Pokewing Z:Dimension Rifters, Episode 13
A mega-crossover fic by Dustin Dixon and Caleb McGlone, with help from Rob Volzke
Disclaimer. First episode. Read there. Uhhh...
Ash awoke, in a cold sweat. He'd had another dream about these two mysterious strangers, Danny and Jazz. They had started to fight a shadowy lookalike of Ash himself. He looked at his communicator, and decided it was time to talk about these strange dreams. He sniffled, then pressed the button on his wrist communicator.
"Enma..." he sniffled. "Come in...Enma..."
Enma's face appeared on the tiny screen, after about a minute.
"What is it, Ash? You need to be resting!" Enma said, scolding him once more.
"I know, but I keep having these dreams."
"Dreams, huh? Yeah, I have them too. Everyone in the world does."
"Specifically, I'm interested in two people who are in my dreams."
"Don't tell me you're planning to cheat on Misty..." Enma sighed.
"No..." Ash said, a vein appearing on the back of his head. "Their names are Danny and Jazz."
Enma arched an eyebrow at the mention of those two names. "Odd. What did they look like?"
"Well, Danny was wearing some sort of black jumpsuit, and he had white hair and green eyes."
"Do you know this Danny guy's last name?"
"No. I only knew his first name. Why?"
"We have a file on a semi-superhero called Danny Phantom. The photo of him that we have matches your somewhat vague description of him." Enma explained. "Perhaps you can verify...I'll be back in a few minutes. I'm going to get his file."
"I thought the lord of Spirit World didn't sully his hands with files." Ash joked, albeit weakly.
"Oh hush, Ash." Enma said, then his image disappeared from the communicator. Moments later, he reappeared, holding a file in his hands. He pulled out a picture of Danny, which Ash immediately recognized.
"That's him." Ash said.
"His real name is Daniel Fenton. He lives in...well, I'll be."
"Where?" Ash asked.
"Amity Park." Enma said.
"Well, I'll be damned." Ash sniffled quite loudly this time, alerting the orange-skinned girl from before. Ash's eyes widened considerably as she ran over to him and threw her arms around him.
"Oh, joy of joys!" she exclaimed. "You are awake!"
"Uh...yeah." Ash said, feeling rather awkward.
"New friend-hopeful, might I ask your name?"
"...Uh..." Ash said, not really thinking clearly at the time, due to the force of the orange-skinned one's hug.
"He's Ash." came the voice of Enma, from Ash's wrist communicator. "And before you ask, I'm Enma, I'm not a talking watch, and I'm not anywhere closeby."
"Greetings!" the orange-skinned girl shouted, tightening her hug. "I am Starfire! What's your favorite color? Do you like animals? Will you be my friends?"
"Uh..." both said, then, at the same time, answered with..."Black and red/blue and white, yes/yes, and sure, why not/and sure, why not?"
"Oh joyous occasion!" Starfire shouted, smiling very big as her hug intensified.
"Uh...Starfire...need...air..." Ash choked out.
"Oh! I am sorry, new friend Ash!" Starfire said, finally releasing Ash. Ash took a huge breath.
"Nah, it's okay. Say, where's Jenny?" Ash asked.
"I believe she went to find the man with the hair of red, and the coat used in laboratories." Starfire explained, causing Ash's eyes to go as wide as possible.
"WHAT! SHE'S GOING AFTER WAYNE ON HER OWN!" he shouted, before a hacking fit ensued.
"Ash! Get back in bed!" Enma said.
"And abandon my partner!" he said, through various coughs.
"You're in even less of a position to take on Wayne now than you've been since this ordeal started!" Enma said.
"But, she..." Ash started, getting cut off by Enma.
"Bed! NOW!" Enma shouted, disappearing from the watch, turning it back into a normal watch.
Starfire looked down at Ash, who was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. "I believe Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy have accompanied her." she said suddenly.
"Who..." Ash started to say, but remembered three of the five he had met earlier. One was covered with mechanical body parts. Ash figured that must have been Cyborg. The one with the multi-colored uniform was Robin, more than likely. And the green-skinned teenage boy just about had to be Beast Boy. He would have thought about the situation more, but sleep started to overtake him once more. He soon found himself asleep.
Ratty paced around Enma's office as Enma sorted through some files. He arranged them carefully. Ratty spoke up then.
"Did you HAFTA give him Ash's file?" he asked.
"We must do whatever it takes to secure the Spirit Stone before Wayne does. We didn't necessarily sell Ash out, Ratty." Enma said, a sly smile on his face as he continued. "There isn't one BIT of information in there that Wayne doesn't already know."
"Still, you DID give that rat bastard your detective's file."
"In exchange for the location of the Spirit Stone. Though, I DO feel bad about it."
"And yet, I guess it was required." Ratty said. "So why didn't you tell Ash?"
"There's no reason for me to do so yet. When this is all over, I'll tell him, and beg his forgiveness." Enma said.
"Good." Ratty said. "Now, we just cross our fingers, right?"
"Wrong. We can make Ash strong enough to beat Wayne. When he does that, then we've pretty much won. Vlad won't be much trouble, even with the Spirit Stone." Enma said, smiling.
"Is there really a way to jack up the kid's Spirit Energy?" Ratty asked, eyes wide.
"Yes. He's about to have a reunion with his old partner. His next stop will be Mushiyori City."
Osaka and Janine walked into the backyard or the Ketchum house. Lucky for them and what they were about to be doing, the area in general was almost completely secluded. Osaka was wearing a pink tank top and white jeans. For whatever reason, she also had a white headband on. Janine was just clad in her usual attire. All was quiet, until Janine's wrist communicator began to go off. She didn't let it beep for long before she turned it on and saw Enma staring right at her.
"Are you ready?" Enma said, still seeming busy. "I am going to keep it open for a very short time Janine. You two need to--"
"Yeah, yeah." Janine cut him off. "Just open it, Enma." Enma sighed at her impatience.
"Very well." He said, scratching his head. Enma closed his eyes and said nothing. A few seconds later, a rift opened infront of Janine and Osaka.
"Ready for-" Janine was about to ask a question, but when she looked, Osaka had already jumped through the Rift. Janine smirked.
"Atta Girl." She said as she jumped into the rift after her apprintace. Before she knew it, Osaka was right beside her, and the two had felt a falling sensation unlike any other.
The two landed flat on their butts on the cold ground. Both were rubbing their rear-ends as they sat up, neither of them having a good landing.
"First times're always the bumpiest, I'm guessin'." Osaka said with a slight giggle before standing and helping Janine up.
"Darlin'." Janine replied, "it's been FAR too long since I've done that."
"Oh."
"Yeah." Janine gave a final rub. "Now then, we are to be looking for somebody. Follow me, Ayumu." Osaka nodded and the two walked down the hill which they had landed on. A large valley stood ahead, with a larger mountain range far beyond. In the distance, Osaka thought she could see a small temple settled into the mountains.
Ash sat up, after yet another dream-filled sleep, feeling just the slightest bit better. He raised up, slid around, and set his feet down on the ground. He tried to get to his feet, until a voice called out, "Azerath...Metrione...Zinthos!" and kept him sitting at the bed.
"What the hell!" Ash asked, confused as to what was going on. The purple-haired girl from before stepped out, her eyes flashing.
"I'm afraid I can't let you go anywhere. I'm sorry." she said.
"O...kay...can you at least tell me what happened?" Ash asked. "And who the hell are you people!"
"You collapsed from exhaustion. Did you get under a waterfall or something?" she asked.
"I suppose you MIGHT say that." Ash said, thinking back to Cosmo dumping all that water on him. "Anyway, who are you?"
"My name is Raven." the purple-haired girl said. "My friends and I are known commonly as the Teen Titans. We protect Jump City from people who would harm it."
"You're just like I was back in my dimension, then." Ash said, starting to think of his mom, and Misty, as well as all of his friends.
"Dimensions?" Raven asked.
"Yeah. I come from a dimension fairly far away from here." Ash started to explain. "I'm in pursuit of a very evil man. He's also incredibly dangerous."
"Is his name Wayne, by any chance?" Raven asked.
"I see you and your friends have encountered him." Ash looked down as he said this.
"None of us could even hurt him." Raven said. "He just took everything we threw at him without getting so much as a scratch."
"It seems no one we've come across could ever come close to beating him." Ash said, downtrodden, perhaps from his illness.
The local bank was crawling with people "tied up" with tubes and gagged with x-shaped strips of white tape. A blue-skinned, white-
haired man, with a white moustache and goatee to boot, was making all of the bank's money fly to him, via magic. "Now you see it,
now you don't!" the man cackled. He was dressed like a magician, and he wore a black mask similar to Robin's. Suddenly, the doors flew open, and there stood Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Jenny.
"Time for another vanishing act, Mumbo." Robin said, his eyes narrowing, as he let out his battle cry, "Titans! Go!"
Beast Boy morphed into a rhino and charged Mumbo, the latter simply taking off his hat. He hedl it out in front of Beast Boy, causing him to vanish into thin air.
"BB!" Cyborg shouted.
"Nothing up my sleeve...oh wait..." Mumbo said, as Beast Boy flew out of his right sleeve, right into Cyborg.
"Dude, get your butt outta my face!" Cyborg mumbled, from under the still-transformed Beast Boy, who then reverted to normal.
"Hehe...sorry dude."
Jenny just stood there and watched as Robin landed a blow to Mumbo with his staff, who vanished. He reappeared behind Robin and pulled off his glove and slapped Robin with it, causing the latter to fly into a wall. He then held his glove upright, with the "opening" upside-down, and out tumbled about a hundred bricks.
"How the hell did you do that!" Jenny asked, from the other side of the room.
"Tut tut, a magician never reveals his secrets!" Mumbo smirked, before getting punched from across the room by Jenny's extended arm. He moaned in pain, before passing out. Moments later, the police had the bank surrounded.
Osaka and Janine had been walking for about an hour now, and finally they had cleared the mountain, and had walked across most of the plains that covered the valley. They were finally in the presence of a large building. Apparently, the building that at first glance to Osaka was a small wooden cabin, was now a very large temple. They walked to about five feet from the stairs, before Janine held out her arm, motioning for Osaka to stop. She looked up at her mentor.
"Now you stay here." Janine said softly.
"I have a question first, Ms. Janine." Osaka said.
"Yes?"
"Are Riku and Wayne in that temple? Is that why we're here?" This question merely made Janine chuckle.
"No darlin'." She said, putting her hand on Osaka's shoulder. "I'm not gonna feed you to those two yet. Ayumu, from here on, I'm not your mentor anymore. You will meet your new mentor shortly. Now stay here." Janine smiled and walked into the temple, leaving Osaka there, wondering what was in store for her next.
About ten minutes later, Osaka found herself boredly laying on the ground, staring up into the sky, with a smile on her face, a smile that said 'I don't have a clue'. Osaka walked out, and at her side, an elderly woman. The woman had dark pink hair, and was wearing what appeared to be lightly colored training clothes.
"So," Came the voice of the old lady, an elderly voice that seemed to be somewhat raspy. "You say this is her?"
"Yeah," Janine's voice could be heard. "Shes right over-" Janine stopped. Both her and the old woman were looking, but saw nothing but grass before them. The old one spoke, and she seemed a little mad.
"Janine, I'm too old and too busy for you to waste my time like this." She twitched her eye at Janine.
"No, no, no!" Janine said hastily. "She's here, can't you feel..." Janine stopped herself. "Wait, I can't...wait, now I--"
"Welcome back, Ms. Janine!" Osaka twirled up from the ground and looked at the two, still with that same carefree smile. Janine and the old woman were dumbfounded. Of the three, the old one was the next to speak.
"Well, I cerainly can feel her now. I can see why you want me to train her, Janine."
"Train?" Osaka seemed confused. Janine walked over to her.
"Ayumu, hon, this is Genkai. To me, she is the greatest matial artist in this dimension, maybe even more. She will be training you now." Osaka said nothing. "You get a month with her. In that time, I get a break. I'll come back for you then. Do you understand?"
"Yes'm."
"Good. Now, I will see you later." She patted Osaka on the head and sent her off. Osaka walked into the temple with Genkai. Soon the two were gone. Janine smiled to herself. It hadn't been too long, but she felt herself getting attached to Osaka already. She walked away. About ten steps later, however, Janine's wrist communicator began to beep rapidly. With an angry look on her face, she pulled it up and, with a surprise, saw not Enma. Saw not Ash. Rather, the face of a toddler, wearing an incredibly large hat, and with a pacifier stuck in his mouth. The person spoke.
"Excuse me." his voice sounded young. "But just WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" Janine was taken aback, but regardless, she was pissed.
"Who the hell am I?" She mocked him. "Honey, I'm a Spirit Detective, and I don't give a damn WHO you are, you don't call me up and start shouting at me!"
"Spirit Detective? HA! Like hell I'd believe that." Janine wasn't getting any happier.
"Why don't you tell me WHO the FUCK you are, you stupid little baby!"
"I'm Koenma." He said calmly.
"Well then, Koenma...FUCK OFF!" Janine shut her wrist communicator off and walked on furiously, on into the mountains, knowing she only had about four weeks until the meeting.
Authors Note: Caleb here. I ain't written one of these babys in awhile. Anyway, the story, in my opinion, is coming a lot better than I had planned. Stay tuned for Episode 14. :D