Summary: Shortly before everyone has their first run-in with Devimon, Agumon decides to try and get to know his new human partner, Tai Kamiya. Naturally he's curious about humans, just like his fellow Digimon, but…just what kind of questions will he ask?


Getting To Know You: Agumon and Tai


Agumon was lying underneath a tall tree in the shade. The other Digimon were relaxing while the humans were all looking around, still trying to make something of all that's happened. It obviously hadn't sunk into them that they're in the Digital World now. But Agumon noticed that only six of them were gathered together. There was one human missing.

Then he found the missing one. It was his own partner, Tai. Tai was walking towards a lake and when he reached it, he sat by himself. A thought hit Agumon. There may not have been a better time to get to know this guy and find out a little more about humans.

Agumon got up and walked over towards the lake. As soon as he reached Tai, he looked around to make sure they were by themselves. Once he saw they were all alone, Agumon broke the ice.

"Hey Tai. Uh…you're a human, right?"

Tai turned around and looked at Agumon strangely. "Yeah…you could say that."

Agumon sat next to Tai. "Well…I hope you don't mind me saying…but you look kinda…weird."

Tai raised an eyebrow. "You think *I* look weird?"

"Of course," Agumon confirmed. "I've never seen a funny-looking creature like you here in the Digital World before. And…well…there are some things I'm curious about. Can I ask you…you know…stuff?"

"I guess so," Tai replied. "It's not everyday a miniature T-Rex asks me questions. Shoot."

Agumon blinked. "Well…I had my questions all ready, but that's something I'd like to know. What's a T-Rex?"

"You've never heard of a Tyrannosaurus Rex?" Tai asked in amazement. "Ok, I'll go ahead and tell you. It looks exactly like you, except it's about 100 times bigger."

"Are there a lot of those in your world?" Agumon asked.

Tai shook his head. "No, they're extinct."

"Really? How did that happen? Did something BIGGER come along?"

"Um…no, nothing like that. They just died off one day. I think…uh…I probably fell asleep during this part of science. Well, I think I heard something about a giant meteor coming down, hitting the Earth, and killing off all the Tyrannosaurs Rexes and all the other dinosaurs."

Agumon pondered that. "A giant meteor killed off a bunch of giant creatures like me? How did the other humans survive it? For that matter, how did humans even survive living around T-Rexes?"

"Huh? Humans weren't around back then. Humans came later."

"Oh, I get it! Humans probably came down from that meteor, didn't they?"

"Um…no," Tai muttered. "Humans didn't come down on a giant meteor from another planet. You read too many comic books."

"What's a comic book?"

"Uh…never mind. The point I'm trying to make is that T-Rexes used to roam our world millions of years ago before something killed them off. Then the humans came."

"Where did humans come from?" Agumon asked curiously.

"I wasn't around back then, so I wouldn't know," Tai answered. "I just know that there are a whole bunch of stories about how humans came into existence."

"So is it possible that humans came from another planet?"

Tai hesitated for a moment. "Hmm…you know, now that I think of it, it might be possible. Hey, my science teacher might give me an A+ if I put that in one of my reports. Humans from another planet. That actually makes sense now that I think of it."

"Sounds right to me. Of course, I don't know too much about humans. So you really think I look like a T-Rex?"

"You really do. But when you were Koromon, you looked more like a soccer ball."

"What's a soccer ball?"

Tai gave Agumon another strange look. "It's a ball you use to play soccer."

"Oh. What's soccer?"

Tai gasped. "Y-Y-You don't know what soccer is?" He got on his knees and looked up at the sky. "What kind of world did I fall in?!"

"I take it soccer's a big thing in the human world?" Agumon guessed.

Tai's eyes widened. "It's only the best sport there is! If I had a soccer ball, I'd show you exactly what I'm talking about!"

"Um…would it help if we had a Koromon?"

"You wouldn't want that. See, one of the main ideas is that we kick the soccer ball around with our feet."

"You kick around a living creature? That sounds cruel!"

"No! The soccer ball isn't alive! It's made of…well…I don't know WHAT a soccer ball is made of. But it's not alive."

"So a soccer ball looks like a Koromon?"

"Well…not TOTALLY, but…it's just round."

"So what do you do with this soccer ball?"

"Ok, the point of soccer is to kick the soccer ball into the opposing team's net. If you kick the ball into the opposing net, you score a goal. Whichever team has the most goals at the end of the game wins."

"Sounds like fun."

"You'd better believe it! In fact, let me go ahead and demonstrate. Do you see anything we can use?"

Suddenly, as if on cue, a soccer ball just happened to roll towards Tai, seemingly out of nowhere.* Tai picked up the ball and grinned.

"Here's a soccer ball," Tai said cheerfully. "Now I'll go ahead and give you a demonstration. Usually there are more people on each team, but for the purposes of this exhibition, we'll go ahead and just go one-on-one. Now Agumon, you go and stand over by…uh…one second."

Tai ran past Agumon and started gathering branches. This was all flying over Agumon's head. He didn't know what to make of any of this. It all seemed like such a foreign concept to him. He had never heard of this thing called 'soccer'. But apparently, Tai was an expert on the subject.

After a few more seconds, Agumon turned around to see that Tai had finished up his work with the branches. He had constructed a small arch.

"It's not exactly a regulation soccer net, but it'll do," Tai said proudly. "Ok Agumon, you can go ahead and be the goalie. Go stand under the arch."

Agumon scratched his head, then walked over under the arch. He watched as Tai started showing off with the soccer ball. What amazed Agumon was that he wasn't even using his hands.

"A soccer player can dribble the ball with any part of his body. But you can't use your hands unless you're the goalie. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to try and score a goal against you. All you have to do is stop me."

"It's that simple? No strings attached?"

"The only catch is, you can't leave the goalie's area. But other than that, you just try to stop me. Ok, ready? And…let's go!"

With that, Tai started dribbling the soccer ball from left to right and back before moving forward towards the goal. Tai stopped the ball and started winding up to deliver a furious kick. So naturally, Agumon used the best thing he had at his disposal.

"Pepper Breath!"

Tai gasped and immediately hit the dirt, ducking to avoid Agumon's huge fireball. Tai wasn't hit…not completely. He stood up and looked around, before he started sniffing, obviously noticing that something was burning.

"Hey Tai, is that your hair on fire?" Agumon asked.

Tai suddenly looked up and noticed that his hair had indeed been ignited by Agumon's Pepper Breath attack.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

Tai started running around in circles, obviously panicked. Then he realized he was right by a lake. Tai ran over and immediately dove into the water, hitting with a huge…

**SPLASH**

Agumon left his goalie's post and ran to see if his partner was ok. Tai raised his head out of the water, looking a little worse for the wear.

"Are you ok?" Agumon asked.

Tai moaned. "That's definitely worth a red card."

Agumon perked up. "Ooh! Is that good?"

Tai shook his head. "No, Agumon. That's bad. A red card means you're thrown out of the game and is usually issued for a severe foul, like trying to barbeque an opposing player."

"Oh, I see. Gee Tai, this 'soccer' looks pretty dangerous. How do you manage to survive a whole game without getting killed?"

"It's not always this rough," Tai muttered dryly. "I'm not used to someone trying to fry me. It's against the rules!"

"You mean other humans haven't tried that technique yet?"

"No, not really."

"They really should. It's pretty effective. Can't humans breathe fire like that?"

"NO! Humans don't breathe fire."

"They don't? Then how do they stop you from scoring a goal?"

Tai groaned. "Never mind, Agumon. Maybe I can try explaining this to you again some other time."

Agumon reached over to help Tai out of the lake. "Ok, if you say so, Tai. This whole concept of 'soccer' sounds pretty complicated anyway."

Tai got out of the water and just shrugged. "I'm not even going to TRY and explain the other sports to you."

"You mean there are other…?"

Tai held out his hand, stopping Agumon in his tracks. "No…more…questions. I have a headache. I'm going to join the others."

Agumon sighed deeply. "You humans are so strange."

Tai slowly turned his head to give Agumon a cold stare before just throwing his hands up in frustration and walking away.

Agumon shrugged. "Yeah…REALLY strange…"


Next Time: In our next installment, we'll get to look at Matt and Gabumon. Gabumon has quite a few questions to ask his partner regarding such subjects as his looking out for TK, his personality, and…hair care.


*- While it may SEEM implausible that a soccer ball would just happen to roll over to Tai, answer me this: Where did a soccer ball come from during one of the 01 episodes (I forget which one. It's the one where SkullGreymon appears)? Hey, use your imaginations. ^_^


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