Hey, guys! It's time for the first fusion warrior battle of the story! I hope that you guys enjoy this! Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
In the last chapter of Pokémon Fusion Warriors, we saw Seth lose for the first time against a mysterious transfer student named James Anderson. Then, after his friends gave him some encouragement, Seth saw a news report that told him about a challenge that the infamous thief, the Phantom Crow, gave to his alter ego, the Pokémon Knight, to fight against him. Seth arrived at the Rustboro City Museum and battled this Phantom Crow, but unfortunately, he lost once again. In order to stop the Phantom Crow from stealing the Moon Stone, Seth was forced to change into his fusion form. However, to his surprise, the Phantom Crow had a PokéFuser as well and changed into his fusioned form, the Phantom Knight! Can Seth possibly defeat this new foe? Find out now in the latest chapter of Pokémon Fusion Warriors!
Chapter 10: "Flight of the Phantom Crow, Part 2"
(Flashback to last chapter)
"Pokémon Knight," The figure said in a deep, ominous-sounding voice. "Meet the Phantom Knight!"
(End Flashback)
Seth was completely shocked at what he was seeing. Somehow, the Phantom Crow had fusioned and became some kind of dark warrior.
"B-but how?" Seth stammered in utter confusion.
"I see that you're a bit shocked that you're not the only one that can become a fusion warrior," Crow said with a sigh. "Well, I guess the same could be said for me when I found out about you."
"What are you talking about?" Seth asked.
"You were not the first fusion warrior," Crow answered. "I was."
Seth's eyes went wide in disbelief. He then shook it off and yelled, "It doesn't matter who was first. The only thing that matters right now is that I'm going to kick your butt!"
"We shall see," Crow said as he took the sword from his back and prepared for the upcoming battle of wills.
It was kind of like one of those old western showdowns as the two warriors stared at one another. Each of them was waiting for the other to make the first move.
Finally, Seth couldn't take it anymore and shouted, "First move wins! Thunderbolt!"
Seth's body immediately became surrounded in an outline of yellow electricity. He then fired a power bolt of electricity at his opponent.
Just as the bolt came close to Crow, however, he back flipped out of the way, dodging the attack with ease.
"Was that really your first move?" Crow inquired mockingly. "That was nothing but child's play. Let me show you a real first strike."
Suddenly, his body became surrounded in white energy for a moment. The energy soon came off of his body in the form of two rings of jagged white energy orbs that floated around him. The white energy faded, and the orbs formed into gray jagged stones.
Crow then fired the stones at Seth while hollering out, "Stone Edge!"
Seth was a bit surprised and began maneuvering in every way that he could in order to dodge the stones that had been thrown at him. Eventually, he had managed to dodge them all, but was a bit tired from all of the jumps and flips that he had done to dodge the attack.
"Flamethrower!" Crow said as he held out his left hand and fired a stream of orange-yellow fire from his palm at Seth.
"The same to you!" Seth snarled as he quickly shot a similar beam of fire from his left hand at Crow's attack.
As the two attacks met, an explosion occurred, creating a fog of black smoke all over the roof.
Once the smoke cleared, both warriors began to glare at each other with intense fury.
"Hmm," Crow murmured. "I see that you're not lacking in speed. Let's see how well you do in defense! Shock Wave!"
Crow's hands began to glow an electric blue as electrical energy formed within them. Soon, an orb of electricity started to form in between his hands before he held the orb up over his head. He then brought it back down like a whip, sending a jagged beam of blue electricity straight towards Seth.
Seth flinched slightly as the beam came towards him. He knew that Shock Wave was a move that couldn't be dodged. So, there was only one thing that he could do: stand there and take it.
The whip of blue lightning then struck him, but surprisingly, it didn't seem to hurt.
"My mistake," Crow said as he ceased his attack. "I forgot that your Donphan armor prevents you from being hurt by Electric-type attacks. Well, everyone has a weakness somewhere. I just have to find it."
"Meanwhile, I'll give you a taste of my Psycho Cut!" Seth growled as he ran straight towards Crow with his glowing light blue sword in hand.
He got up close and prepared to slash, but his attack was blocked by Crow's sword, which was now glowing a bright purple.
"I could have sworn that you would have been smart enough to know that Psychic-type attacks cannot affect Dark-types," Crow said with a sneer. "I guess I was wrong."
"Oh, I wasn't trying to hurt you with it," Seth answered to Crow's surprise. "I just wanted to see how good you are with that sword of yours."
Seth quickly pulled his blade away and then attempted to slash at Crow's legs. Crow quickly jumped over the sword slash and when he came back down, he blocked another one of Seth's attempts at striking him with his blade.
"So, you want to see who the master of swordplay is, huh?" Crow smirked. "Alright then, on guard!"
With that, the battle of blades began. Seth slashed at Crow multiple times while the latter managed to parry Seth's every blow and strike.
"Double Hit!" Crow said as he pulled his scythe from his belt and then slashed at Seth with both of his weapons.
Seth struggled to block both of the attacks. He had to admit that this guy was good. With that Samurott sword-wielding ability, he was more than a match for Seth's own abilities that Gallade granted him.
"Now, time to blow you away with Twister!" Crow yelled as he held slashed his blade out in front of him and sent a cyclone straight at Seth.
Seth had to kneel down in order to avoid being blown away by that twister. Luckily, he managed to hold out until the winds subsided.
"Not bad," Seth panted. "But I'm just getting started!"
While these two fierce warriors continued to battle it out, Kelly and Connor were watching their every move from the screen on Seth's computer.
After Seth had left, Connor hacked into every security camera in the area of the museum so that he and Kelly would be able to watch Seth and help him in any way that he needed.
"Oh, I can't stand this," Kelly practically trembled in worry. "We shouldn't just be watching him! We should be there helping him! It's obvious that he can't do this alone!"
"Kelly, I don't think that we would be able to help much in this situation," Connor said in a serious tone as he continued to watch the fight with an unwavering focus.
"What do you mean?" Kelly asked.
"Well, up until now, Seth's really only faced off against hybrids, correct?" Connor inquired, to which Kelly nodded. "The closest thing to a fusion warrior that Seth's ever faced was that Forest Guardian that Rosethorn created that one time.
"This time is different. This is an actual fusion warrior with a human inside the armor. Out of all of the enemies that Seth could ever face, only a fusion warrior could hope to match his power. Plus, it seems like this guy has had a lot more practice. His power just might be superior to Seth's. If we tried to help, we could be crushed."
Kelly's eyes widened in realization. As much as she hated to admit it, Connor was right.
'Come on, Seth,' She thought as she continued to watch her friend battle. 'You've just got to win!'
Seth and Crow were battling with all of their might as they continued to battle on the rooftop. It seemed like the harder Seth fought, the more powerful Crow seemed to become.
"X-Scissor!" Seth yelled as he jumped into the air and began to come back down towards his foe. As he came down towards him, a light blue X-shaped energy formed in front of his right palm.
"Dark Pulse!" Crow shouted. He swiftly formed a light purple orb surrounded in black and purple circles in between his hands. He then fired a beam of black and purple circles from the orb straight at Seth.
The beam soon struck Seth's attack, and Seth struggled to push against the beam. He pushed and pushed, but eventually, he had to break off the attack in order to prevent himself from losing all of his energy.
He did a backflip and then landed back onto the ground with ease. However, he panted heavily as he glared at his foe.
'I've got to admit,' Seth thought in between pants. 'This guy is good. Out of all of the enemies that I've ever faced, he's got to be the strongest.'
Seth then pulled out his sword and slashed it out in front of his body, sending multiple light blue glowing saw blades from the blade at Crow.
The Phantom Knight, however, simply chuckled for a moment, and then struck all of the saws down at once with his left arm, which was glowing in a bright white light.
'Yeah, definitely the strongest,' Seth concluded. 'There's just got to be a way to beat this guy, but how?'
Seth's thoughts were interrupted, however, when he noticed Crow running at him with both his sword and scythe in his hands.
As he came up to him, he brought both weapons down in a slashing motion while Seth quickly pulled up his sword. Luckily, he had managed to block the attacks just in time.
"Huh, you're no novice when it comes to a sword," Crow said as the two warriors pushed up against each other with their weapons. "I guess I'll have to bring out my real weapon after all."
"Real weapon?" Seth repeated in confusion. "But what about…"
"Oh, these?" Crow asked, moving his eyes down to the sword and scythe that he held at the moment. "These are more of separate parts to my actual weapon. I didn't know how good with a blade you would actually be, so I decided to hold off on using my real weapon at first. A minor mistake on my part, I suppose."
He then broke off from the struggle of their weapons, leaving Seth to struggle to get back his balance. Once Seth had gotten it back, however, he turned to see Crow throw both the scythe and the sword into the air.
The two weapons seemed to float in the air for a moment as Seth watched them. Suddenly, they both began to glow, and right before Seth's eyes, the two weapons began to form into one.
Seth blinked due to the brightness of the glow, but after he opened them back up, he saw Crow holding a much different weapon than before.
In the Phantom Knight's hands now was a silver staff with two Absol scythe-like blades on each side that pointed outward instead of to the sides.
"Now, let's see how good you really are!" Crow said, his eyes giving off a menacing red glow.
With that, the two continued to fight. It was a lot harder now, considering how well Crow wielded the staff in his hands. Seth slashed and attacked in every way that he could, but unfortunately for him, Crow managed to block every one of his attacks before slashing back at him with even stronger force.
Seth grimaced as they continued to fight. No matter what he did, this guy just kept getting stronger and stronger. Just how could he beat this guy?
All of the sudden, Seth's eyes widened in realization as he remembered a few things from earlier in the fight.
Whenever Seth had tried to attack him throughout their fight, the Phantom Knight had simply deflected the attack with ease. However, when Seth had launched a Thunderbolt as his first attack, he had dodged it instead of blocking it. If he was so powerful, why didn't he just deflect that attack like the others?
Plus, after he had launched that Shock Wave at Seth and it didn't work, hadn't he said something about weaknesses?
(Flashback)
"…everyone has a weakness somewhere. I just have to find it."
(End Flashback)
That's right! From Crow's fusion, Seth could tell that he had no defense against a super-effective hit from an Electric-type attack. If he could land just one hit, he might be able to gain an advantage.
"What's up with you?" Crow said suddenly, interrupting Seth's thoughts as sparks flew from their clashing weapons. "Finally realize that you can't win?"
"No, just the opposite," Seth said with a confident grin brimming underneath his helmet. "I finally understood what you meant when you said that everybody has a weakness. I know that I have my weaknesses, but then again, so do you!"
"What?" Crow muttered, genuinely confused.
"Thunderbolt!" Seth said as his body started to become outlined in yellow electricity.
Crow's eyes widened and he broke off from their clashing of weapons. As he did, Seth launched a bolt of yellow electricity from his hands. Crow was able to dodge it, but the thief knew that he wasn't out of danger yet.
Seth quickly put his sword back into the sheath on his back and both of his hands suddenly became cloaked in yellow electricity.
"ThunderPunch!" Seth yelled as he ran towards the Phantom Knight and began throwing multiple punches at him.
Even though Crow was able to dodge each and every one of Seth's punches, he looked a bit more worn out than he had previously.
"And now for an attack that you'll never forget," Seth said with burning confidence.
His Crobat wings appeared on his back and he flew up into the air at a fast speed. Then, he began to fly down straight towards the Phantom Knight, and as he did, his body became surrounded in golden yellow electricity that made his body seem black and white.
"Time for you to have a taste of my Volt Tackle!" Seth shouted as he sped towards Crow.
Crow looked slightly unnerved as the Pokémon Knight flew towards him, but made no attempt to get out of the way. Eventually, Seth hit his mark, causing an explosion of black smoke that covered the entire rooftop temporarily.
Kelly and Connor's eyes were practically glued to Seth's computer screen as they watched Seth tackle the Phantom Knight, causing the explosion that created the black smoke that now currently enveloped the entire museum rooftop.
"Did he win?" Kelly asked Connor nervously.
"I don't know," Connor said with a bit of worry as well.
Both watched on with worry as they waited for the outcome of this fierce battle.
As the smoke finally cleared, Seth looked around to see if there was any sign of his enemy.
Eventually, he managed to spot his body lying on the roof. Strangely, there weren't any bruises or scratches, but it looked like the attack had maybe caused a good amount of damage.
Seth wasn't without pain, though. Besides the recoil effect of Volt Tackle, all of the hits that Crow had dealt him throughout their fight had caused him a great number of scratches and bruises.
Seth staggered over to where his opponent was currently laying, and once he stood over him, Seth coughed out, "It's over."
"Indeed," Crow answered as he stood back up. "For you, anyway."
"Huh?" Seth raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"It's time I showed you the true power of a fusion warrior," Crow said as his body began to take on a red aura. "The power of fusion moves."
"Fusion moves?" Seth repeated in astonishment.
Suddenly, Crow began spinning his staff around at an unbelievable speed until he yelled out, "Crow's Slash!"
He then slashed his now glowing-red staff at Seth, striking him in the chest. The blow was so powerful that it sent Seth flying several feet.
Seth couldn't believe how much pain that he was in at the moment. What was that move?
"Blazing Chains!" Crow interrupted. The chains on his chest that were attached to Ambipom shoulder pads unraveled before being fired straight at Seth. As they flew at him, the Ambipom shoulder pads became like claws that wrapped around Seth. Once they were wrapped around him so tight that he couldn't move, the chains lit up on fire.
Seth gritted his teeth as the chains burned him. The pain that came from the hot metal's sting was completely unbearable.
"And finally, Storm of the Dragon!" Crow shouted as he held out his hands and fired a cyclone of water at Seth. The chains let him go, only to be knocked back by the cyclone into the wall on the other end of the roof.
Crow walked over towards his foe, who now lay slumped against the wall in agonizing pain. He was still conscious, but just barely.
"Pity," Crow said in a tone that sounded both disappointed and mocking. "I thought that you were ready to face me. I thought that you were strong. I guess I was wrong."
The thief turned around and began to slowly walk away, but stopped when he sensed a sudden increase in power close by.
"That can't be right," Crow muttered as he quickly turned around. "There's just no way…"
At this point, the Pokémon Knight was now back up on his feet. However, his eyes were now glowing a fierce yellow color and his body was surrounded in a blazing golden aura.
Seth pulled out his sword from its sheath. As he did, the blade began to spark with yellow electricity until it itself had taken on the same golden aura as his body. Strangely, the aura made the sword seem longer and sharper.
Seth then held the sword over his head and brought it down in a powerful slashing motion while yelling, "Thunder Blade!"
With that, a large golden crescent of electricity was sent flying straight at Crow. Crow was astonished as he watched the crescent create a crack in the roof as it traveled towards him, followed by a cloud of dust.
Crow held out one hand to catch the crescent, but as it hit, he was shocked to find that it was more powerful than he had thought that it was going to be. So, he was forced to use both hands to hold it back while he felt himself skid backwards a couple of centimeters.
Eventually, the crescent exploded, and Crow was knocked back a few more inches. He opened his eyes to see the glow around Seth's body disappear before the warrior's body was enveloped in a bright white light.
As the light faded, Crow saw the teen from earlier and his Pichu now laying on the ground unconscious.
"Hmm," Crow murmured. "Seems that he still has much work to do if he ever wants to beat me."
Crow then looked down to his chest and his eyes widened when he noticed a small scratch on his chest armor.
Crow looked back at the unconscious teen in shock. No one had ever been able to hurt him this much before. What was this kid, really?
"So, you're much stronger than I thought," Crow said out loud, even though he knew that Seth was unconscious. "One day, you may just become the most powerful fusion warrior of all time, Seth Burns."
Crow then defusioned and looked down at the Moon Stone that his Ambipom held in its tail-hands.
"Leave it," Crow told it. "We got what we really came for."
He quickly recalled the Normal-type back into its ball and gave the Honchkrow on his shoulder a grin.
"Let's go," He said to it. The Honchkrow nodded, and a minute later, Crow was back in his glider soaring through the night air.
"We will meet again," He said as he flew into the moonlight. "You can count on it."
As Seth opened his eyes, he bolted up with his body covered in sweat and him now panting heavily.
He looked around to see that he was not on the rooftop where he had originally fallen unconscious. Instead, he was sitting on his own living room couch at home. As well, Pichu was nowhere to be found.
"Seth!" He suddenly heard two familiar voices call out to him. Within moments, he was tackled back down onto the couch by Kelly and Connor's embrace.
"Uh, guys?" Seth mumbled as they continued to hug him. "Could you get off please?"
His two friends soon realized what they were doing and immediately got off of him.
Seth was still confused, and soon asked, "How did I get back here?"
"I had Elgyem teleport you here," Connor explained. "We saw everything, including that powerful move you used before you passed out. What was that?"
"I don't know," Seth said as he looked down at the PokéFuser. "Something just came over me."
"Well, you wouldn't believe how glad we are that you are okay!" Kelly said with a smile. "How are you feeling anyway?"
"I'm a bit sore in some places," Seth said as he cringed a bit from the pain leftover from the fight with the Phantom Knight. "But, I think I'll be okay."
Kelly and Connor nodded, but then, they all suddenly heard Pichu cry out, "Pi-chu-pi!"
The three got up and looked around for Pichu, finding him sitting at Seth's computer.
"Hey, you've got an e-mail," Connor noticed.
"Who is it from?" Kelly asked.
"Let's see," Seth said as he clicked on an icon. As he did, a screen popped up and they saw a video screen with a dark figure in it.
"Hello, Seth Burns…or should I say…Pokémon Knight. That was an interesting battle that we had last night."
Seth and the others were shocked. The Phantom Crow knew who he was?
"Yes, I know who you are. In fact, I know everything about you. But don't worry, your secret's safe with me. Believe it or not, I'm not your enemy. The battle we had last night was only to test you, and you passed with flying colors.
"All matters aside, you should know that you were no the first fusion warrior and you will not be the last. Like me, there are many others that have a PokéFuser. Some time ago, the original blueprints for the prototype were stolen and copies were made. Now, there are other fusion warriors out there. Some are good, like you. Some are not so good.
"There's a war coming, Mr. Burns. A war that will tear apart the very fabrics of the universe. The only way for you to stop the impending doom is to put together a team. A team that will be able to fight off both the menace of hybrids and evil fusion warriors. You must be the leader of that team. I wish you luck. You're going to need it."
The window then closed itself, leaving our heroes completely speechless.
Finally, Connor managed to blurt out, "There are more fusion warriors?"
"Uh-huh," Kelly nodded. "And if they're anywhere near as powerful as this Phantom Crow guy is, we may be in trouble."
"Don't worry," Seth said confidently. "We can do this if we stick together, right, Pichu?"
"Pi-chu!" Pichu fist-pumped with a grin.
Meanwhile, in a dark office on the other side of the city, Maxwell Shade sneered evilly at the figures in front of him and said, "Begin Stage Two."
Next Chapter: Chapter 11: "Flirty Encounters"
Well, what did you guys think? It's still early in the story, so I figure that I'll get much better at these battles as we get further into it. However, I hope that you guys liked this one anyways! Read and Review!
Now that I have reached the point in Fusion Warriors that I wanted to get to before starting the movie fanfic for League of Ultimates, I have just a few short things left before starting it. One is a surprise that will be unveiled pretty soon. You guys are going to enjoy what I will be premiering soon. The next thing will be the Pikachu short for Kyurem and the Hero's Sword. Once those are written, I will start working on the movie fanfic. I plan for it to be about 15-20 chapters, so I have no idea when it will be finished. But I hope that you all will enjoy it anyways.
Oh, by the way, once I get done with the movie fanfic and get back to my regular stories, the OCs that you all sent in will start appearing! I told you that they were going to be used differently compared to how I have used OCs in the past. I will be premiering one OC per chapter, and as well, usage of the OCs will vary. A select few will show up all of the time while others will show up less. This is not because of favoritism. This is only due to your OCs' personalities and other things about them. Using that, I was able to determine what part they will play in this story. But don't worry, because everyone should expect their OCs to show up several times throughout the story. I just don't want to have too many characters all together at once so that everyone's OCs can have some decent character development.
Until next time, see ya!