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Chapter 1: The First Day, Part 1

"Human? Human? Now might not be the best time to take a nap…" a stout, white knight-looking creature remarks as he pokes Zahed. The boy groans as he comes to, his vision slowly focusing as the little knight stands over him. "You ok?" it asks.

"Ahhh!" Zahed shouts as he shoves himself away, crawling backward.

"Whoa! Easy! I didn't mean to spook you, human."

"What…what are you? Where am I?" he asks as he glances around at the jungle scenery surrounding him.

"I'm PawnChessmon," the creature replies. "What's your name, human?" Zahed looks quizzically at PawnChessmon, who appears to respectfully keep his distance as the boy's chest heaves. "But…what are you?" The sound of beeping reaches his ears and he digs into his pocket, finding the blue device he had been given. Its screen lights, displaying a picture of PawnChessmon, as well as some information:

PawnChessmon. Rookie level puppet digimon. Virus type. Special attacks: Pawn Spear, Pawn Buckler, Pawn Lightning, and Pawn Charge…

"Wow! Did the digivice tell you all of that!?" PawnChessmon asks excitedly.

"Digivice? This? You know what this is?" Zahed asks, holding it out to him.

"Course I do! It's a special device that is supposed to link a human and a digimon together. It means you and I are partners!" he exclaims as he steps towards the boy.

"What? Slow down! What's a digimon? And partners? Partners in what?" Zahed asks, holding his hand out to halt the little digimon's advance.

"I'm a digimon! Short for Digital Monster. And you and I are partners because we have to work together. I've been waiting forever for this day!"

"Ok, fine. PawnChessmon…is that your name?"

"Uh huh," PawnChessmon replies, nodding vigorously.

"Well, tell me where we are. How did I get here?"

"Well, right now we're in Leomon's territory. You came through the television. Right there." PawnChesmson points at a shattered and smoking device. "It uh…kinda broke when you came through…"

Zahed bends down next to the shattered television and picks up some of its pieces. "That doesn't make any sense… and I still have no idea where I am…"

"Sorry I can't be more helpful, human," PawnChessmon states as his tone becomes more depressed. "I…thought you'd be happier to see me…" Zahed turns to face the drooping rookie, bites his lip, and reaches out to touch him. "I'm sorry. I've been rude. I'm Zahed."

PawnChessmon lights up immediately upon being addressed and reached out to and takes Zahed's hand in both of his before shaking vigorously. "Zahed. Zahed. Zahed. I think I got it! Oh boy, it's gonna be so much more fun with you around! What do you wanna do first?"

Zahed stands up and looks around. "Well, to be honest, I gotta figure out exactly where I am and then figure out how to get home. Do you know where the nearest people live?"

"Ummm. I think there's a Budmon village that way. I've kinda just lived in that tree house right there while I was waiting for you." PawnChessmon points up at a tiny hut in the trees: one probably too small for even Zahed to fit inside.

"Ok, PawnChessmon, but are there any…human settlements nearby?"

"Nope. You're the first human I've ever seen in the Digital World."

"Digital World? You mean I'm in another world?"

"Uhh, I think so. At least Azulongmon always referred to the human world as another world."

"Who's that?" Zahed asks.

Before PawnChessmon can answer, a sound rings out over the canopy, which makes PawnChessmon quake. "Uh oh. That sounded like…"

The tree line suddenly blasts apart, revealing a giant orange insect-like digimon with clicking mandibles. "…Kuwagamon! Run!" Kuwagamon roars aloud and Zahed takes off after PawnChessmon, easily darting past him.

"Wait for me! I have stubby legs!" PawnChessmon cries as he hobbles as quickly as he can, with Kuwagamon leaping into the air to begin his pursuit of them. Zahed grinds to a halt, runs back, and snatches PawnChessmon just as Kuwagamon slams his mandibles down on the area.

"Tell me you know somewhere where we can hide from that thing!" Zahed huffs between breaths as he dashes away with PawnChessmon in his hands.

"Look for a cave with a tiny entrance! He won't be able to follow us if it's a tiny entrance!" Kuwagamon zips up and dives back down, slamming the ground as Zahed rolls aside to avoid being sliced in two. "…and run faster. He's gonna get us!"

"You know, you're not exactly light!" Zahed puffs out as he runs, scanning frantically for even the slightest opening in the nearby mountain face. Kuwagamon roars before taking flight once more, his mandibles clicking with excitement as he pursues his prey.

"Over there! On your left!" PawnChessmon shouts. Zahed cranes his head, noticing a thin crack in the rocks. "Are you crazy? I'll never fit in that!" Zahed shouts.

"I'll make it wider for you. Just trust me!" As Kuwagamon dives again, Zahed makes a sharp left and dashes toward the thin crack in the mountain's face. "Put me down! I got this!"

"I hope you know what you're doing!" Zahed throws the rookie forward and he dashes ahead, pointing his spear out: "Pawn Charge!" His legs pump quickly, increasing his pace and he jabs his spear into the crack, causing it to spread and widen slightly. "Come on!" he shouts to Zahed before squeezing his way through. Zahed reaches the wall and tries to press himself within, Kuwagamon having retaken flight and zipping toward him. "It's still too small! I'm stuck!"

PawnChessmon appears to shout, the sound echoing and driving Zahed to press harder. Zahed tries to suck in his gut and, slowly but surely, slides through the crack, suddenly falling into a deep chasm and shouting as he plummets downward.

Dinesh blinks his eyes as he comes to, discovering himself to be in a dark cavern. He pushes himself up to a sitting position and grabs his head. "Uggh…I have such a headache."

"You've got a headache? You landed right on top of me." Dinesh practically jumps at the sound of the voice, its source revealed to be a mushroom with a purple cap and magenta boots and gloves. "A little warning would have been appreciated.

"Ahhhh!" Dinesh screams, causing the mushroom to grab his ears. "Ugggh! Stop! That's so loud!" As Dinesh runs out of breath he ceases, though his chest pumps rapidly with shallow breaths. The mushroom removes his hands from his ears and crosses his arms, eyeing the boy with annoyance. "Are you done with the yelling?"

"Who are you? Where am I? What did you do to me!?" The mushroom makes a placating gesture. "Hey, I ain't done nothing. You's the one that came through the tiny dark box that I saw you in." He points at the shattered remains of a television. "I was told to wait until I saw a human in there, and you's the one I saw. So I'm guessing that makes you my partner…yay for me…"

"P…p…partner?" Dinesh asks. "What's going on!?"

"Hmmm…maybe we should start with names… I'm Mushroomon. You are?"

"….Dinesh…" he replies as he pulls the beeping blue device from his pocket. The device displays a picture of Mushroomon, as well as other information: Mushroomon. Rookie level vegetation digimon. Virus type. Special attack: Fungus Cruncher.

"Well, I guess the digivce told you all you need to know about me. So what about you? Are you always this much of a crybaby?"

"Hey! I'm not a cry baby!" Dinesh retorts.

"Oh I suppose that scream was a mating call?" Mushroomon asks mockingly.

"Well forgive me for not expecting to see a talking mushroom!"

The sound of an echoing roar interrupts Mushroomon before he can make a snarky reply. "Sounds like Kuwagamon has found some new prey."

"What's a Kuwagamon?" Dinesh asks, looking up into the inky blackness above.

"A big bully. But he can't get us in here." The two stare upward for next few minutes, as the sounds of Kuwagamon's roars get closer. Mushroomon appears to tense slightly as the roars get closer.

"Do you think he's…" Dinesh starts up after a few seconds.

"Ahhhh!" A shout echoes before something smashes onto the cave floor, startling Dinesh and sending him diving behind Mushroomon. Another shout soon echoes before someone else smashes down, right on top of the first.

"Ummm… Zahed…you're crushing me…"

"Sorry, sorry!" Zahed states in apology, moving off his partner and helping PawnChessmon to his feet.

"Oh thank goodness! Another person!" Dinesh shouts as he finally comes out from behind Mushroomon, the later of which remains in a cautious stance. Zahed looks up in surprise upon hearing the voice and peers through the dim light. "Huh? Oh wow! I'm not the only person here! Thank goodness!" Zahed quickly walks over to Dinesh and extends his hand. "I'm Zahed. You wouldn't happen to know where we are, would you?"

"Uhhh…was kinda hoping you would know. Name's Dinesh," he replies, taking the other boy's hand.

"I'm guessing yous was the ones Kuwagamon was hunting?"

"That'd be an excellent deduction. I'm PawnChessmon: Zahed's partner. You?" Mushroomon gives a grumpy look to the other digimon before answering: "Mushroomon. This is my cave and you're trespassing."

"Isn't that human your partner?" PawnChessmon asks, confused. "If we're both partnered digimon, maybe we could work together…"

"I work better alone. Besides, I refuse to partner with a human who is so beneath me."

"Hey!" Dinesh objects. "Like you wouldn't be a little anxious if you woke up in some mysterious cave with a freaky looking think talking all nasty to you!"

Mushroomon was about to retort, but the sound of pounding and scrapping stops him, causing him to look up. "By chance…did Kuwagamon see you come in here?"

"Yea. He shoved his pincers through the gap to get me, but I managed to push myself through, before I fell down here. Why?"

"He can't get in here through that tiny hole. I don't see why there would be concern," PawnChessmon adds.

"He can get in if he makes it wider…" Mushroomon grumbles back. "We better move it, before…"

"The sudden sound of rocks snapping reaches their ears and they all turn and dash away as they notice boulders plummeting down toward them. Kuwgaamon's roar sounds out as he shoves his way into the cave and zips down rapidly toward them.

"What is that!?" Dinesh asks as he pumps his legs to keep up with Zahed. Zahed doesn't answer, instead stopping, Dinesh right after him, as they notice their partners engaging the insect in battle.

"Fungus Cruncher!" Mushroomon tosses a bunch of tiny fungi at Kuwagamon, which explode in his face, eliciting another roar of displeasure.

"Scissor Hands!" Kuwagamon's mandibles open wide and he lunges toward his attacker.

"Pawn Charge!" PawnChessmon dashes in and leaps, shoving his lance into Kuwagamon's face and causing him to narrowly miss as Mushroomon ducks beneath the mandibles before they clamp down. "We should probably run now!" PawnChessmon suggests.

"Not a chance. This is my cave…my territory. I ain't letting him run me outta it!" Kuwagamon roars loudly and lunches for them again, the two leaping apart to avoid being crushed. "But he's a champion! And we're just rookies! How are we supposed to beat him?"

"We're not! I will! Fungus Cruncher!" The attack again has little effect and seems to not even draw the giant insect's attention. "Scissor Hands!" Kuwagamon opens his mandibles and lunges at PawnChessmon, who cowers behind his shield: "Pawn Buckler!" The mandibles clamp down on the shield and Kuwagamon lifts its wielder off his feet, swinging him around over his head.

"Zahed! Zahed help me! I'm getting dizzy!"

"Let go of the shield!" Zahed yells at his partner. PawnChessmon does as he is bade and drops to the cavern floor, scurrying away as Mushroomon tosses another "Fungus Cruncher!"

"Ok. There's gotta be something we can figure out with these," Zahed mumbles mostly to himself, pulling out his digivice and clicking its buttons.

"What are you doing?" Dinesh asks, looking over his shoulder as the device lights up. Uhhh Kuwagamon… Champion level insect digimon. Virus type. Special attack is Scissor Hands. "We know all of this already! Come on! Gimmie something! A weakness! Even some details about him would help!"

"Hey, virus type! My device said Mushroomon is a virus type to," Dinesh butts in. "Does that help?"

"Huh? No, not really. PawnChessmon is virus as well. I don't know what that means!"

"Scissor Hands!" Kuwagamon clamps down again, narrowly missing PawnChessmon as he scurries fearfully to and fro. "Fungus Cruncher!" Mushroomon again tosses his explosive fungi, but to no avail.

"I don't know what to do!" Zahed whines. "That thing's skin is so tough, nothing's getting through it! I mean the mushroom is tossing exploding toadstools and he isn't so much as charred!"

"Maybe he isn't a fan of spicy mushroom?" PawnChessmon asks as he ducks down to avoid another lunge.

"Hey! Yea, that gives me an idea!" Dinesh says after a moment of thought, drawing a confused look from Zahed. "We could try curry!"

"What?" Zahed asks. What's that?" Dinesh ignores him and instead shouts to Mushroomon, "Try tossing some in his mouth!" Mushroomon leaps back as the mandibles slam into his previous position. "A few of my shrooms have already exploded in his mouth. It doesn't do anything, human!"

"Maybe we just need to up the flavor a bit!" PawnChessmon suggests. "Do what he says!" As Kuwagamon rears back and roars again, Mushroomon tosses his bombs into the insect's mouth: "Fungus Cruncher!"

"Now for the supercharge! Pawn Lightning!" Static discharges from his lance and blasts the bombs just as they enter, amplifying the explosion. Kuwagamon rears away, roaring from the burning sensation. He takes off toward the roof of the cave, soon vanishing from sight.

Dinesh and Zahed release a breath they hadn't realized they were holding as PawnChessmon recovers his shield and walks over to them with Mushroomon in tow. "Not a bad catch, human," Mushroomon mutters, causing Dinesh to place a hand sheepishly on the back of his head.

"Yea! He'll need to find some water to cool that off, but he'll be back…and we should really be gone by the time he does get back," PawnChessmon suggests.

"If only I coulda digivolved…I'd have showed him…" Mushroomon grumbles.

"Well you know, our best chance of that is staying with these humans," PawnChessmon chirps. "That's what Azulongmon said: that a human could make me stronger."

"Yea, yea. He said the same to me. Well, I guess you've ruined my home anyway. Not much a point in staying…"

"Wait, are we all going to travel together then?" Dinesh asks.

"Yea. We have to find a way out of here," Zahed declares. "Better to stick together, in case we run into that thing again."

"I agree," PawnChessmon enjoins. "Let's go! Who knows what adventure awaits on the way! It's gonna be so fun!"

"So…" Dinesh asks. "Where do we go?"

Marcus groans as he comes to, panicking slightly as he finds himself dangling off a steep cliff, held up only by his shirt, which had been caught on some roots sticking out from the cliff face.

"Whoa! Don't move! You have to stay calm!" a familiar voice pleads. Marcus turns his head upward, seeing a small furry orange creature with a tuft of yellow fur on its chest and a blazing tail and forehead. It looks a lot like the pixelated creature he had seen on the computer and it crawls carefully on the edge of the cliff, extending its paw down to him. "It's a good thing you woke up before those roots could break. Take my hand."

Marcus hesitates at first, but the creature's soft eyes and smile suggest that he might not be dangerous, and so he reaches up and takes the creature's paw. It struggles to pull him upward, largely failing in that regard, but does manage to get Marcus into a position where he could unhook his shirt from the roots and grab onto the rocks of the cliff face. The little orange animal relaxes and lets out a sigh of relief as Marcus clambers upward, finally pulling himself up to a safe position. "You're heavier than you look…"

"I'm not that heavy!" Marcus retorts as he takes a few calming breaths. "Where am I anyway? How'd I get here?"

"Oh. You mean you don't know?" the creature asks, clearly confused. "You're in the Digital World with me. You came through the big picture box."

"Picture…box…? What picture box?" Marcus asks. The critter lowers his gaze. "I uhh…may have gotten a little excited when I saw you coming through and may have knocked it off the cliff before you were all the way through…"

"You mean that's why I woke up dangling from a cliff?" Marcus asks, a little agitation rising in his voice. The creature appears to note this agitation and averts its gaze with a small degree of shame. "I'm…sorry… Please don't be mad at me…"

Marcus's face softens and he scratches the back of his head. "Well… I guess no harm, no foul." Marcus kneels silently for a moment or two and when the creature still doesn't return its gaze, he speaks up: "I'm Marcus. Don't suppose you have a name?"

"Coronamon. I'm Coronamon," the creature answers.

Marcus inches closer to him, trying to discern exactly what he is. "That's fire on your tail and head, isn't it? Doesn't it hurt?" The creature finally looks back at him, giving a look of clear confusion. "No. It's supposed to be like that."

Marcus reaches out slowly to touch Coronamon, as if expecting him to bite or flee. Coronamon however only stares curiously at him, allowing him to touch his flaming forehead. The flame is oddly cool: not burning his hand at the touch. Marcus moves his hand down to feel the fur on Coronamon's torso, finding an odd roughness to it. "What are you?" he asks.

"I told you before. I'm a digimon. Or I suppose more specifically your digimon partner," Coronamon replies. "I was told to wait here for a human to appear and now here you are."

"But what is a digimon?" Marcus asks.

"Well… It's what I am," Coronamon answers simply. "I'm not really sure how else to answer that." Marcus remains unsatisfied with the answer but doesn't prod further on the subject. "Ok," he remarks as he leans back. "So I'm in some Digital World and I got here from a magic picture box and you've been waiting for a human to appear….right?" Coronamon nods, his light smile beginning to return.

"Ok, so…how do you know that I'm the one you've been waiting for? I mean, there are lots of humans and I'm only thirteen." Coronamon waddles away from Marcus but soon returns with a tiny blue device in his paw. "This is how I know. You have a digivice. Gennai said that a human would come with one of these and I'd be his partner."

Marcus takes the device from him and looks it over. "But this isn't mine. This other guy accidentally left it behind in the computer lab. "He must have been the one you were waiting for."

The device begins to beep and Marcus looks down at it, noticing it displays an image of Coronamon and a description: Coronamon. Rookie level beast digimon. Vaccine type? Special attacks include Corona Knuckle and Corona Flame.

"But it has to be yours! You're the only human I've ever seen appear in the big picture box and you came through. You have to be the human I was waiting for!" Marcus senses the distress in Coronamon's voice, but before he can retort, a high-pitched scream rings out from below, startling both of them.

"What the…!" Marcus exclaims in response.

"Someone must be in trouble!" Coronamon shouts as he regains his composure. "It sounds like it came from the valley below!"

"Well what do we do? Do we check it out?" Marcus asks.

"I don't know! Is that what you think we should do?" Coronamon asks in response.

Marcus takes a moment to think but another high-pitched scream jolts him from his thoughts. "Ok. We check it out! Any way down from here?" Coronamon points: "There's a safe way down just a little in that direction."

"Fine. Lead the way…" And let's hope we're not running headlong into suicide…

Ying stirs and blinks her eyes, the image of a deep blue sky coming into focus. She slowly sits up, her attention being drawn to a magnificent misty waterfall. Am I…dreaming?

"Oh, you're awake! I was really worried that you hurt yourself when you came through." Ying is pulled from her thoughts by the voice and looks quickly to her side, noticing the purple and pink bunny-like creature she had seen on her computer screen. "Are you thirsty? There's plenty of water."

Ying lets out a high-pitched scream and the creature panics, letting out a scream of its own before diving into the nearby lake. Ying attempts to scramble to her feet but is too worked up and only manages to flop about on the ground, trying desperately to push herself away from the water's edge. The bunny peaks its head above the water to look at her but dives again when Ying screeches once more.

After a few moments of screaming, followed by a few moments of hyperventilating, Ying begins to catch her breath, still staring at the water, where the bunny has once again poked its head above the surface. "Please stop doing that. It really hurts my ears," the creature asks politely.

"You're….you're….you're a talking bunny! Where did you even come from? How are you even doing that!?"

The rabbit slowly raises its full body to the surface and clambers onto the shore. "I didn't mean to frighten you. You came flying from the magic box and hit your head on the rock. I wasn't really sure how I could help, so I waited and hoped you'd eventually wake."

As the rabbit's soft eyes stare at her, Ying relaxes somewhat, but soon grunts with some annoyance and starts glancing around. "This certainly isn't my room, so where exactly am I?"

"Why you're in the Digital World," the rabbit answers. "You are to be my partner so we can fix all which ails this land!"

"I'm supposed to do what now?" Ying asks, turning back to the rabbit suddenly. "I don't even know where I am! Why should I care about fixing whatever ails it?"

The rabbit seems entirely shocked by the question. "You…don't want to help all the other digimon? But… Gennai said the humans who came with these digivices would help us!" She holds up a tiny blue device. "He said we'd be partners!"

"Listen fluffy; I don't know who this Gennai person is, but I never agreed to do anything, least of all to partner up or whatever with some stupid talking pink rabbit! That stupid thing isn't even mine; some random weirdo I met just left it with me! Now stop wasting my time: I want to go home! Tell me how to get home!"

Before the rabbit could retort or reply, a large metallic fish face rises from the lake behind it and Ying lets out yet another high-pitched scream of terror. "What's with all the noise? I'm trying to sleep down here!" the large metal fish barks with disdain.

Ying screams and cries again, turning and attempting to flee into the jungle. At the same time, however, Marcus dashes out of the brush, right into her and they both fall to the ground.

"Are those…humans?" the metallic fish wonders aloud.

"Corona Knuckle!" Coronamon suddenly jumps from the brush near the lake and socks the fish with flaming paws, drawing a gasp of surprise from the rabbit. "I got him, Marcus! Great distraction!"

"Yea… Planned it that way…" Marcus mumbles as he rubs his head and sits back up.

"Why'd you do that?" the rabbit asks. "It's not nice to just attack people!" Coronamon looks at her in confusion. "Wasn't he attacking you? Why else would that human be screaming?"

Ying sits up, grumbling from the pain in her forehead, but leaps at Marcus immediately upon seeing him. "Oh thank goodness! Someone found me! There are talking monsters everywhere!"

Marcus grumbles as she latches onto him and squirms in an attempt to get free, but Ying's grip is too strong. "Who whoa, calm down! We took care of the fish," Marcus assures.

"Fossil Bite!" the metallic fish suddenly shoots up from beneath the surface and clamps its jaws down on Coronamon. The fiery creature squeals as his opponent swings him about before tossing him into the hard rocks on the shore.

"Or not…" Marcus corrects himself nervously. "Let's see if this can tell me anything." He checks his digivice, pointing it at the fish. Sure enough, its information comes up: Coelamon. Ancient fish digimon. Champion level of the Data type. Looks like he has some pretty tough armor and his special attacks are Fossil Bite and Iron Scales.

"Make it go away! Make it go away!" Ying pleads, squeezing Marcus and burying her face in his shirt. Coronamon returns to his feet and stares down Coelamon as it comes ashore, bearing its fangs at the little furry digimon.

"No, wait! Stop! Please don't fight!" the rabbit digimon pleads. "There's been a misunderstanding! He wasn't attacking anyone!"

"Iron Scales!" Coelamon swings his tail, unleashing a barrage of projectiles, which Coronamon leaps away from.

"Corona Knuckle!" Coronamon closes the distance between himself and Coelamon and lunges to attack, but the fish digimon merely swings his tail, batting the little rookie aside and sending him plummeting into the lake.

"Coronamon!" Marcus shouts as he struggles to escape Ying's surprisingly tight grip.

The rabbit digimon dives into the lake, and, after a few moments, resurfaces with Coronamon and drags him safely to shore. "Please, Coelamon: don't attack! We're sorry for disturbing your sleep," she pleads.

Coelamon stands down before growling, "He is the one that attacked me!"

"He thought you were attacking me and my human. Please: it was all just one big misunderstanding!"

Marcus finally manages to break out of Ying's grip and dashes over to Coronamon, who coughs up water as his flames flicker dimly. "That could have gone better…"

"You alright, Coronamon?"

"It's still here! Make it go away! Make it go away!" Ying shouts, hiding behind a tree.

"Would you tell that one to stop being so loud?" Coelamon grumbles with exasperation.

"We're sorry! We'll leave right away so you can go back to sleep," the rabbit digimon assures with a bow of her head. Marcus and Ying watch as Coelamon recedes back into the water and disappears beneath the surface.

"Is it gone?" Ying asks after a few moments, coming out from behind the rock.

"Yea. Looks like it," Marcus replies, lifting Coronamon and holding him in his arms. "What was that all about? If he wasn't attacking, why were you screaming so much?"

"Because it was gross and scary!" Ying barks back.

"My partner was just scared. I didn't know what to do to calm her…" the rabbit digimon adds.

Marcus looks down at the bunny before shifting Coronamon in his arms and raising his digivice to her. Lunamon. Rookie level aquatic rabbit digimon of the Data type. Special attacks: Luna Claw, Tear Shot, and Lop-ear Ripple. "So you're her partner like Coronamon is to me?"

"Who is asking?" Ying demands, quickly becoming irate at the fact that she is being ignored. "Who are you anyway? How'd you get here? Do you know how we can get out of here and back home?"

"I don't think I know anymore than you do," Marcus answers while making a placating gesture. "And the name's Marcus. Marcus Zable. Who might you be?"

Ying's face turns to a sour look and she averts her gaze, but eventually answers: "Ying Wan-Yan…"

"I don't mean to be rude, but we really should leave. I promised Coelamon we'd leave and not disturb him anymore," Lunamon interjects.

"We're talking!" Ying shouts at the pink and purple rabbit.

"Coronamon," Marcus mutters, ignoring the two of them, "do you know which way we go?" Coronamon's flames continue to flicker weakly, though a certain hint of strength enters them when Marcus addresses him. "No…but out of the jungle might be best."

"Lunamon? Know the way out?" Marcus asks. She shakes her head in response. "I guess we just pick a direction…"

"Fine, let's go this way…" Ying grumbles marching off in the direction of the least thick foliage. Marcus and Lunamon follow, and he soon asks, "Why this way?"

"Because it has the least branches and roots to trip over, that's why!" Ying practically spits at him. "Now stop asking dumb questions and just walk! I want to get home today!" Marcus groans in discomfort but follows nonetheless.