Pokewing Z:Dimension Rifters, Episode 9

A mega-crossover fic by Dustin Dixon and PAEC, with help from Rob Volzke.

Disclaimer. First episode. Read there. Episode 9. Not much to say, I just hope you've enjoyed it enough to read this far ahead. :D

Osaka and Janine had been training for two days straight. Neither had had any rest, and Janine was showing no signs of slowing down. Osaka, however was tired. Despite every sign she showed, Janine did not let up on her.
"Okay." Janine said, as Osaka stood before her half awake. "I think you've got spirit awareness down. You've proven yourself to me there, but this is only the beginning." When all Osaka did was yawn, Janine went on. "I can tell you are tired, and though I could keep you out here for weeks and keep going, you would suffer."
"So..." Osaka started, but had to wait for a yawn to surpass to continue. "Does that mean I get a break?" Osaka tried to keep her eyes open.
"Hell no, darling." Janine said cooly. "You still have one last thing to do." Osaka just waited, apparently not wanting to waste any energy talking. "You must take your Spirit Energy, from deep inside of you, and use it. In some way, I want you to use your Spirit Energy, to attack me. Try to hurt me, Ayumu. Once you have done that, you will get 8 hours of sleep, and then we will mold the attack, and make it your own."
"So...I'm inventing..." Osaka yawned. "A Spirit Attack?"
"Correct." Janine confirmed. "Now..." She took a defensive stance. "Let's see what you've got!"
Osaka widened her stance, and tried her best to stay awake, but it was hard. She closed her eyes, and for a moment, nothing, as if she was deciding what to do. Five minutes passed, and still, nothing happened, but Janine knew she was not asleep. Rather, she knew she was preparing. Suddenly, she opened her eyes, and in her hand, appeared a red sphere of glowing light. Osaka reared back, and, as if she had a baseball in her hand, lugged the energy at Janine as hard as she could. The energy ball flew at Janine at a high speed, but with just a flick of her wrist, the ball was in the ground, and a few seconds later, all that was left was a hole at Janine's feet. Osaka could take no more, and promptly collapsed.
Janine walked over to Osaka's sleeping body, and picked her up, whispering to her.
"Good job, girl. You show promise, just like Enma said. Now come on, let's get you back to Ash's house..."
Janine tossed Osaka onto her shoulders, and walked off in the direction of Pallet Town.

Meanwhile, in a different dimension, as well as a different timeline...Ash and Jenny were about to open the door to Jimmy's house,
when it opened on its own, revealing the aforementioned Jimmy.
"Oh! Ash, Jenny, how'd it go?"
"Ash did it." Jenny said.
"Yeah...but I couldn't help but feel as though he LET me win." Ash looked down as he said this.
"Hey." Jimmy said, "At least you won. We wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for you."
"Thanks." Ash said, smiling.
"I want you to have this." Jimmy said, handing Ash his Rift Locator.
"Jimmy...I can't..." he started.
"Ash, stopping Wayne is your first priority, not letting me study these rifts. I'd like to think I helped, even if by just a tiny margin.
Besides, I can always make another. So, go on. Take it."
"...Thanks, Jimmy. This means a lot, seriously." Ash said.
"Did Wayne say his next stop was Dimmsdale?" Jimmy asked.
"Yeah. Why do you ask?" Ash replied.
"If you see Timmy Turner while you're there, tell him I said hi." Jimmy said.
"Uh...okay, sure." Ash said.
"I SHOULD be able to get you to Dimmsdale from my lab." Jimmy said.
"Alright then."
"Follow me"
Jimmy walked over to the shed he originally came out of when Ash and Jenny had met him. He then plucked a hair from his head and held it in front of a tiny electronic device. The door opened, and the three walked in, descending further under the earth's crust until reaching a large laboratory. Jimmy walked over to a computer and started typing something in. Jenny looked around, absolutely amazed at all the technology that surrounded the three.
"This lab is AMAZING..." Jenny said, in absolute wonderment.
"Oh, this? Nah. You should see my dog. He's really something...and that reminds me. Jenny, can you come over here for a second?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Jenny walked over to the computer, and Jimmy started speaking to her. Ash, however, couldn't make out what they were saying, but then, Jimmy stuck a plug into Jenny's "navel", and started typing furiously. After a few minutes, he stopped typing, then after a few more minutes, he removed the plug. Jenny thanked him, then walked back over to Ash.
"What was that about?" Ash asked.
"Oh...nothing." Jenny said, a sly smile on her face.
"Anyway, I'm ready to attempt opening a portal between Retroville and Dimmsdale." Jimmy then began typing again, and a weird machine over on the right began to glow, as a purple vortex formed there. "What the hell?" Ash asked, a bit surprised by the mysterious, swirling vortex.
"Hop in. This will take you to Dimmsdale."
Ash and Jenny looked at Jimmy, then the vortex, and then each other, and nodded, jumping in. However, unbeknownst to them,
a certain big-headed boy genius jumped in behind them.

Enma sat at his desk, watching an old tape the Spirit World had made. On it, two men stood, dueling. Or at least, one of them looked like a man. The humanoid man had purple hair, trailing down to his feet, and was garbed in a Roman-style toga. The other man had short black hair, and was garbed in a trenchcoat, with black pants. As Enma watched the video, he sighed.
"If you were still among us, this case would already be closed." he said, then added, "However, I do have faith in Ash. I know he'll pull a rabbit out of his hat and save us all."

It was a fairly cloudy evening in the city of Mushiyori City, Japan, a fine summer evening. Near the city were rocky, frozen hills, hills where people usually did not tread, but on this day, a strange presence loomed over these hills.
Suddenly, a tear in the air opened on the top of one of the icy hillsides. A man stepped out, and after he tossed his black hair back, it could be easily seen that it was Riku. He took a few steps forward and inhaled, as the rift closed behind him. Then, a voice spoke from behind him, a normal teenage accent.
"Here when you said you'd be," the voice said. "I've only just arrived myself." Riku looked back, and smiled at what he saw. "I am never late, nor am I early, my friend." Riku said. "I arrive precisley when I mean to." The voice from behind him chuckled.
"That you are, now, what is it you want to see me for?"
"It's a long story, let's go somewhere less open." Riku said, as he walked into the forest, with this unknown man leading the way.

Another rift, another fall. This time, however, they were inside of a building. They landed in what appeared to be a gymnasium. A creepy-looking man with black hair and glasses, hunched over sinisterly, approached them and said, "Wait a minute. Teenagers shouldn't be here! I can't torture you! You're big! And you appeared through a swirling purple vortex!"
The man then turned around, and semi-silently monologued, "There's only one way these teenagers appeared out of nowhere. That boy with the flaming jacket and the metal girl must have..." he trailed off, then started spazzing, contorting into impossible positions as he shouted, "FAIRY GODPARENTS!"
"Uh, hello?" Ash asked, a sweatdrop forming on the back of his head.
"We can hear you." Jenny said, her eyebrow arched.
"Then I don't have to repeat myself!" the man said, his eyes widening as he had a "just-shy-of-batshit-insane" smile on his face.
"Crocker!" came a voice from behind Ash and Jenny, causing the two partners to turn their heads and notice Jimmy.
"Jimmy!" they both exclaimed.
"Turner!" the man known as Crocker said.
"Turner?" Ash and Jenny asked, getting confused.
"Jimmy." Jimmy corrected.
"Jimmy?" Crocker asked.
"Jimmy." Ash and Jenny said.
"Who's with the what, now?" came a voice none of them, aside from Jimmy, had heard before. It belonged to...
"A talking green cat with a crown on its head!" all but Jimmy and the cat exclaimed.
"FAIRIES!" Crocker shouted, before two men dressed entirely in white busted down the door and injected a needle into his buttocks. Crocker soon was in "La La Land", and the two men straight-jacketed him, dragging him out of the gymnasium.
"That went from 'weird' to 'What would happen if I took up smoking marijuana?'." Ash said, the sweatdrop on the back of his head growing in size.
"Totally." Jenny said, her eyebrow arched again.
"Anyway..." Ash said, turning around, "What are YOU doing here!"
"Sorry. I know I should have stayed in Retroville...but I have some business here." Jimmy explained.
"Oh yeah?" Jenny asked, interested in what Jimmy could possibly have to do here.
"Yes. That cat's one of the reasons I'm here."
The cat then transformed into a short, green-haired man with a crown on his head. That wasn't what shocked Ash and Jenny, though.
"Uhhh...that thing...it has WINGS." Ash said, pointing to him.
"Yep." Jenny said, staring at him.
"...Okay, who slipped me mind-altering drugs when I wasn't looking?" Ash said, his eyes narrowed down to slits.

Author's note:Dustin here once again. Hope you enjoy this episode. See what happens next episode, when...again, I am not spoiling it. All I can say is...stay tuned.