WARNING! TERRIBLE CHAPTER!
Silver felt like he'd been sleeping a long, long time. He sat up and cautiously looked around. He was in a forest, seemingly on a mountain, or at least a hill, due to the sharp incline of the ground. He saw the purple-haired boy who almost killed Blue, siting propped up against a nearby tree, with his eyes closed, holding a knife, as if he had fallen asleep there. Silver felt anger rise up inside him, and took a step forward. Then he thought. This person had left him alive. So now he could help Blue.
Big deal.
This person had also tried to kill Blue.
Silver took as silent step towards the boy. No response. He appeared to be fast asleep. Silver slowly walked towards the sleeping boy, not sure what he was planning to do. Then, the kid opened his eyes.
So Silver said the only logical thing to say in this kind of situation, the thing he normally says in this kind of situation.
"…."
"Agh!" Ash jumped out of the tree he was in and landed on his feet. He quickly turned around to see his 'clone,' or whatever you want to call it, in the tree right behind where Ash was a second ago.
"Hey, I just want to ask you a question," the person said as they dropped down from the tree. Ash hurriedly backed up a few paces.
"Okay, okay! Just stay over there." Ash wasn't sure what the question was, if he'd be able to answer it, if this was a trick or not, or... anything, really. Most of all, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to fight off an eighteen year old version of himself if he tried to attack Ash.
"Okay, whatever you say, I'll stay over here. As long as I get some answers."
"Now," the person continued, "My question is about what those weird people told us.."
Green walked silently through the forest, taking in his surroundings. He thought about the people across the clearing. They looked like the rest of the Dex-Holders, sure, but they were all… younger? Green felt something cold seep into his socks. He looked down and mentally cursed. He had walked into a stream and not even realized it. And he was supposed to be the one who was actually semi-aware about his surroundings. Backing up to the bank of the stream and sitting down, Green continued to think.
Yeah, they looked younger. That, or they all had some sort of height disorder like Emerald… Ok, it wasn't an official height disorder, but it was close enough. Green shook his head and tried to remember what that girl.. voice.. person.. had said.
"Most of you will be shocked by this, and reluctant to kill each other. But, if you look across the clearing…you will see a clone of you. This clone may be older or younger than you, something that went wrong with the cloning process. But this clone is..special. It is bent on killing you, something that will drive it's mind insane until it either dies, or kills you. They can and will lie and cheat to kill you. That is what will make this game interesting."
Green felt like he was missing something to the equation. He briefly wondered if any of the other Dex-Holders knew what was wrong with the…whatever-this-is-called. But he doubted it. Everyone looked so confused and bewildered when the gong.. or bong.. or whatever rang.
…Wait a second.
Everyone looked confused.
Including the people across the clearing, the supposed 'clones,' who, according to the person.. Jan? According to what Jan said, the clones should know exactly what's going on. Yet, they looked confused too. So, they didn't know what was happening, clearly they weren't the clones. And if they weren't the clones, then…
….the Dex-Holders were?
No.. that makes no sense… he and none of his friends were clones. No, duh. But.. if they weren't clones, and the Dex-Holders weren't clones.. Then no one was a clone, but Jan and Kelly were just trying to drive them against the people who looked exactly like Green and his friends. And the people just randomly looked like the Dex-Holders by coincidence?
No.. they probably looked like the Dex-Holders for some reason, some reason Green was yet to find out. He could practically see the different ideas coming together in his head; But that was for another time. Now he had to find the others and tell them how the people thought they were the clones, and how the Dex-Holders were supposed to think the other people were clones.
.
.
This is a beautiful day.
Green blinked, confused, at the random thought. That was kind-of weird. Green didn't really get off task much.
I kinda wish I had someone to share it with.
Ok, that thought was definitely not Green's. Nope. Definitely not.
Yes, it was.
Who in Arceus' name are you?
Your consciousness.
That's impossible, I'm not crazy.
No, but you love Blue.
What?
You love Blue soooo much—
Ok, this is getting ridiculous.
How the hell did you just interrupt a thought?
….Maybe I am crazy.
NO. You love Blue!
Yup… Definitely crazy…
No! This is not what you are supposed to take out of this conversation! You love Blue!
I really need to go to the doctor…
NOOOOOOO—
Ladies and gentlemen, how to piss off a hallucination!
There are more of you?!
Yes.
Yes.
LEAVE HERE OR DIE.
But you're at our house…
We're leaving! I came to get Kelly anyway.
Hey! It's you guys! How the hell did you get into my thoughts?!
Great job Jan. Who's the stupid one now?
Oops.
LEAVE.
Leaving; totally leaving! But, before we go, I have an important question…
What?
Confirming this, you don't love Blue?
SMASH
How the hell did you just throw a mental flower pot at her head?
I dunno, but it got her out of here! And you're next!
AHHHHH—
SMASH
Jan took off her headphones and rubbed the massive knot that had just appeared on the side of her head.
"Oww."
Jan looked to her right and saw Kelly lying on the ground, her hands covering her forehead, while moaning. Then, Jan grinned.
"We have to do this more."
Sapphire felt the rough bark beneath her hands. She was sitting on a—relatively tall—birch tree, what she estimated was a few miles away from the horn. Sapphire was, unusually, staying very, very still.
Because she had heard someone coming.
Now you ask why she wasn't running. Several reasons, in fact.
A. Whoever it was, Sapphire was pretty sure she could take them.
B. If it was Ruby or one of her seniors, they would probably want to team up.
C. If it was Ruby, she kind-of has to team up with him, otherwise he would die—mostly likely within the first day.
Unless he had some hidden athletic strength she had yet to see.
Naw.
No way.
The sharp crack of twig snapped Sapphire out of her thoughts. She almost facepalmed. Sapphire couldn't believe that Ruby could be this loud. Then again...
..it's Ruby.
Gold suddenly sat straight up, absolutely sure he had heard something this time, despite the past three times being false.
"Crys," he warned.
Crystal didn't even look up from examining a tennis ball, before a booming sound seemed to shake the ground of the arena itself.
"Everyone else in the room can see it,"
"Everyone else but you,"
"Baby you light-up my world like nobody else,"
"The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,"
"When you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,"
"You don't know, Oh, Oh, OH,"
"You don't know you're beautiful."
From that day on, pokemon trainers everywhere would look to the sky in wonder whenever they hear that song. Or possibly plug their ears and scream.
Currently, the reactions were:
Surprise and confusion.
"Hey! Kelly! Turn off that radio! I'm going to do a broadcast."
Crystal shook her head and looked down as if to say, Come on. Really?, while Gold stifled laughter.
"Jan, doesn't this song remind you of Liz?" A new voice appeared over the speaker, talking over the song.
"Why should it?"
"Well, she used to curl up into a fetal position and repeat 'No, no,' whenever she heard this song."
"….You remember things for all the wrong reasons."
There was burst of static, before it changed into a different song.
"-sweet moonbeam,"
"The smell of you in every"
"Single dream I dream,"
"I knew when we collided,"
"You're the one I have decided,"
"Who's one of my kind~"
"Hey soul sister,"
"Ain't that mister mister"
"On the radio, stereo"
"The way you move ain't fair, you know"
"Hey soul sister,"
"I don't wanna miss a single thing you dooooo"
"Tonight"
"Hey, He-"
"Now this song reminds me of Liz," a voice interrupted. "She's memorized all the lyrics!"
"Yeah," the other voice responded, "But it's funnier when she hates the song."
"Well, turn it off. I need to do a broadcast," the voice crackled over the loud-speaker.
"After this song?"
"Why do you have to do that now?"
"I need to think of lyrics for my parody of it."
"You're making a parody?"
"Yeah, it's for this song. It's gonna be called Hey, Soul Silver. It's going to be all about SoulSilverShipping! So far, I've got:"
"Hey, Soul Silver,"
"Ain't that Lyra Lyra on the pokegear, or… um…. Pokedex with a radio in it…..or something.."
There was momentary silence. Then the voice that had been talking about Hey, Soul Silver spoke.
"Remind me never to make a parody of that…"
"Ok. Now can I do the broadcast?"
"You pressed the button a minute ago…"
"Oops. Did you guys hear all of that?"
"They can't answer you.."
"Yes, they can! Just say Yes or No, and we'll hear it!"
The sound of crickets chirping rang through the arena.
"Kelly! Turn off the crickets!"
"Sorry Jan, I couldn't help it."
The crickets stopped as suddenly as if someone had turned off a faucet. Ominous silence rang throughout the arena, to be almost immediately punctuated by someone's laughter. Namely, Gold's.
"—HAHAHA"
Jan's voice reemerged from the silence, sounding somewhat annoyed.
"How dare you laugh! Actually the part with Red was actually pretty funny.."
The laughter was suddenly cut short.
Kelly's voice rang out. "That was not funny! I can still hear his screams. Or they were more like yells. Or—"
A shrill scream filled the arena before abruptly stopping.
"..Kelly, I think you made her black out."
"Oops. Yellow, at least Red's not dead! …Or I think he's not dead. Or hope. God, he's dead, isn't he?"
"I dunno. And Ruby, that's the worst hiding place ever! And who knits in the Hunger Games?"
"Oh yeah, and Green, you love Blue."
"And Ash, get ready for the Kalos region."
"Oh, and Crystal, you know you like Gold."
"Hey, Lyra, why aren't you in here?"
A new voice came on. "You should be answering that!"
"Well, you're technically not one of Ash's companions," Jan said.
"Oh, yeah."
Kelly's voice came back on. "Also, Red looked way better before the F.R.L.G—round? Saga? Series? Whatever.."
"Random! Anyway I think we should drive Green towards Gary. That'll be interesting. Gary! Did you know you have a sort-of brother?"
"Well, technically, they are either the same person, Green is Gary's father, they are brothers, or they are inter-dimensional counterparts."
"It doesn't matter! Let's just chase Gary towards Green…"
"How?"
"Time for the Tracker-Jackers."
"Aww, yeah."
"…Is this thing still on?"
"I dunno.."
"Yeah it is. Want to say hi to the tributes?"
"Sure! Ah-Hem."
There was a large, exaggerated breath.
"HEYA DEX-HOLDERS AND, UH, YEAH THE OTHER ASH COMPANIONS/RIVALS, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, ASH SHALL FACE HIS DOOOOOOOOOM!"
"KELLY! YOU DID NOT NEED TO YELL!"
"YES I DID! DO WE NEED THIS HERE CABLE PLUGGED IN, 'CAUSE I NEED TO CHARGE MY PHONE!"
"YES WE DO; WAIT NO KELLY IT POWERS THE—" There was a burst of static and Jan's voice faded into nothingness.
Green shook his head, only one good thing had come out of that. First he knew that they were going to try to drive someone named Gary towards him, and second, he just figured out how small this arena actually is. Even if Gold's laughter may be loud, it's not loud enough to travel that far.
He sighed and put his head in his hands. This was going to take longer than he thought.
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Ruby sat slumped against the inside curve of the golden horn. Now that he thought about it, it probably was a stupid idea to knit. But he swore, it was genius hiding in the—uh—big, golden, horn thing with all the weapons in it. He had unlimited weapons! …That he didn't know how to use. But still! It can't be that hard to grab a knife and stab someone, can it?
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Jan glanced up from her cards, eyes darting in between her three competitors. Cautiously, she blew a strand of brown hair out of her eyes, and slowly reached into the middle of the table, drawing a card from the deck. An evil grin flashed across her features.
"Do you have any.."
There was a tense silence.
"..threes?"
Hands slammed against the table, diverting Jan's attention from Kelly. She watched as three cards were slammed onto the table, before an enraged brunette throwing her hat onto the floor. The furious girl towered over the table as Jan sank a little further into her seat.
"How.." Leaf said slowly, "Did. You. Know?"
"Um, I guessed?"
Leaf sank back into her seat, rubbing her eyes. "Fine," she said, drawing another card from the deck, "But if I catch you cheating.."
"Calm down, Leaf," Lyra said, putting a hand on top of Leaf's, "It's just a game." Lyra adjusted the square table that had shifted in Leaf's rampage before sitting back down.
"My turn," Kelly called out, tucking a bit of her black hair behind her ear.
"Does anybody have any twos?"
"I've got one!" Jan called out, sliding it across the table.
"So have I," Lyra said, handing it over.
"I've—" Leaf fell silent.
"What's wrong," Kelly asked, gathering up the cards from the table.
"I've got two."
Everyone at the table suddenly hushed and turned, almost simultaneously, to look at Kelly, who had frozen.
"Um, mistake? Ah-haha.. Let's all calm down here.. I THINK LEAF CHEATED!" She turned and ran.
Nothing has been heard from Kelly since. Rest in peace, Kelly.
WARNING: AUTHOR'S NOTE!
So.. Now do you see why I put the warning at the start?
Yup.
Yeah. I had writer's block, but I slogged through it for you guys.
Yup.
Anyway, the card game part was just a bit I added on because of OC-FREE DINOSAUR, who suggested it, and I ;aughed o hard that I'ma like: MUST! ADD! IN!
Yeah, OC-FREE DINO has a lot of good ideas.
Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to OC-FREE DINOSAURand Diamante8, who both gave me ideas and told me to shut up, stop whining and write, because I am the WORST about not writing.
What about me? D:
Oh, and Ann too.
Yay. :D
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Byyyyyye!