Chapter 7—Total Chaos
It was morning again and the rain continued to fall. The sky outside was completely dark and cloudy. It was also cold but not for Ash and Gary who were warm because of the heat transfer of their bodies under the white sheets.
—Morning—Gary said smiling and taking Ash's hand, then he kissed it.
—Morning—Ash said smiling way too blushed.
—Did you sleep well?
—Of course, it's been the best sleep I've ever had in years—Ash said happily.
—I can say that too—Gary said with a beautiful smile that Ash totally loved.
—Ash? Ash? —Serena questioned knocking on the door.
—What? How did she know you were staying in this room? —Gary asked with a lowered and surprised voice.
—I… I don't know—Ash said confused.
—Ash? Are you awake already?
—Yes! Just give me a minute.
—You could have just shut up and wait for her to leave—Gary said jealous.
—I'm sorry; I don't like to do that to people. Can you hide in the bathroom please? —Ash asked feeling really sorry.
—Fine—Gary said waking up and walking to the bathroom, naked.
—Nice view! —Ash exclaimed laughing and looking at Gary perversely.
—Hey! —Gary exclaimed mutely and then he entered to the bathroom.
—Is everything fine right there? —Serena asked worried.
—Yes! Two seconds! —Ash exclaimed looking for his clothes on the floor, he found his boxers and his hat so he put them on, then he opened the door—morning, Sere. How are you? —Ash asked smiling.
—Good morning, I just baked these cookies, I asked for permission to use the kitchen and I gave my recipe to the chefs and they all loved it—Serena said excited.
—Great! Thank you so much for baking them for me! —Ash exclaimed taking the cookies which were on a plate.
—You're welcome…why are your t-shirt and your jeans on the floor? —Serena asked curiously.
—Hmm…eh…I was just going to take a shower! —Ash exclaimed too nervous.
—And you just threw your clothes to the floor? —she asked skeptically.
—Yes! I do that all the time. Look! —Ash exclaimed and threw his hat to the floor.
—Stop it! Don't take off your boxers! —the girl exclaimed so blushed—wow! You're so unorganized. Well, I'm going to go back to my room. Do you know where Gary is?
—No! How…how…why should I know where he…he is? —Ash questioned stuttering in his words.
—Because you were the last one he said goodbye to?
—Oh, yes! But he didn't tell me in which hotel he was going to stay—Ash said with nervous laughs.
—That's fine. I just hope he gets here soon. The storm is getting worse every minute we let pass by, we need to hurry and find out what is going on.
—You got it!
—I got what? —she asked confused.
—Nothing, I'm really hungry, I'll eat your cookies and then I'm going to take a shower. Say, we all meet in the lobby at 8am?
—Sounds fine for me, I'll tell that to Bonnie and Clemont—Serena said smiling leaving the place.
Ash closed the door.
—Oh my God! — Gary opened the bathroom door —what the hell was that? —he asked laughing out loud.
—I'm too bad at hiding stuff.
—Really? —Gary asked sarcastically.
—Shut up! Let's take a shower and get dressed. Today is going to be a hard day.
—Sure—Gary said taking one cookie—God! They're delicious!
—Not as delicious as you—Ash said giving Gary a spanking.
—God! Control yourself Ashy-boy! —Gary exclaimed blushed.
—I can't ignore your girth.
—Oh God! —Gary exclaimed laughing.
The boys finally took their shower together. They got dressed in a cute way: Ash dressed Gary and vice versa. Then they left the room and went to the lobby to meet everyone. Just a little detail: they forgot Gary wasn't supposed to be there!
—Hi! —Gary exclaimed happily to Clemont, Bonnie and Serena who were waiting in the sofas of the lobby. Pikachu and Dedenne were playing over the rug.
—How did you get here? I've been here for like twenty minutes and I never saw you come in—Serena said skeptical.
—That's because I stayed here, after you went to your rooms last night, the receptionist told me one of the rooms had been unoccupied so I rented it—Gary said with a natural tone, he was good at lying.
—Oh, I'm sorry for my little interrogation before—Serena said ashamed.
—Don't worry—Gary said smiling.
—Pikachu! —Pikachu exclaimed jumping into Ash with joy.
—Pikachu! —Ash exclaimed hugging Pikachu with happiness.
—Breaking news! —the news started to appear on the TV.
—I have a bad feeling about this—Clemont said. They all stared at the TV.
—What it seemed to be a typical storm yesterday is no longer "typical". The intermittent rain keeps falling not only over the Kalos central area but over the entire region! Scientists said it is actually impossible for a typical rain to be this huge. Reports said that there have been a couple of tornadoes in the east area and a couple of floods throughout the whole region. This is not everything, what at first seemed to be beautiful is now a terror in the south area, ice keeps falling and falling even on the beaches.
—What? The south area is the warmest area of Kalos, that's illogical! —Clemont said surprised.
—Thunders have created lots of fires that fortunately have been turned off by the rain but as one fire finishes another one starts and hundreds of Pokémon are losing their homes. The wind keeps blowing and oh… Oh! Oh! Oh my God! —the reporter exclaimed pretty scared.
—What? What's going on?! —Gary exclaimed frightened.
—The clouds are turning red! This is really scary! What's going on?
—Ok, we definitely have to go to Frost Cavern; we need to find Xerneas and Yvetal as soon as possible! —Ash exclaimed running to the door and leaving the hotel.
—Ash! Wait! —Gary exclaimed and everyone followed him.
They were outside now. The rain kept falling.
—Oh…my…God! —Clemont exclaimed astonished looking at the red blooded sky.
—I'm scared—Bonnie said hugging her brother.
—Do you know what this means, Gary? —Serena asked scared.
—I don't know, but I have a feeling this has to be because of Yvetal—Gary said running to the parking lot, everyone started to follow him.
—Yvetal? —Ash questioned surprised as they were running under the rain.
—Yvetal is the Pokémon of death and look at the sky, it's red blooded, it'll not surprise me if Yvetal is behind that sky.
Ash saw something in the sky, it looked like a flying Pokémon with a reddish aura.
—Look! What's that?
—Where? —Serena asked curiously.
—In the sky, there! —Ash pointed.
—I don't see anything—Clemont said sorry.
—Me neither. Aren't you just imagining stuff Ashy-boy?
—I saw something!
—Ok, don't be mad. I believe you.
Ash thought that Pokémon could have been Yvetal but as he wasn't sure enough he didn't mention it. They finally got in the car and made their way to the Frost Cavern. The sky was getting redder second by second.
—I'm afraid it's going to rain blood! —Bonnie exclaimed really scared, she didn't stop hugging Clemont.
—Don't say that! That's insane! —Sere exclaimed frightened.
A black hole appeared on the sky and started to absorb hundreds of trees, vehicles and Pokémon!
—Oh my god! —Serena exclaimed scared as she saw hordes of Bunnelby, Psyduck, Clefairy and other Pokémon being absorbed by the black hole. The sky was full of cries, cries of Pokémon which were being absorbed by the giant black hole.
—Dedenne! —Bonnie exclaimed hugging Dedenne so hard to keep it away from the wind coming from the black hole.
—What is that? —Ash questioned astonished hugging his Pikachu like Bonnie did with Dedenne.
—I don't know, I'm scared—Clemont said feeling really worried.
—Accelerate! —Ash exclaimed very afraid.
—Pika pi!
—That's what I'm doing!—Gary exclaimed feeling pressured, driving the car the fastest and farthest from the black hole he could. As they got closer to the place they saw more and more nature being destroyed and more hordes of innocent Pokémon being taken away by the black hole in the middle of the red blooded sky.
—What is going on, Jessie? —James asked afraid, they were hiding in the forest and they saw Gary and the others pass by in the car.
—I don't know but it seems those geeks are trying to solve the problem—Jessie answered.
—Have you seen at the sky yet? —Meowth asked surprised.
—Mamma mia! —James exclaimed hugging Jessie—look at all those Pokémon being absorbed by that giant thing! —he added crying.
—Do you know what that means, Meowth? —Jessie asked scared.
—I think I heard about a red blooded sky before… but never from a black hole in the middle of it! I heard from one old man from this region that when the legendary Pokémon Yvetal made its presence the sky would turn red like the blood, that's all I know.
—A legendary Pokémon? —Jessie asked surprised.
—Giovanni would definitely love us if we catch that Pokémon for him! —James exclaimed excited.
—I bet those fools are after that Pokémon, let's go follow them! —Jessie shouted with emotion.
—I only hope this rain ends soon, I hate water! —Meowth exclaimed cheerless.
—I just… ah! —Jessie exclaimed being pushed by the wind.
—Jessie! —James exclaimed taking her hair, it was the only part of her boy he could take to prevent her from being absorbed by the black hole.
—Ouch! It hurts! Get me outta here! —she exclaimed crying.
—Meowth! Help me!
—Wobbuffet! —the Pokémon exclaimed with joy getting out from its pokeball but it was instantly absorbed by the black hole.
—Wobbuffet! —Jessie exclaimed traumatized for seeing her Pokémon being absorbed by that thing. James and Meowth continued pulling her from her hair, as they were standing behind a tree, to save her.
—Poor dumb Pokémon—Meowth said feeling sad.
Finally they could save Jessie and the tree protected them from the force created by the black hole, but not for long, they saw hundreds of trees being absorbed too.
—Our robot, no! —James exclaimed sadly after seeing their Meowth robot disappear too.
—We have to go, now! We have to save Wobbuffet! —Jessie exclaimed bravely.
—But how? —James asked discouraged.
—I bet the Pokémon the fools are looking for is responsible for what's happening now.
—Let's go! —Meowth exclaimed running carefully.
Team Rocket made its way to Frost Cavern running as fast as they could to avoid the black hole vortex. Meanwhile, Ash and the group had already arrived to the cavern. Thunders made their presence once again.
—It looks so colorful, the red clouds, the yellow thunders, the giant black hole, the transparent rain, all those Pokémon being absorbed… yet it's scary—Clemont said scared and amazed.
—Let's go inside, there we'll be safer than outside—Gary suggested—just be careful, we don't know what kind of Pokémon live in this cave—Gary said being the first to enter the cavern.
—Ah! —Bonnie shouted scared. They saw a Haunter inside.
—It's just a Haunter, it will not harm us if we don't disturb it—Ash said calm and the Haunter flew away.
The cave was lighted up by lamps. They walked down a path of ice with precaution. They continued walking and they saw lots of ice and ghost type Pokémon.
—I don't see either Xerneas or Yvetal—Serena said discouraged.
—The atmosphere here is pretty peaceful, it doesn't seem like they're fighting or something—Clemont added.
—Maybe they don't want to be noticed—Ash commented.
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed; he had found something.
—What is it, Pikachu? —Ash asked running to Pikachu.
—What is this? —Bonnie asked. There were lots of machines throughout the place but there was no one around.
—This is weird. Why are these machines here? I don't think there is gold, silver or any jewelry here—Clemont said.
—Intruders! —a Team Flare female grunt exclaimed.
—You're exploring the wrong cave, buddies—a Team Flare male grunt said.
—What? Who are you? —Ash asked surprised.
—You have to leave this place; don't interrupt Team Flare's plans.
—Team Flare? —Gary asked surprised.
—Never heard of them—Clemont added.
—You will hear about us now! Houndoom, go! —the grunt exclaimed releasing her Pokémon.
—Go, Mienshao! —the grunt exclaimed releasing his Pokémon.
—You want a battle? Go, Frogadier! —Ash exclaimed sending Frogadier to battle.
—Let me give you a hand, Ash; go, Heliolisk! —Clemont said releasing his Pokémon.
—Houndoom, fire spin!
—Frogadier, water pulse!
Frogadier's water pulse eradicated Houndoom's fire spin.
—Mienshao, use high jump kick!
—Heliolisk, thunderbolt!
Heliolisk's thunderbolt inflicted a lot of damage to Mienshao before it could attack.
—Houndoom, use fire fang on that Heliolisk!
—Frogadier, use water pulse now!
Frogadier attacked Houndoom before it could hit Heliolisk with its attack.
—Thanks Ash!
—You're welcome, buddy but don't expect me to be this nice when we have our gym battle—Ash said energetically—Pikachu, finish them with thunderbolt!
Those Team Flare grunts were defeated; Ash and Clemont won the battle!
—These trainers are strong, we better tell the boss—the female grunt said escaping. The male grunt followed her.
—We cannot let them escape! —Ash exclaimed trying to run after them.
—Let them go Ashy-boy, we don't have time for those morons—Gary said stopping Ash.
The wind entered the cave and the lamps turned off. Now it was completely dark.
—Ah! —Bonnie exclaimed scared.
—I can deal with this, Braixen, use your fire to illuminate us—Serena said getting Braixen out of her pokéball.
—Great idea, Sere! —Ash exclaimed.
—Now, let's continue, we cannot lose more time—Gary said walking in front of the group.
—Yes! Braixen, go in front of us to illuminate the path better.
—Just be careful not to melt the whole cave with that fire—Clemont said with humor.
—Where are we going exactly? —Bonnie asked curiously.
—I don't know pretty girl, I don't know.
A shout, a noise, a Pokémon's cry filled the cave with its sound waves.
—That cry, it wasn't from a regular Pokémon, not from one Pokémon I know—Ash said.
—I haven't heard a cry like that either—Clemont added.
—Then it must be from either Xerneas or Yvetal. We're getting close! —Gary said excited.
The noise intensified and now it was mixed with another Pokémon's cry.
—Now I hear two, two cries I've never heard before—Ash commented.
—Then the two of them are here, let's go! —Gary exclaimed running.
—Gary! Don't run that fast! —Ash exclaimed running behind Gary.
The cries were getting louder as they got closer and closer, but closer to what? Everyone was running, but running to where?
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed jumping into Ash's shoulder.
A loud sound like a wall being destroyed by drills, lots of drills. Was the cave being absorbed by the black hole? The cries got more intense than ever. Braixen's flame could enlighten the place but they couldn't see anything.
—Where are they? —Ash asked confused.
—Braixen, could you please come here? —Gary asked.
—Go, Braixen! —Serena exclaimed.
Braixen walked to the front again and her fire could enlighten more. To the left they saw a wall of ice that fell from the roof. Another loud sound, a wall was destroyed; Braixed pointed her fire to the right, an exit that leaded to the outside. The cries of two Pokémon again...
—Let's go outside! —Gary exclaimed running to that hole. Everyone followed him.
—Good job, Braixen, you deserve a rest—Serena said smiling returning her Pokémon to her pokeball.
The sky was redder than ever, it was raining small pieces of ice. The wind was howling. The black hole was getting bigger and thousands of Pokémon were now being sucked by the black hole. Xerneas and Yvetal were in the sky, battling for the destiny of Kalos.
—Oh my God! There they are—Gary said with a light in his eyes—Xerneas, legendary Pokémon of life and Yvetal, legendary Pokémon of death—he added with excitement.
—Wow! —Ash exclaimed amazed.
—Pika pi.
—Xerneas looks so beautiful—Bonnie said surprised.
The ground started to tremble really strong. Thunders kept falling everywhere. Yvetal generated lots of dark spheres like the black hole with its mouth and it launched them to attack Xerneas who avoided most of them, the dark spheres landed on several places to destroy them, if a sphere landed on a tree then the tree disappeared; Xerneas kept using its fairy powers to attack Yvetal who kept avoiding all of Xerneas' attacks; it seemed like an endless fight accompanied by the total devastation of Kalos, the two legendary Pokémon kept on flying and fighting but none of them seemed to be damaged or tired by the other's attacks.
—Be careful people! I'm going to get a better view of these two—Gary said running to one hill.
—Gary! It's dangerous! You could get hit by one of those spheres or be absorbed by the black hole!—Ash exclaimed worried, running behind of Gary.
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed following Ash.
Serena's hat was stolen by the wind.
—My beautiful hat! —Serena exclaimed running to get her hat.
—Serena! —Clemont exclaimed trying to run to her but another thunder felt and this time it pushed Clemont and Bonnie back to the cave.
The cries of Pokémon being absorbed by the vortex in the air, the sound of thunders falling, the sound of the ground moving; Ash, after hearing the thunder falling near Clemont and Bonnie, turned back and saw them lying on the ground, and he also saw Serena running to get her hat which was flying due to the wind. Gary kept on running to the top of the hill. Pikachu jumped into his shoulder. The scene was insane! In that moment, three dark spheres were launched by Yvetal, all of them were avoided by Xerneas. Unfortunately, those spheres were headed to Gary, Serena and the last one to Bonnie and Clemont. Ash saw that things disappeared if they were hit by any of those spheres. Serena fell down after she hit her ankle with a rock. Ash didn't know what to do; he could save Gary, Serena or Bonnie and Clemont if he ran very fast, his head was hurting, he had the most terrible headache ever. What a total chaos!
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed scared.
—God! I can't decide! Gary! Gary! Gary! —he exclaimed turning to Gary who kept running. He turned to Clemont and Bonnie and they were still on the ground.
—Pikachu! Go save Bonnie and Clemont! —Ash exclaimed desperate.
—Pika! —Pikachu ran very fast to go help the siblings.
Ash turned to Serena and he saw her crying her ankle was terribly injured. Seeing Serena this way, Ash remembered something…
—Can I sit over here?
—Can I be with you?
—Help! Help!
—It hurts!
—I can't walk.
—Thank you so much for bringing me here
—Serena! —Ash exclaimed with tears in his eyes running to the girl.
Gary listened to Ash's cry, he looked at how Ash was trying to save the girl, then he looked at the sky and he saw the dark sphere that was headed to him, he avoided it but he fell on the floor and injured his right arm; Clemont and Bonnie woke up thanks to Pikachu and they saw the dark sphere so they ran into the cave to be safe.
—Serena! —Ash exclaimed taking her in his arms.
—Ash! —Serena exclaimed hugging him.
—I remembered! —Ash exclaimed crying.
—You did? —she asked surprised.
—Yes! Oh God! —he exclaimed running to one side remembering the dark sphere, he fortunately avoided it.
Gary stood up, his arm hurt so much. He looked at Ash, with Serena on his arms.
—He saved her…he preferred saving her than… saving me—he said aghast, empty, shocked.
Bonnie and Clemont got out of the cave and run to Ash and Serena.
—You saved my life! —Serena exclaimed excited stealing a kiss from Ash.
—Hey! What did you just do? —Ash asked laughing separating his lips from Serena.
—Ok, I've had enough of this! —Gary exclaimed brokenhearted after seeing that kiss. He took out two pokéballs from his bag and started to walk again to the top of the hill, he didn't care how broken his arm was, his broken heart was even more injured. He didn't care if he was attacked by one of those destruction spheres or if he was sucked by the black hole. Was he trying to fight against Xerneas and Yvetal?
—Hey, you just kissed! —Bonnie exclaimed surprised.
—Oh, please—Ash said blushed.
—Wait! Where is Gary? —Bonnie asked worried.
—There he is! That dumbass likes to put his life in danger, I'm so glad he avoided the dark sphere—Ash said relieved.
—He's walking to the top of the hill. Is he crazy? He's going to be in danger, what if one of Xerneas or Yvetal attacks hit him? —Clemont asked worried.
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed running to Gary.
—Pikachu!
—Ouch! —Serena exclaimed painfully.
—God! What happened to you? —Clemont asked.
—My ankle, it hurts, it hurts so bad! —Serena exclaimed crying.
—Can you walk? —Ash asked worried trying to get her off his arms.
—No, it hurts so much—Serena said crying—ouch!
—Ok, put her on the floor; let me check her—Clemont said taking out a portable first-aid kit from pocket.
—You're really prepared for everything, aren't you? —Serena asked with a good sense of humor despite her actual state. Ash laid her on the floor and Clemont started to analyze her injuries.
—Why does Gary have two pokéballs in his hands? —Bonnie asked surprised looking to Gary who was already on the top of the hill.
—What? —Ash asked surprised—Pikachu! —he exclaimed after seeing Pikachu running to the top of the hill. He started running to Pikachu in the middle of that disaster.
—Ash! —Serena exclaimed worried.
—Those pokéballs, I've never seen pokéballs like those before, they're beautiful, and they're purple as my favorite color—Bonnie commented.
—Purple? Let me see—Clemont said surprised and turned back to see the scene.
—What is it, Clemont? Are those special pokéballs to keep poison type or ghost type Pokémon? —Serena questioned confused.
—No, they're master balls, they can catch any kind of Pokémon without failure—Clemont said thunderstruck.
—What? Is he trying to catch them? —Serena asked stunned.
—What? —Bonnie asked surprised.
—Pika pi! —Pikachu exclaimed worried to Gary.
—What? What do you want? —Gary asked madly.
—Pika! —Pikachu exclaimed crying and begging Gary not to do what he was about to do.
—You're not going to interrupt me! —Gary exclaimed angry.
—Pika!
—No! —Ash exclaimed broken hearted. Pikachu was hit by one of those dark spheres! —Pikachu! —he started to cry and he ran as fast as he could to the top of the hill even though it was useless, Pikachu had already disappeared.
—Masterballs, go! —Gary exclaimed launching the balls to the air.
The balls captured Xerneas and Yvetal and then the balls returned to Gary's hands.
—What? Why…why… why would Gary capture them? —Ash asked stopping his run, he got paralyzed.
The sky turned black again, the black hole disappeared but the absorbed Pokémon weren't brought back. The area around was totally destroyed, the rain stopped, the thunders stopped falling, the ground stopped its moving. A non-peaceful silence was heard.
—I don't have a good feeling about this—Clemont added.