Digimon: Battle for Both Worlds
3 years have passed since the battle with the D-Reaper. Takato and the gang are all in high school while Ai and Mako, Impmons partners, are in the middle of elementary school. While Takato has always known about the portal to the digital world, he has never gone back. The others have never known about the portals existence. They always thought the portal was destroyed along with the D-Reaper. Ai and Mako have since forgotten about Impmon, but they still have their D-Power Digivices, just in case they ever need them. Some day, those digivices will remind them of the things they once forgot. That day will be sooner then anyone expected.
It was a typical day for Takato. He had just gotten out of school and was heading to the park to hang out with Kazu and Kenta. As always, they played the digimon card game. Most of the other guys at school thought it was kind of childish, but they thought of it as training for their next big adventure. That, is just around the corner.
"Hey guys" Takato said as he entered the park. "What's up?"
"The usual. Kenta's getting wasted by yours truly" Kazu smirked. Some things never change.
"I coulda won, if it wasn't for Kazus new card." Kenta replied to Kazu's remark.
"Yea. My DNA Digivolution card owns you." Kazu laughed as he said this.
"DNA Digivolution???" Takato had never heard of this card.
"It fuses two digimon together." Someone said from behind them. "It can be just as powerful as biomerging."
"R. Rika???" Takato seemed surprised at hearing her voice. "But, I thought you were in America this year."
"Yea, well I decided to come back." Rika hadn't changed a bit since she was 13. She still refused to dress like a girl. She would rather wear jeans and a rebel shirt. Everyone had gotten to know and love her like she was.
"It's good to see you again. Why did you come back, anyway?" Takato seemed concerned.
"It was my digivice. It started to glow and then I was certain I heard Renamon calling my name." Rika seemed worried as she said this.
"That's odd. I got an E-mail from an unknown sender saying that something was wrong in the digital world." Takato replied, also seeming worried.
"That's because there is something wrong in the digital world." Another familiar voice came from behind them.
"Yamaki. How do you know all this? I thought Hypnos closed shortly after the D-Reaper was destroyed."
"Yes, well the government wanted me to keep an eye on the digital world to make sure there were no more problems. Unfortunately there has been an, incident which requires immediate attention."
"What happened? Is Renamon ok?" Rika sounded more worried than before. She appeared to be scared that Renamon was dead.
"We can't confirm anything yet. The only thing we know at this time is a powerful force has attacked the digital world. There are digimon fighting it, though. This we can confirm." Yamaki seemed just as concerned as they did.
"We've got to try and save them." Takato seemed determined to go and help fight.
"I'm sorry, Takato. There's just no way to get to the digital world anymore." Yamaki seemed disgusted at himself for having to say those words.
"Yes there is." Takato's voice seemed determined. "The original portal we used to get there the first time is still open. I've known ever since we defeated the D-Reaper but I didn't want to tell you. I didn't think it was a good idea at the time for us to go back to the digital world. We had put our parents through enough."
"I agree with you Takato." Rika knew this just as well as Takato did. "But now we must go back to the digital world to help our friends as we did 3 years ago."
"You guys aren't going without me, are you?" Yet another familiar voice chimed in. It was Henry.
"Hey Henry. So you heard all of that, right?" Takato seemed happy to see Henry.
"Yea, I did. So, are we going or what?" Henry seemed anxious to get to the digital world.
"Yea, let's go Takato." Both Kazu and Kenta seemed as anxious as Henry.
"I'm sorry, guys, but this is too dangerous for you. Nether of your digimon could stand up to this creature, being as strong as it is. It would kill you for sure." Takato seemed more demanding than usual.
"Ok. Fine. We'll stay here. But promise me you won't go and get yourselves killed in there." Kazu seemed to have a jokingly tone to his voice.
"We promise." Takato almost laughed as he said this.
Three Hours Later
"So, are we all ready?" Takato said as the three of them met in the park by Guilmons old hideout.
"Yea. Oh, and I ran into Mako on the way here. He wanted me to give this to Impmon if I ran into him." Henry showed Takato a toy gun, very similar to the one Mako had originally given Impmon.
"I guess the digivice restored their memory of him." Takato smiled. "I hope we do run into the little guy. If this evil force is as strong as we think it is, Beelzemon will be a big help."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Henry said enthusiastically. "Let's go back to the digital world." And so they start their next battle to save the world. What will they find? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!