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"Speech"

'Telepathy'

Chapter 21- Reawakening, Resurrection, and Life

Dear Director,

We have been receiving reports from your grunts that there have been tremendous casualties throughout your area. We demand to see your progress and what you are working on. If it is true that your so called top soldiers are causing this entire ruckus, we have no choice but to dispose of all evidence, including you. So, dear Director, show us what you have.

-from the Council

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Location: Testing facility- Many years ago…

"Sigma?" the voice asked. "Did they pass?"

"Negative, sir," Sigma replied. "They're still reckless."

"Are they still in the dark?" the voice asked again.

"Affirmative," Sigma answered.

"Good. Let's keep it that way," she said.

…

Location: Hall of Legends- Present time

Rei kneeled over Blu's body and kept shaking him. He had to wake up! She didn't want to be alone in this world. The green guard checked his vitals once more on the holographic screen and looked over at Darkrai, who was once again in deep meditation. Darkrai opened his eye to look back at the glaring guard.

"I'm not doing it!" he protested.

The green guard nodded in understanding. "Try searching his nightmares," he suggested. The Pitch-Black Pokémon looked back in confusion but decided to follow the advice as he dove into deep meditation once more.

Ash looked over at Mewtwo. "How much have they been through?" he asked.

Mewtwo did a quick psychic scan through Rei's and Blu's minds. "Too much for them to handle," he replied solemnly. "Both of their guardians are dead and now they're pulled into this."

"Can you figure out who they are?" Ash asked. Mewtwo shook his head.

"I can only see through the past five years of their life. Nothing major had happened then," Mewtwo muttered. "Uxie's working on it."

"What about the guards?" Ash questioned.

"No idea…" Mewtwo mumbled while he gazed into the far off distance.

Latias floated over to comfort the crying Rei. She placed her paw on her back and rubbed it a little. Rei stopped crying to look over at Latias and then hugged her, burying her wet face into her feathery down. Latias gave her a sympathetic look before hugging her back. She felt as if she was the older sibling now.

Rei pulled back and pulled out the two pieces of the necklace, joining them together. Latias cooed in curiosity and poked her neck over Rei's shoulder to look at it.

"What's that?" she asked.

"Dad gave it to me just before, you know," Rei answered before a few more tears fell from her eyes. "Apparently, I think Blu's master, or your father, also did the same for him. It's kind of weird how they link, right?"

Latias nodded but kept her focus on the necklace. It seemed too familiar.

Suddenly, someone groaned from somewhere in the room. Rei shoved the necklace back into her satchel and sprang from her position and ran over to the now conscious Blu.

"Am I dead yet?" Blu groaned.

"No, you're still fine," Rei replied before tightly hugging him.

"You're… crushing… me," Blu gasped. Rei simply smiled and let go.

The green guard noticed the commotion between the two and turned his head. "We're leaving," he promptly stated. "Blu, Rei, follow behind us."

Blu stood up. "Why?" he asked. They had just arrived.

"The reawakening will not need you two," the green guard harshly told them. "We don't want to cause any… interference."

"Wait, if you try to leave now, you will be trapped in time!" Dialga jumped in.

The green guard growled but realized that Dialga was speaking the truth. He didn't mention that they had something to bypass both time and space. "Fine. We'll stay until Ash and Latias have to go," the guard grunted. "And keep Deoxys away from the two." Latias smiled at the two smaller Eons, happy that they could stay a little longer.

Deoxys had begun to stir again. Darkrai put an arm to his chest, holding him down. "That's enough with you. Just let us reawaken our Father," he told him. Deoxys felt the anger rumbling through his body once more. None of them knew how it was to lose someone dear to them. None of them-

'You're not the only one,' Latias interrupted his thoughts.

'Yes, but you're about to have your brother come back! She's never coming back,' Deoxys thought back.

'I thought the same. Maybe there will be a chance one day. Let us talk about this with Father, ok?' Latias asked. Deoxys grunted and calmed down. Darkrai released his grip.

'I did some further analyzing,' Uxie cut in. 'Her death had occurred sometime during this year. Blu had not moved from his island at all. He couldn't have gone up that high to do such a deed,'

Deoxys calmed down further and tried being reasonable. 'What about his aura?' he asked.

'It's mixed. Some of it's clear and bright, some of it's dark,' Uxie replied. 'It's hard to tell.' Latias frowned at this.

Deoxys stood up and looked at the protective guards. "Alright," he said out loud. "I won't attack them. Not until I figure out more." The guards looked at one another before lowering their battle stances. Blu crawled over to the wreckage and put whatever was left of the laptop back into his satchel.

"Can we reawaken Father now?" the Latias asked Uxie eagerly. She really wanted to see her brother once more.

In response, Uxie nodded and sent a psychic message over the blue guard. The guard then took out another laptop identical to the one Blu had. Deoxys spotted this but didn't move against it. The guard then opened it and started punching in lines of code.

Several minutes passed in silence. Then, the guard put the laptop back into his satchel and waited. Suddenly, 50 platforms marked with a Pokémon silhouette started rising from the ground. One more formed in the middle but had nothing on it.

"Everyone to their spots," Uxie called out. All the legendaries moved over to their respective platforms. That only left three of them empty. One for Latios, one for Jirachi, and the last one was for Ash. It was also happened to be the one in the middle.

The green guard walked over and placed Latios' Soul Dew on his respective platform. Celebi left briefly to grab a past and awake version of Jirachi so they could perform the ritual without waiting another thousand years. The guards along with smaller Eons stayed in a corner of the room. The rest of the legendaries motioned Ash to come to the middle platform. He did so hesitantly.

"Um, so what do I do?" Ash asked.

"Concentrate your aura into a solid form. We'll handle the rest," Uxie replied.

Ash took a deep breath in and then released it. He closed his eyes and concentrated as light blue aura wisped from his hands. Every legendary concentrated and the aura soon turned into a gold and white color. The wisps gracefully danced along the air before it focused within a single point. A ball of pure energy started to form and an opaque barrier started to separate Ash from the circle of legendaries.

Inside the barrier, Ash shut his eyes and kept forcing his aura into the small sphere. It hurt, but he couldn't stop now. The jewel soon started to take shape as the aura curved to form Arceus' body.

'Ash… stop…' a voice rang through his mind. Ash didn't. He couldn't stop now. He had to keep moving on.

'Ash…' the voice rang again.

'ASH!' the voice shouted. A surprised human jumped out of his concentration to look at the body of Arceus. 'Why am I awake?' He asked.

"We… we need to revive Latios," Ash replied. Arceus sighed. It was time.

'Very well,' Arceus replied. With a sudden flash of light, the barrier shattered into many pieces. A very tired Ash felt his legs lose control as he collapsed.

As soon as the ritual was over, a very worried Latias flew over to Ash, ignoring the fact that she was just in front of Father. She nudged his body with her snout several times, cooing sadly that there was no response.

'He'll be fine,' Arceus spoke. Latias looked up to see the Arceus' face staring right back at her. Every muscle in her body froze as she stared back, unable to move. Arceus smiled and Latias felt a warm feeling relieve her body. She smiled back.

Arceus closed his eyes as we did a quick scan over what had happened since his slumber. A minute passed in silence. 'It's that time, isn't it?' he murmured as his eyes opened.

"Yes, sir," the green guard replied before picking up Latios' Soul Dew and presenting it before Arceus. Several Pokémon frowned at what he was calling Father. It was as if an order was given out.

He knelt and placed both Soul Dews in front of Arceus and then backed off, pulling Latias and Ash with him. Arceus closed his eyes and concentrated as golden energy began to Latios' Soul Dew from Sky's Soul Dew, and oddly enough, from Blu and the guards as well. No one except Blu and the guards noticed this as the trail was so faint.

Figures started to form from the jewels. Both of the Latioses' bodies were in an aura form. Sky opened his eyes and looked around the room once before smiling and dissipating into nothing. His job was done.

The flow of energy increased and Sky's Soul Dew began to break apart. Latias wept a few tears but thanked him for giving her brother back. Beside, Latios' body started to form. Just like with Arceus, the aura wisps started to curve around the jewel to form his body. Soon enough, he looked just like he did when he died in the column of light. Arceus concentrated even further as the other Pokémon watched in amazement. After a little, Latios' body started to darken and lighten into his respective colors. Suddenly, many flurries of light shot from his body, blinding everyone in the room. The resurrection was finished.

Latios yawned and tried to open his eyes. What had just happened? His eyes didn't have time to focus on anything before a something red and white tackled him.

"You're alive, brother! You're alive!" Latias shouted.

"S-sis?" Latios stammered. He got up from her playful tackle to survey his surroundings. "What happened?"

Latias opened her mouth to explain everything but was stopped by someone groaning. Everyone turned to the corner where the smaller Eons were to see a worried Rei kneeling over an unconscious Blu. The guards had disappeared. Their job was done.

A worried Darkrai checked his vitals once more but was relieved that he was stable this time. He shared the good news with everyone else. Latios still had to recover from his shock.

He had first noticed that there were humans in the Hall of Legends. He then noticed that he truly was alive, not dead or trapped in a dream. He finally turned around to notice that Arceus was standing right behind him.

"H-how am I alive? I thought I died!" Latios exclaimed.

"You did," Uxie replied. "Through many events, your father's Soul Dew was recovered. Ash awoke Arceus so that your father could use his remaining energy to revive you."

There was a pause.

Uxie sighed, knowing there was no better way to put this. "He," Uxie began. "Has become one with Arceus." Latios' eyes widened. He turned over to Latias to see if the statement was true. She simply nodded and shed a few more tears before embracing him.

It was nice to be alive again.

Thanks, dad.