Chapter Two – Down the Rabbit Hole

Eight-year-old Seto Dyama sat in front of the small portable television that was a part of his orphanage's playroom fiddling with the switches. He had spent most of the morning repairing the thing after Kei Tora and his buddies had become angry and took their frustration out on it. It had taken him more then three hours, but he had managed to have it nearly as good as new just in time for Mokuba's favourite program to come on.

"Hey Moki, I fixed it!" he called over to his younger brother that was only a few meters away playing silently with an old model train.

The three-year-old looked up, his small chubby face filling with glee as he pushed it aside and ran towards him.

"You did it, you did it!" he cheered happily and planted a small kiss on his brother's cheek.

"Ewe" Seto grimaced as he wiped his cheek off, but a smile betrayed him. "You want to see if I can get to work?"

"Yeah!"

Smiling again at his brother as he reached over, picked up the cord and plugged it in. At first the screen was just fussy as the young boy tried the switches to see if there was any channels that worked. Unfortunately, none worked.

"I'm sorry…"

"Its okay Onii-sama" the black haired little boy smiled slightly and gave his brother a hug. "You tried and I love you all the more for it"

"Thanks… I think…"

Watching his brother go, Seto could only think about how the poor kid was way to mature for his age. So as Mokuba returned to what he had been doing before, the older boy turned his attention back to the television. With his determination even greater then before, he flopped down onto his stomach and began to fiddle again and it wasn't long before something actually started to happen.

The screen began to glow and a small oval shaped began to grow within its centre.

"Umm…Otouto… do you see what I see?"

When there was no reply, Seto turned to see that Mokuba had fallen asleep, exhausted from having wanted to wait up with him to see if he could fix the T.V. So unable to get an answer from his younger brother, he turned back to see that the oval on the screen had become larger and… it looked like an egg!

Suddenly the screen appeared to burst open and was an egg like he guessed that actually dropped out. It was pale blue with streaks of fiery red running through it. Mesmerised, he picked it up. There was the sound of cracking and the egg-spilt open, causing Seto to close his eyes. Upon opening them, he was in for a surprise. Not one, but two tiny creatures now sat on his lap smiling up at him. They looked like fuzzy little pillows – one blue and the other red. Their eyes were of a pure molten gold and they had little tails sticking out of their rumps.

"Hello…"

The blue one began to do something Seto figured must be purring as the red one jumped up onto his shoulder to nuzzle his face even though it didn't have any legs.

"What's your name?"

He looked around for a second before uncertainly giving a reply.

"S-Seto"

And then it came again, with in his own mind, two small voices that filled his heart with pride.

"I'm Kisamon" the blue one purred.

"And I'm Katumon" the red one grinned.

"Do you want to be our friend?"

It was the end of the school day and within the emptying halls of Domino High, young Yugi Motou and his other half searched for Seto Kaiba. After having took off on them after their last class together and not showing up for the next, Yugi couldn't help but think that something was wrong – that and Kaiba had left behind his Palm Pilot that had all the information schedules he would need for work.

And being the kind person that he was, Yugi had made out to find the other boy.

((Do we really have to do this aibou?)) Yami Yugi complained through their mind link as he watched his lighter half poked his head into another room. ((Kaiba will have already left by now…))

(But don't you feel it?) Yugi asked. (I know that something is wrong and even if Kaiba hates my guts, I'm going to help)

((One day that optimism of yours is going to get us into a lot of trouble))

(Hasn't it already?)

((Smart-ass))

Yugi grinned slightly as he rounded the corner and came upon the one place he hadn't yet look. Entering a deserted computer lab,he looked about with no success.

(I guess you were right Yami, he must have gone home…)

But just as Yugi turned to leave, something caught his eye.

((Wait! Isn't that Kaiba's book bag?))

The tri-haired pair wandered over to the far end of the lab to find that it was exactly that. Scattered around an overturned chair were Kaiba's school books and uniform coat, but the boy in question was nowhere to be found. The former pharaoh shuddered.

((I'm beginning to get that feeling too now aibou)) he confessed truthfully.

(You don't think anything bad has happened to him do you?) Yugi shivered.

((I'm not sure mou hitori no boku, I'm really not sure))

- The Digital World -

"Did anyone get the license plate on that truck?"

Seto Kaiba reawakened with a groan of pain. As he tried to get up, his head began to throb so bad it felt as if someone had driven a nine-inch nail through his temples. Slowly opening his eyes, he watched as the world spun sickening around him. After what felt like hours, he finally managed to sit up. It was then that he discovered that he appeared to be in the middle of a jungle.

"Hello," he called out, listening to his voice as it echoed off the trees. "Anyone out there?"

The silence that followed seemed just a little too spooky for its own good. He finally stood and dusted himself off, totally disapproving of the rips and tares in his school uniform that made him look like a troublemaker. Gazing about, he couldn't figure out were on earth he could be. The colours clashed so terribly in this place that it was actually starting to make his head hurt again.

"Pull yourself together man" he muttered. "This is all just some hallucination from overworking yourself. I will all go away soon"

As began to search for some kind of path, he was unaware of a large pair of eyes staring down at him from a nearby tree.

"That's what you think" a voice snickered from behind.

"Who said that?"

Seto whipped about only to find that there was nobody there.

"Look what you've done" another admonished. "You've made him start to think that he's crazy"

"Is there a problem with that?"

Becoming highly agitated from the hidden voices, Seto stamped his foot angrily and shouted, "I demand to know who's there – now!"

"Oh look, now you've gone and made him mad"

He was about to repeat himself when suddenly a blinding streak of colour flew towards him and knocked him flat on his back again. Then whatever it was planted at sickeningly wet kiss on his lips causing him to choke and sputter. When he finally opened his eyes, he found himself staring into another pair of eyes only these ones were a pure sapphire and were practically the size of dinner plates.

"Ahhhh!" he screamed and flung the thing off, scrambling away from it as fast as he could.

"Owe…" it whimpered, rubbing a little bump that was beginning to form on its head.

And it was the most incredible thing he had ever seen. Standing about three feet tall, the little creature looked like some kind of demi-dragon off one of the Saturday morning cartoons that Mokuba liked to watch. It was periwinkle blue with sliver and white markings all over its body and a pair of tiny wings astride its shoulders.

"Now look what you've done!" the other voice snapped before it also revealed itself. "You've hurt her"

From the tree directly above him, another little creature dropped down. It was nearly identical to the first only this one was coloured a rich burgundy with black and sliver markings along with a pair of wings and two large glaring ruby eyes. Seto could only sweatdrop at the other little creature's overprotective antics.

"Well excuuuuuuse me" he exaggerated dryly. "But it's not everyday that I suddenly get smooched by and unidentified flying object – that's enough to scare any guy witless"

The red one began to retort but was cut off by a quick slap from the blue one.

"Oh don't be a pain Ari; it was only a bump" she snapped before loving turning her gaze in his direction. "I've missed you sooo much Seto"

"Missed me?" the young CEO gapped. "I don't know who or what you are or how you know my name, but I've never seen you before"

The blue one's eyes widened in shock and it almost looked as though they were threatening to burst into tears.

"Hey, hey. I'm really sorry, but it's the truth!"

"You mean you don't remember us?" the red one gasped all the while looking appalled.

"Umm no… should I?" Seto asked as he carefully inched away.

"YES!" the duo shouted in unison, nearly deafening the poor boy.

He could only sigh in disbelief of his situation and prepare himself for the worst.

"So what pray tell are you two anyway?"

"We're Digimon!"

"Digi-what?"

"Digimon" the repeated enthusiastically. " Digital Monsters!"

The pair pounced on him, giving him a hug around the middle as though he was an old friend, but for the life of him he couldn't remember what they wanted him to.

"And that is…?" Seto stared before trailing off as he looked down at them.

"Were should we start?" the red one asked. "Reintroduction I think. I am Ariramamon and this is my twin sister Nakuroamamon. This place you are now in is called the Digital World and it is directly parallel to your home of the Real World. You have been brought here because you are one of what we call the Digidestined. They are the ones chosen to keep balance between our worlds when the scales tip towards destruction. Almost ten years we were born within your world because of an imbalance and you were the first person to find us. If you can remember, we were once Katumon and Kisamon in our infant forms and then Earikumon and Dienatumon in our in-training forms and so that means what you see before you is our rookie forms"

Speechless, Seto could only nod minutely and let the little Digimon continue his story.

"But then we suddenly had to leave, as balance had been mended. We hadn't wanted to leave you, but that wasn't our choice. Four years ago that balance was again shattered. At first it was only seven of the nine original Digidestined that were brought here to the Digi World to aid us. It wasn't long before the eighth soon joined them, but the ninth – you – we were not able connect with. As things went they had been able to repair the damage and go home. Then as of a near year ago, it happened again. This time four new Digidestined joined the fold. But now it's happening once again. You, our missing chosen one was discovered. Somehow it caused a disruption that has once again tipped the balance. Right now the partners of the other Digidestined are summoning them here. Whatever this new trouble is, we'll need all the help we can get"

"So that means you're my partners?" he asked slowly.

"Yes it does" Nakuroamamon replied. "Its rare that anyone is partnered with twin Digimon, but you are even more special. Ariramamon and I represent both sides of your soul. I am you Hikari Digimon were as my brother is you Yami Digimon"

"This just isn't my day is it?" Seto groaned, shoulders sagging.

"Oh don't worry. You'll understand better when you meet the others"

Pronunciations

Kisamon: Ki-sa-mon

Katumon: Kat-oo-mon

Earikumon: Ee-ri-ku-mon

Dienatumon: Die-na-tu-mon

Nakuroamamon: Na-ku-ro-ma-mon

Ariramamon: Ari-ra-ma-mon

Meanings

Kei - Strong

Tora - Tiger

So how was that? I ended up switching over from the crossover section so the one review that I did get would have been erased, so please review and let me know what you think. Later!