Digimon Knuckles EP1

==Synopsis==
 and fall from the sky in the human world.
Haruka Kawashima overhears fellows students wondering why and hadn't come to school recently, with one even coming to the conclusion the two of them had ran away together and gotten married. Another mentions how it wasn't just them, loads of people had gone missing including Haruka's father Hajime Kawashima — though Haruka denies him being missed and states he is just busy with work all the time. 
After school, as he thinks about the fact it had been two weeks since he had seen his father, a Mojyamon approaches him and demands he give it food. As Haruka falls to the floor in fear, he calls out for help with Gankoomon and Hinukamuy suddenly appearing from the sky and landing on the floor. Mojyamon simply changes focus and asks Gankoomon for food, with Gankoomon laughing and asking if it really thinks a Champion can defeat a Mega. Mojyamon attacks Gankoomon, with Gankoomon slapping it in the face in the middle of its attack. This snaps Mojyamon out of its apparent trance, and seeing a member of the in front of it — it runs away begging for its life. Gankoomon tells Haruka not to run away as well, as his father had sent it to find Haruka and that it was now going to protect him in his father's place. Haruka lies and says he isn't who it is looking for, and though Gankoomon believes it at first it realizes he's lying due to how similar he looks to Hajime. Haruka threatens to call the police, though when Gankoomon mentions recognizing the watch on his wrist Haruka asks if it actually knows his dad. It re-affirms that it does, then asks Haruka if he can get it some food. 
He takes them home and gives them some food, and figures that since Gankoomon knows his Dad's name and saved him from Mojyamon it must be telling the truth. He still didn't trust it though, since it was such a suspicious scenario. Gankoomon tells him to stop being so uptight since they're gonna be living together from now on, though Haruka tells it that he can't just let a stranger stay the night. Gankoomon ignores this and instead asks Haruka what he knows about his father's work. Haruka asks if Gankoomon is one of his dad's co-workers to which he says he isn't, but does help him with his work. Gankoomon tells him about the Digital World and that Hajime travelled with it and its friends there dong studies on if humans could move to the Digital World and if they could co-exist with Digimon. After hearing the story, Haruka doubts he's the one Gankoomon was looking for, since his dad would never do something so crazy, with Gankoomon surprised to hear that Hajime had never told his son about his work. He tells Gankoomon that he isn't really close with his dad, then tells the Digimon duo that there's more food in the fridge and that he's going to go shopping to get some more. Gankoomon offers to go with him, though Haruka tells it to stay home. 
After leaving the house, Haruka thinks to himself about how he doesn't know anything about his dad and the only things he knew about him was that he left the house in the mornings to go to work, has worn out shoes, and that he gave him his watch a few years ago for his birthday. This annoys him, since it means his dad is basically a stranger and that Gankoomon knew more about him than his own son did. He then wonders if he hadn't told him about the Digital World as he would just get in the way.
Now alone with Hinukamuy, Gankoomon laughs at the fact they had been yelled at by a teenage human and is surprised that the human wasn't scared of a Royal Knight. He sympathises with Hajime, as getting along with your offspring is a difficult task.
Haruka stops freaking out over the situation and leaves to go shopping, deciding that Gankoomon is just a crazy old man in a costume and that he will tell it to leave after dinner. Whilst out shopping, Haruka sees an AeroVeedramon show up and kidnap a child's father. The shoppers run away, as the child tells it to give his father back. After throwing a rock at the AeroVeedramon it gets mad and launches an attack at the kid. Haruka runs in the way to try and protect the kid though realizes that was a stupid thing to do as now he'll just die alongside the kid. He begs someone to help him and says that this is the time when a dad is supposed to come and protect his kid. Haruka's watch reacts and summons a Knightmon's shield, which Haruka uses to block the attack. Gankoomon and Hinukamuy arrive, with Gankoomon praising him for surviving the attack. The duo defeat AeroVeedramon, with Gankoomon slapping it to wake it up. AeroVeedramon thanks it for stopping it, though also makes sure to say that the attacks hurt it. It tells Gankoomon it has no clue how it got here and that it feels like it was talking to someone before arriving though can't really remember. Gankoomon asks if there's a nearby forest AeroVeedramon can hide, with Haruka looking online for one it can go to. Haruka asks Gankoomon where the missing humans are and if more Digimon will show up. Gankoomon answers that it has no idea where the humans are, and that more Digimon would be likely to show up. It tells Haruka that Hajime had sent it to stop Digimon from showing up in the human world, and figures the disappearances may be related to the Digimon issues. It promises to stay and clean up any messes made by its fellow Digimon, and asks Haruka to help it by supporting it in its actions. Since it had already saved his life twice he figures he may as well agree, and accepts Gankoomon and Hinukamuy as his partners — not as a stand in dad. Haruka tries to ask about the watch, though Gankoomon instead says they can talk about that later as it wants to learn about Haruka and the Human World. As Gankoomon praises Haruka, he wonders if this is what it feels like to receive praise from your dad.
An unknown Digimon with AeroVeedramon on its own watch expresses jealousy over the Human World.
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