“So we have ta be ready for when that creep returns for another two of us!” Applejack said after they had a meeting, they’re friends had been gone from Equestria for a few hours and they’re nerves were now on edge “I have ta be honest here…our position has never looked more…” she didn’t need to finish, Rainbow Dash was hoovering round unable to rest in her chair, Pinkie Pie’s pinkie sense was going off every couple of moments, Rarity’s well-kept mane was beginning to look very out of order, Tien’s frown couldn’t look more concerned, Sailor Jupiter eyes were heavy with tiredness but Applejack finished “Hopeless”
Rainbow Dash snapped at her “So that’s it! The element of honesty giving up on her friends!” she looked at Applejack as if she was the enemy “I can’t believe you AJ, there’s still hope!” she didn’t look like she believed that but at this point their nerves were all on breaking point. Then with a small pop, Whis appeared above the table and smiled. Rainbow Dash flew towards him but Whis easily dodged as she screamed “You! What have you done with our friends?!”
“Now, now, Rainbow” Whis said calmly blocking a punch from Tien “Ah, Tien, your looking well. I’m afraid I haven’t come here to play around, I’ve come to collect Rainbow and Pinkie for the next trial” he looked at the two and smiled gently “So shall we get going?”
Tien groaned as he punched again “You creep!” he yelled before Whis flicked his finger against Tien’s forehead causing him to crash into Twilight’s chair at the map.
“Where are we going?!” snapped Rainbow Dash as she hoovered a few inches away from Whis, who looked perfectly relaxed about the question “You’d better tell us!”
Applejack screamed “Stop, I’ll go!”
“Now, now where would the fun be in either of those” he said as he raised a finger and the two needed ponies were raised into the air in front of him. He then put his hands on their hooves “I will say this the world we’re heading to will have many challenges ahead, hope you’re ready?” then with another pop they disappeared, before either pony knew what was going on, they appeared in a new world but they were above of a scene of pure horror, it was a large strange looking city that was burning, many monsters were killing people and the screams of a girl filled their heads. Whis looked upon the scene with what seemed to be great sadness, he then turned to the two ponies and said “This is Tokyo or at least what’s left of it”
Rainbow dash choked back a sob before she said “What happened here? How could you do this?!” she snapped the last word with venom in her voice.
Pinkie looked at the two of them, they were in human bodies but she held Rainbow back and whispered “It wasn’t you? Was it?” her pinkie sense was telling her that the scene below them was of a far darker evil and she added “Who did this?”
Whis looked at the two with an even stare, before saying in a low tone “I’m afraid for now, I cannot answer the question of who but I can tell you what” he took a deep breath “You’ll have noticed by now, your both in human bodies but you may not have noticed you each have been given a small device. This is a human world pared with the world of Digimon!” he paused before adding “This particular reality has seen the humans who had digimon partners, lost their connection and thus the Earth fell under attack from a group calling themselves, The Digimon Tyrants. The other heroes of this world tried to resist, as this world did have others willing to fight but they were no match for the massive army”
“So what are we supposed to do about that?!” asked Rainbow Dash as she looked down at the city tears dropping from her eyes, for her lost friends and the scene below her “Matt and Gabumon were killed by Serpentera! Tien isn’t here either!”
Whis snapped his fingers and a small pink female appeared beside him “This girls, is the supreme Kai of Time. She has watched this world decay and die, she has agreed to take you back in order to save it, you must reunite the Digimon with their Human parters. You’ll have three weeks before the Digimon Tyrants arrive…it you are short by even one member of the team….you will fail!” at that moment, the city seemed to flash back, the monsters, fires and screaming disappeared in a flash and was replaced by a calmer scene “I have also helped by giving you a place to stay” they appeared in a small flat “Now you have slightly less than three weeks and you have one other challenge you’ll need your own Digimon partners. Good luck” he disappeared.
“I’ll be staying to help look after you two young ladies” the supreme Kai of time suddenly changed shape into a young woman with long reddish hair and said “Well, the challenge before us is certainly difficult…oh by the way, from now on call me, Tamera” she winked “It’s just it’d be weird to call me Supreme Kai of time in front of other people”
Rainbow looked at the couch before flopping onto it with a frustrated look outside, the images of what they had seen was nightmarish beyond words and yet Rainbow felt the challenge before them even more undoable “How are we supposed to know who the humans are that are linked with the Digimon!” she fumed as she held her head “It’s impossible! Unless one is Matt, we don’t stand a chance, and then we’re supposed to gain Digimon partners?! How are we supposed to do that?!” she looked at Pinkie who seemed to be shaking, her face was streaming with tears, Equestria looked bad but the world they’d seen seemed to be going through a more cruel demise.
Pinkie then mumbled “We can’t give up….I think I still have my Pinkie sense!” she didn’t smile but the look on her face seemed to be more hopeful “Yeah…I think a few of the actions have changed but…dashy we could use it to find the Digimon Humans!” she then looked at her body, her hands going over it and she said “Wow…this body is so weird…I wonder what they call these things and these and these!” she pointed to about half a dozen locations, including her hands but Tamera coughed at one and shook her head “Oh okay…what’s this then!” she pointed at a computer in the corner of the room.
Tamera then said gently “I’m sure Rainbow has a lot of questions too but before we go any further, you two are late for school…school starts in half an hour and you still need your things” she handed them a bag each before adding “Now it’s important to remember that humans stay in school longer than ponies do, also you need to remember if you say your ponies, it’ll make our job a lot more harder, so avoid saying it, try to blend in and I’ll walk you to school on your first day” she grabbed a handbag from the table.
Rainbow looked as if she had just been slapped across the face, they were supposed to go to school and blend in? Oh yeah, no problem, she could also fly without wings and….where her wings! She suddenly felt naked without her wings, the very thing that made her a Pegasus had been torn away from her and now she felt even worse “Things can’t get much worse” she said aloud.
If she thought things couldn’t get worse, they did almost as soon as they got to the school, they were at a disadvantage right from the start, they were the new girls in their class with a cover story that Tamera was their older sister and the classes were so strange that they struggled to keep up but worst they had to use all their equipment using their hands. They were also laughed at when Pinkie tried to write with the pencil in her mouth and the teacher told her off for wasting school time.
Finally they got to lunch and the two found out thankfully that Tamera, had packed them a packed lunch with a few of their favourites and they were very thankful. It was as they tucked into their lunch that a girl sat across them and said in a kind tone but she seemed to be shaking “Hello, Rainbow and Pinkie right? It’s nice to meet you” the girl’s smile seemed honest but Rainbow wasn’t sure. However Pinkie returned the smile and the girl continued “My name is Kari”
Rainbow remained quiet but Pinkie said “Hello, Kari, it’s great to meet you! How’d you know our names? You must be physic or maybe you knew us in a past life or maybe”
“Or maybe I was sitting behind you in class today” Kari said calmly and turned to Rainbow “She’s full of life, your sister, anyway I thought I’d welcome you to the area with an invite to an after school meet up at the park?” Rainbow frowned she wasn’t sure this Kari was all that trustworthy and something bugged her about that look.
Rainbow then simply said “Can’t busy…I got a lot of homework. Tech, gave Pinkie and I, a lot of work after class so we could catch up but how about tomorrow” she wanted to run the name past Tamera before they agreed “Hope you don’t mind?”
Kari shook her head, she then looked towards another table, the group was made up of three girls, before looking back at them and said “You see that group over there…you’ll want to avoid them” she seemed to be terrified of them and she added “They’re terrible…” however before she could finish the group walked over and two sat either side of Kari. The third towering over her “Hello, Adagio….how can I help…you?” Kari asked clearly scared of the girl behind her.
Rainbow and Pinkie both recognised the name from somewhere but neither could place it and watched helplessly as the girl named Adagio pick up a glass of water, upending the contents over Kari’s head but they weren’t done. The other two produced two cockroaches and putting them down Kari’s dress, who squirmed as the two live insects crawled down her front but then Adagio spoke “So Kari, have you got what I told you to get for me?”
Kari squirmed uncomfortably before saying “N…No, I couldn’t get it from my brother….he keeps it safe…please….give back my…mmm!” before Kari could finish the girl on her right, put her hand over her mouth.
Adagio shook her head and said “Well…I’m afraid you’re going to have to make it up to me….how about we discuss…ow!” Adagio stood shaking a yogurt had just hit her in the face and exploded all over her, she looked across at Rainbow, who looked furiously at her and said “You….shouldn’t have done that. Let’s go!” she walked away followed by the other two girls.
“Yeah that’s right, walk away, you arrogant jerk!” Rainbow snapped as she watched them leave, she could never stand for bullies and turned to Kari who was now being comforted by Pinkie Pie, who held her head as Kari cried into her shoulder but Rainbow now knew why she hadn’t trusted Kari “You were trying to warn us about them? That’s why you looked so scared?”
Kari nodded, into Pinkie’s shoulder, Pinkie shooed her and said “Don’t you worry, we’re here now and you don’t have to be scared of them anymore. Dashie won’t let them hurt you anymore” she pulled out the two insects from under Kari’s dress but Kari’s shaking seemed to worsen.
She then pulled away and yelled “You don’t get it! Those three are trouble…all my friends are scared of them. Sora, Joe, TK, Mimi, she moved away she was so scared, Izzy and even my older brother, Tai. It’s useless, no matter what we do!” she ran away crying.
Pinkie then exclaimed “Adagio! Didn’t Twilight once say that was one of the names of the sirens?!” to which Rainbow nodded “It can’t be the same one can it?” Rainbow shrugged and the two then heard the bell for classes “What do you think happened, Rainbow?” but Rainbow didn’t know, could it have been possible that Matt’s death had affected this world but that couldn’t be it…surely just one couldn’t affect life here that badly. As the classes proceeded, Rainbow and Pinkie kept trying to think of what could have happened, finally the bell rang and they walked back to the flat where Tamera stood waiting for them.
After they finished telling her about their first day, Tamera sadly shook her head and said in a saddened tone “Kari and her friends were the, Digi destined but they lost their partners…a few of their friends, that were human, were killed too and they ran from the Digital world. Davis, Cody and Yolei were among the slain on that sad day. Only one of the Digi Destined was able to retain his Digimon partner but they have all fallen to despair” she paused as she looked at the shocked looks on Rainbow and Pinkie’s faces, before saying “We have to help them recover their courage and their partners…there is nothing we can do for those who have fallen Matt, Davis, Cody and Yolei are….lost”
Rainbow looked at her hands which were shaking; she then sniffed and said “After everything Matt and Gabumon did for us….I can’t accept this! I won’t!” she then looked at Tamera with a determined stare “Where do we start?”
Pinkie Pie then smiled “I have an idea! They sound like they need something to lift their spirits…why don’t we invite them to a party!” she yelled the last word her smile growing bigger and she held up her hand “Who’s with me?!”
Rainbow Dash smiled back “Do we really have a choice? That idea sounds like our best shot to find out what condition those Digi Destined guys are in!” she said giving Pinkie a high five “What do you think Tamera?”
“I’m with you, no matter what, this world has needed help once and didn’t get it. I won’t pass up the chance to see it return to a state of happiness!” she said giving the other two the thumbs up and then added “Remember thou we don’t have a lot of time to plan this party, I suggest we have in two days and maybe I could do some cooking?”
So the planning began, the three were confident that they could reawaken the Digi Destined back to their former strength but little did they know just outside the window, were unfriendly eyes, eyes hungry for revenge and they might be successful. Rainbow and Pinkie’s digimon partners were waiting for them in the one place, that had become as dangerous as any world ever could be, the digital World is waiting little ponies but can Pinkie and Rainbow find the strength to succeed?