Chapter XI: Kadabra
Elsewhere, in another laboratory, a Kadabra was hovering above the floor in a lotus position, meditating. His trance was disturbed by the arrival of the TeleFridge, which parked itself a couple of metres from him, at the exact spot where it had disappeared the last time. He sighed and let his feet touch the floor when the door opened and a cat-like creature he had never seen before stumbled out.
"I think I'm going to get sick," it said. It then turned it's head and looked at Kadabra. "Uh, hi."
"Kadabra?" Kadabra said and raised an eyebrow. A Meowth and fell out of the machine, followed by Professor Schoultz.
"Ya could've warned us, ya know," Meowth complained.
"You get a little dizzy, granted," Professor Schoultz said. "Having your molecules divided by alfa-patterns has that effect on you. Oh, hello Kadabra."
"Kadabra," Kadabra greeted his master. "Ka-da?"
"In a moment, my friend, in a moment," Schoultz said. "Anyway, the machine works perfectly, just as I told you."
"Kadabra," Kadabra said dryly. "Ka-da-dabra."
"I know you can teleport yourself," Schoultz said, apparently irritated for not getting the credit he felt he deserved. "That's not the point! Now I can too, and soon everyone will!"
"Ab-ra," Kadabra said in a "yeah, right!" way.
"Ehm," Gatomon said. "Aren't you going to introduce us?"
"Hm?" Professor Schoultz said, as if he had forgotten all about her. "Oh, yes! Kadabra, this is Gatomon, who is a Digimon, and Meowth, who is a Meowth. Gatomon, Meowth, meet Kadabra, my helper. Kadabra, we are going to finish my Dimension Gateway and use it to send Gatomon back to her homeworld."
"Ka-dabra?" Kadabra said, slightly confused.
"I'll explain later," Schoultz said. "Now we have to get to work, no time to lose!" He started walking towards the door.
"Kadabra?" Kadabra said and made a gesture towards Gatomon and Meowth with his spoon.
"What? Oh, show them to the guest rooms, and then come back," Professor Schoultz said.
"Kada," Kadabra said and made a gesture for them to follow him. He soon took them to a simple room with a bed made for humans.
"Kadabra," the psychic Pokémon said. To Gatomon, he had to be the most peculiar one she had meet during her visit in the Pokémon world. She couldn't really decide if he was supposed to be some sort of lizard or mammal. With the long whiskers, the symbols on his belly and the star on his forehead, along with that spoon he kept holding in his hand made him look a little bit funny in her eyes, yet he commanded some sort of respect.
"Kadabra said dat we have ta sleep in da same bed," Meowth translated.
"Okay with me," Gatomon said and shrugged her shoulders.
"Kadabra," Kadabra said and nodded. Then he suddenly started glowing and disappeared the moment thereafter.
"Whowsa," Gatomon said, surprised. "He really can teleport. You Pokémon know allot of neat tricks."
Meowth jumped up on the bed and closed his eyes. "Oh, I'm beat."
"Me too," Gatomon said. "It's not that late, though. Maybe a
She also climbed up on the bed and seated herself in the opposite end of Meowth.
"Gatomon," he said. "Do yous tink he can get ya home?"
Gatomon frowned. "I hope so." She looked at him. "If so, what about you?"
"Whadda ya mean?" Meowth asked.
"I mean, when I go home, what will become of you?"
"Oh, I'll be alright," Meowth said even though deep within he doubted it. "Don't worry."
"But I will," Gatomon whispered. "Every day I'll wonder if you are still safe or not. You're going to have to hide for the rest of your life. It's all my fault, I should never have come here."
"Dat wasn't your fault," Meowth said sharply. "I brought dis on myself. It was Meowth's greed dat started dis mess."
"Yeah, but ain't it ironic," Gatomon said melancholically. "I would never have got this far without you, and now I leave you alone with ha price on your head."
Meowth sighed. "I told yous, don't worry about it."
Meowth was unsure how to feel. He was glad that he had brought Gatomon to safety and that she would soon se her homeworld again, but he also felt sad that he would probably never see her again if she did.
"Yeah, sure," he heard her say.
Gatomon awoke on the bed later. She didn't know how long she had been asleep, probably just a few hours. Meowth was still sleeping, snoring slightly. Gatomon became aware of another presence in the room and looked around with her claws ready for attack, but found that it was only Kadabra that had entered the room without her noticing it.
"Dabra," he said and put his hand up so as to say that he meant her no harm.
"Oh, it's you," she said quietly so not to wake Meowth up. "What do you want?"
"Kadabra," Kadabra said. "Ka-da-bra."
"I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying," Gatomon said.
"That's okay, I have other means of communicating," a soft voice said in her head.
"Hey," she said. "How did you do that?"
"I'm a Psychic Pokémon," came the answer. "Some of us can speak telepathically into the minds of others, though it is more difficult then normal speech."
"Telepathically?" Gatomon said and tensed up a little. She knew full well what that word meant.
"Do not worry, Gatomon, I will not read your mind without your permission," Kadabra smiled. "I understand that your current situation can be somewhat confusing. I merely came here to check on the two of you. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Thanks, but I'm cooping quite well," Gatomon said. "But there is one thing I want to ask you. About the professor."
"Ah," the Pokémon said and smiled more. "You want to know if he is indeed a fruitcake as you fear."
"Well, I wouldn't exactly have called him a fruitcake," Gatomon giggled, but then became serious. "Well? You seem to know him well, I mean."
"Hard to say, even for a psychic like me," Kadabra said. "The human mind is a complicated matter, and the Professor's is more complex then any mind I have ever encountered before. He doesn't seem to think in the same way as a normal human, and mostly I have a hard time understanding him. Oh, he has got some issues alright, but he is well aware of the world around him and even if he sometimes acts a little strange, I do not doubt that he is indeed a genius. But don't tell him I said so."
"But can he get me home?" Gatomon asked.
"I honestly do not think there is anything Professor Schoultz cannot do," Kadabra said reassuringly.
Gatomon smiled. "I like you. You remind me of someone I knew… once." A painful memory flashed before her mind and the smile disappeared.
"Ah," Kadabra said. "Wizardmon. I'm sorry."
"Hey, you said you wouldn't do that!" Gatomon said.
"I couldn't help it," Kadabra said. "But I apologise anyway. You should get some sleep." He turned around, but the looked at her again. "He cares greatly for you, you do know that?"
"Who?" Gatomon asked.
The Pokémon only smiled and disappeared in a flash of light, teleporting out of there.
Gatomon looked at Meowth, who hadn't been disturbed at all by their conversation. She decided that she was too tired to figure anything out, so she returned to her previous position. Soon she was sleeping once again.