Chap. 09 – The flight to Johto

The new private jet had finally arrived and so they made haste to Cinnibar Airport to aboard. They had spent long enough on Cinnibar Island and within the hospitality of Professor Oak and his grandson. However Gary wouldn't be staying with his grandfather, as he would be joining Dawn and the others on their cosmic adventure. He would be continuing Professor Oak's research of the legendaries, and also keep in touch updating the professor of their adventure and the legendaries they find. Dawn was still weak from Giratina's attack yesterday and so would be taking it easy on their trip to Johto, the region known for its legendary beasts, Raikou, Entei and Suicune. They were now all aboard the private jet ready to start a new leg of their adventure. Professor Oak watched as the jet took off and disappeared into the distant sky.

"Good luck to you all. Our universe depends on you."

The plane continued to cruise high above the ocean undisturbed. It was a rather relaxing flight, as everyone got along well within the luxurious setting. Most of them have never flown first class before… they hadn't even flown at all. So for them this was a rather pleasant first time experience. While Brock flirted with Cynthia at the bar, Ash, Pikachu and Misty stared out the windows, looking out at the amazing view of the vast blue ocean and the clear blue sky that seemed to go on forever. They could see land far off into the distance… lands they'll soon visit while on their journey for the legendaries. Cheryl did the same, as she held Manaphy tightly within her loving arms. It seemed to rather enjoy her embrace and presence as it slept against her warmth. It was very content. Gary quietly sat by a window typing on his laptop recording his adventure thus far. Soon Barry disturbed Ash from his view gazing to ask more advice as a Pokemon trainer. Lucas took this time to add more pages to his Pokedex, as he scanned the legendaries into its database.

"Wow… even in your human forms, the Pokedex can still recognise what you are," he said, as he looked at its new page of Moltres.

Moltres approached to take a look. "Impressive," he said. "It is amazing to see how advanced human technology has come. Perhaps it can be used in our favour in defeating Giratina?"

"Ah, I don't know. This is just a database. It wouldn't hurt anybody…"

"But knowledge is power, yes?"

"He's right, Lucas," Zapdos said. "The next we see Giratina, scan his ass into that database of yours. It may give us some idea how to keep him at bay until we find the others. And you haven't scanned me yet!" As Zapdos posed for Lucas to scan her information through, Diagla and Palkia continued to mediate, using this time to fix any distortion Giratina may have made to time and space. Kyogre sat quietly at the end of the plane keeping to herself, as Articuno did the same on the other side.

"Has anyone ever advised you to be more sociable… my dear Kyogre?" Articuno then asked with a light smirk.

"Have you taken a look at yourself lately, Articuno?" Kygore then replied. "As far as I can tell, you are not quite the talkative type either."

"Shut up, you old witch!"

"You have just proven my point, young one. And what about that young red-headed girl sitting over there…" They looked at Misty, who continued to stare out the window looking rather lonely. "From what I have seen… you have made quite a repour with her."

"Are you assuming that I may have some sort of affectionate interest with her?" Articuno then scoffed. "A mortal human and an immortal being nor human or Pokemon… you have gone deranged in your old age. What makes you think that it could work in the first place?"

"You are both living and breathing, so it is possible. And is it not a matter of us living in between the forms of human and Pokemon… the power of emotion can override that obstacle. And it has happened before… love between human and Being. Remember Articuno… we may exist in between the worlds of human and Pokemon, however emotion, will power and knowledge are the same between the two as well. They love the same and feel pain the same… as we do. It is what connects us all… humans, Pokemon… and us sacred Beings."

"Love between human and a Being has happened before. That is true… however it left Diagla broken hearted, did it not? And as for you assuming that I like that psychotic redhead demon… I don't. I just enjoy annoying the hell out of her… she is quite easy to infuriate."

"Like an older brother…"

"Shut up!"

Gary had listened in to their conversation and found what he heard rather interesting. He began to add it to his research. As for the three Team Galactic commanders, Jupiter continued to make calls to the other Team Galactic branches in Sinnoh updating for Cyrus. She was always the secretary out of the three. Saturn just continued to dose in his chair, while Mars played video games. Zapdos watched with growing interest. Yes, the private plane was full of life. As for Dawn and Cyrus, they kept to themselves talking to one another… trying to fill in the gaps of their lives to each other. Trying to build any relationship they could have between father and daughter. That and Cyrus saved her life yesterday, so she may as well give him a chance as her gratitude.

Then, to their horror, they heard that deep ghastly howl echo terror into their ears. Giratina. They looked out the windows… to see the Being of Distortion riding beside the private jet. They could see the malice within it red glowing eyes of hate. It had come for them… or more accurately it had come for Dawn. It began to ram the plane shaking the trainers and the legendaries inside in turbulence. It wanted to crash the plane. If it succeeds the trainers will crash to their watery graves… along with Dawn, the destined one to defeat Giratina once and for all. They needed to think of a plan and fast. It would be hard to battle Giratina while still up in the air… however they had no choice. Dawn then so boldly suggested that the legendaries mesh together to create that glowing sphere for her to throw at Giratina. She will then go outside and throw it at him, while the others hold her in support to make sure that she is not sucked out into the sky.

"That's crazy, Dawn!" Barry then said. "And have you forgotten who that son of a bitch is after?"

"In addition you are still healing from its last attack," Cyrus added. "You are in no condition to face at monster!"

"If you think that Giratina could be beaten by all our Pokemon together, then you're wrong!" Dawn began to argue. "Remember, I battled with it using my Pokemon and it didn't leave a scratch on him! What makes you think that your Pokemon could do any different? Our only chance at shaking this monster off is by using the legendaries power and me as the medium to throw their combined powers at it. Who knows… we may have enough of the legendaries to put it down for good. And I am not afraid of that beast! It may have left me weak, but I will not be defeated!" Dawn's words echoed strong and true. She did have a point. This may be the only way.

"Yeah, that's the spirit!" Zapdos said. "It's truly an honour to be under the service of such a strong character!" She turned to her fellow legendary comrades. "Let's do this!"

With that she, and the others consumed themselves within the aura of the respected colours. Their auras gathered together and meshed into one large glowing aura that shone so bright the trainers had to shield their eyes to avoid permanent blindness. As the plane continued to shake violently by Giratina outside, the glowing pure white aura began to compress the combined powers of Diagla, Palika, Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and Kyogre into a sphere small enough for Dawn to hold within her hands. She collected the sphere and ordered the others to stand ready to support her. Cyrus opened the hatch of the plane and the air began to suck everything lose out… as well as try to suck them out to their pending dooms. All chained together by their arms around their waists and with Brock's Geodude at the end acting as a weight, they were able to withstand the air that tried to suck them out along with everything else. Dawn, who was at the front holding the glowing sphere, peaked outside the plane where her hair began to blow violently than before. Her eyes began to dry from the wind, however she remained strong as the others continued to harness her back. Giratina then spotted her seeing those determined eyes of hers stare him down, proving to him that her spirit could not be broken so easily.

"I am not scared of you, Giratina!" she called. "And I will not be defeated by you! Consider this my retaliation to yesterday, you creep!"

With that she threw the glowing sphere at Giratina. With precise accuracy, it successfully made contact with Giratina exploding upon its skin. Within the bright explosion Dawn could hear its screams of agony. She got it good! That made her smirk with content. Take that, you perverted monster! The light then disappeared to reveal Giratina severely weakened… however strong enough to stay a float in the air. It took one good look at the victorious Dawn with its glowing red hateful eyes and descended backing off from attack. As it did, Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres in their legendary bird forms ascended back towards the plane that still remained flying within the sky. Within their talons they carried Diagla, Palika, and Kyogre who were in their human forms. Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf floated along aside the legendary birds. They re-entered the plane and with that Cyrus shut and locked the hatch tight. They were successful.

"Man, what a rush!" Barry said, still feeling his adrenalin from that incident. "That was awesome!"

"You might think it was awesome…" Ash replied. "I hope it never attacks us when up in the air again!"

"Here, here!" Saturn added.

"At least now we have more cause to gather the others," Diagla said. "We have now proven that it will take more Beings than we have to defeat Giratina. With the gathering we have now it only weakened him severely…and it will only be a matter of time when he returns once more."

"Exactly, how powerful is Giratina?" Gary then asked. "He's a Being like all of you and you all seemed to be as powerful as each other. So why is he so much more powerful than you like you say?"


Ecruteak City… the most oldest and historical city of the Johto region. A historical city were the past meets the present. It was an old and peaceful city enclosed by the luscious fauna of the ancient forest. The only buildings in this city that looked recent were the mart, the Pokemon Centre and the city Pokemon gym. Other than that the city seemed to stand still in time, as well as the people with the women in their kimonos and the men in yukata clothing walking around the town going about their day. Also this city was the historic site of Burned Tower and Tin Tower… towers both with amazing stories and said to keep legendary Pokemon within their old historic walls. This city was a site to behold.

After venturing from his hometown of New Bark, Jimmy was taking time out from his long journey as he laid back on a seat inside the Pokemon Centre. However he wasn't slacking off inside the centre for nothing, for his Pokemon were being treated by nurse Joy and her Chansey assistant nurses. It had been a long journey between Goldenrod and Ecruteak City and along the way his Pokemon have battled without treatment, apart from the potions in his bag. This was a much-needed check up for his Pokemon. Not too far from the laid back Jimmy, a girl sat by a window holding a Misdreavus within her arms. The little ghost Pokemon seemed very comfortable within the girl's arms, while she looked out the window enjoying the view. Jimmy noticed her. She looked very different from the girls he knew off… especially with that head full of sapphire hair done up with kinks in her low pigtails. It looked like her head had wings. She had pretty eyes as well... pretty big eyes of jade.

"Here Jimmy." Jimmy looked up to see six poke balls being presented to him by nurse Joy. "They have been healed and ready to continue your adventure."

"Thanks, nurse Joy," Jimmy replied, as he took his poke balls off the plate. He clipped the poke balls back onto his belt, but one. He threw that to the ground to open it and release the Pokemon that was inside. A Typhilosion came out of the poke ball looking all refreshed and energised. "Hey buddy, you're all ready for Morty?" Morty was Ecruteak city's gym leader. The Typhilosion gave Jimmy an enthusiastic roar.

As they interacted, the girl holding the Misdreavus couldn't help but notice the bond the boy and the Typhilosion had between each other… and that Typhilosion was a rather handsome Pokemon. She followed them outside the centre and called out to them getting their attention. There the girl saw the boy's baby-faced features and his black hair with a kink sticking out from his yellow cap.

"That Typhilosion is so adorable," she said. "They way you two interact is so adorable. You two share quite a bond."

"Well… he has been right along side me since I began my adventure," Jimmy replied. "In fact, he was my first Pokemon. I noticed you inside. My name is Jimmy."

"I'm Marina," the girl introduced herself.

"Marina… as in that cover girl Marina from that Pokemag?"

Marina nodded. "But I'm taking a break from that. I got bored with just day in day out of photo shoots. I needed to shake things up a bit, so I'm venturing as a normal Pokemon trainer like I always wanted to do. It's been great. So… where you headed now, Jimmy?

"Well first I need to beat Morty… this city's gym leader. Then I'll be headed on to the next town."

A chiming within the trees then caught their attention. They looked up to see a small green Pokemon standing on a branch of a tree staring down at them with its large blue oval eyes. It smiled gleefully at them, jumped down from the branch and began to fly around them with its small clear wings generating golden dust as they fluttered. The dust rained down upon the trainers who continued to look up at it in awe.

"Wait… isn't this Celebi?" Marina wondered. "The legendary 'time wonderer'? This is amazing! A legendary Pokemon has wilfully appeared before us!" With that Celebi began to tug at Jimmy's red jumper and then flew off around the corner.

"… I think it wants us to follow it?" Jimmy said.

"Then let's go!"


They followed the small Celebi around the city, as it continued to rain down golden dust upon them from high in the sky. With the dust it was setting a path for them to follow. They followed it to the Burned Tower, which situated in ash and ruin at the edge of town. It stopped by the doors of the tower and waited for Jimmy and Marina to catch up. They finally did and stopped right at the doors catching their breath. When they finally did they looked up at the tower and its ruined oriental beauty with awe. As magnificent as it was within burned shambles, Jimmy nor Marina could understand why Celebi had brought them here. Celebi then began to push the doors open revealing an entranceway into the darkness of the tower.

"You want us to go in there?" Jimmy asked Celebi. It nodded.

"But isn't this the place where it's said the legendary beasts Raikou, Entei and Suicune rest?"

"I don't know… do they?"

"You mean you don't know… know of the legends?"

"…I guess I don't. But let's go in anyway. Celebi wants us to after all…" Marina nodded and with that, they descended into the darkness with Celebi following after.


It seemed to grow darker the deeper they ventured into the ruins of Burned Tower. The only reason why they were within the wreckage was due to Celebi's pleading… other than that they had no idea why they were walking within this haunted place at all. The smell of charcoal and ash that once burned during ancient times filled their nostrils with a tang of old, and the weak floor boards continued to creak with each step of their feet. It won't be long until the floor gives out and they fall through. Marina could feel her heart beat right onto her chest as she kept close to Jimmy who continued to follow Celebi and its rain of gold, which was now acting as light lighting their way through the maze of rubble. Celebi then flew down a fleet of stars. Jimmy and Marina continued to follow, with every creak and crack of the staircase warning them of a possible collapse. Still they have come all this way… they may was well follow through and see where Celebi was taking them. To see exactly what it wanted from them.

When they reached the end of the staircase… that's where they saw them. The three legendary beasts of Johto Raikou, Entei and Suicune. They stood before legendary Pokemon… for Jimmy and Marina this seemed so surreal. They must be dreaming! The beasts were sleeping, and so Celebi flew over to them and began to rain golden dust down upon them to disturb them from their rest. Their noses began to tickle, which eventually made them open their eyes to shake off the irritation. Celebi then began to chirp to them. It's chirping seemed to disturb them.

"…I think Celebi's talking to them?" Jimmy wondered.

"I wonder what about?" Their voices caught the attention of the three legendary beasts. Oh, oh! With that the beasts got up, stretched and slowly stalked over to them. This didn't look good! Jimmy clipped off a poke ball from his belt preparing himself for a battle. Marina did the same, but stayed behind Jimmy like he told her to. However it was two rookie trainers against three legendaries… the odds weren't in their favour.

Then, to their amazement, the three legendary beasts were consumed within an aura of their respected colours… Raikou with an electric yellow, Entei a fiery red and Suicune a sapphire blue. The trainers watched in awe as the auras began to shape the legendaries four-legged forms to that of humans. The auras died down and stood before were a solder, a priest and a priestess. Raikou was the solder donned with yellow armour. His faced looked hard and intimidating as his red eyes stared at the trainers, however that smile they could see under the stiffened hairs of his moustache made them feel at ease. The ends of priest Entei's moustache were longer and limper and Raikou's however his red eyes were more welcoming than Raikou's eyes. He donned brown robes that matched the colour and the patterning of the fur of his Pokemon form, and a headpiece on his head that matched the face of his beast form. Suicune was the beautiful priestess wearing blue and white robes. Her long wavy purple hair matched the long wavy mane of her beast form and possessed red eyes more beautiful than Raikou for Entei.

"You're the trainers Celebi sent to us," Entei began. "You are to escort us to the others."

"The others?" Jimmy asked.

"Celebi has told us that the others are gathering. The universe is in danger and so the others are gathering to defeat the darkness that has the universe in its grip."

"It is?" Marina wondered. She then gasped. "That must have something to do with the large mass of shooting stars that have appeared in the sky recently. They been there for a few days now!"

"We know that since our slumber, the land of Johto has chanced during the coarse of time. You are to guide us around this land and in hope find the others, who are also searching for us."

"But first we need to warn her," Suicune then spoke. "We must go to Tin Tower."

"But before we go, we should get to know one another," Raikou then said with a smile. "After all… we will be working together. You obviously know who we are… what are your names?" Marina and Jimmy smiled… it seemed the legendary beasts weren't so bad after all.

"I'm Jimmy," Jimmy greeted.

"Marina," Marina added.

"It's a pleasure to be in your presence, Jimmy and Marina. Now let's make haste to Tin Tower."