Prologue: New Student
"Kiria!" her mother called.
"Ugh!" Kiria groaned. She hated the nagging she got from sleeping late in the morning. She dragged herself out of bed, her blue tail almost touching the ground. She stretched and yawned while she put on her black shirt with the yellow collar. She then put on her black boots with her blue coat and her favorite blue hat with the black "droopy things" as she called them when she was four. She tucked her tail through the hole in her pants and got ready to walk out the door. Her mother stopped her halfway out though.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"To school" Kiria said, confusion in her voice. "Why"
"Just be careful, sweetie." Her mother said. "Your real parents would be proud"
Kiria arrived at the school on time, but took too long walking to her classroom. She had wanted to hold off on school for a while. This school especially had rumors of its basement. There were said to be monsters lurking down there. Kiria had learned by watching her favorite anime that if something is locked in the basement of the school, it is probably a good idea to leave it there. Then again, what could be so powerful that the legendaries had to seal it away?
Chapter 1: The Gang's Back Together (a.k.a. the first day of school)
"Why are we here again?" Ace asked, getting bored at his childhood friend's not answering his question.
"Oh my Arceus. And you're supposed to be our best fighter." Shadow replied face palming, her black hair bobbing. "We're to scope out this place. And protect her."
"Who's "her"?" Ace asked.
"She told us we'd know when we saw her" Shadow said, just as clueless as him. "Well here we are"
The two friends walked into the school building, looking at their surroundings. Ace walked in only to accidently walk into someone.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Kiria shouted as she collided with Ace, who had just realized he had run into someone.
"Oh, sorry." Ace said, helping her up. She glared at Ace with a look of rage, but stopped when she realized that he seemed to be new just like she was at one point.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Ace Hunter and this is my best friend Shadow Darkstar." Ace introduced themselves.
"Hi. My name is Kiria Encoridin" Kiria said. "If you are new I could show you around. I've been going here for years, so I know my way around the school."
"Okay" Ace agreed. "We accept, but we need to get to our lockers first."
"Later then" Kiria said, walking off to her locker. Shadow turned to Ace with a look of "You're serious" on her face.
"Darkstar? You told her our names?" She said, confused.
"I am not good at making things up." Ace explained. "It doesn't matter, she won't know those names. No one here does. But something is off about her."
"What?" Shadow asked, her interest peaked.
"She has the body of a Riolu, but not the behavior of one." Ace said. "I wonder if we're supposed to watch her."
Shadow was about to say something when a red-haired girl came up and punched Ace in the face, knocking him over. Ace stood up and punched the girl in the face. The two started to fight on the ground. Shadow picked both of them up, breaking up their argument.
"Break it up you two." She said, slightly irritated. "Eon, what are you doing here?"
"I decided to join you guys." Eon said "Thought you could use a little more badass on your team."
"Awesome!" Ace said. "Now the gang's back together again!"
"Now let's go fight the monster in the basement!" Eon shouted. People around them turned and started to look at them.
"Quiet Eon" Ace said, clamping his hand over his friend's mouth. "There's not a monster in the basement of this school."
"But, what about the rumors?" Eon asked.
"If there was a monster in the basement," Ace said. "Then we wouldn't want anyone else to know about it."
"Good point" Eon said.
The trio walked to their lockers (which were all close together coincidentally) and deposited their stuff in them. Kiria walked over to them and smiled sweetly.
"Hi, guys." She said. "Are you ready to take a tour of the school now?"
"Yep!" said Ace. "Oh, by the way, this is my friend, Eon Multius. She's a little violent, but I think you'll like her."
"Hi, Eon" Kiria said, shyly, slightly intimidated by Eon's tough personality. "I'm Kiria. I'm a Riolu. What are you?" *A/N—they are in human forme the majority of the time, shifting to gain more power—it is sometimes difficult to determine species properly*
"She's a Flareon." Ace said. "And Shadow here is a Gardevoir."
"Well, what are you?" Kiria asked, curious.
"I'd prefer to keep that to myself." Ace said. "People are so judgmental of certain species of Pokémon."
"I won't judge you for your species." Kiria said. "I'm not afraid of a rumor."
"Well…" said Ace hesitantly. "Fine. I'm a-"
Just as Ace was about to say what he was, a man with a light gray track suit stepped out of a door. He looked at Ace and his group.
"Either of you Ace Hunter or Eon Multius?" he asked with a stereotypical coach's voice.
"I'm Ace" Ace said, raising his hand.
"And I'm Eon" Eon said, doing the same.
"I'm Mr. Champ. You two are due for my Fight Class when the bell rings." He shouted, ducking back into the gym. "Don't be late! I don't tolerate lateness."
"We won't!" Ace shouted.
"Did you hear that?" Eon said, an evil grin on her face.
"Yes." Said Ace, the same grin on his face. "This means…"
"IT'S TIME FOR A BATTLE BRAWL!" they both shouted excitedly, jumping up and down and then running to the gym.
"Wwwwhat just happened?" Kiria asked, very confused.
"They really love to fight" said Shadow, face palming again. "Someone will probably get hurt."
"You sound like this happens often." Kiria said.
"Far too often." Shadow said, groaning in irritation.
"Should we warn them?" Kiria asked.
"Nah." Shadow said, a mischievous grin on her face. "Let's just let them find out for themselves."
"If you say so." Kiria said, shrugging.
As they walked into the gym, Ace and Eon were greeted by several Pokémon that were there to fight too. A particularly arrogant Machop teen said he would beat Ace easily.
"We'll see." Ace said smugly.
"You ready to fight, pretty lady." And Onix boy said to Eon, draping an arm around her shoulder. "You be careful or you'll get hurt."
In reply Eon grabbed his arm and punched the Onix boy in the elbow. A resounding crack was heard as the Onix fell to his knees in pain.
"I think I'll be fine." Eon said, then in a mock sympathetic voice: "But thanks for worrying"
"All right, maggots! Settle down!" Mr. Champ, a Machamp man. Checking the Onix's injuries he turned to Eon.
"Please try not to hurt others before you get into the ring" he said sternly. "Since you're new here I'll go easy on you just this once."
"Okay" Eon said.
Mr. Champ gathered all the students into a circle around a mat. He began to tell them what they were going to do in the class.
"In this class you are going to learn to fight." he shouted. "You will learn to fight like your species and to fight like a great warrior! Any questions?"
"I have one." Ace said. "When do we fight each other?" Several others nodded in agreement.
"Okay, smarty-pants" said Mr. Champ. "You wanna fight someone?"
Ace nodded. "Yeah, but, can you make it someone worthwhile? I hate boring fights."
"Well, then" said Mr. Champ. "You can fight Chopper over there" he pointed to the Machop from earlier.
"All right" Ace said. "But it better not be boring."
"Oh, I think you'll be surprised at how this fight turns out." Mr. Champ said. "Chopper here is one of this school's best fighters."
"I pretty much know how his fight will turn out" said Ace. "Why don't you try to prove me wrong?"
"Why you!" said Chopper angrily. "I'll pulverize you!"
"Bring it on" Ace said, calmly.
Ace and Chopper stepped up to the mat and stood in front of each other. They each stepped into their respective fighting stances: Chopper to a typical judo pose, and Ace to just a standing pose with his fists by his side. They sized each other up, Chopper realizing just how big Ace was. Ace was at least his own size plus half again. He started to get a little nervous. If this guy was that much bigger than him, then how much stronger could he be?
The bell rang to start the fight. Ace and Chopper stepped toward each other, the tension thickening. Chopper started to walk around Ace, who had moved to the center of the mat. Chopper had an angry glare on his face, while Ace had a normal expression on his face. He didn't even seem to acknowledge he was in a fight.
Chopper lunged at Ace, preparing to use a Karate Chop attack. Ace simply stood there, not even flinching. Chopper attacked with all his might, screaming in rage that he wasn't being taken seriously.
By now the other students had started murmuring amongst themselves. Eon heard discussions of "Wow, this kid is new. No one disses Chopper like that, especially in the ring" and "This guy is either crazy strong or just crazy stupid". Eon just chuckled to herself. She knew how this fight would end. She even predicted how long it would last.
Chopper had powered up his Karate Chop and was nearing Ace, who still hadn't moved. The blow struck Ace right in the chest. It caused all the students (except Eon) to stare, jaws on the ground when Ace hadn't even flinched from Chopper's blow. Chopper was just as surprised as they were. That wasn't his most powerful attack, but his opponent should have at least flinched from the impact. Not only had he not flinched, but he looked bored.
Ace was, in fact, bored. He knew that this wasn't the full extent of Chopper's power, but he could tell that if Chopper wasn't hiding some serious power beneath his human forme, that this fight would be pretty one-sided. He decided to give his opponent some advice to help him at least get an edge of sorts.
"That's not going to work." He said, trying to give his opponent some advice. "That area is usually most protected. Aim for the neck. One is less able to tense neck muscles than chest muscles."
Chopper, deciding to at least give his opponent the benefit of the doubt, aimed a similar strike for Ace's neck. However, he got the same result as before. The students were just as shocked as him that his attack had failed to even cause his opponent to flinch.
"I'm new here, so don't think I'm rude" said Ace. "But is that the best you got?"
"No!" Chopper shouted, using Focus Energy. His power level rose to high levels. He charged up a Karate Chop and lunged at Ace.
This one Ace did dodge however, only to clothesline Chopper as he went for a kill. Chopper fell to the ground, coughing. Mr. Champ ran over to him to make sure he was okay.
"I'm fine, dad" he said, pushing Mr. Champ away and standing up. He looked at Ace with rage in his eyes.
"You won't beat me that easy" he said, growling as if to intimidate Ace just with his voice. Ace, however, looked happy, hungry for battle even.
"Finally, you stop treating me like a rookie and start fighting for real." Ace said, eager to start a battle. Eon just looked at her best friend with a look that said "Oh, Arceus, he's going to break something again".
"I'll show you a fight!" Chopper said. "It'll be the best and last fight you ever fight! Feel my true power!"
Chopper stood in a traditional Dragon Ball Z power up pose and gathered energy. His body started to shift between its human forme and its Poke-forme, Machop. He stayed about the same size (A/N: in this fic if a Pokémon is smaller than its human forme (e.g. a Shroomish or an Azurrill) than the Poke-forme will be larger (not the full size, but a Machop would be)), but his power rose past anything the other students had ever seen. Chopper was at least ten times more powerful than he was before, even using Focus Energy.
Mr. Champ stood in front of Chopper, trying to talk him out of his crazy endeavor. Mr. Champ seemed to be afraid of this new power his son had unlocked.
"Wait, Chopper." He said, worry evident on his face. "You know why we can't use those formes. You can't handle the power!"
"Don't worry, dad" said Chopper. "I'm our family's best fighter. I can handle my Poke-forme"
"But he can't" said Mr. Champ, pointing to Ace.
"Oh, no I can handle it" said Ace, getting into a battle pose. "I can handle it just fine"
Chopper lunged at Ace, his speed having increased almost as much as his power. Ace dodged and countered with his own Karate Chop to Chopper's neck. Chopper shrugged it off and nailed Ace in the side with a Low Kick. Ace recoiled from the hit and fell back about five feet. He stood up, gaining his balance. Eon looked a little shocked that Chopper had managed to hurt Ace. The other students looked at this as if it was normal, forgetting that Chopper had been outmatched by Ace just moments ago.
Chopper lunged at Ace, who punched him hard in the face. Chopper shrugged it off and landed a punch that shocked Ace. He recoiled and almost lost his balance.
"So, he's gotten stronger" Ace said to himself. "Guess I'll have to step it up a bit."
Ace dodged Chopper's next punch and powered himself up. He turned and nailed Chopper with a punch that sent him through the wall. Chopper lay on the ground, dazed. He was dazed long enough to see Ace nail him with a flying elbow to the gut.
Chopper recovered and stood up. He lunged at Ace and the two started to brawl in the halls of the school. Papers and books flew everywhere, even from students' hands.
Chopper and Ace pummeled on each other until they were both a little tired. They backed up and stared each other down. Students gathered around, watching to see if the new student could actually stand up to Chopper, the most powerful fighter in the school. Several students were rooting for Chopper. Others were rooting for Ace, who had not even shifted out of human forme yet.
Ace and Chopper lunged at each other, each of them using Focus Punch. Ace hit Chopper square in the jaw, while Chopper hit Ace in the arm. Shadow and Kiria came running up to Ace and Chopper.
"Ace! What are you doing?" Shadow shouted.
"I'm just participating in class." Ace said, continuing to fight as he answered.
"You need to stop" Shadow said. "You know what Arcey said about you fighting."
"Yeah" Ace said remembering. "She said when you fight; kick as much ass as you can"
"True" Shadow noted. "Carry on then"
Ace resumed fighting with Chopper. Chopper finally stopped and said to Ace:
"You know, there's a secret I've even kept from my dad."
"What?" Ace asked, curious.
"I promised myself that I wouldn't use it unless I absolutely had to, or if I found a worthy opponent."
"Let me guess…" Ace started to say.
"Yes" Chopper said, grinning. "You are that worthy opponent."
"So what's the secret?" Ace asked.
"My dad doesn't even know this" Chopper said, dramatically. "But I can evolve at any time I want."
"Whoa" said Ace. "Cool"
"And now I will show you my true power." He started putting out even more energy than before. He grew to twice his size, his muscles bulking up immensely. They grew red stripes and he grew shorts and a champion belt. He looked at Ace with a look that said: "Try to beat me now".
"Bring it on" Ace said, not losing any of his confidence. He ran towards Chopper and landed a hard Fire Punch on his face. Chopper recoiled, the Burn effect kicking in. He downed a Rawst Berry and recovered from his Burn. Ace landed another two Fire Punches. Chopper recoiled and countered with a Cross Chop.
"That was good for a weak attack." Chopper said, clearly seeing his opponent's skill was on par with his own.
"That was weak for a Super Effective attack." Ace said, acknowledging his opponent's skill.
"Wait, what type are you?" Chopper asked, not yet having figured out the type of his remarkable opponent.
"Dark Type" Ace answered.
"Just Dark Type?" Chopper asked, trying to figure out his chances by figuring out his opponent's species.
"Yes" Ace said. "Which narrows it down to nine Pokémon."
"Well, you're clearly not a Zorua, Zoroark, Mightyena, or Poochyena." Chopper said. "Which narrows it down to five. What are you?"
"That's my secret." Ace said. "But I'll tell you I'm not even warming up right now."
"We'll see who is stronger." Chopper said.
The two lunged at each other. Eventually they stopped and stood a small ways apart. Shadow walked up to Ace and started talking to him.
"Ace, stop this." She begged. "You'll get hurt or he'll get hurt or something will get broken" She then pointed to the wall behind them. It had been smashed during the fight.
"All right" Ace said.
Turning to Chopper he said "Good fight Chopper. We'll finish it later."
"Oh" said Chopper, getting bold. "Letting some bitch tell you what to do, huh?"
At that remark Ace froze. His black eyes started to flash between blue and red, finally settling on ice blue.
"What did you say?" he said, slowly emphasizing every syllable, trying to "help" Chopper understand his level of anger he was experiencing. Shadow just face-palmed again and let Ace continue with what he was doing.
"Yeah" Chopper taunted, not realizing just how much trouble he was about to walk through. "I said: Do you let some bitch tell you what to do?"
Ace turned around, his aura flaring. Kiria, who had been trying to get a read on Ace, jumped back in shock.
"What was that?!" she wondered. "I just tried to read his aura, but it shocked me."
"He masks his aura." Eon explained, walking up to Kiria and standing next to her to watch the fight. "He prefers to stay in human forme and doesn't like people to know what he is. So he masks his aura and rarely shifts from his human forme. But Chopper here seems to have bought himself a one-way ticket to pain town."
"What?" Kiria asked.
"Chopper will get his ass kicked right here and now." Eon said. "Ace is the most powerful fighter back where we live. Even with the powerful seals keeping his massive power at bay, he is still a very formidable opponent. He hasn't even powered up and he still can handle Chopper in Machop forme, and with powering up can handle his Machoke forme."
"So you're saying that if Ace were to shift, he would be near unbeatable?" Kiria asked.
"Close to it." Eon explained.
"What is he?" Kiria asked.
"That's his secret." Eon answered. "He prefers not to use those powers though. They can harm the people around him if he powers up enough."
"Oh" said Kiria, accepting the answer.
"I'm not even at ten percent of my power" Chopper boasted. "Why don't I power up to fifty percent?"
"Okay, Freeza" Ace said. "And while you're at it, why don't you power up to one hundred percent. I thrive on challenge."
"Fine" Chopper said, shrugging. It's your funeral.
Meanwhile in the Hall of Justice Origins: Boredom
It was a normal day for the Legendaries. Arcey had had a "confidentiality meeting" with Giratina, they had directed the younger and less mature Legendaries away from that wing of the Hall, and Ace and the Unholy Trinity had been given a secret mission to infiltrate a school and stop something from happening.
"Man, I'm bored!" Palkia complained, flopping over the living room couch, his pink and white clothes wrinkling around him. "There's nothing to do!"
"Well we could train." Mewtwo said, feeling a little bored himself. He had already tried to speed up the time it took to shift from human forme to Poke-forme and back again. He had succeeded in giving himself whiplash and causing him to hyperventilate several times. Such were the consequences of perfecting one's techniques
"We trained yesterday." Palkia complained again. "Besides, Kyogre and Groudon are using the training room for a while."
"That training room is impressive." Mewtwo mused. "Time in there moves much faster than out here. Fascinating indeed."
"Arcey got the idea from when we watched Dragon Ball Z." Palkia said to the Psycat. "Just like how she got the idea to seal that demon beneath a school from Soul Eater."
"Wait, is that the same school that Ace is currently attending?" Mewtwo asked, an assumption clicking in his brain.
"Yeah, I think so" Palkia said. Then he realized where Mewtwo was going with the question. "You don't think Arcey sent him to that school to battle that thing, do you?"
"It is Arcey." Mewtwo said, nonchalantly. "And it is Ace we're talking about. It wouldn't surprise me."
"Yeah" agreed Palkia. "Me either. What do you want to do?"
"Hey guys" Dialga said walking up. She, like almost every other legendary, was bored.
"Oh, uh, hi Dialga" Palkia said, turning a little redder than normal. Mewtwo took note of this and chuckled a little to himself.
"What are you guys doing?" Dialga asked.
"We're being bored" Mewtwo said. "How about you?"
"Me and Mina-"
"Mina and I" Uxie corrected, poking his head into the room.
"Shut the F #$ up, Uxie!" Dialga shouted to the yellow haired psychic type, shooting him a Dragon Pulse from both of her middle fingers, which were both extended toward Uxie. Uxie ran like hell to avoid the blasts, later remembering he could teleport. He smacked himself for being a poor Being of Knowledge.
Dialga continued "As I was saying: Me and Mina were trying to get Jirachi to conjure up something fun for us to do, but to no avail."
"Let me guess." Mewtwo said, knowing his next question was already answered. "He only would conjure up candy."
"How did you guess?" Dialga asked, confused.
"It's Jirachi." Mewtwo said. "It's not that hard to figure out"
"Touché" Dialga noted. "Where are the others? They could help us figure out a fun thing to do today."
"Groudon and Kyogre are in the training room." Mewtwo said. "Ray is with them trying to help them master that Primal whatever it is that they can use. Ace, Shadow, Eon, and Maura (Giratina gave her a human forme so she could blend in in case of an emergency) are at a school somewhere and won't be back until around four. Deyoxys is taking a trip to her home planet. Cela is trying to help Shay fix some problem in Gratitude Forest. The Regis are all sleeping somewhere in the base of Mount Coronet. Manaphy and Phione left when Arcey and Giratina went to their "meeting". Bianca is visiting Latios' and Lugia's graves with Ho-oh. May and Sapphire are off helping some Pokémon Rangers in Almia. The Legendary Beasts are in Johto chilling on the beach. The Birds are in Kanto practicing their epic new combo move. Heatran is with the Lake Guardians trying to meditate and gain some closure. Meloetta is Arcey doesn't even know where with the Muska- whatever they are probably dying or something. They probably were showing off their "bravery" to her and did something stupid. Arcey will porbably force summon them later. Reshiram and Zekrom are in Unova probably snoozing on top of Dragonspiral Tower. Kyurem is redecorating her house because of the last Team Plasma raid. And you know where Arcey and Giratina are."
"Damn" said Dialga. "Everybody has something to do but us"
"Well, let's find something to do" Palkia said, getting up off the couch. "There has to be something to do around here."
"We've been around the entire hall." Dialga complained, flipping her blue-gray hair out of her face. "There's nothing to do"
"Not even video games?" Palkia asked.
"No, we beat them all remember?" Mewtwo reminded the space controlling god.
"We could go outside?" Palkia suggested.
"And do what?" Dialga questioned him.
"Good point." Palkia noted. "Mewtwo, any suggestions?"
"We could do experiments." Mewtwo said.
"That sounds nerdy." Dialga complained.
"Experiments that explode." Mewtwo countered.
"Fair enough" Dialga said. "Let's do it."
So they all went to Mewtwo's room where he grabbed a few vials of various ingredients and brought them to the kitchen. He gave each of them certain ingredients and warned them not to mix them yet, or early boom.
"This sounds like something Arcey would ban" Palkia said, cautiously.
"It is" said Mewtwo. "But she's in a "meeting" so she won't know"
"Touché" Palkia surrendered.
They finished the experiments and walked outside of the Hall. Mewtwo directed them to a spot where they could chuck their vials of explosives. The trio threw over a hundred vials of explosives at a rock formation.
"Well, that was actually pretty fun." Palkia said later when they had returned inside. "Why don't we do something else later?"
"I wonder how Ace is doing?" Dialga said, wondering of the situation her friend had most likely gotten himself into.
Back to Ace and Chopper
"I'm not even at ten percent of my power" Chopper boasted. "Why don't I power up to fifty percent?"
"Okay, Freeza" Ace said, anger preventing him from truly understanding just how big of a level gap there was between 10% and 100%. "And while you're at it, why don't you power up to one hundred percent. I thrive on challenge."
"Fine" Chopper said, shrugging. It's your funeral.
Chopper started to put out a lot more energy than before. His arms grew bigger and he turned a shade or two darker. Ace backed up and prepared to attack again, but Chopper hit him with a Cross Chop. Ace flew back into a row of lockers and fell to the ground. A girl in a light blue dress with a blue crystal-like object around her neck and rainbow hair with a thick blue stripe down the middle of it ran up to him and started shaking him.
"Wake up, master! Wake up!" she cried. Ace, who hadn't been unconscious, grabbed her arms to prevent her from shaking him anymore. He looked up at her with some confusion in his eyes.
"Who are you?" he asked, truly not knowing who this strange girl was. She seemed familiar to him, but he couldn't place it.
"You don't recognize me?" She said, shocked. Tears started to well up in her eyes as her lower lip started to quiver. "My own master doesn't recognize me-he-he!"
Ace, still confused about the whole ordeal, took a good long look at her. She did look familiar. But, Ace had more pressing matters at hand. Chopper was walking over to him.
"Oh, look." He said. "Another bitch that has a hold over you."
"I don't even know her." Ace protested. The girl looked into his eyes and realized he was telling the truth. She started to cry.
"Y-you don't even know me." She sobbed.
"Wait until I finish with Chopper here." Ace said. "And then I'll talk with you and sort this out."
"O-o-okay" she said, her crying slowing down. Ace stood up and faced Chopper. He charged his fists with elemental energy and got into a battle stance.
"Ha!" Chopper laughed. "You think you can just fight. That bitch over there told you that you shouldn't fight. You gonna just disobey her orders?"
"She's not a bitch!" Ace shouted. Others were watching; some saying that "somebody's got some feelings" and "He likes her", but Ace didn't care. Chopper had insulted his best friend. No she was more than that. At least Ace thought she was. He wouldn't let this brute insult her. Not after everything she's been through. Ace faced Chopper with anger blazing in his eyes, which were now red. His power level had risen to astronomical heights.
Chopper, for the first time since the fight started, felt afraid. Ace was far more powerful than he had first anticipated. He prepared a few defensive moves in case his opponent was much stronger than his senses were telling him.
Ace started walking toward Chopper, rage in his eyes. He hadn't wanted to use this much of his power, but the arrogant Machoke in front of him had insulted his closest friend with a very derogatory name. He wouldn't let that little insult slip. His hands glowed with elemental power. They were blazing, while at the same time freezing and jolting with electricity. Very few highly trained Pokémon could pull off this technique, Ace being one of them. Essentially what he was doing was the physical equivalent to Tri-Attack, which Ace could also use. His punch was capable of inflicting all three status conditions of an opponent at the same time. Ace put a very large amount of energy into this attack. He didn't want to kill Chopper, but he wanted him to feel some pain. Chopper must have noticed what was going on, because he was getting nervous and using a lot of defensive moves. No matter. This attack would nullify any and all physical or special defense Chopper put up. Not even Protect could defend against this onslaught of elemental power. Ace even put a little Dark power into the attack to make it even more effective. No type or type combination could have true resistance to this attack.
"What are you planning to do with all that energy?!" Chopper shouted, truly terrified.
"I'm going to knock you across the room." Ace said in a menacing, growly voice. He walked close to Chopper and Falcon Punched him across the room. Chopper flew into the set of lockers at the other side of the hall. He slumped down to the floor, his body starting to swell. He looked at Ace with fear.
"What are you?!" he managed to shout as Ace lowered his power and the energy cloaking his hands faded. He looked at the near-unconscious body of Chopper.
"That was a good fight." He said without emotion. "We should do it again sometime."
He then looked at Shadow, who was shocked that Ace had used so much power to beat Chopper. She walked over to him and hugged him tightly.
"Why such a tight hug?" Ace asked.
"I didn't want you to get hurt." Shadow responded. "Don't scare me like that. I thought you would do something stupid."
"Who? Me?" Ace asked.
"Nice!" Eon shouted, clapping Ace on the shoulder. "You kicked his ass."
"That was cool" Kiria said, her eyes sparkling like an anime character. "You hit hit clear across the room."
"You did great, master!" cheered the mysterious girl in the blue dress.
"All right." Said Ace. "It's time for us to figure out who you are."
"I can't believe you don't recognize me!" she cried, about to burst into tears. People hadn't noticed because they were tending to Chopper.
"You raised me from an egg and you still don't recognize me!" she cried.
"An egg?" Ace thought. Then he thought for a minute.
"Maura?" he asked, hesitantly. "Is that you?"
"You remembered!" Maura shouted with glee, hugging Ace. "I knew you would know me!"
"Well, you've never had a human forme before" said Ace, thinking of his little pet Amaura.
"Oh, yeah" Maura said. "I guess that's why you didn't recognize me. Well, Mr. Giratina gave me a human forme so I could be with you here on your mission!"
"Shh!" Ace shushed his pet. "No one is supposed to know we're on a mission here."
"Oh" said Maura, understanding. "I won't tell anyone."
Ace chuckled at his pet's childlike attitude. She hasn't changed at all in human forme he thought.
"Before I forget." Said Kiria quickly. "What are you?! I've never seen someone unleash that much power. I've never even seen someone beat Chopper before. You are very strong."
"I'll tell you later." Said Ace. "Right now we should leave here before we get in some trouble."
"Let's go get some lunch" Eon said, her stomach growling. "I'm hungry!"
"Me too" said Ace. "Let's go."
At that moment a ring went off. The gang looked around for the source of the sound until Shadow piped up.
"You guys go on ahead." She said. "I'll catch up with you in a minute."
"Okay" said Ace. He and the others went in the direction of the cafeteria. When they were out of sight, Shadow pulled out a small communicator, the source of the ringing from earlier. She pushed a button on it and opened the communication channel. Arcey's head appeared in hologram form, her white hair shimmering. She took of her face mask and set it down so she could speak face to face with Shadow (the gray area on Arceus' face is a protective face mask in her human forme).
"Hey Shadow." She greeted the black Gardevoir. "Where are the others?"
"Ace, Maura, Eon, Kiria and I were going to get some lunch when you called." Shadow explained. "I told the others to go on ahead and I would catch up in a minute."
"Okay." Said Arcey. She then took on a more serious tone. "This is just between us okay. I have a mission for you and you alone."
"Why just me?" Shadow asked. "Why can't I involve Ace and Eon?"
"This is about the demon in the basement." Arcey said, her tone grave.
"Several things about that before I accept this mission." Shadow said.
"Okay. Shoot"
"First is why you sealed him in the basement of a school." Shadow said.
"Oh. That" Arcey said sheepishly. "When we sealed it and decided to put him somewhere, I happened to be binge watching Soul Eater at the time. That influenced my decision a lot."
"I'll accept that." Shadow said, realizing that it was probably the truth. "The second thing is why we can't tell Ace or Eon about this. If the demon is that powerful, then why wouldn't we get all three members of the Unholy Trinity on board with the task of stopping him."
"I would have told Eon before I told Ace." Arcey said, a tear strting to form in her eye. "This would be more personal for Ace. Eon would definitely tell him though. I can't risk him knowing about this."
"Okay" Shadow said, realizing what would happen if Ace knew about this. "Should I go check on it now or later?"
"Later." Arcey said. "Go have fun. I would need you to check it tomorrow though. I'm just giving you a heads up so you can prepare."
"Why not just tell me when I get home?" Shadow asked. "Why risk blowing our cover now?"
"I-dammit!" Arcey spat. "I could have just done that! Whatever! You just need to make sure he is still sealed tightly. Don't engage him unless you have to. You shouldn't have to even try to fight him."
"Got it." Shadow said. "I'll check on it tomorrow."
"Okay." Arcey said. "Just be careful"
"Will do" Shadow said, turning off the communicator. She put it in her pocket and ran to catch up with her friends.
In his prison he stirred. He had been kept here for a long time. He couldn't calculate just how long it had been, but he could tell that things above him had changed. He could tell that there were powerful beings above him. Any one of them could be the one that he was searching for. Wait, what was that? Something was different. One of the beings had risen to unimaginable heights. It had forced itself to evolve. It could be the one. But its type was inaccurate. He was intrigued. Such willpower and determination. Wait; there was a more powerful source of energy. It was the correct type. He smiled a wicked grin. This had to be the one he was looking for. He was sure of it. This would be interesting he thought to himself. It would only be a matter of time before he would have an advantage over his ultimate opponent. Maybe a little emotional twisting would be in order. He decided to wait until tomorrow. He needed a little more strength before he could leave his prison. Tomorrow should be long enough. Yes, very soon he would have this world in his grip. And no one could stop him. He chuckled to himself. It would all be so easy. Only one being could stop him. But that could be dealt with easily. Once he was out of the way not even the Legendary Council could stop him, that pathetic bunch of weaklings. They would all fall before his might. He had already put much fear into their hearts. Even the mere mention of his name was enough to cause some of them to quake in fear. Yes, very soon. The hour would be at hand soon.
