The Meltdown-Pokemon Side.
Author's note: Sorry for the delay to start on this. But finally the Pokemon Side of the story is underway! Unlike the first two parts, this story will focus on Ash and the others given their absence in the Sailor Moon Side of this story. So Sailor Moon will be absent here, but she will be mentioned and shown in possibly flash-backs.
I don't own any rights to Sailor Moon, Ice Age, Pokemon, Shrek, Cardcaptors or Kingdom Hearts. I only own my OCs.
Chapter 1: Touring the Present Day.
TASHASAUROUS Presents...
A Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Ice Age, Kingdom Hearts, Cardcaptor Sakura and Shrek, crossover...
SAILOR MOON AND THE ICE AGE MELTDOWN:
POKEMON SIDE.
1999-Feburary: Three Days earlier...
Things seemed relatively peaceful in the Valley and nothing seemed unusual. But that's what everyone in the area seem to think, because no one would suspect intruders from an evil Organization to appear on a six day assignment. Because out of the Corridor of Darkness in a deserted part of the Valley, came two figures appeared. One was a spiky red-haired young man with emerald eyes, named Axel, and his partner for the mission, a dark and gray haired older man with an eye patch, golden eye, and a large scar on the left side of his face, named Xigbar. Though Xigbar had his hood up while Axel had his hood down.
"Are we seriously gonna do this to gain more hearts and lure Roxas or the supposedly one of the three possible Keyblade wielders to side with the Organization? Sounds like a complete failure written all over." Axel couldn't help but grumble. He was really in a bad mood because ever since Roxas, his best and only friend in Organization XIII had left, Axel felt his life as a Nobody turn for the worst.
"Since Roxas is unavailable, the next best thing is to do the much harder way." Xigbar pointed out evilly with a grin, which was hidden under his hood. "These poor souls of this valley just don't know what's coming to them."
The older man turned his gaze to the huge wall that towered along with the rest of the walls in the Valley and his grin widened. Axel on the other hand could only think about Roxas, how the young blonde questioned his existence for some reason, and Axel had no idea why, but he knew that he was forgetting something. Sure a heart of his own was great, after spending the last ten years without one...
But now the redhead wasn't sure anymore, and little did he know, he was about to meet someone who he once fought and had believed had forgotten.
Someone who Axel faced in Castle Oblivion.
Present Day-Where we last seen Ash's group...
Not long after Serena, Shrek, Rini, Donkey, Sakura and Puss had left to secretly travel back in time back into the Ice Age to ensure the bonding and meeting of the team's three new members who were also family to their other new members, Ash and the rest of the Sailor Team went to a more deserted part of the woods and then called in the Wizard from the Fairy-Tale World(making up an excuse that it was by Serena's request while she was away) to cast the same cloaking spell on Ellie, Crash and Eddie.
He was the same Wizard Serena, Shrek, and Donkey had met a year ago on the night when all of the exiled Fairy Tale residents were forced to seek shelter at Shrek's Swamp and the elder man was pretty good at it.
Much more reliable than Merlin in Far Far Away anyway.
"That should do it." The Wizard informed after the magical light faded once it was casted on the new trio who blinked in surprise, noting that they didn't feel or look any different. He turned to Ash and the others, saying with a smile, "I still find it hard to believe that you found more friends already. You young ones certainly know how to make friends.
"Yeah, well, it's not a natural skill. Crazy stuff just happens to us pretty much all the time." Lita pointed out with a sweatdrop, as most of the others nodded in agreement, while Ash gave the annoying twins an annoyed and grouchy glare due to being stuck with the two rodents for a very long time.
Ash just hoped that Sailor Moon and the others will be back shortly given the time difference.
"Well, I hope you all have a fun journey. Take good care of yourselves." The Wizard waved as, with his work done and knowing he shouldn't stay on Earth for long, he began to disappear into a cloud of magic before vanishing without a trace, back to the Fairy-Tale world. To say that Ellie and the Possums were amazed would've been an understatement as neither of them had seen anything like it.
"I didn't know humans could do that." Ellie remarked, impressed.
"Only certain humans can do that kind of stuff. I'm still getting used to it too." Manny shrugged, not nearly as impressed. Sure the magic in the Fairy Tale world was amazing, but he still hasn't gotten used to that sort of thing yet.
Knowing that they can now tour the Valley while they wait for six of their friends to return, the Sailor Team and their new members begin to head back to the main attraction, having a conversation on the Wizard and such along the way.
"So what was with that cloudy sparkly stuff that was on us?" Crash asked as he and Eddie rode on Ellie's Tusks.
"Was that on purpose?" Eddie asked. He didn't feel any different, and his brother and Ellie didn't look different either.
"It's to protect you from human eye who don't know the truth about all of us in our group." Amy explained wisely, not hostile or annoyed with the Team's new members at all. Then again she had always been one of the calmer and mature members despite still being an average teenager which would leave her embarrassed with anyone found out.
"You see, our abilities and reason of being a team is kept mostly secret to avoid in getting into trouble with other people. That's why the spell is casted on three of you, Manny, Sid, Diego, and even Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Puss." She added.
"So to other people we meet, you guys are human in their eyes too, as long as you don't mention about our real reason of being a team." Max added smartly.
"Is that why you guys didn't have any kind of trouble with other humans since coming here?" Ellie asked Manny, Sid and Diego who all nodded to confirm it.
"Pretty much." Diego replied.
Sid then smiled and explained about their new friends, "But then again, these guys have been on a lotta adventures for coming up to three years now. Last year, was a legendary long year."
"Sid, let's not go into that further details yet." Mina reminded with a giggle. "We have to wait until Serena and the others get back before we head over to New Bark Town."
"What's New Bark Town?" The Female Mammoth asked, puzzled. That name was new to her, and so it was to Crash and Eddie who both shared a dumbfounded look.
"A town where humans and Pokemon live. The first destination. It's kind of a long story." Dawn explained.
Ash hadn't said anything much, still annoyed in being stuck with two Possums who caused trouble to him and his friends and thanks to Donkey, now they were two of the new members of the Sailor Team. He didn't mind Ellie and she seemed nice enough, just weird after hearing that she can climb trees and even hang from a branch upside down which was unusual for a Mammoth. Whatever the case was, Ash had a feeling that Sailor Moon and the others would find out in the Past, if they hadn't already.
The young Pokemon Master was brought out of his thoughts when a piece of fruit from above nearly hit him, but he did stop, startled and looked up to see if it was randomly dropped. To his and the rest of the Sailor Team's annoyance and Ellie, Crash and Eddie's confusion, it was a familiar trio whom they didn't expect to see, and who had followed the heroes on yet another adventure.
As usual.
"Who're those three?" Eddie asked, confused.
Standing on a branch in a tall tree above the heroes, were Jessie, James and Meowth who as usual for their way of greeting, they had to go and do their Motto.
"Prepare for trouble, Happy new Year!" Jessie began.
"Make it double, remember that, dears!" James continued.
"Our hearts as new as the Galaxy!"
"Sent here to fulfill our Destiny!"
"Including me!" Meowth added.
"The protect the power of truths and Love!" Jessie continued.
"To reach our hands out to the stars above!" James added.
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"And Meowth!"
While Ellie, Crash and Eddie were completely dumbfounded and wondering what those three clowns were talking about and wondered if it was some kind of poetry or something, the rest of the group all held exasperated expressions, with Raye, Mina and Casey yawning in boredom, Manny facepalming himself with his trunk, Diego rolling his eyes in annoyance, Sid and Brock sharing an annoyed glances, Ash placing his hands on his hips and everyone else just staring and wishing for Team Rocket to just get on with hit.
"Whenever there's Chaos in the Realm of Light," Jessie continued.
"Bwahahaha! Team Rocket," James laughed.
"Will be d'ere," Meowth continued.
"To make everything right!" All three of them concluded.
Wobbuffect as usual appeared from it's Pokeball, but from above surprisingly enough and landed onto the branch, beginning to say it's name to conclude the Motto, only to end up breaking the branch due to the hard landing and extra weight.
"Wobba-WOBBUFFECT!" Wobbuffect cried out in alarm as did Jessie, James and Meowth who all screamed as the branch unexpectedly snapped in half beneath them and they all fell too quickly before crashing onto the ground comically next to the group who, not wanting to borther with them today, just began to walk away even though they haven't seen them since December nearly two months earlier.
Ash just stared for a moment with Pikachu before walking away. They knew that Team Rocket would be just fine. Those three guys always were whenever they had crash and embarrassing landings. Ellie paused in confusion at the very weird trio while Crash and Eddie laughed hysterically at the three clowns.
"What were they talking about?" Crash asked, after taking a breather.
"Do they do this kind of thing often?" Ellie asked.
"Sadly, yes." Fiona said apologetically while gently pushing Ellie to continue on, while the rest of the Sailor Team gave Team Rocket annoyed looks, though Sid looked sorry for the trio while Lusie gave the three of them a silent raspberry before continuing on.
Left behind and laying crippled on the ground but in one piece, Jessie growled in sheer annoyance at the retreating Sailor Team, "That's just a lucky start to your new year, twerps!"
"They get lucky starts every year!" James ranted in annoyance.
"We could've had a lucky start too if it weren't for the crazy stuff Xenula and Ansem caused last year, and the ghostly pirates in the Orange Islands and other stuff in Far Far Away didn't help at all." Meowth sighed, dejected. He wished that good luck was on his and his two companions' side for once.
To the trio's annoyance, Wobbuffect just dumbly said, "Wobbuffect!"
"Don't make me take away the rest of your years." Jessie warned half-sarcastically while recalling her annoying Pokemon back into it's Pokeball. It wasn't until then that she realized something and finally took notice that six members of the Sailor Team were missing and they had three new unfamiliar members.
Leaping up in realization and shock, Jessie asked in confusion, "Hey, wait a second! Where's the Sailor Twerp?" noting that Serena was gone.
"The Ogre Twerp, the Cat Twerp and the Mule Twerp are missing as well!" James realized as he and Meowth jolted to their feet after seeing that their friend was right, especially since Shrek, Puss and Donkey were missing too.
"And the Card-Twerp and the 30th Century-Future Twerp too!" Meowth added, noticing the absence of Sakura and Rini.
Trying to piece together the mystery, it didn't take Team Rocket long to figure it out and remembered what Ellie, Crash and Eddie really looked like and, given how they knew more of the Sailor Team despite the new trio being unaware at the time, realized the answer already without anyone telling them, especially since they remembered that last time when they first met Manny, Sid and Diego.
"Oh no, those three new twerps are like the Ice Age herd twerps." Jessie groaned, realizing that Ellie, Crash and Eddie are the Sailor Team's newest members as well.
"That means Sailor Moon is in the ice age again." James added, calculating the pieces in his head.
"That explains why we weren't in the Sailor Moon Side of the story." Meowth added while inadvertedly breaking the fourth wall in the process.
"You're right." Jessie agreed, having realized this as well before wondering, "Maybe we'll have a bigger role this time."
"Nah, we weren't even in the last story, so we're probably losin' our touch." Meowth replied as he and James shook their heads in negative while refering to the "Sailor Moon and the Book of Secrets" story, especially since they were taking a break themselves.
Suddenly, their stomachs gave out loud gurgles which they felt and, realizing that they haven't even eaten much, all groaned as they wrapped their arms around their bellies which were demanding for food.
"I wish we were in a story where we wouldn't be hungry." James moaned.
"Wobbuffect!" Wobbuffect commented, popping out of it's Pokeball again.
Looks like Team Rocket's in for another long embarrassing journey again.
Returning back to their spot and touring around the valley, and as promised nobody suspected a thing unusual about the herd, seeing them as people, Ash and the Sailor Team were speaking privately about the origins of their team to Ellie, Crash and Eddie and everything that's happened in the past three years, though they did leave out the fact that Serena, Shrek, Rini, Donkey, Sakura and Puss were back in time to when Manny, Sid and Diego first met the new trio.
"Let me get this straight. Things have been crazy since the start of last year?" Ellie asked, a bit skeptically.
"Actually, it all started out three years ago, or rather, a thousand years ago." Darien chuckled.
"Except that Darien, Serena, Amy, Raye, Lita and Mina and five others are the special, SPECIAL cases." Casey added proudly.
"What kind of 'special'?" Crash asked with a quirked eyebrow. Surely there was nothing special about the humans with them or Serena and Rini, right?
"Uh...well, let's just say that in very rare occasions, a certain person or some certain people are chosen to be reborn into the future with no memories of their past lives, until they reach a certain age as they grow up." Brock explained uncomfortably, which had most of the others uncomfortable as well.
"But then again, all of us are special because we were born with special kinds of abilities." Amy added.
"Yeah, and you guys just found that out either three years ago, or in Sakura's case, two years ago, or in the rest of our cases, a year ago." Sid said to the Sailor Team, before adding, "Though Ash is really the third chosen one of the three."
"Chosen one?" Ellie asked, even more skeptical as she eyed Ash.
While Ash was still annoyed, he was now sheepish about being the chosen one and explained while rubbing the back of his head, "Yeah, well, it's really complicated. Me, Serena and Sakura were the chosens to save the world last year just after I became a Pokemon Master. After that, when I realised that Earth needed to be protected, I decided to join Serena's team, and Pikachu, Misty, Brock, May, Max and eventually Dawn, Piplup, Casey, and the rest of us all joined the team to become who we are today."
"I still haven't heard everything you guys went through. So far, you mentioned about this Sora kid you met and haven't seen in quite a while." Diego reminded, as for the last couple of months, the Sailor Team told him small details of someone named Sora.
While May, Max, Dawn, Piplup, Casey, Fiona, Darien, Lusie, Amy, Raye, Lita and Mina all sighed, slightly saddened of not seeing Sora, Donald and Goofy, or even Kairi who was still at Destiny Islands last they remember, and while King Mickey and very possibly Riku were out of the Realm of Darkness given how Mickey saved them from Butch and Cassidy just after the Orange Island adventures which involved Ghostly Pirates targeting Captain Jack Sparrow, none of them knew if Mickey and Riku were reunited with Sora, Donald and Goofy yet.
Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, and even unknown to them, Madison and Kero flinched at the reminder, both groups fully knowing what really happened and tried not to look suspicious given the situation and had hoped that Namine had already restored Sora, Donald and Goofy's real memories and had reunited with Mickey and Riku and returned to their home worlds.
"Last we heard, Sora was still looking for best friend, Riku. As far as we know, they both would've returned home by now." Mina shrugged, unaware of the nervousness.
"Uh, yeah, and we met up with another friend I met back in Pallet Town, Mickey who is a King, but then he ran off and I think he reunited with his friends and gone back home by now too." Ash lied with a sweatdrop, trying to sound convincing and when he realized he sounded rather shaky, he quickly changed the subject and told the group, "A-Anyway, let's head over to the park."
"Pi, Pikachu." Pikachu nodded in agreement with a sweatdrop, perched onto Ash's shoulder while his trainer and human best friend began to walk away.
Which unfortunately had the rest of the group now suspicious at Ash's weird behavior, which had Max call out, "Uh, Ash?"
Ash flinched to a stop, when Max then asked, "Is something wrong?"
"Uh, no? Why do you ask?" Ash replied, turning around and acting as though he knew nothing about what happened.
"Mmmm-Hmmm. Are you sure about that?" Raye asked, not buying the eleven year old's lie.
"I'm serious. It's not like it's the end of the world or anything." Ash insisted, though mentally, he was panicking. How was he, Misty and Brock going to explain things when neither of them were certain if Namine restored Sora's memories yet or not?
Fortunately, Ash was saved from having to explain himself as the discussion came to a halt when two nine year old boys, same age as Max, one with dark brown hair and had a Bellsprout as his Pokemon, the other having ginger hair and a male Nidoran run past the Pokemon Master and his friends.
"Outta the way!" The first boy cried out, panting.
"Run for your life!" The second cry exclaimed.
"Wha-hey! Ash cried out, stumbling out of the way before the two guys could crash into him. The fact that these two were running in panic now confused him and the rest of the group.
"Hey, hey!" Diego called out, stopping the boys and their Pokemon. "Where's everyone goin'?"
The boys turned around and like everyone else who didn't know the Sailor Scouts' true idenities, had no clue about the herd's real appearances either. The second boy, still panicking, cried out, "Acorn Valley's gonna be destroyed!"
"What are you talking about?" Manny asked, skeptically as he suddenly felt a sense of deja vu.
"Tommy Dashboard! He says the Valley's gonna flood!" The first boy exclaimed, panting.
The Sailor Team could only blink before sharing a confused glance before turning to the boys again, wondering what was going on.
"Who's Tommy Dashboard?" Ash asked, puzzled. That name certainly didn't ring a bell.
"He's the traveling magician who knows all about history and can even tell the future! He's at near the Eviscerator at the stage podium!" The First boy explained.
This only made Ash and the others sweatdrop with skeptical looks, except for Sid, Crash and Eddie who gasped and shared horrified glances.
"That's just silly. This Tommy Dashboards sounds like a con artist." Misty pointed out, finding the idea of some show-guy claiming to know everything just ridiculous.
Though Manny did remember now the con artist named Fast Tony in the Ice Age somehow predicted the flood 20,000 years ago, he knew that it was due to the Ice Melting by global warming. Here in the future, the Ice Age was over and the walls now were made of stone and humans had made things stronger than the landscape.
"She's right. In fact, I'm gonna go and talk to this guy right now." Manny decided, turning and began to walk his way to where the boys had came from.
"Hey, Manny! Wait up!" Ash cried out, as he and soon everyone else hurried to catch up to him, leaving the boys and their two Pokemon to share a glance, and wondered if Misty and Manny were right.
However, what the Sailor Team didn't know was that what they were about to find out was more much troubling than they knew, and for the Herd...
History would seem to repeat itself, only without Ice.
A/N: The first chapter of the Pokemon Side is up! Next chapter will have Ash discover someone he thought he would never see again, and Misty to begin to have doubts of her own. Sorry that this wasn't as good as the beginning of the Sailor Moon Side, but hopefully I'll make it up for it.
See you in the next chapter!