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Chapter 10

The Distortion World

The room was silent. Everyone was in shock as to what just happened to Ash, Danny and James. Pikachu was the first to break that silence. A knot formed in the yellow mouse's throat. His best friend was gone just like that. It was bad enough that Ash almost died more than once but this time it seemed like there was no way out.

"P-P-Pika-pi," he choked out. The tears in Pikachu's eyes slowly spilled out. "Chu-p-p-pi."

"He's gone," Dawn gasped. "Ash is really gone."

Team Phantom was just as shocked. Undergrowth was ashamed of himself since he wasn't able to hold onto his Trainer's boyfriend. Tucker looked at the alter where his best friend once stood. His mouth hung open like his Loudred. Jazz looked like she got rejected from every college in the region. She should have just gone on ahead to stop Vlad instead of waiting. Sam was the worst. She was practically hyperventilating. Her best friend and boyfriend was no longer with her. Her heart felt like it was shattered into a million pieces. The tears slowly fell from her violet eyes, down her cheeks and onto the floor.

Team Rocket just stood where they were, mouths wide open. How was Jessie supposed to carry out Giovanni's orders without James? Who would gang up on Meowth every time he made a mistake? It wouldn't be Team Rocket without James no matter how simple-minded he was. Their motto wouldn't be the same without him.

Vlad was shocked at the events that unfolded. Giratina was supposed to come out of the Door of the Distortion World. Instead it pulled Daniel and Ash in. He must have missed a step. He released a frustrated sigh. Now how was he supposed to get rid of Jack?

Sam heard Vlad's sigh and got up on her feet. "Undergrowth, use Vine Whip to tie up Vlad," she said, her voice void of any emotion. Vines shot out of Undergrowth and bound Vlad. The Grass-type Pokémon then slammed the billionaire into the wall, getting everyone's attention. "What. Did. You. Do. To. Them?" Sam asked through her gritted teeth. Her violet eyes were spilling tears onto her face.

Vlad just stared at them. "I did nothing of the sort," he lied. Undergrowth's vines tightened around him. Apparently, the Tangrowth was just as fond of Daniel as Ash and his friends were.

"Where is my baby brother?" Jazz asked in a shaky voice.

"What did you do to my best friend?" Tucker asked angrily.

Brock, Dawn, Pikachu, and Piplup marched over to Vlad as well. Pikachu growled at him, sparks flying off his damp cheeks from crying. Piplup looked like he was trying to keep himself from crying. His little beak lit up, ready to Peak the billionaire like no tomorrow.

"Where did you send them?" Brock growled.

"I didn't send them anywhere," Vlad replied. "Giratina took them to the Distortion World."

"How do we get them back?" Dawn asked angrily.

"That is where we hit a snag, my dear. See, they were supposed to bring Giratina into our world, not the other way around," Vlad explained.

Meowth suddenly scratched Vlad across the face. "Undo it now if you know what's good for you!" he ordered, ignoring Vlad's cries of pain.

"You said that you'd pay us as soon as the Twerps were out of the way!" Jessie yelled. "Getting James pulled in too was not part of the deal!"

That got everyone's attention. "YOU DID WHAT?!"

"Get mad at us later!" Meowth snapped. "Right now we want James back!"

"You kept your side of the bargain," said Vlad. "I was going to pay you as soon as I had Giratina in my clutches."

"Keep your stinkin' money," said Meowth. "Losing a team member was not part of the deal."

"Wobbu-Wobbu!" Wobbuffet agreed angrily.

~0~0~0~

Ash groaned as his eyes slowly opened. The last thing he remembered was being dragged by a black tentacle…thing into the Distortion World along with James and Danny.

Wait a second! Ash sat straight up and surveyed his surroundings. He certainly wasn't in Sinnoh anymore! He discovered he was sitting on an outcropping of rock in the middle of…where the heck was he? The sky was an unusual shade of green and black. Rocks were floating in the air. Where did Vlad send him?

Whimpering was heard below him. Ash looked down from the rock he was on and on another outcropping of rock was James curled up in a fetal position, whimpering in fear. He was staring at an unconscious body lying next to him. Ash immediately recognized it as Danny. Ash squinted and noticed that something was different about his friend. His usual pale skin was a little tanner and his raven-black hair was snow-white. It wasn't white like the time Spooky dyed it as a joke, this shade of white was like freshly fallen snow.

"Please don't be dead. Please don't be dead," James pleaded as he poked Danny's unconscious body.

"James?" The Team Rocket member looked up and saw Ash looking down at him.

"Twerp! There you are! Where the heck are we?!" James asked hurriedly. He then turned his attention to Danny. "Something's wrong with the Ghost Twerp! His hair is white again and he won't wake up!" Ash was surprised that James hadn't stolen Danny's Pokémon yet, but then again, in situations like these, stealing was usually the least of Team Rocket's concern.

"I think we're in the Distortion World," Ash assumed.

James released a fearful squeak. "The Distortion World?! Why did the author pick me to be kidnapped?"

"Probably because you're the only Team Rocket member who hasn't been kidnapped yet," Ash replied dully.

"Isn't the Distortion World home to…Giratina?" James whimpered.

Ash nodded and then jumped down to where Danny and James were. The Trainer tried to shake Danny awake. "Danny! Hey Danny! Wake up!" he pleaded. Danny groaned as he opened his eyes. Both Ash and James were shocked that Danny's usually icy blue eyes were now neon green.

"He's awake!" James exclaimed in joy but paused. "Why are his eyes like that?"

"W-What?" Danny asked groggily as he rubbed his eyes.

"Danny, you look totally different," said Ash.

Danny woke right up. "What?! What do you mean different?" he asked.

"Your eyes are green and your hair is white again," Ash replied.

Danny then noticed the whiteness at the top of his vision and brought his bangs closer to his face. Ash was right; his hair was white again. Now that Danny thought about it, his eyes felt different. They usually felt like this when he had his mind linked to his Pokémon's. That was enough to convince the teenager. He started hyperventilating at the revelation.

"So, how come the Ghost Twerp's appearance changed but not ours?" James asked his nemesis.

Ash thought long and hard on that. James was right for once; Danny was the only one whose appearance had changed. Suddenly it hit him. The Distortion World was, in a way, a Ghost World. Danny was the only one with ectoplasm in his system. It only made sense that only he would be affected by the Distortion World's atmosphere.

"I think it's because Danny has that Voice of the Spirits thing and we don't," Ash guessed.

"But don't you have that Sight-what-cha-ma-call-it?" asked James.

"The ability to see Aura, yeah," said Ash. "Although, I don't know why I was able to see it like that. It's never happened like that before."

A roar interrupted their conversation. A giant centipede-like Pokémon with those strange black tentacle-things on its back was approaching them. Danny managed to pull himself together but panicked when he heard Giratina's thoughts enter his mind.

"HUMANS! YOU HAVE THE VOICE! GIVE ME THE VOICE SO I CAN BE FREE!"

Knowing the giant Pokémon meant him, Danny grabbed Ash and James's wrists and started running. "Time to go!" he exclaimed as he dragged his friend and enemy from one rock to the next. Giratina was gaining on them. It destroyed every other rock outcropping Danny and the others were on.

"GIVE ME THE VOICE!"

"I'd rather not!" Danny yelled to the giant Dragon Pokémon.

"What's Giratina saying?" asked Ash.

"Bottom-line: it wants me!" Danny exclaimed.

"Couldn't we…distract it somehow?" said James.

"Thanks for volunteering," said Danny as he and Ash sped ahead.

James faltered a little but hearing Giratina roar again made him catch up with the boys. "Any other ideas besides throwing me into the lions' den?"

"We could fight it," said Danny. Both Ash and James looked at him in surprise. "If you guys have any other ideas, I'm all ears."

"I say we keep on running!" James exclaimed.

"We can't keep running forever!" Ash argued.

"We can try!"

The three kept running. Danny was thinking about what type advantages they had over Giratina. "If we weren't running for our lives, I'd remember what type Giratina is!" Danny yelled.

James pulled out a set of Pokédex cards and shuffled through them until he found what he was looking for. "Aha! Found it!" he exclaimed.

"What does it say?" Ash asked as they barely dodged an Ancient Power attack.

"Giratina is Ghost-type and Dragon-type," James read. The three of them hid behind a giant boulder to catch their breath.

"If that's the case, then we need Ice, Ghost, Ground and/or another Dragon-type Pokémon," said Danny. He pulled out a Pokéball. "Spectra is part Ice and part Ghost so we have one advantage."

"I have Gible and Torterra with me," said Ash. "Torterra is both Grass and Ground-type and Gible is both Ground and Dragon-type."

"That's three advantages," said Danny. They both looked at James, who was sweating nervously. "Don't you have any Pokémon that could fight to our advantage?" Danny asked the villain.

James sighed in defeat. "Unfortunately, no. I only have Carnivine and Mime Jr."

Ash wasn't going to let James sit on the sidelines. He and Team Rocket have had their differences but they always teamed up if things looked grim for both sides. "Doesn't Mime Jr. know Mimic?" Ash asked. "If Mime Jr. Mimics Giratina's attacks, it could work to our advantage."

"I never thought I'd say this but we need your help," Danny added.

James looked at Danny, then at Ash, then back at Danny. "And what are we supposed to do while our Pokémon fight? If that thing beats them then we're history!"

Neither of them thought of that. They had to figure out how to get back home without bringing Giratina with them. How were they going to contact the others if they were in a completely different dimension?

"FOUND YOU!" Giratina appeared out of nowhere and attacked the trio once again. Danny grabbed Ash's wrist and pulled him out of the way.

"That was close!"

Danny blinked at Ash. "I just heard your thoughts again!" he exclaimed.

Ash was also freaking out. The moment Danny grabbed his wrist, a grainy image of a room flashed in his mind. He couldn't tell who was in there but they had different colored Auras in different shapes and sizes. "I saw something weird," he noted.

James felt like he was being left out of something important and didn't like it one bit. "Would one of you please explain what is going on here?!" he yelled impatiently.

"I don't know," said Danny. "But I have an idea. James, you stand guard and let us know if Giratina is nearby. Ash, give me your hands." Ash held his hands out and Danny grabbed Ash's wrists.

Both boys felt a reaction. The gritty room appeared in Ash's mind again and Danny somehow got an image of it. Both boys let go. "What the heck was that?" Ash asked in astonishment.

Danny thought long and hard until he came up with an answer. "Here's what I think: Whenever we make physical contact with each other, we're linked to each other's thoughts."

"But we already know that," Ash remarked.

"But I also think we're also linked to the Griseous Orb as well," Danny said seriously. "When I linked with your mind a second time just now, did you see a gritty picture of a room with different colored balls of fire?"

"Those were Auras," said Ash.

"So you saw it too," Danny clarified. "I'm thinking that when the Griseous Orb reacted when we touched it, it became our link to the outside world. You're the eyes and I'm the voice and ears. It's just like Vlad said. You're the Sight and I'm the Voice! I think we can communicate with the others if we did what we did before." He then blinked as he realized what he just said. "Wow. I can't believe I came up with that theory. Then why do I have a C average?"

"We need to keep moving!" James exclaimed as Giratina used Shadow Force to get closer to the trio. They started running again just seconds before Giratina showed up again and smashed the rock they were standing on just moments ago. "Why is it after the Ghost Twerp?"

"It said that it needed me to set it free," Danny said as the three of them ran from rock to rock.

"Why does it need you?" Ash asked Danny.

"I don't know! Maybe I'm the only one who can open that fancy door or something," guessed Danny.

"But we both opened that door together," Ash argued.

"Where is that door anyway?" asked James.

"As soon as we lose Pariah Dark again, we'll figure that out," Danny answered.

"Pariah Dark?"

"That's what Giratina was known as long ago."

~0~0~0~

Maddie and Jack were running through the halls of the mansion with Bullet, Aragon, and Vulture chasing them.

"Why are they chasing us?" Jack asked his wife as they ran past the library. "All I did was offer Bullet some Fenton Jerky! If Vlad's other Pokémon wanted some they could have asked!"

"Vlad seriously needs to control them!" Maddie exclaimed as she dodged a Dragon Pulse. "And where are Danny and his friends?"

Jack ducked his head as Bullet fired a BubbleBeam at him. "Wherever they are, I hope it's better than where we are!"

"Vlad better be keeping an eye on them," muttered Maddie.

Vulture flew in front of them, blocking their path. Jack frowned and pulled out a Fenton Ball. "No talk! Action!" he exclaimed. He then threw his Fenton Ball into the air. "Munchlax! Front and center!" A chubby bipedal cat-like Pokémon appeared.

"Munchlax!" it cried.

Maddie decided to follow suit and pulled out a Great Ball. "Rotom! Help Munchlax!" she ordered as she threw it into the air. A tiny lightning-shaped Pokémon appeared next to Munchlax in a flash of light.

Both husband and wife looked at each other and smiled before charging into battle. "CHAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGE!"

So, for those wondering why James was pulled into the Distortion World with Danny and Ash was because (as Ash said) he hasn't been kidnapped at all in a crisis (and I mean in the movies). Jessie was captured in the fourth movie. Meowth was kidnapped by Mew in 'Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'. So, why not James?

More is coming...as soon as I find free time to work on this some more! Until then, REVIEW!