Okay, I received my first real insults the other day. I could tell they had not even read the story. All they said was along the lines of "stop writing this stupid idea" and "you stink and your work stinks too." They also posted it under the first chapter, indicating they did not even put the effort into even pretending they read it. If someone wanted to insult my work, they should at least make the effort to sound like they actually read it. Instead of being upset, I found it pathetic and deleted it.

On to less stupid things. First, in case no one already knew, I do not own digimon season 1, 2, 3, or anything to do with digimon or the characters. The only things that are of my own creation that have been shown in this work so far are the characters of Destiny and Fate. That will change later. I have many things planned, including a few new tricks for the tamers.

Next, I need reviews!!! Ma Jr. has been very reliable on this and Linkmaste has been fairly good at this too. However, I know more people read this. So leave one and be nice.

How do you move seven digimon across town subtly? Some were going to be impossible to hide. And most of the group, human and digimon, had no idea of their final destination. The final solution was surprisingly simple and Tai was a little stunned because of that.

While Agumon, Leomon, and the red reptilian digimon remained with the children in the open, because of their sizes, Gatomon and Biyomon led the yellow fox and the lower form of Beelzemon across the rooftops. When the Digidestined of Courage asked what Terriermon would do, the dark-haired boy answered that the rabbit could do a "great impression of stuffed animal." It wasn't a perfect solution, since the tall shape of Leomon still drew attention, it was better than having them all together.

"Takatomon, are we going to eat soon?" whined the red rookie to the goggle-wearing youth.

The boy chuckled, "Guilmon, is that all you ever think about? What about all the really cool stuff that's going on?"

"But we left before I got any cake and now my stomach wants it."

"Your stomach always wants something. It really is a bottomless pit."

Tai finally asked, "Why does he call you 'Takatomon'?"

The boy rubbed the back of his head, "He doesn't do it all the time anymore, but it's kind of a long story. He just had trouble telling the difference between humans and digimon when we first met and the name kind of stuck around. I'm just Takato."

The older kid grinned, "Really, he thought you was a digimon?"

"He's not exactly Einstein," muttered Terriermon.

"Terriermon," groaned the digimon's partner. "You really need to learn 'tact' sometime and you're supposed to be a toy right now."

"Momentai, Henry," he answered cheerfully. "It's not like nobody knows about digimon around here."

Sora pointed out, "But they aren't so common that they are ignored. Large groups gain notice. And three in one place is already pushing it."

"So keep quiet or we'll gag you," growled the other red-head, the one with the heart t-shirt.

After a few seconds of silence, Tai felt his curiosity was too strong to wait. This new group, the dark-haired girl's cryptic words of another reality and television shows, and all the strangeness was just too much. The boy opened his mouth and the first question emerged.

"What in the world does 'momentai' mean?"

"Prodigious!"

Kari yanked the phone away from her ear. Davis, Ken, and T.K. hadn't been nearly as loud. Even Davis, leader of the younger generation of Digidestined, had been somewhat calmer. While the news of new digidestined was interesting enough, when she mentioned the strange cloaked figure who spoke of other realities, the boys had reacted in a variety of ways. Ken had been quietly thoughtful. T.K. had been curious, but accepting of her report. Davis had been confused and curious. But only Izzy had been this explosively excited.

"Are you telling me you have encountered beings from another reality? From alternate human and digital worlds than ours? Are they still there?" the boy babbled. She could hear Tentomon in the background, trying to question him about what had him so excited. "Can I meet them?"

She laughed, "We're headed to my and Tai's house right now. I've contacted everyone else I could and told them to meet us there. It would be great if you could be there."

"I'd love to. Of course, I'll have to be careful. When dealing with alternate realities or time lines, you run the risk of unintentionally affecting or influencing the other, possibly…"

"Good-bye, Izzy. See you there," the girl interrupted.

She hung up on the computer expert. She shook her head at the older boy's enthusiasm. This was the sort of thing that would make this logic-based digidestined happy. While he might struggle for a time with the apparent disregard that Destiny and her friends would represent to the normal laws of the universe, Izzy would be quick to adapt and try to understand the new laws, just as he had tried to understand the logic of the digital world.

Kari looked at the cloaked figure that had appeared on her doorstep earlier that day. The dark-haired girl had explained some of her mission and that those with her came from an alternate reality. Gatomon had reacted with suspicion until Destiny started talking about things very few people should know about. When the blue-eyed girl knew that over eight years ago, the Kamiya family computer had given Kari and her brother a digi-egg, that was a shock. One that eventually digivolved into a huge Greymon and fought Parrotmon. That battle changed the lives of several children who witnessed the event. They gained partners, crests, and had become the Digidestined all because they saw those two digimon that night. But very few knew about where the digi-egg had first appeared.

But she had known. The stranger had known too well.

"How do you know about that?" asked Kari, thinking back to that night.

"You noticed first, before Tai, who was on his way to the bathroom," the dark-haired girl described, ignoring the question. "Even at the young age you were at the time, you could tell something strange was happening. Your first digi-egg, your first digimon, and your first battle all came from the events of that night. You could say the battle at Highton View Terrace was the turning point of your life, or possibly meeting Gatomon." She smiled at the feline digimon. The cat stared curiously back. Destiny continued, "But you know that everything that has happened to you and your friends began when your computer produced a digi-egg. That was the source of all that brought you and your friends to the point of becoming the Digidestined."

"How do you know about that," the girl repeated, her eyes huge.

The cloaked figure smiled calmly, "Who do you think sent it?"

As odd as it seemed, the strange girl did give every impression of knowing far more than she should. She wore an aura of self-assurance and deep understanding, similar to how Gennai felt. And Kari sensed that Destiny was speaking the truth. So she agreed to help.

The girl claimed she needed to gather not only the Digidestined but the "tamers" she had left in the park. She said that after she was in contact with "all those required," she should hopefully "gain the necessary information to continue with the current prophecy." As Gatomon had pointed out, there was quite a bit of guesswork involved, but most of the plans the Digidestined used were of an equally unreliable quality.

As much as it seemed like she should share Gatomon's suspicions of the newcomers and the mysteriousness that Destiny exhibited, there was no real evilness to them. But as the Digidestined of Light, Kari had always been sensitive to the presence of darkness. And there was no strong feeling of darkness around them.

"He wouldn't have hurt anyone, you know," the brown-haired girl mentioned suddenly to Sora, drawing the red-head from where Tai was being instructed in the ways of "momentai."

"Who?" asked the Digidestined of Love before realizing who she meant.

"Impmon. The digimon who tried to scare you earlier. He can come across as heartless and temperamental, but he's actually a nice person. He just has poor people skills and likes to cause trouble," she explained. "I'm Jeri, by the way."

"And I'm Sora. Sora Takenouchi," smiled the older girl. "You say he's not that bad?"

Jeri nodded, "He's made mistakes, bad ones he still regrets, but he's changed since then. It's hard to tell if you didn't know him before, but he's actually matured some."

"If this is 'mature,' then he must have been a real monster in the past," Sora joked.

The girl walking beside the red-haired digidestined gained a distant expression for a moment, glancing at Leomon. A second later, Jeri quietly made a suggestion.

"Please don't call him that. He doesn't need to be reminded of his mistakes and that would."

The older girl wondered a little on the girl strange reaction to the joke, but understood that pasts can haunt people for a long time. Look at Ken. While he was a loyal and valued member of the younger generation of Digidestined, his actions as the Digimon Emperor still bothered him. Sora sought a safer topic.

"So, who's partnered with whom? There are more humans than digimon, I've noticed."

This earned a slight grin. "Leomon's my partner. That was a rather interesting day, when we first met. I must have looked insane, chasing him around like that."

Jeri pointed at the red dinosaur-like creature walking close to the goggle-sporting youth. "Guilmon and Takato are the best friends you'll ever meet. And Guilmon's stomach is only matched by the size of his sweet heart." She then jerked her head towards the dark-haired boy and his rabbit digimon. "Henry is as calm and thoughtful as Terriermon is loud-mouth and blunt. But they work well together as a team. And Henry may have once been against fighting at all, he has actually come to terms with it now."

Sora nodded, listening to the girl's description. From what she had observed so far, they matched up with Jeri's words perfectly.

"Jeri, are we there yet?" asked the youngest boy quietly. "I'm bored."

"Not yet, Mako," she called back to where the smallest children rode on the large leonine digimon's shoulders. "Why don't you talk to your sister."

He sighed tiredly," Okay."

"What about those two?" Sora prompted. "They seem kind of young for this. They're even younger than T.K. and Kari were when they first entered the digital world."

"Those two are rather interesting," smiled Jeri. "We don't know why, but they share a partner. Impmon."

"Him?" asked the red-haired digidestined. "He's the last digimon I'd expect to be partnered with kids that young. Well, maybe not the last."

"Like I said, he not a bad digimon. He acts like a tough guy and you'll never hear him say it if he can help it, but he really cares about them."

"It's just… how he reacted to you, I almost thought he was your partner," explained Sora, remembering how Beelzemon reacted to the girl's words earlier.

Jeri's face gained a distant look once more, "We… just have some history. Because of that, he tries to keep an out eye for me. He'll deny it, but I've seen him. He just wants to protect me. So I let him. Like I said, Impmon actually has a good heart, even if he tries to hide it."

"And the yellow fox?" asked the older girl, pushing the questions about their "history" to the back of her mind.

"That would be Renamon. She and Rika," Jeri explained, pointing to the girl in the t-shirt and jeans, "used to be the opposite of Henry when it came to fighting. Granted, I didn't know her at all then and only Henry by sight, but used to be she only cared about being the best and Rika saw Renamon as the way to get there. They are closer friends now and Rika is actually opening up. She's a more caring individual, but still has trouble trusting strangers."

"And the last girl. The one with the cloak. What's her deal?" prompted the Digidestined of Love, noticing how the odd attire was attracting attention just as the digimon were.

Jeri shrugged, "She is Destiny. She's… a mystery. She could explain, but basically she's someone who works to make prophecies happen the right way. She's shown up before, but… there's a lot about her we don't know for sure."

"Does she have a partner?"

"… He's gone right now. But she hopes to find him again someday."

The building was fairly new and was built to specific specifications. Officially, it and the agency it housed were supposed to monitor the flow of digital information and detect threatening anomalies. And it did. For most of the floors, hacking, viruses, identity fraud, and all manner of dangers of the internet were investigated and taken care of. The seventeenth floor was unique. That branch hadn't really been in existence for long. It took a different approach on the agency's mission. A more direct and real-world application.

Digimon were becoming a stronger presence and the government had responded by creating Digital Anomaly Detection and Processing. DADP was intended to handle the situation. After the events around Christmas, and then those around three months ago, the damage the digimon could cause was firmly in everyone's mind. They needed a way to know where potentially dangerous ones were located and, if needed, to be able to remove the threat. So for the last six months, the DADP technicians had been hired and set to work.

Miss Mizutani had risen quickly to her position, regardless of her age. After some problems in her youth, she started to excel at her classes to the point where it was unbelievable. Anything dealing logic-based thinking, especially computer programming, she could handle with expert skills. But she had few friends and little patience for foolishness. However, DADP wanted her for her skills with technology rather than her social skills or her age.

Her assistance in unlocking the basics of digimon: attributes, levels, types, and how these variables affected their threat levels, and discovering the underlying programming that allowed the digital monsters to maintain a physical form had allowed her to advance swiftly through the ranks. She was not the head of this branch of DADP, but she was high up. This fast advancement earned her enemies among the other agents, but the woman didn't care.

The blond woman wore her hair in a tight bun, making her look older than she was. In her early twenties, she wore her plain black suit like she was born to be involved in the government, but the dark shade made her skin pale in comparison. Her stormy grey eyes studied the computer screen intently, examining her work for mistakes.

She didn't care what those other mindless hackers thought of her. She was here for one purpose only. To stop those digital monsters. Mizutani knew, on a deep level that she no longer even had to think on, that these creatures would cause nothing but pain for all these naïve children who were drawn to them. Even those people who claimed that most digimon were harmless and generally good were just fooling themselves. Digimon would just cause suffering. The only difference between the different digimon was whether the harm was deliberate or just coincidence.

The woman pulled opened her desk draw. Two objects of semi-importance rested inside innocently. She picked up one and ignored the presence of the other object half-buried under random papers. A tiny bottle of pills held between her fingers. She was supposed to take them daily and had been since she was fourteen. But she hadn't been as faithful lately. She kept skipping doses. Mizutani hated how fuzzy it made her. It kept her calm and kept away the "problems" she had in her youth though. The psychiatrist had prescribed it after… Well, it kept her calm. Numb.

She placed the bottle back in the drawer and shut it.

And that is a new character I created. So, I hope you like Miss Mizutani. You'll learn more about her soon enough, including what she is working on. And yes, that's her last name. You won't hear her first name often. Sort of like Yamaki.

Okay, do you like what's happening? Do you have any (real) problems with my story? I will accept criticism if it is actually useful. No stupidity, please. Let me know what you think. And action will be picking up soon. I just have a few more things to set up and get the tamer and digidestined on the same wavelength. So, wish me luck and give me some feedback. It's a good incentive for me.