Rebirth of Fate
Episode 9:
IT'S KAGATO!
(Note to kids: this is the OLD Kagato from the OAVs he's much cooler looking and much more intelligent and evil. Thanks!)
Tenchi was plucking carrots in the yard along with Ryo-oki and Charmander, who were trying their best to torment each other.
"CHARR!!!" Charmander used Flamethrower on Ryo-oki, causing it to become black in ashes. "Char!" Charmander had a triumphant look on its face.
"MYIA!!" Ryo-oki was threatening to morph into her spaceship form.
"Now stop it, you two," Tenchi warned. "I know you two don't get along well, but you're going to have to put your differences aside if you want to defeat Team Rocket; I'm sure there will be many tough battles to come..."
Charmander suddenly stiffens.
"What is it?" Tenchi asks.
"Cha!" Charmander points to the sky. Once again, it's snowing.
"Wha? Ah, no! Not again! To Washu's lab, everyone!" Tenchi, Charmander, and Ryo-oki sprint back to the house.
****
"I WANT A POKÉMON!!!" came the bratty cries of princess Ayeka.
"Stop whining, you'll get your turn," Washu responded. She had started programming pokémon for the residents of the house ever since they were attacked by Team Rocket. With Tenchi leaving soon, they would need the extra protection. Washu had already made Kiyone's Ampharos and her own Alakazam. Now everyone else was busily demanding pokémon from Washu.
"Aw come on!" nagged Ryoko. "Can't you go any faster?"
"If you idiots don't stop bugging me, I'll stop making them!"
"Chill out, you guys, you'll get your turn," Kiyone consoled. "I've got to begin training. Don't wait up."
"WAIT UP!!" Mihoshi cried. "Lemme get my pokémon! I wanna train, too!"
"MIHOSHI! Your pokémon is ready!" Washu said. Mihoshi scrambled to where Washu stood. Washu continued, "Congratulations! You now have the pokémon Forretress!"
"YAY!" Mihoshi picked up he pokéball. "Kiyone! Wait for me!" Mihoshi scrambled out the lab door trying to catch up.
"Next up, Ayeka! What pokémon do YOU want?" Washu broadcasted like a game show host.
"Uhhh... I don't know!" she said, flustered.
At this point, Tenchi bursts in the door, followed by his pokémon, Ryo-oki, Kiyone, and Mihoshi. "Washu!" Tenchi cried, exasperated. "IT'S SNOWING AGAIN!"
"WHA? It better not be Team Rocket again!"
"Actually, it's not," a dark voice said from out of nowhere.
An electric-green orb came down from the ceiling and floated to the center of the lab. A black hole emerged from the orb, widening it to make way for a tall figure.
"K-Kagato?" Tenchi was utterly stunned. "Y-you're back?"
"What, you actually think you vanquished me last time we met? I don't think so!" Kagato completely emerged from the orb and it disappeared. However, he floated over everyone like an evil king over his towering subjects. "That was just a disappearing act. Now that I'm back, it is time I dealt with some unfinished business." He leered at Washu and Ryoko.
"I won't let you!" Tenchi yelled. "Charmander! Toast him!"
"CHARR!" Charmander leaps into action.
"Ah, so this is what a 'pocket monster' is, hmmm? I have my own," At this point, Kagato throws out a pokéball that reveals a Dark Hypno. "Hypno, show Tenchi the true meaning of pain! Time Snap!"
Hypno whirls his pendulum like a lasso before striking it in mid-air. The snap of it seems to hit Charmander.
"Charmander, Flamethrower, now!" Tenchi commands.
"CHAAARRR!" Charmander tries to bake Hypno in flames, but Hypno simply absorbs the attack with his pendulum. Hypno casually retaliates with another Time Snap, this time hitting Tenchi as well.
"Hmmm... Your pocket monster is pathetic." Kagato said mockingly. "My pocket monster is better than your pocket monster! Finish it, Hypno."
"Hypno..." Hypno focused its powers and hit Charmander with a wicked psychic attack, knocking it out.
"AAIEE!! Charmander!" Tenchi cried in exasperation.
"Face it, your pocket monsters are useless," Kagato said in his dark voice. He called back Hypno. "And it shows your cowardice. You might as well fight me hand-to-hand combat."
"Urgh... You're right," Tenchi readied his sword.
"No Tenchi, wait!" Mihoshi cried, sounding intelligent for once. "We'll hold 'em off! Everyone else RUN FOR IT!!" Mihoshi pulled out her ray gun. Kiyone reluctantly followed suit. Kagato expressed mock worry on his face.
Tenchi and the rest took their advice and tore like heck out of the lab and out of the house. Sasami picked up Ryo-oki and cried, "Ryo-oki! Show us your mighty morphing power!" At that, she threw Ryo-oki into the air, who immediately morphed into the spaceship. Just in time, Yosho and Nobiyuki appear, utterly confused.
"What you kids going into space for in such a rush?" Nobiyuki asked.
"Kagato..." Washu cried, exasperated. "Run for it..."
"Kagato? Why didn't you say so?!" Yosho exclaimed. All scrambled for the ship.
Ryoko took controls. "All right, we're outta here!"
"I hope Kiyone and Mihoshi are all right..." Tenchi drifted off, not continuing the sentence.
"I hope so, too..." Sasami added.
****
"Alright, Kagato! You can hold your wrath right there!" Kiyone hissed, pointing her ray gun at Kagato menacingly. Mihoshi had hers pointed as well.
"You two think you can stall me? You know you can't but you might as well give it a try, it's futile to try and run away."
Irritated at these words, Kiyone fired a shot, but Kagato easily reflected the attack with psychic powers. Kagato smirked as he watched Kiyone's face change from anger to fear. "Ah yes," he said in his fast-talking voice of darkness. "that's right, go on ahead, SHIVER. You can't hit me with guns. But I can hit YOU easily. Or better yet, I'll imprison the both of you mindless fools. You're only wasting my time." At that, he surrounded both of them in a psychic bubble. Too paralyzed with fear, Kiyone and Mihoshi did nothing as Kagato transported them to his ship, a rebuilt Soulja, but with no alternate dimension.
"Now its time to hunt for some chickens," Kagato said as took to the controls of his ship. The ship took flight and soared of in the direction of the escaping Ryo-oki.
****
"Ummm... Washu?" Ryoko asked, with uncertainty in her voice. Tenchi took this as a VERY bad sign.
"Wha?" Washu responded.
"Weren't Kiyone and Mihoshi supposed to stall Kagato?"
"Yeah? Why?"
"Because they obviously haven't done a good job. Look behind you."
Washu turned around slowly. Sure enough there was Kagato's ship, coming towards them at lightning speed.
"IT'S KAGATO!!!!" Washu declared in a great panic.
"What happened to Mihoshi and Kiyone?" Tenchi pondered.
"I forgot, Kiyone has never seen Kagato before... She's probably captive on the ship." Washu concluded.
"Well, we can't rescue them yet!" Ryoko cried. "Kagato's attacking at full velocity! I'm flyin' the best I can out but-" a shattering blast smashed into Ryo-oki, sending all the passengers into each other.
"I'm scared!" Sasami whined, hugging her big sister Ayeka tight.
"Don't worry," Ayeka whispered softly, hugging Sasami back. "We'll handle this..."
"WHAAA? AH, CRAP NO!! OUR SHIP'S GOING DOWN!!!!" Ryoko thundered as another blast hit Ryo-oki. Ayeka and Sasami were practically crying in each other's arms, and everyone else was screaming at the top of their lungs. Hurtling at top speed to their imminent doom, Ryoko tried her best to make sure they landed in a way that they all would stay in one piece, even Ayeka. They crashed into a forest outside of Blackthorn, knocking all unconscious but killing no one (not even Ryo-oki).
****
"WHAA???" Kagato teeth were clenched, his brain vessels showing. "LOST TRACK. WILL FIND SHORTLY?? HOLY LORD!!! Ah well," he calmed down in amazing seconds. "They probably crashed. Gives me more time." He set the controls to Auto Pilot and headed off the organ to calm his nerves more.
****
"Talk about luck! We just barely survived those dragons."
"Claire says we should come back when we're at higher levels. We're great beginners."
"She's right Meowth, now we need to recuperate." Rob had just challenged Claire of Blackthorn and only won against one of her Dragonairs. Because of his might, he at least got the Dragon Breath TM, so he was pretty content. After leaving the pokécenter, Rob trekked down into the forest of Route 45, Meowth on his back and looking out for trouble.
A loud BOOM made Rob jump into the air higher than Michael Jordan did when he slam-dunked. But that was from Meowth digging in his claws on his forehead. "MEOWTH!!"
"Ay Caramba! Sorry! Tense!" Meowth responded.
"What the heck was that??" Rob asked. As if on cue, the phone rang on his pokégear. Rob flipped to visual and answered. "Huhlo?"
It was Professor Elm and Professor Oak. "Hey!" Professor Elm cried. "That BOOM we all just heard, what was it; we asked. Since you were the closest to the BOOM according to our data computers (we can track things with that pokégear, y'know), we decided to call you..."
"...So you could examine it," Professor Oak finished. "We can't find what it is, but it's nothing too dangerous, we're sure of." Mewtwo showed up behind Professor Elm, fighting off Ash's Muk. Both contestants gave each other the finger, which is impossible because their middle fingers are their... index fingers. After looking at Mewtwo, Muk, and Professor Elm's lame attempts to stop the fight in utter confusion, Professor Oak continued, "So check it out for us, please."
"Here we go again, Meowth," Rob said. He turned to the two professors. "All right, I'll take it on. See ya." The two of them and Mewtwo waved bye; Professor Elm drowning in Muk; Mewtwo psychically asking Rob how his girlfriend was doing and Professor Oak had a sweat drop on his face as Rob cut off the phone.
"My, I never knew Mewtwo was capable of wreaking so much havoc," Meowth pondered out loud with sarcasm.
"Stuff it, Meowth, we got a job to do." Rob sprinted towards the explosion. Traveling through the forest, Rob encountered a steep gorge with the bridge broken. "Ay crap, what do we do now?"
"Idea to the rescue!" Meowth cried. "HEY!" he yelled to some nearby Aipoms. "Give us a lift, will ya? Just over the gorge in ONE piece for each of us?"
The Aipoms chattered and nodded, understanding. Offering its tail to Rob, Rob clutched the fat part and hung on as it swung through the trees and over the gorge. The grinning monkey then dropped Rob lightly on the ground. "Thanks!" Meowth cried. He took out Rob's sack of bananas and tossed it to the Aipoms. They ate greedily.
"HEY!! That was after lunch snack!!" Rob complained.
"You gotta pay them something, or they'll come whip your butt for it. Besides, you got plenty more snacks!"
Rob's journey ended when he saw an almost nightmarish land slide and an alien ship that looked sort of like a metal claw. "Holy..."
"Ah crap, what IS that?"
"I don't like it one bit..."
"I sense evil in there!" Meowth said in his New Jersey voice, stronger and more nervous than ever. "But I also sense something familiar..."
"We've got to find out what's in there..."
"Or who..."
Rob and Meowth warily approached the ship as if they were to be executed inside if they made the wrong move. Upon finding what looked like a closed door on the ship, Rob threw his sword at it and it flapped open like a dead guy's tongue. Rob magnetically called his sword back and they entered inside.
Upon entering, Meowth found what was so familiar about what he sensed. "I detect a feline presence besides mine around here and-"
"TENCHI???" Rob dashed over to Tenchi's unconscious body and checked his pulse. Luckily it felt strong. "How the crap did YOU get in here..." he whispered. "AND Washu..."
"And who the **** are these other losers?" Meowth examined each of the passengers he hadn't seen before. One had two long locks of hair and dressed in a kimono. Another was shorter and double pigtailed. Two looked like old and older versions of Tenchi, maybe pops and grand pops? And yet another had spiky hair and... a tail?
"Who the heck?" Meowth lightly kicked the tailed one. He turned to Rob, utterly oblivious of the fact that she had awakened to the kick in a VERY bad temper. "Nope not alive!"
"Wha?" Rob turned around to see a very P.Oed woman looming over Meowth like Lucifer reincarnated. "Meowth... RUN..."
"Huh, What?" Meowth turned around. "HOLY S***!!!" He barely jumped out of the way of a giant blast sent by the woman. Meowth hugged Rob in utter fear as the woman prepared to attack again.
"Who the h*** are you?" Rob asked with a touch of fear in his voice.
"I would ask you the same thing," came the reply. "What are you doing on my ship?"
"Examination! And it seems that you have captured Tenchi and Washu on your ship! I will be happy to execute you for that."
"Tenchi AND Washu are good friends of mine, but suit yourself!" the woman fired a shot at Rob, who blocked it with his sword. Rob lunged at the woman, who floated away from the attack and shot another beam at him in which he easily dodged.
"Indeed you're from another planet..." Rob's eyes seemed to be diluted in awe and fear.
"What did you think?" came the reply.
"No matter. I will defeat you anyway."
"No way!" with all her might, the woman began to power up a GIANT friggin' beam. Just when she was about to blast Rob to smithereens, a voice rose from the darkness.
"Ryoko! Lay off of Rob, will ya?" Tenchi emerged, ragged looking but in fine shape.
"Tenchi? You know this woman?" Rob asked as if he were interrogating Tenchi.
"Tenchi? You know this broad?" Ryoko fired at Tenchi.
"Yeah, it's a long story..." Tenchi said to both of their questions. "Ryoko! Meet Rob, a former member of TR who's joined our side. Rob! Meet Ryoko, once most infamous space pirate... well you know the rest."
"Your friend Rob here is quite a decent fighter," said another voice from the shadows.
"Grandpa? You okay?" Tenchi rushed over to his grandpa and hugged him. Yosho nodded.
"We must recover the others."
Tenchi, Yosho, and Rob set across the ship waking up the others. Those unfortunate to be awakened by Rob (Ayeka and Nobiyuki) were poked by his sword.
"OOOWWWW!!!" Ayeka whined as Rob lightly prodded her with his sword. While she was still pain dancing (and Ryoko laughing at her) Rob poked Nobiyuki, who used the same reaction.
"Wow," Rob said, looking at the total crowd. "How did all of you guys get here, and who are you?"
"It's a long story... But I'll explain everything," so Tenchi began how he accidentally freed Ryoko from her imprisonment in a cavern. This was like a signal, luring practically everyone, from Princess-of-Jurai Ayeka to Kiyone and Mihoshi. Ryoko's release also lured the arch-villain Kagato, who had kidnapped Washu and claimed all of her inventions--including Ryoko.
"And Kagato has attacked us again, this time kidnapping Mihoshi and Kiyone, who bravely held back to give us time," Tenchi finished.
"But they failed... I'm sure they get demoted if this was a police task," Ryoko added with sarcastic laughter.
"SHOW SOME RESPECT!!!" Ayeka snapped at Ryoko.
"Now Ayeka..." Sasami warned.
"I WON'T put up with that! They fought courageously, if for a short time!"
"A REAL short time!!" Ryoko fell over laughing.
Ayeka's head looked hot enough to melt steel. "Why- you - little -" several logs conjured around Ryoko.
"What the heck...?" Rob took two steps back in fear and confusion.
"Ayeka! Not on the ship!!" Washu cried frantically.
"This means I better run..." Rob did a 180 spin on his foot and splintered for the door, but ran smack into what seemed like a solid body. Rob looked up slowly to see a tall and menacing man with silver hair in cloaks similar to Ayeka's (they aren't pink). "Who the heck are you?"
"I would impose the same question," said the man. "But we have not met. I am Kagato."
"YOU'RE Kagato? Uh-oh..." Rob raised his sword, ready to attack this menace.
"You really think you'll win against me with that metal stick?" Kagato looked purely amused. "I don't think so." He shot a blizzard in Rob's direction.
Rob blocked the attack and absorbed it in his sword. Kagato was taken by surprise-slightly. "Hmmm, so you can absorb powers with that sword? Quite amazing. HAND IT HERE." He began to magnetically draw the sword towards him.
"You want my sword?" Rob challenged. "HERE. Have it!" Rob threw his sword at Kagato and smacked him in the face with it. But Kagato snapped his right wrist in front of him and caught the sword in his hand.
"How foolish, boy. And this is a nice sword. No electric powers to shock me away. Nice... Now let's see how you handle your own sword," Kagato slashed the sword at Rob, but Rob leaped on it and sprang in the other direction, kicking Kagato's face at the same time. Landing behind Kagato, Rob draws his sword back without Kagato noticing. A furious Kagato lunges at Rob with Rob's "sword". Rob, pretending to be stabbed by a real sword, gags and falls to the ground as if he were dead. Kagato laughs evilly-until he realized his mistake.
With a sweat drop, Kagato looked at the whole Tenchi crew laugh at him. "HOHOHOHOOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Ayeka pointed at Kagato as if he were the class idiot. "Thinking you can kill someone with air!"
"You fools will pay for that; no more games now." Kagato hissed. A green energy ball formed in Kagato's hands. He squeezed it, and a sword materialized. "Now boy, it is time you meet your fate; cower now as it will be your last. ARGH!" Kagato sliced his sword at Rob, who blocked the shot and returned with his own fire, and a swordfight had begun.
"Now is not the time to stand and watch," Yosho said. Tenchi looked at his grandpa and nodded.
Tenchi charged into the fight, surprising Kagato but not managing to hit him. Rob took this time to hop onto Kagato's sword and smack him broad in the face.
Furious, Kagato threw him off and cried, "FORE!!" and smacked Rob away, sending him crashing into the wall.
Staggering, Rob sent out his Larvitar.
"YOU have pocket monsters too?" Kagato gave Larvitar an amused glance. "That one looks more pathetic than Tenchi's! HOHOHAHAHAHA!!"
Larvitar scowled and used Bite on Kagato, who easily blocked it with his sword. "It's far too bad its weak. I would love a challenge, but there obviously isn't one. Hypno, KILL this creature." Kagato throws out Hypno, who attacks Larvitar with a nightmarish psychic attack.
But Larvitar is unaffected, and it had become so P.Oed at Hypno that it's head muscle began throbbing and it began to focus itself as if it had psychic powers itself. Rob pulled out his pokédex in curiosity. "I detect that it is about to use its limit break, Mowdown, the strongest dark attack known." At this, Larvitar is surrounded by a dark force field, and it charges at Hypno, knocking it back into the wall and fainting it in one shot.
"WHAT??!! IMPOSSIBLE!!" Kagato raged. He forms his sword and attacks Larvitar, who blocks the attack with a dark shield, still very ticked. Kagato pulls back and Larvitar retreats back to Rob, seemingly worn out. Rob throws out Cyndaquil and readies his sword, and Tenchi follows suit. "YOU FOOLS WILL NOT GET IN MY WAY!!! HOUNDOOM!" Houndoom leaps from behind Kagato and viciously growls at our heroes.
"Tenchi! Rob! Watch out!" Ayeka cried.
"Cyndaquil! Distract Houndoom!!" Rob shouted.
Cyndaquil and Houndoom crash against each other and began to hit each other with fire attacks. Rob and Tenchi leap at Kagato and another swordfight begins. Rob delivers a hit to Kagato from above but is hit away. Kagato grabs Tenchi by the neck and slices a critical blow to the stomach.
"NNOOO!!!" Rob shouts as Tenchi staggers to the ground.
"Tenchi!" Sasami cries as she dashes over to a fallen Tenchi.
Kagato, finally satisfied, begins some evil laughter. "At last, I have defeated my arch-rival. All of you are DOOMED. You all shall feel the wrath of Kagato!!!"
"Ouch. Sasami," Tenchi whimpered in pain, still trying to hold strong. "I'm okay. Don't worry..."
"Tenchi... Take this..." Sasami whispered. She touched his wounds with a familiar leaf-a leaf from the tree Funaho. It immediately healed him and flooded him with a holy power, the power of the Light Hawk. After letting Sasami peck him in the cheek with a kiss for good luck, Tenchi rose again, flashing his holy power.
"Heheheheheheheee..." Kagato had Rob and his now strangely older Cyndaquil in a headlock and was repeatedly punching the two of them, much to Yosho's amusement and everyone else's horror. "Huh?" he noticed Tenchi had risen again, so he threw Rob and his pokémon on top of an already defeated Houndoom. "HEY!! NO CHEATING! Ah well, I'll kill you this time!" Kagato attacks Tenchi, but the Light Hawk wings block the shot. Kagato blinks rapidly as if he were trying to get something out of his eye. "NOOO!! IT'S THE LIGHT HAWK!!"
Without saying a word, Tenchi rips a powerful holy beam on Kagato, blasting him away. But Rob, recovering from Kagato's attack, accidentally stumbles right into the beam.
When the beam stops and the smoke cleared, Tenchi saw Rob-totally unaffected by the beam, and Kagato and his two pokémon-breathing as if they all had heart attacks. Kagato and his two pokémon stood up. He finally spoke. "You have gained power and friends since I last saw you, and you have won once again. But you have not seen the last of me," he and his two pokémon began to disappear through waves like he were paper being torn by wind. "We will meet again..." they disappeared, and all was silent. Tenchi faded back to normal.
Rob suddenly turned to Tenchi. "What the heck was that you just busted Kagato with, and why wasn't I affected?"
"I have no idea how to answer the second question, but if it helps, I used the power of Tsunami, which is a powerful holy being and Jurai's most powerful ship."
"Ship?"
"Yes, ship, as Jurai's ships are actually living."
"Simply put," Washu finished for him, much to Tenchi's relief, "Tsunami is capable of a LOT of friggin' holy power, but since she can't channel it herself through the baddies, she uses Tenchi instead!"
"Ohhhh... But where's Kiyone and Mihoshi?" Rob asked.
The mighty Washu was speechless (cue in R.I.P music) and everyone else except Rob fell over. As everyone recovered, they heard, "Oh, and I have one last present for you..." a blue orb appeared and dropped in front of Rob. The orb opened like a pokéball, and out popped-
- Kiyone and Mihoshi. Mihoshi fell over, and Kiyone staggered as Rob swept himself over to her side. "Hey, nice defense," Rob said, helping Kiyone to her feet. No one paid any attention to Mihoshi.
"Not funny!" Kiyone gut-punched Rob, who staggered under the pressure from the punch. Both Quilava and Pupitar, who had evolved after they defeated Kagato's minions, had to support him after he collapsed, as Kiyone's fist was just that strong. Irritated, Rob leaped back up and pulled out his sword, and his two pokémon and Meowth, who just watched the whole spectacle, growled in unison.
"You want a piece of ME?" Rob pointed his sword at Kiyone. Both contestants' eyes were shooting thunder at each other.
"Lay off, you two, your fights are worse than Ayeka's and Ryoko's," Yosho said, getting between the two of them. He then glared at Rob, but in a kind-examination-of-your-soul sort or way. "Rob, isn't it? Indeed you are a good fighter, I see you must get from your father, but like him you also tend to rush into fights. I see it could be a while before you learn patience, as well a getting along with certain others."
"One question," Rob asked when Yosho finished. "Are you psychic?"
Yosho only whistled.
Rob's head was steaming. "Now nothing in my head is safe," Rob hissed. "I bet this is all Keeli's doing."
All through the forest, one could hear someone shouting, "I CURSE YOU, KEELI!! I CURSE YOOUUU!!!!!"
"Not before I curse you," Kiyone whispered devilishly in his ear. She crowed with laughter as Rob's face went out of proportion in anger.
"THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!"
"Oh, boy," Tenchi groaned. "Here we go again."
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME??" Kiyone challenged.
"Oh, shush, you two, or you'll break our record!" Ryoko crowed with laughter.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS," Rob and Kiyone hissed.
"WHAT? HOW DARE YOU-BRING IT ON!!!"
That's it for episode 9! Next Up!: Episode 10: The Temple of Cygnus
After setting tensions with Kiyone, Rob and Tenchi head off to a temple said to contain a legendary Holy pokémon, but Team Rocket, the resident Golducks, and new pokémon Gligen won't make it easy! Will a Crobat help our heroes defeat the obstacles in their way?
Episode 9:
IT'S KAGATO!
(Note to kids: this is the OLD Kagato from the OAVs he's much cooler looking and much more intelligent and evil. Thanks!)
Tenchi was plucking carrots in the yard along with Ryo-oki and Charmander, who were trying their best to torment each other.
"CHARR!!!" Charmander used Flamethrower on Ryo-oki, causing it to become black in ashes. "Char!" Charmander had a triumphant look on its face.
"MYIA!!" Ryo-oki was threatening to morph into her spaceship form.
"Now stop it, you two," Tenchi warned. "I know you two don't get along well, but you're going to have to put your differences aside if you want to defeat Team Rocket; I'm sure there will be many tough battles to come..."
Charmander suddenly stiffens.
"What is it?" Tenchi asks.
"Cha!" Charmander points to the sky. Once again, it's snowing.
"Wha? Ah, no! Not again! To Washu's lab, everyone!" Tenchi, Charmander, and Ryo-oki sprint back to the house.
****
"I WANT A POKÉMON!!!" came the bratty cries of princess Ayeka.
"Stop whining, you'll get your turn," Washu responded. She had started programming pokémon for the residents of the house ever since they were attacked by Team Rocket. With Tenchi leaving soon, they would need the extra protection. Washu had already made Kiyone's Ampharos and her own Alakazam. Now everyone else was busily demanding pokémon from Washu.
"Aw come on!" nagged Ryoko. "Can't you go any faster?"
"If you idiots don't stop bugging me, I'll stop making them!"
"Chill out, you guys, you'll get your turn," Kiyone consoled. "I've got to begin training. Don't wait up."
"WAIT UP!!" Mihoshi cried. "Lemme get my pokémon! I wanna train, too!"
"MIHOSHI! Your pokémon is ready!" Washu said. Mihoshi scrambled to where Washu stood. Washu continued, "Congratulations! You now have the pokémon Forretress!"
"YAY!" Mihoshi picked up he pokéball. "Kiyone! Wait for me!" Mihoshi scrambled out the lab door trying to catch up.
"Next up, Ayeka! What pokémon do YOU want?" Washu broadcasted like a game show host.
"Uhhh... I don't know!" she said, flustered.
At this point, Tenchi bursts in the door, followed by his pokémon, Ryo-oki, Kiyone, and Mihoshi. "Washu!" Tenchi cried, exasperated. "IT'S SNOWING AGAIN!"
"WHA? It better not be Team Rocket again!"
"Actually, it's not," a dark voice said from out of nowhere.
An electric-green orb came down from the ceiling and floated to the center of the lab. A black hole emerged from the orb, widening it to make way for a tall figure.
"K-Kagato?" Tenchi was utterly stunned. "Y-you're back?"
"What, you actually think you vanquished me last time we met? I don't think so!" Kagato completely emerged from the orb and it disappeared. However, he floated over everyone like an evil king over his towering subjects. "That was just a disappearing act. Now that I'm back, it is time I dealt with some unfinished business." He leered at Washu and Ryoko.
"I won't let you!" Tenchi yelled. "Charmander! Toast him!"
"CHARR!" Charmander leaps into action.
"Ah, so this is what a 'pocket monster' is, hmmm? I have my own," At this point, Kagato throws out a pokéball that reveals a Dark Hypno. "Hypno, show Tenchi the true meaning of pain! Time Snap!"
Hypno whirls his pendulum like a lasso before striking it in mid-air. The snap of it seems to hit Charmander.
"Charmander, Flamethrower, now!" Tenchi commands.
"CHAAARRR!" Charmander tries to bake Hypno in flames, but Hypno simply absorbs the attack with his pendulum. Hypno casually retaliates with another Time Snap, this time hitting Tenchi as well.
"Hmmm... Your pocket monster is pathetic." Kagato said mockingly. "My pocket monster is better than your pocket monster! Finish it, Hypno."
"Hypno..." Hypno focused its powers and hit Charmander with a wicked psychic attack, knocking it out.
"AAIEE!! Charmander!" Tenchi cried in exasperation.
"Face it, your pocket monsters are useless," Kagato said in his dark voice. He called back Hypno. "And it shows your cowardice. You might as well fight me hand-to-hand combat."
"Urgh... You're right," Tenchi readied his sword.
"No Tenchi, wait!" Mihoshi cried, sounding intelligent for once. "We'll hold 'em off! Everyone else RUN FOR IT!!" Mihoshi pulled out her ray gun. Kiyone reluctantly followed suit. Kagato expressed mock worry on his face.
Tenchi and the rest took their advice and tore like heck out of the lab and out of the house. Sasami picked up Ryo-oki and cried, "Ryo-oki! Show us your mighty morphing power!" At that, she threw Ryo-oki into the air, who immediately morphed into the spaceship. Just in time, Yosho and Nobiyuki appear, utterly confused.
"What you kids going into space for in such a rush?" Nobiyuki asked.
"Kagato..." Washu cried, exasperated. "Run for it..."
"Kagato? Why didn't you say so?!" Yosho exclaimed. All scrambled for the ship.
Ryoko took controls. "All right, we're outta here!"
"I hope Kiyone and Mihoshi are all right..." Tenchi drifted off, not continuing the sentence.
"I hope so, too..." Sasami added.
****
"Alright, Kagato! You can hold your wrath right there!" Kiyone hissed, pointing her ray gun at Kagato menacingly. Mihoshi had hers pointed as well.
"You two think you can stall me? You know you can't but you might as well give it a try, it's futile to try and run away."
Irritated at these words, Kiyone fired a shot, but Kagato easily reflected the attack with psychic powers. Kagato smirked as he watched Kiyone's face change from anger to fear. "Ah yes," he said in his fast-talking voice of darkness. "that's right, go on ahead, SHIVER. You can't hit me with guns. But I can hit YOU easily. Or better yet, I'll imprison the both of you mindless fools. You're only wasting my time." At that, he surrounded both of them in a psychic bubble. Too paralyzed with fear, Kiyone and Mihoshi did nothing as Kagato transported them to his ship, a rebuilt Soulja, but with no alternate dimension.
"Now its time to hunt for some chickens," Kagato said as took to the controls of his ship. The ship took flight and soared of in the direction of the escaping Ryo-oki.
****
"Ummm... Washu?" Ryoko asked, with uncertainty in her voice. Tenchi took this as a VERY bad sign.
"Wha?" Washu responded.
"Weren't Kiyone and Mihoshi supposed to stall Kagato?"
"Yeah? Why?"
"Because they obviously haven't done a good job. Look behind you."
Washu turned around slowly. Sure enough there was Kagato's ship, coming towards them at lightning speed.
"IT'S KAGATO!!!!" Washu declared in a great panic.
"What happened to Mihoshi and Kiyone?" Tenchi pondered.
"I forgot, Kiyone has never seen Kagato before... She's probably captive on the ship." Washu concluded.
"Well, we can't rescue them yet!" Ryoko cried. "Kagato's attacking at full velocity! I'm flyin' the best I can out but-" a shattering blast smashed into Ryo-oki, sending all the passengers into each other.
"I'm scared!" Sasami whined, hugging her big sister Ayeka tight.
"Don't worry," Ayeka whispered softly, hugging Sasami back. "We'll handle this..."
"WHAAA? AH, CRAP NO!! OUR SHIP'S GOING DOWN!!!!" Ryoko thundered as another blast hit Ryo-oki. Ayeka and Sasami were practically crying in each other's arms, and everyone else was screaming at the top of their lungs. Hurtling at top speed to their imminent doom, Ryoko tried her best to make sure they landed in a way that they all would stay in one piece, even Ayeka. They crashed into a forest outside of Blackthorn, knocking all unconscious but killing no one (not even Ryo-oki).
****
"WHAA???" Kagato teeth were clenched, his brain vessels showing. "LOST TRACK. WILL FIND SHORTLY?? HOLY LORD!!! Ah well," he calmed down in amazing seconds. "They probably crashed. Gives me more time." He set the controls to Auto Pilot and headed off the organ to calm his nerves more.
****
"Talk about luck! We just barely survived those dragons."
"Claire says we should come back when we're at higher levels. We're great beginners."
"She's right Meowth, now we need to recuperate." Rob had just challenged Claire of Blackthorn and only won against one of her Dragonairs. Because of his might, he at least got the Dragon Breath TM, so he was pretty content. After leaving the pokécenter, Rob trekked down into the forest of Route 45, Meowth on his back and looking out for trouble.
A loud BOOM made Rob jump into the air higher than Michael Jordan did when he slam-dunked. But that was from Meowth digging in his claws on his forehead. "MEOWTH!!"
"Ay Caramba! Sorry! Tense!" Meowth responded.
"What the heck was that??" Rob asked. As if on cue, the phone rang on his pokégear. Rob flipped to visual and answered. "Huhlo?"
It was Professor Elm and Professor Oak. "Hey!" Professor Elm cried. "That BOOM we all just heard, what was it; we asked. Since you were the closest to the BOOM according to our data computers (we can track things with that pokégear, y'know), we decided to call you..."
"...So you could examine it," Professor Oak finished. "We can't find what it is, but it's nothing too dangerous, we're sure of." Mewtwo showed up behind Professor Elm, fighting off Ash's Muk. Both contestants gave each other the finger, which is impossible because their middle fingers are their... index fingers. After looking at Mewtwo, Muk, and Professor Elm's lame attempts to stop the fight in utter confusion, Professor Oak continued, "So check it out for us, please."
"Here we go again, Meowth," Rob said. He turned to the two professors. "All right, I'll take it on. See ya." The two of them and Mewtwo waved bye; Professor Elm drowning in Muk; Mewtwo psychically asking Rob how his girlfriend was doing and Professor Oak had a sweat drop on his face as Rob cut off the phone.
"My, I never knew Mewtwo was capable of wreaking so much havoc," Meowth pondered out loud with sarcasm.
"Stuff it, Meowth, we got a job to do." Rob sprinted towards the explosion. Traveling through the forest, Rob encountered a steep gorge with the bridge broken. "Ay crap, what do we do now?"
"Idea to the rescue!" Meowth cried. "HEY!" he yelled to some nearby Aipoms. "Give us a lift, will ya? Just over the gorge in ONE piece for each of us?"
The Aipoms chattered and nodded, understanding. Offering its tail to Rob, Rob clutched the fat part and hung on as it swung through the trees and over the gorge. The grinning monkey then dropped Rob lightly on the ground. "Thanks!" Meowth cried. He took out Rob's sack of bananas and tossed it to the Aipoms. They ate greedily.
"HEY!! That was after lunch snack!!" Rob complained.
"You gotta pay them something, or they'll come whip your butt for it. Besides, you got plenty more snacks!"
Rob's journey ended when he saw an almost nightmarish land slide and an alien ship that looked sort of like a metal claw. "Holy..."
"Ah crap, what IS that?"
"I don't like it one bit..."
"I sense evil in there!" Meowth said in his New Jersey voice, stronger and more nervous than ever. "But I also sense something familiar..."
"We've got to find out what's in there..."
"Or who..."
Rob and Meowth warily approached the ship as if they were to be executed inside if they made the wrong move. Upon finding what looked like a closed door on the ship, Rob threw his sword at it and it flapped open like a dead guy's tongue. Rob magnetically called his sword back and they entered inside.
Upon entering, Meowth found what was so familiar about what he sensed. "I detect a feline presence besides mine around here and-"
"TENCHI???" Rob dashed over to Tenchi's unconscious body and checked his pulse. Luckily it felt strong. "How the crap did YOU get in here..." he whispered. "AND Washu..."
"And who the **** are these other losers?" Meowth examined each of the passengers he hadn't seen before. One had two long locks of hair and dressed in a kimono. Another was shorter and double pigtailed. Two looked like old and older versions of Tenchi, maybe pops and grand pops? And yet another had spiky hair and... a tail?
"Who the heck?" Meowth lightly kicked the tailed one. He turned to Rob, utterly oblivious of the fact that she had awakened to the kick in a VERY bad temper. "Nope not alive!"
"Wha?" Rob turned around to see a very P.Oed woman looming over Meowth like Lucifer reincarnated. "Meowth... RUN..."
"Huh, What?" Meowth turned around. "HOLY S***!!!" He barely jumped out of the way of a giant blast sent by the woman. Meowth hugged Rob in utter fear as the woman prepared to attack again.
"Who the h*** are you?" Rob asked with a touch of fear in his voice.
"I would ask you the same thing," came the reply. "What are you doing on my ship?"
"Examination! And it seems that you have captured Tenchi and Washu on your ship! I will be happy to execute you for that."
"Tenchi AND Washu are good friends of mine, but suit yourself!" the woman fired a shot at Rob, who blocked it with his sword. Rob lunged at the woman, who floated away from the attack and shot another beam at him in which he easily dodged.
"Indeed you're from another planet..." Rob's eyes seemed to be diluted in awe and fear.
"What did you think?" came the reply.
"No matter. I will defeat you anyway."
"No way!" with all her might, the woman began to power up a GIANT friggin' beam. Just when she was about to blast Rob to smithereens, a voice rose from the darkness.
"Ryoko! Lay off of Rob, will ya?" Tenchi emerged, ragged looking but in fine shape.
"Tenchi? You know this woman?" Rob asked as if he were interrogating Tenchi.
"Tenchi? You know this broad?" Ryoko fired at Tenchi.
"Yeah, it's a long story..." Tenchi said to both of their questions. "Ryoko! Meet Rob, a former member of TR who's joined our side. Rob! Meet Ryoko, once most infamous space pirate... well you know the rest."
"Your friend Rob here is quite a decent fighter," said another voice from the shadows.
"Grandpa? You okay?" Tenchi rushed over to his grandpa and hugged him. Yosho nodded.
"We must recover the others."
Tenchi, Yosho, and Rob set across the ship waking up the others. Those unfortunate to be awakened by Rob (Ayeka and Nobiyuki) were poked by his sword.
"OOOWWWW!!!" Ayeka whined as Rob lightly prodded her with his sword. While she was still pain dancing (and Ryoko laughing at her) Rob poked Nobiyuki, who used the same reaction.
"Wow," Rob said, looking at the total crowd. "How did all of you guys get here, and who are you?"
"It's a long story... But I'll explain everything," so Tenchi began how he accidentally freed Ryoko from her imprisonment in a cavern. This was like a signal, luring practically everyone, from Princess-of-Jurai Ayeka to Kiyone and Mihoshi. Ryoko's release also lured the arch-villain Kagato, who had kidnapped Washu and claimed all of her inventions--including Ryoko.
"And Kagato has attacked us again, this time kidnapping Mihoshi and Kiyone, who bravely held back to give us time," Tenchi finished.
"But they failed... I'm sure they get demoted if this was a police task," Ryoko added with sarcastic laughter.
"SHOW SOME RESPECT!!!" Ayeka snapped at Ryoko.
"Now Ayeka..." Sasami warned.
"I WON'T put up with that! They fought courageously, if for a short time!"
"A REAL short time!!" Ryoko fell over laughing.
Ayeka's head looked hot enough to melt steel. "Why- you - little -" several logs conjured around Ryoko.
"What the heck...?" Rob took two steps back in fear and confusion.
"Ayeka! Not on the ship!!" Washu cried frantically.
"This means I better run..." Rob did a 180 spin on his foot and splintered for the door, but ran smack into what seemed like a solid body. Rob looked up slowly to see a tall and menacing man with silver hair in cloaks similar to Ayeka's (they aren't pink). "Who the heck are you?"
"I would impose the same question," said the man. "But we have not met. I am Kagato."
"YOU'RE Kagato? Uh-oh..." Rob raised his sword, ready to attack this menace.
"You really think you'll win against me with that metal stick?" Kagato looked purely amused. "I don't think so." He shot a blizzard in Rob's direction.
Rob blocked the attack and absorbed it in his sword. Kagato was taken by surprise-slightly. "Hmmm, so you can absorb powers with that sword? Quite amazing. HAND IT HERE." He began to magnetically draw the sword towards him.
"You want my sword?" Rob challenged. "HERE. Have it!" Rob threw his sword at Kagato and smacked him in the face with it. But Kagato snapped his right wrist in front of him and caught the sword in his hand.
"How foolish, boy. And this is a nice sword. No electric powers to shock me away. Nice... Now let's see how you handle your own sword," Kagato slashed the sword at Rob, but Rob leaped on it and sprang in the other direction, kicking Kagato's face at the same time. Landing behind Kagato, Rob draws his sword back without Kagato noticing. A furious Kagato lunges at Rob with Rob's "sword". Rob, pretending to be stabbed by a real sword, gags and falls to the ground as if he were dead. Kagato laughs evilly-until he realized his mistake.
With a sweat drop, Kagato looked at the whole Tenchi crew laugh at him. "HOHOHOHOOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Ayeka pointed at Kagato as if he were the class idiot. "Thinking you can kill someone with air!"
"You fools will pay for that; no more games now." Kagato hissed. A green energy ball formed in Kagato's hands. He squeezed it, and a sword materialized. "Now boy, it is time you meet your fate; cower now as it will be your last. ARGH!" Kagato sliced his sword at Rob, who blocked the shot and returned with his own fire, and a swordfight had begun.
"Now is not the time to stand and watch," Yosho said. Tenchi looked at his grandpa and nodded.
Tenchi charged into the fight, surprising Kagato but not managing to hit him. Rob took this time to hop onto Kagato's sword and smack him broad in the face.
Furious, Kagato threw him off and cried, "FORE!!" and smacked Rob away, sending him crashing into the wall.
Staggering, Rob sent out his Larvitar.
"YOU have pocket monsters too?" Kagato gave Larvitar an amused glance. "That one looks more pathetic than Tenchi's! HOHOHAHAHAHA!!"
Larvitar scowled and used Bite on Kagato, who easily blocked it with his sword. "It's far too bad its weak. I would love a challenge, but there obviously isn't one. Hypno, KILL this creature." Kagato throws out Hypno, who attacks Larvitar with a nightmarish psychic attack.
But Larvitar is unaffected, and it had become so P.Oed at Hypno that it's head muscle began throbbing and it began to focus itself as if it had psychic powers itself. Rob pulled out his pokédex in curiosity. "I detect that it is about to use its limit break, Mowdown, the strongest dark attack known." At this, Larvitar is surrounded by a dark force field, and it charges at Hypno, knocking it back into the wall and fainting it in one shot.
"WHAT??!! IMPOSSIBLE!!" Kagato raged. He forms his sword and attacks Larvitar, who blocks the attack with a dark shield, still very ticked. Kagato pulls back and Larvitar retreats back to Rob, seemingly worn out. Rob throws out Cyndaquil and readies his sword, and Tenchi follows suit. "YOU FOOLS WILL NOT GET IN MY WAY!!! HOUNDOOM!" Houndoom leaps from behind Kagato and viciously growls at our heroes.
"Tenchi! Rob! Watch out!" Ayeka cried.
"Cyndaquil! Distract Houndoom!!" Rob shouted.
Cyndaquil and Houndoom crash against each other and began to hit each other with fire attacks. Rob and Tenchi leap at Kagato and another swordfight begins. Rob delivers a hit to Kagato from above but is hit away. Kagato grabs Tenchi by the neck and slices a critical blow to the stomach.
"NNOOO!!!" Rob shouts as Tenchi staggers to the ground.
"Tenchi!" Sasami cries as she dashes over to a fallen Tenchi.
Kagato, finally satisfied, begins some evil laughter. "At last, I have defeated my arch-rival. All of you are DOOMED. You all shall feel the wrath of Kagato!!!"
"Ouch. Sasami," Tenchi whimpered in pain, still trying to hold strong. "I'm okay. Don't worry..."
"Tenchi... Take this..." Sasami whispered. She touched his wounds with a familiar leaf-a leaf from the tree Funaho. It immediately healed him and flooded him with a holy power, the power of the Light Hawk. After letting Sasami peck him in the cheek with a kiss for good luck, Tenchi rose again, flashing his holy power.
"Heheheheheheheee..." Kagato had Rob and his now strangely older Cyndaquil in a headlock and was repeatedly punching the two of them, much to Yosho's amusement and everyone else's horror. "Huh?" he noticed Tenchi had risen again, so he threw Rob and his pokémon on top of an already defeated Houndoom. "HEY!! NO CHEATING! Ah well, I'll kill you this time!" Kagato attacks Tenchi, but the Light Hawk wings block the shot. Kagato blinks rapidly as if he were trying to get something out of his eye. "NOOO!! IT'S THE LIGHT HAWK!!"
Without saying a word, Tenchi rips a powerful holy beam on Kagato, blasting him away. But Rob, recovering from Kagato's attack, accidentally stumbles right into the beam.
When the beam stops and the smoke cleared, Tenchi saw Rob-totally unaffected by the beam, and Kagato and his two pokémon-breathing as if they all had heart attacks. Kagato and his two pokémon stood up. He finally spoke. "You have gained power and friends since I last saw you, and you have won once again. But you have not seen the last of me," he and his two pokémon began to disappear through waves like he were paper being torn by wind. "We will meet again..." they disappeared, and all was silent. Tenchi faded back to normal.
Rob suddenly turned to Tenchi. "What the heck was that you just busted Kagato with, and why wasn't I affected?"
"I have no idea how to answer the second question, but if it helps, I used the power of Tsunami, which is a powerful holy being and Jurai's most powerful ship."
"Ship?"
"Yes, ship, as Jurai's ships are actually living."
"Simply put," Washu finished for him, much to Tenchi's relief, "Tsunami is capable of a LOT of friggin' holy power, but since she can't channel it herself through the baddies, she uses Tenchi instead!"
"Ohhhh... But where's Kiyone and Mihoshi?" Rob asked.
The mighty Washu was speechless (cue in R.I.P music) and everyone else except Rob fell over. As everyone recovered, they heard, "Oh, and I have one last present for you..." a blue orb appeared and dropped in front of Rob. The orb opened like a pokéball, and out popped-
- Kiyone and Mihoshi. Mihoshi fell over, and Kiyone staggered as Rob swept himself over to her side. "Hey, nice defense," Rob said, helping Kiyone to her feet. No one paid any attention to Mihoshi.
"Not funny!" Kiyone gut-punched Rob, who staggered under the pressure from the punch. Both Quilava and Pupitar, who had evolved after they defeated Kagato's minions, had to support him after he collapsed, as Kiyone's fist was just that strong. Irritated, Rob leaped back up and pulled out his sword, and his two pokémon and Meowth, who just watched the whole spectacle, growled in unison.
"You want a piece of ME?" Rob pointed his sword at Kiyone. Both contestants' eyes were shooting thunder at each other.
"Lay off, you two, your fights are worse than Ayeka's and Ryoko's," Yosho said, getting between the two of them. He then glared at Rob, but in a kind-examination-of-your-soul sort or way. "Rob, isn't it? Indeed you are a good fighter, I see you must get from your father, but like him you also tend to rush into fights. I see it could be a while before you learn patience, as well a getting along with certain others."
"One question," Rob asked when Yosho finished. "Are you psychic?"
Yosho only whistled.
Rob's head was steaming. "Now nothing in my head is safe," Rob hissed. "I bet this is all Keeli's doing."
All through the forest, one could hear someone shouting, "I CURSE YOU, KEELI!! I CURSE YOOUUU!!!!!"
"Not before I curse you," Kiyone whispered devilishly in his ear. She crowed with laughter as Rob's face went out of proportion in anger.
"THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!"
"Oh, boy," Tenchi groaned. "Here we go again."
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME??" Kiyone challenged.
"Oh, shush, you two, or you'll break our record!" Ryoko crowed with laughter.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS," Rob and Kiyone hissed.
"WHAT? HOW DARE YOU-BRING IT ON!!!"
That's it for episode 9! Next Up!: Episode 10: The Temple of Cygnus
After setting tensions with Kiyone, Rob and Tenchi head off to a temple said to contain a legendary Holy pokémon, but Team Rocket, the resident Golducks, and new pokémon Gligen won't make it easy! Will a Crobat help our heroes defeat the obstacles in their way?