Reaper: Hey there everybody and welcome to my new story/one-shot thing. I really like Ruki44's 'A day in the Life' and since I have too many ideas that don't pertain to All Four, they will be going her in this one-shot story collection.

Takato: So this is what you have been doing in your spare time, huh. I thought you were doing something productive.

Reaper: This is productive, but if you don't to be with Rika I...

Takato: No, no, no, nevermind. It's a wonderful idea.

Reaper: Anyways, this is influenced by Defender Paladin's 'Tales of Singularity' and the aforementioned 'Life'. So I'm going to do something similar, in which I'll write a chapter and if people like the idea, or I get some sudden inspiaration, I will write another chapter or two. Some larger ones might become full fledged fics or someone can ask to use the idea as well.

Takato: That's kinda cool, so what are they going to be about?

Reaper: Can be anything really, maybe a few crossovers, AU, random days and events. So Takato, do mind saying the disclaimer and chapter quote?

Takato: Reaper doesn't own Digimon since it would be destroyed if he did. And today's quote is brought to you today by Mythbusters (We guarantee one explosion per episode) and Adam Savage; 'Here comes chaos!' There, take your freaking card back! I'm going to the movies.

Reaper: Say hi to Rika for me!

Role Reversal

Takato had a felling that this week was just going to turn out badly. For one, he was sick with the flu. Two, Mrs. Asaji still assigned him tons of homework. Three, his mother wouldn't let him out of his room. And finally, well let's hope that Guilmon can keep his hunger down and under control.

'Well, I am feeling better, hopfully I'll be good enough to get up tomorrow. I'm even starting to miss school so I know I've been in here to long.' Takato thought. He's already been in bed for three days, starting on Friday, and he had gotten bored by the end of the fourth hour. So he fell back to his trusty old standby when he was bored, drawing. First he had drawn landscapes and places, like the park or even the old Hypnos building. But this too got a little stale after a while.

Takato did consider himself an artist, an amuetur yes, but an artist none the less. He enjoyed drawing and even painting and considered more then a hobby. But like all people he found that he needed to improve in certain areas of his craft. His was drawing people and Digimon. So he spent the last two days working on that, drawing his friends and their partners in different way.

There was Henry and Terriermon playing air hockey at an arcade, Kenta messing around with MarineAngemon near the fountain of the park, Ryo and Monodramon taking a nap in the shade, Suzie and Lopmon having a tea party(he had no idea where he got that from), Mako, Ai, Impmon, and Calumon playing the card game, Jeri riding on top of Leomon's shoulders, and even Alice with Dobermon on the bridge. But then came his problem.

Rika. For some reason, whenever he tried to draw her and her partner, he never thought he did quite good enough to say he really drewRika. He knew he wasn't the best at what he did, but he was frustrated when he thought he couldn't get Rika's image right on paper. And he didn't really know why either. What he did know is that they were good friends, that Rika really only talked or hung out with Henry and him. And most of those times she acted like she always did. But there were times when it was just them, rare yes but there were those times and only then would she open up a little and gave one of her very rare and elusive smiles. And a tiny part of her sense of humor would break through, like when she would give a small, almost unnoticeable laugh.

'It's such a nice and charming...WAIT! WHAT AM I THINKING! Rika would kill me if I even finished that thought.' Takato kicked himself mentally. Even after all this time, he was still afraid of Rika. And for good reason too, she hits HARD and she could very intimidating when she wanted to be.

"I wonder what the others are doing right now anyway." Takato said, talking to himself out loud.

Rika's POV; Route to the Park:

I was currently running all out, heading towards the park. I was going to Gogglehead's bakery to buy some pastries for Grandma when my D-Arc went off. I saw Renamon for a second on a nearby roof before I started running and bringing me back to the present.

"Can't we have one day, just one day, that we don't have to run off and save something and have a normal day?" Rika asked to no one in particular. Renamon was suddenly right next to her, easily keeping up. "Because then you and the other would be normal and that wouldn't make any sense, would it." Renamon said with a straight face. I smiled a bit, no matter how annoying or odd the people she hung out with were, I wouldn't trade them for the world. Especially a certain clumsy gogglehead.

'No, I won't even finish that thought.' I scolded myself, losing my focus for a second. Then I noticed that I was already approaching the park and I went to look for the path. Once I found it, I continued to run only to nearly run over Jeri.

"Rika! Wow, you startled me. Where are you going?" the brunette girl asked. Thank God she got rid of that sock puppet a while, it really got on my nerves.

"There's a Digimon around here somewhere, have you seen a digital field around here?" I asked, responding to her question.

"No, sorry. Hey, have you gone to see Takato yet?" she asked, confusing me some.

"No. Why, what happened to Gogglehead?" I asked, but wanting to find that Digimon that was on my D-Arc. Then I looked at said device and saw the signal was gone. I sighed mentally and continued to listened to Jeri.

"Oh, well he got sick last week and nobody's seen him in three days. I thought that some one had gone and seen him by now." Jeri asked, slightly worried for her friend.

Rika blinked. 'In the time I've known Gogglehead, he's never once been sick. Oh well, it has to happen sometime.' she thought, continuing down the path with Jeri.

"Henwyyyyy! Can me and Wopmon go one the swings?" the voice of a little girl that was quickly raising in Rika's major annoyance list asked. The two girls turned around and saw their friend Henry and his 'partner' Terriermon with Suzie and Lopmon right behind them. Looking closer, I saw that Brainac was slightly annoyed and that Terriermon looked afraid of something.

'What was it called, it had something to do with princess'. Ugh, I shudder just thinking that word.' I thought before I heard Jeri yell right next to my ear.

"HEEENNNRRRRYYYYY! OVER HERE!" she yelled as I covered my ears with my hands. She waved him over and the four of them quickly came towards us.

"Hey there Jeri, Rika. What are you two doing here?" Henry asked as he got to them.

"I got a Digimon signal but it disappeared a little while ago. I don't know about Jeri." I replied.

"Oh! Um...I just needed some air, that's all." Jeri stuttered. Both me and Henry looked at her suspicously. But she was able to change the subject off of her to Henry.

"So Henry, what are and Suzie doing here?" Jeri asked the blue haired boy. Along with Terriermon's 'What about us?' statement at the question. Henry sweatdropped and shot a glance at his sister who whistled innocently.

"Well, I got the same signal earlier and was about to leave when Suzie came up to me and begged to let her come with me. And, well she worn me down." Henry answered, sighing a bit. Then he noticed something odd. "Hey, where's Takato?"

"Well, according to Jeri, he's been sick for the last three days." Rika told the blue haired Tamer. Realization dawned on Henry's face. "So that's why he at school on Friday. But I wonder he hasn't told anyone that's he's sick."

"Maybe he didn't want us to worry or he just wanted some time alone?" Jeri replied.

"One problem with that, that doesn't sound like something Gogglehead would do." I said back. But then a couple of voices interrupted before anyone could reply back to me. 'Why them? Is my luck really that bad today?' I asked myself. Why? It was the Idiot twins, Kazu and Kenta.

"Hey there Everyone! So what's this I hear that Chumly's sick?" Kazu said, in his loud, go-happy voice.

"Just that, Takato's been sick for three days and no-one's seen him." Henry said, rubbing his chin in thought. "You, none of us really hung out together for the last three day either. We were mostly by ourselves."

"Yeah, your right. That's weird since before that we were all together at least four times a week." Kenta said in his quiet voice. I raised an eyebrow at that. It was true, I hadn't seen any of them since about last Monday and that was becaused Gogglehead was somehow able to trick me into come to the park with him.

'You wanted it to be just you and him. Admit it.' the naggy little voice in my head said. I was about to retailate when our D-Arcs went off again and the fog from a Digital Field rolled in.

"Renamon!" I said, and my digimon materialized next to me and I got my my D-Arc, scanning the area.

"Heartbreak Attack!" a voice yelled from my right. I instinctivly moved backwards and avoid a mass of black hearts.

"Digi-Modify! Matrix Digivolution Activate!" Henry slashed a Blue Card, and I began to mirror his actions. Terriermon began to glow with data.

Digivolvution_
Terriermon digivolve to...GARGOMON!

Matrix Digivolvution_
Gargomon Digivolve to...RAPIDMON!

Rapidmon took to the sky and looked for the attacking Digimon. He didn't get very far.

"Cherry Blast!" a different voice yelled and Rapidmon was pelted by cherries like machine gun bullets. I finally got my Blue Card out.

"Digi-Modify! Matrix Digivolution Activate!" and with that Renamon also glowed with data as she got ready to save Rapidmon.

Digivolution_
Renamon Digivolve to...KYUBIMON!

Matrix Digivolution
Kyubimon Digivolve to...TAOMON!

"Talisman Spell!" Taomon said as she created a sheild around Rapidmon and us. Suddenly, a black bear Digimon and a cherry tree Digimon came into view. Henry and I both turned our D-Arcs to them.

"Cherrymon, ultimate level forest Digimon. His Cherry Blast and Illusion Mist attacks will give more then some hay-fever." Henry read the information.

"WaruMonzeamon, Ultimate level Puppet Digimon. His Bear Claw and Heartbreak attacks will leave down wtih the blues" I read on my D-Arc. Just then, Cherrymon rained down more cherries at our digimon. Unfortuntally, Taomon lost her concentration and dropped the sheild protecting us.

"Rapid Fire!" a couple of missles impacted against Cherrymon but it barely did any damage to him. Luckly, Taomon was having better luck with the gaint teddy bear, who couldn't seem to hit her, while she got him several times with her 'Thousand Spells' attack.

"Digi-Modify, Hyper Chip Activate!" again Brainiac slashed a card, this time increasing Rapidmon's firepower. The gaint cyborg rabitt smirked and launched more missiles at the tree. This time, not only was Cherrymon pushed back but injuried quite badly.

"Talisman Spell!" Taomon raised another sheild to block the black hearts thrown at her. But all of a sudden, Kazu, Jeri and Kenta began to cough. I looked around and saw a black mist all over them and already upon me and Henry.

We coughed uncontrolably and I had trouble staying awake when the ground around us exploded by WaruMonzeamon's attack and I blacked out.

Four Hours later; Takato's Room

"Takato! You have a vistor!" his mom yelled from the bakery downstairs. Takato was surprised, no one had visited him all weekend but he wasn't complaining, he got to concentrate on his drawing. He smiled a few seconds later when someone was knocking his door.

"Give me a sec, I'll be right there." Takato said as he got up to open the door. Once he opened the door, a series of sequences happened.

1) A very cherry, happy, female voice said "Hey there Takato!" once he opened the door.
2) Said person had a face splitting grin.
3) She had on a nice white dress with a ribbon around her waist and a hat.
4) The person was Rika Nonaka, AKA the Digimon(Ice) Queen.
5) Rika gave him a tiny peck on the cheek.

All of this was too much for our Gogglehead. He went red in the face due to his blush and promptly fainted.

"I think I broke him." Rika giggled as she started to get him to his bed.

End Chapter.

Reaper: Well, there's the first oneshot of this 'story' thing. I hope that you like this and some of you probably wonder what the Hell happened.

Takato: Yeah, like ME! What happened to all my friends?

Reaper: I'll explain that later, once I figure out a couple of little details. I'm trying to figure out the next one-shot; either a continuation of 'Rika's Story' by Ruki44, or something like Takato and Rika going to a different season. (maybe 01, I don't know.)

Takato: Why don't you ask the people who review to decide? They can sent them in.

Reaper: Great idea, well then people, you heard the Gogglehead. Tell me which one of those two you want to see first. Oh, and by the way, how was that movie Takato?

Takato: Didn't watch it, I was busy doing something else.

Reaper: Like what?

Takato: No comment.