Troublesome Force: Chapter Five

Troublesome Force: Chapter Five



Place: Gaira, between Sega Town and Nintendo City
Gaira suddenly began to shift direction. Everyone was tossed around, but Pika and Ana, being the lightest in terms of weight, were tossed around the most.
When Gaira was stationary again, Pika was on the wall, his tail caught in a space between two... whatever it was that Gaira was made of.
Ana was on the control console.
Alis was facing the window in the direction in which Gaira was moving.
Paula was flat on the floor. She arose, limping. After taking only a few steps, she grasped her left leg and grimaced in pain. A small trickle of blood flowed from a small cut on the leg.
Ana came over.
"Paula, is something wrong?" Ecoli asked.
"Ow..." she replied. "My leg... hurts bad... get me... my... Hand-Aid.."
Ana/Ecoli walked over to Paula's backpack and brought out a small bandage marked with the name "Hand-aid". They took it over to Paula and applied it on the cut. A glow arose from Paula's leg, and she was no longer in pain.
"Thank you, cousin. You too, Ecoli."
"No problem," the two answered.
Alis had been looking intently at the building with two elephant statues in front of it that she believed was a temple.
Paula went over to free Pika before he shocked them, and Ana/Ecoli joined Alis.
"Isn't that Dalaam?" asked Ana.
"Ka!" (Aah!) Pika went flying out of his tail-hold and ended up hitting his head on the window. "Pika kachu pik." (That's an ouchie.)
Paula walked over. "Ana, did you say something about... it is Dalaam! Siruv's really going to crash Gaira into Dalaam! But why?"


Place: Siruv's Palace, Cartamian Desert
"I told you it was a bad idea to not tranquilise them, milord," a Virus said apprehensively.
"You dare to blame me? To the dungeon! NOW! Before I cut your head off!" boomed Siruv angrily.


Place: Siruv's Dungeon, Cartamian Desert
Ness awoke when something hit him in the face. A Brain Stone! he thought. Now I can get away!
He focused his PSI energy and broke the chains.
"Paula, wherever you are, be strong. I'm going to Dalaam!"
"Can you help us?" someone asked.
Ness turned. In the cell beside him was a yellow cat with jackrabbit ears, and a red-haired woman in white wearing an amber robe.
"Please let us out," pleaded the girl.
Humanitarian that he was, Ness whipped out a bat and smacked the cage a few times. That not only broke the cage, but also alerted the guards to a jailbreak-in-progress.
"Quick! Hurry!" Ness stated.

The cat and the woman ran out of the cage, and into the hallway leading to the exit. But when they got there, they were met by a shocking surprise: it was a dead end!
"Oh no, what are we going to do now?" the cat moaned
Ness wasn't exactly shocked, which in fact shocked the cat, who wasn't used to people who weren't shocked at his being able to speak English.
"I see you've met a Musk Cat before," the Musk Cat commented.
"Actually, no I haven't."
"Then, I suppose we should make the proper introductions."
"I'm Myau," the Musk Cat commented.
"I'm Amy Sage," the woman commented. "I'm a doctor. I might not be physically strong, but the power of my healing techniques is unsurpassed."
"And I'm Ness Lee," Ness commented.
A groan could be heard for miles beyond.
"Whenever I say my name, that groan happens. I wonder why..."
Suddenly a blond man clothed in black fell rotating from the sky.
"I'm a travelling photographer!" the man exclaimed.
"Hey, I know you!" Ness remarked.
"Pictures taken instantaneously!"
"I remember that line..." Ness moaned.
"Look at the camera... Ready... Say, 'fuzzy pickles.'"
Ness couldn't control himself, and struck a pose. His picture was taken.
"Is there something wrong... Ness?" Amy asked.
"No, it's just something I do. It's a reflex," Ness replied.
"Oh." Myau was dizzied because of the flash, spinning around, speaking only monosyllabically.
The photographer flew back in the air.
"I really can't understand how he finds me in all these places," Ness muttered.
Suddenly the Omnicrone-like (but not really Omnicrones) guards rushed into the hallway.
"I believe we've been discovered," Amy noted.
"How long did it take you to realise that?" Ness demanded angrily.

Note from Anthadd: get ready for at least five lines of attack-learning.
Ness learned HEAL, CURE, RES, NASAR (because Sar and Gisar aren't the same strength as PSI Life-up Omega, but Nasar is close), GRA (closest technique to PSI Rockin), ANTI, AROWS, RIMPA, RISE (read PSI Healing), PSYCHIC (take a wild guess), EFESS, and SHU.
Myau learned GIRES, SHU, DEBAN, SHIFT, BARRIER, DBLSLASH, WARLA, SCRATCH (he's a cat, all right?), SLASH, FURY SWIPES, BITE, PSI LIFE-UP ALPHA, PSI OFFENSE-UP ALPHA, and PSI PSYCHIC SHIELD SIGMA.
Amy (get ready for a stream of healing abilities) learned HEAL, CURE, RISE, WALL, PROT, PSI LIFE-UP ALPHA, PSI HEALING ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA and OMEGA. (I told you) She also learned FLAELI, FIRE, and PSI FIRE ALPHA.
The guards descended upon the young boy from Onett, the talking Musk Cat, and the Palman doctor practising on Motavia.
Ness brought out his Casey Bat. Although he knew of its unreliability, he thought that this battle would be completed quicker if he was using this bat than his Gutsy Bat.
Myau bared his fangs, and Amy armed herself with a staff with the term "Foie" imprinted on it.
Battle: Amy, Myau, Ness vs. 3 Siruv Guards
A Siruv Guard attacked! 100 HP damage to Amy!
Amy raised her right hand! The robe glowed! 60 HP recovered!
"HELP!" Myau exclaimed as Ness was going in for a swing. Ness felt stronger!
Ness swung! Barely missed hitting the target!
"Oh no, not this again," Ness moaned. "My accuracy's down!"
"THUN," one of the Siruv Guards said evilly.
"WALL!" Myau exclaimed.
"PROT!" Amy yelled.
Just as the thunderbolts hit the three [new] friends, two separate shields popped up in front of the heroes and heroine, absorbing the 'bolts.
"GRA!" Ness exclaimed. A rotating ball of gravity surrounded each of the guards! About 10 HP damage was done to each.
"GRA isn't working!" Myau stated, shocked. He then leaped, claws extended.
"BITE-FURY SWIPES double attack!" he screamed.
Myau slashed with both his claws five times while sinking his fangs deep into the Siruv Guard's body. Somehow, because of the THUN attack, his Silver Fang became, unexplainably, electrically charged. And now that energy was being injected into the Siruv Guard.
"Aaaaiieee!" the Guard exclaimed as the Virus exited him, then exploded.
The remaining Siruv Guards immediately went to bond the guard to some chains.
"This is hopeless..." Amy said sadly.


Place: Dalaam, Nintendo City
Jeff and Poo landed in Dalaam. The old man in the palace ran up to him.
"What's wrong?" Poo asked.
"The legend of the Descending is coming true..." he said before fainting.
"Legend of the Descending?" Jeff pondered.
"It's an old legend of Dalaam. It was created in the days when we were called Ranmans."

"After he who obliterated worlds has been obliterated himself," Poo began, "the dark sun of evil will descend from the sky. Unless the obliterators of the obliterator can destroy the sun, Ranma will be no more."
"Is that all?" Jeff asked.
"No," Poo replied. "The rest of it reads as such:
"When the dark sun begins to descend, one will be at world's end.
"Another one, sadly on the dark sun.
"Remaining two, you know exactly who."
"Obliterator of worlds... cosmic destroyer!" Jeff exclaimed. "Giygas!"
"Then that means we're the remaining two..."
"But who are the 'one will be at world's end' and 'sadly on the dark sun'? I know one is Ness, then the other would obviously be Paula, but which one is which?"
Suddenly Jeff doubled over.

Jeff... this.. Paula.. on.. Gai.. -- Ness.. says... Gaira... crash... Dalaam... evacuate... before... too late...

When Jeff came to, he found himself in Poo's palace, on a makeshift bed made out of rice gruel and jars of Delisauce.
Poo was looking in his eyes. Ani (some extremely weird Dalaamian with a crush on Poo) was looking in Poo's eyes. Poo was trying to ignore Ani.
"Poo.. is the dark sun coming?" Ani asked pleadingly.
"Yes, Ani," Poo answered, "but don't get all upset with it. Jeff and I are two of the people mentioned in the old Ranman legend of the Descending."
"But where are the others? Aren't they on the dark sun and at world's end?"
"Yes, but they will come. The Legend of Descending reads that we will destroy the dark sun."


Place: Gaira, Entering Nintendo City
"Dalaam is getting closer..." Alis noted.
Paula and Ana shot off to the control console.
After about ten minutes of randomly hitting keys, Paula kicked the console.
"Why won't you work?!" she demanded angrily.
Suddenly a robot voice droned on. "Manual over-ride is now... enabled."
Paula immediately had a grin on her face.
"Let's just... mess around with Siruv's plan," she said mischievously.
"No you don't!" It was the same voice that made her tell.
A new form appeared in the control room. It was slightly taller than Alis, but had purple hair and ears like those of Myau. One hand carried a light beam, the other a bar like a boomerang.
"Who... what are you?" Ana asked timidly.
"Ka!" (Yeah!)
"I am Neifirst, and by the will of Siruv, all human Cartamians will be destroyed!"

Battle: Alis, Ana/Ecoli, Paula, Pika vs. Neifirst (very nasty character)
 Neifirst threw the boomerang! It hit Alis, Ana and Paula for damage! Pika wasn't attacked. He's too small.
"PSI PSYCHIC SHIELD SIGMA!" Paula called out.
"SASHU!" exclaimed Ana.
"PIKACHU!" (ADOL!)
However, the mysterious shadow imposing itself above Neifirst blocked her from any damage from ADOL.
"ADOL didn't work!" Alis remarked, abashed.
Neifirst fired the beam at Paula, who ducked and shot over to Pika.
"Pika," she whispered, dodging Neifirst's attacks, "you're being ignored. Try to steer the station away from Dalaam."
"Chu," he replied. (Okay.)
Pika started slinking away to the computer council, but with one snap of Neifirst's fingers, a Poleziss robot popped up and grabbed Pika in his cybernetic arms.
"Bad idea, Neifirst," Ana sneered. "Pika can use electric attacks."
Only seconds after Ana said that did it sink into Neifirst's mind. Pika was almost unconscious.
"Let the rat go!" Neifirst ordered the Poleziss.
PIK... (RAT...) Pika pondered, getting increasingly annoyed.
Just as the Poleziss let go of him, Pika let go of a THUNDER.
"PIKACHU!"
"Pi-pi-pi-pika! Metal con-con-conducts... electricity!" Ecoli said. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Ecoli shot out of Ana's body.
"Ecoli!" Alis said.
"Ana!" Paula murmured.
Pika leapt in the air, and grabbing Ecoli with his tail, landed by the now-unconscious Ana, who gratefully took Ecoli back in. That is, when they were both revived...


Place: Siruv's Dungeon, Cartamian Desert

Battle: Amy, Myau, Ness vs. 2 Siruv Guards
"EFESS!" Ness screamed. Columns of holy fire drove themselves into the remaining guards, but only took 1 HP off each.
Myau was prowling around one of the guards.
"Hold on a minute!" Amy said. "When Myau drove the Virus out, he used an electrically-charged Silver Fang, didn't he?"
"Yeah," Ness said, dodging a punch.
"We need electricity to beat them!" Myau said, jumping on one of the Siruv Guards.
"But where are we going to find electricity?" Ness asked. Both Amy and Myau noticeably slowed down about this time.
Amy lifted the staff. A burst of flame shot out of it! 1 HP of damage!
"We do need electricity to beat them!"


Place: Dalaam, Nintendo City
 "Oh no! The dark sun is coming!"
"Why isn't the prince doing anything?"
"The prince is mad!"
These sort of complaints had become routine to Poo ever since it had been revealed that the legend of the Descending was coming true.
"Calm down people! The prince is doing all he can!" Ani, of course.
"You know, Poo," Jeff said, "I really think Ani likes you."
"She's liked me ever since we were in swabs."
"Swabs?... oh, diapers!"

Baby Ani came over to baby Poo.
(Prince Poo, I think you're the bee's knees.)
"Prince Poo, time for your Mu training."
Poo mooed.
"No, that's not what I meant..."
"I never knew you were such a ladies' man, Poo," Jeff said. "Wait a minute, yeah, I did!" Jeff smirked.
"Want me to put you back in that stretcher, Jeff? Then don't make me have to use this." He handled his Sword of Kings.
Ani rushed in. "The people are revolting!" she gasped. "They think you want the dark sun to destroy them."
"Down with Poo! Siruv should rule!"
"Down with Poo! Siruv should rule!"
"Poo, it's Siruv! He's possessed them!"
"Master! Come here!" Poo requested.
"Siruv must rule..." droned his master.
"We've got to leave!" Jeff told Ani.
"But... Dalaam.."
"We have to leave, Ani," Poo said quietly.





Ness is on his way to escape with Myau the Musk Cat and Amy Sage. Paula, Ana, Ecoli, Alis, and Pika are in a life-and-death struggle with Neifirst in Gaira, which in en route to Dalaam, most of whose inhabitants have been taken over by the True Viruses. Only Jeff, Poo and Ani were able to escape. Check out what happens on the next episode of Troublesome Force!