This is a sequel to The Blending of Two Planets. But in that story, it was written through the eyes of Kristy. That restricted me alot so this story is going to be written in the 3rd person. It means I'm going to show you what I want you to see even if the main character doesn't know it. So, enjoy! And please provide feedback. I kind of need it if I want to get better.
Here begins The Rips of Time.
Chapter 1
"Kristy, what is this? Why are your grades dropping?" Her mother frowned at her as she read her report card.
"I don't know. I guess I'm just stupid." Kristy shuffled her foot and stared at the floor.
"I'm very disappointed in you." She glanced up from her spectacles and sighed. "This is so unlike you, Kristy."
"I've just...had a lot on my mind."
"You've got to do better than that. Ever since you had disappeared for those couple of days, your grades have been dropping. I don't approve of this."
"I can't believe you still remember..." she mumbled.
"What was that?"
"I'll study harder. I promise."
"Kristy." She put down her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "How many times have you said this? What is bothering you? You can tell me. I won't laugh or scoff at you."
"Mom..." Kristy rubbed her arm and look down.
"Kristy, I'm here whenever you need me. What happend to the times when you use to tell me evrything?" She put back her glasses on and signed Kristy's report card.
"You promise you won't laugh? You promise you'll believe me? I didn't make this up."
"What is it? I promise I will try my best to listen without any judgements. Until then, I'm not giving you back your report card without you telling me what is wrong." She held open her arms and Kristy climbed next to her.
"Well...did you noticed how everything shook? How everything mixed together? It mixed with the Pokemon World..."
Back at the Pokemon World, Bill had given up on his Time Machine for he felt he had finished it well enough. It could take one back or forth at most three years. After working for so many years, he thought of a brilliant idea to recieve time in fragments and mimic the shape of a black hole. And he could increase the distance of the travel time in days, but he felt this dangerous. He didn't want it to fall in the wrong hands. The effects could be disasterous.
What really changes everything, is that he decided to go examine the 'Chaos Mechanism' and see how it works. It was beyond even his own knowledge and it confused him since he didn't know who could have created it. The blue prints were ingenious. Who could have devised such a clever contraption? It was known throughout the world that he was the most brilliant scientist there ever was. He wasn't conceited, it was just a known fact. He visited Professor Birch for some answers.
"Bill! It is an honor to meet you!" Professor Birch smiled and bowed.
"Professor Birch! Please do no such thing!" Bill lifted Birch back up.
"You really should work on your youth pills, sir. You are aging fast."
"That is not the reason for my coming, I came to ask you about the 'Chaos Mechanism'." He rubbed his beard, silver with age.
"That? Why?"
"Did you have any part in creating it? Those criminals credited you for most everything. Do you remember anything? Those dosages didn't just take over you mind, they only inserted thoughts into your system."
Birch looked at Bill strangely. "Why do you ask so much?"
"I examined it a while ago and the blue prints are astounding! Did you think invent it all up? They are miraculous!"
"No, sir. Those criminals gave me too much credit. I remember helping with little parts of it, but the main design was created by someone else. Oh, I can't remember much. The results of those dosages were very unexpecting. Sometimes it would insert the wrong thoughts and sometimes it would cause me to forget everything!" Birch frowned.
"By someone else? Who? Do you remember anything?" Bill pressed on. This was starting to get very interesting.
"It is very fuzzy. I'm not sure, but he looked like you. But he was a much younger version of you. He had green hair. I'm not sure."
"Me?" Bill thought a moment. Could it be me? Why would I do something like this?
"It seemed like he was the leader. The present one that is now locked up was more like the manager."
"This is all very interesting."
"What are you going to do?"
"I think I'm going to need help. Who were those children? Those that helped out?"
"Kristy and Kom. In fact, I'm taking care of Kristy's Pokemon."
"Oh, yes. That girl was from 'Earth'. Do you know how to bring her back without causing mayhem the way the first did? It brought chickens to my lighthouse last time!" He chuckled.
"No, sir. You are the brilliant one here."
Bill thought a while and as always, he suddenly came up with a way to tackle the problem. "Do you still have the 'Lifeforms Identifier'?"
"Yes, but what would you want with that?"
"You'll see." He moved his glasses.
"I don't believe it."
"Mom! You said you would!"
"I didn't say that. You must have went crazy! Thinking of Pokemon day and night!"
"Mom! Am I brilliant enough to think up a tale like that?"
"Hmm, you're right. That's giving you too much credit."
"Mom!!"
She chuckled. "Kristy, do you have any proof?"
"I have a pin." Kristy dug into her pockets and produced a small pin that she had recieved from her adventure.
Her mom gasped. It wasn't an ordinary pin. It looked different. There was no way it was made on this planet and she knew it. It shook a little as she held it. It produced a small hologram of Officer Jenny thanking Kristy.
"Now do you believe me?"
"Kristy..." She was in a state of shock. "All that...true?"
"Yes, mom."
"I don't believe it." She whispered. "It's impossible."
"What's wrong? What are you thinking of, mom?"
"How could it be true? Pokemon was imagined by someone in Japan. Yet it is true? Every bit? Does that mean every story that is written is actually true? No, it can't be."
"I don't know. But I remember Professor Birch saying something about that. But I think that was during his mind controlling dosages so I'm not sure where that came from."
She stroke Kristy's hair. "Never again will I doubt you. But you will bring up your grades, won't you?"
"Mom!!"
She smiled. "You can't throw off your mom. I'm very focused."
"Don't tell Dad, ok? He wouldn't understand. I'm only telling you because I trust you.
"Of course, Kristy."
"Here's the 'Lifeforms Identifier', Bill."
"Thank you, Birch. I'm going to need your help on this one."
"What do you need me for?"
"As an assistant."
"What are you going to do to it?"
"Well, you see how it has a screen?"
"Yea..."
"It shows you every creature there is, right?"
"Yes..."
"We'll set it to Earth."
"Yea..."
"Don't you see what I'm doing yet?!?"
"No...."
Bill sighed. "The 'Lifeforms Identifier' can examine every creature there is. I'll scroll around it till I find Kristy."
"That's going to take a while and do you know how she looks?"
"Of course I do! I've watched the news!"
"So what will you when you find her?"
"Then we'll choose her and transport her here!" He extended his arms into the air and smiled.
"Huh?" Birch was still confused. "How are you going to do that? Doesn't it work like a television set? And that planet is huge! It's like looking for a needle in a haystack!"
"Oh, I haven't told you yet. I'm going to connect it to a transporter and I will refigure the wires so that I can transport her over. As for looking for her, I will match the map coordinates of where we found her in the Pokemon World to the coordinates at her planet."
"How are you going to do that?"
Bill slapped his head. "Quit asking questions and help me with this. I need you get me some tools..."
Knock, knock.
Kom opened the door. "Oh, hello, Professor Birch! What brings you here?"
"Kom! Bill has asked me bring you to him. He feels he's going to need you to help him solve the case."
"What case?"
"About the 'Chaos Mechanism'."
"What about it?"
"He's trying to find out who created it."
"Wasn't it you?"
"Me? No! Those criminals gave me too much credit."
Kom frowned. "They acted as if you did all the work. They said things really started to get going when they finally took over your mind."
"I still remember something from it. The thing that really interests Bill is that the one who created the blue prints for th 'Chaos Mechanism' wasn't me."
"Who was it?" This interested Kom and he opened the door a little wider.
"He looked like a younger version of Bill."
"Of Bill?" Kom scrunched his brows and thought.
"Bill also wants to bring Kristy, too. He's doing something. I don't know what. I thought it would help if you came."
"You're bringing Kristy back? What does she have to say?"
"I don't know..." Birch felt awkward. Here he was talking to a child who made him feel like a fool.
"Does she want to come back?"
"I'm not sure. We have no way of communicating with her. We thought we would bring her here and go on from there."
Kom remained silent. "What do you remember from that incident?"
"You mean when I was controlled to help with that research? I told you, there was a man that looked like Bill."
"Was there any mention of him before you were controlled? I mean, you must have heard some things while you were controlled. Did they tell you anything about him? Had he been researching with them all those years?"
"Now that you mention it, there hadn't. In fact, he had no part of the creation of the 'Mind Dosages'. The recipe to that is actually very simple."
"Perhaps it was Bill."
"Why do you say that? There can't be two Bills."
"Hasn't he finished his Time Machine?"
"Yes, of course! But why would it be a younger version of him?"
"He probably continued to work on his youth pills."
"Of course!" How could he not think of something so simple? What did Bill think? Could Bill be thinking the same thing? Is that why he immediately wanted to find out the true cause behind that machine? Birch felt very stupid at the moment. How could he have not think of this himself?
"So you wanted me to come over to your Lab?"
"Huh? Oh, yes."
"You shouldn't think too much. You're starting to get very pale."
"Oh, it's nothing, Kom. Can you come now?"
"Yes, I'll just leave a note for my grandparents."
"Mom, you believe me now, don't you?"
"Yes. I do, Kristy."
They both remained silent.
"I've found the coordinates! Kom! Is that how Kristy looks like?"
"Yes, Bill. But will you accidentally transport her mom with her?"
"No, I'm a few steps ahead of you. We will only take her. I programmed it so that it'll only take her. It won't be like the 'Chaos Mechanism' where it took whoever had the stronger pull."
"Will you be able to take her back once you've done this? And are you sure that it'll transport to this very transporter?"
"Kom! Stop worrying! I'm more than sure that she will end up here. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to take her back."
"Bill! Then you better not be too impatient! We should leave her there for now! How will she be able to let her mom know that she's alright?"
"I've thought of that already, but we haven't a minute to lose. This is important."
"Bill! Don't do it!"
"Bill! Listen to the boy! I agree with him!"
"You both don't get it, do you?!?" Bill barked.
In his fury, Bill accidentally pulled the switch. He tried to push it back up, but it wouldn't budge.
"Oh, no!" Both Kom and Birch exclaimed.
"Mom?"
"Yes, Kristy?"
"Now what?"
"What do you mean?"
"I really want to go back to the Pokemon World. And what if I do without having a chance to tell you?"
"I will tell your father and we'll make up excuses to keep you out of school." She smiled.
"Mom! I don't mean that. How will you know if I ever come back?"
"I won't, I'll just believe that you will, like the first time. It only took a few days."
"What if it takes longer?"
"I'll wait."
"No, I mean years."
"Then you'll have a baby sibling waiting for your arrival."
"Will you miss me?"
"Of course, I will!" Suddenly, Kristy started to glow bright blue in her arms. "Kristy?"
"What? Hey! Why are you getting blurry?"
"Kristy! You're turning blue!"
"I am?"
Then Kristy disappeared and her mom held air.
"Not again." She whispered. "The coincidence, the coincidence."
Nothing needed to be told to her, she knew Kristy had gone back. The only problem is, how long this time?
=== End of Chapter 1 ===