START OF CHAPTER 8 The Guild was prepared to fight Muk off and get the second piece of the portal, now that they were armed with their clothes pins. The fight didn't go too well. Although they did have clothes pins to not be able to smell Muk, that didn't work. They still smelled Muk. Pokemon were fainting left and right, they all smelled horrible, Muk was using Gunk Shot left and right, it was no fun. They had to use Golett to take him down, since Gunk Shot was the only move he knew, and Ghost is good against poison, but either way, the Guild smelled horrible. They did get the second piece of the portal though, which means that Paras was one step closer to going back to the human world, which is cool.
Unfortunately, Giratina took notice of how incredibly awful and annoying trying to beat Muk was, so Giratina hired some even stinkier mon to guard the last 2 portal pieces.
Either way, the guild smelled like fresh sharts and went back to the PokeSpa to relieve themselves. In the PokeSpa, they saw some concerning news.
"Gooooooooooood evening. Psyduck here. I don't care that it's 1:43 PM, every time of day is the evening to me. Anyway, Giratina's resurrected a little fossils, and insider reports say that an Armaldo army is trying to locate the Guild. I suggest if you are in any way affiliated with the Guild, you should ARM YOURSELVES. Bye."
"Gosh golly gee darn tootin gee willikers, guys! An Armaldo army will attack us!" Sentret said.
"Oh no!"
"Yes oh no, Happiny! This is no fun! We should keep watch for the Armaldo army!"
So, they decided to just hang out outside, and when they see the Armaldo army coming, pounce. They waited for a while. A long while. So long that they almost fell asleep while. But then, the Armaldo army came, and they attacked with all their might. They punched, kicked, scratched, bashed, but nothing was working. Why, you might ask? Because they weren't Armaldo. They were Haunter. Everyone was using Fighting attacks, but now that their disguise was no longer working, Golett had to now be the MVP, and an MVP he was. He singlehandedly took down every member of the Army, and was promoted from Janitor of the Guild to just normal Guild member. And now, they were off to find the third piece of the portal.
They instantly got something to do.
"Help! Help!"
"What is it, Vanilluxe?"
"My Vanillite child almost got eaten by a Magby who thought it was actual ice cream! His head's almost burnt off! Save him; Yanma and everyone else!"
"Alrighty! Thankfully, I packed my shaved ice machine, so I can just get some ice and put it on your ice baby's head!"
"Thank you!"
Yanma got his trusty shaved ice machine for making shaved ice, and although they had to shave SO MUCH ice to get Vanillite back to health, they eventually did in the end. "Thank you for rescuing my child, Vanillish! As a reward, have this berry!"
Unfortunately, the berry was POISONED BY VANILLUXE. This was all a scheme between him, Vanillite, and Magby to stop the Guild.
"DID YOU KILL HIM? WAAAAAH!" Happiny cried and screamed and said very loudly.
"No, I'm just really tired..."
Now that they had discovered the evilness of Vanilluxe, they had to fight him. However, Vanilluxe was not prepared for the fact that they had a Torchic, who instantly melted the ice off of that evil little ice cream cone.
"Okay! Okay! I'm sorry! Giratina's just my old friend from middle school, and I just wanted to stop you guys from hurting him!"
"Isn't he Satan? Why does he need to go to middle school?"
"Well, Tyrunt, although he might be immortal, he still didn't know how to calculate the area of a triangle until Arceus taught him."
"Makes sense."
And they decided to take a break for a bit, much to Paras's dismay. They had a long day of fighting a sludge pile, weird grabby ghost things disguised as lobsters, and sentient ice cream, and they just needed to rest. Since it had been 2 weeks since Paras in the real world went missing, he was getting extra worried that they had already planned his funeral or something. But then, Rowlet asked him this.
"Paras? What's your real world name?"
"Well, you know how for all of the other guys, the only things they remembered were their name? Yeah, for me it's the opposite. I remembered literally everything except for my name."
"How did Arceus mess that up?"
"I mean, everyone messes up at some point. Like how sometimes we bite our tongues when we eat. Goes to show no matter how good you are at something, you're going to fuck up eventually."
"That's deep."
"That's not what I intended it to be. I do feel like that was bad on Arceus's part. He's had 13800000000 years to master this, and he fucked up this hard by not only making me forget my name, but putting someone who actually liked the human world in here."
"Must be a tough job to look over 2 dimensions at once. Give him a break."
"How can I? None of this is my fault! It's all Arceus's fault for causing this!"
"To be fair, Giratina did shatter the portal that he made just for you."
"Isn't he God? Can't he just make another portal himself?"
"There's probably something preventing him from doing that."
"Again, he's God. He created the universe. He can just do that himself."
"That's kinda rude of you to disrespect him like that. He's probably overworked from being a god."
"Ugh, fine. I'll stop. I should just be happy we got the second piece. One step closer to seeing my friends. I'm just gonna think about them and cry for a couple hours now."
"I guess you can go do that if you want."
END OF CHAPTER 8