My name is Connor Sanders. I’m a 25-year-old man with way too much free time on my hands as evident by me spending most of my time online doing… whatever has caught my interest that day. Sure, I have a job. I’m a web designer and programmer, but lately work has been hard to come by.

So! Here I am, snorting at stupid memes on Reddit and occasionally booting up my ps4 when that gets boring. Today was a bit different however... no, scratch that. Today was a LOT different.

I was doing my usual lazy surfing of Reddit when a sweet artwork of the OG Digimon team popped up.

“Ah man, that brings me back,” I mused with a small smile as my eyes fell on Tentomon.

Back when I was a little kid, Izzy was my favorite of the Digidestined (even if Agumon was my favorite Digimon), mostly cuz I could relate with him, being both an orphan and an outcast due to my… interests. Tech and all that had always interested me as a kid and the idea of a digital world and digital monsters just made those things that much more enthralling.

Seconds after this thought had popped into my head and I received a Gmail, “Who the hell messages someone on Gmail….” I muttered as I opened it.

The user name would be completely unreadable to most people, it was in binary, as was the message.

After giving a good look over and double checking (no room for mistakes when messing with code and binary) I determined it probably read like this:

Sender: Princess Celestia

Message: Greetings Mr. Sanders,

I hope this message finds you well. I’m afraid I can not say the same for myself or my people, or at least for our future. You see, I have received a vision of the future that centers around you. In this vision, you saved my-” I had, at this point, stopped reading it under my breath and started laughing my ass off.

“Oh man! This is a great prank. Gonna have to send this to a friend after tweaking the binary,” I said to myself, letting go of one more chuckle before going to click off the page… as an error message appeared.

“I wasn’t asking?” I read out loud with a dumbfounded look on my face. Immediately, my monitor collapsed in on itself as a dark blue, black hole… blue hole? Doesn’t matter, the point is I was letting out extremely manly screams as I held on to my desk for dear life. My lower half having already been sucked into the tunnel.

It took all I had to keep a hold of my monitor. Though, you must be wondering. Why struggle? I'm not entirely sure myself, maybe it was the fear of the unknown, a fear of being killed in a world not my own, or both. All I knew was that I was scared as hell and all I could think was:

“FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK,” Yeah... just that on loop as my arms slowly lost their grip on the desk. Not the most heroic of thoughts to have, but hey, when you get sucked into an interdimensional wormhole by the most powerful booty call in the universe, then you can judge me.

“Stop being so stubborn!” A feminine voice on the other end said.

“AHHHHH- wait is that Tara Strong?” I asked no one, pausing my screaming at the recognition of the voice of Raven from Teen Titans followed by a pain in my left arm, causing me to lose my grip. There was however, the sudden realization that I had lost said arm washing over me.

Scream.EXE has restarted.

“What wait no! Don’t release his partner now! He hasn’t cleared the data stream yet!” The Tara Strong voiced lady cried as I started flying backward. As I continued my manly screams of manliness, said fearful manly screams were quickly replaced by pain as I slammed into something small and hard.

The both of us screamed as I watched my remaining arm quickly rip part, stripped into simple 1s and 0s. The pain... or perhaps my body, simply ceasing to be caused me to lose consciousness.

And now we are all caught up.

“What are we going to do now, Twilight? He was supposed to be partnered with an Agumon. NOT FUSE WITH ONE!"

This new voice was the voice of a much older lady. She sounded pretty irritated... I opened my eyes and looked down to see two yellow, three-clawed arms. What she had said before decided to click in just then.

“Why am I an easily marketable yellow dinosaur?” I asked while looking up and glaring at the large white horse with rainbow-colored hair, a long-ass horn, and wings.

She seemed a bit taken aback as if she had just noticed me.

“Oh, my apologies. I didn’t realize you were awake. Greetings, I am Princess Celestia, the Prin-” She began taking a proud and regal pose, her introductory speech well underway… but nah bitch. You pulled me from my home against my fucking will. Fuck. You.

“Yeah I don’t care, send me home,” I say bluntly, gladly staring daggers at her.

“How dare you say that to the Princess!” A purple pony with purple hair and a magenta stripe in her hair shouted. She also had a horn and wings... does everyone in this universe have wings and a horn? Eh, probably not. Sides, getting in the face of a mini t-rex is not the best idea, she’s lucky I’m not a complete asshole or I'd have bitten her face off.

I then recognized her as the voice from the wormhole.

“Ah, Tara Strong... You shot my arm off,” I said, giving her an equally angered look.

Tara Strong the pony suddenly looked very apologetic before all of what I had said fully registered.

“Tara Strong? My name is Twil-”

“Tara Strong, yes I’m aware,” I say with a smirk, I have a feeling I’m not going home so might as well get some petty payback.

“That's not my name! It's Twi-

“Tara Strong.”

“Twi-

“Tara Strong.”

“Stop that!”

“Mmm... no.”

“That’s quite enough you two, it's time we got down to business,” Celestia, yes I'm ignoring her title if she ain’t my princess.

“Ah yes, sending me home,” I said, giving her a look of indignation.

She bit her lip before saying slowly, “I’m very sorry, but I’m afraid I... can't do that. As your original body no longer exists, your connection to your homeworld has been… severed,”

“FUCKING HELL!” I snap, causing the two ponies to jump in surprise. Sure, I expected this but it didn’t make it sting any less.

“I'm sorry,” She said worriedly, making a move to put her hooves on my shoulders.

“YOU'RE SORRY!? YOU RIP ME FROM MY HOME AGAINST MY WILL AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS YOU'RE SORRY!?” I roared at her, although it was probably more like an angry squeak given my body. I was seething in rage, a feeling within my stomach suddenly flared up as I felt a rush of energy going towards my mouth. Unfortunately, I realized way too late what was about to happen.

“Pepper Breath!” I shout out of instinct more than anything, a ball of fire flying straight at Celestia. It was blocked as soon as her horn lit up with what I assumed was magic, blocking the attack.

“Mr. Sanders please calm down, you might burn poor Fluttershy’s home….” Celestia said in what I assume must have been a soothing voice had I not been so fucking livid.

Tara strong didn’t seem to know what to do, just watching me with a dumbfounded look on her face.

“CALM DOWN!? YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN!? SEND ME HOME YOU FUCKING WHO-” Celestia’s eyes went wide as I started to finish my insult before being smacked upside the head, it didn’t hurt but it did surprise me.

“NO. None of that, watch your language young man,” A new voice, another woman said.

I whipped around to see a pink-haired pony with a butter yellow coat,and just wing. Just as I was about to snap at her, I noticed the look she was giving me… those damned light blue eyes of hers... when I met them, I was filled with a feeling of dread. It was the kind of dread you get when you broke your Dad’s windshield and you know he’s gonna beat your ass when he finds out. I couldn’t help but tremble under her gaze.

“Good, now I believe you have something to tell the Princess,” She said, giving me a stern look that reminded me of my mother.

“I’m sorry,” I bitterly mumbled under my breath.

“For what?” the pony said, keeping her stern tone.

“For cursing at you,” I said, hanging my head in defeat.

“Good, now listen to what the Princess has to say,” She said, her tone a bit gentler now.

“Uh…” The princess said looking dumbfounded before shaking her head and regathering her composure, “Thank you Fluttershy. Now, as I was trying to say before… our world has been having trouble with creatures called 'Digimon' appearing out of nowhere and wreaking havoc. For the past month or so, the royal guard and the Elements have been able to push back these creatures, but recently a more powerful Digimon who calls himself SkullMeramon had appeared,”

Celestia lit up her horn, causing the world to fade around us and be replaced by an expanse of fields.The first thing I noticed was the battalion of white ponies dressed in gold armour holding spears. There were quite a few of them, probably more than a hundred by my rough estimate, with Tara, Fluttershy, Celestia (who was clad in golden armour and wielding a large warhammer in her magic, as well as at the very front of the pack) and five other ponies I didn’t recognize. One with fluffy pink hair and a pink fur coat. She seemed to stand in a firm battle stance or what I assume she thought was a battle stance when in reality she was just getting super low to the ground and looked ridiculous. To the right of her was an orange coated pony with long blonde hair and a cowboy hat, she held a lasso in her mouth and seemed to have much better posture then the pink one. Hovering to the right of her was a rainbow maned, sky blue pony, she had a smug look on her face but the nervous twitching of her wings revealed her smug confidence was just a front, and to the right of her, planted firmly on the ground was a very posh looking white pony with purple hair and heavy dark blue eyeliner. She looked incredibly annoyed. To the right of Celestia was a pony with a long horn and wings the color of the night sky, no not the smog infested black you see in urban areas, I'm talking the pollution free dark blue. Her mane was a shade of midnight blue with a royal purple highlight and her eyes were light blue like Fluttershy’s. She was wearing glimmering silver armour and several long silver swords hovered around her in her magic.

“They look prepared,” I said after looking the small army over.

“Yep, we even brought the e
Elements for this one,” Tara said pointing out the golden jewelry, each one matching the main color of the six poines directly behind Celestia and the other winged and horned pony.

“Elements?” I asked with genuine interest.

“The Elements of Harmony are our world's main defense against most forms of evil,” Celestia explained.

“They use the power of my friends and our friendship!” Tara said happily, giving the group before a big smile

“Oh boy… friendship ex machina,” I muttered.

“Hmm?” Tara said, turning to give me a curious look.

“Oh nothing,” I sighed.

This gave me a raised eyebrow from the purple pony but she didn’t say anything.

“And that,” Celestia said pointing to the left of us, “Is the Ogremon and their lackeys."

I looked to see a group of Ogremon (about six I think) followed by a large company of Goblimon. The Ogremon (incase you don’t know what they look like) are large green skinned creatures with devilish horns that point up like bulls, long white unkempt hair, and a large mouth that is always open even when they aren't using it, giving them the appearance of always laughing maniacally. Their knuckles are covered with small metal disks that are embedded into the knuckle itself, and on their shoulders pop out three claw like bones. They wear red leather straps on their left arm and right thigh, leather straps on their right arm and left thigh, and they wear black leather shorts, topping all this off they wield a femur bone of a fallen dinosaur Digimon as their main weapon.

The red haired Goblimon however were short creatures with the same sickly green as their larger comrades. They had brown leather opened vests with a metal stud running along where the sleeve would begin if they had them, they also wore brown leather shorts held up by a belt of the same color, their weapon of choice was a wooden club that had metal screws poking out of it.

They marched in a more concentrated mass then the neat ranks of the ponies, but they seemed far more confident, chatting among themselves and exchanging laughs like they were heading to a football game or movie. When they got within a few yards of the ponies, they stopped. This seemed to confuse the ponies. The digimon simply held their position grinning at the ponies devilishly.

A few minutes passed.

“Well what are we waiting for?” The rainbow pegasus shouted having lost her patience.

“Something doesn’t sit right…” Celestia said, “They’ve never hesitated in charging before…”

The pony next to Celestia looked at the digimon before shouting, “What do you expect to gain from hesitation, creatures?”

The Orgremon howled in laughter and the Goblimon giggled mischievously, but they all held their tongues.

“We’ve waited long enough, let us push these creatures out of our lands sister,” The dark blue pony growled, looking to Celestia.

Celestia remained silent, watching the digimon carefully, a look of confusion on her face.

“SISTER, what are we waiting for?” The pony pleaded.

“Luna, I do not think it wise to take action without knowing what they have planned, they may be brutes but do not forget, they are also quite cunning, or lest you forget why you are without a guard?” Celestia said, giving her a disappointed look.

Luna winced but remained silent.

“Don’t you worry yer purty little ‘ed pony, da boss will be ‘ere soon, den you'll have a good fight,” One of the Ogremon said before getting a smack upside the head by one of his fellow Ogremon.

“Ah, so you are waiting for your leader,” Celestia said, a smirk growing on her face, “Well, let's make sure they have no one to lead,”

Luna got an excited grin on her face, “Does this mean we may commence the battle, dear sister!?”

Celestia nodded, gripping her hammer tighter in her magic and pointing it towards the mass of digimon, “FOR EQUESTRIA!!” She cried as she charged the mass, the rest of the ponies quickly following with a battle cry.

The digimon let out a roar as they charged to meet the pony’s head on. A mighty clash of digimon and ponies commenced. The Orgremon held the frontlines, clashing with Celestia and her sister Luna. Celestia was able to smack one of the Ogremon off its feet causing it to let out a grunt of pain, but another Orgremon quickly charged her, its club swing being blocked by one of Luna’s sword. The Orgremon surrounded the Princesses as the Goblimon tried in vain to push back the ponies, the cowgirl using her roped to swing a Goblimon into another like a make shift mace, the rainbowed haired one pulling off some fancy martial arts and knocking the Goblimon around as Tara and the posh mare blasted away at them with magic, the pink one seemed to just being dashing around throwing pies as Flutteryshy stayed back and gave moral support.

“So good, I guess,” I mumbled.

“This is how it usually went,” Celestia said as her past self, helped by Luna, blasted the Ogremon away with a quickly expanding shield of magic. Celestia’s eyes however (both past and present) were locked on the now quickly opening hole in the sky, not dissimilar to the one that brought me to this world.

“Sister, move!” Past Celestia shouted, after making a realization.

A second too late, something large slammed into the grounds where the sisters had just teleported from. Smoke cleared as a tall figure stepped out of the small crater he made. He had dark blue hair that spiked up and waved in an invisible wind, an aura of blue fire crackled over him, viciously sparking out every so often. His eyes seemed to glow red like hell fire, and his arms were covered in many sinister looking chains. He had a large muscular frame and a metal mask that gave him the look of constantly smiling mockingly and wore black leather jeans with a flame like artwork climbing up for the bottom of his jeans.The thighs had four large rings on each leg that wrapped around the entirety of his legs and heavy duty boots with a metal skull emblazoned on the end. Having seen him many times in games, and once in the show, he had always looked a bit silly, but seeing him here and in person I could only feel dread.

Despite myself, I shivered in fear at the sight of him, as did everyone else both past and present.

“Hey there, my little ponies, name’s Skullmeramon,” Skullmeramon said although he couldn’t change his facial features I couldn’t help but feel he was smirking when he said that, “Now if you could so kindly give up, I might let you live... for now,”

Luna scoffed, “We have no reason to fear you, creature. we have defeated plenty of your ilk before, and we will do the same to you!”

“Oh sweet cheeks, you ain’t never even dreamed of anything like me,” Skullmeramon said, his eyes' glow increasing for just a second.

Luna scoffed, “We shall see how long that bravado lasts, beast,” She then fired a beam of magic at the Skullmeramon, the beam striking him dead on, but to the ponies horror, the newcomer didn’t even seem phased by the attack.

“That's all you got?” The digimon asked, by his body language he looked… disappointed.

Luna quickly recovering from her shocked, quickly snapped, “Hardly!” And brought her twelves swords to bear as she charged the digital giant.

Skullmeramon outstretched his hand towards Luna, his chain tightening in anticipation and his eye glowing just a bit brighter. “Chain of Pain!” he said with a sickening laugh as a strand of chain shot out, catching Luna by surprise and wrapping tightly around her wings and legs The chains then lit into a furious blue flame, causing Luna to scream in pain... Much to the enjoyment of Skullmeramon.

“More, MORE!! Let me hear those delicious cries of agony!” Skullmeramon exclaimed letting out a sickening giggle.

“Let her go!” Celestia snarled before releasing a blast of magic from her horn and vanishing into thin air. The blast, as expected did nothing, as Skullmeramon just rolled his eyes before realizing she was gone.

“Now where did yo-” Skullmeramon mumbled before Celestia appeared right next to him on the opposite side from where he was looking, slamming her hammer into his left temple. Not even budging him, this momentary distraction as he turned to look at Celestia did free Luna from the chains, allowing her to teleport on the right side of Skullmeramon slashing at him with her swords. The blades harmlessly bouncing off his skin and chains much to their disappointment.

“Impossible!” Luna cried shock and horror spreading over her face like a tide of despair.

“iMpoSsIbLe,” Skullmeramon mocked before laughing, grabbing Celestia by the horn and using her as a hammer to slam Luna into the ground before spinning Celestia around like a top, letting her go with such force that she sailed like a boomerang over the battlefield.

“She’s going going going, and GONE!! SHE OUTTA HERE, HOME RUN!” Skullmeramon said cheering, the Goblimon and Ogremon who weren’t caught up in fighting the guard stopping to do the same. He then did a victory lap around Luna, humming the classic home run tune. Luna got up from where she was lying, a bit of blood dripping from her mouth.

“Ready for round two sweet cheeks?” Skullmeramon said, stopping to leer down at her, his eyes brightening once again.

“No…” Luna said chuckling.

“What's so funny?” The digimon asked, perplexed.

“I'm not the one you should be focusing on, sweet cheeks,” She gestured with her head to her right.

Skullmermon quickly looked to see Tara and her friends charging some kind of magical attack, the Elements glowing with magic power.

“Huh, that's neat,” Skullmeramon said, giving Luna a kick, to send her back on her side, “Whatcha doing, little ponies?”

“Bringing an end to this,” Tara said with a smirk, her eyes glowing white as a beam of rainbow energy spiraled out, slamming right into the goliath of a digimon.

To their credit, Skullmeramon was staggered back for a second, but he soon began to walk throug the beam seemingly only ever so slighty pushed back by it before he grabed onto the crown atop Tara’s head, and crushed it into tiny tiny pieces. He stoodevelingg in the pain, shock, and most of all fear, on Tara’s face.

“Th- tha-”

“What? Speak up, doll face. That’s not possible? This can’t be happening? Tough shit, it is. Now here’s what's gonna happen now. This whole area, is mine,” Skullmeramon gestured around him to the rest of the area as he nonchalantly grabbed the rest of the elements and crushed them in the faces of their wielders before he stopped at Fluttershy, he got down onto one knee looking the absolutely terrified pony in her eyes.

“Ya scared, doll face?” He asked, his eyes glowing brighter then ever before.

She couldn’t even stutter out a word, all she could do was nod rapidly.

“Oh thats good, that makes me feel real good,” He took his right hand and grabbed her head in it, stroking her cheek slowly with his thumb, tears of terror began to stream from her cheeks, “Ya know, I have a real likin for purty things, might have to come back later and grab you up, you’d make a amazin pet,” Skullmeramon said with a foreboding chuckle before letting go of the terrified mare. Her friends looked on in rage and disgust. Tara and the cowgirl holding back the rainbow haired one, saying things along the lines of: “We’ll get’em later,” or “It's too dangerous to charge him now,” which the pegasus seemed to outright ignore.

“Welp this was... fun, I guess. You can leave now, I got some shit to do. I expect proper accommodations for me and my crew when we get to your capital, now go on and get ready to welcome your new king,” Skullmeramon said with a laugh as he walked through the now lined and amassed group of Ogremon and Goblimon, “Come one boys we’ve got a crest to find!”

“So far, all attempts to stop him and his gang of Ogremon have been fruitless. Things seemed hopeless until I was contacted by a man going by the name, ‘Gennai’.He offered his assistance in return for locating a “DigiDestined” to bring to this world, apparently no longer possessing the power to do it himself. As for how he lost this power… he said it didn’t matter right now, he then gave us a time frame for when the Digimon partner would arrive and when to bring you in. As you can see it… didn’t go as planned.As I stand, you can’t be a Digidestined because you ARE a digimon. Thankfully, the digivice found another Digidestined that was hiding right under our muzzles,” She said the last bit gesturing to Fluttershy.

“So are you up for it,” Tara Strong asked with a large, forced smile.

“Fuck no,” I said with an 'Are you serious?' expression.

“What, why? Are peo-” Tara said looking very angry.

“Okay, don’t get me wrong, I am on board for helping. Mostly cuz I don’t really have a choice now, but SkullMeramon is an Ultimate level Digimon, and I’m a fucking Rookie-level Digimon. He could kill me by glaring too hard,” I said giving her a cold deadpan look.

“Rookie… Ultimate… what are you talking about?” Tara asked with a confused but curious look on her face.

I let out a sigh, of course they wouldn’t know about that, “Okay exposition time….”

I went on to explain the levels of Digimon (using a portable chalk board Tara teleported into the house cuz why not) to the ponies who, to their credit, couldn’t interrupt. For those at home who are just as clueless as Tara and Co. Digimon are complex creatures that have multiple levels of “digivolution” similar to pokemon if you need a frame of reference.

It starts at the egg stage. Digimon do not digivolve from this stage but simply hatch into the fresh stage, which soon (after about an hour) digivolves to an in-training form which can take a few months to digivolve to Rookie (the lowest level that can actually succeed in combat).

After many years (depending on how strong the champion level for this digimon is, stronger = longer) they reach the Champion level. Then, after that, it can take decades if it happens at all to reach the next level; Ultimate. Despite the name, Ultimate is not the final level.

After centuries or some outside means, a digimon can reach Mega (at this point the digimon is considered a god in their world as Mega are unbeatable by lower level digimon unless you have a literal army of Ultimates who MIGHT be able to beat the average Mega).

Then there is the last level and the rarest as only a handful have achieved it and the majority of them are fusions of two Megas (a fusion or DNA Digivolving is much stronger then just slapping the two together and calling it a day. Most DNA Digivolution can beat hundreds of a lower level digimon in a single attack), I then finished this with a bonus lesson of the type differences of digimon. Virus beats Data , Data beats Vaccine, and Vaccine beat Virus.

“Dear God, that was some long ass exposition…. Let's never do that again!” I exclaimed while giving them a look of righteous indignation.

“What are you talking about? That was great! Your points were concise and to the point just as a teacher should be,” Celestia beamed, apparently trying to encourage me.

Tara could do nothing but nod her head rapidly in joy as she looked over her notes… Fluttershy then raised her hoof shyly.

“Yes?” I asked while trying to raise my non-existent eyebrow.

“So, if it takes so long for Digimon to digivolve, why did Gennai even bother bringing you in? No offense but it sounds like you wont be able to fight this bad guy for years!” Fluttershy asked, looking a bit defeated, this realization also deflated the other two, their faces now downcast.

“Ah, don’t worry about it too much. You got that Digivice right?” I asked, feeling uncomfortable with their sudden mood change.

Fluttershy nodded, taking out a small Tomodachi that was mainly pink with green highlights.

'Not very suitable for the Greymon line of digimon as far as colors go,' I thought to myself before saying, “That thing lets me draw on your strength of will to Digivolve, lets see… for champion, you need to be in danger for me to Digivolve and I need enough energy. For Ultimate you need to do something to prove your unshaking courage and probably that crest he mentioned, and for Mega….”

The trio seemed to hold their breath in anticipation.

“No idea.”

The trio nearly fell over in shock.

“What do you mean no idea!?” Tara screeched at me.

“Just that, I have no idea. The first time Tai’s MetalGreymon Digvolved to Wargremon was after they fulfilled a prophecy. It was pretty much a miracle,” I shrugged.

“Wait, the vision you had Princess!” Twilight said, getting excited as she gained a hopeful look.

“Will no longer come to pass, I'm afraid. The vision showed him as a human with a Digimon partner, seeing as he is the Digimon now, and his partner is Fluttershy, we can no longer rely on it for guidance…” Celestia said, shaking her head.

“Drat,” I muttered, “Oh well, we’ll figure it out eventually… probably,”

“Well… I must return to Canterlot, you two should seek out the crest Skullmeramon spoke of, and pray Connor’s hunch is correct,” Celestia said with a sigh, before teleporting away in flash of golden light.

“Welp, this is gonna get interesting,” I said, dreading the inevitable encounter with the ultimate level digimon.

Author's Note

If you see grammer mistake tell me what the mistake is so I can fix it asap