Episode 2: A New Evil! (Part 1)

A boy with short brown hair wearing a long brown trench coat had just appeared with an orange looking dragon Digimon. "Hello, who are you?" Evander asked Reagen. "I'm glad I'm not the only Human here." Evander said with relief. Jessica leaned towards Evander. "umm....Evander….about that whole 'human' thing.." She said. Evander had a quizzical look and scoffed towards Jessica. "What? Are you going to tell me you've been an alien in disguise or something? Or are you really a Digimon?" Evander asked sarcastically. Jessica grimace. "Alien…well…if by alien you mean I come from a planet different than your own, then….yes, I'm alien. More specifically, I'm a mermaid." Jessica said, nervousness filled every ounce of her voice. Evander burst out laughing. "That's hilarious! Alien mermaids! Hahaha! Jessica, you slay me!" Evander said laughing really hard. Jessica blushed. She looked off to the side and rubbed her arm while blushing slightly. She had just made a huge confession and Evander was making light of it. But then, could she really blame him? His people had been taught to think that her people were myths. "I'm not….joking." Jessica then reached down and began removing her pants. Evander blushed furiously and began moving his hands back and forth rapidly. "Whoa! Whoa! What are you doing!?" Evander exclaimed. "The transformation won't work if I'm wearing pants." Jessica replied. When the pants were off, she tossed them to the side and caused her legs to become a mermaid tail. "see?" She said. Evander stared in shock at what had just taken place. "The….flip!? JESSICA, WHAT THE FLIP!?" Evander exclaimed in shock. Jessica grit her teet and twirled her hair with her finger. "I've been….wanting to tell you this….ever since I first met you." Jessica said.

Mario watches the scene before him. First, he met a cat-girl, and now he met a mermaid. THis was too much. Before anyone had a chance to do anything else, Mario fainted.

"Aw gee," Guilmon says as he and Agumon rush over to Mario.

Flora continues to walk for a bit and then stops. She turns a bit to see if the boy had turned and continued to follow her, but he wasn't there. She listened for footsteps, but there were none. She thought about the boy, how he seemed to be so interested in her, and yet...

She shook her head. Why was she thinking of that boy?

Gatomon looks at her and assumes something. Gatomon chuckles and says, "Oh, I think I get it now."

"Get what?" Flora asks.

"You like him," Gatomon says, a bit of amusement in her voice.

"What? NO! I don't like him!" Flora says, her ear twitching a bit in irritation.

"Come on," Gatomon says. "Why else were you looking back for him?"

"He was stalking us earlier!" Flora yells. "I was making sure he wasn't still doing it!"

"If he was still following us, I would have and I'm sure that you also would have heard his footsteps if any," Gatomon says.

Flora's eye twitches a bit before she turns away from Gatomon and starts to walk away.

Gatomon chuckles again. "I bet she thought we wouldn't notice that this road takes us back to FIBN HQ."

Palmon shrugs. "Tell me, do you really think she's in love?"

"Are you kidding?" Gatomon asks. "Didn't you see her a few seconds ago? She was showing a small amount of love for him when she looked back. And why do you supposed we digivolved back in the alley shortly after she sighed, which I could tell had a thin trace of affection in it?"

Palmon said nothing.

"Well I'm human." Evander said. "And I Guess that Mario's an oger." Evan said sarcastically.

Silence.

"That's not funny," Agumon says, "And I doubt it's safe to say stuff like that even when the person you're talking about is unconscious."

"Well, sorry." Evander said with a frown.

Regan had a really weird look just for a few instants, then he looked at Mario who fainted.

"When I think of it...I think I may have seen weirder things than a mermaid...

Heck...Dragons ARE something to behold..." Regan thought as he kneeled close to the fainted boy.

"Great, you really needed to do that, girl?" Regan said to the mermaid.

Lizomon frowned heavily. Of course he knew of much strange things, but mermaids...that was something new to see.

"Geez, has the Digital World started to connect to more than only the Real World?" Lizomon said.

"I had to get that off my chest." Jessica said, turning her tail back into legs and putting her jeans back on. Evander bent down and picked up a pencil. "Hey look, I found Pencil." Evander said.

"You're exactly right, Regan." Out of the alley comes Jijimon. "Earth isn't the only world that's connected to the Digital World. Many other planets have been connected with this world. Some, for example, have already made way for new arrivals." As he walks toward the group, he accidentally bumps into Mario, who was still unconscious. "Oops. What have we here, eh?"

"He fell unconscious," Agumon says.

"Is that so?" Jijimon brings his foot up and stamps it down hard on Mario's outstretched arm.

"YEOUCH!" Mario yells as he bolts upright, nearly flipping himself onto his belly.

"There, he is awake," Jijimon says.

Evander cringes as he sees his new red haired friend get his hand stomped on. "Ooh that must have hurt!" Evander said.

"Heh, nice to see you again Jijimon. We'd really need to find out more aobut what's happening around here. What's making the Digital World calling up from even beyond Earth?

I hope it doesn't call anyone from Azeroth." Regan said.

"Doubtful. Krasus told us that Azeroth was not a world that could get any kind of connection to the Digital World, though I don't know how exactly. Oh well, must be something that happened on his world." Lizomon said.

Jijimon shrugs. "I'm still trying to look into that. I have some of the Digital World's best minds working together to solve this. We got Gennai, Yukio, Yamaki, Ophanimon, Seraphimon, Cherubimon, We got just about everyone gathered together, but no one has an answer. We feel it has to do with the sudden disturbance in the nature of many of the surrounding Digimon, but we don't have a lot of solid proof there." Jijimon turns around, staring out into space. "Many portals are forming between the Digital World and these other worlds. I doubt any of this will really affect anything, but if there are portals opening, then I fear for the worst." He turns back to the others. "In the past, Digidestined from Earth were brought to the Digital World through such portals when great evil hit us., but if there are many portals to many other worlds opening, I fear that there is an evil so great, so powerful, it'll require Digidestined from all over the universe to stop it."

Mario blinks a bit. "I lost you at the gathering of the Digital World's greatest minds. Who's Gennai or this Yukio guy? And what about this other guy? Yamaki, was it?"

Terriermon started bouncing enthusiastically. "Moumantai, let's go!" He said. Ladybugmon looked at him and tilted his head in confusion. "Go Where?" Ladybugmon asked. "To go help with the answer." Terriermon repleid. Evander patted the little bunny Digimon on the head. "But we don't even know what the problem is." Evander said.

Regan looked partly annoyed at Evander. "Kids..." he muttered.

He looked at Mario, Evander and Jessica. "Listen up. What Jijimon has told us is that obviously, there are powerful threats that are starting to appear, threats much beyond anything that the Digital World has rarely faced.

I know of such things because I'm a Digidestined who already came here four years ago."

"Oh, and by the way, I'm Regan." he added.

"And I'm Lizomon. Mighty and skilled digimon." Lizomon said with a grin. Then his smile faded. "What Jijimon spoke about Gennai and others, these persons he spoke about are obviously some brilliant persons that live in this world.

I may not know every one of them, but I know most of them.

Gennai is one that once lead a group of special humans that had the task to grow and make the crests and digimons of the future digidestineds. Ophanimon and Seraphimon are the celestial angel digimons, which are very powerful by the way. As for the other, I'm sure Jijimon here can tell about who they are.

Oh, and by the way, Azeroth is the name of another world."

Regan looked at Jijimon. "Did Krasus contact you recently? He is after all another expert on the Digital World, and especially about outer-world threats." he said.

Evander was getting Annoyed. "I know About battling evil, I watch Digimon on TV." Evander said.

Lizomon bursted out laughing.

"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Watching that Digimon show is not like having been there. Those characters in the show could probably tell you a word or two about it!

Yup! They exist! From which reality you think we come from? We figured, mainly thanks to another Digidestined who also come from a reality where Digimon were but a TV show, that the reality we come from is the one that you would consider as the one of the Seasons 1 and 2.

Yup, we know about those guys, like Kari, TK, and so on." Lizomon said.

Regan said nothing. He knew too well that Kari hadn't taken that very well when she discovered at first that her adventures had been a TV show in another reality. That would surely have given a shock to anyone…

Evander got flustered and stomped his foot a couple of times while squinting. "AHH! I'm saying....well....Never mind!" He angrily said before turning his head and folding his arms with his eyes shut. Then Evander opened his eyes and turned to look at Lizomon and Regan. "Hold on a sec, you know TK and Kari?" Ladybugmon looks around. "What's a TV show?" Ladybugmon asked. "What's a TV?" Evander goes to sit on a nearby bench. "Don't worry about it, Ladybugmon. You're still a newly created Digimon. You'll learn lots of things you need to know in time." Terriermon said as he glided over to sit on Evander's Shoulders.

Mario nods, still trying to absorb everything.

Jijimon nods. "Yes, I've had some contact with Krasus. Not a lot, though. Perhaps a few minutes, but that's all. Unfortunately, we haven't learned anything from him either."

Flora watches from a different alley. This alley wasn't as easy to spot, so she could spy and leave without being caught. So far, everything had fascinated her.

"Seriously," Palmon says. "Couldn't we go out there and listen?"

"No," Flora says. "I'd rather not draw attention to myself."

"Are you sure this isn't to check on your boyfriend?" Gatomon teases.

"HE IS-" Flora slaps her hands to her mouth and checks to see if anyone heard her. It didn't appear so. She turns to Gatomon and mutters, "He's not my boyfriend! He's not even a friend!"

"Riiiiiiight," Gatomon says sarcastically.

Lizomon absently listened to the conversation, but his mind was slightly on something else.