Vermilion City: This place still stood as it did before Apocalymon invaded. When Giovanni became one of his Generals, most of the Gym Leaders agreed to join him, Lt.Surge included, so his city was spared. Unfortunately, Surge is no longer alive, thanks to the Defenders. Without him here to protect the city, many people are fleeing by boat, including one special ship, the S.S. St. Anne.
"This is beautiful!" Mimi gasped as she looked at the giant ship."I can't believe it!"
"Yeah!" Palmon echoed her sentiments.
Lance just stared at her. When Matt told them to meet his team here because they needed to protect the passengers, he wasn't too sure about Mimi. Matt, however, wanted as many people on their side as they could, so the Defenders had a new addition, Mimi and Palmon. They had a surprise when they found Palmon had reached Lillymon, she was Mimi's bodyguard.
"So, where's the boss meeting us?" Blaine asked.
"He told me his cabin number, so we go there first. If he's not there, then we wait."
"Sounds good to me!"
Across the giant dock, two figures stood, watching the ship as well. "Think this will work?" Misty asked, turning to Ash. Ash nodded. "Sure! If there is trouble, we'll be ready for it! Apocalymon is sure to try and stop these people trying to get to America, he doesn't release his hold so easily, but I'll stop him!"
Misty smiled and kissed him. This is what she loved so much about him.
In the crowd of passengers boarding, there was a group of three. A father and daughter, and the father's fiancee. The father had on a dark suit with a mustache, and glasses. His daughter wore a bright white dress. The fiancee smiled at the father as the trio walked onto the giant ship. They walked past all sorts of vendors, when the daughter suddenly started yelling,"Daddy! Daddy! Can you get me that please?"
The father turned to where she was pointing. There was a vendor selling feline stuffed animals. His shook his head sternly. "No," he said.
"Okay," she pouted. The fiancee smiled.
They walked without incident until they reached their cabin. Once the door was closed, the fiancee turned to the father. "Well, that worked nicely!"
"I know, Sora," the father said, peeling off his mustache. "Nice job there, Kari! The way you pretended to want that stuffed animal was perfect!"
"Who was pretending?" she asked with a long face on.
"Can you let us out please?" a voice asked from inside on of their suitcases. "Sorry!" Sora said, opening it. Nyaramon, Korormon, and Biyomon jumped out.
"Thanks!" Koromon said.
Later that night, there was a special event being preformed on the stage in the auditorium. Tai, Sora, Ash, Izzy, and Mimi were there. Kari was by the swimming pool, T.K. and Misty were sleeping, and Matt and Sabrina stayed in their cabin, Lance was socializing with girls, while Joe tried to, and Blaine wanted a steak, from the dinning hall and Erika went with him.
Ash looked around. He wished Misty had decided to come with him. He saw that most of the people there were in couples. He started to count them. "Guy, girl,guy,girl, guy, girl, guy, girl, guy, guy...What?" he got a closer look. Yup, the two guys definitely had the hots for each other. Ash sat back down and looked away. He liked to keep life interesting, but not THAT interesting.
"This is nice," Sora said, leaning over to Tai.
"I guess so," he said.
Sora looked at him. "Tai, why won't you opened up to me?"
"What do you mean?"
"You always act so cold to me, why?"
"I can't tell you." he said, turning away.
"Don't push me away, Tai," she said,"I want to know everything about you. I...I think I'm starting to..."
"Don't say it," Tai said, sternly, "Even if you mean it!"
"...fall in love with you." she said, without missing a beat.
"I told you not to say it."
"Tai, don't you feel anything for me? I know you have a heart, it may be of stone, but together, we can change that. Please..?"
"I..I can't. I...I..."
"Don't say anything," Sora said, kissing him.
The continued to kiss when suddenly the stage blew apart with a gigantic explosion the rip threw the hall. Sora felt herself go flying throw the room and land with a thud. Her eyes closed when she felt the pain in her back. Her eyes jolted open when she felt the pain on her stomach. When she opened them she was Tai's closed eyes staring back at her. "Tai?" she manage to whisper.
"Keep....quiet," he coughed,",,,pretend...your...dead."
"Tai," she whispered,"No offensive, but, you're not too far off."
"Good evening!" a voice said from what was left of the stage. "My name is Giovanni and this ship has now been pirated!"
"Great," Tai whispered, slowly climbing off of Sora.
"You..you're bleeding, bad," she said, looking at Tai's leg. It was a sea of red. She reached down and ripped off the bottom part of her dress and started to bandaged up his leg. "I..I'm sorry," she said,"I..I don't think this is enough."
"I can help," another voice whispered. Sora turned to see a man and a woman crawl near them. "We can help," the woman said,"I'm Mimi, and this is Izzy."
"We're from the Defenders!" Izzy said.
Matt and Sabrina ran out of their cabin when they felt the shook waves from the explosion underneath them. "What was that?" she asked. She had just had another strange dream. This time, she saw two glowing lines become damage and merge into one. She wanted to tell Matt, but there wasn't time for that now.
"Where did that come from?" Matt asked, walking outside to the cabin across the hall, with Gabumon in tow.
"The autotorium," Sabrina said.
"T.K." Matt said, opening the cabin.
T.K. ran out with Patamon flying behind him. "I'm okay!" he said.
"Good! We need to get in touch with the rest of Defenders and quickly!" Suddenly, there was a scream from down the hall. "Did you hear that?" Matt asked.
"No," Gabumon said," What was it?"
"It sounded like a girl's scream, wait! There it is again!"
Matt took off with the other's following them. They reached a cabin that had shaken apart from the explosion. There was a young girl whose leg pinned down by a fallen beam. "We'll help you!" Matt said, turning to Sabrina.
"Go, Mr. Mime!" she said, as her pokeball opened.
"Use your telekinese to move that beam," she ordered.
"Mr.Mime!" it said as the beam lifted and the girl scampered out.
"Are you okay?" Matt asked, looking at her face."What? Hikari?"
"Do I know you?" she asked.
"I don't know if you remember me, but I knew your brother! Is he here? Is Taichi alive?"
Kari stared at him for a moment longer before she told him everything.
Giovanni walked down the damaged room. "Now, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way, your choice!"
"Lest do it the hard way!" a voice yelled from above.
Giovanni turned to the balcony to see Ash and Pikachu. "This is a surprise!" Giovanni said with a sneer.
Ash hopped down. "The pleasure's all mine! If you don't mind, I'd like to get down to business! Go, Blastoise!"
There was a crackle of energy and the giant turtle pokemon appeared. "Go, Rhydon!" Giovanni said.
"Ha!" Ash laughed. "Your bad! Rock is weak against Water, remember? Blastoise, Hydro Cannon!"
Blastoise obeyed and shot a blast of water at its opponent. Ash was waiting for it to fall over, but it just seemed to laugh it off.
"Your bad!" Giovanni said,"My Pokemon are of the top quality, remember?"
"This isn't good!" Ash thought.
to be continued.....