Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. All names, likenesses, and like thereof is the property of Toei, LLC. The character Will is my property, however.

Author's Note: Italics are used for the main character's thoughts. Bold Italics are used for his instincts.

-DS-

Chapter 2: Arrival

Being uploaded into the digital world for the first time is not nearly as fun as the show made it seem. In a way it was, but it was also one of the most frightening experiences in life one can imagine. It's like being a blank slate one moment, just a silhouette of oneself. One can't see, can't hear, can not do anything. Then the next moment…BOOM! It's a sensory overload. You see the hundreds of colors flashing around you, you hear the typing of millions of computers world wide, and you just zoom along. …I guess it is kind of cool.

I landed kinda hard on solid ground in front of a TV that looked like it belonged in the 1970s. It had rabbit ears and everything.

Retro…

Is that all you can think of? RETRO! Dude, look around! There could be enemies everywhere!

I scanned the area, and it was kind of weird. I was standing on the edge of a lush forest, with flowers of every color decorating it, and there was a desert directly behind me, with its arid atmosphere making my back begin to sweat. There was no definite beginning of one, and the end of another; it was like the forest just melted into desert.

"Welcome, Will." The voice said.

"Welcome to where?" I responded.

"The digital world." she answered.

I froze for a second, and then I started laughing my head off.

"The Digital World! Yeah, right!" I gasped between laughs. "I get it now. I must have fallen asleep at my computer, while watching Digimon. This is all a dream."

"I assure you, Will. This is no dream." She replied, which only made me laugh harder. "

"Ok, whatever you say, O great mystical disembodied voice!" I said in an extremely sarcastic tone.

"Why do you not believe me? I implore you to." She said pleadingly.

"Because this is too much, DV." I said

"…DV?" She asked quizzically.

"Disembodied voice." I explained.

"Oh."

"Yeah. So I'm gonna go explore 'the digital world'" I said, using my fingers to imitate quotation marks. And with that, I walked off laughing.

"I hope you know what you're getting yourself into… Good Luck, Will." She said, and I may be mistaken, but I think there was a twinge of sadness in her voice; I may have hurt her feelings.

"Hey, DV?" I called. "Listen, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings or whatever. We cool?"

Silence was my answer

"DV?"

More silence.

"Whatever," I muttered, and walked into the forest.

I wandered around for what felt like hours (It had been seven minutes), and realized I had been walking in circles. I was completely lost. I couldn't tell from which direction I had entered the forest.

"Getting lost SUCKS!" I shouted to no one in particular. I jumped about three feet in the air when I heard a rustling in the trees above me.

Calm down Will. It was probably just a bird or something. No reason to alert the Army.

Then again, you do have all the reason in the world to freak out. You're in a strange place, and you're lost.

I wonder if DV was right. Could this really be the Digital World? That's impossible though. It doesn't exist…Does it?

I'm asleep. That's the only logical explanation. How else can you hear voices, get a digivice, get sucked into a computer, and now are stuck in God knows where.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Just because it's unknown, doesn't mean it can't exist.

…Good point.

I thought so. I grinned to myself, and then sighed inwardly. Winning a debate with myself didn't help me find my way, so I did the only thing I could do: I kept walking. Every so often, I'd hear the rustling sound that had freaked me out earlier, and it was really starting to bug me.

"Alright!" I bellowed. "I know you're there! Show yourself!"

Nothing.

I shrugged and kept walking. After another minute, the sound began again. I looked for something to defend myself with, just in case my stalker decided to make his or her presence known. I came across a rock the size of a softball.

This should do nicely!

I walked onward, with my eyes closed, trying to hone my senses and instinct to pinpoint where the source of the sound was. As if on cue, I heard the sound.

"Gotcha!" I screamed, and heaved the rock with all of the strength I could muster. The rock flew straight and true, and hit its mark; at least I believe it did, because the assailant fell from the tree.

My jaw dropped when I saw my stalker face to face. It looked like a mutant Praying Mantis: It was a Snimon. It simply got up, and glared at me with its glowing red eyes. (A/N Do they even have eyes!)

Something's a miss. "Why are you following me?"

The Snimon didn't answer, but rather, it advanced toward me, scythes up in an offensive stance. It was going to attack me.

Run you moron! You can't take on a Digimon unarmed!

…Good point.

But before I could turn to run, The Snimon attacked.

"Twin Sickle!" It called, and its scythes began to glow.

The pink blades of energy flew straight at me at breakneck speed. I managed to throw up my arms in time to block the brunt of the tree, but the force behind the blow threw me into a tree. I hit my head hard against the tree when I impacted, and slumped to the ground.

Whatever you do, DON'T lose consciousness!

I fought the sleepy feeling for as long as I could, but it prevailed, and I passed out under the tree.

-DS-

Author's Notes: This chapter ends with our protagonist knocked out under a tree, and a Snimon closing in for the kill. How will he get out of it? Why is the Snimon attacking him? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the next chapter of Digimon: Digital Saviors.