Pokewing Z: Dimension Rifters

by Kuwabara Shizuru

A transdimensional plot by an entity known only as "The Unmaker" threatens to destroy all human life, and only a handful of people from various dimensions can stop it. Chapters 66-69 uploaded. As Riku and Hiei's conflict comes to a close, the day is finally upon our heroes... and the results of the fight are devastating. Rated M for implied sex.

25. Welcome to Amity Park

Pokewing Z:Dimension Rifters, Episode 25

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

Disclaimer:We own no one, aside from Janine, Wayne, and Riku. All other characters are copyrighted to their respective owners. With that said, on with the story!

Ash blinked once, twice, three times, but still, the image didn't fade. He was looking at the very same girl that had been in his dreams...the mysterious girl known in his mind only as Jazz. He stared on, and her left eyebrow raised, showing that she was getting a little freaked out at his wordless, relentless staring.
"Somebody say something..." Bloo muttered.
"No kidding. I'm starting to get a backache." Yusuke said, as Ash still hadn't gotten off of his back.
"I'm...going over there now." Jazz said. "FAR over there."
"Wait!" Ash cried. "I know you! I've seen you in my dreams!"
This line simply caused her eyes to narrow in boredom.
"That was a really lame pickup line." she said.
Ash stood there for a second, before his eyes actually crossed and he shouted at the top of his lungs. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I'M HAPPILY DATING SOMEBODY ALREADY!"
"Alright, alright...geez...I think my ears are bleeding." Jazz complained.
"I didn't mean to yell...okay, yeah, I DID mean to, but I literally saw you in my dreams." Ash said.
"..." Jazz stood threre, eyeing Ash for a second, before speaking up. "Well, you don't APPEAR to have any head trauma."
"Oh believe me, it's there." Jenny spoke up, grinning. "Ash fights a lot."
"A walking, talking robot girl...eh, what the hell." Jazz said, her eyes once again narrowing in boredom. "Anyway...your name is Ash?"
"Yeah, and yours is Jazz. Or at least, it was in my dreams." Ash explained, finally getting offf of his friends' backs.
"THANK YOU GOD!" Bloo shouted.
"How did you know my name?" Jazz said, her eyes narrowing. Ash couldn't tell if this was from fear, anger, or suspicion. Maybe a combination of them? He had no idea.
"Like I've been saying for the past few minutes...I had a series of dreams. In them, you, me, and this other kid were battling some sort of shadow version of me." Ash explained. "Maybe you know this other kid. My boss tells me he lives here in Amity Park." Ash said.
"Your...boss...?" Jazz questioned, her left eyebrow once again raised.
"It's a long story. Know anywhere we can talk in private?" Ash asked.
"The little bit of info you've given me is somewhat intriguing. There's a fast food restaurant called the Nasty Burger, just down the street. We can talk behind the dumpsters."
"Gotcha. Guys, and Jenny, let's go!" Ash ordered.
"Hey!" Jazz exclaimed.
"See, when I said that, I was referring to MY group." Ash explained.
"Oh."

"Come in, Plasmius." came Wayne's voice, now much more calm than the last time Ash had seen him. The half-man, half-ghost known as Plasmius switched on the screen to his communicator, to be greeted by Wayne's smirking face.
"You look pleased with yourself." Plasmius said nonchalantly.
"I am. I've figured out when and where I'm going to make Riku pay for his betrayal." Wayne answered, the smirk growing in size as he finished.
"You go ahead and do that, then. I'll take care of Ash Ketchum and his little friends." Plasmius said.
"How do you propose to do that?" Wayne asked.
"I can easily reach the Fenton Portal without being seen. All I have to do is overshadow one of the Fentons and open the portal. Then I'll smash the controls and keep it open so every ghost Danny Phantom has ever fought will come back out en masse! By the time Ash and friends finish fighting those ghosts, they'll be far too tired to fight me!" Plasmius explained, finishing with an evil laugh.
"You're going to let every ghost in the Ghost Zone do your dirty work for you, then." Wayne summarized, with a bored expression on his face.
"Why not? You've been doing that this whole time with Riku and your other lackeys." Plasmius explained, and suddenly, Wayne's expression turned deathly serious.
"I NEVER needed them. I've been able to do this mission myself the entire time. They were just pawns." Wayne said, an angry look on his face. "Just take care of Ketchum. Don't even worry about his friends. If you do this, then I PROMISE to spare the life of Maddie Fenton when I execute my plan. I am a man of my word, if nothing else." he continued.
"Like you kept your word to Vexus, or that Urashima girl?" Plasmius asked. Wayne's face then got angrier.
"Do NOT push me, Vlad Masters. If you do, I'll just forget that I said anything and spare nobody, not even you." Wayne said. "Do what I said or the deal's off!" he finished with a shout, as the screen turned off suddenly.
"I'm afraid I'm making a few changes to this deal, Wayne..." Plasmius said, a smirk across his face as he held out a baseball-sized red orb, with fire burning inside of it.

Meanwhile, the gang, plus Jazz, had gone behind the Nasty Burger to talk.
"So, that's basically the story." Ash said. "I might have skimped on a few details."
"Thanks to his marvelously short attention span." Mac added with a grin, before Ash's fist prodded the top of his head with slight force, causing him pain.
"Shut it." Ash muttered.
"So you're all from parellel universes?" Jazz asked, wide-eyed.
"Well, Mac and Bloo are from the same universe." Ash said.
"And we kick the most ass." Bloo added.

"You haven't had a chance to kick ass, nimrod." Yusuke remarked. "You just joined us before we got here, remember?"
"Yeah, but I fell first." Bloo countered. "That makes me the coolest."
"Whatever." Yusuke said, bored with arguing with the weird little blue blob-thing.
"This is...fantastic! I didn't expect there to be other dimensions aside from the one we're in now, but you all are living proof!" Jazz said, then looked around for a second and slapped her head. "Duh. The Ghost Zone"
"The WHAT Zone?" Ash asked, his eyebrows arched.
"Nothing!" Jazz said, grinning sheepishly. "Do you have a place to stay"
"That's a VERY good question." Jenny remarked. "We don't know if that rift is already open or if it'll take some time TO open."

"Actually, it won't open for another month." came the familiar voice of Enma.
"Shit, a whole MONTH!" Ash said. "Well, then, looks like we DO need a roof over our heads. Okay, here's the plan. Mac, you open a freakshow with Bloo as the main attraction. Yusuke, you go into male prostitution. Jenny, you find a job in the welding industry. We have precious little time"
"Or you can shut up and let me tell you about where you'll be staying." Enma said,then started to explain their living arrangements, but then noticed Jazz among the group.
"I see you found her." Enma said. "We finally found her profile."
"Do tell." Ash said.
"Jasmine Fenton, age sixteen." Enma said, and Ash motioned for him to stop.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..." he said, turning to Jazz. "Your last name is Fenton?"
"Guilty as charged." Jazz said, grinning sheepishly.
"That 'semi-superhero' who lives here...didn't you say his last name was also Fenton?"
"Danny Fenton." Enma said.
"That was the other guy in my dreams." Ash said to Jazz. "Since you both have the same last name, I assume you know him."
"He's my little brother." Jazz explained, then went on to say "Eh...semi-superhero?"
"You know, the whole ghost powers thing?" Ash said, causing Jazz's eyes to widen just a tad, before she put on a cheesy grin and said "You must have the wrong Danny Fenton."
"There's only one living in Amity Park. Your brother." Enma explained, nonchalantly, causing Jazz's eyes to go beady in an anime-style as her mouth hung open. She had been dumbstruck at this.
"You can't pull the wool over the eyes of the third-highest authority figure in the dimensional universe, sweetie." Enma said, in an 'I have you now' voice. "I'm also aware that YOU know his secret. See this file right here?" he asked, holding up a file, which read 'Fenton, Jasmine, Age:16' on the front. The picture on the page that popped up after he opened the file was of the expression she'd just given. "Real up-to-date stuff in here, Jasmine. Let's see...height, weight, top secret stuff. Ooh! The location of your birthmark!" Enma continued.
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY WHERE IT IS!" Jazz screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Oh please, do you really think I'd do something so perverted?" he continued, before tripping on something, as the page conveniently turned, revealing a picture of Jazz's birthmark. "RATTY! DAMN IT!" Enma shouted, from off-screen.
"DON'T LOOK AT IT!" she screamed.
The guys, minus Ash, looked on in amazement, before Yusuke finally shouted "WHOO-HOO! Thank you, sensual birthmark locations!", then got slapped by Jenny.
"Is that...a female's...?" Mac stuttered out.
"Yes!" Bloo shouted. "Savor this moment for the rest of our lives, my friend."
"I don't get it." Ash said, shrugging. "It's just her thigh."
"Yeah, but that's close enough to get a snapshot of..." Yusuke started to say, before he noticed a murderous gleam in the redhead's eyes. "...NOT her ass." he continued, turning away, looking sickly.
"Still not getting it." Ash said.
Jazz's face reddened extremely, as she said "He's not very bright, is he?"
"What was your first clue?" Jenny asked, a bored expression appearing on her face. "It probably doesn't help that he thinks he's stoned half the time." she added.
"STILL nothing." Ash said, before Jazz, still blushing like mad, put her hand over the picture and screamed "YOU CAN STOP LOOKING ANY TIME NOW!"
"I was bored with it, anyway." Ash said, a bored expression on his face currently.
"I am SO SORRY about that." Enma said, as he finally re-appeared, removing the picture, then saying "It's safe to look now."
Jazz finally took her hand off of the screen.
"Fingerprints!" Enma said, turning the page again, revealing a copy of Jazz's thumb print.
"Wow, you DO know everything about me. Okay, YES, I know my brother's half-ghost." she admitted.
"And now that THAT is out of the way...Ash, I've called in a favor." Enma said. "Someone owed me something. Something BIG. So I had him agree to pay your utilities, as well as buy an apartment complex across the street from the Fentons." he went on to explain.
"I guess that mean we're gonna be neighbours." Jazz said, looking over at Jenny, before both narrowed their eyes and grinned at each other, then simultaneously screamed "GIRL'S NIGHT!"
"I'll pop the popcorn! I have a built-in popcorn maker!" Jenny said.
"I'll get the movies!" Jazz responded, giddily.
"Make sure they're tear-jerkers!" Jenny added.
"We can watch them in my room, away from my crackpot parents!" Jazz finished, as the two walked off, talking a mile a minute as they did so.
"Looks like THEY'VE hit it off." Yusuke said.
"As long as I don't hear girlish squealing when I'm trying to sleep, I don't give a shit." Ash said, shrugging.
"Hey, maybe Jenny'll sleep over there tonight." Yusuke said, his eyes narrowing slyly.
"Maybe. Why?" Ash asked, confused.
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed slyly as well, and he and Yusuke grinned, before shouting at the top of their lungs, though not in-sync, "GUY'S NIGHT!"
"I'll get the Big Gulps and the nachos!" Yusuke said.
"I'll get the giant monster movies!" Ash exclaimed.
"Make SURE they involve Tokyo's destruction in some way, shape, or form!" Yusuke said sternly.
"Can we watch too?" Mac and Bloo asked simultaneously.
"NO!" Ash and Yusuke responded, this time being perfectly in-sync.
"Damn!" Bloo exclaimed.
"If you all are finished..." Enma said, his eyes narrowing comically.
"Can'ttalkgottagobye!" Ash said, his voice surpassing light speed as he turned off the communicator, then he and Yusuke re-emerged on the streets of Amity Park, leaving Mac and Bloo alone in the alley.
"..." Bloo looked on wordlessly.
"They totally ditched us!" Mac said.
"Yep..." Bloo said, nonchalantly, then after a brief pause, he spoke up again "Find the house we're gonna be living in for the next month?"
"Find the house we're gonna be living in for the next month." Mac agreed.

As Jenny and Jazz walked back toward the latter's house, a strange, blue man in overalls, with a toboggan on his head, floated above them, in a sinister fashion. "Beware..." he said, to nobody in particular, " For I am...THE BOX GHOST! My power over all things cardboard and square will flatten you!"
"Did you hear something?" Jenny asked.
"Nope." Jazz answered, as they continued on their merry way.
"Curses! Foiled again!" the Box Ghost shouted.
"Don't you EVER take a break!" came a voice all-too-familiar to the Box Ghost. He turned, with an evil grin, to face his nemesis, the boy that was in Ash's dreams...Amity Park's local half-ghost savior, Danny Phantom.
"Seriously, I'm starting to get tired of chasing you around. Can you just go ahead and call it a night for once? Please!" Danny asked.
"I AM THE BOX GHOST!" the Box Ghost shouted in response.
"Didn't think so." Danny said, sporting a bored expression on his face, before mercilessly wailing on the Box Ghost.

"Man, Big Gulps rule!" Yusuke said.
"Totally!" Ash agreed, then added "And they even have those kinds where you can get THREE drinks in ONE cup! How badass is THAT?" he said, an enormous grin on his face.
"I'm sure when I rip out the divider, it'll be even more badass." Yusuke said. "Sprite, Coke, AND Mr.Pibb!"

"I don't see why you didn't just get Dr.Pepper." Ash said, shrugging as he continued "I mean, they both taste the same to me."
"...I don't trust drinks with the word 'Pepper' in them." Yusuke said slowly, as if someone were listening to them. "Oh hey, there's a guy flying up there." he suddenly said, as though slightly interested. Ash looked up, then dropped the stack of movies he was carrying.
"Yusuke, it's him!" Ash called.
"Him?" Yusuke said, not quite understanding at first, then catching on. "Danny Fenton?"
"Yeah! He has the same white hair and green eyes that he did in my dreams!" Ash said.
"We should totally flag him down." Yusuke said, right before a cardboard box filled with 8-track tapes fell on his head.
"OR we could wait for him to finish fighting." Ash suggested.
"OR we could offer outside help." Yusuke responded, pulling a metal folding chair and shouting "HEY YOU! CATCH!"
Danny turned around around and caught the chair easily.
"WOOHOO! GIVE 'EM THE CHAIR!" Ash shouted.
Danny smacked the Box Ghost with his newly-acquired metal folding chair, sending him flying.
"Okay, that was a cheap shot." the Box Ghost said, his expression changing to a semi-serious one. In response, Danny simply busted out a round thermos, pulled off the cap, and pressed the button on the side, releasing a round beam of light, which expanded to fit the size of the Box Ghost. As he got pulled in, he shouted out "BEWARE!", right before disappearing completely into the thermos, which Danny then shook for a few seconds, just to irritate the now-trapped Box Ghost.
"Thanks for the chair." Danny said, dropping down to Ash and Yusuke.
"That was a neat trick." Yusuke said.
"No trick to it. It's just a ghost-trapping thermos." Danny semi-explained. "I don't think I've seen you around here before." he said, immediately after his previous statement.
"We're from...ah..." Ash stumbled to think of a random location.
"Out of town." Yusuke said, with a cheesy grin.
"And totally NOT from a parallel universe!" Ash added, causing a glare from Yusuke and a weird glance from Danny.
"Way to NOT blow our secret, Ash!" Yusuke said, sarcastically.
"Well, my ghost sense isn't going off, so you've bought five minutes of my time." Danny said.
"As my semi-esteemed colleague here just STUPIDLY BLEW, we're from another dimension. Seperate dimensions, actually." Yusuke started to explain.
"Wait, is this a long story? And is THAT..." Danny asked, pointing down to the fallen stack of VHS tapes, "...a stack of Godzilla movies?"
"Yes, and yes. And since both answers are the same, those are in no particular order." Ash said, blinking a couple of times afterwards.
"If you let me watch those Godzilla movies with you, you have a lot longer." Danny said, grinning.
"Deal." Ash agreed.

As the two teenagers entered the apartment they'd be staying for the next month, they smiled. It was well-furnished, with a large, plasma-screen television, equipped with surround sound. Attached to it were several different video game consoles, as well as a VCR, a DVD player, and a large stereo, which had its own surround sound set. There was a large sofa for them to sit on, as well as two recliners on each side. The place looked like paradise to the two Spirit Detectives, as well as Danny, who phased in seconds later thorugh one of the light blue-colored walls. "Whoa. This place ROCKS!" Danny said, amazed.
"Sure does..." Ash said, equally amazed.
"Well, let the monster movie marathon begin, boys!" Yusuke happily exclaimed, as he popped the topmost Godzilla movie into the VCR and pressed 'Play'. The three sat on the sofa and began to relax, with absolutely nothing to worry them for the time being...

The front door to the Fenton household slowly creaked open, as a somewhat nervous Jazz slowly poked her head in, looking for something that Jenny couldn't figure out.
"The coast appears to be clear..." Jazz said, before hearing someone behind them clearing his throat. She turned, only to see exactly what she was trying to avoid.
"Uh...Jazzypants, is there another ghost in the house?" the large, paunchy, orange jumpsuit-clad man asked, his eye twitching as he finished his question.
"Not that I know of, Dad..." she said, seeming peculiarly nervous to the other person there, a tall, curvy, blue hazmat suit-clad woman with reddish-brown hair. Jenny assumed the woman was Jazz's mother.
"Jazz, who's that with you?" she asked.
"Is it a new boyfriend in a suit of armor?" the redhead's father asked, his eyes narrowing in anger.
"No." Jazz answered, her own eyes narrowing in anger.
"Now Jack...Jazz is sixteen, I think she realizes any boy she brings home with her doesn't need armor." the woman said.
"Of course he does, Maddie, if he realizes that we're packin' heat!" Jack said, pulling out a shotgun with his face on the barrel.
"Jack..." Maddie started to say, "...toting around the Fenton Shotgun like that will get you arrested."
"What, for protecting our daughter?" Jack asked defensively.
"No, for carrying a gun in broad daylight." Maddie said.
"But it's a gun with the word 'Fenton' on it!" Jack protested.
"Actually, it's a gun with your face on it." Jazz interjected, with a bored expression on her face.
"Disregarding that subject entirely..." Maddie started, then looked over at Jenny. "Who IS this girl? And why is she covered in metal?"
"This is Jenny." Jazz said. "And she's, uh--"
"VERY sick. I have to wear this special metal suit if I want to interact with anyone whatsoever." Jenny said, letting out a few fake sobs with her back turned to Jack and Maddie. She then thought, 'Hoo boy, that was lame. There's no way these two are gonna buy that.' To her great surprise, however, when she turned around, Jack had anime-ish tears running down his face as he said "You poor, poor girl!"
Jenny had very wide eyes as she thought 'How stupid ARE these people?'

As the first Godzilla movie ended, the three teens were interrupted from their euphoric state by a knock at the door. Ash walked over and looked into the peephole. There stood a well-dressed man, with long grey hair tied back into a ponytail, as well as a grey, mustache-less goatee. His blue eyes stared forward, and he smiled. He didn't seem like any sort of threat whatsoever, so Ash slowly opened the door.
"Uh...can I help you?" he asked, his eyebrows arched.
"As a matter of fact, yes." the man said. Danny's eyes widened, and he floated over to the door, which caused the man to smirk.
"Plasmius!" Danny said.
"I see you've already met Daniel here." the man, who Danny had just referred to as Plasmius, said, still smirking.
I didn't have to meet him to know about you." Ash said defensively. "You're this dimension's most powerful evil being, Vlad Plasmius"
"And you're Ash Ketchum...let's see what else your file here says. Age:14. Born in:Kanto, Japan, in the year 990. My, you ARE a long way from home." Plasmius said.
"Where'd you get my file!" Ash shouted.
"Where else? From Enma. He hand-delivered it to me in his own office." Plasmius said. "Of course, he wouldn't let go of it without something extremely valuable in return." he smirked again.
"..." Ash stood there, his mouth agape. He suddenly realized how Enma figured out the Spirit Stone was in Amity Park, but there was something more pressing, and obvious, on his mind currently, which he sounded out slowly.
"He...gave...you...my...FILE?" Ash shouted, his eyes wild with rage.
"In exchange for two things. One, that I give him the location of the Spirit Stone. Two, I provide you and your ragtag crew with a place to stay." Plasmius said.
"You're the guy who owed that favor then..." Ash said, in realization.
"Why the hell do you need Ash's 'file'?" Danny asked.
"No reason now, actually. There's nothing of interest in there." Plasmius said, as he turned into his ghost form. "I'll give it back if Ash here can swipe it from me in a contest of strength, speed, and skill!" he proclaimed.
"Looks like this, uh..." Ash trailed off, then whispered sheepishly to Danny. "...What night is it?"
"Saturday. Would I have come here on a school night? I don't think so." Danny said, his eyes narrowing.
"Considering I've known you for all of two hours, how the hell would I know?" Ash asked, shrugging.
"He's got you there, man." Yusuke added, from the background, as the second Godzilla movie began.
"Anyway..." Ash trailed off. "Looks like ourSaturday night Godzilla movie marathon is gonna have to be put on hold." he said, frowning at Plasmius.
"Wait...did you say...Godzilla movies?" Plasmius asked, smiling as he reverted to his human form. "Tell you what, boys. Let me watch those movies with you, and you can have the file back without a fight!" he said.
"Normally, I'd try to insert something badass like 'OR...you hand over the file and I don't send you packing back to Wisconsin in an iron lung.', but I just don't have the strength. Deal." Ash said, stepping aside so that Plasmius could enter the room.

Meanwhile, across the street, the first tearjerker had just ended, and Jenny, Jazz, Maddie, and even Jack sat there, tears pouring from their eyes.
"That was so SAD!" Jack blubbered. The three females just nodded as they sobbed. Well, at least Maddie and Jazz were crying. Jenny, however, was leaking oil from her eyes.
"Fenton handkerchief?" Jack offered, right after blowing into it. Jenny just held her hand out and said "No thanks.", whereas Maddie grinned awkwardly and shook her head, while Jazz simply looked at her dad like he'd caught something horrible, and said "EW."

Meanwhile, back in Tremorton, inside the remains of the Cluster Mothership, many tiny robots were busy tuning up a badly beaten robotic body. As they finished attaching the head, the colors on the robot changed from green and yellow to blue and white.
"It appears her Majesty is going to be alright." said one of the little robots, to one of his tiny colleagues.
"Indeed. Your Majesty, can you hear me?" came the voice of the second small robot.
"W...where am I...?" came the robot's voice, as she raised up, revealing an old enemy of Ash and Jenny.
"I...I'm...alive..." Vexus said, raising her left arm, and flexing her hand. As she saw it moving, she turned to face forward, with an evil, toothy smirk on her face.

Author's note:Dustin here. Here we are with the first episode of Season 2! What's about to happen, and how was Vexus revived? All will be revealed before the end of Season 2. Anyway, peace out. Stay tuned for Episode 26!