Chapter Eight: Okay so there really was a Poke-Digi World!
Ash and his friends sat on a fallen tree log, groaning.
"When are they gonna reply?" Misty asked.
"I dunno," Ash moaned. "But if they don't, how are supposed to find a way back?"
Joe pushed his glasses up his nose. "Um, I'm afraid we have another problem."
Ash replied, "If it's another hole, then just tell Max not to poke his-"
"Ash!" Misty interrupted. "It's raining!"
"Pikachu Pi!" I'm getting drenched!
Misty picked up her Togepi, which had been playing with Pikachu and called out to everyone else, "Hey, we've gotta find somewhere dry!"
The rain started to build up into a fierce storm. The wind howled and the rain and wind felt like ice. It was freezing.
Izzy started to sneeze. Max said, "Look over there!"
Everyone looked to the left. They could just make out a small cave across the sand. It was hard to see because of all the rain and wind.
Izzy was sneezing non-stop now. "My Laptop! Achoo!" He cried, protecting his precious machine from the draught.
Gabumon said, "What are we waiting for? We gotta get to that shelter over there!"
They got up and started to run across, struggling with the fierceness of the wind and the rain. Matt was getting there, more successfully than others, since he had the extra weight of May to steady him.
"Argh!" Misty tripped over a tree root, cutting herself on the leg.
"MISTY!" Ash yelled. He tried to help her up but to no avail.
Most of the Digimon and Matt and May were in shelter now, they were shouting to the others that were still struggling.
Mimi was screaming, "Eeeek! MY HAIR! IT'S GETTING RUINED! AH!"
Brock ran up to her, picked her up like a groom carrying his bride, and ran her to the shelter.
Izzy felt weak, he was so very cold and he couldn't stop sneezing. Even though, they had argued so much, Max had to help him. He put and arm around the suffering Izzy and helped him to get to the shelter.
"Is everyone here?" Matt cried.
"It's Ash and Misty! They're still out there!" Max cried.
"I can't see them!" Brock said. "It's too fuzzy with all the rain!"
Misty was injured worse than she had first thought. Blood ran gushing onto the ground and she couldn't feel her legs. "Ash…" she said weakly. She couldn't see anything.
"It's okay! I'm here!" Ash's worried voice replied.
Ash really was trying to figure out a way to bring Misty to shelter. He slid an arm under her knees and the other around her back.
"Hold onto me, Misty!" He said, hoarsely.
Misty couldn't say anything, her throat was frozen. She just did as he told her too. Struggling, Ash began to pick her up.
Misty felt herself being lifted. She clung onto Ash's arm tight and repeated comforting words to herself in her mind: We're gonna be alright, we're gonna be alright, we're gonna be alright…
She felt so weak and her body ached. She couldn't stand the dreariness and the pain. She felt her eyelids dropping, though she tried to keep them open. Misty passed out. The last words she heard were Ash's anguished voice: "MISTY!"
"Marshtomp! Surf!" Gary shouted.
The Team Rocket officer's Mightyena fainted. The Team Rocket officer ran off, shouting, "You won't get past! There are others stronger than me to come!"
Sora said, "Well, that takes care of him. Where were we?"
Tai scribbled on the paper furiously. "We have to get this back to Ash. Then they'll know that we're okay."
On the back of the note Ash had written on, Tai scribbled:
Everybody: We're all okay here. And we're
on our way to rescuing Agumon. Please keep
in touch! T.K is with us so don't worry
about him. Tai.
Tai folded up the note and handed it to Swello, who took it into its beak and flew off. They watched the pokemon fly away. Sora said, "Now where do we go?"
The maze-thingy-corridor now went off in two different directions. They stared.
"Should we split up?" Gary asked.
"I'm with T.K!" Patamon said at once.
"Yeah!" T.K cried.
Tai looked worried. "Maybe you should stick with Gary. He has his pokemon and you will be safer with him."
"Fine." sighed T.K.
Sora smiled at Palmon. "We'll need your help Palmon; you can come with Tai and me."
So they split up and went in different directions.
Misty rolled over and sighed, opening her eyes. As her eyes adjusted to the light, she could see that the rain had stopped and that she was lying down on a pile of leaves. Ash let out a breath, relieved. "I almost thought you were dead, then, Misty." He looked at Misty's confused face and added, "Sorry, we couldn't find you a bed or something. A pile of leaves is no way to treat an injured girl."
"That's okay." Misty smiled wanly at Ash.
"Oh that is just too cool!" squealed the familiar voice of Mimi.
Ash and Misty jerked up.
Ash helped Misty up and they started to head in the direction of Mimi's voice. Misty saw that her wound had been cleaned and bandaged in May's bandana.
"Look at what Brock and I found!" squealed Mimi.
"Eh?" Max wondered as he stared at the writings on the wall of the cave.
"It's like a prehistoric cave-man drawing!" Joe said.
Izzy gave a more realistic guess. "This is probably a record and drawing of something foretold or something that happened long ago. Unfortunately I can't read it. It's in ancient Egyptian or something."
"Pika pi-kachuuuu…" Pikachu sighed exasperated. Humans are so stupid…The yellow pokemon did a series of funny actions and dance-moves. "Pika-Pikachu!" Why don't you ask me?
"Oh you can understand it!" Ash cried.
"So can I! I can understand everything it says very clearly!" exclaimed Gomamon.
"Yeah! It's very simple really!" Gabumon added.
"I can read it too!" Tentomon said.
Izzy rubbed his chin. "How odd. So both Pokemon and Digimon can read and understand it."
"Very very odd." Max agreed, rubbing his chin, pretending to be smart.
Misty seemed to have recovered and got her temper back. "Just tell us what it says already!" She cried.
Pikachu let the Digimon explain. After all, they were the ones who could speak English.
Gomamon and Gabumon scanned the writings and drawings on the wall. Gabumon opened his mouth and started to speak:
"This is what it says…Once upon a time-"
"I'm way too old for fairy tales!" Matt said coolly.
"Shuddup and listen!" snapped Misty.
Gabumon started again, "Once upon a time Pokemon and Digimon lived together in harmony in the Poke-Digi World. The Pokemon and Digimon understood each other very well and played together. However, the world appeared too small for all the Pokemon and Digimon. So one day, two powerful magicians-one that stood for Pokemon and the other who stood for Digimon, separated the world and expanded the size. They put magical barriers between the different worlds and named them the Pokemon World and the Digital World."
Pikachu pointed at the series of drawings on the wall. The drawings weren't very good; there was a picture of two stick-figure magicians with an axe chopping a planet in half.
Gomamon picked up from where Gabumon had left off. "The Pokemon World and the Digital World remain separate undisturbed worlds now."
"That's all there is." Izzy said.
"Who wrote and drew all this anyway?" Mimi asked.
"Yeah, Pokemon and Digimon can't write and I don't know if they could draw. Besides, all this looks like it was written and drawn by a human." Brock said.
"But there haven't been any other humans in the Digital World until we Digidestined came…right, Tentomon?" Izzy asked.
Tentomon didn't know.
Ash shook his head. "Who on Earth wrote this?"
"That would be me."
They all jumped at the sound of the unfamiliar voice.
"Who are you?" stammered Mimi.
They looked around but couldn't see anyone. The voice continued, "I can't let you see me. I prefer to keep a very low profile. No-one's ever seen me before anyway so I can't show myself to you."
Ash was about to say something when Swello burst in with a slip of paper in his beak. "Oh! Did they get the message?" Misty cried.
"Oh wow! They replied. And they're OK. T.K and the Digimon are with them too." Ash cried excitedly.
The voice seemed to pause for a while to observe them. It continued to speak. "That's a Pokemon from the other world, isn't it?"
"Yes it is, Mister." Ash answered.
The voice seemed to sigh. "I see that barrier didn't work…"
"Barrier?" Matt repeated. "Oh! You're the big guy of the Digital World right? The 'powerful magician'?"
"…You are correct…but now that you've guessed who I am, then I guess have have now choice but to reveal myself." There was a flash of light and they saw… the guy. The guy who created Digimon and the Digital World. The powerful magician.
He was in a long dark cloak that swished around him and a long floppy hat was on his head. The hat's brim was wide and flopped down so that you could not see his eyes.
Everyone stared at him.
Tai, Sora, Biyomon and Palmon picked their way through the maze-thing in the Rocket Warehouse. They had been walking for a long time now and they felt like they had been walking in circles.
"Do you think Gary and T.K have gotten to Agumon by now?" Sora asked.
"Dunno." Tai replied, "Maybe they just went to right way. Maybe we should turn aa-arggghhhh!" Tai cried as he felt himself falling, falling, falling…
"Tai!" Sora cried as Tai fell into a trap-door thing. "Tai! Are you all right? Tai…Tai! Tai?"
Tai didn't reply.
Sora stared down after him. Where did this thing lead? It would be all so much easier if they had a map of the whole place.
"Stop right there!" shouted a voice. It was another one of the Team Rocket officers that had been stationed there to stop people from getting in.
"…uuuhhhh…" Sora grumbled.
"You won't be getting past me without a battle!" The Team Rocket guy declared and called out a Slugma.
"Biyomon! Spiral Twister!" Sora yelled out, without missing a beat.
The Spiral Twister attack caught Slugma completely off guard. Before the Team Rocket guy was able to call out another Pokemon, Sora and the Digimon had jumped into the trap-door after Tai.
Giovanni was in a fit. "What? What? You must be joking!"
"I'm extremely sorry sir but it's true." The Team Rocket officer reported.
"Well you better get going! Get some more vortex-hole thingys now!"
"Yessir, Yessir, right away, sir." The officer hurried off.
Giovanni rested his head on one of his hands and stroked his Persian with the other. He murmured to himself, "Gee, I've had everyone one of my expensive-paid scientist study and find out as much about this Digimon and where he comes from…and it's true! There's a Digital World…"
The Persian purred.
"Then I have this vortex-hole-thingy made into the other world so that I can send my officers into this world and get me more of these Digimon, and what do I hear? Someone has jumped in and the hole has closed up! How annoying!"
The more Giovanni talked about it, the angrier he became. He called Team Rocket into his office with steam coming from his ears.
"Meowth! Jessi! James! Get those Digimon for me now! I want them in 24 hours or else I'll have you chopped up into little bits!" Giovanni roared.
"Y-y-yes sir!" they chorused and sped out of the office.
"We have got to find them all now!" James said.
Jessi looked at her special device that showed them where intruders were inside the warehouse. "I think there may be a few Digimon to snatch right at our feet!" she said.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Meowth cried.
"May! You're awake!" Ash cried. "You've been unconscious for ages!"
May sniffed. "I wouldn't want some stuck-up girl to take my guy!" she shot Misty a death glare.
Misty looked puzzled.
"Oh, you're awake…" Matt commented, looking unhappy.
May changed personality in a split second. "Oh yes! I'm awake and happy! Now what should we do next? Matt, oh it's just heavenly being with you!" She wrapped her arms around Matt, almost choking him.
"Ack! Can't breathe…"
Ash and Misty exchanged glances. Then Misty blushed and looked at Ash shyly. "Um…" she stammered, "I just wanted to say thanks for saving me back then when I hurt my leg…"
Ash blushed.
Misty continued, "So, um…thanks." she tilted her head towards Ash and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, then turned and walked away quickly, not looking at him.
Ash looked back at her dreamily.
"Hey Ash!" Izzy interrupted him.
"Huh?" Ash went back to reality. "Yeah?"
"Well, I've been talking with…the powerful magician and we've come up with a logical explanation of how the Digidestined came into your world."
"Great! What happened? How can we get back?"
The powerful magician said, "I believe that the barrier was torn and a hole or a gap was made. Because our barrier was magical and invisible, Tai and the Digidestined wouldn't have noticed when Greymon went through to the other world and just followed him without suspecting anything."
"That's just like Tai," Gabumon sighed, "totally clueless."
"What about the vortex-hole-thingy? That wasn't part of the broken barrier, was it?" Ash asked.
"Impossible!" The magician said, "The barrier was invisible, remember? I think that some selfish human made a hole for his own selfish desires."
"Wouldn't that have happened before? Shouldn't you have made the barrier human-tempering-with-safe?" Izzy said.
"But no-one from the other world except from you all and the other magician knows about this world. At least I don't know anyone who would know about our world. If they didn't know it existed then how could they try to break in?"
"Who could've made this vortex-hole-thingy?" Ash wondered.
Chapter Eight end
Author's note: Emichii:
That's Chapter Eight. I guess you could say that how the worlds collided is clear now but the problem's not over yet. This story is gonna end in two more chapters. This story is over in two more chapters. How sad…boohoo…I really enjoyed writing this. It was great! Thanks for all the reviews. I'm still not sure about what to do about May and Matt. I'll think about it. Hey, don't get all upset just yet! There are still two more chapters to come! Thanks again! Read and review!