As I said, you get the gift of two chapters in one day! And as you can plainly see from the title below, things are gonna be a bit different. And by the end, you'll have questions... but don't worry all will be revealed in time.

Anyways, let's get to the real action!

Chapter 1: Courage Reborn! Fladramon and KajiGreymon!

Digital World. April 8th, 2002. 0738 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

The clouds looked ominous as they darkened the sky over a forest not too far from the mountains in the Digital World. Under normal circumstances, most Digimon would be trying to find cover from the storm above them that was coming. However, the past month, getting caught in a storm was the least of their worries.
"Run! It's the Digimon Kaiser!" A Digimon screamed out. Standing on a hill in front of a black obelisk structure was a young human male who had a sinister smile on his face. His hair was a mix of blue and light blue that was spiky and had on yellow sunglasses with purple lenses to hide his identity. His jumpsuit was blue, grey and white and he wore black boots, cuffs on his wrists and ankles. Finally, he had a large blue cape with yellow lining that looked similar to the wings of an insect and large golden-yellow shoulder pads. This was Digimon Kaiser and his goal was to dominate the Digital World.

The Kaiser chuckled at the fear he was spreading just by his sheer presence. He pulled out a black whip and swung it which was soon followed by black rings that flew from behind him. The rings were pure black and had strange wording on them. The Digimon knew exactly what these things were and were trying to flee as fast as they could. Digimon ranging from Gazimon, Gotsumon, even Unimon were trying to escape. However, the rings were much faster and opened before they closed around the necks and waists of their unfortunate victims. Once on, the lettering glowed red and the Digimon who fell slowly got back up, their eyes glowing red as well. The rings were slave collars that the Kaiser was using to brainwash and control the Digimon of the Digital World.

One Digimon that had unfortunately wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time was Hikari's partner Tailmon who was fleeing for her own life. One of the Kaiser's rings was fast approaching her but before it could seize her, her tail ring glowed bright and deflected it. Tailmon looked curiously at her ring as she was unaware that it could do that. Her confusion would be short lived as she would soon find a controlled Unimon walking towards her with the intent to harm. Unimon charged up his Holy Shot and fired at Tailmon.

Takaishi Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 8th, 2002. 0722 Hours.
P.O.V. - Takeru Takaishi

I quickly checked the time on the clock and saw that I probably should be heading out for school. I placed my bowl of food in the sink and picked up my white bucket hat. Hard to believe that I'm living in Odiaba now. Mom's job as a reporter got her transferred to her paper's Odiaba offices which meant the Chosen Children were all living in the same neighborhood. No more taking the route to the district, I can walk to the other's houses. Dad and Yamato knew about the transfer, but I asked Yamato to keep it secret as I wanted to surprise the others. I gather my bag and got ready to head out to my new school which thankfully will have one familiar face in terms of Hikari.

"Hey, Mom? I'm heading out." I told her as I looked into her room that she used for her office.
"I'm sorry I can't go with you on your first day of school, but… I have to finish this article today…"
"It's okay, I can go by myself." I love her so much but she needs to realize I'm not a little kid who needs his hand held anymore. My adventures in the Digital World proved that. "I'm leaving!" I shouted as I closed the front door and walked towards the apartment's elevator. The elevator stopped right in front of me on the eight level and inside was two kids who looked like they went to elementary school as well. They were certainly ready for school I could see.

To my left was a girl with long lavender hair that was partially covered by a blue bandana and large round glasses that was over her brown eyes. She had a short pink shirt and a red long sleeve underneath that, purple shorts and red boots. Finally, she was carrying a fairly large red backpack. Beside her was a short brown haired boy with a bowl haircut and green eyes. He had a long-sleeved purple shirt, beige pants, and brown sneakers. He also had a black backpack that looked almost bigger than his entire torso.

"Good morning!" I greeted the both of them.
"Good morning…" The girl replied.
"I just moved into this building. I'm Takaishi Takeru, fifth grade. Nice to meet you."
"I'm Inoue Miyako, sixth grade. It's written like the 'Kyo' in 'Kyoto', but pronounced 'Miyako'. Nice to meet you." Certainly a very chipper girl. "This is Iori."
"I'm Hida Iori, third grade. Nice to meet you." The boy bowed.
"Same to you." I said as I walked into the elevator.

We all walked together to school, though considering that I didn't know my new neighbors too well, I decided to keep a bit quiet while the two of them talked.
"So, Miyako-san, can you come to my house after school to fix our computer?" asked Iori.
"Sure." Miyako agreed. "Will your mom make ohagi?"
"Sure, I'll e-mail her later."
"Bingo!" She laughed as we turned into the school's courtyard. I suddenly stopped as I saw a bunch of kids playing soccer but what caused my sudden stop was a pair of goggles that shined with the sun. My eyes closed in on the kid and I saw Taichi out there on the field. Not the Taichi I saw a few weeks ago, but the Taichi I first met almost three years ago.

"Taichi-san?" I muttered to myself before I shook my head. I could see now that the boy was not Taichi but rather a burgundy haired, brown eyed boy with similar hair and goggles like Taichi. He had on a blue and white shirt, a blue sleeveless jacket, olive shorts and orange sneakers. In a way, the kid was like some sort of Taichi clone. One of the kids kicked the soccer ball and he deflected it which caused it to head my way which I jumped up and caught it before it could go out in the street.
"Sorry, sorry!" The kid apologized as he dusted himself off the ground before walking to me. I stared at him for a moment which earned me a look from him. I then tossed the ball into his hands.
"Those goggles are pretty cool." I told him. He really didn't have a response to that.
"Oi, Daisuke! What are you doing?" One of the kids yelled at him and he returned back to the game.
"Daisuke?" I said to myself. "Taichi-san is in middle school, of course…" I laughed at the idea that I could've mistaken him for Taichi.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

After we cleaned up our game, we all headed to our respective homerooms. I went to 5-A and just my luck, unpacking her things was an amazing girl I knew too well.
"I'm in the same class as Hikari-chan again!" I silently cheered to myself. She may have heard my voice but not what I said as she turned around and flashed that pure smile of hers.
"I'm glad to see you again." She said as we took our seats next to each other.
"Just a few minutes ago, some guy said my goggles were cool. But I don't even know him…"
"What did he look like?"
"Eh, green shirt, khaki shorts, black sneakers. He was about our age with blue eyes, blonde hair and a white bucket hat."
"Bucket hat?"
"If you would, please sit down." The teacher requested as class was about to begin. I propped my head up with my arm as I took my seat. Yet another boring school year.

"I'd like to introduce you a new student for this semester. Come in." The door to the room opened and my eyes widened as in walked in that kid from earlier! "Takaishi Takeru."
"I'm Takaishi Takeru. Nice to meet you all." He bowed.
"Him…" I muttered.
"Your seat is… next to Yagami." He walked over to sit right next to Hikari.
"So this is the surprise you hinted." Hikari said which made my eyes widen even more.
"Sounds like Onii-chan was able to keep the secret then." He smiled at her which really set me off! 'What's with this guy? How does he know Hikari-chan so well?'

Digital World. April 8th, 2002. 1348 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

A few hours later, the Chosen Children's partner Digimon were in dire straits. The Kaiser's reign of terror was making countless numbers of Digimon refugees who were fleeing their homes in order to avoid being enslaved by the vile human. Agumon, Guilmon and several of the others were trying to lead many of the displaced Digimon to a safer area when the Kaiser showed up and routed all of them. They all split up with a controlled Snimon chasing after Tentomon, Patamon and Piyomon. The Snimon used his Shadow Sickle attack that struck both Piyomon and Tentomon and caused them to crash into the bushes while Patamon took cover in a tree, hoping not to be found.
"Piyomon, Tentomon…" He muttered in fear.

Agumon was running as fast as he could in order not to become the next in a long line of slaves for the Kaiser when he tripped on the ground.
"Agumon!" Guilmon ran over to him. "Are you okay?"
"I'll be fine."
"Damn it all! The Kaiser ambushed us. There's barely anyone left in my group that's not under his control. Where are the others?"
"Don't know. Lost them."
"Ugh! This is bad. We're in some serious trouble." Their short reprieve was interrupted as Snimon flew over them.
"We got to move Guilmon!" The other dinosaur nodded and they ran once more. They quickly took cover in a bush before things went quiet.

"I think he may be gone for now." Guilmon assumed. "Shoot, where's Ross and the others when you need them."
"Yeah. I've never felt so useless without Taichi." Agumon sadly admitted. His attention was suddenly drawn to something else that he spotted in a nearby bush. "Hey, what's that over there?" The two of them walked over to the bush and found a TV just lying there.
"A TV? What's that doing here?" Guilmon asked.
"I don't know." The buzzing noise returned again as Snimon had doubled back and caught the both of them in his sights.
"Look out!" It was too late. Both Digimon were struck by the Shadow Sickle and fell to the ground in pain.
"Taichi… Taichi!" Agumon screamed out for his human partner.

Odaiba Middle School, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 8th, 2002. 1351 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

"Talk about luck! Our last class was canceled which means we can go straight home early!" I cheered as Taichi and I were walking right out the front doors of the school.
"Yeah! But giving us home work on the first day of class, that's got to be a crime." complained Taichi.
"Take it up with the National Diet." I joked. We were walking down the street when suddenly we heard a beeping sound… an all too familiar beeping sound that made us stop and our blood go cold. "Taichi… you hear that?"
"Uh-huh." We both looked down to our belts and saw our Digivices beginning to flash red letters on the screen that spelled emergency.
"Trouble." That was all Taichi said as we took off. We ran back into the middle school and ran up the stairs as I saw there was now a map on the screen that was pointing us somewhere.
"It's over here." I told him as we walked into the computer lab.
"Hey, isn't this room closed for the week?" Taichi asked me.
"Sure is… so why is that computer on?" We both saw one computer that was just shining a bright white screen with nothing on it. We walked in and took a closer look before our whole world turned bright.

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

The brightness began to die down and my eyes soon began to see the world again. I could now see in front of me a strange forest, well, strange if one had never been to the Digital World. Somehow that computer managed to transport both Ross and I back to the Digital World. At least it was less painful than getting hit by a tidal wave or flying up into the sky.
"We're back…" I muttered. Ross groaned as he was trying to reorient himself. I looked over and noticed that he was no longer wearing his school uniform but rather a khaki long-sleeve shirt with a pocket on his chest and two by his waist, a pair of khaki pants and some tan combat boots. That uniform looked familiar especially with the marks on the front pocket that had a silhouetted drawing of a Digivice with the word 'freedom' written in kanji above it. "Ross? Why do you look like you're with the Marine Raiders?"
"What? Hey, wait a second, you're right! My clothes changed! So did yours!" He pointed to me. I looked down and saw that I was no longer wearing my school uniform as well. My clothes had changed into a blue hoodie, some grey jeans and blue and yellow sneakers. I was also wearing an open coat over the hoodie with the back of it going down to the back of knees.
"Wow… this is new."

"Taichi!" I heard Agumon's voice yell.
"Agumon!" I ran as fast I could towards the sound of his voice. Hang on, Agumon. After thirty seconds of running, I found both Agumon and Guilmon on the ground looking like they were in pain.
"Agumon!" "Guilmon!" The both of us ran up to our Digimon.
"Taichi!" "Ross!" Both of them looked somewhat relieved to see us.
"What happened?" I asked. I didn't get much of an answer as a Snimon with a black belt buzzed right above us. I could assume they were being attacked by this Digimon. "Evolve, Agumon!" Nothing happened and I looked at my Digivice and saw there was reaction.
"I can't… I can't evolve, Taichi!" Agumon explained.
"Why? What's the problem?" Ross questioned.
"It's a long story, but we need to get out of here!" Guilmon explained. We heard a flapping sound and saw Patamon coming towards us.
"Guys, run!" He shouted and we all ran from the attacking Snimon. We sprinted for a few minutes before Tailmon jumped in front of us.
"This way!" She pointed towards another direction. We followed her to a cave where we took refuge.

"This is a fine situation we've wandered into." Ross panted.
"No kidding. We need some help." I said.
"How? Who?"
"I'll try to reach someone." I pulled out my D-Terminal that us Chosen Children were using as a way to communicate with each other. It was mostly for fun, but now it was our best chance of receiving help.
"Koushiro should be able to spread the word to the others."
"Good idea." I typed up the message as fast as I could. "Please, anyone who gets this, help us!" I repeated the final sentence before I hit send. Hopefully, the message could reach back to the Real World.

Odaiba Elementary School, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 8th, 2002. 1458 Hours.
P.O.V. – Hikari Yagami

Our final classes for the day ended so I was next to Takeru and talking to him as we gathered up our things.
"So, have you finished unpacking?" I asked him.
"Almost." He answered.
"Hey, you!" I turned to see Daisuke with an angry look on his face that was directed towards Takeru.
"It's not 'you', it's Takeru-kun!" I explained to him.
"You, Takeru, what's your deal with Hikari-chan?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Takeru didn't understand the line of questioning. I knew what it was about. Daisuke was clearly jealous. I merely sighed while Takeru chuckled. "Daisuke-kun, you're funny!"
"I'm not funny at all!" Behind him, a girl holding a piece of paper ran into the room with us.
"There you are!" She cried.
"Ah, Miyako-san!" I guess Takeru has met her already.

"Excuse me; you're Yagami Hikari, right?" She asked me.
"Yes, that's right…"
"Well, I was in the computer lab and got an e-mail directed towards Izumi Koushiro but he's already graduated. I came to you because of who sent the message. Do you know a Yagami Taichi or a McGlathery Ross?" I widened my eyes as I took the paper out of her hand. It was directed to Koushiro and read 'Trouble in the Digital World! Please, anyone who gets this, help us!' which was signed by Ross and Taichi.
"Onii-chan! Ross-chan!"

The four of us headed towards the computer lab when I saw Koushiro walking up the stairs towards us. Koushiro was wearing the normal middle school uniform though he had his jacket buttoned up and wore a blue tie. He also had cut his hair so it was no longer the wild spikes that they were before.
"Ah, Izumi-senpai!" Miyako shouted.
"Miyako-kun, can I use the computer room?" He asked.
"Of course! I'm so glad you're visiting even after graduating!"
"Koushiro-san!" Takeru waved.
"We got an e-mail from my brothers…" I walked up and showed him the e-mail.
"Takeru-kun… Hikari-kun…" Koushiro motioned us for him to follow him to the computer lab.
"So what exactly are you doing here?" I asked Koushiro as he typed on one of the computers.
"I got his e-mail too… I guess considering that I used my e-mail here at school, that's the reason you got the message here as well. I was going to reply to the message… but the batteries on my D-Terminal ran out."
"So why did you come here and not go to your house?" Takeru wondered.
"It's faster to come here from the middle school than it is going back home. Two blocks in comparison to five."

"Hey, hey, where's the Digital World? Is it a new theme park?" Miyako wondered.
"I think I heard Taichi-senpai talk about that, some Digimon thing…" Daisuke muttered.
"You know Taichi-san?" Takeru was surprised to hear that.
"They were both in the same soccer club during Taichi's last year here." I explained.
"So, what's that? What's a Digimon?" Miyako was still on her line of questioning.
"Miyako-san! About fixing our computer…" A younger boy walked into the lab.
"Oh, right. Sorry, Iori-kun." The two of them soon headed on their way.
"I knew it… The gate is open…" Koushiro said mostly to himself.

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

The D-Terminal beeped indicating that I got a message. I checked and it was good news.
"Alright! It's Koushiro; he's got Hikari and Takeru with him!" I told Ross.
"That's good to hear."
"Taichi! Come here, Taichi!" Agumon called out from further in the caves. Both of us went deeper into the cave and came across this chamber with a hole in the ceiling of the cave. One wrong step up there… On a small mound in the ground was a strange looking object. It was egg shaped with flames on it and a large spike through it. The biggest thing about it was the emblem on it.
"This is…" I said.
"The Crest of Courage?" Agumon questioned.
"It seems like it's been here for a long time…" observed Tailmon. I took a closer look.
"It's the Crest of Courage, but…" I grabbed it and suddenly it glowed orange. "Ahh!" I let go and three small orange orbs began to float up. "Wh-what happened?" The orbs soon shot up through the hole in the roof of the cave.
"What did you do?" Ross asked while still looking up.
"I don't know, but I hope it wasn't bad."

P.O.V. – Koushiro Izumi

Takeru, Hikari, and I gathered our Digivices and were prepared to go to the Digital World to help Ross and Taichi. However, we still had to deal with Daisuke who was quite insistent on coming along.
"Let me go too! Taichi-senpai is in trouble, right?" augured Daisuke.
"That's impossible… it's not a place where everyone can go." Takeru tried to explain to him but Daisuke wasn't having any of it.
"Impossible or whatever, I'm going! So…" Our attention was quickly changed as the computer lit up and three different colored objects shot out. One went right towards Daisuke while the other two flew past him. "Wh-what's this?" He shouted as he revealed in his hands something that made our jaws drop. It was a Digivice but different from ours. It was larger with a few more buttons and the sides were blue.
"A Digivice!?" Takeru cried.
"But… it's different from ours…" Hikari said. I looked back over to the screen and the monitor indicated that the gate to the Digital World was open.
"That gate has opened in this monitor…" I explained.
"Then, we can go to the Digital World from here?" Takeru asked.
"We have to help Onii-chan and Ross-chan!" Hikari shouted.
"I'm going too." Daisuke walked up. "I can go with this, right?" I nodded yes to him.
"You can… If that's a real Digivice." I didn't doubt it, but I didn't really know if it would.

"I'm going!" determined Hikari who held her Digivice up to the monitor. The screen glowed and she was dragged into it.
"Me too!" Takeru held up his and the same thing happened to him as well. Daisuke was completely dumbfounded.
"What about you, Daisuke-kun?" I questioned. He quickly got over the shock and held up his Digivice as well.
"Me too!" Just like with Hikari and Takeru, he too went to the Digital World. I held up my Digivice and was ready… until Miyako slid into the doorway.
"Izumi-senpai!" She startled me so much I juggled my Digivice trying to hide it behind my back. "What was that light just now!?"
"Well, I wonder…" I laughed nervously and looked away, trying not to look her in the eye as I was trying to keep what happened to the others a secret.

P.O.V. – Third Person

The brightness of the monitor died down and trio could now see that they were in the Digital World.
"This is the Digital World?" Daisuke said. He looked down and noticed his change of attire. "Huh? My clothes changed!" All of the children's clothes had changed. Hikari was wearing a sleeveless white and pink turtleneck shirt, pink fingerless gloves that reached up almost to her shoulder and an oval opening on the top of her palms. She was also wearing yellow shorts with a brown belt, white socks and pink and grey boots. Takeru was wearing a yellow and teal long sleeve with a high collar, a pair of dark teal shorts, some dark purple socks and some green boots as well as he still had his white bucket hat. Finally, there was Daisuke who was now wearing a dark blue bomber jacket with red and yellow flames at the bottom which was over a light green shirt. He had dark olive shorts, blue socks and orange and white boots.

The three of them marched ahead with Hikari in front with her Digivice trying to pick up her bothers while Daisuke was taking in all the sights. Unbeknownst to them, they were being observed on one of the monitors deep within the base of the Digimon Kaiser.
"Breaking into my garden without my permission…" The Kaiser chuckled. "These people have no manners, do they?"

P.O.V. – Takeru Takaishi

Hikari's Digivice was beeping indicating that we were getting close to Ross and Taichi as we kept marching ahead. Daisuke was trailing behind.
"So this is the Digital World… it's not that different from our worl-" He clearly noticed the soda machine off to the side of the path. "What's this doing here…?" He got close before he fell backwards on the ground in surprise thanks to all the Numemon that suddenly hopped out. I couldn't help but laugh at his misfortune and Hikari tried to suppress a chuckle but couldn't. "Stop laughing!" He yelled as he got back up. "Were those things Digimon?"
"There are many kinds, some are a lot cuter." Hikari told him.
"And some are scarier too. Those ones you saw were Numemon. Real filthy Digimon, especially their attack." I added.
"At least it's nice to see them back." Hikari muttered, clearly remembering the Numemon that sacrificed themselves for her back in Mugendramon's tunnels.
"Yeah."

"We're close." I heard Taichi's voice up ahead.
"Practically on top of us." Ross's voice said.
"Takeru!" I heard Patamon cry and I had a huge smile on my face as I saw him flapping towards me.
"Patamon!" He jumped into my arms and we both laughed, so happy to see each other after so long. "Long time no see!"
"Guys! Thanks for coming to help!" Taichi shouted as he rounded the corner with Agumon, Ross, Guilmon and Tailmon.
"Taichi-senpai! I'm glad you're okay!" Daisuke walked up. Both Ross and Taichi were surprised to see him, though Ross looked more disgusted.
"You've gotta be friggin' kidding me." Ross muttered and turned away.
"Wh-why is Daisuke here?" Taichi asked Hikari and myself.
"Hikari!" Tailmon cried as she jumped up into Hikari's arms.
"Tailmon!" She quickly gasped when she noticed something off about Tailmon; didn't she have a tail ring or something? "What happened?"

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

Tailmon recounted what happened to her earlier today as we walked back to the cave where that object that had the Crest of Courage was. She said she was attacked by Unimon who tried to stomp her but she managed to escape though her tail ring was slipped off and left behind.
"I don't fully know how I managed to escape… but I did. That human who calls himself 'Digimon Kaiser' has been brainwashing all the Digimon." Wait, what?
"A human?" Takeru questioned. "There's a human other than us in the Digital World?"
"And by the way, 'Kaiser'? Is he German?" Ross asked.
"No, I think he's Japanese… at least that what some of those who managed to catch a glimpse of him have said." Guilmon explained.
"The Kaiser has a different Digivice than Hikari's." Tailmon continued.
"Is that…?" Takeru and Hikari looked to Daisuke.
"Like this?" Daisuke pulled out a Digivice to my surprise and it was much different from ours.
"Yeah, just like that one!" Tailmon pointed.
"But this just came out of a computer screen!" Daisuke was quick to defend himself. I came to a realization once he said that.
'That was… one of the beams of light that came out of here." I thought to myself. "And Daisuke is here… Does that mean… Daisuke is a new Chosen Child?"

P.O.V. – Koushiro Izumi

"Where did everyone go?" Miyako demanded. She had still not left the school, but rather has still been on my case for the past twenty minutes.
"I-I'm telling you, they went home…" I lied.
"Liar! You're keeping something from me! What's the Digital World? What's a Digimon?"
"Well, about that…"
"What's this?" She suddenly pulled out another one of those new Digivices, though this one had a red side as opposed to Daisuke's blue.
"Why do you have it?" I asked.
"Iori has one too, though it's yellow." She looked back to the hall where Iori was on the phone.

P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

"Because of that Digivice, we can't evolve." Tailmon mentioned about the Kaiser's Digivice.
"So it's that…" I said to Agumon as I got my answer to the evolution problem.
"If I could evolve, I'd give him a beating!" Agumon flared up.
"And because of that, we can't fight those Digimon with Evil Rings that make them mindless slaves of the Kaiser." Guilmon explained.
"Wait? Dark objects that when getting control of a Digimon turns them into a mindless servant? Taichi, Takeru, either of you getting déjà vu?" Ross asked, clearly remembering that Devimon's Black Gears did the same thing.
"I don't have my Holy Ring, so I lost half my power. I'm essentially a glorified Child-Level Digimon." Tailmon cursed.
"And we got separated from Piyomon, Tentomon and the others." Patamon also added.
"A human who's hunting Digimon and becoming their king? It's unforgivable!" Hikari growled with anger. This guy has clearly made a mistake; he got Hikari mad.

P.O.V. – Third Person

Unknown to the group, an Evil Ring was floating above them and broadcasting their entire conversation right back to the Kaiser's lair.
"You sure talk big. But this is a game. And I hate people who don't know how to have fun." He activated a sort of holographic keyboard and pressed a few buttons. "Let's eliminate them." One of his screens flashed a Monochromon. "Go, Monochromon!" In a prison nearby the Chosen Children's location, the doors opened up to release two Monochromon who proceeded to blindly follow the orders of their master.

P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

"This… isn't that the Crest of Courage?" Takeru pointed to that strange colored rock on the ground.
"Yeah… and it's really heavy." Taichi explained.
"I tried too and that thing won't budge." Ross added. Takeru walked up and began pulling on the thing but apparently couldn't pull it out.
"You're right!" Takeru admitted.
"But it's so small…" Hikari moved him aside and tried herself but she got the same result. "What? I couldn't move it at all!"
"Alright, leave it to me!" I shouted. I walked up and twitched my fingers before I bent down and grabbed it. I tugged it as hard as I could but I couldn't get it as well. "That's thing is not coming out." I panted.
"Then how do we do this?" Ross asked.
"Hmm… let's try two people at once. Daisuke, you wanna try with me?" Taichi asked me. I nodded and we both went back up to it and grabbed it once more. "On three… one… two… three!" We tugged once more and finally we were able to pull it out, but it broke in half!
"Uh oh! I think we broke it!" I shouted.

Suddenly, the whole cave lit up as the hole where the object once was shot out a bright reddish orange light into the sky. The object I was holding glowed as well and it soon began to return to its pre-broken state. I looked over to the half Taichi had and it did the same. It was like it had copied itself or something.
"Taichi-san! Your Digivice!" Takeru pointed at Taichi's device that glowed as well and it slowly morphed until it looked exactly like mine but with an orange side. Finally, our attention was brought back to the light as a black shadow formed in it before it got bigger and revealed a creature inside. It was some sort of bipedal dragon with blue skin that was white on its belly and snout. It also had two ear-like appendages on its head, a small horn on its nose and three yellow v-shaped marks on its face; one on its forehead and two upside-down under its eyes. It slowly opened them to reveal red eyes before it turned and looked directly at me.

"Yahoo!" It shouted as it jumped from the light and begun hopping around me. "Finally, finally! You moved the Digimental! I'm V-mon, what's your name?" He held out his hand.
"D-Daisuke…" I stammered in complete shock. This whole day has been one crazy thing after the next!
"I think I've heard of V-mon before. Small mischievous dragon Digimon with a strong sense of justice. His special attack is a powerful head-butt which he calls his V-mon Head." The orange dinosaur explained.
"Nice to meet you, Daisuke! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Waiting for me?" I questioned.
"Yeah! I waited for the child who would move this Digimental of Courage!"
"Hey, wait a second! Taichi-senpai moved it too!"
"Yeah, but he has a Digimon! I was waiting for a child who didn't have a Digimon partner!"

I didn't have exactly much time to ask any more questions as the whole cave began to rock.
"What the? An earthquake?" I shouted.
"No! Look there!" Takeru pointed to hole in the cave's roof where a grey and white Ankylosaur dinosaur was bursting through.
"It's a monster!" I shouted.
"That's another Digimon!" Hikari told me.
"That's a Monochromon!" Ross yelled. "Adult-Level Digimon with armor and horns as hard as diamonds. Got caught up in a turf war between two of them on our first day in the Digital World!" The dinosaur began to fall through roof and down towards us.
"Air Shot!" "Fireball!" "Baby Flame!" Three of the Digimon sent out their attacks but they all just bounced off the armor.
"That won't work! Run!" Takeru quickly bolted for the cave exit and everyone followed.
"Daisuke!" Taichi shouted at me and I ran as well.

"Daisuke! What are you doing?" V-mon asked me as we kept running while that Digimon was launching flame attacks at us. "Hurry up and use your courage!"
"Eeh? What?" Does he want me to charge that monster? I don't exactly have a death wish here! We managed to escape and ran outside where I took a breather right by a ledge. "Huh? What happened?"
"Daisuke! Over here!" Taichi yelled from the bottom of the cliff.
"Daisuke!" V-mon shouted as he shoved me down the cliff, narrowly avoiding the flaming attack that nearly roasted me. However, even though I avoided it, Hikari nearly got hit by it and she shouted out in pain. "Are you okay, Daisuke?" V-mon asked.
"Thanks…"
"If you used your courage… if you just said 'Digimental Up'…"
"Daisuke! Are you okay?" Taichi ran up to me with his orange dinosaur near him.
"Yeah…" I got up.
"Say 'Digimental Up!' Then I'll be able to evolve!" V-mon told me.
"What?" Taichi questioned.

"Taichi-san! Hikari-chan hurt her ankle!" Takeru ran up to us.
"Guys! They're in a pack!" I heard Ross shout and looked towards him and Hikari who were away from us. I could see another one of those dinosaur Digimon slowly approaching them while the one that was chasing us jumped right over. Hikari was trapped right between them and I may be the only one who could help her!
"Use my courage, huh?" I checked to see that my goggles were busted so I tossed them away. "I'll try!"
"Taichi! You got that Digimental too! Use it!" Taichi's partner Digimon told him.
"Right. Daisuke? You ready?" Taichi asked me.
"Yeah. Let's do it!"
"Digimental Up!" We both shouted. What happened next was amazing. Both of our Digimentals glowed orange and both V-mon and the orange dinosaur glowed orange and began to get bigger.
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Burning Courage, FLADRAMON!"
"Agumon, Armor-Evolve! Courageous Flame, KAJIGREYMON!"

That was probably the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. V-mon was no longer that small dinosaur but rather a bigger one that had on armor that matched the Digimental's pattern on his face, chest, thighs, hands, and feet with that large spike coming out of his head. KajiGreymon on the other hand looked a bit different. He looked more velociraptor-ish in nature with small blue streaks on part of his orange skin. He also had the Digimental pattern on his armor too that was covering his face along with the spike, on his torso and on part of his claws, though his fingers were exposed. Both of those bad dinosaurs charged forward but both Digimon ran fast towards them and stopped them from running over Hikari and Ross by kicking them over on their sides.
"They… evolved?" Taichi was dumbfounded, probably even more than me.
"Awesome!" I said.

Both the dinosaurs charged once more at the newly evolved Digimon.
"Which one do you want?" Fladramon asked KajiGreymon.
"The one in front of me. You think you can handle the other one?"
"Just try and keep up." They both then leapt into action by grabbing the charging Digimon and flipping them over. The Digimon attacking Fladramon got back up and launched fireballs at him but his claws just dispersed the attack with no effort. As Fladramon got close, the Digimon tossed him up into the air but he recovered and was soon engulfed in flames.
"Fire Rocket!" Fladramon cried as he charged downward.
"Aim for that black ring!" The white cat yelled. He crashed into it and the whole thing shattered to pieces which I guessed freed the Digimon from the Kaiser's control as his red eyes turned back to normal. At the same time, KajiGreymon was dealing with the other one. He sidestepped out of the charging beast's way and grabbed him by the tail before he swung him around and around until he released him and the dinosaur crashed into the trees. KajiGreymon charged forward to the now helpless Digimon and his claws exploded into bright flames.
"Flare Claw!" KajiGreymon shouted as rammed right into the ring and destroyed it as well, making both of our Digimon victorious!

Both Digimon held still as they glowed orange and shrank back to their original forms. The orange lights shot towards our Digivices before transferring over to the D-Terminal's we had in our pockets. I opened mine up to see there was an egg icon on it.
"It's alright now…" "Feeling clear headed now?" Hikari was petting the one dinosaur that was near V-mon while Ross was talking to the other one by Agumon. I guess we're in the clear now as both dinosaurs soon walked away.
"Turning such a peaceful Digimon into a fierce servant…" Takeru observed.
"This Kaiser already sounds like a real sicko." Ross believed.

"I'm glad to be teaming up with you, Daisuke." V-mon came over and shook my hand. I don't know why, seeing how I just met him, but I already felt some sort of connection to him. Guess it comes with the territory.
"Yeah!"
"Armor Evolution was really impressive!" Taichi walked up.
"Yeah! I felt so much power back there!" Agumon said. "With a new way to evolve, we'll defeat the Digimon Kaiser for sure!"
"Yeah! Leave it to us!" V-mon cried.
"Daisuke… you're definitely a new Chosen Child. What you did today was impressive." Taichi began to take his goggles off. "Sorry you lost your pair, so I think that you probably will want these." He handed them to me.
"Your goggles… but I-"
"You've earned them. And they were getting a bit small for me anyways, but I used them in my last adventures so it was hard to let them go. Besides…" He reached into his pockets and pulled out a brand new pair of goggles similar to the old ones and placed them on his head. "I've needed to break these ones out." He smiled as I put on his old ones.
"They suit you!" Hikari complimented which really made me happy.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I guess you done alright." Ross came by and gave me a hard pat on the back.

"It should be safe now." The bat-hamster was looking towards the sunset.
"Why?" asked Takeru.
"The Digimon Kaiser doesn't appear at night." The cat explained.
"Is that right?" Ross muttered.
"Hey, Taichi… isn't it about time to go home?" Agumon reminded.
"That's right, the time moves normal in the Digital World now." The red dinosaur seemed to remember.
"You guys are right. I hope the gate is still open. Where did you guys come from?" Taichi questioned as we all began to walk the way we came.

P.O.V. – Third Person

The Kaiser was surprised by the recent turn of events that he had observed. The fact that the Digimon were able to not only evolve but to win the day was truly not foreseeable.
"Armor Evolution, huh? My Dark Digivice should have prevented them from evolving…" He clutched the black Digivice that he had. "Hmph, I guess they're not that bad. Seems like I'll be playing seriously with you kids…" He muttered as small Digimon known as Monodramon walked into his lair. He was a small purple dragon with large bat-like wings attached to his hands and a yellow horn growing behind his head and had a pretty sad and guilty look on his face.

P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

As we got closer to the TV where Hikari said she and the others came from, we could hear voices from up ahead.
"Hmph… Iori, you're late…" A female voice said.
"I couldn't help it, I had to go home for the ohagi." A young boy's voice replied.
"This ohagi is great…" Koushiro's voice complimented. We got to the TV and saw the elementary school's computer lab and the three of them eating.
"That was so good! So, shall we go now?" The girl asked.
"Wh-where?" Koushiro asked.
"We just talked about it! The Digital World! Ahh!" She shouted as she looked right at us through the screen.
"Hey! It's me! Daisuke!" He got real close to the TV as it began to glow and sent us all back home like it had done earlier the other way. We ended up falling out of the screen and collapsing right on top of Koushiro and those two other kids. Well, there's one thing I know as of right now. We're back in it for another adventure, that much is true. And the scary thing about it is?

I welcomed it…

And that was Chapter 1! A new adventure has begun!

Now, I know some of you will have questions, but don't worry, all will be explained with time.

Quick thing, Taichi's outfit is the Xros Wars style that user RW09 did on DeviantArt and KajiGreymon was designed by neoarchangemon on DeviantArt as well. The other Digimon in that picture will also be making an appearance so keep your eyes peeled.

Anyways, with all that said, I'm glad to be back. See you all on Friday... but if you know me and deadlines... I wouldn't exactly hold my breath.

"Push the button, Frank."