Gotta Catch Em All In Ni No Kuni!

Chapter 6

When they woke up the next morning, Ash forgot where he was for a moment, then remembered. He was in another world.

"Brock? Brock, wake up!" Brock snorted, and sat up, groaning.

"Ugh, morning already?" Ash nodded, waking up Pikachu.

"Yeah. We've got to go and meet Aaliyah. Get dressed." Brock rolled out of bed and began to dress.

"What do you think Aaliyah's like?" Ash shrugged as he changed out of his pajamas.

"I don't know. Harmony told me a little bit about her yesterday before we left. She said that she had just recently become queen, after she chose to wait a little longer. Sounds like something bad happened at her first coronation." Brock shrugged.

"Maybe we can ask Harmony about it." He sighed dreamily. "With such a beautiful name like that, it couldn't be too bad."

They soon found out that it was pretty bad.

"Hey, Harmony? What happened at Queen Aaliyah's first coronation?" Ash asked her as they left the Cat's Cradle. Harmony sighed.

"Well, we were helping a man called the Doctor find his ship, he called a TARDIS. It could travel between the worlds...."

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"...And then we found out that the Black Sorceress was controlling her and making her evil like this stuff called manna had done to her mother a couple of years ago." Oliver was telling Jessie, James, and Meowth the same story as they left Esther's family home and headed for the castle, where they nodded to the guards as they entered. Aaliyah was already standing there, but turned when she saw them.

"Oliver!" She ran over and hugged him tight. "I didn't know you were coming!" Oliver hugged her back, smiling.

"It's nice to see you again, Aaliyah!" Then he pulled away. "We need your help. We have a few questions about the rift." Aaliyah's eyes went wide.

"What a coincidence!" Swaine raised his eyebrows.

"Coincidence?" Aaliyah nodded.

"Yeah! Look who else came to ask about the rift!" She turned around, and there stood Harmony, Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu! Jessie, James, and Meowth gasped.

"You!" Ash shouted.

"You!" James called.

"You!" Misty exclaimed.

"You!" Jessie glared.

"You!" Brock yelled.

"You!" Meowth shrieked.

"You!" Harmony cried out.

"You!" Swaine wailed.

"Why are we all shouting?" Esther asked. Swaine and Harmony shrugged, grinning.

"They did it. Why couldn't we?" Harmony asked her.

"Harmony, that's Team Rocket!" Ash told her, and she stopped grinning.

"What!?" She pointed her staff at the three, and Oliver stood in front of them protectively. "Oliver, move! These three are dangerous! They have a past of stealing other people's Pokémon! And I am not about to allow them to harm anymore creatures!" Oliver furrowed his eyebrows.

"Steal Pokémon? They came through the portal of all worlds! We helped them!" Esther turned to James, hurt.

"James, you don't really hurt Pokémon?" James began to sweat, then ran over to Brock, Misty, and Ash.

"Listen you three, please don't rat us out!" He begged softly. "I really really really like that girl and if she finds out I steal Pokémon, I'll have no chance with her! She's a familiar tamer! She loves creatures!" Ash put his hand on his hips.

"If we don't tell her that you, Jessie and Meowth are all Pokémon thieves, will you stop trying to steal Pikachu and all of our Pokémon?" James nodded, his cheeks flushed red.

"Yes! Anything!" Ash, Misty, and Brock all grinned sneakily at each other, then nodded.

"Alright. We'll do it. But make one move on any of our Pokémon, and the familiar tamer gets an earful!" James sighed, then hurried back over to everyone, where they all looked at him confused.

"No, we don't hurt Pokémon! In fact, Meowth, Ekans, and Koffing are our best friends!" He sent out Koffing quickly and hugged him close, Koffing getting scared and sending out a smoke screen on accident, which stank!

"Koffing!" The Koffing shouted, and everybody began coughing.

"Gah, James! Make him stop!" Esther shouted, and James called Koffing back to his Pokeball.

"Pidgeotto, I choose you!" Ash called. "Use your whirlwind attack to get rid of all this smoke!"

"Pidg-ototototototototototo!" Pidgeotto shouted, and the smoke cleared.

"Abull, can you have some of the windows opened to get rid of more of this smoke?" Aaliyah asked, fanning it away with her cape. Abull bowed.

"Yes, your Moojesty." Then he hurried away, and Aaliyah led them out of the smoky room and into her bedroom.

"Now, you all want to hear about the rift, do you not?" Brock fell to his knees, finally getting a good look at Aaliyah, who had grown into a beauty.

"Actually, I'd like to hear all about you! What do you like to do? How much do you like the familiars? Are you seeing anyone?" Misty groaned.

"Stop scaring her, Brock." She grumbled. Aaliyah just turned away from him, and Harmony spoke.

"Aaliyah, we need to know what's going on with these rifts. These seven were tossed in here when they saw a Gateway spell appear in their world without magic."

"Jessie, James, and Meowth all came through to the Summerlands..." Oliver started.

"And Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu all ended up on Autumnia, a whole island away." Swaine finished. "So what gives?" Aaliyah sighed.

"Unfortunately, I don't know too much about it, but I know this. With all of the in between world traveling that has been happening, being Oliver, the Doctor, Harry, Ron, myself, Marcassin, Harmony, Cassiopeia, and now all of you, its tearing away at the walls between the worlds." Their eyes went wide.

"What do you mean?" Brock asked. Aaliyah taped her chin, then went through a drawer and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil.

"Okay, so imagine that this side is your world of the Cantos region." She said. "And the other side is Ni No Kuni. Now, let's say you've traveled back and forth multiple times like Oliver does a lot from his world in Motorville."

"Oliver also comes from another world?" Misty asked.

"Sh!" Ash told her. Aaliyah nodded, then continued.

"Now, imagine that the pencil represents all of the Gateway spells used to go between the wall in the worlds. This is is kind of what's happening." Then she stabbed at the paper, leaving tons of holes in it. "Sooner or later, all of this will connect..." The holes soon touched. "That all these little holes will become one big hole and BOOM!" She ripped the paper in half. "The wall collapses, along with all worlds!"