Yeah, I guess I'm good yeah

-Phil shrugged and put his phone and digivice away-

So, you're just gonna call us up when there's something strange in the neighborhood?

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Sorry, timezones.

Alyesha who had spaced out just now quickly wrote down her number and adress as well "Err, okay, done."

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

"Yeah, I think we're good. You good Mephiles?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

edited 19th May '16 8:50:35 PM by Ssj3Gojira

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

"I got to get back to that pool come to think of it!" Sophie said. "See you guys around. Call you if there's trouble." she said.

---

Sophie went through her usual schedule after a quick dash home for a change of clothes. When she arrived home she headed immediately to her room. She took Zippora out of her digivice and showed her around her room. She perched herself upside down off her celing fan.

"Hey!" Sophie said. "In the summer I'm gonna need that to keep cool."

"So?" Zippora said. "Summer's a way off."

"You got to plan for the future, Zippora." Sophie lectured. "Things go by schedules. Changing every day, but never randomly. Life needs order." she said.

"That just sounds boring to me." Zippora said. "But I'm not gonna control how you live your life."

Sophie worked for a few hours, occasionally stroking Zippora as she came to check on her homework. She fell asleep immediately after completing her assignments.

---

That night there was rumbling in the streets throughout Notebook City. Hopping from trash can to trash can, living off rats was an Owlmon, a bird like Digimon who lurked through the night. One night a reporter caught his visage on film, a silhouette against the moon. On March 1, this photograph ended up as cover on a local tabloid.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

Alyesha went home after saying her farewells for now, taking Kokuwamon with her, at first she took the long overdue shower to finally get the grease and oil out her face, as she got out she noticed that Kokuwamon had tinkered with her model and continued to build it for her. "Huh, seems I'm not the only one fond of building?" "Oh, err, yes." "I... think we're going to be good partners."

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

-With a polite nod, Phil pops off home to his apartment where he sleeps reasonably well (Barring the Renamon getting out and exploring the apartment while he was asleep. Which leads to the situation...-

May 1, Morning. 4AM.

-...Here. Phil had slept reasonably overnight, only once waking for a few hazy moments to ponder what the sound was before slipping back into unconsciousness. Now, however, at an hour too late to go back to sleep yet too early to be considered reasonable he awakes to see a yellow blob... Wait, his eyes takes a moment to focus and realize that it's the Renamon sitting on the foot of his single bed watching him intently with a plate stacked a good five inches high with overcooked bacon in it's hands. It continues watching silently until he sits up a little and looks between the Renamon and the pile of charred pork product-

Renamon: I have heard humans enjoy meat for breakfast so I prepared some from the fridge for you.

... ... ... I was saving that for Sunday. The next three Sundays...

Renamon: Oh, apologies human. I can put it back if you wish.

It's fine, just let me get up properly...

Renamon: Very well.

School, an hour or two later

-With a wisp of sleep still in his eyes and two cups of cheap java trying to escape into his bloodstream from his gut Phil slinks into his office and takes a good look at the figure plastered over the front of the paper he decided to pick up this morning-

It's... It's the silhouette of a large owl, like at best maybe a owl with a funny hat... Surely there are more 'important' things to report on than this...

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Matice checked the paper. "...Another one? This is nuts..." He finishes his breakfast before heading out into his rather large yard, looking at the various insects around.

"Aren't you such a cute one~?" He slowly petted a Caterpillar, entirely entranced by its glorious body. "If only..." He thought about when he got his Digimon...

---

The Past

"Not... what I was expecting." Matice held up the Digivice iC, looking at his Toyagumon. "I'm sure there's more..." He watched as his friend has gotten a Fanbeemon instead.

"Let's have some fun!" The little toy creature said, although was more or less ignored by his jealous partner.

"...Someday..." What he didn't know, was that he was about to get a very different view of things later on.

Two dark insect-like creatures attacked Matice and his partner, Toyagumon, streaming them in a veil of darkness.

"...Ergh..." Matice's jealousy had grown to a far higher level, but he also seemed far more confident, no longer anxious. "...So... I've got my work cut out for me." He said in darker voice.

"Yes, Boss." The darkened Toyagumon replied.

---

Present Day

"Maybe I should see what's going on with that creature..."

Rem started dragging Simon's ankle and him away from the others. "Come on, let's go!" He awkwardly waved at the others before leaving. "Alright, now let's go chow on some food!"

"Heh, yeah, alright" Simon pedalled home on the bicycle with Tapirmon eagerly taking in the sights and sounds of the city.

He came home to find a note from his mom. 'Notice you haven't called in a while. Don't feel bad, that's a good thing! Anyway, had a sudden call so I'm going to be swamped in work for the night, I've already cooked dinner for you. Mom'

Oh right I forgot to call her after school, one thing happened after another, I'll have to-, Rem suddenly popped up in his face. " Come on, let's eat already, I've been without food for um, uh," he paused to count, " about twenty hours!" Those thoughts pushed out of his mind, Simon chuckled to himself and took out the dinner and some food for Rem. The rest of the night went uneventfully with him finishing his homework, taking a shower, and letting his Digimon partner explore the rest of his home.

Morning

Simon woke up at 6 AM as usual, when he found a knocked-over cereal box with Rem eating what was spilled on the floor. " What? I was hungry." The Digimon went back to eating his way through the honeyed cereal. He shrugged and went back to eating and making breakfast.

---

He was sorting through the mail when one of the tabloids had caught his attention with its cover of a funny looking owl. Weird, I'll have to take a closer look. He put it in his bag and left for school.

Sophie awoke the next day. She managed to sneak some of her breakfast in for Zippora before she put her in her iC. She laughed at the picture of an owl that seemed to be on the paper Aunt Carolyn was reading. Wait a second? She thought to herself. It's a stretch but maybe it's worth checking this out to see if it's a legit Digimon sighting.

"Sophie? Are you finally willing to expose yourself to the truth beyond what the establishment?" her Aunt asked.

"N... I mean Yes!" Sophie said. "Down with the Man and all that!" she said as convincingly as she could manage as a high school drama student.

"You read this then." Carolyn said. "It will tell you how to cleanse your aura." She shoved the newspaper in her hand before waving her half-heartedly out the door as she left for school.

---

Homeroom

Sophie waved to Aleysha and Lillith, bags clearly in her eyes.

"Hey guys. Miss anything?" she asked. "I had like half a dozen things to do last night, so..." she muttered awkwardly.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

Homeroom

Alyesha waved back "Ah, not really, had my hands full myself though, seems I'm not the only one who likes to tinker with machines now, had to wash 'him' today - you know how complicated it is to wash something that looks like a giant taser?"" She said, suddenly something in her satchel rumbled "No... no you did not come with me... I told you that you'd need to stay at home" A small taser like bug-head emerged from the satchel "But I wanted..." She remained silent for a moment, carefully patting the Digimon after a while "Seems I'm not going to school alone from now on."

edited 22nd May '16 3:31:15 AM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

=Lucas Morton's House, 6 AM=

"Lucas! Lucas! Chip want to play fetch!" says a small white dog-like creature as he jumped around the living room with a stick in its mouth, looking enthusiastically at its owner, a young boy laying on his back on a couch, looking tired.

"Sorry Chip, but I had a really busy day yesterday and i'm still pretty sleepy....I don't think I have the energy for that..." says the young boy as he grabs a TV remote laying on his belly and starts changing channels looking for something interesting to watch.

"Okay! No Lucas, no problem! Chip play fetch on his own!" says Chip before throwing the stick on his mouth in front of him and then instantly after lunging at it to try and catch it, failing and instead sliding across the room.

Lucas laughs at the event and changes his position to a sitting one before fully standing up. "You know what? Let's go play fetch, Chip" says Lucas before standing up, stretching his arms and then walking outside, with Chip closely following.

As Lucas and Chip walk outside, Lucas steps on what seems to be a paper and notices the newspaper on the floor right outside their door, Lucas rolls his eyes realizing that his mother forgot to pick it up while Chip rolls them right afterwards purely because his owner did it, however, after picking it up and taking a closer look he notices a big owl with a funny-looking hat in the cover.

"....Why an owl? ....And why the funny-looking hat? ....And why is this on the newspaper?" asks Lucas to no one in particular until Chip starts poking his leg with his head, causing Lucas to look down and notice that he has already found and picked up a stick.

"Chip play fetch with Lucas?" Chip says after putting the stick on the ground in front of him, Lucas smiles and throws the stick as Chip runs off to catch it.

edited 22nd May '16 11:35:35 AM by BarelyBodaciousBud

As Chip was saying this said owl swopped by him, perching on the roof of his house.

---

"I figured I'd keep Zippora in my Digivice personally." she said taking out her Digivice and showing her the image. "Though she's so cute and round she'd be pretty easy to pass for a stuffed animal at a glance."

A text box popped up on the screen.

I am not stuffed. I just like to eat, that's all.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

=Lucas Morton's House=

As the owl swoops by Chip, it causes him to lose balance, trip and fall on his face, angering him quite a bit.

"Whoa! Is that an...owl? That's....quite a coincidence...." says Lucas as he picks up and switches between looking at the newspaper and the owl.

" Hey! Hey! You don't mess with Chip, if you mess with Chip then he won't be there to protect owner!" says Chip as he jumps around angrily and barks loudly at the owl.

"C-Chip, calm down, you're drawing attention...look, it's just an owl!" says Lucas as he kneels down and starts petting Chip in an attempt to calm him down, to no avail.

edited 23rd May '16 3:26:48 PM by BarelyBodaciousBud

"I, the Great Owlmon just an owl!" the bird said indignant. "Whimpering whelp! I am tempted to add you to my menagerie". He turned his head all the way around his necked.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

=Lucas Morton's House=

"D-D-Did....D-Did that owl....DID THAT OWL JUST TALK!??" says Lucas before starting to feel dizzy from the shock and needing to kneel down, causing Chip to get even angrier at the owl.

" First off, you don't call owner mena...mena....mena...whatever! That's rude, and second off, you make owner dizzy! Chip protect owner!" says Chip before dashing towards the roof.

"C-Chip, what are you—!?" says Lucas before being interrupted by Chip jumping high into the air.

" Peeetiit....PUNCH!!!" says Chip as he swings on his front paws towards Owlmon while it's covered in white energy, hoping to punch him in the face.

-Homeroom-

For once in her highschool career, Lil look rather out of it. Her long hair was hastily combed, as for her normal welled cared for uniform.

"..ugh..", the poor girl muttered.

They can't for the life of them understand why nobody liked being ruled by a group of manic depressive demigods - 4chan

A little late, but Matice finally made it to the Homeroom. "...Finally here." He sat down, sighing, and staring out the window, at a mantis in the trees, of course.

Igan coughed into his hand as he walks down the street, eyes occasionally flitting left and right to check for threats. Maybe not a monster of the week, but... A flash in the corner of his eye caught his attention immediately, and he paused to pursue it. In the back of an alleyway, a glowing QR Code lay emblazoned on the wall, surrounded by a ring of repeating symbols- this followed by this. Igan reached out to touch the gently glowing symbol, but hesitated, his excitement half-consumed by trepidation. Obviously, he was supposed to scan it with his phone- that was what one did with QR codes- but this one seemed... off. Unnatural. Best case scenario, it could be fantastic and cool... worst case scenario, it was an enticing wrapping paper on a virus that could brick his phone. He debated checking the web, seeing if there were any rumors or information on "strange QR codes..."

"...You gonna scan it?"

Igan whirled around, spooked by the voice from nowhere. That gentle spook bloomed into a fully-fledged momentary freak-out as he locked eyes with the source of the voice- a goddamned enormous crab with terrifyingly human eyes and a curious look.

"What in the hell are you?!" he cried out, dropping his phone. The giant crab scuttles forward, catching it with the tip of her larger claw gracefully.

"Sorry! Did I frighten you? I didn't mean to." The crab offered the phone back to Igan, who picked it up nervously. The crab smiled at his acceptance. "Nice to meet you! I'm Ganimon-er, the lady called me Crabmon... Anyway, what's your name?" Igan gulped- while this was definitely a strange, even intimidating encounter, the... Ganimon was incredibly friendly, its kind demeanor putting him at ease.

"I'm, uh... I'm Igan. Nice to meet you, Ganimon. Do you know what this code is?" Ganimon shakes her head, but pauses a moment after.

"Uh... actually, those people were talking about codes putting a Digimon app on their phone... Oh, I'm a Digimon, by the way!" Igan turned around, taking a better look at the code, and spurned on by Ganimon's advice, he scans the code, and the glowing code peels itself off the wall and slithers into his camera, causing the plastic to warp and shift, shrinking and lengthening into a simplistic, boxy chrome device, with a small tag at the bottom, and some sort of touch pad atop. Igan stared at it, gently tapping the first of the 3 buttons remaining on the device.

"What is-?" Before Igan can finish his aloud wondering, a notification beeps to life on the screen, and text begins to appear, accompanied by a pic of a winged pig- another Digimon, maybe?

Igan tapped the button and put away the device, blinking curiously.

"I should probably go to that, see what's going on..."

"Uh, actually, I'm pretty sure that was yesterday- I was there," Ganimon chirped. Igan sighed.

"Of course it was. In that case, I'll go there when classes get out, see if I can find some answers. You wanna come?" he asks, suddenly feeling very familiar with the giant crab.

"Sure!"

edited 24th May '16 12:51:42 PM by Orichalcon

Wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka~

"So how have yo been doing Lilith?" Sophie asked. "You look really under the weather." she commented.

---

The Owlmon effortlessly flow higher cackling.

"Never brings fists to a fight against a bird, small dog." he dove at Salamon from above, making barely a sound.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

=Lucas Morton's House=

Plotmon weaves to the right as the Owlmon dives towards him with great speed though still gets hit and falls off the roof as Lucas runs in and catches him before he hits the ground.

"P-Please, Chip....you don't have to do this!" Lucas says as he looks at the injured Plotmon, who just jumps out of his hands and lands on the ground in front of him.

" Chip...protect....L-Lucas!" Chip says before taking in a big breath.

"Chip, stop!" Lucas says as he picks up Chip, who's still holding his breath while looking directly at the Owlmon.

" Puppy Howling!!" says Chip before releasing a loud high-pitched bark at Owlmon.

"Ack! My ears!" says Lucas after Chip performs his attack, dropping him and covering his ears.

Arashi is just kind of sitting in class now, watching Sophie, Aleysha, and Lilith talk amongst themselves, Mephiles currently inside Arashi's Digivice taking a nap, as Arashi starts working on some homework due at the end of the week; hey, might as well get some of it out of the way now as everyone is waiting for the teacher.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

Alyesha looked at Kokuwamon... well... maybe he could stay in the satchel... she saw no problems with that... except... "Err... where did you put my books?" "Books? I put those out so I could fit in." Cue a Sweat Drop "Ehehe..." Seeing somebody making his homework (hence probably using books) Alyesha comically sneaked to him "Ehehehe... I... forgot my books..." "But you didn't forget them, I put them out."

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

"Yeah, and what are you asking exactly?" Arashi says, looking at Aleysha a little, though he does notice some movement in her bag.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!

"Err... could I maybe... sit next to you for today?" "Sorry again." Her satchel moved again

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

Arashi just kinds of sighs and looks up at her. "Sure, I guess. What happened to your books though?"

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!