pbPart Thirty-three-Metala Myuu Carnage 99'!/b
pThe first Metala Myuu we ran into hit the ground before it even got off a shot, Doner weakening it with Take Down and Raizap finishing up with a Thunder attack to end all Thunder attacks. We jumped over the carcass and headed towards the small basement door stored a few feet away from the tower. According to Josh it would take us straight into the main hallway. We threw open the door and were greeted by two more Metala Myuus.
pThese two must have been defects because they were red in colour, and seemed rather bored. They had a game of Speed going on the steps of the tunnel and were clearly shocked when we barged in. One shot off with a blast of flame that filled the area and shot out of the tunnel like the air in a wind tunnel. I dove to the side a little late, caught my shin in the blast and hissed at the pain. There was nothing i could do about it now, though, so i put it in a holding place and charged into the tunnel after the fleeing Metala Myuus.
p"We've got to stop them, they'll get everyone in here within seconds!" I roared, flying through the tunnel after the Myuus. I could see a glint of metal ahead of me every now and again, but we were matched for speed in the seemingly endless tunnel.
pSuddenly Raizap was beside me, using Agility to match me in speed. the Raichu grinned up at me cheerfully and kept running. ::The Ghost keepers are bringing the others, we have to head these Myuus off though.::
p"Easier said then done," i growled, twirling out of the way of a low hanging arch. "We don't know if this tunnel ends soon or opens up or what. Plus they've got a head start."
p::Rai..good point. Oh well, we'll catch em!:: Raizap poured on a little more speed, looking like she was going to ram straight into a wall. Instead, she bounced off the wall just as she reached it, launching herself into a mid-air Quick Attack at the rear-most Myuu. It hit the ground with a metalic clang, it's friend racing on ahead. Raizap proceeded to grab it around the neck and do her best to hold it in a headlock.
pThe Metala Myuu's red skin began to glow, and Raizap's face contorted in pain. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!!" She screamed, the fur on her feet and hands actually curling and smoking with the heat of the Myuu's shell.
p"Hang in there Raizy, i'm coming!!" I sped up best i could and set my energy into a Barrier that i hung onto even as i drove straight through the Metala Myuu. At my speed, the Barrier ripped the Myuu into three peices, each one twitching but unable to attack. I slowed down to look at the Raichu. "are you going to be okay?"
P::No problem,:: Raizap saluted with her paw and set out into a super-charged Agility, aided a little by her pain. ::Hurry, we gotta get that other one!::
pEven as i caught up to Raizap, the other Myuu was slowing down for some reason. Raizap saw and narrowed her eyes angrily. ::MEGAAAAAAA KIIIIIICK!:: She screamed, her singed foot suddenly coming towards the robot with enough power to blow it to very teeny peices.
pMetala Myuu saw, and shot upwards just as the Raichu's foot slammed into the wall, sending it crumbleing down. "Raizy!"
p::GrrrrrrrRAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!:: Raizap didn't even respond to the wall, but looked upwards snarling. I could almost feel her rage, and did't blame her. ::Come back down here and fight you whimp!! Rai!!::
pI looked upwards in the direction the Myuu had headed. The tunnel went straight up, the sides slick and light was going to be a problem. Raizap couldn't levetate, she couldn't chase. But if we gave up and let the Myuu go, we'd be pinpointed in a second. Damn! I glanced at Raizap, who was shaking angrily.
p"Raizy, grab ahold." I held down my gold arm. Raizap looked confused, but latched on. "Hope you don't get airsick," I muttered and took off.
pRaizap held on tight as we rocked through the corridor, but the Myuu was still way too far ahead. We're never going to catch it, I realized angrily. It's going to get away.
pRaizap was thinking the same thing. ::Mantis I've got an idea. Throw me!::
p"Throw you?" I asked, but at the same moment i launched her after the Myuu with one swing of my arm. I get it, i thought as Raizap sailed, airborn upwards. If I held her up with my psy powers, she could overtake the Myuu and bring it down.
pLight ahead! The Myuu was heading for an area, but was it larger or smaller? No telling. "Raizap, hurry!"
pStrangely, the Raichu hunched up in midair and started to glow. ::MegaRai Super Speed!:: Raizap growled, suddenly vanishing up the tunnel ahead of me. I kept after...
pThe tunnel opened up into a huge room. The Myuu kept going up, headed straight for the ceiling. Raizap followed, bounced off the roof and came down on the Myuu's head. ::Take this! Rai!:: The Raichu's weight and momentem brought the Myuu down to the floor, slamming it against the stone with a rough sounding clang. Raizap jumped off just as the Myuu regained its footing.
p"Thundershock it quick!" I called, touching down on the other side of the Myuu. Raizap sparked, flahed as electricity crackled and growled over the Metala Myuu.
pWhen the Raichu was done, the robot lay unmoving. Raizap panted and whiped a paw over her eyes. ::These things are fast,:: she commented.
pI nodded. "A little too fast. It almost outran us."
p::Any clue where we are?:: I looked around. It was a sort of ampetheatre, high open walls and a carved stone floor. Any openings were high up and small. The hole we came up from in the floor seemed the only way in or out. I shook my head.
pRaizap looked left and right, cupped her paws to her mouth and called. "RAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIICHUUUUUUUU?" there was no reply. Just an echo.
pWe were lost.
ppbPart Thirty-Four- A Big ol' fight!/bp
"Left." I said solumnly.
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::No way. Even your pokedex says right. We take the right tunnel.:: Raizap held J.C.N. up to the walls and watched as the screen flashed an infrared map of what the was behind them. The Infrared was being blocked though, and flickered at certain points just behind the openings.
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"The 'dex says NOTHING, Raizap. One option's as good as another." I was all for going back down the tunnel we'd come from and exploring the hole in the wall. Somehow though that had a bad feeling to it. This whole place had a bad feeling to tell the truth.
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Raizap moved J.C.N. to point at the ceiling. ::Uhhh Mantis..::
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What now, i thought, and looked up. I could feel it even as i looked. "There's things moving around up there," I muttered.
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::Friendly things or pain-to-fight things?::
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I took a fighting stance. Something was coming. "Dunno. Better to be safe."
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Raizap dropped J.C.N. and set her feet apart. Her cheeks sparked...whoever entered was going to get a rude surprise.
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Tak! tak! taktaktaktaktak....the beating sound against the metal above us grew louder and louder. Something was coming through! I glanced warily at the 'chu...her eyes were fixated on teh ceiling. Whatever it was couldn't be good. The metal above us in hte dome shaped room began to bend inward. I brought my hands together and concentrated psy-energy between them. Come on..Come on...
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A panel of hte ceiling burst away and tumbled down at us. "Look out!" I shouted and Raizap and I both dove to the sides, the metal panal crushing into the floor where we had stood seconds before. It was easily as large as Irin's workshop, but I couldn't let that phase me. I'd seen Myuutsu hurl larger things aroudn with simply a flick of her wrist. This wasnt going to frighten me.
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"Zap, NOW!" I let loose the energy in my hands in a giagantic psy-blast that filled the room. A scream from above was almost drowned out as the chu's electricity sizzled through the room, snapping and crackling, augmented by the metal walls. I covered my face and dropped to my knees as the bolts of lightning sizzled around me- my grounds wouldn't work here! Damn, I'd forgotten! "Stop! Raizap, Stop!!"
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::GRRAIAIIIRIRIRIRIAIIII!I!!!:: The Chu stuttered and continued shocking- she couldn't hear me over the sounds of her own electricity. I was trapped in a lightning dome. The fur on the back of my neck blackened adn i arched backwards with a scream, lightning racing into my mouth and ripping at my teeth like a thousand little men tearing. It can't end like this! i thought. I cant be brought down by a friend!!
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A sudden burst of flames filled the room, mingling with the electricity. The odd shape of the dome curved them down and spread them o ut, soon the room was overcome with fire. I put out my arms, panting, trying to hold off the flames with my mind, but bolt after bolt of the chu's lighting struck against my body and forced me down. Damn! Whatever it was up there, it was ready to fight back!
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Something flew past my face...something else...suddenly the room was filled with flying dark shapes, zipping past me and around me. Electricity..fire...shapes...my mind was spinning as my hands shook, trying to hold up the barrier for Raizap and myself even as she continued to shock me. What WAS these? Who was up there?
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"Stop!" A voice broke through everything. But nothing stopped. Screaming, i clenched my fists as my entire body shook in protest to the torture. The shapes were clawing at me now, chattering-
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"The lady," A very calm, cold, voice stated. "Informed you to stop."
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A sudden cold air swept over me, the fires vanished and the electricity seemed to freeze in mid-air. Panting, i dropped my hands and collapsed on the floor, staring around without moving. I couldnt get up...I couldnt fight...
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The Gaki and Gengar stood before a dark, shimmering portal. The Gaki's eyes were glowing red, the cold wind was eminating from him. Gengar twirled her staff once and stabbed it into the ground, and suddenly there were several thuds on the floor next to me. A pair of shoes and two pairs of deformed feet stepped into view as i tried to twist my eyes upward.
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Kyotoshi looked down, his ears backed, Dad perched on his head and buisly beating him about the forehead. The Growlithe-Meowth person shrugged at me and held up his hands, where it was plainly visable that flames had seared the fur off. "Sorry," He muttered "Didnt mean to pull that shit..."
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Jasusi leaned over and waved a wing at me. "Mine not catch Manti-sa. Damn." A Zubat flitted past her and alighted somewhere..so those were the dark shapes and the fire. that explained some things. But where was...?
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Irin knelt before me before I could finish the thought. It almost looked as if he was going to cry. I tried to reach a hand out to him, and realized my skin was smoking and black, already flaking away to reveal the gold beneath. "Sorry," He whimpered again and again "I'm so sorry..."
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"It's okay," I managed to croak. "I'll be fine..."
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Raizap bounced onto my back and I grunted. The chu lifted a paw to touch one of the frozen lighting bolts. ::Rai...How did you do that?::
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The Gaki didn't answer, simply stood. I imageined the amount of concentration it must take to hold all those bolts in place.
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Gengar tsked at us. "We don't have time to fight eachother."
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Kyotoshi growled "Didnt know it was them, thought it was one of those damn MetalaMyuus."
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I curled up on myself and rolled over onto my back, staring up at the strange room where frozen lighting arched over me in a web. "What made our attacks so augmented?"
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"A very good question," Said a strange voice. "One that I am not about to answer."p
bPart 35- A Blast from the Forgotten Past/bp
I twisted my neck around as far as i could to see where the voice was coming from. Upside down from my point of view, a man in a white lab coat with shimmering glasses and dark black hair stood, grinning up...or rather actually down...at me. His chin was pointed and his hands were held deep in his pockets. "Rakson!"
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"Preceptive," the creator of my sister and I grinned broader and took a step to the side. Two Metala Myuus raised from hidden tunnels in the floor to either side of him. Kyotoshi blinked and keened, probobly an instinct. Dad, on his head, puffed up to his full size and hissed angrily. Jasusi flared her wings and screeched, making a barrier between me and the scientist. Irin just seemed to stumble backwards, mouth agape.
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Gengar and Josh weren't to be so easily detered. With a twirl of her staff, Gengar pointed it straight at the scientist and glared. "You are tresspassing."
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"Quite to the contrary, it is you who are tresspassing now, little girl." He shook his head and spoke softly. The glowing frozen lightning flashed off his glasses. "I have to admit though, I never expected my own private freak show to come back to play. Rejects reunited..."
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"Shut up!" Of all people, it was Kyotoshi who snapped at him, his voice all but breaking. The poke-person took an uneasy step forward, his fists clenched tightly. Dad leapt from his head and moved warily to the side.
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Rakson raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, little boy, but remember that you are honestly no older than a few years, nor are your friends here." He canted his head towards the rest of us. "With the exception of perhaps Mantis..."
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I was too busy thinking to listen to him gloat and torture Kyotoshi. Something was reeling its way through my mind. This room augemented attacks...when we'd entered and been attacked we'd found that out. But we'd been attacked with fire...the others had no fire pokemon..but...what had Kyo said? ....Sorry...didn't mean to pull that shit...
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I could feel chunks of my skin flaking off. It was a stinging sensation. But now i had a plan. a small one, but a plan.
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"I am honestly amazed that all three of you survived this long outside," Rakson drawled, looking at Irin, Kyo and Jasusi. "After all, you were aged at an accelerated rate..but not matured. I suppose the pokemon's ability to adapt is what enabled you-"
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"Shut UP!" Kyotoshi started forward with a lunge, but Irin caught on quickly and looped his arms under Kyo's, holding him back. The smaller poke-person struggled as Kyotoshi swung his fists and hands in Rakson's direction. "You sick bastard! You're the one who made us like this! You're the one who changed us into damn freaks! You killed my life, damnit!"
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A cold, icey spark leapt through my mind. The Gaki was signaling me. How had he...nevermind! Now wasn't the time. My eyes flashed a blue colour as I sent a telepathic message to Irin. Irin!
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For a moment the kid jolted and Kyotoshi lunged against him, tears streaming down his striped cheeks, but Jasusi caught him and held on. Damn, I'd forgotten, Irin had never had another psychic to talk to before! Well now wasn't the time...Irin, calm down and listen to me. When i tell you to, let Kyotoshi go. Don't argue, just do it! Trust me!
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I knew my plan would work. I could already feel the heat waving towards me, and could see the sweat breaking out on Jasusi's forehead. It had to work! it was our only chance...
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Rakson flicked a hand cooly into the air. "Very amusing and philisophical, albiet a tad strongly worded," the scientist stared at us, his renigade creations. "But I suppose that it is time for both you and your friends there...to die." Dropping his hand, the two Metala Myuus began to move forward.
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NOW! I screamed mentally to Irin. Imidiately he let go of Kyotoshi's arms, and the feline-canine person tripped forward over Jasusi and landed on his hands and knees on the floor. DAMN!! if he didn't get up, this would never work!! For a moment I thought we were done for, until I saw the superheated blue flame gathering on Kyotoshi's paws...
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"DAMN YOU!" With a scream of outrage, the pokeperson scrambled to his feet and charged Rakson, but only got part way before his untrained, uncontroled and surpressed poke-powers broke free with all the levels that the rare candy addiction had granted him. Fire engulffed the Myuus and Rakson, arching up around the room and seeming to billow out without any control or abandon...
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"Josh, hurry!" flecked with golden spots- but healed, i leapt to my feet and held out my hands, forcing the fire away from us with sheer force of mind. The Gaki only nodded as lighting bolts were suddenly released in all directions. Raizap shrieked and hid behind me, but i held my mental wall firm. The strange room augmented my powers too- the wall was stronger than it ever could have been. Glowing with fire and electricity, dark zubats fell, burning, outside my barrier. Jasusi cried out for them to join us, but the panicked creatures didnt listen.
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I winced...i hadnt meant anyone to die...
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A moment later, the fire stopped and hte lightning exhausted itself. Tired from the sudden force of my shield, i fell to my knees panting. Although i had been injured badly beforehand...my unique body healed itself by shedding old skin and replacing it with gold. I breathed heavily against the tile floor, not daring to look up.
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Josh took a step forward, making no sound as he did. Gengar followed, shaking her head. Dragging my head up to look, i swished my tail at what I saw.
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Jasusi carried a collapsed Kyotoshi in her awkward winged arms, her eyes tearing as she chattered, trying not to step on the bodies of her fallen Zubats. Kyotoshi wasn't moving and his arms were covered in dark burns. Irin seemed afraid to move, trembling visably. "Is he...is he...?"
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Gengar placed her staff on the ground and shook her head, leaning upon it. "Nope, not nearly. Mantis?"
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I gasped for breath before trying to explain. "Kyo's a much higher level than the rest of us...and fire is his type...although he was torched...it hasnt hurt him that badly. He's unconcious. But he'll wake."
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Raizap pointed a paw and roared in outrage. ::CHA!! Those things are still moving!::
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One of the Metala Myuu shells twitched convulsively a moment, its inatimate body arched in much the same manner a human would die. It clattered against the metal floor before rolling to one side, a final spark of electricity twitching away from its tail tip. Only residual shock energy...they weren't alive.
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"Where's Rakson?" I suddenly demanded. Surprisingly, it was Josh who turned to answer me. With a completely ice cold grin that reached right into his demonic eyes, he seemed almost to be laughing.
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"When some Gakis feed..."
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I shuddered and waved my hands. "Forget it! I don't want to know." I didn't want to hear the gruesome details that lead up to his...consuming..my creator. It was only a loss- Rakson might have known how to fix my sister and I.
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A shadow suddenly materialized before us, one that was oddly familiar. But at its side, there was a stranger. As the shadows melted away, i nearly fell backwards with a scream. The others turned to look at me strangely, all except Josh who clenched his fists.
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Raizap was the first to speak. ::Who in the name of Ketchup?::
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Myuutsu..or Mewtwo, waved her paw airly and smiled in that same sadistic manner she had before blowing my arm clean out of its socket. "So you killed our old creator, Mantis. I have to admit, that's impressive."
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"Silence, Mewtwo," said the shape at the powerful psychic pokemon's side. The man there radiated authourity..mewtwo actually obeyed him. He turned on us with a somewhat kindly grin. "You've put quite a cramp in my plans, my friends. But no matter. Things will go as preceeded."
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Jasusi tried to look threatening and protect the unconcious Kyotoshi at the same time, and Irin just gulped and stared ahead. "You made them..it was you..it was..."
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"George, of Team Fury. Soon to rule this pitiful continent and all its pokemon. And I'm afraid you, my little creatures, have run out of luck."
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There was a click, and suddenly there was a prick in my neck. I reached my paw up to pull free what was there, and a tranquilizer dart came away. I looked around at the others, darts in them too...Dad was the first to fall. Blackness began to eb in as a memory tugged at my sleeve...i saw Jasusi crumple with Kyotoshi still in her arms, Raizap teeter and fall to her side..even the Gaki gasp and fall forward, clutching his heart.
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We had been beaten.
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pThe first Metala Myuu we ran into hit the ground before it even got off a shot, Doner weakening it with Take Down and Raizap finishing up with a Thunder attack to end all Thunder attacks. We jumped over the carcass and headed towards the small basement door stored a few feet away from the tower. According to Josh it would take us straight into the main hallway. We threw open the door and were greeted by two more Metala Myuus.
pThese two must have been defects because they were red in colour, and seemed rather bored. They had a game of Speed going on the steps of the tunnel and were clearly shocked when we barged in. One shot off with a blast of flame that filled the area and shot out of the tunnel like the air in a wind tunnel. I dove to the side a little late, caught my shin in the blast and hissed at the pain. There was nothing i could do about it now, though, so i put it in a holding place and charged into the tunnel after the fleeing Metala Myuus.
p"We've got to stop them, they'll get everyone in here within seconds!" I roared, flying through the tunnel after the Myuus. I could see a glint of metal ahead of me every now and again, but we were matched for speed in the seemingly endless tunnel.
pSuddenly Raizap was beside me, using Agility to match me in speed. the Raichu grinned up at me cheerfully and kept running. ::The Ghost keepers are bringing the others, we have to head these Myuus off though.::
p"Easier said then done," i growled, twirling out of the way of a low hanging arch. "We don't know if this tunnel ends soon or opens up or what. Plus they've got a head start."
p::Rai..good point. Oh well, we'll catch em!:: Raizap poured on a little more speed, looking like she was going to ram straight into a wall. Instead, she bounced off the wall just as she reached it, launching herself into a mid-air Quick Attack at the rear-most Myuu. It hit the ground with a metalic clang, it's friend racing on ahead. Raizap proceeded to grab it around the neck and do her best to hold it in a headlock.
pThe Metala Myuu's red skin began to glow, and Raizap's face contorted in pain. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!!" She screamed, the fur on her feet and hands actually curling and smoking with the heat of the Myuu's shell.
p"Hang in there Raizy, i'm coming!!" I sped up best i could and set my energy into a Barrier that i hung onto even as i drove straight through the Metala Myuu. At my speed, the Barrier ripped the Myuu into three peices, each one twitching but unable to attack. I slowed down to look at the Raichu. "are you going to be okay?"
P::No problem,:: Raizap saluted with her paw and set out into a super-charged Agility, aided a little by her pain. ::Hurry, we gotta get that other one!::
pEven as i caught up to Raizap, the other Myuu was slowing down for some reason. Raizap saw and narrowed her eyes angrily. ::MEGAAAAAAA KIIIIIICK!:: She screamed, her singed foot suddenly coming towards the robot with enough power to blow it to very teeny peices.
pMetala Myuu saw, and shot upwards just as the Raichu's foot slammed into the wall, sending it crumbleing down. "Raizy!"
p::GrrrrrrrRAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!:: Raizap didn't even respond to the wall, but looked upwards snarling. I could almost feel her rage, and did't blame her. ::Come back down here and fight you whimp!! Rai!!::
pI looked upwards in the direction the Myuu had headed. The tunnel went straight up, the sides slick and light was going to be a problem. Raizap couldn't levetate, she couldn't chase. But if we gave up and let the Myuu go, we'd be pinpointed in a second. Damn! I glanced at Raizap, who was shaking angrily.
p"Raizy, grab ahold." I held down my gold arm. Raizap looked confused, but latched on. "Hope you don't get airsick," I muttered and took off.
pRaizap held on tight as we rocked through the corridor, but the Myuu was still way too far ahead. We're never going to catch it, I realized angrily. It's going to get away.
pRaizap was thinking the same thing. ::Mantis I've got an idea. Throw me!::
p"Throw you?" I asked, but at the same moment i launched her after the Myuu with one swing of my arm. I get it, i thought as Raizap sailed, airborn upwards. If I held her up with my psy powers, she could overtake the Myuu and bring it down.
pLight ahead! The Myuu was heading for an area, but was it larger or smaller? No telling. "Raizap, hurry!"
pStrangely, the Raichu hunched up in midair and started to glow. ::MegaRai Super Speed!:: Raizap growled, suddenly vanishing up the tunnel ahead of me. I kept after...
pThe tunnel opened up into a huge room. The Myuu kept going up, headed straight for the ceiling. Raizap followed, bounced off the roof and came down on the Myuu's head. ::Take this! Rai!:: The Raichu's weight and momentem brought the Myuu down to the floor, slamming it against the stone with a rough sounding clang. Raizap jumped off just as the Myuu regained its footing.
p"Thundershock it quick!" I called, touching down on the other side of the Myuu. Raizap sparked, flahed as electricity crackled and growled over the Metala Myuu.
pWhen the Raichu was done, the robot lay unmoving. Raizap panted and whiped a paw over her eyes. ::These things are fast,:: she commented.
pI nodded. "A little too fast. It almost outran us."
p::Any clue where we are?:: I looked around. It was a sort of ampetheatre, high open walls and a carved stone floor. Any openings were high up and small. The hole we came up from in the floor seemed the only way in or out. I shook my head.
pRaizap looked left and right, cupped her paws to her mouth and called. "RAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIICHUUUUUUUU?" there was no reply. Just an echo.
pWe were lost.
ppbPart Thirty-Four- A Big ol' fight!/bp
"Left." I said solumnly.
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::No way. Even your pokedex says right. We take the right tunnel.:: Raizap held J.C.N. up to the walls and watched as the screen flashed an infrared map of what the was behind them. The Infrared was being blocked though, and flickered at certain points just behind the openings.
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"The 'dex says NOTHING, Raizap. One option's as good as another." I was all for going back down the tunnel we'd come from and exploring the hole in the wall. Somehow though that had a bad feeling to it. This whole place had a bad feeling to tell the truth.
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Raizap moved J.C.N. to point at the ceiling. ::Uhhh Mantis..::
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What now, i thought, and looked up. I could feel it even as i looked. "There's things moving around up there," I muttered.
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::Friendly things or pain-to-fight things?::
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I took a fighting stance. Something was coming. "Dunno. Better to be safe."
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Raizap dropped J.C.N. and set her feet apart. Her cheeks sparked...whoever entered was going to get a rude surprise.
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Tak! tak! taktaktaktaktak....the beating sound against the metal above us grew louder and louder. Something was coming through! I glanced warily at the 'chu...her eyes were fixated on teh ceiling. Whatever it was couldn't be good. The metal above us in hte dome shaped room began to bend inward. I brought my hands together and concentrated psy-energy between them. Come on..Come on...
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A panel of hte ceiling burst away and tumbled down at us. "Look out!" I shouted and Raizap and I both dove to the sides, the metal panal crushing into the floor where we had stood seconds before. It was easily as large as Irin's workshop, but I couldn't let that phase me. I'd seen Myuutsu hurl larger things aroudn with simply a flick of her wrist. This wasnt going to frighten me.
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"Zap, NOW!" I let loose the energy in my hands in a giagantic psy-blast that filled the room. A scream from above was almost drowned out as the chu's electricity sizzled through the room, snapping and crackling, augmented by the metal walls. I covered my face and dropped to my knees as the bolts of lightning sizzled around me- my grounds wouldn't work here! Damn, I'd forgotten! "Stop! Raizap, Stop!!"
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::GRRAIAIIIRIRIRIRIAIIII!I!!!:: The Chu stuttered and continued shocking- she couldn't hear me over the sounds of her own electricity. I was trapped in a lightning dome. The fur on the back of my neck blackened adn i arched backwards with a scream, lightning racing into my mouth and ripping at my teeth like a thousand little men tearing. It can't end like this! i thought. I cant be brought down by a friend!!
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A sudden burst of flames filled the room, mingling with the electricity. The odd shape of the dome curved them down and spread them o ut, soon the room was overcome with fire. I put out my arms, panting, trying to hold off the flames with my mind, but bolt after bolt of the chu's lighting struck against my body and forced me down. Damn! Whatever it was up there, it was ready to fight back!
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Something flew past my face...something else...suddenly the room was filled with flying dark shapes, zipping past me and around me. Electricity..fire...shapes...my mind was spinning as my hands shook, trying to hold up the barrier for Raizap and myself even as she continued to shock me. What WAS these? Who was up there?
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"Stop!" A voice broke through everything. But nothing stopped. Screaming, i clenched my fists as my entire body shook in protest to the torture. The shapes were clawing at me now, chattering-
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"The lady," A very calm, cold, voice stated. "Informed you to stop."
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A sudden cold air swept over me, the fires vanished and the electricity seemed to freeze in mid-air. Panting, i dropped my hands and collapsed on the floor, staring around without moving. I couldnt get up...I couldnt fight...
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The Gaki and Gengar stood before a dark, shimmering portal. The Gaki's eyes were glowing red, the cold wind was eminating from him. Gengar twirled her staff once and stabbed it into the ground, and suddenly there were several thuds on the floor next to me. A pair of shoes and two pairs of deformed feet stepped into view as i tried to twist my eyes upward.
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Kyotoshi looked down, his ears backed, Dad perched on his head and buisly beating him about the forehead. The Growlithe-Meowth person shrugged at me and held up his hands, where it was plainly visable that flames had seared the fur off. "Sorry," He muttered "Didnt mean to pull that shit..."
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Jasusi leaned over and waved a wing at me. "Mine not catch Manti-sa. Damn." A Zubat flitted past her and alighted somewhere..so those were the dark shapes and the fire. that explained some things. But where was...?
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Irin knelt before me before I could finish the thought. It almost looked as if he was going to cry. I tried to reach a hand out to him, and realized my skin was smoking and black, already flaking away to reveal the gold beneath. "Sorry," He whimpered again and again "I'm so sorry..."
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"It's okay," I managed to croak. "I'll be fine..."
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Raizap bounced onto my back and I grunted. The chu lifted a paw to touch one of the frozen lighting bolts. ::Rai...How did you do that?::
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The Gaki didn't answer, simply stood. I imageined the amount of concentration it must take to hold all those bolts in place.
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Gengar tsked at us. "We don't have time to fight eachother."
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Kyotoshi growled "Didnt know it was them, thought it was one of those damn MetalaMyuus."
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I curled up on myself and rolled over onto my back, staring up at the strange room where frozen lighting arched over me in a web. "What made our attacks so augmented?"
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"A very good question," Said a strange voice. "One that I am not about to answer."p
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I twisted my neck around as far as i could to see where the voice was coming from. Upside down from my point of view, a man in a white lab coat with shimmering glasses and dark black hair stood, grinning up...or rather actually down...at me. His chin was pointed and his hands were held deep in his pockets. "Rakson!"
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"Preceptive," the creator of my sister and I grinned broader and took a step to the side. Two Metala Myuus raised from hidden tunnels in the floor to either side of him. Kyotoshi blinked and keened, probobly an instinct. Dad, on his head, puffed up to his full size and hissed angrily. Jasusi flared her wings and screeched, making a barrier between me and the scientist. Irin just seemed to stumble backwards, mouth agape.
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Gengar and Josh weren't to be so easily detered. With a twirl of her staff, Gengar pointed it straight at the scientist and glared. "You are tresspassing."
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"Quite to the contrary, it is you who are tresspassing now, little girl." He shook his head and spoke softly. The glowing frozen lightning flashed off his glasses. "I have to admit though, I never expected my own private freak show to come back to play. Rejects reunited..."
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"Shut up!" Of all people, it was Kyotoshi who snapped at him, his voice all but breaking. The poke-person took an uneasy step forward, his fists clenched tightly. Dad leapt from his head and moved warily to the side.
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Rakson raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, little boy, but remember that you are honestly no older than a few years, nor are your friends here." He canted his head towards the rest of us. "With the exception of perhaps Mantis..."
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I was too busy thinking to listen to him gloat and torture Kyotoshi. Something was reeling its way through my mind. This room augemented attacks...when we'd entered and been attacked we'd found that out. But we'd been attacked with fire...the others had no fire pokemon..but...what had Kyo said? ....Sorry...didn't mean to pull that shit...
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I could feel chunks of my skin flaking off. It was a stinging sensation. But now i had a plan. a small one, but a plan.
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"I am honestly amazed that all three of you survived this long outside," Rakson drawled, looking at Irin, Kyo and Jasusi. "After all, you were aged at an accelerated rate..but not matured. I suppose the pokemon's ability to adapt is what enabled you-"
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"Shut UP!" Kyotoshi started forward with a lunge, but Irin caught on quickly and looped his arms under Kyo's, holding him back. The smaller poke-person struggled as Kyotoshi swung his fists and hands in Rakson's direction. "You sick bastard! You're the one who made us like this! You're the one who changed us into damn freaks! You killed my life, damnit!"
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A cold, icey spark leapt through my mind. The Gaki was signaling me. How had he...nevermind! Now wasn't the time. My eyes flashed a blue colour as I sent a telepathic message to Irin. Irin!
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For a moment the kid jolted and Kyotoshi lunged against him, tears streaming down his striped cheeks, but Jasusi caught him and held on. Damn, I'd forgotten, Irin had never had another psychic to talk to before! Well now wasn't the time...Irin, calm down and listen to me. When i tell you to, let Kyotoshi go. Don't argue, just do it! Trust me!
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I knew my plan would work. I could already feel the heat waving towards me, and could see the sweat breaking out on Jasusi's forehead. It had to work! it was our only chance...
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Rakson flicked a hand cooly into the air. "Very amusing and philisophical, albiet a tad strongly worded," the scientist stared at us, his renigade creations. "But I suppose that it is time for both you and your friends there...to die." Dropping his hand, the two Metala Myuus began to move forward.
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NOW! I screamed mentally to Irin. Imidiately he let go of Kyotoshi's arms, and the feline-canine person tripped forward over Jasusi and landed on his hands and knees on the floor. DAMN!! if he didn't get up, this would never work!! For a moment I thought we were done for, until I saw the superheated blue flame gathering on Kyotoshi's paws...
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"DAMN YOU!" With a scream of outrage, the pokeperson scrambled to his feet and charged Rakson, but only got part way before his untrained, uncontroled and surpressed poke-powers broke free with all the levels that the rare candy addiction had granted him. Fire engulffed the Myuus and Rakson, arching up around the room and seeming to billow out without any control or abandon...
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"Josh, hurry!" flecked with golden spots- but healed, i leapt to my feet and held out my hands, forcing the fire away from us with sheer force of mind. The Gaki only nodded as lighting bolts were suddenly released in all directions. Raizap shrieked and hid behind me, but i held my mental wall firm. The strange room augmented my powers too- the wall was stronger than it ever could have been. Glowing with fire and electricity, dark zubats fell, burning, outside my barrier. Jasusi cried out for them to join us, but the panicked creatures didnt listen.
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I winced...i hadnt meant anyone to die...
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A moment later, the fire stopped and hte lightning exhausted itself. Tired from the sudden force of my shield, i fell to my knees panting. Although i had been injured badly beforehand...my unique body healed itself by shedding old skin and replacing it with gold. I breathed heavily against the tile floor, not daring to look up.
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Josh took a step forward, making no sound as he did. Gengar followed, shaking her head. Dragging my head up to look, i swished my tail at what I saw.
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Jasusi carried a collapsed Kyotoshi in her awkward winged arms, her eyes tearing as she chattered, trying not to step on the bodies of her fallen Zubats. Kyotoshi wasn't moving and his arms were covered in dark burns. Irin seemed afraid to move, trembling visably. "Is he...is he...?"
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Gengar placed her staff on the ground and shook her head, leaning upon it. "Nope, not nearly. Mantis?"
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I gasped for breath before trying to explain. "Kyo's a much higher level than the rest of us...and fire is his type...although he was torched...it hasnt hurt him that badly. He's unconcious. But he'll wake."
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Raizap pointed a paw and roared in outrage. ::CHA!! Those things are still moving!::
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One of the Metala Myuu shells twitched convulsively a moment, its inatimate body arched in much the same manner a human would die. It clattered against the metal floor before rolling to one side, a final spark of electricity twitching away from its tail tip. Only residual shock energy...they weren't alive.
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"Where's Rakson?" I suddenly demanded. Surprisingly, it was Josh who turned to answer me. With a completely ice cold grin that reached right into his demonic eyes, he seemed almost to be laughing.
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"When some Gakis feed..."
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I shuddered and waved my hands. "Forget it! I don't want to know." I didn't want to hear the gruesome details that lead up to his...consuming..my creator. It was only a loss- Rakson might have known how to fix my sister and I.
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A shadow suddenly materialized before us, one that was oddly familiar. But at its side, there was a stranger. As the shadows melted away, i nearly fell backwards with a scream. The others turned to look at me strangely, all except Josh who clenched his fists.
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Raizap was the first to speak. ::Who in the name of Ketchup?::
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Myuutsu..or Mewtwo, waved her paw airly and smiled in that same sadistic manner she had before blowing my arm clean out of its socket. "So you killed our old creator, Mantis. I have to admit, that's impressive."
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"Silence, Mewtwo," said the shape at the powerful psychic pokemon's side. The man there radiated authourity..mewtwo actually obeyed him. He turned on us with a somewhat kindly grin. "You've put quite a cramp in my plans, my friends. But no matter. Things will go as preceeded."
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Jasusi tried to look threatening and protect the unconcious Kyotoshi at the same time, and Irin just gulped and stared ahead. "You made them..it was you..it was..."
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"George, of Team Fury. Soon to rule this pitiful continent and all its pokemon. And I'm afraid you, my little creatures, have run out of luck."
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There was a click, and suddenly there was a prick in my neck. I reached my paw up to pull free what was there, and a tranquilizer dart came away. I looked around at the others, darts in them too...Dad was the first to fall. Blackness began to eb in as a memory tugged at my sleeve...i saw Jasusi crumple with Kyotoshi still in her arms, Raizap teeter and fall to her side..even the Gaki gasp and fall forward, clutching his heart.
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We had been beaten.
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