Chapter Ten: Time to say goodbye

"Not so fast!" A strong powerful blast of blue light fired from somebody's hands and flew towards the attack. It swallowed up the attack and kept going towards Giovanni. Finally, the blast hit Giovanni and sent him flying and crashing into the wall. "Ugh!" Giovanni got up, spitting out blood, "Who did that?" he roared.

"I did that."

Giovanni, Tai and the others looked towards the direction where the voice came from.

"Ash! Guys!" Tai cried joyfully.

"Atcher service!" May laughed, putting her hand up in a salute.

Tai and Sora looked at the Magician, which from his hands had the powerful blast come from.

"Thankyou so much!" Gary cried gratefully and threw himself at the Magician's feet.

"Gary? Why are you groveling at someone's feet?" Ash smirked.

Gary looked angry. He spat, "Well this guy saved my Evee's life, in case you hadn't noticed, you idiot!"

Giovanni shouted, "Be quiet!" He walked up slowly to the Magician and said, "So you think you're so powerful, eh?" He continued, with a rasping dangerous touch to his words. "You're going to be the one groveling at my feet as soon as I defeat you!"

"Why you!" Gary ran forward and tried to punch Giovanni but the Magician held him back, "Best to let me settle this."

Giovanni turned and walked to the platform. The Magician walked forward to face him. "Shall we settle this as a pokemon match or a fight?" he asked politely.

Giovanni sneered, "It doesn't matter since I'm going to win either way. He pulled out a pokeball and said, "There are no rules. You can use anything to defeat the opponent." he rubbed his chin evilly and added, "but I suppose it wouldn't hurt if there was a little restriction to how you can be defeated. YOUR OPPONENT MUST DIE!"

"I'll help you, Magician!" Ash cried and ran up to him.

"Me too...Argh!" Tai tried to run forward but he collapsed, clutching his side. Sora looked worried and said, "You're wounded! You have to stay put!" She tried to push him back to the side and help him lie down.

"I…can't…" Tai struggled against Sora but she firmly pushed him back. "I…have…to-get-Agumon!" he gasped.

"Pikachu-pika-chu-kachu-pi!" I'll take care of that!

Pikachu leapt off Ash's head and ran towards Agumon in the cage.

"How'd I get wounded anyway?" Tai cried.

Sora shrugged. "Dunno, but I ain't letting you go until you get better."

Giovanni didn't blink at them. He was busy threatening the Magician. The Magician told Ash that he could handle it and stepped forward.

Giovanni smirked and called out Jolteon and Wailord. "Wailord, rain dance, Jolteon, Electabuzz, Thunder together!"

"Hey! That's not fair! You're using three pokemon and the Magician's using nothing!" Ash cried.

"There are no rules, remember." Matt reminded him.

They attacked the Magician but nothing happened. The Magician barely flinched. Giovanni started to get annoyed even though he tried not to show it.

"Jolteon! Zap Cannon!"

The Magician narrowly missed the attack, and the attack hurled itself towards Ash and co. They all ducked and the attack burnt a hole through the wall.

"Imagine what the Magician's face would look like if that hit him." Izzy said.

Mimi shuddered and buried her face in her hands.

Brock tried to comfort her, "Don't worry, my dearest Mimi, everything will be fine!"

Giovanni scowled, "And what about you? Are you going to attack or just stand there like a barber pole?"

The Magician gripped his magical staff and pointed it at Electabuzz. A blast of orange fire struck Electabuzz and it fainted. "I'm going to attack,"

Giovanni gaped. He bit his lip and called out Shedinja.

"You're the one that put the vortex-hole thingy into my world, aren't you?"

Giovanni sneered and nodded yes. This made the Magician very angry. He used his best attacks against Shedinja but it couldn't be affected.

The Magician got annoyed and Giovanni got Jolteon to attack him again.

In that moment, Pikachu was helping Agumon walk back to its owner. Agumon was staggering, after being cramped into the cage for so long.

The Magician's HP was slowly going down (he has hit points?), really slowly but he didn't notice; he was racking his brain of how he could attack Shedinja.

"Agumon! Digivolve!" Tai shouted from the sidelines.

Of course! Sora thought, Maybe the Magician's attacks couldn't affect Shedinja but a digimon's might. Tai is so smart! Then she noticed that Tai was trying to get up and run to the Magician, so she had to go and hold him down.

"Crap, Tai, you're injured; you are in no shape to battle!"

Tai grumbled, but obeyed.

"Agumon digivolve to…Greymon!"

Giovanni looked at Greymon warily. "Ah-ha! So it was true! These digimon really can digivolve!" He turned to Wailord and shouted, "Ice beam! At both of them!"

"Greymon, don't give him a chance to attack you! Use Nova Blast!" Tai yelled.

The two attacks flew towards each other. Unfortunately for the good guys, the Magician had no place to avoid the attack and froze solid.

"Eeeiaaaahhhh! Eeeek! The Magician's frozen solid in a block of ice!" Mimi screamed.

Greymon's Nova Blast brushed past the Magician in the block of ice and flew towards Wailord's Ice beam. At first, Wailord's attack seemed to be stronger but at the last second, the Nova Blast became stronger than the Ice beam and flew to Wailord, who fainted.

The Magician in the block of ice slowly thawed out (heh heh) thanks to Agumon's attack.

The Magician and Giovanni gave each other death glares. Ash was in the act of pulling out a pokeball to help the Magician but Misty stopped him, "the Magician can handle it alone, Ash."

"Yeah, but Tai helped him!"

"That's because he was frozen solid!"

Shedinja was getting ready to fire an attack at the Magician but he countered it with another one of his magic attacks, sending Shedinja's attack straight back at it. (Too bad cuz I don't really know what attacks Shedinja has).

Shedinja was in no condition to battle so Giovanni called him back.

"Jolteon, give him another Thunder!"

Unfortunately (for him) or fortunately (for the Magician), the attack missed because Thunder is not a 100 accuracy attack.

The Magician solemnly used his staff and pointed it at Jolteon. The staff sent out a psychic thingy and enabled the Magician to lift Jolteon up. He twirled the Jolteon around for a bit and then threw it against the stone wall, where it fainted soon after. This made Giovanni so mad that he ran up to the Magician as fast as he could and aimed a blow at his stomach, which the Magician fended off easily.

From there, Giovanni kept trying the fight but the Magician used his hands and blocked every punch.

Giovanni looked so angry and kept trying to hit his opponent, but he missed every time. After a few minutes of the same thing, Giovanni tired and groaned. The Magician took the opportunity to use a spell attack. He lifted his staff and chanted magical words. Then weird mystical Chinese characters came out of his staff and they floated around Giovanni, faster and faster and faster. Giovanni couldn't be seen behind the whirlwind of words.

Phhommft!

Giovanni disappeared. "Where is he?" Max cried.

The Magician shrugged, grinned, and pointed at the hole in the roof. "I don't know. I just sent him flying off somewhere."

Outside, the defeated Team Rocket were sitting in a tree, having a conversation. "I can't really be bothered to look for any more of those Digimon anyway," Meowth said.

"Yeah." The other two nodded. Then some weird flying figure caught their attention. "Look, there's something blasting off! Oh! I think it's a pokemon!" Jessi said. She threw a pokeball half heartedly at the figure. It missed by a mile.

"Hey! I think it looks like the boss!" James cried.

Meowth peered at the figure. "Meowth! That's right!"

The Digidestined, the Magician and Ash and his friends stood outside the Rocket Warehouse.

"I can't believe it's time to say goodbye…" Sora said sadly.

"Yeah." Max echoed.

Brock was crying. (What a softie!) "Oh my dear Mimi! How can I bear the burden of never seeing your beautiful face again every morning when I wake from my deep slumber?"

Ash and Misty sighed.

Pikachu and Patamon were sad to say goodbye too.

"Well, we're can't just stand here all day! Get on with the farewells!" Izzy said his eyes watery.

Matt looked at May, who was crying softly. She looked up at Matt wistfully, "I've never loved anyone like I loved you, Matt…I don't want you to leave but you don't have a choice. If only I could come with you…" She sobbed.

Matt stared at May. He never really noticed how cute she was. He gulped and said, "Well…I'm…I'm…gonna miss you too, May…"

And unbelievably, he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek.

"Awww…" Mimi sighed happily.

Brock was taking the chance and he decided to kiss Mimi, but he was so nervous that he missed.

Max and Izzy looked at each other with funny looks on their faces. It wasn't hatred and it wasn't love (no don't go near that) they just looked sad? To say bye. "Well…see ya." Izzy said.

"Yeah. Bye." Max replied.

The rest of them decided to just go on with it.

"So, well, goodbye, guys."

"Yeah, Bye."

The Magician bowed and said, "Farewell."

"Oh, Mister Magician, um, what's your name?" Ash asked.

The Magician just said, "The name's Akiyoshi." He turned and said, "Now we must go, unfortunately, it will be impossible to see each other again."

As he did his magic and the Digidestined were being whirled away by a magic thingy, May burst into tears and they all shouted bye at the last minute.

"Goodbye forever, Matt!"

"Bye May!"

"Goodbye Izzy!"

"Bye Max!"

"Farewell, Mimi my love!"

"Goodbye, Brock!

"Bye Tai!"

"Bye Ash!"

"Bye Misty!"

"Bye Sora!"

"Bye bye T.K! Goodbye Joe!"

"Bye!"

"Yeah, bye!"

"Pika-pika-chuu!" Bye everybody!

"Yeah, goodbye everybody!" the digimon chorused together.

And they disappeared.

The Digidestined found themselves back in the Digital World. They also found out that the Magician had disappeared. Tai shrugged and took back his leadership position. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go look for more adventures in the Digital World!"

They all started to walk towards the distance into the sunset. (There's a sun?)

In the Pokemon World, Ash said, "Come on! Let's go to the next region! I gotta get some new badges!"

"There's another region?" Misty said.

"Yeah, it's called the Non-existent region!"

So they went off along the road, and May sniffed all the way. (How sad…)

Pikachu just sat on Ash's head, waved to me and said, "Pika pi kachu piii!" Goodbye readers!

"Pika chuu!" THE END!

Author note: Emichii: This is so sad, my story's over…boohoo…I'm so happy though! I'm glad I was able to finish it! Because I usually start stories but never finish them. Heh heh heh… Luckily, everything's not all sad. There are two happy couples that didn't need to part-Tai and Sora, and Ash and Misty! Hurray! Now its time to congratulate myself! YAAAAYYYY! Okay that's really it. You readers might want to read some other fanfic now so I'm gonna say bye and start on my new one! See ya all! Good bye! (Please keep in touch, Neo!)