AN: This is the final story I will be doing simultaneously with all the others that are currently out. This is under my imagination as well as that of Justicity-Comics of deviantart(.)com. It was beta-ed by my next door neighbor, noreallyitsmatt who doesn't have a page on fanfiction. It was also given a once over by Vongola Maelstrom.
Note on the ages of characters: Most of the protagonists are around the age of 18-20, with everyone else their respective ages. At most I'm thinking Ash is about 20 himself.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS NOR THE SERIES OF POKEMON, KAMEN RIDER OOO OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU CAN FIND HERE.
"Many years have gone by in the world of Pokemon. People of all the regions have traveled far and wide starting families in various other cities and towns. Not just people, pokemon too have moved from region to region establishing new habitats and various homes in new places. Take for example Bulbasuars appearing in Unova and finding some Snivy in the Kanto region. Generally the pokemon world has come together more beautifully and peacefully," a woman said. In front of her were people of all ages while behind her was a large monitor that had been going through slides to fit her picture. They were inside a building full of artifacts and exhibits that displayed the history of pokemon and the revolution in which humans gained their friends and beyond. "Our mayor had decided to build this city and this museum in order to create a sense of history for the people. A place where all the regions connect. Now if you could please step this way so we may begin the tour of the museum." The group followed her but at the end of the group four people were lagging behind.
One was a tall man with tanned skin. He had spiked brown hair long thin and eyebrows. He had on an orange long sleeved shirt covering a yellow one, and a pair of olive cargo pants that were held up by a black belt. He had on brown shoes. The thing that set him apart from the group was his eyes. For some reason they seemed to be closed all the time. "Thanks for coming with us Mrs. Ketchum," the man said to a woman in their group.
"I should be thanking you Brock. You too Holly and Misty," Mrs. Ketchum replied. She was wearing a pink blouse over a yellow shirt and pink skirt. She hadn't changed her looks in ages, save for now she let her hair down. It wasn't in a ponytail anymore.
"It's no problem Mrs. Ketchum," Misty told the mother of one her friends. She has grown over the years growing up and filling out in all the right places. She wore a yellow sleeveless blouse with dark blue jeans. She also let her hair grow out to the point that it almost reached her butt. "It must be lonely in that house since..."
"Misty," the fourth person interrupted. She had brown hair and was wearing a light lavender shirt with suspenders attached to deep purple shorts. "Don't bring him up right now."
"Oh sorry," Misty apologized.
"Holly honey you don't have to do that," Brock told his girlfriend.
"Brock it's okay," Delia Ketchum replied. "Holly it's okay for Misty to talk...talk about him."
"Mrs. Ketchum really it's okay, we don't need to talk about Ash if we don't have to," Misty tried to tell her.
"No, it's fine. I mean it's only been five years since we last seen or heard anything of him. He doesn't even contact Professor Oak since he moved all his pokemon after his last adventure in Unova. I just hope my little Ash is still alive out there."
"Don't worry Mrs. Ketchum, Ash is a great person. He can probably handle himself," Brock told her.
"Thanks you all for this then," Delia told them, wiping the few tears that came out of her eyes.
"Brock Misty? Is that you?" another female voice exclaimed. The group looked over to the entrance of the building. There stood May along with Drew and Harely. May was waring a red and white sundress that had small pictures of Jirachi near the bottom. Her hair seemed to stay the same length, though now the sides were curled. Next to her was Drew. It seemed liked he never changed at all. His clothes were still basically the same except more elegant looking. He changed his purple jacket for a purple polo and his green pants for dress pants of the same color. Other than that and being taller, he looked the same from all those years ago. The same could be said for Harley since he didn't even change what he wore. "IT IS YOU GUYS!" May shouted. She ran up to them, despite her high heels.
"MAY!" Misty called back and met her halfway. The two shared a hug, before May switched over to Brock and gave him a hug as well. "What are you doing here?" Misty asked her friend.
"I was invited here along with these two and Max."
"Where is he?" Brock asked looking for the little brother. "How come he's not with you guys?"
"Oh the little boy went off to go look at the exhibits. So don't mind him," Harley said with a dismissive hand wave. "How are you and dear Holly coming along? Going to tie the knot any time soon?" he teased both Brock and Holly, making them both look away with flushed faces.
"You forget that Solidad is with us too," Drew sighed as he flicked his hair back. "She just went off to see the rest of the museum as well. Probably to look at famous pokemon coordinators over the years." Everyone gave a small laugh at what the green haired coordinator said.
"So how are you guys?" Misty questioned them.
"Well, this flower loving lug finally decided to ask me out," May answered while giving Drew a playful slap to his shoulder. The caused the man to roll his eyes and give May a small peck on the cheek. "How about you Misty? Finally found someone to date?"
"Well..." Misty felt heat go to her cheeks as she thought of how to answer. "Gary and I have been going steady for a couple of months now."
"No way! You're dating Gary!" Brock exclaimed. "How come you didn't tell me about that?"
"I told you the day I did!"
"No, you didn't!"
"She did honey," Holly told Brock. "You were just half asleep during that time. Remember it was when we got home late, and we received a phone call. You told me and went back to sleep." Brock sweat dropped when he heard that, and the blushed in embarrassment. At this point everyone was laughing at him.
"Well, look at this little get together," another female voice chirped. Again everyone turned towards the entrance and saw Dawn come in. She was wearing a large red overcoat that had large buttons on the left side. She had changed her red scarf for a white one and had red beanie over her head. Just like Misty she grew out her hair, but it only went past her shoulder. She had a bright smile on her face as she came closer. "How come all of you came to Medal City? Not that I mind and all."
"It's good to see you too Dawn," Brock greeted with a roll of his eyes. He gave her a hug before she greeted everyone else.
"It's good to see all of you too, but seriously what are all you doing here?"
"We got invitations," Delia explained. She produced an envelope as well as the rest of the people who came from Kanto.
"We did too," May and the other coordinators replied.
"That's weird. Why were we all invited to this museum?" Dawn asked.
"That would be because of me," another voice said. This time the group turned inward towards the museum and saw Gary smirking at them. He was wearing a lab coat over a black button up shirt and white pants.
"Gary!" Misty ran up to him and gave him a kiss on the lips. He eagerly returned it before stopping. Misty blushed when she remember what she just did. "Why did you call us here?"
"I wanted to show all of you this new discovery we found here." He placed an arm around Misty's waist and lead the others towards another part of the museum. Dawn the leaned over and grabbed May's arm and pulled her away from Drew. When he turned around, May made a motion saying that she'll catch up later.
"What is it Dawn?" May asked.
"Have they gotten any news on Ash yet?" Dawn inquired.
"From what we heard while we were coming in they haven't yet."
"I see." Dawn looked crestfallen.
"Don't worry Dawn, we'll find our friend soon. When we do we'll demand an explantation from him. Right?" Dawn looked up and nodded her head.
"Right. Now let's go catch up to the rest before we get lost. By the way where's Max?"
(Scene Change)
A blue haired boy wearing a white button up shirt and olive jeans were looking was going through the museum at a leisurely pace, shifting the glasses on his face from time to time when he couldn't see anything. This was Max. He was looking at part of the museum exhibit that was showing various myths and legends about pokemon. He was currently looking at a legend known as "The Chosen One" from the Kanto region.
"This is really interesting," the now 13 year old said to himself. "The destruction of the world huh?"
"Little kids shouldn't be wondering around on their own," a voice said from behind him. Max turned around to see a security guard with black hair talking to him. He had glasses that blocked out his eyes but other than that he had a standard uniform. Blue shirt, dark blue pants plus a matching cap. Around his waist was a belt with several pokeballs. "Are you lost?"
"Oh don't worry I'm here with my family and friends." The guard looked around before looking back at Max.
"Where are they then?"
"Well, I was right behind..." This time Max looked for his companions but found no one as well. "Um...I guess I am lost." The guard chuckled and said something under his breath. "Excuse me I didn't hear that."
"Nothing I was just wondering if you were with the group that consisted of a woman in red, a man in a Cacturne costume and a green haired man."
"H-how did you know I was with them?" Max wondered if this man could read minds.
"Security cameras." This time Max's reaction was more comical. He fell flat on his face causing the man to chuckle even more.
"That would make sense," the boy replied rubbing his head. "Do you know which way they went?"
"Down that way," the man guard pointed. "It should be the last door to your right."
"Thanks Mr...Ugh sorry I didn't get your name," Max confessed sheepishly.
"It's fine," the man smiled. "Name's Satoshi Matsumoto."
"Max, Max Maple. It was nice to meet you Satoshi!" Max then ran down the hallway and out of sight. Satoshi followed him with his eyes before looking behind him at the legend.
"He hasn't changed at all right buddy?" From behind a statue of a Ho-Oh a yellow rodent ran up to him and up his shoulder. It was about the size of a basketball and had large pointy ears. His tail was in the shape of a lightning bolt.
"Pi Pika Pi!" Pikachu told him. Satoshi looked at him before nodding. "Pikachu?"
"What do you mean why didn't I give my real name?"
"Pika pi!"
"I know I can't put it off forever. Heck even Gary hired me as a guard for this place and he didn't know it was me, but you know I can't face them. Not after what happened," 'Satoshi' said looking at his hands. He stared at them for a moment longer before looking away. "They can never meet Ash Ketchum again."
"Pika..." Pikachu patted Ash on his arm and the human smiled at his partner.
"Yeah I know you and the rest of our pokemon friends know and accept what happened but I don't think they can."
"Pikachu."
"We'll cross the bridge when we get there," Ash sighed. "For now we need to do our job and get money! We're down to our last few Pokedollars." Before they could move though an alarm on Ash's watch went off. "Actually, it's break time. Why not take a nap?"
"Pi!" Pikachu nodded and the two headed off to the break room to take a well deserved nap after working the place for a couple of hours.
Unbeknownst to him, a single person heard the conversation between him and Pikachu. That person then decided to pursue him.
(With Everyone)
"Samuel it's so nice to see you here too," Delia greeted Professor Oak as he stood behind panel of machinery and sturdy glass.
"Delia it's good to see you as well. I see that all the kids have came too," Prof. Oak smiled at the group of people that were there.
"So what are we doing here professor?" Brock asked.
"My dear Brock I called you all here to witness the opening of a big find we have. You see," Oak turned around and pointed at a large stone sarcophagus within another room shown by the glass, "we have come to believe that there is a large power source coming from within that sarcophagus. The founder of this museum, city and company is known by the name Kousei Kougami, and has paid us a great deal to open it."
"I see," Brock nodded his head.
"We invited you all to see our great discovery," Gary answered the question that no one was able to voice out. "If we can't open it today you guys can always spend the weekend and night in the town. What do you say?"
"Alright! Let's open this thing," Dawn said happily. Everyone smiled at the girl's enthusiasm and turned back to see this.
"The only other person who I can think of who would be excited by this is Max," Harley sighed.
"Oh no! Where's Max? Solidad too?"
"I saw Max running off somewhere," Solidad informed the rest as she entered the room. "Sorry I'm late. A rather handsome guard showed me the way though."
"What's his name? Maybe I could give him a raise," Gary told her.
"His name was Satoshi I think."
"The new guy?" Prof. Oak asked. His grandson nodded. "Well, that isn't surprising. He's been helping out people since he's been working here the past few days. We should give him a raise."
"THAT YOU SHOULD!" a loud voice exclaimed. All the occupants of the room nearly jumped, and then turned towards a large computer monitor that hung on the wall. Appearing on the screen was a man in his early 40s with a bright red business suit. He had black hair that was brushed back and a kindly face. His smile was infectious too. "If people do a good job they should be awarded! Satonaka-kun, when is this young man's birthday? We should give him a cake!"
"It's on the 22nd of May sir," a female voice calmly answered off screen. The group watched the man make an odd face before turning into a smirk.
"Then we shall make two cakes for him!" Kougami shouted. "One for apology for missing his birthday and the other for his actual birthday!"
"Yes, boss," the female replied. Turning to the group Kougami smiled at them.
"Now Samuel-kun open the sarcophagus! Let us make history together!" Most of the younger people sweat dropped at how this man was acting.
"Hey Gary, who is this guy?" Misty asked her boyfriend.
"He's our boss and the mayor of this city, Kousei Kougami," answered Gary.
"Why is he so eccentric?"
"We don't actually question that. He's always just so...excited about things. Besides that, he pays us for our research in this city"
"How did he..."
"Again it's better not to ask," Gary interrupted his girlfriend. "We're ready anytime you are boss, grandpa."
"Right here we go," nodded Prof. Oak. Everyone, including Kougami, were watching the as the professor pushed some buttons on a dashboard. In the room next to them the group saw a mechanical hand move closer to the giant stone. Grasping its side the mechanical arm tried to pry it open. It was trying to lift it up but the top wouldn't budge.
"Grandpa put more power into it," Gary told the old man. Prof. Oak nodded and turned up a dial. The arm seemed to be exerting more power into it but couldn't open the sarcophagus. "Full power." When the older Oak tried it the thing wouldn't budge at all. Several attempts later, the group stood there defeated.
"I'm sorry sir. We couldn't open it," Prof. Oak apologized to Kougami.
"It was no problem at all Samuel-kun!" Kougami all but shouted. "It was fine you did not open the sarcophagus. I'm glad you tried. We shall try again tomorrow, but as for now please go enjoy our city with your friends! While I have a cake to bake! SATONAKA-KUN GET ME MY INGREDIENTS!" Again the group sweat dropped but didn't say anything about the eccentricity of Gary and Prof. Oak's boss. Speaking of which he signed off and disappeared from the screen.
"I'm sorry you're thing didn't work guys," said May.
"No, it's alright. Apparently they couldn't open it before either, since they were not sure on how to do it," Samuel replied. "Besides Gary and I have only been studying this for a couple of days and couldn't figure it out either."
"Okay enough moping around about that stuff, let's go eat out in the town!" May announced happily. Everyone nodded and left the room. Prof. Oak was the last one to leave, because he gave the sarcophagus one last look. When he did he turned off the lights to both rooms and locked the door. As they left he never heard the light ringing of a coin hitting the floor. Nor did he see the odd sight of various coin like objects float out from behind the sarcophagus forming a small shape and touching the top of the box. Whatever this thing was, it was trying to turn the protrusion in the center of the cover.
(With Ash)
Ash had fallen asleep on the couch in the guards break room. Sleeping next to him was Pikachu. Across from the duo was a beige colored cat with a coin on his fore head. It was sitting on a chair and reading a magazine like a human would and was mumbling to himself. "Man I can believe Jessie and James got caught again," the cat said while looking at an article in the newspaper. It had two mug shots on it one of a blue haired man and another of a red haired female. "I'm kind of glad they left me now."
"Pi Pikachu," spoke Pikachu as he woke up and looked over the cat.
"What do you mean by that buddy?" the cat asked.
"Pika Pi."
"Of course I'm grateful to you and the twerp, I mean, Ash. You guys have been helping me out these past five years. So I don't mind helping out once and awhile."
"And we appreciate the help too Meowth," Ash replied to the cat. "We've come to know each other this long and we're glad you're our friend now. We also don't mind you traveling with us too. I mean it's just the three of us on the road, and sometimes with another pokemon right?"
"Right."
"Good. Now go to sleep too. I know you haven't had a good night sleep in a while either."
"Pika..." the yellow rat pokemon yawned going back to sleep, Ash following just moments later. Meowth yawned as well and put the newspaper away. Walking over to the arm of the couch, the cat fixed himself so he can sleep peacefully alongside his two friends.
Outside of the room was Max trying to open the door so he could confront his friend. He tried knock, which didn't yield any kind of response; shouting which was met with the same result; and lastly he tried to use his partner Kirlia as he attempted to blow the door down using Psychic, but the appearance of other people had forced him to stop and recall his pokemon. 'I can't believe Ash is here,' the bluenette thought to himself. 'Out of all the places to pop up he appears here, in a museum, as a security guard! What were the chances of that? This has to be some sort of coincidence right?' He was staring at the door for a moment. 'I don't get why he won't answer the door. Is the room soundproofed or something?' Max outwardly groaned. He was brooding on what to do for a moment before his eyes landed on his wrist watch. Upon seeing it his eyes widened.
"I could call the others with my C-Gear!" Max nearly yelled. Going to the phone app on it he went to May's number and tried to dial it.
(Back with the sarcophagus)
The odd mass of floating coin like objects had been trying to turn the middle for some time, before it finally did it. As it did, a golden light filled the room. It also set off an alarm.
(In another part of the city)
The alarm was going off in another building as well. Several people with helmets and dressed in all black motor cycle riding gear were running towards and array of odd looking vending machines with large wheel like objects on the side, while another man was giving them the same coin like object. When each of them got in front of the vending machine, they placed in the coin. Pressing the largest button on the machine, they each transformed into motorcycles. Each person got on and got prepared to leave. "Everyone let's roll out," the leader said.
(Back with Max)
"What is up with this alarm!" Max shouted as he hung up. He turned towards the door to the security guard's room and began pounding on it. "ASH! ASH WAKE UP THERE'S AN EMERGENCY! ASH! DO YOUR JOB DAMN IT!" Sadly though Ash was still asleep due to being a very heavy sleeper. Both Pikachu and Meowth were also still asleep due to being exhausted from lack of sleep. "I have to go find the others!" Max said to himself before turning around and running to find his friends.
(With everyone)
The group didn't even have a chance to leave the building yet when the alarm sounded off. "What's the alarm for?" Holly asked covering her ears. Prof. Oak looked at his C-Gear and went through various apps until he reached the one with the security system of the building.
"Oh no! Something is happening to the sarcophagus!" the Prof. gasped. He turned around and ran towards it, being followed by everyone else. When they arrived at the artifact several parts of it were glowing with a golden light that only seemed to intensify.
"Grandpa what is going on here?" Gary asked.
"I don't know. It seems as though someone opened the sarcophagus." In a very violent way, the sarcophagus exploded sending stone pieces towards the group. Everyone ducked down as the mirror shattered and debris went their way. As they got up, they saw something out of the ordinary. Four humanoid figures stood where the sarcophagus once was, all four made out of the same coin like object. Slowly turning their heads, the figures stared at the group.
"Wh-what are those things?" May asked terrified. Drew pulled out a pokedex and tried to scan them but it came up with nothing.
"They're not pokemon that's for sure," he told his girlfriend. The four figures then began to approach them. They were trembling in fear as they were not used to the sight. That was when a large motorcycle broke through the wall.
"All of you get out now!" the person shouted, a male telling by the voice. Turning around the person threw a pokeball and unleashed a large black and white reptilian behemoth. It had a white head that seemed to be made out of metal and a large black body made of the same material. Around its arms and legs were whites. Two horns were protruding from it head out of two holes. "Aggron use Flash Cannon!"
The large white and black pokemon started to gather energy into his mouth followed by a large beam of pearly silver and white being shot out. It hit the most dense of the four beings, forcing it back for a couple of meters before the thing redirected it to the wall. "Damn. Aggron return!" Turning around the man saw that the people were still there. "What are you guys still doing here! It's not safe." The group nodded before running out the door. The man then put looked at his own C-Gear and spoke into it. "This is Paul of the RideVendor squadron, the medals have reacted. Prepare to tear this place apart now!" With that Paul turned his bike around and rode out of the building by passing the people running.
Once he was outside he was met with several people wearing the same clothes as him, as well as several different large blue serpentine like creatures (Gyarados), large brown bears with a ring of yellow fur on its stomach (Ursaring), and Aggron. "Everyone is out of the building sir," one of the nameless people reported. Paul nodded.
"Open fire!"
"HYPER BEAM!" was the united call of every one present. All pokemon present opened their mouths and shot beams of yellow and red energy at the building destroying it.
"Wait my brother is still in there!" Paul turned around and saw May frantically trying to break through the guards, behind her was her group.
"No one is in there we evacuated the premises. We checked every room, no one was in that building," he replied.
"I never saw my brother..."
"May!" another voice shouted out. Everyone turned to the parking lot and saw Max coming from the car. "Thank goodness you're all alright. I went looking for you guys and tried to contact you but the alarm made me rush out. I went to the car to see if you were there but..." Max rambled on before he was stopped when May hugged him.
"Max don't you ever dare scare me like that again!" May sobbed as she hugged her brother.
"M-May you could let go now! It's getting hard to breath!" When May released him Max took one deep breath before looking around the group. "I see everyone is fine." They stopped talking when they heard clinks and clangs of several medals. Looking up they saw hundreds if not thousands of medal soaring through the air and out of site.
"This is bad," Paul said as he removed his helmet, revealing Paul's serious face and his hair that had grown out and done in the same way as his brother's: in a pony tail. "Everyone after them!" The people working under him nodded and recalled their pokemon. Starting up their engines the went in pursuit of the medals.
"Paul is that you?" Brock asked. Paul turned his head back and nodded. "What's going on here? What happened there? What were those things?"
"Top secret information."
"Top secret my ass!" Gary shouted. He walked up to Paul and grabbed him by the front of his jacket. "Our boss, your boss, wanted us to open that stupid box in the first place! Did he know there were freaking monsters in there!"
"That one I don't know."
"Then I guess it's time we tell them PAUL-KUN!" Kougami's voice said. Paul once again turned to his C-Gear and saw Kougami smiling at him. "Take them to the main building please. I think these people deserve an explanation of what just happened."
"Yes, boss." Paul turned off his gear and sighed. He then turned towards the group of gathered people. "Follow me." Paul then got on his bike and waited for everyone else to get into their vehicles. When May and Max got into the van with Solidad, Harley, Drew and now Dawn, May looked at her younger brother.
"Where were you all this time?" May asked.
"Huh?"
"How come you weren't with us in the beginning of the tour?" Max opened his mouth then closed.
"I'll tell you later after the explanation of whatever this is. What I have to say concerns every one of our friends," stated Max, not wanting to repeat the information again. The group had then long since disappeared when the cops and firefighters had arrived.
(With Ash)
"Huh? Why is it so dark?" Ash asked when he looked out the window into the hallway. Pikachu was groggily waking up and Meowth was rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Letting out a yawn, Ash stretched his arms and heard a ringing noise. Looking down, the man saw a red coin on the floor. Ash squinted his eyes and examined it, noting that it was almost see through and had a golden ring around the edges. "Hey Meowth do you think this is our payment?" Ash held it up so his friend could see.
"That's an odd looking piece of cash then," Meowth thought to himself. "I mean it has a picture of a some bird pokemon on it..."
"We'll see if we can trade it in for money later." Ash went up and took off his shirt and pants, walked over to where the lockers were placed on the walls and put his clothes opened it. Ash was confused when he heard a creaking noise and was surprised to see the whole wall fall off; leaving him just in his Ho-Oh and Arceus themed boxers looking at the police and the firefighters on the scene. "Um...Guys? What the heck did I miss?" Ash asked his two pokemon who shrugged their shoulders.
Thirty minutes later, a fully dressed Ash was walking down the street of the city with Meowth and Pikachu. His hair was now more spiked then before (AN: I imagine Zack Fair's hair from Crisis Core). He had on a tie dye shirt and back pants. Carried in his arm looked like a large satchel. He sighed as he looked around him. "Man and that was a good paying job too. Someone just had to burn down the building didn't they?"
"They'll catch the arsonist one day, but for now let's get some grub," replied Meowth.
"Pika pi!" chirped the electric mouse.
"Sadly we only have this much money guys," Ash sighed as he produced a cloth with several coins. "This is enough to get us some food from a street vendor and a couple drinks from a vending machine for a week or so."
"Then after that we can try to get another job right boss?" Meowth asked.
"Right."
"How about that new coin we got? You think we can exchange it?"
"Pikachu!" Pikachu nodded his head. "Pika pika pi."
"I agree with Pikachu, maybe you could try it out at the vending machine over there," Meowth pointed at one oddly shaped vending machine.
"Doesn't hurt to try does it?" Ash fished through his pocket and produced the red coin. "Let's try it out." Walking up to the vending machine Ash was about to put the coin in, but was stopped when a voice called out to him.
"Oi that's my Core Medal," the voice said. It seemed to belong to a rough and rather arrogant male from what he heard. Ash stopped and looked around. He then looked at Pikachu and Meowth.
"Did you guys say something?"
"Nope/Pika!" his partners replied.
"I'm down here you idiot," the voice growled. Ash and his two partners looked under the vending machine and saw a floating disembodied red right hand. It had black scales under red armor like parts. Where majority of the arm was laid an avian shaped ornament. The armor like piece broke off at the wrist revealing more black scales. On the backside of the hand was more red armor that had indentations to reveal his knuckle like form. There were then more gaps between each section of the fingers that lead to claws. On his index and middle finger there were no pieces of armor, but gold rings. "Now give me back my medal."
"This is new...I've never seen a pokemon like you before," Ash mumbled as he crouched down to look at the arm. "How about you guys?"
"Nope. Never seen anything like it," Meowth shrugged.
"Pikachu..." Pikachu said quietly.
"We can always check our pokedex," Ash told the two. Taking out a device from his back pocket, he aimed it at the arm and waited for what it had to say.
/NO POKEMON DATA AVAILABLE/ the machine dictate.
"Huh well that's odd..."
"I'm not a pokemon you idiot!" the arm floated up and flicked Ash across the forehead.
"Ow!"
"Pika!" Pikachu ran up to his partner, but was also flicked on top of his forehead followed up by Meowth.
"What the heck was that for?" the feline asked massaging his head.
"Because you're all idiots! I am not a pokemon!" the arm shouted. "Now just give me my back my Core Medal and I won't have to kill you slowly."
"Why does this weird stuff always happen to me?" Ash asked seemingly no one. He looked at the arm before looking back at his partners. "Let's run for it now!" Ash, Meowth and Pikachu ran leaving a very confused floating arm.
"Oi! Give me back my Core Medal!"
"Sorry I need to sell it for money! I need to survive at the moment!"
"Tch..." The arm then soared after the trio.
(With the monsters)
The floating medals had restructured themselves into monstrous colored humanoid forms under a bridge. All of them were mostly brown but each had distinct features. One was distinctly female if the clay like brown mounds on her chest mean anything. She had large pupil-less purple eyes and a large blue cape with odd features at the end. She had a large black belt that was black with a blank buckle. Her legs were covered with some sort of leather pants with tiny wholes going up her legs, two rows on each, looking similar to that of an Octillary's tentacles. That oddest thing about her was her head. It was shaped in a large whale like body.
Next to her was a large burly figure with a grey head. It had something like a visor for its eyes. Right at it's forehead was a single horn while tiny tusks came out of where it's cheeks were supposed to be. A tiny trunk appeared in between the tusks. Everything about the upper half of his body was that same nasty looking brown flesh, just like the female. His legs on the other hand were different. Around his waist was the same black belt. His legs were covered in heavy, durable looking grey metal, with small gaps in between showing grey leather like substance. His feet were like those of a large Pokemon.
The third figure was very reminiscent of bug pokemon. It had a black and green color scheme, with tiny " bug legs" sprouting from various parts of his upper body, where green and armor was centered on. His head had two large horns pointing backwards with two antennas at the forehead. His eyes were similar to that of the bulky one, as it was like a single visor but green and were compound eyed. The jaw like part was silver and the mouth was gold. The head was a lighter green compared to his eyes, which were an emerald green. The shoulders were black and plate like, and had 'legs' there too. His right arm had green armor with two blades extending from the wrists, while his left was armored with black pieces. His chest had green armor that looked like six 'feet' and had a yellow circle in the middle of the chest. The rest of his body was the brown fresh like substance and the same black belt around his waist.
The final monster was skinnier than the rest of them. Like the insect one, his lower half was empty save for the belt; while his upper half was fully decked out. All around his 'armor' were metal studs, namely on the black parts. The torso looked like a vest with white metal going down the middle, and a yellow circle in the middle. His arms were also white, but looked more leathery instead. The forearms were black and were similar to gauntlets instead of gloves. They went over his entire arm and hand, with give spike at the end. His eyes were red and seemed to connect downward at his nose. The top part of his head was black, while the jaw and cheek parts were white, and it had blond hair done in dread locks with golden spikes at the tips.
"Those humans and pokemon were annoying," said the insect like one, who seemed rather angry. His voice reminded one of a male gang member.
"Now Uva, we took care of them remember. Most of them are gone now if you know what I mean," the cat one laughed, his voice being like a curious teen. "Unless that is, you had trouble with yours."
"Shut it Kazari!"
"Now, now boys don't go into fights with each other," the only female said. Her voice was kind and motherly. "We only just got out and you're already fighting each other."
"Mezool," the last figure interrupted, his voice was older than the rest yet sounded confused.
"Yes, Gamel?" Mezool asked.
"I feel empty...Like I have no cores," Gamel explained to her.
"He's right," Uva agreed. "I feel like my Core Medals are missing too." Slowly the other two nodded.
"That's not right. Cores don't just disappear," Mezool told the others.
"Well, I did see Ankh run off with them ahahaha," Kazari laughed.
"What!" Uva bellowed. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"I didn't think it was necessary to tell you guys." Uva growled before stalking off in the direction they came from.
"My, my he's going to get into trouble," Mezool sighed before she and the other two left the bridge in the opposite direction.
(With everyone)
Misty's group stood in front of a table which had cake on it. They were also looking at the man who had hired Prof. Oak and Gary to work for him, as he baked a cake: Kousei Kougami. "I know you have many questions but we should celebrate a birthday!" he exclaimed with much enthusiasm.
"A birthday, sir? My men just died out there! A-Against those things! How can we celebrate a birthday!" Paul demanded in an uncharacteristic show of emotion.
"PAUL-KUN!" Kougami shouted causing him to stop. "I understand how you feel and I feel sad that we lost great people as well, but we must look forward! We will send our regards to their families, make note of that Satonaka-kun!"
"Yes, boss," replied Erika Satonaka, who had a pink business top and white skirt underneath. Her hair was up in a bun with a pink flower on her right. In her hands were a notebook and pen in which she wrote down her orders.
"Though we will not be talking about that with you here. We are here to talk about what you saw down there are we not?"
"What exactly happened down there?" Brock asked, deciding to be the speaker of the group.
"That my friend was a BIRTH!" Kougami put emphasis on the final word. "You were able to see the resurrection of the GREEED!"
"Greeed?" Max asked.
"Yes, but I can't give out information like that just yet," Kougami smirked. "At least not to civilians such as yourselves. Satonaka-kun! Will you please lead the people out of the room, save for Samuel and Gary-kun?"
"Yes, boss," Satonaka replied. "Should I get ready for another cake as well?" Getting a nod in response, Satonaka began trying to herd out the people.
"What are you doing? I thought we were getting an explanation!" Brock yelled.
"Yes, you were. About what happened in the building but that was it. Nothing more!" Kougami smirked. "I never said I was going to explain the situation as a whole." After that everyone save for Prof. Oak, Gary and Paul were forced out of the room. "Now, I can explain to you three since you work for me."
(With the rest of the group)
As they were forcefully removed from the office, Satonaka told them to wait in the lobby on the first floor or she'd call the guards. That threat forced them to comply. "I can't believe that happened!" Brock ranted as they came off the elevator on the first floor.
"I know what you mean. How can he kick out a great person such as myself?" Harley asked appalled. Everyone then gave him a silent glare before going back into a conversation.
"Something important like that and yet we can't listen!" Misty grounded out. "I mean we saw what happened! We know what to look for."
"Guys," Max interrupted the talking. "I...I have something important to tell you all."
"What is it Max?" May asked her brother. "You can tell us anything you know that right."
"I know but I think I found A-"
"KYAAAAA!" an ear piercing scream interrupt. The group turned around and saw a humanoid insect monster come crashing into the building. Everyone began to run away from it.
"What pokemon is that?" Drew asked. May took out her pokedex but couldn't get any info.
"Pokemon?" Uva asked. "You think I'm a pokemon? Hah!" He stalked over to them slowly trying to find the right victim.
"Go Croagunk!" Brock summoned a purple bipedal frog with orange cheeks and yellow eyes.
"Croa..." the frog croaked with the cheeks expanding into tiny balloon like object before going back.
"Flygon I choose you!" Drew shouted and summoned a large green two winged dragon. It was sleek in its body shape and had a striped tail that alternated from light to dark green.
"Croagunk use Poison Jab!" Brock commanded.
"Flygon use Steel Wing!" Drew told his pokemon. Flygon rose up and shot forward at Uva with glowing wings, while Croagunk's right hand glowed purple. Uva caught both moves and scoffed.
"This is the power of pokemon these days? Pathetic," he huffed. He then used his bladed arm and slashed both Flygon and Croagunk, rendering them unconscious. Turning his head towards the group, Uva gave a small chuckle before grabbing Solidad's throat. "You should make a fine Yummy." Grabbing a a silver medal from out of nowhere he placed it in front of her forehead, and magically a coin slot appeared. Throwing the medal in, he released Solidad.
"Wh-what did you do to me?" she asked. To answer her question something seemed to phase out of her body. It was like a black and white mummy. "What is that thing?" The mummy looked at her before wandering off.
"It is a Yummy created from your desires," Uva explained. He then watched as the Yummy tear parts off of peoples clothes and eat it. "Clothing? You want clothing right now? Should have guessed since you were a female." Of course the group tried to stop it but parts or their clothes were torn and eaten as well. After a couple more it stopped and began to violently shake. It began to release some green gas. The white body chipped off like an insect molting. When it was done a new figure stood before them. The monster seemed to be a cross between a Scyther and a human. It had a human shaped body and seemed buff. He was colored various shades of green the lightest being in the center of the body while the darkest being the arms and legs. Both arms were morphed into two large scythes, like the bug pokemon it was based on. On its back were four insect wings. "Go find me my cores." After saying that Uva jumped high into the sky and disappeared from sight.
The Scyther Yummy looked around before running off to a certain direction. "The cores are that way! Scyther!" it talked in the human tongue, yet seemed to keep the fact that it spoke it's name at the same time. The group huddled over Solidad asking if she were fine, which she answered she was.
"Guys I think you need to go after that thing," Solidad told them. "It's my fault it was made, so we need to stop it."
"Fine guys let's go, but you girls make sure Solidad is alright."
"I'm fine!" shouted the strong willed coordinator. "I want to make sure that things is destroyed."
"Fine let's go."
(With Ash and the arm)
"Stop following me!" Ash shouted over his shoulder. He had ran to food court like area as he and his friends went away from the flying arm.
"No! You twerp! Give me back my medal!" the arm shouted. The arm crashed into Ash as he came to a screeching halt. The arm was confused as to why the human did that. "Why the hell did you stop all of a sudden?"
"Cuz I've never seen a Scyther like that before," Ash mumbled. He scratched his chin and looked at his pokemon. Both Pikachu and Meowth were on edge.
"What the hell is a Yummy doing here?" the arm asked himself.
"Yummy?"
"That thing in front of you. It's a Yummy, a monster made from desire the desires of people."
"Again what is with all these weird people keep finding me?"
"Because you're just one odd person Ash," Meowth told him.
"ANKH! WHERE IS UVA'S CORES! SCYTHER!" the Yummy shouted.
"You're name is Ankh?" Ash asked the arm.
"Does that really matter right now?" Ankh growled. "There is a monster in front of you and you wonder what my name is?"
"You're like my friend since the moment I met you because you've been following me and all," Ash shrugged.
"Stop ignoring me! Razor Wind!" the Scyther Yummy shouted. He crossed his scythes over each other and they began to glow white. He then spread them apart before slashing, unleashing a barrage of crescent shaped beams of energy towards the small group.
"Everyone dodge!" Ash dove to the side while both Pikachu and Meowth diving to the other side. Ankh on the other hand used his entire being and blocked that attack. Ash looked up and saw that the arm was smoking. "What the heck did you do that for! I told you to dodge!"
"I'm not one of your freaking pokemon you human!" Ankh called back. Ash then saw the Yummy unleash another barrage of beams towards Ankh.
"Pikachu use Thunderbolt on the beams, Meowth use Pay Day!" The mouse and feline ran in front of the move and prepared their own attacks. Pikachu shot a bolt of yellow electricity from his body while Meowth sent dozens of tiny glowing coins from the coin on his forehead. All three attacks met in the middle of the battle field and canceled out.
"Scyther! I'm going to get you for getting in my way!" the Yummy growled. In the blink of an eye the Scyther Yummy vanished from sight as it flew upward to the sky.
"Where'd it go?" Meowth asked. The cat was the scent reeling to the side with a slash from the Yummy as it came crashing down on them.
"Pikachu Iron Tail!" Ash told him as he rushed towards the cat. Pikachu's tail glowed white as it lunged into the air. As it came down on the Yummy his Tail connected with one of it's scythes. The scyther pushed it off of him and did a cut on it too, sending it crashing into where Ash and Meowth were.
"Stay out of this boy. This is between me and Ankh. Scyther! I won't be as kind next time," the Yummy then turned towards the arm and slashed it with his scythes continuously. "Give me the cores now!"
"Like I'd give it to a pathetic Yummy such as yourself," Ankh scoffed even though he was in pain. The Yummy held its scythes under Ankh as if they were scissors.
"Have it your way then. I'll just destroy you and take it from you! X-Scissor!" The scythes then began to glow a dark purple before doing a crossed shape slash on the arm, causing it fall smoking to the floor.
"ANKH!" Ash shouted. "Are you alright!"
"Hey I think I heard voices over here," Ash heard the voices and paled.
'No, no, no no! They can't come here, not now!' Ash thought. Looking back at his pokemon, he saw they were still unconscious. Grabbing two pokeballs from his satchel, he recalled them. "Take a break you guys," he whispered to them as they were in their pokeballs. He knew just how much those two don't like being in their pokeballs, but he had no choice at the moment.
"More pesky humans are coming. I should take care of them. Swords Dance!" the Scyther Yummy growled. It's blades began to glow a faint red and then began to spin. After a couple of seconds it stopped and declared it's own attack. "Vacuum Wave!" Ash watched as it's arms glow white for moments as it waited then new it what it was going to do. Ash ran forward to try to stop it.
"Stop!" Ash cried out trying to stop the Yummy. But it was too late, it unleashed the attack toward a suspended bridge above the entrance of the yard. Ash washed in horror, just as it hit the building all his old friends arrived. The destroyed part creaked for a moment, as Ash gather his breath. "Get away from there! The bridge is going to fall!" he yelled at the group.
Brock was the first one to notice the man, and head his warnings. Looking up he saw the cracking concrete. "Everybody! Move!" he called out to them. They ran away from the bridge in the opposite direction of the Yummy and got out just in time to escape certain death. The rubble was high enough to block the sight were the battle between Ash and the Yummy was taking place.
"Is everyone okay?" Delia asked.
"Yeah everyone is accounted for," Misty replied out of breath.
"Max. Max where are you? MAX!" May began to yell looking for her brother. "Max where are you!"
"May calm down," Drew tried to calm his frantic girlfriend. "He's probably fine and..."
"He might be under the rubble...Oh god please look for him," May started to wail as she stared at the destruction. She then began trying to move large pieces of debris out of the way looking for her brother. Everyone began to help in trying to find the boy. Some called pokemon out to assist as well.
On the other side of the rubble was Max, and he seemed to be bleeding bad. "Hey Max, stay with me..." Ash said as he cradled the boy. Apparently he was hit on the head with some concrete. Max seemed to be zoning in and out of consciousness as blood seeped through his skull.
"Ash?" Max asked his voice wavering.
"Yeah it's me Max," Ash told him. "Stay with me man."
"It *cough* it really is you," Max smiled. "Thank goodness, we should go tell everyone."
"Yeah, we'll tell everyone when we get you to a hospital."
"He won't have that much time," Ankh said appearing, smoke still coming out of his self. "He might die in a couple of minutes."
"Don't you think I know that!" Ash roared in anger. "I can't let him die! Not here damnit!"
'I could use this,' Ankh thought to himself. "How about a deal then?"
"Look I don't have time to be wasting with you or that Yummy over there," Ash pointed at the Scyther Yummy who was watching the scene with interest.
"I can keep the boy alive." That was what stopped Ash from ignoring the floating arm. "I'll keep him alive as long as you help me out?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Help me collect medals, and I'll save the boy's life." Ankh gestured towards Max.
"How can I trust you on this?"
"You can't but it's the only way you have right now." Ash knew if Ankh had a face, he'd be smirking in victory in right now.
"Fine. What do you want me to do?"
"Destroy that," Ankh pointed at the Yummy. He then shook himself and a stone popped out of his body. Ankh caught it before it could hit the ground.
"Isn't that the seal? Scyther!" the Yummy asked fearfully. Ankh paid the Yummy no mind as he placed the 'seal' onto Ash's body. It glowed several different colors for a moment before it broke. The stone itself became a black metallic buckle with three coin slots in the front. It had blue lines coming from it. From the buckle a silver belt was made that wrapped around Ash's waist. On the left was some sort of small carrying case and on the right was a black and gold circular object.
"Use this belt, along with these medals," Ankh produced a green medal and a yellow one as well, "and the red one you found to beat it."
"Wait don't do it! You'll regret what you're going to do with that!" the Yummy warned Ash. The man in return looked between the two before looking at Ankh.
"Can you really save him?" he asked.
"Yes."
"Then how do I know which medal to put in where?"
"Each medal has lines on the back. The one's with single lines go to the right, two in the middle and three on the left. Got it?"
"Got it." Ash stood up and grabbed the medals from Ankh, before getting the one from his pockets. He put the red one in the right slot and the green in the left. Lastly he took the yellow one and tilted the belt diagonally to the left (the right side went up, left went down).
"Good now use this," Ankh told Ash as he grabbed the scanner on the side. Ash nodded and pressed it. It made some noise as if it were charging.
"HENSHIN!" Ash declared and he scanned the three medals on the belt. It made three chimes, one for each medal. Tiny circles appeared from the medals as he scanned them. Suddenly symbols started to surround Ash and seemed to try to mix and match themselves. There several colors, not just the ones on his belt. The whole thing apparently sang as well.
"Pidgeot! Persian! Hahakomori (Leavanny)! Pi~Pe~Ha~ PiPeHs~ Pi~ Pe~Ha~!" the scanner sang. As the song finished three symbols stopped in front of Ash, fused together into a single symbol and slammed into him. The effect was instantaneous. Ash's body was covered in black armor from head to toe. His head had on some red on it in the shape of a Pidgeot who's wings were spread that covered the front of his face, as well as two green lenses that were over his eyes. His chest had the mix logo of the three medals he used to attain this form, with a yellow ring surrounding it. From His arms and shoulders had yellow lines drawn down the sides, while his forearm had yellow armor on it, with some sharp looking metal attachment on the forearm. From his chest green lines crawled down to the front of his boots and were designed like the legs of Leavanny.
"What the heck is this?" Ash asked looking at himself.
"This is power. The power to defeat that," Ankh said pointing at the Yummy. "OOO."
"Better keep your end of the bargain." OOO couldn't talk after that as the Yummy slammed his scythes on to the gauntlets.
"You're going to regret making this choice! Scyther!" the Yummy growled.
"You're going to regret every hurting my friends!" OOO pushed off, and the Persian part of his arm began to flash yellow. When it stopped, the attachments on his arms unfolded themselves and became yellow colored claws. Just then a pokemon move appeared in OOO's head and strangely enough he called it out. "SLASH!" As he did it, OOO felt more power going into the move. When the attack connected with the Scyther, it left three long gashes on his body, making him spill out more of those silver medals. He then began to focus his energy towards his feet, and they began to flicker green. This time another pokemon move flew threw his head. "Frustration!" OOO jumped high into the air and began raining down kicks on the Scyther Yummy.
After his assault the Yummy growled. "Why you! Fury Cutter!" the Scyther retaliated by slashing OOO across the chest several times before kicking him.
"Damn that hurt."
"Oi Ash! Switch this with the middle one!" Ankh through him another green Medal. OOO grabbed it, while kicking the Yummy in the stomach as he tried to attack. Taking out the Persian Medal he put it into the container on the left side of the belt for now, he replaced it with the new green medal. Grabbing the O Scanner, OOO scanned his medals again.
"Pidgeot! Sutraiku (Scyther)! Hahakomori!" Again the glowing floating symbols appeared, before rearranging themselves and slamming into OOO. This time his arms were green too, but a lighter shade compared to his leg armor. The arm attachments this time were blades that were reversed. Handles shot out of the bottom part and they blades disengaged from the gauntlets. OOO then wielded them in front of him in a reverse grip.
"Don't think by imitating me that you could defeat me! Razor Wind!" the Yummy shot out it's move.
"Razor Wind!" OOO copied. He mimicked the attack down to the glowing and slashed as well. The two moves collided setting off an explosion. Not waiting for the dust to settle, OOO ran forward taking the Yummy by surprise. "Fury Cutter!" Giving the Yummy at taste of it's own medicine, OOO slashed its chest several times, each one getting stronger than the last.
"ASH! FINISH HIM!" Ash nodded and held out his arms wide. The blades began to glow a bright green, and then he jumped.
"X-SCISSOR!" OOO did an X shaped slash on the Scyther Yummy, which exploded and began to rain medals.
"Good job," OOO heard Ankh congratulate him from behind him.
"I held my part of the bargain, now hold your's," Ash said without turning around as he took off the belt. The armor disappeared after he took off the buckled from his body.
"Who said I wasn't?" Ash turned around and saw Max smirking at him. Though many things were different. One the bleeding stopped. Two his hair was dirty blond and was stylized to the right. Lastly his right arm, looked just like Ankh.
"Ankh?"
"In the flesh."
(With Kougami)
Kougami was smiling. He had Gary, Prof. Oak and Paul leave just short before this moment, so he was able to watch the battle between OOO and the Yummy in peace, as well as decorate a birthday cake. "Happy Birthday to you," he sang. "Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear..." Kougami paused in his singing as he wrote three circles next to each other under the frosted "Happy Birthday" on the cake. "OOO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!"
(OOO end chapter OOO)
AN: Leave a review please. I will only update this if it can at least get 5 reviews. Also if people are wondering why the Japanese suffixes suddenly appeared, it's because that's part of Kougami's character.
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