A/N: Rather opposite from the last drabble. Takes place towards the beginning of the stay in the Digiworld, during combat training.
Background: Joe has abilities with water and fights with a spear.
Joe was panicking.
"Guys, no... just, please no..." he begged as the digimon came closer. "I'm not ready for this yet!"
The others just gazed at him with a mixture of encouragement and exasperation.
"Come on Joe, you can do this," Davis called from the crowd.
Joe shook his head wildly, clutching his spear as though it were a lifeline. "No! Seriously, I'm not ready to do this yet!"
At that, Flamedramon marched straight up, glaring at the boy straight in the eye.
"Joe," the digimon began. "You've sparred with Tai. You've sparred him while both of you were using your crest powers. You can handle this. You've been training so you can fight off enemy digimon."
Joe gazed up helplessly.
Flamedramon roared. "Just fight with me already, dangit! Flame Fist!"
"AAAAAAHH!"
The others watched as Flamedramon began attacking mercilessly while Joe ran around, dodged, and otherwise spent his time trying to outrun and evade the digimon trying to make him fight.
"Well, that's one way to get him to do this," Sora commented with a frown. She quickly applauded when Joe finally spun around using his spear as an axis for balance, and shot a blast of water at Flamedramon's face. "There we go Joe, that's how you do it!"