After the battle with the D-Reaper, everything went back to normal. September came and the tamers all went back to school. Then Takato found the digital gateway in Guilmon's hideout. That's when things took a turn for the normal the tamers had come to know since they became tamers. Guilmon was back eating his bread. Terriermon was still being too arrogant for his own good. Renamon was living easy and helping Rika out with whatever she needed help with. Impmon was still his old wisecracking self. Everything was normal. No one even expected what was to come.
Karu had known his destiny for quite some time. Given his digivice some time ago, he knew he would one day have to fight alongside the tamers to defeat a familiar enemy. He was told that his digivice came from an alternate reality, where humans could become digimon through a process called "Spirit Evolution". He was also told that his spirits were special. Not because they were different, but because they were both classified as human spirits. It was explained to him that most digidestined who have the ability to spirit evolve have a human spirit and a beast spirit. That is why his spirits are unique. He was also told that there were two digimon that were living versions of these spirits fighting in yet another dimension. Though he didn't know it yet, Karu would soon be following a path much similar to that of those two digimon.
"Digi-Modify! Hyper Speed activate!" Rika used the card to speed Renamon up in order to defeat the recently bio-emerged Toyagumon. With a few quick moves and a cry of "Diamond Storm!" Toyagumon was easily defeated.
"Nice job Renamon." Rika told her partner after the battle. There hadn't been many bio-emergences since the D-Reaper had been defeated. The most interesting thing that had happened since the D-Reaper was the new arc sent into the digital world to get their partners once more. Then again, there was the incident with Locomon and Parasimon, but that's a different story.
Rika and Renamon were just about to leave and go back to Rika's house when suddenly a digital field appeared again. When Rika looked and saw who came out of it, she couldn't believe it. There, in front of her, stood Leomon. But there was something different about him. He had an odd trait to him. It kind of reminded Rika of the Jeri clone that the D-Reaper had made. She just brushed it off as nothing until Leomon let out a cry of "Fist of the Beast King!" as a flaming lions head came flying at them. Then she knew that this wasn't Leomon. Luckily, Renamon had gotten her out of the way just in time.
"Renamon, let's show him who's boss! Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!" And with a bright flash, Renamon was digivolving.
"Renamon digivolve to! Kyuubimon!" And with that Kyuubimon leapt toward Leomon with a fierce cry of "Dragon Wheel!" as her attack left Leomon without an arm. But just as they thought they had won, his arm regrew; first as a red mass, then as an exact replica of his arm. Then Rika realized what he was. He wasn't a digimon. He was an Agent D-Reaper!
Rika and Kyuubimon kept fighting, but to no avail. Every time they got a good hit on the ADR Leomon, he regenerated. Then, just as they had almost given up hope, they heard a cry of "Spiking Strike!" as a large bug-like digimon attacked the ADR Leomon. Amazingly, this attack defeated the ADR Leomon. Then the new digimon stood up and looked at Rika and Kyuubimon and they looked back at him. They didn't know who he was, but they were about to find out.
Rika pointed her D-Arc at the new digimon. "Stingmon. Insectoid digimon. His attacks are Spiking Strike and Moon Shooter." Is what she read off of the D-Arc. Then, in a bright flash of swirling light, Stingmon was gone, and in his place stood a kid, about Rika's age. Rika and Kyuubimon both stared in amazement, unable to believe what they just saw. Then the kid walked over to them.
"Hi. I'm Karu." Was what he said as he extended his hand to Rika.
"I'm Rika." She replied, but didn't shake his hand.
"You're one of the digimon tamers!"
"How do you know about the tamers?"
"It's a long story. Anyway, I'm glad I got here in time."
"Do you know what that thing was?"
"It was an Agent D-Reaper. The D-Reaper you defeated managed to preserve a part of itself and it's memories. Now it has found a way to make exact copies of the digimon it has seen. Don't be surprised if you see one of your friends destroying the town because it won't be him, it'll be an ADR."
"How do you know all of this?"
"Because I'm supposed to know. I was chosen to help in the fight against the new D-Reaper. I was given powers from an alternate dimension in order to help you and the tamers fight. Now the time for me to help has come. If we don't defeat the D-Reaper this time around, the world as we know it could be destroyed."
"Then I guess we'd better call a meeting of all the tamers to fill them in."
"Good idea Rika." And with that, they left to inform the other tamers of the new events that were uprising.
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