Chapter 3 – The Peak of Time
"Uh…." Lucas murmured quietly, collapsing onto a rock. He and Naoko had been climbing for about five hours.
"Lucas…" Naoko started, but also collapsed onto a larger boulder.
Lucas got up and looked down where they climbed up; it was like ants… no, quarters of grains of sand would better describe it.
"Luc…as…too tired… to climb… any further…" Naoko finished.
"C'mon! It's only another half hour climb to Spear Pillar! You can make it!" Lucas pleaded.
Naoko got up, then collapsed again in Lucas's arms.
"Jeez…Didn't know you were that hot after you'd fainted." Lucas commented.
Naoko wearily opened her right eye and slapped Lucas.
"Whatever, we'll set up camp here for you" Lucas gave in.
"Thanks, love you…" Naoko started, before actually fainting.
"Lucas…?...where am I?…where are you?...Lucas?!" Naoko began, finally waking up in the tent.
"Here, right in front of you… get outta your sleeping bag silly!" Lucas smiled. "Better get going!"
Naoko rolled her eyes and got out of bed, forcing Lucas out so she could change.
They started climbing onto many edge and ridges and eventually got to near to the top.
A Salamence flew into the capture detection zone.
"Ah, just what I've been looking for!" Lucas commented.
It tried to fly away, but was stopped by a yell.
"Capture on!" Lucas yelled.
The salamander Pokemon looked at Lucas, and widened its eyes. It started to fly all over the place in anger. Lucas drew one ring, but it broke out; he continued, each ring set faster and faster, but it kept breaking loose.
"I despise you, but just you wait…" Lucas started, but never finished his sentence.
He leapt into the sky and onto the Pocket Monster, and tuned into Ranger Net onto his Styler.
"I've gotta angry Salamence, need assist, allow?" Lucas yelled into the machine, trying to speak louder than the dragon's screeches.
"Shines, Assist me!" Lucas yelled to his Riolu, which immediately fell asleep.
"Dam-!" Lucas screamed at it, but stopped because it started to glow. Lucas realised that it would take a long time to evolve. He then jumped off it and restarted to ring it. It stopped as Lucas had jumped off it. Next it narrowed its eyes and started charging an orange ball.
Lucas speedily ringed it and lashed his rings speedily, but its Hyper Beam destroyed all his work.
"Rukario!" Lucario cried and jumped into the back of it, and its spike at the back of its hand shimmered.
Its eye twitched, then it slammed its point into the monster and pounced off it, with blood at the back of his hand.
Lucas lunged forward and finally ringed it four times, then lashed it until it fell to the ground.
Naoko saw something around Salamence's neck, so looked at it, which read 'Nitro 64213 Salamence' she narrowed her green eyes and jumped upon it, followed by Lucas, so they took to the skies; Salamence finally under control.
Instead of to top of Spear Pillar, it landed in a small base.
"Uh, another one" muttered a purple haired teen aged looking male, wearing an elegant white jacket with an N on the front pocket and white trousers with a flare at the bottom; and noticing Lucas and Naoko, walked off calmly, as if no-one was there.
Immediately twelve men seized them, and before they could realise what had happened, they were tied to chairs being questioned by the teenager who had first seen them.
"O.K… 'Cause we all know you'll be dead before sunrise, I'll pointlessly tell you who we are. Since you're kids, the explanation simple. We are Team Nitro, I'm the manager Mr. North and-"
"Wait a sec," Lucas started "My Mom's maiden name was North, so-"
"Ahem, you mean my no-good goodie-goodie younger sister, Sakura?" He sighed. "So you are her son. How obvious. I should have realised sooner, you interfering child."
"Yup!" Lucas yelled back at him "Hey! Don't call my mom 'no good'! That's what you are!"
"Lucas, why don't I let you then- wait, I am NOT no good! But I'll let the lass go though…" Mr. North started.
"Don't you dare call me an lass!" Naoko screeched, then slapping him.
"Oh, yeah, call me Steven." Mr. Steven North finished.
"Fine, Steven…LEMME OUTTA 'ERE!" Lucas yelled.
"Fine, Lucas…" Steven said, diverting his gaze.
He looked at the rope and took out a pen knife, purposely giving a light cut to Naoko, who glared at it, then quickly slashing the rope.
They walked out, then looked out of the entrance… you'd need a plane to get to Spear Pillar.
After about an hour of planning, Lucas got onto Steven's shoulder, with Naoko on his, then Naoko getting to the next chunk of extruded rock, pulling Lucas up, then both of them hauling Steven up. This went on for about a couple of hours until… Success… Spear Pillar.
A blue figure flashed in a distance. It came forward, out of the fog, Dialga.
"Dirriguu!" It cried.
"Capture o-" Lucas started, but with his arm aching from Salamence's capture, Naoko started, but was knocked back.
"Fine, Lucas, pass me your Styler." Steven requested.
He leapt into the sky and speedily drew rings around it, evading all the charged shots Dialga was dishing out. Dialga smashed into the ring, destroying it, but Steven wasn't about to give up. He pounced onto a pillar and lunged himself towards him, knocking himself out in hope to wear away at Dialga's health. Lucas got up to his feet and grabbed the Capture Styler, sending out his newly evolved Lucario, and commanding it to use Force Palm. The aura guided Pokemon immediately sprinted up to Dialga and slammed his palm into its chest.
"Naoko's Styler!" Lucas yelled and ran up to her, and grabbed her Styler and revealed Palkia, which immediately started combating with Dialga.
"Dialga, the Time Deity… Palkia, the Space Deity; clash together, reforming the universe… A new world… That power… That Force…It's just… Overwhelming." Naoko whispered to herself.
Dialga slammed into Palkia, who countered with a Focus Punch, then both charged up Roar of Time and Spatial Rend respectively; then released it onto each other- a blue and purple aurora painted the sky as the Deities clanged.
They stood up and tried to continue attacking, but they were too weak to move… Lucas's chance to capture.
"CAPTURE ON!" Lucas yelled at the top of his voice, and drew powerful loops around it, wearing all his energy into the capture. As he weakly lashed the rings, Dialga opened its eye. It charged up a Hyper Beam and released and the second they met…
"Capture complete!" Claimed Lucas's Capture Styler before Lucas himself, drained of his power, fell to the ground.
A Pair of glowing red eyes opened in the darkness, and moved forward into the light, it looked around and noticing Lucas, advanced towards him. It gazed into the sky, realised the aurora's significance, moved closer to Lucas, and kneed by him.
"Lucas…"
"Sydney…"
"The Aurora"
"It's significance"
"Why"
"Lucas…"
"That"
"Believe"
"Admit"
"Love"
It backed away from Lucas as Naoko woke up.
"Huh, what! What is it!" She screamed as she saw it. Lucas got up wearily and looked at it.
"I know that it's a-" Lucas never finished that sentence as he passed out, his cast whacking his forehead.