Fanfic #2
Versions Collide
A crossover... of a sort.
Location: ROTVGV Base, Pokemorphs Message Board
The first scene does not occur in the offshoot of the pokebattles
network known as Dark Version. In fact, it is in a place which is run by a completely
different set of rules - This world does not even have a Narrator, as ridiculous a concept
as that may seem.
However, the view lies upon a grand castle, with all the dark banners,
princess-holding towers and miscellaneous spiky bits that just screams 'evil overlord's
home'. The special effects guys are certainly not slacking off either - the lightning and
thunder shadow the castle in exactly the right ways to make it seem even more intimidating
and evil.
A brownish-red ghostlike creature zooms down through the sky, swirling
down upon the castle. Swooping through the open castle gates, it flies forward through the
labyrinthic passageways of the building.
Everywhere it goes, it seems like some degree of battling has taken
place. Bricks have been cracked and removed from the walls, large holes and scorch marks
can be seen on walls, ceiling and floor.
It looks into every door it comes across, and every doorway that
doesn't look like it will ever hold a door again. Exactly what it is searching for is
uncertain, but it seems determined to find it. It's gonna have to be, to find something in
this place.
As it floats through the corridors, the damage done to the passageways
seem to increase. A particularly large hole in one wall appears to lead to the dungeon of
this castle. The ghost-thing seems excited by this find, and spends some time hunting
through this area. Finding nothing but rubble, it continues to search the other corridors.
After finding a passage completely destroyed, it turns back and takes a
detour. Here and there, bodies seem to be strewn around, unconsious or worse. There are
some humans, but others are pokemon or some other strange creatures, some identifyable to
it, some it couldn't put a name to. It suddenly stops its search and is completely still,
and then after confirming its suspiscion, races forward.
A careful ear could sense the sound of battle, somewhere nearby...
As the creature swoops through corridor after corridor, it becomes
increasingly frustrated as it cannot find the way into the battleground. Stopping by a
wall, it listens carefully for a moment, before charging a ball of brown energy in its
hand and slamming it into the wall. As the wall crumbles into dust, it looks through the
hold in the wall.
The camera view zooms up to an aerial view of the entire room. This was
the battle it had been hearing for some time.
It hadn't expected it to be this big.
Throughout the general melee, it was hard to tell who
belonged to which team, and who was fighting who. Energy blasts flashed as magic countered
elemental attacks, blasts of fire and psychic energy, and various other attacks or
obstacles kept everyone on their feet. Recognisable figures included Bowser, who was
sending wave after wave of Goombas, Koopas, MagiKoopas, Hammer Bros and others at his
opponents; Giovanni, overruler of Team Rocket, commanding several TR agents and pokemon
alike into battle; Ganondorf, weilding dark magic and commanding his evil servants; Dark
Matter, who the author of this knows virtually nothing about and can therefore be safely
ignored; Several of the bad guys from Dragonball Z, causing problems here and there with
incredible speed and strength; King K. Rool, with his reptilian allies; The entire set of
evil Digimon; The Master Hand, slapping and thumping at any who came too near; And the
infamous mist shadow pokemon Missingno. Also hanging around nearby were the infamous
Pikachu Fanclub (Which, so it appears, nobody has ever heard of...) with hundreds of
Pikachu of all shapes and sizes, with many other cute pokemon hanging nearby. And last but
not least, Cranky Kong, who had joined the Dark Side and was well known for his power of
boring anyone to death...
On the other side, was firstly the trademarked opponents of many of the
above; Mario, Link, Kirby, the DK Clan, the Digidestined and some of the DBZ good guys
could be seen battling their respective opponents. Others included a Yoshi - coloured blue
to show its current alignment to water - as it fought off Bowser. Known as Pokefreak, the
blue Yoshi battled bravely, recieving little damage from Bowser's flamethrower attacks.
A huge Suikun - the legendary dog of water - fended off the Team Rocket
agents with the help of a Togepi and a Jolteon. A quartet of Mews, named Skippy,
BlackShadow, Waterlily and Myuu worked valiantly, helping link fight off the undead
minions of Ganondorf and the humanoid lizards of K. Rool. A strange, incredibly thin
reptilian-looking creature was having a load of fun tearing the Pikachu to shreds one by
one, while using it's speed to avoid many of the electric blasts. It was slowing down, and
the electric attacks were beginning to take their toll, but the mystery creature
conveniently named Enigma wasn't going down anytime soon.
A large humanoid/dragon creature apparently completely consisting of
fire hovered near the roof, back to back with a smaller, more humanoid creature composed
of shadow, each sending blasts of their respective element raining down upon their
opponenets with impressive accuracy. Missingno was beginning to close in on their
position, however, and the elemental beings called FireDrake and KB split up and went to
fight different battles.
An Oak-like man watched the destruction as he unleashed a massive blast
of energy from a high-tech weapon in his hands onto anything that got too close. A
rocket's Scyther jumped up behind him, intent on removing his head, and was rather shocked
when it was blasted away by the two machine guns wielded by a Wigglytuff. Known only as
the PokeProfessor and Double 0 Wiggly, these two didn't look like they were giving up, and
for that matter, they didn't look quite sane either - unleashing incredible firepower from
their guns and laughing loudly.
Vegeta and another Saiyan - suprisingly a female, known only as Saiyan
Devil Girl... - were both at super-saiyan and were fighting off four others - Androids 17
through 20, with the help of a shadowy being weilding a wicked-looking double-bladed sword
a la Darth Maul, called Mirager. He broke off suddenly, and used the technique he was
mainly named after, becoming three images and resuming the fight. Android 17 hit first one
empty image, and then another, making them vanish, before hitting the third and last...
and watching that vanish too? The true Mirager, hidden in cover of illusion, slashed it
visciously from above.
In the center of all the fighting, protected by a barrier whose origin
wasn't certain, Giovanni faced the leader of the opposing force, a human girl called
Rachel, or Rache01, in an all-out pokemon battle. Rache01's psychic pokemon and Giovanni's
ground and normal were fairly evenly matched, and neither was gaining ground - yet.
The self-proclaimed Message Board Heroes were doing what they did best
- battling Video Game Bad Guys.
The spirit-like being looked on in shock. The battleground appeared to
be many times the size of the castle that held it. A stray Hammer Bro attempted to attack
the strange being, but the hammer went straight through him, and the Bro was hit by a
blast of energy from the circling KB.
Bowser, Ganondorf and King K Rool suddenly stopped their attacks and
concentrated. The air around them shimmered, and various bosses from all their games
suddenly appeared and reinforced the failing minions. Pokefreak decided it was time to use
his trademark move.
"Look out!" He cried, as he hurled a large egg at a massed
bunch of bowser's troops. Upon contact with the ground, the Nitro Egg detonated,
incinerating the closest Goombas and throwing Koopas left right and center. FireDrake
dived into the center of the explosion as soon as the damage was done, and the fire was
sucked into it; Being composed completely of fire, FireDrake's main advantage was that it
could assimilate any other fire into itself, healing it and increasing its power. A
considerably larger and brighter FireDrake then proceeded to do battle with Recoome,
Burter and Jeice of the Ginyu force, its non-physical form making it hard for them to
damage it.
Mario was leaping from goomba head to Koopa shell, then charged, triple
jumped and landed a powerful flying kick to the Master hand, propelling it through a wall.
It swooped back in, to be hit by Metalgreymon's Giga Blaster attack, throwing it back
again. It decided to step back and recuperate, and created a small army of polygonal
copies of the fighters to battle.
KB was faring well against two DK64 bosses, the Armadillo and the
Dragonfly. (Yeah, so what, I don't own the game, I don't know what they're called.) They
were extremely gullible, hitting each other more often than KB. One of the Armadillo's
cannons had been torn off by a stray attack of unknown origin, and the other was firing
wildly at the tiny creature of shadow. Dodging left and right, KB weaved left and right, a
ball of black energy charging in one hand, before reaching the creature and slamming the
ball of energy into the cannon. It detonated, blowing the cannon to shreds and darkening
the metal side of the creature.
It looked at the empty spaces where its cannons had been, and the
little metal hatches closed. Another, much larger one opened on top, and (completely
defying the laws of physics) a cannon almost as large as the creature itself popped out,
firing a huge missile that started homing in on KB's position. Cursing, the shadow
elemental started swooping away from the explosive missile. It was just about to hit when
Zudamon slammed the Dragonfly with its hammer, right into the missile. When the smoke
cleared, there was no sign of either of them. Tiring of the battle with the huge metal
monster, KB streamed at it full speed.
"Shadow blade..." It hissed, and a black blade formed
in its hand. Hitting the monster full-on, there were two loud bangs as KB went straight
through the metal armour at the front, and out through the back, barely slowing down. The
hole was the least of the creatures worries, however - as the Shadow Blade attack
finished, the top half of the creature slowly slid off the bottom - it had been completely
cleaved in two. The smaller top half was immediately scooped up by Tien, who used it to
pound several Polygon Pokemon into the ground.
The four Mews were having a ball. K Rool's soldiers were far too slow
and clumsy to face their superior agility, not to mention avoiding the psychic blasts
issued from the psychic pokemon. Ganondorf's undead legions were faring a little better,
their mindless bodies less prone to the psychic attacks, but with Link swinging wildly
with his sword nearby, they didn't get much of a chance to come closer. The mews suddenly,
as one, joined into a circle and started spinning wildly, energy building rapidly, before
letting it loose in a huge beam of energy, slamming Dark Matter with an incredible blow
which knocked it into the melee in which Goku, Gohan and Piccolo were fighting Frieza,
Garlick Jr. and Garlick's three remaining Spice Boy minions. Pummeled to death within
seconds, simply by being in the middle of the fight, Dark Matter simply dissolved. See?
Told you it could be safely ignored.
Angemon and Angewomon were facing Missingno. The holy and light
attacks, to which Missingno was incredibly vulnerable, unleashed again and again without
mercy were rapidly draining the thing, but in a small gap it used its dreaded Glitch
attack and froze Angemon in stasis. It was about to do the same for Angewomon, when all of
a sudden a flying body of electricity slammed into it, burning straight through and
landing on the other side. The electricity dispersed on contact with the ground, and
Raizap powered up for a second assault. As Missingno recovered from the shock, a blast of
light slammed into it's side, from PokeProf's Flash Cannon. Almost directly after,
Togepi's metronome conveniently produced a Solarbeam. FireDrake chose this moment to throw
all three of the Ginyus he was fighting right into Missingno's back, or top, or the
general part of the black mist that was facing him. Finding itself weakened by all these
attacks, Missingno quickly absorbed the DBZ alien fighters to replenish its failing power,
and then set about defending itself from its many attackers.
Obviously, the fight was far too large and furious to describe for any
length of time. The above happened in less than about twenty seconds. After watching this
for several minutes more, the dark spirit began to begin doing what it had been sent here
to do. Gathering energy from itself, the battle's output of energy and its connection to
other dimentions, it began to glow with an impossible brownish-black light. Several of the
battlers were foolish enough to stop fighting to see what it was, and got smashed by their
less distracted opponents.
However, when it released the attack, they would notice... Right...
NOW!
It flew into the center of the battlefield and let loose. The scenery
seemed to melt away into a black void, and all but the most determined battlers stopped
fighting. A sphere of Darkness continued to grow until it had engulfed the entire castle,
and everyone found themselves floating on air. The sphere then began to shrink again as a
hole in space appeared in the centre of the sphere, and the strength of the resulting
vortex said everything in it was going to get sucked in.
Many of the weaker minions were sucked in without a thought. Those
incapable of flight were all sucked in easily too. The stronger flyers tried to escape,
but they couldn't penetrate the sphere. One by one, each remaining creature was sucked in,
as the void grew smaller and smaller and they were all pushed closer and closer to the
hole... then it simply vaporised, leaving the castle completely empty.
Two seconds later, it collapsed.
~-~-~-~
Location: Hammy's Fortress, Black Version
Hammy sat at a table surrounded by his most powerful
HACs. Well, actually he sat on the table, on a tiny Hampster-sized throne. He was
in a particularly bad mood, and with him being a powerful psychic there wasn't a single
creature within a mile that didn't know about it.
"Men, we have an emergency." He said. "Right in the
middle of our invasion of the network, our Webmaster has decided to give us up. Black
Version is being shut down."
There were shocked gasps. Many of the HACs started talking about what
this meant.
"It means that, quite frankly, Black Version is going to be gone.
Along with everyone in it. That means us."
"Gone?"
"All our work for nothing?"
"I don't believe it!"
"You'd better beleive it." Hammy snarled. "Has anyone
got a suggestion as to how we could get out of this?"
"Well, we're conquering five other versions... couldn't we move to
one of them?"
"We haven't gotten far enough in any of them yet..." Hammy
said angrily. "We'd need to have taken control of enough of the version to open a
portal from black again, and we haven't managed that in any of the versions yet."
"How much time have we got?" Asked one of the HACs nervously.
"How am I supposed to know? All I know is, we've got to find a way
to either get the Webmaster to keep writing... or leave Black Version."
"Err... I think I might have a way..." Said a tentative voice
across from Hammy. Everyone turned to look at the HAC in question - He'd been newly
promoted for the capture of a Narrator recently, and wasn't yet used to the power of being
in such a high council.
"We're listening..." Hammy growled.
"When I captured the Narrator, there was another with him... From
what we've overheard, he's a character from another version... Dark version, I
believe..."
"So? People from everywhere end up here eventually. Get to the
point."
"He said that there's a link between Dark and Black. It's easy to
get from one to the other, if you know how."
"Well done! Guards!" He called, and two heavy HACs opened the
door and saluted. "Bring me the prisoner that came in with the Narrator. Now, my
generals..."
"Yessir!"
"Gather our entire forces! We're moving! We're taking over Dark
Version!" Hammy shouted triumphantly, then laughed evilly. "And you!" He
called to the HAC who had suggested it. "You're the savior of our forces! And of me!
You get a promotion! You're now my personal advisor!"
The HACs kept moving, but there were a couple of muffled cries of pain
as they hurt themselves in their confusion. Since when had Hammy started acting nice? This
was starting to get weird...
"Sir..." An older Hac stepped forward, looking a little
annoyed. "I thought I was your advisor!"
"Did you dare question me?" Hammy glared up at the HAC, who
stepped back in fear.
"No, Hammy, I swear! I didn't... Aaargh!" The Hac screamed as
his body was torn apart by Hammy's psychic force. The others nodded, filing out even
faster. That was more like it.
"Now, get moving! I want our entire forces gathered within two
hours!"
With that, Hammy's evil laugh echoed over Black Version.
~-~-~-~
Universal Briefing Rooms
Location unknown
From the outside, the building would have looked
like a quiet, peaceful office block, painted peach and with a friendly sign posted on top.
Except this building didn't have an outside.
The staff of the building would have been friendly, cheerful, organised
people, no matter what the business they were dealing with was.
Except this building didn't have any staff.
This building was the home of the Universal Briefing Rooms. Places that
could hold unlimited people, didn't have any rules as to what went on or what was
organised, could be accessed from any dimention, any place, and had extremely compeditive
rates. Or would have, if they had any competition.
And above all, it offered complete privacy. Nobody would ever know what
happened in such a room. That's why you all have to keep really quiet for this bit, okay?
We don't want them to notice us...
Stepping up to the machine that would project his hologram into the
room filled with his agents, Giovanni checked his hair, straightened his tie, set the
machine to shadow his face and moved in.
"My brothers!" He called over the massed troops. "It is
time to take what is rightfully ours, is it not?"
"In the name of Kain!" They called back. Giovanni
accidentally punched himself in the gut. He took a closer look at the mob - high-tech
uniforms, complete with evil-looking helmets; several screens in the background showing a
repeated slogan - "Unity, Brotherhood, Peace" - and a red cut-corners triangle
symbol with a scorpion tail in the middle. Now that he looked closer, all of them had the
same symbol on their armour.
Someone tapped him on the shoulder. A completely bald man with a goatee
smiled charismatically. He noticed the red symbol again on this man's loose clothing.
"I'm sorry, I think this might be your crowd." Giovanni said,
looking slightly embarrassed.
"Thank you." Kain considered shooting the man where he stood
but refrained. Giovanni moved to the next one, checked it was his Rocket agents, and moved
in.
"Welcome, members of Team Rocket." He said, watching until
the last of the rockets stopped talking and figeting. "We have something to talk
about...
"As you know, we are the owners of Dark Version, a powerful
contender in the Pokebattles Network, which is a strong force in the pokemon world."
He said. There was a light cheer. "However, our Webmaster has set certain conditions
for our ownership. These are as follows.
"One - We shall not attempt to endanger the Webmaster or his
position in the network." There was some light muttering at this.
"Two - We shall protect the version in the event of a hostile
takeover crossover." This was said with a slight sneer which not a single Rocket
failed to pick up.
"And three - Should the Webmaster call upon us for a crossover of
his own, we will obey. As you know, we have recently secured a base in Ruby Version, which
is supplying us with weapons and technology. Now we have been called to take up arms
against the Webmaster's greatest enemy... The opposite of him in every way, the epitome of
good where he is evil, the yin and the yang... The eternal opponent of all Dark.
"Light Version."
Giovanni left a dramatic pause there, letting the many agents in the
effectively boundless room talk about this. After a minute, he raised his hand for
silence.
"Light Version should not be considered too much of an obstacle.
It is not known to have many characters; It has, indeed, never even reached the top 15
sites where we have stood at number one. But the Webmaster sees them as an enemy, and if
we conquer them, that is one more version under Rocket control, is it not? So, you have
one day to be ready. Tomorrow we march on Light Version."
The cheers that came up were deafening. Team Rocket would control the
network yet.
~-~-~-~
A field somewhere in Dark Version
A huge group of people - well, not really all people; Creatures,
Entities, Anthro animals, Video game characters, puffballs, the list could go on forever -
stood around in a field, completely confused and all fighting forgotten.
"This is not something you see everyday." Someone commented.
An actual sound was enough to bring everyone back to their senses suddenly, and they
quickly assembled into their respective sides. Of course, with the amount of people...
err... miscellaneous things that were actually there, it meant that quite a few ended up
on the wrong side, and there were mumbled apologies and pushing and shoving as they
rearranged themselves to find their team.
After about ten minutes, everyone seemed to be alright. Rachel stood at
the front of the MBH team, looking across at Giovanni, heading the other.
"You ready yet?"
"Yeah, let's get to it."
"Alright peoples! Angry scowls, threatening guestures on
three!" Rachel called over her lot.
"You heard her! Get ready!" Giovanni snarled back to his
team.
"One!" Cried Rachel.
"Two!" Cried Gio.
"Thr-"
COUNTDOWN was STOPPED!
Everyone fell over. This was quite
painful, as the smallest fell first, followed by the larger on top, and so on until the
huge digimon and other massive beings fell on top of everyone.
They all got up, brushed themselves off, and saw the narrator. Or would
have seen it, if it had a corporeal form... oh, you get the idea already.
"A Narrator... that means..." Rache worked this out. "Oh
god."
POKEBATTLES UNIVERSE! Mwahahaha!
Saiyan Devil Girl suddenly groaned, and seemed to fall down, faint.
"Not pokebattles..."
"Err... Which Version?" Said a figure in the middle of the
good guy's side. As one, everyone turned to look at him.
"Who're you?" Asked KB, speaking for everyone.
"I'm Pokefreak... oh no, I just remembered..." He looked down
at his human body, the salesman outfit, the tray of refreshments over his shoulders,
"Of course... anyone who goes into the pokebattles universe with an alter ego there
becomes that alter ego. I'm The Popcorn Man here..."
The Popcorn Man? Ha! The Webmaster's gonna love
this one!
Everyone took this
in. Several other figures could be seen to have changed - Sky Squirtle, Master of Sky
Version, had changed into SuperSquid; Double 0 Wiggly had become Iron Butterfly, Iron
Version's Webmaster; and other changes.
"Oh man... This is the worst thing that could have happened."
PMan moaned.
"What do you mean? Where are we?" Asked Firedrake, confused.
"It should be obvious to you, I would have thought." Pokef...
er, the Popcorn Man said, a little confused. "It's you, isn't it?"
"Huh?"
"What? I don't understand." Suikun said.
SUIKUN is con-
"Shut up." The Popcorn Man dismissed the Narrator. "Look
at the sky! Doesn't this place seem just a little familiar to you?" He pointed up at
the sky, which was a overbearing dark marone colour.
"It's... Dark Version?" Guessed Iron Butterfly
"What? Dark? No way..." FireDrake, with a powerful flap of
his dragon-like wings, pushed up into the sky. A quick scan of his surroundings told
him... exactly nothing.
"Ask the Narrator..." Suggested Mirager.
"Well, it certainly isn't Sky Version." SuperSquid said.
"Which is where I'm going. Sky Portal!"
SSQUID used SKYPORTAL!
SSQUID was transported to SKY!
SSQUID fell a VERY LONG WAY!
SSQUID is in INCREDIBLE PAIN!
Everyone sweatdropped. "Could you tell us where we are?"
Asked Suikun.
DARK VERSION!
Everyone immediately turned and glared at FireDrake, who backed off a
little.
"What? It's not me... I have no idea what's going on!"
"In case you've forgotten, you're the Webmaster of this
version." The Popcorn Man grated.
"Yeah, that's right..." Agreed Suikun, one of his more
avid... opponents, for want of a better word. "Why did you pull us here?"
"I swear... It had nothing to do with me..." FireDrake was
almost pleading now, backing off as the others advanced.
DARKWEBMASTER ordered it! The Narrator
supplied helpfully.
"See? You can't argue with the Narrator..."
"Excuse me..." Said a grating voice. Everyone turned to see
the entire opposing army, and the allies of the MB Heroes, looking at them confusedly.
"Are you-a gonna be mucha longer, or shoulda we just get on with
it ourselves?" Asked Mario.
"Um..." Rache thought for a minute. "Go ahead. We're not
stopping you."
"Right." The video-game characters and the Bad Guys leapt
into battle, causing a huge fight-cloud which obscured all sign of everything but the
biggest monsters. The MB guys turned back to FireDrake... or the burnt patch of grass
where he'd been a moment ago.
"Hey, he's getting away!" Shouted someone, as tradition
demanded.
"Gotten away, I think..."
KB streamed off after him, leaving a dark trail that quickly
disappated. A couple of the other faster flyers crouched, ready to follow, but at that
moment Link and Kirby came flying from the melee to land in the middle of them.
"Err... we could use some help, I think..."
The others sighed, and jumped into the fight. The Narrator looked on,
his expression unreadable due to lack of a face.
~-~-~-~
Hammy's Dungeons, Black Version
"Hey, you! Wake up!" An elderly guard-HAC
yelled into the cell. He got no response. "I told you to wake up! Get moving!"
He started rattling on the door, and yelled obscenely at the occupant of the cell.
Hammy waited patiently. Or, more with the impatient building anger that
seems like patience but could erupt at any moment into incredible violence. The effect of
this was somehow ruined by his psychic abilities transmitting his anger throughout the
room. The HAC rattling at the door finally sorted through the pockets of his baggy pants
until he found a ring of keys, and opened the door with one.
"Get up, Hammy wants you!" He snarled into the figure's face.
He didn't seem to notice that Hammy and his flunkies were moving further down the
corridor, the door had been locked, or that the skeleton he was yelling at had probably
been dead longer than he'd lived.
Trying to ignore the yelling from down the corridor, Hammy sighed.
"That old HAC... Someday I won't let him out of that cell... But he's useful to have
around even if he is blind as a bat and a little too enthusiastic."
"Why'd you lock him in there?" Asked the HAC who had captured
the Narrator and SUG.
"Because if he's out, he'll insist on being in the cell with us,
and interpret every single move made by our prisoner as an attempt to escape or harm me.
Including cowering in fear, cries for mercy, etc. But I keep him because... well, he's the
only one who would take the duty after what happened to the last one."
"What ha-" He was cut off as another, more experienced HAC
laid a hand on his shoulder and shook his head gently. There were things that were too
cruel and evil to comprehend, even for HACs.
So, finally, they came to the door. One of the HACs started to extend a
key into the lock, but before he was halfway there Hammy thrust out a paw and the door
disintergrated.
"Aaiiee! What do you want?" Some Unimportant Guy cowered.
"We want you to tell us how to get to your version." Hammy
said, grinning wickedly. Grinning wickedly is quite difficult when you are a hampster, but
Hammy pulled it off perfectly.
"Never." Everyone was taken aback by the sudden change of
tone - Cowering snivel to rock-hard determination.
"We have many ways to break you..." One HAC said, rubbing his
hands together in anticipation.
"Do not." Hammy said. "Right now... nothing could break
this mind. Except possibly..." Hammy grinned again, and a rather large block of
ceiling crashed down right onto SUG's leg.
"Damn... missed." Hammy's voice, though soft, could be heard
clearly over the poor guy's screams. "Let's go. He'll be killed when the version
collapses in on itself. Along with all the others that resisted me. Hahahah... after all
Double D and his friends did to try to stop me... they'll all be killed. With no way back.
Double D, even when killed, would have returned to Black a second time... except there
will be no Black Version! The irony is too good! Let's march!"
"But... aren'th you going tho exthract the informathion from the
prithoner?" Asked one flunky HAC, talking like that because of the massive uppercut
to the chin he'd just received from himself.
"Think, thtupid." Hammy said. "Thychic!" Then he
realised he'd been infected by the lisp, and exploded the HAC on the spot.
"Was that necessary, sir?" Asked Hammy's new personal
advisor.
"When one is as great as I..." Hammy said kindly, then jumped
on his shoulder and hissed into his ear "...Everything I do can be seen as necessary
to you."
"Yes... sir..."
"Good. Now, let's see if those troops are ready yet..."
~-~-~-~
Somewhere in Light Version
A moment ago, there had been nothing but a blank,
grey stone wall at the end of a passageway.
Now, there was a swirling dark vortex leading off into goodness-knows
where. Well, we know where it leads to, don't we?
Two black-coated Rockets, a male and a female, snuck out and looked
around for a moment before ducking back into the hole. Soon after, a large amount of TR
troops started marching into the corridor noisily, with Giovanni at their center.
With all this commotion, it wasn't long before someone walked up to
meet them. It was an average-looking human with brown hair, round glasses, and a green
jumper. The Rockets prepared themselves for battle.
"Howd'ly-ho, Neighboreenos!" He said in a friendly tone.
"The name's Flanders. What brings you here?"
Almost all of the Rockets hurt themselves, then huddled. They'd done
everything in their power to prepare for mass resistance, but nothing in their training
had taught them how to deal with a friendly welcome.
"These people are mad..."
"Maybe it's just him..."
"Yeah, good point."
Apparently having come to an agreement, the Rocket Hordes got back into
position. One of them pulled out a pokeball.
"Arcanine, go! Fire Blast!"
The huge flame attack contacted before Flanders could react, reducing
him to ash. The Rockets marched on; They didn't know how to deal with someone like Ned,
and so marched on to find someone who they could deal with.
~-~-~-~
Somewhere else
Err... is it just me or are these paragraphs getting shorter and shorter every time?
~-~-~-~
A cave in Dark Version
www.poke- hey, why do I even bother? You're here already...
KB slowly crept into the cave. FireDrake's path hadn't been hard to follow - he left practically a comet's trail against the dark sky, and when he landed, the burnt grass and rock left a trail a blind man could follow, although he'd probably go "Ah, oh, owch hothothot!" and try to get off it as soon as possible.
~-~-~-~
Portal field, Black Version
I'm not gonna bother writing the addies here from now on, so there.
Hammy triumphantly led his army into the field which his psychic
powers had extracted the location of from SUG's brain. Confusing? Don't worry about it.
Don't hurt yourselves, anyway.
So, as Hammy found the area, he laughed maniacally for the last time in
Black Version, before yelling.
"WEBMASTER, OPEN THE PORTAL!"
His psychic half gave the imperious command some impressive overtones
and echoes, and sure enough the marone portal spun open, about three metres in diameter.
Hammy snarled.
"Too small... It'll take ages to get our army through."
"Try asking the webmaster to make it bigger?" His advisor
suggested.
"Good idea... WEBMASTER, ENLARGE THE PORTAL!"
And the portal grew larger, now a good ten metres. Hammy repeated his
command again, and the portal grew even larger.
"And now, let us march!"
The clowns marched, one scout team to begin, followed by Hammy with his
Royal Hamster Guard, then the rest of the army.
They entered into a similar field, the swirling portal of jet black
behind them. The HACs spread out to take out any threats in the area. Hammy looked around.
"Yes, this will be the perfect spot for our base. Alright
everyone, get building."
"Building, sir?"
"Of course! We have a fortress to create. Just because we're not
in our home version anymore doesn't mean I can't have an impressive fortress!"
"Sir... we've found something!"
"What?"
"It appears to be a congregation of... professors."
Hammy started to reply, then stopped, every inch of his iron
self-control needed to prevent him from hurting himself in front of his troops. Steeling
his jaw, he said "Where are they?"
The HAC pointed. Now that it was pointed out, a strange village could
be seen in that direction.
"Well then... let's see what's happening over there..."
Soon after...
"So... You're the Oaks from every version that have been killed
off, lived in Black Version a while, and then moved to this... Dark Version?"
"Err... Yes..." Answered the other hesitantly.
Hammy and the Oak Mob Leader were having a pleasant interview, as one
high authority to another.
That is to say, Hammy had the Leader on a rack, stretching slowly and
with a HAC pointing a high-calibre weapon into each side.
"Do you have any information that would be of use to us on this
version?" Hammy asked, in a tone that indicated that saying 'no' would... not be a
good idea for someone who wished to live a long and healthy life.
Although few people who met Hammy led long and healthy lives.
"Well..." He scrabbled to think up an answer that didn't
contain the word no. "I don't have any information right now, but I can find
some..."
"Continue. It's not like you're going anywhere."
"We've been in Dark Version since battle thirteen and haven't been
mentioned once since. Do you think we've been doing nothing? We've got about as advanced a
technology as anywhere else you'd care to look, a healthy disrespect for the pokebattles
network, more pokemon knowledge than we could teach you in your lifetime..."
"I think these people would be useful as allies, sir."
Hammy's advisor advised.
"Allies... I think not. Servants, maybe, but not allies. Will you
serve me in my mission to take over the network, destroy all other versions, and do what
even the great Doompuff failed to do?"
Everyone in the room gasps. "Hammy... you don't mean to..."
"That's right... eliminate the entire population of Aqua
version!"
Everyone fell over.
"Oh... and kill the Almighty Webmaster."
"You're asking us to serve you?" Said the Oak Leader, the
slightest accent of a sneer almost being heard.
"You don't appear to have much choice in the matter, mind
you."
"We will." He bowed his head in
defeat.
"Then let us go outside and tell the others of our decision."
They stepped from the quiet meeting room into the hell that had been
raging on outside. Oaks and HACs were shooting each other with everything they had, and
both had some very interesting weapons indeed.
In the tradition of shootouts everywhere, the scenery had taken some
extremely heavy damage while very few casualities had been taken on either side.
"Now..." Hammy started, then realised that everyone was
simply continuing with their battle. A mass Disable attack stopped that.
"Stop your quabbling. We're friends now. We've got a version to
take ov-"
"Sir, there's something else over here... looks powerful..."
"Is it heading this way?"
"Yes..."
Very soon after (Hey, three in a row for black... lucky them...)
"That's them there."
Hammy looked at the three mysterious figures. In fact, they were very
mysterious. About as mysterious as any figure could get. Mysteriousity was built into
their very beings. You could feel it radiating off them, so powerfully that you felt that
even each of them didn't know who the other two were. They probably didn't know who they
were. It was so powerful that they probably didn't have someone to be.
The effect was even greater on Hammy, who was psychically subsceptable.
He actually had to shake himself to look at them and convince himself that they existed.
Then they noticed him.
After conferring breifly among themselves, they suddenly vanished in a
blinding flash of dark light, if that makes sense. Which it don't.
Not even Hammy's self control could stop him hitting himself this time.
But Hampster paws don't exactly hurt.
"Wow... they were strong..." The Oak Leader said, crouching
next to him. "They could have wiped out our entire community by clicking their
fingers..."
"How do you know?" Hammy snarled, more annoyed that he might
be hinting that they were stronger than him than actually curious. He noticed a strange
device on the Oak's head.
"Old Anime tool. Scouter. Shows the power level of any
being."
"Ah, Dragonball Z..." Hammy said, having been a huge fan of
the show. Or more accurately, the powers of the characters.
"This is a modified version for pokemon. Shows the relative level
of the creature."
"I'd like one of those..."
Oak shrugged, reached into his backpack and handed one to him. It
looked a little ridiculous, since it covered most of his face.
"Maybe you can custom-design one for me later... how does it
work?"
"Quite simple... It recieves commands from the brainwaves... You
think what you want, and it does it. Have to push the little button on the side to turn it
on though."
Hammy pushed the button, and then concentrated. The thing exploded.
"Hmm... Brainwaves a little too strong." The Oak said, trying
not to laugh at Hammy's blackened face.
"Let's get back to the base and plan."
~-~-~-~
Mammoth Fortress, Light Version
(On Strike)
The Team Rocket agents had gone to find something they
could deal with, and now they'd found it. The majority of the population of the Fortress
was fighting them now.
It was varied, to say the least. Men in heavy armour, some riding
horses, others riding Ponyta and Rapidash, others on foot, charged the forces without
mercy. Sorcerers flung powerful elemental magic attacks. Archers rained death upon their
opponents. Nearby, a lot of water beings fought valiantly - Zora and Mermaids, Water
pokemon, and other elementals and creatures which no-one could put a name to. The X-men
were there too, for some reason, unleashing their various powerful attacks everywhere.
So, it wasn't quite as diversified as the MB Heroes... but it was still
pretty impressive. And it gave Team Rocket the impression that Light Version was a pretty
weird place.
And Team Rocket were wondering about that 'Not Much Resistance' thing
that Giovanni had been talking about.
As it was, the battle was almost even. But Team Rocket, slowly but
surely, looked like they were winning.
The superior numbers of the Rocket's pokemon were pushing the opponent
into a small group. But they didn't seem to be trying to kill... Then a Rocket threw all
of his pokeballs, and six of the huge rock snakes known as Onix came out and surrounded
the opponent, leaving them in a circle of rocks that was pretty much inpenetrable.
And of course, with a grand entrance, Giovanni stood on the
outstretched head of one of the snakes. "Good evening, citizens of Light
Version."
"Light Version?"
"What are you talking about?"
"What's Light Version?"
There wasn't a Rocket in the place that didn't hurt himself then.
Giovanni looked back to his specialists.
"This is Light Version, isn't it?"
"Yes, sir. No doubt about it."
"Then..."
"I've heard of this before, sir... Sometimes if a place hasn't
actually been featured in any battles, or even mentioned in the version... They might not
know... they might consider this the 'real world' - A place without Narrator or Webmaster
or any form of superior being directing their fate." His tone of voice showed that he
didn't believe such a place could exist.
Giovanni thought quickly, and addressed the crowd. "I am truly
sorry. We have mistaken you for our enemy. We will offer you our alliance, if you willl
forgive us."
There were mutters on both sides at this news. Giovanni turned, with a
furious face, and nodded as if to say "Get moving, return your pokemon." They
did. Giovanni had forgotten, however, that he was still on the head of one of the pokemon,
and fell painfully to the ground.
This comic scene did much to assist the friendship of the people. It
wasn't long before they were cleaning up the debris and chatting away like old friends.
Amazingly, no-one had died.
"Sir, we've got an emergency..." One of the intelligence
rockets called.
"Are there more of them coming?" Giovanni sighed.
"No... It's from back home... Hammy's trying to take over our
version!"
~-~-~-~
The Battlefield, Dark Version
(On strike)
The fight... hadn't progressed. It was amazingly
convenient in these huge fights how nobody of importance really gets killed or crippled.
Usually, anyway.
The Narrator was just getting plain bored. The fighting was far too
fierce to Narrate. It began to wander away from the fight slightly, and saw something very
strange.
Then it recognized it, and shrank away in fear. It was them!
A trio of incredibly powerful creatures of huge mystery. The
Narrator knew their secret, however. They knew that, too. Way back in battle #5, they'd
killed it. Literally. Killing the Narrator was no easy task.
Hiding behind a tree (Not very effective as it's nothing but a huge
voice...), the Narrator watched the beings known only as the Shadowy Trio move up and look
at the battle. They appeared to be taking notes.
A suitably impressive hit from Frieza sent Megakabuterimon flying out,
and he landed on the three of them. When the huge bug got up, there was no sign of them.
The Narrator, confused and bored, decided to step into the fight.
GOOD GUYS were RANDOMLY TELEPORTED throughout
DARK VERSION!
The assorted Video Game Villians stopped in mid-attack as their
opponents simply disappeared.
ROTVGVHQ appeared!
Every person on the field tryed to work this out. The Narrator had
actually managed to pronounce that. Nobody could work out what it was. The Narrator
sighed.
Video Game Villians Headquarters appeared!
"Ah." The call went up throughout the ranks. "Where did
that come from?"
The Narrator looked suprised. Wasn't it one of
you?
"No..."
It caught a glimpse of the three dark figures teleporting out. Oh well... enjoy your little fortress...
~-~-~-~
Black Version
When it happened, everyone knew. It came like a psychic call throughout the very large populace of Black Version. This was the end. Black Version was being shut down. It would become little more than a void in space.
The Black Portal, Dark Version
www.pokebattles.co- hey, wait a minute...
Debris flying everywhere, people flung uncomfortably across various objects, the last of the Black population came from the portal.
~-~-~-~
The three mysterious figures, it
seemed, were doing quite a tour of Dark Version. Various famous figures spotted them, for
a few seconds before they winked out again. Nobody knew what they were there for. That was
their job.
And then, in the center of Dark Version, they
appeared. One of them made a guesture, and pointed at the ground. It shook, and the three
were suddenly on a tiny circular island, floating in the air.
The air around them grew darker as they
concentrated. Soon they were a dark cloud in the sky. Even through the darkness, three
points of light could be seen... although the light was extremely dark, and shone over the
land, shedding some very strange shadows indeed...
One of them on each corner of the island, their
powers started to join up. First a triangle of power formed, then as it spread, more power
gathering, it formed into a double-triangle hexagon-star, and the power was almost
tangible in the air.
Back at Hammy's base within the Oak's camp, the
Oak Leader saw the cloud in the sky. He used the scouter to find the reading, and waited
as it grew, and grew... and stopped.
He stared at the number in shock for a second,
then fainted.
Garrett the Holy looked up from his endless battle with the entire Orcish Horde, as they all suddenly wailed and dropped down in worship of the power-filled cloud. He considered taking advantage of this and killing various of their number, but instead took advantage of this and started running. Snorts and growls behind him told him that the Horde weren't with him on this one.
KB, streaming across the sky, saw the darkening and
felt that the Dark Webmaster would probably be involved. But something within him told him
to stay back...
Various other amusing incidents occured too, but
the fanfic's long enough as it is...
Then, they released the attack. The power was
such, that it could rearrange the face of Dark Version as we know it...
And it did...