Digimon Digicross Episode 20
'Love and Sleep Powder!'
==Pokemon World, Celadon City
Officer Jenny looked up and saw Nurse Joy walk out of the Celadon Hospital, concern on her face. "So, how's our mystery patient doing?"
"Well, he's awake now, but there's no sign of his memory returning."
"How long was he like this for? It might help when I go through the missing persons reports. Again." Jenny mock sighed, getting a small smile from Nurse Joy.
"He was found a few weeks ago near Viridian City. At first, we thought he was attacked, but nothing we know could have caused the damage his body suffered." At Jenny's inquiring look, Joy went on. "All of his internal organs suffered some form of damage. It looked like he was exposed to some sort of energy for a long period of time, but there's nothing on file that could do that to a human and not kill him outright. It's a miracle he was alive at all."
Jenny nodded. "And now?"
"He's off life support and recovering, slowly. He has no memories whatsoever, not even a name. There is..."
"Yes?"
"Well, he was being taken through the garden area behind the hospital when an Oddish appeared. Nothing new, there's a small family of grass pokemon nearby. But when the patient saw it, it was like he remembered something, then it faded. Could he have been a pokemon trainer?" Jenny shrugged, prompting Joy to continue. "Anyway, we decided to have a few pokemon brought to his room, to see if anything triggers his memory. I've also contacted a specialist, who should be here in a day or two who might be able to help."
Jenny cocked her head, curious. "I thought all the best psychologists were here already."
"Her specialty's a bit different. I put a call in to Sabrina from Saffron City. She said she and her Abra have had a bit of luck in similar cases, if only to a lesser extent."
Jenny pondered all this. "I guess it's worth a try. Could I have a picture? I have a cousin in Stone Town who might be able to help us with this. She said we should be on the lookout for anything unusual."
==Human World, Newfoundland
Stuart looked at the email message again. "Are you sure about this, Monodramon?"
Monodramon nodded his head. "Sure I'm sure. This has Wizzy's fingerprints all over it. He just gets off on being all mysterious and foreboding sometimes."
"Yeah, but an email message to come to a certain IRC room at a certain time of day, sent just to me? How could he have known I got a digimon? Much less you?"
"Ah, Stuart? Hello? He's a WIZARD, maybe?" Monodramon shook his head. "Relax. Besides, I'm eager to see how he's gotten on here in the real world. Log in already, they're probably waiting."
"All right, all right." Stuart switched on the computer, calling up the appropriate programs when it had finished booting. "Glad dad got that DSL link." he muttered, telling the iMac to run the IRC program. "Really should register that." After a few seconds, the window came up, reporting that Stuart was logged in
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Stuart ran through the names. Nothing looked familiar. "Monodramon, do all these people have Digimon?"
"Maybe. One sec." Monodramon hopped up on Stuart's lap and began typing.
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Hey Wizzy? YOu out there?
"Stupid sticky shift key." Monodramon grumbled
[Set_Kame] {Wizardmon} -.- Yes, Monodramon, I am here.
Lilly-com is ROTFL
[Prima] 'Wizzy'?
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Long story about a short, short 'mon.
[Set_Kame] I BEG your pardon? We are trying to be serious
[BetaVHS] OK guys, let's be serious for a sec. If that's even possible on IRC -.-; Intros, mayhap?
[Gullwhacker] Sure.
[Prima] 'Kayz
[Tek_Geek] I'll start. My name's Izzy, I'm in Japan, and my digimon partner is Tentomon. And I've been at this for some time now. Right, Lilly-com ;-)
[Lilly-com] Everyone: If you don't want to say where/who you are, that's OK. We're just trying to figure out who has a digimon. Oh, I'm Mimi, my partner's Palmon, I was in Japan, but now I'm in New York.
[BetaVHS] Same here :-) Michael, I'm also in New York. My partner's Betamon
Prima gets the joke
[Prima] That's sick, Michael. Just sick. Caryl, in NZ (New Zealand), my partner's Renamon.
[Set_Kame] Seth, Midwest America, my partner's Wizardmon. But you probably guessed that :-)
[Prima] So, why are all the digimon coming here?
[Tek_Geek] Renamon? Never heard of that one.
[Set_Kame] Wizardmon says something bad is gonna happen, and they need all the partners they can find to help. Oh, we're supposed to be 'digidestined'?
BetaVHS nods
[Gullwhacker] [Venkman] I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing..
[Tek_Geek] I'll explain...
Stuart read Izzy's explanation of the Dark Ocean, eyes widening as he did so. "We've got to fight THAT?"
"Ah, don't worry about it." Monodramon gave Stuart a cocky grin. "Izzy and Mimi went to the Digital World a few years ago. I think it allows them to make every little thing all doom and gloom. 'Sides," he went on, "you got me. Anyone comes near, I'll take care of 'em!" Stuart sighed, and turned back to the chat room.
[Prima] Yeah, Renamon's a really cool Digimon. She's really pretty, too.
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Really?
[Set_Kame] {Wizardmon} Rein it in, Monodramon. You're just miffed that you
never got Gatomon's address.
[Lilly-com] {Palmon} Great. A digimon with 'Brock-itis' :-/
[Prima] eish?
[Gullwhacker] ?
[Set_Kame] ?
[Tek_Geek] LONG story. I'll email it to you later, if you want. Shouldn't be a
problem if you stay on this world, though.
[Prima] This world?
[Lilly-com] Another long story. Weird too, come to think of it. If we can ever drag Kyle on here, we'll introduce him. Ryo too, if we can manage it.
[Tek_Geek] Good luck with Kyle ^_^;; Half the time he's here, he's with you know who...And Ryo's joined Matt's band, full time!
[Set_Kame] Matt?
[Lilly-com] Another digidestined.
[Gullwhacker] Mimi? What part of NY are you in? I'm going to be there over the weekend.
[Set_Kame] Lucky. I just moved out of there.
Prima blinks
[Prima] My cousin's a NYer! I'm trying to get her to invite me over there, I hear they have GREAT malls.
Stuart read off the info, nodding. He would be practically next door. "Maybe we should introduce ourselves." he said to Monodramon. The dragon nodded eagerly.
[BetaVHS] Long weekend? Touring NY can be a time eater.
[Gullwhacker] [eg] Nahh...School got water damaged, closed for a week, they have to replace the office, computer lab, about 1/3 of the textbooks there.
[Prima] LUCKY!
[Gullwhacker] Not really. They're taking the time off our christmas vacation
:-( TANSTAAFL.
[BetaVHS] Quite (nods sagely)
[Lilly-com] TANSTAAFL?
[Tek_Geek] There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Didn't know you read Heinlein.
[Gullwhacker] Needed to do a book report. Blew the teacher's mind away, I must say [eg]
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[BetaVHS] Sorry 'bout that. I'm getting sick of these guys.
[Tek_Geek] Don't worry about it. You have no idea what I have to go through...
The chat went on for another hour before everyone had to sign off. Stuart had a quick private chat with Mimi about when and where he would show up in NY, and where they could try to meet. "Looks like we're off to the big apple."
Monodramon gave Stuart a thumbs-up. "Heh. Godzilla's got nothing on me!"
"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that."
==New Zealand
Caryl closed the browser on her computer. "Wow. Digimon are all over the world. I wish we could meet them all."
Beside her, Renamon stared affectionately at Caryl. "If what Wizardmon said is true, you may get your wish. Whatever happens, I will be there."
"Only if I'm there with you!"
Renamon smiled. "Of course."
==Midwest America
Seth watched as the other chatters signed off. "Well, that did a lot."
"More than you might have expected." Wizardmon replied. "We now know where the other digidestined are. If the Dark Ocean attacks, we may be able to co-ordinate with others like us."
"Makes sense." Seth leaned back in his chair. "'Wizzy'?"
"Don't ask. Please?"
==New York
Mimi leaned back, sighing. "It'll be nice to meet one of the new digidestined. I hope it goes better than the last time I did something like this." Looking again at the computer screen, she saw an icon flashing. "Mail?" Clicking on it, Mimi opened the message, and read through it. "Matt's coming here? YES!"
"Mimi?" came a voice from outside her room. "Is something wrong?"
"Umm...no mom, everything's just fine!" Mimi quickly went to her door and closed it. "That was close. I wish I knew how I'm going to explain this to them."
==Celadon Hospital, next day
Sabrina, gym leader of Saffron City and psychic pokemon trainer, walked to the front desk. "Is Nurse Joy in?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, the pokemon center is two blocks down that way." the attendant replied.
"I was asked to come here," Sabrina replied evenly, "and was assured that Nurse Joy would be here to meet me."
The attendant was about to reply when Nurse Joy entered the room. "Oh, Sabrina, I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner. Someone brought a sick Grimer in."
"Is that possible?"
Nurse Joy smiled. "It is when they eat a bottle of liquid soap. Anyway, there's a person who had a major memory loss, and I was wondering if you could help."
Sabrina frowned. "Popular myth to the contrary, it's not easy entering into another person's mind. Wouldn't a psychologist be better than me? Most people are uneasy around psychic trainers as it is."
"I tried, but no one's had any luck. The man's a complete mystery; he doesn't exist anywhere. Not even Officer Jenny could turn up anything. It's as if he just appeared on our doorstep."
"Well," Sabrina replied, "I can try, but it will take some time. And I must warn you, I may wind up doing more harm than good." Nurse Joy nodded, and led the gym leader to the patient in question.
'Gaunt' was the first thing that came to Sabrina's mind when she saw him. Dark hair, slightly unkempt topped a face that looked...not right, to Sabrina's mind. She could feel something dark surrounding him. No, had surrounded him was more accurate. Sadness and obsession, too. Her eyes narrowed. "Do you know who I am?" she asked the patient. He shook his head. "I am Sabrina, a psychic pokemon trainer. Nurse Joy asked me to come in and try to help you regain your memories."
"Will...will I know who I am again?" He sounded scared, Sabrina noted. Not that she could blame him.
"Maybe. I have to warn you now, what I am about to attempt is not safe, nor is there a guarantee that I will be able to find anything." The patient nodded.
"What I need you do do, then, is relax. This will take some time, and the fewer barriers I have to fight through, the better." Sabrina raised a hand before the patient could object. "I know, you won't willingly stop me. But the mind is a very tricky place to navigate, and there is often an unconcious reflex to block out intruders."
"I understand. Thank you." The patient leaned back, relaxing as much as he could. Closing her eyes, Sabrina went to work.
==New York
Stuart wandered around, recalling the address he was supposed to meet Mimi and Michael at. In a somewhat oversized backpack, Monodramon waited, ocassionally looking out through the top (and giving Stuart a heart attack every time). "Now where is that place..." he wondered turning a corner-
Stuart blinked. Girl, about his age, long, slender legs, white miniskirt, blue and pink striped shortsleeved shirt, pink hair with stars in it (odd, but he could get used to it), beautiful laugh-
Both arms around another boy. Not a relative either. "Nuts." Stuart breathed, hoping no one caught him staring. In the backpack, Monodramon started struggling to get out. "Hey, what's up? You want to get spotted?"
"There's a digimon nearby." Catching Stuart's incredulous gaze (Monodramon had his head out of the backpack by this point), he added, "Hey, would this nose lie?" With a brief struggle, he wormed out of the pack and took off.
"Wait up!" Stuart almost shouted, not noticing he was headed for the couple he had noticed earlier. "Monodramon!" He ran past the couple, who had heard Stuart call the digimon's name. He skidded to stop at an alley, nearly falling over in the process, spotting his digimon. "Are you insane? What if-?" Stuart trailed off. Monodramon was talking...to a walking head of lettuce?
"So, you new in town?" Monodramon said to Palmon, trying his best to be charming. Stuart grabbing the dragon by the ear and dragging him back broke the effect. "Stuart! Come on, you're cramping my style!"
"Your style's going to get us in trouble!"
Monodramon squirmed out of his grip. "What? I can't escort a cute Rookie digimon home?" He moved back towards Palmon. "Don't mind him, he's just jet lagged." As he spoke, a pair of green vines reached out and grabbed Monodramon, lifting him up. "Ulp." was all the dragon had to say.
==Celadon Hospital
Sabrina tried to relax. The first session she had with the patient had gone on for several hours. Only the physical needs of both of them had forced the two to stop. While the patient ate and rested, Sabrina went over what she found with Nurse Joy.
"It's weird. The ability to actually erase memories is almost impossible; most human psychics lack the power to do so, even for a few minutes of recall. And even then, it requires a willing subject. As far as I know, such an ability has never appeared in any pokemon that I've encountered. Certainly not to the extent that would be needed for this."
"What did you find?"
"Very little. There was something in there, something very dark and powerful. It took almost everything from him, I'm sure of it."
"Took it? You said..."
Sabrina nodded. "I know what I said. And I am sure of what I sensed. Someone or something did this to him. There was something, a name, but I don't think it was his. 'Hiroki', that was it. There were creatures too, They looked like pokemon, but they weren't. I don't know if I can describe it."
==New York
After Matt had convinced Ivysaur to put Monodramon down, he and Mimi introduced themselves to Stuart.
"I'm really sorry about that. I don't know why Monodramon acts like..."
"A kid?" Matt asked. "It's nothing new. You should see Veemon sometime."
Monodramon was staring at Ivysaur. "Hey, you're one of those pokemon I heard about, aren't you?" Ivysaur nodded, still standing between Monodramon and Palmon.
"Pokemon?"
"They're a bit like Digimon," Mimi answered, "but they can't digivolve, and they're biological, not data. At least, that's how Izzy explained it. Kyle or Ryo could explain it better."
Stuart looked at Matt. "So Ivysaur's not your partner?"
"Nahh. Mine's Gabumon. I'm just watching Ivysaur while he's visiting Palmon."
"Well, I can't blame him," Monodramon said, "though I'd love to show Palmon around Stuart's place some time." Ivysaur's eyes narrowed. "Easy froggy, I'm not trying to move in or anything."
"Uh-oh." Palmon groaned.
Stuart blinked. "According to Palmon," Mimi said, "'froggy' is an insult to most Ivysaurs. A deadly one."
"Maybe we should take this to the digital world." Matt suggested. "I don't think I want to explain a monster battle in downtown New York."
"Are they fighting over me?" Palmon asked. Mimi and Stuart looked at the two monsters, and nodded. "That's so...romantic!"
"Matt?"
"This is a new one by me, Stuart."
==Digital World
Digimon and pokemon stared each other down. Stuart walked over to Monodramon, still uneasy about the whole thing. "Are you sure about this?"
"Hey, I'm not trying to horn in or anything." Monodramon replied.
"That's why you're fighting Ivysaur? This whole thing is stupid. It's so...so..." Stuart stammered, trying to find the words to use.
"Boy?" Mimi suggested. Beside her, Palmon giggled.
"I don't think there's any way out of this." Matt said. "I'm gonna hate explaining this to Kyle. Just promise you won't beat each other up too much?"
Monodramon faced Palmon, all smiles. "Relax! I'm Monodramon, Dragon digimon extrordinaire! I may be a rookie, but my Beat Knuckle and Cracking Bite can bring any opponent down. No offense, Ivysaur, but you haven't got a prayer against me in a fight. Right, Stuart?"
"Don't look at me. I'm staying out of this one." Stuart's comment took a bit of the wind out of Monodramon's sails.
"Hmph. Well, anyway, I shall triumph. Hey, Palmon! If I win, can we go out?"
Palmon made a show of thinking about it. "I don't know. Ivysaur's pretty cute...OK, sure!" She saw Matt look at her, eyes wide. "What? You took June out for dinner once!" As Mimi went over to discuss the point with Matt, Palmon walked between the two monsters. "Start any time!"
Monodramon, eyes closed, stretched, getting ready for the battle. "OK, look, I'm sorry about the whole 'froggy' thing, I didn't know. But I gotta warn you, we dragon digimon don't lose that often. So why don't we-"
"Saur. Ivy, Ivysaur." While Monodramon was speaking, Ivysaur walked up to the digimon. As Monodramon leaned forward, Ivysaur shot a cloud of Sleep Powder in his face.
"Hey, no fa-" was as far as Monodramon got before he keeled over, fast asleep.
Stuart ran over to his partner, picking him up. "What happened?"
"Saur, Ivy Ivysaur Ivy."
Stuart blinked, not understanding. "He just used Sleep Powder on Monodramon. He'll be up in a few minutes." Palmon translated.
"That was a letdown." Mimi said. Matt nodded.
"It's a fair tactic." Palmon replied, standing by Ivysaur. "And Ivysaur knows I'd be really mad at him if he hurt Monodramon any. Right?" Ivysaur nodded, blushing as he did.
==Pokemon World, Celadon Hospital
Sabrina leaned against the wall, just outside the patient's door, looking less than pleased.
Nurse Joy, who had been checking on the patient's progress, walked up to the gym leader. "Well? Anything?"
"Beyond what I told you already? I'm afraid not. There is something dark and evil that did this to him, and it couvered its tracks pretty well. I am fairly sure it was not a pokemon, though. Nor was it human."
"What else could it be?" Joy asked, worried.
"I do not know. Although..." Sabrina looked in the room. The patient was asleep. "Not too long ago, there was a report of a monster in the Johto area that did not resemble any known pokemon. Before that, another one was sighted at Mount Moon. There may be a connection. And there is..." Sabrina stopped, looking up at the ceiling.
"What is it?"
"Something's wrong. I sense..." The gym leader looked up again, trying to identify what made her psychic senses scream such a warning to her. "I do not know. But I am sure he is connected. Please be sure to keep him safe. Whoever did this to him may come back to finish the job."
==Digital World
After about five minutes, Monodramon came to. "Oy. Hey, Stuart, I just had the wackiest..." he stopped, looked around. "Did I just get completely humiliated?" Everyone there nodded. "Gah."
Stuart checked his watch. "I'd better be getting back. Come on, Monodramon, we'd better head home." Monodramon sighed, and headed over to Stuart.
Palmon walked up. "Monodramon? I could be free next week. Primary Village OK?"
"You...you mean that?"
Palmon nodded. "I don't think Ivysaur would mind. But only if you two become friends, alright?" Ivysaur, standing beside her, extended one of his vine whips. Smiling, Monodramon shook it.
==5 minutes later
"It was great meeting you all!" Stuart waved, heading back to the portal.
"What are you talking about? You've only just gotten here. There's so much of New York to show you!" Grabbing Stuart's arm, Mimi led him back to the portal.
"Hey, wait up!" Matt called, running after them.
After the humans and Monodramon left, Palmon looked at Ivysaur. "Is it really OK? I'm not dumping you or anything."
"Saur." Ivysaur nodded, then closed his eyes. "Ivyyy...SAUR!" With a shout, Ivysaur fired all four of his vine whips into the ground. Concentrating, Ivysaur sent his energy into the ground. Around the two, small flowers began to bloom.
Palmon was unable to speak for a moment, stunned by what Ivysaur had done. Then, "Ivysaur, this is...beautiful...Ivysaur?"
The pokemon was asleep; this stunt had drained all his energy. Smiling, Palmon kissed the pokemon on the forehead, and sat down, leaning on Ivysaur's side, resting in the shade of the bloom on his back. Afer a while, she nodded off, and the two slept in a field of flowers.
Next Episode:
While visiting the pokemon world, TK and Davis meet Crystal, who is on the run from Team Rocket. Why is the gang of thugs chasing her, and who is the girl that is with her? New faces are introduced, and an old enemy returns in the next episode:
'Tenkuu no Espeon'
'Love and Sleep Powder!'
==Pokemon World, Celadon City
Officer Jenny looked up and saw Nurse Joy walk out of the Celadon Hospital, concern on her face. "So, how's our mystery patient doing?"
"Well, he's awake now, but there's no sign of his memory returning."
"How long was he like this for? It might help when I go through the missing persons reports. Again." Jenny mock sighed, getting a small smile from Nurse Joy.
"He was found a few weeks ago near Viridian City. At first, we thought he was attacked, but nothing we know could have caused the damage his body suffered." At Jenny's inquiring look, Joy went on. "All of his internal organs suffered some form of damage. It looked like he was exposed to some sort of energy for a long period of time, but there's nothing on file that could do that to a human and not kill him outright. It's a miracle he was alive at all."
Jenny nodded. "And now?"
"He's off life support and recovering, slowly. He has no memories whatsoever, not even a name. There is..."
"Yes?"
"Well, he was being taken through the garden area behind the hospital when an Oddish appeared. Nothing new, there's a small family of grass pokemon nearby. But when the patient saw it, it was like he remembered something, then it faded. Could he have been a pokemon trainer?" Jenny shrugged, prompting Joy to continue. "Anyway, we decided to have a few pokemon brought to his room, to see if anything triggers his memory. I've also contacted a specialist, who should be here in a day or two who might be able to help."
Jenny cocked her head, curious. "I thought all the best psychologists were here already."
"Her specialty's a bit different. I put a call in to Sabrina from Saffron City. She said she and her Abra have had a bit of luck in similar cases, if only to a lesser extent."
Jenny pondered all this. "I guess it's worth a try. Could I have a picture? I have a cousin in Stone Town who might be able to help us with this. She said we should be on the lookout for anything unusual."
==Human World, Newfoundland
Stuart looked at the email message again. "Are you sure about this, Monodramon?"
Monodramon nodded his head. "Sure I'm sure. This has Wizzy's fingerprints all over it. He just gets off on being all mysterious and foreboding sometimes."
"Yeah, but an email message to come to a certain IRC room at a certain time of day, sent just to me? How could he have known I got a digimon? Much less you?"
"Ah, Stuart? Hello? He's a WIZARD, maybe?" Monodramon shook his head. "Relax. Besides, I'm eager to see how he's gotten on here in the real world. Log in already, they're probably waiting."
"All right, all right." Stuart switched on the computer, calling up the appropriate programs when it had finished booting. "Glad dad got that DSL link." he muttered, telling the iMac to run the IRC program. "Really should register that." After a few seconds, the window came up, reporting that Stuart was logged in
*** Welcome to irc.nyNET.com Channel #monster_tamers
*** logged in as Gullwhacker
*** Topic: 'So a monster came through your computer Screen: for dummies! :-)'
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Stuart ran through the names. Nothing looked familiar. "Monodramon, do all these people have Digimon?"
"Maybe. One sec." Monodramon hopped up on Stuart's lap and began typing.
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Hey Wizzy? YOu out there?
"Stupid sticky shift key." Monodramon grumbled
[Set_Kame] {Wizardmon} -.- Yes, Monodramon, I am here.
Lilly-com is ROTFL
[Prima] 'Wizzy'?
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Long story about a short, short 'mon.
[Set_Kame] I BEG your pardon? We are trying to be serious
[BetaVHS] OK guys, let's be serious for a sec. If that's even possible on IRC -.-; Intros, mayhap?
[Gullwhacker] Sure.
[Prima] 'Kayz
[Tek_Geek] I'll start. My name's Izzy, I'm in Japan, and my digimon partner is Tentomon. And I've been at this for some time now. Right, Lilly-com ;-)
[Lilly-com] Everyone: If you don't want to say where/who you are, that's OK. We're just trying to figure out who has a digimon. Oh, I'm Mimi, my partner's Palmon, I was in Japan, but now I'm in New York.
[BetaVHS] Same here :-) Michael, I'm also in New York. My partner's Betamon
Prima gets the joke
[Prima] That's sick, Michael. Just sick. Caryl, in NZ (New Zealand), my partner's Renamon.
[Set_Kame] Seth, Midwest America, my partner's Wizardmon. But you probably guessed that :-)
[Prima] So, why are all the digimon coming here?
[Tek_Geek] Renamon? Never heard of that one.
[Set_Kame] Wizardmon says something bad is gonna happen, and they need all the partners they can find to help. Oh, we're supposed to be 'digidestined'?
BetaVHS nods
[Gullwhacker] [Venkman] I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing..
[Tek_Geek] I'll explain...
Stuart read Izzy's explanation of the Dark Ocean, eyes widening as he did so. "We've got to fight THAT?"
"Ah, don't worry about it." Monodramon gave Stuart a cocky grin. "Izzy and Mimi went to the Digital World a few years ago. I think it allows them to make every little thing all doom and gloom. 'Sides," he went on, "you got me. Anyone comes near, I'll take care of 'em!" Stuart sighed, and turned back to the chat room.
[Prima] Yeah, Renamon's a really cool Digimon. She's really pretty, too.
[Gullwhacker] {Monodramon} Really?
[Set_Kame] {Wizardmon} Rein it in, Monodramon. You're just miffed that you
never got Gatomon's address.
[Lilly-com] {Palmon} Great. A digimon with 'Brock-itis' :-/
[Prima] eish?
[Gullwhacker] ?
[Set_Kame] ?
[Tek_Geek] LONG story. I'll email it to you later, if you want. Shouldn't be a
problem if you stay on this world, though.
[Prima] This world?
[Lilly-com] Another long story. Weird too, come to think of it. If we can ever drag Kyle on here, we'll introduce him. Ryo too, if we can manage it.
[Tek_Geek] Good luck with Kyle ^_^;; Half the time he's here, he's with you know who...And Ryo's joined Matt's band, full time!
[Set_Kame] Matt?
[Lilly-com] Another digidestined.
[Gullwhacker] Mimi? What part of NY are you in? I'm going to be there over the weekend.
[Set_Kame] Lucky. I just moved out of there.
Prima blinks
[Prima] My cousin's a NYer! I'm trying to get her to invite me over there, I hear they have GREAT malls.
Stuart read off the info, nodding. He would be practically next door. "Maybe we should introduce ourselves." he said to Monodramon. The dragon nodded eagerly.
[BetaVHS] Long weekend? Touring NY can be a time eater.
[Gullwhacker] [eg] Nahh...School got water damaged, closed for a week, they have to replace the office, computer lab, about 1/3 of the textbooks there.
[Prima] LUCKY!
[Gullwhacker] Not really. They're taking the time off our christmas vacation
:-( TANSTAAFL.
[BetaVHS] Quite (nods sagely)
[Lilly-com] TANSTAAFL?
[Tek_Geek] There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Didn't know you read Heinlein.
[Gullwhacker] Needed to do a book report. Blew the teacher's mind away, I must say [eg]
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[BetaVHS] Sorry 'bout that. I'm getting sick of these guys.
[Tek_Geek] Don't worry about it. You have no idea what I have to go through...
The chat went on for another hour before everyone had to sign off. Stuart had a quick private chat with Mimi about when and where he would show up in NY, and where they could try to meet. "Looks like we're off to the big apple."
Monodramon gave Stuart a thumbs-up. "Heh. Godzilla's got nothing on me!"
"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that."
==New Zealand
Caryl closed the browser on her computer. "Wow. Digimon are all over the world. I wish we could meet them all."
Beside her, Renamon stared affectionately at Caryl. "If what Wizardmon said is true, you may get your wish. Whatever happens, I will be there."
"Only if I'm there with you!"
Renamon smiled. "Of course."
==Midwest America
Seth watched as the other chatters signed off. "Well, that did a lot."
"More than you might have expected." Wizardmon replied. "We now know where the other digidestined are. If the Dark Ocean attacks, we may be able to co-ordinate with others like us."
"Makes sense." Seth leaned back in his chair. "'Wizzy'?"
"Don't ask. Please?"
==New York
Mimi leaned back, sighing. "It'll be nice to meet one of the new digidestined. I hope it goes better than the last time I did something like this." Looking again at the computer screen, she saw an icon flashing. "Mail?" Clicking on it, Mimi opened the message, and read through it. "Matt's coming here? YES!"
"Mimi?" came a voice from outside her room. "Is something wrong?"
"Umm...no mom, everything's just fine!" Mimi quickly went to her door and closed it. "That was close. I wish I knew how I'm going to explain this to them."
==Celadon Hospital, next day
Sabrina, gym leader of Saffron City and psychic pokemon trainer, walked to the front desk. "Is Nurse Joy in?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, the pokemon center is two blocks down that way." the attendant replied.
"I was asked to come here," Sabrina replied evenly, "and was assured that Nurse Joy would be here to meet me."
The attendant was about to reply when Nurse Joy entered the room. "Oh, Sabrina, I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner. Someone brought a sick Grimer in."
"Is that possible?"
Nurse Joy smiled. "It is when they eat a bottle of liquid soap. Anyway, there's a person who had a major memory loss, and I was wondering if you could help."
Sabrina frowned. "Popular myth to the contrary, it's not easy entering into another person's mind. Wouldn't a psychologist be better than me? Most people are uneasy around psychic trainers as it is."
"I tried, but no one's had any luck. The man's a complete mystery; he doesn't exist anywhere. Not even Officer Jenny could turn up anything. It's as if he just appeared on our doorstep."
"Well," Sabrina replied, "I can try, but it will take some time. And I must warn you, I may wind up doing more harm than good." Nurse Joy nodded, and led the gym leader to the patient in question.
'Gaunt' was the first thing that came to Sabrina's mind when she saw him. Dark hair, slightly unkempt topped a face that looked...not right, to Sabrina's mind. She could feel something dark surrounding him. No, had surrounded him was more accurate. Sadness and obsession, too. Her eyes narrowed. "Do you know who I am?" she asked the patient. He shook his head. "I am Sabrina, a psychic pokemon trainer. Nurse Joy asked me to come in and try to help you regain your memories."
"Will...will I know who I am again?" He sounded scared, Sabrina noted. Not that she could blame him.
"Maybe. I have to warn you now, what I am about to attempt is not safe, nor is there a guarantee that I will be able to find anything." The patient nodded.
"What I need you do do, then, is relax. This will take some time, and the fewer barriers I have to fight through, the better." Sabrina raised a hand before the patient could object. "I know, you won't willingly stop me. But the mind is a very tricky place to navigate, and there is often an unconcious reflex to block out intruders."
"I understand. Thank you." The patient leaned back, relaxing as much as he could. Closing her eyes, Sabrina went to work.
==New York
Stuart wandered around, recalling the address he was supposed to meet Mimi and Michael at. In a somewhat oversized backpack, Monodramon waited, ocassionally looking out through the top (and giving Stuart a heart attack every time). "Now where is that place..." he wondered turning a corner-
Stuart blinked. Girl, about his age, long, slender legs, white miniskirt, blue and pink striped shortsleeved shirt, pink hair with stars in it (odd, but he could get used to it), beautiful laugh-
Both arms around another boy. Not a relative either. "Nuts." Stuart breathed, hoping no one caught him staring. In the backpack, Monodramon started struggling to get out. "Hey, what's up? You want to get spotted?"
"There's a digimon nearby." Catching Stuart's incredulous gaze (Monodramon had his head out of the backpack by this point), he added, "Hey, would this nose lie?" With a brief struggle, he wormed out of the pack and took off.
"Wait up!" Stuart almost shouted, not noticing he was headed for the couple he had noticed earlier. "Monodramon!" He ran past the couple, who had heard Stuart call the digimon's name. He skidded to stop at an alley, nearly falling over in the process, spotting his digimon. "Are you insane? What if-?" Stuart trailed off. Monodramon was talking...to a walking head of lettuce?
"So, you new in town?" Monodramon said to Palmon, trying his best to be charming. Stuart grabbing the dragon by the ear and dragging him back broke the effect. "Stuart! Come on, you're cramping my style!"
"Your style's going to get us in trouble!"
Monodramon squirmed out of his grip. "What? I can't escort a cute Rookie digimon home?" He moved back towards Palmon. "Don't mind him, he's just jet lagged." As he spoke, a pair of green vines reached out and grabbed Monodramon, lifting him up. "Ulp." was all the dragon had to say.
==Celadon Hospital
Sabrina tried to relax. The first session she had with the patient had gone on for several hours. Only the physical needs of both of them had forced the two to stop. While the patient ate and rested, Sabrina went over what she found with Nurse Joy.
"It's weird. The ability to actually erase memories is almost impossible; most human psychics lack the power to do so, even for a few minutes of recall. And even then, it requires a willing subject. As far as I know, such an ability has never appeared in any pokemon that I've encountered. Certainly not to the extent that would be needed for this."
"What did you find?"
"Very little. There was something in there, something very dark and powerful. It took almost everything from him, I'm sure of it."
"Took it? You said..."
Sabrina nodded. "I know what I said. And I am sure of what I sensed. Someone or something did this to him. There was something, a name, but I don't think it was his. 'Hiroki', that was it. There were creatures too, They looked like pokemon, but they weren't. I don't know if I can describe it."
==New York
After Matt had convinced Ivysaur to put Monodramon down, he and Mimi introduced themselves to Stuart.
"I'm really sorry about that. I don't know why Monodramon acts like..."
"A kid?" Matt asked. "It's nothing new. You should see Veemon sometime."
Monodramon was staring at Ivysaur. "Hey, you're one of those pokemon I heard about, aren't you?" Ivysaur nodded, still standing between Monodramon and Palmon.
"Pokemon?"
"They're a bit like Digimon," Mimi answered, "but they can't digivolve, and they're biological, not data. At least, that's how Izzy explained it. Kyle or Ryo could explain it better."
Stuart looked at Matt. "So Ivysaur's not your partner?"
"Nahh. Mine's Gabumon. I'm just watching Ivysaur while he's visiting Palmon."
"Well, I can't blame him," Monodramon said, "though I'd love to show Palmon around Stuart's place some time." Ivysaur's eyes narrowed. "Easy froggy, I'm not trying to move in or anything."
"Uh-oh." Palmon groaned.
Stuart blinked. "According to Palmon," Mimi said, "'froggy' is an insult to most Ivysaurs. A deadly one."
"Maybe we should take this to the digital world." Matt suggested. "I don't think I want to explain a monster battle in downtown New York."
"Are they fighting over me?" Palmon asked. Mimi and Stuart looked at the two monsters, and nodded. "That's so...romantic!"
"Matt?"
"This is a new one by me, Stuart."
==Digital World
Digimon and pokemon stared each other down. Stuart walked over to Monodramon, still uneasy about the whole thing. "Are you sure about this?"
"Hey, I'm not trying to horn in or anything." Monodramon replied.
"That's why you're fighting Ivysaur? This whole thing is stupid. It's so...so..." Stuart stammered, trying to find the words to use.
"Boy?" Mimi suggested. Beside her, Palmon giggled.
"I don't think there's any way out of this." Matt said. "I'm gonna hate explaining this to Kyle. Just promise you won't beat each other up too much?"
Monodramon faced Palmon, all smiles. "Relax! I'm Monodramon, Dragon digimon extrordinaire! I may be a rookie, but my Beat Knuckle and Cracking Bite can bring any opponent down. No offense, Ivysaur, but you haven't got a prayer against me in a fight. Right, Stuart?"
"Don't look at me. I'm staying out of this one." Stuart's comment took a bit of the wind out of Monodramon's sails.
"Hmph. Well, anyway, I shall triumph. Hey, Palmon! If I win, can we go out?"
Palmon made a show of thinking about it. "I don't know. Ivysaur's pretty cute...OK, sure!" She saw Matt look at her, eyes wide. "What? You took June out for dinner once!" As Mimi went over to discuss the point with Matt, Palmon walked between the two monsters. "Start any time!"
Monodramon, eyes closed, stretched, getting ready for the battle. "OK, look, I'm sorry about the whole 'froggy' thing, I didn't know. But I gotta warn you, we dragon digimon don't lose that often. So why don't we-"
"Saur. Ivy, Ivysaur." While Monodramon was speaking, Ivysaur walked up to the digimon. As Monodramon leaned forward, Ivysaur shot a cloud of Sleep Powder in his face.
"Hey, no fa-" was as far as Monodramon got before he keeled over, fast asleep.
Stuart ran over to his partner, picking him up. "What happened?"
"Saur, Ivy Ivysaur Ivy."
Stuart blinked, not understanding. "He just used Sleep Powder on Monodramon. He'll be up in a few minutes." Palmon translated.
"That was a letdown." Mimi said. Matt nodded.
"It's a fair tactic." Palmon replied, standing by Ivysaur. "And Ivysaur knows I'd be really mad at him if he hurt Monodramon any. Right?" Ivysaur nodded, blushing as he did.
==Pokemon World, Celadon Hospital
Sabrina leaned against the wall, just outside the patient's door, looking less than pleased.
Nurse Joy, who had been checking on the patient's progress, walked up to the gym leader. "Well? Anything?"
"Beyond what I told you already? I'm afraid not. There is something dark and evil that did this to him, and it couvered its tracks pretty well. I am fairly sure it was not a pokemon, though. Nor was it human."
"What else could it be?" Joy asked, worried.
"I do not know. Although..." Sabrina looked in the room. The patient was asleep. "Not too long ago, there was a report of a monster in the Johto area that did not resemble any known pokemon. Before that, another one was sighted at Mount Moon. There may be a connection. And there is..." Sabrina stopped, looking up at the ceiling.
"What is it?"
"Something's wrong. I sense..." The gym leader looked up again, trying to identify what made her psychic senses scream such a warning to her. "I do not know. But I am sure he is connected. Please be sure to keep him safe. Whoever did this to him may come back to finish the job."
==Digital World
After about five minutes, Monodramon came to. "Oy. Hey, Stuart, I just had the wackiest..." he stopped, looked around. "Did I just get completely humiliated?" Everyone there nodded. "Gah."
Stuart checked his watch. "I'd better be getting back. Come on, Monodramon, we'd better head home." Monodramon sighed, and headed over to Stuart.
Palmon walked up. "Monodramon? I could be free next week. Primary Village OK?"
"You...you mean that?"
Palmon nodded. "I don't think Ivysaur would mind. But only if you two become friends, alright?" Ivysaur, standing beside her, extended one of his vine whips. Smiling, Monodramon shook it.
==5 minutes later
"It was great meeting you all!" Stuart waved, heading back to the portal.
"What are you talking about? You've only just gotten here. There's so much of New York to show you!" Grabbing Stuart's arm, Mimi led him back to the portal.
"Hey, wait up!" Matt called, running after them.
After the humans and Monodramon left, Palmon looked at Ivysaur. "Is it really OK? I'm not dumping you or anything."
"Saur." Ivysaur nodded, then closed his eyes. "Ivyyy...SAUR!" With a shout, Ivysaur fired all four of his vine whips into the ground. Concentrating, Ivysaur sent his energy into the ground. Around the two, small flowers began to bloom.
Palmon was unable to speak for a moment, stunned by what Ivysaur had done. Then, "Ivysaur, this is...beautiful...Ivysaur?"
The pokemon was asleep; this stunt had drained all his energy. Smiling, Palmon kissed the pokemon on the forehead, and sat down, leaning on Ivysaur's side, resting in the shade of the bloom on his back. Afer a while, she nodded off, and the two slept in a field of flowers.
Next Episode:
While visiting the pokemon world, TK and Davis meet Crystal, who is on the run from Team Rocket. Why is the gang of thugs chasing her, and who is the girl that is with her? New faces are introduced, and an old enemy returns in the next episode:
'Tenkuu no Espeon'