Just a Game? - Chapter 3

Story by InfinityForever on SoFurry

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This is a Digimon and Pokemon crossover fanfiction I began working on years ago (back in 2003).

The image used is a title image I made for the story, took quite a bit of work to try and mix Pokemon-like text with Digimon-like text.

Marked "Adult" due to violence and death.

Nathan and Infinimon © InfinityForever

Digimon © Toei Animation and Bandai

Pokemon © Game Freak and Nintendo


Chapter 3 - Foul mood

"Thank you Nurse Joy," I said, waving as I left the Pokemon Center.

I collapsed my Mach Bike and put it along with my school bag into the backpack that Ruby gave me. I then began walking around Petalburg City and bought some food for myself. I noticed that Ruby gave me a whole lot of Pokedollars, so much that I decided I didn't have the time to sit and count it all. I sat on a bench just outside and looked at the scenery from where I was sitting as I ate.

"Ludicolo, I choose you," I heard a voice say.

I looked in the direction of the voice as I ate a mouthful, and saw a Pokemon battle going on just down the street between a male and a female trainer. The male trainer had thrown a Pokeball into the air and a Pokemon game out. Still eating with my left hand, I grabbed my Pokedex out of my pocket with my right hand, opened it, and pointed it toward the Pokemon to get information on it.

"Ludicolo, the -" the Pokedex said.

"That's all I needed to know," I said with a mouthful, stopping the Pokedex from finishing.

The female trainer already had a Pokemon out and I recognized it as a Delcatty. I turned the sound off my Pokedex so that it wouldn't need to talk and pointed it at the Delcatty, just to get some information on it. The information for Delcatty appeared and I read the information as I finished eating. After I was finished eating I crumpled up the trash and threw it into the nearby trashcan. Then I closed my Pokedex and put it back into my pocket, and walked in the direction opposite of the Pokemon battle going on. I had decided I wasn't going to watch the battle anymore. I continued walking out of Petalburg City and to the Petalburg Woods. Along the way I passed many different wild Pokemon, but ignored them all and continued walking. A boy carrying around a net walked in front of me.

"I challenge you to a Pokemon battle, do you accept?" the boy asked me.

"Not thank you," I said, and continued walking right past him.

"Hey," the boy said and stepped in front of me again. "You can't just blow me off like that."

"Sure I can, see?" I said as I turned to the right and continued walking.

The boy once again stepped in front of me. I wasn't in the mood to mess with him right now. I pulled out my Digivice and pressed the button on it, summoning Infinimon.

"What is that?" the boy asked as I pulled out my Digivice and summoned Infinimon.

Infinimon came out shortly after I pressed the button and looked at the boy with fearsome eyes. The boy ran off scared and I smiled that he had left. Then I had Infinimon return into her Digivice and put the Digivice back onto my belt.

"Good show kid," a voice coming from the bushes behind me said.

I turned around quickly and found myself face to face with a man in a red hood and black pants. On the top of his hood was a large black M, and I knew right away that he was a member of Team Magma.

"What do you want Magma grunt?" I asked him, turning my back to him.

"I would like to challenge you to a Pokemon battle, if I win, you give me your Pokemon," the Magma grunt said.

"And what if I win?" I asked.

"That won't happen," the Magma grunt said.

"Why do you want my Pokemon anyway?" I asked, cocking my eyebrow in a daring manner at him.

"That Pokemon you used to scare that boy away was remarkable, it certainly is rare," the Magma grunt said.

"Oh, that isn't a Pokemon," I said. "It's a Digimon, and if you want it so much, then fine, I'll battle you."

I grinned as I pulled off Digivice once again and summoned Infinimon. Infinimon appeared before the Magma grunt's eyes and glared fiercely at him.

"Attack Infinimon," I said, still grinning.

"Infini-fire," Infinimon said, shooting a breath of white flame at the Magma grunt.

The Magma grunt was hit head on with the attack and was turned to dust. I smiled at the pile of ash lying at my feet as I had Infinimon return once again and put the Digivice back onto my belt.

"Teach you to mess with me," I said to the pile of ash.

I continued walking through the Petalburg Woods until I emerged from the other side. After I emerged from the Petalburg Woods I pulled out my Mach Bike and opened it up. Then I got on and rode to the next town, which I knew was Rustboro City, nearly running people over as I rode and laughed at them.

When I finally arrived at Rustboro City I was stopped by a female police officer with blue hair. I knew right then that it was Officer Jenny and looked her straight in the face.

"You nearly ran several people over with you bike there," Officer Jenny said to me.

"Oh yeah, I know, I did it on purpose," I said.

"Oh really, then you are under arrest," Officer Jenny said.

"What?!" I said in surprise.

She pulled me off my Mach Bike and cuffed me, then put me into her police vehicle in the seat behind her, collapsed my Mach Bike, put it in the seat beside her, and drove to the station.

"Oh great," I thought to myself. "What else could possibly go wrong?"

I then remembered all that I had just did, scaring a boy off with Infinimon, killing a human being, and nearly running over many more. I lowered my head in guilt and wondered to myself why I even did all that? What caused me to go off like that? I didn't have the answers but I began to think it may be related in some way to Infinimon.

Once we arrived at the police station Joy took me out of her police vehicle, and pushed me inside the station. Then she uncuffed me, took my backpack, Pokemon, and Pokedex, and threw me into a cell. I sat on a bench-like bed against the wall and looked towards the other cell mates who were looking at me. They were all older than me, which shouldn't be surprising.

"What did you do kid?" one cell mate asked me.

"I incinerated a Magma grunt who challenged me to a Pokemon battle," I said dryly. "Then I nearly ran over several people."

"Woah!" the cell mates said to each other, at the fact that I incinerated someone.

I ignored them all from then on and took a look at my Digivice, which was the only thing that wasn't taken. I examined the Digivice for a little bit until a little picture of Infinimon appeared on the small screen. I starred at the small picture of Infinimon, and began to feel and overwhelming urge to break something, and I couldn't figure out why. As I continued staring at the picture the small little screen on the Digivice began glowing, and Infinimon appeared standing before me. I looked up at Infinimon who stared back at me harshly.

"Get ahold of yourself Nathan, what is with you?" Infinimon said, with a worried tone in her voice.

"What do you mean what's wrong with me? Don't you know?" I asked, staring into her fierce looking eyes.

"What the heck is that?" one of the cell mates asked.

"It's name is Infinimon, she's a Digimon," I said. "I had her incinerate the Magma grunt, she obeys me."

The cell mates stepped back and away from me into the shadows of the cell. I looked from Infinimon toward the bars and got an idea, smiling as it came to me.

"Infinimon, can you melt those bars with your Infini-fire?" I asked.

"I could try," Infinimon said.

"Don't try, do it!" I yelled back.

Infinimon faced the bars with her back to me. She opened her mouth as I watched, then before I could react her tail swiftly hit me upside the head and I blacked out.

When I came to everything was dark around me. I squinted my eyes trying to see anything that could be around me, yet didn't see anything but blackness. I began walking in the direction I was facing waving my arms in front of me as I walked. It felt as if I was blind or something, cause all I saw was black and nothing else. Then I heard a laughter coming from somewhere close by, so I decided to follow the laughter.

"You idiot," a voice, coming from somewhere very close said.

I wondered who the voice was talking to and continued walking in the direction the voice came from, which happened to be the same direction that laughter from earlier came from.

"Oh, so you don't feel like responding, fine by me, but there is no use in resisting me," the same voice from earlier said.

"What?" I asked aloud, putting my hand up to my mouth as that had slipped out, not wanting to alarm anyone my presence.

"Good, very good, Nathan," the voice said.

"Wait, y-you know my name? W-who are you?" I asked aloud.

"Why shouldn't I know you? I am a part of you," the voice said.

"How is that possible?" I asked, waving my arms in the direction the voice seemed to be coming from.

"What? Who? How? You sure ask a lot of questions," the voice said.

I prepared to fight, and got into a fighting stance, only problem is that I don't know how to fight. I felt this voice was a threat even if it said that is was me.

"Oh? I am not going to harm you, I just want to help you," the voice said.

"Help me?" I asked, relaxing a bit.

"Yes, I will help us break out of this jail cell, and possibly kill people in the process, you have to admit killing is fun," the voice said.

"You're insane," I said.

"Have you even been listening? I'm part of you, which would make you insane too," the voice said, and began laughing again.

"You are NOT a part of me!" I said, angrily.

"You really think so? Well, feel free to think what you want, I'll show you what I've been doing while we have been talking this whole time," the voice said.

Before my eyes bright light poured in, so fast that it caught me by surprise, taking a while for my eyes to adjust. As if watching a theater sized screen, I saw things happening before me. I tried to move, but then noticed that I couldn't move at all, I couldn't even close my own eyes. I saw myself use Infinimon to incinerate the cell mates mercilessly and then melt the bars with it's Infini-fire. The officers around the area tried to stop me and Infinimon, but ended up just like the cell mates. I tried to stop myself, tried to pull myself back, but couldn't. I watched several people die by my own hands with no way to resist my own actions.

"Stop and put your hands in the air or we'll shoot," a police officer said pointing a gun in my direction.

I felt my mouth form into a grin, and evil thoughts run through my mind, deciding what I should do with these vermin getting in my way.

"Vermin?" I thought to myself. "Why am I calling them vermin? They are only doing there job by trying to protect innocent civilians."

"No one is innocent, everyone is guilty, and must die," I heard my own voice in my head say back.

"I said stop or we will shoot," the police officer repeated.

"Go ahead and shoot," I said, but I wasn't controlling my own mouth.

I walked up to the police officer, holding the gun before him. The police officer looked at me with clear fear in his eyes, and I felt myself grin again.

"I didn't think you could," I said, still not able to control my own mouth.

I grabbed the officer's gun and with amazing strength crushed it in my very hands. I was surprised that I even had that sort of strength, but snapped out of it as I saw myself grab the officer by the throat. My hand squeezed around the officer's throat tightly, cutting of the air supply. The officer's face began to turn blue with lack of air, and then purplish. My hand squeezed the officer's throat even tighter crushing the throat completely. The other officers opened fire on me, yet with terrible aim. Well, that is what other people watching would have thought yet in reality I was dodging the bullets with amazing speed. I never knew I had such abilities before and wondered why I did now. I felt sharp pain in my left shoulder and a bullet that I missed hit me in the shoulder. My head turned to my left shoulder, distracting my attention from the rest of the gunfire. I was shot in the leg and the stomach and fell to the ground on my knees. The world seemed to twirl around me as I feel face down onto the ground. Before I lost consciousness I felt myself grin once again as the officers moved closer to me.