Author's note: Hello! Feintingfox is back working on this project after over half a year of no updates. Thank's to Dark's Light who was my favorite reviewer and hopefully she notices that I've come back to the project. I also want to thank Ari Phoenix and Mewspice for their reviews of the previous chapters. As always please read and review. I love reviews whether they're flames, suggestions for making the story better, or just saying 'Good Story!' I'll take 'em! I would prefer suggestions to make it better or comments about what you like best though but its up to you, the reviewers so dont let me down

DigiworldDotNet Chapter 3: Player's Guide Part 1

"I hope this one doesn't say the same thing over and over again." Kyoko said as she looked at the college aged boy.

Gennai looked at her and said, "You must be talking about the NPCs. Don't worry, I'm a real person."

Kyoko looked shocked, "Finally a response."

"What did you call us?" Akari asked as she looked at him. He was over six feet tall, thin, and had short brown hair,

"Beta-Testers." Gennai responded, "I should probably introduce myself better first though. I'm Gennai and I'm the person who made it so that you could play this game."

"Its amazing so far. So realistic." Akari said.

"Well…technically it is real." Gennai said.

"Huh?"

"Never mind. I should just tell you that you three will be the first people to play this game so I wanted to personally explain how to." Gennai said, "Basically this is a role-playing game. When you finish in this station, you go into the digital world and basically have fun, level your digimon up, and defeat evil digimon."

"So what are these digimon?" Kyoko asked.

"Digimon is short for Digital Monster. They're creature made of data that have special attacks, personalities, and can evolve into stronger forms. Each player gets up to three digimon to have as partners."

"So when do we get to play?" Keisuke asked

"In a few minutes. First, follow me." Gennai said as he led them to the woman who was in the room, "Hand her your digivice and she'll upload your digimon partners onto it"

"Please hand me your digivice so that I may upload your digimon partners onto it" The woman said.

"Are they going to keep doing this?" Kyoko asked

"Well normally, I wont walk the newbies through the process so the NPCs are programmed to do so." Gennai explained

"Please hand me your digivice so that I may upload…"

"SHUT UP!" Kyoko yelled as she threw her green digivice at the woman. Keisuke chuckled a bit and he and Akari handed their digivices to the woman. "Don't laugh! You must be getting annoyed by them too." Kyoko snapped at Keisuke.

The woman plugged a wire into the bottom of each digivice and the screens of each one began to glow.

"She's uploading and programming the digivice with the basic functions right now. Later in the game you can find more programs to upload onto your digivices."

"What kind?" Keisuke asked.

"Through out the game there are hidden items such as digimentals and cards that modify your digimon but in order to use these items, not only do you have to find them, you also have to purchase an application for your digivice that will allow it to use those items." Gennai explained, "Besides those, there are also maps and some others that are useful. At the start, your digivices will be uploaded with a text messaging function, phone function, low level digivolution programs, and a map of the area where you start the game at. However the phone is limited to other digivices within two miles and the digivice will only hold a maximum of ten messages so upgrading those to have a wider range and greater memory are available later on. You also have to buy programs to allow for higher evolution levels and maps of other areas."

"…That's a lot." Keisuke stated

"There are also a lot more functions than that but you'll have to discover those on your own." Gennai replied.

"Your digivices have finished programming and uploading." The woman said as Gennai explained. She unplugged the digivices and handed them back to their owners. "Please walk to the next room to continue." She added at the end.

"Come on." Gennai said as he lead the three to the next room. This room was covered in padding. The walls and floors were all padded and baby cradles were randomly placed on the floor.

"What's this room for?" Akari asked.

"This is the nursery." Gennai said. He led them to the far side of the room where another NPC woman wearing a nurse outfit was standing, "She'll explain the next part." Gennai said as he sat down and watched.

"Hello!" The woman said and smiled at the players, "I'm going to teach you how to hatch a digiegg." She said, "For now you'll only hatch one digimon but you will have a chance to hatch the others later." She pulled a white digivice out of one of her pockets and showed it to them, "Press the 'menu' button to open up the main menu." She said as she showed them how to on her digivice. The menu button opened a list on the digivice screen.

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Digimon

Digivolution

Items

Quests

Phone

Messaging

Map

Settings

Help

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"Please choose the 'Digimon' option in the main menu." The woman said as she did so on her digivice. The 'Digimon' option opened up a new screen. On each digivice's screen were three pictures of pixilated eggs with the digimon's name next to it.

"Gomamon, Crabmon, and Syakomon…" Akari read out loud off her digivice, "Those are the three that I downloaded." Keisuke and Kyoko looked at theirs which showed eggs with their digimon.

"Gabumon, Betamon, and Tentomon…" Kyoko read

"Tapirmon, Demidevimon, and Candlemon…" Keisuke also read out loud.

"Please decide which digimon you would like to hatch first." The woman said. She paused for a moment while they decided, "Now highlight the digimon you wish to hatch and select it. It will ask you if you would like to hatch. Please select yes." She explained and showed with hers. Her digivice only had a single egg on it named 'Agumon'. As she selected it, one of the nearby cradles glowed and when the glowing dissipated a pink blob was there in the cradle.

"This is Koromon." The woman said, "The names listed in your digivice are your digimon's rookie form. The hatchling digimon however will appear in in-training form. With a little training you in-training digimon with digivolve into rookie form." She said, "Please walk to the next room to continue" She finished off.

"Which digimon should we hatch first?" Kyoko asked

"It doesn't really matter since we don't know what the differences are." Keisuke answered, "I'm going with Demidevimon." He said.

"I guess I'll hatch Gomamon." Akari followed.

"Uh.. Gabumon I guess then…" Kyoko said.

Each of them selected the digimon and pressed 'Hatch'. Soon three cradles began glowing and three small digimon appeared. The first was a bluish-gray blob with floppy ears and thin red eyes. The second was an orange furry ball with red eyes, tan fur on its face, and a big gray horn on its forehead. The last was a purplish-gray seal-like creature with blue eyes, a white chest, and a flame on it's forehead.

"I'm Pagumon!" The blue blob said to Keisuke.

"I'm Tsunomon!" The horned digimon said to Kyoko.

"And I'm Pukamon!" The seal said to Akari.

Gennai smiled as the kids greeted their first partners. "Lets move on." Gennai said, getting up, "Before you hatch any more digimon, you'll have to learn a little about training these ones first. Follow me." He said as he led them to the next room.