"Hey, watch where you're going!" A boy shouted as a man rammed into him, causing him to crash to the ground. He looked up just in time to see the man's retreating form before he turned to his cards, which were now spilled onto the pavement.

"Huh?" He asked himself as he picked up an unfamiliar card. "No, this can't be, this is too many!" He had set up his deck perfectly, with just the right amount of cards and everything, it had taken him weeks to get it just right! Maybe if he headed to the playground he could ditch it on some loser.


"I don't want it!" Kenta exclaimed. "Here, you take it." He shoved the card at Henry, who took it with a confused look on his face as everyone else left.

"O-kay." He said, looking down at the card.

"Well that was rude." Terriermon said. "You might as well try it out, a card's a card!" Henry shrugged, and then started to swipe the card. As soon as he started to it became jammed, like it wouldn't go in, and then started to glow. He took it out in surprise and saw that the card had changed. Now it was the blue card.

"What the…" He knew one thing for sure, he was going to have to go to his dad about this.


My days had fallen into more or less of a routine, but today, today was different. I woke up long after Takato had left and his parents had opened up the shop, so I was mostly alone. My only companion was the thing that woke me up. My Digivice, was beeping.

You'd think it would be a different sound. It was a new model after all, but the beeping was one that had followed me my whole life, and in a way, for a second before I checked my digivice, I had a brief, calming feeling, of home. But I knew I had to see what it wanted, since it had been silent since I had arrived here.

A holograph screen came out of it, an arrow twirling around, as if attempting to lock onto a signal, before it paused, pointing to somewhere in the city. It only took me a few seconds to get some clothes on and leave, something was out there for me, and I needed to get to it.


Mr. Wong came home to his normal household. His wife greeted him, and he gave her a hug, like always. He hugged his youngest, like always, and gave his other two kids a kiss on the forehead, like always. But one of his sons were missing, not like always, and when said son came out of his room asking for a favor, he took with slight trepidation, knowing that change had been in the air for a while now.

He hooked up the wires to the computer, setting up the scanner like he had been taught by people he tried not to think about anymore. He turned to his son, his eyes only dwelling on the Terriermon for a split second before focusing on his son. It figures it would be his son that became a digidestined.

"Okay, let's solve that mystery of yours." He said, and his son pulled out a card. Mr. Wong inspected it briefly, turning it over in his hand, trying to see if he could recognize the handiwork, and he had a hunch, but put it in the scanner. He had to be sure. 1's and 0's started to appear on the screen.

"What do those mean?" Henry asked.

"Nothing yet." The continued until they stopped, and Mr. Wong's eyes widened slightly. It was true, it was them. A small gasp sprung out of his mouth.

"What is it, dad?" Henry asked, but Mr. Wong stood up.

"It's nothing, just a bunch of meaningless data." He left the room, but it was more like he was distancing himself from the ghost of two old friends.


Rika, Takato, and Henry were running across town, searching for the origins of the mysterious blue card, and it turned into a major wild goose chase, but eventually they found Jeramie, the boy that had originally found the card.

"Where did you find it?" Henry asked.

"Just in the city, by the electronic department, why?" He asked, but Rika stepped in.

"You're lying about something, spill it." She said, crossing her arms over her chest and giving him a bone chilling glare.

"Ah, well, I did find it a weird way. A man bumped into me, and then it was suddenly there." He explained.

"What did the man look like?" Takato this time. "Was he tall, short, fat skinny?" Jeramie shook his head.

"It all happened so fast, I don't remember much." Takato looked down in defeat.

"Well, what do you remember?" Henry persisted.

"Only one thing, he was wearing a really long blue jacket, and it had yellow paw prints on it."


Meanwhile, somewhere in the city, living in a small, humble apartment, was a thirty something year old man, hanging up on a door behind him was a long blue jacket with yellow streaks and paw prints. He was typing away busily on a computer, when he got a call. He glanced at the call ID, he didn't know why, only one person would be calling him, only one person had stayed in contact with him.

"Did you get it to him?" He asked the question quickly, picking up where their previous conversation had been left.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it got to one of them." He leaned back casually in his chair. "Thanks for helping me out with that, I mean I'm better at using computers, but not nearly as good as you are."

"Not a problem." Silence filled the line for a few seconds.

"Are you even sure that they are what we think they are?" the brunette in the apartment asked into his phone.

"Well, no, but my readings having been coming back mostly positive, and in a few more I should be able to say I'm 100%." The brunette nodded at the words.

"Good, I'll probably talk to you later tonight. It's not like I have anything else to do."

"…have you heard from any of the others?" The brunettes eyes dropped.

"No. I'll see you later." He hung up and looked at the ceiling, as if it could tell him how it had come to this.


The sun was setting and I was still chasing my digivice across the town. Whenever I thought I was right where whatever I was looking for should be, the direction suddenly changed. After hours of searching, I had narrowed it down to somewhere in the Park. I went to one of the more abandoned areas, and then my Digivice started to let out a stronger beeping, and I looked up to see what it was I had been chasing.

In a small clearing sat one object. It was as white as freshly fallen snow, pure soft looking. It was a small, down feather. But this wasn't any ordinary feather; this was a feather I had seen so many times in my life. Okay, maybe not this particular one, but more like what it came from. Or who it came from I should say.

"Angemon." The name escaped my mouth as I walked towards the feather. So did this mean that Patamon was okay? I scooped it up into my hand, but I only felt it for a second before it started to glow and change shape. My eyes widened as I stared at something I hadn't seen since I was seven or so, something that was long gone.

It looked worn and a little rusty, missing an essential piece in the middle, the chain it was held on coming apart, but I would always recognize it. It was my Tag, albeit without my crest, but it was my tag all the same.

"What the heck is going on?!" I yelled at the sky, as if it was holding the answers, keeping them from me, purposely driving me mad.


Mr. Wong was on the roof of his apartment building, doing Tai Chi to calm his nerves, but his mind had different ideas, and chose to wander about wherever it pleased, including subjects he had managed not to think of for years.

'It had been so simple back then.' He thought to himself, images or his and several faceless people working feverishly around a computer. 'We just wanted to see them again. We failed.' He took a deep breath in, and let another deep breath out. 'I lost her for that.' He shook his head slightly as he changed positions. No. Don't dwell on the past. Just, don't.

'What's happened to us?' He wondered for the umpteenth time, and a lone tear slid down his cheek.


So, I know there wasn't a ton of TK in this chapter, and I hate to tell you this, but in a few chapters that will probably happen again. This chapter was more of the kind that was focusing on the 'mysteries' of the adults than on the kids. Hopefully I can fit him in more next chapter, but I did give him something he'll need in a few chapters , so that's good ;) Until next time

~the-east-hunter

P.S. I'm such a troll, betcha thought Patamon was gonna come in, huh? :)) Nope, that can of worms is something I'm opening up later ;)