Jayr POV - Digimon Tamers Universe, Digital World, Lowest Layer - 2001

  After rec from the revetion of the darker sides of the in of the Pokemon Universe, we started to wander around the desote desert that makes up the lowest yer of the Digital Wathering all the small packets of discarded Data "rolling" and flying around that we enter on our way, as I use them to create the meals for the Partner Digimon that will hatch from itamas in the form of baby bottles filled with trated data that looks almost like milk.

  Of course, as I lead the way, I make sure that we steer away from all the Digimon inhabiting this area simply because most of them are wild and very aggressive ohat will attack everything in sight so that they absorb their Data and further evolve, something I don't wish to waste my time with.

  As we tio wahese desote nds aimlessly, Zandeer 't help but wonder out loud, "I still 't believe that this is sidered a higher pne of existe feels almost the same as the those I'm used to..."

  Hearing that, I smile and say, "Well, it is something quite easy to prove... Just stomp your feet on the ground with the usual force you o create a few meters wide crater ahe result with your own eyes."

  Curious, Zandeer looks at the barren, cracked soil under his feet, and after a moment of hesitation, he raises his leg and stomps on the ground with enough force whose result would usually create a deep crater that is a few meters wide while causing the earth to quake and even bring down a few nearby buildings in all the other universes we visited until now.

  But as his feet impact the soil, the result is very different from the expected one, sure, the ground depresses uhe force of Zandeer's stomp, and a crater does form, but it isn't very deep, and barely a meter wide.

  Seeing that, Nikita excims in wonder, "Ohh!? That is quite tough!" followed by Zandeer who ents, "It felt like hitting an Arrancar protected by his Hierro..."

  I nod and expin, "As you see everything here is a lot more durable and stable than what we are used to. The Digital World as a whole endure quite a bit of punishment which makes the Perfect Level Digimon, that are able to destroy a Server, and the Ultimate Level Digimon, which be a threat to the whole Digital World quite the fearsome..."

  At this point, Nikita suddenly asks, "Talking about Digimon... you further expin their evolution stages to us? You talked about Baby I, Perfect, Ultimate, and so on but I also remember hearing somewhere about Rookie, Champion, and Mega... It is kinda fusing."

  Hearing that, I smile, gather another small packet of discarded data that is flying nearby, use my Spiral o to manipute the Data to create another baby bottle, and at the same time, I answer her question, "Sure, I'll quickly expin the Digimon Evolution Stages to you, but first let me expin to you that some stages you just mentioned are basically those used in the localized version of the anime..."

  After crifying that, I look at the Digitama in my arms for a few seds, then I use my Spiral o to draw a simple egg in the air, followed by an arrooints at a small slime-like creature, "First we have the Baby I, which maybe is what you have known as In-Training I. Baby I is the Evolution Stage that Digimon typically belongs to immediately upon hatg from a Digitama. At this stage in development, their position data has not yet stabilized, so they are very weak. They are incapable of fighting and possess very little offensive capability, but often produe sort of weak teique to attempt to intimidate or surprise threats, such as blowing bubbles, spitting small projectiles, creating visual distras, or swelling in size. Baby I Digimon evolve into Baby II Digimon, at which point their positional data stabilizes, although they remain uo fight. This evolution often occurs retively quickly as they only he right amount of nutrition to stabilize their Data."

  Seeing the pair easily following my expnation, I draw another arrow and after that, I draw a slightly bigger slime as I tihe lesson, "Baby II is the Evolution Stage following Baby I, which is also known as In-Training II. At this point in development, Digimon's positional data stabilizes. However, they remain incapable of fighting and possess poor offensive capability, but often produe sort of weak teique to attempt to intimidate or surprise threats, such as blowing bubbles, emitting ultrasonic shouts, or physically striking them. Despite that one shouldn't uimate Baby II Digimon too much, as even at this early stage, their bodies still tain enough power to strike down a tree even in the Digital World whi parison makes them physically strohan the average human being. The majority of Baby II Digimon species are small, round, and limbless in shape. There are exceptions that have grown limbs but they are extremely rare."

  After adding another arrow, I draw a small dinosaur that slightly reminds me of Agumon and tinue my lesson, "A Baby II Digimon further evolves into a Child Digimon also known as Rookie. A Child Digimon is still in the process of growing and developing. At this point, the Digimon demonstrates progress not only in its itive development but also in developing its strength and awakening its bat instincts. As such, the Child level is the threshold where Digimon typically bees able to fight. Child Digimon also only have a mischievous streak to their personalities. The Child level is a formative period in the lifespan of Digimon, and the course of a Child Digimon's future evolution diverge drastically depending on its experiences and how it is raised while at this Evolution Stage."

  I add another arrow and after that, I draw an even bigger dinosaur that looks like a stylized Greymon, and after doing that, I say, "A Child Digimon then evolves into Adult Digimon which is better known as the Champion Level in the west. Adult is the Evolution Stage following Child, and as their respective names suggest, the Adult level is the point at which a Digimon is sidered to be fully grown. Adult Digimon, pared to their prior form, have developed even more power and intelligence."

  After drawing another arrow followed by an even bigger dinosaur, with some meical parts, I tio expin, "The majority of Digimon never evolve any further than the Adult level. Only the exceptionally powerful among Adult Digimon are able to evolve again and reach the signifitly more powerful Perfect level, known in the West as the Ultimate level something that causes quite a bit of fusion for some. The Perfect level is the point where further evolution bees increasingly rare. pared to an Adult Digimon, a Perfect Digimon possesses overwhelming power. In the wild, they typically take on the role of pack leaders or even region rulers."

  In the end, I draw o arrow and draw an armored humanoid figure, smaller than the previous one, which basically looks like a stylized WarGreymon, and then, I clude, "Those feerfect Digimon who endure tless battles and overe their own limits evolve again to reach the Ultimate level. The level that is known as Mega in some other tries. Ultimate, this is the ultimate form. The form beyond Perfect, something that would make Cell fron Ball have a literal asm if he knew about it. This is teically the cap fivolution. The most iid powerful Digmoimate levels as well as the Royal Knights and Olympus Xll and od-like entities like the Three Great Angels, the Freat Dragons, and the Four Holy Beasts. Most end series antagonists are Ultimate. This is teically the end all be all form that every Digimon who seeks power cims to achieve. But then among the Ultimate Level, there are those that are referred to as the Super Ultimate, this is the form that usually surpasses Ultimate in power. These Digimon usually require special means to reach such a level, it could be a fusion, aernal item, a power transfer from another Ultimate Level, and so on. These Digimon are powerful almost beyond reason and they usually serve as the ultimate trump card and st resort."

  At this point, Zandeer asks, "Now that think about it, this Data that we are gathering and that you talked about... is that what we think of or it has another meaning here?"

  I look at another ining small packet of discarded Data that behaves like tumbleweeds and expin, "Here Data is what is equivalent to the atoms and molecules of the Real World, sets of 0s and 1s where all the matter and energy of the Digital World is expressed. Everything that exists in the Digital World is formed of data, basically, this is a world where the totality of existence is reduced in data. For example, time in the Digital World mas itself in the formation of Memorial Ste, mos where the story itself is written and at the same time all future are being written. What is perceived as Time in the Digital World is actually the processing of historical data for past, present, and future creation, and the speed at which it occurs is what is felt as the flow of time... but it is better to not think about such things too much."

  After gathering and verting that small packet into another baby bottle for the future nutrition of our Partner Digimon, I tinue, "What exists in our physical world as abstract, as minds and souls, are also totally verted into data in the Digital World. This means that when a humao the Digital World it bees entirely digital. In the same way, it is possible for the mind to leave the human body, it will bee data that are ied in a normal way with other beings that have the same digital position. The same may occur for something that is just a soul, it will form a body of data that is treated as something physical iure of the Digital World. However, the fewer pos a body has in the Digital World, it be seen as inplete and behaving differently in some way. This occur because someone had their mind or soul ripped out of the body for some reason, or even because they died and ended up having their soul sent to the Digital World."

  Indeed our bodies also went through such ge as they naturally adapted to the enviro of the Digital World, of course, if I truly wished for it, I could have prevented such a thing from happening, but since such ge doesn't harm us or makes us more vulnerable in any capacity, I decided that it simply wasn't worth the effort.

  After teag them what they o know, we tio wander around for a couple of hours, when all of a sudden, Nikita's surprised voice was heard as she excimed, "Guys! The Digitama is moving! It's vibrating!!"

  Hearing that, I immediately look bad see that the Digitama in her arms is, just like she said, vibrating as small cracks start to form on it, and ent, "It is about to hatch!"

  Quickly we all focus on the Digitama in Nikita's arms, and soon after cracks start to form in the middle of the shell until the Digitama splits into half, and from it, a small creature be seen as the lower half of the Digitama falls on the ground breaking into small motes of Data before quickly dispersing.

  Meanwhile, the top half remains on its head for a few moments before it also breaks down into smaller motes of Data just like the lower half.

  The newborn Digimon looks back at Nikita who excims as she hugs it closer to her body fully charmed by its cute look, "How cuuteee~! How soft~!"

  It is a small slime Digimon with a spherical body, small cute ears, and round bck eyes, whose whole body is covered in fluffy, white hair, it is the Baby I level Digimon Yukimi Botamon.

  (Image Here - Yukimi Botamon)

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  Nikita then stops rubbing her cheek on the newborn Yukimi Botamon and looking right into its cute, round eyes, she says, "Hello, my name is Nikita. I don't know a lot about Digimon but I promise you that I won't ever turn my ba you my cute partner."

  In respoo her words, Yukimi Botamon shakes a little and replies, "Hewwo... Yukimi Botamon, too." which earns him another squeezing hug from a gushing Nikita overwhelmed by its ess.

  Quickly after that, I hear Zandeer excim, "Ah!" which makes me turn my head to look at him and I instantly notice that the white Digitama in his arms also started vibrating, a clear sign of an immi hatg.

  Once again, we all focus on the Digitama in Zandeer's arms, and soon after cracks start to form in the middle of the shell until the Digitama splits in half, and from it a small creature be seen jumping out of it and nding on Zandeer's chest as the lower half and upper half of the Digitama falls on the ground and break into small motes of Data that disperse soon after that.

  The newborn Digimon is very simir to the ohat hatched from Nikita's DIgitama, it is a small botamochi-shaped creature, which is basically a type of rice cake with sweet azuki paste (red bean paste) that has bck fur, yellow eyes, and small ears, and whose name is Botamon, not only for the shape that reminds that cake, but also for its color as bota in Japanese also be transted as coal debris.

  (Image Here - Botamon)

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  Zandeer gently pats the small baby Digimon and says, "o meet you, little guy. My name is Zandeer and I know that we will experiene great adventures and moments as we grow strether."

  In response, Botamom closes its eyes enjoying Zandeer's touch as it replies, "Good... Botamon like Zandeer."

  This once again makes Nikita gush as she ents, "Ahhh! Your partner is such a cutie too! And it is a perfect match for Yukimi Botamon! This much ess should be forbidden~!"

  I soon pull my attention away from my panion and their Partner Digimon because I feel the Digitama in my arms vibrating slightly, a sign that my own Partner Digimon is about to hatch.

  But I immediately notice that something is different from what happened with Nikita and Zandeer as my Digitama starts to vibrate with much more iy than theirs.

  Seeing that, I sit down aly lie the Digitama, whose shell has already started to show cracks, on the ground in front of me and patiently wait, of course, my movement also catches the attention of Zandeer and Nikita who move over in sileh their Partner Digimon in their arms.

  I don't have to wait for long for something to happen as the Digitama's shell bees full of cracks, and then, the Digitama literally bursts into many smaller pieces that quickly beotes mented Data and disperse, at the same time, I open my eye wide while my panions excim in surprise seeing the creatures that hatched from my Digitama.

  Indeed, creatures, as three cute baby Digimon hatched from my Digitama, which means that they are triplets, I 't help but look at them in wonder as they stao each other looking at back me.

  The one on the left is a small blue ball with a bulge at the top, a mouth, and two bck eyes, I easily reize him as on, a slime Digimon with the potential to evolve into every Dragon Digimon.

  (Image Here - on)

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  [colpse]The one in the middle is small and green and has a long tail resembling a leaf, it has two small ears on its round head, small bck eyes, and round pink cheeks uhe eyes, and carries a pink pacifier in its mouth, the name of this Baby Digimon is Leafmon.

  (Image Here - Leafmon)

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  [colpse]And the one on the right is Poyomon, a small white blob with a mouth and round eyes, depending on the light, sometimes it is also semitransparent, with a white ht blue color.

  (Image Here - Poyomon)

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  [colpse]Even if still I'm a little surprised by the fact that a triplet hatched from my Digitama, I still look at my three Partner Digimon and greet them with a big, warm smile on my face, "My name is Jayr and I'm very happy of being your partner. It is very o meet you on, Leafmon, and Poyomon. I hope that we all will experience a wonderful time together."

  In response, on happily bouoward me while g out "Jayr... Jayr... Fun!" until he jumps on top of my head where it tio excitedly boun pce seemingly uo stand still for even a single sed.

  At the same time, Poyomon slowly hovers the ground, climbs up my body, and nds on my shoulder where it starts to rub its getinous body against my cheek and says in a light but even tone, "Hello... Jayr..."

  Meanwhile, Leafmon is the only ohat remains still, but it isn't because it dislikes me or it is afraid, but from what I se is simply because it is too shy to act upon its wishes, and realizing that, I don't hesitate to use my Telekinesis to gently pick it up and pull it into my arms where I gently embrace it close to my chest.

  In respohe cute green slime rubs its body on my body and mutters in a low tone, "Jayr... Warm... Nice..."

  This makes my heart almost melt from ess.

  Suddenly, Nikita and Zandeer with their Digimon Partner in their arms sit down in front of me and Nikita 't help but pout as she mogly pins, "Not fair... why three cuties hatched from yitama while from ours only one? You are cheating!" but then her expressiourn normal as she smiles and ents, "Oh well! I'm more than happy with my cute Yukimi Botamon! I won't ge it for all the Digimon of the Digital Multiverse!"

  I simply smile at that, and then I bring out the baby bottles full of trated milk-like Data for all our Partner Digimon so that we feed them, of course, since I only have two hands, I use my Telekinesis to feed on on my head and Poyomon on my shoulder, while I manually feed the still shy Leafmon in my arms.

  As imon Partners drink the nutritious milk-like trated Data, Zandeer looks up at me and asks genuinely curious, "Jokes aside, how it is possible that three Digimon hatched from yitama? And even more curious, why are they clearly of different species despite the fact that they e out of the same Digitama?"

  Hearing his questions, I think about it for a few moments before I try to ao the best of my abilities, "Well, first of all, while it is quite rare, it is possible for two Digimon to hatch from a single Digitama as twins, and following that thought process, it is also logical to theorize that the same is also possible for triplets. As for why they are of different species, I 't exactly expin as the only case I know of twin Digimon hatg from the same Digitama are on and Zerimon, and in that case, the two Digimon are clearly different species with their own separate Evolutionary Tree but despite that, there is some retion and simirities between those two. But it is very likely that this is possible because there is a very relevant e between on, Leafmon, and Poyomon. That e is that all three of them are capable of evolving into some kind on, in addition, if I remember well, their species also have a e with A Digimon..."

  Seeing both Nikita and Zandeer nod as they aowledge my words, I add, "As for why three Digimon hatched from my Digitama... my best guess is either it is a lucky ore likely it is the work of the DigiGhemselves... after all, on, Leafmon, and Poyomon evolve in some of my favorite Digimon since my childhood and it is possible that they sehat kind of desire, wish, or longing from me and chose to give me a pleasant surprise."

  Hearing that, both my panion shrug their shoulders an indication that for they somewhat agree with that possible expnation, and then, Nikita asks, "You just talked about Evolutionary Tree... Does that mean what I think it does?"

  I smile and with a light nod, reply, "Indeed, while most Digimon have what you sider a "Main Evolution Route", it is a well-known fact that the Digimon evolution is a lot more flexible than those not in the known could think possible, and some make no se all. For example, you have the poster boy of this universe, Agumon, his Main Evolution Route is pretty straightforward and even somewhat logical, a small lizard-like being evolves into a cool fire-breathing dinosaur that further evolves into a bigger and half cyberiosaur with nukes in his chest... and after that it evolves into a smaller humanoid warrior specialized in sying dragons, locial... more or less..."

  At the same time, Zandeer ents in a deadpan tone, "You lost me at nukes..." followed by Nikita who says dryly, "Logical... sure... if you say so..."

  I awkwardly smile as I ighem and tinue, "Well, those aren't the only evolutions that Agumon gh, he evolve into other dinosaur-like Digimon, but it isn't limited to that and it even ge to something very drastic like an angel-like Digimon, a taur-like Digimon, a devil-like Digimon, and so on basically endless possibilities."

  Seeing them looking at me with a stunned expression, I start to further expin to them how evolution works fimon, "All Digimon naturally e or "load" data, including the data of imon which they have defeated, to sustain themselves. When they have loaded rge enough amounts of data, they may undergo evolution. What a Digimon evolves into is determined by numerous factors. The most on of these factors are: -Fields, which are categories that sort Digimon by biological traits that they have in on, like element and species, so a Digimon will usually evolve into a Digimon of the same Field as itself.-Enviroal influence, as Digimon evolve to adapt to the enviro in which they live.-Prowess and innate abilities, because some evolutions only bee avaible to a Digimon if they are suffitly skilled, talented, or strong.-How it is raised, as obviously the quality of care and attention that a Digimon receives when it is being raised affects how it will evolve. -Intake of specific data, such as exposure to, or ption of, human data rams cause evolution into a Digimon based on that data. -Modification, because some evolutions e from a Digimon altering itself or being altered by an outside force, such as imon, humans, or viruses." At this point, Zandeer nods and ents, "I see... all these faean that any two Digimon who start off as the same species evolve in pletely different dires from each other depending on the lives that they each live. The diversity of evolution pathways is a survival strategy that allows Digimon to adapt and ehe harsh, survival-of-the-fittest enviro of the Digital World. In other words, there is nht" or "wrong" in evolution in and of itself..."

  A grin forms on my face as I nod and say, "That's right... that is the reason why yimon could evolve into forms that for you make no se all, for example, a small dog could evolve into a cat that could further evolve into a very hot angel woman, and after that, at this point, you would expect that the very hot angel woman would evolve into the ultimate state of her current form a very hot argel woman but not! For some strange reason, it turns into a freaking big, bright pink dragon with no apparent rhyme or reason..."

  At this point, Nikita looks at me with a deadpan fad asks, "Why do I feel that you put a lot of emphasis on the "very hot angel woman"? Do you have anything to tell us..." to which I simply, calmly reply with, "Nope... the fact that some Digimon takes the form of objectively very hot women has nothing to do with my desire to explore this universe..."

  Odyin