Chapter One: Descent Into Darkness
"It starts with one thing; I don't know why. It doesn't even matter how hard you try."
-Linkin Park
Three years have elapsed since the series of adventures that have come to be known as the Legend of the Poke Destined. Since that time, much happened. In the Poke World, Ash Ketchum has become the most powerful pokemon master on the planet. Using his power and influence, Ash has rooted out Team Rocket and tried to completely disband them. But, their resources were more plentiful than was thought by the pokemon master. The small conflict turned to a world-wide civil war, which is still going on now.
After the destruction of Bushemon and all of his Cabinet Warriors, the United States was mysteriously without a leader. The public had no idea that they had been controlled by Bushemon, and they were amazed by the disappearance of an entire administration. A new election was held, and Al Gore was voted to be the new president of the United States.
Brock, being invited by Sora to come to Earth and stay there, needed to be able to live a life on Earth. When hearing of his wish, Gore set up an identity for him. Brock, only being sixteen and now on Earth, was without a place to live. Because Kari had gone with Brock's friend Ash, Tai offered to let Brock stay in Kari's old space. The two became very close friends over the couple years that they lived together.
Brock enrolled in the high school that the older digidestined were already attending. He was able to make friends with all but two of them very quickly. Being upset over Kari's leaving; Davis ran away and has not been heard from at all. And Matt was never able to accept Brock. He felt that Brock was responsible for taking Sora away from him.
When high school was ending, Brock and Sora were inseparable. They decided that they wanted to do something new in college. They wanted to attend school in the United States. Al Gore arranged for them both to get full scholarships at Boston University in Massachusetts. Brock is majoring in Earth world history. Sora is still undeclared. They have just finished their second year of college and are planning to return to Japan for their summer vacation.
Our story starts in an apartment in Boston, the day after school has been let out for the summer. The apartment has posters of music and movie personalities hanging on some walls. It is small, but serves the purpose of the students that live inside of it. The rising sun is just starting to peak through the blinds of the bedroom windows and it catches the attention of a head of blond hair lying in the bed.
Exhausted from the previous day, she tried to turn away from the sun. As she did, the clock on the bed stand caught the girl's eye. "Brock!" Sora said, startling her boyfriend from his sleep, "We have to get ready; the flight leaves in two hours!"
Brock stirred next to her in the bed. "Oh come on, Sora," he said calmly, it can't be that late can it?" He turned to look at the clock. What he saw woke him instantly. "Whoa! Eleven-thirty already?" he asked her.
"We must've slept right through the alarm," Sora told him.
They both got out of bed and started scurrying around to get ready. Glad that he had shower last night, Brock wet his hair and put in some gel, then started to spike it.
"Do you think that I have time to take a shower?" Sora asked her boyfriend.
Brock glanced at the clock. They had a little over ninety minutes until the plane left. "Only if it's a quick one," he told her. "We can take a taxi instead of the T."
Sora nodded her head and then ran into the bathroom and closed the door. Brock went over to his dresser and opened up the top drawer. It was nearly empty, since he had almost everything packed for his trip to Japan. He took out a clean shirt and closed the drawer. As he did, a large, pink bird perched itself on the top of the dresser. "How are you today, Biyomon?" he asked Sora's digimon.
Biyomon had just finished her flight around the city that she did every morning. "I'm great," she told Brock. "Where's Sora?"
Brock glance over at the bathroom door, then said, "She's taking a shower before we leave."
Brock finished dressing himself, and then went into the living room where he found Vulpix curled up on the couch. He walked up to the small fox and started to pet his back. "Time to wake up," he told Vulpix.
Vulpix made a small yawn and then stood up and looked at Brock. "We get to go back to Japan today?" he asked Brock.
"Yeah, we do," he told Vulpix. "Sora just has to get ready and then we'll leave."
The water in the bathroom stopped running and the door opened. Sora ran to the bedroom wrapped in a towel. A couple minutes later, she came out in a short-sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts. She was still combing her wet hair.
"Okay, let's go!" she said excitedly.
The two grabbed their suitcases and backpacks from the bedroom and went out into the living room.
Brock took out a red and silver metal ball, and then looked at Vulpix. "You'll have to get in here again," he told the fox.
"Okay," Vulpix sighed. A red light from the pokeball absorbed Vulpix. Brock then shrunk the sphere and attached it to a necklace.
Sora took out a ball and held it up. Izzy had used the technology in the pokeballs to make a device that could store the digimon data.
"I hate going in that thing!" Biyomon complained. She tried to back away.
"You have to, Biyomon," Sora said. "We can't fly halfway around the world with a giant pink bird in the seat. Sora squeezed the ball and Biyomon was absorbed into it.
"What time is it now?" Brock asked Sora. Sora reached down to her waist, but felt nothing there. "Whoa!" she exclaimed, "I forgot my digivice." They both went back into the bedroom and Brock grabbed his red digivice and Sora grabbed her pink D-3.
The two hurried out the door with their luggage. They had to run down two flights of stairs before they were able to reach the cobblestone exterior of their apartment building. On the street, they didn't have to wait long for a taxi to come by.
The taxi took about twenty minutes to get to Logan Airport. Brock and Sora both grabbed their luggage from the trunk and scrambled into the main terminal.
The line was very short in at the Delta counter. They were able to check their larger bags and get on to their gate.
The line through security was much longer. When they finally reached the metal detector, something on Brock kept setting it off. After several scans, they figured that it was his necklace and let him through. Knowing that Sora had the same kind of necklace, they let her go through with little trouble.
Now, having only twenty minutes before their plane left, they ran to their gate as fast as they could.
When they arrived at the Delta gate, boarding had already started. Brock and Sora listened for their sections, but it would still be a while until they were called.
Sora saw a newsstand across the airport hallway. "Brock," she said, "I'm going to go get something to read."
"Be quick," he warned her, "We'll be called any minute."
"Okay," she said. "I'll be right back." She gave him a little kiss on the cheek and ran over to the newsstand.
Watching her golden hair bounce as she ran, Brock completely missed the announcement of their row boarding.
Sora came back a minute later with a couple magazines in her hand. They both grabbed their backpacks and waited for their row to be called.
"Now boarding any final seats for Delta flight 251 to Tokyo," the speaker said.
Brock and Sora jumped right up. "I must have missed the announcement!" Brock said concerned.
"It's fine," Sora told him. "We'll just get on now."
They both walked up to the counter and handed the woman their tickets. "Thank you for choosing Delta and have a nice flight," she chimed as she did for every other passenger.
The two walked into the gigantic plane and sat down in their coach- class seats.
"This is your captain speaking," an overhead speaker said. "We are about to take off on this lovely Boston morning. Our destination is the Japanese city of Tokyo. Please turn off all electronic devices and raise your tray tables."
Brock and Sora had flown on airplanes before and their digivices never had any effect on the plane. They both buckled themselves into their seats as the plane took off.
When cruising altitude was reached, Brock pulled out a Gameboy Advance and put in a unique cartridge that Izzy had programmed for him. He turned it on and a Pokemon Grey Version game started. The character was already set to the Pewter Gym leader. He had in five pokemon with him: Onix, Geodude, Pineco, Vulpix, and Crobat. He was up against the Cinnabar Island gym leader now.
The gym leader sent out Arcanine. Brock used a link cable to connect the Gameboy Advance to his digivice. "Go Vulpix!" Brock said to himself.
Blaine's Arcanine started with an extreme speed attack. It was too fast for Vulpix. "Pokemodify!" Brock said as he ran a Pokemon card through his digivice, "Plus Power activate!" Brock then selected the Fire Spin attack and slowly brought Arcanine to a downfall.
Brock kept playing his game to entertain himself.
About an hour into the flight, Sora was getting bored. "Hey, Brock," she said to him.
"Yeah?" he asked as he set the Gameboy down.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom," she told him.
"Oh," he replied. He picked the Gameboy back up.
She ran her hand over his cheek. "Meet me there in a couple of minutes," she said to him. Then she walked down the aisle of the plane to the lavatory.
A couple minutes later, just as Brock was starting to stand up, the plane started to shake. Brock fell back into his seat. The shaking intensified. Luggage started falling out of the overhead compartments. People started to panic and shield themselves from the downpour of boxes and suitcases.
"Passengers!" the captain shouted over the intercom, "Something is out there! It's tearing the plane apart! We're going to try and make a landing! Get back to your seats immediately!"
The flight attendants did their best to try and stop the panicking passengers. Brock stood up and got out of his seat. "Sora!" he shouted as he tried to get to the lavatory.
The plane was sloping down now and Brock fell backwards onto a male flight attendant. "Get back into your seat!" he yelled at Brock.
"My girlfriend!" he tried to explain. "She's trapped in the bathroom."
The flight attendant just ignored what he was saying. "Get back to your seat now!" He shouted at Brock.
A passenger started yelling and banging on the walls. Brock looked closer and saw that he was trying to open the escape hatch. "No!" Brock shouted.
The passenger forced the door open and the plane started to rip apart.
"Sora!" Brock shouted. He still tried to get back to the lavatory. The plane broke right where he was. He started to fall when he was still nearly a mile above the Earth.
Brock grabbed his necklace and ripped off the pokeball. "Vulpix!" he shouted. Red energy materialized into a pokemon. "Vulpix! Help!" Brock's digivice started to glow.
(music starts playing)
POKEVOLVE INTO CHAMPION
Vulpix! Pokevolve to: NINETALES!
Brock realized that now Vulpix had no way of saving him. He would just fall to his death, too.
(music starts playing)
POKEMODIFY
"Pokemodify! Pidgeot Wing Activate!"
Brock slashed the Pidgeot card through his digivice. Ninetales grew wings as big as a Pidgeot and flew around to catch Brock.
"Where's Sora?" Brock asked Ninetales.
"I don't know," Ninetales told him. "But, there are digimon nearby."
"I don't care about that!" Brock shouted. "We need to rescue these people! But first, we find Sora!"
"I'm right here!" she yelled.
Brock looked up and saw Sora hanging from Birdramon's leg. "We have to help these people!" Brock yelled to her.
"How?" she asked him, "There are too many!"
"I know how!" Brock shouted. He reached into his vest and took out Pokemon card.
(music starts playing)
POKEMODIFY
"Pokemodify! Abra Teleportation activate!
"Do it, Ninetales!" Brock said.
Ninetales focused his power and the shouted, "Teleport!" A wave of energy emanated from him and engulfed all the debris and the falling passengers and got them safely to the ground.
"I see a city beneath us," Sora told Brock. "We should land now."
They started to descend toward the ground. Something flew by Brock and Ninetales. They looked around to see what it was.
Brock saw a human-like bird creature hovering in front of them. Sora and Birdramon stopped next to Brock and Ninetales.
"What is that?" Sora asked him. "Is it Silphymon?"
Brock held up his digivice to examine the creature. "Harpymon," it said emotionlessly, "This armor-level digimon is the digivolved form of Hawkmon with the digimental of light. its special attacks are Mythical Wind and Silent Symphony."
"Is it what brought the plane down?" Sora asked Brock.
"I think so," he replied.
"Caaaahhhh!" Harpymon shrieked.
"We have to stop that thing!" Sora told Birdramon.
"Hold on!" Birdramon warned Sora. She Tilted backward and put her wings together. "Meteor Wing!" she shouted. Fire balls shot out of her wings and hit Harpymon. Harpymon disappeared.
"It looks like we took care of that," Brock said.
"Brock, behind you!" Sora screamed.
Brock looked behind him and saw close to fifteen other Harpymons. They all spread their wings wide, preparing to attack. "Mythical Wind!" all the Harpymon screamed. They swung their wings in unison and arches of energy shot out at Sora and Brock.
"Dodge it, Ninetales!" Brock shouted to the fox.
Ninetales tried to use his speed to dodge the attacks, but he was unable to. He turned his stomach to the attacks so that Brock wouldn't be harmed. Seven of the attacks hit him. He almost lost his energy and returned to Vulpix, but he refused to let Brock down.
Birdramon used her wings to shield herself from the attacks. One of the attacks hit her in the leg. The leg jerked at the sudden. This caused Sora to loose her grip and start falling.
"Sora!" Brock shouted. "We have to save here, Ninetales!" He watched Sora screaming as she freefell from nearly a mile in the air.
"I can't reach her," Ninetales told him, "She's falling too fast."
Birdramon was being swarmed by the Harpymon and was unable to travel more than a few feet in any direction.
"If neither of you can save her, then I will," Brock said in frustration. "I won't let anything happen to her!" With that, he jumped off of Ninetales' back and dove down toward Sora.
With his body more compacted, Brock was able to fall easier and more quickly than Sora. He caught up to her and grabbed her in his arms. "It'll be okay!" he said to her. He grabbed his digivice and held it up to the passing sky. "Digiport open!" he yelled. The digivice did nothing. "No!" he shouted, "This thing should be able to open a portal here." He looked at it and concentrated. He said, "Ninetales, we need your help. I need you." His digivice started to glow.
(music starts playing)
POKEVOLVE INTO ULTIMATE
Ninetales, pokevolve to: VULPYRO!
Vulpyro used his flamethrower to burn away any Harpymon around him. With his own wings, he dove down at the falling humans. He focused all his energy into his speed and caught up to them. He caught the two on his back.
"Where's Birdramon?" Sora asked the two.
"She's up there, fighting the Harpymon alone," Vulpyro responded. He started to fly back up to the altitude that the Harpymon and Birdramon were. On the way up, the watched as Birdramon fell past them.
"The Harpymon got her!" Sora screamed. "Birdramon, we need to stop these things! I can't let anything happen to you!" Sora's digivice and crest started to glow.
(music starts playing)
DIGIVOLVE INTO ULTIMATE
Birdramon, digivolve to: GARUDAMON!
Garudamon flew back up and started flying alongside Vulpyro. She reached out and grabbed Sora off of Vulpyro's back.
"Let's get rid of these little pests," Vulpro said to Garudamon.
"I'd be happy to," Garudamon replied. "Wing Blade!" she screamed. Garudamon clutched her fists and a flame in the shape of a bird of prey went flying after the Harpymon. It hit five and deleted all of them.
"Solar Flare!" Vulpyro said. A large blast of fire came shooting down from the sky above and hit and deleted seven Harpymon.
"I'll take care of the last two," Brock said. He pulled out one of his favorite cards and ran it through his digivice. "Pokemodify!," he said, "Charizard Fire Spin activate!"
Vulpyro's eyes started to glow red. "Fire Spin!" he shouted. A whirlwind of fire enveloped the two remaining digimon. They disappeared.
"We're done now," Sora said. "Let's get back to the ground."
Sora and Brock both flew down to the ground on the backs of their ultimate partners. Both of them were trying to figure out what had happened. What were a flock of Harpymon doing there? Why did they attack the plane?
When the ground came into view, they could see that they were above a large city. Garudamon and Vulpyro got about twenty feet from the ground and they de-digivolved back to their rookie forms. All four of them fell nearly fifteen feet to the grassy ground of a park.
"What happened, Biyomon?" she asked the little, pink bird. "Are you tired?"
"No, Sora," she responded, "I feel great. I don't know what happened. We got near the ground, and Vulpix and I couldn't stay in our higher stages."
Sora looked around puzzled. She saw Brock walking around the edges of the semi-circular park. "What are you doing, Brock?" She wrapped her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm trying to figure out where we are," he told her. "I think that I've got a pretty good idea." He glanced over at a sign that said "Grand Circus Park". "I saw a building on the way down here that a recognized from some books," he said. "We're in Detroit."
"What should we do now?" she asked him.
"I don't know," he admitted. "It's starting to get late. We should check into a hotel and get some rest. It's been a long day. We can go to the airport tomorrow and find out what the deal with the plane is."
"Okay, but are you sure that we shouldn't find someone now?" she asked him. "A plane being torn apart and crashing is going to be a big deal"
"Tomorrow," he said. "Vulpix, you did good up there. Return." He absorbed Vulpix back into his pokeball.
Sora did the same.
They started walking together in random direction. Eventually they came to a building called the "Milner Hotel". They decided to check in there and spend the night.
In the room, Sora and Brock laid down on a bed together. They let Biyomon and Vulpix out to walk around freely.
"I'm going to go to sleep," Sora told Brock. Because they had lost their luggage in the plane crash, Sora just pulled the covers over her. She didn't seem to be uncomfortable at all.
Once she was asleep, Brock quietly got out of bed. He open the blinds of the window and looked out at the night skyline of Detroit.
He had a clear view of the largest building in the city. One thick, black cylinder surrounded by four shorter, thinner ones. Although the building seemed to be harmless, Brock felt uneasy just looking at it.
Vulpix walked up to Brock and rubbed up against his leg. "What are you doing?" Vulpix asked him.
"Nothing," Brock sighed. "Just taking a look at the city." He went back over to the bed and laid next to Sora. A strange city, Brock thought to himself. What happened?
"It starts with one thing; I don't know why. It doesn't even matter how hard you try."
-Linkin Park
Three years have elapsed since the series of adventures that have come to be known as the Legend of the Poke Destined. Since that time, much happened. In the Poke World, Ash Ketchum has become the most powerful pokemon master on the planet. Using his power and influence, Ash has rooted out Team Rocket and tried to completely disband them. But, their resources were more plentiful than was thought by the pokemon master. The small conflict turned to a world-wide civil war, which is still going on now.
After the destruction of Bushemon and all of his Cabinet Warriors, the United States was mysteriously without a leader. The public had no idea that they had been controlled by Bushemon, and they were amazed by the disappearance of an entire administration. A new election was held, and Al Gore was voted to be the new president of the United States.
Brock, being invited by Sora to come to Earth and stay there, needed to be able to live a life on Earth. When hearing of his wish, Gore set up an identity for him. Brock, only being sixteen and now on Earth, was without a place to live. Because Kari had gone with Brock's friend Ash, Tai offered to let Brock stay in Kari's old space. The two became very close friends over the couple years that they lived together.
Brock enrolled in the high school that the older digidestined were already attending. He was able to make friends with all but two of them very quickly. Being upset over Kari's leaving; Davis ran away and has not been heard from at all. And Matt was never able to accept Brock. He felt that Brock was responsible for taking Sora away from him.
When high school was ending, Brock and Sora were inseparable. They decided that they wanted to do something new in college. They wanted to attend school in the United States. Al Gore arranged for them both to get full scholarships at Boston University in Massachusetts. Brock is majoring in Earth world history. Sora is still undeclared. They have just finished their second year of college and are planning to return to Japan for their summer vacation.
Our story starts in an apartment in Boston, the day after school has been let out for the summer. The apartment has posters of music and movie personalities hanging on some walls. It is small, but serves the purpose of the students that live inside of it. The rising sun is just starting to peak through the blinds of the bedroom windows and it catches the attention of a head of blond hair lying in the bed.
Exhausted from the previous day, she tried to turn away from the sun. As she did, the clock on the bed stand caught the girl's eye. "Brock!" Sora said, startling her boyfriend from his sleep, "We have to get ready; the flight leaves in two hours!"
Brock stirred next to her in the bed. "Oh come on, Sora," he said calmly, it can't be that late can it?" He turned to look at the clock. What he saw woke him instantly. "Whoa! Eleven-thirty already?" he asked her.
"We must've slept right through the alarm," Sora told him.
They both got out of bed and started scurrying around to get ready. Glad that he had shower last night, Brock wet his hair and put in some gel, then started to spike it.
"Do you think that I have time to take a shower?" Sora asked her boyfriend.
Brock glanced at the clock. They had a little over ninety minutes until the plane left. "Only if it's a quick one," he told her. "We can take a taxi instead of the T."
Sora nodded her head and then ran into the bathroom and closed the door. Brock went over to his dresser and opened up the top drawer. It was nearly empty, since he had almost everything packed for his trip to Japan. He took out a clean shirt and closed the drawer. As he did, a large, pink bird perched itself on the top of the dresser. "How are you today, Biyomon?" he asked Sora's digimon.
Biyomon had just finished her flight around the city that she did every morning. "I'm great," she told Brock. "Where's Sora?"
Brock glance over at the bathroom door, then said, "She's taking a shower before we leave."
Brock finished dressing himself, and then went into the living room where he found Vulpix curled up on the couch. He walked up to the small fox and started to pet his back. "Time to wake up," he told Vulpix.
Vulpix made a small yawn and then stood up and looked at Brock. "We get to go back to Japan today?" he asked Brock.
"Yeah, we do," he told Vulpix. "Sora just has to get ready and then we'll leave."
The water in the bathroom stopped running and the door opened. Sora ran to the bedroom wrapped in a towel. A couple minutes later, she came out in a short-sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts. She was still combing her wet hair.
"Okay, let's go!" she said excitedly.
The two grabbed their suitcases and backpacks from the bedroom and went out into the living room.
Brock took out a red and silver metal ball, and then looked at Vulpix. "You'll have to get in here again," he told the fox.
"Okay," Vulpix sighed. A red light from the pokeball absorbed Vulpix. Brock then shrunk the sphere and attached it to a necklace.
Sora took out a ball and held it up. Izzy had used the technology in the pokeballs to make a device that could store the digimon data.
"I hate going in that thing!" Biyomon complained. She tried to back away.
"You have to, Biyomon," Sora said. "We can't fly halfway around the world with a giant pink bird in the seat. Sora squeezed the ball and Biyomon was absorbed into it.
"What time is it now?" Brock asked Sora. Sora reached down to her waist, but felt nothing there. "Whoa!" she exclaimed, "I forgot my digivice." They both went back into the bedroom and Brock grabbed his red digivice and Sora grabbed her pink D-3.
The two hurried out the door with their luggage. They had to run down two flights of stairs before they were able to reach the cobblestone exterior of their apartment building. On the street, they didn't have to wait long for a taxi to come by.
The taxi took about twenty minutes to get to Logan Airport. Brock and Sora both grabbed their luggage from the trunk and scrambled into the main terminal.
The line was very short in at the Delta counter. They were able to check their larger bags and get on to their gate.
The line through security was much longer. When they finally reached the metal detector, something on Brock kept setting it off. After several scans, they figured that it was his necklace and let him through. Knowing that Sora had the same kind of necklace, they let her go through with little trouble.
Now, having only twenty minutes before their plane left, they ran to their gate as fast as they could.
When they arrived at the Delta gate, boarding had already started. Brock and Sora listened for their sections, but it would still be a while until they were called.
Sora saw a newsstand across the airport hallway. "Brock," she said, "I'm going to go get something to read."
"Be quick," he warned her, "We'll be called any minute."
"Okay," she said. "I'll be right back." She gave him a little kiss on the cheek and ran over to the newsstand.
Watching her golden hair bounce as she ran, Brock completely missed the announcement of their row boarding.
Sora came back a minute later with a couple magazines in her hand. They both grabbed their backpacks and waited for their row to be called.
"Now boarding any final seats for Delta flight 251 to Tokyo," the speaker said.
Brock and Sora jumped right up. "I must have missed the announcement!" Brock said concerned.
"It's fine," Sora told him. "We'll just get on now."
They both walked up to the counter and handed the woman their tickets. "Thank you for choosing Delta and have a nice flight," she chimed as she did for every other passenger.
The two walked into the gigantic plane and sat down in their coach- class seats.
"This is your captain speaking," an overhead speaker said. "We are about to take off on this lovely Boston morning. Our destination is the Japanese city of Tokyo. Please turn off all electronic devices and raise your tray tables."
Brock and Sora had flown on airplanes before and their digivices never had any effect on the plane. They both buckled themselves into their seats as the plane took off.
When cruising altitude was reached, Brock pulled out a Gameboy Advance and put in a unique cartridge that Izzy had programmed for him. He turned it on and a Pokemon Grey Version game started. The character was already set to the Pewter Gym leader. He had in five pokemon with him: Onix, Geodude, Pineco, Vulpix, and Crobat. He was up against the Cinnabar Island gym leader now.
The gym leader sent out Arcanine. Brock used a link cable to connect the Gameboy Advance to his digivice. "Go Vulpix!" Brock said to himself.
Blaine's Arcanine started with an extreme speed attack. It was too fast for Vulpix. "Pokemodify!" Brock said as he ran a Pokemon card through his digivice, "Plus Power activate!" Brock then selected the Fire Spin attack and slowly brought Arcanine to a downfall.
Brock kept playing his game to entertain himself.
About an hour into the flight, Sora was getting bored. "Hey, Brock," she said to him.
"Yeah?" he asked as he set the Gameboy down.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom," she told him.
"Oh," he replied. He picked the Gameboy back up.
She ran her hand over his cheek. "Meet me there in a couple of minutes," she said to him. Then she walked down the aisle of the plane to the lavatory.
A couple minutes later, just as Brock was starting to stand up, the plane started to shake. Brock fell back into his seat. The shaking intensified. Luggage started falling out of the overhead compartments. People started to panic and shield themselves from the downpour of boxes and suitcases.
"Passengers!" the captain shouted over the intercom, "Something is out there! It's tearing the plane apart! We're going to try and make a landing! Get back to your seats immediately!"
The flight attendants did their best to try and stop the panicking passengers. Brock stood up and got out of his seat. "Sora!" he shouted as he tried to get to the lavatory.
The plane was sloping down now and Brock fell backwards onto a male flight attendant. "Get back into your seat!" he yelled at Brock.
"My girlfriend!" he tried to explain. "She's trapped in the bathroom."
The flight attendant just ignored what he was saying. "Get back to your seat now!" He shouted at Brock.
A passenger started yelling and banging on the walls. Brock looked closer and saw that he was trying to open the escape hatch. "No!" Brock shouted.
The passenger forced the door open and the plane started to rip apart.
"Sora!" Brock shouted. He still tried to get back to the lavatory. The plane broke right where he was. He started to fall when he was still nearly a mile above the Earth.
Brock grabbed his necklace and ripped off the pokeball. "Vulpix!" he shouted. Red energy materialized into a pokemon. "Vulpix! Help!" Brock's digivice started to glow.
(music starts playing)
POKEVOLVE INTO CHAMPION
Vulpix! Pokevolve to: NINETALES!
Brock realized that now Vulpix had no way of saving him. He would just fall to his death, too.
(music starts playing)
POKEMODIFY
"Pokemodify! Pidgeot Wing Activate!"
Brock slashed the Pidgeot card through his digivice. Ninetales grew wings as big as a Pidgeot and flew around to catch Brock.
"Where's Sora?" Brock asked Ninetales.
"I don't know," Ninetales told him. "But, there are digimon nearby."
"I don't care about that!" Brock shouted. "We need to rescue these people! But first, we find Sora!"
"I'm right here!" she yelled.
Brock looked up and saw Sora hanging from Birdramon's leg. "We have to help these people!" Brock yelled to her.
"How?" she asked him, "There are too many!"
"I know how!" Brock shouted. He reached into his vest and took out Pokemon card.
(music starts playing)
POKEMODIFY
"Pokemodify! Abra Teleportation activate!
"Do it, Ninetales!" Brock said.
Ninetales focused his power and the shouted, "Teleport!" A wave of energy emanated from him and engulfed all the debris and the falling passengers and got them safely to the ground.
"I see a city beneath us," Sora told Brock. "We should land now."
They started to descend toward the ground. Something flew by Brock and Ninetales. They looked around to see what it was.
Brock saw a human-like bird creature hovering in front of them. Sora and Birdramon stopped next to Brock and Ninetales.
"What is that?" Sora asked him. "Is it Silphymon?"
Brock held up his digivice to examine the creature. "Harpymon," it said emotionlessly, "This armor-level digimon is the digivolved form of Hawkmon with the digimental of light. its special attacks are Mythical Wind and Silent Symphony."
"Is it what brought the plane down?" Sora asked Brock.
"I think so," he replied.
"Caaaahhhh!" Harpymon shrieked.
"We have to stop that thing!" Sora told Birdramon.
"Hold on!" Birdramon warned Sora. She Tilted backward and put her wings together. "Meteor Wing!" she shouted. Fire balls shot out of her wings and hit Harpymon. Harpymon disappeared.
"It looks like we took care of that," Brock said.
"Brock, behind you!" Sora screamed.
Brock looked behind him and saw close to fifteen other Harpymons. They all spread their wings wide, preparing to attack. "Mythical Wind!" all the Harpymon screamed. They swung their wings in unison and arches of energy shot out at Sora and Brock.
"Dodge it, Ninetales!" Brock shouted to the fox.
Ninetales tried to use his speed to dodge the attacks, but he was unable to. He turned his stomach to the attacks so that Brock wouldn't be harmed. Seven of the attacks hit him. He almost lost his energy and returned to Vulpix, but he refused to let Brock down.
Birdramon used her wings to shield herself from the attacks. One of the attacks hit her in the leg. The leg jerked at the sudden. This caused Sora to loose her grip and start falling.
"Sora!" Brock shouted. "We have to save here, Ninetales!" He watched Sora screaming as she freefell from nearly a mile in the air.
"I can't reach her," Ninetales told him, "She's falling too fast."
Birdramon was being swarmed by the Harpymon and was unable to travel more than a few feet in any direction.
"If neither of you can save her, then I will," Brock said in frustration. "I won't let anything happen to her!" With that, he jumped off of Ninetales' back and dove down toward Sora.
With his body more compacted, Brock was able to fall easier and more quickly than Sora. He caught up to her and grabbed her in his arms. "It'll be okay!" he said to her. He grabbed his digivice and held it up to the passing sky. "Digiport open!" he yelled. The digivice did nothing. "No!" he shouted, "This thing should be able to open a portal here." He looked at it and concentrated. He said, "Ninetales, we need your help. I need you." His digivice started to glow.
(music starts playing)
POKEVOLVE INTO ULTIMATE
Ninetales, pokevolve to: VULPYRO!
Vulpyro used his flamethrower to burn away any Harpymon around him. With his own wings, he dove down at the falling humans. He focused all his energy into his speed and caught up to them. He caught the two on his back.
"Where's Birdramon?" Sora asked the two.
"She's up there, fighting the Harpymon alone," Vulpyro responded. He started to fly back up to the altitude that the Harpymon and Birdramon were. On the way up, the watched as Birdramon fell past them.
"The Harpymon got her!" Sora screamed. "Birdramon, we need to stop these things! I can't let anything happen to you!" Sora's digivice and crest started to glow.
(music starts playing)
DIGIVOLVE INTO ULTIMATE
Birdramon, digivolve to: GARUDAMON!
Garudamon flew back up and started flying alongside Vulpyro. She reached out and grabbed Sora off of Vulpyro's back.
"Let's get rid of these little pests," Vulpro said to Garudamon.
"I'd be happy to," Garudamon replied. "Wing Blade!" she screamed. Garudamon clutched her fists and a flame in the shape of a bird of prey went flying after the Harpymon. It hit five and deleted all of them.
"Solar Flare!" Vulpyro said. A large blast of fire came shooting down from the sky above and hit and deleted seven Harpymon.
"I'll take care of the last two," Brock said. He pulled out one of his favorite cards and ran it through his digivice. "Pokemodify!," he said, "Charizard Fire Spin activate!"
Vulpyro's eyes started to glow red. "Fire Spin!" he shouted. A whirlwind of fire enveloped the two remaining digimon. They disappeared.
"We're done now," Sora said. "Let's get back to the ground."
Sora and Brock both flew down to the ground on the backs of their ultimate partners. Both of them were trying to figure out what had happened. What were a flock of Harpymon doing there? Why did they attack the plane?
When the ground came into view, they could see that they were above a large city. Garudamon and Vulpyro got about twenty feet from the ground and they de-digivolved back to their rookie forms. All four of them fell nearly fifteen feet to the grassy ground of a park.
"What happened, Biyomon?" she asked the little, pink bird. "Are you tired?"
"No, Sora," she responded, "I feel great. I don't know what happened. We got near the ground, and Vulpix and I couldn't stay in our higher stages."
Sora looked around puzzled. She saw Brock walking around the edges of the semi-circular park. "What are you doing, Brock?" She wrapped her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm trying to figure out where we are," he told her. "I think that I've got a pretty good idea." He glanced over at a sign that said "Grand Circus Park". "I saw a building on the way down here that a recognized from some books," he said. "We're in Detroit."
"What should we do now?" she asked him.
"I don't know," he admitted. "It's starting to get late. We should check into a hotel and get some rest. It's been a long day. We can go to the airport tomorrow and find out what the deal with the plane is."
"Okay, but are you sure that we shouldn't find someone now?" she asked him. "A plane being torn apart and crashing is going to be a big deal"
"Tomorrow," he said. "Vulpix, you did good up there. Return." He absorbed Vulpix back into his pokeball.
Sora did the same.
They started walking together in random direction. Eventually they came to a building called the "Milner Hotel". They decided to check in there and spend the night.
In the room, Sora and Brock laid down on a bed together. They let Biyomon and Vulpix out to walk around freely.
"I'm going to go to sleep," Sora told Brock. Because they had lost their luggage in the plane crash, Sora just pulled the covers over her. She didn't seem to be uncomfortable at all.
Once she was asleep, Brock quietly got out of bed. He open the blinds of the window and looked out at the night skyline of Detroit.
He had a clear view of the largest building in the city. One thick, black cylinder surrounded by four shorter, thinner ones. Although the building seemed to be harmless, Brock felt uneasy just looking at it.
Vulpix walked up to Brock and rubbed up against his leg. "What are you doing?" Vulpix asked him.
"Nothing," Brock sighed. "Just taking a look at the city." He went back over to the bed and laid next to Sora. A strange city, Brock thought to himself. What happened?