Chapter 3: File Island
I don't know if I'd really call File Island our home. I suppose in a way it is. After all, it is where most of us were hatched and grew up, with the exceptions of Gatomon, Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillamon. We all waited here for our humans to show up, eating, growing, and playing together. Still, I don't think it really counts as a home. I'm not sure we have a home, or even that we need one. We've always seemed to get along fine as a little group wandering around the island, and even as we wandered around the rest of the digital world with our humans. In fact, I'd prefer to think that we all are each other's home. Our little group protects its members and we generally have fun together. That's all the home I could ever ask for.
Oops, I guess I didn't introduce myself. Joe is always getting on me about manners and silly stuff like that. I'm Gomamon, Joe's digimon. Out of our group, I'm the only one who can really swim very well, unless you count Armadillamon's armor digivolution. That makes me special in a way, I guess, but I also am one of very few who cannot fly at some point in their digivolution. I guess everything has its pros and cons.
Anyways, at the moment there are only six of us here, Agumon, Biyomon, Gobumon, Palmon, Tentomon, and yours truly. Patamon was in our original group of seven, but he stays in the real world with TK now. Also, Gatomon was supposed to be in our group, but her egg was separated from ours a long time ago, and so she grew up elsewhere. She's staying in the real world too. The other four digimon from the digidestined we all recently met stay there too. They pretend to be stuffed animals or something so that people won't get suspicious. I remember having to do that when I first went to the real world, and it was a real pain. But it was Yokomon, Biyomon's in training form, who actually came closest to blowing our cover. Joe had been so afraid it would be me, although I can't figure out why.
We haven't really had any problems since Malomyotismon was destroyed. That guy really gets on my nerves, more because he keeps coming back than anything else. As far as we know, he's gone for good, but we thought that twice already and were proven wrong. But we'll always be able to beat him. Even if I can't digivolve to Zudomon anymore, we've always found a way in the past and we will again if necessary. But since he's gone, nothing has really turned up. Sometimes digimon will get into fights over food, or territory, or who's the best at catching fish, which is me of course, but most problems are resolved fairly easily. If not, me and the rest of our team are able to settle things down fairly easily. I guess we've become a kind of police force for File Island. We don't leave the island much, more because it's very hard to than anything else, but if anything seriously bad happened somewhere our human friends would join us here and we'd take it on together.
Humans can act pretty strange sometimes, which we learned during our first adventure. They seem completely incapable of surviving on their own, for one thing. But I guess they transform their weakness into strength by working together. We, on the other hand, managed to survive here for a long time before they arrived. Knowing this, I think that I have a better knowledge of survival than Joe, no matter what he says.
I guess the first sign of our upcoming problem was when Frigimon went insane. I don't know what exactly happened, but we were wandering around the forest when we came across him. He was sub-zero ice punching everything in sight, from the trees and rocks to the ground itself. It surprised us more than anything, as he seemed to be methodically working his way through the forest.
"Frigimon, what on earth are you doing?" Biyomon asked. Frigimon ignored her, simply continuing to freeze trees solid. "Frigimon! Hello? What's going on?" but he continued to ignore her.
"Maybe he's afraid the trees are overheating." I said.
"That can't be it." Gobumon said as he shot down what I felt was a perfectly good theory.
"Then what do you think it could be?" Agumon asked.
"I don't know, but at this rate he could freeze the entire forest." Palmon observed.
"He could be trying to reduce the supply of firewood." I offered again, but once again Gobumon shut down my theory.
"Gomamon this is serious. Something could really be wrong with him."
"Well we've got to do something. We can't let him freeze the forest," Palmon said.
"We should call Tai or Izzy. Maybe they'll know what to do." Agumon said.
"If nothing else, Izzy can look at Frigimon's data and discern what is wrong with him." Tentomon said. "I'll fly back to the factory and send him an email," and he took off in the direction of the factory. Biyomon followed, just because it's never a good idea to go anywhere alone in the digital world, even without super powerful evil digimon
Izzy had set up a basic computer in the factor that Andromon guards so that we would be able to keep in touch through e-mail. I usually send Joe some junk mail at least twice a week.
Nobody had any idea on how to stop him. We were all rookies, while Frigimon was a champion. Our only option was to wait for some humans to show up so that we could digivolve, and for some reason they were a long time in coming. We watched Frigimon continue to freeze the forest, occasionally calling out to him but to no avail. We weren't mad or anything, more just confused and worried about him. Finally, Tai showed up with Izzy, Kari, and Gatomon. Kari had to come because only the D3s, the new digivices that she, TK, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken had, could open the gates to the digital world.
"We're here. Tentomon filled us in on the way over." Tai said.
"So you guys have no idea why he's doing this?" Izzy asked.
"None whatsoever. He won't answer us. He just keeps on freezing everything in sight," Agumon explained.
"So what are we gonna do?" Gatomon asked.
"I don't think we should hurt him." Kari said.
"But at this rate he's gonna freeze the entire island!" I protested.
"Gomamon's right. We have to stop him." Izzy stated.
"I am?" I asked, somewhat surprised. I'm not right very often in case you haven't noticed.
"Well, I can stop him for ya," Gatomon said. She was a champion level after all. "But I don't know how much I'd have to hurt him."
"Alright everyone, we'll have to attack him. Maybe if we can get his attention he'll explain what he's doing." Tai said.
"Try not to hurt him," Kari said as we all prepared to attack.
Frigimon didn't notice us until Agumon hit him with his Pepper Breath. He then finally turned toward us, but instead of explaining, he attacked. Gabumon, Biyomon, and Tentomon failed to hurt him at all, he was just too strong. It was Gatomon that managed to knock him backwards into one of the frozen trees. I couldn't do much to help because we were too far from water, but I did my best to encourage everyone. The big surprise came when Palmon used her Poison Ivy. Frigimon suddenly stopped moving around when the vines wrapped around him. We all stopped too. He stood there; looking very confused, and then asked the most cliché question of all time.
"Where am I?"
"You're in the forest," Palmon said as she released him. "Don't you remember what you were doing?"
"No, I'm afraid I don't. What was I doing in the forest?" Frigimon asked, clearly confused.
"Freezing it. Look behind you," Palmon said.
Frigimon turned and saw the path of frozen trees behind him. "Oh. Oh my. I did that? Oh, I'm really sorry everyone. I had no idea what was happening."
"Frigimon, I think you may have been temporarily insane. What's the last thing you remember?" Izzy asked.
"I don't know really. My head hurts, a lot. I thought I was getting a drink from the river. I have no idea what came over me."
"Well, don't worry about it too much. Just try not to take any bumps on the head for a while." Izzy said.
"Absolutely. Thanks for helping me out everybody. I really owe you," Frigimon said. After that he walked off, back toward the icy part of the island far to the north. I don't think any of us could have guessed what was wrong with him. I sure wasn't about to put forward any suggestions.
"So what took you guys so long in getting here?" Agumon asked Tai.
"Well, we had to track down Kari in the park. We needed her to open the digiport," Tai replied. "It's not that much of a problem is it? All this will melt eventually won't it?"
"Yes, over a few days it will go away," Izzy said. "But I think we should be more concerned about why Frigimon was acting like this."
"Digimon act strangely sometimes Izzy. It was probably just a bug or something," Tentomon offered.
"But what I don't understand is why he would ignore us like that, at least until we attacked him. It doesn't make sense," Izzy said.
"C'mon Izzy, we can think about it later. No harm no foul, right? Besides, we need to get going. I don't want to be late for dinner," Tai said.
"I just hope this ice melts soon. It's not supposed to snow in a tropical forest." Agumon said.
"But remember, this is the digital world. Anything can happen," Kari reminded us. "Besides, I think snow is pretty. It turns everything white. At least until cars drive over it."