Rise to the top Chapter 10: The Gathering "Let's battle!" Jase cried. "Not again." Conner sighed while grabbing a Pokéball, "I like to train but…" "Triple battle, with no trainer interference." Jase told him while sending out Zap, Pikachu, and Electrode. "Fine." Conner released Burner, Hyper, and Lucario. "Close combat." Conner commanded his team. They all flew at their adversary's throwing punches and kicks faster than the eye could follow. All 3 of Jase's Pokémon fell back and hit the ground. "Oh. I thought we were strong enough now." Jase frowned. "Not yet." Conner smiled, "No matter how strong you get, I will always be many steps ahead." Suddenly, they heard a lurid roar. "If this is another legendary, I am going to be so PO'd. I won't hold back." Conner muttered to himself before running in the direction of the roar. All but the Latis and Conner's Pokémon stayed behind. On the way, Conner released the rest of his Pokémon without slowing down. They followed him without asking, for Physik had used her powers to send everyone the message. When he reached the location, he was shocked to see Heatran beating up two humans. "That's it!" Conner exclaimed gathering huge amounts of shadow in each hand. He launched two balls bigger than he was himself. Both slammed into the legendary sending it flying. Conner drew his sword. Latios and Latias appeared behind him. 'We've got your back!' Latias said. "Good. Let me handle this." He told her. Conner rushed forward at the legend creating a huge blade of shadows around his sword. He slammed it into Heatran knocking it back. "Heatran? Why are you here in Kalos?" Conner asked. "Conner?" Heatran paused. "Yes." He said. "I was woken up in Kalos by these two imbeciles." "We didn't wake him!" One exclaimed. "Fine. We will find who did." Conner said calmly. "Wait. You believe us?" the other said. "Yes. I am quite adept at detecting lies." Conner responded calmly. He felt something trying to probe his mind, but deflected it with a mental blow. To his surprise, the presence didn't leave, but stopped in it's tracks. "Whatever." He muttered, and ran into the forest. The Pokémon and newcomers looked at each other, shrugged, and followed. "So what are you're names?" Conner politely asked the newcomers. "I'm Jake, and he's Josh." One said, "Are you a trainer." "Yes. I have Burner, Lucario, Derp, Hyper, Physik, and Umbra. I also have 3 legendarys following me. I'm the flipping champ!" "What?!" Josh exclaimed. "So. That's what you've been doing lately. Conquering the leagues of 5 regions, and finally accepting the spot of champion." Heatran said jokingly. "Not just that. Watch" Conner said ominously while summoning a dark sphere to his hand. "What is that?" All 3 of the new ones exclaimed. "Man, you shoulda learned to play!" Conner said, "Anyways, did you not notice what I shot at you." "No." Heatran said bluntly. "Let's go." Conner sighed, and walked forward, but then stopped abruptly, "Did, by any chance, you stumble on a rock on the way here?" He directed the question at the humans. "Yes. Why?" Jake said. "# yolo!" Josh cried out. "Sorry-" Jake was interrupted by Conner. "Don't be, you can't change your friends personalities. Besides, I'm used to it. When we get back to my group, you'll see. Anyways, you did awake Heatran, and would have most likely been dead if I hadn't been there to help." "We can protect ourselves." Josh snapped. "Fine. Let's fight. Race you." Conner said angrily. "I'll take you on!" Josh said. The air grew cold near him, and shadows began pulsing around Conner. There was literally lightning in the air between them from Conner's zap plate. "This is it. 3." Conner told him. "2." Josh responded. "1." Conner said. "Go!" They both cried at once and ran. Conner used his lightning plate to enhance his speed. He paid no attention to what was going on behind him. A beam of ice flew at him. He dodged and shot back a dark beam. "Denied." He muttered and kept running. An ice platform appeared right next to him, and Josh skated by. "See you loser!" He yelled back. Conner smirked, and jumped onto the ice as well. With his enhanced speed, he knew he would easily catch up. "Stone!" He raised his hand and called upon the stone plate and created a wall in front of Josh making him run right into it. He jumped over both and kept running. He turned around and said, "I'd say I won." It was then he noticed that his adversary wasn't entirely human. "Who messed with his DNA?" He muttered. "You are part Glaceon, eh? That would explain the ice powers." "And I'm part espeon. You aren't shocked though?" Jake asked him. "No. I've seen more than enough to not to be shocked by this." "Oh…" Josh muttered sadly, "Maybe you were right…" "If it was anything but a legendary, you might have stood a chance." Conner told him, "But from experience, don't mess with hostile legendarys." "I agree with you there." Heatran smirked. "Come on, let's get back to my group. You can come if you want to." He told the newcomers. "Sure." Jake said before Josh could start another fight. _At camp "Um…" Josh murmured. Fred was slammed against a tree and left hanging near the top. Austin was sitting in fire seeming to be unharmed by it; Cole was lying flat on the ground with a purple bubble surrounding him. Jase was laying spread eagle on the ground smoking. Calvin was seemingly the only sane one. He was sitting down on a fallen log petting his Shaymin. "What the hack is going on here?" Conner slowly asked. "Oh, we got bored." Austin said. Jake just stood there. "Stop it!" Conner cried and sliced his sword with the petrifying ray. "Ugh… Why can't I move?" Cole said as his shield dissipated. "What where you doing? Oh, Latias, could you get Fred?" Conner was quite upset. 'Sure…' She murmured. "Thank you." He said," Now, can't you control yourselves. Sure you got better at controlling whatever powers you have, but still. You should be able to control yourselves." "Ok…" Jase murmured disappointed. "Now, we have two new members who want to join our group." "Um… we never said…" Jake muttered. "Well, I figured." "Ok, we mine as well come…" "Just make sure you can control yourself. Unlike THESE guys." He frowned and pointed behind him. "Hehehe… Sure." Josh smiled. "Anyways, all trainers versus me." Conner told them. "Understood?" Josh answered and questioned at the same time. Conner drew his sword. Matt unsheathed his Honedge. Calvin stood along with Fred. Conner brought his sword up and knocked away Matt and Cole. He brought it around barely deflecting a beam of ice causing it to freeze Jake. "Denied." He murmured, then blew Josh back with a dark wave. Austin created an illusion of himself, and hid behind a tree. Conner face palmed. "Are you stupid?"" He asked while blowing down the tree and Austin with it. "Oops." Austin muttered. Fred and Calvin both tried to punch him from behind. Both of their fists hit his wall of darkness and they bruised their knuckles. "Hmph." He knocked them down with his blade of darkness. "Come on." He shot out a huge ray sending them into unconsciousness. Fred, having gotten used to it, had developed a stronger mind. He woke up almost in a minute, and stood strong. "You have gotten stronger…" Conner noted. "I know I can't win… But I can try…" Fred panted. "Conner stop." Heatran said aloud before Conner could knock Fred back down to the ground, "I admire his resistance and determination. He's lost anyway." "Fine." Conner sheathed his sword. "You can talk?" Fred whispered. The shock of a legendary had dissipated a while ago. "Yes." Heatran sighed. "So. I'd say I won." Conner said aloud. "I'm afraid to agree with you." Heatran smiled, "However, Fred did put up a good fight. If he wants to, he can catch me." "Really?" Fred exclaimed shocked, "I would love to be your trainer!" "Go ahead." Heatran told him, "Oh, and Conner take this." He chucked a red table at Conner. "The flame plate." The latter whispered. Fred chucked a Pokéball at Heatran. "Come on out!" He let Heatran out once the ball stopped moving. "I should wake the others up." Conner muttered. He pulled out his Pixie plate and restored them to consciousness. "I win." He told them. "Let's practice actually mastering our skills." Cole suggested, reluctant to be beat up again. "Meh." Conner muttered. He summoned the biggest ball he could. He tried to maintain it. He managed to keep a ball twice as big as Heatran and managed to keep it there for more than 30 seconds. He slammed it into the ground causing a huge amount of dust and darkness to fly in all directions. When the group could see again, Conner was standing in the middle of a giant pit with a radius more than 10 times the original sphere. "Come on. We can train in here." Conner said grinning at them. The group just stared. Conner summoned another shady sphere and smirked, "Do I have to launch this at you?" He said. "Fine… We're coming." Austin said quickly. "Guh…" Conner said, and fell over. "You ok?" Jase yelled at him despite the threat that Conner had just issued. There was no response. "He's unconscious…" the three psychic legendarys said at the same time. They looked at each other and shrugged. The rest of the group sweat dropped. _Unknown location "Where am I?" Conner murmured. There was a huge black area with many tall trees. One huge tree was in the distance. "That's probably where I'll get my answers." Conner said to himself. He ran towards it. Once Conner had made it right at the edge of the clearing, he stopped. Now that he looked, the tree was bigger than before. It was more than 100 times bigger than the hole he had created. "Well, here goes nothing…" Conner muttered. He ran towards it but stopped again. "Is that… A door?" He wondered. He ran towards the opening and noticed that there were stairs inside. "This is getting weirder by the minute…" Hu murmured to himself. He ran up the stairs. At the top, he paused once more. A Pokémon he recognized only from myths and legends was facing away from him on the furthest side of the room. "Arceus…" He whispered. "Welcome." The Alpha Pokémon said. "Erm…" Conner was at a loss for words. "You can speak." Arceus said with a hint of a smile. "Uh…Where are we?" Conner managed to stutter. "Your mind." The god like Pokémon told him. "So… This is my mind?" Conner was even more confused than ever, "And why are you in it?" "I had a message for you." The Alpha Pokémon, "Bring the plates to me. I will wait for you at Spear Pillar. All will be explained there, for you, and your new friends." "Ok?" Conner had a serious headache, But wait… If this is in my head… How can I have a headache? You know what. Never mind! Arceus turned to face him, "You will return to your body soon, but I suggest you train while you are in here. I will take my leave now." The Pokémon disappeared. "Um… That was… Unusual…" Conner tried to sum it up, "Well, better do what he suggested." He jumped out the trees leaves and summoned a black tornado. "That's new." He told himself. He landed in it, got shot in a different direction, landed, and kept running. In a flash of blue light, something appeared right in front of him. He barely managed to dodge and stop. "Lucario?" Conner exclaimed, "What are you doing here?" "You're unconscious. I wanted to wake you up." The Pokémon said aloud. "Ok. Do you know how?" Conner asked. "As a matter fact, yes." Lucario said, "But you're not surprised?" "No." Conner told him, "I already had another visitor in my mind." "Who would that be?" Lucario was obviously surprised. "I'll tell you later." Conner smiled, "But first, let me try this out. I just figured out how." He gathered shadows in his hand, but unlike with his shadow ball, they stayed condensed, but moving. He launched it out creating a huge shade tornado with lightning bursting out of it. "Let's leave now." Conner told his Pokémon. Lucario blinked, then glowed blue. Conner opened his eyes, "Ugh… Was that a dream?" He then noticed the blue figure standing over him. "No." Lucario told him. "Great…" Conner moaned. _Dauth: Ulta, remember you aren't going to make this from Conner's perspective. It'll be from Jake or Josh.