Chapter V: Goto Kill Em All
As the Toad Express landed on the surface of this new world, Sora and the gang looked out the window. Not too far from the plane, Sora saw a giant white dome with the words "Coliseum" on it.
"What is this place?" Sora asked
"It seems to be called Pokemon Coliseum." Toadsworth responded.
"Pokemon?" Yoshi asked.
"Our monitor says that Pokemon are special creatures, with special abilities." Toadsworth explained. "Pokemon trainers use the Pokemon to battle against wild or trained Pokemon using strategic moves."
"Wow, what a mouthful." Luigi commented.
"But what are we looking for here?" Sora asked Luigi.
"My brother and your friends, kid." Luigi said.
"Oh, yeah."
"I would go with you, but I must remain on board." Toadsworth said.
"But how will Toadsworth record stuff in journal?" Yoshi asked
"I'll have Lakitu accompany you to video everything you do and video the people you'll meet."
A turtle on a cloud, wearing glasses floated up to the group. He also held a camera on a fishing pole which was focused on Sora.
"Good afternoon, Lakitu bros, here reporting live from aboard the Toad Express." Lakitu announced to the camera narrating. "We are here to film the live action of your entire adventure throughout various worlds as Sora pursues his missing friends. As seasoned cameramen, we'll be shooting from the recommended angles provided by Toadsworth, but we will not get in the way of the many battles you will face. Anything you would like to say?"
"Sure. Hi mom!" Sora said waving into the camera.
"I'm on TV!" Luigi said.
"Yoshi big star!"
"For now, reporting live, this has been the Lakitu Bros."
Lakitu then exited the ship.
"Master Sora, be careful, for we don't know what's outside and Lakitu will be recording everything so I can see what you're doing." Toadsworth added
"Now remember Sora and Yoshi, we can't lead onto where we're from." Luigi said. "If we do, bad things will happen.
"Yoshi, keep that in mind." Yoshi said
"Me too." Sora added. "Okay guys, ready?"
Luigi and Yoshi nodded and they walked outside into their first world.
World Name: Pokemon Coliseum.
As the group ventured through a small town, they noticed small signs advertising a Tournament for humans and Pokemon to enter.
"Hey Sora, maybe we could find something out at the Coliseum." Luigi said.
"Dare to investigate?" Sora asked jokingly.
"Yoshi, dare! Yoshi, dare!" Yoshi excitedly said raising his hand.
"Then let's go!"
The group headed through the town and headed over to the Coliseum. During the journey they found Pikman in the ground and after pulling them out, Sora stored them in the little box. As they arrived outside the Coliseum, they noticed a public event going on. There were many games going on like a county fair. Sora also saw balloons of a yellow mouse face, with red cheeks. The three also stopped to buy something to eat, which made Yoshi extremely happy. As they sat down at a bench to eat, Sora noticed a machine with two pipes that curved up into a TV monitor. Two young men were in front of it talking.
"Hey, I'll trade you my Charmander for your, Abra." The boy said,
"Alright, let's trade!"
The two put a ball right below the pipe. The ball had red on the top and white on the bottom. The pipes sucked up the balls. Seconds later, a shadow of two creatures appeared on the monitor and they went to the other side of each other. The two balls fell from the pipes and the young men grabbed them.
"Alright, I got an Abra!" One of them said. "Good trade!"
The two shook hands and both headed out.
"So these Pokemon can be traded with other trainers." Sora stated.
"Pretty cool." Luigi added. As he took a bite, he bit his hand. "Ouch! Yoshi, did you eat my hotdog?"
"Yoshi didn't eat Luigi's hotdog!" Yoshi nervously said. "Yoshi swear!"
"Well it didn't get up and walk off by itself now did it?"
"Look!" Sora pointed. He pointed at a yellow duck with a little spot of black hair who was walking away with Luigi's hotdog. "There's your culprit." He added laughing.
"Hey, you! Come back here with my hotdog!" Luigi shouted at the duck.
"Psyduck!" The duck screamed running off with Luigi's hotdog.
"Oh, you're going down!" Luigi shouted as he chased after the Psyduck.
Sora and Yoshi both started laughing their heads off.
"Poor Luigi." Sora laughed jokingly.
Luigi chased the duck while he yelled at it in Italian, but the duck quickly got out of Luigi's sight and Luigi stopped to catch his breath. "Mama-mia!" He said out of breath.
Meanwhile, Sora wiped Yoshi's mouth getting crumbs off.
"All set, Yoshi?"
"Yoshi all set. Yoshi love when Luigi do funny things."
Luigi came back out of breath.
"Any luck?" Sora asked.
"How sad. Dinner got away with my lunch." Luigi groaned.
Sora and Yoshi just chuckled.
"Come, on!" Sora shouted. "Let's go inside!"
Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi headed indoors to the Coliseum. Inside, they noticed a place called the Pokemon Center. The room had computers, a desk with a nurse with pink hair and next to her was a pink egg shaped creature. Many people handed the balls to the woman.
The group walked down a hallway until they approached a large door with the words "closed" on it. To the left of it, Sora noticed a man around his middle 40's putting up a sign. He wore a white lab coat, had tan pants, and white hair.
"Um, excuse me..." Sora began to say to the man.
"Oh, excellent timing!" The man said. He was still focused on putting the sign up though. "Do you think you can do me a favor? Call your Charizard out and have it move that pedestal over there for me."
"But-"
"There's no time! I have to get ready for the Pokemon Coliseum games!" The man said.
"Um, I guess so." Sora said with a shrug. Sora walked over to the pedestal and tried to push it, but had no luck. "Wow, this thing weighs a ton!" He exclaimed.
"You okay kid?" Luigi asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but I couldn't move it!" Sora said rubbing his arm. He then walked back over to the man. "Excuse me sir. That thing is way to heavy to move!"
"What? To heavy?" The man exclaimed, slowly turning towards Sora. "You're a Pokemon trainer, you should know that..." The man then stopped and looked down at Sora. "Oh, my! You're not the person I'm looking for."
"Yeah, you figure?" Luigi asked sarcastically.
"My name is Professor Oak. A Pokemon researcher, and this is Pokemon Coliseum." The man explained. "Here Pokemon trainers come from all over the place to test their Pokemon in battle against other trainers. This year is the annual Pokemon Vs. Human competition, and I have a lot of things to do, so run along now I'm busy!" He tried to push Sora's group away but they wouldn't leave. "Why won't you leave?"
"Because Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi going to enter." Yoshi responded.
"You're going to enter?" Oak asked in surprise. "Ha! The three of you are too wimpy, you wouldn't last five seconds."
"Hey nerd, we're plenty strong." Luigi said angrily.
"Sora really strong, because he hero chosen by keyblade." Yoshi pointed at Sora.
"And we're heros too!" Luigi added.
"A hero and strong? That runt?" Oak exclaimed. He then broke into laughter.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Sora said angrily. "I fought a bunch of monsters!"
Oak then walks over to the pedestal that Sora tried to push.
"Listen, if you can't even move this." He then tried to push the pedestal and struggled. "You..can't...call...yourself...a hero!" He fell down and Sora's group started laughing. He breathed heavily and stood up, wiping his forehead. "Well, I guess it takes more then just strength to do it. I'll tell you what, let me see what you can do. Follow me." The group headed over to a room called the mini game room. "You two wait here, I must see how good the boy is."
"Aw!" Yoshi moaned.
"Don't worry, I'll be back." Sora told Yoshi. Sora followed Oak into a room with a bunch of holes on the ground.
"Here's how the game works." Oak begins to say. "Take this hammer and bash as many Diglets as you can with in 30 seconds."
"That's it?"
"That's it." Oak responded. Oak handed Sora a hammer and pressed a green button. "Go!"
Brown mole like creatures came out of the ground and Sora began bashing them. Sora missed some, and smashed some. He also hits the bonus ones gaining extra points. At the end of the 30 seconds the score ranked up to 1000 points.
"You beat the highest record!" Oak exclaimed
"Ha! That wasn't so hard!" Sora laughed.
"Not bad, young man." Oak said impressed. "But I think that was beginners luck! Now let's take it to a harder level!" Oak pulled a lever and the number went from a 5 to a 9. "Now, you have one minutes to bash as many Diglets as you can, but they're much faster this time."
"Oh, great." Sora moaned.
"Get ready, set, go!"
The Diglets came out again. Sora tried to bash them but he had a harder time hitting them. Luckily, he kept a focused mind and was able to hit a bunch ranking up the score. At the end the score ranked up to five thousand.
"What?" Oak exclaimed. "You beat another record? You're unbelievable!" The two returned outside with Sora feeling proud of himself. They all headed back to the lobby. "Well, you're not bad. As a matter of fact, you are very good, Sora."
"Ha! Thanks!" Sora laughed rubbing his head. "Looks like we're heading into the games."
"Sorry, no." Oak said singy-songy.
"What?" Sora shouted.
"How come?" Luigi added angrily.
"Listen, just because you wacked a couple of Diglets doesn't mean I'm letting you frolic your way into the games!" Oak answered.
"Come on!" Sora whined.
"Please?" Yoshi begged.
"Well, I'll give you this scroll I found." Oak then handed Sora a dark brown scroll.
"Hey, it's another scroll!" Luigi exclaimed. "Read what it says, kid!"
"Oh. storm that comes from the dead of night, fill me with the power of light." Sora began reading. "When I obtain this power please don't let me blunder as I am infused with the power of thunder!" Sora then shot a lightning bolt that zapped Luigi in the behind, making him jump. "Sorry Luigi."
"Be careful where you shoot that thunder spell!" Luigi shouted rubbing his behind
"I can't stand it! You three are really getting in the way! I have things to do!" Oak angrily said. "Officer Jenny!" A young police woman with light blue hair, a dark blue uniform with a dress walked over to the group. "Would you please escort these three out of this building?"
"Yes, sir!" Jenny said giving a salute to Oak. She then pushed Sora and his group out of the area "Okay you three, shows over, go home!"
"Wait!" Sora said pushing back.
Seconds later, Jenny shoved Sora out the door and threw Luigi and Yoshi at him.
"Now don't try to bother the Professor again! Why don't you just go home kid?" Jenny said. Jenny then walked back into the building. Sora made a disappointed look.
"It okay, Sora." Yoshi said softly, patting Sora comfortingly on the back
"Thanks Yoshi, but I'm alright." Sora smiled turning to Yoshi.
"They haven't even seen what you can do kid." Luigi said to Sora. "They're missing out on one tough little guy who's tougher then my Mama-mia's spaghetti dish." He then noticed Sora and Yoshi looking at him funny. "Never mind. But seriously if we're not wanted here, then so be it"
"You are right, Luigi!" Sora said standing up with confidence. "Come, on! Let's go!"
The group headed off back through the town towards the Toad Express when they heard a voice coming from an ally.
"Well, I guess that lab geek is it a bit stubborn wouldn't you say?" Called a male voice. The group nervously turned to see Giovanni appear out from behind the shadows.
"Who are you?" Luigi asked Giovanni.
"Let's just say I'm a friend." Giovanni answered back with a sinister smirk. "So you want to enter the Coliseum games right?
"Yeah!" Sora said. "But how did you-"
"I believe I have a way of getting you in." Giovanni said as he went through his pocket. He then pulled out a pass and hands it to Sora.
"You're giving this to us?" Sora asked in surprise.
"Yes, consider it a gift."
Sora then turned to his group saying excitedly. "It's a pass to enter the games!"
"Cool!' Yoshi added.
"Thanks mister-" Sora then turned back to the shadows to see that nobody there. "That's odd, wasn't he here a minute ago?"
"That guy is very suspicious to me." Luigi said
"Yeah, why would he just give us a pass?" Sora added
"Yoshi no care! Yoshi, want to play game now!"
Yoshi headed back towards the coliseum with the others following as Giovanni hid out in the back of the ally.
"Perfect! All goes according to plan." He then laughed maniacally and walked off.
Back at the Coliseum, Oak was putting the finishing touches on his rule list and stepped off the platform wiping his forehead.
"Finally, I'm done!" He then turned noticing our heros standing right before him. "Oh, no! Not again!" He groaned. "I guess getting the boot by Officer Jenny didn't help, but now I'm going to band you from entering a working area."
"Not this time!" Luigi laughed. "Check this out!"
Luigi then handed the tournament pass to Oak who looked over it.
"What?" Oak exclaimed. "Where on earth did you get this pass?"
"Well..." Yoshi began.
"It doesn't matter where we got it from!" Sora interrupted Yoshi. "The pass is suppose to gain us access to the games and what matters is that we can enter them now, right?"
"Fine, you win." Oak groaned. The three heros cheered for joy. "But I would like to start you off slow, so you'll be entering the Preliminary cup."
"We're up for the challenge!" Sora proudly said.
"But I suggest reading the rules first." Oak said.
The three walked up to the rule board and read it.
"No killing, no use of summons, fight with everything you've got, winner goes on to the next round, loser is out of that cup." Luigi said reading the rules.
"The first match is starting in five minutes, so I suggest getting ready for it and be carful. Some weird creatures have entered it and I just hope things don't get out of hand." Oak said.
"Yoshi be careful." Yoshi said with a nod.
The three made their way towards the arena, where a crowd cheered them as they came out onto the arena. The bottom of the arena looked like a round white ball on the ground.
"Wow, look at all the people out here." Sora said looking around.
"What do you think? Can we really do it?" Luigi asked
"Of course we can!" Sora said with confidence. "If we work together, we'll kick some serious butt!"
A man walked in holding up a green flag and red flag.
"May both opponents enter the ring!" The man announced.
On the other side of the ring, shadows and soldier heartless ran into the ring.
"Heartless!" Yoshi exclaimed.
"Well kid, it looks like the heartless entered to get a piece of you." Luigi said to Sora.
"No problem!" Sora smirked while getting his keyblade out. "We can take em! Let's do it!"
"Let the match begin!" The man announced.
The heartless ran at our heros and the group jumped out of the way. Two solders clashed their claws with Sora's keyblade and then he knocked them aside. They spun at Sora with a tornado move but Sora smacked on his dodge roll badge and rolled out of the way and countered slashed them destroying them.
"Come on, I was just getting started."
Luigi sucked up a few shadows and blasted them into other heartless. He also shot the new thunder spell at them, destroying some. Yoshi ate some and spat some back at others. The group continued the battle until non were left. The man then lifted the red flag to Sora's group.
"Team Shadow is unable to battle! Victory goes to Team Sora!"
The audience cheered as Sora and his friends celebrate in victory. Oak looks on impressed.
"Well, I truly have underestimated him." Oak said smiling.
Seconds later, the group met up with Oak during their five minute break.
"Told you! Yoshi good!" Yoshi said proudly.
"Yes, I truly have under estimated you." Oak said with a smile. "In all my years I have never seen a fighter of your calabur, Sora. You might even be strong enough to fight a Pokemon! So luckily you came to me for guidance." He added laughing.
As Oak continued talking, Sora and his friends turned to notice a young man walking slowly by them. He wore a metal piece of armor around his neck and wrist. He wore brown boots and on his right hand, he had a long yellow type claw. He had spike blonde hair and held a giant sword rapped up in bandages. He looked at Sora, who looked back. For a second they stared, but then the man turned away and left the arena.
"Who that?" Yoshi asked Oak.
"Hm, he's a very strange young man." Oak responded. "Before your arrival, he was devastating all of his opponents in the matches."
"From the look in eyes, I think he entered the games for some dark reason." Sora said observing the man leaving. "Whatever reason, we should not worry about it now. We still have a game to win!"
"Who knows. Maybe you'll end up facing him." Oak said. "But for now, get back out there and show them what you're made of!"
Sora nodded and he and his friends headed back out into the arena.
"Let the match begin!"
As the next match began, the group found themselves up against some new comers. These heartless were called "Red and Blue Space Pirates" Giant dragon type creatures with guns that fired magic spells. Red shot fire and blue shot ice. They were very evasive and countered with their magic.
"Wow, these guys are fast!" Luigi exclaimed.
With the help of his dodge roll badge, Sora was able to sneak up behind them and destroy them with his keyblade. Yoshi used a move called "Egg Roll" which turned him turn into an egg and made him roll at his opponents, knocking them down. Finally, Team Shadow 2 was completely beaten.
"Team Sora wins!" The man said holding up a flag to Sora's group.
The audience cheered again as Sora's group cheered as well.
"We won!" Sora shouted.
"Yoshi!" Yoshi cheered
Five seconds later they met up with Oak again.
"I've never seen such skill and technique." Oak said. "Too bad Ash isn't here to see all this."
"Who's Ash?" Sora asked.
"Ash Ketchum of Pallet town." Oak responded. "A Pokemon trainer about your age. He's out to become a Pokemon master by defeating the toughest trainers and Gym leaders. Too bad he's battling my grandson Gary Oak in another arena, or else he would be here watching your battles, Sora."
"Would Team Sora please report to the arena for the next match?" The PTA announcer said.
"Hey, we better get back!" Luigi said. "Or else we'll be disqualified!"
The group left and headed to the next few rounds. During the rounds Sora and co squared off against more new comers. Power Wilds, blue monkey heartless. Green and Yellow Space Pirates, yellow dealt lightning while green used healing type magic. To stop the healers, Sora and crew took them out first and then dealt with the remaining heartless. Using the same tactics they made it to the Semi-Finals.
"Team Sora is now in the Semi-Final battle!" The announcer announced.
"This is it kid." Luigi said to Sora. "If we win this one, we'll make it to the final match."
"But who Sora, Yoshi, and Luigi facing in final?" Yoshi asked Sora.
"I have a pretty good hunch on who it is." Sora said.
Unknown to anybody, two figures were watching the battle behind the gates of the coliseum. The two were Giovanni and the blonde haired man. Giovanni was in his seat petting his Pokemon Persian.
"That little brat is going to be your next opponent!" Giovanni told the young man. "I want you to destroy him!"
"So, the great leader of Team Rocket is afraid of a kid?" The man said with an evil chuckle. "Listen, I would like to help you, but remember that my contract says-
"I'm the one who wrote the contract, you think I don't know?" Giovanni snapped. "I know it says you're only required to destroy Ash Ketchum in this tournament and take his Pikachu, but in order to do so, you've got to beat that kid first. Besides, this tournament is just for fun so why don't you lighten up? I know you're here for a reason but try to relax, huh?" The man then stood up and leaves. "Well, I must admit, he's has a bit of an attitude problem but he is still a sucker to my plan."
In the shadows three sinister laughs could be heard
Meanwhile, Sora and his friends faced off against the final seed of heartless including the new Large Body heartless. And some Boos were in there giggling
"It's the Boos!" Luigi cried.
"What are Boos?" Sora asked Luigi.
"Boo's are ghosts that can be very sneaky, and they're very shy when you look at them. Just leave it to me and the P 3000!"
"Okay, Yoshi will take the other heartless and I'll take this big guy!" Sora said to his comrades.
"Yoshi ready to rumble!"
"Let the match begin!"
Sora's group charged at the heartless.
"On, no! It's the Poltergust 3000!" The Boos screamed. "RUN!"
The Boos tried to fly away but Luigi sucked them all in. Yoshi took care of the Space Pirate heartless, while Sora took on Large Body. Sora discovered that attacks to the body wouldn't work, so he snuck behind it and slashed it. The group continued their battle plans until they beat the heartless.
"Team Big One is unable to continue! Victory goes to Team Sora!" The referee announced.
The group cheered again and they headed off to meet with Oak.
"Wow, Sora! You made it to the finals!" Oak said. "You ready for it?"
"Yes, sir!" Sora nodded.
"This match begins in ten minutes, so I suggest preparing." Oak said.
"Will, do." Yoshi said.
Meanwhile at another part of the Coliseum, in another arena a Pokemon battle was going on. A crowd was cheering as two young men were in the middle of the arena. The young man on the left had brown spike hair that stood up more unlike Sora's. He wore a purple shirt, black pants and brown shoes. Around his neck was a brown string neckless, with a Pokeball under it. In front of him was a giant turtle with a brown shell and it had blue skin and giant tanks on it's shoulders.
"Give up Ashy-boy!" The boy known as Gary Oak said. "You only have one Pokemon left, and my Blastoise is going to tear your remaining Pokemon apart!"
The other young man across from Gary wore a red and white cap. He also had jeans on, a black t-shirt, blue t-jacket, and white shoes. Next to him was a little yellow mouse with red cheeks and a tail shaped like a thunder bolt.
"I'm not done yet, Gary!" Ash shouted. He then turned towards the little yellow mouse "Pikachu, I choose you!"
"Pika!" The mouse said with a nod. It then ran into the ring.
"Ha! That runty little Pikachu of yours isn't going to do much!" Gary said laughing. "Blastoise attack with Hydro Pump!"
"Blastoise!" The turtle said firing water out of his tanks.
"Pikachu! Use quick-attack!" Ash shouted to his Pokemon.
Pikachu dodged the blasts and rammed into Blastoise's stomach.
"No way!" Gary shouted.
"Now use Thunder Shock!" Ash shouted.
"Piiiiiikachu!" Pikachu shouted firing a Thunder type attack at Blastoise. It shocked the Blastoise and it fell to the ground.
"Blastoise is unable to battle! Victory goes to Ash Ketchum!" The announcer said. The audience cheered as Ash hugged his Pikachu cheering.
"Return Blastoise!" Gary said using a magic beam to return the Blastoise to the ball. "You did great."
"Great job Pikachu!" Ash said holding his Pokemon.
"Pika!" Pikachu said happily.
"Too bad Misty and Brock had to watch over their gyms or else they would've been here, cheering me on right now." Ash said. He then turned towards his rival. "I finally beat you Gary!"
"Well Ashy-boy, you've gotten better and my days as a trainer are done. I'm going to retire and be come a researcher like gramps." Gary announced. "Good luck winning the Johto competition. Smell ya later!" Gary then left the arena.
"That Gary." Ash said rolling his eyes with a chuckle. "Always full of surprises. Right Pikachu?"
"Pika!" Pikachu smiled with a nod.
"Hey Pikachu, let's go see that Human Vs. Pokemon competition." Ash said. "It will give us time before the next match."
"Pikachu!"
Pikachu jumped onto Ash's head and they headed off to the other side of the arena. Meanwhile, Sora and his friends entered the ring ready to face their final opponent.
"Listen guys, our next opponent isn't going to be easy." Sora explained. "So we got to stick together."
"No problem kid." Luigi said. "We'll beat this guy faster then you can say Lasagna five times fast."
Sora and Yoshi just rolled their eyes and then they turned to see the young man with the giant sword entering the ring.
"That our opponent?" Yoshi asked Sora.
"It's been nice knowing you kid." Luigi said nervously. He begun to leave but Yoshi stuck his tongue out and pulled him back in. "Hey!"
"Luigi no leave! Luigi stay to help Sora!" Yoshi said angrily.
"Kid, did you get a chance to see the size of that sword?" Luigi gulped. "We'll be creamed!"
"Don't worry." Sora said. "As long as we stick together, not even this guy can beat us."
"The match will begin in thirty seconds." The announcer said.
"Before we begin, I'd like to know who you are." Sora demanded.
"My name is Cloud Strife." The man said. "I'm an ex-member of a fighting group known as SOLDIER."
"Soldier? Where Cloud's red outfit and funny hat?" Yoshi asked.
"Not that kind of soldier." Cloud said rolling his eyes. "Just to make things short, I'm here to destroy you."
"Did you hear that?" Luigi screamed in fear. "He wants to destroy us! Nice knowing you two! Bye!"
"Hold on!" Sora said to Luigi. "Why?"
"That's none of your concern, but I suggest you save yourself by surrendering this match." Cloud offered. "My powers are too great, there's no point in fighting weaklings."
"You heard the man, let's get out of here." Luigi said beginning to leave.
"No way!" Sora shouted. "We're not surrendering to you!" He then got his keyblade ready "Ever! Because we're not weak and we're going to prove it!"
"I was hoping he wouldn't say that." Luigi groaned turning back to the group.
"Well, either you're very brave or very foolish." Cloud said. "But either way, it doesn't matter for you will soon lose this match."
"Let the match begin!" The man with the flags shouted.
The three heros charged at Cloud, while he watched them come.
"Pathetic." Cloud smirked. He ran at the group and zoomed past them and knocked all three of them down with a spin of his sword.
"Whoa!" Sora exclaimed.
"This guy fast!" Yoshi added.
Sora got back up and clashed his keyblade with Cloud. Sora jumped back and tried to bring his keyblade down but Cloud moved out of the way and tripped him. Yoshi tried to throw eggs at Cloud, but he spun his sword blocking all the attacks. Luigi tried to shoot a fire spell, but Cloud zoomed past him and knocked him out with his sword.
"Luigi!" Sora and Yoshi cried.
Yoshi ran at Cloud but Cloud knocked him aside. Sora got angry and ran fast at Cloud and rammed him to the ground while not looking. Cloud stood up and brushed himself off.
"Not bad kid." Cloud smirked. "You're stronger then you look, but the warm up is over."
Cloud swiped at Sora and Sora jumped over the attack and brought his keyblade down and Cloud blocked it. The force was so strong that the entire arena started to shake.
"What power!" Oak exclaimed holding onto a metal poll.
"It's can't be!" Cloud said to himself. "He's rivaling my power!"
The two jumped back and charged again. The two got into a violent sword fight, clashing and dodging their attacks. Luigi and Yoshi both sat up weakly and saw the two battling.
"Sora, good." Yoshi said weakly impressed.
"Get him good, kid!" Luigi added.
Sora kicked Cloud in the stomach and Cloud countered with a slice to the hip. Sora jumped back and charged at Cloud again and they both clashed again with electricity surrounding them.
"I...can't...let...you...destroy...me!" Sora shouted. He pushed Cloud back and kicked him in the chest and knocked him down.
Cloud gets up and quickly knocked the keyblade out of Sora's hand. Sora quickly dodged the attack and slid across the floor and grabbed his keyblade, just in time to clash with Cloud's sword again. Sora did a double kick and knocked Cloud off and got up and slashes rapidly at him. Cloud jumped back and breathed heavily.
"Enough! I shall now send you to oblivion!" Cloud shouted.
Yellow electricity surrounded Cloud and a giant black wing appeared on his back.
"Okay, this is in the category of not good." Sora said nervously. Cloud flew at Sora and Sora tried to kick him but when he did it, it had no effect. "It had no effect!"
"Now die!"
Cloud began rapidly slashing him and Sora got beaten up and fell back. Cloud lost his power from the attack and began breathing just as hard as Sora.
"Pant..you're...better...then...I...thought." Sora gasped.
"I...won't...let...you...win." Cloud said weakly.
"This match must end now!" Oak said to the judge. "This battle has gone on long enough! At this rate they could end up killing each other!"
Sora then looked up and notices something and his mouth widened.
"Cloud, look out behind you!"
"What?"
Cloud turned and then a giant robot foot stepped on top of him. The crowd screamed and left the arena. The foot belonged to a giant orange mouse robot. It began shooting electricity all around. Meanwhile, Giovanni chuckled and leaves the arena.
"Well accidents are meant to happen." He said chuckling sinisterly.
Yoshi and Luigi ran over to Sora and helped him up.
"Are you okay, kid?" Luigi asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Sora said weakly.
"Here, drink my left over potion." Luigi said putting a bottle up to Sora's mouth.
"Is Sora okay?" Yoshi asked concerned to Sora.
"I'm better now but what is that thing?" Sora asked looking up at the mouse.
The giant mouse was about to bring it's foot down on Cloud again, but a orange dragon quickly flew in and grabbed Cloud and flew back down holding him in it's arms.
"Good work, Charizard!" Called a voice.
Everyone turned to see Ash and Pikachu entering the arena.
"Ash! Thank goodness you've come!" Oak said happily.
"Quicky Professor, get everyone out of here!" Ash shouted.
"Aren't you coming?" Oak asked.
"Leave this guy to me. My Pokemon will take care of them!" Ash answered.
Oak, Luigi, and Yoshi ran for it while Sora stayed behind wondering if Ash and Cloud would be alright.
"Come on kid!" Luigi shouted to Sora.
Sora quickly made a run for it, while Ash ran over to his Charizard and got Cloud on his back and put him on the bleachers and command his Charizard to attack the giant mouse. Meanwhile, the group made it back inside the Coliseum and everyone breathed hard.
"You guys alright?" Sora asked everyone else
"We're fine, but what was that thing?" Luigi also asked.
"It's a robotic version of a Raichu." Oak answered. "I bet Giovanni is behind this."
"Who that?" Yoshi asked.
"He's the leader of a notorious group of criminals and he tries to steal rare Pokemon." Oak explained. "And if you look to your right you'll see a wanted picture of him."
The group looked to the right and gasped in horror upon seeing the wanted poster.
"It's that guy who gave us the pass." Luigi said in shocked.
"We've been tricked." Sora said angrily. "That creep tricked us to enter in order face Cloud and run into that trap."
"What we do?" Yoshi asked.
"One thing to do. Undo our wrongs and face that thing!" Sora said with confidants.
"Kid are you crazy?" Oak said in shock. "That thing can't be beaten by human hands!"
"Listen, you can find out if we are hero material or not." Sora said. "This is our chance to prove it and we will stop that thing!"
"If that is your wish, then go Sora." Oak said with a sigh. "Knock em dead kid!"
Sora nodded and he and his friends head back into the arena to where the battle is going on. Ash's Charizard is down and Ash gets worried.
"Oh, no! Charizard!" Ash cried. He then turned to Pikachu. "Pikachu, Thunder Bolt!"
"Piiikachu!"
Pikachu shot a bolt at the Raichu robot and it had no effect.
"It didn't work!" Ash shouted angrily. Then a hand with a glove came out of the Raichu chest and grabbed Pikachu. "Pikachu!"
"Pika! Pi!" Pikachu cried.
The robot took the hand inside and Ash got angry.
"Give me back my Pikachu!" Ash demanded angrily punching and kicking the robot's foot.
The robot tried to stomp on Ash, but Sora quickly dived in and rescued him just in time.
"You okay Ash?" Sora asked.
"I'm fine, but who are you?"
"Look!" Yoshi pointed. The group looked up to see Pikachu in a glass container.
"Pikachu, you're okay!" Ash said happily. "Use thunder to escape!"
Pikachu tried to use thunder but the attack failed and he got weaker.
"It didn't work." Luigi said in disappointment.
All of a sudden the room got completely dark and a spotlight appeared above the robot's head and two figures started to appear.
"Wait, someone is coming out." Sora said.
The two figures then reveal themselves. One was a young man who had long purple hair and wore a white long sleeved shirt with the letter "R" printed on it, white pants, purple rubber boots and gloves. The other one was a yong woman who had very long red hair, a white shirt with the same "R", a white skirt, long gloves and boots.
"Oh, no! Not them!" Ash exclaimed.
"Prepare for trouble..." The woman said.
"Make it double..." The man said.
"To protect the world from devastation..."
"To untie all peoples with in our nation..."
"To denounce the evils of truth and love..."
"To extend our reach to the stars above..."
"Jesse..." The woman said.
"James..." The man said.
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light..."
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
Then a little cat jumped in the middle of them with a golden coin on it's head.
"Meowth, that's right!"
A little blue creature with it's eyes shut tight also appeared holding it's hand up.
"Wobbuffet!"
After that, the lights came back on and Sora and his group looked at each other and broke into laughter.
"Hey, what's so funny?" James asked in anger.
"That was the most corniest thing I've ever seen." Luigi laughed.
"How dare you make fun of our motto!" Jesse said angrily.
"Don't under estimate these guys!" Ash told Sora. "They can be very clever and tricky." He then turned back towards Team Rocket. "Team Rocket, let my Pikachu go!"
"Sorry, twerp." Meowth said. "But dis is a present for da boss."
"And we'll also destroy the twerp who holds the key." James added.
Meowth then scratched James's face.
"Be quite, we can't let dat kid know anything!" Meowth hissed.
"You probably work for a man named Giovanni, don't you?" Sora shouted.
"The boss?" James asked in confusion.
Jesse then bonked James over the head with a hammer.
"Can't you keep your mouth shut for once?" Jesse angrily said hitting James's head.
"Yes ma'am." James said dazed rubbing his head.
"Now, twerp it's time for you to say good-bye to your Pikachu." Meowth laughed.
"Go Ash!" Sora said getting his keyblade out. The others got ready as well. "We'll deal with Team Rocket while you get Cloud and Charizard out of here. I promise I'll rescue your Pikachu."
"Will you be alright?" Ash asked Sora. Sora nods and Ash grabbed Cloud and took his Pokeball out. "Charizard return!" A red beam hit Charizard sending him back into the ball.
Oak watched as Ash ran by him with Cloud.
"Now let's deal with these twerps." James said.
"We won't let you win Team Rocket." Sora shouted.
"Yoshi help beat bad guys!"
"Come on, let's get these brats out of da way and then go to da boss and give him Pikachu. I'll be top cat again." Meowth said.
The three headed into the machine and started up the power.
"Kid, here's a piece of advise; ATTACK!" Oak shouted.
The battle began at the robot fired electric thunder attacks at the group. Sora quickly ran left to avoid them, while Yoshi ran right. Luigi got zapped and fell down. He got back up and ran but he's slower then Sora and Yoshi because of the P 3000 caused extra weight. So he keeps getting zapped in the behind.
"Fried plumber anyone?" James laughed in his girly way.
"Hang on, Luigi!" Yoshi shouted. "Yoshi coming!" Yoshi quickly ran over to Luigi. "Quick, get on Yoshi's back!"
Luigi then jumped on Yoshi's back and Yoshi dodged the attacks. Luigi fired a fire spell at the robot but it had no effect.
"Darn!" Luigi said in anger.
He tried a thunder spell from the P 3000 but it still had no effect.
"Ha! Doesn't he realize dat our Raichu robot is immune to magic!" Meowth laughed. "And with Pikachu's thunder power, we get even stronger."
"Let's finish these twerps." Jesse said. The alarm then started sounding off "Huh?"
"What's going on?" James asked nervously.
Meowth checked the computer monitor and gasped saying. "Da right foot has been damaged!"
"How?" Jesse said in shock. She looked out the right window and looked down to see Sora stabbing it with his keyblade. "Hey you, keep away from there!" She then turned back to James and Meowth "Quick you idiots, do something!"
"I'll use a shock wave attack!" James said hitting a button.
The robot stomped it's left foot causing Sora to lose his balance.
"Whoa!" Sora shouted.
He quickly jumped back and ran to his group.
"What do we do?" Luigi panicked. "Even after that attack we're getting nowhere!"
"Our best bet is to take out the source, the control room!" Sora shouted. "But, how do we reach it?"
"Yoshi eat Sora and spit Sora at bad guys!"
"I may not like it." Sora began to say. "But I have to do it! This is our last chance! "
Yoshi stuck his tongue out and swallowed Sora whole and then spats him out sending him right at the glass window of the robot.
"Uh, Jesse, James..." Meowth said.
"Quite Meowth!" James interrupted with a snap. "Don't you know we're about to win?"
"But look out the window!" Meowth said nervously.
The two looked out the window and saw Sora flying at him with a flying kick. Team Rocket screamed and Sora broke down the window and knocked Team Rocket over.
"I'm coming Pikachu!" Sora said running to the glass container.
"Pika!" Pikachu said happily.
"Not so fast twerp!" James said throwing a ball. "Go Victreebel!"
A giant yellow creature in the shape of a bell with a stem on it's head came out. But instead of attacking Sora, it puts it's mouth on top of James's head and James struggled to get free and screamed like a little girl. Jesse and Meowth roll their eyes.
"Arbok! Head butt that brat!" Jesse shouted throwing a ball.
A giant purple Cobra came out and flew at Sora.
"Arbok!" The Cobra said.
"Huh?" Sora said turning.
Arbok hit Sora in the head and Sora crashed into the wall.
"Strangle him!" Jesse commanded. Arbok put it's tail around Sora's neck and began choking him. Sora tried to undo the hold but it was too strong. "Now finish it with poison sting!"
Arbok was about to bite Sora on the neck, but thinking quickly Sora bit the snake's tail first causing it to scream in pain. Sora got up and slashed Arbok and crashed into a wall. Sora ran and broke the container freeing Pikachu.
"No!" Meowth shouted. "Our plans are ruined!"
"Not yet there not!" James said throwing a ball. "Go Weezing!"
A giant two headed purple floating round creature came out.
"Weezing!" It said.
"Use smog to blind that brat!" James shouted.
Weezing fired a powerful smog out which covers the room causing Sora to cough.
"I..can't...see!" Sora coughed.
"We got him now!" Team Rocket said together. Just then all the air got sucked out of the window and the room cleared. "Huh?"
Everyone turned to see Luigi sucking up the air with the P 3000 and Yoshi next to him.
"Yoshi! Luigi!" Sora cried out. "You're here!"
"Hey, now who said Sora could start without Yoshi?" Yoshi giggled.
"Quick Weezing, get rid of those twerps!" James shouted.
Weezing was about to attack when all of a sudden Yoshi grabbed it with his's tongue and ate it.
"Ew, Weezing no taste good! "Yoshi said in disgust.
Yoshi spat Weezing out and hit Team Rocket knocking them all down.
"Now's your chance kid!" Luigi called to Sora.
Sora quickly took his keyblade out and stabbed the control panels and they began sparking and the alarm sounded with all the monitors saying "Malfunction"
"No!" Meowth screamed. "What have you done?"
"Game over Team Rocket!" Sora said with a smirk.
"Quicky kid! This place is going to blow! Let's go!" Luigi shouted.
"Okay!" Sora nodded.
Luigi got on Yoshi's back and Pikachu and Sora quickly jumped off the robot and ran. The robot began sparking and going haywire. Team Rocket screamed and ran around panicking. Yoshi and Luigi both made it down and ran for it. Sora turned around and fired a Thunder Shot at the Robot, causing more damage to it and shocking Team Rocket. The robot exploded and Team Rocket went flying.
"We always lose!" Jesse whined.
"Even in a Video Game parody!" Meowth added.
"Well I guess..." James cried.
"It looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" Team Rocket shouted together as the flew off into the distance.
A star twinkled from where Team Rocket was going flying and Wobbuffet shouted his name in the distance.
Several minutes later back at the lobby, Officer Jenny presented medals to Sora and his crew.
"In honor of your brave work defeating those crooks and saving the Coliseum, we present you with these metal of honors." Jenny said putting a metal around our heros necks. Ash, Oak and Pikachu looked on smiling. Sora looked down at his metal and smiles while Yoshi blushed. "Good job and by request from Professor Oak, you have full rights to enter the games junior heros. Thank you for everything." She saluted Sora's group and left.
"We did it!" Sora cheered.
"We're in the games!" Luigi cheered. He then stopped and turned to Oak with an angry look. "What did she mean by junior heros?"
"You still got a lot to learn about what it takes to be a true hero." Oak said. "It takes time to become one and once you understand what it takes, you'll know you truly are one."
"But how we do it?" Yoshi asked Ash.
"It takes time and you'll have to find out how." Ash explained petting Yoshi's head. "Just the way me and Pikachu did. Right Pikachu?"
"Pika!" Pikachu said happily.
"Okay, we'll start proving what we can do in the games!" Sora said.
"That robot really messed up the stadium, so the games won't be for awhile." Oak said sadly "We got to clean the mess up from the last battle first. But if you give me a phone number, I could call you and let you know."
Luigi gave Oak the phone number for the Toad Express. Then the PTA went on.
"Attention! Would Ash Ketchum please report to A-3 for his next match?" The PTA announced.
"Oh, no!" Ash exclaimed. "I'm going to be late for my match! Come on Pikachu and it was nice meeting you all."
"Before you go Ash, could you answer one quick question?" Sora asked stopping him.
"What's that Sora?"
"What ever happened to the blonde man with spiky hair?"
"A few minutes into your battle, he got up and walked out without saying a word." Ash answered.
"I wonder if he's alright." Sora said.
"I'm sure he's fine kid." Luigi said. "Remember, that he has his own path and we have ours. It's best not to get in the way."
"You're right, Luigi." Sora smiled. "Let's go. We'll be back."
The group said good-bye and left.
"Still hard to imagine that three non-Pokemon defeated Team Rocket." Oak said in disbelief.
"To tell you the truth Professor, I purposely let them take Pikachu so he could weaken the robot making it easier for Sora to beat." Ash whispered.
"You're a tricky one." Oak chuckled. "I'll keep it a secret."
Meanwhile, Sora and his friends left the Coliseum and upon exiting they saw that the festival has ended. Sora then gasped happily as he saw Cloud sitting on a bench.
"Cloud!" Sora shouted. He didn't respond. Sora ran over to him and the others followed. "Hey, are you alright?" He asked concerned.
At first Luigi and Yoshi backed up slowly sensing Cloud might attack. But Cloud just looked up at the group.
"I'm fine." He said in a low tone. "I'm sorry about earlier."
"It okay." Yoshi smiled.
"Still can't believe he would betray me like that." Cloud muttered to himself.
"So why did you join Team Rocket anyway?" Sora asked.
Cloud then stood up sighing.
"I'm looking for someone." Cloud responded. "Giovanni promised he would help me if I destroyed you and captured Ash's Pikachu. I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. I lost my light, I was lost in the darkness."
"I'm sure you'll find it again." Sora responded. "I'm searching too."
"For your light?" Cloud asked. Sora nods. "Well kid, our paths maybe different but our goals are the same." He then went through his pocket and took out a badge and put it in Sora's hand. "Keep this and don't lose sight of it."
Cloud then walked away.
"Hey, how about a rematch sometime? We've never finished our battle!" Sora called to Cloud. "And no dark powers involved, fair and square, what do you say?"
"Hm, maybe we will fight again, but for now I'll pass." Cloud said walking away.
"Come on kid." Luigi said. "We have things to do in a short time."
"Right!" Sora nodded. "Let's go!"
The group walked through town and boarded the ship with Toadsworth running up to greet them.
"Master Sora!" Toadsworth said. "Glad to see everything turned out okay."
"Well, we'll be back someday to battle in the games." Sora said.
The Toad Express got ready for take off as Sora and the group sat down in their seats.
"According to our calculations, the next world will be in an hour." Toadsworth announced.
"Okay, so what we do?" Yoshi asked.
"Want to hear about the time I saved the Waffle Kingdom?" Luigi asked Sora.
"No, not that story again!" Toadsworth shouted covering his ears.
The plane took off into space at super fast speed. Meanwhile, back at the Coliseum Giovanni walked out and looked at the gates of it.
"Curse that Ash Ketchum!" Giovanni yelled in anger. "He always ruins my plans and saves his darn Pikachu!" He rammed his fist into the wall.
Jesse, James, and Meowth walked out and got on their hands and knees begging.
"Please boss, give us one more chance!" James begged in his girly tone.
"You three have failed me for the last time!" Giovanni yelled in rage.
"Please boss, don't do this to us?" Jesse begged. "We promise we'll get them next time."
Giovanni was about to point his finger at them and then stopped, taking a deep breath.
"Okay, okay calm down." He said to himself in a relaxed tone. "Listen up you three, this is your last chance to set things right. I'll let Ash and that twerp with the key compete with each other. So at the next games, we'll take care of both of them.
"You're da best boss!" Meowth cheered.
All of a sudden Bowser appeared behind Team Rocket. Jesse, James and Meowth cowered behind Giovanni, while Giovanni remained still.
"I didn't ask you to come here lizard boy." Giovanni said to Bowser. "Stay out of this! You're not needed!"
"Your stubbornness will get you no where fast killing that brat you worm!" Bowser growled. "But if that's what your wish, then fine. Fight till you have no breath left inside of you! I don't care!"
Bowser went through a dark portal and left.
"Hm, one day I'm going to kick that tub of lard in the shin." Giovanni said to himself.