Starting Point_

Part 1

'The Odd Rip in Space. Calling of the Dark Ocean.'

By: JC Maxwell-Yuy

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JC: Hey! This Starting Point!

Solo: Disclaimer: JC doesn't own Digimon Adventure 02 or Digimon Tamers and never will.

JC: You heard right: This is a crossover of 02 and Tamers.

Takato: Yay!

Hirokazu: Whoo hoo!

Ruki: I have nothing to say on the matter.

Solo: For the sake of the people who don't know the Japanese character names and changed dubbed names:

Lee/Jenrya – Henry (ugh)

Ruki – Rika (no real difference, so why'd they change it?)

Hirokazu – Kazu

Juri – Jeri (uh, again, why change it?)

Taichi – Tai

Yamato – Matt

Hikari – Kari

Takeru – TK

Koushiro – Izzy

Daisuke – Davis

Miyako – Yolie (EWWWW!!!)

Iori – Cody (ABSURD!)

Tailmon – Gatomon

JC: Well, let's start now!

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Darkness…

Revenge…

"They will suffer dearly!!!"

The day had started off perfect. The sun was shining, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was the weekend, no school, and plenty of time to play.

"I got it!" Juri Katou shouted and jumped for the plastic beach ball.

"No, I got it!" Hirokazu Shiota grabbed the ball first and threw it at Takato.

"Hey!" Juri protested.

"Too fast!" Hirokazu smirked, and pushed his visor up, then got beamed by the ball.

"Ouch!"

"I'm not sure which got hurt. Your face, or your pride." Takato Matsuda laughed.

"Sheesh." Hirokazu pouted while Juri, Guilmon, and Takato laughed.

"I don't believe this." Ruki Maniko groaned as she watched the other children continue playing with Guilmon.

"What's wrong, Ruki?" Renamon asked.

"They're all playing and here we are, tracking down the digimon that escaped the digital field from last night." Ruki complained as she held her D-ARC up, but the scanner didn't pick up anything.

"The signal was small last night. Maybe we shouldn't worry too much about it." Renamon suggested.

"I don't care HOW small that signal was. There's a digimon loose, and we don't know whether it'll behave or cause trouble." The red-haired tamer walked off, her partner following.

'This is only the beginning…'

Jenrya Lee's eyes opened suddenly.

'What in the world was that voice?' Jenrya glanced around his room where he had dozed off while waiting for a new program to finish installing on his computer.

"Jenrya-niichan!" Shuichon burst into the room.

"Otousan wants you!" the pink-haired girl cried.

"Oh. Thanks." Lee got up and started to walk out of the room.

"There you are Terriermon!" Shuichon laughed and picked up the sleeping digimon from the bed and hugged him… hard.

"Be nice, Shuichon." Lee grimaced when he saw the uncomfortable and grumpy look on his partner's face.

"HAI!" His little sister called as he left the room.

"Let's play hospital now! I'll be the doctor!"

"You wanted to see me, Otousan?" Lee poked his head into his father's room.

"Yes, I wanted you to see this." His father replied and pointed to the TV.

"This new theory suggests that there are other worlds… similar, yet different from our own." The announcer on the TV said.

"What's this?" Lee asked.

"It's a new theory. It suggests that there are different spaces… think of it like white light. You can split it into seven different colors." Mr. Lee explained.

"So…" Lee wondered.

"They have been testing the technology on the recent digital fields." His father said gravely.

"It's close." Ruki cautioned. They were in the park near Guilmon's hutch.

"…" Renamon tensed as Ruki used her D-ARC to locate the digimon.

"It's to your right!" Ruki called out. Renamon leapt into action and tackled the strange being hard. Another kick sent the odd, glowing creature into the brush. A strange fog suddenly began to cover the area. The sound of waves could be heard far off.

"What is that thing?" Ruki wondered as she checked her digivice. She wasn't receiving any data on the creature they were fighting.

'You, child… will be the first!'

"What?" Ruki paled as the sickening voice echoed through her brain. She collapsed and started to fade out.

"RUKI!" Renamon punched the strange creature away the grabbed on to the girl just before she was sucked into the strange, glowing mist.

"Oh… my head." Ruki groaned as she slowly woke up. Water lapped at her feet.

"Ruki. Are you all right?" Renamon asked.

"I'm a little dizzy… where are we?" the girl asked as she took in the dismal sight of black water and sand.

"We appear to be on a beach." Renamon glared at the waves.

"I don't like the feeling this place gives me."

"Neither do I." Ruki agreed.

"Let's just go home."

"Wait." Renamon cautioned as Ruki began to step away.

"What's wrong?" Ruki turned to see a dark shape rising out of the ocean.

"RENAMON! BEHIND YOU!"

The fox digimon turned only it was too late. The creature's tentacles shout out and hit her, sending her flying into the cliff.

"RENAMON!" Ruki cried out.

"He's… so strong…" Renamon gasped.

"CARD SLASH! CHOU SHINKA, PLUG IN 'S'!" Ruki slashed the card through her digivice.

Evolution_

"RENAMON SHINKA! KYUUBIMON!"

"Dagomon. Perfect level. Virus type. His special attack is 'Forbidden Trident'." Ruki read off the stats of their attacker.

Kyuubimon tackled Dagomon with her 'Fox Flame Dragon'. But it didn't do any good. Dagomon lashed out again and Kyuubimon crumpled to the ground.

"K'so!" Ruki pulled out another plug in card but a blast of fire startled her. The fire continued and surrounded her completely.

"Who… What's going on?"

"Ruki!" Kyuubimon shouted and ran toward her partner, only to be blasted back by the fire ring.

A shadow rippled… Dark eyes glared from beneath the hood of the red cloak.

"What… is that digimon?" Ruki glanced at her D-ARC.

"Demon… Extreme level… virus… His special attack is 'Flame Inferno'."

"Hahaha!" Demon laughed as he rose from the shadowy water.

"So child, did you honestly think you could defeat Dagomon with such a pathetic partner?"

"Shut up!" Ruki screamed.

"Not so tough now, hm?" Demon taunted. "The first chosen children I would have liked to destroy would have been those who sealed me away… but you'll do just fine."

"What are you talking about?" Ruki gasped.

"Don't play dumb. I will kill ALL the chosen children and their insolent partner digimon. Then, I will use the Dark Ocean's power to envelop all reality in darkness!" Demon gestured at the waters.

All of a sudden, Ruki wanted to go home. Home, the park, her mother's photo shoot, anywhere but where she was.

"Ruki…" Kyuubimon staggered to her feet.

"I will protect you…"

Suddenly, Ruki wasn't scared.

'We're partners… we back each other up…'

The card in her hand flared bright blue.

"CARD SLASH! MATRIX EVOLUTION!"

Matrix

Evolution_

"KYUUBIMON SHINKA! TAOMON!"

"Rice Cord!" Taomon dispersed the fire that surrounded Ruki.

"Taomon! Let's get out of here!" Ruki clutched her partner's arm tightly as Taomon used another spell to escape above the two evil digimon.

"NO!" Demon shouted as Taomon carried Ruki into the shining light above the dark clouds.

Tamers World…

"I'm sorry. I haven't seen Ruki." Takato said.

"Really? I thought she was with you today." Lee was surprised.

"She was… only, she was tracking down that digimon from last night… and then we never heard from her." Takato gasped.

"You don't suppose…" Lee started.

"Don't talk like that Lee!" Takato frowned.

"Look, we need to find her. It's not safe to go into the digital fields right now." Lee explained.

"Why?"

"Because…" Lee explained to Takato about the dimension experiments on the fields.

"Do you think that the digimon from last night was zapped by the experiment?" Takato asked.

"I do. If the theory is right, Ruki might not be on Earth anymore."

To be continued_

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JC: Well… Please R&R!

Solo: The next time, Ruki falls into the digital world of 02.

JC: Jiikai! Digimon Tamers, Starting Point, 'Digital Gate Open! The New World for Ruki!'!