Don't own Pokemon or Digimon. How sad…

Chapter Nine- I'm coming, Agumon!

"What does this 'Agumon' look like anyway?" Gary sniffed.

T.K walked ahead of Gary with Patamon. He turned around and gave Gary a bright smile. "Agumon is the strongest out of all of our Digimon. He can even digivolve to Metalgreymon. He's orange and about this tall," T.K motioned with his hand, "and he has claws and big feet."

Gary nodded.

Patamon's wing-shaped ears perked up. "I sense Agumon nearby!" he cried and started running through the hallways.

"Wait up, Patamon!" T.K ran after his Digimon, his feet pounding down on the floor, making an eerie echo. "Hey, wait up!" Gary yelled, running after them.

Sora, Biyomon and Palmon were falling down through the chute/hole thingy.

"Eeeek!" Sora screamed, as she plummeted down. She could just see the ground underneath and it looked like it could be a hard landing- "Gotcha!"

Tai caught Sora just before she hit the ground. Sora stared at Tai.

Tai just stood there for a while, looking back at her, a bit dumbstruck. Finally Sora opened her mouth and snapped, "How long are you gonna hold me, you pervert?"

Tai put her down and rubbed the back of his head in a cute way, "Heh heh heh heh… well, at least I didn't drop you!"

Sora giggled.

They looked up at the hole they had just come through. "I bet we must've gone down three levels faster than a lift." Tai commented.

Sora shrugged and picked up the Digimon that had had a soft landing on Tai's head. "Let's get going. You wouldn't want anything else to happen to Agumon, would you?"

Tai followed Sora out through a small doorway and into another corridor. "This maze goes for so long, I'm getting dizzy…" Palmon said weakly.

"Oh look, windows!" Tai poked his head through a round window that looked like a ship's port-hole. "Hmm?"

"What is it?" Sora pushed Tai aside and had a good look.

"Lemme see! Lemme see!" Biyomon cried.

"It's like a store-room," Sora said. "It's got all these boxes and cartons."

"And a mean-looking machine." added Tai. He was right. There was a platinum and red machine with gears that went round and round. There were green and black buttons and a purple lever. It had a weird light flashing on and off.

"Wonder what that's for," Tai thought aloud.

"Hey, another fork!" Palmon interrupted.

The corridor divided into to directions. "Let's take the one to the left. Maybe it leads to the store-room. Perhaps the store-room is where Agumon is in."

They turned left.

Pikachu was having a blast. He like the Magician. The Magician could do all kinds of tricks and magic. But the Magician wasn't very enthusiastic.

"Ash, Izzy," he said.

"Yeah?" they replied.

"I suggest you stop dozing around and stalling for time. You really need to take action." He said.

"Take action for what?" Ash pressed.

The Magician snapped, almost shouting, "You're not going to sit around all day, are you? You know what you're supposed to be doing! Helping your friends! Rescuing that Digimon! Returning to your own world!"

"How about fixing the broken barrier, Mr. Magician?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah. That too." the Magician admitted sheepishly.

Tentomon said, "But if you fix the broken barrier, then how is Tai and Sora supposed to get back in?"

"But if you don't fix it, then some other selfish human could come into the Digital World!" Max argued.

"Silence!" commanded the Magician.

Everyone was quiet.

"There is a way…" he began. "I fix the barrier now. Then transport us to your world, punish the guy that made the vortex-hole-thingy, find the kidnapped Digimon, find the leader of the Digidestined, then leave you all in the Pokemon World and transport the Digidestined back into our World."

"Yes, of course! You're a genius!" Izzy cried.

They all gave him a look. "I thought you didn't compliment anyone but yourself," Matt said.

Izzy said, "Well, well…I could have thought of that!"

"But you didn't!" Matt said.

"Shut up already!" Ash cried, "We've laid down a plan and it's not gonna work unless we follow it, okay?"

"Yessir!" Brock cried, exaggerated.

"So…shall we begin?"

Gary, T.K and Patamon ran down the corridor. "I know it! I can sense it! It's Agumon!" Patamon ran in front of them all, leading them around corners and upstairs.

"Can…we…" T.K huffed.

"Stop…now…please…" Gary panted.

"No! Quick! We have to follow the scent now or else I'll lose it!" Patamon cried.

"Scent?" T.K repeated.

"Yes, Agumon's scent! Can't you smell it?" Patamon replied, still running up the speed at an amazing pace, his energy seemed to have no bounds.

"I can't smell anything…" Gary said.

"Yeah, but I can!"

They chased Patamon up the stair, through a door, down a corridor and to a closed metal door.

"It's coming from here!" Patamon whispered.

"Why…are…you…whispering?" T.K asked.

"Because there might be Team Rocket bad guys in here!"

Gary was panting, chest heaving in and out; his face was flushed from all the running. "…What are…we…waiting for? ...Let's get in there…and grab the… Digimon!"

Patamon looked worried. "Okay. But really quietly and slowly."

Gary ran up to the door and started a pull it open. T.K pulled at his shirt. "Please do it quietly, Gary, or else they'll know we're here!"

"Oh yeah!" Gary said as if the thought had only just occurred to him.

He quietly and carefully wrenched the heavy metal door opened. It was heavy. Just perfect for stopping Digimon and Pokemon from escaping.

At last, the metal door was open, and the three of them crept inside and stared in amazement. "This place is huge…" T.K said.

The room was as big as a Pokemon Gym. Except that there were cartons and boxes all around the edges. There was also a big platinum and red machine with light flashing on and off. It had green and black buttons and a purple lever.

"Creepy…" T.K whispered and clung to Gary's shirt.

"Ohhh…" Gary sighed.

"Have you been here before?" Patamon asked.

"No, but I have a feeling…perhaps…this is the very root to Giovanni's office."

"Giovanni?" T.K repeated.

"The ultimate bad guy. The guy behind the Team Rocket schemes and stuff."

"Ohhh…"

"So…you know all about me don't you?" spoke a dangerous voice.

"Eh?" Gary looked around him.

Giovanni was floating down on a platform that moved up and down. The platform stopped a few feet before reaching the ground and a set of steps appeared at the platform. Giovanni walked down the steps with an air of pride.

"Look! It's Agumon!" Patamon cried.

T.K saw a tight-wire cage on the platform in which, Agumon was tightly squeezed in. "Guys! You came!" Agumon managed to gasp.

Giovanni studied T.K and pulled out a poke-ball from inside his jacket. "So you came for the Digimon, didn't you?" He mused at the fact. "Too bad you won't be getting it back…at least not without a fight!"

Gary set his jaw and threw his own poke-ball out. "Go Marshtomp!" he cried.

"Go Electabuzz!" Giovanni roared. "Thunder!"

A very, very, very, very powerful Thunder attack was building up. And it was headed right at Marshtomp!

The Magician crossed his arms and looked at his work proudly. "Yes, the barrier is fixed, and it looks really spiffy, dontcha think?"

Mimi looked puzzled. "I don't see anything!"

"Well, of course! The barrier is invisible!"

Misty tapped her foot impatiently. "If the barrier's finished then let's go back to the Pokemon World! I have a feeling that something really bad is about to happen!"

The Magician shook his head and sighed, "Well then, we're off to the Pokemon World!" He gathered everyone around him and with a swish of his cloak; they disappeared from the Digital World.

"Uh…" Ash blinked open his eyes. "W-w-wow! We're back in the Pokemon World!"

They found themselves in front of a grove of trees. "This place kinda looks familiar." Brock said.

"Pikachu!" I think so too!

Max clapped his hands together in a moment of brilliance. "Of course! If my calculations are correct, then behind this grove of trees…" Everyone looked behind it, "is the Rocket Warehouse!"

"Waaayyyy cooool!" echoed Izzy.

"What are we waiting for? Everyone else is in there! We gotta get in there and save Agumon!" Ash shouted. He grabbed Misty's wrist and pulled her towards the building.

"Hey!" Misty said angrily.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"And make it double!"

"To protect-"

"I thought I told you guys to change your motto!" Izzy said wearily.

Team Rocket looked upset. "But we were just getting to the good part!" James said. "Forget it, twerp!" Jessi snapped. She turned to Ash and co. and yelled, "Hand over that Digimon!"

"Not on your life!" Ash yelled back.

Jessi took a deep breath and threw her pokeball out, "Go Serviper!"

Ash looked bored. "Pikachu, you know what to do."

"Pikachu!" Well duh!

As Team Rocket and Pikachu started to attack, the rest of them slipped off into the building unnoticed.

"Why are we crawling through the air-conditioning vent?" Tai asked.

"Because, I can hear Agumon's voice through the other end!" Sora replied. She gave Tai a weird look and said, "I thought you were the leader, not the follower."

Tai was about to come up with a smart remark when he heard Gary's voice.

"Quick! That was Gary!" He crawled up to the end of the vent and stared through the little gaps.

"Argh! Marshtomp return!" Gary was scared. Giovanni was the toughest guy around. How on Earth was he supposed to beat him? His Marshtomp was completely fried!

"Eeeiaaaahhhh! Gary!" T.K screamed as he peeked at the battle between his hands which were over his eyes.

Gary knew he was a good trainer. He could beat this guy! (So he thought!)

"Go Evee!" He thrust his best pokemon out. Evee appeared and immediately was shocked by Electabuzz's Spark attack.

Clang!

Gary and T.K took the chance to look up at the sound. He felt both relief and distress as he saw the faces of Tai and Sora. Tai had knocked off the metal vent covering and was jumping onto the ground. He stopped to catch Sora who said, "I don't need to be caught, you pervert!"

"I'm coming, Agumon!" He then dropped Sora and started running to Agumon in the tight cage.
"Tai! You came!" Agumon's weak but relieved voice cried.

Giovanni whirled around to face Tai. "Go Electabuzz!" he said.

"Arghhhhhh…" Tai felt the pain from Electabuzz's attack and fell back, about to hit the stone wall, which if he had hit it, which luckily he didn't, he would've broken his back. But…Sora caught him! Yay!

Gary felt so ashamed to tell himself but it was true. He knew it! He had lost! He ran to see to his fallen Evee. Giovanni laughed cruelly. "This battle is different, my boy! We will not end even if your pokemon faint, we will end it when they die!"

Giovanni motioned for Electabuzz to send the last attack to Evee.

"Evee!" Gary cried.

"Nooooo!" shouted T.K.

The attack went closer and closer to Evee…It was gonna hit! Nothing could stop it now!

Chapter nine ends

Author note: Emichii: Yup! The chapter countdown is one! One more chapter left of this brilliant story. As I look back over it, I'm thinking, WOW I REALLY IMPROVED! LOOK AT HOW CRAP THE BEGINNING IS COMPARED TO THIS! Thanks for all your support everybody! Thanks for all the great reviews! Heheheh…Gosh, I like to cliffhanger people...Teeheehee…Read and Review!