"What the hell are police?" Asked Naruto while he was surrounded by police squad cars.
"We repeat, lay down and put your hands on your head. If not we will be forced to shoot." Yelled the policeman using a megaphone.
"Look, if you'd just let me explain. We can sort all of thi-" In an instant, Wynn warp-digivolved and put his shield in front of Naruto. Not even a second later, pings were heard as bullets ricocheted off the shield. Small screams were heard as people ducked for cover.
"Thanks Wynn, but I could have dodged." Turning to look back at Naruto, Wynn replied, "I know that very well, but it'd be best to keep that a secret. I think we should make a tactical retreat. We do not want to risk a confrontation against the authorities at this time as we do not know the situation of this world."
Nodding at his assessment, Naruto jumped into Wynn's hand as he flew into the air. A moment later, they were joined by the rest of their friends. Once they reached a high enough altitude, Naruto activated his armband.
To the people down below, it looked like they were swallowed in a ball of light. Once it cleared they were gone.
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"So, what do we do now?" Cody's question went unanswered for a few moments as everyone tried to figure out what to say.
"Let's go back to school, we can't do anything right now. Besides, we don't want to get caught up here by the police." Agreeing to Ken's suggestion everyone decided they would meet up after school.
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"Okay, can someone tell me why there was a firewall? Hurt like hell when we bounced off." Asmodeus said as he stood up. Still in his Beelzemon form, he began to look around and noticed something immediately.
"Where the hell is all the color!?" That got everyone's attention as they soon realized that it was true. Everything was dyed a shade of gray.
"Looks like this is a world parallel to that of the Digital World. We got sent here because of that firewall. I wonder if this means that the Digital World is completely blocked by a firewall." Wynn's calm analysis of the situation made everyone stare at Naruto who was already trying to see if there was in fact a firewall keeping the Digital World closed off.
"Okay, so it looks like that one location we arrived at was blocked by a firewall. That's why we bounced. Now, this world is one of the many different worlds associated with this reality. As such we just have to open a portal into the Digital World from here. Nothing too difficult." As he finished his sentence though, they heard something large coming their way from the ocean.
Rising from the ocean, Naruto knew immediately who it was, "Oh, it's just a Dagomon," and just like that everyone immediately began to ignore the giant digimon. This of course was new to Dagomon. It was used to beings cowering in fear of it, not ignoring it. As such, it did the only thing it knew how. It attacked.
It was unfortunate that he chose to attack, because if he hadn't he would have lived. As it was though, he had attacked and as such, six ultimate level digimon attacked him. To make things worse, these were digimon who had trained to be at their absolute best and as such they were leagues above many other ultimate level digimon. Dagomon was killed the instant the attacks touched him.
Throughout the entire thing, Naruto kept concentrating on his armband and the information it was giving him. It didn't bother him that his partners killed Dagomon. It attacked with the intention of killing them, as such it forfeited it's right to live. Hopefully it's next incarnation would be smarter.
"And done! Come on, I want to get away from this dreary place." Standing next to the portal, his partners all flew into it one by one until it was only him left. Jumping in, the portal immediately closed behind him.
As such, he didn't see the mass congregation of shadow beings that came from the ocean. As they looked at one another, one spoke. "We must find the queen."
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Her sudden stop made TK and Davis look at her to ask why, but her trembling instantly made them worried. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know, I just got a horrible feeling right now. I think I need to sit down." Steadying her, TK led Hikari to a seat. Once seated, she put her head on her knees and began to take deep breaths. Meanwhile, TK slowly rubbed her back and held her hand. As she began to calm down, she gripped TK's hand harder and then let go.
As she stood up, Gatomon continued to stare intently at Hikari. Something happened, but she didn't know what and neither did Hikari.
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"I can't believe they have an entire village that's dedicated to only caring for baby digimon. That's an amazing idea, but also pretty risky. I mean, if someone were to destroy this place. Boom. There goes an entire generation of digimon." Asmodeus's, now an Impmon, thoughts about Primary Village, while a bit grim, where spot on with everyone's.
"Also, there isn't even any security here. I bet I could steal all of these digieggs and no one would know who was the culprit." Coincidentally, when he finished speaking an Elecmon just came into the clearing and heard the last bit that Asmodeus said.
"You will not harm any of these digi-eggs!" Turning to look at the voice, Asmodeus knew exactly what to say, "I didn't say I was gonna harm them. I said, I was gonna steal them, big difference."
In response, Elecmon fired off some electricity at the ground in front of Asmodeus. "Leave before I am forced to hurt you!" As Asmodeus was about to respond, Luna covered his mouth, "We promise that we have no intention of harming these digi-eggs. We were just passing through, and don't mind Asmodeus he's just a smart ass." That got her a deadpan from Asmodeus and a raised eyebrow from Elecmon.
"Isn't he an Impmon?" Was the first thing that came out of Elecmon's mouth.
Before Luna could respond, she had to quickly move her leg from Asmodeus's mouth as he began to lick it. Wiping it on the ground, she smirked. "You do know that I haven't had a chance to clean up since before the fight right? Who knows what sort of things I've had to walk on." The sudden realization on Asmodeus's face was enough to make Luna start laughing as she walked away towards where she could hear some babies crying.
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"Wait, Gennai says that Azulongmon is fine? But we saw him get deleted!" Pulling Davis back to his seat, everyone focused back on Izzy's face on the computer monitor.
With all of the older Digidestined having started university already, it was next to impossible to get their schedules to line up properly, but they tried and as such when they told Izzy what happened and he found a video of the event he dropped everything to get in contact with Gennai. Thankfully, with Digimon becoming more and more common as the years passed, technology began taking huge leaps and because of that many places around the world had incredibly fast internet access.
"Hey, I'm just as surprised as you are, but I think the Azulongmon you saw wasn't the same one we know. Just look at the size, color, and his demeanor. It's all wrong. I have a theory of what it might have been, but I need more time to see if it's true. I'll keep you guys updated on what I find." As Izzy, was about to end the video chat, he remembered something.
"Oh, I can't believe I almost forgot. We were gonna ask you later, but all of us university students have finally been able to get a Saturday free day into our schedules and we wanted to know if you were all up for a trip to Primary Village?" Izzy had expected a happy response, but he hadn't expected a cheer.
As they all agreed, Izzy just laughed.
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"So this place has been attacked before?" Naruto asked Elecmon as they drank tea on a small table they found. In his lap, Naruto was petting a newly born Punimon. It had been a digi-egg, but it hatched when Naruto came near and it wouldn't leave his side, so he just kept it.
"Well, not directly. It was about nine years ago, the Digital World was taken over by The Dark Masters. Four mega level digimon who left nothing but destruction and despair wherever they went. As such they targeted this area, but instead of destroying it they instead tainted it with their evil. Due to the taint, no new digimon were born and no new digi-eggs could form. At least not until the digidestined killed the Dark Masters and restored the Digital World." Finished with his tale, Elecmon took a long sip of his tea.
Naruto however, was wondering exactly who these digidestined were and how far along the fusion of the Digital World and Material World was. If it had only started within the past decade, then there was still about another decade before the process was complete and the Digital World could be accessed from any location in the world.
"What's a mega level digimon? You don't call them baby one, baby two, child, adult, perfect, ultimate, and ultra?" Seeing Elecmon shake his head Naruto asked, "Well what do you call them?"
"Here, the ranking system goes fresh, in-training, rookie, champion, ultimate, and mega. I don't even know what an ultra is, and I don't think I want to. It'd be best if you started using this terminology so that no one gets confused." Nodding at Elecmon, Naruto began to wonder why no one had even heard of an ultra digimon. Maybe they knew it as something else?
"Well, in any case thanks for your hospitality. I still can't believe you believed me when I told you though we were from another reality." At Naruto's comment, Elecmon just laughed.
"Boy, you live here long enough and you see many strange things that you decide just aren't worth the trouble to figure out. This is one of them, but more than anything I just wanted some time to relax. Taking care of all of these baby digimon is hard work and I'll take a brake whenever I can. Also, that Luna there is amazing. Asmodeus, not so much." Turning to look at what he was talking about Naruto burst out laughing when he saw that Luna had a bunch of babies all around her playing and happy, but Asmodeus had one crying its eyes out.
Asmodeus apparently wasn't good with kids.
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"How long has it been since you've seen Tai, Hikari?" TK asked Hikari as she packed the basket for the get together.
"Since he went back to the university. He just had to go to the school that offered him a free ride that was too far to drive to. He at least calls though. How long has it been since you've seen Yamato TK?" That got TK to drop to his back on Hikari's bed.
"I haven't seen him in ages. Even before he went back to university, but I can't really fault him for it. He's had trouble convincing Mom and Dad that he was really going to become an astronaut. That was a big surprise. Almost as much as Tai telling us he wanted to become a lawyer. Then Agumon and Gabumon said they'd follow them anywhere and you get the first ever high school graduated digimon students. I know that Yamato has been helping Gabumon catch up with everything he's missed so they can help each other out." Looking at Hikari she just nodded to his unasked question. Tai was doing the same with Agumon.
"Still have the same dream of teaching kids?" Nodding her head happily, TK began to wonder what he would end up doing.
"Still don't have an idea?" Turning to his head to the right, he saw Hikari was laying next to him looking at him with an intense look in her eyes.
Turning to lay on his side, he brought his hand up to her cheek. As she smiled at the contact, she brought up her hand to hold his in place. Looking at him with the same intense expression, she began to move closer, but before anything could happen her D-3 began to ring.
Giving TK a sad smile, she stood up and looked at it. "Everyone's already at Primary Village. They want us to hurry up." Nodding, TK went and stood next to Hikari. Pointing their digivices at her computer screen, they opened the gate to the Digital World.
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"We can't thank you enough for letting us stay here Elecmon. Also, are you sure about me taking Punimon?" Naruto and the group had decided to spend a few days at Primary Village to relax and recuperate after the fight with Azulongmon. While they didn't look all that exhausted, the fight had taken a toll on them.
"It's not a problem. I don't get too many visitors to begin with so having so many at once was fun. As for Punimon, I get the feeling that he wants to go with you." Nodding at Elecmon's, Naruto just waved as he caught up with his partners. They had already said their goodbyes and couldn't wait to explore the Digital World.
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"Come on hurry up! You guys are so slow!" Davis yelled at the group. He and V-mon had run ahead of everyone else.
"Well isn't this a surprise. My guests just leave and then I get some more." Davis and V-mon turned in unison to see that Elecmon was behind them.
"Wait, someone else was here?" V-mon asked as the rest of the group caught up.
"Yeah, his name was Nar-"
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"-uto. Are you sure you can keep Punimon well fed?" Luna asked. She loved taking care of children. It just came to her.
"Luna, please. I took care of all you you when you were babies remember? Look at how all of you came out." Naruto stated while trying to look pleased with himself. Eli's voice though kinda changed that.
"Well, if Asmodeus is any indication, then you'll need help." Asmodeus turned to glare at Eli, but the grin he saw on his yellow face told him that it was payback for a few days ago so he let it slide. It was kinda funny.
"If he's trained well, he can digivolve into a variety of forms. Any one of them would make a welcome addition to the team." Wynn's voice stated "Besides, Luna wouldn't let anything happen to him anyway, so it doesn't matter if Naruto takes care of Punimon." As he finished everyone had to agree on that. Luna would make sure that Punimon was well taken care of even if Naruto didn't ask her to.
"So do we have any idea on where we're gonna go? Cause I'm getting kinda hungry." That made everyone, but Naruto stop. They really had no idea on what direction to go, but apparently Naruto did if his continued walking was an indication.
"So, are you gonna tell us, or do we have to beg? I'll cry if I have to." Speedy asked from atop Naruto's head as he wanted to look Naruto straight in the eyes.
Frowning and pushing Speedy off, Naruto summoned up a hologram of the map of the area. What drew their attention though was that there were two dots. One labeled group, and the other destination. The destination was next to a lake. From what they could see, there was a small building labeled restaurant next to the lake.
"We don't have much longer to go so when we get there we can eat. Is that okay with everyone?" Hearing agreements, Naruto kept walking.
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"Wait, so this Naruto guy was the same one as the one we saw a few days ago?" David asked as he looked at V-mon.
"I don't know about that, but he was a nice guy. So where all of the digimon with him. Especially Luna. I've never seen anyone be able to take care of newly hatched digimon the way she does." Elecmon stated as everyone turned to look at him again.
"Wait, who's Luna? There was someone else with him?" Kairi's question made Elecmon turn his head in question before he realized what she was asking.
"Oh no, Luna is the name of the Salamon with them. It's like it's encoded into her data to be good with newborns. I've got to tell you, that not once did I have to worry about the newborns." That got all of the digidestined to look at each other in shock.
Elecmon never allowed anyone of them to be alone with any of the newborns, but he allowed this unknown group to do that and they apparently spent days here resting which meant he trusted the unknown group more than he trusted them.
"Anyway, they traveled in that direction a while ago. From what Naruto told me, they were just going to look around. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." With that Elecmon left before they could ask him more questions.
"What do you think we should do?" Cody asked the group.
"As much as we would all like to just hand out and relax we can't. We have to make sure that this Naruto guy isn't up to anything that could harm the digital world." With that everyone sighed and began walking in the general direction that they were pointed to.
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"What sort of meat do you use?" Naruto asked Digitamamon.
"Oh we use only the finest meat grown on the best meat farms." Nodding at the answer, Naruto looked at the prices. They were a bit on the high side, but if the food was as delicious as everyone around them was making it to be then it would be worth it.
"Do you accept digibits?" Naruto's question got a negative egg shake as Digitamamon explained.
"We only accept digidollars." Nodding, Naruto looked through his armband's holographic display and found that he did have digidollars. He could even convert digibits to digidollars if the need arose.
"Alright then, we'll take seven of the ultimate deliciousness. Also, bring about eighty meat buns of varying meats please."
"No problem! Tapirmon! Come seat our guests!"
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"Davis, I'm hungry." Whined V-mon from atop Davis's head.
"I'm hungry too buddy. Too bad that someone completely forgot to bring the food!" While Davis hadn't stated who forgot the food, he did stare at them. Of course she just had to retaliate.
"Well sorry, but you all know how busy I am. It was difficult enough trying to free up some time in my schedule let alone get enough food for everyone here!" At that Davis and Yolei began to bicker. Everyone around them ignored them for the most part.
However, Hawkmon was looking around before he realized that they'd been there before. Flying up, he was able to confirm it when he saw the restaurant.
"I feel it prudent to mention that there's a restaurant very near here in that direction." Pointing with his wing, everyone began to run towards the restaurant.
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"How does that taste Punimon? It's good right?" The squeak he received was cut off when Punimon glowed and digivolved into Tsunomon.
"Well would you look at that, this soup is so good it causes digimon to digivolve." The chuckle that came afterward told Speedy that he shouldn't become a comedian.
"Finally! Food!" Distracted by the commotion at the entrance, everyone in the restaurant turned to see a large group of humans and digimons just barge in. To make matters worse they were being loud and rude.
"I'll take one of everything!" The stereo sound effect was a result of Yolei and Davis both speaking at the same time.
"I was here first! I get to order first!" "Nuh uh! I was here first!"
Naruto could see that everyone around them found the disruption annoying and he waited to see what Digitamamon would do before he took it upon himself to quite them down.
"Please quite down. I have many other customers here who are trying to dine in peace."
Unfortunately, Digitamamon's plea fell on deaf ears. To make matters worse, the digidestined behind them didn't do anything to stop them. They were apparently desensitized to this.
Naruto though, was not. He hated having a meal interrupted and he hated when people were rude when others were trying to eat.
Handing Tsunomon to Luna, Naruto stood up and walked over to them.
"Excuse me, my family and I are trying to dine in peace and your loud yelling is making that difficult, may you please stop arguing at such a loud volume and allow everyone in this establishment the peace and quite we want?" That got everyone to look at the Naruto. Unfortunately, Davis and Yolei now felt like taking their frustration out on him.
"Screw off punk! We've got business to settle." "Yeah, butt out of our conversation!"
That was the wrong thing to say, as Naruto seemed to develop an aura around him and they realized they may have made a huge mistake.
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Woo! This took me a while to figure mostly because I had no idea what I would be doing. This takes place during Yolei's final year in high school so the older digidestined are already in college.
This entire story will be completely original as there is no established canon for this time period. Don't expect updates for a while unless something happens to inspire me.