Some things you may need to know.
"Stuff." People talking.
Things. People thoughts.
G'day. Legendary Pokémon or Celestial beings talking.
"Morning." Pokémon talking being understood when near people.
"Fire!" Attack or Pokémon's moves names.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any other things that I may reference to.
Now on to the story.
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In the blink of an eye, Crude disappeared from sight before reappearing behind Zeal.
Not giving her time to react, he bonked Zeal with the pokéball, the same process happening to her. He dropped both of the balls on the grassy ground.
"Now that's over with." he said, snapping his fingers.
June and his brothers turned their heads in all direction as the terrain around them changed from a forest into a white, vast abyss of nothing.
"Like it? It was a gift from my master. My very own pocket dimension," He frowned, putting his finger under his chin. "Although it is a bit boring. *Sigh* This is what you get for only travelling through the multiverse for two months. Even if some universes have different time progressions, you still can't take much souvenirs when training."
"Um... Can I just say something?" Ane didn't give anyone any time to response as he yelled, "What the hell is going on?"
"Yeah!" Quil agreed.
"Oh right, you two still aren't caught up to this yet," Crude said. "How about you explain this for them, creator?"
"What? Why don't you explain it? You look like you know more about this."
Crude raised his eyebrow in response.
"Fine," He turned to his brothers. "Okay, here's the summary of it." He took a deep breath and said, "We were sent here into the Pokémon-verse by a Celestial Being whose name is Cosmo, and he has chosen me or maybe all of us as his champions. That guy over there is basically my rage which had somehow become alive and now he wants me to battle him. Oh and Cosmo also gave me a backpack that can store almost anything. "
"Wow. I-just-wow. I got nothing to say about that," Ane said.
"How about 'That sounds completely insane!'" Quil suggested.
"Yeah that works."
"I know it sounds a little bonkers but hey, we were kinda expecting it since we got here." June shrugged.
"Well I guess it's true," Ane said.
"We done here? Good," Crude said. "Now June, I have settled in some rules and restraints for this battle to make it more fair to you." Crude smirked.
Now I know how my brothers feel when I always act like a cocky turd. June thought with a sweat drop.
"I won't use any of the energy skills that I have gained over the past months other than some simple Pokémon 'Moves'. Anything else is allowed," Crude said, crossing his arms together.
"Okay, I guess that's fair. Hopefully, I can beat him," he whispered the last words softly. He could feel the nerves slowly coming back to him.
"And just to make sure these two won't intervene." He raised his claw in a grabbing motion, lifting his claw slowly as if raising something.
The ground shook suddenly. Everyone except for Crude struggled to stay on their feet as the ground wobbled and shook harder.
Walls of polished stone bricks slowly rose from the ground, stopping at about ten meters. Then, the walls went horizontal, closing off the white sky.
Then, the walls turned into a shade of purple as a couch appeared in the middle of the room with a coffee table in front of it.
"And... done. Whew, that took a lot outta me," Crude wiped the sweat that was starting to form around his furry-head. "Now you two stay in here while we battle. Tah tah."
Crude and June disappeared in a flash, followed by the sound of a pop.
Silence filled the relatively empty room as Ane and Quil tried to process what just happened.
"O~Kay..." Ane said, weirded out. "Now what do we do?"
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A tear in the fabric of space appeared in the empty air.
The hole grew bigger, sucking in the air before two objects were flung out of it.
Crude was curled up in a ball as he flew through the air before sticking a perfect landing.
June's landing was however not as graceful.
Landing on his snout was not fun.
"Ow," he said, getting up on his feet. "That hurts."
"Heh heh, sorry. Forgot the Pokémon-verse's laws doesn't affect this dimension much," Crude said, giving him a cheeky grin.
"Laws?"
"Well I wouldn't want to delve into a thirty minute long explanation," He said, shrugging.
"Fine," June said, spreading his arms to his sides, his claws tightening into small fists.
"Um. What the heck are you doing?" Causing June to stop whatever he was doing to respond.
"Err... Fighting stance?"
"Looks more like you're ready to dance," Crude said, "And trust me. We are not gonna dance."
June rolled his eyes before saying, "Well how do you fight?"
"I focus primarily on aggressive and quick strikes," He said, "But that's about the only thing I'm gonna tell you. You should learn your own style as I did-" He shuddered for a moment. "-But for now, take on what a normal Charmander would do."
"You mean 'Go in claws and flames blazing'?"
"Yes. Now before we start, I want you to know." He narrowed his eyes as they glowed dangerously. "You should come at me with the intent to kill."
Those words sent chills down his spine. He didn't knew he had it in him to be that scary.
Intent to kill, huh? Hope I got it in me. He raised his claws in a grabbing motion before charging forward.
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"And that is how you do it." Ane finished.
"Uh huh, yeah got it," Quil said, not really caring as he sat on the couch, staring at the coffee table with a dull expression.
"Are you even listening to me?"
Quil changed his view from the table to his brother. "Yes?"
"Liar."
"What, it's not my fault there's literally nothing to do here. Not to mention we don't have any food in here and I am hungry." He looked at his brother questioningly. "And are you sure there's nothing cool in here?"
"I don't know. I didn't really check." Ane shrugged.
"Well shouldn't you check?"
"Nah. Too lazy."
"*Sigh* Well, what do you think our brother is doing?"
"Obviously fighting that Crude guy."
"Who do you think is winning?"
"Well I think-"
The two pokéballs which were brought with them, opened up, two blue beams of light came out and landed on the coffee table.
The blue beams of light changed colors and formed two fox-shaped silhouettes.
Ane jumped out of his seat at the sudden noise while Quil screamed a bit in fright.
"That... was tough." Evie panted. She looked at her sister. "You alright, sis?"
"Yeah," Zeal said, her breathing a little ragged. "How do other Pokémon like these?" Looking at the pokéball with a pained look.
"Oh hey, it's you two. Kinda forgot about you two," Ane said, returning to his seat with a sheepish face.
"Where are we?" Evie askedasked, her breathing steadying itself into a normal pace.
"I'm not sure but I think Crude said it was his pocket dimension," Ane said.
"Crude." Evie growled. "Where is that bastard?"
"Well... Here's the thing, my brother is kinda fighting him."
"What?! Is he insane?" Evie shouted.
"Maybe?" Quil shrugged.
Evie groaned. "What is wrong with humans and their tendencies to do something that is likely to get them killed."
"There's nothing to worry about, Evie. I don't think that Crude will kill him," Ane said.
"And how can you be sure of that? Do you even know what he is?" Evie said, glaring at him.
"Well not really but do you?"
"I... don't. But I know how Pokémon react. I know the type of Pokémon he is and I am telling you that he is not natural. Those eyes" -She shivered- "those are the types that have killed hundreds without remorse."
"Wait how do you know that?"
"I'd rather not talk about it." Staring at the sky for a brief second before looking down.
A bright flash of light suddenly appeared, effectively blinding them for a short period.
"What's going on?" Quil asked, raising one of his forelegs to shield his eyes.
A voice sliced through the light as it dimmed. So glad of you to ask, my little one.
The tone of that voice set alarms off in Evie's and Zeal's head.
"Who's there?" Evie's fur risen intimidatingly, causing her to look like she had gotten bigger.
Zeal backed up, her body imitating the stance of her sister.
Oh how adorable. A dark, wispy purple smoke cloud emerged from the dying light.
The cloud whisked around them before stopping in front of Evie.
The cloud hovered in front of the distraught fox before an arm formed from it.
The cloudy arm smoothen itself, turning into a rocky material.
Another arm, this time taking on a liquid-like form, was created from the smoke cloud.
The cloud then generated the rest of the body, starting with the torso, the legs and finally the head. Each part of the body was a representative of an element.
The head had no skin, muscles nor tissues, only the bare skull of it could be seen under the fire. The torso, a nature type of look; grass, vines, leaves and any other plant-like things.
The legs however weren't legs at all, they were instead a small self-sustaining tornado.
Look at you. Thinking you could make threats towards me. The strange being laughed, placing its rocky arm on her head. That's just cute.
Evie shivered from the touch. The power of the being pouring down on her.
She shook her head, partially reducing the instinctual fear in her. She growled at the being.
"Wh-who are you?" Zeal asked.
You may know me as Crude's master. A creepy bony smile appeared on his burning head. I am here to give you two options. Option one, you can all stay here and observe the battle through this.
A large rectangular screen appeared in front of the table. Showcasing Crude and June talking to each other.
And option two, you can try and escape this place. Good luck, my little ones. He disappeared in a bright flash.
"Gah, what is with this guy and lights," Ane said, rubbing the blurriness away with his paws.
"Zeal." Evie turned to her sister who nodded at her.
The two foxes faced the walls together. Small balls of darkness appeared in front of their open mouths, slowly increasing in size until it was the size of a watermelon.
"Shadow Ball!" The two balls of darkness blasted through the wall, creating a hole large enough for an adult human.
"Come on, let's go," Zeal said, looking back at the two.
"Right." Ane nodded.
Ane and Quil followed through the hole. The sight they saw shocked them as they slowed to a stop beside the two foxes.
"What the hell?"
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~(Pokémon Battle Music - Start -)~
June paused in his charge. His non-existent ears twitching. "Hey do you hear that?" He said before feeling a blast of wind passing beside him, looking behind him. He saw some rocks digging into the white ground before disappearing.
"Stay focus or that won't miss next time." Crossing his arms. "And yes, I hear that. It's the obvious sound of the Pokémon battle music. My master tends to activate the musical part of a universe. Just... *Sigh* try not to be surprised when a main character just randomly burst into a song." His voice held a slightly annoyed tone.
"Okay then?" he said, not sure how'd that work.
"Just try to ignore it. I don't really know how it works." Crude shrugged before slipping into a fighting stance. "Now come at me."
June charged with a battle cry, not caring for subtlety. He jumped before punching Crude in his abdomen.
June dropped to the ground, holding his fist in pain. "Ah! What the hell are you made of?"
"Fur, skin and a whole lot of sweat."
"First, ew and second, ow." Rubbing his fist gently.
"Don't try to use regular physical hits on me unless you're strong enough to break bricks with a slap."
"If I can't hit you then what am I supposed to do?"
"Try using your... Dammit, what was this universe's energy again? Oh right it's Aura. Try using your Aura," he said before noticing June's deadpan look. "What?" Then it clicked him. "Right, you still haven't unlocked it yet. Okay then, let's do this." Rocks about the size of basketballs materialised around him.
Crude grinned viciously at him. "Look out, creator 'cause I am about to rock you."
"Wha-" He was cut off as pain rocked through his body, falling down on his back with enough force to crack the 'ground'. "Ow, I think you broke my everything."
"Oh, man up, would ya," he said. "I've already activated and increased the healing benefits of my dimension. Sure, I may have broken some of your bones but they have already healed in the time that I've been talking."
And true to his words, June felt the pain quickly disappearing as he got up but the pain quickly returned as he felt himself crashing onto the small crater again.
"And just in case if you need me to say this; DODGE!"
"Really? The DBZA Piccolo meme?" June said, getting onto his feet with a 'Are you serious?' look.
"Oh don't worry. It's not like I'm gonna say it every time I try to attack you 'cause otherwise that'd get pretty stale. And unlike you, I don't always try to milk something entertaining until it dried up."
June sighed before feeling his body kissing the ground again." Agh, would you stop that!"
"Not until you learn to dodge."
"Because that is so much easier said than done." Sarcasm dripping out of his mouth like venom. He then quickly moved to the left, narrowingly dodging the rocks that blasted the crater into a bigger hole. "There I'd dodged it, ya happy now?"
"Oh hoh, there is much more to battling than just dodging, creator."
"*Sigh* I know."
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The two brothers went into the hole created by the explosion and was greeted with the sight of a large and long, dark room.
The room was then blasted by an absurdly bright light, revealing something.
Ane wasn't sure what it was and neither did the others.
It was big - that was what Ane was sure of - as big as a building with three floors. It resembled a sphinx but with the face was of a dragon, the tail of a wolf and the wings of an eagle. It was also standing upright with a menacing look on its draconian face.
"HALT! Who goes there?" The massive being shouted, looking down at them. "State your business and I-" The creature paused as it processed what it was seeing. "How peculiar. A yellow rodent, a green dinosaur and two foxes, all of which containing a strange energy."
The beast sighed. "He must be behind this again."
Quit your whining and do your job. A voice commanded in its mind.
"Fine."
Lightning struck the ground behind it. "Thou shall require three items to escape thy prison," bellowed the creature. "Behind me are three doors, each of you could enter them separately or together. Once you have retrieve an item inside each door, you will be transported outside which then you can help your friend. Now if you will excuse me, I'll just stay here and act like a statue until someone from my own universe stumble upon this tomb. " And with that the creature turned into solid stone.
The four were however too confused to reply to the creature/statue.
"Alright... then," Evie said, walking past the statue.
"So we just have to get these 'items'? Sounds pretty easy, don't 'cha think, Quil? Quil?" Looking around for his brother when he didn't respond.
He saw his brother and Zeal inspecting the statue.
"This is so weird," Quil said.
"I know right?" Zeal said. "First, this weird Pokémon just suddenly appeared and then it'd just suddenly turned to stone. Man, I wonder what other weird things we could encounter with you guys."
Evie shook her head at her sister. Knowing no matter how mature she could be, she was still a child at heart. She looked at the three doors behind the statue, seeing signs above each of them.
"Offense, defense and trivia?" She wasn't sure what the last one had meant but she had a clue on what the first two were.
"Hey, what 'cha doing?" Ane asked, walking around the statue. "Oh, are these the doors that thing had said?"
"Yes, as you can see, each of these doors have a sign and I think that they have something to do with what's inside them," Evie said. "Offense which I think will have something to do with battling; Defense feels like we have to protect something and Trivia... I have no idea what that means." Evie went into a thinking pose with her eyes scrunched up and her paw under her chin.
"Oh, trivia. It means like answering questions and stuff."
"Oh... fuck." Making Ane raised an eyebrow at her cursing.
"Just gonna ignore that," Ane said, walking towards one of the doors. "So which one should we go first? Offense, defense or trivia?"
"It shouldn't matter, we have to go to all of them in the end."
"Hey sister, what 'cha found?" Zeal said, interrupting their conversation before seeing the doors. "Now what are these?"
"They're doors leading to the 'items', " Evie answered. "Any ideas what those could be?" Taking a glance at Ane but he didn't notice it.
"Oh, right," She said before looking at the doors. "Which one should we go through?"
"Let's go with offense, that sounds fun," Ane said.
"Haha- No," She said. "Look I don't know if you know this but you two aren't... how do I put it this nicely..." She shrugged. "Aren't that strong, in fact if I had to use the human level method of scanning our strength, I would put you guys on Level Zero."
"Oh..." His ears drooping as he looked at the ground.
"So why don't you and your brother stay here while we do this."
"Okay." His voice in a lower tone than before.
"Come on, Zeal." Walking through the first door with Zeal following her.
Grr... how dare she. Thinking I'm weak... I'll show her. His tiny paws clenching into fists. "Come on, Quil. Let's go."
"Huh?" Quil said before noticing his brother moving away from him. Not wanting to be left behind, he quickly followed in pursuit. "So where are we going?"
"To show her..." Looking down at his tightly clenched fists in anger.
"Show who?"
That reduced his rage a bit. "Oh y'know, her."
"Who?"
"Evie. Goddammit!"
"Okay, okay. Sheesh, you don't have to get angry like that."
"Come on, let's go."
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Crude frowned, watching his creator as he ran from his attacks in the most unenthusiastic way possible.
What is wrong with him? How can he be so damned uninterested in feeling pain unless... He looked downat his body before raising his right claw into the air.
His claws grew longer and sharper before he brought it down on himself, slashing himself on his torso. He winced slightly, blood now pooling from his newfound wound.
Then in the blink of an eye, the pain faded and the wound quickly mended itself. No wonder. I've accidentally increased the healing rate too much.
Closing his eyes, he channeled his energy into the dimension. And done. Now to inform him... although I could just let him think he won't feel pain and then blammo! It'll hurt him more than he would expect. He let out a nasty grin.
June ran at a relatively slow pace. He had ran with all his might earlier, for some odd reason he hadn't felt any fatigue from doing so, but when he slowed down a bit and looked at the floating rocks, he realised that they weren't really gonna kill him and were only gonna chase him but were still going slower than his speed.
He had tried 'dodging' but the rocks would recreate itself after hitting the ground.
Then all of a sudden, he felt a slight chill crawling on his back. It felt like the world around him had suddenly changed... either that or he was about to be in a world of pain.
He shrugged. Not really caring since he knew that Crude wouldn't dare kill him, he saw the way Crude had acted around him and from the way of his creation, he had a guess that he was about a few months old regardless of his appearance.
Still he knew that he was dangerous if being able to transport him to an entirely alternate dimension and changing its fundamental laws of physics and the workings of it were any clues.
His mind gave him a slight tingling feeling as if it was warning him of something.
Then without warning, he felt his body moved quickly to the side. The second his body collided with the ground, the rocks launched at his previous position the second later.
"Okay~ what the heck was that?" he said to himself, wondering why his body had suddenly moved to the side.
The answer given to him was a bright flash of orange and a burning feeling around his body. It was painful even though it was less painful than the rocks, it had still hurt him for a longer time.
That unsettled him as earlier, pain had quickly disappeared. It was so quick that he had barely felt the pain if only for a brief second.
But this was longer, the pain had lasted a lot longer than before.
He hissed in pain as the orange vanished. His body still screaming out for him before the pain slowly dissipated.
"Figured he added the Pokémon type resistance and weakness to you guys," Crude said, appearing behind him.
"What the hell did you do?" June asked.
"Oh y'know. Teaching you a lesson," he said. "I know you may think I'm not scary, I'll admit that it's true. No one was scared of me before."
They were bloody terrified of me. He mentally added.
His voice then took on a sharp edge. "But you better take this seriously before I do it myself."
"Yeah. Yeah. Whatever," June said, dismissing his threat.
Crude growled. To say he was frustrated would be an understatement.
He couldn't believe that his creator was so infuriating to work with. His vision to fill with red-No, not again.The redness slowly subsided as he calmed himself so he wouldn't turn his creator into a red mess... but that didn't mean he couldn't torture him.
Meanwhile, June was casually walking away from the plotting fox.
Unaware that Crude was thinking of a plan to break him.
He thought back to his actions during the battle and wondered if it was a good idea to anger a being that was several times stronger than him.
Eh, if he gets mad. He probably wouldn't be able to focus. He shrugged.
"I don't think getting him angry is a good idea, creator."
June looked around before shaking his head. "Great. Now I'm hearing things."
"Oh don't be silly, creator. If you are hearing things then we must be hearing things too."
He ignored the voice, feeling like he already had too much to deal with.
He sighed. First, getting into the Pokémon universe then it turned out that Celestial beings exist and then finding out that somehow my emotions have manifested themselves into six different personalities and now getting taken into a pocket dimension to fight one of the personae who has somehow escaped.
While it had been fun for the first few hours, it became pretty stressful and overwhelming when it didn't seem to stop.
And now, he had to add hearing voices to his list. Great, this day can't possibly get any weirder.
Then Crude popped into existence in front of him.
He sighed. I spoke too soon.
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As soon as they entered the door, rows of blue holographic letters appeared in front of them.
Then, a female voice spoke monotonely. "Welcome travelers beyond this world. This tomb contains three levels, pass through each and you shall be awarded freedom and the 'Item of Encasement'."
"'The Item of Encasement'? Wonder how that would look like," Quil said.
"Who cares," Ane said as the text withered away.
The duo walked passed the withering text when suddenly they starting glowing brightly.
"What's happening?" Quil asked.
"I don't know," Ane said, slightly panicking.
When the light dimmed down, the two were dressed in different clothing.
Ane instead of wearing the shirt from before, now sported a white safari-style shirt and a leather jacket. His hat was replaced with a black fedora, he also had a satchel and a whip on his right hip.
Quil however wasn't wearing any clothing but was given a three strand laid rope and a small dagger that was attached to a belt that was around his bulb.
"Okay, this is strange," Ane said, looking at his new wardrobe.
"Tell me about it, my bulb thing feels weird."
"Anyways, let's get going. We wouldn't want to lose them."
"Right."
The two walked through the tomb quietly, occasionally taking a look at the sandstone walls and admiring how ancient it felt.
Man. This must be how going to Egypt feels like, Ane thought to himself before feeling his feet sinking into the floor. Quickly glancing down, he saw that his foot had stepped on a pressure plate.
He recognised the classic way of a trap being triggered.
Quickly reacting, he pushed his brother to the ground. A moment later, streams of arrows whisked past their head, piercing into the sandstone walls before the arrows stopped firing.
"Woah. That was a close one," Quil said.
"Yeah." Ane agreed. "I think this place is riddled with traps."
"Kinda like Alex." Quil mused.
"Yup."
"Guess we gotta be careful."
Ane slowly got up, carefully placing his left paw on the ground.
His paw made contact with the floor.
Sweat dripped from his head.
*Click!*
Another volley of arrows whisked past his head, piercing through his hat and taking it with them.
Ane's heart beated furiously, seeing that he had almost died for the second time.
He didn't dare to risk his head again.
"Let me try," Quil said. Ane reluctantly let him.
Quil took a deep breath before placing one of his paws in front of him but was however met with another click and more arrows.
"What the?" Quil placed another paw on a different plate and was met with the same results. "How the hell are we suppose to do this?"
Ane took a look at the holes which the arrows had came out of and back to him and his brother.
He facepalmed when he realised the problem. "Quil."
"Yes?"
"We're freaking idiots."
"What do you mean?"
"Just look at the arrows and us."
Quil did what his brother told him, looking at the holes before looking at himself and his brother. Upon realization, Quil let out an understanding "Oh".
Ane sighed before crawling as the arrows whizzed past his head. The barrage stopped as he reached the end of the trap with Quil following behind him.
Ane looked back at the trap with disappointment. "That was way too easy."
"Um..."
"What?"
"I don't think that was the end."
"Well duh. You don't have to say the obvious," Ane said before darkness engulfed them.
"What's going on?"
"I don't kno- Woah!" Ane cried.
"What? What's wrong?"
"I tripped on something." Ane replied.
"Like what?"
"I don't know but it feels large and slimy."
"Erm... Ane." Quil's voice quivered a bit. Seeing two pairs of eyes sneaking behind him.
"Wha-" Then without warning, he was dragged away by the scruff of his neck.
"Ane?" A big fluffy object then pushed Quil. He tried to resist the fluffy object but was too weak to overpower it.
"Ow ow ow ow..."
"Mmph." Quil tried to talk but his mouth was muffled by the fluffy object.
Ane tried to grab whatever was dragging him but couldn't. He cursed at his situation before thrashing around, hoping to loosen the grip of whatever was holding him.
But alas, it was useless as he was thrown into a hole in the ground. The weightlessness accompanied him for a few moments before he felt his back hitting the solid ground. "Ow. My back."
Then he heard the screaming of his brother before seeing him landing on the ground with a 'Thud.'
"Ouch."
"Hey, are you alright?"
"Yeah. I think so." Getting up on fours, he looked at the hole that they had fallen through. "Where are we?"
"I don't know."
Then, they heard something landing behind them. Looking back, they saw Zeal and Evie looking at them with an angry look.
"I think we're in trouble," Quil said.
Ane gulped. "Eyup."
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"What do you want?" June said, irritated.
Crude blinked. What's up with him?
The first time he'd seen someone like this was when he was learning offensive magic and had tried to kill the goblin that was chasing him.
He had also learned how it felt to feel fear that day.
His master had been a sadistic bastard and while he couldn't say it didn't give him great results, he also couldn't say that it would work for most people throughout the multiverse.
Now that he thought about it, this whole thing about trying to help his creator to unlock this universe's energy was nearly the exact same as when his master tried to help him unlock some of the multiverse's energy... Minus the goblins and other ungodly monsters.
A shame really, he thought his creator would be able to handle it. He knew that if he kept going, his creator would sooner or later, die.
He sighed. Knowing that he had no choice but to change his tactics.
"Alright! I've decided." Crude suddenly exclaimed, surprising June in the process. "June. I'd realised that what I'm doing is not working."
What the hell is he talking about?
"So instead of doing what my master did to me. I'll be doing this the old fashioned way."
The scenery around them changed from white emptiness to a dark grey empty room.
After a moment or two, June was about to express his opinion but was interrupted when wooden dummies appeared, followed by a treadmill and a small shack.
Crude clapped his claws happily. "Alright, let's begin."
He then noticed the strange look that June was sending him. "What?"
"Err... I don't know how to say this so I just yell it to you." He took a deep breath. "First things first. What the hell is wrong with you? Earlier you looked like you were gonna kill me and now look at you, acting all giddy giddy like a little child. And second, why the hell is there a treadmill there? And if you could make things appear out of thin air, why didn't you do it earlier to block me off? And lastly, where in the flying ducks are my brothers? "
"You could say I have a change in mind. Come, creator. We shall unlock your Aura."
What the hell have I just got myself into?
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"Just what are you two doing here?" Evie said, creeping her way towards the two.
"Well we just thought that... Um..." Quil stuttered, unable to come up with something.
"We wanted to help you." Ane finished for his brother. "It's our brother out there that is in trouble and like all siblings do, we gotta stick together like glue on a paper."
"Dude, that was the worst metaphor I've ever heard."
"Shut up."
Evie sighed, knowing that if she had fingers, she'd be rubbing her temples with them. "Look. I know both of you really want to help but this place is dangerous and you two aren't experienced enough yet to beat a Ratata."
I guess, it is kinda true. Ane admitted. "Well maybe if you let us help, we could learn."
Evie was ready to respond but was cut off by Zeal. "I think that's a wonderful idea," she said, ignoring her sister's surprised "What?".
She pulled her sister and took a couple of steps away from them. "Could you give us a minute? Thanks."
The two took a couple of steps away, walking around the corner and out of their sight.
"Zeal. I don't know what you're trying to do but you'd better have an explanation."
"Okay, hear me out, sis." She smiled. "These two are determined to help, they've probably never been able to help much. I can see the desperation in them, the drive to be useful and not be a liability..."
"Go on," Evie said.
"What I'm saying is that these two could be useful to us, I can feel myself in them." Zeal gave her a pleading look.
Evie's eyes twitched but she stood firm.
Zeal's widened her eyes, slight tears forming at the edge of her eyes.
They kept at it for several seconds before one of them finally succumbed to the other.
"Fine." Evie sighed. "But you're the one to hold responsibility for this."
"You won't regret it, sis."
"I hope not," she muttered under her breath before walking to meet with the two.
"Alright, so where do we start?" Ane asked.
Evie rose an eyebrow before narrowing her eyes in suspicion. "Were you eavesdropping on us?"
"Well you weren't really that far from us. Plus it's not our fault that we have better hearing now."
Evie sighed. "Whatever. Let's just go before I change my mind."
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The team made it through the various traps of the first level before finally stumbling across the second one.
Like the first one, a row of blue holographic text appeared in front of them.
"Congratulations on making it to the second level," the monotonous feminine voice said. "Now what lies through this place aren't traps nor wild beast instead you shall be fighting the most dangerous of all creatures. Beware, travellers as this day may be your last."
"Isn't that just a bit too early for our last day? I mean this is only the second level, right?" Ane asked but the voice didn't answer him.
Evie and Zeal walked forward, Ane and Quil followed behind them.
Their surroundings had changed from an ancient temple look to a futuristic hallway.
The walls were a bright blue and were made of a type of metal. Lights and wires could be seen engraved in the walls.
Electricity sometimes sparked through the wires as the four quietly went through the desolate hallway.
Finally they stumbled onto the end of the hall, light pouring into the hallway.
As they crept closer to the end. Noises akin to thunder roared through the narrow hall, the noise echoing as they bounced off the walls.
Suddenly, the light glowed brighter. An exciting robotic voice said, "Welcome visitors from across the multiverse. Today, we have four new contestants, so let's welcome them with a big round of applause."
Then they appeared in the middle of an open field, the ground under them were made of a smooth metallic material. Hundreds upon hundreds of strange humanoid aliens, robots and humans sat on the cavea around them.
A humanoid robot in a weird hemispherical machine floated in front of them. "Now would you mind informing everybody of who and what you are?" His right hand transformed into a microphone as he held it in front of them.
He frowned slightly when none of them responded. But it was quickly replaced by a large grin. "Well folks, it seems like these four are a bit nervous but don't worry we will flash a screen that be showing their basic information."
The robot hit a button on his hovercraft and a big, blue rectangular light appeared in front of them then it quickly flew around the crowd, flashing several things before disappearing.
"Now that you all know what these little critters are. I guess it's time to see if they're worthy enough."
"What the heck is going on?" Zeal asked the two brothers as the robot flew higher.
"I don't know," Ane replied, looking up at the robot as it talked in some sort of language that he couldn't understand.
The robot then flew around them as it continued talking to the strange beings from above. Then it stopped talking before a pillar of light appeared a few meters away from them.
The robot hovered in front of the pillar of light and said, "Now we all know the drill here, fight the most dangerous creatures of their multiverse. The challenge which all of you have gone through so let's give them some encouraging words and see if they will make it or not."
As the light slowly faded away, the robot said, "Presenting their multiverse's most dangerous creatures-"
The light dimmed down, showing several shadowy figures but on closer inspection, the figures looked like humans but dressed in dark armor.
Their heads were covered in a helmet that was made of a black metal with a glass panel shielding their eyes from danger.
The body armor they wore, covered their entire body. It was also pretty bulky, suggesting that it was tough and could probably take a beating from an Ursaring.
It also looked like something from a video game that her former trainer had played. Evie noted that they were also carrying a long black metallic stick in their arms.
She growled slightly, knowing exactly what those were and what they could do.
There were at least a dozen of those soldiers, all of which were wearing the same armor.
But there was one person that was different. A man who unlike the others didn't wore armor or carried a weapon in his arms. This man wore a standard white shirt and jeans. A large grin plastered on his face.
The man had a somewhat cheery aura although it felt artificial like the armored ones' aura, which were intimidating and cold.
"... Well folks, it seems like they're up against humans... again." The excitement in his voice had faded away. Strange. I thought their most dangerous critter ain't a human?
Several groans of disappointment and some "Are you kidding me?" were thrown at the robot.
A blonde woman wearing a green tank top, rose an eyebrow at their protests. "What's wrong with humans?" she said to the green alienoid beside her.
The alien let out a sigh. "Nothing really. Humans are pretty powerful and all and like it or not, they are very pest-like, what with their ability to reproduce and conquer a planet in only a few centuries but for the past few 'challenges', we've seen nothing but humans for almost forty times. It gets a little boring when all they do is use their guns and shoot."
"Hmm... fair point." Most of the 'challenges' she'd seen were human related, while one time had been the challenger and his opponents fighting each other with elemental abilities, the rest were mostly gun fights and the challengers would usually fail before having to retry again.
She grimaced slightly when she heard the loud noises of the guns, hoping that these animals would somehow avoid it.
Evie quickly leapt into action once she saw the men's fingers twitched near the trigger. She used her Protect but instead of the usual round force field, it was now however a thin wall, shielding them from the bullets of the guns.
Now that had caught the audience's attention.
The bullets pounded on the force field, not even making a slight dent to it.
"Zeal! A little help here!" Evie shouted, sweat dripping down her head as she struggled to maintain the field.
"Zeal?" She glanced at her sister through the corner of her vision, noticing that she had became as stiff as a wooden plank. "Dammit, Zeal! Snap out of it!"
She then moved her head a bit to face the other two. "You two. Do something!"
"Huh?" Ane said before shaking his head as he focused on the task at hand.
"Right," he said, walking slowly to her. "What do you want us to do?"
"Get your brother to snap my sister out of her trance," she commanded. "You... do you know any attacks?"
"Um. Does punching count?" At the sight of her deadpan, he quickly added, "Guess not."
Evie sighed. "Alright then, here's the plan. Once they start reloading, I will drop this shield and I want you to knock at least one of them out."
"And how exactly am I suppose to do that?" Ane said, giving her his own deadpan stare.
"You're a Pokémon! Tackle them, scratch them, bite them- Whatever! Just do what it takes to beat them."
"Alright, Quil. You heard her."
"Um... alright," he said, a bit nervous but he complied anyway.
Ane fell into a four legged running stance, like the one he'd seen Ash's Pikachu did. He realized that it was sorta weird when his body felt more natural on fours than on his feet.
It was strange to see everything getting slightly bigger as well as having to be on all fours. He was cut short of his musings when he heard a sudden shout of "Now!"
He saw the force field disappearing in an instant as he saw the soldiers started to reload their guns.
Evie charged forward as her body became coated with a white aura then she became a blur. The soldiers were all quickly taken down one by one, the brown blur moved from human to human, striking them hard on their armored vest as well as leaving a few cracks on them.
The soldiers faded away before they could hit the ground.
And then there was only one, a guy who didn't look like he was even supposed to be here. His face still held that stupid looking grin.
Evie sighed a breath of relief, glad that this one didn't look like much of a threat. "Hey, Ane. It's your turn."
Ane charged at him at a moderate pace, making sure he didn't trip over his own feet.
When he was at a relatively close distance, he jumped and smacked the man right in the chest or at least that's what would've happened if the man didn't grabbed him by the tail.
Ane was shocked at the what happened, the feeling of weightlessness combined with the fact that all of his blood was rushing to his head made him thought he saw the man's grin grew larger.
But then he saw something strange as the man held him upto eye level, something was moving in his eyes.
Something blue and wispy bounced around in his eyes, producing a little *Whish* noise that was almost inaudible.
The man's eyes turned sharp, the wisp in his eyes turned red and bounced furiously.
Then all of the sudden, the man burst into flames.
Ane's eyes widened in fright before shutting them tight when the flames crawled onto the man's arm.
He waited.
And waited.
But nothing came.
He peeked through his half-opened eyelids before widening them in surprise. "What the?" he muttered out.
The man no longer stood there. A dark purple, almost black in color, bipedal fox had taken the man's place. It had three red claws with strong big arms, around its neck was a darker shade of purple fur. It had a large and red voluminous mane that had shades of purple sticking out of it, its hair was wrapped up into a ponytail by a teal bangle. Its eyes were red-rimmed with light blue irises.
A Zoroak? Ane thought, surprised.
The Zoroak grinned, showing off its teeth at him. "You didn't honestly think that humans were the most dangerous in the Pokémon multiverse, did ya?" Its voice sounding deep and somehow high-pitched at the same time.
The Zoroak's body went up in flames again, this time taking the form of a Machamp. It looked away from Ane, finally taking a view of the place around them.
It grinned. "Heh heh heh, so much new bodies and each of them containing different energies." It then dropped Ane right on his head, resulting in a painful sounding *Thud!* and an "Ow."
It licked its lip as it stared hungrily at the crowd. Its body then into an amalgamation of flesh and tissue before two large orange bat-like wings sprouted out of its back, its face and body now resembling a dragon, a Dragonite to be exact.
With a flap of its newly-acquired wings, it quickly reached the sky in under a second. Analysing the people on the cavae, it locked eyes with a man wearing a red cap with the letter 'M' on it. "You'll do." It grinned maliciously. Taking the form of the chubby man, it cupped its hands and placed them next to its hip before thrusting them forward, releasing an enormous torrent of fire at the crowd.
The red capped man widened his eyes for a split second before narrowing them and unleashing his own torrent of flames.
The two flames collided with each other and began a battle for dominance.
The copycat's flames were slowly being overwhelmed so he decided to dodge it. It sidestepped away, causing the flame to pass beside it as the fire harmlessly flew into space
The copycat lifted the side of its left handed glove, taking out a small blue flower.
It then crushed the flower into pieces and absorbed them, its red cap and blue overalls changed to cyan and red respectively.
"This is new." It smirked. Noticing two bulky robots flying up to it from the edge of its vision.
It spun a perfect one eighty degree and shot a blue fire-like ball at them. Freezing a small portion of one of the robots' arm.
The robot vibrated its arm at a high frequency, shattering the ice instantly as it charged forward, punching the copycat right in the face.
The copycat didn't have time to respond before its eyes rolled into the back of its head. It plummeted to the ground as its body began to change shapes. Its coloration turning into a light purple and its body resembling a blob.
"Welp, there goes another one," the robot said. He faced the audience with a heavy sigh. "Sorry folks but it seems like another one of our duplicates has rebelled... again."
Probably best if we remove their freewill, he thought grimly, not really liking the idea of them being puppets.
He shook his head before returning his gaze to the Pokémon. He floated over to the four extremely confused Pokémon and said, "Sorry about that. Here, you four can take this and you can be on your way." Tossing them a small button-like pebble. "Bye."
Four blue pillars of light enveloped them, teleporting them to who-knows-where.
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The four appeared in the middle of a room with a temple next to them.
"Well. That'd just happened."
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"Come on, June. You can do it! Just one more lap!" Crude cheered. Pumping his fists into the air before June plopped onto the ground in front of him. "Great job, creator. At this rate, you'll be strong enough to beat a level seventeen ratata."
June didn't respond as he took in several deep breaths, forcing himself to glare at Crude. "What... the hell... is... wrong with you."
Crude raised an eyebrow at him. "What do you mean?"
June angrily pointed at the happy-looking alligator that was over three times bigger than Crude. The alligator panted like a dog before tilting its head at him. June slowly crawled away from the giant reptile.
Crude walked up to the alligator and petting its enormous muzzle. "Aww~ Who's a good boy."
The alligator wagged its tail like a dog before it covered Crude in saliva.
"Ew." He chuckled. "Okay buddy. You can go home now, I'll visit you later." With a snap of his fingers, the alligator vanished with the sound of a pop.
"Alright, since you're tired. We can take a little break." He turned around to find June in front of him, with his right arm raised like he was ready to claw him.
June froze as Crude just gave him a deadpan stare. "What the heck do you think you're doing?"
"Uhh..." He lowered his arm and grinned sheepishly. "Just wanting to give you a pat on the back."
"Uh huh, likely story," said Crude, with hints of amusement. "Come on, we'll take a little break." Sitting cross-legged on the ground, a sandwich appeared on his open palm. "Here, want one?"
"Uhh..."
"Don't worry, it's not like I've poisoned it."
"That sounds exactly like what someone who'd poisoned it would say."
Crude stared blankly at him.
"What?" he exclaimed. "Can't I just do one reference? You've been doing it for the past... how much time had passed?"
"About two seconds in the Pokémon-verse and two hours in my dimension."
"Say what?"
"Never mind," he said before snapping his fingers and a sandwich appeared out of thin air, landing on June's head, causing him to cry out in shock. "Oh, don't worry. I enchant all my foods stuff with an anti-bacterial spells, it kills and destroys anything that might be harmful to a living being."
"Huh neat."
Cue another deadpan stare from Crude.
He took the sandwich from his head somehow not spilling its contents as he held it cautiously and gave a close inspection of it. "What's in this?"
"Some oran berries, lettuce and apple slices. I figured you wouldn't want to eat Pokémon meat." He shrugged.
June shuddered. "Uggh, Pokémon meat."
Crude shrugged. "Eh, you gotta do what you gotta do to survive."
He chewed on the sandwich, musing on the fact that it tasted like a mixture of honey, strawberry and blueberry. "So you're saying you've been surviving in the wild?"
"My master sent me *Shiver* into one of the worser dimensions of this world," he said with a haunting expression.
June ate in silence, watching as Crude's expression changed from haunted to looking horrified like someone seeing the serial killer in a horror movie.
"So..." June started as Crude shook his head and turned his attention to him. "What's with you?"
"What?"
June paused before face-palming. "Right, wrong phrasing." He cleared his throat. "What's up with you and your... y'know."
Crude raised an eyebrow at this.
June groaned. "Your behaviour. It's so... strange.
"And yours isn't?"
June shot a small glare at him, making him quickly shut his mouth. "You acted like an evil mastermind earlier then a psychopathic murderer and now you're acting like... me?" He shrugged, not really knowing which term was better.
"Oh, so that's what you meant." He grinned. "It's fun acting like an evil mastermind, I mean, the looks on your faces were priceless, especially that Zorua when I said that I was gonna keep her hostage. Though if I'm being honest, being evil can be a bit difficult and kinda boring at first. The 'heroes' of the stories are so damn weak and self-centered, I'd always have to wait for at least five months in order for them to actually try something, I mean there are the overly arrogant or just plain stupid ones that try to attack me but in all seriousness, being evil is boring... That and spending months on writing an evil monologue is exhausting."
"O~kay?" he said, unsure as to how he could respond to that. "Wait, didn't you say that you'd only been out of my head for only two months?"
"Technically yes but my master really and I mean, REALLY loves messing with time." He clapped and stood up, lifting his arms. "It's been like fifteen to twenty years since I've been 'alive'."
"What?" June exclaimed in shock.
"Crazy right? My master had only told me about it when I came here."
"That's... interesting," June said. "By the wait, what is your master? He sounds ridiculously powerful even for a 'Celestial being'."
"Well a 'Celestial being' is just what they call themselves. They're actually beings above the infinite sets of infinity, over infinitely stronger than any other beings that could take a being from a different universe and placing them into another. Nothing can match them in power. They have existed back when the multiverses were still infants."
Crude stopped. "And my master thought it was a good idea to learn 'friendship' and leadership. Honestly, I don't see the appeal in leading people, I'm just doing completely fine myself."
"Maybe it'd be better if you didn't threaten them."
"Maybe. Maybe." He shrugged. "Come on, let's try awakening your energy: the monk way."
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"Hello and welcome to the Science Aper--*Bzzzt*" Static cut off the robotic female voice. "Sorry. There seems to be something wrong with the audio. Please complete the puzzle provided for you in the shrine."
"Shrine?" Ane asked but didn't get a reply.
"Zeal. Zeal! Goddammit, Zeal! Snap out of it!" Quil shouted, shaking her so quickly that it looked like she was having a seizure. "Zeal!"
"W-w-w-what i-is g-going o-on?"
Quil immediately stopped. "Oh, you're back. Good, your sister was starting to get a little bit worried."
"My sister?" Zeal asked, looking at her surroundings in confusion. "Where are we?"
"The third stage."
"What? Really? What happened to the second one? Weren't we just in a battle?"
"Yes," Quil said. "You've been frozen through the entire thing."
"Oh," Zeal grimaced. "What happened?"
"There was a giant fox that looked like you, I think it was a Zoroak."
A Zoroak? she thought, widening her eyes in shock. So that's what that darkness was.
"Of course, it was a Zoroak, ya dummy," Ane said, approaching his little brother.
"Well, it's not like I have an encyclopedia for Pokémon," Quil remarked.
"Yeah? Wait till we get our brother back and we'll have the pokédex back."
Zeal ignored the two's banter, finding her sister near the archway and mumbling to herself. "Hey, sis. What's the matter?"
"Oh, Zeal. You're alright," she said. "I was beginning to think that there was something wrong with you."
"What do you mean?" she said, already knowing what was about to come forth.
"Look, Zeal. I know you're scared. I get it. I can be scared too. Everyone in the world will feel scared sometimes. It's nothing to be ashamed of."
"What?" Zeal tilted her head in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
Now it was Evie's turn to be confused. "Um, giving you advice like a big sister would in times of need."
"What?"
"Never mind." Evie shook her head, muttering something unintelligible under her breath.
Zeal looked at her, confused. "O~kay then?" She looked behind her sister and saw an altar deep in the dark shrine. "So what'd I missed?"
"Well, there were humans in armor with those long black weapons and a Ditto."
"A Ditto?"
"Yes but it was able to transform-"
"That's normal."
"It can transform into Pokémon without having one in front of it."
"Oh, that's not normal." Evie nodded.
"It was a human then it transformed into a Zoroak... Kinda."
"Kinda?"
"It went up in flames and the humans I fought had vanished."
"An illusion!" Zeal exclaimed in shock.
Evie leapt back from the sudden shout.
"Sorry, it's just that now I know why everything turned dark earlier."
"Hmm?"
"I'd heard there were some illusionists that changed their illusions to be extra cool and flashy. I'd wanted to 'stay in style' as they say it and tried a paw in it." She chuckled sheepishly. "Let's just say it didn't go as planned."
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(*A few weeks ago*)
Zeal giggled softly to herself, her body hugging tightly against the rocky walls. Trying to make herself as close to invisibility as possible as she waited for her victims to arrive.
Her ears twitched, hearing the sounds of dozens of flapping wings. Here they come~ she thought gleefully.
"Alright, guys. Bring 'em in." Dozens of Pidgeys and Spearrows flew past her hiding spot, each of them carrying either berries or some unidentifiable mangled object in their claws.
"So, how did training go, Perry?"
"It was... interesting, to say the least." Perry glared at something in the distant. "Don't put those in the heat! We need them to last more than a day! Go put them in the back with the air currents!"
The Pidgeys, who had been yelled at, obeyed and immediately flew deeper into the cave.
"*Sigh* You'd think these guys would learn by now."
Rower shrugged.
"Come on, let's go make sure they're not doing something stupid again."
"You got it," he said.
Zeal grinned as she sneaked behind them while they were talking, her illusion was one of the scariest Pokémon, in her opinion, a Gyarados in its shiny form.
She casted an illusion over her voice, imitating the deep and roughness of a Gyarados' voice. "RAWR!!"
Rower yelped in fright while Perry stared at the 'Gyarados' boredly, rolling his eyes in annoyance.
"Really?" Perry asked, ignoring Rower who was currently trying to stop his heart from jumping out of his throat.
Perry shook his head with a sigh. "You know, Zeal. I've already got enough of this bullshit and I don't need you increasing my stress level."
The 'Gyarados' pouted... somehow.
The illusion dispelled and the small fox replaced the towering serpent-like dragon.
"Aw. Guess I gotta find a new victim to prank- Not!" She giggled, causing the two of them to groan.
"You know. One day, you're gonna regret pranking us."
"Heh, regret." She giggled slightly. "Anyways, I want your guys' opinions."
The two birds of prey looked at each other before Rower enquired, "On what?"
"On my new illusion transformation. I've been working on it for a couple of weeks and I want your guys' opinions on it."
Zeal unleashed her puppy-dog eyes at them, slowly weakening their mental defenses.
Perry was the first to cave. "Fine. As long as it's not a trick."
Zeal let out a ready grin and casted the illusion.
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(*Now*)
Zeal chuckled at the memory. "Heh heh, that was certainly not pleasant for them."
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A/N: Sorry it took so long, I had to do some research and got distracted along the way.Oh and to the reviewer who asked me about that Warhammer 4k thing; I have no idea which 'he' you were talking about so I'm gonna assume that you were talking about Crude. Crude has not been to that universe yet nor do I intend for him to (Considering the fact that I have little knowledge about that game).Anyways, see you guys later on the next chapter and here's a little bonus that I couldn't fit into this chapter, as a gift for it being late.
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Omake: The First Stage
They continued down the ancient site, analysing each walls and florrs in search of a trap.
Luckily, they were able to made it to the final place, only setting off a few traps: the classic boulder trap, lowering ceiling and poison gas.
They entered a large and empty room with a red carpet starting from the entrance to the end of the room. At the end of the carpet stood a pedestal with a red half-dome resting on a red pillow.
"Ahah! I think this is it," Ane said.
"Yeah." Zeal agreed. "Great, now let's go get that thing and get out of here."
"Wait," Evie said, getting them to stop. "Something doesn't seem right about this."
"You mean the fact that an empty room with absolutely nothing but that item, which seems to be the only way out of this place, is completely unguarded," Ane said. "Of course there's something wrong about this."
"I'm willing to bet that there's gonna be a monster when we go halfway," Quil added.
"What makes you say that?" Zeal asked.
"Because it's so goddamn obvious," Ane answered. "These things happen all the times in movies."
A giant octopus monster, who was hiding on the closed ceiling hatch, sweat dropped as it heard Ane continue listing the clichés present.
"And I bet it's gonna be some sort of multi-legged creature or a giant lizard," Ane said, taking a step forward.
The ceiling hatch opened, dropping a large red octopus in front of them.
"Told ya!" Ane shouted, looking back at them.
Evie and Zeal took a battle stance but the octopus quickly swiped them in its tentacles and started squeezing them to death.
"Evie, Zeal!" Ane and Quil both cried out in shock.
"Ah!" Evie moaned in pain. "You two! Do something!"
"Like what?"
"Something- Ack!"
Ane looked worried, turning his head around, frantically searching for a way to beat that monster. He then paused.
Wait. Don't I have a whip? He patted his hip and sure enough, the whip was still there. Almost forgot about this. Heh.
Ane took the whip with his right paw, swinging it wildly at the octopus. The whip cracked loudly as it missed Quil by an inch.
"Hey! Watch where you swing that thing!" Quil yelled.
"Sorry!" Ane shouted before slowing the whip down to a halt. He was glad that the octopus was too preoccupied to notice the noise.
Ane walked upto Quil and whispered into his ears. "I want you to distract that thing and stab it in its tentacles."
"Got it." He nodded. "What are you gonna do?"
"See that torch?" he said, pointing at one of the torches on the walls.
"Yeah?" Then it hit him. "You're gonna burn it?"
"Yup. And we can get some free calamari at the same time."
"I do feel hungry," Quil said, staring hungrily at the octopus. He shook his head before staring right into Ane's eyes. "Let's do it."
Ane took the dagger from his holster and handed it to Quil. Quil took it in his mouth and ran straight towards the octopus.
He sliced one of the octopus' dormant tentacles, cutting a sizeable wound into it.
The octopus screeched in pain, swinging its tentacles around wildly as blood oozed out of its wound.
It hissed and glared at him. Swinging the tentacle that was holding Zeal, at him.
Quil instinctively dodged the attack, looking at the tentacle in slight fear before tightening his hold on the dagger and jumping at limb.
Ane held the whip tightly, creeping quietly around the octopus.
He crouched on fours, putting all of his strength into his feet.
Then he jumped five feet into the air, his body instinctively spinning and twisting before knocking the torch off with his tail.
The torch fell onto the ground, it's flames diminishing slightly.
Ane landed and stood straight up, holding the torch with his left paw.
"Ack! Ane help! It got me!" Quil cried out, feeling the pressure crushing his lungs.
"Don't worry, Quil. I got this!" Ane said in an exaggerated 'heroic' voice.
He pulled his left paw back. "Taste the flame, mother trucker!"
The torch flew into the air at a moderate rate, the flame growing bigger as it zoomed through the slightly-filled methane room.
The octopus saw it and shot a spray of ink at it, before realising its mistake as the flames grew bigger and consumed its body.
It tossed the three unconscious and semi-conscious Pokémon into the air and they all landed beside Ane.
"And that is how you do it, men."