Me: What's this? *checks mail* From Swift? *Reads through the letter* This could be useful *clutches the attached object.
As Novice promised, the kids were given a tour of this so called lair. It seemed like the place was some kind of station. Mostly circular in shape if the way the hallways were curving was any indication.
Their first stop was the library. Well, he says library, but it was more like a huge data storage, which turn any stored literature into physical books whenever Novice wants to. He allowed the Children and the digimon to test it, each getting their preferred reading material. However, Koshiro encountered a restricted section which he couldn't access. Turns out that was the section he had stored all the information on bedroom techniques he had used on Black as Lilithmon. Which of course, made the BlackGatomon spout some very blush inducing commentary on their effectiveness. Thankfully, Novice shut her up and the group moved on. Next they checked the game room. Which true to it's name containted not only several consoles and games, but also board games and there was even a training room for simulated battles. The digimon might want to try that one later. Unfortunately, as much as Daisuke and some of the other guys wanted to, the tour must go on. Next up, the gang were shown to three open entrances. One had sign that said "Ukot" the other said "Akat" But there were also stick figures that represented man and women, revealing their purpose. But the third one's entrance was blocked by a steel door, which simply had a heart as a sign. These were the entrances to the baths, or more like spas. Seeing as they had baths, several kinds of showers, jacuzzis, hot tubs in a garden-like area and two kinds of saunas. Gomamon tried to enter one of them, but found himself hitting an invisible wall. Novice revealed that he had set up barriers on each of the entrances that block entry from the members of the opposite sex.
"Why he would put up such barriers is beyond me," Black shrugged about the said barriers on her comfy seat known as Novice's lap.
Novice's eye twitched, "I set them up, because SOMEONE decided to come and molest me during one of my sauna nights!"
Everyone gave Black a disturbed look. "Come on, you know you love it," Black said seductively, which didn't help anyone.
"Kiitti mulle riitti(Thanks I've had enough)," Novice said before grabbing Black's tail and putting what looked like a green Holy Ring on it.
"What the!?" Black exclaimed trying to pry the offending thing off without success.
"Moving on kids," Novice said as he moved his hover chair along. The Children and their digimon following with some apprehension on what he put on Black's tail.
After visiting the kitchens and Novice moving some snacks to the reading room, the gang had returned there.
"Now then, for this Chapter, Taichi will be the reader," Novice said as Black was still trying to get the offending ring off of her tail.
"Novice, seriously, what is this thing," Black questioned as the book floated to Taichi.
"A gift from Swift... Hey, that rhymes," Novice exclaimed the last one, earning sweatdrops from everyone else.
"I'll just... start reading," Taichi said before opening the book on the appropriate chapter
Explosive Evolution! Greymon!
The Children were surprised at the sight of the next title card, which showed a silhouette of Greymon.
"Oohhh... is this my time to shine," Agumon asked eagerly, but then his eagerness dampened as he remembered how he first became Greymon in the Digital World.
"I've been cruising down the river, all the livelong day," Pierce idly sang as they were in the middle of doing just that on the raft made of fish that Gomamon had summoned.
That earned some chuckles from the Children and their digimon.
"Would you stop already?" Weiss sighed in annoyance. "We've BEEN basically doing that for the last few hours or so."
No one could help laughing at Weiss' annoyance a little.
"Yeah well, I was getting bored. After the whole thing with Kuwagamon...this is honestly pretty boring," he shrugged.
"Pierce don't push it," Taichi commented, remembering how they had been washed ashore by the tidal wave caused by some rocks and Kuwagamon's body.
"Pierce, I swear to Oum, don't taunt the universe." Gyro told his brother in a bit of annoyance.
Everyone chuckled at the comedic timing.
Pierce raised his hands silently and returned to looking ahead.
"I liked the song." Yang said idly.
"It was pretty fun." Biyomon said with a nod of agreement.
"She's not wrong," Biyomon said
"What they said." Veemon agreed with a sage nod.
Veemon nodded in approval of his other's good taste.
"Thank you. At least SOME people have taste." Pierce said with a grin aimed at his brother.
Gyro rolled his eyes, before casting his eyes to Blake, who, not only was she sitting right in the middle of the raft of fish, but was looking ahead, standing stock still except for her hand lightly petting Patamon.
"Umm... is she alright," Patamon asked, finding Blake's behavior odd.
Not only was she avoiding the water as much as she could, but she was also trying to ignore all the fish they were sitting on… when they hadn't eating anything for hours.
Definitely a major problem for a cat faunus who wanted to stay hidden.
"Oh." Was the universal reaction to that revelation.
Nothing they could do at the moment though, the water was pretty low compared to everything else, so they had to wait for the stone walls to get lower before they could remedy the food situation.
"So...I just realized, we never DID talk about this place," Gyro suddenly spoke up, remembering that detail and figured it would be a good a time as any to address the big question of where the hell they were...that and it could be a productive way to pass the time.
"Oh yeah, we never got to that since Kuwagamon was trying to kill us," Ruby mused.
"...They're taking this a little too well," Jo commented at the casual way Ruby mentioned getting killed.
"Yeah, they are," Koshiro added in.
"I second that idea," Weiss nodded.
"I'm surprised by how casually dying is getting mentioned. I mean, Digimon don't die permanently, but we still don't really like to talk about it." Salamon said from atop Nora's head.
"Then that just means Remnant is a lot more vicious than this world...wow, that just sounded a whole lot more messed up outloud than in my head," Pierce said. "But seriously, in Remnant, dying...isn't anything weird. People die pretty much everyday, mostly at the claws of the Grimm."
"...Why do I suddenly feel sorry for Remnantians," Yamato commented.
"It's not like people don't die on Earth every day," Black said, still trying to wiggle her new accessory off her tail.
"Accidents, diseases, wars, among other things," Novice said with a serious look.
"What IS a grimm? You mentioned that earlier Gyro." Agumon said as he turned to his partner.
"Yeah, I did. How about this, we do some information exchanging and explain the differences of our worlds?" Gyro suggested, earning nods from everyone.
"You never mentioned the grimm the first time we met though." Agumon muttered.
The Children and their digimon were wondering how Gyro was going to explain that, since Earth doesn't have grimm.
"Ah, well, for starters, I was still a kid back then, and second, we were in the middle of the city." Gyro said with a shrug.
"...Reasonable enough," Koshiro commented with a shrug.
Agumon took that in, before nodding, finding that made sense.
It made Gyro's nerves relax, even if other worlds were now completely believable, he didn't want to know how the Remnant born people would react to what their future history was at the moment, he wasn't ready to become a bearer of bad news.
"Say... what is the original history," Iori then asked, "Wisemon never told us about what happens in Remnant."
"...Let's just say that the story seems relatively cheerful at first, before you get slapped in the face," Novice said, deciding not to reveal too much.
"I'll take care of info on Remnant." Blake said, everyone nodding and letting her start "Remnant is a place with two major sapient species, Humans, and Faunus, I'll explain about Faunus in a minute." she said as she saw some of the mons open their mouth to ask "They don't exactly live in peace with one another though."
Wisemon had already explained this part, and it was still sad for the Children.
"The sad thing is, humans don't need a reason to dislike something different," Novice said in a pessimistic tone.
"Well, the White Fang should put a stop to their actions then." Weiss said, and Gyro and Pierce twitched at the haughty tone.
"That doesn't really help, does it," Ken asked, dreading the answer.
"No it doesn't," Novice said, "The White Fang are part of the problem, not the root of it."
"To be fair, Sienna Khan is a bit of an extremist and has different views from the previous leader from what I've heard. Honestly, if they had just followed the way he was doing things, they would have gotten results eventually, even if slowly." Gyro said, trying to stop any possible early clash between Blake and Weiss.
"Yes, the previous leader was more peaceful," Novice said, before anyone could ask.
"It's interesting how little differences humans and demons can have," Black commented almost haughtily.
"But there are also humans who don't need a reason to help," Hikari countered, earning a smile from Novice.
"Plus, your family is partially to blame for the White Fang getting violent Weiss." Pierce said, deciding to help by directing Weiss's ire towards him instead.
"...Why is Weiss' family part of the blame," Armadimon asked in confusion.
"Schnee Dust Company," Novice started neutrally, before taking a more serious one, "One of the largest Dust providing companies in Remnant. Infamous for their less than stellar business practices and controversial labour forces."
No one dared to ask what those controversial labour forces were, having a vague idea. Especially Ken, who was reminded all too much of his time as Digimon Emperor.
"What was that?" she said snappily.
"You heard me. Look, everyone knows your father is a... " Pierce trailed off, looking at Ruby and motioning she should cover her ears, which she did, figuring he was going to say something bad "A total heartless bastard who thinks of profit above everything else."
Thankfully, Miyako realized to cover Iori's ears.
"Sounds like he and Barbamon, could be best friends," Black commented with a smile, "...Or maybe he would just take over his body and take the whole company for himself, with no one the wiser."
"Who is Barbamon," Hawkmon asked, not liking the sound of the guy.
Black gave a cheshire grin at the question, "Another member of the Seven Great Demon Lords. And the carrier of the Code Crown of Greed."
That made way too much sense. Which brought a scary thought to the Children, especially Iori who decided to voice it. "...Is that going to happen to Weiss' father?"
"I don't know," Novice replied with a thoughtful look, "I don't even know if the Demon Lords will be involved in any way, shape or form."
"Look, before you say anything, we're NOT trying to make you think your family is wrong and the White Fang is right. Hell, under Sienna, they're as much a part of the problem. But just...think about the kind of person your father is, and what he's done and ask yourself, 'Is the animosity to your family REALLY that unwarranted?'" Gyro said, halting any tirade Weiss may have started.
She looked at him for a good long moment, before looking down as Tentomon nudged her, eventually sighing as she put a hand on his head "Alright… I'll give it some thought."
"At least she's sensible," Jo commented.
"That's all I ask for Weiss." Gyro said with a nod.
"One last thing, not an insult don't worry, Winter Schnee, your big sister from what I've heard, was the heiress before you were… try and think about what that means as well." Pierce added, keeping it short, and Weiss took that part with a slow nod.
"What," Mimi asked out of curiosity.
"Winter Schnee joined the Atlas military against her father's wishes, you figure out the rest," Novice said, not that it was very hard for the kids to guess. Especially, when Winter apparently did it against her father's wishes.
Despite herself, Blake couldn't help but smile a little. The fact Weiss was actually considering this was to her proof that Weiss wasn't like her father. But then she remembered they were still in a conversation. "Anyway, back on topic, yes, at the moment things aren't exactly peaceful between the two races. Humans are well...you can see a number of examples right here," she chuckled. "As for Faunus, they honestly look the same as humans, with the addition being a single animal trait on their bodies. For example, a tail, ears, scales, feathers, I've even heard of spider faunus with multiple eyes."
All the girls shivered at the thought of a spider faunus with multiple eyes.
The partners all considered that for a moment, and wondered about the possibility of Faunus with body parts similar to their own, before nodding at her to continue.
"What's with you girls," Gomamon asked, noting the girl's shiver from earlier.
"It's a human girl thing," Jo spoke for the girls before giving the said girls an apologetic look.
Blake nodded a bit, internally happy to be teaching something like this to people who hadn't heard of it before and being able to give a non-biased account of it "As for what Gyro mentioned earlier, the Grimm… we still don't know exactly what they are, other than beings who wish to destroy anything and everything in their path. If you go near one, it's only if you're going to kill it, as they will want to do the same to you, for the sole reason that they can."
The Children already got their explanation about the Grimm so they don't have any more comments about them.
While they didn't say it vocally, the partners felt a bit afraid at such a thought, a beast on the hunt for them, not for food or anything like that, but just to kill them for the sake of killing. It wasn't a pleasant thought.
Though that being pointed out, still made them shiver a little.
"Let's move on to something a bit lighter." Blake said when she felt Patamon shaking in her lap, starting to rub his back softly to ease him.
"Right, I think that'd be good," Patamon said, looking a little afraid.
All eyes turned on their own Patamon. "What!?" The small mon exclaimed, not liking the stares. After everything they've gone through, Patamon isn't so easily scared anymore.
"I'll explain," Tentomon said. "Anyway, as some of us mentioned before, this is File Island in the Digital World. The Digital World is well...our world," he started. "Hm...for starters, there aren't any humans or faunus here as far as we know. Only Digimon."
"And there it is," Yamato said, remembering how that was one of the first things they learned.
"Digimon?" the humans (and one faunus) asked.
"Oh yeah, we never told you," Gabumon said. "We're…"
"Digital Monsters! Digimon for short!" the now named Digimon all said in unison.
"Hm...Digital Monsters? Digital World? FILE Island? You're talking as if we're in a computer," Ren couldn't help but say, having noticed the trend in naming.
The Digimon looked at each other at that, before looking back at the humans and one faunus "Well, that's because we are." Wormmon answered for everyone since his partner had been the one to say it.
"Cue blown minds," Takeru couldn't help saying.
You could hear a pin drop at how silent the now slower ride became, everyone not native to the world looking at the Digimon in shock.
"So wait...you're saying we're LITERALLY inside of a computer?" Yang blinked.
"Well...we don't know about that, but we do know that our world was made from data that came from the human world," Biyomon supplied.
"Right, it wasn't as simple as that," Miyako said with a sigh.
"In a sense you could say all of us are data based lifeforms," Wormmon added.
"But you're all sentient right?" Pyrrha asked, looking at Gabumon.
"Of course we are," Gabumon said, almost sounding offended.
"Of course, each Digimon makes its own decisions about each and everything around it and about itself." Gabumon explained as best he could.
"Wait, if all of you are data, but you feel like flesh and blood… what about us?" Jaune asked, feeling a bit worried.
"Yeah," Taichi said with a chuckle," That threw us into a loop for the first time."
"Especially when someone thought we couldn't die," Koshiro felt the need to point out, earning smirks directed at Taichi.
But the second generation gave the first generation's leader an incredulous look.
"You seriously thought it was like a video game," Daisuke of all people asked with a snicker. Making the older Yagami cover his face in embarrassment.
"Can we please forget that already," Taichi complained, not wanting to relive one of his dumbest moments. So instead, he made a peeping hole with his fingers to continue reading, before anyone else commented.
"Are we like a bunch of 0s and 1s now or something?" Nora said, tilting her head in confusion, surprising the brothers a bit she understood computers to a degree.
"That's… we're not sure about that one actually." Veemon said as he scratched his cheek.
"But if you ask me, it all depends on how you feel, and I don't mean emotionally, I mean physically." Tentomon said, clarifying his words without missing a beat.
"In my opinion, we're all real, and that's the only thing that matters." Gyro said after a moment of thought.
The others all halted their own thoughts at that, finding that while it was simple, Gyro was right, they were all real, they could all feel, and that's what mattered.
"At any rate, Digimon in this world vary. Some are big, some are small, and likewise some are peaceful while others, like the Kuwagamon, are violent or like to cause trouble," Tentomon continued.
"So you're just like us then," Ruby smiled.
"Best summary anyone could come up with," Novice said, everyone agreeing with him.
"I guess we are," Palmon chuckled.
"I have a question though, speaking of Kuwagamon, what exactly happened back there? We heard you speak while in those lights, something about evolution?" Pierce asked curiously, and everyone realised they were indeed rather curious about that.
"Wait, what's evolution though?" Nora asked, confused.
"She mentions 0s and 1s, but doesn't know what evolution is," Iori commented, finding himself confused by the chaos that is Nora's brain.
"Evolution is the process wherein which a species slowly, over the course of centuries or even millenia, becomes better, each generation after the current one being better than the last, to optimize survival." Weiss replied as if she was reading straight from a dictionary.
"That's basically it yes, but for us Digimon, Evolution doesn't take that long, it can take years for some yes, but it's very much always within our lifetime. Such as earlier, the power from your Digivices pushed us up to what I suppose you could say is our basic form, as the others are usually only for newborns, or for when a Digimon has a considerable amount of power." Tentomon explained like a school teacher.
"Yeah, Tentomon was pretty much the one to explain most things regarding digimon," Mimi commented.
"Huh, that's actually pretty cool," Jaune blinked, before taking out his Digivice. "Wonder what else these things can do."
"Sorry, we can't help ya there," Gomamon said. "We didn't know they could do that until just now."
"Maybe pressing the buttons can help us figure it out?" Ruby said as she took her own out.
"One button at a time Nora." Ren said suddenly with a sigh, making Nora groan as her plan to push ALL the buttons at once was stopped in its tracks.
"...Seriously, how stupid can she be," Gatomon commented, earning a light flick from Hikari.
"I think there were fics where Nora was a murdering psychopath," Black commented as if talking about the weather. Which prompted Novice to pull her cheeks as punishment for giving the Children such a scary thought. Even though he too thinks that Nora can be mildly psychotic... Emphasis on "mildly".
"Actually I don't think you should do that...at least not until we reach dry land," Pyrrha suggested. "You don't want to accidentally drop those."
"Good point," Veemon commented.
The ones who had taken out their digivices all put them away sheepishly at that.
Gomamon suddenly perked up "Well you won't have to wait long, the fishes are telling me the ground level is meeting the water level soon enough."
"Good, I think my butt is getting cramps from sitting on it so weirdly for so long." Yang said, reaching down to rub said part part of her body.
"I wonder if she's also trying to meow." Black was surprised at meowing instead of saying the word she wanted to. The fact that it sounded cute made everyone laugh at the BlackGatomon, who no doubt blushed under that black fur. "Meow, meow, meow," Black tried to say what she wanted to say many times, each time only meowing. "What the heck is going on," Black questioned. All the while Novice had a hard time keeping a straight face.
Although everyone else noted that the ring in Black's tail glowed, whenever she meowed.
It wasn't long before the group made landfall, and soon got off the makeshift raft, the fish soon dispersing, and the huntsmen in training doing some stretches to get the kinks out of their bodies from the limited movement for so long.
"Now, let's see what the Digivices can." Gyro said, grabbing his own and looking it over, before pressing one of the buttons on it, the screen suddenly showing him a radar of some sorts… though there didn't seem to be anything on it, he then looked at the two buttons that were on top of each other and pressed the one on the top, the screen zooming in, pressing it again, and this time, on top of his blinking dot, he could see 9 other visible ones, all in the same spots as the others.
"...You know, why didn't we think of checking our digivices back then," Mimi then wondered aloud.
"We were too concerned about getting back," Jo commented, earning small chuckles, "What?"
"Nothing, I just rember you going on and on about how adults will pick us up," Yamato commented.
"...I still hadn't realized that wasn't a possibility alright!" Jo whined loudly. In hindsight, it was very stupid of him. "Also I didn't realize we were in a different world yet," the blue haired boy added in, still embarrassed.
"Yeah, for several days," Gomamon pointed out with a snicker. Causing Jo to give his partner tickle torture as an act of vengeance.
All the while the second generation was watching the situation with varying looks of confusion. They had a hard time believing Jo being that stupid, all things considered.
"To be fair, you were probably in denial," Novice supplied helpfully... or that was the intent. But Jo's annoyed glare along with several laughs said otherwise.
"Well, looks like there's a radar function, we can use it to find each other at least." He said, the others nodding, accepting that.
"I found a clock, it's close to 5 PM right now." Pyrrha said, making them all blink at how much time had passed.
"Seems there's another radar but...I'm not seeing anything," Ruby said. "Don't think its broken though."
"Huh?" The Children commented.
"What's that one for," Sora asked first.
"For meow meow... What the heck! I keep meowing whenever I... try... to...," Black looked at the ring in her tail, before looking at her "master" with a glare. "It's this thing isn't it," the female feline digimon said, bringing her tail to Novice's face.
"Guilty as charged," Novice said with a snicker, "Whenever you try to say something dirty, that ring makes you meow."
"...If I ever see Swift, I will introduce my claws to his face," Black threatened, knowing that the seal on her Code Crown prevents her from harming her jailor. Meaning that she can only take her anger out on Swift, if she ever meets him.
Miyako sighed in relief, as did most of the other Children. Now they don't have to hear whatever disturbing things that black digimon might say.
"Probably whatever it's supposed to pick up isn't in range," Pierce said with a shrug.
However, before they could discuss more, another more pressing matter came up. In the form of 20 stomachs growling. "Right...we haven't eaten anything since breakfast…" Jaune groaned. With all the excitement, he'd honestly forgotten about that until now.
"...That's over eight hours, assuming they had breakfast around 8 AM," Jo said, doing the math in his head.
All the humans and digimon were honestly pitying these guys for going so long without eating anything. Especially the digimon.
"Well, we're on an island, so obviously there has to be some way the Digimon sustain themselves." Ren reasoned.
"And we did go downstream," Pyrrha added. "If we follow it, we should reach the ocean, and maybe we'll find something."
"Sounds like a plan. Okay, so we'll follow the stream, and while we're at it, keep an eye out for anything edible," Gyro nodded, before turning to the Digimon. "Can you guys help us look too?"
"Of course!" they all nodded enthusiastically.
"Another thing we didn't think about," Yamato said, before realizing something, "Except we didn't know if we could eat anything on that island, and we had provisions."
With that decided, the group started following the stream, on the lookout for anything edible, and also for any beaches, only two of them weren't walking though, Gomamon swimming along next to them, and Tentomon flying, the two being the slowest walkers out of the Digimon.
"By the way, I've been meaning to ask about evolution, you guys all changed names when you turned into these forms, right?" Jaune asked, looking at Gomamon.
"That's right, I went from being Bukamon to Gomamon." he said with a nod, putting it to the basics.
The other Digimon all decided to follow his example, introducing themselves one by one in case some of the hunters hadn't heard their names earlier.
Once everyone was properly reintroduced, they continued on their way, making small talk as they did. Along the way… "I found something!" Patamon said, flapping up to a tree...one that what appeared to be honest to god apples...only for some reason they were colored a silverish shade of green.
"Okay, that didn't happen with us," Biyomon commented at the sight of the tree.
"Wow, we must be in luck to find these!" Biyomon agreed as she flapped up to take a closer look.
"What are they?" Blake asked.
"These are Meat Apples. They're really hard to find," Patamon said.
"...Meat apples?" The second and some of the first generation questioned in unison.
A pause went through the collective huntsmen. "Meat...apples…?" they all asked, looking more than a little clueless at the moment, while the fliers immediately went to work harvesting the apples, with the ones who couldn't fly catching them as they fell.
"So uh...are these some kind of fruit?" Jaune asked, idly picking one up.
"Wait, don't eat it like-!" Gomamon tried to stop him but...too late.
"Bleeh! Are these even edible?!" Jaune gagged after one bite.
"Idiot," Gatomon sighed, earning surprised looks from the humans.
"I tried to warn you. You can't eat them raw. You need to cook them first," Gomamon sighed.
"Ok, Jaune, that blunder was all on you, that was pretty obvious." Gyro told him dryly, the others nodding in agreement… except for Nora.
"You can't eat meat raw?" She said innocently.
The Children were honestly, not sure whether to wonder if the meat apples were a real thing or face palm at Nora's stupidity... Or innocence, whatever you want to call it.
"Uhh... No you can't," Armadimon commented on Nora's question.
Ren had to refrain from very audibly palming his face at those words "No Nora, we've been over this before."
She paused, trying to think before snapping her fingers in remembrance "Oh yeah!"
Once again, Gatomon sighed.
"Oh dear angel digimon up above help me." Salamon muttered, shaking her head while Wormmon pat her back with one of his claws.
"I pray for your survival," Gatomon commented to her poor other.
"There's a meat apple for every different kind of meat in the world." Tentomon said, deciding to move along while Jaune was dunking his head in the river water to wash out his tongue. "Though what kind of meat you get...there's no way of telling until you actually eat it."
"...Okay..." Was the most intelligent comment any of the Children could have.
"At least these aren't 'every flavor apples'," Pierce snickered.
"What?" Came out of the Children and their digimon.
"Oh dear god, I still gag at the thought of those things." Gyro muttered, trying to hold in his lunch at remembering the 'every flavor jelly beans' from Harry Potter. "I'll...go get some firewood so we can cook these when we get to the beach," he said, changing the subject.
"What're they talking about," Daisuke was the brave one to ask something that probably should be left unanswered.
"The every flavor jelly beans are magical candies that have pretty very much every flavor," Novice commented earning blank looks. Against his better judgment, the plain looking Overseer gave the gory details, "Those flavors can range from several types of meat, fruitcakes, ice-cream, toast, to some of the more disgusting, like... ear wax."
And with that, the Children and the digimon had looks of utter disgust on their faces. And that wasn't even the worst example.
Black gave her partner a sly grin, "Oh, I know your favorite flavor, meow... Dammit!" the BlackGatomon slammed her paw on the floating chair's armrest in frustration.
Novice made a guess about what Black could've tried to say, and he was very grateful that the ring interrupted. He was pretty sure that the girls would think he was creepier than they already did... probably.
"Wait… where are we going to put all of these?" Weiss suddenly realised as she looked at the pile the Digimon were STILL filling up, apparently, they had decided to clean the area of it's meat apples.
"I wish I could have some right now," Agumon sighed in mild depression.
Taichi had enough of this,"Okay, are meat apples a real thing?"
"Yes." All the digimon said in unison.
"...Why am I even surprised anymore." Koshiro said, being the first to recover.
"Oh, that's easy, Azure is so smart, he made a camper's best friend." Pierce said as Gyro disappeared into the trees to gather firewood, pulling out a small pouch from his pocket, opening it decently wide, dropping an apple in it… and the bag stayed the same.
"What!?" Koshiro, Jo, Iori and Miyako exclaimed in unison.
Everyone, the Digimon included, stared at it speechless.
"Yeah, he was able to make pouches with more holding space than their supposed to have, and when you drop something in it, it gets scanned, and sent somewhere appropriate, so meat apples get stored…" he trailed off, putting his whole arm through the opening of the bag "Judging by how cold it is, I'm guessing the freezer to keep them fresh."
"...Did he just say that he has a bag with several pocket dimensions, including one with a cold climate," Koshiro asked, earning weirded out looks from others at the oddly specific description.
"Essentially, yes," Novice said without missing a beat.
"Geez, and I thought dad liked to over prepare us." Yang said, shaking her head in bewilderment.
"That's what she's bewildered about," Miyako commented in disbelief.
"Probably trying to not think too much, considering how hard it must be for her to think," Novice joked, earning an unamused look from Yamato and Takeru.
"Was that a blonde joke," Yamato asked in annoyance.
"Yes, and as such, you're not supposed to take them seriously," Novice said sagely. Which didn't seem to have the desired effect.
Taichi decided to move on, before this topic escalated into something no one likes.
"What else do you have in there?" Blake asked.
"Pretty much everything, a freezer, a fridge, other places I can't pronounce the names of because they were weird, and plenty of survival gear and first aid kits, there's probably stuff to sterilise water too." he said, suddenly sticking his head inside "Yeahp, sterilizing kit right here."
"...Can I have the schematics for that," Koshiro asked having a strange glint in his eyes.
Novice held up one finger, before making a holographic screen appear. "I'll have to ask Swift about that. He should have replied by the time we've finished this chapter." That last part was said after sending the message.
This made Koshiro very hopeful.
"You have all that… but no food?" Ruby had to point out.
"Our brother may be smart, but he's also an idiot at the same time." Gyro said as he came back, stuffing some firewood into his pouch."And to be fair, we were supposed to only be in the Emerald Forest for a day. Not end up on an island inside some kind of cyber world."
"...I don't know what to think about that statement," Mimi commented, both about where the Remnantians ended up and about about Azure's intelligence.
Everyone looked at each other, then nodded in acceptance. If ANY of them had expected anything beyond a day trip, they'd also have packed food.
None of the first generation Children felt the need to comment on how they did not expect to end up in another world.
It wasn't long before all the meat apples and fire wood was securely stored in the pouch, and they were on their way. They were hungry, but they also agreed it'd be better if they made it to their destination first before eating.
"Makes sense, I guess," Palmon commented.
"Ocean ahoy!" Gomamon reported from his spot in the water, having a clear view of the approaching ocean.
"Alright, let's go!" Ruby said enthusiastically and ran forward...with her semblance.
Everyone chuckled at the girl who was probably more exciteable than any of them or their digimon, and that's saying something.
"...huh, guess she's really excited," Jaune blinked as they stared at the blur that was quickly leaving them behind.
"Ruby, wait for me!" Palmon said as she started chasing after the girl.
"My other should've grabbed on to her cape," Palmon commented.
"And get slammed into her back when she abruptly stops," Sora commented with a small laugh.
"Well, she's got the right idea," Yang shrugged before they all chased after the girl. However, when they got close they heard the sound of ringing..which quickly stopped...then started again. Arriving at the scene, they were met with the sight of payphones, with Ruby going between them, picking up any that were ringing, but the confusion on her face made it clear she wasn't picking up and hanging up for fun.
"What's with those phones," Ken had to ask, wondering why Ruby kept doing that.
"Wait for it," Taichi commented, knowing full well what the problem was. Along with six others.
Everyone stared at the scene while Palmon ran up to her, before it clicked in their minds "Scrolls!" they all said at the same time, digging into their pockets to pull them out and opening them, all of them trying to contact people back home.
Most of the Children couldn't help but laugh at the sudden reminder of Remnant's version of phones.
As for what they got…
"You have reached the imperial shaq, please hold while we connect you to our waste disposal."
"Uhhh... what," Daisuke sounded out.
"It is currently 49:73 AM, please have a good night."
"What?" Iori commented.
"This number is out of service in your clothes, please try again never."
"What!?" Miyako exclaimed at the rudeness. And for some reason, she imagined that being something Black would say.
Speaking of which, the said feline digimon meowed again. Who knows what she tried to say this time.
And other nonsensical things.
As one, the hunters all ended their calls, annoyed in some form or another.
"Yeah, that's how we felt," Jo commented, though he more so than the others.
"Too bad. Would have been nice if you could have called Azure." Agumon said as he looked up at Gyro.
"Well, in retrospect it probably should have been obvious it wouldn't be THAT easy." Gyro sighed. "Still though...what the HELL was THAT?"
"...Can't you put up a language filter or something," Miyako finally asked, getting real tired of language that Iori shouldn't hear. And neither should most of them for that matter.
"...I can try, but... I'm not sure how well that will turn out," Novice said in thought," After this chapter, I'll see what I can do."
"Probably something we don't want to know," Blake deadpanned.
"I guess I can't deny that." Gyro said with a sigh, before looking back at the beach, seeing Ruby zipping past every phone… "Hey Yang? Can you call Ruby with your scroll? See if that works?"
Yang blinked, before figuring she could give it a try and went to her contacts before calling her little sister, who suddenly stopped moving and went to one of her ammo pouches, her scroll apparently in there and pulling it out, before they all heard Ruby's voice from Yang's scroll "Hey Yang, what's up?"
"Huh. That will be useful," Ken commented.
"How so," Wormmon asked from his partner's lap.
"If they can call each other, it would make it easier if they ever got lost from each other," the Chosen of Kindness explained.
"We were seeing if our scrolls worked, we can't call home, but apparently we can call each other." Yang said, sagging in some relief that should they ever get separated, they could keep in contact, on top of finding each other thanks to the Digivices.
"Oh! That kinda sucks. Dad and Uncle Qrow probably know we're missing by now and are worried sick." Ruby said, the frown audible in her voice.
"I wonder about that," Sora muttered in thought, before turning towards Novice, "Does the time move faster in this Digital World?"
"I don't know," Novice replied simply,"Though I assume it does... at least, unless the book proves me wrong."
"Tell her to hang on so we can catch up. We might as well set up camp or something here since it'll be dark soon," Gyro said.
Yang nodded, telling her sister just that as she finally stopped moving, Palmon finally dropping down on the sand after following her so much.
"With how fast she is, I'm not surprised," Palmon commented, being happy that Mimi can't move that fast.
It wasn't long before the group was sitting on the beach, a fire burning merrily in front of them, while a portion of the meat apples they'd gathered earlier now skewered on sticks, and roasting over the open fire. "You know, if someone had told me I'd be eating an apple that tastes like hamburger, I'd have called them nuts before today," Pierce said as he took another bite off the apple he had roasted.
That reminded the kids that they had snacks from the kitchen. So they, alongside their digimon started eating candies, several kinds of chips and even took some sodas from the mini fridge Novice had brought with whatever magic or technology he uses. Novice himself had a small bowl of black candies that made everyone curious.
But they decided to ask about that later.
"Somehow I think sanity went out the window a while ago," Blake said, taking a bite out of her meat apple, which was, much to her delight, tuna flavor.
"Cats and their favorites," Gatomon commented, earning laughs out of everyone at the small irony. "Hey! Just because I look like this doesn't make me a human world cat," the white feline said in annoyance.
"Well said," Black commented, surprising everyone, "This guy checked if catnip would affect me once. And it did." At the last part, Black made a cheshire grin towards her partner who was shaking his head to rid himself of the memory of that particular blunder.
"Eh, sanity's overrated," Nora said with a big grin as she took a bite out of her bacon flavored apple. "These are really good. You sure there aren't any pancake flavored ones?"
"She's a little obsessed with pancakes," Novice said quickly, hoping to get his mind out of the time Black became pawsy with him because of the catnip. As BlackGatomon, not Lilithmon.
Everyone gave her a deadpan stare at her words "Nora… pancake isn't made from meat, even I know that, and I was basically born a month ago." Salamon said dryly.
That earned some laughs out of everyone.
Nora stopped, placing her finger to her chin "Oh yeah." she then grinned "Oops! Looks like I forgot again."
"...Does she even have a brain," Gatomon felt the need to ask.
"Yes, just... oddly wired. So to speak," Novice replied.
A few groans were heard at that. "At any rate, what are we going to do?" Weiss asked. "We need to at least have some kind of plan before we can proceed."
"Well, we know there's a big mountain in the center of the island. I was thinking we could head for it, if nothing else so we can see the whole island, and possibly find some clues along the way," Gyro shrugged. "Not the best plan I know, but anyone got any better ideas?"
"...Why do I get the feeling that that's a horrible plan," Hawkmon said, as he glanced at the others questioningly.
No one wanted to answer that.
They all looked at each other silently at that, before eventually shaking their heads at him.
"Well, guess that's our plan for now, hopefully we'll figure out how to get back home along the way?" he said with a sigh.
"You're going to leave?" Agumon said with a frown, something the digimon all mimicked at the thought of their partners leaving already.
"Why are you worried? We'll bring you with us when we do." Gyro said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Yeah!" Armadimon cheered, also earning a smile from Iori.
"We didn't spend a decade looking for ya just to leave you again," Pierce grinned as well. "And no way are we leaving ANY of our friends if we can help it." he added, turning to Veemon as well and presenting him with his fist.
Veemon grinned as he looked at it and bumped fists with him.
"I would probably feel the same," Daisuke commented, mimicking Pierce's fist bump with Veemon. Which the blue dinosaur returned happily.
"Gotta admit, it would feel pretty weird to leave you guys behind." Jaune admitted to Gomamon, earning a thankful smile.
"I wish Jo thought the same," Gomamon said in an attempt to annoy his partner.
"...Sorry." Except that wasn't the reaction Gomamon was going for.
"No, no. That's not what I meant," Gomamon said quickly nuzzling against Jo's torso.
"Would definitely be pretty awesome to bring you guys with us." Yang said to Biyomon, the bird digimon smiling as she leaned on her.
Sora felt a little ashamed of herself at not sharing Yang's opinion at first.
"So it's decided!" Ruby suddenly said. "Our next objective is to find a way back to Remnant AND bring our partners with us no matter what!" she said. "Any objections?"
No objections were raised at all.
However, the cheerful mood was cut short, when the Digimon all suddenly tensed. "Is something wrong?" Ren asked, not liking how they were behaving.
Yamato frowned at this. "It's coming," the Chosen of Friendship said, earning confused looks from the second generation.
"Something's coming!" Wormmon said, and as if on cue, a massive spout of water suddenly erupted from the sand, before moving and soon launched the telephone boxes into the air, to which they soon crashed back to the ground.
"The hell is that?!" Gyro shouted as everyone quickly got up and ready to move in case things got too dangerous.
"I don't know, but it can't be anything good." Pyrrha said, regretting the fact they'd all lost their weapons now.
They soon got their answer when a large amount of sand was kicked up, and from the ground, at first glance what looked like a giant drill emerged, before that something was revealed to be a MASSIVE cone shaped shell.
"Shellmon," Agumon mouthed with a hint of an edge to his voice.
"What IS that?" Weiss said in confusion.
"It's Shellmon! We must have gotten on his territory without realising it!" Tentomon said in a slightly panicked tone, as in front of them, something emerged from the shell. It was a pink saurian-like head with what looked like a weird light green mass of tentacles that almost looked like hair on its head, before a pair of large oddly shaped arms emerged from the shell as well, fully revealing the full creature as some kind of bizarre mollusk with how those large limbs somehow fit.
Digimon Analyzer: Shellmon
Shellmon. Data Type. An Adult Level Mollusk Digimon. Although it has a turtle like appearance when settled into its shell, for all intents and purposes, it has a soft mollusk like body. It is known for being a rather dimwitted Digimon, though approach it with caution nonetheless. It's special attack is Hydro Pressure, shooting high pressure beam of water from the top of it's head.
"You guys faced that too," Iori asked, not liking this situation.
"Yup," Came out of most of the first generation digimon.
"And at that point only Agumon had eaten, so he was the only one that could fight," Tentomon said.
"Well, I think that's our cue to run." Gyro said as he started taking a step back.
And then Shellmon shot a high pressure beam of water at the cliff behind them, and they all turned and saw how it gouged a trench in it, before turning back to Shellmon.
"Yeah, that's how it blocked our escape too," Yamato commented.
"Nevermind, looks like if we try he's going to hit us in the back with that." he said with a scowl. "Why do I feel like this is going to be a habit? Having to fight big guys like this, I mean."
"Probably cause just about every large Digimon so far has tried to kill us?" Jaune offered.
"Yeah, that sounds about right. Guys, if you'd please?" Gyro said with a sigh.
"Except this time, everyone had eaten," Mimi said, feeling that this fight would be much easier with ten fully powered digimon.
"Right, we'll handle him." Agumon said with a nod as he and the other Digimon got in front of the hunters.
Much like with Kuwagamon, the Digimon began their assault, working together, timing their attacks well in a way that would make many hunter teams proud. Unlike Kuwagamon though, Shellmon proved to be a more...difficult opponent due to his namesake.
"None of our attacks are working!" Wormmon reported as Shellmon easily broke free from his Sticky Net, before retreating into the shell to hide from a barrage of Magical Fire, Petit Fire, and Petit Thunder.
"Or not," Wormmon said in worry.
"Tell me about it…" Veemon groaned, holding his head. Suffice to say, he learned that headbutting something with a hard shell...not very smart.
Veemon instinctively held his head as he remembered hitting things that were harder than his head.
"Puppy Howling!" Salamon called out as the attack hit, but Shellmon soon emerged not looking the least bit affected. "We need a new plan!" she said urgently.
Gyro looked around as the Digimon were starting to get in trouble, trying to find something that could give them an advantage, before seeing the wreckage of the payphones.
He waited until he wasn't in Shellmon's line of sight, and then used his semblance to dash along the sand towards the pile of broken frames, grabbing a broken off pole and then splitting it in half on his knee, grinning as he spun the two pieces in his hands.
Taichi didn't like what Gyro was going for, remembering how well it worked for him. Then again, Gyro is trained in combat. So maybe he won't end up the same way.
When the others saw him grab the pole and breaking it in half, they understood his idea, with Pyrrha deciding to make liberal use of her semblance for once as her arms gained a bright black glow to them, the same happening to the wreckage as Gyro dashed out of the way of what was about to happen, before she swung her arms, sending it all flying straight at Shellmon and impacting his shell, at the very least, it seemed to have done something, as he turned towards where the attack had come from.
"Woah! What was that?" Ruby said in awe.
"That's what we want to know," Veemon commented.
"My semblance, it's Polarity, meaning I can control metals." Pyrrha supplied with a smile, before turning to the Digimon. "We're not going to be sitting on the sidelines this time. You helped us, so we help you," she said, before grabbing a large chunk of metal, and managing to catch Shellmon on the side of the head, though all that seemed to do was enrage it.
"But Pyrrha…"Gabumon started, though whatever he was about to say was cut off when a red blur shot past them, Ruby using her semblance to start zipping around Shellmon, disorienting him.
At the same time, Yang turned to Nora. "Nora, give me your best shot," Yang said.
"Huh?" Came out of everyone.
"Uh, sorry?" Nora blinked.
"Let's just say the harder you hit me, the better for my semblance," she explained.
That made the Children and their digimon glance at Novice.
"Yang's semblance turns any damage she takes into physical strength, which gets added to her already impressive might," Novice commented.
"That's not the only impressive thing about her, right," Black said, surprised that the ring didn't stop her this time. Then again, what she said was a little too vague.
"Ooooh. Got it," Nora grinned, before winding up, and punching Yang with enough force to send her flying a little into the fight...before she made use of the momentum and rolled under the now dizzy Shellmon, her hair seemingly on fire and her eyes glowing red. "Hungry? Well here's a knuckle sandwich!" Yang said, before delivering a savage uppercut to Shellmon's chin, causing it to stumble back, though its squishy body cushioned the blow a little.
"Well that didn't do as much as it should've," Biyomon commented.
"Let's keep at it guys! But don't be afraid to fall back if you're not sure!" Gyro called as he jumped up and striked the highest points of Shellmon's shell, trying to see if it had any weaknesses up high.
Apparently, the tip WAS weak, as when he hit it on this one trip upwards, Shellmon let out a roar, surprising everyone, before… launching one of his tentacles at Gyro, grabbing him while he was in the air.
"Okay, he didn't get caught the same way I did," Taichi commented, earning horrified looks out of Miyako and Iori.
"What the? Let me go dammit!" He growled as he tried to struggle free.
"Gyro!" Agumon shouted in worry as he started opening fire on Shellmon's head "Baby Flame!"
"Dammit! Come on work this time." Pierce muttered as he tried to help his brother, picking up some of the wreckage Pyrrha kept swinging around and threw it at the tentacle grabbing his brother… and it missed by just an inch "Oh come on!"
Meanwhile, Shellmon was starting to get annoyed by all the fire in his face, and slammed his hand down on Agumon, pinning him down.
"Ow," Agumon couldn't help sounding out at the memory.
"Agumon!" Gyro shouted in worry for his friend… and that's when Shellmon decided to squeeze, bringing a scream of pain from his mouth. His aura was keeping the worst of it at bay, but at the rate things were going, it would only be a matter of time before his aura broke...and likely more too.
Now that the Children thought back, Shellmon probably could've crushed Taichi anytime. Guess he was lucky that the mollusk digimon didn't feel like doing it.
"Gyro!" Agumon just couldn't take it anymore, his friend was in grave danger, and if he didn't do anything…!
(Play Brave Heart)
"And there it is!" Agumon cheered loudly.
At that moment, Gyro's Digivice began to shine, as it seemingly sent what could best be described as some kind of signal into the sky, summoning forth a light which soon released a burst of data like a waterfall.
"Agumon, Evolution!" Agumon started as the data entered his body, before it changed. "Greymon!" His form was now that of a massive dinosaur, the same one that he'd taken when fighting the Parrotmon from a decade ago.
Back in the fight, Shellmon was subjected to the simple physics of something suddenly growing big while they were under him, as he was thrown off of the Digimon he had been pinning, while letting go of Gyro in surprise, the young man hitting the ground with a groan as his aura broke from the strain, but he was okay. Looking up, his eyes widened when he recognized the form Agumon had taken.
The combination of the music and the evolution scene looked beautiful to everyone.
"That's the same sequence shown in your anime," Novice said, guessing what they must be thinking.
Digimon Analyzer: Greymon
Greymon. Vaccine Type. An Adult Level Dinosaur Digimon. It's cranial skin has hardened to the point of rivalling the toughest of shells, and it excells as a Combat Species Digimon. His special attack is Mega Flame, it fires the strongest possible fire ball from it's mouth.
He couldn't help but grin as he saw him, replaying the name he heard him announce in his head "Hope you have more control on that fire this time Greymon." he said as he stood up.
In response, Greymon smirked "A LOT more control."
"Then kick his ass!" Gyro said with a wide smirk.
Greymon didn't need anymore prompting, as charged forward, Shellmon just barely recovering before he found a trio of sharp horns shoved into his face as Greymon's head armor impacted against his softer body, knocking him back. Glaring angrily, he fired his Hydro Pressure at Greymon, pushing him back a little, before Greymon managed to regain his footing and started to push back. Once he was close enough, Greymon grabbed hold of Shellmon and in an impressive display of power, proceeded to lift the large mon up, and slam him into the ground, before doing it again, then throwing him aside, causing him to fall near the water.
"Awesome!" the second generation cheered alongside the first one. Only, Gatomon rolled her eyes at everyone's childishness.
Struggling to his 'feet', Shellmon tried to counter with another Hydro Pressure, but this time Greymon countered with a stream of fire from his mouth, causing the water to evaporate while he stepped closer little by little. Shellmon tried as best as he could, but eventually he just couldn't keep up the pressure, and when his attack ended, he soon found Greymon's horns under him, before the dinosaur lifted his head quickly, flinging Shellmon into the air.
"Mega Flame!" Greymon declared as he charged up and fired a massive ball of fire from his mouth, the attack flying true and hitting Shellmon dead in the underbelly, causing the mon to roar in pain as he was soon launched FAR into the ocean, and was well out of sight.
"So long, sucker," Veemon cheered.
(End Song)
With the battle, and thus the danger, subsided, Greymon reverted back to Agumon, the yellow dinosaur being confused a bit, before hearing his stomach grumble, making him laugh sheepishly and turn to Gyro "Is the fire still going? I'm kind of hungry again."
"Of course you are," Gatomon commented, knowing how much of a glutton the lizard digimon is.
Gyro looked at him for a moment, before smiling in amusement as the two walked back towards the others.
When they returned to the group, those born on Remnant all had faces of shock as they stared at Agumon, but Gyro was also sure he saw recognition.
"Um… guys? Everything ok?" he asked, a bit worried since they kept staring at Agumon with jaws hanging, the yellow dinosaur just being confused.
"Oh, right. They probably all saw Greymon somehow," Armadimon said, remembering the prologue.
"Did I scare them?" he asked Gyro in worry.
"I don't think that's it." Gyro told him, though he was also starting to get confused.
Finally, someone, namely Ruby, decided to speak "That… that was the thing we saw… back when we were kids."
Gyro looked at her, even more confused "Hold on, what?"
"I know what she's talking about, because it happened at my home as well." Weiss said, getting both his and Pierce's attention "About 11 years ago, in the early hours of the morning, TV screens, scrolls, computers, anything that showed images, started showing a battle between a large orange dinosaur and a huge green bird. The news never addressed it the following day, and no one was ever able to find out where exactly it had taken place, because all people had to go on was a bridge being broken."
The two brothers were speechless at all that, to hear that people from Remnant had witnessed a battle from Earth was… shocking "All of you guys saw it?" Pierce asked for clarification, receiving 8 nods.
"Why didn't you see it though?" Blake asked, looking between them.
"Because we were right in the middle of it." Gyro said, drawing all eyes to him "Agumon had evolved into Greymon back then to protect us, he had been getting kicked around after that, and then a whistle literally fell on my head, and I was able to wake up Greymon with it, after that, he opened fire and just… disappeared."
"Wait! That was my whistle!" Ruby suddenly said, Gyro looking at her with wide eyes, before reaching into his shirt and pulling out the whistle hanging from a chain.
"So he still had it on him," Hikari commented at the sight of the whistle. Although there were other things to worry about right now.
"Wait, so somehow Ruby's whistle travelled across the globe or something?" Jaune said, confused, while the brothers were hoping they would be able to work their way out of this sudden predicament without looking suspicious.
"What I want to know is where this took place." Weiss asked, looking at Gyro, and he was quickly trying to figure out what to say, which was difficult, his pause couldn't be too long and he had to figure out an answer and FAST.
"Now he's in trouble," Patamon commented.
He was pausing for too long, the others were starting to get worried, even Pierce didn't know what to say, before Gyro sighed "Dammit. I guess at the very least you're going to be open to believing me considering where we are."
"Is he going to...?" Gabumon let the question hang.
They looked at him confused before he motioned for everyone to sit down, Pierce sighing as he saw where this was going, and understood there was nothing they could do to avoid it.
"First, we're all very acceptant at this point that other worlds are possible considering where we are, yes?" Gyro asked around, earning a few slow nods, but he also saw some eyes widening in understanding of why he was asking that, most notably Weiss, Blake and Ren.
"The simplest way to put it, is that me, Pierce, and Azure, are also from another world, one different from Remnant. We have higher tech than you do, so we were able to find a way to jump into your world. Honestly we wanted to blend in, and we were able to do that because, hey, we're also human, just from another world. But then this happens and, well, yeah." Gyro said, trying to avoid mentioning the really sensitive subjects.
The Children and their digimon were waiting with baited breath at what the reactions would be.
Everyone was surprised, that much was obvious, as they all took time to digest his words, at the very least though, Agumon and Veemon were still sitting with him and his brother, giving them their silent support.
It took a few minutes before someone finally spoke up, Ren "Why did you come to Remnant though?"
"We found the world 6 years ago, and saw how bad things were, and eventually came up with a way to travel worlds, because we wanted to see if we could do anything to help, we thought maybe some advanced tech or something along those lines would do the trick." Gyro explained, being able to say the truth, while also not revealing everything, because that was an entire matter in and off itself.
Needless to say, everyone from Remnant was speechless at that revelation.
"That's…" Weiss started. She WANTED to say 'impossible'...but after today, her world view was already shattered beyond repair. This really wasn't THAT unbelievable.
Some of the Children remembered how hard it was to accept the fact that they were in a different world the first time.
"Crazy? Yeah, we know how crazy it sounds, but its the truth," Pierce shrugged. "We came here to see if we could try and make Remnant a better place, though we sure weren't expecting to get swept up in this either."
"Still, I hope nothing crazy happens while we're gone." Gyro couldn't help but sigh out, Pierce understanding he meant that they had better get back as soon as possible.
Eight of the Children were still wondering if the root of all problems in this digital world was Apocalymon... Or something else.
"So… basically, you came to Remnant to try and help the people there?" Jaune asked after some moments.
"Pretty much, yeah," Gyro nodded.
"Then, to me at least, it's fine, it doesn't matter that you're from another world, because in a sense, you're like all of us here, you want to help Remnant be a better place." Jaune said, smiling at the two brothers. The others soon joined in as well, though Weiss still seemed a little uncertain.
"I'll admit, I'm still a little...unsure about this," she sighed. "But you two haven't done anything hostile or anything, so I guess you're both okay."
"...They took it better than I thought they would," Miyako commented.
"They do have a point," Iori pointed out.
The two of them blinked, before they smiled. "Thanks guys...it means a lot," Pierce grinned.
Gyro just sagged in relief, and everyone could almost swear it was like a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders "You don't know how good it is to hear that." he said, smiling.
The others shared a smile before… "Well, enough with the heavy stuff," Yang said. "Come on guys, we still got a campfire and the Digimon are probably hungry after that, so let's celebrate another win," she said.
With that said, everyone agreed with a cheer, none more so than the Digimon who needed to replenish their energy after.
Their first day was finished in the Digital World.
Only time will tell what the rest would bring.
With that, the book shut itself once again.
"Any questions right now," Novice asked with a smile.
"Just one," Veemon said, raising his hand,"What're those black things you're eating?"
Surprised by the question, Novice glanced at his personal bowl with the said black candies. "Salmiakkia," the Overseer replied easily. This only earned confused looks. "It's a candy," Novice clarified.
"Can I try it," Veemon asked eagerly.
"Sure. In fact, why don't you all try," Novice offered, making the bowl float towards everyone.
As it passed them, everyone took a single black flat-diamond shaped candy out of the bowl. Novice himself taking one too.
"Ready. Set. GO!" With that signal, everyone plucked the salmiakki into their mouths, taking a couple chews... And then the reactions started.
Daisuke spat his salmiakki out," THAT'S SALTY!" Veemon doing the same thing.
Koshiro and Jo looked sick at the taste, before running out of the room to the bathrooms that were included in their tour. Gomamon not far behind the two, while Tentomon looked like he was... short-circuiting?
Sora was able to swallow her own piece with great effort, before quickly taking a soda to wash the taste away.
Hikari and Miyako also ran to the bathrooms with their partners.
Almost everyone else opted to spitting the offending thing out with a look of utter disgust on their faces.
"WOW!" Except Mimi, who looked like she discovered the meaning of life, "This is an interesting taste. Is this an American candy?"
Novice gave the girl a look that one would give witnessing a miracle. "No, it's Finnish. And...*sob* Finally! Someone who can understand the wonderful delicacy known as salmiakki," That last part was uttered with dramatical tears flowing down. "Everyone else is weird."
"YOU'RE THE WEIRD ONE!" Everyone who didn't like the salty treat exclaimed.
As this little bit of Chaos happened, Black remembered the time she tried covering herself in liquid salmiakki once, as Lilithmon, to make herself more alluring. Unfortunately, her partner saw it as a sacrilegious act. For the first time that day, since becoming Novice's partner, Black was actually afraid of him and his dark side. And that's saying something.
Black: I wish I could get my claws on Swift... Maybe as LadyDevimon I could do some meow, meow, meow... Swift better sleep one eye open tonight.