Ron still doesn't own digimon...
An alternative course
And so it begins differently
Kari hated hospitals. Really, she did. It wasn't the doctors or the smell of medicine that permanently crept around here. Nor were it the seemingly endless hallways that gave one a claustrophobic feeling.
No.
It reminded her off what happened two years ago. How she and her big brother were rushed off towards here, barely conscious. At least she was still somewhat conscious.
"Hi big brother." She said as she entered the room.
'beep-beep-beep'
That was the only response she got from within the room. One of the devices attached to Tai was the only source of sound in the entire room.
She sighed and sat down on a chair next to her brother's bed. She stared at the white walls of the room. They always seemed so lifeless.
"I'm going to summer camp." She said to her brother. "I'm leaving in a while, so I won't see you for a few weeks."
No real reaction but Kari knew her brother was listening.
"But I think it'll be fun." She said. "At least Sora's coming too. Remember Sora?"
Off course Tai would remember her. She came to visit him too. Nearly every week actually. She was one of the best friends he ever had. Why would he forget her? Just because he was in a coma didn't mean that he suddenly had amnesia.
That was the price of shielding his little sister. In doing so he had inhaled a lot more fumes and smoke then she did. That combined with the searing heat of the flames was too much for him. He was ten at the time. Far too young to be trapped in his own body, perhaps never to wake up again.
"I think Matt's coming too." She said to her brother. "He's a bit weird, don't you think? His hair defies gravity even more then yours" She giggled.
Kari had taken it upon her to come talk to Tai every day. Doctor Kido said that it might help awaken him out of his sleep.
"Who else is coming…" She thought out loud.
"Well, my son is coming along too." A man said as he walked into the room.
"Oh hi doctor Kido." Kari said, smiling at the blue haired doctor. She liked him. He had been Tai's doctor for the past year and according to him Tai could awaken any minute now. Only thing Kari wasn't sure off was if he really meant it or that he was just trying to make her feel better…
"How is my favorite patient today?" Doctor Kido asked as he pushed his glasses up a bit. They always tended to slide off to the tip of his nose if he wasn't careful.
"Not much activity today doctor." Kari said.
"The same as always then." He sighed as he pulled out a pen and wrote something down on his
"So Joe's coming too?" Kari asked. She had never actually met the boy but doctor Kido had told her about his son. He was a year older then Tai and from what she heard he seemed like a nice guy. Terribly shy though. And nervous. And allergic to pretty much everything…
"Well doctor, I'm off." Kari said. "Mom's probably waiting outside for me."
"Off you go then." The doctor said.
"You have my number, right?" She asked, looking up at him. "Call me if anything happens to him, okay?" Actually mom and dad wanted to send her to summer camp to take her mind off of Tai. But she'd be damned if she was kept out of the loop about her big brother.
"You'll be the first to know." Joe's father said. "But off you go now. Have fun there." He said, gently pushing the nine year old out of the door. Kari opened her mouth to protest. "Hey wait, I still haven't said goodbye to Tai yet."
She quickly ran over to Tai's bed and gave her unconscious sibling a kiss on the cheek. "I'll be back soon, okay?"
With that done she bid her goodbyes to the doctor and a few of the nurses she had gotten familiar with over the years.
"Poor thing." Nurse Garland, one of the younger ones said to her colleague. "Yeah but you have to admit. That boy has one dedicated sister." The doctor's words were true, as Kari had spend nearly all of her free time with her brother. Her parents were nearly forced to give her a cell phone and a key to their new apartment as she usually went from school immediately to the hospital.
"You ready to go?" Kari's mother asked as Kari opened the door of the car. "Do I have to go?" Kari asked one last time.
"Yes, you have to." Yuuko smiled. "You need to spend some time with people your own age you know."
"I know." Kari muttered. She was looking forward to summercamp, even if she didn't show it. There was just this constant nagging feeling that she should be by Tai's side all the time. After all, he had always protected her, so now she had to do the same for him.
It didn't take all that long to get to the camp site. It was actually just a few miles out of Odaiba. Heck, you could walk to there if you wanted too. But it might be dangerous though, seeing how you had to cross a bridge or two to get out of Odaiba... The car was a safer way to get there.
"Okay then." Yuuko said as she stopped at the entrance. "Have fun dear. You're taking the bus back, right?" Kari nodded.
"Good." Yuuko said, kissing her daughter on the forehead. "We'll miss you. Have fun!"
With that said Kari stepped out of the car. She picked her bag up from behind the seat and swung it over her shoulder.
"Bye mom!" She waved as her mother drove off.
'Let's see…' She turned around to see the other kids there. Kari looked around to see if she recognized anyone. 'Don't know don't know.' She looked the other kids over. 'Also don't know. Ah there's a familiar face.'
"Sora!" She waved at the helmet wearing girl. Kari never figured out why she always wore that thing. Maybe Sora feared that the sky would come crashing down? Who knows.
"Oh hi Kari!" Sora yelled, motioning Kari to come to her.
Kari smiled. Summer camp might not be as bad as she thought it would be.
Two days later.
Kari wasn't wrong. She had fun here. But the damn nagging feeling that she felt in the back of her head wouldn't go away. She sighed.
Today wasn't very interesting. There were canoe races but she wasn't allowed to enter, seeing how it was for those older then twelve. So she had stayed in bed for an hour longer, before climbing out and putting on her yellow, way to long t-shirt with matching pink shorts. She picked up her necklace as well. It was just a bit of string with a whistle on it but to Kari it was so much more.
Kari had found herself a tree tall and sturdy enough to sleep in. She was a light weight but still, one can't be too careful when sleeping in trees. It ain't exactly fun when it collapses while you're catching some z's.
Kari closed her eyes again as she tried to clear her mind of any negative thoughts when she suddenly felt something cold fall on her nose. She opened her eyes and rubbed her nose.
"Odd." She said, seeing the small flakes of snow gently drift downward.
"Snow? In July?" She heard a voice below her say. 'Matt.' She thought as she sat up in her tree.
Kari quickly made her way down as the gentle snowfall began to turn into a blizzard.
Nearly as soon as it had started the snow stopped falling from the heavens. And the entire camp grounds were covered in a thick pack of snow.
"I'm going to build a snow man!" TK yelled as he saw the snow. Matt quickly followed, intend on making sure nothing happened to his little brother. His mother would kill him if he ended up with a cold or something worse. "Hey TK, wait up!"
"It's freezing." Sora said as she too left the warmth of the cabin. "And I didn't even bring a jacket." But she wasn't all that concerned with it all. It had been ages since Sora had seen some real snow, and not the kind you saw at the mall, you know: the fake kind.
"This is beautiful." Kari said as she too left the cabin. 'Wish Tai was here to see this.' She thought as she beheld the winter wonderland. Well, summer wonderland actually.
"I was afraid of a summer cold, but this is just plain ridiculous!" A blue haired boy behind her yelled out. No body really paid any attention to him or his complaints. Especially not Mimi, who just scolded herself for forgetting her fluffy pink snow boots at home. Even in the summer one needs to look fashionable, right?
"Hey, what's that?" TK asked, pointing upwards. A beautiful spectacle of light had begun in the sky. Colors moving towards and away from each other in a mystifying dance.
Kari was stunned to see such a thing here. She quickly ran back to the cabin but didn't stop looking at the demonstration of nature's glory.
"Eh… boy with laptop!" She yelled into the open door. "You should come and see this!"
Izzy, looked up from his computer screen. He decided to humor the little girl and come see what was going on. His laptop didn't function anyway.
"Coming." Izzy said as he closed his laptop. "And the name's Izzy."
"I'm Kari." Kari said, motioning Izzy to hurry up. "You coming or what, else you'll miss it!"
Izzy snapped his laptop shut and followed the brown haired girl.
"Wow." Was all he could mutter.
"Are those the northern lights?" Sora asked.
"Impossible." Izzy said. "We're way too far south to see those."
"Tell that to the snow." Matt kicked a bit of the frozen stuff up.
"I tried but it won't listen to reason." Kari said as she watched the snow drift down again at a slow pace.
"Okay then, since we've all seen the light show, shouldn't we be getting back inside? Else we'll all end up with pneumonia." Joe said, rubbing his arms to keep himself warm.
'Been there, done that.' Kari thought. Amazingly she had been cured of her illness almost entirely. She was about to comment on it when suddenly all hell broke lose.
A portal of sorts appeared behind the curtain of lights.
"What do you think that is?" Sora asked, not actually expecting an answer, seeing how that thing couldn't truly be from their world, right?
She was proven right as seven red lights shot out of the portal.
"Whoa!" Was the unified yell from the campers. Well except for Joe, who's yell came out more like a frightened whine…
The seven meteors crashed into the snow near the septet of children. Snow was blasted upwards and temporary blocked all view from the group.
"Everyone okay?" Sora asked, getting the snow off of her clothes.
"We're fine." Kari said. "I think."
"I knew I should have brought sunscreen." Mimi said, looking down into one of the holes the meteors had struck.
"How high a factor do you need to protect yourself from meteor strikes?" Izzy asked, fascinated by the fact that seven unidentified objects had crashed near them. If only his laptop worked. He'd immediately put this on his blog.
"About a million." Matt said, as he sat on his heels, to take a closer look at the site of impact. "What the hell?"
Out of the seven holes in the snow rose glowing objects.
After a few gasps of wonder everyone grabbed the things, before they floated out of their reach. Joe had to jump up for his, seeing the fact that he was a bit too stunned to immediately grab it.
"What do you think this is?" TK asked, showing the digivice to his brother.
"I don't know." Matt said as the white tool began to emit a high pitched squeal. "But it sure is loud."
"Anyone got a manual?" Mimi asked.
Suddenly the water from the nearby lake rose up without reason, in the form of a tidal wave.
"Screw the manual, anyone brought a surf board?" Izzy yelled over the roaring of the water.
The huge wave split in half vertically and formed something somewhat but not entirely unlike a waterfall, seeing how the water flowed horizontally and inwards towards a chasm of water.
The seven chosen ones were pulled into the rapids with a tremendous force and as soon as it had opened up, it disappeared again.
Kari didn't know what to make off all this. A bunch of psychedelic colors flashed before her eyes as she traversed the borders between two dimensions.
Her senses went haywire as she had no idea what was up or down, left or right. Soon she hit unfamiliar soil and blacked out, finding solace in the darkness.
"Kari."
Odd, Kari could have sworn she heard someone call her name.
"Kari!"
A bit louder now.
"Hey Kari!!"
Kari opened her eyes and sat up. She rubbed her head and sat up. "What a weird dream." She muttered. "I could have sworn I fell down a waterfall of sorts."
"Hi Kari!" The same voice from before yelled at her.
"Oh hello!" Kari said back, trying to find the source of the voice. After all, it sounded friendly enough.
"Eh, where are you?" She said as she stood up. She saw trees, plants and shrubs but no humans.
"Down here!" The voice again. Kari looked down to see a head laying at her feet. One with cat ears and a tail. Kari blinked once. Twice. Three times.
"Eh…" She didn't know what to say about this.
"Hi Kari, I'm Nyaramon, nice to meet you." The head apparently had a name. and it knew her name as well.
"Eh… it's nice to meet you too?" Always stay polite, that's what mom told her.
"Excuse me, but what exactly are you?" Kari was confused. After all, there weren't any talking heads in Japan, right?
"I'm your partner!" Nyaromon yelled from the top of her lungs.
"Okay…" That didn't answer her question really. "And what is this place?" The amount of green in this place was nothing like that at the camp.
"You're in the digiworld!" Nyaromon said, hoping around a bit. "We've all been waiting for you!"
"Okay." Kari had no idea what the digiworld was actually but at least she knew where she was now. And why was an entire 'world' waiting for her?
"Hey Nyaromon ?" Nyaromon looked up at the human being. "Did you see any other humans here?"
"Humans? Like you?" Kari nodded.
"Nope." Kari hated that answer. What if she was all alone in this place? Sure, Nyaromon was with her but she wasn't even sure that she should even be talking to her.
"And what did you mean that you were waiting for me?" Kari asked. Nyaromon was about to answer when she was cut off by a new voice.
"Hey Sora! I found another human!" A pink flowery digimon hopped out from between the trees.
"Kari? You here too?" Sora asked as she walked out from between the trees.
"Yep." Kari answered, looking the newcomers over. "But I wish I knew where 'here' exactly was…"
"That's easy!" Yokomon yelled. "You're in the digiworld!"
"Right…" Sora said. "Not much help Yoko. Oh, and by the way: Kari, this is Yokomon: my own personal something."
"Nice to meet you friend of Sora!" Yokomon seemed like a rather cheerful radish-like creature.
"So there are more of them?" Kari asked.
"Off course there are." Nyaromon said. "It would be rather boring with just me here."
"Well that's true." Sora said, seeing the catlike digimon at Kari's feet.
"So are there any more of you around here?" Sora continued, asking both Yokomon and Nyaramon.
"Well, there's that guy." Yokomon said, pointing at a rodent like digimon that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
"Where did he come from?" Kari asked.
"Hey Tokomon! Wait up!" A boy's voice came from behind a huge shrub. Moments later TK, the youngest of the camp dwellers appeared with a huge grin on his face. "TK, wait for me." Matt tried to sound as relaxed and cool as possible as he chased after his little bother, eh brother.
"Hurry up Matt!" A ball in matt's arms said to him. "You're such a slowpoke."
"I am not!" Matt argued with his passenger.
"So you too?" Sora asked. The answer was obvious off course.
"Indeed." Matt said. "Meet Tsunomon."
"Pleasure to meet all of you." Tsunomon seemed a bit calmer then any of the other digimon they had encountered thus far.
"Nice to meet you too!" Kari said to the horned digimon. She began to develop a liking to these strange creatures that seemed to pop up from everywhere.
"You think Mimi and those other kids are here too?" Matt asked as their tiny group made their way through the forest on file island.
"I don't know." Sora said.
"They did pick up those things that fell from the sky." Kari said. She felt around her pockets and found the white gizmo. She put it back in her pocket. Kari didn't know if it had any meaning but it could be the reason they all got here in the first place.
"They did." TK supplied. "That tall guy nearly missed his one!"
"I don't think we'll find anyone else just by walking through this forest you know." Sora said. "Isn't there any place higher up?"
"There's this tree." Kari said, quickly climbing it with ease.
"Aah! Kari! Get down from there!" Sora yelled at the nine year old. After all, without Tai around it was her task to look after his little sister.
"Why?" Kari asked, hanging upside down from a branch. Before Sora could complain she had already climbed back up and towards the top.
Once there she pulled out her telescope. Well actually, it was Tai's. It was a bit charred but still worked like a charm. Even though her mom told her not to bring it she brought it with her to camp. It reminded her of her brother.
As she looked over the island with the telescope she hear a few sighs and complaints as her 'partner' joined her in the tree. "Do you see anything interesting?" Nyaramon asked.
"Not really." Kari said. She saw trees, rocks, more trees and the ocean. "Wait, what is the ocean doing here?"
"Well it can't be too far away." Nyaramon said, balancing on a thin branch. "We're on File Island after all."
"File Island?" Kari asked. "I don't think I've ever heard of that place before."
Kari looked through the spying glass again, hoping to catch a glimpse of any other humans or possibly any other cute island inhabitants.
What she saw was a gigantic red beetle like creature flying their way. "What is that?" She asked as it came closer.
"Oh dear, that's Kuwagamon!" Nyaramon shrieked. "He's a nasty digimon."
Kuwagamon immediately noticed the intruders and flew downwards, planning on cutting the human in the tree down to size.
"Aah!" Kuwagamon sheered off the top of the tree, sending it crashing down to the ground, nearly crushing Matt and TK.
"Kari!" Sora yelled up. "We've got to get out of here!"
"Coming!" Kari yelled, trying to make her way down from the tree again. The severed branches that blocked her way made it hard and it took a lot of time to get past them.
"He's coming back!" Nyaromon yelled as Kuwagamon turned around mid flight and came back for round two.
Nyaromon didn't know what to do. Her new friend was in danger but she was too weak to take on Kuwagamon.
Kuwagamon let out a terrible roar as he swooped down again. Nyaromon braced herself and jumped at the champion digimon.
"Bubble Blow!" She yelled as she 'flew' through the air, sending countless bubbles towards her opponent.
Well normally Kuwagamon wouldn't be affected by this. He's a big bad champion digimon while Nyaromon was just an in-training level. But getting bubbles sprayed into your eyes never did anything good you know.
With Kuwagamon partially blind, he wandered off course half way through his dive and crash landed in a nearby tree.
Kari and Nyaromon used this distraction to get the hell out of the vicinity.
"Nyaromon." Kari started as she ran after Sora. She had picked up the in-training, seeing how it would travel faster. "You shouldn't pick fights with big monsters like that."
"I know." Nyaromon said. "I just wanted to protect you."
For some reason, Kari couldn't help but think off her brother. He did his best to protect her too, even if it killed him.
"Thank you." Kari said quickly, trying to banish her thoughts a bit.
Another roar signaled that Kuwagamon had escaped his tree and was probably chasing them again.
"Man, doesn't that thing ever give up?" Matt asked as he stopped for a second, so TK, Sora and Kari could catch up.
"Well, Kuwagamon is a very persistent digimon." Tsunomon said.
"Good to know." Matt said. "So he'll just keep on chasing us?"
"Till the ends of the digiworld." Tsunomon said.
"Then we've got to hide somewhere." Sora said.
"Yeah but where?" TK asked as he panted a bit. He wasn't used to running like this.
"In here!" A pink blob of sorts jumped out of a tree and waved at him.
"Does anyone else see a pink gumball over there?" Matt asked.
"Yes." Sora said. "Come on! Come on!" The gumball motioned for them to come closer. "Quickly in to the tree!"
"The tree?" TK asked. "It's a hiding tree." Tokomon explained.
"That makes sense." Matt said as he stepped into the tree, revealing it to be an illusion of sorts.
Once all eight of them were in the tree, Kari noticed another boy there.
"Oh hi…" She had to think hard about his name. She had only heard it once after all. "Izzy. Right?"
Izzy nodded. "That's right but keep it down for a while." He warned. "That huge bug is still out there."
"Right." Kari whispered. All five of them kept quiet and stayed down till they no longer heard the noise of the insectoid digimon.
"You think he's gone?" Sora asked cautiously. She wasn't sure. Perhaps he had gone into stealth mode or something like that.
"I think so." Yokomon said.
"What was that thing?" Izzy asked. "And seeing you all here, I assume you too got dragged into this." Izzy barely knew any of these kids. He had seen some of them in school but that was it.
"That's right." Matt said. "We're all here."
"And that thing was a Ku-wa-ga-mon." Kari said all the syllables seperatly as she started to discover a pattern in their names.
"Do all of your names end with 'mon'?" She asked the creatures.
"Off course they do." The pink thing said. "My name for instance is Motimon!"
"I noticed that too." Matt said. "Why do all your names end with mon?"
"Because we're digimon!" Nyaromon, Yokomon, Tokomon, Tsunomon and Motimon yelled out at the same time. "We're digital monsters!"
"Digi…mon?" TK asked, trying to place the word somewhere. He didn't think he had heard it before though.
"I don't think that word is in my dictionary." Izzy stated. "But I'm willing to find out more about you creatures." That's Izzy for ya, always curious.
"Sounds neat but can we get out of this imaginary tree now?" Sora asked. "I'm starting to get cramps in my back from standing here." After all, the hiding tree was built for weak and defenseless in-training digimon. Not humans.
"So Kari, did you see anything in that other tree?" Matt asked. He disapproved of her climbing that tree as much as Sora but since she had been up there anyway…
Kari shook her head. "Almost nothing. Except that big beetle thing and the ocean."
"The ocean?" TK asked. Kari nodded. "That's not possible." Sora said. "We're supposed to be somewhere near Odaiba, remember?"
"Might I remind you that this place looks absolutely nothing like the forest near Odaiba ?" Izzy said, pointing out the obvious. "Unless the forest was actually build on a nuclear dump."
"That would explain the big beetles." Matt said.
"Brilliant!" Izzy yelled out. "It's all a government conspiracy!"
Before Izzy could go on in detail about his latest theory he heard screams.
"I know those screams." Matt said.
"Aahh!!" A blue haired boy came running out of the forest.
"Oh thank God! Other human beings!" Joe yelled as he nearly slumped to the ground. "There are these things here! They fly and they're incredibly annoying!"
"Who are you calling annoying?" A grey critter appeared on Joe's shoulder. "There it is again!" Joe pointed at it in an accusing way.
The others sweat dropped as Joe did his best to get away from the floating digimon. Eventually he gave up on it.
Bukamon popped up on Joe's shoulder again. "You'll have to excuse my buddy Joe here." He said. "He's a bit nervous around new people. I'm Bukamon by the way."
"How do you know my name?" Joe asked the digimon on his shoulder.
"Because I've been waiting for you Joe. Have been doing so for a long time!" Bukamon exclaimed.
Joe blinked a few times. "You have?" He asked. Bukamon nodded.
"We've all been waiting for you guys." Tokomon continued.
"But why?" Matt asked, confused by all of this. Wouldn't you be if six strange critters told you that they have been waiting for you in some strange world?
"Eh… does anyone remember why?" Motimon asked, scratching his bald head.
"Not really." Tsunomon answered.
"Okay…" Matt started. "We can keep the questions as to why we're here for later. First we should try to get to somewhere safe, incase any other crazy insects show up."
"Oh wait, we still have to introduce ourselves." Kari said. "She's right." TK continued. "We know all of your names but you don't know ours yet."
"Sure we do." Tokomon said. "You're TK!"
"Eh I think he meant the others." Motimon said to the digimon at TK's feet.
"Right, My name's Kari." Kari said, introducing herself to the digimon. "That's Sora over there." She pointed at the helmet wearing girl.
"And that's Matt." She continued.
"No autographs please." Matt answered, acting too cool. As always.
"I'm Takeru. Just call me TK." Takeru said.
"And he's…" Actually Kari had no idea what to call the blue haired boy.
"Eh I'm Joe." Joe lifted his hand in greeting.
"So you're Joe? Joe Kido?" Kari asked. Joe nodded. "I knew I recognized you from somewhere. Your father told me about you."
"You know my father?" Joe asked.
"Eh-hum." Izzy cleared his throat. Apparently he didn't like to be ignored.
"Oh right, that's Izzy." Kari added.
"Do any of you know where the nearest hotspot is?" That one question was Izzy in a nutshell.
"Well it's nice to meet all of you." Nyaromon said.
"Wait, did we get everyone?" Sora asked. "I've got the feeling we're forgetting someone."
"I know who you mean." Joe said. "The girl with the hat. What's her name?"
"Mimi?" Matt suggested. He wasn't entirely sure if she was the one Joe meant. But how many other girls with big hats were there at camp?
"That's the one." Sora snapped her fingers. "Where do you think she is?"
"Well, knowing Mimi, she's probably around here somewhere picking flowers." Izzy said. He had met Mimi a few times before but didn't really know her al too well.
"Aaah!!" A scream was heard.
"That's her. I think." Matt said. "There might have been a bee on those flowers." TK added.
"Aahh!" Mimi came funning from between the trees and towards the small open spot where the digidestined had gathered. Hot on her trail was a hopping seedling of sorts. Kari figured it was a digimon as well.
"Mimi!" Matt yelled. "Don't worry, they're harmless!"
"You call that harmless?!?" Mimi pointed upwards, showing that Tanemon wasn't the one she was running from. Apparently Kuwagamon came back for round three. Persistent vermin…
Kuwagamon flew over them, apparently scared off by the huge group of digimon and humans showing up out of nowhere.
Unlucky for the digidestined, Kuwagamon quickly got over his fear and began to turn around to have another go.
"Don't worry Mimi. I, Tanemon, will protect you!" The seedling with feet was still running after her protégé. Mimi just slumped down.
"Hey, Mimi. It's okay, he's gone." Sora said as she walked up to the hat wearing girl.
"Oh Sora." Mimi said as Sora helped her back on her feet.
"Here he comes again!" Matt yelled as Kuwagamon's roar filled the air again.
"Run!" Joe yelled, immediately setting the example for all to follow.
And there they were, running from an flying enemy throughout a forest that Kuwagamon could easily chop down with his scissors.
"Get down!" Matt yelled, pushing his little brother to the ground before diving down as well. The others followed suit as Kuwagamon flew over them once more.
"This thing just won't give up!" Joe whined. "I don't want to end up as bug food!"
"Come on Joe." Izzy said as he helped the blue-haired boy up to his feet. "if we don't keep moving, we will end up in his stomach and I for one, don't feel like getting digested just yet."
"Crap, dead end!" Mat yelled. Well, actually it wasn't a dead end. it was just a twenty meter drop down into a raging river.
"Get back, quickly!" He yelled to the entire group.
But it was to late. Kuwagamon had already cornered them there.
His jaws clicked in anger, sure signs that he'd use them to cut them all up into bite sized chunks.
"Great, now what." Joe asked as he moved backwards, closer to the edge of the cliff. Kuwagamon clicked his jaws a few more times. "Man, I wished I brought my bug spray." Matt commented.
"We have to fight back." Kari said. She was tired of running. And the only way to get rid of a bully like Kuwagamon was to show him that they weren't afraid of him.
"What?" Sora asked. "We can't fight him, he's too big."
"No, she's right!" Yokomon yelled.
"We have to stand and fight!" Nyaromon yelled.
But seeing Kuwagamon's viciously sharp teeth up close reminded Kari of how strong he was.
Kari suddenly started to reconsider her initial idea off fighting back. Nyaromon struggled against her to get away and fight off the big red beetle but Kari held her firmly. She didn't want to lose her new friend so quickly.
"Let me go let me go!" Nyaromon yelled as the other in-training levels did the same. Bukamon nearly lifted himself and Joe up in to the air, trying to escape.
"Let me at him!" Tokomon yelled, baring his enormous shark like teeth.
"You too, Tanemon?" Mimi asked. Tanemon just nodded.
"No!" Tsunomon broke free from Matt's grip as did all the others.
"You can't win!" Izzy shouted as Motimon slipped from his clutches.
"Tsunomon, get back here!" Matt tried his best but Tsunomon was determined to protect his new friend.
"Tanemon! Be careful!." Strange enough, only Mimi believed that they had a fighting chance.
"Tokomon!" This one was the only one that Kuwagamon feared, mildly. Tokomon has teeth like a great white you know. They rip through solid steel at moments.
"Turn around!" Joe yelled at Bukamon. Sure he was annoying but Joe couldn't stand to watch him throw his life away, for someone like him of all things.
"Nyaromon!!" Kari just yelled, hoping that it would make her see reason and come back to her.
As the digimon charged, seven lights began to burn on seven digivices, strapped to belts, backpacks or other places.
The sky turned dark but from the heavens above them descended seven pillars of rainbow colored light!
"What's going on?" Izzy asked as the digivices began to emit a high pitched squeal.
"Yokomon digivolves to… Biyomon!"
"Motimon digivolves to… Tentomon!"
"Tsunomon digivolves to… Gabumon!"
"Tokomon digivolves to… Patamon!"
"Nyaromon digivolves to… Salamon!"
"Bukamon digivolves to… Gomamon!"
"Tanemon digivolves to… Palmon!"
The light faded and there stood seven new digimon, bigger and stronger then before, strengthened by their determination to protect their new friends.
"They… got bigger?" Joe said, confused by what the hell just happened.
"Digimon! Attack!" Gabumon yelled out.
With a new look came new powers as Biyomon flew into the air and screamed: "Spiral Twister!" Sending a spiral of burning green energy towards Kuwagamon.
"Blue Blaster!" Gabumon yelled out, burning the beetlelike monster with cerulean fire.
"Boom Bubble!" Patamon drew in air as he grew twice as big as normal, before sending the pressurized air towards Kuwagamon, nearly causing him to crash into the cliff.
Kuwagamon had had enough of this and decided that he'd be the bigger mon for once and fly away.
"Going somewhere?" Palmon asked before attacking. "Poison Ivy!" Eights vines grew from her fingers and pulled Kuwagamon down again.
Once their opponent was on terra firma again, Salamon and Gomamon opted for a combined attack.
"Sledge Dash!"
"Flutter Kick!"
Both digimon crashed into one of Kuwagamon's hind legs, forcing him onto his knees.
"Supershocker!" Tentomon yelled out, sending a high voltage coursing throughout Kuwagamon's body.
Needless to say, Kuwagamon was stunned, humiliated and disoriented from all the attacks.
"Alright, everyone together now!" Salamon yelled out, preparing for her Slide Dash attack once more.
The others readied their attacks and fired, aiming their attacks at Kuwagamon's head. That combined with Salamon's Sled Dash and Gomamon's Flutter Kick, knocked Kuwagamon down and back into the forest.
"Yeah!" The digidestined cheered as they saw Kuwagamon go down.
"That was amazing!" Kari yelled out as Salamon ran up to her.
"So how about that Super Shocker, huh?" Tentomon boasted his mad skills.
Joe was too stunned to actually say anything. He was way to busy with pushing his glasses back up and admire Bukamon's new look.
But their celebration was cut short as Kuwagamon came back from his the forest, very pissed off I might add. He knew that he couldn't beat the combined strength of those seven rookies but he could do something else. Which was cheating.
He slammed his mandibles into the cliff, breaking it off.
Cracks ran through the ground as the digidestined huddled towards the end of the cliff, hoping that it wouldn't break off.
Which off course it did.
The slab of rock dragged the seven humans and seven digimon into the depths, leaving them unsure if they'd ever see one another again.
And there you have it. the first real chapter of AaC. I appreciate all of the reviews the prologue got and they inspired me. I know that this chapter looks a lot like the original but it'll get more different from the real show later on.
And with a new fic, comes a new poll.
This is very important!
I want to know if I should get the digidestined digimon other champion and ultimate forms! Not all of them off course but it would spice things up a bit.
So vote my minions! I mean reviewers!
Should some digimon get other forms: yes or no. I'll keep the ones with new forms a secret off course.
Reviews!
Kai-XCrunner4life: thanks
Marie ravenclaw: yes, somewhat different indeed. And I didn't know Cody's dad was a cop, couldn't find it anywhere on the internet. (gasp!)
Princessjaded: I'm glad you like my crazy plots ;)
Depthmon: I'm not commenting on that! This interview is over! Not really. I just needed something new to vent my ideas. And If all goes well you'll get a new update for SoA and BH tomorrow, okay?
Confusius: this is indeed an AU 01 fic. I went out from the idea: what if Kari, instead of Tai went to the digital world? And I'm not really sire, as I haven't seen tamers yet. I'm planning on doing so soon though.
GRX3m0m: thank you and I will
Crystalform: Hope you like this one.
Beth: well, you'll have to find out, cause I'm not telling.
Firehedgehog: I will, don't worry.
R&R peoples! And don't forget to vote!