The Wild Boy of the Digital World

Sampson nodded, "I can't believe it's been ten years. Back then, another group of DATS agents left on an expedition to the Digital World. They were investigating a number of people who had mysteriously disappeared from our world. But what they found was much more than they bargained for. Digimon burned the agents' camp in the Digital World and that was just the start of the trouble. The agents soon knew they were in a fight for their lives. In that battle, one man distinguished himself from the others. He bravely sacrificed himself to allow the others agents to escape. His name was Spencer Damon, Marcus' father."

"He never made it home and we still don't know exactly what happened to him. I simply wanted to tell you this so you know what you're getting into." Sampson added.

Mom! Marcus thought as he ran back home in the rain. Why didn't you tell me?

"Marcus." Sarah told her son as she poured tea out. "So, you found out all about your father's mission to the Digital World huh? I don't know what else I can tell you, except that I miss him."

"So, you knew about this..." Marcus remarked. "All along?"

"Trapped in another world without anyway of getting home." Agumon added.

Sarah smiled and turned to look at the family photo.

"You can see why I was worried about you, Marcus." She added. "I just don't want end up losing you, like I lost him and that's why I hope you're not entertaining any notions of going to the Digital World."

"If that's what it takes, I'll do it!" Marcus told her seriously. "Dad's still struck over there somewhere and I wanna get him back. Don't you?"

"Marcus…" Sarah muttered.

"Listen, don't worry about me, mom." Marcus told her. "I'll beat whatever gets in my way."

"But Boss…" Agumon protested.

"I'm even going to bring down Merukimon!" Marcus promised. "Just watch! And then I'm going to bring Dad home, you'll see."

"You certainly are your father's son, aren't you?" Sarah smiled.

"Is that bad?" Marcus blinked.

"Just promise me, just promise me you'll come back." Sarah told him. "Okay? Don't you get lost somewhere in the Digital World because I don't know if I can take losing you too. So please just promise me."

"I promise Mom." Marcus replied. "Stop worrying. Dad will be home soon."

"Let's hope." Sarah added.

Back in headquarters…

Yoshi and Thomas were researching on Spencer Damon.

"Just as I suspected." Yoshi remarked as the screen blinked on the 'Top Secret' sign. "Every single bit of data we have on Spencer Damon has been classified as top secret."

"Well, it was the black eye for the department and also a difficult experience that I'm sure many people would like to simply forget." Thomas added.

"How can we help if we don't know the details?" Lalamon asked.

"He was such a great man." Gaomon pointed out. "Why didn't they try harder to help him?"

"It seems strange." Thomas agreed. "Let's dig deeper."