Worlds Collide
Chapter 3-Uneasy Alliances
A/N: I realize now that to make this story flow, I can't have all 10 worlds in every chapter. So don't be surprised if some chapters only have one or two of the 10 fiction worlds in them.
Anyway, enjoy chapter 3 of Worlds Collide!
*Kenny's POV*
A few days after Stan found that guy in the snow, I started to notice that I wasn't the only hero in South Park anymore.
It was late one night and I was out doing a routine perimeter check as Mysterion. I was getting pretty bored as there's rarely any crime during the night. About 2 hours after I started, I heard a shrill feminine shriek from an alleyway. I hurriedly jumped across the rooftops in the direction of the noise. When I got there, I saw that some random dude was trying to mug a woman. I was just about to pounce on the attacker, when out of absolute NOWHERE; a big blur just zipped by and in less than a second, had knocked out the attacker and got the woman out of there. I wasn't even able to begin to try and get a good look at the figure, he was SO damn fast!
A quick detour to the police station told me that the blur took the attacker to jail. I tried to just shrug it off, since weird stuff happens here all the time. But by the end of the night, there were three other cases of criminal activity. And every time, the damn blur beat me to it.
At that point I was agitated that the blur kept doing my job, so I just said "Ah screw this!" and left.
Besides, Bebe's birthday party was tomorrow, so I needed to get plenty of rest to take down Rouge. The party was by invitation, and Rouge, Stan, and I had all been invited. I only hoped Stan wouldn't be pissed that I practically set him up for this.
*Dylan's POV*
Three days had passed since I arrived in South Park, and I had gotten bored pretty quickly. I strolled around town once or twice, but there wasn't a whole lot else for me to do.
So I figured I'd use my powers during the night when nobody would see. Turns out, that was a good idea, as I had stopped about 5 or so potential criminals and took them all to the police station. And thanks to my super speed, nobody ever knew it was me. And when I wasn't running around looking for criminal activity, I was building up my running speed stamina so that I wouldn't pass out the next time I ran really fast. My secret was safe...for a little while anyway.
It was the next day that I dove even deeper into all that was going on.
That day was Saturday, the day of Stan's girlfriend's birthday party. I was still a little skeptical of whatever that Kenny kid gave Stan to give to Bebe, and I would soon have my suspicions confirmed...but in a somewhat different way.
When Stan came home later that afternoon, based on the absurdly goofy/weird look on his face, I could instantly tell that Bebe loved the present…even though I still didn't know what it was.
"So what did Kenny give you?" I asked when he got home.
"Some kind of shiny red emerald. I can't even begin to think how the hell he came across it, but Bebe was head over heels for it."
"A red emerald?" It was strange I thought. Based on Stan's description of it, it kind of sounded like it had some sort of resemblance to MY emerald. But for the moment, I just shrugged it off.
*Kenny's POV*
The plan had worked…sort of.
Once Stan gave Bebe the emerald at the party, her face lit up like a Christmas tree or something. She instantly fell in love with the jewel, kissed Stan on the cheek, and, naturally, he threw up, but she didn't mind. I looked over at Rouge while this was happening, and just as I thought she would, she seemed really fidgety and anxious the moment she saw the emerald. I had her right where I wanted her.
Rouge was pretty quiet for the rest of the party, so later that night I went looking for her as Mysterion. After what seemed like hours of searching I finally saw her sneaking up to Bebe's house. I quickly followed suit. Rouge was definitely going to try and steal the emerald, no doubt.
I hid behind a mailbox on the other side of the street as Rouge began to…climb up the wall to Bebe's window. After a few seconds of scratching my head, wondering just what the hell else this kid could do, I made a beeline across the road and caught her by surprise. I leaped into the air high enough and bounced on her head, which sent her crashing into the cold snowy ground below.
"I knew you were up to no good!"
"What the…who are you!?"
"I'm the one who should be asking that question! So 'Rouge' why are you trying to take that red emerald? What's this yellow emerald you have? What is this 'Chaos Control' you know of?"
"That's none of your concern! Now get out of my way!"
"If you wanted a fight, you got one!"
And so we had officially locked horns. We leaped at each other, where I was able to grab her by the arm and fling her to the ground. When I did that, her yellow emerald slid out of her pocket and hit the ground, where I quickly and promptly scooped it up.
"H-hey! That's cheating!" she yelled.
She lunged at me, but I quickly sidestepped to avoid her, causing her to do a miniature face plant in the snow. I immediately grabbed her by the back of her jacket and punched her hard in the stomach. She fell to the ground in utter pain.
"Is that any way to treat a lady!?"
"It's the way to treat a thief like yourself!" I replied.
The whole ruckus must've woken Bebe up, as the next thing I knew she was shouting at us from her window.
"What the-Mysterion? What's going on!?"
"Nothing I can't handle! Can you call the police please?"
As I said that, Rouge had gotten up and struck me in the back of my head with her fists. The sudden blow disoriented me for a bit, where Rouge took the advantage by repeatedly kicking me in the back with full force. Wanting to add a little more pizzazz to the fight, the next time her leg swung to kick me, I whirled around and bit her leg. She yelped in pain and hopped back a little, which gave me enough time to get up and finish kicking her sorry ass. I clearly had the upper hand for the rest of the brawl and I delivered one final punch to her face, which caused her to stagger over and drop to the ground. The battle gave me a few bruises and scratches, but nothing serious.
A few minutes later the police finally arrived and arrested Rouge. Bebe and her parents had come out to see what exactly was going on.
"The new kid was trying to steal the emerald Stan gave you." I told her. "I knew she looked suspicious since the day she got here."
"Oh my God…well thank you Ken-er I mean, Mysterion!"
I walked over to Rouge before they shoved her in the police car and tauntingly held out her yellow emerald.
"I guess you won't need this anymore, huh bitch? Mind if I keep it?"
She scowled at me and swore that this wasn't over. I was just lucky that that damn blur didn't show up and steal the moment from me.
*3rd Person POV*
"Cream watch out! Two tarantulas just spotted you!"
The Lyoko warriors had taken Cream to the factory to show her the ropes and give her a basic rundown of everything. Cream agreed to help them, but she had to stay in the factory to avoid suspicion since she was a talking rabbit and all.
When she went to Lyoko the first time, she proved to be an exceptional fighter. Everything she could do in the real world, she was able to do in Lyoko.
Just as Jeremey had said, two tarantulas approached her. She whirled around and told Cheese, her pet Chao that was with her when she got sucked into the portal back on Mobius, to attack them, and he did. Whenever Cream went to Lyoko, naturally, Cheese went with her. However, the two had to use separate scanners as Jeremy told her that if two living things are virtualized in the same scanner at the same time, the two life forms would combine into one. Odd, who finally learned to trust Cream, told her it happened with his dog once.
Cheese successfully took out the tarantulas, but was devirtualized by a Krab that had appeared out of nowhere.
"Cheese! No!"
Angered, she performed a homing attack spin dash combo on the Krab, effectively killing it. She ran to catch up with the others, who were closing in on the tower.
"I never knew a desert could be so dangerous!"
"You should've seen Jeremey the one time he came to Lyoko!" Odd told her.
"Oh hush Odd!" Jeremey replied.
Odd and Cream made it to the tower where Aelita and Yumi were dealing with a few Blok's.
"Energy field!"
Aelita fired an energy field at the Blok, but the Block stepped aside at the last second, then proceeded to fire at Aelita, devirtualizing her.
Angered, Yumi quickly took out the remaining Blok's and headed towards the tower. She stepped inside, rose up to the top platform, placed her hand on the screen that spontaneously appeared before her, and deactivated the tower.
"Great job everyone! I hope the specter wasn't too hard on William."
"And we didn't lose any codes either!" Yumi added.
"I'm initiating a return to the past, just to be safe."
Jeremey typed a few lines of code into the computer and pressed a button. The world was then engulfed in a big expanding blue bubble of light as the world was sent back in time to a few hours earlier.
"Aelita, what's wrong?"
Aelita was working on the super computer with Jeremey later that day, when Cream asked her this.
"A number of things."
"Is it about your mother?"
"Mostly."
"Tell me, why is she working for the bad guy? Professor…Jerome was it?"
"Professor Tyron. The thing is Cream…my mom was kidnapped years ago, when I was about your age. When my father was originally working on Project Carthage, Tyron was one of his associates. My father fired him at some point, so years later, Tyron sent his goons to kidnap my mom. He wound up marrying her, but only to get his hands on my father's research data. Destroying the Cortex that Tyron made on his super computer meant losing any way of getting her back."
"Then why did you attempt to do that?"
"We had no other choice. XANA had gotten back enough codes that he was at 95% of his full power. If we didn't do something, XANA would rule the world network and we'd have no way of stopping him for good. The moment we implanted our virus into the Cortex, Tyron shut down his super computer. We barely got out of there alive. We shut down our super computer as well, effectively neutralizing XANA. Unless Tyron found a way to counter our virus, the cortex would be destroyed if he were to turn it back on."
"If XANA couldn't do anything…then why did you turn your computer back on?"
"Without XANA or Tyron to worry about at the moment, the next 5 months after had gone by pretty quietly. One month ago though, Jeremey thought he had developed a program that would trap XANA in Lyoko, like he was before I got my memory back. We turned the super computer back on, installed the program, and it worked."
"But why did Mr. Jeremey want to try that?"
"Jeremey…well you see Cream, Jeremey is…special. He's always there for me when it hurts most. He couldn't handle the emotional pain I'm going through, and he wanted to try and make it better. So now that XANA's stuck on Lyoko, we can continue searching for my mother without worrying about XANA too much."
"But did the cortex get destroyed?"
"We're not sure. A week ago, we tried to go to the cortex for the first time since rebooting the super computer. We did reach the cortex's entrance from the network and we could tell it was still offline. Tyron still hadn't turned his super computer back on. We headed back to Lyoko, but we lost Ulrich in the process."
"How?"
"Some weird bug had entered the skid shortly before we descended into the hub to take us back to Lyoko. We entered the hub just fine, but when we came out the other end, we noticed that Ulrich's nav-skid was missing. We searched as much as we could…but we still haven't found him."
"Oh my gosh!"
"Yumi's been taking it really, really bad."
"Does she love Mr. Ulrich?"
"Well…it's always been complicated with her and Ulrich. They've always secretly loved each other, but the problem is that Sissi also wanted Ulrich and William had a thing for Yumi too. Yumi and Ulrich eventually agreed to be 'just good friends' and no matter how many times Odd says they're meant for each other, they always deny it. They've always had a platonic friendship."
"Do you think you'll ever find Mr. Ulrich?"
"I hope so but for now…I'm not sure."
"If Mr. Sonic or Mr. Tails were here, they'd know what to do!"
Cream held out the piece of the Master Emerald she had found before meeting the Lyoko warriors.
"What is that thing called again?"
"The Master Emerald…or rather, a piece of it. I'm sure Mr. Knuckles can find the rest of them."
"Where do you suppose your friends are?"
"I haven't the slightest idea Aelita. The portal Eggman created scattered us everywhere on this planet. I'm just glad Cheese was sent to the same place I was!"
*Dylan's POV*
The next morning during breakfast, Stan told me that the emerald he gave Bebe had apparently caught the attention of the new girl, whose name was Rouge. Apparently Rouge had a yellow emerald that seemed to be similar to both the red one Stan gave Bebe and my own. Stan went on to inform me about him and his friend's super hero alter egos and that Kenny was essentially the protector of South Park. That's when I realized that the little kid dressed up like Batman or whatever that I saw when I was out preventing those crimes the other night must've been Kenny in his Mysterion outfit. I chuckled a little, knowing Kenny probably hated me for stealing his job.
Stan went on to say that Rouge tried to break into Bebe's house the night before and steal the red emerald, but Kenny caught her, defeated her, and took her yellow emerald.
By the end of the conversation, I was sure that something was going on and that in one way or another, it was going to involve me in some way. So I decided to pay this Rouge girl a visit.
"Can I help you?" a police officer at the front desk of the police station asked me.
"Uh yeah…uh…I wanted to know if you had somebody named Rouge being held here."
"Ah yes, the little jewelry thief from last night. Come with me."
The cop led me to a room where the holding cells were and stopped in front of a cell where a girl sporting glasses, brown hair, a blue jacket, and green snow pants was lying on the bed inside. The cop cleared his throat and told Rouge she had a visitor and left.
Rouge sat up on the bed. "Who are you?" she asked me.
"I came to ask you just that."
"You didn't answer my question!"
"That's not important right now. But I think I have something that might be of interest to you. But first you need to tell me a few things"
"Fine, what do you want?"
"First of all, do you happen to know a blue hedgehog? He's the reason I'm here!"
That immediately sparked her curiosity.
"Sonic!?"
"I think so."
"What did he want with you? Did you steal his chili-dog or something?"
"He was after me…because of this."
I held out my emerald, and Rouge immediately knew what it was…sort of.
"A chaos emerald! But why is it orange? Where did you get that from!?"
"I just found it at school last week; I don't know what it is. But ever since I found it, it's granted me all sorts of powers as long as I have it with me. The next thing I know that hedgehog, Sonic or whatever, butts heads with me and he whips out a red emerald, yells 'Chaos Control', and I wind up here! Do you know what any of this is all about? I have to know!"
"I do! I know what's going on here, for the most part. But please just hear me out."
"OK then, shoot."
"You see…I'm not actually a human. I'm a…bat."
"A BAT!?"
"Ssshh! We don't need anybody hearing us!"
"You're a bat!? Then how-?"
"I used my emerald to throw this disguise on! I come from a planet known as Mobius, and my friends and I were battling our nemesis, Dr. Eggman. He opened up this portal to your planet which sucked up the chaos emeralds, myself, the Master Emerald, Eggman, and all my friends and scattered us all over your planet. I was lucky enough to find the yellow emerald, and I used its power to disguise myself to blend in around here! The chaos emeralds are my only way home!"
"Wait so the red emerald that Kenny had…was that a chaos emerald?"
"Yes! That's why I tried to steal it last night! What else was this treasure hunter supposed to do?"
"Uh-?"
"Wait, you said that Kenny kid had it?"
"Yeah. Kenny found it and gave it to Stan to give to Bebe for her birthday. He practically set Stan up!"
"Hold on…you said Kenny AND Sonic had red emeralds?"
"Hey yeah…how's that possible?"
"Was Sonic's emerald shiny?"
"No."
"Then it must be a fake. Eggman had created fake versions of all the emeralds that aren't as powerful. Sonic must've held on to the fake red emerald, whereas Kenny found the real one."
"So then…what exactly are you trying to do Rouge?"
"I need to find my friends, the chaos emeralds, and all the pieces of the Master Emerald. I also need to find a way to get us all back home!"
"How many chaos emeralds are there?"
"Seven! And I'd say yours is one, but the thing is, none of the emeralds are orange! And you found that one on this planet!"
"Wait, how can there only be seven emeralds that all come from your planet, if there was one here on Earth this whole time?"
"I don't know! Listen, I'll tell you everything else I know if you bail me out! I need to get the yellow and red emeralds back!"
I pondered this for a minute, wondering if I could really trust this…bat. But I had to know just where my emerald came from. So I stuck out my hand.
"My name's Dylan."
Rouge got the message, and we shook hands. I went up front to pay her bail. How you ask? Easy. I just used my powers to make a pile of money spontaneously appear. I went to the front desk, paid her bail, and they let Rouge go. The two of us then proceeded to see if we could locate Kenny.
*3rd Person POV*
After days of endless searching, Bowser and Wart had no luck in finding Princess Peach. Luckily for them, they still had all 150 power stars. But even that didn't stop the two from arguing over whose fault it was for their current situation.
"This is hopeless! All this searching has gotten us nowhere!" Bowser complained.
"Let me just remind you that this is all your fault!" Wart fired back.
"Mine!?"
"Yeah! You thought of it in the first place and then you dragged me into it!"
"Well you didn't have to come along you amphibian abomination!"
"You got us into this! You get us out!"
Two hours later the pair, who had been riding in a clown car big enough for the both of them the entire time, found a strange looking island that was about 5 miles from a mainland of some sort. The shape of the island was rather strange.
"What do you suppose that's supposed to look like?" Bowser asked.
"Kind of looks like…a lion with its mouth open, I dunno."
Bowser and Wart decided to land on the island and see if they could make use of anything that was on it. The clown car descended onto the beach and the two hopped out of it and started looking around.
"Hello? Anybody?"
No response was heard. But it was only a matter of minutes before they heard the voice of an old man approaching behind them.
"Ahh…so god back to be back at Kaziland! Sure beats staying at my mother's house!"
"But boss, look! It appears the fumigators didn't do an efficient job!"
Bowser and Wart turned around to see a small, but old, looking man accompanied by a very large and very fat man.
"What the-WHO ARE YOU!?"
"My thoughts exactly!"
"I am Dr. Kamikazi! This is MY island, so get the hell out of here!" the man demanded in what sounded like horrible Engrish.
"Why don't you make me!"
"Very well then! Frogmen! Attack!"
An army of mutated frog creatures then jumped out and tried to attack Bowser and Wart, but they were no match for the Koopa King. As soon as they were all defeated, Kamikazi and Constantine started to back away in fear.
"Heh heh heh, you can't faze me wrinkled old man!"
"D-d-don't hurt us!" Kamikazi hid behind Constantine.
Bowser then thought of a rather excellent proposition.
"I can tell you're evil, so are we."
"I work solo!"
"But boss? What about me?" Constantine asked.
"You don't count you incompetent crony!"
"Alright then." Wart added. "I guess we'll just take our huge power supply elsewhere!"
That immediately got Kamikzai's attention.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait! Did you say…power supply?"
If there was one thing Kamikazi and Bowser had in common, it was that neither of them could succeed with their plans. After exchanging backstories, Kamikazi agreed to partner up with Bowser and Wart. The doctor then gave Bowser and Wart a tour of Kaziland, the last part being Kamikazi's main laboratory.
"And this is where I devise my ultimate schemes to capture Robot Boy! But they never work!"
"Hmm…." Bowser thought as he looked around the lab. "You definitely have potential."
"What did you say your power supply was made of?"
"This!"
Bowser and Wart each held out a power star for Kamikazi and Constantine to see. "And there are 148 more just like them! I'm thinking that the next time you capture Robot Boy; you reinforce this place with the power stars! That way, Tommy can never even attempt to get in here and thwart you!"
"I like the way you think!" Kamikazi replied. "But if it pleases you, I think I have one minor adjustment to that plan that might make it run even smoother…."
*Kenny's POV*
I slept easy that night, knowing that Rouge was behind bars…or so I thought.
The next day, Stan called me and told me to meet him at his house. When I asked why, he said he didn't really understand why, but that I just needed to be there. So I hung up and made a beeline towards his house. When I got there, I went upstairs, opened the door to his room…and couldn't believe my eyes…ROUGE WAS OUT OF JAIL!
"What!? You-How!?"
My reflexes kicked in, and I charged at her. But that's when I was grabbed from above and plopped back down. I looked up and noticed that it was the guy Stan had found in the snow last week! I looked around and saw that Bebe was present as well.
"Just what the hell is going on here!? Why is she out of jail!?"
"Well maybe YOU can explain why you set me up for what happened last night asshole!" Stan angrily replied. I realized that Stan knew the details of the situation now. Crap.
"I only did that to catch her!" I said, pointing at Rouge. "And what are you doing out of jail anyway?" I asked Rouge.
"He bailed me out." She pointed at Dylan.
"What!?" I whirled around. "Why did you do that!"
"Hey, hey, hey just calm down dude! Listen, something's going on here: I can feel it. And I can tell it's going to involve me, and likely all of you!" the teen responded. "Now, Rouge. Why don't you share your side of the story? Tell them what you told me."
"Thank you. First of all, I'm not actually human. I'm a bat and-."
"A BAT!" Bebe, Stan, and I exclaimed simultaneously.
"Yes, a bat. I come from a planet known as Mobius. That red emerald that Stan gave Bebe and the yellow one you took from me last night are two of the Chaos Emeralds."
"What the hell is a Chaos Emerald?" Stan asked.
"They're seven emeralds that hold power deep within each of them. An emerald can turn your thoughts into power, but typically my friends are only able to do that when you get all seven."
"Why are you here if you're from another planet?"
"So let me get this straight." I said, trying to piece it all together once we were all done talking.
"You need those two emeralds, along with the other five, in order to get you back home. And you're also looking for your friends and the master emerald shards." I asked Rouge. She nodded.
I turned to Dylan. "And your emerald seems to be more powerful than any of the Chaos Emeralds by themselves. Yours can actually turn your thoughts into power?"
"Right. Thing is, I don't know what the origins of my emerald are. I'm not sure if it's an 8th chaos emerald, and if it's not, then I'm even more confused as to just what this thing is."
"I'm sorry I had to try and break into your house last night Bebe." Rouge apologized to Bebe.
"That's alright."
"Well, now that we know all of this, I think the best thing to do is team up and look for the other emeralds." Dylan suggested.
"After you stole my job the other night AND bailed her out! NO WAY!" I retorted.
"And definitely not after you beat me up last night!"
"And you set me up for this Kenny!"
"Even if we did team up…." Bebe added. "How are we going to know where to look? And are we just going to waltz out of town? Our parents are going to freak if we do that!"
"Hmmm…." Stan thought.
"What dude?"
"How old did you say you were Dylan?"
"17."
"Damn, it might not work then."
"What was your idea?" I asked.
"My mom's got a high school reunion in the Bay Area in 2 days, and she's taking the rest of us with her. I was thinking that if Dylan were 18, he could use his powers to generate cash that we could use for the rest of you to go with us, provided Kenny and Bebe's parents give the OK."
"I can make it work." Dylan added.
"How dude? You're not quite an adult, so I'm not sure if my parents or their parents would trust you or anything-."
"I never told them how old I was, did I?"
"No."
"Then I'll just lie about my age. Plus, I told you guys at dinner the other night I had plenty of money to spare, so I think we can make this work."
Everyone thought about it for a bit and they all agreed.
"Alright then." Stan continued. Kenny and Bebe try and get your parent's OK on coming with me. But for now, I think we all need to shake on this."
Stan motioned to Rouge and I. We still weren't willing to trust each other JUST yet. After about 45 seconds of angry looking stares, we finally shook on it and called it a truce. Then all 5 of us put our hands in, signifying our alliance. Rouge and I were still a little on edge, and I sure as hell wasn't quite ready to forgive Dylan for bailing Rouge out.
"I guess this makes us a team then!" Dylan stated.
And so we had formed a team of sorts with three goals in mind: One, find the other Chaos Emeralds. Two, find the origin of Dylan's emerald. Three, locate any of the missing South Park residents and find out what this Zorax thing the black creature I saw spoke of.
We might have formed an alliance, but it was an uneasy alliance.
A/N: Sorry this one was much shorter, but given the name of the chapter, I felt that this was as far as it could go really. Hopefully, chapter 4 will be longer.