Fusion Warriors
Chapter 2
The Memories, Both Old And New
"Not this time!" Alex cried out as he immediately grabbed Maris's hand in his and began to crush it. "You're never getting my brother" Alex growled at her.
Maris screamed in pain and agony as her hand was crushed by the boy. Suddenly, she pulled him in and slapped him vigorously and repeatedly across the face with Force Palm. She raised her hand and with a final smack, sent Alex flying into an already destroyed building. The remains crumbled down upon him in a column of destruction.
As the smoke cleared, a faint laugh could be heard. The laughter got louder and louder until finally, it sounded as if someone had heard the best joke of their life the laughter was so loud and bold; it was Alex. He stood there, blood leaking from his mouth, just laughing. He spat out a tooth and laughed even harder!
"What's so funny, kid?" Maris said as she shook her hand, trying to get feeling back on it.
Alex looked at her with burning eyes of energy and amusement said,
"My kid-brother hits harder than you!" Alex fell over, holding his sides and laughing.
Maris held up her hand which began to turn purple as her skin slopped with goop and gunk. Alex covered his nose as a horrifyingly putrid smell wafted through the air.
"Mother of Arceus! Did you fart?" Alex yelled as he started to laugh again.
"Let's see if you find this funny, stupid little kid. Sludge Bomb!" Maris shot chunks of hardened sludge that careened Alex in the face. She lowered her hand and as the smoke cleared, there stood Alex with clumps of hardened sludge completely covering his face. His hands twitched as he reached for his face; Maris clenched her fist and the clumps began to glow bright until they suddenly exploded.
A column of smoke rose from the site.
Suddenly, Alex appeared behind Maris and said,
"That wasn't very funny" in a growling tone.
The two jumped away from each other and were now standing on opposite sides of the battlefield.
"Why do you want my brother so bad, Maris?" Alex asked as he scratched his head.
Maris scoffed and smiled.
"Are you-?"
"Hm?"
"Are you a pedophile? Oh, that's just sick!"
Maris slapped face-palmed her head in disgust and frustration at Alex's claims.
"I mean, I know he's cute and all, but he's just thirteen!"
Maris groaned. "Are you familiar at all with what the Fusion Crystal?"
"Duh, of course I am. That's the one with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, right?"
Maris groaned again in discontent. "No, you fool. The Fusion Crystal is what allows us all to fuse. Those who are said to absorb it become all powerful."
Alex looked up and over at Maris and scoffed. "Tch. So what does that have to do with anything?"
Maris smiled once again and cackled at Alex's question. "I want it."
"Let me guess, so you can rule the world and blah, blah, blah… Save it, lady. I used to read comics, I know your type. All you want to do is rule the world so you can feel all powerful and important. Let me guess, you were raped and abused as a child and now you're mad at the world for making you feel helpless all the time, am I correct?" Alex smirked and folded his arms.
A long silence fell over the two.
…
Finally, a horrifyingly atrocious and corrupted cackle broke the silence.
"You couldn't be more wrong, my boy. I wish to destroy it!"
Alex stepped back a little bit; a bead of sweat ran down from his head to his cheek as he gulped back down his dismayed lunch. "Y- You want to destroy it? What good would you get out of that?"
"This world… It's too… What's the word? Boring, that's it. This world is too boring. We've already destroyed too much of it; it's practically a waste. How you and your puny little brigade have survived this long confounds our minds."
"Wait, 'we've'? Oh wait, that's right, Jake Williams." Alex scoffed. "You can stop hiding now, pussy."
A man in an overcoat and hood walked from out of a shadowy vortex and stood next to Maris.
"How did you know I was lurking in the shadows?" Jake asked with actual curiosity.
Alex's eye twitched slightly and he said,
"I could SMELL your foul, dark odor and quite frankly I think you need a shower" Alex said as he readied himself in his fighting stance.
"My, my… That hurt." Jake said as he put his hand over his chest and laughed.
"No matter what you do, nothing will stop us from achieving our goal." Maris said.
"Wait a second…" Alex paused and stood up in his normal stance. "You said you wanted the Fusion Crystal to destroy the world, right?"
"Yes, that is true." Jake said.
"Then what does this have to do with my brother?"
The two cackled and laughed hysterically.
"Hey, what's so funny?" Alex said as he growled.
The two kept laughing and laughing.
A mysterious blue aura began to envelop Alex. "Speak, damn you two!" He yelled as he charged at Maris and slapped her in the face with an Aqua Tail attack. The force of the attack echoed in the dark wind as Maris stood there, unscathed. Alex stood there, his body slightly shivering with fear and his mouth open in awe.
"Now that you know we're serious… Are you ready to listen?" Maris asked.
Alex calmed down and took a few steps back. He unfused with his Marshtomp who was automatically retired into his Poké Ball. "Yes, I am ready to listen" Alex said. "Now what does my brother have to do with any of this?"
Maris chuckled. "Jake, why don't you tell him?"
Jake also chuckled. "Gladly. You see, many years ago, a meteor passed through this world's atmosphere, a day before the Great Disaster actually. Upon entering, your brother's DNA somehow came into contact with it."
"I- I get it now… That day…"
A younger Coltraine and Alex lay out in a bed of flowers under a dark, starry night.
"Hey Coltraine?" Alex turned over to him.
"Yeah?"
"What do you think is out there, in the sky, in space?"
"I dunno, maybe there's some candy for us. I'm hungry." Coltraine giggled.
"No, I'm serious! Like, what's really out there? I've always wondered."
"You know what? Me too." Coltraine agreed.
"Maybe there's some more Pokémon..." Alex smiled.
"You know what I don't get?" Coltraine said.
"What?"
"Why there's so many disagreements in the world…"
"What do you mean?" Alex asked.
"Well, I mean, just look at TV these days… There's always someone fighting, whether it's normal people, or people like the president or even the Republicans and Democrats… I understand everyone has different views, but are they really worth fighting about?"
"I see your point… We all share the same sky, same air… We're all connected somehow." Alex rolled back over and looked up at the sky.
"If we can share this world, the same sky and air, something that's so important… How come we have to disagree over the smallest things?" Coltraine looked up.
"Maybe we're all looking at what's different, rather than looking at what's the same… Maybe if we stop focusing on the different stuff and start focusing on what we have that's similar… This world could be a better place…"
"Those are my thoughts exactly." Coltraine agreed.
A big shooting star whipped through the sky.
"Hey, look Alex, a shooting star!" Coltraine pointed out as he followed it with his finger.
"You saw it first, you get the first wish." Alex smiled.
"Alright then…" Coltraine closed his eyes for a few seconds. "Got it!"
"Well, out with it!" Alex said.
"I wish that… I wish that no matter what happens, I'm always with you, my big brother."
"Coltraine…"
"Hey, c'mon, what's your wish?" Coltraine turned over and looked at Alex.
"I wish that no matter where we are, we're always together. So we can always go through an entire bag of cookies while we watch the sunset on our roof… So we can always crack jokes about stupid things… So we can always laugh and share our feelings with each other… So we can always be together…"
"Oh, Alex…" A tear rolled down Coltraine's cheek.
Alex smiled as a tear also ran down his cheek.
Coltraine looked over at him and playfully punched him in the arm.
"Hey, don't you go getting soft on me!"
"Hey, I'm not the one that cried first!"
The two boys laughed the night away under the stars.
"We haven't watched the sunset together in years…" Alex hung his head and quietly sobbed.
"Hm?" Maris looked over at him. "Awww, look! He's crying!" Maris yelled as Jake burst out laughing.
"The sunset doesn't even come anymore… And it's your guys' fault for causing the Great Catastrophe! It's just darkness day in and day out!" Alex growled as he grabbed a Poké Ball from his pocket and fused with his Aggron. He adorned his Aggron's steel plating, horns, and tail.
"I'm done living in darkness!"
Coltraine awoke to find himself in his bed. He slowly sat up and flinched as he reached his hand up to his head. He felt bandages wrapped all the way around; he moved his hand over to the right and felt something moist. He brought his hand down and sniffed it; it smelt of blood.
"Hey, you're awake!" A small boy with black hair looked up from the floor he was sitting on. He was wearing a tank-top and basketball shorts, much like himself.
"H- Hey, Rex." Coltraine clenched again.
"Head still hurt?" Rex asked as he got up and got a bottle of pills.
"Yeah… Don't really remember what hap- Oh, right. Alex knocked me out." Coltraine looked over to see Alex's Kirlia sleeping in the corner with a small blanket on him. "Yep, that's Alex's Kirlia all right… Tch. He didn't have to fool me…"
"What happened?" Rex asked.
"Oh, it's nothing. Hey, did you ever save any cookies for me?" Coltraine smiled.
"Of course, right when Ms. O'Dea came in and told me you asked to save some, I stopped eating them. But it was really hard; she put extra chocolate chips in them." Rex giggled as he grabbed the plate of cookies from under Coltraine's bed and sat them on the bed. Rex stood there nervously.
"Hey, c'mon, take a seat!" Coltraine said as he patted the spot next to him on the bed. Rex shied away from the bed a little bit. "Hey, I might've gotten hurt, but I don't bite like a Poochyena." Coltraine laughed. He lifted up part of the covers and Rex smiled and crawled in. Coltraine sat the cookies down on his lap and the two began to eat them.
Rex looked over and smiled at Coltraine. Coltraine looked over and ruffled Rex's hair.
"Hey, cut it out!" Rex said playfully as he hit Coltraine in the stomach.
"Come on, haven't I taught you to hit harder than that?" Coltraine said. He smirked and rolled over, knocking the cookies onto the floor as the two began to wrestle.
Rex got on top of Coltraine and pinned him down. He got in Coltraine's face and taunted him. "Now what're ya gonna do Mr. Big, Bad and Tough?" He said with a smirk.
Suddenly, Rex felt something long and hard brush past his leg followed by something sticky and wet.
"What was that?" Rex asked.
Coltraine immediately began blushing and with quickness, he threw Rex off him and got on top of him. He cleverly arched his body up in a semi-flattened 'U' and got in Rex's face. "Give up yet?"
"No way!" Rex yelled.
"Say uncle."
"Pfft."
Coltraine began to press down harder on Rex.
"Say itttttt."
"No!"
Coltraine took Rex's elbow and bent it inward.
"Say itttttt!"
"Alright, UNCLE!" Rex yelled as Coltraine rolled off of him.
"Hey, maybe we should keep it down… There are probably people trying to sleep." Coltraine whispered.
"Hm, maybe you're right." Rex agreed. "Aw man, look what we did!" Rex said as he looked down and all of the cookies and crumbs that were on the floor.
Out of the blue, a small Pokémon wandered into the room. The Pokémon was small and green with black markings around its eyes. It had a little horn on the top of its head and red, diamond-like marking on its tummy.
"Hey, what's that?" Rex asked.
The little Pokémon began to eat the cookie crumbs that were on the floor.
"That's a Larvitar…" Coltraine said as the two watched the Pokémon.
Rex hopped off the bed and slowly walked over to the little Pokémon. The Pokémon growled and backed away timidly.
"Hey little guy, it's alright… I won't hurt you." Rex said softly. He kneeled down and held out his hand.
Coltraine looked at the two on the floor.
"My name is Rex, what's yours, little guy?" Rex smiled.
The little Pokémon held out its stubby arm and shook Rex's hand. Rex moved in and picked up the little Pokémon and held it.
"I wonder who let him in here…" Coltraine said as he sat up.
"He doesn't look like he has a home… Well, not anymore, at least.' Rex said with a sigh. "Can I keep him? Pleeeaaaassseeeeee?" Rex begged.
"I dunno, Rex… You're still pretty young to have a Pokémon…"
"I promise I'll take care of him! Please?" Rex hopped up on the bed and hovered over Coltraine.
Coltraine looked up at Rex's big, blue eyes that were welling up with tears. He then looked down at Larvitar's big, red eyes and his quivering lip. With a sigh, Coltraine said,
"All right, I GUESS you can keep him."
