Just a heads up, I'm garbage with names and a huge fan of fire emblem, so every character I have will have a fire emblem character's name, and there will be many fire emblem references too.
Chapter 1
A trainer with her lucario, gardevoir and zoroark sit on a plateau of a mountain looking down on the site of the next Pokemon World Tournament used to establish the next pokemon master.
"The Pokemon World Tournament will be starting soon, we better hurry," a lucario says to his trainer.
"I know, I know," she says flipping through pages of a report. Her long blue hair billows in the wind as she skims the report.
Project Gestalt
File Report 000
Subjects 001, 003, 007, 014, 015 and 017 have shown great results while the other subjects have shown no improvement.
File Report 001
Subjects 001 and 015 have become adept with their psychic, aura and illusionary abilities while the other subjects have shown no similar results. Conditioning of 001 and 015 will commence once we have confirmed their mental states.
File Report 002
The subjects that have shown no improvements have all gone into a comatose state, we are keeping a close eye on 001, 003, 007 014, 015 and 017 and no signs of this happening have arisen as of yet.
File Report 065
The strain of both psychic and aura abilities was too strenuous on the mind and subject 001 and 015 are in a vegetative state. Going further we must try to put less pressure on the mental state of the subjects.
File Report 137
The subjects in a comatose state have all reached a terminal stage and many bodily functions are starting to falter. 001's immune response has stopped and 015 has stopped breathing on multiple occasions. 003 has gone into a comatose state as well and we will approach the higher ups with concerns of the well being of the subjects in this experiment
File Report 172
Common sense tells us that this is impossible as 015 has also gone into a comatose. Most of the participants have not responded well to the experiment but higher ups have told us to push on.
File Report 224
Higher ups sent down a team that took the bodies of the failed subjects, they claim to want to perform an autopsy but when I questioned the higher ups, they would not give me the results.
File Report 241
With a 2% success rate leaving us with only 014 and 017, we push on with the experiment. We are told to push on no matter the cost and while 014 and 017 give us spectacular results, we cannot condone these experiments any longer.
File Report 248
We are told to run experiments that we know will kill subjects 014 and 017, as the only sane one left here I have left the doors to the two subjects rooms unlocked with a path to outside the lab, I hope they take this chance to escape. Knowing the organization will not let this go unpunished, I have sabotaged the psychic, aura, and illusionary suppression systems to help them along their way.
"You've looked that over a thousand times, you won't find anything new on it," the lucario says impatiently.
"Lucina knows that, it's her only connection to her brother," a gardevoir says referring to their trainer.
"Thank you Saber," Lucina says nodding towards her gardevoir, "But yes, you are correct Pytho, we should start moving."
Lucina raises two of her six pokeballs recalling Pytho and her Zoroark and places the pokeballs back on her belt.
"Saber, teleport us to the venue," Lucina says cloaking herself in an illusion adopting a figure in a cloak shortening the length of her hair and with a hat covering her face in shadow. Saber closed her eyes and the two of them shimmered and warped to the main plaza.
Lucina recalled Saber and walked into the crowded pokemon centre. She walked over to a machine in a corner and started registering for the tournament. The machine printed out her registration number and she took the number and walked out. "Registration number 0614… Interesting…" Lucina muttered to herself frowning slightly. "Saber, teleport us out of here," she called out and as soon as the pokeball opened they teleported back to the plateau.
"Thanks," Lucina told Saber, "I'm going to go to sleep, wake me up before my match tomorrow, its somewhere in my mind."
Saber nodded and watched her trainer fall asleep.
Lucina woke up to Saber's gentle touch. She looked around her and saw that she was in the arena already.
"How-" Lucina started.
"You looked tired, so I let you get more sleep and got zoroark to walk in as you and sign in and I teleported you here," Saber explained.
Lucina looked up and saw zoroark give her a thumbs-up.
"Well, thanks, how much time until the match starts? And who is our opponent?"
"About that… you've been asleep for 36 hours… I've been fighting 'telepathically' with zoroark, don't worry it is legal, I've been using normal moves don't worry, but your next opponent is the champion of the Indigo and Johto region…" Gardevoir explained quickly.
"You made the matches reasonably close right?" Lucina asks half-heartedly.
"Yeah, I made them sort of close, I held back."
"Anyways, who is this 'champion' person?" Lucina asked confused.
"Someone who is one of the leaders of a region, known for their pokemon battle prowess," Gardevoir said with a smile.
"Oh, so this is why you woke me up," Lucina said with a smile, "So how long until the battle?"
"It starts in a minute."
"Perfect, let's go."
Lucina recalled zoroark and Saber and walked onto the battlefield.
"Challenger 0614 versus the champion Lance!" the referee called out, "This will be a 3 on 3 battle, no items with no substitutions! Call out your first pokemon."
"Zoroark to me, return," Lucina said calling out her zoroark and then immediately returning it.
"Zoroark to me, return," Lucina stated again calling out another zoroark and then recalling it again.
"Looks like this is a 1v3 now Lance," Lucina said smiling, her hat covering the rest of her face.
The audience and Lance looked on in disbelief at her actions and arrogance.
"Saber, to me."
"Dragonite, no holding back now," Lance said angrily, "Do you know who I am?" He yelled over to Lucina.
"Yeah, yeah, I know who you are, hurry up, I want to grab something to eat," she said taunting him.
The referee looked on before his instincts kicked in, "Challenger 614 is down to her last pokemon, gardevoir versus dragonite begin!"
"Dragonite dragon dance," Lance said.
"Saber, swords dance."
"What?" Lance said confused.
Gardevoir created swords of psychic energy raising them towards the sky.
"Again," Lucina called out.
"Dragonite, finish them, thunderpunch," Lance told dragonite.
"Light screen, reflect and then teleport," Lucina stated calmly.
Saber teleported and suddenly the audience gasped as hundred of images of gardevoir filled the field. Lance's dragonite looked on in confusion hesitating with the mass of gardevoirs before him.
"Double team," Lucina called out.
Saber then caused even more copies to fill the field covering the field in gardevoir.
"Swords dance one more time."
"Dragonite, quick, thunderbolt the whole field."
All of the gardevoirs raised their psychic swords into the air and then vanished leaving Saber standing on the field alone. Dragonite shot the thunderbolt at the lone gardevoir.
"Catch it," Lucina said.
Saber raised her hand and caught the thunderbolt compressing the electric energy into a ball contained in a psychic field.
"Ice sword and then cover it in that thunderbolt."
Saber used ice beam creating a blade and then covered the sword in and electric field and covered her hands in a protective psychic field to protect her hands gripping the sword.
"Teleport then ice slash."
"What?!" Lance yelled in confusion.
Saber teleported into the air behind dragonite and slashed the sword downwards sending dragonite into the ground 50 meters below him. Saber then teleported back to the ground assuming an offensive sword stance.
Lance looked on in disbelief as the dust cleared.
"Dragonite is unable to battle, please send out your next pokemon."
"Dra-dra-dragonite… return…" Lance stuttered shocked, shaking his head to regain composure, "Go charizard."
"Charizard versus gardevoir, begin," the referee called.
"End it, rock slide, and lightning duel wield" Lucina called out.
"Charizard dodge it quick!" Lance yelled.
Gardevoir ripped rocks out of the ground using psychic powers and started sending a cascade of rocks down onto charizard. Charizard flew back and forth dodging the rocks.
"Hah, you think that's all it takes to beat me?" Lance taunted as the battlefield was covered in dust and charizard was flying above unscathed from the rockslide, "End them with blast burn."
"Saber, Ice dome."
Saber withdrew the electric coating off her ice sword and formed it into a sword in her other hand and then reformed her ice sword into a domelike shield around her. Charizard saw this and launched a fiery inferno at her.
"Ice beam," Lucina called out."
Saber shot a beam of ice at the dome around her strengthening it. The blast burn collided and a huge explosion rocked the arena.
"That was too cold Saber," Lucina said in a disappointed tone, "now teleport and thunder slash."
Saber teleported and struck charizard down to the ground and then teleported back. Charizard crashed into the ground causing another dust cloud and as it dispersed Lance saw charizard knocked out and Saber standing inside the intact ice shield.
"Charizard is unable to battle, send out your last pokemon Lance," the referee called out. Murmurs went through the crowd.
"…" Lance stood in silence fingering his pokeballs before choosing one, "Aerodactyl I need your help."
Lance threw out a pokeball and a giant aerodactyl took to the skies dwarfing the size of its own species. The aerodactyl almost doubled the normal size of other aerodactyls.
"Aerodactyl versus gardevoir begin!" the referee called out.
"Size doesn't matter, nuke it with a thunderbolt," Lucina told Saber.
Saber brought back her arm and pointed towards aerodactyl. A huge lightning bolt arced through the sky and struck aerodactyl on the head causing a huge flash of light and the aerodactyl arcing back in pain causing it to plummet towards the ground.
"Catch it, it's too high up," Lucina ordered Saber.
Saber let out an audible sigh and then proceeded to teleport up into the air caught the aerodactyl and teleported back to the ground laying the unconscious aerodactyl onto the ground.
"Aerodactyl is unable to battle, the winner is challenger 614!" the referee called out.
The whole arena was shocked silent. When they regained their composure, Lucina was gone as she teleported off back to the plateau.
Back in the arena Lance was staring at his unconscious aerodactyl open mouth in shock. He could feel that the challenger was toying with him. The taunting at the beginning was just for show, but it had proven their point. They had shown that they could beat a champion using just one pokemon. He hadn't just lost, he had been torn to pieces, he had failed to land a hit on a trainer whose name wasn't even known. Lance recalled his aerodactyl and left the arena. Outside he was hounded by reporters asking for his opinion on the match.
"Who was your opponent?"
"How do you feel about losing so badly?"
"How can a champion lose like that?"
"What will you do with a cheater that entered the World Tournament like that?"
Lance spun in surprise to the last question and the reporters went silent, "Cheating, what the hell do you mean? There is no way that was cheating, I will not have you spreading rumours about a contestant cheating, they won fair and square, I will have none of you spreading lies like that. Such actions lead people to believe that it is wrong to defeat a champion which defeats the purpose of tournaments such as these," Lance stormed off angrily leaving the surprised reporters behind. He was angry because he knew that there was nothing separating them other than pure strength. He trained his whole life to strengthen his pokemon but when strength was what he needed he was completely outclassed.
Lance stormed into the office.
"Steven what the hell happened that battle?" Lance said.
"Heh… You lose and you come to me?" Steven asked.
"I don't even know how half of those moves worked."
"Yeah, I didn't either until I watched them in slow motion, I'll explain what happened that battle to you."
"Please do."
"As you know, swords dance is used to increase a pokemon's physical attack, it is usually unheard of gardevoirs knowing this move, but theoretically I don't see why it wouldn't be possible for one to learn this move."
"Yes, yes but the ice slash move the trainer called it?"
"Well, it seems that it was just an ice beam that created a blade itself, I'm not sure myself on how the move works, but it seemed to look similar as to how a gallade would use slash but instead of using a part of its body, it uses the sword. The shape of that sword was known as a broadsword native to the Kalos region."
"And catching the thunderbolt?"
"That one was more complex, the gardevoir formed a psychic bowl to catch and contain the thunderbolt and then folded the bowl in on itself to create a sphere surrounding the electric energy, while it does seem possible, it would require an immense amount of psychic energy as well as a lot of practice and fine tuning."
"What happened with the ice shield?"
"That I'm not too sure, the ice shield was being strengthened and I assumed cooled on the inside by the gardevoir using ice beam, but I'm not sure as why the explosion in the aftermath was so large. The dome wasn't shattered due to the way it was made which maximizes the dispersal of force over the entire structure due to the dome being made of many smaller triangles."
"And the thunder sword?"
"Well, it seems as though the gardevoir shaped the psychic energy into a sword like shape forming the sword into a blade as well, this one taking the shape of a primitive weapon used back in the wars called a katana, used in the Kanto region actually."
"Yeah, yeah, I didn't come here for a history lesson, what about the light screen, reflect, teleport thing?"
"This is where things get interesting, for this you need to know the basic properties of light screen. Besides reducing the amount of damage from special moves, this move also refracts light, combining this with the reflective properties of reflect and proper positioning of the screens and being in the right spot, it is possible to create illusions of oneself, and when the gardevoir used double team, it multiplied those illusions by the number of double teams it created. If you rewatch the video frame by frame, you can see some illusions appear before the others, it is hard to discern which one was the real gardevoir as these illusions spread as fast as the speed of light because that is literally what they are, but that's the gist of it."
"So… who is this trainer?"
"Sorry."
"Sorry what?"
"I couldn't find anything on them. They appeared a week ago and collected all the necessary badges within 2 days."
"You are saying, they collected 48 badges in 2 days."
"Yes, that's all we have on them."
"What about name?"
"Nothing, they didn't register a name, hometown, cell number, gender nothing."
"You are saying we don't know anything about them besides that they are in this competition and that they own a gardevoir and 2 zoroarks?"
"Yes, that is exactly what I am saying."
"Do we know where they are staying?"
"Did you not listen to what you just said?"
"What about a face? We have to know what their face looks like right?"
"Nope, they've worn that hat this whole time."
"Oh… the press is not going to be happy about this…"
"The press? Think about yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"Alder won't let this slide."
"Ugh… Your right… This won't be fun."