Ever been disheartened by something someones said before. That's how I felt after a pm from one guy about this story. And his problem? The small issue of couplings. If you don't agree or like the couplings, don't read a story, it's perfectly simple. Oh and if any of you are confused about how certain people or Digimon became a couple, that will all be explained either in the story at a later date, or in a prequel that may be eventually written.

Anyway, sorry about that, if you are still reading, guy who messaged me, no offence meant, but seriously dude, it's just a story.

Toei own Digimon, until I get rich enough to buy the copyright.

'Takatomon, catch!'

Takato wasn't paying attention and the Frisbee [AN1] Guilmon threw hit him square between the eyes.

'OW!'

'Nice catch, gogglehead.'

The sarcastic response from Rika was inevitable but what annoyed Takato was the fact that it was her talking to him that had distracted him from the game.

'I can't catch when you're sitting over there distracting me!' he said indignantly.

'Most people can talk and play a game of Frisbee at the same time Takato,' said Rika. She stood up, walked over to him and whispered in his ear. 'Or were you too busy staring at my chest to pay attention to a silly little game.'

Takato went red in the face which gave Rika her answer. 'Don't worry,' she continued whispering, 'I'll go easy on you in bed tonight to make up for it.' And with that she grabbed Takato's hoodie and pulled him forcefully into a kiss.

Takato and Rika had been going out for a couple of years now. Suffice to say, Rika was the one who wore the trousers in the relationship. What she meant by making up to Takato in the bedroom, still might not be to Takato's taste. But it certaintly would be to Rika's.

The other Tamers still found it odd that Rika and Takato had become a couple but they supposed it was inevitable. Ever since the D-reaper about five years ago, the Tamers had become a tight nit group of friends and also rather insular. Many people in Shinjuku did not agree with the presence of the Digimon, but the government and Hynos stopped anyone from getting too worked up about it.

Because of this, the Tamers kept themselves to themselves. Since Henry started going out with Jeri, Rika was hardly going to go for the other Tamer men and Susie was the only other female, so Takato didn't have much choice. Besides, he liked strong women and when Rika moved schools to be with the other Tamers, she made her move. And Takato still has the scars.

Admittedly, some of the others thought that Rika really liked Ryo, despite the special kind of hostility she reserved for when he was around. But an incident involving a Christmas party, some mistletoe and Ryo not been able to walk properly for a month soon made everyone realise that this wasn't the case. Ryo hadn't been seen or heard by the others in months anyway, which is how Rika liked it.

As for Henry and Jeri; at first Jeri had been hesitant to keep hanging around the other Tamers, as the Digimon reminded her too much of the loss of Leomon and the horror she'd been through with the D-Reaper. But in the end she practically adopted Calumon as her own and although not a proper Tamer, she still felt she was Calumon's Tamer in her own right. Henry helped her wipe away the remaining scars when he came into her life as more than a friend, although no one's quite sure how that happened. Terriermon has some theories but although humorous none of them were particularly plausible.

Apart from the two couples, the other Tamers were all single for various reasons. Either they weren't great around girls in Kenta's case. Or in Susie's case, Henry scared away any suitors. Ryo was too busy fucking random fan girls and Kazu was suspected to be homosexual. Although it was only Rika that suspected this to begin with, she's very good at spreading rumours. Amongst the Digimon, only Terriermon and Lopmon had started a relationhip, once Susie had grown up enought to stop bothering them every minute of the day to play.

'Takato, are you going to throw back the Frisbee or not?'

Takato broke his kiss with Rika and looked around to see Henry smirking at them.

'Err, I got distracted,' mumbled Takato.

'Yeah, that seems to happen a lot when Rika's involved,' said Henry as he rolled his eyes.

Takato grinned and tossed the Frisbee to Henry. Sure, the other Tamers joked about him and Rika, but they had quickly got used to it and Rika was more than capable of throwing jokes back at them. Plus, if that didn't work, she could always throw her fists at them.

However, despite the way life was going, the Tamers were all oblivous to the events already set in motion. As they continued with their Frisbee game, they remained unaware of what was happening. The sky slowly clouded over and the wind picked up, stronger and colder than before, and the Tamers decided to abandon their game.

'Brrr!' shivered Susie, 'Where'd the sun go?'

'Huh, I thought the weatherman said it'd be bright sunshine all day?' said Kenta, 'Wrong as usual.'

'This is no natural phenomenon,' said Renamon, dropping down from the tree above them where she'd been resting. Unfortunately, Kazu was still not used to her stealth.

'Argh! God dammit, stop doing that Renamon!' he yelled.

'Hey! Don't talk to her like that!' said Rika angrily.

'Why does she always have to make me jump out of my skin like that! I'll shout at her if I want!'

The argument between Kazu and Rika distracted everyone from what the weather was doing. It was Kenta who saw what was happening first.

'Uh, guys?' he tried to no success.

'Guys?' he said louder but still unsuccessfully.

'GUYS!'

Everyone looked up as he shouted.

'What?' growled Rika.

'Well... look.'

Everyone followed Kenta's finger and saw above them that the clouds had turned into a swirling vortex, similar to that which occured during the Locomon incident.

'Uh oh, this can't be good,' understated Terriermon.

Suddenly, a blinding flash of light made everyone cringe away instintively and when they looked up, they saw what they never thought they'd see again, coming right for them.

'A data stream!' shouted Henry in warning.

But it was too late. The data stream was upon them before even the fastest of them could react. The park was quiet that day and no one was around to witness seven teenagers and seven Digimon disappear from the face of the earth. The clouds dissipated and the day returned to normal for the people of Shinjuku. Hypnos had detected the disturbance but thought nothing of it. It would be hours before anyone realised the Tamers were missing.

'Are we there yet?'

'Oh, shut up Davis,' responded TK.

The two of them were on the back of Pegasusmon heading towards where Gennai had directed them, still unsure about who these new allies he'd referred to would be. The others flew alongside them on Birdramon, Kabuterimon, Nefertimon and Halsemon [AN2]. Eventually, Izzy signaled for them to descend and land, where the Digimon promptly de-Digivolved.

'Here we are,' said Tai, 'Now let's see if we can find these guys Gennai was on about.'

'All very well saying that Tai,' responded Matt, 'But where the hell do we start looking? All we've got is miles of forest around us.'

'Gennai gave us very specific instructions as to where we were supposed to go and we're in exactly the right place now,' said Izzy, 'Presumably if we wait, they'll turn up.'

'Err guys?'

Everyone looked at Ken who was busy looking up at the sky. 'Where did those clouds come from?'

The DigiDestined looked up to that dark clouds were slowly obscuring the light from the sun.

'Whoa, who turned out the lights?' said Davis.

Everyone tensed up, expecting the worst. But instead of anything evil appearing, they were greeted with two blurs falling from the sky; a red one and a blue one.

'ARRRRRGGGHHH!' screamed the blue blur as it crashed into the ground in front of Davis. Veemon wasn't as lucky as the red blur fell right on top of him.

'Oooh,' groaned both Veemon and the red blur, which as the dust cleared turned out to be a red dragon-like Digimon, who was considerably larger than Veemon and had left them both with a killer headache.

'Takato,' whined the red Digimon, 'My head hurts.'

The blue blur turned out to be a young guy in a blue hoodie and wearing goggles just like Davis. He stood up slowly and said, 'Yeah Guilmon, mine too.' It took the guy several seconds to realise he had company; a lot of company.

Davis stared at the guy standing in front of him, and the guy stared right back. Neither of them seemed to want to talk first. But before either of them could say anything, more people started to emerge from the trees around them. First, came two girls, accompanied by two Digimon.

'Hey gogglehead, you alri...?' started the red headed girl, 'Two goggle heads! Jeri, please tell me I'm seeing things.'

'Nope,' said the other girl, 'There's two of them alright.'

'Yay!' said the small white Digimon floating above the two girls, 'New friends!'

'We don't know whether they're friendly or not yet Calumon,' said the yellow fox-like Digimon.

'I can assure you, we're pretty tame,' interrupted Joe.

Again, before the conversation could begin in earnest, another guy and a younger girl came out of the woods and into the clearing along with two very similar looking Digimon.

'Ah there you guys are,' said the guy, 'I was beginning to... wonder... err...' He drifted off as he noticed the DigiDestined.

'Henry,' the younger girl said quietly to the guy, 'Who are these guys?'

'Erm, I really don't know,' he replied.

'Well, you see...' started Tai. But he was interrupted by loud voices coming from the woods.

'Did you really have to land on me Guardromon?'

'I'm sorry Kazu, I'll try and aim better the next time I'm falling helplessly through time and space.'

'Yeah, anyway it'd have hurt Guardromon more if you'd landed on him.'

'You calling me fat again Kenta!'

Two guys came into the clearing followed by two Digimon of very contrasting sizes.

'Oh there you are chumley,' said the guy wearing a visor to the new goggle wearing guy , 'Was that cool or what? It's like we've been...'

Like the others before him, his train of thought was distracted by the fact that an awful lot of people and Digimon were standing in awkward silence in the middle of the forest clearing. Eventually, Davis broke it, in his own unique style.

'I forget, are these the bad guys that we're meant to attack?'

The DigiDestined unanimously face palmed at Davis' comment. 'Davis you never know when to say the right thing, do you?' sighed TK.

'Or when to just shut up entirely,' muttered Matt. Davis ignored him and replied to his boyfriend.

'Come on TK, you know I try!'

Before TK could respond, the other goggle wearing guy spoke up.

'Wait, Davis?' he questioned.

'Err... yeah?' answered Davis.

The guy looked Davis up and down and asked, 'Davis Motomiya?' [AN3]

'Ah, you've heard of me,' said Davis smugly, 'I suppose it's only natural you know the leader of the DigiDestined.'

Whilst the other DigiDestined rolled their eyes at Davis' comments, the other goggle wearing guy's jaw dropped several inches, as did many of the strangers' jaws. The guy with the visor seemed especially affected.

'B-But... that means that... you're Tai!' he stuttered as he started pointing at the DigiDestined individually, 'A-And you must be TK! And Kari! And-And, oooh...'

The guy promptly fainted to the shock of the DigiDestined but to the amusement of the red headed girl.

'Ignore the obsessive fan boy,' she said, 'I always do anyway.'

'...You guys know us all then?' asked a bemused Tai.

'Well...' said the goggle wearing guy, 'I think it's best if we introduce ourselves, since we all already know who you guys are. I'm Takato and this guy here is my partner Guilmon.'

'Hi,' said the red dinosaur cheerfully.

'The girls here are Jeri and Rika,' continued Takato, 'Along with patners Renamon and Calumon.' Jeri said a refreshing 'Hi,' whilst Rika curtly nodded.

'This is Henry,' Takato said patting him on his shoulder, 'And his younger sister Susie and partners Terriermon and Lopmon. Over there's Kenta and Marineangemon, the big guy is Guardromon and the guy passed out on the floor is Kazu. Collectively though, we're the Digimon Tamers.'

At the mention of his name, Kazu slowly came to.

'Oooh,' he groaned, 'I had the weirdest dream. I was in the DigiWorld and I met the DigiDestined.'

'It's no dream buddy,' said Ken as he held out his hand to help Kazu up. Kazu stared at the hand before looking at Kens face and fainting once more.

'What's the deal with you guys?' asked Sora as she saw Kazu fade out of conscience, 'It's like you've seen ghosts or something.'

'Well, you see,' started Takato, '...You guys are gonna think we're nuts but... where we come from, you guys... are, err...'

'What gogglehead here is trying to say, is that where we come from, you guys are all fictional characters,' stated Rika bluntly. [AN4]

The DigiDestined stared at Rika as though she was insane, but the looks on the other newcomers faces told them she wasn't joking.

'Fictional characters?' asked Joe disbelievingly.

'Yep,' answered Rika.

'Anime characters to be specific,' said Kenta.

'We're in an anime series?' asked Davis.

'Yep,' said Rika a second time.

'AWESOME!'

The others looked at Davis, 'What?'

'Actually,' said Yolei, 'For once I agree with you Davis, this is pretty cool.'

'So, he's just excited to have met us?' Mimi asked as she poked Kazu with her foot to see if he was alright.

'Are you kidding?' said Henry, 'You guys are his heroes.'

'Yeah,' said Takato, 'All your adventures and stuff, the lessons in teamwork and friendship, they certaintly helped us out when we went through our own trials.'

'And the goggles?' asked Davis, expecting Takato to tell him he was his hero.

'Oh, I bought these after I saw Tai wearing them,' he responded, deflating Davis' ego considerably.

'Multiverse,' Izzy suddenly muttered attracting the attention of the others.

'Multiverse?' asked Matt.

'Huh?' Izzy hadn't meant to mutter outloud but the others were looking at him to explain anyway. 'Basically it's a theory that says there are an infinite number of universes all either only minutly different or completely different to the last,' explained Izzy, 'So that in our universe, we exist as people but in their universe, we are only anime characters.' [AN5]

'Theorectically then, we're anime characters in another universe,' said Henry. [AN6]

'Exactly,' said Izzy, 'Wow, this is mind boggling.'

'If you nerds are quite finished,' interrupted Rika, 'I've guessed already we're in the DigiWorld, or at least your DigiDestined DigiWorld, but why are we here?'

Before any of the DigiDestined could respond, they all heard a loud rustling in the trees.

'Err, are there any more of you guys?' Tai asked the Tamers.

'Nope, we're all here,' answered Takato.

But Takato was wrong. Expecting the worst, everyone tensed up ready to fight, but instead the bushes parted and out came something most unexpected.

'GOD DAMMIT AKIYAMA!' Rika screamed at Ryo, 'You almost gave us a freaking heart attack!'

Ryo stood there smiling with Monodramon by his side, 'Nice to know I still have that effect on you wildcat.' His response elicited a scowl from Rika and a pratically inaudible grumble of 'Damn Ryo, always flirting with Rika,' from an annoyed Takato.

Ryo then noticed the DigiDestined and his eyes widened. He looked at Ken and saw it in the younger guys eyes as he slowly put two and two together.

'Oh boy,' said Ryo scratching the back of his head, 'This is awkward.'

And so they've met. But Ryo's still got some explaining to do. In fact both sides need to get to know each other better. Might be a while before the next update, until then, bye!

AN1 - Frisbee is of course a brand name hence the capital F and is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company.

AN2 - Presuming each armor Digimon can carry two humans and one other Digimon and Kabuterimon and Birdramon can carry three humans and two other Digimon.

AN3 - Use of names in this story will follow the English language version with the exceptions: Izzy's first name is Koushiro with Izzy being a nickname derived from his surname Izumi and TK's full name is Takeru Takaishi with TK being a nickname.

AN4 - This story follows the idea that the Digimon anime series mentioned in Tamers was Digimon Adventure 01 and 02.

AN5 - The multiverse theory in reality basically does mean that with infinite other universes, somewhere Digimon DO actually exist. Which is an awesome thought. It also means that somewhere every fanfic ever written has happened, including this one. Which is a harrowing thought.

AN6 - Haha, don't be silly Henry.