

"I'm so sorry, Shinichi," Aiea said. "I didn't know it'd do that!"

"Yeah, that's okay, Aiea," Shinichi muttered, brushing off his pants. "I wasn't seriously injured or anything…"

Gio considered a moment and then grabbed Shinichi's wand and pointed it at Shinichi again.

"Hey, watch it!!" Shinichi yelled.

Gio let loose a blast of red from the wand. Shinichi yelled and winced, raising a protective arm, but nothing happened. The light only passed through him harmlessly.

He looked up. "Huh?"

"I thought so," said Gio, handing the wand to him.

"What, after the first time, you become immune?" asked Kojiro. "'Cause I definitely am not going to take that vaccine."

"No," said Gio. He took his own wand, pointed it at himself. The green light passed through him harmlessly too. "The wands don't affect their owners. They seem to be specially designed for ourselves. But they affect others."

"Really?" asked Charlie as everyone experimented with it as well. She pointed her wand at herself. But as she pressed the button, it slipped and pointed at Miyuki!

"Oh no!" she cried just as the purple light leapt out and raced for Miyuki. They gasped and Miyuki braced herself, but the light didn't do anything to her. Nothing happened.

"Hey, Miyuki didn't get hurt," said Aiea.

"Thank goodness," Kojiro breathed.

"So does it only affect people with wands?" asked Charlie.

Gio frowned. He tried to blast Miyuki again, but nothing happened yet again. Everyone pointed their wands and shot, but Miyuki was unharmed. In fact, if anything, the beams seemed to strike something that caused them to stream around and away from her.

Shinichi stepped closer and looked around Miyuki. "She seems to be covered in some sort of force field. It repelled the lights."

"Why?" asked Miyuki. "I mean…maybe Gio's right. Maybe it blasts people with wands."

"What would be the point of that?" asked Gio. "I think that the lights are for attack. But why would they be repelled with you?"

"I've no idea," said Miyuki.

"Look, guys, let's not fathom this mystery too much, okay?" asked Charlie. "Like you said, we're lost. How do we get out of here?"

Shinichi groaned. "I don't know, Charlie. We're so lost that we're almost not there!"

"What should we do?" asked Aiea.

"I don't know," said Gio. "We can't do anything at all."

The six kids looked at each other, feeling quite miserable.

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"Boy, life without the portal and screens was tough," laughed Daisuke.

"Those must be their Digivice equivalent to ours," said Koushiro. "But they were bigger. They were wands. Or maybe some sort of remote control."

"Look, I don't remember us ever having attack with these things," said Taichi, waving his Digivice.

"Well, if you remember, the light from the Digivice brought the rambunctious Digimons back to sanity," said Yamato. "I suppose that is the special ability of the Digivice."

"They can track too," said Miyako. "Like ours. The wands signal to where they were."

"But we can't exactly knock each other down with those odd lights," said Takeru.

"Hey, why do you think Miyuki isn't affected by the light?" asked Hikari. "She had a force field."

"Maybe that's part of the reason why she doesn't have a wand like everybody else," said Ken. "Or maybe Gio's right—it only affects those who have wands."

"And what would be the point of that?" asked Iori.

Nobody had an answer to that one.

"Let's just keep reading," said Koushiro.

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Shinichi stood along the bank of the river, shuffling his feet and kicking stones into the water. Everyone else was sitting on either driftwood or the ground, trying to think.

And he seemed to be losing his cool now. He groaned and said, "I don't believe this!" as he kicked a stone into the water. "Before I ended up here, I was supposed to be having a field trip—" kicks another stone "—getting in as a regular in my soccer team—" another one, harder, this time "—and afterwards go on my first game with my friends in the front row seats!"

The final kick sent sand flying and a large stone falling with a loud plunk into the water. And to everyone's surprise, a voice said, "Ouch! That hurts!"

Shinichi screamed and leapt away from the water's edge. Everyone leapt to their feet, staring at the water apprehensively. There were bubbles coming from about ten yards out into the water, and the bubbles began trailing towards their direction.

"Guys, let's run," whispered Aiea from behind Gio.

"No wait," said Miyuki. "Let's see what it is."

"Are you crazy?" demanded Shinichi. "Whatever it is, it talks. Now personally, I don't want to encounter anything that can talk and underwater in a place like this."

"It looks small, actually," said Kojiro.

"It is," said Gio.

The six kids stood, staring anxiously, as the bubbles reached the bank. And to their amazement, what looked like a round glob of clear glue the size of a basketball bounced out. It had big crystalline blue eyes and a big white grin. It bounced towards them.

"Oh, it's so cute!" said Aiea, and was elbowed by Charlie in the ribs.

"Hey! You guys are humans!" it chirped in a high-pitched voice.

The children could only stare at it in absolute amazement. "Wh-wh-what are you?" Kojiro stammered.

It looked confused. "Huh? You don't know? Why are you here if you don't know?"

"We don't even know how we got here!" Gio said. "We were just…sucked into a computer screen?"

The glob smiled again. "Oh goody. That means that you are the Digidestined. No one but they could come through the portal."

"Digi-what?!" came the stunned chorus.

The glob sighed but smiled that odd toothy grin. "That's okay. It will come to you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Glimmermon. I'm only an In-Training, so don't expect too much out of me, okay?"

"An In-Training what?" asked Gio, who was typing rapidly.

"An In-Training Digimon, of course," replied Glimmermon.

"There with that Digi-thing again!" said Charlie. "Can you just print out the news and deliver? We need a little briefing on what's up with this world."

"Yeah!" said Shinichi, pointing his wand at the blob.

"Whoa, watch it with those wands!" Glimmermon gasped. Sighing, he answered, "Okay. First of all, I'm going to need a little help explaining. If we wait for a moment, the some more of my friends will come along and help me explain. They'll be here soon, because anywhere we are, we'd know if you use the Digiwand Beams."

"You…would?" asked Miyuki.

"Yeah," nodded Glimmermon. "We would. Now let's see… Aha! Someone is coming by the forest!"

"Oh yeah?" asked Gio nervously as everyone looked at the direction of the forest. "The why is the ground vibrating beneath our feet?"

Glimmermon just laughed as the chosen children looked to the forest, looking nervous and anxious on the next events.

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"I don't like the looks of that," Taichi muttered. "Last time I checked, shaking earth and unknown rustling in the bushes in the Digiworld is a bad thing."

"I wonder what kind of Digimon they have," Hikari remarked.

"Well, we'd best just try and find out by reading," Koushiro commented.

They were about to read again, when all of a sudden, there was a shaking that filled the house. The furtinure began wobbling and knickknacks were clattering.

"Oh my god!" Miyako gasped. "What's going on?!"

"It's an earthquake!" Yamato gasped, grabbing his brother and pulling them down.

"Quick! Under the table!" Taichi commanded, and they all dived. Koushiro looked around. "Wait!! My laptop!"

He reached out, grabbed it, and pulled it under the table. A few seconds later, the shaking stopped. They all let out their breaths.

"Oh, thank goodness," Iori breathed.

"Wait," Ken said. "There might be an aftershock."

"I hope not," Koushiro muttered. "Oh no…"

"What is it?" that asked.

"That slight quake shook up my laptop. Hold on guys, I'll try and recover the archives."

"Oh man," Daisuke groaned. "This sucks."

"Yeah, it does," Taichi sighed.

Author's note: Yes, I know it's short. I'll try and come up with something new for these guys, okay? Please review and tell me what you think!