Pokewing Z:Dimension Rifters, Episode 12

A mega-crossover fic by Dustin Dixon and Caleb McGlone, wih help from Rob Volzke.

Disclaimer? I'll give you a hint, it's NOT in the first episode. :O Read on and enjoy.

Ash was walking around the now empty school, swaying the Rift Locater from left to right as he walked, trying to get a good read on where the next rift was. Jenny walked behind him. Timmy and Jimmy, along with the fairies, had returned to Timmy's household, as Jimmy had made it clear that he would NOT be coming with them to their next destination, which, if Ash remembered correctly, was a place identified by Wayne as Jump City, wherever that was. Ash suddenly produced a roaring loud cough, that seemed to be quite draining. When he stopped, Jenny spoke up.
"You alright?" Ash's robotic female companion asked.
"Yeah," Ash replied, wiping his mouth. "I'm fine." There was a silence. "Here, I think we're just about to the rift. The reading is getting pretty strong." Ash continued to walk forward, until he was at the door. The radar was showing 100 readings.
"Here?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah. Right in front of the damn door." Ash sounded a bit concerned. He cracked the door open, which he saw lead outside. He could see nothing out of the ordinary. People walking around in a fairly large city. He closed the door again and readied the Rift Sword. "Well, let's just open and close this quick, before somebody opens that door from the other side and comes out God knows where." Ash pulled back on the Rift Sword, and Jenny got into a stance that made her look like she was ready to jump in the second it opened. Ash made a slicing motion with the Rift Sword, and then, there was another rift in front of them.
"Now." Jenny said, actually jumping in before Ash. The latter, however, was quick to follow, and immediately, the rift closed behind the two, and once again, they were falling, falling, falling, just waiting to be dumped out in some new location, and, as Ash thought, a really fucked up world.

Enma sat, once again, at his desk, now filling out a giant stack of paperwork. He switched on his intercom and said, "Ratty, bring me the file on Wayne Williams. I need to make those adjustments to it. Also, I need the file on Riku Kurosawa-Yukimora."
"Yeah, yeah." Ratty's voice called out over the intercom. Moments later, he entered the office, both files in his mouth.
"Here. Need any more before I lock the archives?"
"Actually, I need a file." came a voice from the doorway. The two looked on, surprised to see a man standing there, he had semi-long gray hair, kept back in a ponytail, and he had blue eyes. He was dressed in a black button-down suit. He smirked evilly as he walked forward.
"And what file are you looking for?" Enma asked calmly.
"Ash Ketchum's file. Give it to me, now."
"Why don't you suck it, pretty boy?" Ratty said, nastily. "Suck it long, and suck it hard!"
"Don't provoke him, Ratty. He may not look like much, but he's just a step under Riku in terms of Spirit Energy."
"No shit?" Ratty said, his eyes going wide.
"So are you going to hand me the file, or do I have to take it from you through more...painful...means?"
"I'm afraid I can't just hand it over--" Enma started to explain, but he got cut off by the evil-looking man.
"What! Do you not know who I am!" he roared.
"Vlad Masters." Enma said, his calm disposition not once fading. "You live in Wisconsin, 1,000 years from now. But there's more to it than that. You also have the ability to turn into a ghost. Your name in this form is Plasmius."
"I'm impressed."Vlad remarked.
"Did you and Wayne think you were the only two with an information network?" Enma asked.

"Actually, that is MY information network." Vlad said.
"Regardless of that fact, Vlad, I know why you're fighting for Wayne. You realize he won't spare her, and if he gets the Spirit Stone,
he'll kill you if you get in his way."
"That's why I'm going to get it before him."

"Huh!" Enma's calm disposition had faded. "You know where it is!"

Ash and Jenny were met with weird glances by the occupants of the building they'd just fell into. They looked at the five occupants.
The one on the left was black, with technology covering most of his body, save for his face and the upper part of his arms. Second from left was an orange-skinned girl, with red hair, and green eyes. In the middle of the five was a teenage boy with spiky black hair,
wearing a red, yellow, green, and black costume. He also sported a thin black mask, tied around his head, leaving his white "saucer" eyes exposed. Next to him was a girl with purple hair , wearing what appeared to be a black one-piece bathing suit, as well as a purple cape and cowl. Finally, on the right was a green-skinned boy, with green hair, and a jumpsuit, colored black and red. "Dude..." the green-skinned boy said, looking at the two newcomers, "Where'd those guys come from?" "I do not know..." started the orange-skinned girl, "But I do wish to know, would you two like to be my friends!" she said, with starry eyes. Ash coughed something in response, before collapsing to the ground, unconscious.
"Ash!" Jenny called out.

A dark shrine, a dark hallway, two people shadowed in darkness. That is where Ash stood now, amongst the two known as Danny and Jazz, before the door.
"Okay," Danny said. "Are you ready?"
"As I'll ever be." Ash said.
"Ditto" Jazz said dully, sighing. Danny gave a nod, and Ash stpped foreward, motioning with his hands. One. Two. When Ash held up three fingers, the three of them thrusted their bodies against the door, which immediatly fell through, cracking off of its rusty hinges. As they all stood in the doorway, a figure stood before them. A shadowy figure. He was completely covered in a veil of darkness, and no features could be made out about him. For a moment, there was silence, as nobody said anything. The figure had its back to them, maybe it hadn't noticed them. Those ideas were erased however, when the figure began to chuckle, which grew into an evil laugh.
"Something funny?" Ash shouted at the figure. It just continued to laugh, before turning its shadowy face halfway. The three teenagers had horrified looks on their faces, because the face that was halfway exposed was identical to Ash's.
"Foolish boy." his voice, ghastly and heavy, said, sending chills up and down Ash's spine. "Even if you win, this will not be over." The man began to laugh again, and suddenly, everything went dark.

Ash slowly opened his eyes. At first he saw only blurry whiteness, but then his vision began to sharpen, and he saw he was actually looking up at a white roof. He also thought he could hear a faint, consistant noise somewhere in the background, and it made his head vibrate.
"Owww...what's that sound...?" Ash said groggily, rubbing his head.
"That'd be me." came a voice Ash knew all too well. He snapped awake and sat up, pulling up his wrist communicator. Sure enough, there was Enma. Ash rubbed his head again and realized he was insanely warm.
"What is it...boss?" Ash sniffled.
"Wonderful news, Ash!" Ratty had popped up beside Enma, and had a big toothy smile painted across his face.
"Wonderful it is." Enma declared. "We've discovered the location of the Spirit Stone that Wayne is after!"
"Awesome..." Ash didn't seem like he had much energy, but neither Enma nor Ratty took notice.
"Our research shows that it's in a place called Amity Park." Ratty said. "But there is bad news."
"Eh?"
"You'll have to cross a handful of other rifts to get there. Amity Park is very far away, dimension-wise...Ash, are you okay?" Enma finished up for Ratty. He had also just seemed to notice that Ash wasn't looking all that good.
"He's not doing too great," came a female voice. Everyone looked, and noticed that Jenny had been sitting there for quite some time. "He's been out for a while, but we think it's just some sort of flu or viral disease. Nothing a few days of rest won't clear." Ash sniffed again, his sinuses apparently draining.
"B...but," he said. "Last time we tried to rest..."
"Don't even start thinking about that, Ash." Enma scolded. "The last thing we need is guilt about what happened in Azu-Tokyo weighing you down. That is in the past." Nobody said anything. Enma calmed his voice and continued. "You just get your health back up. Myself and Ratty will try to plot you a course to Amity Park that you can use as soon as you are well. Jenny, take care of him. Over and out."
"Roger sir." Jenny said. The communicator went blank, and Jenny sat there with Ash, tending to him, hoping that he would not be in this state for long.

Meanwhile, another week had passed in Pallet Town. Osaka and Janine once again stood out in the open field, both in a battle stance. Janine crossed her arms in front of her.
"Alright, hit me." She said. "Remember darlin', you get one shot." She got in a stance as if she were ready to brace for something. Osaka just nodded. For a minute, nothing, then Osaka, took a breath, and quickly formed her right hand into a gun. It wasn't long before a small blue ball had appeared at the end of her index finger.
"SPIRIT GUN!" Osaka shouted, causeing a moderatly sized bullet, but not near as big as Ash's bullets, to appear and be fired right at Janine. Janine took the full blow, and was only knocked back about a few inches. When the dust cleared, she stood upright.
"You're getting better, but you make it too obvious to me when you are going to attack." Osaka began to jog to where Janine was.
"So, ah need to surprise ya?" Osaka asked in her dialect. Janine nodded, and Osaka broke into a run when she was about a foot from her.
"Yes, you need to-" Janine threw up her guard, as Osaka reeled back her fist to punch. At the last second, however, Osaka drew back and leaped over Janine completely. Janine tried to follow her, but Osaka already had formed a red ball in her hand.
"SPIRIT FLARE!" She tossed the attack right at Janine while she was in midair. Janine was able to deflect it, but barely. After a second, a few trickles of blood started to fall from Janines cheek. Osaka had gotten her. For a moment, silence. Then Janine smiled, and patted Osaka on the head.
"Very good, very good." she said. "This wound will heal, but you are coming along. Now come on, you get a break. Let's go back to the Ketchum house."
"Yes ma'am." Osaka and Janine began the five minute walk back to the house of Ash Ketchum. About halfway there, Janine pulled out her wrist communicator. "Who're ya callin'?" Osaka inquired.
"Enma. I have to ask him something." Janine had already pushed some buttons and had Enma on her screen by the time she answered. Enma looked surprised to see her.
"Can I help you, Janine?" He asked, looking up from his stack of paperwork. Ratty could be seen messily filling out stuff in the background as well. "I assume the trainning is proceeding well?"
"Hell of a lot better than I expected, but you know me." came Janine's reply.
"Then what do you need?"
"Actually, Emna, I wanted to know if you knew a way for me and Osaka here to get to the dimension where Mushiyori City is." Enma arched an eyebrow. "That's basically my way of saying 'I know you know, please tell me.'." Enma still seemed hesitant.
"Any particular reason that you would need to go there?" Enma was calm. All Janine did is glare at him, and Enma seemed to get the message. "Very well, I can tell you. Listen closely, I'll only say this once." Enma gave Janine information that Osaka couldn't really make out, and the end was capped by Ratty.
"And don't you be forgettin' it! Foo..."
"Yeah yeah." Janine sighed. She didn't care too much for Enma's rodent assistant. "Janine over and out." She turned off her wrist communicator and dropped her arm back to her side. Osaka had pretty much been looking at her the whole time.
"Why are we goin' to Mush...Mush...Mush..." Osaka seemed to have trouble pronouncing it, but she didn't give up.
"Mushiyori City." Janine finished, after Osaka had repearted 'Mush' for the tenth time. "And let's just say you'll get the chance to do the one thing you told me you desire, and leave it at that." Osaka's eyes widened, and she trembled a little, but quickly regained her composure. She knew what Janine meant, but she didn't know if she was ready.
The two finally made it to the Ketchum house, and walked inside the door.

Jenny looked down at Ash, who was sleeping peacefully this time. "Sorry, Ash, but I'm gonna find Wayne." she said, standing up and walking toward the door. She took one last look at Ash before heading out of the hospital-like room, determined to find Wayne.

Author's note:Dustin here. Caleb more or less wrote this chapter. Regardless of the fact that I didn't write too much this time, though,
I do hope you enjoy this chapter, as well as the rest of the story. Stay tuned for the next episode.