Alright, so, last author's note, when I said "last story", I mean the story, before the last story in "The Crescent Saga". If you don't know what "The Crescent Saga" is, I don't blame you. The Crescent Saga is the stories that are on my profile right now, though I'm not done with it yet. This story is part of said saga. I so far have completed a pokemon one and a FNAF one. I'm working on a Wings of Fire one, and then another different style Wings of Fire story after that one. As for the story after that…that's for you all to guess…remember to beware of the man who speaks in hands ;). Now that that's done, let's get into this chapter.
Convoy: Great, more enemies
It was a normal day in the autobot base, Ratchet being a scrooge, Raf typing on his laptop, Miko and Jack playing games, an all-out battle between Darkrai and Articuno, wait what? I bolted up from the couch and looked over the railing, where the two pokemon were attacking each other.
"What are you doing?!" I yelled, panicked. I then turned to the other teens. "What are they doing?!" I yelled, putting my hands on my head.
"Don't know, they just started brawling" Miko replied, shrugging.
"And what are you lot doing? Aren't you supposed to keep each other in check!" I turned around, facing my other team members. Beedrill looked amused, Totodile was jumping up and down, grinning with his sharp little teeth, Pigeotto was asleep (typical), Charmeleon looked a little guilty, but regardless, didn't do anything, and Arbok, Arbok just sat there. I sighed, shaking my head. "What am I supposed to do with you lot?" I asked, smiling. "Arbok, use Glare" I ordered, pointing to the two that were brawling it out. Arbok hissed before a pair of yellow eyes with red slits for pupils appeared, the two suddenly fell to the ground, twitching as little bits of electricity ran across them. "And what do you two think you were doing?" I asked, tapping my foot.
"Ice pigeon here decided to freeze my sleeping spot" Darkrai responded. I looked over to Articuno. Before I could ask, something came tumbling through a portal in front of me.
"Crescent! You may be Rain's friend, but you can't just teleport pokemon places!" A voice yelled, presumably the thing that tumbled out of the portal.
"I've got permission to teleport you guys from Rain, it's not like I didn't ask first" A familiar voice responded. I got a clear view of what had tumbled out of the portal, before I could even register what was happening, Darkrai was slowly sinking into the ground.
"Where do you think, you're going?" I asked, glaring daggers at both pokemon.
"Crescent…where are we?" The female in front of me asked.
"This is Zeke, a trainer from a different world in the Johto region, he was teleported here by…something" Crescent replied, shrugging.
"That doesn't answer my question"
"Come on Arceus, it's not that important, is it?"
"It definitely is important!"
"I feel like I've heard that name before" I said to myself, noticing the two powerful pokemon starting to slip away again. "*Cough cough* Where are you two going?" I asked, crossing my arms. It was now that Arceus noticed me, and the two pokemon I was glaring at.
"Um, may I ask what the problem is?" Arceus asked, walking over. I sighed turning around to talk to the female.
"I woke up to two of my friends brawling it out, since Darkrai is the only one able to speak the human language, I was trying to figure out a way to solve the problem" I responded, putting a hand to my forehead.
"I can understand the both of them, if you want my help" Arceus offered, that's when it clicked.
"Wait, are you from a different pokemon universe?" I asked.
"Bingo!" Crescent said, taking a sucker out of his mouth.
"Where'd you get that?" I asked, confused.
"Doesn't matter, why don't you solve your little conflict, I think I'll just leave for a few minutes" Crescent said, leaving through a portal.
"Alright, Articuno, Darkrai, why don't you both tell your sides of the story?" I asked, though it was more of a command.
"I was sleeping, but icy wings over there decided to freeze my sleeping spot" Darkrai answered in his normal, eerie, ghostly voice. Articuno started squawking at Darkrai.
"Articuno says that Darkrai was chilling him to the bone, with his ghostly aura" Arceus told me (alright, I know that legendary and mythical pokemon don't have genders, in the games, but in this story they do, sooooo yeah…).
"What? That can't be helped, you didn't have to freeze me, you could've just moved" Darkrai responded, turning away. Articuno started squawking again, only to give up and shoot an aurora beam at Darkrai.
"Oh gosh" I said, putting a hand to my forehead.
"Do you do through this most days?" Arceus asked.
"No, in fact I only met Articuno recently" I responded.
"How long have you known Darkrai?"
"Quite a long time" I responded, getting lost in my thoughts. That's when I suddenly gasped as a flashback came into my head.
The pokemon tower…BuriedAlive…Origin form Giratina…Palkia…Dialga…white, ghostly hands…large, looming shadow.
I was thrown out of my memories, I still remembered that day, that shadow…a large, dragon-like shadow looming over the sea, as the sun set and brought night. I didn't even know it, but I was sitting on the floor.
"Are you okay?" Arceus asked, crouching down.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, just…some memories" I replied, looking over to one of Ratchet's screens. "You've got an incoming call" I observed.
"Agent Fowler? What is it?" Ratchet asked.
"Some con shot me out of the sky! I need you to come and get the D.I.N.G.U.S!" (I feel like I spelt that wrong…). I snorted, trying to hold in my laughter.
"A D.I.N.G.U.S.?" I asked, trying not to laugh.
"A very destructive weapon that could destroy the state I'm in plus the few next door!" Fowler yelled through the mic.
"Not the happiest fellow I've ever met" Arceus muttered.
"No, he's not" I muttered back.
"Did Agent Fowler say what state he was in?" Raf asked.
"Let's bridge it back to the base!" Miko said.
"What?!" I yelled. "What if it becomes unstable?! It could blow up all fifty states and beyond!" I exclaimed.
"Zeke is right, we can't afford to use the ground bridge, we must transport it manually" Optimus said, seemingly appearing out of nowhere.
"Why are you here!?" Arcee yelled at me, in the darkness.
"Because I wanted to be" I replied.
"Does it hurt that I came as well?" I heard a third voice.
"Ooh, a third member of the secret 'let's sneak on missions club'" I responded to the voice.
"I did not sneak in! Optimus told me to be here!" Arcee replied.
"Huh, does that mean we only have two members then?" I asked.
When we got into a tunnel, the bots moved the D.I.N.G.U.S. into a train.
"You two, get in there" Arcee ordered, putting us in the train.
"Thanks for asking" I grinned.
"Did something just shoot the train?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think we should jump" I jumped as I saw blue electricity pass through the train.
"Good call" I said in the darkness.
"Thanks" Arceus replied. It wasn't long before something started drilling into the top of the train.
"I think this is my call, hold down the fort!" I yelled, letting out Articuno, we then flew through the opening as soon as the hole was made. I stood on top of Articuno, glaring at the humans with the guns, but they weren't the only ones with them.
"Sir! What is that?!" One of the men yelled.
"Articuno! Aurora Beam!" I yelled over the wind, Articuno shot the rainnow colored ice attack, barely missing one of the men. "Leave!" I yelled, holding onto my hat. The helicopter took off, only for a little missile like bullet to hit the train tracks ahead, blowing them up. I turned my attention to the train. "Use ice beam on the train's wheels!" I shouted, thinking it would slow the train in the process. We managed to freeze one of the train's carts wheels, meaning we froze about four wheels, before Optimus came to the rescue.
"It seems that we now have human and cybertronian enemies now" I observed, thinking about the past day. Arceus had already left, and Articuno and Darkrai were still mad at each other.
Predatory (I'm skipping two episodes ahead, sorry)
The past few weeks had been crazy, Pigeotto was now a pigeot, the final evolution, and Charmeleon had evolved into charizard. Now, we were in the middle of the forest, well, they were on the ground in the middle of said forest, I was in the air.
On my way out, I looked at the box again and took out the stone that was inside it, I had a feeling I knew what it was, but I couldn't be sure. This was only a routine mission, basically scouting for energon, so, I only took Charizard with me on this one.
"Why is HE in the air, and WE are on the ground?" Jack asked.
"Charizard and I are in the air so we won't get eaten as much as you by mosquitos" I answered, patting Charizard on the head.
"What is it Jack? Aren't you prepared for the wild?" Arcee smirked, amused at the situation.
"You wouldn't happen to be making fun of my survival kit, would you?" Jack asked.
"Naw" I sarcastically replied.
"Maybe" Arcee answered.
"Hey, I can use my magnesium fire starter and my pocket knife to whip up some mac n' cheese" Jack replied, making an 'o' with his hand.
"Oh, my, gosh. Mac n' cheese, Jack, you've just found out the way to defeat the decepticons" I sarcastically remarked. That's when Arcee's thingy started beeping.
"There shouldn't be any energon around here" Arcee remarked.
"Who wants to bet it's an decpticon warship?" I sarcastically asked, throwing my arms up in the air. Charizard swooped down and I grabbed Jack, pulling him up and onto Charizard with me.
The three of us circled above in the clouds, waiting until Arcee came back, and when she did, she did not look well.
"There's no doubt about it, she's dealing with some inner demons" I remarked, patting Charizard on the head, signaling to bring us down lower. Jack was about to say something, but I shook my head and signaled Charizard to follow Arcee.
"Stay here" Arcee ordered. I think she expected us to stay, don't know why though…
"Why, exactly are we following her" I asked Jack (I had just decided to let Charizard fly us in the direction she went in).
"Do you think she really expected us to stay here?" Jack replied.
"Don't tell her this was my idea, this is all yours" I told him, shaking my head.
"There!" Jack yelled, making me cover his mouth immediately as I saw a purple and black spider lady. It wasn't much use however, as she spotted us.
"Jack! I'll distract her! You go and blow up that spaceship! I'll drop you off in the woods!"
"And if she follows me!?"
"I'll make sure that doesn't happen!" We swooped down on Charizard, I dropped Jack down, and boy did he started running immediately. "Hey Spider lady!" I yelled. "Come and get me!" I taunted, landing on top of the cliff Arcee was currently pinned to. Unfortunately, spider lady followed Jack instead. "Charizard…let's give Spider lady some incentive" I grinned. "Dragon pulse!" I pointed down at the spider lady. A purple and blue dragon shot down and hit the spider lady in the back, causing her to lurch forward. She turned around, giving me a sickening, evil smile. This cause my eyes to wide, making me return Charizard and take off.
"Gosh dangit! Why does this have to be a completely flat plateau!?" I yelled, running across the dirt and rock. It didn't take long, one, for spider lady to get on the plateau, and two, for me to reach a forest on said plateau.
It was very, very, very foggy in that forest on top of the plateau. It meant it'd be harder for spider lady to find me, but it also meant that it'd be harder for me to see.
"Gah! Ow!" I rubbed my head, quickly getting back to walking through the fog after walking right into a root, causing me trip over. "I'm lost, gosh dangit" I mumbled under my breath. I could just feel the spider lady getting closer. However, I kept going, I couldn't let myself lose my bravery. I pushed forward, eventually braking into a sprint. I came to a sudden stop when I reached a cliff's edge. "Scrap" I said, looking down at the river below.
"Oh, how sad, have you reached the end of the line?" I whipped around, seeing the spider lady standing in front of me.
"Maybe, maybe not" I nervously chuckled.
"Looks like you're chilled to the bone, if you ask me" the spider lady responded.
"That was a real, rib-tic one" I took a step back, hearing the crumbling of rocks. "Well, this has been nice, but I've got to go" I whipped around, jumped and started to fall towards the water. I felt something sticky wrap around most of my body, my right hand was free, but that was it. I was five feet above the water when I was suddenly pulled back up, like bungie jumping. However, the chord of web snapped as I came back down. I fell into the water, feeling the water wrap me in, and the darkness surrounded me.
I quickly snapped my eyes open under the water, I began to swim with my legs, like a dolphin would, with a tail of course, not so much the case for me. I was able to surface, and I reached the land. I was able to get onto muddy shore. I knew that the spider lady would be after me again before long. I was able to the webs off with my right hand using a sharp stick. I made a break for the trees, at least it wasn't very foggy down here.
"I think…I finally…lost her" I panted, putting my hands on my knees.
"You thought wrong" Before I could try to run, I was pinned to a tree.
"Now, wat should I do with you? You've caused me quite a bit of trouble, I could kill you right now, or you could be my pet? How does that sound?" The spider lady taunted.
"Back off, or things might get deadly" I warned, not taking my eyes off the ground.
"Oh, really, and what are you going to do about it?" She then flexed one of her claws and drug it down my right arm, the one I happened to throw pokéballs with. The acid was definitely going to make a mark. All on his own, Charizard suddenly burst out of his pokeball.
"Break the bonds, mega evolve" I said through my pain. An orange, blue, and black light came from the keystone, as well as from the stone in my pocket, which flew itself to Charizard. When it made contact, the light came from Charizard as well. The sheer energy of the mega evolution sent a huge pulse of air through the forest.
"Char!" Charizard roared, I could now clearly make out the form of the mega evolution. It looked like mega charizard Y, but with blue flames coming out its mouth, and blue and black skin, as well as a blue tail flame, and purple eyes.
"Use…overheat" I mumbled. This would not end well for the spider lady. I could feel the heat of the move and I was fifteen feet away and behind Charizard. The spider lady quickly retreated, I jumped on Charizard, clutching my right arm. I felt the ground shake, heard an explosion, and saw smoke in the sky. That had to have been jack.
"Come on, let's find Jack" I patted Charizard and we took off, still in mega evolution form.
The sun was peeking out from behind the clouds, due to mega Charizard-Z's ability.
When I looked down, spider lady had trapped Jack, and was reaching for the kill.
"Mega Charizard, use dragon pulse" I grinned, this knocked the spider lady through many trees. "Don't let up, use dragon tail" I ordered. Charizard used dragon tail, knocking the spider lady back even more. "Come back" I said, returning Charizard back to his pokeball. I then fell to my knees.
"Zeke!" I heard Jack exclaim. My vision started to go black, I couldn't hold in much longer. I fell to my side, my vision getting darker and darker. Darker yet darker, until I was graced with unconsciousness.
I woke up gasping for air. I clutched my chest, I looked over and saw a sling on my right arm. I could tell it was in the middle of the night, though…I couldn't tell if I was in the base or not. I could see that Charizard's pokeball was on a night stand next to me. I must be in someone's house, probably Jack's. I looked around some more, I didn't know how I got here, but I had a feeling I wasn't going to be moving until the morning…
Just sleep, just dream (my own special episode)
"In the back of my mind, I've been trying to chase a monster this whole time, but I couldn't see, the monster is gone" I said out loud, walking out of Jack's house, they weren't awake yet, and that's a good thing for me. I walked out and onto the side walk, going nowhere fast.
I knew I was leaving the rest of my team behind, but I didn't plan on being gone long. Or, at least, I hoped not. I walked and walked until I just got to empty desert of Nevada. So, I walked into the desert.
The sun beat down on me, it had been one day, I had packed my back pack full of water and some food.
The second day, I found some shade and a large rock, that's where I made camp for the night.
The third day, I found a small town in the middle of nowhere, it had some necessities and an odd restaurant, some animatronic themed one or something like that.
The fourth day, I had found myself looking at the sky, wanting to be up there again.
The fifth day, I found myself in a canyon, quite a dark one in fact. I walked in the dimly lit crack in the ground, everything seemed fine until…I saw a door, in a random canyon, just sitting there. I walked over to it, seeing if it would open, and surprisingly enough, it did. It creaked open as I walked in. Metal floors, metal walls, metal ceilings, was what I was met with. I slowly walked in, I saw a flashlight on a nearby table and grabbed it. I clicked it on and walked further into the structure. I saw odd things on the walls, claw marks, burn marks, and odd indentions in the walls. I opened another door, only to be met with a gruesome smell. I quickly shut the door and shuddered, I didn't see what was in there, but I didn't want to.
I walked further along the hallway, until I walked into some sort of monitor room. I booted up the only working camera, and played the footage. All I could see was flashing lights, some scientists running around, and a long, dark purple tail run across the footage. I was horrified and looked around the room some more, it seemed as if this room had been touched by whatever had caused this, other than the broken monitors.
I entered some sort of lab room, there was shattered glass, skeletons on the floor, and broken equipment everywhere. I rushed out of the room, and the facility all together.
The sixth day, I started pondering, should I go back? I think I should go back.
The seventh day, I was flying on Mega Charizard through the air, above the clouds. I had to make it back to the base today. However, Charizard broke out of the direction of the base, and started flying somewhere else.
We reached a battle going on between the autobots and Starscream, we dove down just as two ground bridges appeared at the same time, and as both closed, everything else looked like it had a tinge of gray.
Shadowzone
I walked around, obviously not catching the attention of the bots, until I found the teens.
"Hey" I awkwardly said, rubbing my right arm.
"Where did you go?!" Jack asked, frustrated.
"I needed some time to myself" I answered, looking around.
"Does anybody feel the ground shaking?" Raf asked, making me turn around.
"Gah! Zombie-con!" I yelled, seeing a large, re-animated con.
Currently, us teens were trying above the con, out of reach.
"Any ideas?" I asked.
"Could we call the bots?" Miko asked.
"We can try" Jack replied, pulling out his phone.
"It's ringing" I observed. "We're reaching them, but we're probably…"
"Moving too fast for the eye to see!" Raf exclaimed.
"Let me try" I said, taking my pokegear and calling the autobot base. "Autobot outpost omega-1, this is Zeke, do you copy?" I asked.
"This is outpost omega-1, this is Ratchet, do you copy?"
"Ratchet! We have a re-animated Skyquake after us, though we have two other problems! We're stuck in some, shadowzone, and we can't get out! Two, there's a big shadow dragon flying towards us!"
"What's a dragon!?"
"Giant, flying, fire breathing lizard!" Miko yelled into the mic. I froze as I saw what was approaching, something I wished to never see again. The same dragon-like figure that had been hovering over the sea that night.
"Zeke! I'm going to kill you for being gone so long!" I heard a ghostly voice yell, but I was stuck in a trance.
"Charizard! We have to fly! Now!" I yelled, pointing the opposite direction as the dragon that was coming closer. Charizard turned around and started flying a very, very, very high speed. "Hang on!" I yelled to the teens behind me.
We had landed and hidden, we were safe from the dragon, for now.
"Zeke, you know what that thing is? Don't you?" Jack asked.
"It's a horror from my past" I simply answered. "Which is why I have to face it"
Alright, I'm splitting this episode in two parts, because we all LOVE cliffhangers. Also, thanks for 313 views! I'd like to recognise some people as well, even if I'm a little late doing so: Thank you, avatoa for favoriting and following the story. Thank you, Bladenightmare for favoriting and following the story. Thank you, Generalhyna for following and favoriting the story. Thank you, animebella09 for favoriting and following the story. Finally, thank you Defender54 for favoriting the story.