Sailor Moon: Digital Dilemma.
Author's note: Sorry for the delay. Severe writers block happening, but in any case, this is the final chapter of the first mini-story of this story.
Let's get to it. I still don't own anything here. All rights belong to Disney, Toei, Square Enix, Nintendo, Dreamworks, CLAMP and 20th Century Fox.
Com-Poke-Virus: Internet War.
CH6-Final Chapter.
Goofy panicked, "Sora! You broke it!"
"Oh no! Oh no! OH NO!" Sora panicked himself, trying to figure out how to fix it, but he had no clue on how to fix it, especially at a time like this.
"Sora, you idiot!" Serena cried out, hysterically panicking herself, trying to fix it herself, but even she had no clue, as she only knew the basics of a computer.
At a wrong time too, Amy, Luna and Donald returned, with Donald having returned to normal health, but things were looking seriously bad now, and unknown to them, Imeboralton used this against their advantage.
"What in the world?" Amy asked, scaring Serena, Sora and Goofy who all turned around, holding innocent but panicked expressions on their faces, all three of them exclaiming, "We didn't do anything, I swear!"
"It was Sora!" Serena added, pointing at the Spikey-haired teen who glared at her in annoyance.
As Amy and the others looked, they panicked as they realised they lost the signal and Amy rushed over, pushing the others away, exclaiming, "Sora! What did you do!?" trying to fix the computer herself, but no matter how much she typed, it didn't do anything.
"It was an accident!" Sora exclaimed.
"Amy, you had to go and help Donald to the bathroom!" Serena yelled.
"Hey! Not my fault!" Donald retorted.
Amy, in frustration, slammed her finger into the power botton twice, rebooting the computer, shouting at them, "Why did you had to break the computer!?"
"It's not like I had anything to do with it!" Serena argued.
"Like you had anothing to do with what's happening with Raye!" Amy shouted back.
"That wasn't-!..." Serena retorted, but trailled off in realization and a bit of guilt, then she sighed and looked away, calming down and muttered, "Okay, maybe it was my fault." the others calming down as well, eager to hear her story.
"Serena, what happened this time?" Luna asked.
The Moon Princess grumbled, "It was dumb. I gave her this cool jacket for her birthday, and then she got all mad and said, 'Oh, you don't like how I dress up?' and I told her, 'Well, you always have your scarf in winter.' and then she said, 'So, now you don't like my scarf, huh meat-ball-head?'..." before exhaling and sighed, "It's really embarrassing."
The others couldn't believe what they were hearing. Raye continuously ignored Serena lately, all because of a single lously jacket she didn't like? Talk about selfish and ungrateful, especially when it comes to Serena who did her best to make her friends happy. Then again, they had a long history of two years together of constant arguing at very little things, like this one, but this was the worst they ever had to the point of not speaking to each other at the moment.
"That's what you fought about?" Goofy asked.
"I tried apologuising to her, but she isn't returning my phone calls." Serena replied.
Suddenly, they heard a familiar sound and turned to the computer which was back to normal, and that they were back online. Immediately, they checked up on the situation, but it was deathly silent.
On the other side of the Realms, bits were floating, it was silent, and on top of that, Grovyle and Charizard were both badly beaten up, almost lifeless and and unconscious. The other Pokemon were missing, and Imeboralton had no doubt finished off the battle and won, and once again, escaped. Serena and her group gasped in horror at this sight, and Ash, from his side of the computer, noticed them and he and the others were annoyed.
"Hey, where were you guys!?" Ash exclaimed. "You had a lously time to take a lunch break!" he added in sarcasm.
But Serena's attention was on Grovyle who at first didn't respond to her, as he was sereverly wounded, and she was devastated. Witnesses all over the world were silent, and clearly were not impressed with the situation that had just happened.
"Grovyle?" Serena asked.
Regaining consciousness, Grovyle grunted in pain, before replying, "S-Sailor Moon...I can't move."
Back in the Realm of Light at her house, Serena slumped in guilt, tearing up, muttering, "I let him down. It's all my fault."
"No, it's mine." Sora sighed in similiar. "I'm the one who broke the stupid computer in the first place. Imeboralton caught us off-guard."
"Guys, you're not gonna like what people are saying about our Pokemon." Amy spoke up, hesitating, causing the others to turn to gaze at her back as she avoided to make eye-contact with them.
"What's wrong?" Donald asked.
Amy swallowed, before she read the message, "One person says, 'Your Pokemon's a loser'."
"What?!" Serena growled furiously.
"...'How can Pokemon with powers from the Sailor Scouts get beaten by one lousy bub? Grovyle took it like a cowered-' AH!" Amy screamed as Serena pulled her away from the computer, away from the screen as the later exclaimed, "DON'T YOU DARE FINISH THAT MESSAGE!" tears threatening to fall. Immediatley, Sora and the others pulled the two girls away from each other, Sora and Donald restraining Serena.
"Serena!" Sora scolded. "It's not Amy's fault that people decided to insult us!"
Serena tried hard to restrain her anger, as she whispered, "They didn't have to insult our Pokemon."
There was a moment of silence, before Lita, who had heard the yelling, yelled from her side, "Hey guys! This isn't the time to be fighting!"
Eventually, the group calmed down, though Serena grumbled, "I hate computers." and slumped to the floor again, glaring at the computer screen.
Within a darker part of the internet, Imeboralton chuckled deeply and evilly, as he had a clock in his hand which was counting down to something. "Go back to the beginning." he said.
Back to Serena and her group, they noticed that the evil Pokemon was back as a figure of their enemy was on the screen, before they noticed another email being typed down, and Goofy read it outloud, "Huh? 'Who can count backwards from ten?'?"
"Huh? Is he giving us a math's test?" Sora asked.
Suddenly, a timer appeared, counting down from ten minutes, and as both groups from the two computers, they noticed that more and more Imeboralton were appearing from the original, and to make things worse, it wasn't stopping. While Ash and the others were wondering about the timer, Serena's eyes widened in horror at how Imeboralton was making copies of himself.
"Why are there more Imeboraltons?" Donald asked.
"He's muliplying!" Luna exclaimed.
"It's getting worse! The US Goverment just sent in a missle!" Amy said, causing the others to turn to her, then realise that she got another message from Willis, as Amy read, "Willis says he doesn't know what's happening, but he found out that they're going to try and destroy the internet virus form that's causing the world-wide failures!" before she gasped in horror, realising, "It's heading straight for Colorado! It's going to destroy the State, in less than ten minutes!"
Sora turned back to the computer, saying, "That explains the timer." before asking, "But what's in Colorado?"
"I don't know. At this rate, Imeboralton will keep multiplying!" Amy replied.
Serena looked at her friend desperately, asking, "But the military has the power to stop virus's, right?"
"Every country including Japan are all witnessing the missle that it heading towards the target at this very moment!" Amy calculated, before searching up the data, before exclaiming, "If it fails, it'll land right into this neighborhood!"
The group groaned, still getting nowhere, while Amy noticed they are more emails coming from all over the world, one saying that they have to destroy the evil Pokemon as the Sailor Scouts are the world's only hope, before noticing another one from Amy's mother telling her to be home by six in the evening. It wasn't helping much as Serena exclaimed, "I'm trying to save Earth and you're reading fanfiction!" in a hint of sarcasm.
"Wait," Amy calculated again, "Listen, if we destroy Imeboralton, his clones will disappear." which got her friends' attention, as she continued, "We'll have to destroy each one until we found the original."
"That's some good news." Serena thought, though her forehead was beginning to sweat. "How many are there so far?"
Amy was horrified as she looked at the emails, which is somehow connected to Imeboralton's powers. When Serena asked her again, Amy replied, "There's over 75,000 in counting..." the others more horrified than ever.
Suddenly, they heard a familiar but pained voice calling out to Serena. They quickly turned to the computer, noticing that Grovyle, in agony, was beginning to recover, but was still in pain, as the Pokemon in the Internet grunted, "Have fate, Serena...I'll find the original."
"Grovyle." Serena whispered.
Charizard, also in pain, followed Grovyle's lead, though Ash in the Realm of Light was deeply worried for the Book-version of his Pokemon.
"They're really slow..." Goofy noticed.
"It's because of all the emails!" Amy realised as she turned back to her computer, "They're slowing all of our Pokemon's speed even though they're from the Book Realm! I have to write to everyone to tell them to stop emailing us!"
"Amy, are you nuts!?" Serena exclaimed.
"Do you know how long that'll take!? There's no time!" Donald added.
Sora was shaking his head, groaning, "Oh, now we're..."
"Just about..." Ikuo checked the cake again.
"Finished!" one student in Team Rocket's class said, causing the trio to panic and they began to write faster and faster in their hysterical panic.
"This-!" Jessie began.
"Can't-!" James added.
"END LIKE THIS!" Meowth exclaimed with his two best friends, beyond panicking.
At this point, Grovyle and Charizard all flew into the final tunnel to stop Imeboralton once and for all, despite their condition. All over the world from different regions and countries, people kept on emailing the Sailor Team who watched in axienty, hoping and praying at their last shot to save Earth while the missle continues to fly into the sky.
"Are they gonna make it?" Max asked worriedly.
"I hope so. I'm worried." May whispered.
Ash felt sweat slide down his face, mutternig, "They gotta try."
Back to Serena and her group, Serena was also sweating, whispering, "Grovyle, Charizard. Please, don't give up and be careful..."
At last, the two Pokemon replicas of the Book Realm entered their destination, but it was completely dark and purple like the Realm of Darkness, and to make this worse, dozens of copies of Imeboralton were all moving, chanting in the same dark and evil tone, "Don't interfere, don't interfere, don't interfere." and continuing to do so, leaving the two Book Pokemon alone and helpless. The Sailor Team in the Realm of Light were beyond horrified at the sight in front of them, most of the heroes speechless.
"How many copies of Imeboralton are there now?" Brock asked.
"To be honest, I have no idea." Amy admitted, "I stopped keeping track a while ago."
"There must be over a million." Misty thought at the horrible sight.
"Maybe even more." Luna added.
However, as soon as the conversation stopped, the million Imeboralton stopped moving, their sights directly at the two Pokemon below them, and all at once, they fired their attack to kill them. Grovyle and Charizard, as fast as they could, quickly dodged as many as they could to avoid being hit. But not long after, Charizard was too slow, and was hit, causing the fire-type to scream in agony, before he was covered in dust while still being hit, much to Ash's horror.
"Charizard!" Serena screamed. But she screamed wordlessly even louder when Grovyle too could not dodge anymore either and he was hit into the very same fate.
"Grovyle!" Sora exclaimed in horror.
"NO!" Max screamed.
"Grovyle and Charizard are slowing down again!" May exclaimed.
"It's the emails! They're coming faster than ever! They're sucking away the Pokemon's energy!" Luna exclaimed.
"AMY, DO SOMETHING!" Donald exclaimed to the blue-haired girl who immediately was alreadly trying to type as fast as she could to warn everyone in the world, telling them that despite their good intentions, their emails are causing severe damage to the team and putting the lives of the Pokemon in danger.
But then...the attacks stopped and there was silence...deathly silence. When the clouds of smoke cleared, the team was in horror, but none more so than Ash and especially Serena. Their Pokemon from the Book Realm...were still and lifeless, simply floating, possibly not even moving.
They seemed to be dead.
Serena, unable to accept this, slowly made to press her hands onto the screen, wanting to do something, anything, to reach her beloved Book-Pokemon, to help him, to cure him...to do anything to save his life.
The silence was broken as Ikuo opened the door, oblivious to the situation, as she asked the group, "You kids want some more juice? I just squeezed some apples."
"Uh, no thank you, ma'am." Donald replied, shaking his head.
"We're uh, kinda busy with something that's so important that we can't be interrupted." Goofy politely said.
At this, Ikuo, sensing the grim air in the room, slowly made to leave the room, replying, "Oops...I'll just leave you guys alone." before she immediately came back in, noticing that they were one person short. "Wait a minute. Where'd Serena go?"
True to her word, Serena was missing.
Or rather, by the power of her heart and the Silver Crystal, her desire to reach her Grovyle, the bond she shared with him was so powerful, somehow gave her the power to drift into the internet, briefly becoming digital, and as from the corridor of light, she finally reached the lifeless Grovyle, gently cradling his body in such love.
"Grovyle...it's alright, I'm here." Serena said, trying not to cry.
For some reason, Ash, with his heart and his Aura, felt the similiar desire to reach Charizard and he gently landed on the lifeless Charizard's back, with Pikachu on his shoulder, the smallest Pokemon, the real Pokemon, echoing it's trainer's sadness.
"Pika..." Pikachu said, leaping off Ash's shoulder and onto Charizard's head, patting it gently.
"Charizard, don't quit now." Ash pleaded, before noticing Serena and asked, "Why won't it answer us, Serena?"
Serena, seeing her younger friend, told him, "Ash, just keep trying." before turning her attention to Grovyle, before saying to him, "Grovyle, I don't have the Relic Book to heal you, but I won't you to know you're not alone." tears filling her eyes, continuing, "Okay? And the emails keep coming. They're not gonna stop. People and Pokemon all over the world are writing for you. They need your help. You're the only one who can do it. Please, Grovyle. You've gotta feel their hope. Feel their strength, coming from their hearts."
She paused, and added, her tears falling, "And my heart too. Our friends are our power, and we're theirs."
As if new life dawned on him, Grovyle groaned, awakening, and as he said, "I...Feel them." his body turned bright green, and the Silver Crystal in Serena's locket glowed brightly, as well as she felt warmth in her heart, connecting to Grovyle's heart. It was same with Charizard, except that the Lizard-fire type's body was glowing fierly red and it was the power of Ash's aura that was doing the trick. The email icons surrounded the group, and a strange tear-drop symbol in colours appeared, and the energy of the emails formed into glowing bodies of light, to which were merged into Grovyle who strangely evolved, but not into Sceptile, but a rather, a higher verison of Grovyle, and Charizard, despite it's final form, was also evovling himself, turning black and blue, it's wings sharpened with edges, and blue fire on the corners of it's mouth.
Serena, who then transformed into Sailor Moon via the Silver Crystal, Ash and Pikachu watched in awe.
As did the rest of the Sailor Team back in the Realm of Light. Lita, Misty, Brock, May, Max, and the elderly couple watched in wonder, while Brod noticed that Ash and Pikachu were missing, and he asked in dumbfounded confusion, "Huh? Where'd that kid and Pikachu go?" before making sound kind of weird sound while looking aimlessly(and comically) around for the missing two.
"The Pokemon are evolving." Max muttered.
Amy and the others back at Serena's house finally took notice and looked at the screen, startled at the new development.
Inside the internet, the light cocoon that surronded Sailor Moon, Ash and the Pokemon fades away, revealing that Grovyle and Charizard have changed, much to the teams shock.
"Grovyle..." Luna whispered.
"And Charizard." Brock added.
"They evolved in a new evolution!" Luna exclaimed.
"Mega Evolution!" Grovyle-now Mega Grovyle-S, and Charizard-now Mega Charizard-X, both concluded, and Sailor Moon, Ash and Pikachu were by the Book-Pokemon sides.
Imeboralton was not impressed, as he and his clones fired again, much to the others horror. But thankfully, Mega-Grovyle summoned up his now super-power LeafBlade attack, drew back before knocking the incoming attacks, blocking them and firing right back at the Imeboralton army who, some of them quickly destroyed, were now panicking at this new power. Now that they have a chance, Sailor Moon and Ash both nodded, before the former took out her Scepter, and launched her Moon Scepet Activation attack, destroying more copies, and Pikachu unleashed a Thunderbolt attack, destroying even more copies.
Mega-Charizard then fires a blue-FireBlast attack, destroying more and more copies, and Mega-Grovyle, learning a new attack in his new Mega-Evolved form, fired a SolarBeam from his head-leaf-blade, causing severe damage to the clones. Each attacks were repeated, more and more clones destroyed in a matter of like about a few minutes or even in seconds.
In a huge blast, all of the clones were destroyed. All that was left was the original Imeboralton who growled dangerously at them for ruining his plans.
"Sailor Moon! There's the original! Quick, after him!" Sora exclaimed, noticing the evil Pokemon.
"Grovyle, Charizard! Let's attack!" Sailor Moon stated, but as soon as she and the two Mega-Pokemon were about to move, Imeboralton jumped away. They tried to follow his lead, but he keeps jumping away from their sight, and then Sailor Moon realised in horror on something else. "Oh no! One minute to go!"
"ONE MINUTE TO GO!" Team Rocket exclaimed in the classroom as they continued to panic in their studies.
"One minute to go." Said Ikuo about the cake.
And the missle failed to destroy the target and was about to impact towards one like in Tokyo-8 near Neo-Tokyo. Sailor Moon and her group kept on trying to find the evil Internet-Pokemon, but he was too fast for them, and time was getting close from 50 to 40 and to 30 seconds.
The team knew that they had to hurry, but they were running out of time. 'Willis is right. We have to find a way to slow down Imeboralton.' Amy thought to herself.
Suddenly, Sora remembered something, and turned to Amy's computer, exclaiming, "Wait...of course...the emails!" before turning to the blue-haired girl, "Amy! Send the emails to Imeboralton!"
"What?" Amy, Donald, Goofy and Luna asked.
"Just do it!" Sora ordered.
Amy, now seeing what Sora was saying, "Right, Sora!" and immediately went to work as fast as she could.
"What's going on now?" Donald asked.
"If we send the emails to Imeboralton, it'll slow him down just like it did to us." Sora explained.
While the said Pokemon was laughing, Amy finished her work and she exclaimed to the evil Pokemon, "YOU GOT MAIL!" as she hit enter, and immediately, the emails were sent away from them, and just as Imeboralton was about to jump again, he immediately froze, unable to move and has completely slowed down now, much to the witnesses' awe.
Imeboralton roared in agony, giving Sailor Moon and her group the chance they need, and quickly, Grovyle, Charizard and Sailor Moon charged with Ash and Pikachu.
"Ten seconds left!" Sora exclaimed.
9...Missle almost hits.
8...Sailor Moon and her group continue to descend.
7...May and the others gasp.
6...Amy screams.
5...Missle continues on.
4...Sailor Moon summons the Sword Card.
3...Ash yells.
2...Imeboralton tries to attack one last time.
1! Grovyle's leaf-blade stabs Imeboralton in the chest, Charizard's dragon-claw stabs Imeboralton's stomach, and Sailor Moon's Moon-Sword Card stabs Imeboralton's head.
A second of silence...and everything seems to stop, but Imeboralton mutters in a quick dying agony, "Connection...terminated." and the timer has froze between 1 and 2 seconds, before the internet Pokemon groans one last time, "Willis..." and melts away into nothing, leaving behind the broken and destroyed clock.
In that moment, at first none of them would believe it, but when it hit them, Sailor Moon and her friends broke into smiles, and in an instant, lights covered the book Pokemon, returning them to normal. Sailor Moon, in her happiness, looked at her beloved Pokemon.
"Grovyle!" Sailor Moon cried out.
"Sailor Moon." Grovyle smiled.
Happily, Sailor Moon pulled Grovyle into an embracing, giggling uncontrollaby, Grovyle just smiled and even chuckled in happiness himself, and Ash, Pikachu and Charizard were in the similiar vote. Charizard roared happily, Pikachu jumped around happily, and Ash punched the air with his fist, exclaiming in victory, "We did it!"
Even Amy, Sora, Luna, Donald, Goofy, Misty, Brock, Lita, May, Max, and even the elderly couple all broke into happy cheers in their victory of saving the world, saving the internet, and it all thanks to the Sailor Team and their Book Realmed Pokemon.
Though it wasn't all good news for Ikuo, because as she pulled out her cake, it was burnt, much to her annoyance. It wasn't even good news for Team Rocket because they failed their exam and were walking out in defeat, grumbling in humilation.
The missle, no longer a threat, crashed into the lake in Tokyo-8.
At her temple, Raye, who was waiting for some sort of emails, finally got one after the delay which took all day. When she opened it up, she read it outloud to herself, "'Dear Raye: Sorry about what happened. I didn't realise that I roasted a marshmellow in your fire-reading, but it was an accident, and we'll get over it right? What's a few rain drops between friends? Your best friend, Serena'."
When she got to Serena's name, Raye felt emotion and the surge of forgiveness as she realised how much Serena was such a good friend, could only mutter, "Stupid Meat-Ball-Head."
In Tokyo-8, the water that was splashed into the air began to rain down, and witnesses just watched as the missle tilted and fell the rest of the way into the lake.
Back at Serena's house, an hour later after she returned into the Realm of Light, while Ash and Pikachu went back to the others, Grovyle and Charizard, along with the other assigned Book Pokemon went back to the Book Realm, and everything was finally back to normal, in their celebration, they immediately went for the cake, and sadly, they got food poisoning, and Serena, Sora, Amy, Donald and Goofy were on the floor, all looking decidedly green in the face.
"That.. was the worse cake...I've ever had." Donald grumbled slowly.
"I'm...about...to barf." Sora muttered.
Serena looked paralyzed, as she muttered weakly, "I knew we shouldn't had have Akima's home-made cake Mom made."
All was well for Earth, because when ten year old Willis found out that the evil Pokemon was destroyed, he was so happy he ran outside running around happily into the field of flowers, followed by his two own Pokemon, Plusle and Minun, who both echoed his happiness.
The trio continued on, but just as they were doing so, Minun suddenly disappeared, and a strange disturbing winds of discorded space-time air appeared, causing Willis and Plusle to stop. Just as they had thought it was the end of it, they were oh so deadly wrong.
It was just the beginning.
"MINUN!" Willis screamed in horror.
TO BE CONTINUED...
In...
Com-Poke-Virus 2: The Power of the Virus.
A/N: That concludes part one of the mini-series. In the next chapter, it's the first of the second story which will take place two years later. In the meantime, if you guys have time, continue your reviews, and I shall see you in the second chapter of this story.