The light parted over the Egyptian Desert. Two figures walked trekked across the silent land. One had the build of a young man. He wore a gray long sleeve shirt and matching pants hidden under a gray cloak. He had black boots and white gloves, a gray turban and goggles to protect his eyes against the sudden sand storms. His companion was a young teenage girl. She was dressed the same way expect she wore a veil instead of goggles.
Suddenly, a fierce wind picked up and created a wall of sand a few feet from them. The younger one pointed at the storm. The older nodded and grabbed her hand. Together they entered the whirlwind of sand.
The Cairo Prison was created so that those captured rebelling against the Dark Lord could further his conquest of the Earth. Here they created new weapons to give his side the advantage. Those inside had to betray their friends to stay alive, not an easy life.
One this particular star filled night, two guards were stationed outside, protecting the main gate. It was a boring job. No one ever tried to escape, no one ever tried a rescue. They just sat and waited.
One guard looked at his watch. 2 a.m., almost time to be relived. He turned back to stare across the desert, when he noticed a pile of upturned dirt. "What the..?" he asked.
The trail of dirt twisted and turned until it stopped a few feet from them. A creature poke up and said,"Diglett!"
"Oh!" the guard said, relived,"Its just a Diglett! Those things are everywhere!"
The other guard was beaning to get bored. "Hey, I bet you can't catch it!"
"What? You're kidding, right?"
"I heard those things are pretty fast!"
"Oh yeah, just watch!"
The guard got a running start and dove for the Pokemon. The Pocket Monster shot back into the ground a second before the guard crashed into the Earth's surface. He slowly picked his head up. He didn't want to face the other guard. He didn't want to hear him laughing. He didn't want to...Wait, there was no laughing.
He turned around quickly to see the other guard lying on the ground and the main door opened slightly. Someone was inside the prison!
A group of prisoners were in their cell, ready to go to sleep, when their metal cell door flew open and a figure wearing a blue body suit, a blue backpack and gray face mask walked in.
"Who are you?" the eldest asked.
The figure removed the mask to reveal the face of a teenaged girl. "Hi, my name is Sora!"
"You work for Leomon don't you?" the elder asked, jubilated.
"That's right," Sora said, sitting in a chair one of the prisoners gave her. She unzipped her backpack and pulled out a small radish.
"Is that a Yokomon?"
She nodded. "Now listen, tomorrow morning the rebellion leader, Professor Oak is going to be executed here at this prison! You have to help me free him!"
"I don't know," the elder said.
"Please, you have to help me! We need to arm the prisoners and then cut the power before Oak is killed. This is your chance to not only be free, but to be heroes! What do you say?"
Her speech convinced them, they would help her.
The next morning, the prisoners had been gathered inside the outside courtyard. Sora was hidden in the middle, ready to give the signal to the armed captives. High above them on a platform, the warden, Gym Leader Brock stood with a group of guards. Oak was tied to a platform, suspended above the crowd. "I give you one last chance, Oak! Join us and live, or oppose us and die!"
Oak coughed. "I'll never join you!"
"So be it!" Brock said,"Kill him!"
Sora was about to give the signal when suddenly the guards positioned around the prisoners fell as a barrage of arrows rained down from the heavens. "What's this?" Brock asked. "What?" he cried when he saw the archer fly over the outside wall and hover above them. "An Angewomon? I thought they were extinct!"
A section of the outside wall suddenly blew apart. "I thought they were extinct too!" one of the guards on the platform shuddered.
"A Metalgreymon! Who's behind this?" Brock demanded.
He got his answer when the smoke cleared to reveal the two desert walkers by the Metalgreymon. The younger one ran towards the prisoners. "You're free! You're free! You can escape!"
"Angewomon!" the older desert walker said," Free Oak!"
"Already have," she said, landing with him in her arms.
"Are you okay?" the younger one asked.
"Yeah, can I have another ride?"
"I'll stop you myself!"Brock said as the prisoners escaped with Professor Oak. "Go Onix!"
"Hah!" the older one said,"Metalgreymon, lets show him what a Digimon can do!"
"Mega Claw!" Metalgreymon said, grabbing Onix. It swung it around a few times, before it tossed it far into the desert.
Sora stood stunned. "Someone else who can control Digimon like Pokemon?" she thought, looking at her Yokomon, then the strange digi-vice in her hand.
"Fine!" Brock said, hopping in an escape helicoptor,"You've won this round, but the Dark Lord won't be happy about this!"
"Hey, tell him something!" he cried as the helicopter flew away,"Tell him it was me! He'll know who I am!"
Angewomon de-digivolved down to a smaller creature. The younger desert walked ran over to pick it up. Sora approached her slowly. "A Gatomon?" she asked.
"That's right!" she replied, picking the Digimon up.
"Who are you?" Sora asked.
"My name's Kari!"
"Why are you here?"
Kari hesitated for a moment. "Maybe we should ask my brother!"
She lead them over to where the older one was giving a high five to his Agumon. Kari walked over to him and they talked for a minute. Then Kari left and he walked over. "Where you here to save Oak?" he asked.
"Why, yes, I was! How did you get your Digimon up to the Ultimate Level?"
He turned around. "I can't say at this point!"
"Wait, who are you, why are you here?"
"My name is Tai,"he said, without ever turning around," and my younger sister and I are here to stop the Dark Lord!"
"Why?"
"Remember the first two victims he gloated over so much?"
"Yeah."
"They were our parents!"
"Wait!"
"Don't try to stop me! You'll miss your plane, Sora!"
She stopped and looked at the ground. "I never told him my name!" She wanted to ask him how he knew, but when she looked up, they were gone.
to be continued....