Ok here it is; I was planning for this to be the last chapter other than the epilogue, but it was getting pretty long and taking a while to write, so I'll try to end it next chapter. I don't own Pokémon or Digimon, just Pikachumon's design, which is heavily based on Pikachu's design.


Chapter 6: Rescue Plan


"So boss," the purple colored, nine tailed fox digimon known as Youkomon began as he paced around a room that looked somewhat like a security room, with monitors all over the walls displaying different parts of the evil digimon's base, and giving a glance to the digimon known as ShadowBeetlemon, who stood a few feet behind him. "What exactly do you have planned for that alien?"

"It is simple really," ShadowBeetlemon said as he walked around the room and over to another digimon called BlackGargomon, who was watching the monitors with a disinterested look on her face. "The alien comes from the same source as the energy, and seems to be able to produce it limitlessly, so extracting it with the same device we use to extract the energy from the rip should work," Youkomon and BlackGargomon both looked like they had doubts about their bosses plan, but did not voice them, for they knew how insane he could be at times, even when they didn't contradict him.

"Well I suppose that could work," BlackGargomon admitted with a shrug, ShadowBeetlemon glared at her.

"What do you mean by that COULD work?" ShadowBeetlemon questioned in a less sane tone, BlackGargomon gulped as she realized she may have worded that wrong.

"I mean that will work no questions about it!" BlackGargomon exclaimed, with as big a smile as she could muster, ShadowBeetlemon looked her in the eyes for a few seconds, before giving a nod of satisfaction and turning away, BlackGargomon gave a sigh of relief and wiped some sweat from her forehead.

"Perhaps we should go get it than, I have little doubt that those children will attempt to rescue him," Youkomon said referring to the group of young digimon they had fought earlier, even if one was a champion, they were still all children, he was sure of that.

"They'd be fools to try," ShadowBeetlemon said with an eerie chuckle "And of course they will," he added as he walked out of the room, Youkomon and BlackGargomon watched him exit before looking to each other.

"Why are we doing this again?" BlackGargomon asked Youkomon who raised an eyebrow.

"For the money, remember?" Youkomon answered, BlackGargomon nodded slowly.

"Oh yeah, but-" BlackGargomon's words were interrupted by the sound of ShadowBeetlemon's voice.

"Are you guys coming!?" ShadowBeetlemon called back in a threatening manner startling both Youkomon and BlackGargomon.

"…I'm starting to wonder if the money is really worth this," BlackGargomon finished before both digimon followed their bosses lead.


"We are approaching what I believe to be their base," Patamon whispered to the group from above them.

"Well either that is their base, or a building in the middle of nowhere that serves no purpose," Gomamon said staring at the building ahead of them.

"You know, considering everything in this world, neither possibility would surprise me," Gabumon stated and most of the other digimon nodded in agreement, except for Gatomon who stood in front of the group with a determined glare directed at the building.

"Well despite the possibilities I'm certain that's where he is," Gatomon stated fiercely.

"How can you tell?" Biyomon asked Gatomon who took a moment to answer.

"…I can just feel it, he's in there," Gatomon said as she gazed at the building.

"Like you can sense him?" Tentomon asked in curiosity, but Gatomon shook her head.

"No, it's not like that, it's just like, I have a very strong feeling," Gatomon said, not really feeling sure of herself.

"Well I think your feeling is right Gato, look," Agumon said pointing towards the building in time for the others to see ShadowBeetlemon, Youkomon, and BlackGargomon walk out of the base and walk around to the back of it.

"Those…" Gatomon began growling but Agumon held her back from attacking them.

"I know you're upset, but let's focus on Pikachumon, he needs to be saved," Agumon said and Gatomon nodded, letting her anger calm.

"Why are they even going back there?" Gabumon questioned in suspicion.

"I'd bet that the rip they spoke of is back there," Gomamon said before turning back to the others in the group. "And if it is that cannot be good, so I suggest a plan," Gomamon said with a smirk.

"You have a plan?" Gatomon asked skeptically and Gomamon frowned.

"Are you suggesting that I don't have the smarts to make a plan?" Gomamon asked with a glare.

"No time for fighting guys!" Agumon said, taking the roll of leadership in this little group of digital monsters.

"I'm not fighting with him, I'm just questioning what his plan is, not my fault he took it the wrong way," Gatomon defended herself.

"Well you sounded a bit skeptical, but I'll accept that," Gomamon muttered in some satisfaction.

"Look, I just want to rescue Pikachumon and stop those three, so what's the plan?" Gatomon asked; Gomamon looked to each digimon making sure each was paying attention to him before he began to explain his plan.

"Well it's really not rocket science guys; what we need to do is to split up," Gomamon stated, causing many of the digimon to look skeptical.

"Splitting up? Are you sure that's a good idea Gomamon?" Palmon asked.

"Yes, is dividing our forces really a good idea at this time?" Tentomon said as he glanced back at the building. "I mean, I can see how splitting up could give us some advantage, but all eight of us with Pikachumon had trouble fighting ShadowBeetlemon alone, how could less of us defeat him and his allies?" Tentomon asked, showing his uncertainty towards Gomamon's plan.

"We don't need to beat them, we just need to keep them occupied, and find out what is really going on," Gomamon explained with a smirk still on his face.

"Oh I get it, while some of us are getting Pikachumon, the others will be distracting the bad guys, and maybe even getting rid of whatever thing they're using for their plan," Patamon concluded and Gomamon nodded.

"Yes, basically that is my plan, now we just need to figure out who goes where, we know you are going to try and save Pikachumon; Gatomon," Gomamon said with a small smile clear on his face, Gatomon blushed slightly at the implications of Gomamon's words, but did not say anything, now was not the time.

"Well, I think I should go with the distraction team," Agumon said, surprising every other digimon there.

"Agumon, I would think you would want to help Pikachumon too, after all, since this started you two have become like best friends," Gabumon pointed out, Agumon nodded.

"And that is precisely why I am going after ShadowBeetlemon, to protect Pikachumon, and all of you, in the absence of our partners I am leader of our team, and a leader puts his team before himself, and going on the more dangerous side of the mission will sometimes be part of that," Agumon explained himself, Gatomon smiled and hugged Agumon.

"Be careful bro," Gatomon said softly and Agumon nodded.

"You too," Agumon replied before separating from his sister and turning to the others. "Ok, so which of you guys are coming with me and who's going with Gatomon?"Agumon asked and the digimon seemed to think.

"I'll go with you Agumon," Gabumon said stepping forward. "Those monsters won't get away with harming any friends of mine!"

"I'll go with Gatomon," Patamon said flying over to her. "Some aerial support should come in handy," Patamon did a loop-de-loop in mid-air to emphasize his point.

"Well if you'll be aerial support for the rescue team, perhaps I should help with the distraction," Tentomon said.

"Well, it was my idea so I'll help out in the distraction," Gomamon said before Palmon walked over to Gatomon.

"I'll help you out, you never know when my poison ivy might come in handy," Palmon said, Biyomon walked over to Agumon's group and nodded.

"The group against ShadowBeetlemon should probably be bigger, since we may need to fight, so I'll help out," Biyomon said, the other digimon agreed with several nods.

"Ok everyone, this is for Pikachumon, let's go!" Agumon exclaimed, the other digimon nodded and before splitting into two groups; Gatomon, Patamon, and Palmon running towards the front door of the building, and the other digimon headed around the building.


"I see them," Tentomon said as he peered around the corner of the building, careful not to let the evil digimon see him.

"Yes, my glorious machine," ShadowBeetlemon said in a pleased tone as he touched what looked like a large, automatic pump of some sort, it appeared to be vibrating and a large tube from it seem to lead off and disappear in mid air, a bit of smog leaking from where it cut off.

"So, that alien should be a better supply than the rip here?" Youkomon questioned, not really sure how that worked.

"Yes, now it will be perpetually generating the energy right into the machine, as opposed to it just collecting the energy from a pre-accumulated amount," ShadowBeetlemon said before opening up a compartment on the side of the machine and pulling out what looked like a glass orb filled with dark smog. "it also seems another batch of our battle smog is ready."

"So what if our little alien "burns out" from us taking this battle energy from him?" BlackGargomon asked.

"Well, I'm sure the rip will still be available if that were to happen," ShadowBeetlemon said with a shrug, Agumon growled slightly from his hiding place after hearing ShadowBeetlemon's words.

"We need to get rid of that machine," Gabumon said and Agumon nodded in agreement, the digimon all began to formulate a plan for how to get rid of the machine while distracting the three villains.


"I thought it would be locked," Gatomon said as she looked at the door that was the entrance to the building where Pikachumon was being held.

"Well than, let's get it," Patamon said before inhaling. "Boom Bubble!" Patamon shot the high-pressure air bubble out of his mouth and at the doors lock, surprisingly breaking it on the first try.

"It broke?" Gatomon questioned looking at the broken lock on the ground "After one attack?"

"That's very weird, it's like they weren't even expecting an attack," Palmon said suspiciously.

"Or they were, and they want us to try and rescue Pikachumon," Patamon said in an unsure tone of voice.

"Could it be a trap?" Palmon questioned, Patamon frowned and looked at Gatomon for some form of answer, he wanted to go in and rescue Pikachumon, but he didn't know if rushing in was a good idea.

"Trap or no trap, we need to save him," Gatomon said before pushing the door open and walking into the base, Patamon and Palmon glanced at each other.

"Let's go," Patamon said in determination and Palmon nodded before both of them followed Gatomon.


"Blue Blaster!" BlackGargomon jumped back in surprise as an attack of blue flame zoomed past her.

"So you think you can attack us like this?" ShadowBeetlemon asked, looking over at where the attack had come from, where Gabumon stood alone, glaring at them.

"One of those chosen brats," Youkomon growled, he was about to attack when ShadowBeetlemon placed his arm in front of him, blocking his path, Youkomon looked at ShadowBeetlemon in a questioning manner.

"Let's not be so hasty Youkomon, I am not a digimon without reason," ShadowBeetlemon said before he started to approach Gabumon. "So you have come alone fur wearing lizard, were your other friends too scared to attempt to rescue your alien friend?" ShadowBeetlemon questioned in an almost sincere voice, but Gabumon could sense the mocking hidden in his voice. "Or, have you come to join us?" ShadowBeetlemon asked and Gabumon frowned.

"If you think I would do that you are even more delusional than I had thought," Gabumon said with disgust in his voice before he continued. "And no, my friends were not scared, and I'm not alone!" Gabumon said, ShadowBeetlemon glared as Youkomon and BlackGargomon began looking around.

"Above!" BlackGargomon shouted pointing up.

"Spiral Twister!" Youkomon hissed in pain and displeasure after he was struck by the mini tornado of green flames.

"How dare you!" Youkomon growled looking up at Biyomon who flew in the air along with Tentomon.

"How dare you kidnap our friend and make digimon into mindless beasts!" Biyomon shouted back.

"Super Shocker!" Tentomon yelled sending a wave of electricity at BlackGargomon who dodged it and pointed her gun hands at him ready to fire.

"Gargo laser!" BlackGargomon shot her bullets into the air erratically, Tentomon and Biyomon managed to dodge most of the shots, but some of the shots hit giving them a little damage.

"Ouch!" Tentomon grunted in pain as one bullet grazed his left wing.

"You ok Tentomon?" Biyomon asked with concern and Tentomon nodded.

"Ya, just a small scratch," Tentomon assured before glaring at BlackGargomon again.

"Blazing Sphere!" Youkomon shouted attacking Gabumon.

"Blue Blaster!" Gabumon shouted sending his attack at Youkomon's.

"Super Shocker!"

"Spiral Twister!" Tentomon and Biyomon had briefly redirected their attention to Youkomon's attack and sent their own to help Gabumon's attack; the three attacks hitting Youkomon's attack caused it to be knocked back and the force of all the attacks to slam into Youkomon.

"Well played," Youkomon grunted. "But you won't stop us," Youkomon added with a smirk.

"Yes, we'll keep on making these, and chaos will rain," ShadowBeetlemon laughed holding up the orb his machine had created.

"And don't even think about trying to destroy the machine, you'll never get through us!" BlackGargomon said with her gun hands raised.

"We aren't trying to get to the machine," Gabumon stated with a small smirk.

"You aren't huh? Than what are you trying to accomplish?" ShadowBeetlemon questioned.

"Haven't you noticed that there are only three of us fighting you?" Biyomon asked; ShadowBeetlemon looked at her for a few seconds before what she said sunk in.

"Where are your allies?" ShadowBeetlemon growled.

"Check behind you, you psycho!" ShadowBeetlemon heard a voice shout and turned around to see Agumon very near his machine along with Gomamon, both with confident smirks on their faces.

"We win!" Gomamon declared as he and Agumon faced the machine, ShadowBeetlemon's eyes widened.

"My machine! Stop them!" ShadowBeetlemon shouted at Youkomon and BlackGargomon who quickly responded and rushed towards the two rookies who were about to attack the machine.

"Blue Blaster!" Gabumon shouted, sending an attack that managed to distract the two dark champions. "Not so fast, you're still fighting us!" Gabumon declared, Youkomon gave an angry snarl and turned back to the three other rookies while BlackGargomon continued to approach Agumon and Gomamon.

"Pepper-"

"Bunny Pummel!" Agumon's attack was cut off by BlackGargomon almost slamming her gun hand onto him, Agumon jumped out of the way in time and glared at the large rabbit-dog digimon.

"Evil Flame Dragon!" Youkomon shouted sending flames after Gabumon, Biyomon, and Tentomon.

"Super Shocker!" Tentomon shouted after dodging Youkomon's flaming attack, but Youkomon jumped out of the way of the electric shock.

"Enough!" ShadowBeetlemon growled. "Youkomon, BlackGargomon, clear out!" ShadowBeetlemon shouted and the two dark digimon quickly rushed to his side.

"What are they doing?" Gomamon questioned as ShadowBeetlemon held up the orb of smoke.

"Bombs away!" ShadowBeetlemon laughed as he threw the orb at the five digimon and it exploded into a cloud of dark smog.

"Look out!" Tentomon shouted as he and Biyomon flew higher into the air out of the smog's reach, Agumon, Gabumon, and Gomamon began coughing as they breathed in the smog and tried to run out of the smoke, but passed out before they could.

"Guys!" Biyomon called out in concern as the fog cleared, Biyomon and Tentomon descended to the ground and looked at their unconscious friends.

"What did you do?" Tentomon asked ShadowBeetlemon with a glare, ShadowBeetlemon only chuckled in response.

"Why don't you see for yourselves," ShadowBeetlemon said in an evil tone, Biyomon and Tentomon noticed their friend's opening their eyes and getting to their feet.

"Agumon? Gomamon? Gabumon?" Biyomon said looking between her friends who were looking around as if they didn't know what anything was.

"Pepper Breath!" Agumon suddenly shouted, sending a fireball straight at Tentomon.

"Agumon what the!?" Tentomon exclaimed in shock after dodging the fireball.

"Blue Blaster!" Gabumon shouted shooting his attack of blue fire at Biyomon who gave a cry of pain as she was hit.

"What's wrong with you guys?" Biyomon questioned as she got back to her feet and Agumon, Gomamon, and Gabumon surrounded her and Tentomon.

"Battle…battle…battle," their three approaching allies muttered in a chorus of zombie-like voices.

"Oh no," Biyomon muttered as she and Tentomon realized what had happened.

"There's no choice Biyomon, we must fight them," Tentomon said solemnly and Biyomon nodded.

"I know," Biyomon said before both prepared to fight their battle crazed friends.


"How can they live in a place like this?" Patamon asked as he hovered around the dark room.

"I really don't think they actually live here Patamon," Palmon said as she looked around.

"Well if they do they definitely don't live in this part of the building," Gatomon said as she was looking for where Pikachumon might be held.

"Pikachumon!" Patamon called hoping for a response from their electric friend.

"Where are you Pikachumon!?" Palmon called out.

"Pikachumon can you hear us!?" Gatomon joined in the calling for Pikachumon.


Pikachumon sighed as he sat in the cage he was confined in, not sure what to do at this point other than wait for ShadowBeetlemon to return to take his battle instinct or whatever, Pikachumon wasn't really sure how it worked but he was not looking forward to it.

"Pikachumon!" Pikachumon's ears perked slightly at the sound of his name being called by what he could tell was Patamon's voice.

"Pikachumon!" Gatomon's voice called, Pikachumon got to his feet and inhaled deeply.

"GUYS I'M HERE!" Pikachumon shouted at the top of his lungs hoping that his friends could hear him and find where he was.


"Guys, did you hear that?" Gatomon asked, her ears twitching slightly.

"Yes, that was Pikachumon all right," Palmon confirmed as she looked around for the source of the cry.

"It came from that direction!" Patamon exclaimed pointing forward, the three digimon ran until they came to a door.

"Is this it?" Palmon questioned as they examined the door.

"Pikachumon are you in there!?" Gatomon called out.

"I'm back here guys!" Pikachumon's slightly muffled voice called from behind the door; the three digimon gave each other a glance a nodded.

"Boom Bubble!"

"Lightning Paw!"

"Plant Shock!" the door was knocked down due to the force of the three attacks and the digimon slowly entered.

"I still find it odd that we haven't encountered any sort of traps," Gatomon said looking around cautiously expecting some trap to be sprung on them at any moment.

"Guys!" Pikachumon shouted from his cage catching his friend's attention.

"Pikachumon!" Gatomon shouted in relief, she rushed over to his cage, her earlier suspicions seemingly forgotten.

"I'm glad to see you guys," Pikachumon said with a smile as Gatomon came to his cage, Patamon and Palmon not far behind.

"Hang on, we're going to get you out of there," Patamon said before he inhaled.

"Boom Bubble!" he shouted sending his bubble attack at the cage, but it did not seem to do any damage.

"Attacking it didn't do much for me either, it's a tough cage," Pikachumon sighed. "Maybe I deserve to be locked up, I'm pretty sure this is my fault anyway," Pikachumon said with a guilty look on his face.

"Your fault? Pikachumon how can you consider this your fault?" Palmon asked and Pikachumon gave another sigh.

"ShadowBeetlemon is using a strange energy coming from the rip to my world to make the digimon go battle crazy, he said small amounts just make them crave battle but he overloads them with it to make them lose all sense except the desire for battle, he also said I contain the energy, I think that what he is using is in fact a pokémon's battle instincts, transformed into the form of a gas of sort and able to be absorbed by digimon, this would not have happened if I hadn't come to the digital world, I should have just stayed on Ash's shoulder instead of going over to that computer," Pikachumon explained solemnly as he looked to the ground of his cell.

"Pikachumon stop talking," Gatomon hissed in a low voice and Pikachumon and the two other chosen digimon looked at Gatomon in some shock. "Don't you dare say ShadowBeetlemon's chaotic antics are your fault! I may have only known you for a short time, but I can tell that-despite your idea of fun being a battle-you are a kind, caring individual, you would never do something to harm our world, so don't you dare say this is your fault! You may have come here but you didn't cause any of this, ShadowBeetlemon is responsible!" Gatomon explained firmly and Pikachumon could only stare at her in surprise at her confidence in him. "Now stand back while we get you out of there," Gatomon ordered, Pikachumon could only give a slow nod and backed up. "Ok everyone, this time put everything you've got into it!" Gatomon shouted to her teammates.

"Right!" Palmon and Patamon responded quickly and prepared to attack.

"Lightning Paw!"

"Boom Bubble!"

"Plant Shock!" their attacks all pounded against the bars of Pikachumon's cage, but the bars wouldn't budge.

"This isn't working guys," Pikachumon said with a frown, Patamon looked at the bars for a moment and then looked at Pikachumon.

"I have an idea, we can't break it from out here, and you said you couldn't from inside, but what if all of us attacked the bars at the same time, it might just break them!" Patamon exclaimed in a hopeful tone of voice, Gatomon, Palmon, and Pikachumon all looked at each other.

"We don't really have anything to lose by trying it," Palmon said, and Gatomon nodded.

"Ok I'll try it," Pikachumon said with a sigh and got ready to attack.

"Ok everyone, one more time!" Patamon shouted before his body inflated like a balloon. "Boom Bubble!"

"Lightning Paw!"

"Plant Shock!"

"Thunderbolt!" all four attacks assaulted the cage's bars from both sides creating a small explosion, the four digimon coughed as smoke filled the room, but when the smoke cleared they saw that the bars had been broken.

"We did it!" Patamon cheered, Pikachumon looked around slowly and took a careful step out of the cage and walked over to his friends.

"I'm glad you're safe," Gatomon said giving him a hug. "…What's wrong?" Gatomon asked, noticing that Pikachumon barely responded to the hug.

"Don't you think this is a little odd? No security or anything to keep you from breaking me out, no trap of any kind anywhere, it just doesn't seem right," Pikachumon said with a frown.

"Maybe ShadowBeetlemon is just overconfident," Palmon suggested and Pikachumon continued to frown.

"Maybe, but I still have a bad feeling about this," Pikachumon said as they began to leave, but froze when they heard the sounds of gears shifting and turned to see a door sliding open in the wall and something stepping out, its metallic blue body shining as its mindless eyes glowed, it glared down at Pikachumon and his rescuers before speaking.

"Priority 1: Keep the alien contained to insure master ShadowBeetlemon's plans are completed. Priority 2: Eliminate all threats to Master ShadowBeetlemon's plans," MailBirdramon said in a mechanical voice as it prepared to attack.

"I knew this was too easy," Gatomon sighed and Pikachumon nodded as the four friends prepared to battle the machine digimon.


More battles in the next chapter as well as hopefully the final battle, at least until the sequel, since I do not plan to explain everything in this story, like who caused Pikachu going to the Digital World in the first place, no it was not ShadowBeetlemon.