PokeWing Z: Dimension Rifters, Episode 52: Return to Amity Park, Part 2
A mega-crossover fic by Dustin Dixon, Caleb McGlone, and Rob Volzke
BLAH BLAH BLAH, EPISODES 1, 25, 51, AND THE MOVIES. ON WITH THE EPISODE.
As the four newcomer heroes stared down the large mob of Ghost Police, Ash locked eyes with Bullet, who seemed to be sweating bullets as he gazed into the cold eyes of the 15 year old Kamoa boy he was told to seek out.
"I'm gonna make this really easy for you, Patchy. Drop the girl and run. I have nothing to say to you guys." Ash continued to stare down Walker's right-hand man.
"W... Walker..." Bullet stammered out.
"Dammit Bullet, give the order!" Walker nearly shouted.
"R-right... attack!" Bullet commanded, and the mob of Ghost Police, save for the two that were holding onto Jazz, charged the four heroes.
"Hey, they're very considerate... they're coming right to US!" Wayne grinned wickedly, purple energy gathering at his feet. "Let's see how they hold up to this!" the energy shot up from around his feet to his hands, as he let loose a shout of "DEVIL HYPERION CANNON!", as an enormous beam of purple energy shot forth from his now-outstretched hands, much like it had during his fight with Zenki. The beam obliterated nearly all of the ghosts who were charging them before fading. Wayne then dropped to his knees.
"Man... I always overdo it." he gasped out.
"That's okay, Wayne, I have you covered." Riku smirked, knocking out the rest of the charging ghosts with a Sword of the Mortal Flame.
"Damn...!" Bullet shouted. "Nearly all of our guys are gone, Walker!"
"Retreat to the high school!" Walker ordered. Take the girl with you!"
"Right! Come on boys, let's go!" Bullet commanded, and the two ghosts holding onto Jazz followed him into the sky, with Jazz calling out for Ash as she was flown away.
"Oh no you don't, dammit!" Ash shouted, his wings spreading, but before he could fly off after the ghosts, Wulf tackled him to the ground. Ash scowled and kicked Wulf away, getting back to his feet quickly.
"Buddy... you just made the DUMBEST mistake of your afterlife."
(Title) Return to Amity Park Part 2
(Subtitle) One HELL of a comeback!
(Jingle) Techno Synthesizer
(Image) Ash, frowning, stares down a mecha-piloting Bullet, who has all the robot's gun's trained on him.
Guest Voices:
Steven Jay Blum - Kensuke
Samuel Vincent - Zenki
Wendee Lee - Kitrala
Debi Derryberry - Jimmy
Michelle Ruff - Vikki
Daran Norris - Bullet
Dee Bradley Baker - Wulf
James Arnold Taylor - Walker
"Alright pal, I'm gonna make this real quick and p-" Ash started, only to be cut off by Danny.
"Ash! Don't hurt him, he's on our side!" Danny shouted. "It's that collar! We have to get it off of him!"
"Easier said than done!" Ash interjected, barely dodging Wulf's claws.
"Mi apologise, mi apologise!" Wulf shouted, in a pained voice, as electricity was crackling through the collar.
"Is that Esperanto?" Wayne asked.
"Yeah, that's all he knows how to speak!" Tucker threw in. Wayne then spoke up, in fluent Esperanto.
"Mi koni gxi hurts, sed mi bezoni vi al budo ankoraux." Wayne spoke, and Wulf obeyed, standing still. Just then, Wayne reached up his right hand, after sliding his coat sleeve back to reveal the Rift Bracelet, and grabbed the collar. With a shout, the electricity began to fade.
"How in the HELL did you do that?!" Tucker asked.
"...The collar's powered by ghostly energy. This bracelet's main power is to siphon energy and use it to power up the wearer." Wayne explained. After being licked by a happy Wulf, he turned to Ash. "Ketchum, you're free to cut it away from his neck.
"Right. Hold still, man." Ash sighed, then pointed the Rift Sword just at the edge of the collar. Wulf, with a panicked expression, spoke up again.
"La Rift Glavo! La Rift Glavo!"
"It's okay... I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just gonna use the sword to destroy this collar. Just hold real still..." and in a few seconds, the collar was wrested from Wulf's neck in a bloodless fashion.
"Mi am libera! Danki vi tre multa Mister Ketchum, estis gxi?" Ash shrugged, then looked over at Wayne and Tucker, the latter of whom translated.
"He said 'I am free! Thank you very much Mister Ketchum, was it'." Tucker explained.
"No problem. No problem at all." Ash smiled. "Now we've got to get to Casper High and save Jazz!"
"Sounds like a plan!" Jenny chimed in. "Danny, wanna come with?"
"Wait, who are..." Danny cut himself off, then on closer inspection, was able to figure out who she was. "...Jenny?!"
"Yup!" Jenny smirked. "Wayne brought some new blueprints to Mom, so she fixed me up in a humanlike body!"
"Wow... you kept your promise to Ash?! But I thought you hated Ash!" Danny said.
"I don't HATE him... I just don't like him. Besides, Jenny's first death was my fault." Wayne stared over at Aimee. "How's it going?"
"How's it going?! How the hell do you think?!" Aimee asked. "Until you all showed up, Danny got his ass kicked, as did Janine and Ayumu!" she pointed back toward the other two she had just mentioned, and seconds later, Riku had freed both of them, with Ayumu hugging her husband for all she was worth.
"Hey hon!" she greeted enthusiastically. "What kept you?"
"Business in the Kamoa Paradise." Riku said. I'll tell you all about it when we get back from kicking the pirate ghost guy's ass. Ready, Ash?"
"He's already gone. So are Jenny and Danny." Wayne pointed out nonchalantly, and sure enough, Ash, Jenny, and Danny had already left.
"And you didn't say something about this sooner because...?!" Riku looked a tad miffed.
"Because I'll beat you all there anyway." Wayne smirked. "No one on our team can match my speed."
"We'll see about that, Williams." Riku returned the smirk, and a second later, both of them had run off in the direction of Casper High, leaving Sam, Tucker, Janine, Osaka, and Aimee standing there.
"...Huh. Well, imagine that." Sam spoke up suddenly.
"Should we follow 'em, Master?" Osaka asked. Janine shook her head.
"Nah... believe me, Ash doesn't even need the others to follow him. He's WAY more than a match for that one guy."
"Why do you want Ash?!" Jazz asked, struggling against the two ghostly goons as she stared down Bullet angrily, as they sat in the Gymnasium of Casper High School.
"I don't know. Walker's made some sort of deal, from what I gather." Bullet explained, shrugging. "Not that it matters. Once your boyfriend's dead, I imagine you'll be disposed of too."
"Like I'm gonna let that happen." came the voice of Ash as he kicked open the door. "And if you and your jerk squad think they can kill me... by all means, TRY." At that second, his Rift Sword materialized in his right hand. "If you think I'm afraid of death, you're wrong. Not that it matters, you guys aren't going to kill me."
"Besides which..." Jenny threw in, as she and Danny came running up behind him. "You have us to deal with as well."
"And us..." Wayne interjected, sitting in one of the window sills, crossing his arms and smirking.
"How long were you up there?" Danny asked, panting.
"Oh, about two minutes. We got here WAY before you guys." Wayne's smirk widened.
"We...? ...Riku got here before us too, didn't he?" Jenny asked flatly.
"That I did." Riku said, sitting in the windowsill next to Wayne. The two of them then hopped down.
"Huh, well, imagine that..." Bullet said, looking nervous.
"Bullet, did you fry all your brain cells crossing over to the living world?!" Walker's voice rang out from Bullet's communicator. "Use that THING I sent you!"
"Oh right, the giant robot." Bullet said, smirking.
"Giant robot?!" Danny looked worried.
"TRANSFORM!" Bullet shouted, and the up-until-now-unnoticed backpack he had on him opened, expanding... wrapping him in metal from head to toe. As it covered him, though, it grew, and grew fast. It grew enough to push up against, and ultimately break through, the ceiling of the gym.
"HAHAHAHA!" Bullet cackled, as the robot finished growing, reaching fifty feet. In this time, Ash had murdered the two guards holding Jazz back, grabbed her, and fled out the nearest exit, the rest of the gang in tow. "Watch out, I might just step on you, ants!"
"Actually, fifty feet isn't enough of a height for us to look like ants..." Wayne pointed out.
"True, but my robo-foot's big enough to step on you like you're an ant!" Bullet laughed evilly, stomping toward Wayne to prove his point. Wayne barrel rolled out of the way with a scowl.
"Man... he's a jerk now."
"When was he NOT?!" Riku argued, dodging out of the way quickly.
"Point taken!"
"How are we gonna take him down?!" Riku shouted. "We can't keep this up forever!"
"I don't have enough energy for a Devil Hyperion Cannon!" Wayne scowled. "That collar only charged me enough for a Devil's Hammer!"
"That won't do... the only reason it worked so well on Vexus is because she was a small target. That thing MIGHT put a hole in his leg, but it won't be significant enough to do him in."
"Yeah... and leave me completely drained of energy..." Wayne looked around. "KETCHUM! Try to break an arm or leg with your Spirit Mega Gun!"
"Right!" Ash shouted, wordlessly firing off an enormous bullet of Spirit Energy afterwards, which connected with the robot's right leg, doing absolutely nothing.
"Damn...!" Ash shouted. "What are we going to do...?!"
"There's only one thing TO do, Kamoa punk!" Bullet shouted, with a cackle. "DIE!" he then tried to step on Ash, who barely dodged. Before Bullet could lift the robot's leg again, Danny floated up to it, letting out a mighty Ghostly Wail. However, while it pushed the robot back a bit, no signs of damage were evident. Just then, Jenny fired off a few powerful beams from her wrist-mounted laser cannon. Again, there was no damage.
"Take this!" Riku shouted. "SWORD OF THE MORTAL FLAME!" he unleashed a devastating Sword of the Mortal Flame, but all it managed to do was scuff the robot's right arm somewhat. Bullet laughed in response, blasting Riku with a large ecto-beam, sending him hurtling into the rubble.
"RIKU!" Wayne shouted, before he too was sent flying into the rubble.
"Riku, Wayne!" Jenny shouted. She was kicked by Bullet, sent flying head first into rubble along with Riku and Wayne.
"This... wasn't quite the way I was expecting this fight to go." Danny commented, eyebrows raised.
"You were so anxious to show off your power that you drained it before you had a chance to fight me!" Bullet grinned wickedly. "This suit is nigh-spirit energy proof!" he shouted. Ash and Danny stared up, the former looking only marginally concerned while the latter had a very frightened expression on his face. Neither of them, however, noticed the Rift opening behind Bullet, until a familiar voice spoke up... well, somewhat familiar. He had obviously aged a bit, but he still had the same tone to his voice.
"Is it resistant, however, to say, a pair of jumper cables?!" Jimmy smirked, hooking a set of jumper cables to the back of the robot's foot and putting on shades, grinning widely as the robot proceeded to light up like fireworks in the Fourth of July. After a few seconds of LOUD electrical crackling, the machine drooped, its now-useless arms hanging at its side. Ash let off a small smirk.
"You're late. What kept you?"
"Hey, come on, Enma had to find out what this thing was weak to!" Jimmy griped.
"Wait... you knew Jimmy was coming?!" Danny looked stunned.
"I called Enma on the way here and told him to call in a favor." Ash explained. "It was either gonna be him or Yusuke."
"Ash! Do it now, before he can get that thing's power back online!" Jimmy shouted.
"Hey, pirate dude!"
"It's Bullet, you twit!" Bullet shouted.
"Okay, Bullet... I'm willing to bet that, without your power source, that robot falls as spectacularly as anything else I've hit with this attack!" Ash said, the Rift Sword dematerializing as he grabbed the Soul Sword from the sheath on his back and brought it to his side. As he did that, he pulled his left hand away from the Soul sword, bringing out the Rift Sword once more. He lowered both of them, perfectly spreading them apart, as blue energy flowed from his feet to his blades. After it had all gathered, he brought them together in an x-shape in front of his face, then separating them once again and swirling them in a half-circle, bringing them above his head.
"...I'd better high tail it outta here." Bullet scowled, phasing through the robot's midriff and starting to fly off as Ash finished his killing move.
"NEO SPIRIT SLASH!" he screamed, letting a giant blade of blue spirit energy fly forth, perfectly halving the robot down the middle. As it split in half, it exploded noisily. Bullet was sent flying into the atmosphere by the explosion, with a shout of "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME, PUNK!"
"...Who was that guy again?" Ash smirked slightly.
"Well, I guess that takes care of the Ghost Police..." Danny shrugged. "How about the others?" Before he or Jazz could turn to the others, however, Jimmy was already there, inspecting them with some sort of device.
"They're all okay!" He turned to Ash, then back to the three unconscious warriors. "Man, you guys sure can take a beating."
"S'what I do best." Jenny smirked weakly. After a few seconds, Jazz turned to Ash and hugged him tightly, looking back at Danny with a smirk. "See? I told you he was coming back!"
"Good to see you too, Jazz." Ash smiled weakly.
"Anyone wanna hang around here and explain this shit to Lancer?" Wayne asked, seeing Lancer off in the distance.
"Not it!" every called out before him.
"Not i- aw fuck." he sighed. "Well, I'll cut the school a check. Aren't I a nice g-" he smirked, turning toward his comrades only to see that they'd all left already." You motherFUCKERS!"
"That's strike 1 for your associate, Walker." came the voice of Kensuke, as he walked forward into Walker's office, grinning. He wore a strange device, which KIND of looked like a high tech monocle. It had an extension which Kensuke wore over his left ear.
"That Ketchum punk won't get away with what he did to my best men!" Walker snarled, knocking his nameplate and several documents off of his desk with a sweeping motion.
"Admittedly, part of the fault is my own. I couldn't have possibly predicted that Asheron would have this much energy back already from the seal placed on him. Hey Zenki." he smirked, turning to his friend, who sat at the door of the office with Kitrala.
"Yeah?"
"His power's already above 750,000. If this keeps up, you might have to go all out in a year and a half."
"That'd be fun, wouldn't it darling?" Kitrala grinned. Zenki wordlessly returned the grin, leaving Kensuke to finish for him.
"I'd be more surprised, but then again..." he trailed off, lowering his head, closing his eyes, and grinning. "He IS my brother."
Later, at Condo Ketchum, Ash stood there, looking at his old room. It was exactly the way he left it six months ago. Though Riku and Wayne had been living here with Valerie, the two guys bunked in Yusuke's old room while Valerie used Jenny's old room.
"The only person who's been in here since you left was me... and that was just to make sure your stuff didn't get dusty." Jazz said, giving off a small smile to Ash.
"You didn't have to do that." was Ash's simple response.
"Of course I did. No one wants a messy room, dork." she let out a small chuckle, her expression contorting to a shocked frown as Ash pulled out a cigarette and lit up. "Oh god, when the hell did you start smoking?!" Ash turned around, his eyes covered in shadow.
"Do me a favor, Jazz. Skip the lecture. When you see what I've seen, THEN you can tell me..." Ash trailed off.
"What...? What did you see? What did you find out about yourself?!" Jazz asked.
"..." Ash remained silent, walking away and out the old front door, presumably to go outside and finish his cigarette in peace.
"...He can tell me when he's ready." she said, warmly smiling after him, remembering when she'd said the same thing a long time ago regarding Danny's alter ego, and as much as she'd meant it about her brother back then, she meant it for her boyfriend now...
