Hi everybody! This is chapter 8! I hope you all like it! Don't forget to review! Oh yeah I don't own Pokemon or Digimon. They're owned by Satoshi Tajiri and Akiyoshi Hongo.

Chapter 8: Too Late

"…Argh…" Yolie groaned as she got to her feet. She looked around. Where the heck am I?

To one side of her was a corridor that headed to who knows where- getting darker as it went. To the other side was a wall, as well as a hole in the wall that could take her somewhere. Where should she go?

"AARRGHHHHHH!!!" Three voices screamed.

Yolie screamed.

Kari, Davis and T.K, with their digimon came tumbling out of the hole, landing as a heap at Yolie's feet.

Kari sat up, groaning. "Now where am I?"

T.K and Davis saw Yolie. "Yolie, you're here!" Davis said.

"Yeah," she replied. "Well… I guess we should get going then."

Veemon said, "Then what are we waiting for?"

They headed towards the corridor. As they went further, they could see that the corridor wasn't ending any time soon. Why was it so long?

They walked and walked and walked. Just when they were about to collapse, they managed to get out of the corridor into a big room, only to be confronted by a guy in a Team Rocket uniform.

"I challenge you to a Pokemon match!" he crowed.

Ash blinked open his eyes. Shaking his head to wake himself up, he shakily stood up and took a look around him. He surveyed the scene.

"Pikachu Pika pi!" Pikachu said. What now?

"I don't know, Pikachu," Ash said. …Wait, where's Misty?

Ash looked around him in panic and then sighed in relief when he saw the girl lying rather uncomfortably on the floor some distance away from him.

"Misty? Misty? Are you alive?" Ash shook his friend. She didn't answer.

"Kachu pi Pika kachu pi, pi!" Pikachu cried, extremely flustered.

Ash studied Misty carefully. She was unconscious, barely breathing and her body felt cold.

"Misty… don't die." whispered Ash, dreading what might happen.

"Tai! Are you okay?" Sora's eyes were wide with horror and she looked pale and terrified.

Tai groaned and collapsed, right on top of Sora.

She slid away from him and looked at Tai, wincing. The arrow had hit him right in the side and blood was dripping from the wound onto the shiny clean floor, which wasn't very shiny or clean anymore.

Tai groaned. "Owww…" was all he could choke out.

Sora smiled in her tears. "Tai, I'm so glad you're alive!" and she hugged him really really tightly.

Tai frowned as he gasped, "um… Sora, maybe you could hug me after you get the arrow out."

"…oh. Right,"

They both stared at the arrow stuck in Tai's side.

"…you think staring at it is gonna get it out?" Mimi's voice said.

Sora and Tai looked up. They had forgotten that Mimi and Brock were still here.

Brock crouched down next to Sora and looked at Tai. "I think I know how to get it out. It will hurt though,"

When Misty woke up, Ash was never more relieved.

"Misty!" he cried and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close.

"…Ash? What are you doing?" Misty spluttered out, oblivious to Pikachu's giggling.

"Oh!" They pulled apart and stared at the ground blushing. Ash said slowly, "It's just that you were unconscious before and I was really afraid that you were dead."

A light went on in Misty's head. "Were you… afraid you were gonna lose me?" she asked softly.

Uh… major understatement there. Yeah, he never wanted to believe it himself but Misty was a very important person. So important that Ash just couldn't help falling in love with her.

It was embarrassing.

And he had tried to hide it as best as he could but now it was going to explode out of him. The pressure of keeping it all inside… it was all gonna explode.

"I challenge you to a Pokemon match!"

The Team Rocket guy pulled out a pokeball and yelled, "Come on out, Chinchou!"

Chinchou appeared in a beam of red light.

Davis, Kari and Yolie stared, mouths dropping open. T.K, who had seen it all before managed to keep it all together. "Come on, we're not afraid of you! Patamon, take him on!"

As the amazed other three watched, Patamon took Chinchou on and beat him to a pulp.

The Team Rocket guy turned bright red in anger. "Go, Raticate!"

Kari, who had thought it looked fun joined in, "Gatomon, go!"

Gatomon was a cat digimon. Raticate was a rat/mouse pokemon. Any guesses who won?

Team Rocket dude pulled out two pokemon at the same time and let them both out. "It's not over yet!" He called, "I've still got Politoed and Gastly!"

Davis and Yolie shouted in unison, "Well, we've got Veemon and Hawkmon!"

Veemon and Hawkmon strode gallantly into the battle and a few seconds later, they emerged victorious.

The Team Rocket guy stared. "Are you four the new Elite Four?"

They ignored him and went on their way. As they passed by, Yolie turned back at winked flirtatiously at the guy, "Who knows? We might as well be!"

Veemon suddenly stopped. He paused and sniffed around. Then he raced on ahead. "Come on!" he said, "I think I know where the others are!"

Ash hung his head embarassed, "Well, y-yeah because I…I- Misty, I love-"

"ASH!!!"

Ash almost jumped out of his skin. He slowly jerked his head towards the sound of the voice. "What is it?" he managed to say.

Kari, Yolie, Davis and T.K emerged from the doorway behind them.

"You guys are here!" Ash said joyously.

Misty blinked at them all. "Ash, I'm sorry I couldn't hear that. What did you say again?"

Ash shook his head, "…I'll tell you some other time, Misty."

And as he and the others walked on towards the Wizard, he thought to himself: Yeah, Misty, I will tell you! Just… not now.

"…OWWWWWW!!!" Tai screamed so loud the ceiling was shattering.

Sora looked away in tears. She couldn't look. She didn't want to see him- this guy she secretly loved in pain. But Brock said… he said that he would help him… why wasn't it working?

When Tai's wailing finally quieted, she stole a quick glance back at the others. The dreaded arrow was finally gone, Brock was inspecting it. Tai was lying painfully on the ground, clutching his bloody wound, twitching from the pain.

"Tai…" Sora murmured. She ripped part of her shirt and used the fabric to bandage Tai up.

Tai gasped out.

Sora whispered apologetically. "I'm sorry. I'm such a horrible doctor, I-"

Tai tried to grin. "Nah, it's okay. I'm just glad."

"Huh?" she tried to understand.

"I'm just glad you're okay,"

Sora realized then. When he had dove towards her, he got himself hurt so badly… it was all for her.

"All right! Hand over the Wizard!" Ash yelled.

His words echoed over and over again in the huge room. He looked around the room hurriedly, where was the Wizard?

Then his eyes saw the empty cage.

"He's not here!" He cried to the others. "We're too late!"

Yolie frowned. "But if he's not here, where is he?"

"That's right," an extremely familiar voice added. "Where is he?"

Sorry everybody, that was a really crap chapter. SORRY! Well, read and review!