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Summary: Takes place after Simon's battle against Lord Genome. Simon, Nia and Yoko are thrown in a tornado into the Pokémon World where they cross paths with Ash, Morrison and Shauna on their way to the Mirage Kingdom. Rated for mild violence and language.
Drills of Mirage Kingdom
Chapter 1: A Spiral of Trees?
The battle was over. A tall, heavily muscular bald bearded man had just been beaten by a young blue-haired man in an opened blue jacket sporting yellow goggles with red frames. By him was a young female with blue/blond hair and flowers in her eyes. She was wearing pink: blouse, skirt, shoes and jacket. The big man had his chest blown off, literally. Yet, he stood as if it was nothing. He began to crumble instead of gush enormous amounts of blood. "Here this now," the big guy sneered. "You will soon come to regret it." The young male was busted up badly, swollen face and battered body.
"Lord Genome..." the boy weakly wanted to ask.
"I will leave you with this warning. When the land overflows with a million apes, the moon shall become Hell's messenger and will completely destroy the world of the Spiral." A prophecy? Words of utter Armageddon?
"What does that mean?!" Genome sneered before taking the final plunge as the girl bolted over to his side.
"Father, no!" she cried out. It was too late to save him. Falling from the top of the tower, he plummeted hundreds of feet down. The girl was on her knees, watching Genome for the final time. The lord was dethroned. The boy got to her side, a face of grit revealed. "Farewell, my father. I will...head towards tomorrow." She stood, ready to join her boy for a retreat. Suddenly, a rumbling. The tower was beginning to crack under the death of Lord Genome. The tower crumbled into a heap of rock and twisted metal. Yet, a giant red human-looking robot was flying toward a group of people and more machines. It was a grand union as the sun rose to a new day. Everyone was celebrating the fall of the lord. The boy wound up in a medical room, being treated of his injuries from his battle with Genome. The turquoise-haired man wrapped up most of the wounds.
"From the sound of the battle, you're lucky the injuries weren't any worse, Simon," he flamboyantly awed. Simon felt a little guilty about the harm done in the battle prior to the start of this.
"Jeez, Leeron, you make it sound like Lord Genome was taking it easy on me," Simon chuckled. Was Genome being light on you because of your age? "I think I should listen to Nia. I need to head towards tomorrow, myself. Nothing more to do than to take the future head-on." That's the spirit. Simon only spent an hour in the unit before stepping out. He found himself on the deck of a giant ship with legs. There was a flag which appeared to be a flame wearing sunglasses. Cool shades. Simon was seen polishing up a smaller red robot that appeared to be a head with arms and legs and the crown was peachy pink.
"Polishing Lagann, aren't we, Simon?" another female teased. Simon turned to a taller redhead ponytail young woman wearing a flame-decal bikini top, black track shorts and pink stockings under monster killer boots.
"Yoko..." Simon darted his eyes up, a bright blue sky hanging above. "Do you think Bro would've been proud of what we accomplished?" Bro? Yoko looked to the same clear atmosphere viewing a taller blue-haired handsome man who was shirtless but had a red cape like a superhero.
"Kamina... I bet he would be proud of you for first getting out of the funk you were in. After he sacrificed his life to preserve ours, you were well out if it. It was almost as if he was telling you that you had to take charge of Dai-Gurren." Maybe Yoko had a point. Simon remembered the moment when someone was lost during whatever battle had occurred before Simon's fight with Lord Genome. Nia decided to join the two, noticing how talkative they were.
"You two seem to be in good spirits," she spoke up. The two saw and welcomed Nia into the conversation. "So, now that my father has been vanquished, what's there for us to do?" That's a really good question. Simon thought back to Genome's final words before his fatal plunge.
"I'm a bit worried about what Lord Genome said," he recalled. "When the land fills with a million apes... Is he trying to say that the world will be overpopulated by all the people living underground?" By a million apes, Simon referred to people that were under the earth's surface.
"Simon!" Yoko called. Simon snapped out of whatever delusion that Genome seemed to have sent him to. "Now's not the time to think about what some dead guy advised. What we should do is start some new civilization for the people to live in." There you go. Simon seemed to agree with Yoko's proposition.
"You're right, Yoko. It may be Late Genome trying to scare us." Well, Simon, here came a scare for you. In an instant, high winds began to blow on the three, almost enough to lift Nia's dress.
"Simon, Yoko, Nia!" some male shouted using a PA system. "Get inside! There's a twister barreling towards us!" That could explain a lot about the high winds. However, those winds blew off the sounds from the horns.
"What was that, Kittan?" Yoko tried to ask. That's when Simon hopped inside Lagann, hoping to keep himself anchored to the ground. No good. Lagann was lifting off as well as Yoko and Nia. Using Lagann, Simon grabbed Nia and Yoko but it was in vain as all three and robot flew off. In an effort to add weight to Lagann, the girls crawled into the robot and joined Simon. Useless. The group jettisoned into the great beyond. They were gone.
"Simon! Yoko! Nia!" Sorry, Kittan. Some distance away, there was Simon lying on some grass. He seemed out cold.
"Simon!" Nia yelled out from above. "Simon!" Finally, Simon opened his eyes in front of Nia...and trees.
"Nia..." he moaned. Nia loaned a hand to lift Simon back on his feet. "You okay?" Nia seemed to be in good condition.
"I am." That's two accounted for. "Where's Miss Yoko?" Just her missing.
"Speaking of, where the hell are we? I don't remember grass and trees." Good point. Wandering for a minute, the two spotted a river. "Clean water." Simon raced and splashed his face, rubbing the water on his soiled and oily skin. One great relieving sigh later. "That feels great! Cold, but really wonderful." Seeing the way the water was flowing, Nia assumed that maybe their other comrade was close by.
"Let's check upstream." Okay, why? Simon doubted her choice of direction with a pretty easy reason.
"Nia, usually the people travel downstream." Ignoring Simon, Nia chose to go her path. "Nia, wait!" Talk about trying to stick together. They journeyed the upstream route when suddenly, they spotted a large black rifle lying on the side of a waterfall.
"That's Yoko's rifle!" Maybe Nia was right. They raced to the rifle, lying adjacent to the rock wall. Something didn't quite fit. It was like the rifle was put down by someone. Nia looked around and found a rope which led to the top of the fall. "Let's check up there. Maybe Yoko climbed the rope to get a better view." She was on fire with her guessing. Simon did not want to argue and climbed the rope first. Nia followed. 15 minutes of climbing and they reached the peak. That's when they saw Yoko and Lagann. What luck. Yoko was resting on a couple of trees. That twister must have knocked the wind out of her.
"Yoko!" Yoko heard the call of Simon, waking up. Needless to say how happy she was to know that the other two youngsters were doing fine.
"Simon..." she murmured. "Nia..." The two were glad to be reunited. However, there was about to be a mood change. A school of blue mud fish with orange cheeks and fins on top of the heads waddled over the three. Simon saw it and took a defensive position.
"What the hell?" One of the mud fish came towards Nia. Undeterred, Nia stroke the fin of the fish. It seemed to like it. "Nia?"
"I'm sorry if we frightened you," Nia apologized. The fish didn't think it was a big deal.
("No biggie,") it squeaked. Nia smiled while Yoko and Simon seemed perplexed. What they heard was "mud" and "kip."
"Well I'm glad that we can understand." Oh, sure, she can understand them.
"Easy for you to say," Yoko mumbled. Simon bobbed a nod, agreeing with Yoko. That's when there was a rustle in the bushes. The group turned to see an elderly man who had a whitish hairdo much like the mud fish.
"What's going over here?" he grumbled while coming out in a water logged brown business suit. The three became alert and defensive. "And what are you three doing trespassing onto private grounds?" Trespassing? This area was private?
"We're sorry," Nia spoke up. "We found a rope that led up to the top of this waterfall here looking for a friend." She was meaning Yoko. The old man seemed a little more sympathetic.
"You mean you were looking for a lost one?" Simon nodded to confirm. "Well, I don't know. You three don't appear to be trainers." Trainers? "Why don't you tell me your story over some tea? It could explain what the heck that is over there." He couldn't be meaning...yep. Lagann. In a little hut, Yoko explained what had occurred before coming to the top of the water. Some of the topics included how they met, how Kamina died and the battle against Lord Genome. "I say, you kids have plenty of adventures over in the world you're from. I do feel pretty bad about your friend, Kamina, though." That was thoughtful. Yoko peered over to glass cages where stacks of blue eggs rested in hay nests. The eggs had orange spots on them.
"So, Swampy," she spoke up. "Do all these eggs contain a Mudkip?" Were those the critters frolicking outside?
"That's right. The League presents me with these eggs for new trainers in the Hoenn region or here as a matter of fact. Each region has three caretakers raising a different Pokémon for the professors to give the Pokémon to trainers as starters." Talk about a special task. Even Simon felt it was a lot for one man to work out on.
"How do you keep raising the Mudkip considering your age?" he pointed out. Swampy scoffed at Simon's question, thinking merely to a joke.
"Well, Simon, they're babies looking to me as a grandfather. Each new Mudkip hatching is just as precious as the last or next. The only thing I'm surprised at is that they don't pick up on a habit of mine and not just because they can't speak the human tongue." A habit? What would that be?
"What is this habit of yours?" Nia questioned.
"Well, I blurt out important information that should be kept quiet, like the dam that's keeping the river from flooding or how valuable the Mudkip are to me and the League." That's...a pretty bad habit. "Of course, after meeting Ash, Brock, May and Max, I've been doing better settling that habit of mine but since I've been so busy raising the Mudkip, I completely forgot about the rope they used to climb this waterfall until you happened to use it again." Swampy made it sound like the four new names were good people. Yoko, Simon and Nia smiled wonderfully to the notice of people who respected Swampy. That's when the grounds shook. Earthquake?
"What was that?!" Simon wondered. The four stepped outside...to a sight of a large black walking tank with a vacuum in front. The vacuum was sucking the water and Mudkip from the river leading to the waterfall.
"This isn't good," Yoko huffed. "I don't even know where my rifle is!" Who was doing this? The top opened to reveal two black uniformed adults emerged on an elevated platform. One was a blond female with twin ponytails which had stars formed at the tips. The other was a turquoise-haired male.
"Prepare for trouble, the Mudkip are coming with us," the female with a rather sassy attitude announced.
"Make it double, it's pointless to fuss," the male with a croak in his tone snarled.
"To infect the world with devastation."
"To blight all people within every nation."
"To denounce the goodness of truth and love."
"To extend our wrath to the stars above."
"Cassidy."
"And it's Butch, just in case you feel like poking fun."
"Team Rocket circles the globe everyday and night."
"Surrender now because you'll surely lost the fight." This was a problem.
"That wasn't the same motto I remember," Swampy reviewed. Cassidy realized that there was a previous run-in with some others.
"Oh, don't worry about those sad sacks," she sneered. "They're not as vicious as us. Totally less accident-prone." This guys sounded like they meant business. Simon saw Lagann. He had to act.
"You guys get back inside," Simon advised. "I'll take care of these jokers." He began to sprint toward Lagann, much to Nia's chagrin.
"Simon, don't!" she cried out. Too late. Once inside, the dome closed and Lagann was active.
"I may not have Gurren, but that doesn't mean I can't dish out the pain!" Butch became the laughter. This was one kid wanting to duke it out with two adults.
"You foolish brat," he huffed. "I'd like to see you take us down." Unfortunately for Butch, he was about to eat those words.
"Take Down, now!" someone else shouted. Who? It was male but it wasn't Swampy or Simon. Out of nowhere, a large blue hovering saucer-like creature with steel arms and a spike for a nose bashed into the tank, knocking it onto its side. The impact was so big, the glass containing the water and Mudkip escaped. The saucer-like creature sided by Lagann, much to the amazement of Swampy, Nia and Yoko.
"A Metang?" Swampy identified. The tank was a twisted mess. Finally out, Cassidy and Butch turned to see three youngsters with a yellow mouse by the cliff of the waterfall. The mouse had a lightning bolt for a tail. The three newcomers? One was a raven-haired young man in a blue sweat-tee and a red baseball cap. The second was a ponytail blue-haired girl in a pink midriff and tight shorts. The last was a rather rounded redhead male in what appeared to be a peach kimono and sandals. Swampy was happy to see the raven-haired male. "It's Ash! He's back!" Yoko and Nia got a good look at Ash. Needless to say that Nia saw the smirk, a ploy ready to send Cassidy and Butch out of here.
"Get ready to be charged for trespassing, Cassidy and Butch," he grinned. The two baddies were about to pay for trying to take the baby Mudkip.
TO BE CONTINUED...