Chapter 22: Disaster strikes.
"Darkness...torture...pain...it's coming...it's all coming."
"FOR THE LOVE OF ARCEUS SHUT UP PANDORA!" Silver snarled.
"Disaster is coming...disaster is coming."
"Well that just makes me think that disaster is coming." Sammy said.
"You stay out of this." Flora sighed, "We don't want Silver getting more angry."
"And we wonder why Sarah keeps Lyn with her all the time." Jade sighed. "We'd drive her insane at this rate."
"How does it feel Jade?" Sammy asked. "You're the only member to be with Moon and Sarah from the beginning of their adventure, and you're not even a major Pokemon."
"Yeah, you kinda got replaced by Lancer." Delta squeaked from inside of the lake.
"Well, unlike the rest of you, I'm still a Dartrix, surely I have to evolve!"
"01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101100 01111001 00001101 00001010!" Techno beeped.
"I beg your pardon?" Sparky asked.
"He's speaking in binary." Sammy said. "Techno is a computerized Pokemon! If you want to know, I'd be happy to translate for you! Fun Fact, what he just said, spells out only two words!"
"Why would anyone need to know how to translate crap into binary, nobody would be that insane to learn how to speak binary...that's just stupid!" Silver scoffed.
"Super Smash Brothers creator Massahiro Sakurai would like to have a word with you."
The shiny Mimikyu turned to face Lucky. The Togetic was simply flying in place next to him.
"Is this really how conversations go around here?" Pikaboo asked.
"You get used to it after a while." Lucky sighed. "Sometimes we even have more crazy Pokemon from Sapphire and Willow show up."
"Disaster is approaching, I can sense it, and I don't like it!" Pandora continued. "I fear our friends are in grave danger."
"I mean, it only makes sense." Sammy said. "I mean, we haven't had much in terms of conflict for this story have we?"
"Great, now there's two of them!" Flora groaned.
"Who are we?" Sparky asked. "Are we just amalgamations of a teenagers brain? Forced to act as though he wished he were in the Pokemon world?"
"SPARKY!" The Jolteon snickered at the loud irritated shouts from his comrades.
"I swear, I'm going to go insane." Pikaboo groaned.
"Sometimes in life you just gotta pick a god and pray!" Lucky sighed.
"Are you all even taking me seriously?" Pandora asked. "I sense that our trainers are in grave danger! I have the ability to sense disasters!"
"You're about as insane as Sammy is." Delta squeaked.
The red Absol glared at his fellow Pokemon as he walked off. "Fine, but when Moon or Sarah come back here and have gone completely insane, don't say I didn't warn you."
"You're still Moon's Pokemon you know." Lucky said. "You still have to obey him."
"At least I'll be prepared to take such insane orders."
"Great, now we've got a civil war going on here." Sparky sighed.
"We get a new one every couple of days." Jade hooted. "And then we've got…"
"Other Pokemon can surf, but that really ain't my turf! Cus I can walk!"
"Sammy." Flora sighed.
Moon and Sarah arrived at the outpost of a walled town, it was raining hard and fast as Moon held an umbrella over Sarah.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Sarah asked nervously, Moon had his hoodie over his head and was drenched in water and he still looked very pale from all that had happened in the last two days.
"Yeah...Yeah I'm fine." Moon said, coughing a little. "I'm just keeping you out of the rain."
Sarah frowned up at him as he held the umbrella over her head, he gave her a smile that seemed rather fake, even for his genuine lack of shown emotions, which was still very odd for her.
"We need to get out of this rain." Sarah said. "Maybe we can take shelter in here."
"Agreed, let's just get out of the rain, we can try and find Po Town when it settles down."
Unbeknownst to them, a little security camera had been watching them the whole time, From up in the castle mansion, Guzma, Mavis, and Plumeria were all looking from behind the set walls.
"Well I'll be damned." Plumeria said, "The Shadow Knight actually gave them the bait, what's even better, they don't even know that they already arrived here, Moon's at a vulnerable point, he's only focused on keeping Sarah safe."
"He doesn't care about my sister." Mavis muttered. "His family hides in the shadows, they play nice until they're threatened, then they toss you away like scraps off their well paid plates."
Guzma glared at the little monitor showing the two of them quickly running down the streets of the town. "These little brats don't look like they'll be much trouble," he grunted. "Hopefully with Moon in a more vulnerable condition, by the time he makes it to us, he'll be ready to pass out."
Mavis shifted uncomfortably at his statement earning her a sly grin from the boss of Team Skull.
"Don't fret about your sister." he snarled. "Lavender has already been made aware of the arrangement...you can go take your position now, and just pray that nothing goes wrong."
"I'm warning you…" Mavis gritted. "If she gets hurt, I will make damn sure you all end up in worse shape than Nanu could ever give you."
"Hello?" Moon called, he and Sarah entered into a run down abandoned mansion, the town they had entered into was basically a ghost town, not a person to be seen, no lights were on, not even the Pokemon Center by the gate wasn't open.
"I guess this must be an abandoned village or something." Moon muttered. "This place is probably overrun with Raticates, Gumshoos, Murkrow, and other bugs I'd guess, but it gets us out of the rain for now." he felt around for a light switch before finding one, and flicking it on. After a flicker from several light bulbs, the place lit up, revealing a lot of destroyed furniture, tears in carpet, it even looked like some of the interior infrastructure had been destroyed.
Sarah looked around nervously, the whole place seemed run down and awful, so she wasn't sure what to think. But, it gave her a chance to look at Moon, who had taken off his hoodie to ring dry it, it was then that she realized she had never seen him without his hoodie off.
"Moon?" She asked.
"Hmm?" he asked.
"What...what happened to your arms?"
"Remember what I told you about the Cloyster incident?"
"Yeah, about how you were with Cyrus and Saturn on a fishing trip, you fell overboard, and your leg got caught in the shell of a Cloyster?"
"Well...I may have also been bit by a Sharpedo...twice…"
"You got bit by a Sharpedo?"
"I don't want to talk about it," Moon muttered. "Cyrus just used me to help capture water Pokemon for experimentation."
There was a loud crash upstairs which jolted Moon upright.
"I'm...gonna go check on that." he said. "I...need to clear my head anyway." he stood up and walked off, leaving Sarah alone.
Sarah watched him go off before shaking her head, everything that had happened the past couple of months had really bothered her, first with Team Galactic, then the Shadow Knight. Suddenly, she felt something grab her arm and hold it tightly and then another hand placed over her mouth.
"Don't...move." She jolted her head around to see Lavender with a smug grin on her face.
"MPHMPMHP" Sarah grunted with a furious look in her eyes.
"Shut up, you're irrelevant," Lavender snarled. "Just come with me silently, and you won't get hurt." She dragged Sarah outside, back into the rain.
Moon walked upstairs and opened the first door on the right, there wasn't anything inside, just a torn bed sheet and a couple other stuff that was irrelevant to anything else.
"Hey, shithead."
Moon grunted as he turned to face Dan, who was facing him with a disgusted look in his eyes.
"What the hell do you want?" Moon grunted.
"I want you to suffer miserably." Dan grunted, "If you want to get to Sarah, you'll have to go through me."
"What have you done to Sarah?" Moon grunted.
"Doesn't matter." Dan snarled. "Infernape, go get em!"
"Genji! Battle Stance!"
Both starter Pokemon popped out of their respective Pokeballs.
"Oh great, this asshole again." Genji croaked.
"WHO DARES DISTURB THY TRAINER!" Infernape grunted. "Oh...the Greninja again...Dan for the love of god, can't you use someone other than me?"
"I'm here to beat your fiery monkey ass a second time!"
"Genji! When hearts connect as one! With each battle, a chance for us to grow!"
A hydro vortex surrounded the Greninja as it grew spiky black and red hair and a giant shuriken formed on it's back.
"Well...that's new."
"Genji, use water shuriken!"
Genji took the shuriken from behind his back and launched it at the fire Monkey, Infernape ducked out of the way and then quickly ran up with an electrical punch and knocked Genji over. Greninja got up and created two bowing knives before charging at Infernape.
Infernaped ducked out of the way before doing a low sweep across the frog's foot, it took out it's fist and launched a fire punch above its head, Genji was flung across the room where it smashed into the wall.
"What's wrong Moon?" Dan sneered. "Off your footing a little?"
Moon felt himself getting redder on his pale face, truth be told, he was feeling a little dizzy, but he was powering through it at the moment, right now, he needed to get past Dan and find Sarah.
"Genji, use night slash!
Genji got out two dark bowing knives and dashed quickly towards Infernape; he cut through the Monkey's body, Infernaped was flung backwards into the doorway where it fell to the ground with swirls in its eyes.
Dan returned the pokemon before taking out a new one,
Suddenly, a phone began to ring, Dan grunted and pulled out a rotom phone and held it up to his ear.
"Hello?" Dan grunted. There was a bit of muffled female voices, one Moon presumed had to be Lavender
"Yeah, he's here…" there was a loud bang followed by what sounded like the cracking of fire, followed by more muffled voices.
"Do you at least still have her?!" Dan snarled. More muffled shouts.
"Good, just get them to Guzma, remember, he's at the top."
Dan put the phone away, "Father wants us to get Lillie and Sarah to him as soon as possible, Guzma can take care of this from here, I've Lav and I have been called in for some important business, so, I'll be seeing you later! bye bitch!" The boy then vanished in a flash of purple light.
Sarah and Scar ran back into the rundown mansion, after a large scale battle between Scar and the Lavender's Scizor, she received a call from someone, during which she had discussed getting Moon up to Guzma for something. Now, she was just running up the staircase of the mansion, trying to get to him as soon as possible.
"Th-Thanks Scar." Sarah panted, clutching her knees. "Take a rest." she returned the fire cat to its pokeball and sighed to herself.
"Sarah?" She jolted around and was met with a girl, she appeared to be around 25 and had facial features similar to her, except for her hair, being bubblegum pink. She had sapphire blue eyes and the same caring expression in her eyes. That Sarah had been told from Moon, must have run in her family. She wore a gray traveling cloak that covered the screen.
The woman approached her and knelt down to her, brushing her hair back slightly and smiling at her.
"You've...you've grown up so well." she said calmly. "You look just like I did when I was younger...I haven't seen you since you were a baby."
"Who...who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Mavis, your sister."
"Y-You...You can't be Mavis, she died three years ago."
"I lived Sarah," Mavis replied, placing her hands on her shoulders. "I'm alive, I've been alive, I've just been...well...hiding."
Sarah stood looking at her with wide eyes, never, not in a million years, did she ever think she'd see Mavis alive...or...ever in fact.
"I'm here to rescue you and Shaymin, come on."
"How...How did you know I was Shaymin's keeper?" Sarah asked curiously.
Mavis' face slumped a little. "I...uh...I saw the pendant." she said. "I...I used to know Shaymin's original keeper before he passed away."
Sarah felt her expression change.
"Mavis, you need to go rescue Moon," she said quickly. "They're going to-"
"No," Mavis said flatly. "I'm getting you out of here."
"But Moon...Team Galactic is after him...Mavis they're going to hurt him!"
"Moon will be fine, Team Galactic won't harm one of their own."
"Mavis, the Shadow Knight, Cyrus, they're all trying to kill him!"
"They aren't trying to kill him, they're trying to kill you and get Shaymin,"
"Team Galactic won't hurt him...and they won't hurt you either if I get you out of here and take Shaymin's pendant. You can trust me Sarah...please…"
Sarah looked up at her older sister. She had only been a keeper for a couple of months, but one thing she had been told by both Moon and Cynthia was that she could never take it off. Not even for a family member.
"No, Mavis, I can't take this off, not even for you."
"Sarah, you can trust me, please, everything will be alright, just give me your pendant, and let's get out of here."
Sarah shook her head. "I...I have an obligation to Shaymin, I can't take this off…and...I'm not leaving here without Moon."
"Sarah, Moon doesn't need us, he's just going back to Team Galactic."
"But he doesn't like them! He's against them!"
"No, he's a Wolfe, once a Galactic, always a Galactic. Saturn tore our family apart, he gave up our father's location and tried to spring a trap for me."
"But Moon-" Mavis grabbed her wrist and started to drag her out of the mansion.
"Sarah, come on, I'm taking you home." Mavis grunted. "You don't need Moon, he's just working the businesses for his own."
"This isn't your choice!" Sarah cried. "Moon isn't evil, he needs our help, he's going to…"
"FOOLISH LITTLE BOY!" The Shadow Knight's voice suddenly boomed, followed by a blood curdling scream echoing through the mansion.
"Let's go Sarah…" Mavis muttered.
"Mavis, please." Sarah pleaded over the screams. "Moon needs our help!"
"Moon doesn't need our help...nor is he going to recieve it." Mavis scoffed. "I'm taking you home Sarah, no more questions."
"MAVIS!" Sarah cried, struggling against her sister's grasp. "Mavis please! He needs help! I know you can hear him! Why won't you help him?"
"BECAUSE HE'S EVIL!" Mavis screamed at her. "His whole family is soaked under blood! Saturn experimented on Pokemon, trying to draw out as much as he could! Saturn and his son both tore our family apart! Moon reeled you in with lies and Saturn set me up! Now let's freaking go!"
There was a loud thud from upstairs, followed by even louder screams from someone as maniacal laughter ensued from a room's entities.
"Let's go Sarah!" Mavis grunted. "You're going home, and I'm taking you and mother far away from here, to a place where no one will ever find you."
"LU!" A loud screech suddenly echoed over the area.
"MAVIS PLEASE!" Sarah screamed. "They're going to hurt him! They're going to hurt Manaphy!"
"Manaphy should've thought better to pick a different keeper." Mavis scoffed. "I'm doing this to protect you, to protect mother, to protect Shaymin, and to protect Lugia. Now come on!" Mavis dragged her outside with a large pull on her arm.
Sarah then caught glimpse of a large white Pokemon, soaring above the outside sky in the rain, it was a weird large white majestic Pokemon that looked like a weird type of dinosaur and bird, it had two large white wings that also finished to look like large hands, weird blue spike-like scales sticking up on its back and tail and two smaller feet. It had sharp pointed dark blue eyes, upon seeing Mavis the gigantic Pokemon soared down and landed on the ground.
"Gia!" The Pokemon screeched, bowing it's large neck head towards Mavis, who reached out and stroked the creature's head.
"Watch her," Mavis said, "Sarah, do not move, I'm calling mother now, telling her to pack up."
"But you...Mavis...you're turning your back on Cynthia, Sinnoh, Alola, EVERYONE!" Sarah cried.
"I am trying to protect you!" Mavis said sternly "Now don't move." She then walked off behind a building.
Sarah looked back at the building, she could still hear screams of agony from inside.
"Sarah has abandoned you! Can't you see? There is no one here to save you!"
She looked nervously up the seventeen foot tall Pokemon that stood above her. Lugia looked down at her, seeing her remorseful look, then, it looked up to the second floor, where screams still echoed out. Then, amazingly, it started speaking.
"You wish to help your friend...do you not?"
Sarah blinked up at it in shock. Lugia simply smiled down at her.
"Heh, everything went wrong didn't it...back when I selected Mavis as my keeper, she was just like you once were, always eager and determined to help those in need."
"But, you...I...why?" Sarah asked. "Why won't she help him?"
"It's not up to Mavis to decide anymore." Lugia replied. "The Mavis that Cynthia praised, the one that you were told stories about, the one that you envied to be like...that person is gone Sarah. The old Mavis died a long time ago."
"But then...why do you still find her as a keeper?" Sarah asked.
"I selected Mavis as a keeper, because she was someone I could trust to follow, thick and thin, all Pokemon follow those who they find worthy. I fully believe that what Mavis is doing now is the right thing. Even though it may conflict with the legends that surround me.
"But Moon...Lugia…I can't just sit here and let Team Galactic take him."
"MANAPHY! EDELGARD! NO!" Moon's voice suddenly screamed. There as a loud bang followed by more cries and screams as Sarah heard what sounded like a capsule clicking shut.
"However, it is not Mavis' decision to make choices for you." Lugia replied humbly. "Go, help your friend if you so desire...I will not stop you."
Sarah looked up at the large Pokemon, which nodded its head at her.
She nodded in understanding before turning around and running back into the mansion, she flew up the stairs and bolted outside onto the balcony, scrambled across the roof and all but busted through the door of the only room inside. She saw Guzma, Plumeria standing there with wide eyes, Manaphy trapped inside of a little glass capsule next to Edelgard, and Moon on the ground, his five remaining Pokemon, Fabby, Sapphire, Gojira, Lancer, and Genji, all on the ground, defeated and injured as the Shadow Night stood over him with Darkrai.
"W-Wait a second!" Guzma snarled. "Th-that wasn't part of the deal!"
The Shadow Knight turned to face him. "You have served your use. I bid you farewell!" The tall night clicked each of Moon's pokeballs, returning all except Edelgard, who was still trapped in the capsule with Manaphy, both similar pokemon were crying and whimpering. "Now, let's deliver him and his squad to the base for their use and finish this damn dance of the world of hell!" An electrical shock charged from his hand
Without thinking, Sarah charged into the room and threw herself in front of him. She felt a large blast of electricity zap her, before everything cut to black.
That's all for today's chapter, a lot happened, but next time, we'll be at the Aether Foundation, hope you all are excited about that. But, we aren't done for today, I have another Omake for you all. Omake number 8, Medieval Duplicators, Sarah and Willow meet up with another version of Moon and Sapphire.
"I'm telling you, he actually said that." Willow giggled as she and Sarah walked out of the Department store.
"He didn't!" Sarah laughed, wiping a tear away from her eye. "What type of stupid pick up line is that?"
"I'm telling you, he can be so stupid at times." Willow sighed,
"But you like him don't you?"
The Burnette's face blushed heavily, "Well, yeah, but, I'm nowhere near ready for what you and Moon have."
"Willow! Oh my Arceus! Look!" Sarah stopped them and pointed outwards. The two girls looked across the street, seeing Moon and what looked like Sapphire in rather weird attire. This time however, Sapphire had blue hair and eyes, like his name suggested. Sapphire wore some iron plated heavy armor and was carrying an axe and shield. Moon looked pretty much the same, except for the fact that he was wearing a black Mage robe with a blue cape while carrying a blue bladed sword.
"What the hell are they doing now?" Willow groaned.
Sapphire looked up at them and pointed to Moon, when Moon faced them his eyes momentarily widened before looking around himself, seeing some Swablu and Pelippers fly overhead.
"Oh goddammit." they heard him mutter.
Sapphire walked up to them and bowed to them. "Good day to you madams," he said honestly. "My name is Sapphire von Clypeus I am knight to the Empress of the Adrestian Empire, Lady Edelgard, Could you point us to the direction of Garreg Mach Monastery?"
Both girls just stared at them blankly, Sapphire looked at them a little longer, probably confused by their silence.
"Say Moon," he called. "This one here looks a lot like your wife!" he pointed at Sarah.
Willow stared at Sarah with her jaw hanging open while Sarah blushed heavily, Moon did the same as he approached Sapphire.
"Knock it off buddy." he muttered, pulling out a weird black and red striped book. "I don't need you screwing around and messing up the timeline of another world, we must've accidentally warped into the Animalium Cluster by mistake...I don't know how that's even possible."
"Ah, is this your home? You must be Sarah, it is a pleasure to meet you." Sapphire said, shaking her hand. "I've heard many things about you and Moon...and who is your cute friend may I ask?"
Willow and Sarah still stared at them dumbfoundedly. It was evident that Moon was growing irritated by Sapphire's constant looking around as a Pikachu walked up to them.
"MY STARS!" Sapphire yelled, picking up the rodent. "It can't be? Is this the thunder mouse Pikachu? The legends of Smash Fables back at Garreg Mach have spoken about this mystical creature."
Moon took the Pikachu from his hands and set it down. "Now is not the time for nonsense," he hissed at Sapphire. "Good thing you haven't broken the timeline...we must've accidentally slipped into a non-canon portion of this story." he turned to face Sarah and Willow, bowing his head slightly. "Please excuse us, we have important work to be doing for her majesty at the moment, and...do me a favor...don't tell anyone about this...goodbye." Moon and Sapphire then vanished in a flash of orange light.
"What the absolute hell just happened?" Willow asked.
"I wish I had an idea." Sarah sighed.
"Why is it whenever we try to spend crossover time together everything goes ballistic?"
That's it for the Omake and Chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it, I don't really have much else to say now, Leave a review if you want, or I'll appreciate just a nice chapter, both let me know you are enjoying the series.
PKMN Teams:
Moon Wolfe: Sarah Jones: See you all next time.
Fabby - Ninetales
Sapphire - Lucario
Jade - Dartrix
Sammy - Furret
Genji - Greninja
Silver - Weavile
Lancer - Beedrill
Gojira - Pupitar
Edelgard - Phione_Delta
Sparky - Jolteon
Pandora - Absol
Angel - Gardevior
Snowy - Glaceon
Scar - Incineroar
Candy - Corsola
Bellatrix - Mismagius
Flora - Lilligant
Delta - Dragalge
Lyn - Baby Kanga
Lucky - Togetic
Techno - Porygon Z
Pikaboo - Mimikyu
