Chapter five: rescue mission

Snore, snore.

Tai looked at Ash, who was sleeping soundly in his sleeping bag next to him. The night was quiet. Tai got up and took a short walk around the lake. The white moon looked deathly pale. He found a quiet spot to stare at the moon and sat down.

"Tai?"

Tai looked up. Sora came over and sat down next to him. The two of them watched the moon in silence.

"Can't sleep?" Sora asked.

"Yeah. How about you?" Tai replied.

"Same."

They smiled sadly and Sora looked back over the lake. "You really miss Agumon, I know."

Tai said nothing but nodded. Sora continued, "I promise I'll help you to get Agumon. I'll help you no matter what. Promise!"

Tai looked at Sora. "Really?"

Sora smiled and held out her pinky. "I promise."

Tai stared. Sora looked like an Angel with the moonlight shining on her face. Tai nodded firmly. He reached out and they hooked pinkies. "We will rescue Agumon together!"

Misty rolled over and sat up. She yawned and stretched.

"Hey Misty!" Matt greeted her, winking.

Misty stared.

Matt was surprised. Back in Odaiba, the girls would go crazy if he flirted with them like them. Maybe the girls here were different.

"Good morning." Misty said pointedly. She stood up and started to roll up her sleeping bag, ignoring Matt. Matt frowned and started to do his hair (it was already perfect but if you were Matt then you'd have to do your hair first thing in the morning).

Mimi woke up and went crazy. "Oh my gosh! There are guys awake here! I have gotta do my hair! My nails! Eeeek!" Mimi was doing a dance of frustration, and then she saw Misty looking at her with a funny expression on her face.

"Misty!" T.K was running up to everyone else, panicked.

"What is it, T.K?" Misty asked kindly. (T.K really hit it off with Misty.)

"Tai and Sora are missing!"

"WHAT?"

Everyone woke up soon after that. Ash was absolutely out of it. "Argh! What are we gonna…zzzz…"

"He just hasn't had enough sleep," Misty said knowingly.

Matt thought Tai and Sora had run away together.

Mimi was being dramatic. "What are we gonna do? They must've been abducted!"

Brock took charge. "I think we should see if they left a note. If they have, then we don't need to worry, we should keep going to Professor Oak's."

"What if they haven't?" Mimi wrung her hands.

"Then we should panic." Joe said.

Izzy snorted. "C'mon, we all know how capable Tai is. He's our leader; if he could take care of all of us then Sora and Tai will definitely be okay."

"But they haven't got Agumon with them!" Patamon cried.

"Sora wouldn't leave Biyomon behind, would she?" Izzy challenged.

"No she wouldn't." Joe added.

Max crossed her arms. (He still thought that he was smarter than Izzy.)

"Pikachu!" Pikachu gave Ash a big shock. Just wake up!

The attack sure made Ash a lot more alert. He stopped dozing off and laid down the plan. "Look everyone; if Tai and Sora wanted some privacy or whatever, we all know they'll be okay. I think we should eat something then head to Professor Oak's to find out about our Worlds clashing." Ash said.

Everyone agreed and sat down to eat an early breakfast.

"Misty! Misty!"

Misty turned around to tend to T.K. "Misty! There's a note from Tai and Sora!"

Everyone ran after T.K who led them to Ash's sleeping bag.

At the foot of the sleeping bag was a tiny slip of paper which had had a small message scratched on it:

Everyone, we're on a rescue mission. We'll be okay.

We'll be back. Tai and Sora.

Ash picked up the note and shoved it in his pocket. "Okay, guys. We're off to Professor Oak's."

Tai and Sora waited at the desk in a Pokemon Centre. Nurse Joy had asked them to wait a while before they left. Finally, she came back with her Chansey assistant.

"I think you might need a bit of help getting around. Here, take this!" Nurse Joy handed a map to Tai. "Thankyou, Nurse Joy." They waved to Nurse Joy and left the Pokemon centre.

"Okay, where do we go next?" Sora asked.

Biyomon was sitting on Sora's shoulders. She said, "Please hurry up! I'm worried about Agumon!"

Tai and Sora started to walk towards the next city. "Actually, I don't know how to get Agumon back, Sora. I'm hoping we can find someone who knows about Team Rocket."

"I know about Team Rocket." said a voice behind them. Sora and Tai whirled around. A guy with a smirk on his face and brown hair was standing there. He pulled a poke-ball from his belt and said, "But I challenge you to a pokemon match first!"

Sora didn't know what to say, "Ahhh… we're not from here…" she stammered.

"Still, let's battle!" the guy was determined to battle them, "After all, you have a pokemon." He pointed at Biyomon.

"That's not a pokemon, dude. That's a digimon." Tai told him.

"I don't care. Let's battle!" He threw a pokeball out and an Evee came out. "Quick attack!" He yelled.

Sora was annoyed. "Biyomon, Spiral Twister!"

Biyomon had never been in a battle before, at least not against another person so she was unsure of what to do. Evee came closer and closer with its Quick attack.

"Spiral Twister, Biyomon! Quick!" Sora cried, panicking. Biyomon was confused, but she did what Sora told her to do.

"Spiral Twister!" Biyomon launched its attack towards the unsuspecting Evee. Evee was hurt from the attack and stopped. "That's enough, Evee, return!"

Sora called Biyomon back and rushed up to the trainer. "I'm so sorry! Is your pokemon hurt?"

The trainer gave Sora a wink and said, "You really are new here, aren't you? Don't worry, Pokemon can rest and regain their strength quickly. By the way, what's your name?"

"My name is Sora and this is my friend Tai." Sora said.

"Nice to meet you." Tai smiled.

"I'm Gary." The trainer said.

Tai and Sora stared.

"What's wrong?" Gary asked.

"Uh, do you by any chance know someone called Ash Ketchum?" Tai asked.

"Huh, Ash? That loser? He's my rival, do you know him?"

Sora replied, "He is not a loser. He's our friend when we came to this world from the digital world and we had problems with Team Rocket and…" She stopped suddenly and put a hand over her mouth. "Oops, said too much."

Gary shrugged. "Whatever. So what do you want to know about Team Rocket?"

Misty and T.K talked all the way to Professor Oak's place. Matt was puzzled. Misty was more fond of his little brother than himself. He walked on, frowning to himself. May was clinging on to his arm, chatting all the way, "Oh and did you know that my father is this famous gym leader…"

Izzy and Ash were having a quiet conversation.

Izzy asked worried, "How are we going to contact Tai and Sora if we do find out about Team Rocket or the worlds clashing together?"

Ash didn't know. "We could do a smoke signal."

"But if they saw the smoke signal than they wouldn't know it was from us."

"Yeah, of course! We can get Swello to fly a letter or a note to them. I'm sure that it would work!" Ash cried out.

"But does Swello recognize them?" Izzy pressed on.

"Easy! We just tell him to find a guy with poofy hair and goggles; and a cute girl with a bird-like digimon with him."

Izzy raised his eyebrows. "Did I just hear you call Sora cute?"

Immediately, everyone was listening in to their conversation. Ash turned bright red. "What? Er…"

"I guess you can't really deny it since everyone heard you loud and clear." Mimi said. Brock agreed.

"You did bring me a rare pokemon, didn't you?" Giovanni's deep voice boomed out. Meowth, Jessi and James shuddered. "Yes, sir!" Jessi said, "We bought you an orange-talking-digimon-pokemon."

Giovanni glared at them. "Okay then. Let me hear it talk!"

James revealed the digimon. Agumon was sleeping in a tight wire cage. Giovanni looked at the sleeping digimon. He roared, "I SAID LET ME HEAR IT TALK!"

Meowth wriggled nervously. He poked Agumon. Agumon rolled over, bumping into the side of the cage. "Ouch! That hurt!" it exclaimed.

Giovanni rubbed his hands together gleefully. "So, finally, you three have bought me something rare. I will give you pay rises, but do you know of more of these types of digimon?"

"Yes sir!" Meowth replied quickly, "There are six others. Each one has a special attack and they can evolve whenever they want to."

Giovanni smiled an evil smile. He rose and declared, "I want all of these pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!"

"Yes sir." Team Rocket chorused.

"You will bring me these rare pokemon! Every last one of them! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahaaaa!"

Chapter five end

Author note: Emichii:

So Tai and Sora have their "moment" in this chapter, if you get what I mean. About the meeting Gary incident, I thought it would be different having Gary on their side for a while, hahaha...

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