And so it begins...

Seven kids at summer camp are sucked in to a strange "Digital World", where strange looking creatures called Digimon greet them.


 * Japanese title: Hyouryū? Bouken no Shima! ("漂流? 冒険の島!")

Synopsis
Seven kids go to summer camp, in the hopes of having a perfectly normal summer. Little do they know their summer is about to change completely.

Tai recounts how the world's climate has been going haywire - the rainforests have dried out, deserts have been flooded, and it's been snowing in cities, in the summer! Meanwhile, he's in summer camp, having a perfectly normal summer until it begins snowing, and a sudden blizzard appears.

Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Sora Takenouchi, Yamato "Matt" Ishida, Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi, Mimi Tachikawa, Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, and Joe Kido are all amazed when it begins snowing. They then observe lights like auroras in the sky, from which emerges a portal that shoots out strange electronic devices. When they reach out and grab the objects, a huge wave of water erupts from the ground and sucks them into the portal, which sends them to a new world.

As they awake, they meet strange creatures which call themselves "Digimon: Digital Monsters!". These seven creatures introduce themselves as Koromon, Motimon, Kuwagamon, Yokomon, Tsunomon, Bukamon, and Tanemon. Each of the seven creatures claims to know and have been waiting for each of children.

Not long after they become acquainted, they are attacked by a huge red beetle, which the Digimon call Kuwagamon. It chases them to the edge of a cliff, and the Digimon decide to fight. However, as In-Training Digimon, they can only blow bubbles, and have no chance to defeat Kuwagamon, a Champion. Just as everything seems lost, the devices glow, and the Digimon suddenly digivolve to Rookie level! Together, all seven Rookies attack Kuwagamon, but it is only enough to daze it. It crashes into the cliff, breaking off the chunk the kids and Digimon are on and letting it fall into the river.