Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or any of its characters. Nabiki and Sam are mine and no one else's. See? Short an' sweet.

Episode 1:

A New Tamer

Chapter 1:

Impmon's Meeting with An old Enemy

     Impmon, a little purple Digimon with attitude and a Brooklyn accent, sat on a tree branch, watching as a group of kids played Digimon Battle.

     He snorted and sneered. A small ball of fire appeared on his finger as he shouted, throwing it at the kids, roasting their cards, "Bada-Boom!"    The kids screamed and scattered. He laughed at this and chased after the kids, throwing fireballs at them.

Meanwhile…

     A girl with neck length black hair and emerald green eyes heard the screams and laughter behind her. She turned and looked. Several kids were running from a purple thing that she had seen somewhere before. Where have I…Oh! She pulled out a new Digimon card and looked at it. Impmon, a rookie level virus type. His attack is Bada-Boom…she read, then looking up as a stampede of screaming kids ran towards her.

     She sweat dropped and yelped. She then started running, but unfortunately wasn't fast enough and got bowled over by the screaming kids.

     She laid on her stomach, her arms stretched out in front of her, her eyes half closed. "That…hurt…" she muttered, standing and dusting herself off.

     She turned and saw…

     "Impmon!" she yelped, unable to keep the word from popping out of her mouth.

     The Digimon raised an eyebrow and asked, a ball of fire appearing on his finger, "How do ya know me? Talk or I'll Bada-Boom ya in ta next Tuesday!!"

     "This." She shakily held out her favorite card and said sheepishly, "Its my…favorite one…"

     Impmon snatched the card away and looked at it, then at the girl and asked, "Who are ya?"

     "Me?! I'm…Nabiki…" she said, unsure what Impmon was going to do to her. It was kind of scary seeing a Digimon that was supposed to be a TV and card game character standing right in front of her and talking to her. Well, talking wasn't really the right word. 'Threatening' was a better word to use.

     "…Huh. Whatever! Stay outta my way, kid, or else its…Bada-Boom!" he hit the ground in front of Nabiki, who yelped and stomped out the small fire that had started on the grass.

     When she looked up, Impmon was gone and so was her card. She sighed. "Mental note; If I ever hand a Digimon my favorite card again, put a homing beacon on it, then smack yourself REALLY hard upside the head…" she looked at her watch. "Oh, crud! I'm late! Mom's gonna kill me!" she took off through the park, passing Takato, Henry, Rika and their Digimon on the way.

~~~~~~~Meanwhile…

     Impmon watched as Nabiki took off, then turned his attention back to the card in his crimson-gloved hands.

     "'Impmon…Rookie Level…Virus type…attack: Bada-Boom…'" he read, his emerald eyes scanning the Japanese text on the card.

     Suddenly, Calumon, a small childish Digimon who loved to follow him around, startled him. "Hiya!" The little Digimon said, popping up beside Impmon, who yelped and fell out of the tree and right in front of…

     "No…way…" Impmon whispered, jumping to his feet and backing away from the boy that was standing before him.

     "Impmon. Nice to see you again. Time to come back." The boy said, sneering at Impmon, who shrank away from the human boy, shivering.

     "No…I dun wanna go back…" Impmon said, shaking madly.

     Suddenly, Takato, Henry, Rika and their Digimon stepped up beside the boy, who was growing more and more agitated with the scared Digimon before him.

     "Whoa. What's goin' on? Impmon…" Takato started.

     "Seems…" Henry added.

     "Scared?" Rika finished. They looked at each other.

     "You're coming back and that's final! Either you come back willingly, or I'll drag you back there and give you the worst punishment ever!" the boy shouted.

     Takato and Henry stepped in front of Impmon and said, Guilmon and Terriermon joining them, "Hey. We don't like the way you're talking to him. If he doesn't wanna go back, then let him stay."

     Rika and Renamon joined them. "Yes. If you continue this, Renamon and I will have to teach you a little lesson."

     Terriermon piped up. "Yeah! He may be the most annoying and rude Digimon I've ever met but he still doesn't need to be pushed around by someone like you!"

     Guilmon nodded, his eyes narrowing. "Takato. This person smells bad…"

     "Maybe its because all you people are making me sick." The boy said, glaring at the three teens. He then looked at Impmon, who looked genuinely surprised, and said, pointing at him, "I'll be back later, and you will come back." He then ran off.

     Takato, after cooling down, turned to Impmon and asked, "Who was that? He sounded like a mad man."

     "…That…was Sam…Sam Talihina…" Impmon said softly before running off shakily.

     The three stared after the Digimon, worried looks on their faces while their Digimon looked at each other and pondered what Impmon had said.

     "Sam…Where have I…oh yeah! He goes to school with us! He's at least three grades above us!" Henry said, snapping his fingers and turning to his friends.

     "Well, Impmon sure seems scared of him…Maybe…he was Impmon's…Tamer?" Takato asked. Looks of bewilderment crossed his friend's faces.

     "Maybe that's why he ended up the way he did…" Henry thought aloud.

     Guilmon said. "Um…Takato?"

     "Yeah?"

     "I'm hungry. Can we get something to eat?"

     "Sure thing. Try to keep an eye out for mister tall, dark and mean, you guys! See ya!" and after that quick sentence, Takato and Guilmon ran off down the path.

     Calumon, who had been watching this the whole time, jumped down and said, tugging on Rika's pant leg, "Who was that? And why was Impmon so sad?"

     "Scared is more the word, Calumon…He was scared. We think Sam was Impmon's Tamer…" Rika said, walking past Calumon. "Good day. See you tomorrow."

     Henry waved and said, "We better get going to. It's almost seven o'clock. See ya, Calumon!" Henry said over his shoulder as he ran.

     Calumon's ears shrank as he pouted. "See ya…" he said, hopping off after Rika.