Chapter 17: The Feds Finally Arrive, and Mysterious Happenings

"Forward!" Charlie yelled, as the sun started rising.

"Come on! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Ken said, throwing his pillow over his head.

"Ken. . ." Robert started, "We don't have time."

"Why not. . ." Ken muttered.

"Enemies."

"Oh, not again!" Ken yelled, grabbing his spear/striking staff that was off to his side.

Charlie flicked a fluttering Bronto Burt off to the side. "This seems extremely unrealistic."

"Real enough." Ken said, now joining in the fight.

"I don't get it." Charlie said, "It's as if someone only wants us to fight during the day."

"There." Robert finished beating an octorok into sumlimination, and it disappeared into this air.

"More ahead, most likely." Ken said. "And another thing, these things are teaming up. It's unnatural."

"Char charmander der char charman."

"You think so, Charmander?" Charlie asked his pokémon.

"What's she think?" Ken asked, wiping blood off his spear with his bandanna.

"She says that since all these worlds came together, many unnatural things might be going on."

"She may be right." Ken said, "Let's go before some other crazy monsters catch up with us."

"Where to?" Robert asked.

"I don't know. That mountain over there."

"The one with smoke coming from it?"

"Yeah, that one. . . hey, looks like something crashed into the mountain."

"You're right. Let's go look."

Charlie picked up his tiny Charmander, and they all started walking toward the wreckage on the mountain.

I wonder what could be inside there? Charlie thought to himself, scratching charmander's neck, Maybe an alien spacecraft crashed! Or maybe it's a wrecked flying warship from another world that came into this one. . . or maybe it used to be a big house of a wizard that most recently fell apart. Wow, things sure get fun fast!

Ken, however, was not thinking about the mysterious wreckage at all. I wonder where Mario stays when he's not out brutally murdering innocent civillians. . . or if he's found any of the other worlds that reside on this new planet. What would they think, those civillians, of, say, Hyrule?Would they be suspicious of us? What of when they find another colony of people unlike them? What if another war starts? This entire world might turn to ruin. . .

However, Robert was thinking much differently from those two. Let's try to add this up. All the factors are put in. . . multiple game worlds, a ten year jump into the future, monsters teaming up. . . gaah! Ben was much better at this. . .

Charmander just sat there in Charlie's arms, looking cute, as well as thinking, What in the world have I gotten myself into? First the insane hybrid-stalking kid, then the Hybrids themselves, then the finding of the new worlds. . . it's all so much. Of course, the crazy antics of some hybrid trainers and their pokémon don't amount to a hill of beans in this mixed-up crazy world. . .

All four of their trains of thought were broken when from the shadows in the trees, there were some voices:

"The tracker's blinking. One of the Hybrids is nearby."

"Get out your tranquil gun."

"Why? Old fashioned lead will do the trick."

"What?!? Are you out of your mind?!? Do you know what those thing can do when they're wounded?!?"

"I'm willing to take that chance. One less hybrid means another safe family."

"I'm not sure about that. Have you seen some of the weird cratures around here? Not like any pokémon I've ever seen. . ."

"I'm sure their in a databook somewhere in the world or another, let's go."

By now, all four of the team were in the trees.

A man in a black suit walked into the small clearing. "It says they're right here." He siad, holding up a small metal box, "The DNA scan shows a hybrid right on this spot."

"Look, Todd," The other one said, "You know that odd bulldog-man thing? It showed Hybrid DNA, and it was obviously not a hybrid. Like something from a video game."

"Alright, Rico." The other said, "We'll look for a more obvious trail." Both men walked off farther into the forest.

"That was close." Charlie said as soon as both men were out of an earshot. He grabbed onto the branch he was sitting on, swung himself to a hanging position, and dropped the last seven feet to the ground. Charmander soon followed, as did Ken and Robert.

"I wonder what'll happen when they realize they're not in the same world they used to be." Ken thought out loud, "Maybe we'll get lucky any they'll be eaten alive by a Metroid or something."

"Char mander char." Charmander said, scratching her neck.

"She says there's a chance that we'll see them again."

"Ah." Robert said, "Do this is a demented story written by some omnipotent being for his own amusement?"

"When you think about it, yeah." Charlie said.

Robert thought about it. Freak, it adds up. He thought to himself, That kid's growing up faster than me.

The base of the mountain looked almost like the mountain from a half mile behind, only sloping upward. "I hate big things I have to climb." Robert said, "Especially when it doesn't show my progress by itself."

"That only makes you more of a whimp." Ken said, and jammed his spear into the mountainside, using it as an effective walking staff.

"Whimp, eh?" Robert said, "I'll show you whose a whimp. . . LASTONETOTHETOPISAROTTENEGG!" Robert ran off up the mountain in a mad dash.

"Is it me, or is the sun taking a toll on his brain?" Charlie asked.

"Der mander char." It said. It's not you.

"Ah, well," Ken said, "We'll catch up with him. Sooner or later."

"Sooner. He's tumbling down the mountain."

"Lookit him go."

Robert rolled down the mountain at top speed, stopping only when he hit a tree with a loud thud. "Ow. . ." He said standing up, still pretty dizzy, "Tripping isn't good for the body. . ." He shook himself right and yelled, "LASTONETOTHETOPISAROTTENEGG!" again, and started running.

"Let's go." Said Ken, slightly amused.

The big smoking thing on the mountain top, as it turned out, and as Charlie had hoped, a crash-landed spacecraft. To Robert, it looked like the Millinium Falcon smoothed over with a big, now broken, bubble dome on top. "Tad, you got those wires hooked up yet?" came a voice from inside, and another, "No, but it's getting there!" A buff black man looked out of the shattered cockpit, and noticed the group standing outside in an instant, and ducked back inside. "Tad, Sean, Lisa! Danielle, Geston, Peppy, Fox, we got company!"

"Peppy?" Robert said toughtfully, "Fox? Danielle? SEAN?"

A gunn turret on the sides focused on the group of four, and before Robert could yell, 'Don't fire!" A spray of lasers came from the pistons. Robert and Ken dodged, Charlie and Charmander hid.

Robert attempted to call them off again, getting to the "Don-" part, before he had to dodge more laserfire from the guns that were brought out with some of the oddly dressed men and women that appeared from the cockpit and stuck-open boarding platform. As Robert had thought, Peppy, from the StarFox games was there, as well as Fox, and a female, an anthropomorphic raccoon, looked very much like Danielle, Sean's girl. And certainly enough, Ben's older brother Sean was there too, with odd purple streaks in his hair. "Don't shoo-" Robert tried again, to still no avail as he was gashed with laserfire while dodging some more.

"Charmander Charman char charder." Charmander said while looking thorugh the bushes at the battle, I think Robert knows some of them.

"Knows some of them, eh?" Charlie said, thinking, "This is just getting more interesting by the second. Charmander, ember!"

Charmander looked at her master. "But only hit the guns." Charlie noted towards Charmander, and then she turned to fire.

"These guys are harder to pick off than the others!" Sean yelled, still firing madly upon his alleged attackers. Ken made a daring move, jumping onto the gunhead of the turret. HE jammed his spear into a weak spot on the underside of it, and snapped it off with a mighty heave. "Lot smarter too." Danielle quickly noted.

A voice out of nowhere came, "CHAAR!" As a large wisp of flame came and melted many of the gunheads of the spacemen. "Aw, dang." Sean said, throwing his now useless weapon to the ground.

With this short interlude in gunfire, Robert finally managed to yell, "STOP FREAKING SHOOTING FOR FREAKING CRYING OUT FREAKING LOUD, FREAK IT!"

"Ok, you don't have to. . . Robert?" Sean said abruptly.

"How did you know?" Robert asked the bewildered Sean.

"No one else but you says 'freak' that much in one sentence. Hold your fire." Sean said, although the gunfire had stopped by now.

"You friends?" Sean asked, inside in the confrence room, once they had decided it was best to help each other, because neither knew what was going on.

"Ken, Charlie, and his Charmander." Robert said.

"Hi." Charlie said out of nowhere.

"And, who are your friends?"

"This is Rock, Quickeye, Lisa, and Tad. That's Danielle, as you probably knew, Geston, Peppy and Fox."

"The Fox McCloud?"

"The same." Fox said, "And I suppose your in the same situation as Danielle and Sean?"

"Yeah." Robert said, "How'd you find out?"

"Well," Sean started, "Might as well start from the beginning."

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