This is a story written by no1nosme and myself, Pokémon Ranger-Trainer. We're combining our villains, the Shadow Master (mine) and the King of Darkness (no1nosme). Along with our villains, we will be combining the characters I used in Pokémon Ranger and the Chipmunks with the setting no1nosme used for a story called The Lightness and Darkness. We do not own Pokémon or the Chipmunks. But there are OC's that we can claim. Pokémon anime and Chipmunk CGI, because this is really a sequel to Pokémon Ranger and the Chipmunks. Capture ON! Enjoy!

Chapter 1: The Planet Azula

In a world unbeknownst to our heroes…

We last left our heroes as they landed on an unknown world which they traveled to via the TSC (Time-Space Car), which was a magical purple van from the 70's, one of those vans with waterbeds and shag carpeting. Behind the TSC was a plane designed by the Pokémon Ranger Union, the Ranger Bird 1. Ash said from the driver's seat of the TSC, "Well, that wasn't a bad landing."

"You moron!" Misty yelled at him. "Where the heck are we?!"

"I feel the energy of this place, and I've never felt anything like it before. It's amazing! What is this place?" Thomas asked. His Vileplume was by his side. Simon and Jeanette were sitting on his head.

"Her name…is Azula," Brittany claimed.

"How do you know?" Alvin asked.

"I'm not sure, but I think this place…she's speaking to me," Brittany answered.

"She?" Dawn asked. Her Piplup was in her arms. Her Pachirisu was on her shoulder. She was kind of like a sister to her Pachirisu because of this thing she was infused with called the Poké Virus. Basically, some Pachirisu DNA attached itself to hers and resulted in her growing a Pachirisu tail.

"Azula sounds like a woman," Brittany claimed.

"It looks like we're in some kind of jungle," Iris looked out the windshield and observed. Her Axew popped out of her large hair to see. Theodore and Eleanor sat on her shoulders.

"Hey, Crash Ketchum, we're out of gas!" Hannah yelled in Ash's ear. Her Combusken was next to her, and her Sewaddle was on her shoulder.

"Son of gun! I just filled this thing!" Ash groaned. Pikachu started snickering on his lap.

"Relax. We could go forever with the needle on 'E'. It's not totally empty until we stop moving," Thomas reassured.

"I wonder what kind of Pokémon we'll find here," Cilan wondered.

"Mm…Azula said that there are no Pokémon living on her," Brittany informed everyone.

"What the squish?" Ben asked. "No Pokémon?"

"Then, what does live on her?" Summer asked Brittany.

"Let's see…she says creatures of light and darkness live here. No Pokémon. Sorry," Brittany informed them of what Azula said to her.

"Aw!" Jeanette exclaimed in disappointment. "I was really hoping to catch my first one, too."

"We could catch our first Pokémon when we get back to Earth," Simon pointed out.

"Oh, my gosh, a giant dog!" Ash exclaimed and pointed out the windshield. I gigantic, pitch black canine-like creature was standing before them, staring at them. It charged at them.

"Azula says that that creature is called a Squealer," Brittany informed them.

"Can you tell her to get it to not eat us?" Alvin asked her.

"No."

"Floor it, man!" Thomas screamed. Ash slammed his foot on the gas pedal and put the TSC into high gear. They saw the Ranger Bird 1 take off into the sky. They sped away from the Squealer.

"Where are we going?" Eleanor asked Ash.

"It's coming!" Summer said urgently as she looked out the window in the back of the TSC. By "it", she meant the Squealer.

"Drive into the bushes!" Hannah yelled.

"No back seat driving!" Ash responded at equal volume and drove through some shrubs.

"That was a shadow creature?" Misty asked. Ash, Thomas, Hannah, and Dawn all nodded because they all possessed the power to sense dark presences.

"I'm scared!" Eleanor cried.

"Okay, we're in a new and unknown place called Azula. Let's not lose our heads, people, chipmunks, and Pokémon alike," Simon tried calming everyone down. "All we have to do is remain calm."

"That never does anything, Simon!" Alvin yelled at his brother. Then, there was a bumping sound and a loud splash. "What was that?"

"I drove us into a pond," Ash stated sheepishly. He got out and waded over to the hood when something caught his eye. "Mermaids!"

"Mermaids?" Cilan murmured. "But that's impossible."

"You've been traveling with us for over a year and still say the word 'impossible'?" Thomas asked. He and Ben got out. When Ben saw the mermaids, he thought he was in love.

"Hello," a red haired mermaid greeted.

"You don't look like you're from around here," a blonde one commented.

"Uh, err, duh…" Ash and Ben drooled.

"You two are charmed to easily," Thomas groaned with impatience. Everyone else got out of the TSC and Chris landed the Ranger Bird 1 next to it.

"I can't believe what I'm seeing!" Cilan exclaimed. He eyed the mermaids with great fascination.

"We just got chased by a humungous shadow dog and you're in disbelief now?" Iris asked him. "I just hope there are dragons here."

"Well, Azula, it looks like you're full of surprises," Brittany whispered and looked towards the sky. She was smiling at the planet's beauty.

"Are you here to stop the invasion?" a dark haired mermaid asked.

"What invasion?" Dawn asked her.

"Chipa?" Pachirisu asked. Translation: Invasion?

"This guy called the Shadow Master shows up with an army of weird, demonic ninjas. Now, he wants to destroy the light half of Azula," the red haired mermaid explained.

"So, after five years, we finally see the Shadow Master again," Hannah growled.

"That's it!" Brittany gasped. "Back on Earth, when we found that portal, it was Azula that was calling out to me! She was crying for help!"

"Please, you have to help! The balance between light and darkness has dangerously shifted," the blonde mermaid begged.

"No wonder I've been feeling uneasy since we got here," Dawn muttered.

"Whoa, these are hot mermaids!" Alvin exclaimed.

"I was going to say that!" Chris yelled when he got out of the Ranger Bird 1.

"How come you're not drooling, Simon?" Jeanette asked him.

"It's because you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," Simon answered.

"You think they're hotter than me, Alvin?" Brittany asked him.

"I never said that, and I don't think that, Britt," Alvin reassured her. "I've just never seen a mermaid before."

"Don't tell anyone, but," one of the mermaids whispered, "at the bottom of this lake is a whole colony of mermaids and mermen."

"That's so cool!" Eleanor exclaimed.

"H-h-here, let me pull the TSC out of your pond—err, lake," Ash offered. He got back into the driver's seat and tried to pull out, but the TSC would no start. "Okay, now we're out of gas."

"Pika, Pika, Pi," Pikachu groaned. Translation: Oh, Ash.

"Oh, for the love of—we don't have an extra can of gas?" Hannah asked.

"Considering what we do have in the back of that van, it's a wonder that we don't," Thomas answered.

"Vileplume," Vileplume shrugged. Translation: That's a shame.

"Can you stop the Shadow Master? He's in alliance with the King of Darkness," the dark haired mermaid informed them.

"K-K-King of Darkness?" Jeanette stammered.

"There's more than one dark ruler?" Iris tilted her head.

"Let's see…so the Shadow Master is the emperor of the Netherworld, and the King of Darkness must be the ruler of Azula's dark half," Cilan hypothesized. "It's a theory. We don't exactly have much to go on."

"All we really know is that this planet is being endangered by the Shadow Master himself and that we have to do something," Summer pointed out.

"But what do we do first?" Eleanor asked.

"I know it's been a few minutes standing still, but I've been feeling a little carsick," Theodore announced woozily.

"No!" Brittany screamed and ran away from Theodore. Last time he got carsick, she was thrown up on.

Eleanor began to rub Theodore's back. "Feel better?"

"Yes," Theodore nodded. He seemed more at ease.

"When did the Shadow Master and his army first arrive?" Thomas asked the mermaids.

"About two days ago," one of them answered. "They had hostages, too. They were kid of like you. One was a blonde loudmouth, and the other was quiet and wore a hat. Both were male."

"That's Lucas and Barry!" Dawn gasped. She was traveling with Lucas and Barry back on Earth before she got separated from them. Since then, she's been traveling with Ash and the rest of the team. When she heard the mermaid describe her friends, she nearly dropped Piplup. Her Pachirisu fell off of her head and into the pond, while her own Pachirisu tail stuck straight up in surprise.

"This ought to be interesting," Ben came to his senses and claimed. Pichu sighed on his shoulder.