Just so you know, I won't be uploading onto this story for a while after this chapter.
"Arceus!" exclaimed Victini
"Phione!" exclaimed Manaphy. "What are you doing with my son!?"
"Your "son" is from a criminal bloodline. I know what you did Manaphy."
"What the… how?"
"I have my ways. As punishment, all three of you will be executed." both Pokemon in front of Arceus gasped.
"Wait, what do you mean all three?" Victini asked.
"Well, the way I see it." Arceus proclaimed. "There are three other Pokemon in the room with me. And they are all going to be executed."
Manaphy's eyes widened when she realized what he meant.
"You're going to… to..." she said, a terrified look in her eyes.
"Your bloodline is guilty of treason. You and your son will both have to die with Victini." Arceus replied.
Arceus used Ice Beam!
It's super effective!
Manaphy is frozen solid!
"Manaphy!" exclaimed Victini. Her terrified expression was literally stuck on her frozen face. Victini crossed his eyebrows in anger.
"Why did you do that?! She didn't do anything wrong!"
Arceus's expression didn't change.
"I just really didn't want to hear her plead. It's really annoying," he said without emotion.
"You… you…" Victini started to say something but was interrupted.
Arceus used Knockout!
Victini fainted!
Arceus looked at the sleeping Phione on his back.
"And now... to complete the illusion."
Arceus had gathered all the Legendaries in the laboratory. He stood next to the signal tower he had tried to use in order to destroy the mental block. But, unlike that day, there was no joy or merriment, only murmurs from one Legendary to another. It seemed that recent events had taken the happiness out of the Hall of Origins, and now all were grim.
Arceus cleared his throat.
"Hello everyone," he said.
Everyone turned to him.
"About three weeks ago, I was going to use this tower to allow us to communicate with humans." Arceus indicated to the device. "But it seems, that our supposed friend, Victini, has taken that away with us, along with dear Celebi."
Mewtwo noticed that Mew didn't even frown when Arceus mentioned Celebi. Instead, Mew was furiously writing on a small notebook.
"And henceforth…"
Entei interrupted him. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we remember it all, Victini killed Celebi, new age ruined, Victini get thrown in the shack, yadda yadda yadda. We already lived it, there's no need for any exposition."
"You mean THE NIGHTMARE SHACK!" said Mewtwo.
"QUIET!" exclaimed Arceus. The entire crowd of Legendaries shrank back. He continued. "Aside from what Entei pointed out, it seemed that we have another traitor among us." Everybody gasped.
"For some reason, Manaphy decided to free Victini from THE NIGHTMARE SHACK!" he said. Arceus held up a picture of THE NIGHTMARE SHACK with the door hanging ajar. "And later, Manaphy and her infant son Phione were both found dead."
A fervor of questions and comments was set ablaze the Legendaries. Some were crying, others were yelling at each other and still, others were already making conspiracy theories.
"Please, everyone, calm yourselves! The killer was found soon afterward!" Arceus exclaimed.
The noise died down.
"You see, I happened across something, relatively close to the incident. Specifically, THIS!" Arceus pulled out a dagger, the exact same one that was used to kill Celebi. It was covered in blood. "As for who used it, I think it's quite obvious!".
Arceus reached behind the tower and pulled out a very beaten-looking Victini, tied up with a gag in his mouth, also covered in blood. All the Legendaries gasped again.
"It seems that Victini here hasn't quite learned his lesson," said Arceus. Victini tried to move, but he was just too weak, even breathing was hard.
"So I suggest we ought to make better use of him! How? Well, rather than building lots of signal towers to amplify my power, why don't we convert humanity by siphoning his life force?" While no one could tell, Arceus was grinning.
Zapdos called out "Umm, wouldn't that mean killing him?"
"That's exactly what it means!" said Arceus.
Arceus used Giga Drain 100%
Victini took an insane amount of damage!
Victini fainted!
Arceus used Energy transfer!
Signal Tower got powered up!
Arceus watched as the metallic structure started to glow, the pear at the top changing into different colors. The power grew and grew, the light grew brighter and brighter, and Victini lay on the floor, dead as a doornail.
Suddenly the entire room filled with burning hot light. There were multiple screams and the entire Laboratory started to crack and break. Finally, the whole room exploded, releasing the gigantic pulse of energy.
The were multiple groans from all the Legendaries and some seemed quite angry at Arceus. The god didn't care.
"And so it begins," he said.
But don't worry, I'll be publishing some one-shots to keep you occupied!
