Digimon: Digital Ponies

Chapter 1: Birth of Greymon Part 1

When we last left off our destined children had been falling towards their doom to the river below after defeating the bug Digimon known as Kuwagamon. So shall we see how their fate turned out?

The children fell towards the river below as the rock crumbled underneath them. As the children fell, the flying Digimon Tentomon, Biyomon, and Patamon tried to save their partners by grabbing hold of them and trying to fly back up with them. Sadly their strength gave out just a small amount of time later. Mimi’s partner Palmon attempted to use her ivy to grab hold of a piece of rock to stabilize them and stop their fall but after her vines went taught the foundation gave out as another large section broke off and they continued to plummet down to the river.

Babydmon had also tried to help out Richard by grabbing hold of the back of his jacket with his wispy tail and flapping his little wings as hard as possible. Sadly that didn’t really work as his tail was more like air and so his grip gave out a few seconds later as he exhausted himself for no reason. Twilight was already tired as her form glowed yellow while falling. She ended up changing back into Kyaromon as she fell towards the river as well.

Thankfully the seal Digimon, known as Gomamon, was able to act quickly enough as he called out upon splashing into the river. “Fishnet!” as he said that a whole bunch of colorful fish that came together, forming under those in the river as a raft, while those still falling landed safely on it. Tai was on his back next to Agumon as he said in a dazed voice, “Wow this is some ride.”

They heard the roaring above them as the Kuwagamon fell as well and Matt pointed upwards as it continued falling and shouted, “Hey. Lookout.” And frantic Gomamon looked at the fishes and shouted, “Go!” So the fish started to move faster to get out of the way of where the Kuwagamon was going to land. The Kuwagamon and the rest of the cliff hit the water, and a massive wave threatened to overtake the raft and the group on it.

The wave managed to flow underneath them, but the fish raft was caught up on the upswell so that the children and their partners were riding it on top of the wave. They had to hold on for dear life as they were pushed along at high speed by the water underneath them. Bits of rock flowing together in the stream alongside them as they closed their eyes.

The water finally pushed them onto a bank and splashed up against the trees there. Thankfully the clearing they landed in was big enough to hold them all while they gained their bearings.

Unfortunately for the Kuwagamon, he was washed along the river without a chance to pull himself out. And so he has swept on ahead of the children and out of sight. Fortunately for the bug Digimon, he was able to later pull himself out upon reaching the stream. But he decided to leave the kids alone for the time being as he didn’t want to be humiliated by them again. And so after pulling himself out, he went flying off to a different part of the island hoping to have better luck there.

After a bit of time recovering, Mat felt the need to speak up and act all cool and collected as he said,”I knew we would be alright. I wasn’t worried.”

Joe was down on all fours with his glasses askew on his face and eyes closed. He asked in a relieved voice, “What was that thing? A floating fish market?”

“Lucky for us those fish were having a school reunion, haha,” Gomamon said with a laugh as he moved over to Joe. Seeing the confusion on his face, Gomamon couldn’t keep his joke up any longer and simply replied, “I’m kidding. Those fish are good friends of mine, and I just asked them for a lift.”

Joe, having just sat back up and pushed his glasses back on his face, replied. “A-and all these years I thought I was allergic to seafood, thank you,” he said, before the realization that Bukamon was different. “Um, I guess it’s not Bukamon?” he asked.

The seal Digimon grinned as a flashback of his Digivolution played in Joe’s head, and he replied, “Gomamon now.” He wagged his tail happily as he kept the grin in place on his face.

Joe repeated his name firmly to make sure he had it right, “Gomamon.”

T.K. was over by his own partner and leaned forwards as he asked, “And I guess you're not Tokomon anymore?”

Patamon nodded as his ears flapped and he responded,”uh-uh. Now I’m Patamon.”

Agumon and Tai both got to them as Agumon spoke happily, “It's all because we digivolved.”

Tai was puzzled as he replied, “I don’t think that word is in my dictionary.”

Izzy got to his feet as Tentomon hovered in the air by him. Izzy looked curious as he said in a tone of awe, “So digivolving is what happens when they advance to the next level and become more powerful than before.”

Tentomon moved forwards as he confirmed it, “Right. All of us digivolved. I want from Motomon to Tentomon.” he was pointing one of his small taloned legs at Izzy as he said this.

Sora looked down at her partner with curiosity as well while Biyomon spoke up while putting a wing claw up to her beak. “I digivolved from Yokomon to Biyomon.”

Gabumon started to speak as Matt looked down at him as well, “First I was Tsunomon, then Gabumon.”

Mimi was kneeling down near Palmon as Palmon gestured to herself, “And I went from Tanemon to Palmon.”

Agumon lifted a claw and pointed at himself as well, “And me. I was Koromon. I digivolved to Agumon.”

Tai put his arms and hands behind his head as he replied, “Mmmmhmmm. When you digivolved, you certainly got way bigger. Does this mean your something different now? Or are you still Digimon?”

Agumon smiled as he replied, “Digimon! But I needed your help, Tai.”

Richard watched the exchanges with interest as he looked down at the purple Digimon who had resumed her form from before. He frowned as he looked down at the unconscious Digimon. “Hmm. The question is why did she end up going back to her previous form instead of staying in her new one? I can’t ask her right now cause she’s unconscious.” He looked over at the softly floating Babydmon and said, “And you didn’t digivolve with the others because you were unconscious yourself. What’s your name anyway?”

Babydmon smiled as it floated around him, “My names Babydmon. But you can just call me Shadow cause I’m as dark as shadows. It’s a nickname I gave myself because I didn’t look like other Digimon. I looked more like a bad Digimon to others than a good one. So I learned to hide and watch in the shadows.” He said, clarifying what he meant to Richard. “But I don’t know what kind of Digimon she is, as no Digimon, ever, has jumped lines before.”

Richard frowned as he listened and kept his sunglasses on his face to hide his eyes. He finally asked after a moment, “Lines? Are you saying that you Digimon each has some sort of evolutionary line that you go through?”

Shadow nodded with a smile as he floated around, “That’s right! Each of us has our own line that we follow as we digivolve.” He then looked at the unconscious Digimon, “But she did something completely different by jumping from her own evolutionary line to a completely different one. That’s something that’s never been done before and breaks the natural order of things.”

Richard nodded as he continued to look down at her, “Maybe she’s somehow different from the standard Digimon. She did say something about being a ‘Princess of Friendship’ while you were out. Have you ever heard of something like that before?”

Shadow shook his head as he floated closer to Richard and replied in confusion, “Uh no. Never heard of anything like that before. I mean there are Digimon out there that are princesses I’m sure, but I’ve never heard of one that was a princess of friendship.” He went silent as he looked upon the purple Digimon. Richard went silent as well as he looked at her as well, “I hope that she wakes up soon.” Richard went back to listening to the exchanges.

Tai was continuing in a questioning tone, “Me? For what?”

Agumon replied with a factual tone, “You see. Digivolving is a complicated process. To be successful, I had to share your energy.”

Tai tilted his head as his tone went to disbelief, “Really?”

Sora bent down towards Biyomon with her hands on her knees as she addressed Biyomon, “I guess you don’t run on batteries.”

Biyomon turned to Sora as she looked up at her human partner as she smiled, “Sure don’t!”

Izzy turned to Tentomon with his curiosity in his voice, “But how do you access my energy?”

Tentomon laughed a bit, “hehe. Not even we know everything.” He continued to hover in the air in front of his partner.

Palmon did a twirl in front of Mimi as she happily said, “Thanks for my magical power.”

Mimi placed a hand under her chin as she replied, “The whole thing makes my head spiny.”

T.K. moved around his partner with his arms behind his head as he said in wonder, “I helped you change? That is so cool!”

Patamon had an unsure look on his face as he replied, “Yeah. Sure is!”

Joe now had his arms crossed as he looked away, “Mom warned me about strangers!” His eyes were closed as he looked stern.

Gomamon looked hurt as he replied, “I’m not a stranger Joe. I’m your friend for life!”

Joe folded his arms more tightly as he bowed his head a bit, “Hmmm.” He made the noise in a disapproving tone.

Mat turned and to the others as he said, “Ok come on. What are we going to do?”

The others looked around unsure until Joe spoke up, “If only there were a payphone nearby. We could call the police or the fire department or my mother!”

Tai replied with disbelief in his voice, “But we don’t even know where we are!” And looked up into the air with the others as Sora spoke up next.

They were all looking up at the mountain in the middle of the island as she said, “We know where we started. Up there on that mountain.”

Matt proposed, “I say we forget about going back and explore around here!”

Joe stood resolute as he replied, “I’m not exploring anywhere. I say we stay right where we are!”

Matt replied with sarcasm, “Yeah. Let’s wait for that giant bug to come get us. We need to find a road leading someplace to get away from here!”

Izzy turned to him with a more neutral expression but replied affirmative, “Matt’s right. But without a compass, we don’t even know which way is north.”

Tentomon spoke up almost immediately causing Izzy to turn to him as he looked down, “Wait I do!”

Izzy replied, “Well which way is it?”

Tentomon started to move around as he began to point, “Its the opposite of south.” And so his talon just looked in a random direction. Izzy let out a sigh of disbelief as he closed his eyes and shook his head.

Joe was scowling as he continued to stand where he was and complained, “I shouldn’t wear these pants. They ride up on me when I do a lot of walking.”

Sora put a hand to her hip as she said, “You know if we could get back to where we were before we might at least find some clue as to why we’re here in this place.”

Mimi looked up at Sora in despair a bit, “Wait! Are there more monsters around like that big flying beetle?”

Palmon spoke up before Sora could, “Yes indeed.” And Mimi responded in disgust, “Ick.”

Matt continued to play cool as he looked out over the area, “Those monsters don’t scare me.”

Tai asked Agumon, “Are there humans?

Agumon looked up at him questioningly, “Humans? Others like you?”

Tai nodded his head and made an affirmative noise as Agumon continued factually, “You’re the first ever! There’s never been anything but Digimon.”

Tai replied factually as well, “So, ok, You’re all Digimon.” He turned to look at some of the trees as he continued, “But what about these monsters? They’re all Digimon too?”

Sora sighed as she replied, “It's creepy and dangerous. And what happens when it gets dark?”

Matt frowned, “Whoever says it gets dark here?”

Izzy folded his arms as he replied, “That phenomenon would be unnatural!”

Joe worriedly replied, “You call this natural?”

Tai looked at the rest of the group as he replied, “Well we’re not going to find out anything by sitting around here.” And with that, he started to walk off as he began to grin.

Matt asked in frustration, “Where do you think you’re going?”

Tai replied happily, “Upon that cliff, that’s where I saw the ocean.”

Mat replied in confusion, “The ocean?”

“Yup,” Tai replied as he looked back, “There might be a boat or something.” And then continued to walk on down along a trail.

Matt said in disbelief, “Huh. Let’s water ski home.” Sora looked at him with a frown, “Ha. Funny.”

Joe looked resolute as he closed his eyes and held his fist close to himself, “At a time like this I think we’d be far better of to just find a cave and hide. We keep our eyes open and when a camp counselor comes…” He was cut off as Gomamon called out, “Hey Joe everyone’s leaving us.” He then started off after the others. Joe ran after the group with hand raised, “Wait for me.

Richard didn’t want to be left behind as well, so he carefully picked up the unconscious purple Digimon and followed along behind Joe to catch up with the group. Shadow the Babydmon floated alongside him as he commented, “Everyone in this group sure likes to speculate and complain. That Joe fellow seems to be such a worrywart. I mean, is there anything he ‘doesn’t complain about?”

Shadow giggled at the comment before leaving the clearing along with the other, barely noticing a small purple shard in the sand. He swooped down to it as he proclaimed, “Ooo a shiny gem. I like it.” He grabbed it in his mouth before fluttering off after Richard happily. He landed on Richard’s shoulder with the shard held in his mouth as he waved a wing to get Richard’s attention.

Looking over, Richard saw the strange gem before a little tug-of-war broke out as he tried to get Shadow to let go of it. When he finally did, it slipped out of his hand and landed on the still unconscious Digimon. To the shock of both, the shard seemed to merge with the Digimon, digivolving her back to the Kudamon Richard remembered seeing right before he was knocked out.

Shadow blinked in surprise before shaking his head roughly, “What the heck is going on? She shouldn’t be able to digivolve that easily. And now I don’t have my shiny gem.” He said this last part in a disappointed tone. “Well, at least she’s no longer an in-training like me.” He floated closer to to the now gently sleeping Digimon unaware that she would be able to lash out and pull him close. He was caught off guard however when the sleeping Digimon latched onto him and pulled him into her sleeping embrace, causing a series of unfortunate squeaks to erupt from Shadow.

Richard just burst out laughing as he continued to walk along with the rest of the group. The other children had noticed the movement and started laughing as well as the purple Digimon proceeded to make the Babydmon squeak by gently squeezing him in her sleep. Shadow, on the other hand, was somewhat indignant about it as between squeals he said, “It's….not….funny. Stop….laughing!”

Richard continued laughing as he said, “Haha. It seems that she’s found her new squeaky plush toy. You’re never going to live this down Shadow.”

Shadow was about to squeeze out of the Digimon grip when he noticed something none of the others, nor Richard had; tears. In a soft voice, the only shadow heard, he could make out just one word, “Spike.” This caused him to freeze and think for a moment before just allowing himself to be cuddled and squeezed by the silently crying Digimon. He sighed to himself before glaring at the others who were still laughing, “I’ll….get...you...all….for….this!”

Matt laughed a bit as he said, “Nice try Babydmon, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. You're stuck there for now.”

Tai and Agumon laughed as well before Agumon replied, “It’s not that bad Babydmon. It could be worse.”

Sora finally spoke up after calming down, “So Richard. What brought you all the way to Japan anyway? Not that it’s not great and all but I’m curious as to why.”

“Well, my dad landed a job at one of the leading game companies in Tokyo and saved up money for my mom and me to have summer vacation over here,” Richard replied, while silently glad that Shadow’s squeaking finally stopped for a moment.

Sora blinked for a moment as she smiled, “Cool.”

Tai asked the next question, “What game company does he work at? Is it that Sony company?”

Richard just smiled a little smugly when he replied, “Nope, Nintendo. Lead designer.”

Tai’s jaw dropped, “Nintendo. No way! That company’s hard to get into. That’s awesome!”

The others nodded in agreement before Izzy broke the silence with his own question, “So where did you appear when we got here? We noticed you weren’t with the rest of us. And why do you have two partners instead of one like us?”

“Both questions I don’t know the answer to, but the first at least I can somewhat answer thanks to what Babydmon has told me. Apparently, I woke up near what he called the Primary Village. He said it was where all new Digimon get their start,” Richard said, before holding up the strange digivice, “As for the other Digimon partner, I don’t know, but my instincts are telling me that she is the key to… something.”

Izzy nodded his head as he replied inquisitively, “I see. But how did you end up on the back of that Kuwagamon? Surely you didn’t just jump on its back while you were in the first village.”

This time it was the Babydmon that spoke, “See that’s the thing, we didn’t,” upon seeing the confused looks the others were giving him Shadow clarified. “What I mean to say is that we tried to stop it from taking this Digimon,” he said pointing to Twilight, “But by then we were too late. After it was out of sight, however, That second digivice lit up, and somehow we found ourselves on the Kuwgamon’s back.”

Izzy frowned in thought, “Hmm. The digivice must be linked to your partner Digimon in some way. A way that will let you get to your partner if she’s in trouble and you need to save her.”

Tai responded, “Seems cool to me. That just means you can protect your partner if she’s in trouble and she can’t protect you.” They all nodded in response to this and fell back into silence as Richard started to just listen to the others talk again.

As the group walked along the trail on the riverbank, Gomamon swam next to the shore in the river itself as he kept up with them. His tail was showing up above the water as he smiled. Sora finally spoke up again, “These trees are beautiful.”

Izzy responded more happily, “Yeah they’re really different, and I just thought they were subtropical.”

Joe walked along with his hands on the straps of his bag, “Whatever they are, they’re aggravating my hay fever.”

Mat spoke up next, “Hey Joe. Is there anything you don’t complain about?” He was a bit irritated with Joe’s constant complaining.

Izzy spoke to himself, “Digital Monsters. Who came up with that name anyway?”

Tentomon overheard and replied, “Just call us Digimon. We like that!”

Izzy turned to look at him, “I only ask because your composition isn’t at all machine-like.”

Tentomon replied a bit peeved, “Oh really?” And leaned forwards as he sparked his electricity between his wings.

Izzy put his arms and hands up to his face as he said, “Hey! Watch it!” he exclaimed.

T.K. smiled at his partner as he asked, “So Patamon, can you really fly?”

Patamon smiled as he jumped into the air, “Of course.” He flapped the wings on his head with an effort and started flying.

T.K. looked at him happily, “That’s cool. But you’re going the wrong way.” For indeed Patamon was moving backward rather than forwards.

Biyomon bragged as she flapped her wings in the air, “I’m faster than that. Watch!” And tried to fly faster than Patmon but ended up going the same pace and falling behind the others as Sora replied questioningly, “Wouldn’t be faster just to walk?”

Mimi walked alongside Palmon as she asked her partner, “Palmon, I’ve been meaning to ask. Who does your hair?”

Palmon replied happily, “It’s natural. I wake up in the morning like this.”

Mimi smiled herself happily as she put her hands together, “Wow. Maybe you could let me work with it.”

Palmon looked up at her with her toothy smile, “Do you think you put too much emphasis on appearance?”

Mimi looked confused as she replied, “Well. Honestly, I’ve never really thought about it.”

Palmon looked embarrassed as her face lit up red a bit, “Honestly, I kind of like my hair the way it is.

Tai walked along with his head down a bit as he talked to Agumon, “Once I get back this is going to make one great story. Yup, but of course not a single soul will ever believe me.”

Agumon looked up at him with a smile and nodded.

Izzy started speaking irritatedly, “That Kuwagamon back there. He was huge.”

Tentomon replied, “And he’s not the only one.”

Gabumon was the next to speak up as they walked along as he sniffed the air with his snout, “Aah. Nothing like the ocean.”

Gomamon started laughing happily, “Haha. Everybody in the water!”

T.K. grinned as the neared the ocean, “Hey let’s build a giant sandcastle.” And of course, Mimi complained about it, “Oh and I forgot my bathing suit.”

And that’s when Matt told the others, “Wait. Everybody listen.” And that’s when in the distance they heard the sound of phones ringing. “What is that?”

Tai replied in wonder, “A phone.”

Sora looked in disbelief, “Either that or we’re all hearing things.”

And so the group rushed off towards the ocean even as Babydmon said, “Whatever it is. I hope we can get there soon. I don’t know how much more of this squeezing I can take!” For once again the purple Digimon was squeezing him as she held him close making him squeak like crazy. Only this time she was doing it more happily than anything else. And so our group of destined children ran off towards the beach to see what they could find.

Author's Note

Hey everyone. I hope you liked this part of the first chapter. It took a lot for us to do but it was worth it. We had fun adding in our own content. Sorry that there's now battles in this part but that's just the way things work. Here we at least saw some background for Richard and some funny moments. So Enjoy everyone. And comment below on what you liked.