Author: "Gomamon2000"
Email: rangerrick98@juno.com (please be kind when writing)
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is my first attempt at any kind of fan fiction, so it might not be the best. It's my own spin-off series based on the "Digimon: Digital Monsters" TV show. This is a little different from the show, especially the first episode. It'll be more like the show after a couple episodes, though. Let me know what you think, and more episodes are coming soon. Enjoy!
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Digimon: DigiMaster
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Episode Two: Reunion
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LAST TIME: Kid genius Kevin Mann discovered parallel universes and found one in which the DigiDestined and their adventures in the DigiWorld actually happened. After spending a lot of time building a machine that would take him to the DigiDestined's universe, he finally finished the device and started it up. Wonder what's going to happen next?
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"Pass the ball over here, Tai!"
Sora was getting pretty impatient with Tai. All they were doing was playing a friendly soccer game, but Tai was using it as an excuse to show off. Not that there was anyone around who was interested. Tai and Sora were on one team, and Matt, TK, and Kari were on the other. Izzy was too busy making websites or something to bother with soccer, Joe was just pacing back and forth worrying about someone falling and hurting themselves, and Mimi didn't want to get her new dress dirty, so she was just standing off to the side being the "cheering section."
"Come on, Tai! I'm on your team, too!" shouted Sora.
Ignoring her, Tai kept doing fancy footwork, moving the ball this way and that, completely missing the fact that everyone on the other team was heading straight for him and Sora was wide open to get a goal. With a cry of victory, Matt stole the ball from Tai and headed towards the other goal. Tai was too shocked that he had the ball stolen from him to move, and Sora was all the way on the other end of the field, so it was an easy goal for Matt and his team.
"That's game, Tai! You lose!" laughed Matt as Tai still just stood there, staring at where the ball had been just a second ago. Sora stood at the other end of the field, fuming. You could almost see the smoke coming off her head as her face got redder and redder. She slowly stomped towards Tai.
"Uh oh, Sora's mad. We better run!" said TK to Kari. They ran as fast as they could, trying to get out of range of whatever was about to happen. Matt glanced at them running away and decided that that wasn't too bad of an idea, so he quickly moved away from the battle zone, too.
"Tai! What the heck were you doing?!?" shouted Sora as she got closer.
"Well, I was...that is, I...um, the ball was...."
"Let me help you. You were too busy trying to show off to realize I was wide open and could've gotten the winning goal. Geez, Tai! You'd think that teamwork would be the first thing on your mind after all our adventures in the DigiWorld, even if it was a whole year ago! We wouldn't have survived without teamwork!"
"Yeah, well, that was different."
"It's no different than this soccer game, Tai. No matter what you're doing, you have to work together with the people around you. It's that simple!"
"You're right, Sora. I'm sorry." Tai looked down at his feet, ashamed.
"Oh, don't worry about it. It's okay." *Dang it,* Sora thought. *Why does he have to look so darn cute when he does that? I can never stay mad at him for long.*
"Hey, guys!" shouted Izzy. "I think it's time we got this meeting started, don't you?"

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In a small, disused section of the city, all was quiet. No one was around, nothing was moving except those discarded newspaper pages that always blow around in a deserted part of a city. Nothing out of the ordinary happened here, mostly because nothing at all happened here. But today, that all changed.
Three explosions and flashes of light came out of nowhere, and where the flashes could be seen, a vehicle emerged. The machine powered down, its engine hum going down in pitch until it was too low to be heard, and then it shut off. The sole occupant of this vehicle unfastened his safety harness and stood up. He looked around, took a deep breath and smiled.
"I made it!" Kevin exclaimed. "After all that work, I'm finally here!" Kevin quickly opened the storage trunk of his invention and got out his equipment. He setup a complicated scanner on a tripod and started it up. Basically, the scanner would look for anything that it didn't understand. And the only thing here that the scanner wouldn't understand would be eight little mechanical marvels known as Digivices.

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"Okay, I just got an email from Gennai." Izzy sat at a picnic table with his laptop in front of him and the others crowded around behind him. "He says that all is well in the DigiWorld, and that the reconstruction is going very smoothly. File Island is back to its normal state, and most of Server is also done. Also, the digieggs that will eventually be Leomon, Wizardmon, and Piximon have all hatched and are at their baby stages at the moment. OH, here's a picture."
"Awwww, they're so cute!" said Mimi, looking at the picture Gennai had attached to the email. "And to think that something that tiny and cute could digivolve into something as big and powerful as Leomon."
"Any word on how Agumon is doing?" asked Tai.
"Yeah, and what about Gabumon?" asked Matt.
"Yeah, and Biyomon?" Sora added.
"And Gomamon?" Joe queried.
"And Palmon?" asked Mimi.
"How's Patamon?" TK asked excitedly.
"Is Gatomon okay?" asked Kari with that little bit of concern that she always has for her friends.
"All our digimon are doing very well, and Gennai says that they all wanted to say 'Hi' and tell us they miss us." Everyone was silent for a moment as they thought about their digimon, whom they hadn't seen for a whole year.
Uncomfortable with the sudden emotion everyone was feeling, including him, Izzy said, "They've all been very helpful in the rebuilding of the Digital World. Agumon and Biyomon have been spending a lot of time helping the Koromon and Yokomon villages get back on their feet. Gomamon has been leading a group of Bukamon in fishing trips to help get the food supplies back up to where they had been, and Gabumon's been helping out in a village of some digimon that Gennai forgot the name of."
"Typical Gennai, " Tai put in, "forgetting all the important stuff."
"Yeah," Izzy agreed. "Let's see.... Palmon and Gatomon have been helping out here and there with different things. Palmon mostly does environmental stuff, and Gatomon does whatever needs to be done the most wherever she happens to be. And Patamon and Tentomon have been messengers, mostly, flying from place to place keeping everyone up to date on what's going on and what needs to be done."
"Cool." said Matt.

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BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
"Aha! It found something."
Kevin ran over to the scanner and pushed the "REPORT" button. Immediately, a 3D map of the city appeared, and eight small red dots started flashing. "The digivices! And they're all in one spot! I was right!" Kevin mentally patted himself on the back for his great instincts. When he'd decided to come here and find the DigiDestined and their digivices, he realized that they might not be all together anymore, since their adventures were over. But then he realized that they'd probably get together a year later, to have an annual reunion or something. And he was right!
Excited that he was getting so close, Kevin packed up the scanner and jumped into his machine. Activating the machine's airplane mode, he took off from the roof of the building he was sitting on and flew in the direction of the signal.

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"Did Gennai mention any failed digivolutions since they started rebuilding?"
"No, he didn't, Joe. Why?"
"Well, remember what Apocalymon told us? He said he was made up of the failed digivolutions that have happened over the years. Well, if any digimon have tried to digivolve and disappeared, it might mean another Apocalymon or something worse."
"That's a good point, Joe, but I don't think we have anything to worry about. Gennai hasn't told me of anything like that, and besides, it took years for Apocalymon to form. I'm sure it'll be a long time before anything like that could happen again."
"I'm not so sure, but since there's nothing we can do about it, okay."
"Hey guys, " Sora suddenly said, "do you hear something?"
Everyone else strained to listen to the faint noise coming from the distance.
"It sounds like a jet plane," said TK.
"Don't be silly, TK," said Kari. "It's way too low to be a plane."
"Oh, yeah. Well, it still sounds like one!"
As the sound got louder and louder, the eight kids couldn't help but wonder what it was. And the only way to find out was wait until it got there.
---End of episode two---

Why is Kevin so interested in the kids and their digivices? What plans does he have for their impending meeting? Find out next time, on "Digimon: DigiMaster"!