Triple Twin Trouble! (Wait, not triplets...?)

"Do you think we could get up to those floating islands at all somehow?" Kaori asked now that she has been made aware of their existence.

"Probably not since I dunno how to fly yet," Flame responded in a weirdly casual manner. Saori wasn't a fan of how confident Flame seemed that he would be able to learn how to fly at some point.

Kaori pulled out her smartphone Digivice, opening up the camera app in order to take a picture of the floating islands. "So cool! Our new digi-phones even take really good pictures!"

"Just be sure no one back home sees that picture," Saori said as she looked away. "I'd rather not have to explain how the heck we ended up taking a picture of actual floating islands."

"Easy; we just tell them it's CG!" Kaori suggested. That was when any conversation they had was interrupted by what Kaori thought was the most adorable interruption ever. This little dragon with red eyes and a red cape came right up to them, saying that her name was Beta. You could practically see the sparkles in Kaori's eyes as she got on her knees and crawled up closer to the dragon. "Oh my gosh, you're so adorable! I'm Kaori, and the yellow dinosaur is my partner Flame, it's so nice to meet you!"

"I'm an Agumon, Kaori! An Agumon!"

"Don't get so up close and personal like that, Kaori," Saori scolded her sister. "For all you know she could bite you at any second."

"Come on Saori, would a cute little dragon like this come up and introduce herself, only to bite us right afterwards?"

"That does sound quite far fetched, Saori..."

"Shut up, Frost." That was when the group noticed the other dragon in the area. One in a blue cloak this time, its face darkened by the hood... and he was really giving the twins some very creepy vibes with the way he was just watching from afar like that.

"Um... Beta, was it?" Kaori asked, "Do you know that... Digimon over there?"

Even Beta had to ask why Saori thought that she would bite them. Saori huffed and crossed her arms. "Because you're not human. You're all just... weird monsters that somehow know how to speak perfect Japanese. Plus Frost said he and Flame were chased by something called Fang."

"Saori, be nice," Kaori said to her sister. She looked back at Beta. "Saori's actually a really sweet person, she just can't accept that monsters AND magic are actually real after all those years of her telling me otherwise. She just can't handle being wrong."

"YOU WHAT," Saori yelled, storming up to her. "That is NOT what this is about at all!"

"That's what it seems to be like for me, sis~"

"Oh Yggdrasil, please don't argue again," Flame groaned.

"We're supposed to all be a team, are we not? We will not get very far and will most likely die if the arguing does not cease." After Frost said that, Saori looked visibly more worried, sweating bullets and twisting her hair a great deal. Frost frantically tried to fix his mistake. "W-Wait, Saori, I-I didn't mean it like that!"

"You're just not as in sync with her as I am with Kaori, bro~"

Once he was discovered, Beta would walk over and drag the other cloaked Digimon over to meet the others, whose name was Alpha and was apparently Beta's twin brother. Alpha stated that he wasn't shy much like Beta claimed him to be, just that he was untrusting of strangers. "Well at least someone gets how I feel," Saori quietly said. 

Beta asked the group what brought them to the Digital World, before casually commenting how the girls looked alike. They both sweatdropped before Kaori spoke up. "Well apparently we got these Digivice phone thingies, and it told us that we were paired with Flame and Frost here, so they decided we should see the Digital World. And we... have no idea what we're doing at all!" She said that last part with a smile and a thumbs up, with Flame mimicking her.

"That is not something you should brag about," Frost commented as he and Saori stared at the two like they were crazy.

"And as for why we look alike," Saori continued, "Kaori and I are twin sisters, much like... the rest of you here." It's really just settling in how much of a coincidence it was to have three pairs of twins all meet up in the same location...

"Your entire kind is weird, not just you," Saori said, as if that was going to help cheer Beta up. "Beings made of digital polygons are, by my definition, weird. And you're all literally monsters. Digital Monsters, right? So yes, you're all weird monsters."

"While accurate... that is a fairly mean way to describe us, Saori," Frost commented. When Beta's brother Alpha attempted to cheer her up, saying that the twins were probably new and that he'd seen plenty of humans' first reactions to Digimon... which mostly involved screaming. "Our partners definitely screamed when they met us."

"For different reasons. Kaori couldn't get over how overwhelmingly pretty I was, and Saori cowered over to the other side of the bridge we were on at the time. We jumped to the human world to escape this thing that wanted to eat us, you probably know the drill."

Once the twin girls were done arguing, Alpha suggested that the group stick to the area they were in for now since they were still pretty new, or at least go to the east. This prompted Beta to call out Alpha on his willingness to help strangers, which it seemed like he did not do very often. Flame and Frost chuckled at that while Kaori and Saori both sweatdropped. "Yeah, I pegged you for the type to not be very friendly," Kaori said to Alpha.

"Wh-what's over in the east, do you know...?" Saori asked the Hackmon twins.

"Could there be food over in the east?"

"Flame, stop thinking with your stomach."

"But we haven't had anything to eat since before we were being chased. I'm starved!"

"Of course you need to eat..." Saori said with a sigh as she facepalmed.

"I guess food is on the agenda for now," Kaori happily said with a slight wink. "Alpha, Beta, do you guys wanna help us at all?"

Kaori, Saori, Flame and Frost all just slowly turned their heads towards Beta when she made that realization, all four of them sweatdropping in the process. "Did... did you seriously not know what Digimon stood for?" Frost asked, his poor Gabumon brain just plain old not willing to accept that a DIGIMON didn't know what the word Digimon stood for. Even someone like Saori who detested Digimon knew it meant Digital Monster.

"Even I managed to piece it together, and I'm as dumb as a rock," Flame added.

Though Saori had called Digimon weird before, Alpha and Beta admitted that they found humans weird since they couldn't evolve, fly without airplanes, and didn't have digicores. "Having all those things is what makes you weird," Saori countered, "though we do actually evolve. Just... in a different sense than a Digimon. We evolve over time instead of... however you guys do it."

"Yeah!" Kaori added. "For a single human, we start out as teeny tiny cute babies that can't walk or talk, or anything! Then we grow up, getting taller and learning how to do more and more things!"

Saori would be the one to finish this little lesson. "And as for our race as a whole, we evolve through multiple generations to best adapt to our situation, gaining more strength and having a higher life expectancy, for example."

"I never knew that about humans before," Frost said as he and Flame clapped.

"It's different from us Digimon but it makes sense for creatures with no powers like you two!"

In response to being deemed as not friendly, Alpha claimed that he was only wary about danger, stating that he didn't sense any from the two other pairs of twins, which they seemed was fair enough. He also mentioned that Terminus was probably the safest place in the Digital World. "I vote we stay around Terminus for now then," Saori said. "I really don't wanna meet what was chasing Flame and Frost in the wild."

"Perhaps the smartest option," Frost said with a smile and a nod. "But do not worry, Saori. I will make sure you stay safe in this world. You'll get used to us soon enough."

"I doubt it," Saori said with a sigh as she crossed her arms. Though what she didn't tell anyone was that... she kinda did hope she could get used to it, if only to get along better with Frost.

Alpha also mentioned another city to the east called Rosewood, which was protected by a group of knights. Kaori comedically pushed Saori and Frost aside like in an anime to get closer to Alpha, her eyes practically glimmering. "Did you say knights?! Like, the kind that save princesses from towers and marry you so you can live live happily ever after?! Is there a knight like that?!"

"Kaori, those are fairy tales," Saori reminded her as she placed a hand on her shoulder. "From movies where the animals can talk and everyone sings what they feel. We may be in a literal Digital World but some stuff is still fantasy." At least Alpha and Beta accepted Kaori's invitation to go along with them, stating that they can't exactly pay for all the food. "Wait... this world has a currency?"

"We need money here, too...?"

"Guess we gotta starve for now," Agumon said with a sad expression as he held his head down low.

"Maybe not..." Saori mentioned as she pulled out her smartphone Digivice. "Whoever gave us these... these things probably would've left some money with us, right? How do I... find out how much we have?"

Apparently the reason for Beta not knowing what Digimon meant was so good that, according to Alpha, they didn't wanna talk about it right now. The teenage girls just glanced at each other and shrugged; they didn't really have a reason to dive deeper into that reason anyways. Still, it was a bit odd for a Digimon to not know that the term stood for Digital Monsters. They just assumed that she was... er... lacking in the smarts department. Like Kaori and Flame!

Beta mentioned how their dad was the strongest Mega level Digimon around. Whether they forgot or needed a quick reminder, both human twins turned to face Frost as if asking for an explanation. The Gabumon sighed as he crossed his arms. "Mega is the second highest rank of the Digivolution cycle and is equally the second strongest, only overshadowed by the rare Super Mega level which is not all too common in the Digital World."

"Your partner is much smarter than mine, Saori," Kaori commented.

"Hey! ...actually yeah, that's true."

Wait... Digimon can live up to two hundred years? "In our world you're extremely lucky if you reach ninety," Saori said. "With that being said I'm definitely going to be the twin that lasts the longest."

"Wh-wh-whaaaa?!"

"Don't act like you're not going to end up winning a Darwin Award, Kaori, because you definitely are."

"What's a Darwin Award?"

"A joke award given to those who somehow manage to off themselves in a really dumb way," Saori responded. "Based off of the saying, 'Evolution is survival of the fittest,' so clearly the least fit ones help our genepool by removing themselves from it. Morbid, yeah, but it's pretty funny reading the many ways people manage to kill themselves by mistake." Both Flame and Frost just stared at Saori as if they had just heard the most horrible thing in existence... "What? I didn't come up with it, I'm just answering your question."

On the subject about the knights, Kaori didn't get the answer she was quite hoping for. Alpha didn't know any of them but he was at least sure they'd save her. "Maybe I can meet one and get them to fall for my beautiful face and wonderful personality!" Kaori said with a smirk as she rubbed her chin.

"Wonderful is the last word I'd use to describe your personality," Saori deadpanned.

The twins started checking their Digivice phones to see if there was a way to check how much money the two of them had. While they were struggling to do that, a sudden voice told them it should be labeled as "Bits" on their Digivices. That caused the two girls to scream and cower behind their respective Digimon, who also looked like they were recovering from the sudden surprise. It turned out that they had nothing to worry about though; it was just Alpha and Beta's mother, Ciel! "...you look nothing like them though," Kaori commented. "Did you adopt them?"

"Ignore my sister," Saori intervened. "I'm Saori and that's Kaori, and these are our partners Flame and Frost, it's wonderful to meet you. Did you say something about money being labeled as 'bits'?"

With Ciel's guidance, the sisters looked on their phones again and found the "Bits" counter. Each twin had three thousand bits. "Is... is three thousand good or bad in this world?" Kaori asked.

"Three thousand in Yen would be plenty but I am unsure how much things cost in the Digital World," Saori added.

"It'll definitely be enough for some food! Let's go already!"

"Would you all like to join us?" Frost asked Alpha, Beta and Ciel. "You seem to know more about Terminus than we do. We'd be lost in such a big city."

"Different ranks of Digimon in terms of power level?" Saori asked for confirmation, earning a nod from Frost . "Huh, I think I actually sort of understand it."

"You do?" Frost asked, happy yet surprised that she was able to understand it after simply one explanation.

"Yeah, it reminds me of a human world game called Pokemon. In that game, the creatures evolve from a baby stage, to a middle stage, and to a final stage, sometimes even a stage after that, and they get stronger and grow more after each evolution." The mental image of bringing home a ten foot tall wolf back home then entered Saori's mind. "Though I have no clue how we'd explain it to Mom and Dad afterwards..."

"Well it's a good thing that Digivolution isn't permanent," Flame announced. "Convenient, isn't it? I get to be fun sized AND I get to be a super cool powerful Digimon too. Best'a both worlds!"

"Though I never heard of a Digimon who stayed in their Mega form as the default. Champion and Ultimate, yes, but Mega...?"

Kaori could tell that Alpha and Beta were just as weirded out by the Darwin Awards as Flame and Frost were. Alpha just responded by saying to not put themselves in harm's way. "Well duh, no one WANTS to win a Darwin Award," Kaori responded, "That's, like, one of the most embarrassing things to be remembered by. It's just a way to make fun of the people who were dumb enough to go out like that."

After recovering from the shock of Ciel's sudden arrival (which Beta said was a common thing for her,) she responded to Kaori's comment by saying that Alpha and Beta took more after their father, especially with the eyes. "Their eyes?" Kaori asked as she and the others looked into Alpha's and Beta's eyes. They were both a bright shade of red. "Did their father have red eyes too?"

"Anyways, it is nice to meet you, Ciel. I'm Saori, and this is my sister Kaori. And our partners here are Flame and Frost."

"Howdy!" "A pleasure to meet you."

The girls' and Digimons' hopes piped up when they were told that they had plenty of cash on them. When asked to join the group, Alpha seemed a bit hesitant at first, before sighing and saying that he'd come along too. "You don't have to join us if you don't want to Alpha, but we do just need a guide through the city," Saori said.

"So the Digtial World has, like, restaurants and stuff, right?" Kaori asked. "Do you guys know any good ones?"