(Cubed Cinder; idea by Mathew-Swift-VA)
“FORE!” a female voice shouted as a crowd of people scattered out of the way,
watching as a golf ball landed within their ranks. A couple minutes later, they
watched as the young woman who hit that golf ball walked up towards it. This
lady, as a lot of people knew, was Kahili, and with her was her faithful
Pokémon, Touckey. Kahili looked down at the ball not far from the gallery.
“Whew… that wasn’t as bad a shot as I thought.” Kahili said. She took her place
behind the ball, looked rapidly between it and where the flag was, and
concentrated. She took a swing, and the crowd gasped as the ball appeared to be
leaning right, heading towards an Out-of-Bounds area. But Kahili stayed calm and
looked back at Touckey.
“Touckey! Tail Wind!” Kahili shouted as Touckey took off for the sky. The
Toucannon rapidly flapped its wings, the resulting wind forcing the ball back to
the left and towards the green, where it landed within a few feet of the hole.
The crowd applauded as they watched Touckey return to Kahili’s side.
“Nice job, Touckey! I don’t know what I’d do without you.” Kahili said.
“Toucan!” Touckey said as the two walked towards the green. Once they arrived
and Touckey removed the flag, it was an easy putt into the hole for Kahili. She
reached into the hole and picked up the ball.
“Whew… I was lucky to save par.” Kahili said as she and her Toucannon began the
walk to the next hole.
The two arrived at the next hole before the fans in the gallery could as they
stayed behind to watch the group of players behind her. Kahili took this
opportunity to look at the nearby leaderboard.
“Second place, huh? Alright, Touckey, let’s give it our all for these last few
holes!” Kahili said.
“Tou!” Touckey shouted. She set her ball down on the tee and started to line up
her club, but Touckey suddenly repeatedly shouted its name.
“Huh? What’s wrong, Touckey?” Kahili asked. She finally looked where Touckey was
pointing its wing (up towards the sky), and suddenly the two were looking at
what appeared to be another Pokémon.
“What? What is that?” Kahili asked.
“Mew!” The Pokémon shouted. What Kahili didn’t know was that she was looking at
one of the most mythical Pokémon of all time. None other than number 151 itself,
Mew.
“Mew? Is that your name?” Kahili asked, obviously unaware of the Pokémon’s long
history, in particular in the Kanto region. Mew said its name a couple more
times and floated around in happiness.
“Well, you’re certainly a bundle of energy, but could you please float aside?
You’re in the way of my shot.” Kahili said.
While Mew did indeed float out of the way, it then flew in circles around
Kahili.
“Huh? What are you…?” Kahili said, only to suddenly watch as she was covered
from head to toe in rainbow-colored dust. Touckey thought its partner was coming
under attack and flew towards Mew.
“Toucannon!!!” Touckey shouted, only to suddenly be covered in psychic energy
from Mew and tossed towards a nearby tree, knocking it out.
“Touckey! Ooooooh… I’m getting sleepy all of a sudden.” Kahili said as she was
now struggling to keep her eyes open. Finally, she dropped her club, slumped
down to her knees, and succumbed herself to a fetal position as she fell into a
deep sleep. Mew stopped flying around and then giggled before flying away into
the sky and disappearing in a blink of light, right as Kahili appeared to be
enlarging in size...
About half an hour passes by, and Kahili finally wakes up, slowly lifting
herself into a sitting position.
“Ooooooh… I’m all for taking naps, but during a PokéGolf tournament? That’s
kinda embarrassing.” Kahili said. She got on her knees and then looked down. Her
golf ball was there, but… something looked way different with the scenery. And
then she looked in front of her. There were no trees to be found anywhere. In
fact, some of the grass was peculiarly shaped like trees.
“Hmmm? What’s this? Have I been whisked away to some kind of mini golf course?”
Kahili asked out loud as her voice echoed in the distance. She paid no mind to
her voice echoing out. In fact, she had no idea she was actually towering over
the very same golf course she’s been playing this tournament. Mew had made her
gigantic now… just under 400 feet tall, in fact. But that was the furthest thing
from Kahili’s mind as she stood back to her full height. There was the matter of
the golf ball in front of her shoes and the 3-wood club she was holding.
“Maybe if I complete this mini-golf course, that Mew will take me back to the
tournament course? I guess there’s only one way to find out.” Kahili said as she
then looked down at the club she was holding.
“But I gotta putt with this? Sigh… that Mew could’ve at least given me my
putter. And my caddie. Where is Touckey?” Kahili said as she looked around
trying to find her Pokémon, but there was no sign of it. Kahili finally shrugged
and got her feet in position, demolishing the landscape beneath her white shoes.
Kahili hit the ball with her wooden club, watching as it rolled across the
entire golf course, carving a path of extreme destruction.
“Hmmmm… the putting surface looks very cheap.” Kahili said. As she took a couple
steps forward, she noticed the gigantic footprints she was leaving behind.
“Feels very cheap too.” Kahili said. Once she caught up to the ball, she stroked
it again, watching as it flew forward and approached what appeared to be a tiny
city.
“Oh? A city landscape? I guess this is one of those different area type mini
golf courses. Sigh… I remember the ones I played at when I was younger.” Kahili
said as she followed the ball.
Meanwhile, panic quickly set in across Melemele Island, especially in one of the
cities as people screamed watching the giant white dimpled ball roll into view.
They were especially terrified to see an even bigger woman in the form of the
enlarged Kahili step towards the ball. Kahili paid no attention to the screaming
people in the city. Her sights were solely focused on her golf ball.
“Hmmm… I wonder where the hole is for this part of the course?” Kahili said as
she walked up to the ball and adjusted her legs. She tried to aim her wooden
club down at the ball, but a couple buildings were getting in the way.
“Ugh… I must have rolled it in the rough.” Kahili said. She pressed down on the
buildings with her club, watching as they instantly shredded apart into many
pieces and taking more than a dozen peoples’ lives with them (but being unaware
of that fact). She shrugged her shoulders on how the ‘rough’ was not grass and
how it fell apart so easily, but then set her sights on the ball. After hitting
it, it rolled through the city, crushing much of it like a runaway boulder. But
then it came up on one of the hills and got turned to the right as it failed to
clear the hill (which was actually a mini mountain), and then the ball rolled
into the ocean water that crashed onto the beach. Although the ball was still
afloat thanks to its massive size, Kahili still was angry.
“ARGH! Stupid water hazard!” Kahili said as she repeatedly stomped the ground
out of frustration. Whatever structure was still standing came tumbling down as
a result of the earthquake the mega giantess was causing. Whatever people that
survived from earlier were either crushed by the giantess or fell into the newly
created cracks in the ground.
Kahili finally took a deep breath as she calmed down and approached the ball,
her shoes dipping into the water.
“Okay, Kahili. Settle down. You can still recover from this hole. The ball is
still hittable even though it’s in realistic looking water.” Kahili said. Once
again, she lined up her club and drilled the ball, getting it out of the water
and then the beach sand. Either by the ball or by Kahili herself, more people
got crushed to their deaths by the gigantic objects. Kahili, meanwhile, followed
her ball as it continued to roll in front of her.
Meanwhile, at the Pokémon School, the class (being taught by Professor Kukui)
was unaware of what was going on in the nearby city involving the giant Kahili.
Kukui was about to teach his five students (Sophocles, Kiawe, Mallow, Lillie,
and Lana) something new for today, but suddenly everyone felt the ground rumble.
Everyone ducked under their desks.
“Whoa! An earthquake!?” Mallow shouted.
“Is Akala Volcano erupting!?” Kiawe shouted.
“Wah! According to my research, there’s not supposed to be any kind of seismic
activity for another year!” Sophocles said. Then suddenly the shaking stopped,
but there was now a huge shadow blocking out the outside sunlight from the
classroom.
“Is everyone okay?” Kukui asked.
“Yes… but what’s that!?” Lillie said as she pointed outside at the giant white
wall that was suddenly outside. Everyone cautiously left the classroom and
studied the object.
“What is it?” Mallow asked.
“Maybe it’s the giant spaceship coming from outer space to claim our souls like
in that one movie.” Lana said.
“Lana!” everyone shouted.
“Actually… it looks like a giant… golf ball?” Kukui said.
“A golf ball? That sounds like something a theme park would do!” Sophocles said.
“Does it belong to anybody?” Lillie asked. The ground then rumbled again with
booming sounds echoing overhead. The group looked above the ball and that’s
where they saw the giant Kahili coming in.
“Gulp… does that answer your question, Lillie?” Mallow asked.
“Oh my! That’s the PokéGolf legend herself, Kahili!” Kukui said.
As the group continued to look up in awe over the giantess and her golf ball,
Kahili took note of the Pokémon School structure that stood in the path of the
ball.
“Hmmm… another obstacle in the way. I wonder if I could make the ball hop over
it.” Kahili said as she planted her shoes and aimed her club at the ball. The
students and Professor Kukui begged and pleaded for their lives, with the whoosh
sound that came from her swinging the club not helping them feel any better.
“No, Kahili! Don’t!” Kukui said.
“Waaaaah! I’m too young to die underneath a golf ball!” Lillie shouted.
“The apocalypse is upon us!” Lana randomly shouted. Kahili then swung her club
back and then whacked the ground just before the ball, sending chunks of the
ground and, most importantly, the ball into the air. Miraculously to the people
of the Pokémon School, the ball and the chunks of ground all flew above the
school, sparing it from being crushed by the objects.
“Whew… somehow we’re still alive.” Mallow said.
“Well, I did tell you Kahili was great at PokéGolf.” Kukui said.
However, their luck was about to run out. Kahili watched the ball land on the
ground and roll several more yards (crushing a bunch of landscaping) towards the
shoreline.
“Eeek! Don’t go into the water again!” Kahili said as she started to follow the
ball. Unfortunately for the school, her next step forward was right on top of
it.
“WAAAAAAAAA….!!!!” Everyone screamed until the school was crushed flat. There
was absolutely nothing left but a giant footprint where Kahili stepped, and
again, the giantess had no idea she had ended so many innocent lives (including
that of a well known Melemele Island structure) with one step. All she was
interested in was keeping up with her golf ball.
The ball finally came to a rolling stop on the sand. As Kahili walked up to it,
she took note of another island out in the distance with a volcano adorning its
center.
“Hmmm… that looks a lot like Akala Island. I wonder if I have to shoot the ball
into the volcano as the hole? Only one way to find out.” Kahili said. She was
now thanking her lucky stars for having a 3-Wood club on hand, as it was the
only way to swing the ball over the water that separated Melemele Island from
Akala Island. Before taking a shot, Kahili decided to kneel down and pick up her
ball.
“Be good to me, ball. Huh?” Kahili said as she took a look around the ball and
noticed many specks of red. She had no idea these were the remains of the people
she had crushed with almost every putt she’s taken thus far.
“Hmmmm… what have you been rolling in? Normally I expect specks of dirt or
blades of grass. Whatever. I need to hurry before the sun completely sets.”
Kahili said as she placed the ball back down and stood back up, taking note of
the sun setting in the distance. She knew like everyone else golf was one sport
that did not work in darkness. And so she set herself up, looking between the
island and her ball. Finally she took a deep breath, swung her club back, and
whacked the ball. As she watched the ball fly towards Akala Island, she couldn’t
help but yell…
“FORE!” Kahili shouted with a smile. She found it interesting at the same time
that her FORE yell seemed to echo forever. But she watched as the ball landed
snugly on the shoreline of Akala Island, slowly rolling to a stop, though it
took someone with it as Akala Island’s own Olivia looked up and saw the giant
golf ball coming.
“Oh heck n…!” Olivia started to say until she was crushed flat under the ball.
Kahili, meanwhile, thrust her arm forward in approval.
“Yes! Now to get to that island. I just hope the water’s shallow…” Kahili said.
She tepidly stepped into the water, watching as it came up to her knees. The
giantess sighed as she waded through the ocean.
“And I just watched these socks too. Oh well.” Kahili said, thinking of her
signature orange knee-high socks.
A couple minutes later, Kahili was now back on dry land, towering over her golf
ball. Then she locked her sight onto the volcano near the middle of the island.
“Alright. One shot for… for… for what? Oh what the heck. The Strange New World
Mini Golf Championship.” Kahili said as she lined up her shot, once again
looking back and forth. Finally, she whacked the ball with her club, watching as
the ball again carved a path of destruction underneath. Kahili even cringed a
bit as she watched an entire city get leveled underneath her ball, with debris
from the buildings flying in every direction.
“Oooooh… I know it’s fake, but that’s going to leave a mark.” Kahili said. She
then watched as the ball approached the base of the volcano with its momentum
allowing it to roll upward.
“Come on…” Kahili said as she watched the ball approach the top of the volcano.
The ball spun around the top like a normal-sized golf ball around the rim of a
real hole. Just when it looked like the ball would roll back down the volcano,
it suddenly tipped in the opposite direction, falling into the crater and making
a little bit of lava splash out.
Kahili, meanwhile, jumped high in the air, flat out leveling the ground beneath.
“YES! Score!!!” Kahili shouted as she danced around what appeared to be just a
few yards to her eyes, but it was a wide swath of ground she covered. People
screamed as the mega giantess ran around, crushing whatever was in her path,
including themselves. By the time the giantess was done celebrating, it was a
mess. At least two cities, and maybe part of another, were demolished beyond
words. But again, Kahili was far too big to notice, and even then, she was
already walking from those destroyed spots and heading for the volcano to pick
up her ball. She reached inside and got it out with three of her fingers, but
had to let go quickly as those same fingers touched some of the lava.
“Ow! Such realistic lava…” Kahili said as she shook her fingers and watched her
ball bounce harmlessly by her foot (in her eyes, anyway, but she couldn’t see
the mass destruction to one nearby city).
Kahili suddenly had to blink her eyes as she saw something very tiny fly in
front of her, like a mosquito. Once she refocused her vision, she saw it was the
Mew again from earlier.
“Huh? You again? Did you see my shot into the volcano hole?” Kahili said.
“MEW!” Mew shouted as it suddenly shot more rainbow dust above Kahili’s head. It
made her wobble in dizziness, forcing her to use her club to support herself.
“Oooooh… this stuff again…” Kahili said. She was so preoccupied with trying to
stay awake, she didn’t see the incredible change that was happening to her as we
speak. She was growing yet again, and this time at a feverish pace. Already
Kahili was bigger than all four islands of Alola combined, and between her shoes
and her club, her next step crushed all of them flat into the ocean. And yet she
continued to grow and grow and grow and grow, her shoes bulldozing over once far
away regions such as Kanto, Johto, and Unova.
By the time Kahili felt the dizziness go away, she gasped over where she found
herself. She was floating in outer space (and able to breathe for some reason),
with the entire planet in front of her face and the size of a golf ball.
“Okay, this is getting silly. Either I’ve grown too big for the whole planet or
I’m now in a space-themed golf course. Pfffft… nobody can possibly grow this
big, come on! I guess I’ve got more golf to play with this… well… special ball.”
Kahili said. She swam her way up so that the planet was by her feet, and then
she lined up her club. She pulled her club back and gave what she thought was an
Earthly-decorated ball a whack. When she did so, the planet exploded in
spectacular fashion, spewing fragments, lava, water, and other things in various
directions.
“Wow… that ball was quite fragile. Now what am I going to play with? OW!” Kahili
said, only to suddenly feel something pecking on her head. As she reached up to
grab her head and blinked her eyes, complete with more of that rainbow dust,
everything changed.
The normal-sized Kahili looked to see her faithful caddy/Pokémon, Touckey,
pecking at her head.
“Ow! Hey, Touckey! Down!” Kahili said as she waved her arms rapidly and got
Touckey off her head. As she sat up, she saw she was back on the golf course she
had been playing on since this morning, and there was a slightly older gentleman
to her side.
“Oh, good. She finally woke up.” the man said.
“Huh? Who are you?” Kahili said as she helped herself back to her feet with the
aid of her club.
“I’m one of the tournament officials. I got called down here when more than a
few golfers complained that someone had fallen asleep at one of the tees. I’m
surprised it was you, Kahili!” the man said.
“I… I fell asleep? That can’t be… nothing wakes me up more than a game of
PokéGolf!” Kahili said.
“I guess there’s a first time for everything, but I am sorry to tell you that
you are disqualified for taking too long. Please allow me to escort you back to
the clubhouse.” the man said.
“But… but it wasn’t my fault! This Pokémon named…” Kahili started to say, but
then she bit her tongue. Something in her mind told her she shouldn’t say
anything about Mew, a Pokémon that nobody has probably seen before in the Alola
region.
“What Pokémon?” the man asked.
“Never mind. You’re right, I’m so sorry for falling asleep and holding up the
tournament. Clearly I need to build my energy and stamina.” Kahili said.
“There’s no need to apologize, Kahili. It happens to the best of us! Maybe try a
cup of Big Mushroom Coffee at Aina’s Kitchen before teeing off next time.” the
man said.
“Yeah, I’ll consider that. Thanks. Come on, Touckey!” Kahili said as she and her
Pokémon followed the man off the tee and gradually off the golf course.
On their way back, Touckey looked upset that Kahili couldn’t play anymore that
day, but Kahili smiled as she looked back at her Pokémon.
“Awww… don’t be sad, Touckey. There will be other tournaments.” Kahili said. She
also came to grips that it was all a dream of her walking around miniaturized
sections of the Alola region and using them as a mini golf course, especially
since there weren’t any news reports of some giant monster or something
destroying the islands.
However, as she’s walking back, she suddenly hears a giggle from above. Kahili
looked up and saw a Mew flying high in the sky. Watching the Mew disappear into
the trees, she had a confused look on her face.
“Was it really all a dream?” Kahili said as she stood in place and pondered.
Finally she just shrugged it off and got back to walking to the clubhouse with
her Touckey in tow.
As for Mew, it giggled as it watched Kahili walk away, and then it rocketed
towards the sky, disappearing in a blink of light.
END