The following takes place a year after the Digidestined from Frontier (Takuya, Koji, Koichi, JP, Tommy, and Zoe)

Ch. 1 Message from a friend

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Ta-ku-ya!!" Zoe called as he entered her apartment. The rest of the digidestined smiled as he put on a surprised look.

"Wh-what?!" He said.

"Takuya! It's your birthday isn't it?" The girl asked him suspiciously.

"Uhh… yeah I guess it is."

"Well then, lets eat!" JP cheered excitedly. As he ran off to the table of snacks in the kitchen. In the blink of an eye he returned with three bags of chips and a supersized pop.

They all cracked up laughing. JP blinked twice, confused with his face full of crumbs. Takuya crashed on the couch in between the twins. "So what've you guys been up to?" Takuya asked.

"Nothing much..." Koji said distantly, staring out at space.

"Come on! Don't be so moody. Its my birthday after all!" Takuya said.

"Koji, be nice," Kouiji told his brother, attempting to persuade him.

"Takuya, surprise!" Tommy entered the room with a large strawberry cake. "Here you go just for you!" he said with a gleeming smile.

Takuya cut the case and passed it around to everyone.

"Mmmm... Bellisimo!" Zoe exclaimed, delighted in the confection.

The party went on, everyone laughing and enjoying each others company. The day wore on and it was getting late.

* yawn * "It's getting late," Takuya said as the clock was striking near midnight. "Tommy, I'll walk you home."

"Okay" the boy said sheepily

"Thanks everyone for the party!!" Takuya said in a chipper voice.

"Wait," Zoe announced, "We still haven't given you your birthday present."

"Oh you didn't have to ..." He said anticipating what the present would be.

"Close your eyes" He did as the other digidestined began shuffling around the room.

"Okay you can open your eyes now," An excited JP told him. Takuya opened his eyes and was surprised. On the coffee table there was a small statuette of Agunimon. This brought back memories of their adventures that felt like so long ago.

"Wow," was all Takuya could say, he was breathless.

Koichi picked up the figurine and placed it in the boy with the goggles' hands. "It took a while but we finished it just in time." He said with a smiling face.

The figurine was so lifelike, it felt as though it was the real Agunimon. Takuya began to tear up a little. "Thanks guys," he said.

"I'm glad you like it" Koji told him, giving him a wink.

"Just don't lose it now" Zoe warned.

"Takuya, let's go now, Mommy's going to get mad." Tommy said half asleep.

"Okay okay." Just as he puts on his shoes his phone begins to beep. "Hold on a sec, let me get that." He picks up his cell phone and answers, "Hello?"

"D-ddiggidestttinedd..." called out a familiar female voice.

"What the? Ophanimon?" Everyone jumped as they heard the name and rushed towards Takuya. Takuya thus turned on the speaker.

"... we need your help... the fate of the worlds rely on you..." Ophanimon told them her voice getting static.

"But how... how do we get to the digital world?" Koji asked gravely concerned.

"The train station... a trailmon will be waiting.... there...." The line cut off.

"We've got to go." Everyone agreed without hesitation. They raced out of Zoe's apartment and ran towards the station. It was dark outside so they snuck around so they would not come across any guards. They took the elevator down to the floor. This reminded them so much of the past. When they reached the floor, Angler the Trailmon was waiting for them on the platform.

"Oh, hi children, long time no see!" He said cheerfully.

"Wow, nice seeing you again," JP said grinning as he tossed him a chocolate bar.

"Mmm.. my favorite! Hop on." The digidestined obediently entered one of the trains and the trailmon sped off.

Koichi sighed in relief. Koji noticed and commented, "This is your first time physically being in the digital world, isn't it?"

Koichi nodded to his younger twin, "Yeah, but I was really there before, I remember everything from before."

The ground began to shake below them as they headed towards a dark tunnel. The lights went out. The suddenly a dim lighting appears. The Human Spirits of the Legendary Warriors appeared. The Digidestined were at first startled but then felt the calm warmth that their former spirits emitted.

"Digidestined," Loweemon was the first to speak.

"There is a crisis in the digital world right now," Then Lobomon.

"Please borrow our strength and help defeat the evil causing the disturbance," Kazemon pleaded.

"We cannot do this alone," Agunimon finished. Beetlemon, Kumamon, Grumblemon, Ranamon, Arbormon, and Mercurymon nodded in agreement.

"We will be with you" The spirits said at once they turned into light and were absorbed by the digidestined. Their hearts began to glow, and suddenly, each and everyone of their cellphones were replaced by D-Tector digivices.

Takuya smiled, "Alright, we're heading back. What an awesome present."

"I wonder," Koji mutters.

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When they arrived at their destination two familiar faces greeted the digidestined.

"Hello hello," Bokomon said grinning from ear to ear. Neemon however rushed towards them and jumped up to hug them all, though he hugged Tommy first. He started to bawl his eyes out.

"I've missed you guys!!!" Neemon cried. Bokomon couldn't stay still anymore and jumped up as well, hugging Zoe dearly. He too was crying.

"Stop it guys, you're gonna make me cry," Tommy said, eyes glistening. The moment of reunion passed and everyone tried to straighten up.

"Bokomon," JP began, "What's happening in the digiworld?? What's the trouble."

"Trouble?" Bokomon was confused, "What do you mean?" The digidestined were confused.

"That's odd, we were sure that you would know something about it." Takuya commented.

Koichi senses something and looks out to the forest. A large fire ball rockets towards them. He pushes everyone out of the way as they nearly escape impact. Takuya recovers quickly and sees a skeletal dinosaur appear before them.

"Whats that thing?" Neemon asked Bokomon.

"Oh My... That is SkullGreymon! He's an Ultimate digimon with one mean rocket." Bokomon gasped, being rather fearful.

"I'll Handle this with my own Greymon," Takuya claims. Like he had been doing this yesterday he called out his fractal code. "Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution!" Takuya transforms into "BurningGreymon!"

"Heh," Koji says unimpressed. BurningGreymon attacked SkullGreymon with his PyroBarrage. SkullGreymon gets hit and retaliates with his Dark Shot. BurningGreymon falls.

"Takuya!" Zoe cried out.

"I'm alright. Just a little scratch." BurningGreymon returns to battle and successfully attacks SkullGreymon with another PyroBarrage. This time the attack prove effective and SkullGreymon falls. His fractal code appears. "Easy Peasy," BurningGreymon takes out his D-Tector and is about to get the fractal code when he hears a loud scream.

"STTTOOOOPPPP!" Cries the voice. Everyone turns to where the voice came from and sees a young boy with spiky brown hair emerge from the forest. His goggles gleamed on his forehead and he looked no older than six or seven.

"Jeez kid, what do you think you're doing!" BurningGreymon shouts.

The child glares right back at the Legendary Warrior. "Don't you dare hurt him anymore!"

"Or what kid!? That digimon is dangerous."

"HE IS NOT!" The kid stubbornly says. The boy turns to the feinted digimon. "I'm sorry" he cries, "I didn't mean to leave you like this." Tears streamed from the boy's eyes as the digimon began to glow. EmperorGreymon reverted back to Takuya as they watched SkullGreymon dedigivolved to a pink little ball with ears... Koromon. The little boy reached out and held Koromon in his hands and hugged him tightly. "I'm sorry Koromon."

Koromon weakly opened his own eyes, "It's okay, it's not your fault." The little pink ball rested in the boy's arms as the boy turned to the digidestined.

"So you're digidestined? Are you not?" He said without hesitation.

"And if we are?" JP asked him.

The boy scanned each person thoroughly. "Hmmph, where are you're digimon partners? I mean that Bokomon and Neemon cannot all be shared by you six. And where was that BurningGreymon who fought Koromon earlier?"

"What do you mean?" Koichi queried a little confused.

"Well if you are digidestined then you must all have digimon partners. Am I wrong?"

"Well kinda," Takuya said, "Actually I am BurningGreymon. You see we all don't have digimon partners, rather we become the digimon. Cool ain't it kid?"

"Hmmm... interesting," the boy thought to himself.

Zoe walked up to the boy in a motherly fashion. She knelt down so her face could meet with the boy. "Hello, my name's Zoe." Then she pointed out to each of the digidestined, "That guy in the orange cap is Tommy, He's JP and those twins over there are Koji and Koichi. Koji's the one with the bandana. Oh and that hot head over there, he's Takuya. And who might you be?"

The boy looked at each of their faces. They did not seem to be lying. "My name? Well I'm Taichi Kamiya, but you all can just call me Tai." He said with a grin. "Nice to meet fellow digidestined."

"So you're a digidestined too huh..." Tommy said happily.

"Yep. I'm one of the original digidestined from Japan, and this here's my partner Koromon." Tai began to lighten up a bit.

"Pleasure to meet you Buddee" Takuya said.

"I'm just wondering," Koji became serious, "Why did your SkullGreymon attack us. If Koichi hadn't have been there, we would have been caught in the impact for sure."

"Well..." Tai began as he strained to speak, "The thing is, I don't know. I somehow arrived to the digital world in this form and saw Agumon..."

"Wait, what do you mean 'in this form'?" Koichi asked.

"Well, I'm not really six years old," Tai sighed, "I haven't been six in such a long time. I'm much older you know. I told you I was one of the original digidestined."

"Old? How old?" JP wondered.

"I'm not going to tell you," Tai said a bit embarrassed, "Anyway as I said I came here somehow and saw Agumon, which is the rookie form of Koromon. And well we started wandering the forest when suddenly something attacked us. And all of a sudden Agumon digivolved into SkullGreymon and went beserk." Tai clenched his fist. His voice began to waver, "I swore... I swore to Agumon that I would never let him suffer digivolving the wrong way ever again... and now this."

Koromon jumped out of Tai's arms and faced him, "Tai, I told you it wasn't your fault. It was that thing that attacked us."

"I wonder what that thing was," Bokomon pondered.

"I don't know but it sure felt evil," Tai said tensely.

"Maybe it was a ghost." Neemon suggested.

"Either way, I think this was the thing that Ophanimon sent us to fight against," Koji commented. Koichi nodded in agreement.

Suddenly Ophanimon's signal began to play on their D-Tectors, "Digidestined, we need you're help." Ophanimon began. "You must save... worl... collect...keys....hurry...be....late..." The connection fell through.

"What is wrong with this connection." Takuya said angrily.

"Calm down kid." Tai told him.

"Kid? What you're the pint sized brat here." Takuya slashed back.

Zoe tried to break up the situation before it heated up. "Calm down you two. I think what Ophanimon was trying to say was to collect some sort of keys and with them we can save the world or something."

Tai's eyes widened. "Keys?" He pulled out something from his pocket. "Do you mean this?" He opened his palm to reveal a golden key with the symbol of a sun on it."

"That must be it!" Takuya said attempting to grab the key. But when he did the key burnt through his gloves and he dropped it on the ground. "OUCH" He screamed in pain.

Tai picked the key up again and stared at Takuya "You're EmperorGreymon yet you can't pick up something that's hot? Anyway it feels normal to me."

"Koji why don't you try it?" Takuya suggested sucking on his fingers to relive them from the burn. Koji reached out and without even touching it, could feel the heat emitting from it.

"I can't even touch it, let alone hold it." Koji sighed.

"Huh... I guess, I'm supposed to keep hold of it then. Makes sense," Tai said as he returned the key to his pocket.

"What do you mean it makes sense?" Takuya queried.

"Well the symbol on the key is the Crest of Courage. And the Crest of Courage can only really belong to me." Tai said a little smuggly.

"What was that?" Takuya grabbed Tai's collar.

"Takuya put him down!" Tommy pleaded. Takuya submitted.

"If you let me explain," Tai said a little annoyed, "Back when I was a kid, my friends and I were chosen to be bearers of special crests. Courage, Friendship, Love, Sincerity, Knowledge, Reliability, Hope, and Light. We were the original eight digidestined who held on to these crests and with them we were ultimately able to defeat our greatest enemies. And I of course was the bearer of Courage."

"Interesting..." Koichi commented.

"If this is really the crest of Courage and my assumptions are correct, there should be at least seven more keys like this." Tai presumed.

"Okay so that means that we need to find those seven keys to unlock something in order to save the world." Takuya ssaid. "Alright let's go look for them!"

"But how are we going to do that? We have no clue where to find them." A beeping sound came from Tai's pocket. He took out a small round device with dots beeping on the screen.

"What's that Tai?" Tommy wondered.

"This? This is my digivice of course." Tai said unsurprised

"Really? That's small! Look at ours!" Tommy showed the boy his.

"Hmmm... that looks a little like my sister's digivice." He paused. "My digivice is picking up something north from here. It looks like it's another digivice or something, maybe one of my friends are here too." Tai turned to the other digidestined. "If you guys wanna come with me, be my guest. I'm thinking that if one of my friends are here then they might have one of the keys you all are looking for."

The digidestined excluding Tai coversed with one another.

"Should we trust him?" JP asked

"I think we can." Zoe commented

"But he came from nowhere, who knows what his true intentions are." Koji said

"But he told us himself that he's a digidestined like us," Koichi announced.

"Yeah and he doesn't look like a bad kid." Tommy exclaimed

"I say we go. At least he has some kind of lead." Takuya said. The rest submitted to his will and he turned to Tai, "Okay, Tai we'll help you find your friends."

Tai smiled, "Thanks guys"

The digidestined walked off into the north path following Tai's digivice to the GPS guided signal...

HEY Everyone! Glad to be back and writing again. This time the setting is Digimon Frontier with a little twist. I hope you all enjoy the coming chapters and I can't wait to hear whhat you guys think. Stay tuned for the next Chapter peace!