Stray Cats
A Crossover
Ghost: Hello, and welcome to my story. Due to the unexpected outage of Fanfiction.Net a while ago I was able to finish all chapters…
Annoying Guy: Did you hear that? The story is finished! Ghost actually finished a story! Can you believe it?
Ghost: BOLT 3!
*A huge bolt of lighting, a lá Final Fantasy, strikes the Annoying Guy, leaving only a scorched crater*
Ghost: Ehm, as I was saying, I was able to finish all chapters at once and upload them all at the same time. Before we begin, I would like to mention a few things.
First of all, this fic was supposed to be parallel to Anna Sartin's "Shattered Soul" which is without a doubt the best Rocketshipper fanfic I have ever read. However, the Rocketshippy parts never actually happened in this fic, since I felt I had to concentrate more on Gatomon and Meowth. Since I have little or no control over how my stories develop, things like that are bound to happen. Still, "Shattered Soul" is a true masterpiece and I suggest anyone who is into Rocketshipping or romance in general to take a look at it.
Second, from Digimon's perspective this story is supposed to take place during Season 1, during the period where the Digidestined are facing the Dark Masters, but I must admit that I don't know anything about this period, since they are currently still trying to locate the Eight Child and defeat Myotismon over here. I might change it later, but it will have to due for now. Please have patience with eventual inconsistencies. For the same reason I know very little about Gatomon, and my portrayal of her is based on assumptions and information I've gathered from (a very few) fanfics. I only hope that I've done her character justice. I should also mention that Meowth doesn't speak in any particular accent in our translation, but I did my best after consulting some other fics.
More so, this is not a Gatomon/Meowth Romance as much as it is a Gatomon/Meowth friendship fic on which I can base a possible Romance later.
Finally, I do not want to hear anyone going "That Pokémon could easily beat up that Digimon!" or "That Digimon would tie that Pokémon in a knot!" because I'm not the slightest interested in that. Gatomon wins and loses because it suites the plot, so live with it, okay?
But enough of these lame excuses now! Let's begin the actual story, shall we?
Prologue:
"Oh no!" Gatomon exclaimed as she was thrown into a tree so hard that it snapped in two by the punch of her enemy. It hurt like hell and she felt rather dazed, but she tried to clear her head and get back into the fight. The other's needed her. The Digidestined had arrived prepared for a fight against a Tengumon, a rare and aggressive but not that powerful Virus Digimon that had terrorised the area for quite some time. What they found, however, was a fully digivolved and quite insane SkullTengumon, and that "Skull" part had proven to be a considerable difference. This creature, a huge, black behemoth that looked like a feathered Devidramon with a beak and wearing a bone-armour, had immediately begun to kick their collective arses hard. Even when they worked together they only managed to push him back, and time was running out, along with their energy.
"Eldrich Bolt!" SkullTengumon shouted and a flood of green energy left the palm of his hand. WereGarurumon barely managed to dodge the blast that decimated a large part of the landscape. Gatomon knew how much that attack hurt, even though she hadn't taken a direct hit. Palmon was already down, having taken a hit not even Lillymon could shake off.
"Now would be a great time to digivolve," Gatomon muttered to herself as she charged. She had underestimated the speed of SkullTengumon, and she would not do so again. She easily dodged his swiping claws and aimed her own Lighting Claw attack.
"We have to do something drastic!" Tai shouted. "Izzy, Matt, anyone? This would be a good time to find a weakness."
"I think I have found one," Izzy answered. "His Eldrich Bolts are somehow unstable. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I suspect that if we hit it just before…"
"Sounds great," Matt said. "It's not like we have much to choice anyway."
"Right!" Tai said. "Attack that Eldrich energy of his!"
SkullTengumon did not listen to them, he was paying more attention to the annoying cat-Digimon that had given it some rather painful but not fatal slashes with her claws, and was just about to crush her with his fist when a Giga Blast from MetalGreymon hit him in the side and threw him to the ground. He quickly got up and flapped his wings in irritation. His red eyes glowed from rage and insanity.
"I will destroy you!" he yelled. "All of you!" Between his hands, a bulge of green energy was building. Another Eldrich Blast, but this one much larger and far more powerful. It would surely mean the end if he were allowed to fire it. "Eldrich…"
"Now!" MetalGreymon shouted. "Giga Blaster!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Wolf claw!"
All attacks hit into the glowing orb of mystical energy. It exploded in a blinding light and the explosion shook the ground. SkullTengumon was immediately vaporised into data, but a large, swirling portal of white energy was left in his place.
"What the heck is that?" Tai shouted.
"It's some sort of portal!" Izzy said. "Like the one we arrived in, or the one that appeared after we defeated Etemon."
An invisible force seemed to pull them towards the portal. The pull increased for every second. Gatomon, who had been the closest to SkullTengumon, tried to stop herself with her claws, but they simply plowed though the soft ground, leaving six long marks. "Guys! Help!"
"Why do I get a feeling that this isn't a way home?" Joe said and held on to a tree. "Somebody do something!"
The Digimon tried their best to stay away from the portal and help their human friends. Except for Gatomon, who was slowly being pulled into the portal. "Kari!" she shouted.
"Gatomon!" Kari cried. "Somebody help her!"
But it was too late. Gatomon lost her grip of the ground and was sucked into the swirling vortex.
"Gatomon! No!" Kari yelled.
And then the portal suddenly seemed to lose its power. It shrunk and finally vanished completely, leaving the Digimon and the Digidestined to wonder about the fate of their friend.
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Note: In case you are wondering, Tengumon and SkullTengumon are creations of my own twisted mind. In the next chapter Gatomon finds herself in a whole different world and has a run-in with some Pokémon trainers.