Showdown
(Author's note) Hi before you read the conclusion chapter to my latest Pokemon story, "Bug Off" I wanted to address something. I have been receiving many reviews and questions concerning this story, mainly about a certain aspect of it. Specifically it's the reason why a Maximal has not appeared to help Ash and the gang battle Tarantulas well I'm here to answer it. You see I didn't really expect this to be noticed or to be liked in the least.
But I was happily surprised to see you all enjoyed it. The thing is I wanted to stay true and make this a Pokemon story, despite Tarantulas is a crossing over Beast Wars character. Also it would have been too far fetch to have a second researcher like Eve, to have a Maximal skeleton put together and then brought back to life. As odd as it may seem I do have my limits on how weird things go, and you'll see my main reason why at the end of this fic.
Enjoy!
CRASSSSHHHHHH!
The sound rippled on the vibrating waves of crashing Earth as the colossal falling travelers slammed into the ground with grunts of pain. Ash, Misty, and Tarantulas groaned as they staggered back to their feet. Once his black sneakers had reached its balance, Ash removed something from his belt and pressed a button. Misty and Tarantulas gasped to see a colorful flash particle beam forming into a sort of sword, made entirely out of pure living energy.
Misty gasped again "Ash that's the sword your dad used when he fought against Mewthree, I didn't know you still had it". Ash grinned "You bet Misty, I always knew I'd run into some creep like Tarantulas again one day". Clenching cold clanking claws in fury Tarantulas stomped the ground hissing, "Impossible how the hell did you survive that fall and not only make it back alive but with that weapon?". Ash smiled pointing to his Poke belt.
"It was real easy actually. Right before I hit the ground I pulled out Dexter and hit every button on the dam thing till it worked, and I got a Pokemon. Prof. Oak sent me my Girafarig just in the nick of time to levitate and save my hide from certain death. Then Girafarig teleported me back to my house for a split second, got my dad's sword, and came back for you" Ash said. Slowly Misty backed away behind Ash, watching him twirl the light sword.
Tarantulas laughed "Stupid boy without your precious Pokemon and your Pikachu you are nothing compared to me. All your team work, friends help, foes help, attacks, plans, strategies gone down the drain. After I kill you 2 I'm going back there to finish the job, and poison this planet into dust. But clearly you keep forgetting the mastermind your up against dear children. Allow me to remind you with a special guest appearance from your pals".
Brick red claws of the steel robot clanked as Tarantulas snapped his fingers. Another claw adjusted the medallion head piece on his metallic forehead, suddenly a swarm of Butterfree had surrounded all around them. Ash gulped as he felt Misty clung to him even tighter in heart pounding fear. Misty squeaked "Trapped on every corner with bugs and the only way out is down". The girl was right, they were standing on a very high level cliff.
Even though Tarantulas was at the far edge of the cliff and could be pushed over, they had to get through the Butterfree to get to him first. A flash of pink and purple appeared before Ash's hazel eyes. "No, no, NO please tell me it's not true, not them, NOT THEM TOO!" Ash screamed as tears fell. Slowly he and Misty raised their eyes to confirm the horrible truths. It was true. The Butterfree batch Tarantulas is using, is Ash's original Butterfree.
Butterfree, his mate, and his entire Butterfree family were now being used as tools of death against their own former master and friend. "You forget I know all about your journeys and your Pokemon Ash Ketchum. The countless trainers I brain sucked knew lots about you, especially that Casey. But enough of this cocky visage Butterfree time to bring down the irony curtain on Ash & his frightened little friend, KILL THEM" Tarantulas said.
The humming squad of flapping white wings and purple paws growled and encircled around the cowering Ash. Even though the young Pokemon Master could easily slice through the insect horde, he couldn't bring himself to harming his old friend. Ash pleaded with tears towards the dazed red eyes of his former flying friend. Green gloved hands joined with Misty's bare hands, as both she and Ash whimpered for Butterfree to remember who they are.
"Try all you like their brains belong to me and so do yours, Butterfree poison powder them and do it RIGHT SLAGGING NOW" Tarantulas said. Suddenly the angry fiery burned brightly on the pink and dark purple Butterfree eyes as they glared towards Tarantulas. Before the babbling Preadacon knew what hit him, the entire swarm of battling Butterfree was attacking him. "FREE" squealed the flying bug Pokemon as they attacked.
Screams and snarls of pecking pain could be felt all over Tarantulas, as he watched the Butterfree wing attack and bite with literally relentless force. Misty blinked baffled green eyes "What's going on Ash? Just a second ago they were ready to poison us to death". Scratching his Pokemon league hat, the slowly gasping Ash smiled as he spotted something with great enjoyment. "Misty it's his medallion, it's cracked it doesn't work anymore.
Without that thing in perfect working order Tarantulas can't control the bug Pokemon anymore, and now's a good a time as ever to finish him off" Ash said. Despite the good feeling of joy of warmth and courage Misty felt in her heart seeing Tarantulas struggling with all those Butterfree, she felt scared. Bugs were the most terrifying thing in her life, and Tarantulas was the king of them all. But if anything ever happened to Ash..then just forget bugs.
"Please come back to me Ash come back so I can stop shaking when you're gone" Misty whimpered to herself. With a screaming cry of fury and a rage in his young heart, Ash attacked Tarantulas and began his long hard battle. For the first time in his life, Ash was facing a challenge without either Misty or Pikachu right by his side. Clangs of fried steel and metallic sparks scattered across the night sky as Ash swung his particle sword like a psycho.
Tarantulas winced and vainly tried to keep up with the boy's fast and relentless powerful sword swings. "Slag, slag, slag, and TRIPLE slag, with my medallion fractured and my gun destroyed I can't keep this punk off for long" Tarantulas thought to himself. Storm clouds brimmed over head as lighting flashes casted shadows of Ash and Tarantulas battling on the moonlight. Suddenly Tarantulas skidded to a halt, he was on the cliff's edge.
Ash smirked "Looks like I'm not as rusty as a 65 million year bug Tarantulas, and now its payback time. Payback for everyone you hurt today. Team Tech, Team Rocket, Nurse Joy, Eve, Vicky and Gunther, Brock, Casey, and especially Misty HIYA" Ash screamed as he leapt skyward. The slicing slash of frying circuits shattered through Tarantulas right shoulder plates. "NYAHHHH"" Tarantulas whaled out with ungodly painful screams.
The whole back row of steel spider legs had been lopped right off, sliced painfully with a burning flash of the particle blade. Ash grunted and dashed to finish the job with a laser sword thrust. Tarantulas gasped and thought fast, really fast. The brick red foot claws of the Preadacon grabbed the first thing he found, one of his lopped spider spear legs. Just as Ash lunged his blade to end the bionic bug, Tarantulas plowed the spear right into the boy.
The metallic claw design on Tarantulas feet is very similar to his hand claws. Making it all too easy to slice into Ash with a dicing thrust of steel and wounded flesh, Ash's hazel eyes and mouth dropped dead wide open. Gushes of blood gargled from his voiceless lips and stomach wound. "ASH NO GODAMMIT NO" Misty screamed at the very sound of the sliced flesh. Weakly and slowly Ash staggered back speechless, before dropping down.
"HA, HA, HA now you can add your name to that list you stupid gutless little meat sack oh wait.gutless AH HAHAHAH" Tarantulas laughed. Ash was laying with his white eyes staring dead up into the midnight black sky. Lighting crackled across the reflective dazed gaze of his seemingly dilated pupils. "Oh well playtime is over little Misty mouse I think it's time you joined your bone headed boyfriend and eh?" Tarantulas stopped and blinked.
Instead of seeing the expected pitiful piling mess of tears, sobs, and bloody hands, Tarantulas saw Misty staring emotionlessly over Ash's body. The girl's bare hands were dripping drops of her lover's blood, as she grappled the still beaming particle blade in her grip. Chilling winds blew the cold feeling of pain and sorrow over her young cheeks, feeling her red hair sway. "What is this facing your fears, A little late for that" Tarantulas replied.
But just as the metallic bug took 2 steps with his foot claws, Misty's red shoe stomped coldly into the Earth. The hulking metal behemoth was an inch away from Ash's black sneakers, Misty stopped him dead in his tracks. "Come on more step closer..and I swear to god I'll kill you" Misty whispered. Laughter burst from the bionic belly of the chuckling Preadacon, Tarantulas didn't believe for a nano click Misty seriously meant that threat.
"Give me a slagging break you puny little biped. Your love sentiment and anger are only proving your own weaknesses, you're disgusting. You can't even look at a bug for 3 seconds without turning into a head cased mess up. Your phobia is now your master and you stupid girl, are no match for me fear or no fear. Now I'm gonna grab that boy's body from your feet girl.
And when I'm done dumping that worthless piece of human shit off this cliff, I'm gonna take your ugly red head GRAHH" Tarantulas squawked. Metallic mandibles had immediately ceased speaking, black oil dribbled from the gushing blood like fluids that oozed from Tarantulas lips. Not believing a single word in Misty's cold statement, Tarantulas stepped forward. The robot warrior foolishly was impaled by the particle sword.
Tarantulas choked on his oily blood as he stared down at his blue chrome waist. The Cerulean girl had the particle sword literally driven into his chest/waist plate and out the other end. Both the handle and the energy blade tip, dripped and sizzled a fountain's worth of that disgusting vile black oil blood like substance. "There are 3 things that I cannot stand in this world no matter what anyone says", Misty's words just got colder and colder again.
SCHLOOP! More black blood gushed out as Misty removed the particle sword, Tarantulas held his bleeding chest in pain as he stumbled backwards. Misty shouted first "Carrots", a violent slash across the steel knee caps. She shouted next "Peppers", a bone cutting slice across his chest and upper throat area. Then as Tarantulas was shaking and trembling in fear of Misty, watching his black blood drip from his body and sizzle from her long sword.
Rocks tumbled down below as Misty had savagely slashed the Preadacon all the way towards the edge of the cliff. Only one more push was needed. "But most of all I..hate.slimy.disgusting.creepy.crawly.BUUUUGS" Misty shrieked out in a banshee blast of enraged vocal chords and fury. Raised claws and flared mandibles tried to counter Misty from Tarantulas. A striking bolt of powerful lighting had energized Misty's particle sword.
Before the skies were burnt with the blood of a monster from the past, and the tears of a girl from the present, a final slash was given. Misty slashed the super charged energy sword across Tarantulas waist with all her heart broken might. The combined power of the lighting bolt's energy, the particle's beams awesome slicing energy, and the angry fiery heart burns her soul endured, gave the Cerulean water flower enough power to kill the beast.
Silenced screams were echoing across the cliff as Tarantulas fell miles, miles, and miles down into the dark abyss. Warily Misty panted as she wiped her bleeding, and drooling mouth with a bleeding hand, standing on wobbly legs. Green shimmering eyes just stared at the fried legs of Tarantulas, still standing there on the edge of the cliff. Misty almost laughed thinking of how Tarantulas whole upper torso was the only thing that fell.
"You know Ash..I've seen you save my life and the world many times over, and I've been thinking about it. In this one night I was attacked, kidnapped, knocked out, held hostage, swarmed over, and nearly shot to death by a over grown metal spider. And the one time I become a hero and save the day, by killing the monster and beating my fears" Misty stopped. Her words could no longer form meaning, as she stared at Ash's face.
Rainfall began to patter against her own ocean of tears, watching in further heart break as the rain formed splashing puddles on her lover's blood. "If this is the price you have to pay for me to save myself Ash...then..just you save me from now on..please" Misty said before hanging her head. As time passed eventually a helicopter had made it over to saving Ash and Misty. Ash was immediately sent to a hospital and discovered to be alive.
The young master's wounds were immediately patched up, and he and Misty spent as many visiting hours as possible in each other's arms. Each warm soul savoring the sweet moments of life, that Tarantulas had almost taken away. But getting back to Tarantulas. When the effects of Tarantulas bug control serum wore off with the medallion cracked, so did the brain drains. Officer Jenny took Misty's statement, declaring that Tarantulas was dead.
But if only the seas of darkness and raining water hadn't clouded their eyes and beliefs with shadow. If only they had looked a bit further, maybe they might have found something. Maybe they would have found Tarantulas upper torso, laying there on the jaggy rocks of the silent beach. The mangled Preadacon moaned incoherent babblings as he laid almost lifelessly on the rocks. Tarantulas waist was spouting circuits, sparks, oil, and other contents.
Suddenly a bright beaming search light was shined upon Tarantulas face. The overgrown arachnid winced his cracked, fading sensor eyes to see what it was. Suddenly a shadowed man appeared in front of the blinding light. Moments later hundreds of black suited soldiers were surrounding Tarantulas. Helicopters, guns, boats, hundreds of things blurring before the robot's weary eyes. "What the?" Tarantulas weakly uttered to the soldiers.
Before the Preadacon passed out and was about to become the unwanted guest of these dark dressed humans, a buzzing sound was heard. The man in front of Tarantulas pulled out a radio. He was wearing a black leather coat with steel metallic circuit style wiring on it. Shirt and pants were dark black, and so was his hair, spiked up in pointy tuffs. The man's face had a cyber like pair of glasses that only covered his right eye, which was glowing red.
The man buzzed into his radio "This is Mad Radical 2 to RBHQ, do you Dr. Claw sir?".
Dr. Claw answered "Yes I copy. Tell me what news do you have for me?".
The man smirked "A little discovery that I'm having my men load onto the trucks immediately, it's a miracle he's still alive".
Dr. Claw curiously asked "Can he still help us?".
The man nodded "Affirmative, in fact he could even be a better help to us then we first thought Dr. Claw sir".
Dr. Claw chuckled "Excellent bring him back ASAP, over and out".
The man smiled coldly "Right sir. (Radio is shut off as he grins to Tarantulas) Congratulations my friend, you've just become apart of the Reborn Inc. family. And don't worry you'll be fixed up good as new, after all Tarantulas. I wouldn't let my "Project X" die before we use you in the master plan now would I?".
THE END!