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A New Legendary
Written By: Adam-El-Tablawy
Fiction
Ash opened his eyes, blinking at the light. For a moment he didn't recognise where he was, then he remembered: This was his tent. He yawned and stood up, but
then stumbled and fell again, a sharp pain in his ankle. There was a rustling next to him, and he looked over. Pikachu turned over, disturbed by the noise,
and looked at Ash with half closed eyes.
"Hi, Ash." He said sleepily, then his eyes flew open. Ash would have laughed at his expression had he not found himself unable to speak. "ASH? ASH IS AWAKE, EVERYONE!" Pikachu yelled, running outside of the tent. There was the sound of pounding feet, and the tent was literally RIPPED apart by a tanned hand.
"Ash?" Brock said, then his face broke into a wide grin. "He's awake!"
Instantly, Ash was mobbed by his friends. Misty grabbed him by his shoulders and spun him to face her.
"Ash Ketchum, don't you EVER do that to me-er, us, again!" She said, seemingly angry.
Ash grinned. "I won't Misty."
"Ash! Good to see you're awake!" Staraptor sang, swooping down and perching next to him. Next thing he knew, he was tackled to the ground by his pokemon.
After exchanging a few greetings and returning all his pokemon, Ash stood up, and limped out of the now dilapidated tent.
"Ash, don't try to move, you're still hurt." Cress said, worry crossing her face.
"It's just a sprained ankle, I'm fine." Ash said, ignoring her advice.
"Sprained ankle? Understatement of the century. Ash, you splintered your foot into dust!" Rai said. Ash paled.
"Way to keep it low key, Rai." Cress said. "Thank you. I pride myself upon that." He said, oblivious to her sarcasm. Cress sweatdropped.
"Mewgle healed you, though. You should thank her!" Mewgle said.
Ash was confused as to why she was speaking in the third person. "Alright then, Ash thanks Mewgle for being so kind to Ash." He said.
"Why are you speaking in third person, Ash?" Mewgle asked.
"But- but you were just- and I was-" Ash stammered.
"I think he has brain damage!" Mewgle whispered.
Ash sighed. "Forget it. Where's Wormie?"
Misty cocked her head. "Wormie?"
"The caterpie who helped Ash down from the tree." Mewgle explained. Misty froze.
"B-Bug?! EW! GROSS!" She yelled.
"What's wrong with bugs?" Mewgle asked.
"Misty has a fear of bugs." Brock explained.
"Why?" Dawn asked.
"NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!" Misty roared, scaring the crap out of everyone.
"Like I said, where's Wormie?" Ash asked again, recovering.
There was a sudden yell of horror from across the camp.
"Found him." Ray said. "Cress, Rai, carry Ash."
"But I'm fine!" Ash protested. He took a step to prove his point, but yelled in pain and toppled to the floor. "Ash, don't strain yourself!" Pikachu said. Before Ash could protest further, Cress and Rai lifted him up and hauled him across the camp like a two-by-four, Pikachu perching on Ash's stomach.
Soon enough, they got to the sound of the yells. Adam was clinging to a tree and screaming his headoff, a very bemused Wormie watching the incident and utterly confused as to what was happening to him.
"BUG! BUG! GET IT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE!" He wailed. Everyone cracked up watching him. Adam, noticing he had visitors, turned to glare at them, but noticed Ash and broke into a grin, and leaped off the tree.
"Ash, you're awake!" He said.
"And you're standing next to a bug." Brock pointed out. Adam looked down. Sure enough, Wormie was crawling up his leg. Adam let out a girlish shriek and flung the confused bug away, where it smacked Brock in the face.
Adam scratched the back of his head and grinned mareepishly. "Sorry about that, I really can't stand bugs. They're nice, but…they really don't agree with me."
Ash grinned. "That's fine. Misty doesn't like bugs either, you two have something in common!"
Adam's face fell suddenly, and he kicked the ground absentmindedly.
"What's wrong?" Brock asked, recovering from the bug-slap he received.
"…Nothing. Let's go." He said,and began walking off.
"Go where?" Ash asked, confused.
"Canalave. You said you wanted to collect the gym badges, am I correct?" Adam said.
"Yeah, but where are we anyway?" Ash said.
Ray blinked. "Good question…"
Adam sighed. "THIS is why we need maps, Ray. Lucky I have my pokegear on me…" He said, waving a finger and a phone-like device floated out of his pocket. Everyone blinked in surprise, and Cress and Prof. Twin looked furious.
"How did you do that?" Ash asked, amazed.
Adam did a double-take, realizing his mistake. "Oh! Uh…do what?" He asked, obviously trying to stave off the question.
"The levitating phone thing!" Mewgle said. Rai discreetly stamped on her foot, making her clamp up.
Adam glared at Mewgle. "Oh, that? Well, you see…uh…" He trailed off.
"Are you a psychic or something?" Dawn said.
"Yes! Exactly that!" Adam said, grabbing hold of the opportunity. "Anyway, back to the map!" He said, making it clear he wanted nothing further to do with the subject. "According to this, we're in…" He began, then did a double take. "This can't possibly be right!" He said.
"What is it?" Misty asked, curious.
Adam sighed, obviously exasperated. "According to this, we're in…" He said, and then raised a hand to his face and said it so quietly that no one heard. "What'd you say?" Piplup asked.
"Route 210." He mumlbed.
"ROUTE 210?!" Cress yelled.
"That's on the other side of mount Coronet!" Dawn said.
"ASH, JUST HOW BAD A NAVIGATOR ARE YOU?" Misty yelled.
"Very." Pikachu said.
"Hold on. Ash might be a bad navigator, but it's impossible to get here without going through a mountain. Have you made any trips through the caves?" Tia said, stepping to Ash's defense. Somewhat.
"No, actually. We haven't." Brock said.
"Well then, given Brock's lack of memory of going through caves, It would be reasonable to assume that either the navigation system is entirely wrong, or you encountered Uxie and managed to provoke the Intelligence pokemon into removing the entire ordeal, which would be quite needless." Prof. Twin said, ranting obliviously to the fact that his voice had the sophomoric effect of Jigglypuff's sing attack.
"Furthermore, there are several other possibilities, some of which may result in-"
"BOOOOOORRRRRIIIIING!" Mewgle yelled, waking everyone up. Prof. Twin developed a tick in his eye and rolled his fingers into a fist for a moment, before relaxing his hand.
Adam and surprisingly, Ash, were the only ones who had stayed fully conscious during the ordeal. "I dunno, I don't think Uxie would erase our minds for something like that." Ash said.
"Besides, even if he did, he wouldn't leave that visible gap in their memories. And the PokeNav can't be wrong, it's a direct transmission from space broadcasting stations. You would need to warp space to divert…it's…signals…." Adam trailed off. "Ray, can I talk to you? Privately?" He said, and dragged Ray off into the bushes. Ash sweatdropped.
"Something isn't right here." Pikachu said.
"Hey, what's everyone talking about?" Wormie asked, finally recovering enough to wake up.
"EEK! BUG!" Misty instantly hid behind Rai.
"Location crisis. We somehow are on route 210, when we didn't even go through mount Coronet." Brock explained.
Wormie looked as confused as a caterpillar could look. "I dunno what those places are, but me and mom and dad live in Viridian Forest. Is Rou…r….Rute 210 there?" He asked.
"Uh, no. Viridian Forest is in the Kanto Region. This is Sinnoh." Rai said
Wormie shook his head. "Nu-uh, this is Kanto. How else could I be here if it was this synoh place?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out." Cress said, deep in thought.
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"Stop dragging me, for heavens sake, I can walk!" Rayquaza yelled, tired of being dragged in the dirt.
Adam didn't answer, so Rayquaza spat a dragon breath at him, sending him flying into a tree.
Adam groaned and tried to stand up, failing miserably.
"What exactly is so important, Adam?" Rayquaza said, irritated at Adam's behavior.
"Remember what I said? You would need to warp SPACE to divert the PokeNav's signals?" Adam said, finally managing to stand up, using the tree as support.
"Yes, so what?" Rayquaza asked impatiently.
"You would need to warp SPACE." Adam repeated.
"Yes….?" Rayquaza asked, now thoroughly confused.
"Isn't there something there that can CONTROL space itself? Perhaps something that would use that to fight with something that controls TIME?" Adam asked, now impatient.
"…I think you're trying to give me clues here…" Rayquaza said, scratching his chin.
Adam sighed. "Rayquaza, I think that-"
"Wait, wait, I think I have it." Rayquaza interrupted. "I think what you're talking about is…A Pokemon!" He said triumphantly.
Adam facefaulted. "Yes, Rayquaza. The thing I am talking aboutis a pokemon, that controls space." He said. Rayquaza looked blank. "It had a game and two movies with it in it." He said. Rayquaza still looked blank. "It fights with Dialga." Still nothing. "It has Pearls, and starts with the letter P." STILL NOTHING. Adam, now thoroughly ticked off, said "Paaaaaaalllll…." stretching the name out, attempting to get Rayquaza to sound it out.
"MANAPHY!" Rayquaza trumpeted. Adam facefaulted.
"NO, YOU IDIOT! PALKIA!" He yelled. Realization dawned upon Rayquaza's face.
"Oh…." He said stupidly.
"I think Palkia has something to do with this. Altering dimensions is his business." Adam explained.
"Why would he do this, though?" Rayquaza asked.
"I…Have no idea." Adam admitted. "But it's the most probable theory I've heard so far."
"Should we tell the others?" Rayquaza asked. Seeing the look on Adam's face, he clarified further. "I mean Latias and the others."
"No." Adam said firmly.
"Why?" Rayquaza asked.
"Rayquaza, what do you think the first thing Cresselia will do when she hears this is?"
"Blame Darkrai."
"What will she do when Darkrai denies it?"
"Get angry?"
"And what happens when the Lunar Swan gets angry?"
Rayquaza paled, remembering the infamous 'Origin Hall Battleaxe Massacre.'
"All those innocent Pidgey…" He sobbed. "They were so YOUNG!"
"Do we want that happening again?"
"NO." Rayquaza hurriedly said.
"Then we don't tell the others."
"Wait, why not just tell everyone else and not Cresselia?"
"Because then Cresselia will think we aren't telling her something important, which is true, and she will get angry. And do we want Cresselia to get angry?" "NO. But, wait, if we don't tell anyone but we have the secret, won't Cresselia figure out that we aren't telling them something, and they all get angry at us? What do we do then?" Rayquaza asked.
Adam took a deep breath. "In that case, we beg Arceus to protect us from their wrath." Rayquaza snorted. "When Giratina gets angry, everyone runs to hide in their homes. When CRESSELIA gets angry, Arceus himself will be shivering in his closet."
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Brock screamed, as he was flung onto the ground. "DIE!" Cresselia screamed in turn, stamping on Brock's face so hard the ground cracked. She then proceeded to lift him up by his shirt collar, and screamed: "YOU MISERABLE ***** PERVERT, DIE AND GO TO THE DISTORTION WORLD!" Beating him against a tree with every syllable, while Ash and company watched in fascinated horror, utterly helpless to the situation. She then began beating Brock into the ground, who by now had long since stopped screaming, and wound up and threw him like a Frisbee into a tree, and grabbed a branch and smacked him with it. "I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU TO A BLOODY FLESHY PULP, STAB YOU IN THE STOMACH, RIP OUT YOUR EYES, AND HAVE MEWGLE REVIVE YOU JUST SO ICAN DO IT AGAIN!" She screeched, dropping the bruised and bloody Brock to the ground, kicked him in the ribs, and stormed off, then spun back around and whacked Brock in the head with the branch hard enough to snap it in two.
Everyone winced, while Mewgle and Dawn stifled a small scream. Cress spun toward their hiding place in the bushes, and screeched: "WHAT ARE YOU ****** LOOKING AT!?"
"N-nothing…" Mewgle whispered.
"DID I ASK FOR YOU TO TALK?!" She screamed, lifting Mewgle up by the scruff of her neck. There was a sudden roar, a sound like fire crackling, and a cloud of dust, and it parted to reveal a nearly unconscious Cress hanging upside down on a tree, surrounded in purple light, green fire crackling along her singed hair and burned dress and on the scorched ground, Ray standing nearby, holding up Adam as a human shield, and Prof. Twin looking absolutely furious as he checked over Mewgle. v "Urk…thanks…." Mewgle gasped, rubbing her sore neck.
"No problem." Ray said, loweringAdam to the ground slowly.
"Be quiet. Don't touch that, it's sore. You might cause damage." Prof. Twin said, showing emotion for one of the few times since they had been in their company.
"What on earth happened?" Adam asked, noting the destroyed section of the battleground.
"Brock tried to hit on Cress." Rai said simply.
"My eyes will never unsee that scene…." Wormie whispered in horror.
"Is Brock Suicidal!?" Ray yelled. Recovering his composure, he started again. "A few basic rules we learned being with Cress: Number one is to never flirt with her."
"May that Jr. Trainer forever rest in peace." Tia said mournfully.
"Pieces." Mewgle corrected. Brock blanched and passed out again.
"Number two is to never irritate or provoke her in any way, shape or form. Number three is to always remember her birthday. And finally, the most important one is to NEVER, EVER call her fat. Even if she asks you if her dress makes her look fat. Apparently, Brock broke rule number one." [Adam to the ground slowly.
"Be quiet. Don't touch that, it's sore. You might cause damage." Prof. Twin said, showing emotion for one of the few times since they had been in their company.
"What on earth happened?" Adam asked, noting the destroyed section of the battleground.
"Brock tried to hit on Cress." Rai said simply.
"My eyes will never unsee that scene…." Wormie whispered in horror.
"Is Brock Suicidal!?" Ray yelled. Recovering his composure, he started again. "A few basic rules we learned being with Cress: Number one is to never flirt with her."
"May that Jr. Trainer forever rest in peace." Tia said mournfully.
"Pieces." Mewgle corrected. Brock blanched and passed out again.
"Number two is to never irritate or provoke her in any way, shape or form. Number three is to always remember her birthday. And finally, the most important one is to NEVER, EVER call her fat. Even if she asks you if her dress makes her look fat. Apparently, Brock broke rule number one." [br] Ash attempted to change the subject. "Did you find out how this happened? The random shift from where we were before, I mean."
"No. To be honest, we have as much idea as to how this happened as you do." Ray sai
"Something doesn't feel right though…" Tia said, shuddering.
"I know, I can feel it too." Misty said.
"I don't care HOW far away we are from Canalave, nothing's going to stop me from getting that badge!" Ash said, and attempted to set off running, but yelled in pain and collapsed to the floor.
"Ash!" Misty said, worried, and helped him to his feet. "You idiot, you can't walk yet!"
"Oh, yeah. Sorry, I forgot about that…" Ash said. Adam sweatdropped. "He forgot about having a broken foot." He said cynically.
"But it still doesn't matter, because I'm getting that badge no matter what!" Ash stated with remarkable enthusiasm.
"In case you haven't noticed, Ash, you can't walk." Piplup said, finally deciding to speak after several chapters of silence.
"Adam,you said you were psychic, right?" Misty asked.
"Yes, why?" He answered, obviously not liking where this discussion was going.
"Well then, I think I have a plan on how Ash can get there." She said, grinning evilly.
"What do you mean?" He asked, confused, then looked at what Misty was staring at.
"Oh no. You can't possibly think that I'm going to do that!" Adam said.
"Oh, come on, Adam, what's the big deal about it?" Tia joined in.
"No way! Nu-Uh! Not happening."
"Come on, it'll be fine! You want Ash to get to the gym, don't you?" Pikachu said, grinning.
"Pikachu? I thought you were on my side!"
"Revenge is sweet."
"It doesn't matter, because no matter WHAT you do, I'm not going to be tricked into this!" A few minutes later…
"I can't believe you tricked me into this." Adam grumbled, levitating several chairs that Ash and company were sitting on, relaxing. The only one that wasn't occupied was being used to support Ash's legs. Pikachu and Piplup were sitting on their trainers shoulders.
"Well, it does make travel faster." Tia said.
"How come I can't sit on the chair?" Adam asked.
"Because I need it for my leg." Ash said. Adam began to fume.
They floated along for quite a while in silence, before Mewgle suddenly burst into song.
"I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves! I know a song that will get on your nerves, and this is how it goes! I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves"
This continued for roughly five minutes, with Mewgle getting louder at every opportunity, before Adam had had enough. He flung Mewgle's chair into the air, leaving them with blissful silence. Something was off, though…
"Aren't there trainers on this route?" Pikachu asked.
"There should be…this is very odd." Brock said.
"Solaceon town is just ahead, so we can ask them if they've noticed anything." Adam said.
"And get some lunch. I'm hungry!" Ash said.
"Figures, since you've been out for two days." Misty said.
"Hey, Misty didn't yell at him for once!" Mewgle said, dropping back down.
Misty turned her levitating seat around to face Mewgle, an unnerving glint in her eye. "What was that?"
Mewgle shrunk back. "Nothing…"
After a while more, Solaceon town came into view. But once again, something was off.
"It's really quiet." Ash said, scratching his head in confusion
"Doesn't matter, they're probably all asleep or wrangling bulls or something. Stupid cowboys." Adam said.
"No, this is weird." Tia said, looking around uneasily. There was no sound whatsoever. Not even the leaves were blowing.
"Let's go find someone. Maybe they know what's happening." Adam said, walking over to a small brown house. He rapped on the door, but found no answer. "Maybe no one's home?" Ray said.
Adam turned the doorknob, and to his surprise, it wasn't locked. "It's open. Let's go inside."
"I just know that something is going to go horribly wrong…" Pikachu muttered, as everyone went inside. Ash was floated in, much to his joy. "Oh my." Prof. Twin said simply, examining the house. The walls were damp, and several of the floorboards were broken. The coffee table in the center of the house was lying on it's side, and the TV was smashed. Several bugs scuttled around the floor.
"Ew!" Adam and Misty said at the same time, leaping outside to escape the bugs.
Prof. Twin took a step forward, and stepped in something wet. He pulled his foot back, but whatever the liquid was stuck to his shoe.
"Urgh!" He said in disgust, yanking his foot free.
"What the hell happened to this place?" Rai said, looking around the home
. "More importantly, what's THAT?" Ash said, pointing at the goop.
It was a reddish-black, and looked gooey and thick. It was occasionally bubbling. Prof. Twin took out a test tube, and took a sample of the goop. "I'm going to figure out what exactly it is, and how it got here." he said, upon seeing Ash's questioning look.
"This is getting creepy, we should go." Pikachu said.
"Right." Everyone said, began walking off.
Ash noticed that Ray wasn't moving.
"Ray, what are you staring at?" He asked.
"G-g-guh-guh…" He stammered.
"Say it, don't spray it." Ash said.
"GHOST!" He wailed, pointing a shaking finger.
"Huh?" Cress said, following his gaze. "I don't see anyth-" She started, then froze.
A demonic cackling echoed throughout the room.
"Oh dear Arceus, what is that?"
"Run!" Ash said, attempting to float out the door.
The door slammed shut, and the windows closed too. Then all light in the room went out. The darkness was so thick you could feel it. "O-ok, don't panic…" Ash said, scared. Then something tapped him on the shoulder.
Ash froze. "Misty, please tell me that's you tapping me on the shoulder?" He said weakly.
"I thought that was you tapping me…" She said.
"Then that means…" Everyone said, turning to where they thought Ash was. (Ray, funnily enoughh, turned to face a coffee pot.)
A pair of purple hands appeared, and the demented laughing started up again.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Everyone screamed, frantically trying to escape.
"Wait a minute…purple hands?" Rai said, and snapped his fingers. The darkness flickered, and disappeared.
"Aw man, you spoiled the gag." Something said, depressedly.
"Who's there?" Adam said, still shaking.
The hands waggled a bit, and revealed themselves to belong to none other than a haunter.
"It was just a ghost pokemon?" Prof. Twin asked, embarrassed.
"Wait a minute, Haunter, is that you?"
The haunter blinked, and turned to face Ash.
"Huh? What are you-" The haunter paused, and rubbed his eyes. "Ash?" He asked tentatively.
"Yeah!" Ash said.
The haunter instantly broke into a (wider) grin. "Ash!" He said, trying to hug him, but bounced off the field of energy around Ash.
"What the- Wait a minute, how are you floating? Why can't I hug you?" Haunter asked, confused, then noticed Adam. "Ash, look out! A psychic's got you! I'll get him!" Haunter yelled.
"Haunter, no, wait, don't!" Ash wailed, but it was to no avail. The purple ghost sped towards Adam, hands coated in a shadow claw, and swiped at him, making Adam lose his concentration.
"AGH!" Ash yelled, falling to the floor. "My leg!"
"HAUNTER YOU IDIOT, ASH BROKE HIS LEG AND ADAM WAS SUPPORTING HIM!" Pikachu yelled, cheeks sparking.
"What? Oh, sorry Ash." Haunter said, looking unhappy.
"It's alright, Haunter. You didn't know." Ash said, struggling to get to his feet. "Besides, my leg is getting better too."
"Thanks Ash." Haunter said, looking a bit happier, then looked confused. "Wait, did you just understand me?" He asked.
"Yeah, I can understand pokemon now, Haunter." Ash said, finally managing to maintain balance, with some support from Adam.
Haunter looked skeptical. "Fine then, let me test. Cinnamon-coated-apples. Now what did I just say?"
"Cinnamon-Coated-Apples." Ash recited.
Haunters eyes widened to comical porportions. "You DID understand me!" He said, and gave Ash a hug, this time succeeding.
"Cinnamon-Coated-Apples? Why would you…you know what, don't bother." Adam said.
"Haunter, how did you get here? Weren't you back with Sabrina?" Ash asked.
"I don't know. I left the gym for a little bit and went to scare some passing trainers, but there weren't any. I went a bit further out, and I found this town, but it was quiet. A ghost town."
"Literally." Mewgle said, laughing a bit at her own joke.
Haunter grinned, glad to have found someone with a bit of humor.
"Haunter, you went a LOT further than a little bit. Solaceon town is in Sinnoh." Ash said.
"Hey, look, Ash leveled up his navigation skills!" Pikachu said, laughing. Ash fumed.
"Oh come on, I'm not THAT bad at navigating!" He said indignantly.
"Yes you are." Everyone said. Ash sulked.
Haunter laughed a bit, but then became confused. "I didn't cross any seas, how did I end up here?"
Everyone looked at each other. "That's what we're trying to figure out. We were near Canalave before." Misty said.
"Really? That's weird." Haunter said, scratching his head with his disembodied hand.
"Continue with the story, Haunter." Rai said, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Right." Haunter said. He suddenly looked grim. "Anyway, after I arrived here, I decided to explore." Haunter said, causing a flashback. "I looked in every house, every room, every space within town, there was no one. I was about to check the Pokemon Center, but I couldn't get in." Haunter said.
"Can't you fade through walls?" Wormie asked.
"Not here, for some reason. If I try…" Haunter trailed off.
"What happens when you try?" Misty asked.
Haunter curled up into a ball, blue lines running down his face. "I don't want to talk about it…"
"Oh great, another Brock." Misty groaned.
"One was far more than enough." Prof. Twin agreed. Brock pouted.
"Anyway!" Haunter said, recovering. "After that, I decided to look for a place to spend the night. This house wasn't as messed up as the other ones, so I slept here. Then you came in, and you know the rest." Haunter said. "Know what?" Mewgle asked.
Haunter went through the story entirely again.
"..Huh? I'm sorry, I wasn't listening." Mewgle said. Everyone fell over anime-style.
"So, who are they?" Haunter asked.
"Long story. But that's not important right now." Adam said hurriedly. "That pokemon center, we should try and get in." He said.
"Alright then." Haunter said. They all walked out.
Feet falling like raindrops onto a barren sidewalk, they ran to the orange building.
"Looks normal." Adam commented, looking over the building. Sure enough, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Anything inside?" Prof. Twin asked.
"Can't see." Piplup said, balancing on the edge of the window. "It looks totally dark in there."
Mewgle gasped. "Then there's only one logical answer… A bunch of ghosts kidnapped everyone, trapped them in the center and sealed them in the spirit world for eternity!" She said. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Actually, I think they closed the blinds." Piplup said, scratching his head.
Dawn tugged on the doors. "They're locked. I think someone really doesn't want us to get in."
"I really don't want to go in there…" Wormie mumbled, inching away.
"That's alright. I can stay out here with you if you want." Tia said. Wormie hurriedly nodded.
"Well, how can we enter now?" Misty asked, exasperated.
"Well, first, we shimmy up the drainpipe." Ray said, pointing to a rusty grey pipe on the side of the building. "Then we detach the air vents, and squeeze through them. We break down the air conditioning pipe inside, and drop down silently. Then-"
"LUCARIO, USE AURA SPHERE!"
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Nurse Joy sat shivering behind her desk, huggingher Chansey. For all she knew, the entire town could be locked up in this pokemon center, and she wouldn't know. Five hours ago, the power went out, and a bunch of uniformed people barged in. Several trainers had mistaken them for Team Rocket or Galactic.
She didn't know where they were now.
"Thump. Thump. Thump." Came a noise. Nurse Joy felt her heartbeat increase drastically. She hid her Chansey and herself under the table, hoping they would pass by.
"Heh, Tom. Those trainers really were easy to get rid of, weren't they?" Came a gruff voice.
"Yeh. Them's be sleepin' wit' teh fishies tomorrow." Someone answered back. There was a smack.
"Damnit, Tom, how many times do I have to tell you to speak properly?" Another smack.
Nurse Joy shivered. Were they saying they killed the trainers? She scooted back a bit. Big mistake.
"What was that?" The voice she now recognized as Tom asked.
There was more thudding of footsteps, and a head peeked under the table. A disgusting grey-bearded face grinned out from between cracked lips, revealing grungy teeth. "Oi, Lookie what we found 'ere!" He said, grabbing Nurse Joy by her jacket and dragged her out.
The other man grinned from beneath his hood. "A hider. Perhaps you are good for something, Tom."
"Thanks!…" He said. "Wait uh minute…hey!" He said indignantly.
"So, Nurse Joy, you decided to hide from us. Whatever for?" He said, stroking her chin. Nurse Joy shuddered.
"To do this." She said, and kicked him in the knee. The man collapsed to the floor.
"Argh! You'll pay for that, you bitch!" He said angrily, slapping her across the face.
"I don't care what you do to me." Nurse Joy said, her shaky voice betraying her fear.
"Ah, but methinks you do!" The man said. "And even if you did not, perhaps you would care if we did something to your precious Pokemon?" He said, and grabbed the struggling Chansey from under the table. No matter how hard the poor pokemon tried to escape, it failed to. In a fluid motion, he backhanded the pink victim across the face.
"Chansey!" Nurse Joy said worriedly. "Put her down!" She said struggling to no avail.
"No." The man answered simply, and beat the pokemon again.
"Why are you doing this?!" She said, near tears.
"It's fun fo' us!" Tom answered, his putrid breath curling around her neck like a venomous snake.
"Indeed. But I get nothing out of this pathetic thing's suffering." He said, dropping the near-unconscious Chansey to the floor. "What would entertain me…Is yours." He said, drawing a silver blade from the depths of his hood. He swung it at the poor Nurse, stopping it mere inches from her neck.
Nurse Joy was quite aware of the sharp item, it's sharp end pressing slowly into her throat. The man showed no signs of stopping.
"LUCARIO, AURA SPHERE!" Someone yelled.
The man spun to face the door, pulling the knife away from the nurse.
Then there was an explosion, and the wall blew apart, several concrete chunks flying in every direction. Everyone ducked, but none hit them.
Ash, Dawn, Misty, Brock and everyone else ran through the hole, bickering.
"Couldn't you be a little more subtle, Adam?" Rai grumbled.
"Oh, and your plan was SO much better then!" Adam growled angrily.
"Well what if there was an ambush right there that was waiting to kill us when you barged in! Couldn't you have given us a bit more warning?" Rai shot back.
"Well, I for one don't see any…am..bushes…here…" Tia trailed off, looking around the dilapidated building. The walls were peeling, the lights were shattered, there was a dark liquid on the floor…blood, perhaps? She didn't care to find out. And all the furniture and doors were destroyed. Everyone looked around wildly, taking it all in, then slowly turned to face the thugs, who were now staring at them in silent horror.
Adam started to say something, but his mouth flailed uselessly like a goldeen, unable to find his voice.
"Just what…." Brock said slowly, the anger rising in hisvoice. "Just what do you think you're doing to Nurse Joy!?"
Lucario growled, the hackles rising on his neck as he used his aura sight to see the men's intentions…and their auras were none too pretty.
The hooded man regained his composure first, standing up and glaring at all of them, a twisted grin on his face. "Well well well…what do we have here? A bunch of kiddies playing hero?" He sneered, the corner of his mouth twisting up as he spoke. "Sorry to ruin your little game, but you're a little out of your depth!" He said, and raised his hand, clutching the knife tightly as he prepared to throw it. Then he got smacked in the face with a brick.
The hooded man dropped to the floor, howling in pain as he clutched his broken…well, face in general.
"I wouldn't taunt the people carrying the very heavy concrete blocks." Prof. Twin said, tossing another brick from hand to hand.
"…You think you can just barge in here, ruin this wonderful town, AND HURT THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES?" Ash roared, surprising everyone with his anger.
"Whut's little 'uns like yerselves gonna do 'bout it?" The ugly man said, who had never been able to shut his mouth to save his own repugnant hide. Everyone grinned.
"What are we going to do about it?" Piplup said. "HOW ABOUT THIS?!" He screamed, and fired a series of super-powerful bubblebeams at the men, slamming them into a wall.
"PIKACHU, THUNDERBOLT!" Ash commanded. The yellow rat immediately obliged and pumped over a thousand volts into the two soaking wet men, frying them to a crisp.
"Why you little-!" The man snarled, getting up and drawing a pokeball from his belt…
Which was instantly stolen by our favorite purple prankster, Haunter.
"Looking for something?" Haunter asked, grinning ear to ear. "Oh, maybe this?" He said, dangling the pokeball tauntingly in front of the man's face, who pathetically grabbed for it like an infant for his bottle. Haunter pulled it out of reach. "If you want it so badly, here, take it!" He said, and promptly nailed the man in the face with the ball. "Wow, you missed that? Let's try again." Haunter said, and smacked him with the ball again. "Wow, you're a bad catch!" And whacked him between the eyes with the ball. Insult. Smack. Insult. Smack. This pattern continued for a while.
At the same time, both Lucario and Pikachu teamed up and started hammering the ugly man with attacks.
"Wow, you really are ugly, aren't you?" Pikachu said, beating the man with an iron tail. Lucario quickly followed up with a force palm to the gut. The spikes on the jackal's hands made it all the worse. However, the man was so fat that the spikes just sank into the fat and most of it spilled out, to the Lucario's disgust and the man's pain. "Oh, stop whining. You got free liposuction." Lucario said, shaking his paw to free it of the goop.
"And that disgusting case of acne of yours needs to be burned off, and quick! I mean, how many mirror stores have you been banned from?" Pikachu said, frying the man with another thunderbolt. The man convulsed wildly, arms flying up. Pikachu and Lucario started coughing and fanning the air.
"Oh Arceus, JEEZ! That stench is horrible! Ever hear of Deoderant?" Pikachu hacked.
"It, uh…melted when I tried to use it." The man admitted mareepishly. The duo stared at him.
"Odd as that sounds, I'm actually not surprised." Lucario said. "But I don't recommend going near campfires. Or generators. Or Barbeques. Or gas ovens. Or essentially anything that isn't a radioactive containment room so that you don't spontaneously ignite."
"Is it wrong to think that his burning husk would look better than he is now?" Pikachu asked.
"Is it rude? Yes. Is it also true in every way, shape or form? Also yes. Want to point and laugh at him while beating him up?" Lucario asked.
"DO I?" Pikachu answered enthusiastically. They both stuck out a finger (the index, for you dirty minded individuals) and began laughing at him as they hammered him with painful blows. The fight ended fairly soon.
All the humans had quickly ran to Joy's side, and helped her up. Brock, for once, was actually serious while around Nurse Joy.
"Nurse Joy, are you alright?" Brock asked worriedly, as Nurse Joy stumbled to her feet.
"I-I think so…" She stammered weakly, obviously in shock.
"No, she isn't. She's cut!" Ash pointed out, gesturing to her collarbone.
"Oh…" She said, coming to a realization. "When he turned around at that explosion, the knife must have cut me…"
"It doesn't look like she's hurt too badly, though." Misty said.
"Yeah…wait a minute, are you floating?" She said, eyes widening, and pointing to Ash. "Ok, I think I've gone delirious from blood loss."
"No, I shattered my foot so Adam's keeping me levitated here." Ash said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Hi!" Adam waved happily. Everyone sweatdropped.
"I…see…" Nurse Joy said slowly.
"You're not well, you need to get out of here." Dawn urged. Nurse Joy hurriedly shook her head.
"I can't! What about Chansey? She's hurt! And Mew knows what happened to the other trainers…"
"I'm fine, Miss Joy!" Chansey said happily, conspicuously not covered in bruises. "That little girl helped me!" She said, pointing at Mewgle. Nurse Joy was now completely confused. "But you were…and she was…and then…ARGH!" She yelled, clutching her head. "I can't think about how impossible this is right now with all of this commotion going on."
"I'll fix it!" Chansey said, and chucked an egg from her pouch, which promptly exploded and blew the two goons and the pokemon away.
"Ow…." The hooded man groaned, holding his hand to his temple. His body ached all over from the explosion, not to mention the peltings of pokeballs. "Gaaaargh…." The ugly man gargled, unable to speak.
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Huh. Well, it worked anyway." Adam said, scratching his head.
"Wait a minute, when using Softboiled don't the pokemon EAT those eggs?" Dawn asked,confused.
"No, we store the eggs in two separate sections, one for eating and one for exploding. And don't worry, we don't get them mixed up. Usually." Chansey said. "Ah." Dawn said.
"Wait, did you just understand me?" Chansey asked in surprise.
"How can I understand you?" Nurse Joy said at the exact same time.
Adam sighed. This was getting ridiculous. "Long story. Can we focus on the evil goons now?"
"Good idea." Ash said, shifting his gaze to the two twitching men…or where they used to be.
"Hey, where'd they gooOAAAARGH!" Adam screamed, his sentence becoming incoherent due to the fact that there was now a thousand poison stings sticking out of his face. Everyone gasped.
"Hmph! You think that we're going to go down that easily?" The hooded man sneered, an Arbok coiling around his feet.
"HANDS OFF MY TRAINER!" Lucario roared, and ran at the man with a bone rush…
And he caught it, broke it in two and bashed Lucario with both sides of the bone before kicking the poor jackal across the room.
"Lucario!" Everyone screamed.
"Luphmarigho!" Adam managed to force out, his face slack from the poison. "Dabthm phis phoison!" He grumbled, trying to get his face back to normal by picking out every last sting.
"Hahaha!" The hooded man cackled. "Your poor little pokemon's all washed up!"
"Piplup, whirlpool!" Dawn commanded the little penguin. It immediately complied, forming a large swirling torrent of water in midair and flinging it at the man.
The ugly man promptly stepped in it's path, grunting as the water smashed into him…
And dissolved, his foul body odor literally erasing it from existence, even though that isn't possible in any way, shape, or form. Piplup stared blankly.
"Hur! Stupid little birdie, water doesn't do nothin' to me!"
Pikachu fried him, sending him flying to the ground, sizzling.
"And yet, electricity does." Pikachu remarked, cheeks crackling.
"Let's get some lights in here!" Rai said, and clapped his hands.The lights flew on, and blinded the two men.
"OH GOD, MY EYES!" Howled Brock, clutching his not-really-eyes-but-lines-that-let-him-see in pain.
I mentioned that it also revealed the ugly guy's face in excruciating detail, didn't I? Well, now you know.
Rai turned green. "Yeah, I think that's going to give ME nightmares."
"Damn you, optical nerves! DAMN YOOOUUU!" Pikachu howled.
"Ugh, I think I'm going to vomit…" Cress mumbled in distress.
Taking the initiative as they were all incapacitated, the hooded man quickly recovered.
"ACID SPRAY!" He roared, and Arbok leaned back, and hocked up a mass of green fluid, and shot a large stream of it at the heroes, burning them and lowering Pikachu, Piplup, and the unconscious Lucario's special defense.
He quickly followed up with another heavy damage move, and Arbok leapt forward, glowing purple and yellow as it was surrounded with the nimbus of power that was giga impact.
And then Arbok exploded.
The hooded man blinked. Ash blinked. Dawn blinked. Misty blinked. Ash blinked.
"What on earth just happened?" Ray asked slowly.
"Isn't it obvious?" Mewgle scoffed. "What OBVIOUSLY just happened was that Arbok built up power for the giga impact, and ran forward, but was unable to control the move's power and accidentally ignited the stores of poison in him and.."
"Blew up?" Ash finished. Mewgle looked at him in confusion.
"What? No, that's silly. What happened was that because it ignited, he went through a series of painful convulsions at light speed, and the power inbalance ripped apart the fabric of space time, sending him into the future populated by vending machines which ruled reality, where he established dominance and traveled back in time to stop himself from going through this due to a plot twist not yet revealed, but ran into his double and made him explode and cease existing!" She finished proudly. Everyone stared at her wordlessly.
"...What?" Cress asked, utterly confused.
"Well, thenyou didn't hear me properly. What I said was-"
"That's quite enough, Mewgle." Adam said.
"But-"
"THAT'S. QUITE. ENOUGH." Adam said loudly. Mewgle sweatdropped.
"Helooo? Evil bad guys here?" The hooded man said irritably. "People can be so RUDE sometimes…"
No one noticed him, as they were still either trying to process what Mewgle had just said or were thoroughly grossed out by the Arbok bits lying everywhere. Dark thoughts began brewing within his mind as he started to fume.
'Ah ha…I know what'll get their attention!' He thought, rubbing his hands together in typical cliché-villain fashion. Then he threw another pokeball, and a Cacturne popped out.
"Cacturne, get them back for pummeling us with payback!" He roared.
The cactus responded quickly, and set it's fists ablaze with dark energy, then ran forward at the unassuming party of bickering heroes.
Ash sensed something move behind him, and (with some difficulty) turned around to the pleasant sight of a sneeringgiant cactus with dark flaming fists preparing to bash his face in.
Starting, Ash didn't even have time to cry out, and instead took the opportunity to grab the nearest hands to him (Misty's and Rai's) and yank them out of the way, using her momentum to yank himself out of the way. Quick thinking for our somewhat…dense hero.
Adam blinked sluggishly and looked up where he had been cradling his face in his hands just in time to receive a painful dark-type blow, coming quite close to breaking his nose and blowing everyone away with a ripple of black energy. Mewgle, Prof. Twin, Cress, and Adam screeched, writhing about as the black energy enveloped them. Ash suddenly dropped to the ground, his psychic hold breaking. Brock, Dawn, and Ray just flinched and were hardly able to keep foot on the ground. Pikachu, Piplup and Haunter (who had been trying to intercept the cactus) passed out. Misty and Rai were unaffected.
"GWAHAHAHAHA!" The hooded man cackled. "YOU FOOLS, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEAKLINGS LIKE YOU MESS WITH US!"
"And..urgh…what happens when someone stronger than you messes with you?" Prof. Twin rasped.
"Oh, tha's eysey. We lose." The ugly man said. The hooded man slapped him. "Shut up, you imbecile!"
"Hah…you guys might outclass team rocket at being incompetent." Brock chimed in.
There was a brief spell of silence before everyone burst out laughing.
"Hahaha! Good one, Brocko!" Ray cried, slapping Brock on the back and knocking him into the ground.
"More incompetent than team rocket…oh god, can't breathe…can't stop laughing…" Ash choked out, tears forming at the corners of his eyes from the intensity of the laughter. Then he passed out from the pain of falling on his leg.
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James blinked. "Do any of you guys suddenly feel insulted?" He asked, scratching his head.
"Huh, now that you mention it, I feel a bit offended…" Jessie responded, equally confused.
"I wonder why…" Meowth pondered.
"Hm…." They all said in union as their tiny minds churned frantically to churn out an answer.
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"…HELLO?! EVIL BAD GUYS?!" The hooded man shouted, tired of being ignored for what was the millionth time. "Oh for the Hall of Origin's sake…Cacturne, Venoshock!"
The cacturne growled obligingly and spat out a disgusting green fluid, which would all but finish off the group in their current state.
That is, if it didn't stop in it's tracks and swing right back at the attacker, drenching it in foul smelling green fluid which instantly began bubbling on contact, dealing super effective damage and knocking out the grass-dark type.
"What!?" The hooded man asked incredulously.
"Ha ha! Great job, chingling!" Came a young cry. The hooded man, whirled around, trying to locate the source of the voice.
What came into light was a young child wearing a red shirt with the words "What's up with Chu?" emblazoned in yellow on it, basketball shorts, bluish hair and typical running shoes. A small clump of hair obscured a hazel eye slightly.
"What do you think you're doing?" The hooded man asked angrily.
"I should be the one asking that, considering that you broke into my town, kidnapped everyone and nearly killed dad!" The boy shot back. "Yeah!" The chingling pitched in.
The man looked back from the kid to the recovering group, and back again, calculating his chances. He was in a bad position right now…what could he do? Then a devilish and malicious idea came to him. Before anyone could move, he grabbed the unconscious Ash by the collar of his shirt and brought his knife to Ash's neck.
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She narrowed her eyes, something was wrong
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"Make a move and the kid gets it." He said, grinning eevily.
"No,…Ash!" Misty coughed weakly. Rai balled his fists, and started backing unnoticed into the shadows.
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Something was very, very wrong, she couldn't let it happen
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"You wouldn't." The boy hissed.
"Oh, wouldn't I? Ask your dad on that one, kiddo. Now, back off and I'll only give him a flesh wound." The man said.
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It was him, he was in danger, she couldn't let it happen, she had to get him away at any cost
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"You…you…" The boy started, apparently unable to find words to express the disgust he felt for this man.
"Me. Now, back OFF!" He roared, and pressed the knife against Ash's neck.
She shot at the building where he was faster than the eye could see, lashing out mentally at the walls
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*crick!* The boy's ears perked up. "What was that?" *crick!*
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It was right there, she was so close, all she needed to do was hit it- There.
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The walls suddenly burst apart, and an unearthly mist spewed in. The hooded man flinched, feeling a sudden drop in energy.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" A female, oddly draconic voice roared telepathically.
"Huh?" The hooded man asked, before he was suddenly blown away and bashed into the wall at full speed. The mist seemed to ripple for a moment, glowed, and a light green light surrounded the party of heroes and their pokemon. A moment later, everyone was back on their feet, and very confused about what was going on.
"Huh? Wha…" Ash mumbled drowsily.
The mist thinned, revealing the murky silhouette of a creature shaped somewhat like a miniature jet plane hovering in front of Ash. "Who's there!" The man shouted.
The mist parted obligingly, revealing the creature in question. It had red, jet like wings and stubby feet that somewhat resembled the bottom wings on a plane. A blue triangle shone slightly on it's white fur. A bright red pentagon over it's white face covered yellow, almond shaped eyes. Two large white ears stuck up from the sides of it's head. Small red and white arms ended in three small claws.
Misty, Ash, and Brock balked in surprise.
"L-Latias?"
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End of chapter. Woo!
He tried very hard to renaem his account, but google doesnt let thigns like that happen. also adam, i dont hate you or grudge you, it is a meme to love to hate you :)
"Hi, Ash." He said sleepily, then his eyes flew open. Ash would have laughed at his expression had he not found himself unable to speak. "ASH? ASH IS AWAKE, EVERYONE!" Pikachu yelled, running outside of the tent. There was the sound of pounding feet, and the tent was literally RIPPED apart by a tanned hand.
"Ash?" Brock said, then his face broke into a wide grin. "He's awake!"
Instantly, Ash was mobbed by his friends. Misty grabbed him by his shoulders and spun him to face her.
"Ash Ketchum, don't you EVER do that to me-er, us, again!" She said, seemingly angry.
Ash grinned. "I won't Misty."
"Ash! Good to see you're awake!" Staraptor sang, swooping down and perching next to him. Next thing he knew, he was tackled to the ground by his pokemon.
After exchanging a few greetings and returning all his pokemon, Ash stood up, and limped out of the now dilapidated tent.
"Ash, don't try to move, you're still hurt." Cress said, worry crossing her face.
"It's just a sprained ankle, I'm fine." Ash said, ignoring her advice.
"Sprained ankle? Understatement of the century. Ash, you splintered your foot into dust!" Rai said. Ash paled.
"Way to keep it low key, Rai." Cress said. "Thank you. I pride myself upon that." He said, oblivious to her sarcasm. Cress sweatdropped.
"Mewgle healed you, though. You should thank her!" Mewgle said.
Ash was confused as to why she was speaking in the third person. "Alright then, Ash thanks Mewgle for being so kind to Ash." He said.
"Why are you speaking in third person, Ash?" Mewgle asked.
"But- but you were just- and I was-" Ash stammered.
"I think he has brain damage!" Mewgle whispered.
Ash sighed. "Forget it. Where's Wormie?"
Misty cocked her head. "Wormie?"
"The caterpie who helped Ash down from the tree." Mewgle explained. Misty froze.
"B-Bug?! EW! GROSS!" She yelled.
"What's wrong with bugs?" Mewgle asked.
"Misty has a fear of bugs." Brock explained.
"Why?" Dawn asked.
"NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!" Misty roared, scaring the crap out of everyone.
"Like I said, where's Wormie?" Ash asked again, recovering.
There was a sudden yell of horror from across the camp.
"Found him." Ray said. "Cress, Rai, carry Ash."
"But I'm fine!" Ash protested. He took a step to prove his point, but yelled in pain and toppled to the floor. "Ash, don't strain yourself!" Pikachu said. Before Ash could protest further, Cress and Rai lifted him up and hauled him across the camp like a two-by-four, Pikachu perching on Ash's stomach.
Soon enough, they got to the sound of the yells. Adam was clinging to a tree and screaming his headoff, a very bemused Wormie watching the incident and utterly confused as to what was happening to him.
"BUG! BUG! GET IT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE!" He wailed. Everyone cracked up watching him. Adam, noticing he had visitors, turned to glare at them, but noticed Ash and broke into a grin, and leaped off the tree.
"Ash, you're awake!" He said.
"And you're standing next to a bug." Brock pointed out. Adam looked down. Sure enough, Wormie was crawling up his leg. Adam let out a girlish shriek and flung the confused bug away, where it smacked Brock in the face.
Adam scratched the back of his head and grinned mareepishly. "Sorry about that, I really can't stand bugs. They're nice, but…they really don't agree with me."
Ash grinned. "That's fine. Misty doesn't like bugs either, you two have something in common!"
Adam's face fell suddenly, and he kicked the ground absentmindedly.
"What's wrong?" Brock asked, recovering from the bug-slap he received.
"…Nothing. Let's go." He said,and began walking off.
"Go where?" Ash asked, confused.
"Canalave. You said you wanted to collect the gym badges, am I correct?" Adam said.
"Yeah, but where are we anyway?" Ash said.
Ray blinked. "Good question…"
Adam sighed. "THIS is why we need maps, Ray. Lucky I have my pokegear on me…" He said, waving a finger and a phone-like device floated out of his pocket. Everyone blinked in surprise, and Cress and Prof. Twin looked furious.
"How did you do that?" Ash asked, amazed.
Adam did a double-take, realizing his mistake. "Oh! Uh…do what?" He asked, obviously trying to stave off the question.
"The levitating phone thing!" Mewgle said. Rai discreetly stamped on her foot, making her clamp up.
Adam glared at Mewgle. "Oh, that? Well, you see…uh…" He trailed off.
"Are you a psychic or something?" Dawn said.
"Yes! Exactly that!" Adam said, grabbing hold of the opportunity. "Anyway, back to the map!" He said, making it clear he wanted nothing further to do with the subject. "According to this, we're in…" He began, then did a double take. "This can't possibly be right!" He said.
"What is it?" Misty asked, curious.
Adam sighed, obviously exasperated. "According to this, we're in…" He said, and then raised a hand to his face and said it so quietly that no one heard. "What'd you say?" Piplup asked.
"Route 210." He mumlbed.
"ROUTE 210?!" Cress yelled.
"That's on the other side of mount Coronet!" Dawn said.
"ASH, JUST HOW BAD A NAVIGATOR ARE YOU?" Misty yelled.
"Very." Pikachu said.
"Hold on. Ash might be a bad navigator, but it's impossible to get here without going through a mountain. Have you made any trips through the caves?" Tia said, stepping to Ash's defense. Somewhat.
"No, actually. We haven't." Brock said.
"Well then, given Brock's lack of memory of going through caves, It would be reasonable to assume that either the navigation system is entirely wrong, or you encountered Uxie and managed to provoke the Intelligence pokemon into removing the entire ordeal, which would be quite needless." Prof. Twin said, ranting obliviously to the fact that his voice had the sophomoric effect of Jigglypuff's sing attack.
"Furthermore, there are several other possibilities, some of which may result in-"
"BOOOOOORRRRRIIIIING!" Mewgle yelled, waking everyone up. Prof. Twin developed a tick in his eye and rolled his fingers into a fist for a moment, before relaxing his hand.
Adam and surprisingly, Ash, were the only ones who had stayed fully conscious during the ordeal. "I dunno, I don't think Uxie would erase our minds for something like that." Ash said.
"Besides, even if he did, he wouldn't leave that visible gap in their memories. And the PokeNav can't be wrong, it's a direct transmission from space broadcasting stations. You would need to warp space to divert…it's…signals…." Adam trailed off. "Ray, can I talk to you? Privately?" He said, and dragged Ray off into the bushes. Ash sweatdropped.
"Something isn't right here." Pikachu said.
"Hey, what's everyone talking about?" Wormie asked, finally recovering enough to wake up.
"EEK! BUG!" Misty instantly hid behind Rai.
"Location crisis. We somehow are on route 210, when we didn't even go through mount Coronet." Brock explained.
Wormie looked as confused as a caterpillar could look. "I dunno what those places are, but me and mom and dad live in Viridian Forest. Is Rou…r….Rute 210 there?" He asked.
"Uh, no. Viridian Forest is in the Kanto Region. This is Sinnoh." Rai said
Wormie shook his head. "Nu-uh, this is Kanto. How else could I be here if it was this synoh place?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out." Cress said, deep in thought.
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"Stop dragging me, for heavens sake, I can walk!" Rayquaza yelled, tired of being dragged in the dirt.
Adam didn't answer, so Rayquaza spat a dragon breath at him, sending him flying into a tree.
Adam groaned and tried to stand up, failing miserably.
"What exactly is so important, Adam?" Rayquaza said, irritated at Adam's behavior.
"Remember what I said? You would need to warp SPACE to divert the PokeNav's signals?" Adam said, finally managing to stand up, using the tree as support.
"Yes, so what?" Rayquaza asked impatiently.
"You would need to warp SPACE." Adam repeated.
"Yes….?" Rayquaza asked, now thoroughly confused.
"Isn't there something there that can CONTROL space itself? Perhaps something that would use that to fight with something that controls TIME?" Adam asked, now impatient.
"…I think you're trying to give me clues here…" Rayquaza said, scratching his chin.
Adam sighed. "Rayquaza, I think that-"
"Wait, wait, I think I have it." Rayquaza interrupted. "I think what you're talking about is…A Pokemon!" He said triumphantly.
Adam facefaulted. "Yes, Rayquaza. The thing I am talking aboutis a pokemon, that controls space." He said. Rayquaza looked blank. "It had a game and two movies with it in it." He said. Rayquaza still looked blank. "It fights with Dialga." Still nothing. "It has Pearls, and starts with the letter P." STILL NOTHING. Adam, now thoroughly ticked off, said "Paaaaaaalllll…." stretching the name out, attempting to get Rayquaza to sound it out.
"MANAPHY!" Rayquaza trumpeted. Adam facefaulted.
"NO, YOU IDIOT! PALKIA!" He yelled. Realization dawned upon Rayquaza's face.
"Oh…." He said stupidly.
"I think Palkia has something to do with this. Altering dimensions is his business." Adam explained.
"Why would he do this, though?" Rayquaza asked.
"I…Have no idea." Adam admitted. "But it's the most probable theory I've heard so far."
"Should we tell the others?" Rayquaza asked. Seeing the look on Adam's face, he clarified further. "I mean Latias and the others."
"No." Adam said firmly.
"Why?" Rayquaza asked.
"Rayquaza, what do you think the first thing Cresselia will do when she hears this is?"
"Blame Darkrai."
"What will she do when Darkrai denies it?"
"Get angry?"
"And what happens when the Lunar Swan gets angry?"
Rayquaza paled, remembering the infamous 'Origin Hall Battleaxe Massacre.'
"All those innocent Pidgey…" He sobbed. "They were so YOUNG!"
"Do we want that happening again?"
"NO." Rayquaza hurriedly said.
"Then we don't tell the others."
"Wait, why not just tell everyone else and not Cresselia?"
"Because then Cresselia will think we aren't telling her something important, which is true, and she will get angry. And do we want Cresselia to get angry?" "NO. But, wait, if we don't tell anyone but we have the secret, won't Cresselia figure out that we aren't telling them something, and they all get angry at us? What do we do then?" Rayquaza asked.
Adam took a deep breath. "In that case, we beg Arceus to protect us from their wrath." Rayquaza snorted. "When Giratina gets angry, everyone runs to hide in their homes. When CRESSELIA gets angry, Arceus himself will be shivering in his closet."
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Brock screamed, as he was flung onto the ground. "DIE!" Cresselia screamed in turn, stamping on Brock's face so hard the ground cracked. She then proceeded to lift him up by his shirt collar, and screamed: "YOU MISERABLE ***** PERVERT, DIE AND GO TO THE DISTORTION WORLD!" Beating him against a tree with every syllable, while Ash and company watched in fascinated horror, utterly helpless to the situation. She then began beating Brock into the ground, who by now had long since stopped screaming, and wound up and threw him like a Frisbee into a tree, and grabbed a branch and smacked him with it. "I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU TO A BLOODY FLESHY PULP, STAB YOU IN THE STOMACH, RIP OUT YOUR EYES, AND HAVE MEWGLE REVIVE YOU JUST SO ICAN DO IT AGAIN!" She screeched, dropping the bruised and bloody Brock to the ground, kicked him in the ribs, and stormed off, then spun back around and whacked Brock in the head with the branch hard enough to snap it in two.
Everyone winced, while Mewgle and Dawn stifled a small scream. Cress spun toward their hiding place in the bushes, and screeched: "WHAT ARE YOU ****** LOOKING AT!?"
"N-nothing…" Mewgle whispered.
"DID I ASK FOR YOU TO TALK?!" She screamed, lifting Mewgle up by the scruff of her neck. There was a sudden roar, a sound like fire crackling, and a cloud of dust, and it parted to reveal a nearly unconscious Cress hanging upside down on a tree, surrounded in purple light, green fire crackling along her singed hair and burned dress and on the scorched ground, Ray standing nearby, holding up Adam as a human shield, and Prof. Twin looking absolutely furious as he checked over Mewgle. v "Urk…thanks…." Mewgle gasped, rubbing her sore neck.
"No problem." Ray said, loweringAdam to the ground slowly.
"Be quiet. Don't touch that, it's sore. You might cause damage." Prof. Twin said, showing emotion for one of the few times since they had been in their company.
"What on earth happened?" Adam asked, noting the destroyed section of the battleground.
"Brock tried to hit on Cress." Rai said simply.
"My eyes will never unsee that scene…." Wormie whispered in horror.
"Is Brock Suicidal!?" Ray yelled. Recovering his composure, he started again. "A few basic rules we learned being with Cress: Number one is to never flirt with her."
"May that Jr. Trainer forever rest in peace." Tia said mournfully.
"Pieces." Mewgle corrected. Brock blanched and passed out again.
"Number two is to never irritate or provoke her in any way, shape or form. Number three is to always remember her birthday. And finally, the most important one is to NEVER, EVER call her fat. Even if she asks you if her dress makes her look fat. Apparently, Brock broke rule number one." [Adam to the ground slowly.
"Be quiet. Don't touch that, it's sore. You might cause damage." Prof. Twin said, showing emotion for one of the few times since they had been in their company.
"What on earth happened?" Adam asked, noting the destroyed section of the battleground.
"Brock tried to hit on Cress." Rai said simply.
"My eyes will never unsee that scene…." Wormie whispered in horror.
"Is Brock Suicidal!?" Ray yelled. Recovering his composure, he started again. "A few basic rules we learned being with Cress: Number one is to never flirt with her."
"May that Jr. Trainer forever rest in peace." Tia said mournfully.
"Pieces." Mewgle corrected. Brock blanched and passed out again.
"Number two is to never irritate or provoke her in any way, shape or form. Number three is to always remember her birthday. And finally, the most important one is to NEVER, EVER call her fat. Even if she asks you if her dress makes her look fat. Apparently, Brock broke rule number one." [br] Ash attempted to change the subject. "Did you find out how this happened? The random shift from where we were before, I mean."
"No. To be honest, we have as much idea as to how this happened as you do." Ray sai
"Something doesn't feel right though…" Tia said, shuddering.
"I know, I can feel it too." Misty said.
"I don't care HOW far away we are from Canalave, nothing's going to stop me from getting that badge!" Ash said, and attempted to set off running, but yelled in pain and collapsed to the floor.
"Ash!" Misty said, worried, and helped him to his feet. "You idiot, you can't walk yet!"
"Oh, yeah. Sorry, I forgot about that…" Ash said. Adam sweatdropped. "He forgot about having a broken foot." He said cynically.
"But it still doesn't matter, because I'm getting that badge no matter what!" Ash stated with remarkable enthusiasm.
"In case you haven't noticed, Ash, you can't walk." Piplup said, finally deciding to speak after several chapters of silence.
"Adam,you said you were psychic, right?" Misty asked.
"Yes, why?" He answered, obviously not liking where this discussion was going.
"Well then, I think I have a plan on how Ash can get there." She said, grinning evilly.
"What do you mean?" He asked, confused, then looked at what Misty was staring at.
"Oh no. You can't possibly think that I'm going to do that!" Adam said.
"Oh, come on, Adam, what's the big deal about it?" Tia joined in.
"No way! Nu-Uh! Not happening."
"Come on, it'll be fine! You want Ash to get to the gym, don't you?" Pikachu said, grinning.
"Pikachu? I thought you were on my side!"
"Revenge is sweet."
"It doesn't matter, because no matter WHAT you do, I'm not going to be tricked into this!" A few minutes later…
"I can't believe you tricked me into this." Adam grumbled, levitating several chairs that Ash and company were sitting on, relaxing. The only one that wasn't occupied was being used to support Ash's legs. Pikachu and Piplup were sitting on their trainers shoulders.
"Well, it does make travel faster." Tia said.
"How come I can't sit on the chair?" Adam asked.
"Because I need it for my leg." Ash said. Adam began to fume.
They floated along for quite a while in silence, before Mewgle suddenly burst into song.
"I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves! I know a song that will get on your nerves, and this is how it goes! I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves"
This continued for roughly five minutes, with Mewgle getting louder at every opportunity, before Adam had had enough. He flung Mewgle's chair into the air, leaving them with blissful silence. Something was off, though…
"Aren't there trainers on this route?" Pikachu asked.
"There should be…this is very odd." Brock said.
"Solaceon town is just ahead, so we can ask them if they've noticed anything." Adam said.
"And get some lunch. I'm hungry!" Ash said.
"Figures, since you've been out for two days." Misty said.
"Hey, Misty didn't yell at him for once!" Mewgle said, dropping back down.
Misty turned her levitating seat around to face Mewgle, an unnerving glint in her eye. "What was that?"
Mewgle shrunk back. "Nothing…"
After a while more, Solaceon town came into view. But once again, something was off.
"It's really quiet." Ash said, scratching his head in confusion
"Doesn't matter, they're probably all asleep or wrangling bulls or something. Stupid cowboys." Adam said.
"No, this is weird." Tia said, looking around uneasily. There was no sound whatsoever. Not even the leaves were blowing.
"Let's go find someone. Maybe they know what's happening." Adam said, walking over to a small brown house. He rapped on the door, but found no answer. "Maybe no one's home?" Ray said.
Adam turned the doorknob, and to his surprise, it wasn't locked. "It's open. Let's go inside."
"I just know that something is going to go horribly wrong…" Pikachu muttered, as everyone went inside. Ash was floated in, much to his joy. "Oh my." Prof. Twin said simply, examining the house. The walls were damp, and several of the floorboards were broken. The coffee table in the center of the house was lying on it's side, and the TV was smashed. Several bugs scuttled around the floor.
"Ew!" Adam and Misty said at the same time, leaping outside to escape the bugs.
Prof. Twin took a step forward, and stepped in something wet. He pulled his foot back, but whatever the liquid was stuck to his shoe.
"Urgh!" He said in disgust, yanking his foot free.
"What the hell happened to this place?" Rai said, looking around the home
. "More importantly, what's THAT?" Ash said, pointing at the goop.
It was a reddish-black, and looked gooey and thick. It was occasionally bubbling. Prof. Twin took out a test tube, and took a sample of the goop. "I'm going to figure out what exactly it is, and how it got here." he said, upon seeing Ash's questioning look.
"This is getting creepy, we should go." Pikachu said.
"Right." Everyone said, began walking off.
Ash noticed that Ray wasn't moving.
"Ray, what are you staring at?" He asked.
"G-g-guh-guh…" He stammered.
"Say it, don't spray it." Ash said.
"GHOST!" He wailed, pointing a shaking finger.
"Huh?" Cress said, following his gaze. "I don't see anyth-" She started, then froze.
A demonic cackling echoed throughout the room.
"Oh dear Arceus, what is that?"
"Run!" Ash said, attempting to float out the door.
The door slammed shut, and the windows closed too. Then all light in the room went out. The darkness was so thick you could feel it. "O-ok, don't panic…" Ash said, scared. Then something tapped him on the shoulder.
Ash froze. "Misty, please tell me that's you tapping me on the shoulder?" He said weakly.
"I thought that was you tapping me…" She said.
"Then that means…" Everyone said, turning to where they thought Ash was. (Ray, funnily enoughh, turned to face a coffee pot.)
A pair of purple hands appeared, and the demented laughing started up again.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Everyone screamed, frantically trying to escape.
"Wait a minute…purple hands?" Rai said, and snapped his fingers. The darkness flickered, and disappeared.
"Aw man, you spoiled the gag." Something said, depressedly.
"Who's there?" Adam said, still shaking.
The hands waggled a bit, and revealed themselves to belong to none other than a haunter.
"It was just a ghost pokemon?" Prof. Twin asked, embarrassed.
"Wait a minute, Haunter, is that you?"
The haunter blinked, and turned to face Ash.
"Huh? What are you-" The haunter paused, and rubbed his eyes. "Ash?" He asked tentatively.
"Yeah!" Ash said.
The haunter instantly broke into a (wider) grin. "Ash!" He said, trying to hug him, but bounced off the field of energy around Ash.
"What the- Wait a minute, how are you floating? Why can't I hug you?" Haunter asked, confused, then noticed Adam. "Ash, look out! A psychic's got you! I'll get him!" Haunter yelled.
"Haunter, no, wait, don't!" Ash wailed, but it was to no avail. The purple ghost sped towards Adam, hands coated in a shadow claw, and swiped at him, making Adam lose his concentration.
"AGH!" Ash yelled, falling to the floor. "My leg!"
"HAUNTER YOU IDIOT, ASH BROKE HIS LEG AND ADAM WAS SUPPORTING HIM!" Pikachu yelled, cheeks sparking.
"What? Oh, sorry Ash." Haunter said, looking unhappy.
"It's alright, Haunter. You didn't know." Ash said, struggling to get to his feet. "Besides, my leg is getting better too."
"Thanks Ash." Haunter said, looking a bit happier, then looked confused. "Wait, did you just understand me?" He asked.
"Yeah, I can understand pokemon now, Haunter." Ash said, finally managing to maintain balance, with some support from Adam.
Haunter looked skeptical. "Fine then, let me test. Cinnamon-coated-apples. Now what did I just say?"
"Cinnamon-Coated-Apples." Ash recited.
Haunters eyes widened to comical porportions. "You DID understand me!" He said, and gave Ash a hug, this time succeeding.
"Cinnamon-Coated-Apples? Why would you…you know what, don't bother." Adam said.
"Haunter, how did you get here? Weren't you back with Sabrina?" Ash asked.
"I don't know. I left the gym for a little bit and went to scare some passing trainers, but there weren't any. I went a bit further out, and I found this town, but it was quiet. A ghost town."
"Literally." Mewgle said, laughing a bit at her own joke.
Haunter grinned, glad to have found someone with a bit of humor.
"Haunter, you went a LOT further than a little bit. Solaceon town is in Sinnoh." Ash said.
"Hey, look, Ash leveled up his navigation skills!" Pikachu said, laughing. Ash fumed.
"Oh come on, I'm not THAT bad at navigating!" He said indignantly.
"Yes you are." Everyone said. Ash sulked.
Haunter laughed a bit, but then became confused. "I didn't cross any seas, how did I end up here?"
Everyone looked at each other. "That's what we're trying to figure out. We were near Canalave before." Misty said.
"Really? That's weird." Haunter said, scratching his head with his disembodied hand.
"Continue with the story, Haunter." Rai said, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Right." Haunter said. He suddenly looked grim. "Anyway, after I arrived here, I decided to explore." Haunter said, causing a flashback. "I looked in every house, every room, every space within town, there was no one. I was about to check the Pokemon Center, but I couldn't get in." Haunter said.
"Can't you fade through walls?" Wormie asked.
"Not here, for some reason. If I try…" Haunter trailed off.
"What happens when you try?" Misty asked.
Haunter curled up into a ball, blue lines running down his face. "I don't want to talk about it…"
"Oh great, another Brock." Misty groaned.
"One was far more than enough." Prof. Twin agreed. Brock pouted.
"Anyway!" Haunter said, recovering. "After that, I decided to look for a place to spend the night. This house wasn't as messed up as the other ones, so I slept here. Then you came in, and you know the rest." Haunter said. "Know what?" Mewgle asked.
Haunter went through the story entirely again.
"..Huh? I'm sorry, I wasn't listening." Mewgle said. Everyone fell over anime-style.
"So, who are they?" Haunter asked.
"Long story. But that's not important right now." Adam said hurriedly. "That pokemon center, we should try and get in." He said.
"Alright then." Haunter said. They all walked out.
Feet falling like raindrops onto a barren sidewalk, they ran to the orange building.
"Looks normal." Adam commented, looking over the building. Sure enough, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Anything inside?" Prof. Twin asked.
"Can't see." Piplup said, balancing on the edge of the window. "It looks totally dark in there."
Mewgle gasped. "Then there's only one logical answer… A bunch of ghosts kidnapped everyone, trapped them in the center and sealed them in the spirit world for eternity!" She said. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Actually, I think they closed the blinds." Piplup said, scratching his head.
Dawn tugged on the doors. "They're locked. I think someone really doesn't want us to get in."
"I really don't want to go in there…" Wormie mumbled, inching away.
"That's alright. I can stay out here with you if you want." Tia said. Wormie hurriedly nodded.
"Well, how can we enter now?" Misty asked, exasperated.
"Well, first, we shimmy up the drainpipe." Ray said, pointing to a rusty grey pipe on the side of the building. "Then we detach the air vents, and squeeze through them. We break down the air conditioning pipe inside, and drop down silently. Then-"
"LUCARIO, USE AURA SPHERE!"
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Nurse Joy sat shivering behind her desk, huggingher Chansey. For all she knew, the entire town could be locked up in this pokemon center, and she wouldn't know. Five hours ago, the power went out, and a bunch of uniformed people barged in. Several trainers had mistaken them for Team Rocket or Galactic.
She didn't know where they were now.
"Thump. Thump. Thump." Came a noise. Nurse Joy felt her heartbeat increase drastically. She hid her Chansey and herself under the table, hoping they would pass by.
"Heh, Tom. Those trainers really were easy to get rid of, weren't they?" Came a gruff voice.
"Yeh. Them's be sleepin' wit' teh fishies tomorrow." Someone answered back. There was a smack.
"Damnit, Tom, how many times do I have to tell you to speak properly?" Another smack.
Nurse Joy shivered. Were they saying they killed the trainers? She scooted back a bit. Big mistake.
"What was that?" The voice she now recognized as Tom asked.
There was more thudding of footsteps, and a head peeked under the table. A disgusting grey-bearded face grinned out from between cracked lips, revealing grungy teeth. "Oi, Lookie what we found 'ere!" He said, grabbing Nurse Joy by her jacket and dragged her out.
The other man grinned from beneath his hood. "A hider. Perhaps you are good for something, Tom."
"Thanks!…" He said. "Wait uh minute…hey!" He said indignantly.
"So, Nurse Joy, you decided to hide from us. Whatever for?" He said, stroking her chin. Nurse Joy shuddered.
"To do this." She said, and kicked him in the knee. The man collapsed to the floor.
"Argh! You'll pay for that, you bitch!" He said angrily, slapping her across the face.
"I don't care what you do to me." Nurse Joy said, her shaky voice betraying her fear.
"Ah, but methinks you do!" The man said. "And even if you did not, perhaps you would care if we did something to your precious Pokemon?" He said, and grabbed the struggling Chansey from under the table. No matter how hard the poor pokemon tried to escape, it failed to. In a fluid motion, he backhanded the pink victim across the face.
"Chansey!" Nurse Joy said worriedly. "Put her down!" She said struggling to no avail.
"No." The man answered simply, and beat the pokemon again.
"Why are you doing this?!" She said, near tears.
"It's fun fo' us!" Tom answered, his putrid breath curling around her neck like a venomous snake.
"Indeed. But I get nothing out of this pathetic thing's suffering." He said, dropping the near-unconscious Chansey to the floor. "What would entertain me…Is yours." He said, drawing a silver blade from the depths of his hood. He swung it at the poor Nurse, stopping it mere inches from her neck.
Nurse Joy was quite aware of the sharp item, it's sharp end pressing slowly into her throat. The man showed no signs of stopping.
"LUCARIO, AURA SPHERE!" Someone yelled.
The man spun to face the door, pulling the knife away from the nurse.
Then there was an explosion, and the wall blew apart, several concrete chunks flying in every direction. Everyone ducked, but none hit them.
Ash, Dawn, Misty, Brock and everyone else ran through the hole, bickering.
"Couldn't you be a little more subtle, Adam?" Rai grumbled.
"Oh, and your plan was SO much better then!" Adam growled angrily.
"Well what if there was an ambush right there that was waiting to kill us when you barged in! Couldn't you have given us a bit more warning?" Rai shot back.
"Well, I for one don't see any…am..bushes…here…" Tia trailed off, looking around the dilapidated building. The walls were peeling, the lights were shattered, there was a dark liquid on the floor…blood, perhaps? She didn't care to find out. And all the furniture and doors were destroyed. Everyone looked around wildly, taking it all in, then slowly turned to face the thugs, who were now staring at them in silent horror.
Adam started to say something, but his mouth flailed uselessly like a goldeen, unable to find his voice.
"Just what…." Brock said slowly, the anger rising in hisvoice. "Just what do you think you're doing to Nurse Joy!?"
Lucario growled, the hackles rising on his neck as he used his aura sight to see the men's intentions…and their auras were none too pretty.
The hooded man regained his composure first, standing up and glaring at all of them, a twisted grin on his face. "Well well well…what do we have here? A bunch of kiddies playing hero?" He sneered, the corner of his mouth twisting up as he spoke. "Sorry to ruin your little game, but you're a little out of your depth!" He said, and raised his hand, clutching the knife tightly as he prepared to throw it. Then he got smacked in the face with a brick.
The hooded man dropped to the floor, howling in pain as he clutched his broken…well, face in general.
"I wouldn't taunt the people carrying the very heavy concrete blocks." Prof. Twin said, tossing another brick from hand to hand.
"…You think you can just barge in here, ruin this wonderful town, AND HURT THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES?" Ash roared, surprising everyone with his anger.
"Whut's little 'uns like yerselves gonna do 'bout it?" The ugly man said, who had never been able to shut his mouth to save his own repugnant hide. Everyone grinned.
"What are we going to do about it?" Piplup said. "HOW ABOUT THIS?!" He screamed, and fired a series of super-powerful bubblebeams at the men, slamming them into a wall.
"PIKACHU, THUNDERBOLT!" Ash commanded. The yellow rat immediately obliged and pumped over a thousand volts into the two soaking wet men, frying them to a crisp.
"Why you little-!" The man snarled, getting up and drawing a pokeball from his belt…
Which was instantly stolen by our favorite purple prankster, Haunter.
"Looking for something?" Haunter asked, grinning ear to ear. "Oh, maybe this?" He said, dangling the pokeball tauntingly in front of the man's face, who pathetically grabbed for it like an infant for his bottle. Haunter pulled it out of reach. "If you want it so badly, here, take it!" He said, and promptly nailed the man in the face with the ball. "Wow, you missed that? Let's try again." Haunter said, and smacked him with the ball again. "Wow, you're a bad catch!" And whacked him between the eyes with the ball. Insult. Smack. Insult. Smack. This pattern continued for a while.
At the same time, both Lucario and Pikachu teamed up and started hammering the ugly man with attacks.
"Wow, you really are ugly, aren't you?" Pikachu said, beating the man with an iron tail. Lucario quickly followed up with a force palm to the gut. The spikes on the jackal's hands made it all the worse. However, the man was so fat that the spikes just sank into the fat and most of it spilled out, to the Lucario's disgust and the man's pain. "Oh, stop whining. You got free liposuction." Lucario said, shaking his paw to free it of the goop.
"And that disgusting case of acne of yours needs to be burned off, and quick! I mean, how many mirror stores have you been banned from?" Pikachu said, frying the man with another thunderbolt. The man convulsed wildly, arms flying up. Pikachu and Lucario started coughing and fanning the air.
"Oh Arceus, JEEZ! That stench is horrible! Ever hear of Deoderant?" Pikachu hacked.
"It, uh…melted when I tried to use it." The man admitted mareepishly. The duo stared at him.
"Odd as that sounds, I'm actually not surprised." Lucario said. "But I don't recommend going near campfires. Or generators. Or Barbeques. Or gas ovens. Or essentially anything that isn't a radioactive containment room so that you don't spontaneously ignite."
"Is it wrong to think that his burning husk would look better than he is now?" Pikachu asked.
"Is it rude? Yes. Is it also true in every way, shape or form? Also yes. Want to point and laugh at him while beating him up?" Lucario asked.
"DO I?" Pikachu answered enthusiastically. They both stuck out a finger (the index, for you dirty minded individuals) and began laughing at him as they hammered him with painful blows. The fight ended fairly soon.
All the humans had quickly ran to Joy's side, and helped her up. Brock, for once, was actually serious while around Nurse Joy.
"Nurse Joy, are you alright?" Brock asked worriedly, as Nurse Joy stumbled to her feet.
"I-I think so…" She stammered weakly, obviously in shock.
"No, she isn't. She's cut!" Ash pointed out, gesturing to her collarbone.
"Oh…" She said, coming to a realization. "When he turned around at that explosion, the knife must have cut me…"
"It doesn't look like she's hurt too badly, though." Misty said.
"Yeah…wait a minute, are you floating?" She said, eyes widening, and pointing to Ash. "Ok, I think I've gone delirious from blood loss."
"No, I shattered my foot so Adam's keeping me levitated here." Ash said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Hi!" Adam waved happily. Everyone sweatdropped.
"I…see…" Nurse Joy said slowly.
"You're not well, you need to get out of here." Dawn urged. Nurse Joy hurriedly shook her head.
"I can't! What about Chansey? She's hurt! And Mew knows what happened to the other trainers…"
"I'm fine, Miss Joy!" Chansey said happily, conspicuously not covered in bruises. "That little girl helped me!" She said, pointing at Mewgle. Nurse Joy was now completely confused. "But you were…and she was…and then…ARGH!" She yelled, clutching her head. "I can't think about how impossible this is right now with all of this commotion going on."
"I'll fix it!" Chansey said, and chucked an egg from her pouch, which promptly exploded and blew the two goons and the pokemon away.
"Ow…." The hooded man groaned, holding his hand to his temple. His body ached all over from the explosion, not to mention the peltings of pokeballs. "Gaaaargh…." The ugly man gargled, unable to speak.
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Huh. Well, it worked anyway." Adam said, scratching his head.
"Wait a minute, when using Softboiled don't the pokemon EAT those eggs?" Dawn asked,confused.
"No, we store the eggs in two separate sections, one for eating and one for exploding. And don't worry, we don't get them mixed up. Usually." Chansey said. "Ah." Dawn said.
"Wait, did you just understand me?" Chansey asked in surprise.
"How can I understand you?" Nurse Joy said at the exact same time.
Adam sighed. This was getting ridiculous. "Long story. Can we focus on the evil goons now?"
"Good idea." Ash said, shifting his gaze to the two twitching men…or where they used to be.
"Hey, where'd they gooOAAAARGH!" Adam screamed, his sentence becoming incoherent due to the fact that there was now a thousand poison stings sticking out of his face. Everyone gasped.
"Hmph! You think that we're going to go down that easily?" The hooded man sneered, an Arbok coiling around his feet.
"HANDS OFF MY TRAINER!" Lucario roared, and ran at the man with a bone rush…
And he caught it, broke it in two and bashed Lucario with both sides of the bone before kicking the poor jackal across the room.
"Lucario!" Everyone screamed.
"Luphmarigho!" Adam managed to force out, his face slack from the poison. "Dabthm phis phoison!" He grumbled, trying to get his face back to normal by picking out every last sting.
"Hahaha!" The hooded man cackled. "Your poor little pokemon's all washed up!"
"Piplup, whirlpool!" Dawn commanded the little penguin. It immediately complied, forming a large swirling torrent of water in midair and flinging it at the man.
The ugly man promptly stepped in it's path, grunting as the water smashed into him…
And dissolved, his foul body odor literally erasing it from existence, even though that isn't possible in any way, shape, or form. Piplup stared blankly.
"Hur! Stupid little birdie, water doesn't do nothin' to me!"
Pikachu fried him, sending him flying to the ground, sizzling.
"And yet, electricity does." Pikachu remarked, cheeks crackling.
"Let's get some lights in here!" Rai said, and clapped his hands.The lights flew on, and blinded the two men.
"OH GOD, MY EYES!" Howled Brock, clutching his not-really-eyes-but-lines-that-let-him-see in pain.
I mentioned that it also revealed the ugly guy's face in excruciating detail, didn't I? Well, now you know.
Rai turned green. "Yeah, I think that's going to give ME nightmares."
"Damn you, optical nerves! DAMN YOOOUUU!" Pikachu howled.
"Ugh, I think I'm going to vomit…" Cress mumbled in distress.
Taking the initiative as they were all incapacitated, the hooded man quickly recovered.
"ACID SPRAY!" He roared, and Arbok leaned back, and hocked up a mass of green fluid, and shot a large stream of it at the heroes, burning them and lowering Pikachu, Piplup, and the unconscious Lucario's special defense.
He quickly followed up with another heavy damage move, and Arbok leapt forward, glowing purple and yellow as it was surrounded with the nimbus of power that was giga impact.
And then Arbok exploded.
The hooded man blinked. Ash blinked. Dawn blinked. Misty blinked. Ash blinked.
"What on earth just happened?" Ray asked slowly.
"Isn't it obvious?" Mewgle scoffed. "What OBVIOUSLY just happened was that Arbok built up power for the giga impact, and ran forward, but was unable to control the move's power and accidentally ignited the stores of poison in him and.."
"Blew up?" Ash finished. Mewgle looked at him in confusion.
"What? No, that's silly. What happened was that because it ignited, he went through a series of painful convulsions at light speed, and the power inbalance ripped apart the fabric of space time, sending him into the future populated by vending machines which ruled reality, where he established dominance and traveled back in time to stop himself from going through this due to a plot twist not yet revealed, but ran into his double and made him explode and cease existing!" She finished proudly. Everyone stared at her wordlessly.
"...What?" Cress asked, utterly confused.
"Well, thenyou didn't hear me properly. What I said was-"
"That's quite enough, Mewgle." Adam said.
"But-"
"THAT'S. QUITE. ENOUGH." Adam said loudly. Mewgle sweatdropped.
"Helooo? Evil bad guys here?" The hooded man said irritably. "People can be so RUDE sometimes…"
No one noticed him, as they were still either trying to process what Mewgle had just said or were thoroughly grossed out by the Arbok bits lying everywhere. Dark thoughts began brewing within his mind as he started to fume.
'Ah ha…I know what'll get their attention!' He thought, rubbing his hands together in typical cliché-villain fashion. Then he threw another pokeball, and a Cacturne popped out.
"Cacturne, get them back for pummeling us with payback!" He roared.
The cactus responded quickly, and set it's fists ablaze with dark energy, then ran forward at the unassuming party of bickering heroes.
Ash sensed something move behind him, and (with some difficulty) turned around to the pleasant sight of a sneeringgiant cactus with dark flaming fists preparing to bash his face in.
Starting, Ash didn't even have time to cry out, and instead took the opportunity to grab the nearest hands to him (Misty's and Rai's) and yank them out of the way, using her momentum to yank himself out of the way. Quick thinking for our somewhat…dense hero.
Adam blinked sluggishly and looked up where he had been cradling his face in his hands just in time to receive a painful dark-type blow, coming quite close to breaking his nose and blowing everyone away with a ripple of black energy. Mewgle, Prof. Twin, Cress, and Adam screeched, writhing about as the black energy enveloped them. Ash suddenly dropped to the ground, his psychic hold breaking. Brock, Dawn, and Ray just flinched and were hardly able to keep foot on the ground. Pikachu, Piplup and Haunter (who had been trying to intercept the cactus) passed out. Misty and Rai were unaffected.
"GWAHAHAHAHA!" The hooded man cackled. "YOU FOOLS, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEAKLINGS LIKE YOU MESS WITH US!"
"And..urgh…what happens when someone stronger than you messes with you?" Prof. Twin rasped.
"Oh, tha's eysey. We lose." The ugly man said. The hooded man slapped him. "Shut up, you imbecile!"
"Hah…you guys might outclass team rocket at being incompetent." Brock chimed in.
There was a brief spell of silence before everyone burst out laughing.
"Hahaha! Good one, Brocko!" Ray cried, slapping Brock on the back and knocking him into the ground.
"More incompetent than team rocket…oh god, can't breathe…can't stop laughing…" Ash choked out, tears forming at the corners of his eyes from the intensity of the laughter. Then he passed out from the pain of falling on his leg.
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James blinked. "Do any of you guys suddenly feel insulted?" He asked, scratching his head.
"Huh, now that you mention it, I feel a bit offended…" Jessie responded, equally confused.
"I wonder why…" Meowth pondered.
"Hm…." They all said in union as their tiny minds churned frantically to churn out an answer.
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"…HELLO?! EVIL BAD GUYS?!" The hooded man shouted, tired of being ignored for what was the millionth time. "Oh for the Hall of Origin's sake…Cacturne, Venoshock!"
The cacturne growled obligingly and spat out a disgusting green fluid, which would all but finish off the group in their current state.
That is, if it didn't stop in it's tracks and swing right back at the attacker, drenching it in foul smelling green fluid which instantly began bubbling on contact, dealing super effective damage and knocking out the grass-dark type.
"What!?" The hooded man asked incredulously.
"Ha ha! Great job, chingling!" Came a young cry. The hooded man, whirled around, trying to locate the source of the voice.
What came into light was a young child wearing a red shirt with the words "What's up with Chu?" emblazoned in yellow on it, basketball shorts, bluish hair and typical running shoes. A small clump of hair obscured a hazel eye slightly.
"What do you think you're doing?" The hooded man asked angrily.
"I should be the one asking that, considering that you broke into my town, kidnapped everyone and nearly killed dad!" The boy shot back. "Yeah!" The chingling pitched in.
The man looked back from the kid to the recovering group, and back again, calculating his chances. He was in a bad position right now…what could he do? Then a devilish and malicious idea came to him. Before anyone could move, he grabbed the unconscious Ash by the collar of his shirt and brought his knife to Ash's neck.
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She narrowed her eyes, something was wrong
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"Make a move and the kid gets it." He said, grinning eevily.
"No,…Ash!" Misty coughed weakly. Rai balled his fists, and started backing unnoticed into the shadows.
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Something was very, very wrong, she couldn't let it happen
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"You wouldn't." The boy hissed.
"Oh, wouldn't I? Ask your dad on that one, kiddo. Now, back off and I'll only give him a flesh wound." The man said.
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It was him, he was in danger, she couldn't let it happen, she had to get him away at any cost
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"You…you…" The boy started, apparently unable to find words to express the disgust he felt for this man.
"Me. Now, back OFF!" He roared, and pressed the knife against Ash's neck.
She shot at the building where he was faster than the eye could see, lashing out mentally at the walls
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*crick!* The boy's ears perked up. "What was that?" *crick!*
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It was right there, she was so close, all she needed to do was hit it- There.
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The walls suddenly burst apart, and an unearthly mist spewed in. The hooded man flinched, feeling a sudden drop in energy.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" A female, oddly draconic voice roared telepathically.
"Huh?" The hooded man asked, before he was suddenly blown away and bashed into the wall at full speed. The mist seemed to ripple for a moment, glowed, and a light green light surrounded the party of heroes and their pokemon. A moment later, everyone was back on their feet, and very confused about what was going on.
"Huh? Wha…" Ash mumbled drowsily.
The mist thinned, revealing the murky silhouette of a creature shaped somewhat like a miniature jet plane hovering in front of Ash. "Who's there!" The man shouted.
The mist parted obligingly, revealing the creature in question. It had red, jet like wings and stubby feet that somewhat resembled the bottom wings on a plane. A blue triangle shone slightly on it's white fur. A bright red pentagon over it's white face covered yellow, almond shaped eyes. Two large white ears stuck up from the sides of it's head. Small red and white arms ended in three small claws.
Misty, Ash, and Brock balked in surprise.
"L-Latias?"
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End of chapter. Woo!
He tried very hard to renaem his account, but google doesnt let thigns like that happen. also adam, i dont hate you or grudge you, it is a meme to love to hate you :)