There's always something exciting about starting at a new school. Sure he was gonna have to make all new friends and learn the ins and outs of a whole new place, but the change was still exciting. When his mom told him they were moving, he hoped it was to Odaiba so he could be closer to all his friends, the other digidestined, but at least Tomachi was just across the bridge from Odaiba. He'd be able to visit them regularly.
He said goodbye to his mother and headed off to school. It was only a short walk to school and it was a beautiful fall day. He would be lying if he said he didn't miss all of his friends and especially Patamon, but he had learned to survive on his own. He was a friendly enough kid and had no trouble making new friends, but he still felt as though losing the digital world had left a huge hole in his life that he couldn't seem to fill.
He hoped that being that much closer to his digidestined friends would help fill the hole. His thoughts were interrupted when he entered the school grounds and heard the warning bell ring. He looked up and realized he'd have to run to find his classroom otherwise he'd be late.
He ran through the hallways trying to find room 211 and found it just as the late bell rang. He quickly went in and found a seat near the back. As the teacher spoke he began to study his surroundings. The kids all seemed friendly enough with a few still joking around with each other as the teacher started the morning lessons. Two boys next to him were secretly playing a game of paper football. They glanced at him and he smiled, they smiled back and went back to their game.
As Tk continued to study the children in his class he saw a boy in the front row that seemed very familiar. He was tall and thin with black almost purple hair. Tk couldn't figure out how he knew him, but he just knew that he did. As the class went on, the teacher addressed the familiar boy as Ken and that's when Tk figured it out. That was Ken Ichijouji, the famous boy genius that everyone talked about. Tk knew that he lived in Tamachi, but didn't connect that he would also be going to elementary school there.
Meanwhile over in Odaiba, Davis was out in front of the school playing basketball with a bunch of his friends. Soccer was his number one sport, but he loved playing basketball too. He was okay and hoped to be a decent player on the team for the year. He caught a glimpse of his crush Kari out of the corner of his eye and decided that he wanted to try and impress her. He dribbled by the guy defending him and pulled up quickly for a three pointer. It went in barely moving the net in the process. What luck he never makes those, he looked over to see if Kari had seen it only to be disappointed. He started to run down to the other end of the court still watching Kari and he tripped and fell face first into one of his friends taking them both to the ground.
Of course Kari saw that and giggled along with the rest of the girls. He could never catch a break, he always seemed to do stupid things in front of her. It didn't help that his annoying friend Yolei decided it would be funny to taunt him because of the fall, "Still learning to walk, huh Davis?"
"Shut up, Yolei!" yelled Davis as he rubbed the knee that he had fallen on. School was about to start so the game broke up and Davis ran to meet up with Kari, since they were in the same class. "Hey Kari, how was your summer?"
"It was really nice, Davis, thanks for asking. How was yours?" Kari smiled pleasantly at her friend.
"Oh it was alright, I decided to start working out this summer so I spent most of the time at the gym." Even as he was saying it he couldn't believe he was. He hadn't spent all summer in the gym, he went maybe a couple times a month. He always said stupid things when he was around her.
She giggled at him and said, "I can tell," as she wrapped almost her whole hand around his tiny stick of an arm. Davis blushed and pulled his arm away quickly. The day dragged on for Davis like most school days do, but he at least got to spend the whole day sitting next to Kari. By the end of the day he was restless and ready to get out of the school.
"Hey Kari, do you wanna walk home together?" Davis asked the fairly innocent question as he and Kari exited their classroom at the end of the day. They lived on the same street and had for years walked home together. Davis hoped that this year would be more of the same.
"I'd love to Davis, but I have a friend stopping by the school and I wanted to stop in and say hi to him."
"Him?" Davis asked a bit taken aback thinking another guy was moving in on his crush. "Oh that's fine I'll just go with you and we can walk home together afterwards.:
"That would be really nice, Davis, thanks." Kari knew Davis liked her, it would be hard not to know it, but she thought it was harmless and enjoyed his company as a friend. They made their way to the computer lab together and opened the door to find Izzy glued to a computer screen. "Hi, Izzy, it's great to see you."
"Oh hey Kari, you're here too, that's great," he said without looking up, "Now we can go help your brother in the digital world."
"Is Tai in trouble? What's the digital world? Who is this guy anyway Kari?" Asked a very confused Davis.
Izzy jumped at the sound of his voice and looked up quickly, "Oh hi there, sorry Kari I didn't know you brought a friend."
"Oh don't worry about him Izzy, what are you talking about? Is Tai in the digital world?"
"You mean you didn't get the email? I was on my way here to help with the computer club when I got it. I just assumed he sent it to you too."
Kari pulled out her D-terminal (the little handheld computers they had all gotten to keep in touch) and looked through her email. Davis was curious and looked over Kari's shoulder and read the message from Tai, "Agumon and I are in trouble, we need help. Come to the digital world as soon as possible."
He startled Kari by speaking right into her ear, "Who's Agumon and what's the digital world? If Tai is in trouble, I want to help."
Izzy was a bit surprised at this, "How do you know Tai?"
"He's volunteered to help with our soccer team the past couple of years. So are we gonna go to this digital world and help him or are we just gonna stand here staring at each other."
From behind them they heard a voice at the door, "What's the digital world?" It was Yolei standing in the doorway.
Kari and Izzy were speechless trying to figure out if they should spill the beans on the digital world when Davis spoke up, "I don't know either, but Kari's brother is in trouble there and needs our help."
Yolei looked a bit surprised, "Really that sounds like fun, it's like a video game right? I wanna go too."
Before anyone could say anything else Cody, a student a few years younger than them came up, "Yolei, you promised you'd come over and fix my computer after school. We should get going my mother worries if I don't come home right away." Yolei looked upset but knew her friend was right and turned to walk away with him.
"Well now that those two are gone, are we gonna go to the digital world or not?" yelled Davis excitedly.
"It's not that easy, Davis," Kari began, "Not everyone can go to the digital world, you have to have a digivice," she finished pulling out her digivice to show him while Izzy did the same.
"Well that's not fair, Tai's in trouble and I wanna help him." As he said that three bright lights shot out of the computer Izzy was working on and one flew straight to Davis. When the light cleared he had what appeared to be a digivice in his hand, it was a bit different than the old ones, but it was clearly a digivice. "Sweet! Looks like I'm part of the cool crowd now too. Let's get going Tai needs us."
Kari nodded and held up her digivice to the computer and was sucked in. Davis hesitated for a second before he followed suit. It was a weird experience entering the digital world, but Davis decided he liked it, especially because he found himself in a really awesome bomber jacket in that world. "Wow, I didn't expect a whole new wardrobe in this world."
Kari looked at him with confusion, "Yeah, its kind of weird that only you got a new wardrobe. Where's Izzy? I thought he was right behind us."
Davis wanting to have some alone time with Kari brushed that off, "Oh don't worry about it, someone probably just came into the computer room and he had to cover for us or something like that."
"You're probably right, we should try to find my brother. We should be able to track him using our digivices." Davis kept trying to talk to Kari but she was too focused on finding her brother to think about idle chit chat. Davis eventually decided that he'd have to be content to just be with her.
After a few minutes of walking Davis spotted some blond kid in the distance. "Man, how many people know about this world anyway?" as he pointed to the boy.
Kari looked up, but then ignored Davis's question as she yelled out, "Tk, over here!" and started running to meet up with him. Davis did not like the looks of that. Who was this guy to be cutting into Davis's alone time with Kari. He shook that thought away and chased after Kari.
Kari ran up to the boy and gave him a big hug, "Tk, its so great to see you, its been at least two months, we need to get together more often."
Tk responded, "Its great to see you too, Kari, and now that I'm living in Tamachi we should be able to see each other a whole lot more."
"That's right you moved, are you guys all settled in? How's your mom? Do you like you're new school?"
The two were so caught up with each other that they seemed to completely ignore Davis before his interrupted the conversation and spoke up. "Hey guys, shouldn't we be looking for Tai, his email did say that he needed help."
"Oh right, I think my digivice registered him over this way, I came to check out your signal first," said Tk as he came to his senses. "Who are you anyway?" Tk asked of Davis.
Davis was about to respond when Kari stepped in with her perfect manors, "Oh I'm sorry. Tk, this is Davis, a friend from my school, and Davis this is Tk, he's one of my best friends and a member of the team that went with Tai, Izzy, and myself to the digital world four years ago."
Tk smiled at Davis and stretched out his hand towards him as they began to walk towards Tai's digivice signal, "Nice to meet you Davis, where'd you get a digivice anyway," Tk asked as he had seen the signal from Davis's digivice on his own.
Davis ignored Tk's hand and grunted a response, "The thing just shot out of the computer at me, right before we came here. Not sure what that means."
Tk seemed a little taken aback by Davis being so rude, but responded warmly, "It means that you're apart of our team now too. So welcome aboard."
Davis grunted again and Kari could tell there was clearly some tension between the boys. "Let's just hurry up and find Tai, if he's in trouble then we might be in danger too, we'll all be better off when we're together."
"Don't worry Kari, I won't let anything hurt you and we'll save Tai too," Davis exclaimed confidently. Tk chuckled a bit about his ignorance. Davis glared at Tk, who just shook his head in disbelief.
"Tai can handle himself, Kari and we've faced plenty of dangerous things in this place, there's nothing we can't handle together. Remember how bad things looked in the fight against Piedmon. If that didn't stop us, nothing in this world can," Tk said with a smile.
Kari smiled at Tk, "You're right Tk, whatever it is putting the digiworld in danger is no match for us." The two old friends both laughed together as Davis trailed behind them fuming. He didn't like this guy being so buddy buddy with Kari and stepping all over Davis's attempt to impress her.
A little while later they found Tai, Agumon, Patamon, and Gatomon at the mouth of a cave.
"Tk! Tk! Tk!" cried Patamon as he flew into his partner's arms.
"Hey buddy, its been way too long, I've really missed you."
"I've missed you too," replied the little digimon.
Kari had run up to Gatomon and was hugging her and petting her softly. Davis just stood there in shock before Tai came up to greet him. "Hey there Davis, what brings you to this dimension?"
Davis just pulled out his new digivice, "This thing came out of the computer so I came with Kari to come find you. I thought you needed our help, everything seems to be okay here?"
"Well, we were being chased by a Kuwagamon, but he seems to have left us alone for now."
"Why didn't Agumon just digivolve and kick his ass?"
"Tk! Language!" cried Kari.
"Sorry, MOM!" Tk said sticking his tongue out at Kari only to have both of them laugh.
"That's just it, Agumon can't digivolve," answered Tai.
"None of us can," added Patamon.
"Yeah there's this mean human that calls himself the digimon emperor and somehow he's made it so nobody can digivolve," finished Gatomon.
"Another human here, that's weird I though only digidestined could enter the digital world," replied Tk.
"Maybe he's like a rogue digidestined dude or something like that," Davis wondered.
"Maybe, anything's possible at this point," Tai said as he rubbed his chin in thought. "Oh, I almost forgot, follow us, we found something in this cave." They all followed Tai into the cave. When they got to a big open room underground they saw a weird red digi-egg with a spike coming out of it.
"What is that thing?" asked Kari.
"I'm not sure, I think it's some kind of egg and it has the crest of courage on it," answered Tai.
"Then it must be yours, Tai, just pick it up."
"I tried that, Tk. I couldn't pick it up and as soon as I touched it three beams of light shot out of it. I'm guessing one of those was probably your digivice, Davis."
"That's cool, but wait, does that mean two other kids also got these digivice things? I wonder who they are," said Davis with pride.
Tk was still staring at the digi-egg, "Well if you couldn't pick it up Tai, maybe it's meant for one of us." He stepped up to the thing and tried to lift it, but it wouldn't budge. "You try, Kari, Tai is your brother after all, maybe the courage rubbed off on you over the years." Kari stepped up and tried only to fail as well.
"Maybe its yours, Davis, you are a digidestined now after all," Kari said as she rejoined the group.
Taking this as another opportunity to impress Kari, Davis stepped up to the egg and prepared for a heavy lift, "Yeah, I've been working out so this should be a piece of cake." He bent his knees and put his hands on the egg before he took a deep breath and gave it all he had. The egg broke free so easily that Davis fell backwards onto his butt. "See I told you guys, piece of cake."
There was a hole beneath the egg and out of it jumped a little blue digimon, "Did somebody say cake? I don't know what that is, but it sounds delicious!"
Davis jumped back a little bit at the sudden appearance of the little blue monster. "Ahh! What are you?"
"Well I'm Veemon and I'm your new partner. You're the one who was able to move the digi-egg of courage, Davis, and that means we're partners."
"You know my name?"
"Of course, I do, I've been waiting for you for a long time, Davis."
"It's official Davis, you have a digimon and everything, you must be a digidestined now," encouraged Tai as he slapped the younger boy on the back.
Just as everyone was recovering from the shock of Veemon's appearance a Monochromon burst into the room enraged about something.
"Why's that Monochromon so mad?" asked Tk.
"It's because he's under the control of the digimon emperor," answered Agumon, "Do you see that black ring around his belly? That's how the emperor controls digimon, if we can destroy that then he should go back to normal."
"But how can we destroy that thing if none of you can digivolve?" asked Kari.
"I'm not sure, but maybe now's not the best time to stand around thinking about it, Run!" cried Gatomon as the Monochromon attacked, "I'll try to hold him off and give you a chance to get away." Gatomon lunged at the beast ready to use her lightning paw on his head and stop him in his tracks. Instead the creature jumped in the air and used his powerful tail to knock Gatomon to the ground.
The children and the other digimon ran down another tunnel trying to get away. Davis still held the egg in his hand as he ran. "Davis, I can beat that guy, if you activate my digi-armor," cried Veemon as he motioned to the egg.
Davis pulled the egg up to look at it, "How am I supposed to do that?"
"Just do what comes naturally to you, Davis," encouraged Veemon.
"Okay, here it goes, Digi-armor energize!" At that Veemon tripled in size and pieces of the egg attached themselves to his body as armor. "Woah, is that still Veemon?" asked Davis in shock at the incredible transformation.
"Not anymore, Davis, now I'm Flamedramon and I'll make quick work of that dark ring." At that Flamedramon ran back down the tunnel they had come from, passing Gatomon on the way.
"I held him off as long as I could, but boy is he strong," gasped Gatomon.
"I though you were supposed to be a champion," teased Patamon.
Gatomon glared at Patamon before responding, "I just haven't been the same without my tail ring, I can't find it anywhere."
Davis was really excited and started running after his digimon, "Come on guys, lets go see Flamedramon in action." At that they all ran back down the tunnel hoping to catch a glimpse of the battle. When they made it back down to the big room they saw Flamedramon dodge the charging Monochromon and grab it by it's tail and throw it against the wall. While it was stunned he jumped up into the air and used his fire rocket attack to destroy the dark ring.
After things had settled down Flamedramon returned to his original form as Veemon. The egg turned into Data and shot into Davis's pocket. When Davis reached in he saw he had a D-terminal just like Kari and the others had and an icon of an egg was present on the screen.
"That was awesome, Davis, way to go you two and welcome to the team!" cheered Tai as the room settled down. After the short celebration they all went back to the surface and found a tv that they could use to get home. In no time at all they found themselves in a pile on the floor of the Odaiba elementary computer room.