Chapter 25: Can You Feel the Sunshine?
Yeah. I'm going there. Happy Halloween everyone… MWHAHAHAHA
The rebels were all in the Pokemon Center, stunned by Skyla's sudden appearance.
"Hi, Ash!" Skyla said. Skyla was a young girl in her teens. She had a light blue flower in her auburn colored hair. She had a belly button shirt, super short shorts on, and boots. All of this was in different shades of blue.
"Hey, Skyla," Ash said, still surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Ugh," Amy mumbled. "Why do all of the Gym Leaders dress like sluts?"
Misty nodded, then did a double take. "Hey!"
Brock looked at Skyla, then performed his typical routine of asking a girl out, then getting turned down.
"Wow," Tails said, a sparkle of excitement in his eyes. "So you're the Skyla that owns all of the planes outside?"
She nodded. "Every single one. I'm glad my grandfather trusted me to keep an eye on all of this," she said with a smile.
"Whoa," Ash said. "So Miles left you everything?"
"I do not understand," Starfire said. "Is there another Miles other than the Tails?"
"Miles is Skyla's grandfather," Angel explained. "But the fact that they are both experts on planes has to be more than a coincidence." She sighed. "Oh well. Nintendo was never that creative in the first place."
"What is that supposed to mean?!" Iris shouted.
"It means that I don't like Nintendo," Angel said mockingly.
"We kinda figured that out," Sonic mumbled.
"Anyway," Skyla said. "I have something for Tails."
Tails looked up at her in surprise. "Really? For me?"
Skyla nodded. She took a small orange device out of her back pocket. "I found this when I found the Tornado. I wasn't sure what it was, but I figured if you ever stopped by I would hold on to it for you."
Tails took it from her. "Thanks," he took a closer look at it. "It looks like the emerald tracker I made a long time ago." He turned it on. The screen lit up, revealing a green grid. A red light flashed where they were.
"Hey, it looks like there's a Chaos Emerald right under us!" Tails exclaimed.
Angel smiled. "Uh, Tails, that would be us," she said, gesturing to the emerald on her arm.
"Oh, yeah," Tails said. He looked at the tracker again and saw another flashing light. "What's that?"
Skyla leaned over, looking at the screen. "That looks like Celestial Tower," she said.
Angel flinched, then slowly backed away.
Sonic smirked at her. "I know why you don't want to go in there."
Angel glared at him. "If you tell Tails or anyone else about my problem with Chandelure, I will personally hit you on the side of the head with a bat, got it?" Sonic only shrugged.
"We don't actually need to go in there, right?" Angel asked hopefully.
"Maybe we should," Tails said. "A Chaos Emerald could really help us if we needed it."
"What's in Celestial Tower, anyway?" Misty asked.
"Celestial Tower is like a graveyard for Pokemon that have passed in to the afterli-," Cilan began to say, but was cut off when a rock hit him in the head. Then another one. Then a snowball.
Everyone turned to look at Gwen, Melaney, and Angel.
"What was that for?!" Ash exclaimed.
"Well-" Sonic began, but he was hit by a snowball.
"It'll be the bat next time," Angel said.
"I'm not going in one those towers," Gwen said. "Have you read the stories online? I don't care, I'm not taking the chance." Melaney nodded in agreement.
"What are you afraid of?" Tails asked. "It's not like ghosts are real."
"WHAT?!" Melaney exploded. "What do you mean ghosts aren't real?!"
Angel face palmed. "Here we go."
Tails shrugged. "I just don't believe in them. It's totally illogical."
"Can we argue on the way so we can get this over with?" Duncan asked.
"I gotta go," Skyla said. "I'll see you guys later!" she waved as she left the Pokémon Center.
A few minutes later, the rebellion was heading towards Celestial Tower, Tails and Melaney still arguing.
"Why don't you believe?!" the Yoshi exclaimed.
"Hey, I'll believe anything if there's evidence to back it up," Tails replied as they walked.
"Okay," Melaney said, looking around. "If ghosts aren't real…how do you explain that?" she pointed to a Chandelure floating in the air. Angel let out a small scream and hid behind Sonic, who rolled his eyes.
"Nintendo gave up on the whole 'trying' thing," Tails said. He put quotation marks in the air when he said 'trying'.
"Fine," Melaney said. "But how do you explain the ghost in Laven-"
Gwen threw a rock at the two of them. "NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT!" she yelled. Everyone gave her a strange look, then went back to walking.
"My explanation for…that," Tails continued, "is that Game Freak and vodka aren't a good combination."
"You seriously can't think of anything better?" Melaney said, crossing her arms.
Tails shrugged. "I'll tell you what. If you can prove to me that ANYTHING supernatural is real by midnight, I'll take back everything I said and admit ghosts real. Deal?"
Melaney shook his hand. "Deal. What time is it now?"
Tails looked down at the emerald tracker. "Eleven-thirty," he replied.
"Damn," she mumbled. "I'll prove they're real though, I swear."
"'Kay, whatever you say," Tails said. He walked away.
"I think we're here," Robin said. The rebels gathered around the tower. It loomed over them in the darkness. It was obvious that it was falling apart; the paint and the walls were chipping, and many of the windows were broken.
Ash swallowed. "I'm starting to rethink doing this."
"Rethink?" Angel scoffed. "You'd have to think first."
"What's the problem Ash?" Misty asked. "You went up that other tower all by yourself back when we were traveling in Kanto."
"She's right," Brock replied. "And that had a whole town surrounding it that had to do with dying. This won't be that hard."
"Maybe there are Boos in there," Melaney commented.
"Booze?" Peter said excitedly. "Where?" Amy took out her hammer and hit him on the side of the head.
"Well you certainly won't find me in there," Gwen said, leaning against a tree.
"Me either," Melaney said.
"You're kidding right?" Raven said. "You have the perfect opportunity to win your bet against Tails here! You can't say that you'd pass that up with only twenty minutes left."
Melaney groaned. "Fine."
"Why doesn't she want to go in there anyway?" Sonic whispered to Angel.
"Uh…I may or may not have something to do with that," she replied. She spoke up. "I'm gonna stay out here to…protect Gwen. Sure, let's go with that." She went over to Gwen and stood next to her.
"Fine," Zoey said. "Now let's get going." All of the rebels except for Gwen and Angel headed in to the tower.
Starfire shivered. "I can sense the presence of an angry soul. It seems to be very upset with Tails for not acknowledging its existence."
"Wanna admit it now?" Melaney asked.
"No," Tails said. "And even if I did, we aren't getting out of here until we find the Chaos Emerald." He looked up at the roof of the tower. The emerald tracker says that the Chaos Emerald is up there. Maybe if I just fly up there… "I'm gonna go check it out," he said to Sonic. He began to spin his twin tails to fly up to top.
"Wait!" Starfire exclaimed. "You are moving closer to the angry spirit! Are you not concerned?"
"I don't need to be concerned," Tails said. He proceeded to flying to the top and saw there was a trap door that led to the roof. He opened it and climbed through. He looked around and felt nothing but rain and wind pelt at his fur, so hard that it felt like hail. He could barely see his hand in front of his face. A bolt of lightning struck a tree nearby, followed by a crash of thunder. He shuddered. I hate thunder…
"Well, hello Tails," a dark voice came from behind him.
Tails spun around quickly, then screamed.
Then everything went black.
Gwen looked up at the dark sky. "Did you hear that?" she asked Angel.
Angel stood up quickly. "Tails!" she yelled. She flew toward the tower as fast as she could, worried about the most important person in the world to her. "Please be okay…"
"I can't…get it open!" Sonic yelled in frustration, pulling as hard as he could on the trap door. He attempted to Spin Dash on it, but nothing would open it. Not even Knuckles constantly punching. "How are we going to get in there?!" he said.
"The door will not open," Starfire said calmly.
Everyone turned to her. "What do you mean?" Beast Boy asked.
"The spirit has chosen Tails as a target," she explained. "It is his curse that attracts the evil that has befall him."
"Curse?" Rouge said. She gasped. "You don't mean…"
Starfire nodded. "The Tails Doll has returned."
Angel landed on the roof of the tower as lightning snapped in the air again. "Tails?" she called out. There was no answer. She began to walk forward when she ran in to something. She peered through the thick rain and saw that it was only a bell. She let out a sigh of relief, thinking that it would be something much worse. She continued to walk forward until she saw something lying on the floor. "Tails!" she exclaimed. She knelt down to help him up, but saw that he was unconscious.
"Can you feel the sunshine?" a voice said from behind her. Angel whipped around. In front of her stood a fox that had an extremely close resemblance to Tails, the only difference being that it had a large red gem on its forehead, and appeared to be held together by only a few stitches. "Well, you're a new face."
"The Tails Doll," she whispered. "But it can't be, they killed you!"
The fox shook his head. "As flattering as it may be, I am not the one that you speak of. Let's just say that I'm…the second Tails Doll to be created. You see, hedgehog, I was Dr. Eggman's last creation before he was sent to compete in the Games." He glared at the real Tails, still lying on the ground. "But he was killed by Lola when this one interfered. Since then, I've been here, waiting. Waiting to kill you all." He attempted to walk in a circle around Angel and Tails, but Angel wouldn't let her eyes off of him.
"A cautious one, aren't you?" the doll said. "No matter. You'll be destroyed too." He paused for a moment. "Unless…"
"Unless what," Angel growled.
"Unless you join me," the Tails Doll said.
"Never," Angel said calmly, her face expressionless.
"Very well," he replied. "Then get ready to fight for your life." He ripped out a sword from behind him, pointing in at her. "The angel of death is upon you."
Angel took out her spear and formed it in to a sword. It shined brightly against the dark atmosphere as another bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. "You don't seem to understand," she said calmly, even though her heart was pounding faster than Sonic could ever run. "I am Angel. Did you hear about the apocalypse that happened here?"
The Tails Doll gasped, then smiled. "So you're the Plasma girl the Doctor was talking about. It's too bad, we could have made a great team."
The bell on the tower rang through the area as another flash of lightning went off. The wind began to blow even more violently than ever as the two adversaries faced each other, knowing that only one of them would survive. "It looks like it's midnight," the Tails Doll said. "Do you know what that means?"
"It doesn't make a bit of a difference," Angel said. "You won't ever see the sun again when I'm finished with you." She jumped in the air, still holding her icy sword. She attempted to bring it down hard on the Tails Doll, but he blocked it with his own. She landed on the roof of the tower, unharmed.
"Child's play," the Tails Doll said. He swung his sword at Angel, slashing through the freezing air. Angel dodged every attack, just barely getting out of the way. He swung it again, this time slashing her cheek.
Angel cringed, then used her cold hand to freeze some ice over the side of her face. She charged at the Tails Doll, ready to stab him with her sword. He blocked every attack, then kicked her on to the ground.
Angel tumbled across the roof of the tower, then stood back up. She was panting heavily, but refused to be defeated. She formed her sword in to a bow and arrow, then continued to shoot her arrows at the Tails Doll. She finally managed to hit him- she had two arrows pinning down his tails.
She charged again, tackling him to the ground. She formed her bow in to a dagger, then held it in the air, ready to stab him in the chest. Lightning flashed again, illuminating her bleeding face in the darkness. "It's over now," she said darkly.
The Tails Doll glared at her menacingly. "If you kill me…you kill him too." The red gem on its head began to glow, surrounding the real Tails in a red light, still unconscious. He lifted him up telekinetically, hanging him over the side of the tower. "If I die, so does he. What are you going to do now?"
Angel growled. "Fine. Put him down, and you live."
"That's a good girl," the Tails Doll said. He placed Tails back on the roof. "Now, I still have to kill you." He quickly knocked Angel off of him, then kicked her dagger to the other side of the roof of the tower. He pulled out his sword, cornering her until she was only a few steps away from falling to her death. "I guess it's you who won't be seeing the sun again," he said, an evil smile on his face.
Angel growled, then stomped her foot on the ground. "That's it!" she yelled. Thunder crashed again as lightning flashed across the sky. "I'm not going to be defeated by the likes of you. I refuse to end my life this way. I've defeated things millions of times stronger than you." Her eyes flashed in anger. "And I will not be defeated by a creepypasta, do you understand? I'll keep fighting, never stopping. I'll keep going until the end, for Tails' sake!"
"How romantic," the Tails Doll said mockingly. "You would honestly risk your life for this fool?" he asked, gesturing to Tails. "What a waste of strength and power. We could rule the world with an iron fist, you and me. All you have to do is say the word, and it's done."
"Never," Angel said. "If I were to rule the world…" She began. She glared at the Tails Doll. "…I would rule it myself, and not along some…some faker!"
"All right then," the Tails Doll said. "I've given you two chances to give up, but since you refuse," the red gem on his head began to glow again, cloaking Angel in a bright red light. He lifted her up off the ground. He raised her at least three hundred feet in the air, then slammed her into the roof of the tower. He smiled, knowing that he had won. Then he was shocked at what he was seeing.
Angel groaned as she forced herself to keep going. She stood up, slowly and painfully. She winced as she smiled at the Tails Doll. "Like I said…I'll keep fighting until the very end," she said weakly. She was shaking all over from pain and exhaustion.
The Tails Doll growled in frustration, then charged at the icy hedgehog. He was about to tackle her off the tower, but was caught when Angel grabbed his arm with an icy hand.
"Not on your life," she whispered weakly. She used all of her power to pick him up by the arm, then flung him over the edge of the tower. She watched him fall as lightning flashed in the sky again. Then he was gone.
"That's the last we'll be seeing of him," Angel panted.
Tails groaned as he woke up. "Angel?" he called out dizzily.
Angel gasped, then ran to Tails. "Tails!" she exclaimed. She helped him up, then embraced him in a tight hug. "Thank goodness you're safe…" she said in relief.
"What…happened?" Tails asked, rubbing his eye. "All I remember is seeing someone, then I must have blacked out or something."
"It's nothing you need to concern yourself with," Angel said. "Let's just get out of here, okay?"
Tails nodded. "Good idea." He looked up at the sky. It had stopped raining, and some of the storm clouds were disappearing. "It looks like it's clearing up," he said.
Angel nodded in agreement. The two turned to go back to the trap door when it opened up. "Tails!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Hi, Sonic," Tails said. "What happened here anyway?"
Starfire gave him a questioning look. "Do you not remember seeing the Tails Doll?" she asked.
"What?!" Tails exclaimed in surprise. "The Tails Doll was-"
"It's okay," Angel said. She kissed him on the cheek. "I think I did a pretty good job taking care of him, if I do say so myself," she said proudly.
"Speaking of creepypasta and all that crap," Melaney said, looking at Tails. "I believe we made a bet, and I won, considering that the Tails Doll was right here. So what do you have to say about ghosts again, Tails?"
"You still don't have any evidence to support it," Tails said with a smirk. "So I don't have to admit anything."
"What?!" Melaney exclaimed. "But it was here, we all saw it! Angel, help me out here!"
"Uh, I didn't see anything," she teased.
"Sorry," Tails said sarcastically with a smile. "It looks like I won this one."
Melaney growled, but Cilan stopped her.
"Even if you did have evidence, you still wouldn't have won," he explained.
"And why is that?" Melaney asked.
"It's twelve-fifteen," he said, looking at his watch.
"Dang," Melaney mumbled.
"Not only that," Misty said. "But the Tails Doll isn't exactly paranormal. It was supposed to be there, after all."
"Unlike some other creepypastas, right, Melaney?" Angel said.
"Yeah, thanks for traumatizing me with that one," Melaney said, crossing her arms. "I didn't exactly need to know about the crap that's in Laven-"
"Wait a minute," Amy said. "Didn't we come here for a Chaos Emerald?"
"Oh yeah," Tails said. He pulled out his emerald tracker, which showed that there was an emerald nearby. He walked over to the bell and searched around the inside with hand until he felt something warm. "Yes!" he exclaimed. The held his hand up in the air, which held a green Chaos Emerald.
"Awesome!" Sonic said, giving his best friend a thumbs up.
"So now that we have that, where do we go next?" Brian asked.
"Twist Mountain's next, right Iris?" Ash said, turning to Iris. She nodded.
"Then let's get the heck outta here!" Sonic said. He sped down the stairwell of the tower.
Tails smiled. "We should get going too." The rebels then headed out of the tower, ready to never come back again.
Chapter 25! Yes! Oh my God, the timing of this was just PERFECT. For those of you who played Black and White, you know that Celestial Tower is right outside of Mistralton City on Route 7. And it's even more perfect that today is Halloween, so I thought I'd stick a few little creepypasta references in there! That thing that Melaney's afraid of, I'm not gonna tell, because it scares the crap out of me myself. But if you know what Gwen's fear is, you can kinda put two and two together and figure it out. About the Tails Doll, I never even read the story myself, so I'm probably way off, so that's why I said the one that Angel fought was the SECOND Tails Doll…so…just go with it. How many of you picked up the Can you feel the sunshine thing? Anyway, I hope you all have a good Halloween :) and make sure you bring all of your Reese's to me XD