Okay so I wasn't tagged or asked by anyone, but there was a post asking about combining first fandom with current fandom, and my brain said "But Buck would be such a great former Digidestined" and now I have to ramble. Please note that I only watched Digimon Adventure and 02 and yes, I watched the dubs so this is probably the least canon-accurate Digimon writing you'll ever see. Please forgive me, serious Digimon fans, I was eight when I was into it and didn't know better and haven't found the time/energy to watch the subs.
-Evan's ten years old and so lonely. Maddie's moved out, and his parents only pay attention to him when he was hurt. His parents had a choice between cable and internet, and they chose internet, so Evan spends most of his time online.
-One day, he's wasting time on the computer when it starts glowing. Before Evan can react, a strange object comes out of the screen. He grabs it on instinct and looks at it. He doesn't know what it is, just that it's his.
-The thing in his hand has a screen and some buttons. He pokes at them but can't figure out what they do, until he hits a particular combination and the screen starts to glow. Evan leans down to see what's on it...
-Only to find himself outside, nowhere near his room, in a lush field, and there's a strange creature talking to him, saying they're partners.
-Evan has no idea what's going on, but this world seems much nicer than Hershey, and the little creature seems to adore him, so hey, can't be all bad right? So he starts walking to see if he finds anyone else.
-He runs into another boy, a few years older than him, a creature next to him as well. The boy introduces himself as Tommy. He's fourteen, and he doesn't know what happened either, only that one minute he was playing World of Warcraft and the next, he got a device just like Evan's and was sucked into this world as well.
-Evan and Tommy decide it's probably safer to stick together, so they do. They pick up a few more kids with their Digimon partners on the way. They learn about Digiworld, the Digivices, and their jobs as Digidestined.
-It's not easy. They have a lot of fights. They have no idea what's happening back home. They spend a lot of time lost and scared and hungry. Through it all, Tommy takes care of Evan, like he feels responsible for him. Evan tends to rush into every situation (and the crest of courage he gets later only attests to that) so it's only natural Tommy would try to protect him (and Tommy's crest of love makes that easy).
-Eventually, they defeat the evil and are sent home. They all wake up where they started, only a few hours having gone by in the real world but months having passed in their minds. Evan feels older. He knows so much now, understands real hardship (not that he didn't before).
-He realizes that in the rush of defeating the big bad and getting home, he had forgotten to get Tommy's contact info. He knows Tommy is from LA, but has no idea how to find him...except through the Digivices they all kept when they went home.
-It takes a while, but Evan manages to hook up his Digivice to his computer and send what he hopes is a message to Tommy. He never gets a reply.
-Years later, Buck's almost forgotten about it. If it wasn't for the Digivice he keeps hooked to his belt and the crest he wears around his neck, he would think the whole thing was just a dream, or a game he played. He hasn't thought about Tommy in a long time.
-...until he's following Chimney into Harbor and the Digivice starts beeping. Chimney and Eddie look at him in confusion--they know Buck carries the thing everywhere, and the one time Bobby asked about it, Buck said it was some kind of medical device. "You good?" Eddie asks.
-"Yes," Buck says, just as he hears an answering beep. He turns, and there's a guy, a really hot guy walking toward Buck as though drawn to him. He also has a Digivice on his belt, and Buck can see a chain just like his peeking out from under his collar.
-The guy stops in front of him. They stare at each other before the guy wordlessly pulls his crest out. The crest of love, the same one Buck had seen a thousand times on their journey.
Tommy stares at him for a long time until Buck pulls out his crest as well.
