Taming Equestria: A Digimon Story

by AutoKnight01

Meet the Town

*I only own the plot of this story. MLP FiM is owned by Hasbro, Lauren Faust, and DHX. Digimon is owned by Bandai. Enjoy!*

*Also I’ve made the decision that this story is taking place between seasons 8 and 9. So the school and the young six WILL show up soon*

Earth – Tokyo – Hypnos HQ – 8:00 AM

To say things had been stressful for Mitsuo Yamaki the past couple of days would be a major understatement. Ever since word had gotten out that Takato went through the portal back to the Digital World, his parents had been calling him practically every hour on the hour for a status update. Why? Because during the first phone call they made, Yamaki had promised them that he would do all he could to track down Takato’s location in the Digital World so a retrieval would be easier to execute. Now that he had made that promise, the Matsuki parents were restless. It started to feel like he was spending more time of the day trying to talk them both down than track Takato. He was almost considering having their number blocked from the Hypnos phones. Almost. As much as an annoyance and hindrance it was, Yamaki still needed to keep the line to the Matsukis open so he could relay any new information.

Unfortunately, new information was something he had zero of. Every station of the Hypnos agency was immediately put to work trying to locate Takato’s exact location in the Digital World and formulate a plan for getting him back safely. But in the span they’ve worked, nothing has been brought to light. Scans of the Digital World’s map were being performed multiple times an hour and every single one yielded nothing. His top scientists were trying to think about why this was happening. Maybe the coding of the Digital World had changed after the D-Reaper’s attack. Maybe the four Digimon Sovereign were up to something. Whatever the reason they came up with, nothing could be proven without substantial evidence. And that also was in low supply.

Whatever the case was, Yamaki had to come up with something fast. Every second that passed the clock was just another second Takato had to spend along in an unforgiving digital dimension. As he casually flicked the lid of his lighter open and shut again, he ascended the stairs that led to the main room of the Hypnos building. The large dome where his two main monitors, Riley and Tally, were up in their chairs typing away at their controls.

“Riley, Tally, is there anything to report?”

Looking down from her chair, Tally just shook her head to her boss.

“Nothing but the same, boss. We haven’t been able to get a lock on Takato’s digivice.”

Pocketing his lighter, Yamaki used his other hand to pull his sunglasses off his face before rubbing eyes. Nothing but the same indeed. A big sack of nothing. With a heavy sigh, the head of Hypnos looked back up to the two women as he came to a decision.

“You two keep doing what you’re doing. Report to me the second anything new hits your screens.” He said as he turned back around to go down the stairs.

“Where are you going?” Riley asked from above.

Yamaki didn’t turn to them as he answered. All he did was put his glasses back on.

“I have to make a call.”

As he walked to his office, Yamaki kept his head as level as he could flicking his lighter back and forth. The metallic clicking echoing throughout the halls as he stepped. It seemed to be the only thing that kept him sane in times like this. That constant clicking. As he approached his desk, he set the lighter down and picked up his phone. The number was dialed and it was one he hoped he wouldn’t have to dial again for a very long time. But he wanted this dealt with as fast as he could. No human on Earth knew the Digital World as well as this guy did.

The dial tone buzzed into Yamaki’s ear twice before the sound of a phone being taken off its hook and held up to a mouth could be heard.

“I honestly didn’t think you would call me in so soon, Yamaki.”

He stifled a chuckle. Of course he knew.

“Well then, Shibumi, I guess I don’t need to give you an explanation of what’s happening then.”

“No you don’t.”

Over in another part of the city, Gorou Mizuno, AKA: Shibumi, was sitting at his own work station, looking at windows upon windows of data readouts as he held the phone to his ear.

“Tao called me yesterday and filled me in.”

“Then I take it you’ve been at this nearly as long as we have.” Yamaki surmised. “Please tell me you have information that I don’t already know.”

“I do. But you aren’t going to like it.”

Yamaki sighed. There was a feeling in the pit of his stomach that he knew where this conversation was going.

“I’m not going to have to tell the Matsukis they have my condolences, am I?”

“I’d hold off on sending them flowers, Yamaki.” Shibumi then went straight into explaining mode. “Right after I got off the phone with Janyu, I went straight to my computer and activated my tracking program for the children’s digivices.”

“Tracking program?”

“Yes it’s a neat little feature isn’t it? With the right program I can use it to track the whereabouts of the children anywhere in this world or the Digital World, so long as they have their digivices with them. They may be not of this world but like the Digimon themselves, they give off a unique signal that can easily be tracked. Right now I’m seeing on my screen that all the children, save for Takato’s are showing up in different parts of Tokyo.”

“And let me guess. There isn’t a single trace of Takato here or in the Digital World.” Yamaki finished for him.

“No, Yamaki. Apparently there never was.”

That part was where Yamaki caught his breath. This had to be the new information he was talking about.

“What do you mean, ‘there never was’? Explain, Shibumi.”

“It’s as obvious as it can be. I ran through my data and backtracked to the night Takato left for the Digital World. Right after he left through the portal, the signal tracking on his digivice went dead. And it never popped up again in the Digital World.”

“Perhaps there was a malfunction with his digivice.”

“Highly doubtful, Yamaki. Those things may be small but they are resilient little things. I spent hours running scans all over the Digital World trying to find him but came up with nothing. Unfortunately this leads me to the ‘you’re not going to like it’ part.”

Both Yamaki and Shibumi paused as the latter finally spoke.

“The reason Takato’s digivice isn’t giving off a signal is because Takato isn’t in the Digital World, nor is he on Earth. He’s somewhere else beyond our reach. And I have no idea if he’s dead or alive.”

Equestria – Ponyville – Castle of Friendship – 9:30 AM

The sun had officially been hanging overhead in the sky for a few hours now. Takato rubbed his eyes as he finally rose up from his sleep to greet a new day in Equestria. Turning to his side, he smiled to see that his partner and best friend was right there by his side, snoozing like a log. After the fight last night, he deserved a long rest. Softly, the tamer brought his hand up to pet his head. It may not have been much but it was enough to rouse Guilmon from his slumber.

“Oh hey, boy. Sorry I didn’t mean to wake you up.”

“Ahhhh….it’s alright.” The red Digimon said still half awake.

However, his nose seemed to be fully functional as he took in a lot of sniffs. The scent he was picking seemed to act like morning coffee because Guilmon sprung right out of bed with a wide smile on his face.

“Whoa! Guilmon, what’s wrong boy?” Takato immediately thought there was another threat on the approach.

“And would you keep it down, please? Some of us still wanna sleep.” Terriermon groggily said.

Takato looked down and saw around the room the other Digimon had started to rise as well, looking different levels of annoyed or tired.

“Nothing is wrong. I just smell food! A lot of it!” Guilmon happily answered his partner.

And there it was. The only thing that could get Guilmon on his feet faster than any threat could, the chance of a good meal. That could be said for any Digimon. The others were now fully awake and ready to eat as well. Even Renamon had made an appearance in the corner of the room.

“Well then pineapple head, lead us to the grub!” Impmon shouted, hungry and ready.

As Guilmon headed out the door with the rest of the Digimon in tow, Takato hurried to put on his clothes and follow them, running down the hall to catch up. His nose led him downstairs into the kitchen and dining area where the source of the delicious scent was found. One push through the door and Takato plus the Digimon were stunned at what they all saw.

Not only Twilight, Starlight, and Spike were in on this, but the other five ponies that Takato had met up close yesterday were all chipping in, setting the table and putting plate after plate of different kinds of food around the table’s surface. Pancakes, fruits, biscuits, muffins, and anything else that could be thought of breakfast food that didn’t seem to involve any sort of meat were being placed on the table, ready to be eaten.

Guilmon, Terriermon, Calumon, and Monodramon were practically drooling at the sight of the spread. Impmon, Lopmon, Kokuwamon, and Marineangemon all had sparkles in their eyes. Renamon was the only one who seemed unaffected. But inside, she was impressed at the effort the ponies put into making all this food. The young tamer was lost in the aroma all the foods made mixed together. A few moments passed before he decided to break the silence.

“What is all this?”

Hearing his voice made all ponies and the sole dragon halt in place finally notice Takato and the Digimon were all in the room.

“Look whose up!” Rainbow Dash floated over and jabbed Takato affectionately on his shoulder. “Good morning, hero!”

The gogglehead just chuckled as he rubbed his arm.

“Thanks for that. But it was mostly Guilmon and the others who did all the work.”

“Well that’s not entirely true, darling.” Rarity was quick to correct him. “We saw all of you act bravely last night, including you, Takato. You may not have done any fighting but you and your cards sure helped turn the tide of the fight against those dreadful wolves.”

Pinkie walked into view, balancing a bowl full of an unknown batter atop her head. A huge smile that was normal to see on her was present as she looked at every single Digimon and the only human.

“Yeah! You were all totally amazing last night! So to thank you we all pitched in to make you a hero’s breakfast!”

She gestured back to the table filled to the brim with delicious food. All the foreign guests in the castle looked on it now with a bit more surprise after hearing what Pinkie said.

“You…made this all for us?” Lopmon could hardly believe it.

“I don’t know what to say.” Kokuwamon looked about ready to shed an oily tear.

*DING!*

“Oop! Last thing is ready!” Starlight trotted over to the oven.

Twilight was already there using her magic to levitate out what she and Starlight considered the grand finale. Guilmon’s nostrils began to flare as he picked up one of the most familiar scents his nose could take in. As he and Takato looked over, the red and black Digimon’s eyes grew wide and developed stars as he looked at what was on the tray Twilight brought out.

Lying there on the baking sheet was an assortment of bread rolls. Each one of them was carefully rolled and molded by Pinkie to resemble the hazard symbol Guilmon wore on his body.

“Is that what I think it is?” Guilmon could barely contain himself.

Everypony and Spike chuckled while Starlight took the tray from Twilight and placed on the table near the end.

“Takato told us it was your favorite food.” The unicorn explained. “How could we make a buffet and not include it?”

Guilmon didn’t hear a word she said. His eyes were laser focused on that tray of shaped bread he had forgotten how to blink.

“I think we better let them start eating before they try to eat us first.” Starlight said with a chuckle.

“THANK YOU!” Calumon took that as the green light.

Within a timeframe of two seconds, almost every Digimon was crowded around the table trying to fill their plates like animals and begin to scarf down everything that was on them. Twilight and the rest of them all stood by and just watched them with surprise, afraid that if anyone tried to stop them, they would get a limb torn off and eaten accidentally. Takato, not wanting Guilmon to be seen as a mindless black hole of bread, gently grabbed his partner by his back and pulled him away before advising him to slow down and be polite to the ones who prepared the meal for them. Renamon added in on this saying that it would be impolite to not let them eat as well since they put in all the work making the food for them. The other Digimon agreed to this and apologized, taking their seats properly and taking their time to eat instead of trying to inflate their bellies like balloons.

The other seats of the table were then occupied by the eight Equestrians who took their turn serving themselves and passing the plates around. Renamon, like last night at dinner, chose to distance herself from the crowd and sat cross legged in the corner with her plate in her lap. It didn’t seem right to sit at the table with the others when Rika wasn’t there amongst them.

The young tamer, after finishing his glass of orange juice, looked to Twilight.

“So, what’s on the agenda for today?”

This was a question that not only the Digimon, but the other occupants of Ponyville wanted to know as well. All of their gazes turned to Twilight expecting an answer. Lucky for the alicorn, she had one ready for him.

“Actually, there are a couple of things I need you and the Digimon for.” She began. “Thanks to the attack last night, the whole town knows you’re all here. So now I have to address them again and let them take the chance to meet all of you.”

“Hopefully that will make them as comfortable with all of you as we are.” Starlight added on.

“Well hopefully they don’t try to pin the blame on us.” Lopmon expressed worry at that.

“Aw momentai.” Terriermon waved it off. “It wasn’t our fault those wooden dogs came.”

“Maybe not. But that still didn’t stop most of the town from seeing you and what you can do.” Rainbow Dash voiced herself.

The Digimon all paused at that. The prism-maned pegasus had a point. They had no intention of harming anyone, but they learned back on earth multiple times, that fearful crowds tend to look at things from one direction.

“Okay. So we introduce ourselves and hope that goes smoothly.” Impmon said. “What’s the other thing you need us for?”

“Oh right.” Twilight had almost forgotten. “Earlier this morning Princess Celestia responded to my letter.”

Using her magic she made a scroll appear very similar to the one Spike belched up yesterday. She unrolled it and began to read aloud.

“Dear Princess Twilight,

While I do not agree with your action to introduce the human to the population of Ponyville, I understand that it was not a decision of mine to make. I only hope that it will prove to have a good outcome in the future.

That being said, in hopes to prevent any panic about other species ‘invading’ our world, both myself and Princess Luna will be making a surprise visit to the Castle of Friendship tomorrow at precisely half past noon. Both of us wish to question this human about how he got here and what his intentions are. Please make sure he is willing to comply and present at the castle upon our arrival.

Yours truly,

Princess Celestia.”

With the letter read, she rolled it back up and popped it out of sight with a small burst of magic. Looking around the room she saw that Takato and the Digimon all had slight looks of unease on them.

“Your ruler is coming here….to talk to me?” Takato squeaked out.

“It sure looks that way.” Applejack replied. “And if ah were you, Ah’d go through with it.”

“What is that supposed to mean?” Monodramon asked the cowmare. “If he isn’t here she’ll…hunt him down or something?”

Realizing she made a poor choice of words, Applejack raised her hoofs in defense.

“No no no. Ah didn’t mean it like that, ah swear.” Applejack fumbled to keep going.

Lucky for her Rarity caught her in mid fall.

“What she means is that Celestia and Luna are both mares of a tight schedule and appreciate punctuality.” She said.

“What’s punctuality?” Calumon asked.

“Sounds like a baked good.” Marineangemon answered.

Rarity slapped her own hoof to her head as Pinkie took a turn to speak.

“Haha! No you sillies! It means being on time! You know. Not late.”

The other Digimon nodded in understanding while they all turned to look at Takato, something he noticed after five seconds of chewing on a bread roll.

“What?” He asked them.

“Well are you going to talk to her or not?” Kokuwamon asked.

“That kinda goes without saying doesn’t it?” Takato said swallowing the bread. “It’s not like we can just leave.”

“And it won’t be just him. We’ll be there too.” Guilmon added on.

This caught the attention of the Digimon and the not-Digimon together.

“Why would we be there?” Impmon was annoyed. “In case ya didn’t hear that letter, pony princess only wants to talk to your partner. Not us.”

“Not to mention it might not be the best idea for you guys to meet them yet.” Rainbow Dash advised.

The other Equestrians felt the same way. They were worried Celestia and Luna might get the wrong idea upon seeing them.

“Guilmon does bring up a good point.” Renamon stood up and walked over to join them.

“Guilmon with a point? That’s a rare discovery.” Terriermon laughed.

“Quiet.” The vulpine snapped to the green and white Digimon. “Princess Twilight intends to introduce us to town earlier today anyway. And news of us is bound to spread after they see us up close. So wouldn’t it be more beneficial for the rulers of this place to meet us for themselves and make an opinion of their own instead of just hearing rumors?”

The other side had weighed in on the balance and now looked to be of equal weight if not a little more. There certainly would be an upside to having Celestia and Luna familiarize themselves with the Digimon before those awful tabloids starting printing out rumors of monsters or something of that sort. Twilight and Rarity knew foremost how badly journalists liked to twist things around for more subscribers and ratings. And they definitely did not want these creatures to be painted in a bad light after seeing the good they did last night.

“Maybe we SHOULD let them meet the princesses with Takato.” Fluttershy switched to the Digimon’s side.

Monodramon smiled at the caretaker as she walked around to join them.

“They may seem scary and not very friendly looking at first but I’m sure once they get to know them they’ll see a whole other side.”

Spike for one smiled upon seeing Fluttershy trying to get a little warmer towards Monodramon and Guilmon. She still quivered a bit when she was in proximity and a little more when they smiled and showed their teeth. But she gulped and nodded, keeping her stance.

“Then it’s settled.” Twilight said. “We formally introduce you all to Ponyville together, and then we do the same thing with Celestia and Luna this afternoon. Agreed?”

One by one the whole room sounded off their approval. When breakfast was finished, Spike and Starlight helped clear the table while the other five of the mane 6 headed out into town to spread word of another address from Princess Twilight within the hour. Twilight herself retreated to her study to write back Celestia informing her that Takato had agreed to the suggested time of meeting. Takato and the Digimon on the other hand, they just stayed around the castle and tried to keep out of trouble until they heard from Twilight that it was time to go.

Soon that time came. With Starlight and Spike among them, Takato and the Digimon huddled around Twilight as both she and her student worked together to create a teleportation spell big enough to handle the entire group. Rather than head into Sugarcube Corner like last time, Takato suddenly found his new surroundings different than any he had been in before since coming here. It looked to be some sort of tall business building by the looks of the décor and accolades hung on the wall. The dome shaped top of the building had a bit of a political vibe to it was well, like those pictures he saw in his school textbooks of American capitols.

“Where are we now?” the tamer asked.

“And where is a bucket? I think breakfast is coming back up.” Terriermon said with swirls in his eyes.

Lopmon and Kokuwamon worked together to steady their friend while Twilight, Spike and Starlight couldn’t help but give a small chuckle at the small Digimon’s reaction. A moment later, they got back on track.

“This is Ponyville Town Hall.” Starlight answered. “We figured this would be the perfect place to introduce you since it’s in the middle of town.”

“And it looks like everypony is out there.” Spike said as he looked out the window.

It was true indeed. Bunching up the entire front half of town hall and back a good distance, all the ponies and other residents of Ponyville were there eager, waiting, and some demanding to see and talk to the ones who fought the timberwolves the night prior. In front of the door leading into the building, Mayor Mare herself and five of the mane 6 stood there trying their best to calm the residents down but to very little avail.

“Please everypony! Settle down!” Mayor Mare raised her hoof trying to gain order. “I know all of you have been waiting for some time but I assure you. Twilight Sparkle is on her way and she will give you the answers you’ve been looking for.”

The crowd’s noise did die down after hearing from the mayor that Twilight was coming. Turning back around, Mayor Mare dropped her mask since now only the five element bearers could see her face.

“Please tell me Twilight will have the answers they’re looking for.” She snapped at them.

Applejack stepped forward and put a friendly hoof around the politician’s back, trying to be comforting.

“Don’t you worry nothin’ about it, Mayor. If Twilight doesn’t have the answers, then Takato and the Digimon will.” She said.

“Takato and the-wait! She’s bringing them here?! Now?!”

The five bearers looked at Mayor Mare with varying looks of confusion.

“Uhhh…yeah. Everypony here knows that. That’s why they’re here. To meet them.” Rainbow said.

“Granted, Takato met the town yesterday but he didn’t have a lot of time to interact with everypony until last night’s events. We think this will be able to help both him and us.” Rarity added.

Mayor Mare was panicking on the inside. Outside she tried to keep a level face but she was surprised smoke wasn’t coming out of her ears. Truth be told with all she had going on this morning because of last night, she figured that detail about Twilight’s summoning of the town must have gone over her head. Now she had to deal with it.

Looking back to the front door, she saw it creek open and a familiar purple dragon poked his head out, beckoning the mayor to come inside. Excusing herself, Mayor Mare walked based the five elements of harmony and joined Spike inside town hall. Only a few seconds after the doors closed…

“AAAHHH!”

That small yelp could be heard throughout the crowd and beyond. Now the air had become dead silent as they were wondering what the heck was even going on. Then Twilight, Spike and Starlight exited out the doors of the building. A few of the ponies in the crowd were about to start asking her questions but they went silent yet again when not long after those three exited, they were joined by many others.

The same human they met yesterday, along with the monsters they all saw last night walked out of the central building and joined Princess Twilight by her side and with the other elements of harmony. None of them dared speak a word in fear of possibly saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. They just looked so…odd. Some of them looked like as ferocious as a common dragon, yet some of them were so adorable…then there was whatever Kokuwamon was.

The Digimon however were in a different yet similar boat. Seeing these ponies up close was a lot different them watching them from afar. They all looked so…similar. Colors and different mane-styles helped but a lot of these horse creature’s body types were so very alike, it was difficult to tell one apart from the other. The only other indication of distinction seemed to be those markings that each one had imprinted on their rear ends. Granted back in the Digital World some Digimon of the same species looked exactly alike, but this level of similarity to it yet being so different at the same time was…eerie.

“Ahem.” *Twilight cleared her breath. “I have no doubt that there are a lot of you out there who want to bombard these creatures with your questions. But before we proceed I am going to ask all of you, as your friend, to please be civil about all of this.”

She sounded friendly, but firm. Everyone knew that she wanted this to go smooth.

“And I also can guess that you’re all expecting me to explain all of this. Where they came from, what happened last night, and so on. Well the truth is I can’t do that. But my friend Takato here, he can.”

This finally caused some murmurs to stir up in the sea of ponies as all eyes turned to the young human. Adjusting the goggles on his head, Takato took in a deep breath as he saw this huge crowd immediately about face in his direction. He hadn’t frozen up that bad since he had to take a big oral exam in Miss Asaji’s class months ago.

A gulp was heard and a step back could be seen, but his body was caught. Looking down, he saw the red arm of his partner pat him on the back comfortingly.

“Together, Takato?”

The tamer’s unease immediately washed away after hearing his partner’s voice like that again. Being together with Guilmon is what he was meant for. And he promised they would be together again forever. Time to start fulfilling that promise.

“Yeah. Let’s go, boy.”

Exhaling another breath, Takato and Guilmon stepped in front of Twilight together to speak to the crowd of ponies, as one team.

“Hi there. I’m Takato. Takato Matsuki. I’m in Elementary School, Miss Asaji’s class...but you probably don’t care about that.” Rubbing the back of his head, Takato cleared his throat and kept going. “Look, I get it. You don’t know us. You don’t know a thing about us or where we come from. If I were in your place, I’d be freaked out too. In fact, I was once.”

He placed a hand on Guilmon’s head and scratched one of his ears.

“When I first met Guilmon here, it was super hard for me to believe what was happening was in fact, actually happening. Monsters straight out of a card game I play with my friends were coming to life and appearing in my world. It was like a dream come true. We went through so much together and I thought when all of the fighting we did was done, we would just relax together for the rest of our lives…but then they left.”

Once again, Takato had to blink away a tear as the memory of Guilmon floating away played back in his head.

“And I thought I would never see them again. But I was wrong. The same doorway they went through to leave my world, is the same one I went through that brought me here. And as luck would have it, they were here too…what Twilight said to you yesterday is true. I came here to find my friend and well…here he is, along with some others of mine.”

He gestured back to the other Digimon who gave a few waves and gestures of their own to the crowd. He decided to take a moment for a pause to try and read the crowd. For the most part, everypony seemed to be cautious. They had a decent reason to be. After seeing one of them grow bigger than a house last night and shrink back down again, it sparked a lot of déjà-vu regarding Spike. Nopony seemed to want to even take a single step towards them in fear of getting their hooves bitten off.

“Can you do it again?”

The one question rang out from the crowd from a very young voice. Squeezing her way through the crowd, a familiar orange and purple pegasus filly closed the gap between herself and Takato. She looked back and forth between him and Guilmon with stars in her eyes.

“Do what again?” Guilmon asked her.

“That thing you did last night! When you grew bigger! Can you do it again?!”

Scootaloo’s excitement sure did surprise Takato and the other Digimon. For a moment. Takato then realized that she was acting almost exactly like he did when his life as a tamer started out. Pure excitement and no regard for the negative implications.

“You’re not scared of us?” Renamon approached the young one, recognizing her from the forest.

“Why would I be scared of you? It’s not like you’re the ones who attacked us.” She replied. “I saw you guys through my bedroom window and then up close. It was all just so cool!”

Before she could say anything else, another filly walked forward. This one sported a cherry red mane and a bright pink bow on her head.

“Besides, we learned a long time ago how wrong it is to make judgments about someone just because they look different. Ah don’t know about the rest of town but ah don’t wanna make the same mistake twice.”

Applejack smiled at her little sister for remembering that important lesson. It was Applebloom herself who taught them that one in the first place when it came to Zecora. Sometimes the wide eyed hopefulness of a child was just what one needed. And it seemed to be working again. Looking back out into the crowd, the elements of harmony could see that quite a few of them were starting to look down at the floor with a bit of a guilty look as they remembered how unfair they were to Zecora. Assuming she was a wicked enchantress who would come into town to prey on the weak and fearful, but it turned out they were the wicked ones because they shunned her merely because she looked and acted differently than they did. It was a lesson they never forget, but it’s never a memory they look back at fondly.

“Sooo…what are all yer names?” Applebloom asked.

Feeling like they were getting somewhere, Takato smiled as he decided to list off the names of all the Digimon there, starting with his partner and ending with Calumon who floated back in front of the two crusaders like he did last night.

“So does this mean we can play together?” He asked the two of them.

“CUUUTE!”

The third crusader of the group finally made herself seen as she hugged Calumon just like she did last night but a little softer.

“Oh absolutely we can play together! Right, Rarity? Can we?” She looked like she was begging.

“Of course you can, Sweetie Belle.” The ivory unicorn answered.

And just like that, the floodgates opened. A few more ponies walked out of their spots and towards the Digimon to try and ask a few questions to get to know them. It warmed Twilight’s heart to see the ponies she called her neighbors open up to try being friends with these creatures. However a small part of her did feel some disappointment when some of the others, namely Spoiled Rich, turned and left, not ready to give them a chance quite yet.

The kids especially were enjoying how each one of them looked entirely different, save for Terriermon and Lopmon of course. Marineangemon and Calumon were surrounded by ponies who thought they were the most adorable things alive. Bon Bon even mentioned she had some ideas for new limited candy shapes. Guilmon and Monodramon were happy to let a couple of Cheerliee’s classponies hop on their back. Takato got a kick out of it too seeing the kids of this town get used to them so quickly. It went like this for a good while but unfortunately, it had to be cut short when Twilight looked at the clock and saw the time.

“Alright everypony. I’m afraid that’s enough for now.” She addressed Ponyville again. “I really appreciate you all coming and giving our new Digimon friends a chance, and I promise you’ll see them again real soon. But right now we have a meeting to attend. So for now, I bid you all a good day.”

It took a bit for the crowd to disperse, but soon enough Twilight and Starlight used their conjoined magic to warp them all out of sight and back to the castle of friendship. The meeting with Ponyville had been a majority success, now they could only hope talking to the princesses would go just as smooth.

EQUESTRIA – APPLEWOOD BEACH – 11:50 AM

The sunny beach was a great spot to go any time of the year. Be it to beat the heat of summer or just take a walk in the crisp winter air, there was something therapeutic about the landscape. Everypony on the beach could feel its warm spell. In fact they all felt it so much that nopony there took notice of a small cloud of rainbow colored smoke