Chapter 26
Song: Butter-Fly (English Fan Dub Ver.)
Artist: LeeandLie (Original Japanese Artist: Koji Wada)
My broken wings dream of the sky,
And they'll never be able to fly.
Only if we never try,
On my loo-o-o-ove!
If I could become just one thing,
I'd be a butterfly-free soaring.
I really miss you...
So finally I'm on my way.
Let's focus on the people we trust
And leave out all the doubt behind us.
So if you're ready...
Can we go? 'Cause there's no time to wa-aste.
I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
If the sky above is only for show.
I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
What tomorrow will bring so let's spread our wi-i-ings!
Maybe this world's an infinite dream,
And there is only hope living in me!
May it not fail me now!
We'll turn this thing around and bring back the lovin' somehow!
My broken wings dream of the sky,
and they'll never be able to fly!
Only if we never try,
On my lo-o-ove!
On my lo-o-o-ove!
Back on Remnant, the people watched Weiss' Pokemon gym battle on the net and they keep going on on how awesome it was. Some of the kids try to pretend to be certain Pokemon from the net as some sort of game, some entrepreneurs are getting some ideas about their next marketing, the news became a frenzy about the new world where Team RWBY is at, some scientist try to understand how the new world and their creatures work. As a matter of fact, some of them are trying to understand about the technology of the Pokemon World in Atlas.
But back in the ruins, Team JNPR watch a replay of the match on Jaun's scroll.
"Ooo!" Nora says with excitement, "Look like those gyms seem pretty tough!" Then she shows her muscles, "But not as tough as me!"
Ren says, "You can only use those creatures to fight. You can't fight them."
Pyrrha says over Jaune's left shoulder, "They are cute, but can be powerful."
Jaune laughs a little, "Reminds me of some of my sisters. They used to be cute, but far more devious."
While watching, Pyrrha notices something was just added onto Jaune's scroll. She noticed an icon that looks like a Pokeball appeared on the lower left side. "What's that?" Pyrrha pointed out.
"Hmm?" Jaune look at what Pyrrha is pointing. He notices it at the corner of the video that keeps on flashing. "That's new." He pauses the video and press the icon.
What happened next is that the scroll showed some sort of website.
"Bulbapedia?" Jaune reads the title of the sight. Nora and Ren join in to see as Jaune keeps reading, "This is a website comprised by members of the Pokemon Fanclub that is comprised of research done by scientists and trainers alike. In order to prepare future trainers, coordinators and those that train alongside their Pokemon, they can use this website to obtain information on how to raise Pokemon, train them, what their moves on and much more."
Pyrrha takes an interest, "Let's see what else there is."
Nora presses a 'Random Page' button and it lead to a Clefable, "Aww~! It's adorable!" Nora admires the baby Pokemon. "Hope Ruby and the gang will bring one of those home~!" She presses the random page button again takes them to a page about Cosplay Pikachus. Nora's nose started to bleed and pass out.
Pyrrha loves the one in the dress, "Now that's adorable~!"
Jaune says, "I like the one with the wrestler outfit."
Ren asks, "Is there one dressed as a martial artist?"
Close by, Team CFVY are looking at them.
"What are they talking about?" Velvet asks.
Fox just shrugs.
"They seem to be interested in something." Yatsu then looks at Coco. "What do you think, Coco?"
Coco is passed out on the ground with her nose bleeding after looking at the page about Cosplay Pikachus.
"Coco?" Velvet checks on what Coco was looking at and gets a nosebleed. "Oh my! Now that's adorable!"
Cinder and Emerald are looking at their scrolls to see the new website that had appeared. Cinder skims to find anything worth of value such as the elemental gems, Z-Crystals, and legendary objects that might make her more powerful. Emerald is more interested in checking out the more cool looking Pokemon on the website instead of looking at something useful.
"Hmm." Cinder continues to read. "That world seem to have many legends and myths. Even some that involve strange objects that would summon creatures of great power."
Emerald show something on her scroll, "Like these guys?" She shows some legendary Pokemon such as Groudon, Solgaleo, and many more.
Cinder has taken an interest in these new creatures and starts to wonder how to obtain their powers.
Mercury shows up, "Hey! Did anyone catch that battle on the net?!"
Later on, Team JNPR head deeper into the temple and found some more peculiar drawings. Drawings that show strange figures that look like the God of Light and the God of Darkness yet different. There is one of a womanly figure that is blue with a fin on her head. Another shows a male figure that is red with ox-like horns. Some others include three strange female figures with different dragon horns that are pink, light blue, and grey. There is one white figure that has dragon horns and long hair while the other is black with spiky dragon horns. Next, above, or below some of these figures are creatures that they are based on.
"Are these guys...gods?" Jaune asks as he continues to examine the drawings.
"I think so." Pyrrha is unsure about what they are. "But I do sense a theme about them."
BASH! Everyone heard a bash of something being destroyed. They all looked and it turns out to be Nora, who was tearing down a door.
"NORA!" Ren shouts at her.
"What?! I was only tearing down this stone door." Nora defends herself.
"But what if it's booby trapped?!" Jaune pointed out.
Nora thinks about it for a moment and goes, "Oh yeah. I forgot about that." Then some spikes fell down and the rubble, proving Jaune's point. Nora fell backwards as the spikes fell.
"Told ya'!"
Ren shakes his head slowly in disapproval.
Cinder and her team are exploring another part of the temple in long hallways and curving corners.
"Just how big is this place?" Emerald asks.
Cinder looks around and sees the different drawings that show people and Pokemon working together in peace and harmony. There are even some depictions of a war or two with humans and Pokemon fighting together.
"Are we any closer to where we need to be?" Mercury complains. "My feet are tired."
Emerald says to Mercury, "Aren't they made of metal?"
Mercury smiles, "Yeah, but I always wanted to say that."
Emerald sticks her tongue at him to insult him.
"Quite, you two!" Cinder ordered.
The three continue down the spiraling hall until they come across one hall that has a multitude of stone doors. There are a lot of torches so Cinder uses her Maiden powers to light them up. However, the flames are a little weaker.
"Let's go." Cinder steps forward and heads to one of the doors. "Mercury, knock it down."
Mercury cracks his shoulders as he says, "You got it." and kicks down the door.
What happened next was a few spiked clubs getting swung at him but he dodges out of the way. Cinder just burn the clubs to ashes and molten metal before proceeding forward. They enter the chamber only to find a sarcophagus in the center of the room. They look at it and see that it is similar to an Egyptian-style sarcophagus but it is holding some sort of ancient looking Pokeball and an ankh instead of the crook and flail.
"Did we stumble upon a royal tomb?" Emerald gets excited. But when she looks around, "But where's the treasure?"
Yet Velvet shows up, "Did you find anything?!"
"We found a sarcophagus!" Cinder responds. "We think it might've been a king or something!"
"I'll get the archaeologist down here! Being this far underground is interfering with the signal!" Velvet heads back up.
So Cinder and her team check every door but only to find more and more sarcophagi with a few traps. They check and find more of those strange writings that look like letters with eyeballs. Something doesn't feel right about them so they stay clear of them. It is almost as if they are being watched. So they headed to the chamber at the end of the hall that has a large stone door.
Mercury cracks his knuckles and preps for another kick. "Alright, stand back."
CLICK! Emerald pulled down one of the switches that happens to be one of the torches to the left. The door raises, much to Mercury's surprise.
Mercury asks Emerald, "Why didn't you do that before?"
Emerald has one hand over her mouth and giggles.
"Enough!" Cinder orders.
As the door opens, it is revealed to be a room full of elemental gems. There are massive piles of them separated in different colors like some sort of rainbow based on the shade of colors.
"Oh. My. God." Emerald is completely stunned to see all of these different gems. "I think we hit the mother load."
"Get one of each before the archaeologists arrive." Cinder says as she toss a bag to Emerald.
"Right!" Emerald takes the bag and takes one gem each. She goes to work as they start to hear footsteps echoing from the other end of the hall.
Emerald grab as much as she could. She nab all nineteen total (18 from the main series and one from Pokemon Uranium, which is nuclear-type) and hides the bag in her backpack.
"How is- WHOA!" the archaeologist is surprised to see such a massive treasure trove. "I was not expecting that. Either way, good job."
Another archaeologist runs up, "Sir! We got something!"
Everyone headed over to one of the tombs and found a huge stone chest across from one of the sarcophagi that is hidden in the walls. One of them opened it and revealed a huge collection of evolutionary stones. There are fire stones, leaf stones, water stones, sun stones, dusk stones, thunder stones, moon stones, sun stones, dawn stones, shiny stones, ice stones, mystic stones, air stones and solid stones. (The last three of them are from Pokemon Solar Light & Lunar Dark.)
One of the archaeologist then says, "Check the others! See if they have anything else hidden!"
All the other archaeologist left leaving only one. This leaves Emerald a chance to use her semblance and take one of each stone. Then Cinder's group head out to see what exactly do they do. With the website from another world, they can get all the info they need to learn more about them along with some data from the experiments conducted on the elemental gems with Dust.
Back in the Pokemon World, at nighttime at the Pokemon Center's cafeteria, Ruby looks at her Pokemon and try to see who to choose first to use on Ayana. She has Chika, her Bayleef (grass-type); Aurum, her false shiny Nocturn (flying and psychic-type); Brownie, her Carajoule (bug and electric-type from Pokemon Sage); Florence, her former Swaddle that has evolved into a Swadloon (bug and grass-type); Poofy, her Jigglypuff (normal-type); and the newest edition to her party; Miss Gobblers. She is a Trubbish (poison-type) that Ruby caught after finding it scrummaging through trash cans at the Pokemon Center. All of them are staring at her as she figure things out.
"Hmm." Ruby is deep in thought on her strategy. "Let's see. Grass-types are weak against poison, flying, fire, psychic and bug-types. Ayana uses a Lavenseed that is a fairy and grass-type. She also uses a Gossifleur, a pure grass-type that can use rapid spin that is different than normal and has that cotton down ability yet also sings its opponents to sleep. And there is also her Snover that is both grass and ice-type that can call down a frigid blizzard. Yet it may also be stronger than it looks."
The rest of Team RWBY are sitting and having dinner.
"I have never seen Ruby being that deep in thought like that." Weiss says with her Ribombee on her shoulder, eating a small fry. "Not even at school."
"Yeah, even more so than usual." Yang agrees.
However, Blake's thoughts are somewhere else.
Yang notices and asks, "Something on your mind, Blake?"
Blake snaps out of it, "Huh? Oh, I was just thinking on what Ayana said."
"Like what?" Weiss asks.
"She said that Franklin writes books. Yet I couldn't find any info about his books. However, I did found a large collection of books written by Jade Amethyst." She shows her Megadex that list all the books, "Here, take a look. There's 1000 Haikus, The Love of Poke Cooking, Romance of the Jewel, The Love and the Lost, The Passion of the Haunter. There are mostly romance novels and a few other genres."
Both Weiss and Yang take a look at the list.
"That's a lot." Weiss stated. But when both Yang and Weiss look at each other, "You don't think..." Weiss is about to suggests that Franklin might be the author.
"I don't think so." Yang disagrees. "Think about it. How is it possible for one person to write that many books while being a movie star, a rock star, a trainer and everything else on top of it?"
They all think about it for a moment and agree that it is impossible. "Nah." they went, "No way. That is impossible."
But Blake looks at both Weiss and Yang and goes, "Is it?"
Before they get deeper into the conversation, a familiar face shows up and smells horrible that cause the girls to cover their noses. "Hey, girls!"
"Rusty?!" Yang says in surprise while pinching her nose. "What happened to you?!"
Rusty is covered in dirt with a few bruises and his glasses are a little cracked. He has a few twigs sticking out from his hat, backpack, and his jacket. Rusty looks like he got tossed down a muddy hill and into a landfill.
"Oh god!" Weiss says as she is repulsed. "Please take a bath!" Cutsie couldn't take it and fell off.
Rusty rubs the back of his head and smiles, "Yeah, I've been chasing Pokemon around the forests because that's where the best ones are. At least, that's what I heard."
"What about Rotom Dex?" Blake asks and looking a little green.
"Oh, him." Rusty goes through his backpack and pulls out Rotom Dex. "Yeah, he ran out of energy and was forced to shut down. So I have to plug him in."
Weiss is getting upset, "Leave. Now!" She takes one hand and gently pick up her Cutsie.
"Okay, I'm going." Rusty puts Rotom Dex back in his bag, "Geez." and leaves.
"I think I just lost my appetite." Blake says while looking down at her five plates.
Ruby says, "Okay, I got my strategy!"
To be continued...
AN: Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy this chapter! It is early, but I was lucky to get not two, but three different chapters done for three stories.
keybladelight: Good to be back. As for the gyms that are based on Sword and Shield: Only three.
WrighteousRighter: Same here. Plus that is a lot of stuff to go through.
Until then, see you next time!