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Poképowers: DexDefenders Unite
Chapter Three: Comics Galore
9-15-12
Giratina: Posco Does not and will never own Pokemon.
Arceus: And welcome back to Pokepowers: DexDefenders Unite! In this chapter, Gold and Pearl head to a comic book store to check out the brand new DD Comics.
Giratina: Again, boss…?
Arceus: This time it's in bold
Dialga: Bold makes no difference in the fact that it is still narrating.
Palkia: Yeah!
Giratina: Pal, you don't even understand a word Dialga said.
Palkia: Yeah.
Dialga: See, he knows he's stupid.
Arceus: This conversation is headed nowhere.
Somewhere in Fuchsia City…
Two boys, one blonde, one black-haired, stood in front of a rather small building. The building was short and there was a large green sign taking up the wall labeled "Comics Galore Store"
Gold and Pearl had been meaning to go to this store ever since they went to Kanto. Both of them were actually quite shocked that none of the other Dexholders liked comics. Gold and Pearl could actually be considered comic book nerds because they read so many of them. Of course some of their friends didn't know how many they actually owned at their individual houses.
So they had gone to this Comic Store in order to buy something rather special. It had already been a week since they discovered their powers. People had begun to know them by their superhero names, but they kept their real identities a secret. That's why they were so excited for the brand new and official DexDefenders Comic Book. People had started calling them the DD for short, so the book actually said "DD Adventures"
Gold and Pearl looked at each other as they excitedly ran into the shop. Inside, bright fluorescent lights hung from the ceiling while the floor was a reflective orange oak. Each shelf specialized in something different; some had comics, other collectable figurines. A big red sign caught their eyes. The sign said none other than DexDefenders.
The line was long. It reached the door with dozens of geeks holding their wallets and coupons, identical T-shirts adorning the many characters.
"This is so exciting!" One of the nerds said, snorting and pushing his glasses up, "I, like, love the DD!"
A greasy blonde looked at him, licking his braces, "Yeah, man; Water Woman is so hot."
Gold smiled at this opportunity. He tapped the fluffy red-head on the shoulder before asking, "Hey, I overheard your conversation and I must know, what'd you think of Electric Lad?"
"Electric Lad?" He echoed, obviously not sure on what to say, "He's not the greatest superhero ever; my favourite is SIG."
"Super…Ice…Gal…?" Gold frowned at this.
"Well surely you think The Living Flame's pretty cool!" Pearl cried.
The greasy blond answered, "He's not bad, but his outfit is really gay."
Pearl's smile faded, "…Gay? He wears a bunch of orange! How is that gay?"
Before they could answer, the line moved. By now, both the nerds had left, happy with their comics. Gold looked at the rather attractive employee.
"Why hello there…" He looked at her name tag, "…Rachael, how would you like to be the first official girlfriend of the one and only Gold?"
She looked at him confused, "Who are you?"
As the golden-eyed boy was about to reply, Pearl slapped his hand over his mouth, "We'd just like the first issue of the DexDefenders Comic, thank you very much. I apologize for my rather flirtatious friend."
She giggled, "It's no problem."
And so they bought it. The cover was smooth and shiny. It showed a picture of Captain Dragon (Red) in front, half of his body dragonized and the other half normal. Behind him was Miss Muscle (Sapphire) and Agent Intangible (Diamond). Everyone else was small in the back, doing their own thing.
The two of them sat on a park bench, reading the comic and constantly gasping at what they saw.
"Diamond…is and international spy?" Pearl questioned as he looked at the ghost-themed boys picture, "And he's forty-two?!"
"Sapphire and Red are dating!" Gold grinned as some of the images got inappropriate, but his face fell when he noticed something, "I will not accept this!"
"What?!" Pearl asked, curious as to why he was upset about Red and Sapphire.
"Electric Lad's name is Kelly Schumacher!" The black-haired boy frowned and bit his lip, "I do not want people calling me that?"
"They think you're a girl?"
"No, it's a unisex name,"
"…Oh," Pearl turned the page, "I'm Carl Rooney!"
Gold burst out into laughter, "Oh my Arceus! That has to be even dorkier than mine!"
The blonde felt anger surge through his body. First his best friend's character is better than his and then he has the name of a carnival fanatic. Unacceptable.
"I won't sit here and let these comic maker…dudes…ruin my reputation!" He shouted, looking down at Gold.
"You said it, buddy," Gold said as he stood up next to him, "Where the heck are we going to find these guys?"
"Duh, the old printing place in Saffron,"
Later that Day in Saffron City…
Gold couldn't actually believe they were going to confront a comic company. Of course he was excited but it wasn't every day you had two superheroes walk into your office and yell at. Yes, they were indeed dressed as they're powered counterparts. Gold sighed, "I still don't like the fact that I only have one glove."
"At least you don't have on oversized belt," Pearl groaned, trying to get more comfortable.
The old building was huge. It was still dusty and looked like nobody had used it for a long time. Suspiciously, it still had the out of business sign on the door. The walls were red and brick, while the door was a simple rotted wood, looking ready to collapse and any moment. The two wandered inside.
"Sheesh…" Gold muttered as he poked a cobweb on the wall, "Looks like no one's been here in years."
He took a step. The wooden floor let out a loud and cliché creak as he did so, causing him to jump in alarm. His eyes landed on a soft yellow light coming from one of the old dusty rooms.
"Pearl…I think I found something," He said, pointing to the door.
The duo's eyes furrowed. Something wasn't right there. The place was old and overused; it looked like it was abandoned. Only a single room had a light on while the rest of the place was dimmed and broken.
Gold and Pearl counted down from three, ready to kick the door open when they hit zero.
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0—Both their feet made contact with the old, out-of-shape wood, causing it to him the floor with a weak thud. Two men a woman were inside, hunched over a desk of papers and pens. The woman jumped and looked at them.
"Hmmm…" She murmured, her eyes glistening, "Looks like our work has paid off faster than we thought, boys."
"Your work?" Gold echoed, rather confused by this, "You're making terrible comics, in an old building that looks like Arceus took a dump on it, and you think your work had just 'paid off'?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Paige," She said, pointing to herself, "And this is my boyfriend, Blot, and his younger brother, Ink."
She pointed to the two boys next to her. One had short black hair and dark menacing eyes; his body large and muscular. The other had slightly longer brown hair and lighter brown eyes, but he was smaller and skinnier than his towering brother. Paige was blonde with sky blue eyes, her lipstick pink lips grinning.
"Come here, DD," Paige said, gesturing for the two of them too get closer, "Don't you just love our drawings?"
"Well yeah, their actually pretty good…" Pearl said, but quickly shook his head and frowned, "But why are you doing this here? Can't you get a big business building somewhere you can make a lot of money?"
"Actually, we only started these to get some of you here," She told them, grinning like your typical villain, "You see, someone hired us to take you in."
There was silence for a few second until a blast of ice came down from the ceiling. The two of them dodged it dramatically before Gold sighed as he said, "Now that was cliché."
A Jinx jumped down from the newly made hole in the ceiling, landing in between Gold and Pearl. It looked at them, then at its master.
"This Jinx was specially trained to fight against humans, your attacks are useless,"
Pearl cocked his head, "You do realize fire has the advantage over ice…right?"
The Jinx didn't even use a possible ice or psychic type move as it cleanly punched him across the face, knocking him to the wall. The building felt like it shook for a minute, but quickly stopped. Gold gasped at its strength. He quickly sent a bolt of electricity at it, but it jumped and kicked him in the head. Gold groaned as he hit the floor, sprawled out along an old red carpet. Suddenly, an idea came to mind.
The breeder grabbed the rug and pulled it, knocking to ice/psychic type off its feet, but it stood up again faster than he expected. Behind it, Pearl shot a wave a fire towards it, pushing it to the ground.
"Electrocute it!" He shouted as Gold crawled over to it, pressing his hand on its blond head.
Its body convulsed slightly before it fell limp to the ground. They stood up panting, scowling at the trio.
"I'll be back for the both of you, Electric Lad and TLF," Paige shouted, realizing she didn't have any more Pokémon, "I will find out who you are, I will find your friends, and I will find your family…and when I do I will have more than one Pokémon, yes, when I do, you will fucking pay!"
Ink looked at her, confused, "So, we going, mistress?"
She sighed, "Oh I just love it when you call me that…Blot! Carry me out of here!"
The burly man nodded and picked her up, holding her bridal style. They went through the old door, turning around once to look back before leaving. Gold and Pearl looked at each other.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Gold asked, grinning mischievously.
Later that Day at the House…
The DexDefenders faces turned sour as they look up from the horrid comic book Pearl and Gold had brought home from their rather long day. Inside were a bunch of bad pencil cartoon drawings of them, with sick arms and legs and deformed talk bubbles.
"Why was I asleep for a majority of the book?" Diamond asked, pointing to a picture of him sleeping on a giant donut.
"Sapphire and I don't have a 'thing' for each other!" Ruby cried, horrified by the choice of couples, "And why are Red and Yellow making out on the beach?"
Said teens blushed at the drawing, looking away from each other.
"Why are you named James Smith and Michael Johnson?" Silver questioned, "Are you sure nothing happened today?"
Gold and Pearl looked at each other and shrugged.
"Yup, today was a rather boring day," Gold grinned, high-fiving Pearl, "I don't think we should buy the next issue, though."
Arceus: I thought Posco promised that this chapter would be better!
Dialga: I know, right?
Palkia: Yeah!
Giratina: Well, Posco apologizes because she's been busy all week with homework and school and stuff. Now, she swears that the next chapter will be fantastic.
Palkia: Yeah!
Dialga: She also says that she is sorry for having you guys wait a week for each chapter, but that's how she wants it.
Palkia: Yeah!
Arceus: Read 'The Soft Side of Sapph' next Saturday!
Posco: Yeah, yeah! I'm so so so so sorry about this late update and horrible chapter! School's a pain and I'm up to my nose in homework! During lunch I ran home to grab my math because I forgot it, then the original 'Comics Galore' was accidentally deleted when my computer did an automatic restart so this was so last minute. I might replace this chapter with a better one when I get around to it. Anyway, next time Ruby finds Sapphire's secret journal under her bed. He reads it and discovers what she thinks about everyone. 'The Soft Side of Sapph' is specifically written for Sapphire's Birthday.
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