Teamwork

'Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning,
lest these titans wreak destruction on the new world taking form,
though the beast of the sea shall arise to quell the fighting,
alone it's song will fail, and so shall come a great storm.
It shall deliver to us, from chaos, a very hopeful spark,
and it shall lead the side of light, banishing the dark.'

Porygon's uploading this as I dictate it, as I'm a bit busy to type just now.
Ok, so here's what we've worked out about the prophecy so far:
It starts the same as the original, warning people not to mess with Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. The fight is happening at a place that is a combination of both our worlds, as this cave has had rift activity change it at least twice. It says that Lugia's going to turn up, but like in the film he's going to need help. The weather will get even worse (Is that really all it means?) and the storm will mark the arrival of this world's chosen one. Although it says from chaos, so maybe it will be somebody coming through a rift? Ash maybe? We think it means us though. Very Hopeful Spark. VHS. It has to be, right? It's a strange phrase, it must be there as a clue. And apparently we have to save the world AND stop the latest batch of shadow aura Pokémon. Yay.

We were sheltering in the mouth of the cave as we worked this out, fighting off the dark Armaldo as it continued to swipe at us. As Blackmage's Metang finally sent it crashing to the floor, swirly eyed, we made a mad dash for the water.
'I'm coming with you! I got rid of the Armaldo!'
'Fine, Fine, just run!'
dodging the lasers, nets, and cannon balls raining down, I grabbed Rag's sleeve and pulled him left. 'Come on, we've got Ice island!'
We'd decided to split up and go after all three orbs at once. Anyone can get them from the idols, and whichever of us turns out to be the chosen one can activate them all when we get back.
Blackmage followed me and Rag, leaping onto his Metang and gliding along next to us. Rag had told Snover to go with Don and Sammy, and I saw him freezing the water ahead of them as they ran towards Fire Island. Vaporeon was doing the same for Maelstrom and Doom, and Glaceon was doing it for us. Snorunt, Hitmonchan, Butterfree and Clefairy had chosen to stay and defend the beach.
'Chatot! Go spy on the ship! See who's up there!'
Chatot flew away, repeating the instructions to himself. Dratini was quivering in my bag, and Joltik was trembling on my arm. Rag was hugging Pichu as he ran, comforting the terrified mouse.
'Come on buddy, we need to do this! The world is in danger, and it's up to us to fix it! It's an adventure!'
Pichu looked up at him, fearful, but looking thoughtful.
The huge shadow passed by underneath, startling us. Me and Rag started to skid, and narrowly avoided being shot by the ship above. A cannonball smashed into the ice, causing it to crack and rupture all around us. 'Grab on!' Blackmage yelled, his Metang reaching out to us, and I leapt as the ice beneath me broke, wrapping my arms round one of Metang's as it rose away from the water. I saw Rag clinging on for dear life to Metang's other arm, and we both yelled as we swung wildy. Charmeleon had clambered onto Glaceon's back for safety, and they were still running, Glaceon making more ice as they went.
Chatot swooped back down towards us, and spoke with Lawrence's voice. 'Such a pitiful group, thinking to beat me. But we play by my rules, and it is my turn. I think the quickest route to victory is to capture some of their pieces.'
He reverted to his own, bird like cry 'Lawrence has a friend! Friend controls the shadow monsters!'
'So how do we stop him?'
'Need the rat! Need the rat! Got a plan! Got a plan!'
Rattata leapt onto his back, and Chatot flew off again. In the distance, I saw one of the other groups get caught by a couple of huge diamond frames, that joined up to make a sort of static net, and whisked them up towards the ship.
'Noooo!' I hoped they'd be ok. Lawrence shouldn't hurt them, he just wanted them out of the way. It was going to make our job harder though.

Below, Charmeleon was waving at us frantically. He pointed behind us and I glanced over my shoulder 'Oh Hell.'
A flock of shadow Murkrow and a shadow Arcanine were heading straight for us, followed by some flying diamond frames. The Arcanine was jumping across the floating chunks of ice, roaring up at us.
Blackmage looked, and swore.
Pichu squealed, clinging onto Rag's ankle for dear life.
The frames flew at us, swooping down. Blackmage sent out Scyther, who flew towards the murkrow, slashing wildly. Dratini poked his head out of my bag, frowning at our attackers.
'You want to fight them?'
'ti!'
Dratini slipped out, securing himself on my shoulders before he launched an attack. Almost strangling me, he launched a twister, sending a group of the Murkrow spinning away, screeching.
'Can't.....breathe....'
He uncoiled quickly, giving me an apologetic look.
'No worries....good job.'
Glaceon had frozen a large area of water, and was gesturing for us to land.
'Blackmage! Take us back down, it's safe again!'
'Here we go!'
We swooped down, but as we got within a few yards the Arcanine headbutted Metang, shoving us skywards again.
'Aargh! Get ready to run, We'll hold it off!'
'What do you mean, we can't get-'
Metang twisted suddenly, thrusting us outwards, sending me and Rag spinning wildy towards the ice. Yelling, I landed with a thud, continuing to spin across the slippery surface. I managed to come to a stop, and sat up, looking for the others.
Ragnarok had curled himself into a ball to protect Pichu, and was groaning as he got up. Letting go of Dratini, who I'd pulled to safety as we were jettisoned, I checked Joltik was ok, and got to my feet. Joltik was on my shoulder, and shot a bolt of electricity at a Murkrow that dived towards us.
'Run!'
We limped away as fast as we could, fighting off any other Murkrow that slipped past Blackmage. My last veiw of him as I looked back was him leaping off Metang, aiming a punch at the Arcanine.
We've stopped to rest for a moment on the frozen beach of Ice Island, and I'm dictating this to Porygon. I'm looking for something to help with the pain in my leg. Aha! I knew I packed Lemonade!

It is actually helping, the graze has faded a bit. This is seriously weird. It's a shame the same won't work for Rag. At least he landed better, he's just a bit sore.

Aaahh!

INFORMATION: A SMALL EXPLOSIVE SHOT HAS MADE CONTACT WITH ICE ISLAND. FRIEND.UNIT.TEMPEST IS LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE. FRIEND.UNIT.RAGNAROK IS RUNNING FROM RUBBLE THAT IS HEADING TOWARDS OUR PRESENT LOCATION. RETURNING TO AUDIO INPUT DICTATION.

It's Lawrence! He's attacking Ice Island! And us! What was that! Damn! He's woken up Articuno! It's coming out! Wow, it's so beautiful. I mean it always looked cool, but it the flesh it's just so much more....wow.

The others! Zapdos and Moltres! They're setting off from the other islands! They're all awake! It's starting!

INFORMATION: MORE EXPLOSIONS. THIS AREA IS HAZARDOUS. UPLOADING CURRENT DATA IN CASE OF TERMINATION.

Once more onto the beach!

My DSDex said that there was a huge disturbance of dimension energy back up in Scotland, at the same beach as before, by Smoo cave. Kirlia teleported  us all up there, and we looked over the barrier at the top of the cliff to see what was happening.

There was a huge rift open a little way out to sea, partly submerged. Water was surging through it, mixing with our sea, both worlds gaining a little of the others' water. I saw a shadow beneath the rift, some huge creature whooshing away into the depths. I clutched my shoulder, feeling another huge ripple coming, and winced as it happened, a wave of energy bursting from the shard and spreading outwards. As the ripple of distortion reached the water, islands appeared some distance away, fading into existence. One seemed to have a volcano, one had jagged rocky spikes, and one seemed to be coated in a snowy blanket. I heard Pichu squeal, running and hiding behind Ragnarok's leg as a thunder rumbled overhead.
 Me and Rag looked at each other, beaming '2ND MOVIE!'

'Yeah yeah, it's awesome. Now move!' Doom led the way down the steps, running towards the disturbance. As we reached the beach, I saw a dark coated figure running from the cave entrance.
'Blackmage! What the hell are you doing here?!'
'Looking for more fossils and.....none of your business! What's going on?'
'Shamouti islands just came through a ripple! I don't think shamouti itself did though. It's the 2nd movie!'
'Typical! Will I ever get to treasure hunt without some big disaster bringing you lot here?'
Sammy yelled  'Watch out!' and I leapt sideways just as something slammed into the sand where I'd been. It was a net, with spears at each corner.
'What the-'
There was a sound like a cannon firing, and black sphere shot towards us, smashing into the rock face above the cave, leaving it coated in ice.
Something huge and dark began to emerge from the clouds, some sort of skyship, with propellors all around it, keeping it in the air.
'Who is that? Lawrence? That's just Lawrence right?'
Something was dashing along a propellor support. It reached the end, and dived off. It slammed onto beach with an eruption of sand, and as it uncurled itself we saw it was an armaldo, with glowing red eyes and a shadowy aura.
'No. I think we're dealing with a bit more than just Lawrence.'

A prophecy set in stone

So, we recently had a ripple that resulted in Lenora turning up in London. The natural history museum in London has gained an extension that can't be seen from outside, with Lenora's museum tucked away inside. She's resumed her duties there along with her husband, but says we can't battle her until she's all set up :(.

What's got us excited though is a stone slab she found amongst her exhibits. She hadn't seen it before, and as we were there sorting out a wild herd of patrat that had come through with her, she invited us to have a look. It was ancient, and it's engravings were faded and damaged in places, and in a language nobody recognised, but Porygon had a load of files about ancient Pokémon languages and was able to translate it for us:


'Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning,

lest these titans wreak destruction on the new world taking form,

though the beast of the sea shall arise to quell the fighting,

alone it's song will fail, and so shall come a great storm.

It shall deliver to us, from chaos, a very hopeful spark,

and it shall lead the side of light, banishing the dark.'

2nd movie anyone?

Dragon departs

Dragon's gone. last week he asked to have a look at the shard in my shoulder, placed a hand on it, concentrated, and with his other hand drew a circle in the air. He said he'd finally figured out how to get back to his own world. The circle he'd drawn became a rift, like the one he fell through! He forced the shard to open it! If only I could learn to do that!
Anyway he thanked us, said goodbye, and enteredt the portal, as did the Shinx we helped out a while ago, who has since evolved all the way into a Luxray. Dragon said he thought that Luxray was going to make a new friend, and had a rather interesting destiny, so I hope wherever they went, it's happy.

Oh, and the giant Rattata problem got sorted. I may blog about it, but we've just discovered something rather interesting that may turn out to be more important. More soon.

A Towering Defense!

First of all, I'm sorry there's been so little posting from me for a while, I've been very busy with non dimensional collapse related things.

Saturday was odd. Cool, but odd. I got a call from Rag, who was at our base watching the eevees. When me, Doom, and Maelstrom arrived, he asked to borrow the DSDex, and slotted one of his games in.

'So what's this about?'

'Well, I figured that if we're going to have to fight that that big apocalyptic battle, we may as well be as tough as we can be.'

'Uh-huh.....'

'I'm activating the Rare Candies code on my AR. I'm going to try and do that thing we did with the evolutionary stones, so we can level everyone up.'

'Oooooook. Isn't that risky though? In the cartoon they made a Caterpie become huge, and it started destroying a city. And we didn't even do the stones on purpose!.'

'Oh. Yeah. But these are coming from the game, they should be fine.'

Doom crossed her arms. 'Well Bulbasaur isn't taking any. He's awesome, and we plan to level up in the usual way.'

I looked round the base, and remembered almost drowning in a sea of stones. 'Well, whatever they do, shouldn't we try it outside? We don't want a repeat of last time.'

'Good point.'

We moved out into the street, and Rag took aim with the DSDex. There was a flash of purple light, and everyone winced, expecting a shower of sweets to rain down on us.

Nothing. I opened my eyes, looking around. Out in the street there was a small pile of blue-wrappered candies, about 20.
Rag was frowning, first at the small pile and then at the DSDex's screen. 'Well, that's not right, that's what I had in the game anyway...'

We were distracted by a shimmering, ripping sound to our right. At the end of the street, a new rift had torn open, and I could glimpse a bright, flat looking, cartoony forest within it.

This view was blotted out by a writhing mass of purple which started to pour out of the rift and surge down the street towards us.

'Uhhhhhhh.......what's that?' Maelstrom asked, looking concerned.

'Rattatas' I groaned, watching them advance. On my shoulder, MY Rattata was growling, tensed. He had a fierce rivalry with all the 'early in the game' rodenty monsters, and other Rattatas most of all.

'It looks like they're coming for the candy..' Doom muttered.

'We can't take them on one-to-one, there's too many.'

I thought hard. There had to be a way....

'Got it! There's this genius I found out about online! This guy Sam, he came up with a whole new way of battling. It's like a tower defense game! We'll need to line the sides of the road.'

Me and Ragnarok took one side, Doom and Maelstrom took the other. Working round the lamp posts and cafe tables, There were three spaces near me that my Pokémon could stand. I sent out Rattata, Butterfree, and Dratini. I saw that Rag had sent out Charmeleon, and Bulbasaur and Squirtle were ready on the other side.

'Come on VHS, let's show them who they're dealing with!'

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but we've named ourselves VHS. Vigilante (Because we aren't working with the police) Heroes (Because we're saving two worlds) Squad (Because of the Squirtle Squad).

The rattata charged forwards, and the battle was upon us. Butterfree shot out waves of confusion, and Dratini was timidly sending out lots of small twisters. Rattata was repeatedly jabbing forwards, slamming into his targets.

Charmeleon was sending out a constant stream of fire, Bulbasaur was sending out hundreds of Razor Leaves, and Squirtle was using Whirlpool to mop up any foes that had got past all that.

Some of the rats started to fight back, and I saw Dratini wince, a scuff mark appearing on his tail. I healed him with a potion and he glared at the Rattatas. As the last of them came rushing through the tear in reality, he swept them up in a twister. Squirtle, Charmeleon and Bulbasaur added there attacks to it, and we watched as it knocked out all the Rattatas. As Butterfree was wafting the twister towards the tear, a Rattata, looking tired and battered but not yet unconsious, leapt from the top of the twister, and dived for the pavement. He crashed into my Rattata and raced off.

The shard in my shoulder tingled, and the tear closed up.

'Phew.' Rag smiled 'I'm glad that one closed, I'm not sure we could have coped if it stayed active.'

I was more concerned with the two Rattatas racing away from us. The wild one had just reached the pile of candies.

'Uh, you know how we were wondering whether they would have the effect from the games or from the show?'

'Yeah...'

'We're about to find out....'

The Rattata glowed, and started to swell, growing until he towered over the surrounding buildings.

'Sooooooo, cartoon.'

'yep.'

'Damn.'

Yeah, so that was awkward to explain. If you want to learn more about the genius tower defense creator that is Sam, check him out here: http://samdangames.blogspot.co.uk/

Double Trouble!

Sorry for not blogging as much recently, we're going to try harder from now on.

So, yesterday, we had what can only be described, really, as a fanboy moment.

Don and Sammy are back at their Uni's for now, but we promised we'd let them know if anything big happened. We'd got an alert, and ran outside to investigate. Just past the boulder that helps keep people away from the base, the ground gave way beneath us. Groaning, we looked up from the large pit we were in. Three shadows loomed over us, cackling. Two were human, and one was short, with a large ears and a curled tail.

'Hahahahahahahahha!'

'What's happening?' Doom yelled, trying to climb back out.

'What a question, twerpish indeed!'

'We'll answer these questions when we feel the need!'

'Bringing the blinding white light of evil into the future!'

'OHMYGODIT'SYOUGUYS!!' Me and Rag cried in unison, huge grins on our faces.

The woman faltered. 'What? Have we met?'

'DO THE ORIGINAL ONE!'

'The origi- Hey, have you been spying on us!?'

'DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!'

Everyone else knew what we meant. Me and Rag may have been the only ones to recognize the most recent motto, but those silhouettes explained everything.

The man was confused. 'But, how could-'

'DOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOIT!'

The woman sighed, then chuckled. 'Fine, let's give our adoring fans what they want.

They struck a pose.

'Prepare for trouble!'

'And make it double!'

'To protect the world from devastation!'

'To unite all peoples within our nation!'

'To denounce the evils of truth and love!'

'To extend our reach to the stars above!'

'Jessie!'

'James!'

'TEAM ROCKET!' We yelled.
Jessie faltered '-blast off at the speed of light?'
James was oblivious. 'Surrender now or prepare to fight!'
'Meowth!-'
'THAT'S RIGHT!'
'Aay, Wadda you twoips doin? That's my line!'
Jessie lost it. 'Alright twerps, it's time for some answers! How do you know about us?!'
I was still grinning despite her fury.
'Let us out of this hole and we'll show you.'

An old episode of Pokémon was playing on the computer. Team Rocket were staring at it, eyes wide with shock and confusion.
'So...we're...a cartoon?'
'fraid so.'
They gawped for another second, then their faces lit up.
'But...this means-'
Jessie and James hugged each other, leaping into the air.
'We're famous!'
They drew apart, looking at themselves onscreen.
Jessie's eyes gleamed as she watched herself. 'They've captured my likeness perfectly! I'm so gorgeous!'
James agreed. 'And me! I'm ALWAYS the man!'
I pointed at Giovanni. 'You know you're just the players in his master plan, right?'
James wasn't listening. He seemed to be thinking hard. 'That Slowking....he said people were watching us......lots of people.....'
'Yeah, he was talking about us. Our universe has been watching yours for years.'
Jessie frowned. 'Well, that's kinda creepy....'
Meowth rolled his eyes. 'Awlright! When yous two have quite finished, we gots work ta do! Let's find us that Pikachu!'
Rag winced, 'Oooh, about that, Ash isn't here.'
'What?!'
'You're talking about Ash's Pikachu right? They aren't here. Sorry.'
Blank, shocked faces. 'Then.....uh....what do we do?'
'According to the show, you two are about our age, but got bad marks at school and left, and joined Team Rocket. Ever thought of going to Uni? Try and get some qualifications? You know, do something with your life?'
Team rocket considered for a moment, and then fell about laughing. Then they caught sight of the Eevees, who had come to see what all the noise was.
'Huh? Oh, James, look, are those Eevees?'
'I believe they are! And look, a Flareon, Vaporeon and Jolteon!'
'Weeell, it looks like ya got yourselves some rare Pokémons. Why don't we take off ya hands for ya?'
All the mirth in the room evaporated instantly. I stepped forward, glaring. Glaceon was at my side at once, snarling.
'I'm afraid we can't let you do that.'
'Nice of you to drop in, but you've outstayed your welcome.' Maelstrom and Doom frogmarched Jessie outside, and Jonny and Ragnarok did the same with James. I stepped in front of the Eevees, blocking Meowths way, and Sammy grabbed him by the tail, throwing him at the door.
Outside, we gathered round them in a circle.
'Pah! You twerps seriously think you can beat us? Go, Woobat!'
'You too Yamask!'
'Glaceon, Ice Beam!'
'Charmeleon!'
'Bulbasaur!'
'Squirtle!'
'Gloom!'
'Hitmonchan!'
'Onix!'
'Now, Rattata! Flame Wheel!'
They stop screaming long enough to be curious. 'A Rattata with a fire type move? That's rare!'
Boom!
'And such power! We'll be back, for your Rat AND your Eevees. We're Blasting off!'
Ping!
'Huh. they really do make that noise.'
Laughing, we went back inside.

Bye for now!

The other adventure

Hey, this is Ragnarok. Let me finally fill you in on what happened while Tempest's group was in Brighton.

Before Kirlia beamed him away, Tempest had used the DSDex to find out where we needed to get to. We'd been pointed in the direction of the fitzwilliam museum, so we set off.
More and more people are noticing Pichu now, but most of Cambridge have seen, or at least heard about, our little group, so hardly anyone that saw him was surprised, and there were even a few cheers!
We arrived outside the museum, and saw Brock on the steps, overseeing a group of men in white coats carrying boxes and various bits of scientific equipment inside.
'Hey guys! Looks like there's nothing to worry about on this one. Meet the scientists, researchers, and experts of Pewter Museum. The main lab just came through one of those disturbances. '
I looked where he was pointing, and saw a large area of tiled floor lying at an angle on a grassy area next to the museum. Workbenches and shelves were strewn about, thrown by what had clearly been a crash landing.
'The nice folk here have offered us a room to set up in. We're hoping that both sides can learn a lot from this partnership. We want to learn more about your world, and we're going to share our research and technology from our world.'
We helped them move some of the stuff in, told them where they could get new beakers and jars (All the ones they had broke in the crash) and marveled at Happiny carrying a large machine inside all on her own. We saw that inside the Fitzwilliam now seemed much bigger, like the museums in the games, TARDIS-like, with far too much building inside to fit into the outside. Looks like Brock and his scientists would have plenty of room to work anyway.
We had just come out from being shown the new lab, and were heading down the steps, when a figure in a large black coat barged past me.
'Blackmage!'
'Move it losers! I have business to attend to in there.'
'Like what?'
'I need something....fixing. Now that there are more scientists here, there is a chance someone can help.'
He pulled the brim of his hat down, and continued up.
We were distracted from following him to investigate by our phones ringing. All three of our phones. At exactly the same time.
We all checked to see exactly the same message:
DANGER DANGER VHS FRIEND UNITS REQUIRED AT ONCE RAID IN PROGRESS
Porygon!'
We rushed off, and reached the street with our alley on just in time to see two people coming out of it. There was a man carrying Tempest's computer, and a woman dragging a net containing all Glaceon's siblings!
I could tell at once they were part of the same group as the man at our old school. They were both wearing black costumes with silver belts and shoes, and both had fin thing on their arms. The man had spiky white hair with a silver sweatband round his head, and the woman had silvery blue hair that ended in a point, a bit like Jessie's.
'Ha!' The man laughed. 'The fools! Off fighting in Brighton, while we take everything we need! Nobody can stop us now!'
'Yeah, you'd think, but no.'
'What!? What are you doing here!?'
'Seriously? There are seven of us. Did you really think we'd ALL go off to Brighton if two alerts went off at once?'
The woman jabbed the man in the ribs. 'Told you!'
'Then we shall just have to teach you a lesson about interfering!'
Hitching the computer under one arm, he pulled three balls from his pocket, opening them.
A stunky, a Poochyena, and an Ariados were released, as the woman released three of her own.
Zigzagoon, Numel and Qwilfish.
We sent out two each.Charmeleon leapt at Ariados, and Snover went for Qwilfish. Onix loomed over Numel, Pidgey dived at Zigzagoon, and Hitmonchan struck at Stunky. Poochyena was running at Riolu, who was looking at his first real opponent fearfully. Closing his eyes, he stuck a paw out in front of him defensively. Poochyena charged forwards, but as soon as the tip of it's nose had made contact with Riolu's paw, the paw glowed ever so slightly, and Poochyena was sent flying into a wall. Riolu opened one eye cautiously, and stared at what he'd done. Giving a little chuckle, he headed over to Poochyena to finish up.
Happiny had made her way over to the man. She stamped on his foot, and he let out a yell, dropping the computer. She caught it, and sped off towards the base. Pichu had run over to the net, and was trying to cut it open with Iron tail. The woman saw and snarled. 'Leave it, tiny!' She sneered, and kicked him. I let out a yell as he soared through the air, and leapt, catching him mid-flight, protecting him as we crashed to the ground. I got up, groaning.
'You sick cow! You're going to regret doing that!'
'Oh really? Why?'
'Because a pattern is emerging. Everytime someone is mean to Pichu-'
A red blur shot past, slamming her to the floor.
'- that happens.'
Ariados was lying collapsed in a corner, smoking. I fed Pichu a berry, and went to cut open the net. The Eevees and Eeveelutions rushed out, and helped finish the fight, including a heavy assault on the strange man. Like the women in brighton, they vanished in a ripple of pinkish points of light once they'd lost, along with Ariados and the others. What the hell is that anyway?
That's it really. Bye for now!