Sora was on the beach wearing a swimsuit, Biyomon was beside her. "Hello! My name is Sora and I was assigned to cover the action of the Yellow team."

"Sora will do a great job! She's so great!" Biyomon said

Sora blushed "Thanks Biyomon, well we had a small problem with the helicopters so all our team departed a little late. Right now it's 3pm and our teams won't get to do much before it gets dark."

"The plane! The plane is here!"

"That's a helicopter Biyomon."

"Sorry Sora, I won't make the same mistake again."

The helicopter landed on the beach. Ash and Pikachu were the first to come out, followed by Ryoga, Izzy, Freya and Goku. Their camping gear was thrown off the helicopter by a staff member. The helicopter then took off again and left.

Goku stretched his arms and legs "What a horrible ride, my flying nimbus is much faster, comfier, and a lot less noisy"

"Quit complaining, we're here." Ryoga said. "Now let's get moving!"

"Move where?" Ash asked. "We don't know where to go."

Izzy sat on a log and took out his trademark pineapple laptop, he then put a map on the screen. "We should look for a town, the locals might give us tips as to where to go."

Freya went behind Izzy, she had never seen a laptop before. "Wow, this technology makes Lindblum look primitive."

"Look at the screen." Izzy said "The yellow dot is our location. Now there is a town about 10 miles from here."

Ash got closer to look at the screen. "10 miles? That's a bit far." He took a good look at the map. "I hadn't realize this island was so big."

"It's huge!" Izzy said.

"It's going to take forever to explore it all." Tentomon said.

"How come we've never heard of this place?" Ryoga asked.

Freya responded"The whole setting was created for this contest, don't ask me how they did it."

Comment from Sora "WE don't know how they did it."

Ash said "Well we better get going, we want to get there by nightfall."

Ryoga said "Didn't you pay attention to the briefing? Nobody will give is shelter, we have to camp every night."

"OK, OK! Well let's get going anyway."

Goku yelled "Wait you guys! I'm hungry, can't we eat first?"

"How much food did they give us?" Izzy said.

Ash looked around, he couldn't find the food. "Hey Pikachu? Do you see the food?"

Pikachu shacked his head, "Pika pika!"

"We can't find the food!"

Ryoga yelled "That's can't be right!"

Goku asked "Are you looking for those little cans?"

"Yes!"

"Well I already ate them, I thought it was some sort of complementary snack."

"The food was supposed to last at least a week!" Izzy said.

"Then why did they give us so little then?"

Ryoga and Ash yelled together "NOW WHAT!?"

"Hey guys! Calm down! Why don't we get our own food." Tentomon said.

Freya said "The bug is right, we have no choice now."

Goku smiled and said "I can get plenty of food!" He faced the sea and placed his hands together. "Kaaa... Meeeeeee... Haaa... Meeeee... HAAAAAAAA!!!" A large beam shot from his hand and hit the water making a large explosion. Water fell all over our heroes as if it were raining, but fish were falling as well."

Everybody was all wet, Ash yelled "Why didn't you warn us!?"

Goku laughed "Sorry, but we have plenty to eat."

Freya asked "Did we really need all this fish."

Izzy had been quick to react and placed his upper body over the laptop. "Yeah! It's too much."

"I think is barely enough, I might even eat that pig afterwards." Goku said.

Everybody then saw the black piglet on the beach. It tried to run away but Freya skillfully used her spear to grab the piglet by the bandana it had around his neck. "Now where did this little guy come from?"

Tentomon asked "And how come he has a bandana the same color as Ryoga's?"

"Now that you mention it.. where did Ryoga go?" Ash said.

The piglet starts yelling "WEEE!!WEEE!!"

Suddenly everybody realized what was going on.

Goku grabbed the piglet. "Sorry Ryoga, didn't know it was you. How you turn into a pig anyway?"

"WEE!WEE!"

About an hour later a pile of fish bones could be seen on the beach. Our heroes were sitting around a fire. Ryoga somehow was able to tell our heroes hot water turned him back to normal and he was human again.

Ash said "I've never seen a person eat like that! A pokemon, yes. But a person, never."

"Pikaaaa.."

"That was delicious! Now I'm full!" Goku said.

Ryoga stood up. "Well, we've eaten and now we have to get moving. Hey Izzy! In what direction is the town you were talking about?"

Izzy pointed in a certain direction. "It's southwest from here."

"Right!" Ryoga started running in the southeast direction. "Come on! What are you guys waiting for?"

Ash asked "Where does he think he's going?"

Goku ran after him, caught up and turned him in the right direction. "Now we can get a move on!"

Everybody got up, packed their stuff and followed Ryoga and Goku.

Back to Sora. "Well, the yellow team had it's small problems, but overall it is a good start. If they don't lose Ryoga they should have no problem."

"Hey Brock, how's the red team?" Biyomon said.

"Hey Biyomon! That's my line!"

"But Biyomon has no lines! What is Biyomon to do?"

"Biyomon will speak when Sora tells her to speak."

"OK Sora!"

Brock was somewhere in the woods, behind him the red team was seen hiking. "Well the red team is making steady progress, I'm not sure where they are heading though. Let's watch how their doing."

Tai was leading the team with Agumon by his side "Well it's starting to get dark so we should start looking for a good camping site."

"Don't you think we can make more progress? We still have some time." Haruka said.

Trunks said "Well I agree with Tai. We should start looking for an appropriate place to spend the night."

Quina yelled "I so hungry!"

"Tai! I'm hungry too!" said Agumon "Can I have something to eat?"

"Sure Agumon!" said Tai. He asked Trunks "Could you please give me a can of food for Agumon?"

Trunks asked Mako"Please pass a can of food forward."

Mako asked Haruka "They want a can of food in front."

Haruka asked Quina "I need you to give me... you have the food?"

"Can? I eat!"

Everyone turned back at the same time.

"OK! Who's idea was it to have Quina carry the food?" Tai said.

"You're the captain, aren't you responsible for this?" Haruka said.

"Well, I kinda though nobody would let Quina take the food."

"As captain you need to keep track of everything, I thought you already had experience."

"Yeah, but nobody ate like that in the Digital World."

"Careless..."

Trunks said "We need to get food."

Brock's comment "Gee... kind of gives you a DejaVu feeling. Doesn't it?"

The team decided to travel a little further, the map showed that there was a lake nearby. They found a good camping site and started to put their stuff down.

"I`m going to look for something to eat" said Trunks

"I so sorry, I want to go get food" said Quina.

"Very well, you go look"

"I be back"

"Take your time Terminator" said Tai.

"What's a Terminator" asked Agumon.

"A robot who terminates, he's in a movie and says I'll be back."

"Ah.."

"I'm going to check out the lake." Mako said.

"OK, I'll gather wood and start a fire." Tai said

"Haruka and I will set up the tents" Trunks said.

A few minutes later Tai had all the wood piled up inside a circle of stones. Agumon used his baby flame to get the fire going. A moment after that Mako returned blushing a bit and with a sly smile on her face.

"So, did you find the lake?" asked Tai

"Yeah!" said Mako She couldn't help but to giggle "But it was kind of occupied."

"Occupied?"

"Yeah.. two guys were taking a bath in the lake."

"Oh..no wonder you took your time"

"Hey!"

"Hey, maybe we should check it out." Trunks said. He had just finished building a tent " Maybe they can give us some info."

"OK, I'll go too" Tai said. "But lets not tell them they were being spied by a girl."

"I was not spying!"

"Of course not." Trunks said "Let's go Tai."

It didn't take long for Tai, Agumon and Trunks to arrive. The two men were still there, but one was fully dressed in a soldier's uniform, and the other already had his pants on. Trunks saw that one of them had a red tag on his left arm with the letters RR on it. He quickly grabbed Tai and Agumon covering their mouths and went into hiding.

Tai freed himself and said "What do you think you're doing!?"

"Shhh!" Trunks let go of Agumon. "My mother has told me about those guys, their part of the Red Ribbon army."

"Who are they?"

"Well, I only know what my mother told me. Many years ago this large army was trying to take over the world. They were pretty much everywhere and had a lot of power. But Mr. Goku defeated them a long time ago, many years before I was born."

"They couldn't be the same guys!"

"Well I don't want to take any chances."

Agumon said "But they are just two guys! I will just digivolve into Greymon and.."

"No! They are only two but there might be many, many more close by."

"Well, we better go back to camp. We can't worry about these guys. My guess is that they are just part of the setting."

"Yeah, you could be right. Let's go talk we the others."

Trunks, Tai and Agumon quietly left the lake and headed back towards the camp.

When the guys got back they were surprised by what they saw. There was a huge pile of frogs next to the fire. Quina had placed a stick with frogs over the fire and was placing more frogs in another stick.

Haruka and Mako smiled when they saw the guys. "You guys are lucky! You arrived just in time for dinner!" Haruka said.

Trunks' and Tai's faces became green, Agumon did not seem to mind.

"Frogs nice and hot! Eat as many as you want! Enough frogs for everybody!" Quina said.

"Well I suppose we have to keep an open mind about it." Mako said.

"Do we have a choice?" Tai said.

Back to Brock. "Well the red team is going to expand their horizons and learn to eat new things. Now we have to ask ourselves about the Red Ribbon army. Is Tai right and are they part of the setting? and if so, what part do they play in all of this? Well, it's Minako's turn to tell you what is going on with the Blue team. Minako are you there?"

Minako was in the lobby of what appeared to be a very fancy hotel. She was having some tea and had a magazine in her lap. "You may be wondering why I am here. Well the blue team's starting spot happened to be near this small tourist trap of a town. I'm still not sure how our team was able to get in here, everyone was told not to give shelter to the teams, and they didn't have any money to begin with. Why don't we watch the blue team and figure out what happened."

A shot of of a hotel room was shown. The room was very large, the window was open and it had a balcony with a view of the beach. The room had a wide screen TV and a large Jacuzzi next to the balcony. Beruche, Mimi and Kari were inside the Jacuzzi relaxing. Beruche had a bottle of champagne next to her. Palmon and Gatomon were on a couch watching TV.

Mimi had her eyes closed. "Man! Hey Beruche! Where were you when we were in the digital world? This is so great."

Kari said "I don't know, weren't we supposed to rough it?"

"Did you hear a rule about not being able to stay in a hotel? Because I didn't." Beruche said.

Beruche opened the champagne bottle with a loud pop, the cork landed on Palmon's head.

"Hey I want some of that." Mimi said.

"Aren't you a little young to be drinking champagne?"

"Oh come on! Just a little."

"OK, OK You want some too Kari?"

"My mom told me not to drink any alcoholic beverage."

"It's just one little glass, it can be our little secret."

"OK"

Beruche served 3 small glasses and gave one to Mimi and one to Kari. "Now drink it slowly, I don't need one of you getting drunk on me."

Suddenly they heard a knock in the door.

"Who is it?" Palmon asked.

"It's Ranma!"

Gatomon went to open the door.

"Gee.. we're lucky to be wearing swimsuits." Beruche said.

"Yeah! Hey Kari, tell Gatomon not to let men enter that easily." Mimi said.

"OK"

Ranma walked over to the Jacuzzi"What's all of this? I thought you girls said you were going to look for a place to camp!"

Mimi said "You heard wrong then, we said we were going to look for an appropriate place to spend the night. And this seems appropriate to me."

Beruche threw a key to Ranma, he gracefully caught it. "What's this?"

"That's the key to your room. You didn't think we forgot about you and Vivi, did you?" Beruche said.

"But how did you get in here?"

"I have hypnotic powers, I just need them to look into my eyes and I have them do what I want."

"That's not very honest."

"Give me a chance will you! They'll probably take my powers away once this is over. Let me enjoy them while I can."

"Well I could have understood had you taken a regular room. But the royal suite?"

"There were only two rooms left, and one was this one. And we need more space than you so we had no choice but to stay here."

Another knock on the door. "Who is it?" asked Palmon.

"It's me. Vivi."

Gatomon opened the door to let Vivi in.

"She did it again!" Mimi said.

"This is nice." Vivi said "Hey, what a big TV." He joined Palmon and Gatomon on the couch.

Ranma said "You can't just do this!"

"It's only a room." Beruche said

Ranma pointed at the empty dishes "And what about the dinner?"

"We were hungry."

"And the bottle of champagne?"

"We were then thirsty."

"And the pay per view movies? don't think I didn't notice."

"We can't have the digimon get bored."

"This isn't right! What kind of example are you giving this little girl?"

"Kari? Do you think what I did is wrong?"

Kari said "Yeah! It is!"

Beruche said "See? She's a smart girl, I can't corrupt her."

Ranma said "I give up! What's done is done, I'm going to my room to get some sleep."

"OK, but take Vivi with you."

"Right, but we're leaving first thing in the morning. Remember, this is a challenge, not a vacation."

"Yeah, yeah! But we don't have to worry too much because Beruche has a strategy." Mimi said.

"OH! You have a strategy."

"Of course, we only need to take a jewel from another team. While we have two jewels no other team can complete the challenge, after that we can take our time to obtain the badges." Beruche said.

"You make it sound so simple."

"It is really, trust me."

"Forgive me if I can't! Lets go Vivi!"

"But I want to watch the rest of the movie." Vivi said.

"Let him watch the end of the movie, your room is next to ours anyway. He'll leave when the movie is over." Mimi said.

"Fine!" Ranma left slamming the door behind him.

"Why is Ranma mad?" Kari asked.

"He just doesn't appreciate the good things in life." Mimi said. "More champagne?"

"Nice try." Beruche said "I can't give you more."

"Aww...."

Minako stood in front of the camera. "Well, that's the blue team for you. Will Ranma be able to get his team on track? Or will this just turn into some tropical vacation for the blue team? Well they'll probably spend their first night more comfy than the other teams, but they can't stay here forever so they'll have to put up with it sooner or later. Well, that's all the time we have for today so I have to say good-bye. We hope to see you again next time!"

(To be continued...)

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