"Oh no! Ash! We must get my puzzle back!" Yami said as ran.
"What are you doing Yami? Let's use Onix! Goooo, ONIX!" Brock threw his Onix from its pokéball. "Follow those tracks, Onix!"
"Onix..." Onix took off at full speed toward the Team magma crooks.
"Hehehe, we'll get this to Max and he'll be so proud of us for getting some sort of relic thingy. Maybe it could be used to make more land?" The taller executive said.
"Yeah, maybe," the shorter, less fit one gasped. He glanced backwards and saw the Onix with the kids on it coming towards them faster. "I can't go on," he panted. "Breloom! Faster! Arcanine, go!" Both jumped onto the Arcanine's back, "Extreme Speed!" The two executives escaped, not even an onix matching an arcanine's extreme speed.
"Oh no, my puzzle!" Yami screamed above the roar of Onix's hunt.
The pair of Magma executives found a safe spot in the woods near some rocks where they thought they would be safe from the kids following them. "Arcanine, return. Good job," the short one, named Trekken, chuckled.
"Shut up, fool. Let's examine this pyramid thing," the tall one, named Naomi, (yes the tall executive is a girl) said. "Hmm, it seems to be some sort of, erm, 3-D puzzle?! What kind of idiot wears a puzzle around his neck?"
"I dunno, but his hat was cool. Maybe that's the new style now," Trekken said. "I know these cloaks aren't."
"That wasn't a hat, stupid. It was his hair, I could tell. Maybe something is inside the pyramid?" Naomi questioned.
"You are right, Naomi, it's not a hat," Yami smiled as he, Ash, Brock, and Misty stood behind them, listening intently to their conversation- unbeknownst to them.
"Breloom! Quick! Tail smash!" The puzzle was resting on a rock, the perfect spot to smash something with a rock hard tail to bits. "Brel!" The Breloom's attack reduced the puzzle back to mere pieces. Trekken and Naomi scanned the broken pieces for anything that may have been inside. Nothing was there, and the pair bolted.
Since the puzzle was "okay", no one chased after them. During the race there, Yami warned everyone not to get angry if it was perhaps smashed, because after all, it was a puzzle, and puzzles can always be put back together. "What's happening to Yami?" Misty asked, utterly confused. Yami was getting shorter, his eyes were becoming less intense, and he seemed more "kidish" than when he was taller. "Yami" turned bright red, and introduced himself. "Hehe, erm, hi, guys? I'm Yugi! Yami, er, is the spirit of the puzzle. When we were banished to this realm, we were unable to switch back and forth. Yami was stuck as me, and I guess since the puzzle broke, he had to return and I had to be let out," Yugi explained his theory. "I hope that didn't disturb you that much. Now if you excuse me, I have an ancient puzzle to put back together. Give me a moment and we can continue heading towards the desert!" Yugi smiled as a sweatdrop rolled down his face.
"Are you done yet?" Misty sighed.
"Just one moment... hang on.... there!" Yugi exclaimed about half an hour after he started. He placed the Millennium Puzzle back around his neck and took out his Ancient Flygon card. "So this is what a Flygon looks like. It looks pretty neat, but I don't see why Yami wants it in real life so much," Yugi said to himself.
"It has something to do with the desert, I think. He seems to be really attached to with the desert. Do you know why?" Brock asked, overhearing Yugi.
"Oh, I know why. But it may confuse you a little, no offense. It is hard to explain anyway, to a person from another realm I mean."
"Yugi, I believe that Pokémon is the key to our return. I don't know how, but I have this strange feeling," Yami told Yugi through the puzzle.
"Whatever you say, spirit," Yugi replied.
The four friends (eh, five if you count Yami!) walked onward, Yugi now keeping his pikachu out of its ball. "Zangoo zangoo zangoose! Zang!" A zangoose walked from the now thinning woodlands, singing a song that sounded rather eerie and solemn.
"What's that?" Yugi asked.
"Whatever it is, it sounds angry, or sad, I can't tell. I'll check Dexter," Ash said.
"Zang-oose, the cat ferret Pokémon. Memories of fighting its arch- rival, se-viper, are etched into every cell of this pokémon's body. This Pokémon adroitly dodges attacks with incredible speed and agility."
"A zangoose? Ash! I want to catch it! The marking on its stomach looks like the Millennium marking on my puzzle! Do you have any pokéballs left that I can use?" Yugi asked enthusiastically.
"Yeah, in fact, I have a great ball! Here, you can use it," Ash handed the great ball to Yugi.
"Pharaoh! Thunderbolt now!" The zangoose lunged at Pharaoh with its huge claws spread outward, an unnamed move used a lot by wild zangoose.
"Pharaoh! Quickly! Dodge the attack and use thunder wave!" Yugi called out. The wild zangoose froze, paralyzed, in mid air. He hit the ground with a thump, no longer able to move, nonetheless attack. "Quickly! Use a thunder to finish the brute off, Pharaoh!" Pikachu did as he was bid, then Yugi threw the great ball at the wild zangoose. The next five seconds were critical, because even then is where the most talented trainers have problems. Once, twice, thrice, the ball shook and the captured zangoose struggled to free himself from his enclosure. Zangoose was his; Yugi had caught his first Pokémon! "Yes! My first Pokémon! I'll name it Zang, it suits a zangoose, don't you think so?" Yugi beamed. He released Zang from his ball, and hoped for a happy introduction. "Zang...oooooose... ZANG ZANG!" Zang yelled as he banged his claws against a tree.
"Pika...chu..." Both of the pikachus mumbled as they saw the aggression Zang was showing. "Pika, pi! Piikaaaaa," Pharaoh said to Pikachu.
"Pi," Pikachu replied.
"Zanguuuuuu!" Zang yelled as he started punching a tree.
"That's odd, I wonder what's wrong with the zangoose you just caught," Brock said. "I've never seen a pokemon show such aggression before."
"Pika! Pikachu!" The pair yelled at Zang. He stopped punching the tree and sat down, looking very angry and sad at the same time. "Zang," he muttered. *Translated for your reading pleasure*
"The monster, he came and ruined our city. I am only about a year old, which is 16 in the human years. That is the age when us zangoose must prove ourselves in order to become part of the warrior-clan, a group of zangoose in the community where they protect the older and younger zangoose. We must travel to the ashened plains and fight off the group of skarmory that have always tortured our people. We usually go in groups to try to fight them off together. I was being stubborn and hardheaded, egging the skarmory on to get it over with fast. Little did we know, they had a younger, more powerful skarmory take control of the group, and he charged us head on, his razor wings heading right towards us, ready to kill. Some of the slower ones did not see the attack and were killed; me and a few others got out of the way and started beating up on the steel bird. We completely forgot about the other skarmory, and then they came and flung a few others off and left them dead. It was only me and my best friend Kao left, we fought the birds off, each one of us receiving deep wounds, but we survived. When we were about to be squashed, we heard this blood-curdling scream. Not a high pitch 'oh-my-god-I'm-gonna-die' scream, but a roar type scream. Kao froze and my fur stood on end, the skarmory fled and we were just standing there, dumbfounded. This giant black beast with bulging red eyes and giant wings flew from out of nowhere. With one fell swoop of its tail he managed to kill all the skarmory. He then obliterated them by using a hyper beam. Once me and Kao recovered, we ran back to our underground city. That monster could dig, and dig right fast too. He dug all the way to our city, destroying everyone and everything in it. My home, my friends, my family, all dead. Then the monster looked me in the eye, I froze, and he killed Kao with a swipe from his claws. He just sat there, staring into my eyes, I staring into his. That was the chance I had to try to destroy him, and take revenge for my family. But I didn't, he just sat there as I waited to die. He purposely took his sharp claws and brushed my cheek, leaving the scar you can still see if you move away my fur. The monster then flew away, laughing; the killing spree went on just for his pure enjoyment. I just stood there, spellbound by the evil installed upon me, and sat there. I wept for a day, many passing and ignoring my hunched over figure, wet with tears and shaking in rage. A day later, I started to sing the sad and enraged song you heard, then your human caught me. It is my fault my city was destroyed, and I am sorry if I upset you," Zang explained to Pikachu and Pharaoh. He stood up and a tear rolled down his cheek, he tried to hide it but all four humans saw it. *End translation*
"I wonder what they said," Ash muttered. "Zang looks pretty sad." Pikachu stood up and Pharaoh did the same. They each walked over to their trainers and tried to act out the story Zang told them.
"What are you doing Yami? Let's use Onix! Goooo, ONIX!" Brock threw his Onix from its pokéball. "Follow those tracks, Onix!"
"Onix..." Onix took off at full speed toward the Team magma crooks.
"Hehehe, we'll get this to Max and he'll be so proud of us for getting some sort of relic thingy. Maybe it could be used to make more land?" The taller executive said.
"Yeah, maybe," the shorter, less fit one gasped. He glanced backwards and saw the Onix with the kids on it coming towards them faster. "I can't go on," he panted. "Breloom! Faster! Arcanine, go!" Both jumped onto the Arcanine's back, "Extreme Speed!" The two executives escaped, not even an onix matching an arcanine's extreme speed.
"Oh no, my puzzle!" Yami screamed above the roar of Onix's hunt.
The pair of Magma executives found a safe spot in the woods near some rocks where they thought they would be safe from the kids following them. "Arcanine, return. Good job," the short one, named Trekken, chuckled.
"Shut up, fool. Let's examine this pyramid thing," the tall one, named Naomi, (yes the tall executive is a girl) said. "Hmm, it seems to be some sort of, erm, 3-D puzzle?! What kind of idiot wears a puzzle around his neck?"
"I dunno, but his hat was cool. Maybe that's the new style now," Trekken said. "I know these cloaks aren't."
"That wasn't a hat, stupid. It was his hair, I could tell. Maybe something is inside the pyramid?" Naomi questioned.
"You are right, Naomi, it's not a hat," Yami smiled as he, Ash, Brock, and Misty stood behind them, listening intently to their conversation- unbeknownst to them.
"Breloom! Quick! Tail smash!" The puzzle was resting on a rock, the perfect spot to smash something with a rock hard tail to bits. "Brel!" The Breloom's attack reduced the puzzle back to mere pieces. Trekken and Naomi scanned the broken pieces for anything that may have been inside. Nothing was there, and the pair bolted.
Since the puzzle was "okay", no one chased after them. During the race there, Yami warned everyone not to get angry if it was perhaps smashed, because after all, it was a puzzle, and puzzles can always be put back together. "What's happening to Yami?" Misty asked, utterly confused. Yami was getting shorter, his eyes were becoming less intense, and he seemed more "kidish" than when he was taller. "Yami" turned bright red, and introduced himself. "Hehe, erm, hi, guys? I'm Yugi! Yami, er, is the spirit of the puzzle. When we were banished to this realm, we were unable to switch back and forth. Yami was stuck as me, and I guess since the puzzle broke, he had to return and I had to be let out," Yugi explained his theory. "I hope that didn't disturb you that much. Now if you excuse me, I have an ancient puzzle to put back together. Give me a moment and we can continue heading towards the desert!" Yugi smiled as a sweatdrop rolled down his face.
"Are you done yet?" Misty sighed.
"Just one moment... hang on.... there!" Yugi exclaimed about half an hour after he started. He placed the Millennium Puzzle back around his neck and took out his Ancient Flygon card. "So this is what a Flygon looks like. It looks pretty neat, but I don't see why Yami wants it in real life so much," Yugi said to himself.
"It has something to do with the desert, I think. He seems to be really attached to with the desert. Do you know why?" Brock asked, overhearing Yugi.
"Oh, I know why. But it may confuse you a little, no offense. It is hard to explain anyway, to a person from another realm I mean."
"Yugi, I believe that Pokémon is the key to our return. I don't know how, but I have this strange feeling," Yami told Yugi through the puzzle.
"Whatever you say, spirit," Yugi replied.
The four friends (eh, five if you count Yami!) walked onward, Yugi now keeping his pikachu out of its ball. "Zangoo zangoo zangoose! Zang!" A zangoose walked from the now thinning woodlands, singing a song that sounded rather eerie and solemn.
"What's that?" Yugi asked.
"Whatever it is, it sounds angry, or sad, I can't tell. I'll check Dexter," Ash said.
"Zang-oose, the cat ferret Pokémon. Memories of fighting its arch- rival, se-viper, are etched into every cell of this pokémon's body. This Pokémon adroitly dodges attacks with incredible speed and agility."
"A zangoose? Ash! I want to catch it! The marking on its stomach looks like the Millennium marking on my puzzle! Do you have any pokéballs left that I can use?" Yugi asked enthusiastically.
"Yeah, in fact, I have a great ball! Here, you can use it," Ash handed the great ball to Yugi.
"Pharaoh! Thunderbolt now!" The zangoose lunged at Pharaoh with its huge claws spread outward, an unnamed move used a lot by wild zangoose.
"Pharaoh! Quickly! Dodge the attack and use thunder wave!" Yugi called out. The wild zangoose froze, paralyzed, in mid air. He hit the ground with a thump, no longer able to move, nonetheless attack. "Quickly! Use a thunder to finish the brute off, Pharaoh!" Pikachu did as he was bid, then Yugi threw the great ball at the wild zangoose. The next five seconds were critical, because even then is where the most talented trainers have problems. Once, twice, thrice, the ball shook and the captured zangoose struggled to free himself from his enclosure. Zangoose was his; Yugi had caught his first Pokémon! "Yes! My first Pokémon! I'll name it Zang, it suits a zangoose, don't you think so?" Yugi beamed. He released Zang from his ball, and hoped for a happy introduction. "Zang...oooooose... ZANG ZANG!" Zang yelled as he banged his claws against a tree.
"Pika...chu..." Both of the pikachus mumbled as they saw the aggression Zang was showing. "Pika, pi! Piikaaaaa," Pharaoh said to Pikachu.
"Pi," Pikachu replied.
"Zanguuuuuu!" Zang yelled as he started punching a tree.
"That's odd, I wonder what's wrong with the zangoose you just caught," Brock said. "I've never seen a pokemon show such aggression before."
"Pika! Pikachu!" The pair yelled at Zang. He stopped punching the tree and sat down, looking very angry and sad at the same time. "Zang," he muttered. *Translated for your reading pleasure*
"The monster, he came and ruined our city. I am only about a year old, which is 16 in the human years. That is the age when us zangoose must prove ourselves in order to become part of the warrior-clan, a group of zangoose in the community where they protect the older and younger zangoose. We must travel to the ashened plains and fight off the group of skarmory that have always tortured our people. We usually go in groups to try to fight them off together. I was being stubborn and hardheaded, egging the skarmory on to get it over with fast. Little did we know, they had a younger, more powerful skarmory take control of the group, and he charged us head on, his razor wings heading right towards us, ready to kill. Some of the slower ones did not see the attack and were killed; me and a few others got out of the way and started beating up on the steel bird. We completely forgot about the other skarmory, and then they came and flung a few others off and left them dead. It was only me and my best friend Kao left, we fought the birds off, each one of us receiving deep wounds, but we survived. When we were about to be squashed, we heard this blood-curdling scream. Not a high pitch 'oh-my-god-I'm-gonna-die' scream, but a roar type scream. Kao froze and my fur stood on end, the skarmory fled and we were just standing there, dumbfounded. This giant black beast with bulging red eyes and giant wings flew from out of nowhere. With one fell swoop of its tail he managed to kill all the skarmory. He then obliterated them by using a hyper beam. Once me and Kao recovered, we ran back to our underground city. That monster could dig, and dig right fast too. He dug all the way to our city, destroying everyone and everything in it. My home, my friends, my family, all dead. Then the monster looked me in the eye, I froze, and he killed Kao with a swipe from his claws. He just sat there, staring into my eyes, I staring into his. That was the chance I had to try to destroy him, and take revenge for my family. But I didn't, he just sat there as I waited to die. He purposely took his sharp claws and brushed my cheek, leaving the scar you can still see if you move away my fur. The monster then flew away, laughing; the killing spree went on just for his pure enjoyment. I just stood there, spellbound by the evil installed upon me, and sat there. I wept for a day, many passing and ignoring my hunched over figure, wet with tears and shaking in rage. A day later, I started to sing the sad and enraged song you heard, then your human caught me. It is my fault my city was destroyed, and I am sorry if I upset you," Zang explained to Pikachu and Pharaoh. He stood up and a tear rolled down his cheek, he tried to hide it but all four humans saw it. *End translation*
"I wonder what they said," Ash muttered. "Zang looks pretty sad." Pikachu stood up and Pharaoh did the same. They each walked over to their trainers and tried to act out the story Zang told them.