PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT FINISHED MY CHALLENGE YET AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD RAISE THE DEADLINE BY A DAY OR SO. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TODAY. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND I'LL TRY TO FINISH IT TOMORROW IF I CAN. IF I CAN'T, WELL, THEN JUST JUDGE THE PARTS I'VE WRITTEN SO FAR.
:609: Now to begin...the only series of writing challenges ever that I ever wrote in a continuing storyline...of course, I have to slightly wing it a bit, but enough talking! Let’s begin, then!
THE THROWBACK ARC
:609: I’m sure everyone and their great-grandmothers have written a throwback to their previous characters in previous seasons in Pokémon Universe. Well, me and my writer are taking that to the extreme! Not only are we making references to Azaru and his alter-ego, and Steve, we’re also referring to characters in EVERY SINGLE GAME MY WRITER HAS EVER WROTE IN (that he remembers anyways) and then some. We are hoping to finish this roughly-six-writing-challenge arc before I get eliminated/win/whatever, but, anyways, this is way too much explaining! Now, like I said before, LET’S BEGIN THE ARC!
Pokémon Universe X Challenge
Starring Maestro Chandy Man, Azaru and his alter-ego, and Candeli!
0- The Prologue
“Pokémon Universe: Power of Six!! How exciting!” Azaru said with a huge grin on his face. “If I win, I’ll get a bunch of money for my accomplishments!”
Azaru entered the building and saw a magnificent sight of eighteen different Pokémon communicating with each other. A Sky Shaymin flew to Azaru and greeted him with a smile.
“Greetings! Your name is Azaru, correct?” The Infernape nodded. “Yes, we’ve put you on the Red Team over there! Socialize with them and get ready for a number of grueling challenges that’ll test your soul and skill!”
* * *
Power of Six was a failure. Only one Pokémon from the Blue Team, thankfully, was eliminated before the season was cancelled. However, Azaru hoped that this would all change this season, the eighth season of the popular game show so far.
Once again, Azaru entered the huge building and gasped as he saw about ten different teams of two people calmly talking. The dynamic of the game seemed to have changed a lot...
“Hello, Azaru!” the Sky Shaymin from before flew up to Azaru. “Yes, we’ve changed the dynamic a lot! Instead of teams, we now divide you into couples! And according to this paper, you’re coupled with Candeli the Chandelure over there!”
Azaru nodded. “Thanks. Okay then, I’ll get prepared to win!”
* * *
“WHAAAAAAAAAT?” Azaru and Candeli simultaneously exclaimed and stared at Sky Shaymin, shocked.
“Yes, you see, the ratings for this season have been pretty low. So, we decided to switch the dynamic up again and replace you guys with a...um...” the Sky Shaymin cheerfully looked at a paper on his clipboard. “Torkoal and a Beeheeyem! Don’t worry, if they win, you win too!”
Azaru and Candeli both shared a look of shock. Then, Azaru shrugged. “Fine. In that case, see ya, Skymin, when the next season comes around!”
* * *
“What is this madness?” Azaru exclaimed as a group of Koffing and Zubat burst into his house and began firing poisonous fumes everywhere. They merely cackled and did not reply.
“I’m a Ninja Infernape, you know! ELITE agent!” Azaru yelled as he used his ninja tactics to attack the villains with an Overheat that surrounded Azaru with a huge ring of fire. The Koffing and Zubat were successfully knocked out by the powerful attack.
“Hah! Take that, you...ow...why do I suddenly feel...soooooo w-weak...” Azaru tried to stay awake, but he couldn’t and fell to the ground.
Azaru’s true last words were, “Stupid...fumes...”
1- Adventure in Australia!
“Australia, huh?” Maestro Chandy Man looked at the surroundings in the desert around him. “Not too shabby...”
The Pokémon Universe producers had forced all their contestants to survive in the dry desert. Whoever successfully did would get prizes galore! And Maestro Chandy Man intended to get those prizes.
“So...now where can I begin...” Maestro Chandy Man looked around him again for any flammable material. “None, huh? Well, I guess I’ll have to waste my piece of wood...”
Maestro Chandy Man took out a piece of wood from the pack on his back and fired a small flame at it. It immediately burst into flames. Maestro Chandy Man smiled and sucked all the flames out of the wood.
“Nothing better than a good fire to replenish your belly!” Maestro Chandy Man said with a relieved sigh. “Now...what should I do now...Arceus, surviving in a desert will be more boring than I thought...”
As soon as he finished this sentence, a gang of ten Chandelure jumped out of nowhere, wearing suspicious masks.
“Whoa! First things first, I have nothing on me except for a pack full of pieces of wood and barely alive peop-uh...let’s get away from that part...anyways, I don’t know how that’s physically possible since I’m a fire ghost, but whatever! And second, why is my writer obsessed with the number ten! I mean, ten Tropius, ten Chandelure, the Universe season name is even ten!” Maestro Chandy Man exclaimed quickly.
“SILENCE!” one of the Chandelure boomed. Maestro Chandy Man immediately became silent. “We just want to know if you want to join in the Chandies’ noble war against the Ninja Infernapez!”
“Chandies and Ninja Infernapez? What the hell are you talking about?” Maestro Chandy asked questionably. One of the Chandelure groaned.
“That means we must knock you out and bring you to our boss and force you to join us in our noble war, unfortunately.” The Chandelure said.
“What did you say?” Maestro Chandy Man said, his voice full with shock.
“We’re sorry for this!” All ten Chandelure simultaneously yelled while simultaneously charging up Shadow Balls.
“Ah sh...” Thankfully for younger readers, the ten Shadow Balls cut off Maestro Chandy Man before he could continue.
2- The Super-Secret Base in Area 51!
“My writer sucks...” Maestro Chandy Man groaned immediately after he woke up. “Why must he make me faint so much...”
“Silence, fool!” a loud, creepy voice yelled. Maestro Chandy Man cowered and looked towards the direction of the voice, expecting to see a big, bulky Pokémon with monstrous strength so monstrous you can see it’s monstrous right from looking at the guy one time!
Instead, he saw a Chandelure tinier than him, tinier than any Chandelure in the entire area! Maestro Chandy Man could not resist laughing out loud.
“Quiet!” one of the Chandelure guards next to the tiny Chandelure yelled. The other Chandelure was quiet. “Be respectful to Small Boss Tiny Terror!”
Maestro Chandy Man laughed again. “Hah! Small Boss Tiny Terror! What an intimidating name, hah!”
“QUIET FOOL!!!!” Tiny Terror said, enraged. “NOW LISTEN TO MY OFFER OR DIE!!!!”
“Okay, okay, sheesh...first, can you tell me WHERE I AM?” Maestro Chandy Man said angrily.
“You are in the Super Secret Base in Area 51!” Small Boss exclaimed, expecting applause.
“Didn’t Azaru of the Ninja Infernapez infiltrate here and got shot by a bunch of humans guards with guns? You call that secret?” Small Boss seemed to be on the verge of exploding.
“QUIET!!!!!!! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHO THE HELL THE NINJA INFERNAPEZ WERE!!!!!” Small Boss yelled.
“Well, the writer told me, of course.” Maestro Chandy Man said. “Now, why are you in a war against the Ninja Infernapez again? Tell me and I may consider the offer.”
“Those fools EXPLODED our super-secret base underwater for NO REASON, never mind how Fire-types can’t survive in water! Obviously, we were enraged and struck back at them! Obviously, they were enraged and they struck back at us! Obviously, we were...” Small Boss Tiny Terror was evidently going to drag on and on, so Maestro Chandy Man decided to interrupt him.
“Alright, I get it! Eventually, you got into a serious war!" Maestro Chandy Man cried. "So, you're expecting me to join this war just because I'm a Chandelure?"
"Correct."
"So I expect you're exploiting our fire sucking power to suck all the fire from our enemies and train us not to suck the fire out of our Chandy friends and then we attack a huge Ninja Infernape air fortress, am I correct?" Maestro Chandy Man said, vicious sarcasm evident from his tone of voice.
"Absolutely correct!"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?" Maestro Chandy Man yelled with shock.
"Correct! TRAINING BEGINS NOW!" Tiny Terror yelled. He motioned towards his guards who signalled Maestro Chandy Man to follow them. With heavy hesitation, Maestro Chandy Man sighed and followed the guards, since he had nothing better to do.
3- Battle Above the Dead Sea!
It had been five grueling months of training. His teacher had been the Elite Agent Candeli of Pokémon Universe fame, one of Tiny Terror's very own Elite Guard. Over the months, he had learned many things about not just the Chandies, but also the Ninja Infernapez. The Chandies' boss, Small Boss Tiny Terror, had became that way because of a disability or positive ability, whichever way you want to think about it, that removed his Fire and Ghost type moves entirely, but increased the power of his other typed-moves. Conversely, he had learned information about the Ninja Infernapez from the time when they had a shaky treaty, including information about the boss of the Ninja Infernapez, Big Boss Giant God, had an ability that dramatically increased the power of his Fire and Fighting type moves, but dramatically decreased the power of all his other moves. The Elite Agent of the Ninja Infernapez had been Azaru-Z.
Maestro Chandy Man had asked Candeli all the time about Azaru-Z, but could not pry any information from her. He looked just like Azaru from Pokémon Universe 9, but had these...mechanical parts on him that made him looked very defected. Finally, at the last day of training before the war, Candeli had told him.
"He was my partner in Universe 9, as you probably know." Candeli began. "We lost, but the real point here is we were good friends for a long time after that. One day, he disappeared and came back years later as a horrible Azaru Porygon-Z fusion. I greeted him, but he didn't reply at all. Then, he just retreated into his house for hours a day, never doing anything outside."
"Why?" Maestro Chandy Man asked curiously.
"I can only imagine that the fusion made him turn into an emotionless being with no desire for anything at all." Candeli said.
Maestro Chandy Man was both fascinated and horrified by this information.
And Maestro Chandy Man knew this would help him in the upcoming attack if he ever faced the emotionless Elite Agent. Five months of training had helped him become a strong Chandelure, so strong he became a part of Candeli's elite group, and he was ready for the attack physically. Not mentally, however. He had tried to escape many times, since he really didn't want to kill his fellow Pokémon, but the Chandies always caught him every time before he went too far.
Every time.
"ATTACK!" Tiny Terror's booming voice broke Maestro Chandy Man's train of thought. Candeli nodded and quietly directed her group towards the side of the Ninja Infernapez' air fortress. They were to enter the air fortress stealthily and take out Giant God and their resources while the battle above was happening.
"Alright, let's burn a hole in the side." Candeli whispered. Maestro Chandy Man, Candeli, and the six other Chandelure in the group quickly and efficiently burned a hole in the side. As soon as they entered, they noticed jetpacks next the two closest walls and a door. Candeli stared at the jetpacks and then did a signal to burn them all into ashes. It was evident the Ninja Infernapez used these jetpacks to guard their air fortress and destroying them would surely ruin their advances.
As soon as they destroyed all the jetpacks, a squad of Infernape entered the room through the door and stared at the Chandelure. The leader immediately fired a flame at them, but it was sucked into their bodies because of their ability.
"Alpha Attack, now!" Candeli ordered. The seven other Chandelure followed the order without hesitation and the Infernape gasped for breath, but Maestro Chandy Man didn't. They were war-hardened and all he had was five months of training. He only killed those who attacked him for little-to-no reason, but he knew these Infernape had a reason, whatever reason it was. Perhaps they didn't trust the Chandelure...
"Chandy, attack now!" one of the Chandelure next to him snarled. Maestro Chandy Man nodded and, in a daze, started sucking all the fire energy out of all the poor Infernape.
* * *
"We're almost at Big Boss' room!" Candeli said. "From there, it'll just be slightly harder than all the other Ninja Infernapez we've killed already."
"I don't think so..." A mechanical voice said, echoing in the metal room. Candeli gasped and seemed to recognize it.
"Watch out, guys! It's Azaru-Z!" Candeli yelled.
"Oh, Candeli, helloooo! Long time, no see, eh? Unfortunately for me, all my more powerful attacks are hindered by your resistances, but I'm sure...I can change that..."
Suddenly, a huge blast of lightning hit the Chandelure nearest to Maestro Chandy Man. He was horrifyingly electrocuted and he crumpled to the ground.
"War is freaking horrifying!" Maestro Chandy Man immediately cried as he moved away in fear.
"Shut it, Chandy!" a Chandelure yelled. A second later, a Signal Beam hit the Chandelure.
"Get out of the shadows, Azaru-Z!" Candeli yelled.
"Nah...I think I'll take all of you down and then face you myself, Candeli. I'll show you how superior to you I am in battle, Chandelure..." Candeli shot a flame at the place where Azaru-Z's voice was coming from. A barrage of boulders destroyed the flame and knocked out a nearby Chandelure, leaving only five Chandelure left.
Maestro Chandy Man was very worried now. Who would be the next one to fall victim to Azaru-Z's crazy attacks?
"Squad, attack everywhere you can with hexes and confusing rays!" Candeli shouted. The squad agreed and began simultaneously firing sinister, transparent rays and purple fogs at the ceiling.
"Like that'll work..." Still shrouded in shadows, Azaru-Z jumped out of his hiding spot on the ceiling and crazily fired shadowy orbs towards the Chandelure squad. Maestro Chandy Man barely dodged a Shadow Ball and decided to strike back with a Shadow Ball of his own. However, it merely passed through Azaru-Z. Maestro Chandy Man growled and immediately afterwards, a ricocheting Shadow Ball hit him in the back.
"Agh!" Maestro Chandy Man winced as he hung onto the verge of consciousness and three other Chandelure fell to the ground.
"Ahhhh, too bad you didn't die, music man. Eh, well, I'm sure a Punishment will get you out of the battle for now." He ran closer to Maestro Chandy Man with a fist surrounding with a purple aura raised and he finally truly saw Azaru-Z. He was a horrifying image, much more horrifying than all the pictures the Chandies showed him. He looked like a normal Infernape, aside from the fact he had intimidating robotic, yellow eyes and a few randomly located strips of dark purple and blue on him. He was also wearing a jetpack that looked more mechanical than the standard model for the Ninja Infernapez.
It was confusing.
Get in the game, Chandy! Maestro Chandy Man yelled in his head. He couldn't be confusedby a horrible fusion who was close to killing him with a single punch...
Well, since he was going to die, he was going to accept it. He closed his eyes and...
The dark punch never came. After a few seconds, Maestro Chandy Man opened his eyes and saw Azaru-Z next to the wall, looking horribly disjointed and dead. He looked towards Candeli, who had a blue aura surrounding her.
"Psychic?" Candeli nodded. "Thanks for the narrow save, commander!"
Candeli nodded again and looked sadly towards the unconscious, perhaps dead, Chandelure lying on the floor. "Now it's time to take down the Big Boss and carry these guys to safety..."
"A-a-a PUnishment...w-w-will...g-get you o-out of the battle...f-f-for now..." Maestro Chandy Man cast a scared glance at Azaru-Z. His head was tilted at an abnormal angle like his neck had been snapped. Which it probably had.
"Oh, t-that's not very good, is it, commander?" Maestro Chandy Man said as Azaru-Z rose, very unbalanced. Candeli shook her head.
"We should probably run now, right, commander?" Maestro Chandy Man said as Azaru-Z regained his balance. Candeli nodded.
"Let's go!" Maestro Chandy Man screamed as Azaru-Z started hurtling towards the two. They both floated above the punch, nearly hit by Azaru-Z, and witness the fusion break down the door to Big Boss' quarters.
"Well, hopefully, Azaru-Z will do our job for us!" This was confirmed a second later when a huge Infernape smashed into the wall, followed by Azaru-Z.
"MUST...DESTROY...ALL." Azaru-Z said in a very glitchy voice. He shifted his gaze to Candeli and brutally attacked her with a nimble strike and she landed where Big Boss was a second ago.
This second, Giant God was right next to Azaru-Z, punching and kicking him. The robot attempted to strike back, but it was interrupted by a punch so strong from Big Boss that it created a hole in the wall that both Azaru-Z and Giant God hurtled out of.
"Well, it seems they'll both get killed at a drop this high..." Maestro Chandy Man weakly floated near the hole and looked through it. Giant God and Azaru-Z were brutally trading punches. However, before they could reach the ocean, Azaru-Z got the upper hand and fired a hyper beam at Giant God. The lifeless body fell into the Dead Sea, while Azaru-Z used his damaged jetpack to fly into the air and attack anybody he could, friend or foe.
"Well, that sucks." Maestro Chandy Man groaned. He then turned to face the injured Candeli. "Ya okay, commander?"
Candeli weakly nodded. "Sure. That strike wasn't too bad."
Maestro Chandy Man nodded. "Kay. So, what now?"
Candeli rose. "We must...stop Azaru-Z somehow."
Maestro Chandy Man put a worried look on his face. "I knew you'd say that. But we both have injuries...how can us injured Chandelure face off against Azaru-Z when he beat an Infernape fully healed that's the head of an entire organization?"
Candeli shrugged. "We have to, Chandy."
Maestro Chandy Man groaned. "Ah, fine. Maybe, if we're lucky, our fellow Infernape and Chandelure will help us beat him up..."
Maestro Chandy Man floated through the hole, followed by Candeli. Outside the air fortress, they were greeted with a horrible sight. Many Chandelure and Infernape will laying, presumably dead, in the sea. At the time, Azaru-Z was attacking Tiny Terror with strong attacks.
"Oh no! Azaru-Z, stop!" Candeli yelled. Azaru-Z was not fazed at all and kept on relentlessly beating the Chandelure. The tiny boss was bleeding and finally Azaru-Z dealt an attack to him that flung him into the ocean.
Maestro Chandy Man was both horrified and happy. "Well, the bad news is your boss just died. The good news is I can finally escape this hellhole!"
Candeli didn't reply.
"MusT DEsTROY EvERYTHING." Azaru-Z yelled as he flung towards Maestro Chandy Man and Candeli. Maestro Chandy Man suddenly got a brilliant plan in his head to defeat Azaru-Z as he came flying towards them.
"USE PSYCHIC, CANDELI!" Maestro Chandy Man yelled. Candeli got the idea and a pink aura went around Azaru-Z. He desperately tried to break out of it, but he couldn't break out of the strong grip. Maestro Chandy Man hovered behind him and tackled into Azaru-Z's back, then stole his jetpack. Candeli then stopped using Psychic.
"No, no...must...destroyY...EvERYTHING!" Azaru-Z launched a Signal Beam at Maestro Chandy Man in a last ditch attempt and it hit him. The weakened Chandelure's vision began to go black and he was going to fall into the ocean and die...
Maestro Chandy Man went unconscious and began to fall into the Dead Sea, along with Azaru-Z...
* * *
"Chandy, wake up!" a familar voice yelled to Maestro Chandy Man. His eyes weakly opened.
"W-what...?" Maestro Chandy Man asked Candeli. As he glanced around, he suddenly noticed Azaru-Z walking around. Alive.
"OH MY GOD, WHY IS AZARU-Z HERE?!" Maestro Chandy Man screamed. Before he could scream more, Candeli interrupted him.
"Quiet! Azaru-Z's okay now!" Maestro Chandy Man looked at Candeli with a look that probably meant he thought she was crazy. "That near-death experience of falling into the ocean destroyed all the glitchy bits, you see."
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(TO BE FILLED BY MORE WRITING)
