Chapter 9: The Great Dragon Cometh
Atron still in eagle morph heard Satastro's call and transformed into a jet.
Dreadlock activated its hyper engines upon hearing the cry to assemble.
Yin-Yang separated into Yin and Yang and each carried a Dragonball to their master.
Energon turned himself into pure energy and got there in no time.
But it was Reptide who got there first with his Dragonball.
"Congratulations, my loyal servants," Satastro said. "With the Dragonballs, this planet
will be destroyed." As if Mother Nature herself wanted to fight back, the sky began to get
dark.
"Hey," Energon spoke up, completely ignoring the sudden change in weather. "Who gets to
be your right-hand man?"
"Why nobody of course."
"What?"
"Nobody?"
"That answer does not compute."
"You see, none of you found all seven Dragonballs. You all found one. So therefor,
nobody gets to be my right-hand Saiyan. But you all will get infinite power once I make my
wish.
"Uh-oh," Goku said as he looked up at the sky. He immediately knew what was going on.
"Trouble. Let's go," he called to Pikachu and Charizard. Picking up Pikachu, Goku got onto
Nimbus and took off with Charizard following behind..
Onix nudged Brock, waking the rock trainer up.
"Just a few more minutes, Mom," Brock groaned.
"Up and at 'em, kid!" Piccolo's stern voice bought Brock to attention. "Trouble's
brewing and I have a feeling I know who it is." Onix allowed Brock to board him and together,
the two hurried back.
Gohan and Krillin dug through the snow, looking for Sabrina and Duplica. They finally
spotted Duplica, covered by Ditto. Sabrina was trying to wake up Kadabra.
"Trouble on the homefront," Gohan explained without any preamble. They each picked up a
girl by the hips and flew off.
Puu'ar was a shapeshifter, much like Oo'long when he first met Goku and Bulma (that was a
long time ago though and its been a while since Puu'ar used her shapeshifting abilities). She
now used her shapeshifting abilities to wake up Kojiyoshi and Yamcha.
"We have to get back and warn the others of what's happening," Yamcha said as all three
boarded Yamcha's hover car.
SPLASH
Vegeta woke with a start.
"What? Who? Where?" He then saw that Ayako did it using her Squirtle.
"What did you do that for?" He asked. He didn't care if she was a girl or that she was
a child, he would knock her out for that.
"Look up there!" Ayako pointed toward Goku's house where lightning was beginning to
gather.
Vegeta swore. Ayako wasn't phased by it. She leaped onto Vegeta's back, Squirtle still
in her arms.
"Let's go," she yelled pointing toward the air.
"Squirtle!" Squirtle mimiced the gesture. Vegeta smiled. Finally, the girl
was getting some backbone. He liked people with backbones. He took off.
Everybody gathered at the edge of the forest near Goku's house except Goku himself who
still wasn't back yet. Misty, Bulma and Chi-Chi were still knocked out.
They were still thinking of a strategy to get the Dragonballs away from the Super Saiyan
Seven Squad when the villains appeared doing their opening.
"They come from the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Their mission: to improve life for
the planet Vajita. They are:
"Reptide: genetically-created superbeing with the enhanced powers of all cold-water
livers.
"Dreadlock: Super-powered Cyborg.
"Atron: trans-morpher!
"Yin and Yang, the embodiments of opposites who work together for the good of the team.
"Energon, the Saiyan with the power to take solar rays and channel them at his enemies.
"And their glorious leader, Satastro.
"Together, we are..."
"THE SUPER SAIYAN SEVEN SQUAD!" Brock, Yoshi, Sabrina, Yamcha, Krillin, Gohan, Tien,
Chao-Zu and Vegeta stood as stern as statues, ready to face their enemies. In back, Ayako and
Duplica tried desprately to revive Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma.
The two forces lunged at each other. Good guy against bad guy. Heroes (and heroines)
against villains.
Brock wasn't used to using something other than his Pokemon. So he resorted to playing
keep away from Reptide's tail. Through sheer adrenaline, Brock managed to jump higher than
Reptide's tail.
The Dragonball crew each battled a Saiyan with Vegeta battling Satastro.
"You shall pay for disobeying King Vajeta," Vegeta said.
"The King deserved to be disobeyed," Satastro replied. That got Vegeta mad. So mad that
he actually advanced to Super Saiyan level. His hair grew and took on a golden color. His
eyes sparkled with lightning.
"SAIYAN PRIME ATTACK!" Vegeta cried as he unleashed a thousand energy bolts at Satastro.
Satastro quickly set up a forcefield but the blasts were pretty powerful. They dissipated the
forcefield.
The battle finally turned in the Dragon Team and Pokemon Crew's favor. First of all,
Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma were revived. Second of all, the Dragonball crew started defeating
the Super Saiyan Seven Squad.
Krillin and Yamcha got Yin and Yang with several destructo-disks and masenta blasts.
Vegeta nailed Reptide with his big bang attack.
Gohan got Atron using a new attack: a sonic explosion. A powerful audio wave that
disrupted everything it touched.
Tien ripped apart Dreadlock and Chao-Zu did the same for Energon.
That only left Satastro.
Suddenly, Satastro threw his hands in the air and cried out "AWASERUSAIYANGATTA!" Which
meant that the Saiyans united into him. Each of the fallen Super Saiyan Seven Squad
transformed into beams of energy and were absorbed by Satastro's body. Now he was the most
powerful Saiyan alive.
Holding off the good guys was a breeze to him.
Satastro was just about to finish them off when a fire blast and an energy blast struck
the ground to either side of him. It was Goku and Charizard.
"KAMEHAME-HA!" Goku cried as he unleashed another energy blast at Satastro. Charizard
unleashed its most powerful fire blast ever. Something leaped out of Goku's hands. It was
Pikachu. The little electric mouse surrounded its body with energy and launched it at
Satastro. Charizard did the same.
In a similar maneuver used to defeat Damien, Charmander's former owner, the combination
fire and electricity made Satastro wince as he was thrown back.
"SPIRIT BOMB!" Goku cried. Absorbing energy of all forms of life on the planet, Goku
formed a sphere of energy about three times the size of a basketball and unleashed it at
Satastro.
The sphere penetrated Satastro's body and disintegrated him.
"We did it!" Ayako cried. Everybody cheered. Even Vegeta chuckled at his victory. It
was then that Gohan noticed his father wasn't enjoying the celebration.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Goku looked at Charizard. Gohan then realized that Charizard was
carrying something in its claws. It put it down and everybody gasped.
It was Ash. Scarred and burned to the point where death was unavoidable and
recognizeable to even the most untrained eye. Goku explained how Charizard was too late in
keeping Ash from falling into the boiling lava.
Duplica felt tears swell up in her eyes. Likewise for Brock, Ayako, Sabrina and
Kojiyoshi. Even Misty felt like she wanted to cry. Although she didn't know why (human
instinct, she guessed).
"Hey everybody," Goten called. "I found the Dragonballs!" Sure enough, the youngest of
Goku's family was standing by seven golden orbs with various numbers of stars on them.
Goku placed his hand on Misty's back. "Now you can make your wish and get your memory
back."
"But what about him?" She referred to Ash's body.
"Well you can bring him back too."
"But you only get one wish," Piccolo added.
Chao-Zu went up to the Dragonballs and shouted, "ETERNAL DRAGON SHENLONG, COME FORTH!" The sky
went dark and a huge dragon fell from
the heavens. Even Charizard was scared of his mighty presence.
"Who summons me?" Shenlong asked. Chao-Zu pointed to Misty. "She did," he said in a
small voice. Then hurried back to Tien.
Shenlong turned to Misty. "Is it you who summons me?"
"Y--yes," Misty replied in a small voice. "I'm Misty."
"State your wish." Misty looked from Shenlong to Ash's body and back to Shenlong again.
"How many wishes do I get?" She asked.
"You only get one wish," Shenlong answered. Misty took a deep breath and began to speak.
"Shenlong, I wish... I wish... I wish that that boy was alive again." She pointed to
Ash. That was so unexpected that even Misty herself was surprised. Despite protesting from
Brock, Ayako, Sabrina, Duplica and Kojiyoshi, Misty had made up her mind.
"It shall be done," Shenlong announced. The dragon's eyes glowed a deep red. And
Ash's wounds was healed.
Slowly, Ash's eyes opened and spotted Pikachu crying.
"Pikachu?"
"PIKA-PI!" [ASH!] Pikachu rushed into Ash's arms. "Pika-pika-pikachu." [I thought I'd never see
you again.]
"It's good to see you too again, buddy." Everybody rushed up to Ash and started talking
at once, squishing Pikachu in the process. Pikachu let out a thunder shock that made everybody
give them some breathing room.
"Look," Trunks called. He was referring to the One-Star Dragonball, which had not
disappeared with the others when Shenlong disappeared. Everybody surrounded it.
Suddenly, the One-Star Dragonball shot out an energy beam at Misty, knocking her out.
She fell in front of Ash's feet.
"Misty," Ash called trying to wake her up. "Misty."
**
Again, Misty found herself in the debths of her mind, clad in nothing. James from Team
Rocket appeared. But Misty knew that it wasn't the real James, just an incarnation of her
psyche.
Misty suddenly gasped. She remembered. She remembered everything. Her friends, her
family, her Pokemon.
"Well," James said. "You had a chance to start your life over again."
"You lied to me," Misty accused him. "You never said you were going to give me amnesia!"
"You're right, I didn't. You gave yourself amnesia."
"What the heck is that suppose to mean?" The two pokeballs that Misty had to choose from
appeared in James hands.
"You were asked to choose between these two pokeballs, remember? One of them had the
ability to return you to your old life. The other could make you a new life. You chose the
one that would give you a new life."
"By giving me amnesia?"
"Yes."
"Well if that was what's in store for me, then I don't want a new life. I like my old
one."
"But what about all the complaints you made in your journal?"
"Those were just entries I made when I was in a bad mood. I didn't necessarily say I
wanted a new life. I like arguing with Ash and Brock. I like getting shocked by Pikachu. I
even like being attacked by Jessie and James er... the real James.
"Don't you understand? I want my old life back. I understand now that giving up is not
the answer to my problems. It just leaves to more problems. I should learn to accept what I
have and only change what I can."
"That-a-girl," James said. "That was what I wanted to hear." Misty went up and took the
blue and white pokeball.
"I should have chosen this one. I'm a water Pokemon Trainer. Blue and white are water
colors."
James chuckled. "Good luck, Misty."
"Thank you. POKEBALL, GO!" Misty threw the Pokeball in any old direction and again, her
vision was consumed in white.
Misty awoke to see Ash's familure face staring at her. A little too close.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Misty screamed as she leaped away. "Ash, how many times do I have to
tell you to stop staring at me like that?"
"Well, Misty, as a matter of fact, you... Wait a minute, you called me Ash."
"So what?"
"You didn't ask me what my name was."
"So why would I need to ask you your name?" Everybody knew that something was different
about Misty. Ash and Brock noticed it the most.
Grabbing Misty by the shoulders, Brock asked her, "Misty, what's my favorite pokemon?"
"Vulpix. Why?"
"Misty, what's the name of the Pokemon that I have trouble training?" Ash asked.
"Charizard."
"Misty," Duplica called. "When we first met, what was the problem with my Ditto?"
"It couldn't change its face. What's going on, here?"
"SHE'S BACK TO NORMAL!" Ash and Brock cried at the same time. Everybody cheered.
Pikachu ran up to her and squeezed her as tightly as it could.
"I'm glad to see you too, Pikachu, but... OH MY GOD, WHERE'S TOGEPI?"
"Calm down, Misty," Prof. Oak said from behind her. "I have it." Prof. Oak was taking
care of Togepi while the others went to search for the Dragonballs.
"Oh Togepi," Misty moaned as Prof. Oak put it down. She sank to her knees. "Please
forgive me for neglecting you. I didn't mean it. I hope you can find it in your heart to
forgive me." Togepi looked at her with a confusing face. It slowly went up to her and put out
its tiny arms.
"Togepi, togepi!" [Mommy, pick me up!] It called. Misty squealed with delight and
picked up the tiny Pokemon and held it close to her.
"All is right with the universe," Brock said and Ash nodded.
"Hey everybody," Prof. Oak called. "We need to get going. We're suppose to be in Tokyo
tomorrow for the Pokemon Convention."
"Then it's to Tokyo we go!" Ash shouted. Everybody echoed his enthusiasm.
Atron still in eagle morph heard Satastro's call and transformed into a jet.
Dreadlock activated its hyper engines upon hearing the cry to assemble.
Yin-Yang separated into Yin and Yang and each carried a Dragonball to their master.
Energon turned himself into pure energy and got there in no time.
But it was Reptide who got there first with his Dragonball.
"Congratulations, my loyal servants," Satastro said. "With the Dragonballs, this planet
will be destroyed." As if Mother Nature herself wanted to fight back, the sky began to get
dark.
"Hey," Energon spoke up, completely ignoring the sudden change in weather. "Who gets to
be your right-hand man?"
"Why nobody of course."
"What?"
"Nobody?"
"That answer does not compute."
"You see, none of you found all seven Dragonballs. You all found one. So therefor,
nobody gets to be my right-hand Saiyan. But you all will get infinite power once I make my
wish.
"Uh-oh," Goku said as he looked up at the sky. He immediately knew what was going on.
"Trouble. Let's go," he called to Pikachu and Charizard. Picking up Pikachu, Goku got onto
Nimbus and took off with Charizard following behind..
Onix nudged Brock, waking the rock trainer up.
"Just a few more minutes, Mom," Brock groaned.
"Up and at 'em, kid!" Piccolo's stern voice bought Brock to attention. "Trouble's
brewing and I have a feeling I know who it is." Onix allowed Brock to board him and together,
the two hurried back.
Gohan and Krillin dug through the snow, looking for Sabrina and Duplica. They finally
spotted Duplica, covered by Ditto. Sabrina was trying to wake up Kadabra.
"Trouble on the homefront," Gohan explained without any preamble. They each picked up a
girl by the hips and flew off.
Puu'ar was a shapeshifter, much like Oo'long when he first met Goku and Bulma (that was a
long time ago though and its been a while since Puu'ar used her shapeshifting abilities). She
now used her shapeshifting abilities to wake up Kojiyoshi and Yamcha.
"We have to get back and warn the others of what's happening," Yamcha said as all three
boarded Yamcha's hover car.
SPLASH
Vegeta woke with a start.
"What? Who? Where?" He then saw that Ayako did it using her Squirtle.
"What did you do that for?" He asked. He didn't care if she was a girl or that she was
a child, he would knock her out for that.
"Look up there!" Ayako pointed toward Goku's house where lightning was beginning to
gather.
Vegeta swore. Ayako wasn't phased by it. She leaped onto Vegeta's back, Squirtle still
in her arms.
"Let's go," she yelled pointing toward the air.
"Squirtle!" Squirtle mimiced the gesture. Vegeta smiled. Finally, the girl
was getting some backbone. He liked people with backbones. He took off.
Everybody gathered at the edge of the forest near Goku's house except Goku himself who
still wasn't back yet. Misty, Bulma and Chi-Chi were still knocked out.
They were still thinking of a strategy to get the Dragonballs away from the Super Saiyan
Seven Squad when the villains appeared doing their opening.
"They come from the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Their mission: to improve life for
the planet Vajita. They are:
"Reptide: genetically-created superbeing with the enhanced powers of all cold-water
livers.
"Dreadlock: Super-powered Cyborg.
"Atron: trans-morpher!
"Yin and Yang, the embodiments of opposites who work together for the good of the team.
"Energon, the Saiyan with the power to take solar rays and channel them at his enemies.
"And their glorious leader, Satastro.
"Together, we are..."
"THE SUPER SAIYAN SEVEN SQUAD!" Brock, Yoshi, Sabrina, Yamcha, Krillin, Gohan, Tien,
Chao-Zu and Vegeta stood as stern as statues, ready to face their enemies. In back, Ayako and
Duplica tried desprately to revive Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma.
The two forces lunged at each other. Good guy against bad guy. Heroes (and heroines)
against villains.
Brock wasn't used to using something other than his Pokemon. So he resorted to playing
keep away from Reptide's tail. Through sheer adrenaline, Brock managed to jump higher than
Reptide's tail.
The Dragonball crew each battled a Saiyan with Vegeta battling Satastro.
"You shall pay for disobeying King Vajeta," Vegeta said.
"The King deserved to be disobeyed," Satastro replied. That got Vegeta mad. So mad that
he actually advanced to Super Saiyan level. His hair grew and took on a golden color. His
eyes sparkled with lightning.
"SAIYAN PRIME ATTACK!" Vegeta cried as he unleashed a thousand energy bolts at Satastro.
Satastro quickly set up a forcefield but the blasts were pretty powerful. They dissipated the
forcefield.
The battle finally turned in the Dragon Team and Pokemon Crew's favor. First of all,
Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma were revived. Second of all, the Dragonball crew started defeating
the Super Saiyan Seven Squad.
Krillin and Yamcha got Yin and Yang with several destructo-disks and masenta blasts.
Vegeta nailed Reptide with his big bang attack.
Gohan got Atron using a new attack: a sonic explosion. A powerful audio wave that
disrupted everything it touched.
Tien ripped apart Dreadlock and Chao-Zu did the same for Energon.
That only left Satastro.
Suddenly, Satastro threw his hands in the air and cried out "AWASERUSAIYANGATTA!" Which
meant that the Saiyans united into him. Each of the fallen Super Saiyan Seven Squad
transformed into beams of energy and were absorbed by Satastro's body. Now he was the most
powerful Saiyan alive.
Holding off the good guys was a breeze to him.
Satastro was just about to finish them off when a fire blast and an energy blast struck
the ground to either side of him. It was Goku and Charizard.
"KAMEHAME-HA!" Goku cried as he unleashed another energy blast at Satastro. Charizard
unleashed its most powerful fire blast ever. Something leaped out of Goku's hands. It was
Pikachu. The little electric mouse surrounded its body with energy and launched it at
Satastro. Charizard did the same.
In a similar maneuver used to defeat Damien, Charmander's former owner, the combination
fire and electricity made Satastro wince as he was thrown back.
"SPIRIT BOMB!" Goku cried. Absorbing energy of all forms of life on the planet, Goku
formed a sphere of energy about three times the size of a basketball and unleashed it at
Satastro.
The sphere penetrated Satastro's body and disintegrated him.
"We did it!" Ayako cried. Everybody cheered. Even Vegeta chuckled at his victory. It
was then that Gohan noticed his father wasn't enjoying the celebration.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Goku looked at Charizard. Gohan then realized that Charizard was
carrying something in its claws. It put it down and everybody gasped.
It was Ash. Scarred and burned to the point where death was unavoidable and
recognizeable to even the most untrained eye. Goku explained how Charizard was too late in
keeping Ash from falling into the boiling lava.
Duplica felt tears swell up in her eyes. Likewise for Brock, Ayako, Sabrina and
Kojiyoshi. Even Misty felt like she wanted to cry. Although she didn't know why (human
instinct, she guessed).
"Hey everybody," Goten called. "I found the Dragonballs!" Sure enough, the youngest of
Goku's family was standing by seven golden orbs with various numbers of stars on them.
Goku placed his hand on Misty's back. "Now you can make your wish and get your memory
back."
"But what about him?" She referred to Ash's body.
"Well you can bring him back too."
"But you only get one wish," Piccolo added.
Chao-Zu went up to the Dragonballs and shouted, "ETERNAL DRAGON SHENLONG, COME FORTH!" The sky
went dark and a huge dragon fell from
the heavens. Even Charizard was scared of his mighty presence.
"Who summons me?" Shenlong asked. Chao-Zu pointed to Misty. "She did," he said in a
small voice. Then hurried back to Tien.
Shenlong turned to Misty. "Is it you who summons me?"
"Y--yes," Misty replied in a small voice. "I'm Misty."
"State your wish." Misty looked from Shenlong to Ash's body and back to Shenlong again.
"How many wishes do I get?" She asked.
"You only get one wish," Shenlong answered. Misty took a deep breath and began to speak.
"Shenlong, I wish... I wish... I wish that that boy was alive again." She pointed to
Ash. That was so unexpected that even Misty herself was surprised. Despite protesting from
Brock, Ayako, Sabrina, Duplica and Kojiyoshi, Misty had made up her mind.
"It shall be done," Shenlong announced. The dragon's eyes glowed a deep red. And
Ash's wounds was healed.
Slowly, Ash's eyes opened and spotted Pikachu crying.
"Pikachu?"
"PIKA-PI!" [ASH!] Pikachu rushed into Ash's arms. "Pika-pika-pikachu." [I thought I'd never see
you again.]
"It's good to see you too again, buddy." Everybody rushed up to Ash and started talking
at once, squishing Pikachu in the process. Pikachu let out a thunder shock that made everybody
give them some breathing room.
"Look," Trunks called. He was referring to the One-Star Dragonball, which had not
disappeared with the others when Shenlong disappeared. Everybody surrounded it.
Suddenly, the One-Star Dragonball shot out an energy beam at Misty, knocking her out.
She fell in front of Ash's feet.
"Misty," Ash called trying to wake her up. "Misty."
**
Again, Misty found herself in the debths of her mind, clad in nothing. James from Team
Rocket appeared. But Misty knew that it wasn't the real James, just an incarnation of her
psyche.
Misty suddenly gasped. She remembered. She remembered everything. Her friends, her
family, her Pokemon.
"Well," James said. "You had a chance to start your life over again."
"You lied to me," Misty accused him. "You never said you were going to give me amnesia!"
"You're right, I didn't. You gave yourself amnesia."
"What the heck is that suppose to mean?" The two pokeballs that Misty had to choose from
appeared in James hands.
"You were asked to choose between these two pokeballs, remember? One of them had the
ability to return you to your old life. The other could make you a new life. You chose the
one that would give you a new life."
"By giving me amnesia?"
"Yes."
"Well if that was what's in store for me, then I don't want a new life. I like my old
one."
"But what about all the complaints you made in your journal?"
"Those were just entries I made when I was in a bad mood. I didn't necessarily say I
wanted a new life. I like arguing with Ash and Brock. I like getting shocked by Pikachu. I
even like being attacked by Jessie and James er... the real James.
"Don't you understand? I want my old life back. I understand now that giving up is not
the answer to my problems. It just leaves to more problems. I should learn to accept what I
have and only change what I can."
"That-a-girl," James said. "That was what I wanted to hear." Misty went up and took the
blue and white pokeball.
"I should have chosen this one. I'm a water Pokemon Trainer. Blue and white are water
colors."
James chuckled. "Good luck, Misty."
"Thank you. POKEBALL, GO!" Misty threw the Pokeball in any old direction and again, her
vision was consumed in white.
Misty awoke to see Ash's familure face staring at her. A little too close.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Misty screamed as she leaped away. "Ash, how many times do I have to
tell you to stop staring at me like that?"
"Well, Misty, as a matter of fact, you... Wait a minute, you called me Ash."
"So what?"
"You didn't ask me what my name was."
"So why would I need to ask you your name?" Everybody knew that something was different
about Misty. Ash and Brock noticed it the most.
Grabbing Misty by the shoulders, Brock asked her, "Misty, what's my favorite pokemon?"
"Vulpix. Why?"
"Misty, what's the name of the Pokemon that I have trouble training?" Ash asked.
"Charizard."
"Misty," Duplica called. "When we first met, what was the problem with my Ditto?"
"It couldn't change its face. What's going on, here?"
"SHE'S BACK TO NORMAL!" Ash and Brock cried at the same time. Everybody cheered.
Pikachu ran up to her and squeezed her as tightly as it could.
"I'm glad to see you too, Pikachu, but... OH MY GOD, WHERE'S TOGEPI?"
"Calm down, Misty," Prof. Oak said from behind her. "I have it." Prof. Oak was taking
care of Togepi while the others went to search for the Dragonballs.
"Oh Togepi," Misty moaned as Prof. Oak put it down. She sank to her knees. "Please
forgive me for neglecting you. I didn't mean it. I hope you can find it in your heart to
forgive me." Togepi looked at her with a confusing face. It slowly went up to her and put out
its tiny arms.
"Togepi, togepi!" [Mommy, pick me up!] It called. Misty squealed with delight and
picked up the tiny Pokemon and held it close to her.
"All is right with the universe," Brock said and Ash nodded.
"Hey everybody," Prof. Oak called. "We need to get going. We're suppose to be in Tokyo
tomorrow for the Pokemon Convention."
"Then it's to Tokyo we go!" Ash shouted. Everybody echoed his enthusiasm.