Here's the next chapter of Pikachu's Digital Adventure, I hope its good enough, Pokémon is property of Nintendo and Digimon is property of Bandai.
Chapter 3: Journey into the Forest
"Bone Cudgel!" Ogremon shouted; swinging his club at the group of digimon; almost hitting Gomamon, and Palmon; who were luckily able to dodge the attack.
"Ogremon what is wrong with you!?" Patamon exclaimed while hovering close to the mad digimon, but Ogremon just continued his mindless attack.
"Battle!" Ogremon shouted hitting Patamon with his club, knocking him back into the group.
"Patamon!" Gabumon yelled in concern, he ran over to his brother and looked him over as the other digimon faced Ogremon.
"What's with him?" Pikachu asked stepping forward.
"Don't know, we've never seen him like this…not even when he was our enemy," Palmon said; taking a defensive stance, Pikachu did not question the "enemy" thing and took an offensive stance.
"Well then we'll need to knock some sense into him," Pikachu said; his cheeks sparking with electricity.
"Wait, we're going to fight him?" Palmon asked in apprehension.
"Bone Cudgel!" Ogremon shouted again, this time trying to hit Agumon who was knocked back by the attack, but got back to his feet with a flinch.
"Ogremon is out of control, I don't know what's wrong with him but fighting seems to be necessary right now," Agumon said; taking his own offensive stance, the other digimon looked at Agumon and Pikachu before looking at the crazed Ogremon.
"Fine than, we'll fight," Gatomon said stepping forward.
"No hard feelings Ogremon, but you've gone wacko," Gomamon said getting ready to fight. Ogremon growled before he lunged forward.
"Battle! Battle!" Ogremon growled as he swung his club around insanely.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon yelled striking Ogremon who was knocked back.
"Nice shot!" Pikachu cheered but Gatomon scowled at him.
"Don't think I have forgotten what we were talking about, we'll finish that discussion after this!" Gatomon hissed. Pikachu frowned but gave a nod before glaring at Ogremon who was recovering from the attack.
"Pepper Breath!" Agumon shouted sending a fireball at Ogremon.
"Blue Blaster!" Gabumon shouted while shooting his own attack at Ogremon.
"Spiral Twister!" Biyomon added her own attack to the onslaught; Ogremon gave off an animalistic scream of pain as he was hit by the three burning attacks; he fell to the ground clutching his face making noises of agony. Palmon slowly stepped forward but Tentomon grabbed her arm.
"Palmon don't!" Tentomon said frantically.
"But maybe he's back to normal, look at him!" Palmon exclaimed; pointing to Ogremon who was still on the ground making pained grunts. Tentomon looked at Ogremon and slowly released Palmon from his grip, well "grip" wasn't really the right word as Tentomon had no fingers; it was more like a hook holding something back. Palmon walked over to Ogremon cautiously and looked at him.
"Ogremon…are you, well you?" Palmon questioned. Ogremon's pained cries seemed to dissolve into animalistic laughter, Palmon suddenly felt uncomfortable and was about to run back to the group but.
"Pummel Whack!" Ogremon yelled hitting Palmon with his fists; Palmon gasped as she fell to the ground and looked up at the laughing Ogremon who still had the mindless, battle hungry look in his eyes "Battle!"
"Thundershock!" Pikachu yelled out as his body sent out a bolt of electricity, Ogremon screamed as he was shocked, Palmon got up seeing Ogremon step back and launched her own attack.
"Poison Ivy!" Palmon's fingers extended into vine-like tendrils; which wrapped around Ogremon restraining him. Ogremon struggled against the vines that held him as the other digimon came over.
"We need to figure out how to snap him out of it!" Patamon exclaimed. The digimon all looked at Ogremon who was struggling violently against Palmon's Poison Ivy attack.
"Tentomon," Pikachu said looking towards the insect digimon who looked back at him. "I think a double shock might do it," Pikachu suggested and Tentomon gave the idea some thought.
"I suppose it is worth a try, if it doesn't work at the least it may knock him out and we can take him back to Gennai," Tentomon said.
"I was thinking along the lines of a shock to his brain might make him come to his senses," Pikachu explained, before turning to Ogremon. "But let's do this before he escapes! Thunderbolt!"
"Super Shocker!" the two electric struck Ogremon who cried out as electricity pulsed throughout his body. Palmon released her hold on Ogremon as she felt him lose consciousness and let him fall to the ground.
"Good thinking Pikachumon," Gomamon said looking at Pikachu, all of the digimon gave Gomamon an odd look.
"Pikachumon?" Biyomon asked Gomamon who smiled.
"You know, because he said he was Pikachu and he's a digimon now, so," Gomamon explained.
"Gomamon that's stupid," Gatomon said crossing her arms, Gomamon looked slightly dejected, but Pikachu walked over to him and placed his paw on his shoulder.
"I like it," Pikachu said with a smile Gomamon smiled back. "As long as I'm like this Pikachumon it is."
"Well I'm glad to see you embracing your digital side," Patamon said with a chuckle.
"But what about Ogremon?" Palmon asked while looking at the unconscious champion.
"I really don't know, how do you think he got like that?" Agumon asked, the other digimon looked at one another and could only shrug, they couldn't figure out what could drive Ogremon to behave this way. While the digimon were trying to think this through Ogremon began to stir.
"What's going on..?" Ogremon's voice startled the digimon who looked to see the green champion getting to his feet; the digimon took defensive stances as Ogremon looked at each of them, Seeing that Ogremon was not attacking them the digimon slowly calmed down, Palmon took a cautious step forward.
"Ogremon? Are you…you?" Palmon repeated what she had asked earlier, hoping she would get a better response than before.
"What do you mean by that?" Ogremon asked with a confused look on his face; the group of smaller digimon gave some sighs of relief much to Ogremon's confusion. "What happened?"
"So, you don't remember anything?" Pikachumon asked Ogremon who shook his head.
"Ogremon, you attacked us, you kept yelling "Battle" and seemed to have lost all sensibility," Agumon explained. Ogremon looked surprised for a moment before looking down; ashamed.
"I attacked you?" Ogremon asked, shame and disbelief in his voice.
"You really don't remember?" Agumon asked; Ogremon just shook his head once more.
"The last thing I remember I was just standing guard outside of Gennai's house last night, and then I just…blacked out," Ogremon said thinking back to last night.
"But how did this happen?" Patamon asked; nobody seemed to have an answer as they all looked to each other.
"You should probably go back to Gennai while we get Pikachumon home," Agumon said to Ogremon who thought it was a good idea.
"Ya, you're right, maybe he can figure out what happened to me, but um, Pikachumon?" Ogremon questioned looking at Pikachumon who smiled and nodded.
"Yup, I'm a digimon after all," Pikachumon said with a chuckle, Ogremon gave a small chuckle of his own and pat Pikachumon on the head.
"You're fitting in just fine kid," Ogremon said before he began his return to Gennai's house. Soon all the digimon were headed to the forest and supposedly Pikachumon's way home.
"Pikachumon…please, how stupid," Gatomon muttered to herself while glaring at the yellow rodent, Pikachumon noticed this and looked towards her, Gatomon and Pikachumon stared at each other for a few moments before a voice snapped them out of it.
"Well let's get in there!" Gomamon exclaimed eagerly. Pikachumon and Gatomon blinked, Gatomon shook her head and turned away from Pikachumon with scowl on her face. Gomamon was about to rush into the forest but Tentomon quickly flew in front of him and pushed him back.
"Wait a moment Gomamon, we don't know what we'll run into in there," Tentomon said, but Gomamon pushed him aside.
"Oh come on, we've been in there before," Gomamon assured.
"Ya but last time we were in there we ended up getting attacked by another digimon," Biyomon pointed out.
"But we need to get Pikachumon home," Gabumon pointed out and Pikachumon frowned and found himself looking at the ground, Agumon patted him on the back.
"Hey Pikachumon don't look so down, we said we would help you, and we will," Agumon told the mouse-like digital monster before looking at the other chosen digimon. "Come on guys, we've faced Myotismon, the Dark Masters, and Apocalymon, we can get through a little forest!" Agumon encouraged.
"Ya, Flymon's probably long gone by now, and even if she's not we can take her, let's go!" Patamon cheered, the others could only chuckle at Patamon's cheerfulness.
The digimon trekked into the forest with the shared intent of getting Pikachumon back to his home, as they walked through the forest the digimon found it rather peaceful and began talking, mostly to Pikachumon as they were still pretty curious about him.
"So Pikachumon, what is it like back in your world, you know, besides what you've already told us?" Palmon asked Pikachumon who gave it a thought before answering.
"Well I live with my trainer Ash in our home; Pallet Town-well sort of," Pikachumon added the last part of his sentence to the confusion of his companions.
"Sort of?" Tentomon buzzed flying slightly above the ground, Pikachumon gave a nod.
"You see me and Ash travel a lot, you know catching pokémon, collecting badges, battling," Pikachumon smiled fondly at his memories, but frowned when he heard a scoff and turned to Gatomon who was glaring at him.
"Again with the battling! What is wrong with you!?" Gatomon growled.
"Gatomon!" Agumon scolded but Gatomon ignored him and continued to glare at Pikachumon, who was now glaring back at her.
"Look I already told you pokémon LIKE to battle!" Pikachumon told Gatomon sternly, he was getting rather annoyed with Gatomon's anger towards him and his kind's way of doing things.
"What kinds of creatures enjoy beating on one another!?" Gatomon hissed at Pikachumon.
"It's not beating on each other!" Pikachumon growled back at Gatomon, the other digimon could feel the tension between the two and it was making them uncomfortable.
"Hey, um, maybe we should talk about something else," Gomamon said trying to break the tension.
"You're right Gomamon," Gatomon said, seeming to calm down, the group other than Gatomon, and Pikachumon gave some sighs of relief. "What we should be talking about is how you knew about Kari!" Gatomon glared at Pikachumon again as all the digimon looked towards him. Pikachumon gulped, he felt cornered, and he couldn't just say Agumon told him, he didn't want to get Agumon in trouble.
In the short time Pikachumon had known these digimon he had found Agumon to be a very good friend to him, despite not knowing him long, and he couldn't just say something that could get him into trouble, but he didn't need to.
"I told him," Agumon stated, stepping in front of Pikachumon, Gatomon gave her brother a look of disbelief, while Pikachumon gave him a look of thanks.
"You what?" Gatomon questioned, not sure that she had heard right.
"I told him," Agumon repeated with more conviction. "The other night I explained it to him," Agumon said firmly, Gatomon just stared in shock, before her face turned into a glare again.
"Why would you do that!?" Gatomon yelled at Agumon.
"I thought he should know," Agumon said.
"It was none of his business!" Gatomon shouted at Agumon who stood his ground, for a few moments the brother and sister glared at each other, finally Gatomon just gave a huff and made her way to the back of the group, scowling all the way. Pikachumon gave a look of concern.
"Agumon, did I do something wrong?" Pikachumon questioned, some guilt in his voice, but Agumon shook his head.
"No, it's just a sore subject, we miss our partners deeply and not all of us can handle talking about it just yet," Agumon said gently, hoping Pikachumon wouldn't hold Gatomon's behavior against her, he hoped that if Gatomon got to know their new friend better she would be less aggressive towards him, so with that thought in mind Agumon followed his sister to the back of the traveling group.
As the group walked through the forest Pikachumon took in the scenery, the Digital World was so much like his own world; Pikachumon had a hard time believing that this amazing place was all digital, it really made him think, if this world existed, what else could be out there?
"So…" Pikachumon began, glancing at Tentomon who was flying above him. "About your trainers?"
"Partners," Tentomon corrected.
"Right, partners, what are they like?" Pikachumon asked; the digimon all looked at him incredulously. Why had he asked that? Pikachumon noticed how he was being looked at and remembered what Agumon had told him, he suddenly felt rather guilty for bringing up what was likely a painful subject. "Sorry, you don't have to answer me," Pikachumon apologized.
"No, it's fine," Gomamon suddenly said; sliding over to Pikachumon and patting his back. "You kind of caught us off guard there, but I don't think telling you would be an issue," Gomamon assured the newly digitized rodent, none of the other digimon seemed to disapprove of what Gomamon had said, and Tentomon; being the one Pikachumon had asked, decided to answer for himself at least.
"Well Izzy is definitely a special kid, he's always curious about anything he doesn't understand, and tries to find ways to explain anything he encounters," Tentomon explained fondly, Pikachumon smiled at the way Tentomon talked about his partner, he could tell that he really cared about him, despite the simple description he gave, he could tell there was more to it and that Tentomon was just simplifying the explanation.
"Well Joe's always worrying about this or that," Gomamon chuckled. "But when it counts you can really rely on him; I guess that's why he has the crest of reliability."
"Sora has got to be my best friend, words can hardly express how any of us feel about our partners, but that is the truth," Biyomon said happily.
"Ya, TK is my best friend too," Patamon cheered while flying around. "I always remember our time together fondly."
"I'll agree as well, Matt was the best friend a digimon could have," Gabumon started his own explanation. "Though things weren't always the best, we always got through whatever challenge was set before us."
"And Mimi," Palmon said; tearing up a little. "She was my best friend too, I miss her terribly," Palmon wiped the tears from her eyes before continuing with a wide smile. "At least we were able to say goodbye, before they left."
The digimon continued to tell Pikachumon about their partners, but there were two digimon who were not a part of the conversation; Agumon and Gatomon were lagging a few paces behind the rest of the group, Gatomon because she did not wish to talk to Pikachumon, Agumon because he wished to talk to Gatomon.
"Gatomon," Agumon spoke calmly, Gatomon didn't look at him, instead preferring to glare off into random directions. "Gatomon!" Agumon said more firmly; irritation in his voice.
"What?" Gatomon asked unenthusiastically, not even bothering to look at Agumon, Agumon glared at her before grabbing her wrist and turning her towards him. "Hey!" Gatomon protested.
"Why are you acting this way?" Agumon asked sternly.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Gatomon said stubbornly, but Agumon would have none of it.
"Gatomon, ever since Pikachumon-"
"Pikachu!" Gatomon interrupted Agumon angrily. "He is not a digimon!"
"He is now!" Agumon countered before continuing. "And you have been very rude to him, he hasn't done anything to you," Agumon said firmly. "What would Kari say?" Agumon questioned, Gatomon's glare softened as she looked to the ground sadly.
"She would say to give him a chance, to try to be his friend," Gatomon admitted.
"We don't understand the world he's from Gatomon, but he deserves to be treated with as much respect as any of us," Agumon said gently. "Think about it," Agumon spoke calmly before running to catch up with the rest of the digimon, leaving Gatomon to think about what he had said.
"I suppose we could be friends…" Gatomon muttered to herself, while walking forward, she was too distracted by her thoughts to notice when the others ahead of her had stopped, suddenly she found herself stumbling into Gabumon, who like the rest of the group; had stopped.
"Careful Gatomon," Gabumon said helping her up.
"Thanks Gabumon," Gatomon said before looking at the others "Why'd you guys stop?" Gatomon asked curiously.
"Ask him," Gomamon said pointing to Pikachumon who was frozen with a serious look on his face, the only part of him moving being his twitching ears.
"What's wrong?" Patamon asked hovering next to Pikachumon.
"Listen," Pikachumon said, the digimon all began listening trying to figure out what he was referring to.
"I don't hear anything," Palmon said trying to listen.
"Wait I think I hear something," Patamon said.
"Ya, me too," Gatomon agreed, her ears twitching much like Pikachumon's.
"It's screaming!" Pikachumon exclaimed rushing forward, the rest of the group had little time to process what he had said but quickly ran after him.
Many digimon screamed as they were attacked by other digimon who had mindless looks in their eyes. A Floramon ran from some of the attacking digimon but tripped, the flower digimon screamed as a Gotsumon approached him.
"Why are you doing this!?" the Floramon cried out as the Gotsumon toward over him.
"Battle!" the Gotsumon muttered mindlessly. "Rock Fist!" Gotsumon roared preparing to hit Floramon with his attack.
"Boom Bubble!" Patamon's voice yelled before his attack hit the Gotsumon, knocking it away from the Floramon, all the digimon who were attacking turned away from any digimon they were attacking and looked to the chosen digimon, and Pikachumon, the attacking digimon charged at them; preferring prey that would fight back.
"Spread out!" Agumon yelled out, the other digimon nodded and surrounded the attacking digimon.
"Sharp Leaf!" a Vegiemon yelled, launching its attack at Agumon who dodged it.
"Pepper Breath!" Agumon retaliated but Vegiemon dodged the attack with a crazy chuckle.
"Battle!" Vegiemon yelled out.
"They are definitely being effected by whatever happened to Ogremon!" Tentomon called out while dodging the attacks of a Gotsumon.
"Whatever that is, has this ever happened before Ogremon!?" Pikachumon questioned while fighting a Kunemon. "Quick attack!" Pikachumon called out, ramming against the Kunemon.
"No, I've never heard of this sort of thing happening!" Tentomon answered.
"What's going on?" a Gotsumon who wasn't going nuts questioned in fear as she watched the fight.
"Don't worry; we just need to knock them out!" Gabumon yelled. "Blue Blaster!" he shot his attack at the Kunemon that was fighting Pikachumon, the blow straight to the head knocked the insect digimon out, Pikachumon nodded a thanks to Gabumon before going to help Agumon fight Vegiemon.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon shouted; striking a Goblimon in the head, knocking it out, she looked over to Agumon and Pikachumon who were now fighting off Vegiemon together and gave a smile, she soon ran over to them along with the other digimon, all the other battle crazy digimon had been knocked out, only Vegiemon remained, Vegiemon growled at the digimon surrounding him.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon hit the Vegiemon with her attack; it stumbled a bit in a daze before fainting. The digimon cheered at the victory, they then turned to the digimon who were being attacked; a few Floramon, Gotsumon, and a Weedmon.
"How did this happen?" Agumon asked them.
"We don't really know, we were all just playing around, when…something came, we don't know what it was, it looked like a…cloud or something, it went into them and they fainted, and when they woke up, they were like that," A Floramon explained fearfully.
"Cloud..?" Gatomon muttered to herself. That was an odd thought…how could a cloud do something like this.
"Well they should be back to normal once they wake up; our friend had the same problem earlier," Gabumon assured, the other digimon thanked them as they left.
"First Ogremon, now these digimon, what's causing this?" Tentomon pondered; giving a look to the digimon they had helped before turning back to their current path.
"I'm a bit concerned about this," Agumon spoke after a few minutes of walking.
"Concerned?" Gomamon questioned; though he; along with the others, were pretty sure they knew what he meant.
"Those digimon didn't act normal, and it wasn't like when digimon were infected with black gears," Agumon stated, Pikachumon was confused about what a black gear was for a moment, before recalling Agumon mentioning them in his explanation of their past adventure before.
"I noticed that too," Gabumon agreed. "The digimon with black gears sometimes went crazy, but they were never that single minded about fighting."
The digimon were continuing on their journey to what could possibly be Pikachumon's way home, as they walked the group took note of the setting sun.
"It's getting late," Pikachumon pointed out; he then looked around at the clearing they were in. "We should probably camp here for the night," Pikachumon said; seeing that this would probably be a good spot to eat and sleep.
"But Pikachumon, you need to get home," Agumon said with concern in his voice, but Pikachumon shook his head.
"Yes, but we should not overexert ourselves just to get there as fast as possible, yes Ash is probably worried sick about me, but taking a bit longer will do no harm if it's for the good of our health," Pikachumon explained.
"I'm going to have to agree with Pikachumon, rest is important," Tentomon said, the other digimon all seemed to think about this.
"I think I see your point," Palmon said before yawning. "We could use some rest, I don't want to collapse right before we see Pikachumon off."
"If we're going to camp, I think we should also get some food," Gomamon said, and some rumbling stomachs showed that the other digimon agreed; at least involuntarily.
"I suppose it would be for the best," Agumon admitted; now realizing he felt a little tired and hungry himself.
"Pepper Breath!" the small fireball from Agumon's attack set the firewood they had gathered for their campfire ablaze, the digimon were all sitting around, it enjoying the warmth from the fire before they started roasting the apples they had harvested from the surrounding forest.
"So why are we roasting apples again?" Pikachumon questioned as he held his stick with an apple at the end over the fire.
"It's a meat apple," Gomamon answered while roasting his own. "Each has the taste of a different meat, they taste nasty raw, but cooked they're delicious."
"Meat apple huh?" Pikachumon said with a chuckle at how crazy that sounded to him, this world was really something. Soon their apples were done cooking and they all enjoyed them, Pikachumon was surprised by how good these meat flavored apples tasted.
"Good huh?" the female voice startled Pikachumon who turned to see Gatomon smiling at him.
"Um…ya," Pikachumon answered in a unsure tone, a little surprised at Gatomon's seemingly sudden change in behavior towards him, he quickly got back to nibbling on his food to put his mind more at ease. Agumon gave a smile seeing how Gatomon's attitude had improved since earlier; he hoped Pikachumon and Gatomon would soon be good friends.
After finishing their food the digimon all curled into comfortable positions around the fire and let sleep overcome them.
Pikachumon's ear twitched as he found himself getting to his feet, he looked around for what had caused him to awaken; he heard a sniffle and turned to the direction it had come from.
Gatomon sat a small distance away from the group sniffling slightly, she still missed Kari terribly and wished she could see her again, she had mostly been angry at Pikachumon before not just because she didn't trust him, or because the idea of his world sickened her, it was also an outlet for her emotions, but after her talk with Agumon she decided she should not be doing that, it would not be what Kari would have wanted.
"Hi," a soft voice startled Gatomon; she turned to find Pikachumon smiling at her, he slowly approached her on all fours, she felt the urge to move away as he approached, but she ignored it and allowed him to seat himself next to her.
"What are you doing up?" Gatomon asked curiously, Pikachumon gave her a small smile.
"I could ask you the same," Pikachumon said with a small giggle, Gatomon felt herself give a small smile as well and a little giggle of her own, but that moment of humor did not last as Gatomon remembered what she was doing up and her smile faded. "I know how you feel…" Pikachumon said noticing Gatomon's sadness; Gatomon looked surprised at the electric mouse.
"…you know why I'm up?" Gatomon asked and Pikachumon nodded slowly.
"You miss Kari…I understand, I miss Ash," Pikachumon said placing his paw on her shoulder, Gatomon's smile returned as she looked at Pikachumon.
"You know…you're not as bad as I thought," Gatomon said softly.
"Gee thanks," Pikachumon said mockingly with a laugh, Gatomon found herself laughing too as the two sat together, the laughter soon died down and the two found themselves just sitting there, silently enjoying each other's company, Gatomon was surprised by how much she was enjoying this creature from another world's presence.
"The stars are beautiful," Gatomon broke the silence while gazing into the night sky.
"Ya, they are," Pikachumon agreed, the two monsters looked at each other again and just gazed at one another smiling, before looking back into the sky, neither seemed to notice as their tails coiled around each other.
Well that's that, if you want give a review, some constructive criticism, point out any typos or grammar errors I might have missed, but don't forget to actually say what you think of the chapter while doing that, hope you enjoyed.
