What in the world is going on? -OPEN-

Colin James enjoyed coming to the park with his twin partners in his spare time when he wasn't at school, home or the digital world. There was just something... daring and defiant about it, a kid having his own living talking friends from another world, albeit both were disguised as humans.

Bellamy the Impmon and Luke the Elecmon currently had their holosuits active. This meant that they had the appearance of humans to any passerby. However, other digimon could easily see through it, and if combat occurred then they would be forced to deactivate them to fight. But, for the purpose of being with Colin and interacting with the world around them, talking to mostly other humans, well, it did the trick for them.

The three of them were currently seated on the grass in a secluded corner of the park, Bellamy lying on his back reading a manga, Luke playing a portable game console, and Colin checking the internet on his phone. The three broke out in brief conversation from time to time, snickering to amusing things they had encountered lately, appearing as 3 average 13 year old friends would normally do.

That was until Bellamy reached the end of his manga, closing it just as he saw something odd. The scent of something reached his nostrils... was that a digimon?

"Huh, looks like it might be another one" Bellamy remarked.

"Another what?" Luke asked, looking up from his game.

"Another baby digimon... I think" Bellamy said. He stood up. Colin and Luke were about to do the same but Bellamy shook his head. "Nah, don't get up yet. I'll just check it out, I'll come back if I'm wrong"

"Okay then" Colin said, looking at him as Bellamy walked into the secluded area. The holosuited Impmon tried to act casual as he strolled through the trees. Eventually, he spotted a little blue fuzzball bouncing around. Aw that was cute. He remembered that his twin brother used to be a Wanyamon. A red one though.

"Huh, thought I smelled a digimon around here" Bellamy remarked to himself. The purple-haired boy approached, hands in his pockets.

"Hiya" he said, deciding to reveal his position to them. "Didja just meet that little partner of yours?" he asked. "The name's Bellamy, and I can fill ya in on some stuff about digimon if ya like"

Bellamy watched the antics of the guy and his Wanyamon with an expression that read 'Really...'

Of course Wanyamon knew he was a digimon, the holosuit technology couldn't hide him from others like him, especially beast types that can identify him by smell. They then started to bicker as to what he was.

Bellamy took his hand out from his pocket and pressed a button on something that looked like a remote control. His body flickered with light, before he transformed instantly with a little electronic noise. Standing where the human boy was a moment ago, now stood a creature about 4 feet tall. Covered with thin purple cat-like fur, dressed in a red scarf and gloves, having an impish white face. His pointed tail flicked a little.

"I think this kinda proves it, right?" he asked, tapping his clawed feet on the ground. "So yeah. I'm basically a digimon too. Ah, that was a holographic disguise, sorry if I scared ya".

At this moment, Luke and Colin had decided to come in and follow him. Luke was still holosuited, looking like a red haired boy.

"Oh Bellamy, there ya go, going around exposing yourself to random people" Luke said, before realizing what he said could be a bit dirty, giving an embarrassed smirk.

"Eh, nobody else can see, it's fine" Bellamy retorted. "So yeah, introductions, this is my partner Colin, and my brother Luke. Seems like you just met that Wanyamon, so, are ya sure you don't wanna hear our advice?"

Colin meanwhile looked at the other person. He looked a few years older than him, but wasn't that much taller. Well, he thought, at least this case was different to the one the other day, in which the digimon already seemed to find its partner. Running around after Jyarimon the other day had been a little exhausting, especially when they needed to take care of her until after she found her own partner.

"Yep, I'm as real as they come baby" Bellamy said, resuming a casual sort of stance, leaning against a nearby tree. Although a templethrob appeared at being called 'little', but by now he was used to hearing that from humans. No point losing his temper about it.

Then the other young guy asked if Luke and Colin were going to transform too.

"Well... yeah, I'm a digimon too, so I'd turn into a digimon if I switch off my holosuit" Luke said, a little cautiously.

"And Colin here will transform into a 'Grown-Up' if he switches on this thing called puberty" Bellamy added. "Although... that probably works differently than what we digimon are used to"

"Yes, Bellamy, and it's called 'growing' not 'transforming'" Colin said, growing a little pink in the face as Bellamy just had to make this conversation get weird. "Anyway, yeah, I'm just a regular person, and one day I came across these two" he explained to Duncan. "Back when they were little fuzzballs in fact"

"Hmph, I wasn't a fuzzball" Bellamy said, pouting a little.

"You were pretty bouncy though" Luke added. Bellamy made a face at him. He chuckled. "Well, no point in me keeping this on and waste power, eh? Here it goes..."

With that, Luke also turned off his holosuit, revealing his true form as an Elecmon - standing slightly smaller than Bellamy, resembling a fluffy red rabbit with white on his belly a fan of long furry spikes above his tail. He also wore a scarf a bit like Bellamy's, only it was blue.

"So then, first question, new guy" Bellamy said, looking at Duncan. "Do ya have a digivice yet?"

"Heh yep, my bro's an Elecmon alright" Bellamy said, walking over to Luke and putting an arm around him. "Cute and fluffy with a 2,000 volt butt"

"Damn it Bellamy my butt doesn't work like that!" Luke scowled up at him, then smirked. "I know you're obsessed with it, so you can at least get the facts right"

Bellamy gave a dismissive 'pshaw'. Colin meanwhile thought he should probably make up for his partners' immaturity by steering the conversation toward something helpful for Duncan. He didn't blame his partners though, they were always a bit playful with each other when they were in their rookie forms. "Duncan eh? Are you from America too?" he asked, curiously as he introduced himself. He kind of recognized the accent too. "I'm from Nebraska myself".

He saw that Duncan did have a digivice. "Ah, awesome. Okay, that digivice there, it's your, uh, 'conduit' to your partner. When Wanyamon's strong enough, you can use the digivice's power to evolve him to the next level. Ah... you know how digimon levels work right?"

In case he didn't, Luke stepped in with a sentence. "At the moment, Wanyamon's an In-Training level. That's one level below us, we're Rookie levels. We get stronger every time we evolve".

As for the name? Colin shrugged. "I dunno. Some digimon like to name themselves, others let their partners name them, others go by their species name. I guess it's a matter of choice for the individual?" It seemed that Wanyamon would like a name though.

"Ah, that's neat" Colin said. "I got here a couple of years ago with my family. They're not military though. It must be tough, being in a new country and all that, especially one with a different native language".

"What's a Kentucky?" Bellamy asked, blinking.

"It's a place that sells fried chicken isn't it?" Luke asked, equally stumped. Colin gave a forced, kind of exasperated laugh and continued with the chat.

"Yeah, there's another world out there that digimon come from" Colin said. "In fact you can get there by going to the Shibuya Station and raising your digivice to the elevator. That'll take you down to a hidden terminal where there's trains that'll take you there and back whenever you want".

He then realized just how weird this sentence was. "I-er, wasn't being sarcastic, that's really how it was" he chuckled a bit, scratching the back of his head.

"I hitched a lift with the tooth fairy myself" Bellamy said, jokingly, but this resulted in Luke nudging him with his elbow. He then decided to say something more helpful. "Ah well the day's young, we like makin' friends, so what other questions ya got for us?" the Impmon asked, his tail swaying patiently.

"Ah, figures, I get a pain in my chest just from smellin' that stuff" Bellamy said, shuddering. He honestly preferred grilled chicken, or fish. Deep fried just sounded sickly.

It seemed Colin's question about how he was handling things here had touched on a subject that might best be avoided. That was fine, he'd just keep the subject back toward the subject of the digimon.

"Well, you can get him stronger by making sure he's well fed and helping him train a lot" Colin said. "That's how I got these two to evolve anyway, although it seems to just happen naturally to in-training digimon. It can take a day to a week for them to reach their Rookie forms".

"And after that is where it gets interesting" Bellamy added, grinning. "Champion level's where it's at, although we can't really reach it unless Colin evolves us with his digivice".

"Yeah, that's the price of having a partner" Luke shrugged. "But we wouldn't swap Colin for anything" he added, smiling up at his partner.

"Oi, Luke, his boots are down there" Bellamy said, disapproving of this unnecessary mushiness. Luke merely poked his tongue out at him.