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"Pika? Pikachu?"
"Pikachu?" Ash asked.
The young trainer slowly sat up. His skull was killing him. It felt like it was ready to burst out of his head.
"PIKA!"
Ash looked down to see Pikachu, looking up at him.
"Hey Pikachu." Ash said.
"Pika?"
Pikachu tilted its head and looked at Ash.
"Something wrong?" Ash asked.
"Pika, pika pi, pikechu!" The tiny pokemon chanted and making gestures.
"Pikachu, what are you saying?" Ash asked.
"Pika!"
Pikachu pointed to a puddle of water on the ground. Ash knew he had to look in. He felt a little too dizzy to get on his feet just yet so he crawled over to the puddle. As he did, he failed to notice that there was no longer any grass under him, but bricks. When he looked in, he was in for the shock of his life.
Staring at him was hedgehog like creature wearing HIS clothes. It was his own reflection so that meant…HE was a hedgehog. He now had pointy ears that stood out of his cap, three sharp spines that came from the back of his head, even a short tail from his pants.
"W…what?" Ash asked in fear.
"Pika." Pikachu said worried.
"Pika!"
"Huh?"
Ash looked behind him and saw,
"Another Pikachu?" Ash asked.
Sure enough, there was another pikachu standing just a few feet away. It tilted its head cutely and squeaked again.
"Hey, look at its cheeks!" Ash said.
The pikachu looked like normal pikachu except for its cheeks, they were pink and in the shape of chubby hearts. And on it's left ear was a pink bow tied to it.
"Whoa." Ash said.
"Pika!" It said and ran off.
"Pika?" Ash's pikachu asked.
"Excuse me?"
Ash looked up to see a hedgehog like creature staring down at him.
"You haven't seen a pikachu with pink cheeks in the shape of hearts, have you?" She asked.
"Yeah, it went that way." Ash said, trying to stay calm.
"Thanks." She said. "So I take it you're a traveling trainer aren't you huh?"
"Yeah." Ash said.
"Well then welcome to the City of Water, Solean!" She said.
"Uh…"
"I've gotta go catch up to my pikachu, I'll see you around maybe." She said before running off.
Ash and Pikachu watched her go off.
"Solean?" Ash asked.
"Pika?" Pikachu asked.
"C'mon Pikachu, we better find out where we are." Ash said, getting up.
After walking around for a bit they found that this was a large city quite similar to Altomare and at the same time, different.
"Something's going on Pikachu, and I don't like it." Ash whispered.
"PIKA!"
Ash looked to see Pikachu pointing to a poster on a wall.
"What is it?' Ask asked and looked at the poster.
The hedgehog girl was on the poster! She stood there with all sorts of pokemon surrounding her and above her head was the same pikachu from before.
"Elizabeth's Pokemon Show?" Ash read.
"Pika?" Pikachu asked.
"Looks really cool! Wanna check it out, Pikachu?" Ash asked.
"PIKA!" It cried, raising its small fist.
"Okay!" Ash said. "Oh, hold on."
Ash reached into his pocket, pulled out his pokedex, and pointed it at the hedgehog.
"Pokemon data: Not found." The small computer beeped.
"Huh, so she's not a pokemon." Ash said.
"Pika." Pikachu shrugged.
"Well, don't worry, well figure something out." Ash said. "After we see the show."
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Sonic's head was throbbing. He could tell he had been unconscious but for how long he couldn't tell. He felt something hard under neither him so he figured he was on the ground. As he rested, he felt something touch him gently. Whatever it was, it was small, probably the nose of a tiny creature smelling him.
"Pika?" He heard something say.
Sonic struggled to open his eyes a little but he got them open. He saw what it was that was sniffing him, because it was now sitting on his chest. It was a small mouse like creature with long thin ear that had black tips, dark eyes, a lightning bolt shaped tail that was brown at the base with three brown stripes on it's back, a pink hair bow tied to its left ear, but what really caught the Hedgehog's eye were the marks on its cheeks. They had pink heart shaped marks on them.
"Huh? What in the world are you?" Sonic asked.
"Pika?" The tiny creature asked.
"PIKACHU!"
"Pika?"
Sonic looked in the direction the tiny creature was. He could see a blue female hedgehog come running in their direction.
"Pikachu, haven't I told you not to go running off like that?" She demanded.
"Pika." It said sheepishly.
"What am I going to do with you?" She asked. "I'm sorry that my pikachu caused you trouble."
"Uh, it's okay." Sonic said, looking at the small yellow creature.
"I've never seen you around here before. Are you a traveling pokemon trainer or did you just move here?" The hedgehog asked.
"Uh…"
"Well, since you don't have a pokemon with you, a backpack, or any pokeballs, I'm guessing you just moved here." She said, holding the tiny creature in her arms. "Then let me be the first to welcome you to the City of Water, Solean."
"Solean?" Sonic asked.
'Does she mean Soleanna?' Sonic thought.
"Yep, name's Elizabeth, but if you're smart, you'll call me Liz." She said with a quick wink.
Sonic slowly took in her looks. She looked like a royal blue version of Amy Rose. She had a blue unzipped jacket revealing a red shirt with a white rim at bottom. She also wore baggy blue jeans, white gloves, red sneakers that were white at the bottom, and she had a blue headband with metal at the ends.
"So, what's your name?" She asked.
"Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic said.
"Never heard of you, you MUST be new." She said.
Sonic gave her a strange look, she never heard of him? What was with this girl?
"I've gotta go. You going to the stadium later?" She asked.
"Stadium?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, there's a big show going on there later today. Pokemon and their trainers used to compete for prizes and stuff all the time but now that's only once a year. The rest of the time it's for pure fun." She explained. "So will I see you there?"
"Uh yeah, I guess." Sonic said.
"Hope to see you there." She said.
"PIKA!"
Sonic looked to see the pikachu creature running in between to buildings and disappear into the shadows.
"Not again, Pikachu, we have a show to do!" Liz called, running after it.
As Sonic watched them go off, he cocked an eyebrow as to how strange they were.
"Looks like I've got a lotto learn about what happened." Sonic whispered. "Let's see: I was in the Mystic Ruins, Rouge was showing off her new jewel, Eggman came out of nowhere and attacked us, I beat him, I was about to give Rouge back he jewel when this blast of light came out of nowhere. Looks like that jewel somehow caused Chaos Control."
Sonic looked up, he wanted to see more of the city but if that Elizabeth girl didn't know him, then probably nobody around here did. It was probably too far away from the parts of the world he was familiar with to know him. He sighed, knowing he couldn't use his speed to get around here unless he wanted to cause trouble. He decided to walk instead. Besides his head was still throbbing from his wake up call and running would probably only make it worse. He also wanted to take in the sights a little.
Sonic walked around for about an hour, seeing more strange creatures like that yellow mouse he had seen. The city was quite a bit like Soleanna but was also different but for some reason, he really liked it. After a few minutes, he saw a poster on a wall.
"Elizabeth's Pokemon Show?" Sonic read. "See pokemon use their abilities like you've never seen before, as their trainer, Elizabeth the Hedgehog, commands them without even speaking. Prepared to be dazzled like you've never imagined possible. Sounds cool!"
Sonic looked at the map at the bottom of the poster. It was close by. Sonic then looked at the clock tower nearby.
"8:45? I must have been knocked out for nearly twelve hours!"
Sonic looked back to he poster. The show started in fifteen minutes!
"I better motor!" Sonic cried and started running, but not as fast as he normally did. His head still hurt, so he went at a normal speed.
However, unbeknownst to Sonic or Ash, they were being watched…
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"You've done some pretty crazy things in the past, but THIS takes the cake!" The brunette girl snapped.
Her blonde younger brother looked away from her, obviously not caring.
"I don't see what you're freaking out about." He said.
"Of course you don't! You never pay attention! I don't care if you were being chased by as few as ten or a many as TEN-THOUSAND girls! Do know what you did?"
"Nope." He said.
"YOU SENT ASH KETCHUM AND SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TO THE SAME WORLD!" His older sister yelled.
"So what?" He asked.
"You sent them to Planet Kara!" She snapped.
"You mean the world that has traits of both of their worlds?"
"Yes! That Kara! And you know what else? You sent their friends there as well! But you also sent the two people and jewels you shouldn't have!"
"Who and what?"
His older sister leaned into his ear and whispered the answer.
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me. Being desperate to escape from girls is one thing, but this is a whole 'nother thing!"
"So what do you want from me?" He asked.
The girl pulled a remote from her back pocket.
"Oh no, not that thing again!"
"Sorry bro, but you've gotta keep an eye on them until I can finish the one for myself."
"Aw, c'mon!" He begged.
"I could send you to the Neutral Zone instead."
"ACK! NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!" He cried.
"Good, now keep an eye open for them and if anything happens, contact me, at once! The second it happens if not sooner!" She snapped, pressing the only button on the remote.
A blast of light shot from the remote, hitting the eleven-year-old blonde. He was transformed at once.
"I hate it when you do that." He growled.
"I know, but you LOVE the abilities you get from it." His sister said.
"You've got a point."
"Now, get to Kara or I'm going to send you to the Neutral Zone so fast you're head'll spin."
"Yes, Mom." He growled.
"What was that?" His sister asked, turning him into a muskrat.
"HEY!" He squeaked.
She returned him back and walked out, saying,
"I've gotta make the call."
"Miserable toad." The boy growled again.
He was a muskrat in a second again.
"HEY!"
After returning him to the second form, the girl looked into a crystal ball.
"Attention, we have an emergency, GET OVER HERE NOW!" She said.
Two figures wearing cloaks walked out of the shadows.
"What's going on?" A female in a purple cloak asked.
"You won't believe what my brother pulled off this time." She said.
"With that kid, probably not." The girl in purple said.
"What did he do?" A boy in a green cloak asked.
"Okay, you know that clone that wasn't supposed to get to Kara no matter what?" She asked.
"Duh." The girl in purple said.
"Well, my brother, who was, once again, being chased by girls again, well, he was cornered in the machine that we've been building to cause Chaos Control, well he hit some buttons and they sent Sonic the Hedgehog and Ash Ketchum and their friends to Kara, along with Eggman who was near by, the clone, and the two you-know-whats. And you know what? They were all sent to Kara!" The girl cried.
"WHAT?!" Both cloaked teenagers asked in shock.
"It's true, I sent him to Kara to keep an eye on the clone, I'm going there once the remote for me is complete."
"Whatever happened to the Neutral Zone?" The girl in purple asked.
"That was where he would go if he refused to go to Kara." She said.
"I can understand why." The boy in green said.
The first girl looked at her two friends.
"You know, I never realized how much we look like Nobodies from Kingdom Hearts when we wear those cloaks." She said.
"You're right." The boy in green said.
"Nobodies?" The girl in purple asked.
"She doesn't-"
She doesn't play as many video games as we do." She girl said, cutting the boy off.
"Oh."
"But getting back on track, I was just about to check up on Ash and Sonic." She said, waving her hand over the crystal ball, showing Sonic.
"Why is going so slow?" The boy asked.
"Maybe because he has a headache from being hurdled head first from his world to Kara, nearly a million dimensions away from his own." The girl said.
"Oh yeah, that Warp Tunnel to get to other worlds can really kill ya." The boy in green said.
"Literally." The girl in purple said.
"If not close to it." The first one said.
"Agreed." The other two said.
"I just hope that Sonic will find the royal siblings, hopefully they'll understand." The first said.
"They were sent there too?" The boy in green asked.
"Bingo." She said.
"Royal siblings?" The girl in purple asked.
"Fill her in." The other girl groaned.
The boy in green whispered into her ear, filling her in. In you could see her eyes, which were hidden in the shadow of her cloak you'd see that they were nearly twice their size.
"You mean they're-"
The boy nodded.
"And that makes him-"
The boy nodded again.
"Whoa." She said.
"Yes, very "whoa"." The first girl said, slightly annoyed.
"Wow. But what about that clone?"
The boy whispered into her ear again. And again, her eyes doubled in size.
"Whoa!"
"You know, you've gotta catch up on your video game knowledge." The first girl said.
"You know I will." The girl in purple said.
"She has a Wii and she doesn't know that much about him?" The boy asked.
"She doesn't have a Gamecube." The first girl said. "Besides, you could never beat her."
"What does that mean?" He asked.
"That means she could whoop your butt. Although it's not surprising, you've never really been one for exercise and she only has the sport games for it so far." The first girl said.
"I could beat her." He said.
"You wanna bet? Let's settle this at home then!" The girl in purple said.
The brunette just shook her head as her friends continued arguing over who could beat whoever's butt. The boy might have played games since he was eight but the girl had been playing sports since she was eight.
The brunette was sorry she even started this now. She just focused on the crystal ball, waved her hand over it, and whispered,
"May the Heavens protect you two on your journey."