Chapter 12
Black and White
At the bank of a raging river of black water.
"So...how the heck do we get across this thing, anyway?" Pain pondered, putting a hand over his mouth as he thought.
"Not my problem, I can fly over." Deoxys said, morphing into his Speed form.
"Well that's good enough for YOU, but the rest of us are still screwed!" a girl with light-purple hair wearing a red bandana around her neck, a white shirt, and a blue dress, Anjren, pointed out. (Dream character. Last one, I swear!*)
"I can float over, so I'm safe." Midna stated.
"Well why don't we jump over?" Homestar Runner suggested.
"Shut up. That's just idiotic." Tory replied, rolling her working left eye.
"Well I don't hear YOU coming up with any ideas, fag bitch!" Toadsuke, who looked like Sasuke in Peachs' outfit, exclaimed.
"Just because she doesn't have a plan, doesn't mean his is any better." Toaster pointed out.
"The chemistry between the members of this unit is quite poor." Bobert, a small humanoid robot with one huge eye and black metal pinchers, said.
"I agree with him, we need teamwork if we intend to get anywhere." Skips, a muscular yeti who skips instead of walks, added.
"Well what do you expect us to do, part the seas?" Daffy, a black anthropomorphic duck that had a lisp and wore a wizards outfit while carrying a staff, exclaimed.
"You can do that?" Brain, a small red robot on wheels that had a brain in a jar atop his head as well as a long orange pincher, said with excitement.
"No, just shut up. Although an alternate path would be great." a scraggy anthropomorphic bunny, Scamper, commented.
"I could carry you all over." a white girl robot with two blue pigtails, Jenny, suggested.
"Darlings, this dialogue seems way too forced." Vampire Lady (!), who looked a lot like a female version of Vampire Lord as well as having a standard vampire accent, said to herself. Olimar, a small spaceman with a red antenna atop his helmet, and Stitch, a blue koala-like alien creature, nodded in agreement.
"Oh I don't think any of you will be crossing this river today!" a voice said from beneath the water.
"Yes, the lot of you are blocked from passing through." another voice from the water said.
"Try us." Deoxys taunted.
"That's what I intend to do!" and out of the water leapt none other than Babbling Fish, heading straight for Deoxys' chest.
"A talking Sharpedo?" Deoxys quickly turned into his Defense form and crossed his arms in front of his chest, blocking the shark from ripping out his core. Babbling Fish dashed downward at an angle, heading for the rest of the group.
"Huaaaah!" Pain threw his arms at his sides, knocking Babbling Fish onto his back with an invisible force bursting out from around the ninja.
"I see you remembered my weakness, Ichigo, but you should know that I have gotten past that!" Babbling Fish then hoisted himself up on his belly, using his side-fins as pseudo-arms.
"That was really weird." Anjren said, covering her mouth with her hand.
"No, what's weird is that he called me 'Ichigo'." Pain said, crossing his arms.
"Don't play games with me, Ichigo! I've killed you once and I'll gladly do it again! Just like I did to your best friend Naruto!" Babbling Fish taunted with sadistic glee.
"I'm not Ichigo, I'm Pain! And I'll be damned if you are going to lay a fin on Naruto!" Pain clapped his hands together, causing large chunks of earth to rise out from around him and head for Babbling Fish. The shark dashed out of their path, but didn't realize that they weren't projectiles, they were building up around him. He tried dashing straight up as more chunks rose up from around him and the ones from underneath him rising into the air, but he was knocked back down as small white humanoid creatures with red eyes and leaves atop their heads jumped and swarmed onto him like ants. He shook them off right before the last chunk of earth closed in, making one last mad dash, but a similar critter, only this one was chubby and purple, knocked him down to the bottom of the sphere of earth with much more force than the white ones did.
"Looks like that Sharpedo has just been caught." Deoxys mocked, looking up at the large ball of rock that was floating in the air.
"There's no way he is getting out of there, right?" Toaster asked, looking up at Pain.
"Not a chance." he assured, "The only way he's getting out is if he morphs into a gigantic monster."
"That is just pathetic. I've heard that Babbling Fish was a terrible and ruthless monster that could never be killed due to his instant healing power. In fact, it took Devin's Heartbreaker, an attack that instantly explodes someones heart, to terminate him, and now you're telling me it was as simple as tossing little plant people and trapping him in a ball of rock to beat him?" Tory rambled.
"Certainly looks that way." Scamper said.
"Wait a minute, weren't there TWO voices coming from that riv-" Anjren froze when something dashed right through her chest, killing her instantly.
"Sweet ninja Jesus, what the fuck?" Toadsuke shouted as the girl fell face-first into the ground.
Tory's eyes widened in shock, "That's his cousin! Barricading Barra-" Skips suddenly shoved her out of the way and grabbed the barracuda by the jaws as he dashed for them.
"My my, you must have supernatural reflexes in order to not only save the girl from being gored, but to also catch me right after."
"I've dealt with monsters much worse than you."
"Oh have you? Because I will tell you right now, none of you can kill, or even hurt, me."
"Explain yourself." Jenny ordered.
"Foxes." Pain said, "Its foxes. We need Naruto in order to-" Babbling Fish laughed evilly at the ninjas explanation.
"You think that old trick will work? Oh you 'good guys' always think you are the only ones to learn new things. First you think you trapped my cousin with, as Tory correctly put it, 'little plant people and a ball of rock'" as he said this, Babbling Fish burrowed out from underneath Pains trap and landed on the ground next to Skips. "The you believe that I haven't figured out how to filter out foxes!" as Barricading Barracuda said this, he managed to wriggle and dash out of Skips' grip, taking his place right by Babbling Fish, who was devouring Anjrens corpse.
"Wait a minute!...You guys are COUSINS? You are completely different species!" Brain exclaimed, completely missing the point.
"Just ignore him." Scamper said with a sigh.
"So let me get this straight...you guys have been playing us for suckers this whole time?" said Daffy.
"That's right." Babbling Fish said with an evil grin, his teeth stained with Anjren's blood.
"Wow. The two of you are more twisted than a...than a...than a pretzel!" Homestar Runner uttered.
"Their predatory fish, what else do you expect?" Midna said.
"I expect these fish to be flayed!" Jenny said threateningly, and transformed her arms into large buzzsaws.
"Hahaha, just try it, robot girl!" Barricading Barracuda dashed right for her. Jenny made a swing with one of her spinning blades, but it wasn't even able to pierce the fishes scales.
"Blocked. Category: Weapons." the barracuda said.
"How do you categorize THIS, then?" Midna grabbed Barricading Barracuda, morphing her hair into a clawed hand to do so, and flung him. As he flew through the air, Daffy moved his staff in a square, trapping Barricading Barracuda in a transparent green box of energy.
"Just what is this?" he asked.
"Its a spell, stupid. You should explode in a couple seconds, but you probably have a filter for that too." Daffy guessed.
"A spell? Hmhmhm, blocked. Category: Witchcraft." and just like that, the box faded and Barricading Barracuda dashed to the ground.
"Interesting." Bobert said to himself.
"Whattya mean?" Scamper asked, walking up to him.
"The fish did not filter out the spell automatically, he had to initiate the command by categorizing it."
"So what are you getting at?"
"The barracuda is only immune to things that it has filtered out once before."
"So if I threw a bagel at him, then it would hurt him since he hasn't blocked it, right?" Brain asked, using a stupidly hypothetical scenario.
"Precisely."
"Looks like you figured out my flaw, robot, congratulations. But you should know that the things I have NOT filtered out are few and far between." Barricading Barracuda said, swimming up to Bobert.
"How do you swim through the air like that? Its weird!" Brain exclaimed.
"Now we just have to find the sharks weakness, right?" said Homestar Runner.
"Correct." replied Bobert.
Meanwhile, Attack form Deoxys had Babbling Fish wrapped up in his tentacles.
"Your heart interests me quite a bit, one I intend do DEVOUR!" the shark then sunk his back-fin right into Deoxys' neck, and due to the poor Pokemons defense in this form, he dropped the predator.
"You dumbass fag-alien!" Toadsuke shouted, then ran at Babbling Fish as he dashed toward the ground.
"What are you doing?" Tory exclaimed.
"Shut up, fag-bitch!" he/she retorted while running. Toadsuke then held out an arm, and a blue turtle shell covered in spines to appear in his/her hand.
"He'll just bite your arm off!" Pain warned.
"I SAID 'SHUT UP, FAG-BITCH!'" he/she yelled louder with a popped vein.
"Eager to die, are we?" Babbling Fish dashed right at Toadsuke.
"TAKE THIS! Chidori!" Toadsuke then slammed his/her hand right into Babbling Fishs' nose, knocking the shark high into the air. "And you bitches think I'm a dumbass like Nario." Toadsuke gloated.
"You are! Babbling Fish is just gonna heal! All you did was toss him in the air!" Pain exclaimed.
"Shut it! You couldn't even contain him, fag-piercing!"
"Behind you!" Toaster said, seeing Babbling Fish dash to Toadsuke from behind.
"Huy-YA!" Vampire Lady zapped Babbling Fish with a black bolt of lightning, halting him. "Kill him while he is stunned, darlings."
Stitch ran up to Babbling Fish and, despite his small stature, easily picked up and tossed the shark. Then Jenny flew into the air, morphed her hands into huge spiked fists, and punched Babbling Fish back in the direction he came in, mid-flight. Finally, Deoxys flew above the shark and hit him with a Hyper Beam from above, knocking him into the raging waters below. However, the shark just dashed right out and stopped in front of the group by the waters edge, his cousin swimming over and joining him.
"When will you idiots learn that you can NEVER beat us?" Babbling Fish taunted.
"Figuring out your weaknesses was a pretty good start if you ask me." Homestar Runner said.
"Figuring them out is one thing, exploiting them is a different STORY!" Barricading Barracuda dashed at them, but Skips grabbed him yet again.
"That's true, but we'll find a way." Toaster said.
"Well do ya have any bright ideas? These guys are more unkillable than I am." Scamper said.
"Well we need an instant kill move to take out Babbling Fish, and we need an unorthodox attack to take out Barricading Barracuda...I think we are going to need more men, because the only thing we can do right now is stall them." Pain explained.
"So we just run for our lives looking for other people?" Brain asked.
"He has a point for once, these guys aren't just gonna let us escape." Scamper said.
"Not with your lives, that is!" Babbling Fish said as he dashed toward them.
"Oh no you don't!" Jenny exclaimed, turned one of her harms into a spiked ball-and-chain, and slammed him into the ground. Olimar then tossed bunches of purple Pikmin that held the shark down.
"We restrained them, super. So now what?" Daffy asked.
"Well according to fag-piercing here, we run like pussies and look for help." Toadsuke replied, pointing to Pain.
"Incorrect. He stated that we should look for assistance because we can not defeat these fish on our own." Bobert corrected.
"Just ignore the crossdresser." Deoxys said, flying over to them.
"How do you propose we escape, then? I'm certain that none of you can teleport." Vampire Lady said.
"Miss, you are saying that in the presence of a wizard." Daffy replied with a glare.
"So you can teleport us all, then?" Skips asked, still restraining Barricading Barracuda with little effort, although the fish didn't seem to put up any fight.
"I suppose I could give it a shot, if I knew where to send us."
"Hmm..." one of Jenny's pigtails turned into a satellite dish that swiveled around for a moment before turning back. "I'm detecting other people in that direction!" she said, pointing across the river at a slight left angle.
"Then in that direction we shall go!" Daffy slammed his staff on the ground, and in a flash of light, the heroes were gone.
OOO
"You all are such good people, lets go." Mechelle said with a smile.
"Its a relief that a good amount of us can fly, otherwise getting up there would suck!" Sakura commented.
"Cool story." Kaiba said sarcastically, and climbed onto the metal dragon.
"Why couldn't the Mary Sue take you with her when she left?" Kazooie grumbled.
"Alright, everyone, lets-" Seth was cut off by a large flash of light, Midna's group was before them.
"What in the fag-hell is this?" Toadsuke exclaimed, eyeing the other group.
"Looks like you jinxed us, Sakura." Itachi teased, poking her on the forehead.
"Whatever, Itachi." she grumbled.
"Looks like we have more passengers to manage." Zuko said with a sigh.
"For what?" Homestar Runner asked.
"Look up, you idiots." sneered Kaiba, which the other group did.
"Whoa! How long has THAT been there?" Brain exclaimed.
"A better question is what exactly is that thing?" Deoxys asked.
Mechelle stepped forward to get the other group up to speed. "That is a flying fortress belonging to an evil general. Said fortress is packed with weapons and is protected by an anti-magic barrier, which keeps out all supernatural powers. Inside are his many robot bodyguards who will take you to a chamber where you will be turned into a robot yourself."
"Anyone else wanna go back to the fish?" Daffy said, deadpan. Midna raised her hand at the ducks offer.
"That is sounding like the better option. At least I can use my jutsu against them." Pain said to himself, resting his chin on his palms.
"No need! Kaiba will just call another dragon!" MetalMamemon said.
"Is that right?" Kaiba said haughtily as if the Digimon was giving him an order.
"Just blow the freaking flute!" Zuko exclaimed. Kaiba huffed, but took out the flute and put it up to his lips. He blew into it, but a hollow puff was all that was heard.
"What the hell?" the brunette said to himself and peeked through the other side of the ancient instrument, there was a white orb lodged within. "How did this get here?" Kaiba touched the orb and it teleported to the middle of the gang.
"What is it now?" Tory groaned. The orb illuminated a brilliant white light that got brighter and bigger as it ascended higher, stopping about 15 feet above the group. Genesects eyes flashed, he had a hunch on what was going on.
"This is either really good or really bad." Scamper said. After a moment of silence, a high-pitched, almost song-like roar emitted from the sphere and there was a huge burst of light. There, flying above the heroes, was a white, bipedal, angel-like dragon with blue eyes and a tail that resembled a turbine covered in ribbons.
Shaymin couldn't believe her eyes. "That's...that's...!" The Pokemon of gratitude was too starstruck to finish her sentence. Genesects eyes started flashing rapidly, his hunch was right.
"What...what ARE you?" Seth asked, his eyes widened in shock at the sight of the dragon.
The dragon spoke with a booming masculine voice. "My name is Reshiram, the embodiment of Yang. Together with Zekrom, the embodiment of Yin, we bring balance to the world."
"I've heard of you. Weren't the two of you originally a single being or something?" Deoxys wondered.
"Correct."
"Where did you come from? Did Kaiba summon you with his flute?" MetalMamemon asked.
"Not at all. I was sent here by the sister of my owner."
"Are you referring to the disembodied female voice that communicates with us all through telepathy?" X-Head Cannon asked.
"Correct."
"Well what do you mean by 'owner'? Did the Darkness create you or something?" wondered Sakura.
There was a pause. "I see...well it was only a matter of time before he would become corrupt..." the dragon said to himself, "You are partially correct, pink-haired girl. The dragon that Zekrom and I originally were was partially created by the Darkness, as you all know him as."
"And what do YOU know him as?" Tory asked.
"Tenebris. Together, with the help of his sister, they created a being of balance. However, in fear that something could go wrong, he and her split it into two halves, Tenebris creating me, and his sister creating Zekrom."
"Weren't there two brothers who owned those dragons or something, though?" interjected Deoxys.
"That was many many years after we were split. You must remember that Tenebris and his sister are supreme deities."
"But something doesn't make sense here. Why would the Darkness, or Tenebris, own an angelic dragon?" Zuko asked.
"The concepts of good and evil aren't all black and white, human."
"If you're here, then does that mean Zekrom is?" asked MetalMamemon.
"Yes. However, that also means our remnant is here."
"Remnant? Oh crap, not THAT!" Shaymin exclaimed.
"Yes, I'm afraid the group who comes across the remnant will be in trouble. However, I am confident that Tenebris' sister will assist them."
"Why do you know the Darkness' name, but not the girls?" Jenny wondered.
"We never crossed paths, nor did Tenebris tell me her name. All he told me was their history and why they split Zekrom and I apart. They figured it would be safer this way, the lands were still in their infancy, after all."
"Enough with the history lesson, we need to breach that flying base." Kaiba sneered.
Kazooie gave the duelist a cold stare. "You prick, don't you get it? This dragon has some useful information."
"Kazooie is right, Reshiram might be able to help us get everything back to normal." Banjo added.
"It is not quite as simple as that. However, I am more than capable of assisting you all in your quest." Reshiram turned toward the generals base and studied it with brilliant blue eyes.
"How are you gonna get in if it has a magical shield?" asked Brain.
"That thing is a deity, dumbass!" Toadsuke snapped, not even looking at the robot. Reshiram opened its mouth, and a gigantic orange orb of fire quickly built up right in front of the dragons head.
OOO
The general was watching the heroes below through a tinted and bullet-proof window with a scowl on his face, when a red robot girl ran up to him. "Sir, that dragon is going to tear right through our base!"
"I'm aware of that! Activate the thrusters and tell the robots in the control room to begin the wormhole process!"
"Right away, sir!" the robot girl gave the general a salute and ran off through an automatic steel door.
OOO
The large thrusters at the back of the fortress started up with a whirr, and pink volts of electricity cracked at the front.
"What in the world is it doing?" Pain wondered.
"I hypothesize that the general is attempting to flee." X-Head Cannon said. Reshiram fired the Fusion Flare, but the projectile flew right through a dark portal that appeared in front of the generals base.
"Did the general do that?" Seth wondered.
"Tenebris." Reshiram said to himself, but loud enough for the others to hear. From the intercom, the general spoke as a stormy pink portal appeared at the front of his ship.
"You maggots may have bested me this time, but mark my words, I will make you all remember the name General Kane!" and with that, the flying base flew through the portal at a remarkable speed, which closed up the instant it went through.
"Damn, he got away." Jenny said in frustration.
"Great...so NOW what do we do?" Scamper asked.
"I dunno, but we should probably get moving, we are sitting ducks out here." said MetalMamemon. Daffy cleared his throat upon hearing the last part of the Digimons statement. "Metaphorically speaking, that is." he added.
"Its a bit late for that." a female voice said from atop the cliffs. It belonged to a girl with long bright-red hair wearing a light-purple tank top and light-blue pants. She was carelessly tossing a switchblade from one hand to the other.
"You're awfully cocky for someone who is vastly outnumbered!" Sakura ran up to and punched the wall of the cliff the girl was standing on, causing it to crumble and bringing her down with it.
"And now for you to burn." Reshiram bellowed and spread out his wings, but upon doing so, he was encased in a transparent black ball.
"What's happening?" Shaymin exclaimed.
"Tenebris." Reshiram stated. The black ball turned solid and crackled with purple lighting, fading away shortly after and leaving Reshiram in the form of the white stone he was in before being awakened.
"Now what will you do without your big bad dragon protecting you?" the girl taunted.
"Use our other big bad dragon." retorted Homestar Runner as the two-headed metallic dragon that was summoned by Kaiba roared in the girls face.
"You must be suicidal, showing up all alone and stuff." Midna stated, floating around the girl.
"Close, but not quite suicidal." she replied, and swiftly and calmly ran her switchblade down both of her arms, her eyes showing a hint of glee as she did so. Blood quickly ran down them, looking almost black due to the quantity. Vampire Lady smiled sinisterly at the sight of this and teleported next to the girl in a puff of black smoke. The vampire then swiftly grabbed the girls arm and sunk her teeth into it, letting the blood pour into her mouth. Sakura turned pale at the sight of this, Brain fell over, and Stitch covered MetalMamemons eyes.
"What the FAG-HELL IS THIS SHIT?" Toadsuke yelled, both creped out and ticked off. The girl just smiled at this, and in an instant, the blood around the area Vampire Lady was feasting on hardened and turned bright red, looking almost like ruby, and it shot out right through the back of the pale-skinned girls head as a large spike. The redhead snickered at this and caused another spike to quickly extend right through the top Vampire Ladys head, killing her instantly. She giggled evilly as the blood spines retracted back into her skin, causing Vampire Lady to fall to the ground with a look of horror on her face.
"That was exciting, I never dealt with a vampire before!" the girl exclaimed with sadistic excitement.
"Just who are you?" Itachi asked menacingly.
"The name is Crystalline." she answered, hardening the rest of the blood on her arms. "I have the power to harden and manipulate my own blood."
"That's...kind of cool, actually, but you're still heavily outnumbered!" Deoxys shifted into his Attack form, floated up high, and put his tentacles together in front of him. "Take this!...PSYCHO BOOST!" the DNA Pokemon became enveloped in a pink fireball with three white orbs spinning around it, Uranus style, and flew at Crystalline. The redhead put up her guard as her blood expanded to form large pseudo-arm guards.
"That wont save you!" the alien said and slammed into Crystalline, knocking her into the cliffside in a bright explosion of light. Crystalline pulled herself out of the dent using the spikes at the ends of her hardened arm blood.
"I'm well aware of that." she said, grinning maliciously at Deoxys.
"I'll wipe that smug look of your face!" Seth ran at the girl, Stitch and Homestar Runner right behind him. The Vexian tried kicking Crystalline into the air, but the blood armor she quickly extended from her arms to the front of her made the girl too heavy to move. Crystalline counter-attacked by forming the blood at her middle into a large spike and extending it at Seth, but Homestar Runner kicked the raven-haired boy out of the way, jumped off the spike, and kicked Crystalline right in the face, busting open her head via a huge gash right on her forehead. The armless fellow then pushed himself off of her, did a backflip, and landed safely on his feet.
"Now I get it." Skips stated, "She's letting us beat her up so she has more blood to use."
"You're quite clever, but figuring me out isn't going to help you much. This has been fun and all, but I think its time to get serious." Crystalline retracted the blood back into the arm blades she had before and used them to slash her legs straight down, causing them to bleed heavily as well. Stitch rolled backward, knowing the redhead was going to attack. The alien was right to do so, as Crystalline extended a series of spikes from her bleeding legs. Mario took out his mallet and smashed them to pieces, but Crystalline just molded the points right back over the leftover stubs. Mario slid under the spines, figuring Crystalline would try and maim him, and that is just what she planned to do. More spines extended downward from the larger horizontal ones, but the plumber was too swift, causing the spines to embed themselves in the ground.
"Now that you're immobile..." Pain slammed his hands on the ground, causing chunks of earth around Crystalline to rise up and levitate.
"I don't think the rock cage technique is gonna do much good..." grumbled Scamper.
"And why is that?"
"I dunno, its just a thought. It doesn't mean its true..." Pains right eye twitched at the rabbits pointless snarkiness.
"Lets make it a double cage." Daffy waved his staff in a square fashion, trapping Crystalline in the green cube like he did with Barricading Barracuda. This broke off the blood spines at the faces of the barrier.
Crystalline looked around as the box started to move toward an invisible singularity while the chunks of earth started to surround her. "What is this?"
"I've got a plan." Itachi said to the group,
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Well by all means enlighten us..."
"Pain, after Crystalline is trapped in your sphere, I want-"
The ninja in question pointed accusingly at the Uchiha. "Whoa there! Looks like somebody is forgetting their place."
"What." he replied, deadpan.
"I'm the leader, you're the subordinate. I don't take orders from you."
"Since when did you decide to abuse your position against us like that?"
"What makes you think this is the first time? You are hardly ever present. You could be a member in exile as far as I am concerned."
Itachi found this change in Pains attitude rather strange. "Hold on...its about Naruto, isn't it?"
"Why would you think that?"
"Well, if anything, your demeanor should have softened after you and Konan more or less 'adopted' that kid, and because he and my foolish little brother don't see eye to eye, you feel like I-"
"Hey fags, are we gonna kill that bitch or just talk about pointless shit?" sneered Toadsuke.
"I agree with...uhh..." Sakura wasn't sure what gender to refer to Toadsuke as, "Well what you guys are talking about is controversial and wont help us in our fight with Crystalline!"
"There is nothing to worry about. She surely exploded by now." said Daffy.
"Explode?" repeated X-Head Cannon.
"Yeah, that's what the box does. It just didn't work on that fish because it takes a few moments. That girl should be like splatters on a microwave right now, though."
"I still think we should hear that mans plan out, just in case she survived." Toaster said, pointing to Itachi.
"Alright, Chaos, can you fill that sphere up with water?" the Uchiha asked, looking at the watery being. Chaos nodded, combined both of his arms together, and extended the large arm-like protrusion into Pains trap, slowly but surely filling it up like a torture device.
"Now what, genius?" Pain asked with a bored expression.
"Sakura, wipe that attitude off his face."
The female ninja just crossed her arms and rolled her eyes at the raven-haired male. "Are you kidding me? You are the LAST person who should critique someones attitude..."
"Seto Kaiba being an exception to the rule." added X-Head Cannon.
"Itachi Uchiha, continue." said Mechelle, tired of the distractions.
"Okay, Genesect?" the Pokemon looked at Itachi at the mention of its name. "After Chaos fills that thing up, you and Mechelle shoot at it with your lasers."
"Understood." the cyborg said with a nod.
"Lastly, I need that weird dragon robot to be prepared to stab Crystalline with its pronged tail if she shows any signs of life." Itachi looked up at the dragon that Kaiba had summoned, and it gave him a grunt showing that it understood.
"You're quite the killer aren't you?" Midna teased.
"I've..." the Uchiha quickly looked away from the Twili, "I've done some things in my past that I'm not exactly proud of."
"Like-" Midna stopped at the sight and sound of Genesects and Mechelles lasers turning the sphere of rock into rubble, which turned Crystalline into a bloody mess.
"Stay strong, remember her-" The metal dragon cut Zuko off by stabbing the gore-covered girl right through the heart with its huge pointed tail, pulling it out after a short moment. After a small pause, the gang relaxed, but that was short lived when Crystalline shockingly got up on her feet, covered in her own crystallized blood.
"She survived?" Shaymin exclaimed.
"That's impossible. My Heat Laser should have at least melted a hole in her." Mechelle said.
"That was an excellent try." Crystalline said, all of her blood retracting back into her wounds, "You nearly had me there, but my armor is stronger than you would ever believe."
"The armor is irrelevant, you should have drowned." pointed out Bobert.
"And you should have exploded before that happened." added Daffy.
"And there is that dragon that stabbed you." Banjo said.
"Drowning?" Crystalline created and then retracted a seamless and air-tight pseudo-mask with her blood all around her face. "Explosions? I simply harden the blood within me to stop the expansion. Punctures? That's just my armor at work, it doesn't matter if it comes from a dragon."
"This is getting stale." Tory snapped her fingers, turning into a puddle of purple poison.
"She just melted!" Brain exclaimed.
"Now I think its time to make YOU ALL bleed for a change." Crystalline morphed her blood to create pseudo-arm blades again, large claw-like protrusions from her fingers, face and body armor, and spines along her legs.
"Ya gonna charge at us with that clunky armor?" Midna taunted.
"Quite the opposite!" the claw-like protrusions on Crystalline extended toward the Twili, who floated out of their way, but spines extended from the sides of the protrusions, creating a death trap of blood spines for Midna.
"Oh how great it would be if I could open up portals right about now..." she thought.
"And now to give you-" Crystalline stopped when she felt something thick and wet cover her blood armor. She extended some spines out from it, assuming someone was behind her, but they just embedded themselves into the cliffside.
"Looking for someone?" Tory said, rising up in front of her.
"What did you DO?" Crystalline extended an arm blade, aiming for the Vexians heart, but she used Poison Puddle again, changing the target to Mechelle, whose armor she failed to penetrate. Mechelle grabbed the blood blade, her brute strength and weight preventing Crystalline from retracting it.
Crystalline gritted her teeth in frustration. "You've still got organic parts!" Spikes extended out of the blade, heading for any fleshy parts on the cyborg, but they were blasted clean off from shots fired by X-Head Cannon.
"Uggggh! What's happening?" the redhead groaned, suddenly feeling intense pain all over her body.
"Allow me to fill you in." Tory began, "You seem rather pleased when you're in pain, so you're gonna LOVE this. You know what I love? Watching people suffer the effects of the most lethal poison on my planet, my own blood."
"Y-your blood is poisonous?"
"Correction; my blood IS poison. Whattya know, maybe we aren't so different after all."
"How were you able to infect me? My blood is crystallized!"
"Crystallized blood is still blood, is it not? Besides, its impossible to cover up a cut in its entirety just by hardening the blood."
"You!...I'm not going down without taking somebody with me!" she exclaimed as her eyeballs bulged due to the blood trying to flow out of them involuntarily crystallizing.
"Bitch, you already killed that vampire, so just die already." said Toadsuke irritably.
"In the meantime, I'll make sure she doesn't try anything funny." Jenny flew above the suffering girl, morphed her hands into large pinchers, and grabbed and held Crystalline down by the chest and legs.
"I will g-" the rest of what Crystalline said was inaudible as the blood trying to flow out of her mouth inadvertently hardened as well, suffocating her shortly after. Jenny was justifiably skeptical about releasing Crystalline, as she could still somehow be alive.
"Let her go. She's dead." Tory ordered, confident that her poison finished the girl off, Jenny did so and morphed her arms back to normal.
"That...was crazy." Scamper said, looking at Crystalines corpse and muttering something about 'her being lucky'.
Midna nodded, "I'll say."
"What's crazy is that you idiots are wasting time hanging around here instead of leaving like we originally planned." snottily pointed out Kaiba.
"It would be easier if we had Reshiram, though." MetalMamemon said, standing next to the white stone.
"Well it isn't gonna do us much good now, Tenebris sealed him away." Toaster told him.
"So do we just...leave him here?" asked Banjo.
"Yeah. Reshiram will appear before us when the time is right, and I'm sure Tenebris' sister will do what she can to free him." Shaymin explained.
"Then lets go." Mechelle said, and the gang was on their way.
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"This guy may be something else, but we have more men. Plus, we know his weakness," said Miroku.
"Numbers mean nothing." stated Crisis as he rose out of the ground.
Pride was less than thrilled to see him. "Crisis! You had plans with the swordsman!"
"It seems he had escaped my grasp." he replied, showing no signs of regret or frustration. Locke clenched her fists upon hearing this.
"That proves it." she said to herself, then pointed at the Dark Earthling, "Crisis! Just what the hell are you planning?"
"Just what are you spouting, Locke?" replied Crisis, unfazed.
"She obviously saw through you." stated Pride.
A creepy high-pitched voice filled the air. "He he he, Pride is right! But that's what happens when you suddenly find yourself under someone elses command!"
"Man, that voice is creeping me the math out!" Jake stated.
"But where's it coming from?" wondered Chowder, looking around.
"ME!" Suddenly, in a burst of orange particles, appeared a being with only a purple head for a body, which he wore a jester cap over, and two curved golden rods sticking out with flashing multicolored crystals floating below them, which served as his wings. Kirby jumped back at the sight of this winged fellow, he knew exactly who it was.
Deidara was hardly shocked at this sight, however. "So what childrens book did YOU leap out of, hmm?"
"He he he, miss, I am much stronger than you think!" it replied.
"I. Am. Not. A. GIRL!" the ninja flung some small clay birds at the winged jester, but it just teleported out of the way.
"Hehehe, my name is Marx and you are going to suffer at my hands!"
"Dude, you don't have any hands." Jake pointed out.
"Then you shall suffer as well!" Marx froze for a moment, then fired a flurry of blue arrows at Jake and Deidara, but Pit flew at the jesters level and deflected them with rapid rotations of his bow.
"Well played, but can you deflect THIS?" Marx then blasted the angel with a huge yellow laser beam, knocking him out of the sky.
"Ohhhhh, that hurt!" Pit whined.
"Not so high and mighty, are we?" said, to the heroes shock, King Boo as he appeared into the scene. "You look surprised to see me. You idiots didn't really believe you could just seal me away, did you? Apart from the dimension of chaos and the dimension of the Darkness, this dimension is the only one that exists now!"
"That makes sense, Since the Darkness fused all dimensions and universes into one, wherever Mirokus tag would send King Boo no longer exists." said Molly.
"So now we have FOUR villains to fight? Oh man, we're dead!" Frog exclaimed fearfully.
"It may look hopeless, but we have to fight our hardest!" Link said confidently.
"He he he, that's cute, elf-boy, BUT ITS WROOONG!" Marx shot pink blades of energy out of his wings, Pride and King Boo following up with spiked shadow tendrils and blue flames.
"Too much pride to fight, Crisis?" Pride sneered as his shadow tendrils were retracted by Link shooting a Light arrow at his feet.
"Nobody is impressed, Crisis." King Boo added as Rotom, who had possessed a washing machine that Maxwell summoned, extinguished his flames with a Hydro Pump.
"Leaves more for us!" Marx exclaimed with a different demeanor, despite the fact that Miroku had sucked up his energy blades.
"You may be under orders, but you can still attack!" shouted Pride to the Dark Earthling.
"I take orders from no one. Not the Darkness and certainly not you." he replied.
"He he he, looks like Crisis is trying to convince himself that he isn't doing what the Darkness tells him!" Marx said with an unstable tone of voice.
"So what is your reason for not absorbing anyone or not corrupting Ichigo?" queried Pride.
"Should we run while they are fighting?" whispered Chowder to Maxwell, who shook his head.
"I say we come up with a strategy for beating them." Sai whispered.
"Great idea. Alright, we-" a loud honk cut off Miroku, which also made King Boo, Pride, and Marx focus on the heroes. Between the two sides stopped a long, sinister, black bus, and a female voice came on the intercom from within it.
"If you look to your right, you'll see a marshmallow of royalty, a creepy child with an even creepier shadow, some demon jester thing, and a tentacle alien monster! If you look to your other right, you'll see three uninteresting humans, a green gremlin whatever, a yellow bulldog with noodles for limbs, another marshmallow with clown shoes, a GUY with a bellyshirt, a Wookie dressed up as a cowboy, a little dude with a notebook and a weird hat, a green chubby dinosaur, an elf in a green dress, a bear...cat...squirrel...thing, a guy who must have gotten tired of getting his palms read, a kid in a raccoon costume with a giant cup on his back, a flippin' flying piano, a cute lightning-bolt guy, some emo chick who must have terribad depth perception, a blind gal in a trenchcoat, a man in green with an L cap that stands for 'lime', some girl rodent with swollen fists, an Indian skeleton sorcerer, a cartoony elephant, a robot bug with missile launchers on its back, a big pink loser, a fairy boy with a bow, a lass with freaky freaking hands, a blue alien who must have never stopped talking, and a platypus...but they don't do much."
"Do you think whoever is in the bus is a friend, or a foe?" Gaaranooki wondered.
"Whoever it is, she sure seems annoying as hell." muttered Killdra.
"I've dealt with enough interruptions." Pride tried slicing the bus down the middle with a large shadow tendril, but the vehicle vanished the instant it was touched.
"A ghost bus, eh?" said King Boo.
"Does that mean that girl is the Hash Slinging Slasher?" asked Patrick.
"I have no idea what that is." the girl replied from inside of the cave, standing behind the group with the back part of her bus merged inside of the cave walls. She wore navy-blue, had dark-magenta hair, and carried a black handbag with a skull and crossbones on it.
"Are you a ghost?" queried Steven.
"Nope! I'm from the underworld. To be specific, I'm the Tour Guide From The Underworld! They don't exactly hand out names to everyone down there, so just call me Tour Guide until I can think of some cute nickname for myself, yeah? Oh! On my way here, I came across some of your friends and brought them here. I'll go get them." she said, and stepped inside of the Tour Bus.
Tour Guide didn't leave a good first impression on Molly. "I'm probably being judgmental here, but that girl seems like a real..."
"Bitch." finished Zach. Molly glanced at him, which he followed up with a shrug.
"Here they are!" Tour Guide said as she dragged out the bodies of Anjren and Vampire Lady.
"Rotom rotom ro ro tom rotom!" exclaimed the Pokemon.
"Rotoms right, that's messed up." Jake said.
"What?...Ohhhh, you think they're dead? Not quite!" Tour Guide started shaking Vampire Lady, screaming 'Wake up!' over and over again.
"Is this chick for real...?" Deidara murmured, staring at her.
To the gangs shock, Vampire Lady started stirring and eventually came to. "Hmm? What happened to me?"
"I rescued your spirit on my Tour Bus and brought you back to life!" Tour Guide exclaimed.
"Where is that red-headed lass?" the vampire wondered, not having a clue as to where she was.
"Mumbo sorcerer and not even Mumbo can believe that work." commented Mumbo.
"And now for her." Tour Guide took off one of her white gloves and began slapping Anjren back and forth across the face with it.
"That's...that's kind of hot, I'm not gonna lie." Miroku said, pleasurably staring at the two girls.
"Eeek! Demon lady!" Anjren shoved Tour Guide back, feeling like she just awoke to a nightmare.
"Success!" Tour Guide exclaimed giddily.
Anjren had a ton of questions. "Hang on...where am I? Who are you guys? Where are those sharks? Where-" Launcher Spider made some loud machine noises, shutting the girl up.
"So is this all you have to offer us?" Sai asked Tour Guide.
"What? I brought two people back from the dead! What more do-" Tour Guide suddenly remembered something that she found. "OH! I have this thing!" she reached into her bag and took out a black orb.
Link was intrigued. "May I?" Tour Guide handed the orb to the Hyilian, which immediately teleported between, and about 15 feet above, the heroes and villains.
"He he he, I wonder what could be inside?" Marx said as the orb shined with a brilliant black glow.
"I hope whatever is in there is on our side!" Frog exclaimed fearfully. After a moment of silence, a gruff and menacing roar emitted from the sphere and there was a huge flash of black light. There, flying above them, was a black, bipedal, mecha-like dragon with red eyes and a tail that resembled both a drill and a turbine.
"Who are you?" Steven asked.
The dragon spoke with a booming masculine voice. "My name is Zekrom, the embodiment of Yin. Together with Reshiram, the embodiment of Yang, we bring balance to the world."
"Wait, were you always in the back of my Tour Bus?" Tour Guide asked, scratching her head.
"Not at all. I was sent here by my owner."
"Are you talking about that girl who speaks to us telepathically?" Link asked.
"Correct."
"What do you mean by 'owner'? Were you created by that girl?" Molly wondered.
"You are partially correct. The girl took part in the creation of the dragon that Reshiram and I originally were."
Vampire Lady cocked her head to one side. "And who might this gal be?"
"Lumiere. Together, with the help of her brother, they created a being of balance. However, in fear that something could go wrong, she and him split it into two halves. Lumiere creating me, and her brother creating Reshiram."
Rotom pointed out the original legend of the two dragons. "Rotom rotom rotom ro ro tom ro?"
"That was many years after we were split. You must remember that Lumiere and her brother are supreme deities."
"But why would Lumiere own such an...evil-looking dragon?" Zach asked.
"The concepts of good and evil are not all black and white, human."
"Reshiram must be here since you are, right?" Gaaranooki assumed.
"Yes. However, our remnant must also be here."
Rotom knew who Zekrom was referring to. "Rotom rotom ro tom tom!"
"The group who comes across that remnant will be in trouble, but I assure you that Lumiere will assist them."
Anjren was curious, "If you know Lumiere, then what about the Darkness?"
"We never crossed paths, nor did Lumiere tell me his name. All she told me was their history and why they split Reshiram and I apart. They figured it would be safer this way, the lands were still young, after all."
"Does this mean you can help us get everything back to normal?" Chowder assumed the dragon could, since he knew so much.
"It is not quite as simple as that. However, I am more than capable of assisting you all on your quest."
"Could ya start by dealing with those guys?" Killdra pointed to the four villains in front of them.
"Certainly." Zekrom turned toward Crisis and the others, staring them down menacingly. Then the Pokemon surrounded himself in a blue sphere of electricity.
"I'm outta here! See ya suckas lata!" Marx quickly sunk into the ground, becoming a circular shadow, and retreated.
"I'll come at you all when your little bodyguard is sealed away again!" King Boo teleported in a poof of blue fire.
"I...I..." Pride started to back away, he knew he had no chance against Zekrom.
Crisis noticed this and glanced at the boy, then quickly focused on Zekrom again. "Retreating are we?" he taunted.
"Quiet, Crisis! You should know when you are outmatched!"
"The thing is, Pride, I have yet to know if I am. All Zekrom has done is shroud himself in lightning."
"You're a fool, Crisis!" Pride ran off, leaving the Dark Earthling to take on the dragon.
"I know all about you, Crisis, and I am proud to be the one that will terminate you!" Zekrom flew at the experiment, who didn't even flinch, and shocked him into nothingness, but continued to hold is position as he knew about Crisis' phenomenal regenerating ability. After a moment, he stopped using Fusion Bolt and flew back a few meters. The heroes who fought Crisis in the junkyard watched their feet, fearing that Discord was about to show up. Someone did show up, but it wasn't Discord, it was Crisis!
Zekrom knew he could not have survived his attack. "Impossible."
Lock had her doubts as well, "Not even YOU could survive something like that, Crisis!"
Crisis looked as smug as ever. "Locke, I assure both you and Zekrom that I was killed by his attack, but you know why I am back."
Killdra rolled her eyes, "The Darkness, whoop-dee-doo, Zekrom will just fry you again."
"On the contrary." a glowing red orb floated up from the ground to the side of the Dark Earthling. "I am not one to accept tokens, but if that is what must be done to achieve my goal, then-"
Locke gasped, realizing what he had, "That's the Core of Space!" she shouted.
Crisis chuckled evilly and wrapped the girl up in tendrils, "Correct. The Darkness has promised me one Core for every time I die on the counts that I do not absorb a single soul."
"Because you steal all of the life and energy when one is absorbed, thus the Darkness can not revive and corrupt that someone." Zekrom had it all figured out.
"So that's your plan! You didn't care about Zekrom showing up because you knew he was going to kill you, and you want to gather the three Cores so you can transform again!" Locke said, straining against the force of Crisis' tendrils.
"Sooooo...why don't you just let Zekrom kill you two more times?" Tour Guide wondered, receiving glares from the heroes next to her for trying to give Crisis ideas.
"Because" the gray being dropped Locke and grabbed the Core of Space, "I am not about to bend to ones will." the Core shined radiantly and surrounded Tour Guide with thin red volts. She screamed in agony as her limbs jerked violently, breaking her bones. Zekrom flew at Crisis using Fusion Bolt, but Crisis was very alert. He quickly turned around and focused the power of the Core on the dragon, which not even the embodiment of Yin was immune to. Zekrom knew this meant trouble and had no choice but to revert to the form of the black stone he took before he was awakened.
"I think its time for me to reclaim my prize." Crisis chuckled sinisterly as he sunk into the ground, thrilled with his newfound power.
"Oh how much it hurts! Ohhhhh!" Tour Guide moaned, sprawled out on the ground.
Yoshi trotted over to her, holding an antidote that Maxwell had summoned. The dinosaur poured the medicine into the girls mouth, slowly but surely healing her up.
"This is terrible." Locke stated.
Molly agreed with the albino, "I know. Crisis was strong before but now he seems...unstoppable."
Anjren had a different outlook on this, "He certainly will be with THAT attitude!"
"Well what could we possibly do to beat him or get that Core?" Horton asked her.
"Not to mention our only hope is sealed away." Luigi added, carrying the black stone.
"Darlings, I'm sure we will find a way to stop Crisis." Vampire Lady assured.
"Yeah, and we still got Lumiere on our side!" Chowder exclaimed.
Rotom reminded the gang about working together, "Rotom rotom ro ro rotom tom tom ro ro rotom!"
"Just don't go and say anything about superpowers..." Knuckles mumbled.
Killdra had her mind somewhere else, "Ohhh, I get it now! After he said he doesn't bend to the will of others, he made that chicks bones break by bending them! That's...that's pretty clever, actually."
OOO
"So it looks like I have finally done enough good to get you involved." Lumiere taunted.
Tenebris wasn't pleased, "Just how did you get the legendary dragons involved? What are you trying to prove by bringing them here?"
"I brought them not only because they would be a huge help to the heroes, but also to remind you of who you once were."
"Your brother is gone."
"I believe that my brother is somewhere within you, just like I believe the heroes will save all worlds."
"Is that so?" Tenebris came out of the shadows, showing his true self. He had a very similar build to Crisis, complete with black tendrils instead of legs. His skin was dark red, his face looked purely Satanic, and he had a third hexagon-shaped eye in the middle of his chest, all of them with the same pupil as the heroes under his control.
"Look at you, you're a shadow of your former self, brother, a complete monster."
"Hm hm hm, a fitting appearance, Lumiere."
"It reminds me of another monster by the name of Crisis. Just what the hell did you do to him?"
"I simply revived him, Crisis needs no upgrades. I would even go as far as to say he would be the king of my pieces, much like the Chosen One is the king of yours."
"And those Cores he is after, do you really think they can undo my spell?" Lumiere sneered.
"Oh, Lumiere, you bring in two beings that we once had a close history with and now you think you know it all? You witnessed the power of that Core, so it should be no surprise that two more with that kind of power can undo your little spell."
"You sound rather cocky yourself. What happened to your little tantrum over me bringing Reshiram and Zekrom here?"
"You may have played your bishops, but as you can see, I removed them from the game."
"They'll be back. If you were still my brother, you would know that."
"But I'm no longer that person, just accept it. Besides, I know about that remnant, and I believe he isn't one to play nice."
"Not with me, nor with you."
"Yes, but he has more of an cold and cruel disposition, combine that with Scorch and the revived dragons, and you're in for another massacre."
"The only thing that is going to occur is the massive amount of dragons that will be slayed."
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*Citation Needed
And now I don't have to type in 'the girl in the crystal' anymore, hell yeah for a bunch of stuff being revealed about Lumiere and Tenebris! Speaking of names, I found an older dream in my dream journal where the general revealed his name. It was kind of a long wait for an update, but I'm pretty sure is still a ghost town...site, whatever, so its no skin off my bones.
If you are wondering what the hell is up with Daffy, look up 'Daffy Duck the Wizard' on Youtube, its freaking awesome. I couldn't decide if I should add Brain OR Scamper for the Igor representitive, so I just threw them both in. They work well together, anyway. The answer as to how Vampire Lady is alive before getting killed by Crystalline is a lot more simple than you will expect. I hope the scene with them (Crystalline belongs to St. Noof) didn't disturb you TOO much.