Kanda had never believed there were gods in this world, but now he was starting to. Otherwise, how could he explain what was happening to him? He'd caught the wave of transmigrators and—lucky him—become one of them. On a blustery, rainy night, with no lightning strike, no computer short, no car accident… none of the usual omens, he crossed over. He planned to just live quietly here, but the moment he learned his name was Tai Kamiya and he had a little sister named Kari Kamiya, his brain went blank. If he remembered right, in the anime he watched as a kid, Digimon, there was a pair of siblings among the eight protagonists with exactly those names. Kanda went to the study, turned on the computer, and searched for Digimon—found nothing. He finally confirmed this was indeed that dangerous world for the eight "Chosen Children," the DigiDestined.
The thought that someday he and his sister, Kari, would be sent to a strange world as so-called saviors made Tai anything but calm. Back then he'd be only seven. Sure, he'd have a partner, but there were countless powerful enemies. Even if Agumon would eventually reach the Mega stage as WarGreymon, that was a far-off dream. At the start, Agumon would only be at an In-Training stage. No matter how fast you grow, you still need time. He figured he needed some survival skills instead of rushing into the Digital World like in the original—wilderness survival, for one. Most important of all, he should study programming. That was paramount.
He still remembered parts of Digimon's plot: eight kids and their partner Digimon save the Digital World and the Real World. In 1999, excessive data growth in the Digital World threw the link between the Digital and Real Worlds into disorder. Odd natural phenomena appeared on Earth: no rain across Southeast Asia and ponds dried up; the Middle East flooded from ceaseless downpours; the U.S. suffered its coldest winter on record; and in Japan snow suddenly fell. Tai Kamiya and his friends went to summer camp and were mysteriously sent to a vivid, multicolored Digital World. Endless mysteries unfolded before the DigiDestined. The adventure had already begun! Legend said that when the Digital World was shrouded in darkness, the DigiDestined would arrive; with ever-evolving partner Digimon, they would battle without rest, defeating Devimon on File Island, Etemon on the Server Continent, and Myotismon who invaded the Real World. After VenomMyotismon was defeated, the Real World's sky warped; the children returned to the Digital World and faced MetalSeadramon who ruled the seas, Puppetmon who controlled the forests, Machinedramon who dominated the cities, and Piedmon, the jester who wielded the darkness. Through the adventure, the DigiDestined were tempered again and again, and with the help of their Digimon, they finally defeated the Dark Masters. Yet their true enemy was Apocalymon from beyond the Firewall, the monster manipulating everything from the shadows—a terror that made their blood run cold. It shattered the Crests that enabled Digivolution and broke their data apart. But the children regained their confidence, letting their inner virtues shine; their Digimon returned to the field and stopped the enemy's scheme. Apocalymon was vanquished and the Digital World was reborn: first the Islands, then the Ocean, and at last the Continents. Digi-Eggs rained down on Primary Village without end. With the new world born, they had to part from their partners. And after that came the story of the second series.
One night, when he and Kari saw an egg come out of the computer, Tai remembered this had to be the Highton View Terrace incident (also called "The Birth of Koromon"), which was the start of all their adventures. Four years earlier (1995), a Digi-Egg accidentally slipped through a gate and fell into the Kamiya home at Highton View Terrace. The girl there, Kari Kamiya, caused the egg to hatch at remarkable speed into Koromon and even evolve to the Champion-level Greymon, who defeated the Parrotmon sent to retrieve him. The speed of that evolution shocked the Digital World. Those who sought the Digital World's stability dispatched Parrotmon to recover Greymon and, at the same time, scanned the data of the people involved—Kari Kamiya, her brother Tai Kamiya as a point of comparison, and everyone who had witnessed Greymon's battle with Parrotmon. After analysis by "Agents," they discovered that human children each possessed spiritual traits such as Courage, Friendship, Love, Knowledge, Purity, Sincerity, and Kindness. These traits contained hidden potential. Kari Kamiya, however, was different: her trait was "Life" itself—akin in meaning to the Digital World's "Evolution," and to "Truth" and "Beauty"—so they named her trait "Light," as in the source of life. Because of the time differential, four years in the Real World equaled tens of thousands of years in the Digital World. During that span, the fundamental qualities of Digimon continued to evolve.
Later, Digimon appeared that could form special bonds with children in the Real World—able to sense children's spiritual traits and evolve rapidly, even purge the surplus darkness within the Digital World. These were the so-called partner Digimon. "Homeostasis," the one who seeks the Digital World's stability, created a relay device that could transmit a child's heart to their Digimon—the Digivice—and also forged amplifiers that heightened a child's spiritual traits—the Tags and Crests (the crest emblems matched the wave patterns observed on an oscilloscope while measuring the children's heart-patterns). With the "Children of Humans," "Partner Digimon," Digivices, and Crests, the Digital World was pulled back from major crises many times. Apocalymon was one of those crises as well, but the number of children and partner Digimon at the time was insufficient to seal it completely. For this reason, the partner Digimon of those DigiDestined evolved into the Four Holy Beasts (the Digimon Sovereigns) and voluntarily took up the duty of guarding the Digital World. Digimon of that era also created a prophetic record, the "Digimon Apocalypse," to warn future generations. In the present that followed, the Dark Masters who sought to rule the Digital World discovered the "Digimon Apocalypse." Following the script of the apocalypse demon within it, they ordered Nanomon to create the Spiral Mountain program; meanwhile, they attacked the Four Holy Beasts. Apocalymon took advantage of the opportunity, sending its will across the "Firewall" into the Digital World, instilling in the Dark Masters an unconscious denial of "evolution." Unaware to the end, the Dark Masters built "Dark Spiral Mountain," broke Primary Village's function, and robbed the Digital World of "evolution."
In the Real World, as if drawn by the Kamiyas' move to Odaiba, the other families of the "DigiDestined" with Highton View Terrace experience all moved near Odaiba as well. These children all possessed different spiritual traits; Homeostasis felt this was likely no coincidence.
Learning of the Dark Masters' plan, Homeostasis ordered its Agents to transport the Digi-Eggs with potential to become partner Digimon to Primary Village and to protect them. Piedmon, one of the Dark Masters, discovered this and struck first, attacking the Agents and annihilating them. Gennai alone survived; he seized a captured mechanized Digimon and fled with the Crests and Digi-Eggs. Each of those Digi-Eggs corresponded to one of the DigiDestined in Odaiba. At that time, Piedmon planted a Dark Sphere on Gennai's back, intending to keep him from acting freely even if he escaped. During the escape, one Digi-Egg accidentally fell over the Lake of Providence on the Server Continent. It hatched, evolved, and, after a long period of wandering, gradually forgot its mission and was eventually picked up by Myotismon as a subordinate.
To evade pursuit, Gennai hid the Digi-Eggs behind File Island, which was then still covered by glaciers, and left again. At last, he erected a barrier at the bottom of the Lake of Providence on the Server Continent and aged himself to halt his own metabolism, thereby suppressing the Dark Sphere's growth (hence his change from a youth to an old man).
The glaciers covering File Island melted, and the land became a life-rich, verdant island. The partner Digimon that had hatched waited patiently for their partners' arrival. As the Dark Masters began to gain the upper hand against the Four Holy Beasts, they spread darkness throughout the Digital World and sent their subordinate, Devimon, to File Island. When the burgeoning darkness finally pushed the Digital World's balance to the brink of collapse, the Digivices flew to the Real World to bring the DigiDestined in.
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