by IcyPikachu and InsaneLlama
Last time, Icy found himself in a
strange place talking to a mysterious figure. And now...
Out of Phase: Part III
“Mewtwo...,” Icy said coldly.
The dark figure quadrupled in size and revealed its
true form. “Well, that took you long enough,” Mewtwo said sarcastically.
Icy looked at his surroundings again. “What is
this place?” Mewtwo sneered at him again.
“Sure. You’d want me to connect the dots for you.
Lead you from A to B to C. Well, it’s not that simple. You
know Icy, I had much higher expectations of you.”
“Is this the Void?”
“You’re close.”
“What do you mean, close?”
“I’ll give you that one for free. We are still
within the space-time continuum. This is a place known as the Ethereal
Plane. Normal time is progressing while we are here.”
“How did you bring me here? Why?”
“There you go again. You ask way too many
questions. But you never ask the right one.”
“Stop talking in riddles. What question should I
ask?”
“Oh you’re going to want to know the answer to it.
It’s been bothering you for months.” Mewtwo chuckled to himself.
Icy’s anger had started. “What? Tell me
what you know. What is the right question?”
“I’ll give you a hint,” he said quickly. Slowing
his voice down, he continued, “It has to do with, your past.” Icy could
have sworn Mewtwo sneered maliciously at him after finishing his sentence.
“What from my past! Tell me! Tell me
Mewtwo!” Icy’s rage was growing by the minute. He tried greatly to
hold in his Pikachu instincts, knowing Mewtwo needed but a single blast to
defeat him.
“Temper temper. You just can’t figure it
out. One of the most gifted psychics in the world, the others being
myself and Sabrina, and you still can’t even figure out the right question.”
Icy lost it finally screaming, “Enough puzzles!
Tell me what you know NOW!!!” With that, he charged straight for
Mewtwo. Psychic energy engulfed his body as her flew through the
air. Just before he could land his attack, his body felt an enormous
amount of pain.
“BUFFALO
CHIPS! Where in the heck did ICY GO! He was there one minute, but now he’s
gone. Even my old pal FlamingHorse couldn’t track his trail now.” said
Insanellama. “This is scaring me” said Nova. “Believe me stranger things have
happened” said Insanellama grinning over at his rapidash. Insanellama paced
back and fourth, spurs ringing with each step. He casually drew and field
stripped one of his Colt .45’s. As he passed by Rapidash he pulled his cleaning
kit out of its saddlebags and kept moving. “Well, it’s gonna be a while before
he talks,” said Taurus. “Whenever he gets this way he’s doing some heavy
thinking.”
Insanellama continued cleaning his gun. Then he put it
back together. As he passed by rapidash, in one fluid motion, he holstered his
weapon, put up his cleaning kit, re-drew and fired at a knothole in tree
spitting it on his bullet. He pulled out a screwdriver, adjusted something and
said in a low voice. “Site’s a little to the right.” he fired another round, “Much
better.” He holstered his weapon yet again, and turned to the group. “Well,
best thing I think we can do, is take our time gettin to fuchsia, lest someone’s
layin up for us.” A rustle in the bushes caught his attention. He started to
draw, but saw it was to small to be a human. A charmander slipped out of the
bushes. Insanellama unleashed Squirtle. “SQUIRTLE BUBBLE NOW!” He didn’t want
to make it faint but he wanted it weakened. It had the desired effect. “POKEBALL
GO!” Charmander casually sidestepped. Then in a strange gesture which
insanellama later interpreted as charmander wanting a friend, charmander walked
over to the pokeball, leaned down with its nose, rolled it over near rapidash,
and pressed the button. Charmander went into the pokeball. Insanellama called
him out. “Howdy there pardner.” said Insanellama. “CHAR CHAR!”
“Well, let’s go on up ahead a little ways and set up
camp,” said Insanellama, “I’ll watch our back trail, Taurus, u take point.”
They moved off into the night.
To Be Continued…
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