Hack: Yeah, to answer one of your questions, the smashers weren't that happy to see Fox because they were so damn surprised by his sudden appearance. And to be blunt, he actually didn't do that much besides find Mewtwo's report, while everyone else did quite a bit. Let's see here, Luigi beat the crap out of Cackletta, Samus beat the crap out of Vaati, Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff became much more powerful and defeated Blood Falcon, Luigi and Samus learned the whole story from Ganondorf, and Fox really did almost nothing compared to what the others did.

But of course, Fox will play a much more important role after this arc. Especially in the upcoming planet that they're going to visit, but I'm not going to reveal that. Enjoy this chapter!

By the way, if you don't know what a pokemon looks like, go image search it! It's too hard for me to describe them… Sorry.


Chapter 28: Giovanni

"Get the fuck out of here! I don't want to see your damn sorry face in this ship again!"

"…If I take a step back, I'll never be able to move on…"

"YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU ARE FUCKING DEAD YOU DAMN BASTARD!"

"I don't give a shit about my life anymore. I won't let you fucking do what you want with me!"

Mewtwo chuckled to himself. Seeing the future of these beings really was amusing to him. He decided to venture further.

"Damn it, I can't crack this damn code! It's so damn impossible!"

"I figured it out! It's…"

"You've had enough, Mewtwo?"

Mewtwo immediately opened his eyes again. That cannot be… Was that me on the ground? No. I am the perfect pokemon. I am unstoppable.

"Boss!" Mewtwo heard the voice from his mind. He peered through the floor below him (yes, he can see through floors and walls) and saw a Team Rocket Grunt speaking to Giovanni in a formal red suit.

"Boss, your pokemon are ready sir! Your next orders?"

Mewtwo twisted his hands, controlling Giovanni's body.

"…take a break. I have no further use of you," said Giovanni with a slight monotonic voice.

"On your orders, boss!" The grunt gave him a salute and left the room.

Mewtwo's eyes opened again. He looked at the base of the Silph Co. outside and saw a group of smashers.

So they finally arrive… Let's see how far they can get…


Two Rocket Grunts stood by the entrance of the Silph Co., completely alert on their surroundings. Unfortunately, their instincts aren't very powerful.

BEUM! A charged blaster shot struck the right grunt's waist, knocking him out cold. Before the other Grunt noticed, Captain Falcon came flying into his head, kicking it against the wall. Before long, he was out cold too.

The group of eight came to the door and entered quietly, only to enter an enormous room with several Rocket Grunts everywhere.

"What the… Who are you?"

"Intruders! They must've knocked out the guards!"

All of the Grunts reached for their pokeballs, preparing to make their pokemon fight.

Fox pointed at the end of the room. "There's our target!" he said, pointing at an elevator. "If we get there, we can reach the top in no time!"

In two seconds, a third of the grunts were frozen by an Ice Spreader, another third were electrocuted to death by Luigi, and the remaining ones were taken out by a well placed Falcon Kick and Fire Bird.

"Holy shit, these guys are a piece of cake…" said Captain Falcon. Fox and Falco ran to the elevator and opened it. The group of eight entered the small metal elevator as the doors closed.

Meowth jumped up and down. "The last floor is da 30th floor in the Silph Co. But we usually get there by balloon, so I don't really get dis elevator stuff…"

Samus looked at the floor buttons on the side of the elevator. "We can't go up any higher," she said, pushing the number thirty.

"Why not?" asked Pikachu. "We can't stop for something stupid like this! We have to go save Ash!"

Samus tapped a slot below the elevator buttons. "We need a card key to access floor thirty. Meowth, are you sure we can't just blast upwards?"

Meowth sadly shook his head. "Naw, the floors are secured with high technology. You can't blow up any of the walls or floors, so we have to use the elevators. No stairs, either."

Didn't he just say that he didn't know the building very well? Samus shook her head.

Luigi pushed the floor number twenty-nine. "We can go on this floor for some reason," he said. "We might as well go up as high as we can."

After waiting another minute, there was a DING! The elevator door opened and the group of eight ran out to enter the twenty-ninth floor.

The elevator door closed behind them and they were all surrounded by Team Rocket Grunts carrying whips and guns.

"What the hell?" said Pikachu. "Trainers never carry around weapons!"

"Well apparently Team Rocket does now!" replied Captain Falcon. All of the grunts released gunfire on all of the smashers, bullets shooting at the smashers.

With blinding reflexes, Jigglypuff jumped in front of the smashers and cried, "Protect!" A yellow hemispherical barrier formed around all of them, blocking the bullets. In fact, the barrier was so powerful that the bullets ricocheted off, hitting other Team Rocket Grunts!

Before long, all of the grunts were downed again, leaving an empty room with three separate doors. Only one more Team Rocket member stood.

"Hmph, I commend you for getting this far," he said. "Getting past all of my top Team Rocket Grunts is very creditable."

"You're… Giovanni! The leader of Team Rocket!" said Pikachu.

"Yes, that's definitely Giovanni," Jigglypuff added.

"That's the leader? No wonder he looks different, he's not wearing any black!" replied Falco.

Giovanni smirked. "As Meowth has undoubtedly told you, your friends are trapped on the thirtieth floor."

Meowth held up his paw. "Wait, how do you know that I was coming? And what's the point of all these killins? We're not meant for that!"

"I have no time to answer your questions," said Giovanni. "If you truly want to waste your lives trying to save your friends… You obviously need the elevator cards. Behind each door behind me is a card for each, though only one is real."

"What the fuck? What are you trying to do?" said Falcon, flicking Giovanni off.

Giovanni ignored him. "But to obtain the card in each door, you must defeat my most powerful pokemon. Two lie behind each door. Once you defeat them, the card will appear, but who knows? Your efforts might have gone in vain, for all I care."

Giovanni suddenly disappeared into thin air. Everyone was confused as to what was going on.

"Well what are we going to do? Let's kick some pokemon ass!" said Samus.

"But we want to get to the top floor as soon as possible," said Fox. "I think it's a smart choice to split up and get all three cards at the same time. It's the fastest way we can get the correct card, guaranteed."

"Good idea, I'm always into splitting up," Luigi added.

"Me too!" said Jigglypuff.

"Meh… Whatever," said Meowth.

"It's for Ash… I'll do it," said Pikachu.

Falco grinned. "All right, this is where the real fight starts! I'll split us up. After hearing your stories, I think I have the best plans for how to split up.

First, Luigi and Samus should fight together because they've been together for a long period of time. Same with Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff. Luigi can absorb lightning, so I think it's a good idea to stick Pikachu with Luigi and Samus. I don't know much about Meowth, but I'll put him with Jigglypuff and Falcon. I'll be going with Fox, and the two of us will take on one room. Everyone got it?"

"As long as I'm not with Meowth, I'm fine!" said Pikachu.

"Damn it, I hate this! I'm not with my babe!"

Luigi grabbed Samus from behind to stop her from shooting Falcon.

Falco continued. "All right, so here's how it is.

Right door: Luigi, Samus, and Pikachu.

Left door: Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff, and Meowth

Middle door: Fox and Falco."

Falco was about to speak again, but Fox stopped him. "You've done enough, and you're definitely become a lot smarter," he said. "I'll take it from here.

These battles are the most important that we will face. We must win at all costs. Do whatever it takes to win. I know that Mewtwo is up there, waiting for us. I know that he knows about our presence, and he'll do whatever it takes to stop us. We're doing this all for Pikachu and his friends. We're doing this for our friends.

Most importantly, we're doing this for the entire universe, and accomplishing our task of annihilating the Ring of Darkness. Everyone got that?"

There were mutters and nods, but no arguments.

"So what are we waiting for?" said Samus. "Let's go!"

The group of eight split into three smaller groups and walked through the doors, ready to face whatever waits for them.


Luigi, Samus, and Pikachu faced a Nidoking (purple giant ground/poison pokemon) and an Alakazam (psychic pokemon, yellow, carries spoons).

"You ready for this?" asked Luigi.

"Of course. How about you, Pikachu?" Samus answered.

"Never been better." The red spots on Pikachu's cheeks flowed with electricity, ready to electrocute anyone in the way.

Samus held her arm cannon to the side and adjusted its functions.

Luigi placed his hands behind him, charging his fire and electricity attacks.

"Let's go!" all three cried.


Captain Falcon held his elbows up in a fighting stance, while Jigglypuff sat on his shoulder. Meowth was whimpering.

They were in front of a Machamp (gray human-ish fighting pokemon with four arms) and a Gyarados (flying water pokemon, looks like a flying snake/dragon).

"I… I can't do this…" said Meowth. "I can't fight…"

He suddenly turned around and ran back through the door, escaping.

"Pfft, I knew he'd chicken out…" said Captain Falcon.

"That's not so important," replied Jigglypuff. "He wouldn't have done much anyways, probably just get in the way."

"True… Well, let's play with these god damn pokemon then!"


Fox stood by Falco, his staff and blaster drawn. Falco took out his own blaster, but he generally preferred fighting with his legs more.

"Huh, I never heard of these pokemon…" said Fox. He looked at a Scizor (red steel bug pokemon) and a Skarmory (gray, metal bird with big wings).

"This might be some trouble… We've got ourselves metal pokemon," said Falco.

"What happened to you, Falco? You used to be cocky, twice as more than me," replied Fox.

"Hmph, let's say that I got into a couple troubles lately."

"So you ARE hiding something from me!"

"Fuck no! There is nothing I'm hiding from you!"

"Are you sure? Are you sure I can trust you?"

"Yes, definitely. I've been your damn friend for years!"

"All right, I trust you. Let's take them down."

"You've got it."


"Nergal! Aren't you done yet?" Wolf asked, angrily throwing papers around.

Nergal glared at him. "No! I told you, this ritual takes weeks to prepare! I must have another week to finish them, then there's the time it takes to get to Pherae!"

Wolf instantly appeared directly in front of Nergal. "If you don't get it done any faster…" he snarled, ready to tear Nergal's throat apart. "I think I might as well kill you right here!"

BOOM. A loud explosion tore Nergal and Wolf apart. A dark figure appeared by the door.

"M-m-master!" both Nergal and Wolf stuttered.

"You're not letting your anger take over you again, are you Wolf?"

"Um, no! Of course not!"

"If something like this happens again, I will personally make sure you pay tenfold. Maybe I'll just head over to Kanto and… kill Fox for you, shall I say?"

Wolf growled. "I fucking told you, Fox is MY prey!"

"Remember that I am the master around here, and everyone will do as I say!"

Metaknight appeared beside the figure. "Master!" he said. "We have a visitor saying that he wants to join us. He seems quite capable too, more than Vaati or even Mewtwo. He claims to have been revived by one of his humble servants."

"Hm? But we're running low on the Endowment of Exigency. We don't have anyone to suck it out of…"

"Except Nergal…" Wolf snarled. "We have no further use of him except for the ritual. We can simply dispose of him after he's finished."

"Oh really? But that would be too cruel. But of course, we did that with King K. Rool and Vaati…"

"Nergal is the second weakest. He is not using his power to full use. I suggest that we lend his power to this newcomer and see if he uses it well," explained Metaknight. "If he uses it well, he should keep it. If not, we shall give it back to Nergal."

"But…" Nergal started.

"Quiet, bitch!" yelled Wolf. "You have no authority in here! You have absolutely no say in this!"

The master smiled. "Of course… That is an excellent idea. I love how your mind works, Metaknight… What is this newcomer's name anyways?"

"He claims to have come from Eagleland."

"The planet where you knocked Fox into?"

"Yes. He is probably still alive, I can still sense…"

The master interrupted. "The name! What is his name?"

"The newcomer's name is Gigyas, Ness's enemy."