Ditto watched the Digiworld bob up and down before her eyes. She squirmed around a bit in the restraining clamp the human girl had on her. The girl that had saved her was running for her life with the rest of the human kids and the weird Pokémon, thus the bobbing. Ditto extended one pseudopod up to tap the girl called Sefie's shoulder. "Dit dit?"
Sefie spared a glance at Ditto after jumping over a rather large root. "Wait, wait," Sefie held her hand above ditto's head, well, what she thought was ditto's head anyway. "Translate."
Ditto tapped Sefie's shoulder again. "You know you could stop running. I think we're pretty far now."
"Ya think?"
"Yeah." Sefie screeched to a halt, yanking Travis back as well. He had been holding onto her wrist.
"Yo what's the deal?" exclaimed Travis.
"We think we're far enough." Said Sefie. Travis cupped his hand around his mouth and yelled. Cody, Max and Jinjo backtracked to them.
"What's up?" asked Cody. "Are you hurt?"
"No, just think we're far enough." said Ditto. It bounced out of Sefie's grasp. "If they haven't caught up to us by now, then they won't at all. At least, not for now."
Pidgey swooped down and landed in front of the squishy blue-purple Pokémon "Who are you anyway?"
"Who are you?" mimicked Ditto.
"Pidgey."
"Ditto."
"You're not a Pidgey."
"I know. I'm Ditto."
"But you're not a Pidgey. So what are you?"
"Ditto!"
"Stop copying me!" squawked Pidgey. Feathers flew everywhere.
Ditto sweat dropped. Ribmon gave Pidgey a smack to the head. "Duh! Where have you been, Pops? She's a Ditto! Haven't you heard of them before? I mean, didn't you travel with your trainer?" Pidgey muttered something about not having a trainer. Ribmon shrugged. "Well I didn't have one either and I knew about 'em."
"Zip it, Chicken," hissed Pidgey.
"Break it up guys," said Jinjo, stepping between them.
"I had a trainer," said Ditto thoughtfully. "He never took me out of the Pokémon Denter though. He won me at the slots and that was the last I saw of him."
"What a bad trainer," said Max with disgust. He made a point for visiting each and every one of his Pokémon at least once or twice a month. He suddenly realized he hadn't been able to do so since he had moved to Odaiba. "Aw…" Max pouted a bit.
"I'd hate to be OT," said Cody. "But what was those things back there?"
"Yeah Max," said Jinjo. "You mentioned something about knowing what they were."
Max snapped out of his misery. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I think they're Missingno. They're these mythical messed up Pokémon seen along the coast of Cinnabar Island…but that doesn't matter."
"Why?" asked Travis.
"Because you don't know where Cinnabar Island is or what it is," said Max. "If you did, you'd know that a lot of weird stuff happens on the east coast of that island."
"Such as…" prompted Jinjo.
"Such as high level Pokémon you wouldn't normally see…"
"I HEARD THAT!" screeched a very loud electronic voice.
Cody unclamped his hands from his ears for a moment. "Ntropy?!"
"Never use that word!" came the reply.
"How long have you been listening?" demanded Max. He had a thing about privacy.
"Long enough to hear that- that- evil word!"
"What evil word?" asked Sefie. "Like-" Travis covered Sefie's mouth with his hand, preventing any examples from coming from her mouth.
"The …" there was a dramatic pause. "~N~ word."
"Normal?" asked Max. A sharp electric jolt from his glove got his attention. It was like getting shocked after taking off a fleece sweater. "Yikes! Hey! You did that didn't you?"
"Heh heh heh."
Max rubbed his hands together. "You have something against the ~N~ word or something."
"Gee, how'd ya guess?"
There was only one psychopath in the world that had something against nor…er, ~N~ word, and he was pretty sure Ntropy wasn't his sister. Alexis was a bit too psycho to be Ntropy the super hacker person, but that didn't mean they didn't know each other. "Do you know my sister? Alexis…er, or Rita?"
There was a pause on the other end. "You could say that."
"Figures." Said Max as he rolling eyes.
"Anywayz…" said Ntropy. "Whatcha been doin'?"
"Running for our lives." Replied Travis. The five Digidestined quickly filled Ntropy in on the messed up monsters.
"Sounds like MissingNo." Said Ntropy thoughtfully.
Max slapped his forehead. "I said that!"
"Look, I think we're getting a bit over our heads in this Pokémon stuph." Said Ntropy. "We're gonna need some Pokémon history."
"I took a Pokémon history class," protested Max.
"Yeah, but do you remember any of it?" countered Ntropy. "You'd better get in touch with Professor Monahan."
"Didn't Max mention her before?" said Jinjo.
A window popped open in front of them. A file containing a picture of Professor Monahan appeared. "She's a Pokémon professor. Just ask Max, she was his advisor."
"Yup," said Max. "She's pretty cool."
"Oh, before you go see her, I kinda found out a bit of stuph." Said Ntropy. "Remember those digipartners the 01 and 02s were talking about?" they nodded. "Well, seeing that you ran into that MissingNo, you're gonna need some permanent ones to help you out. So…you might want to recruit to those kewl little guys that saved your butts today."