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Ch3. The Birth of Dorugamon.

"Robin here and this is what happened. The team and I had just gotten back from a mission at LexCorp and we were all taking a break when the souvenirs Wally brought started acting up. He brought six digital devices- one for each of us, isn't that convenient?

Anyway after we all took one of the devices this portal opened and sucked us all in. We ended up on this island which someone altered our clothes. What I wouldn't give to have my utility belt right now... One by one made friends with these digital monsters... Digimon.

Once we regrouped we had to run for our lives because this giant beetle digimon Kuwagamon was attacking us. Kaldur, Artemis and I were weaponless and Megan admitted that this world is messing with her powers so it wasn't like we had much of a choice.

Our digimon digivolved too bigger digimon and they knocked Kuwagamon out cold or so we thought. Kuwagamon broke the cliff and send us falling down it.

Talk about putting the dis in disaster."

-Digital Justice-

When she started to wake up Megan wondered if it had all been a dream. She screwed up another recipe and something in the cookies she made caused her to have weird dreams.

But then why her clothes all wet and cold?

"Megan please wake up!"

Hearing that voice her brown eyes flew open and focused on the short figure besides her. "Monodramon," She murmured and immediately started coughing.

Once she had her breathing on control the Martian slowly eased herself into a sitting position. Flashes of the fall returning to her.

Megan remembered screaming as she hit the cold fast moving water, Monodramon holding onto her the whole time. She remembered seeing Falcomon and Terriermon trying to slow Robin and Artemis' falls but it was no use.

And then... Nothing.

"Guys?" Megan looked around. They were at the riverside each of her friends looking exhausted. Artemis was laying on the sand breathing heavily. Terrier was besides her also laying down, his green ears dripping wet.

Renamon, Dorumon and Conner were sitting not far from them

"What happened?" Megan asked looking up at Kaldur who stood besides her looking very exhausted.

Kaldur took a deep breath before starting his explanation. "We fell from the cliff. Only Conner, Betamon and myself were able to swim in the rough waters. We tried to save you but... If it weren't for Betamon calling some of his friends for help." Kaldur smiled down at his partner, some of the stress marks on his face fading.

"His friends?"

"He asked some of the fish in the river to work together and make a raft." Monodramon clarified looking at his partner, worry shining in his yellow eyes. "Are you alright Megan?"

Megan smiled at him hoping it would assure the digimon. "I'm fine... It's Monodramon now, right?" She had only heard him shout out the name when he evolved.

"Thatsh' right." Monodramon nodded happily. "It's because we digivolved."

"Digivolved?"

"It's what happens when they advance to the next level and become more powerful." Kaldur clarified having already had this conversation with Betamon.

Megan had so many questions she needed to ask, she even opened her mouth to voice the first one, but faltered when a new feeling washed over her, one that wasn't her own. Pain... Such hurt mixed in with grief and terror.

Whipping her head around Megan spotted the source of the emotion.

Robin was sitting a couple of feet away from them his back against a tree. He had his knees pulled to his chest and his arms crossed over his bowed head. Wally was on his knees at his right, rubbing circles of the younger boy's back. Falcomon on Robin's left, the black bird had sad expression on his face.

"Something about the fall triggered some... bad memories for Robin." Kaldur said before Megan could ask. "He's been like that since he awoke."

If Megan strained her ears she could barely make out Wally's hushed voice let alone what the speedster was saying.

Glancing back to where Conner was sitting, the clone's eyes closed in concentration and Megan couldn't imagine what it was like to try to not hear something.

Her attention quickly went back to Robin. It was weird to see the kid who was always so cheerful and... well, happy, look so utterly devastated.

It was just wrong.

"Don't worry," Artemis said suddenly behind them along with Conner and the digimon except for Falcomon. "I'm sure Wally knows what to say to fix this." Ever since their fight against the reds without the others Artemis had started viewing Robin like a little brother. Someone she wanted to protect.

She knew she wasn't the only one. She'd seen the helpless anger on Conner's face when Robin shied away from them. She'd seen Kaldur's indecisiveness.

Artemis knew from the stories Oliver told her that Roy flat-out called Wally and Robin his kid-brothers.

And at least Robin had one of his big brothers who knew what was going one here to help him.

Megan wasn't convinced yet. "But shouldn't we-"

"No, Artemis is right." Kaldur interrupted her, his tone gentle. "Wally knows Robin's secret identity so he knows how to handle this."

Shoulders slumping Megan nodded, deciding to let it be. The others were probably right. "About this digivolving thing..."

"It's easy!" Terriermon piped up raising a hand. "I went from Gummymon to Terriermon."

"I was Dorimon first." Conner's purple-furred partner said in the scratchy voice of his. "And now I'm dorumon."

Renamon shook her head. "I don't think that explains it Terriermon." Her voice was different now too. No longer high-pitched and childlike but soft and confident. "Digivolving is very difficult process and we needed your help to do it."

Megan blinked. "Our help?"

Her partner nodded. "I needed to share your energy to do it."

"How did you do that?" Conner asked looking at his partner. He hadn't thought to ask that far.

Dorumon tilted his head and blinked owlishly. "Don't know." He said after a while and bowed his head.

Not wanting Dorumon to feel bad Conner patted his snout. "It's okay." he assured, the clone then looked at Kaldur. "What now?"

In all honesty Kaldur didn't have a real answer to that. At least not yet. In all his training he had never considered something like this would happen. Sure being stranded on an island had always been something he thought might happen and Kaldur had always assumed he'd just contact Atlantis if that ever happened.

But Kaldur her felt it the moment he fell into the river. These water held absolutely no connection to Atlantis nor to his king.

It only confirmed his theory that they no longer were on earth.

But if they weren't on earth than where are they now?

Realizing everyone's eyes were on him as they all waited for an answer Kaldur mentally kicked himself. What kind of leader was he if he didn't even-

"We should follow the river."

Turning around they spotted Robin, Wally and Falcomon making their way over to them.

"That's where I saw the ocean." Robin clarified, his voice cracking slightly. "Maybe you could somehow contact king Orin."

Kaldur shook his head. "I have no connection with these waters nor do these waters with my king." His lips were pursed tightly. "We should still head to the ocean, perhaps we can find a boat or something."

With that said he looked at the rest of the team. "Agreed?"

He got half hearthed tired replies at best, but that was enough. Nothing more was said as the group began following the river.

It was a very awkward walk with everyone except for Wally and Kaldur sneaking occasional glances at Robin who along with Falcomon was walking at the back of the line.

Robin was doing a very good job at ignoring them, far too invested in his conversation with Falcomon about what creatures lived in this 'Digital World'. His partner had changed a lot when he digivolved from Pinamon to Falcomon.

He was 3 feet tall had orange beak, red eye markings, black body feathers and purple chest feathers with shuriken markings. He had black feathers above his brown eyes that were tipped purple and seemed to function as eyebrows.

Though to Robin the biggest change in his partner was his voice. Falcomon's voice was a far cry from Pinamon's high-pitched voice. The bird even had a slight British accent that became noticable every few sentences.

For fifteen minutes they walked in peace, only talking to their digimon partners. Finally Conner couldn't stand it any longer.

The clone stopped walking and turned around which caused the others stop too. His blue eyes narrowed on Robin who was looking at him from behind his shades. "What was that about?"

"Dude!" Wally protested, because seriously, you don't ask stuff like that. Of course Supey didn't get that.

Robin didn't so much as flinch. "What was what about?"

"You know what." Conner remembered how helpless he felt when Robin backed away from them, arms wrapped around himself and trembling. It hadn't just been Conner's trouble with emotions that prevented him from helping, but his lack of knowledge.

If he knew what caused that violent reaction than maybe... He'd be able to help.

Instead he had to watch as Wally tend to Robin, because only Wally knew how to help.

Robin held his glare.

"Conner," Kaldur interfered stepping between Conner and Robin. "if Robin doesn't wish to share this information than that's his bus-" He stopped talking, his head jerked up.

They all heard it at the same time.

Telephones ringing.

Not wasting any time the group of six and their digimon partners ran the remaining distance to the beach where there were eight phone booths lined up just a it away from the shore.

Naturally was the first in the second phone booth where the telephone was ringing. However the moment he grabbed the red phone it stopped ringing.

"Why did it stop?" Renamon questioned, not having any experience with things like these.

"Wrong number?" Wally shrugged. He turned to his friends, "Hey Rob-" A coin landed on his hand before he even finished the question. "Thanks." He then turned to the phone and dialed a number at super speed.

It went over two times. "Aunt Iris, it's me Wal-"

"Tonight's program exists thanks to cleverness, please hang up." A female voice that was definitely not his aunt Iris answered him.

In the two booths besides him Artemis and Robin were glaring at the phones also.

"Don't add olives to the batter only milk and eggs."

Robin slowly put the phone away deciding that the phones were definitely defect. That or Alfred went crazy.

"This number only exists in your imagination, please hang up and don't call back."

Stomping out of the phone booth Artemis slammed glass door shut and crossed her arms.

"Nothing?" Megan asked frowning with worry. She, Conner and Kaldur hadn't gone into a phone booth seeing they had no one to call. No one who used regular phones anyways.

"No." Artemis huffed.

Terriermon flapped his large ears and floated over to Artemis, landing on top of her head. "Momentai Arty." He cheerily reminded her. "Momentai."

Rolling her eyes Artemis stepped away from the booth. "You momentai." She muttered walking away from the group and sitting down on the sand, Terriermon still on top of her head.

Resting her hands on her knees Artemis looked around. Not a boat or anything in sight. "What are we gonna do Terriermon?"

The bunny-like digimon sighed sadly as he rested his chin on Artemis' head.

"I'll tell you what we're gonna do." Kaldur said stepping up to him. "We're gonna stick together and find our way back to our world, but first," He sat down in the sand besides her. "we rest."

That was an excellent idea.

Megan let out a loud sigh as she sat down besides Monodramon. The rest joined them, except for Betamon who went for a swim.

For a while they were all just silent, each of them lost in their thoughts as they processed the day's events.

It wasn't like they'd all really gotten a chance to do that.

The silence was broken by a grumbling sound.

"Baywatch..." Artemis groaned.

"I can't help it it's my metabolism." Wally protested rubbing his growling stomach.

Robin shifted. "Hold that thought." He said as he reached into the red bag attached to his thigh like a holster. "Here it is." He said pulling out a protein bar. Robin was about to suggest they try splitting it into equal parts and share it so they all had something to eat when he felt something wet and warm clamp over his hand.

He was literally stunned into silence when Dorumon pulled away - nearly swallowing Robin's glove- and swallowed the protein bar, wrapping and all.

The small furry dragon let out a loud belch and then smiled happily. "That tasted really nice!"

"DORUMON!" Wally shrieked. That was the only food they had! For all they knew that was the last food they'd have!

"What?" Dorumon asked cutely tilting his head to the side.

"You're not supposed to eat the wrapping." Conner calmly told his partner while sending Wally a glare warned the speedster to drop it.

But Wally didn't want to drop it. "Dude, that could have been our last..." He trailed of when the ground started to shake.

The phone booths shook before they blast off into the sky, water shooting out from under them.

A large creature started rising from the ocean and made it's way to the land. It had a large shell on it's back and sludgy pink dinosaur-like body with green tentacles on it's head like hair.

It was the size of an actual dinosaur.

"It's Shellmon!" Monodramon cried.

"What the hell is a Shellmon?!" Artemis yelled as she and the others backed away from the monster.

"Angry seafood." Robin joked.

Kaldur waved his arm at the water that was rising from where the phonebooths had once been. The tattoos on his arms glowed as he controlled the water and blasted it at Shellmon.

The blast was powerful but it was met with a strong ray of water Shellmon shot from his head. The blast was so strong it tore through Kaldur's own stream of water and hit the Atlantian straight in the chest sending him flying into a tree.

"Kal!" Betamon screamed still in the ocean and unable to help his partner.

The digimon sprang into action.

"Bunny Blast!" Terriermon cried only managing to blow out a gush of green air which immediately evaporated.

"Diamond Storm!" All the leaves Renamon managed to summon fell uselessly to the ground.

Monodramon jumped up to attack only to come crashing right back down.

"Ninja Blade!" Falcomon only managed to form one shuriken that only traveled five-feet ahead where it fell on the ground.

"What's wrong!" Megan cried. "Why can't they attack?!"

Shellmon shot his water blast at they digimon and only Dorumon was fast enough to dodge the blast. The rest got blown away.

Artemis ran to her hurt partner. "Terriermon!" She screamed.

"Falcomon!" Robin cried rushing to his newest friend's side.

"Renamon!" Wally wasn't as fast as he would have liked. He needed to eat if he wanted to be able to manage his super speed.

"Oh no..." Megan shook her partner awake. "Monodramon!"

Slowly her dino's yellow eyes slid open. "I... I'm so hungry."

Megan held her partner, her eyes wide as she gazed at Shellmon. The only one was fighting him now was Dorumon. "He's the only one who ate something." She realized. Really they shouldn't be surprised about why the other digimon couldn't fight.

How could still have energy after fighting Kuwagamon?

"Metal Canon!" Dorumon cried firing an iron sphere from his mouth.

The little dragon type beast digimon fought hard but he was all alone against Shellmon.

Shellmon easily knocked Dorumon over and pushed him down with his large pink hands, while he did so Shellmon shot a blast of water at the team blasting them away.

The only one strong enough to fight through the blast was Conner.

"Dorumon!" Conner cried running through the blast and towards Shellmon. "Let him go!" Conner growled punching Shellmon's hand.

The whole team was shocked when Shellmon didn't so much as budge.

Shellmon was strong enough to resist super strength!

One of the green tentacles on Shellmon's head shot forward and wrapped its' self around Conner and lifted the clone into the air.

"Oh no!" Megan screamed hands cupped around her mouth.

The clone cried out in actual pain when the tentacle squeezed.

"Conner!" Dorumon cried, still being squashed by Shellmon's giant hand.

"Run!" Conner yelled briefly opening his eyes so he could look at his friends. "He's gonna attack and I can't fight him! Agh!" Conner screamed when the tentacle squeezed tighter.

His eyes were clenched shut, so he didn't see the white light surround Dorumon.

"Dorumon digivolve too... Dorugamon!"

Conner only opened his eyes when he suddenly felt Shellmon's grip loosen. That's when he saw it.

Dorumon had grown in size, he was at least 50 feet tall, his fur was darker, his wings were large enough for him to actually fly and he had sharp red claws on his short arms.

In short he looked like a mix between a t-rex and a dragon. One with dark purple fur...

"Dorugamon..." Conner whispered a large grin forming on his face.

Dorugamon attacked Shellmon which caused the shellfish like digimon to lose his grip on Conner.

Conner fell down and rolled over the sand for a bit before coming to a halt. The clone pushed himself back to watch his partner fight Shellmon. "Get him Dorugamon!"

Everyone watched the fight, holding their breaths in anticipation.

Shellmon and Dorugamon pushed each other around a bit un till Dorugamon finally managed to lift Shellmon and threw him into air.

"Power ray!" Dorugamon shouted shooting a ray of hot red energy at Shellmon sending him flying into the ocean.

"Yes!" Conner cheered, the rest all joined in.

The cheers quickly died down when a white light surrounded Dorugamon as he shrunk back to Dorumon and fell down.

"Dorumon!" Conner cried running to his digimon's side. "Dorumon!" He shook the furry purple shoulders. "Come on! Say something!"

Groaning Dorumon opened his eyes halfway. "Do you have any food?"

A small relieved smile formed on Conner's face at that question. "Oh... You." He shook his head with amusement. "You were amazing."

Dorumon's ears perked up at the compliment. "Thanks too you!" The digimon let out a happy bark like sound. "We make a good team don't we Conner?"

"Yeah," Conner smiled. "I guess we do."

-Digital Justice-

They'd be leaving in fifteen minutes. There was nothing left for them on the beach. The phones didn't work, there was no way for Kaldur to contact Atlantis through the ocean and there weren't any boats on the beach for them to hijack.

They'd go once everyone rested up.

Conner had separated himself from the rest of the team again. He was sitting a couple of feet away, near the ocean. Dorumon asleep besides him.

"Hey Con?"

Turning his head Conner looked at Robin who stood behind him, the boy's hands stuffed in his pockets. "About earlier today... When I freaked out-"

"You don't have to tell me."

"I saw my parents fall to their death when I was eight." Robin said in one breath, completely ignoring Conner's words. "So when we fell..." He trailed of, but Conner understood.

Even with knowing what had been wrong Conner still didn't know what to say. Well nothing other than "I'm sorry."

"Yeah." Robin turned around to leave.

"Wait!"

Robin paused, looking at Conner.

Conner looked down for a moment before finally meeting his friend's eyes again. "Thank you for telling me and... Trusting me."

Robin grinned and nodded. "Anytime."