CCoD: Well, Ruki walked out -
Takuya: Well you were really mean to her and all, threatening that fic with Kazu.
CCoD: Where the hell did you come from?
Takuya: Davis couldn't make it on account of chasing Kari.
CCoD: Well, I suppose that means Takuya is our new assistant narrator! On with the disclaimer of mightiness! Word-form mangling intentional!
Execute! Spirit Evolution! Narratormon!
Narratormon: LT doesn't own Digimon, and is saving up for it. He does own Digicore-embedded programs other than the X-Antibody and Catalyst.
Narratormon: By the way, didn't I kill your Digimon partner?
CCoD: Why yes...
-CCoD cracks knuckles-
Digimon Compiled
Chapter 2: The Elements
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"Hi Yuki!" shouted a girl over his shoulder. Yuki himself just walked past, seeing as he couldn't stand it, didn't normally stand it, and simply wasn't in the mood for such things today. The summer heat had combined with his long, wavy blond hair to soak him in sweat beyond his previous imaginings of possible human ability to be soaked in sweat. It didn't help that he was wearing his customary black T-shirt and sweat pants.
Yuki had a reason for it, though. Girls would always hound him because he was tall with a strong build, and that infernal hair. No matter what he did to it his hair insisted on growing like that, making him look so smarmily handsome he wanted to puke whenever someone mentioned it. Stupid girls, just like that one, would come up to him dreamily and ask him if he knew how much like an angel he looked.
"Angel," Yuki would think to himself, "Hmph." That was why he had taken to dressing up in the goth style of all black. He thought people would stop bothering him about his looks.
Yuki noticed that he had arrived at the front door of his high school. As her prepared to enter for the last day of finals, he took off his backpack and whispered fervently into it.
"Alright Pata, you go loose until school's over," crept the words from Yuki's mouth "Find something fun to do today, other than fighting Digimon I mean."
"But fighting Digimon is fuunnn..." squeaked the small digimon as it stretched its wings and flew from the backpack to the school roof. "I don't care what you say! Super Patamon must fight the evil trespassers into this world!" it declared, making a muscle pose.
"Which you are one of? I can't help you while taking an exam in Earth Science, so please don't get yourself deleted!" was the last thing Yuki said to his partner as he passed the threshold into the school. Contrary to his expectations, today was going to be a very interesting day...
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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Reina slammed her fist onto her alarm clock and rolled over, only to find there was something she was rolling over.
"Ahh!" yelled Reina as she jumped up off the bed, "There's a puppy on my bed! Or is it a kitten?" Whatever it was, the creature had been jolted awake by the alarm-volume sound of Reina's voice and had now gotten up and stood on the bed.
"I have a name you know," it said. This was too much for Reina and she simply stared at it.
"You can talk?"
"Of course I can, and I can hear too for your information!"
"What the hell are you? And before you answer, could you look away so I can get dressed?" The creature looked away politely while Reina put another color variation of her typical outfit, this time with a T-shirt instead of a poncho. As she dressed she thought about the nagging thought in her head that told her she'd seen this thing somewhere. Hadn't she seen it yesterday? When she turned around the creature was nowhere to be seen. As she looked around however, a small voice introduced itself from directly behind her:
"I'm Plotmon, spelled 'P', 'l', 'o', 't', 'm', 'o', 'n', and I'm assuming that since I'm here you must, apparently, be my tamer."
"You're what?" Reina asked. She didn't think she'd heard right. That thing couldn't have called itself Plotmon.
"I'm Plotmon, do you not get that or something? You know-mon, Digimon?"
Damn. Now that she got a good look at it it did look just like the Plotmon card Reina held so dear. Fur such a dark purple as to look black covered the Digimon, with little ovals of green making the cheeks a satire of cuteness. This Plotmon also wore a neon-blue colored version a normal Plotmon's collar, and its green eyes seemed to glow as they looked intently at their new tamer. Reina had almost lost that card yesterday. And then it had turned into that strange blue card...
Her train of thought was interrupted as a flickering of light and more beeping came from a device sitting on her computer desk. It was roundish, with a couple of buttons on bottom and two little cylinder-parts sticking out of the side. As the arrow on the screen swiveled to point at Plotmon, Reina knew there was only one thing it could be.
"A real Digi-thingy..." she muttered "And mine as well. Who knew?" Turning to look at Plotmon she smiled in a sort of questioning way and added "So you really are my Digimon? Out there. Sorry about the whole not-believing-you thing. Thing is, I've never really been into Digimon. My name is Reina and I'm happy yet perplexed to meet you." Finally, something remotely fun had happened to her.
"After all," she thought, "She seems pretty friendly. And how often do you get a talking animal for a friend?"
Introductions were cut short, however, as Reina's mother called her for breakfast from downstairs.
"Plotmon," whispered Reina so her brother in the next room over wouldn't hear, "We can deal with the whole Digimon-existing, tamer having thing later. How about you come with me and we go eat breakfast? Bringing you to school after that should be easy. The bus is so crowded nobody will even notice a talking cat. You just walk down with me and I'll tell Mom you're a cat I found last night if she asks. 'Cause of the collar thing she'll believe me, I once went through an animal rehabilitation phase. And don't make too much noise or the digi-freak in that room there'll wake up."
"What's a digi-freak, and how did you avoid waking it by talking so much?" asked Plotmon quietly. She obviously had a lot to learn about the Real World.
Breakfast went as planned, with about 10 minutes less time albeit, as Reina and Plotmon quietly ate some wheat toast with cream cheese. Just as the two were walking out thinking they were home free, Reina's mother finally caught on.
"Reina, what's that animal with you?"
"Just a cat I found, hehehehe." Reina made an innocent face and she and Plotmon jogged the rest of her way to the bus stop. Lucky for them that was just one short block. On the bus itself they talked a bunch and Reina explained a few basic things about the human world, like what schools and parks and stuff were.
When at last the bus pulled in at Reina's school they realized that Plotmon may not be noticed on the bus, but she would be noticed in the exam room. As they stood underneath an outer doorway with the words "Maplewood Middle School" an argument broke out.
"Why can't I peek around in these 'locker rooms'? A place where humans keep their stuff must be fun," demanded a slightly peeved Plotmon.
"Because idiot, humans keep their clothes in there. As much as I normally disavow the status quo in all its forms you really shouldn't go looking in people's clothing. What if you shed or something?" Flicking her paw in the direction of a bit of dust she spotted, Plotmon replied.
"Meh. So I shed a bit. Can I at least go to the park and freak out some people?"
"Well, alright. You only live once." Then Reina dissappeared, to reemerge only when she'd "proven her knowledge".
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"Now what's there to do in this human world thing?" thought a lone mammal Digimon to herself as she meandered down the road. A cry of "F#ing cats!" alerted Plotmon that she was about to be hit by a car. Luckily she managed to jump over it, much to the surprise of the driver.
"Puppy Howling!" she attacked in response. As she resumed walking she thought, "Wow, I really should be on my toes. Those metal things could delete me easily if I were hit."
As Plotmon walked she observed her environment. This area seemed to consist largely of the road with cars zooming by on it and a large area of grass, trees, and human-made structures. Reina had explained that that part was called the "park" and that it was where most humans went to enjoy themselves outside. At the other end of the road, just slightly downslope, was a fairly steep hill going upward that led back towards Reina's "house", which was apparently where she lived. In back of Plotmon was a gentle nearly-flat upward slope that got steeper off in the distance.
To Plotmon all this variety was kind of like the sub-planes back home. As she pondered this she decided she'd make good on Reina's reluctant OK and see just how many humans she could freak out that day.
As she went into the park Plotmon couldn't help but notice that the humans here were perfect fodder for her tricks. They would all be playing or walking or talking. Some would even stop and notice the cute little stray animal that seemed to be following them and remark on how it wasn't quite canine or feline. These annoyed Plotmon, and they would receive a "Puppy Howling!" instead of a "Petit Punch!" At that point each and every human would look down at her, gawk for a moment, then scream and run away. She of course, fell down laughing every time. The looks on all their faces!
All except one. One boy had looked at her quizzically and actually spoken to her.
"What are you?" he asked. Plotmon never answered, but instead ran away. This boy had ruined her fun and she hated having her fun ruined. She would remember him until she got him, and got him good. She would remember the good natured, questioning expression on his face. She would remember the Genericon T-shirt the boy wore, the climber pants full of pockets, and most of all, she would remember the device he held in his hand. It was a Digivice, just like Reina's, but in navy blue instead of orange. Plotmon swore she would remember as she walked along the flat road between the two hills.
She couldn't mope for longer than an hour however, as her digital sense kicked in around midday.
"There's a Digimon Realizing nearby," she deviously to herself, "Why not go and throw a welcoming party?" Plotmon ran along the sidewalk, with a large building that looked quite similar Reina's "school" coming into view.
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About that same moment Patamon was scrambling along the roof of Columbia High School, where his tamer was currently taking some sort of "test". A freakish fog had just appeared out of the blue, taking up all of the extensive sports fields ("The only extensive thing about this school," Yuki had said.), some of the parking lot, and one convieniently unoccupied classroom. And freak fogs always meant one thing. A Digimon was coming, and a powerful one from the feel of it. Patamon reached the edge of the roof and dove off into the fog, bouying himself through the air on his wings.
As he landed and took a look around he noticed something. This was not a normal Digital Field. Normal Digital Fields dragged a small environment, usually natural looking, belonging to the resident Digimon into the Real World. This place was one immense circular plane. An inner circle was made of chained-together script of some strange sort, with a middle ring of more chained together symbols, this time in black. On top of that middle ring lay 10 Digicode symbols for the different Digital Elements that were used to create the sub-planes many Digimon lived on. These were Fire, Ice, Light, Wind, Thunder, Darkness, Water, Earth, Wood, and Metal. A final chain of figures similar to the inner one lined the outside. They all combined to creep Patamon out a bit. Even back home on the Network you never saw anything this weird looking.
What really creeped him out however, was the center. There, in the thickest of all the fog, lay what looked like a human child, kneeling. But all it seemed to do was watch as orbs of light in various colored spun, crashed, and collided with each other and its body.
"No data, Element varies. What the hell is this? Watch out Pata, that 'element varies' thingy sounds creepy." Yuki had arrived! Maybe with some strategy the two could beat this strange monster.
The creature began to attack. First came a barrage of fireballs, then waves of water, a dust storm, vines, metal daggers, and energy shots. Patamon dodged each nimbly as he tried to get a fix on his opponent's weakness.
"Hey Patamon," Yuki remarked as he looked around "Isn't this like a screen from the show or something?"
"How would I know, I'm only a real Digimon, not from the show!" yelled back Patamon as a second round of fireballs barely missed him.
"BOOM BUBBLE!" he cried, releasing his compressed-air attack at the apparent enemy. The thing just neutralized the attack with some kind of electric attack. It never even moved. Yuki pulled out a couple of cards to try.
"Card Slash! Sonic Speed, upload! Asuramon's Thousand Head Fist, upload!"
Patamon moved to his right past a darkness beam of some sort and began to execute his attack:
"Thousand Head Fist!" The attack may have come from the card of a Perfect, but it still didn't help. This creature was just so powerful all Patamon could do was move to avoid its assaults.
"Damnit! If only we could knock him off that center circle." thought Yuki darkly as his partner smacked into a car on the edge of the Digital Field and lost the upgrades. He had to do something...
"Patamon!" The grey-rimmed D-Arc began to beep to itself.
"Patamon evolves to... " An egg of light surrounded Patamon as he underwent the transformation their opponent was most likely seeking. Inside, his data went to pieces and reformed itself as a new Adult level Digimon. The egg of light faded.
"Angemon!" The holy Digimon stood proud and tall upon the concrete now, his wounds healed.
"Heaven's Knuckle!" the attack slammed into the angel's enemy, removing it from its circle and finally revealing its form.
As the thing stood up, covered in grass, Angemon and Yuki saw something akin to a small human child. It was neither too like a boy nor too like a girl and deathly white if one didn't count the strange colored orbs. It was dressed simply in a long white robe like a hospital gown. And the D-Arc now had some data on it.
"Bandemon, Child level Elemental Digimon, Data attribute. Its main attack is Transduction Whirlpool. Great, more fun. Wish we had a virus type Digimon with us."
For the next several minutes the two Digimon traded blows while flying across the Ultimate Frisbee field. Bandemon kept trying to leap up on Angemon and strike, but Angemon flew to the side, down a bit, and countered with some well-placed kicks and punches. It turned into a sort of cycle as it became apparent Bandemon couldn't use its elemental attacks without the circle it had been resting in. Then disaster struck.
"Transduction Whirlpool," the creature said. It said it in the voice of a preteen on too much Ritalin. It now burned red hot and an aura of heat expanded to the parking lot where Angemon was, burning everything as it went. He threw his arms up on instinct, but they served to protect him only an iota's worth. It was far too hot.
Finally as the aura died back down toward the center it pulled him in with it. Angemon knew what was coming. The child was star-bright now, it would incinerate Angemon.
But then it was knocked off its footing again as a new contender made herself known.
"Petit Punch!" Plotmon cried as she entered the fray. She had caught Bandemon off its guard. As she landed on her feet again she ran over towards Angemon. "Need some help?" she asked the tired angel Digimon.
"Yeah, thanks." Angemon panted out, "How about on three we attack it?" Angemon flew above the humanoid. "One." Plotmon found a good position to shoot it from.
"Two." she announced. They both took aim and backed their adversary into a single place between them. "THREE!"
"Puppy Howling!"
"Heaven's Knuckle!"
Both attacks collided with Bandemon, causing it to burst into data. Tired and having fought the most, Angemon took his well-earned battle spoils.
As everyone relaxed for a moment and the fog began to dissipate they heard footsteps coming their way.
"Plotmon, what're you doing here?" Reina asked her partner, "And who're these guys?"
Yuki extended his hand, "Well, if I could introduce myself, I'm Yuki. How do you do?" Reina took it and they shook. The faked gallantry cracked up Angemon, racking him with laughter. He was laughing so hard he didn't hear his stomach growl just before he devolved.
Yuki didn't think it was funny at all, and it showed as Patamon received a death glare for laughing. Yuki always struggled to be polite to the people who insisted on intruding into his life. On the other hand, Reina hadn't freaked out at him or anything. Maybe she was OK.
When Patamon finished shrinking down to normal size he introduced himself.
"I'm Patamon."
"Well, actually, I'm not so sure of that..." said Yuki.
"Why?" asked Patamon.
"Well, look at yourself."
When Patamon did look, he discovered that his ears now possessed the colored orbs that Bandemon had had and that his main body had the symbols from the circle running up and down it. Seeing this mostly served to confuse Patamon even further.
Then the school bell rang and Reina just had to ask.
"What're we going to do? Something burnt up the field, we have real monster-things with us, and there's a horde of kids coming out. Patamon, you can figure out what new thing you can do later, we can't get in trouble for all this!" she exclaimed exasperatedly.
The other three sweatdropped.
"We're called Digimon." said Patamon, "And I think you should remember it."
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CCoD: How was that?
Takuya: That was OK I suppose. An original attacking Digimon, why was that?
CCoD: I had my reasons.
Takuya: Well, I gotta go now. There's a big anime-characters party in the writer's lounge on But that's our lounge!
Takuya: Well, you can use the Review Posting Room.
CCoD: Could you at least give Rika this?
-CCoD hands over a "Sorry I Did That" Hallmark card-
Takuya: Fine, but I don't think it'll go over too well.
CCoD: Please? She was the originally planned narrator!
Takuya runs away with card in hand.
CCoD: Kanbara Takuya!