[color=FF7276]”What do you mean ‘the past few days’?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"The past three days."[/color] The boy paused. [color=00a651]"Like… the past three days since waking up here? Did you girls not get Omniphone Golds? That seems to be the common factor from what I’ve learned."[/color]

[color=FF7276]”We did, but… we just got here. And all at the same time, too.”[/color]Aki considered the implications. If he’d been here already, then that must mean…[color=FF7276]”Did you somehow get yours early?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"No? Did you get yours late?"[/color]

Aki tugged at the hem of her shirt. The boy's words weren't an accusation, but she couldn't help but feel like they were. [color=FF7276]”I mean, my uncle got it for me on launch day. Definitely not [i]three days late.[/i]”[/color]

 [color=00a651]"That lines up with me and the two I’ve met, then. Dunno why you think you only got here now."[/color] He looked over at Clockmon. [color=00a651]"Aren’t you a time-based digimon? Did you do something?"[/color]

“No. I haven’t done anything.” Clockmon replied.

First they get isekaid, and now there's time shenanigans to look out for? [color=FF7276]”Well, you’ve been here longer. What is this world, and more importantly, how did we get here?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"I’ve only been here three days. But it seems to be like… a world where technology is different. They’ve got a lot of electromagnetic tech that we didn’t have, assuming we’re all from the same world. Or that this is even a different world at all. It could be time travel, I suppose. But pretty much everyone has a ‘transer,’ the device on that guy’s wrist,"[/color] He pointed at the man in the construction hat, [color=00a651]"or something more advanced than it. Seems like there was recently a better device put on the market."[/color]

Aki took advantage of the moment to eye the now-fallen man. He didn’t seem to be moving, and was large enough that Aki couldn’t see any clear signs of breathing. [color=FF7276]”Is he… erm… you know…”[/color] Aki shook her head, unable to swallow the thought. [color=FF7276]”Is he okay?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"Should be. I used a card that gives the ‘Freeze’ and ‘Confuse’ effects. We’ve got a few minutes, but he’ll wake back up with little memory of the past few minutes and totally fine.."[/color]

Aki sighed in relief. The man wasn’t dead. Now she turned and gave the 20-something her full attention.[color=FF7276]”I’m so glad. And, er, Jacob, was it? What’s with this thing about statuses? Like in a video game?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"Don’t wear it out. But, sort of. It seems like the biggest difference between where we came from and here is the existence of Battle Chips, sort of like Megaman, and cards that work similar to them. They can affect the real world, but I’ve found that they work best in a place where there’s a lot of digital… influence, I guess? Like near a wave tower, like we are now. Or where digimon are around."[/color]

Okay, this guy had clearly figured out the most important parts of this world over the past few days. He seemed to be a pretty nice person and, well, it didn’t exactly hurt that he was kind of cute. [color=FF7276]”So this really is like those old Megaman games, huh.”[/color] Good job, Aki. Playing it smooth. [color=FF7276]”I don’t guess you’ve found any kind of an exit?”[/color]

[color=00a651]"At the very least, I’ve seen viruses from them and Battle Chips work with Expanse Callers. But no, I don’t know of any way to get back. I’ve had to do a lot of experimentation with the other two guys I’ve met here to figure anything out, so I hope that telling you all this helps with the whole ‘skipped three days’ thing."[/color]

[color=FF7276]”Yeah, it helps a lot. And you’ve met others here besides us? Oh, and uh, I’m Aki by the way.”[/color]

[color=00a651]"Like I said, I’ve met two others. But they were both by themselves, aside from their digimon. I haven’t met anyone with a Netnavi yet, but I assume there’s got to be a few if viruses exist here. The regular people have Wizards, which seem to be basically EM Netnavis.
One of them was really… angry, honestly. The other guy was cool though."[/color]

[color=FF7276]”I’ve got a navi named Ciel. She was here when we woke up in this world.”[/color]

[color=00a651]"Oh, that’s cool. Now at least I know they’re a thing here too."[/color]

This world was bigger than it first seemed, and now that they knew other people were around, some even transported like them, their whole situation just got a lot more complicated. But forget all of that. Most importantly, [i]they weren't alone.[/i]