Chapter 2: Mass Evolution. Battle in the Junkyard
Disclaimer: Again, I don't own Ed, Edd n Eddy…
Shortly after Nazz and Kevin finished talking, the fog dissipated, revealing several figures inside: Eddy and a guy that Nazz doesn't know. "Dude, Eddy, what are you doing here? What happened to your hair?"
"Um, I just came here to get my partner Digimon or whatever. Check it out; he's got a gun so he can shoot any bully that I run into."
"Ha, ha," Edd said, "I doubt you'd be able to bring that thing to school without anyone freaking out."
"Is this person an enemy? Can I shoot him?" Commandramon asked, startling everyone.
"What the? Seriously, does it look like he's attacking me? He's a friend. Now stop asking me that!" Eddy reprimanded.
"Sounds like Eddy's Digimon is slightly deranged," Robert said, astonished.
"Dude, that's an understatement," Nazz commented.
"I would hate to be stuck in a dark alley with that thing," Palmon commented.
"Hey! What are you doing dissing my Digimon?" Eddy yelled.
"Um, dude, he just asked if he could shoot us," Nazz replied. "I hope you'll be able to teach him better."
Eddy thought about it. "Don't worry, he'll be alright." Then Commandramon shot a bird. "Dude! Don't do that!"
"Oh, sorry, I'll only shoot when you give the orders, master."
"Don't call me master either. Just Eddy's fine."
Commandramon nodded. Then he turned in the direction of the cul-de-sac and started growling.
"Great, what is it now?" Eddy asked. Then quicker than expected, Commandramon gets tackled by a larger red lizard. "What the-?"
"Dude, Kevin!" Nazz yelled, and they looked over to see Kevin standing on top of a hill.
"Guilmon!" Kevin called and Guilmon detached his mouth from Commandramon's arm, "That's the wrong Digimon! Attack Terriermon!" Then Guilmon ran toward Robert and Terriermon, the latter jumping off his partner's head and running to get the oversized lizard away from him. "Now Robert, how does it feel to be outnumbered. I heard about your raids on various Digimon villages while you were in the digital world."
Robert grimaced. "Um, what are you talking about? Why would I do that?"
"For the data."
"Um, right. Here's the thing, I don't know who told you that but I didn't do it."
Nazz looked at Robert. She had never seen him before in her life before that moment, but somehow she had the feeling Robert was telling the truth. "Dude, knock it off, Kevin. Haven't you ever heard of due process?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kevin scoffed.
"He's supposed to get a fair trial, not be attacked without any proof."
"Besides, if I really attacked all those Digimon villages, why didn't I just attack Commandramon and have Terriermon steal his data?" Robert asked. "Your accusations are groundless. Where did you hear them?"
"I've got my source. Besides, where's the proof that you didn't do such things. You just showed up here at the end of last summer without any ties to the area and with a Digimon. I just had to ask about you."
"Who did you ask?"
Kevin just said, "A trusted source. We deal with the local Digimon for them."
"Which is?"
"That is none of your concern. They just had files on you that detailed your massacres!"
"If that's the case that even you are hesitant to name your source, then how can you trust it?" Edd asked.
Then shots fired on the ground right in front of Kevin. "What the!" Kevin saw Commandramon with his gun pointed at him. "Dude! Keep your gun away from me!"
"Commandramon!" Eddy yelled, "Support Terriermon by going after Guilmon instead. I'll take care of this guy." Eddy walked up to Kevin and asked, "What's wrong with you? You're starting to sound like you did a year ago."
The previous August…
Kevin was finishing up his cookout with the Eds for the day when he saw something strange: something that looked like a purple geyser going straight up in the air. "Dude, what the heck is that?" he asked.
"Curious. I'm not certain," Edd replied. They were about ready to leave Kevin's backyard barbecue when they saw that in the distance. "Unfortunately I must leave. Mother and Father are expected home soon and I don't want to miss dinner with them."
"And then there's the latest monster movie for me folks: 'The Evil Eye of Truth,' about a giant eyeball! Cool, huh?" Ed asked.
"Yeah, really," Eddy replied sarcastically, "I have to go visit my family. It sucks."
"And now I have to clean up alone! Great!" Kevin responded.
Kevin cleaned up as much as he felt like as quickly as he could and left the yard. Everything else can wait, he thought, walking around the cul-de-sac to where the 'geyser' was. He ran as fast as he could. For some reason he felt some calling, like it was something important. It was past the edge of Peach Creek, in a place he rarely went. It was basically in the middle of a peach orchard, and there was a dome of mist there as well. "Dude, this is so weird," he commented to himself as he climbed over the fence, ignoring the 'No Trespassing' sign.
He was able to get into the misty dome which apparently nobody else paid attention to. Inside, he found a large reptile, staring off into space, its tail twitching.
"What the-?" Kevin exclaimed, as the lizard looked over at him and ran over him, sniffing. Kevin was startled. The thing had sharp teeth. What if it tries to eat me? he thought. Then the thing started licking his face. Oh, well, the owners of this place probably know about this already. Yeah…He then walked off, the lizard following.
He found out the orchard was abandoned upon getting out of the dome, something that he was relieved about. Then again, it probably fell on hard economic times like most of the country, including Peach Creek. Unfortunately for Kevin, the lizard wouldn't stop following and Kevin was paranoid of what people would think seeing this lizard right behind him. That is until…
"Hey, nice costume, dweeb!" some hotshot yelled out his car. "It's a bit early for Halloween, don't you think?" This cured Kevin's paranoia, but also made him irritated.
"Won't you stop following me already?" The lizard just tilted its head. "Sorry, but I can't have any pets. Not after my brother accidently ran my cat through the washing machine."
The lizard tilted its head again, "Pets?" it asked.
It can talk? "Yeah, you know. Like animals." Then Kevin shooed him away, "Come on, man, go. Please." Then the lizard just walked the opposite direction. Of course, what Kevin didn't realize after the lizard walked around the corner is that it was still following him.
"Hey, so, I'm sorry about not coming to the barbecue earlier. I kind of forgot about it," Chaun said, sitting on Kevin's couch. "Ever since I got back from Colorado, things have been in a fog."
"So, what were you doing there, anyway? How were you here in the morning and there five hours later?"
"Long story. If I told you, you probably wouldn't believe me anyway. Let's just say it involved an interdimensional portal and the Gourd. Yeah."
"Dude, the Gourd was a joke."
"Heck yeah, he was. Even with the whole interdimensional portal thing he was ineffectual. After a bunch of screwing around, we just kind of ended up in Colorado. It was fun, except for the whole being away for a few months thing when it turned out that it was just a few hours here."
A confused look came upon Kevin's face. "Okay… You've got to tell me more sometime. Oh and where's Garrett."
A gloomy look fell on Chaun's face. "He's still in the other world."
"You're kidding me."
"Nope, I'm not."
Then Kevin heard something crash upstairs. "Dude, what the heck's that about?" Then something dawned on him, "Oh, no it didn't!" He ran upstairs, followed by Chaun who was just as confused as he was. When they got into Kevin's room, they saw that his dresser had fallen over. "It's in here, I know it."
"What's in here?" Chaun asked, helping Kevin get his dresser back to where it was supposed to be while trying to keep clothes from falling out.
"This giant red lizard that followed me home," Kevin said as they finished putting the dresser back. Kevin looked at the open window and knew that that was how the thing got into his room in the first place. He looked around for where it could have gone and zeroed in on the closet. "Hey, I know you're in there." The closet opened up and the oversized reptile peeked. "Yeah, don't you remember what I said about you staying here?"
It nodded. Chaun pulled a green and black device out of his pocket and flipped it open. "Guilmon, Child level, Virus Type. What the heck's a Digimon doing in the human world?"
Kevin looked back at Chaun. "Dude, you've got to be joking."
"No way, dude, I'll be back in a few minutes, if you don't mind. I'll show you my Digimon." Chaun said, hurrying out the door. Kevin just stood there, surprised and in disbelief. He kept expecting to wake up and find that this day didn't happen.
Back in the present day, things were heating up. "Dude, back then I may have been mean to you guys for stupid reasons but seriously, this guy massacred several villages!"
"And I keep telling you I didn't," Robert said. "Now seriously, who told you about all this? I want to know if somehow someone who came back from the digital world at the same time I did decided to slander me."
"Dude, it's not slander if it's true."
"It is if it isn't." Kevin had enough of it and proceeded to punch Robert in the face. Robert recoiled from the punch and faced him. He pointed to the other cheek and said: "Here you go if you want to do it again. I'm not going to fight back."
"Yeah, so, I am!" Kevin took up on Roberts offer and struck him on the other cheek.
"Kevin, what do you think you're doing!" Edd yelled.
"Yeah, really dude! If he really was so cold blooded, don't you think that he wouldn't have hesitated to fight you?" Nazz asked.
"Stay out of this!" Kevin snapped back, facing Nazz. Then he turned around to see Robert walking away. "Guilmon!" The large lizard disengaged the other Digimon and blocked Robert's apparent exit growling.
"Terriermon! It's time," Robert said, pulling out his digivice and turning around to look at Kevin. A green light started to glow from the digivice as the evolution sequence started.
EVOLUTION_
"Terriermon evolve!" Terriermon's evolution sequence consisted of him transforming inside a ball of some sort, skin peeling off of him and revealing a green network underneath him and then Galgomon appearing, the adult forms name showing up in the background. "Galgomon!"
The previous August, Kevin and Guilmon were hanging out in Kevin's room and Chaun ran back in, this time with a black and red backpack. "Alright, Kev, I've gotta show you this," Chaun said, opening up his backpack to have a large green insect come out. "This is Wormmon. I met him while in the digital world."
"You're kidding."
"I assure you he's not," Wormmon said. "I'm a Digimon who's partnered with Chaun."
"Yeah, I have yet to actually get him to evolve to perfect, but he's awesome."
"Well I can combine with another Digimon to get to that level."
"Yeah, but remember how after he was able to get to perfect on his own, jogressing kind of lost its point?"
"Man, this is nuts. So, what do you do with Digimon anyway?"
"Well they're your partners. Since we're in the real world, we kind of have to protect it from them, not that other Digimon have actually come here, other than yours."
"Yeah? That's crazy."
A week later, something emerged in the playground. "What the-?" Kevin was surprised that another dome appeared as he looked at it from his window. "Dude, can you see this Guilmon?" The Digimon was looking out the window, his pupils small and growling. "Somehow I get the feeling we need to get out there and do something about it." Kevin ran out his room, snuck past his parents, and ran out the front door. It was in the middle of the night so he didn't really worry about any of the neighbors seeing him with a giant lizard. Of course, he needed to be quick about it but that didn't matter that much. It was still summer after all. "Okay, dude, let's take this guy down!"
When Kevin reached the dome though, he didn't find the Digimon he was expecting, and instead saw several trucks surrounding the playground, trying to eliminate any evidence that a Digimon was even there. How they managed to beat whatever emerged there in the first place was baffling to Kevin. "Dude, we should get out of here, Guilmon!" Then unexpectedly some nets captured both Kevin and Guilmon. "Dude, let me go!"
Kevin heard some speaking in some foreign language. He didn't know what it was but he thought it was ugly all the same. Then one of the workers, apparently the head of the department walked over to him. "I see you've got a Digimon, eh?" he said, in a vaguely Canadian accent. "It's a shame that since you're one of them tamers we have to take it away."
"You better leave Guilmon alone you…!"
The man interrupted Kevin before he could spout out any profanity. "Eh, you might prove useful."
"Yeah, how?"
"Well, we've been having difficulty dealing with these Digimon emerging. It seems the people most able to keep Digimon at bay are tamers like yourself. But if you won't help us, then you can kiss your little red friend goodbye. Sounds like a good deal, eh?"
"Yeah right! I don't even know who you're with."
"Okay, eliminate the Guilmon." Some of the others lifted up devices that looked much like digivices to point at Guilmon. This caused Kevin to cave in.
"Stop!" Then all the sudden, a red light came from out of nowhere, a white and red digivice forming."
"Hmm… fighting with a Digimon when you don't even have a digivice, eh? You don't know much do you?"
"Just tell me what I need to do and let me and Guilmon go, okay?"
"Remove the nets!" The leader looked at Kevin, his glasses glistening in the moonlight. "What I want you to do is simple: defeat any Digimon that comes into the real world. If you defeat a Digimon, it will dematerialize and after about thirty seconds, give or take, it will turn back into an egg. Now what I want you to do is get me that egg. What we do with these eggs is return them to the digital world so that they can live there in peace and not trash the real world. If the Digimon that emerges is a child level Digimon like yours that won't be destroying everything in sight, you may take one of your friends to try to tame it. That way, dealing with more monsters will be easier. Got it?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, and another thing. Be aware of those who are already tamers. Some of them aren't nice. One of them, for instance, led a team of tamers and Digimon to destroy numerous small villages in the digital world consisting of baby Digimon."
"What the-? Dude, that's just sick!"
"My sentiments exactly. When you destroy a Digimon, you have an opportunity to have your Digimon load that data so they can become stronger, potentially evolving to their adult level permanently. That was the objective of this group of tamers."
"Tell me who they are so I can deal with them when they come around."
"Their leader is someone named Robert, who has a Terriermon."
Kevin made sure to remember that name so he could face him when the time came.
"If you meet him, take decisive action and defeat his Digimon and take his digivice. That way, we don't have to deal with the shadow of his presence anymore. Then again, the chances of him showing up here are slim, even though his aunt lives here."
"Alright, dude, understood."
Back in the present, Kevin had already evolved his Digimon to the adult level.
"Oh, my-" Edd started saying from behind a car, "This is so violent."
"Don't worry dude," Nazz said, behind the same car, "It's not like they're going to kill each other. If they get mortally wounded, they'll just revert back to their lower form or at worst their egg form."
"That's not exactly comforting, Nazz. Besides, what if they injure us?"
Eddy overheard that and was afraid for his Digimon. Commandramon wasn't doing much except for helping Galgomon shoot down Growlmon and avoiding fireballs by camouflaging himself. The shots didn't seem to be affecting the oversize dinosaur, though, and soon Growlmon unleashed another fireball. "Man, I gotta do something…" He mumbled to himself. That's when Eddy saw a pole on the ground. Of course. Eddy did the obvious: he ran over and grabbed the pole, and then he ran up behind Growlmon and hit him on the tail. "Take that you overgrown lizard!" The Digimon howled in pain and turned around to launch a fireball at Eddy but he was hit by a barrage of bullets and the fireball ended up going up instead.
When it regained its composure though, it turned back toward Eddy who was scared stiff. Come on! Move! Eddy thought, but he couldn't.
"Galgomon!" Robert yelled out.
"I'm all out of ammo!" Galgomon replied.
Then, all the sudden, Eddy's digivice started glowing with yellow light.
EVOLUTION _
The evolution sequence for Commandramon was similar to the one for Terriermon, except the color scheme was yellow and black. "Commandramon Evolve!" he shouted, the skin coming off of him and revealing the net-like structure underneath him. Then the egg-like field covered over him and dissipated, revealing his evolution. "Sealsdramon!"
"Whoa," Kevin said, "That thing is sick!"
"That's my Digimon for you!" Eddy yelled out, grinning. "Okay Sealsdramon, use… um… whatever attacks you know to take this guy down!"
"Got it!" the Digimon applied. "Death Behind!" He yelled out, stabbing Growlmon in the back, the dinosaur roaring and shifting his attack away from Eddy and launching his fireball into the air.
"Whoa," was Eddy's only response.
"Alright, Galgomon, time to finish this," Robert said, pulling a card out of his pocket.
"Growlmon, attack Galgomon!" Kevin yelled, causing his Digimon to run towards Galgomon, Sealsdramon still latched onto his back and launched a fireball at the giant dog-rabbit. Galgomon was hit head on and devolved due to the shock.
"Terriermon!" Robert yelled out, running towards his Digimon. Then he realized that Growlmon was going to lunge down for the kill before he got there, that is until Growlmon lifted his head toward the sky and shrieked in terror: Sealsdramon had stabbed him a second time.
"What the-? Dude your Digimon's twisted!" Kevin told Eddy.
"Look who's talking. At least mine's not trying to eat yours after it lost," Eddy shot back. "Now seriously, that's low."
"Dude, you know what Robert did in the digital world, so it's nothing compared to that."
"Man, what are you talking about? Robert didn't do anything in the digital world," Kevin heard a voice behind him and turned around to see…
"Chaun!" There he was, sitting smugly on top of a large boulder.
"Stingmon, separate Growlmon, Terriermon and Sealsdramon!" Chaun turned to Kevin, "Now, Kevin, you've got a lot of explaining to do. Seriously, man."
***
Back in the past, Kevin was talking to Chaun about his offer. "I don't know man. This sounds all shady to me."
"Dude, he's a professor at the university."
"Yeah. Still, something inside me doesn't like it. This sounds ridiculously familiar though."
"Yeah? One of your tamer friends work for him?"
"No. I remember my friends in Colorado saying that they accidentally got sucked into a gate at a seminar. Chances are this guy may have created the gate."
"Well, if it's accidental…"
"The point was that one of my friends from Colorado is still trapped in the digital world and so is Garrett. Most likely years have past since he's gone there. Now seriously, can you imagine a worse way to spend your adolescence than being stuck in a foreign world away from your family with an evil empire among other dangers?"
"You've got a point there."
Later on, Kevin went wandering around the area when he walked by a big brown-haired guy with a digivice attached to his belt. Huh? Kevin though, wondering if there was a chance this guy was one of the tamers. "Hey, dude!" Kevin called, "Is that a digivice?"
The guy looked behind. He pulled his hands out of his pocket and smiled. "You're another tamer, huh? I don't think I met you yet."
"Yeah, my name's Kevin." Kevin realized that it would be prudent to be friendly at least until he figured out if this guy was a rogue tamer. He shook the guy's hand.
"The name's Robert and my partner's Terriermon. What's yours?" The guy was smiling even more. Kevin's face all the sudden turned dark. "You…"
Robert was confused. "What? Did I do something to offend you?"
"Yeah, you raider of villages!"
"What the heck are you talking about?" Robert asked as Kevin jumped for his digivice. Robert was quicker than he looked and got out of the way so that Kevin face planted. "I have no idea what you heard about me but I assure you it isn't true."
"That's what they all say."
"Okay, I'll leave then. I thought it was nice to find another tamer but…"
"If you ever show up again, you're going down dude."
Robert just ignored him and walked away, shaking his head.
In the present, Chaun and Kevin were debating inside Edd's house while Eddy, Edd, Robert and Nazz just sat there. "Dude, I met up with Robert and his posse after two days in the digital world. There's no way he did what he did. This professor dude is seriously pulling your leg."
"Yeah? How?"
"For one thing, he wasn't team leader or anything of the sort. Nobody really held that position. Even unofficially it wasn't Robert. Then there's the whole destroying villages for data thing. Although we did hear reports of that kind of stuff happening, it was far from where we even went and was mainly confined to the Folder Continent. We were on Server. Seriously, I'm your friend. You can trust me far more than some random scientist with a grudge."
"Dude, do you have any idea why this guy is out to get you?" Kevin asked Robert who simply shrugged.
"Beats me. I didn't really meet any of the scientists at that expo I went to in Colorado Springs so I can't imagine a reason they'd have anything against me, especially being from this part of the country where I haven't been before last summer."
"What made you move here?" Chaun asked. "You had a pretty decent gig back there."
"I felt kind of…" Robert lost himself in thought.
"Guilty…" Kevin mumbled. "But not about destroying anything in the digital world."
"No. My best friend's still trapped there. I did the calculations and about 500 years would have passed."
Kevin thought soberly about it.
"That would really suck," Nazz commented, "Spending your entire life in the digital world separated from family."
"That it would. I communicated with his sister recently and he still hasn't come back, something that makes me depressed and angry at the same time."
"No kidding," Kevin said.
"And then there's Garrett," Chaun said, "He's still there. So is that one dirtbag, Daniel."
"Dude, we need to at least figure out what happened to them," Nazz said.
"I concur, so that we can at least bring closure to their families," Edd stated.
"But even if we get to the digital world, how would we get out? For that matter, getting through the place," Robert reasoned, "There are perfect-level Digimon everywhere there."
"I guess we just need to get our Digimon to perfect," Chaun said, "At least you found a way around that."
"Yeah," Robert nodded.
"Well, it was good chatting with you guys, but I gotta get back," Chaun got up to leave. "See you all later!"
"Alright, dude!" Nazz said. "Come to think of it, I got to go too. My mom and I are going shopping. Seeya!" Nazz proceeded to leave as well.
"Oh, and another thing, guys: Don't reveal your Digimon to anyone else. Got it?" Kevin asked.
"Alright, you bet," Eddy affirmed.
"I can imagine this causing panic if too many people know about this so I'll obey your rules as well," Edd said.
"By the way, dudes, this includes Ed." This startled the other two Eds. "Hey, Robert, does anyone know about Terriermon?"
"Nope, not as far as I know. My aunt doesn't have a clue."
"Good. What about that girl from Colorado? Has she been dealing with any emergences?"
"She hasn't had any her way. Her parents do know about her Digimon, though, just so you know. How they found out is anyone's guess."
Edd pondered the implications of the situation of the girl Robert knows and then Eddy asked: "Hey, is this girl our age with brown hair? Does she have a yellow fox for a Digimon?"
"No and no. She's like ten. The girl you're thinking of is Rachelle, who I haven't talked to since the trip to the digital world. We've all had our digivices on stealth mode since coming back so there's no way to contact her. I think she is living with her mom right now so… wait a minute! How do you know about her?"
"I had a dream last night where her Digimon was fighting another Digimon."
"Okay…" Robert didn't know what to think of that. She couldn't be living near here, could she?
"Anyway, dude, I better get going," Kevin said. "See you all later, dudes. By the way, Robert, sorry for the whole misunderstanding."
"Don't worry; I'm not the type to hold grudges. By the way, I still hurt from those punches."
Kevin left and Eddy asked: "So, what now?"
"Well, I could go get some board games or something," Edd said.
Neither Eddy nor Robert was particularly thrilled about that.
Elsewhere, in the Digital World, trouble was brewing. "Sir! We have detected an anomalous signature in the human world," a Nanimon yelled out to a mysterious human figure in a lavishly designed room with gold pillars and white curtains. "The signature was consistent with that of a digivice."
"Another tamer, after so many months," the figure replied, turning around. He was in the same age group as the other kids and had blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a robe and had a purple Tsukaimon hovering right next to him. "What does the signature coincide with?"
"From the looks of it, the digivice signature is similar to one of the legendary tamers…" The glair in the eyes of the blond human caused the Nanimon to shutter.
"You've failed me yet again."
"But sir, I couldn't figure out a way to…"
"Tsukaimon." The human held up his digivice and slide an evolution card through it. "Dispose of this weakling."
The human walked away as a huge shadow appeared behind him, devouring the Nanimon. He smiled an evil smile.
"Wow, I get through this weird day and nobody notices that I have a full head of hair. What gives?" Eddy asks Commandramon while he flops on his bed, who looks at him confused.
"What's hair?" the Digimon asks.
Eddy runs his hand through his hair on his head. "This stuff. How do you not know what hair is?"
The reptilian monster just shrugged. "I don't know a lot of things."
"So, how are we going to handle the rooming and feeding arrangements?"
Commandramon just shrugged again. Eddy reached under his bed and pulled out the box of cards from the night before, looking through all of them for that blue card, but he couldn't find it. He figured it had to be in there so he just held the box upside down and dumped all the cards out. Unfortunately, the box had a false bottom and a bunch of other things fell out as well. "What the-?" Eddy exclaimed, looking at the pictures of his brother with goggles on instead of a hat and sunglasses. He was surrounded by several other kids from back then and looked to be about sixteen. The other kids included a black guy wearing a green shirt, a fat blond guy who's also taller than the others, a latin girl, and a pale blonde girl.
"Dude, what's with this group?" Eddy asked, then he found the next picture, one of each of the tamers with partner Digimon he didn't recognize. "Wait, so my brother was a tamer?"
"Really?" Commandramon asked.
"Looks like it, unless they just photoshopped the monsters."
"What's photoshop?"
"A paint program, I think. I've never actually messed around with it. I've just heard of it." Eddy looked at the rest of what was in there, more photographs and a tag necklace of some sort. "What's this? Here I thought red was more my bro's color than purple."
Then something else broke his concentration: his mom's voice. "Eddy! Time for dinner!"
"Oh crap!" Unfortunately for him, he noticed his Digimon growling at the door, pointing a gun at it. "What the heck do you think you're doing?" he yelled.
"Should I rid you of this person?"
"What! No!"
Then his mom said something, "Eddy, do you have a friend over? Tell him that there's enough food for all of us."
"Did she say food?" Commandramon asked, his eyes and mouth suddenly getting wide, starting to drool.
Eddy rolled his eyes. "You know we can't let her see you."
"Eddy! What are you doing in there?" Eddy could hear footsteps down the hall.
"Nothing mom!" Needless to say, Eddy was beginning to freak out, so he grabbed Commandramon and threw him into the closet. He was going to run over to the door to prevent his mom from opening it, but unfortunately, she opened it too quickly and was shocked at seeing her son in front of her, taller than he had been the night before.
"Oh, crap," He said slowly.
"Eddy, what's going on? Why are you so defensive?" She wasn't tall by any means for an adult and she was beautiful for her age with long black hair in a ponytail and lipstick on her lips. She looked over and saw the cards, pictures, and crest on Eddy's bed and came to a realization. "Where is it?" she asked, sternly, her eyes narrowing.
"Where is what?" Eddy asked, feigning stupidity. His mom immediately walked over to the closet and opened the door. Commandramon was trying to remain inconspicuous despite being in the middle of the floor.
The cyborg lizard looked up at her.
"Hi, what's your name?" the lizard asked.
"Sharon McGee. When did you meet my son?"
"Um…" the lizard got up and took time to think.
"I found him earlier," Eddy started saying, "I'm sorry that I brought him home. Please don't make me put him on the streets. I beg of you."
"I wasn't going to do that. Your brother brought home something like him when he was about your age. Did you by any chance go…"
"Go where?"
"Never mind." She then turned back to the Digimon. "So, what's your name?"
"Commandramon." The Digimon was in shock.
"Okay, Commandramon, good to meet you. Just don't bring that gun of yours anywhere else in the house, understand?"
Commandramon dropped the gun and Eddy's mom proceeded to walk toward the hall.
"So my brother had a Digimon?"
"Yes, its name was Agumon. Now come down and tell us how you got Commandramon and why you all the sudden decided to start wearing a toupee."
Eddy stood there silent for a few minutes from shock as his mom left. "Man, you were so close to ruining everything. If it weren't for me and my…"
"You? You didn't do anything." Commandramon was confused.
"Another word and you're going outside!"
Commandramon shut up as they walked out of the room to eat as the crest glowed with lavender light amongst the pictures on Eddy's bed.
Next Chapter: Kudamon
A/N: Sorry this chapter ended up so long. I have no idea how either. As you can see, I'm still trying to solidify everything with this fic and there's a lot of characters and plot to go through. Heh. Again, read and review.