Chapter 16: I got the blues
The minute Link and Sonic stopped, Pikachu fell to the ground, twitching violently. When Pikachu finally stopped, he ran off and Link could hear a retching noise behind a bush.
"I hope we're not doing that again." Pikachu said, almost vomiting again.
"Don't worry. If we're lucky, you won't have to." Sonic said with an eye closed.
"Let's hope this is the truth, Sonic." Link said, trying to calm Pikachu down.
Fortunately, Sonic and Link knew a temple when they saw one. They all had the same appearance as the yellow one and this one was no different. They walked in and, like the others, it was so dark that Sonic couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
"I think that Rouge might be at home here." Sonic thought out loud.
"Who's Rouge?" Link asked.
"Ah, some annoying bat girl. She likes jewels, taunting her enemies, and dark places. I'll give you more details later. For now we'll have to…" Sonic began, but he ran into a kind of invisible wall and fell on his back.
"Oh. Never mind then." Sonic said as he righted himself.
Pikachu instantly used Flash and the whole place lit up. The blue hedgehog had just run into the pedestal without even knowing it. This pedestal had something like a water droplet on it and this gem was the color of a calm sea at sunrise. Mewtwo put his hand forward and the gem was covered in a blue aura as it levitated off the ground.
"Next time, look where you're going, Sonic." Mewtwo pointed out.
"I couldn't see a thing. How am I supposed to look around if I can't see?" Sonic asked with a shrug and a confused look.
"Well, now that we've got our hands on these, those Dragonoids won't do what they plan to do." Link said, sensing an argument coming up.
Their mission done, they turned around and headed for the exit. There was NOTHING that could stop them now, but there was a surprise waiting for them at the exit.
Just when they adjusted to the sun's bright shine, something tried to blast them with fire, causing all of them to leap backward. As they looked up, they saw, not one, but TWO Dragonoids. They instantly recognized Yellow Drache, but he was carrying a white one in his talons. This one had two heads, one mounted on its neck while the other was right on the tip of its thick tail, and scales as white as snow.
"How about we have a little introduction? I'd like you to meet White Amphis, one of Ryu's top generals." Drache joked in a cold, demonic tone.
"The reason is this: Two heads are better than one!" Amphis said as his second head arched its neck like a cobra about to strike, and like a cobra, it flickered out a forked tongue.
Drache then dropped Amphis and the white one dropped to the ground, the ground shaking when his feet touched terra firma. White Amphis charged, easily going as fast as a school bus, causing Link to draw his sword. However, something over six and a half feet tall stood in front of him, its eyes narrowing defensively.
"I'll handle this!" Mewtwo said, getting in Link's way.
Mewtwo's purple eyes glowed bright blue as he put both of his three-fingered hands forward. When he did this, Pikachu instantly caught the blue gem before it landed on the ground. A blue aura surrounded Amphis and for a moment, the white dragon was immobilized. Then, he slowly pulled his arms together and suddenly threw them apart, shattering the psychic hold.
"WHAT?!" Mewtwo said in utter surprise. Only a powerful force could shatter his psychic hold.
Mewtwo's pause was just one second too long, because White Amphis pulled back his hand and backhanded Mewtwo to the other side of the arena. Mewtwo flew through the air, but he righted himself in midair and floated there for a while. He barely had enough time to respond when Drache came out of the air and tried to torch him with a jet of flame. Mewtwo quickly put up a barrier and the fire splashed off like water on an umbrella. In another movement of his hands, he pushed the fire back and Drache tried to get away, but the fire bombarded the Dragonoid in the back. Drache tumbled through the air and landed with a crash some ninety yards away as Mewtwo put his hands down and grinned.
"Child's play." Mewtwo said, as though it were the simplest thing in the world.
However, this proved to be a mistake on Mewtwo's behalf. White Amphis noticed that the psychic Poke'mon's guard was down and his tail shot up and breathed flame at Mewtwo from below. The flames caught Mewtwo full force and the psychic Poke'mon fell to the ground, badly injured. Amphis smiled with both of his mouths and eventually stopped laughing to speak.
"So, YOU'RE supposed to be the strongest Poke'mon alive?" Amphis teased.
The teasing proved a mistake as Pikachu shot electricity at the twin-headed monster. Amphis' whole body twitched with the sudden jolt, but when it cleared, he looked at Pikachu and saw that he was holding the blue gem.
"Now, hand that over, you little rat or things will get REALLY hot here." White Amphis threatened.
The minute White Amphis advanced on him, Pikachu threw the gem into the air and it landed safe and sound in Link's gauntlet-clad hand.
"Alright! I do like a good game of Hot Potato." Sonic said as he got to a good throwing point for Link.
"Sonic! CATCH!" Link said as he threw the gem like a football.
Sonic leapt into the air and caught it while doing a perfect spin attack. When he was coming down, he planted both feet into Amphis' tail head, which was coming to meet him. After that, he slid down the tail like it was a grind rail and spun right into White Amphis' cranium. Amphis clutched his head in pain and howled like an injured wolf as Sonic landed right behind him.
"Good job, Sonic. I gotta…LOOK OUT!" Link said, diving to the ground.
Sonic turned around only to have Yellow Drache's tail race through the air and smash into him. Sonic fell on his back and the blue gem rolled across the grass. White Amphis smiled.
"You're mine!" He said as he reached for it.
"Not today!" Link said as he raced at it.
Link sprinted forward, leaving a green light trail and seized it. He was thankful for his new boots, because without them, he would have been too late. Yellow Drache attempted to catch Link with his tail, but the hylian leapt into the air and brought his sword down on it. Drache howled like an injured wolf and clutched his tail, which now had a huge gash on it. Amphis was now furious that he was seeing his teammate being suckered by these pipsqueaks.
"You've tricked us for the last time, you filthy flies!" Amphis said, enraged.
The white dragon then opened his mouth and the second head's as well. Two bursts of fire erupted from both mouths and streaked across the plain. Link rolled just when the flames singed his tunic and Sonic's missed him so narrowly, he could feel the heat pass him. However, when Sonic looked forward, he walked right into Drache and the yellow dragon pinned him with his eagle-like foot, trapping the blue blur. At the same time, when Link rolled to his feet, Amphis' tail wrapped around him like an anaconda. Link tried to squirm out of the coils of Amphis' tail, but it was useless and he couldn't use his sword either. Sonic couldn't do much either, seeing as four talons were clutching him in a way that he couldn't wriggle free. They were trapped.
The two Dragonoids then stormed over to Pikachu and the electric rodent shivered as he started inching away from them. However, he didn't have the speed to outpace them when they flew and he couldn't run too well with something in his hands.
"Now, hand over that little sapphire and be a good little rodent." Drache said, still holding Sonic in his foot.
"Try and take it and I'll shock you into next year." Pikachu threatened, his cheeks sparking.
"Ah, but if you shock us, then you'll shock your friends." Amphis countered as his second head flicked its tongue out like a serpent.
Pikachu thought for a while and a smirk crossed his face as he put it on the ground and backed away slowly.
"Okay then. Your little plot won't work. You've only got one gem." Pikachu said as he put it on the ground.
"PIKACHU!" Link shouted, trying to warn his friend.
"Oh, really? I found your little friend with this," Amphis said as he twirled something with his fingers, "I found it in his backpack."
Pikachu's eyes widened. It was the yellow gem! The minute he raced for the blue gem, Amphis' tail shot forward like a striking cobra and caught the gem in his teeth, knocking the rodent backward in the process. Yellow Drache then produced a bright red gem and the three began to float in midair. The stones began to glow brighter and brighter until it formed something like the Zora's Sapphire with the yellow on top, the blue on the left, and the red on the right. Drache took off like a pterosaur and seized the newly formed Power Stone in his other foot.
"Oh, and I'll make sure this hurts, hedgehog." Drache said as he released Sonic some three hundred feet off the ground.
Drache then picked up White Amphis, who released Link, and the yellow Dragonoid took off like an eagle with an animal in its talons. In a flash of fiery-red light, the two vanished.
Sonic fell through the air like a skydiver…without a parachute. The blue blur wanted to wake up, but this wasn't a dream and he was going to go "KER-SPLAT" and all he could do was scrunch his eyes closed as tight as they could. The minute he was five feet from the ground, he stopped and hovered in midair. Sonic slowly opened his eyes and looked around for some logical explanation. Then he saw Mewtwo on his knees, barely lifting an arm and holding him up with what little strength he had left. When Sonic touched down on the ground, Mewtwo slumped to the ground and Sonic barely caught him.
"Whoa. Mewtwo sure took a beating back there. We've got to take him to Raph." Link said as he put Mewtwo's arm over his shoulder and heaved him up.
Link then took off at the speed of sound and Sonic was right behind him with Pikachu on his shoulder.
"NOT THIS AGAIN!" Pikachu shouted over Sonic's speed.
"Like I said. 'No promises'." Sonic answered him.
In a matter of minutes, Sonic and Link reached Raphael, who was fixing his hover bike. He looked up to see Link with an injured Mewtwo over his shoulder and gasped.
"What happened?!" Raphael asked urgently.
"The Dragonoids found us. They were too much for Mewtwo to handle and they were actually immune to his powers." Link said as he laid Mewtwo on the ground.
Raph inspected the psychic Poke'mon as well as his injuries. After a minute, he stood up and looked at Link.
"He's injured, but he should be okay." Raph told him.
Link paused for a second, but then asked, "Did you know the Dragonoids had the yellow stone?"
Raphael looked down in shame and answered, without even looking at Link, "Yes. A big white one knocked me out and took the stone while I was out."
Raphael barely lifted Mewtwo and sat the clone Poke'mon into the spare seat and getting in the drivers' seat.
"I'll take him to the nearest Poke'mon center. You guys have to keep going. I'm counting on you guys." Raph said as he revved up his bike.
"See ya' later, Raph." Sonic said.
"If we're lucky, this world will still be here when we do return someday." Link added.
"See ya' later, dudes!" Pikachu called as Sonic and Link zoomed off.