It's been a month since Alice found that egg, and a little over 3 weeks since the little weirdo hatched, he's called Tsunomon, and he has just been the biggest annoyance. I was face-timing on my hologram, watch, thing, with Scott and Maria.

"Hey man."

"Yeah?"

"You ever wonder why we're here?"

"Scott does that mean you don't know about the birds and bees?" I began to feel as if we were quoting something.

"What!? No! I know how we were born, just, why are we here doing this, when we could be going out and doing a job at the request center?"

"Oh, that makes more sense anyways, kind of." Yep definitely quoting something.

"You know, David," Maria stifled still trying to keep herself from laughing, "He may be right about that, why are we here when we could be getting some cold, hard, cash?"

"Well tell ya what, let's meet up at the town square, and then go to the request center. Deal?" They nodded and signed out. I started packing my supply bag, then tried to get a sleeping Kapurimon off my bed.

"Kapurimon, could you please get off?"

"No." He shrugged me off and snuggled back in.

"Kapurimon, off."

"No."

"Off, now…"

"No." I was tired of his attitude and turned my bed so that he rolled off. "Oww!" He turned to me and gave me sad puppy eyes at me through his metal helmet thing and I started hearing slow, sad, violin music. We were both wide awake and stared at each other for a second.

"Where is that music coming from?" I searched the room for a stereo or something as it was playing.

"I don't know," commented Kapurimon, "but I bet Alice and Tsunomon don't have to put up with anything this annoying."

Alice and Tsunomon woke with a start as they heard a loud thud upstairs from her brother's room.

"What are they doing up there?!"

"Sorry, sorry," I heard Scott's voice say from my watch, "Forgot to turn my audio off, my cousin's at my house rehearsing for a recital tonight. I'm out." His audio was actually off this time.

"Okay… that was weird." I turned off my watch.

"No kidding, but oddly appropriate for the situation." I grabbed him off the ground and set him on my shoulder.

"Oh shut up…" I made my way downstairs after I packed all of my stuff, went straight to the kitchen, and made myself a quick snack before leaving.

"Oh, David," Mom called out to me, "Where are you going?" She was still in her sleeping cloths, so just sweatpants and an old T-shirt, and looked like she'd pulled an all-nighter.

"Hm? Oh just to meet up with Scott and Maria for a job. I'm not a trouble maker like you were." She sipped from her coffee and patted me on my orange hair.

"Could you take your sister and her friends with you while you're gone?"

"Why?"

"She asked your father and I to take her on the next request we went on the other day, but the easiest job we could find that was still in our skill level was to calm a MetalTyrannomon, no deliveries.

"Yeah, she'd probably pee herself if she went on that one." I felt a pillow hit me in the back of the head. I turned to see Alice.

"I would not!"

"True, you'd do it when you saw regular Tyrannomon, and he's normally a friendly guy." She flipped me off. I noticed she wasn't holding Tsunomon. "Hey, where's the furball with the spike on his head?" That was answered as soon as I asked when I felt the little pest bite the hand that held my food.

30 minutes later:

"Sorry about that," said Tsunomon, "It just looked so good."

"What, the sandwich, or my hand?" We went through the main lobby of the request center until we came across my friends.

"Oh hey Davi… wait, why are they here?"

"Because my mother asked Maria." She noticed the bandage on my hand. "Plus that furball can be really convincing to take into a hostile environment."

"You've got it off easy," moaned Chris, "Koromon tried eating my face off!"

"This is why I'm better at this than you, dear brother of mine, Hopmon never tried that with me."

"He barely has a mouth to bite with!"

"Point is," said Scott, "you were gone so long, we already picked a job."

"Well what are we doing?"

"Going on our first bounty hunting!"

"We better be getting a cut of this…"

"Why would you Alice? Besides we'll be fine," I said quite prideful. "Who are we hunting anyways?"

"A Digimon known as Musyamon, who's wanted for…an attempt at kidnapping a tamer."

"How are we supposed to deal with that," Alice whimpered as she held dearly onto Tsunomon as if her life depended on it. I patted her on the head.

"Because unlike yours, our Digimon can actually Digivolve."

"They can?! Since when?"

"Our could Digivolve we just haven't tried," butted in Chris.

"A while ago, Alice, I mean almost a year now, we just almost never go into missions so, they never really need to. Now if there are no more questions lets go." We headed for the gate where I put the coordinates for Rerouter jungle in, then stepped through.

I felt the same weird feeling I always felt when I went through one of the portals, regained my composure and started thinking on a plan.

"Okay, Musyamon was last seen in this area, to cover more ground we'll split into 3 groups, Alice, you're with me, Cassidy, go with Maria, Chris, do I even need to say it? When you think you've found his hide out, send us a message and we'll make our way to your location." There were three paths, Scott and Chris decided to on the right, Cassidy and Maria took the left, So Alice and I took the center

Musyamon and a pair of Ninjamon crouched up in the trees, out of sight, but close enough to listen to the conversation. Musyamon growled at the thought that they would send mere children after him, thankfully they didn't know he had allies.

"Ninjamon, take the left and right paths, I'll take the center…" There was a small explosion of smoke and they were gone.

"So you can Digivolve too DemiMeramon?"

"I thought we already clarified that." The little pink ball stared up at the hovering fireball in awe.

"Still, the idea is mind-boggling, what's it like?"

"You'll find out soon, I mean, you're on a job now, we may need to try, same goes with your friends."

"Hold on," whispered Scott, "Something's not right."

"What," Chris looked around and listened for any signs of danger, "I don't hear anything."

"Exactly, wouldn't a jungle that flourishes as well as this one be a bit noisier?" They heard a branch snap in the distance. They went back to back, waiting to be pounced on.

"SNEAKATTACK!" They looked up to see a red ball flying down towards them, then stepped aside and watched it faceplant in the ground. He tried saying something but his voice was muffled in the ground.

"What? Who is this little guy?" He got up off the ground and drew his mini-katana.

"The name's Ninjamon, and you must be the Tamer's trying to hunt down master Musyamon!"

"That answer's both of my questions."

"Let's go, DemiMeramon, you ready?"

"You bet!" Scott drew his Digivice and put his palm on top of it.

"Charge!" DemiMeramon was covered in harsh light and began to change shape.

"Candlemon!" The light stopped and Candlemon floated about, a white faced candle upon a golden pedestal with a DemiMeramon being the flame. "Well you gonna try it?"

"Y-yeah, let's go Koromon! Charge!" Koromon went through a similar transformation with the light, but came out something quite different.

"Agumon!"

"He-he's a little orange dragon?" Ninjamon went into a battle stance, prepping to strike.

Maria and Cassidy had a similar experience, right now we tune in onto them during this time. DemiVeemon had Digivolved to Veemon by this point.

"Step back, you two are useless without the ability to Digivolve!"

"Useless!? You didn't even give me a chance! Veemon's barely changed at all, there's no way he'll win!"

"Come here and say that to my face, I'll wreck you!" Cassidy drew her Digivice.

"DNA, charge!"

"Hopmon Digivolve to; Monodramon!" He was now a little gray dragon with wings going from the bottom of his claws to his body, not big enough to let him fly very well, but still there.

"See, I'm not useless! And that, is a significant change, Boom."

While all of that was going on Alice and I were still walking down our path until…

"You there, Tamers," came the voice, we looked around to see where it was coming from, nothing. "You are the ones sent to hunt me of course, but I won't go down without a fight!" The samurai Digimon flew by from the side, slashing at us with his sword just barely going over our heads. My sister started panicking.

"Ah, Tsunomon! Digivolve, Digivolve, Digivolve!" She was shaking the Digivice all over the place and poking Tsunomon with it.

"You don't know how to use that thing do you?"

"I might have slept through that class…"

"And here I thought you were the smart one. Let me show ya, DNA charge!"

"Kapurimon Digivolve to; Kotemon!" He looked like a small child wearing Kendo training armor, and gave a little laugh. "It's been a while since I've done this." He reached for his Kendo.

"That's it?!" Musyamon started charging at us again.

"Attack!" Kotemon didn't need more direction than that, he charged forward and headbutted Musyamon in the gutt, who stumbled back a little. Musyamon rushed at us again, but this time when Kotemon went after him he was swatted away. Musyamon kept coming our way, then Alice tried doing what I did and all hell broke lose.

"DNA CHARGE!"