GoggleMaster01- Okay, here's Chapter 2 of Battle Revolution- Rubii and Safaia. Yay! Chapter 2 already! (Well, this fic WAS rotting on my computer, so yeah)
Oh yea- the AWESOME that is Pokemon is still not mine. And if it was, you could bet any amount of money that I would have made Ash a PokeMaster in KANTO, about twelve years ago. And if you think he was too insane back then and want him to get a bit more experienced first, pretend I just said Jotho instead of Kanto. NO CHARACTER DERAILMENT, NO MORE LONG JOURNEYS, NO MORE TEAM ROCKET STALKERS, MY FAVORITE CHARACTER CAN JUST BE HAPPY! Ash needs a vacation, and I need a life. If you want to see the full rant for this, please check my profile. This section is for my fanfiction, okay?
Chapter 2
Yes, maybe it started there, Terrell thought. Or maybe a little later. Should he have listened to Rayquaza? If he had, the captain would still be alive. But if he hadn't, which he did, he would have never learned how much he really loved them. He wanted to see them...
Terrell spent his time in his room gutting fish, both the normal ones from the ocean and the small strange fish from the volcano, dreaming about meeting humans for the first time. After a week, the big day came. Terrell and Marina walked around the island one last time and sat on the stone peninsula, looking out at the sea.
"Today will be our last day on this island," Marina said.
"Hm, yea," Terrell said, folding his hands behind his head. "But we're finally gonna get to see humans!"
"I know that," Marina said. "I'm very curious about them. Rayquaza said they looked a bit like us."
"You mean they have claws?!" Terrell jumped and showed his clawed hand.
"Like I know." Marina skipped a rock on the water. It leapt three times across the water's surface and sank to the sea bottom.
"The flyer says we need strong Pokemon," Terrell said. "We're Pokemon- right?"
"Rayquaza said he'd take care of everything," Marina said. "Besides, if we look sort of like humans, I think we need Pokemon to get this job."
"We humans or Pokemon?" Terrell asked.
"I guess we're Pokemon the humans don't know about," Marina said. "But I think we look so much like the humans that they'll accept us."
The sun was starting to set, and the whole family, including Rayquaza, had gathered on the peninsula. The children had their bags, including Rayquaza's, and were boarding the Sky High Pokemon.
"You sure they're ready for this?" Kyogre said worriedly.
"We're ready!" Terrell winked.
"As long as you do what you're told!" Rayquaza snapped.
"I will, I will, yikes," Terrell said as he began to board.
"Hold on there, Eager McBidoof," Groudon grabbed Terrell gently be the back of his shirt. "Don't leave without saying goodbye."
"Oh, sorry," Terrell hugged his father, then ran up to his mother. "Bye, Mom." Kyogre put one flipper over her son and embraced him.
"I-I'm not sure if you're ready," she whispered. "Marina, maybe, but-"
"As long as he listens to Marina and everything goes according to Rayquaza's plan, he'll have learned his lesson," Groudon reassured her as Marina came up to Groudon to say goodbye.
"But you know Terrell..." Kyogre began.
"Don't worry Mom. I'll take care of Terrible Terrell," Marina said as she joined her brother under Kyogre's flipper. Terrell gave her a punch in the head with his non-clawed hand. She had last called him Terrible Terrell when he was seven years old. If that was how old everyone thought he was, he was gonna show them. He was going to go to Poketopia and return victorious and prove to EVERYONE that he wasn't Terrible Terrell anymore!
"I hope you will," Kyogre said as she nuzzled her babies. "I just want you to make good choices. No drugs, no gangs, nothing like that."
"I wouldn't even think of it," Marina said. "Not saying anything for You-Know-Who."
Terrell made a half-growl, half-grumble, then got away from his mother and boarded Rayquaza. Marina followed him. Rayquaza lifted off with both children screaming "Goodbye!" to their parents, who yelled "Goodbye!" back, then gave each other a worried look.
The twins had been dropped off ten miles from the airport. The airport was a special one that only went to Poketopia. It was in the middle of nowhere, and hidden so only the best Trainers could find it. Only those with all the HMs (or a Run Though Anything cheat) could reach it. Thankfully, Terrell and Marina could skip these obstacles because they rode on Rayquaza.
The twins were instructed to keep walking east until they saw it. Terrell was overly excited and kept asking "Hey Rayquaza, are we there yet?" until Rayquaza dropped them off. Then, Marina became the target of his constant asking.
"If you say that one more time, I swear to God, I will get you back to the island even if I have to drag you there kicking and screaming and clawing!" Marina snapped. Terrell stopped talking until a few minutes later when he screamed, "Marina! Look! I found one!"
He was pointing at a creature in front of him about their size with hands, not clawed hands like Terrell's, but normal hands with fingers. It had a crop of blonde hair on its head. It was-
"Wow, a Jynx," Marina said. "Good job, Sherlock. We see them all the time on the island. In that secret ice cave near the cove we found last summer, remember?"
"I'm not pointing to the Jynx!" Terrell said. "I mean NEXT TO the Jynx."
Marina looked to the left of the Pokemon. Nothing. She looked to the right. And then she saw what Terrell had been pointing at. Next to the Jynx, there was a human Trainer- or was it?
She looked about fourteen, with pink hair and green eyes. She was wearing a dress similar to Jynx's and wearing a name tag that said, "Hello, My Name is Mary Sue."
When Marina saw the tag, she pulled Terrell away by the ear. "You need to be careful, Terrell!" she yelled. "Rayquaza told us about those! Mary Sues aren't humans! They are idealized versions of humans that enter our world and turn people into their cheerleaders because they somehow make us think they are superior with some kind of voodoo magic! That Jynx is probably a million times stronger than the ones on the island! It could probably freeze you forever if it wanted! You need to stay away from them!"
Terrell turned around to face the beautiful girl. "And they look just like humans?" he asked.
"Yea. Except for that name tag," Marina said. "That's the giveaway. Look out for that name tag."
Terrell's eyes fell to the girl's manicured nails. "No claws?" he asked, sounding sad and disappointed at the same time.
"Doesn't look like it," Marina replied. "Of course, that's a Mary Sue- oh, look, we're here!"
Terrell turned around. There was a large steel building. Terrell had never seen steel before, though, so he wondered what the bright, shiny metal was. There were two clear doors next to each other and, above the doors, a letter P in a circle with wings flanking each side of the circle. Below this symbol were the words Poketopia.
"Cool!" Terrell ran down to the building. Marina ran after him. "Hey, wait for me!" she yelled.
Terrell didn't hear her. He touched the steel. It was slick and smooth, and he traced a pattern in it with his claws. The pattern resembled five dashed lines and went almost to the door. Marina smacked her brother. "Rayquaza told me to keep you out of trouble!" she snapped.
"But I did this all the time in my room!" he snapped back.
"Yea, well, this isn't your room." Marina walked up to one of the doors. They had no doorknobs or handles.
"These are curious doors," she asked. "How do you open them?"
"I dunno? Claw them down?" Terrell suggested.
"No!" Marina walked around to the other door. When she was directly between the two, there was a swish and the doors opened.
"Weird door," Marina said. "Well, I guess we should walk in now." She walked in and Terrell followed after her. When both twins were inside, they gasped.
The room they entered was very large. The walls were made of the same steel as outside. There was a large wooden desk with clear glass up in front of it. On the eastern wall, there was another door that opened on its own. But, none of this caught the children's attention.
What caught their attention were the humans. There were tons of them of all shapes and sizes and hair color and eye color. Similar to the children, they only had hair on their heads, but a few had hair on their faces as well. To Terrell's disappointment, none had claws. They all had normal hands. Marina wondered if they had webbed feet like her. Both children were taken aback at how many humans there were. They were all talking, and the room was filled with a loud buzz like nothing the children had ever heard before.
They made their way through the humans to the front desk. Behind the desk were five women. Every single one had blonde hair, light green eyes and was wearing a blue beret and an orange scarf. Terrell stared at them bug eyed. "Are you all the same kind of human?" he asked them
"Wha?" said the lady directly in front of Terrell.
"Y'know how there are different kinds of Pokemon?" he asked. "Well-"
Marina bumped him out of the way. "Please excuse my brother," she said, showing the girl her ticket. "We wanted to become Colosseum leaders at Poketopia."
Terrell cocked his head in confusion. "If you were listening on the ride here and not asking 'Are we there yet?' every ten seconds, you'd know we had to give these tickets to the nice human," she scolded.
"Oh!" Terrell fished around in his bag and pulled his ticket out. The lady took both tickets. She examined them. "Oh! These are Ray Quaza's kids!" she said. "Wait here." The woman walked away and through a automatic door in the back.
"Rayquaza's our-" Terrell began, but Marina shut his mouth. "Look, Rayquaza's only pretending to be our dad. He bought us these tickets and reserved some Pokemon and some money for us."
"Money?" Terrell asked.
"We're with humans now," Marina said. "Rayquaza said we need to use money to get food and other things. We can't just take whatever we want."
"Or what?" Terrell asked. Marina didn't answer because the woman came back. "Here." She gave both children a small backpack. Inside each pack were several pieces of paper and coins. Also in the pack were six small red and white balls.
Marina took one of the balls and showed it to Terrell. "This is a Poke Ball," she said. "Our Pokemon are in these. We throw the ball to let them out and push the button on the center to pull them back in."
"Weird," Terrell said, cocking his head and staring at the little red and white ball.
"I know, but that's the way humans do things," Marina reassured the boy.
"WOAH!" Terrell leaned against the window. The plane had taken off, and Terrell was amazed at how humans could make these flying things as big as Rayquaza. It was like a giant Rayquaza. Only with a roof and lots of humans and no fish breath and peanuts.
They had boarded the plane with the same symbol as on the front of the building on it only an hour after they got past the baggage check. Apparently, Terrell's claws contained a lot of iron in their chemical makeup. The claws set off the metal detector. Several security guards surrounded the children in instants. They had taken one look at Terrell's claws and called them freaky.
Terrell had never been taunted for his claws before, and he looked upset. Marina bailed him out.
"They're a part of his costume," Marina explained, telling the story Rayquaza told her in case someone spotted Terrell's claws (that Terrell was too busy asking "Are we there yet?" to hear). "We lost the other set of claws. They aren't dangerous."
"Well, tell him to take them off," said the human with a badge that said "Airline Security" that had caught them.
"We glued them on with tree sap- I mean glue!" Marina blurted out. "I'll go put them away. But, we need to wash the glue off." Marina pulled Terrell to the nearest water fountain. "Quick, pretend to wash your hands," she whispered. Marina went into a corner and fished through the backpack the receptionist gave her. Inside her backpack was a set of claws identical to Terrell's own.
"Got them off!" Marina said, putting the claws into Terrell's regular luggage.
"Okay, then, enjoy Poketopia!" The Airline Security guy left them alone. They boarded the plane a few minutes later, and Terrell had been refreshingly quiet until now.
"This thing is so cool!" he said, shaking Marina. "I had no idea something like this could fly!"
"Shh," Marina hissed. "They have no idea we're the children of Groudon and Kyogre. You saw the big deal they made over your claws. We have to be careful."
Terrell sulked. "I thought they had claws too," he said.
"They don't. Rayquaza told me that," Marina said. "But I'm as bummed out as you are. You know why?" Marina took off her boot and showed her foot to Terrell. It looked like a normal human foot- but in between the toes were stretches of light blue skin. "I'm bummed out because they don't have webbed feet like mine either." Marina hid her foot in her boot again. "And they can't summon water at will."
"They can't?" he asked.
"Yea, but Rayquaza said that the hands they have can be as deadly as your claws," Marina whispered. "They can make things that can destroy our island in an instant, and all they have to do it hide a machine on the island and press a button. Rayquaza called it a bomb. And they're really smart too. If we meet some bad humans, what will we do?"
Terrell shrugged. "Dunno."
"Guess this means we're Pokemon no one's ever heard of," Marina said.
"Does that mean we can go inside these things?" Terrell asked, holding up a Poke Ball.
"I don't know. I'll find out." Marina leaned over the seats and tapped a boy her age on the shoulder. "Do you have an empty Poke Ball we could borrow?" she asked. The boy nodded and gave her a Poke Ball. Marina held it and pressed the button. She expected to be pulled inside, but nothing happened.
"Let me try!" Terrell snatched the ball and pushed the button. Nothing happened. He tried to pry it open with his claws, but Marina stopped him by taking the ball away and giving it back to the boy in front of her.
"That's weird," Marina said. "Are we human or Pokemon?"
"Maybe we're both?" Terrell asked.
Marina leaned over Terrell and looked out the window. "Maybe, for some reason, we're just humans in Pokemon form. Or Pokemon in human form. We're one trapped in the other's body." Her eyelids began to close. "You're right, Terrell. Maybe, we're both."
Marina fell asleep on her brother's shoulder. Terrell leaned on Marina's head and sniffed his sister's hair. It still smelled of seawater. He closed his eyes, exhausted at last, and fell asleep.
GoggleMaster01- Gee, anyone, who wants to be in Marina's position right now? Anyway, please R&R!!! No flames! Flames are bad!