(Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Digimon, only OC characters that I put in my stories.)

A/N: I spied an open challenge given by a fellow FanFiction author, Ultimate Lyoko Warrior, and decided to take it up, the challenge? Well once Takato receives Guilmon he is somehow pulled away to adventure with the Adventure 01 DigiDestined on their journey throughout their Digital World. He'll have to team up with them against the likes of Devimon, Etemon, Myotismon and the Dark Masters, how will it turn out? Will he ever make it home?

So, there are a few things that need clearing up before we get on with the story, firstly, this first chapter will follow the first episode in the Tamers storyline, but only slightly. I've made dramatic changes to fit how I would like it to proceed. Secondly, Takato and Rika are no mere strangers to each other, our favourite gogglehead has battled against Rika in card tournaments before, getting thrashed and abused, verbally of course, every time.

He finds Rika around every now and again, due to her wandering through the park and having to go to the bakery for her grandmother, and attempts to give her a rematch and learn a few tips as well, resulting in them being friends to Takato, more like an annoying mosquito that won't leave you alone to Rika.

Also, for all purposes, the TV show was not a thing in this story. Makes it a little easier on me to write it without wanting to have Takato reveal their whole lives to them, you wouldn't believe how tempting it is!

Now that that's settled, let the story begin!

Digimon: Takato's Adventure 01

Chapter 1: A Different Adventure.

Shinjuku Park

"Booh-yeah!" A brown haired boy wearing a black visor called, pumping a fist in the air in triumph. "Beat you again, Chumley. Looks like those pointers you've been getting haven't helped at all." The boy, Kazu Shioda, gloated as he usually did after beating 'Chumley" otherwise known as Takato Matsuki. Takato let his messy brown hair fall through his fingers and he rested his head in his hands. He had been getting helpful tips from the Digimon Queen, Rika Nonaka, from time to time and thought he had been doing rather well.

"I must not be doing them properly, that's all." he mumbled. Kazu just chuckled a little more while he gathered up his Digimon cards and put them inside of a shoebox and pushed it alongside two other ones.

"C'mon you two!" A worried voice called out from below the small child's playground setting the two boys were sitting in. This voice belonged to a green haired boy named Kenta Kitagawa. "If you don't hurry up, we're going to be late for school and Mrs Asaji will put us on detention again!" He turned and made his way off at a brisk walk, his pale grey over-shirt fluttering slightly in the breeze.

"See you at school, Chumley!" Kazu called out to Takato as he dropped down and grabbed his bag before heading out after Kenta, his trainers hitting the ground rhythmically as he ran. Takato sighed and lifted his head up in extreme procrastination. He slowly gathered his cards one by one and grabbed one of the shoe boxes. He dumped them inside it as he moved from sitting to a kneeling position, being as clumsy as he was, Takato dropped the box and his cards scattered everywhere.

"You've got to be kidding," he sighed, "now I'm definitely going to be late. Mrs Asaji is going to kill me for this again." He continued to mutter to himself until he picked up a few cards and spied a strange one underneath. One he had never seen in his deck before. It was completely blue with a grey strip where it was swiped through the card reader, in the middle was the symbol for the card game. Takato's curiosity got the better of him and he wiped it against his blue hoodie to clean the dust from it.

After looking around for a few seconds, he found his card reader and lifted it up in front of his eyes and swiped the card through. Numbers began to appear on the screen rapidly increasing and becoming confused, Takato dropped it on the ground. The screen flashed as his card reader turned white and changed shape. The bright light forced Takato to clench his eyes shut, yet he could still see it shine. Once it died down the astounded boy opened his eyes and was staring at a strange device. It was white and had a red ring that surrounded a square screen, a red strap with a clip draping itself over his fingers. It had three buttons, what looked like two directional buttons either side of a round one below the screen, he also barely noticed a slot for swiping through cards on the right hand side.

Takato was still staring up until the point where what it was clicked in his mind. "Oh!... I-It's a Digivice! That means… I'm a Tamer?!" He gasped, not believing what he was seeing even though he knew from being an avid fan of the whole Digimon franchise that this was what was referred to as a D-Power or D-Arc. Takato was about to scream out his excitement to Kazu and Kenta when he remembered they had left some minutes ago.

'Where did they go off to again? Ugh! I'm late for school!' Having remembered about being late he threw all of his cards into the shoebox as quickly as he could without damaging them, placing his new Digivice inside too. He'd decided he'd drop by and pick it up after school. He clumsily dropped down from the structure and ran as fast as he could towards school.

Shinjuku Elementary

Exhausted and out of breath, Takato was doubled outside of his classroom door trying to regain his composure. Once achieved he straightened himself out and knocked on the door. He waited a few seconds before hearing a muffled, "Wait outside, Takato." Sighed in irritation, he lazily slumped down against the wall and pulled out his small sketching pad and a sharpened pencil and begun to draw, his tongue protruding from between his teeth slightly.

"I'll make up my own Digimon," he said to himself, "he'll be even stronger than Agumon!"

"Who's Agumon?" A female voice asked, speaking down to him. At first, Takato showed no signs of knowing who the voice belonged to. Especially when he replied with, "He's a Digimon, duh." After making the comment however, his face was a mask of complete horror as he realised the way he had just spoken to his teacher. He was about to blurt out his usual string of incoherent apologies when she made a signal for him to hush. "Look, Takato, just get inside, sit down and be present for detention this afternoon." Nami sighed, Nami being the teacher's first name.

The day dragged on for Takato and as his attention to his class work faded, his drawing of his Digimon became better and better. He drew up stats, dimensions and even gave names for his special moves. After it was all done and written up, he had taken up at least ten pages of his flip open sketchbook, now he just had to think of a name. Sadly, nothing came to him at the time and it wasn't until detention came around that he had pulled open his sketchbook once more. He looked at his drawing and decided it needed some more detail, after giving it some black stripes and symbols and colouring the body red, Takato was satisfied and a name popped into his head. "Guilmon…"

Shinjuku Park

His detention had finished and his bag now weighed heavily against his shoulders. It had been a long school day for Takato and he couldn't wait to get home, he was halfway there when he had remembered that he needed to go and pick up his Digivice. He had sighed at the prospect of walking even more when he just wanted to get home and lay down. Either way he had trudged onwards, at some point after he entered the park, he had pulled out his drawings of Guilmon to admire them, which he was doing right now.

Little did he know that he was on a straight course, destined to crash with one Rika that really wasn't in the frame of mind to chat after having a mundane day at school. Unfortunately Rika was wearing her headphones and was walking down the straight path with her eyes closed. The two collided with each other and their foreheads hit, giving Rika a headache on top of the pain from falling down and having someone landing on her. 'Wait, someone landing on me?' She opened her eyes and saw a mass of brown hair covering her vision and knew exactly who would be stupid enough to have knocked her over and not get up instantly. "Get off me, Takato!" She roared, pushing the boy to the side.

"Agh… I didn't mean to Rika, I wasn't paying attention." He apologised. He stood up and dusted down his grey pants before offering out his hand to help Rika get up, but she was too busy fixing up her skirt, the only reason for her wearing one is because she hadn't been home from school yet, and even after she had finished she stood up of her own accord, leaving Takato standing awkwardly with his hand in the air.

"Rika, are you alright? I could sense your distress." A smooth voice said from the shadows. It startled Takato for a few seconds and he looked around in vain for the source of the voice, even a slight glimpse of recognition would be enough to satisfy his curiosity.

"I'm fine. Although now I suppose you aren't a secret, you might as well step out from the shadows so goggles for brains over here can stop looking like a lost puppy." Rika wasn't going to add in that last part where she insulted him, but did anyways. He deserved it for not watching where he was going in her eyes, although she knew she was partly at fault too.

Needless to say Takato's jaw plummeted when a tall bipedal, yellow and white furred kitsune stepped out from the shadows. She moved with extreme grace and her arms were encased in purple gloves that ran up her forearm and had the yin-yang symbol imprinted on the tops of her hands. Even her tail seemed to swing with some sense of eloquence and grace. "You have a D-Digimon…?" He asked, not trying to hide his breathlessness.

"Yes, and if you don't mind I'd prefer not to explain how or elaborate any further. See you around." Rika's sudden departure shocked Takato when, without realising why at first, he called back out to her.

"Rika!"

"Oh god," she sighed, "what do you want?" she asked after turning around and making her way back to him a few paces, Renamon disappearing into the shadows and completely from sight.

"Well, uh… If you're a Tamer, then does that mean you have a Digivice too?" He asked, if anyone inquired to him on why he had asked her that he wouldn't have been able to reply why. He had no idea himself, he just needed to have a seemingly appropriate question to bother her with after calling her back.

"Of course I do," she replied matter of factly, "all Tamers have a Digivice." She reached into the pocket of her blazer and pulled out a Digivice that looked exactly like Takato's but with a blue ring and strap, instead of red. "It's just like mine…" She managed to hear Takato's silent mutter and didn't think she heard what he had said exactly right. "I'm sorry, what did you just say?"

Takato's head snapped up to look her in her glaring violet eyes, if she didn't look like she was going to pound him into the dirt then maybe he would've told her they looked nice…and that's still a big maybe.

"I'm going to give you to the count of three to stop staring and start talking." Rika threatened, raising a clenched fist up. "One…"

"I-I only said it looks like mine!" Takato exclaimed, taking an instinctive step back. Rika blinked a few times and lowered her fist, easing up her tense muscles and relaxing a little. Her confused expression was new to Takato, he had never seen her confused before and so he decided to elaborate further.

"This morning after Kazu beat me in the card battle," he started but was interrupted.

"He beat you again?" Rika asked, "Do you even listen when I'm trying to teach you?" She threw her hands up in frustration before gesturing with one hand to tell him to continue with his story.

"Well, I was putting my cards away when I dropped the box," he started, "I was picking them all up when I saw this strange blue card that I've never seen before. And my curiosity got the better of me so I swiped it through and it changed into a Digivice."

For a moment Rika just stood there with her hand on her chin while she was thinking over whether she believed him or not. 'Nah, he wouldn't lie to me. I'd beat him up if he did and besides, he's not a dishonest kind of guy.'

"I-I can take you to s-see it…" Takato stuttered, getting increasingly nervous at being succumbed to Rika's icy stare. At first the words didn't register in her mind but she soon shook her head and nodded her head in agreement to whatever it was he had said.

"Cool!" Takato exclaimed, all nervousness unleashed from his system to be replaced with excitement. "It's this way, c'mon." He grabbed her arm and jerked her along, she stumbled a few paces at the sudden unexpectedness of it all but soon matched his stride, Takato quickly letting go as soon as she had recovered, ignoring her chilling stare.

It had only taken a few minutes for Takato and Rika to reach the small playground where he, Kazu and Kenta play a game of cards each morning, subsequently making them late to school quite a bit. But Takato didn't really mind, to him, Digimon was totally worth it in the end.

He heaved himself up into the crawl space where they sat and offered his hand up to Rika, she just snorted indignantly and pulled herself up. 'I was only trying to be nice,´ Takato sighed inwardly. He grabbed his shoebox and pushed it expectantly towards Rika. She took the box and glanced at Takato from the corner of her eyes, he was shuffling around on his buttocks, either trying to get comfortable or wanting the anticipation to be done with.

"So," she began, dragging the word out longer than needed be, "I'm going to open this, and there's going to be a Digivice like min, just red. No tricks? No confetti and snakes and stuff?" She asked, she knew Takato wouldn't dare play a prank on her like that for fear of her wrath and she could tell from the look in his eyes and the way he was nodding his head that he was being honest. She pulled the lid off and sure enough, sitting amongst all of the cards he owned was a Digivice, like hers, except red.

"I told you so." Takato said rather smugly, proud of the fact he had his own real live Digivice.

"But," Rika began slowly, looking around the playground as if searching for something, "aren't you supposed to have a Digimon, what's the deal with that?" From her tone of voice and the genuine look in her eyes, Takato could tell she wasn't trying to belittle him or make him feel miserable.

"W-Well…as I said, all I did was swipe the card, there was no Digimon around or anything." Takato sighed, looking at the drawing of Guilmon he had once again pulled out of his pocket. "Hahah, the closest thing I have to a Digimon is this drawing." Takato handed over his little sketchbook and Rika looked over the drawing carefully.

'He's gone into such great detail with all the stats. He could probably hold his own against Renamon if Takato could use a Modify Card properly for once in his life…´ Rika was snapped out of her inner monologue when Takato sighed, she handed the book back to him and he held it in one hand and his Digivice in the other.

He didn't know at the time what compelled him to, nor did he know if it would work, but as if acting on some sixth sense he tried to scan the booklet through the Digivices card slot to its right hand side. Halfway through the slash he was gaining in confidence that it might work, even Rika had moved closer to see the result when it jammed, letting both of them down, Takato more so than Rika. He dropped the device to the ground in defeat, Rika didn't know what to say, she wasn't really good at comforting anyone and wouldn't have known what to say even if she tried. It just wasn't her field of expertise.

Takato looked to her as if he were about to say something, he had even drawn a breath when his Digivices' screen lit up and the card slot cackled with energy. "What's happening?" Takato gasped; his Digivice was ripping the pages from his sketchbook out one at a time and was scanning them all through, well, the ones with Guilmon's information on them at least. The torn paper was now lying in a neat pile near the Digivice, its screen having stopped shining and making weird beeping noises.

Takato nervously scratched the back of his head before he gathered up his paper and stuffed it into his pocket. "Takato, look at this." Rika said, her voice wasn't as calm and icy as usual, it actually had small but noticeable tone of surprise in it, which got Takato's attention.

"What is…woah," Takato looked down at his Digivice and there, in the middle of the screen was a white Digiegg with red stripes, rhythmically bouncing up and down to an imaginary beat, "my very own Digimon."

"Pfft," Rika snorted, "don't get so worked up over it, you'll never beat Renamon. She has experience. That egg doesn't." She explained, having the sudden feeling that she should explain that to him, even though she didn't know why she did herself.

"It's not just any old Digiegg." Takato said, his eyes gleaming with wonder and amazement. "It's my Digiegg, I created Guilmon with my own two hands."

Rika could hear the pride in his voice, she knew he wouldn't go around parading it and thinking that his Digimon was better than anyone else's', that simply wasn't Takato's style, and there was really no point to it anyway. 'Then why do I?' She shook the nagging thought from her head when Takato jumped down from the crawlspace. He looked expectantly at her once again and he needn't ask the question aloud for his eyes already asked it, are you coming down?

"I'm not going down until you look away, I'm in a skirt, remember?" Rika said, albeit a little awkwardly, but nowhere near as awkward as how Takato felt. His face grew hot and he abruptly turned away and walked a few paces forward, stumbling a little as he did so. He didn't dare turn around until he had heard the thump of her landing, and then he still counted to three, just to be sure.

"Alright, well, I guess we should get home. I'll stop by the bakery tomorrow morning seeing as though it's Saturday." Rika stated, but before she could turn around, Takato asked a question to keep the conversation going a little longer, besides, he was a little curious as to why she'd offer to go over to his house, or rather, the bakery.

"Why would you want to come over?" He voiced his inner thoughts, Rika gave him a sly smile before replying.

"Don't go getting any ideas, lover boy," she chuckled, "if you're going to be a Tamer you need to know how to use Modify Cards properly, and don't say that you do because even with the training I've given you so far, you still manage to lose to Kazu. So I expect you up bright and early." She looked into his eyes and saw no signs of him going to say anything more and made an exasperated gesture with her hands.

"I-uh. See you tomorrow then, I guess." He stammered, not expecting her to waste time on her weekends to help him, she usually only did so when he pestered her, but she never offered to on her own before. 'Maybe she wants to train me so she doesn't have to handle everything on her own.'

"See you later then, and remember, don't sleep in!" She called without turning back.

"Awh… That's what I was looking forward to as well…" Takato sighed before he started to make his own way home, the sun was quickly beginning to set and he decided that he better run, no sense in being yelled at by Mrs Asaji and his mother, Mie, for being late. "I really need to… get out of that habit…" He huffed as he ran.

Matsuki Bakery

Rika plodded down the street at a fairly slow pace, she had no intention of rushing to the bakery that Takato's parents ran, knowing full well that Takato wouldn't be up yet. 'I swear that kid has rock for brains…' She muttered to herself.

"Why do you insult Takato so much," Renamon's voice echoed through Rika's mind, "he seemed like a nice child"

"That

is the reason," Rika rebutted, "he's too nice. When it comes to it, he's not going to be able to delete another Digimon and so his will be next to useless in a fight. He needs to know how to toughen up." Rika blocked Renamon from her mind at that moment when she opened the door to the bakery and was hit by two things.

The first was the soft chime of the bell that signalled a customer had walked in and the scent of freshly baked, delicious bread. The second was a blur of blue, brown and yellow as Takato rushed right past her and out the door.

"Where do you think you're going?" She called out to him, stopping him in his tracks.

"Oh," Takato shuffled his feet nervously and pulled a pair of yellow rimmed goggles up over his face, letting them snap into position over his forehead, "sorry Rika, but the egg hatched!" Takato motioned for her to follow him and the two set off at a run, following the partner tracker that his Digivice came equipped with.

They had crossed to another, older, part of town within the next half hour and the tracker led them right into a worn, two storey building that looked ready to be demolished to be prepared for new residential areas. Takato felt uneasy as he ran inside, as he and Rika got further inside, he saw her pull a pair of sunglasses from her pocket and slide them on in one easy move. He gave her a questioning look before she slid the goggles down over his eyes.

"You have to put these on, there'll be a fog and you won't be able to see without them, gogglehead." And, sure enough, before he could reply a fog bank swelled up from the floor, stopping them in their tracks. With the aid of his goggles, Takato could see a slightly hunched, crimson form.

"G-Guilmon…?" He stuttered, finally getting to see his creation in the flesh, or rather, data grouped together to form a physical embodiment.

"Pyro Sphere!"

The blazing hot fireball that Takato had so graciously made Guilmon's favoured move, launched right towards him and Rika, the redhead managed to duck out of the way and Takato was only saved by the quick appearance, and actions, of Renamon. The fireball had soared past them now and just collided with the wall of the building.

"Thanks," he breathed, "why is he attacking us? Guilmon, I created you, I-I'm your Tamer!" Takato held up his Digivice, hoping that it would knock sense into the saurian. Guilmon staunched forwards a few paces, Renamon was about to step in for Takato when Rika stopped her, shaking her head to the side.

"Hello," Guilmon said to Takato after a little bit of curious sniffing, "what's your name?"

"M-My name?" Takato stammered before his senses came back to him, "I'm Takato, your Tamer." He finished, Guilmon sniffed the Digivice in his hands and seemed to nod in recognition.

"Nice to meet you, Takatomon." Guilmon smiled, his eyes seeming so innocent and happy. Takato was about to mention to him the fact that he wasn't a Digimon and didn't need a 'mon' at the end of his name when the building shook, right down to its foundations.

"What's happening?" Rika asked, loudly.

"Guilmon's previous attack must have hit a weak structural wall, we need to move!" Renamon grabbed Rika in her arms and made it out from the falling building just before it collapsed.

"That was a little too close for comfort, gogglehead." Rika panted, adrenaline rushing through her veins. She waited for Takato's response and found there was none. She looked up and realised that he and Guilmon hadn't made it out in time. "No…" She was about to walk into the part of the building that hadn't collapsed to search for the blue jumper, goggle wearing boy, when that section collapsed too. Dust stung her eyes and debris clattered around messily and something inside Rika dropped, along with the last of the building, her chances of finding Takato and Guilmon alive was gone.

"Maybe if we search the rubble," Renamon began to suggest before Rika cut her off.

"Renamon," she began, a little icily, "we can see past the whole area where the building was, if they had made it out then we'd be able to see them. I'm not calling Takato's Digimon weak but he was only just 'born', he would've been too frail to survive that." A lump formed in her throat and for the first time in a long while she felt utterly weak.

'Stupid Takato…' She thought miserably. Right now all she wanted to do was run away but instead she pulled out her cell phone, calls would need to be made but she wasn't sure she could speak with that lump.

End of Chapter.

Takato gets Guilmon, only to have a building collapse on top of him! Obviously you all know something that Rika doesn't, but let's not tell her that. (She may kill me for doing what I did.)

And no, you will not be receiving an explanation on what exactly happened, my loyal readers will know by now that I love to make you all wait a little. :D

Stay tuned!

-DW96