Clash of the Smashers

Chapter Forty-Five: Of Dreams and Madness

"You're accusing me of what?" Falco asked.

"Of kidnap and potential homicide" Slippy said, his squeaky high-pitched voice sounding uncharacteristically threatening, "I always knew you were bad, I just didn't know how bad."

"Why would you think that?" Falco demanded, "Why would I do that to Fox?"

"Slippy here seems to think that you're jealous of his fame and general betterness than you," Peppy said, his wheezing voice having an undertone of anger and strength that Falco hadn't heard for years.

"And…do you believe him?"
"There's a possibility."

"Whoa, whoa!" Diddy said stepping forward, a pretty brave move considering that Peppy and Slippy were still holding guns pointed at Falco…although a few of the other Smashers were surreptitiously reaching for their own weapons.

"Who's this Falco?" Slippy asked in a harsh voice, "One of your new friends?"

"Well, yes," Falco started to say before Slippy spat out a gob of rather large toad goo that landed at Diddy's feet.

"Hey!" Raichu said, stepping forward, before a bolt from Peppy's gun grazed past one of his large ears, stopping him.

"Don't move, rat," Peppy said.

"Fox is dead?" Falco asked, both trying to get a pretty serious question answered, and to divert any attention from his companions, who he figured were probably getting ready to open fire the second another shot was fired…and he wasn't too sure he'd try and stop them.

"You would know, wouldn't you?" Slippy said.

"How would I know? When did this happen?" Falco asked.

"Oh no you don't. Falco, we're not doing this on your terms," Peppy said, one of his furred hands inching towards his chest as he talked, "You're coming with us."
"Fine," Falco said, stepping forward, as did the others.

"No! Just you Falco!" Slippy said, gesturing with his pistol at the others.

"You think you can stop us?" Bario asked incredulously.

"Maybe not, but if you guys take one step closer I'm hitting this panel," Slippy said, pointing at a slightly sparking, poorly fixed panel right next to the door he and Peppy were standing at, "And you are all going to be breathing the nice coldness of space."
"You're bluffing," Samus said, although she said it without a lot of confidence.

"No, he's not," Falco said angrily, "I'll go, just don't hurt them."
"We'll get a confession out of you," Slippy said almost gleefully, moving aside enough to allow Falco to get past them, but as Slippy kept his eyes trained on Falco, Peppy kept his on the others.

After Falco walked past the two he found himself in a narrow hallway. Something bumped into him from behind, and spinning around he gasped in surprise.

"Just to make sure you don't escape, he'll be watching you," Slippy said, letting the robot R.O.B. through.

Before the Smashers could attempt to do anything heroic, R.O.B. slammed a button on the panel which slammed the door Slippy and Peppy were behind shut, separating the Smashers from their companion.

R.O.B. stared at them, his large eyes seeming to express sympathy at their plight, but the second Kirby stepped forward a brilliant laser beam shot from R.O.B.'s eyes, scorching the ground at Kirby's feet, and bouncing up, skimming past his head, leaving a shallow and painless burn that nevertheless made Kirby squeal in fright. The beam dissipated against the force field.

"This is not good," Bario said.

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"Move bird," Slippy said, prodding Falco along with the barrel of his pistol.

Falco sighed. If he wanted to, he could probably beat the crap out of both of these guys and get the others out of the hangar. The shots hurt, but they weren't very damaging…but if he beat them up he might not be able to find out what happened here. What happened to Fox…

Slippy kept poking Falco until they reached a small room, and after Slippy poked Fox into it he was about three pokes away from bashing the frog's face in, Fox's fate be damned.

Once they were in the room, Falco was roughly shoved into a small chair by Peppy. A small glaring light was on the ceiling, and while it made his anthropomorphic "friends" shrouded in shadow, the light shined in his eyes, forcing him to blink and squint.

"Where were approximately two days ago?" Peppy asked, his voice that of someone straining to remain calm.

"Uh...Kong Island?" Falco said.

"What you're not sure?" Slippy asked disbelievingly.

"Well we've been doing a lot, I don't remember where I was exactly…why? Is that when Fox-?" Falco started to say before a harsh laugh escaped Slippy's lips.

"Ah ha! So you know something happened to him then!"
"Well, you did say he was kidnapped-" Falco started to say.

"Silence!" Peppy said, "We're not in the mood for your sarcastic comments Falco. We want the truth, and we want it now!"
"The truth about what?" Falco demanded.

"What did you do with Fox?"
"What do you think I did?"
"Why you!" Slippy said, rearing a hand back, as if to slap the bird.

"Stop!" Peppy commanded.

"Why? This scumbag obviously killed Fox, he deserves to pay!"

"We don't know for sure!" Peppy said, "We might as well tell him what we know. At the very least we can make him fill in the blanks."

"Fine," Slippy said, clearly not happy.

"About two days ago," Peppy said to Falco, "We were heading to Corneria because Andross was attacking-"

"Well he's done now," Falco interrupted, "Corneria's been beaten."
"We know!" Slippy said, "Let him finish!"

"Anyways," Peppy said, a slight edge in his voice, "Slippy was fixing important machinery and I was giving out helpful advice to Fox-"

Falco snorted, knowing the likelihood of either of those scenarios was about zero, but a raised hand from Slippy prevented him from voicing that opinion.

"And Krystal was, well, being most undignified," Peppy said with a huff, "ROB 64 had been broken, so we had been reduced to using the older Rob model."
"I thought it was R.O.B…" Falco said.

"That takes too long to say. He's Rob," Slippy said, "Now stop interrupting and listen!"

"Fine!"
"There was a large internal explosion by the hangar. Fox left to investigate, locking down the control room…and never returned. It took us six hours to finally open the doors, and after we did we found the signs of a struggle, and my Arwing was destroyed."

"So Fox was gone?" Falco asked.

"Yes, and it's pretty obvious you did it!" Slippy said, "You had motive, you had means, and you had the opportunity!"

"What? Why would I want…how would I…when…what?" Falco asked.

"It's pretty obvious when you look back," Peppy said, "Clearly you were jealous of Fox for doing better than you at…well…everything. You got your friends there to help capture him, which is the only way you could have done it, since you couldn't beat him in a fight."
"Okay, not only do I disagree with all of that…but how would I have gotten back to this ship? My Arwing is here!"
"We haven't figured out how you managed to get here and back, although examination of security tapes reveal some kind of portal was opened," Slippy said.

"Portal?" Falco said, his first thought shooting to Bario, but…no. Impossible, he was with them at the time.

"You know something about portals?" Peppy asked, pouncing on the question like it was gold.

"Wait," Falco said, trying to turn the line of questioning away from the portal, "Since we have security cameras can't you check those to see who kidnapped Fox?"
"No!" Slippy said "And you know why, we don't have any in the hangar itself, just on the hull of the ship. The kidnapper stayed out of their view, and we glimpsed a portal near the hangar bay."

"Right…to cross-examine battles," Falco muttered.

"Exactly. Whoever kidnapped Fox had to know he was here, which you did, had to want him removed from the Star Fox team, which you do, and had to been able to do it, which I bet you are. You knew those cameras only showed the outside so you made sure to avoid their line of sight. You're going to be locked away for this…at best," Peppy told Falco.

"I don't believe this. Where's Krystal?" Falco asked, hoping to find someone slightly less insane.

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"How long do they expect us to wait here?" Link asked angrily.

"I don't know. That robot isn't moving," Samus answered.

Rob had indeed not moved from the spot by the door. He watched the Smashers closely, but despite the powerful laser beam earlier, he had not made any threatening motions or gestures. Link was thinking of leading an attack against the robot, when there was an odd sizzling noise. Rob turned slightly, cocking his head before nodding to himself and smacking the panel by the door…opening it.

"What?" Raichu said.

Rob didn't answer directly. He just rolled out of the room without even a glance back. The Smashers looked at each other for a moment before following him into the narrow hallway, weapons ready.

Rob moved quickly and the Smashers were hard-pressed to keep up as he made many turns. The Great Fox wasn't huge, but it was reasonably big. At every turn they expected to see Falco, or Peppy and Slippy but they didn't.

After thirty seconds of this half-following, half-chasing they caught up to Rob waiting outside a large metal hatch that was firmly closed. Rob reached up and tapped on it four times in a specific order. There was a brief pause, and then a light shuffling as if someone was walking towards the hatch. A series of faint beats could be heard, and then the hatch shot up. Before the others could look inside…someone stepped outside.

It was Krystal, and while her tight jumpsuit clung to her blue fur just as well as it did before, she looked tired and not quite as…foxy as she did before Fox got captured. Once she saw Rob had brought some people though she perked up and gave them an examining look. After a minute she stared at them suspiciously, and they stared back, a few eyes drifting down before shooting back up to her face.

"Who the hell are you supposed to be?" Five voices echoed.

Krystal, Link, Samus, Diddy and Raichu looked at each other for a minute before breaking out into nervous giggles at the somewhat amusing situation. Meta gave Kirby a confused shrug while Bario grinned slightly. Mario looked at them all before letting out a loud woohoo that snapped them back to earth.

"Sorry. I'm Krystal, a member of the Star Fox team," she said, looking over each of the Smashers again…and looking a little too long at Link.

"Sorry about that," Bario said, "We're the Smashers. I'm Bario, this is Link, Samus, Kirby, Mario, Raichu, Meta Knight, and Diddy. Falco was with us, but Peppy and Slippy grabbed him."

"Falco's here?" Krystal asked almost desperately, "And Peppy and Slippy have him?!"
"Yes," Diddy said, "What's going on?"
"Oh this is bad…those guys are insane."

"What? How?" Samus asked, having heard of them vaguely through Fox and Falco.

"Well, Slippy I think was always crazy, and Peppy got there with age…oh…oh…they are totally demented!" Krystal almost shouted, wringing her small hands frantically.

"What are they going to do to him?" Link asked.

"If what they've been talking about the last two days is true…they're going to kill him."

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"She's not available right now. The bitch locked us out of the bridge a day and a half ago," Peppy said angrily, the harsh word and tone causing Falco to flinch.

"Do you have anything to say in defense before we carry out your sentence?" Slippy asked.

"Carry out my…what? You haven't proven anything yet!" Falco yelled in disbelief.

"Nothing to say eh?" Peppy said, "Then we hereby sentence you to death."

"What? No! You can't do this!"
Falco started to get up, his hand reaching to his pistol, but a shot from Slippy's gun caught him in the chest, burning through the suit, the feathers and the top layer of skin. The force knocked him back, sending him toppling over the chair.

"What… is that?" Falco wheezed as Peppy stepped over and pointed his pistol at Falco's face.

"New type of gun. These lasers actually penetrate. Goodbye Falco."

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Krystal stared at the Smashers for a minute before sighing at them.

"Well come on! We gotta get him!"

Before the others could respond in any way she started running. The Smashers looked at each other for a minute before shrugging and following after her. Rob looked around for a minute before rolling into the bridge.

Krystal was faster than Rob, and her head start allowed her to slip ahead of the Smashers. They followed her along a slightly different route. They managed to close the gap a bit, and it helped that she paused briefly to look in some rooms, but she was always a few steps ahead of the rest.

She turned a corner and ran into a room, screaming something about insanity. There was a scuffling noise and the Smashers picked up the pace, screeching around the corner as Slippy ran out of a room and down the hallway.
Mario shot off a firebomb at him, but it missed, slamming into the wall.

"Mario, you, Kirby and Diddy go after him! The rest of you, with me," Bario said.

The three nodded and charged off. The sound of a scuffle continued, and a trio of shots could be heard. The door had closed after Slippy ran off, but as the remaining Smashers readied their weapons Bario slowly reached for the door.

"Oh come one," Link said, kicking it open and running in.

"Fine," Bario snapped, charging in after Link.

Inside Krystal was on the floor with Peppy while he tried to point his gun at her. There was a slight scorch mark on the side of her jumpsuit where Peppy tried to shoot her when she ran in, and there were a few on the wall where he missed. Falco was clambering to his feet, his left hand over his chest and his right reaching for his gun.

"Stop!" Samus said, as she and the others pointed their weapons at the rolling ball of fur and violence. Raichu started to crackle as he prepared to shock Peppy the second he separated from Krystal.

Krystal lost her focus for a second, having almost forgotten about the others and Peppy took advantage of that to grab her by her neck and hoist her up, his gun aimed at the side of her head. She gasped and tried to twist away, but Peppy pushed the barrel hard into her head and she stopped. He backed into a corner, twitching with both rage and anxiety.

"All of you back off or the fox gets it," Peppy said.

"We're not going to negotiate with you-" Bario said before Peppy jerked the gun towards him and fired off a snap shot, hitting him in the shoulder and knocking him into the wall of the small room, dropping one of his blades and forcing a slight hiss of pain out of the swordsman. Peppy moved the gun back towards Krystal before the others could respond.

"Do it!" Falco said, "He really will shoot her."
The others grumbled but started to lay their weapons on the ground, and Raichu released the electricity. Peppy grinned…and then frowned.

He let loose a pained gasp and his hand holding the gun jerked away from Krystal. She seized the opportunity and elbowed him in the stomach while spinning and grabbing the gun. She started to aim it at him, when she realized he wasn't resisting. He grabbed his chest…and then collapsed.

"What the?" Raichu said

Falco ran over to him, feeling his neck for a pulse.

"He's…dead," Falco said in disbelief.

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Slippy wasn't leading them anywhere; he was really trying to escape. Diddy realized this when several of Slippy's desperate shots came dangerously close. Mario actually had to jump over one, almost slamming his head into the low ceiling.
They managed to catch up to Slippy just as he ran into a small chamber and slammed the panel, causing a large metal hatch to slam down. There was a viewport and the three could see Slippy in there, laughing as they smacked on the door, unable to reach him.

Slippy wasn't laughing for long though. There was a faint scraping noise and Slippy's eyes bugged out as he stared at the other end of the chamber. Slowly, almost painfully so, the other end opened…into space.

As the vacuum reached in, stealing both air and Slippy's grip he desperately tried to grab onto something in the small area…but there was nothing to grab and he was sent plummeting through the still not fully opened hatch, his body smacking painfully into it and making a sickening cracking noise. There was little likelihood of his survival.

Confused, but not upset, Mario, Kirby and Diddy started to head back to where they separated from the others albeit at a slower pace.

When they got back they found them huddled around Peppy's body, looking surprisingly not surprised.

"What happened to him?" Diddy asked.

"We think it was a heart attack," Samus said, "Apparently this was too much excitement for the guy."

"What happened to Slippy?" Falco asked, "The toad ran out of here as soon as Krystal tackled Peppy.

"He uh…ran into a room…and got sucked into space," Diddy said.

"He ran into the airlock? What an idiot," Krystal said, "I bet Rob opened it up."
"Why would he do that?" Samus asked.

"Rob hated Slippy. Ever since Slippy destroyed Rob 64, he knew it was just a matter of time until he tried to fix him."

"So uh…what now?" Raichu asked.

"Well, we have some things we should probably talk about. Here, Falco, let me see you really quick," Bario said, moving his glowing hand from his healed wound.

"Huh? Oh, yeah," Falco said, remembering the minor wound he got. He moved towards Bario, and he began healing it.

"So…," Krystal said, looking at Link again, "What exactly brings you all here?" She started to sidle up to him, but Samus stepped in her path and answered quickly.

"We're trying to get out of this world and into the Smashing Realm."

"Oh," Krystal said, a bit of a pout forming on her lips, "He's taken."

"I'm what?" Link said.
"He's what?" Samus said at the same time.

"Sorry, didn't know. What about you?" Krystal asked Bario as he finished patching up Falco.

"What about me?"
"Oh come on…a big strong man like you…me," Krystal said, blinking at Bario while he stared blankly back.

"Krystal, back off," Falco said shortly, "You and Fox are still an item remember?"
"But he's not here now," she whined.

"Ugh…fine, Bario whatever you wanted to talk about, let's do it in the mess, I'm hungry," Falco said, heading out of the room while the others followed with varying degrees of excitement.

"There's a mess now?" Raichu asked as Krystal eagerly followed behind Bario.

"It's like a cafeteria Raichu," Diddy said, "Come on."
The last two to leave were Link and Samus.

"I didn't mean to-" Link said hurriedly.

"And I didn't mean to-" Samus said back.

"So we're not-"

"Of course-"

"Good."
"Good."

Somewhat relieved the two of them headed…although both felt there was something more to be said, but it was far to awkward to mention.

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Falco eagerly opened the door to the "cafeteria" of the ship. It was easily the largest room, and there was not only a large table, which was of course a shiny gray metal, like the rest of the ship, but all kinds of food, ranging from meat products to bread products.

The others started to slowly trickle in, and after seeing Falco grab a large roll of bread and several tubes of some kind of meat, they quickly followed his example, each grabbing something they could at least choke down and then sitting at the table.

Falco gobbled down the meat first, but his elbow bumped his roll away when he was putting the tube down. It ended up by Kirby who gleefully grabbed it after eating an old piece of cake that had somehow been lodged behind some large crates of fruit.

"Hands off my bread!" Falco yelled, grabbing it back from Kirby.

Kirby looked startled, but seeing Mario coming out of some pantries with pasta, he decided to get some more food. Mario cooked his, and anyone else's food with some low-power fire.

Bario ate some food, but he mainly watched the others, his attitude that of someone waiting for something. After the initial gorging slowed down, and several of the Smashers were starting to regret diving into their meals with such fervor, Bario stood up and cleared his throat.

"Alright…after we eat, I would suggest we go to sleep. It's been a while since our last rest, and I think it would serve us good, since I believe this will be the last time we'll get to do it until after we finish this thing."
The others nodded in agreement, which encouraged Bario enough to continue.

"So now that that is out of the way…what are we going to do?"
"We're going to beat Andross," Falco blurted out.

"Let's do it," Link said right after that, drawing the surprised attention of the others.

"But you have been opposed to wasting time with fighting these minor villains," Meta said.

"Yeah…well…look, as far as we know, Andross is the last individual guy left," Link said, "I mean Bowser, Mewtwo and Ganondorf are probably all in the Smashing Realm with Master Hand…and I just don't think it's right to leave Falco's home like this."
"Thanks…Link," Falco said.

"Anyone opposed to this?" Bario asked. Not surprisingly, no one said anything. "Okay then. We need an attack plan."

"Well, Andross is a big floating head in space, so all of your weapons won't do any good," Krystal said, breaking off her staring at Bario long enough to say something.

"Krystal!" Falco said.

"No, she's got a point," Samus said, "This is going to be a battle in space, so most of what we got will be useless."
"So what will we do then?" Diddy asked.

"Well, we have my Arwing," Falco said.

"The Great Fox has a lot of guns…if I let Rob pilot it, I could have a bunch of you help with the weapons," Krystal said, looking pointedly at Bario.

"Great," Bario said, completely missing her stare, "Is there anything else?"
"Yes," Samus said, "We can get my ship here."

"Oh yeah, that's still at Diddy's home!" Raichu said.

"Right. Bario, if you open a portal, I can get it to come here."

"Alright…I'll do that tonight. If there's nothing else, I would recommend we get to bed." Bario stated.

"I'll tell Rob to make sure everything around here works," Falco said.

The others nodded. Link started to say something, but as he opened his mouth he realized he didn't know what he had to say. The others started to follow Falco and Krystal as they led them to the various rooms.

With the absence of Fox, Peppy and Slippy there were several empty rooms, but several cots had to be dragged out of storage for all the Smashers, and a few had to double up. Samus, Link and Meta Knight found themselves in one room, Mario, Raichu and Diddy in another, and Kirby and Bario were both in the third one. Krystal and Falco both had their own rooms, but they had a lot to do, so it was several hours after the others fell asleep before they did.

A couple of the Smashers had trouble falling asleep, and several had things they wanted to talk about…but the presence of others in the rooms made it awkward, so they all eventually fell asleep.

In a pleasant village…

Raichu woke up. He was on a small mat. A quick panicked look around revealed him to be in some kind of small wooden house thing. An eerily familiar one…

He slowly walked out of the hut, noting the few personal possessions in it that he had thought gone forever. Once he was out he covered his eyes from the surprisingly bright and cheerful sun. After a moment he could see again, and what he saw made him freeze in shock.

It was a village. Several other Pokémon were running around, the majority Pichu's and Pikachu's, but there were a few Raichu's and even three pairs of Plusle's and Minuns were cheerfully shocking each other.

Huts, some larger than the one he came out of, some smaller were strewn around on a brilliant meadow that was only a few hundred feet away from a beach. A quick look revealed that this fertile land was actually a small island.
It was his home. His home…as of a few weeks ago…before Mewtwo came.

Stunned, and starting to feel a creeping sense of joy as the possibility…no, the reality began to hit him. He didn't know if he was given a second chance, or just dreamed everything and he didn't really care.

Raichu started looking around for his fiancée. She had no name, at least not in the sense that any other Pokémon has a name. Most of the ones that aren't adopted, captured, imprisoned or enslaved by humans usually just go by their standard species name, and the intonation of the species name lets others know who exactly was being spoken to or about.

He found her quickly, her thick lashes and curved tail drawing his eye to her female-ness immediately, and a quick look over her fur color proved it was her. Eagerly he started to run towards her, dropping to all fours in anticipation.

A thundering crash forced him to stop. Spinning around, needing to see, but knowing already what it would be, he saw a creature that seemed to be formed out of thin white lines and a blue mesh that created a six foot tall man-shaped body. It was pulverizing a hut.

A second, female shaped one appeared too…from a swirling portal. It immediately began destroying huts and attacking the denizens.

More started coming out of the portal, some wire-framed like these, and others made out of blocky squares with various shapes. The electrical attacks thrown at them by the Pokémon were ineffectual, and they were beaten back. And then…he came.

Mewtwo. He floated out of the portal like some kind of twisted deity, his cold gaze scanning over the village. A trio of Pikachu fired lightning bolts at one of the polygonal creatures, the combined attacks enough to destroy, while several of the wire frames beat a Raichu to death.

"Kill them all. Except for Pikachu and Pichu," Mewtwo said.

The creatures didn't seem to acknowledge his order, and as Mewtwo started to say something else Raichu ran towards his fiancée, who was cowering in the shadow of a hut.

"They're not here?" Mewtwo said, as if to himself, "But then…where would they be?"

Mewtwo started going through the village, occasionally using his psychic powers to fling aside Pokémon who were trying to escape past him, or blast apart huts in his way. A Pichu, a Plusle and Minun and two Raichu's tried to shoot down Mewtwo, but he casually deflected their attacks back and flung small beams of light at them. The beams hit and the Pokemon stared blankly for a second before twitching and jittering as their central nervous systems were temporarily disabled.

Mewtwo continued, pleased by how easily the minions granted to him by M.C. were defeating these Pokémon, but angry that the creatures he was supposed to capture were nowhere to be found. Determined to salvage something out of this failure he searched around and saw a pair of Raichu huddling by one of the standing huts.

Raichu saw Mewtwo turn towards them, and quivering in fear, but also with determination he stood up and between Mewtwo and his fiancée. Mewtwo chuckled at Raichu's show of defiance, and casually batted away his lightning bolt. A powerful psychic throw later and Raichu was in the rubble of a hut, while Mewtwo held his fiancée up telekinetically.

"No," Raichu managed to gasp out, not sure if he was more horrified by what was happening…or by what he knew would happen.

"Tell me where Pikachu and Pichu are," Mewtwo demanded of his fiancée.

"Why should I…tell…you?" she gasped, her voice becoming raspy as Mewtwo tightened his mental hold around her larynx.

"Because if you don't, you will die."
"And if I do…they will."

"You can't be sure of that."
"It's…obvious. You're…a…monster."

"Well, since you are clearly not willing to help," Mewtwo said, raising one of his wizened arms.

"NO!" Raichu said, jumping forward, "I'll tell you where they are! Don't hurt her!"

"You will? How…helpful," Mewtwo said.

"Don't Raichu! Not…for…me," she started to say, before she gasped and coughed.

"Silence! Tell me what I want to know!"

"Agh!" Raichu said, seeing his fiancée struggling, "Fine! They're on the mainland, near the mountains, training for the next tournament. I don't know anything else!"
"Are you sure?"
His fiancée started to struggle more desperately. Raichu was blind to the death and devastation around him, he only had eyes for her.

"Yes! Dear god yes! Please, let her go!"
"You're telling the truth…good," Mewtwo said, and with a casual flick he snapped her neck.

Raichu stared in horror as her body limply fell to the ground, his disbelief no less acute despite the fact he had already experienced this. He ran to her, but after a quick feel he knew she was dead again.

He turned towards Mewtwo, determined to continue the story that had already played out. He would attempt to attack, Mewtwo would casually block it, knock him away and leave, taking his minions with him. Knowing this, Raichu was still going to continue…until Mewtwo suddenly spun around, a look of fear flashing over his face.

Something was emerging from a second portal, and at first Raichu couldn't see what it was until it stepped away from the swirling dark purple vortex…the being was the same color.

It moved slowly towards them, occasionally shooting off spikes of purple energy that vaporized Pokémon and minion alike, ignoring any attempts by them to retaliate. As it crept closer the purple started to fade away near the bottom revealing black boots with a golden rim.
Raichu realized that the purple creature actually had some kind of energy field around it, a fact that was confirmed as more and more was revealed. It stopped ten feet away from Mewtwo, tentacles' occasionally emerging from it to pierce a creature, and its general shape was revealed. It was near six feet, maybe six three and it was clad in a black armor laced with gold trim, although its face was obscured in shadow.

"Stay back!" Mewtwo said, his voice quivering with fear.

The creature took a step forward and Mewtwo shot out a Shadow Ball at it. The ball wasn't even reflected…it was absorbed. Before Mewtwo could respond, the creature raised a dark gloved hand and shot off a stream of purple energy.

It flowed around Mewtwo. He frantically tried to escape, but his psychic powers were useless as the energy formed a translucent box around Mewtwo…that began to shrink.

Mewtwo screamed as it started to press down, and once the squelching started, Raichu looked away. In seconds it was over though, and he turned back to see the purple energy flowing back towards the being, and all trace of Mewtwo was gone.
Despite the being having killed the person Raichu hated more than anything, he knew it was not something to be grateful towards…and as it stepped towards Raichu he was sure it meant to do the same to him…but he found himself unable to move.

Its face was still impenetrable, although a pair of eyes with dark purple pupils gleamed menacingly in the shadow. Violet energy streamed along its back, forming a massive pair of dark and terrible wings that expanded outwards, blocking out the sun. As Raichu felt the thing reaching towards him, he heard but one horrible voice cry out one horrible thing.

"I AM KIDAR!"

Raichu woke up with a panicked scream…one that was echoed by two others.