//------------------------------// // So much for rest and relaxation // Story: My Little Digimon, Courage is Magic // by SuperPinkBrony12 //------------------------------// My Little Digimon, Courage is Magic The sky above Tokyo was clearing. Only moments ago the sky had been as dark as night and anyone who was looking out at Tokyo Bay would have seen two gaint monster battling it out. These so called monsters were actually beings called digimon which was short for digital monsters. But these weren't you ordinary everyday monsters you see on t.v. These monsters for the most part were friendly and had saved not only Japan itself but the entire world numerous times before. Of course there were a few digimon who were evil, but as luck would have it not one of them had ever succeeded in accomplishing whatever they had set out to do. This was because they had been beaten by the good digimon, who had befriended a group of boys and girls known as the digidestined, or as some people called them the chosen children. The digidestined's most recent victory had been against a monsterous digimon who they had now learned was called Armageddemon. He had proven to be very tough to bring down, in fact he was so powerful that the digidestined had to unlock a new mode for Imperialdramon known as Paladin Mode in order to defeat him. Imperialdramon in his new Paladin Mode now stood victourious as he and the digidestined took in the newly brightened skys of Tokyo. "We did it. We actually did it! We defeated Armageddemon!" the voice belonged to Taichi Yagami Kamiya who was called Tai for short. He was 14 years old, and although he was not the oldest or the smartest of the bunch he was the leader of all the digidestined. He was often known for being a goofball, and at times his attitude had rubbed people the wrong way, but he was a kind person at heart and he hated violence as much as anyone else. And he had proven himself time and time again to be an excellent leader. "I hope that's the last we'll see of that creep." another voice chimed in. This voice belonged to Yamato Ishida or Matt for short. He had a reputation for being something of a lone wolf at times but this had been changing ever since he became part of the digidestined. He and Tai had soon realized that they had a lot in common, and thus their parnter digimon had become the first two to unlock a process known as DNA digivoling which only worked when two digidestined's hearts beat as one. "Who cares? If he dares to rear his ugly head again we'll be ready for him!" this cocky voice belonged to Daisuke Motomiya. He was known as the junior leader, due to the fact that when Tai and the older digidestined were left temporaily useless, Tai had given Davis his round goggles to replace Davis' destroyed square ones. Davis had proven to be every bit the leader Tai was despite being even more hotheaded. After all he had been the first one to trust Ken after the events of the Digimon Emperor. "I just hope that we can finally have a chance to unwind. Don't get me wrong being a digidestined is great and all, but we could use a break from all of these battles, don't you think?" the voice in question belonged to Mimi Tachikawa who was the only member of the Japanese digidestined who did not live in Japan. She lived with her family in New York City in America. She had been the first one to discover that there were other branches of the digidestined aside from the ones in Japan. She had quickly befriended the leader of the American digidestined Michael, who happened to have a father who was a famous movie star. She always tried to find time to visit her friends in Japan though, wheter it be a digital gate or more often a flight. She had been most unhappy to learn upon arriving that there was nothing she could do. And she had impatiently waited as the battle between Imperialdramon and Armageddemon took place in Tokyo Harbor. Needless to say she had been worried. "Well I don't see why not." Tai said "After everything we've been through in these past few months we could use a vacation." Before any plans could be made however Koushiro Izzumi who was nicknamed Izzy by his adoptive parents spoke up. "Don't pack up your suitcases just yet guys. Gennai just contacted me on my laptop. He said to meet him in the digital world. And he said to come quickly because the situation is urgent." "Oh come on, what now?!" a brash voice yelled out. This voice belonged to none other than Miyako 'Yolei' Inoue. The intellectual tomboy of the group. Although she wasn't as smart as Izzy, or her boyfriend Ken Ichijouji she knew quite a lot about all sorts of things. She was known most famously however for her feisty attitude, her catchphtase perfecto, and at one point her constant flirting with all sorts of boys. "Gennai didn't say exactly." Izzy explained "He just said to meet him in the digital world. The sooner we go to see him the better." "Well alright then" Tai said "Looks like we're heading to the digital world again. I just hope it's gotten better since our last visit." Imperialdramon seperated back into the two digimon that had formed him. The rookie level digimon Veemon who was the partner of Davis, and Wormmon who was the partner of Ken. "Are we all set?" Tai asked. "Yep." the digidestined and their parnter digimon replied. "Good." Tai said "O.k. Davis do the honors." "Digiport open!" Davis said holding his D3 up to Izzy's laptop and pointing it at the screen. Instantly a bright blue light emerged from the screen and began pulling the digidestined and their partner digimon in. This was how the digidestined traveled from their world to the digital world or on a few ocassions to the internet. A few seconds later the digidestined and their partner digimon emerged in a world that at first glimpse could easily be mistaken for our own world. The differences between the real world and the digital world were only easily recognizable to the digidestined due to the fact that they had been here many times before. This time however was different because the digidestined could see that the digital world, even now, still looked a little darker than usual. This was because a few months ago an evil digimon known as MaloMyotismon had crossed into the digital world, and with the power of dark spores planted in various children he had become almost invicible, and slowly started corrupting the land with darkness, in an attempt to rule it and the real world. The digidestined had ultimately defeated him by encouraging the darkspore children to never give up and to follow their dreams. This had weakened MaloMyotismon enough to allow Imperialdramon Fighter Mode to obilterate him. Seemingly for good. The digital world was still recovering from this attack and the recovery processs had been slow, even with the spirit of Oikawa protecting it. "Wow, talk about your fixer-uper." Ken said "This place still isn't looking so good. I guess MaloMyotismon did more damage then we thought." "I'll say. This place sure has seen better days." this voice belonged to Takeru Takaishi or T.K. for short, the younger brother of Matt Ishida, who held a personal hatred for the powers of darkness. This stemed from his early days as a digidestined when his partner Patamon had digivolved for the first time in Angemon, and had to scarifice himself in order to defeat Devimon the ruler of File Island. Angemon had ultimately been reincarnated as an egg, which had hatched and had gradually become Patamon again, but all the same T.K. blamed himself for not being able to do anything, and the powers of darkness for taking his partner away from him. Those who knew him well enough, including his best friend Hakari Yagami Kamiya or Kari for short, often knew better than to casually talk about the powers of darkness when he was around. Least T.K. suddenly lash out at them. "It's too bad we weren't aware of this. We could have done more to help." this voice belonged to the oldest digidestined of them all Joe Kido, who had recently been studying to become a doctor. He had been know to be something of a worrywat, but this was because he always felt that as the oldest it was his responsibility to look out for everyone. Perhaps it was because of this fatherly like instinct, and his wanting to prevent suffering that explained why someone like him was so eager to become a doctor in the first place. "We can't worry about that now." said a voice. This one belonged to the youngest digidestined of them all Cody Hida. Although considering how much sage advice he gave out you'd have a hard time beliving that. Much like T.K. he despised anything to do with the forces of darkness, but unlike T.K. he had a tendency to stay calm and cool, it wasn't often you saw him lose his temper. "Cody's right. Gennai called us here for a reason, if the digital world realy needed our help before he would have let us know." this voice belonged to Sora Takenouchi, who as of last christmas was Matt's boyfriend. Sora was what you could call a female Joe. She always made it her goal to look out for others, which at times meant she bit off more than she could chew. Although that had been more in her younger years back when she was still new to being a digidestined. "And here he comes now." this voice belonged to Hikari Yagami Kamiya or Kari for short. She was Tai's younger sister and T.K.'s best friend, as well as possibly more, although she wouldn't admit it. She was the most passive agressive out of all the digidestined but when push came to shove, and there were no other options she was more than capable of holding her own. "Hello digidestined. It's good to see you again. I apologize for how things are right now, but rest assured that we are doing everything we can to make this recovery as swift as possible." Gennai said. He was something of a mentor to the digidestined, always tipping them off about potential evils. "Now then the reason I called you all here is because just recently we picked up a strange energy reading. It's unlike anything we've ever encountered before. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure if this thing is from this universe." "Well what do you need us for, why not just send some scouts to check it out?" Davis asked. "All our rescoures have been stretched to the max lately to help with the recovery process in case you haven't noticed." Gennai explained "As a result we have been unable to form a search team. So it is with great reluctance that I ask you all to check it out. Believe me if there was another way of doing this I wouldn't have contacted you, but we don't know what's out there and whether it poses a threat to us." "So all you want us to do is to go investigate this unusual energy reading and then deal with it accordingly? Well that doesn't sound too hard." Tai said "Come on gang we'd better check this out. It's probably nothing but better safe than sorry." "I'll upload the coordinates for the energy reading into your laptop Izzy." Gennai explained "Contact me when you find out what this unusual energy reading is and await further instruction. But remember this energy reading is unlike anything we've ever seen. So for the love of Azulongmon PLEASE be careful!" "We will Gennai." Tai said. "All right let's not waste any more time. Izzy lead the way." "With pleasure." Izzy said. As the digidestined neared the location marked on Izzy's laptop all was silent. As they proceeded into the area the erie silence continued. "Hm, so far I'm not picking anything up." Izzy said as they traveled through the area. It was a sparsely populated forest area and what few digimon that lived there were unaware of the energy reading, to their knowledge there was nothing out of the ordinary. "Do you think it's possible that whatever scanners Gennai was using malfunctioned?" Tai asked. "I doubt it." Izzy said "I'm pretty sure Gennai said that he'd just checked the system not that long ago and everything was running like clockwork." "Well we still have a ways to go. Keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious." Tai said as the digidestined ventured deeper and deeper into the forest. "Um guys? I've got a bad feeling about all of this." Kari said. "What makes you say that?" Gatomon asked. "Well I'm not exactly sure but I think it has something to do with my crest. I think since it's The Crest of Light it has a built in radar to detect even the faintest traces of darkness. It's kind of like that battle against Willis' Kokomon. When I said could sense that someone needed our help." "I remember that. It still gives me goosebumps just thinking about." T.K. said. "And if there's one thing I've learned by now it's that your crest is never wrong." "Exactly and that's what worries me." Kari said "Unless my crest is actually wrong, we're dealing with some dark force the likes of which even Gennai doesn't know about. It doesn't take a genius to realize that this a recipe for disaster." "Well we'll just to have be careful." Tai said. Suddenly Izzy spoke up "Wait a minute, something's not right here." He looked up and saw something in the distance. "What is that?!" he exclaimed. The rest of the digidestined and their partners turned their attention to where Izzy was looking. There was a mysterious portal like object in the distance. It was violet purple in color but it seemed relatively harmless. "It looks like a portal." Tai said "And if there's one thing science fiction has taught me it's that all portals are two way systems. Whatever goes into one portal comes out the other." "Yeah but where does this portal lead to?" Joe asked. "Who knows? And more importantly who cares?" Davis said "At least we know now what the unusual energy reading was. And from the looks of things this portal doesn't look like it could do any harm." "Well let's just see what Gennai thinks." Izzy said "Come in Gennai this is Izzy speaking. We've located the source of the energy reading. It's a portal. What should we do now?" The only response on the other end was static "Gennai do you read me?!" Izzy asked. More static. "Gennai stop fooling around! Answer me!" even more static. "Gennai respond! Gennai?! Gennai!" nothing but static. "Damn it! The line's dead I can't get through to Gennai!" Izzy said. "We've got bigger problems than that Izzy!" Matt said. Normally Matt was not one to interupt Izzy, or tell him that his problems were unimportant. So for him to brush Izzy off like that, even if it wasn't very casual was shocking. But what was even more shocking was his reason for doing so. "Tell me, am I seeing things or is that portal getting bigger?!" Davis asked. Izzy took one look at the portal and he instantly knew the answer. "It IS getting bigger" he exclaimed. "We've gotta get out of here!" The digidestined turned to leave only to find they couldn't. "What the hell, I'm stuck!" Davis exclaimed. "Damn it I'm stuck too!" T.K. said. "And me too!" Kari said. "Well this is just great!" Matt said sarcastically. "Now what do we?" "There's only one thing we can do!" Tai shouted over the roar of the portal. "Hang on tight and think happy thoughts!" "Oh yeah that's excellent advice Tai!" Matt said sarcastically. "Well I don't see you coming up with any bright ideas!" Tai yelled. "Can it you two!" Izzy said "Like it or not we can't do anything!" "Uh-oh! Here it comes!" Ken yelled. "Help, we're being sucked in!" Joe shouted as he became the portal's first victim. "Why does this keep happening to me?!" Mimi shouted as she was pulled in next. One by the one the rest of the digidestined and their partner digimon were pulled in as well until only Tai and Agumon were left. "Well that settles it!" Tai shouted "This can be declared a day that has turned into" the rest of his sentence was cut off as he was pulled into the portal as well. He shut his eyes. "Please, please let this portal take us somewhere good!" he thought to himself. As soon as Tai was pulled in the portal mysteriously shut and disappered. Leaving behind no evidence of its existence.