Chapter 11: World of torment: Pokeworld

"YOUR NOT GETTING AWAY MASTER HAND!" Link shouted, running after the hand.

Master Hand looked back. "Why do they persist?" He muttered to himself, in a bored tone. He turned completely around and faced Kirby and Link. He pointed his index finger at the two warriors. "I loath you both! And I hope you die a long and painful death for slowing down my plans!" a beam of light went off his finger and blasted both Link and Kirby. They went flying out of the gates and fell down to the world below unconscious.

Link awoke in a forest. "That could of gone smoother…" He muttered to himself, grabbing his head as he now had a headache. A few yards away from him was Kirby who was wide-awake. Around him were 5 kids, all but one were concealed in the shadows. 3 boys and 2 girls.

The first person Link's eyes saw was a small boy, about half the size of the others. He had a green vest, with a white collar. He wore brown shorts that went to his knees and he had navy blue hairthat covered a bit of his left eye, they were colored brown, but were blocked by the glare coming off of the glasses he wore. His hand slowly went towards Kirby, in it he was clutching something. "Hey you want Pokemon food?" He asked, opening his hands and revealing several brown pellets.

"Ah crap…" Kirby said out loud. The 5 kids jumped back, shocked. The other 4 were now visible in the light.

The tallest boy had brown hair, and was slightly tanned. He wore a brown jacket, with a green undershirt underneath and brown cargo pants. His eyes were closed, almost as if he was squinting, or just closed.

Then there was a girl with a red bandana. She had light brown hair. She wore a red T-shirt, and black shorts.

Then there was another girl who had her orange hair up in a ponytail. It was to the left. She had a yellow shirt on, and jean like short-shorts.

Then there was the last person who had a hat on his head, which kept his messy black hair down at bay. Then on his shoulder was a giant yellow rat. He wore a blue sweatshirt, and a pair of baggy jeans.

"AHHHHHHH! IT TALKED!" The kid with the glasses shouted. Quickly he ran back behind the others afraid.

The boy with the yellow rat on his shoulder pulled out a red object. "Let's see what the Pokedex has to say about this!"

The pokedex opened and scanned Kirby, before replying: "Jigglypuff the balloon type Pokemon!" It said in a mechanical yet somewhat feminine voice. "Using its alluring eyes to enrapture its foe. It then sings a pleasing melody that lulls the foe to sleep."

Kirby was obviously insulted by this as he flinched at hearing the Pokedex talk, and mistaking him for a Pokemon.

"Its so cute!" the girl with the bandana shouted. "I want to catch it!"

Link felt like this was a good time to intervene, before something happened. "KIRBY!" He shouted. Kirby looked at Link and quickly ran towards him.

"I guess it wasn't wild after all…" the girl sighed, disappointed.

"Don't worry May there will be other Jigglypuff out there!" the little boy looked at Kirby, suspiciously. Link could see that Kirby was trying to pull out a giant hammer to hit the boy with. Link stepped on the hammer, preventing Kirby from lifting it up.

"Hey do you want to have a Pokemon battle!" The boy with the cap said rather randomly. Link looked around thinking that he was talking to someone else.

"Uh… sure…"

"Ash… you might be getting ahead of yourself!" May said. "At least we should have lunch first!"

"That's right and today we are having Brock's special: Onigiri!" the tallest boy said. Link assumed that his name was Brock.

Instantly 'Brock' began to make the Onigiri. "So… what are your names?" Link asked.

"I'm Ash" The boy with the hat said.

"You can call me May!" May said.

"And I'm Max!" the kid in the glasses spoke.

"You can call me Misty!" the red head laughed.

"And last but certainly not least I'm Brock!"

"Well I'm Link, the hero of…" Link said. Max eyed him suspiciously. "Uh… kid why are you doing that?"

"NOW I RECOGNIZE YOU!" Max shouted. "You're dressed up as Link from The Legend of Zelda! And you must be going to an Anime convention!"

"Ya… that's it…" Link laughed, trying his best to resist the urge to grab his Megaton hammer and smash Max over the head with it. "Just one question… What's Anime?"

Everyone gave Link blank stares, as though he had just done something taboo. "Did I say something I shouldn't of?" Link asked.

"So are you ready for our Pokemon battle?" Ash asked, trying to change the subject.

"Uh… what's Pokemon?" Link asked.

Everyone was paralyzed in fear; absolute horror crossed their face. And all that they could do was just stare at Link, as an uneasy silence once again was exchanged. With Brock being preoccupied the Onigiri that he was cooking became over cooked.

"Please tell me he just didn't say that…" Misty said walking back slowly. Finally deciding to break the silence.

"What is a Pokemon?" Link asked again.

Max stopped backing up. "Wait Link has amnesia! He fell from the sky when he was flying on his Jigglypuff, to the anime convention, because he has this fear of bird Pokemon and won't fly on them, which goes back to when he was a little boy, where he was abducted and trained for the revival of an evil organization, before it was even dead, which just opens up one big plot hole, so we won't really go there. Now he was flying over the forest to get to the anime convention as a random bird pokemon flew by and this freaked him out, making him lose his balance and falling off of Jigglypuff, and then coming down he hit his head, knocking him unconscious, to where we randomly passed by and found him, on our way to go to the nearest city that is completely canon, and in no way related to the games!"

"IT ALL MAKES SENSE!" Ash said dumbly. Link now grabbed the megaton hammer, and was ready to smash some sense into them. However Kirby was hanging off of the end, strangely stopping Link from completing the swing. "Now the best way to get your memory back is by having a pokemon battle!"

"That's his solution to everything…" Misty muttered. "How do we cure cancer? Have a Pokemon battle! How do we end the day? Have a Pokemon battle! How will May win her next Pokemon contest? Pokemon battle!"

"Actually the last one was correct…" May said softly, embarrassed by the comment.

Link glanced at the trainers, each second seemed to be getting stranger, and they seemed only to have a memory span of 5 seconds. "Uh could you excuse us for a moment…" Link grabbed Kirby not waiting for a response. "Ok… what the hell is going on here?" Link shouted at Kirby.

"We are on a planet that I like to call 'Pokeworld'," Kirby sighed. "For some reason this place lacks any and all forms of intelligence, and everyone speaks the English language, those who don't just say their names in annoying tones that often lead you to believe that they are high on helium. They are also governed by a corrupted evil corporation of dubber slime ball scum that believes anything Japanese is the sign of the devil, and do their best to destroy it. Not to mention they seem to have crappy hip-hop music playing right now."

Link blinked at Kirby, taking in the information. "Ok…" he started slowly. "So what am I supposed to do about them?" he gestured towards the trainers.

There was an evil glare in Kirby's eye. "Well you could do a few worlds a favor and kill them, but seeing as how that might make a few little children cry as they lose yet another TV show on Saturday morning."

"What?" Link asked puzzled.

"Nothing!" Kirby quickly responded. "Anyways I suggest that you go out there and openly admit that you are not a Pokemon trainer!"

"Ok… I'll also tell them that you aren't a Jigglyfluff!"

"Its 'puff"," Kirby corrected Link sternly.

Link faced the trainers and was about to walk out from behind the bush when he turned around again. "And just out of curiosity what if that doesn't work?"

"Well… then we will just have a Pokemon battle, and I'll beat the living crap out of what ever he chooses."

Link looked at Kirby. "One more question. Are you normally this violent?"

Kirby blinked for a few seconds. "No, I just can't stand season 2's theme song… or the endless fillers in season 3 through 5."

"What are you talking about?" Link asked puzzled.

"Nothing pie!" Kirby responded, back to his normal self.

There was an unconformable silence, and the two just stared at each other. "What are you talking about?" Max asked poking his head through the bushes. Both Kirby and Link jumped back somewhat scared by Max's sudden appearance. "I suggest you stop talking to your self and get out of the bushes Ash is getting a bit impatient."

Link stood up and got out of the bush and stared at the other trainers. There Ash was pacing across the clearing impatiently.

"I have a confession!" Link began not knowing how exactly to word it. He paused for a few seconds.

"You're a schizophrenic?" Max asked.

"You're a Pokemon poacher?" Misty inquired.

"You hate cats?" Everyone glared at Brock. "What?"

"You are actually Link from the game Ledged of Zelda Ocarina of Time, however due to some weird wormhole you traveled into an alternate universe, and are here just to advance the plot! Meanwhile we will just fall to the cruel desires of the author of this fan fiction!"

Everyone glared at May. "Uh… what did she say?" Link asked.

"No clue, I was too busy trying to figure out how to think, and thinking about Pokemon!" Ash replied. "So, how about that battle?"

"Din, Nayru, Faeroe, I only ask you that you make Master Hand destroy this planet before I do!" Link cried out in frustration.

"So what is your confession?" Brock asked.

"Look this is just a complete misunderstanding!" Link shouted, beginning to get more frustrated by the moment. "I'm not a Pokemon trainer!"

"Of course you are!" Ash said. "You have a Jigglypuff! Now about that battle…"

Link sighed. "Fine… If it will make you shut up I'll have a battle…" he went down to Kirby and whispered something in his ear. "Just beat the living crap out of it…"

Kirby didn't even need to hear that. "All right this will be a 1 on 1 pokemon battle!" Brock said immediately in-between the two of them. They were about 25 meters away from each other

"Wait when did we move?" Link inquired, a bit confused.

"BEGIN!"

"Pikachu quick attack!" Ash shouted.

Pikachu began to run forwards towards Kirby. Kirby tried to dodge the attack but was hit by something fast, and was sent on to the ground. Quickly Kirby got up and looked around again looking for Pikachu.

"Now Thunder!" Ash commanded.

A giant lightning blot came from the yellow mouse, this time Kirby was able to dodge the attack, and run up towards Pikachu punching it square in the cheek.

"WOW that dubbleslap was so strong!" Max said.

"Max that looked more like a punch than a slap…" May responded to her little brother's comment, getting just a little suspicious of Kirby.

Kirby once again punched Pikachu, this time the force of the punch sent him flying into a tree. Kirby then jumped in front of Pikachu and began to punch him rapidly and he didn't stop. Pikachu was unable to counter any movement and could only take in the pain.

A giant cloud of smoke covered the battlefield.

"And now its using haze!" Max shouted surprised.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"And make it double!"

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our Nation"

"To denounce the Evil's of truth and Love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above"

"Jessie"

"James"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of Light"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight"

"Meowth, that's right"

"Wobbufett!"

"ITS TEAM ROCKET!" the 5 pokemon trainers shouted out in unison.

"Team who?" Link asked

"They are a bunch of no good Pokemon thieves, who follow us around trying to capture my Pikachu!" Ash replied.

"Geeze Ganondorf had better morals than these guys…" Link said out loud, quickly regretting it.

"Who's Ganondorf?" Ash asked.

"Ash haven't you played The Ledged of Zelda?" Max asked.

"Um… No"

"Figures…"

"Well mom and dad didn't let you play either since it gave you nightmares!" May said mockingly.

"THAT WAS 3 YEARS AGO!" Max shouted.

"You were scared of the dark for weeks!"

"YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD NEVER TELL ANYONE!"

"Jessie should we stop their sibling rivalry?" James asked.

"No lets just get away with the pokemon!" Jessie replied.

Jessie and James began to tiptoe away, when they were stopped by Link. He unsheathed his sword and looked at the crooks. "In my world we have a punishment for people like you, those who steal get their hands cut off!"

"Ha you can't fool us that is a fake sword that you made for that Anime convention!" Jessie laughed.

A smile crossed Link's face. He lifted up the Biggorons sword, and sliced through a nearby tree. It fell down and Team rocket stared with their mouths wide open in shock.

"I think this will be punishment enough!" Link grabbed on to his boomerang, it cut through the rope of the net where Pikachu and Kirby were captured, and cut off Jessie's hair. Then it smacked Jessie, James and Meowth in the face and finally returned to Link.

"Pikachu thunderbolt!" Ash shouted. Another Lightning bolt came out of the yellow rodent and hit team Rocket. Sending them flying off. Unfortunately Pikachu and Kirby were in the blast radius, sending them blasting off as well.

"Looks Like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" They cried.

A tree from the explosion was uprooted and was sent flying towards Link, who after years of training was able to duck under it, and dodge it. However the next person behind Link was Ash, who was hit and knocked unconscious.

"Ash has fallen unconscious!" Brock said.

"Do you have to state every single detail, even though it is completely obvious?" Link asked rather mad.

"And that's not the bad part!" Misty screamed in horror. "Pikachu and your Jigglypuff went flying into the forest of extreme pain and agony, from which no one has returned alive!"

There was a brief pause. Brock, Misty, Max, and May all looked at each other. "Ash is unconscious! We can stop acting like idiots!" They all shouted happily in perfect synchronization.

"You were acting?" Link asked in disbelief, yet in his voice there was some reassurance knowing that these people weren't as stupid as he previously thought. The others didn't respond, perhaps because they knew Link all ready knew the answer. "All right!" He shouted excited. "Into whatever that forest is called!"

"You mean the forest of extreme pain and agony, from which no one has returned alive?" Max asked checking his Pokenav.

Link glared at the group, and then shifted his head towards the forest. "Who names these places?" he said out raged. The others didn't respond, and it took Link a few seconds to realize it. "The dubbers right?" They just gave him thumbs up sign to indicate that he was correct.

Max continued to look at his Pokenav. "Unfortuantely we are going to have to travel through: 'The extremely nice forest with tons of pretty flowers,' to get to 'the forest of extreme pain and agony, from which no one has returned alive!'"

"I'm having my doubts about this…" Link sulked.

"The Pokenav, or the guy reading it?" May responded rather sarcastically.

Link just glanced at the ground, not responding to the comment; his concerns lay with a possible ally, no matter how stupid. "I think we should at least find a safe place for Ash to be treated incase of any wounds, and wake up."

"Yes we have to go to the Pokemon Center!" Brock responded. They picked up Ash's unconscious body and began to drag it over to the Pokemon Center. Once they got out of the forest it didn't take long to travel into a city, there was a giant building with a red and white ball hoisted on the top.

Link however once seeing Ash safe returned to the forest. He stood at the edge of it and stared in. It was beginning to get dark and it would be a lot harder to track Pikachu and Kirby. Part of him said wait until the morning, but his gut said he didn't have that long.

"Go!" a voice said scaring Link. He turned around to see Max, May and Brock standing there. "We know you are friends with your Jigglypuff! We will help you look for him!" Link stood there not responding, perhaps a bit annoyed, but he didn't say anything. He just nodded and turned around walking into the forest.

To be continued…