Battle Between Old Partners
Kibou and Plush are in the entertainment center. Kibou has switched to playing "Powerslave" on the Sega Saturn. In-game, Kibou is shooting strange monsters with a machine gun. Plush doesn't like the way these monsters look. "Why is this game so scary…" Kibou gets distracted from this and accidentally jumps into a bluish yellow laser and all of his health is drained away instantly, all 600 points of health gone in an instant. The screen goes red and the sound of someone dying in a bloody-ish manner is heard as the screen slowly fades to black. The level restarts and Kibou sighs. "Darn… I almost had it too."
He pauses the game, goes to the "Quit game" option and selects it before using his psychic power to turn the system off. After that, he places the controller on the ground and looks around. "Guess there's not much to do when there are only a few of my friends here…" Plush adds. "Yeah… I mean, I am usually playing with mommy right now… but since she isn't here…" Kibou looks at him. An idea enters his mind but he doesn't say anything about it to Plush. A playful spark appears in his eyes and he floats off the couch and into the main hall. "Kibou, where are you going?" Plush follows Kibou. Kibou looks back and answers. "I dunno. I wanna play but I don't know who to play with."
Plush speaks. "Yeah… I can't really play with anyone here… Azelf is busy with her siblings I think… I barely know Celery, I mean Celebi… Giratina is just… what is his deal? Arceus is busy and would not wanna play anyhow… Palkia and Dialga scare me… and the walking hedge thinks I am creepy…" Kibou stops in the middle of the hall and softly lands on his feet. "I dunno then. Dialga and Palkia throw me around sometimes and I love it, Giratina takes me to the distortion world so I can see how crazy cool it is in there, Azelf usually plays video games with me, Celebi gives me flowers to plant on my island every once in a while, Arceus would sometimes go swimming with me when she's free, and Jirachi would help me set up pranks for the future." he then makes a pouty face and crosses his arms. "Nobody else is free right now because they're all doing their own things! I don't like this!"
"What is up with you and pranks?" Plush asks, not sure why he's so interested in them. Kibou smiles. "When you prank someone, it's always funny as long as nobody gets hurt. Last prank I did ended up with a whole bunch of legends covered in ice cream and sugar… it was so funny that I almost fainted. There was one small catch… and that it made a huge mess and I had to clean it up, but that was okay since I ate it all off the floor!" Plush is slightly disgusted. "First off, eww… second, if you tried that on me I would knock you out."
Kibou sees that last statement as his way of making that idea in his head come to life. "Are you sure about that?" he has a playful yet teasing tone. Confident, Plush responds. "I am positive about that." Kibou looks at him, an odd look encompassing his face. His eyes become soft yet mischievous and his voice gets higher and more playful. "Are you really sure?" Plush becomes suspicious. "Why? Are you planning something?" Kibou leans in closer to him, now floating. "Hmmm…. None of my friends wanna play. I wanna play with someone. You're here and next to me…" he eagerly looks at Plush now. "What are you implying?" Kibou activates his Mewkokin at the lowest power and flies back into the air, looking at Plush with one eye while the other is closed. "I dunno. What do you think?" his tone is still playful.
Plush is confused by his weird behavior. "I still have no idea…" Kibou deactivates his Mewkokin and floats down, disappointed. "Awww… why does everyone else know what I mean but you?" He floats back down to the ground as Plush explains. "Probably because I have not lived in the Hall of Origin and have instead been living in a home in a good part of Sinnoh where I have done nothing related to legends for a few years, and have instead, lived my life as a house pet." Kibou understands partially. "Oh well… Guess I'll go look around the mountain for that hot spring that Groudon said resides up here."
It is at this moment that Arceus comes out of her room and notices the two little Pokemon. "Ah, well look at this, Kibou and Plush! I was just about to go ask some of the other legends if they wanted to come with me for shopping, but I can only bring 3 Pokemon with me and I thought I heard that Azelf and Shaymin wanted to go, but I could also be mistaken. Regardless, do either of you want to come?"
Kibou immediately shoots his paw up in the air, jumping up and down in a excited fashion. "I do I do I do! Count me in!" he is too hyper right now. Plush is confused about someone. "Who is Shaymin again?" Kibou starts giggling, covers his mouth, and speaks into his paws. "Shaymin is the one who you hugged by accident." he continues to giggle childishly. This makes Plush nervous. "O-oh… u-uhh A-Arceus… if I-I go, can I be in y-your cart?" Arceus raises an eyebrow. "That's a rather strange request… I don't see what's wrong with it though! If I may ask though, why?" "U-umm w-well I-I c-cuddled Shaymin…" Arceus closes her eyes. "And you think she might not be okay with being near you." She opens her eyes and smiles. "I understand. It's only natural if that's the case." Kibou teases and whispers to her, but does it way too loud. "Or maybe he likes her?"
Plush whimpers at this, "Kibou no…" The Mew turns back to him, floats right up next to him and puts his arm around him. "I'm only kidding, but it looks like you're gonna have to stay behind because I told her I'd go first!" Plush insists. "Well I wanna go still… I always go shopping with mommy…" Arceus begins thinking. "Quite the dilemma we have here. I can't take the two of you at the same time because I need to keep tabs on everyone. You never know if something could go wrong and the more legends I have to look after, the harder it'll be to keep everyone in sight." she starts thinking. "How to go about solving this problem…?" Plush tells her something to assure her. "I am a good vee… I won't leave your sight since I will be strapped to the seat…"
Arceus smiles. "I know that, but if I bring both of you, I still have to keep an eye on Kibou, Azelf, and Shaymin. Not to mention I can't leave you if I have to go get something either. I don't know what to do about this… do either of you have a solution?" Kibou shrugs, his mind is elsewhere. Plush is just as empty on ideas. "I dunno…" Kibou suddenly lights up. "Ah! I got it!" he claps his paws together once and turns to Plush, a bright look in his eye. "If we play, maybe the one who wins will be the one that goes!" Plush still doesn't know what he means. "What are you talking about?! How does playing solve this?!" Arceus chuckles at Plush's lack of understanding. "Plush, he doesn't mean to play, as in with toys or like a video game. He means something completely different… what we call 'a Battle', that's what he really means."
He becomes tense. "A b-battle? I haven't battled in a year…" Kibou nods. "Yeah yeah! It'll be like old times! Besides, we're not gonna hurt each other, I know it! It'll be loads of fun, and you'll get a little bit of practice out of it too! C'mon, are you gonna play or not?" he's overexcited. Plush isn't so sure. "B-but… I haven't even battled since the last big one we had… I can't… not unless I can somehow use my ability…" Kibou floats back, and for the first time in a while, he uses a Mewkokin with a multiplier above 10. The whole main hall is battered by an outflow of steady wind. That familiar crimson aura covers Kibou and gives him a fierce look. He speaks, a false tone of ferocity in it. "I'm gonna beat you up! You small ball of fluffy…. Err…. I don't know, but you're gonna get beat up!" he is doing this in an attempt to invoke Plush's ability.
"Wanna have an unpleasant experience? Because, if you really wanna beat me up you are not gonna enjoy your final moments of consciousness…" It worked, Plush's ability had activated. Kibou becomes hyped up. "I can't wait!" Arceus teleports herself, Kibou, and Plush into the Colosseum for the battle. She then states the rules. "Alright you two! Anything goes in this battle except that Kibou, you can't use the Primordial Power form, and you can't kill each other, but I know you two won't do that! The first one to faint loses! Have fun you two!" she then teleports off the battlefield and into the stands to watch them carefully and make sure nobody accidentally kills each other.
Kibou stares down Plush and deactivates his Mewkokin. He's so excited and can't contain it. "Man, it's been so long since I played with someone! I can't sit still!" He fidgets in place. "DRAW" Plush pulls his gun that he keeps in his tail fluff, spinning it before firing a single shot straight at his the Mew's head. Kibou waits until the last absolute moment to act, and catches the bullet in between his fingers on his paw, smiling. "This makes me remember some bad memories… like being shot in the head with that mean gun when I was a bad Mew." he tosses the bullet aside as if it was nothing. "What the-?" he can't comprehend how Kibou managed to do that.
Playfully, Kibou exclaims. "It's my turn now!" and starts flying towards Plush, but flips back right before he gets to Plush's face, faking him out. He then teleports behind him and throws him up into the air, but not using any of his moves yet. Plush launches a 'Shadow Ball' towards Kibou. Kibou giggles, punches it and sends it right back to Plush. Plush is hit, but because Normal types don't get hurt by Ghost type attacks, it does nothing. He lands on the ground and the two seem to stare each other down. One of these two Pokemon isn't taking this seriously, while the other seems to be fighting for his life.
Kibou rubs under his nose. "Not bad. Now let me try!" he puts his paws to his left hip and quickly charges up 'Ancestral Burst' and launches it at Plush. Plush dodges the attack and hits him with a 'Tackle'. It knocks him out of the air and onto the ground, but he does a backflip onto his feet.
-46 HP. 2655/2701 HP
Kibou is smiling, not a care in the world despite the fact that he could be beaten by Plush. "That tickles… but I won't let you get away with tickling me!" he uses 'Clawbreaking Assault' and near flash-teleports in front of Plush. His claws appear and he goes to swipe at him. Plush also dodges this and uses 'Iron Tail' on Kibou. Kibou counters it with his attack and they both lock each other in place, one trying to push the other over and stagger them. The Mew begins giggling again. Plush then trips Kibou over with his back paw. This proves to be useless as Kibou takes this momentum and flies over Plush and lands behind him. He charges up 'Fireyushin' this time and quickly steps to face him and lets loose the fiery attack.
A gout of flames barrel towards Plush, hot as can be with a center filled with small explosions. Plush jumps out of this but barely, sweat is now coming from his head. Kibou now ups the heat and grabs the sword off his back. "I've been trying to not use it as often, but I just can't-" Plush doesn't let him finish as he knocks the sword out of his hand with Iron Tail. "I guess your attention on me wasn't too sharp huh? Heh, heh, heh…" The sword goes flying to the other side of the colosseum. Plush watches as it falls into one of the stands, but disappears right before falling into it. Kibou takes the moment to throw a snarky comeback. "While my attention isn't so sharp, you fail to understand one thing… my sword comes back to me if it gets thrown far away from me. So no matter what, even if you throw it away, I still have the edge in this battle." He then infuses his sword with two types, Fighting and Ice. He swings it by his side and then rushes at Plush.
Right before he swings, he begins rapidly teleporting around him at a speed to great to follow. "Where am I? Am I over here? no, I'm here! ahahaha! Can't catch me!" Plush can't keep up with Kibou's teleporting and becomes dizzy. Seeing this dizziness, he stops teleporting and floats up in front of him and lightly presses the sword against Plush's chest, dealing exactly 1 point of damage.
-1 Hp. 0/1 HP
Plush faints. However, Kibou hops right into action. Sheathing his sword, he grabs Plush and takes him over to Arceus where she revitalizes him. Both Pokemon didn't sustain serious damage and with the battle over, Kibou turned out to be the winner. Teleporting back into the main hall, Plush wakes up, confused as to how they got back there. "Ugh… my head… I feel so dizzy… what happened?" Kibou answers. "I got you. I managed to beat you." "Beat me? What do you mean?" Kibou explains. "We were playing and I managed to beat you. You couldn't keep up and I defeated you with ease." "Oh…" he says, disappointed at the fact that he lost to Kibou of all Pokemon. Arceus nods. "You both battled quite well, although I do have to ask, why do you have a gun hiding in your tail?" His cheeks become red."Oh shoot… I forgot to take it out when I came here… Don't tell me I shot my last bullet, did I?" Kibou, who managed to retrieve the bullet at some point during the battle, hands it to him. "You made me remember bad memories by using it…" He gives him a anxious smile. "Sorry about that… Kibou… can you do me a favor?" Kibou is curious. "Sure, whaddya need?" Plush presents Kibou with his gun after putting the safety on, "Would you mind bringing me and this home?" The Mew takes the gun gently and nods. "No problemo!" he wraps his tail around the gun to hold it, puts his right paw on Plush's head, and places two fingers between his eyes and teleports to Emma's home.
They end up at Emma's house. She, not expecting anyone, is slightly startled by the Mew and Eevee teleporting in front of her. Kibou nonchalantly greets her. "Hiyya!" Plush is happy to see her. "Mommy~" he jumps towards her for a hug. She catches him in a hug. "My sweetvee! What are you doing here?" He tells her. "I forgot I had my gun in my tail." Emma gives him a worried look. "You didn't shoot anyone by accident, did you?" Kibou interjects. "He used it on me, but I caught the metal thingy and threw it away." Emma looks at Plush, disappointment in her face. "Plush, I told you to be careful with that thing." she then notices that Kibou has it. "May I have that so it doesn't accidentally wound someone?" "For the record it is now unloaded and on safe. Mainly because it was my last bullet, also I was in Sudden Guts, and I was about to put it away when the doorbell rang yesterday!"
Kibou floats over to her and gives her the gun. He comments on it. "I don't like that thing. It's mean and makes me remember bad things…" Plush apologises to Emma. "I'm sorry mommy…" She's okay with it. "It's fine, as long as you didn't hurt anyone. Don't you two have to be somewhere right now though?" "Yeah, I just wanted to see you again… I love you… I will try to come back often to see you..." He jumps out of her arms and walks over to Kibou. He puts a paw on his head and the two fingers between his eyes and teleports back to the hall.
PD: "Two uploads in one week?" Is what you probably are saying? Well, I say that I hope it makes up for the lack of substance from the last 3 weeks. A fun chapter none-the-less. Next few chapters are gonna turn the heat up for some characters. See ya in the next upload