Pokémon World Online

Part 35: Unfair match Ups

Disclaimer: I do not own the usual. Part 35 and I'm 5 away from 40. Goodness gracious! Dedicated to all my lovely readers and to the new friends I've made. Not much to say right now except I hope you enjoy. The butter knife thing is an inside joke thing of sorts.

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"Bunneary!" Emily23 shouted. The pillar had fallen on top of her dear partner. Arcanine ran over and used a flamethrower to blast most of the pillar away except for the bottom part so that he would not accidently hit Bunneary. He then pushed the rest of it away with his head. There was Bunneary motionless. "Bunneary," she gasped, picking up her small friend and holding her tightly. She was not responding.

"Hurry up; more of the ten are coming! Where did Drix and the rest of them get off to?" Maple looked around. Sure enough, a female wearing crimson armor swooped in on a Dragonite. "Girl, move!" Maple shouted to Emily23, but she stayed kneeling where she was, holding her dear partner who was deathly still.

"Arrr!" Arcanine picked her up gently in his mouth and place her on his back. He then sped away to the stairs, bounding up them.

Emily23 sat on his back blank, cuddling Bunneary. "You can't be..."

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Twilmer was thankful that Drix and Aura had shown up when they did because she would probably have been killed for a second time. That thought didn't bode well with her. . She didn't feel right leaving Aura to fend for herself like that (Drix she could really care less about), but she knew both swordsmen could take care of themselves. She finally reached the top floor and entered Satoshi's office. She mentally slapped herself for wanting to knock on the door and prepared herself to not bow before the game's so called "creator." She used a white boot-clad foot to smash the door in, Weavile behind her.

"I see you've regained your true form," Satoshi smirked at her. Around him were gathered an Espeon, Umbreon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Leafeon, and Glaceon. None of them looked very happy. "I was actually trying to come up with a new Eevee evolution, but it seems someone has killed my supervising artist."

Twilmer looked up at him in surprise. This was news to her, but who had killed Ken Sugimori? Twilmer found that her inventory was unlocked now and took advantage of this opportunity to withdraw her elemental staff, which worked wonders on those who relied on special attacks.

"You wish to fight me? What exactly will that accomplish?" Satoshi asked, but didn't wait for Twilmer to answer. "I always loved playing and collecting insects when I was a boy so when I heard of a world where one collected and befriended creatures, I had to make it my own."

"A world of your own...so you didn't create the Pokémon world," Twilmer sighed and then gave Satoshi a stern look. "Sorry to break your moment of nostalgia, but I didn't come here to talk." Twilmer pointed the top of her staff at Satoshi.

He began to laugh manically and then glared at her. "If a battle is what you want, then here it comes, however please allow me a test first to see if you are worthy. Go my eeveelutions," Satoshi commanded. The Pokémon merely looked back at him. "Did you not hear me?"

"They won't listen to you, Satoshi. They're as real as you or me now and they won't take orders like they used to." Twilmer glared at him.

"I beg to differ," Satoshi smirked and held up a tiny, infant Eevee. "Attack her or your little sister will be permanently deleted." The eeveelutions looked at Satoshi with a look that could kill. They then turned to Twilmer.

"Leaf," the Leafeon muttered. Twilmer could still slightly understand their language and the Leafeon had just muttered sorry.

"It's okay," Twilmer sighed and held her staff at ready as the Eeveelutions prepared to attack.

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Guy stretched as he arrived at Greensboro. He fingered the pouch at his side that carried the potent potion he had made from the flower he had discovered in the forest. Caesar fluttered lazily beside him. Guy had walked the entire way to build up his character's stamina. He may have been a simple herbalist, but he needed his strength were he to ever face a fast opponent like a grace master. "Hello brother," Guy heard a voice behind him as he entered the heart of the city. He turned and saw Trellaine waving at him; Haunter drifting around his head playfully.

"The hell? I thought you were forming an army of some sort on Firewall or something," Guy looked up at him confused.

"Bah, it was too much trouble. Besides, when I heard one of the brotherhood was near, I had to come and be the welcoming party." Trellaine smiled as Haunter did a loop-de-loop.

"Got any oranges? I'm starving," Guy smiled; glad to see his old friend.

"You know I've always got one or two up my sleeve," Trellaine shook his sleeve and Haunter held out his hands, catching five of the fruits, "hmm, I must have gathered more than I thought. Anyways, now is not the time for joking. It seems things are worse than we first thought. Dream wants revenge on Twilmer and she is stopping at nothing to get it. She also seems deranged and has brought about a series of events that threatens all gamers and the like. You know, everyday business for the brotherhood."

"Dream?" Guy placed a finger to his chin. "Not that naked woman in the forest..."

"The very same," Trellaine nodded. "I believe you had something to do with that."

"How was I supposed to know she'd become a crazed murderous maniac? I swear I don't understand women," Guy shook his head. Caesar landed on his head and rested. Guy frowned, not liking the fact that his head had become a perch. "Twilmer's that administrator that got turned into a Pichu, right?"

"The very same. It's up to us to help set things straight once again. Funny how it always comes to this. Anyways, I'm going to scout ahead and meet up with you later. You mean Twilmer and her party." Trellaine began to walk away.

"What do you mean?" Guy asked, turning around fast and aggravating Caesar who floated tiredly off of his head. "Sorry," Guy uttered to his partner.

"I mean you need to finish what you started with Dream. You made her, though unintentionally, so you must unmake her."

"I still don't see how this is my fault," Guy sighed.

"Oh, and take this," Trellaine walked past the remains of what had been a hotel and tossed a butter knife towards Guy over his shoulder. Guy caught the knife and could feel the energy pulsing within it. "It'll be useful." Trellaine then teleported away.

"Why does he tempt me like this?" Guy shook his head, placing the butter knife in his inventory. It was a powerful artifact to have, but also very impractical. "Well, I guess we have to wait until Twilmer comes through here. That shouldn't take long, should it?" Guy asked Caesar who resumed his perch atop Guy's head and was gently snoozing. "Never mind," he sighed, sitting down on a bench.

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Twilmer dodged a flamethrower and a hydro pump and came beside Victoria. "We can't take them out as a group, but if we work on them individually, then we should be able to cut through their numbers somewhat." The Weavile nodded in agreement. "I'll take out Flareon so that he can't hurt you, no offense but you are weak to fire, and you take out Espeon. We'll meet in the middle once we're finished.

Twilmer used her staff to smack the Flareon right in the center of its head. It hadn't been expecting the attack and it fell back, shaking its head in anger. It lunged forward as Twilmer dodged a razor leaf from Leafeon. Twilmer noticed that the Eeveelutions didn't want to fight as much as she did. She prayed that they would stay back, but knew that they wouldn't because of their love for their little sister. Twilmer had to be careful because now that Pokémon were real, she didn't want to kill any innocent Pokémon; however, as Flareon singed the back of her robe, Twilmer changed her tone slightly.

She leaped forward, slashing at the Pokémon, who leaped away, but she used the agility of a grace master to meet it as it came down. Several more moves like that and Flareon was easily tired out. It seemed that Satoshi had overestimated the 'eons' as Flareon was already tired, and then it must be inexperienced. Twilmer made quick work of the Flareon, who grew tired and was out of the match. Victoria easily took care of Espeon in this same manner. The two then targeted Leafeon and Glaceon. That left Umbreon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon.

"Okay, it'll be easier to take out Vaporeon and Jolteon if I'm a Pichu," Twilmer used her pendant to turn into her Pichu form. All three of the eons left appeared more advanced than their siblings. "Alright, ready?" Twilmer asked Victoria, who nodded. Satoshi simply watched with a smirk on his face.

"Everything's going according to plan," he thought to himself.

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Drix's sword met with Dil's broad sword. It was easily deflected as the broad sword was made for defense. While Drix kept Dil busy in the front, Aura used both of her katanas to attack his wide open back side. Dil hissed and jumped back. Aura knew he would not make the same mistake twice, so they couldn't rely on that move again. Drix was panting heavily beside Aura. They may have had the advantage of two against one, but both of them were tired from the previous fights, thus Dil still had the upper hand.

"Is that all you've got?" Dil smirked. "Honestly, I thought the two best non-top ten gamers would put up a better fight."

"It's not our fault the other top ten members gave us a little trouble," Drix panted.

"What are you talking about? The ones who attacked you down stairs are..."

"Yes, we killed them. Seems that our little party is in the lead," Aura smirked, Sparia keeping an eye on the Steelix behind her.

"Not for long," Dil lunged forward and the two clumsily dodged. Aura threw one of her katanas at him, which he easily deflected. Drix hit him as Aura retrieved her katana. Sparia was doing her best to keep Steelix at bay with her water attacks, but the giant Pokémon was surprisingly fast for his huge size.

Drix's broadsword pierced Dil's flesh swiftly and almost as soon as the strike fell, the blade was pulled back with a sickening, wet sound. Dil swayed, but stayed on his feet. The wound wasn't fatal, at least not yet. Keeping his distance from the tired duo, he fished out a hyper potion from his inventory.

"Oh no you don't!" Aura, being faster than Drix due to her light swords, lunged forward. Dil managed to take a sip from the potion before he had to block her attack and the vial fall from his hands and shattered on the dusty floor. The Top Ten member hissed something nasty towards her before blocking another blow from Drix and swiftly avoiding a slash from the twin katanas.

"Ok, time to get a little bit serious here." Dil huffed, his face sporting an annoyed expression. "Guess the warm-up is over."

He swung his weapon in lazy circles, eyes shifting between two swords masters. Drix had both good attack power and defense, but his movements were slowed due to his blade's weight. Aura was the quicker of the two, her agility and attack high because of the double swords, but thanks to that, her defense was almost non-existent. One serious chain of attacks could probably take care of her...

He focused his attack on Drix.

Drix parried the attack just in time, silently wondering why the strength of his opponent had gone up so suddenly. Had it really been just a warm-up for him?

Aura attacked from behind, but Dil avoided the damage. Still keeping his swords crossed with Drix's, his arm moved so fast she never noticed it before his elbow hit her straight on the face.

She swayed, losing her balance. "Shit!" Aura yelped in surprise and rolled on the ground, the blade of broadsword piercing the spot where her head had been just a second before. Drix narrowed his eyebrows as he watched Aura wipe blood from her nose.

"Is that any way to treat a lady, you fucker?" He hissed, jumping in with another attack. Dil blocked, and then retaliated, but Drix was faster. His sword left a nasty cut on Dil's other side.

"Dammit, it's not fair." Aura hissed towards her battle partner, pleased that her nose finally had stopped bleeding. "You get to cut him twice, but it's me who gets smacked in the face!" Her nose wasn't really broken, but it sure felt like it. She sniffed experimentally, scowling at the sting of pain.

"Are you done chatting?" Dil laughed, as he readied for another attack. There seemed to be a new strength in him, almost as if he wasn't bothered by his wound at all. Was it really just from one sip of Hyper Potion? Neither of the two sword masters wanted to think what could have happened if he had taken the whole vial.

"Where did he get that strength?" Drix hissed, panting as he leaned on his sword for support.

"That's for me to know and you to never find out," Dil chided immaturely.

"Well, now we know he's using a strength booster for sure, eh?" Drix smirked at Aura.

"Enough chatter!" Dil lunged forward towards Aura. Instead of backing up Aura this time, he examined Dil from a distance. There was a strange marking of an orange dragon on the side. Before, when Drix and Dil had crossed swords in combat, the dragon symbol had been whole. Now, Drix noticed that part of the tail was missing. Drix looked around on the floor and noticed some orange drops on the ground. Aha! He ran forward and pretended to use a low attack on Dil, but instead he reached his hand down to touch the orange drops. He lifted his hand to his nose and smelled.

"As I thought," Drix wiped his hand on his pants, "Hercules nectar."

"Huh?" Aura asked, confused.

Steelix brought his tail up and smashed it down. Drix pulled Aura behind a rock to dodge it. "That dragon crest on his sword is actually a quite cleverly disguised vial where he keeps his Hercules nectar. It must travel from his lips into his sword using some bizarre hacked coding."

"So that's what that vial was. I didn't know one sip would increase his strength this much. A full vial triples your strength, so we can be thankful that-" Aura was cut off by Dil's taunting.

"Are we done playing hide and seek?" he shouted.

"How do we beat him now?" Aura asked as she and Drix jumped away from the rock as Steelix unleashed a tail slam.

"Fuck if I know," Drix growled.

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Twilmer used her electric attacks to easily take out Vaporeon; however, Victoria was having trouble with Umbreon, who was obviously the strongest Eevee sibling. The fallen siblings littered the ground, unconscious not dead. Jolteon was also a hassle as it kept absorbing Twilmer's attacks. Twilmer felt light headed from using so much electricity. She remembered that Pichus tend to do themselves harm while attacking and cursed her Pichu body once again.

"This is ridiculous," Twilmer sighed as she fell and landed on her little Pichu butt. She stood up and rubbed it. She was getting weaker and more aggravated the more electricity she used. "That's it, form change," Twilmer grumped, pulling at her charm.

"No you don't," Satoshi called and before Twilmer could use her charm, Satoshi whistled and a Starly flew into the room and grabbed it. Twilmer began to choke as the bird pulled it higher and higher. The bird then jerked its head and Twilmer fell out of the neck. Victoria caught her and placed her on the ground. Starly brought the charm over to Satoshi, who examined it.

"Give that back you bastard!" Twilmer shouted angrily.

"I see you've learned some language from those companions of yours," Satoshi grinned. He pointed to the corner of the room and a Graveler came over, grabbing Twilmer. Victoria jumped on top of an over head light and growled down at the Graveler who had tried to catch her, fainting it with an ice beam. "This is an artifact blessed with the power of Arceus," Satoshi turned the charm. Victoria lunged down and tried to grab it, but a Machamp knocked her out of the way with a focus punch. Another Graveler entered the room and held Twilmer captive.

"Why are all of these Pokémon listening to you?" Twilmer asked, struggling to get free of the Graveler's four-armed grip.

"They were my subjects before they were real and now that they are real, their loyalty has set in and they will support me until the end." Satoshi smirked at this intelligence and cleared his throat. "You won't be needing this charm anymore," Satoshi clenched the charm hard until it broke. "Strength cheats really help," he grinned.

"NO-wait PWO corp. uses cheats? Never mind that, you bastard! You fucking destroyed my sanity thingy! Damn you to hell!" Twilmer struggled, but the Graveler tightened his grip until Twilmer had to stop as the pain had become unbearable.

"So much for your little bit of hope now," Satoshi shook his head at Twilmer who's head hung. She was, once again, stuck as a Pichu. She felt tears sting her eyes, but she held them back. She wouldn't grant Satoshi that bit of weakness, but now... things seemed hopeless.

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End Part 35

Things always seem to get worse before they get better...