Chapter 8: Mizella's Adventure on EARTH

After crash-landing on the strange planet and getting chased by a man with a net all night, Mizella and Remoraid were forced to sleep in a trash can. They finally found an area away from the humans - inside a cramped trashcan - in the middle of a park.

When morning broke, Mizella emerged from the trash can with a banana peel on her head and let out a huge yawn.

"Man, what a night," She yawned stretching out her arms. She stared at Remoraid who was floating on the surface of some orange substance. "What's wrong with you?"

"I'm living in paradise," Remoraid answered, sounding relaxed.

Mizella stared at the fish Pokemon with a revolted look on her face. "I don't get what is so relaxing about swimming in your own pee."

"This is not pee, it's called 'Crush,'"Remoraid replied calmly.

"Crush?" Mizella repeated, looking confused. She then noticed an orange can at the bottom of the bowl.

"You should try some, Mizella. You can feel the bubbles in your mouth," Remoraid offered. He opened his mouth letting in some of the liquid.

The hyena Pokemon lifted the bowl out of the garbage and violently shook it causing Remoraid to bounce around inside the bowl.

Mizella stopped and stared at the fish Pokemon who was floating upside down with swirls for eyes. "Next time I'll make sure to break every single bone in your body."

"A simple 'No' would have been nice," Remoraid replied weakly.

Mizella and Remoraid walked along a long path, not far from the garbage can in which they slept. They noticed the vehicles on the road zooming pass them. Luckily, there was a median between them and the streets.

"Whoa!" exclaimed the small fish Pokemon as it stared in awe at the fast-moving vehicles. "What are those things?"

"Don't know, don't care, " Mizella answered.

"You know, for someone who just came to a new world you aren't very cheerful," Remoraid commented.

Mizella ignored Remoraid as she noticed a long, red bus slowly driving by them. It parked beside a bus stop. Curiously, Mizella walked towards the vehicle. When they got close side door suddenly opened, which startled both of them.

"What kind of mystical magic are they using?" Mizella mumbled. She stepped inside the vehicle, ignoring the stares coming from the exotic creatures.

"Amazing! It's much bigger on the inside!" Remoraid shouted in awe, shocking the people around them with his outburst. Mizella sat in one of the seats beside a young boy, who stared curiously at Remoraid.

"What kind of fish are you?" the boy asked.

"I'm the jet Pokemon," Remoraid introduced himself, "but you can call me Remoraid."

"You're a Pokemon?" The boy raised his eyebrows.

"Yep, watch this," Remoraid spit a small stream of water up into the air.

"Whoa!" Was the only thing the boy could say after that mini-performance. Mizella just rolled her eyes as the bus slowly started moving.

"So what did you call vehicle?" Remoraid asked the boy.

"This is a bus," the boy answered. "People use it to go from one place to another."

"People? What are People?" Remoraid asked.

Mizella decided to ignore them and stared into space for a while. She didn't care about this world and their fancy magic. 'I don't get how this world is dangerous? It looks quite peacefu-...!'

Before she could finish her response, there was a loud bang which startled everyone and caused the bus to stop. Mizella, who wasn't fazed by the noise, turned to the front and noticed a tall black-haired man pointing a small gun at everyone.

"Okay, listen up!" The man shouted, getting everyone's attention. "I want you to leave all your belongings and get off this bus! If you don't leave by the count of ten, I'll shoot all of you!"

He fired the pistol in the air, startling everyone as they charged towards the doors, shoving each other to get outside. The mother of the young boy quickly picked him up and ran out leaving only Mizella and Remoraid inside the bus.

"...What just happened?" Remoraid asked, breaking the silence in the bus.

"Apparently, everyone is afraid of that person," Mizella said, watching the man approach. Shocked by her appearance, the man kept his weapon pointed at Mizella

"What are you staring at, baldy?" Mizella asked.

"H-Hey I don't know what the hell you are, but you better lose the attitude unless you want a hole in your head!" the man warned as he aimed his weapon at the Pokemon's forehead.

"You? Put a hole in my head?" The man flinched when Mizella started laughing. It wasn't a playful laugh, and the man felt a dark aura surrounding the creature. "I'd like to see you try, pathetic human."

BANG!

Mizella becomes quiet as she slumped back onto the seat, still. Silence filled the air as the man froze in shock. He watched and waited for the blood to come out of her head but nothing happened.

"D-did I kill it?" the man asked himself.

"Not even close," said Mizella, suddenly perking up and causing the man to jump back, hitting the pole behind him.

"H-how are you still alive?!" the man stuttered.

"Haven't you watched any science fiction movies? You should never shoot someone from another planet," Mizella responded, with a devilish grin on her face. "Now, would you rather have your teeth pulled out? Or your tongue bite off?"

"G-get away from me!" the man shouted, Mizella did not hear him as the hyena Pokemon came closer to him, cracking her knuckles. "No please! I won't steal anything aga- AHH!"

A couple of minutes later, police cars appeared and quickly surrounded the bus. Two policemen entered then returned with the brutally beaten man, his face hidden from view.

"I'wm twellling you! Thwere waz a bwlack alwien dwog hwere!" the man shouted, but the policeman could not understand him due to his bruised face.

A young boy who was inside the bus noticed the two Pokemon disappearing into the shadows nearby.

"Thank you," the boy whispered with a smile on his face.

"Don't you think you went a little overboard?" Remoraid asked as the two walked down the street.

"That guy had it coming when he fired that thing at my head," Mizella answered.

"So, does it hurt?" Remoraid asked curiously.

The hyena Pokemon touched her forehead, feeling the hole where the bullet went in. " Not really, but I can't wait to get this thing out of my head."

Suddenly, the two felt the pangs of hunger as their stomachs moaned for food. Luckily, they were headed towards a convenience store. Inside the store, a 16-year-old boy was standing at the counter, reading a comic book. He didn't bother to look up when Mizella and Remoraid entered the store.

"Whoa! Look at all the food they have," Remoraid stared in amazement. The whole shop was stocked with food they had never seen before. Remoraid turned to Mizella and saw something that caused his eyes to widen in shock.

Mizella's eyes changed from a serious, cold stare into a cute puppy dog like glimmered. Without warning, she dropped the bowl and ran towards one of the stands. Luckily, the bowl didn't break when it hit the ground.

"Hey! You almost broke the bowl!" Remoraid shouted. Mizella wasn't listening to him as she was hypnotized by the object in front of her.

"This is the most remarkable thing I ever see in my life!" Mizella said in awed, as she stared at her reflection on a small mirror. "Now I can see myself perfectly without getting my face wet!"

Remoraid couldn't help but sweat-dropped while Mizella began to admire herself. He then turned to the readers. "Geeze, I hope the girls in this world aren't self-centered like her."

"I heard that!" Mizella called out, causing Remoraid to flinch. He noticed something that made his eyes glimmered.

"Hey, Mizella look at that!" Remoraid called out.

Mizella rolled her eyes. "What is it?"

"Look! This place has snow cones, just like ours!" He said looking excited.

"You're getting all worked up over that?" The Hyena Pokemon rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll get you some."

Mizella walked towards the machine that has the snow cones inside. She observed it for about a second before turning to Remoraid. "You idiot, they're not snow cones. They're called slushes."

"Slushes? What a weird name," Remoraid commented. "No matter, I want to try some!"

"What am I your mother?" Mizella asked, looking really annoyed by his childish personality. "Don't forget that you're still a hostage."

"I know, but you still have to keep you hostage happy," He replied.

Mizella just sighed in annoyance. "Alright fine, but I'm only doing this because I'm tired of your complaining."

Mizella was able to get two cups of slushes, but not without making a colorful waterfall of slushes fall unto the floor, creating a huge puddle on the floor.

"These things better taste good," Mizella grumbled as she dumped the frosted treat into the fishbowl.

Remoraid felt the temperature of the bowl suddenly dropped when the slushy touched the water. "Man, these things sure are cold."

"Just shut up and eat," Mizella snapped as she chugged down the slushy in the cup, while Remoraid took a little sip.

"Mmm, these things taste delicious! It's like eating a flavor of snow cones! What do you think Miz-!"

Remoraid jumped when he noticed the hyena Pokemon's face turning light blue. Small icicles appeared on his mouth.

"B-B-Brain F-F-Freeze!" She chattered. Remoraid turned around as he tried to hold in his laughter. Mizella jumped off the floor and quickly ran into the aisle trying to find anything to stop the cold torturing his head.

Remoraid, on the other hand, took the opportunity to burst out laughing as Mizella was running around the store, stuffing products in her mouth to thaw out her head.

"This is too funny!" Remoraid laughed while swimming around inside the bowl. Mizella grabbed a small red bottle and chugged it down cooling down her brain freeze.

But, when she stared at the bottle, her whole head changed from freezing blue to burning red. "AHH! HOT HOT HOT!"

Remoraid laughed, harder as he saw Mizella running around the store with flames spitting out of her mouth. She was bumping into shelves, causing some glass bottles, and other stuff to fall on the floor.

Mizella slipped on one of the cans on the floor and fell face first into the pool of slushy, leaving a heap of steam coming out of her head.

Remoraid tried to control his laughter but failed to as he swam to the surface to get some air. He continued to laugh, not knowing that a certain shadow was lurking over him. When the fish Pokemon noticed the shadow, his loud laughter turned into nervous giggles.

"Why aren't ya laughing?" Mizella questioned, with a smile on her face. "You don't think my performance was funny?"

Remoraid was taken back by her reaction. "Well, I thought you would be mad at me for laughing at you."

"Me mad? Nawh! I'm not mad at you," Mizella replied in a playful voice. "In fact, I've found a little treat that you will love."

"Really?" Remoraid's eyes glimmered. "What is it?"

"You have to close your eyes and open your mouth," Mizella chimed.

Remoraid obeyed Mizella's orders, leaving his mouth opened, and his eyes closed. "Oh, I can't wait to see what it is!"

With a devilish grin, Mizella slowly poured the bottle she drank before into Remoraid's mouth, causing the fish Pokemon's whole body to turn steaming red.

"AH! HOT! TO HOT!" Remoraid screamed. Mizella was rolling on the ground, clutching her stomach from her laughter. While all of this was happening, the clerk didn't even look up from his comic book.

"I have to admit, that was kinda funny,"

"Yeah, that because you did it to me!"

Mizella and Remoraid were walking through the neighborhood after leaving the Quickie store. Mizella had to refill Remoraid's bowl with slushy drink, due to fact that all the water evaporated out of the bowl from her's prank.

"You should've seen that coming after laughing at me," Mizella stated.

"I couldn't help it! You were hilarious!" Remoraid replied.

Mizella glared at Remoraid for a minute, before closing her eyes. "Well, I'll let it slide since you said I was hilarious." She opened them and glared right back at Remoraid. "But try that stunt again, and I'll rip your fins off."

"Okay," Remoraid sighed with a sweat-dropped. Even though he had nothing to do with Mizella's performance, he didn't want to trigger another nerve.

Suddenly, a question pops up in Remoraid's head. "Hey, Miz can I ask you something?"

"First off its Mizella, and second, anything that doesn't involve my weight," Mizella answered without looking.

Remoraid sweat-dropped from her answered, but shook it off. "I want to know why are you attacking your own home and family? Don't you love them?"

Mizella was quiet for a minute until she answered. "Look, the stuff I did back there, it wasn't my intention."

"Huh?" Remoraid turned to her in confusion.

"I had to do it because that old hag was watching me from that castle," She replied in a serious tone. "All I wanted was to use these powers she gave me to destroy Blaze, but now she wants me to turn on my own family and home."

Flashback

Mizella was standing in the dark throne room. There was a long red carpet that goes from the big entrance door to the throne itself. Sitting on it, a tall woman with long, violet and black striped curly hair, wearing a black robe with a heartless symbol in the center.

"So, you want me to gain you the power to rule this world?" The woman questioned.

"Actually I've come here to tell you to move your dumb castle off of my special spot," Mizella snarled. "You're the one who kept whispering 'I have the power you need.'"

"I apologized for moving into your 'special spot,' but there's a reason why I've landed here," Suddenly, a Heart Ball was summoned out of the palms of her hand.

"What the hell is that!?" Mizella asked, looking shocked.

"Oh, This? It's the ultimate power I've mentioned," The woman replied. She lightly tossed it to Mizella who was able to catch it. "You can use this to defeat all the Pokemon in this world, so I can turn them into powerful heartless. That way we can rule this dimension."

Mizella just rolled her eyes. "I don't want to rule this dimension! I just want to eliminate my young brother Blaze. Every time I've tried to get rid of him, he comes back home with a smile on his face! Last time I've used a Pelipper to drop him off at a volcano, and he came back just in time for supper!"

The woman was silent for a while until a smile spread across her face. "When you word it like that, he sounds like an interesting fellow."

"DON'T PRAISE HIM!" Mizella comically yelled.

"Tell you what, if you can capture all the Pokemon in your world, then I'll do something about your brother," The woman offered.

"Hmm let me think," Mizella began to pace around. "A crazy woman had just entered our world, puts her castle on my hiding spot, and wants me to attack my family. In return, you'll take out my brother."

"Precisely," The woman responded, not phased by the insult.

Mizella glared at her. "Listen here old hag. First of all, I'm the only person who gets to kill my brother, and secondly, why should I listen to you?"

"It's a simple answer," The woman suddenly reappeared behind Mizella, grabbing her shoulder. Mizella wanted to attack her, but for some reason, a strong force enable herself to move

"With just the snap of my fingers, I can easily destroy this world faster than you can get out of this castle," She whispered coldly in Mizella's ears. "That shouldn't be a problem for you. You're just like me."

"What?" The hyena Pokemon had enough strength to turn her head. "How did you know about that?!"

"Well a normal person wouldn't be freezing still when I touched them, and a heartless would've been absorbed into my body," She answered.

When she let go of her shoulder, Mizella's body was finally under her control, which caused her to fall face first on the floor.

The woman reappeared back on her throne, crossing her long legs. "So do we have a deal?"

Mizella responded by stretching out her right arm and giving her a thumbs up. The woman grinned as the floor from where Mizella was standing opened sending the hyena Pokemon falling inside.

"So I had to summon the heartless so that they can capture all of them, " Mizella explained. "But in order to make sure that old hag would act suspicious, I've sent the others into my special spot, under the castle."

Remoraid stared at her with watery eyes. "Wow, I've always thought you were mean and cold-hearted, but after hearing that story... It makes me want a cry. You have a big heart."

"I don't have a big heart!" Mizella hissed. "I was doing all this so I can have enough power to kick that old hag's wrinkly but!"

"Sure you were," Remoraid rolled his eyes.

Mizella ignored his comment. "Anyway, the sooner I destroy Blaze with this power, the faster we get back to our world and take down that hag."

"Why do you hate your brother so much?" Remoraid asked. "Is he annoying spoil brat? Or an evil brother who wants to make your life miserable?"

"Nope," She answered. "He's the complete opposite. He's a kind-hearted, smart brat, who always puts others first. He even lies to my mother so that he doesn't get me in trouble!"

"And, that's a bad thing?"

"Yes! Because my mother would found out that I've done something to him, and grounded me in my room!"

"Maybe if you stop trying to get rid of your brother, then you wouldn't get in trouble," Remoraid mumbled.

Mizella turned to Remoraid with a devilish grin on her face. She was holding the bottle that she poured in Remoraid's mouth. "Did you say something?"

"N-N-No! It's was probably coming from these weird buildings!" He laughed nervously.

Little did the two know, a certain blond haired girl was running at the horizontal side of the sidewalk, passing Mizella who was facing away from her.

The camera slows down for a second, showing the blond girl shedding a tear, before running into the darkness.

Next Chapter: Prep For Battle