"There we go." The duplighost said. "Blaze, return." He called back his fiery ape thing. "That was impressive", he said, towering over the crippled Pichu. "Nobody has ever lasted that long against my team. You really are something." He held out his hand and grabbed the Pichu by the arm. Instantly, the Pichu felt his bones mending as he stood up. "My name's Dooplex. How would you like to try training under me? I have a few choice fights I think you might like to help with. How does fighting a couple legendaries sound?" He offered. Oddball cricked his neck and glared up at him.
"Do I have a choice?" Oddball spat.
"Of course. You can train under me and become strong, or you can leave here and remain weak. The choice is yours." Said Dooplex, smiling smugly. Oddball stayed quiet for a moment.
"I need to get stronger." Oddball said, clenching his fists. He stared down at the ground, then turned his head up to look at Dooplex. "If joining you is what I need to do to get stronger, I'll accept without hesitation!"
"You already did hesitate." Dooplex pointed out.
"I did?"
"Yeah, just a little."
"Darn."
Dooplex snapped his fingers, and he and Oddball were instantly teleported outside the Crystal Palace. Oddball stumbled, trying to regain his balance.
"The first legendary on the list is Regigigas." Dooplex said, holding out his Pokedex. He tapped a few buttons and showed the screen to Oddball. It displayed a mighty colossus. Large, strong arms, somewhat stubby feet, yellow shoulder armor… stuff, moss growing out the top, it had the works.
"Wow, we're going to fight that?" Oddball asked. "I've been wandering the world for four years and I've never seen anything like that. Where are we going to find it?" He asked.
"It was lost to the world long ago. It sits in the deepest chamber of Joke's End, in the Beanbean Kingdom." Dooplex said, pulling up a map and showing Oddball the location.
"Wow. Wait, how do you know this—"
"Off we go!"
And then they teleported again.
The duo reappeared on a beach in front of a large temple-like building. It was built from what looked like bricks of ice, and had a large stairway on the front, with an even larger doorway at the top. The whole area looked strikingly similar to the Crystal Palace, although it was a little bluer as opposed to just shiny and sparkly.
"Wow." Oddball said, bending way back to look at the whole thing. "It's huge."
"Yup. Even bigger than the Crystal Palace even. The beast is hidden inside." He turned to the staircase. "C'mon, let's go." said Dooplex, beginning to walk towards it.
"W-wait!" Oddball interrupted. Dooplex turned to him in confusion. Oddball spoke again, "It's, uh, like, r-really cold. Are you sure about this?" He said.
"Uh, yes. I wouldn't have teleported us both here if we weren't both going to go in."
Oddball's ears were shaking with the cold. He shut his eyes tight for a second, and then started walking after Dooplex. "F-fine. But the next place we go to better not be this cold."
Dooplex chuckled. "You don't need to worry about that." And they both went in.
As it turned out, Joke's End was pretty much deserted, just like the Crystal Palace had been. Everything inside was the same light cyan color as everything else, and after a while it began to hurt Oddball's eyes a bit. The rooms were mostly very high ceiling-ed, with shelf-like ledges sticking out from the walls, making the walls look like something out of a Platform game.
Oddball and Dooplex slowly descended down the ice-cold labyrinth, and the lower they went, the colder and darker it got. Eventually it became dark enough that Dooplex needed to activate a light spell every few minutes to keep their surroundings visible. Eventually they came to a massive wide open room that seemed to go down forever, down a maze of staircases. Staircases twisted around each other, and sometimes it even seemed as if they moved when you weren't looking. Nonetheless, after much trial and error, Oddball and Dooplex made it to the bottom, and found themselves standing on plain stone ground, with a single door in front of them. Shivering a bit with anticipation (or cold), they walked through the door and entered a large room that was lit dimly by lamps suspended high above their heads. Pillars stood without pattern or reason, strewn randomly through the room.
Last but not least, a large and bizarre statue sat, on its knees, right in the middle of the room.
"Is that Regigigas?" Oddball asked Dooplex, pointing at the statue.
"That's what we're after. I'm going to wake it up, and you're going to help me fight it. That's alright, right? I could always just leave you outside to slowly freeze while I do it myself." Dooplex said. Oddball raised his paws defensively, taking a step or two back.
"Woah-hey, I didn't mean—"
"Hahaha. I'm just messin' with ya." Dooplex said, walking up to the statue and placing his hand on it.
…
"Uh, nothing's happeni—" Oddball began to say, before he was interrupted when the entire temple shook violently! Debris fell from the ceiling, dust swirled, and columns strained under pressure, and the statue in the middle shook harder than anything else. Then, it stood.
And then, it roared.
"REEEGIIIIGIIIIGAAAAAAS!"
Dooplex held up a Pokeball.
"Go, Rundas!" he said, and he threw it. A large golem made of ice emerged, with seven dots arranged in a wide plus pattern on its 'face'. It levitated about a foot off the ground, facing down the hulking behemoth in front of it, and showing no sign of even acknowledging its presence.
"Use Ice Beam!" Dooplex commanded. The ice golem (Rundas?) bobbed slightly, as if in agreement, and then shot a light blue beam out of the center of its plus-symbol of dots. The beam struck the massive colossus, who shuddered from the cold, and slowly put its arm in front of it to block some of the beam. It recovered quickly however. One would be hard-pressed to say whether or not it had actually been hurt.
"Reeeee…" It pulled an arm back. "…GI!" It shouted, swinging its arm forward, uppercutting Rundas with a powerful Superpower attack. Rundas was sent skidding backwards, although since it levitated, it really looked quite odd, skidding to a halt on air.
"Oddball!" Dooplex shouted to Oddball. "Do you know Thunder Wave?" He asked.
"Yeah, I know Thunder Wave! You want me to use it?"
"Yes! Regigigas has an ability called Slow Start, where it only fights at half strength for its first five attacks. We need to incapacitate it before it regains its full strength!" Dooplex explained.
"Got it!" Oddball said. He took off, scampering closer to Regigigas, then jumping in the air and firing a small wave of electricity out at Regigigas. The wave enveloped Regigigas, and eventually covered its whole body. Regigigas suddenly almost collapsed, as little bolts of electricity danced across its body. It was paralyzed.
"Good! Now, Rundas, use Ice Beam again! Try to hit it in the dots!" Dooplex shouted. Rundas came flying in from behind and shot another beam out, hitting Regigigas—you guessed it –right in the dots. Regigigas moaned in pain, holding its hands to its 'face' and stepping back.
"Reee, giii…. GIGAS!" Regigigas shouted, grabbing Rundas with both hands and crushing Rundas in its Crush Claw. Rundas fell back and sunk a little closer to the ground, presumably out of weakness.
"Shooooot! Uh, Rundas use Blizzard!" Dooplex shouted. Rundas raised its arms high in the air, creating a swirling vortex of snowy wind above its head, and swung its arms down, firing a humongous gust of snow and freezing wind at Regigigas. Rundas held the attack going for several seconds, until finally letting go and dropping ever so slightly closer to the ground.
Then, an arm shot out of the mist that was leftover from the attack, and Regigigas stepped out of the cloud, covered in ice and frost.
"Ree… re, gi…" It moaned, shuddering with the cold. It raised its arms high up, and prepared to lay a final blow on Rundas, who was too tired to get out of the way in time. "…reeegiiiGiiii…!" Regigigas swung its arms down, and…
"Thunderbolt!" Oddball shouted, shooting Regigigas directly in the dots with a bolt of lightning.
"GAAAAS!" Regigigas recoiled back from the blow, covering its face with its hands. Oddball landed on the ground shortly, before jumping back up in the air to deliver a decisive blow.
"THUNDE-!" He began to shout, before a black and yellow ball flew in from underneath him, hit Regigigas, and sucked the beast into itself. Oddball landed on the ground again, watching the ball carefully as it shook three times, and then audibly clicked.
Gotcha! Regigigas was caught!
Music for your listening pleasure:
Quiet: Item Room (Super Metroid)
Joke's End: Eterna Forest (Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum)
Vs. Regigigas: Vs. Regi Trio (Pokemon Black 2 & White 2)
Chapter 2 of this thing. Wacky.