Portals: Chap 14 (Next-To-Last-Chapter)
Yeah, for anyone here who even remembers me or cares, this is the next to last chapter of my three year old fic. But don't be sad. I have better plans for my next fic. And yes, everyone will...........now, did you think I was going to give you a spoiler for my next fic? Im not that kind of person.
Anyway, hopefully this isn't too short for you. Its only six pages (the shortest in two years). But the last chapter is going to be approximately fifteen to twenty pages. Just to forewarn you.
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[b] “Students, we, the staff of the University of Portals, would like to thank you for a rather calm year. This year, we have helped you conquer more than twenty-seven different tests and improve your psychic abilities. We would like to congratulate you.
“This day is the last day of school until after Spring Break. The staff would like to wish you a very enjoyable holiday. Many of the minor Portals will remain open for two more days if you wish to get added training or do not wish to leave the Academy during the break. Remember, we will be offering PsyHistory 203 and PsyPottery over the break along with a few other classes. We will also offer for the first time at the University “Life on the Outside: A History of Normal People” after the break. Many of those in the History field may wish to take this class as you will, after graduation, be working in many normal time fields.
“Also, you are all required to be in your dorms by 2:00 AM tonight. We have moved the time back from the normal 12:30 time because we know you will be wishing to celebrate the break in your own special way. So we will give you some extra time to get back to your rooms.
“As a final reminder, the boat to the ever popular Orange Island Spring Break hangout, Cancunita, will leave at noon and 2 PM tomorrow. Hopefully you partying students will have partially recovered enough from your hangover to get on your only chance to get out of here for some time. Thank you for all your hard work so far this year. Please be prepared to study for finals when you return. Thank you. This is your Principal Sabrina Psyseñora signing off for Spring Break.” [/b]
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“Well, thank you for your time,” Sabrina said as our debriefing ended. “At least now we have a possible view of the future. Let us hope that a Neo-Tokyo like world is not truly going to arise.”
“I think we can all agree on that point,” I said as I pushing back the rolling chair I was sitting in. “Now, can we leave and prepare for our next mission?”
“What makes you think that you two will be cooperating in the next mission,” Sabrina said with a shadowy overtone coating her voice.
Courtney and I exchanged looks. Then she spoke up, “It only makes sense that JP and I will work on the next mission together. You’ve had us paired since the beginning. It only makes sense that we will be working together until we leave.”
“But you forgot to factor something else into the mix,” Sabrina responded. “You’ve been here at least a year longer than JP. The credits you have from that extra year give you enough credits to graduate.”
“So, I’m going to be free from this place?” Courtney said in disbelief. “That’s great! Oh, can just imagine what I’m going to do on the outside. Just think about finding my parents again and…” And then, for some odd inexplicable reason, she stopped. “How long will JP be in here?”
“JP has about two missions left,” Sabrina explained. “Both are day missions, so he should be done in approximately two days, at the most. That is, if he survives each test.”
“Wait a second, folks,” I said, interrupting everyone’s train of thought, “why haven’t I been addressed in all this. I mean, I do seem to be the topic of your conversation. I don’t enjoy being ignored.”
“Of course sir,” Sabrina said as she stood up from her chair, “We have been ignoring you too much. I’m sure you’re interested in what your next mission is. It is a mission that all our student trainers must take. However, each mission is different for each person. Courtney opted to take this test first. Don’t you remember it, dear?”
I turned and watched Courtney shudder against the cold concrete walls of the room.
“As you can see, it haunts your memory for quite some time,” Sabrina grinned as she turned her back from me. “But you will find out that it tests not only your physical strength, but your mental strength too.” She led me out of the room to a portal in a small, dark area of the room. “This area has been prepared for you only. After you complete the mission, this portal will be destroyed. It is not because the area is highly dangerous, it is because it is an area only you are to see and never tell another about. You will not be debriefed after this mission. No one will ever wish to know what lies beyond this door. It is a trip to one of your innermost torments. Release your portal companion and step through to your final mission.”
Sabrina had worded that section so perfectly, as if she had rehearsed it a thousand times. Perhaps I was not the only one she had used this type of portal on. Perhaps all unfortunate inductees into this university went through a test like this. I could only hope the horrors within were not as dark as she made them out to be.
I released Psybyr alongside me. I commanded him to open the portal with his attack. The rainbow beam I had come to get used to make a colored door appear in front of me. I returned my friend to his Poké Ball and stepped through the portal into a new world.
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“PLEASE! Won’t you people leave me alone!”
My head whipped around to see an old man, crouched in a corner trying to hide form me. His white lab coat and bald head seemed to remind me of a friend from the past. As I thought even more about it, the name of this man came back to mind.
“Blaine?”
“Yes, of course it’s Blaine,” the man muttered as he stood up. “Everyone wants to face the almighty Blaine, protector Cinnabar Island. After the supposed eruption on the island, I’ve been taking refuge here. I have no guard trainers, no fancy gym, I barely had enough room to store the extra badges, and this dank cave is pathetic. I mean, look at the walls. I had to cover the back wall with loose rocks just so that no water pokémon would wander in. Some life as a Gym Leader.”
“No, Blaine, it’s me, JP.”
“JP?” he said quizzically. He leaned over toward me, “By golly it is you! How have you been?”
First off, I think I should explain how Blaine knows me. My parents met Blaine during a business arrangement. My mother worked in real estate for some time during the creation of the first creation of the Indigo League of Nation. Her client owned vacation property on Cinnabar where they planned to build the then current Gym. She and Blaine worked out a deal for the property. Of course, my mother being the social butterfly that she was, she became good friends with Blaine. After my birth, Blaine and his wife were named as my godparents. Ever since then, he and I have shared a common bond, a love for fire pokémon. I could tear myself from his traditions and became a trainer of all pokémon, but my roots are in the fiery passion that his Gym type offers.
“Oh,” I said, “I’ve been around. I took a rather abrupt break from training. I wasn’t planning on it, but the break just seemed to beckon me. I picked up a new team I’ve been working on for some time. It’s almost finished, but there’s one pokémon that just hasn’t had the experience to evolve. Could you help me?”
“Sure, but on one condition,” he said. “I heard a while back old Oakey was planning on taking you and his spoiled brat over to the New World. Did you find any new Fire types over there?”
I hated to lie on this point, but I couldn’t give away any info on where I’d been.
“Well, here’s something new I found and put on my team.”
I released Pins, my Typhlosion. He flared his back flames so much that they scorched the ceiling of the small cave. The moisture that had been seeping through had been burned in the harsh flare. The rocks nearly melted under the extreme heat. He roared so loudly that the walls of room shook in fear, as if they had been scolded by Hades himself. Blaine’s look was priceless in itself. I stood and smiled as he quivered in awe of the beast.
“That’s incredible,” he said. “I must find one of these on my next vacation. But now I imagine that you wish to battle. So bring out your water pokémon.”
“My, you always could read minds,” I remarked, sending Pins back to his Ball. I released Slammy, just as he had expected.
“Well, this will be rather quick,” Blaine said. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t put up a fight. Go IronChariot!”
IronChariot was Blaine’s must treasured and strongest pokémon, a Rapidash. I knew Blaine just wanted me to help him at Cinnabar, but what trainer wouldn’t resist the chance to fight one of the best Gym Leaders in Kanto. And with Slammy set for battle, this should be easy.
“Slammy, Hydro Pump!”
My Wartortle sent out a high powered stream of water toward the flaming horse. I knew that the horse would easily dodge. But because of Blaine’s poor release placement, the horse had no choice but to dodge into a corner. His Rapidash did just as I expected.
“Good Job, IronChariot,” Blaine said. “Now, use Flame Wheel!”
The horse whirled its tail in circles, creating a tornado of flame and fuel above it. I could have had Slammy easily dodged the attack, but I chose not to. The wheel above Chariot’s tail was launched at my turtle. It sloshed through his body, causing little damage.
With Blaine’s pokémon just where I wanted it, I issued my next wave of attacks before Blaine could use his.
“Slammy, use Surf and Body Slam that horse!”
My Wartortle curled up in his shell and started spinning. Blaine issued an attack, but his startled horse could do nothing but whine. A wall of water appeared behind my Wartortle as he rose onto the new wall behind him. He Spun waster and faster on the wave spitting water onto Rapidash, causing small steam clouds to come off of the horse. Rapidash yelled and finally decided to run out of the corner. But that escape attempt was too late. My Wartortle shifted the wave forward, racing at near mach speeds toward Rapidash. The wave hit with such force, Rapidash slammed into the hard rock walls. Wartortle didn’t hit with his Body Slam, but the battle was over. Rapidash sunk to the ground, unconscious.
At that moment, Slammy began to glow with a bright white light. His shell became larger and he lost his wing like ears. His ears, which looked like small wisps of wind, melded to his head and became almost non-existent. Two water cannons popped out of two square holes in Slammy’s shell. When the light faded, I saw my new Blatoise, standing tall and proud. I returned him as soon as his evolution end, I returned him to his Poké Ball. That was when I saw Blaine smiling.
“Well,” he said, “Now that that’s over, maybe you can help me with my problem.” He clicked the front of his Poké Ball and returned IronChariot.
“Sure, you said you left when there was an eruption of the island.”
“Well, that’s what everyone else believes,” he said starting to rummage through a bag in a corner. “But only I know what really happened. What looked like an explosion to the rest of the world was really something more serious. It was really an attack caused by an overly-powerful pokémon. And it only lives on Cinnabar.”
The blood drained from my veins. I knew exactly what pokémon Blaine spoke of.
“The bird’s back,” Blaine said in a low tone.
“But how?” I exclaimed. “I checked that island for three months and that bird never came back.”
“I know,” he responded. “And you were the only one who could defeat it. I thought that you had wiped out the whole race. But obviously we only wiped out the children. I know the Mother Glitch is still in there, and I need someone to go destroy it.”
I wrung my hand. The cave has seemed cool before, but now it seemed like a scene out of Hell. I knew exactly what Blaine was asking of me. He wanted me to face MissingNo again. I hated that bird/glitch with a passion now. It was the reason I was at the University of Portals. My hatred for it burned with the powers of twenty Underworlds. I now understood why people hated this mission. It caused them to look their greatest fear in the eye and stare it down before it ate them from the inside out. I had only one choice.
“Blaine, I’ll destroy MissingNo for you.”
“Good,” he said. “I was hoping you’d help me. The only other person I could ask was Blue and I know you hate him.”
“Amen to that statement old friend. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some fowl to hunt.”
“Good luck,” he said as I walked out of the cave. “And please rid us of that terror once and for all.”
“I’ll try my best. Thanks.”
I walked out of the cave and released Slammy. I had to Surf as quickly as possible over to Cinnabar. PokéCenter Unlimited should have one of their emergency units stationed there so I could heal my pokémon before venturing into the cave. But how did MissingNo get back. I thought I had destroyed all of them before I left to meet Professor Oak almost 6 months ago. But obviously they lived much deeper in the depths of the island than I expected. My job now was to eliminate them from the planet and hope that they never came back. For not only were they menaces to society, but they could destroy the world.
I arrived thirty minutes later at Cinnabar Island. The new mountain was not very high, but it did shine like silver in the evening sun. I could see an entrance on top of the mountain that must have led down to the core of Kanto, where I assumed the Mother Glitch lived. My journey would take me to the center of the earth and back again. But first I had to gear up and rest at the new Pokémon Center. And I knew that this night would be one of the longest nights of my life.
The 22nd Portal.
Coming in 2003...
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Quote of the week:" AAAHHHH!!!!"
My best friend and I as we skid down the road in my '89 Dodge Pickup truck.
Sweeetness! Can't wait for the last chapter... Wish there was more...
I really liked this short chapter... had some flare in it that just burned away my firey temper. Maybe it was just Blaine. Or maybe it was my desre to make bad puns dealing with fire. (sorry, pyro, if you read this)
You best get that new chapter out soon, or...
(breif moment of nostalgia)
I'll sick my psychotic magickarp to splahs you to wetness!
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The Ghost with the Post,
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(3/11/03 6:21 pm)
Re: Portals: Chap 14 (Next-To-Last-Chapter)
Hey, don't expect for me to be leaving any time soon. I have another fic in the works already and its first chapter will be out about a month after the last chapter. So I'm not going to dissapear anytime soon.
The 22nd Portal.
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April/May 2003
Quote of the week:"Reincarnation is where they burn you and then float you down a rivier."
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Re: Portals: Chap 14 (Next-To-Last-Chapter)
hey dude, did you release your last chapter (15) yet? if not when, and if so, could you show me where? thnx.
If you have any questions for me, email me at citra_13@hotmail.com IM me at Wolfgar GT.
Cardzmaster 2004 The Last Trump Card
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(5/24/03 3:18 pm)
Re: Portals: Chap 14 (Next-To-Last-Chapter)
Well, to all who remember me here, I'm sorry I haven't been able to popin here as much as I like. I got hit with two papers at the end of the year that were in two different formats and bother needed to be 7 pages long on extremily dry topics. So I may be in here more.
As for the new chapter, as said before I had some reports to write. That combined with writers block created some problems. So I expect to have it out some time in June. I'll change my sig now to reflect that.
The 22nd Portal.
Coming in 2003...
Portals stats:
1 chapters left
Next chapter release date:
April/May 2003
Quote of the week:"Reincarnation is where they burn you and then float you down a rivier."
A blonde at my church answering the question "What is reincarnation?"
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