Ash stared Giovanni down. "Do you want to try another?" he sneered.
Ash clenched his fists. Giovanni had the strongest Pokemon in the world, how was he going to win?
"Is that Ash?" Tai asked from his hiding place. The cut on his leg had stopped bleeding, but his other leg was still broken, along with his arm.
"I....I think so," Mimi said,"Should we help him?"
"Only if he asks for it." Tai said,"Those two are Pokemon Masters. They'll be extremely angry if you interrupt their match."
"Tai," Sora said,"I'm worried about your sister."
"Kari can take care of herself," Tai said," Besides, our Digimon are with her. She'll be fine...I hope."
Upstairs, Misty, Erika, Blaine, Lance and Joe had meet up with each other and were searching for their teammates. "So," Erika said,"You're a Pokemon Master?"
Misty shook her head," No, I'm a Water Pokemon trainer. There are only two Pokemon Masters, my boyfriend Ash...and Giovanni."
"Lance!"
The group turned around and saw Matt, Sabrina, Kari and T.K. running towards them with Gabumon, Gatomon, Agumon, Biyomon and Patamon.
"Awe!" Misty screamed running over to Kari. "What's your name? You're soooo cute!"
Kari started to blush. "Do you know Taichi Kamiya?" Matt asked.
"I know of him." Misty said,"Ash meet him once, though."
"That is his sister."
"I thought you were dead." Blaine said.
"My brother will explain," Kari said, "but we need to find him."
She held up her digivice. On its screen were four beeping lights. "He and Sora are with two others with digivices! They're right below us!"
"That must be Izzy and Mimi, "Joe said, looking at his digivice"But, how can you tell?" "Later," Kari said, running towards the stairs.
"Arg!" Tai moaned as he tried to left his arm.
"I told you not to move!" Sora said, sternly. "You're just going to make it worse."
Tai stared at her. "She's so.....caring and.....emontional. Something I can't do anymore."
"Hahahaha!" Giovanni laughed as his Persian tore up Ash's Charizard. "There's no Pokemon you can use that can beat mine!"
"Charizard, return!" Ash said, recalling it. "Giovanni's right," he said to himself, "There's no Pokemon I can use that....wait! There is one!"
Ash looked over his should. "Go, Pikachu!"
"Pikachu?" Sora, Mimi, Palmon, Izzy, and Tentomon asked at once. Tai smiled . "I saw that Pikachu knock out an entire squadron of Golems! This match is over!"
"Hahahaha!" Giovanni roared . "Do you except to beat me with an electric rodent?"
"Pikachu," Ash said,"Show him! Thundershock!"
"Pikachu!" it yelled, filling the room with light.
Giovanni was hit by the blast and thrown out the side of the ship. "Good job!" Ash told his Pokemon. "Pika!" it said proudly.
"Great work!"
Ash turned at the sound of the voice,"Whose there?"
"Over here!"
Ash and Pikachu walked in the direction of the voice. "Tai!" he yelled when he saw him.
"Hey, buddy," Tai groaned. "Ash, this is Sora, Izzy, Tentomon, Mimi, and Palmon."
"Nice to meet you. Tai, you don't look so good!"
"Tai!" they heard as Kari shot past them and hugged her brother.
"I'll be okay." he said.
Kari pulled away. "I'd like you to meet some people."
After introductions were made Tai turned to Matt. "How have you been?"
"Fine, I had no idea you were still alive."
"I had to keep hidden so Apocalymon wouldn't find us."
"Well, "Matt said, looking at the group around him. "What do we do now that we're all together?"
"Join us!" T.K. blurted out.
Ash and Misty looked at each other. "Sure, we'll join you!"
Matt smiled turning to Tai,"Well, Would your group like to join us? Will you be our leader?"
"What?" everyone asked.
"Matt?" Gabumon asked.
"Tai's a leader. I'm just a filler position, well?"
"He'll do it!" Sora and Kari said.
"Perfect!" Matt said, "The new Defenders! Together, we can do anything!"
"Great!" Sabrina said, "Because to save this world, we'll need to fix it!"
"What?"
"I finally understand the strange dreams I've been having! This time line, this world, is wrong!"
"Explain," Tai said.
"Well, I'm a psychic, I can see thing you can't. Apparently, two different timeliness merged together. From what I understand and have seen, the merge happen five years ago. Some sort of psychic explosion from a time traveler damaged the dimensional barrier between the two time lines. To fix this, we need to ravel back in time and fix the hole."
The others stared at her for a long while. "Well, "Matt said,"I believe her."
"You do?" Lance asked, "This is crazy!"
"Oh, and a being from another world created from digital information ruling this world is the norm?"
"Touche"
"Okay," Tai said,"If we're going to go along with this, we need to find a way to travel back in time."
"I think we'd better get you to a hospital first."
"No, " Joe said,"We get him back to base. I can treat him there."
"Okay," Tai said.
"Well, get a stretcher or something," T.K. said, following the others away.
After they left, Tai saw Kari staring at T.K. "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing!" she said, her face turning red.
Tai smiled. His little sister was growing up.
Apocalymon was not happy. Giovanni had to be hospitalized immediately due to severe electrical burns, the Cario Prison was destroyed, the arms shipment got to the Americas, and the greatest forces acting against him had joined together. "Arg!"
"I understand you are unhappy, M'lord," Bakemon said, floating in, "But I have good news!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, I believe that we have a lock on the Defenders HQ! It seems that their new leader, Tai had to stay there because of his injuries, and Sabrina is there also. The rest went to move Tai's equipment from his old base to there! Now would be a perfect time to strike! Master, your face, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, Bakemon," he said,"It's just a smile."
"This is boring!" Tai said. Joe had bandaged him up and left him on one of the beds in the old apartment. "I hate sitting around!"
"Don't worry!" Sabrina said,"You can use this time to think of a way to save this world!"
Suddenly, a beeping noise was heard. "What's that?" Agumon asked.
A computerized voice was heard. "Attention! Attention! Danger! Defcon Armageddon!"
"Sabrina?" Tai asked.
"That's Izzy's computer alarm. Someone has breached the outer perimeter! Defcon Armageddon means only one thing, Apocalymon is coming!"
to be continued...
NEXT: SABRINA IN THE HANDS OF THE BAKEMON, AND WHAT IS MEW?