I do not own digimon or any of its characters. This fic is set after the latest appearance of the characters involved. By the time of writing this, it's after shortly after tri. in the adventure Universe and a few weeks after Runaway Locomon in the Tamers Universe.
Takato wakes up and yawns. He finds Guilmon sleeping next to him. After everything that happened his parents finally allowed Guilmon to sleep with him instead of the cold hut in the park. He gets dressed and has breakfast like every morning expecting this day to be like any other day. But that would soon change.
"Hey Takato, we're out of Milk. Can you get some at the store?" Takatos mother asks from the back of the bakery.
"Okay, I'm on it"
Takato runs into his room to grab some money and his goggles. While picking them up he glances at the small Agumon figure in his room.
"Agumon, my favorite digimon before Guilmon appeared in my life. I wonder if I'll ever see a real one..." Takato thinks to himself before running down the stairs alongside Guilmon.
He leaves the house and makes his way to the local store. On his way there he passes through the park where Guilmon used to hide overnight and when he was at school. Suddenly, Guilmon begins to growl and gets into combat position.
"Takato, there's a digimon here somewhere"
Guilmon runs after the scent of the digimon and Takato has trouble catching up to his partner. Guilmon stops before his old hideout and growls at it. Takato finally catches up.
"The hideout? Is it inside there?"
Takato opens the door. He finds a weird red portal inside similar to the one they used to get to the digital world.
"What is that?"
Suddenly Guilmon charges into the portal blindly. After that the portal becomes unstable. Takato, who is afraid he might lose his best friend, jumps in as well.
From the trees a tall black figure watches. He speaks into some kind of communication device.
"Gallantmon won't be a problem anymore, begin Operation Towerfall."
At the same time, in a different universe
Tai and Agumon leave a hospital. Agumon is dressed in a raincoat even though it is mid summer to hide his appearance. The public opinion about digimon isn't too good after all the recent attacks so he needs a disguise to avoid panic in the hospital. Agumon and Tai were visiting Davis, Ken, Yolei and Cody in the hospital after Tai rescued them a few days earlier. After the reebot the younger digidestined all lost their partners. Tommorow they would be released from the hospital. Izzy already planned a visit to the digital world for tomorrow so they could regain their digimentals and in turn, their partner digimon. Tai and Agumon walk down the path from the entrance of the hospital to the place where Tai parked his bike. He put a children's seat on the back of the bike so he can take Agumon with him. While he unlocks the lock on his bike he looks at the sky above a large field of grass near the hospital. Suddenly, a red portal appears in the sky and a boy with a blue shirt and some red being fall out of it from extreme height. Upon seeing this, Tai sprints away from his bike, which falls over in the process. Agumon runs after him. Tai takes his Digivice out of his pocket.
"Agumon!"
Agumon nods.
[Agumon digivolve to... Greymon]
Greymon picks up speed due to his larger legs and reaches the boy and the other being before they hit the ground. He stretches out his arms and catches the two. The boy, who seems to be unconscious, suddenly regains consciousness. The first thing he sees is Greymon. Tai already mentally preperes himself for a shocked reaction from the boy, who seems to be about 3 or 4 years younger than him, about the age he was when he entered the digital world for the first time. However, instead of the expected fear, the boy doesn't scream. Instead he looks at Greymon in amazement.
"Woah, a Greymon! I never thought I would ever see one." the boy says.
Greymon sets the boy and the red being down. Upon closer inspection the red being turns out to be a slim and tall dragon-like digimon. However, it is still unconcious.
"Are you alright?" Tai asks the boy in the blue shirt.
"Yes I'm okay. Does that Greymon belong to you?" the boy asks curiously.
"You know it's name?" Tai asks in surprise. At this point he wouldn't be surprised if everybody recognized a digimon, however, the fact that the boy specifically recognizes Greymon makes Tai curious. At that moment, the red digimon behind the boy in the blue shirt wakes up. Upon seeing another digimon, Tai realizes that he is probably another digidestined that have been appearing all over the world in recent years. But why did he come out of a portal in the sky?
"I'm Tai. Taichi Kamiya. Who are you?"
"My name is Takato, Takato Mazuki. I'm a digimon tamer!"
"Tamer?"
Before Tai has the time to ask more questions he hears someone shout.
"STEP AWAY FROM THAT DANGEROUS DINOSAUR!"
Tai and Takato turn around and see a police officer aiming his gun at Greymon.
"Wait! You don't understand he's our friend!" Tai yells.
"An he's also the same dinosaur that saved all of us from Myotismon, Apocalymon, the dark masters and Ordinemon but to them all digimon are dangerous..." he thinks to himself.
The police officer starts panicking and shoots his entire magazine at greymon wirhout a second thought.
Tai can barely react but the digivice in his palm does.
[Greymon digivolve to... MetalGreymon]
MetalGreymon uses his metallic claw to block the bullets. Takato stares at MetalGreymon in amazement but Tai grabs him by his arm and pulls him away. Guilmon and Metalgreymon run after them. They make it around a corner and MetalGreymon reverts back to Agumon in his disguise. After catching his breath Tai looks back at Takato.
"Maybe I should have asked you earlier but why did you come out of a portal in the sky!?"
Takato slowly realizes the situation he is in. If the Greymon didn't catch him and Guilmon, they wouldn't have survived the fall.
"Uhhh, let me explain. I was in the park when my partner, Guilmon, jumped into a weird portal. I jumped after him because I don't want to lose him. Luckily it seems like we are still in Tokyo." At that moment Takato realizes something "wait, which part of Tokyo are we in?"
"Odaiba." Tai answers.
"Weird, I don't remember a hospital in Odaiba."
"What do you mean? Its been here for ages now. Maybe you hit your head when Greymon catched you" Tai laughs.
Takato gets angry. "I didn't hit my head! I clearly remember that there shouldn't be a hospital here!"
Tai just shakes his head. While Takato and Tai argue, Agumons stomach growls.
"Didnt you just have breakfast?" Tai asks his partner.
"I know but digivolving that far makes me really hungry!" Agumon complains.
"Don't we have to buy milk Takato?" Guilmon asks in his always curious voice.
Takato nods. "Right, but it'll probably take an hour to get home from here." Takato sighs "I should probably call at home."
Takato takes out his phone and dials the land-line to his house. He expects his mom to pick up but instead someone who sounds like an elderly woman answers.
"Hello who's there?"
"Sorry worng number!"
Takato dials his number again, this time checking for errors.
"Hello? Is this some kind of Prank-call?"
Takato immediately hangs up again.
"Weird. Did we get a new number without my parents telling me?" he mumbles.
"Are you okay?" Tai asks
"Yeah I'm alright. Thank you for saving us!" Takato says while walking away alongside Guilmon. However, Tai stops the two.
"Wait! You can't just walk around freely with your partner without disguising him! People will panic the second they see him like the police officer earlier!"
Takato stops. "Why? I always walk around with Guilmon and most of the time people just think he is a child in a well-made costume."
Tai shakes his head.
"That might have worked before but ever since the digimon attacks a few weeks ago everyone freaks out the second they see something that could be a digimon!"
Takato turns around.
"What attack? You mean the Parasimon attack that was caused by Locomon? We dealt with that."
Now Tai looks confused.
"Locomon, Parasimon? What are you talking about?"
"You know, the giant train Digimon that was speeding trough th city the other day?"
"I don't remember any of that. I think we would've known if there was a train Digimon in the city."
Suddenly, Tai gets a call. It's Izzy.
"Hey I have to take that call. Give me a moment" Tai says and walks behind a bush.
"Tai? I just registered a huge dimensional rift opening near the hospital! You're there right? Did you see anything?" Izzy half shouts.
"I saw the portal. However, nothing came out of it except a boy and a Digimon."
"A Digimon? Can you describe it?"
"Small red dinosaur dragon. Probably on the rookie level. About the size of Agumon."
"I can't find a Digimon matching that description. Do you know what it's called?"
"Hey Takato, how's your partner called again?" Tai asks.
"I'm Guilmon!" the red dragon replies.
"He's called Guilmon" Tai tells Izzy.
"I can't find him. Is it possible that he belongs to a species we haven't discovered yet?"
"I don't know. Look, the kid that came out of the portal almost died if Greymon didn't catch him. I think I'll bring him home."
"Wait! Thats what I wanted to talk about. The dimensional rift didn't open a gate to the digital world or another place in our world, the rift led to a parallel universe."
"Are you sure? He seems like a normal person."
"He probably is but has he mentioned anything that doesn't match up with our history?"
At this moment, Tai facepalms.
"Oh yeah. He kept talking about Digimon attacks that never happened. I just thought he hit his head too hard."
"Anyway, bring him to my office. He probably doesn't have a home in this universe. Also, I want to ask him some questions."
"Ok" Tai says and hangs up.
"Hey you need to come with me" Tai tells Takato.
Tai wants to explain but he keeps his mouth shut, thinking it might shock him to be in a different universe.
"Its important its about err.. your Digimon, Guilmon" Tai answers.
"Why?"
"I have a friend who researches Digimon. He has never seen something like Guilmon before." Tai says, this time not really lying because Izzy has really never seen a Guilmon before.
"Okay, but first I need to go home." Takato responds.
Tai thinks about it for a second but he agrees. "Maybe if he sees his house somewhere where it wasn't before, we don't have trouble explaining the different universe thing to him. Or rather, Izzy won't have trouble, I don't understand most of that stuff myself."
At that moment a person in a knight costume walks by them and pins a poster to a nearby tree. Takato looks at it.
"Knight Cosplay Convention, Friday-Sunday"
"Oh yeah that reminds me" Tai says "Guilmon can't run around like this. We need a costume."
Takato still doesn't understand why he should have to disguise Guilmon but he agrees. He thinks about the poster and has an idea.
[Guilmon biomerge to... Gallantmon]
"Digivolution? That's convenient that his digivolution is a knight" Tai laughs but he quickly stops when he can't see Takato anywhere.
"Takato? Where did you go?"
He almost jumps when Gallantmon replies with "I'm here!"
"No, not you, Takato."
"Yep, right here" Gallantmon replies again.
"Wait, you are inside that armor? Then where did Guilmon go?"
"Also here." Gallantmon says, this time in a voice resembling Guilmons.
"Woaah, did you fuse together? How is that even possible?" Tai asks "man this is not how I imagined this day would go... Anyways, where do you live?"
"My parents have a bakery in Shinjuku, you can't miss it."
Tai nods and the two humans and Digimon, or rather 1 human and 2 Digimon, start walking.
"So, does this happen every time Guilmon digivolves? What does his ultimate and Mega look like?" Tai asks out of curiosity.
"No, this only happens for the Mega level."
"This is your mega level? You mean you could fight Wargreymon in this Form?"
"Wanna try?" Gallantmon asks jokingly but at the same time Agumons stomach growls. Gallantmon laughs. "Or maybe not."
"So, if that's his mega, how does his champion and ultimate look like?"
"His champion is Growlmon. He's what Greymon is to Agumon. A big red dinosaur. His ultimate is Wargrowlmon. I was thinking of naming him Metalgrowlmon but I didn't want to copy Greymon. He's a cyborg version of Growlmon."
"Did you say name him?"
"Oh yeah I made Guilmon, Growlmon and Wargrowlmon up. One day, they became reality."
Tai puts his arms behind his head and says "this day has been crazy enough, I'm not even gonna ask anymore."
The rest of the walk goes well. Everyone ignores the big white knight walking around town except some people staring at them in the subway. They arrive in Shinjuku. Takato walks up to the place where his parents bakery is supossed to be but he finds a flower shop instead.
"A flower shop? What happened here? Theres supossed to be a bakery here!"
"I think my friend knows how to explain this but you need to come with me" Tai says.
"It's not like I can go anywhere else" Gallantmon answers.
-30 minutes later, Izzys office-
"So you say buildings and phone numbers aren't what they are supossed to be, correct?" Izzy asks.
Takato nods.
"Could you give me your digivice? I want to run some tests to confirm a theory."
Takato takes off his D-power from his belt. Izzy takes it and inspects it from all angles.
"Interesting. This isn't a traditional digivice but not a D3 either. What's the empty space at the bottom for?"
"That spot?" Takato says while taking a stack of cards from his belt "it's for scanning Digimon cards"
Takato puts some of his cards on the table. Izzy rummanges trough the stack of cards and finds attack modifiers, Digimon cards and other things he can't understand.
"Where did you find those?"
"What do you mean? I bought them."
Izzy looks at the cards for a few more seconds before giving them back to Takato.
"If you can't contact your parents or go home, you are free to use the guest room."
Authors note: So, for anyone new, this is a rewrite of my original chapters 1&2. I rewrote them because they kinda sucked and I don't want new readers to go because the first few chapters, their first impression, sucks. Sorry this took so long I was really busy over the last weeks. After this chapter I will continue writing this story from where I left off. Thank you for reading and please review, it really helps.