Chapter 8
Switching Sides
At a large barren path between a huge cliffside and a thick forest of dead trees.
"I don't know about the rest of you, but this place is not half bad!" exclaimed Yubel.
"You obviously don't, this place is hell. Don't you realize all of our dimensions have been taken over by some evil force and changed into this horrible realm we now reside in?" snapped Melissa, who was glaring at the demon.
"Come on, don't tell me you believe in all of that nonsense." Kaiba said with a smirk.
"Do you honestly believe this place doesn't exist? Are you some sort of moron or something?" a red woodpecker-like bird snapped. She was hiding in a blue backpack worn by an anthropomorphic bear wearing yellow shorts.
"Will, I never heard you talk like that." stated Melissa, eyeing the bird.
"Will? Who the heck is Will? I'm Kazooie." the bird corrected.
"Oh, you just looked like a friend of mine..."
"And who are you, huh? Do you have a machine gun?" MetalMamemon asked, walking beside the bear.
"Well no, but I can use Kazooie like one, except she fires eggs. My name is Banjo by the way." replied the bear.
"Eggs? I bet those are a lethal weapon..." Zuko said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Ya want another black eye there punk? I can spit out these eggs on fire you know!" threatened Kazooie.
"I am an expert in fire, so go ahead and shoot."
"Very well, you brought this upon yours-"
"Stop fighting you guys. We are a team and we need to work as one." Devin interrupted, looking back at Zuko and Kazooie.
"You may be right Devin, but people will still fight no matter what side they are on. I should know...Rylie and Tibia argue a lot." Seth stated.
"I remember them and I still think we would be much better off without Rylie." snarked Kaiba.
"As reckless as he may be, at least Rylie had powers." retorted Seth with crossed arms.
"The trenchcoat wearing raven haired human makes an excellent observation. Kaiba lacks any form of useful ability." X-Head Cannon added.
"Listen X-Head, I don't need you kissing Seths ass." Kaiba stated calmly to the robot.
"I do not take orders from you. You may possess me in your dueling deck, but you use me as tribute fodder for Obelisk the Tormentor...until the moment Yugi won it as a reward for defeating you."
"Wait, wasn't that some tournament a while back? You took over the whole town or whatever just for a stupid card game?" wondered Shaymin.
"You are correctly thinking of the identical tournament I previously mentioned."
"Oh is that right Shaymin? Last I checked you played that same game in a tournament as well. You know, the one you lost by stupidly attacking with your Celebi." Kaiba informed with a cold stare at the Pokemon.
"Jacob forced me to play that game, and I will admit it was kind of fun. However you take the game WAY too seriously. Also that stare doesn't scare me at all, I am best friends with Darkrai you know. Speaking of which...I wonder how he is doing now. He probably likes this place like Yubel does..." Shaymin trailed off, looking up at the dark sky.
"Darkrai is your best friend?" Sakura asked, a little shocked.
"Yeah, in fact I'm his one and only...but he would never say anything about it. He despises getting mushy, which doesn't bother me really."
"But if he hates all of that, how did you two become friends in the first place?" asked Banjo who was a bit puzzled.
"It is a really interesting story, you see Da-"
"Enough with this friendship talk already." Kaiba intervened, frowning.
"Why? You have no friends of your own, buddy?" Kazooie snarked, pointing at the duelist with her left wing.
"Your guess is correct. Kaiba has approximately zero companions." X-Head Cannon answered.
"Really? None at all? There must be one person you like!" MetalMamemon said, flying around above Kaibas head.
"None, now leave me be already." Kaiba answered irritably.
"Dang, that's rather depressing you know. You must be pretty lonely and miserable." Shaymin said sadly, looking at Kaiba.
"Do not be glum, Kaiba has zero companions out of his own decisions and actions. He desires none." X-Head Cannon explained, pointing his cannons at Kaiba.
"No friends out of choice? That is rather sad, and not in the way Shaymin thinks either." stated Zuko who shook his head in disappointment.
"Friends are for the weak." scoffed Kaiba.
"Loser." Kazooie muttered.
"I'll have you know I'm a legendary!" exclaimed Shaymin.
"Weak? I'll punch a hole through you!" Sakura shouted.
"You aren't weak Sakura." Itachi said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks Itachi."
"He said the people with friends are the weak ones. My foolish little brother doesn't count as a friend since you are his pink haired girlfriend." the Uchiha elaborated, smiling with his eyes closed.
"WHAT?" the female ninja yelled, shaking Itachi by his cloak collar.
"Don't be so angry, I am strong as well. After all my brother doesn't really count as a friend either."
"And what does that make me Itachi?" Sakura exclaimed, shaking him harder.
"Well...I don't know what you are to me but you clearly hate me Sakura." Itachi answered and Sakura stopped shaking him.
"You...you still think I hate you?" she asked worriedly.
"You clearly do Sakura and I don't hate you."
"We are friends Itachi, just because you tick me off a lot does not mean I dislike you. When you aren't being sarcastic, bored, or irritating you are a really nice person. I used to think YOU hated ME, but during that Christmas party I thought we got that cleared up." Sakura said quietly and faced away from Itachi.
"Sakura." the Uchiha said gently, running his left hand through her hair "I know you don't hate me, I was just kidding around. When you aren't being violent or loud, you-" Itachi stopped short when Sakura grabbed him by the collar again.
"You mean you weren't serious this whole time? Do you have any idea how upset you made me? This is exactly what I am talking about you jackass!" she yelled, shaking him harder than before.
"Knock it off Sakura." Itachi said in a serious tone. Sakura was taken aback by this and let go, a shard of fear was visible in her eyes.
"You don't need to be scared of me Sakura, I would never hurt you." Itachi reassured, smiling with his eyes closed and poking the female ninja in the forehead.
Sakura frowned at him. "Don't do that to me." she said.
"What, poke you in the forehead?"
"No! Freak me out like that with that stoic tone of yours!" Sakura corrected, shoving the elder Uchiha a little. Itachi nodded and poked his friend in the forehead once more.
"So just how long is this diabetic friendship BS going to go on? Why don't you wrap this up with a friendship speech while you are at it Sakura." Kaiba said, receiving a glare from Sakura.
"That was rather insensitive. No wonder you're so lonely." MetalMamemon commented.
"I don't need friends."
"Loser." repeated Kazooie.
"He isn't the only one about to lose around here." said a sinister voice.
"What the? Who's there?" asked Yubel, flying around.
"I'd recognize that voice anywhere." Sakura said angrily, clenching her fists. A giant snake then burst out of the ground in front of the heroes and opened its mouth.
"Orochimaru. I've beaten you once before, so just what the hell are you doing here?" Itachi said in his serious tone, glaring at the pale skinned ninja.
"Hmhmhm, its been awhile Itachi." Orochimaru said smugly, unfazed by the Uchiha.
"Hold on...I remember you. You were the one who shown up during that dragon class years ago!" Kaiba exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger at the snake user.
"Ah yes, I recall that moment fondly. Those dragons were no match for my snakes. In fact if it wasn't for that girl with the red dragon, I would have killed you all. However I had to simply settle with taking a hostage."
"You're a fucking creep Orochimaru!" shouted Sakura angrily.
"No need to worry, I have no use for your precious Sasuke. The Darkness has promised me all the jutsu in the world if I can kill all of you." Orochimaru stated, withdrawing his sword as the snake hunched down.
"If all you have is giant reptiles and a sword, then taking you down will be easier than I thought." Melissa gloated, floating over to the front of the gang.
"I wouldn't get cocky if I were you. This guy looks like trouble." Shaymin warned.
"Then cease the dialogue and prepare to battle Orochimaru." X-Head Cannon ordered, aiming his cannons at his enemy.
"I like the way you think!" shouted MetalMamemon and he flew at Orochimaru quickly using his gun arms jetpack function, narrowing his eyes in determination. However the snake swatted the Digimon away with a flick of its tail.
"Then burn!" Zuko shouted, thrusting his palms forward and igniting the reptile with fire. The snake hissed in pain as it wriggled, but was blasted to death by blue miniature missiles sent out by Seth.
"Tsukoyomi" Itachi said emotionlessly and opened his eyes wide, his Mangekyou Sharingan activating.
"I expected this." Orochimaru anticipated, closed his eyes, and a giant snake busted from the ground underneath Itachi and swallowed him up.
"Well did you expect THIS?" Sakura shouted and punched the serpent in the throat with such force that it created a gaping hole on impact. Itachi leaped out of the corpse and nodded at Sakura while Yubel swooped down upon Orochimaru who blocked her claws with his sword.
"You fool!" Yubel shouted in a demonic voice, her third eye bulging and her fangs bared. The ground under Orochimaru erupted, sending him into the air where he was slashed by blades of wind. He saw Shaymin flying above him as he fell and wrapped his chameleon-like tongue around her neck. Before he could do any damage to her, his tongue was bombarded with grenades, spat out by Kazooie.
"You'll pay for that." he threatened, quickly retracting the bleeding muscle.
"Negative." X-Head Cannon stated, now right by Orochimaru and blasted him multiple times with his cannons.
"GAAAAAAAAHHH!" he shouted in pain, but was suddenly weaving around quickly, the bottom half of his body now snake-like. Orochimaru smirked and opened his mouth, a long version of his sword extending out of it and he hacked Kaibas right arm clean off.
"Agh! What the hell are you thinking?" Kaiba uttered as he gripped the gaping hole with his other arm, blood trickling down it.
"FUCK!" shouted Melissa and put the duelist in a barrier.
"How does that help him?" Devin asked, wide eyed in shock.
"It keeps him from getting in the way." the sorceress answered and began shooting white balls of energy rapidly from her palms at Orochimaru, but the ninja was too slick in his snake form and dodged every one of them.
"He can't dodge this!" MetalMamemon exclaimed and used All-Range Beam, but Orochimaru did dodge the blue lasers yet some of the Digimons allies weren't so lucky.
"Are you an idiot or something?" snapped Zuko.
"I don't see you doing anything useful! Don't shout at me or I'll blast you to smithereens." MetalMamemon threatened, pointing his cannon arm at the Firebender. Devin sighed in exasperation, but quickly made a right slash with his sword without looking, blocking Orochimarus.
"Nice reflexes!" praised Yubel who was flying overhead.
"It'll take more than that to defeat me!" Orochimaru stated and Devin was suddenly trapped in a large twister of snakes.
"Hyah! Flame Dance!" Seth exclaimed and managed to kick Orochimaru into the air. The Vexian dashed into him from all angles and finished with a pillar of flame erupting from the ground. This also stopped the snake twister, freeing Devin but leaving him heavily injured.
"That ought to finish him off." Seth stated after he landed on his feet, unharmed.
"Look again." Kazooie said and Seth was shocked to see Orochimaru stand with little effort.
"You will regret what you just did." the ninja threatened and he suddenly spat out an exact copy of himself, his old body fading into snakes that were quickly disposed of by X-Head Cannon.
"That was...disturbing." Sakura said uneasily, shivering a little in disgust.
"I must admit you all have some talent, but lets say we make the fight more fair." Orochimaru suggested smugly, walking casually away and giving some space between him and the team.
"I don't do 'fair' Orochimaru. Not against you." Itachi stated firmly, scowling at the sannin who just shrugged.
"Come now Itachi, if you try anything tricky I'm afraid you will have to pay the price." he taunted.
"I'll take my chances. Amate-" the Uchiha stopped when he saw Sakura scream and drop to her knees. Itachi looked across to Sakura then to Orochimaru.
"That creeps eyes flashed red!" Shaymin exclaimed.
"What did you do to her?" Itachi said through gritted teeth, making Orochimaru chuckle evilly.
"That was not an idle threat Itachi." he said casually "I don't play games." the sannin added in a sinister snake-like voice.
"He has some issues, definitely." Yubel said flatly, Kazooie nodding in agreement.
"That wasn't what I asked you monster. I asked what you did to Sakura." the Uchiha restated, slowly walking towards the one he was talking to.
"If I were you I wouldn't take another step. Unless you want the girl to suffer some more." warned Orochimaru with an evil smile. Itachi stopped, looking back at Sakura then back at Orochimaru and muttered something.
"You are planning to use Amaterasu or Tsukoyomi, aren't you? I guess I will have to teach you the hard way!" Orochimaru threatened and his eyes flashed red, causing Sakura to fall to the ground now. Orochimaru then heard a faint humming noise behind him and thrusted his sword in that direction, stabbing Devin right through the heart. The Vexian coughed up blood and dropped his sword, a look of anger and shock on his face.
"Devin, how foolish of you to challenge me like that." Orochimaru said coldly and pulled his blood soaked sword out of the albinos body. Devin fell to the ground, his sword fading into a white shard of some kind of gem in the process. The sannin licked his red blade and turned back to the rest of the heroes, an evil smirk planted on his face.
"You disgust me. I hope you enjoy these flames of PURGATORY!" Zuko shouted and shot a serpentine dragon of flame from his palms. Orochimaru simply crossed his arms as the fire spun around and torched him.
"I am the least of your worries." he uttered as he was burned to death by Itachi adding Amaterasu to the mix. As the flames flickered out, X-Head Cannon picked up Devin and stared down at him in remorse.
"I wish there was something I could do...but even though I have lived for hundreds of years and know more spells than you can imagine, I'm afraid reviving the dead is something I can not do." Melissa said solemnly.
"Then what should we do?" MetalMamemon asked tearfully, looking at the sorceress with hope in his eyes.
"There is only one thing we can do, avenge him. Orochimaru will regret the day he crossed my path." Itachi said, hate filled his eyes and his fists clenched.
"Itachi...don't think like that." Sakura said weakly as she struggled to even sit up. Melissa looked at her and lifted her to her feet using telekinesis but the medical ninja fell right back on the ground. Tears could be seen in Sakuras eyes as she felt weak and useless, not even having the strength to get up.
"Sakura, don't beat yourself up like that." Shaymin stated, walking over to her and looking in her eyes.
"How do you-"
"I can tell a lot about a person just by their eyes alone. That's how I can tell what Darkrai is feeling since he never shows his true emotions, but the way he looks says it all."
"Then Shaymin...please tell me how Itachi feels." Sakura said even weaker than before, pointing a trembling finger at her friend. The Pokemon nodded and flew by Itachis face, taking a single glance at him before landing right next to Sakura again.
"He is filled with rage and revenge."
"That's what I was afraid of." the pink haired girl said and sighed "Itachi please don't do this."
"I have to. Orochimaru will pay for everything he has done." the Uchiha replied.
"But Itachi...don't you remember?" Sakura asked, hardly able to talk.
"Remember what?" he said, not facing her or anyone else.
"This is the same path...Sasuke...went down..." Sakura said with her last breath. This made something click in Itachis mind and he turned around to face her, only to find her motionless. Shaymin put a paw on her hand and sighed solemnly, Banjo walked over and shook his head sadly. Itachi dropped to his knees next to the girl and poked her on the forehead.
"I'm sorry." he whispered.
"Guys, what the heck is happening to them?" Yubel wondered, pointing a trembling finger at Sakura as the ninja faded away in dark particles. Itachis eyes widened in shock and he glanced over to X-Head Cannon and saw Devin disappear the same way.
"This is bad." MetalMamemon said, grabbing onto Zukos leg with his claw in fear.
"Yeah, we can clearly see that. The worse news is just what the hell are those things." the spiky haired boy said and gestured toward a few black puddles in front of them.
"Its just a few puddles, right?" MetalMamemon asked, clutching the Firebenders leg harder, his claws digging into Zukos skin which caused him to bleed.
"Let him go, you're injuring him." Melissa ordered, not looking back and the Digimon did so. "Those are not puddles at all."
"What do you m-" Melissa put her hand in a stopping motion, hushing MetalMamemon
"Just prepare for another fight everyone." the sorceress advised, floating away from the dark liquids without turning her back.
Hmhmhm, you are quite intelligent Melissa. You would make an excellent addition to my side.
"Did any of you guys just hear that?" Shaymin asked, her eyes darting around the sky to see who just spoke.
"Affirmative, however the source of the voice is unknown." X-Head Cannon answered.
"Something is coming!" Yubel exclaimed, hugging herself with a shocked expression on her face. Out of the puddles rose Genosect, Sakura, Devin, Mario, and Chaos.
"What is this...?" Melissa said in awe, just staring at the five figures standing before her and her group.
"I don't like the look in their eyes." Kazooie said, poking her head out of Banjos backpack. The red avian was right, their eyes were a blue-green with dark purple pupils which had dark purple lines all around them.
"And people call MY eyes weird?" Yubel exclaimed, her third eye bulging.
"You fool, their eyes do not normally look like that." Seth said lowly, shocked just like Melissa was.
"Sakura?" Itachi said in a hypnotic tone, looking at the girl in the eyes.
Your friends serve me now, and you are soon to join them.
"Man there is that voice again!" MetalMamemon said, scared and shivering. Melissa slowly raised her hand to point at Devin when she was unexpectedly knocked backward by an arrow of dark energy that was shot from his blade. She rose to her feet and looked at the albino, his menacing expression never changing. Devin held his large black flameberge up high and slashed downward, but Melissa blocked it with a barrier of hers. Genosect nodded and blasted the shield to bits with a gigantic black beam from its cannon, Melissa barely taking the shot without being killed.
"Oh no! Just what in the world is that thing?" MetalMamemon exclaimed, pointing a trembling claw at Genosect.
"That is Genosect, one of the strongest Pokemon of all." Shaymin explained, taking a fierce stance. "This won't be easy."
"We can't fight them." Itachi stated as Zuko held his arms above his head to block a jump from Mario.
"And why is that? If we don't they will kill us." Seth queried as he pummeled Chaos with 2 streams of fire-like blasts from his hands that was pinning the watery humanoid against the cliffside.
"I know!" Yubel exclaimed, swooping down at Sakura to claw her, but the ninja punched her right in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her and sending her soaring across the horizon.
"Whoa, that was crazy!" Kazooie exclaimed.
"No, THIS is crazy!" Yubel said in a demonic voice as she rose out of the ground and her skin started turning a sickly yellow. The Duel Monster grotesquely transformed into a winged two-headed dragon demon. She let out a banshee-like screech and shot two beams of darkness at Sakura, however they were stopped short when she was torched by black fire.
"What the hell are you doing?" Yubel shouted in a deep devil-like voice, putting out the black fire with dark red fire that flashed around her.
"I agree with Yubel, what the fuck were you thinking?" Zuko exclaimed, glaring at Itachi.
"I am not gonna let you kill her." the Uchiha said in a threatening voice, turning his head to face the Firebender.
"Don't be a fool Itachi. We have no choice, either we kill them or they kill us." Melissa said, healing herself with a spell.
"Go ahead, kill everyone else but lay one finger on Sakura and you will regret the day you were born." Itachi said in a more fierce voice than before. Chaos turned into a puddle and managed to get out of Seths Blast Stream attack, reformed, and knocked the Vexian into the cliffside with an extending punch. Meanwhile Devin was slashing at X-Head Cannon, but the robot blocked all of the blows while Genosect dashed at Banjo and Kazooie, but the duo managed to dodge by Kazooie flying and lifting Banjo into the air. Mario pulled out his hammer, except this one was metal and covered in spikes, and smashed Zuko with it despite his efforts to melt the mallet with bursts of fire. Zuko was knocked through a couple trees, lying on the ground weakly as he bled heavily from his torn chest and punctured organs. Melissa sensed this and was about to teleport when she was blasted behind the back with a forceful jet of water that made her tumble along the ground, her head smashing against the ground. She saw Chaos approaching her and quickly healed herself, blasting the god of destruction with a red laser fired from her palms that blew Chaos into watery puddles. Sakura was busy slamming Itachis head into the cliffside, no expression visible on her face while the Uchiha just looked at her solemnly, not striking back at all despite his severe injuries. Yubel growled and blasted Sakura in the back with two dark red fiery beams from her mouths. Sakura suffered little pain, much to the demons surprise as the pink haired girl turned toward her. Sakura jumped high in the air and kicked Yubel in the torso, which made the demon fall to the ground as she screeched in both shock and pain. Itachi gritted his teeth, not at Sakura, but at Yubel for her futile attempt at killing his friend. Sakura then turned back toward Itachi and ran at him quickly, but collapsed when she was zapped by a bolt of blue lightning. Itachi was horrified, but was quickly enraged when he saw Zuko looking at him with a smug expression on his face.
"Two opponents are defeated, current count is three." X-Head Cannon stated.
"Make that four!" MetalMamemon corrected as he looked shocked when Chaos formed back together.
"How did he do that and how was Zuko able to do that when he was smashed by Mario?" Banjo wondered as he and Kazooie were still in the air, knowing none of their opponents could fly.
"I healed him, get down here and help us." said Melissa to them telepathically.
"I'd like to see you try and force us you Mary Sue." Kazooie taunted.
"Oh nevermind, you have a guest."
"What do you mean by th-" Kazooie stopped when she and Banjo saw Mario flying towards them wearing his infamous yellow cape.
"Kazooie, you know what to do." said Banjo. Kazooie nodded and spun very quickly, dashing at Mario and knocking him out of the sky.
"Asta la Vista." Shaymin said with a smirk and hit Mario with a Seed Flare at close range after she flew right at him. Mario slammed into the ground, losing his cape but not his life. He then pulled out a blue Fire Flower and his hat and overalls turned sky blue and Shaymins eyes widened in fear as he tossed balls of ice at her with high speed. MetalMamemon dashed in front of her and took the hits with little trouble, nodding at the Pokemon that told her he can take care of this.
"Whatever happened to that jerk Kaiba?" Shaymin wondered as she flew by Melissa.
"He is still in the shield way over there, passed out and I really don't care to heal him." the sorceress answered, just taking a passing glance at the grass/flying Pokemon and teleporting. She reappeared behind Genosect and tried lifting him with telekinesis, but it was futile and Genosect responded by slashing her across the chest with a swipe of its claw. At the same time Yubel swooped down and picked up Devin with her feet, having just recovered from Sakuras punch.
"You wont be slaying THIS dragon." she said, but Devin thought otherwise and jabbed her in the stomach with his black flameberge. This caused the girl to drop him as black blood oozed out of the wound and she spiraled into the ground.
"Sakura..." was all Itachi said solemnly as he kneeled next to her lifeless body.
"What are you doing Itachi? Get over here and help us!" Zuko commanded, tossing fireballs at Genosect who was taking some damage from them. The Sharingan user just ignored Zuko and touched Sakuras forehead when he saw her stirring, which shocked him.
"Sakura?" he said in a surprised tone as the girl started to open her eyes.
"Itachi? Is...is that you?" she asked.
"You're...you're alive."
"All thanks to you." she said and sat up, good as new.
"Whoa, hey Kazooie it looks like Sakura is alive...and shes back to normal!" Banjo observed, the duo still in the sky.
"Well you're right, wonder how that happened." the avian said.
Listen to me everyone. Your friends are under the command of the Darkness, but it you kill them I can revive them and bring them back to normal. That is what happened to your friend Sakura.
A gentle voice was heard and Genosect, Chaos, Mario, and Devin froze in place.
"Another voice?" Seth said.
"Yeah but this one is a girl and sounds a lot more friendly than the one from before." MetalMamemon stated, jumping for joy.
Yes, I am the counterpart to the Darkness. He has trapped me in a crystal prison but due to an oversight my power leaks through so I can help you all as best as I can. You must find the Chosen One so I can be set free and put an end to all of this.
"And who is this Chosen One you speak of?" asked Melissa.
I am afraid I do not know the Chosen Ones name or what the Chosen One looks like as long as I am trapped in this crystal. However I know the Chosen One is here somewhere and when you locate the Chosen One and speak their name, I will be free and can stop my brother!
"Don't you worry, we will find whoever this Chosen One is and bring everything back to normal!" MetalMamemon shouted.
Thank you all, but finding the Chosen One will not be easy. I am sure my brother has hidden the Chosen One somewhere that could be impossible for you to reach but I left clues about them while the Darkness was warping the dimensions so maybe they can help you locate the Chosen One.
"Alright, you can count on us." said Shaymin and the battle resumed. She saw MetalMamemon blasting Mario with bursts of energy from his cannon, but the Italian was jumping over each one. Shaymin swooped down and made the earth under Mario blow up, giving MetalMamemon a clear shot as he spiraled in the air, losing the power of his Ice Flower.
"Game over." the Digimon said in a threatening voice and fired a gigantic yellow beam that Shaymin was barely able to dodge, atomotizing the plumber. Shaymin landed and was a bit shocked to see MetalMamemon was passed out.
"Guess he blew himself out." she said with a smile. The Pokemon then turned around when she saw a pillar of light and there stood Mario, back to his normal self.
"Blue Missiles!" Seth shouted and fired many miniature blue missiles at Devin, who deflected them all with an invisible wave of dark energy from his flameberge. The black haired Vexian teleported right behind Devin, grabbed him, and jumped in the air. The albino tried to slice Seth, but couldn't move his arms. Seth spun in place, both of them shrouded in blue electricity, and he then threw Devin at the ground which created a blue shockwave on impact. Seth landed on the ground and walked over to Devin, not convinced he was killed.
"Boulder Barrage." was all he said and slammed his hands on the ground, causing boulders to fall and crumble on top of Devin.
"Shall I confirm that he is eliminated?" X-Head Cannon asked, floating over to Seth. He nodded with a smirk and the robot demolished the rocks with two beams of destructive energy. Another pillar of light shined through the darkness and Devin was A-OK.
"Well now we just have these guys to deal with...and this...bug...WONT...BURN!" Zuko shouted, throwing fireball after fireball at Genosect who simply stood there with a few scorch marks.
"Perhaps I can assist you?" said Itachi, walking over to the brunette who continued to stall Genosect with fireballs.
"Why? Isn't...your...GIRLFRIEND...D-" Zuko stopped when he saw Sakura drop kick Genosect into the ground and Itachi set the insect ablaze with Amaterasu.
"If that doesn't work, nothing is." Sakura said, Itachi running his left hand through her hair. "Knock it off Itachi." she said through gritted teeth and the Uchiha took his hand away and smiled sheepishly. The flames fluttered out and the trio was shocked to see Genosect struggling to stand up, holding itself up with its arms.
"That is inhuman." Yubel said in a demonic voice from behind them, sending chills down Sakura and Zukos backs.
"And so are you." Itachi retorted with a bored expression, unfazed by her personality and draconic form.
"Oh, not scary enough for ya? Well I can turn into a creature from your worst nightmares, a being so horrifying that its mere existence causes mass hysteria, a monster that ca-" Yubel stopped when Genosect dashed at her just to shut her up which made the trio smirk.
"YOU GUYS ARE ASSHOLES!" the demonic girl shouted, turning back into her normal form with a pouty look on her face.
"That Genosect is something else." Shaymin said, landing on Genosects head.
"It looks like we won." Banjo said as he and Kazooie landed.
"You two didn't even do anything!" Zuko exclaimed, pointing at Banjo.
"Oh yeah? Well how about-"
"How about you freaks get over here and help me with this water freak!" Melissa shouted, cutting Kazooie off and shocking Chaos with bolts of lightning from her fingertips. Chaos dissolved into a puddle and sent out a jet of water from underneath Melissa, knocking her into the air. He then extended an arm at the sorceress, grabbed her, and slammed her into the ground.
No matter what I do or how many times I blow it up, this thing will not die! she thought while lifting her head and glaring at Chaos. Genosect walked over to her, Shaymin still on his head and they looked at her.
"We can handle him, go on and help the others...Kaiba too I guess." Shaymin said and Melissa nodded at her. The purple haired girl surrounded everyone besides the two Pokemon and Chaos and then teleported to Kaibas side.
"I would love to just leave you here, but...at least I don't have to DIE to save an idiot." the sorceress said to herself and healed Kaiba fully, awakening him.
"Wha-" he stammered as his eyes sprung open and he stood up.
"Just stand there and don't open your mouth." Melissa ordered and teleported again.
"Okay Genosect, blast him to bits and I'll combine it with Seed Flare!" Shaymin said and Genosect fired its laser as Shaymin flew up and used her signature move. Chaos had no time to react and was reduced to vapor by Genosects beam alone, before Shaymins seeds had a chance to reach him.
"Aww dang...at least we got him." Shaymin said, a bit disappointed she couldn't get a kick at Chaos. Genosect then put its left foot forward as the water vapor formed back into the liquid being.
"Still think you can win Shaymin?" MetalMamemon teased, running to Genosects side.
"How long have you been awake?" she snapped.
"Long enough." the Digimon replied and giggled.
"Hey dweebs, I wouldn't start acting like schoolgirls if I were you." Kaiba sneered.
"She told you to zip it!" Yubel shouted, glaring at Kaiba comically. "OR ELSE I WILL END YOU!" she then added in a demonic voice.
"You know, you kind of remind me of Serena Yubel." Devin observed, his eyes opened in realization.
"Who is Serena?" she asked sweetly, whizzing around to face him.
"Shes my best friend and is a lot like you." Devin explained, smiling with his eyes closed.
"And what does this Serena look like?" Yubel queried, now hovering behind the albino.
"Well she has blue hair, wears all black with some red, and she has a skull necklace on her neck."
"She certainly sounds like an interesting human, but not as interesting as Isa." Yubel said, licking her lips erotically. Zuko noticed this and shuddered. Meanwhile Genosect was preparing to fire his laser again when Shaymin told him to stop.
"Genosect, look. He isn't attacking us at all." Shaymin pointed out. Genosect nodded and dashed over to Chaos, staring him in the face. The god lifted up a watery hand and shook Genosects along with Shaymins left front leg.
"He is cured! I guess we should have known by the eyes." Shaymin said, embarrassed.
"So you all have saved the day, congratulations." Kaiba said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.
"I would take great pleasure in plucking those eyes of yours out." Kazooie sneered, but Kaiba just scoffed.
"Now that our battle has been completed along with our comrades converted, we shall locate the Chosen One as the female voice commanded." X-Head Cannon ordered, not wasting his time with Kaiba anymore.
"And just where do we start looking?" snapped Melissa, merely glancing at the robot.
"How about there?" MetalMamemon suggested, pointing to a huge metal ship base flying above them.
"How did we miss that?" Itachi murmured with a bored expression.
"Doesn't matter, lets go." Seth stated and teleported, however he fell to the ground from a great height after hitting an invisible electric barrier around the ship. Yubel pointed and laughed at his attempt and Devin looked rather worried.
"It looks like some fool tried to break in and found out about my anti-magic barrier the hard way." a booming voice announced from an intercom that came from the inside of the ship.
"Anti-magic eh? Well good old fashioned flying will be no problem!" Yubel exclaimed, smiling with her eyes closed and took to the skies, carrying Devin with her clawed feet.
"Shes gonna get blown to bits." commented Kazooie, watching the demon fly higher and higher.
"Hehhehheh." the voice chuckled and a compartment opened up under the ship, shooting off 9 missiles that homed in on Yubel. The Duel Monster just smirked and turned into her Terror Incarnate form, but Devin was sweating a little.
"What is she thinking?" Zuko shouted as Yubels skin started to turn a sickly pink.
"I AM NOT AN ORDINARY DEMON!" she shouted in a demonic voice and turned into a horrific three headed dragon with no legs or arms, a huge devil-like tail, and gigantic green eyeballs everywhere on her body along with fanged mouths.
"Oh no..." Devin said to himself as the projectiles got closer as he was gripped in Yubels tail.
"And you said she was creepy before Itachi." Sakura teased, poking HIM in the forehead for a change.
"I am impressed with your transformation, very creative. However no matter what you do you can NEVER touch me." the voice explained.
"WE SHALL SEE!" Yubel screamed, her voice sounding purely satanic. She tried to send out a hellish black explosion, but nothing happened. Devin quickly pulled out his sword and Yubel got the hint, she flew around the missiles as he slashed them clean in half and they fell to the ground harmlessly.
"What? This barrier is anti-magic and should have negated your glowing sword!"
"Not a sword crafted by a god!" Devin shouted and Yubel smashed through the titanium floor of the ship, roaring fiercely. She then dropped Devin and turned back to normal.
"Well well well, you made it. I am surprised you got this far, but it was pointless." the voice from before said, belonging to a buff looking command officer.
"You are in no position to make such a claim." Yubel retorted lowly.
"But you are in the perfect position." the general said evilly and Devin and Yubel ware zapped for a split second with purple bolts of electric energy. The duo instantly collapsed to the ground and two female humanoid robot cyborgs, one yellow and one orange, picked one of the heroes up each. These machines had a kind of armor on them with large shoulders, completely silver legs with their body orange or yellow. They both wore a kind of racecar helmet with black visors and their hands were metallic. The only signs of them being human were their bare arms and whatever was visible of their head.
"Clone and then dissect them." the general ordered and the robots nodded. They walked along a metal hallway and stepped through an automatic steel door. Inside were five blue horizontal tubes along with 3 tables and they stuck Yubel and Devin separate tubes. The orange robot flicked a switch and all of the tubes filled up with black liquid. The yellow robot flicked a switch on the other side of the room, this electrified the tubes as the two fluorescent lights on the ceiling flashed. The robots then flicked the switches back, draining the liquid and stopping the electricity. The tubes then opened up and there stood Devin and Yubel, turned into cyborgs. Yubels wings were metallic and jet-like, her third eye was completely red, her claws and talons were larger and sharper, she had a metallic breastplate, and her hair was made of wires tied tightly together. Devins hair was metallic silver, his sword was metal and electricity crackled around it, the orbs on his clothes were red pulsating lights, his eyes were replaced with a black visor, and his shirt and pants were light gray. The robot girls nodded to one another, motioned the robotically modified heroes to follow them, and they all walked out of the room.
"Sir, the transformation was a success." the orange robot girl said, the helmets having a communicator built into them.
"Excellent, now store them away until they are needed." the general ordered.
"Affirmative." they said and walked over to a black corridor where a huge empty room was inside. They all walked into the middle of the room and the robot girls held their palms out in a 'stop' hand sign and walked back to the front of the room near the corridor. They pressed a large red button on either side and left the area. Devin and Yubel did not move a muscle as two giant metal hands lifted them up and rose high to the ceiling and dropping them into metal containers that closed tightly the instant the duo was put in. The containers were on top of conveyor belts that stored them right in the wall, concealing them.
"I have been informed that the specimens have been stored away." a robot with purple armor told, approaching the general from around a corner.
"How should we dispose of their friends, sir?" asked a robot with red armor who was following the purple one.
"Send out our special weapon." he ordered, facing toward his minions.
"But sir, the glitch sir!" the robot in purple warned, waving her arms. The general walked up to the cyborg and glared at her with a menacing expression.
"Do not question me. I am well aware of that flaw!" he said in a menacing tone and the two females ran off to another part of the ship, presumably to send out this weapon. The general then walked through a large red corridor which led to the control room. Inside were many computers and controllers that were being operated by more female cyborgs, but no windows or anything else that would let them view the outside world.
"Activate the repair unit." the general commanded and walked out of the control room. The 6 robots inside all nodded and a huge mechanical black hand rose down from the ceiling. It slid across the ceiling, out of the control room, and to the hole in the floor that Yubel and Devin created.
That beast must have phenomenal strength in order to break this vessels body. thought the general as he watched the hand feel along the border of the opening. The mechanical appendage then held out its palm and a new floor slowly materialized right where the hole was.
Now we shall see how they deal with my weapon...Mechelle. the general thought with an evil smirk and walked through a dark blue corridor out to a large landing pad and pulled out a pair of binoculars.
"They sure have been gone a long time." MetalMamemon stated.
"I can't believe you fools." Kaiba said, causing the others to turn toward him.
"What was that?" Kazooie sneered.
"Do you honestly think that those two can handle this all by themselves? Did it ever once occur to any of you that maybe they failed?" the duelist continued, crossing his arms and eyeing all the others.
"The magic barrier you idiot." said Melissa quietly.
"What was that?"
"How can we get to a place that HAS A MAGIC BARRIER?" the sorceress shouted, glaring at Kaiba with her eyes flashing red.
"So you all are just going to give up because your so called leader is now useless thanks to some shield? How about you all abandon your hocus-pocus and try to do something normal for once in your lives!" Kaiba shouted, not fearing Melissa at all. The rest of the group, sans Melissa, all looked at one another.
"The loser with no powers is right for once." Kazooie said, eyeing Kaiba.
"We have to get up there and help Devin and Yubel." Shaymin said with confidence.
"Yeah! Lets do this!" MetalMamemon cheered and Genosect nodded.
"Yahoo!" exclaimed Mario, suddenly dawning his cape.
"Well good for you guys, so how do WE get up there?" Zuko asked dully with a bored expression.
"Um, you cou-" MetalMamemon stopped when there was a huge crash right behind the gang. They quickly spun around and saw a female cyborg with black hair, a visor for eyes, a huge metal right hand, a cannon on her right shoulder, and many robotic parts covering most of her body.
"It can't be!" Seth said with a look of shock on his face.
"Seth, it looks like I'll have to kill you. The irony is that our sides have changed." the cyborg threatened, stepping toward the Vexian.
"Wh-who are you?" Sakura stammered.
"My name is Mechelle and all of you shall be terminated." Mechelle answered and fired an orange beam from her cannon, which Sakura barely dodged.
"That was a warning shot, the next one will not miss. Now then before we begin the destruction, I shall scan each and every one of you." Mechelle said and looked at every single member of the gang, a green line sliding back and fourth across her visor.
"I'm not about to stand here and let this thing analyze us!" Zuko shouted fiercely and shot a beam of fire from his right hand, but it didn't even leave a mark on Mechelle.
"What a waste of energy Zuko, prince of the Fire Nation." Mechelle said casually and began walking toward him.
"His fire may be useless, but how about this?" Itachi said in the same casual tone, running toward Mechelle and torching her with Amaterasu.
"I wouldn't spam that too much if I were you, unless you want to go blind." Mechelle advised, seemingly immune to the flames.
"I know the limitations of my power, but you should worry about how to spend the last moments of your life."
"I disagree Itachi Uchiha." Mechelle retorted and a kind of metallic grey goo started coming out of her cannon, slowly surrounding her metal parts where the black fire continued to burn. This caused the fire to burn on the goo which then plopped to the ground and slowly shrank until it was gone.
"What was that?" Sakura exclaimed, studying the ground where the goo had disappeared.
"Nanobots, lots and lots of nanobots Sakura Haruno."
"You know you aren't impressing or scaring any of us by saying our full name, so just knock it off." Kaiba ordered. Mechelle faced the duelist and looked at him for about a second before charging at him, catching Kaiba by surprise.
"IDIOT!" shouted Melissa and put a shield around Kaiba which blocked the cyborgs tackle.
"Melissa, you are the most interesting one of the group by a longshot. An extremely powerful sorceress that mastered many spells who has lived for hundreds of years." Mechelle said, her attention now focused on Melissa.
"I fail to see your point. You may be strong but there is no chance you can take all of us on." Melissa retorted, her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed.
"Sadly you are mistaken. With all the information I have gathered from each and every one of you, I know what to expect and can easily counter."
"You might need to rewrite your hard drive then Mechelle because you should know it is not about WHAT you have, its about HOW you use it. Under an evil influence you are simply mad with power, confident in your own strength and underestimating anyone you fight." Seth explained, running up to Mechelle and looking at her right in the eye. (visor?)
"Evil influence? Does that mean she can be turned good?" Banjo asked.
"Precisely, knock her out and she goes to the side of whoever did the finishing blow."
"Then lets finish her." Kazooie said.
"Affirmative." replied X-Head Cannon, who started shooting blast after blast from his cannons at Mechelle, who held her arms in front of her to block the damage.
"You should keep guard on more than your front!" Sakura shouted and smashed her fist into Mechelles robotic back. Mechelle swung her body to the right quickly, her large palm open and ready to kill Sakura, but the ninja was saved by Chaos grabbing her with an extended arm and quickly retracting it.
"I honestly expected your little boyfriend to save you." Zuko teased with a smirk.
"Now isn't the time!" Sakura grumbled through gritted teeth.
"Lets do this Genosect!" Shaymin exclaimed and used Earth Power on Mechelle. While this didn't send her up in the air, it stunned her for a moment which was enough time for Genosect to blast her with his laser. Mechelle hunched over in pain, a gaping hole created in her back which Mario took the opportunity to smash her in the head with his hammer.
"I...can't...lose..." she muttered weakly and suddenly started to transform. She turned into a kind of battle vehicle with a rectangular body, two caterpillar treads on the sides, and 4 mechanical arms with a weapon on each one. One had a ball and chain, another had a spiked mallet, the third had an electric shocker, and the fourth had a backhoe shovel. The only sign of it being Mechelle was her head on top of the body.
"Oh no!" Mario exclaimed and was smacked by Mechelles ball and chain right into the cliffside.
"Damn, and just when we thought we had her too." Sakura said, clenching her fists in frustration.
"We can't give up, keep fighting!" MetalMamemon cheered, blasting Mechelle with bursts from his cannon which sadly did no damage.
"You are not in a special category as I can modify myself as well." X-Head Cannon explained and floated up high in place. Directly under him materialized a red mechanical dragon with only front legs and under that appeared the bottom half of a futuristic yellow tank. The three robots then connected together, one on top of the other, to form XYZ-Dragon Cannon.
"So what do I do?" Itachi asked in an uninterested tone, looking at Sakura.
"Wh-what do you mean?" she shouted.
"Well I can't use Tsukoyomi because of that visor and there is no way Amaterasu will work on her tank form." he explained in the same tone.
"Don't you have other powers?"
"What about you? All you have is super strength and healing." the Uchiha teased, poking Sakura in the forehead.
"WHY YOU-" Sakura was prevented from causing harm to Itachi when she was teleported to the top of the cliff along with him.
"If you can't do anything useful, don't bother even being on the battlefield!" Melissa scolded, being the one who teleported them there.
"Well then if you're so great then take down that boltbrain by yourself!" snapped Shaymin, who was flying alongside Genosect, Kazooie, and Banjo for an ariel assault.
"An attack from above is useless." Mechelle said without looking, extended her electric shocker arm and zapped the four airborne heroes with a lethal dose of volts. Melissa watched them fall, except for Genosect who suffered very little, and after pondering for a moment she turned away and teleported to an unknown location.
"What the hell is she thinking?" Zuko shouted as Genosect swooped down and caught Banjo and Kazooie while MetalMamemon rocketed to the sky and caught Shaymin.
"It seems the sorceress has bailed on the rest of you weaklings, clearly tired of babysitting you all." the general said from the loudspeaker of the ship, still viewing the battle.
Why would she do something like that? Seth thought, then shook his head as he knew he had Mechelle to worry about. XYZ-Dragon Cannon was doing a great job at dishing out damage, Z-Metal Tank shooting out missiles, Y-Dragon Head firing a laser from its mouth, and X-Head Cannon shooting his standard explosives. Kazooie tried spitting out her grenades, but these weapons were not as strong as the Duel Monsters. While blocking the attacks with three of her arms, Mechelle swung her spiked mallet arm down, which would have squished Kazooie if Banjo hadn't ran and shoved her out of the way and in turn Genosect dashing and rescuing both of them.
"I guess I could try this again..." MetalMamemon said to himself and held his cannon right at Mechelles head. He put every ounce of energy into his weapon and blasted another powerful beam, which managed to blow off Mechelles shovel and shocker arms as she managed to swivel her body a bit to alter the target.
"Nice going MetalMamemon!" Shaymin cheered, fully healed thanks to Sakura.
Putting me on top of a cliff. Who the hell does she think she is? the ninja thought angrily, having finished healing the last of the shocked trio.
"Finally you all are getting somewhere." Kaiba said with a smirk.
"Says the only one in this gang with no powers at all." Zuko sneered and suddenly something was glowing in Kaibas hand.
What? It can't be...! the duelist thought as the light dimmed and there he held a golden flute that was carved into the head of a dragon.
"Recognize it or something?" asked Seth.
"The Flute of Summoning Dragon...but it-"
"We need something big and powerful to finish her off, so make yourself useful for once and blow into it." Kazooie ordered. Kaiba scoffed but decided to play the flute, knowing it could be their only chance of victory. The roar of a dragon came from the instrument and everyone, including Mechelle who was able to turn her head all the way around, looked every which way for a dragon to show up as the echo of the flutes roar faded away.
"Hn, worthless." Kaiba said and was about ready to discard the instrument when a mechanical dragon roar was heard in the sky. Down flew a limbless dark red robotic dragon with flat wings, a huge scorpion-like tail, and two heads.
"Farewell." X-Head Cannon said and broke away from the hold he and Mechelle had on one another.
"No!" the cyborg shouted as the dragon dove downward at an alarming speed. The mechanical dragon slashed Mechelle straight in half with a swing of its scorpion tail, causing her to bleed and short circuit which ended in a large explosion. Once the smoke cleared, she was lying face down on the ground in her normal form, sparks of electricity flickering every now and then.
"Opponent terminated." X-Head Cannon stated and turned back to his normal form as well.
Rebooting...
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Reboot Complete!
"And we won for the second time." Zuko said smugly.
"Woo-hoo!" Mario cheered, pumping a fist in the air. The wind was taken from the gangs sails when they saw Mechelle slowly stand up, her head hanging low. Genosect got ready to dash at the cyborg bur stopped when Sakura shouted.
"Wait! You don't need to hurt her. Remember what Seth said?"
"Correct Sakura Haruno, thank you all for saving me. Especially you Seto Kaiba." Mechelle said gratefully and patted Kaiba on the back with her right hand, unintentionally knocking him to the ground.
"Mechelle, would you mind telling us what exactly is going on?" Banjo asked.
"I will, you see that ship up there?" she asked, pointing to it with her right hand.
"No, thanks for pointing it out." Itachi said dully with a bored expression and was then forcibly elbowed in the side by Sakura.
"That ship belongs to a general and he is very intelligent and very crafty. He has the power to roboticize organic beings to become his soldiers, and-"
"Is that how you were made?" MetalMamemon asked.
"No, I was created by a man named Relic who was a lot like the general. A brave friend of mine named Koden was able to kill Relic, leaving his base along with all of his plans and everything up for grabs. The general found that base and managed to replicate many of those plans and ideas, adding his own little twists to them."
"And what about Yubel and Devin?" asked Shaymin.
"Sadly, they were most likely roboticized..." Mechelle speculated, shaking her head sadly.
"There has to be a way to change them back, right?" wondered Banjo.
"Maybe, but we would have to go up there in order to do so and his security is top notch. You all would become roboticized or reprogrammed before you even had a chance, and that is assuming we all break into the ship safely."
"We can't just leave them, we aren't like Melissa. We saved you when you were evil, we saved Sakura and the others when the Darkness corrupted them, so there is no chance we are going to quit now." Itachi stated with confidence.
"Besides we have big guys like you, Genosect, Chaos, and our new dragon friend!" MetalMamemon added.
"You all are such good people, lets go." Mechelle said with a smile.
Yes, come at me with your very best. thought the general. He put down his binoculars, walked inside, and a blaring siren was heard.
ALERT! Now initiating maximum security mode!
ALERT! Now initiating maximum security mode!
OOO
And after about...um, two months I believe, another update arrives. I really hope it was worth the wait as this is easily the longest chapter of them all. The mechanical dragon that was summoned by the flute is a dragon that was originally going to be in the Sky Chase minigame from Sonic Adventure but he was removed for an unknown reason.