The three legendaries backed away into a corner. Around fifty Grunts were surrounding them, countless Stunky and Glameow and Dustox snarling and hissing and flapping. Darkrai blasted a few with Dark Pulse, but yet more came in to plug the gap. Cresselia dodged the Psybeam attacks of a group of Dustox and KO'ed them with Psychic. Shaymin attacked a Stunky and Glameow with Magical Leaf.
The largest Grunt ran to the front of the group. "Stunky to Darkrai!" he ordered. "Glameow to Cresselia! Dustox to Shaymin! Go, go, go!"
As the Pokemon attacked the legendaries, the Grunts retreated. This was a job for Cyrus, Cyrus and the Commanders. Darkrai saw them flee, and its blue eyes seemed to flash an angry scarlet. "COWARDS!" he yelled after them, discarding the Pokemon rule of silence.
"Darkie, no!" yelped Shaymin, as she dodged the Silver Wind attacks of the many assaulting Dustox.
"Yah!" shouted Cresselia, picking up a dozen Glameow with Psychic and throwing them towards a gang of Stunky that had been running towards Darkrai at the time.
"We have to get to the lake guardians!" yelled Darkrai, discarding the remaining Stunky with a Hypnosis-Dream Eater combo. Cresselia KO'ed the rest of the Glameow with Psycho Cut, while Shaymin took care of the still-conscious Dustox with a blinding Seed Flare attack. Darkrai and Cresselia covered their eyes, but the light died down quickly.
"To the main control room!" exclaimed Darkrai, and the legendaries were suddenly not there.
Commander Mars watched the three lake guardians with scarlet eyes. They were suspended in green glowing liquid, each in a separate cylindrical container. To either side of her, Commander Jupiter and Commander Saturn had their eyes trained on the legendaries as well.
"These weakling Pokemon could barely be called legendaries!" scoffed Jupiter, tossing her pink hair back.
"I agree," said Saturn, nodding. "They were extremely easy to capture."
"I wonder why Cyrus needs us to guard these beings," sighed Mars. "It's very dull."
At her words, Azelf's eyes flew open. He could stand these humans while in the room not talking. But calling them weaklings? That was the final straw. Azelf concentrated all its power on talking telepathically to the others.
Guys. Break out. NOW.
I landed lightly, glaring at Cyrus with narrowed eyes. He was watching me with a slightly curious expression, like a child before something which he had yet to fathom. I growled, baring my teeth.
Cyrus smiled slightly and withdrew his KO'ed Honchkrow. Ryxa landed next to me, and screeched at Cyrus.
"My, my," he said lightly. "What a pair you make. It's too bad that your efforts will be for nothing. For I, Cyrus, leader of Team Galactic, will once more summon the three legendary deities of Sinnoh... and I will be their master!"
Cyrus turned around to face the wall. He raised his arms, closed his eyes and began to chant in a low, droning voice.
"Temporal adamant time roar diamond, spatial lustrous rend space pearl, renegade griseous force the shadows platinum..."
"Ryxa!" I barked to the Skarmory in Pokemon. "He's summoning something!"
"I think I already knew that, Ev!" snapped back Ryxa.
Cyrus was still chanting. He was starting to chant faster, and a purple haze had appeared, and was now spiralling around his waist, as he chanted those strange words...
I shot a Thunderbolt, but the attack was deflected towards Ryxa instead. Screeching, Ryxa fell, the attack having been aimed expertly at her underbelly. "RYXA!" I yelled, running to her side.
The human with the hair gel was still chanting. His words were now so fast that they blended together. The haze ran faster and faster. Then, suddenly, Cyrus' eyes flew open and he screamed, "CREATION ADUSEOUS!"
The haze immediately exploded into blinding white light. I shielded Ryxa from the blast, squeezing my eyes shut as I did so. When I opened my eyes, I felt fresh air on my back. We were no longer inside the Galactic HQ.
I got to my paws. We were outside, and people were running from the scene, screaming, gathering up children and Pokemon, their arms over their heads as they ran. I gasped, and let my jaw drop. The purple haze was swimming around Cyrus's head, staining his hair violet.
And he was flanked by the Creation trio of Sinnoh.
"YES!"
The door had opened, for some strange reason. Mitsuo had looked left and right in the corridor, then he had sprinted out, indicating that Hakiru and Rami should follow. When they did, they celebrated, Hakiru having yelled the three-letter word mentioned before, Rami starting to dance, his arms over his head happily.
Mitsuo began to laugh, but then he felt a strange energy. Looking to the window, he gasped.
The Creation trio... Cyrus... some purple haze... and to top it all off, Evner standing in front of an unconscious Ryxa.
"Guys!" he said sharply. "Evner needs our help!"
Hakiru and Rami looked up, then saw that their friend was in trouble. They hastened to follow Mitsuo as he bounded off towards the exit, his thoughts flying and tumbling like leaves buffeted in the wind.
All the doors had opened. The Commanders jerked awake, Jupiter still yawning. Mars's head snapped towards the legendaries at the door, and the legendaries that were charging up an Extrasensory attack behind.
Jupiter and Saturn brought out Skuntank and Toxicroak respectively. Mars threw her Pokeball, and in a flash of white light Purugly was at her side.
"GET THEM!" they all roared.
Skuntank didn't need to turn around, just fired a cloud of poisonous gases from her tail at the lake guardians. But she was too slow, for Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf's eyes (or the latter two's eyes and Uxie's eyelids) were glowing gold. The next moment, they had each fired a rainbow-coloured beam from the gem on their foreheads.
The Extrasensory attacks broke the glass encasing the guardians. They rose into the air, Azelf blasting Skuntank with a Swift fired from its tails. Uxie and Mesprit flew to the other legendaries' aid, where they were being assaulted by Toxicroak's Poison Jab and Purugly's Shadow Claw.
"Take THAT!" roared Mesprit in Pokemon, while blasting Purugly with Extrasensory. To its right, Uxie did the same to Purugly.
The Commanders' strongest Pokemon had fallen. Gaping, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn got up. They watched the legendaries for a split second. Then, they turned and ran.