Episode 34:
Out Of Phase

Author(s): IcyPikachu and InsaneLlama

Icy and InsaneLlama packed out their bags and began their long journey to Fuchsia City. “Let’s visit the Safari Zone while we’re there.”

“Don’t you already ... have a ton of pokémon, Icy,” Insane asked.

“Well... yes... but I wanna see what others I can find. I still take care of them all...,” Icy said in reply.

They continued walking. They were nearing the docks when they ran into a fisherman.

“Ahhh matey. How’s about a pokémon battle? I haven’t seen many people here lately,” the fisherman said to Insane.

As usual, Icy volunteered to do battle. “I’ll battle you,” he said into the translator. As usual, the fisherman was shocked that a talking Pikachu wanted to battle him.

“Uhhh... very well... One on one! GO Vaporeon!” Insane was amazed to see the old man actually had some good pokémon. Vaporeon appeared in front of Icy.

“A water poké, this will be easy!”

“That’s what you think.”

Icy prepared to fire his thunderbolt at Vaporeon, but before he could, Vaporeon’s tail slammed into him.

“AGGHHHHH!!!!” he screamed as he went flying through the air. Then, all the sudden, he vanished.

“Wha... where’d he go?” Insane said in confusion.

The fisherman looked at Vaporeon who was immensely pleased with its victory. “Wow... I never knew you were that strong...”

No one knew where Icy had vanished to. No one except...

The world seemed different now. The water was gone, along with the dock. Insane, the Vaporeon and its trainer, they were all gone. He found himself surrounded by stars and darkness. A voice called out to him.

“Welcome Icy. So, you finally made it.” A deep and sinister laugh rang out.

“Whe... Where am I? Who are you?” Icy asked childishly. Fear gripped him tighter then anything he’d ever experienced.

“Don’t you recognize this place?” The voice began growing louder as it spoke. Soon, Icy saw the dark figure approaching him. “Don’t you recognize me? I told you I’d have my revenge...” The figure slowly came into focus.

“Giovanni?” Icy said timidly.

“Am I?” the figure puzzled. It transformed again to resemble Mew.

“Mimic? Doppler?” Icy was becoming very confused.

“Wrong again... Really Icy, I had a little more faith in you...”

“Mewtwo...” Icy said...

“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 so 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 he 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. 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 pokéball, leaned down with its nose, rolled it over near rapidash, and pressed the button. Charmander went into the pokéball. Insanellama called him out. “Howdy there pardner.” said Insanellama. “CHAR CHAR!” He packed up and got ready to make camp.

Icy’s body flew freely through the ethereal plane until Mewtwo psychically pulled it back towards him. “Foolish child. You will never be able to defeat me. You obviously aren’t ready for the information I have. Even if I shared it with you, you couldn’t even hope to change the events that took place. Perhaps our paths will cross once again Icy. Until then, I return you to your previous time frame.” In a flash, a sunny road replaced the dark world with a trainer walking by. Icy saw as the ground came closer and closer. He screamed all the way down.

InsaneLlama was petting his new Charmander. Its flame glowed with strength. “He’s such a great find. Not even the Charmanders that Prof. Oak gives out are this nice.” He was about the pet his Charmander again when something heavy hit him on the head. Icy’s little Pikachu body smashed into InsaneLlama causing him to fall over. “What the?!?” Insane said amazed.

“Oww… Oh, thanks for breaking my fall.

“No… problem…”