Andrea and Brian's Crazy Cross Over Anime

CH. 2: Toddler in the Sky! (and we lose the professors *sniff*) 

           Misty was pulling James, James was crying about Jesse; Brock was floating after Keiko, Keiko was clinging to Yusuke; Joey and Kero were arguing, Hiei was glaring at them; and Yami was trying to have a serious conversation with Yugi (which was proving rather difficult since they were walking.)

           ~Yugi, I think you should let me take over~ the Spirit sounded worried, ~This is a dangerous place~

           ~Yeah, maybe you’re right.  I just…~ Yugi trailed off, looking down at the ground.

           ~Yes, Yugi?~ the Spirit ducked to try and catch Yugi’s eye.

           ~Well, I always hide behind you when things get tough.  And just once I wanted to make it on my own.  To be brave like you~

           Yami smiled and placed a hand on Yugi’s shoulder, ~You are brave Yugi~ Yugi blushed, ~but, if that is your wish, I will not argue.  You may stay – for now~

           Yugi smiled, ~Thanks Yami, I~ he tripped over a branch, nearly bumping Tea (who had been walking just a little close to him since her conversation with Kurama).  Tea recoiled into Hiei, who looked just about ready to kill Yugi for causing ‘that girl’ to touch him.  Yugi sweat dropped and rubbed the back of his neck, laughing nervously, “ahhaha, sorry about that.”

Hiei growled and looked away.

           ~On second thought Yami, maybe you should take over~ Yami laughed as he took over. 

           Kuwabara watched uneasily and then turned away.

            “Hey,” he came up beside Kurama, “Does that little guy seem weird to you?”

           Kurama stifled a sigh, why did everyone come to him with their endless questions? He forced a smile, “Which one?” he asked lightly.

           “The one with the spiky hair and the necklace.”

           “Him?” Kurama pointed casually, “No, not really.  Why?”

           Kuwabara yanked his arm down, “Don’t point, he’ll see you!” He looked around furtively, lowering his voice, “He just creeps me out, that’s all.  I think there’s something weird going on with him.”

           “Well, if there is, I can’t sense it.”

           Kuwabara wasn’t convinced, “There’s just something weird about his eyes.  It’s like two people are staring out at me.  It’s creepy.”

           “I believe you said that already.” Kuwabara looked hurt and Kurama sighed, “Alright, if it will make you feel better, I’ll keep an eye on him.”

           “Thanks Kurama!  You’re the best.” Kuwabara went off happily to find Yukina and harass her.

           Meanwhile Kurama shook his head wearily, “This day is never going to end.”

 ***

            Keiko stumbled and brushed up against Yusuke, he reached out a hand to steady her.

           “Sorry about that.” She held his arm as they continued walking again.

           “Whatever,” Yusuke shrugged, then he noticed that she was clinging to his arm, “Um, Keiko, what’s up?”

           “Um, nothing, why?”

           He looked pointedly down at her hands on his arm, “Oh, no reason.” He said dryly.

           “Oh!” She let go of his arm, and clasped her hands in front of her.  For a few minutes she walked like that, but then she once again moved close to Yusuke – so close that their shoulders would have brushed if they had been the same height.

           “Alright!” Yusuke’s exclamation caused her to jump.  “Tell me what’s going on Keiko.”

           “It’s that guy,” she looked over her shoulder at Brock.  “He keeps staring at me.”

           Yusuke looked at Brock skeptically, taking in his always closed eyes, “How can you tell?”

           “Yusuke!” Keiko lifted a hand threateningly, “I’m serious.”

           “Alright,” Yusuke held up his hands defensively then sighed, “look, it’s probably nothing – but I’ll-” 

           “YUSUKE URAMESHI”

           A loud voice sounded in the air above them.  Yusuke rolled his eyes.  The rest of his crew looked up to find exactly what they expected… a large image of the head of a toddler in the sky.

           The other characters looked up as well, but the last thing they expected was a giant head, sucking on a pacifier, to be above them.

           Joey and Takuya pulled back, a little freaked out.  “Okay, that’s weird.” They said together.  Then they looked at one another, “hey!  That’s my line!” they glared at each other, “STOP DOING THAT!”

            And I honestly couldn’t tell you how long this would have gone on if Hiei’s threatening growl hadn’t shut the two up.

           Koenma (‘cuz that’s who the voice – and head – belonged to, obviously) looked down at the large group on the ground.  “You seem to have picked up a few friends on your way.” He said disapprovingly.

           “Hey, don’t blame me pacifier breath, they just appeared out of nowhere.” Yusuke didn’t even bother to look Koenma’s direction.

           “Did they?” Now Koenma sounded interested, “What happened Kurama?”

           “They are characters from other cartoons.” Kurama stated calmly, “and it does appears as though they just appeared out of thin air.”

           “WHAT!?” Koenma exploded, “HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!? THIS IS TERRIBLE! HOW COULD YOU HAVE LET THIS HAPPEN YUSUKE!?”

           Now Yusuke jerked his attention to the floating head, “ME!?!  I didn’t DO anything!”

           “The portal between worlds must have been left open, what a terrible mistake.  How could this have happened?”  Koenma was muttering to himself ignoring Yusuke (of course, since his voice was still amplified they all heard him). “And now it appears to be closed, what will I…O.O” he suddenly realized they could all hear him.  “Um, uh…” he lifted his head, looking angry, “Continue with the mission.  I’ll check up on you later.”  And with that he blinked out of sight.

           Yusuke shook his head, “Weird.”

           “Hmm,” Kurama mused thoughtfully, “more like interesting.  Very interesting.”  Yusuke could practically see the wheels in his head spinning as he processed what had just happened.  By now Kurama probably had it all figured out, but Yusuke knew from experience the red headed boy wouldn’t tell anyone else unless he thought there was a need to – and there probably wasn’t a reason to tell everyone why Koenma was being weird.

           “Was that a…toddler?” Yami asked in total shock.

           “Yeah, I think it was.” Ash was still staring at the place where the face had just been. 

           “Was it… giving orders?” Tea asked incredulously. 

           “Um, that’s what it sounded like to me.” Lan looked questioningly down at Megaman, who spoke in a half laugh.

           “Oh, yeah!  He sure was!”

           Everyone just stared at the Urameshi crew, who all acted as though absolutely nothing had happened.  Suddenly Kero shot out from behind a tree, flying around and laughing.

           “Ha, ha!  You take orders from a toddler!” Yusuke didn’t even spare him a glance.  He gave a bored yawn.

           “Yeah, that’s real funny coming from you teddy bear.” 

           “Why you!”  Kero lunged at Yusuke, but Joey got in his way.

           “Hey, bear.  Maybe you and the toddler could hook up.  I can see it now!” Joey was laughing so hard he was holding his sides.  “Go get ‘em teddy!” he pointed at Kero, still laughing.  Kero pulled out a fan and started hitting Joey on the head with it.

           “Ow, ow, hey!” Joey grabbed for Kero with one hand, trying to protect his head with the other, “Stop that! OW, who would have thought a teddy bear could hit so hard.”  That just made Kero even madder, so he hit Joey even harder, “Grrr – STOP THAT!!!”  Joey’s shout echoed off the surrounding trees.  Kero paused for a moment in shock, and then went after Joey again.  Joey was now running in circles, ducking his head to hide it beneath his arms.

           Yukina and Keiko had stopped to watch them, both looking a little uncertain.  Hiei, of course, looked disgusted, and Shizeru looked bored.  Ash, Lan, TK, and Takuya just stared wide-eyed.  Misty categorized them with Brock and James, and - deciding she didn’t need anymore nutcases - chose to ignore them.  Most of the others were laughing (though some more quietly than others).

           “Um, guys, shouldn’t we try to stop them?” Tea asked.

           “Why bother?” Hiei crossed his arms.

           Tea looked to Yusuke, he just turned and started walking again, placing his arms behind his head.

           Tea sweat dropped.

           She turned to her next hope, “Yugi…”

           Yami shook his head, “Don’t look at me Tea.  I think they should settle this on their own.”

           Tea looked around helplessly, but no one seemed inclined to help her. Seeing an opportunity, Brock started toward her eagerly, but Misty deftly pulled him back to her side.

           “Uh, oh.” Yukina said softly, drawing Tea’s attention back to Joey.

           Joey was still running with his head ducked, which of course meant that he couldn’t see a thing (just imagine that mop o’ hair in your eyes), and he was dangerously close to a small drop off.

           “Um, Joey!” Tea called out to warn him, but it was too late.

           “Ahhh!” *thunk* Joey landed on the ground.

           Tea ran over to him, “Joey! Are you okay?”  Kero began to come at him again, and Tea knocked him away with a casual swipe of her hand, “Buzz off.” She muttered.

           Joey rubbed his head, and then his backside. “Coulda gone better.”

           “Here, let me help.” Yukina came over to where Tea and Ash had finally managed to get Joey back on to the same level as them. She touched his arm and her hand began to glow.  She then moved her hand to his head, and soon he was right as rain.

           Which also meant that he was now angry.

           “Why you!” He shook a fist at Kero menacingly and began to stand to go after him.

           “Uh, oh.” Ash mumbled.

           “Uh, oh is right.” Tea agreed, “There’s just no stopping that lunk head.  He never stops to think.” She sighed.

           “Joey.” Yami stood between his friend and Kero, placing a hand on Joey’s shoulder and shaking his head, “Let it go for now.”

           “But Yug -”

           “No, Joey.” Yami held Joey’s gaze and the blond boy relented.

           “Whatever, he’s not worth my time.” Joey muttered as he turned away. Kero briefly considered hitting him in retaliation, but one look at Yami made him rethink that plan.  <That kid is just plain weird.>

           “So are you coming or what?” Yusuke asked impatiently from the spot he had stopped at, a few yards away.

           The others quickly gathered their wits and hurried to catch up with him.  After what Kurama had said about demons, no one really wanted to be left alone in this place.

           Except of course for James.

           James wouldn’t budge.  Misty yanked on his arm, then tried to push him.  She even risked letting go of Brock so that she could concentrate her full efforts on James. 

           “Ohh, come on!  We’re gonna get left behind!” she was exasperated.  She got behind him, leaned her back against his and pushed off with both feet.  But the boy didn’t move, not even a little.

           “I knew this would happen if we stopped.” She muttered.  She stepped back, considering her options.  She thought about calling for Ash to help her, but she didn’t want to seem needy.

           “Maybe I could… oh, no, that wouldn’t work.”  She hung her head in defeat.

           “What’s wrong?” Tea asked her gently.

           “He won’t budge.” Misty didn’t even look up at the older girl.

           “Hmm, now that could be a problem.”

           “What could be a problem?” Yukina came up beside them, Kuwabara not far behind.

           “Him,” Tea pointed at James, “he won’t move. He’s just staring into space.”

           “Um, did you try hitting him?” Kuwabara asked dumbly, “That always seems to work for me.”

           “Really?” Shizeru walked up behind him. *WHACK* she hit him over the head and he started jumping around, waving his arms furiously.

           “What did you do that for? Sis? Sis?”

           “Hm, guess you were right.  It does work.” Shizeru didn’t even acknowledge her brother's yelling.

           Tea and Misty just stared at her (I think they’re a little scared, I know I would be – that girl’s just crazy.)

           Shizeru studied James for a moment.  “But I don’t think that’ll work on him.  Oh well,” she pushed up her sleeves and bent over next to James.

           “Wh-what are you doing?” Misty asked

           “Guess I’ll just have to carry him.” She said casually, as if it was something she did every day.

           “Oh no you’re not!” Tea said firmly.  “We’ll get one of the guys to do it.”

           “Why bother?” Shizeru sounded bored.

           “Because, girls don’t carry guys.  Girls don’t carry anyone! Guys do.”

            “But they won’t.”

           “Yes, they will.” Tea looked over at Yugi/Yami, he was probably too small.  One of the YYH guys would probably be best, but she didn’t really know them.

           “Pardon me, ladies.  But maybe I could be of assistance.”

           Tea rolled her eyes.  Leave it to Joey to do something stupid to impress the girls.  Why did he get like that?  He only made himself look stupid.

           “Joey…” She said wearily.

           “What? I can carry him.”  Joey leaned over James. <Oh yeah! Gonna impress the girls!  Go Joey!> “Hee hee, leave it to Joey.”  He lifted James and nearly fell over at the weight.

           “Man, for a skinny guy you sure weigh a lot.” He muttered to James' prone, blank eyed form.  He tried to step forward, but found that he couldn’t.  “Man, carrying Yugi was way easy, why is this so hard?” He decided that it must be that James was so tall (which translated into long considering he was holding the blue haired boy bridal style).  <Forget this.  I can’t even move forward. But I’ve never been good at that whole piggy back ride thing.  Man I wish Tristan was here.> “Oh well, here goes.” He slung James over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.  “There we go.  All better.” He began to walk forward, trying to make it look effortless.

           Tea clapped a hand over her eyes.  He was such an idiot!

           [Now I know you’re all thinking, “hey! What happened to Prof. Oak and Higsby?  There haven’t been any annoying comments recently.” But don’t worry, you so know they have something to say about the Koenma thing; they were just distracted by the whole Joey/Kero thing, and then the James thing (and wouldn’t you have been?).  But now they want some answers, and they have some wonderful theories of their own. ^_^]

           Professor Oak and Mr. Higsby had been walking together because, well, they felt they had a lot in common.  They had found the floating head to be quite an interesting phenomenon, but unfortunately had been unable to formulate a solid theory due to the raucous being made by the blond loudmouth and James.  But now that the noise had died down and everyone was trudging through the forest again, Prof. Oak felt it would be safe to voice his opinion to Higsby.

           “I say, that floating head was interesting wasn’t it Higsby?” He wasn’t speaking loudly.

           “Oh yes.” Higsby nodded.

           “Do you think perhaps there are giants here?”

           “I was thinking it was, perhaps, an elaborate holographic projection.  An intimidation tactic employing advanced technologies-”

           Prof. Oak nodded, but interrupted as soon as Higsby took a breath, “Yes, it’s possible I suppose.  But what was it being projected on, or from?”  he thought about this for a moment, “You know, perhaps it was the result of some sort of atmospheric disturbance.  An unusual weather pattern or just the natural composition of this world’s atmosphere.  We really know nothing about it.”

           Higsby was getting excited now, “the air does seem thicker here.  With the proper particle density…”

           “Yes, yes!” Professor Oak was excited as well.  Both men were speaking in an ever increasingly loud tone, “then the projection could be made directly on the air, given the proper angle of course.”

           Kero flew by them and snorted, “It was magic, I could sense it.” He said sagely (or as sagely as he could still using his false form's high pitched voice.)

           “There is no such thing as magic.  Only science.” Prof. Oak informed him solemnly.

           “It’s a mathematical impossibility.” Higsby agreed.

           “Then how do you explain him?” Lan asked, indicating Kero.

           “He’s clearly some sort of complicated toy.” Higsby said.

           “What?!” Kero was prepared to dive bomb him.  “I am NO TOY MISTER!”

           “But you must be.” Professor Oak reached for him calmly and began studying him, looking for some sort of mechanism.

           “Hey! Lemme go!”

           Joey snickered (or tried to, but holding James made it hard).  This was great.  That stupid bear!

           “OHH! THAT’S IT!” struggling free of the Professor’s grasp Kero transformed into his true form.

           “So now do you think I am a toy?” he asked in his much deeper and more powerful voice.  He spread his wings wide.  Professor Oak and Higsby drew back for just a moment (hey, you would too if you just saw a teddy bear turn into a winged lion!)

           And then they began analyzing this as well.

           “You may as well give up now.” Kurama said calmly.  “It’s clearly some sort of supernatural transformation.”

           “As we’ve already said, magic is simply non-existent.” Higsby stated firmly.

           “Hmm.” Professor Oak mused, “It could be a form of evolution I suppose.” He circled Kero, who growled menacingly (and with more than a little frustration.)

           Yusuke growled as well, “Not that again. Look, can we just keep moving!?”

           “It is clearly not an evolution.” Kurama said.  “You will simply have to acknowledge the existence of things you cannot explain.”

           “The fact that we cannot explain it yet, does not mean there is no explanation.  It simply means we haven’t found it yet.”

           “Yes, we have!” Yusuke shouted, “It’s magic or spirit energy or something supernatural like that!”

           Both the professors (well, the professor and the ex-professor) shook their heads.

           “Grr. Look, I’ll prove it to you.” Yusuke ran at an incredible speed over to a distant tree.  To the humans in the group it appeared that he had disappeared and then reappeared a few seconds later several hundred yards away.  Yusuke ran back.

           “Incredible.” Higsby said, “some sort of projection?” he asked Prof. Oak.

           “Yes, some sort of illusion.  Pokemon have been known to-”

          Yusuke growled again, “NO! Not a projection, not an illusion!”  He turned and shot his spirit gun at a rock about fifty meters away.  It ceased to exist.

          Now Professor Oak was looking at him oddly.

          “Spirit energy.” Kurama explained.

          “Some pokemon-”

          “Will you shut up with the pokemon already!?  I don’t even know what that is.” Yusuke was breathing really hard.  “And Kurama already told you what it was!”

          “Clearly he is mistaken.” Higsby said calmly, taking off his glasses and cleaning them.

          “Kurama, mistaken?” Kuwabara looked shocked at the thought.

          “Hmph.  Kurama is rarely mistaken.” Hiei said pointedly.

          “That may be, but in this case he must be.  It’s alright, everyone is wrong occasionally.”

          “Perhaps that includes yourselves.” Yami pointed out.

          “No, impossible.” Higsby had replaced his glasses now. “Magic, the supernatural.  They simple do not exist.”

          “I see.” Yami seemed to be considering.  “What would you say if I told you that I am not a 15 year old boy, but instead the spirit of a five thousand year old Pharaoh?”

          “Impossible.” Higsby stated.

          “Why?” asked Kurama, “I am actually a spirit fox, and I’ve lived for hundreds of years.  So it is possible he could actually be an ancient Pharaoh.”  Tea shirked away slightly – and she had thought Kurama at least was safe! So much for that theory!  But then… Yami wasn’t so bad.  She blushed.

          “It isn’t possible.” Higsby said once again.

          Kurama looked at him kindly, “With all due respect, this isn’t your world.  Perhaps there are some things you simply cannot understand.”

          “The laws of physics don’t change, they are constant throughout the universe.”

          “Are you certain?” Kurama held Prof. Oak’s gaze.

          “Absolutely.”

          Higsby was tired of this argument, “Look, clearly you are mistaken.  The Professor and I are older, more educated, and simply more logical.  I must ask that you please leave us alone now.”

          “WHAT!?!” Yusuke exploded.  He was right in Higsby’s face, “He just told you he’s hundreds of years old, so how do you think you’re the oldest?  And you think just because you went to school that makes you some sort of expert on everything?  Well let me tell you something!  You know nothing about this world so BACK OFF!!!”  Breathing hard Yusuke backed away, “Now let’s go.” He turned and began to lead them away again.

          “I know one thing,” Higsby said quietly to Prof. Oak, “that boy needs a serious attitude adjustment.”

          Hiei appeared beside them in a flash, “Watch your tongue.”  He warned, but really he hoped they would ignore him and continue.  He wanted to see what Yusuke would do to them.

          “I most certainly will not.  That boy is a delinquent!” This he said a little too loudly.  Which proved to be unfortunate (or fortunate depending on how you look at it) for both himself and Prof. Oak, because Yusuke heard him.

          “ALRIGHT!  THAT'S IT!” Yusuke grabbed both men by their collars and lifted them up off the ground.  “You don’t like our rules?   You don’t like the supernatural?  Fine!  You won’t have to worry about it anymore!”  and with that he threw them off the end of the page (and consequently out of the fiction.  At which point the author picked them up *shaking her head sadly* and put them back in their own universes.)   

          And then Yusuke turned and walked away as though nothing had happened.

          No one moved, they all just stared at Yusuke’s retreating form. O.O

          “Well, that’s two down.” Kurama said lightly and then began walking.  The others followed behind.

          Kuwabara looked nervously at Yami, “He was kidding about that Pharaoh thing wasn’t he?” No one answered him.

    ~~~~

 [A/N Okay, so the truth is there were just too many smart people in this story, and I wanted to make Kurama look good – so I got rid of all the Professorish people once I felt I didn’t need them anymore.  Sorry if you miss them, but rest assured - at least one will be making a brief reappearance ^__^]

Hey! You didn't use any of my ideas for this chapter!

O.o Umm, Brian - you didn't have any ideas for this chapter.

Oh yeah. ^_^

-.-;

Stupid toddler, stupid Joey, stupid Kero, stupid professors.

O.O

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