Ignaryu
It was a good four hours more before the group actually arrived in Ignaryu. It was quite a sight to behold as well. The trees were deciduous, the sky was clear with few clouds, and the sun sparkled every time our group of heroes looked at it. Of course though, they were on a subway train headed from Twilight Town, but even as they gazed upon the world of Ignaryu, they could see about five hundred miles away were mountains (since this kind of subway system has its own supercomputer GPS.) in which it reminded Brock a lot of Kanto and his days with Ash and Misty a long time ago. He sighed a bit and then Sora walked up to him as he asked, "Something wrong Brock?" "It's nothing Sora. I guess it's just this place reminds me of home. It also reminds me of my travels with Ash and all sorts of people I met with him along the way. When I first met him he was an amateur trainer, but nowadays, he seems to be getting stronger and stronger." Inuyasha of course snoozing a bit on the seating just across to Brock and Sora's left said, "I wouldn't bother reminiscing there. It'll only make things more miserable for you. Heck I don't got Kagome or my groupies with me, but that's never stopped me before." Victor was staring out the subway windows at the time this was happening and couldn't believe his eyes at the sights of his new world that he was in. 'So much to see…so much to do. This takes me back a long way. I wish my old buds could have been with me for this.' Then Victor heard the commotion as Sora and Inuyasha were getting close to arguing and he then said, "Alright break it up you guys. I know this obviously isn't the way I wanted to start our little escapade, but we're going to make the most of all the good stuff we have. Inuyasha especially, you are a legend like me so that means you got to act like one from example. Can you do that for me at least?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes slightly, but sarcastically. Victor and Inuyasha went way back to when Victor was growing up in his early teens. So of course Inuyasha said, "Not a problem. So I got a question then?" Victor then said as he searched for Bart and Bridgett, but saw them snoozing in their private bunker rooms (I forgot to mention this subway is like a train and a hotel all rolled into one too. Kind of important for this scene), "Shoot." "Let's say we actually go and take part in this GoldConoton Tournament of this planet. What kind of rules are there anyhow? I haven't heard squat about it nor do I know anyone who has been in it." Brock took out his book on the tournament and said, "From this book I got it says there's only a few basic rules. First one is that you can't take any cheap shots on anybody, from charging to flicking their noses apparently. Second one is that only the challenger in battles against the GoldConoton Leaders can have quick intermissions. Also from what I've seen is that it's all kind of repetitive. The only other two rules there are from this book are 'always carry your own load if you're with a group' and 'you can't use any other beverages other than water, a cool soda, Coca Cola, and Dr. Pepper when travelling long distances'. I'm guessing that last one is a little farfetched, but hey I didn't write this."
Then a speaker on the subway train yelled out as our heroes, inside their own black shaded bunker room with Bart and Bridgett still asleep yelled out, "Attention all passengers, our next stop is Greinton Heights. I repeat, our next stop is Greinton Heights. If you're planning on travelling to the gym just beyond the little town here, you'll need to pack up really early. The ferry leaves at nine am sharp and won't arrive for another six hours after that. That is all." Bart then awoke from the ruckus and said groaning, "I was having such a nice sleep and then that loud speaker ruined everything. Besides, there's no way we'll get all of our stuff on that ferry." Victor then asked Bart, "What makes you say that?" Bart then pointed to the large acres and acres of suitcases that covered a quarter of their large 8x9 room and then thought, 'This could be a little more tricker than I thought.' Victor then snapped his fingers and then said, "I got it. All of you come here and take one of these." The entire group got up and took a tiny black watch each and Bridgett asked, "What are these supposed to do?" Then Victor said, "They look like ordinary watches, but are actually mini-shrink devices. Just one press of a button to the side and you can shrink your stuff and compact them into backpacks. Sora of course already has his stuff in a backpack, but of course that's why I brought our own as well. The red one's is Inuyasha's, blue one's for Bart, green one's for Bridgett, Brock's one is the brown, Sora has his orange one, and I get a yellow backpack." So as the group pressed their watches, they stuff shrank with ease and they managed to stuff their things quite neatly before zipping up and getting ready to go.
Suddenly though, there was a loud ringing bell going off inside the long red carpeted corridors of the tram-like subway train and the entire group rushed outside to see what it was. Inuyasha then asked carrying his pack on his left shoulder, "I wonder what's up?" Victor then responded, "Only one way to find out." They rushed through five 'cars' to find a giant round yellow robot holding the people near the front of the car hostage. The yellow robot then yelled, "If you know what's good for you all, you will do as I say. Otherwise there's gonna be trouble." Just as the group arrived on the scene, Bart then flung a rock at the giant metal piece of tin as it turned around and inside it was apparently Snakes from Springfield. Bart then asked, "Snakes? How in the heck did you get here?" "Ebay man. I got this mega hunk of metal for only twenty bucks and it works like a charm. Best part it is this baby has got way more tricks than your feeble little slingshot can carry." Bart then yelled to his highest voice, "Three words Snakes. Eat my shorts!!" Then Snakes glared at the boy and the entire group with anger as he said, "Well then maybe I'll just sell your shorts for a dollar a thread once I get rid of you and your buddies, hah hah!"
Then Snakes charged his robot across the room and trashed everything in sight, including a few yellow tables and chairs to the bar they there as well. Inuyasha took out his sword and said, "I can cut him down to size!!" Yet Brock held him back as he said, "You might want rethink that. There's about a million beings on this subway train alone and from what Victor's told me, your blast could take out half of it. We got to come up with something else." Brock then ran up and threw out his pokeballs bringing out Croagunk and Sudowoodo and ordered them to use poison jab and rock smash to try and weaken the robot, but Snakes smacked them about in all directions with his giant machine saying, "You fool, my new robot is made of pure steel and iron. Try all you like, but you'll never break through my brutish defenses." Sora then took out his keyblade and sliced a couple of holes in the robot's armour as he said, "Not so tough now are you?" "You little punk! You're gonna regret doing that to me." Snakes then tried using the robot's arms to smack Sora, but he repeatedly dodged move for move as Brock called back his pokemon to safety. Inuyasha then used his 'Iron Reverse Soul Stealer' attack which smacked Snakes' machine from behind, but he got smacked like Croagunk and Sudowoodo as Snakes then said, "You guys are like cockroaches. You never do know when to just give in. But I think I may have something to fix you." Snakes then pushed a red button on his machine and it sent out nets at everyone, including Bart and Victor looking for a weakspot on the machine. Victor though being quick witted as he was cut the netting and sliced everyone's trappings off them. "Got anymore tricks in that tin can?", Victor asked with confidence. Snakes then said, "Why yes as a matter of fact yes I do." The crook smiled sinisterly as he pressed a green button on the robot and it shot a repetitive amount of firing machine gun bullets right at the group. Bart then took out his slingshot and aimed for the arms of the robot since they were the ones creating the entire ruckus and shot two stones at the firing holes to short circuit the machine guns. Snakes then thought to himself, 'These kids are really starting to get on my nerves! Well if this doesn't fix them then nothing will. He pressed an orange button and created a huge amount of earthquakes and shook the entire subway train momentarily. Then Bridgett then asked as she transformed and held off the shaking of the robot's earthquakes with her special Mew Mew powers, "What do we do now?" Victor shrugged his shoulders in an attempt to look for the weakspot uninterrupted.
Snakes grabbed Bridgett and knocked Sora temporarily out cold as he said, "How 'bout nothing? You guys are clearly outmatched and I have a set of pure iron lead pointed at the guy with his eyes closed. Brock stood mighty still awaiting the blast, but Victor then asked Bart, "You mind if I use that slingshot of yours for a moment?" Bart just said, "Meh do what you like. I'm gonna make a prank call to someone. Snake's weak spot should be right at the center of the robot." Victor then asked shocked at Bart, "How'd you know that? You barely did any effort in helping us out." Bart shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just know a lot of the guys from Springfield and their tricks too. Like right now I would bet five bucks says Snakes is laughing at us right now." Sure enough Victor looked and Snakes was laughing and pointing at the group in utter dominance. Victor then said, "Okay you win. Do you have a couple more stones too?" He was handed the stones as Bart walked off. Victor then nodded as he fired a rock at Snake's machine and it collapsed to pieces and pieces, even as Inuyasha grabbed Bridgett and brought her back to the group. Snakes then said brushing off his ruined mechanical machine, "What a ripoff!! No wonder it was so cheap. You guys may have won now, but know this, we will meet again! Next time I'm gonna get an even bigger and better machine too. So hah hah!" Snakes then jumped outside of the subway just as Greinton Heights came into view. Bart of course on the phone called Moe who was saying, "Guys is there an 'Ollie Pu' here. Ollie Pu, Ollie Pu." Then the whole bar laughed as they always did when Bart made one of his pranks and Moe then yelled through the phone as Bart chuckled at his accomplishment, "I swear when I get my hands on you little ankle biter you'll be eating your food straw!!" Then he slammed the phone shut ending another good phone prank. Then as the group got off the subway train, they noticed that they were at a humungous red painted four star hotel (as seen on the welcome mat of the hotel) and soon enough Victor asked, "So how many would vote to stay here for the night and pick up our way in the morning?" Unanimously, the whole group voted yes to it as he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Hotel it is." The group then headed inside as the sun set near the mountain pass that lay five miles from the hotel with a wide open lake overlooking the west side of Greinton Heights in hopes of getting hot chocolate and relaxing until morning.
(There will likely be more stuff like this in that they'll stop by various towns, villages and all sorts of stuff while fighting each GoldConoton Leader before they actually make it to the tournament. On another note, like I did with Snakes in this chapter, there will be more appearances by many different characters as well so they'll likely face different bad guys from different series or shows, etc. More to come as I update.)
(Next Time: On Board the S.S. Mary.)