Pokémon meets Digimon!

(Disclaimer:  I do not own any of the characters from Pokémon or Digimon (or Dr. Pepper for that matter ;)).  Only Vay is my own creation J - To understand where she came from, read my previous Digimon fic, The Protector Saga.)

"We've been here forever!  When is this damn plane gonna arrive!" Davis moaned.  He pulled a face and wriggled in the hard plastic chair.  Everyone sighed and exchanged looks of mixed exasperation and amusement.  Davis had been moaning since the moment they'd stepped foot into the airport, 10 minutes ago, to wait for Mimi's plane to arrive from the U.S.A.

"Look Davis," Yolei said, looking at him in annoyance, "the plane will be here very soon…"

"But…" Davis began.

"…and if you don't shut up, I'll ram Matt's Doctor Pepper bottle down your throat!" she finished crushingly. (Davis sweatdrops)

Matt looked at her sharply, as he was just taking a sip from the aforementioned bottle.

"Woah Yolei, calm down!" he said after he had swallowed.  From somewhere, stifled giggles could be heard.  The group of digi-destined looked around to locate the laughter.  Vay and Tai were clutching their mouths in a vain effort to stop laughing.

"What's so funny?" Matt asked suspiciously.

The 2 stopped giggling to themselves.  They looked at each other and grinned.

"Dr Pepper…" Tai began.

"…What's the worst that could happen?" Vay finished, and they fell about laughing. (Everyone sweatdrops)  Everyone looked at them strangely.  Davis laughed, and then cut it short as Yolei glared daggers in his direction.  Matt stifled a giggle.  It was best not to encourage this double act.

"Alright you two, calm down," Joe said, tapping his foot authoritavely, "It wasn't that funny," he finished, rolling his eyes and pushing his glasses further up his nose.

"I think you'll find it was," Tai said jabbing him in the side.

"We're done laughing now," Vay added, laughter still twinkling in her brown eyes.  She sidled over to a screen that stated flight times.  She pondered it for a while, and then slid back.

"It's arriving in 30 minutes," she announced as she slid her slender frame into the chair next to Davis.  She flicked her hair out of her eye, scrutinized the group and raised an eyebrow.

"Do you really think it was necessary," she said closing her eyes, dropping her head and smiling, "that we all came to greet her when she arrived?"  She lifted her head and put her elbow on the arm of the chair.  She rested her chin in her hand as she looked at them.  The group shifted.  Maybe she did have a point.  With everyone there, the total was eleven people.  Digimon were not present as it was thought best to leave them at home.  (Reasons being that they were too excitable and would cause odd stares.  On further reflection, perhaps Davis should have been left also, as he was causing the same problem.)

"Well it's too late now," Kari said looking at T.K, who was fiddling with his hat.  "Oh for crying out loud!" she hissed, "Your hat's fine T.K!"

(Everyone sweatdrops)

T.K jumped at the sudden burst of noise that was directed at him.  Unfortunately, jumping in such an enclosed place where you're in a large group of people is not a very conducive activity.  T.K's sudden movement caused him to knock into Joe.  Joe being Joe, fell immediately onto his back, his long, gangly legs Taking out Sora, Kari and Izzy, who were standing the closest to him.  Izzy, of course, had brought his laptop.  This went flying from his hands as he bailed.  Tai leapt into the air to catch the airborne computer, he was successful.  However seeing the laptop in mid-air had caused the same reaction in Vay.  She had leapt from her seat, into the air, to catch the gravity-defying machine.  She and Tai collided spectacularly.  The force caused Tai to rebound backwards, landing on Yolei and Cody.  Because of the angle Vay had jumped at, the force from the collision caused her to do a very impressive 180-degree spin.  She fell from the air and landed smack on top of Matt, nose to nose.  This amazing turn of events left only Davis, (who was a little slow off the mark) not in the pile of bodies entangled on the floor.  Varying moans and groans could be heard as they were stared at by a lot of shocked airport-going people.  Davis just sat there and laughed till tears ran down his face.

"Ow!  Who's pulling on my leg!?" one muffled voice, possibly Tai's, asked.

"At least your not at the bottom of this pile!" Joe answered, his face squashed unceremoniously on the floor.

"All I can say is, be glad you don't have someone using you as a human crash-mat!" Matt replied, staring directly into Vay's eyes, which were inches from his own.

Human crash-Matt, that's quite funny," Vay giggled. Matt just stared at her uncomprehendingly. 

"You know," she continued, "your name's Matt, human crash-Matt." She finished grinning.

A muffled laugh came from Tai's direction.

"Now is not the time to be cracking jokes, especially when you're on top of me," Matt growled, with a crushing look.

"You know you love it," she said with a grin as she winked at him.

Matt blushed, but continued to give her his patented "I am displeased with you" look.  (This look is well known for turning weaker fan-girls into blubbering pools of girly slush)

"Please!" Joe yelled, "Enough with the commenting already!  Can we just get this pile of scrambled legs sorted out!" he shouted, "My face will be permanently flattened if you guys don't GET OFF ME!"

With a little careful direction from Sora, who was at the heart of the pile, they managed to get themselves untangled and upright again.

"Well done everyone," Vay smirked, "we managed to get ourselves sorted with little to no help from Davis," she said, looking in the direction of the offending pointy haired youth and smoothing out her short, dark hair.  He just looked at her.  Tai laughed and Matt couldn't help himself either.

"What a fun way to waste time," she added sarcastically.

"Personally I can think of better ways to do that," Tai remarked, his own tall, dark hair leaning distinctly to the right.  Izzy was sat on the floor inspecting his laptop for damage.

"I'm sure I'll have an imprint of the floor on my face now," Joe whined, as he rubbed a very obvious carpet pattern on his cheek.

Everyone straightened himself or herself out.  Tai wasn't having much luck getting his hair back to its original position.

"Damn," he muttered to himself, "I knew I should have brought my gel." (Everyone sweatdrops.)

Cody looked at his digivice.

"Does this thing tell the time?" he asked, his green eyes scanning the vice.  (Everyone sweatdrops and falls over)

"Why don't we use the old-fashioned way and check the clock," T.K said, placing his hands on Cody's shoulders and pointing him in the direction of the clock on the wall.

"Well our little escapade did pass the time, her plane's arrived.  She'll be out soon." Sora said, smiling.

            Mimi thanked the groaning man who had just hauled her luggage onto the trolley.  She frowned to herself.  She couldn't understand why it was so heavy. Her father had had the same reaction at the beginning of her journey when he'd carried her case from the house to the car, and again from the car to the airport.  She looked for the exit sign as she twirled a strand of bright pink hair around her finger.

"Oh!  There it is!" she said suddenly as she spotted it.  She pushed he trolley towards the 'Nothing to declare' sign.

"I wonder who came to meet me?" she pondered quietly to herself.

She was greeted by the scene of a large group of people milling outside the gate.  She should have guessed that everyone would have come.

Izzy, Sora and Yolei were talking in a small group.  Izzy, she could see, had brought his computer.  She giggled.

Joe and Cody appeared to be trying to calm down a rather excited Davis, who was bouncing about in a chair.  T.K and Kari were watching this with some amusement.  Tai, Matt and another girl were playing with a hack-y-sack. (Author's note: a hack-y-sack, if you don't know, is like a little bean bag that you hit and kick about) She guessed that this girl was the Digimon Protector.  She'd heard a lot about her from her e-mailings with Izzy.

"Hey you guys!" she yelled and waved.

Everyone stopped what he or she were doing and waved back as she approached.

"Hey!  How've you been?" Tai asked, giving her a hug.

"Just great, thanks," Mimi said returning the hug.

"Great hair!" Sora laughed.

"Thanks," she said, grinning.

Everyone greeted he with hugs and questions and comments.  After Matt had hugged her, he grabbed the new girl's hand and pulled her forward.

"Mimi this is Vay," He said looking at the small dark haired girl he had hold off.

"Vay, Mimi," he followed up.

"Original, aren't you?" Tai remarked sarcastically, and earned himself a smack on the side of the head from Matt.

"Hey," Vay said, taking Mimi's hand and shaking it.

"Hi," Mimi said smiling, "Vay, that's an interesting name."

"Interesting in inverted commas you mean," she answered, grinning.

Mimi laughed, "It's great to finally meet you, they've told me so much about you."

"Ditto," Vay said as they started to leave the airport, "I'm sure we'll get along great, from what I've heard."

"I was just thinking the same thing," Mimi said with a smile.

"Where did you ge-argh!" Vay started to say until her scream interrupted the sentence.  Mimi looked startled.  Tai had been creeping up behind them and had poked Vay in the sides.  He came out from behind the 2 girls and laughed.

"Ha ha!  Got ya!" he yelled, grinning.

"Oh Tai," Vay said shaking her head, "Tai , Tai, Tai,"  she looked up at him, "I'm afraid that evil in such copious amounts in a person is dangerous, and you must be destroyed."

Mimi looked shocked, but everyone else looked somewhat amused. 

"Don't worry Mimi," Izzy said, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder, "They're like this all the time, it's very normal behaviour for these two."

Mimi visibly relaxed and watched the drama unfold out before her.

"I suggest you run," Vay hissed at Tai.  He broke off into a run and she sprinted off after him.  Matt, who had been chatting with Sora looked over to see Tai being ran down by Vay.

"Oh God," he groaned.  He caught up with Mimi. "They're off again," he added conversationally to her as  they walked along, "It'll take ages to calm them down, they're a notorious pair," he said to her.

She smiled, "She seems like a nice girl, quite energetic," she said, "She appears to be quite amusing too," she said with a laugh as they watched Vay chase Tai around the airport lobby, shouting obscenities at him.

"Yeah," he said laughing, "She's great." He smiled, "She can really cheer you up, it's hard to be in a bad mood around her, you know?"

"Oh yeah," Mimi said with a knowing smirk in Matt's direction.  He looked at her, a blush going up in his cheeks, "I see," she said grinning widely.  Matt's blush deepened.

"I better go and stop it, you know, before it gets any worse," he mumbled hurriedly as he sloped off in the direction of where Vay had cornered a very freaked Tai.  She was closing in on him with a slow and deliberate purpose.

"Now, my friend, you shall die, and so shall the evil that resides within you," she said quietly and menacingly.  Tai whimpered slightly as he tried to crawl up the wall he was backed up against.  She lunged in for the final blow, Tai screwed up his eyes and cowered away from the inevitable impact.  It didn't come, he opened one eye to see that Matt had caught Vay around the waist and had picked her up.  He had her held against him as she squirmed and wriggled.

"No!" she yelled as she thrashed bout in his grip.

"You would've have killed him," Matt pointed out with devastating calm.  Tai visibly relaxed as he slid down the wall into a sitting position.

"Phew," he exhaled, "Thanks man," he added gratefully with a weary salute.  Matt raised an eyebrow and shook his head.  Vay stopped struggling and went limp in his arms.

"So close, so close," she whimpered.  Matt turned her around to face him.

"What devil art thou that must torment me thus?" she said sadly as she looked at him.  For the second time in about 2 hours, he gave her his 'I am displeased with you' look.

"Promise me you won't hurt him," he said emphatically to her.

"But all I…" she started.

"Promise me." Matt interrupted.

"Wanted to…"

"Promise."

"Do is…"

"Promise."

"Hurt him…"

"Promise."

"A little…"

"PROMISE!"

Vay sighed and looked hi in the eye, "Alright, alright," she said pulling a face, "I promise I will not hurt him or injure him in any way intentionally."

"Thank you," Matt said, putting her down and releasing his grasp.

"Yeah yeah," she said with a dismissive wave of her hand, "Damn blondey, always gets his own way, not fair, guitar twanging rock god wannabe," she muttered under her breath as she stalked away.

"What was that?" Matt hissed menacingly as he grabbed her shoulders, stopping her in her tracks.  (She sweatdrops)

"Oh, nothing, nothing," she said laughing nervously.

"Hmm…" Matt said as he let go of her shoulders and watched her hurry and hide behind Tai.  He raised an eyebrow.

"Come on," Joe said, let's get out of here.

"Yeah, I'm starving to death," Davis said.  T.K nodded in agreement.

"I'm sure Mimi wants to change out of her travelling clothes too," Kari I added.

"That is exactly what I want to do," Mimi said with emphasis as she pushed her trolley outside.

"Will someone grab my bag for me?'" she asked.

"I'll do it," Tai offered.  He grabbed the handles and lifted.  Nothing happened.

"My God Mimi," Tai exclaimed, astonished, "What have you got in there?"

"Just the bare essentials," she said bewildered, "My entire wardrobe, all of my shoes, underwear, socks, shampoo, conditioner, 2 bottles of each of course," she announced, "Soap, toothpaste, facial wash, body wash, body scrub puff, flannel, electrical toothbrush and the charger, portable CD player, CD's, all of my hairbrushes, hairdryer plus all attachments, gel," Tai's head shot up as he heard the magical word that could fix all of his leaning hair troubles, "wax, mousse, hairspray," she counted the things off on her fingers.  Looks of shocked awe were exchanged, "Hmm…I think that's it, oh except my photograph camera and my video camera.  Oh, and my laptop, of course," she finished with a smile. (Everyone sweatdrops and falls over.)

"I knew we should have got someone to drive us here," Joe said as he stared at the bulging case.

"Hey Mimi, about that gel…" Tai began.

"Forget about it," Vay said quickly, "It'll take to long to find it in that bag, it'll be virtually impossible.  The leaning tower of hair will have to wait till we get back home," she said with a grin.  This earned her a very icy glare.

In the end it took Matt, Tai, Sora, Vay, T.K and Davis to get the bag off the ground and moving.

"Do you think we could flag down a taxi?" Izzy enquired as he watched the 6 struggled along with the bag.

"One problem," Yolei pointed out, "No money."

They al sighed and continued along down the road.

"Oh man, I've got to rest," T.K groaned, "My arms gonna drop off!"

They laid the bag on the floor.

"How far did we get?" Davis asked, "I feel like we've been walking for ages."

"Hmm," Cody said, "We're about 10 metres away from the airport."

A collective groan went up from the people carrying the bag.

"5 minutes rest, then we really should get going," Joe said matter-of-factly.

"Easy for you to say," Sora sniped as she rubbed her arm, "You're not the one carrying this case."

"Hey...guys…" Cody said quietly as he stared at something, but no one heard him because they had begun to argue.

"He's just trying to organize our time," Izzy said jumping to Joe's defence.

"Well you carry it and see of your opinion changes," Davis snapped.

"Guys…" Cody said again.

"Will you lot just give it a rest?" Yolei yelled.

"What are you yelling about, there was no need for you to get involved," Tai retorted.

Everyone began arguing and yelling at each other.

"GUYS! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD AND PURE, WILL YOU LISTEN TO ME!" Cody yelled urgently. (Everyone sweatdrops.) They all looked at the normally quiet Cody in surprise.

"Finally," he said, exasperated, "I'd just like to ask what that is?" he said.

"What what is?" Matt asked confused.

"That," Cody said, pointing behind himself.

They all looked up to see what he meant.  A big black cloud of darkness was coming towards them, down the road.

"What the…?" Tai said in shock.

"I have no idea," Izzy said quietly, "But do you think we should really stand here and wonder about it?"

"Good point," Joe said.

"Why does stuff like this only happen when no one else is around?" Yolei asked. (Everyone sweatdrops)

"We should move quickly," Sora said, "Whatever it is, I don't want to stand around here and be engulfed by it."

"Right," Kari breathed, "Let's get out of here!"

They all began to run, minus Mimi's bag, as it would slow them down too much.

"Wait! What about my bag?" Mimi screeched as the group pushed her along.

"Forget about the bag, its not important," Izzy said grabbing her hand, "Let's get a move on."

"No!" she yelled and pulled away from him.  She ran back to her bag and began pulling at it in vain.

"Mimi come back," Sora yelled desperately.

"Oh man," Vay groaned, slapping her forehead.  She quickly turned on her heel and began running towards Mimi and the bag.

"Vay!  What are you doing? Are you crazy!" Matt yelled as he watched the girl run to wards the blackness.

"I can't let her get covered by that thing!" she called back over her shoulder.  She reached Mimi just as the darkness did.

"Help!" Mimi yelped as she was sucked in.

Vay lunged forward and grabbed her hand.  She caught her feet on the bag, which had failed to be moved by this dark cloud, to stop them from being dragged in.  Everyone froze at the sight of Vay struggling to keep hold of Mimi and keep herself lodged behind the bag.

"For crying out loud! What's wrong with you people?" Vay yelled in fear and annoyance, "Someone help us!"

Tai shook himself at the reprimand and ran back, Matt was close to follow.  Tai grabbed Vay around the waist, and Matt grabbed Tai.  It was like a desperate tug-of-war.

"My feet are coming loose!" Vay screamed.

Davis ran towards them to try to help.  Kari ran as well.

"You guys, don't all go!" Joe yelled.

"I'm not letting my brother get sucked into that!" Kari growled.

"Yeah and I'm not letting those guys have all the fun!" Davis grinned over his shoulder. (People not near the darkness fall over.)  As the 2 ran towards the human chain, Vay lost her grip on the bag.

"Oh God!" Tai yelled as he held on tighter, the chain was being dragged in.  Kari leapt and grabbed Matt's feet and Davis grabbed Kari around the waist, but it wasn't enough.  Even the bag had to succumb to the force of the darkness.  The 6 people and the bag were pulled into the darkness, which promptly closed up after them.

"Oh my god," T.K gasped, "Where did they go?  Where did IT go?"

"What are we going to do?" Yolei whimpered.

"Where could they have gone?" Sora whispered as she sank to the floor in disbelief.