Disclaimer: I don't own any of the official Digimon characters.

I do, however, own the character Justin Tzumati and his partner Digimon, which will make his first appearance in this chapter.

T.K.: Okay, so one morning Matt comes by my place and tells me that there's this kid from Canada who's going to be staying with me. Imagine, Matt volunteering me without my approval. Turns out, he's the younger adopted brother of Tai's Canadian friend, Todd. We met them at the airport and after bringing the Canadian guy, Justin, home, he cooks us dinner. Maybe this whole thing isn't such a bad idea after all.

**************************************************************************** **

Chapter 2: WARRIOR OF SPEED

T.K. awoke at the sound of his alarm clock. It took him a moment to realize that the events from yesterday had actually happened. "Hey, Justin! Time to get up!" he said. There was not response. Curiously, T.K. looked over at the makeshift bed that Justin was supposedly sleeping in. He found it empty. 'Where'd he run off to?" wondered T.K. He stretched and hopped out of bed. T.K. opened the door to his room and saw Justin standing in the kitchen.

"Morning, T.K.," said Justin, "I got up extra early so I could pick up a few groceries for the apartment. You mom lent me the money."

"You ARE good," said T.K. He went into the bathroom and quickly, showered, brushed his teeth and combed his hair. He returned to his room with his pajamas in his hand and a towel around his waist.

"Breakfast will be served in two minutes," said Justin. T.K. quickly dressed and made his bed. Just as he was putting on his socks, he heard Justin calling him to breakfast. Eagerly, T.K. ran into the dining room and sat down at the table. In front of him was a plate filled with bacon, Belgian waffles, sausage, and a ham and cheese omelette. T.K. was surprised that Justin could whip up something like this.

"Dig in," said Justin. T.K. picked up his fork, brought a little bit to his mouth, and ate it.

"This is SO good!" said T.K. and went on to eat the rest, "Where'd you learn to cook like that?"

"I...uh...don't wanna talk about it right now," said Justin, uneasily. He shifted in his chair and looked away from T.K.

"Okay," said T.K, slowly. They quickly finished breakfast and washed the dishes. Then T.K. got ready to take Justin to Odaiba Elementary/Junior High School. "So, you nervous about your first day in a new school in a different country?"

"Not really," said Justin as he slung his backpack over his shoulder.

"Then, let's go," said T.K. He picked his backpack (which he had already snuck Patamon into) and led the way. Along the way to school, T.K. ran into Cody and Yolei in the elevator.

"Morning, T.K.," said Cody, "Who's your friend?"

"This is Justin," said T.K., "He's the exchange student from Canada. He's going to be staying with me for a few months."

"Nice to meet you, Justin. I'm Cody," said Cody as he introduced himself.

"And I'm Yolei," said Yolei.

Justin shook hands with both of them. "It's a pleasure to meet you both. So far, I have to say that T.K. has good tastes in friends," he said.

Yolei blushed a bit when Justin shook her hand. She blushed a little more when she got a good look at his face. "Wow!" she said, "You're not handsome. You're gorgeous!"

Justin took a step back from Yolei. He was aware of his own appearance, but no one had actually expressed their feelings about it towards him in that manner before. It was enough to make Justin feel uncomfortable.

"That's a nice watch," said Cody, "And those are nice shoes, too. I guess you really like the color silver."

"Everyone at home calls me 'Silver Lighting'," said Justin. They rode down the elevator and walked to school together. They met up with Davis and Kari in the schoolyard.

"Justin, I'm sure you remember Kari, don't you?" said T.K.

"Yeah, I remember Kari," said Justin before turning to Kari, "Our brothers have known each other for quite a while."

"Tai and Todd were so busy catching up on stuff last night that I hardly got any sleep last night," said Kari.

"And there's Davis," said T.K., "Yeah, we know. Davis looks a lot like Tai. He sees him as a role model."

"What's up with the goggles?" asked Justin. Just then the bell rang and everyone ran into the school.

************************************************************************

T.K. sat in his usual spot in class, but Kari wasn't sitting next to him like usual. Kari was moved one desk ahead to make room for Justin, who wasn't in the classroom, yet. Just then, the teacher walked in and stood in the center of the front of the room.

"Good morning, students," said the teacher, "Before we begin today, I'd like you all to meet a new student." Justin walked into the room and stood before the entire class.

"My name is Justin Tzumati," he said, "It is an honor to meet you all."

"Justin is an exchange student from Canada and will be spending the next several months with us. So students, I ask that you make Justin feel welcome during the time he spends with us," said the teacher, "Now Justin, please take a seat next to the boy with the sandy blond hair." Justin walked over to the empty desk beside T.K. and sat down.

"Well, here you are," said T.K., "What do you think, so far?

"How about turning up the air conditioning?" said Justin.

Davis (who was sitting behind Justin and T.K.) leaned forward and spoke quietly to Justin, "Too hot for you? Guess you must not be used to this kinda weather, eh?" Justin immediately straightened up in his seat. He hated it when people thought of him based on the stereotype on Canadian. He turned around and shot a Death Glare at Davis, causing him to back down.

(A/N: The Death Glare is the trademark of Heero Yuy from "Gundam Wing", but I'm merely borrowing it for this one scene.)

'Looks like Justin's about to kill Davis,' thought T.K., 'Better watch what I say.'

The morning passed by as usual. At lunch, the Digi-Destined sat at their usual table eating. There was an empty seat next to T.K., which was saved for Justin.

"How long does it take for one guy to grab his lunch?" asked Davis at he took another sip of his milk.

"He'll come," said T.K. At that moment, Justin came up to them with a plastic tray in his hands.

"Glad you could join us," said T.K, "Please, take a seat."

"Thanks," said Justin and sat down.

"You bought your lunch?" asked Davis.

"Your cafeteria's not that bad," said Justin, "Burgers, fries, the works."

After school, the Digi-Destined met up in the computer lab, where they met up with Ken and introduced him to Justin. After all the pleasantries were made, the Digi-Destined began to debate amongst themselves about how they were going to be able to go to the Digital World without freaking out Justin. As if to answer their question, a silver light shot out of the computer screen and landed right in Justin's hands.

"What the heck was that?" asked Justin, "And what on Earth is this thing?" He held up his hand for everyone to see. Justin was holding a D3 with silver grips. Fortunately, Tai and Todd were in the room.

"Justin, maybe we should talk about something," said Todd. After about ten minutes of explaining, Justin seemed to understand.

"So let me get this straight," said Justin, "You guys use these things to go into a computer, fight evil monster things, and use them again to come back out of the computer?"

"That's the basic idea," said T.K.

"Sweetness!" said Justin.

"I think Todd and I should come along," said Tai. He remembered that incident three years ago when he first met Todd. The Digi-Destined were on a search for the ninth Digi-Destined and they found Todd, who's crest happened to be the Crest of Speed.

"So let's go," said T.K. He extended his hand (while holding his D3) towards the computer monitor and shouted, "Digiport Open!"

Upon entering the Digital World, Justin noticed two things. The first thing was the scenery. The second thing he noticed were his clothes. Justin was wearing silver pants, black leather boots, a silver jacket, and black leather gloves that went halfway up his forearms. He also wore a tight black sleeveless leather shirt with four golden buttons and three large silver buckles. He noticed a second later that he had something strapped to his left thigh. Looking down, he saw a black leather holster. And in the holster, he found a laser blaster, like the ones from Star Wars.

"Why does Justin get a weapon?" asked Davis.

"Jealous?" asked T.K.

"NO WAY!" lied Davis.

"Yeah right," everyone muttered under their breaths.

The Digi-Destined walked through the forest when their Digivices began to go off.

"Looks like we've picked up a Digi-Egg," said T.K. They followed the signal into a large cave. In the center was a small crater. In the center of the crater was a raised platform, sort of like a stone table. Resting on the table was a silver Digi-Egg with three sharp spines protruding from the top. In the center of the front was a white lightning bolt.

"It's emblazoned with the Crest of Speed," said Todd.

"Try lifting it," said Tai.

"I'll try," said Todd. He gripped both sides of the Digi-Egg and pulled. It didn't nudge a single picometer.

"Justin, you try," said Tai.

"Why me?" asked Justin.

"Just do it," said Todd.

Justin stepped up to the egg and ran a hand through his hair. He placed both hands on the Digi-Egg and pulled. It came off easily. "That was easy enough," said Justin. A bright white light suddenly shot out of the hole that he Digi-Egg once covered and out came a Digimon. It looked like a navy- blue Veemon with an electric V on its forehead.

"I've been waiting for a long time, Justin!" said the Digimon, "Don't need to ask me anything. Your brother will explain everything. Let me introduce myself. The name's Voltmon!"

"Voltmon," said Justin, "I like it."

"I brought someone along, too," said Voltmon. Out from the shadows of the cave, a greenish-blue Digimon with electric stripes running down its back walked up. Todd rejoiced at the sight of this Digimon.

"Sparkymon!" he shouted as the Digimon leapt into his arm, "I've missed you, buddy!"

"I've missed you, too!" said Sparkymon.

Their reunion was interrupted when a suddenly blast from within the cave exploded. Everyone turned and saw a blue and white Digimon standing there.

"Uh oh. We're in trouble," said Agumon, "That's Rinkmon, the fastest Digimon in the Digital World. He'll make minced meat out of us when he uses that Spinning Cutter of his."

The Digi-Destined quickly ran out of the cave, but just when they got outside, Rinkmon appeared and blocked them off.

"At least we're outside," said Tai, "Go guys!"

"DIGI ARMOR ENERGIZE!" shouted Davis, Yolei, Cody, T.K., and Kari.

"Veemon Armor Digivolve to...FLAMEDRAMON! The Fire of Courage!"

"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to...SHURIMON! The Samurai of Sincerity!"

"Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to...DIGMON! The Drill of Knowledge!"

"Patamon Armor Digivolve to...PEGASUSMON! Flying Hope!"

"Gatomon Armor Digivolve to...NEFERTIMON! The Angel of Light!"

"Wormmon Digivolve to...STINGMON!"

"Let's go," said Flamedramon as he led the Digimon into battle, "FIRE ROCKET!" is attack missed when Rinkmon dodged it with ease.

"DOUBLE STARS!" shouted Shurimon.

"GOLD RUSH!" shouted Digmon.

"STAR SHOWER!" shouted Pegasusmon.

"ROSETTA STONE!" shouted Nefertimon.

Again, Rinkmon dodged the attacks.

"SPIKING STRIKE!" shouted Stingmon.

'QUADRUPLE STORM!" countered Rinkmon. He unleashed a fury of sharp blades at Stingmon, causing him to De-Digivolve back into Wormmon.

"Wormmon!" shouted Ken.

"Now for the rest of you," said Rinkmon, "SPINNING CUTTER!" He launched a barrage of spinning blades at the Armored Digimon, causing them to De- Digivolve and rendering them harmless.

"Justin, you're the only one left!" said Tai, "Open the Digi-Egg!"

"Just do what the others did!" said Todd.

"You can do it!" said Voltmon.

"If they can do it, so can I!" said Justin. He held the Digi-Egg of Speed high above his head. "Here goes nothing. DIGI ARMOR ENERGIZE!" The Digi-Egg began to glow.

"Voltmon Armor Digivolve to..."

Voltmon and the Digi-Egg of Speed converged on each other and bolts of white electricity surrounded Voltmon's body. The sparks took on a solid form as Sparkymon's forms appeared in the background. The sparks surrounding the right arm suddenly disappeared and a long blade extended. The same thing happened with the left arm. Then the head was cleared and a long slender blade shot up from the center of the helmet.

"BLADRAMON! The Blades of Speed!"

Standing in Voltmon's place was a Flamedramon-like Digimon with navy-blue skin and silver armor. Instead of claws, he had hands and instead of kneepads and foot guards, he had silver knee-high boots. On each of his gauntlets, he had a long sharp blade about twice the length of his forearm, which looked like it could cut through almost anything. The horn on his head was similar to Flamedramon's, but it was thinner and sharper. On his back was the Crest of Speed.

"I am Bladramon!" announced the new Digimon, "As Voltmon, I used the Digi- Egg of Speed to Armor Digivolve. I slice, dice, cut, shred, and peel with my Giga Slicer and then finish off my opponents with my powerful Thunder Blade attack!"

"Armor Digivolve, huh?" said Todd, "Things HAVE changed."

"So what? No one's as fast as me!" said Rinkmon.

"We'll just see about that!" said Bladramon.

The two Armored Digimon launched themselves at each other and began fighting. "SPINNING CUTTER!" shouted Rinkmon. Bladramon raised his arm blades and deflected each one of Rinkmon's cutters as they came closer to him. "You're pretty fast to be able to deflect my attacks," said Rinkmon.

"You're not so bad yourself," said Bladramon.

"You can't match my superior speed, Bladramon. For I am the fastest Digimon ever!" boasted Rinkmon.

"You want to know one of the things I can never stand?" asked Bladramon.

"What? Being a loser?" asked Rinkmon.

"No," replied Bladramon, "A braggart. Take this. GIGA SLICER!" Bladramon brandished his arm blades and lunged at Rinkmon. The speedy Digimon deflected Bladramon's blows with his own blades.

"You'll have to be faster than that!" said Rinkmon. He and Bladramon continued to exchange blows. Their blades flashed in the sunlight as they clanged against each other.

"He's doing it!" said Cody.

"But he's not winning yet. You can do it, Bladramon!" said Justin.

The two Armored Digimon pushed themselves away from each other and stood ready to continue. "How would you feel if I made things more challenging?" asked Rinkmon. And with that, he began to circle around Bladramon with incredible speed.

"Whoa! There's like a million of 'em!" exclaimed Davis.

"If Rinkmon keeps this pace up, Bladramon's going to lose," said T.K.

"I can't lose him," said Justin, "There's gotta be something I can do."

"Take this! SPINNING CUTTER!" shouted Rinkmon. Several spinning blades shot out from somewhere in the Rinkmon ring at Bladramon.

"Bladramon! Deflect them all!" shouted Justin.

"Gotcha! SPIN SLASH!" shouted Bladramon. He held out his arms and began to spin wildly. As he spun, his arm blades deflected Rinkmon's Spinning Cutter and deflected them away. One of them landed near the ground and Rinkmon suddenly appeared.

"He stopped moving," said Yolei.

"It worked!" said Justin, "By deflecting Rinkmon's attack, Bladramon was able to trip Rinkmon, causing him to stop moving." Everyone just looked at Justin with surprised expressions on their faces.

"Justin's always had a knack of thinking fast," said Todd, "which probably explains why he inherited the Crest of Speed."

"That sounds logical enough," said Ken.

"You can't win against the fastest Digimon in the Digital World!" said Rinkmon, "My speed far exceeds yours. QUADRUPLE STORM!" Bladramon stood ready. As soon as the attack was close enough, he swung his arm and deflected the blades back at Rinkmon, pinning the cocky Armored Digimon to a tree. Rinkmon tried to pull himself free, but his own attack held him fast in place.

"I'd love to stay and help out, but I can see you're 'stuck' with your own problems," said Bladramon. Rinkmon tried to pull himself free, but to no avail.

"Trapped by my own attack!" said Rinkmon in disbelief.

"GIGA SLICER!" shouted Bladramon. He ran straight at Rinkmon and slashed. When he backed down, everyone could see some glossy black material behind the white and blue armor.

"He's a Control Spire Digimon!" exclaimed Ken.

"Justin, finish him!" shouted T.K.

"Bladramon," said Justin, calmly.

"I'd be happy to oblige," said Bladramon. He leapt back several meters and took his stance. His arm blades began to spark as they gave off a yellow aura.

"Fire when ready," said Justin.

"Now Rinkmon," said Bladramon, "prepare to taste the power of my THUNDER BLADE!" Bladramon slashed his blades and unleashed two sparking yellow energy blades at Rinkmon. Both Thunder Blades hit Rinkmon dead-on and deleted him.

"Nice work, Bladramon," said Justin as he ran up to his Digimon.

"Bladramon: 1. Rinkmon: zippo," said Bladramon. A white light shot out of his body and Bladramon De-Digivolved back into Voltmon. The white beam entered Justin's pocket and a D-Terminal appeared.

"That was an awesome fight!" said Davis.

"Welcome to the team, Justin," said T.K.

"Let's go back," said Tai, "By the way, Todd and Justin, you better be careful. These return trips to the real world can be pretty rough."

In a few moments, the Digi-Destined landed in a pile on the floor of the school's computer lab. "I see what you mean," said Justin, who was back in his black T-shirt, blue carpenter jeans, silver Nikes, and silver watch, "Say, where's Voltmon?" A small navy-blue version of DemiVeemon hopped off Justin's head.

"I'm Chibimon, the In-Training form of Voltmon!" said the little Digimon.

(A/N: I use the American dub names for seasons 01 & 02, so don't get Chibimon confused with DemiVeemon.)

"What a cute Digimon," said Kari.

"Almost as cute as his Digi-Destined," said Yolei. Justin slowly backed away from Yolei, giving her the "God-please-keep-that-woman-away-from-me" look.

"Please don't say things like that about Justin around him," said Todd.

"Sorry," said Yolei.

"Well, it's time to go home," said Tai, "See you all later!"

"Bye Tai! Bye Kari!" called the others as Tai and Kari walked home with Gatomon.

"We better get going, too," said T.K., "Coming, Justin?"

"You think I have much of a choice? I'm living with you for the next several months!" said Justin, "Besides, after sampling some of my cooking, wouldn't you prefer that over TV dinners any day?" T.K.'s mouth watered just thinking about it.

"What is Justin's cooking like, anyway?" asked Yolei.

"Why don't you find out?" said T.K.

"Hey, T.K.," said Justin, "You know anyplace where I can get a part-time job while I'm here? I could use some income and I doubt your mom will give me an allowance like she does you."

"My family runs a convenience store," said Yolei, "It's in the same building we live in."

"Hmm. Close to my temporary home. Run by the family of my roommate's friend. Sure, why not?" said Justin.

"I'll get it all arranged, then!" said Yolei and ran back home.

"Well, we all better be getting home," said T.K., "See you later, Cody! Have fun at kendo practice."

"Bye!" said Cody.

When Justin and T.K. reached T.K.'s apartment with Patamon and Chibimon in their arms, they found Yolei standing just outside.

"Well Justin, I've got some great news for you," she said, "You're hired!"

"Tell your parents I can work weekends," said Justin.

"Gotcha!" said Yolei and ran off.

"I think she likes you," said T.K.

"Nah, don't bother," said Justin, "Last time I was in a relationship, it only lasted for about five minutes. Turned out she was just an uppity bimbo with a dozen boyfriends."

"Yeesh!" said T.K., "Come on. Let's go in. I'm hungry." He opened the door and let himself and Justin in.

THE END

**************************************************************************** **

So what do you think? Please read & review.

Extra note: Expect to see a lot of Justin and Voltmon in future fics, since I'll be revealing more about both of them with each new 02 fic I write.