Tea's pod opened before she walked, feeling great after being the one who completed the latest level.
After she walked out, what she saw sitting on the individual recliner chairs was quite surprising and interesting. On the front chair is Yugi's grandpa, Solomon. He's wearing blue overalls over a red shirt, brown shoes, and a red cap with an "S" on the front. The one sitting on the farther chair is Rebecca's grandpa, Arthur. The taller old man is wearing similar clothes like Solomon's, but his shirt and cap are green, and the cap has an "A" on the front. Yugi stood between the chairs they're sitting.
Tea smiled. "So that's why you left for a while," she said to Yugi, "You've brought along my favorite heroes. I'm surprised you brought them here so quickly."
"Well, when Mokuba delivered the helmets to Grandpa and Mr Hawkins, they didn't hesitate to try them on," Yugi explains. "Grandpa wants to experience the world of Smash himself, and Mr Hawkins wanted to discover the magic behind mind-sending technology."
"Seeing hologram-projected monster's was already an interesting discovery," said Arthur. "I'd also want to discover the monsters that attacked us yesterday."
"Yeah, discover the monsters that tried to destroy us," said a sarcastic Joey. " Maybe if they're not too evil . they'll even let you discover their super-dangerous toys."
"Joey!" exclaimed Yugi.
"Ignore him," said Tea. "Hey, where's Rebecca?"
"She's picking on a character herself," answered Arthur. "There weren't many other female characters to choose from, so she may not be with us for a while."
"Well that's good news," the brunette said under her breath.
"So, this is where you kids have your missions?" Asked Solomon.
"Yeah," Mokuba answered, "We have four of step into the transportation pods between that TV. If we manage to take down a level, a new level gets unlocked. There's going to be a lot of levels, and we've only finished five of them."
"Which is why we're doing the best we can to get all these levels done to stop the Subspace attack," Yugi added.
"Sounds like it's going to take quite a while," said Solomon. "Do you know exactly how many levels there are?"
"No, but there's going to be much more than we can count, most likely," answered Mokuba.
"You know, I've been wondering," Arthur spoke.
Tea asked, "What is it, Mr. Hawkins?"
"You know how those Primid from yesterday came into the real world and knows where we were? What if they know where we live, and most importantly, what if they find our bodies occupied with the helmets?"
"You mean what if they reach our occupied bodies without our knowing?" Asked Mai.
"Precisely."
"Oh, we've already got that figured out," said Mokuba, "See, during the development of the virtual helmets, Seto and Pegasus installed a special warning alarm. If a Subspace creature or any other untrusted intruder approach our bodies in a one mile radius, the helmets gives a signal, creating an alarm that will sound out from our Data Bands." Yugi wondered if that will work if Rebecca comes too close to his body.
"Mokuba told us that earlier today," said Bakura, "So if our bodies are endangered, we'll be given a signal and we can leave the game and back into our bodies and hopefully fend off the beasts."
"Ah, now that's thinking ahead," said and impressed Solomon, rubbing his chin.
"I know, right?" Said Mokuba.
"But what if they approach us while we're asleep?" Asked Arthur again.
"The helmets can do the same thing when you're not using it. It'll act as your alarm clock by sounding an alarm if an enemy gets close, even if they're not active, like a Sleep Mode. Impressive, right?"
"Very impressive, indeed. I have to say, it must have been nice being the brother of an ingenious man working with another genius."
"Thanks, Mr Hwakins. Okay, how about we take down one more level for now?"
"Ok, count me in," said Yugi. He looks down at his grandfather," you can watch me from the TV. It'll be like a demostration in case you and Mr Hawkins wanna try."
"I'd like that very much," Solomon nodded. "I can't wait to see how you and your friends fight those dreaded monsters."
"In dat case, count me in too, and make it 2-player, Mokuba," Joey declared, walking up between Yugi and Gramps. "I want Gramps to see how well me an' his grandson work as a team."
"I'd like to see that very much."
"Who else is comin'?"
After a few moments, Mai responded with a raised hand, "I'll go."
"Me too," said Bakura with a hand up.
Mokuba announced, "Great! Next stop: the Jungle!"
Inside their pods, Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Bakura have disappeared into light. Soomon, Arthur and everybody else watched as their pods stopped whirring and the TV's visuals swithched from the map to a large lake. Yugi and Joey materialized on a narrow area of land between a jungle and the lake. The field is surrounded by the barrier, of course, Yugi and Joey can see it, but not their spectators.
Yugi looked around, "Where are we? Isn't there supposed to be a trail with monsters waiting for us?"
"Ya got me, Yuge," Joey answered his partner's question, turning his head over his shoulder to look at the jungle, "Maybe we need ta head through dat jungle, or somethin'."
Suddenly, little bubbles started to form on the surface of the middle of the giant lake. Yugi and Joey can barely hear the distant bubbling. They see the bubbles on the surface. The bubbling then stopped, but after a moment, something long, and snakelike wormed out of the water were the bubbles formed.
Yugi and Joey looked in shock at the sky where the giant snakelike figure is flying around. They couldn't tell what it is, but before they can think further, the creature swooped down and grabbed Yugi with its hand.
"Yugi!" Joey cried as the monster flew past him, his cap flowed violently from the wind it created. The giant flew back to the lake and stopped, levitating above the surface with Yugi in its hand. As the spiky-headed boy tries to pry from its grips, it finds himself looking into the yellow eyes of his kidnapper. The snakelike creature has a green body with yellow, organic patterns all over its body, black eyes with yellow irises, to long spikes on the curves of its head with two smaller spikes on its chin, parallel to the spikes on its head. Face-to-face with Yugi, it makes a dreaded roar, frightening Yugi.
"What in Pharoah's name is that?!" Exclaimed Solomon.
Mokuba answered, "It's Rayquaza, the Sky High Pokemon!"
"And it's got Yugi!" Tea added.
"Hey!" Called Joey, readying his arrow at the dragon. "Keep yer freaky claws off my pal!" He shot the arrow at the dragon's hand where Yugi is held in. When it made contact, it made Rayquaza loosen his grip on Yugi. He fell off the hand and dropped down into the lake, making a big splash. Yugi's upper body resurfaced. He spits out virtual lake water that traveled in his mouth before swimming back to land.
Stalling the dragon so Yugi can resurface back on land safely, Joey shoots more arrows at the Sky Dragon, but Rayquaza dodged every one of them. He throws his Gale boomerang, but the green monster swiped it away with its tail. The blonde grunted in frustration, while his boomerang brought itself back to his hand.
It didn't take Yugi too long to come back to shore. He shook the remaining water from his head before running to Joey. He made it to Joey's side. Rayquaza snarled at the sight of the two. "Ok, time to teach that monster a lesson," said Yugi, glaring back at Rayquaza.
"I thought you'd never ask," said Joey, looking at the long health bar above Rayquaza's head. It gave one last roar before flying over to the land, facing with the two smashers there.
Joey shoots another arrow at Rayquaza, only for it to be missed again. Yugi shoots a PK Fire at the beast, and it was a successful hit. The Pokemon was breifly encased in flames. Rayquaza roared in retaliation, making the air distort. It tilts its head and charges up a ball of bright energy in its mouth. Tilting its head back down to face Yugi and Joey, it fires the energy ball at them. The ball knocked them both away by a few feet.
The spectated gang gave shocked exclamations.
Yugi and Joey quickly got back up. Their damage percentages in the sky showed that they took over 30% of damage from just that one attack. As they faced Rayquaza again, it gave yet another distorting roar before digging into the ground.
"What's it doing now?!" Joey demanded.
"Look out! It's using its Dig attack!" Warned Mokuba.
Suddenlly, a bulge erected from the ground behind Yugi. He turned around to see the Sky Pokemon erupted from the ground. Nefore Yug could see it in the sky, it buried itself back into the ground. Yugi and Joey looked around in slight worry, hearing the rumble from under ground. "I don't like where dis is goin'," said Joey, and before he knows it, he found himself on top of another summoned bulge in the ground. Rayquaza struck out of the ground where Joey stood. He was knocked away by the attack, taking a lot more damage.
Rayquaza reappeared behind Yugi, staring down at him menacingly. Yugi whipped around to face the great beast. Before he could call out an attack, the Sky High Pokemon whipped its body around and smacked the spiky-headed teen away with its tail. Joey managed to grab his buddy before he hit the ground.
As the boys prepares to retaliate, Rayquaza flew away.
"Hey!" Joey screams, "What are ya, a Sky High dragon or a Sky High chicken?!"
"Um, Joey?" Called Mokuba, "I don't think it's retreating."
"What makes you say that?"
The large, green Pokemon turned back, this time, flying in a spiral and charging at the boys. Yugi pointed his finger and said, "Does that answer your question?"
With the dragon charging even faster, the two heroes rolled out of the way in the nick of time, however, it quickly turned around and charged again. In response, Joey whipped out his Master Sword and hits the monster with as it passed by. Rayquaza shrieked as it took a good amount of damage. As it stopped to turn around, Yugi's PK Thunder shocked it in the face. Joey threw his boomerang at the beast. It grazed the Pokemon's head the first time, and then whacked it in the back of the head as it retreated bac to Joey.
Yugi can see that the majority of Rayquaza's healthe have depleted. He smiled, "We're almost done with the second main boss, Joey!"
"I like the sound of dat, Yuge," the blonde replied.
However, Rayquaza's not ready to give up quite yet. It gave another distorting roar before soaring up in the sky. Yugi and Joey watched as they wonder what Rayquaza's up to. Yugi figured it might be its last attack, and probably its most powerful. The Sky High Pokemon formed its body into a circle and flew around.
The others back in the rec room can hear the sound of thunder. "Uh-oh," said Mokuba, "It's using its Thunder attack! Yugi! Joey! Be careful!"
But before the two can respond, thunder clouds showed up, and before they know it, a barrage of lightning bolt struck down to the ground. Frantically, Yugi and Joey ran around in hopes of dodging all of the bolts. Unfortunatly, one of the bolts hit Yugi. He was knocked closly to the invisible barrier, his damage is almost 100%.
"Yugi!" Cried Joey as the thunder attack ceased. "You alright, buddy?!"
The spiky-haired bo slowly got up, but he pulled up a thumb up to tell him he's good. Joey turned to the sky, where Rayquaza descended from the sky and back on the ground. The blonde swordsman in green glared at the green Pokemon. With his sword inhand, he dashes at the dragon with a battle cry.
Yugi sees his best friend attacking Rayquaza. He runs to his aid.
Joey slashes at the Pokemon's lower body. Eventually, he was swept away by its tail. Joey found himself on his back, as he stood up, he saw Yugi running up at the beast. The blonde looked at the see to see Yugi at near 90%. He turned back to Yugi, "Yugi, be careful! You're getting too weak!"
Yugi leaped into the air. "I'll be fine, Joey! PK Fire!" He called out his attack and launched another fiery bolt from his index fingers. Rayquaza was encased in flames again when the bolt made contact. The health bar above its head is almost gone. Yughi landed softly back on the ground. After the flames ceased, the Sky High Pokemon slams its tail to the ground to crush Yugi, but the short boy is qick enough to dodge every blow. Joey quickly got up and dashed to Yugi's aid with his sword still inhand.
Yugi is still dodging Rayquaza 's tail. He launched another PK Fire successfully at the Pokemon. It danced in flames yet again. Joey slashed his sword at the beast as he came by.
Yugi leaped backwards as he prepares on final attack of his own. While Rayquaza's attemtion is focused on Joey, Yugi concentrated and summoned PK Freeze. He focused hard to move the glowing snowflake close to the green Pokemon. Joey looked over his shoulder at the approaching snowflake and grinned. He leaped backwards and landed beside Yugi. "Well, it's nice NOT knowin' ya," said the blonde, giving Rayquaza a "See ya later" pose.
The monster looked up to see the snowflake closing in on him. Before it could act, the PK Freeze enter through its chest, and as soon as Yugi sopped focusing, the snowflake inside of Rayquaza exploded, reducing the rest of its health.
Explosions surrounded Rayquaza's body. It swung its body around uncontrollably before laying down on the ground. It rose its head up to give one last, agonizing roar, before it laid there, unmoving.
(AN: Sorry for taking a while to update. I've been busy with school all month, and I'm gonna be even more busy by the end of April. This will most likely be the only update for this month, and I probably won't work on Chapter 26 until May. But anyways, hopefully this cool chapter will hold you guys over. Don't forget to leave a review for more support, if you would. Later!)