Note: Boy did that last chapter spark a debate, lol. Many of you asked if this is going to be a Rika/T.K. fic, the answer is no though they would make an interesting pair. I will also state for the record that Rika/Matt would in a lot of ways be a better pairing then Rika/Ryo but this story is that kind of fic and will remain so. However I am thinking about doing a Rika/Matt fic so if that interests u let me know. Anyway as always thank you for reading and I own nothing but the original plot/characters.

Interesting Happenings

The digimon sat on the tree limb quietly, his body not moving a centimetre as he watched the humans and their pets. It was interesting to observe and the digimon was learning a lot about human behaviour. So far as he could tell the redheaded one, Rika really hated the guy with the goggles on his head and the feelings were returned. Apparently the goggle human, Davis was afraid of Rika and the digimon found this quite amusing because according to the laws of nature it was the male that was suppose to reign, not the female. Of course the females were the hunters and providers, the fox/virus type digimon couldn't figure out why the females had never simply taken over. Rika's Renamon interested him as well, a cousin of his in type with remarkably similar looks only her colours were different then his own. She sensed his presence, which both annoyed him and made him even more curious about where they'd come from. The digimon that had come with Rika and the blonde Alice were not from this region of the Digital World, they were different, especially the blonde's. A Cyberdramon, he'd never heard of such a digimon before but the digimon appeared to be an interesting character, a worthy opponent though he had no intention of picking a fight with what he guessed to be a dragon or virus type. Seeing something out of the corner of his eye the digimon turned his head slightly to see the blonde boy, T.K. talking to Rika and Alice, the only one besides the child that seemed to seek out the girl's company. The older one had tried, Tai, but the purple haired girl had called him back as had the brunette who watched T.K. with her heart in her eyes. But it didn't appear that the one called Kari was T.K.'s as he made no move to leave Rika's side or rid Kari of the one they called Davis. Interesting beings theses humans, he would miss the entertainment when they were deleted. Perhaps he'd stay with them a while longer, protect them from Aracnamon until it was no longer in his interests to do so.

"When I get a hold of it I'm going to delete it slowly and painfully." Renamon muttered to Rika before bounding off, acting as a scout as they continued on there long journey to find Ken and Izzy. The two groups were separate with Rika, T.K. and Alice in one group and the other digidestined in the other. As far as Renamon was concerned the boy T.K. was the only one using his head.

Smiling at her digimon's retreating form Rika shook her head with a smirk. "This is really starting to annoy her, especially the fact that the longer this goes on the more annoying it gets that no one but Alice and I believe her."

"If it were anyone but Renamon I'd be sceptical too. But she's never wrong about these kinds of things and I'm inclined to be safe as oppose to sorry. Plus I'm looking forward to rubbing it in Davis's face when Renamon catches whatever is following us." Alice said with a smirk as she adjusted her backpack.

"So do you suppose whatever it is means us help or harm?" T.K. asked as he walked between the two, Rika on his right and Alice on the left. For some reason Kari didn't seem to want to talk to him so he was walking with them. Maybe she was mad at him for hanging out with Rika last night like Yolie was T.K. though with a sigh, thinking of the lecture Yolie had given him when he'd gone back to their camp to sleep. Alice and Rika weren't the enemy, call it a gut feeling but he was going to trust it. They had an agenda they weren't sharing but T.K. was pretty sure that whatever that agenda was it wasn't to hurt them or the Digital World. Maybe they weren't the biggest people persons but they seemed to care about their digimon and the Digital World, carefully not to leave trash behind or disturb anything. These weren't female Digimon Emperors as far as he was concerned.

"My money's on either, I think its curiosity." Rika said with a considering look having thought about it carefully. "It hasn't attacked or even made an appearance, as for protecting it has no reason too as far as we know, it doesn't know us as well as we can tell and I doubt it would be willing to risk its life for someone it doesn't know."

"Make's sense." T.K. agreed, glad that she thought whatever was following them wasn't a threat. But he couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right and so he decided to get Rika and Alice's opinion on it. "It's too bad some of your friends and their digimon aren't here, somehow I get the feeling that we're going to need them. I can't explain it but I have a feeling that something's wrong, crazy as it sounds."

"There's nothing wrong about following your instincts, T.K., often it's your best security alarm." Alice said as she absently chewed on her bottom lip. She too had the strange feeling of being off balance and there was just something in the air that didn't feel right at all. "Henry would sure come in handy right about now."

"Henry? The one with the Terriermon and a little sister with a Lopmon?" T.K. asked, recalling the guy's image from the picture Rika had shown him.

"That's the one. He knows more about digimon then Rika and I put together almost. Plus when it comes to fighting he's someone who you can trust to cover your back. Plus he's a computer geek like me and maybe he could help us figure out what's going on." Alice said with a shrug as she looked at Cyberdramon out of the corner of her eye, not liking the way he kept looking at Davis at all. She really didn't like the dork but letting Cyberdramon eat Davis wasn't a good idea, just think of what that might do to the poor digimon.

"Jaarin." Cyberdramon suddenly growled, finally sure that his nose wasn't deceiving him. "And Calumon as well."

"WHAT!" Rika and Alice said together, shock written all over their faces.

"They're close by, that way." Cyberdramon said as he lifted a clawed hand in the direction of Davis where he'd been gazing at moments before. As if on cue Renamon suddenly appeared looking confused as she landed nearby.

"I sense Henry's sister Jaarin and Calumon nearby, I'm almost sure of it." Renamon said looking at her Tamer in confusion. "How could they have possibly gotten here?"

"And who are Jaarin and Calumon?" Yolie demanded as she and the rest of the digidestined moved closer to hear the girls' answers.

"Jaarin is the older sister of friends of ours and Calumon is obviously a digimon that belongs to our friend Jeri. They wouldn't have sent Jaarin to find us though, they would have sent one of the others." Rika said before looking over at Alice who nodded her agreement. "Well we'd better get over there and find out."

Jaarin Wong had been in tight situations before but this most certainly cut the cake. Hanging on the side of a rock ledge a couple hundred feet from the ground was not a good place to be and even as she thought it her grip on the ledge became less secure. In her backpack Jaarin could hear Calumon whimpering in fear and Jaarin wished she could comfort the little guy but at the moment hanging on was more important. Digging her nails in Jaarin looked left and then right before leaning her head against the hard rock surface, she didn't see Suzy or Lopmon anywhere. What kind of data stream had they been caught in anyway, Jaarin wondered as she tried to ignore the cramping in her fingers. She and Calumon had been walking back to head home when she'd seen a black data stream heading straight for Suzy and Lopmon. With Calumon still in her backpack Jaarin had raced forward to try to get to her in time but had only been sucked in along with her sister and the digimon. Now here she was having landed on the edge of the cliff and her sister no where in sight.

"Are we gonna be deleted, Jaarin?" Calumon whimpered from her open backpack, afraid to stick his head out. They'd landed on the cliff, the stream landing them just on the edge so that they'd fallen over the edge, only luck saving them in the form of Jaarin's reflexive grab, which was how they'd ended up in their present situation.

"Not if I can help it, Calumon." Jaarin said in a forced cheerful voice. "Hello, can anyone hear me? We need help over here and we'd appreciate any assistance you could possibly lend us."

"Jaarin?" A voice yelled from far away and Jaarin felt her eyes go the size of saucers as she was pretty sure that had sounded like Renamon's voice, Rika's Renamon.

"Over here, on the cliff!!" Jaarin yelled and was soon joined by Calumon. Feeling the rocks under her hands vibrate Jaarin looked up to see rocks beginning to fall, her voice and Calumon's echoing off to create a slight landslide. "Son of a bitch." Jaarin yelled as she let go of the ledge, pushing herself further into the air to avoid a large boulder that would have hit her and Calumon dead on. Falling rapidly Jaarin wished she could hold Calumon, her ears filled with their screams as they fell at such a rapid pace that she couldn't even make out the scenery. So this was how she was going to die Jaarin thought just before she felt herself be jerked into something furry before flying into the air, this time horizontal as oppose to vertical. Opening her eyes Jaarin stiffed the gasp at the digimon who held her in his arms, as they seemed to fly through the air. The digimon looked exactly like Renamon only the colours were the opposite, where Renamon was yellow this digimon was black and where Renamon was black this one was yellow. It's black eyes met her for a second before looking forward and doing the same Jaarin watched him bounce from tree to tree, everything a blur before the motioned stopped. Dizzy Jaarin looked around her then gasped when she was dropped on the ground. Her head shooting up she gasped when she saw that the digimon had vanished as though he were never there, not even a footprint Jaarin thought as she looked down at the ground. "Calumon!" Jaarin suddenly cried as she remembered the small digimon. Practically ripping the backpack off her back Jaarin peered into the backpack and with slightly trembling hands pulled the small digimon out. "Are you okay?"

"I didn't like that, Jaarin." Calumon said weakly as she held him up so that they were face to face, his eyes looking into her grey eyes with nothing even remotely close to his usual mischievous look. "That wasn't fun."

"On that we agree." Jaarin said with a weak look before drawing the little digimon into a hard hug, cradling his against her chest as she waited for her heart to quit racing like she was having a heart attack.

"Jaarin, Calumon!"

Loosening her hold on Calumon the two turned their heads to see the unbelievable sight of Rika, Alice and another boy racing towards them on Kyubimon's back with Cyberdramon flying over their head. She could also see several other people but her eyes were only on the sight of her friends. Standing up on legs that weren't quite steady Jaarin waved rapidly and surprised the hell out of Rika and Alice when she grabbed them and hugged them hard as soon as they'd gotten off of Kyubimon's back. "It is you guys, your okay." Jaarin said as she hugged them before realizing that they were squishing Calumon. Drawing back the digimon grinned at them, his hands holding onto Jaarin's shirt, as she'd let go of him to hold onto Rika and Alice.

"Rika!" Calumon yelled as he let go of Jaarin's shirt to dive into Rika's waiting arms. "We almost got deleted Rika, you should have seen it! We were hanging from the ledge and we were yelling and yelling for someone to come save us and then we heard Renamon and then the rocks started falling and then we went flying through the air cause we were about to get smushed. We were falling and falling and I thought we were gonna get deleted but this digimon who looks just like Renamon only different colours saved us and then he disappeared into thin air!"

"A digimon that looks just like Renamon?" Rika said as she cuddled him close. The poor little guy.

"You're okay, Jaarin?"

"Well I've been better but all in all I'm in one piece." Jaarin said with a smirk as she brushed herself off. "The question is where's Suzy and Lopmon."

"Suzy and Lopmon? They're here too?" Alice said as she eyes went wide at the very idea; how on earth had this happened? "Are you sure?"

"Well they were caught in the same data stream that we were. Somehow I get the feeling the little pain did it on purpose too." Jaarin said with a roll of her eyes. "Who are your friends and where the hell am I?"

"Well this is T.K. and we're in the Digital World." Rika said telling Jaarin with her eyes that they'd made it to the dimension they'd mentioned in their notes to their parents and Hypnos. "The others go as follows, Tai, Yolie, Cody, Gatomon, Armidillomon, Kari, Agumon, Mickey, George, Hawkmon and Patamon."

"Nice to meet you." Kari said before Yolie could make some nasty comment solely because this girl was a obviously friend of Rika and Alice. The girl was slightly older looking then Rika and Alice and Kari would guess that she was around Tai's age. She had dark blue hair that reached her shoulder blades and grey eyes filled with more then a hint of shock. She had a runners build and Kari figured that most people would consider her cute though not as cute as the digimon she was holding. Now there was the personification of adorably cute.

"Nice to meet you." Jaarin said with a smile, pushing a lock of her dark blue hair out of her way. "I'm Jaarin Wong and this is Calumon. So we actually made it, good to know. So you didn't see any sign of Suzy or the bunny?"

"No, but its possible that she got dropped off before you or the other way around." Alice said with a considering look. "Renamon, Cyberdramon, do you sense them anywhere?"

"No, but we'll start looking immediately." Renamon said with a determined look. "And don't worry, Jaarin, with Lopmon with her I'm sure she's safe."

"You know the fact that we can't get any messages to the Real World is really starting to bother me. I have the strangest feeling that I really need to get a hold of our friends and until I can figure out what's wrong with my computer there's nothing I can do about finding out why my instincts are on red alert." Izzy said with a sigh. "I hope everyone's not too worried about us, we should have sent them an e-mail or two by now."

"Don't worry bout it, Izzy. I'm sure everything will work out somehow. Besides, maybe we'll get lucky and they'll come here looking for you guys and give us a hand, I have a feeling that Aracnamon is quite aware of our presence thanks to yesterday." Ryo said with a wry look as he rolled his shoulders slightly to relieve some of the tension.

"Well I can't say I'd be overly upset to see any of them right about now." Izzy agreed as he shook his head as though to clear it. "Maybe we'll get lucky and they're already on their way."

"Its too bad your friends couldn't get here either, Ryo. They're obviously more capable of withstanding guerrilla warfare then we are." Ken said with a smirk. "If your Rika's half the wildcat you say she is I can easily see her scaring Aracnamon back under whatever rock he crawled out from under."

"Yup, what I wouldn't give for her to be here right now."

Lol, that's it for know, kinda short but what can I say, that's the breaks. Hope you enjoy and let me know what you think cause I always love to hear from you.