Chapter 2: Attack on Spirit World
A/N: Thank you for the reviews…both of you. I should point out, though, that I've already thought of all the characters I'm using for this fanfic before I even started writing it. That being said, I'm going to come out and say ahead of time that I didn't get the idea of making Yugi the Pokemon Trainer from a different fanfic.
Chapter 2: Attack on Spirit World
A short while later in the Spirit World, two more figures stand in Koenma's office. One of them was a woman with blue hair wrapped in a ponytail and wearing a pink kimono. She was Botan, the guide to the Spirit World. The other was an angry looking teenage boy with black hair and wearing a green Japanese school uniform. His name was Yusuke Urameshi, the appointed Spirit Detective of the Earth. He was being shown a replay of the events that occurred in the stadium.
"So let me get this straight," said Yusuke. "You're telling me that there was a battle between Goku and Kenshin, and you don't even tell me about it? What the hell, Koenma!"
"Yusuke, this is serious," Botan sighed.
"You're damn right it's serious! You know how long I've wanted to see that?" Yusuke complained.
"Look, Yusuke. You can bitch to me all you like AFTER we solve this crisis," Koenma proposed.
"You mean those ugly piles of crap and that blimp they came out of?" questioned Yusuke.
"Precisely," Koenma replied. "Your next assignment, Yusuke, is to…"
"Yeah, yeah, I get it," Yusuke interrupted. "I'm supposed to find and stop whoever's in control of that blimp, beat up any of those goons I come across, and prevent anymore of those Shadow Realm Bombs from going off, am I right?"
Koenma answers Yusuke with a nod as he digs in his desk for a remote control. As he finds it, he points it to the TV screen and clicks. The image changes to a radar.
"With this spiritual radar, we should be able to pinpoint the current location of the Kaiba Craft 3," Koenma explained.
A single dot blinks repeatedly on the screen, indicating the blimp's location. Koenma studies the screen carefully but suddenly jumps back in surprise.
"What? It can't be!"
"What is it, Koenma?" Botan asked worryingly as she looks at the screen. She too jumps in surprise.
Yusuke, however, was completely perplexed. "Okay, what is it that has you guys so damned spooked?" he demanded impatiently.
"According to the radar, the craft is currently HERE, as in here in the spirit world!" Koenma cleared up.
"But how exactly did it GET here?" Botan asked, completely baffled.
Yusuke, rather then question the strange turn of events, merely gives off a smug smirk. "At least I won't have far to walk," he reasoned.
A little while later, Yusuke stands on a patch of land suspended in midair and surrounded by clouds. In the distance, the Kaiba Craft 3 rises from the clouds.
"So that must be our mystery blimp," Yusuke stated to no one.
The Kaiba Craft 3 flies overhead Yusuke, dropping Masses as it goes by. The large blimp continues onward until it disappears from sight, but not before Yusuke flips it off. The Masses take form and surround Yusuke.
"So, which one of you jokers wants an ass-kicking first?" Yusuke boasted confidently. "Eeny, meeny, miny…ah, what the hell, let's just take out all of you in one go. SHOTGUN!!"
Yusuke fires blue blasts of spirit energy from his fist, obliterating all of the Masses in front of him. He turns around and does likewise to the ones behind him. More Masses appear in their place, but Yusuke manages to defeat them all.
Yusuke looks around the horizon and notices a trophy lying down on the clouds up ahead. On closer inspection, Yusuke realizes that it's Goku. With a tap on the stand, a revitalized Goku begins to stir.
"Ugh, what happened?" Goku moaned. The memory of himself getting knocked out of the stadium flashed in his mind. "Oh no! The bomb!"
"Yeah, about that. It kinda already went off," Yusuke informed him grimly.
"What! What about Chi-Chi and the others?" Goku wailed.
"I'll explain on the way. But for now…" Yusuke points in the direction of the Kaiba Craft 3, "…we have a blimp to catch."
Goku and Yusuke race off after the Kaiba Craft 3, running into more Masses on the way, this time, appearing in more varieties of forms. They are still no match for the duo; however, as they get blasted away from a combination of ki and reiki blasts.
The two heroes eventually reach the end of the cloud road they were traveling on, and the Kaiba Craft 3 is just ahead of them, getting away.
"Dammit! We can't go any further!" Yusuke protested.
"Actually, I can…" Goku started to say, but was interrupted by a passing spacecraft that soars over their heads, chasing after the Kaiba Craft 3. It was a fast red ship with a long pointy nose (as in the airplane kind of nose), outstretched wings and a long plasma cannon that stuck out in front mounted on the undercarriage. The ship's shape somewhat resembled that of a swordfish, which was probably why it was named the Swordfish II.
"Looks like we're not the only ones trying to pop that balloon," Yusuke figured.
Meanwhile, Sakura, still riding the Flying Nimbus with Kenshin, notices that they're being tailed.
"Um, Kenshin? The Kaiba Craft 3 is chasing us!" she informed him.
"Huh!?" Kenshin exclaimed as he looks back. Sure enough, the blimp is behind them, but a good distance away.
After thinking to himself for a few seconds Kenshin reassures Sakura, "Well, it is a blimp, and the Flying Nimbus is actually pretty fast, that it is. We should be able to outfly it."
But as soon as he says that, the Kaiba Craft 3, literally with the push of a button, transforms. The Kaiba Craft 3 now more closely resembled an airship than a blimp. (A/N: This is the form the Kaiba Craft 3 takes when it escapes from Virtual World, BTW)
And unfortunately for Sakura and Kenshin, the aircraft becomes much faster.
"You just had to say something, didn't you, Kenshin?" Sakura lamented.
The nose of the ship rams right into the back of the Flying Nimbus, but Kenshin and Sakura are able to jump from the cloud to the Duel Monsters dueling arena that sits atop the Kaiba Craft 3.
"At least we're aboard the ship now," Kenshin pointed out.
Before the duo can take ten steps, their attention is drawn to the airship opening fire on the Swordfish II, which caught up to the gargantuan jet. A dog fight ensures between the two aerial ships as the Swordfish II skillfully dodges all the Kaiba Craft's attacks. However, a crane extends from the Kaiba Craft and hits the smaller spaceship, heavily damaging it. It spirals out of the sky, falling right towards Kenshin and Sakura.
"Get down!" Kenshin warned as they both duck their heads.
The Swordfish II passes over them, missing their heads by mere inches, but the force of the bypassing ship is enough to blow them off the Kaiba Craft.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" Sakura screamed.
"HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!" Kenshin screamed.
A/N: What a predicament! Kenshin and Sakura fall to their doom! Or so it seems. What will Goku and Yusuke do now? And who was piloting the Swordfish II? Find out these answers and more on the next exciting chapter of the Shadow Realm Emissary!
Preview: On the next chapter of the Shadow Realm Emissary, another villain in league with the invaders sets a trap for two alchemists, one of whom "enlists" the help of a bounty hunter. Stay tuned.