Chapter 13
Greyt Canyon
In addition to revived Scorch, our group of heroes now had to deal with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Volvagia, and Rayquaza!
"That dragon looks somewhat familiar." Peach said to herself, looking at Volvagia.
"They ALL look familiar to me." Britney stated, remembering Dragon Class long ago.
Temari smirked, she remembered them as well. "All we need is Palkia and we will have ourselves a little family reunion." Britney gasped at the mention of the Pokemons name. She knew he was revived by Arceus, but she still remembered his death clearly.
OOO
Molly, Kaiba, Brittney, and Machele watched in horror at the battle taking place. Orochimaru jumped off the snake and it wrapped itself around one of Parukias arms, all the way around his body, and was about to bite his head.
Brittney had tears in her eyes at the sight. Parukia tried to spread its fingers out to do something but they fell limp. He took one last look at Brittney, before being consticted to death, parts of its body started to crack.
OOO
Squall was ticked off, things were bad enough as they were. "Son of a bitch, not only can't we kill that demon, we have to kill these dragons!"
"As annoyingly irritable as you are, I agree with you." Zane said.
"I don't know if he's the pot or the kettle..." mumbled Pastel.
"Well we have no choice but to fight!" Samus surrounded herself in a ball of white electricity, and in an instant, she had her Power Suit back on.
"Then lets do this!" Sonic said eagerly.
"Looks like its UBERJULIA TIME!" in a flash of light, Julia was in blue and gray armor and wielding a large sword, her hair grew out and gained an orange tint as well.
"Your warrior form is seriously called UberJulia?!" Daxter said in disbelief.
"Yeah, problem, ferret?!" Julia snapped, pointing her sword at the Ottsel.
"You guys are so freakin' stupid." Britney mumbled. "Lets slay some dragons!" the girl exclaimed, taking out her spiked ball and chain. Scorch tucked in his wings and flung them outward, sending hundreds of black orbs into the air.
"Looks like I better do this now!" Duke threw a blue 12-sided die, a green bubble shield surrounded him the moment the die stopped rolling.
"THAT thing, man?" Jordan said to him as he turned into his Tiger form.
"What else did you expect?"
"Well its a nice throwback." Peach said.
"The dark, here in the dark. Would you, could you, dodge these in the dark?" said Sam I Am.
"We're gonna have to if we don't wanna get killed." Munch replied. Crypto backed away from the orbs by thrusting his jetpack in reverse. Dukes bubble shield absorbed the hit. Peach pulled out her parasol, which surprisingly protected her. Mewtwo blocked the projectiles with a barrier of psychic energy. Jak, with Daxter still on his shoulders, was flexible enough to avoid any nearby blasts. WALL-E went into his box form, which was also surprisingly durable. Munch countered the orbs around him by zapping them with an electric current from his sonar. Towelies and 9s very small mass provided enough protection. Stardust Dragon, Slifer, and Ristar had no problems flying out of range. Zane quickly summoned a Cyber Dragon, which coiled all around him for defense. Pastel drew up a diamond shield. Sam I Am brought out, and hid in, a large red crate, which again, was a surprisingly successful defense. Tayuya summoned her 3 ogres, who shielded her. Squall took all the hits, but healed himself fully in a sparkling pillar of white-purple light. Temari swung her fan, blowing away all the orbs around her.
Julia tried slashing them with her sword, but it did no good. "Son of a biiiiitch!" she screamed.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow." repeated Nario as he also took damage. Bryce used his manipulation powers on a nearby stone, forming a great defense. Sonic easily dodged them all with his speed. Britney froze the blasts solid with the liquid nitrogen from her weapon, as did Jordan using the freezing ability of his sword.
"Booooop!" three pink orbs spun around Jane, Uranus-style, protecting her with an invisible barrier. Similar to Zane, Renji used Zabimaru to coil around him for defense. Mark spun the pink dial on his Fakeifier belt, turning him into a green shoe, protecting him the same way as Towelie and 9. Glowmoss compressed himself into a tiny mass, then stretched himself back to normal from any blasts that disfigured him. Samus morphed into a ball, charged up in place, and got away safely with a long and quick dash. Sam turned into Voltic and protected himself with Bolt Shield. (Damn! And I thought the part in TISB where they were dodging Relics Ball Lightning was long-winded!)
Crypto put his hands onto the sides of his large head and closed his eyes, "Alright, get ready for this, humans, because I can only use this once; I'm going to freeze time, and you all give that demon thing everything you got."
Nario was confused, as usual. "Wait, wha-" A wave of energy expanded from the alien, and time stopped for everything, except the heroes.
"You heard him." Samus said, and fired a missile at Scorch, mixing it with the energy from her arm cannon to make it a Super Missile.
Mewtwo began throwing Shadow Balls at the demon, Voltic fired a Phase Beam, Mark took out a large ray gun, Renji extended Zabimaru and made the weapon coil around Scorchs'' neck, Jane held out her palms and fired white square-shaped beams, Jordan shot fireballs from his sword, Britney swung her liquid nitrogen-spraying ball and chain, Sonic spun in place for a moment and sent a blue fireball-shaped projectile at Scorch, Bryce flung the stones he had used for defense, Temari created a cyclone of razor wind with her fan, Squall cast another Thundaga, Tayuya sent out damaging pink soundwaves from her flute, Sam I Am snapped his fingers and sent a house crashing down upon Scorch from above, Pastel drew up a bazooka, the Cyber Dragon coiled around Zane fired a blue energy blast, Stardust Dragon breathed out a cyclone of wind, Munch fired an electric current, Jak used his Peacemaker again, and Slifer sent a red lightning-bolt crashing down upon Scorch just as time returned to normal. The demon landed flat on its back, not moving a muscle.
"Now if THAT didn't kill him, then he's unbeatable." Duke said.
"If that didn't kill him, then I'm just gonna fucking join the Darkness." Tayuya sneered.
"Well I don't think you'll have to worry about that!" exclaimed Ristar, pointing to Scorch with an outstretched arm, who was slowly dissolving into dark particles.
"That isn't a sure thing." Britney said, "The exact same thing happened before Crisis became Discord."
"Well Scorch is nowhere near Crisis' power level, its the Darkness that we have to worry about." Sam stated.
"And those." Nario added, pointing at the three dragons.
"ESPECIALLY those!" Jane exclaimed.
"Those dragons are nothing." a soft, yet sinister, voice spoke.
"Is that the Darkness?!" Daxter shouted, a tad frightened.
"Are you speaking of Tenebris?"
"Tenebris?" Pastel said.
"I'm not in alliance with Tenebris."
"So you're one of those scary guys who are actually good guys?" Towelie asked.
"Nor am I in alliance with Lumiere."
"So you work on your own accord." Bryce said.
"Some of you humans are rather intelligent. It almost makes me regret devouring you."
"Diiiiid heeeee juuuuuust saaaaaayyyyy deeeeevooooouuurrrr?" Glowmoss asked, looking around.
"Wait a second here...you EAT humans?!" Jane exclaimed.
"Precisely." the voice answered.
"Well isn't that a crying shame..." said Crypto sarcastically.
"I still murder those who aren't food. Observe." Suddenly, the air around Volvagia, Rayquaza, and Blue-Eyes became visibly cold, slowly forming into crystals, encasing them in icy prisons. If the temperature didn't already kill them, the shattering of their bodies upon contact with the ground certainly did.
"Wow, that was anti-climactic." Julia said.
"Why don't you come and face us up front?!" Samus taunted.
"As...you...WISH!" In an instant, the area around the heroes froze over, and a yellow-eyed grey dragon landed in front of them. Various parts of its body were frozen and it looked very asymmetrical and incomplete.
(vs. Kyurem starts to play in the background)
"Did a little kid knock you off the shelf on accident and tried gluing you back together?" Squall sneered.
"Do not taunt him. Thats Kyurem." Mewtwo said.
"So what's the deal with this Kyurem guy, then?" Sonic asked.
"Lumiere and Tenebris created a dragon to assist them in maintaining balance. However, they feared that a single being could not balance both Yin and Yang equally, so they split it apart into Zekrom and Reshiram. Their assumptions were correct, because the leftover Yang and Yin could not be split evenly between the two dragons, it manifested into me after lingering in the cosmos for thousands of years. However, I did not awaken fully until I crash-landed onto your little blue planet." Kyurem explained.
"And this turned you into a man-eating monster?" 9 asked.
"No. That is enough history for you all, however, because you're about to BE history!"
"Oh please, Slifer will wipe the floor with you." Temari gloated.
"Is that right?" Kyurem fired a beam of ice from his mouth, Slifer countered with a blast from his second mouth, which overpowered the Pokemons attack and knocked him on his side. Slifer let out a mighty roar and prepared to bring down a bolt of lightning, but vanished in a flash of black light.
"Whoa, what the heck happened to him?" Mark asked.
"Tenebris must have sent him to the farthest regions of this world." Kyurem said as he got back on his feet, "It looks like he underestimated the lot of you."
"Underestimate THIS, man!" Jordan said, and transformed into his Meteor Black Dragon form.
"A fire dragon against an ice dragon? Its pretty obvious who has the advantage here." Sonic said. Jordan roared, melting all of the ice in the surrounding area. A black bolt of lightning struck the ground in front of Kyurem, leaving a round white stone.
Mewtwo's eyes widened, "That's-!"
"Tenebris, you would use your own sisters dragon like that? That cockiness of yours will be your downfall." Kyurem said to himself, but he wasn't surprised, "Get ready, lava dragon, because I am going to fight fire with ice-fire!" Kyurem roared, an orange-blue cyclone of energy spun around him and absorbed the White Stone. Then, in a burst of cold air, the dragon had fused with Reshiram to become White Kyurem, a bulky horrific mish-mash of the two dragons.
"Ho. Lee. Crap!" Ristar shouted.
"This is terrible. In this state, Kyurem rivals Arceus himself in terms of strength." Mewtwo explained.
Jordan was still confident, "We'll see about that!" He roared, causing meteors to rain from the sky around Kyurem.
"You aren't the only one." Kyurem roared, creating comets that shattered Jordan's meteors and bombarded him.
"Was that Draco Meteor?" Mewtwo asked himself.
"Now to show you my true power!" Kyurem roared again, and Jordan became enveloped in icy-blue flames.
"AGGGGGHHHH! No way, man!" Jordan swung up his arms, causing a column of lava to erupt from underneath Kyurem. All the ice dragon did was chuckle darkly under the molten rock, and in an instant, the column froze solid. Still under the effect of Ice Burn, Jordan was out of stamina and reverted back to his normal self. Pastel quickly drew up a vase of magical water and doused the flames around the boy.
"You okay, Jordan?" Sonic asked.
The ice around Kyurem started to heat up and melt, "I'm afraid you have bigger problems at this time, MUCH bigger!" The instant it did, Kyurem opened up his mouth and a large ball of flame quickly built up in front of it.
"Okay, we're all officially dead." Jane said. Just when Kyurem was about to shoot the Fusion Flare, a large blue ball of electricity knocked him down and stopped the attack.
"What in the world was that?!" Duke exclaimed. The ball quickly dissipated, revealing none other than Zekrom.
"Zekrom, how did you find us?" asked Mewtwo, relieved, but not showing it.
"Lumiere sent me. You all must escape immediately, I can handle White Kyurem."
"Well lets get a move on, then." said Temari. Pastel drew up miniature dragons for those who couldn't fly or summon one, Julie and Britney summoned theirs, and Zane brought out Cyber End Dragon.
"I will NEVER allow my prey to escape!" Kyurem exclaimed, being held down by Zekrom.
"I am your opponent now, Kyurem! I shall free Reshiram from your control and destroy you!" boomed Zekrom.
"RAAAH!" Kyurem blasted a beam of ice in Zekrom's face, but the dragon of Yin countered by enveloping himself in yellow electricity and headbutting Kyurem, breaking off the icy parts of his face.
The dragon of Wuji noticed the heroes getting further and further away into the black clouds, "NO!" He slashed Zekrom across the neck using the blade-like wing on his left arm, weakening the black dragons grip on him enough to break free. Kyurem flew off in the direction of the heroes, but was grounded by a blast of energy in the shape of a Chinese dragon.
"What's this?!" the Pokemon shouted. In front of him was a white Chinese dragon with yellow eyes and scissor-like protrusion at the end of its tail, Knuckle, who was in his Con form. "Is this the work of Lumiere?!"
"Not at all." Knuckle said, "I found these brave heroes battling you, but then Zekrom there stepped in, so I stood back in case he needed assistance." Knuckle then put up his fists, "And he clearly does." He threw rapid punches, bombarding Kyurem with red ovals of energy, slowly knocking him back.
"I do not know who you are, but I thank you." Zekrom said.
"No need, I shall defend your honor, as well as the honor of those courageous heroes." Knuckle replied, still throwing punches.
"Yes, they really are something." Zekrom agreed, and got ready to use Fusion Bolt.
(the song ends)
OOO
"So do we have a plan here, or do we just keep flying forward?" Squall sneered.
"Would you rather go back and fight Kyurem?" Samus sneered right back.
"I suggest we touch down soon, however, we do not want to get ambushed." Bryce suggested.
"As if THATS something we haven't dealt with about 4 times!" Tayuya exclaimed.
"Just don't jinx it." Julia mumbled. Then, as if on cue, Rayquaza, Volvagia, and Blue-Eyes flew up in front of them, all controlled by Tenebris. Blue-Eyes was a dark shade of blue, Rayquaza was black, and Volvagia was cloaked in blue flames.
"HA! Look at that, she jinxed it." Jane said.
"Wait a minute. If Kyurem was the one who killed them, and he says he's neutral, why were they brought back by Tenebris?" Peach wondered.
Lumiere answered her question, "The remnant being a neutral party is precisely why my brother was able to revive them. To put it simply, if an unaligned being kills someone, whichever one of us gets to them first claims control of them. I was unable to revive those dragons because I had to focus my power on sending Zekrom to your location and then unsealing him. I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it, Lumiere, we can slay these guys." Sonic assured.
"They can't be any harder than Scorch." Tayuya added. As the heroes prepared their attack, the area around them began to change.
"What now?!" Sam said.
"My brother is terraforming this world! Be careful!"
In a few short moments, the area had become a maze-like large canyon with rock arches, narrow passageways, and tricky turns.
"Ohhhhh, this Tenebris guy isn't playin' around!" Towelie said.
"This ain't gonna be easy." Munch said when the three enemy dragons split up, taking 3 different passages.
"No problem, we'll easily find them by flying up!" Squall pointed to the sky and his dragon ascended, but crashed into an invisible barrier that kept them within the canyons confines.
"I was afraid there was something like that." Zane said.
"Looks like we don't have many options outside of splitting up to find them." Renji said. They took off, and there were enough passages for each hero to take a different one.
Jak and Daxter happened to spot Volvagia in the distance.
"I got you now, you flaming freak!" Jak's dragon sped up, gaining on Volvagia but also alerting him of their presence. Volvagia flew inside a small circular cave and poked his head out after a moment.
"You know, I could go ahead and blast you using my Morph Gun, but I think I'm going to do things a little different this time." Jak said with a smirk.
"Uhh...what do you mean by that?" Daxter asked worriedly.
"Lets just say you might wanna get on the dragon for this one."
"Oh no." Daxter was a bit nervous, but he did as he was told.
"Here we go!" Jak jumped off his dragon and became enveloped in a white light. After a moment, he was surrounded in a blue aura of Light Eco and had 6 transparent angel wings. He had transformed into Light Jak.
"Ooo, nice one." Daxter commented.
"Huuuaaah!" Jak dived at Volvagia's face, the dragon countered with a breath of fire, but Jak deflected the attack with a shield of light. He slammed into the dragons face, cracking the armor a little.
"Alright, crush his cranium, Jak!" cheered Daxter.
Jak continued ramming into Volvagia, finally breaking the armor that protected its face. The dragon roared and receded into the cave.
"You aren't getting away, you know." Jak took out his Morph Gun and it changed to a red shape similar to an RPG. He pulled the trigger and launched a grenade into the cave, Volvagia's roar of pain was a sign that it had hit.
"Yeah, you did it!"
"Don't be so sure, that thing could still be alive!" Julia said, arriving on her black dragon.
"Well if you want to make sure, then go ahead." Jak said as he turned back to normal and got on his dragon.
"Thanks, I will." Julia said with a scoff, "Spit in the hole!" Her dragon did as it was told, spewing acid into the cavern, but Volvagia wasn't heard.
"Told ya."
"I was just making sure you did it right, okay?!"
"'Doing it right'? Jak does stuff like this all the time, lady!" Daxter said.
"Don't mess with me, you little-" A loud roar from behind the group stopped Julia short. Their dragons turned around and Volvagia was before them, but free of Tenebris' control.
"I think we cured him." Jak said. Volvagia nodded and circled around the group.
"Well done, the both of you." A voice said from atop the cliff.
"What the-!?" Julia quickly spotted the source, it was Relic.
"Uhh, who are you?" Daxter asked.
"That's Relic." Bryce answered, joining them, along with Tayuya and Sam I Am.
"What can you tell us about him?" Jak asked.
"That we can't kill him."
"Why?!" Julia exclaimed.
"It is not our destiny to defeat him. However, we can still harm him."
"Good enough for me!" Tayuya said.
"Then try." Relic said calmly, beckoning with his metal claw.
OOO
Stardust Dragon, Samus, Munch, Peach, and Zane were in pursuit of Blue-Eyes, weaving over and under arches of rock.
"For something under the control of an evil deity, its quite cowardly." Zane pointed out.
"That just makes it easier for us." Samus said, shooting beams of ice at the dragon. Blue-Eyes faced the group and fired balls of lightning at them, but Cyber End Dragon, Stardust Dragon, and the dragons drawn up by Pastel were too swift. Cyber End Dragon counterattacked with a trio of blue beams from its three heads, hitting Blue-Eyes directly and crashing him into a rock arch.
"Sorry, Kaiba, but your dragon isn't so powerful these days." Zane taunted.
"Kaiba? You mean Seto Kaiba?" Peach asked.
"Who else?"
"I know him!"
"And? Anyone who is familiar with Duel Monsters knows him."
"I mean I know him personally. Mario and I found him by my castle a long time ago!"
"Do you know if that's his strongest dragon?" Munch asked.
"Sorry, I don't know about ANY of his dragons."
"Neither do I, but I can tell you that he is about to become three times stronger." Samus stated.
"Wait, do you mean he became Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?" Zane asked, a tad worried. Just then, Blue-Eyes flew up in front of the group, more menacing and with three heads.
"That can't be good." Munch said. Blue-Eyes reared back and fired 3 beams, so Cyber End Dragon did the same, but the organic dragons quickly overpowered the mechanical ones, destroying it and causing Zane to fall. Stardust Dragon quickly swooped down and caught Zane before he hit the ground. The outer heads of Blue-Eyes turned toward the cliff walls and fired their beams, creating rockslides on either side, which meant the heroes had to get closer together.
"This is gonna hurt!" Munch exclaimed as the middle head reared back.
"Maybe for HIM!" Samus fired a beam of ice from her arm cannon, but one of the side heads turned toward her and intercepted the beam with its own. Samus' dragon flew down and under a low rock arch in order to avoid Blue-Eyes' counterattack. The middle head fired its beam, which killed Peachs' dragon and causing her to fall. Stardust Dragon swept down again, but Blue Eyes caught up and tackled it into the cliff wall. As Peach fell closer to her death, Stardust Dragon faded into stardust and appeared as a twister of the spatial wonder under Peach, halting her momentum and allowing her to land safely. At that instant, Blue-Eyes swung its tail at the princess, knocking her into the wall.
"Hey dragon!" Zane shouted from behind it. The dragon whipped one of its heads around, then its entire self once it spotted the monster before it. It was a 6-headed bulky mechanical Orochi, Chimeratech Overdragon. Blue-Eyes spread out its wings, perhaps intending to escape, but Munchs' dragon came down and the Gabbit zapped it with a stream of volts from his sonar, preventing it from moving.
"I'm afraid its the end for you." Zane began, "Chimeratech Overdragon, attack!" The 6-headed dragon fired a black and orange beam from each head, hitting Blue-Eyes with each one, which ripped right through its body.
"You destroyed an organic being with a machine, allow me to do the same." someone said from behind the gang. Facing them was Metal Sonic and a blue man with intricately-designed butterfly wings.
"Who are you?" Peach asked.
"Metal Sonic, my accomplice here is Tabuu, the ruler of subspace."
"I don't recognize the robot, but Tabuu is a very dangerous enemy!" Samus warned.
"I do not recognize the naked blue man with butterfly wings, but Metal Sonic is a very dangerous target." a red bulky robot with the symbol for omega, which matched its name, on its shoulders said, joining Zane and the others.
"I think we have the firepower to beat them both." Zane said, looking at Chimeratech Overdragon and Blue-Eyes White Dragon, who was free from Tenebris' spell.
"Then come!" Tabuu said, folding his wings.
OOO
Duke, Sonic, Sam, Temari, and Jane had cornered Rayquaza into a large cavern-like area inside one of the cliffs, covered in stalagmites and stalactites.
"I've got a feeling this dragon led us in here on purpose." Duke said.
"It doesn't matter, we can take him on anywhere!" Sonic boasted.
"Not like we have much of a choice." Temari said, unfolding her fan.
"Right." Sam said, transforming into Voltic.
"Me first!" Jane exclaimed, and fired a white-blue beam from her mouth. Rayquaza looped its body, the beam passing right through the hoop, then counter-attacked with a blueish sparking projectile.
"Close your mouth, Jane!" Sam quickly said, which the girl did. He then jumped in front of her and used Bolt Shield, which blocked the Pokemons Dragon Pulse.
"You think she should do that more often?" Temari said with a smirk.
"Oh ha HA!" Jane said sarcastically.
"Focus, you guys." Duke said, tossing a red 12-sided die that turned his vest and pants an icy-blue the moment it stopped rolling. "Nice! The Ice Flower roll is just what we need!"
Rayquaza glanced at the boy and fired a powerful red beam from its mouth, which shook the cavern as it cut through the larger stalagmites and stalactites. Sonic sped over to Duke, grabbed him, and ran for cover just in time.
"This is bad. If things get too rough in here, then it'll cause a cave in!" Temari explained.
"So this dragon is willing to suicide just to kill us all?!" Jane exclaimed.
"Yes. After all, it isn't the dragon, its Tenebris, and I am sure he wouldn't care if he had to sacrifice one of his men if it means taking a few of us down." Sam added.
"Well then what are we doing still here?! Lets get on our dragons and book it!"
"We can't. The entrance is too long and narrow, we would be perfect targets for its attacks." Temari said.
"So the only way out is to beat this thing? Fine by me!" Sonic Spindashed in place for a moment, then jumped up, sending a blue fireball-shaped projectile at Rayquaza. Duke threw some blue fireballs, which were concealed by Sonics attack. Rayquaza fired another Dragon Pulse, but it was only enough to break through Sonics attack, Dukes fireballs hit it directly, freezing the spots they made contact with. The dragons guard was dropped from recoil, and Temari used this opening to throw her fan like a boomerang, creating a large gash in the dragons neck.
"Ooo! Me next!" Jane threw some large metal squares that looked like debris from a space station. These knocked Rayquaza down, and Sam ended it with a large Phase Beam that he had gathered energy for. As the shock made Rayquaza twitch and wriggle, it ended its life with a loud roar.
"I'm glad that's over!" Duke said with a sigh, his outfit returned to its normal colors.
"Nice teamwork, everyone!" Sonic said.
"I don't think we should celebrate just yet." Sam warned, hearing a rumble from above them that was getting louder.
"NOW can we book it?!" Jane exclaimed. Temari nodded, and the group ran out of the entrance to the cavern and hopped on their dragons that were waiting outside. However, they failed to realize that this Draco Meteor was fired from under Tenebris' control, thus the meteors were of phenomenal size. One of them collided into the cliffside near the group, scattering bits all over them that caused their dragons to spiral downward and out of control.
"I never thought it would end like this!" Jane shouted.
"How, by a giant meteor while riding a dragon?!" guessed Duke.
"No! With a so-called superhero, a talking hedgehog, a gal with a giant fan, and a gambler!"
Right before they hit the ground, Rayquaza swooped down and caught them with its elongated body, obviously no longer under the control of Tenebris. The slender Pokemon easily weaved through the meteors and rockslides, eventually getting out of harms way.
"That…was a close one!" Jane uttered, catching her breath.
"Thanks for saving us, Rayquaza. Now lets go find the others." Temari said.
"Oh I'm afraid you wont be going anywhere." a voice said from the cliffside above them. Rayquaza flew straight up and hovered above the opposite side. Before them was a sickly green furry humanoid and a skeletal sorcerer in tattered green cloth.
"Yeah? And just who are you guys?!" Duke said.
"I'm the Grinch and this here is the Lich."
Jane couldn't help but laugh. "What are ya gonna do, steal Christmas?!"
"I'm afraid you have me confused with another Grinch. I don't steal holidays, I steal dreams...by replacing them with your worst nightmares!"
"Riiiiight..."
"Allow me to demonstrate." the Grinch clapped twice, and behind him rose a monster made of green slime with giant flashing red eyes.
"You'll have to do better than blob monsters!" Sonic taunted.
"Is that so?" the Grinch clapped again, and in an instant, blue and red arms with three ghostly hands on each burst out of the ground, grabbed each of the heroes, and pinned them to the ground.
"Still skeptical?" the Grinch clapped a third time and large light-blue humanoids appeared and smacked down on the heroes, breaking their bones and nearly killing them. Rayquaza tried to fly, but the giants grabbed it from every segment, preventing it from even wriggling.
"I introduce the 6 of you to the Unhuman race!" the Grinch boasted.
"Allow ME to kill them." the Lich said.
"Oh, of course! Go right ahead!"
The Lich floated to the other side and cloaked his hands in gigantic green flame as he loomed over the group.
OOO
Meanwhile, Mewtwo, Jordan, Glowmoss, 9, Ristar, and Renji were flying through a large and long cavern.
"It sure would be nice if we could find a freaking dragon!" Renji said irritably.
A humanoid bird with blue hair and orange wings appeared in front of them in a blue swirl of light, facing them and flying backward. Soon joining him was a blue-haired girl dressed in white with two puffy green butterfly wings and wielding a large egg beater.
"What the heck are these things?" Ristar wondered, surprised at their odd appearance.
"We're demons, you stupid star!" the winged girl said.
"I'm afraid you aren't gonna get out of this cave without dealing with us!" the bird-like boy said.
"Lets reword that, WHO the heck are these things?" Jordan asked.
"I'm Palette." the girl said.
"My name is Tablet." the boy said.
"We don't have time for weird demons!" Renji shouted.
"Exaaaactlyyyy, weeeee arrrre loookiiing for draaaagooooons." added Glowmoss.
"Oh, if its a dragon you want..." Tablet was surrounded in a blue swirl of light and instantly became a white dragon with flat purple wings.
"Hmhmhm!" Palette changed shape the same way, now in a reptilian outfit with dragon wings and a dragon head replaced her left hand.
"I guess we have no other options, guys." 9 said.
"You guys aren't the only ones that can turn into dragons." Jordan hopped off his dragon and morphed into his Meteor Black Dragon form.
"This should not take long." Mewtwo stated, tossing a Shadow Ball at Palette.
"Ah ah ahh!" Palette teased, then shot a beam of fire from her dragon head, which went right through Mewtwo's attack, but Jordan got in front of the Pokemon and harmlessly absorbed the blow.
"A shield, huh? We'll have to fix that." Tablet flapped his wings, sending two sideways cyclones from them. Glowmoss quickly jumped in front of the group, stretched out his arms and legs to the walls of the cavern, then stretched his body out wide, creating a wall that held the twisters back.
"My my, I think this cave needs some cleaning up." Palette flew over to Glowmoss' face and blasted him at point-blank range with a fire beam, which made him retract and fall, but his dragon caught him.
"Glowmoss, are you alright?" 9 asked.
"IIIIIII've seeeeeeeen beeetterrrrrrr daaaaaaaaaaays." he replied.
"I can get up close and personal too, you know!" Ristar flew at Palette, looping around her fire beams, and hit her straight in the face.
"AGGGH! You bastard!" she screamed, falling to the cave floor.
"This dudes mine." Jordan flew in front of the star and swatted Tablet, but the demon quickly recovered and was back in front of Jordan.
"Not bad, dragon." he said, a yellow, blue, and red orb spinning around his body, "But how will you do against THIS?" The orbs flew forward, spinning faster and faster, leaving a trail of the matching color behind them. Jordan braced himself, but the attack collided into an invisible barrier of psychic energy.
"Pretty well, I'd say." Renji said, rising up on his dragon from behind Tablet.
"What?!" Tablet turned around, only to see the swordsman swing his sword down, which stretched out and embedded its points along Tablets back.
"Huah!" Renji pulled his sword back, scraping it through Tablet.
"AGGGGH! You bitch." Tablet said, meeting the same fate as Palette.
"It looks like we beat them just in time, there's the exit." 9 said.
"There may be someone waiting for us outside, so keep your guard." Renji said.
"Damn it, Tablet! What the hell now?!" Palette said in her normal human form.
"Relax, Palette, our job wasn't to kill them. We just had to keep them occupied enough so they wouldn't turn around. What they are about to find is far worse than us." Tablet explained, back to his normal human form as well.
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Meanwhile, Crypto was flying on his jetpack through a pass that was just big enough for him to slip through.
"Gee, you would think finding three dragons would be a helluva lot easier..." he grumbled to himself. Just then, a dark-purple spiked serpent burst out of one side of the cliff and into the other side.
"Was that a dragon?" the Furon wondered. The creature appeared once more, only sticking its spined thick head out of another opening it created.
"Well whatever the hell you are, I'm killing you!" Crypto pulled out his gun, and the dragon followed up by opening its mouth, revealing Dylan under Tenebris' spell.
"So ya got a human in your jaws, huh? Well that just makes killing you more fun!" Crypto's gun morphed into a red grenade launcher-like weapon, "Open wide!" The Furon held in the trigger to charge his Ion Detonator, but a voice shouted 'STOP!', which ruined his focus and sent the grenade bouncing down to the bottom of the chasm.
"Alright, who was the douchebag that threw off my aim?!"
"It was me." Flying up in front of him was an ill-looking girl with demon wings and scraggy black hair that went all the way down to the back of her knees.
"Holy hell, when was the last time you've seen a barber?!"
"My name is Keela." the girl said, ignoring the aliens sarcasm. "I'm on the side against Tenebris and I can handle both the boy and this serpent."
"Oh, you're implying that I'm the bad guy cuz I'm an alien. Yeah, that's cool, labeling..." Crypto muttered. "Look, I can handle the boy, this serpent, AND you!" The Furons gun morphed into what looked like a miniature satellite dish.
"Look whose labeling who. Just because I'm a demon, doesn't mean the bad things I do are toward those who don't deserve it." Keela said, materializing a sinister black scythe in her hands.
"Oh, look at that, an evil scythe. Yeah, it doesn't take an intelligent lifeform to know that you're- Actually, I can give you the benefit of the doubt for the hell of it. Go and take care of them, I'll see how this plays out."
Keela scoffed, and in a near instant, swung her scythe across Dylan's chest, rending his spirit and making him fall limp. The demon girl swooped down and caught the boy the moment the serpent vanished, and he woke up, back to himself.
"What the?! Keela?! Is that you?!" he exclaimed.
"You have any other friends with demon wings?" she indirectly answered with a smile.
"Alright, so I was wrong about you being evil, but lets get moving before we find someone who IS." Crypto said.
"Wait a second!" Dylan said to himself, looking over at Crypto.
"Do I have something on my face, human?!"
"YOU!" Dylan took out his Shock Bomb launcher and started firing at Crypto, but the alien disrupted their directions by shooting them with purple discs, his gun morphed into the Dislocator, a disk launcher.
"You trying to KILL me?! Human, I'd think again!" Crypto threatened, his gun morphing into the satellite dish-like weapon from before, the Meteor Strike.
"I'm siding with the alien for this one. He isn't evil, just full of himself." Keela explained.
"No! He's not! He is a freak! He-" Dylan stopped when he examined Crypto more closely, he wasn't the alien he thought he was. "Crap! I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else..." he said, his demeanor softening.
"I'm a freaking blueish alien in a white futuristic jumpsuit on a jetpack, I must look like SOOOO many other people!" Crypto said sarcastically.
"Well...you looked enough like ONE."
"Who?"
"I...I don't know his name...but he is really creepy and dangerous, despite the way he acts. He's here in this dimension, and he killed a whole bunch of us...then things just got worse and-"
"Hold on! Were his eyes white with black pupils instead of black with white pupils?"
"Yeah."
"Did he wear a black jumpsuit?"
"Yeah."
"Did he act ambiguously flamboyant?"
"Uhh...yes?"
"Wow. I didn't think I would hear from that freak again." Crypto said, sounding strangely calm.
"Who is this alien?" Keela asked.
"One dangerous extraterrestrial that you gotta take really freaking seriously."
"What do you know about him?" Dylan asked.
"Enough to give you some insight, human. Listen up, because I don't wanna talk about this freak-show any more than I have to!"
"We're all ears." Keela said.
"Then I'll tell ya all I know about Bluey."
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Meanwhile, Britney, Towelie, Squall, Nario, Mark, Pastel, and WALL-E were flying through a sea of clouds, the widening trench they were traveling seemed to disappear.
"Anybody think it would be a good time to turn around?" Pastel asked.
"Or at least change direction? We've been flying for like, HOURS!" Mark added.
"No, we can't turn back now." Britney said.
"Look, just because you own a dragon doesn't mean you're an expert!" Squall sneered.
"But she IS friends with one. He's the blue guy that controls time." Towelie said.
Nario nodded, "Yeah! And there was another one, too! It was the pink guy that controls space! How does that even work? Controlling space? Can he summon aliens or blow up planets? How does that even work? What does space have to do with time? How does-"
"Not that kind of space, you idiot! Space as in area! You should know, your head is full of it!" Squall shouted.
"Palkia, that dragon is Palkia." Britney said quietly, still reminded of her dear friends death every time he is brought up.
"Then, like, who is the blue one?" Mark asked.
"My minion." a sinister voice said.
"Ohhhh no, I'm hearin' voices!" Towelie said.
Britney gasped, "Minion?!"
"You aren't the only one." Pastel said, she and the others, besides WALL-E, were looking around. The robot was trembling, his widened eyes staring straight ahead.
"Maybe its Tenebris." Squall said.
"Wrong. Tenebris is omnipresent, but omnipresence is only threatening when it finally presents itself. WE, on the other hand, are right in front of you." the voice said.
"That means you're a ghost! Or invisible! Or an invisible ghost!" Nario shouted accusingly.
"My minion and I are both tangible and visible. Your robots reaction certainly confirms both."
The others looked at WALL-E, who had contracted into his box form, his eyes peeking out slightly.
"Do you see Dialga?!" Britney asked. WALL-E poked his head out enough to nod.
"Anyone else?" Pastel followed up. WALL-E nodded once more.
"Too bad he can't talk." Squall said half-sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Actions speak louder than words. Your robots vision is not blinded by thin temporal fields. Also, my minions power will make a far better showcase of horror than my voice." Black volts started shooting out of an unseen area right in front of the group, intensifying until finally opening up into a large black and gray portal.
"I don't think I wanna see what comes out of that hole!" Towelie said fearfully.
"Then you're in for a disappointment." From out of the portal came Dialga, only he was a much darker shade of blue, the diamond on his chest was glowing red, and his eyes were filled with destruction.
"D-Dialga?!" Britney exclaimed, shocked in more ways than one.
"Whose that on his head?" Nario wondered, pointing to what looked like an anthropomorphic hedgehog made of blue and black flame with red eyes.
"What ARE you two?!" Squall shouted. The portal closed as the being atop the temporal Pokemon chuckled evilly.
"My name is Mephelis, and this is Primal Dialga." Mephelis said as Dialga roared ferociously.
"Uhh, what does the Primal part even MEAN? And for that matter, how did you even get that thing in here?! This place doesn't allow time travel!" Mark protested.
"Tenebris is a fool." Mephelis began, knowing Tenebris was the one who made that limitation, "He may THINK time travel is impossible here, but there are just some things in this world that are out of your control. He may be the god of death, destruction, darkness, and evil, but not time. I come from an alternate timeline, which not even HE could be aware of, but as the god of time, Dialga could be. You see, in my timeline, time travel is a regular occurrence, and it was only a matter of waiting until something would go wrong. Dialga must keep all timelines in balance, even ones that no longer exist, and that gave me the perfect opportunity to infiltrate his dimension. At that point, Tenebris became aware of my existence and sealed Dialga in a special crystal, easily allowing me to corrupt him, turning him into Primal Dialga. Then, I used his power to travel to the timeline where we currently reside."
"We...we have to stop him!" Pastel exclaimed.
"Hahaha, are you aware what you are up against?"
"Of course we are! And if we manage to purify Dialga, then maybe we can get home!" Britney said.
"Then we look forward to annihilating each and every one of you."
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"Things are certainly getting interesting for both of our armies, wouldn't you say, Lumiere?" Tenebris taunted.
"Do not underestimate them!" Lumiere warned.
"Underestimate? Don't kid yourself! Especially the group with the girl who was chosen by the gods!"
"It will be one brave challenge, but they made it this far. Plus, when they beat Dialga, then things will start changing for the better."
Tenebris chuckled evilly. "'When'?! How naive! This Keela, on the other hand, is a very interesting individual."
"Because she is a demon from a world that is not so different from this one?"
"No. Because she is a demon from a world that is not so different from this one, yet fights in YOUR army."
"The Darkness really HAS consumed your mind, Tenebris. The world isn't as black and white as you think. My brother would be well aware of that, since he was the master of Reshiram!"
"Then you should know that he is long gone!"
"The Chosen One will bring him back!"
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Holy shit! Update! Update! Update! Its not as long as normal, but its been...SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS! Peach thinking Volvagia looks familiar is a reference to The Meeting of Many where she and the others fought him. Look at that, another TISB flashback that shows I have improved a helluva lot since then! Yeah, since Knuckle's Master form was never shown, I just gave him control over his Con form. If you wanna know whats up with the Grinch, look up 'Its Grinch Night'. Keela is klearly a dream character. Well, now you know the aliens name, folks! Oh, and to all the Sonic fans who are upset Mephelis is in the story: Get over it.