Hi! Phantomness here! Here’s part 31, thanx for reviewing!

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon! It belongs to Nintendo, Game FREAK, 4KIDS, and Shogakukan comics.

Ash: Hi everybody! The long-awaited chapter is now up!

Pika-chan: A.K.A. THE FINAL JUDGMENT!

Shadow: Hey! This is my fic! Get out!

Ash: :( Don’t you like me anymore? :(

Pika-chan: *sniffles*

Shadow: *laughs nervously* Ehehehehe…

Ash: Pika-chan, shock her!

Shadow: AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *Twitches around on the ground in pain*

Pika-chan: *Cute innocent look*

Notes: In case you couldn’t remember after all these chapters, <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, and italics indicates translated poke speech! Takes place 1 week after the last episode.

Note 2: In case you didn’t know, this is ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! Okay? Just making sure!

Ranma – Hehehe, so you can’t guess. Yep, I had lots of fun making that alternate dimension. So who did you think the judge was?

Tmp – the pokemon orbs are that dimensions equivalent of the pokemon cards. No, she never did get the Magikarp orb… it was MQ in orb form! Yes, MQ is one of the secret cards. And yes, Todd will be in the final judgment, Hehehe.

Pikacar/Marle – I’ll keep writing! *Grin* Yes, Alternate universe is always fun to play with. *Smiles*

Pokemon Reader – heh. Glad you like it, it was fun to think up! *Snickers*

Cli Nola – why don’t you like CCS? Or well. It might be *Shudder* CC. Okay, I forgive you. Thanx for reviewing!

The Eevee master – Yay! So many reviews! Yep, timeline merge is so fun! Sure, how many eggs do you want? Orbs and judge have already been explained, I think, but yes, it was cool deciding to use a ring to catch pokemon orbs. Oh, yes, but I’m already done with the next chapter, just waiting to post it, I like to stay ahead… Join the bonfire! Was your vacation fun?

Heh, I just got your 3^rd review. Don’t worry it will be up soon! Even if Gary gets a secret card, he doesn’t get to keep it! Remember that! Ash sensed Flareth’s capture because he was partially bonded to the pokemon cards by his association with them. (Read my authoresses notes).

Ihire – no problem! Thanks for reviewing! *Winks*

Otaku4Ever – Wai! New reviewer! Yep, poor Gary and Todd… NOT! *Evil cackling laughter is heard*

Episode 31: Long-awaited revelations

“Return to your true form, pokemon card!” Ash shouted, as blue light streaked around the group of rampaging pokémon. They all shrieked and resumed card form. One flew to Gary, but the rest flew towards Ash. Ash caught them all and then turned to Pika-chan. “Well, that’s that!” He said, giving her a peace sign. “It’s over! I’ve caught all of them!”

Pika-chan nodded, but her eyes were shadowed. However, in his excitement, Ash did not notice. He was too busy happily dancing around with his wand. Finally, Pika-chan cleared her throat.

“Ash, shouldn’t we return to the pokemon center?”

“Right!” Ash said. He picked her up and started swinging her around in the air, giddy with excitement.

Pika-chan plastered a fake smile on her face. * It seems too easy… something is missing… the final judgment maker… where is she? *

Gary picked up his card and primly walked away, head held high. His cheerleaders were waiting outside.

“Did you win, Gary?” Ruby asked. None of them could actually see the cards in card form, but from Gary’s face, something good had happened.

“Of course! That loser Ash Ketchum is nothing compared to me!” Gary said. “Now let’s go get ice cream and celebrate!”

“Yay!” The cheerleaders shouted. They all piled into Gary’s bright red sports car and drove down the street, leaving behind a huge cloud of smoke.

When they returned, they saw Todd waiting at the door with very, very big teary eyes.

“Why didn’t you wake me up? I could have taped it!” Todd wailed. “The climax of Card Captor Ashura’s adventures! And I missed it!” Todd began to sniffle loudly.

Ash rolled his eyes almost imperceptibly. Todd didn’t notice.

“I’ll put on the costume, if it makes you happier.” He offered.

“Yay!” Todd instantly turned 180 degrees in mood. He cheerfully ran up to his room to get the costume.

“Why’d you do that?” Pika-chan inquired.

“Do you want a freaked out Todd on our hands for the rest of my pokemon journey? I think not.” Ash replied.

“Yeah, but I’m hungry!” Pika-chan complained.

Ash blinked. * What does that have to do with anything? * However, he produced a chocolate bar for Pika-chan.

“Mmm…” Pika-chan bit deeply into the luscious milk chocolate-coated caramel dipped peanut treat. She sighed.

“Life doesn’t get much better than this.”

Ash pocketed his cards and sat down on a bench to wait for Todd. He also used the fruit basket to produce some oranges, since he was feeling a bit hungry after all that chasing. Ash was halfway through his second orange (hey, they were small ones!) before Todd returned.

“Here you go!” Todd said cheerfully, handing Ash the costume, neatly folded.

Ash slowly unfolded it, unsure of what he would find.

“It’s my greatest work.” Todd said proudly.

Ash wasn’t quite sure what to say. The costume consisted of a pair of dark red satin pants that flared out, embroidered with scrolling ribbons of gold pokemon. He had a dark blue shirt with flowing sleeves, with gold bands at the sleeves. Along with this costume went a black belt of double-looped silk, and sturdy black leather boots that went up to his knees. At his throat was an emerald clasp, set in gold, which kept his black silk cloak on his shoulders. The inside of the cloak was trimmed with dark red velvet, of the same shade as the pants, and he had gloves of white silk that went up to his elbows, trimmed with blue. The cloak was also embroidered with pokemon designs.

Ash was stunned into silence.

“Amazing… you weren’t lying, Todd.” Pika-chan finally managed to stammer out. The dark colors suited Ash’s complexion very well, and red and blue contrasted with black and white nicely.

Todd basked in the praise from both Ash and Pika-chan. Then, they walked out into a deserted part of the forest, just in case anyone was watching.

“Well, I’m all ready to videotape your last adventure!” He said. Slowly, Ash took out his last cards, and methodically wrote his name on them as Todd taped. The last card was Pikablu. Ash paused for a second to give Todd a ‘V’ for victory in the camera, before he picked up his pen to sign his name.

“Are you ready?” Pika-chan asked softly in the background.

“Eh?” Ash finished writing the last stroke of his name.

Silver sparks danced around Ash, Todd, and even Gary. All the pokemon cards immediately whipped into frenzy, and they all circled around their respective owners before disappearing. Golden light shone in all directions.

“The final judgment.” Pika-chan intoned, as her wings whipped around her and she resumed her ‘true form’. The seal of the pokemon cards shimmered into existence beneath her feet.

One of Ash’s poke balls suddenly broke open. Skymew floated out, but her eyes were cloudy.

“What?” Ash asked in surprise. “Pika-chan! What’s going on?”

Pika-chan didn’t reply. Everyone watched as large wings sprouted out of Skymew’s back, and enveloped her in a cocoon. Silver light shot out of the cocoon, before it parted again, revealing a beautiful girl dressed in a dark red jacket, a black miniskirt, and long black boots that went up past her knees. Long black hair fell past her waist, as a pair of purple eyes opened and fixed Ash with a cold stare. From her back grew a pair of dark purplish black wings.

Todd and Gary both gasped. Ash blinked.

“It’s Sabrina!” Gary said, freaking out. “She used to be the Saffron City gym leader, but she vanished six years ago! Gramps told me all about it! I always wondered where she went!”

“I know!” Todd added. * Never mind that I was only six at that time… *

Sabrina settled herself down on a convenient tree. In one hand, she held a beautifully detailed silver crescent moon charm, with wings and the word ‘Yue’ in Chinese on it.

“I am the final judgment maker.” Sabrina intoned. “I am here to test the candidate that the Decision maker Pikachu has chosen. Yet… only one should be trying for the position. Those of you who do not possess the key of Clow, can you hope to defeat me and pass my judgment?”

Todd and Gary both looked up.

Sabrina floated down in front of Todd first.

“Shall we begin?” She asked in her dead voice. Todd blinked, but then his eyes went blank. His video camera fell from limp fingers as he was levitated up into the air. Silver beams crisscrossed the area, forming a sort of platform for them to battle on. Todd landed with a bump and regained his senses.

“What?”

Sabrina held up a hand. Instantly, a barrage of red crystals shot at Todd, who barely managed to avoid them.

Todd gasped and dived out of the way. “Gloom, go!” He cried. The flower pokemon stirred itself and hopped out of the card, landing in front of Sabrina, who did not look impressed.

“Psybeam.” She uttered quietly. Multicolored rings of energy shot out towards Gloom, knocking it into the air.

“Oh no!” Todd cried. He barely had time to say more, before he was impaled upon a crystal spear.

Sabrina dusted her hands, but then she paused. “He wasn’t supposed to die. He was just a distraction. The true judgment is still yet to come.”

Todd toppled off the platform, clutching his chest. By the time Ash and Pika-chan hurried over, it was too late.

Gary looked shocked. He swallowed softly. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all! But he bravely clenched his teeth and pulled out his mirror.

“Ah… so you have the mirror.” Sabrina said softly. “But that alone cannot defeat me. Let us begin.” Gary was also levitated up into the air, blank-eyed. He landed on his butt with a yelp when he fell on the platform.

Sabrina used the same barrage of ruby shards that she had used against Todd. Gary managed to deflect some of them with the mirror, though.

“Evil spirits begone!” Gary shouted, throwing one of the ofudas from the priest at her.

It hit Sabrina… but absolutely nothing happened.

“These magic wards are useless.” Sabrina said in monotone, as the ward crumpled into a billion pieces of ash.

Gary picked up a card and threw it in front of the mirror. “Flareth, use Fire Blast!”

Flareth appeared, but then it just blinked at him.

“Fire Blast is not within Flareth’s range of attacks.” Sabrina intoned. Another barrage of crystals shot at Gary, nearly knocking the mirror out of his hands. He rolled near the edge of the platform, but barely managed to stay on due to a convenient bar.

Flareth changed back into a card, before Gary could command it to do something else.

“Charizard, go!” Gary shouted, throwing out a poke ball. He mounted Charizard and flew up towards Sabrina.

Sabrina shrugged and shot another wave of crystal shards at Gary, who winced as one of the ruby pieces slashed a cut open on his forehead.

“Charizard, use Flamethrower!” Charizard puffed out a stream of concentrated flames, which surrounded Sabrina, enveloping her in a wave of fire. The smoke obscured her from view.

“Is she down?” Gary asked hopefully. However, a minute later, the fire slid apart and disapperated. The glowing silver shield around Sabrina split in half as she walked out, not a hair was singed.

“Why do you not use your pokemon cards to defeat me?”

Gary clenched his teeth. “So be it!” He pulled out his most powerful card, muttering under his breath.

“Mew, I choose you!”

Mew immediately began attacking. Gary grinned in satisfaction, but as Mew neared Sabrina, her eyes flashed pure gold. Mew suddenly turned around and turned on Gary.

“AAUGH! What are you doing?” Gary shrieked.

“Mew is one of my pokemon cards.” Sabrina said. “Now, you lose.”

There was a scream, and then Gary fell from the platform. Ash walked over to him.

“What happened?”

“She took… she took all of my pokemon cards away…” That was the only coherent sentence Gary could form. He began babbling incoherently afterwards.

“Now it is your turn.” Sabrina turned to Ash. His eyes also went blank and he was levitated into the air.

“Ash…be careful.” Pika-chan whispered. “Sabrina is very powerful.”

End Episode 31!

Cliffhanger! Review or else I will not be posting the next part! *Evil grin* I need 9! Comments, Constructive Criticism accepted with joy. Flames will be used to make S’mores! Or, to forge Sweet to turn Nelvana into candy!