Baa-Ram-Ewe!

by Darkonshadows

347. Crossing the Battlefield.

-Pokémon Realm, Ransei Region, Illusio, Top Tier of Cerebrum City, western battle center, teleporter securing zone, Quetal-

“Shine!” Shine flopped over in exhaustion and I quickly made my way over to drag her back to the hole with my claws as carefully as I could, we only had one Claydol left still fighting and we were under a lot of stress with the enemy Grumpig units.

Spoinks evolution into Grumpigs gave them a lot of benefits, in fact their evolution makes it so they don’t have to constantly pump their hearts by bouncing around. It makes sleeping for Spoinks fairly hard if they have to bounce every once in a while using the weight of the pearl they balance on their heads. Grumpigs don’t have that problem and were much more combat capable and it showed when they were giving us this much trouble as some of Gilgamesh’s elite forces, they were much more of a threat than the bouncing pig heads that were Spoinks.

I don’t think I’ve even seen too many Spoinks on the field of battle here.

We were getting some allied help from the Baltoy units, but we were getting swamped as the ninja ploy’s surprise wore out and we have dealt a lot of damage.

Dodo warbled as he looked at me, he was probably the least injured among us. Without looking I already knew that currently sleeping in his back was Dolly the Dalmatian because of an emergency with Pom, I hoped they were okay.

Psychic Type attacks seem to not cause Dodo any problems or much damage, Shanty was at least fine or else he would be panicking more, I’ve learning a lot from witnessing this familiar bond thing.

“Might not know what you’re saying, but I can agree that our reinforcements can’t come fast enough.” I grumbled to Dodo as he affectionately nuzzled me.

Even with Skitty Squads timely backup and the Natu and Xatu that could fly over to lend assistance after going through medical on the rebel side of the battlefield, the injuries were mounting on our aerial support and fewer kept coming back from flying for the rebel camps to heal up.

We were still dealing with a lot ground forces trying to bury us from all sides, also a metric ton of Woobat, why are the Woobat just as bad as Zubat when it comes to numbers?!

“How are we doing?” Shine said dazedly as she sat up, looking about blearily.

“We’re holding, but I’ll be darned if we don’t have the hardest job on the entire battlefield at the moment.” After saying that, I witness Mundo crashing next to us in the foxhole we created. It currently didn’t feel like it was offering enough protection at the moment. “Mundo, are you alright?”

“I need a small break before I can continue to show them my honorable battle prowess in the face of adversity.” Okay, Mundo was fine.

Dazzle was putting up one heck of a fight, she looked like she had a chip in her shoulder about missing her friend Frizzle. I seriously doubted Viperia would cause her problems in the future considering how fast she was tearing through opponents with whips, singing blasts of energy and dropping dragon shaped beams into enemy units around us.

The other shocker was Lit’s performance, the little bug was totaling numerous Psychic Types units with electric webs and Lunge attacks, his small size and ridiculous speed made him hard to hit and his ability to change directions while webbing up opponents was inspiring confidence that we probably shouldn’t be having as we were getting overrun.

It was about time I took charge of the situation with Shine no long being fit to lead due to injuries.

“Shanty, break time! Xatu team up in the air, we direly need time to rest and recuperate our fighting strength! Natu stay put and look for an opening to evacuate if you feel like you can’t handle the heat anymore.” I took note of the Natu needing more time to rest and decided to let the Xatu take up the bulk of the fighting for the moment. I popped up and started firing Swift stars into the enemy pokemon around us on a high arc that made the energy stars fall on them from above. “Cleffa, Charjabug, I hope you two can learn to shine here. Back up Lit and Dazzle to the best of your abilities.”

Dodo tapped me with his beak and once he had my attention, he held his wings in front of him like a scoop and then spat a pastry into his wings and held it out to me. As strange as Dodo’s talents with making pastries, like an Alcremie hopped up on sugar really, I took the proffered pastry and bit into it and the taste of Oran Berries filled my mouth.

We needed all the energy we could get out here and we needed medical supplies, apparently Dodo had some level of ability to mimic the healing of Oran Berries, too bad he couldn’t mimic Sitrus Berries.

“Thank you…” I continued to eat my snack and thought about the battlefield situation, Gilgamesh had a lot of goons to throw at good people and there was the haunting fact that Cerebrum was set up to the fall out of the sky by one Cotton Murkrow in an attempt to prevent Gilgamesh from becoming unbound.

We only had so much time to get someone up there and defeat Gilgamesh.

Wilhelm was taking a bulk of the incoming fire as he tried to cover for us from above, big guy was surprisingly agile in the air and was showing how tough he was by not running. That and his family, Skitty Squad, was down here so he wouldn’t run.

One may wonder why we haven’t used the teleporter yet, despite it being an archway approximately twenty feet away from the hole we popped out of with the six Claydol… we didn’t have the way to access it currently and we couldn’t dig closer.

Kenshin could have dug his way here with some Claydol initially, but then Gilgamesh’s forces would have become suspicious about Kenshin not being on the battlefield. Also it took us a lot of effort to squeeze through the tunnels that would only stick around for a limited time.

The tunnels we made using Dig to get into this position had already collapsed by now, plus the Baltoy and Claydol were expended in changing the state of battle to being in Kenshin’s favor and turning around the stonewalling problem for the ground forces. It’s like how the Xatu, Natu and our friends helped take care of the aerial artillery, Sigilyph were weak to melee attacks and it showed with how many were taken out so readily and easily in a close up confrontation.

Kenshin was nice and fair leader, even making sure that Gilgamesh’s forces were out of the line of fire once they could no longer fight. Strange that the previous king’s assassin would care about the lives of others, but maybe Kenshin was really easygoing and only killed when absolutely necessary.

Furthermore he was in charge of a number of units in the central assault region, he was drawing the lion’s share of the enemy units onto himself to prevent us from being completely crushed. We could tell he was cutting down swaths of Pokémon and was a large force on the battlefield by how often they pulled Pokémon from sieging our position.

The only thing wrecking more face than Kenshin would be Sanosuke to the north, whose forces were still going quite strong with Mr. massive sword tearing the front lines apart in the north.

I sprayed a blast of Swift stars into an incoming unit of Woobat, there were still so many… nostril bats.

The Grumpigs with the shields and weapons weren’t making the situation any easier, they came at us with maces, swords and spears. They were well equipped, large and fairly dangerous more so than most of the things on this battlefield.

Favela was blasted into the hole and landed on her back with a groan, I could see some smoke coming off of her form. Shanty was up and checking on her while motioning to Dodo to move over and give her friend a pastry.

Kenshin couldn’t get here soon enough, given he was the only one that would know how to operate the teleporter to get up to the castle high above the battlefield.

-West of the contested battle zone, above Cerebrum City, Canard-

“Hrm…” I stood here with my arms crossed.

“Just be patient.” The Seer Xatu stated as he stood watching the various battles below.

“Yeah, we kind of really need this airship later Canard.” Sami stated as she propped herself up on the edge of the airship and continued to snipe as well as she could with her digital assault rifle.

“I still don’t like it, but… fine.” I walked back to the controls of the ship and was fairly surprised nobody noticed us up here or Sami’s sniping. “Can you at least promise me that Cleffa will be fine?”

“She’s in the middle of the hole near the teleporter.” Seer Xatu stated with a slight glance at Sami, a second later my partner readjusted her aim slightly and fired once.

Seer Xatu basically assured Cleffa’s safety with Sami looking out for her at range, Psychic Pokémon couldn’t detect digital or virtual energy so they wouldn’t be able to trace Sami’s shots back to us.

“We will be a big support in due time.” The time on Cerebrum City is running out Xatu, you even said so yourself. There was a sudden pause and Seer Xatu glanced further to the ease with an unusual mixed expression on his face. “Cotton…”

-Currently exiting rebel safe zone and following Kenshin’s path through the central battlefield region, Pom-

“You guys really don’t have to do this.” My statement was quiet as I continued to trot towards the battlefront with an entire unit of Kirlia surrounding me, they had just recovered from their injuries and they decided to form up with me. They all looked like little ballerina’s and they hovered alongside me as I set the pace.

“You’re a VIP guest of our forces ma’am.” A male Kirlia said while saluting to me. “You’re also carrying important supplies to the front and Kenshin wouldn’t like it if anything were to happen to you, so we’re treating you to an important courier escort.”

“My supplies are for my beleaguered friends though.” Also I passed out for several hours earlier in the battle after taking down Smolder.

“Supplies well spent then, we’ll make sure they reach their destination.” Another Kirlia said with no argument being brooked from his cheerful tone. “Besides you’re friends deserve those supplies, they’ve been out there in the middle of that hell for at least an hour. We’re even carrying a few revives to revitalize the downed Claydol, so just keep setting the pace ma’am. We’ll stick with you for as long as we are able, you prevented a lot of us from being hurt by your dragon friend.”

My pace was a quick three legged gait, considering my right leg was messed up and I was constantly putting pressure to keep my Chrysomallus energy under control from creeping up left hoof. I could even feel Dolly and Dormarch in the back of my head trying to keep me comforted, Dormarch wouldn’t be very active if Dolly wasn’t present with the other quarter of him.

Trying to get Dolly to go back to helping the others wasn’t working, because she was stubbornly sticking to me mentally. My mental stability mattered to Dolly quite a lot and frankly there wasn’t much she can do for me aside from be here for me, which she was going to do anyway.

I was starting to not feel like myself, I could hardly remember my fight with Smolder and I knew I attacked Gilgamesh… but aside from that it was all a blur. A mad aggressiveness in trade for boost in magically assisted strength and my heritage getting worse, like my physical strength could really get any better with my noodle legs.

One couldn’t suppress their nature forever, I really didn’t like or even want to change into what I was becoming. Change was inevitable in many ways, the more they stayed the same the more likely change was to find the stagnation.

The reason why Chrysomallus weren’t common among Lambkin kind was for their extremely short life expectancy, no lambkin wanted to be in my position despite the amount of magical strength that comes with the prestige of being an imminent death seeker.

“Protect the courier!” The Kirlia suddenly moved forward and started to blast psychic energy into a swarm of Woobat trying to come at us, despite the Kirlia doing what they could to fend off the Woobats there were still a lot of them.

The Woobat were suddenly taken down in boiling arcing blasts of water raining down on them, frying their wings and knocking them out of the air. It seems the Chrysalia artillery unit, the Araquanids along with Ninjask, were still going strong and sent some help our way.

I continued moving forward and the fighting started becoming thicker, but we weren’t in the middle of it as we were in the bulge of Kenshin’s forces pushing into Gilgamesh’s broken defense lines.

Pacing myself carefully we were on approach for Kenshin’s personal unit with several Gardevoir around him helping him make a humongous push.

“I wonder why the move Teleport isn’t being used more.” My question was met with an explanation from one of the Kirlia protecting me.

Teleportation was always usually used to teleport to a safe spatial area. Cerebrum City had moved east and any movement of the city had removed all spatial teleportation anchor points that a Psychic Type had to place in a given spot, therefore due to the movement the spot for the psychic anchor was no longer recognized as safe especially for the Psychic Types who couldn’t float or hover via limited levitation ability. Therefore the anchor connected to a particular Pokémon failed.

Only some Pokémon like Mentalis and the Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam could force a Teleport to go wherever they want to, but that was based in line of sight or knowledge of the area they were teleporting into that they could get a surrounding visual with their psychic powers before doing the teleport. So it was an overall skill issue and the strength of the minds that used these powers.

So even the experts wouldn’t be able to teleport me to my friends unless a Pokémon that knew the move Teleport could go to where they were, drop a psychic anchor and then come back to me. An anchor placed in a dangerous place was hard for a Psychic Type to do.

If Mentalis wasn’t currently busy with refugees and detaining injured Gilgamesh forces, he’d be able to teleport by line of sight to my surrounded friends.

“What about the teleporters in Cerebrum?” This was again given to me in a quick explanation, psychic entangled devices could only connect to another psychic entangled device.

Anyone except a Dark Type could use the teleporters, the devices weren’t hard to use, but access could be restricted to Psychic Type only use because of the people who made them. So even if Cerebrum City had moved, the teleporter to Central Illusio from Eastern Illusio where Cerebrum City now was floating over, it would still work as it was a manufactured psychic anchor… the requirement was that one of the devices that was like a psychic anchors had to be static in some way and the range was feasibly wherever Cerebrum can go.

Cerebrum City only had a floating range of all of Illusio, the lack of psychic energy and crystals made it impossible for the city to enter other regions, but it was a floating defensive fortress that made it hard to take this kingdom from the Psychic Types given its mobility.

“Well that’s nice to know that evacuating wouldn’t be too hard to do.” I hadn’t even used one of the teleporters yet.

“Evacuations are still ongoing and it’ll take more time than we have to actually move all the civilians out of the city, it’s why Kenshin is fighting so hard.” One of Kirlia remained stoic knowing we were all standing on a time bomb that could fall out of the sky at any time. “He’s fighting for more time…”

Kenshin backed his unit away while leaving others to continue pushing the battlefield. He sheathed his blunt sword with a shining backwards edge, a sword with the blade on the wrong side?

“Kenshin, the problem in the backlines have been solved, it was an assassination attempt on our VIP who’s recently woken up and is carrying supplies to our allies in the contested area near the teleporter.” One of the Kirlia reported as they bowed to Kenshin. “We’re currently acting as a courier unit to get the Pokémon Companions and the downed Claydol around them some much needed medical aid, we’ve managed to scrape together a few Revive items to get the Claydols and some others up and covering the teleporter.”

“I shall lead this unit personally then, it’s about time we made a push and actually got someone up to the Castle of Illusion.” Kenshin stated softly before turning to the nearest Musharna. “Tell Sanosuke ‘Hammer’, tell Kaoru ‘Anvil’ and tell the Dark Types to go wild if they aren’t already. We’re personally following plan ‘kiln’. Spread the word!”

The Musharna nodded and sent out a pulse I vaguely felt through my body to Dolly.

“What’s the Castle of Illusion like?” Finally managed to ask the largest question on my mind as we started forward, since we had some time and were approaching the battle line at a careful pace.

One would think we would be doing this at a more break neck and die speed, but I couldn’t be more surprised by Kenshin’s caution.

“I think it’s about time to tell you the truth, the illusion is that it’s a castle at all. It is in fact a giant psychic energy storage device that is shaped like a castle and the entirety of the castle involves a throne room and a lot of empty space. It barely even has three bedrooms behind the throne room.” Wait… did Kenshin say what I thought he just did? If the castle is not a castle then, I looked at the ground below me at Cerebrum of which the Castle of Illusion floated directly above at all times. Oh… that, actually explains a lot… it’s a ‘last stand’ kind of bunker for a psychic type king to protect the people of Illusio with and it’s in the hands of Gilgamesh. “We need to activate that teleporter to the ‘Castle’ and destroy it before Gilgamesh can use the energy to unbind himself. The reason he hasn’t abandoned it yet is because it’s of grave importance that he holds the castle as it can help him with the unbinding process that a Hoopa would need to enter their most powerful form.”

“So… does that mean what I think it does about Cerebrum City?” I wasn’t about to elucidate what I meant, but Kenshin obviously knew what I was talking about given the architecture throughout the city. The pained look Kenshin was sending my way either meant I was right or on to something.

“Probably.” Kenshin’s answer made me feel sad, mostly about the fact that Cerebrum City was about to be destroyed. “Come let’s reach your friends, then we can send a small team through the teleporter to face Gilgamesh personally. Everyone form up!”

The Kirlia immediately moved to form up behind Kenshin and I carefully moved into the back with Kenshin looking at my right leg.

“Can you still fight?” Kenshin asked with concern, I pressed my right hoof against the stone below me roughly twice while looking him in the eyes with barely a twitch of my own. The barest of twitches was involuntary, but Kenshin seemed to notice it.

“Yes, I’m able, I just can’t do as much with my front right leg.” Aside from some pain, my right leg would be okay if magically inert for a while and I knew it couldn’t be healed by Sitrus Berries. In fact it couldn’t be healed by anything other than some time. “Also don’t worry about using any medical supplies on it, it won’t help me and keeping my leg bandaged is the best we can do for it right now.”

“Alright let’s move out then.” He didn’t ask me how much pain I was in, he likely already knows given he could probably sense the pain of putting pressure on my leg. Also Ralts line of Pokémon were said to be able to feel the emotions of others, so that would be in line with Ocellus’s capabilities. “We’ll handle most of the fighting, you only need to jump in when you deem it necessary Pom… you are after all carrying important supplies and they are a priority.”

With that, Kenshin had decided to push through the battlefield to our people securing the area around the teleporter.

Kenshin’s forces started to pressure forward into Gilgamesh’s forces, following his lead as he pulled his sword from his sheath and started to nonlethally take down quite a number of Pokémon in the way with incredible flourishes of a blade moving so fast that it cut the air even using the rounded edge. It was like Shanty creating cutting arcs, except Kenshin was doing it with raw skill and some style thrown in.

It wouldn’t become apparent to me until a minute into moving forward without too much resistance, that the orders Kenshin sent out to Sanosuke and Kaoru had a drastic effect on the battlefield. Also I was being protected by two units of Gardevoir on both side of me from attacks to the north and south. The Kirlia bombarded areas in front of us as Kenshin pressed forward to draw most of the attacks to him while they did so.

Kenshin was personally only leading eighteen Pokémon, the three units around me, as we pressed deep into enemy lines and aside from constant attacks from Woobats we were being oddly untouched. I was glad to not have to do much of the fighting here, because I wanted to save my energy for facing down Gilgamesh.

I think it was thanks to the efforts of the other forces in Kenshin’s battle group, along with whatever Kaoru and Sanosuke battle groups were doing. I could see units of some weird creatures with gel covered bodies, they were also starting to pressure the battle line off to the side of Kenshin’s groups.

At this point I had no hope of actually beating Gilgamesh, but I did have some hope of at least getting Arceus’s device back from him. We would likely have to fight Inky Due, not that Gilgamesh wasn’t already going to be a massive problem with his portal power. At least I currently knew some of Gilgamesh’s limitations when it came to using those portals, the guy would likely try getting us to dodge into a portal by raining weapons down on us if he wanted to go lethal. There’s all manner of problems with actually hitting him in anything but melee and even melee would be suspect when he can problem redirect my hoof back into my own face.

I came to my senses when we were closing in on Shanty and the other surrounded by several unconscious Claydols. They were being approached by multiple units as we entered the area.

Some of them were strange brown bipedal creatures that looked like they were wearing trench coats and their tall heads looked like strange cylindrical hats. Aside from those two features, they looked rather alien in appearance. An example of their alien appearance was their three digits at the end of their arms looked like colorful gems.

The other monsters were pig like with three pearls that wielded weapons and shields along with using psychic powers

“Enemy Beheeyems and Grumpigs spotted!” One of the Kirlia yelled, before they turned to me. “Deliver the supplies to your friends, we’ll cover you!”

“I’ll make us a path… Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu style: Ryusosen!” With that Kenshin charged forward with his blade held in both hands, swinging it so fast that I could barely follow his swings even when I was using Dancing Flame.

-Shanty-

We be holding up pretty well, but the new coat guys bodies were being quite tough. I barely be taking one down with my scythe when I heard a shout that drew my attention.

“Ryusosen!” That was being Kenshin!

I be blinking as I looked to the voice and saw a beautiful wall of slashes, I believe my eyes were sparkling at the sight of such a beautiful technique.

I drank in all the rapid slashes coming out so fast that they be tearing through everything in Kenshin’s path as he rush forward, not only did the attack be going impossibly fast… it also be deflecting every attack that even vaguely went near him. I be following every single cutting arc he be lashing out.

Eventually Kenshin be stopping among a group of Grumpig between us and used another one of his techniques, the tip of his blunt sword… blunt? No… the back edge is being sharp? What an odd weapon, but if he can be making it work so well, then I don’t be having any room to judge with how impressive he is with it. The tip of his sword was at the entrance of his sheathe.

“Combo finisher, Ryumeisen!” Instead of swinging the miraculous blade that be surviving his high speed attacks, he instead sheathed it so hard and so fast that the shockwave blasted the entire unit of Grumpigs apart and knocked them all out. The blast wave even be disorienting a few of the trench coat Pokémon.

I be wanting to learn something from him… specifically how to do a flying slash or cut! He would have to be knowing how right? He is being so skilled with a sword and I be wanted to do something like that with my cane scythe if I can't be doing it with my hooves.

“Quetal is everyone alright?” Pom, my ears be burning and it was nice to be hearing her be up and about! Except… her right leg, something be feeling gravely off with it from just looking at it being tightly bandaged.

“Reinforcements finally… we’re alive, any help we can get is good right now Pom.” Quetal had been cycling us since he took charge, he is being very good at telling us where to move and what to cover.

“Gather everyone, I’ve brought Sistrus Berry juice and snacks…. no Shanty, you can’t eat them all.” Pom be looking at me flatly as I be having the biggest grin on my face.

“That is being okay, I be having Dodo for that!” My words were met with a friendly warble from Dodo behind me.

Speaking of Dodo, Dolly be popping up on his back adjusting her helmet and slinging her board across her back as she hopped out and made her way up to Pom with a wagging tail. She turned to Dodo and gave him two cheerful barks and he be warbling cheerfully back at her.

-Five minutes later, Pom-

“We can open the path to the teleporter Pom, oh and thanks for giving my kitties some of that berry juice!” Captain Skeeball stated with a cheerful expression. “Sadly There’s never nearly enough of it for my hubby though… but he’s a big strong man and he’s my big strong sweet blubber butter! He'll need to spend some time in a river, lake or sea though...”

Captain Skeeball proceed to have a loving look to Wilhelm who was covered in scars from many attacks as he hovered above us, but he seemed quite determined to stay in the fight and he wasn’t going down anytime soon. It was fairly terrifying to have a flying whale for a friend that can cause massive devastation to a given area.

My supplies got everyone perked up a bit, but the real perked up ones were the Claydol. The Kirlia broke some yellow diamond things over them and the end result was that the unconscious Claydol were back up and ready to keep fighting after sharing a single canteen of Sitrus Berry juice amongst themselves.

“Everyone, get ready to set out, I’ll need a full minute to set up the teleporter. Claydol unit, aim and fire!” Announced Kenshin once the Claydol that assisted Shine personally in raising some Tartarus in the enemies lines turned in the direction Kenshin was pointed and six powerful beams open a large swath through Gilgamesh’s force. The Kirlia and majestic looking taller Gardevoir immediately moved forward to fill in the gap and we now we finally had a hold of the teleporter to the Castle of Illusion. “Come on, I think it’s time we finally draw Gilgamesh into the fight.”

“Aw yeah, let’s go show this Mush guy what we can do Pom!” If we could even turn him to mush Dolly, then that would be a good thing. I didn’t think we had the capacity to do so even with numerical advantage, Gilgamesh would possibly be toying with us for most of the upcoming fight.

Dolly hopped onto me and pointed a paw forward. I rolled my eyes and followed after Kenshin with the Pokemon Companions, Charjabug and Cleffa.

“Is this teleporter the same as the one inside the city?” I asked as we came up on the large wide open archway, it was huge and it was basically more than fifty feet wide by my estimates as Kenshin started glowing and using psychic energies.

“No this one will actually operates more like a portal, the one inside the city is a transmission type teleporter and since you brought it up… this reminds me that we might have a problem evacuating the Dark Types from Cerebrum City when it falls out of the sky.” There was a disturbed look on Kenshin’s face as he concentrated two streams of psychic energy on the teleporter and began starting it up. “With almost all of the Sigilyph up here, it wasn’t hard to get the Mandibuzz out on some hidden small air boats if you were wondering about them.”

I wasn’t, but it was nice to know that they weren’t stuck in Cerebrum and would die when this place broke apart. Skitty Squad’s presence gave me an idea.

“Skeeball how many Dark Type can Wilhelm feasibly carry on him? The entirety of Cerebrum City will eventually fall out of the sky.” Well it would when what I knew as a necessary sabotage by Cotton Murkrow carried out.

“As many we can feasibly fit on top of him, might weigh him down a bit, but he’ll still float down as many as he can to the best of his ability.” Responded Skeeball looking about, there was a lull in the combat as soon as Kenshin started the process of opening the way to the Castle of Illusion.

“You might want to focus on the evacuation of the Dark Types then.” Quetal announced as he crossed his arms and looked about. “Is it me or did things become too quiet as soon as Kenshin started operating the teleporter?”

In the distance the fighting was still going on across the top of the city that had been ravaged by war. The grass burnt, trees toppled and stone pathways torn apart, but here… we were all being left alone.

“Gilgamesh is probably inviting us in.” It was a minute later that the path way to the Castle of Illusion opened. “I mean, no resistance or any massive assaults on us?”

I was the first to approach the teleporter and step right on through, the air on the other side was a little thin as I stepped out on to a massive stone bridge. A hoof ball field wide and much bigger than it appeared when we were looking at the illusionary castle from below.

Dolly parked her butt next to me and looked down the bridge at something that came rushing up to us… it was a Wobuffet?

“Wobba wobba wobba!” The wobbuffet shouted cheerfully and then started rolling his arms as he wobbled his upper body about and thrusted with what passed for his hips every once in a while.

“Love Love Dancing… really?” It seemed Quetal was embarrassed for Gilgamesh after coming through the teleporter to meet the wobbuffet in our way. “That’s what you’re going to do to stop us from trying to cross the bridge?”

A portal opened up near the Wobbuffet and a sword exploded out of the portal and actually exploded when it struck the ground near the dancing wobbuffet and sent him flying off the bridge.

“Wa-wa-wa-wobbuffet!” Whined the Wobbuffet as it fell, I jumped off the side of the bridge only for a portal to open in my path and put me back on it.

My eyes twitched in consternation as I tried again and felt myself flopping onto my face, I didn’t try to save the Wobbuffet a third time.

“So sorry you had to see that nuisance, don’t honestly know how he got up here without going through the teleporter and… well He’s gone now so that’s unimportant. Don’t go throwing yourself off of the bridge just yet, we haven’t had a chance to have some fun together.” Gilgamesh stated as he was here in the flesh himself as he hovered at the other end of the large bridge. “I’ll either make heroes of you or you will suffer a lot before you die. Either way, my victory is assured.”

“You just... but he was one of yours!” I stated with disbelief as the others came through.

The Pokémon Companions were just glaring at Gilgamesh, Charjabug and Cleffa certainly didn’t like him and Kenshin had an actual look of murder in his kind eyes.

“So? That was just a useless grunt, he wouldn’t have added much to our coming battle anyway and would have gotten in the way.” Gilgamesh stated flatly with that wide grin, the oozing cut mark on his cheek drew my attention somewhat. “Such a weakling would never have lasted in the world I seek to build, where only the strong may continue on into the future… still would really like to know how he even got up here without accessing the teleporter though. I’m actually being quite serious here, there is no flying device or any other way to reach the Castle of Illusion this high up without something like Rayquaza level abilities and that guy is currently on the other side of the planet. The teleporter wasn’t accessed in weeks until you just came through it, the Wobbuffet wasn't out here or I would have sensed him, so where did that Wobbuffet minion even come from!”

Yeah, that was quite heartless and it reaffirmed my belief that someone needed to kill Gilgamesh and fast. Now if only he wasn't a monster with abilities on par with the local gods of this world.

-Eastern Illusio, on the ground southern edge of the massive lake known as Spinal Fluid Lake, Meowth-

Team Pocket sits at the south side of the lake awaiting our destined meeting.

“You seriously think they would’ve come through here by now.” I commented dryly, Team Pocket was waiting to really ambush Team Harmony this time, no motto until after we attack and had a captive audience and Jessie even agreed to it.

Only… we were coming up with a whole lot of nothing waiting right here.

“Read the script again James!” Jessie stated with a hiss of warning as her forked tongue flicked at our Mareanie buddy.

“Right, ahem… Team Pocket sits at the south side of the lake awaiting their destined meeting.” James stated holding a script that had the words ‘Baa-Ram-Ewe: Pokémon Edition’ written on it. “It’s all right here in black and white, don’t honestly know why they aren’t showing up.”

“Hehehe, maybe the script is wrong?” Jester the ever demented Caterpie friend of ours stated as he wiggled forward.

What Caterpie never wants to evolve to have wings? That crazy guy, my guess as to reason he never wanted to be a Metapod was an extreme case of claustrophobia.

“Can I get a look at that?” Scourge stated who stood over us and put on a pair of small glasses and narrowed his eyes at the script after it was handed to him by James… uh… head flap, head tendril, tentacle? “Hmm… there’s some fine print here in the script. Destined meeting does not necessarily mean an interaction with Team Harmony or our nemesis Pom Pawdore Lambchop.”

“Then who would we be meeting out here?” I know that we were supposed to be idiots and failures at doing anything successfully in life, since we definitely weren’t going to change our ways of antagonizing heroic types as the generic highway bandit routine and wandering circus act that we were so they can better themselves on our bodies like we’re whetstones to their sword, but did Arceus really have to rub that in by dropping a script of our lives right in our laps?

“Does anyone hear that noise?” Flicking her tongue Jessie looked around and we all started twitching our sound receptors looking for whatever that noise was.

Finally I decided to look up… yeah, that’s where the sound was coming from.

“Is that a falling star, should we make a wish on it?” A second later, I realized that it was a Pokémon. “I think that’s a Pokémon. What does the script say?”

“Slowly flip through three blank pages after Meowth asks about the script and read the next part…” Mumbled Scourge and proceeded to do just that. “Cue the unavoidable painful Mirror Coat counter attack build up caused by air friction and being struck by Gilgamesh with an exploding magic sword, this will all be unleashed upon Team Pocket that will put them into the ground by the mysterious ‘Love Love Dancing’ Wobbuffet Soldier. This in turn will save his life and leave us all in an incredible amounts of pain. Also the script will be burnt away after this moment and Scourge finishes saying… oh bother!”

-Insert classically timed problem now-

*Whistling noise*

“WAAAAAAAAA….”

KAAAAAABOOM!

Splish…

Team Pocket proceeded to gain a new member after he just left being under Gilgamesh’s employ, yay!

Now if only Team Pocket’s bodies weren’t all broken and bleeding at the bottom of a large pit that was dug by the force of the Mirror Coat recoil based mushroom cloud explosion that saved the incredibly genius meteoric Wobbuffet’s life.

'Love Love Dancing' Wobbuffet Soldier had harmlessly and miraculously bounced off of Team Pocket into the nearby lake without injury… from the fall at least… and eventually crawled out of the water.

The 'Love Love Dancing' Wobbuffet Soldier took up a nearby long stick and went to look into the pit to start poking the bodies with it in keen interest.

Author's Note:

Gunstar Heroes.

Comments

[Herald of Opera]

A mad aggressiveness in trade for boost in magically assisted strength

Oh right, Berserker class. You noted our earlier discussion how she didn't cleanly fit a class and rectified the issue.

[Booster Spice]

Team Pockets getting blasted on agaaaaaain.

As for the Wobuffet getting there, well, thats the realms of Gods and Pinkies.

How good are the Aqurachnid squad at spinning Zorb webacchutes, how many others can make Jump Ribbons fast enough to get the non portable and out of carry capacity left?

If its good enough for Doctor Zarkov...