Digimon Tamers: Rika's AU

All characters, plotlines, locations and any other extras are completely AU to the original Digimon Tamers.

AU means Alternate Universe. Basically this fan-fic is using a completely different storyline from the original Digimon Tamers; in this one, Rika is the main character and most characters in this series get their Digimon differently, it will also feature OCs and some of the characters' origins (and maybe personalities) will be slightly different to match this fan-fic.

If you don't like the idea of the new storyline and origins then don't read it.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Digimon… a series of games, cards and an anime, it was world popular… but none of us had any idea it was real until one day.

Tokyo city, the place where it begins; it was a particularly windy day which was no surprise during August; it was the end of the school hours; We find the headstrong tomboyish girl named Rika Nonaka waiting impatiently outside the school for a certain someone. It was about four minutes later when the school doors opened revealing the goggle wearing boy named Takato Matsuki walking out with a nervous look, he knew Rika wouldn't be pleased for taking so long, it was quickly proven by Rika's intimidating stare she shot at Takato. "Uhh... heh, heh… sorry it took so long." chuckled the nervous boy.

"Whatever, lets just hurry and get home, I'm freezing in this stupid wind!" said Rika with her uncaring tone as usual. The two began walking down the streets facing the strong wind; Rika looks at Takato and remembers the time they first met. It was three years ago during a Digimon card tournament, Rika had beaten Takato in the second round, after the tournament was finished and Rika won, Takato asked Rika to teach him how to play Digimon cards better; Rika knew she wasn't going to enjoy it but she accepted anyway for reasons unknown; and during those three years they eventually became friends.

Rika soon dove out of her thoughts as she saw a rain drop splash onto her nose, Rika and Takato look up and noticed that it was about to rain; soon the two kids began to run home. As the rain picked up quicker than before, they they reached Takato's neighbourhood where he runs off round the corner to reach his home quickly waving Rika goodbye, Rika quickly does the same as she bolts off to her neighbourhood before the rain got even harder.

Rika finally made it home, she quickly shakes the rain off her hair goes into her room to change out of her damp school uniform. Not long later she was in her casual clothing which consisted of a white t-shirt with blue sleeves and a broken heart image on the front, blue trousers with two brown bands over the left leg and white and red shoes. She looked at her desk and noticed that her box of spare Digimon cards were all over the floor, she remembered that her slide-away door which links to the back garden was open all day, so she assumed the wind blew them off the desk; she had closed the door before getting changed.

Rika sighed as she kneeled down and began to pick up her spare cards and placed them back in the box; she noticed one Digimon card that wasn't hers; it was a Guilmon card. Most likely Takato's card he left behind during his last visit; Rika soon picked up a card scanner from her desk and swiped the Guilmon card through the swipe slot, it came up with a few complicated numbers and letters which soon brought up the stats of Guilmon, they weren't too different from Agumon's. Rika just smirked; she knew that Guilmon was Takato's favourite Digimon so she decided to give it back to Takato tomorrow after school; Rika places the Guilmon card on her desk next to the box and she picked up the rest of the cards.

She noticed one card was different; it was a blue card with a yellow 'D' on it; other than that, completely blank. She knew Takato didn't have one of these and she never found one in any pack she bought before. "What's this? … maybe the card scanner will know." she thought.

Rika picks up the card scanner again and swipes the blue card through it. Suddenly there was an electrical burst that came from the scanner's slot; Rika dropped the scanner and the card halfway through swiping it due to the electric shock. Rika shuffled a few feet back, she just stared at the malfunctioning scanner as it shown numbers and letters scattering everywhere on the screen. "W-What's going on!?"

Suddenly the scanner stopped, the screen was blank and the blue card was severely burnt. Rika picks up the scanner and notices that the screen cracked, she tries to get the card out of the slot but it was stuck. Rika sighs with annoyance as she just drops the broken scanner on the floor and picks up the last few cards and placed them back into the box. "Well whatever that blue card was, it's ruined now. Guess I better save up for another card scanner as well."

"Rika! Dinner!" shouted Rika's mother, so she stands up and walks towards the dining room for dinner. Before she left her room however, she looked back at the broken scanner for a few seconds, still feeling surprised what happened. Then Rika left her room, unaware of that five more sparks shot from the scanner and the screen started glowing for a few seconds.

The next day was rather sunny and calm, a much better day than before. Rika was once again waiting for Takato to come out of the school; he came out earlier than last time. As the two walked home, Rika took out the Guilmon card from her pocket and handed it to Takato. "You left this at my house last time you visited."

"Oh thanks!" said Takato feeling pleased "I was wondering where it was."

The two continued their walk home; there was quite a silence between them. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary, Rika was normally a silent type and Takato knows it very well. Rika began to think about the blue card, she felt as if she needed to ask Takato, though she suspected he wouldn't know. "Um, did you by any chance lose a blank blue card as well?"

"Umm… no, why?" asked Takato with a raised eyebrow.

"I found one with my cards earlier" said Rika "I thought you might have lost one."

"Is it with you now?" asked Takato.

"No, I tried to scan it to see what it was but the card scanner broke halfway through." Rika had a slightly annoyed look to her "Which kinda sucks since those Card Scanners are expensive." Takato looked shocked at Rika, this made her somewhat suspicious. "What's with the face, do you really know what the blue card is?"

"Uhh… no, not that. I was just a little concerned if you got hurt from the electric shock." said Takato feeling nervous.

"O-Oh… no I-" Rika stopped herself and looked back at Takato quite surprised. "Wait! How did you know the card scanner gave out an electric shock?"

Takato became startled from Rika's question; he looked as if that question got him off guard. He even began to stutter as if he was trying to come up with an answer. Rika leaned her head closer feeling suspicious "Well… it is an electronic device so I assumed there was electricity when it broke." Takato then laughed nervously; Rika knew he was lying but she just ignored it, she knew she wasn't going to get the answer straight away. Soon Rika and Takato made it to Takato's neighbourhood where Takato walks off waving bye to Rika; Rika does the same and she walks off to her neighbourhood.

Later at night, Rika was sleeping peacefully. But soon she began to dream.

Rika was in a large plain area with so much fog it was hard to see where she was altogether. Rika looked ahead and saw three figures; only one of them was human shaped, the second figure seemed dinosaur shaped but slightly smaller than the human figure, the last was taller than the human figure and was bulky and spiky. "What's… going on?" she muttered

Rika walked closer to get a better view, but after about twenty steps, she bumped into something, it felt like glass. She looked around and noticed that there was glass all around the three figures as if it was trying to keep Rika away from them, but at least she could see the three figures better. To her shock, the human shaped figure was Takato; next to him was the dinosaur shaped figure, Guilmon. "Takato!? And that's a Guilmon!"

She looked at the third figure; it was green with a large mouth and white hair. It was an Ogremon; Takato smirks at the Ogremon as he pulls out a small device. "Ready boy?" asked Takato.

"Sure am!" said Guilmon sounding cheery

Suddenly Guilmon and Ogremon began to fight hand to hand. Soon Ogremon punched Guilmon away and jumped up readying to attack Guilmon with its bone club; suddenly the device in Takato's hand began to glow and so did Guilmon.

"Is it… Digivolving?" Rika muttered again.

Suddenly Guilmon appeared much bigger with long white hair and a large spike on the side of each claw. It had Digivolved into Growlmon and it quickly blasts Ogremon with a fire ball, it lands onto the ground injured; Takato walked up to Ogremon who quickly flinched. "Time to send you home." Ogremon looked surprised at his words as Takato pointed his device towards Ogremon, Ogremon actually looked grateful. Suddenly Ogremon was covered in a light that looked like binary and Ogremon disappeared.

"What was that just now?" asked Rika.

Suddenly she woke up. She sat up thinking about that dream; from what it seemed, Takato was weakening that Digimon in order to send it home, and from what Ogremon looked; Rika felt like that Ogremon was actually scared and confused and Takato was only helping it. Rika then yawns, still feeling tired so she laid back down to go back to sleep.

But before she could, she noticed a bright light on the floor. Rika got out of her bed and looked at it, it was the card scanner completely fixed and the blue card was gone; she picked up the scanner without thinking, suddenly it stopped glowing and the scanner revealed text.

"Please select your Digimon of choice. And place it in the slot"

Rika was very confused at this; she looked at the swipe slot knowing it meant her to swipe a Digimon card through it. She looked into her Digimon card box and rummaged through it; she took out a double of her favourite Digimon. Renamon, slowly she swipes the Renamon card through the scanner and it began to reveal letters and numbers like before; but this time the scanner began to glow. "What's going on!?"

Suddenly the scanner glowed white and it began to change shape. Now it appeared as the same device Takato was holding in her dream, she finally knew what it was. "A Digivice!? Something tells me that dream wasn't an ordinary dream."

On an author's note, the Digivice is shaped differently than the one from Digimon Tamers. So it doesn't require modify cards, what does the Digivice look like? You decide.

Rika felt determined to find out the truth but she soon yawns again, she forgotten she's still tired so she left the Digivice on the desk and was about to go back to bed until she heard a knock at her slide-away door. Rika felt irritated as she wanted to go back to sleep but she answered it anyway.

No one was there, Rika looked from left to right and then down; then she just closes the door, suddenly she opened it again realising what she saw, it was a large yellow and purple egg left at her doorstep. Rika slowly picked it up realising what it is. "Is this… a Digi-Egg!?" she muttered to herself feeling shocked and amazed at the same time.

Rika soon calmed down and brought the Digi-Egg in and closed the door. She left the egg next to her bed as she lied back down into it; she was going to deal with the egg later as she fell back asleep. The longer she slept, the more she began to disbelieve the whole thing involving the Digivice and Digi-Egg, thinking it was most likely just a dream.

Morning had broken; it was Saturday so Rika could have a lie in, but it didn't last long as she slowly opened her eyes seeing the yellow and purple Digi-Egg still there, still having a bit of trouble believing it since she was half-asleep. Soon she then closed her eyes, but then she quickly opened them in shock and noticed something different about the Digi-Egg.

It was split in half, it hatched over night. Rika quickly kneeled up and began to look around for the hatched Digimon, she knew one thing, if her mother saw this, she would probably freak out or try to kill it thinking it was a rodent or something. Rika stood up and began to look around, she noticed that the Digivice's screen was glowing, Rika picked it up and noticed that it had a red arrow pointing forward; it was acting like a radar. Rika calmly followed it into the kitchen, she noticed her mother putting stuff in her purse, and she hasn't noticed Rika yet so she slowly passes her and continued to follow the arrow.

Rika made her way into the living room and noticed something staring at the computer screen; it was a yellow ball like creature with a tiny fox tail. It was the Digimon that hatched, Rika slowly picks it up, the Digimon looked at her with a sweet smile; Rika couldn't help but smirk at how cute it is, suddenly the Digivice pulled out a holographic screen showing the Digimon and its name 'Relemon'.

"Relemon? That's Renamon's baby level… well I gotta start somewhere I guess." she muttered.

Rika was incredibly surprised; she has in her hands a real life Digimon, which she thought was just a franchise, but her dream and the Digimon in her hands proved it was real as life itself, Rika even pinched herself to see if she was still dreaming, she wasn't though. Rika noticed she was still in her pyjamas, so she slowly walks past her mother again with Relemon in her hands and made her way back into her bedroom where she changed into her casual clothing.

"Rika?" her mother called "I have to go out somewhere; do you think you can cook your own breakfast today?"

"Sure thing." called Rika. She heard the door shut implying Rika's mother left already. Rika picks up Relemon and noticed that its stomach growled, Rika felt a little awkward, she has no idea what Digimon eat. Rika looked around the kitchen and looked for anything that a baby could eat, but there wasn't anything; she felt a little worried, she never knew she would have to mother the Digimon when she got it. "Guess I better go to the store and find something." she said feeling a bit awkward.

Later Rika arrived at the store holding Relemon in one hand; luckily it didn't move so people assumed it was a doll. She was looking at the baby products, she still looked confused. "What do baby Digimon eat?" she thought to herself.

As she continued to look around worried, she heard something. "Hey kid" Rika looked left to right noticing no one was around; she looked behind her and noticed a fifteen-year old boy. He had short blonde hair, he wore thin blue framed glasses, he also wore a black t-shirt with a white collar and line going down to a white rim at the bottom of his shirt, blue denim trousers and black trainers; the boy quickly threw something small at her which she catches with her free hand, what she caught was a bag of bite size marshmallows. She then looks at the boy. "That's what's best to feed a newborn Digimon." said the boy with a bit of a British accent.

Rika looked surprised at how the boy knew about real Digimon, and how he knew what she was looking for. Rika looks at the bag again for a second and then back to the boy. "H-How did you-" She noticed that the boy was gone, completely out of sight. She looked around seeing if she could find the boy, but no sign of him, she then looked at the bag of marshmallows again and then to her hungry Relemon; later she was at the counter paying for the marshmallows and she walks back home.

"First I dream about Takato fighting a Digimon with a Digimon, then I get a Digivice and I become a mother to a Digimon. This day couldn't get any weirder." she thought to herself while rubbing the side of her head, still having trouble processing all this.

Back at home, she was eating cereal while feeding Relemon marshmallows; since they were soft, it was easy for the baby Digimon to eat them. Thoughts were running through her head while she was feeding Relemon; who was that boy? Why did she get a Digivice and a baby Digimon? Does Takato have a Digimon too? These questions clouded her mind for quite a while.

Just after Rika and Relemon finished their breakfast, the phone began to ring. She looks towards the living room and then back to Relemon. "Stay here ok?" she said calmly, Rika left the kitchen leaving Relemon alone, she entered the living room and answered the phone.

"Hello?" There was no answer; instead there was a large static noise. She looks at the phone and noticed that all the lights on it were flickering rapidly; she looks around and noticed a few electronic appliances' lights were flickering also, Rika just shrugs her shoulders. "… Must be a short circuitry." Rika hung up and made her way back into the kitchen. "This day sure has been getting weirder and weirder- AAGH!"

Rika was shocked to see what had happened to Relemon. She was slightly bigger, had four stubby legs, a longer fox tail, her eyes were open revealing big blue eyes and had pointy ears. "Wh-what happened!?" Rika noticed the Digivice she had left on the kitchen table, so she picks it up and points it at her Digimon, a holographic screen showed up revealing the new Digimon and the name in which she muttered "Viximon… In-Training… she… she Digivolved!"

Rika looked at her new Digimon awkwardly; it was going to be much harder to hide her now that she has gotten slightly bigger, but she now understood why the marshmallows were best for Viximon. Somehow it sped up her Digivolution.

"R… Rika!"

Rika was surprised, Viximon spoke. She felt shocked and somewhat proud, it was probably the same feeling a mother gets when her baby says her first word, especially when it's her name. "Y-You said my name?"

Viximon ran across the table and jumped into Rika's arms. Rika couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed at how affectionate her Digimon was, but in a way, she also felt happy for it; Rika began to realise how much she has opened her heart to Viximon in such a short amount of time, she's never opened her heart to anyone, she just barely does it for Takato but that's just because he was the only person she ever properly interacted with unlike the other kids at school; she began to wonder if this'll affect her with others around her.

Much later on throughout the day, she has managed to keep Viximon a secret from her mother, she was even surprised how much Viximon has learned to talk, she even once had a full conversation with her Digimon and even taught her to pretend to be a toy so no one would suspect she was a real Digimon.

Much later at night, Rika was sleeping peacefully with Viximon snug in her left arm holding her like a teddy bear; she didn't feel embarrassed by this since she was doing it subconsciously, she held Viximon closer, but something wasn't right which caused her to wake up.

Viximon wasn't there, she woke up fully and looked around, she noticed that her slide away door was wide open and Viximon was staring at the stars. "Viximon, what are you doing?"

"I… sense something." said Viximon.

"Huh?" Suddenly a fog appeared far away from her house and in the town streets, but this fog was in a circular motion and in one small area, this fog was definitely not normal. Rika stood up to get a closer look; but then Viximon ran out of the house and was running towards the fog. "Viximon! Wait!"

Rika changed into her casual clothing as fast as she could, just as she was about to chase after Viximon, something came to her; she looked at her desk and noticed the Digivice, something in her gut told her that she needed it so she quickly picks it up and chases after her runaway Viximon. Since Rika took a little time getting changed, Viximon was quite far ahead but Rika was slowly catching up.

To her surprise, as she ran past, she noticed Takato was walking in the streets too carrying a large box. Rika just quickly ignored this as she continued to chase after Viximon "R-Rika!?" asked Takato looking shocked "What are you-"

"Not now Takato!" shouted Rika leaving the confused boy in her dust. Rika ran around a corner after Viximon who had just entered the fog so she ran into it too without hesitation. To her surprise the area was plain and there was so much fog it was hard to see where she was altogether, this felt too much like her dream; she noticed that Viximon had stopped, she was glaring ahead; even growling like something was there. Rika just picks up Viximon unaware of what was going to happen. "Don't run away from me like that! What if someone sees you?"

"D-Digimon!" growled Viximon

The confused Rika looked ahead and noticed something was coming. It was a black furred dinosaur shaped creature with metallic armour, big black wings and the end of its tail was ripped revealing a bunch of wires sparking off, its piercing red eyes intimidated Rika, she was so scared she couldn't move. Suddenly the creature shot out an iron ball from its mouth towards Rika; she quickly came to her senses and jumps to the right dodging the iron ball which shashed into a brick wall turning it into rubble immediatly. Rika pulls out her Digivice and points it at the creature revealing its name as 'DexDorugamon'.

"DexDorugamon! A champion level! Oh man, we're in trouble!"

Rika slowly stepped back readying to run as fast as she could. Just as DexDorugamon took one step, Rika quickly shot around and began to run, suddenly DexDorugamon quickly jumped up and landed in front of Rika stopping her from escaping so she quickly ran the other direction.

DexDorugamon began shooting more iron balls from its mouth, Rika ran to the left dodging the first one and she began to run in a blind direction just dodging the iron balls. "I can't believe this is happening!" said Rika in shock "First I get a real life Digimon and now I'm being attacked by another-" Suddenly one hit her legs, sweeping her legs off the ground causing her to fling to the side and land on the ground hard dropping Viximon a few feet away; Rika's leg was incredibly bruised and stunned so she couldn't move, she looks ahead and to her horror; DexDorugamon picked up the scared Viximon and was reading to eat her, Rika couldn't move or do anything for that matter.

"NO VIXIMON!" Rika cried. Suddenly there was a bright light coming from her Digivice attached to her belt. She looks towards Viximon and DexDorugamon; Viximon glowed so bright it pushed back DexDorugamon a few feet. Rika looked in amazement as to what was happening. Suddenly Viximon was encased in a large blue light shaped like a digital egg.

"Viximon Digivolve to…"

Suddenly the blue egg exploded giving off a huge shock wave of blue light looking like pixels; Viximon was now a human shaped fox wearing purple gloves and had purple spirals around the front of her thighs

"Renamon!"

Rika was astonished at this; Viximon had Digivolved into Renamon, her Digimon of choice. DexDorugamon looked surprised at first but then it grew fierce and changed towards Renamon, but Renamon's fists and feet quickly glowed a blue flame.

"Power Paw!" Suddenly Renamon began to rapidly punch and kick DexDorugamon dealing some massive damage, her fist and feet were like a blur making small gusts of wind around the Digimon. After one more kick, DexDorugamon was flown far and hit the ground hard, but DexDorugamon quickly got up and fired another iron ball from its mouth, Renamon quickly spaced out her arms and a bunch of crystals appeared around her.

"Could it be?" Thought Rika "Renamon's special attack?"

"Diamond Storm!" Renamon shot thousands of crystal shards at the iron ball destroying it and impaling DexDorugamon rapidly. DexDorugamon collapsed onto the ground injured.

DexDorugamon began to glow a faint white light before it changed into a small furry dinosaur like creature with a long fox like tail and pointy ears, Rika slowly takes out her Digivice and points it at the smaller Digimon.

"Dorumon?" mumbled Rika "It DeDigivolved back into a rookie level." Dorumon got up slowly and looked around, then it ran up to Renamon and began rubbing itself along her leg showing its affection. Rika was incredibly confused.

"The poor guy Dark Digivolved"

Rika looks to her right and notices the same blonde boy from before; he takes out a Digivice and points it at Dorumon. The Digimon was then covered in a light that looked like a combination of binary and pixels, Dorumon then disappeared, the boy disappeared in the same type of binary light. Just after that, Renamon began to glow and it changed back into Viximon who quickly ran up to Rika.

"Viximon! … I'm so glad you're safe." said Rika almost feeling like she was about to cry in relief "You're not hurt are you?"

"Nope, I'm just fine!" said Viximon wagging her tail

Rika imemdiatly hugged Viximon with her left arm feeling glad she wasn't hurt. "Rika!?" called a familiar voice. Rika looked ahead and noticed that Takato had entered the fog which soon disappeared. Viximon stood still next to Rika acting like a doll. Takato looked concerned and confused seeing Rika on the ground like that. "Rika! Are you alright!?" he asked sounding panicked

"I… I don't know, I can't seem to move my leg." grunted Rika trying to move it

"H-How come?" asked Takato.

Rika knew she had to keep this Digimon battle a secret, she wasn't sure she could trust Takato yet. "I… tripped and landed on my leg hard" she muttered, she felt like she said a stupid reason, but Takato bends his knees down and grabs Rika's hand helping her stand up, but Rika's leg was still stunned so she couldn't move it, in fact without leaning on Takato, she would collapse on the ground again. She kept her right arm around Takato to keep standing and her left arm around Viximon to keep her safe.

"Well I'm glad you're safe. Let's get you home." said Takato.

"Thanks." said Rika.

Takato began to help Rika home dragging her stunned leg. So far Takato doesn't seem aware that Viximon is a real Digimon or her Digimon battle occoured; she felt she'll have to keep it a secret, but on the other hand, she's been hinted that Takato could have a Digimon too because of her dream, how he mentioned a blue card and an electric shock from the card scanner. Tomorrow she is going to find the truth, one way or another; but for now, she just wanted to go back to bed.

The end for now.

Just to clarify, while I had a ton chapters done before, I'm not going to submit them as I finish remaking them, what I'm going to do is remake all of them and submit two chapters per week to keep it at a nice easy pace. It will be updated on every Monday and Friday.

In addition, the original Rika's AU will be removed, so I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for your favourite chapter to turn up.