Mischievous Rat

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters. I only own Sun-Wong, Isaak, Himeno, Roger, Aqua, Mcenche, and Pepper.

Summary: The search for Sonic begins. Snake finds a clue that may lead to the thief and possibly Sonic. And what does Isaak want from the royal bodyguards?

Chapter 18: Mischievous Rat

Ike and Lucas stood in the middle of another fight between Ash and Pit. (Fox was on Ike's shoulder and Hoshi-Tsuki was hovering above Lucas.) It wasn't pretty when both sides were at each others throats. As soon as Pit told Ash that Sonic was missing, the Pokémon trainer instantly accused him of abandoning the blue hedgehog. Pit countered with Ash whining over the injuries Gary had for the whole hour they left him alone. It was a mess with accusation after accusation being bounced back and fourth.

"Should you do something now?" Lucas asked worried that the two teen Smashers would get into a fist fight soon.

"What can I do?" Ike asked in an uncaring voice, "It's their problem. Not mine."

"But isn't Sonic your son Ike?" Lucas asked in a curios tone.

Ike looked at the blonde like he was crazy, "What did you call Sonic?"

"Your son."

Ike felt like fainting. He did not just hear that. He calmly bent down to Luca's face length and explained.

"Now listen here Lucas. There are three things I want you to know. One: Sonic is NOT our son! How does a one human and one angel make a hedgehog? Two: Pit and I are NOT dating or even had the time to...never mind. Three: Pit is a guy and there is no such thing as male pregnancy!"

"But Red said-"

"So it was him…"

Ike walked in the middle of the fight and punched Ash down. The Pokémon trainer was enraged.

"Why did you that for?"

"You guys are wasting your time, and I appreciate it if you DIDN'T tell Lucas some stupid crap."

Ash avoided eye contact with the blue haired swordsmen. He didn't want to make him more mad but a sarcastic comment about him being on Pit's side came out.

"How dare-"

"Pit, is this the good time to be fighting?" Ike questioned the angel seriously as he turned his back on the Pokémon Trainer.

Pit shook his head, "No…it isn't."

"We only came to get these two to help us search for Sonic. Not to start another fight. If you're done then I suggest that we start looking."

Ike turned his back on the angel and walked forward with Lucas followed behind him. Pit sighed as he reluctantly helped the Pokémon Trainer. The two of them stared at each other but said nothing. The teen Smashers ended up looking away from each other and trailed behind Lucas not saying anything to each other.

Why am I so mad at Ash? Pit asked himself.

Why did I snap at Pit? Ash asked himself.

The answer was quite obvious to Ike and Lucas though. They fought about their friend's safety.

It's so dark…where am I?

Sonic tried to open his eyes and move his body, but he couldn't. He panicked. Was he dead? No. If he was dead, then he would be able to see what was happening around him as a spirit before going to Heaven. That left him with the theory that he was paralyzed.

He heard voices coming from two…no three people. He couldn't recognize them despite their voices sounding very familiar. It's not like his ears were clogged up, so why couldn't he figure out who they were?

The only words that Sonic could make out were "Stupid", "Capture", "Risk", "Find", "Pit", "Angel" and "Tenth". None of these words seemed to make since but Pit's name mentioned was the only thing where he could assume that Li captured him and was going to use him as a hostage…but he didn't see any black wings of the one his kidnapper, so it might have been something different all together.

Dammit, if I could reach my ring, then maybe Shahra could…

Is there something you need Master?

Since Sonic wasn't conscious, he was able to see Shahra who was behind him in his mind. He jumped back, "I told you to quit calling me 'Master'! It's Sonic!"

Sorry. Is there anything you need before you wake up?

The blue hedgehog nodded his head, "I need you to give a clue to Pit on where I am since I don't even no where this creep took me. I still think we're somewhere in the mansion, so I wish for you to give Pit a clue."

If that is what you wish. I will be back. Please try to hang on while I get help.

The genie disappeared from Sonic's mind leaving Sonic to pray that she would find Pit on time.

Shahra had no idea how she was going to give a clue to Pit if Sonic didn't know where his exact location was. She can only hope that she can trace back to her Master by his distinct aura that he gave off. It confused her why he had such an angelic aura compared to others. Even the hero in the Arabian Nights story didn't have a kind aura that came close to Sonic's.

The genie flew through the air searching for the angel. What caught her attention though was a little rat Pokémon. The rat seemed to be going in a room that belonged to someone named Donkey Kong. It came out with bananas in its mouth.

"Stealing isn't a good thing!" Shahra exclaimed expecting no one to hear her.

The little rat Pokémon had good ears and heard her. He quickly scurried off bumping into a certain mercenary.

"So you're the one stealing everyone's stuff," he said in a gruff tone.

The Pokémon took baby steps backwards. It proceeded to bail when Snake grabbed its tail.

"Must be the younger Pichu," he said, "At least I have some evidence to give to Pit."

The younger Pichu brother struggled to break free from Snake's grip but all was useless. Snake walked off in the other direction. Shahra decided to follow the mercenary since he seemed to know where Pit was.

Snake found Pit and the other Smashers after ten minutes. They were in quite of a rush though.

"Sonic's missing," Ash told him simply, "And you're in our way! Move it!"

"Red please…don't be rude…" Lucas mumbled.

The Pokémon Trainer glanced at the blonde and turned away.

"What's that you got in your hand?" Ike asked.

"A little rat that might lead us to where the missing items are," Snake answered as he held Pichu above his head, "This one tried to steal DK's banana's from his room when he wasn't around."

Pit's eyes widened, "So he must know where my alarm clock is!"

That was unexpected. So unexpected that everyone fell over anime style.

"You mean the Chaos Emeralds…right?" Ike asked being the first one to recover.

"That too! And my yellow tunic!"

"-sweatdrop- He doesn't seem to care about the Chaos Emeralds without Sonic around…" Fox mumbled.

Hoshi-Tsuki agreed by squeaking silently to Fox.

"Maybe," Snake said as he recovered from the statement, "But we have to get this rat to find where he stashed everything."

"I don't know…" Lucas mumbled, "It doesn't seem like Pichu would be able to carry all of those things without someone else' help."

"You have a point there," Fox said, "But who would be so evil to steal things that don't belong to them?"

"A rat's best friend," Ash joked. Nobody laughed.

Snake grinned as he turned Pichu toward him. The evil look on his face made Pichu shriek.

"You better cooperate or blood might be shed," Snake said in a threatening tone.

The method might have been harsh but at least the Pokémon was scared enough to give out Pokémon cries. Luckily Ash was able to understand the Pokémon. As Pichu let out little squeaks explaining what happened, Ash nodded his head in agreement.

"We have found our thieves…" Ash mumbled, "And it seems like Sonic is with him."

"Who is it?" Pit asked in a desperate tone.

Ash didn't get to answer because Marth came upon the scene and accidentally crashed into Ike. The two blue haired swordsmen fell over.

"What the-"

"Sorry! It's an emergency!" Marth said quickly.

Ike got off the ground and helped the prince up.

"What was so important that you didn't look where you were going?" Ike asked in an annoyed tone.

Marth's face wasn't as calm as he usually was. He seemed really worried and panicked.

"I left my room for a few minutes and when I came back, Roy was gone! I've been searching for him since!"

"I see…" Snake mumbled, "That adds to the missing Smasher list."

"What do you mean?" Pit asked.

"Beside Sonic that you mentioned, I gathered information from Lyn that Ganondorf, Link and Luigi are missing as well. With Roy, that adds a total of five Smashers."

"This isn't good…" Ike mumbled, "With so many of us disappearing…the number of us that can fight back are…"

Li…are you the reason behind this? Pit asked himself.

"We have to find them," Fox said simply.

Snake nodded his head.

Suddenly Peach came running through the hall. Being the blonde that she is, she tripped on her own feet and fell in front of the male Smashers. Ash got a nice view of Peach's panties. Pit had to slap him on the cheek to get him to stop staring at the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom.

"People are just coming one by one…" Ike said with a sigh.

Peach slowly got up and turned to the other Smashers with a worried look on her face, "Has anyone seen Jill?"

"No, why?" Pit asked as he punched Ash in the face to get that evil grin off of his face.

"I was with her a few minutes ago. When I looked away, she was gone."

"That makes six…" Snake mumbled.

Pit looked at the ground and clenched his fist in anger. At this rate, all the Smashers and assist trophies were going to disappear. He couldn't allow this to happen.

"Ash," Pit began, "Tell us what Pichu said."

Ash rubbed his cheek, mumbled a few curse words and said, "Follow me!"

Ash ran in front of all the Smashers. They all followed after him hoping that the Pokemon Trainer knew where he was going. Shahra watched from above and followed them. She really didn't help her Master out again. It pained her that he really didn't need her to get help. She gave him the hope of being rescued at that moment and being rescued would surely happen…but she wouldn't be the one who got the rescue crew.

As the crew followed Ash, one thought rang in Pit's head.

Sonic, be safe...

In Heaven, Isaak finally got all the bodyguards in the waiting room. It wasn't easy because Sun-Wong and Mcenche had a pit stop in the town of Angel Land just to get dumplings. Pepper's Chocobo Chobi was also running off and Pepper had to force him to come back. Even Himeno left for something and came back with a white book. She wouldn't explain where she got the book from.

"Is everyone here?" Isaak asked for the third time.

"Beside Pit who is in the Smash Brothers Mansion, everyone is here," Pepper said sarcastically.

Isaak frowned, "Couldn't you be a little nicer about the situation."

"How can I? I wanted to be in Brawl too!"

"You would have probably been assist trophy much less just regular trophy with no real meaning to game," Sun-Wong told her.

"Or yo could have gotten yo ass kicked if you actually became a Smasher," Roger said quickly.

"Shut up gangster! You know you wanted in too!"

"We should all try to become assist trophy at very least for next season," Sun-Wong told everyone.

"Iidesu ne…" Himeno mumbled.

Aqua nodded her head in agreement.

"Could we please start now?" Isaak questioned.

The royal bodyguards turned toward the yellow angel.

"So what's up?" Roger asked.

"Have you guys forgotten zat a certain day is coming soon?"

"No," Mcenche said quickly.

"-red vein- Nobody was asking you Old Man Prince."

Everyone else shook there head. They all forgot what day was coming. Isaak was disappointed in all of them especially Himeno who wasn't the type to forget days like this.

"Do I have to remind you guys?"

The royal bodyguards nodded their heads in union.

"Li-Li's birthday is coming up soon!"

There was a long pause before…

"WHAT?"

"I forgot all about Lived!" Pepper shouted.

"I was so into my studies, his birthday slipped mind!" Sun-Wong exclaimed.

"Duties made me forget!" Himeno yelled.

Aqua's face showed panic for forgetting Li's birthday. Mcenche's eyes widened but they quickly drooped as he sighed.

"I admit that I forgot…" he mumbled.

"I don't care about him," Roger said.

Roger's response was to be suspected. When he joined the royal bodyguards, Pit saw him as one of the royal bodyguards and only considered him as a replacement until Li came back one day. Isaak thought this too but took the time to befriend him. Pit didn't which resulted in a major distrust during their mission in LA. They managed to make a truce during the mission but Pit still didn't consider him 5th seat. When he and Isaak went on the mission to try and a find a way to bring Li back to life (which it didn't work) it was proof that he cared for Li more than Roger. To the black angel, it assumed that Pit only cared about the past 5th seat and told him to move on. Pit never spoke to him since.

"Minus Roger, I'm upset with you all! Li-Li was one of us too!"

Nobody said anything.

"So, I zink we should buy something for Li-Li for his birthday to prove zat we haven't completely forgotten about him."

"Yo buy the gifts for the dead?" Roger asked, "This isn't Mexico."

"And we never gave presents to him previously," Pepper added, "We usually just pray at his grave."

"We should do something different Pepper," Isaak told her, "If you were in his place, which would you prefer?"

"Presents that I could never use, but Lived isn't that type of person to accept presents," Pepper explained, "Remember that time when you gave him that bouquet of red roses and he just threw them down to earth saying he hated red roses?"

"Z-Zat was a mistake on my part!"

"And when you gave him ring," Sun-Wong added. He couldn't help but giggle as he continued speaking, "He opened Gates of Hell and threw it down there."

"He didn't like the color of the ring!"

"and when you gave him a condemn," Aqua started, "he nearly killed you."

Everyone except Isaak and Roger laughed remembering that scene very well.

Isaak fumed, "Zose were all mistakes in the past! I know what I'm going to get him now!"

"A bra?" Sun-Wong had to ask.

Everyone cracked up again.

"NO! You guys are jacked up! Why would I give him something he wouldn't use!"

There was a long pause.

"Because he's a guy," Pepper answered.

"You want him to use it?" Sun-Wong asked.

"DAMMIT!"

"I think we should be serious now," Himeno said calmly.

Isaak fluttered over to Himeno and hugged her pissing off Sun-Wong.

"Thank you princesse Himeno! You are so kind!"

"Get off of her," Sun-Wong warned.

The yellow angel backed off and continued.

"Anyway, I zink we should all get something for Li-Li this year. Any suggestions?"

"I was thinking," Himeno began, "That we could use that money that Pit sent us from his matches to buy cell phones not only him but all of us. These missions are getting harder and it would be easier to communicate if we had them."

"You're so thoughtful princesse Himeno," Isaak told her.

The other royal bodyguards thought of was clothes that Li might like. Mcenche began to sweat when they looked at him and then back at each other. Something told the crystal angel that he was going to be used as a doll for this.

Isaak knew what Li would like. The only question now was if they sold that thing down to earth. I'll make you happy zis year Li-Li.

Me: TBC with 4037 words.

Yohko: What now?

Me: Nothing much. I just got to think what I should by for Lived. You know, something Gothic. Notes!

1. This was a mission two years after Li's supposed death which is the mission after Aqua's. Pit and Roger were assigned to keep the streets of LA safe from gangs. The mission wasn't going well because Roger refused to cooperate with his captain. Since Roger is dark and Pit is light and both elements clashed, they ended up in another dimension with another mission assigned from the prince of the dark dimension Prince Pluto. So they had two missions and they only managed to complete them by working together at the very end. They call a truce when get back to Angel Land, but Pit still doesn't consider Roger a royal bodyguard if he can't even trust him.

Everyone's mission is different, but I think the ones that are important are Aqua's as she regains her voice in that mission, Roger to understand him better, Sun-Wong because we learn about the former captain before him, Pepper because she gets the Chocobo, and Isaak because he and Pit tried to bring Li back to life which it failed. Himeno's and Mcenche's mission isn't really important. Himeno's mission is basically about how she falls for a certain vice captain and Mcenche's mission is before SSE.

Well, I put a new poll on my profile guessing who Hoshi-Tsuki the bat is. He is REALLY important in the story and should not be overlooked, so start guessing now. He is one of the answers in my poll.

Oh! XXNobodyNinjaXX, if your reading this, I considered making only YOUR character one of the royal bodyguards later in the story. She'll play a bigger role than those others. This is just a thanks for drawing us royal bodyguards. Your white book is one of the references. Haruhi won't make an appearance until much later but she'll be mentioned four chapters from now. Ain't life grand?

So…please review…I got a few Brawl Rants but I'm mainly going to talk about Tales of Symphonia.

Yohko: Oh boy! If you don't want to hear her rant, stop now and review. Otherwise, continue.

In Brawl, I finally figured out how to replay the videos I did. I even got it with the computer. So far I got two videos. The question is, how I get it off my SD card and then post it on Youtube? Does anyone know?

I think in my previous rant I mentioned that I was making stages dedicated to the royal bodyguards. Well, I made Himeno's dream stage and Ike SUCKS at that stage. Seriously. I was playing Sonic, my partner was a LV 9 Ike and the computers were a LV 5 Toon Link and Ness. You would think Ike would help me since he's on that high level. Well, because I was playing Sonic (he NEVER helps me out when I'm Sonic) and the stage layout, HE SUCKED! In the middle of the stage is a wheel and Ike can't even stand on that wheel without falling to the bottom. It's sad really. This is the results of the time battle.

Sonic: 7

Ike: -7

Ness: -4

Toon Link: -3

Really sad. I did so well but because of Ike's bad score, we got a final score of 0. This is why I love Sonic's Final Smash in situations where your partner sucks. I think if I was playing Pit, then he would have done better. Man Ike, be nice to your son. (Chapter 15 joke.)

Another cool match was a LV 9 team match. It was Kirby and Wolf vs. Pikachu and Wario on a stage someone made called ARK. Kirby wasn't really helping Wolf unless he got Wario alone with a high percentage. It went to sudden death. Wario knocked Wolf off as soon as the battle began. Kirby was like doing the Matrix dodging both of their attacks and then did his forward Smash. It killed both of them and I was like, "GO KIRBY!" Kirby and Wolf won. I should have saved that match but it was 5 minutes.

That's the Brawl Rant, here's the Symphonia Rant which you people not understand. Spoilers now.

So in the game, you have to release all five seals and each time you do that the blonde girl Colette loses part of her human self in this order: the ability to eat, ability to sleep, ability to feel anything, her voice, and finally her heart. After her heart is gone though, you have to fight that angel who tricked the party. You kill him and then you have to fight a party member that betrays you because he's on the Cruxis side Kratos. Oh man! Fighting him was FUN even though I died. It was like "CLASH CHING BANG!" Swords were being used against each other and magic was all over the place. I was pissed off with the white mage Raine though because she took FOREVER to use the healing move that restores HP to the entire party and even long to use the spell that brought a person back to life. She was SO slow that Kratos killed her after my black mage Genus and ninja Sheena died. I have to keep stopping my attack to revive them…only for them to get killed again. I almost beat him too! I should have just ignored my party members and attacked him with my good ass combos. I was laughing so hard when I died that I was crying because I thought it was game over. I was wrong because it moved on to another scene and I had ANOTHER battle after that. I went on the FAQ to see if I could beat this boss. The FAQ just said, "Just let go of your controller and watch the slaughter. You can't defeat him." I continued laughing. As soon as I un paused the game, the third boss killed everybody in one hit because we had only 1 HP and I think he did well over 5000 damage in 1 hit. I might be exaggerating because my eyes were watery and I couldn't see how much damage I took. I hit him once, but it only did 1 damage. The scene continued. My stepsister thought I was crazy when I kept running up and down the stairs because of my humiliating defeat. That's why I love that game. Played it for 6 hours yesterday and got to the other world and Zelos and Presea joined the party while Kratos and Sheena are gone. Sheena will come back to us though.

Well that's it. I had fun yesterday and today, I'm going to fight Mcenche in Brawl and kick his ass. Wish me luck. Ja ne!