Sword of Darkness Part 6-1: 
Loose canon?--Mac Joins the Fray

by Mac

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Yes, I know that this doesn't begin where the last one left off.  
Just read.
Oh, and I hope that you weren't looking here for disclaimers,
because I'm not giving them.  By the way, not much happens here...
It's just an opener.  Feel free to scroll to the bottom for a
summary.  
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Earth dimension alpha is known as the primary alpha dimension.
It happens to by one of my favorite places to spend my time, and
the fact that it is my home is only half of my reasoning for that.
On this particularly bright, sunny, and beautiful day, I was standing
beside my little red truck on a secluded piece of highway that cut
through a wooded area.  I was also scowling at the sky, watching
it intently.

Normally when I come here, it's to get away from all of the dangers
and confusion inherent to using the Vortex to hop between all sorts
of different dimensions.  The DGF blocks all unauthorized traffic
from here, unless it originates from it.  So, when I sensed a great,
malicious power hanging around, I had the sense to pull off the
road and try to identify it.

Fortunately for the rest of the dimension, it was heading for me.
As it got closer, I began to sense that it was psychic, very
powerful, carried Vortex energy, and probably came from a Pokemon
dimension.  I shouldn't have been surprised when I saw MewTwo stop
in the air above me.  Either way, I didn't flinch.

Mewtwo didn't lack in speed as he dropped from the sky and landed
with a dull thud on the ground just across the road from me.
I waited for his villanous speech, and as I expected, he didn't
speak, but communicated telapathically.

"You are quite powerful for such a race of pithy, weak, destructive
creatures."  His 'voice', especially since it was a resonance in
my head, was quite chilling, but I didn't let him know it.

"Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment."  I spoke out loud.
I was well aware that I could have projected my thoughts to him,
but I knew better than to try.  I knew even then that Mewtwo was
very powerful psychically, and I didn't want to risk sending any
thoughts other than the ones I intended.  Already, blocking my
internal thoughts from his probing was a greater task than I had
anticipated, though I was still accomplishing it without effort.

"You have a very interesting, beautiful planet, even considering
the horrors your kind has put it through.  It will be much better
off once I exterminate you."

"I'm assuming that the last 'you' was plural?"  I asked.
The greatest advantage to having nerves of steel is not being able
to bluff, but the ability to have a lot of fun bantering with the
bad guy.

"For the rest, it will be a slow, painful process.  But, you
die now!"

"I'm assuming that the last 'you' was singular?"

Mewtwo's eyebrow twitched, and sent an invisible, apparantly psychic
blast torward me.  It ripped up the ground and pavement as it flew
at me, but it dissappated into a mere gust of wind as it reached me.
I had been prepared for it.

"Trying to overpower me like that isn't going to work."  I said.

This time the blast didn't bother taking up the ground, and hit me
head on in the chest, sending me flying into a tree, most of which
was sent flying into fist-sized chunks from the impact.

"You jerk!" I yelled, "That was hardwood!"  I slid to the ground
and took a fighting stance.  Even though his mouth wasn't visible
to me, I was sure that he was smirking.

I rubbed my back a bit as I reached into my side pocket with the
other hand.  Naturally, he had to knock me into what was probably
the only oak tree in a forest of pines.  I found what I was looking
for in my pocket and stood up straight.

"Hey!  I'm all for pokemon liberation, but by nonviolent means!
Since you seem to disagree, you get to see something special!
THE ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE!"

Mewtwo seemed a bit surprised, but steeled himself again, showing
off that invisible smirk.  He rose high into the air again, looking
down at me.

"Show me," he said, sounding a little too eager.

I lifted an arm and pointed a finger at him.  I focused my energies
and looked straight at him.

I snapped my finger 10 degrees to his right.

"LOOK!  A FLYING DIGLETT!!"

Mewtwo looked over his shoulder quickly, and turned back in rage, but
it was too late to avoid the master ball I had sent flying at him.

The master ball opened and sent a blue streak flying at Mewtwo.
However, instead of capturing Mewtwo, the master ball sputtered
with sparks and fell to the ground, still open.

It was a shocking, but not unlikely event.  The master ball had been
from an alpha-point pokemon dimension.  Anything that is absolute,
like a master ball, but doesn't come from an alpha dimension, can
have unexpected results when put into contact with something from an
alpha dimension.  That confirmed my fears that this was the Mewtwo
from the pokemon alpha dimension.  And if an alpha dimension being
as powerful as Mewtwo had somehow escaped the watch of the DGF and
gotten here, it meant that bad things were happening elsewhere.

"Alright Mewtwo.  I know I just ticked you off royally, so I think
you should know that if you want to try to wipe the floor with me,
the fight can really start now."

This was the chance Mewtwo was waiting for.  Effortlessly, he sent
another tremendous blast at me, but I was prepared and dodged it.
I rose to his altitude and surrounded myself in a perfect ki sphere.
Mewtwo did the same, and we charged each other.  We bounced off of
each other like beach balls several times, until he became aware that
I was attempting to recreate the scene from the first Pokemon movie.
At that point he stopped on one point and started flinging those
psychic blasts at me again.

I was dodging like mad, but the fact that some of these blasts were
visible helped some.  The fact that these visible blasts happened to
be much, much more powerful did not help.  This battle was quickly
escalating past what I had expected.

I made a large leap to an area that wasn't riddled with blasts,
and Mewtwo stopped for a moment.  He sent a blast larger than the
others directly torward me.  I stood my ground, and deflected it.
I immediately flung a ki blast of my own torward him.  He deflected
the first, but second blast hit him.  I quickly followed up with
a third which also hit its mark.  Before he could recover I cupped
my hands and gave him one more.

"KAMEHAMEHA!!"

The blast hit him fully, and I took a moment to prepare for one
final attack of my own invention.  I threw it, and there was a
blast of blinding light, which faded to the sight of Mewtwo being
knocked even farther away.  For a moment his ascent stopped, and
he began to drop, but he regained his control and ceased his attack.

I could feel him seething inside, but I had no idea what he would,
or could do next.

"You pitiful fool.  That is great power, but is nothing compared
to what I am about to gain.  The destruction of you leeches of this
place is my ultimate goal.  Behold my first tools to do it!"

He held his hands(if you can call them that) out, and I recognized
what appeared in each of them.  In one was "Lucifer's Key", an
impliment I had learned about all too well just recently.  And,
equally terrifying, in the other--

"The Destroyer rings!!"  I gasped.  "And Lucifer's Key!  Where did
you get them?"

"It was all too easy.  Watch as I show you your death!"

The Destroyer Rings began to glow, and made a blinding flash
before disappearing and leaving an absence of light in their place.
Mewtwo bent his will on the void, and a sword appeared there.

"Holy Schlozkys!!!"

I could tell that this was the first time that he had used the rings,
much less assembled them into this sword.  It was almost unbelievable
that the monster that I had just faced had fought using only his
own power...  and now he held the force that had been used by the
most dangerous villians who had ever had the gall to crawl out of
the woodworks.

"Your whole race of parasites will be smitten with this power,
but not directly!  You, however, will have that honor!"

In desparation, I fired the greatest ki attack I could muster, but
he deflected it with a flick of his sword.  Before he could attack
with it, though, he was struck by a revelation, which probably came
to him with the aid of the sword.

"I don't have time for this.  You can die later...  or sooner!"

Mewtwo flew high into the sky, and using the power of the sword
created a ball of energy about two train cars in diameter.  Even as
I hovered far below it was rather frigging huge.

"Oh crap."

I couldn't see Mewtwo, but I could see the ball rapidly approaching
me.  As soon as its approach began, I could feel Mewtwo's power
leaving that dimension.  He was gone, but the attack wasn't.
I braced the best I could with a ki shield.

The ball hit me and sent me flying as if it were a shooting marble
and I were a pebble.  It continued its decent straight down, and made
a crater in the earth beneath it.  Meanwhile, I managed to adjust
my flight into a slide on the ground, and made a rather painful stop.

I raised my head to see my truck intact.  At the very least I had
hoped to have an excuse to replace it.  Oh well.

In exhaustion I dropped my head back onto the dusty ground, only to
hear an annoying beeping.  I reached for the small Vortex com-link
disguised as a cell phone.

"Home of the whopper, what's you beef?"

I heard Ray's voice on the other end.

"Mac?  um.  Hey, that's Burger King.  Shouldn't you be singing the
Big Mac song from McDonalds or something?"

"Oh, ah.  We've got problems."

"You've got problems??  Ray, I just fought Mewtwo, who just happens
to have ALL OF THE DESTROYER RINGS ASSEMBLED INTO A SWORD AND ALSO
HAPPENS TO HAVE LUCIFER'S KEY!!"

"When did you fight him?"

I let my head drop back down again.

"Just a few seconds ago.  Why?"

"Well, in that few seconds that have elapsed, thanks to the varying
timelines between dimensions, we've fought him several times, and
alot of other stuff has happened.  Look, can you meet us on Jurai
in Tenchi OVA dimension alpha?"

"I'll be right over."

"Thanks."

"Crap."

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So, to recap:  Mac fought Mewtwo before the whole mess started,
Mewtwo assembled the sword of darkness, Ray calls Mac at the
end of part 5, and we're going from there!  Don't worry,
fellow writers in the series, I won't be long with parts
6-2 and 6-3, and they won't be long (lengthwise), either.
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