Chapter 9 – Reunion and Revelation – Genesis Revealed!
Moments earlier -
Ash, John, Rick and Ash entered room, and faced Esper, with grunt, boy with Team Magma outfit and boy with hairstyle that looked like cicle of moon. "No good..." said Daren. "Esper, grunt and Xet are easy ones, but that Eclipse would be here... This is not good thing at all". Ash looked confused, but Rick and John nodded. "Yeah... Leader of Grunts, Eclipse... He is hard one... He is one of strongest ones without "Highbreed DNA"..." commented John. "Ok, I make one thing clear boys", said Esper. "I will handle Daren, Eclipse that kid with Pikachu, grunt John and Xet Rick. Any questions?" "None", all said, and picked their Pokeballs. "This is Tag Duel, so I team up with Grunt, and Xet and Eclipse will be team". "Sure thing", said Daren, and all four picked pokeballs too.
(Same intermission, so read from chapter 6)
"Let's do this Boldore!", Ash said and revealed his stone-type. Rick also picked pokeball, and tossed it. "We have fight to handle, so come out!" Pokeball opened, revealing Lucario. "Fine, burn them up, Houndoom!", Xet said and revealed his fire/dark pokemon. "Hmph", said Eclipse while tossing pokeball. "It seems we have trash to take out, Kabutops". Pokeball opened, revealing fossil-pokemon with two sicles on it's arms. "Boldore, Flash Cannon!" Boldore started charge energy, and shooted it at Houndoom. "Houndoom, use Fire Fang to Lucario and dodge!" Houndoom jumped, and was going to use Fire Fang to Lucario, when it was hitted by Focus Punch of Lucario. "Sorry about that... Lucario and I have link, so I can order it without saying anything..." "Kabutops, Surf", said Eclipse, and soon whole arena was floating from water, both Boldore and Houndoom taking quite amount of damage. "Why did you attack my Houndoom too?" asked Xet with angry tone, causing Eclipse to glare him for moment. "I do anything to complete mission, expect cheat. So, shut your mouth". "Bouldore, are you ok?" Ash asked, and Bouldore raised from ground. "Now, sand attack on Kabutops!" Bouldore smaked wet sand on Kabutops face, causing it to fell to it's knees. "Why you little... Use Sword Dance!" Kabutops raised with pissed face, and did what it was told to. "Now, Fury Cutter!" Kabutops jumped in air, and was going to hit Lucario. "Lucario, Aura Sphere!" thought Rick, and Lucario shooted powerful Aura Sphere at Kabutops, causing it to fly back and go unconscious. "It seem you need more training..." said Eclipse and returned Kabutops, and was left from door that oppened in wall. "Houndoom, attack Lucario with Fire Blast!" Xet ordered. "Bouldore, use Flash Cannon!" In moment, Houndoom was hitted by beam of light, and it fainted. "Well, relax now girl..." Xet said while returning Pokemon. "That was good match. See ya!" Xet said, and left also.
Meanwhile, Daren's Gallade was fighting Espers Toxicroak, and Johns Steelix was facing Electrawire of grunt, and was winning. "Steelix, Rock Tomb!" Steelix roared and raised stone prison around Electrawire. "Now, use Iron Tail!" Steelix smashed prison with Iron Tail, but Electrawire had used Thunder Punch to block Iron Tail. "Good job Electrawire!" female Grunt said. "Now, continue with your Mega Punch!" Electrawire did what was ordered, but was knocked out by Steelix' tail. "Wha... I will get you for this!" Grunt yelled, returning Electrawire to pokeball and runned out from secret door. "Bah, weakling..." said Esper. "Toxicroak, Poison Jab!" Toxicroak tried to hit Gallade with Poison Jab, but it had used Future Sight, so it dodged most of attacks. "Gallade, Leaf Blade", said Daren, and Gallade hitted Toxicroak, and sent it back flying. "Keep going with Psy-cutter". Gallade launched several blades to Toxicroak, which caused explosion and fainting of Toxicroak. "Hmph... You got lucky, but your luck will run out!" said Esper, and went to door which closed after him. "Ok, we were last, so let's open lower levels to elevator, shall we?
When teams lowered switches, heard low "Click" and elevator raised up, revealing another one. "I see..." Daren said. "Elevator was hidden, so we had to use switches afterall..." "Did you notice something?" asked Peter. "This has been too easy..." "Nah, we are just so awesome", Alex and Rick said at same time. "Peter is right..." Steven said. "Chaos was not as strong as usually..." "Let's think it later", Ash said. "We have to release them!".
After small elevator ride, group arrived to room where was lot of cells, with prisoners sleeping on floor: Dawn, May, Max, Misty, Brock and Oak. Also, in one cell had two crystals. "Ok, let's release them", said Daren, and opened doors of elevator, when suddenly whole floor was filled with haze, and Toxic was front of them. "Ok, I will make you deal. I release them If you win, but If I win, they will stay and you leave, ok?" "Sure", Daren said, and both tossed pokeballs: Toxic had Seviper, and Daren Regigigas (You don't need to be rocket scientist to know who will lose): In moment, Seviper was knocked out by Regigigas' Giga Impact, and Toxic fled from secret tunnel.
"Dawn- Dawn!" Dawn heard her name to be repeated, and opened her eyes, to see Ash and others, and that cell doors were open. "Thank god, Ash! You were not captured!" Dawn hugged Ash. "Why you were captured?" Ash asked. "We're not sure... Their agents suddenly appeared and kidnapped us before we could say "Ludicolo"..." Brock answered. "I see..." Z said. "My henchman are up to something bad... After I became Leader we have only sometimes assisted in this kind of missions, and even then so that other teams take all honor. But now, when they don't know I haven't been informed about this..." Z closed her eyes. "I wonder who is leading them now..." said Daren. "We'll see soon", said Sarah, and pointed elevator. "His office should be 2 floors below us right? So why we just don't ask him?" "Hmm..." Sirius thought. "This won't end up good..."
Rest of way down, there was no guards, wich make group bit suspicious: Umbra had over 500 Grunts, about 50 in each hideout, but now there was no-one in whole way to Leaders room. When group arrived to door, it opened, and in there was table, Hypnos and chair, back to entrance. "I see you made it..." echoed voice in room, and Z, Sirius and Daren got half-scared, half surprised face on their faces. "That voice... It cannot be... Not him..." Man in chair turned chair, and revelation was caused shocked face to everybody , expect Ash, his friends and Steven. "I thought you were dead... Theodor." Z said. "What?" Ash, Iris and Cylan said with same time. "Yes... Theodor Umbra, original starter of Protect Highbreed... How did you survive the Explosion of Sirius?" Theodor laughed moment, and answered: "Easily. You see, before Sirius used Explosion, I used my Alakazam and teleported away..." "And, there is other thing you know", he said, and disappeared from his seat, and appeared behind group. "I also implanted myself with DNA I reserved to me... and Sirius' stealer abilities prototype... I wait till I get one DNA I desire, and then, I will be invincible!" "That was Shadow Force... How did you get DNA of Giratina?" "It is long story," said Theodor. "I also possess DNA Snatcher, so I need DNA of Original One, and I am complete..." Theodor grinded. "By to way, you can call me "Shade"..." he said. "And since I don't have any need for you, I think you should disappear with this place..." Shade grinded. "Soon, I will use legendary Pokemons to create copy from Archeus, and then rule this dimension!" Shade laughed, and said something to microphone. "Voltorbs and Electrodes", he started. "There is over 100 Voltorbs and Electrodes below this floor," Hypnos said and grinded. "EXPLOSION". After saying, Shade and Hypnos were gone, and whole place darkened when Ash and group lost consciousness.
Outside, Shadow Four was waiting with Grunts and other members of Umbra, and of course Team Rocket, when Hypnos and Shade appeared. "Jumping between dimension of Unowns is much better than Teleport, isn't it Hypnos?" Hypnos asked, and shade nodded. "They should be dead by now... We shall move to second Hideout, and start Genesis!" Grunts cheered, and left through forest to second Hideout.
WHAT? HIGHBREEDS STARTER WAS MYSTERIOUS LEADER? IS ASH AND HIS TEAM DEAD? BE SURE TO READ NEXT CHAPTER TO FIND OUT! (Yeah from this you can guess that you did not get rid of him yet*.)
(*= Unfortunately.)