Digimon Matrix Book 1-Ep. 2

Digimon: Matrix

By R-Mac

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Book 1

Connections

Episode 2

Finding A Purpose

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August 3rd, 2009

10:30 PM JST

Roof of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building | Shinjuku Ward

It was a normal night for the area, though a bit out of the ordinary for the ones who knew about the park being a hotbed of digital activity. The calm steady flow of foot traffic suddenly being rippled as a burst of wind cuts threw the crowds like a knife through butter. Though this wind wasn't a normal kind, it acted as if it was on a set path, cutting in and out of the droves and at one point swiping away a sandwich out of an unsuspecting bystander. Suddenly the wind turns into a blur that charges at a large skyscraper as if it was trying to knock it over. However at the last second the blur turned in an upwards direction and started up the side of the building with relative precision and ease. Running up each window pane without a hesitation of movement.

The blur finally arrived at the top of the building that was secretly housing the headquarters of Hypnos. Slowing down to reveal that it was digimon that was behind the blur and wind. It stopped and stepped up to the edge of the roof and stared down at the ground below, watching the droves of people walking back and forth, on their way home from either restaurants or clubs, it didn't appear that there were many kids out and about, and it was probably best that they weren't given what time is was.

"How is it that these humans can just go about there lives without a worry or care about anything that could happen?" The digimon pondered out loud, not knowing or caring if anyone was listening. "Regardless of my opinion of these things on my mind, I have to find out why I'm here, what am I suppose to be looking for?"

His thoughts kept returning to the events from earlier in the day, his arrival in the human world, his meeting with a kid who was not scared of him, the attacks from two other digimon, the centaur digimon he had struck down in one blow. All these events had happened, but one event constantly battered it's way to the forefront of his mind leading to the same question everytime. "Why did I save that kid? What part would he have in my purpose that would force me into saving a strange being I had only just met minutes before? WHY AM I THINKING ABOUT THIS?"

"Sounds like you have a situation on your hands and you need answers for them."

"What the hell?" The digimon's head shot up and turned around slightly startled at the sudden appearance of a new voice. He continued to looked around, seemingly alone on the roof of a tower that seemed to dwarf anything around it. "Is someone there?"

At that moment he found himself face to face with a yellow bipedal fox, that seemed to practically tower over his form, a serious, yet amused, stare was on her face as she looked down at the dog-like digimon who had both a confused and surprised look on his face, as he had no idea that anyone would find him, let alone one who had attacked him earlier in the day.

"What are you doing here? I already told you and your friends, I don't want to fight."

"I'm not here to fight, I am here to talk." The kitsune explained, hoping that she could convince the coyote-wolf hybrid she was there in peace.

"Why would you want to talk now, when just hours ago you were trying to destroy me?"

"Because before we had no reason to ask questions. We realized we made a big mistake after you saved Jaden."

"Jaden? You mean that boy?"

"Yes, and actually that's one of the questions I wanted to ask you about. Why did you save him?"

"I… I don't really know? My mind kept telling me to run, but my instincts just kept telling me to protect him at all costs."

"Hmm, sounds like there's a link you and him share that is unknown to both of you two just yet."

"I don't understand what you mean."

"What I mean is it's possible your destiny and his are intertwined."

"Ummm, maybe your right, I mean I came here to the human world to find my purpose in life. This could very well be what I'm looking for, could I really be looking for a human partner. Add to that I might have already found him."

"Jaden did seem a bit concerned for you after you left."

"He did?"

"Yes, although he didn't show it in his facial expressions, the tone in his voice had hints of concern and worry in them."

"Well what am I supposed to do about it?

"You could find him, show him your okay, and maybe in the process figure out your reason for saving his life."

"I guess he would owe me for that, but I'm not one to hold someone to a debt."

"I almost forgot, what is your name?" The fox digimon asked as she crossed her arms and proceeded to sit down and crossed her legs at the same time.

"Oh, ummm… It's Coyomon." He responded as he too proceeded to sit down, at least sit down in a canine's sense of the term.

"Any idea as to why any information about you came up on my partner and her friend's D-Arc's?"

"What exactly is a D-Arc?"

"It's actually a digivice, a contraption that kind of serves as the symbol of our partnerships with our humans."

"Oh, I see. I have no idea why anyways. But I don't know much about partners and these items you and those other ones are talking about."

"Okay then, may I ask why Guilmon and my attacks had no effect on you?"

"Now that I can answer. I am able to move at an extreme rate of speed. What you and your little dino friend hit was simply the remnants of my body being in that spot, I had dodged your attacks mere seconds before impact."

"Well that is impressive, you obviously don't use a preception filter to become hidden to the world around you like I do."

"I do not have that ability like you said, nor would I see any purpose of it for me, especially considering the fact that I see all these other creatures that look a little bit like me. So I can blend in better than a two-legged yellow talking fox or a large red talking lizard."

"You obviously have done some surveying since you escaped the digital field earlier."

"Like I said, I move at a high rate of speed plus my mind tends to move at a high rate of speed as well. It didn't take me very long to see most of what there is to see in this metal and glass jungle."

"Heya toots, whatcha doing up here?" A new voice suddenly spoke up from behind the kitsune as she turned and looked at the small purple humanoid creature that had long pointed ears and a red scarf around it's neck.

Renamon let out a sigh as she stood up and completely turned around as Coyomon did the same but simply walked forward a few steps. "What do you want Impmon?" The fox questioned as Coyomon stared at the imp-like digimon with a name to match, a confused expresion crossing the canine looking digimon's face.

"I was just in the neighborhood and I happened to hear your voice and I wondered what could you be doing up here at this hour and who or what were you talking too. And know I have my answer, you've found your self a little pooch to keep you company when your alone."

"A pooch? What is that supposed to mean?" Coyomon spat at the devious creature who acted as if he was scared before smiling mockingly at Coyomon.

"Oh so you can talk, I guess I was wrong about mutts, like you."

Coyomon took an agitated step forward but was stopped by Renamon who held her left arm out in front of him. "Don't let Impmon get to you, he does that just to irritate others."

"Well it's working."

"I'm not scared at all, he doesn't look like he could take me on, let alone scare me."

"FROST LIGHTING"

Impmon closed his eyes and stuttered as he felt a cold chill shoot up his body. He reopened his eyes to see nothing wrong but Coyomon standing in front of him chuckling and smiling.

"What's so funny, nothing happened?" Impmon tried to take a step closer only to find himself falling flat on his face. He tried to stand up but fell backwards onto his butt. He looked down to see the roof below his feet covered in a thin layer of ice.

"You know if I wanted to I could have froze you in place. You should really watch what you say and who you say it too."

"Where did you find this guy?" Impmon directed towards Renamon as he sat up.

"It's a long story, and I don't feel like telling you."

"Why not?"

"Because it doesn't concern you, it's not like you'd be that interested in it anyways."

"Ahh, whatever." Impmon struggled to his feet and did the same as he slid his way off the sheet of ice and through the open service door for the roof of the building.

"How does he keep finding me?" Renamon asked herself as she turned to Coyomon who looked up to the kitsune digimon.

"So what do you suppose I do?" Coyomon questioned.

"About what?"

"About that Jaden kid. What do you want me to do about him?"

"I think you should talk to him, now wouldn't be a good time, so try finding him tomorrow, he'll probably be in the park. At least it's a safe bet he will be."

"Thank you." Coyomon said as Renamon turned back around and walked to the edge before jumping off and disappearing into thin air. Coyomon then proceeded to walk over to the sheet of ice which had since begun to melt in the humid air. He chuckled quietly to himself before walking away. Seems like my aim is getting better.'

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August 4th, 2009

8:00 AM JST

Shinjuku Upper High School | Shinjuku Ward

"So let me get this straight Rika, this digimon just basically took down both Guilmon and Renamon as well as a third one, by only using one attack on each?" A girl with brunette colored hair asked, the question directed to a redheaded one.

"Exactly Jeri, I still don't get, and neither does Takato. I just hope Renamon manages to find him and gets some answers." Rika responded to the other girl. Rika had only just arrived a few minutes ago, and had already told Jeri everything.

Jeri had changed vastly since the D-Reaper incident. Her cheerful and friendly attitude had since completely returned. A noticeable change to her physical appearance being the lack of a puppet on her hand as she had finally outgrown any desire to have one. Her hairstyle had also changed, now with out the lopsided ponytail but rather a regular one in a normal spot for one that wore their hair in that way. Her outfit hadn't changed much on the other hand, she had begun to wear shorts and a top that had the same color as her dress from before the shorts had a blue jean color.

"What about this kid that he saved, what did you say his name was?"

"His name's Jaden Evans." Rika responded and as if right on cue a kid around the same age as both of the girls walked up to them. He was wearing camo colored cargo shorts and a black t-shirt with the words 'TAPOUT' strewn across the top part with tribal like designs running down the shirt beneath it, on his head was a blue baseball cap with a 'M' and a 'B' on it and in a way that made it look as if it were a glove. He looked at Jeri and Rika with a smile on his face.

"If I'm not mistaken I believe I just heard my name. Hey Rika, how are you today?" The boy asked as he turned to the redhead and stuck out his hand, which Rika promptly shook in greeting.

"I'm okay, how are you feeling, especially after yesterday."

"I'm good, nothing's broken, and not a single nightmare about what happened." Jaden replied, half joking on the last part.

"Nice to meet you Jaden, my name's Jeri Katou." Jeri said while smiling while slightly nodding.

"Nice to meet you to." Jaden replied with a nod as well.

"So where are you from Jaden?"

"I'm from America. I wasn't all that thrilled that I was moving here, but it's been okay so far."

"Aside from nearly been killed by a digimon?" Rika mocked with a sarcastic grin on her face.

"One downside so far. I won't complain though. Anyways, where's Takato?"

"No clue, might be running late again. He's got a horrible habbit of being tardy to class, or even school for that matter." Jeri answered, not knowing if Rika knew that either since this was the first time she would be in the same school as the others.

"Well if it isn't little Ms. Ice Queen. What brings you to our little quaint dungeon?" A new voice spoke up. The voice belonged to Kazu Shioda. Unlike most of the tamers, he hadn't changed one bit. He still walked around in the same outfit as he had for the past 3 or 4 years. His attitude towards everyone remained as arrogant and annoying as ever, of course his longtime friends Kenta and Takato wouldn't point that out in front of him.

Standing next to him was a kid wearing glasses, Kenta Kitagawa. His appearance hadn't changed much either, though his attitude had changed a bit, he acted a little bit braver at times when danger was around, although he still wasn't the first to react to it and he obviously still was the last to suggest any kind of action.

Rika just looked at him with an irritated expression on her face and sighed as she knew Kazu would be the last to put two and two together. "I go here now. How is it that I've had the unfortunate pleasure of knowing you for almost four years and yet you still are the same annoyance as when Takato first introduced me to you."

"Hurtful. Anyways if you guys are wondering where chumley is, he should be here soon, we kind of got a head start after meeting up with him at the park." Kazu instantly answered the question that Rika and Jeri were seconds away from asking. "So who's the newb? Is he your boyfriend Rika?"

The second that last sentence drove it's way out of Kazu's mouth Rika shot that look at Kazu, that said 'choose your next words carefully if you want to survive the day.' Before anyone could even blink though, Kazu felt a second steely glare aimed directly at him as he saw Jaden staring at him as if he was trying to burn a hole in Kazu's skull. "Better watch what you say. I don't even know you, but I can already tell that you're bound to get on my nerves on a constant basis."

"Jeez, can't take a joke huh?"

"I can take a joke but you obviously wouldn't be a headliner in a comedy show in my mind."

"Says you."

"Yeah, exactly what I said. You should just deal with it." Jaden huffed as he walked towards the school building. As Kazu looked on both confused and angered at the new kid's attitude at him.

"What the hell crawled up his pants?"

"The rare and elusive pest known as Kazu." Rika responded, chuckling as she enjoyed Kazu being told off by someone other than herself for once.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Another new voice spoke up as the small group looked up to see the familiar goggle head run up from behind. The goggles stayed the same as the previous day but a change from the neck down to the waist was obvious as the blue shirt had been replaced with a red t-shirt with the digital hazard symbol adorned by the gogglehead's red dino partner as well.

"You're new friend is the problem."

"Huh?" Takato's eyes quickly flashed in confusion at Kazu's remark, not knowing the reasoning behind it.

"He's talking about Jaden." Rika clarified, knowing Takato wouldn't get the hint. "Jaden got upset at a little joke Kazu said."

Kazu glared at Rika, finally letting the redheads sarcastic nature towards him. "All I said was if he was your boyfriend."

"You said that about someone who hadn't been here for more than a couple of days."

"How am I supposed to know that."

"You really are a clueless klutz."

"I don't have to listen to this, I'm out of here." Kazu spat as he spun around and stormed away, Kenta ran after Kazu in an attempt to get his friend to calm down. Rika began to smile in the mean time, feeling accomplished in causing the anger that gripped the brunette boy.

"Wasn't that a little harsh, Rika? It was just a joke." Jeri said, believing Rika had overreacted to the situation at hand.

"So, I don't want to deal with this for four years. Someone has to tell him off."

"It's just the way he is Rika, no one can change that." Takato explained, defending Kazu's actions from just a few minutes before.

"Someone at least needs to try."

"Rika." A voice suddenly called out as a large yellow bipedal fox materialized next to the redhead, her expression moving to all in the vicinity. "Hello Takato and Jeri."

"Hey Renamon." Jeri greeted while waving to the kitsune.

Takato simply nodded and smiled before looking at Rika and back to Renamon. "So Renamon, did you find him?"

"Yes I did, it took me a bit but I discovered him running through the city. I managed to catch up to him on the roof of the Hypnos building."

"Okay, do you find anything out?" Rika questioned hoping to learn anything about the mystery digimon they had seen the other day.

"Yes, first of all, it turns out the reason our attacks failed against him is because he stated that he is capable of moving at an extreme rate of speed. He was able to use that speed to play a trick on our eyes by making it appear he's there when he really isn't."

"Fooling Guilmon, that's believable, but you, Renamon? I can't see that happening." Takato responded, dumbfounded as to how it could fool the most intelligent and mature out of the first three tamer digimon.

"I don't understand it either, but he really must be faster than he lets on."

"Mmhmm. Did you find out his name?" Rika asked as she pondered that last answer.

"His name is Coyomon. I did manage to also find out why he's here."

Rika was pulled out of her deep thoughts as Renamon answered a question both her and Takato had pondered for after Renamon had left to find Coyomon, "And?"

"He said that he came here to find his purpose. He didn't know why he saved Jaden, all he knew was that that he wanted to escape the battle since he didn't want to fight but something in him kept telling him to protect Jaden and he did so."

"If I didn't know any better it sounds like there might be some kind of link between Jaden and Coyomon." Takato replied, mirroring the same thought Rika was thinking at the time.

"I told him the same thing, he thought it sounded like that might be right. He wasn't going to rule that possibility out. I simply told him that he should speak with Jaden."

"I guess that would be the only way we could find out if they do have a link to one another and uncover it." Rika explained agreeing to with Renamon's advice that was given to the wild dog digimon.

"Well we have to make sure it happens, there's no guarentee that Coyomon would just run into Jaden on the street." Takato implied.

"I don't think that'll be a problem Takato."

"What do you mean?"

"I already told Coyomon to wait at the park for him today. It shouldn't be that difficult, we just have to ensure that Jaden shows up to the park today."

"That was ingenious Renamon. Makes it simple to find out just what is going on."

"Doesn't surprise me at all." Rika smirked as she knew that Renamon was clever enough to think of something like what she had. At that moment the bell started ringing, signaling the beginning of school. "Well I guess we have to go to class. Renamon, keep a look out in case Coyomon decides to make an appearance here."

"As you wish." Renamon answered, promptly vanishing into thin air at that moment.

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"Welcome class, for those of you who don't know me or remember me, my name is Ms. Asaji." The teacher announced to the class, most of which hadn't stopped chatting with one another which in turn warranted a glare from the eldest person in the room. "Class quiet down!"

"Psst, Kenta," Kazu whispered as Kenta glanced in his direction, attempting to avoid detection from the teacher who his friends had known for years since she was their teacher in Elementary and Middle school. How is it that we keep getting Ms. Asaji every year?"

"I don't really kno..." Kenta responded, freezing as he felt someone staring at him, he looked up to see the aforementioned adult looking directly at Kenta and Kazu.

"I'm still your teacher cause of the way they set things up here. Though I was under the impression that that would end after you students graduated from Middle School. I especially hope you two have matured enough to not be a constant distraction in this class." She turned to Takato who was sitting on the other side of Kazu and next to Rika in the back of the class. "And I hope you, Takato, will be more punctual than before."

"Of course I will, Ms. Asaji," The gogglehead replied, scratching the back of his head and nervously laughing, causing the woman to sigh as she went back to what she had been explaining before dealing with the usual discipline suspects in the room. "Anyways, as I was saying, we have a new student here that many of you have not met."

The teacher held out her hand and pointed to the dark blonde haired boy sitting in the back left corner of the room, the kid's chair was balancing on it's back legs, but all four hit the ground as soon as the he realized he had become the center of attention, which he never really liked in his own opinion.

"Stand up and tell the class a bit about yourself." The teacher instructed, while the boy reluctantly stood up and looked around for a second before taking a breath and opening his mouth.

"My name is Jaden Evans, I was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin in the United States of America, and I don't really feel like explaining my life's story."

"Stuck up brat." Kazu spat under his breath as Jaden sat down and resumed to leaning the chair on it's hind legs.

"Alright then, I'm gonna be handing out the syllabuses for each subject you will be taking in here this year, so if I can get a volunteer to hand these out for me?"

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Outside of the school the leaves in the tree rustled, but not because of a breeze, but rather the arrival of an unexpected visitor to the school grounds as four paws landed on a branch causing it to wave up and down before settling as the creature stared through the leaves and into a window of the school in front of him.

"Okay now, this is the sixth building I've been to that looks like this kid might be at, but I have no idea how to find out if he's in there."

"He is in there, Coyomon. So you can stop worrying now."

"Renamon, is that you?" The wild dog digimon turned around to see the kitsune-like digimon leaning against the base of the tree. "Heh, I guess that answers my question."

"Why are you here? I did tell you, you could find him at the park later today."

"Well I'm not exactly the most patient digimon in existence. I kind of get agitated when I have to sit still for a extended period of time."

"Have you been running to every school in the city?"

"I think that would take too long, but this is the sixth such building I've been to this morning."

"Are you going to wait here till he comes out?"

"I guess so, I'll have to bare with the wait though." Coyomon turned his head as he heard the leaves rustle in an unusual fashion.

"Yay, I finally found somebody to play with!" A new voice called out, the tone sounding both cheerful and child-like as Coyomon suddenly saw what could only be described as a small white marshmallow looking creature, with two wing like ears jotting out of it's head, which had three black triangles surrounding a big red one on it's forehead. The creature landed in between Renamon and Coyomon and glanced at the fox digimon first before turning to the wolf-coyote hybrid digimon.

"Uhhh, who, er, what are you?"

"I'm Calumon, what's your name?"

"Umm, it's Coyomon. I'm guessing you're a digimon too?"

"He is, Calumon what are you doing here?" Renamon questioned, staring at the digivolution catalyst who was smiling like a oblivious 5-year old child with his finger in his mouth.

"I wanted to play with someone, but all the kids are in school, maybe you want to play."

"Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather not."

"How about you?" Calumon asked as he turned to the other digimon in the vicinity.

"Not really, I don't even know you at all." Coyomon respectfully declined as he went back to staring at the building's window trying to make out the figures inside. Calumon frowned as the wings retracted into his head.

"Awww. But I wanted to play."

"You're more than welcomed to wait here with us." Renamon offered as Coyomon looked at her then Calumon in confusion.

"Why would you stay here?" Coyomon asked while looking back towards the window yet again.

"I have to make sure you stay out of trouble."

"You don't trust me yet, do you?"

"No I do not, but I don't have a reason to attack you right now, so as long as you watch what you do and say, you'll remain on my good side."

"I'm guessing I'd hate to see what your bad side looks like."

"Just ask Terriermon."

"Who now?"

"He's another tamers digimon, they're out of town at the current moment but you'll meet them soon enough. And you'll know him when you see him."

"Great just what I need more people I have to win over the trust from."

"You don't need his trust."

"Yeah from that description sounds like it."

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3:30 PM JST

Shinjuku Park | Shinjuku Ward

The park was surprisingly quiet despite the kids getting out of school. But, the quiet and near empty scene was broken by five figures walking into the park three humans, a redhead girl, a brunette boy, and a dark blonde boy, as well as two creatures, better known as Digimon, accompanied them into the park, a yellow bipedal fox, and a red dino. The three had just left school and still had their backpacks with them. Rika and Takato had walked up the stairs but Jaden had stopped, the overwhelming feeling that someone or something was watching him constantly coming into the forefront of his mind.

Unknown to Jaden, however, he was being watched. In a tree just to the right of the shelter that the two tamers and their partners were sitting in. The creature's stare was fixated on the American that had decided to just shrug off the thoughts going through his head. Coyomon had left a few minutes before the school had let off. Though he was lucky enough to get a better idea of where he could find the kid he wanted to have a talk with. He sighed as how he would explain his predicament to the teen kept running through his mind. His attention was else where when he noticed Jaden had walked away towards a small hill that was probably a hundred yards from the shelter. Coyomon decided to stick to the trees for the time being and followed Jaden. He had thought about stopping the human but restrained that notion and stopped behind a tree that was next to a clearing where Jaden had laid down to relax and stare at the clouds passing by over head.

After a bit, Coyomon sighed silently and calmly and quietly strode over to the teen before stopping right over Jaden's face. "Hello."

"What the hell?" Jaden yelled, as his eyes shot open after he had dozed off, looked up to see the canine-like digimon staring directly at him before it finally registering in his brain that he wasn't in any real danger. "Wait a second, your that digimon from yesterday."

"That I am and my name is Coyomon."

"What are you doing here? I didn't expect to ever see you again."

"The same here, it never thought I'd have a reason to find you again. But I ran into that fox digimon from yesterday and she gave me some advice."

"You mean Renamon? What did she tell you?

"She told me that the reason why I saved you might be because we are linked together in some way."

"I don't follow."

"What I'm talking about is that she thinks that are destinies are intertwined with one another. She believes that we are meant to become partners."

"Huh, you mean I'm supposed to become a tamer and you would be my digimon partner?"

"Exactly, I don't understand how that could be, though it would make sense to me. I told her that I came here to find my purpose, maybe this is it. Maybe I was always meant to come to the human world and find my tamer."

"Destiny does have a weird way of working. I guess my families move here has a bit to do with my destiny as well, I guess I never thought about that. But anyways, I don't know how we could become partners. I mean Takato and Rika have these devices that are basically symbols of their friendship and partnerships with Guilmon and Renamon. I don't have that, I don't know if I'm supposed to your tamer, or someone who's supposed to help you find one."

"Hmmm." Was all Coyomon could muster as he noticed a strange energy emanating from Jaden's pants pocket Jaden soon noticed the distraction and reached into the pocket and pulled out his cell phone which had begun to glow a strange icy blue light.

"What's going on?" Jaden exclaimed as the phone in his hand began to change as it transformed in appearance. The phone, which was a regular phone with a keypad and screen visible on it, had changed into a slide phone with a full screen on top and the key pad underneath. The colors on the phone had changed from pitch black to a white and ice blue colors with black markings on it. The cell phone finally stopped glowing as it settled back down into Jaden's hand.

Both Jaden and Coyomon stared at the device intently trying to make heads or tails of the event that had just occurred. The screen was blank with no indication of it ever working before the transformation occurred.

"What is it?" Coyomon finally asked breaking the awkward silence that had descended upon the two.

"I think it's my cell phone, but I don't recognize it. It's like a new electronic device all together."

Coyomon went to open his mouth to talk some more, but stopped as the device caught the attention of the pair once more as it suddenly activated.

"D-Slider Initialization Activating"

"Searching For D-Slider Owner"

"Owner Located… Owner Identified As Jaden Evans… Owner Is Confirmed As Intended Recipient."

"Searching For Owners Partner"

"Partner Located… Partner Identified As Coyomon, Wild Dog Digimon, Attacks Identified As Blitzkrieg and Frost Lightning… Digimon Confirmed As Intended Partner."

"D-Slider Initialization Complete"

"What just happened?" Coyomon asked, despite knowing what the answer would be.

"I think we just became partners. And I'm guessing this is like the device the others have, but it looks nothing like what I remembered theirs looking like this."

"Did it say that it's called a D-Slider?"

"I guess it did. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, I'm still confused as to how this device came to be."

'Is this that digivice thing Takato mentioned yesterday?' Jaden thought as he looked at what was his cell phone, though it may still be it, before looking back to Coyomon. "I guess we're going to have to talk to Takato and Rika, maybe they can help us understand what happened just now.

"Well lets get going." Coyomon proclaimed as he turned in the direction the two had come from, granted it was seconds apart from one another. Both the newfound tamer and the digimon followed one another towards the storage shed that the two experienced tamers were waiting for Jaden to come back. "So how is this going to work? I mean being partners and all?"

"Good question, I think we need some kind of card thing, Takato mentioned something called Digi-Modify when I asked him about what a Tamer means. I kind of wish I had asked him to explain everything better. Maybe now is a better time than anything to get some more information about digimon, tamers, and being a tamer."

"I hope this Takato and Rika has all the answers we need."

"I'm not sure how much they could tell us, the way it seems is that they only know so much about this whole thing and that there's a million things they are still trying to find out themselves. I'm not even sure they'll have any answers we would have about this device other than the fact that it must be a digivice like the ones they have." Jaden continued to fiddle with the device rotating it in his hands trying to figure out it's design without a manual, which appeared to be a lack of.

"I think we're here." Coyomon piped up, causing Jaden to look up and notice that they had arrived back at the hideout that he had left a few minutes before. Upon seeing a red dinosaur staring at a butterfly that was flying around his head Jaden sighed before looking back at the digimon, which had not more than minutes earlier had no partner.

The Wild Dog Digimon looking up at his newfound tamer at the same time, Jaden smiling and nodding as he looked back out to the shelter, "Well Coyomon, here goes nothing."

To Be Continued…