Chapter 17 Attack of Team Dark
"So I got a chance to beat the shit out of a dogfish."
"Is that not much weirder than you facing a giant water monster with a brain inside it, who is a god of destruction of sorts"
"Fair enough especially when it gets bone after it consumes rainbow colored emeralds?"
"To shay."
Sonic and Shadow talked enjoying a beverage that Sonic snatched from a store so the old enemies now "friends" at least in Sonic's eyes, he was not sure about Shadow's view on their relationship. Sonic wondered how his home world is doing without the hero of mobius to be the beacon of hope for the hopeless.
"How is the Freedom Fighter's holding up with me being in the body of this fire breathing reptile?
"I was not really paying attention to how it was doing before being sent here by accident. They are actually winning due to Egg-Mans main focus is getting to this strange world with creatures that are used to fight each other by humans."
"Yeah though they don't fight to the death, as far as I have seen with my trainer."
"Speaking of your trainer, what is his name and what is he like?"
"Ash? He's a good kid and genuinely cares about his Pokemon and wants them to become the best they can possibly be."
"Hmm."
That's all he said in response as he drank more of the soda in one of his paws. Both enjoy chatting some more and were about to head in when both heard the sound of an aircraft flying towards them? But it was too small to be a jet of any kind they would be familiar with. Shadow backed flipped over a robot bird that looked like a Pidgeot. Sonic was almost too stunned at the sight of robot Pidgeot to avoid a soaring blade that was going to behead the head of the Charizard.
Sonic was happy he ducked in time as he saw the blade reattact to a flying robot version of of a Pokemon that reminds him of his third most hated foe, Slicers those stupid badniks makes Sonic wanting to strangle Robotnik for making those horrible metal creations.
Sonic fires from his mouth the move Fire Blast! A flaming Kanji for big slammed into a Scyther badnik that scorched its green metal body. The Scyther badnik fired both of his blade hands at Sonic once more to rip and tear the Charizard up. Sonic smirked as he caught the blades in his claws and shattered them in their hands without the metal piercing his orange claws.
Sonic dashed towards the Pokenik Scyther and smashed a claw through its metal body destroying it with that strike. Shadow faced the Pokenik Pidgeot fire feather blades at Shadow the Lucario to shred him up. Shadow formed a large bone staff made of blue energy and used it to deflect the blades away before using it like a javalian into its side doing serious damage to the Pidgeot.
Pidgeot flew towards Shadow to slash him in half with its sharp wings, however he hopped over it and used Force Palm to blast down on its back, blowing it apart with the attack.
"Wow that was easy?
Shadow agreed with Sonic and left and said he will check up with him in the morning. Sonic said night to the once ultimate life form and return to Ash's room and return inside his PokeBall to catch some zs within it. Morning rose up and Ash followed suit with the sun and dressed after taking a quick shower. Ash shook Pikachu awake and let Sonic out who was stretching his arms and legs from sleeping in the Pokeball.
"So you ready to go out Ash?"
"Yes but I want to say goodbye to Misty before we head to Vermillion City."
Sonic said sure as both left the Pokemon Center and headed to the gym to say goodbye to Misty. Outside the gym was Misty and she was wearing a new attire that was a yellow sleeveless top or vest with a large blue button on the front and matching shorts, worn over some sort of dark-red under-all leotard piece. Misty's lower half attire was shorts that were a pale color with burnt orange ankle boots.
"Ash!"
She ran to him and huge the stupid boy that capture her heart even though he was too clueless to realize, but Pikachu and Sonic could see it like it was the brightest day in an open plain.
"Thanks Misty but I have to get going to face LT. Surge for the third badge in my quest to enter the Prism League."
"I see, say Ash would you mind if I join you?"
"Sure I always like to have comp- Wait!"
Ash's lightbulb lit up before finishing his sentence realizing that if Misty goes with him then who will face the challenges of her gym?
"I guess you are wondering about if my sisters are taking over the gym while I am gone? Yes Daisy offered it to me early this morning saying that this talking Charizard aided her to get better as a trainer, namely her Pokemon."
"Wow that's so nice of Daisy."
"Yeah anyway we better get going."
Ash agreed with Misty as the group started heading south to Vermillion City. an hour after they left the outer rime of Cerulean City into the Pokemon infested forest. 5 minutes past and Misty coat that Sonic was glancing around at the trees that walled the sides of the dirt path they are trudging down.
"Sonic are you looking for something?"
"I am looking for someone to come. There he is."
Sonic said as a blue sphere of aura soaring towards Pikachu who had barely enough time to avoid the blast and hop back a good few feets back and got into a stance to fight this black and red Lucario?
"What the? A black Lucario?"
Ash decided to pull the Pokedex out to see if this was a Lucario and wondered if it had more info or any info on this black and red Lucario.
"Lucario the Aura Pokemon and the evolved form of Riolu. Lucario reads its opponent's feelings with its aura waves. It finds out things it would rather not know, so it gets stressed out easily. It controls waves known as auras, which are powerful enough to pulverize huge rocks. It uses these waves to take down its prey."
Misty stayed out of this fight along with Sonic since it seems Shadow wants to test Ash and Pikachu to see if they are strong or not.
"Pikachu attacks back with Thunderbolt."
Pikachu builds up electric energy within his small yellow fur body to blast Shadow with the attack. Shadow formed a blue bone energy staff and spun it around to deflect the Thunderbolt attack. Once Pikachu's attack was canceled out and dashed towards and swung his energy bone at Pikachu. But the staff was blocked by Pikachu's iron coated tail, Pikachu used Iron Tail to block the blow.
"Pikachu! attack this Lucario with a Thunder Punch."
The electric mouse smiled as he hopped up and landed a shocking empowered paw to Shadow the Lucario's black face. Shadow skidded a few feet back but he was still standing toe more annoyed than actually hurt. Shadow formed two Aura Spheres and charges to slam both into Pikachu. Ash's starter hops over the charging black Lucario, but Shadow turns around to try again to slam both Aura Spheres into Pikachu.
"Pikachu! quickly form an Electro ball with all you got!"
Pikachu's tail pulse with electric energy and forms into a sphere of electric energy and grows in size as fast as the electric mouse can do. Their attacks clashed and exploded shortly after knocking both backs stinging Pikachu and Shadow. Ash feels bad since with hindsight he thinks it would have been better to tell Pikachu to use Extremespeed to rocket up into the air and avoid the charging black Lucario.
Pikachu got back onto his four legs which was mirrored by Shadow but only half the legs as the electric mouse. The two had good old fashion western standoff, staring into the other's eyes waiting for either one to make the next move.
"Pikachu attack the Lucario with Extremespeed."
Pikachu smirks as he runs top speed and then some and crashes into Shadow's chest knocking the wind out of his lounge from that might blow and smash him through a tree snapping it in two. Shadow rising to his feet and charged at Pikachu but stop a few inches in front of Pikachu with a paw right in front of Pikachu's face. Pikachu got blasted with a blast of aura energy knocking Pikachu back doing serious damage to him.
"You are a strong Opponent Ash and your electric mouse."
"WOW you can talk?"
Ash and Misty said in sync which got a chuckle out of Sonic.
"Yes I can like that dumb faker in a leather skin suit."
Shadow joked pointing at Sonic which gave them the idea they know each other.
"Sonic you know this black Lucario?"
"Yes I do, his name is Shadow the edgiest life form around."
"ULTIMATE LIFE FORM you hydrophobic speedster."
Sonic was smiling from ear to ear- or rather to horn to horn at annoying Shadow. Sonic knew he and Shadow had to explain to Ash and Misty what was happening as they continue their journey to Vermillion City.
Elsewhere from a Meowth head air balloon was following the twerbs.
"Wow the twerb seems to have a black colored Lucario following him."
"It does seem so James."
Jessie said back to her boyfriend James as they watched using their telescopes they stole from a Pokemon capturing season store.
"Are you thinking we should attack now? I am not feeling it today."
"Fair enough Meowth."
Jessie said and was in agreement with James. They were going to play a card game they've been playing for years and so far Jessie won 23, James won 38, and Meowth got 90 wins in the 151 games they played so far. Something landed on the edge of the basket of the air balloon. This caused the group to jump back and almost cause the feline Pokemon almost hop right out of the blimp.
"The hell?! A metal Noctowl?"
James and Jessie examine the robot Pokemon until its chest opens showing a tv screen within.
"Hello miss long hair and short hair man I am Doctor Egg-Man and I see you have an obviously evil organization logo on your tops."
"Guess we are not very subtle."
Meowth commented on what Egg-Man said.
"So I want you to get me to talk with your boss. I will give you specialist aid in your mission."
"REALLY WE WILL GLADLY DO SO!"
The trio said in sync that blew Egg-Man's mind on how in sync they spoke. They promise mister doctor Robotnik sir that once they land they will contact their boss, a man named Giovanni and they get down to business.
"So let me get this straight you are an alien and human engineer Hedgehog and the Ultimate Life Form?"
Misty said to make sure what Sonic and Shadow were talking about the sharpest hedgehog alive.
"Yes I am."
"Also his older brother was a lizard cyborg that he-"
"DON'T remind me of Biolizard."
"Okay buddy at least I did not mention Maria."
Shadow gave Sonic a death glare which would faze even a Shedninja. This got a laugh out of Ash, Misty, and even Pikachu at this interaction between Sonic and Shadow. Ash was tempted to ask Shadow to join him but decided to bond more with this edgelord before asking to own the ultimate life form pretty much.
