Chapter 6: The Tower.

Pre-Authors Comment: This story is about to change. Majorly. After this chapter, you will understand.

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A chilly breeze blew through the small opening created as someone had opened the front of my tent. I looked out from underneath my blanket, but was still momentarily blinded by the sun, before I finally made out the silhouette of Mainad standing in the tent.

"Okay," He said both jokingly and shocked sounding, "What's going on in here?"

I thought for a second before remembering what had happened the previous night. Looking around behind me, I saw the top of Locria's head, just visible above the blanket. In front of me lay Mew, whom I had held in my arms like I was hugging some sort of soft pillow… that was hugging me back. Regaining my senses, I began to get nerve ending sensations from all over my body, and I felt Locria pressed up against my back, which, admittedly, was a rather awkward situation, not that I cared all that much. My mind was still trying to wake up, so I nonchalantly said, "Can you come back in about five minutes?"

"Oh, sure. Let me just pencil that in to the-" Mainad began in an annoyed sarcastic tone before I killed his speech with one of my own

"Look, Mainad. You know me. I know you. Would I do that to someone I only know as well as Locria." I replied, stretching and sitting up, exposing Mew to the morning.

"… is that?" Mainad said, looking slightly confused and putting his hand to his head and shaking it, "Never mind."

I said, "Yes, and again, it's not what you think."

"O.K.," Mainad said, "I believe you. There's no way you were doing anything with Mew."

'And Locria?" I asked, just to make sure.

Mainad smiled, jokingly saying, "I dunno…"

I stood up, lightly punching him in the arm. "C'mon Mainad," I said in a sarcastic manner, "I'm still dressed. Now do you believe me?"

"Okay, I believe you." Mainad said, laughing, "But why not mess with you some?"

I smacked him and we laughed, waking Mew. Mew did not take kindly to not knowing what Mainad was, and recoiled, asking, "Who are you? What are you!?"

I said, "Mew, this is my best friend, Mainad. He's a yoshi. They aren't from this universe."

Mainad extended a hand, incidentally it was the EVAPS. Mew looked a bit surprised, but shook it, thinking to me, 'What is that on his arm?'

I bubbled thoughts of the EVAPS origins and powers to mind, as well as the attachment process.

Mew thought, '…Your little group has a really sad history…'

I mentally agreed and said, "Hey, I know! Let's get some breakfast. Mew, will you be eating?"

"I make a point of doing whatever everyone else does when I roam around." Mew said, smiling, 'Your history makes me want to cry. There is nothing worse than the way you've had to live'

I took my pen and drew the completer on the back of my hand, something I had done so many times I was able to draw and activate it without even Mainad noticing. 'I don't think so. We've gotten by well.' I thought to mew.

She just looked at me. She floated up from the ground and thought, 'you really are different… huh…'

I smiled to her, following Mainad as he walked out of the tent and into the blinding sunlight. Squinting momentarily, I looked around to see blurry images everyone standing around talking as my eyes watered up for a moment. I regained my sight and saw everyone staring at me, as though they were waiting for what to do. Mew floated out behind me, and everyone's vision instantly shifted off of me and onto her. Murmured, "Mew?", "What the?", and "Okaaaay…"s happened for a moment but then died off, because Locria walked out. Kind of awkward, I guess… I just smiled and said, "Well?"

They all just stood there for a (rather long) moment, before Moses and Olevov just burst out laughing and Moses said, "What- Ha Ha! –the hell happened- Ha!!! –Last night!"

I sighed and said, "It's a long story. It's no big deal though."

Everyone sighed out a breath of relief and relaxed a little, sitting down, almost chuckling with relief. Moses and Olevov stopped laughing after a few seconds. "You guys…" I said, joking, "Are so immature."

A mixture of nervous laughter and muttered speech met that comment. "We make for the tower. Shall we go now?" Mainad asked.

Olevov said, "Hold on, what about Mew?"

"What about me?" Mew said, "Are we going or not?"

Olevov and the rest of them just looked stunned. "WHAT?" They all said in unison.

"You heard me. Stop being so taken aback. Every one of you is most likely at least equal to my power outside of the Legendary Council." Mew said.

"What?" I said, for this surprised me, and I decided to take it as a compliment.

"Outside of the Legendary Council, which is where we consult each other, I have the equivalent power of a league registered level 70." Mew stated.

"- Anyway, I'd like some breakfast before we go." Mainad interrupted, obviously an attempt at breaking the tension, which seemed to work, "After all-"

Plats, Moses, Olevov and I all interjected sarcastically, "You're a yoshi."

A quick breakfast of bacon and eggs later and we were ready to go…

Everyone looked relieved that the tension of the morning was finally over, and started to pack up before Mainad said, "Travel light, as I'd bet we are coming right back here."

A muffled somber, "yes" was issued in almost unison, and I dropped everything but my sword, two vials of red potion, and a small pouch of money in case of tolls.

We began to walk towards the desert, as Olevov had to conserve his energy to maintain the bubble later on.

We walked through the forest, over a small grassy plain and into the mountains by noon.

As we were crossing over the mountains, a thought struck me, and I signaled over to mew, who was floating over my head, to come down and talk.

"Hey, Mew, why did you even come to my tent last night, and what was that muffled 'thank you' for?" I said, raising an eyebrow and not breaking my pace.

"Actually," Mew said, leaning in and whispering, "I was sent to investigate why there were strange goings on in the area, and I was thanking Arceus that whoever was making those explosions was asleep."

"Ahh, now it makes sense," I said, "It didn't seem likely to me that you just decided to pop in like that."

"Well," Mew said, chuckling and grinning nervously and scratching her head, "I've never been much of a liar…"

I smiled and said, "Well, it's not common that someone like you lies anyway…"

"True," Mew said, nervous smile becoming more of a joyous one, "Thanks for understanding my lie."

"Hey, it's no big deal." I said, "You'll get no complaints here if you decide to pop in."

"Thank you!" Mew replied, grinning and hugging my shoulder before flying back up above my head.

We finished crossing the mountains, and made our way into the desert, which was surprisingly cool, and to the obelisk tower by early evening, around 5-6 o'clock.

We arrived at the base of the tower, and my mind was racing with all of the possibilities that arose with this battle. Hell, I didn't even know if it was feasible for me to win this one, or even if I did, whether or not it would even matter, due to history saying that these people won. All I knew was that I had to try.

Plats flew up and said, "Let's go. No need to wait unless you need something."

I shook my head, saying, "No. Let's do this thing." before signaling to Mainad, who signaled Olevov.

Olevov swung his staff in a circle, until, in unison, we floated skyward. About two-thousand feet up, I saw something very disturbing, and by disturbing, I mean threatening. Skarmory were circling the tower, and they were being ridden by people shrouded like the one who caused the building to explode. It was hard to accurately judge how many there were, but my guess was five. "Get prepared." I said somewhat quietly.

Suddenly, one of the Skarmory started to glow… then another joined it, and again, another…

"Oh my GOD!!!" I yelled when I realized what was going on, "Locria! Mew! We need protection, NOW!!!"

Locria and mew threw up shields, but I knew it was too late. I jumped sideways out of the way as a Sky Attack rocketed past me. I felt the heat, and the rush of conflagrating hot air sent me spinning, but I landed on my feet, shaken but okay. Moses wasn't so lucky, and he was sent spiraling into another of the same attack, receiving a smash hit to both his front and rear. He recovered, picking himself up off the ground with his right arm and managing to stand, just in time for Locria and Mew's small psychic shield to be completely shattered by three simultaneous sky attacks from all angles. Mew and Locria would have been done for, but Mainad leapt into the fray. The EVAPS glowing bright blue and curled into a fist, pulled backwards. Leaping in at a speed equal to that of the sky attacks, he brought his fist forward, and bright blue flames encircled it. As the skarmory were about to converge on Locria and Mew, he used his spare hand to magically push them out of the way, and the EVAPS delivered a lethal rushing punch to the heads of all three charging skarmory, sending them careening downwards at extremely high speed with a sickening crunch as steel crushed underneath the power of magic and might combined, their riders with them. The other two skarmory circled back around for another shot at it, one of which never got the chance, as Plats appeared directly behind it and melee sliced in-between metal plates with his eye ring (making it fountain blood from a major artery as it fell), and vanishing instantly. Moses exacted his revenge for the previous hits on the last one, and I got to feel completely useless in that fight as he swung his hammer upward and into its neck, denting a plate. He brought it down on top of its head, frontflipped, smacking it again in the back of the head and catching the end of the hammer on the base of the head plate, and swung it into the tower, knocking it out. It too fell, but the rider did not, for he was implanted into the side of the tower, a bloody mess upon an otherwise pure yellowish brown stone wall. At this moment I realized that I had forgotten to redraw my symbols. "Shit…" I muttered under my breath.

We reached the top of the tower without further incident, and we set down on top of it.

The tower's top was made of white marble, flecked with yellowed spots, about fifty feet forom one end to the other, and had eight octagonal pillars, around 3 feet in diameter and jutting further out of the atmosphere of the small planet.

It was FREEZING. Olevov had managed to make it barely livable conditions for about 25 minutes, as in, -20 degrees Fahrenheit, just enough oxygen to sustain us at once, assuming the enemy would do the same thing. "Come out and face us! We'll end this here and now!" I yelled, and as soon as I had, something I had never expected to see materialized in a swirl of dark red smoke, atom by atom, in roughly five seconds. It was a robot, no, wait… A Reploid! He had black metal pauldrons that stuck straight out and had silver trim. His body was white silver, except for the gauntlets, which were the same black as the pauldrons. He had very spiky 'hair', with four points in front and three in back sticking straight up, in between which there were two side points and in the very front a few strands hung in his face and off to the side. His head had an open top helmet on it that had a golden circlet around his brow and a black armored part in front of and behind his face. His feet were black with the same silver trim lining the base as the pauldrons. He had a massive sword (roughly the size of the buster sword from FFVII) strapped to his back, without a strap (probably magnetically sealed). This mystery reploid was the cause of all of this! He had been manipulating Suicune and all of us behind the scenes in order to suit his own goals, and eventually in an attempt to conquer Jhoto! Anger flared inside me and Demonscar pulsed bright blue for an instant as my mind turned blank and all I saw was red. I calmed down a second later, at least enough to growl out through gritted teeth, "Who are you."

"I… am Comet." Came the reply, through an equally angry sounding voice, "And you, should not be here."

I smirked, chuckling quietly before saying, "Look who's talking. We wound up in this time on accident. What's your story?"

"I was an experimental prototype in jumpgate technology. I was sent here due to a breakdown in my programming. I am no longer under anyone's control. You will fall, and I will not lose to you!" Comet yelled, and as he did, three pokémon appeared, an Espeon, a Mawile, and Suicune.

"What the Hell? Glaze?" Enflare said, "What's wrong with you?"

"THAT'S Glaze?" Mainad said, obviously wondering "Isn't she supposed to be akin to you?"

"It doesn't matter. Look." I said, pointing at Comet, noting two pokéballs and a master ball on his side, "He's in control. Kill him."

Comet laughed at that. Not just a chuckle, full on maniacal laughter. "You want to fight? Are you kidding me?" He said, waiting a few seconds before saying, "Okay. If that is your wish, I will destroy you."

I drew Demonscar (which was glowing), Mainad raised the EVAPS, Froth spun his hands in circles, Moses flipped his hammer in his hand, Plats vanished, Enflare charged something flaming in her mouth, Skyknight spread her wings, Ark's claws started to shine, Oneshot's paws glowed blue, Mew floated up, Locria twirled her scythe, Z3 crouched, and then the enemy got ready.

Glaze stepped forward and smirked, saying, "Hello…"

The espeon put up a shimmering barrier around itself, saying nothing.

Suicune charged a blue ball of energy in his mouth, and Comet just smirked and raised his gun-arm, charging a shot.

I leapt to the side, dodging Comet's shot, and the battle began. I slashed downwards towards Comet immediately, but missed and stumbled forwards as he dodged to the side, bringing his gun crashing down into my back. Comet held his gun to the back of my head, and it looked like the end for me, but Ark came out of nowhere, shoulder-ramming him off of me. I climbed to my feet and saw Z3 and Skyknight defending Olevov from psychic disks, deflecting every one with vines or wings. The Espeon was sitting in front of them, shaking its head and conjuring the disks. I jumped to my feet and looked of to my left, where I saw Comet pummeling Ark's stomach with his gun and fist, Ark was spitting blood and retreating under a hail of blows. I ran up to them and jumped as I did so, curling into a ball and facing the opposite direction, kicking outwards as I approached, blasting Comet into one of the pillars reaching heavenward from the top of the tower. I saw my chance, and only vaguely heard Ark thank me as the Master ball fell off of Comet's belt. I ran, dodging several crossfire attacks as I went, before finally being knocked over by a shaking in the ground, Glaze jumped on my back, and, with a painful stomp, unleashed another earthquake attack on my back. I couldn't feel my legs, and Glaze smiled and hopped off of me, thinking I was done for, but I reached into my pack and grabbed both of the vials of red potion. I chugged them down and stood up, yelling, "Hey, Glaze! This isn't over, now get back here!"

Glaze turned, frowning, and said, "How are you-?"

"Alive?" I coldly finished for her, showing her the two vials of red potion, "No such luck."

"What is this?" She asked, sneering, "Magic?"

"In a sense." I replied, once again coldly, before hilt ramming her to the face.

She fell over and bled from the nose as I stood up and looked back at Comet, who had just thrown Froth to the ground, bleeding from his right eye and cut all over his left side. Comet had drawn a blade and was cornering Enflare. I charged, but Plats got there first, making Enflare intangible just as the sword was about to swing through her head. I came anyway, but was blasted off to the side by Suicune, who placed himself on top of me and charged up another blast, but I was ready for him, and I had anticipated his tactic, kneeing upward into his gut and flipping him head over heels into the pillar behind me, flipping off the ground backwards, where I landed on and pinned him, using him as a stand to push off of the pillar and slide across the ground of the tower towards Comet. I jumped off of him, using his legs as pushing points and flying towards Comet, blade in front of me. There was no way he saw me, but he still managed to leap backwards and land on top of me. He stomped on my back, which hurt, but missed my spine, before I grabbed his legs and threw him to the ground beside me, climbing on top of him and wrestling hand to hand. Demonscar fell from my grasp, but its glow still worked, as I was soul linked to it. We traded blows for about a minute before he finally got a good shot in on my stomach with his knee, and I gasped in pain as he flung me off of him with his right hand while picking up his sword with his left. I grabbed Demonscar and steeled myself against another attack got ready when something VERY unexpected happened.

Z3 came out of nowhere and vine whipped the master ball off of Comet's belt. Glaze jumped for it, but Ark smashed her back down. Skyknight dove out of the highest point on the field of battle and cracked the Master ball in half with a Steel Wing.

"ROOOOOAAAAAAAARRRR!!!"

Suicune, now free of Comet's control, turned and fired his charged hyper beam at the shocked reploid, launching him over to the edge of the tower. Comet looked calm, and a bit amused. "What are you gonna do? Kill me? Make me a martyr?" He laughed, staring death in the face, "I know your type. You won't do it."

Suicune growled and gritted his teeth, "No… but you WILL admit defeat!"

Comet smirked his nasty grin and said, "No."

Suicune said nothing, coiling backwards, "Very well then. You have made your choice."

Comet rolled his eyes and said, "Spare me the speech and do what you're gonna do please."

With a roar, Suicune leapt forward, tackling Comet headfirst off of the tower and winking out of the dimension. However, by doing so, he had left traces of his spell. Olevov, Locria, and Mew realized in an instant that there was only one thing to do, and rushed forward, their eyes glinting at the same time.

A swirling vortex of pitch black and formless energy, streaked with red lightning and held open by a thin translucent purple wall enveloped the top of the tower.

I blacked out, knowing what had happened, and really glad to have been able to… Finally… Return to my time.

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AC:

I told you so.

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P.S.

Happy Halloween.