#digimon xros wars

Taichi: so remember how we met Daisuke and his team during that DigiQuartz drama?

Yamato: yeah, why?

Taichi: didn’t they have a sixth member?

Yamato: I think so.

Taichi (pulling out a magazine) well doesn’t this prodigy, Ken Ichijouji, look who’s been all over the news look familiar to you?

Yamato: that’s him. 

Taichi: so when do you think he’s gonna join the team.

Yamato: beats me. But let’s keep to ourselves for now to avoid a time paradox.

(a few weeks later)

Taichi: hey, Hikari you’re back. How did the latest mission go?

Hikari: we learned who the Digimon Kaiser is.

Taichi: really, who?

Hikari: Ken Ichijouji.

Taichi:… are you sure?

Name one favorite Digimon of yours, BUT they can’t be:

Adventure partners

Or any anime partner for that matter

Just wanna see some underrated mons getting love

WELL, WELCOME TO THIS POST WHERE I JUST RE-WRITE THIS AU SETTING FOR SOME REASON – PART ONE!!

As you might be aware, i’ve commented about this setting before and its sad story. Long answer can be seen here: part 1•part 2
The short answer is: this was an AU stuff i made back in 2012 as i felt disappointed with Hunters finale. But deep down i did not intend (and still not) it to be a “fix-it” story, but more an AU setting. Like XW anime and XW manga are.

I was also into Super Sentai that time and recently watched Gokaiger (with bad subs, sadly) and keep this in mind.

The rest of the post will be in a “read more” format to prevent one of my friends who didn’t watch Hunters yet to see the spoilers of the actual canon. But keep it in mind this is an AU and nothing else.

The Setting:

XW is one of my favorite Digimon series. And since it aired in 2010 to 2011 (then got extended by Hunters, running from 2011 to 2012 in a short run of 25 episodes) … I’m playing with the famous “the story takes place in the same year it aired” rule here.
XW events are from 2010. Hunters is stated to be a whole year later, so basically 2011.

This AU also goes by it. It takes place in a parallel universe being kinda  “canon divergent” from XW. It also mixes XW manga (more soon).

TaikiandYuu form a basketball group with Tagiru, who was one of the witnesses of Bagramon vs Shoutmon X7 SM battle. This battle, however, had effects not only in Taiki’s world but also other worlds. More about this later.

Tagiru sees Taiki as a savior and someone he wants so much to surpass and become a legend too. But the thing is… Tagiru lacks something. He extremely respects Taiki, but at the same time he wants to show his potential. He wants to be cool too! So beating a strong rival seems cool, no? Though, Taiki is only his mentor, at least in his mind. Their bonds are not that strong but we’re getting there… Tagiru will stop seeing Taiki as his “mentor who i must surpass someday” later.

In the meantime, something happens in the Digital World, and this place, DigiQuartz, is created. The cause of this is unknown, but Shoutmon starts investigating it. However, the villain here has big plans to care than the Digimon King’s researching for this weird connection to the human/real world.

Shoutmon’s Digital World is a little peculiar by the way. In a special area there’s a big mural telling stories of a group of heroes from other worlds, each children in this place had been the main piece of their battles for the peace of their worlds. Such legends and tales were spread through the Digital World. They’re called by “Legendary Heroes” and although their names were never revealed, the digimon from that world codenamed each of them by those stories:

• The Winged Courage. Codename: Sun
• The Golden Heart. Codename: Heart
• The Galant Dreamer. Codename: Knight
• The Fiery Warrior. Codename: Warrior
• The Banchou Savior. Codename: Fighter
• The Red General. Codename: King

Shoutmon and everyone knew Taiki was recently added to that mural and the Xros Heart’s stories were told. But the remaining five’s identities were unknown.
However, the mural had them depicted by how they looked when they saved their respective worlds. No one knows who or what made that mural, it only existed there for a long time ago.

BUT, only three residents of Shoutmon’s DW were fully aware who those legends are – One of them being a parasitic digimon called Quartzmon.

The Story’s Prologue:

Quartzmon actually created the DigiQuartz space, and started kidnapping digimon to try invade the other worlds and fuse them into one. The key is having the power of the Six legends in hands. A mysterious old man wielding a fancy Xros Loader attempts to screw those plans, by selecting children to capture the digimon inside the DigiQuartz and send them back to the Digital World.

But, one of those kids was corrupted by Quartzmon, who took the child’s body and mind. With this, Quartzmon managed to invade Taiki’s world. Without a body, Quartzmon is unable to do much, because it consumes a lot of his power, but having a vessel means… He could open a dimensional gate without burning all of his stamina.

The ol’ man learned too late about this. And then, Quartzmon had gathered a few servants – some children too – and manipulated their minds. His plans has started.
Desperately, the strange elder tried to recruit help from the Legends, but one by one they were disappearing with no trace. Well, except for one.

Daisuke’s (bizarre) advent:

In Taichi’s world, circa 2010… Taichi and Daisuke were ones of the witnesses to catch something weird happening in the horizon, more like at the Rainbow Bridge area. Koushiro asked them to go there and investigate it, but all the senpai-kouhai duo had seen was a normal and functional bridge. No scratches or the big monsters they all had witnessed for a couple of seconds.

A year later of this peculiar event, Taichi vanished without traces. The group had a meeting to discuss and investigate it, Hikari feared he had been sent to the Dark Ocean world, and some wondered if he had disappeared somewhere in the Digital World. Since most of the older six were too busy to help search for him, the mission ended up in the hands of the 02 group.

Everything was fine UNTIL the weird day Daisuke walked into a weird area and forced to fight for his life… Against Apollomon – one of the Death Generals. During that battle, he couldn’t evolve V-mon at all!! Suddenly all his devices had stopped to work, and the D-3 wasn’t working. His phone (unlike Kizuna, this one is a regular model from 2010) and D-terminal were also malfunctioning. Out of the frustration, he and V-mon had no option but try to escape.

Except… This place wasn’t his Digital World anymore. It was actually.. The DigiQuartz.

Once V-mon got tired of running and decided to fight back… Daisuke’s D-3 turned into a new digivice – A Xros Loader with the same color of his original D-3 – but with no idea how to use it and much more questions about this odd battle, V-mon couldn’t win at all. And He’s badly injured by Apollomon.

Then, a human (?!) voice of some old man whispered to Daisuke use that device to recover V-mon’s data and body. And with no hesitation and in total despair… Daisuke does what was told and saves V-mon from death.

Two shadows then manages to get rid of the rampageous Apollomon, and then he meets… the mysterious old man with a Clockmon partner. This man explains things to Daisuke of course, and mentions that Taichi is in this world.

“Wait what!? This world!?”

Daisuke then realizes he ended up crossing the space-time barrier and walked into another world.

The Digimon Hunting Game Arc:

That man kept recruiting children to rescue digimon in the meanwhile, as he worked so hard to protect at least Taiki and Daisuke from this enemy’s hands. Under the pretext of a hunting game, all children around Japan were playing it.

But one particular child was having strange dreams and wasn’t involved with the hunting… yet.
This kid was Tagiru, who you heard previously about. Said dreams were about five shadows with strong digimon wanting him to stop the hunt. Then, he and his digimon were saved by someone with a hood on, and face couldn’t be seen either. Said mysterious person knew his name, and was saying something BUT…

… He never managed to see the end of that dream. The dream was always interrupted by something – alarm clock, or someone/something waking him up.

One day Tagiru accidentally bumped on one of those hunters (Ren) and follows him to the DigiQuartz, where he watches a trio (Ryouma-Airu-Ren) capture a digimon… After this tiny digimon pulled him with his elastic tail to a hidden spot.

Said digimon was Gumdramon, and he immediately clicks with Tagiru. They became friends, but the problem is… Tagiru has no Xros Loader for this, right? It’s only when the trio had vanished that the old man pops in and takes both Tagiru and Gumdramon to his special area. Then, there… A Xros Loader is given to Tagiru. His burning ambition led the device to associate it with the crimson color.

Thus, Tagiru and Gumdramon tries to hunt down digimon. In the heat of their first battle, Gumdramon is almost hurt and Tagiru risks his life to take him out of the MetalTyrannomon’s range. He takes the injured Gumdramon to a safe spot. There, they unlock their Super Evolution.

Gumdramon evolves into Arresterdramon and fights back. They clear the game and hunt their first digimon. At the end of it… Taiki and Yuu appear, with their respective devices. It’s when Tagiru plays dumb about not knowing that. Shoutmon’s voice then makes Gumdramon pretty alarmed and frightened, and the trio of boys learn about the tiny wild dragon being related to Shoutmon.

The other two learns about the hunting game, but Taiki mentions have met an old man telling him to not take part of it. However, he wouldn’t sit there and watch. Once he and Shoutmon are reunited, they take part on leading Tagiru through solving cases of digimon messing with the human world.

And later Yuu gets Damemon back, and since the rule does not apply to him… He joins the game with Tagiru. This new Xros Heart trio start their operations, as some shadows watched them from distance.

The Mysterious Hunter Named Lance:

A good time later, Tagiru and co. end up meeting a new employee at Sudou family’s conbini – yes, the family of Tagiru & Yuu’s classmate, Sudou Miho. The 19-20 year old boy who’s pretty familiar to those who know him, but to those kids he was just a stranger. Lance Goldheart is not a Japanese name of course, but they just assumed it was some nickname or ALIAS name.

And yes, it is an alias… For a special person.
This name was definitely picked by the ol’ man to help a very hopeless Daisuke to not get caught by the enemy. Also to not be hunt by the greedy digimon who would like to beat a legendary hero to get popular and induce fear on weaklings. Or to be added to some bizarre collection from the famous collector called SuperStarmon.

Why “Lance Goldheart”? Easy. It’s a hint for Taiki & Shoutmon, soon or later they would notice it. And then they would make an alliance to save the other kidnapped heroes. Hence “Lance” = the lancer – Daisuke’s role here, and Goldheart = “Golden Heart” & “Heart” – Daisuke’s legendary title and codename.

However, Daisuke himself was ultra against the digimon hunting (because he was not aware of the real reason for it… yet ) and decides to start capturing digimon to keep them safe and to protect them and innocent people affected by it. Then “Mysterious Hunter” has born. V-mon couldn’t evolve and fight, so he stayed inside the Xros Loader. BUT, and mysteriously (lol) the Digimentals of Courage and Friendship were temporarily turned into “artificial digimon”, which means they’re not actually real digimon. So yeah, Daisuke could fight all again alongside Fladramon & Lighdramon, or digixros them with V-mon… But the latter he wasn’t aware of it yet. He still did not understand that digivice.

By Mysterious Hunter, he wears a scarf as face mask and his shades on, with this hood on as well. No one knew it was him since… No one who knew him absurdly well was around – not even the ol’ man or Quartzmon are totally aware of WHO Daisuke truly is. No quirks, personality, etc. Just his story and appearance. That’s all.

Tagiru accidentally finds Hunter during a chase, in which Hunter catches the digimon. Since the dreams never had clear about the person’s face, Tagiru only recognizes him by his clothes. And then the poor Tagiru starts panicking about the dreaming being a prelude to his fall.

MEANWHILE, Taiki, Tagiru and Yuu get along with Lance. He’s a nice and wise (?!) dude after all. But they don’t suspect of Lance actually watching them (and against his will) for that ol’ man (also something Daisuke only agreed to do because he saw something in those kids that reminded him and his friends)

Though when Mysterious Hunter had met Tagiru & co. officially… he was kinda abrasive. Rough around the edges, and Tagiru definitely was hating him so harder and much Hunter was definitely finding Tagiru shallow and annoying (yet, he still would fight for that kid. Like a good parent figure)

Things start getting more and more heated between those four when…

[STAY TUNED FOR PART TWO FOLKS!!]

[Part 2 is here!!]