Boy = Tiger
Steve lay in the snow, unconscious. Snowmon sat beside him, ready to wake his digidestined if he needed to. Suddenly, he felt Steve stirring and looked at the boy's face.
Where there had been closed lids, there were two blue eyes looking at the Digimon. Steve pulled himself to his feet and looked around.
There was an almost endless expanse of snow and ice surrounding them. Of course, Snowmon didn't mind, as he was a snow Digimon, but Steve was freezing. It had never been this cold where he had lived.
Looking around desperately, he thought he heard a familiar sound. It sounded like Mike's recorder. Snowmon heard it too, and pointed out," It sounds like it's coming from that direction."
Steve began to sprint in the direction Snowmon had indicated, soon leaving his Digimon behind, and saw a cave built into a huge snow covered mountain. He looked inside, but there was no one there.
He was about to leave when he felt something. A kind of urge, but it wasn't threatening. It felt like a sort of blanket, covering him in warmth. He felt his eyes grow heavy all of a sudden and the next thing he knew, he had slid down against the wall, asleep.
Snowmon arrived at the cave about a minute after Steve. He felt his mouth drop open when he saw the boy lying there, asleep. He'd been unconscious for ages and he was asleep no less than five minutes later! What was going on?
He nudged Steve, but he would not wake up. Snowmon knew he had to fetch help, but how could he leave Steve and besides, he had no way of getting anywhere as fast as he needed to. He was pondering this problem when he heard something near the back of the cave growl.
The Digimon turned round and saw two hazel eyes staring at him. He almost screamed, but then he composed himself. He had to be strong, for Steve. He called out," Who are you?"
The eyes smiled, with that strange twinkle eyes have. Then the owner of them said," I should have known you'd be Steve's Digimon. After all, I had to be brave for Matt. It only makes sense if his grandson is just as difficult."
Snowmon knew who it was now. Stepping forwards, he whispered, "Garurumon?"
Steve's thoughts were in a whirl. He was dreaming, but something kept cutting in. A voice. No, two voices. One of them Snowmon's and the other.He had heard it before, but he couldn't remember when. He heard it say something about him and his eyes widened. In his mind of course. Then he felt the dream beckoning, and he returned, his thoughts of being related to a digidestined pushed to very back of his mind.
Garurumon had come into full view now. His purple claws were as sharp as ever, and he still had that look of kindness and understanding that had been born from years with Matt. The snow wolf Digimon's tail was it's old light-and-dark-blue striped self, but there was something different. The air of playfulness had gone. He was an old Digimon now, but he still had that sense of knowing what to do. In a way, he was the same, yet different. He had gone through a lot and it showed.
He and Snowmon had talked, and devised a plan. Garurumon said that a Digimon must have entered his cave without him noticing, as Steve's sleep was obviously the work of one. He knew they had to find someone else to help.
They agreed that Snowmon would freeze the entrance, so nothing could get in or out, then Garurumon would carry him to the nearest part of broken land, which was just another part of where they were.
"Frozen Water!" Snowmon yelled, freezing the entrance shut with a solid block of ice. Garurumon smiled, then lowered his back. Snowmon jumped on, and Garurumon ran off.
Mike woke up with three things: A foggy recollection of a dream, a body covered in snow and a splitting headache. He groaned and pressed a hand to his head. His thoughts were blurred, but he remembered the ground splitting and Witchmon sending them flying all over the place. He turned over and saw Firepentmon tending to a fire he had conjured up.
The Digimon smiled, "Ah, you're awake. I was beginning to think you'd never wake up."
Mike smiled weakly, then a burst of pain burst through his head and he gasped. Firepentmon crawled over to him and put a bowl of water in front of him," I melted some snow. You should drink it."
Mike raised it to his lips, but as he drank, there was a loud howl. His Digimon frowned and crawled to the top of a small hill that he was using as a windshield. The fire snake's mouth dropped open for a moment, then he was down in front of Mike in a protective gesture.
Mike was about to ask what was the matter when the source of it leapt down in front of them. It was a huge blue and white snow wolf with purple claws and three feathers sticking out of each of his shoulders, or where they would have been. Then the boy's eyes widened when Snowmon jumped off his ride.
"Look, something's happened to Steve. He won't wake up, no matter what I do, but I know he's alive. You have to help me. Please?" The Digimon pleaded, in obvious distress.
Mike stared at him. Noticing this, the Digimon quickly explained, while Firepentmon gave Garurumon some melted snow, which he drank. Then, when Snowmon finished, Mike asked, "OK, I'll help, but how are we going to get there?"
In answer, Garurumon lowered his back and Snowmon jumped on. Understanding, Mike climbed on, with Firepentmon curled round his neck. As Garurumon set off, he tried to remember his dream, but failed.
'Oh well, I'll remember later,' he thought, as Snowmon looked back at him.
They arrived at the cave in about a hour, Snowmon broke through the ice and Mike rubbed his chin, "Well, I guess we go in and try not to fall asleep." So saying, he walked in.
The first thing they all felt was a sudden feeling of drowsiness, then all three of the Digimon sank to the floor, asleep. Mike tried to keep his eyes open, and saw a small, blue butterfly with a red wavy line coming out of both sides of it's head, and one more coming out of the top of it's head that split into two curved ends. It's wings had fake eyes on them, green lids above the eyes, a different shade of blue than the body below the eyes, red underneath the blue and a thin bit of orange by the red. It grinned at him, with brown eyes (it grinned with its eyes because it didn't have a mouth), and then sleep claimed him.
Dozemon could not believe her luck. She had come to Garurumon's cave to test out her Sleep Powder (she was newly digivolved), and it turned out to be so strong it could put three Digimon to sleep at the same time and a digidestined a couple of seconds afterwards. She started to fall asleep next to the wall herself, except she had a lot more chance of waking up.
Mike was having the dream again, except it was clearer. There was a woman on a Birdramon, and he was right next to her. On closer inspection, she turned out to be one of the original digidestined, Sora. She turned to look at him and smiled.
^^ "Mike, fight the spell. You have to protect your friends. Yes, I mean Steve too. I know all about protection. I have passed that on to you, my grandson. Except, your sense of protection is greater. Use it!" ^^
She was fading away, as was Birdramon. Mike was left hanging in mid-air. In panic, he focused on waking up. A light appeared in front of him, and he moved towards it. It grew brighter, and brighter until...
He stirred, then opened his eyes. He saw the butterfly Digimon sleeping and frowned, remembering what Firepentmon had told him once about a Digimon that looked just like it, "I might have guessed Dozemon would be behind this. Her Sleeping Powder can put practically anything to sleep, and then she can annihilate them with her Butterfly Eye attack. For a Rookie, she's almost as powerful as a Champion!"
At that moment, Dozemon stirred. Her eyes cracked open, then widened as she saw him wide-awake. She flew up and yelled, "Sleep Powder!"
A wave of blue, shimmering light floated out of her wings at the Mike, but the boy just moved in front of his friends, protecting them from an even deeper sleep. After all, any type of powder wears off, but it would take much longer for a double dosage to do so. As he did so, his digivice began to glow.
He looked down at it as it glowed brighter, brighter than any of them had when their Digimon had digivolved. Then he felt something flowing into him through his digivice.
He suddenly noticed his hand. It was glowing bright white. His eyes widened, and then he realised that all of his body was glowing. Then, for a reason he didn't know, he yelled out, "Mike digimorph to Tigermon!"
The light faded, but when it cleared, Mike was gone. Where he had been standing, there was now a growling tiger, with bright green eyes, just like Mike's, and a scar on his right fore-leg, exactly where Mike had one from his encounter with Tuskmon.
Dozemon fluttered around in fear, "Great. Of all the Digimon he could digimorph to, it had to be Tigermon. His Tiger Swipe can do no end of damage, plus he can leap over at least three metres in just one go!"
The tiger Digimon stepped towards the butterfly Digimon. She started to yell her attack, but Tigermon was too fast. "Tiger Swipe!" he roared.
He leapt at her with claws outstretched. In one swipe, he sent her flying towards the exit. She didn't wait for more. She happily flew out of the cave, towards the horizon. Tigermon smiled, then turned back when he heard a groan.
Steve was stirring, and then he raised a hand to his head and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was a tiger face not ten centimetres away from his own. He screamed and backed away, but only succeeded in banging his head on the wall. The tiger chuckled.
Steve stared. He had never heard a tiger chuckle. Then his attention turned to the three Digimon who were just waking up. His gaze flicked from Snowmon, to Garurumon, then rested on Firepentmon. He asked, "Er, Firepentmon? Where's Mike?"
The Digimon looked at him, "What do you mean? Isn't he here?"
Steve shook his head. Just then, the Digimon noticed Tigermon. As they gaped, he winked and stepped outside and out of sight. A few seconds later, there was a blinding flash.
Steve rushed outside and saw Mike leaning coolly against the mountainside, looking at his digivice. Steve glanced at it and saw that, on the screen, there was a picture of some kind of digivice with a pin in it. Mike suddenly felt Steve's gaze on him and commented, "You awake then?"
"What do you mean? Weren't you asleep too? Or did you just stay out here?"
Suddenly Mike had put his digivice back where it had been (on the strap on his shorts (which weren't very helpful in the cold weather)) and grabbed Steve's T-shirt.
"Do you think I just stood here and watched? Who do you think that tiger was?"
Steve just stared at Mike. Then, acting on instinct, pushed the boy off and jumped at him. Mike was ready, swerving to the left and then punching Steve as the boy landed in the snow. After a few minutes of kicking, punching and so on, Steve found himself face-to-face with Mike again, except this time it was different. The only thing he noticed was that Mike was fighting differently, as though he had experienced fights in some other body. He was moving with some kind of grace that was only equal to some kind of cat. A tiger, perhaps...
Just then, Steve noticed the edge of some kind of picture poking out from underneath Mike's T-shirt. He pointed at it, "What's that?"
Mike looked down at it, then pulled back his shirt so he could see more. There, on his shoulder, was a tiger's face, with bright green eyes, and identical to the face of the Tigermon that Steve had seen. Then Garurumon walked out of his cave and saw them.
He strolled over to them and peeked at the picture. Then he muttered, "Of course. Digimorphing." The two boys looked at him, and then Mike clicked his fingers.
"Witchmon said something about digimorphing. Plus, Violet had a picture of something she called a `digi-chip` on her laptop, and the same picture appeared on my digivice's screen. And, just now, I somehow changed into that tiger-thing."
Steve stared at his friend. Then he looked up at the horizon and saw something. He tapped Mike, "I think we're getting closer to Infinity Mountain."
Mike looked up and nodded. They both picked up their Digimon and walked towards the shore, so they could jump onto Witchmon's bit of land when they joined up.
As they walked, Mike thought, "I wonder what Violet will digimorph into."
WHAT IS THE SECRET OF DIGIMORPHING? AND ARE ALL OF THE DIGIDESTINED RELATED TO PREVIOUS ONES? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: (Sighs) Mike and Steve are getting distracted from their fights quite easily, aren't they? Oh well, I need more practice at this whole rivalry thing. Anyways, yes, this was partly based on Subzero Ice Punch. I liked the idea, so I just changed it. Firepentmon mentioned Dozemon for a reason I have not yet thought of, Garurumon was there for the same reason, and he knew about digimorphing because... You'll sort of find out next episode. ^_^. Anyway, to sign off, Butterfingers, I have nothing against Frontier. I started this about the time I found out about Tamers. I thought they shouldn't let go of all the stuff they'd done in Seasons 1 and 2, so I threw something together with their grandkids! Hey, if anyone wants to know how I came up with the idea and everything, just tell me and I'll slip something in. Oh, and I'd already dubbed this `Season 4` when I heard about it, although now I think about it, they're kinda similar, aren't they? I mean, they turn into Digimon too. YAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! They're stealing my ideas!!!!!! I'm gonna sue them!!!! (Suddenly remembers 1) she doesn't have a lawyer and 2) she never copyrighted digimorphing) Oh well. See ya!
Lady Moon
Steve lay in the snow, unconscious. Snowmon sat beside him, ready to wake his digidestined if he needed to. Suddenly, he felt Steve stirring and looked at the boy's face.
Where there had been closed lids, there were two blue eyes looking at the Digimon. Steve pulled himself to his feet and looked around.
There was an almost endless expanse of snow and ice surrounding them. Of course, Snowmon didn't mind, as he was a snow Digimon, but Steve was freezing. It had never been this cold where he had lived.
Looking around desperately, he thought he heard a familiar sound. It sounded like Mike's recorder. Snowmon heard it too, and pointed out," It sounds like it's coming from that direction."
Steve began to sprint in the direction Snowmon had indicated, soon leaving his Digimon behind, and saw a cave built into a huge snow covered mountain. He looked inside, but there was no one there.
He was about to leave when he felt something. A kind of urge, but it wasn't threatening. It felt like a sort of blanket, covering him in warmth. He felt his eyes grow heavy all of a sudden and the next thing he knew, he had slid down against the wall, asleep.
Snowmon arrived at the cave about a minute after Steve. He felt his mouth drop open when he saw the boy lying there, asleep. He'd been unconscious for ages and he was asleep no less than five minutes later! What was going on?
He nudged Steve, but he would not wake up. Snowmon knew he had to fetch help, but how could he leave Steve and besides, he had no way of getting anywhere as fast as he needed to. He was pondering this problem when he heard something near the back of the cave growl.
The Digimon turned round and saw two hazel eyes staring at him. He almost screamed, but then he composed himself. He had to be strong, for Steve. He called out," Who are you?"
The eyes smiled, with that strange twinkle eyes have. Then the owner of them said," I should have known you'd be Steve's Digimon. After all, I had to be brave for Matt. It only makes sense if his grandson is just as difficult."
Snowmon knew who it was now. Stepping forwards, he whispered, "Garurumon?"
Steve's thoughts were in a whirl. He was dreaming, but something kept cutting in. A voice. No, two voices. One of them Snowmon's and the other.He had heard it before, but he couldn't remember when. He heard it say something about him and his eyes widened. In his mind of course. Then he felt the dream beckoning, and he returned, his thoughts of being related to a digidestined pushed to very back of his mind.
Garurumon had come into full view now. His purple claws were as sharp as ever, and he still had that look of kindness and understanding that had been born from years with Matt. The snow wolf Digimon's tail was it's old light-and-dark-blue striped self, but there was something different. The air of playfulness had gone. He was an old Digimon now, but he still had that sense of knowing what to do. In a way, he was the same, yet different. He had gone through a lot and it showed.
He and Snowmon had talked, and devised a plan. Garurumon said that a Digimon must have entered his cave without him noticing, as Steve's sleep was obviously the work of one. He knew they had to find someone else to help.
They agreed that Snowmon would freeze the entrance, so nothing could get in or out, then Garurumon would carry him to the nearest part of broken land, which was just another part of where they were.
"Frozen Water!" Snowmon yelled, freezing the entrance shut with a solid block of ice. Garurumon smiled, then lowered his back. Snowmon jumped on, and Garurumon ran off.
Mike woke up with three things: A foggy recollection of a dream, a body covered in snow and a splitting headache. He groaned and pressed a hand to his head. His thoughts were blurred, but he remembered the ground splitting and Witchmon sending them flying all over the place. He turned over and saw Firepentmon tending to a fire he had conjured up.
The Digimon smiled, "Ah, you're awake. I was beginning to think you'd never wake up."
Mike smiled weakly, then a burst of pain burst through his head and he gasped. Firepentmon crawled over to him and put a bowl of water in front of him," I melted some snow. You should drink it."
Mike raised it to his lips, but as he drank, there was a loud howl. His Digimon frowned and crawled to the top of a small hill that he was using as a windshield. The fire snake's mouth dropped open for a moment, then he was down in front of Mike in a protective gesture.
Mike was about to ask what was the matter when the source of it leapt down in front of them. It was a huge blue and white snow wolf with purple claws and three feathers sticking out of each of his shoulders, or where they would have been. Then the boy's eyes widened when Snowmon jumped off his ride.
"Look, something's happened to Steve. He won't wake up, no matter what I do, but I know he's alive. You have to help me. Please?" The Digimon pleaded, in obvious distress.
Mike stared at him. Noticing this, the Digimon quickly explained, while Firepentmon gave Garurumon some melted snow, which he drank. Then, when Snowmon finished, Mike asked, "OK, I'll help, but how are we going to get there?"
In answer, Garurumon lowered his back and Snowmon jumped on. Understanding, Mike climbed on, with Firepentmon curled round his neck. As Garurumon set off, he tried to remember his dream, but failed.
'Oh well, I'll remember later,' he thought, as Snowmon looked back at him.
They arrived at the cave in about a hour, Snowmon broke through the ice and Mike rubbed his chin, "Well, I guess we go in and try not to fall asleep." So saying, he walked in.
The first thing they all felt was a sudden feeling of drowsiness, then all three of the Digimon sank to the floor, asleep. Mike tried to keep his eyes open, and saw a small, blue butterfly with a red wavy line coming out of both sides of it's head, and one more coming out of the top of it's head that split into two curved ends. It's wings had fake eyes on them, green lids above the eyes, a different shade of blue than the body below the eyes, red underneath the blue and a thin bit of orange by the red. It grinned at him, with brown eyes (it grinned with its eyes because it didn't have a mouth), and then sleep claimed him.
Dozemon could not believe her luck. She had come to Garurumon's cave to test out her Sleep Powder (she was newly digivolved), and it turned out to be so strong it could put three Digimon to sleep at the same time and a digidestined a couple of seconds afterwards. She started to fall asleep next to the wall herself, except she had a lot more chance of waking up.
Mike was having the dream again, except it was clearer. There was a woman on a Birdramon, and he was right next to her. On closer inspection, she turned out to be one of the original digidestined, Sora. She turned to look at him and smiled.
^^ "Mike, fight the spell. You have to protect your friends. Yes, I mean Steve too. I know all about protection. I have passed that on to you, my grandson. Except, your sense of protection is greater. Use it!" ^^
She was fading away, as was Birdramon. Mike was left hanging in mid-air. In panic, he focused on waking up. A light appeared in front of him, and he moved towards it. It grew brighter, and brighter until...
He stirred, then opened his eyes. He saw the butterfly Digimon sleeping and frowned, remembering what Firepentmon had told him once about a Digimon that looked just like it, "I might have guessed Dozemon would be behind this. Her Sleeping Powder can put practically anything to sleep, and then she can annihilate them with her Butterfly Eye attack. For a Rookie, she's almost as powerful as a Champion!"
At that moment, Dozemon stirred. Her eyes cracked open, then widened as she saw him wide-awake. She flew up and yelled, "Sleep Powder!"
A wave of blue, shimmering light floated out of her wings at the Mike, but the boy just moved in front of his friends, protecting them from an even deeper sleep. After all, any type of powder wears off, but it would take much longer for a double dosage to do so. As he did so, his digivice began to glow.
He looked down at it as it glowed brighter, brighter than any of them had when their Digimon had digivolved. Then he felt something flowing into him through his digivice.
He suddenly noticed his hand. It was glowing bright white. His eyes widened, and then he realised that all of his body was glowing. Then, for a reason he didn't know, he yelled out, "Mike digimorph to Tigermon!"
The light faded, but when it cleared, Mike was gone. Where he had been standing, there was now a growling tiger, with bright green eyes, just like Mike's, and a scar on his right fore-leg, exactly where Mike had one from his encounter with Tuskmon.
Dozemon fluttered around in fear, "Great. Of all the Digimon he could digimorph to, it had to be Tigermon. His Tiger Swipe can do no end of damage, plus he can leap over at least three metres in just one go!"
The tiger Digimon stepped towards the butterfly Digimon. She started to yell her attack, but Tigermon was too fast. "Tiger Swipe!" he roared.
He leapt at her with claws outstretched. In one swipe, he sent her flying towards the exit. She didn't wait for more. She happily flew out of the cave, towards the horizon. Tigermon smiled, then turned back when he heard a groan.
Steve was stirring, and then he raised a hand to his head and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was a tiger face not ten centimetres away from his own. He screamed and backed away, but only succeeded in banging his head on the wall. The tiger chuckled.
Steve stared. He had never heard a tiger chuckle. Then his attention turned to the three Digimon who were just waking up. His gaze flicked from Snowmon, to Garurumon, then rested on Firepentmon. He asked, "Er, Firepentmon? Where's Mike?"
The Digimon looked at him, "What do you mean? Isn't he here?"
Steve shook his head. Just then, the Digimon noticed Tigermon. As they gaped, he winked and stepped outside and out of sight. A few seconds later, there was a blinding flash.
Steve rushed outside and saw Mike leaning coolly against the mountainside, looking at his digivice. Steve glanced at it and saw that, on the screen, there was a picture of some kind of digivice with a pin in it. Mike suddenly felt Steve's gaze on him and commented, "You awake then?"
"What do you mean? Weren't you asleep too? Or did you just stay out here?"
Suddenly Mike had put his digivice back where it had been (on the strap on his shorts (which weren't very helpful in the cold weather)) and grabbed Steve's T-shirt.
"Do you think I just stood here and watched? Who do you think that tiger was?"
Steve just stared at Mike. Then, acting on instinct, pushed the boy off and jumped at him. Mike was ready, swerving to the left and then punching Steve as the boy landed in the snow. After a few minutes of kicking, punching and so on, Steve found himself face-to-face with Mike again, except this time it was different. The only thing he noticed was that Mike was fighting differently, as though he had experienced fights in some other body. He was moving with some kind of grace that was only equal to some kind of cat. A tiger, perhaps...
Just then, Steve noticed the edge of some kind of picture poking out from underneath Mike's T-shirt. He pointed at it, "What's that?"
Mike looked down at it, then pulled back his shirt so he could see more. There, on his shoulder, was a tiger's face, with bright green eyes, and identical to the face of the Tigermon that Steve had seen. Then Garurumon walked out of his cave and saw them.
He strolled over to them and peeked at the picture. Then he muttered, "Of course. Digimorphing." The two boys looked at him, and then Mike clicked his fingers.
"Witchmon said something about digimorphing. Plus, Violet had a picture of something she called a `digi-chip` on her laptop, and the same picture appeared on my digivice's screen. And, just now, I somehow changed into that tiger-thing."
Steve stared at his friend. Then he looked up at the horizon and saw something. He tapped Mike, "I think we're getting closer to Infinity Mountain."
Mike looked up and nodded. They both picked up their Digimon and walked towards the shore, so they could jump onto Witchmon's bit of land when they joined up.
As they walked, Mike thought, "I wonder what Violet will digimorph into."
WHAT IS THE SECRET OF DIGIMORPHING? AND ARE ALL OF THE DIGIDESTINED RELATED TO PREVIOUS ONES? FIND OUT ON THE NEXT DIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS!
Author's Note: (Sighs) Mike and Steve are getting distracted from their fights quite easily, aren't they? Oh well, I need more practice at this whole rivalry thing. Anyways, yes, this was partly based on Subzero Ice Punch. I liked the idea, so I just changed it. Firepentmon mentioned Dozemon for a reason I have not yet thought of, Garurumon was there for the same reason, and he knew about digimorphing because... You'll sort of find out next episode. ^_^. Anyway, to sign off, Butterfingers, I have nothing against Frontier. I started this about the time I found out about Tamers. I thought they shouldn't let go of all the stuff they'd done in Seasons 1 and 2, so I threw something together with their grandkids! Hey, if anyone wants to know how I came up with the idea and everything, just tell me and I'll slip something in. Oh, and I'd already dubbed this `Season 4` when I heard about it, although now I think about it, they're kinda similar, aren't they? I mean, they turn into Digimon too. YAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! They're stealing my ideas!!!!!! I'm gonna sue them!!!! (Suddenly remembers 1) she doesn't have a lawyer and 2) she never copyrighted digimorphing) Oh well. See ya!
Lady Moon