- Neojourney -
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All The Small Things
"Say it ain't so
I will not go
turn the lights off
carry me home."
--All The Small Things-- by Blink 182
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I blanched, No, not Gary... The image of the black mist swirling towards him hit me hard and I darted towards the shrinking black energy mass. Small too small nonononononono....
"GARY!!" I roared in frustration. White light arced around me and suddenly the black mass grew enough that I could fly in.
The place was a mess. Walls were still falling in on themselves and the circular room, from my vantagepoint, was collapsing in like a black hole. Total destruction. I had to get Gary out.
Dropping like a stone, I broke the zero-g thing like it was a pencil. Rules of physics didn't apply to me right now. Where was he?
Darting along the ruined floor, I got to the point where I'd seen him last. No sign of him. I looked around frantically, nothing, nothing...there! I saw him being dragged by the dark mist, naturally, towards the ruins of the circular room. It held his legs tight in its misty grip. It wasn't going very fast, but Gary was conscious and fighting, trying to kick free and failing.
"Let me go!" He sounded terrified, for once in his life. The thought that I left him, must be killing him.
Unable to bear that thought any longer, I dove for him, wrapping my forearms around him and holding tight. He screamed when I did and fainted. I hoped he wasn't going to die from shock. With a roar, I fired a Flamethrower at the fog, with the same failure as the white mist. It parted, absorbed my attack, and reformed. All the while, it kept its hold on Gary's legs.
Not about to do something stupid like cripple Gary, I tried calling out to Mewtwo. Without the Pokedemon, it seemed I couldn't talk here anymore than I could in the Pokemon world. Telepathy was out of the question too, I was lucky I could use my Flamethrower.
Suddenly, the mist was sucked into the circular room, and it lost its grip on Gary. Good thing I was holding on tight. The suction from the ruins was getting stronger, like when the gravity was so strong, and it was getting hard to fly. I turned away from the ruins, clutching Gary to me, and flapped like mad. Each beat of my wings tore at my back and the pain was intense, but I had to get Gary out of here.
Suddenly, he stirred in my arms and looked up at me. "Why am I not surprised?"
I looked down in surprise, but he fainted again. This will be one to tell the kids.
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Outside
Mewtwo stood on the Pokemon Center rooftop, staring at the shrinking dark mass. The overcast clouds had vanished after Cirrus brought out the humans, and now the suction from the collapsing dimension was pulling at their world. Mewtwo would give Cirrus a few more minutes before he shut it down.
"Mew?" A concerned chirp came suddenly.
Mewtwo glared at Mew. "Couldn't you just communicate like any other higher life form?"
"What? Like you, perhaps?" Mew was glaring right back at him. "You're going to let her die in there? We have the power to keep it open and..."
"And so does Cirrus. She has more power than you or I combined and you know it. So does she."
Mew just stared at the energy mass, shrinking as the sunlight faded. "She knows of it, but she doesn't know how to call on or control it. She needs our help."
Mewtwo nodded, reluctantly. "Fine, five minutes more. It's you're job to keep living things away from its suction.."
Mew nodded and the two got to work on keeping Cirrus and Gary's ticket to freedom open.
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inside...
I strove for the white light of freedom, but for every foot I gained in flight, I lost two because of the suction. Frustrated beyond belief, I shed tears, and knew I needed help I couldn't access.
"You can do it," The voice was weak, but there and even a bit arrogant. "If anyone can, it's my girlfriend, even if she is a mutated Charizard."
Not wanting to look down and break my concentration, I did and I saw Gary looking up at me. Looking with a bit of awe, respect, and love. He reached up to brush away a tear and he gasped in pain. I faltered then, and he started to say, "No, go on, I'm okay..." when a sudden jolt of pain hit me in the back and I fell, my speed increased by the suction.
I slammed back first into the side of the wall that hadn't fallen and nearly lost my grip on Gary. Pain stiffened my limbs and we started sliding along the wall towards the circular room. Only it wasn't there anymore. It had collapsed into a dark mess of nothingness. Bits of stone that fell towards it were pulverized into dust only a few feet from where we were now. The dust was vaporized the closer it got to the nothingness.
And it was growing fast. If I didn't book it, both of us would die, and I knew that if the portal wasn't closed, that the nothingness would spread to the Pokemonworld and beyond, like falling dominos. And it would be all my fault.
"Cirrus, I trust you." I looked down to Gary, but he passed out again. One side of his head had crusted blood and I worried about head trauma. I glared at the nothingness and was shocked to briefly see the image of the Pokedemon Leader. He was laughing still.
I think it's about time I got out of this place, I thought solemnly. Searching within myself, I was surprised to realize I still had lots of power. Why hadn't I concentrated before? Bracing myself, I focused my power and shot up in a heartbeat. I forgot all my fears and heartaches, and sought out the faces of those I loved, the ones that loved me back. All the while, I played back the 'dream' the Pokedemon gave me, the one where Gary proposed.
I wanted to make it real and I used it to fuel me further. No more games, it was time to go. I rocketed towards the white light, watching it come closer and closer and suddenly I could feel Mewtwo's presence and we were out into the Pokemon world.
Well, at least Gary was. I was stuck half in and half out. The portal was still shrinking and becoming uncomfortable. Then I felt an intense pain on the half that was stuck in the portal. "MEWWWTWOO, HELP!!"
With a flash, Mewtwo and Mew were suddenly there, taking Gary from me and then focusing. I snapped out of the portal and it closed behind me with a thunderclap that blew us away. Literally. Mewtwo telekinetically lowered me to the ground and Nurse Joy rushed over to my side. Funny how all I could think of was how good the grass smelled, like someone just mowed it.
A blinding pain from my tail had me sitting as upright as I could and I looked down in horror. The lower half of my tail, the edge of my left wing, and the heels of my hind legs were gone! The worst part was the bleeding from the tail and I looked at it helplessly.
"I have to get her into surgery right away!" Nurse Joy cried out.
I looked around for Gary, only to see him being loaded up into an ambulance. Mewtwo, Mew, and all the Legendary Pokemon had vanished. Brock was talking, arguing, with Nurse Joy. He tried grabbing the thing in her hand, but she jerked away.
"I know she's your friend and I don't want to do this anymore than you, but I have to!" Nurse Joy raised the Master Ball and I cringed. I wanted to flee, but I was unable to. It hurt to think.
Then the unbearable happened. Brock had grabbed the expanded Master Ball with both hands, then tripped on a fallen tree branch, and the Master Ball went flying. I stared in muted shock as it fell in an arc, bounced off me, opened up....and all I saw was a red light.
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Teaser
- Well crap my back, that really sux. Now what's gonna happen? Did Brock accidentally catch Cirrus in the Master Ball, or did she simply pass out? All this and more...unless this Writer's Block doesn't lift and then we'll never know. Writer's Block lalala lalalala Writer's Bloooock...
A.N.
- Yeah, I know that all you Brock Enthusiasts out there are gonna say, "Brock would never argue with Nurse Joy!"
Well, maybe he would!
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