Warning: Lots of back and forth in this chapter.
Poll Progress:
Super Mystery (reader's choice)- 6
Time/Darkness/Sky (writer's choice)- 3
Super Mystery (writer's choice)- 2
Time/Darkness/Sky (reader's choice)- 1
Red/Blue Rescue Team- 0
Now to the chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or RWBY. I do not own any of the OCs. They belong to their original creators.
*OPENING*
(Opening starts with a red cloak drifting away by the wind as dawn approaches)
Just head on! Just head on!
Thinking's only gonna slow you down
When emotions boost up my speed like a quick attack
(Crescythe caught the cloak and ran to camp)
There's not a moment to waste, right?
(Teams RWBY and JNPR and Seth and Jackson were out of their tents, yawning and preparing breakfast)
I won't lose, I won't run, there's no rain that can last forever
(In quick moments, camera shows Ruby putting on her cloak to Weiss putting her hair in a side ponytail to Blake putting her bow on to Yang wrapping her scarf around her neck)
I'll just bear my tears out and do a complete Reversal
(Team JNPR had their bags on their back as Seth and Jackson rushed past them)
Just set off! The sky'll clear up with a Hallelujah
(The group set off out of the forest with Crescythe by their side)
There are times where we'll fight
(Each person then stood on a Pokeball as they traveled in a colorful unknown dimension, Crescythe and Ruby sharing a ball)
We've got passions strong enough to Overheat
(Team CRDL appeared wearing Team Flare's uniform as they tried to ambush Ruby)
So stop hesitating
(Crescythe took notice and moved their Pokeball away to avoid the attempt)
Roar like the Thunder cause your path don't need logic
(Ruby shouted out a command and the Absol shot out a Dark Pulse, sending them flying)
So come on now, pull open the future with your own bare hands
(The scene changed to platforms of various gym leaders then to the sky where a dark void is. Within it were the corrupted legendaries and Zetta and the assailant by their side)
A mad-paced getter, mad-paced getter, mad-paced getter
There's an unexplored future for us
(Ruby and Weiss threw their Pokeballs, releasing a Zigzagoon, a Vivillon and Aqua with Crescythe appearing with them. Blake and Yang threw their Pokeballs, revealing a Kakuna, Screecher, a Fletchling and Leona. JNPR threw their balls and revealed Excalibur, a Dunsparce, Pitfall, an Azurill, Eve, a Caterpie, Sirius and a Combee. Seth and Jackson were surrounded by their Pokemon as they looked to the camera)
Oh yeah, gotta face my fears
Oh yeah, so many times
(The group were in a clearing, doing Pokemon Battles. Seth and Jackson performed a Mega Evolution with Spiritomb and Gardevoir as their forms changed)
A mad-paced getter, a mad-paced getter, a mad-paced getter
I know I am never alone
(Weiss was doing a performance with Aqua and her Vivillon)
Oh yeah, so I won't back down
Oh yeah, let's head towards the dazzling future together
(Ruby and Crescythe battled against a Mega Evolved Tyranitar at the top of Prism Tower. Both Pokemon used Dark Pulse at each other, which collided and created fireworks)
1, 2, 3 and we're ready to go! Let's ride the Tailwinds at our back!
(In a dark room, Vanessa, chained to a wall, looked up to the lone shining star with eyes filled with hope)
Let's crack on and leap into an unexplored world
(Back in the Pokemon World, the Remnant Team and Seth and Jackson looked up at the moon with determined faces)
In the dark and unknown dimension, Zetta walked down the halls with a tray of food. Once she arrived at her destination, she slammed the door open. Vanessa was used to the door slamming three times a day, signalling it was time for her to eat. Without any spoken word between the two, Zetta left the meal on the floor and left.
The moment she left, Vanessa looked at the wall near her. On the wall, there were scratches. Although they may seem insignificant, they mean something to Vanessa. Something that can actually help her.
"Okay. Now for the rest of it..." she muttered.
After a couple more days, the team finally made it. They arrived at Lumiose City, the most popular city in the Pokemon World. It is also home of Professor Sycamore, who they will be seeing for some certain things. Well, most of them will be seeing him that is.
"Too bad you can't come with us now, Yang," Ruby said.
"Ah, it's fine. I'll see the guy some other time," the female blonde said. "Besides, someone has to protect us when our Pokemon can't."
Crescythe glared at her when she said that.
"You know that's not what she means," her trainer said.
"While I help Yang make some ammos with my Pokemon's attacks, I should make some translators too. In case we get separated and you guys want wild Pokémon to help out like give directions or something like that," Jackson added.
"It would be nice to hear Screecher's voice again," Blake pointed out.
"And to know how our partners feel," Pyrrha added.
"Then it's settled. Jackson, Leafeon and Yang will take a little detour during our time here. And we will go to the professor's," Seth said.
"Good plan. Tell him I said 'hi', okay?" Jackson requested.
"You got it." The three of them took their leave. "Let's go to the professor." Seth led the rest of the group to their destination.
"So what's Professor Sycamore like?" Jaune asked.
"He's a nice guy. He tries to understand Pokemon his own way and study their kind a little more deeper than normal," Seth answered.
"Is he a mad scientist?!" Nora asked.
"What? No. He's not a mad scientist. You'll see once we get there. He's really nice and has lots of Pokémon."
Few miles later, they arrived at their destination. It was a big building with a pair of Pokeballs at the front. Everyone was shock at the sight of what was suppose to be a lab.
Seth walked up front. "Well, come on, guys," he called.
"W-w-wait! This is the Pokémon lab?" Weiss asked.
"A Pokemon lab. Though this is the only Pokemon lab of Kalos. At least, of what I know. Now come on-" Before Seth could say any more, a loud, terrifying roar was heard, scaring the Remnant Team, except Seth.
"W-w-w-what was that?!" Jaune asked, jumping into Pyrrha's arms in great fright.
"Oh no..." The moment Seth said those two words, a huge tannish-brown Pokemon with a purple diamond-shaped patch of scales broke through the front and let out another roar, one that blew everyone's hair back, and cause Jaune to faint in Pyrrha's arms.
"Jaune!" she cried in worry.
The big Pokemon before them grabbed Seth, much to their horror.
"Seth!" Blake cried out.
"Let him go!" Just when Ruby was about to declare an attack, the most unexpected thing happened; the Pokemon was playfully licking his face.
"Okay... Unless if getting licked by a big, dangerous-looking Pokemon is considered dangerous, I'm sure we're fine," Ren said.
"Tyranitar! Not again!" came a Guy's voice from inside the building. The group saw a man seemingly in his mid-twenties wearing a lab coat. Tyranitar growled at him, holding Seth close to it.
"Okay! I miss you too! Need air!" Seth wheezed. Tyranitar instantly realized its mistake and released him.
"Seth! It's been a while!" Sycamore said.
"That it has, Professor. I see Tyranitar is healthy as ever." Seth scratched the Pokemon from under its in.
"Yeah. But I'm still having trouble getting him to warm up to others."
"How can you be calm about that thing?!" Weiss demanded.
Tyranitar instantly turned to the Remnant team and roared at their faces.
Seth placed a hand on his head. "Whoa! Calm down there, Tyranitar. They're friends." He looked at them with a suspicious look. "Yes really. They're just new trainers." Tyranitar snorted at that response. "What? Oh you did not just say that!" Tyranitar just mouthed off his words. "Okay then. How about this?!" Seth suddenly tackled the Armor Pokemon, attempting to knock him down. "Yeah! You feel that love, don't you?!" Going along with his playful ways, Tyranitar fell on his back and rolled over, now having the trainer below him. Immediately after, he began to playfully attack Seth with his claws. "Oh no! Not the deadly Dragon Claw!" Seth playfully smacked the claws away. Seconds later, Tyranitar practically just fell on him. "Oof! And the final move, Body Slam..." The Armor Pokemon just merely laughed at Seth's situation.
The otherworldly group just stood there in great shock.
"Am I the only one seeing this?" Weiss asked.
"I'm going to guess all big, scary, dangerous Pokémon are extremely friendly," Blake said.
"It's nothing like that. That Tyranitar is just a softer to trainers he likes. Everyone else... Well, let's just say we're trying to get him to be okay with humans and other Pokemon," Professor Sycamore said.
"You mean he has a split personality?" Ruby asked.
"You could say that. But again, we're trying to change that." It was then Sycamore really noticed his new guests. "My, I've never seen any of you before. New trainers?"
"Yeah," Seth answered for them. "You could say that, Professor. We actually have a lot to talk about."
Meanwhile, with Jackson, Leafeon and Yang, they arrived at Prism Tower, which is at the center of Lumoise City.
"Whoa... The height of that tower brings CCT to shame," Yang stated.
"What's CCT?" Jackson asked.
"Cross Continental Transmit System. It's a type of communication tech in my world."
"So kind of like the PC boxes here." Yang nodded in confirmation.
"So what exactly are we doing here?" she then asked.
"I know where we can make your ammos. But I need permission from a friend of mine to use it. Now you wait here at the front."
"What? Why?"
"Let's just say... You need to meet the requirements to enter this place. At least, someone like you."
"Oh." Yang realized something off with his answer. "Wait, what do you-?" Jackson and Leafeon walked in the building. "Hey, wait!" Yang barged in and was met with a robot, who immediately scanned her. "What the...?"
"Welcome to Prism Tower. Are you a tourist or a trainer?" it asked.
"Um... I'm kind of a trainer."
"You wish to challenge the gym leader?"
At the sound of challenging the gym leader, Yang got hyped up. "Oh yeah! Take me to him! Or her."
"Do you have four badges?" She got confused at the question.
"Uh... I only have one."
Instantly, the robot's eyes seemed to have widened and popped out of its head. "WHAT?! Only one?! You cannot challenge this gym then!"
"Huh?! Why not?!"
"You need at least four badges to challenge this gym!" Yang's eyes widened and jaw dropped at the info.
'There's a requirement for battling a gym leader?!' she thought in disbelief.
"With that being said, you cannot be here! Come back later! Good-bye!" Immediately, more robots appeared and kicked Yang out, literally.
"Ow... Now I know what he meant..." she then said.
Back to Seth and the rest of Team Remnant, they were in Professor Sycamore's lab, looking out back to see lots of small Pokemon, playing with each other.
"Wow!" Nora and Ruby were amazed at the sight.
"Is this for real?!" the orange-head hyperactive girl asked.
"There's so many Pokemon here!" the red-cloaked girl stated.
"Yeah. This is the best way we study Pokémon," Sycamore explained. "We find wild Pokemon and bring them here, in our lovely environment and record any actions."
"Why is Tyranitar the only big Pokemon here?" Blake asked, looking at the Armor Pokemon, who is still in the building as the Professor's assistants gave him some check-ups. Seth was there to prevent the Pokemon from going on a rampage.
"Well, there is a good reason for that. We found that Pokémon when he was just a small Larvitar. Poor thing seemed to have ended up with the wrong group at the time, especially since he's a Shiny Pokemon."
"Shiny Pokemon?" Jaune questioned.
"Aren't they Pokemon whose coloring is different from normal?" Ren asked.
"Yes. And because of his past with his previous group, Tyranitar isolated himself from us ever since he arrived here. No Pokemon managed to get him to open up. When he evolved into a Pupitar, it just got worse. He was having tantrums after tantrums, wanting to get out of the lab instead of staying here."
"Then why didn't you just let Tyranitar go?" Weiss asked.
"I wanted to. But there was a time when he had destroyed a lab, just because the Pokemon wanted to play with him, get to know him. And it was only when he was a Larvitar. And so, after that, I decided to just take Larvitar under my wing, show him that we aren't like the group he was previously with. Until she can fully open up to us, I cannot release her into the wild."
"By the looks of it, I would say it wasn't working as well as you hoped," Pyrrha assumed.
"You're not far off. See, out of everyone in the whole world, somehow, someway, two people managed to get him to warm up to them."
"You and Seth, right?" Ruby assumed.
"Seth, yes. Me? I'm getting there with him. But no, I'm not the second person. Rather, I wasn't the first person who managed to get close to him."
That caught their attention. "Seth wasn't the first person?" Jaune asked.
"If he was a Pokemon, he certainly wasn't the first there either. They both went through drastic measures, not to get Tyranitar to like them, but to help him. Calm him down at that time."
Blake and Ruby had funny looks on their faces as the former asked, "Calm him?"
"It was during a robbery. Said robber managed to break in and put a color on Tyranitar, one that was suppose to make him do his every bidding. Except for one thing he failed to realize."
"His temper?" Nora guessed.
"That's right. And instead of following his command, Tyranitar was extremely angry, irritated. All his negative emotions were winning against the effect of the color and destroyed it. However, because of all that anger and hatred, Tyranitar went on a rampage in the city, mainly just so he could find and kill the robber just for trying to control him. But then, a trainer and a Pokemon in my care, one of the Starter Pokemon, no less, they took the risk to try and prevent Tyranitar from killing the robber. It was a real miracle. Seeing those two go to such lengths to help Tyranitar made him realize the one thing I was trying to teach him. Not all of us are bad, like his previous group."
The story sounded familiar to Ruby and Blake. The younger of the two asked, "Hey. They wouldn't happen to be... Vanessa and Venusaur, right?"
Sycamore's eyes widened slightly at those names. "You know them?" The rest of the Remnant team also had their eyes widened, shock that Vanessa, their friend who is around Ruby's age, managed to calm an aggressive Pokemon like Tyranitar.
"We're her friends. And we're trying to find her."
"'Find her'? Is she in trouble?"
They all looked down, feeling uneasy about the topic.
"Vanessa was taken. By some guy, who no doubt is working for... A terrible group," Pyrrha explained, hiding the fact that the group would be the corrupted Legendary Pokemon.
"I see... That's terrible. Tyranitar will no doubt be upset if he hears this. Especially since Vanessa and her Venusaur are his first friends," Sycamore said.
They all looked at the Armor Pokemon in the building, with a mix of worry and concern with how he'll take it.
"He has to know, eventually," Weiss said.
"I know. But this is big news, in a bad way. He won't be able to take it. In fact, knowing him, he'll go through hell and back just to find her," the professor said.
"By 'go through', you mean he will be, don't you?" Jaune questioned.
The professor's silence was all they needed to answer his question.
Back to Yang, Jackson, and Leafeon, the latter two exited the building with a paper in the human's hand. They looked down and saw Yang rubbing her butt.
"You tried to follow me in, didn't you?" Jackson asked.
"Twice," was her reply.
"Tried to fake as a tourist the second time?"
"Yep."
"Didn't know they took a picture while they scanned you?"
"I know now."
Leafeon sighed as Jackson said, "Clemont really needs to fix his robots."
"Is he that friend you were talking about?" Yang asked.
"Yep. And now that I have his permission, come along now." The Verdant Pokemon and her trainer walked away from the tower, Yang following.
Returning to the other group, the Shiny Tyranitar stood in front of Sycamore and Team Remnant, Seth by his side to keep him calm.
"Tyranitar... We need to talk," the professor began. "Do you remember the female trainer and her Venusaur? The ones who helped you?" The Armor Pokemon slowly nodded at his question. "Well... They were taken." His eyes widened in shock.
"It's not what you think!" Ruby quickly spoke. "Some horrible guys, really strong ones... Too strong to be exact. They took Vanessa and Venusaur!"
Instead of calming him down, Tyranitar got even more angry.
Seth placed a hand on his head. "Calm down. I know this is hard to take in." The Rock/Dark-type turned to him. "But I promise you, we will find them and get them back." Tyranitar growled a bit. "We're telling you this because Vanessa and Venusaur are important to you. Just like how I am to you. We're also hoping you, Sycamore and his assistants would keep an eye out and listen for any kind of info concerning them. It would help with the search." Tyranitar's growl got more menace. "I know you want to help, believe me. I want to take you with me. But you know you can't leave here just yet." The Armor Pokemon couldn't accept his words and charged towards the door. "Tyranitar!" Seth gritted his teeth and took out one of his Pokemon. "Spiritomb! Hypnosis!" The Forbidden Pokemon was in the Armor Pokemon's way and forced him to sleep.
Everyone looked sadly at the sleeping Pokemon. "It's just as I feared..." Sycamore spoke.
"There wasn't anything we can do. Besides, he had every right to know," Blake comforted.
"Even so... I just worry about what will happen."
Unknown to them, a group of people were looking through the window and saw and heard everything that happened.
With Yang, Leafeon and Jackson, they arrived in a laboratory, owned by Jackson's friend.
"Out of curiosity, have you done anything like this before?" the female human of the trio asked.
"Not really. But it's not stopping me from slicing into it," the male of the trio answered.
"If you haven't done anything like this, how are you sure you can make it?"
"Let's just say... I have a great teacher helping me out." Jackson took out an orange device from his pocket. It looked like a TV remote with a pair of antennas. "Now, I know Clemont said he had an energy compressor somewhere in here..."
"Is it this thing?" Yang referred to a device with a large container in it.
He looked up for a moment at the container. "Yep. That's it." Jackson got his device working, though all he got was static. "Ah ha! Here we go! Somewhat." He fiddled with the antennas to get better service. "Tails! Tails, can you hear me?! Tails!"
The didn't get better, but Jackson received a reply from a childish voice. "Jackson? Is that you?"
"Yeah, Tails. It's me."
A yawn was heard. "What's up?"
"Okay, before I get to why I'm calling, is it night time over there?"
"No... I stayed up doing some stuff."
"You know that's not good for you."
"I know."
Yang and Leafeon cleared their throats, grabbing her friend's attention. "Right. Anyway, I'm sending you data containing a weapon that I plan to make energy ammunition for, and a device that will compress that energy into the ammunition," Jackson explained.
"Ammunition? For what weapon?" Tails asked.
"Let's just say it's an awesome weapon. Something out of this world and our's." Jackson sent the data.
It took a few seconds to get something from Tails's side.
"Whoa. This weapon is impressive," Tails stated. "It's pretty unique, but powerful depending on the ammunition. I might want to build something like this." Yang couldn't help but be happy to impress Jackson's friend. "So what exactly do you need help with?"
"I need to compress Pokémon moves into bullets, multiple kinds of attacks," Jackson explained. "I've already decided on the moves, and I want them designed for Yang's purposes. Can you send me blueprints on how to modify the compressor into something that will safely transfer and stabilize that creation?"
"Sure thing. I'll get started, right away. Meanwhile, why don't you…"
"Create a molding for the bullets and find metals that will hold each move? Sure, that shouldn't be a problem. I have plenty of materials I've gathered all over that'll definitely work for our needs."
"Great. I'll get started on my end!" The screen blackened.
"Wow, you're really getting into this, aren't you?" Yang asked as Jackson got started on the Ember Celica with Leafeon helping, transforming the weapon into its gauntlet form.
"Adventures and engineering challenges both have something in common." Jackson grinned at her. "You get to tackle the unknown using only the skills you have."
She nodded at the reason. "By the way, what do you mean earlier?"
Jackson didn't look away from his work. "When what?"
"You said 'this world and our's'." Jackson stopped working. "Jackson... Are you...? And does Seth know?"
Seconds past before the boy finally decided to give an answer. "Yes. You thought right. I'm not from this world, like you, your sister and your friends. And yes, Seth does know about it."
Yang narrowed her eyes. "We have a lot to talk about then."
"Let's talk while we work."
Back once more with the Remnant Team and Seth, they watched as Tyranitar was resting in a cave, his cave to be exact.
"You think he'll get over it?" Jaune asked.
"I've known him for too long. He won't get over this," Sycamore replied.
"It's so sad, though..." Ruby said.
"Any idea how we can help him get over it somehow?" Pyrrha asked.
"Unless if you want to risk your life, I'd rather just let him have his space," Seth answered. "Believe me. My near death experience was all it took to have him open up to me."
Everyone stared at Tyranitar, thinking how it was too late for the big Pokemon to get over the news. All but one that is.
Ruby Rose had that look on her face. A look that said 'I know what to do', 'I can help him', and 'I have to help him and nothing can stop me'. Crescythe noticed the look and couldn't help but agree with her.
"For now, let's let Tyranitar rest. He needs it," the professor said. Most of them nodded and went back to the building. Weiss stopped when she noticed Ruby and Crescythe didn't follow them.
"You two coming?"
"In a bit," her partner answered, as Crescythe sat by her side. Weiss nodded and took her leave. "We'll find Vanessa, I promise. You can choose to not believe me, but I swear. We will find her. After all, she's our friend." Ruby got up and walked into the building, Crescythe following. Unknown to them, Tyranitar heard everything as he opened his eyes, watching them enter the building.
As soon as the two went inside, four figures snuck inside and quietly made their way to Tyranitar.
Meanwhile, inside, Professor Sycamore led the gang to his lab. Within, they saw Sycamore's assistants attending to some Pokemon as well as studying them.
"Welcome back, Professor," one of them said. "Oh! Are these new trainers? We seem to have a full house today."
"Yes indeed. Although they already gained some Pokemon themselves it seems," the professor said. "Now, can you bring the Pokedexes?"
"Seven Pokedexes coming right up." The assistant aas about to leave.
"Eight actually. One other was suppose to be here, but she's with Jackson," Seth added.
"Jackson's here too?" Sycamore asked.
"Yeah. He said 'hi' by the way."
The assistant nodded and was about to leave. "Should I bring the Starters as well?'
"Hmm... Well, they are still beginner trainers. Right Seth?" Sycamore said.
"They do need a lot of allies," he confirmed. The assistant nodded once more and left the lab.
"What did she mean by 'starters'?" Pyrrha asked Seth.
"You see, all new trainers go to a Pokemon lab, not just for the Pokedex, which by the way also acts like a Trainer License, but also for a Starter Pokemon. Starter Pokemon are Pokemon that are usually easier to train and bond with, given by Pokemon Professors, like Professor Sycamore here," he explained.
"We're getting easy-to-train Pokemon?" Jaune asked.
"One way of putting it, but yes."
"Awesome! We're getting more allies on our team!" Nora cheered.
"I wonder what they will look like," Blake said.
"We should pick one out for Yang too," Ruby added.
Minutes later, the assistant arrived with a lab trolley, filled with lots of Pokeballs. The Remnant team were in shock and surprise at hhe amount, except Seth, who was in slight confusion.
"Here they are!" the assistant said. "I wasn't exactly sure if the others were included as well."
"This is fine," Sycamore assured. "First, let's hand out the Pokedex." Sycamore, his assistant and Seth handed out the device. "As you know, your Pokedex is not only a Pokemon encyclopedia, but also your Trainer License, your ID
Now, meet the Starters!" He pressed something on the trolley and the Pokemon were released from the Pokeballs. Seth's confusion had drastically increased at the sight of the Pokemon before them. "Meet Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie. They are Starter Pokemon of Kanto, Jhoto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and, yours truly, Kalos."
"And I believe this is the part where I ask, 'why are there non-Kalos starters?'" Seth asked. "Were you researching them or something?"
"That's right. To see if their final forms can achieve Mega Evolution. I know the Kanto and Hoenn Starters can, which is why I have them here, to know just what exactly it is their final evolution have that makes them able to Mega Evolve."
"They can what?!" the otherworldly trainers gasped, jaw-dropped.
"Ab sol?!" Crescythe followed.
"That's right. They can do Mega Evolution as well. In their final forms that is," the professor confirmed.
They couldn't help but be in awe with the reveal.
"Well, what are you all waiting for? Pick a partner, any partner." They all looked at him in surprise. "Why of course! You may not be beginners, but I see great potential in your eyes. I'm sure that you kids would help me figure out if all Starter Pokémon are able to achieve Mega Evolution."
"You do realize that they need Mega Stones for Mega Evolution, right?" Seth reminded.
"Yes, but you seem to have forgotten that both they and the Mega Stone will react if they're near each other." Seth couldn't help but agree with the fact. Well, half fact, since the Starter Pokémon needed to reach their final evolution to sense their stones.
"Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!" Nora squealed. "I don't know which one to choose!" She was bouncing around them all. Some stayed in their spots, unmoving with either a blank or a curious expressions on their faces. Some seemed scared or weirder out and backed away from her as best as possible. Only one seemed just as excited as her and began bouncing with her. "Okay! I've decided! You, my little piggy friend, as my new friend!" Nora quickly embraced Tepig in a hug. "And as of this moment on, you will be named Pigpen!"
"Tepig!" He liked the name.
"Well, that was quick," Seth said.
"Then again, we shouldn't really be surprised," Ren added, which everyone agreed on.
"Okay. Next?"
Before they could continue the picking, the sound of a roar was heard out back.
"That sounds like Tyranitar!" Sycamore shouted. Everyone ran outside. The first thing they saw was the one thing that disgusted them.
"Team CRDL!?" Ruby asked. Said team was controlling Tyranitar with a weird collar around his neck, a controller in Cardin's hands that looked like a walkie talkie.
"What are you doing to Tyranitar?!" Weiss demanded.
"What else? A Pokemon as strong as this can't stay in this dump," Cardin said. "And if he has a big temper, what better to bond with him than to control him?"
"You can't do that!" Blake yelled.
"Shut it! I can do what I want! That being said, Tyranitar! Eliminate them!" Cardin ordered through the controller. The Armor Pokemon was forced to do his bidding.
"We have to get that color off!" Seth shouted. "Everyone call out your Pokémon! One isn't enough to stop him!" The Remnant team nodded at each other and called out all their Pokemon, Seth only calling out his Gallade. Unknown to them, less than half the Starter Pokemon were watching the whole thing from a distance.
"Tyranitar, Dark Pulse!" Cardin ordered. The shiny Pokemon shot out a beam of black and purple rings at the group.
"Crescythe! Block it with your own Dark Pulse!" Ruby countered. Her Absol shot her own beam of black and purple rings. The attacks collided, but Tyranitar's attack was proven to be far more superior as it easily pushed through Crescythe's. "What?!"
"Aqua, Spew! Support her with Ice Beam and Psybeam!" Weiss added.
"Pitfall, Blue, you too! Dragon Breath and Water Gun!" Nora added on.
"Eve, Swift!" Pyrrha added to that.
The called Pokemon used their respective attacks and helped support the Absol's Dark Pulse. Instead of pushing back Tyranitar's Dark Pulse, however, the attack just exploded on contact.
"Tyranitar's that strong?!" Blake gasped.
"After everything he went through before he came here, you'd be surprised," Sycamore said.
Cardin let out a laugh. "Now that is what I call power! Another Dark Pulse!" Tyranitar released another beam.
"Quick! Deflect that!" Ruby called. The previous six Pokemon used their Special Moves once more and deflected the attack. "Now for a counterattack! Scout, Iron Tail!"
"Let's follow it up! Excalibur, Fury Cutter! Drill, Rollout!" Jaune ordered.
"Sirius, Karate Chop! Honey, Bug Bite!" Ren followed.
"Screecher, Tackle!" Blake added up.
The called Pokemon ran or flew through the smoke and charged towards the big Pokemon.
"I hope you didn't forget about us!" Russell said. "Diggersby, Hammer Arm!"
"Scrafty, Rock Climb!" Dove followed.
"Loudred, Echoed Voice!" Sky Lark followed after.
"You too, Dusclops! Shadow Ball!" came Cardin's command.
The four evolved Pokemon appeared behind Tyranitar and used their respective moves to, not only block the attacks, but also inflict damage on the smaller Pokemon. Scrafty on Screecher, Diggersby on Drill to Scout, Loudred on Sirius and Honey, and Dusclops on Excalibur.
"Screecher!" Blake cried out, as she witnessed her 'son' get slammed by the attack.
"Scout! Are you okay?!" Ruby asked, for as Diggersby's attack hit Drill, he also forced the Land Snake Pokemon to hit her Zigzagoon instead.
The Tiny Raccoon Pokémon shook his fur and replied, "Zagoon!"
You won't be okay for long! Tyranitar, Dark Pulse!" Cardin ordered. The Armor Pokemon shot out his beam once more at the group.
"Gallade, protect them! Wide Guard!" Seth commanded. His Blade Pokémon quickly summoned a shield at blocked the attack. "Leave Tyranitar to us! You guys do whatever you can to distract them from giving another command while we free him!"
"You got it!" Jaune agreed.
"Like that will ever happen!" Cardin exclaimed. "Everyone fire your attacks! Dark Pulse and Shadow Ball!"
"Mud Shot!"
"Focus Blast!"
"Echoed Voice!"
The five Pokemon fired their attacks at the group.
"Wide Guard again!" Gallade summoned a shield once more, blocking the attacks. The moment he lowered his shield, Dusclops was suddenly in front of him.
"Shadow Punch him away!" CRDL's leader ordered. The Beckon Pokémon punched the air and a shadowy fist was shot out of his hand and hit Gallade, the force of the attack was strong enough to force him into the building.
"Gallade!" Seth cried out. Something fell out of the hole Gallade made. Two somethings, both fell near Cardin's feet.
Said guy picked up both items. "What are these things?"
Seth and Sycamore instantly realized what were in his hands.
"Drop those things right now!" the former shouted, taking out another Pokeball. "Sableye, Knock Off!" His Darkness Pokémon appeared and ran towards Cardin.
"Get that thing away from me!" Scrafty, being the one near him, stood in the way of the attack. It hit, but didn't do much damage. "Well, well, well. These things must be important if you want them back so bad. But I wonder why that is and why they're familiar." As Cardin moved the band around, the gem inside was glowing every time it moved closer to Tyranitar, something they all notice. Cardin smirked at the sight, as did his teammates. "And I think I found my answers."
"Stop him, quick! Tyranitar is not ready for that yet!" Sycamore shouted.
"Cover me." Cardin's friends moved in to protect Cardin from whatever attempt Seth and the good Remnant Team have in stopping him from doing what they all thought he was doing.
"Crescythe, Quick Attack!" Ruby ordered. Her Absol tried to go past them when Dusclops used Shadow Sneak to intervene.
"Excalibur, Aerial Ace! Drill, Dig!" Jaune followed up. His Honedge charged at full speed while the Dunsparce tried to go underground. Diggersby, however, had other plans, as he stomped the ground hard enough to force Drill out and used his long ears to grab hold of Excalibur and threw him back to the group.
While the good guys were doing what they can to get to Cardin, the guy himself placed the band around Tyranitar's tail.
"There we go. Now... How does this thing work?" Cardin looked at the Keystone in his hand and tapped it constantly. "Do I just say,' Tyranitar, Mega Evolve' or-?" Before he could finish his question, the stone was lighting up, as was Tyranitar's stone. Streams of energy came out of both stones and connected, having Tyranitar to change shape.
"Oh no... It's too late," Seth said, as everyone was witnessing the turn of events.
Tyranitar grew bigger, as were the spikes on his shoulders, back and tail. He was also growing a horn on his head. The glow died down, revealing four more triangular holes on his neck and one on his throat. The four on his chest also got bigger, with the top two also having red circles within. Tyranitar also had gown spikes on its knees and leg joints.
"Now that! Is what I call a Pokemon!" Cardin cheered.
"Oh no... What have you done?" Seth asked.
"Oh ho! You're in for a world of pain," Dove laughed.
"Yeah! Now you guys are nothing compared to us!" Sky Lark added.
"You misunderstood me," the Pokemon translator corrected. "What I meant was... What have you done?"
The moment he repeated his question, Tyranitar's eyes became dangerously red. He let out a loud, terrifying roar, one that could be heard within a five mile radius as everyone covered their ears.
"That was loud!" Nora shouted.
Cardin, unlike everyone else who was worried, had on a bigger smile at the sound of the roar. "Now that is what I'm talking about!"
"You idiot! Don't you have any idea what you've done?!" Seth demanded.
"Of course I know; I have a powerful Pokemon in my control. Now Mega Tyranitar! Destroy them all!" Instead of listening to the command, the Tyranitar seemed to be having a headache. "Hey! I said destroy them!" Cardin hit the Armor Pokemon on the head, which was the biggest mistake of his life. Sparks were emitting from the color as Tyranitar's eyes were now completely glowing red. A growl was heard from him, one that Seth heard that sent chills through every bone in his body.
"Oh shit..." the Remnant Team and Sycamore heard.
"Seth?"
"What's going on?" Both Ren and Weiss asked.
"Everyone take cover! Quickly! Before it's too late!" the Pokemon Translator shouted.
Suddenly a sandstorm emerged in the area. While they were trying to block the sand from getting in their eyes, Mega Tyranitar was gathering energy to his mouth.
"Gallade! Come quick! Protect us with Wide Guard! Hurry!" The Blade Pokemon heard Seth's call and hurried to his trainer as fast as he could. Unfortunately, it was proven to be difficult with the storm.
As soon as Mega Tyranitar gathered enough energy, he released it all at everything in sight, destroying everything and sending everyone flying. They all landed painfully on the ground, away from the lab.
"Ow... Is everyone alive?" Ruby dared to ask. Hearing so many groans was more than enough proof that they were all alive, including Team CRDL.
Seth, being the one closest to Cardin, picked the boy up by his collar. "You idiot! Now everyone's going to die because of you!"
Just when Cardin was about to reply back, a crash was heard near them. They all turned and saw an extremely angry Mega Tyranitar.
"Wait, why is Tyranitar still a Mega?!" Jaune fearfully asked. Of what they know, Mega Evolution was only possible if there is a strong bond between trainer and Pokemon.
"Tyranitar's anger must've made it possible for him to keep his Mega Evolution!" Blake guessed.
"You have no idea how right you are right now," Seth said. Everyone looked at him, wanting to know why that is. "'Destroy... Must destroy... Destroy everything to ash...' Those are his words." He turned to Cardin. "And if we die here, it will be on your hands!"
Mega Tyranitar turned to the group and prepared another Hyper Beam.
"He's preparing another attack! Run!" Pyrrha shouted. Everyone agreed to the idea and scattered to safety, their Pokemon following or in their arms.
Running proved to be useless, for Tyranitar released his attack, sending some of them all flying once more, Team CRDL away from Lumoise City.
"You can't be serious!" Cardin shouted, as they were out of sight.
Back with the heroes, Mega Tyranitar was rampaging all over the place. The civillians of Lumoise City were all running to safety as quickly as they could.
"This is exactly what I was afraid of..." Sycamore said.
"We can still save him! We just have to get that collar off him, right?" Ruby encouraged.
"It is that collar that's causing this mess. He should be back to normal if we remove it," the Pokemon translator agreed.
"Then it looks like we have a mission on our hands! Team JNPR and Professor Sycamore, do whatever you can to get the civillians to safety! Seth, you know this city like that back of your hands! Go find Jackson and Yang! We need all the help we can get! The rest of us will have to do our best with either stalling or getting that collar off!" Everyone nodded at the fifteen-year-old's plan and got to work.
Team RWB and their Pokemon did what they could to have their speedy Pokemon get close enough to destroy the thing that was controlling Mega Tyranitar, which proved to be extremely difficult, especially with the Armor Pokemon using Outrage and continue the destruction.
An idea formed in Weiss's head. "Blake and I'll distract him! Ruby, try and get the collor off when we get his attention!" She saw the other two girls nod at her idea and got to work. "Aqua, Ice beam! Spew, String Shot!"
"Screecher, Supersonic!" Blake followed.
The three Pokemon did as told and got the Mega Armor Pokemon's attention on them, unfazed by the assaults. The moment he stepped closer to them, Ruby immediately did her part.
"Crescythe, Scout! Quick Attack and Iron Tail!" The Absol grabbed the Zigzagoon and ran straight to Tyranitar as fast as she could in the sandstorm. Just when they got close enough to Mega Tyranitar, the Armor Pokemon sensed their presence and used Outrage once more, knocking them away. The girls gritted their teeth when they saw their plan backfire on them.
With JNPR, they did what they could to protect nearby civilians and get them away from the rampaging Mega Pokémon.
Jaune looked around for more civilians and saw a mother and her daughter trying to catch up to the escapees, when a huge debris was falling above their heads. He quickly ran to them and pushed them away, attempting to take the hit for them.
Pyrrha noticed his attempt. "Jaune!"
Excalibur heard her cry for his master and quickly flew to him when he saw a debris about to land on him. The world was moving in slow motion as the Sword Pokemon moved in to protect his master. He knew he wouldn't make it in time to save Jaune, but Excalibur also knew he had to at least try and get to him, try and protect the one who gave him a name, a home, new memories, new strength. All those feelings surged through his body as he began to glow and change shape.
Jaune looked up and closed his eyes, bracing himself for impact. Instead, he heard the sound of something being cut. He took a peek and saw a brown plaque with two swords above him, both with light purple blades and pink tassels emerging from the handles, cut the debris into very, very small pieces. One of the tassels was holding the plaque.
At first look, Jaune was confused as to what the Pokemon before him was, if it was a Pokemon. But getting a better look at it, he realized what hhis Pokemon was. Or rather, who.
"Excalibur?"
"Doublade!" the Pokemon nodded, or what seemed like a nod.
"Y-You evolved! And learned a new move to boot!" he said excitedly. His evolved Sword Pokemon nodded once more.
"Thank you," both heard. They looked at the mother now carrying her daughter. "Thank you so much."
"No problem ma'am. Now run away from here." With a nod, the woman ran away from the scene. Pyrrha smiled at the heroic sight before going back to work.
Returning to Team RWB and Mega Tyranitar, the former were having a difficult time handling the latter. Every plan they have to get their Pokemon close to him, they get whacked away by the Mega Evolved Pokemon.
"Any other bright ideas?!" Weiss asked, annoyed that they weren't making progress.
"This sandstorm is especially making it worse!" Blake exclaimed.
"And it doesn't look like our Pokemon will continue much longer because of it!" Ruby added. True to her words, all their Pokemon were having a hard time staying in place.
Mega Tyranitar wouldn't let them recover and released a Dark Pulse on them. The impact of the attack on the ground near them was strong enough to blow them away, especially Screecher.
"Screecher!" Blake cried out. She used the force of the storm and her Faunus heritage to climb up buildings and jump from one to another to get to her boy.
"Blake!" her teammates called.
The cat Faunus disregarded their worry and kept running and jumping to her Noibat. She jumped off the highest point of tallest building in the area and managed to catch Screecher, but couldn't save herself from being blown.
"Noibat!" Screecher looked at his mom, worried.
"It's okay! I got you!" she assured. Unknown to her, she was going to crash into another tall building. Namely, Prism Tower.
Noibat noticed they were going to crash and quickly got out of Blake's arms. He then crawled to her back and grabbed the back of her shirt with his mouth, flapping his wings as hard as he could in an attempt to slow their soon-to-be crash or at least fly away from the building. Neither one worked, but he wasn't going to let his mother die, not after everything she did for him and certainly not until the crisis back in her world between her kind and her friends' end. With that strong feeling, Screecher flapped his wings much faster than ever, enough form a powerful gust of wind that slowed them drastically, enough for Blake to safely land on the edge of the tower.
Blake looked at her tired-looking Noibat, a smile forming on her face. "Screecher. Thank you. I'm so proud of you." She embraced him in a hug. Screecher smiled and hugged back. They both felt the storm slowly getting stronger and an idea formed in Blake's head. "That attack you did... Think you can do it again? More powerful, enough to stop this storm?"
Screecher looked at his mother and was about to question her, when he saw the most trusting ok in her eyes. Seeing that look, shivers ran through all bones in his body and he nodded. The cat Faunus released him as he took into the air. Like before, Screecher flapped his wing, harder than before. His flaps were stronger than before as he managed to let out a gust of wind that was big and strong enough to weaken the storm. Eventually, the gust was moving the same pace as the storm in a reverse formation. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to slow the storm. Just when the effort seemed useless...
"SNIVY!" A green storm appeared, supporting the gust of wind. Both Blake and Screecher looked down and saw Snivy down below, helping out in stopping the storm with Leaf Tornado. Accepting the assistance, Screecher kept going with his new move. Eventually, both attacks stopped the storm.
"Nice going, guys!" Blake cheered. Her Noibat followed in the cheer as the Snivy just looked accomplished with the deed.
Ruby and Weiss smiled, now having a slightly bigger chance of helping Mega Tyranitar. They turned to their said opponent.
"Now that the storm is gone, any suggestion with how we can get that collar off?" Weiss asked.
Ruby observed the thing controlling the big Rock/Dark-type Pokemon and noticed one part of the collar that seemed different from the rest. "I think I see a weak spot! If we break that, we could possibly free him!"
"Any idea how we can get his attention fully though?"
Ruby's silence proved that she had yet to come up with an idea for that, until...
"Hey ugly!" The girls, their Pokemon and Mega Tyranitar looked and saw Yang standing on top of a building, Leona and Firebird by her side.
"Yang!" her sister called.
"Just in time!" the heiress said.
"You can say that again! Now I can test out the new ammos!" Yang said. "Leona, Flame Charge! Firebird, Quick Attack!" Both Pokemon used their speed moves on Mega Tyranitar, distracting iim while Yang was activating her gauntlets. As soon as they were activated, filled with new ammos, Yang took a shot, letting a pink pulse of energy fly out of her gauntlet and hit its mark.
"What the-?! What was that bullet?!" Ruby asked.
"That would be a Moonblast," came Jackson's voice. "I don't know how, but I somehow managed to make a set of ammos that contains Gardevoir's Moonblasts. And man, am I blading glad to have started with that move because Fairy-type is one of the most effective types against Tyranitar."
Seth appeared and hit him on the head. "You idiot! Fairy-type is one of the Pokemon type that were in Tyranitar's torturous childhood!"
Jackson had a worried look on his face as he rubbed his new bump. "And that is bad because?"
"Leafe?" Leafeon tilted her head questionably.
A growl was heard and Mega Tyranitar was shown to be extremely angry as he glowed and stomped the ground. The ground glowed as well and cracks appeared all around the group. Soon enough, the ground below them erupted, inflicting damage to those nearby.
"Does this answer your question?!" the Pokemon translator demanded, as they tried to keep their balance.
"Yes! God, it terribly does!" Jackson cried out.
Fortunately for them, two blasts of flames were shot at Mega Tyranitar, ceasing the attack. At first, they assumed Yang shot them, but then remembered that Jackson said he only made one set of ammos. The group turned to the source and saw Fennekin and Chimchar behind them.
"Fen kin!"
"Cha-ar!" Both looked at the trainers and their Pokemon with determined looks.
"Looks like we have a pair of backups," Yang said.
Seth looked further back and smiled. "You mean a team of backups." The rest of them looked where he was looking and saw Oshawott, Pigpen, Cyndaquil and Chikorita helping out with the evacuation, as well as protecting JNPR from any falling debris.
"They're helping us?" Weiss questioned.
They heard Mega Tyranitar grunt and looked to see Froakie tossing some frubbles on his face, blocking his sight. It tossed more at his feet, immobilizing him. Then it tossed more on his hands, sticking them on his face.
"Froakie! Fro froakie!" the Bubble Frog Pokemon called.
They got the message and Ruby gave the order. "Crescythe! Razor Wind!" The Disaster Pokemon nodded and prepared to use her attack.
Just when she was about to fire, Mega Tyranitar fired a Dark Pulse their way. Redirecting her intended target, Crescythe used her Razor Wind on the beam instead. The crescent blades of energy only bounced off or got destroyed by the attack instead, but she wouldn't have any of that and kept firing more, slowly slowing down the hit, but not cancelling out the Dark-type move.
As Crescythe continuously fired her Razor Wind, her mind went back to her time in Remnant, how she and Ruby would face the seemingly impossible and succeed. She then thought back to their first arrival in her suppose-home world. Both she and Ruby made a promise that they would find Vanessa and wouldn't let anyone or anything stand in their way. No matter what happens, they will do what they did back in Remnant and surpass any type of dangers. The situation they're currently in was one of those dangers.
That said, Crescythe gathered as much energy as she could in her horn to release another Razor Wind. Instead, as she was gathering the energy, her horn began to glow light purple, much to everyone's shock. As Crescythe swung her head and released her attack, the purple crescent-shaped energy blade somehow cut through the Dark Pulse and hit the target; the collar's weak point. The moment the collar was destroyed, Mega Tyranitar reverted back to his normal form.
Seth took a step forward. "Tyranitar. Are you feeling okay?"
Rather than get an answer, Tyranitar got his hands and the frubbles off his face and stared at the group before him, mainly Crescythe and Ruby. Before they knew it, the Armor Pokemon jumped on the fifteen-year-old and her Pokemon and, to their shock, surprise and relief, the big guy was only happily licking and cuddling the two saviors.
Ruby tried to protect herself from the playful assault. "Whoa! Hey, wait! Stop! That tickles!"
The rest of the team just watched on with smiles on their faces.
"Well, looks like we managed to stop further destruction from happening," Jackson said.
"And Tyranitar opened up to more people," Seth added.
"I still find it hard to believe that that big Pokemon is a softie," Weiss said, pointing out to how Tyranitar was just sitting there, crushing Ruby and Crescythe in his hug.
"Okay, okay! You can stop now!" the former begged as the latter squirmed to get out of his grip.
Those present simply laughed at their unluck. Yang and Jackson fistbumped for the success of the ammos, when Yang, forgotten to deactivate her gauntlets, accidentally sent Jackson flying into a building. Everyone looked at her in shock.
"It was an accident! I swear!" Yang panicked. "Jackson! Are you okay?!"
"I'm okay!" he called. Some of the building crumbled down on top of him. "Less okay..."
Few days later, after helping the clean up and repairing the damages done to Lumoise City, as well as Jackson getting a full recovery, Team Remnant stood at the front of the mostly-repaired Pokemon laboratory. With them were Sycamore, his assistants, and Tyranitar.
"Must you really go?" the Pokemon professor asked.
"As much as we want to stay longer, we have a mission to complete. And we can't make any more delays. Not unless if they can help them get stronger," Seth reasoned, gesturing to the Huntsmen.
Sycamore smiled at the reason. "I understand. I would give you new Trainers a Starter Pokemon, but I don't know what happened to them all. Well, half of them at least. Including Nora's Tepig."
"Don't worry. We can gain new allies along the way," Pyrrha assured.
"I like Pigpen though..." her hyperactive teammate pouted.
"It can't be helped. We better go now," Jaune said. Just as they turned to leave, Ruby and Jaune each had three Pokeballs thrown to their faces and tripped on another, falling on their back or butt.
"Oww... Who threw those?" the red-cloaked girl groaned.
To their surprise, the eight Starter Pokemon from the other day, Pigpen included, stood behind them with a Pokeball in front of them. Before any of them could ask anything, each nudged or simply gave a Pokeball to each trainer.
"Call me crazy, but I think they want to come with us," Jackson said.
"Is that true?" Ren asked the Chikorita before him.
As if to answer his question, each Pokemon tapped the Pokeball, getting sucked in. Froakie to Ruby, Fennekin to Weiss, Snivy to Blake, Chimchar to Yang, Oshawott to Jaune, naturally Pigpen to Nora, Cyndaquil to Pyrrha and Chikorita to Ren. The balls twitched a couple of times and stopped with a click.
They were all happy to know they each gained a new friend. Sycamore, Seth, Jackson and the assistants looked happy for the eight teens.
'Looks like it has to be them,' Sycamore thought. 'I have a feeling these eight kids will help unravel the mysteries of Mega Evolution. Especially, that one.'