Chapter forty eight: Xenophobia (Act three: The Broken World)

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PREVIOUSLY ON LEGENDARY PKMN…

"I…I'll kill you…! ABSOLIX!"

"Regigigas is a class Five legendary. Hypothetically, he is even stronger than Arceus right now."

"I am Clear Bell. I am the traitor whom Arceus foolishly trusted."

"Do you not comprehend?

I have eaten Mewtwo.

His power is now mine."

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"I assume you did not illogically come here for nothing. What is it you desire from me?" asked the purple colored Pokemon.

Mewtwo stared at Xeno, who just now realized how broken his predecessor looked. The psycat gazed downwards, as if filled with regret. Finally, after some silence, Mewtwo looked back up at Xeno.

And he did what must be done.

"You are the fourth clone of Mew, correct? That means you share the same DNA as I, correct?" said the purple psychic.

"…Indeed." Xeno noted, "In fact I share much of my original DNA with you, more so than Mewthree."

"And it's true that… they say you can defeat Absolix?"

"Indeed." said Xeno once again, "I grow stronger each and every day. My power level is now 112,079, combined with the fact that I am a logical being and the fact that I can cancel his powers, Absolix will be destroyed by me. Quite soon in fact."

"…" Mewtwo looked at his clone blankly. Not even Xeno could guess what was going on in his mind. Finally, he spoke

"I did some research on you ever since you infiltrated Tajiri High…" Mewtwo began, "According to your astounding genetic code, you really will be able to defeat Absolix at the rate you are going."

Xeno blinked once "I'm glad you agree with me. Am I to logically assume you are not hostile?"

"Yes." Mewtwo said, "In addition to this I found out the nature of your astounding ability. The mouth on your back."

Xeno stood still. His power over dark matter had been a lie to Absolix- any dark type could do that with enough practice. No, his true ability, his trump card, was the giant mouth that covered his back.

With it and its four tongues, he was able to take in literally anything and convert it into raw energy. In this way he could recover from major wounds in mere seconds. However, almost no one knew this due to the brown cape he always wore.

"I see. Truly, you are my ancestor." the dark purple monstrosity complimented.

"I have a proposition for you, Xeno."

"Very well, what is it?"

"I want you to absorb me."

For the first time, Xeno was surprised. His four eyes became a bit wider than usual "I'm sorry…?"

"Given our similar genetic data, if you were to absorb me not only could you heal yourself but more importantly gain an increased power level by a factor of-"

"-fifty thousand…" Xeno finished his sentence, "Which would logically forward my plans by almost 34% faster…"

Mewtwo stayed silent. Xeno overlooked this proposition, in which there was absolutely no drawbacks for him, only gains. Mewtwo spoke up, asking him if he had any qualms about 'eating' his older brother. Xeno replied that he did not.

"I am a being of pure logic." he said, "If you consent then I will do it without illogical hesitation."

Mewtwo looked Xeno in the eyes "I consent."

"But before I do… may I ask why?" Xeno said. Mewtwo told him that he was and would never be anything but a petty clone of Absolix. His thoughts, desires, and even personality would inevitably be shaped by him no matter what he did. The only way to escape this horrid fate was by destroying Absolix.

But he could not do that. Worse still, his insanity grew every day, and he threatened to harm his friends, nearly killing one of them today. He could not risk himself performing another such incident, which is why this method would be perfect for him. In this way, he could disappear and yet still contribute towards defeating Absolix.

"…I see." Xeno noted, "Yes, that does make sense. Due to the limitations of previous technology, I suppose you would suffer such an existence…" thought the man.

"End my pain." Mewtwo begged him. The dark psychic took off his cape, and turned around to reveal a giant mouth on his back. Four black tongues lashed out, and casually touched Mewtwo.

"Are you ready?" Xeno asked. Mewtwo showed no hesitation.

"Do it."

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End Flashback

The members of Calestia could not believe it. Even Celebi, now turned foe, gaped at the sheer horror of what Mewtwo did to himself. There was a dead silence when Xeno finished. His four eyes looked at them with utmost seriousness. He was telling the truth.

Mercifond trembled all over her body. The rest of them fared no better, shaking with the unanimous certainty that Mewtwo was forever gone.

"You… You…!" Malispite growled lowly, a small tear in his eye.

"Do you understand now?" Xeno asked impatiently, "If so, then I must be going. I will find Absolix, and I will defeat him this time."

As Xeno turned away, a giant Shadow Ball zoomed next to him, prompting him to stop. Sighing, he turned around to face Deoxys, now more enraged than she had been in her entire life.

"Give… him… back…!" she demanded in a harsh voice.

"Were you not paying attention?" Xeno stated, "Mewtwo is dead. His power is now mine. Do not be so illogical."

"Mewtwo didn't know what he was saying! It was his insanity that said that, not him!" Deoxys shouted.

"It was that very insanity that prompted him to me." replied the dark psychic.

And then, they heard clapping. Xeno automatically narrowed his eyes at something behind them. Turning around, they saw a long black haired human. He was tall, with a black trench coat, a black and red striped shirt, golden colored eyes and blue pants.

"Wow, you messed them up pretty bad." the human smiled. Celebi whipped around, immediately suspicious.

"Who are you, and why did I not sense you coming?" she glared.

"Because I didn't want you to until now." said the man with a large grin.

"What do you want, Takamura?" Xeno sighed. At this, the members of Calestia knew who he was- the man who Gliscor once fought, but last time he was in the body of a robot. Now he had come in person.

"New orders from up top." said the man, "Absolix is definitely here, but we lost his aura about thirty minutes ago. We think he's still here. Oh and also, someone hacked our system. We think it was the secret agents, so if you see any of those, kill them on sight."

"Fine." said the dark purple Pokemon, despite knowing who it was really was who hacked the system.

"Oh, and you guys." Gin addressed the members of Calestia, "For someone with as high a power level as Mewtwo, it'll take about an hour to digest.

So if you pull him out of Xeno's mouth within thirty minutes or so, he should be pretty much intact."

Wide eyes flooded the area. The teenaged Pokemon realized that if he was right, they could save Mewtwo!

"Gin!" Xeno raised his voice "Why did you tell them that?"

"Because this looks like a fun fight." Gin leaned against one of the walls, "And besides, what are you so angry about? You claim to be able to beat Absolix, what's a bunch of kids compared to you?"

Xeno stood still, eyes narrowed at the most annoying member of Team Rocket "I do not get angry. Emotions are illogical, therefore I do not have any."

"Whatever you say man." Gin waved his hand, "We'll watch the show and see."

Xeno turned to face his opponents; Malispite, Mercifond, Gallade, Deoxys, and some sort of caged Gardevoir.

"This will be over soon." Xeno warned them "Infinite Darkness!"

A gargantuan ocean of darkness was summoned and crashed down upon the members of Calestia. Thinking them done in by his attack, Xeno did not see Gallade's Leaf Blade striking him in the gut, sending him back a few feet and leaving a small gash.

"Yeah, no." Gallade said, everyone else was behind him and perfectly okay, being protected by a shield made by Mercifond.

"…very well. I shall use more power." Xeno used Endless Wave, an attack that shot a purple and black beam from a small sphere that was able to penetrate concrete with ease. The narrow attack missed, letting the members of Calestia split up and go to either side of Xeno.

"Infinite Darkness!" Xeno summoned more streams of dark energy and launched them at his foes. When they dodged, he twisted the dark matter until it formed a perfect sphere encompassing them all- and then he imploded it.

He let the teenaged Pokemon fall to the ground. They cringed in pain, but managed to stand back up.

"As you can see, by absorbing your friend my telekinetic powers have increased tremendously." Xeno stated, "Now I have absolute control over my attacks- Psychic!"

A repulsive blast shook the area, but Mercifond shielded them again with her Angel's Defense and Chosen One Shield. Her brother gathered power and flat out ignored the blast, speeding at Xeno with a Thunderpunch in hand.

Before the moment of contact, Xeno flew up into the air and launched another Psychic that sent Malispite into the ground, then summoned twin orbs and fired two Endless Waves at them.

That's when Deoxys came up behind him and used her shifter powers to wrap him up in her arms. Crashing down, she yelled to Gallade "NOW!"

The green psychic had been charging a Swords Dance this entire time. Finally ready, twin blue halos surrounded his arm, now encompassed by their armor like capability. Gallade tensed his muscles and used Close Combat the second Deoxys let go. The blow hit Xeno like a miniature explosion- he fell.

Just before hitting the ground the man stabilized himself, and saw an oncoming Mercifond and Malispite ready to take him out.

"Enough…" Xeno launched five Endless Waves at them both, hitting the two siblings, knocking them back into the walls.

"Whoa! It looks like this guy might be too much for them!" Terrakion noted.

"Focus brother!" yelled Cobalion, beginning to sweat.

"ZAP CANNON." The metallic monster launched three separate spheres of electricity aimed at each of the three fighting brothers. All of them, being fast, managed to dodge the spheres.

"Now, hit him again!" Cobalion commanded. They suddenly grew aura horns, and at each angle slashed the creature with their Sacred Sword attack. Registeel fell to the ground, but got up and launched a wave of Flash Cannons at them.

Virizion luckily had prepared for this- he created a magnetic seal, which drew all of the Flash Cannons away long enough for his brothers to use Swords Dance, make their horns resembled giant blades, and slash him once again with Sacred Sword.

This time, Registeel did not get up. Its red eyes dimmed until they turned a dull grey.

"We… we did it!" Terrakion smiled, "That thing was harder than I thought…"

"No time for that, we have to help our friends." Cobalion turned to Calestia, still struggling to fend off Xeno.

"Wait!" Virizion got their attention. The metal key began to repair itself suddenly. A green halo seemed to makes its wounds all but disappear, until finally it stood back up.

"Oh no you don't…" Celebi glared at them, right behind Registeel "I need to awaken Regigigas for Absolix. You three will be eliminated!"

"Crap!" Cobalion cursed, now they had to deal with not only Registeel, but Celebi as well. He needed a good plan and he needed it fast. Virizion interrupted his train of though by pointing out that there was something weird with the ceiling.

Indeed there was, a red yellow and blue seal suddenly appeared on the ceiling, and small rocks started crumbling down. Then, suddenly and without warning the roof of the Hippowdon Temple collapsed.

"What!?" Celebi looked upwards.

"SACRED FIRE!"

A purple flame erupted from the sky, aimed directly at Celebi and Registeel. They were both singed by this super effective attack, causing them both to fall away.

From the blue skies came none other than Ho-oh. He zoomed down with his majestic rainbow wings and perched next to the three fighting brothers.

"Ho-oh…" Cobalion said in awe.

"Celebi…!" Ho-oh tried to restrain himself, "You… we heard everything!"

"What!?"

"This temple is under Arceus' jurisdiction! She heard everything! She's the one who called for the roof to collapse to make entering easier!" Ho-oh shouted "Why Celebi!? Why!?"

"Like you would understand." the grass fairy said bitterly, "Come on Ho-oh, I'll take you on! This will be over before you even know it!"

"No it won't." Ho-oh said lowly, "Like I said, Arceus heard everything. And so did all of us.

More are coming."

This was supposed to be threat, but Celebi was completely unwavered "Fine then. I'll beat them too. Anything to revive Regigigas."

"You can't possibly hope to win!" the crimson bird shouted, "Give up and accept your punishments!"

"No. I will win." said the grass legend, "Because Ho-oh, there's something I've never told anyone since my time in the Hall.

I am a class Four Legendary."

"You bluff." The fire phoenix narrowed his eyes. In response, Celebi's EPressure suddenly flooded the entire area, created a couple small shockwaves as it released from her body.

"Release Command:" Celebi's eyes glowed an unnatural blue, "Wrath of Gaia."

Still more power flooded the area, as well as a blinding light that the four had to shield their eyes from. Even Registeel was interested, trying to discern whether it would have to fight this new Pokemon. And then finally, when it was over, Ho-oh gaped at the sight.

Celebi's head had literally opened up like a flower in bloom, the peak of her head now a reddish pink unopened bud. Her eyes had become oval shaped with dot patterns around them in black. Celebi's body had become slightly larger and longer, with her legs ending in points instead of feet. The grass surrounding her wrists was brimmed with grass, giving her forearms the shape of gloves. Two thorny, twisting vines had replaced her fairy wings.

"Celebi…" the great bird breathed.

"This is my real appearance." said the sinister version of Celebi floating beside him "Shocked?"

Needless to say, he was. The three muskadeer's, watching all of this, tried to lift Ho-oh's spirit.

"We might be weakened, but we can take care of Registeel, Ho-oh sir." said Terrakion, "If you can take care of Celebi…"

Ho-oh continued to stare at this green plantlike monstrosity that used to be his companion. Her power was no joke- the great flaming phoenix could feel how much she was holding back her power, and if his calculations were right, she really would be a class Four.

Considering he was a class Three, unless help arrived he had no chance of winning.

"You three do that." Ho-oh said instead, "Don't worry. I've got her."

"Cute." Celebi noted his lie, while the three fighting types went to guard the final dais. Ho-oh remained firm.

"Sacred Fire!" he got in the first move, encasing Celebi within a sphere of purple fire. The flames danced gracefully, but Ho-oh knew that could not be the end of it. Sure enough he was right- through a time portal came Celebi, who slammed him to the ground with a thorny Energy Ball attack. When Ho-oh looked up, he saw five total Celebi who quickly put him to rest with a combined Psychic.

The bird was hit, but he got back up despite the injuries. "Temporal cloning." the Celebi's explained "And yes, I can anchor myself to this time period as often as I need to."

Ho-oh always thought Celebi's strength lay in her ability to heal. He now realized he had been wrong- this was her real strength, the ability to summon herself from the future or past. Not only did this mean she had limitless clones at her disposal, she could dodge any of his attacks by warping to the future.

Worse still, if he did hit her, she could just journey back in time to warn herself about it. This was the type of opponent Ho-oh did not like to face- a dodger.

"Thinking about your next move?" Celebi asked rhetorically, "That's right Ho-oh, I can dodge anything you can throw at me and hit you back twice as hard. Surely you realize how futile this is?"

Ho-oh knew that to warn herself about an upcoming attack, he would see it because the clone would be injured and manifest itself here in this time. But that still left the matter of her able to warp back and forth through time to make sure his attacks never connected.

"Maybe it is futile." said the phoenix, "Or maybe you're still bluffing."

"Fine then. Energy Ball." she launched yet another Energy Ball with thorns at him, and he dodged this by flapping into the air. Behind him he heard something and lashed out with Brave Bird, almost hitting a Celebi, spying an injured one from the corner of his eye.

"Shit!" he used Flamethrower to scatter the clones, but one came up from below and fire a Psychic right in his belly, causing him to lurch. He fired more Flamethrowers and Fire Blasts left and right, hoping to hit something but instead Celebi expert fully evaded each and every one of his moves.

The grass pixie retaliated this effort by slamming an exhausted Ho-oh with a Psychic attack. Ho-oh was too tired to fly and plummeted to the ground. His opponent taunted him at his wasted effort.

"Nice Sacred Fire attack two minutes from now." Celebi smirked, as an injured one told her something "I'll be sure to avoid it."

The great bird cringed in pain. Did her technique have no weaknesses? Was it even possible that Ho-oh could defeat this traitor?

And then he spied something. The injured Celebi from earlier vanished, but just as it did, he noticed purple flames that were burning her. His Sacred Fire attack had a nasty side effect of nearly un-healable burns that lasted for a long time. Even now, his original two Sacred fires were still consuming the ground without signs of stopping.

It was the fact that the celebi had the burn at all that made Ho-oh think "Maybe… just maybe…"

"What are you muttering about?" Celebi asked. Ho-oh stared straight at her. He had a plan. Using simple signs, he created a small seal invisible to his opponent. Then he initiated his plan.

"Roost!" he declared. His injuries slowly began fading away. Celebi scoffed at this new attack.

"Like I'll let you heal. Psy-"

And then another wormhole opened up. But this one was much, much bigger than Celebi. Another Celebi tumbled through the wormhole, in addition to a large bumbling object that also fell on the ground.

The object was actually a Pokemon, and it stood up with a huge grin on its beak.

"It worked." Ho-oh said to himself from a minute into the past. The first Ho-oh grinned, while the Celebi could not believe what had happened.

"I'm sorry." the Celebi from earlier said, "A minute ago, Ho-oh used Roost and I went to use Psychic on him when he suddenly switched to an offensive Brave Bird. He grabbed me, then used some kind of seal that made me warp here!"

"That would be the classic energy activation seal." said one of the Ho-oh, "With the right know how, it forces you to use your powers. A basic seal really, but of so useful don't you agree?"

"I do agree." said the other Ho-oh "And now that I have help, I think its time to turn the tables."

Celebi frowned from up above. She thought Ho-oh couldn't do anything since he hardly knew much about seals or dimension altering, but to think he could use such a basic technique in such a way…

"I'll be sure not to repeat that." Celebi said, "But it doesn't matter one bit. Even a hundred of you wouldn't be able to stop me."

"We'll see about that." the Ho-oh's charged at the Celebi's.

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The pink psycat had lost sight of Gliscor for some reason. She wandered aimlessly through the maze like cavern and all of its tricks and traps. Somehow, her reflexes were surprisingly good today because he hadn't even been touched once. Her psychic powers must have been increased, because she somehow knew that the traps were going to happen before they actually.

"Xeno." Mewthree whispered. She could sense his aura, it was very close. From the looks of it, he was engaged in battle. She would soon help him "Please wait just a little longer…"

And then she collapsed. Mewthree felt extreme nausea unlike anything else, and it was so sudden she had no time to prepare herself. On the ground, she spat out saliva, her arms wobbling as the psycat struggled to remain in a crouched position.

And then she saw it. There was the green haired girl, Gardevoir. But she had concentric blue eyes for some reason. She mumbled something to Absolix, who looked concerned

Suddenly, Gardevoir plunged at Absolix. He tried to defend, but she struck him in the heart. Gardevoir was gone, and Absolix became motionless, and Mewthree could see he was breathing harshly and skating from pain.

The images stopped as suddenly as they came. Mewthree gasped, and was instantly out of her painful state. Slowly she stood back up, wondering what had overtook her. Was she sick or something? And what was with that disturbing image?

For some reason though, she could not dismiss her vision as something ordinary. The girl felt a sense of urgency, so she doubled her speed to find Xeno, and possibly Absolix as well.

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"We meet again, Cresselia."

His grin made her freeze in place. His dark presence oozed danger, even more so to the frightened girl. Her rational mind tried to think of every possible explanation as to why this should not be happening, but it failed.

"N-No…!" she whimpered. Cresselia knew this man, the Pokemon that had given her nightmares for months as she was forced to replay the gruesome image of Latioux's death over and over.

This was Zoroark.

"Fancy meeting you here." he took a step forward, an action alone that made Cresselia leap back "Stay away!" she shouted.

"Stay away?" asked the mad man, "But Cresselia… how can I do that when you keep coming towards me?"

Behind her, another Zoroark, just as menacing as the first. She instinctively fired a Psycho Cut at it but to no avail as it was just an illusion. She was struck from behind by the real Zoroark.

"Remember me from before!?" Zoroark had her pinned with his hand, Cresselia madly trying to break free like a wild animal. Tears were in her eyes, and her opponent could practically smell the fear.

"Oh this is rich! What a grand coincidence! I heard Arceus sent a team to stall the revival of Regigigas, but YOU'RE on it!?" he laughed.

His touch alone made Cresselia want to scream. She was reminded of the bloody death he had caused her uncle. The tears streamed faster, finally she broke free with an Ice Beam.

"Lugia! Lugia!" she cried in fear, only to be smacked again by a dark type attack.

"Lugia isn't here this time!" Zoroark laughed, "What's wrong, you've got water in your eyes girl, SCARED!?"

Instantly he was in front of her and punched her into a wall. Cresselia literally had no strength to fight- her fear was so overwhelming she lost all consciousness, rendering her a mindless little girl pathetically screaming for a white bird that would not arrive.

"This is pathetic, really." Zoroark sighed. He smacked her around a bit with a Dark Pulse attack, "You're just so helpless you know? Just because I killed your uncle, you're so scared of me now that you can't even move.

Pathetic."

She was hit again and again, still screaming, sometimes for Lugia, sometimes just to scream.

"You're not even worth killing." sighed the black fox "I guess I'll do it later, I have better things to do than smite babies."

"Lu…gia…" whimpered the once proud swan. Zoroark gave her one last Dark Pulse attack, and then he was gone, walking away laughing to himself.

It took Cresselia thirty minutes to realize he was gone for good. She lay there, injured and broken, paralyzed by a fear so overwhelming it made every other hardship seem useless by comparison. She was utterly defeated in both body and spirit, now her tears and blood smeared the floor a putrid color.

She lay there, hating herself and wishing for Lugia to come save her.

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Gardevoir felt tired.

"You care for the boy do you not?"

She did.

"Let me take control." said the voice, strangely familiar to her. "I will give you enough power to defeat Absolix. Help me, and we will kill him."

She accepted without hesitation.

Gin chuckled at all the trouble he had caused. Thanks to him, Xeno was fighting off against Gliscor's friends. All and all, a good day's work. Not that he hated Xeno, the guy just needed to be knocked down a few pegs so that he could relate to the real world.

Also, apparently there were TWO Ho-oh's fighting a multitude of Celebi's and some Unova Pokemon fighting Registeel. With such brawls taking place, he started to feel a little left out.

"Hey Absolix, come and talk to me!" he smiled. There was a brief pause before the fallen angel himself materialized out of nowhere.

"I can't believe you were able to sense me…" Absolix muttered, walking over to him.

"Wasn't all that hard." Gin shrugged, "Talk to me, I'm bored. What's new with you?" he asked as if they were casual friends.

"Well I've been researching this 'Sapien City' of yours." said Absolix, standing next to him, "A human only city… who knew they could do something like that?"

"Yep, General White hates pretty much every Pokemon." shrugged Gin nonchalantly.

"Unfortunately there isn't much on it. The city is enclosed in more ways than one, anything going on in there is an explicit secret…" the white humanoid looked at Gin, "So if you would mind telling me what exactly you are?"

"Where's the fun in that?" grinned the black haired man. Absolix chuckled at this amusing exchange.

"So, Xeno is supposed to beat me?" said Absolix.

"Yeah I don't buy it either." said the black haired man, "Sure he'll be stronger than either you or me one day, but strength isn't everything and he doesn't get that."

"Wise words." noted Absolix.

"By the way, what's with that girl over there." pointed Gin in the direction of Gardevoir. Absolix's eyes fell on her too.

"Ah, so you sense that?"

"It's faint, but yes." Gin smiled, "So what's with her? Is she like your illegitimate daughter or something?"

"It's complicated." shrugged Absolix, "Let's just say she will be a very valuable weapon in the war to come."

"Yeah." Gin sighed, "It might not be the war you expect though. It's going to be way messier."

At this, Absolix raised an eyebrow, "Sapien City is planning war with Arceus?"

"You bet. Don't tell anyone though, it's supposed to be a 'secret'." quoted Gin. Absolix raised an eyebrow

"Would you consider an alliance with me?" spoke Absolix, dead serious.

"Our leader hates all Pokemon remember?" smiled Gin, "It'll be a three way."

"Lovely." said Absolix sarcastically. Suddenly, Mewthree emerged from one of the caverns. Xeno, still fighting the 'Calestia', noticed this and quickly rushed to her side. As the two men watched from a distance, they hurriedly spoke a few words, and then the two faced off against Calestia together.

"Oh joy, my apprentice has arrived and joined forces with one of my enemies." noted the fallen angel. Gin laughed at this, remarking how he too thought it was a bit fishy that Mewthree was so in love with Xeno.

The psychic feline and her love fought the likes of Gallade, Mercifond, Malispite and Deoxys brilliantly. Though Xeno did most of the work, their combined teamwork utterly crushed the combinations of their opponents.

With Mewthree's speed and Xeno's power, the likes of the powerhouses Gallade and Malispite fell before their might.

Deoxys and Mercifond stood against them.

"That does it." Deoxys scowled. She raised her hand, which now had a blue symbol on it "Release Command: Shift!"

The blue seal shattered on her arm. Whispering something quickly to Mercifond, the girl charged forth alone. Mewthree charged right at her, her increased speed still so slow she could see every move she was about to make.

Deoxys suddenly morphed.

From behind, she struck Mewthree ten times in one second.

Mercifond gaped, her brother and Gallade who had recovered also let their jaws hang open "Hey, she looks like…!"

Deoxys's head was now conical in shape. Her arms had morphed into two tentacles, her legs had become longer and pointier. Her form resembled Cytosine, the speedster of the Four Stars.

"How did…!?" Mewthree gazed at her. Xeno was equally perplexed.

"A Ribonian…" stated Xeno, Deoxys' white moustache having fallen off, "This explains much. But how can you be a Shifter? The only other Shifter in existence is-"

"My mother." finished Deoxys. Xeno frowned.

She sped forward and hit Xeno so hard he flew through the air. However, the blow was comparatively weak and Xeno turned around charging up and Infinite Darkness Attack. He surrounded Deoxys in a sea of dark matter and then launched a tidal wave of the murky stuff right at her.

Deoxys was hit multiple times, but when the smoke cleared she had gained bulk. Her head had fused to her shoulders, which now spouted fat arms and trailing down, stubby legs.

"Now she looks like those one guys we had to fight! Adenine and Tyrosine!" Mercifond shouted.

"Yeah, my species' different forms are highly specialized, " said Deoxys, morphing back to normal, "Attack, Defense, Speed… I've dedicated my training to morphing between them at will."

She turned into her attack form. Now sporting four whip like tentacles and a tri pronged face, she began charging up an attack she learned recently- the dreaded Psycho Boost. Her arms glowed purple and a mighty aura surrounded her.

Mewthree tried to intervene, but was caught up by Mercifond, who grabbed onto her and prevented her from moving. Gallade and Malispite, each charging their own attacks, Demon's Offence and Swords Dance respectively.

Xeno pitied their pathetic effort by summoning dozens upon dozens of orbs, each one primed to fire an Endless Wave, enough to obliterate the whole area if he chose "Pathetic. You lot are illogical- by charging your attacks in front of me, I logically know exactly what you plan to do next."

"Yeah about that…" grinned Malispite, "See, we have friends in low places."

Xeno paused, his orbs in mid charge, ready to fire "What does that even-"

From the ground burst a purple bat, who knocked Xeno off his sense of balance, sending all of his Endless Waves to the sky by accident. It was during this moment did the three heavy hitters close in on him. Xeno became fearful.

"PSYCHO BOOST!"

"CLOSE COMBAT!"

"DYNAMICPUNCH!"

The resulting impacts from three different sides warped Xeno's body with such force that he felt several bones snapping. The great force scattered the dusty area and sent a shockwave of power throughout the arena. Mewthree could only gape as she watched her lover be crushed by three extremely powerful Moves.

Deoxys, Gallade and Malispite put everything they had into their attacks, and it worked like a charm. Their opponent coughed up blood and collapsed to his knees.

"You…!" he snarled, breathing shallowly.

"Oh my. That was a good move." smiled Absolix from afar.

"Yeah, too bad that won't do much." smiled Gin. At this, Absolix turned towards him, "he doesn't know a healing move does he?"

"Something like that." sighed Gin, frowning, "It isn't pleasant most of the time."

Mercifond let go of Mewthree, letting her rush to her lovers side. She knelt over towards him, asking him if he was alright. Xeno replied that he would be soon- he still had strength left. Xeno stood back up, and Mewthree went to Xeno's side, taking a fighting stance.

"I need five minutes to heal…" Xeno observed the area quickly, "But make no mistake, I'm still as strong as ever. And look at them, they are logically exhausted."

He was right. Aside from Gliscor and Mercifond, the other three was nearly on their knees from creating such powerful attacks.

"Nice thing you helped when you did." Malispite smiled at Gliscor.

"No prob." he grinned back, "Mercifond and I will take care of the rest, you just-"

And then there was a click.

A single click that reverberated through ought the area. It came from the end of the arena, where to the horror of Calestia, Registeel had stepped on the third dais.

"No!" Mercifond yelled. Her words were useless, as the three Regi's quickly began feeding the giant slumbering giant their essences, it was pouring out of the three and into it like a beam.

"We're so sorry!" Cobalion yelled, as he and his three brothers desperately tried to break the yellow barrier, "Celebi kept healing it, and we just…!"

"No!" The Ho-oh's grimaced, their self replicating opponents all having smirks upon their faces.

"This is the beginning of the end, Ho-oh!" shouted Celebi, "With Regigigas awakened, Absolix will be unstoppable!"

"Indeed I will." mused Absolix, "Still won't consider and alliance?"

"Eh, I could take him." Gin smirked. Suddenly, he looked over at Gardevoir, "Hey wait, what's with her?"

As soon as the words escaped his mouth, Gardevoir stood up. She easily and immediately broke the chains and electricity off her body, her eyes still a sky blue in concentric circles.

Mewthree happened to notice this while everyone was distracted by the awakening of Regigigas. She gaped when she saw the blue eyes.

"Hello Gardevoir." waved Absolix friendly when the green haired girl looked at him and him alone.

"Hello Sigma." said Gardevoir.

Absolix frowned. Gin, who was previously bored, began watching intently. Absolix slowly raised a hand at Gardevoir.

"Sadly that won't work." said Gardevoir, "The girl gave me complete control over this body."

For one of the few times in his life, Absolix was genuinely afraid. A frown sat upon his normally smiling face.

"Let's get this over with." said Gardevoir impatiently. She charged at him and Absolix could not dodge. Not even Mewthree, who rushed over to him shouting 'Watch out!' made him able to avoid the next strike.

There was a flash of white light that blinded Gin. When it was over, both Gardevoir and Mewthree had disappeared. Absolix stood there, shaking a bit. His expression was blank and his breathing was shallow.

"Hm. Complicated indeed." smiled Gin.

Ho-oh once more took up a stance against Celebi, who was more than eager fro round two. As the Regi's fed their original body their essences, Xeno stood back and confronted Calestia.

"It appears Mewthree is gone… how logically strange…" Xeno wondered. The five looked around- she was nowhere in sight "However, Absolix is here on schedule."

They turned around, Absolix was indeed behind them, standing next to Takamura Gin. "When did he get here!?" Malispite growled.

"You shall not prevent me from destroying Absolix." said Xeno, "Before I was using about 70% of my power, now I shall give you 100% and possibly beyond!"

"You will give Mewtwo back! We'll beat him out of you if we have to!" Gallade shouted.

"Sorry I'm late."

Everyone in the arena paused. They felt a dark and sinister presence behind them. But it was a familiar one.

"It took me a while to find you guys, Zero wasn't very specific. And I had to put up a couple of illusions to make sure Victini couldn't interfere."

A black shadow was cast upon the arena. Even Ho-oh and Celebi were surprised.

"So, the Mewtwo rip-off came back did he?" grinned the figure, "And oh what a surprise, Absolix is here too."

Gin smiled at this newcomer. Absolix did nothing, staring blankly.

"It's about fricken time you got here." Malispite grinned, "While you lazed your ass off, Mewtwo was literally eaten by this guy. We have to beat the shit out of him to get him out."

"Oh really…" the blackened figure frowned. His white hair billowed in the wind, as he stood in the center of it all.

"Yeah, and Celebi betrayed the council." Deoxys said fiercely, "So help us already."

"Alright fine, here's how we'll do things." Darkrai stated,

"First we'll kill Xeno for hurting Mewtwo. Celebi, you're next for being a dick, and finally we'll deal with Absolix.

With me on your side, we should be done in about five minutes." grinned the blue eyed Pokemon, now fully back in action.