Kingdom Hearts: Chaos Angel
Episode 9: Not Another Pokémon Adventure
(A/N: YES, this will be the last Pokémon movie I integrate... Note that I watched this movie RAW, so I may not have the words right, but translated names I received before I began this piece.)
"A long time ago, on an island called Alto Mare, there lived an old couple. One day, the couple found two injured kids on the beach. Thanks to the medical expertise of the couple, the kids recovered. Suddenly, a fierce darkness covered the land, swarming all over the island. However, just as this darkness was about to completely destroy the island, the kids transformed right in front of the old couple's eyes. They were the Eon Pokémon, Latios and Latias. They called their friends. Using a mysterious power, they erased the darkness from the island. That darkness never came into the island ever again. That power was said to come from the 'Soul Dew'. The Pokémon and this Soul Dew were said to be hidden in this land."
The two thieves closed the book. Both dressed alike in black shirt, black leather pants and silk white gloves. As they heard a policeman sweep the area, they snuck off with the book upstairs to a window. All the policeman saw was a single rose, and a card with two lipstick marks-one pink, the other purple. He could only stare in shock as the thieves made their escape.
There stood a metal cord connecting the walls of the library to a tree nearby. Both thieves grabbed a hook and slid down the cord with speed and grace, landing in a conveniently parked car. Both ladies strapped themselves in, and the purple-haired thief started the car.
The other thief, with her hair styled in two blond buns, said, "But isn't it just a legend?"
The driving thief simply answered, "That book contained the legend of Latios and Latias, as well as the mysterious Soul Dew." She drove the car with incredible speed, and eventually they drove straight off a cliff, only for their car to turn into a flying jet (yep, you can smell the spy movie action). The jet streaked the night sky towards their destination.
The blond hugged the book. "I don't care. All I want is that shiny jewel."
"That jewel contains unimaginable power. It should be ours!" The two spotted an island city in the distance.
Both smirked. "Alto Mare."
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"Oooh, THIS is interesting," Tails noted as he read a computer map.
"Hmmm? What'd you catch?" Dr. Eggman asked, as he fiddled with a book called Lord of the Flies.
"This place I'm tracing seems to be HEARTLESS FREE! HECK, they can't even touch a ten mile radius of this place!"
"What is that place?" Tifa walked next to Eggman, tilting her head to read the map. This forced a very irritated Eggman to tilt his head to avoid Tifa's. "Alto Mare? Never heard of it!"
"That's too bad, I heard that place is perfect for seeking the love of your dreams," Maya recalled dreamily. "Ahhhhh," She then swooned over. A confused Rob looked at Maya's love-struck state before glancing in Tails' direction.
"Heartless free, huh?" Rob asked with a slight grin. "You got my attention."
"An odd sort of power resides there," Tails said. "I don't know what it is, but it seems to be that power that keep out the heartless. No dark readings ANYWHERE.."
"That's interesting," Cloud said. "We should look into this."
"Sound idea!" Dr. Eggman agreed, trying his best to sound like a Britain.
"Shouldn't we split? Maybe we can cover more ground!" Sonic asked Tails.
"Good idea, but just don't run into any moron trainers..." Tails trailed off.
"WELL THEN, I'm free fallin' to the town! Rob! Betcha can't catch me!" Sonic made a face at Rob and then dived off the ship, shooting like a bullet once he landed on the water.
"Cheap bastard," Rob snarled as he made chase. He too leapt out of the ship, the sheer speed of his fall whipping his shirt like a fierce wind. Rob activated his jet shoes and sped off towards Alto Mare. "Wow..." Rob marveled, noting the town's similarity to Venice, Italy. "Cool," Rob grinned as he streaked through a canal, marveling at the town's Italy-like appearance. Jetting through another canal, he flew past several shocked faces and Pokémon. "Pokémon?"
Aw, MAN! Not another Pokémon movie!
Rob continued to scan his surroundings. Cursing the not unexpected fact that he lost Sonic and lost TO Sonic yet again, Rob took to landing on a bridge and began to walk across it, looking for the accursed hedgehog.
With words that would've made Dr. Robotnik proud, he bellowed "HOW I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!" However, something caught his peripheral vision. "Hmm?" He dashed over, to see a familiar face.
Ash Ketchum.
The kid was in a life vest and swim trunks, cuddling a sullen Totodile, which was likely his. Pikachu comforted it, Ash said some encouraging words, and Totodile gained its happy spirits. Ash turned around. "Rob! Short time, no see!"
"Fun. What happened here?" Rob asked.
"Totodile and I were in a race with a bunch of water Pokémon trainers. Thanks to a mysterious force, we took the lead but we were lead right off track. At least Totodile tried. So what're you here for?"
"A complete lack of Heartless activity here, and that's a GOOD thing," Rob grinned. "I'm trying to find out what's responsible."
"Speaking of that, never seen any Heartless around," Ash said. "Come on, let's find the others!"
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"And your name is...." Misty began with a sweat drop, staring at the odd, demonic-looking spiky haired man in front of her.
"My name's Cloud," Cloud said. "I'm an old friend of Tifa's."
However, Maya shoved him out of the way, seeing Misty's apparent weariness.
"He's a weirdo, don't mind him," Maya chattered, ignoring Tifa's angry look. "So how have you guys been?"
"Great! I won the race!" Misty puffed up proudly.
"That's awesome!" Tifa said.
"Let's not let that get to your head, Misty..." Brock muttered under his breath.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Misty roared.
"Nothing, I swear!" Brock chuckled nervously. He then noticed Tifa. He grabbed her hands, "Oh, how I knew the love of my life would return!" he crowed happily.
Clod, noting Tifa's embarrassed smile, simply pointed his huge sword at Brock's neck. "I don't think she likes you," he deadpanned.
Brock turned around slowly and saw Cloud. He sank in rejection. "You must be her boyfriend..."
"Not exactly, but I've known her for ages, and I can tell when she doesn't like company, men, me, or otherwise," Cloud simply said, not putting his sword down.
"Cloud..." Tifa began. Cloud lowered his sword, and Brock simply slid behind Misty.
"Hey guys," Sonic zoomed to the group, followed by Ash and Rob. "How's it going? Wondered what took you so long."
Cloud simply stared at the cocky hedgehog. "You tell me," he answered. "Since the Heartless are not here to cause havoc, we're going to take a break and tour this city."
"So are we!" Ash added. "Wanna join us?"
"SURE!" The dark heroes interjected.
"Let's go!" They all rushed into the heart of the maze like city. However, Pikachu stopped, noticing something. He ran back to another corridor, where a fountain was. A woman had just finished letting her Vaporeon a drink of water. The electric rat felt horribly thirsty, and Pikachu rushed to the fountain, but by that time the water stopped. Pikachu sighed sadly, its thirst still eating at its tiny throat. But what the heck was THIS? The water turned back on! Pikachu rejoiced by happily drinking the gushing water from the fountain, nodding his head in thanks to a mysterious redhead girl with odd spikes coming form her hair. The kind girl smiled at Pikachu, not minding his rabid thirst. Pikachu replied with a happy "Chaa!" and drank more.
"Pikachu!" Ash came back towards Pikachu, with Rob behind him. "Oh," he said, seeing what Pikachu was doing. However, the girl noticed him, and started staring at him intently, as if he were an alien object. She noticed Rob and also stared at him, circling around the two like a curious... child. She then ran off, leaving Ash and Rob to blink at each other in utter confusion. Pikachu didn't give a crap-it was too busy enjoying its water.
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"What a lovely place..." Annie commented as they took their speedboat through Alto Mare, her blond hair blowing in the wind. "The Soul Dew is bound to be here, and the mysterious Pokémon as well."
"Yeah, but can't they disguise themselves as humans?" Oakley asked, fiddling with her purple hair.
"That's why we have THESE..." Annie grinned, showing off some strange sunglasses. "These detect body heat within people. Pokémon disguised as humans lack this body heat, so we'll know when we've got the right one..." Annie handed Oakley hers, and she put on her own.
The speedboat carried them through the canals of the city, and Annie and Oakley continued to monitor for one of the mysterious Pokémon, unaware of their being watched by Jesse and James.
"Those two are rather impressive!" Jesse commented.
"Boss would be pleased. I smell an encounter with the good guys soon, we'll see what they're REALLY worth," James added, smiling evilly.
Some time later, their boat slowed down, eying a young girl with odd spikes. Annie put on her glasses. The glasses revealed her true form-a Pokémon!
"As I thought," Annie muttered with a snide grin. "Oakley, we've hit jackpot!"
"Hmm? Oh!" Both girls turned to the young girl walking along the path. "Oh little girl, are you lost..."
"Latias," Annie grinned, holding a Pokéball.
The girl began to panic, and she ran off.
"Espeon!" Annie threw her Pokéball out, and the psychic Eeveelution emerged.
"Ariados!" Oakley threw hers, and a giant orange spider with a spike on its head emerged as well, shaking itself. "Get her," stood Oakley's command.
Both Pokémon made pursuit.
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Ash and Rob waited patiently for Pikachu to finish his water. However, the electric rat sensed something, and let out a "Pikapi!" before motioning Ash and Rob to follow it.
"Something's wrong!" Ash said.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious...." Rob grinned as they tailed Pikachu.
"Shut up!"
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"Where's Rob!" Sonic cursed to himself. Suddenly, he felt something, and his instincts told him to head towards another river. Using quick speed, he dashed off.
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The girl, known now as Latias, continued running. Ariados and Espeon continued to make chase, and Ariados snuck by. Crawling on a bridge, Ariados hopped off and landed in front of Latias, blocking her exit. She whirled around to see Espeon had also sealed her exit. She shivered in fear, but Espeon wasted no time in using a Disable attack to cripple Latias, and Ariados used String Shot to wrap her in a sticky web.
Annie and Oakley arrived on their speedboat. It slowed to a stop and both hopped off to inspect their new capture. "We're good," Oakley bragged.
"Yes, and now we're gonna be rich too." Added Annie, leering at the stunned Latias.
"Hey YOU TWERPS! Stop RIGHT THERE!" The girls turned to see two boys and a Pikachu glaring angrily at them. One boy held what looked like a giant key.
"You let her go!" Ash shouted. The Pikachu agreed.
Annie and Oakley looked at each other. Who were THESE jokers?
"Didn't yo mamma tell you that kidnappin' little girls is wrong?" Rob snarled.
Sonic, at this time, dashed in just as Rob said his comment. "Yeah, what he said," Sonic pointed to Rob, agreeing.
"Hi Sonic," Ash and Rob sweat-dropped.
"Oh, and we're supposed to feel guilty?" Annie raised an eyebrow and grinned at Ash.
Oakley mock pouted. "And I thought I was doing the right thing..." She then sneered. "Maybe it's time I taught you not to meddle in our business? Espeon?"
Espeon fired a Psybeam on all of them. Ash and Pikachu flinched, Rob and Sonic laughed.
"Widdle psychic powers are supposed to hurt us?" Sonic laughed.
"Yeah, try that on someone who actually-" Rob also laughed but then he made a huge mistake.
He looked at Oakley's chest.
At once, his nose started bleeding. "AUGH! My nose! It's BLEEDING!"
Ash was dumbfounded, but Sonic smacked his own head. Poor Rob.
"Oh?" Annie raised her eyebrow. Then, spotting why, she then grinned. "I think we have a pervert!"
"How about we kick his ass?" Oakley grinned. "Espeon?"
"Ugh... You SUCK..." Rob wiped his nose and pulled out his Keyblade.
"Pikachu!" Ash shouted, getting into a battle stance.
"Wanna dance?" Sonic growled.
"Sure," Annie lunged for a kick, but Sonic was too fast and circled behind, doling his own kick.
Pikachu fought Espeon. Both Pokémon danced with agility, and Pikachu kept using Thundershocks to Espeon's psychic blasts.
Although Sonic owned Annie, Rob was having too much difficulty focusing. He dodged another kick from Oakley and another String Shot from Ariados. But he couldn't bring himself to attack Oakley. "Oy, what's the matter?" Oakley taunted. "Too busy fantasizing to fight?"
"Shut up!" Rob roared. "Man, I wish I could use magic..." he muttered. A beat. "Hey waitadamnminute... didn't I use magic earlier?"
He remembered when Sora had cast Thunder magic, and he had to stop the attack by putting his own Keyblade to the air the same way. He also remember how he surprised Sora with a blast of darkness.
"Rob! WATCH OUT!" Ash shouted. Rob snapped back into reality just in time to dodge a vicious kick to the groin by Oakley. Oakley back-flipped and tried to smash him from the air.
"It's time I try something new... THUNDER!" Rob shouted, pointing his Keyblade just like he did before, and a small bolt of lightning struck Oakley in mid-air, negating her air attack and causing her to crash painfully into the ground.
"Yeah!" Ash said. "Rob, use that magic!"
"Bingo," Rob heeded Ash's words and danced around Oakley, using Thunder every time she went airborne. Ariados used a Shadow Ball, but Rob simply swatted it back on the creature and knocked it away. Rob leapt up to cast another Thunder...
...And it didn't work.
Rob cursed. "Curses! Out of MP..." before falling flat on his face. Oakley laughed and stomped on Rob's back painfully.
"You're outta luck kid," she sneered.
Seeing the fair lass they were supposed to free was now... free thanks to Ash, Rob motioned for Ash with his left hand to get ready to run. "Nah... I still got some LEFT!" he smacked Oakley's leg off of him and pounced away.
"Sonic! Ash! RUN FOR IT!" He commanded.
Sonic, who had just finished smashing Annie, kicked her into the canal and ran off. Ash guided Latias away, and Pikachu stopped fighting Espeon and ran off as well.
Annie growled as she crawled out of the canal. "Espeon! GET THEM!"
Espeon heeded her command, and Annie told Ariados to follow.
Rob skated in a frenetic madness, leading Ash, Latias, and surprisingly Sonic to safety. Alto Mare's mazelike pathways only became even more confusing.
" I get the nagging feeling we're lost," Ash began.
"Heh, but we lost the loser Pokémon," Rob answered. They all slowed to a stop, trying to get their bearings straight.
"This place is HUGE," Ash gasped. "Where can we get to everyone else?"
Latias suddenly smiled. She grabbed Sonic's hand and started running in another direction. And for such a girl, she was quite fast. "Whoa!" Sonic shouted as she darted around from path to path, leading everyone else. Up a flight of stairs, she suddenly let go, and Sonic, Ash, and Rob were now over looking a balcony. "I remember this place! Thanks-" Sonic whirled around, but the little girl was no longer there.
"She's gone..." Rob sighed.
"Pika pi..." Pikachu sighed.
"Why is everyone sighing?" Ash sighed.
"HEY, LOSER BOYS! WHERE WERE YOU?!" They looked down to see Maya, Cloud, and a smirking Brock. Maya was speaking. "You missed the lifetime opportunity of the world's best ice cream!"
"Ice Cream?" Sonic and Rob looked at each other. Some time ago, Rob had told Sonic about the time his sister laid hands on some ice cream. His life was forever scarred. Sonic and Rob paled. "Oh, no..."
"I WANT SOME!" The now ecstatic Ash dragged Sonic and Rob by surprise and sprinted downstairs, Pikachu tailing along.
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"What is that?" asked Ash as he pointed to two grand pillars, with two crude carvings of what looked like a strange hybrid of cute dragon and an airplane styled bird. He, Cloud, Rob, Misty, Brock, and Maya had taken a boat and promised to meet everyone else at the museum.
"THAT, is a carving of the eon Pokémon, Latios and Latias..." Their tour guide began. "There stood a legend about them..."
"What kind of legend?" asked Rob.
"It was said that they once saved this town from a nightmarish darkness many, many years ago. Using the power of the Soul Dew, they kept this town in great harmony to this very day."
"Interesting..." Cloud noted, not bothering to look at it again.
"Be nice to meet a Pokémon like that..." Brock added.
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"Wondered what would take the great Sonic the Hedgehog so long to find two meddling kids,"Tifa raised one eyebrow and grinned.
"Shut up, it's not MY fault two ladies decided to attack us! Not to mention Rob is a pervert!" Sonic shot back.
"I AM NOT A PERVERT! For the LAST TIME, I've been raised in a church for my whole life, and I had NO IDEA that happens!" Rob complained.
Maya could only giggle. That was NOT the first time she heard reports of Rob's nose "donating" blood every time he had met a lady in a compromising situation.
"I saw you earnestly trying to fight them, but that nose bleeding never helped matters much," Ash snickered.
Rob sighed, groaned, and buried his hands in his face. He'd NEVER be able to live this down...
"Let's get on with it," Cloud opened the door, and the ladies entered first. Rob gaped in marvel at the huge museum. It housed an odd machine in the large center, and several windows of painted glass lined around the building. Near the other side on the second story sat various works of art.
"Welcome to the museum," greeted an old man. He had a blue shirt and red overalls, and was somewhat chubby. His nametag read: "Hi, my name is Lorenzo." Lorenzo began, "This museum houses not just works of art, but also this ancient machine. No one knows what it does."
Ash's alert eyes spotted a young girl finishing a painting. She wore a small white hat, but she was dressed and even looked like the same girl they rescued earlier... "Huh?"
Noting Ash's distracted look, Rob also looked up and saw this girl. "Isn't she the same girl we rescued earlier today?" He leaned on the machine for a closer look.
"Don't touch the machine!" Lorenzo sharply scolded.
"ROB!" Maya snapped.
"You didn't see anything! I mean, I'm sorry!" Rob rubbed his neck, embarrassed.
"Listen, Rob and I have to go check something out! We'll meet you guys later!" Ash said, noting the girl was leaving. "Pikachu!"
"Pi PI pika!" the mouse responded.
"What, and leave me with these losers? No way!" Sonic tailed Pikachu and Rob, with Ash in the lead, out of the museum, ignoring the perplexed faces of their friends.
Ash flew down some stairs, but Rob simply jumped and boosted over them, and Sonic grinded down the rail. Pikachu had to use agility just to keep even with Rob and Ash. Chasing the girl down an alley, Sonic dodged passerby and avoided angry Pokémon. They moved on, unaware of being spied on by Annie and Oakley's small camera device.
When they reached a bridge, Ash saw the girl crossing the other end. "Hey!" he shouted. "Aren't you the girl we rescued earlier today?"
"I don't know what you're talking about..." the girl responded, a slightly snobbish look on her face, and she continued on her merry way.
This only baffled Ash. "Huh?! HEY!" he started running again.
"She spoke for the first time," Rob noted.
"Yeah, ain't that weird?" Sonic questioned as they tailed Ash. However, upon running some more, they found that Ash had run into a four-way alley.
"Which way?" He pondered.
"Pi PIKA!" Pikachu went straight, and Ash had no choice but to follow. Rob and Sonic tailed as well.
Another bridge, but this time they saw the girl. This girl lacked the hat Rob saw, and he felt this time they chased the right one.
Latias grinned, but Ash picked up a slight temper, "Hey, what's with the games?!"
She simply wagged her finger in a Sonic-like style, motioned them to follow her and ran off.
"She's toying with us," Sonic muttered.
"Never mind that! Let's GO!" Ash followed Latias's trail.
After several turns and bridges, Latias led them into a small area with an unusually smooth wall. Smiling, she went in, the wall rippling as if she entered water.
Pikachu followed.
"Guess we should go in..." Ash said. The three of them walked in, walking what first seemed like darkness, then a small, temple like room. At last, they reached outside to hear Pikachu babbling excitedly.
"WHOA!" Rob marveled. Their eyes viewed one of the biggest gardens they've ever seen. Beautiful trees dotted the landscape, and several Yanma gathered water. "Yeah, I feel it now... the power that puts the Heartless to rest: the balanced power. It's somewhere in here!"
"Let's look a bit, first!" Sonic smacked Rob and marched by, looking about the garden.
Ash looked further and saw Latias swinging on a swing set. However, some wind chimes twirled, almost as if they were an alarm system.
At this, an invisible being emerged from the water and dashed towards our heroes, ready to decimate them.
"Pika!" Pikachu panicked.
"What the..." Ash looked to see a shape swirl around the trees and begin to dive. "Pikachu!" he pointed to the invisible being. "Thunderbolt!"
Pikachu fired one, but the being swiftly dodged, and then proceeded to smash Pikachu in the gut. "PIIKAAAAA!" Pikachu fell over.
"Pikachu!" Ash comforted his fallen Pokémon, who recovered and began to growl.
"This thing...!" Sonic jumped into the air and used a homing attack, smacking the being away. But the collision of both forces felt too strong, and Sonic hit the dirt.
Rob pulled out his Keyblade. However, before he could unleash an attack Latias appeared in front of him and blocked the way from the creature.
The creature turned visible, turning into a bird/plane/dragon thing that Ash had remembered...
"Latios!" Ash gasped.
Latios snarled and motioned for Latias to get out of the way, but she just shook her head. Latios kept motioning, but Latias still held fast. Sonic, Ash, and Rob could only stare until someone they recognized walked in.
"Hey!" said the girl who looked just like Latias. "How'd you find this place?!"
"Oh... YOU," Rob snarled. "I knew there was a faker."
"FAKER?"
Ash did a double take. WHY did two girls look alike? Are they twins?
"What are you doing in this garden anyway?" asked the girl.
Ash panicked slightly. "Uhhh... SHE lead us here!" he pointed to Latias, the girl without the hat. "And I'm Ash, and this is my Pikachu, this is Rob, and the blue hedgehog is Sonic!" Ash introduced his team.
"Regardless of whether Latias lead you here or not... intruders aren't allowed in this garden..." the girl took a straight standing pose. "Latios!"
Latios rose to attack. Rob snarled and pulled out his Keyblade, Ash nearly wet his pants, and Sonic looked up from his book on How to Save the World and took a lazy fighting stance.
"That will be enough," Latios stopped and turned to see his other guardian...
Lorenzo.
"But Lorenzo..." the girl began.
"Bianca, Latias led them here, apparently they're good enough not to have disturbed this garden," Lorenzo responded, looking at our heroes with a slight smirk.
"Weren't there two?" Asked Sonic.
Lorenzo's grin grew bigger. "Latias, why don't you show them your true form?"
"True... form?" Rob clenched his teeth and a sweat-drop formed. Too late. Latias grabbed his hand and led him to the swing she was on earlier. Ash and Sonic followed. Rob was pushed on the swing, and Latias hopped on, standing on it and using her feet to push. Rob pondered nervously, "What is this, true form?" Latias swung harder, and at this, she changed into a mythical Pokémon, a red version of Latios. Ash's eyes grew wide; Pikachu and Sonic marveled.
Rob surprisingly kept his cool, despite the surprise on his face. He then grinned. "Makes sense. So YOU'RE Latias." Latias smiled and whirled around him, cooing.
"These guys are the guardians of this town, and this is their home," Lorenzo explained.
"Gee, they've guarded this place for AGES?" Ash asked.
"Yep."
Rob hopped off the swing and walked to our heroes. Latios landed near Pikachu. At first the mouse panicked, remembering his fight with the legend. However, Latios licked him, and Pikachu realized he was now friendly. Pikachu hopped a ride, playing with Latios and Latias, while our heroes walked.
"I felt a power in this garden..." Rob began. "Is this what keeps the Heartless out of this town?"
"We believe so," Lorenzo said. "Despite all the Heartless attacks on earth, we haven't seen a single one within a ten mile radius of this town."
Rob smirked, remembering Tails's words earlier. However, one stare at Bianca, and he snarled again. "Hmph. Faker."
"Hmph, LOSER." Bianca snarled right back.
"Faker."
"Loser."
"Faker."
"Loser."
"Faker."
"Loser."
"Faker."
"Loser."
"Oh shut up," Sonic pretended to slap their argument away. "We all know you're both fake losers."
"WHAT?!" The offended roared in unison.
"Heeheeheeeheeeheeheeheeheehee..." Sonic gloated, ironically much like Eggman. Too bad Bianca and Rob double-teamed him and he got two punches in the face. Sonic promptly crashed.
At last they arrived at the top of a staircase. The deck spanned about 30 square feet, and several tiles depicting the legend of Latios and Latias were organized in front of a medium sized fountain, with a glistening jewel that seemed to fuel the very waters of the town.
"These tiles depict the legend of Latios and Latias as they appeared in this town," Bianca said pointing to them. Explaining the story (A/N: Look at the beginning of this chapter to read it.), Bianca pointed to the tile the corresponded with what she said. Eventually, she pointed to the Soul Dew tile. "This gem is what gives the Latios family power. It also keeps this town's water flowing."
Rob pointed to the gem in the fountain. "That must be the Soul Dew," he walked up to it, and he touched it with his Keyblade. "This is it... the balanced power! But I can't take it for many reasons, but I can copy its powers into my Keyblade, and help this earth..."
Latios flew by him, and it nodded, agreeing.
"So if you 'copy' enough of this power, you can chase out the Heartless from this planet?" Ash asked.
"Yes, the evil Soulless too. It's not accomplishing my true goal, but it makes that one step closer," Rob grinned, but he lost that grin and clenched his fists. "I honestly don't know who's controlling them, but whoever they are, they're going to stop this Heartless control madness..."
"HUH?!" The Pokémon, Lorenzo, and Bianca gaped.
"YESSSS... the Heartless aren't even evil... they're lost, thanks to some freak, and now they're attacking everything."
"But yet we still have to fight them--" Ash trailed off.
"They're mad. Until we can stop whoever's behind this, we'll be forced to exterminate them, and if all the Heartless cease to exist... or the Soulless... the balance will be toast!"
"It's all over my head!" Bianca swooned as if she were about to faint.
"No worries, faker. Stay here where it's safe, and eventually it'll all be over..." Rob walked over to the Soul Dew. "Apparently, this power protects from the terror of darkness and the harshness of light... The power of good that will shelter all who stay here from all evil," Rob felt these words and spoke them, as if they were not his own. Gripping the Keyblade with both of his hands, Rob touched the Soul Dew. A strange power began to flow through him, forcing out a sudden dark aura from the boy, making everyone else jump back. The aura calmed down into a soft Darkness that emanated from Rob like a flame. It was here that his mother's voice was heard.
(Congratulations. You have found the balanced power. The Keyblade of Darkness was tainted long ago, and had lost the ability to protect the worlds from the very darkness it wielded. Now its power as a true Keyblade has been restored. Remember, it is you who protects the Darkness from its evil.)
The aura stopped, and Rob set down the Keyblade. "Mom..."
"Mom?!" Sonic asked, knowing Rob's whole story about his father and mother.
"That chump Sora isn't the only one saving the universe anymore!" Rob cheered.
"So I take it she said a good thing."
"Exactly."
Latias swooped and picked up Ash, who began to panic. She carried him over the fountain and into the "lake" where Latios rose from earlier, and dropped him, giggling all the way.
Latios just shook his head and caught Ash; Pikachu shouted in Pika-nese, worrying about its trainer.
"I forgot to mention, Latias is a practical joker..." Bianca giggled.
"Nice you tell me that NOW," Ash grumbled.
The sun began to set. "Let's get to the Pokémon center. The others must be waiting for us," Ash said.
"I can take you there much faster," Lorenzo offered.
"Thanks!" our heroes said in unison.
They walked off, and Latios and Latias began to wave goodbye before chasing each other.
All were unaware of the small spy camera watching them.
"When the losers go away, it's OUR turn to play," Annie sneered.
"Correction, when the losers go away..." Annie and Oakley turned to see Jesse and James, menacing smiles over their faces. "The Heartless shall come to play," James spoke. "You two are impressive. Now, if you get powers and riches, we get darkness all over the world... what do you say?"
Annie found herself a bit reluctant. "Why would you want to help US?"
"We have our own reasons," Jesse grinned. "Our bosses like you. We can get rid of the brats for you if you help us."
"Hmm..." Oakley said.
"You let us catch our gold ALONE, but it's a deal otherwise," Annie shook hands with James.
"Trust us... it was the way we wanted it," James agreed. "The power is all ours."
Maniacal laughter echoed through the rising night.
CLIFFHANGER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!