Part 4: The world crumbles, death becomes the new life, and emotions are the most powerful weapon
The zeppelin floated in the air, Team Rocket members at computer consoles. They watched satellite imagery, helped navigate the beast of a balloon with GPS, and kept up to date on local police activities.
One though, had to use the bathroom really bad.

Sitting on the tile floor of the bathroom were Sillindra, Tsubaki, and Oak. Sean sat on the sink, head pressed back against the wall, eyes shut. No one could tell if he was asleep or just resting, and nobody wanted to disturb him.
Everyone was disturbed though when the door to the bathroom was tried. Finding that the door was locked, the man at the door knocked loudly.
"I have to pee really bad! Hurry up!" He complained.
Sean opened his eyes. "I think it is time we show ourselves." He said.
"What?" The guy on the other side of the door asked.
Sean jumped off the sink. He had Oak unlock the door since Sean had lost his opposable digits. Oak stepped away as Sean revealed himself. Despite being a bit less than three foot shorter than the man who had to pee, he still wet himself when Sean punched him in the gut, doubling him over. An uppercut then knocked the man out.
"Let's go. Get Pokemon out. We'll more than likely need them." Sean said.
"All I have are flying Pokemon though." Oak said. "Not good for these tight spaces." He motioned toward the small corridor that led off of the bathroom.
"Tsubaki, take out your Zangoose and Gengar. I need them to help me out. Anybody a good shot?"
Oak raised his hand.
"Take his pistol. Cover our backs. I'll go up front. The girls stay in the middle, preferably with some sort of weapon. Frisk his body Oak. See if he has a knife or something." Oak did so and pulled a long, thick knife from a sheath on the man's ankle.
"Give it to one of them."
Tsubaki let Gengar and Zangoose loose. She pointed at Sillindra. "I'll have Zangoose protect me and Gengar can back up Sean. Sillindra should take it."
"Alright." Sean walked into the corridor. Gengar walked over to his side as they began their descent through the dark corridor. Sillindra and Tsubaki followed along, with Oak behind, pistol cocked and at the ready.
Sean walked down the corridor slowly. The corridor was made up of mirrors on the walls. Sean looked at himself. He noticed his face, his body, his tail, his spikes. He was a Lucario now, a Pokemon. He knew it would happen, but it was still a shock to see himself in the mirror and notice that he was now a completely different being, a creature with powers no human could ever get.
Despite the fact it was kind of odd to see himself in the mirror and not see his usually rugged, long haired face, he still found it cool. He had a whole new life ahead of him, at least, if he survived the events taking place at the moment.
An alarm sounded and Sean noticed that there was a video camera in the corner of the corridor.
"That's not the sound I want to hear at the moment..." Oak muttered.
Three Team Rocket members ran into the hall, pistols cocked. Sean brought up and aura shield as the bullets exploded from the barrel. They hit the shield and flew off various directions, one shattering a mirror on the wall.
Gengar was the first to make a move. He ran at the shooters and used shadow claw, cutting the arm off of one of the assailants. The arm with the gun fell. The Rocket member fell to the ground, screaming.
Oak shot at one of them, hitting him in the stomach and knee. The man crumpled to the ground, blood pooling around him.
Sean was the last to attack, using aura ball to blow the chest of the third assailant to pieces.
The group then ran past the defeated Team Rocket members, and into a room full of Houndour's. It was a dining room, white fold up tables set up with chairs thrown about. There must have been twenty Houndour's in the room.
"Why is it that whenever you see Team Rocket they are surrounded by these damn dogs?" Asked Oak.
Sean, Gengar, and Zangoose walked into the room. Oak stood in the hallway with the girls as the Houndour's slowly approached the Pokemon in front of them.
"I know you're watching Team Rocket. I know your leader is more than likely watching. I'd like him to know that as long as it takes, as hard as the battle gets, we will still prevail. You may have assassins, guns, armies of Pokemon, but they are all going to fall. And then your leader will fall as well."
"Good luck with that." A man appeared in the doorway on the opposite side of the dining area. The Houndour's whimpered as he neared them and backed away, as if he had a bubble shield around him that repelled the beasts. He wore an overcoat, open at the front but clasped together at his breast by a giant, gaudy R. He wore an eyepatch on his left eye, and a cigarette smoked from his mouth.
"Who the hell are you?" Sean asked.
"A talking Lucario. Who knew? If it weren't for the fact you are a wanted criminal I would probably capture you and take you to the boss, he would find you quite a prize. Especially all the power you have." He continued forward and stopped a couple feet away from Sean and the other two Pokemon. "I'll give you an option though being the person I am. Join us and allow us to take you to the boss, reform and become a member of Team Rocket. We'll have to kill Oak, but the others can be given back their lives. We'll buy the lady a new house. And we'll give the other girl some money."
Sean looked back at the others. Oak was petrified and the other two were shaking terribly.
He looked back at the man in the overcoat. "What's your name?"
The man in the overcoat laughed. "I am Colonel Xarosen. Also known as Commander of the west coast Team Rocket Army."
"Xarosen?" Sean looked at him.
"Yes?"
"Go fuck yourself." Sean attempted to punch the man but he dodged to the right and came around with a kick. Sean ducked under it and tried to kick his leg out from under him, but in mid-kick the Colonel jumped backward. Sean followed him and tried a roundhouse kick at his face. Xarosen blocked his kick with his forearms.
"KILL THEM HOUNDOURS!" Xarosen yelled as he backed away from Sean and unclasped his overcoat and threw it to the side. He then crouched and got into a fighting stance.
The Houndour's attacked and Zangoose started tearing through them fast. They fell to their stomach's, legs cut out from under them, head's decapitated.
Gengar used shadow ball and blew away a couple of the dogs.
Sean was ducking under the punches of Xarosen when Oak stepped into the room and shot at him. The bullet imbedded itself into Xariosen's suit and stayed there. He pulled it out of his bullet proof shirt and threw it to the ground.
"If you're going to shoot," Xarosen laughed, "Aim for my damn head old man!"
Sean went after Xarosen again and yelled at Oak to back off and take out the rest of the Houndour's. Oak nodded and helped Gengar and Zangoose.

A battle taking place on multiple fronts, in one room. We see Sean the Lucario and Xarosen, a man with blond hair combed back, an eyepatch, and a cigarette still dangling from his lips, battling off to one side. We see ten Houndour's being picked off quickly by Oak, Zangoose, and Gengar. We see a Team Rocket member approaching behind Sillindra and Tsubaki, knife poised and at the ready.
In ten seconds, the Houndour's are all defeated, the battle between Xarosen and Sean is still at a stalemate, and the Team Rocket grunt is about to shove the knife into Tsubaki's side.
At twelve seconds from the time Oak starts shooting, Oak turns around.
At thirteen, Oak screams at the girls and aims at the Team Rocket man.
At sixteen he has cocked the pistol and attempts to shoot, but finds he has run out of bullets.
At seventeen, Sillindra turns around, knife in hand.
At eighteen, Tsubaki falls to one side as the knife plunges through air.
At nineteen, Sillindra's knife plunges through the Team Rocket man's neck, the tip protruding from the back of it.
At twenty-one, the Team Rocket member falls to the ground, blood gurgling from his mouth, entering his death throes.
At twenty-three, Sillindra falls to her knees, having never killed someone in cold blood, and weeps.
At twenty-five, the battle between Sean and Xarosen still rages, not one punch or kick having landed on either of them.

Xarosen dodged another punch and backed into a wall. Sean was breathing hard, the battle had raged for almost a minute and a half, ninety seconds of punching and kicking to no avail but to tire themselves.
"You're good. I never thought I would fight hand to hand with a Pokemon." Xarosen was sweating, he leaned against the wall and pulled the cigarette from his mouth.
Sean started to walk away.
"What's your problem?" Xarosen asked.
Sean turned around and ran at him. He punched at Xarosen. Xarosen blocked it, and Sean used his hand spike on the opposite arm to cut a cable against the wall.
"Oh shit..." Xarosen noticed he was backed against a door. And as he noticed this Sean shoved him through, the cable that opened and closed it severing having made it easily open with the tap of a finger. Xarosen fell out but laughed and he opened a Pokeball. A Swellow appeared beneath him and he landed on it. It flew him back up to the zeppelin.
Sean yelled at Oak. "CLOSE THIS DOOR QUICK!"
Oak ran over and closed it before Xarosen could jump back in.
Everyone was panting. They wanted to rest, but knew it was impossible with Team Rocket after them. They decided to continue forward. Sillindra was still on her knees, blood on her hand. Tsubaki was next to her, trying to help her up, comfort her.
"I...I killed someone." Sillindra said.
"To save me." Tsubaki muttered. "It's alright."
Sean and Oak walked out of the dining area and into the cockpit. It was huge, and there were ten or so people working at computers. The zeppelin was apparently run by computer and not by human hands.
Sean grabbed one of the techies from behind and raised him up. "HEY!"
Everyone turned around, slack-jawed.
"Turn off surveillance or everyone dies!" Sean said.
The technicians worked hastily.
"It's done!" One squealed.
"Is it done Oak?"
Oak walked over to one of the computers and checked it. He nodded.
"Set our course to Rock Island or everyone is dead!"
They worked hastily and the zeppelin turned around slowly, then started moving toward Rock Island.
Sean set the techie down. "Do your job and do what we say or else you'll be working a zeppelin in the great here-after."
The techie nodded and ran to his computer.

Xarosen pulled his cell phone from his pocket.
"I enjoyed the part where you were pushed out of the zeppelin Colonel. Would you be so kind as to kill them, or shall I send a more competent member of Team Rocket to take care of the pests?"
"Sorry boss. I was careless."
"They have shut down the camera feed but I can still track them through computer. They are pretty stupid. I can track them from anything. They are heading toward a small island called Rock Island. They are apparently attempting to hide from everyone there. I'm sending our Navy to surround the island. I want them all dead. Except for the Lucario. I still want him."

Sillindra was still in shock, but she was sound asleep as the zeppelin continued toward the island. Tsubaki slept as well. Oak stared out the front window of the cockpit of the zeppelin and Sean joined him. The sun was setting and the moon rose in it's stead.
"We're being tailed by Xarosen." Sean muttered.
"He hasn't tried to destroy the zeppelin, maybe he thinks the techies will try to kill us."
Sean looked at them. "They aren't fighters. There were only five army types on board. And they were all killed."
Oak nodded. "It's odd though. Why would a Colonel be protected by five guards, a bunch of Houndour's, and be on a zeppelin?"
"He probably is cocky and thinks he can handle himself and doesn't need a guard, and more than likely had all those Houndour's as pets. I have no idea where they were originally going, but at the moment, I am sick of asking questions. I'm going to sleep. Keep guard. Kick me if you need me to wake up."
"Got'cha."
Sean lay down and fell asleep almost instantly.

When Sean awoke, they had just landed on Rock Island. Sillindra was awake and so was Oak. Tsubaki was still asleep. The sun was up and looking out of the cockpit window, Sean noticed that the island was rather aptly named. The zeppelin was landed on a beach, but beyond it were the sheer cliff walls of a canyon.
"It was pretty cool to see from the air." Oak said, noticing how Sean looked at the canyon. "It is basically a straight walk through the canyon, and then it stops in a large circular clearing dotted with rocks. And that's it. Apparently, very few people come to the island because there are no Pokemon."
Sean walked over to Tsubaki and shook her awake.
"We're there." He said. She stood and rubbed her eyes.

They left the zeppelin and allowed the techies to take it where they wished. No point killing them, they fulfilled their purpose.
The foursome entered the canyon and walked for almost five minutes down the straight path, about ten foot side to side.
And after those five minutes, a Swellow swooped through the air and a man jumped off it's back and landed on the ground with a roll.
Tsubaki grabbed her Pokeballs but Sean put a paw on her hand. "Don't. He's mine."
Xarosen stood. He had left his overcoat aboard the zeppelin, so all he wore was his bulletproof clothing. He made his Swellow return to it's Pokeball and laughed.
"We meet again Lucario. This time I want to at least hit you. I'm not authorized to kill you, but I am authorized to kill your friends. It appears you are not one of their Pokemon, I guess you're just a companion. I don't care, you seem intelligent and I ask again, willingly come with me and no one but Oak dies."
Sean crouched and raised his fists.
"Let's go. Round two."
Xarosen laughed and the two circled each other as Tsubaki, Sillindra, and Oak backed away.
"COME ON!" Xarosen ran at Sean and jumped, spinning in midair with his leg outstretched. Sean blocked it and Xarosen fell to the ground, twirling on one knee with his leg still held out, attempting to trip Sean. Sean jumped and attempted to kick him but his leg was grabbed by Xarosen.
Sean fell to the ground, but put his arms out and landed on the palms of his paws. He used his other leg, the one that wasn't being held onto, to kick Xarosen in the face.
Xarosen let go of Sean's leg and stood up, rubbing the spot on his cheek that he was hit.
"You hit me." Xarosen said. He then burst out laughing. "Very good! But it's just started!" He pulled a knife from his belt and hurled it at Sean's stomach. Sean turned to one side as the knife flew by, embedding itself in the canyon wall behind him.
More knives came at him. Sean ran from them as fast as he could, and fell to the ground on his butt, sliding down the canyon as knives flew above him.
"COME ON!" Xarosen ran at Sean and attempted to stomp on his head with his heavy boot. Sean flipped himself to his feet and turned around, letting loose a kick to Xarosen's face as he did. Xarosen had seen this and kicked himself at Sean's leg. The two legs met, Xarosen's knee meeting at Sean's toes. Sean was almost two thirds Xarosen's height.
Sean juked to the right, prompting Xarosen to go to the left, where Sean's foot met Xarosen's stomach. Despite the fact he was wearing bulletproof clothing, they were just flimsy clothes in the first place. The nanomachines that were mixed into the threads were what repelled the bullets. They would also absorb the shock of the shot. But a kick or punch was something they were not programmed to repel because it wasn't going fast enough. It was slow enough that it could squeeze through the nanomachines, yet fast enough that it doubled Xarosen over.
He laughed again. "Tricky bastard, ain't you?"
"Let's continue?"
Xarosen pulled a pistol from his pocket, cocked it and aimed it at Sillindra. "She's dead next move you make. Join us. I've tried to be polite. You were a nice workout, I'm sweating pretty good. But I need to get this over with. The zeppelin is waiting and I need you to come with me. Offer stands. Girls are walking out with reparations for what has happened, Oak walks away with the angels. You walk away with a job. What do you say? Or do you want the bitch to enjoy being a brain casserole?"
Sean looked at him. "Let me think for a second."
He turned around slowly, but then turned again, very fast. His tail started to shimmer and it smacked into Xarosen's hand, knocking the pistol to the ground and breaking the hand. Xarosen screamed as Sean continued his spin, jumping into the air and kicking out, a mid-air roundhouse kick. Xarosen fell and Sean fell on top of him, knee on his neck, pressing down hard.
"How do you contact your boss?" Sean asked.
Xarosen pointed at the phone clipped to his belt.
Sean took the phone and grabbed Xarosen' s head.
"Go to hell." Sean used an aura sphere that completely engulfed the head of Xarosen and when the sphere disappeared, nothing was left but a skull and bits of melted flesh.
Sean stood. Tsubaki ran to him.
"What was that flashy tail attack?" She asked.
"Iron tail. I had a dream last night, my first as a Lucario. I saw that attack, used it. I guess I'm learning how to be a Lucario in my dreams, subconsciously replaying events in Lucario' s past before I took him over."
Oak and Sillindra walked over. Sillindra was crying.
Tsubaki grabbed her. "She's had a hard time lately. Her house has burned down, she's killed a man, she has a gun to her head. Next chance we have, she needs to rest."
Sean grabbed a Pokeball from the belt of Xarosen. It was empty. He handed it to Sillindra.
"We're gonna find you a Pokemon to help you along. Oak, hold onto this cellphone. His boss is likely to call. We'll make sure to leave a message if he does."
"Yes sir." Oak said sarcastically.
"Let's continue on." Sean said. Oak followed and Sillindra followed being helped along by Tsubaki.

"So, that's why nobody has found the Godstone."
Oak looked at the piles of bones lying around.
Sean walked out to the middle of the large, circular area. Giant rocks, as Oak advertised, were dotted about the area. And then there was a shrine on the opposite side, built into the wall of the canyon.
Sean had a severe sense of deja vu.
But before he could try to think back and wonder why, he running as a giant green blur fell from the sky and buried itself in the ground. It pulled it's head out, shook it a bit, and then came at Sean again.
The Rayquaza attacked.
"Holy crap! That's one of the most rare Pokemon in the world!" Oak screamed as Sean backflipped onto it's back and rid it as it flew up into the air.
Sean started to punch it in the head. It shook him off and he was about to fall to the ground when he landed on the back of Oak's Dragonite.
Dragonite dropped Sean onto the ground. "Thanks." Sean muttered as Rayquaza shot a fire ball from it's mouth as it descended again. Sean jumped out of the way and used as aura sphere as it hit the ground again. The aura sphere blasted into it's side and threw it across the ground like a bouncy ball. It stopped against a rock, curled up. It tried to get up, but between the beat up head and the now unbearable pain of the aura sphere, it passed out.
"Sillindra! Catch it!" Sean screamed.
Tsubaki let go of Sillindra as she ran toward it and threw the Pokeball at it.
The Rayquaza was transported inside. The Pokeball shook for a moment, the light on it yellow for a second, and then white, the all clear sign.
Oak pumped his fist. "You caught a Rayquaza! Great job Sillindra!"
She went to grab the Pokeball. She picked it up and laughed. "WOO HOO! I have a Pokemon!"
Tsubaki smiled. "I'm glad she's happy."
Sean walked toward the Godstone slowly. It was inside the shrine, and was a small stone that glowed blue.
Oak showed up behind him. "Touch it and see what happens."
Sean slowly, hesitantly, went for it.
Suddenly, his hand went through it, and he screamed and then entered a dream state.
He saw the circle, the shrine on the other side. He was a person, and a Lucario was on his side. A Rayquaza lay on it's side to the left. The Lucario the small hand of whoever Sean was in the body of, and took him to the Godstone. Together, they touched it.
And then the hands of the two entwined within the Godstone, and Sean was now inside the Lucario and looked over at the little boy beside him.
The dream ended.
And Sean looked at himself.
"I have been here when I was little. Me and this Lucario had come here and touched the stone at the same time. And because of it, I was turned into him."
Sean looked at his paws. "This was what the Godstone granted me. I've already gotten it's power. I was turned into a Lucario."
Suddenly, a loud BANG made the foursome look down the canyon.

Surrounding the island were twelve battleships, each carrying twenty-five men.
The cell phone rang and Oak answered.
"Hello Oak. I know you have the phone because I am tracking you on satellite. Give up and allow my friends to take you to my base so we can discuss things."
"Who are you?" Oak asked.
The call was ended.
"Never a dull moment." Oak muttered.