Ron is sorry for not updatig sooner! And he still doesn't own Digimon. (And he should stop talking in third person)
An alternative course
The arrival of Flymon
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhh!!" Ever fell down a cliff? Trust me, when you do that sound will be the only thing coming out of your throat. Seven kids and seven digimon were currently falling from one of the more fragile cliffs of File Island. Reason for that was a pissed off Kuwagamon, who as a last attack, had slammed his powerful mandibles into the cliff where he had cornered the digidestined.
Amongst the falling there were few that were able to save themselves. Patamon, Biyomon and Tentomon could fly. But they were also doing their best to keep their partner humans in the air. A hard task that neither of them was strong enough for.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon yelled, wrapping her vines on one hand around Mimi and the other imbedded into the side of the cliff. For a few seconds Mimi was able to think that she was safe.
That was until the slab of rock broke off of the cliff.
I told you it was the frailest cliff around.
Kari was one of the first to hit the water, the impact upon it feeling like hitting concrete. She hovered somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness as she slowly went under.
"Kari!" Salamon yelled over the sounds of the raging river. She dove under. Moments later she reemerged, her jaws biting down on the back of Kari's shirt.
Meanwhile, Gomamon had had enough. "Marching Fishes!!" He yelled out, sending an inaudible pulse throughout the water. No human or digimon could hear it but to the digi-fish it was like a beacon, summoning them for a rescue mission.
The fish schooled together under the digidestined, effectively lifting them out of the water.
"What the hell?" Joe asked as he looked at just what he sat on. "Pretty cool huh." Gomamon gloated.
"And here I was, thinking I was allergic to fish!" Joe yelled out. "Eh Joe, is your skin supposed to be filled with blue bumps?" Sora asked.
"What?!?" Joe began rubbing his skin, trying to get the 'blue bumps' away.
"Eh…" Sora, Mimi and Matt sweat dropped. "I don't think he knows you're joking Sora." Biyomon said.
Meanwhile, Kuwagamon was shaking his fist angrily at the digidestind. Doing so he failed to notice that the ground underneath his feet was crumbling as well. As it collapsed he was drawn with it to the bottom of the river.
If he survived this, he'd get his revenge on the humans, even if it was the last thing he'd do!
"Hey eh seal like digimon." Izzy said, pointing at Gomamon. "Thanks for saving us from drowning but eh what the hell are we surfing on?"
"The name's Gomamon. And we're surfing on the digiworld's biggest fish-filled boogeyboard." Gomamon said, pointing at the raft.
"Right…" That didn't exactly explain much. It was hard for Izzy to grasp that a bunch of fish would suddenly swim so close together just because of one sea mammal's orders. But he was still alive and relatively dry, so who's complaining?
"Everybody alright?" Matt asked once they got back to dry land. "We're fine, I think." Joe said, the skin of his arms red from all the rubbing he did, before realizing that it was just a joke.
"Kari isn't!" Salamon growled as she dragged the girl onto dry land.
"Let me take a look at her." Sora said. She bend down to examine the brown-haired girl. To her relief it appeared that Kari was regaining consciousness.
"Eh, what happened?" She asked, coughing up some water afterwards. "We fell down a cliff and you nearly drowned!" Salamon blurted out. "But I saved you!"
"You did?" Kari looked at the doglike digimon sitting next to her. Kari stood up and examined her partner digimon. "You're not Nyaromon anymore, right?" She concluded. After all, the other digimon had cat ears and a cat tail. Also it lacked limbs…
"That's right, it's Salamon now!" Salamon said, proud of her achievement.
"I'll take it that you're no longer Motimon then?" Izzy asked, trying to make sense off what was going on around him. After all, it wasn't exactly normal that your newest friends turn into badass fighters, right?
"Correct you are Izzy, I am Tentomon now." Tentomon said.
"Same here, I'm no longer Yokomon, I'm Biyomon now." The bird like digmon explained.
"Wait, so if you 'became bigger', does that mean you're something else now?" Joe asked, hoping that the annoyance that was called Bukamon was gone. "Nope, not really." Gomamon said. "We may look different but we're still the same on the inside!"
"Great…" Joe mumbled. "Oh cheer up Joe, you didn't think that the Bukamon you know and love was gone right?" Gomamon smiled.
"Well, you do look a lot cooler now." Matt said to his own digital partner. "What did you say your name was again?"
"Oh right, forgot to introduce myself." The rookie said. "My name is Gabumon."
"Gabumon huh?" Matt repeated the name. "Sounds cool enough."
"So can you really fly with those wings Patamon?" TK asked the rookie. "Off course I can!" He yelled. "I just don't feel like it at the moment." He said in his defense, seeing how earlier he was barely able to lift himself of the ground, let alone save TK from falling to his death.
"So Palmon, who does your hair?" Mimi asked. "I mean your leaves." She corrected herself.
"Nobody." Palmon said happily. "I just wake up like this in the morning."
"Really?" Mimi asked, stunned to hear that such a thing was even possible.
Palmon nodded. "It's true."
"Wow that's cool." TK said. "When Matt wakes up his hair usually looks like an exploded mattress." Truth comes from the mouth of a child, right?
"So any clue off where we're supposed to go?" Matt asked. The stream had carried them close to the ocean, leaving them the choice. Either jump on another raft made of fish or stay ashore and see where the path would take them.
"I say we go back to the forest." Joe said. "If anyone's looking for us they're bound to start there."
"True." Izzy said. "But given the fact that we just came tumbling down a cliff and got swooped down a river means we won't be able to get back there."
"Who said anything about going back there?" Joe pointed to the river. "There's a forest right there!"
The thirteen digimon and humans looked at where Joe was pointing, to see... barely anything at all.
"Eh Joe, those are a few trees." Sora said. "Hardly a forest."
"I think we're close to the ocean." Gomamon said, sniffing the air. "So why not go there?"
"Good idea." Salamon said. "Wait, what are we looking for again?"
"Any signs of intelligent life." Izzy said as the group followed Gomamon towards the digital sea. "What do you mean 'intelligent life'?" Tentomon asked. "Are we not intelligent?"
"Sorry Tentomon, I didn't mean it like that." Izzy said, realizing his mistake. "I meant humans, you know like us."
"Oh you won't find those here." Salamon said. "What do you mean?" Kari asked.
"Oh simple, there aren't any humans here, never have been till you showed up." Salamon looked up towards her partner human.
"Never?" Kari asked and got a nod from Salamon. "Never."
"Oh yeah, then how do you explain this?" Joe asked as the group found their way to the beach, following the seal like digimon's nose.
Strangely enough there were phone booths. Real life phone booths.
"Wait a minute." Sora said. "That doesn't make sense. Why would there be phones in the middle of the beach? And so many of them?"
"To call our parents?" TK wondered.
"I'm agreeing with TK." Matt said. "They've got to be here for a reason, so let's try them."
"I'm calling daddy!" Mimi yelled as she took off to the nearest phone cell, Palmon running after her.
"Maybe these phones have something to with the government conspiracy." Izzy mused. "Does your government really create so many conspiracies?" Tentomon asked. Actually he had no idea what a government was but at least this way he would find out more about his new friend.
"Well, I don't know." Izzy admitted. "Mostly because of the lack of evidence. But you never see them politicians denying anything either."
Tentomon sweatdropped. "That doesn't make any sense."
"That's what they want you to think." Izzy said as he pulled out his phone card.
"Congratulations. You are the one millionth two hundred thousandth four hundredth twenty third caller of this number." A voice came though Matt's horn. "You win nothing at all!?"
"What planet did I dial?." Matt said as he hung up again.
"By the time you realize that this message isn't providing you with any information at all you will have wasted five second of your life."
"Did mom read that off of a fortune cookie or something?" TK wondered as he thought of ways to get those five wasted seconds back.
"Sorry but this number doesn't exist on your planet. If you wish to make interplanetary calls, please insert about ten thousand quarters."
"Damn, I only have two left." Sora muttered.
"Can I take your order?" A barely audible voice was heard out of Joe's receiver. "Eh what now?"
"You want fries with that?"
"This isn't making any sense." Mimi said into her horn. "Neither do you honey." A women on the other side said. "Hey, what's that supposed to mean?"
"Hey Kari, why aren't you calling anyone?" Salamon asked. Kari shrugged. "I don't think I have any money on me. And apparently no one is having any luck either."
"True." Salamon said. "But maybe you will have better luck?" Salamon offered.
"True, we'll never know if I don't try." Kari admitted as she rummaged through her pockets, trying to find any loose change.
"Nothing… wait…" She pulled something out of her pocket. "Never mind, I found something better!" She lifted her cell phone up to the skies.
"What's that?" Salamon asked, having never seen something like that before.
"It's a cell phone." Kari explained. "With it I can call anyone from anywhere."
"Even from here?" Salamon asked.
"Only one way to find out." Kari answered, unlocking her cellphone.
'Who to call… who to call…' She thought. Perhaps her mom? Or dad? Who else could she call at a moment like this. 'I know.'
The screen lit up as she selected the number.
'Calling doctor Kido.' Was visible on the screen.
"Come on, pick up." Kari whispered as she began pacing around. It had been a few days since she left for camp and she hadn't bothered to check up on Tai in that time. Off course, Tai wasn't going anywhere soon but still, who knew what could happen while she wasn't there to protect him?
And then it came, the click when someone answered their phone. "Hello? Doctor Kido?" She asked.
No response. All she heard were some cracking sounds, with the occasional modem like sound.
"Nothing." She said sadly.
Meanwhile in the real world.
"Hello?" Doctor Kido spoke into his cell phone, expecting a reply. Kari had called him but he didn't get a reply as he spoke. "Odd." He said as he pushed the red button, terminating the call. "She must have bad reception at camp." He said to his patient. "But at least she's trying to check up on you Tai." Tai didn't move at the mention of his name.
"If only all of us had such devote siblings." Doctor Kido said with a sigh.
Back in the Digital World.
"Any luck?" Matt asked, getting negative nods from everyone.
"I checked nearly all of them." Joe said. "All they do is sprout some nonsense about weather forecasts and flying cows."
"Same here." Sora admitted.
"Mine wasted five seconds of my life." TK said. "I want them back." He crossed his arms. "Don't worry TK, I'll find them for you!" Patamon reassured him.
"Stolen seconds of life aside, did any of you get any sort of reasonable answers?" Izzy asked.
"I didn't get anything at all." Kari admitted. "I tried to call doctor Kido but all I got was some static and beeps."
"You called my dad?" Joe asked.
Kari shrugged. "He seemed like the best choice at the moment."
"I think we have a lot to talk about." Joe said.
"Okay, phones and crazy voices aside for now." Matt said, deciding to take the leader position upon him. "Even if anyone is looking for it'll take days for them to find us."
"True, especially seeing how we floated down river from our original location." Izzy added.
"So we'll have to survive here for a while." Matt said. "First of all we need to find food and shelter."
Sora nodded. "Those are the most important."
"You've got nothing to worry about." TK smiled as he took off his backpack. "Check it out!"
The contents of the bag seemed to be made off nearly entirely out of candy, snacks and other things that would lead to a heart attack.
"What's all of that?" Patamon asked, having never seen packed food before. "This is food from where we come from."
"More like junkfood." Matt said, taking one of the bags out of the backpack. "Does mom really allow you to eat this?"
"Not entirely." TK smiled nervously. "Don't worry little bro, I won't tell."
"But still, as good as TK's stash may look, there's not enough for all of us." Izzy said. "But it's a start. Does anyone else have something useful?"
"Don't think so." Mimi said as she opened up her own bag. "Let's see, matches, a compass,…"
Matt, Izzy, Sora and TK's eyes went wide as they saw what Mimi pulled out of her bag. "Wow, Mimi. I didn't think you'd come so prepared." Sora said.
"Yeah, what are you going to pull out of that bag next? A tent?" Matt joked.
"Eh no. It didn't fit in this bag and seeing how this one was the only bag that matched my outfit, I had to leave it home."
"Wow."
Mimi then proceeded to put all of the stuff back till they needed it.
"We still don't have any other food though." Sora said. "And I'm getting hungry."
"I smell food." Biyomon said. "Yeah me too!" Palmon added.
"Joe's bag!!" Matt exclaimed. "Joe's bag?" Izzy asked as Joe looked back at them, hearing his own name been called.
Matt ran over to Joe and tried to take the bag from him. "Sure, now all of a sudden you want to carry it. When I asked you this morning you refused too!" Joe held on to the bag for dear life.
"Yeah sorry about that Joe, but we just realized that you're the one carrying the food." True, seeing how it was camp policy that one out of ten kids were designated to carry the emergency bag, in case they ever got lost.
"Fine, take it then." Joe said, pulling the digivice from its strap first. It felt important to him, for some reason.
"Now where were we?" Joe asked, seeing how he lost his train of thought when Matt interrupted him.
"I was telling you about my brother." Kari said. "Oh right." Joe scratched his head. "Dad told me about him a few times. He's been in coma for quite some time now, right?"
Kari nodded. "Nearly two years."
"Kari?" Salamon asked. "What is a 'coma'?"
"It's like you're sleeping, only you don't wake up for a long time." At least that was how they explained it to her.
"Oh." Salamon gasped. It sounded like a terrible virus that had struck her partner's brother. "How did he end up like that?"
Kari sighed. She didn't really want to tell that story again. But Salamon, being her new friend deserved to know.
"Two years ago, a terrible fire broke out in my apartment building." Kari started.
"I read about that." Joe cut in. "It was in all the newspapers back then."
"Right." Kari's somewhat angry look made Joe shut up. She didn't like being interrupted.
"Mom and dad were out, so Tai was looking after me." She had to stop there for a second. Salamon, sensing the discomfort her friend was in snuggled up to her. "You don't have to go on, if you don't want to."
"No." Kari said, stroking the puppy like digimon's ears. "I'm fine, and I'd have to tell you anyway."
"When that fire broke out me and my brother were trapped by the flames. They just came out of nowhere." She said, her voice shaking a bit as she remembered those terrible times.
'Big brother, I'm scared'
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'Don't cry Kari, they'll come rescue us, I promise'
Kari shook her head, clearing it off those memories. "The room collapsed around us, trapping us inside. Tai… Tai shielded me with his own body."
Kari sighed. "When mister Hida found us it was to late for him. He saved us both but Tai had breathed in to many toxic fumes. That and his burns nearly killed him." A single tear began to trickle down her left cheek.
"Wow." Joe said. It was the only thing he could utter after hearing that.
"Your brother is quite the hero." Salamon said.
"Yeah." Kari admitted. "But I can't help but feel guilty for his state. Because of me he's stuck in that bed."
"But if he hadn't saved you, then we would never have met." Salamon tried. "Well, that's true." Kari admitted. "You know, you kind of remind me of Tai."
"I do?" Salamon asked. "Yeah, he always protected me, just like you."
"Oh that." Salamon blushed.
"So seeing how there are seven of us times three meals." Izzy calculated. "We'd last three days with all of our food."
"Nice bit of math Izzy." Sora sighed. "But you forgot to add the digimon to the calculation."
"So with the digimon…" Mimi thought. "I don't think we'll last very long."
"About half an hour." Matt said.
"Oh don't worry about us." Gabumon said. "Yeah, we'll find our own food!" Palmon said. "We digimon are excellent foragers." Patamon added.
"You sure about that?" Sora asked.
"Off course we are." Biyomon said. "Fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, meat or roots. We eat everything."
"Well, no offence but screw your roots." Tentomon said, nibbling on a bunch of biscuits. "These things are much better."
Sora, Matt, Mimi and Izzy's eyes bulged. They hadn't even noticed that Tentomon had swiped their food.
"You ate our food?" Mimi asked.
"Well, not all of it." Tentomon defended himself. "I just ate one pack."
Izzy tapped his foot a few times. "Okay, three then."
Izzy sighed. "Well, I can't be mad at you for it. We're all hungry." Tentomon relaxed, thinking he was of the hook. "But next time just ask, okay?"
"Sure thing Izzy." Tentomon promised.
Meanwhile Gomamon was floating on his back, a few meters from shore. This was his favorite pastime ever. One can forget all of their worries when they float atop of the ocean's surface.
Unless of course they were swept away by the waves and ended up on some deserted island. Then your worries would just start.
Unfortunate for Gomamon, getting swept away to some tropical island was the least of his worries.
Unknowing to any of the digidestined they had entered the domain of a rather territorial digimon.
"Not good." Gomamon said to himself as he paddled back to land.
"You guys!" He yelled over the sound of the waves. "We've got trouble!"
"Where?" Joe yelled back, making sure that he had a way out of here if something like Kuwagamon showed up again. Unfortunately for Joe there was only one way out, and that was up the cliff.
While Joe was doing that, the others looked around for the threat, searching the sand around them. But other then their own group and those phones there wasn't anything there.
That was until water began to burst from the sand, destroying phone after phone in its way.
"What the hell is that?" Sora yelled. "I think it's Shellmon!" Biyomon yelled, pushing Sora out of the way of a falling telephone booth.
"What's a Shellmon?" Izzy asked once the water stopped spouting.
"Something that gets angry for no reason whatsoever." Tentomon said. "Unless you count invading his territory a reason." He added.
Suddenly the sand began to turn around in one location, sending it upward in a spiraling motion. Slowly Shellmon's shell appeared. The green spiked casing showed no weak spots at all.
Shellmon's ugly head moved out from its shell.
"Is that Shellmon?" TK asked, stepping behind his big brother.
"He looks like a demonic hermit crab to me." Matt said, making sure his brother stayed behind him at all times.
"Time to get the hell out of here!"Joe yelled before climbing the cliffs near the beach. For a big chicken like him, he wasn't all that bad of a climber. He nearly reached the top.
That was until Shellmon decided that his prey wouldn't get away from his that easily. With a well aimed pressurized water spout he knocked Joe down, causing him to fall back down.
"Joe!!" Gomamon yelled from in the water, feeling useless for not being able to help him.
Luckily for Joe, he landed on sand, which cushioned his blow.
"Joe? You okay?" Kari and Salamon ran up to him.
"I'll be fine once the world stops spinning round, right round, right round." Joe said as he tried to sit up. "Like a record baby." (1) He managed to utter before dropping back down.
"He'll be fine." Kari concluded, turning her gaze off of Joe and towards the threat.
"Spiral Twister!" She heard Biyomon call out. Too bad for Biyomon, she only managed to create a Spiral Wisp of flame, which died down immediately.
"Boom Bubble!" Patamon cried out, drawing in air. But the same story here. He just couldn't summon enough energy to convert the air into something more damaging. Both he and Biyomon were blasted out of the sky by Shellmon's water attack.
"Blue Blaster!"
"Poison Ivy!"
Gabumon and Palmon's combined attacks didn't work either. Shellmon just knocked them out of his way with one strike of his arms.
"Tentomon, you're the only one left!" Izzy yelled out. Four digimon were already down and two others could only fight close combat, so they were nearly useless for an opponent like Shellmon.
"I'm on it Izzy!" Tentomon yelled, flying towards his intended target. "Super Shocker!" He ried out, sending lethal amounts of voltage through Shellmon's body. But for some reason Shellmon didn't even appear fazed by the normally deadly attack.
"It's not working!" Matt clenched his fists. "Now what."
"I can do it!" Tentomon dodged one of Shellmon's tentacles. "Just give me a minute or two."
Tentomon flew around Shellmon, trying to find a weak spot. A crack in his shell, a huge blind spot or open wound. Anything would do!
But Shellmon wasn't enjoying the fact that there was a huge ladybug flying around him. He realized that even with his superior armor and thick skin he would eventually fall victim to the electrical attacks of Tentomon.
But before he took his leave he'd take a souvenir with him.
The tentacles on his head lashed out, grabbing whatever they could get their…. Eh things on.
"Aaah!!" Izzy yelled as the tentacles grabbed him, wrapping him up entirely. "Let go off me!"
"Izzy!" Tentomon yelled out, flying right at Shellmon's head. He began to slash at the tentacles but Shellmon grabbed him as well.
The beetle was trapped in between Shellmon's hands, who was slowly crushing the life out of him.
"Tentomon!" Izzy cried out, hearing the sounds of his friend's shell, cracking under the pressure Shellmon was applying to it.
"You guys! Run!" Izzy yelled at his friends. "There's no way we can beat him!"
"Izzy!" Tentomon yelled. "Hang on Izzy! I'll save you!"
"Aaagh!!" The tentacles wrapped harder around Izzy's body.
The others could do nothing but stare at their friend as the life was crushed out of him. They didn't dare to follow Izzy's orders to run. They had to save him. There had to be a way.
There was one way, but Izzy's faith wasn't in their hands.
Powered by Izzy's screams and the need to protect him, Tentomon began to glow.
He light up like a Christmas tree as his body began to warp.
"Tentomon! Digivolves to…"
Like all the others, Shellmon had to avert his eyes form the bright light, but he refused to let go off the rookie.
"… Flymon!"
For a moment nothing happened, leaving the digidestined to wonder what that lightshow was all about.
That was until a buzzing sound emerged from Shellmon's hands.
"Deadly Sting!"
Shellmon roared in pain as he let go off the trapped digimon. His hands were covered in red bumps for some reason.
But that reason became clear quickly as they all saw what had happened to Tentomon.
Where before he had looked more like a ladybug or any other beetle, now he looked like a bee. Or a wasp, more precisely.
Yellow and black stripped body, two pairs of purple wings and a huge singer to boot.
"Take this!" Flymon yelled out, sending more Deadly Stings towards Shellmon, who just groaned in pain. The poison on the spikes that Flymon fired at him wasn't deadly, not to him, but it was enough to make him lose focus and control over his body.
He dropped Izzy from his tentacle prison.
Flymon dove and grabbed hold of Izzy. "Tentomon is that you?"
"It's Flymon now!" The digimon formerly known as Tentomon said.
He placed Izzy down on the sand and flew back to Shellmon. "Time to end this!"
"Poison Powder!" He cried out, his wings flapping like crazy sending out greenish spores.
It was all getting to much for Shellmon. He crawled back into his shell and dug back into the ground while he still could. He too would get his revenge one day.
"Oh yeah, you better run!" Fkymon yelled. "Fly like a Flymon, sting like a Flymon!!"
"Wow." Matt said. "That was awesome!" TK yelled.
"Are you okay Izzy?" Joe asked. "I think so. Thanks to Flymon."
Flymon landed next to Izzy. He glowed and shrunk back into Tentomon.
"Thanks Tentomon." Izzy knelt down. "Oh it was nothing." Tentomon said.
"Nothing? You saved my life!" Izzy exclaimed.
"You'd do the same for me, right?" Tentomon asked. Even though he only knew Izzy since that day, he didn't need to hear the answer to that question. He already knew.
Izzy just smiled and answered anyway. "Off course I would."
"Hello? Operator? Operator!?"
"Eh, what's Joe doing with that broken phone?" Salamon asked. "I think he's trying to call a repairman." Kari laughed.
"But shouldn't we tell him that that thing is disconnected?" Sora asked.
"Nah, let him have his fun." Kari answered. "It's not like we've got somewhere to be, right?"
And so ends chapter two. Who saw it coming? That Tentomon would have to save Izzy from Shellmon?
Or that he'd change into Flymon?
I'll give you my explanation for that change too: 1, I just wanted to change a few digimon, seeing how it was a tie in the voting. 2, Flymon isn't really a Tentomon digivolution but Flymon's ultimate is soo awesome I couldn't help myself.
Also, I won't be answering the reviews today. It half past one now and I want to get in bed, okay? Though there is one, that I just have to answer. from Shinen no Hikari: I know they're OOc but this is Gatomon without Myotismon's influence. If she hadn't been enslaved by him she would have turned out quite differently. I'll answer the other reviews tomorrow or so, by review response, okay?
But thank you for all of them! I love each and every one of my fans!
And I apologize for the lateness of this chapter. But with all the homework and tests and exams next week, I barely know how I managed to write this.
Reviews make me happy!
AN
(1) You have to be from around the '80 to get this one. Or the '90, if you only know the covers