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Summary: After Tai and MetalGreymon defeated Etemon, an explosion propels Sora and Biyomon to Ash and Pikachu. Now she yearns to return to her friends but her heart may have other plans. Ashora.

Crest of Love, Cast of Relation

Chapter 1: Digital Removal

A fierce battle had reached its peak. Seven kids with different creatures battled a monkey in sunglasses and a pile of cables tangled together with some extending out to different places. The kids had a brunette in a blue headband and shirt with brown cargo shorts; a redhead girl in a blue helmet, yellow sleeveless shirt and jeans; a blue-haired boy in glasses wearing a vest and shorts; a spiky blond in a green sleeveless shirt, jeans as well; a smaller blond in a green hat and t-shirt; a redhead boy in an orange button-down shirt; and a brunette/blond girl wearing a pink cowgirl hat, jacket and long-skirt. Their monsters included an orange dinosaur wearing a stone helmet, a giant cactus wearing boxing gloves, a phoenix, an angel, a horned walrus, a blue wolf and a giant four-armed beetle with a horned helmet. The brunette in blue and the orange dinosaur raced in as the desert the kids and creatures walked on had areas with the land swirling. "What's this?" the monkey pondered with a voice like a discount Elvis Presley at the two on the sands under him. "We got that leader and his Greymon wanting to melt their mettle on me! Not like they can take some Dark Network on hand!" The brunette growled with his tag and hand-held device glowing as orange as the dinosaur.

"We're not afraid, you big blowhard!" he roared. "Come down here and fight like a Mon!" One girl thought the charge was a reckless, as well as suicidal.

"Tai, you don't stand a chance!" sounded the girl in pink. The monkey chuckled at Tai and his dinosaur.

"You're brave, I like that," he complimented before firing a green orb. It clocked the dinosaur on the snout and knocked it down.

"Don't worry, Greymon!" reassured Tai, his tag and device glowing brighter. "I'm staying with you!" That's when he saw the items in each hand illuminating even brighter. Greymon felt the glow, the urge to get up becoming stronger.

"Hey, your courage is giving me even more strength," it growled confidently. "I can Digivolve!" Once up, the device shot a light at the tag then to Greymon who began to morph. "Greymon digivolve to… METALGREYMON!" When the glow dissipated, Greymon was bigger and had steel on his head and left arm… and orange hair. He also had tattered wings on his back. Lastly was a breastplate connected by cords to his left metallic claw. The monkey didn't seem too bothered by what Greymon became.

"Looky here, a fully digivolved Digimon!" he scoffed. "It don't matter. I can handle him, too. Just watch!" The kids looked on, stunned at what happened to Greymon.

"MetalGreymon?" repeated the blue-haired.

"Tai's Crest of Courage!" the taller blond realized. Tai felt ready to stop the monkey with MetalGreymon's help.

"Etemon's the enemy!" he shouted. "Use the power of the crest!" Etemon heard enough from Tai.

"Perhaps I can end this charade of stupidity with one more shot," he groaned before pitching one more. MetalGreymon used the metallic claw and tore the orb, destroying it. Etemon realized MetalGreymon's strength from that swipe. "Okay, that might be a joke I made!" MetalGreymon wasn't in a joking matter and opened his breastplate.

"Giga Blaster!" he roared before shooting giant missiles which struck the tangled wires.

"No, I can't die! I'm too important to die!" The explosion from the missiles blew Etemon to pieces… but opened a rift. Tai felt a strong force pulling him toward the rift and couldn't move out of its range.

"Birdramon!" the redhead girl called. The phoenix swooped in and picked the redhead just as MetalGreymon intercepted Tai from falling in.

"Thanks, big guy!" he praised. The redhead hoped to scoop Tai up and bring them to safety.

"Tai!" MetalGreymon looked up and saw the phoenix.

"Stay back," it warned. "The vortex is too strong!" The same found the giant Digimon and pulled him and Tai to the rift. Birdramon stopped short and helplessly watched the two fly in the rift.

"Sora, get away!" screamed the younger blond. Before they could clear, an eruption blasted Birdramon with a severe concussive force. It propelled the two passed the other kids and creatures and right at another rift opened by Etemon.

"Sora!" everyone shouted. Birdramon couldn't recover. Both flew in the rift and vanished. The others looked on with shock and horror. Two kids and Digimon just vanished in front of their eyes. They feared the worst. Time passed. Sora was found on a bed, no helmet. Soon, she began to stir. Sora slowly and painfully opened her eyes, reeling from the eruption.

"I'm alive?" she groaned. She panned her head, noticing that she's in a room. "I thought… heaven was full of sky." As she rose, the blanket fell from her chest. Luckily, she now had a white nightgown on instead of her yellow shirt and jeans. "I can tell it's not my room..." That's when she spotted her new attire and freaked, pulling the blanket around her shoulders. "What happened to my clothes?!" She continued to look around, not finding the phoenix. Of course, the room would've too small for Birdramon anyway. "And what happened to Biyomon?" The mystery of her place grew more befuddling. Then a knock on the door.

"Miss, you're up?" a young woman asked. Sora feigned to answer but it didn't matter to the one on the other side of the door. "I did get your clothes dried and ironed. I'll leave them at the door for you to get dressed." In Sora's mind, she was rescued by kind and hospitable Digimon.

"Th- Thanks!" She hopped out and opened the door, no one present. All that was there was her clothes, cleaned and folded aside her helmet. She hoisted the clothes and closed the door. The clothes still fit, even the gloves. Something felt off in her mind but she couldn't put a finger on it. She decided to take a look through the circular window of the room. She saw water. Last she checked, she was in a desert. "Why is there water? Weren't we in the desert?" Suddenly, a horned goldfish leaped out of the water, the back fin looking like a gown. There were more like another goldfish, more orange in color to the first with no white showing. This discovery left Sora even more confused. "Those aren't Digimon… are they?" She came out of the room and hallway and out to the guardrail to keep her from flying over the side and in the ocean. From the railing, she saw more creatures like moving coral, blue sea dinosaurs with spike shells and blue pods with yellow antennae. Above the ocean were little pigeons and brown ducks carrying leeks in their bills. "Okay, either I'm in a dream or I'm not in the DigiWorld. And if so, someone come and pinch me." She felt lost and looked around for her Digimon, pondering her move. "Do I call for Biyomon? If so, I think it might weird them out." Without warning, a mouse entered and found the worried redhead.

("You're up?") it squeaked. Sora heard the squeak, though it sounded like "Pika Pi" to her. She looked around before she found a yellow mouse with a tail shaped in a lightning bolt. ("Are you okay?") The redhead blinked, no clue to a proper reaction. She tried to shake the sight, eyes covered by her gloved hand.

"I swear that I'm too young for tripping out. What in the digital world is going on?" The mouse wasn't sure how to address her sudden ailment. "Biyomon's probably going through the same confusion I am." The name alerted the mouse, causing it to squeak about the issue at Sora's dilemma.

("I know where Biyomon is!") Sora peeked at the mouse starting to wander back where it appeared from. ("Follow me!") This mouse, to Sora's thoughts, couldn't have an idea what Biyomon would look like. Choosing against her gut, Sora pursued the mouse in hopes to find Biyomon.

"Okay, I seem to be on a ship. How did I get here from the desert?" The two reached the front of the ship. What… or rather who Sora found astounded her. A raven-haired boy seemed to be in a conversation with a pink bird with blue feather tips.

"I didn't think Pokémon and Digimon had that much in common," the bird beaked while enjoying a chilled drink. The boy wore a blue sweat-tee over a black t-shirt and jeans.

"Neither did I," awed the boy. "I mean… Digimon is still new to me. I bet it's the same way with Pikachu." The name had the bird peer around a little.

"Speaking of, where did he run off to?"

"Perhaps he heard Sora and checked in. He's probably worried about her as much as you are." As if on cue, Sora came forward and raced to the bird.

"Biyomon!" she cried. The bird turned and spotted Sora, leaping up to embrace her in a hug.

"Sora, you're finally up!" cheered Biyomon. The girl and bird felt teary but in the joyous form while the boy and mouse watched on.

"I'm sorry for getting you in danger."

"Hey, you wanted to get Tai and MetalGreymon out of there." Now Sora faced the boy who talked to Biyomon before she regained consciousness.

"Thanks for taking care of Biyomon while I was sleeping."

"Don't mention it," he brushed off. "Biyomon and I talked about what Digimon and Pokémon share." The boy's topic didn't ring right with Sora.

"Poke- What?" The boy believed Sora had no clue about what he mouthed.

"From what I learned from Biyomon, all of the Digimon's names end in 'Mon.' But so far, I haven't found a Pokémon that had that last piece of their name." Sora still couldn't grasp the boy's definition.

"I'm not following." The mouse leaped up to see Sora once more at a different elevation.

"Pikachu is a Pokémon. Unlike Biyomon, Pikachu can't talk like you or me." Pikachu squeaked for an example.

"That might explain why I didn't understand what it was trying to tell me." That's when she realized the main ordeal. "Hold on! Did anyone else show up besides me?" The boy and Pikachu looked to each other before turning back to Sora

"You and Biyomon were the only ones we plucked from the ocean." Sora appeared distraught. She wasn't with any of her friends and the world she started to familiarize with wasn't there. She collapsed on her knees, disbelief and despair wallowing up.

"Tai… Matt… Joe… TK… Mimi… Izzy..." The boy huddled down with Sora, a hand massaging her shoulder. He saw the sadness with the redhead.

"I'm sorry." With a sniffle, Sora hugged the boy with tears soaking in the boy's sweat-tee. To Pikachu, this looked familiar.

("I always thought Brock's ways would rub off somehow,") it muttered. Although not clear on what it squeaked, Biyomon figured Pikachu had seen this before.

"You've been on this rodeo before, huh?" she guessed. A hint to being right was a soft nod from the mouse Pokémon.

("More than you'd want to know.") Hearing her breathing returning to normal from choking on some tears, the boy lifted Sora's head to make sure she could talk some more.

"Any better?" he asked. Biyomon's owner cautiously nodded, trying to keep her emotions in check. Acting the gentleman, the boy helped the redhead to their feet. "I know what it's like being away from friends, and it's the same with Pikachu." Sora blinked at the boy's sudden confession about not hanging out with people he befriended.

"I bet your separation from friends is different from my separation," she compared. To her, the boy's separation seemed like they had places to go, things to do. Sora's separation was forced on her. The boy couldn't fathom Sora's demise.

"Well, you're okay right now. That's what matters at the moment." She didn't want to accept being with this boy when she tried to save Tai and MetalGreymon from the aftermath of Etemon's death. Noting her current spot, she grew curious as to where the vessel sailed towards as she stepped to and leaned on the railing.

"Anyway, where's this tub heading to? No way that it's doubling back to File Island." The boy crossed his arms, his mind believing Sora was still minding the world she came from.

"Actually, we're sailing to the Hoenn Region." The name sounded new to the redhead, less what the world contained as a whole.

"Ho-what?" At least she had Biyomon to help clarify the situation.

"Ash is traveling to try a new league over there," she beaked. The name rang new as well to Sora.

"Ash?" Biyomon pointed her wing at the boy who saved them.

"Me," he gulped with a hand up. "Ash Ketchum." Now knowing her rescuer, Sora bowed her head with a hand on her chest.

"Then… thank you, Ash Ketchum." Not sure about the praise, Ash itched his head in some denial.

"Thanks, but the real hero is Pikachu." The mouse squeaked, embarrassed with the redirected compliment. Sora knelt down, hoisting Pikachu in her arms and petting its head.

"If it is you, then thank you, Pikachu." No hesitation, Sora kissed Pikachu on the forehead, surprising the mouse. He let out a wondrous squeal as Ash and Biyomon watched on. Now Sora wondered how Pikachu was able to get both Sora and Biyomon on board. "Wait, how did Pikachu pull us out? He's so light!" Ash needed to explain the rescue as the vessel drifted on the water to their next destination.

TO BE CONTINUED...