Chapter 12: Connection
As LadyDevimon dissovled, Giovanni was still in denial. He couldn't take the fact that Ash, the son of a trainer who's life was taken, was victorious in the battle. Pikachu and Gatomon were jumping around the triumphant trainer and digidestined, who were hugging each other in joy and laughter. They broke for a minute. "Y'know, I couldn't have won without your support," Ash said, calming down.
"I couldn't have said it better myself," Kari replied, still excited.
"Pikachu, Gatomon, you were awsome out there," he compilmented when he looked at the other two.
"(Aw, shucks, man,)" Pikachu gleed. Gatomon recognized the crest Ash had on.
"Hey, Ash, can I take a look at it?" it asked.
"Sure." Ash knelt down for the Digicat, so Gatomon can look at the crest.
"It's defenitly a crest."
"Do you know what it is?" Kari asked. Gatomon shook its head.
"I may have lost the battle," Giovanni growled, causing them all to look in his direction. "But you will lose your lives." He brings out a .45 colt Revolver from his tuxedo. Immediatley, Kari, Pikachu and Gatomon sweated in fear.
"Instead of taking your loss like a true trainer, you would resort to a gun? And on top of that, on children such as us?" Ash grills. Giovanni just smirks at the comment.
"What's it to you? You're just dumb kids who don't know how to keep your running noses away from our businesses. You believe we harm the nature of what we experiment on."
"You take Pokemon from trainers that rely on them, and use them to gain artificial power, instead of allowing them to naturally gain strength. You make them stronger, yes, but you take what's most powerful to them."
"Like you know what's powerful? Like your father, you believe that emotions is ture power."
"Well, excuse me if I wanted to duplicate what my dad wanted."
"Silence!" Giovanni roared. "The way I see it, your emotions won't save you, not even the necklace you have on."
"That is enough!" another voice yelled. That's when evryone looked up to the sky, and a blue, dragon/snake-like figure came from the sky.
"Azulongmon!" Kari yelled.
"Giovanni, you have, upon all, committed these crimes on life as we know it."
"You think your presence is going to do something about it?" Giovanni protest.
"Yes. Your punishment." Then, a ray of blue surrounds the gun-weilding trainer, immoblizing him.
"What's going on." Then, his body starts to float to the sky. "Noooooooooo!" He disappeared in the clouds. Ash knew he was next.
"As for you, Ash, you have proof of your presence being here." Ash was dumbfounded by this response.
"What do you mean?" he questioned with awe.
"The crest you have. The crest of Determination."
"Determination?"
"One who has shown will to proceed to their destiny and see everything to the end, determination is your crest. Determination is you. You are a member of the digidestined." Ash looks at his crest, and smiles. "By the way, there's someone who has waited to see you for a long time." Then, a man started to appear. His hair was jet-black with a touch of Pidgeot's hairstyle. He wore a red button-down t-shirt with a white shirt underneath. His face looked a lot like Ash's. It was...
"Dad?" Ash asked. The man looked at the trainer.
"Hey, Ashton," he called. Ash's face brightened as he ran over to Terry and hugged him. Kari, Pikachu and Gatomon watched in comfort for Ash. "I'm sorry I've been gone so long."
"It's okay, dad," Ash cried. They broke from the hug so Terry can get a better look at the son of his.
"You've definitly grown since I last saw you. Been training hard?" Ash nods.
"Always have, and always will."
"That's my boy. Say, is that your Pikachu?"
"It is." Ash turns to his mouse. "Come here, Pikachu." Pikachu walks your to Ash and Terry. Terry pets the little Pokemon.
"You raised it well. I'm proud of you."
"Thanks, Dad."
"Listen, you hold a key to fulfilling that destiny. Only you can activate it, okay?" Ash nods. "I have to go, but please remember that I will always love you."
"I love you, too, dad." Terry starts to vanish.
"Goodbye, Ashton." Finally, Terry was gone. Kari walked over to Ash.
"That was your dad, huh?" Kari asked sincerly.
"Yeah," Ash whispered. Then, calls.
"Ash! Kari!" It was T.K. and the other digidestined with their Digimon on Garudamon, a giant red bird. They came up when Azulongmon appeared. Upon their discovery, they find the trainer and their fellow companion okay. After Kari said they beat the enemy, they celebrated the victory. When Davis approached Ash, everyone stopped.
"Sorry about before, I just got jelous of how you acted," Davis said with a smile. He put his hand out. "Friends?" Ash hesitated for a second.
"More like, brothers," Ash said, shaking Davis's hand. T.K. notices Ash has no hat.
"Hey, where's your hat, man?" he asks.
"It's right here." He reveals his crest. Tai looks at it.
"The Crest of Determination?" he asked in surprise. "Is he a digidestined?"
"Looks like it," Patamon said. Sora, Yolei and Mimi heard this.
"Let me see," the three yelled, nearly toppling over each other.
"Woah, woah, calm down," Ash yells to try to control the digidestined. "I know you all want to look at my crest, but I believe there are more pressing matters we should be worried about."
"You want to get back home, right?" Ken asked.
"Yes. We need to find a way to stop this Myotismon from-" Ash was interupted by Mimi.
"Myotismon? He's alive?" Mimi questioned in fear. Kari nods.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We need to get there now," Davis commands.
"Hold on! If we all go, the confusion over there would be off the scales," Cody protests.
"Code's right," T.K. says to backup Cody.
"The bigger issue is getting to your home," Yolei commented. Everyone thinks about it.
"Hold on," Ken said as he pulled his laptop out. "We have this."
"Ken, your a lifesaver," Yolei replied positivley.
"Well, not exactly. We need to get to his hometown, but we don't know what it is or where to look."
"Mind if I try?" Ash asked. He pulls his Pokedex as he walks over to Ken's laptop. "Kari, you have that wire from before?"
"Yeah," Kari agreed, when she pulled out the cable. "Here."
"Thanks." Ash connects the Pokedex to the laptop.
"A little device is our only connection to his world?" Garudamon wondered.
"We'll see, Garudamon," Patamon said.
Everyone in Prof. Oak's lab saw no end to the fighting, when the computer screen lit up. "Now what?" Max questions. Everyone surrounds Oak to get a look at what's on screen. Leomon saw what appeared to be a gateway to the DigiWorld.
"It's coming from DigiWorld," the lion announced.
"Don't tell me they have Ash hostage," May starts to disbelieve. A message runs through the top.
"Video phone," Oak ponders as he doble-clicks the icon. The video activates to reveal...
"Ash, you're okay," Brock yells out.
"Hey, how you doing, guys?" Ash gleefully asks. Delia ran up and flatened everyone gathered at the computer.
"Ash, where have you been?" she questions with happiness that Ash was okay. "Is Pikachu with you?" Pikachu popped its head to see the trainer's mother.
"(Hey, Mom,)" it said. May walks up and noticed something different.
"Hey, where's your hat?" the Hoenn coordinator asked.
"Hey, I'm still wearing it," Ash cockishly said.
"What do you mean? Shouldn't be on your head?"
"Yeah. That's the surprise." Ash reveal his crest, catching Leomon's attention.
"Is that a crest?" It wondered.
"The crest of Determination, and part of it was from my hat."
"Okay, I'm lost," Max monotoned. Everyone else started to get up. Delia looked at the crest closer.
"Oh, I see it," the mother said. Brock noticed other feet in the background.
"Say, did you run into someone over there?" the breeder asked.
"Yeah, I did," the 'Pallet Powerhouse' acknowledged. "The head of Team Rocket and my dad." Delia heard him say "dad."
"I was wondering where he's been for ten years," she said with a mean look. "So where is he?"
"In heaven," he monotonley replied. Delia was in shock and tears, now learning that she's a widow.
"No, it can't be." Tracy tried to comfort the distraught mother.
"Professor, can you get a connection over to Shamuti Isle?"
Meanwhile, in Alto Mare, a girl with a red, Latias-like hairstyle, was working on a painting when her computer lit up, showing the video phones between Ash and Oak. 'Hey, it's Ash,' she thought.
"Why Shamuti Isle?" Oak asked Ash.
'Shamuti Isle?' the redhead continued to think. 'Sounds like trouble.' She turned her computer off, and ran out.
"Bianca, where are you going?" a voice from the gondola shop wondered.
"Sorry, Grampa? I gotta help a friend over at Shamuti Isle."
"Alright, be careful." Bianca runs to the garden, where twin-like bird Pokemon were playing around.
"Latios, Latias, we need to go, now."
Over at Greenfield, a little girl was doodling on a piece of paper when she got the video phone conversation herself. "There's a Pokemon that I'm going to aquire to help quell the fighting," Ash response to Oak. Tracy butts in.
"Are you talking about Lugia?" Ash nods. The lttle girl knew she wanted to see this "Lugia." She got out of the mansion with a Pokeball in hand.
"Come on out, Pidgeot." From the Pokeball came a large bird with rainbow haircolor. While she was boarding the Pidgeot, a maid came out to see the ordeal.
"Mistress Molly, where are you going?" the maid asked.
"There's someone who I need to help."
"Be careful out there." With that, Molly comes across Bianca on Latios, with Latias unmanned.
"Where are you headed?" Bianca asked.
"To see Ash," was Molly's reply.
"Same here." They fly to Shamuti Isle.
"This will take a minute to get connected to Shamuti Island," Oak said.
"Okay, I'll get ready from over here," Ash reassured. He gets up to the digidestined. "Okay, we need a team to go to my world."
"Why can't we just go to your town directly?" Ken questioned.
"I agree. It makes more sense if we go there and try to stop the fighting ourselves," Tai backed up.
"That's what the Digimon did when they were looking for Kari and they were attacked," Ash acts in defense.
"In other words, we get our butts kicked," Veemon interpreted.
"So, now that that's cleared up, I thought of letting Kari decide."
"Is it because she is the only one who's been there?" Palmon questions in disgust.
"Palmon, That guy has a point," Mimi reasoned. "Besides, he's seen it up close."
"And who knows when Myotismon will show up?" Davis added. Kari thinks it over.
"Okay, accompaning me and Ash," the eighth child starts. "It will be...T.K..."
"Okay," T.K. approved.
"And...Cody."
"So we're going to this world, huh?" Armadillomon wondered in disbelief.
"Hey, it may not be as bad as before," Patamon reassured.
"Besides, it's the islands," Cody continued. "And I know how we fit." Cody holds up his D-terminal.
"Okay, connections are complete to Shamuti," Oak called forth. Ash got back to the laptop.
"We'll take care of the rest," Ash said. Azulongmon was feeling ignored.
"Myotismon is a deadly Digimon, and a mistake could mean your life," it warned.
"Thanks for everything, friend," Ash grinned.
"Before you depart...Ash, Kari, these are for you." The god-like Digimon dropped two balls of energy to the two it called.
"Your power cores?" Sora wondered.
"This will give your monsters a kick while battling whatever is out there. I must go, and repair the damages that your father's murderer plagued in these lands." Azulongmon returns to the sky and disappears. The attention is turned back to the laptop.
An empty room in a house had a computer, in which the same screen popped up. Ash appeared on screen first. "Okay, T.K., go for it." T.K. shows up and holds his D3 to the screen.
"Digiport, open!" He calls. The screen lit up, followed by the team crashing to the floor.
"I'm never gonna get use to that," Patamon groaned. Ash got up and help the others to their feet.
"Let's go," Ash called. he gets to the door and...CRASH! runs into abrunette in sunglasses. Ash looks up at her. "Sorry, Melody."
"You should be," Melody growled as Ash helped her back up. "So, what brings you back here?"
"I need Lugia." Melody eyes widened.
"It's Pallet Town, isn't it?" Ash nodded. "I knew it. Those reports were no joke."
"Tell me about it." Melody saw the other digidestined.
"New friends?"
"Yeah."
"We're here to help Ash out," T.K. jumped in.
"What about Misty and Tracy?" Melody questioned.
"Tracy's with Prof. Oak, and Misty went back home in Ceruliean City to help her older sisters," Ash clarified.
"All right. Slowking should have the flute. You know where he is."
"Alright. Thanks, Melody." The trainer turns to his team. "Let's go." The team, with Meldoy starts running to the back of the island, where the "Shrine of the Legendary Birds" is located. Halfway there, a rumbling is heard from the water by the beach. Then, out pops a...
"Garydos!" Melody screamed. Pikachu steps in front of the Digimon willing to protect them from the evloved form of Magikarp. All of a sudden, Ash saw a tuff of red hair, sticking up like a ponytail.
"Guys, we're okay," Ash said calmingly.
"We're okay?" T.K. panickly spoke. Ash walked over to Garydos.
"It's been a while, Misty," he called. That's when a young, teen redhead girl revealed herself, wearing her trademark yellow track suit.
"Well, for sure, Ash," Misty said. Garydos swims to the shore to drop off the Ceruliean redhead. The group ran to her, as well as Pikachu jumping on her head. "Who's this, and what happened to the others?"
"We can explain when we get to Pallet. Right now, we need to get Lugia."
"I'm coming, too." Ash nods, then, leads the team to the shrine, where a pink sloth-like creature with a shell crown was standing. He glanced over to the people coming on and recognized a familiar face.
"Ash, it's good to see you again," it said.
"Same here, Slowking," Ash replied. Kari caught up to Ash.
"Wait, this one can talk, too?" Kari wondered in awe.
"Yeah, there are some who can. Slowking, you got the flute?"
"Right here," Slowking said, showing the flute. Melody came from behind.
"Thanks," Ash said. "Melody, would you like to do the honors?"
"Sure," the Shamuti Festival maiden agreed. Then she starts playing "Lugia's Song" like she did to give strength to the large bird. The sound drew the attention of the other girls coming to the island. Bianca signaled to Molly to the music. That was when the legendary bird showed itself. The digidestined were in shock as they get to see the bird in white.
"Ah, chosen one," Lugia starts. "What has brought you to summon me?"
"Lugia," Ash begins. "A dark force is plaguing this world and we need your help."
"Ah, I sense it. I will help."
"Thank you." T.K. was staring at Lugia so hard, he looked like a deer seeing headlights. Patamon headbutted the digidestined of hope. T.K. shook it off.
"Sorry," he said. Misty saw T.K. and blushed.
'Man, he's cuter-looking than Ash or Richie,' she thought. That's when three other birds appeared. The red bird dove to Ash, tackling him.
"Hey, Latias," Ash said. Then, Latios and Pidgeot landed, too. Molly and Bianca ran up to the shrine and to Ash.
"Ash," the girls called in unison.
"Hey, Bianca, Molly." Molly hugged Ash in the fact she missed him. "What's up?"
"We thought you could use some assistance," Bianca replied. "Besides, Latias said she still can taste you."
"So, it was Latias who kissed him," Misty laughed. "But I think we got enough help as it is."
"Maybe not," Ash corrected. Cody stepped in.
"Okay, Master trainer," the small digidestined starts. "How do you want to assign us?" Ash studied the surroundings.
"Cody, what about Submarimon?" Kari pointed out.
"Forgot about that. Hey, uh...Molly?" Molly looks to Cody. "You can board with me."
"Okay," the little girl cheered.
"Alright, T.K. you can board with Bianca on Latios," Ash assigns. "Misty, Melody, you're on Latias. Pikachu, Patamon, Gatomon, you three can board Pidgeot. Kari... you're with me on Lugia."
"Hold on, why should she be with you?" Misty protests.
"What, are you saying you want to be with me?" Ash strikes back. Misty sees this as pointless.
"Forget it," She groans. After they got on, it was time to go to Pallet, where an evil prescense awaits them.
TO BE CONTINUED...
