"He's waking up! Oh, thank god! Bless my poor wallet! Ow!"

Henry opened his eyes to see all his friends, Phoebe, and the blond guy looking down at him. It took him a moment to remember that the blond guy was the new exchange student, Touma.

On right, and that he was from some sort of government organization in charge of tracking down monsters. Digimon, they were called. Just like in his dream…

'Was it really just a dream?' Henry wondered as Roscoe helped him sit up. If so, why did he suddenly learn the name of that Digimon he met at the very end?

"Commandramon..." He muttered as Plotmon and a strange blue and white dog turned around to stare at him.

"The light! It's back!" the floating pink and green acorn gasped as an orb of teal-coloured light appeared in front of them.

"It looks different from the one before," Christina realized as she stared at the light. "This one…is almost lifelike…" she whispered.

"Gaomon, get ready," Touma ordered a blue dog Henry had never seen before.

"Yes, Master!" it replied.

"Henry, we're not done talking yet!" a voice suddenly called from the light, surprising everyone.

"It's you!" Henry gasped as the light turned into a blue silhouette, and then into...

"Agumon!" Touma, Masaru, and a woman with pink hair gasped as a teal-spotted lizard materialized in the dark hallway.

"Wait, what?" the creature blinked its orange eyes in confusion. He frowned. "Who's Agumon? I'm Commandramon, you fools! Now, where is...Henry! There you are, you coward! Running away like that…When I get my hands on you...!"

"Watch out!" Roscoe and Allen pulled their dazed friend away as Gaomon, Touma, Masaru, and even Plotmon restrained the weird lizard that had appeared out of nowhere.

"Henry, who is this?!" Touma demanded. "How do you two know each other?"

"Commandramon, what are you going here?" Henry ignored the DATS' agent's question, focusing his attention on the lizard instead.

The Digimon snarled. "How did I know your name without you telling me? More importantly, how do you know mine?! Did you do something to me?!"

"I thought you were locked up in that cage!"

"What?!" the Digimon looked puzzled by Henry's exclamation before he realized what the human was talking about. "Oh, that cage! It's just a thing that I had some Bakemon built for me but knowing them-Oh, just forget it!" Commandramon snapped, cutting himself off. "I'm in the middle of an emergency here!"

"This is an emergency? You not understanding why you knew my name constitutes as an emergency?" Henry gaped, aghast that such a trivial matter could be seen by anyone as a priority.

"It is an emergency to me!" the lizard barked. "I hate being confused! It stands in the way of any revenge; you of all people should understand this!"

'Confused?' Henry repeated, thinking back to the thoughts that he had with himself back in that dream-like world. Obviously, it wasn't a dream if Commandramon was now here in front of him, but still...

"Are you even paying attention to me?!"


Yoshino poked Masaru in the ribs, causing the brunette to yelp in surprise, as he had been pulled into the fascinating display of verbal exchanges between Henry and the Digimon who really did look like Agumon… minus the ugly blue body paint.

"Don't they remind you of Agumon and yourself?" she asked her teammate with a teasing smile. "Especially over something as trivial as this?"

"Nani? I don't act as immature as that guy!" Masaru insisted as Touma smirked.

"I think they're more like he and Touma, especially when they're bickering," Lalamon opined.

"Nani? I don't act as immature as this guy!" Touma's smirk disappeared as he and Masaru glared at each other.

Suddenly, Plotmon barked so loudly that everyone, even Phoebe, could have sworn their eardrums had punctured. It was only when the puppy Digimon spoke again could they all confirm that they were not deaf...yet.

"Who cares how and why Commandramon is here!" Plotmon shouted angrily. "I just want to know what he is going to do now that he is here, in the human world!"

"What?! I'm in the human world?!" Commandramon blurted out. For the first time, he saw that Henry was no longer the only human in the room. The teal lizard looked like he was going to faint any moment now from fear and shock.

"What are you doing?!" Henry hissed as Touma, Gaomon, Masaru, Yoshino, and Lalamon surrounded the now-very distressed Commandramon.

"It is DATS policy that any wild Digimon that appear in the human world be destroyed and sent back into the Digital World as a DigiEgg," Touma explained in a solemn tone. "Now, stand back," he ordered sternly, but Henry wasn't having any of it.

"Bullshit! We were just talking!" he insisted as he glanced over at Commandramon, who was still staring off into space. It was as if the Digimon had suddenly become paralyzed after seeing so many humans. "We can all judge his intentions after!"

"Get back here!" Touma demanded frantically as Henry freed himself from his friends' grasp and ran towards Commandramon. "Masaru, stop him!"

"Oi, kid! Leave this one to the pros!" Masaru exclaimed as he aimed a punch at the teen.

"Shut up!" Henry, still not understanding a single word from the brunette, dodged his punch by dropping to the floor and skidding past him.

"Nuts Shoot!" Lalamon prepared herself to attack Commandramon in order to get it over with quickly. Suddenly, Henry stepped in front of the Digimon. Commandramon blinked, but it was too late.

"Shimatta!" Touma swore as the shower of hard nuts rained down on both human and Digimon.


"Henry!" Amy wailed as the last of Lalamon's attack hit its targets. Phoebe put a hand to her mouth in distress. There was nothing anyone could do but wait until the smoke cleared so that they could see if...

"Henry, he's okay!" Allen breathed a sigh of relief as his friend emerged from the smoke in one piece, without any bruises on him. A few seconds later, Commandramon also reappeared as well, his body shielding the human's.

"He protected him?" Yoshino gasped as Commandramon whimpered. "But why?"

"Henry, get away from him!" Touma ordered, taking a step towards the duo. The Digimon whimpered again; it had been injured.

"NO!" Henry gave Touma a look that could kill a bird, causing the former to flinch.

"You people don't understand anything..." Henry continued in a quiet voice. He put his hands on Commandramon's injured body. "Commandramon is...he is..." he whispered as the Digimon opened one weary orange eye and looked at him. Henry closed his eyes.

'He is just like me.'

"The light! What's that light in front of Henry?" Allen asked as a small ball of light appeared between his friend and the wounded Digimon. Henry opened his eyes and raised a hand towards the strange object. As soon as his hand touched the light, it turned into a familiar object that most people in the hallway recognized.

"An Ipod!" Amy recognized the strange device that Touma had dropped in English class earlier today.

"No! It's a Digivice!" Plotmon corrected the girl.

"A Digivice?" Christina repeated. "What's that?" Henry could only stare at the white and teal object in his hand.

Suddenly, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw Phoebe behind him. "Aim it at Commandramon," she ordered him. Henry was so surprised that the girl even knew how to give an order that he immediately complied.

The teal blue gem on the back of the Digivice glowed as it fired a similar-coloured beam of light at the injured Digimon. As everyone watched on, Commandramon's injuries were completely healed as he is completely engulfed in light.

"Where did he get the cool gear?!" Robert exclaimed as soon as the Digimon emerged from the light. Commandramon was now clad in a suit of military armour that made his awful body paint less noticeable. His new attire was even completed with a helmet, a rifle, gloves, and combat boots.

"Good to see you're okay now, Commandramon," Henry said as he and Commandramon helped each other to their feet. "You're made up of pretty strong stuff!"

"Heh," Commandramon smirked. "You're not bad yourself."

"What the hell..." Touma muttered to himself.

"Master, it seems that they're friends now," Gaomon observed.

"But that Digivice..." Lalamon realized. "Does that mean that the two of them are partners now?"

"This is the worst!" Yoshino exclaimed. "How are we going to explain this to HQ?!"

"Just like aniki and me!" Agumon pointed out.

"Agumon! When did you come out?!" Masaru jumped back in surprise.

"Just asked them to become affiliates of DATS," Plotmon wandered over to the six. "They can stay together, and you will obtain a new ally. Simple, ne?"

"No!" Commandramon shot back, having overheard Plotmon's suggestion. "I refuse to join forces with those who were just trying to kill me!"

"Now, now," Masaru raised his hands in a gesture of peace, "That was before you saved that guy. Here, let me introduce you to Agumon."

"Konbanwa!" the orange lizard greeted his blue and grey counterpart enthusiastically. "Do you know? About aniki and I? Our first meeting was a fight between us men, and I won!"

"Like hell you did; it was a draw!" Masaru interrupted.

"Ah, but I saved you from Cockatrimon later, so in the end I was the strongest!" Agumon insisted.

"Kisama..." Masaru swore. "You only evolved because of my Digisoul!"

"Oi, are you two really going to have another petty fight over this again?!" Touma inserted himself into the fight just ready to erupt.

"Just get to the point!" Commandramon growled.

"The point is that you should join DATS if you want to have more fights and grow stronger!" Masaru replied. Commandramon raised an eyebrow at him.

"Commandramon, what is that guy saying?" Henry asked impatiently.

"Mr. Wang, do you want to get stronger?" Plotmon asked the teen. "If so, join DATS."

Before Henry could reply, Christina spoke up. "Of course he doesn't!" Unlike her friend, she was learning Japanese and had an idea what Touma and the others were discussing. "What he wants...you and DATS can't give it to him!"

"Chris... you..." Amy stared at her friend as Allen tried to calm her down. It had been years since they last saw Christina in such a state.

"Henry, what happened here?"At the sound of Commandramon's confused voice, everyone snapped out of their own thoughts and turned towards the newest Digimon, who was poking around at what used to be the inside of Henry's locker.

"Nani? You mean you weren't the one who blew it up?" Touma asked as he felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. If Commandramon hadn't been the one behind the destruction of Henry's locker, than that meant...

Suddenly, a loud explosion rocked the entire building, causing everyone to fall to the ground. Lalamon is the first to get up.

"Fire!" the pink and green Digimon pointed towards the window, where red, orange, and grey colours were dancing together underneath the moonless sky.


Glossary:

Shimata: 'Shit'

Konbanwa: 'Good evening'

Kisama: 'You.' Probably the most impolite way to greet someone in Japan. May or may not result in a fight.


A/N: And so it begins. Henry and Commandramon are the first of my OCs to become partners. Yoshino and Touma seemed to agree that the two of them are a lot like Masaru and Agumon when it comes to temperament. Although they may look like it at first glance, it will soon be revealed that their reasons for being like this are different from Masaru and Agumon's.

Or maybe not. Keep reading and make that decision on your own!