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Taming Equestria



A Digimon Story





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Equestria – Ponyville – Castle of Friendship – 12:35 AM

To say things were awkward would have been the understatement of the century. First Twilight wakes up in the middle of a night because of a strange noise. Then it turns out that noise is because the mirror portal that regularly serves as a gateway to the human world, has opened up all on its own and literally spat out a human boy. Not only that, a boy with an interesting fashion sense as the goggle would suggest. About a million questions were running through her head. Who was this kid? How did he get here? Why was he here in the first place? The kid himself only stayed there on his knees unsure himself of what to say. He said hello. But Twilight didn’t respond back.

“Are you….alright?” Twilight tried breaking the ice now. “You did hit the floor pretty hard.”

This seemed to rouse a sense of ease from the boy.

“Oh um, yeah I’m okay. Just hit my head but I’ll be fine.” He replied back.

She saw him rub at the back of his head again trying to ease the pain. He was just a young thing. What could he do?

“Well come with me then. I’ll get you an ice pack.”

“Uhhhh…sure.”

As Twilight began to leave the room, the boy got up to his feet and began to walk in pace behind her.

“So you’re a human, right?” Twilight asked as they exited the room and into the grand hallway of the castle.

“Yeah I’m a human alriiiiiiiiiiiiiiii……”

He couldn’t finish his sentence as he looked around where he was. This hallway was huge. And every surface, below, to the side, and above him, seemed to be made  of the same crystal substance. Royal purple banners hung in set patterns down and up the hallway they were in.

“Where the heck am I?” He managed to get out.

“You’re in the Castle of Friendship.” Twilight turned around to respond. “Follow me if you want that ice.”

So many questions. Both of them joined had more questions than could be counted. For now though, Twilight was only concerned with getting him a bag of ice for his aching head. She led him down the hallway and down a staircase again made of crystal. Once down to the lower floor, she led him into what appeared to be a grand kitchen.

There was an icebox nearby. And in a nearby cabinet an ice bag to hold it floated out of it, surrounded in a magenta aura. Takato only looked at the thing dumbfounded. How was it floating? His answer came to him quickly when he turned and saw the horn on Twilight’s head glowing in a similar color. So obviously she was the one making the ice bag move around.

“I don’t know what kind of Digimon this is. It looks like it could be a smaller form of a Unimon. But I’ve never even seen it on a card before.”

Once the bag was full of ice, Twilight made it hover in front of Takato.

“Here you go.” She said.

“Thank you very much.” Takato had to admit. Whatever she was, she was very kind.

As he placed the icepack to his head, Twilight gestured to a nearby stool and Takato took that as an offer to sit. He gladly accepted it and sat down, letting his backpack slip off him and drop to his legs. Now that they were both a bit more relaxed, Twilight took this as her chance to start asking him questions.

“Do you have a name?” Twilight decided to go with the simple one first.

“Oh. It’s Takato. TakatoMatsuki.” The goggleheaded boy replied. “And what about you?”

“My name is Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship.” She answered back.

“Twilight Sparkle?” Takato repeated it to himself before chuckling. “Hehe. Doesn’t sound like any Digimon name I’ve ever heard.”

Her eyebrow rose out of confusion. What did he just call her?

“I’m sorry. But….I’m not a….whatever you just called me. I’m a pony. An alicornto be exact.” She stood up straight proud of her rank.

“Ummmm…..wha?” Now it was Takato’s turn to be confused. “You mean you’re an alicorn type Digimon, right?”

The look Twilight gave him only made the boy frightened. She was a Digimon. She had to be. No other creature in existence he knew about could look like that and have the ability to speak. Not to mention those magic floating powers he just saw. There was no other possible explanation.

“Why do you keep using that word? Digimon? What is that?” She asked, genuinely not having a clue what he was saying.

With a gasp, Takato shot up off the stool and looked into Twilight’s eyes. His own gone as open as they could and full of nothing but fear.

“You have to tell me now! Where am I?!” He shouted.

“Whoa whoa whoa. Take it easy!” Twilight held up a hoof to try and ease him back down. “And like I told you, you’re in the-”

“No no no!” Takato interrupted her. “I know I’m in this Castle of Friendship but what world is this?! It has to be the Digital World! It just has to be!”

“Digital World? What in the hay is he talking about?!”

The alicorn had no clue what he was going on about. Digital World? Digimon? How hard did this kid hit his head?

“Listen….Takato…” She said gently using his name for the first time. “I don’t know what you think is happening here. But this isn’t ‘The Digital World.’ This is Equestria. The land of ponies.”

“………no…………no no NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Without even thinking, Takato dropped the icepack and left his backpack behind. He ran out of the kitchen at full speed, trying to find a door or a window. Anything that would show him the outside.

“Takato, wait!” Twilight shouted as she took after him.

“This can’t be happening! This just can’t be happening!”

It didn’t matter how many times he repeated the thought, it did nothing to ease him. He hopped through that portal alone. He left his parents and friends behind. There’s no way a mistake like this could have happened. It just didn’t make any sense!

After running and continuing to ignore Twilight’s calls to him, Takato finally found a big enough door that looked like it could be a front door. Barging it, they flew open. And he didn’t like what he saw.

Instead of the desolate landscape of the lowest plane of the Digital World he remembered seeing the first time, Takato was instead met with a grassy field and a path that seemed to lead to a nearby village.

“No…..” Tears started to leak from his eyes. “I…..I can’t be…..in the wrong world….”

Behind him, Twilight was standing unsure of what to do. She was completely taken for a loop with this kid. And now what did he say? In the wrong world? Just what was going on here?

As Takato began to stumble down the staircase he looked up to the sky for at least the one big sign to be there. But it wasn’t. Earth wasn’t visible. Only the moon in the night sky. That only sealed it. He fell to his knees in anguish and screamed to the heavens.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Twilight was about ready to use her magic to put this kid to sleep so she could wait until morning to finally get him to talk. But that thought quickly exited her head when the sound of him crying rang into her ears. Slowly approaching, she could now see the tear trails going down his eyes and soaking the dirt underneath his face.

“Takato?” She muttered.

“I….I just….wanted to see him…..Guilmon…” Takato choked out between sobs.

“Guil…mon?” She repeated the best she could. “Who exactly are you, kid?”

Still crying his eyes out and pounding the ground in a mixture of frustration and sadness, Takato tried his best to answer.

“I…I just…..I came through….a portal….cause I wanted to see Guilmon again…..but…..he’s not here…”

That at least made the puzzle a tad clearer to the princess. He’s looking for his friend. But somehow he ended up in the wrong world. How did something like that even happen in the first place?

“I…..I’m sorry….for coming here….I….I didn’t mean…”

“Shhhhhhhhhh.”

Now filled with sympathy for his situation, she rested a gentle hoof on his sholder.

“It’s okay, Takato.” Twilight muttered to try and ease his crying. “I don’t understand what’s going on right now. But for what it’s worth, I’m sorry.”

The words did very little to calm Takato down. Twilight wasn’t sure what to do. She just sat there with a crying human on her front porch, waiting for him to stop crying. It took a few minutes. By then he was still leaking tears, but he was calm enough to the point where he could talk clearly again.

“Twilight….that’s your name, right?”

“Yes.” She softly softly responded.

“I hate to do this but…..would you mind helping me get back home?”

There wasn’t even a question in there for the alicorn.

“Of course I will. But for now, you’re tired. Come back into the castle and get some sleep. We’ll talk more in the morning.”

Sniffling and wiping his eyes dry, Takato stood back up and looked down to the pony with his vision still a little blurry. She was right. He hadn’t slept all night because he was too excited to see his partner again. But now his dreams crushed and all that crying have worn him out.

“Thank you.” Was all he said.

With a nod, Twilight led him back into the castle and showed him to one of the castle’s many guestrooms. Lucky for him, the bed inside was big enough to fit a human of his size. Thanking her again, Takato removed his shoes and made his way to the bed to climb inside of it. As he did, Twilight closed the door and teleported back to the kitchen to get his backpack that he left in his rush to get outside. She was tempted to look inside of it. After all he was still a human from another land that just fell into Equestria. There could be some plot to try and invade going on here. It could all be a charade.

Her paranoia got the best of her and she opened up Takato’s backpack. When she looked inside, her feelings calmed down upon seeing that the thing was stuffed almost entirely with loaves of bread. There were also a few changes of clothes for himself underneath it all but more than half of the backpack was full of bread. Why bread of all things? Weren’t kids Takato’s age supposed to be all about candy and junk food? What kind of a kid brings bread?

Deeming nothing to be threatening inside the pack, Twilight teleported back to the outside of the door and creaked it open again. Takato was already inside the bed fast asleep.

“Poor kid.” Twilight whispered. “To fall into the wrong world.”

That only raised even more questions. He packed. Takato’s backpack was filled with clothes and food. So clearly he intended to fall into a different world that either was or wasn’t his own. Where did he come from? Where was he trying to go? He said something about the “Digital World”. But other than that, nothing.

Placing the backpack by his shoes, Twilight vowed to get her answers tomorrow morning. Right after she wrote to Celestia about her new houseguest.

A matter of hours later and sure enough, morning came. The sun rose up to greet Ponyville to the new day with its light. The rays shone through the window of the sole other pony resident of the castle. Starlight Glimmer rose up out of her bed and stretched her legs before walking over to the mirror in her room to brush her mane back to what it normally looks like. She had a few plans for today as listed on the tiny note taped to the surface of her mirror. But first, she needed a meal.

Spike’s cooking was always something she looked forward to when she woke up in the morning. That little drake knew his way around a kitchen. As she made her way out of her room and down the hall, she took in a breath through her nose smelling the scent of a meal already being prepared. Only a few steps later however, she heard something new: snoring. Coming from the door she was now right next to.

“Did Somepony else stay here last night?” she asked herself out loud.

She didn’t remember any of her friends staying the night. Spike’s room was in the other direction. So who was in there? Wanting to know, she cracked the door open to see who was occupying the room. The one eye she was looking in with went as wide as a saucer when she saw what was in the bed.

“A human? What? But how? I gotta tell Twilight!”

Skipping the traditional walk to the kitchen, Starlight opted for teleportation instead and jumped to the kitchen. Spike was the only other one in there wearing a chef’s hat and an apron while he flipped some hot pancakes off a skillet.

“Spike, where’s Twilight?! It’s an emergency!” She alarmingly requested.

“Map room.” Spike replied lost in his work with breakfast. “So how many pancakes do you want?”

“Spike this is not the time!” Starlight shouted before teleporting away again.

Spike shrugged, not awake enough yet to deal with either mare’s tendency to overreact yet. A few seconds later though, Starlight reappeared in a flash of cyan colored magic.

“But if you’re asking, I’ll take three and drown it in syrup, please.”

The dragon smirked as she teleported away again.

Meanwhile in the map room, Twilight was sitting at her chair in deep thought, thinking back to the mirror and Takato. In front of her was the journal she regularly used to communicate with Sunset Shimmer on the other side of it. As soon as she woke up, Twilight sent her friend a message telling her the mirror acted up last night and someone fell out. Then she asked if anything like that happened at all on her end. It took a while to get a response, but according to Sunset, nothing happened that she saw. She even asked to use the school security cameras to see if anything unusual happened. The response was negative. Whatever happened to the mirror only happened on Equestria’s side of it.

She had sent a letter to Celestia about the human as well. There had still been no response back after about an hour. She figured she must have a morning routine to go through before she can get to letters from her. Right? All she knew now was that it was killing her to wait for Takato to wake up so she could start her questioning. Surely he had some questions for her as well.

Her train of thought was interrupted when she heard a burst of magic explode right behind her. And from it emerged her student and friend, Starlight Glimmer.

“Twilight! I have no idea how but-!”

“I know.”

Two words. With just two words, Starlight froze.

“I know about the human, Starlight. His arrival here woke me up last night.” She said with a hint of concern for him.

“What do you mean? How come you didn’t wake any of us up?” Starlight came up to her side so she could see her mentor’s face.

“Because it wasn’t that big a deal. The alicorn replied. “He’s just a kid. And I think he’s lost.”

Her mind flashed back to the image of Takato on the ground crying last night in front of the castle doors. Lost was one word to put it right now.

“Okay. But how did he get here?” Starlight asked another one.

“He came through the mirror. But…..it was different. The portal that the mirror created was a lot different than the one you and I used to go to Sunset Shimmer’s world.”

That portal came back to her mind. Those floating punctuation marks, the deep black void, the fact that he seemed to fall through it, everything. The mirror had never done that before. And to only happen on one side. Why now? Why this boy? What was so special about him?

Starlight was about to speak but Twilight stopped her.

“And before you say it, I already asked Sunset about it. She says nothing strange happened on her end. It was just us this happened to.”

“But how? Why? I mean who exactly is this kid?”

“His name is Takato Matsuki. And he’s trying to find his friend…..Guilmon. I think that’s how he said it.”

There were names now. Starlight’s interest was officially piqued.

“Trying to find his friend? What makes him think this Guilmon is here?”

“I don’t think he is. Before he went to sleep last night, I told Takato exactly where he was and it scared him half to death. Then he said he was in the wrong world.”

Shaking her head, Twilight thought it best not to just keep thinking about what happened and wait for the answers to just pop up. If she wanted her questions answered, there was only one way to do it. But she didn’t want to seem like she was just going to interrogate him.

“I’m going to bring him some breakfast and see if he’s up to answering a few of my questions.” Twilight said with a bit of confidence. “You go ahead and eat yourself. I’ll keep you up to speed.”

“Should we tell the others about this?” Starlight wondered.

Twilight had considered that, but for the moment decided against it. She looked back to Starlight with an assuring smile.

“Like I said, Takato’s just a kid. I doubt there’s anything major to worry about. And I already sent a letter to Celestia about this. If need be we’ll bring in the others but for now I think we’re covered.”

It seemed like a simple enough plan. Trusting the princess, Starlight nodded and teleported with her back to the kitchen. The unicorn’s order was waiting for her on the table. Three pancakes covered in maple syrup. Using her levitation magic, Twilight fixed up a plate of two pancakes and a glass of apple juice for Takato. She placed the plate and glass on a tray before teleporting once more.

Meanwhile up in the room, the tamer was finally beginning to stir from his slumber. When he opened his eyes, he saw he was in a bed that wasn’t his own. The walls of the room he was in were crystal. The sight only made reality sink in deeper.

“Nuts. It wasn’t a bad dream after all.”

Groaning, he sprawled his body out across the bed. He was really stuck in another world that wasn’t Earth or the Digital World. And now his chances of ever seeing his Digimon again seemed to be nonexistent. The fact alone felt like it was enough to keep him in that bed forever. But a series of soft knocks against the bedroom door caused his head to move.

“Takato? It’s Twilight. Are you awake?”

The only familiar voice he knew right now in this world. He was fifty-fifty on not answering her so she would leave him to sulk. But something in his head made him reply anyway.

“Yeah I’m awake.” He groggily called out.

The door clicked open and in walked the alicorn, carrying a tray of food and a glass of what appeared to be apple juice sitting next to it. It was floating in the same magenta aura the icebagwas cased in last night.

“How are you doing that?” He gestured to the tray as it was lowered down over his legs.

“It’s just a simple levitation spell. It’s the basic spell every unicorn here first learns.” Twilight explained as she sat down beside him.

“Unicorn?” Takato sat up as Twilight talked. “I thought you said this world was inhabited by ponies.”

“It is.” Twilight corrected. “Unicorns are just one of the three main races.”

“Ooooooh.” The tamer muttered.

“I’m sure you have a lot of questions for me, Takato. But I hope you understand, I have some questions for you as well. I know you’re upset because this world apparently wasn’t what you were expecting it to be, but do you think you can answer some for me?”

Takato sighed. He should have figured he would get bombarded with questions sooner or later. He just hoped for the second option to be more likely. There was no avoiding it now. Answering her questions was the least he could do for intruding into her castle late at night and taking one of her guest bedrooms.

“Sure. Lay em’ on me.” He said as he sat up to inspect the food on the tray.

“Alright then.” Her horn glowed again and out of nowhere, a feather quill and a small notepad appeared out of thin air and hovered in front of her, causing the boy to look in astonishment.

“An easy summoning spell. Works great with small objects.” She gave a short summary before she began to write. “Alright, Takato. Let’s start with an easy one. Where are you from?”

That did seem like an easy one to start out with.

“Well I’m from another planet called, Earth. I was born and raised in Shinjuku. It’s a district in this big city called Tokyo. It’s in a country called Japan.”

“Tokyo…..Japan…..I remember hearing those names before when I traveled to the human world myself before.” Twilight said as she wrote.

That little statement made Takato freeze as he began to bring the glass of juice to his lips.

“Wait. You’ve been to Earth before?” he asked shocked.

“I’m starting to theorize it may not have been the same Earth that you know.” Twilight answered him. “But we’ll get into that later. How did you get here to Equestria?”

Equestria. The name alone almost made Takato laugh. A big horse pun. He kept the laughter in his head so as to not disrespect one of its rulers now in front of him.

“Well to answer that, I gotta go back a bit and explain to you a few more things about what I’ve been through.”

That didn’t bother the alicorn one single bit. The more she could learn about this kid, the better. And she loved learning. She had her quill ready to go like she was waiting for a timer to hit zero.

“You see, back in my world, my friends and I are fans of a TV show and card game called ‘Digimon’.”

“Right right. I remember you thinking I was a ‘Digimon’ last night. What exactly did you mean?” Twilight asked as she kept writing.

She already knew what a TV was thanks to her brief time in Sunset’s world. It was like a play shown from an electronic screen that you could watch anytime.

“Well here’s how it started. Digimon is about these kids around my age who get sucked into this other world and partnered with these creatures called, Digimon. Short for Digital Monsters. Creatures that have incredible amounts of power. It turns out the world they got sucked into was the Digital World. A world made up entirely of data passing through Earth’s digital network. The internet, everything. Every bit of data made up the Digital World and the Digimon that lived in it. These kids were brought to that world because they were chosento be the heroes to save it. And they did. Multiple times over. The power of their friendship with their respectiveDigimon partner allowed said Digimon to grow stronger so they could defeat powerful opponents.”

Using the power of friendship to save the day. Twilight was starting to like this show already even though she hadn’t seen it yet. As he kept talking, Takato started to dig into his pancakes.

“The show got so popular that it spawned toys, video games, and most importantly, a trading card game. My friends and I would always play the game with each other and try to win tournaments. We never did but it was still fun. I even for fun made up my own imaginary Digimon and drew pictures of him. Then one day before school, I notice this strange blue card piled in with all of my other cards that I had never seen before. I swiped it through my card reader but it caused the thing to short out.”

“Sorry to interrupt. I’m following you but what’s a card reader?” Twilight asked curious.

“It’s like this small little electronic device you swipe the cards through and it generates a random number to see how many points you get. It’s kinda like rolling dice.”

Nodding, Twilight let Takato continue.

“I came back after school to see if my card reader was broken but when I saw my reader again, I saw it change into a Digivice.”

“A digi what?”

Reaching over to the nightstand on the other side of them, Takato grabbed his D-Ark and showed it to Twilight. Putting the quill behind her ear, she leaned in closer to marvel at the small thing. The golden ring with unreadable glyphs surrounding a small square screen in the center of it glistened in the sunlight. It had two matching gold buttons made out of rubber. And a red strap and belt hook was attached to the top. On the right side there seemed to be a slit that the other side didn’t have. She had seen cell phones before in the mirror world. But she had never seen anything like this before.

“Incredible.” She whispered. “What is its purpose?”

“I’ll get to that in a bit. After my card reader transformed I decided to see what would happen if I swiped my drawings of my Digimon through the card slot there. When all the details were scanned, it created an egg. A digi-egg. When school finished that next day I saw that the egg hatched. Then my Digivice here led me where he emerged into the world. That was the first day I met Guilmon.”

“Guilmon? You mean the friend you’re trying to find?” It looked like the dots were starting to get connected.

“Yeah. It turns out Digimon weren’t just cards or video games or a TV show. They were real. And I was able to create my very own out of scratch and bring him to life.”

Astounding. Takato created a whole other life with just a drawing and this Digivice of his? She was scribbling away on her notepad like a madpony trying to get down every last detail she could.

“These creatures that exist, hidden away in your world’s digital network, can make their way to the real world?”

“Yeah. In fact once I found Guilmon and he and I became partners, I met up with Henry and Rika. They had their own Digimon partners too. We had some bumps in the road but we ended up becoming best friends. We called ourselves, ‘Digimon Tamers’. We took it upon ourselves to fight off the bad Digimon that broke through to cause trouble because we were the only ones who could. We had so many crazy adventures together. We and our Digimon grew stronger together. With every battle we won we felt that we went up a step in our friendship. That didn’t change when we travelled to the Digital World.”

“Hold on.” Twilight stopped writing again. “You actually went to the Digital World? A world that exists inside your world’s digital network? Wha….how? How did you manage that? And why would you go there in the first place if its crawling with these Digimon?”

“The Devas.” Takato went on as he kept eating. “We had been under siege from this group of Digimon that called themselves the Devas. One day, the biggest Deva of them all, Vikaralamon, came to our world and completely wrecked downtown Shinjuku. We were able to stop him, but not before a lot of damage had been done. But during our fight, one of our friends, Calumon, was kidnapped by another Deva named Makuramon. He kidnapped Calumon and took him back to the Digital World. My friends and I went there to get him back.”

“You’re telling me you ventured off into another world crawling with creatures of unlimited power just so you could save one of your friends?” Twilight asked, touched.

“Yeah. Calumon is my friend and he was in trouble. But there was another reason. Calumon was a small little Digimon but he had this power that helped other Digimondigivolve.”

Again, the scribbling halted. Takato knew what was coming.

“Digivolving is what it’s called when a Digimon evolves into a bigger more stronger level than its previous form. All Digimon have the power to do it. But Calumon couldn’t. Mostly because he was the embodiment of that power.”

“This….is absolutely AMAZING!!!!”

A whole other world she didn’t know about. A whole other species that could evolve on command. Oh the papers she could write.

“We traveled to the Digital World to rescue him and….after some more of those bumps, we got him back.”

He sighed as visions of Leomon’s death came flashing before him. But he quickly pushed those thoughts out. Beelzemon wasn’t that psycho anymore.

“After we got Calumon back, we all returned to our world. But something followed us back. A nasty enemy called the D-Reaper. It was being that was created to destroy anything that it felt had evolved past its allowed limitations. And it saw us humans as ‘too evolved’.”

“And I’m guessing you defeated that as well, right?” Twilight muttered as the quill tip kept scratching the paper.

By now she was probably on her tenth page of notes. She looked up from her paper to see that Takato’s sad look had returned.

“Yeah….we beat it….but it came with a price none of us saw coming.”

“What happened?” Twilight didn’t want to pry, but she had come too far into the story to not know now.

“As it turned out, the only way to defeat the D-Reaper was to give up our Digimon partners. They had to return to the Digital World. None of us wanted that to happen. Our partners were like family to us now. We couldn’t stand the thought of being separated. But there was nothing we could do. All of us just watched in tears as our best friends floated away and back to their world. That was around three months ago.”

The princess couldn’t help but feel sympathy once more for the tamer. To have a bond that tight but forced to sever it, she prayed that day would never come with any of her friends. They were family to her like she assumed this Guilmon was to Takato.

“Well, after they left, life picked up right where it seemed to leave off. But one day, yesterday, I was walking by our old hang out and I saw that the portal to the Digital World was open again.”

And that was it. Twilight didn’t need anything else from that point.

“And so you went through it, trying to get to the Digital World to see your friend again, but somehow ended up here in Equestria instead.”

“Yes, your highness.” Takato confirmed.

“Please. Call me Twilight.” She insisted. “I’m sorry you had to go through that, Takato. I can’t imagine having to rush out a goodbye like that on the spot.”

“It’s alright, Twilight.” Takato said as he took the last gulp of his apple juice. “I just….I promised him that we would play again soon. And I was so sure I couldn’t keep that promise. But once I saw the portal, I was dead set on keeping it.”

The only response he got was a nod as Twilight kept writing to finish up her notes.

“But that still doesn’t answer the question on how I got here.” The tamer looked around the room.

“That’s something I’m still trying to figure out myself. That mirror you fell through IS a portal to another world but again, I don’t think you’re from that same world.”

“Well while we’re on the subject of worlds, would you mind telling me what exactly Equestria is?”

That wasn’t too tall of an order to fill. It wasn’t yet clear how long Takato was going to be stuck here. So she figured it may do him some good to at least have some sense of knowledge on this world. So she began by starting out with the general idea of what Equestria is, and what it entails. She answered his earlier inquiry about the “races” thing. The main 3 types of ponies seen in Equestriawere earth ponies, pegasus ponies, and unicorns. Alicorns were ranks only reserved for royalty like she was.

Then she went into her own adventures with her friends. She started from when she first vanquished Nightmare Moon all the way up to when she and the Pillars of Equestria defeated the Pony of Shadows. It took only a bit longer for her to explain all that than it did for Takato to get through his story.

But nevertheless, Takato was greatly interested and stunned that such interesting things happened in a place like this.

“It sounds like your friends sure are quite the team.” The tamer said.

“We sure are.” Twilight boasted proudly. “Who knows? Maybe you’ll get to meet them during your stay here.”

“Maybe.” That sentence only helped him remember the fact that he was stuck there.

Twilight took notice of his drop in enthusiasm and decided now would be a good time to give him some space. Taking the empty tray from his lap, she made her way towards the bedroom door.

“Thank you for answering my questions, Takato.” She said to him. “I promise, I’m going to do everything in my power to get you back home.”

“Yeah. Thank you, Twilight.” The boy murmured back.

Closing the door, Twilight let loose a heavy sigh.

“What did I say that?! Why did I make a promise like that?! How am I supposed to get him home when I don’t even know how the portal got him here in the first place?!”

She had to figure something out. One thing was definitely for certain. She was going to be pulling a few all nighters if she was going to get to the bottom of this mystery. Be it magic or fate that brought Takato here, she would be sure that she would be the one to get him home. If anything to get him one step closer to reuniting with his friend again.

But first she just HAD to tell Starlight about all this.

Back in Takato’s room, he had finally decided to get out of bed a few minutes after Twilight left. Walking over to a nearby door that led to a balcony, he got his first view of the Equestrian Landscape in the morning daylight. It certainly did look as beautiful as Twilight made it out to be in her story. The grounds were lush and green. And the village not too far from them had to bePonyville as Twilight called it. Just beyond the village seemed to be an eerie looking forest covered in thick dark trees.

“If only Miss Asaji could give me credit for writing a report on a land of ponies. I’d be gold.” He tried to joke to himself to feel better.

It worked for one second. With a sigh, he looked upwards into the deep blue sky.

“This place looks like one of Suzie’s wildest dreams.” He spoke out loud again.

“Oh Guilmon, what have I gone and gotten myself into this time? I shouldn’t have rushed into that portal on my own. I just missed you so much. And now I’m probably in it deep with my friends and family. Heck Rika is probably gonna kick my butt if I ever get back. So I have that to look forward to. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeri took a swing at me. I know you can’t hear me. But just know that I’m not gonna stop. I know now there is a way to get you back and I am not gonna rest until I find you again.”

As he turned his head to view the country some more, he felt a familiar feeling grow inside his body. One he just couldn’t ignore.

“But first things first, I need to find a bathroom.”

He rushed back inside the room rushed past the bed one his way to the bathroom which luckily was attached to the guest room. Once he was done and he came back out the door, he looked to his bed to see something he never thought he would see.

“That’s…..impossible.”

Picking up his pace with every step, he snatched his D-Ark off of the messed up bed covers and saw that the tiny screen was glowing a dim white. He was in a whole other world. Surely this thing had to be messed up when it came through the portal right? As sure as the possibility of a malfunction was, Takato’s heart began to race as he pressed one of the buttons on the bottom of the Digivice. The screen changed to a familiar compass program that Takato recognized many times when he had lost Guilmon.

The arrow was pointing south.