The 2nd Digi-Phase

Chapter 3: A Reliable Source

A small girl woke up in a field of wild flowers. The girl's baby blue eyes fluttered as she yawned and stretched. Her long blond hair fell to the ground as she sat up. She wasn't an extremly young child; she was only a few months over 11 but all this confused her greatly. She had not fallen asleep in this field, as a matter of fact, she never remembered falling asleep at all.
"Wh-where am I?" she asked herself getting up to her feet and dusting herself off. Then, she noticed something else that wasn't quite the same. Her clothes weren't the same pink shirt and pants like she had been wearing before, now she was wearing a light yellow shirt with flowers printed all over it and flare jeans. Also, instead of having her hair in a simple ponytail, it was pined up in a matching yellow ribbon tied into a perfect bow.
'What is this? I don't remember anything!' thought the girl, 'The last thing I remember is getting online. What happened?' She looked around her and as far as she could see, there were wild flowers of every color dotting the green plaines and not too much farther away was mountain side with a beautiful gushing waterfall on the side. 'How beautiful!'
She ran towards the waterfall and at the base was a clear and quite shallow pool of water.
"Too bad I don't have my bathing suit or I'd take a swim." sighed the girl.
"Maybe you should just jump in like you are." suggested a voice behind her that nearly made her jump. She hadn't expected to have someone watching her so she was easily shocked by the voice, even at a voice as friendly as it was.
"Oh! Who are you?" she asked turing around to see what looked like a furry seal. It had white fur with strange purple marking, a small tail, 4 flipper-like limbs, and fiery red hair that stuck out like a mohawk.
"I'm Gomamon. Who are you? Are you a Digidestined?" asked the strange looking seal.
"My name is Megumi but I'm not sure what you mean by Digidestined." she replied.
"A Digidestined is a kid that is sent to the Digital World with the purpose to save it from evil and darkness. You get a Digimon partner and that's what I am. I'm a Digital Monster or, as we perfur, Digimon." explained Gomamon.
"I'm still a little confused but I think I've heard of Digimon before.... somewhere...." replied Megumi brushing a strand of her blonde hair out of her face.
"Well, since you're in the Digital World, you must be a Digidestined." said Gomamon.
"This is the Digital World?" asked Megumi looking around. 'I don't see what evil or darkness he's talking about. Everything looks pleasent enough to me.'

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"Oh! It's so nice to see the grass again!" exclaimed Yolei happily.
"Yes, and the flowers too." agreed Kari.
"Now I bet we can find our Digimon." said Davis, "Veemon! Are you out here? Hey! If you're there, give us a shout!"
"Gabumon! Hey, Gabumon!" shouted Matt.
"Agumon! Are you there?" asked Tai.
"Tentomon!" shouted Izzy.
"Biyomon! Oh, Biyomon! Come out!" yelled Sora.
"Armadillomon!" yelled Cody.
"Hawkmon! Come on out! It's me! Yolei!"
"Gatomon! Where are you?"
"Hey! Patamon! Patamon!"
"Gomamon! Where are you hiding?"
"Matt! Matt, is that you?" asked a far off figure running towards them.
"Gabumon, is that you?" said Matt squinting his eyes, "I'm over here!" Just as Matt thought, it was Gabumon. Gabumon was running towards them and when he got there he threw his arms around his best friend.
"Oh, Gabumon, I've missed you so much!"
"I've missed you too, Matt." said Gabumon, then turning his head towards the direction he was running from yelled, "Agumon! Tentomon! The Digidestined are back!"
"Tai? Tai's back?!" shouted Agumon running towards the sound of Gabumon's voice. As Agumon got closer towards the group, he was finally able to distinguish one familiar face. The face of the best friend he had longed to see for so long.
"Is Izzy there with you?" asked Tentomon buzzing over as fast as his wings could take him.
"I'm right over here Tentomon!" yelled Izzy waving him over. Soon, Agumon and Tentomon were hugging their Digidestined partners, their best friends in the whole entire Digital World (and real World).
"Oh, Agumon! I'm so glad to see you again! But, where are the other Digimon hiding?" asked Tai smiling.
"They aren't hiding, Tai. We're out here because it's our turn to scavenge." replied Agumon.
"Yes. Yesterday was Biyomon, Veemon, Patamon and Armadillomon, today, it's Agumon, Gabumon, Gomamon, and me." added Tentomon.
"Well then, where's Gomamon?" asked Joe looking around but Gomamon was no where to be seen.
"Well, Gomamon is gone to get us fish but I don't think he'll be back." said Gabumon.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Joe.
"Gomamon has been acting strange lately. We think he may be Digi-Phasing." replied Gabumon.
"What's Digi-Phasing?" inquired Matt. Gabumon sighed and pulled out of Matt's arms, "Let's go find the other Digimon. We'll explain about Digi-Phasing on the way."

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"So, to become a Digidestined, you have to first see a Digimon in the Real World?" asked Megumi to make sure she had gotten in everything that he'd said.
"Correct! I think you're starting to get the hang of it." said Gomamon flopping down into the cool pool of water, "Are you sure you don't want to come in?"
"I don't really want to get my clothes wet right now." answered Megumi looking down into the water at her reflection. 'Could this be true? Am I really a Digidestined?'
"Megumi, look out!" yelled Gomamon jumping at Megumi, making her fall to the ground as a fast rush of green swooped down at her.
"What was that?" asked Megumi looking around. The green blur that had swooped down at her stopped and looked down at her. It looked like a giant green bug with sharp blades on it's fore arms.
"That's Snimon! Snimon is a insectoid Digimon with a nasty attitude. Watch out for his Twin Sicle attack! It'll cut almost anything in half!" explained Gomamon.
"Oh, no! What are going to do?" asked Megumi.
"Don't worry! I'll protect you! Fish Power!" yelled Gomamon and soon, out of the pool of water came many tiny fish that strated throwing themselves at Snimon. Snimon just batted them all back into the water.
"Well, in this case, we have to run!" yelled Gomamon as they began to flee from the persuing Snimon.

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"So, we're all your 1st Digi-Phase Digidestined, right?" asked Sora to Biyomon. Biyomon nodded.
"So, what is Digi-Phasing?" asked Joe, "Is it dangerous?"
"No, it just means that-" started Patamon but he was cut off by the sound of screams.
"Help us! Oh, please! Someone help us!" screamed a girl and running next to her was Gomamon. Gomamon was begining to pull ahead of her when Megumi tripped!
"Oh, no! They're going to be caught by that Snimon!" yelled Gatomon.
"Megumi, you gotta get up!" begged Gomamon.
"Gomamon! You have to save her! Digivolve!" shouted Joe holding out his Digivice.
"Gomamon digivolve to... IKKAKUMON!" yelled Gomamon as he Digivolved. Megumi looked up at Ikkakumon in awe. 'I didn't know Gomamon could do that... Why didn't he do that before?'
"It looks like you need a lesson in manners. HARPOON TORPEDO!" yelled Ikkakumon shooting off 3 torpedos at the same time. They all hit Snimon sending him flying! Ikkakumon de-digivolved back into Gomamon and turned to Megumi, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." said Megumi quietly then, suddenly, she reached out and pulled Gomamon into a hug, "Oh, Gomamon! You saved my life! Thank you so much!"
"No problem." said Gomamon smiling.
"Hey, Gomamon! Come here!" shouted Joe.
"Excuse me for a minute." said Gomamon to Megumi. He jumped out of her arms and began to run at Joe, jumping into his arms, "Joe, I'm so happy you're back!"
"Yeah. I'm happy to see you too. So, how've you been?" asked Joe.
"Well, I've got some good news and some bad news." said Gomamon, "The good news is, I'm healthy and I've been keeping it that way. The bad news is... I'm... I'm not you Digimon anymore."

To be continued....