"Ttttttthhhhiiiisss is it folks! The final battle between brothers Daniel Barsony and Samuel Barsony! Who will come out on top in this epic climactic battle to the Pokemon League?!" The announcer stated, the crowd got excited, news helicopters were all over, pointing their cameras towards the arena. The camera men inside the stadium had close-ups of the arena itself, showing Daniel and Samuel standing on opposite sides of the their battlefield arena. Every possible camera was trained on them as this was being broadcasted to the whole world. Everyone from every region: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola were watching the battle.
Word got around to the entire world that the Unbeatable Champion was battling in the finals against his little brother and this sparked up hype for the fight. Everyone, every family had their televisions on, ready to watch the Unbeatable Champion in action and see if his little brother has what it takes to take down the Champion. The arena in which they were battling in was a rocky arena with varying elevations.
"Look, look! The battle's about to start guys!" May called out to her family, taking a seat on the couch and crossing her legs as she glued her eyes to the television. She saw Daniel and remembered the fact that not too long ago, he had come over to visit and now, it's taken him to the finals of the Pokemon League. Max and her father came downstairs, also taking a seat and preparing to watch the upcoming battle.
Daniel was breathing heavily, having just finished a fist fight and having to run all over the place to make sure everything's all right. His face ached slightly as it was still in pain from the punches, the image of Serena on the floor against the wall flashed in his head. He squinted his eyes, trying to forget what he saw but it immediately reminded him of his near-death experience following that. Daniel opened his eyes, shaking his head and making himself ignore those thoughts. "No, I gotta focus on the battle. Everything's all right now so I don't need to worry, the guys are with Serena so she's safe from Calem… But now, I'm gonna battle Samuel, and the entire world is watching. I can't let my friends down."
"Took you long enough, Daniel, you ready to battle now?" Samuel asked, taking out Deoxys.
"Yeah, I've been ready." Daniel answered back, his pokemon stepped in front of him and assumed his fighting pose. Bisharp and Deoxys stared each other down, and clenched their fists.
"It appears both brothers are ready! Now… let the final battle between Samuel and Daniel Barsony… BEGIN!"
Everything was in place, no sound was made except for the wind blowing through. Everyone began to wonder why nothing has happened but down at the arena, it was suspenseful. All of Daniel's friends paid close attention to the battle, Andres had a stern expression, his arms crossed and looking at the arena. George, Zach, and Lucas were silent, no sound was made as the audience died down. Daniel's heart raced a little, he took a deep breath in order to calm himself.
Samuel watched, clearly able to see Daniel's concerned face, he's well aware of their improvement but is not sure how they'll deal with Deoxys.
"I believe in you, Daniel, you can do this!" Serena thought to herself.
"Come on man… hope you can use the advice I gave you…" George suggested in his head, getting impatient.
Bisharp's arm twitched, Deoxys' cold and unwavering stare towards him was still unsettling, even after all this time. A bead of sweat formed on Daniel's forehead as it raced down his face and fell off, splashing against the ground.
Bisharp started his assault, sprinting towards Deoxys at full speed and throwing a punch at him. As expected, they hit the shield, the legendary did not even twitch, it only moved its eyes to follow Bisharp. The Dark Steel pokemon spun around and kicked at the shield again, nothing. Bisharp hopped back, jumping into the air and spinning, slamming it's leg down on the barrier. Bisharp's foot was hurt, still nothing. Bisharp jumped off, his arm and leg hurting from hitting the barrier as hard as he can.
"This is going to be a problem for Daniel if he can't create an opening… but it looks like Deoxys is taking his time to… observe Bisharp." Samuel thought, making a "hmm" sound as he watched.
Bisharp covered its arm with the aura, leaping towards his enemy and hitting the shield. Daniel's pokemon stepped back, covering its leg with aura and doing a spinning low kick but to no avail. The pokemon sighed, disappointed that nothing has changed and his base power couldn't do anything. Granted, he wasn't entirely surprised either because he's known for the longest time that Deoxys' shield is a difficult one. It stepped back away from the psychic pokemon, looking him up and down and nothing has changed and it has remained stationary.
"No good, we're gonna have to take it up a notch. Ready, Bisharp?" Daniel said to his partner who agreed. They assumed the same stance as Bisharp yelled and a red mist emitted from Bisharp and created a large gust of wind. The pokemon was consumed in a bright white light which formed into a shell covering him. The shell started to break into pieces as it crumbled from the bottom up, revealing Bisharps transformed state. The crimson aura erupted from the pokemon's body, the crowd awed at the sight of this and knew things were about to get serious. Bisharp walked up to his opponent and looking directly into his eyes. Their cold stares clashed but Deoxys' was still more menacing.
Bisharp brought his arm back, readying to strike his opponent but Deoxys hit first. Deoxys finally moved, hitting Bisharp far away into a large rock and digging the pokemon inside. The Legendary leaped across, doing a dive kick towards Bisharp and shoving his opponent through the rock into another. Bisharp and Daniel coughed out from the painful hit but it was not over. The Dark Steel pokemon was knocked to the ground on its back, rolling backwards as his opponent smashed his fist into the ground and cracking it. Bisharp stopped on his hands, pushing himself off and doing an upside down spin-kick which only hit the shields. Deoxys grabbed the pokemons leg, lifting it up and slamming him down into the floor and denting it. Samuel's pokemon lifted up Bisharp chucking the pokemon into another rock.
Both Daniel and his partner winced at the pain, Bisharp opened his eyes to see Deoxys already closing the distance in Speed mode and striking him again. He coughed out as he was launched out of the rock and rolled on the floor repeatedly. Deoxys jumped up and forced himself downwards onto Bisharp. Deoxys switched to attack mode, proceeding to spin around and kick Bisharp away. The large rock Bisharp was knocked into split in half but it stopped his momentum. Samuel's pokemon used psychic on the rocks, lifting them up and sandwiching Bisharp between them as they crumbled. Bisharp was bruised all over from the onslaught of attacks, gasping because of pain and ultimately falling to his knees.
Deoxys walked towards Bisharp stretching his left arm outwards towards the pokemon. Bisharp was panting, trying to catch his breath but noticed his enemy's shadow and attempted to hop back but was caught by Deoxys. The legendary had wrapped his stretched arm around Bisharp's neck and lifting the dark steel pokemon off his feet. Samuel's pokemon shot his arm back as it continuously stretched in that direction. Daniel and his partners eyes widened, fearful of the next attack.
Deoxys snapped his arm forward and in that same instant, let go of Bisharp as his attack hit. The hit was hard enough to make the both of them spit out as Bisharp was launched away. The Dark Steel pokemon endlessly rolled on the ground until it crashed into a rock wall. The hit made Daniel stagger back, eyes wide with pain and making the boy fall to his knees. His partner reacted the same, barely able to stand before collapsing to the ground.
"What a stunning onslaught! As expected from the unbeatable champion! Could this already be over for Daniel Barsony?!" The announcer stated but no one reacted, only observing. Daniel called out to his partner but with no response as his best friend lay there on the ground on his stomach. Everyone waited but nothing happened, tempting the announcer to speak up once more. "Is this a defeat for Bisharp…?"
Everyone watched as Bisharp didn't budge from his position, Andres watched with his eyebrows furrowed. The man growled silently to himself as he was getting angry at the prospect that he surrendered for nothing only for Daniel to lose almost right away. Deoxys let out an annoyed sigh, turning his back to his opponent. "What a waste." The legendary walked towards Samuel, very disappointed with him and the match. He was promised a challenge, yet his opponent was defeated almost right away. Deoxys looked to his trainer but shortly after, the look on his face changed to shock as he looked behind Deoxys. The pokemon heard a stomp from behind, making its eyes widen and cause him to turn around to look. Bisharp had gotten back on his feet, slouched over and using his knees as a support.
Samuel's pokemon turned around completely, surprised that Bisharp was still standing. Daniel's pokemon lifted its head up and looking to Deoxys with its red eyes. There was no glow with them so the eyes were dark and red. "Where do you think you're going…?" Bisharp spoke up painfully, he attempted to stand back up straight and was somewhat successful but found himself light-headed.
"That's more like it." Deoxys thought to himself, getting into a battle stance of his own. "Good, you can keep fighting, this might be fun after all."
Bisharp's breathing slowed down until he can properly catch his breath and take a fighting stance like his opponent. Daniel got up with a determined expression plastered on his face. Samuel saw his little brother and smiled, proud of him, "I knew you could keep going. Show us what you got." He thought to himself, crossing his arms and waiting to see what Daniel and his pokemon would do now.
Bisharp jumped up, diving towards the legendary pokemon but got punished. Deoxys jumped up with him and uppercutted the dark steel pokemon even higher into the air.
Flashback
"I think I know how to defeat Deoxys" Lucario told Bisharp, those words shocked Bisharp. Someone knowing how to defeat the unbeatable? He was curious.
"What? How?" Bisharp asked, highly sceptical of his friend.
"Call it a hunch, but… I think there's a specific way to hit Deoxys."
"What do you mean?"
End
Bisharp was in the air, regaining his senses and looking around to see Deoxys already up with him. Samuel's pokemon flew backwards before zooming forward and striking Bisharp. Deoxys was not yet done, turning around and doing the same thing, striking Bisharp again and again as he was knocked around.
Lucario put his paw on his chin, finding the best choice of words to describe his solution. "There's an opening, it's a small opening and any normal pokemon would never be able to reach it."
Bisharp was confused more, there was an opening? "What do you mean an opening?"
Deoxys continued to charge through Bisharp, hitting him again and again in the air with such ferocity. With each hit, Bisharp kept getting more and more injured as he was covered in bruises as the legendary slammed into him multiple times in succession.
"I'm not entirely sure, but when I did my last maneuver back there, I was really close to actually hitting Deoxys. I didn't hit his shield that time and he actually had to dodge my attack." Lucario explained, double checking his memory to make sure he wasn't lying.
"What? He actually had to dodge your hit? How?! What'd you do?" Bisharp questioned, putting his hands on the table.
"I had baited him to attack me and I dodged his attack and countered but it failed; but I think that's the thing. Sure, Deoxys can keep up that shield at all times if he wanted but it would get in the way of his attacks, wouldn't it?"
Bisharps eyes widened, starting to realize where he was getting at.
"If he decided to attack, his shield would be the first thing to hit but it's not, he actually makes contact with his opponent. And when I attacked, he was also attacking as well which is the moment I managed to get in real close. My idea is that maybe he has to like 'turn off' the shield whenever he attacks and that's the best time to strike."
This idea blew his mind, he never thought about it like that and it opened up so many possibilities.
"Though, it's just a theory and I could be wrong."
Deoxys landed on the ground, springing back towards Bisharp who remained floating. Deoxys prepared his final attack, bringing back his fist and readying to hit Bisharp. A bead of sweat formed on Daniel's forehead as he waited, his nervousness growing by the second as he watched and waiting for the right moment. "It's over!" Deoxys exclaimed, zooming towards Bisharp.
"If I'm right though… that means the moment he attacks, is the moment you strike."
"BISHARP, NOW!" Daniel yelled at the top of his lungs, Samuel looked to his brother, confused and looked up to see what his brothers pokemon was going to do.
Bisharps eyes shot open as he spun around to face Deoxys and catch his fist. The Dark steel pokemon pulled Deoxys in close and threw a punch using the momentum generated by the spin. Deoxys and Samuel's eyes widened at this watching as in an instant, Bisharps fist had made contact with Deoxys as the whole world watched. Everyone's jaw dropped as Bisharps attack made full contact with Deoxys.
Daniel's pokemon followed through with the punch, sending Deoxys to the ground and making the legendary bounce off on his back. Bisharp descended, landing on his feet and collapsing to his knees as he stopped his impact with the ground. Through extreme difficulty, he picked himself up after landing and began to charge at Deoxys, giving the pokemon no time to respond.
Deoxys whipped his head towards Bisharp, reaching out with his arm and catching the opponent off guard. The legendary wrapped his arm around Bisharps neck and began to choke him once more as he lifted him off his feet. Samuel's pokemon stood up, looking Bisharp in the eyes with an expression of anger. Bisharp was slowly choked as he attempted to rip off the enemies arm but with no success.
The crimson aura exploded from Bisharps body as he struck his opponents arm and ripping it off as intended. Deoxys let go of Bisharp, retracting his arm and wiggling it to shake off the pain. His eyes widened as he realized he took his eyes off of Bisharp, he spun around readying to attack his opponent but he was too late. Bisharp was mere centimeters away, his arm brought back as he prepared one powerful punch.
"Get ready Deoxys, cuz this one's going to hurt like hell!" In tandem, Daniel and his partner threw a punch which connected to Deoxys face. The attack was powerful enough to send a concentrated shockwave through his opponents head and blasting against Samuel. A small crack formed on Deoxys' head, the partners yelled in unison as Bisharp pressed his feet hard against the floor. The floor they were on started to crack and it only grew and became more unstable. They let out one more powerful shout as they slammed the legendary into the ground with their fist, causing the floor the shatter and cave inwards. Smoke was lifted into the air, obscuring both pokemon from everyone's field of vision.
Everyone watching had their incredibly shocked expressions on their face, the announce stuttered, reaching for his mic and bringing it close. "DEOXYS HAS BEEN HTIT! I REPEAT, DEOXYS HAS BEEN HIT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!" He announced, and the audience went wild like never before. All of Daniel's friends were cheering for him as loud as they can and showing their respect for Daniel.
Bisharp backed off, both Daniel and his partner breathed heavily as the dust cleared and Deoxys slowly got back up on his feet. The legendary lifted his head, staring at the both of them with his eyes dilated like such. "YOU DAMN CHILD!" Deoxys yelled in rage.
Daniel stood there, processing what the legendary said and clenching his fists. "I don't care what you call us anymore. You can call me a child and Bisharp a peasant, but, there's one thing you'll never be able to call us again: weak. You hear me? We've gotten stronger, and this time, we are gonna beat you! We're gonna make it to the top whether you like it or not!" Daniel declared to Deoxys and the whole world. The crowd erupted with cheers, everyone showing their enthusiasm and support.
May and her little brother jumped up in excitement, complimenting the trainer for his incredible achievement. Max spoke up, saying "Wow! Daniel sure is incredible!", May and her father both agreed, turning their attention back to the TV as the announcer praised Daniel as well.
Bisharp brought his arms up, keeping them close to protect himself as he closed in on Deoxys. The legendary dashed towards his opponent, and at that moment, the mysterious stone hummed as time slowed down for Bisharp and he could see his opponent as clear as day. Bisharp's eyes widened, surprised by this but didn't dare question it, taking the opportunity to duck under Deoxys as time sped up back to normal and the two pokemon passed each other. Bisharp turned around, jumping up barely over the psychic pokemon, Samuel's pokemon whipped around and threw a punch but hit nothing as he saw his opponent had disappeared. Right over him, Bisharp utilized the opening and getting an extra strike on Deoxys head, knocking the legendary downwards.
Bisharp landed back on his feet away from Deoxys, looking up and thinking to himself, "I can finally land a hit on Deoxys. We have a chance at winning this now!"
Deoxys spun towards Bisharp, throwing out his arm which stretched towards the dark steel pokemon. Daniel's pokemon leaned back, narrowly dodging the punch and catching himself with his hands. The psychic pokemon came in close, attempting to get another hit in while Bisharp was open. The Dark Steel pokemon was prepared, picking up his feet and and bringing it back. As the legendary came in close, he kicked forward as Deoxys ran straight into the kick and getting knocked back. As the pokemon was knocked away, he retracted his arm and focused on stopping himself from falling back more. Bisharp hopped back on his feet as the crowd cheered more and more by the second.
Daniel stood there, smirking but still nervous, "That's right, Bisharp, just keep waiting for the moment to strike, as long as he attacks, you can attack as well."
Deoxys floated above the ground as he charged at Bisharp fist first. Daniel's pokemon reacted, jumping up and and twirling around for a kick at Deoxys. Unfortunately, the dark steel pokemon only managed to hit the shield and push himself off as his opponent passed by. Bisharp slid on his feet, slowly coming to a stop, but Deoxys was still on the attack and spun around. Samuel's pokemon grabbed ahold of a rock using psychic and chucking it towards Bisharp with incredible speed. Daniel's pokemon was quick, jumping up into the air to dodge the incoming projectile.
Deoxys looked up, switching to speed mode and flying towards Bisharp. The Dark Steel Pokemon attempted to dodge mid-air but got hit as the psychic pokemon crashed against him and passed by. Samuel's pokemon halted itself mid-air, turning around and shooting its arm out by stretching it. Bisharp reacted, grabbing ahold of the pokemon arm by his side and tugging it. Deoxys already knew what was next, and instead of letting Bisharp get his way, he decided to throw his own punch in attack mode to counter his opponent. Their punches collide but as expected, Bisharp was overpowered in every way and he was sent to the floor. Daniel's pokemon barely managed to act and land on his feet and crashing to his hands and knees.
The legendary descended slowly and softly making contact with the ground. It looked towards its enemy, remembering the weak Pawniard that stood before it in the past. Deoxys walked forward, deciding to be more patient and less reckless like it was before. Bisharp got back on his feet, feeling a new sense of accomplishment as he was standing his own against the pokemon who effortlessly defeated him. "I will admit, you two are no longer the weaklings who fought against me before. You have tarnished my career of never being hit, it is by your hands that you have found a weakness within me. I will acknowledge your strength, you are strong indeed. But now, I will no longer be playing games and will be taking this much more seriously."
Daniel smirked, Deoxys was finally getting serious against them? That's a first, "Getting serious against us now, huh? I'm honored that we're the first."
"However, I will make sure you no longer maintain that confident look plastered on your faces."
Bisharp assumed a fighting stance, igniting his aura from within his body to surround him. Deoxys readied up, getting into a stance of this own as silence filled the area now. In an instant, the psychic pokemon was already next to Bisharp before the dark steel pokemon could process it. "Holy shit!" Bisharp yelled internally as he was kicked into a nearby rock. Samuel's pokemon zoomed forward, first in speed mode and then switching to defense mode with its gargantuan arms. He grabbed Bisharps head and shoved the pokemon even further into the rock. Daniel's pokemon groaned in pain but Samuel's was not yet done, proceeding to drag Daniel's pokemon through the rock as roughly as possible.
Once the the legendary had dragged Bisharp to the edge, he proceeded to hurl the pokemon into the air and chased after him. Deoxys caught up, going above his opponent and spinning around before slamming one of his arms down onto the pokemon. Bisharp was launched to the ground and driving him in. Bisharp groaned, looking up to see Deoxys diving down towards him and narrowly rolling out of the way in response. The dark steel pokemon got back on his feet, doing a backflip to dodge an incoming punch. The pokemon barely stuck the landing, staggering back and attempting to regain footing.
Bisharp regained his footing, charging at Deoxys. The psychic lifted up the rock from under Bbisharp and throwing him into the air to throw him off balance. Bisharp used this opportunity to spin forward repeatedly with his leg stuck out to slam it into Deoxys. The pokemon slammed his leg down towards his opponent but only ended up hitting the shield once more. This caught Bisharp off guard, surprising him but Deoxys turned off the shield and allowed the pokemon to drop. As Daniel's pokemon fell, the legendary switched to attack mode and got a powerful strike against bisharp and sending the pokemon away.
Bisharp and Daniel coughed out from the pain as the former of the two struggled to get back on its feet. Deoxys faced Bisharp, looking down at it as he attempted to get up. Deoxys knew that there was no way they were gonna keep this up. Deoxys has a plethora of tricks up his sleeve he could utilize while Bisharp has exhausted all of his. There were no more stunts, no more tricks he could possibly pull off. The outcome of this match was clear.
"I respect your strength but it's over. The outcome is clear and you have no chance of winning. You may have figured out my trick but it won't win you this battle, not if you can't keep up with me. If I were in your situation, I wouldn't mind surrendering. I would be walking away with the pride of having landed a hit on the legendary Deoxys, I believe that's enough to garner respect, would it not?" Deoxys exclaimed which made Daniel's eyebrow twitch out of irritation.
Daniel made a sour expression as he smirked, "So that's how it is, eh?" Daniel mocked, standing up straight and looking towards Deoxys. "We're actually doing this again."
Samuel spoke up, feeling really bad now, "I know we're sounding like Andres from yesterday but being honest. Even if you pulled out the blades, in all honesty, they aren't going to do much to Deoxys. I mean, if you can keep fighting, cool, keep going. But this is going to get repetitive until Deoxys decides to finish it which he can very well do whenever he wants. "
Everyone was silent, waiting for some sort of response out of the two of them but they didn't say anything, merely staring down their opponents. Daniel closed his eyes, telling his opponents, "You may be right, those shields are bothersome and we won't win at this rate… but, we still have one more trick left… something more powerful than the blades."
"What?"
Daniel thought to himself, remembering all of his friends and calling out to each of them. "George… Samuel… Zach… Lucas… Andres… and Serena… I won't let you guys down." He finished his thoughts, opening his eyes and taking a deep breath. Bisharp knew the drill as the two of them got into the same stance, calming themselves to focus. They yelled together as they voices matched in sink, barely visible red lightning radiated from the pokemon's body followed up with short beams of light. The crimson aura exploded from Bisharp's body and replacing the beams of light. They growled as the red lightning surrounding BIsharp intensified and became more visible to everyone. The partners ended their growling with a powerful shout as the sky above them slowly became darker and darker. Everyone looked up and noticed the dark skies which darkened the entire area.
"It looks like you're underestimating us once more." Bisharp stated, continuing to build up the attack.
"Like we said once before, I will not allow anyone to underestimate us anymore…!" Daniel and Bisharp crossed their arms diagonally in front of them, and the lighting grew by the second and a breeze was generate by Bisharp, blowing in every direction.
"The outcome is clear and we can't win? Don't give us that crap!"
"We've known for the longest time that you've been superior to us."
At that moment, they spread their arms out to the sides with their hands partially open. The entire area began to experience a slowly growing tremor. The lightning retracted before shooting out even further with an even higher intensity as it almost hit Deoxys. The breeze from earlier evolved into a powerful gust of wind and the ground began to shake furiously.
Everyone in the audience began to scream out of fear, as the whole arena was shaking and everyone held onto something. Deoxys looked around, hearing the screams and a bead of sweat formed as he thought to himself, "The ground's shaking this much just from the build-up? What the hell are they doing?!" Deoxys readied itself, his uneasiness growing by the minute as he watched. Bisharp emanate a glow from his body that everyone can see because it was dark.
"This is our ultimatum… our strongest attack…! We've been saving this one just for you, Deoxys!" Daniel exclaimed, as the two of them charged up their attack even more.
The legendary was speechless to say the least, he has seen nothing like this before and never would he have expected it from them. Bisharp looked up, staring at Deoxys with his glowing red eyes, "We're not going to let you stand there and look down upon us…!"
Andres watched as his eyes were wide with amazement, did they hold back this attack during their battle? He was more amazed than he was confused, wanting to see what type of attack this is if it's creating this much ruckus from the build-up alone.
The lightning became more sporadic and extreme as the shaking of the ground had reached a new high and it became increasingly difficult to maintain their footing. Daniel spoke up, raising his voice, "So, if you really think we're not worth your time, then so be it! We're going to show you our might when we are united as one!
"This is an exclusive attack that only we know! Our Ultimate attack!" Bisharp yelled, every aspect and symptom generated by the build-up intensified even more.
"So if you really think you're superior to us, then just stand there and prove us wrong!"
Deoxys stood there, maintaining his ground and getting serious, "Give it your best shot." Daniel stood there smirking, warning Deoxys as they prepared their attack and brought their arms close to their body.
The partners threw their arms up into the air, and everything stopped: the shaking, the lightning, and the wind stopped. There was only silence as a dark fog consumed the entire area (including the stadium). The clouds above them then changed to have a more crimson-tint and the sky became a very dark red color. The sun which was visible was now of a blood red color, looking down upon the arena.
Daniel and Bisharp took in a deep breath breath together as they yelled as loud as they can, "BLOOD MOON SLASH!" and they brought their hands downward. In the sky above of them, a bright red dot appeared. In an instant, a projectile was shot from the sky, immediately striking Deoxys shield. The impact was loud enough to hurt everyone's ears and violently shook the area with the first strike. Then, another one struck, shaking the arena more and causing several things to collapse. Soon, the beams hit where Ddeoxys was in back to back in succession. Soon enough, it became a torrent of red beams raining down from the sky and striking the area Deoxys stood. The blasts were so loud and powerful that it was the equivalent of an artillery shell striking the area in rapid succession. The shaking made both trainers fall backwards and made Bisharp fall to his knees. Everyone covered their ears as the barrage of sounds generated was ear-shattering, they winced in fear and pain as the shaking wouldn't stop and the gatling gun of beams would not stop. It was the equivalent to a high-level earthquake as the tremors caused several things inside and outside the arena to crumble.
After a bit, the rain of hell stopped and a large smoke covered the battlefield, a bright red glow could be seen inside the smoke and it was generated from multiple points. It all merged into one beam of light as it grew larger and larger and larger and consumed everything in the battlefield. Replacing the expanding light was a massive explosion which blew out some people's ears and gave everyone else an excruciating headache. The explosion blew a ridiculously powerful gust of wind in every direction, blowing hard against everyone and everything and generating the most powerful tremor yet.
The sky returned to normal and the fog consuming the area disappeared. Everything lit up revealing the battlefield completely obscured by smoke. Daniel was on the floor with his ears still covered and he was wincing in pain. When Daniel heard nothing, he let go of his ears only to be treated to a very intense ringing sound. Samuel did the same, being treated to a ringing sound as well and both trainer looked at the smoke, wanting to see what had happened.
The smoke cleared enough on Daniels end to reveal Bisharp sitting there on his knee and holding himself up with his arm. "Bisharp!" Daniel called out but his expression widened when he realized his hearing was severely muffled. His voice sounded like it was far away and this terrified him. He almost wanted to cry as a result but now wasn't a time for worrying about it, what happened to Deoxys?
A large breeze blew away the smoke, revealing the entire arena and where Deoxys was. There was a large crater where Deoxys stood and at the center, Deoxys stood with his arms up and panting. Deoxys was bruised from the head down but he was still standing and kicking. Daniel's eyes widened as he dropped to his knees in fear. Their attack failed, Deoxys is still standing even after that. Bisharp's transformation broke off as he was returned to his normal state, unlike Daniel, Bisharp was quite pleased with what he saw. Deoxys emerged from the crater, getting up with a furious expression on his face.
"I-Incredible! Deoxys is still standing even after that attack! He isn't called the strongest pokemon for no reason!" The announcer stated, but no one really reacted as everyone was worrying about their injuries to their ear. A lot of people had their eardrums blown out and had severe ear pain.
Deoxys looked to Bisharp, clenching his fists as tight as possible, "Color me impressed, you actually managed to break my shield. I have never in my entire life felt this level of pain, I applaud you. Unfortunately for you, I am furious right now, not only have you destroyed my shield but you have seriously injured me like no other."
Bisharp chuckled as he got back up on his feet, his legs were shaky and wobbly as he was very weak right now. "Now you're open to everything, now's my chance…!" Bisharp barely spoke, clenching his fist and rushing towards Deoxys and throwing a punch. Deoxys sidestepped the attack, and dodged the next that followed it. The legendary began smacking away the hits that were close, and when he saw a clear opening, he went for it. Samuel's pokemon struck Bisharp, making the pokemon caught out and wheeze as the air was taken out of him with the punch. Bisharp staggered back, barely able to maintain its balance as he felt his world go upside down. He looked at Deoxys but his vision was completely blurry and could barely discern anything he saw.
When Bisharp could get a somewhat solid view on Deoxys, he charged forward and readied another hit but was stopped. Deoxys hit Bisharp, causing the pokemon to cough out and stop dead in its tracks as his eyes dilated almost to nothing. "I will return to you the same pain you showed me." Deoxys knocked Bisharps arm away and hit the pokemon in the face with a left hook. He followed it up with a right diagonal uppercut, followed with another left hook. Then it began, Deoxys comboed his hits left and right, continuously striking Bisharp again and again. With each hit, Bisharp felt pain like he's never experienced, with each hit, it felt like his insides were being launched all over the place.
All of Daniel's friends turned away, having a very difficult time watching the brutality which was going down below. With each hit now in Bisharps weakened state, the dark steels head blade would slowly crack with each hit and serious bruises covered Bisharps face as he was hit over and over again.
Samuel watched and closed his eyes in grief, this was it, they were too weakened to fight back and Deoxys was furious now as he brutalized his opponent. "It's over…" Samuel thought to himself, looking away and not wanting to hear Bisharps screams and cries of pain with each hit now.
Deoxys wouldn't stop, dishing out what he believed was an equal amount of pain towards Bisharp by continuously striking him. He didn't go all out on purpose but he did use enough strength to make it last and make his opponent suffer. Once he felt it was time, Deoxys brought back his arm, and bringing up a swift uppercut knocking the poor pokemon into the air. The pokemon landed on the ground roughly on its back as he lay on the floor, limp.
Daniel could barely process everything as he had tears swelling up in his eyes as he had just watched his best friend get brutalized AFTER seeing their ultimate attack fail. Daniel knew they were done, there was no coming back from this one and he accepted defeat as he began to sob silently to himself.
"It looks like it's over for the younger brother of Samuel Barsony?" The announcer questioned, making an "uhh" sound as he looked down below.
May and her family were at the edge of their seats, crying out for the trainer who was in the worst position possible. The entire world had watched what had happened and could barely say a thing, what had just transpired almost silenced the whole world.
"Bisharp…" Daniel mumbled, the mysterious stone in Daniel's pocket generated a small light and hummed. Bisharp regained consciousness, opening his eyes and shielding them from the bright rays of the sun. He could hear Daniel silently sobbing to himself, this made the pokemon sit up immediately which surprised Deoxys cuz he thought his opponent was done. Bisharp got up, the inside of his head felt like it was burning up but he could process everything. He looked around and awaiting the rest of his senses to finally pull themselves together.
"You could still keep go-" Deoxys was stopped by the dark steel pokemon putting his arm up to tell his opponent to stay quiet. Bisharp walked up to his partner, hearing the crying and the acceptance of defeat infuriated Bbisharp more than he could have ever imagined. He clenched his fist and when he was close to his partner, he clocked Daniel across the ahead, knocking the boy to the floor and leaving a bruise on the boys cheek.
The hit snapped Daniel back into reality as he felt a massive ache on his cheek and he saw Bisharp towering over him. "Bisharp…" he mumbled, his partner picked Daniel up by his shirt and raised daniel to his level.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Bisharp yelled, so loud that everyone in the stadium could hear the pokemons voice.
"Bisharp, what are you doin-"
"No, you answer me! What the hell do you think you're doing?! Giving up?!"
"Bisharp… our strongest attack didn't work…"
"Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME! YOU ARE IGNORANT AS FUCK!"
Daniel's eyes widened when he heard this, feeling hurt by the insult and listening to what his partner was saying to him.
"You idiot, Blood Moon Slash destroyed his shield! The very thing that was holding us back from winning this match! It's gone now and that means we can win this thing still."
Daniel did realize that but was still in denial, "But Bisharp… you're-"
"Don't you 'but' me! Whenever we put our minds together, we can do anything! Don't you dare tell me this is the Daniel Barsony I've been training with for the last 6 years, the one who raised me, the one who helped me get stronger?! Well?!"
"Yeah…"
"Daniel, we've always been in this together, the two of us and I will not have you giving up on this! I never gave up on you, then why can't you do the same?! I respect you dammit! You're my best friend! A brother even, are you really going to let everything go to waste like this?! What about our promises? Our goals and dreams? What about Lucas? Serena? All of our other friends who are watching right now and believing in us to win, huh?!"
Daniel looked away in shame, realizing he has enraged Bisharp.
"If you're going to be the Daniel Barsony that defeats Samuel, then start acting like it. We still have a chance at this because we're at our strongest together, right?"
Daniel closed his eyes, putting his hand on Bisharp's and indicating for his partner to let go. "Yeah… you're right, we've made it this far. It's way too late to turn back now, but we're in this together till the very end. Thank you Bisharp, I needed that." Daniel scraped his arm across his cheek and locking eyes with his older brother. "Samuel! I promise you, we won't ever fall again until we've taken you down."
Bisharp and Daniel shouted together and instead of the crimson aura shooting out, it was instead, a brighter red aura which was more calm and wavy. They continued shouting as the aura shrunk more and more until Bisharp completely absorbed it. Samuel and his pokemon stood there, wondering what they were about to do. Steam emitted from Bisharps body, he crossed his arms diagonally in front of him, taking a deep breath with his partner and spreading his arms out as the magenta light blades extended from his arms.
"From this moment, Bisharp and I no longer fight as trainer and pokemon, but instead, as brothers!" Daniel declared, following this was a silence cut off by him yelling "LET'S GO!", his pokemon brother zoomed towards Deoxys at blinding speeds in his transformed state. Bisharp jumped up and did a spin-kick which Deoxys blocked, the kick pushed the arm closer to the legendary and making it hard to maintain the block. Bisharp pushed himself off, throwing a right hook followed with a left hook. Deoxys caught both but this worked to Bisharps advantage as the pokemon grabbed ahold of Deoxys' arm and lifted himself up. Bisharp brought his knee up, striking against Deoxys's chin and allowing himself to fall back slightly to kick the legendary away. Bisharp caught himself with his hand, pushing himself back on his feet.
Samuel's pokemon switched to speed mode, leaping towards Bisharp an attack of his own. Daniel's dodged, attempting to slice at Deoxys but the pokemon dodged it, attempting to kick at Bisharp. The dark steel pokemon blocked the hit, attempting to uppercut Deoxys now but both pokemon backed off. Doing back handsprings to gain distance from each other. Once they were done, they stared at each other, observing each other's movements to see who was going to make the first move. Bisharp did two consecutive slashes towards deoxys, spawning two projectiles heading his direction. The legendary floated up, dodging them both and closing in on Bisharps position as he threw a punch. Bisharp caught it but his arm was pushed back slightly. Bisharp grunted, pushing back as much as he can which made his arm shaky.
Bisharp got into an uncomfortable position, jumping up as he twirled his body around to kick Deoxys away. Bisharp looked to the enemy and and motioned for the pokemon to come back, "Come on Deoxys, give it your A game." Bisharp taunted somewhat playfully.
Deoxys pushed himself back up, looking back at Bisharp and growling, "I'll make you pay for mocking me." He threatened, switching to Attack mode and striking his enemy. Daniel's pokemon brought his arms up to block and when the attack hit, he was sent back several feet as his feet dug into the ground and left a trail. The pokemons arms hurt like hell and he wiggled them as a response. Deoxys jumped up, diving downward to smash Bisharp with his fists. The dark steel pokemon reacted quickly, jumping up and grabbing the legendary and slamming him into the ground.
"Come on, are you really taking this seriously?" Bisharp mocked, having a little fun playing with Deoxys' emotions.
"Get your hands off me!" Deoxys yelled, throwing Bisharp off and throwing him away several meters back. Bisharp manueverd so he slid on the ground on his feet and stopping himself. Deoxys zoomed forward and both pokemon threw a punch towards each other which collided. The ground around them cracked and crumbled as their punches created a powerful shockwave. Deoxys yelled, putting his back into the punch in an attempt to overpower Bisharp. Daniel and his partner did the same, yelling and shifting their position to overpower Deoxys. The legendary got an idea, deciding to redirect their punches downwards and creating an opening for him. As Bisharp was brought down, he was hit with an uppercut he fell into and knocked upwards. Daniel's pokemon rolled on the floor on its stomach.
Bisharp lay on the ground, purposefully not getting up and waiting as he clenched his fist waiting patiently.
"I'm ending this." Deoxys said, bringing his arm back and readying to strike Bisharp.
Bisharp continued, awaiting his moment to strike as he thought to himself, "come on… take the bait." Bisharp thought, readying to move as he saw his opponent prepared.
"It's over!" Deoxys yelled, throwing an extended punch towards his enemy to finish them off. But in an instant, Bisharp got up and sliced at Deoxys as both parties heard something get cut off. Samuel's jaw dropped as he saw Deoxys arm fly up into the air and crash to the ground, spazzing out uncontrollably. Bisharp was on one knee has he had his arm extended past where he hit Deoxys. The legendary stood there, eyes wide with pain as he was attempting to process it. Samuel's pokemon yelled in pain and proceeded to groan as he held onto the open wound.
"Holy crap! Bisharp just sliced off Deoxys arm! Disgusting!" The announcer stated, and the audience watched in awe.
Deoxys continued to groan, trying to calm itself down and focus, Bisharp saw this and made a "hmph" sound in joy. "Quit playing around, I know damn well you can regenerate."
Deoxys grew irritated with the ignorant remark, looking to his adversary and barking, "Of Course I can you imbecile, but it does not excuse the excruciating pain!" Deoxys focused and as quickly as he lost it, a new arm popped out and replaced the missing part. The legendary moved its new arm around, flexing it and attempting to get used to the new stiff arm.
"Every time we get back up, we only get stronger." Bisharp proclaimed, feeling more confident than he was early and much more at ease that they can land hits more often. Deoxys growled in irritation, curling up his hand into a fist with so much rage his arm shook.
"Again and again and AGAIN! WHY DO YOU KEEP GETTING BACK UP WHEN YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T BEAT ME?!" Deoxys shouted telepathically, frustrated because these two should've been finished ages ago but they keep managing to come back up. Even years ago when Bisharp was a Pawniard, they always came back and knew damn well how the battle would turn out. Why? Why do they keep bothering when the result will be the same EVERY TIME?
Daniel answered, "The answer's simple, it's because we have dreams and goals we want to achieve. We've always fought for ourselves and worked together to achieve each others goals. But we haven't always been like this… It's because of the people around us who kept us going. Without Bisharp, I would have never matured and gain the confidence I needed to win. Without Andres and the rest of my team, I would have accepted defeat a long time ago but they all taught me to learn from my mistakes and keep going with my head held high. However, there was always one person who kept pushing me onward from the beginning, the one person who managed to save me from my depression as a child."
Deoxys listened, wanting to know who this person is if it wasn't Bisharp who was there for him all the time. "Who was it?"
"I don't know where I would be without her, but she was the first person to reach out to me in my time of darkness and pull me up. Her name is Serena Ferris, the girl I love, and the one I am eternally grateful towards. It's because of her and all my friends that I'm here today and I can't afford to let their efforts go to waste."
The words echoed to everyone, everyone was in awe of the boy's explanation but one person in the audience was more shocked than anyone. Serena, her mouth was open in shock and she was slightly blushing. Did her crush just admit his feelings towards her? That's what she thought, Ash's crew and the Holy GADZ looked towards Serena because they were all shocked. Granted, the Holy GADZ already knew but they wanted to see everyone else's reaction, but they were still surprised Daniel admitted it publicly like that.
Deoxys stood there, having calmed down and accepting their explanation, "So that's your motive? It's because of this love towards not only this girl but all of your friends that you wish to keep going? They helped you and you don't want to let that go to waste? Is that correct?"
Daniel smirked confidently, putting his hands on his hips, "Yeah, something like that."
"I respect your resolve, it is admirable indeed but I won't simply hand over a victory just because I understand you now. I know you are aware of that."
"Yeah." Daniel responded, it all became silent once more until something extraordinary occured. The mysterious stone lit up, so bright in fact that Samuel and people in the audience could see it. The object began to float upwards, making its way out of Daniel's pocket and floating up in front of the boy. Daniel was confused as to what was happening with it and Bisharp turned around, walking towards it and wanting to see what's up. The mysterious stone shot two small beams of light towards the partner and giving them a bright outline as they stood in place. They now maintained poker faces and were in a daze as they didn't have control of what they were doing.
Daniel, in a way he would describe it, felt like he was being sucked out of his own body. Bisharp felt the same way as the two of them fell into a black void and the only thing they can see is each other.
"Bisharp? What the hell is going on?!" Daniel called out, attempting to move but the boy can only float in place, barely able to move from his current position.
"I don't know, did we die?" Bisharp somewhat joked but got serious.
"You have been chosen." a familiar voice sounded from behind them, they whipped around to see a ball of light floating in place. The voice was the same exact one they heard back in the reflection caves when they discovered the stone in the first place.
"Wait a minute, are you the one that called us to the stone?"
"Indeed, we are the ones who called out to you two because we believe you are worthy."
Daniel's facial expression changed to a confuzzled one, "Worthy of what?"
"We believe you may have already heard this term, but, we believe you are worthy of being the Representatives of Creation."
This shocked the partners and they looked to each other, the representative thing is making a comeback now. Daniel shook his head in disbelief and looked to the stone, "Bb-but why us?! What is this whole representative of creation thing? Why are we chosen?"
"All will be explained in due time, but to put it simply. You have met our parameters, the requirements for being a representative. We have agreed to select you two as our successors"
"Successors? … Wwait, are you saying you're the previous Representative of Creation?"
"Correct, all of us in this collective conscious are the previous representatives."
Bisharp butted in, wanting to talk, "Alright, but what's the whole deal with this? I know you said all will be explained in 'due time' but what's going to happen right now? Why are we here?"
"We have come to test you, to make sure we have chosen the correct individuals. We will begin right away."
The second that was said, Bisharp and Daniel were separated from each other as they parted further and further away from each other. They called out to each other but their voice only repeated in the darkness. The light appeared again in front of Daniel, the same one from just a bit ago.
"What is your worst fear?"
Daniel looked, thinking to himself and coming up with an answer, "That I ultimately fail my friends and they fail their dreams as a result of it."
"I see, we shall take a look inside to see if you are telling us the truth."
"Whait what?" The light moved into Daniel as he could feel something inside, and in that moment, images flashed before his eyes of his worst nightmares. Daniel looked around, terrified at what he was looking at and shutting his eyes closed as he couldn't bare to watch what he was seeing, "STOP!" Daniel demanded and like such, the images stopped and the light appeared in front of him once more.
"It appears you are telling the truth, you do not wish to see your friends suffer, you are a kind person indeed. But, if you had the power to prevent any of it, would you?"
"Yes! Because they all sacrificed something for me and I have to return the favor, they did so much for me so I can't help but want to aid them!"
"Understandable, but, it appears you do it out of moral obligation, not self desire. If they didn't do anything for your cause, would you still help them?"
Daniel was caught off guard because he didn't really think about it, most of his life was just him following his moral code and not really thinking for himself. "Yeah, I would still help because friends are friends no matter what. They're all dear to me."
This time, the collective conscious was silenced, floating mid-air with nothing to say. And then, "What about afterwards, in the chance you defeat your opponent, what would you do afterwards? Abuse your fame? Abuse the power you have?"
"No, I would use my power and fame to help all my friends achieve their dreams like they did mine."
The conscious floated more, processing what the candidate was saying and coming to a conclusion. "Very well, we shall put you to the ultimate test then."
"I'm ready."
Daniel blinked, snapping out of his daze, he looked to his partner who shook his head as he was returned to the normal world as well. Samuel and Deoxys were close, simply watching and calling out to their opponents. Daniel and his partner reached for the stone, touching it as it generated a ripple sound that echoed to everyone in the vicinity. The stone generated retracted the beams yet the two candidates were still outlined, the stone generated a bright light as it was encased inside a blue bubble. The object ascended in the air, picking Daniel and Bisharp along with it as they were both lifted off their feet. The clouds all gathered at one point above the area, darkening everything once more and no light passed through.
They were raised higher and higher until everyone in the arena could see them in the air. The partners closed their eyes, letting out a deep breath as they put their hand out towards the stone. The object in question turned into a mass of light which grew more and more and engulfed the two as it continued expanding. Once the light reached a peak size, it began giving off ripples of energy, sending waves in various directions and causing light objects within the arena to float upwards.
"What's happening?!" The announcer questioned, the audience watched as the ball of light then morphed and it then became a sphere with of a wavy blue flame pattern that flowed continuously upwards. The mass divided into two smaller spheres which slowly parted from each other until they were at an even distance away. In an instant, tTwo large rays of light shot up towards the sky like a beacon. The beams parted the clouds and removed them entirely as the sky was revealed with the burning bright sun. The beacons died down until it was only the two spheres once more which began to morph and change. The spheres took on the form of a white shell of flowing flames with a bluish tint to them. The shells spiraled around each other slowly and they came close together as quick.
The masses descended to the ground, and the shell dissipated revealing two figuring covered with a bright white shell that generated a glow. The light broke off their bodies from the feet up, revealing them bit by bit until finally, they were revealed. Both partners had their backs turned to their opponent and a bright blue aura encompassed them.
Samuel and Deoxys were speechless, not sure what to say or do as they saw their opponents slowly turn around to face them with their eyes closed. Once Daniel and Bisharp turned around completely, they opened their eyes, revealing their identical red pupils. The aura caused Daniels hair to spike upwards and Bisharp remained in his transformed state. The expression on Daniel's face was unlike anything Samuel's ever seen, he's never seen Daniel with this type of look before, it was almost like he's a different person now.
"Now go, show us, Daniel Barsony, that you are worthy of wielding the power of the Arceus Stone!" The conscious declared to them both, they furrowed their brows, acknowledging their test and the new challenge they must face.
End of Chapter