(BGM : Passing Sorrow - Final Fantasy IX Piano Collection)

The mask lay on the ground, cold, empty, lifeless....

The form hovered over it, long dark hair, shrouded in a trench coat. "You
brought this upon yourself Myotismon," he said, an unreadable tone in his
voice. "Now, you rest."

The man held up a hand and light streamed from it. The mask dissolved into a
cloud of data as he guided it away, the light dissolving the data. "Rest.
Your time has ended. So says I, Oikawa, the Guardian of the Digital World."

"Oh so?" came a whispery voice. "I am much more powerful than you
imagined.... I will return... and seek my vengance."

Oikawa's eyes narrowed. "I will not allow this."
 
"Surely you haven't forgotten... there exist others like me... like the one
who was simultaniously destroyed along with me in my first attempt to
conquer the real world. And he didn't have a connection to the Dark Ocean,"
the voice continued.
 
Oikawa paled. "Pharoah 90...."

The voice took on a smirking tone. "Yes.... but he is too unstable.... I
seek another... another more powerful than 90 ever was.... someone who
can stand up to the agents of good like the short-skirted Sailor Senshi
or those Digidestined... but for now, I bid thee farewell," His tone
turned mocking. "Guardian of the Digital World."

Oikawa frowned. When he became the Guardian of the Digital World he gained
knowledge beyond his comprehension.

The fact that Myotismon was trying a fourth time was wacked beyond.... He
abruptly terminated the gen x lingo as he turned away, changing into a swarm
of luminicent butterflies. Gennai had to know about this.

<><><>

(Opening theme : Liberi Fatali : Final Fantasy VIII)

(A shot of something racing across the seas)
Excitate vow e somno, liberi mei.
Cunae non sunt.

(An eyecatch of a pair appearing out of thin air, weapons at the ready.)
Excitate vow e somno, liberi fatali.
Somnus non eat.

(A shot of a figure locking together)
Surgite.
Invenite hortum veritatis.
Ardente veritate Urite mala mundi.

(A scene of Misty looking up, Jenette at her back)
Ardente veritate Incendite tenebras mundi.

(A pair fighting in the middle of a broken district, explosions
everywhere.)
Valete, liberi, Diebus fatalibus.

(Then, all goes white as the Logo appears.)

A Pokemon, Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction
Developed for the new Millennium

Pokemon 2000 : The Directors Cut

The ReWrite of Pokemon 152 - ? 2000

written by Shaun Garin revised
edited and co-authored by WarChild

based on an idea by Kahlil Noriega
written with the authors permission

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Episode 4 : Enter the Hybrid Digidestined

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“Digiport Open!”

The light blinked a couple of times before slamming shut once again. Yolei
sighed. “No good. For some reason, my D-3 won’t open the Gate.”

“Blast.....” Sora scowled angrily. “If there was only a way... of course!”
Reaching over to the table, she withdrew her D-Terminal from the cupboard.
“I’ll send an email to Tai. He’s still in the Digital World. I’m sure they
can  help.”

Yolei nodded. Suddenly, the computer flared as several beams of light
flashed out of the room. “What in the world?” she gaped.

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“Incoming!” Brock tried to bat one of the beams away but it landed square
in his hands, seperating into two objects. As they tried to avoid the wildly
spinning beams of light, three of them shot out through the open windows
and out into the sky.

“What in the world is this?” Misty held up a small device, trimmed with
red and a crystal with a heart emblazoned on it with an edge that seemed
to fit into the device. Her blue crystal seemed to leap out like water as it
was curled like a wave.

Brock inspected his own. His had sky blue trim on it with a crystal that
was black with a blue symbol on his own. “I have no idea.” The crystal
was sturdy, almost rock like.

Ranma blinked and blinked again. His was grey, as with the crystal that
had a cross on it. The crystal itself was solid like Brock’s with a ring
around it. “Got me.”

James was the last to recieve his items. A striking green symbol that
looked like a shining comet. His crystal was a pure golden color that
seemed to change shape to the unaided eye with the effect it was
giving off. “They’re kinda pretty.”

Sora and Yolei came running in the room. Taking in the items they held,
the women blinked. “Digivices,” Sora breathed.

“A totally different Model. And look, new models of the Digieggs!” Yolei
added.

Yolei inspected some of the symbols on the crystals, nodding as she
recognized them. “Hope, Friendship, Reliability and Love.”

“Well, I can understand the Friendship thing,” Brock said, scratching his
head. “But what about those other three?”

Ranma shrugged. “Well, since I came to Nerima, I was always relied on
to get someone out of a scrape. There was Akane and the constant magical
prince kidnappings, Shampoo and the Ghost C-c-c-cat, everyone... I guess
relied on me.”

“And Love..... I always cared for others... even...” Misty blushed as
everyone gave her knowing glances. “Don’t read into it!”

James then nodded as well. “And I was, well, always hopeful I would
capture Pikachu! I guess that makes me Hopeful.”

Then, their crystals started to shine as Sora nodded. “Those are your
human traits, the strongest out of all of them. But actually, it’s
everyone’s  Hope, Friendship, Reliability and Love that will help you
in time.”

Just then, the computer flared as everyone turned towards it. “The gate
is open,” Yolei said.

With a heavy thump, two Digimon appeared from the computer and
landed in a pile. Sora and Yolei ran in as Sora gasped. “Biyomon!”

“Hi Sora!” Biyomon exclaimed, removing herself from the pile.

“Hi honey,” Tai said, returning through the portal. He was accompanied
by Ash, Agumon, Pikachu, Izzy, Tentomon and Bruno who was holding
a large sandwich, obviously unfazed.

“That was some trip,” Bruno said with a grin.

“Ash, you’re back!” Misty exclaimed as the group walked into the room.
Then she noted the huge group and blinked. “Where did everyone come
from?”

“From the Digitial World!” Agumon said.

“Digital World?” Brock asked. “What’s that?”

“It’s a long story,” Izzy said.

“Well, we have all the time in the world to talk,” Tai remarked. “But Ash
has his tournament to get to.”

“That’s right! It’ll start in a day or so! It’ll take us a little over a few
hours to walk to the Indigo Plateau.” Brock stuffed the D-Arc and crystal in
his pocket as he started to hunt for his backpack.

Ash grinned as he clenched his fist. “Alright! Indigo League, here we
come!”

“Pi Pikachu!”

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Akane stood over the mass of bodies, wiping her forehead. Ever since Ranma
had left, Kuno had reinstated the "Beat up Akane" policy. It made her sick.

"Ranma no Baka..." she growled to herself. She thought that Auntie Saotome
would insist that Ranma stay so he at least continue his education, but she
consented on Ranma's trip. In fact, she gave her full blessings, as if she
wanted him to go.

Nabiki's mind was working like clockwork, trying to figure out the Saotome
Martriarch's motives in sending Ranma away.

Of course, they didn't consider the possibility that Ranma needed some time
to himself and thus, his mother sent him away. That, and coupled with the
weekly letters Jenette had been sending to the Saotome Matriarch ever since
she met Ranma so many years ago.

With Saotome being a common name, Jenette's mother had the legendary Ryo
Saeba track down the correct Nadoka. It took them a while but soon the
extremely good yet perverted detective had found her, and both families had
been in touch ever since.

Whatever the reason, Nabiki knew this could ultimately impact the fiancee
situation. She knew that the woman was very bound on honor. Could it be
that she intends to resolve the situation?

That and it only helped the situation that Jenette had the strongest tie to
Ranma's heart whenever he recieved a letter that was conveniently forwarded
by Nadoka.

"Nabiki... come on! You don't want to be late, do you?"

Nabiki snapped out of her reviere as she quickly followed her younger
sister into the school. Things could wait until lunch.

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"I see you haven't slacked behind on your trainier skills, Nadoka."

"Why should I? Ever since Genma left with Ranma I spent my years refining
what skills I have. And I see returning to China hasn't dumbed down your
skills Grandmaster."

Cologne shook her head. "It will take more than that. These days,
trainers have many advantages over the old days. They have new
techniques, new items to use in battle, and even new evolutions." She
released a red clawed pokemon from a ball. "even though you have some dark
and steel types, pokemon like Sizor are catalogued. If you want, we can
forward all of them to Sam and have him catalogue them

Nadoka shrugged as she handed over the bag of Pokeballs. "Sounds good. So,
any word from your granddaughter?"

Cologne sighed. "Shampoo is still chasing after Ranma. He has been gone
too long and she became worried. Her and the Chef teamed up. They should
be in Cerulean City by now.

"That is if they even got into the Archepaligo. Access to the Archepaligo
isn't easy. It'll take more than just the will of a couple of Martial
Artists just to get in."

Cologne had to smirk at that. "That barrier is rather picky of who it lets
in and out. I'm surprised how many people have made it through."

Nadoka nodded. "Nevertheless, this is an opportunity for this whole matter
to be resolved. That Genma..."

"... is a bigger idiot than most of the retards on this earth," Cologne
finished. "It pains me to see that he actually created the Yamasenken and
the Umisenken techniques."

"I wouldn't be surprised if he stole them," Nadoka said with a smiliar smirk.

Somewhere in the house, Genma had the urge to turn into a panda.

"Oh if he only knew... the real reason I allowed Ranma to travel with his
cousin."

"Let me guess, that Jenette girl you keep telling me about?" Cologne asked.

Nadoka nodded as the pair sat down for tea. "Yes. If Ranma is to choose
well, he should get to know his old childhood friend. They were very close,
according to the letters and phone calls between myself and Mrs. Fisher."

"But from the tone of your voice I believe that is only one part of the
equation."

"That's true. Do you know how Ranma and Genma are so totally unlike in many
ways, that it doesn't seem to be logical for them to be son and father?"

Cologne's eyes widened. "You mean Ranma's is..."

"With any luck Ranma might run into my first husband... his real father."

Cologne fell off her staff, laughing. After a few minutes, she got up and
said, "I should have known."

Nadoka nodded. "If Genma knew that my first husband was in the
Archepaligo, he would have done anything in his power to prevent Ranma
from taking the trip, as it would probably result in the invalidation of
some of the agreements, including the one he was desperately trying to
uphold."

"That, and Genma usually has an ulterior motive if he's pushing something
like a simple engagement too far," Cologne added.

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Mousse's eyes widened as he overheard the conversation. "Ranma's not a
Saotome?" he mused to himself. He kept on listening as the pair of League
legends talked. With every passing second Mousse became more intrigued.
"The Matriarch not intending to keep on pushing Shampoo's marriage?
What's the old hag up to?"

"Let just say for know, it doesn't have anything to do with you, yet,"
came a voice. Mousse whirled around to see a figure in the shadows of a
building. "I afraid I have to make sure you don't divulge info about
this meeting."

"Who are you?" he demanded.

"Just someone who is concerned about the Saotome boy.... but for
now..." A blinding flash came from the darkness as Mousse was frozen.
The figure chuckled to himself, "but for now, that is a secret." Light
rose and he vanished.

Mousse tried to grab after the person who flashed him, but he then
couldn't even remember why he was flashed, much less what he heard.

Sighing, he returned to sweeping the kitchen floors.

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Ukyou pulled up the medium sized boat as Shampoo mored it on the
dock. "Well that was a waste of time," Ukyou grouched.

"Is true," Shampoo said, equally dejected. "Big shimmering wall too
too difficult to cross..."

"I thought they were kidding about the barrier," Ukyo sighed. "But
apparently the world of Pokemon isn't in the mood to welcome us."

"Maybe Shampoo say please? Might of helped instead of breaking
bonbouri on it," Shampoo added, holding up the headless sticks of
what was once two battle maces.

"I doubt being polite will get us anywhere," Ukyo grumbled as she
kicked a stone into the water.

Shampoo sighed as she grabbed her duffle bag. "Shampoo go home
 take long shower and think of strategy. Maybe we hijack plane
next time instead of renting boat."

Ukyo sweatdropped. "No way. Uh nuh. Sugar, hijacking a plane would
not be a good idea."

Shampoo considered the idea. "Is too too right. We get in trouble.
Maybe convince smelly sailor mans over there to take us on liner?"
she asked, pointing towards a boat that was rather futuristic and
seemed to hover over the water. It had the logos of the Pokemon
Islands on it.

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"That was stupid," Ranma commented as he looked down from the top
of the pit as Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu groaned from the
bottom. James rubbed his chin in thought.

"Who ever did this was an expert at holes, besides the obvious,"
he said, offsetting the glares he recieved. "I think someone is
moving in on me and Jessie's territory."

"You do this alot?"

"Oh yeah, like you wouldn't believe," James said, lowering a rope
he pulled out of Who Knows Where. "Lets see.... Jessie and I were
notorious with holes. Butch and Cassidy wouldn't get themselves
dirty digging one... that could leave any other groups of Team
Rocket... but there are dozens in this area alone."

"Oddly though... it's probably the only Team Rocket activity for
the past couple of weeks. I haven't even heard of anything on
Team Rocket on the news," Brock commented. Brock paused in
thought. "Hmmm... has your boss known you left?"

"Probably not. We never report in much as of late. It's like he
expects us to bumble."

"That's not hard to imagine," Misty commented dryly as Togepi
laughed in her arms.

James ignored the crack as he shrugged. "We won't know until we
find out. Who knows, it could have just been a random pitfall."

"Yeah right, RANDOM," Ash said, his tone dripping sarcasm.

"JAMES! JAMES!" The group turned to see Meowth holding up a cell
phone. "James, the boss got news on Jessie! It's important you take
it!"

James picked up the phone as Ranma headed for the hills. "James
here."

"James," came the sharp whip like voice of Giovanni. "Your partner
showed up here and stole valuable pokemon. I trust you have an
explination on this."

"Afraid not sir," James sighed in that whipped puppy tone of voice
they had all come to know. "Jessie went AWOL on me back in Nerima."

"Nerima?! What the nine hells were you thinking on going to
Nerima?!" the voice shouted out the cell phone. "The Nerima district
of Tokyo is one of most chaotic places in the area, with only Juuban
and Odiaba being just as chaotic as well!"

"We were following the twerp and his Pikachu," James tried to explain
without breaking down, "But somehow Jessie had met contact with
Happosai and..."

A stunned silence came over the phone as Giovanni said, "Alright.
I will send my troops on high alert for Jessie...." James
swallowed. If the troops got a hold of Jessie before he did, they
would kill her on sight. "But James," Giovanni added, startling
the teenager, "for your sake, you'd better find her first." He
blinked. Was that a note of worry in the leader of Team Rocket's
voice?

James shook himself to reality. This was Giovanni, the Boss. He
was ruthless. "James, are you still there?"

"Yes sir," James said.

"Good. I want you personally to look for her. No matter the cost.
I owe you James." Then, the line terminated.

James sighed. "Jessie... what could have possessed you to follow
that man? What?"

The cell phone rang again, James picking it up. "Hello?"

"Oh... there's one thing I have to tell you."

"Yes?"

"Stop Happosai at all costs." With that the line terminated again.

James blinked. Giovanni wanted him to stop the old perv, arguably
the most powerful lecher in the universe? He laughed quietly for
a moment before pocketing the cell phone.

"What was that all about?" Ash asked.

"The Boss wants me to find Jessie before the rest of the
Rocketeers do. Or else."

"Or else what?" Misty said.

"Or else... they will kill her." The group gasped in shock as
he continued. "I can now see why there hasn't been much high
profile Rocket activity as of late. Jessie stole some valuable
from the main HQ, and the boss is probably mad. He hasn't told me
all the details but I suspect that Happosai is involved."

"That's horrible!" Misty exclaimed.

"That's Team Rocket... and the Boss is against it all the way,
despite his orders," James added.

"Why?" Brock asked.

"Jessie and James are like family to him," Meowth explained.
"They were the youngest Rocketeers to enter and always found ways
to cheer him up. Did you honestly think that we were always
bumblers? We captured more pokemon than and Rocketeer."

"I remember his thirty third birthday," James said wistfully. "I
kept him at the golf course as Jessie stayed behind, drilling
everyone into submission planning a huge birthday party. It was
when we met up with you Ash that our loosing streak began."

"I see. It's the memories that are keeping him from wanting to
actually go through with the deed," Misty said.

"Now I'm afraid how the boss will react if I told the whole
story. How it was Happosai that got Jessie under the influence of
the powers of Missingno," James added. "Jessie..."

"The more I hear about this Happosai guy, the more bad news he
is. I thinking I going to hate this guy as much as Ranma does,"
Ash commented.

"In any case, we should follow pigtail for brains," Meowth
said. "He's probably halfway to Johto by now."

"Hopefully not. We need to get to the Indigo Plateau fast. And
I don't want to lose him." Ash said, running off.

Misty sighed as she hung her head. "This is gonna be a long trip."

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“Thanks for coming,” Davis said, as Veemon rung up the bill.

“Hey Davis, check that out,” Veemon said, pointing towards a rather
uncommon sight. A pig was dragging a rather heavy looking backpack
with the help of a Bulbasaur. The Bulbasaur had one vine around the
Pig and the other helping the Pig drag the backpack. The backpack
affirmed it’s weight by creating a small trench as it moved along.

Davis grinned. “Now that’s something you don’t see every day.”

The Bulbasaur looked up, spoke to the Pig and then moved off towards
Davis, reaching into the backpack and withdrawing a couple of 1000
yen bills. “Bulbasaur?”

“Ramen? Sure!” Veemon turned to Davis. “One order of Hot Water in
a bowl Davis.”

“You could understand that?” Davis asked, pouring the hot liquid into
the bowl as Veemon rung up the charges.

“Yeah. Dan has a friend who was a Pokemon Trainer with a Bulbasaur.
It’s like a second language.” Veemon handed the hot water to Bulbasaur
who nodded in appreciation.

“Bulbasaur. Bulba.”

“No problem. Say hello to your trainer for me.”

The Bulbasaur trodded over to the Pig and poured it over his head. Davis
blinked. “What, is he trying to cook the Pig?”

“YOW! HOT HOT HOT!” Ryoga danced around for a brief second before
pulling on his clothes faster than most speed techniques. Veemon and
Davis’ jaws dropped through the ground.

“Bulbasaur, bulba.”

“Thanks man,” Ryoga said. He turned to Davis and handed him the bowl.
“This seems to be yours sir?”

“Thanks.” Davis rewound his jaw as he said, “If you don’t mind my asking,
what was that all about?”

“It’s a Jusenkyo Curse, brought on my that accursed Ranma!” Ryoga
proclaimed angrily. “Only when I get my revenge will my suffering end!”

A crack of lighting accompanied the proclimation as Veemon and Davis
bigsweated. “Um... right,” Veemon said, scratching his head. “Davis, what’s
an accursed Ranma?”

“Got me,” Davis said, earning a facefault from Ryoga. “Sounds like a
noodle variety.”

“You have noodles on the brain,” Veemon quipped as he returned to taking
orders.

Ryoga sighed as he hung his head. Sitting down, he started to order. But
then, a sound caught his attention. A haunting accursed sound. A chilling
sound. The sound of many angry females wishing for a trouncing and
hurting with many blunt, and not so blunt, objects. And that hated, hated
voice.

“SWEETO!”

“Aw man, it’s the old freak!” Ryoga exclaimed. Then he blinked. “Wait,
it’s not my problem, just Ranma’s.”

“What the heck is going on anyways?” Davis asked curiously.

“The old freak has probably stolen women’s underwear again, and is
being chased by a pack of women,” Ryoga said. “I guess I should stop
him but this is usually Ranma’s problem.”

“This is too wrong,” Davis said. “Veemon! Lets get this old guy!”

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“Ahahahahaha! What a haul, what a haul!” Happosai chortled.

“V-Headbutt!” A blue lizard shot out of nowhere, slamming into his
stomach and sending him flying. Landing painfully on the ground, the
mob of women caught up to him and started beating and kicking him.

“Wow, that was... kinda easy,” Veemon said, scratching his head.

As the women reclaimed their unmentionables, Happosai stood up, his
aura flaring angrily. “You... you... you lousy Rookie! You ruined a
perfectly good haul! Now you will PAY!” Happosai lashed out with
his snake like chi as Veemon dodged it.

“Veemon!” Davis shouted.

“Veemon digivolve to...” Veemon didn’t get a chance to complete his
evolution when a fuse bomb exploded against him, sending him flying
back into Davis’s arms.

“Veemon! Are you okay?”

“Don’t take me out coach,” Veemon proclaimed, eyes spinning.

“I guess it’s your turn. Go Bulbasaur!” Ryoga shouted, pointing at the
old freak.

“Bulbasaur!” Bulbasaur lunged for Happosai.

“Bulbasaur, tackle attack!”

“Heh. Happo Fire Burst!”

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“How much further?” Misty asked as the small group walked towards
Indigo Plateau.

“We’re almost there,” Brock said, checking the map. “There seems to
be a small hill and then we’ll get right into town.”

Suddenly, a small explosion rocked the area as the group gasped.

“What was that?” Ash exclaimed. He ran up the hill followed by the
rest of them. There, in the middle of the town was Ryoga facing off
against Happosai, along with his Bulbasaur. Happosai was gradually
winning against Ryoga’s crushing blows and kicks with his small
stature and nimbleness.

"Who's that?" James asked, pointing at Happosai.

"Hmmm... if I didn't know better, that shrunken old guy must be
Happosai," Brock said, remembering Ranma's description.

"Wonder how the barrier let him in?" Misty said, perplexed.

"Who care's about that! It looks like Ryoga's in trouble," Ash interjected.

"I seriously doubt we can help, and Ranma hasn't come back yet,"
Meowth added. "That's Happosai, one of the most ruthless Pokemon
Masters of his era."

"Then we'll just fight fire with fire. Go Charizard!" Ash released
his flame pokemon. "Stop Happosai with your Flamethrower!"

Surprisingly, Charizard took one look at the gnome and let loose
with a torrent of flames.

Happosai didn't notice the other attack until he was covered with
flames. "Hothothothothot!" he chanted, running around patting out
fires on his gi.

Ryoga noticed the distraction to immediately took advantage,
landing a fierce blow onto Happosai's stomach.

Happosai went flying and crashed into a side of a building.
Steaming, he leapt out of the hole and yelled, "Now that's was
cheating! How dare you strike an old man while he's on fire!"

"Thunder Blast!" The crecent shaped lightning slammed into
Happosai, sending him through the building. Raidramon smirked.
"That felt good."

Happosai stumbled through the hole as he growled angrily. "That
was low, striking an innocent old man!"

"Who's the innocent old man?" Davis said, smirking.

Happosai growled as the others joined Davis, Raidramon, and
Ryoga. "Grr.. how unfair. Teaming up against one person!"

"Who cares about that?!" James was angry. Very angry. "Why the
hell did you do what you did to Jessie?!"

"I'm not telling!" Happosai gave him the japanese red eye as James
seethed.

"Go Victribell!"

The plant pokemon appeared and before he could eat James' head,
James snapped, "Go and teach that shrivelled old gnome a lesson!
Use your Solar Beam!"

Victribell opened up it's top leaf and gathered energy. Happosai
was dumb struck as Jessie had told him that James' Victribell was
poorly trained. He didn't have time to think anymore as the energy
bolt slammed into him, sending him through a couple of buildings.

Happosai was furious. How dare they attack the master of Anything
Goes Martial Arts and one of the old grandmasters of the Pokemon
League. This time... no holding back, he thought as he pulled out
his Pokeballs.

In a burst of black energy, a giant sized Snorlax with purple
markings appeared, followed by an emerald green Scyther and a flame
red Magmar.

The trainer's eyes widened. "What on Earth is that?" exclaimed Ash.

"My pokemon," Happosai declared. "Sic em!"

He laughed as the Pokemon forced the group back. "That's for using
your Pokemon to attack me!"

"Charizard, use Take Down!"

The red dragon pokemon launched forwards as he slammed into the
Scyther, knocking it back. Charizard followed up with a melting
Flamethrower that covered the bug pokemon with flaming tongues.

"Onix, Go!" Brock entered the fray. "Onix use your tackle attack
on Magmar!"

With a loud bellow, the rock snake pokemon slammed into Magmar,
driving it back. Magmar's clawed feet tore long gashes in the
road while being driven back.

"Heh... you are only delaying the inevitable!" as he dodged a
couple of attacks from Ryoga and Raidramon.

"Then delay this," a female voice cried out, as a apparently
drenched Ranma-chan appeared, readying a ki-blast.

Happosai dodged out of the way nimbly. To him, dodging one of
Ranma's standard ki blasts was like avoiding a slow moving steamroller.

"So," Happosai started with a grin. "you finally have the nerve to show
up!"

"That's right you old freak!" Ranma's gaze scanned the battle field
and then she immediately freaked again, tearing off towards Johto
once again. "CAAAAAAT!"

Meowth slapped his forehead. "This is gonna be annoying come later."

Happosai's grin faded. "Snorlax, drive that Meowth away! He'll
pay for scaring off Ranma before I got to teach him a lesson!"

Davis blinked. "Him? Looks to much like a girl to be a him."

"Definately," Raidramon said, nodding. "Too much chest for one."

"This is NOT the time to be discussing this!" Ryoga shouted.
"Take this, Shi Shi Hokodan!"

The blue ball of depression rocketed forwards and struck the
ground below Happosai, sending him into the air.

Unfortunately, this caused him to unleash loads of his special
bombs into the general area, which had a now a couple of spectators.

Ash was the closest to the bombs as he rushed forwards, tackling
the nearest bystander. Explosions rocked the area, obscuring
Ash and the bystander.

"Ash!" Misty screamed. Suddenly, energy flared up from the middle
of the dust cloud as a orange streak flew into the dust cloud.

When the dust lowered, there stood a strange being hovering over
the surprised bystander.

He was a dark orange color with black armor and two gauntlets
covering his hands. A large shield adorned his back as his face
was covered with a black metal mask. It stood to it's full height
and brandished two spikes that jutted from the gauntlets on it's hands.

Happosai gaped. "Wha?!"

The being leveled a glare at him as he gathered golden energy within
his hands. "Gaia Force!"

The wrinkled old pervert had no time to dodge as the creature's
spherical attack exploded around him.

"Did you see that?!" Davis exclaimed.

"Unbelievable! I would think that was Wargreymon!" Raidramon added.

"Fuck man!" Brock swore for the first time. "That was intence!"

Misty cast a glare at him. "Don't swear around Togepi," she scolded
as Brock scratched his head, chuckling nervously in fear of the Waters
ire.

"Damn... I'll check to make sure the old man's now out of it! Come
on Bulbasaur." With that Ryoga and Bulbasaur ran off...

with Bulbasaur in the lead of course.

The figure seemed to slump down as he breathed heavily. Misty
approached it as the one Ash knocked down got up, eyes wide.
"Excuse me," she said, "what happened to Ash?"

"There is no Ash," he replied in a rough sounding baritone.
"jogress shina... with Agumon...."

"I don't understand... what happened?" Misty asked again.

"jogress.... shinka.... Agumon...." his eyes rolled up into the back
of his head as he passed out. Davis and Raidramon half expected him to
revert to Agumon, but no devolution occoured as the titan lay on the
ground, either unconcious or half dead.

"Great.. now what we're going to do?" Misty declared.

"I think we got bigger problems... look!" Raidramon replied, facing
the now rampaging Pokemon. "Since we knocked that old guy to the
moon, they're out of control!"

Davis sighed. "Okay..... take them out, but don't hurt them perminantly!"

Raidramon nodded as he reverted. "Davis..."

"I gotcha covered. Golden-Armor Energize!"

Veemon was covered in energy. "Veemon Armor digivolve to...
MAGNAMON!" The golden dragon shot forth in his attack run.

Magnamon fired off a blast of energy. "Magna Blast!"

The pokemon were forced back as Snorlax opened it's mouth and a
dark ball of energy coalessed inside. 

"Hyper Beam! Down!" James shouted, taking Misty and Brock with him
as he hit the pavement.

They all saw back of the dark version of the Hyper Beam aimed at
them and...

"Grrr..... Ahhhhhhh!"

The strange figure managed to raise one of its arms to block
the blast from hitting the others.

Although the impact dragged him across the plateau, sending him into
a nearby fountian.

Charizard, which had flew away to avoid Happosai's earlier bomb
attack, saw the figure fly.

For reasons known only to himself, Charizard was mad.

Of course, a mad Charizard is not a happy Charizard and thus, let
loose with the biggest flame thrower at the nearby darkly colored
pokemon.

The Scyther was taken totally by surprise as it collapsed under the
flame attack. The magmar shook it off and the Snorlax hopped around
in pain for a while.

But Charizard wasn't done yet... not by a long shot.

Rushing towards the magmar, he grabbed it in a armlock as he flew
upwards and send it spiralling down in the mother of all Seismic
Tosses. It crashed to the ground and collapsed in pain.

Magnamon sweatdropped. "Umm... Davis?"

"I see it," Davis replied. "You'd better leave it to the dragon.
It'll be like going up against Armagemon as Chikomon."

"For who?" Magnamon said, watching the dragon pokemon take out the
dark ones singlehandedly.

"No... Charizard... stop..." a weak voice said. Everyone turned to
the strange figure, which managed to get up. "I know why you're
doing this, but I need to finish the job... They needs to be...
cleansed."

Charizard snorted as he reluctantly backed off. The creature
gathered energy in his hands again, this time, a pure white force.
"Holy Force!" The ball of pure energy slammed into the three pokemon
as dark energy was syphoned from them.

With that the three Pokemon fell to the ground, as well as the creature.

Misty sighed. "Now... it's over."

"That's a relief. Now we don't have to worry about killing them," added
James.

Misty nodded, but then looked as the large figure glowed... and then
reverted to two smaller figures.

"Nani? Ash?" she exclaimed.

"Woah... Agumon?" Magnamon added.

"Trippy," James remarked.

Brock walked over the two, and checked them out. "Hmmm.... we should
get Ash to a hosptial right away. He might have been hurt in the
battle."

"You make it sound... I dunno...." Misty felt like throwing up her
hands as she stuck Togepi in her backpack and picked up the dinosaur
digimon.

"Say... maybe we should check on that pig boy and see if he located that
old man," Veemon, who had reverted from his Magnamon stage, said.

"Pig boy?" Brock asked.

"You know, that kid in the badanna." Davis explained.

"Forget it, he's already lost." Misty pointed out.

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Contrary to what Misty said, Ryoga was not lost.

He just didn't know where Bulbasaur was leading him.

But he knew what he was supposed to find, the shrunken gnome of a
pervert named Happosai.

"EEEEEEK! Getoffgetoffgetoffgetoff!" a familiar female voice screamed.

"Hotcha! Now you will learn to respect your master! I will have you groveling
at my feet like the others I now so despise!" Happosai laughed.

Bulbasaur, seeing the urgancy in his master's face, led Ryoga to the source of the
voices, which was as Ryoga figured, an irate Ranma-chan being glomped by Happosai.

Ryoga felt something inside of him well up as he aimed and thrust out his hands.
"YAA!" A blinding white energy flared up underneath the pervert as he was blasted sky high.

Ranma flinched at the energy beam that had lanced up in front of her, catching Happosai
in it's blast. "Damn man, you nearly killed me!" she shouted, whirling on Ryoga.

"I did?" Ryoga had to smirk at that. "Sorry."

"Yeah right," Ranma said, scowling while folding her arms across her breasts.

Ryoga snickered before adding, "You heading back to the town?"

Ranma shivered. "Is Meowth still around? I swear... that damned fear is going to be 
nothing but trouble here."

"Possibly..."

Ranma sighed, but not before he heard another female voice call for both of them.

"There you guys are. We're taking Ash to the hospital. We might have been hurt in the 
battle," Misty explained.

"Ash? Where was Ash?" Ranma asked. "I didn't see him there in the battle."

"I'll explain on the way. Now come on." Misty motioned the two to follow her. The two 
martial artists shrugged and started following her.

End Episode 4