UPDATED: The main update to this is that I've changed the date when I put up chapter 11 from 30th September, to TOMORROW! 23rd of September is when the gloves come off, and this time, literally.

Well, this is the penultimate chapter to when Ganon is truly revealed, and the THIRD UPDATE THIS WEEKEND!!! Again, I lack patience, but my next chapters are the ones I had scripted in my head before I started writing this, well, except for the addition of Ganon X in chapter 12...

Oops! Just typed in a sneak peak!

Anyway, usual warnings and disclaimers apply, I do not own turnips etcetra...

Lateral Ganon

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Ganon can't bear to think in italics about the CSN anymore. He hates it more than the DMA

Chapter 10: The Powers That Be

They were soon out into the main canal, and belting down the open stretch. Ganon had set up a more leisurely pace for Latias; he didn't want her to go so fast that Ash's arm would part company with the rest of him. Latias had got bored of eyeing up Ganon now; he couldn't be bothered to respond anymore. He was clearly deep in thought, judging by the fact he had crashed into walls twice on the way there.

I wonder if I should tell them. He thought to himself. Latias unfortunately picked up on this, confirming her earlier suspicion that Ganon was hiding something. She looked down at him slightly, as though watching his hair swaying in the water would answer all of the mysteries surrounding him.

Good luck trying that, Latias.

She cringed as he addressed her directly.

Ganon suddenly felt something a lot more ominous in the water around them. He could feel strange motions in the currents of the water beneath him. First spinning left, then spinning right, then a long spike in pressure.

They are moving the water around with the DMA. Something is going to happen. And we are not going to like it. He told Latias. She nodded. Despite not actually being in the water, she could feel it too. It was an instinct that she had simply because she was a Lati.

The pressure of the surrounding water suddenly dropped, and a dull roar emanated from ahead of them. Latias screamed as she saw the column of water rise in the ocean ahead of them, moving slowly towards the museum. She flew over to the edge of the canal, and crashed the chariot at the edge, so that Ash could jumps up the stairs onto the museum plaza. Ganon climbed up onto the side, and tried to run after them. He stumbled and fell on his face, giving him a nosebleed. He swore under his breath.

Curse these flippers.

Latias looked back at him briefly, and was afraid to see him injured, but Ganon just scowled at her and pointed at the museum. She took off after Ash who was still running towards the museum. She decided that Ganon could take care of himself. Ash couldn't. She suddenly sensed a peak in the energy around them. The wave had crashed down, and was accelerating across the paved surface in narrow cables to catch up with them. The veins formed a square around them to meet in front of them. Where the water met, the column suddenly rebuilt, halting their progress.

She was confused to see Ganon rush up next to the square of water in his original clothing, with no sign of the injury that had plagued him before. There was no sign of the wetsuit or the flippers, so she assumed he had abandoned them at the stairs. He was shouting something that she couldn't hear over the roaring water. He was also beckoning them over to him.

The sides are safe to cross over! Quick! He called over to them psychically. Or at least he thought it was safe. He didn't know that the energy around him had stopped them from hearing him.

He also couldn't tell that Oakley had been scrying him as he ran up to the side..

He didn't notice that at the edge of the square a small vein had branched off and was now forming a ring around his ankles. Suddenly, he felt the water form a lasso around them, and threw him into the centre of the square. He swore as the water closed in on them, whilst Ash and Latias screamed.

It didn't even give me chance to take a breath! That cheating cow!

He realised that Latias was their only hope of survival, but he couldn't reach her with his mind. He realised now that the energy in the water was also shielding his voice from her. He just had to hope that she could work it out by herself.

Latias just shut her eyes. She refused to believe they would die like this. Trapped in a vortex by the power of a tyrannical human moulding the power of Latios to her will.

Latias let out a single tear which was immediately whipped away by the tempest. Her brother. She had failed him, just as she had failed Ganon and Ash, and now they would be doomed to die because of her.

She felt something boiling deep inside her. Energy the likes of which she had only known when she had attacked Ganon earlier, and when her father had began to teach her how to use it. She could feel it bubbling to the surface, lacing every cell with innate power. She opened her eyes and silver light shone from every part of her body. It encased her in a cocoon of light, growing by the second, until it dwarfed the column of water they were stranded in. The water encasing them shattered like glass. And even though she didn't know it, she had also shattered the display on the DMA. It was now out of control, and had sealed Latios's doom.

Ash, Ganon, and Pikachu all fell seven metres onto the ground, Ash landing on his backside, whilst Ganon and Pikachu had landed on their feet. Latias was still hovering in mid-air above them, light still radiating, but fading quickly. She fell from the point in space, and landed in Ganon's arms, as he had leapt forwards to catch her, and stumbled slightly. Ash ran forwards to her. She hadn't moved at all in Ganon's arms.

"Latias, are you okay?" Ash asked her, gently stroking the top of her head.

I'm proud of you Latias. Ganon said to her, in a whisper. You've definately grown.

She immediately got up and hovered in the air as though nothing had happened.

You see why it was so important that I trained you to recognise the energy in the Garden? She looked into his eyes, and saw nothing but pure love in them. She licked his face.

Don't do that! She really wanted to lick him again, to show her own love for him, but decided against pushing it this time.

"We'd better get going" Ash said. Ganon suddenly looked up at the museum, as he could hear ear-piercing squeals through the doorway.

"Latias, you broke the DMA control panel. It is drawing Latios's energy away uncontrollably. He is screaming. We have to get in there now."

They ran into the museum, Latios's screams getting louder as they passed through the annexe. They stopped before the DMA. It was spinning wildly around its pivots, the Soul Dew spinning around it. They could see Lateral energy arching through the air around the DMA, a distinct purple edge to it as it snaked through the air. Annie was stood in front of the machine with her Espeon. She turned around as she heard the intruders.

"Okay Pikachu, thunderbolt them." Ash yelled. Pikachu electrocuted them with such force that they blacked out. Ganon smirked at the unconcious creature on the ground.

See how you like it, stupid cow.

Ash and Pikachu rushed over to Bianca and Lorenzo to try and free them. Latias flew over to Latios's prison, head butting the containment field that was trapping him.

Ganon just stood and stared at the DMA. He was paralysed by analysing it. The amount of energy here was incredible. Considering Latios was providing every spark, he was amazed how one so young could handle so much.

Definately taught him well.

He ducked as the control sphere swung low and would have swatted him aside.

That would be a very unhappy ending.

Annie was starting to come around from the shock next to him. He just looked down at her briefly and ran back to Ash and Latias.

Ash had just freed Lorenzo from the webbing when Ganon arrived.

"We've got to turn it off before it's too late." Lorenzo told them.

"To do that, we need to get Latios out of the retainment field." Ganon said. He heard Latias bouncing off the field as she tackled it again. He could see her crying.

"The field is resistant to all forms of physical attack, but it's not very resistant to elemental or special attacks." He added.

"Pikachu, try a thundershock." Ash ordered.

Electricity arched from Pikachu's cheeks as he attacked the field. The sparks played over the surface of it, before concentrating, and firing the bolt straight back at Pikachu.

"Good start. The energy displacement will…"

"Ganon, shut up. We don't understand it, so tell us in plain English." Ash shouted at him. He was surprised by Ash's sudden outburst.

"The... ball with Latios in will... come down a bit." Ganon said, struggling to find words simple enough for them to understand.

As if on cue, the ball did indeed lower.

"All right, let's get him!" Ash cried out as he tried to tackle the ball, with Pikachu joining in. Ganon just sighed at their idiocy, but he didn't comment. He'd just get shouted at again, and now would be a dangerous time for him to become enraged. He began summoning balls of negative energy and firing them at the field. They were being bounced off, but Ganon was bouncing them back. It had become a lethal game of tennis. When Latios suddenly let out a particularly high squeal, he knew there was a matter of seconds left. Latios no longer even had the energy to open his eyes. It was time to bend the laws of fate.

Ganon collated all the balls of energy together that had been fired between himself and the ball, and held it in both hands. He had to draw power from the air around the DMA, so he knew he would never be able to do this again. It pulsed twice, and suddenly everything went still. He had stopped time.

Certainly a handy talent. Even if it only gives me a few minutes.

The ball of energy hovered where he left it as he began to generate a new sphere. It was a purple ball which shimmered with an almost spiritual light and reflected the light emmited by the DMA. He walked up to Latias who was hovered in mid air, and opened the locket around her neck. He looked briefly at the picture of Latios with the baby Lani. He had scribbled the name of the Latios out. He placed the crystal in a niche where the neck of the Latios pendant was, and closed it again. Now the pendant was charged. He walked ball to the ball in the air that was holding time in place, and summoned a crystal claw around his hand. He jabbed into the ball, and shattered it. Time began to flow normally again. He quickly dispelled the claw.

Latias shivered as she suddenly felt an immense power build within her. She could feel it burning through her. She didn't know it, but the pendant was focusing her power. She began to radiated a silver light, and tackled the ball with every drop of power available to her, which now could rival Ganon on it's own. A huge flash of light burst from the point of contact, and when everyone's eyes had adjusted, she had stopped the rings with her neck. Ganon smiled. He knew that as he was, he wouldn't have been able to do that. He suddenly noticed that the gem in the pendant had shattered into a series of red sparks.

If those things start again, she's as good as decapitated. He thought. He grabbed the rings to try to prevent them from moving more. They left deep gashes in his hands, sending a fresh wave of agony through him. But it would be worth it. Flesh healed. Life didn't.

"I've got to help them…" Ash mumbled, before running up to it with his customary war cry. He tugged violently on Latios' forearm, before Bianca and Lorenzo joined in, grabbing his foot and pulling. His limp form resisted briefly, and then fell out from the ball. The rings and Latias fell to the floor, clattering and cooing noisily from the impact. Ganon held the rings up so that they wouldn't land on Latias. He felt energy return to his limbs. He focused on the palms of his hands, and used the energy to heal the injury. The hand glowed light blue, shedding cyan sparks, before they faded out, and left his hand unblemished.

Still got it…

The DMA continued to rattle around noisily as it spun around on its axis. Each part of it slowly ground to a halt, as the energy arching from the base diffused into the air around it. The control bulb fell to rest just next to the bottom of the machine, opening to reveal Oakley slumped against the edge of the cockpit.

Ganon looked back to see Latias nuzzling Latios' unconscious form. As Latios came round, she smiled ecstatically, and nuzzled his face all the harder.

Each other must be all they have left, just like me and... He shuddered as he remembered her.

"Oh Latios, you're okay." Bianca said, as she hugged Latios around the neck.

"Hold on a second, if he was okay, he would be hovering." Ganon told them, as he strode over to Latios, and kneeling down before his head. He ignited a spark between the ends of his first finger and his middle finger. He held it above Latios' forehead, and Ganon shook his own. He definitely had bad news.

"Latios has been almost totally drained of energy. I'm sorry. If he has to use any more power, his death is practically guaranteed."

"Ganon, didn't you say before you had a Blissey?" Ash asked him. He knew that Blissey eggs were superloaded with energy.

"Yes, I do, but it wouldn't work. I don't have her with me."

"What about your device? That can access the PC system."

Ganon reached into his pocket. He pulled out a glob of molten plastic.

"Can't you fix it?" Lorenzo asked him, "If you can use Lateral energy, then it can be used to repair broken objects."

"This device is beyond fixing. This came from my last universe. It would take a completely different energy source to even attempt it. Anyway, how do you know I can use lateral energy?"

Lorenzo pointed to Latios.

"He laughed shortly before the fossils left. It had to be you."

"Ah."

Misty and Brock had just entered the DMA chamber. They saw Ash and Ganon huddled over two Pokemon, and ran over to them.

"Are you guys all right?" Misty asked them.

"We're all fine, except for Latios. He is technically dying."

"What about Blissey?" Brock asked. Ganon fumed silently, how often was he going to have to repeat things?

"She's in the PC. And I can't get her because my device has melted." He shouted, then looking back to Latios, who seemed to have settled down well. He was resting his head on the floor. Energy regeneration was something that all Latios had as well, but it still took a while to kick in.

He could have sworn he heard someone moving behind him. He looked back up at the DMA, and saw that Annie was about to pick up the Soul Dew, which had turned black. Lorenzo also noticed the girl's action.

"DON'T TOUCH THAT!" both Ganon and Lorenzo shouted together. It was too late. Her hand was already on it. She just looked at them confused. Ganon swore under his breath. Why did the villains always have to be so ignorant?

The gem began to glow under her hand, rays of light shooting between her fingers. The jewel started pulsing pure energy out its core, hurling Annie backwards, where she landed on Oakley who had sat up in the cockpit. It exploded in a series of red sparks, sounds of shattering glass filled the air.

The lateral energy that had saturated the air reformed over the surface of the DMA, lacing the structure with red ribbons of plasma. The cockpit around Annie and Oakley closed, trapping them, before it was pulled back up as the machine returned to its original position. The obsidian spikes that guarded the DMA before suddenly began to pierce out of the floor, moving erratically as they tried to return to their original positions. They each stopped randomly between the top and the bottom, giving the whole machine a look of being a ravaging claw sticking out of the ground.

One of the spikes had formed under Ganon, who was now clinging to the top of the only spike that had reached its original position.

Just my luck

He looked down to the party, about twenty metres below him, and laughed to himself. This shouldn't be a problem. He placed his feet over one of the corners of the spike, and surfed down the edge, like a skateboarder grinding on a rail. He held his arms out to steady himself.

"What's happening?" he heard Bianca whimper as he reached the bottom. The lack of concentration for even a moment was stupid, because the edge had suddenly taken a steep turn down, and he missed his footing. He landed hard on his front with a loud thud. Latios sniggered at him briefly. Ganon leapt up and glared at the Pokemon, who instantly shut up.

"The prophecy was true, the Soul Dew is dying. It's been out of the pool for much too long. All the water is leaving." Lorenzo told them.

And you complain when I take the longwinded route to a simple point. Time is of the essence.

"Get us onto the roof." Ganon ordered. Now was not a time for subtlety.

"Why?"

Ganon just glared at Lorenzo. He let Lorenzo know that this person was not someone to be argued with.

"Up the stairs, all the way." He said.

"Think laterally."

Lorenzo pointed to the balcony 90 feet above them. Ganon looked up there, and leapt up to it in a single bound.

Ganon could hear their gasps of astonishment and he could also hear them running up the stairs after him. The water was leaving, and he knew that when tides go out very far and very quickly, something big would always come back. Something big, wet, and with the destructive capabilities of a Tyranitar in mating season. Basically, this made a nuclear bomb look tame.

It was time to reveal some big secrets. Potentially fatal secrets. Fatal for him.

Well, because I've done three updates early, my next update will be in two weeks, Sunday 30th September. Well, that means I'm not going to get any readers until then. Dang. Unless I get impatient again. Which knowing me I probably will.

Anyway. There should be enough to work it out if some bits are re-read. I know that in the next chapter, I make references to a lot of the things in the previous chapters, that hinted at his identity.

UPDATED: Well, I decided that Ganon has amazing powers, so why use stairs?