Hey hey! I have decided to listen to Mr. Panda. So, I will be using my own Leader, and ignoring you.
So, without further ado (because if there was you'd have time to lynch me) here is the next chapter.
Beauty and the Beast
Disclaimer: IDON'TOWNPOKÈMON!
"The problem with pushing the question mark into the slot is that the dot keeps getting snagged."
As a disgruntled Ad pushed the Badge into the slot, the dot fell off and bounced around the room. It ricocheted into the teleporter, and the rest of the crew followed it.
"Come back!"
Ash took a butterfly net from his IPS and swiped at the dot. Eventually, he caught it, and hurriedly stuffed it into his pocket before it got away again. He then followed the rest of the group further into the area.
"This is weird," said May. The area was split into two. One half was drenched in a shocking pink, and the other was a sickly greeny-black. The gang walked along the split.
"I wonder what's causing it?" pondered Ad. His query was responded to by some footsteps.
"Hello. Why is half of you floating in midair?" asked a tall woman on the pink side. She gestured at Ash, who was standing exactly on the split.
"Hey. Why is half of you floating in midair?" asked a tall boy on the green side. He gestured at Ash, who was standing exactly on the split.
"Hmm?" Ash moved completely onto the pink side. The tall boy's eyes widened, and he pointed at where Ash had just been. "Where'd 'e go?"
Misty looked through the split to the boy.
"I think these might be two parallel dimensions. And the boy..."
"The boy..." continued Ad, rotating his hand towards the boy, who replied, "Bob."
"...can't see through the split to here," finished Misty.
"What boy?" asked the tall girl.
"And vice versa," prompted Ash.
"And vice versa," continued May.
The tall girl scratched her head. "I guess you," she quietly added under her breath, "crazy people must be looking to battle me,Victoria."
The tall boy scratched his head. "I guess you," he quietly added under his breath, "crazy people must be looking to battle me, Bob."
"Er...yes," burbled Ash hastily.
"Three-on-three," announced the two leaders in unison.
"How will I fight two battles at once? I'll have to use two Pokémon at once. But I'll have to be on both ides of the split at once. Hmm..."
On his lead, the group started searching for something that would allow Ash to be in two places at once: with Misty and May on the pink, Brock and Ad on the green, and Ash treading up and down the split (despite the funny looks from the Leaders). It was he who spotted a strange object.
"Hey, guys, c'mon and have a look at this."
It was a map. It appeared to be of the cave. But it had only the pink side right: the rest was...different. It was also pink instead of that sickly puce.
"There's another here," said Ad, producing another map. It was the reverse of the other one: totally green.
"There's a dot on this," said Ash, pointing to the pink map. He went across to have a look at the green map, and as he moved into the other half, the dot on the pink map moved.
"There's a dot on this too," called Ash.
"But the dot's come off this one," said Misty, confused.
"Eh?" Ash moved back, and the dot arrived back on the pink map.
"Wait a sec." Ad pulled a handy Jigglypuff from his IPS. The annoyed puffball pulled out a pen, and pressed it hard on the green map. A copy of Ash appeared.
"What the..." said the two Ashes at the same time.
"It's like the Marauder's Map," commented May.
"Well, now, we can get this battle started!" cheered Ash.
"GO!" cried Brock. Ash 1 and Ash 2 looked at each other.
"Go, Bulbasaur!" shouted Ash 1, whilst Ash 2 chose Charmander.
"Beauty Power! Kirlia, go!" Victoria threw a ball, then span around and did a V-sign.
("I have to take an ad out in the paper saying that's MY sign!" fumed Ash.)
"For my first Pokémon, I will have...Muk!" Bob threw a PokéBall. The ugly Muk burst out.
"Kirlia, use Rapid Spin!"
"Kir!" The beautiful Pokémon starting spinning, then closed slowly in on Bulbasaur.
Undaunted, Ash 1 shouted, "Bulbasaur! Use Vine Whip!" Bulbasaur swiped Kirlia with the grass, and Kirlia lost its balance and tumbled onto the floor. Bulbasaur jumped over it, and then prepared a Pound. As Bulbasaur was above Kirlia, it sprang up, and span. Bulbasaur was whirled around so fast it took off – and span under Kirlia. But Kirlia jumped onto the spinning plant Pokémon, and started spinning the other way. The two forces cancelled each other out, and a dizzy-eyed Bulbasaur lay on the ground. Kirlia towered over it, but using the last of its energy, Bulbasaur popped a Leech Seed out. It hit Kirlia, and embraced it tightly. Bulbasaur felt the energy restoring, and it now towered over the helpless Kirlia. Finally, Bulbasaur used Razor Leaf. It weakened the Seed's vines, but also Kirlia. Kirlia burst confidently out of the vines, but it took too much. Kirlia unceremoniously fainted.
"Charmander! Boil Muk's slime!"
Charmander threw a few Embers on the floor, and Muk hopped painfully across them. Charmander let rip a Flamethrower, but Muk countered with a Sludge Bomb, which boiled before soldering itself to Charmander's face. Charmander stumbled, a proverbial headless chicken, around, scrabbling to get the Sludge off. Muk used Acid on Charmander's flame, and the Pokémon whipped its tail up in pain, melting the Sludge on its face. Then, it swung its tail, and globules of Acid splashed onto Muk. The angry Muk reared up and came down on Charmander like a tidal wave.
"Alright! Use Smokescreen, Muk!"
"Not so fast! Charmander, make your own Smokescreen!"
The two Smokescreens mingled, and a cloud of stinging smoke descended on the battlefield. This interrupted the choosing of Victoria's next Pokémon. And also...
"To protect the story from short chapters!"
"To...go and have a real good natter?"
Jessie whacked James with a fan. "If you must rhyme, do it properly!"
She turned to the group. "Anyway, we're here to ruin this battle of yours: by making more splits!"
"You split the arena?" cried Ash.
Victoria and Bob looked confusedly about. "What split?"
"Of course! And using the maps," Meowth withdrew the two maps, "we can chop this cave into at least seventy-five different dimensions!"
"That's right! Your hand could be in Digiworld, and your rucksack through the fourth wall!" Jessie slapped James again. "Fourth wall? Digiworld? What are you talking about, woma – James?"
"Never mind," said James, tapping his fingers together.
"Anyway, we get a pen like so..." Jessie nicked Ad's pen, "...and draw another map. I'll colour it brown. And feed it inside the Hot-Air-Balloon-Meowth- Eye-Scanner-And-Dimension-Splitter-Thingy™..."
"JUST CALL IT THE HABMESADS™, OK?"
"...feed it inside the habmesads™ and voila!" Jessie pointed, and the pink dimension split in half, one half turning brown. All the gang went inside the brown area.
"What's going on? Where's everybody?" asked Victoria. Misty popped back into the pink area again.
"Haven't you noticed your dimension's shrunk?"
"It hasn't," said Victoria.
Ashes 1 and 2 pulled Misty back in.
"Imagine if someone put a cardboard box in your living room," said Brock.
"I don't have to imagine. My sisters did that last year, hid behind it, and called me on the videophone," scowled Misty. "I thought they were playing Phone-Down-Ginger."
"Well, the floor beneath it would still be there, wouldn't it? Now if the box was invisible to you, the floor underneath would be obvious, yes?"
Something in Misty's brain clicked. "Just like Victoria and Bob! Each dimension is like a cardboard box."
"Can we get back to the battle?" shouted Team Rocket.
"Weezing, go!"
"Charmander, go! Use Ember!" Some coals flew through the holes in Weezing, and landed inside. Weezing groaned.
"Wimp." Jessie brought out her Arbok. "Use Poison Sting!" Charmander burned down the needles, and they clattered on the floor. One fell through a random dimensional split. And it came out of Meowth's eye on the hot air balloon. It fell onto Arbok, who jerked upwards. It crashed into Weezing, which blew out loads of gas. The gas ignited on the flame, and Weezing's gas soon started blazing. Some found its way up to the hot air balloon, and the reservoir of gas exploded.
"AGAIN OFF BLASTING ROCKET'S TEAM LIKE LOOKS!"
"The maps!" Ash grabbed them.
"Oh no, they've smeared Ash 2 off."
"We'd better get this mess sorted out." Misty screwed up the dimensional maps just created by the habmesads™ and threw them towards May, who hadn't noticed she was flaming like Misdreavus usually was.
"Let's see that," said Victoria, taking the map. She looked towards the split that she couldn't see, and stuck the map towards it. At the same time, Bob stuck his half through the split.
There was a blinding flash of light, and the split started to crumble. The top of the split soon disappeared, and soon it was enough for Victoria to see Bob.
"Wow! This is what you were talking about! And this must be - that boy." She extended her hand.
"I'm Bob," murmured Bob.
"Victoria," smiled Victoria. Bob clasped her hand, and she giggled. Then she turned to the crew. "We'd better deal with them."
"OK. Go, Voltorb!"
"How charming!" Victoria threw a PokéBall. "Beauty Power Butterfree, go!"
The two Pokémon advanced on the crew.
"Okay, keep your hair on."
("Not that Voltorb has any hair..." pointed out Brock.)
Ash fumbled out two PokéBalls. "Furret, Pikachu, go..."
"Furret, ram Voltorb!"
The electric Pokémon was rolled backwards into the wall. Butterfree created a gust, which blew Voltorb back into Furret. Furret lay down, and Voltorb rolled up the ramp created. Pikachu headed Voltorb up, and then kicked it to Furret.
"I don't believe it," muttered Misty, her head in her hands. "They're playing football."
Butterfree used Twister, and Pikachu got caught in it. As Voltorb and Pikachu were lifted into the air, Furret reached up and grabbed Pikachu, leaving Voltorb to fall, almost fainted. Finally, Pikachu gave a huge boot and whacked Voltorb into Butterfree. They both slid down the wall. Pikachu fired a Thunderbolt at the two, but Voltorb soaked up the energy. Then Furret sped into Voltorb, and the Pokémon exploded, and when the dust cleared, Ash had won.
"We've lost," said Bob.
"Who cares? At least we've found each other for once since that other guy came here." They turned to Ash. "And now I guess you can have the Badge."
"Have you got the box, Victoria?"
"It's here, Bob."
Victoria dropped the question mark in, and a perfect likeness of Ad was churned out. "Strange...it's missing something," said Bob.
"Sorry." Ash took the dot out, and a little red hat was added.
"That's better."
"Bye then!" And so, we leave our heroes as they go off into the sunset, ready for the final Leader challenge.
"You do know you're on fire, don't you, May?" asked Ash uneasily.
"Fire?" cried May.
Don't worry, Mr. Panda, you will get your Ad(-ish) goodness in time...
And so, in the immortal words of me...
"And so, in the immortal words of me..."
GOODNIGHT!