A/N: Welcome to a new (actually, an old) adventure. I apologize if the names are confusing, but you have to remember that this is based on the Japanese version of the anime. Davis will have some trouble adjusting to the naming at first since all his friends are called by their English names.

Enough of that, read and enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: Digimon is the property of Toei Animation, Saban, blah blah blah. None of this is mine, except anything I made up.

CHAPTER 1

There was something wrong about today. Davis was sure about it.

"Daisuke-kun…"

Davis turned to his right, seeing a petite brown haired girl looking concernedly at him. "Daisuke-kun, are you alright? You don't look too good." He certainly didn't feel too good either. He took a deep breath to calm himself.

"I'm fine, please don't worry about me," He told the girl, Kari Motomiya. She had been his friend for years. He had once had a little crush on her, but that was… some time ago? He wasn't sure.

His brain told him she was called Yagami Hikari or something. He blinked confusedly.

Why is Kari calling me Daisuke? My name is Davis. He opened his mouth to correct her but the bell rang and she went back to her seat. Pursing his lips, he turned his attention to the front.

A moment later, the teacher of the class (at least Davis assumed he was the teacher) walked in with a blonde boy in a green and yellow shirt and beige shorts walked in.

"Good morning, everyone. Before we start, I'd like to introduce you to your new classmate." He nodded to the boy, who smiled and picked up a chalk and proceeded to write his name on the blackboard.

Suddenly, it hit Davis that he knew this boy.

He made a sudden movement by standing up, startling his classmate sitting next to him. The teacher looked at him and asked, "Is there a problem, Motomiya?" Davis looked at Kari, who was looking at him from her seat a couple of rows away and didn't seem to be responding to the teacher. Then, he realized that the teacher was referring to him. Everyone in the classroom, including Takeru "TK" Ishida at the front, was looking at him strangely.

"Eh… No, it's nothing." Davis sat down sheepishly. Did the teacher just call me a Motomiya? I'm not a Motomiya, Kari is. My name is Davis… His eyes widened. He couldn't remember his name, no matter how hard he strained himself.

"Hello, my name is Takaishi Takeru. It's nice to meet you all."

Davis turned to the blond boy at the front with his name on the chalkboard. Takaishi? No, it's supposed to be Ishida. His name is TK Ishida. We're best friends. I wouldn't forget his name… Wasn't his mom called Nancy Takaishi?

"Alright, Takaishi-san. Just take a seat next over there next to Yagami Hikari-san." The teacher interrupted his thoughts, gesturing towards the vacant seat beside Kari.

Takeru went over to sit next to his long-time friend and they began conversing happily for a while before the teacher announced their topic of learning for the day. Unfortunately for Davis, he was a little too anxious to pay attention.

Kari is… Yagami Hikari? His brain confirmed it.

Granted, he knew that Hikari was her full name and she often went by Kari to make it easier. But he was somewhat sure that wasn't her surname. Something was really wrong.

"Children, please take out your notebooks and start copying these notes." Daisuke did so and then he spotted something that made his hand tremble. On his books, it was written in his own handwriting: DAISUKE MOTOMIYA.

Meanwhile, the Digital World was facing problems of its own.

A dark force was slowly taking over the place, leaving misery in its wake. That dark force consisted of a kid who wore golden rimmed glasses with a purple tint, thus preventing anybody from making direct eye contact with him. His suit was also royal blue with a techno design.

He pressed a button on his gauntlet and black, sinister looking rings flew out in all directions. The Digimon ran helter-skelter trying to avoid them, for fear of the consequences of failing to do so. By strapping themselves to Digimon, the Dark Rings brainwashed the creatures and allowed the aforementioned boy to assume total control over them. They became mindless puppets, ready to serve the Digimon Kaiser.

The boy drew his whip and grinned maliciously as the creatures before him scurried for cover. The sounds of their desperate pleas for help and the moans of pain of those who failed to escape capture was music to his ears.

These creatures, the Digimon, had lived in their own world peacefully, away from the exploits of human beings. Yet somehow, this human boy had managed to gain access to their home world and was unleashing his terror upon the land.

As the Digimon hid and trembled in fear, hoping not to be discovered by the boy who called himself the Digimon Kaiser, a yellow dinosaur stumbled and fell. It-no, he- hadn't felt this scared in a long time…. Turning around, he spotted the black ring homing in on him. Desperately, he shot a fireball at it. "Baby Flame!" It obliterated the ring seconds before it reached him, and he lay on the ground, completely exhausted.

He needed help, and fast. He cried out the first name that came into his mind, the name of his beloved partner and friend whom he had shared so many adventures with.

"TAICHI!"

Elsewhere, the person in question heard a blipping sound coming from his Digivice, and holding it up close he could hear a faint voice emanating from the white gadget. Eyes widening, he ran to the nearest portal that he could find. He had to save his partner immediately, because heaven knew what could happen if he was too late.

The bell was due to ring in 5 minutes, signaling the change of class. Deciding that it was no more important than this, Taichi raced out of the school towards Odaiba Primary.

Hold on, Agumon, he thought. I'm coming!

Odaiba Elementary

Back in school, Yagami Hikari and Takaishi Takeru were happily catching up with their lives.

"Do you know about Yamato's next album? He said there it would feature a song of a slightly different genre, whatever that means."

Hikari smiled. "That's great, it means he is trying something new."

"Well, the last he tried something new for dinner when I went over to visit, we ended up ordering takeaway." The two of them laughed, and exchanged more stories and humorous jokes while Daisuke silently followed, occasionally smiling faintly at the funny parts. Hikari couldn't help but steal glances every now and then at her brooding friend.

She knew that Daisuke was never this moody. Sure he did get annoyed and sulked for a while but it never stopped him from returning to his cheerful self after a while. I wonder what's up with him, she thought.

When they reached their lockers Hikari turned towards Davis and asked him gently, "Daisuke-kun, what's wrong? You don't seem really happy today."

The mist from the boy's eyes cleared and he put on a faint smile and replied, "I'm fine, don't worry about me." Seconds later, he realized that he yet missed another chance to correct her about his name.

She frowned and was about to say something when a tall bespectacled girl with long, flowing lavender hair rushed into the locker room, panting heavily.

Takeru recognized her and greeted the girl, "Miyako-san, what's with the rush?"

Inoue Miyako blinked and smiled. "Oh, hello, Takeru-kun. I have a message to deliver. Do you by chance know someone called Yagami Hikari?"

Hikari stepped forward and nodded. "That's me."

Relieved that she hadn't needed to run around the school searching for the person whom she had to find, Miyako grinned. "Thank goodness I found you so quickly! I received a call for help at the computer room. It's from Yagami Taichi-san, do you know him?"

Hikari nodded and turned towards Takeru. A silent understanding passed between them. The sound of footsteps sprinting out of the locker room alerted them from their silent exchange, and they realized that Daisuke was gone.

"Daisuke-kun, wait!" she yelled before the trio followed the boy to the computer room. On their way, they passed by Iori who watched them run past.

"Guys, please don't run in the hallway!" he called out, but the stampede was too far away to hear him.

When they reached, they heard voices from inside the computer lab.

"-aichi-san needs help. I'm going to assist him."

A familiar voice tried to placate him, and the three kids rushed in to find Izumi Koushiro holding out a white device. "You need one of these in order to go and help Taichi-san. You cannot enter the Digital World without a Digivice."

Curious, Miyako asked, "What are you guys talking about? What's the Digital World?" Hikari and Takeru looked at each other and they both pushed Miyako out of the lab.

"We'll tell you more about it later," promised Takeru. "By the way, don't you have to go to Iori's house to help him with his computer problem?"

Realization hit Miyako immediately. Iori had ask for her help this morning. Running off, she yelled over her shoulder, "I'll hold you to it!" After she turned left around the corner, Takeru sighed," She certainly is a handful, isn't she?" to which Hikari merely shrugged.

They both turned around as two beams of light streaked past them, narrowly missing their faces and shot off. Startled, they entered the lab quickly just in time to see Daisuke disappear into the computer screen. "After him!" cried Hikari. She and the blond boy pointed their own Digivices towards the screen and disappeared after their friend.

This is just not my day, thought Koushiro as he rubbed his face and prepared to follow them, but Miyako poked her head into the room, causing him to jerk back his arm which was pointing his Digivice at the PC. "Izumi-senpai! What was the flash of light that came from this room and what are these little machines?" the girl inquired, holding out her Digivice.

Koushiro's face morphed into a mix of surprise and realization. His glanced back at the Digital Gate and saw that it was closed. It was too late to follow the others.

Aww, I wanted to see Tentomon though.

Almost instantly, a young boy with a bowl cut appeared at the door. "Excuse me, there was a light that came from this room and I got this." Incredibly, he held a yellow Digivice, the very same model as the ones the spiky haired boy and the tall girl had.

Wow, looks like I have some serious explanation to do, concluded the Izumi as he sighed.

"Alright, take a seat and I'll tell you about it. Before that, does anyone have Oolong tea?"

Just a while before…

The day was still wrong for Davis.

The surroundings were familiar to him, but alien at the same time. There was just something he couldn't place his finger on. Coupled with the fact that his surname was slipping his mind, he ended up in a very numb mood.

Little did he know that the original Daisuke from this world had a different way of coping with things, that is, by making jokes and by complaining loudly about it. So, it was no wonder that Kari Motomiya—no, Yagami Hikari—was giving him concerned looks, which he didn't notice. "Daisuke-kun, what's wrong? You don't seem really happy today."

He quickly put on a smile and replied that he was fine. It was obvious that Hikari didn't buy it.

Fortunately, she was distracted by a tall, lavender haired girl who ran into the locker room. She wore a pink shirt over a red dress and huge round rimmed glasses. Thank heaven, thought the boy. The girl, Miyako, as Takeru called her said, "Oh, hello, Takeru. I have a message to deliver." She turned towards Hikari and asked," Are you Yagami Hikari? I received a call for help at the computer room. It's from Yagami Taichi-san, do you know him?"

Taichi... That name…

His brain filled in the gap for him. It was Hikari's brother, but images of a messy haired boy laughing at him as he held a deflated soccer ball in his hands flashed past his mind's eye, as well as pictures of Hikari and her brother. Strangely, he felt compelled to go seek out the boy named Taichi.

Before he knew it, his legs were moving and he found himself sprinting in the direction of the computer room. He had to know. Why was he so drawn towards this Taichi?

When he got there, he was greeted by a redheaded teenager in a green uniform.

"Hello, can I help you?" the teen asked politely.

"Where is Taichi?"

The older boy blinked and replied, "Taichi-san is in a place where not everybody can go. How did you find out about him anyway?"

Davis dismissed the question with a wave of his hand. "How I found out doesn't matter. Taichi-san needs help. I'm going to assist him."

The older boy shook his head and took out a white box from his pocket. "You need one of these in order to go and help Taichi-san. You cannot enter the Digital World without a Digivice."

Davis bit his lip. He didn't have one of those. He didn't even know what they were.

Behind him, Miyako, Hikari and Takeru arrived. He heard Miyako asking about what they were talking about and the other two leading her out, promising that they would tell her about it some other day.

He was stumped. Davis was totally stumped. Even the toughest Physics problem his old teacher, Jin-sensei gave him couldn't do that.

Wait, Jin-sensei?

But the thought was gone just as fast as it had appeared.

He was in a world where his best friends weren't exactly his best friends and reality just seemed screwed up. Davis lowered his head in defeat before a blue stream of light shot out of the monitor and into his hands. Another two streaks, one red and one yellow, shot off behind him to who knows where.

He stared dumbfound at the white and blue-gripped device that rested in his palm. Koushiro looked repeatedly at it, then at Davis, and back at the device again. "What—I-I don't understand… A new Digivice—Impossible!" he stammered. Nevertheless, Koushiro quickly composed himself and told Daisuke to point the device at the monitor.

"So you're a new Chosen Child. The portal is open now, so use that Digivice to open a Digital Gate to the Digital World."

"What is this?" Davis shook the Digivice and examined it in his hand.

"No time to explain, just go to the Digital World and there you'll find Taichi-san. You got that? Now go!"

The younger boy nodded slowly and did as he was told. He disappeared in a flash of light.

Davis exited the portal and landed face first in the soggy mud of a forest. The place was beautiful and serene, but there was no living creature in sight. A wave of calm washed over him. He could imagine himself having a picnic here.

The boy shook his head. "It's time to do what I came here for."

He was about to call out Taichi's name, when a hand clamped over his mouth and a voice hissed in his ear, "Be quiet, or you're going to get us caught." The hand released him and Daisuke found himself staring at an older male whom he immediately recognized as Taichi.

Taichi put a finger to his lips and beckoned him to follow, leading them to a cave nearby. At the entrance an orange dinosaur spotted them and waved. Once inside, Taichi turned towards Davis and asked, "What are you doing here? I sent for Hikari and whoever else she was with for backup. How did you even get here in the first place?"

Davis blinked. This was Taichi? This guy was the reason he'd come rushing to this place?

He realized he must have been staring blankly because Taichi was waving a hand in front of his face. He shook his thoughts away and replied, "Hikari and Takeru are on the way, and does this answer your question? I got it from the lights that flew out from the computer." He held up his Digivice for the older boy to see.

Taichi remained silent, and Davis could practically hear the gears in his mind turning.

There's something different about Daisuke, Taichi thought. Finally, he spoke, "I sent Tailmon and Patamon to pick up the two of them. In the meantime, come with me. There's something I want to show you." He got up and cocked his head in the direction of the tunnel that led deeper into the cave.

"I'm Agumon, nice to meet you!" The dinosaur grinned at Davis and stuck out a paw with three claws. Davis warily responded in kind and shook it.

They walked deeper into the cave where they ended up in a chamber where a big, red egg sat unmoving on the ground.

"When I first came in here, I tried lifting it but it wouldn't budge." Taichi explained. Turning towards Daisuke, he prompted, "You try."

Daisuke positioned himself and pulled. To his surprise, the egg came up without resistance, making him land hard on his butt. An orange fountain of light sprouted from the hole in the ground, and a blue dragon-like… thing jumped out and onto Daisuke's chest. It had adorable red eyes and a V shape on its forehead.

"YAHOO! Free at last! I've waited so long to be released!" It yelled jovially, not noticing the bewildered expression of the boy whose chest it was on.

In future days, Taichi would retell the whole incident, making it funnier the more times it was told. He also would include some antics, like reenacting Davis' priceless expression (which he made up) and lots of non-existent screaming was to be involved. Right now, the Chosen Children Leader was just stumped.

The dragon grinned down at Davis and said, "I've been waiting for you all this time. My name is V-Mon, what's yours?"

"Daisuke, Motomiya Daisuke," stammered Davis. Then he blinked and thought, wait, did I just call myself Daisuke instead of Davis?

Taichi chuckled and walked over to two of them, saying, "Looks like he's your new partner. I'm sure you'll be a great team," and patted V-mon on the head who was busy hugging his new partner and nuzzling him. Taichi then pulled Agumon into a one arm hug, grinning at his partner and best friend. "You will rely on each other a lot, like we have," Agumon said happily.

The happy moment didn't last long, because a scream was heard from outside the cave. Recognizing the voice, Taichi yelled, "Hikari!" and ran towards the exit, with Agumon, Daisuke and V-Mon following close behind.

On the way out, V-Mon tried to make conversation with his new partner. "I'm glad you released me from under the Digimental of Courage. That's the thing that you're holding. To use it you have to say Digimental Up. It'll allow me to-"

"Can we save this for later? We're kind of in an emergency now," Davis cut his new companion's words short as they neared the cave opening.

Outside, they spotted Hikari on the ground, clutching her ankle. Takeru squatted next to her, trying to help her get up. In front of them, a white cat with gloves and a flying hamster with bat-like wings/ears were trying to distract a giant rhinoceros-dinosaur-like monster (which was identified by V-Mon as Monochromon) by tackling and blowing bubbles at it.

Taichi and Daisuke tried to run towards them, but the Monochromon stood between the two groups. They ran around towards Takeru and Hikari, trying not to gain the attention of the Monochromon. Unfortunately, it managed to shake off the two smaller Digimon and charged towards the kids. Agumon shot a Baby Flame at it, but the Monochromon's hide was too thick for any damage to be done.

"NO!"

Davis ran toward them and pushed them to safety at the last moment, narrowly missing the sharp horn pointed at the spot they were a second ago. Standing up, he heard V-Mon shouting from a distance, "Use the Digimental! Let me fight!"

He gripped the Digimental tightly and yelled, "That's enough. No one hurts my friends! Digimental Up!"

The Digimon Kaiser starred at a wall of screens in his observation room. At first, he had absolutely no doubt that the insects that had just appeared would be crushed by the Monochromon. Then, the maroon haired kid pulled a wild card by letting his Digimon evolve.

A bright orange flash filled the screen. When it subsided, a blue, red armor-clad humanoid lizard was stood there, staring down the Monochromon in front of it.

Intrigued, the Kaiser leaned forward. His dark towers should have stopped ordinary evolution, so this must be a new evolution method. He watched the screen intently as the new Digimon, Fladramon as his database told him, battled with Monochromon.

Fladramon leapt high into the air and set himself on fire. He hit the dark ring that was strapped onto Monochromon's back and managed to destroy it, freeing it from the Kaiser's control.

That thing managed to free one of my toughest servants, the Kaiser thought, mildly irritated that he had suffered a loss. A minor one that didn't matter at all, but a loss was still a loss.

The Kaiser never loses.

Deciding that he had seen enough, the Kaiser stood up and exited the room. Very interesting. Fladramon will make a nice addition to my collection of slaves, he smirked.

Not long after, the Chosen Children landed in a heap in the computer room with Koushiro at the bottom of the pile, wondering how his day could get any worse. Davis groaned and opened his eyes, finding himself on top of Hikari. As red as a tomato, he quickly got up and helped the others. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a blue rabbit-dragon looking creature appear from the screen and hop off to hide, completely unnoticed by the others.

"Taichi! How's Agumon?" Koushiro questioned.

Picking himself off the floor, Taichi groaned and replied, "He's fine, and so are the others. They said they would stay in the Digital World for now, and we should really call a meeting tonight. It's urgent."

Koushiro noted his friend's serious expression, and saw the anger and concern his eyes held. "Alright, I'll send messages to the rest of our gang," he promised.

"Does that mean we are having a reunion?" Takeru's face was lit excitedly. "Wow, on the day I just got back too!" Hikari bobbed her head eagerly.

"It has been too long since we all had a gathering."

Miyako shot her hand into the air impatiently. "Hello, is anyone going to explain why you guys suddenly emerged from the monitor?"

Iori chorused with his own question. "Do we get to visit the Digital World?"

Surprised by the presence of strangers, Taichi raised a questioning eyebrow at the Chosen of Knowledge. Koushiro raised his palms in front of him. "Relax, they're new Chosen Children. The lights that flew out of the screen were new Digivices." He beckoned for Miyako and Iori to show their Digivices.

"So that's what the light was. When I touched the Digimental of Courage, a blue light flew out. I'm guessing that is Daisuke's."

Davis lifted his head at the mention of his name and held up his own Digivice, looking at it curiously.

"Digimental? You have a lot to tell us tonight, Taichi-san," Koushiro mused, fascinated by the new devices.

"Excuse me, are we going to the Digital World or not?" Miyako huffed again.

Takeru looked at the time and blanched. "Err guys, it's almost 5.30pm. Should we get going?"

Panicking at how late it was, everybody rushed home before they had to add an interrogation from their respective parents to their already eventful day. Hikari promised Miyako that they would go to the Digital World tomorrow.

"It's a great place that is full of surprises," she teased. The taller girl grumbled, feeling unsatisfied.

Koushiro went to the computer to shut it down. He glanced at the status of the Digital Gate and confirmed his suspicions.

"Locked, huh." He mentally reminded himself to bring this up at the meeting later.

While the others shuffled out of the room, Davis stood where he was. Hikari doubled back and peeked in. "Daisuke-kun, are you coming with us?"

Davis shook his head. "You go on ahead. I have something to do."

Out of sight, Taichi hollered, "Hikari, let's go!"

"I'll be right there!" she shouted back. She gave Davis a long look and left hurriedly, limping slightly.

When he was sure everyone was gone, Davis walked up to the shelves and moved the items. Unsurprised, he found a Digimon hiding in the darkness. "Don't think I didn't see you appear from the computer. Come out now, we're all alone."

The Digimon jumped out and into Daisuke's chest and looked up at him. He resembled V-mon, albeit much more adorable and full of energy. His ruby red eyes shone with innocence and excitement. "Hello, Daisuke. You sure are observant. I'm Chibimon, the Baby level of V-Mon."

"Why are you here?"

"I wanted to see your world. We are partners after all!"

His human partner's brow creased. "Do the other Digimon know you're here?"

Giggling, Chibimon flailed his arms. "Who cares, I am here now. Do you have any food?"

Davis sighed. Now he would have to figure out a way to tell the others and keep the fuzzy ball of energy hidden, not to mention feed him.

The others, huh?

Taichi had complimented his bravery and thanking him for saving his sister and Takeru. He had even given him goggles, claiming that he is a new Chosen Child and he should have an accessory to go with the title. In this case, it was goggles.

His mind was full of questions. Why did this Taichi seem so important to me? Why does nothing make sense today? Why was I able to lift the Digimental of Courage and not Taichi? What do these goggles mean?

Subconsciously, he touched the plastic rim of his new head gear, admiring them through his reflection from the blackened computer screen. He had to admit, they looked rather good on him, just like Kari said.

He mentally slapped himself for calling her Kari. Then he smacked himself a second time for forgetting to correct people about his name.

But… she's still Kari, isn't she? Hikari and Kari, they're the same person. Why should it be any different?

So many questions. He would have to figure all this out later. Right now, he had to get home.

"Come on Chibimon, let's go. At the rate this is going, Jun is going to end up being my sister."

A/N: After two years, I finally revisit the chapter that started it all. I have to admit, it doesn't hold up as well as I remembered it. Shows how much you can grow over a period of 24 months.

The changes I made were to the consistency of naming, added some scenes to aid coherency, and also edited to suit my latest continuity. I'm going to go through the next few chapters and make more changes.

Interesting note: Taichi never named Daisuke leader in the original. He just saw his replacement Chosen Child of Courage and therefore handed him his goggles as symbolism of passing the torch. There was no mention of the word leader at all, not in the Japanese dub anyway.

I quote: "Daisuke… You're definitely a new Chosen Child. From now on, you'll protect the Digital World. Here, you can have my goggles."

If Yamato was leader, he wouldn't have anything to pass on and no-one would be able to argue about that. So since Daisuke wasn't officially named leader nor did he ever assert his position as leader, you can say that he grew into the position with good team dynamics. It was never a dictatorship sort of situation and he mainly rallied the others just like Taichi, even though he had to learn how to not make the rash choices of charging into battle after half a season.

Fact #2: the animators and screen writers didn't show much about how Hikari supposedly hurt her ankle. They made a big deal about it to raise the stakes and then she was suddenly fine. I kinda fixed that.

That's all for now. Please leave a review, let me know what you think. Hope you enjoyed it!