IXEN (Signature Colors Grey, Black): Welcome back. Finally the first episode of the Digital Pocket Monsters Special Adventure is here. Those first two are what you call pilots or something but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the adventure is about to begin.

RED (Red, White): That's right! Here is where it all starts! Us against the Chosen Children!

DAISUKE (Lightning Blue, Fiery Orange, Blue): That's not even fair. We can't evolve or Jogress while the Dex Holders get Ultimate Moves and whatnot! Does Author hate us?

IXEN (Grey, Black): No... Author is just being very meticulous and evil about the plot. She has to otherwise it wouldn't be a fun story. Besides that makes up for the fact that Pokemon and Digimon is not owned by Author. Now read on.

~RED~

The tension rose as we stood in three teams. Green, Gold, Sapphire, and Pearl stared off against Blue, Silver, Ruby, and Platinum. The three younger fire team members were nervously awaiting Blue, Silver, and Ruby's move. Platinum stared at them in wonder and decided to go along with what Blue had planned. Green sighed and stood in front of his team quietly to prevent them from doing anything rash.

"Wow!" Dia remarked in awe. "Everyone is having so much fun!"

I nervously smiled at him. "Uh… It's not usually like this. And do you know what's going on?" The younger boy seemed to have just woken up as he rubbed his eyes and stared at Emerald with a hungry glint in his eyes. "It seems as if you're not reading the air correctly."

"Huh?" Dia straightened up with a start and slowly thought it through. "The pressure is building up between fire and water." He suddenly jumped with a thought. "Maybe they're trying to create steam to make rice!" He yelled out towards his best friend. "Is that right, Pearl? Are we going to have fried rice later?"

"Dia! What are you saying at a time like this?" Pearl turned to look towards us, but that proved to be a mistake because a quick blast of water crashed into him. "Hey! That's not fair! Little Miss!"

"Sorry, Pearl. You left yourself open." Platinum giggled. "But Senior Blue was right. This is getting fun."

"That's right. All you have to do is listen to what I say. You'll learn a lot from me." Blue laughed before having Turtley blast water at Green.

"Annoying woman…" Green's Charizard unleashed an intense Flamethrower to counter the attack, resulting in a heavy steam cloud.

"Alright, an opening!" Taking advantage of her great sight and the steam cover, Sapphire followed up with a Blaze Kick.

"Not quite!" Ruby winked as he held his microphone up to speak. "Muddy Water!" He laughed a bit before giving Sapphire an apologetic look. "Sorry, but you have to remember our motto. 'Wit And Tact Earns Respect' in our team."

"Don't think we're done yet though!" Gold shouted. His Typhlosion erupted flames towards the Swampert but it was quickly quenched out by Silver's Surf. The water unfortunately washed over my explosive junior as well. "Hey! Silver! What's that for?"

"Things were getting a bit too heated and annoying. Be glad I did it." Silver coolly retreated to where Platinum and Ruby were waiting.

Pearl, Sapphire, and Gold were forced to sit out for the rest of the training game. Pearl crossed his arms and frowned. "So much for our strategy of 'Furiously Igniting' and 'Ravaging Enemies'. Who came up with this lame acronym anyways?"

"Hey, junior! Respect your Senior Gold's ideas! It took me forever to come up with something cool to match what Ruby and Senior Blue came up with!" Gold whacked Pearl's arm with his cue stick before calling out to Green. "Avenge us, Senior Green!"

Sapphire sprawled out over the grass. "Senior Red and his team still didn't use a single move."

She was right and I looked at the four grass Pokémon and three trainers waiting patiently. I finally smirked at them and nodded. "I guess it's our turn to act. Dia?"

The younger boy jumped off of his Torterra excitedly. "Roo! Leaf Storm!" A flurry of leaves spun around us, giving us the perfect cover. It worked with us in two ways: the leaves would protect us from attack and obscure what we were doing from Green and the water team.

"It looks like the game has finally begun," my rival remarked.

"Alright, team. All of us will blast Green with water once he has his back turned on us. I really want to see how he looks with his hair wet."

"Sis, can you smell that?" Silver looked towards us suspiciously but couldn't tell what we were up to.

"It's like a beautifully sweet perfume." Ruby took in the scent but opened his eyes with realization. "No! Duck for cover, Zuzu!" A hail of seeds shot towards the water team.

Those that did manage to evade the Bullet Seed were immediately shot down by Saur's Solar Beam. "It is too late, seniors! We have fallen into Senior Red's trap!" Platinum recalled her Empoleon from the front of their formation. She seemed disappointed in failing but she noticed Blue had evaded my attack by launching Turtley into the air with his water cannons. "We will leave the rest to you, Senior Blue!"

"Turtley! Full powered Hydro Pump!" Blue extended an arm towards us as her Blastoise shot the pressurized water towards us.

Green took the chance to take care of us from behind. "Charizard! Take them all down with Flamethrower!"

I quickly came up with a strategy to counter them. "Emerald!"

The boy nodded. "Leaf Storm!" The flurry of debris around us absorbed the attacks and gave us a chance to retaliate.

"Saur! Vine Whip!" My Pokémon grabbed Turtley and Charizard and set them up for Crystal and Diamond.

"Megapeon, Magical Leaf!" The attack made its way towards Blue's Blastoise as Dia shouted his command.

"Roo! Di—" Something quick cut through the air and hit Charizard squarely in the chest. "—a's Mach-One-and-Only Razor Leaf!"

Green returned his Pokémon and let out an annoyed grunt. He looked to his fiery juniors. The burning in his eyes made them all shiver before he looked to me. "One of these days, Red, I'll finally beat you." He glanced over at Dia. "I didn't expect only one leaf though. You trained your Torterra well."

Pearl placed a hand over his heart and sighed. "I thought Senior Green was going to force us into a training regiment," he whispered to Sapphire.

"He is! Just don't complain or show fear. Otherwise, Senior Green will force us into a longer session."

"Stupid Silver! It's his fault that I'm going to have to train in wet clothes!"

"I could tailor some clothes for you guys if you want."

"Yes, it is our fault they are wet after all. Perhaps I can buy the material you need, Senior Ruby?"

"Keep your money, Platinum. It's not good to show the losers any mercy. Besides, Green was knocked out before me, placing us second. That's a relief because I expected us to be in last place."

"Well, our team is more balanced than them, Sis. There aren't any weak links between the four of us, but we do need a little work to become stronger. I didn't think we'd be able to overpower Red or Emerald anyways." Silver looked over at us while we were taking a breather.

I proudly looked at my team. "So that went well!"

Dia lifted both of his arms into the air triumphantly. "Yay! Now we get to eat!" He paused and looked between the water and fire teams. "Uh… do we have an acronym for our team?"

"It's not like we need one," Emerald remarked.

"I'm pretty sure Crystal came up with something though," I said, turning to the Johto trainer expectantly.

The girl went red and she nervously chuckled. "Well, it's not clever or anything. It's not even official. Do you have something in mind, Dia?"

The young boy thought about it for a while. "I'll make one up later," he said finally. "But what did you come up with, Senior Crystal?"

Crystal tried to remember. "Ganbarimashou. Reisei mama. Akiramenaide. Sore ga dekiru. Seikou suru. It means do our best, remain calm, never give up, we can do it, and succeed."

Gold laughed from where he was. "That's the lamest acronym ever, Super Serious Gal!"

"Well, I tried."

"Don't worry, Senior Crystal. I'll come up with something catchier!" Dia said with a smile. His stomach began growling and he laughed sheepishly.

"Okay, guys," I smirked, "Let's get lunch." Everybody started towards the picnic tables near the lab but I lagged behind. I looked out towards Route 1 and frowned. "Yellow isn't here yet," I remarked.

"That's odd." Blue snuck to my side and made me jump. "I told her to get here early. You should go over and check it out, Red. I'll help spiky with the rest of the juniors." She pushed me forward and I had no choice but to comply.

I sent out Aero and we took off. There was something strange about the atmosphere and I first noticed that it was colder than usual. In fact, I only made it halfway to Viridian City before I noticed some heavy clouds gathering around me. I shivered not only from the cold but from an odd thought.

Looking off into the distance, I noticed the forest was covered in a white blanket. My eyes widened and I felt the urge to return home. "Aero, hurry back to Pallet!"

The sight of the snow-topped forest was discerning. The fact that it was nearing the end of summer was even more worrying. I had to tell the others about this phenomenon.

Green looked up at me from his table and stood up. He made a motion to Blue and made his way towards me. I landed and turned my head towards the sky. The clouds had followed me here and it put me on edge.

"Viridian is covered in snow, Green."

"And the winds normally blow south from Cinnabar so the clouds coming down from Viridian is abnormal," he remarked.

"Well, what should we do?" I asked. "I say, we send everyone into the lab and check this out after the storm blows over."

"The weather is changing too rapidly for it to be a normal snow storm, Red, but I agree."

"Okay then!" I started running towards the others and called out for Blue. "Let's all head ins—" I found myself yelling against a strong wind as icy cold flakes drifted down from the sky.

Everybody was confused but understood my message so headed towards the laboratory. They didn't get far though because by the time Green and I caught up, something drew us away from the lab door and into a strange upside down waterfall.

~DAISUKE~

"It doesn't look like there's anything here," Yamato said.

I frowned and crossed my arms. "Well, Koushiro can't be wrong, can he? He said that the 'strange humans' spotted around the Digital World were supposed to be around this lake."

Jou sat by the water's edge and peered into the water expectantly. He jumped when Gomamon resurfaced. "Wah!" He took a few deep breaths before asking, "So did you see anything, Gomamon?"

The small Digimon shook his head. "Nothing but the fish and they said that they haven't seen any humans enter here. They did spot a bunch of colorful comets crash down in that direction though!" He pointed a flipper towards the forest."

V-mon and I looked at each other skeptically. "That's not very helpful," my partner said and I agreed.

Ken thought about it carefully. "Well, maybe not, but it's a lead." He paused when his D-Terminal chimed. "Oh, it's from Takeru. They haven't found anything yet but are currently in the forest, tracking some more strange creatures."

Yamato nodded. "Okay. Taichi must not be done with his group so we'll—" He stopped midsentence as we heard a roar from within the forest. "Gabumon!" My senior sent out his partner as everyone else followed suit.

Nothing came out at us but looking up above the trees we could see two large flying creatures. One had a burning tail while the other had a pointed arrow. They resembled dragons from where we stood but they didn't seem dangerous. They weren't fighting each other, just flying around in circles.

"That's the direction Gomamon pointed towards," Wormmon remarked.

"Then it's settled. Let's go!" I jumped.

"Not yet," Yamato said as he pulled me back. "We don't know what's waiting for us there."

"It should just be an abandoned village," Ken said. He thought about it carefully. "I remember visiting this portion of the Digital World and there were a few abandoned areas due to everyone moving towards the Digital Chinatown or closer towards the lake."

Jou quickly sent a message to Taichi and nodded. "Okay, so let's go, Yamato. Taichi says he's going to meet us halfway."

"Alright! We'd better hurry then!" I started off into the woods after Yamato released me.

We managed to catch up with Taichi, Mimi, Miyako, and Iori and it wasn't long before we saw the village through the trees. I had taken up the lead with Miyako and Iori behind me since our Digimon were the only ones able of evolving. I went at a fast pace and I think I somehow lost everybody behind me. I slowed down but immediately stopped when I saw a strange boy skateboarding through the woods.

He was tall and wore a red hooded jacket and a pair of skinny black shorts. His gold eyes flashed in determination as he sped up after the Gottsumon he was chasing. He had a billiard cue in one hand and a ball in the other which he set up to launch from on top of his board. The Digimon panicked and crashed into what I thought was a tree. The plant suddenly came to life and hugged the Gottsumon tightly. "You're not getting away this time! Good job, Sutaro!" He carefully aimed the ball and was about to shoot when I sent V-mon in.

"V-mon Head!" My partner crashed into the giant tree, causing the boy to miss his shot.

He stood up in surprise and let out a frustrated yell. "Hey! What's going on?" He noticed the rest of us watching and blinked. "You just cost me a great capture!"

"You were going to capture that Gottsumon?" I asked suspiciously.

"Yeah! Senior Green said to. What's the problem? If it's free, it's anyone's game. And you totally cost me a good capture!" He pointed at V-mon with his cue.

"Hey! Don't point that thing at me!" My partner pushed the cue aside.

"Woah! Did you just talk?" He looked at V-mon then back to his tree. The tree shrugged so the boy glared at me as I went to back up my partner. "So since you're his trainer, I guess it's your fault I lost out on the capture."

"So what if it was? You can't just capture anything you see here!"

"Like I said, it's fair game for everyone! And Senior Green said that we need to capture as much as possible."

"Well then I'll just have to stop you!" I gripped my D-3 tightly. "Digimental Up!"

"V-mon, armor evolve! Flaming Courage, Fladramon!"

"Huh? Your… thing just transformed." He frowned and took out a ball. His tree disappeared into it and he picked out another from his belt. "Then I'll just have to switch! Go, Explotaro!"

A giant beast towered over us and glared at us. I shivered but didn't want to show that I was intimidated. Suddenly it roared and flames erupted from the back of its neck causing me to jump back.

"Daisuke!" I turned around and saw that everybody else had managed to catch up. Iori noticed me on the ground with Fladramon ready to fight. "Digimental Up!"

"Armadimon, armor evolve! Steel Knowledge, Digmon!"

Ken helped me up as both Digimon charged the giant fiery bear. "Are you okay? Taichi and Yamato shouted for you to not go so far ahead, but I guess you managed to find the enemy."

I nodded as everyone else arrived. "He said that some guy named Green is trying to capture the Digimon. I don't know what for, but either way, we've got to stop them."

Taichi nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that may be so but don't forget you need us too." He turned to Agumon. "Let's go help, Agumon!"

"Right, Taichi!" The small dinosaur charged forward with the other Digimon and surrounded the boy.

"Arg! I can't believe things have come to this. I guess we have to give up…" He seemed to be in despair but then he made a face at me. "Not!" He looked towards his creature. "Explotaro, use that move! Blast Burn!"

The boy ducked as intense fire erupted from the back of his creature. It then exploded the flames towards us, causing our Digimon to scatter. It mainly aimed the attack towards Palmon but the wide range of the blast was enough to cause a panic amongst them as they tried to dodge it.

The boy used the confusion to get out of the mess. He whirled past me on his skateboard and I had no chance to react. When I finally did let it sink that he was escaping, I chased after him. "Come back here!"

"Daisuke! Wait for us!" Yamato shouted. "It won't do you much good if he uses that attack directly at you on your own."

My eyes widened when I knew he was right. That one attack caused a lot of damage and it would be better for us to stick together rather than for me to chase after him recklessly. I nodded and waited for everyone to get ready.

Jou made sure none of us were badly hurt and gave us the okay. "Be careful. He's probably long gone, but we don't know if he has allies around here."

I nodded and checked if V-mon was okay. "How are you holding up?"

"I'll be fine, Daisuke. Next time, I'll get him for sure!"

"Just tell me if you need a breather, okay?" Something in my head clicked as I said those words. I had a feeling of déjà vu and thought I might have fought that guy before. I couldn't remember or be sure but that fiery bear did resemble something I must have seen before.

We finally reached the village and noticed a group of kids awaiting our arrival. The boy with gold eyes smirked at me as we approached. "Now you're in for it. Senior Green expected you to come after me so we set up a trap!"

A boy with cool green eyes and spiky brown hair stood in front of him with his arms crossed. He cast a glance upwards and the dragon creature we spotted earlier descended to his side. On our left, boy with red hair appeared on top of a giant blue alligator monster. On our right, two blonde boys stood with a burning monkey and a tall green lizard with sharp leaf-like blades. And behind us, a ball fell from the sky, releasing a large four-legged beast with a flower blooming from its back. Its master was a boy with spiky black hair, floating above us with a giant grey pterodactyl carrying him.

The boy flying above us smiled down at us as he looked at each of us with his red eyes. "It's six against eight but I can see Gold did a number on you. Green and I don't really fight people who are at a disadvantage so those of you who wish to sit out and give up now can choose to do so." His bright smile suddenly became serious. "Otherwise, we won't hold back."

Given the situation, Jou had to force Gomamon to sit out. Without water around, they wouldn't be able to fight. Mimi also had to let Palmon take a break too since her Digimon took most of that previous fire attack. The two raised their arms in the air to surrender and the flying boy nodded for them to be allowed into the village where another boy was waiting.

This boy seemed about Taichi's age but for some reason it looked like he had white hair. He fixed his red headband and welcomed Mimi and Jou. "Welcome to our camp. I'm in the middle of beautifying it but since the others will be in battle, I will be serving as medic since our usual Healer is not here." He was extremely dramatic but suddenly eyes his turned sharp and focused as he held a ball readily in his hand. "Since you have surrendered, I will need any devices you may have and you will not be able to aid your friends. Will you be okay with this?"

Shocked by his change of attitude, Mimi and Jou reluctantly handed over their D-Terminals and Digivices. Even though Taichi and Yamato knew they had no choice but to sit out, we couldn't help but feel as thought we were stuck in a really bad situation with them having our Digivices. We would have to win or else they'd leave us without the gadgets that defined us as Chosen Children.

When the boy with white hair was satisfied, he waved towards the boy still flying in the air. "Okay, Senior Red. I'll be taking them to Senior Blue now. Don't take too long." He started to leave and had his two prisoners follow him into the rundown village. "We still need to be on the lookout for Dia and his scavenging team."

There were more of them? My eyes widened when I remembered Hikari and her team were still out there. If they met with these people, they'd be in as much danger as us if they were to get into a fight. I calmed myself down because I knew that the last team was strong too. Sora, Koushiro, Takeru, and Hikari have been through worse situations so I'm sure they'd find a way. All I had to focus on now was surviving this fight.

I gripped my D-3. "V-mon, we have to win!"

"That's right," Iori nodded. "We can't hold back, Armadimon!"

Miyako gulped as she looked at the large creatures. "Everybody is counting on us to lead them, Hawkmon."

The three of us looked to each other and prepared ourselves for the intense battle. "Digimental Up!"

~DIAMOND~

I found more fruits and picked a few before hurrying back to where Crystal was. "Are these ones safe to eat?" I handed her the samples and she knelt down by her Parasect.

"Let's see." She fed the fruit to her Pokémon and it checked the food for any toxins. When the Pokémon didn't react, she looked at the fruit carefully. "I guess it is safe." She straightened up and frowned as Platinum and Sapphire gathered a lot more fruits that we had deemed edible. "I would expect a lot more unsafe foods in a strange forest like this."

"Does this mean we have to still check things before we pick them?" I asked. I really wanted to eat something and I didn't really mind what. I was just extremely hungry at this point.

"I do not think that would be wise, Diamond," Platinum said to me. "If you are hungry, you may eat what we have picked but be sure to save some for the others."

"Really?" I looked at our seniors hopefully.

Sapphire nodded. "Well we've been picking fruit for hours. Why not? I'm hungry too!"

Crystal smiled at us. "I guess we could use a break."

"Yay!" I immediately picked out one of each fruit and began munching on them. I had too much with me though so one fell from my load and bounced away from me. "Ah! Come back!" I dropped the rest in our pile and gave chase.

The girls didn't notice but Beh saw me. He waved at me to let me know he would notify them if they wanted to look for me. I smiled and waved back before going back on my mission of chasing after the strange fruit.

It finally stopped bouncing when it hit a patch of wild mushrooms. As I picked the fruit up, I eyed the mushrooms curiously. I picked one and smelled it. I wonder if it's safe to eat. I contemplated bringing it back to Crystal but I was too hungry to walk back and ask. Plus, I was rather far from where the girls were so it would take too long.

I opened my mouth and was about to take a bite, but a small orange ball crashed into me, forcing me to drop it. "Oomph! Don't eat that!" I stared at the small creature that crashed into me. It was a hamster with a cream colored underbelly and bat-like wings for ears. He stared at me with childish blue eyes before flying up. "You can't eat everything you see in the Digital World. Those were Mushrooms of Forgetfulness! One bite and you would have lost all of your memories."

"Oh…" I quickly dropped the mushrooms with newfound distaste and wiped my hand on my vest. I paused when I registered he had said two words I had heard before in a dream. "Is this the Digital World?" I asked.

"Yup! I'm Patamon!" He smiled at me before looking at me oddly. "You didn't know that?"

I shook my head. "I'm not from here. But since I am here, do you know who Takeru is?"

"Patamon!" I heard the blonde's voice and turned to face the tall boy. I gave him a smile as he finally saw me. "Dia?"

Behind him, there were three other people with Digimon. They both looked at the blonde oddly. The girl with brown hair studied me carefully. "Do you know him, Takeru?"

"Yeah, we met in a dream in the… I didn't expect him to be… I hoped that he was but…" Worry flashed in his eyes but he hid it with a smile. "I'm glad to finally meet you in person, Diamond." He pointed to each of his friends. "These are Hikari, Tailmon, Sora, Piyomon, Koushiro, and Tentomon. I see you've met Patamon."

"That's right! He was going to eat those mushrooms, Takeru."

I looked down out of embarrassment. "I was extremely hungry and curious." I chuckled and gave them my biggest smile. "I'm Diamond! But everybody calls me Dia."

"Well, it's great to meet you, Dia." Koushiro said. "Did you come to the Digital World on your own?"

I shook my head. "I came with all of my Pokémon and friends." My eyes widened when I remembered my task. "The others! I have to get back. The others might be hungry! Pearl might be worried about me and the Lady!" I jumped at a thought. "The Lady might be in danger in the Digital World!" I turned around and started back to where the girls were but I saw Platinum standing with Beh. They were looking for me. When she spotted me she instantly smiled and came down. "Lady!"

"There you are, Diamond. Senior Crystal asked me to look for you. It appears as though we have gathered enough food, so we are returning to the camp where the other seniors and Pearl await." She noticed the people behind me. "Oh? And who are these people?"

I introduced them. "Takeru and I met before and these are his friends. They actually know a lot about where we ended up, Lady!"

"I see," she said with a small smile. "Perhaps we should invite them to come with us so Senior Green may learn of what they know too?"

"That's a good idea," Koushiro said. "If we can meet with your friends, we'll be able to call the rest of our friends to come and work out what might be wrong."

Sora nodded. "It doesn't hurt to have more allies."

Hikari took out a small device and began typing something. "I'll send a message to Big Brother. He sent me a message earlier about meeting up with your brother, Takeru. Yamato and he will set out to scout an area where they believe enemies are."

"Enemies?" I looked around us carefully to make sure I could protect Platinum at any sign of attack.

"It's probably a false alarm, but that's why we've been patrolling the Digital World lately. We haven't found much but we hope to have things resolved without too many problems," Koushiro reassured us.

I nodded and looked towards Platinum. "We should go see Seniors Crystal and Sapphire now."

"Yes, we must not keep them waiting."

We hurried back and picked up the fruits we picked. Takeru and his friends helped us even though they didn't have to. All of our Pokémon were already helping but I guess we managed to pick a lot so we were grateful for the extra hands. We got closer to the camp before I heard something.

It sounded a lot like fighting and I heard some of our seniors shouting out attack commands. As we entered the camp, I saw Ruby rush out of an abandoned building with a Poké Ball out and ready. He eased up when he saw us. "Sapphire! Senior Crystal! Juniors!" He sighed in relief. "I thought it was more… Never mind! Senior Blue set up a place for us to store food. Sapphire, Platinum, the two of you will be needed out on the other side for a battle. I don't know what's taking so long, so check it out." The two girls nodded and Ruby spotted the four others with us. "Hm? Who are you four?"

"Friends of mine!" I chirped happily. "By the way, Senior Ruby, what are you doing in that building?" I remembered there were prison bars in that particular building when we first scouted out for a base camp.

"Guarding two prisoners," he sighed.

"You've found the enemy?" Sora asked and went into check. "Mimi! Senior Jou!"

"Oh, you know them?" Ruby asked. "Then why are the others…?"

Takeru and Hikari looked at each other in alarm. "Big Brother!" They rushed to the other side of town and I hurried after them.

"This is bad! Everybody's fighting the wrong enemy!" I cried.

"Don't worry. We just have to stop them!" Takeru said in determination. "Digimental Up!"

"Patamon, armor evolve! Flying Hope, Pegasmon!"

"Lee!" I called my Lickilicky out. "Power Whip!" Using the force of the attack and his tongue as a rope, we swung through the city after the blonde and towards the battle between the Dex Holders and Chosen Children.

~GOLD~

Hasty Boy had his entire team out to create a pen for the defeated losers. Green Clone and Mr. Rock Star appeared to be the leaders but they didn't put up much of a fight with the small wolf thing and mini dinosaur they had. They along with the purple haired kid were pretty much the first to lose and their pets, I guess, were turned back into small ball-shaped creatures and a cocoon-pinecone bug.

Green and Red decided to stop and leave the rest to Silver, Emerald, and me. Green wanted to study their fighting patterns and compare it to ours while Red returned to doing an air patrol over our camp.

Silver finished off the annoying drill bug with an Earthquake and recalled his Feraligatr. "Now if you excuse me, I need to see Sis." He returned back into the village and smirked at me. "You should hurry up, Gold. Even your junior finished before you."

He was right because at that moment, Emerald cinched his victory with a Leaf Blade against the leafy ninja that was jumping everywhere. "Piece of cake!"

"Miyako, Iori!" The Goggle Brat clenched his teeth as he was the only one left. He eyed me since it looked like Explotaro and I were to be his opponent. "Fladramon, give it all you've got. We're going to settle the score here!"

"Not likely, but let's see if you can defeat the Grand Hatcher Gold!" I let out a furious and energetic roar. "Flame Wheel!"

Our opponent wrapped himself up in flames and rocketed towards us. "Fire Rocket!"

Both crashed into each other and I was forced to bring my arms up to shield my face. When I looked up, both were still standing and were now having a wrestling contest. I smirked though because I held the advantage. Our target was in a prime location to taste the full power of our Ultimate Technique.

I let out one more roar. "Blast Burn!"

The lizard pushed Explotaro away but the attack was already charging up. "Gold, stop the attack!" I heard Red's voice above me and looked up.

In the air, I saw him with a boy riding a golden winged horse. The boy called out towards the Goggle Brat. "Daisuke! They aren't the enemy!"

Those words slowly sank in as I looked back down and saw Chef Slowpoke getting in between Explotaro and the blue fire lizard. My eyes widened and I ran towards my Typhlosion. "Explotaro!"

"Dia!" Pearl started for his best friend even though there was nothing he could do.

The flames erupted from my Pokémon's back and I closed my eyes, wishing the seconds would tick backwards, or at least slow enough for even Diamond to dodge the attack.

IXEN (Grey, Black): Ooh, a cliffhanger. Why am I not surprised?

DIAMOND (Blue Grey, Light Blue, Steel Blue): No! I don't want to be a roast Slowpoke.

IXEN (Grey, Black): That reference and joke was just uncalled for...

GOLD (Gold, Black): Pwahaha! What do you mean uncalled for? It fits Chef Slowpoke. And by the way, why is my part so short!? Even Goggle Brat had a longer part than me. I don't mind Red-sempai, but come on! I'm cooler than Goggle Brat!

IXEN (Grey, Black): That's enough, Gold-san. You're starting the next chapter anyways to make up for that. So if anyone wants to know what happens next sooner, review. Remember, each review guarantees at least a day of Author not being lazy.