Author's Note: If you haven't yet figured out who the other two "guest stars" in this story are, the title of this chapter should pretty much tell you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.
Chapter 1: The Girl With the Yellow Fox
The next day, Ken and Yolei headed out to a small café out by Tokyo Tower with Wormmon and Hawkmon to meet with Izzy Izumi, the genius of the first group of Digidestined. Izzy had asked them to meet with him a couple of days ago to talk about something that he would not discuss over the phone. For the entire trip, Ken kept thinking about what he thought he saw the previous day. He still couldn't figure out if he had really seen his childhood friend Ryo Akiyama, or if his mind was playing some kind of horrible trick on him. Naturally Ken did not speak for most of the trip.
Traveling with Ken and Yolei was their friend and fellow Digidestined, Davis Motomiya. Also with them was the small blue-green dragon-like creature that was Davis's Digimon partner, Veemon.
"So do you guys know what this meeting is about?" Davis asked the two in an attempt to break the silence.
"For the fifth time, no!" Yolei snapped. "Why do you keep asking that when you already know the answer?"
"Well…I'm just a little nervous that Izzy is asking us to meet him to talk about…Lily."
Yolei's expression softened a bit when Davis mentioned Lily. The girl in question was actually a very evil Digimon called Lilithmon, who used very powerful methods of seduction to enslave Davis and turn Veemon into a savage monster. Since the incident, Davis felt very guilty about giving into Lilithmon and almost causing Ken and Wormmon's deaths as a result. It didn't help either that Davis had just gotten out of a deep depression caused by the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and fellow Digidestined, Kari Kamiya.
At last the group arrived at the café. Sitting at one of the tables outside the door was a young man with short brown hair and wearing a dirty orange t-shirt, green pants, and red sneakers. The young man in question of course was Izzy, and he was concentrating on the laptop that he had brought with him. Standing right next to Izzy's chair was an almost dog-sized reddish-purple creature that resembled a ladybug. This of course was Izzy's Digimon Tentomon.
Also sitting at the table was a young man with short, very dark-brown hair and wearing a tan t-shirt and grey pants. Down next to his chair was a large gold armadillo-like creature. The young man was another member of the Digidestined, Cody Hida, and the creature with him was his Digimon partner, Armadillomon. Yolei greeted the two Digidestined, causing Izzy to finally turn his attention away from his laptop. The three sat down at the table and the conversation began.
"So, why did you ask us here Izzy?" Yolei asked.
"I brought you all here to discuss Lilithmon," Izzy answered, causing Davis to flinch. "Or more accurately something that Lilithmon said during your battle with her. You said she mentioned that she was part of a group called the Seven Lords, correct?"
Ken nodded. "That's right. She also said something about fighting the gods of the Digital World ages ago."
"For the last few days Cody has been helping me study some ruins in the Digital World. We didn't find much, except for this."
Izzy turned the screen of his laptop to face Ken, Yolei, and Davis. The screen showed the picture of a stone carving depicting seven symbols that were a little similar to the crests of virtue used by the Digidestined.
"Are these crests?" Ken asked.
"They might be crests of a sort," Izzy answered. "I've done a little analysis and have discovered that these symbols represent the seven deadly sins; envy, gluttony, sloth, greed, lust, wrath, and pride. According to some of the other carvings I found, these symbols also represent a group of powerful Digimon, though their names were nowhere to be found in any of the carvings. Even the name of the group itself wasn't mentioned. Matt told me after the battle that the other powerful Digimon you faced that day, Beelzemon, called himself the Lord of Gluttony. That might indicate he was Lilithmon's equal instead of just a servant."
"Wait, so are you saying that those two are part of the same group?" Yolei asked.
Izzy nodded. "That's exactly what I'm suggesting. A very ancient group that might be the most powerful enemy we've ever faced."
Izzy's theorizing was interrupted by a sudden but brief tremor. The group got up from their table and looked down the street to find that a large black obelisk had appeared. They immediately recognized the object as a control spire, one of the devices Ken had used during his time as the Digimon Emperor to inhibit natural Digimon evolution. It seemed that the control spire was not the only thing that appeared however. There was also a small army of brown and rather clunky looking robots. The group recognized them as Guardromon, a race of mechanical Digimon that were known to serve as soldiers for both good and evil.
Immediately the gathered group of Digidestined decided to act. Davis was the first. He took out the palm pilot-like device that was his D-Terminal. When Veemon was ready, Davis fired up the device, causing his D-3 to glow and Veemon to transform in a flash of blue light.
"Veemon armor digivolve to…Raidramon, the Storm of Friendship!" Veemon cried as he transformed, his voice changing with the utterance of his other name and title.
When the flash cleared, Veemon had transformed into a large four-legged wolf-like dragon covered in black armor. A gold blade in the shape of a lightning bolt jutted out from his mask like a horn. Immediately Raidramon rushed off to fight the Guardromon, firing several bolts of lightening from his horn.
"Hey Ken!" Cody called as he held out his own D-Terminal to the black haired Digidestined. "I think that in this situation it might be more useful for Wormmon to evolve with one of my eggs."
"Thanks Cody," Ken replied as he took the D-Terminal and fired it up. "Ready Wormmon?"
Wormmon hopped off of Ken's back and nodded. With the push of a button, Ken's D-3 began to glow with a purple light and Wormmon began to transform with a flash.
"Wormmon armor digivolve to…Searchmon, the Seeker of Knowledge!" Wormmon cried as he transformed, his voice changing with the utterance of his other name and title.
When the light cleared, Wormmon had transformed into a large grey mechanical looking beetle that had Wormmon's trademark feelers and a large radar dish on his back that bore the crest of knowledge on top.
"Jamming Hertz!" Searchmon cried as he sent out sound waves from the dish on his back. The Guardromon that were hit by the attack became confused and started attacking each other.
"Here Cody," Yolei said as she held out her D-Terminal to the dark-brown haired Digidestined.
"Aren't you and Hawkmon going to fight?" Cody asked.
"I brought Kari's D-Terminal with me just in case something like this happened," Yolei answered, giving him a thumbs-up.
"I see," Cody nodded, taking the offered D-Terminal. "Okay, you ready Armadillomon?"
"Ready whenever you are Cody!" Armadillomon answered.
Cody fired up the D-Terminal, causing his D-3 to glow and Armadillomon to transform with a flash of red light.
"Armadillomon armor digivolve to…Pteramon, Super Sonic Love!" Armadillomon cried as he transformed, his voice changing with the utterance of his other name and title.
When the light cleared, Armadillomon had transformed into a large blue mechanical pterodactyl with wings armed with missiles.
"Pteramon go take down the control spire while the others handle the Guardromon!" Cody commanded.
"Roger!" Pteramon replied as he took off.
Pteramon flew over the Guardromon army that was being decimated by the combined force of Raidramon and Searchmon. Just as the mechanical dinosaur was about to fire a missile at the spire, a large fanged eyeless creature that resembled a praying mantis attacked him. The group of Digidestined recognized the creature as a Snimon. It seemed that Pteramon was having trouble fighting off the mantis Digimon. Yolei pulled out the D-Terminal that had belonged to Kari and was about to activate it, but then she glanced up to the top of one of the nearby buildings and noticed another Digimon watching the battle.
The Digimon in question was a yellow humanoid fox that wore only purple fingerless gloves. Yolei of course wondered if the Digimon was another enemy. Her question was soon answered though when the yellow fox leapt from the top of the building at Snimon. The fox's feet suddenly became covered in blue flames as it delivered a powerful kick to Snimon that knocked the mantis Digimon to the ground. With a flip the fox landed with its feet on the ground. Snimon got back up and was preparing to counter attack, and by then everyone else had noticed the fox's arrival.
"I don't believe it!" Tentomon exclaimed. "That's a Renamon! I thought that Digimon only existed in legend!"
Immediately Izzy fired up his laptop and plugged his Digivice into the special port on the keyboard. The laptop's analyzer program brought up information on the fox Digimon.
"It says that Renamon is only a Rookie level Digimon," Izzy informed the group as he looked over the information.
"THAT'S only a Rookie?" Davis asked in disbelief. "Could've fooled me!"
It was at that point when Ken had suddenly noticed someone emerge from a nearby ally. The person in question was a young woman who looked to be about the same age as the Digidestined. She had red hair that only went past her shoulders and wore sunglasses, and a black trench coat that was opened to reveal a grey shirt and black jeans. The young woman pulled out what looked to be a Digivice that was of a different design from anything that Ken had seen before, along with what looked to be playing cards.
"You ready Renamon?" the young woman called out.
"Whenever you are Rika!" the fox Digimon called back in a clearly female voice.
"Digi-Modify!" the girl known only as Rika called out as she slashed a card through a grove in the side of her Digivice. "Speed activate!"
Just as Snimon brought down one of its scythe blades, Renamon jumped out of the way and began moving at lightning speed around the mantis. Snimon soon found itself being hit by flaming kicks and punches along with barrages of crystal shards.
"Digi-Modify!" Rika called out as she slashed another card through her Digivice. "Crystal Fire activate!"
Renamon briefly glowed with a blue aura and with a flaming punch broke one of Snimon's scythe blades, causing the mantis Digimon to roar in pain. With that, Renamon jumped into the air and got behind Snimon.
"Digi-Modify!" Rika called out as she slashed one more card through her Digivice. "Supreme Cannon activate!"
Renamon's right arm became covered in grey armor with a spiked shoulder and a gauntlet in the shape of a metal wolf head. The jaws of the wolf head opened up to reveal the barrel of a large cannon. Renamon took aim.
"Supreme Cannon!" Renamon cried as she fired the cannon.
The blast from the cannon hit Snimon and froze the mantis Digimon solid. Renamon's right arm returned to normal, and she then delivered a flying kick covered in blue flames. The impact had shattered Snimon into several fragments that had started to dissolve into particles of data. The Digidestined looked at Renamon in awe as she walked back to the young woman who was known only to them as Rika. Cody, however, soon remembered the current situation.
"Pteramon, take out the control spire!" Cody commanded to the dinosaur Digimon who had been watching the battle.
"Huh? Oh yeah! On it!" Pteramon called back before flying off to take down the spire.
With a blast of his missiles, Pteramon took down the control spire. Raidramon and Searchmon meanwhile had finished off the last of the Guardromon. The crisis had been averted, though the arrival of the mysterious girl and the yellow fox did seem like another possible problem to the group. Immediately the five Digidestined went over to talk to Rika before she tried to leave.
"Hey!" Ken called out, causing Rika to stop in her tracks. "Who the heck are you."
Rika stopped and lowered her sunglasses, revealing a pair of striking blue eyes. Those eyes became filled with shock as she took a good look at the group.
"What the hell?" Rika spoke as she unconsciously took a couple steps back. "What's going on here? What kind of weird world is this? I mean the control spire was weird enough, but this is…this is too much! What kind of trick are you trying to pull?"
"Calm down lady! What the hell's your problem?" Davis asked somewhat undiplomatically.
"My problem is that you shouldn't exist!" Rika shouted as she pointed an accusing finger at the group. "You're all just characters in a T.V. show!"
Author's Note: I don't think that you could ask for a better opening than that. Well, maybe you could. I wasn't originally planning to have a control spire in this chapter, but I couldn't resist doing one more battle where they switched D-Terminals. Wormmon has some pretty cool armor evolutions. Of course the Digimon Wiki didn't say what Searchmon's Jamming Hertz attack did, so I just made up that it could scramble the circuits Machine-type Digimon . That's mostly the reason why I decided to put in a Guardromon army.
As for Renamon using Omnimon's Supreme Cannon to finish Snimon off, I put that in because I thought that would make a good part to a flashy finishing move. I kind of wish that they explored the whole Digi-Modify thing in Tamers a little more, but then with the whole biomerge thing, who really cares? You might have also noticed that I changed Rika's look a little bit. She no longer has that whole "pineapple head" hairstyle. I did that for two reasons. One is that I didn't think that it would be a hairstyle Rika would still have in her early twenties. The other reason is because I simply never liked that hairstyle.
The next chapter will be the exposition of how this little crossover is possible. In the meantime, review and let me know what you think.