A/N Two updates within 14 hours! Woop! Anyway, the fighters have scattered on every floor of Castle Oblivion in the hopes of saving their friends.
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Nexus 7.6:
Sora booked it through the door and looked at Ben, watching as the boy took a huge breath of air, and surprisingly it made as loud a noise as it looked like it should. They'd made it out of the staircase that vacuumed all noise away. The older boy looked back through the door and his eyes widened at what looked like large invisible hands reaching out towards him. They were almost transparent, no more than shapes moving through the air and reaching for Ben and him, trying to pull them back. "Shut!" he shouted and drew his Keyblade, pointing it at the doors and forcing them closed, pushing back whatever was reaching towards them.
"Hahaha, I told him it wouldn't hold you back," a low voice called out to the two boys. Ben and Sora were panting and looking back at the closed double doors where loud thuds slammed into it a few times and made them back up nervously. The noises calmed down and the two of them felt comfortable turning and facing whoever it was that shouted at them.
When the boys turned around, their eyes narrowed and they glared at the man in the brown suit standing at the bottom of the white staircase before the next set of doors. Ben pointed at the man with short brown hair, "He was standing next to Ansem back in fake Agrabah. The two of them looked pretty chummy," the boy growled and lifted up his watch, slamming his hand down on it with a smirk appearing on his face. Nothing happened and Ben lowered his bottom jaw, remembering something.
"Stupid child," Giovanni called out to the boy. "I've only just witnessed your abilities, and even I know you can't transform when your watch is red." The man glared at Ben and then stepped to the left, turning his body sideways and raising an arm, "Go on ahead," he called out, making both Sora and Ben go wide-eyed.
"What?!" Ben shouted at him, staying where he stood with a confused look on his face.
Giovanni frowned at the annoying younger boy, "Leave me, before I change my mind. I've been 'ordered' to take care of both of you here, but if you'd like, go on ahead to the next room. I don't take orders from that man anyway."
On a floor above, Ansem slammed his fists down on the table and screamed at the man in his monitor who was smirking up at the ceiling, knowing he was watching.
Ben was still cautious, but he turned to Sora, "Alright, let's go." The spiky haired boy looked at him and nodded too, both of them making a silent agreement to stay on edge in case this was a trap.
"Not him," Giovanni stated, surprising all three people watching him. The man in the brown suit pointed at Sora and smiled, "He will be my opponent. Ansem, the Lord of Darkness, whatever he likes to go by these days is on the next floor. Go fight him. Go die. I don't care." He didn't look at Ben once during that sentence, he just kept grinning and looking down at Sora's waist.
The seventeen year old followed his gaze down to his waist and looked down at himself, seeing the red balls lining his belt. He looked back up and watched as the strange man lifted up his suit jacket, revealing a very similar looking belt on his own waist. Sora's eyes went wide. He doesn't look that strong, so if he's this high up, his Pokemon must be something to be feared. "Ben," Sora started, his voice low and calm, "I'm the only one who can defeat him. You still haven't cooled down enough from using Heatblast, take this chance, go on ahead."
The younger boy didn't know what to do. If he left now, he would be all alone. It would really be all up to him to save everyone. "But, Riku's your best friend. You've known him for so long. When I knew him, he talked about you all the time. You should be the one to save him..."
"Ben," Sora stated, turning his head a little and smiling at the younger boy, "he's your best friend too, right?" Ben's eyes went wide at Sora's statement. "You might have known your other friends for longer, and had more adventures with them, but when I hear you talking about saving Riku, your voice has so much passion behind it. There isn't a single person I'd entrust saving Riku to more."
"I-," Ben started, he couldn't finish his sentence, his voice was lost. "What if I," he said quieter, "what if I fail?" The thirteen year old had had the fate of his own universe resting in his hands before, but back then all he really cared about protecting were his Grandpa and cousin. Now, he had so much, so many people who called him family. Grandpa, I know you would have faith in me. I have to protect them all, Ben looked at Sora and he nodded his head slowly, the fear still there, but his determination keeping him going even at this desperate time.
"You can do it Ben," Sora told the boy. Ben started running towards the stairs and he made a wide berth as he reached the staircase, trying to keep his distance from Giovanni. He stopped at the door and looked back one more time. The kid gulped, more nervous than anyone about his chances of winning, since as was the case with all his friends down below, Sora believed in him. I know you can, the older boy thought.
The older Pokemon Trainer watched the boy run through the doorway behind him and then looked back at Sora. "Now child, show me those Pokemon you caught that make you a formidable foe for me to defeat."
"I didn't catch them," Sora stated coldly, his eyes turning dark for a second. "Well, at least not most of them. These two," he lifted up two balls from the left side of his waist. "These two are ones that I caught myself with the help of my old friend's Pokemon that he entrusted me with." He motioned down at the other balls still awaiting him to grab.
"Hmm?" Giovanni murmured, slightly less impressed now. "So you're not a very experienced trainer I take it? How disappointing. This should not take as long as I previously thought." The man reached down and grabbed a purple and white ball off of his waist, the letter 'M' apparent on the top half of it. "This one Pokemon should be more than sufficient for the likes of you. Come out, Mewtwo!" The man threw his ball up in the air and a red light came out of it, forming a shape in the air that surprised Sora.
"A Pokemon Trainer," Mewtwo commented, his voice low and telepathic, reaching the inside of Sora's mind. "Show me what tools you have brought to this fight. Which of my kin will you force to fight me?"
"'Tools?' 'Force?'" Sora listened to Mewtwo and then frowned up at the floating gray Pokemon with a long purple tail. "What type of trainer do you think I am?!" the boy with brown spiky hair yelled up at the creepy Pokemon with three fingers on each hand.
"All of you humans are the same. You fight, you destroy, you corrupt, you're a miserable species. My brethren don't understand their condition, our condition of being enslaved to these accursed balls and their power. Tools? You question my wording? How about weapons? Did you ever think my kind do not like this kind of servitude?!" Mewtwo charged across the white floor of the room towards the unmoving boy, standing there with his head bowed, his brown hair covering his eyes that were staring at his hands, at the red balls in them.
Sora snapped his head up and his eyes were full of fury as he glared into Mewtwo's, causing the Pokemon to stop mid-flight. "If that were all true," the boy began, "if you really spoke for your whole kind," Sora's eyes were wet but he wasn't letting himself show any tears, holding them back as hard as he could. "Then why," the boy asked, "why when their old Master died, why did they cry?!"
Giovanni's grin lowered a little and he stared at Mewtwo's back, wondering why his Pokemon wasn't finishing the attack he ordered telepathically to it. Sora kept shouting at the floating monster in front of him, "Why did they cry? Why would they, if they really hated being friends with him? That's right, friends. They weren't his tools, and he didn't use them, he fought with them. Just like I'm going to do right now!" Sora shouted angrily, throwing up one of the balls he claimed to have caught his own Pokemon with. "Come out!" What appeared out of the red and white pokeball thrown up in the air had both Giovanni and Mewtwo back up in shock. The small pink creature that floated in front of Mewtwo had a similar looking body, only half the size, and with a thinner and longer tail. Sora finished his summoning, "Mew!"
Giovanni only took one step back from the surprise, but then a wide smile stretched across his face. "It seems I've underestimated you child. Tell me, what is your name?"
"I'm Sora," the boy called across the white room to the man at the base of the steps leading upstairs.
"Well then Sora," the man in the brown suit stated, "in my world I was a gym leader. Not only was I that, but I led a criminal organization, one that may as well have ruled the world from all the connections I had. Very few have ever defeated me in a Pokemon battle, and even less in true combat," the man shrugged his shoulders and his brown suit jacket fell off, leaving him standing there in a white gi underneath. The man stepped out of his brown pants to show his fighting gi covered his whole body. "My name is Don Giovanni, the man who will defeat you."
The spiky haired boy frowned at him and called across the room, "You can try!"
Giovanni laughed, "No, I will defeat you. It is not a question of try." The man rolled his shoulders and then put his hands at his waistband, the belt of pokeballs staying on his gi instead of his pants' belt. "Now, I don't know how long it will take our mutual friend upstairs to defeat that child who just ran through here, but I can guess it won't be very long. So how about we skip with the warm ups, and forget about normal battle rules, though I'm guessing you're not very familiar with them anyway." The blank look on the teen's face was all the confirmation Giovanni needed. "Then, I suggest we go all out from the start!" The man drew two more pokeballs from his belt of six and threw them up in the air.
"Fine with me!" Sora replied, pulling out two more and tossing them up.
Four red lights appeared on the white floor of what was soon to become a battlefield. "Kangaskhan! Feraligatr!" Giovanni yelled, his Ultra balls bouncing back to him as his two large Pokemon appeared. The first was a tall and wide kangaroo-looking monster with a large pouch and horns on top of its brown head. The second was a light blue monster standing upright on two feet with two very sharp claws at the end. It had red spikes going all the way down its back and it lifted its head up, roaring at the sky.
"Blaziken! Charizard!" Sora yelled, the two other red lights turning into tall fire Pokemon that looked raring for a fight. One had large orange wings and the other had long arms and legs like a human, but the red fur proved differently.
"And you all accept being called upon in such a manner?" Mewtwo asked the three creatures who just emerged in front of him. He already knew Giovanni's Pokemon despised their Master, as did he, but he didn't sense the boy was lying when he questioned him before.
"Rarr!" Charizard roared up at Mewtwo.
Mew looked ahead at the clone of itself, meant to be better, stronger, more powerful. However when it was created, it was born with a distinct hate for humankind that no Pokemon before had harbored so deeply. The small pink creature tilted its head sideways at Mewtwo, and the taller psychic Pokemon glared at it, "We meet again," Mewtwo said, only communicating with the pink Pokemon flying in front of it this time.
"Sadly, we are foes," Mew's voice sounded so childlike talking only to Mewtwo, and the larger Pokemon glared at it, forming a purple sphere around its body as Mew created a similar pink one around itself.
Giovanni watched Mewtwo in awe, He never puts in this much power. I guess it is to be expected up against the Legendary ancient Pokemon. Though, not one Pokemon is more ancient or more Legendary, than the one I keep hidden, the one I've only needed to use to prove my worth to Tetsuo and gain a place at the high council. He lowered his hand down to his side and rubbed it against another Master Ball he had to use on that specific Pokemon or there would have been no chance of catching it.
The pink sphere and purple sphere collided in the air and the force of their collision almost threw Sora off of his feet and slid Giovanni back a few feet. The two Pokemon bounced off of each other and Mewtwo held its arms in front of it, collecting energy into a dark black ball that sparked lightning as it fired it at Mew. The smaller pink Pokemon dodged around the ball and then fired a blue energy ball coated in electricity at Mewtwo. The taller gray Pokemon moved to the left and barely avoided the ball that crashed into the wall behind Giovanni's head and created a hole in it.
Sora smiled at his Pokemon's power, but then heard an explosion behind him and looked up and behind to where Mewtwo's ball hit. The hole in that white wall was almost double the size of the one Mew created and the brown haired boy frowned. He looked ahead again and pointed at the enemies on the other side of the room. "Go for it guys, Riku is upstairs." His friends looked back at him in surprise and he smiled at his fire Pokemon, "Really. We're almost there!"
Blaziken grunted in approval, having known the mission of its Master for the longest time, since before Ash died even. He started charging forward and jumped over Kangaskhan as the large monster tried stomping down on it. While it was up in the air, its leg became coated in flames and it kicked the huge monster in the face.
Charizard leapt up in the air and flapped its wings, soaring under the pink sphere shooting through the air and colliding with the large water type Pokemon at full speed. Charizard bit down on Feraligatr's side and tackled it out of the way. It was an unorthodox attack and Giovanni was confused at what the boy was trying with this, but he quickly found out as Sora was already only a few feet in front of him, lifting up his yellow hilt and swinging his Keyblade at the other Pokemon Trainer.
"What did I say," Giovanni began and charged forward, surprising Sora by not backing up and catching the kid before he got too far into his swing. Giovanni grabbed the shaft of the Keyblade and threw it to the side, one strong tug all it took to tear the weapon from Sora's hand. The boy reached for his weapon as it was thrown from him, but the man wasn't going to wait for him and lifted up his left leg, kicking out and hitting Sora square in the gut, sending him flying backwards.
Sora hit the ground and tumbled backwards as Giovanni walked to the side. "Huh, this is what that man is so afraid of?" He lifted up the Keyblade and held it sideways in his right hand. "I think I'll just hold on to it." He smirked and swiped it in front of his body as Sora stood up across the room from him.
"I don't think so," Sora told him, lifting up his right hand and closing his eyes. Giovanni took a step back as the blade suddenly dematerialized from his hand, reappearing across the room from him in Sora's grip. "Only a chosen few are Keyblade Masters. The Keyblade chooses the wielder, you don't just get to decide to keep it." The boy sounded too cocky for Giovanni's tastes and the man with short brown hair frowned at him.
"Pathetic weapon anyway," the man said, but Sora didn't care what he thought and lifted the blade over his own head. The boy called out, 'Cure' and a green light flooded over his body, making his injured stomach feel a lot better. Giovanni glared at the boy harder, hating how wrong he was about such a powerful weapon. "Take a look child, and despair," the man drew another, one of his last three pokeballs from his belt and threw it up in the air, red light emerging from it and filling about half of the height of the room.
Sora slowly lifted his head up and stared at the entire width of this green monster. Its whole body was scaly and like Mewtwo it had a purple underbelly, although that part looked just as hard as the rest of it. The monster lifted its head up to the air and roared, flames spewing from its mouth as it did. "Tyrannitar!" Giovanni yelled, cackling as the black Dark ball bounced back to his hands. He had two more unused balls left on his belt, one more dark and the other purple with an 'M' on it.
All of Sora's Pokemon were kept inside normal red pokeballs. The boy reached down his hand, brushing it across his last three balls, wondering which to use against the huge green monster. Tyrannitar had large green spikes going all the way down its back and a long green tail behind it. It took a step forward and the floor shook, and Sora got inspired to use a certain one of his remaining friends. "You think that's big?!" Sora yelled at the man in the white gi. Giovanni's smile faltered a little, wondering if the boy was serious or just bluffing.
"Take this! Dragonite, I choose you!" Sora threw his pokeball up in the air and smiled remembering where he found this monster. It wasn't long after Ash's death, he and Kairi were on a beach somewhere, and just strolling out of the mist like it was the most casual thing to do, the giant orange Pokemon emerged. Since then he'd run into a few of the same species, so something must have been wrong with this one, it must have mutated or something, because the red light that emerged in the room made even Mewtwo and Mew stop their battle momentarily to look over at the giant orange dragon twice the height, and triple the overall size of Tyrannitar.
"What the..." Giovanni backed up several steps. "A, giant, Dragonite," the man shook his head and snarled at his own surprise. He hated getting to the point of befuddlement. The man frowned and leapt backwards as he didn't realize it but the spiky haired boy was charging him again. Tyrannitar turned to help its Master, but two large orange arms grabbed it by the sides and lifted it up, throwing it to the left and slamming it into the side wall.
Dragonite's strength, mixed with Tyrannitar's exceedingly massive size made for a huge shock that blasted completely through the side wall. Giovanni and Sora looked over as Dragonite continued and body slammed the monster leaning up against the broken wall, this time crushing any support the pieces of the wall had and shattering the white wall to rubble. "What the Hell is that?" Giovanni wondered aloud and Sora was thinking along similar lines as he looked outside of the walls of Castle Oblivion.
Apparently crashing through wasn't the same as getting to the outside that they arrived at earlier, because outside of the wall Tyrannitar smashed through, was everything but. Instead of a blue sky, a crack into a never-ending blackness opened up. Darkness and pieces of dozens of worlds, many of which Sora recognized, were swirling around in the dark void on the outside of the white room. Now that the walls were disrupted, it seemed like their floor wasn't stabilized anymore and the white floor, ceiling, and other cracked walls on the other sides of them started disappearing, only leaving the two sets of double doors that led downstairs and up. Those doors floated in empty space, but the space seemed to have the same elevation floor as the room, only now it was invisible.
Giovanni took a deep breath, accepting that those doors would still allow him to exit this place, and thus allowing him to continue his Pokemon battle. He looked over at Sora who was staring around at everything with such amazement in his eyes. The spiky haired teen was feeling so nostalgic as he glanced around at everything, This really is connecting the other worlds, the boy thought as he caught a glimpse of two different Agrabahs. One had a huge red genie in it fighting his friends whom he entered Castle Oblivion with. The other one, the closest little wispy view of a world around them, had a young man wearing the white clothes of a sultan and sitting atop the Royal Palace with Jasmine, the two of them leaning against each other and smiling up at the stars.
The leader of Team Rocket continued to stare as Sora listened in to that world. He could even hear the conversation the two were having atop the palace. "Where did Genie run off to this time?" Jasmine wondered to her Prince, the former street rat, Aladdin.
"Who knows?" Aladdin replied, looking up at the stars with a smile on his face. "But we'll see him again. Sora too."
"You really think so?" Jasmine asked the man. Flying Carpet and Abu jumped up at the mention of Sora's name and Aladdin nodded. "When he left the first time, I kind of thought I might never seen him again, but he came back. Donald and Goofy too. They're out there somewhere, probably saving the world. That's why the Heartless aren't here I bet, Sora must be fighting them as we speak!"
"You're right," the Princess told the man she loved.
The world Sora was looking down at swirled around and mixed with the other one, while others took its place in the darkness. A land full of sand that looked much like another of the earlier rooms appeared and Sora smiled seeing Hercules and Phil training there. "Come on Herc! You can't expect to beat Sora with that attitude!" The little goat man yelled at the hero.
Sora's eyes went wide at hearing Phil say that, and the muscular hero in the tunic on the training field laughed at his words. "Careful Phil, don't want Sora hearing you say that do you?"
"Two words for you, Not A Chance!" The hero trainer looked up at the sky, "When that kid comes back here for more tournaments, we're gonna teach him he can never be too overconfident. Even heroes need training!" That world started to disappear, but Sora couldn't be happier, he actually heard Phil say that Hercules needed to train to fight him, and also called him a hero.
Another world was flying above Giovanni's head and the man in the suit looked up, seeing what looked like a giant forest full of strange colored fruits. Another forest was next to it and it looked like a dense jungle, "Perfect," the man said, ignoring the boy who was reminiscing over there and shouting, "Who said to stop attacking? All of you, defeat Sora's Pokemon!" He had a plan to accomplish, and he just needed some preparations first.
His slaves looked back at him and then turned to face their opponents. Feraligatr charged a Hyrdo Pump and fired it at Charizard, slamming hundreds of gallons of water into the flying fire type and knocking it out of the air. At the same time, Mew came crashing out of the air with a black ball pressed into its stomach, exploding upon crashing into a dark world that only showed a graveyard.
Sora looked over at the image of the world Mew crashed into and he instantly recognized Halloween Town. The graveyard looked the same as ever, except without masses of Heartless all over it. "Must be nice without Oogie Boogie there," the boy mentioned with a small chuckle. He shook his head, remembering why he looked over in the first place. "Mew! Are you alright?!"
The pink creature flew back up from the ground where it left a crater and came soaring back up in the air, hurt, but still powerful as it shook off its wound. Dragonite was stepping towards Tyrannitar, but Kangaskhan created an earthquake at that second that not only threw Blaziken off its feet, but made the giant orange dragon lose its balance and start falling to the side. Tyrannitar was on that side already, and looking furious, a mixture of the evil ball it was trapped inside that accentuated its darkness, and its natural rage after being beaten badly by this orange monster. A white light formed at the tip of Tyrannitar's mouth and it glowed brightly for a few seconds before shooting out in a huge beam that crashed into Dragonite's stomach and lifted it up in the air, slamming it into the forests floating above them.
Although the worlds seemed separated, with images of things going on on their real worlds, their damage seemed to be connected. Huge trees broke apart on the Deep Jungle and started floating around in the dark empty space, and one look back up at the jungle showed the forest actually being damaged. "This place is perfect," Giovanni said with a chuckle. "I won't even need my trump card in a place like this."
His Pokemon were turning the tides and he decided it was time to finish this, though he hadn't forgotten about the remaining two Pokemon on this teen's waist either. Though against these two, no combination he could have would be close to a match. Giovanni threw up one of the last two balls on his waist, jumping up himself in the darkness and pointing a kick towards Sora, descending towards him fast and making the teen jump backwards to avoid it. "You have no chance!" The man yelled, "Inside that certain Dark ball was one of the strongest creatures in the Pokemon world. It could control the time itself, and in my control it has become second to only one!" Out of the glowing red light in the sky, Sora stared in awe at the small green form that appeared.
The boy with spiky brown hair was confused at how this little fairy-like creature could be one of the most destructive forces in Ash's world. "Are you kidding?" Sora yelled over at the man, but Giovanni's evil, maniacal, and confident laugh made Sora gulp and realize this was far from a joke.
The creature looked darker than most Heartless Sora had run into. Although it was green, the area around its eyes was black and its eyes themselves were pure white with a thin slit in the middle that looked glossed over. "Celebi!" Giovanni yelled. "Cause as much destruction as you'd like! Finish off Sora and all his pathetic Pokemon!" The man pointed at the boy across the space of darkness from him and Celebi lifted up its head, roaring in a high pitched voice that made the creatures not controlled by darkness to feel pity for the good-natured Pokemon that sounded like it was in so much pain.
Mewtwo looked back at its leader, hearing a silent command given by Giovanni to him directly, and the gray beast nodded at him. Mewtwo looked up at the two forests from different worlds up above him and he pointed his arms up at them. The Pokemon started firing blast after blast of dark attacks at the world, then spun around and fired them at the Colosseum, and the palaces of Agrabah, then at the graveyard of Halloween Town and at the dozens of other worlds spinning around them.
"What are you doing?!" Sora yelled up at Mewtwo who was doing all this with supposedly no incentive. As chunks of rubble from different worlds got torn off and pulled into the darkness, they floated around with zero gravity, like the gravity of the floor the Pokemon and their masters were standing on had no effect on them. The boy didn't like how Celebi sounded either and he stared at the little screaming creature with pity.
"Celebi by itself is not that strong," Giovanni stated, causing Sora to look his way. It was kind of hard to see the man because of all the floating debris from other worlds in his way. Their Pokemon were battling each other all over the place, but the floating trees, branches, sand, rubble, rocks, it was all spinning around violently and the fighters had to avoid it all as they fought.
Dragonite and Tyrannitar were too big to dodge and the two of them were hit by several large rocks and trees, knocking them around while the other Pokemon tried dodging everything. A huge rock was heading straight for Dragonite's face, but a pink shield surrounded the huge monster at the perfect time and the rock blasted apart upon contact with the small pink Legendary Pokemon floating there, holding out its arms and glaring over at Celebi's screaming form.
A huge tree trunk that was split in half from its world was flying straight towards Tyrannitar's face, and the already injured green Pokemon couldn't dodge in time. Luckily, two blasts of fire shot up in the sky and incinerated the tree just in time. The dark Pokemon faltered for a second and its face softened as it saw the two fire Pokemon of its enemy who just saved its life.
Soon, all the debris was moving somewhere else and they didn't all have to worry anymore. Or at least they thought that for a second before they realized it was all converging around Celebi, morphing around into a giant shape made of all types of different materials. In fact, it started shifting and shifting until it was the shape of a giant monster with four huge wooden arms, and eight thinner appendages coming out of its back made of chunks of white wall. The creature's legs were a mix of dirt chunks and hardened sand. Its head was made of branches that had been shaped into a monster's snarling face. In the back of its mouth they could see the green creature controlling this mega monster that was about the same height as Dragonite.
Celebi's huge monster stood in front of Giovanni, looking ready to destroy everything in front of it. Mewtwo hovered in the air in front of the monster's face, with Tyrannitar getting back up and staggering forward to stand directly in front of the monster's rock legs surrounded by tree branches and sand. On either side in front of Tyrannitar stood Feraligatr and Kangaskhan, neither one willing to succumb to their injuries and faint, but it wasn't like Sora's were at that stage yet either.
Sora ran forward between two giant orange legs so he was in front of Dragonite, then ran underneath Mew until he was right up next to Charizard. The fire Pokemon got hurt the most by the water attack it was hit with and the boy lifted up his Keyblade, holding it over his friend and whispering, "Cure." A green light surrounded Charizard and the fire dragon got back up on its feet, flapping its wings a few time and then turning to Sora and giving him a toothy smile. "I'm glad you're okay," Sora told the creature. The boy looked to his right and saw Blaziken also looked on his last legs. "Four against five doesn't really seem very fair, wouldn't you guys agree?" Sora asked his Pokemon, pulling out a fifth pokeball and throwing it up in the air, "How about we even the score?"
If Giovanni had been watching the fighters approach Castle Oblivion, he would have expected this, however when he first realized Sora had Pokemon with him it was only a little while ago when the fighters were all rushing up the stairs. Because of this, the man was stunned to see another Legend, Lugia, appearing in the sky in front of Dragonite, flapping its wings once and showing off its impressive wide wingspan.
The evil man snarled and curled up his hands into fists. "Every time I one up you, you hit right back with a surprise of your own. What's in that last ball of yours? Rayquaza?! Deoxys?! How about Giratina?! HAHAHA! None will be able to stop my final Pokemon," the man was screaming at Sora but the teenager didn't back down or even respond to him, he just kept glaring across the dark room at the man who would subject Celebi to this much pain.
"You can keep shouting and hiding behind your Pokemon all you want," Sora called out to the man. He looked away a little, "I don't blame you," Sora said quieter. He wasn't talking to Giovanni anymore, he was looking straight up at Mewtwo and the purple and gray Pokemon was looking right back down at the boy. Sora jumped up in the air and did a front flip, closing his eyes and then snapping them open as he started to fly up in the air. The teen landed on Lugia's back and he stared forward at where Mewtwo was floating at about his elevation. "The way you think we are, humans," he specified. "It's because of men like him, but I promise you, I promise we're better. My friends, everyone in this castle with me is here to save those they love. I'm here to save my best friend," the boy pulled out his Keyblade and his body was basked in light, transforming him and making his clothes turn gold, two Keyblades appearing in his hands. "But now I have a new goal along with that," Sora shouted in his Master Drive Form, "I'll let Ben save Riku, I'm going to save all of you!"
Mewtwo's eyes widened along with Feraligatr's and Kangaskhan's. Tyrannitar was fighting against the dark power of the control Giovanni had over him and winced in pain as it roared up at Sora. The two on either side of the large green one roared up at the boy too and Lugia spoke in a loud enough voice for them all to hear. "They are cheering for you. They might not be able to fight for you, but they are thanking you Sora, as am I." Giovanni was stunned Lugia could speak telepathically too, but even more so furious that his Pokemon were trying to rebel.
Mewtwo stared at the opponent in front of him and an image of another human appeared in the Pokemon's mind for a second. A boy in a red hat was standing there, smiling at him and saying how his Pokemon were his friends. The boy who was willing to sacrifice himself for his Pokemon, No, he was an exception, Mewtwo thought to himself. Humans are not like that, I've learned their cruelty first hand. My brothers, he may have you fooled, but on the inside I'm sure he's as much of a coward as the rest of them. I'll prove it to you all.
"So, Sora," Mewtwo said to him through their minds, allowing all the Pokemon to hear and understand in their own tongues. "If you love your Pokemon so much, then try to protect them!"
The man in charge started cackling as Mewtwo held up two hands and created five huge balls of darkness in the sky, growing much larger than the ones he previously used to destroy parts of the surrounding worlds. Mew's eyes went wide because the small pink creature knew it itself couldn't form three of them even if it used all its power. Mewtwo must have been risking everything with this attack to make Sora show his true colors.
Mew created two huge balls of pink energy, but Mewtwo fired before it could attempt to make the third one. The pink creature fired the balls ahead and they collided with Mewtwo's in midair, stopping his and destroying them in huge explosions. Lugia fired five thin red beams out of its mouth that combined into one huge one that slammed straight on the black ball coming towards it. Dragonite fired a huge white beam at the fourth black energy mass. However, the fifth ball was headed straight towards Charizard and Blaziken down on ground level, and neither Pokemon was strong enough to fully stop Mewtwo's attack. Even Dragonite was knocked backwards a little by the explosion that occurred much closer to it than it had planned, having fired a weaker blast than Mewtwo. The ball of energy was soaring across the battlefield and the two fire types wouldn't be able to dodge an explosion of that size.
"No!" Sora yelled, and without even a second of hesitation, he dove off of Lugia's back, spiraling as he descended like a rocket to the ground level of this dark abyss. Mewtwo's eyes couldn't get any wider as the kid in gold clothing crossed his Keyblades in front of the huge ball of black energy. His Master Form was pretty strong, but Mewtwo was putting everything it had into those attacks, and it pushed back against Sora as the kid landed in front of his two fire Pokemon.
Even Charizard and Blaziken were amazed by Sora's level of devotion here. After Ash passed, the boy always felt his Pokemon were distanced from him, and he never blamed them. Lugia was the first and only of Ash's Pokemon to truly think of him as its Master, but the two fire types staring at the boy between them now were wide-eyed at the child. Sora was holding back Mewtwo's attack that surely would have knocked them out or worse.
"Move, out, of the, way," Sora growled through clenched teeth back at his comrades who were standing there in the path of the black ball. He was pushing as hard as he could against the ball of darkness, but it was pushing just as hard back and he could feel his feet skidding backwards. "That's an order," the boy stated, forcing the two Pokemon to dodge, and just in time too as the black ball pushed through his Keyblades and slammed straight into him. "Ahhh!" Sora yelled as he was thrown backwards, his whole body becoming engulfed in the dark sparking energy.
"Sora!" Mew and Lugia yelled down to the boy, their psychic powers good enough to let them communicate with him. The two fire types who dodged landed and started running over to the smoke coming out of where the explosion occurred a few seconds ago.
In the smoke, a figure was lying on the ground, his body unmoving in rags of a yellow outfit. Two Keyblades were lying next to him and he was twitching, his whole body in pain, Mew, was that your voice? I don't think I've ever heard it before, the teen opened up his eyes slowly and the first thing he saw was the enormous orange dragon staring down at him with eyes about as large as his own body if not bigger, "Haha, I'm fine boy, it's okay."
Dragonite snapped its eyes up and glared right at Mewtwo who was panting, tired from that last attack and shocked at the outcome of it. It can't be, they're so alike. The psychic Pokemon suddenly realized it didn't have the luxury not to be focused and looked up as the inside of Dragonite's mouth lit up with a growing ball of white glowing light. Huge bolts of lightning shot out from the ball of energy as Dragonite fired, sending out two huge beams of energy that wrapped around each other and crashed into Mewtwo, sending the Legendary Pokemon flying into the distance. The beam caught part of Celebi's monster form in the shoulder with the attack, ripping off dozens of tree branches and making Celebi attack. It swung two massive arms at Dragonite then turned its attention to the one in charge.
The giant monster started moving forward, swinging its dangerous appendages around. None of Sora's Pokemon were going to let their injured Master get hurt though, and they moved forward with looks of fury on all their faces. The boy lying on the ground smiled, then coughed a bunch of times, before smiling again. "Thanks, everyone," he said in a grateful tone as his Pokemon surrounded and protected him.
"Mewtwo," Giovanni grumbled and looked behind him to the distance of the void where Dragonite's attack was fading. One of his strongest monsters was nowhere in sight, but all he did was grunt in annoyance and pull out his final pokeball. "To have to use even you, I've really found myself an adversary I can enjoy myself with." Giovanni held up the final Master Ball in his collection and a stream of red light emitted from it, releasing a Pokemon out onto the battlefield.
The dark void the Pokemon were all standing inside was suddenly engulfed in light, before a darker darkness than any before filled the place, oozing into the other worlds around them. Sora looked around and saw Aladdin and Jasmine freaking out on the roof of the palace as suddenly everything turned to night and the moon vanished from the sky. He looked over at the Colosseum and saw Hercules and Phil running around in panic as earthquakes destroyed much of their world.
"The Pokemon said to have created it all," Giovanni yelled, his voice sounding like it was on the verge of madness, his body shaking as he marveled in the basking glow of this Pokemon he almost never summoned. "Creater of the universe, at least, of my universe. God of Pokemon and the most powerful in existence, Arceus!"
"KAAAA!" Arceus roared as it was summoned, its voice shaking the fabric of this dark universe and making the other Pokemon tremble in fear. It lifted up its head and roared at the top of its lungs, making Sora's Pokemon move backwards, though still staying close to their injured Master.
"Arceus huh?" Sora asked, his legs trembling as he stood up, his clothes turning back to their normal colors but staying in tatters. There was no way he could make it back to Drive Form yet, and he'd used up his magic healing his Pokemon continuously through the battle, so he had none left for himself. "Well, I think I've got you there." The boy reached down to his waist and held up his last red and white, normal pokeball. "Prepare yourself, Don Giovanni," the man in the white gi was sweating and his eyes were wide as Sora threw the ball up in the air, "because you're about to lose!"
Ben Tennyson reached the top of the final staircase. He could tell it was the last one because the doors in front of him were literally seeping darkness. Just the touch of his hands on the white wood made his whole body shiver, but he was too far now to stop, so he pushed forward.
"So you've finally come," Ansem's voice called to him. He recognized the dark, confident tone of the man anywhere, and it pissed him off. The boy pushed the doors fully open and barged inside, ready to start shouting, but his jaw dropped at the sight in front of him and he shook in fear where he stood. "Don't be afraid," the man's voice called out again, though now that Ben was inside, he knew exactly where the voice was coming from and it scared him to his core.
The thirteen year old started inching across the floor of the white room at the top of Castle Oblivion. There were no ornate decorations on the walls, no marble pillars, there wasn't a staircase on the opposite side of the room where every floor previous had had one. No, this room was very bland, with the ceiling and walls being white, well, most of the walls. The wall on the opposite side of the room from where Ben entered was partially covered in black, the ooze spreading from the two huge double doors up against that back wall. The floor had the same darkness moving across it in little wisps that lifted off the ground occasionally and dissipated in the air.
The boy with the watch on his wrist, the Omnitrix, the most powerful weapon in his universe that allowed him to transform into thousands of different aliens- when he could make it work, was terribly afraid as he looked at the door several meters away from him. There was a table between him and the door, a small white table with pictures moving around on it. He started walking towards the table which besides it and a few chairs, was the only piece of furniture in the room. "Take your time," the voice called to him again and Ben darted his eyes back up to the ominous door behind the table.
He's in there, the child thought. He looked down at the table and watched what looked like the first floor by the overall destruction in the room and the four collapsed people lying in the middle of it. Ben's eyes went wide as Heartless started diving for the wizards lying there, but a huge blast of yellow light slammed into the dark creatures and incinerated them. The boy looked further in the room and was stunned to see Laxus standing there. He wasn't wearing a jacket, and he was making his muscles bulk out extra big as he roared up in the air, lightning crashing around him.
Ben looked at the closest image next to the first floor and saw the Olympus Colosseum, though it looked a lot different from when he left. The fighters had destroyed the entire stage and he saw Cyborg and Franky laughing while Raven lay unconscious between the two of them. "My pawns have been falling, one after the other," the voice called to Ben from inside the door behind the table. He didn't look up, but instead stared in fear as dozens of black spheres appeared in the air above Cyborg and Franky. The two robots were shocked but got into fighting stances around Raven to protect her.
"Why are you doing this?!" Ben shouted, slamming his hands down on the table and looking towards the doorway. When he looked at the door, he couldn't tear his eyes away from what was inside it for a few seconds. The absolute darkness, fields of black plains covered in Heartless creatures all over it. How would I even find him in there, the boy started shaking as he saw two Darksides lift up from out of his vision and were now on either side of the entrance inside the dark realm. They were each thirty times his size, with black tentacles as hair, and they creepily looked a lot like Sora.
"'Why?'" Ansem asked the child, his voice sounding mocking. "You understand nothing. Darkness is the true essence of the heart, and I control it. I am the Lord of Darkness! I can turn even the slightest amount of evil in someone into the force that drives their entire being."
Ben looked back down at the screens below him and watched as the tall man wearing dark red punched Dash across the face. For the first time the two of them became visible, and Ben was shocked by how bloody and beat up his younger friend looked. That last punch lifted Dash off the ground, and the Shadow Flash ran up behind him and jumped up in the air at supersonic speeds, then punched down and slammed the blonde haired boy to the floor.
The white room couldn't handle the pressure from the kid hitting the floor at such high speeds and cracks shot off in every direction from the crater Dash was in. Ben leaned closer in and watched as the dust cleared, seeing his friend in the rubble wearing his torn up uniform. Its durability was probably the only thing keeping Dash alive right now. The boy struggled back up onto his feet, though Ben noticed he was definitely favoring his left leg. He won't last much longer against a faster fighter, Ben thought and knew he had to get to defeating Ansem quickly.
The boy started to look away when something caught his eye and he froze. His heart jumped and he leaned all the way over the table, looking at the moving picture that showed Agrabah. Everyone was fighting their hardest against the huge red genie, but he saw a flash of pink that he'd recognize anywhere. The smoke from the explosion cleared and Ben saw a pink shield in front of the tall man with ice powers.
Floating above Kuzan with her hands held up to create the shield, was Ben's own sister. "What are you doing here?!" he shouted down at the screen at his cousin.
"Do you really have time to be worried about her?" Ansem asked in a taunting tone from deep in the world of darkness. Ben looked over at the door and looked back at the table. He saw rooms full of his friends, and they were all fighting as hard as they could. In the last bunch of rooms too, everyone was working their hardest to defeat their opponents.
Ben closed his eyes and growled, a deep noise coming from the bottom of his throat. "I won't let you win," he said, snapping his head up and looking at the doors that led into the deepest darkness he could imagine. The thirteen year old climbed up on the table and sprinted across it, jumping off the other side and landing while in full sprint towards the doors. His feet hit the darkness that was spreading across the floor but he didn't let the strange feeling overwhelm him, and he kept going until he reached the doorway. "If I seal this door, you'll be trapped inside too!" His shouts just met laughter from the other side and the boy got even more furious. Ben reached out to either side of himself and grabbed the doors to the room of darkness. Ooof, they're a lot heavier than they look, the boy groaned and pulled with all his might and slowly the doors started sliding across the floor.
For some reason, Ansem was still laughing, and this made a very dark feeling arise in Ben's gut. Why? If I close this door, his power will be cut off, the darkness will be cut from this world. So why is he laughing?! "You are right child," Ansem called to him from beyond the door. "Perhaps you will trap me in here, and seal off the Heartless from running wild in Nexus. However," Ben could imagine the smirk on Ansem's face as the man continued, "who else, would you be trapping in here with me?"
The child closing the doors stopped, his arms shaking and not moving the doors anymore. He was straining to close them and had his eyes closed, but now he slowly opened them and let go of the doors on either side of him. Ben took a step forward, then another step, then another until he was inches away from being out from between the doors and completely in the realm of darkness. He didn't look around at all the masses of Heartless on every side of him, the terrifying monsters with glowing eyes that were all staring directly into his soul. Ben wasn't even looking at the man with tan skin who was hovering high above him, his body five times the size it was the last time Ben saw it, sticking out of a giant red monster with powerful Heartless all over it. He was looking at the little clear orb floating next to Ansem, the dark swirls moving around inside it, and the boy with long black spiky hair writhing around inside of it. Gohan!
A/N Nooo! Ansem got Gohan! When he got pulled into the darkness outside this is where he came out, in the clutches of their worst enemy. Ansem is in the realm where he's most powerful, will Ben be able to beat him? What about the other floors? How much longer can everyone hold out?! Only a few chapters left in Part 7, hope you enjoyed!