Apocalypsering's fanfiction

Don't mean to double-post, really, but I just felt like maybe more people would read this if I just posted a chapter every other day or so.

This is a fanfiction of Digimon Adventure 02. If you have seen the show, skip the first chapter. it's merely an intro of all the characters. That's why I'm posting two chapters tonight.


Chapter 1: Light



I guess we were wrong to assume that we knew everything about the digital world. I think we almost assumed that after my first trip there when I was eight. We were wrong then, when we assumed that we understood it, and even after our recent adventures it would be silly to think we’ve learned that much. Of course, we have learned that we are not the only digidestined. In fact, there are hundreds of them from all around the world. But even more surprising to us was the existence of even more parallel worlds. After all these experiences I don’t think I’ll ever really be able to understand the digital world entirely.

I should probably introduce myself. My name is Kari, and I am now thirteen years old. The adventures that I was talking about happened almost five years ago, some of them right here in Tokyo. My brother Tai and all of his friends returned from summer camp early that year, apparently because it snowed. That didn’t make sense at first, but my confusion didn’t last long. I found out that they had been to a strange parallel world called the digital world. Not only that, but the digital world was beginning to cross over into the real world. Digimon, that’s short for digital monster, were beginning to appear all over the city. But my brother and his friends all had digimon of their own, partners, if you will, to help fight off the evil digimon. They are the digidestined, and eventually we discovered that I am one too. Gatomon, who used to work for an evil digimon named Myotismon, is my digimon partner. After she helped us to defeat Myotismon, we all traveled to the digital world to help rid it of evil. We fought the Dark Masters and Apocalymon, but managed to win by realizing the power of our crests.

That brings me to another interesting point. All of the digidestined have their own crest, which is linked to their strongest personal characteristic. My crest is light. But the crests are more than just characteristics; they had enough power to allow all of our digimon to digivolve to the ultimate level. Gatomon, who was a champion level digimon already, was able to digivolve into Angewomon, an ultimate level digimon. Unfortunately, after we defeated apocalymon, we had to give up most of the power of our crests to create a barrier to protect the digital world from evil. It wasn’t easy, especially for the digimon who would lose their ability to digivolve to ultimate, but we did it and made the digital world safer.

After that, several more of our friends became digidestined, and we learned that there are hundreds of digidestined all around the world. It was surprising at first, but after everything that has already happened it didn’t seem like a big deal. Besides, I would like be friends with all the other digidestined. I’ll never be able to meet them all, but with Izzy’s help we are trying to create a network of digidestined all over the world.

I should probably introduce our group before the story continues. After all, everyone played such an important part in our adventures that they deserve proper introductions. I’ll start with Tai.

Tai is my older brother, and has really become the leader of our group. Even though he doesn’t have a D3, we still look to him for leadership. His crest is courage, and his digimon is Agumon. Tai is a really good brother, but he’s an even better leader for our group. He can keep his head in tough situations and has really learned to watch out for everyone else.

Next is Matt, TK’s older brother. Matt’s crest is friendship, and he had a hard time discovering it at first. I guess the strongest friendships have to be tested, and Matt came through for us when we needed him. The power of the crests affects everyone, and Matt’s crest is one of the most valuable that we have. His digimon is Gabumon. Gabumon is kind of shy, but he is always ready to help his friends, no matter what might happen.

I’ll introduce TK next. TK is a few weeks younger than me, making him the youngest member of the original group. His crest is hope, and he his ability to hang on to that hope has saved us on countless occasions. TK is very nice and friendly, but he can become very emotional about darkness. Still, he always believes in our group’s ability to defeat the darkness. His digimon is Patamon, who sometimes has trouble digivolving. But TK never gave up on him, and Patamon did finally digivolve when we needed him most.

Sora is one of my best friends, and a very important part of our team. Her crest is love, and she is the perfect match for it. She cares deeply about everyone in the group, and acts as a motherly figure. She always wants to protect everyone and never leaves anyone behind. She is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Biyomon is her digimon, and she shares many of Sora’s characteristics, including her extreme protectiveness. She sometimes puts too much pressure on herself to help everyone, but too much love is a gift that I would never refuse.

Mimi moved away, to New York City in America. Even though she’s far away, we still keep in touch with her, and we arrange to meet her in the digital world all the time. Her crest is sincerity, and she always seems to be able to bring out the best in people. She doesn’t like violence, but she and Palmon will pitch in when they are needed. I miss her a lot, but I know that she’s happy in America.

Izzy is one of the smartest people I know. He is very skilled with computers, and uses logic to solve some of our most puzzling problems. His crest is knowledge, as can be expected. Tentomon is his digimon. Although Izzy is not the most talkative person in the group, and his explanations can sometimes be confusing, we all know that we’d be completely lost without him.

The last member of the original group is Joe. Joe is the oldest member of our group, and I think he feels responsible for us most of the time. He is usually the most practical. He remembers to bring supplies, like food and bandages. We’ve nicknames him “Old Reliable”, partly because he is the oldest and most reliable member in our group, but also because he has the crest of reliability. Gomamon is his digimon, and is much more carefree than Joe. Still, we can always count on them in a pinch.

I am the last member of the original group. As I said before, my name is Kari, and my crest is light. My crest seems to have some strange powers, and according to Aunlongmon it and TK’s crest have power that is shared among the entire group. I guess that kind of makes our crests different from the rest. I like to think of myself as a nice person. Tai says that I keep my thoughts bottled up because I’m afraid of hurting someone’s feelings, but I don’t notice it that much. Tai can be pretty silly sometimes. Gatomon is my digimon, and is the only one who seems to be able to consistently stay in champion form. She actually used to be a henchman of Myotismon, an evil digimon, but Wizardmon helped her find out that she was actually good. Wizardmon was killed by Myotismon when he tried to save me and Gatomon, but we remember him as a friend who was there when we needed him most.

Now I’ll talk about the three new members of our team. They were added recently to help us prevent Myotismon’s return as Malomyotismon. First off is Davis. His crest is courage, just like Tai. He’s developing into a strong leader, and he was able to save us with his crest when Malomyotismon was tricking us into dreaming of something that wasn’t real. But he can be very immature sometimes too. I think he has a crush on me, but he does a really bad job of showing it sometimes. His digimon is Veemon, but when Veemon spends time in the real world he digivolves back to Demiveemon.

Yolei is the second person added to our team recently. She received the crest of love, like Sora, but is still learning about its power. She cares about all of us very much, and is there to help us in tough times, but sometimes she talks too much and she has a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s not her fault, she just doesn’t know any better. Her digimon is Hawkmon.

Cody was added to our group at the same time as Yolei and Davis. His crest is knowledge. He is very quiet and kind of small for his age, but don’t underestimate him in a fight, he practices Ken-Do. He is very smart but tends to be shy. It took a long time for him and Ken to become friends. Still, he is one of the most dependable people I know. His digimon is Armadillamon.

Ken is the most recent addition to our group of friends. He was once corrupted by a dark spore, but since then he has learned the true meaning of his crest, kindness. He is very smart and a skilled athlete, but is slow to make friends. He tends not to trust people, partly because his older brother died when he was little. But he’s become one of our friends now, and I’m really glad that he has. His digimon, Wormmon, helped him to realize how powerful his crest really could be. Ken is one of very few people who have seen the dark ocean, along with TK, Yolei, and I.

Since the end of our last adventure, nothing has really happened. I worry sometimes that this could be the calm before the storm, but we can never really know. For now, I’m happy believing that most of our problems with the digital world are over. I hope that from now on it can just be a place where we go to have fun with our digimon. I know that problems are inevitable, nothing is perfect after all, but as long as we stick together, we can get through anything. I know it sounds kind of corny, but I really believe that.


Chapter 2: A New Kid

My mother once told me not to take anything for granted. I try my best not to, especially after everything we’ve been through. Every morning as I walk to school, before I reach Kari and Tai’s apartment, I stare up at the sky. Every morning, weather it’s sunny or not, I’m glad that it’s there. This might seem like a strange thing to find happiness in, but I can still remember looking up and seeing not the sky, but another world, the digital world. After we defeated Myotismon, seeing that world instead of the sky meant that we weren’t done yet, that there were still trials to face. And so, now that it’s all over, I am thankful that every morning I can look up and still see the sky stretching out high above me.

“TK! What took you so long? I was about to leave without you.” Kari smiled as I approached.

“Sorry, I was just a little slow getting out of bed.”

“That’s okay. But we’d better hurry. We don’t want to be late for class.”

“Of course not, let’s go.” And we set off for school, walking quickly to make up for lost time. Kari is a little older than me, but only a few weeks. Ever since she came back to the digital world with us all those years ago I’ve really learned a lot about her. She’s as nice as they come, and she never worries about herself. She always puts everyone else first, and that’s not always a good thing. She got sick once in the digital world because she didn’t say that she was tired so as not to slow everyone down. That got Tai pretty mad, but everything turned out okay in the end. She would do anything to help a friend, no matter what.

We slowed down as we approached the school. My watch is always fast, so we actually had more time than we thought. We walked past Davis and Ken, who were playing soccer in the school yard. We both yelled hello to them, but they were concentrating too hard on the game and didn’t hear us. We eventually met up with Cody on the way to our first class.

“Kari! TK! How was your weekend?” Cody asked cheerfully.

“It was alright I guess.” I said. “Matt’s band was playing at a small party in the park, and that was fun.”

“Tai and I went to see Japan play China last night. It was a blast.”

“I wish I could’ve been there.” I said. “I had too much homework.”

“Yeah, me too.” Cody said. “But I’m going to try to be at the next game.”

“You guys should have done your homework before the game like me and Kari.” Davis said as he finally got into the classroom.

“You two did your homework together?” I asked, somewhat surprised.

“Davis needed help in math.” Kari said with a chuckle.

“I did not! I was just confused by the wording of the problem, that’s all.” Davis yelled.

“Class, settle down and take your seats.” The teacher said as he walked in. We all sat down and looked up at the teacher. “Now, there will be a new student joining us today. His family just moved here from America, and for those of you who have neglected your geography lessons, that’s almost on the other side of the world.” The class made a feeble attempt to laugh at the joke.

Standing next to the teacher was a boy who seemed to be our age. He had short black spiked hair and deep green eyes. He wore a hooded sweatshirt with the orange insignia of some American football team, but I don’t know enough English to be able to read the name. His jeans were torn at the knees and had small tears elsewhere. Around his neck he wore a cross pendant, and some other pendant that was tucked into his shirt. He had a distinctly American look, and his posture suggested a confidence that he would succeed regardless of what setting he was in. He carried a guitar in a case along with his backpack.

“Hi everyone, my name is Will. As Mr. Kaiyama said, I just moved here from America. I look forward to learning with you, and I hope my Japanese isn’t too bad.” Actually, his Japanese was very good, and it surprised me, because he didn’t look like the type who would learn Japanese.

“Thank you Will. Please take that seat in the front.” The teacher said, indicating the desk across the aisle from me. “Now class if you’d please take out your text books, we were reading about . . .” And the teacher began the lesson.

Will seemed to be able to keep up fairly easily. He was writing notes the entire class, as everyone else except Davis and a few other kids were. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him until lunchtime. He seemed a little lost as he went through the line. He obviously didn’t know what any of the food was.

“Hey Will, you should try this stuff.” I said, indicating a tray. “It’s sushi. It’s really good.”

“Thanks kid,” he said as he added some to his plate. “You obviously know my name, so what’s yours?”

“TK,” I said with a smile. “You should come sit with us. After class we can show you around the school.”

“Thanks TK. And tell me if I do anything that’s, uh, unorthodox. I don’t want to make a big mistake on my first day in Japan.”

“No problem. Everybody will help you out.” I said with a smile as I led him to our table.

“Alright Will, this is Cody, Davis, Yolei, Kari, and Ken.” I said as I introduced him to everyone.

“Nice to meet you,” He said to everyone in turn, shaking their hands. It was more than obvious that he was American.

“So, are you from New York City? We’ve got a friend that moved there a few years ago,” Kari asked.

“No, I’m from a city called Buffalo. It’s in the same state as New York City, but on the other side,” Will explained. “It’s very close to Niagra Falls.”

“That’s the biggest waterfall in the world, right?” Davis asked.

“Actually, it’s not the tallest,” Cody explained. “It is the largest in terms of volume, that is to say, it has the most water falling off of a cliff of anywhere in the world.”

“Whatever,” Davis said, rolling his eyes.” So what’s that on your shirt?”

“This is the logo for the Cincinnati Bengals. It’s a football team in America,” Will explained.

“But I thought you were from Buffalo,” Yolei said.

“I am mostly. I was born in Cincinnati, but my family moved to Buffalo when I was little. Buffalo does have their own football team, but they’re really bad so I just stick to cheering for the Bengals,” Will explained with a smile.

“Do you play football?” Davis asked. “Cause I’m really good, and I could teach ya some stuff.”

“No, I don’t. I swim and I play volleyball,” Will said. “But I’m pretty sure I could beat you at football anyways.”

“Oh yeah? Then after school we should have a game. I’ll bet you can’t score against me,” Davis said.

“Well, it is a team sport, but I’d love to play. I’ll see you guys there.”

“We had better finish up everyone. Class is about to start again,” Kari said.

“Oh yeah, we’d better hurry,” Davis quickly agreed. A small laugh went around the group. “What’s so funny?” Davis demanded, but nobody could answer because the bell rang just as he asked. We all rushed off to class.

The schoolyard was full of kids after we got out, so we decided to head to the park to play instead. Our digimon stayed at the school, promising not to get into trouble, with the exception of Gatomon, who we could pass off as Kari’s cat.

“That is the weirdest looking cat I think I’ve ever seen.” Will commented as we walked down the street.

“She’s kind of a rare breed.” Kari said with a laugh which only Will failed to understand, but for obvious reasons.

“Why’d you have her tail pierced?” Will asked, noting Gatomon’s tail ring.

“Well, I, uh, thought it looked cute,” Kari said. Gatomon smiled at Kari, but was careful to hide the expression from Will. We had decided shortly after our last adventure that we should try to keep the digital world a secret for as long as we could.

“It looks nice. I’m just not sure that it’s so nice for the cat.” Will said.

“I think Gatomon likes it,” Kari replied, again looking at Gatomon, who rolled her eyes at Will’s apparent ignorance.

“Guys, does it really matter? We’re here and I want to start playing before the end of the century.” Davis complained as he set down his bag and pulled the round, black and white ball out of it.

“How do you fit that in your bag with all of your books?” Cody asked.

“What books?” Davis said.

“Your schoolbooks,” Cody explained.

“Huh?”

“C’mon Cody, when was the last time Davis read anything but a comic book?” Yolei asked rhetorically.

“Can we stop discussing this and play already?” Davis screamed. “Alright Will, let’s see . . . what are you staring at? Hey, what’s so funny?”

Will was staring at Davis’s ball with an amused and understanding smile on his face. “I just realized that we’re not going to be throwing touchdowns with your ball,” Will said.

“What does that mean?” Davis asked.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Ken started, “Will thought that you meant the American version of football. He would call this game soccer.”

“Sorry, it was my mistake,” Will said with a big grin. “I guess you could say it was lost in translation. Probably won’t be the last time either.”

“Oh, does this mean you’re not gonna play?” Davis complained.

“I’ll try to play, but don’t be surprised if I’m not very good.” Will said.

“No problem! Let’s just get going already.” Davis said as he dropped the ball to the ground and prepared to kick it.

Thatz some good stuff you got there. Quite the write, I say.
Great Job!! Keep at it!!