Here comes the big finish!

Chapter 3 and Epilogue

He saw all of the souls returning to the real world out from limbo to reclaim their lost bodies. He soul sealed the basement from the rest of the house making it harder for them to reach that area. He ran down to the laboratory where there was the most bodies and lit all of the flesh in the entire room. It didn't matter if it was a full body or just parts. If it was fleshy, the souls could repossess them and attack him. He ran to back up the steps to find what he wanted most to happen. Something else was also occurring while he watched. The voices of a hundred dead souls started screaming in his mind reminding him of who he is and what he has done. They warned him to repent or perish for eternity. They screamed out all at once just begging for him to repent or face the consequences for it was the only way for him to survive and them to be freed. He ignored them and spotted his dearest daughter Aya with those kids he met earlier. They were talking about something amongst themselves.

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"I know what we need to do to live among the living once again. We only have two options in order not to be banished to hell for eternity. We are attempting revenge and murder, which is a sin. Sin must be atoned for even if it is only tried and failed. Option one is to convince him to repent his sins in atonement for our existence or kill him to sacrifice the blood of our sins up to Him. If we fail both, there is nothing left for us to atone with and we will be lost." Aya explained.

"But what about me? I've died several times and always miraculously survived and have been brought from the dead." I asked.

"Simple really because something has giving part of itself for atonement of your death allowing you to reenter our world," Aya answered.

I started looking at all of the ghosts and fear shot down my spine. They were all turning to ash and disintegrating like a pile of dried up, dead, unwanted leaves. We all watched, as they started just falling apart screaming out in pain for without a body, they had no connection to this world and were being forced back into the limbo realm. I screamed out, "We have to get to the doll room and reclaim our bodies before he burns them too."

"I can see you and I can hear you and your plans now, you know." Alfred screamed out. "I'll just burn the doll room if that's what it takes to cure me of this insanity." He started fleeing towards the doll room, but we were faster and reached our bodies before he even got to the door. "Let's see you get out of this," as he locked the door after throwing a match at the highly flammable tinder pile in the corner of the room. The entire room was quickly ablaze. I had almost forgotten how it felt to be human knowing that heat that was generated and being able to feel. The others had also forgotten how having flesh was truly a limit. We looked all around seeing other dolls get up and run for the door, only to be burnt to a crisp and their souls to be forced back into the realm of limbo.

I called out, "There's no way out of this burning hole."

Aya and May said at once "We can crawl out the window and go around the building to enter the front door." So with that, we gathered cloth and shattered the window with burnt body parts. I then proceeded to go out the window first, only to be met with the wet goo that was once the ground. I helped bring everyone down as the flames rapidly spread to the front of the room. We walked around through the blinding rain until we finally stumbled around front again. The blaze was so hot that the ground around that portion of the house had dried up and cracked all to pieces. I noticed that the ground around it was crumbling and pushed Broc away from the wall as that entire portion of the house crumbled to red hot ashes and then the ground crumbled down into the water below taking all of the flames with it.

The front door was locked and we couldn't get in. I then realized and said, "I forgot about Pikachu the whole time!" He was still inside my backpack with enough of the zipper to open the bag from the inside. I screamed as loud as I could "Pikachu, come to the front room and break the glass windows." I hoped that he heard me. I prayed that he would hear me.

Aya said, "We only have until dawn to perform one of the tasks before we are sent back to limbo. Dawn is in thirty minutes."

OOOOO

"Pika?" Pikachu called out as it heard the voice of its master far away. It opened the bag with its tail and used iron tail to break down the door to the room he was in. He then proceeded to charge down the steps towards the windows. As he came inches from the glass, an odd man grabbed it by the tail and said, "Not so fast you little rodent." The figure held a chainsaw to its tail, threatening to cut it off. He heard his master say 'Thunder Shock' and he proceeded to shock the living crap out of the man who cussed and dropped him on the floor. He then used quick attack to bash through the glass of the front windows and into his master's warm living hands. It cooed in happiness for its master for it had no idea the hell that his friends had been through but did question the fancy clothing the others were all wearing. He sensed a strong sense of hatred and anger seething through his friends. It knew the whole time that coming to the house was a bad idea and tried to tell them about the small cabin slightly off in the woods. His owner just didn't listen and instead put him in the bag and told him to go ahead and rest up.

OOOOO

I went through the window first, throwing Pikachu and calling out "Thunder bolt". The electricity shocked through the doctor and he stumbled back. Then, the glass in the skylight busted as three figures dropped down through in a rain of glass and water. It was none other than Team Rocket. They attempted to start their motto but ran away when Alfred took out a chainsaw and hacked Meowth to pieces as he screamed out in terror. Aya ran away from the scene leaving only him and us. Broc charged him and grabbed his arms, holding the chainsaw in the air while Pikachu rammed his legs bringing the chainsaw down only an inch from Broc's shoulder. Jessie and James were still hysterical about Meowth and were freaking out in the corner. Aya came back out from around the corner swinging a miniature chainsaw around her head striking the doctors arm holding onto the larger chainsaw. He screamed out in pain as the rest of us tackled him and knocked the chainsaws away from the scene. We started to beat him up and held him up by his arms

"You can have a chance now to repent and allow us all to go back to living"

After that, he looked at us in complete anger. He looked at us like we were the ones at fall. He brought up a snarl before screaming out, "I have committed no sins. I have done nothing wrong for I have improved you all for the better. You are eternally beautiful even now as you live again."

Broc said, "What do you mean 'even now'?"

It then dawned on Max what he meant. "He means that we are mortal but because of what he's done. We will look like this even in death. The changes he made to our bodies will last until the day we die." Alfred looked at Max with satisfaction in knowing that at least somebody was starting to understand the good he has done for them all.

"You turned us into living dolls and mutilated us. You violated and mentally destroyed us from who we were to just make a boost of our appearance." Aya screamed out in rage. "That ends now! You won't be able to repent because we are going to outright kill you!" Like that, she punched him in the jaw so hard, it would have killed a man under normal circumstances. He only laughed hysterically as they dragged his nearly unconscious form down into the basement laboratory. The remaining Team Rocket members followed with the chainsaws. They realized that they finally had their chance to make off with Pikachu. They followed them very quietly with the chainsaw in James hands and mini chainsaw in Jessie's hands.

OOOOO

We all took turns chaining him up while he was unconscious. Aya decided to take it a step further and get revenge for the injured leg. She grabbed the butcher's knife used to kill Broc off of the instrument table and waited for him to regain consciousness. When he came to, he started squirming until we held him down. She proceeded to crudely saw off his leg. He screamed out in terror as it dug deep into his flesh, severing vessels and tendons. It cut through his leg muscles like butter. Unfortunately for him, his bones were too tough and we shattered them with a sledgehammer. We finished up and bandaged the wound so he wouldn't bleed out on us.

For some reason, I could only feel three emotions at the time. I first felt anger at the doctor for his evil deeds and then not admitting them. Second, I felt bitterness at Pikachu because he had no idea what I had been through and that he wasn't enjoying this nearly as much as the rest of us. Finally, I felt undying love and eternal loyalty towards May because I had this incredible need for her to need me and she was filling it right now. I knew why on the first and last because of the events that had already taken place.

I, and later to find out everyone else, was hearing the murmurs of the dead, asking us to finish the mess already. "Kill him, kill him and eat his heart," they said to me. "I want to make him suffer for a long time before we finished this insane, mess of a person," I answered to them. They stopped afterwards and I turned back to the doctor to tell him, "It's time to make you suffer and mix all of the little poisons you have together." He mumbled something but I ignored it as we started grabbing the poisons and a large syringe off the cabinet shelves. He tried to squirm again but just wasted his energy and nearly passed back out. I brought the thoroughly mixed liquid into the syringe and walked over to him.

"You have no idea what you're doing, do you? That concoction will kill me, but very slowly, shutting down each organ individually, leaving the heart, brain, and lungs for last."

"Perfect" I said as I jabbed it into the gut, searching for the aorta. He cringed and jolted like May and I did, but his were more frequent and painful looking. You see, after it killed off most organs, It sent such a major tremor and headache through the brain that it nearly split in two, held together only by a few nerves. The nerves were frayed and his mind rapidly regressed until it reached the stage of a five-year old, mumbling and spitting out nonsense as he looked fearfully around the room, knowing not what was happening anymore. His visions blurred and changed colors as the poison reached his lungs, filling them up with the poison. It was forcing him to breathe heavily, but where the oxygen entered the blood was completely blocked up with poison meaning that the oxygen couldn't enter and the waste couldn't leave. He started to hack up blood in an attempt to get more oxygen as his movements finally stilled.

"It's all over now." I said

"No, because now the house must burn for the souls to be freed from their prison." Aya said as she picked up a small box off of the ground and opened it to reveal a red switch.

"What's that?" Max asked.

"This was the last ditch plan by father in case the souls should overrun the house. He would burn the house to free them, and then he would start again." Like that, she flipped switch and started running from the house. We followed outside where the rain had completely stopped and the clouds were all gone. The sun had started to rise as the foundation was blown out from under the house. The house started collapsing and catching fire faster than the tinder covered doll room did. It burned and just crumbled under its own weakened state. We set up and camp and decided to sleep there and watch the house burn. The little crackling from the roof and chimney that crumbled into the top floor helped loll me to sleep.

OOOOO

Team Rocket had only stepped into the basement before getting lost because all of the voices in their heads giving them wrong directions. They were in a dark hallway when they heard a loud and close blast. They turned around and saw the roof collapsing behind them and tried to flee across the room. They got to a door that led outside, but it was locked. They turned around and screamed as the rubble came down on them.

Epilogue

I woke up a few hours later with May holding onto me. I looked around and saw Broc off getting berries to cook for breakfast. I also saw Aya trying to sneak away from camp. I walked up behind her and asked her, "Where are you going?"

"I don't want to be a burden on you guys so I was just going to leave."

"Why would you want to do that?"

"Because I'm not that important to anyone."

"Your important to me, and to Max as well. You have nowhere to really go off to anyway. You might as well just come with us."

"Really, you would want someone like me?"

"Of course," and with that, I picked her up and carried her back into the view of the not finished mansion. We watched the last piece of wood turn to ash and woke everybody up. May came over and we held each other while Broc sat in front of the cooking breakfast and watched. Max came over and stood next to Aya.

The house was nothing but smoldering ashes and still a bright light shot into the air from the center of the house. It shot high into the air and consumed the clouds it went through. The sun was back behind the house's remains making it even more serene. Hundreds of souls were shooting up through the bright light, creating a swirl around the pillar of light. Then we started hearing them whisper to us "Thank you so much for freeing us from that trap. We are eternally grateful. We will be with you forever in your heart and your mind." Etc. We looked up and saw two extra souls shooting for the skies. I took a closer look and then said, "It's Team Rocket!" They whispered into all of our ears, "It looks like Team Rockets blasting off for the last time! Ever…"

I turned back to May and said; "Now we can start anew. I'm going to settle down now that I'm pretty sure that I'm a Pokémon Master and go to a school somewhere."

"That sounds good. We'll all join you soon Ash Ketchum, some sooner than others." She then came over and kissed me on the lips for seemed like minutes and walked off.

This story is pretty much done, but I'm going to make a sequel that plays off of this story.