Kingdom Hearts: Chaos Angel
Episode 5: Voice of the Forest
(A/N: Don't own Pokémon 4ever or anything from it! I just rearranged the plot to fit the story!)"Is she gonna be okay?" Maya asked Rob anxiously.
"Not a clue," Rob sighed. The team of six (Rob had to carry Tifa, and considering she's twice his size AND has some muscle, that was a pain.) had finally boarded the ship after assisting repairs to the Pokémon Center. They waved bye to Professor Oak and Nurse Joy as Rob continued. "Something swiped her soul before it disappeared. I want some answers."
"Maybe mom has some answers?" Maya suggested.
Rob's eyes widened with the suggestion of an idea. "YES! Maya! You're a genius! Tails, don't go anywhere yet?"
"What?" Tails asked.
"I need to speak with someone..." Rob quickly hopped on top of the ship. He raised his Keyblade into the air, waiting about 30 seconds before it quivered. The Kurt Zisa creature didn't show up, but Rob was pleased when Guard Armor crashed down in front of him.
(You called?) It asked.
"How do I get to the Heart of Darkness? I need to speak to my mom, I've got... a lot of questions," Rob groped for the right words.
(EASY!) In one fell swoop, Guard Armor knocked Rob and Maya unconscious. Ignoring the shocked faces, Guard Armor put Rob back in the ship and said to Tails, (I love doing that. You can take off now, I SWEAR they're okay.)
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Rob came to in the Heart of Darkness... the Dream World. "Ow..." he complained. He looked around. He remembered this place... when Darkside sank him, he came here although he body wound up in Traverse Town. He saw Maya in a corner, punching the wall and marveling at its bouncy resilience. Rob saw Tifa's soul hovering, and it seemed to be combined with her Heart.Tifa blinked. She then turned to Rob. "This is the Dream World?"
"Guess so... Your soul wound up here?"
"Yeah... Your mom pulled my Heart and Soul together here."
"That explains a lot. HEY YOU," He switched his attention to Guard Armor, who was staring down Kurt Zisa, while a man with spiky blonde hair, a red cape and a demonic appearance simply shook his head. He got the attention of all three. "Nice way to send us here!" He snapped at Guard Armor.
(Hey, I was NICE,) Guard Armor said. (Kurt Zisa probably would've killed you.)
Kurt Zisa simply stared at Guard Armor and his preposterous claim.
(Now boys, play nice...) Ms. Benton's spectral form appeared. Having the vague outline of a human bathed in darkness, she looked at her son with adoring yellow eyes. (I know all of you came for answers, or as best answers I can give you.)
"Hi mom!" Rob returned happily.
"Hi mom!" Maya added.
"Isn't this heartwarming..." The blond man remarked in earnest. He however, stepped up to Ms. Benton. "However, what I came to ask, is what does it mean to be Soulless? Or better yet, what ARE the Soulless?"
Tifa looked back at the blond man. "Could it be...?"
(Soulless. those without Souls... just as Heartless are without hearts. I must explain the spiritual body first. The human existence is split into four sections: the mind, the body, the soul, and of course the Heart. Normal humans, when they die, their body ceases to exist, the soul imbibes the knowledge within the mind and both the soul and the heart is carried away by the Heartless. This was back before they were corrupted.)
"So that's what I heard," the man said.
(Yes. The Heartless are pure darkness, created to carry out task without emotion, like robots. However, somehow, evil seeped within them and now they crave hearts to give them power. As they flood and destroy planets, the Soulless are trying to stop them.)
"But all I've seen are the evil Soulless," Rob stepped up. "Mom, what ARE they? It's the reason why Tifa... nearly lost her soul in the first place."
"Tifa..." The man chanted her name, as if trying to remember what it meant.
(I should've told you this a long time ago. It was something your father knew before I did. The Soulless are an opposite force of the Heartless, pretty much to counterbalance their existence. As a result, their nature is the exact opposite of the Heartless: they crave light, and seek to flood worlds with it much like the Heartless do with Darkness. Too much light is just as dangerous as too much darkness. Those who lose or shed only their soul become Soulless. Those who shed both Heart and Soul... become something like your father...)
"WHAT?!" Rob and Maya blinked, utterly shocked.
(Yes. He does have his heart, but it is lost in darkness. I have suffered a similar fate. It is why I too have the appearance of a Heartless, even though I am only Soulless. This also explains the extent of my powers. You wondered how your father managed to transform Tifa's soul into that thing, did you not?)
"YOU SAW THAT?!" Rob's jaw hit the floor, and she nodded sadly.
(We are still connected. The Dusk are a form of the Soulless, and I have seen, I've underestimated his powers.)
"If that's so, then why aren't you evil? ARE you evil?" Maya asked.
"The Dusk," Rob thought aloud. "Charlotte said something about them. Maybe that's why she was so damn crazy that night..."
(I'm not evil only because we have trusted each other with our Hearts... I can't say anymore now, but it will come to you soon.)
"I see, so far..." Rob said.
Ms. Benton suddenly turned her attention to the blond man and Tifa, even though they were apart. (Sir Cloud... Tifa... you two are new, aren't you? I can repair your souls, but they will not be as fully attached as they once were, so be careful. You will also bear the Soulless emblem. However, there will be benefits... benefits you'll have to discover on your own.) She twirled her hands, and a white flash overtook both Cloud and Tifa, and their transparency faded. They looked about as solid as anyone else in the room. When Cloud recovered, he turned to see Tifa, and Tifa back to Cloud.
"It's you, isn't it?" Tifa said.
"Tifa?" Cloud asked. They hugged fiercely, and Ms. Benton had to smack Guard Armor for making excessive gagging sounds. "How long has it been?"
"Too long... did you ever find Aeris?"
"I did, but we were separated again..." Cloud stepped out of the embrace. "I lost my soul trying to save her from the Soulless..."
Tifa simply hung her head. Cloud simply said, "But I'll find her, and we will meet again... the three of us," A portal opened, showing Cloud's body resting on a couch. He stepped in and disappeared.
"We gotta split," Maya said, noting the portal. She saw Sonic and Tails pointing excitedly and Dr. Eggman was trying to awaken the sleeping group. "Bye, mom! See ya next time!" She hopped in.
Rob shook his head at his carefree twin. "Hard to believe she's my twin, at times..."
As Rob began to leave, his mother echoed, (Don't forget, Cygnus, you share a destiny with your sister.)
"Cygnus?" Rob asked.
(Yes, that's your real name.)
"Cygnus? As in the swan constellation?"
(Yes.)
"I'M A FREAKING SWAN?!"
(No. You'll see why you have such a name soon. Farewell...)
"Farewell, mom..." Rob sighed before he left in the portal.
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"Wake up, Rob! We've spotted a source of Dark activity!" Rob came to as he heard Dr. Eggman talk excitedly."Good..." Rob said.
"Where is it?" Asked Tifa, who had recovered to everyone else's shock..
"The location is the Ilex Forest!" Tails chirped. "We're all the way in Johto now. Supposedly the forest protector visits here most often. Unfortunately I detect Heartless activity down here. And I think Team Rocket might be out here, too."
"We can take care of those idiots." Muttered Rob.
"This might be a piece of cake... too easy!" Sonic grinned and did leg stretches.
The group landed on the outskirts of the forest. Tails said, "We're stayin' here. Heartless are a bit stronger here, and we need to defend the ship."
"At least you got a legit excuse," Sonic muttered.
"Sonic... shut up."
Rob hopped out of the ship with Maya, Sonic, and Tifa. "Let's go then." He commanded.
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"So... THESE are your Pokémon, are they not?" A tall man with slightly tanned skin and armor leered at the old hunter as he pointed to the three Pokémon trapped in cages. Giovanni was with him. "I hear you used them to pursue a legendary Pokémon 40 years ago.""I know nothing of the sort! Although those are my Pokémon," the hunter hissed in response. The three Pokémon trapped in their cages all shared worried looks.
"Hmph... you won't talk then?" Giovanni smiled evilly. He handed a Dark Ball to the man in armor. "Here..." the man grinned and whistled.
"Sneasel!" The armor man commanded. He looked about between the three Pokémon-a Scyther, a Houndoom and a Tyranitar. "Break the Tyranitar's cage."
The Sneasel did so. The iron man wound up as Giovanni explained. "This is my new invention... the Dark Ball. Want to see how it works? Watch..." The Dark Ball captured the Tyranitar in a volley of Darkness and purple sparks flew from it as the ball settled. Sneasel handed the ball to Giovanni. The Team Rocket leader slammed the ball on the ground, releasing the Tyranitar. This Tyranitar lacked the worried look on its face, and instead showed one of pure evil. "If you will not tell me the location of the legendary Pokémon Celebi, then you shall watch the destruction of your home... and your life. Tyranitar... destroy everything." Giovanni and the man in armor laughed evilly as Tyranitar fired Hyper Beam after Hyper Beam, destroying the man's house and the surrounding area. One blast destroyed the Houndoom's cage, and the dog Pokémon escaped in a mist of darkness. The anguished hunter's screams of agony synchronized with that of his Scyther's like a nightmarish opera. Tyranitar roared in victory.
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"Wait! Please don't go in there!" An old woman warned."Huh? Why not?" A boy with a Pokémon league hat and a Pikachu turned around at the voice of the old woman. He was Ash Ketchum, a legendary Trainer from Kanto. His friends Misty and Brock were with him.
A teenage girl stepped up. "Hi... My name is Diana, and she is my mother Maki." She pointed to the woman. "Forty years ago my mom was with a boy named Sammy, who disappeared when he went beyond that log you're going into."
"Hmm... really?" Ash said. "Well, maybe I can find him!" He turned around and left into the forest anyway.
Misty and Brock reluctantly followed behind him.
"But wait...!" Maki began, but Ash had already gone.
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"Dammit, these Heartless are persistent!" Sonic yelled as he used Super Peel Out through a whole row of them. "What's with them and this place, anyway?""Looking for a Heart to take over, maybe?" Tifa suggested, as she launched a powerful kick against a Large Body. She blinked in utter amazement with herself when said Large body flew fifty feet into the air and crashed, dying instantly. "Wow... was THAT what Rob's mom meant?"
"This should end it!" Maya yelled. "THUNDER!" Lightning fell from the heavens and wiped out the last of the Heartless.
"Piece of cake, too easy!" Tifa boasted with her best impersonation of Sonic.
"Speak for yourself! I'm pooped," Maya sighed and rested her hands on her knees.
After some further silent trekking they head to find a shrine in the middle of the forest. "What is this?" Asked Rob.
"I believe it's the shrine dedicated to the protector of the forest Tails talked about," Sonic said as he wandered behind it. He spotted two boys and a girl tailing a yellow mouse. At this the forest began to glow blue and the group stopped in their tracks.
The mouse began to chatter in what sounded like "Pika pi!" and pointed to the shrine behind Sonic.
"Huh?" the shortest boy in the lead said. Sonic thought the mouse pointed to him, and obviously, so did the group. "What's that?"
"Who're they?" Sonic asked, and Rob and the rest of the group circled back behind Sonic. However, between them, two figures appeared out of the blue. A small, green Pokémon and a boy fell to the ground, unconscious. The green Pokémon awakened and hovered away. Rob came to the small boy, as the group ran to him.
"Who is this?" Rob asked.
"I don't know..." Ash pondered as he tried to shake the unconscious boy awake. "Hey, wake up!"
"He's too tired..." Rob noted.
"Let's take him back to the village."
"What village? We didn't see one here..." Rob asked, slightly confused,
"You must've come from the other way, then." Ash concluded. "Come on, let's help him."
Ash gave the limp boy a piggyback ride and Rob and the rest followed. "So... who are you guys?"
"My name is Rob... Rob Benton."
"I'm his younger sister, Maya," Maya said.
"Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Sonic showed off, as usual.
"Are you a Pokémon?" Ash asked.
"NO DAMN WAY!"
"Sonic!" Tifa reprimanded. "Well... my name is Tifa."
"I'm Ash Ketchum!" Ash introduced himself.
"I'm Misty."
Brock wasted no time in grabbing Tifa's hands with his own and looking as if he wanted to propose. "I've seen beautiful women, but you take the cake and eat it too! My name's Brock!"
Tifa blinked as Misty smacked him with a mallet and dragged him away. She forced a smile as she asked, "Are you from around here?"
Rob and his group looked at each other. "Nope! We're all from Kanto!"
"So are we!" Ash smiled.
"Pika pi!" Pikachu added.
At last they arrived at the small village. Upon arriving at the bottom, however, the boy known as Sammy woke up. "Huh... where am I?" he looked around. Not seeing Celebi, he wondered if this small group did anything rash. "Where's Celebi? What have you done to him?!" In a blind rage, he attacked Ash.
"HEY!" Ash cried as he dodged several blows.
Rob pulled out his Keyblade, wondering if the Heartless--or the Soulless-- somehow corrupted him.
"Sammy! Calm down!" Maki came back, obviously glad to see he's still alive. "Whatever happened, it's not their fault."
"Huh?" He stopped attacking Ash. "Who are you?"
"You don't remember me?" Maki asked. "I'm Maki."
"I'm sorry... but I don't recognize you." Sammy held a puzzled look on his face. Obviously, so did Rob.
"Hmm... Come to my hut, I have something for you," She turned around and left, and the large group followed her. Upon arriving at her hut, she immediately started digging around, looking for something. At last, she pulled out a sketchbook. "Here... I believe this is yours."
Sammy took it. "This... this is my sketchbook! I can't believe it!" he gasped. He looked through the pages. "Unreal. I've gone into the future, and I still have this..."
"So THAT explains where he came from," Maya said.
"Sent from forty years in the past!" Brock concluded.
A large metallic crash came from outside.
"I need to find Celebi!" Sammy quickly hopped up.
"Okay! We'll help!" Ash said.
The group stepped outside. However, before they were out of earshot, Maki yelled, "You be careful, all right?"
"Don't worry! We will!" Sammy yelled back.
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Not far on the trail, however, several Heartless emerged."AAAIIIEEE!!" Misty cried.
"What're those things?" Brock panicked.
"Are they even Pokémon?" Ash looked at these strange creatures with more curiosity than fear.
"No... they are Heartless." Rob hissed.
"And they're all over the place!" Tifa shouted.
One Heartless lunged, but it met Rob's Keyblade and died instantly. Sonic buzzsawed through a couple of the smaller Soldiers.
Several Blue Rhapsodies emerged and began to fire Blizzard spells at the group. Maya countered with a Fire spell, however. "ROAST BACON!!" Yelled Maya, as the fire spell scorched the Heartless mages.
Sammy got the message. He pulled out his old-fashioned Pokéball, made out of wood. "Charmeleon! GO!" he threw it, and out emerged the fire Pokémon. "Roast them with Flamethrower!"
"CCHHHAAA!" Charmeleon finished off the rest of the Blue Rhapsody.
"They can be defeated by Pokémon means." Sammy explained to the puzzled Ash.
"Yeah, but what ARE Heartless?!" Ash asked.
"You'll hear the WHOLE story, but later!" Rob said, noting the metallic footsteps coming their way and pulling out his Keyblade.
The metallic clanging belonged to a huge spider mech, piloted by the man in armor. "Who are YOU twerps?"
"You're talking to-" Ash snarled, but Rob clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Why should we tell who we are to someone who's about to have his butt handed to him?!" Rob sneered.
"Ah... Such pompous words coming from the Keyblade master and the supposed legendary Pokémon master! Jesse, James, and the Boss have told me MUCH about you two monkeys. Why, you're ruining his plans for world domination!"
"Who are you, and where is the rest of Team Rocket?" challenged Ash.
"They'll be planning your funeral shortly," the man sneered. "But I am the Iron-Masked Marauder, but you can call me Vicious. You twerps know anything about Celebi?"
"Even if we KNEW where he is, we won't tell you jack!" Sonic spat.
"Ah, a new rare species of Pokémon, I see. Boss would be pleased."
"WHAT was that?! I... am NOT... a friggin... POKÉMON!" Sonic lunged at Vicious' machine.
"Sonic! Don't do anything rash!" Maya shouted.
Sonic took heed to these words silently. At the last second, Sonic came to a stop in front of the spider mech.
Vicious pulled out a Dark Ball. "You're MINE!" he threw it at Sonic with amazing speed.
Sonic, however, sawed right through the contraption, causing dark energy to explode from where Sonic destroyed the Dark Ball. Sonic then delivered a Smash Kick to Vicious' head.
"OUCH!" Vicious turned around. "You'll PAY for that!" Cannons came from the mech and fired at Sonic, who easily dodged. Sonic smashed Vicious again. "Argh! That's IT!" He released the largest cannon. "Cannon, FIRE!" Sonic for once wasn't fast enough to move out of the way. Instead, he smashed into the beam as best he could and took the blow.
Sonic flew backwards into a tree.
"Sonic!" Rob shouted.
"THIS TIME I won't miss..." Vicious pulled out another one. However, just as he threw it, a Houndoom came out of nowhere and destroyed the ball with a single Crunch.
(Remember me?! I want REVENGE, asshole!) Houndoom used another Crunch on Vicious' machine.
"Yach!" Vicious cried as the machine began to short-circuit. He pulled out two Pokéballs. "Sneasel! Scizor! GET THEM!" he threw them out, and the Pokémon emerged.
"Heh, these chumps aren't any problem." Sonic smirked.
Too bad an entire Heartless legion emerged with them.
"On second thought, maybe we should RUN!!" Rob panicked and began to jet on his shoes. Sonic recovered and helped the slower guys move faster.
However, upon appearing in the forest, Misty falls from Sonic's grip and hurts her knee. "Ah!" she cries.
"Misty!" Cries Ash.
The group stopped to help up Misty, but the Heartless appeared, led by Scizor and Sneasel.
"Crap..." Rob gripped his Keyblade.
"We're cornered..." Maya whimpered.
But out of nowhere, Celebi emerged. From everywhere vines ensnared the Heartless and squeezed them to death, causing them to evaporate in mists of Darkness. Scizor and Sneasel cowered, but the vines ensnared them too and tied them to a rock.
Celebi fell, enervated form the huge effort put to defeat the Heartless.
"Celebi!" Ash and Sammy cried.
Even in its weak state, Celebi was far too afraid of Ash to let him get near, so a blast of psychic power sent him back, along with Sammy. (Stay back...) Rob heard.
The Houndoom that followed them stepped wearily towards Celebi. Dodging vines summoned by the Pokémon, Houndoom carefully picked it up. (You chill out... I'm not hunting you anymore.)
(You... why?) Rob heard Celebi ask.
(Kindness... be kind to Celebi, it won't fight back.) Houndoom announced. Everyone blinked at the dog barking at them, but Maya translated.
"He said if you're nice, Celebi won't fight." Maya beamed.
"You can understand Pokémon?" Brock asked.
"Yes!"
"How!?" Rob got into her face.
"Plot device!"
Rob smacked himself. Obviously, Maya would not reveal the truth. Minus one point for anything logical...
Ash came to it. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you..." Celebi drifted into Ash's arms. "He's a bit weak. What should we do?"
(Pure water should help.) Houndoom suggested, and Maya translated his words.
"Where would pure water be?" Tifa asked.
As if on cue, a Teddiursa and an Ursaring appear. Houndoom and the two Pokémon talk for a bit, and then Houndoom turns to the gang and instructs, (Follow them.)
The two Pokémon lead to a Stantler. The Stantler resumed the path, and ran into a Furret, who concluded the journey to the pure lake. Sammy took Celebi from Ash and laid him down in the lake. After a short while, Celebi glows and recovers. (I feel better!) It cried.
"It's recovered!" Sammy said happily.
"Yeah!" Ash cheered. The two pursued Celebi underwater, where a lot of Pokémon had gathered to see his recovery. Ash and Sammy don't last long underwater, so Celebi helped them out with psychic powers. They flew with Celebi over the heads of the rest of the gang. It touched Misty's knee and healed it instantly. Rob tried to use his shoes to fly, too, but crashed into a tree branch, which promptly summoned a pack of Mankeys to come out and beat the crap out of Rob.
When they landed, Celebi came to a berry tree. It took a bunch and ate them in one fell gulp. The group also began to eat these berries. At this, Maya asked Houndoom, "Why did you say you wouldn't chase Celebi anymore?"
Houndoom explained its story of how he chased Celebi forty years ago in his youth, along with a hunter and a Scyther. Not too long ago Vicious came by and turned his friend Tyranitar evil, causing the large Pokémon to destroy Houndoom's home... and his friends.
"I don't like that guy," Ash said. "I think he has something to do with those Heartless things that attacked us earlier, too."
(Heartless... beings without heart.) Celebi began, with Maya translating. (From the shadows. Take hearts. No emotion. Extreme power. Planet has heart. This planet... many hearts. Heartless take hearts... planet explodes... dies. Attracted to those with darkness in their heart. Everyone has darkness. Those of evil nature more so. Lack knowledge of good and evil. Do it only to survive and prosper.)
"So they do this just to survive?" Misty asked.
"Yeah, as far as we know," Sonic answered.
"What do you mean?" Sammy asked.
(Some darkness isn't evil... note Dark Pokémon,) Houndoom explained, Maya still translating. (There is a balance. Between light and dark, that balance maintains the universe. The side of light is represented by the Soulless...)
"...Soulless?" Brock asked.
"Yep, the polar opposite of the Heartless." Rob answered. "They're a counterbalance to the Heartless. From what I've gathered from my mom, they seek to flood this universe in light just as the Heartless want to flood it in darkness. Oddly enough, we haven't seen them around here."
"Is there any way to stop them?" Ash asked.
"But of course! You know some ancient old guys saw this coming and found a way to stop it!" Maya suddenly hopped on her brother and conjured the Keyblade while pretending to pull it out of a back pocket. "It's a KEYBLADE! You saw this baby in action when we were kickin the Heartless around! It's the key to undoing all this madness!"
"If you have the Keyblade, then..." Ash answered. Suddenly, he grabbed Rob and started shaking him. "IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET THE HEARTLESS TO STOP?!"
"Chill out! We're gonna find out how!" Rob said, a huge sweat drop forming on his head.
"I'm tired..." Tifa said, setting up a sleeping bag and falling out in a matter of seconds.
"Yeah... me too," Misty said, yawning.
(Rest well, friends,) Celebi chirped.
(Nighty night... sleep is for wimps. I'm staying up to be on guard for Heartless.) Houndoom snorted and stalked off.
"Good night, everyone!" Maya chirped.
"Good night!" Sonic yawned as he noticed the night Pokémon awakening. He had a feeling that the Heartless won't be disturbing their sleep anytime soon.
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Early that morning, before the sun rose, Sammy had his sketchbook. Observing the sleeping forms of Celebi and Pikachu cuddled with each other, he began to draw the two of them. Not soon after he had finished the drawing, he heard the eerie, yet lonely howl of Houndoom."The poor guy lost all of his friends... his trainer, too," Ash came in front of Sammy.
"Ash? Did Houndoom wake you up?" Sammy asked.
"Nope... been awake," he answered.
"I haven't been able to sleep... I mean... I'm FORTY years in the future, and I have no idea how... can I ever get home?"
"Don't worry..." Rob showed up. He looked like he had been in a brief scuffle, with his victory, of course. "We'll find a way."
"Houndoom wake YOU up?" Asked Sammy.
"Yup... good thing, though, a couple of Heartless were trying to kill some of those monkey Pokémon back there. Same ones that kicked my butt yesterday. I finished the Heartless with ease."
At this, Pikachu woke up. Gently setting Celebi's head down on the ground, Pikachu scurried behind Ash. Celebi woke up anyway and tailed Pikachu.
The sun began to rise. Ash, Rob, and Sammy saw several Metapod beginning to hatch into Butterfree. The sheer beauty of the Butterfree amazed the trio, as well as the entering Celebi and Pikachu.
"Wow..." Rob marveled, amazed at the sheep beauty.
"Simply beautiful..." Ash added.
(Beauty... hope. Hope beyond darkness. Hope IN darkness.) Celebi said.
"Man, I wish the others could see this..." Sammy said. "No wait... they can!" he pulled out his sketchbook and drew the scene of the hatching Butterfree.
After the scene was over and Sammy finished, Rob concluded, "Let's go get the others."
"Right..." Ash agreed.
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"Our job's not done here yet..." Rob announced."That Iron-Mask freak is still on the loose!" Sonic added.
"Well... where IS he, anyway?" Asked Ash.
"RIGHT HERE..." Vicious returned in a new Spider mech. "Celebi shall be mine... and the hedgehog will be my blue plate special!"
"Come again, Iron-Man?" Sonic challenged. "You can't even make good jokes, let alone good machines? What have you THIS time?"
"I think I'll let THE BOSS tell you that," Vicious smirked. At that, a pool of darkness formed, and out emerged... Giovanni. With him were Jesse, James, Meowth, and Umbreon.
"I think we rather LIKE our new style of transportation!" Jesse beamed.
"Team Rocket!" All of our heroes exclaimed.
"You twerps 'll never learn!" Meowth crowed. "For today's the day we sink yous into darkness!"
"Rob... So we DO meet again," Giovanni smirked. "In the end we decided that flooding the worlds with light wasn't our style. But we'll figure out a way to get rid of them... But you WON'T survive. The evil within shall have you all." He pulled out a Dark Ball. "There are other Team Rocket plans that we must attend to, but I'm pretty sure the Heartless that assist Vicious will be more than enough to kill you all." Giovanni kept his smirk, and to add insult to injury, Meowth gave the group the finger (if that was even possible). "Farewell." Giovanni handed Vicious the Dark Ball and all the villains sank into the darkness, leaving only Vicious.
"Meet your death... go, TYRANITAR!" Vicious threw out the Dark Ball containing Tyranitar. The mighty Rock/Dark Pokémon roared, and everyone got ready to fight.
"Tyranitar! DESTROY THEM ALL! " Vicious commanded.
Vicious also chucked a Dark Ball to the side. However, nothing happened, at least, nothing obvious happened.
Tyranitar launched his first Hyper Beam.
"WHOA!" Ash barely dodged the blast. "I think he needs a bit of rearrangement! Bayleef! GO!" He threw out the Pokéball with Bayleef. "Bayleef! Razor leaf!"
Bayleef used the leaves to tear through Tyranitar. It roared in pain.
Winged Soldier Heartless formed from the ground.
Dodging the attacks, Rob and Sonic sliced through the group of Heartless. Pikachu hopped off of Ash and sent one sailing over the horizon with a well-placed kick.
Tyranitar stomped the ground and caused a massive earthquake. Rob and friends took damage.
Tifa snarled and reared back her fist. "I hate this thing... Dolphin Punch!" She aimed and let loose with the watery punch right on Tyranitar's face. It reeled back in pain but whipped around to smack Tifa with its tail. Bayleef came back and used Vine Whip, holding it down with thick vines.
Tyranitar however, grew wiser of this and picked up the vines. It began to sling the vines around, and Bayleef could do nothing as it became Tyranitar's next discus.
"No!" Ash cried.
Tifa slung a Winged Heartless out of the way to assist Bayleef. She launched another Dolphin Punch and smashed Tyranitar with it. Bayleef withdrew its vines and used Razor Leaf again. It struck Tyranitar, crippling it.
However, Tyranitar wasn't done yet. Another Earthquake stunned Bayleef and Tifa. It prepared yet another Hyper Beam when it was silenced by a sudden Crunch attack.
(SNAP OUT OF IT!) Houndoom roared. He used a tail lash and smashed Tyranitar across the forest and near the pure lake they had been earlier. He ended the onslaught with a steady Flamethrower that caused Tyranitar to sink into the water. Houndoom sank into the ground, not only tired but upset. (Forgive me...)
"Bayleef, return!" Ash said, returning Bayleef to her Pokéball.
"CELEBI!" Sammy cried. During the fight with Tyranitar, Celebi was being swallowed by darkness!
Sammy tried in vain to rescue it, but his efforts failed. Celebi fell deep into the darkness. "NOO!"
"My plan was a success!" Vicious cheered. "Now, Celebi! Show them your new moves! DESTROY THEM!"
"What?! That previous fight was only a distraction!" Rob snarled. "AND Celebi's gone evil!"
Celebi emerged out of the darkness, a look of pure evil on its face. The Heartless insignia was engraved on its chest.
"Its heart has been taken!" gasped Misty.
"THAT'S RIGHT, and now watch as he takes YOURS..." Vicious sneered. Celebi used a huge psychic blast that sent everyone flying back. "Celebi... augment your darkness." Vicious commanded.
Suddenly, several trees were uprooted and drawn to Celebi. Masses of dead and living trees swirled towards Celebi, forming something.
A sudden tree branch ensnares Misty.
"AAAIIIIEEEEE!" Misty cried.
"MISTY!" Yelled Ash.
"BASTARD!" Rob bellowed.
"She's being drawn in!" Brock yelled.
The tree branches formed a horrible monster. This monster, however, was reminiscent of Celebi itself. It had the appearance of a giant, demonic version of Celebi.
"Curse our bad luck..." Rob readied his Keyblade.
Suicine dashed through the mountains nearby. A particularly odd group of humans caught his attention today, and he was heading in their direction to check them out. However, he felt a high surge of darkness in that direction. Sensing something totally wrong, Suicine picked up the speed and dashed in the direction of the evil.
Seeing the flying tree branches from the village, Dr. Eggman became worried. "This does NOT look good."
"Heartless activity is off the charts!" Tails exclaimed.
"Sammy and the others went that way!" Maki panicked.
"We need to investigate!" Diana added.
"Let's go, then," Dr. Eggman said.
The four of them hopped on the ship and blasted off in the direction of the tree branches.
"Its power is amazing!" Sonic gasped.
"It has Celebi's heart... not to mention it also has Misty's fear." Maya answered. "We'll have to give Celebi its heart back to destroy the monster!"
"Expose the Heart... return it to Celebi," Rob instructed to everyone.
"We can do that," Ash and Sammy said.
"We'll fight it, then." Rob stepped up to the rampaging monster.
"Why, you're making yourself fish in a barrel!" Vicious gloated. "Fry 'em!"
"NOT so..." Rob jumped up to attack.
The Celebi-demon smashed Rob backwards, but Rob landed on his feet. Rob snarled.
"Here, try this!" Maya shouted. "Fire!" She shot Rob's Keyblade with the flame. Rob got the idea and slashed them monster for heavy damage.
"Watch out for Misty!" warned Brock.
The Celebi-demon fired a dark beam, barely missing the group.
"I don't like this freak!" Sonic snarled. "Sonic Wind!" The blue whirlwind smacked the monster, but it only appeared to be annoying it. "Aw, man!" He dodged another dark beam from the monster.
Dodging several beams of darkness, Rob came up and used another fire sword against it.
The monster flinched, and Celebi's heart was exposed.
"AAIIIEE!" Vicious panicked. "Celebi, hover over water!"
The Celebi-demon hovered backwards and over the lake. "HAAA! Can't get me now! But I can get YOU!" Another dark beam fired, but it also missed.
"We can't reach it now!" Ash complained.
(Now you can...) Suicine showed up in a flash.
"Suicine!" Ash recognized the creature. "I KNEW I saw you earlier."
(No time... Hop on.)
"You know what to do, right?" Rob said.
"Yeah," Sammy said. Both Ash and Sammy hopped on Suicine and the Pokémon dashed off on the lake.
Crawling in the depths of the monster, they found Celebi's heart. Ash picked it up, surprised such a spiritual thing could be held physically. They also saw Misty.
"Misty!" cried Ash.
Sammy tried his best to untangle the vines that ensnared Misty; after a while, however, he freed her.
"Thanks..." she gasped.
"Come on!" Ash hurried up to where Celebi sat in the monster's head. Ash willed the heart to Celebi. The Heartless insignia faded. However it was still attacking.
"Celebi! STOP!" Ash cried.
Celebi stopped for a moment. Its memories drifted back to the time they revived him.
"What're you DOING?!" Vicious cried. "ATTAAAAACK!"
Celebi struck again.
"Celebi! Please stop!" Misty pleaded.
Celebi stopped and clutched its head, remembering the time Rob got his kicked by a group of Mankeys. Oops, wrong memory.
"HEY!" Rob shouted outside.
Celebi went back to attacking the rest of the group.
"Celebi! Stop! You can't be consumed by this evil!" Sammy cried.
Celebi cried and clutched its head. The memory of watching the Butterfree hatch consumed his mind. At last, he made the connection between his heart, and the darkness abandoned him.
Celebi was no longer evil.
"HHEEEYY!" Vicious cried. "That's it!" He swooped down from atop the now docile monster and kicked Ash away.
(I had enough...) Suicine smashed Vicious with a bubble beam. Crumpled to the ground, Vicious could do nothing as Suicine took the other four out of the Celebi demon. Once safe on the ground, Suicine instructed Rob, (Finish it!)
"All right!" Rob prepared his Keyblade.
(Roast him for me... for US...) Houndoom powered up Rob's Keyblade with a Fire Blast.
"Fire!" Maya added more power.
"And now," Rob rushed up to the beast while Vicious was still inside. "Cease the evil... in darkness," Rob took a mighty slash, destroying the beast with one fell slash, overheating it and causing it to fry to death.
Vicious ceased to exist.
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A group of Mankeys was watching the entire fight. When Rob slashed the monster down in half, the ensuing blast nearly hit them. This pissed them off. They went to declare war when a passing ship came by. They hitched a ride on the flying ship...
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Silence fell in the forest as Celebi crumpled again tired from the fight.
Rob felt the water. "It isn't pure. The debris from the monster soiled it."
(I can fix that...) Suicine answered, and he began to glow. Jumping from place to place on the lake, Suicine recovered the water to its original state. Sammy put Celebi in the water again. It took much longer than last time and our heroes worried.
But Celebi began to recover. Its eyes blinked.
At this, the ship containing everyone else arrived.
"Eggman!" cried Sonic.
The ship stopped. A crowd of Mankeys hopped off and beat the crap out of Rob. Before Rob could even counter, they ran away. Dr. Eggman and Tails emerged, but so did Maki and Diana. "Sammy!" she cried.
"Maki..." he hugged her.
"Well, our job is done here!" Maya said.
(Sammy... phone home!) Celebi giggled.
"I'll miss you all," Sammy said. He gave Ash a hug. "For friendship." He also gave Rob a hug, and he said, "For showing the light in darkness..." He turned to everyone as Celebi touched his shoulders. "I have to go home... Farewell..." Sammy said, as he and Celebi disappeared. Suicine bode Rob farewell and dashed off. Everyone waved to the disappearing guests.
"Is this the last time we'll see you guys?" Ash asked Rob.
"Maybe... maybe not." Rob answered. "But remember this... keep true to your heart, no matter how much darkness rests in it... it's your greatest weapon against evil."
"Farewell," Sonic waved.
"Bye!" Everyone from the planet waved as the six heroes climbed on the spaceship and blasted off.
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Near the lake that very night, Houndoom howled again. It would forever remember his new friends, it would forever remember Rob and most of all, it would remember Tyranitar... his old friend who tragically fell to the darkness. Houndoom howled in tribute once more, and then set off to find Rob.
Back in Viridian City, Professor Oak hung up the phone. He consoled Ash, who had been made slightly miserable by the farewell of his friends Sammy. "You must always keep your friends in your heart, no matter where they are," he had said. When Ash said bye, enlightened by this information, Professor Oak hung up and headed off into a separate room. All of his most important stuff had been moved here, after he and Delilah had escaped Pallet Town to avoid Heartless invasion. From these things he saw his old sketchbook. He picked it up and looked inside. The very same pictures Sammy drew were in this book.
"It feels just like yesterday..." Professor Oak said, a tear of happiness in his eye.
(A/N: You like? I know it's not directly the movie, but I saw a summary of such, and made it a tribute, since I wouldn't be caught dead visiting it in theatres. You'll love my take on the KH2 events in Hollow Bastion next chapter!)