After some regular updates of the B2W2 chapter, at least we can know that it is finally making progress (yayyy!). There will be time in the future when people start to stop making those "theories" about what will happen after Black returns, I guess so (I'm sorry if I'm wrong), so I think I'm going to complete one of my last attempts to write about B2W2's ending.
I know the theme has a lot of "overused scenarios" but hey, give this one a try, there are a lot of ideas I've been saving for independent stories but I decide to use them all for this story. More characters also appear or get mentioned. Hope you'll be able to find something nice and new that you enjoy!
Again, everything is in English but nicknames are in Japanese. It can't be helped!
Focus: Agencyshipping and Corruptedshipping.
Here is the first chapter of the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokéspe.
CHAPTER 1 – CHECKMATE
She was looking at those two people who were fighting far in front of her and a building suddenly collapsed right on top of them. It formed a big cloud of dust, obstructing her view completely.
"ARGHHH!"
For one short moment that she was distracted, the Shadow Triad member's Bisharp successfully landed a Night Slash on her shoulder—would have been on the throat had Amanda not pushed her back and shielded the girl with her own body. The pokémon immediately counterattacked with a Leaf Blade but it was not very effective.
"Yunibou!"
She sent out her Reuniclus, the only pokémon that could actually be useful in this situation, also her last pokémon beside Amanda. He had been eager for battle since the beginning but she had to keep him in reserve because of the type disadvantage. Now the time finally came, and there was no running from a trainer battle. Yunibou immediately used psychic power to receive a direction through telepathy without being heard.
"We only have one shot, otherwise it will tear us apart. So please, make it count!"
The cell pokémon blinked in understanding. Amanda was buying time for Yunibou to charge the energy shot but she could not hold any longer.
"NOW!"
Yunibou's Focus Blast landed a direct hit on the enemy Bisharp's chest, resulting in a deafening explosion before its armor shattered into pieces.
It was defeated.
"Not so fast, fucker!"
Amanda instantly wrapped herself around the Shadow Triad member's body before he could teleport away. She received a nod from White and tightened the grip until both of them could hear his bones cracking. His ear-splitting screams reverberated through the battlefield and a vine angrily slapped him in the face to shut his mouth. More vines were climbing to his neck and strangled him to death.
White was not feeling any mercy at all.
Amanda then let go of the lifeless body and returned to the girl.
"Your master will join you soon!"
She cursed quietly while checking the wound on her shoulder. A deep cut was bleeding badly but that could not even bother her. The girl only cared about the safety of that person behind that thick cloud of dust. With one hand gripping Amanda while Yunibou was already leading the way, she slowly and carefully proceeded towards the building now lying in ruins.
He can't die!
...
...
And here he was, standing in the midst of the battlefield with nothing in his hands. No weapons, no pokémon.
The black, brutal pokémon carrying a man was getting closer and, within a few seconds, landed right in front of him. Its flaps created a strong air current that almost struck him down. He stood his ground, awaiting what happened next.
"Tired of playing hide and seek?"
He bit his lips, trying to think straight as one wrong calculation might cause the plan to fail.
I'm not going to lose myself in this pathetic mind game.
"Black, the most famous loudmouth in Unova, the champion… has surrendered. What happened to you? Cat got your tongue?"
"…"
"Thanks to my Kyurem, you were finally released from the Light Stone. You should at least say thank you to Lord Ghetsis—"
"FUCK YOU!"
"My, my! So rude. You need to learn some manners."
Immediately, the black pokémon grabbed him with its front leg and lifted him off the ground. Its sharp, ice-cold claws dug into his flesh and caused it to bleed, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"But Lord Ghetsis is a tolerant man. I don't hold grudges for very long. In fact, I admire you for making it this far. That's why I promise, I will let you die so quickly that you won't even feel your death approaching…"
"…Kyurem, Dragon Claw!"
The creature raised its leg and was ready to deliver the coup de grâce. Black closed his eyes, knowing that the moment finally came.
…
A thin, almost invisible thread was shot at Ghetsis and wrapped around his neck, nearly pulling him to the ground from the back of Kyurem. More threads were shot at the black pokémon and wrapped around its body. A strong electric current was sent through the threads to the vile duo in an attempt to paralyze them. Black could also feel it through the leg that Kyurem was holding him—the grip was loosened.
"That's it!" he yelled ecstatically. "Light them up, Tula!"
Kyurem roared angrily and swung its other leg in the air, grabbing all those threads and pulling Tula out of his cover. The spider pokémon cut his own thread and landed safely on the debris far across the street.
"FINISH THAT BUG!"
Kyurem fired a massive ice beam at Tula. A huge explosion erupted, causing debris to fly all over the place. Black could not see whether it had missed Tula or not, but seeing his friend being hurt right in front of his eyes made him want to kill Ghetsis more than anything else.
"Hah… Do you really think," Ghetsis said in short pants, "one little bug… can defeat… mighty Kyurem?"
No, it definitely could not. And Black was also not stupid. Tula had finished his part and Black was certain that nothing would be wasted here. If his calculation was right, what happened just now was only the beginning.
"KYUREM! KILL THAT BRAT!"
"NOW!"
…
Sharpened stones suddenly erupted from below, forming a stone wall that trapped Kyurem, Ghetsis and Black inside.
"Ever get that feeling of déjà vu?" He shouted hysterically and at the same time, large boulders were thrown inside through the ceiling. Three of them were completely passive and thus unable to dodge the falling rocks. All suffered serious injuries, especially Kyurem with its paralysis condition. Ghetsis fell to the ground but he quickly got up to hide under Kyurem's colossal body.
A large boulder hit the pokémon in the head, breaking into pieces and falling on Black's head. He could taste blood with his tongue but still, he was waiting.
Finally, Kyurem had had enough; it threw Black away and whirled around angrily. The boy hit his back against the stone wall and felt like his spine was broken but he still caught the glimpse of Ghetsis doing something fishy.
"Oh no, you don't!" he screamed again, rushing towards Ghetsis and threw a full-force punch at his jaw. It did not do as much damage as he expected but Ghetsis had dropped his pokéball. However, it didn't take the 6,5-foot high opponent much time to regain balance and counterattack. A quick defeat was foreseen for any attempts to grapple with this man but letting him make a grab at any of his pokéballs would be a disaster. Behind them, Kyurem almost broke through its paralysis itself and began to destroy the boulders thrown by Goura with ease.
Another powerful roar joined the chaotic battle and this time, it was from a white, gargantuan, graceful-looking pokémon. It was hovering overhead, awaiting directions.
"RESHIRA—"
One distraction from Black was more than enough for Ghetsis to wrestle the boy to the ground. He felt like being crushed by a snorlax as Ghetsis knelt down on his back and stopped all of his movements with an atrocious hammerlock.
"Reshi-ram… Aim… Ghet-sis…"
"Hah, are you that stupid?" Ghetsis smirked. "You can get yourself killed if it does."
Black took in quick gasps for air since half of his face was being pressed into the ground. A mixture of dust, sand and blood entered his throat which made him cough violently but the direct order was given. He spotted Reshiram's hesitation with his one eye and, with every last bit of his strength, shouted his order again.
"KILL ME IF YOU HAVE TO!"
"WHA—?"
There could only be one truth in this fierce battle and it was protected by its master, the Hero of the Truth. Ideals, at the end of their existence, could be meaningless and also full of lies. Innocent people suffered mass destruction and lost their lives because a villainous organization claimed they would like to seek the ideals. Reshiram, who represented truth, now had got the message loud and clear and should not ignore those who were standing in its way. It stopped in mid-air, lighting up its tail with a yellow flame and breathed out an intense flame at the cage. Kyurem formed an icy shield and blocked the attack. Heat that escaped into the cage burned and blinded anyone not staying low.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KYUREM?" Ghetsis, having taken a full blast of searing heat in the face, fell backwards and screamed painfully. "DESTROY IT! FUSION BOLT!"
"Reshiram, FUSION FLARE!"
Two powerful sources of energy lit up the whole area before colliding with each other, at which point they were fused into a single, giant column of thunderbolt and fire and started deflecting uncontrollably, destroying everything in its path.
Another explosion erupted and before Black or Ghetsis could realize what had happened, a building was almost cut in half and began to collapse right above them.
"NO!" Black shouted as he charged at Ghetsis and tackled him with his shoulder. A pokéball fell to the ground and it contained Beheeyem, the cerebral pokémon.
"Listen… it can save both of us…" Ghetsis, after a quick glance at the falling structure, said as they wrestled for the pokéball. "If you keep standing in my way… we will both die!"
"You're going to hell even if I have to drag you there myself!" And Black crushed the ball with his own foot, destroying their hope of an escape.
"YOU IMBECILE!" Ghetsis howled crazily before throwing a massive punch on Black's chest that knocked the latter to the ground. "You think that's the only pokémon I have?"
At the same time, Kyurem began to roar deafeningly and Reshiram also did the same thing, as if they were communicating in a unique language. Very quickly after that, it spread its wings and flew off, leaving the battlefield and its master behind. Reshiram winked at Black and hastily followed its counterpart.
"NO! WHERE ARE YOU GOING, KYUREM?" Ghetsis knelt down, raising his eyes at the huge silhouette getting smaller and smaller in the sky. Nonetheless, he quickly recovered from it and grabbed another pokéball from his side. Piercing Black with a glower full of violent hatred, Ghetsis growled through his grinding teeth,
"You're going to pay for everything."
And Ghetsis threw his pokéball at Black. Or at least he thought he was doing, because he was freezing on the ground, looking so surprised as he was unable to move a muscle.
"Well, you're nothing without that pokémon, aren't you?"
Black wiped off the blood stains on his mouth and smirked. He just got up from the ground and immediately, two large shapes landed right next to him—one of an angry, fiery pig pokémon and one of a warrior-like, eagle pokémon. A third one gently landed on his head, its favorite place, slightly glowing pink in daylight.
"How about a taste of your own medicine?"
Black and his pokémon turned back and walked away, leaving a helpless Ghetsis behind still standing still and now looking more terrified than ever.
And Black did not even look back at the mess behind him—the building had completely collapsed.
…
"Thank you!" Black said to Warr as the eagle pokémon sat him up. Together with the rest of his team, he looked around the whole battlefield in shock. How did things change so fast? Did he just actually survive the battle?
He still remembered the moment he came up with the plan. Direct combat against Kyurem would result in destruction of the whole area and potential heavy casualty for his team, and Black was never someone who had a reckless disregard for everyone's safety. He would rather take on the hardest, most dangerous part just to achieve his purpose; and how to stop that massive creature had been his only bother since the moment he returned to this world. The only effective way was that he had to eliminate its trainer with a surprise attack which Black gladly enjoyed the idea. In fact, it was a risky move, almost a suicidal one—striking when the enemy was most careless. No plan would survive contact with reality, however; Black never expected he had to order Reshiram to kill him if it needed to. And no one could foresee this whole narrow escape from a falling building. He really thought he could have lost his life and been buried under tons of debris but again, Black was surprised that the tide had turned in his favor.
That psychopath deserved nothing but death.
The massive noise caused by the collapse right on top of him might have damaged his ears but the truth is, Black could not hear anything now and his instinct was telling him that he still needed to be on his guard. For a short moment, he thought he heard the sounds of battle from afar but it ended very quickly. Now, only silence, dust and the stench of blood—his own blood—were filling the air. He'd rather not get caught off guard again after everything he had been through to stand on the ground for the second time in his life.
Or, maybe there was another possibility. And he just shivered at the thought of it—
Is it finally… over?
His knees suddenly became weak and Black started to feel dizzy in his head. Wasn't it just a few minutes ago, he just narrowly escaped the jaws of death? The thought that everything was finally over weakened him from inside as if his body wanted to yell at him 'it's time to rest'. And he had not eaten anything for like 2 years, had he?
However, it was when the boy heard footsteps behind him.
…
Warr emitted a warning call and furiously flapped its wings, creating strong winds that cleared most of the dust in the area. Buoh stepped up to stand between Black and the source of those footsteps but Musha remained calm. He was floating in the air right in front of Black, sharing a suspicious look with his master as if he was also asking himself if it was friend or foe. They all held their breath when a silhouette slowly stepped out from behind the dust.
That figure… that pony tail… and the cap…
They had been in his mind since forever and simply could not be mistaken for anyone else in the world.
"Prez…" The word even escaped his mouth before he knew that. The word he had been hearing his own voice from the past calling that one girl over and over again in his dreams during all those days he was trapped in the stone.
However, after this point, everything happened very quickly. 'She' launched herself at him and tackled him in a hug. A blinding flash of lightning appeared out of nowhere and struck Black in the head. And that was the last thing he could recall before he found himself lying half-conscious in another place.
(to be continued)
Well, writing about some violence in pokémon battles was kind of fun (uh…) but still, it's not really my cup of tea.
Was Black hit by a sucker punch? Chapter 2 coming soon!