By Teaflower
The Disclaimer of Doom: Terra is MY character. No stealing! Pokemon does not belong to me. All related characters have the same deal. Ackers belongs to me. So do Rhybaby, "Rai", the glitchy Raichu, Fearful the cowardly Fearow, Vinesgalor, "Vines", the neglected Venasaur, that Gengar I forgot the nickname of and SAILOR the Dewgong who needs a better name that I can't change because someone won't let me. Oh, by the way. There are DEFINITELY gonna be more than 18! After checking my original notes and adding things as I thought of them, there will be a minimum of 36 chapters! That's DOUBLE my original count! And Sly Cooper is not mine!
Sorry this took so long. School, homework, all the usual things.
Ackers: Meanie. I don't like being stuck in your mind or the computer.
Too bad.
Terra: But we got to kill someone!
Ackers: Eh, you have a point.
Episode 6: The Elite's Encore
Terra stood before Bruno. Again. His Onix was down. His other Pokemon were going to go down just as fast. Why fight? There was no point. But the rules said that you could only let the person by when they beat you and you HAVE to let them by.
He sighed. "Go, Hitmonchan." He said, dejectedly. He threw the Pokeball about three feet in front of him. It landed and opened, revealing the punching machine, Hitmonchan. It knew its fate when it saw the trainer before him.
"Why me?" it said, sadly. "Why, why me?" Of course, no one heard that. They heard, instead, "Hitmon. Hitmonchan!" Terra somehow understood it and felt slight pity. Pokemon are living beings, too… Why do we fight with them? Why do we want to capture them all? What good do we get out of it? Enjoyment. We enjoy pushing our Pokemon to the limit until they just can't handle anymore. We like seeing our Pokemon, which we just took right out of their home, fight other Pokemon, which had the same fate! I can stop this all right now! I don't have to do this! Her mind raced as she reached for the home of the psychic Pokemon named Ackers. If I can stop all of this, then why aren't I? She had the ball in her hand. Is there more to it than that? The ball was now as large as her palm. Why aren't I stopping this madness?
"Go, Ackers!" she said as she threw the sphere forward. The ball opened and out came a melancholy Ackers. Let's get this over with…
Ackers stood there, kinda dazed by his musings. They were random. Why would I think of exploding Electrodes when I look at a deck of cards? The cat wondered. Ah, well, what does it matter?
Bruno sighed and said, "Hitmonchan, Dizzy Punch!" The creature sighed and obeyed, winding up the punch.
"Ackers, dodge and use…" Terra was thinking of saying Psychic, but the part of her that wanted the Pokemon to NOT feel pain wanted to say Swift, a weak yet insanely accurate move. Or, just plain Growl. That would just mess with Bruno's head! "… use Swift!" Ackers blinked, but somersaulted over the punching machine. He wagged his tail and little yellow stars shot out of nowhere. The Hitmonchan's eyes widened and ran to one side. The stars missed, but came around and smacked into it. Ackers laughed. Terra giggled. Bruno growled. Hitmonchan scowled.
"Hitmonchan, Thunder Punch!" Bruno ordered. Hitmonchan ran at Ackers with its fist held up, coursing with electricity. The punch connected, sending raw electricity through him. It reminded him of when Rai used Thunder on him. So, naturally, he got angry.
"Ackers! Use Psychic!" Terra said, but she whispered so that only the cat could hear, "Just go easy on it… okay?" Ackers nodded and merely sent small psychic shockwaves into his opponent's mind, a move we know as Psywave. The Hitmonchan tried to stay conscious, but failed and fainted. Ackers looked at Terra and grinned sheepishly. Terra glared and shook her capped head.
Bruno growled and said, "Go, Hitmonlee!" The spheroid flew and opened, revealing a shaken Hitmonlee. It jumped, but then calmed down. "Hitmonlee! Mega Kick!" The Hitmonlee did a nice roundhouse kick that was aimed for Ackers' temple. He dodged just before the ball of the creature's foot hit him.
"Ackers! Do what you did earlier! Psychic!" Terra ordered. Again, she added quietly, "Ease up on the awesomeness, okay?" Ackers did a weaker version of Psywave, but the Hitmonlee fainted. "Return!" She held up the teal and silver ball that brought Ackers back.
---POKEBALL WORLD!---
Ackers landed on the black-marble floor. At least, from the way it felt, he THOUGHT it was marble.
Sailor was nowhere to be seen and Rai was snoozing. Vines was listening to Rai's CD player. Fearful was watching as Gengar played Sly Cooper.
"Mmm… I could feel that Cooper vibe a'comin'. Most distastefully bad juju." Mz. Ruby said.
"Yeah, well, you give me the creeps, too, lady. Cooking up an army of ghosts isn't exactly the most neighborly past-time." Sly replied.
"Hahaha… Oh, Sly, I see your mouth a'movin', but all I hear is, "Blah, blah, blah!" Mz. Ruby taunted. "Well, if jaws need to flap, then let them FLAP! See you in the next world, Sly Cooper!" With that, Gengar continued by jumping on teeth. Eventually, she got to Mz. Ruby and tried hitting her with the cane of doom, but she teleported.
"Come back here! You can't run away forever!" Sly yelled.
"Quite true, quite true…" Mz. Ruby said. "Why don't I have my servant, Chumley, escort you over here?"
"Alright, what's the catch?"
"Oh, not much, just a game I play with all my ANNOYING guests! I wanna see how well you pay attention."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I'll unleash my mighty mojo magic upon you. If you repeat what I do, you'll dodge it just fine. If not, you get ZAPPED! Haha!"
"A little voodoo Simon Says, huh? Sounds easy enough."
"CRUD!" Gengar screamed. "NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING!"
Ackers blinked, then whispered, "Anything!" Fearful giggled slightly. Gengar failed the first time.
"DAMN IT! That was my last life! There goes playing Sly Cooper through without getting a game over…" The Game Over Screen of Doom showed up. Gengar sighed. "I'll try again later." She walked over to the Playstation and shut it off. Gengar then walked away. Ackers blinked and shrugged. He sat and looked at the black rectangular prism. ((too much math!)) He made it explode for good fun. He smiled with glee and clapped his paws.
Sailor came back and the Pokeball of DOOM took away Fearful, all the while squawking. Ackers blinked. Well, THAT was random. Ackers thought. He floated away and pondered what to do. He grabbed Rai's CD player and listened to it. It was nice. Then Fearful came back, shaken.
Later, the Pokeball of DESTINY came back and abducted Ackers. Joy! He thought sarcastically. Maybe I'll get a cookie.
---IN THE REAL WORLD---
Terra had decided to use Fearful against Bruno's last Pokemon. But now she was going to use Ackers on Agatha. Joy. She thought sarcastically.
Again, the young girl charged through to Agatha's chamber. The old woman was sitting and playing with some sort of marionette.
"I'm BA-ACK!" Terra said in a sing-song voice. Agatha looked up and grinned. So, the child is back again. She thought. Let's see what that cat can do when it does what she wants.
"Alright, child, let's get this over with!" Agatha said, hanging the marionette on the wall. "Go, Gengar!" The Pokeball opened and the purple ghost with an evil grin appeared.
"Ackers, I choose you! … wow, that sounded lame." Terra said. Ackers appeared and he was drumming his three fingers on his head.
Agatha and Gengar looked at the psychic cat and Agatha sighed. "Power needs respect and skill to be controlled. Are you sure you can control your cat?"
Ackers looked up and glowered. "I'm not her cat. I'm just being nice and… stuff. Sure, she threw a ball at me. Sure, I went in it. Sure, I listen to her. It doesn't mean that my person belongs to her!"
The Gengar blinked, shocked that a Pokemon just spoke out. Agatha gasped, surprised that a Pokemon spoke English. "Whoa," was all she could manage.
"Let's get this over with, Agatha!" Terra said.
"Yeah! I was just listening to a nice song! And thinking about why I only have three fingers." Ackers followed up.
"Gengar, Hypnosis!" Agatha yelled. The Gengar stared into Ackers' eyes. It was a stare down. Until, Ackers' eyelids started to droop. He stumbled and fell over, fast asleep. Terra gasped as she watched the strongest Pokemon in the world sleep.
Thinking quickly, Terra began to dig into her over-stuffed back-pack. The Poke-Flute has to be in here… somewhere… she thought. Potion, map, Pokeball, super potion, burn heals, band-Aid, sweater, picture, camera, where IS it? Damn!
Agatha laughed quite evilly before saying, "Gengar, Dream Eater!" The Pokemon giggled insanely, then walked over to Ackers' sleeping body. Terra gulped. WHERE IS… oh… here! Terra pulled out the flute and played something on it. Upon hearing the flute, Ackers woke up and said, "Flying Raichus are not fun." He stood and shook himself awake. The Gengar sighed and walked away.
Terra jumped for joy and stored the Poke-Flute in her "trusty, dusty, special item pocket so I don't loose my Poke-Flute or Potion or Pokeball again" pocket. That is where everything she has lost in her bag before goes so she doesn't loose it again. Of course, she has lost just about everything from cookies and underwear to the Poke-Flute and her Pokedex. So, eventually, she will put everything back where it once was.
Wow, how I got off track. "Ackers, Psychic!" Terra ordered. The psychic cat's eyes started to glow violet as he sent the ghost into a wall. It fainted. Agatha gasped. Terra beamed. Ackers smirked. Agatha scowled. Terra crossed her arms. Ackers laughed.
"Go, Golbat!" Sphere flew. Sphere opened. Golbat emerged. Yeah.
"Ackers, Psychic again!" Once more Ackers fainted the Pokemon with nothing more than a thought. And so, Ackers fainted every one of Agatha's Pokemon. "Return!" Ackers went back into the Pokeball of DEATH.
Agatha sighed. "Truly you and Ackers are quite the team. Go on, child. Fight Lance. And I pray that you will once more be the ultimate Pokemon Master." She handed Terra a pass and some money. Terra ran off.
Sorry that took so long. Anyway, the Chronicles of Ackers are only beginning!