Fusion Warriors
Chapter 1
The Gate
Dear Journal,
It's been about seventeen years since the world was plummeted into chaos; that's what my brother says, at least.
Anyways, today was a pretty good day, I suppose. We've been living here in our reclaimed Celadon City for a while now
and everyone seems to be doing well. Due to this being Kanto's biggest city, we've got everything we need here. We all
decided to bunker down and make our living quarters the underground of the old Game Corner. I wonder why there's so
many posters with "R" written all over them… Anyways, it's getting tougher and tougher to lead this brigade with my
brother though… There are so many survivors to take care of and we can only do so much. Anyways, sometimes I just
wish I could- Ugh, my brother is yelling at me to come upstairs. It sounds like there might be trouble at one of the gates
or something… Another sleepless night… FML...
Coltraine "Colton" Anderson
Coltraine got out of his bed and groggily stumbled over to his closet. He reached into the back took out a blue tank top and a black pair of pants from their hangers and slipped them on. He then eyed over at his journal and carefully slipped it into his pillow case. Looking around, Coltraine's room, as everyone else's, was small cubicle as if similar to that of a small cubicle of a big office corporation. The cubicle did not offer much space, just enough room for his bed, night stand, closet, and drawer.
He peered his head out of the cubicle and looked deeply down the hallway at the small flickers of light illuminating from people's night lights. He took a deep breath and proceeded to walk down the hallway. He took quick glimpses of each cubicle as he slowly passed by them. In one, he saw a mother holding her new born child, but a detestable fragrance wafted from her room. At a closer look, the small newborn seemed pale and unresponsive to the mother stroking it's head. In another, he saw a small boy, Rex, writing in his journal. He was slumped over on his bed, scratching his arm.
Suddenly, Coltraine's nose was bewildered by the divine scent of cookies wafting from a nearby cubicle. He turned around and followed the divine scent to a cubicle, Ms. O'Dea's cubicle. He slipped his head in and grinned; she invited him in.
"Hiya, Ms. O'Dea, making cookies again?" Coltraine asked as he tossed himself onto her bed and sprawled out.
"Why, yes I am!" she smiled. "I'm making them for Rex down the hall."
Coltraine looked up and over at her and with a confound look, he asked "How come?"
Ms. O'Dea hung her head in melancholy and said "While you and Alex were out, a few of the trainers found the remains of his parents... It's sad to lose your parents at that age, you know?"
Coltraine sat up and scratched his head. "Yeah, I do. Mine died before I really got to form a memory about them... At least Rex knew his..." He looked down and tried to choke back a few tears; he shook his head and looked up at Ms. O'Dea. "Hey, Ms. O'Dea, have you seen my brother anywhere?"
Ms. O'Dea turned her head and thought for a second. "Last time I saw him, he was heading upstairs."
Coltraine nodded and picked himself up off her bed and began to walk out of the cubicle. "Thanks, Ms. O'Dea. Hey, tell Alex to save some cookies and wait up for me if he can."
Ms. O'Dea smiled with nodded in agreement.
Coltraine took his leave, returning to the hallway and reaching a column of stairs. He proceeded to walk up them when he heard a shout behind him from one of the old men.
"God dammit, Candice, just throw out that thing already, it's stinking up the whole place!"
His yell was followed by Ms. Candice responding with "Until you've had a child in your arms, you can't tell me to let go of mine!"
Coltraine omitted the rest of the yelling and once again began to proceed up the stairs. Once reaching the top, the game room, he saw his brother fidgeting with an overturned slot machine.
Coltraine walked up behind him and asked "What're you doing?"
Alex, startled, dropped a big monkey wrench on his toe. He hollered out in pain, his voice cracking, as Coltraine stood there chuckling. Alex looked up and glared with gall at his brother.
"You're my older brother... I thought you were supposed to be made of tougher stuff than me!" Coltraine chuckled out loud.
With a swift and precise motion, Alex coiled to his feet and delivered an agonizing punch to Coltraine's stomach, causing him to fall over in pain and grief.
"Ready to go?" Alex asked his little brother tauntingly.
"Screw you..." Coltraine gasped and pulled himself to his feet, using the the overturned slot machine as a support.
Alex walked over to his brother and tugged him outside by the arm. As the two opened the doors, they were greeted by a harsh, abnormal wind that sent chills down every part of Coltraine's spine. Alex stuck his finger in his mouth, lubricated it with spit, and stuck it into the air. He felt the wind breeze past his finger, going in the right direction.
"Looks like it's alright for us to fly." Alex commented as he reached into his pocket and pulled a Pokeball. With a mighty throw, he disengaged his Drifblim from the Pokeball and quickly grabbed on to its yellow-tipped limbs and was blown away by the winds down the eastern road. Coltraine looked up and sighed at the dark and depleted sky and thought to himself:
"I wonder what color the sky was before all of this happened... Before the Great Disaster..."
Coltraine reached into his pocket and took out a Pokeball. With a flick of his wrist, he threw the Pokeball, disengaging his Braviary from his Pokeball. Whom of which, quickly swept down in front of Coltraine. He moved his foot back and hurled himself onto Braviary's back; the two flew off down the eastern road into the dark, chilling wind.
The gloomy, chilling wind struck the two boy's faces as they flew off into what seemed like the night, but was impossible to tell. The dark wind reeked of horrible, foul stenches that now and again made the two boys gag and choke back their vomit. The sky was dark and empty of stars. It provided near to no light for the two travelers as they flew down the eastern path; the two were forced to rely on Drifblim's small, but bright electrical discharges.
"It's been so long since I've been out of the base…" Coltraine whispered to himself as he looked down at the wreckage that was Celadon City. He gazed at the scorched trees and barren soil, the demolished buildings and homes, and the hordes of dead bodies which filled the air with the stench similar to rancid meat sprinkled with the cheapest of perfumes. "This is no place for a kid to live…" he thought to himself.
The two passed by a rather odd-looking house. Coltraine, leaning his head over Braviary's side, looked down at it. He saw that it had a red roof with a big Poké Ball design on the front of it.
"Those are what they call Pokémon Centers," Alex commented. Coltraine looked up in confusion at Alex's asinine banter. "They were used to restore trainer's Pokémon back to full health if they were sick or injured in a battle." Coltraine sighed at Alex and fired a look of nihilism at him.
"That'd be too easy; it's like asking 'Hey, we're gonna put all of our Pokémon here in this one spot, don't bomb us or anything!'" Coltraine yelled with an ominously merry tone in his voice. Alex awkwardly turned his head in the other direction and spotted two trainers down on the ground huddled around a dead body.
Braviary began to swoop down to the two trainers. Alex retired his Drifblim back to the Poké Ball and with precision, fell onto Braviary's back. The mighty bird Pokémon waved its majestic, red wings and landed. The two boys jumped off the bird Pokémon's back and met their feet with the ground. Coltraine looked up and brushed his hand alongside the bird's wings and rubbed them softly. The two boys walked up to the trainers and greeted them.
"Hey Benjamin and Megan, what're you two up to?" Alex asked.
Megan hung her head; her long, silky blonde hair fell over her right eye. She looked up and told the two: "We found Rex's father's remains."
Coltraine sighed and looked down.
"If it weren't for the scar on his face, we would never have recognized him." Benjamin said. He wiped his long, black hair from his cold black eyes and sulked.
Coltraine looked up at the dead body and examined it. The man had what looked to be a blue hoodie on, but was nearly impossible to tell due to the scorch marks covering his body. He knelt down next to the decapitating piece of flesh and nearly gagged at the overwhelming stench. He saw that the man had a horrified, scared look on his face as if something had caught him by surprise. He looked up and saw that the man's eyes were empty and grey. Looking down a little bit, he saw that the man's nose was completely missing, as were his lips and two front teeth. Coltraine cringed at the sight of the man's face; he then looked down and saw a little glimmering object protruding from the man's pocket. He looked back over his shoulder and noticed that the other three were preoccupied with mindless banter. He took his chance and reached into the man's pocket and gripped his hand around a small, circular object and pulled it out. From out of the pocket, Coltraine noticed it was a small, yellow-colored ring with a black garnet engraved in the tip. He snuck the small ring into his pocket and stood up.
Braviary began shrieking and squawking, flailing its wings about whipping up massive whirlwinds that nearly blew away the four trainers. Coltraine, resisting the wind, ran over to Braviary and ran his fingers along the bird's face. This, seemingly unorthodox action, seemed to calm down the distraught bird enough for Coltraine to ask what was wrong.
"Ike, what's the matter?" Coltraine asked.
Braviary pointed his large wing at down the eastern road at the gate. There were flames towering up to the sky and dancing like wild gypsies in the night.
"Something's wrong at the eastern gate tower! Megan, Benjamin, I need you two to go back to the shelter and make sure everyone is okay and patrol the western gate tower, got it?"
The two teenagers nodded and ran down the road. Alex hopped onto Braviary and yelled at Coltraine:
"Come on, we've got to go put out those flames!"
Coltraine nodded and hopped onto Braviary. Taking one last look at the dead man, the bird Pokémon flapped his wings and took off down the road.
Upon reaching the gate, the two boys jumped off the Pokémon and landed on the ground. Coltraine retired Ike back to the Poké Ball and looked on with his brother at the horrible flames. The flames had completely shrouded the building, feasting on the wood and bricks that supported it, devouring and overflowing itself in every crack and crevice it could find. The heat from the wildfire made the two boys break out into an immediate sweat.
As the two wiped the sweat off their faces and the smoke from their eyes, Alex tapped Coltraine and pointed at the blazing inferno. Coltraine rubbed his eyes and took out a Poké Ball and disengaged a Mudkip from it.
"Alright, Kipster, douse these flames with Water Pulse." Coltraine said groggily as if he were trying to fight off sleep.
Kipster flung himself into the air and released a small bullet of compressed water that when hit the ground, exploded into an outward shockwave of water that doused the flames all around it.
Alex, wildly fanning the smoke away from his face, walked over to the scorched tower and began sifting through the ashes.
"What're you doing?" Coltraine said as he looked over to his brother. He coughed and responded:
"Trying to find what made this fire." He said. He dug wildly with his hands, flinging ash and dirt everywhere until he came across a green hump with hole in the middle of it. The placed his hand over it and felt a warm heat wave emanating from it.
Suddenly realizing what it was, Alex jerked away from the small hump just in time to see it explode with magma. A small Pokémon, a Numel, crawled out from the ashes with a bunch of others following it. The small Pokémon quickly surrounded the two boys causing them to back into each other. Alex called out his Marshtomp from his Poké Ball; he quickly responded and disengaged himself out from the Poké Ball and dashed in front of Alex.
The two boys, back to back, grabbed each other's hands. A wonderful, magnificent blue aura surrounded the two of them and their Pokémon.
Together, both of the boys called out:
"Whirlpool!"
The two aquatic Pokémon shot a bullet of water in the air that quickly shot down at the two boys and engulfed them. Hitting the ground, the bullet exploded into an enormous wave of water that began to circulate around the entire area, creating a massive whirlpool that engulfed all of surrounding Numel.
From the water, Alex cried out:
"Marshtomp, use Blizzard!"
Marshtomp screamed from deep down in the water and spun its body around and whipped a massive, bone-chilling Blizzard attack that froze the once raging whirlpool into a magnificent ice sculpture.
Kipster, breaking free from the ice, slammed his tail onto the exterior of the frozen sculpture. The impact from his tail caused cracks to consume the beautiful ice sculpture; as the cracks spread throughout the sculpture, they grew smaller and more precise. Kipster slammed his tail into the ice sculpture, this time causing into shatter into millions of pieces.
The two boys emerged under the shattered ice as did Alex's Marshtomp. Both of the boys were shivering; their aura faded away.
"L-Looks like w-w-we still have s-s-s-some work to d-d-do on that at-t-tack, don't we?" Alex said as he let go of Coltraine's hand.
"Y-Y-Yeah, we do." Coltraine smirked as his Mudkip jumped up into his arms. "Good job, Kipster. Your Rock Smash has gotten way more powerful than before."
An ominous clapping could be heard…
"Very impressive…" A horrible, dark voice said.
Coltraine twitched and looked around restlessly.
The voice chuckled eerily and scoffed.
Alex gritted his teeth and clenched his fist.
"It's a shame you broke my toys though… Looks like I'll need to find some new ones…" the voice uttered.
"Who's there?" Coltraine yelled into the skies.
"Show yourself, monster!" Alex uttered. Streaks of red liquid fell down his wrist from his clenched fist. He gripped his fist so tight; his fingernails had dug into his skin.
"Monster?" The voice asked astonishingly surprised.
"Yeah, you heard him! Come on out!" Coltraine yelled. His body was trembling with fear. He backed into his brother and reached down for his hand, but only felt a thick, warm liquid on his brother's arm.
"Why, I am certainly no monster of any sort…" The voice said displeasingly.
Coltraine gritted his teeth; tears began to well up in his eyes.
Alex could feel his brother's short and staggered breaths as they made his body tremble.
Marshtomp and Kipster both stood their ground, growling in opposite directions.
Suddenly, the area went pitch-black. The darkness surrounded them and not a thing could be seen. Blinded by the overtaking dark, Coltraine screamed out in agony. Alex whipped around and swung his fist. He could feel it connecting with the palm of a hand.
The darkness abruptly dissipated.
Coltraine looked over to see his brother's fist being stopped by a woman in brown cloaks and a hood, completely covering her face; there was blood spattered on the ground which leaked off of Alex's arm. He looked around to see they were completely surrounded by women in horrifying cloaks of the same manner.
Alex and the woman jumped back.
"You again… Where do you get off scaring my little brother like that?" Alex yelled.
"Just the devil herself trying to have some fun." The woman uttered. The other women surrounding them rejoiced in a loud, ear-splitting cackle that made Coltraine cuff his ears.
The cackling stopped.
"Coltraine, I want you to go home. It's too dangerous here for you." Alex said abruptly in a stern voice.
"B-But I can help you though! You saw how strong Kipster's Rock Smash was! We can take all of them!" Coltraine said. Kipster hid between Coltraine's leg, shivering and whimpering.
"Look at you, you're a wreck. You can't even stop crying." Alex scoffed.
"But I- I can help!"
Alex looked into his brother's deep, and terrified baby-blue eyes and said "All right, you can stay. Go ahead and fuse with Mudkip; this will be a tough battle."
"Really?" Coltraine's tears immediately disappeared with a smile hope. He looked over at Kipster and a light suddenly shone from his chest. The two arose in the air with streaks of light shooting from their chest until they were both enveloped by a blinding light.
Suddenly, a body fell and landed on the ground as the light went away. The figure stood up in a fighting stance; he had Kipster's top fin and also the two fins from his cheek on his. Coltraine chuckled and said "You're fini-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Alex swooped behind Coltraine. With a Brick Break attack, he hit Coltraine in head. The boy fell over; Kipster left the boy's body with an enveloping light and was automatically retired to his Pokeball.
Alex reached into his pocket and disengaged his Kirlia from one of his Pokeballs. Alex looked down at Kirlia and he immediately knew what to do. Without a word, the short, majestic-looking Pokemon grabbed the boy and teleported away.
The women standing before Alex chuckled.
"Now, now, that was a bit rash, don't you think?" one of them said.
"I did what I had to do." Alex scowled.
The women suddenly faded away, all except for one.
"Now if you just turned him over to my care, he wouldn't have had to go through that." The woman said.
"Like I'd ever, I know what you are. You'd do awful things to him."
"… You know what he is and you're still protecting him?"
"You look me in the eye and tell me you don't see a little kid when you look at him." Alex folded his arms and gritted his teeth.
"All I can see in him is an abomination, one suited only for darkness." The woman said.
"You've always been after him… Why not just me instead?" Alex asked.
"You're too easy. I'd lose the game if I did that." The woman carelessly scoffed.
"Game? What game?"
"You see, me and Jake have a little game we're playing. It's called, 'Who can catch the Fusion Crystal first?'"
Alex gasped and backed away in fear at the woman's words.
"You guys are awful!" He said.
"You can't protect him forever, you know that."
"Shut up!"
"Awww, what's the matter? Can't stand the truth?" The woman smiled.
"... That boy, he's my baby brother. Even if I die, I'll always protect him; I love him." Alex growled.
"Fusion Entities like us… We're powerful beyond belief. We've been given a blessing. You're just like the rest of us, except too weak to handle himself."
"I'm nothing like you. We may be of the same race, but we are not by any means the same! Neither is my brother!" Alex growled. He reached for his Marshtomp's hand and a bright light suddenly enveloped the two.
The light exploded into a shower of blue, falling specks of light. Underneath the falling specks of light stood Alex, with all three of his Marshtomp's fins and his orange ones on his cheeks.
"Fusion is a blessing, but you use it in the worst of ways. It ends here, now, Maris. You're never getting my brother." Alex began to walk towards the woman.
"Always so overprotective, but yet still so ignorant. You can't protect him if you're not here to…"
"W-What?" Alex stopped walking and took a few steps back.
The woman held out her hand and from underneath her hood; her ghastly smirk could be seen.
"So long, Alex Anderson."
Remember to keep submitting those OC's! The form for it can be found in my forums! There's a link to it on my profile!
P.S. I realize this is just a merge of the first and second original chapters. (This does not count as a new chapter for this week)
