Bubbling Over
Jeremy wakes up in a white room full of hot steam. "Ouch, this steam is hot. What is with this guy and hot water!" Jeremy yells. He looks around and sees nothing but hears a noise. "Ow!" Odd said. "Odd!" Jeremy runs to Odd through the steam. His skin burns with each movement. "Jeremy?" Odd said. "Where are we?" "I don't know, and I don't care!" Odd and Jeremy get up and see black dots moving in the room. "What the fuck? I am not in the mood for any illusions!" Odd shouts. One of the dots shows an image of a boy. He waves at them. The boy then runs as a sword stabs him in the chest. Then the boy takes the sword out of him and starts charging towards Jeremy and Odd. "Run!" Jeremy shouts. Odd and Jeremy run all around the room. In reality, they are only running around in a small circle in the corner of the chamber.
Elsewhere in the room, Yumi wakes up and looks around her. "My head hurts, and my feet burn!" Yumi gets up and sees Dawn and Ulrich having a conversation. "Yumi!" Ulrich said. "Ulrich! Dawn!" Yumi shouts. "What is with all the steam? It's like a shower but with the uncomfortableness of the steam," Dawn said. "I know. That's why we decided not to move a muscle," Ulrich said. "I can see that! We need to get out of this mad house. I could care less if this Calvin guy has issues with us. He should have thought about before he killed not one but two innocent people!" Yumi said. The floor started to change. The white tiles became rocky and foamy. "What the hell is this?" Dawn asks. She feels the floor, and she feels something frothy and rocky and sticky. "The floor is-" Yumi started, but she sinks halfway to her waist. "Help!" Yumi shouts. Ulrich tries to help her, but the floor brings up two white arms and brings Ulrich to Yumi's level. "Help Dawn!" Ulrich and Yumi said. Dawn stops short of Yumi and Ulrich. "Let me think!" Dawn said to herself. She takes off her jacket so that Yumi and Ulrich can grab it and pull themselves out. While this is happening, the floor pulls Dawn down until she disappears. "Dawn!" Yumi and Ulrich scream out.
Meanwhile, Allison sits in the corner of the room. "My whole body hurts!" She looks around and sees Odd and Jeremy running around in a circle. She also sees Yumi and Ulrich kneeling on a prism and Dawn laying flat on another prism. "What is going on?" Ash, Brock, and Aelita crawl their way to Allison. "Allison, please tell that's you?" Ash asks. Allison crawls to him and kisses him. Ash blushes. "It's her!" Brock said in a teasing voice. "What is happening? Why are all our friends acting weird?" Aelita asks. Brock looks closer at the room. "Do you see those colorful lines there." The others nod their heads. "That means that a psychic type is using psychic." "That explains what's going on. But how can we help them?" Ash asks. Aelita thinks. "I know that our magic isn't working here, but if we all try to combine our powers, maybe we can snap them out of it. Hopefully." "We can try but mixing our powers with a Pokemon can hurt the Pokemon," Allison said. "It's a risk, but I studied that a psychic type own psychic abilities can protect itself," Brock said. "Let's do it!" Allison said. Before they can try, bubbles started to float all around them. "Bubbles!" Aelita chirped. Aelita began to cheer and chase the bubbles. "Aelita!" Ash said. Then he starts to chase the bubbles. "Ash! Aelita! Wake up!" Brock said. Brock sees a girl with brown skin, silver hair, and a flowing yellow dress. The girl invites Brock to chase bubbles with her, which Brock agrees. "Hey!" Allison said. She sees some of the bubbles come close to her. "Go away!" She pops one of the bubbles, and it burns her fingers. Then the juice from the bubble burns a hole in the wall. "Oh my gosh!" Allison screams.
Ash J, Sam, Gary, Leona, Destiny, Leya, and Lesteria arrive in a field. "This is where it leads us. There is nothing there!" Gary shouts. "Gary, calm down!" Sam said. "This has to be a mistake! This is grass," Destiny said. Lesteria looks around. "Why would a grassy field need a fence?" "Because someone owns the land and do not want trespassers on the property," Ash J said. Ash J walks up to the field. His pin on his jacket lights up. "I can feel the Everlasting Silver Crystal nearby. I know that Allison and her friends are close." "But where? That feeling could be within a five-mile radius from here," Destiny said. Leona looks at her. "Destiny listen to me. We cannot let fear get to us. We were badasses last year and the way you are acting, you are taking two steps back. We need to focus and remember that we need to find them. They are going to be okay." Destiny hugs her sister. "Thank you!" Lesteria and Leya see this and start to wonder about their siblings at home. "I miss our sisters," Lesteria said. "Me too. I miss Keisha, Kate (Kathrine), and Katie (Kathleen)," Leya said. Leya sees a butterfly and tries to catch it when she hits the ...air. "Ouch!" "Leya, are you okay?" Gary asks. "I think so. I was catching a butterfly when I ran into something." "What?" "I don't know. I hit something." Lesteria and Sam touch the field. "There is a house here!" They said. Ash J feels the house. "That bastard made the house invisible!" "He wants to cover his tracks," Leona said. They all come up with a plan. "Okay, we need to remember that our magic may not work once we get inside," Gary said. "Understood!" Destiny said. They all hold hands and focus all their magic to the house. They all teleport themselves inside the house.
Allison tries to wake her friends from the trance. "Wake up!" She screams. Nothing is working. Allison tries to touch Ash to wake him, but he does not respond. "Ash please!" Allison yells to Ash. Ash just chases bubbles. Allison gets mad and grabs Ash and kisses him passionately. Ash snaps out of it. "Allison...whoa! What the heck just happened?" "I will explain later!" Allison smacks Aelita and Brock in the head. "Hey!" Aelita said. "Thanks for adding pain to my head," Brock said. "Sorry, but I needed you to wake up so we can save our friends." "Right!" Aelita and Brock said. They hold hands and chant. We summon the powers of our planets and remove any illusions from our sight. Remove illusions from our sight and open the door to reality. Jeremy and Odd realize that they are running in circles. Odd sees a golden staff and touches it. Dawn is laying on her back and gets up. Yumi and Ulrich realize that they were kneeling and get up. Dawn sees a staff and touches as well. Both staffs disappear, and the room is bright. "What just happened?" Ulrich said. "Another illusion!" Aelita said. "Okay, now I am mad!" Odd said. "We concluded that this Chandan or Calvin is a coward," Ash said. "He was to get revenge on us yet can't do it!" Aelita said. "What do you mean? It seems that he is doing his worse," Ulrich said. "No! He wants to get rid of us but can't!" Brock said. "He can kill us. He killed Johnny with no problem. He could have killed us, but he is a coward!" Allison said. She looks up to a camera that is above them. "He wants to torture us to feel the power, yet he does not have any guts what so ever! He is a scared little boy who cannot take rejection, the fact that he is a whining brat who can't even face us!" Calvin gets mad. "Really Allison? You wanna be a bad bitch!" "Don't you dare call my girlfriend a bitch! You Son-of-a-bitch!" Ash said. Calvin gets mad. He makes the floor give out and they all fall.
Jeremy and Aelita are in a room full of fire! Yumi and Ulrich and in a Catagory 5 hurricane like room. Odd and Dawn are in a room full of falling ice. Brock is in a room that is about to have a mudslide. Allison and Ash are submerged in cold water. "You wanna play my toy soldiers, fine. Get out of these, and I will meet for one last battle. This is war after all!" Calvin laughs. All nine of them slowly open their eyes and said. "And we accept!"
For those who were affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Katia, I hope that your recovery goes well and remember that you all have support in many places.