The Admin handed Rex a handful of documents. Each one was a boy or girl ranked highly in Digimon V-Pet and card tournaments. He shuffled through them, giving each a cursory inspection. "So, these are the new hands you mean to recruit?" asked Rex.

The Admin nodded. "We've been monitoring them," she confirmed. "The D-League website isn't just a way to keep people in the loop about rankings." She sat back. "If they also create an account and register at matches, we can also track their IP addresses and such."

"Taking them away won't araise suspicion, will it...?" Rex bit the inside of his cheek, a nervous habit. Agumon elbowed his partner's knee.

"You've been with us for six months," he chided. "You oughtta know that time works differently in the Digital World. Nobody will miss them." He tapped his chin with a claw. "Well, assumin', y'know, they don't die."

"And they won't," the Admin assured. "The meeting place is the Knights' Keep, and with the Royal Knights there, none woild dare attack."

Rex took a breath. "Okay," he said. The young man tapped commands into the touch screen of his D-Bracer, and Agumon was converted to data, and stored in the Digivice. "Thry're all online now?" A nod from the Admin. "Then let's get this done."

Admin turned her screen. By holding the D-Bracer next to the screen, the portal opened, and he was sucked into the Digital World.



The Admin read over the email one more time:

BCC: ^{hkazuraba@dleague.net; sakane@dleague.net; kkenjiro@dleague.net; paw99@dleague.net}
FROM: ^{adminnonaka@dleague.net}
SUBJECT: ^{Exclusive Offer}
_{Greetings, [USER]! We have evaluated your performance in the D-League, and are offering you the opportunity to participate in the D-League's beta test of the new Digivice B, aka the D-Bracer. If you choose to accept this offer, please click here. By accepting this offer...}

It went on with legalities. The [USER] tag would be filled in with their respective usernames that they provided for the D-League messaging service. It was necessary to add them, since the D-League was technically a business trying to make money and avoid legal fees. An automated program was attached to it, and if that link was clicked...

She took a breath and clicked [SEND]. If they chose to accept this, they wouldn't be kids playing with V-Pets... they would be Tamers protecting the two worlds, just as she had done when she was younger.

Percy was running home. He was late, again, and needed to make it home so that he could log on to the D-League, or the Digimon League. He had been a member of it for a while and his Digimon, Hawkmon, was a lot of fun. The bird Digimon was a fairly fast creature and Percy enjoyed the strategic options that it's flight gave him. It added another dimension some Digimon didn't have and he spent a lot of time trying to figure out new strategies. The problem for Percy was that, as a Rookie level Digimon, Hawkmon wasn't quite at his peak.

"More like beak" Chuckled Percy to himself, trying to breathe steadily as he ran, though not exactly managing to do so. He cast his mind back over the day he had had. It had been a long day spent with his friends at school. In class he spent time doodling, making sarcastic remarks and generally tried to get those around him to laugh. After school, he had spent some time playing the bass guitar but through it all he wanted to see his Digimon most of all. To do some training together with it and for the most part just take his mind off of anything else. He wondered what it would actually be like to enter the Digital world or for a Digimon to enter his own. Percy tried to envision the red bird that was his partner, beside him,

"Sure because that would be a great idea" He murmured to himself as he stopped to catch his breath, placing his hands on his knees and slouching over. As he looked up, he saw his house in the distance, not too far from where he currently was, and there was no car parked outside.

"Awesome, I'm coming Hawkmon." He said, taking a couple more breaths before pushing himself towards the house.

Percy walked into the house gasping for breath, he dragged himself upstairs and logged on to his computer, pulling out his V-Pet as he slumped into his chair. As he caught his breath he noticed he had a bunch of mail and messages.

"Popular today, I guess" He said to himself as he began to read through and answer his mail and searched for his partner to do some training as well as relay his latest strategies to his partner. Percy frowned as he noticed the location that Hawkmon was in. "The Royal Knights? Odd.." he said as he noticed a new email though when he clicked on it, he found it a little odd and looked up the original sender, it was genuine

BCC: hkazuraba@dleague.net; sakane@dleague.net; kkenjiro@dleague.net; paw99@dleague.net
FROM: adminnonaka@dleague.net
SUBJECT: Exclusive Offer
Greetings, [USER]! We have evaluated your performance in the D-League, and are offering you the opportunity to participate in the D-League's beta test of the new Digivice B, aka the D-Bracer. If you choose to accept this offer, please click here. By accepting this offer...

There was more legal jargon beneath and Percy disregarded it entirely "Come on guys, no one reads this stuff." He said as he clicked the link and blacked out. Eventually he awoke, feathers in his face. Red feathers, and a voice.

"The f-" He began but was interrupted by the bird jumping on him and shouting it's happiness that he was awake "What even is happening?"

Kenjiro was busy surfing the web, his V-Pet containing Kotemon was lying on his desk. Honestly he had only chosen Kotemon because of all possible rookie-forms of MetalKoromon he looked the most interesting in Kenjiro's opinion. And so far his partner hadn't let him though down yet, sure the two of them didn't win every battle, but they generally put up a good fight if they lost. Since he didn't come across anything interesting Kenjiro decided to check his email, when he noticed one mail that immediately grabbed his attention.

BCC: hkazuraba@dleague.net; sakane@dleague.net; kkenjiro@dleague.net; paw99@dleague.net
FROM: adminnonaka@dleague.net
SUBJECT: Exclusive Offer
Greetings, [USER]! We have evaluated your performance in the D-League, and are offering you the opportunity to participate in the D-League's beta test of the new Digivice B, aka the D-Bracer. If you choose to accept this offer, please click here. By accepting this offer...

The part he bothered to read almost seemed too good to be true, but he had already recognized the sender as the real deal. So he clicked the link only to black out for some reason. When he opened his eyes he saw a figure that could only be Kotemon.