KawaiiGameFreak: Hey! Sorry for the wait, just got Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and it's danm addicting! I'm a todtodile; that means I'm optimistic, slightly insane, hyper active…
Link: You needed a personality quiz to tell you that?
KGF:…anyway, on to more important matters. Regarding the .5 chapter I mentioned last chapter (to be named "Origins"), I will not be making a .5 chapter; since after much thought it was deemed too long for one chapter. Instead, I'll be making a side story on deviantArt once the main series is finished. As for what will happen now that we're all super pokémon, I can't tell you exactly, but rest assured, Team Rocket won't be involved (this story has far too many corny jokes already). Enjoy!
"And my feet can't stay on the ground any longer, with every leap of faith I feel a little stronger."-Unknown Artist, 'Kiki's Delivery Service'
Chapter 10: Start of a Journey, Start of Chaos
MEWTWO'S POV
Everything was still spinning inside my head. I hoped that when I awoke the next morning, everything would be back to normal, and Laura would still be human. It wasn't that I disliked her new form, she was still as beautiful as ever, but I'd still prefer her human side. The whole thing did answer a lot of questions, yet left so many to be answered. I slowly opened my eyes, still praying for the past day to be a dream. She wasn't there. I yawned groggily and got up looking for her. The edge of the sun was just peaking over the horizon, so it was a shock for her to be awake, let alone up. I glanced out the window and saw her, still non-human, just sitting on the railing of the deck doing absolutely nothing. She wasn't watching anything as no one else was up to my understanding, she didn't have any form of electronics; she was just sitting there, tail absent mindedly swishing back and forth. I quietly stepped out onto the deck and approached her. "What are you doing?"
"Mental preparation." She responded, still not turning around.
"For what?" She turned her head at me and smirked.
"For this." Out of nowhere she stood up and jumped off the deck. I raced over to the edge of the deck to see her struggling to fly. She was flapping her newly obtained wings like crazy and twisting in every direction imaginable. I could hear her telling herself to keep trying, keep going, don't look down. She was determined to fly at just about any cost. I wanted to help, I hated seeing her struggle, but I knew she wanted to try, I knew she wanted to learn this herself. I heard yelling and shouts of encouragement from below. I turned my gaze to everyone assembled by the pool. They all woke up early to watch her, and I slept in. After about half a minute of struggling, her wings stopped and she plummeted to the earth. It was a good thing there was a pool right where she crashed. I floated over to the pool and joined the crowd of people, waiting for her to emerge. Ever so slowly, a shape rose up from the depths of the pool and took her form. She was extremely tired gasping for breath. I pulled her out, with help from the others, and held her. "…how…far…was…that…?" She managed to say between pants. Sakura ran to the deck, took out a measuring tape and ran back to the pool.
"20 meters."
"Yes!" She held her arms in the air weakly. "A new record!"
"You tired this before?"
"Yup." Laura nodded proudly. "I was up since 2AM trying to fly; so far…it's not going all that well." It was only then that I noticed two large bruises on her right arm, one on her tail and a huge one on her left leg.
"You were up at 2AM?" This had come as a total surprise. The earliest she's ever got up by her own will was six thirty. Not only had the hour of this training, but the effort of this training shocked me. This was the absolute hardest I've ever seen her work judging from the bruises. What else had this new form done to her?
"I know, weird eh? But I just, felt like I needed to do this. Besides, these wings aren't just for show; I gotta use 'um sometime." She turned to Alecia and Ashley. "Why aren't you guys trying out your powers?"
"I'm already super strong. Check these babies out." The wolf beast proudly flexed her muscles as a new Falcon was born. "I don't need training."
"I don't even want powers!" Alecia yelled as though offended.
"Come on guys! This could be cool. We could be like…super heroes! Maybe we'll get our own movie, or TV show, or video game, or….something else really cool that I can't think of now. Not to mention we could kick serious ass in the tournament."
"Tournament?"
"Yea, the Smash Tournament. I figure once I learn to use my powers, I stand a decent chance of placing in the top ten, maybe even the top five." Now she was talking more crazy then usual.
"Before you embark on such endeavors, consider these few facts that may hinder you." Artimus butted in. "One, you have only obtained your powers within twenty four hours; you are nowhere near ready to enter such a contest of strength. Two, if I remember correctly, you have no access to said tournament." I could tell she was mentally slapping her forehead.
"Right! Alecia destroyed the portal." Laura continued to glare at Alecia.
"What? If Ryan had shut up I wouldn't have gotten so pissed and burn the house down."
"Don't go blaming this on me!" Soon everyone was yelling and blaming each other for the destruction of the portal.
"KINDLY SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!" Everyone stared at Artimus, who until now showed no form of emotion. "Thank you. I cannot stand listening to your constant yelling; if you squabbled any longer I might have gone deaf. To shed some light on the situation at hand, the house of the portal, your Gamecube, was indeed destroyed, but the portal was not." We were all in shock. "If the house of the portal is destroyed, the door returns to the place where it first opened." I pondered this for a short moment and began to give an explanation.
"That means…"
"WOOT! We're going back to Newfoundland!" Laura jumped up and cheered wildly.
"Correct. In this case, we should pack our things and head out soon if you wish to enter."
"Wait a sec." Laura gained the attention of the group. "Don't you see what this means?" Silence. "This is our chance! When we get to the portal, no one can follow us, no one can stop us, we won't have to take responsibility for our actions. We can do whatever we want! These days are our last on Earth, we should celebrate and do all the things we never could do! Who's with me?"
"HELL YA!" Ryan hollered. The crowd joyfully followed suit. I on the other hand was worried. Even without powers she was a menace. This wasn't going to end well. Something was gonna blow up.
INSIDE
LAURA'S POV
This was the awsomest day ever! First we get to go back to Newfoundland and now we get to do whatever we what! "What should we do first?"
"I know!" Ryan jumped up and ran to the phone. We all crowded around him and waited for the other end to pick up. "I've been waiting to do this forever."
"Welcome to McJosh's. May I take your order?" The overly perky woman on the other end chimed.
"You're pranking McJosh's?" I whispered in surprise. McJosh's was a fast food restaurant in Rick's. With its overly perky staff, grease soaked food and annoying squirrel mascot, McJosh's was where social lives go to die. Anyone who worked there was considered a freak. On top of all that, was the boss and owner of McJosh's, Billy. Billy was everything people hated about their bosses times infinity. He was stingy, cheerful to the point of hurling and blissfully oblivious to the misery of his employees. I used to work there for extra money. I quit last year, yet Billy still calls me every month asking why I'm not coming in to work. No one had prank called McJosh's in over ten years. The last poor soul to do so got tracked down and the BEEP kicked outta him by Billy. "Good luck man, I'll make sure you get a nice funeral."
"No sweat. Billy won't dare kick my butt. I've got the super powerful Mewthree on my side."
"Stop calling me that! But you do make an excellent point."
"Hello? Sir? Are you still there?"
"Oh right! Very sorry about that miss." I nearly cracked at how sincere Ryan sounded. "I'm looking for someone. Is there a there? First name Al?"
"Let me check. Excuse me! Is there a Mr. Coholic here? Al Coholic. Is there an Al Coholic here?" Everyone at Mica's house along with everyone at McJosh's was cracking up laughing. "Sorry, there's no Al Coholic here."
"That's alright." Ryan managed to say between fits of laughter. "There's someone else I'm looking for. Would you see if a mister Hugh Jass is there now?"
"Ok. Is there a mister Hugh Jass in the building? Hugh Jass?" The guys nearly pissed themselves in laughter.
"I can't believe that you are behaving so childishly." Artimus droned disapprovingly.
"I agree." Mewtwo plainly stated. "You should spend you time doing something useful instead of crank calling a fast food place."
"Come on, you gotta admit this is funny. Here let me try." I snatched the phone away from Ryan and listed of the funniest names in my useless knowledge file. After I'd listed of the names, she naively read them out to everyone at the restaurant.
"Ok, is there a mister Seymour Butts? I. P. Freely? Ivanna Tinkle? Harry Arse? Amanda Huginkiss? Mike Rotch?..." We were rolling on the floor with laughter.
"Hear that Ryan? She actually believes us?" I couldn't believe it. "How stupid can you get?"
"Wait a second," We stopped laughing, Billy was on the phone. His voice was deep and harsh, despite his attempt to sound cheerful. "This wouldn't happen to be one of them prank calls, would it?" His tone dropped dangerously. Ryan snatched the phone from me nervously.
"No, of course not. No one would ever dare to crank call you."
"What about your lady friend? I heard a girl's voice in there to. Where might she be?"
"He was listening in?!" This wasn't good. Billy may be twenty five and fat as a pig, but he could pack a whopper punch. Then I thought, he can't touch me, we wouldn't dare touch me, cuz I'm the super powerful Mewthree. Ryan was right. "Ya know what Billy? You are a royal arse." You could feel the heat from his anger through the phone line. "And if you wanna fight, I'll come down there and beat that royal arse of yours in!"
"Fine. Come down here and I'll give these good folks a show." He hung up.
"Well that went well…ARE YOU TOTALLY OFF YOUR HEAD?"
"Ryan-san is right." Sakura quietly stated. "If you go down there looking like you are, people will photograph you and video tape you. You'll be all over the news and privacy will be a thing of the past. In other words, this is not a good idea." Sakura was right. If I went down there, news crews from every province would swarm to Rick's. We'd have to go into hiding, and that would suck.
"Contrary to your belief, going down to this, McJosh's place wouldn't be a problem, provided that you chance forms." Stunned silence fell. "Did I forget to mention that you could change forms at will?"
"Yes." Everyone chimed. But this was pretty cool. Now I could be like a super hero. Sometimes I could be the mild mannered Laura, but when trouble strikes, I'll transform into Mewthree and save the day! Dorky, I know, but pretty cool when you think about it.
"Then how come I'm still a fricken horse?!" Alecia wailed. "I've wanted to change back ever since I became this so why isn't it working!!!???" Anyone with half a brain could tell she was pissed off.
"Because you never knew you could."
"Well that doesn't make any sense."
"Frankly," Link remarked, "none of this does." After a long silence, Alecia spoke up.
"So how do you change forms again?"
"It's quite simple actually. Just shut your eyes and picture yourself in human form, then voila, you're human again." It sounded simple enough, but I still was unsure of the whole thing. I closed my eyes and focused. It was working! I could feel my body start to change. My wings and tail disappeared and I shrank down to my human height of 5' 7. I felt so small now, so weak and powerless. I opened my eyes. Everyone was about my height now, adding to the feeling of smallness. They just stared at me, not saying a word.
"Wa? Did you expect a big anime-esque transformation scene?" Still no sounds were heard. But judging from Ryan's nose bleed, it wasn't good. I quickly closed my eyes and changed back. "…no one…say…a word…got it?" They all nodded nervously. "Good. Now if you excuse me, I have to get ready." I ran into my room to get ready for my little trip to McJosh's (the girls had figured out how to change forms by then). I came out a half hour later, and once again, I was greeted by awkward stares.
"Um…why are you…"
"Don't question my method. I've always wanted to do this so let's go!" I was half way out the door when a mini van pulled up in front of the house. The door opened and Cameron came out. In the midst of all this, I'd forgotten that Cameron went over to a friend's house last night.
"Thanks for the ride Miss…Laura why are you…?" He stopped and stared at me. I was gonna have to get used to that.
"I have my reasons Cameron, now…" I paused. "Ya know what I just realized? I'm not related to you!" He was still confused. "If I'm a clone of Artimus, that means I can't have any brothers or sisters!"
"A clone of who? What are you talking about?" He was at his friend's house all day yesterday, so he missed the whole explanation.
"I'm not responsible for you so that means I don't have to bring you to the tournament!" He was still confused as ever. "But what will I do with you?" I pondered out loud. "Oh oh! I know! I know!" I grinned evilly. This was going to be fun.
ARKARM ASYLUM
CAMERON'S POV
"Ok buster, in ya get." They threw me into a room, coated in pads and no hope of escape.
"But I swear! My sister really is a clone! She said so herself!"
"Sure pal, my sister's dating a mutant demi-god from another dimension."
"Mine is to!" The two men in white lab coats turned to each other and laughed. "You've gotta believe me! I'm not crazy!" They slammed the door in my face. "Well this stinks."
"Cameron? Is that you?" I turned around to see Mom and Dad in straight jackets (like me). "Oh sweetie! We thought we'd never see you again. I'd hug you but…I'm wearing a magic jacket. It's pretty!" Mom went on jabbering on about frogs and pie.
"Ignore your mother, son. What were you saying about your sister?"
"She told me that she's a clone of this thing called Artimus and she's dating a mutant cat with physic powers."
"Really? I always thought she was dating the Easter Bunny…"
"No, you're thinking of Big Foot, dear…or was it Alf…?"
"…GET ME OUTTA HERE!"
OUTSIDE MCJOSH'S
LAURA'S POV
"Are you sure you want to go through with this, Laura-san?"
"Of course, it's too late to turn back now anyway." Only the humans showed up this time. Mew was in no mood to change their forms. Maybe it was the fact that she now had an unoffical daughter-in-law. I walked into the near empty building. It looked like a typical fast food place. A few tables here and there, a fat fryer in the back, acne coated staff no younger then sixteen and Billy. He was waiting for me at the door, glaring evilly as we entered. The dozen or so people there stared at me awkwardly, trying to hold back laughter. Billy seemed even more pissed then ever.
"Hey lady! Can't you read the sign?" He pointed over to a large sign on the front door. It read the fast food motto, "No shirt, no shoes, no service", to which I smirked proudly and replied…
"You never said anything about pants." That's right; I was walking around McJosh's in my underwear. I did my best catwalk as Ryan (and a few other guys) whistled and howled. Everyone else looked traumatized. "Aren't I sexy?" I strutted up to Billy, who was frozen in place, and pushed him over. "Now, what where you saying about a fight?" He spat out random jibber jabber. "Well? Whadaya say?" He snapped out of it rather quickly and jumped to his feet.
"Look lady, if yer not going to take this seriously then…" By then we had walked out. "GET BACK HERE!" He came rushing at me, but I quickly put up a shield and he bounced off, his fat ass acting as an airbag. I turned to Ashley.
"Look familiar?"
"…Shut up, Laura." I turned my gaze to Billy. He looked like he just saw a ghost. His eyes where the size of cats and his face was white as a bed sheet, not to mention he BEEPED himself.
"Wha-wha…what the hell are you?" The people in the restaurant all were pressed up against the window to see me. I felt like a celebrity, except for the fact that they feared me like Satin. I was at a crossroad. I could change form and show them my awsomeness, or I could be mysterious and keep the human form, just use the powers. I decided for option two.
"I'm your worst nightmare." I walked away. Billy promptly fainted. I was about to head home when, I saw it. Next to the drive-in, wearing a white and blue striped apron and hair net (the uniform of McJosh's), was Josh. Josh was the buck-toothed squirrel mascot of McJosh's, and I hated his guts. It wasn't the giddy smile or even the overall goofyness of Josh, it was his voice. Everyone who's driven through the drive-in knows about his voice, the overly preppy high pitched voice that says the same phrase over and over again, "Welcome to McJosh's. May I take your order?". "You don't mind if I have some fun with Josh, do ya?" The quivering pile of flesh that was Billy shook his head vigorously. "Good." I walked over to Josh. The massive ten foot tall squirrel continued to smile merrily, oblivious to its fate. I shut my eyes, put my arms out and focused. I could feel power growing inside me, a great overwhelming feeling.
Then, Josh blew up.
I opened my eyes to find that the head had been blown off and was now soaring overhead. The body was on fire, the tail fell off and his chest was melting. It wasn't a pretty sight. Then, as soon as it had gone up, Josh's head came down with a thunderous crash. I just stood still for a moment, admiring my work. "Man I've always wanted to do that!" I did a small victory dance while my friends looked on muttering "I don't know her" under their breaths. The sound of a cell phone brought me back to Earth.
"Hello? 911? Yea, I've got this mutant on my property. She just blew up my squirrel and nearly killed me. Send help right away. I'm at McJosh's at 12 Mayor Street, Rick's and…Rick's is right outside of Calgary…you take a left and…" I grabbed the cell phone from Billy's hand and snapped it in half.
"You call no one, got it?" He took the fetal position and quivered like a mound of Jell-O. I turned to the group. "Don't worry, no one's gonna believe a mutant showed up and blew up Josh. Heck, no one even knows where Rick's is!"
Famous. Last. Words.
THUNDERS' POV
"I hope they get back soon." Everyone was worried. They'd been gone for almost two whole hours.
"You don't think she's gone and done something brainless like expose her powers?" Artimus pondered. Everything went quiet.
"Knowing her," Mewtwo glanced at the clock anxiously "yes." The doorbell rang. "I wonder who that could be." He got up and opened the door. Laura was there, looking like she ran all the way home.
"Hurry! Shut the door!" Everyone ran inside and the door was slammed shut. Before we could ask what happened, Mica answered.
"She blew up a squirrel! It was really cool! It head was all like, BOOM! And its body was melting and it looked like wax and it was so cool and now we're in trouble." Her voice dropped at the last part. This wasn't good. Laura was running around like a chicken with its head cut off muttering gibberish.
"Bus! We need a bus, now! We need to leave, now!"
"But I thought we weren't leaving till tomorrow." Peach spoke up.
"There's no time to wait! We're wanted by the FBI, the CIA, hell; we're wanted by Ghost Busters!"
"Can we just have a few minutes to pack?" Mica questioned.
"Ok, ten minutes, that's all, then we need to get the heck outta here!" Everyone ran into their rooms and packed. Peach came out with a gigantic suitcase. "That's your luggage?"
"Oh this? That's just my travel purse. My luggage is over there." She pointed to three suitcases, each bigger then the last.
"ONE SUITCASE PER PERSON!" Laura yelled. She yelled a lot. Peach reluctantly put back the other three suitcases.
"I'm coming to!" Mica came racing down the stairs with a suitcase. "I wanna come to! A road trip sounds like fun!" Laura looked skeptical.
"You do realize that once we get to where we're going, we won't be coming back. We'll be leaving for another dimension and living there." She nodded.
"I know. I still wanna come. I don't wanna be all alone again. I had no friends before, now I got lots of friends! I even have a boyfriend!" She picked me up and kissed me on the cheek. "Am I allowed to come with you? Please!" Laura smiled.
"Ok, you can come with us." Mica jumped happily in circles.
"Hold on a second," Mewtwo interrupted the happy moment. "If she's coming with us, where's she going to live?"
"She can live with Thunders if she wants." Mewtwo didn't look too happy. I mean, he never looks happy; he just looked grumpier then usual. "Where does Thunders live anyway?"
"With me." Laura looked surprised. "Thunders lives with me." Mica was even happier now.
"Now we can all be one big happy family!"
"Just want I want, more annoyances." Laura elbowed him in the ribs.
"Come on, it'll be fun. All you do is sulk around anyway, you need to be around people. All that aside, we need a bus…Mewtwo, teleport us to the bus depot please" He muttered something about being a taxi service and closed his eyes. In a flash we all disappeared, then reappeared at the bus depot. It was full of busses; mostly school busses and a few with DRL on the side in big letters. Laura stopped and turned to Alecia. "You still remember how to highjack one of these?" She glared at Laura.
"I'm only highjacking it if it's awesome." We ran to the nearest bus and went in. It was huge! It had about fifty seats, ten TV sets (five per aisle), a DVD player, a satellite radio; the chairs even had cup holders! "…ok…it's awesome." Alecia got under the dashboard and stared playing around with the wires.
"Since when did you know how to highjack a bus?" Ryan asked.
"Don't ask." He shrugged his shoulders and sat down.
"I can't believe we have to travel across the whole country!" Peach whined.
"It's not the whole country, just from Alberta to Newfoundland, which is…whoa…that's just about all the way across Canada. Any who, this is going to be a great road trip! Yeah! Just like the one we had four years ago! We'll sing driving songs, and play the license plate game, and…"
"I wasn't on the last road trip." Meta Knight said. "Tell me, how was it?" Link was silent for a moment.
"Let me put it like this, kiss your sanity good-bye." A zap and a cheer were heard from the front.
"Yes! Got it!" The engine started up swiftly, Alecia grabbed the wheel and we pulled out of the lot. None of the people Laura told us about were chasing us. I wonder where they all went.
"So far so good." Not a second after Laura opened her mouth did a dozen or so black vans drove up behind the bus.
"Alien life form," A voice from a megaphone blared. "This is the Federal Burro of Investigation, come out with your mandibles up."
"I told you the FBI wanted us."
"US?" Link hollered, "You're the one who blew up the squirrel!"
"…that's not the point! Alecia! Crank it!" She nodded and slammed her foot on the gas. We all flew backward as Alecia tried to lose the vans that were chasing us. This wasn't fun at all.
"Wait!" I yelled, "I got an idea!" I opened the back window of the bus and almost fell out. "HELP!" Mica grabbed me and pulled back onto the bus. She held me as I started zapping the cars. It was funny to see the men's faces when their vans got hit. One of them even skidded off the road and into a tree! The vans were too broken up to chase us anymore and Mica pulled me back onto the bus. "Wow...let's do that again!" Everyone glared at me. "What? I got to zap the bad guys!"
"Yes I'm sure that was fun," Laura wasn't normally the one to act so…normal. "…but we have more to worry about. We're wanted by just about everyone, we have to be careful. We have to live of the supplies we have and make as few pit stops as possible. No detours, no sight-seeing, no scenic routes. It's to Newfoundland or we're screwed!"
KawaiiGameFreak: I apologize greatly for the slow updating. I'll try and update and least once a month(depending on things like tests, homework, etc.). I'll try not to give spoilers for the next few chapters, but I will tell you that they involve girl guides, angry French mechanics, and Niagara Falls(not necessarily in that order). Ja ne!