The creature then kept hopping up and down.

"How many times has he been hopping up and down?" Estelle asked Tai.

"1,012..." Tai panted after counting how many times the creature had hopped up and down.

Kari placed the food down in front of the creature which made it rush over to eat it instantly.

"Ooh, you're a hungry little whatchamacallit." Lee smiled.

It soon looked up at the group wanting to thank them in it's own way. The creature then tackled Kari in the face.

"Hey, cut it out, stop kissing my sister, you!" Tai scolded before trying to pull off the creature from his sister's face before it then suckled onto his face.

"Hey stop kissing his face!" Estelle scolded as she started to pull off the creature from the young boy's face.

"His... Breath... Stinks..." Tai panted once the creature was off his face.

Estelle then put the creature back to the cat food. "Eat up!"

"I've had enough, he's out of here." Tai growled at the creature.

"Hey!" a voice hissed and the others turned to see the cat. "That's my breakfast!"

"Kari, did you take your cat's food away from him without asking?" Estelle asked.

Kari gave a sad and sorry pout to Estelle.

"What's your cat's name?" Lee asked.

"Miko." Tai replied.

"One of us better stop Miko from attacking the little guy." Lee said as Miko was starting to attack the strange creature.

Estelle tried to stop Miko as he swiped his paw at the creature and took the bowl back. "Bad kitty!"

Miko grumbled as he left with his food bowl.

"Crazy cat..." Estelle sighed. "Reminds me of the stories Mom told me about her Aunt Sarah's cats." She soon winced as Tai and the pink creature both had gotten scratched from Miko.


Later on, Lee and Estelle continued to babysit until Tai and Kari's mother would come home and in the meantime, they would get to know the creature a little better.

"So, what are you?" Estelle asked. "It's okay, you can talk to me."

"Yeah, what are you?" Kari asked, surprising Estelle and Lee.

"She can talk?" Lee asked Tai out of shock.

"Yeah, she rarely talks but not mostly at me." Tai said.

"I'm Koromon, I'm a Digimon, that's short for 'Digital Monster'; I'm from the digital world." Koromon said.

"My name is Kari, and this is my brother, his name is Tai, and these are new babysitters: Estelle and Lee." Kari said to the creature.

"Hi, Kari, Tai-Tai, Lee, Estelle." Koromon replied.

"Never mind..." Kari sighed.

"So he can talk." Lee smiled.

"You're the best friends I've ever had." Koromon said.

"We're the only friends you've ever had." Estelle smiled.

Koromon then latched onto her face, pinning her down.

Estelle groaned, then pulled off the Digimon. "I'm just gonna guess that's how you say thank you."

"Yep." Koromon nodded before he latched onto Kari's face.

Kari giggled as she seemed to enjoy it and he then latched onto Tai's face.

Tai then pulled him off and set him back down on the floor. "Just warn me before you kiss me again."

Koromon soon latched onto Lee's face. Kari giggled to that.

Tai then grimaced as he looked at the floor. "Can I have a warning about that too?"

"Not again." Estelle winced.

"Koromon." Lee groaned as he got Koromon off his face.

Koromon only looked innocent.

"I'll clean it up this time." Estelle said.

Lee looked thankful to her.


Back in Emi's castle...

"Ugh, I can't believe it did that..." Tony groaned about Koromon making messes in Tai and Kari's house like a non housebroken pet.

"Reminds me of when Bolt was a puppy before the show started." Penny could relate.

"He must have not been house trained yet." Akito said,

"Ah, pets." Drell shook his head with a laugh as he watched with the kids.

"Anyway, let's continue watching." Megan said.

"Yes, let's." Drell seemed annoyed of their commentary.

They soon continued to watch what was going on.


With the Digimon around, there appeared to be electrical problems throughout Tai and Kari's city. And where since Lee and Estelle didn't have any place to stay, they decided to stay with Tai and Kari's family. Of course, they were often asked to babysit, but since Estelle loved younger kids, she never did mind, especially since back home she babysat Max and Emmy with Lee after he found babysitting fun. And where that night, Estelle, Lee, Tai, and Kari would soon see Koromon digivolve.

"So, is it evolving?" Lee asked Estelle.

"In this world, it's known as Digivolving, but yes." Estelle replied.

They were unsure how to feel about this as Koromon looked like he was terrified and where Kari had to wake up her brother to let him be informed about this. Kari blew her whistle while Tai was trying to get back to sleep. Kari continued to blow her whistle until she could get him up.

"Don't make me get the water bucket~" Lee said.

"I'm up, I'm up!" Tai yelped as he then got out of bed.

"Dad does that to Tony on the first day of school every year." Lee chuckled.

"So, what's the big idea waking me up in the middle of the night?" Tai asked while rubbing his left eye.

"Koromon doesn't look so good." Estelle commented as she looked in Kari's bed.

Tai soon looked in Kari's bed to see what wrong with Koromon. Estelle looked worried.

"Is it sick?" Lee wondered.

"You gave him your liver sticks, didn't you, Kari?" Tai blamed.

Kari only whistled in response. Koromon then expanded and grew into a horrific size. The Digimon then appeared to have become a dinosaur which made Tai panic. Kari opened the window and then rode on the creature's back.

"Kari, get off that dinosaur's back this instant!" Lee told her.

Kari ignored him as she continued to ride on the dinosaur's back and it broke through the window.

"I'm gonna get grounded for this..." Tai muttered.

"What's going on in there?!" the mother's voice called out. "Did you kids break another lamp?!"

"Uh, it's okay, Mrs. Kamiya, we got it!" Estelle called back.

"Piggy back?" Kari asked the dinosaur-like Digimon.

"Kari, no!" Tai cried out.

The Digimon then leaped high up into the air with Kari on its back.

"Oh, we are so dead." Lee said.

"Kari!" Tai called out for his sister.

The Digimon then crashed on top of a car.

"Now let's play horsey." Kari told the Digimon.

The Digimon then ran with her on its back.


"If Mom's worried about the lamp, wait 'til she sees her car, come on, guys!" Tai ran out of the room with Lee and Estelle.

"It can't be that hard to find them." Lee said.

"I just hope it isn't too late," Estelle said. "This reminds me of Dad and Aunt Cherry's stories about Jurassic Park."

"It sounds terrifying." Lee said.

"Yeah..." Estelle agreed.

"Kari!" Lee called out as he ran as fast as he could with his girlfriend. "Digimon Dinosaur thing!"

"How hard is it to find a dinosaur?!" Tai exclaimed.

They came to a broken down vending machine.

"Call it a hunch, but I think they were here." Estelle narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Kari!" Tai called out for his sister. His voice seemed to echo throughout the city.

Lee soon heard Kari's voice with his super-strong ears. They then looked up to see fireballs flying through the air.

"I suggest we go to where those flying fireballs came from." Lee said.

"I was gonna say that." Estelle playfully pouted.


Soon enough, every other kid in the city appeared to be waking up.

"At least it can't get worse." Lee said.

Estelle then face-palmed, knowing that was never the right thing to say in a situation like this.

"Whoa..." Tai's eyes widened as he saw a huge egg coming from the sky. "I'd hate to see the chicken that egg came out of."

The egg then hatched to show a huge bird-like Digimon.

"Uh-oh, another Digimon." Lee said.

"Polly want a cracker?" Tai asked nervously. "A really big cracker?"

Koromon and Kari were on the other side of the road from the big bird Digimon.

"I'll distract the big bird." Lee said.

"That's something you don't hear everyday." Estelle commented to Tai.

Tai ran to his sister as she looked distressed. "Kari, come on, let's go."

"Koromon!" Kari cried for the dinosaur Digimon.

"Hey! Big Bird, down here!" Lee called out.

The bird looked over to him.

"You gonna tell me about the letter and number of the day?!" Lee then mocked since it was a big bird.

The bird Digimon glared at him and was ready to attack him. Lee's eyes widened. The bird Digimon roared as it went straight for him.

"Alright, time to put this strength of mine to good use." Lee said.

The bird Digimon charged for him until he was then suddenly lifted up by the boy.

"Gotcha big guy." Lee smirked before starting to spin the bird Digimon around.

The bird Digimon then cried out.

"Sorry, but you've left me no choice." Lee smirked to the Digimon. He then soon sent it flying and where Koromon soon attacked it. "I guess it must be winter 'cuz you're flyin' South!" he then laughed at his little joke.

The Bird Digimon soon shook off its dizziness and then flew back, laughing evilly.

"No way!" Lee's eyes widened.

"My turn." The bird Digimon said evilly as electricity started to spark.

Lee's eyes widened before he was then electrocuted.

"Sonic Destroyer!" The bird Digimon yelled before he attacked Lee and then Koromon.

Lee yelped as he then ran out of the way. "Where's your brother when we need him?!"

"I am just as good as Akito!" Estelle said as she protected Tai and Kari.

The attack hit the bridge that was on top of them and where it looked like it might be the end for them.

"Uh-oh..." Estelle's blue eyes widened. But to her surprise, they were never covered in rubble. "Huh?"


They all looked to see it was all clear and Kari was calling out for the Digimon. The three soon looked up to see Koromon much bigger. It then went away far into the nearly destroyed city.

"Why do I feel like this is only the beginning?" Lee asked Estelle.

"It sure is." Estelle said.


"That was only the beginning?" Akito asked Drell as Emi lay in his lap and he stroked her hair.

"Yep, the real story begins four years later." Drell replied.

Estelle and Lee soon vanished and where they would appear in four years into the future. They of course, did not age much, but Tai and Kari would of course along with their friends.