Chapter 16: The Shadow Medallion and Mewtwo

Master Hand floated down onto the ground inside a dark cave, once again weakened. This time however he was cringing in pain. "This wound…" he muttered "I can feel my body being slowly deleted, starting from this wound." He paused for a second trying to calculate something. "I only have 6 hours unless I can find a new host! And Max is no longer in any condition to be my host…" he punched the cave wall, "Damn that puffball, and its song! My barrier would have stayed up if it didn't interfere!"

A blue aura appeared around Master Hand. "Leave this place now!" A voice shouted out.

"Please don't hurt me. I come looking for a peaceful place to expire! I have been weakened, and only have a limited time left to live!" Master hand was disgusted at the thought that he was graveling for his life, but for the time being it was all he could do.

"You are a fellow Pokemon, right?"

"Yes," Master Hand winced in pain. "I am a Pokemon!" he despised saying the words, but Master Hand realized he was in no condition to fight, and he could use this Pokemon off in the shadows. "If you execute my revenge…"

"I do not do dirty work!" The voice shouted outraged. "I only live here in this unknown dungeon to be away from the humans!"

"They are coming to finish the job… and they will surely kill you as well!" These words that Master Hand spoke seemed to catch the pokemon's interest.

"If they wish to kill me, then they shall die!"

"Then take this!" Master Hand placed the shadow medallion on the ground. The medallion levitated off of the ground and floated into the shadows. "I have no more use of it…"

"Thanks, but I don't need this to kill a few pathetic humans!"

Master Hand just laughed. "Are you that arrogant? You'll need it! Just accept it!"

"If it will stop your damn whining then I'll take it!" The voice muttered, before disappearing.

Link, Kirby, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, May and Brock were walking along the path. Max was being carried by Brock, Pichu was being carried by Pikachu, and Rai was being carried by Link. They reached the edge of the forest, and beyond the forest there was a river.

"Master Hand went across the river…" Pikachu sighed staring at the water. "There is no way we can get across it, with our current load!" He gestured at Max, Pichu, and Rai. Brock, Link and Pikachu placed the three on the ground.

"We should treat their wounds," Link suggested. "I'm going to look for some green and red herbs. Jigglypuff, why don't you come with me since you know this forest better than us." Jiggypuff nodded and ran off into the forest, Link followed.

Kirby stared at the water "I'm going to check if there is a bridge to get across!" He announced to May and Brock. Both of them nodded approving of his action. "Pikachu you should stay here incase the Rebellion attacks." With that Kirby dashed off.

He ran upstream, hoping that he could find a bridge. After running about five minutes he had found a bridge. It was a rather old and broken down, but it would be able to serve its purpose. "Freeze Jigglypuff!" A voice shouted out behind Kirby. Kirby turned around not amused by the Rebellion's appearance facing him were several Pikachu.

"I am really getting pissed off at that shade of yellow," Kirby gritted his teeth while a sword appeared in his hands. With one movement Kirby killed all of the Pikachu, as a futile attempt to defend against Kirby, one Pikachu tried to do a thunderbolt, however missed and hit the bridge instead.

Kirby stared in disbelief as the bridge was set up in flames. "Crap," he muttered to himself. "How am I going to tell them about this?"

May was by her brother, she was kneeling on the ground and Max's head was on her legs. She had taken off her bandana and soaked it in the river, and placed it on his forehead. Brock had done a similar action and ripped a tea towel in half placing it on Rai's and Pichu's forehead. Pikachu stood by his brother watching over him. However something caught his attention in the remains of Max's shirt there was a small rock, not thinking much about it Pikachu grabbed the rock and put it above his ear. Brock had taken out some bandages and had a fire with a kettle over top. In it was boiling water.

"I can only treat Pichu right now," Brock said grimly, pulling out a spray bottle with a strange liquid in it. "This super potion unfortunately only works with Pokemon." Brock pointed the bottle at Pichu "Now keep your eyes shut Pichu, this will sting a bit." He pulled the trigger and a vapor came out of the nozzle. When it hit Pichu, he began to squirm around a bit. Quickly the whole bottle's contents were used up and Brock wrapped Pichu in several bandages.

Link appeared from the forest with several red and green herbs in his arms. Brock took the herbs and put them in the boiling water. May took some rubbing alcohol and began to sterilize Max's wounds. Link did the same for Rai. They took herbs and placed them over the wounds and then proceeded to bandage up most of their bodies. When they were done Kirby returned with news.

"Unfortunately, the only bridge I could find is out," Kirby sighed. "It was burned down,"

"We are going to need another way to cross the river…" Link sighed.

"You will not cross the river!" A voice shouted out from the other end of the river, slowly from out of the trees stepped a white pokemon. He stepped out of the other forest and walked across the river, as though it was a solid. "A fellow pokemon has been harmed by you humans! And for that I must make you suffer!"

"I'm just going to continue to put on these bandages as I feign unfamiliarity with one of the most powerful Pokemon ever!" Brock sighed trying to ignore Mewtwo

"Wow it's a Mewtwo!" Max shouted out "Check it out as I do the exact opposite of Brock and feign familiarity with a Pokemon I should technically know nothing about!"

"Is he in the rebellion also?" Kirby asked Pikachu.

"I don't know…" Pikachu responded a bit of uneasiness in his voice.

"I'm not one of those extremists!" He replied. "I am Mewtwo! The worlds strongest Pokemon! You humans have threatened to kill another Pokemon, and to protect that Pokemon I will kill you!"

Link drew the Master Sword. "I guess negotiations are beyond you then! Fine then I'll fight you!" Link charged forwards attacking Mewtwo who had put up a psychic barrier. The Master Sword pierced through the barrier, and passed directly through Mewtwo, not making a scratch. Link stood there dumbfounded as Mewtwo hit him with his tail into the sky, Mewtwo then threw several shadow balls at Link. Link slashed at the shadow balls trying to send them back to Mewtwo, however The Master Sword just went right through them and they hit Link exploding on impact. Link landed on several jagged rocks in the shallow part of the river. "What happened?" He asked.

"I'll tell you what happened Link!" Rai's voice shouted weakly. "The Master Sword is merged with just one medallion the Spirit Medallion. The six medallions can be split up into 2 groups. Physical, and Spiritual. In the Physical there are the Forest Medallion, the Water Medallion and the Fire Medallion. While in the spiritual there is the Spirit, the Shadow, and the Time. With out the others in that group, the blade becomes one sided. With out the Shadow Medallion the Master Sword will only be a phantom sword! And with out the time medallion, it will eventually fade away!"

Link stood up wincing in pain. "Great…" He muttered.

"Give up! You have no way to live!" Mewtwo said. "If you leave now I won't kill you!"

Smoke began to cross the area from where Link and Mewtwo were fighting.

"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!"

Mewtwo looked at the evil trio with a pissed off glare. "Nobody interrupts my battle!" he shouted sending a shadow ball in between them. The effect was an explosion sending Team Rocket flying.

"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" the three shouted.

"Sorry but I'm not leaving!" Link glanced up at Mewtwo, trying his best to ignore what had just happened, he began to walk forwards, but quickly fell on the ground.

"Please you can hardly walk!" Mewtwo sighed. "I don't want to hurt you if I can avoid it!"

Link stood up once again using his sword's sheath as a cane. "I have to kill him… I have to get across the river, and kill Master Hand, and you aren't stopping me!"

Mewtwo closed his eyes. "I can see your determination, but you can not defeat me with a useless blade!" He held out his hands and the Shadow Medallion appeared in front of him. "This Master Hand you seek to kill, gave me this as a gift! I have no intention of using it so you can take it! But it won't change the outcome of this battle!"

Link stared at the Shadow Medallion. "I don't need your sympathy!" he barked at Mewtwo. "Keep it until I beat you!"

"If you're that ready to die, then so be it!" Mewtwo threw forwards a shadow ball, Link under normal circumstances would have rolled out of the way however he was too injured to do that. At the last second a wall made out of water appeared in front of Link protecting him. Kirby was sucking up the water creating the barrier between the two and with one move he spat it out at Mewtwo. Mewtwo just raised his right hand and the water flew up into the air. Jigglypuff jumped behind Mewtwo and used double slap, her attack stopped in mid air, and there was a blue aura around her. "Such cheap tactics will not hurt me!"

A thunderbolt came flying towards Mewtwo, however all he had to do was launch a shadow ball at it, to cancel it out.

"You are up against the strongest pokemon that humans have been able to create! I have no equal!"

"You're quite arrogant that's for sure!" Pikachu responded.

"That's enough!" Link said. Holding onto his sword. "This is between me and him!" he walked in front of Mewtwo and swung his sword.

"That won't work…" Mewtwo sighed, however he was hit on the arm with the sword. "Why didn't that go through me?" He asked out loud noticing two other swords on Link's back. "So… that's why!"

Link smiled attacking Mewtwo again; this time Mewtwo defended by catching the blade. Mewtwo took his other hand and surrounded it with psychic energy, he then punched Link in the gut, and he was sent flying back into a tree. Mewtwo waved his hands and five trees were uprooted from the ground, the psychic energy then caused them all to become several hundred 12 inch long needles. They all went flying towards Link, who defended using Din's Fire. The intense fire attack burned up all of the wooden splinters.

With one swift movement Mewtwo pointed his hand at the river and the water rushed towards Link, who blocked this time using Faeroe's wind. Link collapsed onto his knees now unable to stand, as he had used up too much energy.

"You have no way to win, do you give up?" Mewtwo asked.

Link collapsed to the ground. "I've never quit. I'll die a warriors death!"

Mewtwo just began to produce a shadow ball. "Fine then. One last attack! If you are able to survive I'll leave you alone and you can go kill him!" After the shadow ball was fully charged Mewtwo threw in the shadow medallion and a smash shard. "I have now created a void, both of us will be sucked up into this dark energy!" Link could feel his body being dragged slowly towards the void. Link grabbed the Master Sword, and the NES sword, one in each of his hands.

Link stood up and ran towards the void, first he slashed through it with the Master Sword, when it hit the center it glowed a bright white light. Then he used the NES sword to slash through the void once again, the void was absorbed by the NES sword.

Mewtwo began to walk away, however he collapsed onto the ground. "Crap" Mewtwo muttered. "I thought my body could endure all of the psychic energy I was using!"

Link sheathed the NES sword and the Master Sword before he also fell onto the ground. He then fell unconscious.

Link opened up his eyes, the sun was out. "How long was I out?" Link asked feeling a bit sore.

"About 3 hours," Brock sighed.

"If you want the honor of killing Master Hand you only have 2 hours left…" Mewtwo laughed weakly from where he was lying.

"What?" They all asked in perfect sync.

"He had a wound that would kill him in 6 hours, or at least that's what he said!" Mewtwo replied to the question. "I only wish that I could see his final moments…"

Link lifted up Mewtwo. "I think that can be arranged." His strength mysteriously returning to him. "Now lets go to Master Hand's last resting place!"

"Not so fast!" A voice shouted out, at the sound of this voice the very mountains seemed to tremble. An explosion of light appeared in front of them, and emerging from the light came several pokemon.

"Pikachu, we are here to judge you!" a voice calmly said.

To be continued…

Notes:

Green and red herbs is a reference to Resident evil, Green restores a bit of your health, and when merged with Red they restore all of your health.