The Truth about Keenan

Back at headquarters…

"Let go!" Keenan demanded as he struggled against the doctors. "Me get you for this! Let go!"

"Quit struggling. We're not going to hurt you!" one of the doctors told him.

"Let go!" Marcus retorted as he tried to pull himself out of the sick bay.

"I got to get back there!" He added, as the doctors pulled him back.

"You no understand" Keenan shouted. "This too important. We must go back!"

"I have to go back!" Marcus agreed as he fought the doctors' grip. "That old guy, he's fighting by himself! He could get hurt!"

Just then, Sampson entered the sick bay.

"Enough!" the Commander told him sternly. "Neither of you are going anywhere. There was nothing you could do. Not a thing!"

"You are just going to give up on the old guy?" Marcus demanded.

"He'll be fine Marcus. I doubt the Commander-General would want us to act impulsively." Cyclops told him.

"What?" Marcus blinked.

"You mean that older gentleman," Thomas supplied.

"Thomas, Yoshi!" Marcus greeted the two.

"That's correct, Thomas." Sampson replied. "He was the leader of the very first expedition to the Digital World. And he's the world's forth most expert in Dig crafts. Because of this, he holds the highest rank in the Digital Data Squad. He's Commander-General Yushima."

"That old guy?" Marcus sweat dropped. "Wait, you guys sure seem awfully calm. Did you know about this?"

"No, I didn't at first." Thomas replied. "But after seeing him with the Digivice and with Kamemon, it wasn't all that hard to figure out that he was connected to DATS."

"But as for knowing that he was the Commander-General." Yoshi added.

"We have no clue." Lalamon finished her sentence.

"But if the old guy works for DATS, then there's even more reason to help him." Marcus pointed out. "What's the deal with you guys? Don't you care?"

"More than you know. But if you return to the Digital World without a plan, you will just going to fail again, Marcus." Kudamon reminded him.

"So, I'm forbidding you to travel to the Digital World until further notice." Sampson instructed. "And I'm ordering you to complete your physical exams with these doctors."

"Are you kidding?" Marcus demanded as the doctors took him away. "Let go! This is a bunch of baloney, Commander!"

"Boss!" Agumon followed his partner.

"What about us?" Falcomon asked. "What are you going to do?"

"Relax, we won't harm you." Lalamon assured him.

"But we are going to have to keep you company at all times while you're here." Yoshi added. "See, we have to keep your existence secret from the rest of the world."

"So, I'm your prisoner." Falcomon reasoned.

"I prefer to call you our guest." Sampson corrected.

"Me no kidding! You take it if you not let me go!" Keenan struggled against the doctors holding him.

"Aright gentlemen" Sampson told the rest of the team. "Let's hear your report."

"Right!" the three teens chorused.

"There isn't much to tell." Thomas reported. "We found Merukimon in the Infinite Ice Ridge but he was too much for us. So Commander-General Yushima told us to leave and we don't know what happened to him after we left. That's everything."

"I see." Sampson noted. "I guess that's all then."

"Hey, what are you doing?" Megumi exclaimed.

"Get away from there!" Miki added.

The three teens turned to see Marcus and Keenan messing around with the electronic equipment.

"Work!" Marcus demanded.

"Marcus!" Miki rebuked.

"Get out of there this instant!" Megumi told Keenan.

"Come on! Come on!" Marcus urged.

"Have you lost it?" Miki demanded.

"Marcus, stop." Thomas warned. "What do you think you're doing? You heard the Commander's orders."

"Look, back off, Thomas! I'm not going to sit here and do nothing. I'm going back to the Digital World to save that old guy." Marcus retorted.

"I doubt you're going anywhere!" Yoshi scolded. "Every time you touch those computers, they all go completely haywire."

"Not this time!" Marcus told her, slamming his hands on the keyboard as Keenan stomped his foot on the Digital Transporter.

"They broke it!" Thomas gasped in horror as the equipment shut down.

"Typical." Charlie sighed before forcing the two out of the transporter.

"Nice job, Marcus." Thomas retorted, pushing the other teen aside as he set to work. "You've really done it this time. Once again, I have to try and clean up the mess you made."

"Look, I'm sorry, okay?" Marcus replied. "I just wanted to save Yushima. So can you fix it or what?"

"Yeah, in two weeks!" Thomas remarked.

"Two weeks?" Marcus echoed.

"You broke it so badly it's going to take at least that long to fix." Thomas told him.

"What?" Marcus demanded. "Come on, you're kidding me. Right Thomas? Can't you do anything?"

"I can do one thing." Thomas told him. "Be amazed by at how much you wrecked this thing."

Then someone in a armored suit stepped into the room.

"What am I looking at right now?" He asked.