Author's note: Nothing much to say, so let's continue on.
I don't own any rights to Sailor Moon, Ice Age, Pokemon, Shrek, Cardcaptors or Kingdom Hearts. I only own my OCs.
Chapter 3: Repeating History.
"What are you doing? Get down from there!" Manny called out to the redhead as he, Sid, Diego, Dawn and Piplup were fully unaware of Axel's true identity or the fact that he can see through the former three's magical disguises.
Axel just quirked an eyebrow at the five, then glanced back at Ash's group and finally just shrugged. Well, if the Sailor Team had new members from an event that was even before his lifetime as a human, good luck to them on that part.
"Ah, relax there, pal. I'm just checking up on a few things, since this old wall's looking in a serious need of repairs, like, right now." The redhead smoothly liked, which had Ash, Pikachu, Misty and Brock glare harder even though they couldn't reveal the truth to their friends. Axel's smirk grew slightly as he added, "Was even considerin' in fixing it up myself by going through it."
"You take the wrong step, the only thing you're gonna go through is the tunnel to the dead." Manny warned, buying the lie yet his gut feelings were saying otherwise. There was something very suspicious and strange about the red haired young man that he couldn't figure out. He looked human, and seemed like one, too. Axel just...had something very different in him, or rather the lack thereof.
"Yeah, it's way too dangerous!" Dawn added.
'And that's a bad thing?' Ash thought to himself, but didn't voice it. While he hated violence and he certainly didn't like anyone dying, even his worst enemies. But Axel was a rare exception; he killed his own comrade, Vexen, right in front of Ash and Sora's eyes. Then again, Vexen himself along with Marluxia and Larxene weren't much better, but as far as Ash had learned, Axel was the assassin of this Organization.
Even though he done Ash and Sora good by freeing Namine and had mentioned in saving them even though Axel still wasn't clear on that, he threatened Namine just to get to Marluxia who turned out to be a traitor along with Larxene and Axel had played double agent to learn the truth, Ash still didn't trust him.
"Oh, Come on, guys. This guy's not even attempting to do what I tried to do." Sid tried to ensure his friends, being the gullible idiot that he was. But a good hearted one none the less.
"Yeah, and you were that stupid to even jump off the Eviscerator and Manny and the others had to catch you before you ended up killing yourself." Diego reminded skeptically.
Axel just stared when he heard the Saber say this, dumbfounded. That sloth attempted to jump from an Eviscerator? Facepalming himself at the sheer amusement and embarrassment, feelings he wasn't meant to feel but did anyway, the redhead snickered with his shoulders shaking with laughter. It was as silly as Roxas feeling real human emotions when the kid wasn't meant to either.
"You jumped off the Eviscerator? That's gotta be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of anyone try to do, man." Axel chuckled, looking at Sid, trying not to burst into hysterical laughter. "Are you seriously that dumb?"
"Who asked you!?" Ash shouted. Sure even he still couldn't believe that Sid tried to do something as reckless as that, but Axel was really getting on his nerves.
"Easy, Ash." Misty whispered to him, trying to get her friend to calm down.
Axel just shook his head in amusement. And he thought Goofy was the dim witted one, but geez. Suddenly sensing and seeing movement behind him, with a dark figure giving him a thumbs up before vanishing, he sighed as he saw that as his signal to get going. Well, worse case scenario the Sailor Team end up drowning themselves.
Though Axel couldn't help but, well, think that this was a wrong thing to do. But he had no choice. He lost Roxas. He wasn't going to risk in becoming a Dusk.
"Well, as much as I'd like to stay and chat, I've got work to do, or it's my head my co-workers will chop off." Axel said with finality, and before anyone could stop him, the redhead waved before walking backwards, preparing to jump down onto the platform next to the ravine that leads down the Eviscerator, smirking at the group who looked on in shock, unaware of this.
"Stop!" Ash yelled out, quickly running to try and prevent Axel from getting away and again not thinking straight, despite Brock's objections as the older trainer ran after him, with Manny and even Sid close behind.
"Who is this red haired guy?" Diego asked, puzzled. Something seemed strange about the young man, but he couldn't figure out why.
"I don't know." Dawn replied, getting the same feeling.
Axel leaped off the edge and landed safely on the platform, gazing up at Ash who stopped at the edge, glaring back.
"See ya." Axel waved while beginning to teleport away via darkness, to move onto the next stage of his and Xigbar's assignment.
"Hey, come back here!" Ash ordered, attempting to jump and make the risk of stepping into the corridor of darkness or whatever that teleportation Axel uses was called but was held back by Brock who grabbed him by the arms. Axel by then had vanished completely as the two friends struggled before they began to lose their footing and nearly fell off the edge themselves.
Fortunately, Sid somehow got ahead of Manny and held Brock around the waist to try and pull both trainers up, but since he wasn't as strong and with both of them already leaning forward, the sloth ended up beginning to fall with them. Thankfully, Manny managed to catch all three of them with his trunk just in time before flipping them over him where they landed behind their friend, but since the ground was slippery due to being wet, Manny lost his balance and began to slide out of control, pushing Ash, Sid and Brock who tried to stop him but were not strong enough. All four of them screamed as they slid towards the others who panicked.
"Uh, oh." Diego cringed, knowing what was coming next, another deja vu hitting him.
"No, don't come this way!" Misty screamed in panic.
"Look out!" Dawn cried out.
"PIKA!" Pikachu shrieked with eyes wide in panic.
"PIPLUP!" Piplup screamed hysterically in panic.
While both young female trainers and the two Pokemon managed to leap out of the way, poor Diego was too late as he was he was pushed out onto the edge of the dam and fell halfway in. Fortunately, the saber managed to hang on and pulled himself out, shaking water off him and grumbled in getting wet. Once upon time, he used to have a terrible fear of water, but thanks to Sid 20,000 years ago, all that changed even though he was still embarrassed to admit it.
For once luck was on Sid's side as he landed on the ground next to Ash, but Brock was underneath Manny who layed on top of him, with the seventeen year old's arm sticking out.
"Manny...I can't breathe." Brock muffled a groan and plea.
"Brock? Are you okay?" Dawn asked, as she, Ash, Pikachu, Piplup, Sid and Misty hurried over as their slightly squashed friend began to pull himself out while Manny, with an apologetic look on his face, began to stand up. The other six in the meantime pulled Brock out the rest of the way.
Groaning in relief of being freed, Brock moaned, feeling strained, "I think I bruised my back."
"Aw, don't worry, Brock. Manny landed up top of me 20,000 years ago and I thought I coughed up my spleen back then." Sid ensured him.
"Was this before you guys met Ellie, Crash and Eddie, or afterwards?" Misty asked, curiously.
"A day before. In fact, Sailor Moon, Shrek and the others were there that time too." The sloth answered, which slightly surprised the Pokemon trainers as they suddenly found themselves curious.
"What were guys doing, anyway?" Dawn asked, curiously.
"Um...long story." Sid shrugged, as Diego approached them, while Manny noticed something and went to investigate.
It didn't take Ash and the others long to figure this out and all sighed as realization dawned onto them.
"In other words, Serena and the others are in for another crazy adventure, right? Wish I could've gone with them." Ash sighed, while mentally grumbling at the fact that Axel had gotten away and now couldn't help but sense that, if that guy was here, then something is bound to happen. Something terrible.
"Guys." Manny called up, his tone turning into horror and great concern. Ash and the others, hearing this, went up to him as the Mammoth continued as his fear of history repeating itself was coming true. "Tommy Dashboard's right. Look how old this wall is."
Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, Dawn, Piplup, Sid and Diego stood next to him and when they saw what Manny was seeing, the same horrified and shocked expressions dawned onto their faces as they saw that the wall they were standing on was cracking even underneath them, and leaking and leaning slightly which explained the wet and slippery patches. What they didn't notice was these cracks were three days old and deliberate, with marks of what seemed to be a laser shot hit several times at the weakest spots of the entire dam.
And in front of them was water of years of rain and melting ice from the mountains that was so big that one would think they were suddenly staring out at the ocean. On top of that, the wall has cracked so much that, even with the manpower of machinery and Pokemon, nothing would stop the dam from eventually cracking and breaking apart which would then release the water and flood the entire valley. Even the old machinery parts of the dam were creaking, and rusty which the workers failed to notice and assumed that things would be fine.
Boy were they wrong.
"Everything's going to flood." Misty whispered in horror.
"Guys, we have to warn everyone." Brock told them, knowing that there was only one thing to do.
Ash nodded in agreement, and told them firmly, "Yeah. We gotta get everyone to evacuate. C'mon."
The others nodded in agreement and then turned to had back down as quickly as possible to warn everyone and figure out how to evacuate the entire Valley.
"Hmmm...Maybe we can rapidly evolve into water-type Pokemon." Sid thought, having forgotten that he said the similar thing in the last flood he and his friends experienced.
"That's genius, Sid." Diego remarked sarcastically, moving to follow the others.
"Call me, Chorp-Sid." Sid replied proudly, while mixing up his own named with that of a Chorpish, he went to follow his friends back to safety and warn everyone else.
As the Sailor Team walked over the stone bridge over the water streaming river which was directly above the Eviscerator, Sid gently tapped a nearby piece which crumbled slightly instantly, which made him annoyed and disappointed again.
"Sheesh, this whole thing's a piece of junk. I can't believe humans built this and didn't keep an eye on it." Sid commented, hopping onto the bridge twice as he went.
Which unfortunately was an bad idea that was exactly the same as another bad idea from the Ice Age...as you would know on the Sailor Moon Side of this story. Because not even a second when he did that, the bridge made an unpleasent cracking noise and rumble which had Ash, Pikachu, Manny, Misty, Brock, Diego, Dawn and Piplup stop and gasp when they felt it move slightly underneath them and Sid. The eight of them turned their heads to glare at the Sloth quickly.
"What?" Sid shrugged, cluelessly before he too felt that something wasn't right.
A second pause, before the stone crumbled right underneath them due to their weight and they all fell screaming. Manny took most of the unexpected ride on the Eviscerator on his back, with eight of his friends hanging onto him for dear life as all nine of them screamed while sliding down in high speed all the way back down and hoped that they would have a soft landing.
Back on the ground, Tommy Dashboard was now losing costumers quickly as everyone else, including the rest of the Sailor Team, were now very unimpressed and thought that Misty was right, while the latter group were waiting for Ash and the others to return and had not seen Axel teleport away even though Raye was still trying to figure out the mystery of why the red haired man seemed unusual.
"Forget reeds. I present you with second ancient gizmo from trees we call bark. It's so buoyant, it actually floats." Dashboard tried again, tossing away the reed and showing a small piece of a truck bark, only for everyone to ignore him and scoff at his claims.
"I'll show you something that floats." The male tourist from earlier scoffed, laughing along with his wife.
"All right. But don't say that I told you so." Dashboard replied sarcastically.
"This guy's ridiculous." Raye sighed, holding a hand onto her forehead in exasperation.
"I wonder if Serena and the others are meeting some other guy with the similar personality." Mina thought, half sarcastically.
Ellie, with her memories of Sailor Moon and unaware that her possibly lost friend whom wasn't even in the Afterlife for some reason is Serena and having time-traveled to her past, said with a shrug, "Well, there was this guy named Fast Tony who somehow predicted a real flood a day before Crash, Eddie and I met the others, even though he was a con artist too."
"Somehow, I don't think that'll happen now." Mina pointed out, which suddenly earned her skeptical and slightly worried expressions, making her confused as she asked, "What? What, what?"
"Mina, I kinda don't think you should jinx us by saying that." Kero pointed out in a whisper so that only his friends could hear, and not draw attention from everyone else.
"Yeah, Mina. Remember when you got yourself into trouble when you thought you weren't Pure enough to be a target of the Heart Snatchers two years ago?" Lita added, which confused and worried Ellie, Crash and Eddie.
"That's different." The blond-haired teenager said dismissively.
"Heart Snatchers?" Ellie repeated, a bit concerned while careful not to say it aloud.
"It's a long story." Amy replied.
Before anyone could continue the conversation, they were becoming aware of familiar screams that were getting louder and louder, until Crash noticed something at the Eviscerator and cried out excitedly, "Hey, check out Manny and the others!"
"They're sliding down the Eviscerator!" Eddie added, also noticing excitedly.
When the rest of the group looked up to see, they gasped in shock and worry as Ash and the others made it to the bottom and were now water skidded over the large lake and right towards the shore where Tommy Dashboard, who hopped off stage to continue to try, stood.
When the con artist turned to see what was going on, his eyes widened in panic as he realized that the group were about to crash right into him. He quickly screamed before leaping behind his wooden box to try and use it as a barrier, bracing himself. Fortunately Manny finally stopped, and he and his friends were slumped into a pile on top of one another, with Ash and Pikachu landing on their front on the ground right behind Dashboard's box.
Realizing that he was still in one piece, Dashboard peaked from behind the box to see Ash and Pikachu staring awkwardly right at him, but otherwise everyone was okay.
Standing up and leaped a few feet away from them and the others, trying to con people again while the rest of the Sailor Team hurried to see if Ash's group were alright. "You see? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Giants balls of flamethrowers in a group that are the size of a Mamoswine, raining from the sky!"
"Okay, that's enough." Officer Jenny, who had arrived earlier, spoke up as she warned the con artist while holding up a hand-cuff. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave, Tommy Dashboard."
"Wait, Officer Jenny!" Ash cried out urgently as he stood up. "Don't arrest him! He's right about the flood!"
Everyone, including Tommy Dashboard who didn't really have powers, became confused on the eleven year old's words.
"I am?" Dashboard asked, confused, before recollecting himself and corrected himself proudly, "I mean, er, yes, I am. I told you so!"
"What? What are you talking about?" Jenny asked, only to be startled when Brock leaped over to her.
"It's true! You've got to evacuate everyone right away!" Brock told her, before instantly going into ga ga love mode as he gently held the beautiful officer's hands into his hand, and said lovingly, "While we're at it, how about you and I take a stroll somewhere on a romantic boat ride, just the two of us?"
"Uh..." Jenny muttered, bewildered. Fortunately, a very annoyed Misty came to the rescue when she stormed over, pulled hard on Brock's ear and dragged him away from the officer while he winced in agony.
"If that were to happen, she could easily throw you overboard!" The water Pokemon Trainer responded sarcastically.
"Ow, ow! Maybe you're right..!" Brock grunted painfully while tearing up. While Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Crash and Eddie stared at the awkward scene, dumbfounded, the rest of the Sailor Team all sighed, some of them shaking their heads while the rest facepalmed themselves, all exasperated.
"Never seen Brock do that before." Diego commented.
"That's because you haven't seen Brock in action in the first two months you'd been with us." Lita responded.
"But what Ash and Brock said is true!" Manny decided to continue the urgent emergancy to everyone else who stared at him skeptically. "We saw what's up there! The dam's gonna break, the entire valley's gonna flood!"
"We have to leave or we'll all drown!" Dawn added, with Pikachu and Piplup echoing their agreements.
"What!?" Darien, Fiona, Ellie, Crash, Eddie, Raye, Lita, Mina, Amy, Casey, May and Max all exclaimed in shock, while the crowd shared skeptical looks, some of them all laughing as they found this ridiculous.
"Are you sure about this and you're not making this up?" Officer Jenny asked, suspiciously.
"Flood's real alright." A cocky yet unfamiliar voice interrupted which ceased the laughter all together. Everyone, startled, looked to the side to see another figure, wearing the same coat as Axel but with his hood up, leaning against a tree with his arms folded.
The Sailor Team instantly felt suspicious about this guy, as to Ash, Pikachu, Misty and Brock, and even to Manny, Sid, Diego, Dawn and Piplup, it didn't sound like Axel, and the man's sleeves were loose and not as tight. Raye felt the jolt of sensing darkness again, but much like the redhaired man from earlier, this guy felt...rather empty in his chest.
"And it's comin' fast." The man, who was Xigbar yet everyone didn't know it yet, continued.
"Who are you?" Ash demanded, glaring hard. Great, Axel brought in reinforcements.
"Now that's just rude, kid. Shooting me down like that. I'm a guy who's helping you to get reality into these people's heads." Xigbar scolded, even though he didn't sound insulted. If anything, he sounded even more amused. "I mean, come on, take a look around, you're stuck in a bowl, which is gonna fill up, and there's no escaping, even if you go back the way you came from."
He was right. All around them was the stone walls and despite having made it in here, there was a risk that not everyone in the entire valley would be able to evacuate on time. They were all trapped and possibly doomed to face their end by drowning.
"What do we do?" Nurse Joy cried out, worriedly as she came out from the Pokemon Center.
"Unless you can make it the end of the valley. There's a large tree that can act as a boat that'll save you." Xigbar continued, interrupting the panicked conversation that just began to start.
"What makes you say that?" Raye inquired, suspiciously.
Xigbar scoffed, "You think I'd be lying to you if I haven't seen it? As if!"
"You think he's telling the truth?" Crash asked Eddie who just shrugged.
"Geez, you people and Pokemon are totally hopeless." Xigbar shook his head, as though in dismay. He then turned deadly serious this time as he frowned under his hood, warning everyone. "But I suggest you get your butts movin'. Because the walls and grounds are cracking open, and soon everything will be soakin' wet. If you survive that, then it'll be like those speed-boat races, or a cruise. Because in just three days, it'll hit the geyser fields in a matter of minutes."
When the crowd leaned forward, he jumped forward, yelling, "Ka-Boom!"
"Aah!" The crowd jumped in fright, while a thin and whimpy tourist guy fainted dramatically.
"Ha! Gotcha there! But I am being serious when I say you'd better get movin'. Wouldn't want the creepy crawlies gettin' to ya' before you can make it, now do we? Because I also hear there are guys who, shall we say, are after people's hearts." Xigbar chuckled, evilly. Everyone gasped in horror and the tourist fainted again.
"Say what?" Casey asked, alarmed along with her friends. The herd shared horrified and shocked expressions.
"You seriously thought I'd say there were good news for you about this? As if!" Xigbar shrugged, casually.
"Gee thanks for the comfort, mister. That makes us feel better already." Ash responded sarcastically while still in defense.
"Wouldn't I give to even feel anything." Xigbar replied, which confused everyone even further. He then waved a goodbye as he began to walk off, "Ciao."
An tensed pause followed before anyone spoke again.
"I'm not sure sure about that guy." May muttered, worriedly.
"Me neither. There's something weird about this. What did he mean by people in this valley who are after people's hearts?" Mina said, knowing that the conversation on what she really wanted to say would have to wait until she and her friends were somewhere more private.
"Yeah, well, all I know is, that guy is bad news." Ash pointed out. "I don't trust him."
Darien nodded in agreement. "Me neither. I can tell he feels extremely dark and dangerous, but there's something else about him I can't figure out."
"Same here." Raye agreed. "I don't think he was even a real person."
Her friends looked at her shocked, as she continued in whisper while everyone else were busy chattering about the situation and plans for escaping. "But at the same time, he wasn't a heartless or even like Ansem."
"Who's Ansem?" Ellie asked, even more confused than ever.
"One of the bad guys we had to fight to save the Universe. He wanted to destroy all of the worlds and cast them into darkness." Misty explained, whispering.
"Can someone really do that?" Eddie asked, terrified.
"Well, this is the 20th Century, bro. Everything's different." Crash pointed out with a shrug.
"We fought him last year even before we met Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Puss. Ansem's the main reason why Sora, and Mickey were caught up with us in the first place even though Ansem attacked first." Ash explained, which had the Herd even more concerned, though they were relieved that at least Ansem wasn't on the worry list anymore.
"Eugh...you know, that hooded guy must have been a real pleasure to have in class." Sid remarked, half-sarcastically. He jumped when a loud rumble forced him and everyone else to look up. True to their fears, large chunks of stone from the dam began to crumble and fall, even towards the entrance of the attraction which was the only quickest way out that everyone were about to reach.
But now it was too late, as everyone near it scrambled to safety while screaming, trainers quickly recalling their Pokemon as they went, while the chunks of stone from where Ash and the others came from smashed and crushed the attractions, rides and even the theatre stage which was now reduced to a pile of broken steel and wood. When it stopped, everyone was devastated that their quickest way out was now sealed up and blocked and they began to panic, despite Nurse Joy and her Chansey trying to calm them down.
Thankfully, Officer Jenny blew her whistle loudly to get everyone's attentions and to shush them. "Okay, everyone. Let's not panic. If what that man says is true, then the best thing to do is stay calm and evacuate to the end of the Valley. Let's go." She instructed them.
With no other choice as the crowd realized she was right, did as they were told. The Sailor Team stayed back a little, concerned yet knowing they had no choice either despite worrying that, based on Sid's words earlier, Sailor Moon's group were experiencing the similar situation in the Ice Age.
"Guys, you really think there's a boat this time?" Diego inquired, worriedly.
"I don't know, but in a few days this place is gonna be a mile underwater." Manny responded honestly. "But if we hurry, we might make it, or a miracle to happen like the last time."
"Not sure what happened to you guys back then, but you're right." Ash agreed with the male Mammoth, facing ahead as, since he is the Leader of the Team in both Serena and Sakura's absence, he had to lead them to their safety and survival. "Our only hope is in that direction."
Despite worried that Sailor Moon and the others could end up arriving back home at the wrong time and would have to experience this again, the Sailor Team knew, they were on their own and hoped that their six friends would have either arrive just before the Flood or were possibly going to meet them right now and get the message. So forcing their doubts far into their minds, the Sailor Team began to follow the crowd, evacuating themselves.
Though Manny stopped when he heard an unusual whooshing sound and turned to look behind him, his eyes narrowing. Something wasn't right. Turning to see what it was, there was a doorway in the wall which led to the lower generators of the dam's systems. It was slightly open, and he could've sworn he was seeing shadows of...figures. He was feeling the same gut feeling he felt with Axel and Xigbar, but couldn't figure out why.
Not to mention, now that he thought about it, there had been something very familiar with the redhaired man. Where had he seen him before? In a dream, maybe?
"Manny, lets go!" Brock called up after he noticed that the Mammoth had trailed behind. Despite that he felt uneasy, Manny knew that the Pokemon Breeder and Doctor was right. So with one last look at the ice, the Mammoth turned and walked away to catch up to his friends. However, had he stayed a bit longer, he would've seen that both Axel and Xigbar, who had secretly teleported into the room, were watching him and everyone else.
While Axel frowned, Xigbar just grinned evilly before snapping his fingers, and mists of darkness began to form...underwater.
A/N: Without Sailor Moon, Shrek, Sakura, Sailor Mini Moon, Donkey and Puss with them, Ash and the Sailor Team are left into facing dangers ahead of them while their six friends are facing the floods in the Ice Age at the exact same time. What will happen next?
Let's find out in the next chapter!