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Matt glanced at the clock and did a double take.
"Hey guys, it's half one in the morning." He pointed out.
"We should get some sleep" Joe remarked.
They were staying up till all hours trying to come up with a way to break this unbreakable news to their friends. Everyone was exhausted and it showed. Dark rings hung beneath their eyes and every statement anyone made was quickly followed by a yawn.
"Tai, I'm sleepy and so is T.k" Kari groaned, tugging on Tai's hands.
"But we still haven't *yawn* found a way to tell them "Tai protested.
"Tai, our minds are functioning at full capacity while we're in this exhausted state" Izzy stated, trying to hold back a yawn.
"We can begin this again tomorrow" Sora suggested.
"Sounds great" Matt said, his eyelids drooping.
"And I need my beauty sleep" Mimi whined.
"Then it's the group's decision... we sleep"
"Yay" T.k said, sounding as tired as he looked.
Each kid crawled into their beds and fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
Tai woke up at about three and saw the outline of someone sitting up.
"Sora?" he asked groggily.
"Yeah?"
"How come your awake"
"I guess I'm not used to getting a full nights sleep, it's like any moment someone I going to come over and tell us it's out turn for guard duty. That and I was thinking about that song, the one about standing at the beginning."
"It was a ok song"
"Do you really think it's that hard for a friend to fall for their best friend. Considering everything they went through, like in the song. You know all that stuff about starting out on a crazy adventure and not knowing what we'd have to go through but still standing at the end of it. And standing with your friend, who has shown you so much about everything, even things you never knew about yourself? "
Tai wished that they were camping, he'd be able to see her face and her expression in the firelight and he might know if she had a wistful look or just a questioning one.
"I guess it is possible when you put it like that" he admitted.
"Me too"
"Hey wake up" Matt's voice said, waking Tai up. He sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"What?"
"It's time to get up" T.k announced back to his happy bouncy self.
Sora stretched her arms and swung her legs over the side of the bed.
"Great" she chirped.
"We slept in a little late" Kari remarked with a rueful smile
Everyone left their rooms and was surprised to see an empty Pokemon centre.
Everyone else had left by now. Piling down the stairs, chatting among themselves, they didn't notice a concerned Nurse Joy looking out at the grey clouds that had gathered in the sky. The clouds were almost black.
Four familiar voices wafted through the air. They saw their friends on a sofa discussing something that seemed of high importance.
"We are NOT watching the Power rangers," Misty said, firmly.
"But, they are powerful and mighty and they morph a bit AND their rangers. What more could you ask for?" Ash asked.
"Yeah they got nothing on The Mighty Ducks" Misty replied.
"I never saw you as a mighty duck kind of girl" Tracey remarked.
"Yeah but she's just full of surprises" Brock remarked.
"But you can't compare the power rangers to the Mighty ducks" Ash objected.
"Well fine then, the Power Rangers are no match for the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" Misty said.
"She's got you there" Brock told him.
"What? No way! The turtles are nothing compared to the power rangers" Tracey exclaimed, shocked at the very thought of it.
Watching the four having such a ridiculous debate and watching T.V struck a chord within the others. Misty sat on the ground with one elbow on the sofa, Ash was perched on the back of the sofa, Brock sat completely sprawled out on the sofa and Tracey sat with a notepad balanced on one knee. This scene and even the dialogue reminded the Digidestined of how they use to spend their time. It reminded them, what they were missing out on. The debate and the positions made them realise how alike the Pokemon world dwellers were to normal kids back home. It made them miss home. Brock turned around and waved at them.
"Hey, want to watch some T.V?" he offered.
"Why aren't you guys out there training?" Sora asked.
"And where is everyone else?" Tai asked.
"Well we we're waiting for you guys to wake up so we stayed here while everyone else was leaving and then we got banned from leaving the Pokemon centre" Ash explained.
"Banned?"
"We were told to stand in the corner but we refused so now we're being detained" Tracey said, seriously.
"We were bold boys and girl," Misty said putting on a baby voice.
"I just don't trust those clouds" Nurse Joy spoke up.
"Of course. We understand and completely respect your wisdom and caring attitude and now let me care for you. They're just kids, they don't understand what they're saying but I know that your were only being your kind caring self" Brock said, as he jumped to his feet and clutched nurse Joys hands in his own.
This display earned him amused looks from Ash, Misty and Tracey and "He can't really be doing this can he? "looks from the Digidestined.
"Hey it's snowing" Nurse Joy cried. Everyone ran to the windows and looked at the white snowflakes that began to fall heavily.
"Now aren't you glad that Nurse Joy kept us here?" Brock asked.
"But how can it snow, its not the right time of year. Last time I checked it was July" Misty replied, stunned.
"Does this remind anyone else of something?" Izzy asked.
"It can't be" Sora protested.
"It can"
"So now its time to fight"
"Maybe we don't have to tell them. Maybe we won't need them, we do have two Digimon who can Digivolve to Mega State and five Digimon who can Digivolve to ultimate and one who can Digivolve to champion"
"Then why would Gennai tell us we have to get them to help us"
"Ummm.. so we'd have the home team advantage"
Tai looked over and saw that Ash, Misty, Tracey and Brock were now seated on the staircase and deep in discussion.
"Last time the weather was thrown off balance was because someone was interfering" Misty began.
"But that was when someone was trying to capture Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno. You think he's trying it again?" Ash asked, alarmed.
"It's the only reason I can think of" Tracey remarked.
"This happened?" Brock asked.
"But last time we had Melody to call Lugia" Ash said.
Misty glared at him, sighed and nodded.
"It's true that *shudder* Melody called him but maybe we can call him ourselves. We have to, only the chosen one, and the guardian of the sea, can save the world from this upsetting of balance. "Misty exclaimed
"There's nothing we can do now. We have to bide our time"
"I'm going to have a shower, it'll help me relax" Misty decided out loud when Nurse Joy stopped her.
"Do you remember that Magikarp you brought in here?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"Well he's become attached to you, I don't suppose you could take him under you wing and train him?"
"You want me to become Magikarp's trainer?" Misty asked in disbelief.
"Well you trained your other water Pokemon very well, so you're a good trainer and they all seem to like you and they seem to be nice so I think that you're kind to them and Magikarp is so attached to you. You know that you'd do him justice by adopting him and raising him into a wonderful Gyrados and Gyrados is an incredibly powerful Pokemon"
"Ok I guess I could give it a shot"
Nurse Joy clasped her hands together and beamed at Misty.
"You have a heart of gold, I'll just go get your Pokemon"
Misty stood there in shock as to what had just happened and in a matter of minutes, Nurse Joy was back holding the Pokeballs. She returned everyone's pokeballs and turned to look at the snow.
"If this weather continues, then we may have to stay here for quite some time"
Misty went upstairs to have her shower and everyone joined Nurse Joy at the window.
"Something like this did happen to us before," Tai admitted when Nurse Joy left them.
"It's the start of what brought us to Digiworld" Sora added.
"So this means that you're going back?" Ash asked,
"Actually something major is about to happen. When we went to summer camp, it started snowing."
"That's when our Digivices fell from the sky. They floated right in front of us"
"I got my Digivice a while later because I wasn't with the other kids at summer camp. I had a cold so I had to stay behind."
"Ummm... where exactly is all this going?"
"We're getting to it"
"Is it important cause we have some theories of our own about this weather and I think the more time we waste, the harder it's going to be to stop him" Tracey began.
"Him?" they asked.
"Theories are always a good thing. I never stop theorising... "Izzy said.
"And that's what scares us, Izzy" Matt quipped.
Izzy shot him a glare and this made the others kids chuckle
"But we don't need theories, we have proof and we know exactly what's going on here" Izzy continued, ignoring the sniggers.
"And it's important that you listen or it could lead to the destruction of three worlds" Joe cried frantically.
Everyone gave him funny looks.
"Umm...yeah, anyway tell us the rest of this story," Brock said.
"Well we each picked up the Digivices when this huge wave appeared out of nowhere and we didn't even get a chance to hang ten"
"It washed us into the Digital world, we met up with our Digimon."
"So this weather means something big is happening involving the Digital world."
"So it hasn't got anything to do with fire, ice and lightning" Ash asked.
"What?" everyone asked.
Brock elbowed him and Ash jumped
"He knows nothing...ever," Tracey said quickly.
"Right about now I wish Melody was around. I don't get what Misty had against Melody, she was always nice to me" Ash said
"He's hopeless," Tracey said with a helpless shrug.
"Completely" Brock agreed, folding his arms.
"Hey, T.K you should go over and help him. It's your job to be give hope" Kari told T.K
"Somehow it's not something I think T.K can help him with" Sora told them, smiling
The sound of frantic footsteps filled the air and before anyone could react, Misty tore past them and out of the Pokemon centre.
Wherever she was going, she was scared and she had to get someplace in a hurry.
"HEY! WAIT UP!" Ash yelled after her, racing after her.
Everyone else followed and nearly crashed into each other. Misty had stopped abruptly and so everyone had to stop equally as abruptly so they wouldn't crash into her and in the results, they crashed into each other but no one fell over. They had to make sure they didn't or else there would be a domino effect with the line of people and that was the last thing everyone needed.
Misty whirled around and looked at them fear stricken.
"I saw something" she cried, terrified.
Everyone looked at her blankly.
"It was a huge monster, it was horrible. It's in the forest. It wasn't a Pokemon. I saw it, I know I did" she insisted.
"What do you mean it wasn't a Pokemon?" Ash demanded.
"It was something else, some other monster"
"A Digimon?" Agumon asked.
Misty looked at him, puzzled.
"Yeah it did sort of give me the same feeling you did but why would a Digimon be here? I thought they only came in the Digital world, present company excluded"
"That's the thing"
"We were sent here to fight"
"A Digimon?"
"Yeah, somehow he broke the barrier between this world and the Digital world. He is trying to take over this world because Pokemon are more obedient than Digimon" Izzy explained, seriously.
"He's going to use Pokemon to take help him take over the Digital world and our world and then he'll have Pokemon and Digimon and three worlds at his disposal" Matt said.
"What about the humans?" Brock asked.
"They'll be killed"
"And I'm going to assume there was a really good reason why did you tell us this" Misty said, trying to keep her dying faith in them alive.
"Well" Tai began.
Misty nodded vigorously, her red hair bouncing and spraying small droplets of water. Her short hair had been liberated from it's hair elastic and was slightly longer and shinier than usual. The water had made it that way. And instead of the usual yellow tank top, shorts and suspenders, she wore a white tee shirt. Also she wore one of the guys' shorts which was baggy on her and hung over her hips. Around her waist hung the small pouch that Ellie, the singing girl from the night before, had given her. It was filled with six Pokeballs and her wet floppy fringe covered her eyes.
"We were afraid" Sora confessed.
Misty placed her hands on her hips and Ash looked at them, stunned. Tracey looked at them with shocked frustration and Brock had his arms folded waiting for them to say something else.
"Afraid? That's your big excuse? You were AFRAID?" Ash demanded.
"Your afraid? So, I'm afraid too and so is everyone else. Show me one person who's only being is courage. Everything they have is courage, enough for everyone in the world " Misty cried.
"Um me"
"Shut up, Tai"
"This isn't our fault" Tai snapped in retaliation.
"Oh and it's our fault. We weren't approachable enough, we were too nice to have you guys tell us bad news. We have to be jerks in the future so it'll be easier for people to break bad news to us?"
Misty tied the tee shirt in as knot above her waist and she rolled up the sleeves till they were up to her shoulders.
Her look was different than usual and this look was not lost on Ash who kept sneaking glances at her.
"Well what do we do now?" she asked.
"Fight"
"No way!" Ash said standing in front of Misty, Brock and Tracey. The body language was clear. His stance in front of his group said "This is my group, I'm the leader and I'm not going to let you hurt them. I'm not going to lead them into something this dangerous"
The groups look and stances gave a clear message.
It was clear to see that they were happy to be in Ash's group and it was a clear division of the groups. Their looks said, we're in Ash's group, he's the leader and we're following. You can take a long run off a very short, very high cliff for all we care.
"Look, it's not like we have a choice. WE didn't want to fight but we had to and we learned" Matt exclaimed.
His blue eyes filling with rage. Misty stood up, eyes blazing. Matt and Misty had so much in common it was spooky. Anyone would think that they were brother and sister, the way they spoke and acted.
"Yeah Your Digidestined, we're just a couple of Pokemon trainers. We are not fighting, why should we. You've been destined for this since you were eight; we were destined for this since eight seconds ago. That's not destiny. Why drag us into this, huh?" she demanded clenching her fists
"You don't need us to fight, why would you, Misty's right. WE are just a couple of Pokemon trainers, nothing special"
Misty and Matt were still glaring at each other then without a word; they both spun around and crossed their arms refusing to look in the direction of the others. Yet another indication of how scarily alike brother and sister they were the only difference was Matt was deeper than Misty and she had a much shorter fuse. But they were very, very much alike in the things they said and the things they did.
"Please help us, we need your help" Kari pleaded.
"Yeah Gennai wouldn't tell us if we didn't need your help" T.K added.
"Gennai" Misty snorted." If I ever meet this guy who told you to do this to us, I swear I'll shove a Pokeball so far up his a...." she stopped when she saw the looks everyone, even the people from her own group gave her.
"Don't you think using eight years olds to try and guilt us into this is cruel? " Brock asked, looking down at the two young kids.
"Hey, it's not like they don't have minds of their own" Tai objected.
"Yeah they know that they have responcibilities. Unlike some people they have the maturity and the guts to fight" Matt added.
Ash, Brock, Tracey and Misty exchanged looks and small smirks crept up on their faces.
"Why are you smiling?" Mimi whined.
"We're the chickens when you're the ones who couldn't tell us about this fight from the beginning?" Ash asked, with a sneer.
The Digidestined looked at the ground, knowing Ash was right. Misty smirked and with a confident swagger of her hips she turned around and walked away. Ash followed her and as did Brock but Tracey
stayed.
"Why aren't you going with your friends?" Izzy asked.
"Because I think that they're wrong" he replied.
Everyone stopped when everyone heard this and the three friends turned around, shocked.
"Whose side are you on anywhere?" Misty demanded.
"Whose side are you on? I mean by walking away, you guys are just helping whatever evil it is that's taking over this world " he cried.
"Don't you get it? We CAN'T do ANYTHING. We are only Pokemon trainers; in fact only two of us are trainers. We are two trainers, one breeder and one watcher. What are we going to do? Challenge him to a battle and hope the sight scares him to our Poke balls? We ARE useless! We can't help but we can warn other people and maybe they can run. We're not even masters; we are trainers, bad ones at that. There is nothing we can do so just get over it" Ash yelled at him.
"I'm with Tracey on this one" Brock stated.
Misty whirled around, fury burning in her large eyes.
"So you're bailing on us as well?" Ash demanded.
"Guess you learn who your REAL friends when something like this happens" Misty added.
"Will you two stop being so stubborn?" Brock cried.
"We are not stubborn," they both cried
"If we weren't in such a huge fight, I'd find that real cute2 Tracey remarked.
"So you guys are going with us?" Tai asked.
"Yes,"
"Yup"
Everyone looked at Ash and Misty awaiting their answers. Misty looked at them not angrily or sadly. She gave them at them a bland look and shook her head.
"No" she replied.
."You can't just refuse this like.. Like it's someone offering you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" Tai yelled.
"I'm not getting into this. You guys can but I'm not. I'm going with Misty" Ash told them, he felt more emotional about this.
"So this is the end of the road for our friendship?" Brock asked.
Ash and Misty exchanged looks.
"Yeah I guess it is. We might see you guys around but at least this way we found out when our friendship would be put to the test and what side we'd be on" Ash remarked.
They both began walking away.
"So that's it? You don't think you've done the wrong thing?" Tai yelled after them.
Misty turned around.
"You told us to make the call. We made it. Just not the call you wanted us to make" she replied.
They continued walking away.
"Great. Why are they so stubborn?" Matt growled.
Everyone turned to look at him sceptically.
"Yes I know that I'm THAT stubborn" he snapped.
"They're stubborn but their loyal. Stuck by each other even when everyone else was trying to force them to do something." Tracey remarked.
"Yeah at least we know they'll never give into peer pressure. I'm sort of proud that they stuck to their guns about what they believed was the right thing" Brock stated.
"Yeah we did a good job teaching them about peer pressure. Heck, we did a good job raising them" Tracey added.
"I think we deserve a pat on the back"
The boy boys began shaking hands and congratulating each other over the success.
"EXCUSE ME?" Mimi yelled
They both turned to look at her.
"You guys were getting slightly off track" Sora explained.
"No time for that...LOOK!" T.K yelled pointing up at a huge shadow that loomed overhead.
"Oh My God!" Misty cried. Ash and she stared at the huge beast that was wading through the thick forest with ease.
"You think they can handle it?" Misty asked, nervously.
"They'll have to".
"That's the thing we have to fight?" Tracey demanded.
"Hey we faced worse," Tai said confidently, trying to hide his own initial fear.
"Yeah but aren't things going to be different here?" Sora asked.
"Most probably" Izzy replied.
"Only one thing springs to mind in this situation" Ash said, trembling. Misty looked at him and nodded.
"The only thing that we can say that would be suitable for this situation" Matt remarked.
Misty and Ash looked at each other sharing the immense fear.
Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Izzy, Joe, T.K, Kari, Tracey and Brock looked at each other and all twelve people expressed their thoughts out loud.
"Oh Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
To be continued.
Please review, sorry about the delay. I'm thinking about writing a sequal to this story but I'm not entirely sure. Anway, I hope you liked it and Please review.
Love Nibbs
Matt glanced at the clock and did a double take.
"Hey guys, it's half one in the morning." He pointed out.
"We should get some sleep" Joe remarked.
They were staying up till all hours trying to come up with a way to break this unbreakable news to their friends. Everyone was exhausted and it showed. Dark rings hung beneath their eyes and every statement anyone made was quickly followed by a yawn.
"Tai, I'm sleepy and so is T.k" Kari groaned, tugging on Tai's hands.
"But we still haven't *yawn* found a way to tell them "Tai protested.
"Tai, our minds are functioning at full capacity while we're in this exhausted state" Izzy stated, trying to hold back a yawn.
"We can begin this again tomorrow" Sora suggested.
"Sounds great" Matt said, his eyelids drooping.
"And I need my beauty sleep" Mimi whined.
"Then it's the group's decision... we sleep"
"Yay" T.k said, sounding as tired as he looked.
Each kid crawled into their beds and fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
Tai woke up at about three and saw the outline of someone sitting up.
"Sora?" he asked groggily.
"Yeah?"
"How come your awake"
"I guess I'm not used to getting a full nights sleep, it's like any moment someone I going to come over and tell us it's out turn for guard duty. That and I was thinking about that song, the one about standing at the beginning."
"It was a ok song"
"Do you really think it's that hard for a friend to fall for their best friend. Considering everything they went through, like in the song. You know all that stuff about starting out on a crazy adventure and not knowing what we'd have to go through but still standing at the end of it. And standing with your friend, who has shown you so much about everything, even things you never knew about yourself? "
Tai wished that they were camping, he'd be able to see her face and her expression in the firelight and he might know if she had a wistful look or just a questioning one.
"I guess it is possible when you put it like that" he admitted.
"Me too"
"Hey wake up" Matt's voice said, waking Tai up. He sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"What?"
"It's time to get up" T.k announced back to his happy bouncy self.
Sora stretched her arms and swung her legs over the side of the bed.
"Great" she chirped.
"We slept in a little late" Kari remarked with a rueful smile
Everyone left their rooms and was surprised to see an empty Pokemon centre.
Everyone else had left by now. Piling down the stairs, chatting among themselves, they didn't notice a concerned Nurse Joy looking out at the grey clouds that had gathered in the sky. The clouds were almost black.
Four familiar voices wafted through the air. They saw their friends on a sofa discussing something that seemed of high importance.
"We are NOT watching the Power rangers," Misty said, firmly.
"But, they are powerful and mighty and they morph a bit AND their rangers. What more could you ask for?" Ash asked.
"Yeah they got nothing on The Mighty Ducks" Misty replied.
"I never saw you as a mighty duck kind of girl" Tracey remarked.
"Yeah but she's just full of surprises" Brock remarked.
"But you can't compare the power rangers to the Mighty ducks" Ash objected.
"Well fine then, the Power Rangers are no match for the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" Misty said.
"She's got you there" Brock told him.
"What? No way! The turtles are nothing compared to the power rangers" Tracey exclaimed, shocked at the very thought of it.
Watching the four having such a ridiculous debate and watching T.V struck a chord within the others. Misty sat on the ground with one elbow on the sofa, Ash was perched on the back of the sofa, Brock sat completely sprawled out on the sofa and Tracey sat with a notepad balanced on one knee. This scene and even the dialogue reminded the Digidestined of how they use to spend their time. It reminded them, what they were missing out on. The debate and the positions made them realise how alike the Pokemon world dwellers were to normal kids back home. It made them miss home. Brock turned around and waved at them.
"Hey, want to watch some T.V?" he offered.
"Why aren't you guys out there training?" Sora asked.
"And where is everyone else?" Tai asked.
"Well we we're waiting for you guys to wake up so we stayed here while everyone else was leaving and then we got banned from leaving the Pokemon centre" Ash explained.
"Banned?"
"We were told to stand in the corner but we refused so now we're being detained" Tracey said, seriously.
"We were bold boys and girl," Misty said putting on a baby voice.
"I just don't trust those clouds" Nurse Joy spoke up.
"Of course. We understand and completely respect your wisdom and caring attitude and now let me care for you. They're just kids, they don't understand what they're saying but I know that your were only being your kind caring self" Brock said, as he jumped to his feet and clutched nurse Joys hands in his own.
This display earned him amused looks from Ash, Misty and Tracey and "He can't really be doing this can he? "looks from the Digidestined.
"Hey it's snowing" Nurse Joy cried. Everyone ran to the windows and looked at the white snowflakes that began to fall heavily.
"Now aren't you glad that Nurse Joy kept us here?" Brock asked.
"But how can it snow, its not the right time of year. Last time I checked it was July" Misty replied, stunned.
"Does this remind anyone else of something?" Izzy asked.
"It can't be" Sora protested.
"It can"
"So now its time to fight"
"Maybe we don't have to tell them. Maybe we won't need them, we do have two Digimon who can Digivolve to Mega State and five Digimon who can Digivolve to ultimate and one who can Digivolve to champion"
"Then why would Gennai tell us we have to get them to help us"
"Ummm.. so we'd have the home team advantage"
Tai looked over and saw that Ash, Misty, Tracey and Brock were now seated on the staircase and deep in discussion.
"Last time the weather was thrown off balance was because someone was interfering" Misty began.
"But that was when someone was trying to capture Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno. You think he's trying it again?" Ash asked, alarmed.
"It's the only reason I can think of" Tracey remarked.
"This happened?" Brock asked.
"But last time we had Melody to call Lugia" Ash said.
Misty glared at him, sighed and nodded.
"It's true that *shudder* Melody called him but maybe we can call him ourselves. We have to, only the chosen one, and the guardian of the sea, can save the world from this upsetting of balance. "Misty exclaimed
"There's nothing we can do now. We have to bide our time"
"I'm going to have a shower, it'll help me relax" Misty decided out loud when Nurse Joy stopped her.
"Do you remember that Magikarp you brought in here?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"Well he's become attached to you, I don't suppose you could take him under you wing and train him?"
"You want me to become Magikarp's trainer?" Misty asked in disbelief.
"Well you trained your other water Pokemon very well, so you're a good trainer and they all seem to like you and they seem to be nice so I think that you're kind to them and Magikarp is so attached to you. You know that you'd do him justice by adopting him and raising him into a wonderful Gyrados and Gyrados is an incredibly powerful Pokemon"
"Ok I guess I could give it a shot"
Nurse Joy clasped her hands together and beamed at Misty.
"You have a heart of gold, I'll just go get your Pokemon"
Misty stood there in shock as to what had just happened and in a matter of minutes, Nurse Joy was back holding the Pokeballs. She returned everyone's pokeballs and turned to look at the snow.
"If this weather continues, then we may have to stay here for quite some time"
Misty went upstairs to have her shower and everyone joined Nurse Joy at the window.
"Something like this did happen to us before," Tai admitted when Nurse Joy left them.
"It's the start of what brought us to Digiworld" Sora added.
"So this means that you're going back?" Ash asked,
"Actually something major is about to happen. When we went to summer camp, it started snowing."
"That's when our Digivices fell from the sky. They floated right in front of us"
"I got my Digivice a while later because I wasn't with the other kids at summer camp. I had a cold so I had to stay behind."
"Ummm... where exactly is all this going?"
"We're getting to it"
"Is it important cause we have some theories of our own about this weather and I think the more time we waste, the harder it's going to be to stop him" Tracey began.
"Him?" they asked.
"Theories are always a good thing. I never stop theorising... "Izzy said.
"And that's what scares us, Izzy" Matt quipped.
Izzy shot him a glare and this made the others kids chuckle
"But we don't need theories, we have proof and we know exactly what's going on here" Izzy continued, ignoring the sniggers.
"And it's important that you listen or it could lead to the destruction of three worlds" Joe cried frantically.
Everyone gave him funny looks.
"Umm...yeah, anyway tell us the rest of this story," Brock said.
"Well we each picked up the Digivices when this huge wave appeared out of nowhere and we didn't even get a chance to hang ten"
"It washed us into the Digital world, we met up with our Digimon."
"So this weather means something big is happening involving the Digital world."
"So it hasn't got anything to do with fire, ice and lightning" Ash asked.
"What?" everyone asked.
Brock elbowed him and Ash jumped
"He knows nothing...ever," Tracey said quickly.
"Right about now I wish Melody was around. I don't get what Misty had against Melody, she was always nice to me" Ash said
"He's hopeless," Tracey said with a helpless shrug.
"Completely" Brock agreed, folding his arms.
"Hey, T.K you should go over and help him. It's your job to be give hope" Kari told T.K
"Somehow it's not something I think T.K can help him with" Sora told them, smiling
The sound of frantic footsteps filled the air and before anyone could react, Misty tore past them and out of the Pokemon centre.
Wherever she was going, she was scared and she had to get someplace in a hurry.
"HEY! WAIT UP!" Ash yelled after her, racing after her.
Everyone else followed and nearly crashed into each other. Misty had stopped abruptly and so everyone had to stop equally as abruptly so they wouldn't crash into her and in the results, they crashed into each other but no one fell over. They had to make sure they didn't or else there would be a domino effect with the line of people and that was the last thing everyone needed.
Misty whirled around and looked at them fear stricken.
"I saw something" she cried, terrified.
Everyone looked at her blankly.
"It was a huge monster, it was horrible. It's in the forest. It wasn't a Pokemon. I saw it, I know I did" she insisted.
"What do you mean it wasn't a Pokemon?" Ash demanded.
"It was something else, some other monster"
"A Digimon?" Agumon asked.
Misty looked at him, puzzled.
"Yeah it did sort of give me the same feeling you did but why would a Digimon be here? I thought they only came in the Digital world, present company excluded"
"That's the thing"
"We were sent here to fight"
"A Digimon?"
"Yeah, somehow he broke the barrier between this world and the Digital world. He is trying to take over this world because Pokemon are more obedient than Digimon" Izzy explained, seriously.
"He's going to use Pokemon to take help him take over the Digital world and our world and then he'll have Pokemon and Digimon and three worlds at his disposal" Matt said.
"What about the humans?" Brock asked.
"They'll be killed"
"And I'm going to assume there was a really good reason why did you tell us this" Misty said, trying to keep her dying faith in them alive.
"Well" Tai began.
Misty nodded vigorously, her red hair bouncing and spraying small droplets of water. Her short hair had been liberated from it's hair elastic and was slightly longer and shinier than usual. The water had made it that way. And instead of the usual yellow tank top, shorts and suspenders, she wore a white tee shirt. Also she wore one of the guys' shorts which was baggy on her and hung over her hips. Around her waist hung the small pouch that Ellie, the singing girl from the night before, had given her. It was filled with six Pokeballs and her wet floppy fringe covered her eyes.
"We were afraid" Sora confessed.
Misty placed her hands on her hips and Ash looked at them, stunned. Tracey looked at them with shocked frustration and Brock had his arms folded waiting for them to say something else.
"Afraid? That's your big excuse? You were AFRAID?" Ash demanded.
"Your afraid? So, I'm afraid too and so is everyone else. Show me one person who's only being is courage. Everything they have is courage, enough for everyone in the world " Misty cried.
"Um me"
"Shut up, Tai"
"This isn't our fault" Tai snapped in retaliation.
"Oh and it's our fault. We weren't approachable enough, we were too nice to have you guys tell us bad news. We have to be jerks in the future so it'll be easier for people to break bad news to us?"
Misty tied the tee shirt in as knot above her waist and she rolled up the sleeves till they were up to her shoulders.
Her look was different than usual and this look was not lost on Ash who kept sneaking glances at her.
"Well what do we do now?" she asked.
"Fight"
"No way!" Ash said standing in front of Misty, Brock and Tracey. The body language was clear. His stance in front of his group said "This is my group, I'm the leader and I'm not going to let you hurt them. I'm not going to lead them into something this dangerous"
The groups look and stances gave a clear message.
It was clear to see that they were happy to be in Ash's group and it was a clear division of the groups. Their looks said, we're in Ash's group, he's the leader and we're following. You can take a long run off a very short, very high cliff for all we care.
"Look, it's not like we have a choice. WE didn't want to fight but we had to and we learned" Matt exclaimed.
His blue eyes filling with rage. Misty stood up, eyes blazing. Matt and Misty had so much in common it was spooky. Anyone would think that they were brother and sister, the way they spoke and acted.
"Yeah Your Digidestined, we're just a couple of Pokemon trainers. We are not fighting, why should we. You've been destined for this since you were eight; we were destined for this since eight seconds ago. That's not destiny. Why drag us into this, huh?" she demanded clenching her fists
"You don't need us to fight, why would you, Misty's right. WE are just a couple of Pokemon trainers, nothing special"
Misty and Matt were still glaring at each other then without a word; they both spun around and crossed their arms refusing to look in the direction of the others. Yet another indication of how scarily alike brother and sister they were the only difference was Matt was deeper than Misty and she had a much shorter fuse. But they were very, very much alike in the things they said and the things they did.
"Please help us, we need your help" Kari pleaded.
"Yeah Gennai wouldn't tell us if we didn't need your help" T.K added.
"Gennai" Misty snorted." If I ever meet this guy who told you to do this to us, I swear I'll shove a Pokeball so far up his a...." she stopped when she saw the looks everyone, even the people from her own group gave her.
"Don't you think using eight years olds to try and guilt us into this is cruel? " Brock asked, looking down at the two young kids.
"Hey, it's not like they don't have minds of their own" Tai objected.
"Yeah they know that they have responcibilities. Unlike some people they have the maturity and the guts to fight" Matt added.
Ash, Brock, Tracey and Misty exchanged looks and small smirks crept up on their faces.
"Why are you smiling?" Mimi whined.
"We're the chickens when you're the ones who couldn't tell us about this fight from the beginning?" Ash asked, with a sneer.
The Digidestined looked at the ground, knowing Ash was right. Misty smirked and with a confident swagger of her hips she turned around and walked away. Ash followed her and as did Brock but Tracey
stayed.
"Why aren't you going with your friends?" Izzy asked.
"Because I think that they're wrong" he replied.
Everyone stopped when everyone heard this and the three friends turned around, shocked.
"Whose side are you on anywhere?" Misty demanded.
"Whose side are you on? I mean by walking away, you guys are just helping whatever evil it is that's taking over this world " he cried.
"Don't you get it? We CAN'T do ANYTHING. We are only Pokemon trainers; in fact only two of us are trainers. We are two trainers, one breeder and one watcher. What are we going to do? Challenge him to a battle and hope the sight scares him to our Poke balls? We ARE useless! We can't help but we can warn other people and maybe they can run. We're not even masters; we are trainers, bad ones at that. There is nothing we can do so just get over it" Ash yelled at him.
"I'm with Tracey on this one" Brock stated.
Misty whirled around, fury burning in her large eyes.
"So you're bailing on us as well?" Ash demanded.
"Guess you learn who your REAL friends when something like this happens" Misty added.
"Will you two stop being so stubborn?" Brock cried.
"We are not stubborn," they both cried
"If we weren't in such a huge fight, I'd find that real cute2 Tracey remarked.
"So you guys are going with us?" Tai asked.
"Yes,"
"Yup"
Everyone looked at Ash and Misty awaiting their answers. Misty looked at them not angrily or sadly. She gave them at them a bland look and shook her head.
"No" she replied.
."You can't just refuse this like.. Like it's someone offering you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" Tai yelled.
"I'm not getting into this. You guys can but I'm not. I'm going with Misty" Ash told them, he felt more emotional about this.
"So this is the end of the road for our friendship?" Brock asked.
Ash and Misty exchanged looks.
"Yeah I guess it is. We might see you guys around but at least this way we found out when our friendship would be put to the test and what side we'd be on" Ash remarked.
They both began walking away.
"So that's it? You don't think you've done the wrong thing?" Tai yelled after them.
Misty turned around.
"You told us to make the call. We made it. Just not the call you wanted us to make" she replied.
They continued walking away.
"Great. Why are they so stubborn?" Matt growled.
Everyone turned to look at him sceptically.
"Yes I know that I'm THAT stubborn" he snapped.
"They're stubborn but their loyal. Stuck by each other even when everyone else was trying to force them to do something." Tracey remarked.
"Yeah at least we know they'll never give into peer pressure. I'm sort of proud that they stuck to their guns about what they believed was the right thing" Brock stated.
"Yeah we did a good job teaching them about peer pressure. Heck, we did a good job raising them" Tracey added.
"I think we deserve a pat on the back"
The boy boys began shaking hands and congratulating each other over the success.
"EXCUSE ME?" Mimi yelled
They both turned to look at her.
"You guys were getting slightly off track" Sora explained.
"No time for that...LOOK!" T.K yelled pointing up at a huge shadow that loomed overhead.
"Oh My God!" Misty cried. Ash and she stared at the huge beast that was wading through the thick forest with ease.
"You think they can handle it?" Misty asked, nervously.
"They'll have to".
"That's the thing we have to fight?" Tracey demanded.
"Hey we faced worse," Tai said confidently, trying to hide his own initial fear.
"Yeah but aren't things going to be different here?" Sora asked.
"Most probably" Izzy replied.
"Only one thing springs to mind in this situation" Ash said, trembling. Misty looked at him and nodded.
"The only thing that we can say that would be suitable for this situation" Matt remarked.
Misty and Ash looked at each other sharing the immense fear.
Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Izzy, Joe, T.K, Kari, Tracey and Brock looked at each other and all twelve people expressed their thoughts out loud.
"Oh Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
To be continued.
Please review, sorry about the delay. I'm thinking about writing a sequal to this story but I'm not entirely sure. Anway, I hope you liked it and Please review.
Love Nibbs
