!!!!!MOVIE!!!!!(Gomen Otaku this is written in 3rd person omniscient)
They were at the Cherry Grove Pokemon Center the next morning. Noki stayed up
the whole night training Sylebi to get her teleport right. She was only off by a few yards
this time! (And no one ended up in the sky either^_^) As Jarod watched the morning
news, Marcy and Erika were eating their breakfast at one of the tables and Noki was busy
taking a shower. Jarod suddenly shouted,
"Hey! Angel! Erika! Look at this!" He continued to watch the T.V. as both Marcy and
Erika came to the couch and sat on either side of him. The broadcaster was live at a
festival in Ecruteak.
"I'm coming to you live from Ecruteak City in Jhoto. Behind me a festival dedicated to
the legendary pokemon that call this place their home is underway. So far, people have
reported 'sightings' of a dragonlike-bird pokemon suposedly thought to be Lugia. Other
sightings of rare 'colored' or 'shiney' pokemon have also incressed. It was in this town, 10
years ago, the 'Bronze Tower' or what we know today as the Burned Tower, was
destroyed in a massive fire. The cause of the fire is still unknown to this day, but it is
speculated that it was destroyed by Ho-oh one of the legendary birds said to roost in these
towers. Though no one knows why Ho-oh would have been motivated to destroy the
tower, three pokemon died in the disaster. These are the legendary dog pokemon said to
run like the wind. The dog of water, Suicune; The dog of fire, Entei; and the dog of
Lightning, Raikou, were the casualties, though their identities were not known at the time.
Though, after the fire, Lugia returned and resurected the pokemon, causing them to flee
from the tower in fear. To this day they are said to run across the fields of Jhoto, faster
than any other living pokemon. I have here with me, Dulasa Itoshi, the assistant of the
famous Suicune researcher proffesor Eusine. Hello Mr. Dulasa..."
"Dulasa.....I...Itoshi? Could it be him?" Marcy asked as she moved closer to the T.V.
"Do you know him?" Jarod asked.
"Yeah. He used to live on the same street as me when I was little, before he moved to
Jhoto and before I met Erika." She looked back at the T.V. and began to listen in on the
interview more closely.
"So you claim to have created the ultimate pokemon?" The reporter asked.
"It is the perfect combination of DNA. It has the body and speed of a Suicune, the wings
and feet of an Articuno, and the training by me. I hope you're watching this Marcy^_^ I
know I will win this time." Marcy stepped back from the screen in shock.
"A rival of yours?" Erika asked.
"We always used to capture wild pokemon and fight, then release them. I would always
win cause I knew all their moves..." She rediverted her attantion again to the T.V.
"Are you talking about Marcy Silph the pokemon Master?" The reporter asked happily.
"Yes. We used to live close to each other when we were younger. She would always win
every battle, but this one is going to me and Kartara." He added sternly.
"Are you challanging a pokemon Master!?" The reporter asked shocked.
"Yes. Marcy I want you to come to the Ecruteak Tin Tower. I'll met you there
tommorow." The reporter starred in shock for a moment, then regained her composure.
"W-Well. There you have it folks. An out right challange to the pokemon Master Marcy
Silph. I'm going to be there...how about you? This is Kara Suratai, signing off...." Marcy
turned off the T.V.
"Well? Are you going to go?" Jarod asked.
"Of course! Another chance to beat him would be great!" Marcy yelled and jumped over
the couch.
"She's getting pretty cocky hugh?" Erika whispered to Jarod. Jarod shook his head a little
as he watched an excitied Marcy put on her back pack and roller blades.
"I haven't used these in a while, but today we gotta make it all the way to Ecruteak!"
Marcy shouted and roller bladed out the automatic doors.
"Should we stop her?" Jarod asked.
"No, she's just excited." Erika said getting up and putting on her back pack and skates.
Noki walked out still drying her long red hair, but all dressed.
"Where are we going?" She asked as she rubbed the towel through her hair.
"We're gonna go to Ecruteak. One of Marcy's old friends is there and wants to battle her."
Jarod said as he picked up his and Noki's things.
"Thanks," she said taking her stuff from his hands. "Wait...you know, I think I'm going to
visit my parents in the future today."
"Ok! Just teleport yourself to our time a few minutes in the future." Jarod said putting his
back pack on.
"K!^_^" Noki said as she began to braid her fluffy hair. "I'll see you guys later then. Oh!
Dad can you give this to mom, I think she may need him." Jarod walked out the automatic
doors after Erika and Marcy, who had roller bladed down the street, with Orion's pokeball
in his hand.
"You guys! Noki is going to join us later! She's gonna go back to the future then come
back here!Oh! And Angel; Noki left you Orion!" Jarod yelled to them who were far ahead
of him.
"Thanks! Let him out!" Marcy yelled roller blading back up the hill with Raichu in her
arms. [Credits rolling! Only music no dialogue] As Orion jumped out into the air, his
mane flowing in the wind, Marcy begins roller blading faster, down the hill. She speeds
ahead and orion lands on the ground, running next to her. He barely keeps up and Marcy
grabs onto his mane with her left hand, jumping on his back with one seamless leap,
placing Raichu on her lap. Marcy yells something (no dialogue^_^) And Orion speeds up,
heading down the hill. Marcy catches up to Erika. She grabs her hand and pulls her onto
Orion's back, then she pulls on a peice of Orions hair to change his direction, and he
begins running back up the hill. Erika holds on tightly to Orion's fur as he leaps up
dodging the sparsly located trees. Jarod notices Orion heading his way and jumps, as
Marcy grabs his hand with the help of Erika, and he is pulled up onto Orion's back as
well. They all hold on tight as orion bounds through the bushes like Entei and leaps down
hills like an Arcanine. [Music ends]
"THAT WAS NUTS!! LET'S GO AGAIN!!" Erika yelled excitedly as she jumped off
Orion's back.
"No. I think Orion could use a rest now. [randomly] But that was fun!" Marcy shouted
and called Orion back after Jarod had jumped off as well.
"So where are we anyway?" Jarod asked looking Erika as she pulled out the map.
"According to this map we're at rt. 31, near Violet City. We still have have to go through
the City, through rt. 36, and rt. 37." Erika said putting the map back in her back pack as it
began to rain.
"Well, I think we should get going!" Marcy said as she roller bladed tword Violet City
trying to cover Raichu from the rain that had began after the 'riding on Orion' fun.
"Right!" Jarod ran after Marcy and Erika.
"Hey mom I'm back!" Noki had materialized in her living room where her mom sat
watching T.V.
"Noki! Welcome home baby! How's everything been going?" The older Marcy asked.
"Great! I just came back to make sure Sylebi was able to teleport across dimesions. It's
getting a lot better at it's teleport technique."
"That's good hunny! Did you come to get something?" She pulled herself away from the
T.V.
"No. I was just hoping dad was home. You know how he has that Rainbow feather? I was
hoping he could summon Ho-oh."
"Oh. Well...actually dear...Ho-oh was here this morning."
"What!?" Noki was astonished.
"Yes, and he left you this. I don't know where he found it; but he said it would come in
handy." Marcy took a small glass vile off of a necklace that she had on. "He said it was
Sacred Ash."
"Did he say what it does?" Noki asked as she rolled the glass vile filled with ashes around
in her hand.
"No. he just said to give it to you. You should probobly put it with the charcol he gave
you."
"So, you finally figured out where I got all this stuff from?" She asked as she attached it
to her necklace.
"I knew all along. I knew you couldn't resist taking care of a legendary pokemon, and I
knew he would respect you for it. He would never hurt you."
"Thanks mom^_^"
"Phew....() We made it!" Marcy said. Jarod, Marcy, and Erika had made it to the Violet
City pokemon Center as a torrential down pour began outside.
"Yeah, but how are we going to make it to Ecruteak? This... is just GREAT!" Erika
shouted sarcasticly as she ringed out her hair and tried to dry herself off. Raichu suddenly
felt the urge to shake like a dog though, and got water all over everyone again.
"[GRRRRR]And that didn't make it any better!!!" She shouted as she ringed her hair out
again. Raichu called himself back into his pokeball to escape from Erika's wrath.
"Well. What do we do now?" Jarod asked as he took off his coat and put it on the back of
a couch.
"Well...does anyone have a pokemon that knows Sunny day?" Marcy suggested.
"One pokemon can't make the storm go away though..." Erika said, still drying herself off.
"Of course not. But, maybe if we have at least two pokemon, we can create a small patch
in the clouds and walk in that." Marcy tried again to call Raichu out of his pokeball, but
he kept going back in. "Erika, I think you traumatized Raichu..." Marcy whispered.
"That's a good idea!" Jarod said, taking his coat and beating it to get the water out.
"Pegesedon!" He said and threw out her pokeball.
"Ryu!" Erika pulled the tiny pokeball off her bow and dropped it on the ground.
"Ok. So, we go outside and send the pokemon first. Have them both use Sunny Day, and
then we'll walk between them." Marcy said.
"Right!" Jarod and Erika shouted together. They both walked to the automatic doors,
which opened and sent their pokemon out into the rain.
"Pegesedon!..."
"Ryu!..."
"Sunny Day!!" Jarod and Ertika yelled together, and a small part opened in the clouds.
"Hey!" Nurse Joy shouted, "You kids are going to Ecruteak right? The road north is
closed, you have to go through Alphs Ruins by the new north east entrance."
"K! Thanks Nurse Joy!" Marcy shouted and quickly ran outside with Jarod's coat in hand.
They walked south until they came to the outskirts of Violet and found Alph's ruins.
There was a mass of caves and out crops all around the area, but only a few had
entrances.
"I wonder where they all lead?" Erika asked curisously.
"They all lead to one underground Catacomb where the Unown are supposed to live.
Mysterious pokemon that are supposed to look like letters of the alphabet."
"You seem to know a lot about them. Have you ever seen one before?" Marcy asked.
"When I was younger, the caves were just begining to be found. I would search with my
uncle who was an archiologist. We were in the catacomb when growly heard something
and I caught a glimps of an Unown that looked like the letter 'A'. But I haven't been down
there since. Who knows how many more there are." He finished and they all stared in
wonder. Suddenly, there was a noise from inside the closest cave entrance, only two feet
away.
"What's that?" Marcy asked and leaned forward. Suddenly she was grabbed by what
looked like lots of white ribbon, coming from the dark cave. "[so to speak scream] Help!"
She shouted, and Jarod and Erika grabbed onto her arms, trying to get the white ribbon
off. But it wasn't any thing like ribbon. It had a texture and it was definetly alive. "What is
it!?" Marcy shouted as it began to pull her back into the cave. She tried to move her arms
around to losten it, but it was no use. She grabbed Raichu's pokeball, but dropped it. She
knew he wouldn't come out.
"Erika look!!" Jarod shouted and they both looked behind Marcy. In the darkness, they
could see two horizontal diamond shaped red glowing eyes. It's eyes enlarged, and both
Ryu and Pegesedon were paralyzed.
"Suicune!?" Erika shouted.
"No!! It's stronger!" Jarod shouted as they both lost their grip and fell back onto the
ground. Marcy faded into the darkness until there was silence, only the sound of rain on
the ground.
"M-Marcy....." Erika starred.
"W-What....w-was that!?" Jarod asked furious but terrified.
"Who cares what it is!" Erika loudly declared and stood up, "It's got Marcy and we're
going to rescue her!" Jarod looked up at her.
"H-how?" Jarod asked, still sitting on the soaked ground.
"No OnE eScApEs FrOm KaRtArA!!!" A shilling voice sounded out from inside the
cave.
"Did he say Kartara?" Jarod asked finally standing up and calling back Pegasedon.
"ThAt Is RiGhT!!!" The voice shouted again.
"My MaStEr WILL hAvE hIs ReVeNge!!![Evil laugh that fades out]"
"Revenge[sweat drop]" Erika repeated.
"Master?" Jarod said. "Wait! Wasn't the name of that guys pokemon that Marcy wanted to
battle, Kartara!!??"
"You're right!! What should we do?" Erika asked as she called back Ryu.
"I have an idea..." Noki had teleported herself from her future to their past, right as the
crisis occured.
"Noki! Marcy's been...."
"Kidnapped? I know. My mom told me all about it." Noki answered.
"hugh?" Jarod intervened.
"This's already happened in my timeline; remember? Don't worry. She'll be fine. I'll tell
you guys what to do."
"Right! Let's go! Can you teleport us to Ecruteak?" Erika asked. Noki looked down at
Sylebi. It knodded it's head, and they all transported there. They ran from the pokemon
center and to the Tin tower, Noki waving her Rainbow Feather as she passed through the
guardians house so they wouldn't stop her. They ran down the dirt path to the tower, and
barged through the doors. They ran up the steps trying to avoid all the Gastly, Rattata, and
other pokemon inhabiting the tower.
"So Marcy...we meet again." Dulasa said and walked around her. She had been pinned to
a wall by a force field of some sort and couldn't get down. "Kartara's pshycic powers are
amazing aren't they?" he said as he continued to walk from one spot to the other.
"What are you going to do with me?" Marcy asked, trying to keep her composure.
"Well.....where should I start.....ah yes....first a little tourture, then maybe some more, and
the waive of your pokemon master title to me....and then, maybe more touture depending
on the mood I'm in..."
"[Big sweat drop]()What is wrong with you? You do know that my friends are coming to
rescue me!?"
"Oh, I know it just as well as you do...they can try...but they can't suceed."
"Why me?" Marcy continued to interogate him to waste time.
"Because I couldn't stop him. I couldn't stop him from finding our home..."
"...?..." [Confused look]
"I was the one who was guarding the ruins of Alph. I was supposed to protect our people,
but Jarod defeated me..."
"Jarod!? Is that why you kidnapped me!? To get Jarod here!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!![Evil look and evil voice] IT WAS SO I COULD GET MY
REVENGE!!! By taking the thing most important to him away, I would make him angry
and worried, by bringing him here....I could defeat him...."
".....!!!![gasp of surprise]..."
".....No. Now I've said too much...I've revealed my plans to you....[smerk look]...dosen't
that happen eventually to all the bad guys?..." He waved his hand and turned around,
sparks of energy surrounded Marcy and kocked her out.
"Kartara!!" Jarod shouted as they reached the roof of the tower. It's wings sprawled out
ready to pounce on anything that moved. Behind it, a mass of Crystal, with a large door
inbeded in it.
"Go Pegasedon!" He yelled and threw out her pokeball.
"Kartara can not be beaten by regular means!!" Dulasa said and shouted and appeared
infront of the door, "Kartara, attack that pokemon!!" It ran at Pegesedon and Jarod yelled,
"Pegesedon! Fly!" It flew up high, but Kartara followed it! It rammed into it in the air and
it fell to the roof. "Pegesedon! Flamethrower!" He yelled as the rain continued to fall.
"Kartara, Reflect!" Kartara stood still and reflected the Flamethrower back at Pegesedon.
Erika and Noki grab Jarod's arms and lifted him safely above the flamethrower using their
wings. "Pegesedon! Return! Go Dragonair! Keep him busy!" he yells as they both put him
back on the roof. Noki and Dragonair attack Kartara and keep it busy while Jarod started
a fist fight with Dulasa that he was losing. Erika flew above them and started yelling,
"Marcy! Marcy come on! wake up! We gotta get outta here!" and pounded on the
forcefield. As Jarod landed a puch, the force field flickered, long enough for Marcy to
wake up and break loose. "Hurry! Noki! Dragonair! Jarod!" She yelled and they all turned
and ran down the crystal stair case behind them. Erika let go of Macry so she could fly
behind them, and her and Noki carried Jarod down the steps as he called back the
defeated Dragonair.
"You can't get away that easily!" Dulasa shouted and jumped onto Kartara's back. They
bounded down the stairs, finally catching up to them, Dulasa shouted, "Kartara! Knock
her out of the sky!" And Kartara flung it's huge paw forward, knocking Marcy straight
past everyone and against the wall ahead of them.
"MARCY!!" Jarod shouted as he watched her fall to the floor. Noki and Erika dropped
Jarod. They all ran over to Marcy who is up against the wall. "[Grrrr] Everyone! Go!!!!!"
Jarod yelled and threw all his pokeballs at once, except Pegesedon's and Dragonairs'.
"Go!" Erika and Noki both threw all theirs as well along with Marcy's. One by one,
Kartara eliminated them. Ice Beam, Hydro pump, wing attack, Kartara was invincable
after all. They had no pokemon left, only themselves.
"Well! Finally! There's only Jarod left!!" Dulasa shouts. "[Evil laugh] FINALLY!!!! I will
have my revenge!! You will never discover the secret of the Unown!!" He crosses his
arms over his chest, and several sphears of light appear around him. They begin to circle,
and he brings his hands quickly down to his sides, shooting them all around. Erika is
nocked up agaist the wall with Marcy, but Jarod and Noki dodge it. Noki flies ito the air,
and a Moltres suddenly appears. Marcy's eyes blink and she moves her head to see Noki
being pecked by a Moltres.
"NOKI!!" Marcy shouts and flaps her wings; she flies up to Noki and swats at the Moltres
violently.
"Marcy watch out!" Noki yells as Kartara leaps at them. [Slow motion] Marcy pushes
noki out of the way, and she is hit by Kartara's massive paw, cutting her.
"MARCY!!!" Both Erika and Jarod yell. She falls to the ground as Noki falls on her
chest, breaking the vile givin to her by her mother from Ho-oh. There is a sudden breeze
and the ash flies away in the wind to form a phoenix, and all the pokemon on the
battlefield begin to twitch and wake up. Noki pulls her herself up, only to be pounded
down by Kartara's massive paws, being crushed to death along with Marcy, whose blood
was now being soaked up by her wings. They're breathe escapes them, and they begin to
grab at Kartara's ankles, hoping he would let go.
"DULASA!! Stop this!! [Furiously]YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THEM!!" Jarod shouts
and runs over, only to be hit to the ground on his back by it's wing.
"I can't!! It's become out of control!! I can't control my psychic powers!!!" He shouts back
and Jarod watches helplessly as they begin to loose their strength. Erika quickly flies over
to Dulasa and uses the same tactic Jarod used to break his concentration before; she slaps
him across the face cruelly, but it didn't seem to work.
"I told you....I can't...." He whimpered as if ready to cry. "Jarod...You defeated me once,
and....I'll lose again...if I stop..."
"I've never even met you!" Jarod shouted out quickly.
"I'm the Unown that you saw in the Ruins of Alph that day.....I took on this from, thinking
I could defeat you....but I was wrong! I need more power!" He shouted and transformed
into the 'A' Unown that Growly had beaten that day. Noki thinks quickly and grabs a
shard of glass from the vile, and shoves it into Kartara's paw, he lets go and transfers his
weight to his other paw.
"AHHHH!!! (gasp)" Marcy screams and Noki realizes her mistake then rolls out from
under him before he can put it down again. Marcy's hands finally slip off of Kartara's
wrists.
"SHIT!!!!" Erika shouts and flies over to her. Jarod is already there, now trying to pick up
Kartara's paw.
"Marcy! Come on! You can't.....!!" He lifts with all his might, and it finally backs off.
"Marcy!" He pulls her lifeless body out from underneath it, bathed in blood on one side.
"Marcy! Come on!" He shouts and Dulasa looks on in horror of what he has done.
"[Face down] Damn you Dulasa.....[looks up tears in his eyes and on his cheaks] DAMN
YOU!!! SHE'S DEAD YOU IDIOT!!"
"NO!!!" Noki screams and falls to her knees. "This wasn't supposed to happen!! Everyone
was supposed to be all right!!" She screams as she cries hystericlly. Marcy's wings begin
to fall apart, and they dissapear.
"(Marcy)...." Jarod cries to himself. Erika begins to walk backwards in horror and
suddenly falls to the floor. "...Erika!?..." He suddenly realizes that her wings are doing the
same thing as Marcy's, then were gone. "....no....they....can't both....be....no..." He leans
over for a moment and takes hold of Erika's wrist, tears come to his eyes again, and he
lets go. "....she's......she's dead too!? How.....why...." he stares and remembers something Lugia
had said to him in his mind....'Look after them both, for if one falls, a peice of the others
heart will be lost forever. And if one dies, so shall the other. They are forever linked
because of this event...."
"no.......what......w-what do I......do? I-I can't do anything at all!?" Jarod continued to whisper to himself as he
came to realize the seriousness of the situation.
"What's.....what's going on? W-Where am I?" Marcy was by herself in a field of flowers.
It was the same one with the last dream and Lexa. Then she remembered....the Phoenix
Pendant Lexa gave her. She sat in a white dress, holding the pendant in her hand,
clenching it, trying to figure out what to do.
"Marcy?" Another voice rang out...It was Erika. She ran across the lower field to the hill
Marcy was sitting on.
"E-Erika....why are you here? Where...are we?" She asked still holding the pendant.
"We're in Elysium. The dream world your friend created for us, remember?"
"...Lexa? yeah.....so we aren't dead....?"
"...no...I can't tell you that...but you hold the key to getting out of this place..." Marcy
starred at her for a moment then realized;
"You....you aren't Erika...are you?"
"'I knew you would figure it out...." Erika turned suddenly into Lexa. "You always were
very smart."
"So I am dead?" Marcy continued to ask.
".....yes....this is my private place. I brought you here to tell you that. There's only one
way to get back."
"HOW!" Marcy shouted.
"The pendant. It has the power to resurect a person once. But, only one person and only
once."
"...only...one?" Marcy asked and starred at it in her hand.
"..yes.."
"...but..." Erika....how....I can't! I can't leave you here! I won't!!! Suddenly the field and
Lexa were gone, only blackness.
[Start playing OutLawStar Track 7 (A Date)]
"Marcy! Resurect yourself!" Lexa's voice was off in the distance.
"I can't Lexa! This is my wish!! This is what I have to decide!! Erika is going back!"
Marcy shouted loudly and her dress began to glow white as she held the pendant to her
chest and prayed for the return of Erika's life. Skelatal angel wings appear and she falls
down, the pendant split in two by her side.
There is a sigular voice in the darkness... "marushi....you made the right decision....I'm so
proud of you...you've been through so much.....yet.... you never think of yourself.....you
saved Jarod in the forest....you saved your daughter from Kartara....and you spared Erika
from this land of death....I wish I could be like you.....my final wish....which I have not
yet made.....[picture of Marcy lying in the blackness].....will go to you....my beloved
Marushi!....
"Marcy...." Jarod was still face down crying to himself as the crystal pillars around him
melted and dissapeared.
"Mom...." Noki was kneeling next to her holding Marcy's cold hand.
"ugh......" There was a sudden noise from Erika. Jarod turned and saw Erika get up and
her wings return.
"Erika!! You're alive!!" Noki shouted and jumped into her, hugging her and crying both
tears of joy and sadness.
"...noki....where's....?" Noki looked up and Erika realized that Jarod was still sitting in the
same spot as before holding Marcy's lifeless body. "....Marcy...why? Why save me? Why
not yourself....." Tears came to her eyes as she avoided some falling crystal and moved
closer to Marcy. She looked around her neck, and pulled out the chain with the broken
pendant... "It really did happen after...all then...?" Suddenly, as Erika pulled off the chain,
Marcy seemed to move...
"Angel!?" Jarod yelled confused. She got up and her wings reappeared. "W-What's going
on!?"
"Nova Flame!!" Marcy shouted as she moved her hands about, her eyes still closed. Her
wings flew back and Fire surrounded her.
"How is she---what is she---??" Jarod stared perplexed. The fire then concentrated inself
on her right hand, and she cast it forward, engulfing the Unown in fire, destroying it. The
color returned to her eyes and she fell back on her butt not realizing what she had just
done. "M-marcy!?" Jarod started.
"Why!? How did I get back!? Lexa!?" Marcy began to ramble as she watched the crystal
turn back into regular wood. Jarod jumped her before she even had time to think.
"Oh! God! Marcy!!!" He shouted and started crying as he pet her hair and hugged her
tight.
"Jarod......" Marcy hugged him and started crying as well. Noki and Erika stared in
wonder.
"I don't get it....you brought me back with the phoenix pendant, but how did you get
brought back?" Erika asked after a moment's silence. Marcy looked up at the night sky
and said,
"Lexa....she wished me back. She wanted me to be happy so badly....she would give up
her own wish for me.... thank you Lexa."
"I guess we had better get our pokemon to a pokemon center...." Noki said and called all
her's back.
"Guess so." Erika said and called her's back as well. Noki and Erika flew off to the
pokemon center, leaving Marcy and Jarod alone.
"Marcy.....you don't know how much....I love you...." he said, still holding her in his arms.
".....I love you too....." She said and they kissed under the moonlight sky with the tin
tower in the background.
Owari
August 25 2001
They were at the Cherry Grove Pokemon Center the next morning. Noki stayed up
the whole night training Sylebi to get her teleport right. She was only off by a few yards
this time! (And no one ended up in the sky either^_^) As Jarod watched the morning
news, Marcy and Erika were eating their breakfast at one of the tables and Noki was busy
taking a shower. Jarod suddenly shouted,
"Hey! Angel! Erika! Look at this!" He continued to watch the T.V. as both Marcy and
Erika came to the couch and sat on either side of him. The broadcaster was live at a
festival in Ecruteak.
"I'm coming to you live from Ecruteak City in Jhoto. Behind me a festival dedicated to
the legendary pokemon that call this place their home is underway. So far, people have
reported 'sightings' of a dragonlike-bird pokemon suposedly thought to be Lugia. Other
sightings of rare 'colored' or 'shiney' pokemon have also incressed. It was in this town, 10
years ago, the 'Bronze Tower' or what we know today as the Burned Tower, was
destroyed in a massive fire. The cause of the fire is still unknown to this day, but it is
speculated that it was destroyed by Ho-oh one of the legendary birds said to roost in these
towers. Though no one knows why Ho-oh would have been motivated to destroy the
tower, three pokemon died in the disaster. These are the legendary dog pokemon said to
run like the wind. The dog of water, Suicune; The dog of fire, Entei; and the dog of
Lightning, Raikou, were the casualties, though their identities were not known at the time.
Though, after the fire, Lugia returned and resurected the pokemon, causing them to flee
from the tower in fear. To this day they are said to run across the fields of Jhoto, faster
than any other living pokemon. I have here with me, Dulasa Itoshi, the assistant of the
famous Suicune researcher proffesor Eusine. Hello Mr. Dulasa..."
"Dulasa.....I...Itoshi? Could it be him?" Marcy asked as she moved closer to the T.V.
"Do you know him?" Jarod asked.
"Yeah. He used to live on the same street as me when I was little, before he moved to
Jhoto and before I met Erika." She looked back at the T.V. and began to listen in on the
interview more closely.
"So you claim to have created the ultimate pokemon?" The reporter asked.
"It is the perfect combination of DNA. It has the body and speed of a Suicune, the wings
and feet of an Articuno, and the training by me. I hope you're watching this Marcy^_^ I
know I will win this time." Marcy stepped back from the screen in shock.
"A rival of yours?" Erika asked.
"We always used to capture wild pokemon and fight, then release them. I would always
win cause I knew all their moves..." She rediverted her attantion again to the T.V.
"Are you talking about Marcy Silph the pokemon Master?" The reporter asked happily.
"Yes. We used to live close to each other when we were younger. She would always win
every battle, but this one is going to me and Kartara." He added sternly.
"Are you challanging a pokemon Master!?" The reporter asked shocked.
"Yes. Marcy I want you to come to the Ecruteak Tin Tower. I'll met you there
tommorow." The reporter starred in shock for a moment, then regained her composure.
"W-Well. There you have it folks. An out right challange to the pokemon Master Marcy
Silph. I'm going to be there...how about you? This is Kara Suratai, signing off...." Marcy
turned off the T.V.
"Well? Are you going to go?" Jarod asked.
"Of course! Another chance to beat him would be great!" Marcy yelled and jumped over
the couch.
"She's getting pretty cocky hugh?" Erika whispered to Jarod. Jarod shook his head a little
as he watched an excitied Marcy put on her back pack and roller blades.
"I haven't used these in a while, but today we gotta make it all the way to Ecruteak!"
Marcy shouted and roller bladed out the automatic doors.
"Should we stop her?" Jarod asked.
"No, she's just excited." Erika said getting up and putting on her back pack and skates.
Noki walked out still drying her long red hair, but all dressed.
"Where are we going?" She asked as she rubbed the towel through her hair.
"We're gonna go to Ecruteak. One of Marcy's old friends is there and wants to battle her."
Jarod said as he picked up his and Noki's things.
"Thanks," she said taking her stuff from his hands. "Wait...you know, I think I'm going to
visit my parents in the future today."
"Ok! Just teleport yourself to our time a few minutes in the future." Jarod said putting his
back pack on.
"K!^_^" Noki said as she began to braid her fluffy hair. "I'll see you guys later then. Oh!
Dad can you give this to mom, I think she may need him." Jarod walked out the automatic
doors after Erika and Marcy, who had roller bladed down the street, with Orion's pokeball
in his hand.
"You guys! Noki is going to join us later! She's gonna go back to the future then come
back here!Oh! And Angel; Noki left you Orion!" Jarod yelled to them who were far ahead
of him.
"Thanks! Let him out!" Marcy yelled roller blading back up the hill with Raichu in her
arms. [Credits rolling! Only music no dialogue] As Orion jumped out into the air, his
mane flowing in the wind, Marcy begins roller blading faster, down the hill. She speeds
ahead and orion lands on the ground, running next to her. He barely keeps up and Marcy
grabs onto his mane with her left hand, jumping on his back with one seamless leap,
placing Raichu on her lap. Marcy yells something (no dialogue^_^) And Orion speeds up,
heading down the hill. Marcy catches up to Erika. She grabs her hand and pulls her onto
Orion's back, then she pulls on a peice of Orions hair to change his direction, and he
begins running back up the hill. Erika holds on tightly to Orion's fur as he leaps up
dodging the sparsly located trees. Jarod notices Orion heading his way and jumps, as
Marcy grabs his hand with the help of Erika, and he is pulled up onto Orion's back as
well. They all hold on tight as orion bounds through the bushes like Entei and leaps down
hills like an Arcanine. [Music ends]
"THAT WAS NUTS!! LET'S GO AGAIN!!" Erika yelled excitedly as she jumped off
Orion's back.
"No. I think Orion could use a rest now. [randomly] But that was fun!" Marcy shouted
and called Orion back after Jarod had jumped off as well.
"So where are we anyway?" Jarod asked looking Erika as she pulled out the map.
"According to this map we're at rt. 31, near Violet City. We still have have to go through
the City, through rt. 36, and rt. 37." Erika said putting the map back in her back pack as it
began to rain.
"Well, I think we should get going!" Marcy said as she roller bladed tword Violet City
trying to cover Raichu from the rain that had began after the 'riding on Orion' fun.
"Right!" Jarod ran after Marcy and Erika.
"Hey mom I'm back!" Noki had materialized in her living room where her mom sat
watching T.V.
"Noki! Welcome home baby! How's everything been going?" The older Marcy asked.
"Great! I just came back to make sure Sylebi was able to teleport across dimesions. It's
getting a lot better at it's teleport technique."
"That's good hunny! Did you come to get something?" She pulled herself away from the
T.V.
"No. I was just hoping dad was home. You know how he has that Rainbow feather? I was
hoping he could summon Ho-oh."
"Oh. Well...actually dear...Ho-oh was here this morning."
"What!?" Noki was astonished.
"Yes, and he left you this. I don't know where he found it; but he said it would come in
handy." Marcy took a small glass vile off of a necklace that she had on. "He said it was
Sacred Ash."
"Did he say what it does?" Noki asked as she rolled the glass vile filled with ashes around
in her hand.
"No. he just said to give it to you. You should probobly put it with the charcol he gave
you."
"So, you finally figured out where I got all this stuff from?" She asked as she attached it
to her necklace.
"I knew all along. I knew you couldn't resist taking care of a legendary pokemon, and I
knew he would respect you for it. He would never hurt you."
"Thanks mom^_^"
"Phew....() We made it!" Marcy said. Jarod, Marcy, and Erika had made it to the Violet
City pokemon Center as a torrential down pour began outside.
"Yeah, but how are we going to make it to Ecruteak? This... is just GREAT!" Erika
shouted sarcasticly as she ringed out her hair and tried to dry herself off. Raichu suddenly
felt the urge to shake like a dog though, and got water all over everyone again.
"[GRRRRR]And that didn't make it any better!!!" She shouted as she ringed her hair out
again. Raichu called himself back into his pokeball to escape from Erika's wrath.
"Well. What do we do now?" Jarod asked as he took off his coat and put it on the back of
a couch.
"Well...does anyone have a pokemon that knows Sunny day?" Marcy suggested.
"One pokemon can't make the storm go away though..." Erika said, still drying herself off.
"Of course not. But, maybe if we have at least two pokemon, we can create a small patch
in the clouds and walk in that." Marcy tried again to call Raichu out of his pokeball, but
he kept going back in. "Erika, I think you traumatized Raichu..." Marcy whispered.
"That's a good idea!" Jarod said, taking his coat and beating it to get the water out.
"Pegesedon!" He said and threw out her pokeball.
"Ryu!" Erika pulled the tiny pokeball off her bow and dropped it on the ground.
"Ok. So, we go outside and send the pokemon first. Have them both use Sunny Day, and
then we'll walk between them." Marcy said.
"Right!" Jarod and Erika shouted together. They both walked to the automatic doors,
which opened and sent their pokemon out into the rain.
"Pegesedon!..."
"Ryu!..."
"Sunny Day!!" Jarod and Ertika yelled together, and a small part opened in the clouds.
"Hey!" Nurse Joy shouted, "You kids are going to Ecruteak right? The road north is
closed, you have to go through Alphs Ruins by the new north east entrance."
"K! Thanks Nurse Joy!" Marcy shouted and quickly ran outside with Jarod's coat in hand.
They walked south until they came to the outskirts of Violet and found Alph's ruins.
There was a mass of caves and out crops all around the area, but only a few had
entrances.
"I wonder where they all lead?" Erika asked curisously.
"They all lead to one underground Catacomb where the Unown are supposed to live.
Mysterious pokemon that are supposed to look like letters of the alphabet."
"You seem to know a lot about them. Have you ever seen one before?" Marcy asked.
"When I was younger, the caves were just begining to be found. I would search with my
uncle who was an archiologist. We were in the catacomb when growly heard something
and I caught a glimps of an Unown that looked like the letter 'A'. But I haven't been down
there since. Who knows how many more there are." He finished and they all stared in
wonder. Suddenly, there was a noise from inside the closest cave entrance, only two feet
away.
"What's that?" Marcy asked and leaned forward. Suddenly she was grabbed by what
looked like lots of white ribbon, coming from the dark cave. "[so to speak scream] Help!"
She shouted, and Jarod and Erika grabbed onto her arms, trying to get the white ribbon
off. But it wasn't any thing like ribbon. It had a texture and it was definetly alive. "What is
it!?" Marcy shouted as it began to pull her back into the cave. She tried to move her arms
around to losten it, but it was no use. She grabbed Raichu's pokeball, but dropped it. She
knew he wouldn't come out.
"Erika look!!" Jarod shouted and they both looked behind Marcy. In the darkness, they
could see two horizontal diamond shaped red glowing eyes. It's eyes enlarged, and both
Ryu and Pegesedon were paralyzed.
"Suicune!?" Erika shouted.
"No!! It's stronger!" Jarod shouted as they both lost their grip and fell back onto the
ground. Marcy faded into the darkness until there was silence, only the sound of rain on
the ground.
"M-Marcy....." Erika starred.
"W-What....w-was that!?" Jarod asked furious but terrified.
"Who cares what it is!" Erika loudly declared and stood up, "It's got Marcy and we're
going to rescue her!" Jarod looked up at her.
"H-how?" Jarod asked, still sitting on the soaked ground.
"No OnE eScApEs FrOm KaRtArA!!!" A shilling voice sounded out from inside the
cave.
"Did he say Kartara?" Jarod asked finally standing up and calling back Pegasedon.
"ThAt Is RiGhT!!!" The voice shouted again.
"My MaStEr WILL hAvE hIs ReVeNge!!![Evil laugh that fades out]"
"Revenge[sweat drop]" Erika repeated.
"Master?" Jarod said. "Wait! Wasn't the name of that guys pokemon that Marcy wanted to
battle, Kartara!!??"
"You're right!! What should we do?" Erika asked as she called back Ryu.
"I have an idea..." Noki had teleported herself from her future to their past, right as the
crisis occured.
"Noki! Marcy's been...."
"Kidnapped? I know. My mom told me all about it." Noki answered.
"hugh?" Jarod intervened.
"This's already happened in my timeline; remember? Don't worry. She'll be fine. I'll tell
you guys what to do."
"Right! Let's go! Can you teleport us to Ecruteak?" Erika asked. Noki looked down at
Sylebi. It knodded it's head, and they all transported there. They ran from the pokemon
center and to the Tin tower, Noki waving her Rainbow Feather as she passed through the
guardians house so they wouldn't stop her. They ran down the dirt path to the tower, and
barged through the doors. They ran up the steps trying to avoid all the Gastly, Rattata, and
other pokemon inhabiting the tower.
"So Marcy...we meet again." Dulasa said and walked around her. She had been pinned to
a wall by a force field of some sort and couldn't get down. "Kartara's pshycic powers are
amazing aren't they?" he said as he continued to walk from one spot to the other.
"What are you going to do with me?" Marcy asked, trying to keep her composure.
"Well.....where should I start.....ah yes....first a little tourture, then maybe some more, and
the waive of your pokemon master title to me....and then, maybe more touture depending
on the mood I'm in..."
"[Big sweat drop]()What is wrong with you? You do know that my friends are coming to
rescue me!?"
"Oh, I know it just as well as you do...they can try...but they can't suceed."
"Why me?" Marcy continued to interogate him to waste time.
"Because I couldn't stop him. I couldn't stop him from finding our home..."
"...?..." [Confused look]
"I was the one who was guarding the ruins of Alph. I was supposed to protect our people,
but Jarod defeated me..."
"Jarod!? Is that why you kidnapped me!? To get Jarod here!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!![Evil look and evil voice] IT WAS SO I COULD GET MY
REVENGE!!! By taking the thing most important to him away, I would make him angry
and worried, by bringing him here....I could defeat him...."
".....!!!![gasp of surprise]..."
".....No. Now I've said too much...I've revealed my plans to you....[smerk look]...dosen't
that happen eventually to all the bad guys?..." He waved his hand and turned around,
sparks of energy surrounded Marcy and kocked her out.
"Kartara!!" Jarod shouted as they reached the roof of the tower. It's wings sprawled out
ready to pounce on anything that moved. Behind it, a mass of Crystal, with a large door
inbeded in it.
"Go Pegasedon!" He yelled and threw out her pokeball.
"Kartara can not be beaten by regular means!!" Dulasa said and shouted and appeared
infront of the door, "Kartara, attack that pokemon!!" It ran at Pegesedon and Jarod yelled,
"Pegesedon! Fly!" It flew up high, but Kartara followed it! It rammed into it in the air and
it fell to the roof. "Pegesedon! Flamethrower!" He yelled as the rain continued to fall.
"Kartara, Reflect!" Kartara stood still and reflected the Flamethrower back at Pegesedon.
Erika and Noki grab Jarod's arms and lifted him safely above the flamethrower using their
wings. "Pegesedon! Return! Go Dragonair! Keep him busy!" he yells as they both put him
back on the roof. Noki and Dragonair attack Kartara and keep it busy while Jarod started
a fist fight with Dulasa that he was losing. Erika flew above them and started yelling,
"Marcy! Marcy come on! wake up! We gotta get outta here!" and pounded on the
forcefield. As Jarod landed a puch, the force field flickered, long enough for Marcy to
wake up and break loose. "Hurry! Noki! Dragonair! Jarod!" She yelled and they all turned
and ran down the crystal stair case behind them. Erika let go of Macry so she could fly
behind them, and her and Noki carried Jarod down the steps as he called back the
defeated Dragonair.
"You can't get away that easily!" Dulasa shouted and jumped onto Kartara's back. They
bounded down the stairs, finally catching up to them, Dulasa shouted, "Kartara! Knock
her out of the sky!" And Kartara flung it's huge paw forward, knocking Marcy straight
past everyone and against the wall ahead of them.
"MARCY!!" Jarod shouted as he watched her fall to the floor. Noki and Erika dropped
Jarod. They all ran over to Marcy who is up against the wall. "[Grrrr] Everyone! Go!!!!!"
Jarod yelled and threw all his pokeballs at once, except Pegesedon's and Dragonairs'.
"Go!" Erika and Noki both threw all theirs as well along with Marcy's. One by one,
Kartara eliminated them. Ice Beam, Hydro pump, wing attack, Kartara was invincable
after all. They had no pokemon left, only themselves.
"Well! Finally! There's only Jarod left!!" Dulasa shouts. "[Evil laugh] FINALLY!!!! I will
have my revenge!! You will never discover the secret of the Unown!!" He crosses his
arms over his chest, and several sphears of light appear around him. They begin to circle,
and he brings his hands quickly down to his sides, shooting them all around. Erika is
nocked up agaist the wall with Marcy, but Jarod and Noki dodge it. Noki flies ito the air,
and a Moltres suddenly appears. Marcy's eyes blink and she moves her head to see Noki
being pecked by a Moltres.
"NOKI!!" Marcy shouts and flaps her wings; she flies up to Noki and swats at the Moltres
violently.
"Marcy watch out!" Noki yells as Kartara leaps at them. [Slow motion] Marcy pushes
noki out of the way, and she is hit by Kartara's massive paw, cutting her.
"MARCY!!!" Both Erika and Jarod yell. She falls to the ground as Noki falls on her
chest, breaking the vile givin to her by her mother from Ho-oh. There is a sudden breeze
and the ash flies away in the wind to form a phoenix, and all the pokemon on the
battlefield begin to twitch and wake up. Noki pulls her herself up, only to be pounded
down by Kartara's massive paws, being crushed to death along with Marcy, whose blood
was now being soaked up by her wings. They're breathe escapes them, and they begin to
grab at Kartara's ankles, hoping he would let go.
"DULASA!! Stop this!! [Furiously]YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THEM!!" Jarod shouts
and runs over, only to be hit to the ground on his back by it's wing.
"I can't!! It's become out of control!! I can't control my psychic powers!!!" He shouts back
and Jarod watches helplessly as they begin to loose their strength. Erika quickly flies over
to Dulasa and uses the same tactic Jarod used to break his concentration before; she slaps
him across the face cruelly, but it didn't seem to work.
"I told you....I can't...." He whimpered as if ready to cry. "Jarod...You defeated me once,
and....I'll lose again...if I stop..."
"I've never even met you!" Jarod shouted out quickly.
"I'm the Unown that you saw in the Ruins of Alph that day.....I took on this from, thinking
I could defeat you....but I was wrong! I need more power!" He shouted and transformed
into the 'A' Unown that Growly had beaten that day. Noki thinks quickly and grabs a
shard of glass from the vile, and shoves it into Kartara's paw, he lets go and transfers his
weight to his other paw.
"AHHHH!!! (gasp)" Marcy screams and Noki realizes her mistake then rolls out from
under him before he can put it down again. Marcy's hands finally slip off of Kartara's
wrists.
"SHIT!!!!" Erika shouts and flies over to her. Jarod is already there, now trying to pick up
Kartara's paw.
"Marcy! Come on! You can't.....!!" He lifts with all his might, and it finally backs off.
"Marcy!" He pulls her lifeless body out from underneath it, bathed in blood on one side.
"Marcy! Come on!" He shouts and Dulasa looks on in horror of what he has done.
"[Face down] Damn you Dulasa.....[looks up tears in his eyes and on his cheaks] DAMN
YOU!!! SHE'S DEAD YOU IDIOT!!"
"NO!!!" Noki screams and falls to her knees. "This wasn't supposed to happen!! Everyone
was supposed to be all right!!" She screams as she cries hystericlly. Marcy's wings begin
to fall apart, and they dissapear.
"(Marcy)...." Jarod cries to himself. Erika begins to walk backwards in horror and
suddenly falls to the floor. "...Erika!?..." He suddenly realizes that her wings are doing the
same thing as Marcy's, then were gone. "....no....they....can't both....be....no..." He leans
over for a moment and takes hold of Erika's wrist, tears come to his eyes again, and he
lets go. "....she's......she's dead too!? How.....why...." he stares and remembers something Lugia
had said to him in his mind....'Look after them both, for if one falls, a peice of the others
heart will be lost forever. And if one dies, so shall the other. They are forever linked
because of this event...."
"no.......what......w-what do I......do? I-I can't do anything at all!?" Jarod continued to whisper to himself as he
came to realize the seriousness of the situation.
"What's.....what's going on? W-Where am I?" Marcy was by herself in a field of flowers.
It was the same one with the last dream and Lexa. Then she remembered....the Phoenix
Pendant Lexa gave her. She sat in a white dress, holding the pendant in her hand,
clenching it, trying to figure out what to do.
"Marcy?" Another voice rang out...It was Erika. She ran across the lower field to the hill
Marcy was sitting on.
"E-Erika....why are you here? Where...are we?" She asked still holding the pendant.
"We're in Elysium. The dream world your friend created for us, remember?"
"...Lexa? yeah.....so we aren't dead....?"
"...no...I can't tell you that...but you hold the key to getting out of this place..." Marcy
starred at her for a moment then realized;
"You....you aren't Erika...are you?"
"'I knew you would figure it out...." Erika turned suddenly into Lexa. "You always were
very smart."
"So I am dead?" Marcy continued to ask.
".....yes....this is my private place. I brought you here to tell you that. There's only one
way to get back."
"HOW!" Marcy shouted.
"The pendant. It has the power to resurect a person once. But, only one person and only
once."
"...only...one?" Marcy asked and starred at it in her hand.
"..yes.."
"...but..." Erika....how....I can't! I can't leave you here! I won't!!! Suddenly the field and
Lexa were gone, only blackness.
[Start playing OutLawStar Track 7 (A Date)]
"Marcy! Resurect yourself!" Lexa's voice was off in the distance.
"I can't Lexa! This is my wish!! This is what I have to decide!! Erika is going back!"
Marcy shouted loudly and her dress began to glow white as she held the pendant to her
chest and prayed for the return of Erika's life. Skelatal angel wings appear and she falls
down, the pendant split in two by her side.
There is a sigular voice in the darkness... "marushi....you made the right decision....I'm so
proud of you...you've been through so much.....yet.... you never think of yourself.....you
saved Jarod in the forest....you saved your daughter from Kartara....and you spared Erika
from this land of death....I wish I could be like you.....my final wish....which I have not
yet made.....[picture of Marcy lying in the blackness].....will go to you....my beloved
Marushi!....
"Marcy...." Jarod was still face down crying to himself as the crystal pillars around him
melted and dissapeared.
"Mom...." Noki was kneeling next to her holding Marcy's cold hand.
"ugh......" There was a sudden noise from Erika. Jarod turned and saw Erika get up and
her wings return.
"Erika!! You're alive!!" Noki shouted and jumped into her, hugging her and crying both
tears of joy and sadness.
"...noki....where's....?" Noki looked up and Erika realized that Jarod was still sitting in the
same spot as before holding Marcy's lifeless body. "....Marcy...why? Why save me? Why
not yourself....." Tears came to her eyes as she avoided some falling crystal and moved
closer to Marcy. She looked around her neck, and pulled out the chain with the broken
pendant... "It really did happen after...all then...?" Suddenly, as Erika pulled off the chain,
Marcy seemed to move...
"Angel!?" Jarod yelled confused. She got up and her wings reappeared. "W-What's going
on!?"
"Nova Flame!!" Marcy shouted as she moved her hands about, her eyes still closed. Her
wings flew back and Fire surrounded her.
"How is she---what is she---??" Jarod stared perplexed. The fire then concentrated inself
on her right hand, and she cast it forward, engulfing the Unown in fire, destroying it. The
color returned to her eyes and she fell back on her butt not realizing what she had just
done. "M-marcy!?" Jarod started.
"Why!? How did I get back!? Lexa!?" Marcy began to ramble as she watched the crystal
turn back into regular wood. Jarod jumped her before she even had time to think.
"Oh! God! Marcy!!!" He shouted and started crying as he pet her hair and hugged her
tight.
"Jarod......" Marcy hugged him and started crying as well. Noki and Erika stared in
wonder.
"I don't get it....you brought me back with the phoenix pendant, but how did you get
brought back?" Erika asked after a moment's silence. Marcy looked up at the night sky
and said,
"Lexa....she wished me back. She wanted me to be happy so badly....she would give up
her own wish for me.... thank you Lexa."
"I guess we had better get our pokemon to a pokemon center...." Noki said and called all
her's back.
"Guess so." Erika said and called her's back as well. Noki and Erika flew off to the
pokemon center, leaving Marcy and Jarod alone.
"Marcy.....you don't know how much....I love you...." he said, still holding her in his arms.
".....I love you too....." She said and they kissed under the moonlight sky with the tin
tower in the background.
Owari
August 25 2001