Dum dum DUM! Chapter 43 is up and ready to go! Finally, the BOSS BATTLE!
Chapter 43: At last! A BOSS BATTLE!
"Hold your positions!" Mario yelled, "We need a plan!"
"I know my plan already." Todd spoke quietly and stepped forward. He raised his pistol up, and started firing.
"No, you idiot!" Rico yelled, "You'll get yourself killed!"
Todd didn't care. He fired, and fired, and his pistols ran out of rounds. They all just reflected off a psychic shield the beast was emitting, and it roared loudly. The Boss swung one of its paws at Todd, who jumped out of the way. He discarded his spent guns. "Go on!" Todd yelled at the others, "I'm trying to hold him off; go find something we can actually hurt him with!" Todd took a deep breath, and shot a large ball of fire out of his mouth at the creature. It had little effect, but it did something. . .
"We can't hurt it, Skye!" Jenna said, "More than likely there's a lot of ground pokémon engraved into it's body!"
"Well, we should hit the parts that are not rock. . ." Skye said, "Like a weak point. . . look for a water pokémon spot. . ."
"That's a brilliant idea! I wish I thought of it. . ."
"Go on! Todd can't hold him off forever!"
"Right." Jenna and Skye split paths around the mutated creature, looking for and potential spots that could be hit with electricity.
Mario stood there for a while, not able to decide what to do. The Boss was huge. Mario really had not fought something so big in a long time, if at all. Lights flashed as Jenna and Skye found the weak spots, and the monster roared louder, but was not going to give in anytime soon. Mario watched. Then looked around. Where was Rico?
"Wooohooo!" Rico crashed through the front glass doors in a heavily armored vehicle, "Good thing those hunters were after the Boss, or they might not have come here at the right time for this!"
"What happened?" Mario shouted.
"Oh, I discovered I was bulletproof and that Hybrid Hunters are real wimps that carry a lot of ammunition. Funny how I never knew that till I was on the other side." He lifted a Rocket Launcher out of the back seat, "Got something it should be weak against now!" He fired at the creature, causing a huge explosion when it smashed into the hard Onix rock structure beneath what seemed to be its head.
Mario just stood and watched more.
"Nothing is working!" Jenna yelled at Skye, as she fell to the floor, exhausted.
"Keep going, Jenna!" Skye ran over to her, "Come on, the real video game heroes never get tired until they're dead. . ."
"We can't win, Skye. . . we've probably missed an important event somewhere because of Todd and Rico. . ."
The Boss's tail swung overhead. Skye gripped onto Jenna and shielded her from the ensuing debris. "Jenna, we've already come so far! We can't stop!"
"Skye. . ." Jenna said a little softer, "Skye. . . he hit me. . ."
"What!?"
"He hit me, Skye. . ." Jenna looked down, and Skye did, too. He hadn't noticed it before, but Jenna had a huge gash across her stomach, and blood was getting everywhere. Jenna closed her eyes and went limp in Skye's arms.
"Jenna, no!" Skye yelled, and everything seemed to stop at once. Everything. As a matter of fact, everything did stop at once. The whole world turned grey around Skye, and everything stood still.
What's happening? He asked himself silently. He got up from Jenna. She didn't move, and neither did the rock that was falling to their left, nor the Boss. . . I seem to have stumbled across a flawed pause function. . . Skye thought, How do you mess up a command where everything is supposed to freeze? He walked around, looking for something to help Jenna.
Hmm. . . That odd crystal is still up there. . .He noted the wall clock, But there doesn't seem to be any way up. . . He looked to his right. There was a small display case that was still intact. Skye walked up to it, and gasped. Evolution stones! He quickly opened the box and took out the Thunder Stone that was in there. This had better work. . . He walked back over to Jenna, and placed the stone on her. With that, the world started up again. Must've triggered it by using a battle command. . . Skye thought, then looked down at Jenna. Her whole body started to glow in a pale light, then stronger, then stronger, and her features began to change. The glow subsided, and Jenna was back again. But this time, she was a Raichu Hybrid.
"Skye. . ." She blinked her eyes open. It would have been too hard for her to hear what with all the din of battle, but her hearing somehow improved, "What happened?"
"You've evolved. Your wound healed."
"It did?" She looked down. There was still a lot of blood, but through the cut in her sweater, she saw that there was no wound in the newly white fur of her stomach. "I feel. . . a lot better. . ."
"Good." Skye said. "We need to finish this battle. . ."
"I can. . . I feel a lot stronger than before. . ."
Skye picked her up off the debris, and then faced the boss, who took little notice of them during the entire event. Jenna walked with Skye slowly; she was still getting used to the new balance of the body, what with her new tail and all. They held hands and faced the beast. "On my mark, Jenna," Skye said, "We'll both attack that open area of Blastoise Shell, alright?"
Jenna nodded.
"One. . . Two. . . Three!" Skye yelled the last part, and he and Jenna both released a tremendous amount of energy together, the bolt of electricity hitting the Boss squarely in the weak spot. It roared in pain, and finally, after what must have been a half hour of directly attacking it, it collapsed on the ground. But it wasn't done yet.
Mario finally saw an opportunity, and he ran forward to leap on on the Boss's head. He thrust the sword down into what he believed to be it's skull. The sword mysteriously started collecting a lot of energy, and Jenna and Skye's attacks were drawn suddenly to the point where the sword was, as well at an lot more unknown energy. It all focused onto that spot, and it faded, and the monster collapsed completely. It faded away, and vanished completely. Mario fell to the ground when it was gone.
"What was that?" He asked, "I didn't expect this. . ."
"Quake, I believe." Jenna said, "I don't remember quite exactly, but I think it was one of the medallion powers in Zelda 3. . ."
"Whatever it was, it did the tri. . . Jenna?" Mario looked at her again in a double take.
"No way!" Todd got up, too, "You evolved? Where'd you get a Thunderstone?"
"I'm not going to ask. . ." Mario gave up trying to understand this part of the world.
"Actually, I found it for her. . ." Skye said, "Somehow, the world stopped for me. . . and I was able to go over to that display case and take a stone out. . ."
"Weird enough." Jenna said, "I think I like this body better. . ."
"Wait a moment. . . " Skye stood back a pace and looked her over, "Is is just me, or did you grow a breast size?"
Jenna looked down, "I. . . think I did. . ."
"ALRIGHT! THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT!" Todd yelled. "Let's get what we came for and head out one of the many holes that were punched into the walls!"
Skye shook his head out of his partially-entranced state and walked toward the wall clock, which hadn't fallen down, until the moment he stepped up to it. The dust settled ad Skye just stood there. "That was also a little odd."
"Just get it." Rico told him.
Skye moved through the rubble, sifting some around with his paws, until he found it. The gem was a lot larger than he thought it would be; and it shone even brighter in his hands. And brighter. The green enveloped the room, and suddenly, everyone was somewhere else. Space was all around them, and they were in a big, green room of some sort.
"I'm back, aren't I?" Said a mysterious voice, "I'm really back."
"Who are you?" Skye asked to the air. Everyone was looking around to see where the voice was coming from.
"I am Dr. Jack Forrester." It said again, "Congratulation, you're out of this part of the game for now."
"Out?"
"Finding the rest of the gems are up to your friends." He said, "You're stuck here for the time being. . ."
"We're stuck here?!" Skye let go of the gem, but nothing happened. They were still in the big, transparent green room, somewhere in space. But they could look down and see the planet. . .
"We must be outside the boundaries of the universe. . ." Jenna said, "There seems to be stars that way, but they're just. . . a texture background. . ."
Skye sighed. Mario walked to a corner and sat down. "So we just wait for the others to finish finding the other gems, then?"
"Yes. . ." said Forrester, "You'll just have to make the most of your time, I suppose."
"Alright!" Skye lept onto Jenna, knocking her to the ground, and kissed her repeatedly. Forrester sighed.
WOOOOOAAAAAAH! There was a Skip Sandwich inside. Paula takes it. *Smack!* Ow. . . sorry about that, again. Next time, on Video Game! Ben and the gang reach the borderlands of Hyrule! What's wrong here, and will they make it? Find out, same Video Game time, same Video Game channel! Until then, ciao!
From the Acts of Gord, Book of Justice, Chapter Seven: (Words of Gord in italics)
"Here, I'll fill in my response to your claim now."
The Gord fills in the response window with "Your head resembles that of a chicken." The Gord gives the court papers back.
"Hey! This is serious! I'm suing you!"
"Chicken, head resemble you."
"Shut up!"
"Ba-gooooock? Cluck?"
"What?!"
"Sorry, I was trying to speak to you in your language, the language of the chickens. Was I doing it wrong?"
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