Pre-Story Notes

This is the chapter where part of the main plot is revealed to Tyro. As well as a fun bit of Digimon battling, too! Also, another human character is introduced. It's also the longest chapter yet. Enjoy!

Also, I couldn't really come up with a good name for this chapter. Feel free to give me some ideas if you have them! The current title is a suggested idea. Thanks to xChazzx for that!

Chapter 3

A New Menace

Tyro was unsure of what to do. It was the split-second reaction that he failed to make that worked up to what happened next. But to Tyro, it all happened so fast, not even he knew what had happened. Koromon rammed him in his side to hit him away from the incoming projectile. However, in the process, Koromon took the full force of the attack, rolling backwards a few feet. Tyro was unsure of how to react at all. He was now on the ground a couple feet away from where the fireball had hit Koromon. But he knew how he should react. He quickly jumped to his feet and ran over to his Digimon partner. "Koromon!" Tyro shouted. "You okay?"

But before he even got there, Koromon had rebounded back up and shouted, "Tyro, look out!" Tyro turned, only too late to see another fireball coming his way, and too fast to dodge. "Bubble Blow!" Koromon shouted, launching out a bunch of harmless bubbles in the way. Tyro was surprised to see Koromon had somehow been fast enough to get between him and the fireball within that short amount of time. He had jumped up and fired off a stream of useless bubbles that the fireball easily penetrated and slammed into him once again.

Tyro glared over at where he had finally been able to tell where the fireballs had come from. A short, though plenty taller than Koromon, purple Digimon leaped down from the branches above and into plain sight. He wore a small red scarf around his neck, as well as two red gloves and a yellow, evil-looking smiley face on his stomach. He had three white claws on the end of his two feet and a tail that stuck straight out behind him. His green eyes moved from Koromon to the human before him.

"Well, well, well!" Impmon sneered. "Not only did I find a pitiful human worm, but I also found a traitorous Digimon protecting him! What a catch. The Master will be very pleased."

"Traitorous!?" Koromon shouted at him. "Master!? What are you talking about?"

"What, you don't know?" Impmon replied. "Well then maybe I'll offer you a way to come back after I explain this to those that are incapable of learning of it themselves. Humans are a menace. They have trespassed in this world many times, and only a handful of those times were for any good. In fact, the last time the humans were here, many Digimon were eliminated from this world. And it's all thanks to humans like him." Impmon stressed the word 'him' as though it were a disease before continuing. "And now, the humans have once again begun to plague the Digital World with their presence. And you, my little pest, are assisting them. The only one that seems to even oppose them is the Master. He is the only one that is doing any right in this battle."

"Battle!?" Koromon shouted back. "What are you talking about?"

"What, have you been living under a rock all this time?" Impmon shouted. "Oh, but excuse me for forgetting that you live deep inside a forest where you know nothing of what's happening in the rest of the world. Ever since the last human invasion, there has been a lot of anti-human groups forming, and one major group that is apparently the head of all known as the Black Virus. This Black Virus is headed by none other than the Master himself. And any Digimon wise enough to realize that these humans are actually our enemy have aligned themselves under his rule. And now I give you the opportunity to redeem yourself and join us. Or both you and your human will be destroyed, even if not by my hands."

"What makes you think that I would ever betray Tyro!?" Koromon shouted at Impmon. "Sure, he and the other humans may have flaws, and yes, that there are evil humans, I'm sure, just like there are evil Digimon. But Tyro, and I'm sure most other humans as well, are good at heart! Besides, why would I want to join up with somebody who destroyed my home?"

"Bah, fine then." Impmon replied, spitting to the ground below. "If that's your decision, then you better know that you'll regret it! Bada-Boom!" He held up one of his six gloved fingers and on the tip, a fireball appeared. He launched it right toward Koromon.

"Koromon! Watch out!" Tyro shouted. Just as he finished these words a blinding light shone from his pocket and suddenly, Koromon began to change shape right in front of his face. He began to grow bigger, and began to turn yellow. He grew two legs, each with three claws on the end, and two three-clawed arms and hands as well. He also grew about the same size as Impmon and his head grew outward and his eyes turned green.

"Koromon...digivolve to…Agumon!" was Koromon's drawn-out shout. He finished his shout as his change completed. He had transformed from a strange, pink blob with floppy ears into a yellow dinosaur-like Digimon with claws, and no ears. "Pepper Breath!" Agumon shouted, launching a fireball to match Impmon's from his mouth.

"What!?" Impmon growled as Agumon's Pepper Breath attack cancelled out his Bada-Boom. "How did…!? Y-you digivolved!? But how did you…!? No matter. I'll destroy you, anyway. You're still not as strong as I am."

"Maybe I'm not." Agumon replied in a voice that was only slightly lower than Koromon's voice. "But I think the odds have been leveled out now."

"Koromon!?" Tyro exclaimed, looking at the transformation, deeply and clearly stunned.

The Digimon shook his head and said, "Tyro, I'm not Koromon anymore. Now I'm Agumon."

As stunned as Tyro was by the sudden transformation, Tyro dug into his pocket and pulled out what really intrigued him. A strange device that he had never seen before. It was somewhat in an oval shape with an orange and yellow coloring to it. The screen that took up the top portion of the device displayed a bar that was full and up took up the whole screen, completely covering it. The bottom portion had blue buttons on it, which Tyro had no idea what they were for. 'Could this be what had been glowing?' he thought. 'But…what happened with Koromon? He'd changed into some dinosaur-thing that looks completely different…. Impmon called it digivolving... What's going on!?'

But before Tyro could ponder this any longer, the fight had resumed. Agumon and Impmon were now hand-in-hand, each trying to force the other backwards in a contest of strength. The winner was never decided as Impmon brought his foot up and kicked Agumon right in the stomach and stunned the dinosaur. Then Impmon brought his fist back and slammed it right into the side of Agumon's face, sending him straight to the ground.

But that didn't keep Agumon down for long. He immediately sprung right back up and began to physically brawl with Impmon, both of them completely ignoring the fact that they each had special, unique moves of their own. But Tyro found himself cheering Agumon on and giving him verbal support.

Eventually, however, an obvious difference began to slowly reveal itself. Agumon wasn't used to this new form yet, and was steadily growing more exhausted while Impmon had been in his Rookie form for a long time and was able to continue attacking. Agumon soon found himself being pummeled by Impmon. First came a punch to the face, then to the stomach, then a knee to his chin, then a kick to his stomach, and he felt himself fall to his knees at Impmon's feet. Impmon sneered and kicked Agumon right on his face, knocking him backward and onto the ground. Impmon stomped on Agumon's chest and kept his foot there, pinning Agumon to the ground hard.

"Agumon!" Tyro shouted after the pounding his Digimon got from Impmon, using the name that he had told him.

"It's a shame you didn't surrender yourself." Impmon gloated as he lit a fireball on his fingertip. "You wouldn't have been destroyed as you're about to be. Bada-!"

But just before Impmon finished forming his attack, a loud cry was heard from seemingly nowhere. "Blaze Spiral!" the voice shouted. From out of the trees, a vortex of fire sped right toward Agumon and Impmon! Impmon, who didn't see the attack coming until it was too late, couldn't get out of the way. He was slammed and enveloped by the vortex of flame and was thrown off of Agumon and crashed into the ground hard. The flames only narrowly missed Agumon.

"What the hell…?" Impmon shouted, jumping up to his feet. He looked over to where the attack had come from. Agumon did the same. From out of the shadows of the trees, a chicken-like Digimon that stood on two, four-clawed feet jumped to the ground in front of everyone. This Digimon had dark gray legs that ended on one end with three white claws, and one in the back. Right where his legs met his thighs, the color abruptly changed to bright orange feathers, an orange tail sticking out of his lower back. This coloring ended when the yellow feathers that made up his top half cut across the orange feathers. Two long arms with the same color of feathers were attached to his upper body, ending in three white claws. On his head, his eyes were a deep red, and he had a yellow beak and one large orange feather on his head.

"Just who do you think you are!?" Impmon shouted at the new arrival.

"We're the ones that kick your purple ass." Came another voice from the shadows. A boy around Tyro's age stepped out. He wore an orange hoodie with red streaks, with the hood down right now, revealing his bronze-colored hair. He also wore blue shoes and jeans as well. On his right wrist, he wore an orange wristband with a feather emblazoned on it. In his hand, he clutched an orange device that looked just like Tyro's, only with the slight color difference.

Impmon glared over and said, "Humph! And just how do you plan on doing that? With this wimpy excuse for a Digimon, human?" Then, he turned to the chicken-like Digimon, who was almost twice his size, and said, "Alright, you big chicken, let's see what you've got. Hopefully you're more of a challenge than that Agumon over there. Bada-Boom!" With that, he launched two fireballs, one from each hand, toward the Digimon, who easily jumped and avoided both of the fireballs. He then landed on the ground again and shouted, "Rising Slash!" he shouted. He ran at Impmon with blinding speed, his claw becoming engulfed in flames. He then, when he got close enough, attacked Impmon with the flaming claw in an uppercut. Impmon growled in pain as he was hit and flew backwards and hit the ground again. The chicken-like Digimon then put his clawed feet on Impmon, pinning him down like he had done to Agumon.

"Now you're going to answer a question." The boy said, walking closer. "Or Fowlmon here won't hesitate to destroy you where you lay." Fowlmon made a menacing gesture at Impmon as the boy finished his sentence.

"Y-yeah…" Impmon said. "W-Whatever…." It was obvious that his confidence had been shaken.

"Well, then." The boy continued. "Why did you destroy this village?" the boy asked.

"I-It was the Master's orders." Impmon said.

"And what did he want you to do this for?"

"He didn't say much." Impmon replied. "But he did say that he was searching for something that this village possessed. He didn't go into any detail at all, I swear! He just told me to do this and to look for anything out of the ordinary."

"And did you find anything?" the boy demanded. Impmon shook his head. "Well then, you're free to go now." He continued. "But don't ever cross my path again. I won't be so lenient the next time." With those words, Fowlmon let Impmon up. Impmon quickly took this opportunity to high-tail it out of there.

By now, Agumon had gotten to his feet and Tyro was at his side, checking to see if he was alright. Thankfully, all of the injuries were minor. Then, Tyro walked over to the boy and said, "Hey, thanks for the help…" The first time he'd actually tried to become friendly to another human being, and it didn't end so well.

"Don't even talk to me." The boy said. "Somebody as weak as you has no business talking to me." He turned to face Tyro before continuing. "Your Digimon, Agumon, is weak. It required Fowlmon's help to simply defeat an Impmon. When you're strong enough to even defeat a Rookie, then maybe I'll even consider you an ally."

Just then, Fowlmon came up and said, "But Chazz…he's digidestined too…. Whether you like it or not, you know that you have to travel with him. Who knows? Perhaps some of your strength will rub off?" He said this last line under his breath so that only Chazz could hear it.

"Ugh…." Chazz replied. "I hate it when you make sense." He turned around and said to Tyro, "Well, I suppose that, given the circumstances, I'll have to stay with you and, ugh, help you. But if I don't see any improvement from you, you can be sure that I'll be outta here."

"Well I don't think that we'll need anybody with that kind of an attitude around here, anyway!" Tyro shot back. But Agumon tugged at his side. "Tyro," Agumon said. "We may need his help. Fowlmon is strong, and he is offering assistance for at least a while. So I think we should take advantage of this." Agumon and Tyro looked at each other for a moment before Tyro reluctantly said, "Fine…. We'll travel together. But only for a while." Agumon nodded and they turned to face Chazz and Fowlmon. "Alright, then shall we get going?" Agumon asked.

"Indubitably." Fowlmon replied. Chazz and Tyro looked at each other, and then quickly looked away in a huff. It was apparent that they didn't like each other very much.

'Oh boy,' Tyro thought. 'This is going to be a long partnership.' With that, the four of them, the two tamers very reluctantly, turned and began to walk off into the trees, Chazz and Fowlmon leading the way.

End of Chapter

Ending Notes

Thanks for taking the time to read the third chapter. I'd like to say that the fourth chapter Chazz and Tyro's partnership will start off on a bumpy road as one of their arguments lead to defeat in a fight that should have been simple. Will they ever learn to get along before it's too late? Or will their journey end before it really begins? To find out, you'll just have to wait to find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!