Ok, I know it has been FOREVER since I last uploaded, and I know you all have been waiting for the next chapter. So here it is. To make up for my absence these past few months, this chapter will have quite a bit of fighting in it, though obviously none from those in the past just yet.
Kenos: Thanks for correcting me there, but why would they put that part of the song in reverse in the first place? I mean it sounds pretty cool and all, but still.
Leafygirl213: Okay, your prayers have been answered. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Grimlock19992: I've been presented with an idea similar to that, but no. I don't plan on Marcus to become a Heartless. Sorry, about that. Maybe next time.
P3MF Alpha 4-Richter: I know, right? That was my goal. :D
Poke master 5000: Laziness, working on something else that I might decide to post, didn't have motivation, didn't feel like it, etc. The usual, really.
JudgmentDragon25: I want to keep things as true to the movie as possible, but that was a pretty good idea.
Kingdomkey0703: Heartless didn't exist back then, because in Birth By Sleep, which happened ten years ago, they haven't yet invaded the worlds.
ZXCVBNMEM: Well, sorry about that. Hopefully this chapter is long enough for you.
I hope you all enjoy this long-awaited chapter!
Chapter 7: An Unexpected Jailing.
Once again, Ash, Sora and their friends all found themselves within the mysterious blue wormhole as they warped through the boundaries of the temporal. However, this second trip through time was short-lived as the flash of light envelops the wormhole's surroundings once more. After a second, the light fades away to reveal them standing on a stone road somewhere in the town of ancient Michina. Oddly enough, no people were in sight at the moment, despite them probably being deep within the town's perimeter.
"The sun is shining again," Ethan pointed out. The sun was indeed shining down upon the town, un-eclipsed and radiating brightly.
"Looks like Dialga did what you asked," Dawn gleefully said to Sheena.
"Now we should be far enough back in time to prevent Damos from betraying Arceus," Mickey exclaimed, "Though I'm not entirely sure Damos was himself during that event."
So I wasn't the only one who realized that, Namine thought to herself.
"What do you mean?" Ash asked, his Pikachu adding in a sound of general confusion.
"I noticed that his eyes were off."
"How so?" Sora asked.
"Well for starters, his irises and pupils seemed to be of the same color. In fact, it almost seemed like they had merged together into one too," Mickey replied.
"That's right!" Goofy exclaimed, he too had apparently noticed Damos' eyes as well. "His eyes did seem kinda weird and stuff. They we're pretty stiff too."
"So what does that mean?" Ethan asked.
"It means something fishy is going on around here," Donald muttered. The court magician was always trusting in King Mickey's words no matter how unbelievable it was. So if his king said it, Donald believed him.
Jimmy examined the area. "Based upon our current location, we seem to be on one of the roads in the middle of town."
"Yeah we kinda figured that one out," Ash mentioned.
Jimmy continued. "Well, the temple/shrine should be, and I'm just taking a guess here mind you, roughly 1000 feet away from our current location. Judging on the surrounding terrain, it appears to be somewhere underneath the earth's surface."
"Impressive," Tails complimented, he too having come up with the same calculations in his mind.
"It sure is nice to know that we have a genius helping us out," Dawn said, fascinated once more about how intelligent Jimmy truly was.
Seething in jealously from Nerdtron stealing the spotlight once more, Timmy stalks off to a nearby alley. He was more then likely to consult with you-know-who on this matter.
"Now where's he going?" Roxas whispered, too quiet for Sora to hear.
"Why thank you, Dawn," Jimmy replied, "I appreciate the compliment. Now, as I was saying, the temple should be somewhere underground."
Jimmy typed something on his watch-like computer. "My guess is that there must be some sort of hidden underground passageways to the shrine hidden among those buildings." The boy genius pointed to the buildings on the elevated terrain. "I'm sorry I can't give you a precise building and location. I can only do so much with my Neutronic watch."
"Great…" Donald muttered sarcastically, "Just great."
A noise draws Ethan's attention. "Uh guys, I think we got company, and my hunch says its not the friendly type either."
"When is it ever not?" Roxas said within Sora, causing the Keyblade Master to grin in amusement.
True to Ethan's words, a large red four-legged creature, with some kind of saddle-shaped device strapped to it's back, walks down the hill towards them. Once it neared them, it suddenly opened it's mouth as a fiery ball began to gather there. Quickly realizing that this was an attack, everyone scrambles to get out of the Fire Spin's trajectory. While most everyone rushes to their left to dodge it, Sheena runs right.
"Hey what's the big idea!" Donald shouted in anger at the creature for it's sudden attack upon them. No sooner had he said this when an army of men in brown breastplates overtopping their teals uniforms seemed to come out of nowhere and form a circle around all of them. Each man was armed with some kind of 'U' shaped spear that didn't seem to look very sharp at all. In fact, they actually appeared blunt.
"What's going on!" Sora exclaimed in shock at the sudden appearances of all these people and that strange creature, which he assumed was another one of those Pokemon creatures Ash and his friends seemed to know so well.
"If I knew I would tell you," Roxas replied to him.
Elsewhere, a Pichu scurried out of a hole in a random wall and onto a platform where it quickly spotted the group being surrounded by the soldiers.
"UGH!" Timmy growled in frustration as his fairies poofed back to their regular fairy forms within the seclusion of the alleyway, "How come Neutron is getting all the glory?"
"Well, sport." Wanda began. "His intellect is giving Ash and his friends useful advice on how to stop Damos from betraying Arceus. That way he won't try and destroy everything in the future, and, from seeing how powerful Arceus really is, I'm pretty sure he could do it. He was able to easily fight off the Dragon Trio all at once when we had so much trouble dealing with them individually. We can't afford to let Arceus get angry."
"Okay, okay I get it!" Timmy exclaimed with an annoyed tone, he hated it when Wanda over-explained things, "But I would at least like to help out and be in the spotlight for a change."
"Um, Timmy?" Wanda began, "You have Fairy Godparents that can grant your every super-powered wish."
"Yeah, Timmy!" Cosmo exclaimed, "I may like fudge head and all, but his smartyiness can't compete with our magic!" (Remember that Cosmo talks like this)
In his excitement, he accidentally poofed up an anvil right above his head. Needless to say, Cosmo became a part of the ground faster then the human eye could blink. Timmy, Poof, and Wanda could barely keep their laughter in check at Cosmo's truly idiotic action. Thankfully, their laughter wasn't loud enough to attract the group's attention just on the other side of the building.
"You are an idiot, Cosmo!" Timmy exclaimed between his laughing fits while the laughing Wanda poofed the anvil away and restore the flattened Cosmo to full health.
The sound of many footsteps being heard from the other side of the building bring the two out of their laughing fit.
"What's that noise?" Timmy asked.
Wanda flies over to the corner of the wall and pokes her head out. "Uh oh, this doesn't look good Timmy."
Curious as to what she was seeing, Timmy soon joined her at the wall's corner where he too pokes his head out. His eyes widen at what he saw. Ash, Sora, and all the others were surrounded by an army of soldiers with a rather large creature glaring at them.
Needless to say, the group didn't take too kindly in being surrounded by an army of men like if they we're wanted criminals. They just got there for crying out loud! How could they be fugitives to a town they just arrived in before it became ruins? Nevertheless, Pikachu and Piplup had jumped from their respective humans' arms and went into an aggressive stance as they glared at Heatran. Ethan glared at all the men and braced himself just in case they decided to attack him right then and there. The group from the Kingdom Hearts franchise quickly got into a battle-ready stance, weapons not yet drawn/summoned. Jimmy's hand was poised near his watch while Goddard was growling at Heatran. The robotic canine was just about ready to blast this creature into oblivion with one of the many gadgets built within him. Tails eyed the army of men with caution, he hadn't anticipated something like this to happen. Yoshi had gotten into a similar aggressive stance that Pikachu and Piplup had entered. Poor Kirby was just so confused on the entire situation and remained perfectly content in Dawn's arms.
"What is this?"
The group look up in the direction of the shout to see a strange but familiar man dressed in red robes and standing on a platform higher up. Next to him was a bell-shaped creature that seemed to be made out of pure metal and was floating off the ground, defying the laws of physics.
"Master Marcus, very strange people have appeared!" One of the soldiers said. It was true. Over half of the guards were shaking in their boots at the bizarre appearances of Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Yoshi, Tails, Kirby, and especially Goddard. Never before had they seen such strange magical creatures.
"Hey who're are you calling strange, ya stupidly-dressed idiot!" Donald squawked in rage.
The guard didn't pay any attention to the fact that the strange magical creature had just insulted him as he and the other guards proceeded to gasp in shock. Even Marcus couldn't help but have his eyebrows raise in surprise. However, that moment of shock quickly faded as he proceeded down the stairway towards them. The other guards couldn't help but let their mouths remain agape; they had never seen magical creatures that were capable of speech before.
Dawn's eyes suddenly widen. "That man…"
Everyone else shared similar reactions upon spotting Marcus. That was the man who had been present with Damos at the time of the betrayal of Arceus that Dialga had sent them to by mistake.
"Brozong, use Hypnosis," Marcus said to his metal bell-shaped Pokemon.
Brozong complies and hovers in front of the surprised group as it's eyes turn blue. The group watch the blue light waves originating from the Pokemon's eyes as their vision begins to get blurry. We then view the entire group as their eyes glow bright blue for a second before fading away. In their wake, the group's irises and pupils had become light teal and remained frozen on their pre-set positions upon the corneas. Only Goddard, who wasn't a living being, remained unaffected by the hypnosis as he continued to growl at both Brozong and Heatran.
The entire group of Marcus' gasped when they saw this. "How is that possible?" One of them said in a completely stunned tone of voice
"That bizarre….thing must be some sort of steel and dark type magical creature," Marcus stated, not too surprised at how Goddard was able to resist the hypnosis. Dark-type magical creatures we're unaffected by psychic-type moves like Hypnosis after all. "Those types suit that creature well, Heatran!"
Heatran walks up close to the smaller growling form of Goddard and forms a bit of fire at it's mouth as if saying, 'Try something, I dare ya!'
Goddard, in reality, wasn't technically the only one who remained unaffected by the Hypnosis, but the other two weren't, in a way, real anymore. These two, however, were currently trying to get their respective other to snap out of the trance that they had been induced in.
"C'mon, Sora!" Roxas barked inside Sora's head, "Snap out of it!"
No Reaction.
"You can fight this!"
Sora remained unresponsive.
"Are you really this thick-headed, dude?" Roxas asked, hoping an insult would bring Sora's consciousness back into control, "Or are you just mentally deaf?"
Nothing.
"What did that thing just do to them?" Timmy asked, seeing that the group had become unnaturally stiff immediately following that 'Hypnosis' attack that the man named Marcus had commanded Heatran to use.
"I don't know, Timmy," Wanda replied, "But I'm guessing that they must be under some sort of trance or something."
"Really?" Timmy asked.
"That's what I think anyway," Wanda replied.
"Well how about we go ask them? Hey fellas!" The idiot fairy hollered to the soldiers "Do you kn…MUMPH!" Timmy, Wanda, and even Poof slapped their hands over Cosmo's mouth as he was pulled back behind the wall.
Two soldiers turned their heads in the direction of the corner of a wall where the FOP group had been spying on them from. "Did you hear something?"
The other solider shrugged, "I think I did, but I'm not sure."
"Maybe it was just the wind or something," The first solider guessed as the two turned their heads away from the corner.
"Yeah, your probably right," The other solider said.
"You people are clearly not of this land," Marcus said, approac
hing Sheena, who was the only one who hadn't been caught in the Hypnosis, beside Goddard of course.
Casting one last worried look at the hypnotized group, Sheena turns her head to Marcus. "Yes, we have come here from the future."
Marcus blinked at hearing this. "What?"
"To stop you from battling with Arceus," Sheena exclaimed.
Marcus blinked once more, but this time in amusement. "Such strange words you speak."
"We know everything that's going to happen in the future," Sheena replied.
"Oh?"
"Please believe me!" Sheena practically pleaded.
Marcus thought it over for a sec. "Well then, let us hear what this woman has to say."
He turned to his soldiers. "Have the children wait in the cell, take good care of them."
"And what about their strange magical creatures?" A solider asked.
"Put them in the cell where we keep all the other magical creatures, for the time being." Marcus replied.
"Sir!"
Back on the platform, Pichu leans forward, totally intrigued by what was going on. Unfortunately, it leaned over a bit too much and nearly fell off the platform. After narrowly avoiding a nasty tumble, Pichu pulls itself back on the platform. Giving one last curious look to the events going on below him, Pichu scurries back inside the hole in the wall from whence it came.
Even as Sora and his allies turned to follow the soldiers, Roxas continued to try and snap Sora out of hypnotism.
"Sora, stop it!" Roxas hollered inside his other's head, "Are you even trying?"
"Please, Sora, you've got to fight it," A voice whispered.
Again, Roxas blinked. There was that strange, yet familiar, voice again, and, unlike last time, he was actually able to deduce the tone of the voice as feminine. He quickly assumed it to be Namine. Apparently she had either given up on snapping Kairi out of it or had focused her attention on getting Sora out first. Regardless, Roxas added in with the voice.
"C'mon, man!" Roxas mentally shouted, "You're stronger than this!"
Zip.
Forget it, Roxas," Namine mentally said from Kairi's cranium, "Marcus' Pokemon has completely seized control over their minds. Their consciousness have been submerged from full awareness."
"Well, we can't just do nothing!" Roxas snapped back.
Namine sighed mentally, "We don't have much a choice, Roxas. Thankfully, though , we don't have to wait long."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean is that this hypnosis Marcus put over them is slowly dissipating with time. The barriers surrounding Sora and Kairi's consciousness are still too powerful for me to break through, but they'll soon be weak enough for me to shatter."
Roxas sighed within his other's head, "Well, that's good. So, how long will it take?"
"It will take several minutes," Namine replied, "I say around seven to twelve minutes. Twenty at the very most."
"Great," Roxas mumbled sarcastically within Sora's head; he hated waiting much like Sora did.
"You idiot!" Timmy scolded Cosmo, "You nearly exposed yourself! The last thing we need right now is to have Jorgen Von Strangle booming down here and telling us how I violated the rules and then taking you guys away from me!"
"But we're over 2000 years in the past, Timmy," Cosmo reasoned, "Jorgen Von Strangler hasn't even been born yet."
"Actually sweetie," Wanda replied, "Jorgen has been around for thousands of years. You and I are almost 10,000 years old for crying out loud, Cosmo! And we've dealt with Jorgen all are life! Who knows how old he is!"
"Hey guys!" Timmy exclaimed, having poked his head out of the alleyway, "They are lot of people coming this way! Activate stealth mode!"
Wanda and Cosmo raise their glowing wands.
POOF!
And just like that, Timmy and his fairies were invisible and inaudible to all but themselves. No sooner had that happened when a couple of soldiers walked into view as Ash, Sora, Kairi, Ethan, Jimmy, Dawn, and Brock followed behind them.
"Wait!" Timmy exclaimed, "Why are they following them? Weren't they just surrounded by those guys a minute ago? They could easily take them on!"
"Maybe their leading them to a pudding faculty," Cosmo suggested stupidly, "I wanna go too!"
Wanda grabbed Cosmo by his shirt collar to prevent him from flying after them. She turned to look at Timmy. "We just saw Marcus' Brozong…thing using this 'Hypnosis' on Ash and his friends. Hypnosis is a hypnotic trance that nullifies and blocks the part of a human consciousness that gives people free will so that they will do whatever they are told without question."
Blank stares is what she got from Timmy, Poof and Cosmo. "In other words, they're hypnotized."
"Oh!" Timmy and Cosmo exclaimed.
"But wait!" Timmy suddenly shouted, "Where are the others?" The ten year old had noticed a couple of members not present among the group.
"They must be taking them somewhere else," Wanda reasoned.
At that point, the soldiers and their hypnotized victims had passed on. "Okay guys, you can cut off the stealth mode now."
POOF!
Now visible and audible to everyone, Timmy poked his head out of the alleyway for the fourth time today. In one direction he could still the hypnotized group of Sora, Ash, Dawn, Kairi, Ethan, Jimmy and Brock unwillingly following the soldiers. In the other direction, the ten year old saw Marcus walking uphill on a stairway with Sheena following him. Two soldiers were walking on either side of Sheena to make sure she didn't try anything.
"Now where's she going?" Timmy mused.
"I don't know sport," Wanda replied truthfully, "But she doesn't appear to be hypnotized like the others. Now why is that?"
"I don't know," Timmy said, "But let's find out! I wish we we're flies!"
POOF!
In a puff of magic smoke, Timmy and his fairies had become one of the most annoying pests on the planet: flies. Each individual was a different-colored fly respective to their favorite colors and maintained their human heads.
"Yay!" Cosmo cheered, flying and buzzing around in circles, "Now I can annoy people to no ends with my awesome buzzing powers! Buzz, buzz, buzz!"
"Your annoying me, Cosmo!" Wanda growled.
Cosmo stopped instantly. "Sorry."
"Come on!" Timmy hollered back to them, he and Poof already flying off after Marcus and Sheena, "I want to find out what they're going to be talking about!"
"Okay, sport!" Wanda exclaimed, "We're coming!"
With that said, she and Cosmo flew on after their godchild and godson.
We are taken to a chamber where we see two soldiers opening a grate in the rocky ceiling above as one of them tosses a brown bag into said chamber. Seconds later we see many soldiers struggling to subdue a certain, metallic dog as they finally manage to toss the dreaded, magical creature into the chamber. Tails and Yoshi were then tossed in next; they were still under the hypnotic spell. We then see even more soldiers throwing the famous hypnotized Disney Trio in as well. It was quite the challenge to get the tall Goofy in though.
As the brown bag hits the cold rocky ground, Pikachu wearily makes his way out of the bag and drops down the small ledge of the platform where the bag had landed on. Seconds later, Piplup and Kirby stumble out of the bag and topple down on top of Pikachu.
"Chuuuuu."
Piplup and Kirby quickly exit their weariness as they scream in pain at being shocked by Pikachu's involuntarily, electrical reaction. Tails and Yoshi come crashing onto the floor next as they were finally knocked out of their trances. Seconds later, Goddard falls down with a clang and was soon followed by Donald, Mickey, and Goofy with each of them exiting their hypnotic trance as well. The Disney Trio, Kirby, Tails, Yoshi, and the Pokemon shake their heads for a second to regain composure.
"Gawrsh, where do you suppose we are?" Goofy asked, still a bit weary.
"We appear to be in some sort of Pokemon holding cell," Mickey said thoughtfully, eyeing the many Pokemon sleeping about as well as the lock on the exit to their cell.
"I wonder where they put the others at?" Tails wondered aloud, noticing the distinct lack of members in the group.
"Yoshi," Yoshi said with a shrug.
Two guards could be seen guarding the entrance to the cell safely on the other side of the exit. The group and Pokemon then look up to see two soldiers closing the grate from which they were thrown in from as Goddard and Yoshi growled and glared at them respectively.
"Hey, what's the big idea?" Donald shouted in rage. Sadly, the court magician's protests were just ignored as the two soldiers walked out of view of the grate.
The screen shimmers for a few seconds to show a more worn out and beat-up version of the grate that they had been thrown through. The rocky ceiling of the chamber was cracked, decayed, and appeared to be slowly giving away over time.
"AHHH!"
Suddenly, a screaming Danny Phantom comes crashing through the grate after being nailed by another attack from you-know-who.
Up in the air, Arceus begins to gather another ball of orange energy in an effort to blast Danny Phantom into oblivion, but suddenly a bolt of electricity strikes the Alpha Pokemon, zapping it with many watts of electricity.
Finally! Something that can actually hit him! Joshua thought in relief. That relief quickly died when Arceus turned to glare at him with glowing red eyes. For a second Joshua waves a hand at him sheepishly before turning and taking off, screaming the whole way with Arceus in hot pursuit. Even though Arceus had fired off a Twister at its fleeing target, Joshua still manages to notice it in time and yelps as he moves to right.
"Yikes!" Going as far as actually soaring through the air on his side, Joshua narrowly avoids the column of wind just by an inch or so as it sails past him.
Thankfully, Palkia comes to Joshua's rescue and flies up right in front of Arceus, cutting off its chase with the Elaman Halfa. Sounding off it's cry, Palkia forms a ball of orange energy at its mouth and fires off a Hyper Beam right at Arceus. Sadly, the beam crashes against an invisible shield in front of Arceus as it activates it's ghost-type plate to shield itself from the attack.
"Out of my way!" Arceus shouted as it blasted Palkia with a Flamethrower. The space deity goes crashing down into cold, unforgiving ground with a loud thud. Unfortunately, this happened to be near where Riku, Meta-Knight, Sam, Tucker, Tommy, Luigi, and Kevin were watching the battle and had their view momentarily blocked by both the space deity's body and the smoke from its impact.
Suddenly, a boulder slams into Arceus' side, causing the Pokemon to recoil in pain.
Audience: ….
Energy Wiz: What? It was a very big boulder.
Furiously, Arceus spins its head to see a white hedgehog glowing a fluorescent green and floating about 20 feet away from him.
"Who are you!" Arceus demanded.
Silver glared at Arceus. "My name is Silver. For the future of the world, I will destroy you! So come on, you monster!"
(Sorry, I couldn't resist having Silver say that famous line from Sonic 06. It was just so prefect.)
"MONSTER?" Arceus repeated in disbelief and rage at being called such, "Humans are the real monsters. You do so much for them. Give them all that they need. You can even go all the way up to the point of actually putting your own life at risk for a short while just for them, but when the time comes for them to return what they borrowed from you….they stab you in the back! They have no right to live. They all need to be brought to justice! I am the one who will bring that justice upon all these filthy humans, AND ANYONE WHO SIDES WITH THEM!"
Arceus gathers its energy and sends a Blizzard at the telekinetic and futuristic hedgehog. Silver immediately concentrates and telekinetically catches as much ice that came close to him as possible. However, with the increased concentration to keep himself levitating while he did this and the barrage of ice particles that Arceus sent at him, he still managed to be struck a few times.
Once the blizzard died off, Silver grunted and sent all the ice particles that he had caught right back at their furious owner. Arceus' golden parts just shift to teal as all the particles are absorbed into its invisible Life Plate shield.
Silver growls in frustration at seeing this but can only watch helplessly as Arceus' newly formed Flamethrower crashed into his form. Seconds later, we see Silver's body flying out of the smoke and toward the ground at an unsettling clip as Arceus chased after his falling form. At the last second, Silver manages to pull enough concentration together to halt his fall with his 'psychokensis' before he could become part of the ground that was just a foot below him.
Hovering higher up into the air, Silver raises his glowing palm to the charging Arceus as the Alpha freezes on the spot right in the middle of its charge. Its outlines were now glowing a fluorescent green as the white hedgehog's form had also begun to glow the same shade of green as well.
"It's not use!" Silver proclaimed, holding Arceus perfectly still in his telekinetic hold.
Struggle as hard as it could and telekinetically growling as loud as it was able, even the mighty Arceus could not break free of Silver's telekinetic hold due to having its entire body, as well as it's muscles, frozen in place. Therefore it was unable to use any of its attacks or even move in the slightest.
"HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS!" Arceus demanded, stunned at how he could be held perfectly still like this.
Silver said only word. "Pyschokensis."
With little more then a grunt, Silver slams Arceus into the ground, not once, not twice, but three times before hurling its form away from him, releasing his telekinetic hold on the Alpha. With its body finally free, Arceus glared murder at Silver as it launched a flaming Flamethrower at the telekinetic hedgehog who quickly retreated from battle to dodge.
Mario came flying up next and attempted to give a good throw into Arceus' well being, but the firing of a Twister forces the Italian Plumber to back off in order to dodge. However, the plumber was determined and flew right back at Arceus to nail him with a strong punch to the head. Even the Alpha Pokemon had to take a make a grunt of pain from one of the famous plumber's fists. Mario glared at Arceus's ticked expression and unleashed a full barrage of punches to its head as Arceus growls in pain. He then finishes by performing a 'Mario spin', striking Arceus repeatedly before throwing one final punch for good measures.
"ENOUGH!" Arceus roared as it blasted Mario off of itself with a Flamethrower.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow." Mario moaned as he spun threw the air.
Yet, somehow, Mario manages to stop himself in midair and did his famous 'hmmph' (Usually found in sprite battles featuring him in it) as a ball of fire formed into existence between his gloved hands. Arceus didn't look amused with Mario's angry expression, as well as the fire he was forming between his hands. With a cry, Mario hurled his ball of flame at Arceus, but the Alpha's golden parts turned a bright red as the fire shrunk out of view before it could even reach him. Mario stood, or rather floated, speechless.
"JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!" Arceus cried out as he launched a howling Blizzard at Mario who managed to recovery from his shock at what happened to his other attack to react in time.
Taking out his hammer, Mario spun it in front of himself to act as a make-shift shield to block the offending ice, closing the gap between him and Arceus slowly. When the blizzard finally subsides, Mario gave no time for the Alpha to react and charged straight into it's head with his makeshift form of defense, hitting the Pokemon repeatedly with his mighty hammer. Finally, Mario stops and performs one final swing at Arceus, sending the Alpha back through the air with a mighty cry as Plumber blasted after it.
However, Arceus recovers quicker than anticipated and fired a swirling vortex of wind back at the stunned plumber. Because of the fact that he was flying full speed towards Arceus, Mario couldn't stop himself in time and flew straight into the high-powered winds, screaming as the air cut into his skin like knives. Even with that accomplishment, the Twister abruptly pushed him backwards, sending him crashing into an elevated side of the ground with smoke shrouding him from view upon impact.
Suddenly, Arceus growls in pain as two beams of green crash against his right side, inducing pain on the Alpha's body. Spinning on a dime, Arceus sends a scorching hot Flamethrower at Danny, but our ghostly halfa manages to dodge just in time as he flew above the fire attack, narrowly missing the flames.
Danny smirked. "Ya missed."
And with that, he punches Arceus with an ecto-enhanced punch. The Alpha grunts in pain as it is knocked back a bit in the air, but it quickly retaliates and sends a Twister right back at Danny, blasting the ghostly hero down towards the ground.
ABC
"I'm not sure how much more I can take of this," Jessie groaned, wringing the water out of her hair.
"We've just barely avoided being fried. Twice I may add!" James exclaimed.
"I don't know about you lugs, but I don't want up that to three!" Meowth reasoned.
A noise drew their attention to the sky as they saw a certain ghostly halfa flying straight at them from being blasted by that super powerful Pokemon. Team Rocket once again screams in alarm as they flee inside the nearest ancient building while Danny comes crashing down where they had been at just a few seconds ago. The ghostly halfa skids along the ancient road of Michina and comes to a painful, grinding stop. Blue rings flicker at his waist for just a brief second.
Arceus flies down to Danny's level and prepares another Flamethrower to annihilate the ghostly halfa once and for all. "Time for you to face justice, human!"
"I'm a ghost!" Danny protested, managing to flip over to his back to glare at Arceus, "There's a distinct difference!"
"Doesn't matter! You've still sided with the humans!" Arceus growled back, "And as such, your fate shall be the same as theirs!"
Suddenly, a ball of blue zoomed out of nowhere and slammed into Arceus' head. Despite the size difference, Arceus felt every bit of pain and cried out in anger. Glaring at the figure that dared to attack it, the Alpha sees a blue, supersonic hedgehog giving him a smug grin.
Not even bothering to ask who he was, Arceus fires the Flamethrower it had been charging up for Danny at Sonic. The beam crashes down upon where Sonic was at, enveloping him and the area in a cloud of fiery smoke.
"SONIC!" Danny cried, his eyes growing wide with shock.
"Yeah?"
"AGH!" Danny jumped at the sudden voice as he turned around to find Sonic standing…
Right next to him?
"But how did you?….." He stuttered, glancing back and forth between the fading smoke where Sonic should've been wasted by that attack and where he was right now.
Sonic smirked. "I wasn't kidding when I said I was the fastest thing alive. Now if you excuse me.." The blue blur ran right back up to the spot where the ground had been scorched by Arceus' Flamethrower and hollered up to said Pokemon. "Come on! Don't tell me you don't know who I am!"
Arceus sneered and formed another Flamethrower to fry Sonic with. Sonic just crossed his arms and grinned; he was completely unafraid by his opponent's anger and power. With an enraged cry, Arceus sent the Flamethrower searing through the air and straight at Sonic, but, in a quick blur, he moved 20 feet to the left as the Flamethrower came crashing down where he had been less then half a second ago. Sonic arms were still crossed and he was still smirking. A second attempt by Arceus was met with the same fate as Sonic used his incredible speed to vanish out of the attack's trajectory. Flamethrower after Flamethrower Arceus fired but even the Alpha Pokemon just couldn't keep up with Sonic's unmatched speed, which almost made it look like the blue blur was teleporting. With each miss the Alpha made, Sonic made a taunting gesture that increased Arceus' anger tenfold.
"You're too slow!" Sonic taunted once more before disappearing as another flamethrower crashed down where he had once been.
Off in the distance, Riku, Kevin, Meta-Knight, Sam, Tucker, and Tommy could only watch in awe.
"Impressive." Meta-Knight said, amused as he watched Sonic continuing to dodge Arceus' attacks with ease. "I have never seen a creature capable of speeds such as that."
"Nor have I." Kevin said, totally amazed how fast Sonic truly was. "I never thought such speeds could be acquired in living beings. Even a fast Pokemon using Extremespeed can't compare to this."
"Well, let's just hope that Sonic will be able to buy Sora and the others some time," Riku said, though he too was unable to keep the shock out of his voice as well. He had never seen anything move so fast in his life.
I hate to say this," Tucker began, "But he makes Danny's flight speed look like child's play!"
"Even I can't argue with you on that, Tucker," Sam replied.
At this point, Arceus had finally had enough of the speedy little hedgehog.
"DIE!" It practically screamed in rage as it began to gather white energy at it's head.
Remembering what attacks he saw Arceus do while he was just watching the battle, Sonic begins to spin in place, stirring up smoke behind him as he revved like a racecar. White energy continuing to gather around Arceus as smoke continued to stir up from Sonic's revving. Just as Arceus fired its Twister, Sonic, using the momentum he had built up, bolted up towards the approaching attack in ball form.
Despite the collision of the two forces, barely any sounds of colliding were heard, but that didn't exclude how noisy both attacks actually were, no siree. Sonic's speed was noticeably being slowed as he progressed into the Twister, but he did manage to come within 3 feet of Arceus however, which was an impressive accomplishment on it's own.
Arceus scowled when Sonic uncurled, practically unscathed with just a few marks and from the Alpha's Twister. As it turns out, Sonic's Chaos Field had protected him against most of the damage that Twister would've caused otherwise. Now within range of Arceus to do some potential damage, Sonic called upon one of the only two powers he knew.
"Sonic Wind!"
Immediately, a ball of spiraling blue wind was flung from Sonic's hand and crashed against Arceus' head at nearly point-blank range. The Alpha howled in pain as Sonic then unleashed three consecutive spinning kicks on its head before ending with a downward kick upon Arceus' forehead, forcing it to look down. Sonic then curled into a ball once more and plowed straight into Arceus' chest, scratching up its chest with his sharp quills digging in. With one more push, Sonic kicked off the Pokemon as it was sent back through the air, reeling from the hits it took. The Alpha snarled in pain, yes snarled, as Sonic fell to the earth below. The blue blur wasn't worried though. He had manage to make safe landings from even higher heights that this, but what did worry him was the fact that he suddenly felt a warm sensation on his back.
Spinning around in mid-air, Sonic found himself face-to-face with a searing hot Flamethrower of Arceus' making. Normally, Sonic was capable of dodging just about any type of attack on land, but, while in the air, he was practically a sitting duck. Sonic scolded that weakness of his as he was blasted down to the ground and engulfed in a fiery explosion upon impact right before the horrified eyes of Joshua and Danny.
"SONIC!"
When the smoke cleared, Sonic was inside a large crater, bruised, dazed and barely able to move his head from the powerful attack. With angry expressions, Joshua and Danny found the strength to fly up and combat Arceus once more, fully intending on making the Alpha pay for this.
But just then a voice rung out.
"Need some help."
Both Halfas turn to and have their eyes widen as they come across two very familiar figures to each of them. One was standing on a nearby platform while the other was hovering in the air and giving off a ghostly glow.
"Na….er….Muscleman?" Joshua asked in complete shock.
"Danielle?" Danny asked, not believing his own eyes
Chapter 7 End
Well, it seems that neither team is fairing that well. With the group of the past being put into jail while Sheena explains to Marcus of what's going to happen in the future and the group of the present on the losing side of their battle with Arceus. Will Ash, Sora and the others be able to get out of the pickle they've been unwillingly put into and be able to fix the past to stop the painful fight that those in the present are dealing with in time? And will the surprise and unexplained appearances of Nathan/Msucleman and Danielle help to even the odds against Arceus? Stay tuned to find out!
