By
Dan C.
(Notes: Most of these characters are not mine. Pokemon people are property of Nintendo. Gundam Wing people are property of Cartoon Network and Bandi and any other company that makes money off of them. Puff the magic dragon belongs to all the little children who believe in him. Barney is part of WTTW, the t.v. station. But, Shady Character is mine! Remember that! Pikachu always says Pika, pika, pika as he talks in this story. Only reason Heero understands him is that Shady Character translates for him, and only him.)
By Danslaughter Lightmaster
Pikachu is lost in the forest. How sad! But wait he has found Heero the elf. They are lost
together. Pikachu says, “Pika, pika, pika, pika.” He asked Heero to use elf magic. Heero doesn't
understand Pikachu, so a shady character behind them hidden in the trees translates for Pikachu
to Heero. Heero is suprised that Shady Character had been there so long and they had not
known. Heero: “You can come along as long as you don’t bother us.” He then answers Pikachu
knowing what he is asking. He says that he is a Magical elf on weekdays,
suicidal-gundam-pioloting-takes-outrageos-pain-with-ease-boy on the weekends. It is the
Weekends but he forgot to turn back into a boy. He thinks he looks cooler as an elf so he will stay
that way even if he has no powers. Heero then recognizes a tree nearby. Heero: “Hey, you know
what Pikachu, I know this tree! We can go to this Dinosaurs cave from here. He eats everyone
and everything that comes near his cave." Pikachu says it is dangerous. "Well, it is the Weekends
and I am a suicidal-gundam-pioloting-takes-outrageos-pain-with-ease kind of guy right now, so I
see nothing wrong with this idea." Pikachu says of course. They go to the cave and Evil Barney
comes out. E-Barney: “Arrgh! Come here you little appetizers!” They get away but Evil Barney
says he will call his cousin to come and get them. Across the street, Barney the purple Dinosaur,
comes out and is informed to eat these guys for dinner. He says sure, but invites Heero and Pika
only to eat with them for dinner. They become fat and slow and walk out thanking Barney but
then Evil Barney says, "Ha, ha, ha! My cousin may have not killed them, but he made them so juicy
and slow that I can get them myself! Just the next best thing." He chases them but they roll on
their sides and go 2 times the speed of running. They cut through trees, rocks, and mountains
because they are going so fast that nothing can stop them. Evil Barney gets tired and eats
squirrel near by. Heero and Pika are going super fast and they have been now rolling for about a
day. They see some lights up ahead and roll some more then decide to slow down so they stick out
their arms and slow down because of friction. When they stop they have gone through a couple of
cars and stop right outside of the presidents office. They are now skinny because they have
rolled so much and worked of the fat. They look the just about the same except a couple rolls
that you wouldn't notice because of dark clothes like Heero's. They walk in and Pika asks where
they are. The Pres. doesn't understand. Shady Character behind Heero translates for Pika.
Heero hears it but Shady Character would not talk to anyone else. Heero told the Pres that Pika
was asking where they were and the Pres. says that they are in Gallelee. The land of Puff the
Magic Dragon. Heero: "Gallelee? I never heard of this place." Pres: "What? You never heard of
"Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea. Close to where the children live, in a land called
Gallelee!"? Yea, this is the place." They are amazed that Puff is here and here that he might be
able to get them home. He was very nice and was always working on new stuff. They decide to go
look for him. They walk out of office building and discover a guy in baggy clothes. Gang-member
like. He has a sign next to him saying "Maps to the Stars". They buy it for 3 bucks, by scrounging
what money they had in their pockets, and that isn't much, and look at it. Sticker says “Here are
you”. Sticker 2 inches away in straight line. “Puff”. They look up and see signs pointing to Puff's
house one block from them. They hadn't seen it. They turn around and the punk is running away
with the sign and all. They try to get into house but it has an admission fee. 5 bucks. They can't
pay so they sneak in when no one is looking. When they are in, there are like a million security
guards everywhere. They all seem to overlook them. They search the house, which is quite big,
but find no trace of Puff. All the guards are looking outside in the backyard and that is why no
one saw them sneaking around. They decide to go outside and find out what they were looking at.
They sneak outside and no one again sees them exiting the back door where they find Puff in the
backyard surrounded by lots of people taking pictures and such. News crews. He is puffing out
words made of smoke. Puff asks for an assistant to try his new invention. A nerd raises his hand.
Puff makes the word "cool" out of smoke and cloud and it drifts over to the boy. It touches him
and he becomes handsome, wearing good clothes, and standing next to a motorcycle. Everyone
oohs and aahs. They applaud and he says, "Thank you for coming to see my new invention. Smoke
clouds that make people what they want to be." Heero and Pika are amazed and think this can
help them get back home. So Pikachu walks up to Puff and says Pika, Pika, Pika. Puff doesn't
understand and Heero remembers that Shady Character only translates to him. Shady Character
is in the back of the crowd. He yells to Heero what Pika is saying. Heero translates for Pika and
tells Puff that they are lost and need to find a way home. Puff says sure he can. For a price.
"How much?" 10 bucks. They don't have any money anymore but Heero says that he has a rich
girlfriend named Relena and he will get some money from her and send it to him by mail later.
Puff agrees and gives Heero the adress to send the mail . Puff makes to smoke clouds come out
and they are the shape of cars. 2 Cloud cars. Heero exclaims, “I can’t drive a cloud car! This is
weird!” Puff says, “Don’t worry because the cars are set to autopilot so you only have to tell me
where you’re going and I will program the cars where to go. All you have to do is operate the stick
shift. I mean, I can’t do everything.” Pika says he is going to Pallet Town and Heero says he is
going to the Sanct Kingdom. Shady Character says he is also going to the Sanct Kingdom. “Hey, I
haven’t seen you in the Sanct Kingdom! You don’t live there!” Shady: “Yes I do. It’s just that I
live in the shadows and you never saw me before. I’ve seen you a couple of times though.” Heero:
“Oh, that makes sense. Duh!” Pika and Heero thank Puff and they get in, but then Heero wants to
ask Puff a question. He asks Puff if he can be a test subject for the new word smoke clouds. Puff
asks if he is sure because that nerd kid from earlier was walking into a wall at the time of the
conversation. Heero says, "You probably need a strong mind and body to endure such change.
That boy was a nerd before he changed. He wasn't strong. On the other hand, I am exceptionally
strong in both ways. I think I can handle it." So Puff asks Heero what he wants to be. He thinks
long and hard and then says, "Alefrabalabeolepaleocioshis." Puff yells at Heero for doing
something so weird and Heero says he was just joking. Puff had already started the word and has
Ale in smoke clouds. Puff: “
Well, I don’t want to throw away such a quality material, even if it isn’t even a word. So does
anyone want it? I don’t care, take it for free.” Some little kid raises his hand and Puff drifts it
over to him. The boy touches it and turns into some rabbit-cat thing. Heero then thinks again and
he finnally decides that he wants to be "cool" like the boy from earlier, too. Puff asks if he is
sure, and Heero says he is. So Puff makes a smoke cloud into the word "cool" and it touches
Heero. Big cloud of smoke surronds him. He dissappears in smoke but then some wind starts to
blow it away and goes through Heero's hair and his clothes wave around for effect. He opens his
eyes and looks at himself. He is exactly the same! He asks Puff what was going on. Puff: “Sorry
kid, looks like I can't do anything. Your still to young to be given such powers. It must be that
you’ll already be cool when your older and that is why you can't transform into it now.” Puff
explains it is his darn puberty. He just has to wait and let coolness come to him naturally. Heero
has to wait a couple of years. Heero says, "That really bites! Oh well, let's go Pikachu." Pika
decides he wants something too. He wants some words also. He thinks about it then says he
wants to be a bottle of ketchup. Pika has always wondered what it might be like to be his favorite
food. Since he admires it so much, why not be it too. Puff says he can't do that. He can only
make adjectives out of smoke clouds. Pika then thinks of a way around it and decides to describe
ketchup. Pika says he wants to be “ketchupy”. Puff says, “Oh yea, in the English language you can
make any word into an adjective just by adding -y to it. Ha, ha, ha! Stupid English language…”
So Puff makes the word “ketchupy” out of smoke clouds and it drifts over to Pika where it
touches him and he turns into a bottle of ketchup. The K and P are his eyes, his tail, arms and legs
poke out from their sides, and his mouth is a picture of a tomato on the front label. Pika is very
happy. They thank Puff again and jump into their cloud cars getting ready to take off. Their
cloud cars rise into the sky with Shady Character holding on to Heero’s bumper and everyone
below is shrunk into specks. They sit back into their seats and begin to take a nap as since they
don’t have to pilot the dang things. All of a sudden, Heero hears Pikachu yelling at the top of his
lungs. Pikachu, being a bottle of ketchup, which is slightly rounder than his usual body, can’t get
his hands into the center to activate the stick shift! The engine is warming up to the next level
but the car’s speed isn’t increasing to the same. Pikachu’s car soon overheats and then begins to
smoke! Well, actually begins to cloud. It’s not smoke. It’s cloud. Pikachu desperately looks
around the car to see if there is something that can help him stop the car! He sees a button
under a glass cover that says “In case of emergency.” Pikachu presses it and the entire motor
stops. So Pikachu’s car soon plummets down towards the ground. Heero must do something! He
yells to Shady Character in the back and tells him to hold on. Heero sees a button under glass in
his cloud car that says “In case of G-emergency.” He bashes it open but cuts his hand severely.
He spits on his wounds and rubs it a bit. “I’m okay!” All of a sudden his cloud car starts to grow
and take on a new shape. (Hum Gundam theme song to yourself starting now) His cloud car
transforms into a Gundam! Wing Gundam 01 to be exact! With it’s incredible capabilities, it can
be used to rescue Pikachu in no time. But then Heero then sees something on the front panel of
his controls. A huge metal plate is bolted to the dashboard, engraved in it saying “Warning: Do
not exceed 25 miles a hour in this vehicle.” So he proceeds at 25mph after Pikachu, which is
getting him nowhere fast! Pikachu has reached the maximum velocity of falling objects and has
very little time left on this earth! With the Gundam going at a turtles pace, and birds passing it
up, Will Heero ever catch up to Pikachu? Heero: “Forget the warning! I’m hitting top speed!” So
he grabs the speed handle and yanks it down from Slow to Kinda Slow, to Not As Slow, to Not
Fast, to Kinda Fast, to Fast, to This Is Faster, to Slow Down Fast, to See Warning Label. Heero is
cruising making up good time to catch up to Pikachu. Pikachu is still screaming and doesn’t know
what is going on. His top pops off and Ketchup is flying everywhere! He is a bottle of Ketchup
after all. As Heero is speeding down, he can feel the wind going though his hair. But wait! Isn’t
he on the inside of something? He’s not supposed to feel wind. Something must be wrong. And
something is! His Gundam is going to fast! It is falling apart! Pieces of cloud are flying
everywhere and Shady Character, hanging on to a wing, is getting it in his face! Clouds were never
meant to go this fast. And now Heero was about to learn that. Heero is pressing buttons that are
disappearing and flying away and now the entire front portion of his Gundam is gone! (Stop
humming Gundam theme to yourself.) Heero has to think of something else to do to save Pikachu
and Shady Character! (Start humming Mission Impossible theme to yourself now.) Heero has an
idea! He climbs out of the cockpit of his Gundam and crawls out to the back wing where Shady
Character is and grabs him. He than waits till they reach Pikachu. By now little of the Gundam is
left intact. They leap to Pikachu’s cloud car and Heero throws Shady Character into the back
seat along with Pikachu, after putting his cap back on, of course. He then sees the Autopilot
button and smashes it till the autopilot disengages. Now he grabs the steering and hopes that he
knows what he is doing. He may be able to pilot a Gundam, but can he pilot a cloud car? Tough
question. Easy answer. He hits the pedal to the cloud and starts to pull up on the wheel. A
steering wheel in an air vehicle. Don’t ask. So as Pikachu and Shady Character get ready for
impact, Heero pulls harder on the wheel and does it! Just inches away from the ground, they lift
off once again and are on their way back on track home. (Stop humming Mission Impossible them
to yourself. People are looking.) All night they drive, well mainly Heero, because Pikachu, which
has turned back into a Pikachu, and Shady Character have fallen asleep after the terrifying
ordeal. Heero can hardly stay awake and almost falls asleep at the wheel a couple times, but then
he slaps himself in the face and says, “I’m okay!” And he is! Finally, after a couple more hours of
driving the dread, they arriver over Pallet town! Yes, the place of legends. Where Ash Ketchup,
I mean Ketchum was born, and where Pikachu was given to him. Later to become the Pokemon
master, who would of known. Heero, scanning the town, sees Ash down below yelling out into the
sky, “Pika, pikachu! Where are you!” He yells some more, “You went into the forest but didn’t
come back! Where are you! Boo, hoo!” Heero thinks this is a good time to return Pikachu so he
yells, “Merry Christmas! And a Happy 4th of July!” Ash looks up and sees Pikachu falling down
from the heavens! Ash: “Pikachu! There you are! I thought I lost you forever!” Pikachu: “Pika,
pika!” Ash: “Pikachu!” Pikachu: “Pika, pika!” Ash: “Pikachu!” Etc. As Ash extended his hands
towards the heavens to recieve the gift that he was so graciosly given all became quiet and it
seemed the whole world was watching them. Only them. But they were so wrong. No one was
watching a kid trying to catch his flying Pikachu. They were watching the 4th of July fireworks.
It was a spectacular sight. Flashes of all the colors of the rainbow were in the air. Then a huge
firework in the exploding shape of Pikachu erupted into a million shades of yellow. Pikachu fell
right into Ash’s arms and it was a happy time. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Heero had now lost a companion, and what was he to do? The only one left was Shady Character.
He was not much of a talker. Well, Heero told him not to be much of a talker. But did it really
matter that Heero had a partner at this stage of the adventure or not? He was almost home.
Just a couple more hours on the wheel and he’d be home. Back in the Sanct with all the rest of
the folk from the hit t.v. series Gundam Wing. Did he really need Pikachu? Well, if he did or not,
something inside him beckoned him to hit the shores and give Ash, Pikachu’s master, a visit. Later:
Heero was in Ash’s house and eating a lovely sushi dinner. Ash: “So, Heero, your an elf?” Heero:
“Well, actually I’m supposed to be a suicidal-gundam-pioloting-takes-outrageos-pain-with-ease-boy
right now, like I explained earlier. It’s the weekends, after all.” Ash: “Oh yes. And another
question. If you found Pikachu in the forest, then he couldn’t have walked far from here. But you
said it took the two of you about 2 days to get back here. Plus all that flying in a cloud car. How
come it took you two so long?” Heero: “Well, as Pikachu had added in earlier also, when we rolled
away from the Evil Barney we lost all track of time. Not to mention we rolled quite a distance at
such a fast pace.” Ash: “Ah, yes I see. So will you be staying long?” Heero: “No, I got to go home.
Home to the Sanct where the rest of some people are waiting for me. I have peoples waiting for
me.” Relena... And so Heero continued on the final stage of his trip, going home to the Sanct
Kingdom where all his pals lived and hanged out now and days. He traveled for 4 days though rain
and shine in his cloud car which was originally Pikachus’. Finally he could see the castle tops of the
Almost all girl school off on the horizon and he began his decent. All of a sudden, the cloud car
began to give out! Heero: “What the hey!? What’s wrong with this piece of junk?! Oh my gosh!
This $1.50 Wal-Mart special is out of gas! Curses Puff and his loaners!” Heero was diving fast
and he had little time before he would meet the ground first hand. This was reminding him much
of the earlier inncedent when Pikachu’s car just about broke down. But this time Pikachu’s car
wasn’t able to be saved. Without gas, the entire car was lost. As the cloud car sped to the
ground at the speed of light, Heero began to say his prayers! (Start humming Mission Impossible
theme to yourself now.) Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a Pink Leo suit comes soaring from
overhead and does several loop-de-loops before hovering next to Heero. ???: “Hold on, I’ll save
you!” The mysterious Mobile Suit opens hatches below on both of feet and cables come out and
twist around the cloud car. They begin to slowly reel in the car and soon it is docked inside the
Suit. Heero: “What the hey?! Who is this?” ???: “You can’t even recognize your own girlfriends
awsome moves! I feel so violated!” Heero: “Relena! That.. those moves were.. okay... I guess...”
Relena: “Are you sure they were only okay? Well if that was okay, then you really suck!” Heero:
“What?! I’ll show you how to fly! Let’s suit up! Dam, I love home!”
The End