The Prologue
After few moments of talking that thankfully took everyone's mind off of Novice's questionable relationship with Black, the Novice Overseer was able to take the book to his lap. He was tempted to use the said piece of literature to smack Black who was resting on his lap peacefully like nothing was wrong. But decided against it, seeing as he was walking on thin ice with the opinion of these kids.
"So then...," Novice said with a mysterious smile, "Shall we get started?"
"Let's just get this over with," Jo said, not sure if he said that because he wanted to go home faster or to get away from here.
"Alright then," Novice said before he started reading.
"This is a story. About how my brother and I met a strange monster. It was a night that would change things, we just didn't know what at the time."
"A strange monster," Daisuke muttered aloud, "Like a digimon?"
"Just let master read," Black said, without opening her eyes. Reminding everyone about the weird relationship this guy apparently had. Though the said guy chose to ignore it right now.
It was the middle of the night, the darkness blanketing the city.
Every residence in the large apartment blocks was sound asleep.
Well… all except one.
In it, a young boy, about 4 or 5 years of age, with dirty blonde hair and green eyes was staring in confusion at a computer screen.
Just as Novice had told them, the TV screen had opened and showed footage of the aforementioned city before going to the apartments to the aforementioned scene.
"Aww, he looks cute," Mimi gushed at the little boy who had a cute confused look on his little face.
"That's true," Sora had to agree, the little one looked cute.
He was sure his older brother had closed it earlier, so why were there so many numbers and words moving across the screen?
"Pierce?" the young boy heard a young voice say his name in confusion, making him turn around to see his twin brother, the only difference between the two being his twin's hair was a lighter colored blonde and his eyes were blue.
"So his name's Pierce," Taichi commented at the scene that gave him a strange sense of deja vu.
"And he has a twin brother," Yamato commented, glancing briefly at Takeru.
"Azure's computer is all weird." Pierce said, pointing at their older brother's computer, his twin rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and looking up at it, standing next to Pierce.
The blue eyed twin tilted his head in confusion "What's wrong with it?"
"I don't know Gyro." Pierce answered his brother, now revealed to be named Gyro.
As the two brothers continued to look at the screen in wonder, something started to push out from it.
It had a strange oblong shape to it, which was explained as it finished pushing itself out, the coding like skin on it disappearing to reveal a strange white egg with red stripes on it.
"Is that a digiegg," Sora asked, marveling at the egg that came out of a computer.
At that moment Taichi had a moment of realization, "Guys! This situation... It's like when Hikari and I first met Agumon."
That earned some shocked looks from everyone.
"Wait what?" All the junior members asked, having heard this for the first time.
"Taichi... I don't remember this," Hikari said, trying to think hard.
"You were very little at the time," Taichi told Hikari, "I was actually surprised you even remembered Koromon."
"...I don't remember this," Agumon said as he held his head, trying to remember.
"You wouldn't have even hatched at this point," Gatomon said in annoyance, seeing as at this moment Agumon would've still been in a digiegg.
"Oh, right," Agumon said
The two boys looked at the egg in awe, before turning to the computer, which had turned itself off.
After a moment, Pierce reached up and patted the monitor a few times "Good job." he said simply.
Everyone chuckled at the little boy congratulating a computer on laying an egg. Although Iori didn't look as amused for some reason.
Gyro picked up the egg, looking at it in confusion "What do we do with it?"
Pierce turned to his twin, thinking about his question for a bit, before nodding at a decision "We'll tell Azure."
"Who's Azure," Gomamon asked.
"Right now? But he has to get up for work tomorrow morning right?" Gyro asked, while also remembering their older brother had work in the morning.
"Oh," The aquatic digimon said in mild embarrassment.
"Oh yeah… we'll tell him once he gets back then." Pierce corrected with a nod, sure of himself this time.
Gyro nodded in agreement with the idea, finding it made sense this time.
With that decided, the two brothers walked back to their room, Pierce climbing up to the top bunk of their bunkbeds.
"Even the sleeping arrangements are like Hikari and I had at the time," Taichi muttered, remembering how he had to eventually switch to the bottom bunk. Because he had grown a little too big for the top one.
"Who keeps the egg?" Gyro asked him suddenly, making Pierce stop and think about it.
He eventually shrugged "I don't know."
Gyro thought about it as well "Let's play rock-paper-scissors." he said simply, finding it to be the best solution.
"Yeah," Daisuke agreed, "Rock-paper-scissors is the best."
Pierce nodded, and Gyro sat down the egg, the two brothers holding their hands out in a fist each "Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" the two called out while shaking their hands, and both chose paper, making them blink before trying again.
They actually ended up choosing the same thing for 5 more tries, until eventually Gyro chose rock while Pierce chose scissors.
With that decided, the two brothers went to bed, with Gyro placing the egg under the blankets with himself.
"5 times," Iori commented, "Is this that, twin telepathy thing?"
"If that was the case, this bout would've gone on forever," Miyako replied.
The next morning, the boys were woken up as their brother opened the door to their room.
He was in his late teens, with silvery blonde hair and blue eyes, currently wearing a simply blue button up shirt and a pair of jeans "Time for breakfast munchkins." he said with a smirk as he saw them start to get up, going back to finishing up his own breakfast.
"He's kind of handsome," Sora commented about the oldest brother's appearance.
"That's very true," Mimi agreed.
What he didn't expect, and made him spit out his glass of orange juice, was for Gyro to be rolling a large white egg with pinkish stripes out of their room. Azure stared at the egg for a moment before his brain finally rebooted. "Wha...where did you get that?"
"Yeah, I think that would be a normal reaction," Miyako admitted.
"Hikari and I never told our parents," Taichi said, thinking back on it, "I'm pretty sure they would've freaked out about the situation."
"I can understand that," Yamato agreed, remembering how his dad reacted to Gabumon the first time and later Garurumon.
"It came out of your computer." Pierce answered innocently.
That just confused Azure even more, and was about to ask what his little brother was talking about, before noticing the time, turning back to his brothers whom were sitting at the table for their breakfast which was waiting in front of them "We'll talk more about this once I'm back this afternoon, as always, if anything happens, go ask the old lady across the hall for help."
"Okay!" his brothers nodded.
"In the meantime...ah...keep the egg warm. Maybe...put it in some blankets?" Azure suggested. This...was really NOT how he expected to start any morning like this.
"At least he's kind enough to tell them how to take care of the egg," Biyomon said.
"Or he's not thinking clearly," Jo thought aloud.
"Hey, Taichi," Daisuke asked, the Chosen of Courage, "What did you and Hikari do?"
"Honestly... I can't remember everything. It all happened so long ago. And at the time it felt like a dream," Taichi added.
"You even forgot me," Agumon complained from his seat in front of the couch Taichi and Hikari occupied.
"You didn't remember this either when we met again," Taichi retorted, shutting his partner up.
His brothers nodded again, with big smiles on their faces, making him laugh in amusement, before getting up and grabbing his keys, waving goodbye to his brothers as he left for work.
With him gone the twin simply continued to eat their own breakfast.
Though, they stopped when the egg started rolling around on it's own, moving around the apartment, before rolling back into their room, making them look at each other, before they moved back towards their room, watching as the egg suddenly stood up straight.
The two brothers looking at it in awe, before cracks suddenly formed on the egg, making them jump in surprise at the fact it was already hatching.
"Oohh, are we going to see me now," Agumon wondered with excitement.
"We don't even know if the Digimon that hatches is Botamon," Gatomon commented dryly.
"I guess we're about to find out," Gabumon commented, "I mean, it could be anyone really."
Everyone nodded at that, seeing as it made sense.
Just as suddenly, the top of the egg was throw off and something small, black, and round zoomed out from within the shell, speeding around their room, darting between their legs, before eventually rushing underneath the bed.
Taichi felt a little ashamed of himself, remembering how he was actually frightened at Botamon being like that...
The two brothers looked at each other, before getting on the floor, looking under the bottom bed to find two yellow eyes staring back at them.
Unlike these two apparently.
The creature that had popped out of the egg looked like some kind of small black fuzzy thing, it's yellow eyes staring back at them, blinking curiously.
"So it's Botamon," Takeru commented.
After a few moments of simply staring each other down, the small creature started blowing out… bubbles from it's mouth, making the two boys blink at it strangely.
It also seemed to be blowing the bubbles in a rhythm, which gave Gyro an idea.
He moved away from the bed for a few moments, coming back with a small bell from a tricycle, which he started ringing along to the rhythm from the small creature's bubbles.
"Aww, this looks so cute," Mimi commented. A sentiment which was shared by Sora who smiled at this moment.
"I remember Hikari using whistle to do the same," Taichi commented, which made Hikari blush in embarrassment, as that moment returned to her mind.
Pierce looked around the room as the bubbles kept being blown out, as they just floated around the air.
When he looked back, Gyro was holding the small creature, which was still blowing out bubbles, although Gyro opened the windows so they wouldn't be swarmed by them. After a few minutes of quite literally aiming and fanning the bubbles out of the room, finally the small creature seemed to calm down.
The two boys sighed as they watched the bubbles float about in the air above the street, which were obviously noticed by several people, all of them staring at the cloud of bubbles in confusion. However, back in the apartment, the boys had to deal with a different problem...namely in the form of a grumbling stomach, one that was coming from the small creature.
"You know...," Taichi said as he started thinking about something, "I'm surprised our neighbors didn't say anything about bubbles coming out of the window, when we had to open it."
"Maybe they had something better to do than care about what some kids are doing," Iori supplied helpfully.
"That's a pretty good guess," Ken said.
Gyro lifted up the small creature, looking at it curiously "You're getting hungry huh?"
"What does it eat?" Pierce wondered outloud.
"I don't know… think it would like peanut butter?" Gyro asked his brother, receiving a shrug.
They decided to try that, making the small creature a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and watching it scarf it down… then it's stomach growled again, meaning it was still hungry.
The boys tried making it a bowl of cereal, although it ate everything before they even poured the milk into the bowl.
"Just like Agumon would," Palmon commented
"Hey!"
"You know it's true," Gatomon said, earning several laughs out of this.
"DemiVeemon isn't much better," Hawkmon added.
"Hey!" The said blue dinosaur complained.
Gyro hummed in thought as he watched the creature start to eat a few slices of baloney they placed in front of it after the cereal "I think I know what it is."
"What?" Came out of most people, does this mean, they already realized what they were dealing with.
Pierce looked to his brother curiously "Really? What is it?"
"A mini-black hole." Gyro said with a nod as he crossed his arms, as if his answer was the only right answer.
A moment of silence passed the Children, before they started laughing.
"That's actually very true in this case," Koshiro said, wondering what he was thinking when he thought these kids already realized they were dealing with a digimon.
"...ok?" Pierce blinked.
"It just doesn't stop eating. And black holes keep sucking up stuff, right?" Gyro explained further, with Pierce nodding along, understanding what he meant.
"...He's not wrong," Koshiro couldn't help commenting.
Then a thought hit Pierce. "...are we gonna keep feeding it?" he asked, noticing that it was still eating.
Gyro blinked at that, about to answer, before they heard the creature let out a loud burb and just sag down, letting out a content sigh "I guess not." he eventually answered after a few moments.
"Good for them," Yamato said, as he remembered how much digimon can eat, when they're hungry enough.
Then they looked to the TV over in the living room as it started glitching out, the screen wavering and showing interference, and other electronics started glitching as well, neither of the two boys noticing the small creature standing stock still. However, when it started to glow, THEN they noticed it, and turned to see as it was engulfed in light.
They covered their eyes as the light shone bright, before it finally cleared away after a few moments, letting them look upon the little creature to see it was… different, now.
Thankfully for our readers, the screen didn't flash as brightly, so no one needed to cover their eyes.
It had become larger, for starters, and it's black body was now a pale pink color, it's small little ears now long and floppy like ribbons, and it's eyes, once small and yellow, now large and red, it's mouth was even visible now, with visible fangs poking out from it's bottom lip.
The little creature shook itself once it came out of it's daze, before looking at that, smiling as it opened it's mouth… and spoke.
"Hey! Thanks for feeding me!" the little creature called in a child-like voice.
The two boys were speechless for a few moments, before finally Pierce spoke up "You can talk now?"
"Yep!" it said happily as if it was the most normal thing ever.
"...Those kids are taking it a lot better than they should be," Jo commented, remembering his reaction to Bukamon.
"Yeah, you were pretty scared of me," Gomamon said with a snicker.
"Um… do you have a name?" Gyro asked after a moment.
The little creature nodded, somehow "I'm Koromon! Nice to meet you!"
"Uh...hi, Koromon?" Pierce blinked, not sure what else to say.
"Hi!... um, I can't remember your names but I'm pretty sure I heard them earlier." he said with a frown as he tried to remember "I… think they start with a G and a P?"
Gyro nodded with a smile "That's right! I'm Gyro, and this is Pierce!"
"Right! That was it! Gyro and Pierce!" Koromon said with a nod, his memory jogged.
"So...Koromon...what are you?" Gyro asked.
"Koromon is Koromon." the little creature answered as if that explained everything, and to him, it did.
All the first Chosen Children chuckled at Koromon's response as if they heard something funny.
"What's so funny," Iori asked, being one of the four people confused about this.
"It's just that, when we first arrived into the digital world, our partners explained things that didn't make sense to us, but made perfect sense to them," Takeru explained. The second generation had no such experience, seeing as they had learned everything step by step thanks to the senior members.
"And we didn't understand why everything was such a big problem to all of you," Tentomon added in. Smiling, if he had a mouth capable of that.
"...okay?" Gyro and Pierce blinked, not sure what else to say.
"So...what do you want to do, Koromon?" Pierce asked, figuring he might as well.
Koromon actually hummed in thought "Uh… I only saw your room and this spot. What else is there?"
"Yay! We get to play tour guides!" Gyro called in glee, I mean, what child wouldn't want to pretend to have an important job?
"Not going to be a very long tour though." Pierce added as he looked around the rather spartan apartment.
The brothers didn't need much after all, just the essentials.
They did have video games and toys though.
Minutes later, we find the boys sitting in the living room in front of a gamecube and teaching Koromon how to play super smash brothers Melee.
Funnily enough, his long floppy ears actually worked like hands, so he was able to handle the remote and press buttons correctly.
Taichi gave a bit of an amused look at Agumon, "I'm pretty sure our Agumon wouldn't have been able to do something like that as a Koromon."
"Hey! Yes, I could've," Agumon huffed, while puffing his chest in pride.
"Riiiight," Wormmon said having a hard time believing it.
Gyro was playing as Samus, Pierce as Ganondorf, and Koromon as Pikachu. Understandably, Koromon was a bit shaky at first, but once he got the hang of it, he turned out to be a fast learner. They didn't even need to let him win by the third fight. He'd actually won on his own.
"I don't think I've heard about this game or the characters," Daisuke commented, having played videogames himself, "What kind of game is this?"
Novice paused in his reading and gave the frizzy haired boy a look that said, "Are you insane?" "It's a fighting game, duh? But if you mean about what the characters are, it's a crossover of Nintendo's finest characters duking it out," Novice explained anyway, before having a forlorn look, "I used to play that with my sister quite a lot."
"You have a sister," Hikari asked in curiosity.
"...Had," Novice said with a face that clearly didn't want to talk about it.
"Oh... Sorry," Hikari apologized.
"Don't be you didn't know," Novice said, before returning to reading. All the while everyone wondered what happened to this guy that seems aloof most of the time.
"Wow, this is really fun!" Koromon laughed as on the screen the victory scene played with Pikachu doing its own little victory pose.
"Huh, didn't think you'd get good that fast." Gyro said, a bit surprised.
"Well, he's not better than Azure at least." Pierce mumbled as while Koromon had won they still KOed him a few times.
"What else can we do?" Koromon asked, bouncing excitedly, to which the brothers decided not to wonder how something with no limbs could bounce so much.
Despite the slight dip in the atmosphere a moment ago, the Children found themselves wondering for a moment when they started NOT to question how something without limbs can bounce. Then again, all things considered, that's not the weirdest thing they've seen.
Instead, they ended up playing different games with Koromon, as well as playing with some of their toys. Before long, time passed till it was the evening, and they heard the sound of the door being unlocked an opening.
"I'm home," Azure said as he walked into the house. "By the way, I heard the strangest story while I was on the way home," he started as he put away his shoes and bag. "The neighbors saw a cloud of pink bubbles coming out of the apartment earlier this morning. Care to explain?" he asked...right as he saw the pink puff ball that was in front of the tv, playing a game. "...the egg hatched into that?"
"...He's taking this extraordinarily well," Jo commented.
Gyro turned to his older brother, waving with a smile, before addressing the Koromon issue "Actually he was a little black and fuzzy thing with yellow eyes a few hours ago, then he kind of just turned into that."
"...I'm sorry, what?" Azure deadpanned. Somehow he had a feeling sanity just died. For the rest of his life. For the next few minutes, his little brothers explained to him what had happened through the day, and when they were done, Azure was sitting on a chair with a bewildered expression. "So… 'Koromon' could suddenly talk, and from the looks of it, even play video games...and he eats just about anything."
"More or less, yeah," Gyro nodded.
Azure took a few moments at that, thinking about everything, before he muttered "My life has become a cartoon show for the entertainment of the masses."
Considering that everyone was watching this through a TV screen it was inevitable for the Chosen Children to laugh at that comment.
"Wouldn't that be funny," Daisuke joked, "If one day, we found out that our lives are just a TV show made for people's entertainment?"
Black had to use her paws to cover her mouth. After all, these kids would be in for an existential crisis soon enough, if her partner was to be believed... Unless he switches the plan on a whim.
"Really? Cool," Pierce laughed.
More laughter at that.
"So...can we keep him?" Gyro asked, holding up Koromon...and doing the dreaded puppy dog eyes, which Koromon soon joined. The cuteness could have rotted teeth in minutes.
Azure felt his will waver already, and it was shattered when Pierce noticed and joined in, making him groan as he hanged his head "Fine, fine, we're keeping him, but you two will have to do chores for the neighbours so we can pay for his food more easily."
"Yeah, I don't think anyone could resist that cuteness," Sora admitted.
"I still believe that Cat's Eye Hypnotism would be more effective," Black said from her spot.
"That's a form of mind control and therefore doesn't count," Novice scolded Black.
"Okay!" both boys said happily, bouncing excitedly, something Koromon joined in despite not fully understanding what was going on. They didn't mind having to work if it meant they could keep their new friend.
"Well, enough of that. For now, let's get dinner started," Azure chuckled, to which the brothers did just that, though Gyro and Pierce took turns keeping Koromon company while dinner was being prepared. Dinner itself was a lively affair, as Koromon showed his ravenous appetite again, something that had Azure a little worried seeing as that...could be a drain on their expenses too...not that he told his brothers that. Eventually dinner was over, and the dishes done, and everyone soon was ready to head in for bed.
Once they were in their room, Gyro and Pierce were about to try and decide who Koromon could sleep with...before Koromon jumped up into Gyro's bed. "...well, that was easy," Gyro blinked, while Pierce shrugged, and the two got into bed. Little did they know, that this night would be one that would change their lives forever.
Taichi glared briefly at Agumon, remembering that he preferred Hikari at the time. But the Chosen of Courage chose to keep that to himself.
It was several hours later, a little bit past midnight, when Pierce was awoken by Gyro shaking him awake, his brother's face set in worry "What's wrong?" he asked as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"It's Koromon." Gyro said in worry, Pierce understanding as he quickly climbed down from his bed, and saw the same thing Gyro did.
Koromon pale, his eyes wide with his irises almost invisible little pinpricks, and his whole body shaking all over.
"What's wrong with Koromon," Armadimon asked in confusion.
Taichi didn't look forward ot the next part, seeing as that was very scary for him at the time.
"Koromon?" Pierce called out to their new friend in worry.
They didn't notice every electronic in the apartment complex going haywire this time either.
It was at that moment that Koromon's form started to grow, getting taller and wider, scales covered him, a dull yellow in color, arms and legs grew in, both pairs with large claws, his floppy ears shrinking down into small little ears flattened against the side of his head's his rather flat face growing into a more reptilian snout, as his red eyes were now green in color, the whole thing finished off with a short and stubby tail.
"Hold up," Agumon protested, "Why did I grow that big? I don't remember that!"
Novice smiled at the reptile, "Do you remember instances where instead of evolving, digimon instead grew bigger?"
"Yeah," Agumon said. Devimon being the first one to come to mind. Especially for Takeru who frowned at the memory.
"It's similar to that," Novice said, "Devimon grew larger using the black gears, multiple Bakemon fused into one large Bakemon. I believe in this case, Koromon absorbed so much data from the surrounding electronics, which caused them to glitch, that he grew in size instead of evolving to Adult level. But that's just a theory, I could be wrong."
Everyone nodded at the explanation, seeing as it made sense.
Quite obviously, the bed couldn't handle Koromon's new weight as it collapsed under him, Gyro pouting as he stared at the pieces of his bed scattered around the floor.
Koromon's new form looked around a bit, before moving towards the window, looking out of it curiously, the two boys following him in confusion.
Koromon's claws picked against the window, as if he was trying to open it, the two boys understanding and opening it for him as they stepped out onto the small veranda.
"You would think that those two would be scared of a giant dinosaur that suddenly appeared in their room," Ken couldn't help commenting.
"...Did this happen to you Taichi," Yamato asked his best friend in worry.
The brown haired boy looked away in embarrassment, "...Yes... I was... very scared unlike Hikari."
No one felt like calling Taichi a coward, since it was only natural for him to be afraid.
Sniffing the air, Koromon walked towards the open window, trying to squeeze past it, only to end up breaking some of the wall.
Back in his room, Azure shot up as he heard all the breaking coming from his little brothers room, getting up and walking towards it, clad in a simple pair of sweatpants, a t-shirt, and slippers.
When he opened the door, he looked into the room with a raised eyebrow, only for his face to morph into shock as he saw Koromon's new form, as it jumped off the veranda… with his brothers hanging onto his back, the two boys shouting in surprise as they fell down to street level.
"...Our mom would've probably fainted at that sight," Hikari finally commented on this situation. Now faintly remembering that it was just her on Agumon's back at the time.
He stood there for a few more moments, stunned, before bolting out of the apartment with a coat in hand.
While Azure was heading down to try and catch up to them, the boys were wandering around the town while hanging onto Koromon's back.
Lucky for them, not many people were still up at this hour on this side of town.
"Yeah, Imagine the panic that would've caused," Koshiro said, idly wondering how much worse this could've been with Taichi if this had happened around daytime.
Eventually they reached a row of vending machines, with Koromon staring in curiosity at them.
"I'm thirsty." Pierce mumbled from Koromon's back, with Gyro hearing him and tapping the side of Koromon's head before pointing at one of the vending machines.
"I have to admire the courage of those two," Miyako said thinking they would be a little more scared in this situation.
"More like inability to comprehend danger," Novice replied, idly stroking Black.
Koromon seemed to get the message, as he used his claws to break open the vending machine, causing several cans of soda and juice to fall out, with Pierce grabbing one of the cans of lemonade, before they walked off.
"...That works, I guess," Tentomon said, remembering the first few days they had in the human world.
Azure ran around town, looking everywhere in the main area of where they lived "Gyro! Pierce!" he shouted out their names in worry, before adding a moment later "Koromon! Where are you?!"
"Shouldn't he call the police or something," Daisuke commented about Azure searching for them instead of calling the officers.
Takeru shook his head at that, "Hello officer, a giant dinosaur, which hatched from an egg my computer laid, kidnapped my brothers" A little childish, but well deserved.
"...Point taken," Daisuke said, suitably chastised.
Back with the boys, they were still hanging onto Koromon's back, the adult sized dinosaur walking in traffic.
"Koromon… why won't you talk to us?" Gyro said in worry as he looked up at his friend, before all three of them turned their heads as a truck was headed right for them.
"...Why isn't he talking, mr Novice," Hikari asked, faintly remembering the same problem she had at the time.
"...I honestly don't know," Novice replied sadly, "I'm neither omnipotent nor omniscient."
Just before the truck would have hit them, Koromon jumped over it, surprising the boys, as well as one of people in the truck.
"Did you see that?" the one in the passenger seat asked.
"No, I was sleeping." the driver mumbled.
"But isn't he the driver," Armadimon pointed out, seeing as he had been in a car before.
"But you're the one driving!" the passenger shouted at him.
"That's what I just said," Armadimon replied, earning laughs out of everyone.
As Koromon landed back down, he growled at the truck, the boys looking at him in worry.
"Koromon?" Gyro called to him, before both him and Pierce were shocked as a ball of flame shot out from Koromon's mouth, seemingly heading straight for the truck, but thankfully being off course and hitting a payphone instead.
"Oh no," Sora said, covering her mouth, while everyone else glanced at Agumon who looked very distressed at the stares.
"Don't blame him for that," Black said from her perch on her partners lap, "He thought the truck was an enemy that tried to kill him."
It did make sense, but it still didn't ease the worry they had for these kids.
The two boys stared at the flaming wreck of the payphone, scared, the gravity of the situation now starting to dawn on them.
Hikari too shivered a little at the faint memory of something burning.
At the same time, Azure stared at the broken vending machine, panting, a thought crossing his mind 'If I don't acknowledge it, I don't have to pay for it.' he thought to himself before turning and starting to run again.
"That should be the least of his worries," Yamato said, not liking the fact that he would be more worried about money than his brothers.
"Azure's probably trying to ignore that fact to save his sanity," Novice retorted with a smirk.
Meanwhile, the boys were trying to stop Koromon as he looked at a bus, his mouth slowly opening with a flame building up in his throat, before he snapped his head towards the sky, jostling the boys around as he stared up a plane that was flying up high.
That made everyone sigh in relief at Baby Flame being redirected somewhere where it wouldn't cause harm. Especially Agumon.
Unsurprisingly, he tried to shoot his fireballs at it, but all that happened were that the flames extinguished themselves on the way down.
"Thank the gods that Agumon's range has a limit," Taichi said, making Agumon look more guilty every second he saw the destruction he was causing on the screen.
"Agumon," Novice called out, noticing the yellow reptile's distress, "I need to stress to you that, this Agumon isn't you. Think of him as your 'other', a different version of you."
That seemed to calm the lizard down, but he was also picked up by Taichi for a comforting hug.
"I remember that at the end of the incident, no one was hurt, so don't worry about it," Taichi reassured his partner.
They stayed lit long enough for Azure to notice them though.
As he ran in the general direction the flames had been shot from, the boys were still hanging onto Koromon's back, the dinosaur walking around town aimlessly.
They didn't realise every electronic in this area of town going haywire, except this time… it wasn't affecting Koromon.
Hundreds of people looked up in the sky in confusion, as a gigantic egg formed out of nowhere, Azure staring up at it while still trying to find his brothers "I don't want to meet the chicken that layed that egg." he muttered, before starting to run again.
Despite the situation in this story, no one could help laughing at the comment about that.
Koromon was running towards the egg, the boys hanging on tight to him, until he slowed down while passing under a bridge, looking up at the egg with a growl.
"Is it something bad?" Gyro wondered.
"Is it, Taichi," Iori asked the boy, seeing as he was the most likely to know.
"Yes," Taichi answered remembering all too well what comes out of that egg.
And suddenly, the egg hatched.
Falling out of the egg was a HUGE green and yellow bird with arms, the top portion of it's beak covered in metal, and with two red antennae on top of it's head.
The bird flapped it's wings, slowing its descent as it started to slowly fly about, as if trying to figure out where it was.
"It probably was trying to figure out where it was," Koshiro pointed out. Seeing as it was in an unknown enviroment
That's when Koromon reared back and roared, making the boys fall off his back, before he fired fireballs up at the feathered monster, getting its attention.
The two boys got up, before running up to Koromon and trying to pull him back "Don't! It's too big! You'll get hurt!" Pierce said in worry over their friend.
"What is that Agumon thinking," Biyomon asked no one in particular.
"...I'm not sure he is thinking," Veemon said, earning surprised looks at him saying something that smart.
"Gyro! Pierce!" the two boys heard, making then turn to see their older brother running toward them, his face a mixture of relief and worry at having found them.
He crouched near them, Koromon seemingly ignoring them as it kept looking at the huge bird, before pulling his brothers into his arms, just glad they were ok.
Before anything could be said however, it was then the bird decided to retaliate against Koromon's attack, as electricity charged between it's antennae, and it fired.
The shot didn't hit Koromon, no, it hit the bridge above him and the brothers, causing it to collapse on top of them.
"Just like in Hikarigaoka," Yamato commented, remembering that much.
As hundreds of kids watched on as the bridge collapsed, little did any of them know this anomaly wasn't isolated.
Novice paused in his reading, to look at everyone's mildly confused expression. "And now the fun part should begin," Novice thought.
World of Remnant
"What?" Everyone questioned.
"What's 'World of Remnant'," Tentomon asked what everyone must be thinking.
"I'll explain later," Novice replied, returning to the book.
At the same time, in the world known as Remnant, thousands of children, teenagers, and adults all watched in shock and awe at the sight before them, transmitted through various different electronic devices.
Some of the people watching did so with siblings present, some alone, others were even watching from the streets while looking at TV displays in a store, then there were those no one would ever knew watched.
"Don't tell me," Koshiro said, realizing the implications, "Is the fight is being broadcasted on a world separate from Earth!?"
Novice snapped his fingers and *DING DING DING* was heard from the speakers, "Correct on both accounts."
And finally there was a little 4 year old girl with black hair and red highlights, her eyes a surprising silver, wearing a pink footie pajama with a whistle hanging around her neck, staring at the TV in her living room in childish awe as she watched the large green bird land down.
"Who's that," Hikari asked, finding the little girl extremely adorable, alongside side the other girls.
"Just let master read," Black said, using very inappropriate tone at "master".
Then she jumped in surprise as the bird shot lightning at a bridge and broke it.
As soon as she saw that, she ran for her big sister's room, trying to shake her awake, only to get more snores in reply.
Puffing up her cheeks in childish annoyance, the little silver eyed girl placed her whistle to her lips, before starting to blow it in her big sister's ear.
"That was a rude awakening," Hawkmon commented.
"At least she didn't use a megaphone with it," Wormmon added, glaring at the person who did use it.
This caused her older sister, a girl with lavender eyes and blonde hair that went to her upper back, wearing a t-shirt and shorts to bed, to jolt up in shock and almost throw the younger of the two onto the floor "What was that for?" she asked her little sister in a bit of anger, her eyes flashing red for a few moments before turning back to lavender.
"Whoa." came out of everyone at the sudden eye color change.
"Sisters," Yamato questioned, "They don't look alike." Him and Takeru had blonde hair, but in slightly different shades. There are of course other similarities, something which all the Children who have siblings can attest to.
Novice opened his mouth to reply, before having a worried look, "Excuse me for a moment." With that, the Novice Overseer disappeared.
"Huh? Where did he go," Gabumon exclaimed, looking around to where the guy could've disappeared to. As was everyone else.
"He probably teleported somewhere where he could make a call to Swift," Black replied, feeling a little miffed at the disappearance of a comfy lap. "He should be back-" "Sorry about that," Novice said, appearing all of a sudden in front of the chair he sits on, "To answer your question, Yamato, I can't answer that yet. Anyway let's move on." After saying that last one, Novice sat in his chair with Black moving back to his lap.
"That was fast," Black whispered to Novice.
"Swift didn't answer my calls," Novice whispered back, "I'll have to wing this one."
The younger sister simply pointed towards the living room, before running off, causing the older one to stare at her in deadpan before sighing as she got out of bed and followed after her.
When she arrived in the living room, she stared with her jaw dropped at the sight on the TV.
A large orange dinosaur with blue stripes on it's body and a brown, horned helmet covering its head, emerging from a pile of rubble, and she could see that crouched underneath him were an adult man and two boys her age.
"And now it's Greymon," Gatomon commented at the sight of the familiar digimon.
She watched, along with her little sister, as the dinosaur charged at the large bird, the two clashing against each other before the dinosaur pushed the bird back and shot a white hot flame from it's mouth, burning off one of the wings of the bird and grounding it.
In retaliation, the bird charged it, grappling with it, before discharging electricity point blank into it's face, sending the dinosaur flying back and skidding on it's side.
She saw the two boys that had been under it run up to it and apparently try to wake it up as the bird slowly walked forward, unbalanced slightly thanks to the loss of its wing.
Taichi realized something at this moment, "These boys don't have a whistle."
"Huh?" Everyone else commented.
"I used a whistle Hikari had to wake Greymon up, because nothing else worked," Taichi clarified.
"But, the little girl had a whistle," Hikari pointed out.
"But the girl is in another world," Iori countered in worry, which made them wonder how the dinosaur digimon would wake up this time.
Her attention was drawn to her little sister as the little girl blew her whistle with a sad tone, walking up to the TV and blowing into it a few times.
The older sister understood what she was doing "They can't hear you." she said simply, frowning as she looked back at the TV.
Everyone else felt a little saddened at the poor girl trying to help in vain.
That caused the younger sister's shoulders to sag, before she perked up with an idea.
She took her whistle that was hanging around her neck, and tried to push it into the TV.
Her older sister opened her mouth to tell her that wasn't going to work, only for choked out words to come out as the whistle actually fell into the TV.
Her little sister also nearly fell into it, before she pulled her back out.
Still… tonight was definitely strange.
"...Why am I even surprised," Mimi asked in exasperation, but still happy that the little girl was able to help these boys somehow, if the whistle even lands anywhere near them.
Back on Earth
Gyro winced as something fell on his head while he stared up at Koromon, looking down as it fell to the ground, making him raise an eyebrow as he saw a whistle attached to a red string.
He looked at it for a moment, before glacing at Koromon, then at the giant bird, and grabbed the whistle, before putting it to his lips, and whistling into it for as long as he could.
When he pulled it back, he panted for air, looking up at Koromon.
Nothing… until his eyes snapped open.
"There we go," Palmon said, clapping her... leaves together.
Gyro turned his head to the bird, uttering a single word "Fire."
Koromon's body shot up, facing the bird, before he opened his maw and a stream of white hot flames shot forth from it.
The intense flames wrapped around the feathered monster as it struggled to get away, before disappearing into them.
"Take that!" Agumon was getting into this, despite it not being him fighting. Almost smacking Taichi with his arms.
However Koromon seemed to have lost control of them, as his body disappearing into the flames as well, their heat reaching a point where everyone looking was blinded.
It was minutes later when the bright glow faded, the sun slowly rising on the horizon as specks of light floated in the air before fading away, though, no one noticed as a small amount of orange lights fell into a portal of some kind as it closed itself up.
Gyro looked around, a frown on his face, before he called out "Koromon! Where are you?!"
"I didn't know it at the time, but, my friend had gone back home. My first ever Digital Monster encounter, it was something I, or my brothers, would never forget. It set so many things in motion, that we couldn't possibly understand at the time, not only for us, but for the friends we would make on Remnant years later. It was the start of our very own Digimon Adventure."
(Play Butterfly (the first movie credits version) by Wada Kouji)
As the song begun everyone felt mixed emotions at this. Mimi's and Sora's eyes started to water, along with Miyako and Hikari. Their partners moved in to give them a hug, which the girls returned.
While all the guys felt inspired by the lyrics.
Gyro stood, now grown into a young adult, wearing a short dark blue coat with a green flame design on the edge and a furred collar, a blue shirt with a green star on the chest underneath it, wearing long dark green pants and black running shoes, a pair of goggles around his forehead, and a whistle hanging around his neck.
"Daisuke, doesn't that look like the outfit you wear when you go to digital world," Veemon commented on Gyro's outfit.
"Huh?" Daisuke took a closer look, "Oh yeah! Or at least the coat does. Just with green flames."
He looked up with a smile, standing in front of him, crouched close to the ground was Koromon in his large orange dinosaur form, who moved closer to Gyro, making the young man smile wider as he hugged the large dinosaur's snout, the reptile closing it's eyes happily at the action.
The two stood in a large field of flowers of different kinds, while in the background stood a tall mountain with a castle like structure on the top.
After a few moments, the two separated, and seemed to act as if they heard something, before turning to the screen and smiling, starting to walk towards it as the scene froze.
Digital code appeared on the screen, before translating itself into "The Adventure begins in 10 years."
After the last line, Novice shut the book. "And that's the prologue chapter. Which means, Q&A time," the Overseer said happily.
Honestly... the kids had so many questions that they didn't even know where to start. "Who were the girls from this Remnant that was mentioned?" Except for Takeru apparently.
"That will be explained in the later Chapters," Novice replied, easily.
"Why did Gyro and Pierce replace, me and Hikari," Taichi asked, being more curious about that.
Novice smiled at the question, "Now that is an excellent question. Like I said, before: There are infinite number of worlds out there. Some of them parallel realities, some are alternate universes."
"Yeah, so is this a parallel reality," Taichi asked, thinking he got the hang of it.
"You catch on, quick," Novice said, "Now, there's something I should point out to you guys." The serious tone he used, made everyone frown a little. "...In an Earth where I originate from, there is an anime called Digimon Adventure, and you guys are the heroes of it."
"...WHAT!?" Everyone cried out.
Then Miyako jumped off her couch and got into Novice's face, "Are you telling me, that we're just characters in an anime and that all our hardships were created by some writers!"
That made everyone's anger rise at hearing that everything they ever experienced was the result of someone's idea of story writing. Especially Ken.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's not that simple," Novice said bringing his hands up in surrender.
"Then tell me how it is," Ken said in a cold tone no one had heard him use, since he was Digimon Emperor, "Because to me, it sounds like I lost so much and suffered so much because someone decided to WRITE MY LIFE LIKE THAT!" At that outburst, Ken was in tears.
"It's not like that," Novice said soothingly," All these worlds are connected somehow. This connection can be big or small. From two completely different worlds having same species inhabiting it, to some worlds having on same kind of plant as the only thing in common."
At this explanation everyone was easing a little, except Ken, who looked like he was ready to punch this guy.
"Now... the writers in my world came up with this show I just mentioned. But what they didn't know, was that what they thought was just a figment of their imagination, was real in the world you guys originate from," Novice explained calmly.
"But then... how could they write about us, if they didn't know we were real," Takeru asked in distress.
Novice shrugged at that," Honestly, I don't know. And I don't think anyone does."
Black looked at the distressed Children, before sighing, "In other words, even if the writers had done stories differently, it wouldn' have affected your lives in any way. None of you Children are any less real than Novice and I."
That seemed to put them all at ease, but Ken still looked like he was having an existential crisis.
Until Miyako came in to grab Ken's hand. "It's okay Ken... We're still here for you. Especially Wormmon," the bespectacled girl said with a smile.
"...Thank you," Ken said, and moved to sit back down. Actually, anyone would want to sit down after hearing a world shattering news like that.
Novice sighed internally, "I really dodged a bullet there. I really need to learn how to break things down gently."
"...I could make you feel better if you want, Kenny-boy," Black then suddenly said seductively. Which creeped everyone out, especially Ken.
"Don't you dare touch Ken," Wormmon said resolutely, while glaring at the cat.
"Black, don't do that," Novice scolded, pulling on his partners cheeks as a punishment.
The BlackGatomon managed to break free from her "master's" grasp before looking annoyed... And then she started crying fake tears. "Why not, I need some comfort too after all the horrible things you made me do," Black said with fake sadness... Sadly, the said fake sadness sounded real enough to make everyone glare at Novice again. Especially the girls.
"Palmon! Teach this creeper a lesson," Mimi shouted.
"Okay, Mimi," Palmon said, despite not fully understanding what was wrong. Still... "Poison Ivy!" However, Palmon's purple vines were deflected by an invisible barrier, "What?"
"Look, just please take a chill pill and I'll explain," Novice said frantically, thankful for the automatic barrier he set up around his chair, just in case the Children would attack first and ask questions later.
"No!" Sora sounded resolute, "Biyomon!"
"Magical Fire!"
"Gatomon!"
"Neko Punch!"
"Hawkmon!"
"Feather Strike!"
The combined attacks of the girl's partners collided with the barrier, but the thing refused to go down. "You planned this didn't you," Novice said while directing a very annoyed glare at Black who was lounging on his lap with a cheshire grin. Sadly, she was facing away from the girls, meaning that they can't see this evil cat's true nature.
"You know what you have to do to make me stop," Black purred at her supposed master.
"Urgghhh," Novice groaned, hating the fact that his partner had to be such a sneaky little cat, "You better behave, or else I'll seal you again."
"It won't break," Gatomon said as the barrier refused to break from their combined attack.
Novice gave the girls and their digimon a deadpan look, "I designed this barrier to take hits from Omegamon. It would be strange if three Child and one Adult level digimon could break it."
That made the four digimon pause in their attacks.
"Now... if you would calm down, I will explain you all how mine and Black's relationship... is what it is," Novice said, knowing he would regret this. But it had to happen sooner or later.
Black: Muehhehheee. My Evil Scheme is going exactly as planned.
Me: Yes, but if you start stepping out of line. I will seal you again.
Black: What? Are you going to put a collar and a leash on me again and make me act like a pet? *sniffle*
Me: What the-? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO TRIED TO COLLAR ME!