Episode 25: Festival of Ruin part 3
Summer didn't understand why, but when she opened her eyes, she couldn't help like she forgot something.
She was waking up from a table desk back at the Ranger Union.
"You awake?"
She turned her groggy head towards the voice to find Jack and Ben waiting for her.
"How long was I asleep?"
"The whole plane ride here. I didn't think the Jet lag would be that bad for you." Jack took a chair across from her.
Ben vouched for her. "Well she did have a brief recon mission in Kanto, so I think the Time Zone there is different from Unova."
A little Pichu with a blue guitar climbed Ben's shoulder. "Pichu!"
Ben smiled, making Summer smile as well before he seemed to notice something. "Oh! Summer, you didn't tell me you'd change your hairstyle."
Summer blinked and felt her head. It wasn't the original hair style she had in Oblivia. It was more styled as a simple pony tail that went up to the bottom of her shoulders.
The female Pokémon Rnager let her hand go through her hair, and then she wondered, 'When did I… did I change my hairstyle?'
"Summer!"
The Girl ranger snapped her head around. She thought she heard a young girl's voice somewhere.
"Is something wrong?" Jack asked.
"Didn't… didn't you guys hear that?"
"Hear what, Summer?" Ben asked as his Pichu looked at her intently.
Summer pointed behind her. "There was a girl calling my name, wasn't there?"
Jack and Ben looked at each other. "We didn't hear anything."
At response to this, she placed her hand on her head. "O-Oh."
The two fellow rangers looked at each other expectantly.
"Wanna go back to your room? Maybe you could sleep a bit more since we don't have a mission yet."
"Summer! Please wake up!"
"… I'm fine, Ben. Thank you though for offering." She smiled softly before standing up. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find Blue Berry Bagels."
"Congrats, you're a nerd."
That odd, cocky, insulting, but very familiar voice made Summer look around. For some reason she looked towards a wanted board and looked towards the posters from the Orre region.
"Blue Berry Bagels?" Jack, the blonde Pokémon Ranger, asked with curiosity. "Never seen you eat those before."
"I guess… I'm just craving them?" She shrugged before leaving the two back at the table.
Then she found herself assigned with Jack and Keith walking down the outskirts forest of Nacerne City.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this place…" Summer said as she saw Pokémon go about their daily life around the forest.
"Man well that's a good thing isn't it?" Keith raised his hands lazily behind his head.
"I guess… wait… how… how did we…" Summer stopped walking with the other two. "How did we get all the way over here?"
The two rangers looked at her confusingly.
"We rode on flying Pokémon. Some other rangers were kind of enough to let us ride on Staraptors, Fearows, and Pidgeots before dropping us of here. You alright Summer?" Jack asked her.
"Summer! Please! They're taking us away!"
"Who's that girl? … Guys?" Summer asked as she didn't find herself in the forest anymore.
She was all alone in a deep dark place that no one could find her.
Anto was, despite making such a bold claim, kind of scared—OK he was actually trembling in horror. He's arm was bending and aching in a way that it shouldn't have. Not only that, he was facing against six Mega Pokémon with only four of his normal (ish) ones.
Yet oddly, he wasn't letting his fear get the better of him. This was looking bleak, but strangely, he felt hopeful.
"Lily, now!" Anto mentally screamed before the empowered leaves all encircled the five of them in another dome.
Inquisitor briefly wondered why he was doing that again. "Blast it to kingdom come, all of you! Do not let even the ashes remain!"
All six of her Mega Pokémon unleashed a torrent of power towards the dome of leaves. There was no contest. A large blast exploded and shook the entire area.
[Elsewhere.]
Everyone looked towards the explosion.
"Wait!" N cried out as he looked towards that direction. He and everyone in that place knew that direction was not the area of the radio tower. Which only meant that… "That area is!?"
"The Amusement Park!?" Wallace cried out.
Warden gritted his teeth. 'Dang it Inquisitor! I thought you had him already!' He mentally raged.
Wes saw Warden briefly distracted before he motioned to his Pokémon to sneak away from Warden. Wes quickly passed by Arran on his way out.
"Dude, I have a plan I need to try out, can you hold the legendary poser off for a bit?" He whispered quickly.
"For his sake, you plan better work." Arran stated as he brandished his blade. "Or I might not be able to restrain myself."
"Dude, you sound like a bloody psychopath, but thanks." Wes said as he called his Pokémon to follow him towards the main hall of the place.
Warden turned back and saw Wes escaping. "Hey!" But was blocked by Arran and his Pokémon.
Arran brandished his blade. "You will pay dearly for endangering innocent people."
Warden threw his gauntlet, allowing the Leaf Blade attack to glow and leave a fading after image as he swung it.
"Stuck ups like you really get on my nerves." He spat before the two quickly clashed blades. Warden pushed Arran back before coming up close and activating his gauntlet again.
"You have the gall to call me stuck up!?" Arran accused, ready to bring his blade down.
"Discharge." The gauntlet cried out before a large area of electricity bolted out and shocked Arran.
The fighter boy staggered back before he was punched hard in the stomach. Arran staggered forward, choking out as he felt the impact of the hit, his lungs collapsing inward and drool coughing form his moth.
"Seismic Toss." Warden grabbed Arran in the arm, tossed him around in a circle before letting go, and making him slam into a wall.
"Now that that's over with, where's my first… victim?" Warden nonchalantly said as he looked around. He tensed briefly before activating a Protect move to shield himself from a shuriken aimed right for the back of his head. "Figures, you're actually one of those ninja clans... why the hell do I get all the weirdoes?" He scoffed as Arran slowly got back up from the impact.
[At the same time...]
Diamond, Ruby, Aster, and Black, the only four humans who were awake, saw the explosion several miles away.
"That's towards the Amusement park!" Black shouted before looking back to Majus. "So that's where The Prez's mom and Anto are!"
"Do ya really think me be going to let ya go there?!" Majus angrily answered as he pointed to them. "Nori, use Rock Polish!"
The Mega Aggron roared, making her steel plating look cleaner and crisp.
"Heavy Slam!"
The Female Mega let out a shrill roar before rushing in at blurring speeds to the last awake remaining people.
Then, Sebastian's Dragonite, flew in and stood in front of the Mega, but only slowed it down enough for the others to get away and let only the female Dragonite get crushed through an entire building.
"We gotta wake up the others!" Black yelled out. He looked back at some of his Pokémon, and smiled as he saw one of them wake back up, a Pokémon able to help turn the tides back in their favor. "Musha! Wake everyone up!"
The psychic type cried out, before its own shadow jumped out and struck Musha hard in its stomach before quickly coiling around the dream Pokémon and revealing Mega Banette trapping said psychic Pokémon.
"Bale, take that dream Pokémon out!"
Before the Ghost type could strike, a Capture Disk flew around it and harmed Banette with dragonic energy closing in on it.
"Oh no you don't!" Aster cried with stylus out and Bagon launching his own Dragonbreath attack on the coiling Mega.
Majus looked behind him and towards the building where his back up was and screamed, "Hurry up, man! Move!"
At his command all of the other members jumped out and appeared around the other trainers and Pokémon.
"Crap!" Ruby shouted as more of the members teleported back out and started lifting up the sleeping forms of some of their allies. Ruby in particular was quite angry to see them picking up Sapphire.
"Let go of them!" He roared angrily before raising his fist at Majus.
"And then what?" Majus answered with a mocking scoff and folded arms. "Ya be in no position to make orders man. Not to mention, half of ya Pokémon are still asleep, and the ones that are, ain't your Pokémon!"
Diamond stepped up in front of everyone. There was an unusual look of seriousness and solemnity in his eyes before he pointed accusingly at Majus.
"Give us back our friends! Or else!" He held a Poké Ball in his hand.
Majus eyed the Poké Ball in his hands. "Oh, so ya saved one Pokémon. What's it gonna do to turn the tides of battle?" Majus mocked some more.
That was probably the wrong choice of words to say, considering Regiggas, the Legendary Titan of Sinnoh, appeared right front of the fake commander.
Arran and his Pokémon did his best to hold Warden's Megas off, but they were being pushed back hard.
"Wes!? Anytime now!?" The purple haired swordsman cried out to the Snagger.
"Hey, we only got one shot at this, don't rush me!" Wes shouted back before looking at his two starters. "Alright you guys, think you can do this?"
"I know my dual move can do that, but the type of range though…" Umbreon said unsurely as Zwelious fought back a Kirlia and a Kadabra.
"Not to mention, I may have the ability to expand… but Dark Energy? My powers don't work on that at all!" Espeon told him.
"Espeon, relay my thoughts. I think I have a thought process, but if it's going to work we'll need you to close all windows in this area. I sent Wartortle ahead, and he's working as fast as he can."
"… Well, there's no way to disprove this but…" His psychic started.
"There's also no way it might work in the first place. But as it stands right now, we kind of are getting battered all over the place." Wes stated. "I don't know how much the others can hold off the Raikou poser with them taking this much damage from their support, but…"
"Well, if Anto can abuse the rules of Pokémon physics, who's to say we can't try?"
Speaking of said boy, Anto and his Pokémon escaped Sentinel's Phantom Force dimension and landed on the opposite side of the docks.
Lily shivered. "Brr! That was cold!"
"Don't remind me… gah my arm!" Anto mentally whined as the adrenaline died down a bit, and made the pain shock his brain.
"Ouch, that looks painful." Ohko noted simply.
"How are we going to fight our opponents?" Takezo asked.
"… We need new dual moves. We only used one of them, but now we're a bit limited. First thing first, Lily," He turned to his grass type. "We need you to combine Synthesis with Aromatherapy, think you can do that?"
"How am I supposed to do that?"
"Umm… try absorbing sunlight as usual, there still should be some despite the dust clouds… then releasing it via Aromatherapy."
"… Well, let's see…" Lily began to glow energy.
Anto quickly turned to his fighting type. "OK, Ohko… twist my arm back into place."
He knew his arm would be more of a liability at this rate, if those healing pulses during his movie work helped with his injuries, then this should work in at least putting his arm back to normal.
… Hopefully?
Maybe he shouldn't try to risk his body with something he isn't entirely sure will wor—
"Kay." The fighting type agreed easily before grabbing, the arm and making the young boy flinch hard. Since he wasn't able to make a sound, he didn't yell out his position.
That didn't stop the sudden jerk and pop of his hand being forced back into the right way, hurt like a…
"Mullafuap-der!" Anto mentally screamed some random word and gibberish, unfortunately catching the attention of Inquisitor's Fairy and Dark types.
Inquisitor looked towards the direction of her Pokémon's glances and put on her heat tracking function of her mask. Lo and behold, she saw several heat signatures in that direction that was small enough to be living beings.
"As soon as you see any of them, kill them."
If there was one thing that was going for Anto, Lily had made the new fusion move work, the new combined move, Sun Fragrance, healed a good majority of damage of the party around her, even soothing the great pain of Anto to the point he could move his former broken arm with slight soreness. It wasn't as powerful as the Audino's healing him, but it would have to do.
"I… I think I can only use that move two more times." Lily said as she finished.
"It'll have to do, Lily. Takezo, you and Lily start using your boosting moves, Swords Dance and Quiver Dance to the max. Ohko, Sen, we'll have to discuss some new ideas of Fusion moves that's the only way we stand a cha—"
Suddenly, Ohko snapped away from Anto and the others, only to block another Needle Arm from the Mega Cacturne who had just almost appeared in front of them. The spike protruding outward from one of his arms was being held and grabbed by Ohko.
"Not a second time yo!" Ohko cried as he tired punching the Mega after letting go of the spike, only for him to hit an after image and get slammed by an empowered Needle Arm on to his back and making the force of the slash hit the fighting type away.
"Oh this is too easy." The Cacturne cockily turned around to avoid a Dragonbreath. Just afterward, he Sucker Punch(ed) Sentinel before turning to Lily and Anto.
Takezo, blade behind his head, slashed at Mega Cacturne's side, but the mega grass and dark type avoided that attack as well, and did the same thing with Ohko in that he went behind Takezo and attempted to slice him with another Needle Arm.
But that was Takezo wanted. He knew his attack would miss, but now, he could activate his own Detect move the moment his attack missed.
The Patrat's eyes shined blue. In slow motion, Takezo side stepped the attack as it hit the ground were Takezo was briefly, and he spun as he side stepped, swinging his body to face his opponent. In that swinging motion, he threw his sword right towards the eye of the Mega Cacturne with precision accuracy. The opposing cactus Pokémon threw his head back in pain, making Takezo capitalize this and dash into between his legs. Takezo, with professional skill and speed, crossed his arms then swung them both to slam into the back knees of his opponent, making his opponent lose balance and fall down faster.
The Dark type found himself falling into the ground, his evil eyes looked up to see a shadow descending quickly down before him then he saw his enemy Patrat jump above him and grab the descending sword and falling down with its motion ready to bring it down hard on him.
Mega Cacturne got back up on his feet and rolled out of the way and back into standing, just in time to avoid a large, enhanced blade of darkness cutting open the ground he was momentarily.
He thought he was a goner for a second, but then he felt someone stepping towards him so he quickly turned around—
Before he got punched in the face by a powerful, empowered Reversal Attack.
Mega Cacturne, despite flying, back flipped mid air and slid a good distance, right back to Mega Meganium, and Mega Molitic. The grass type Pokémon gave out her own Healing Pulse and soon most of the Dark and Grass Mega's wounds were gone.
The rest of Inquisitor's group followed closely after. The woman putting away her pistol and activating a Sacred Sword move from the Gauntlet.
"Mega Stunfisk, Mega Eevee, Thunderbolt"
Anto reached into his inner jacket pockets. "Guys, catch!"
He quickly threw three items, Choice Band to Ohko, Choice Scarf to Takezo, and Choice Specs to Lily.
Mega Stunfisk unleashed another powerful blast of thunder towards the five while Mega Eevee turned into Jolteon and fired his own empowered attack. Ohko and Sen moved first, both activating Reversal and Dragon Claw as the massive bolt reached their fist and claw. The shockwave of the attack forced everyone to shield their eyes and as the dust died down, Ohko and Sen were looking more worn out.
"Idiots!" Lily yelled as she prepared another healing move. "I can only mass heal two more…" She stopped when Ohko raised his one hand out at her to stop her from healing them.
"It's a'ight, bro," Ohko started placing the band on his head, making it hide the very top of his eyes before he stepped forward fist raised.
Then he pumped out another Reversal attack, it's brilliant blue light fierce and brighter than before. "They ain't knocking me down!"
Sentinel unleashed two eerily empowered Shadow Claws on both his sides, signaling his Ghost type Blaze had activated. "They'll have to do better than that!"
Takezo looked to Lily, before nodding to her and raising his blade and putting on his scarf around his neck.
Lily groaned. "You guys are idiots…" She silently whispered before smiling and putting on her choice specs.
"I had enough of this!" Inquisitor yelled and pointed her sword at them. "Take down his Pokémon and don't let them interfere with me!"
Anto needed a plan, fast.
Well… simple was always the best. Anto figured he'd try to make things up as they go—like all great heroes do: abuse the crap out of the situation until something good happens in your favor.
Anto pointed back at Inquisitor and her charging six megas.
"Listen here… uhh… whoever you are! We're not going to take your crap anymore! This time: we're going to be running this!"
"Tch!" Inquisitor clicked her tongue as she readied her weapon, all of her Megas fiercely got ready to launch themselves at their opponents as well as Anto's Pokémon doing the same to their enemies.
Still pointing at her, Anto made a big smile. He finally had come up with a plan! A plan so crazy that it would have to work!
He was going to do it. He was going to reveal his master plan to his Pokémon and completely take Inquisitor by surprise!
"Alright everyone!" Anto yelled, pumping his Pokémon up.
"RUN!"
Then Anto bolted as fast as he could in the opposite direction.
… What?
"Anto!? Return at once! What was the meaning of this!?" Takezo shrieked as he went after his friend to give a good scolding too.
"YEAAAHHH WHOOO!" Ohko quickly yelled as he ran obliviously after his trainer. "You punks in for it now...!" His voice died down as he raced after Anto while everyone was still too stupefied at the sudden declaration. Somehow he didn't realize that by running away from the enemy, he was in no way instilling fear into their hearts.
"Wait, Anti-Labcoat! You're supposed to throw yourself at impossible odds that will likely hurt you a lot! You're going the wrong direction!" Snetinel sunk into the shadows and quickly went after the running boy.
"Idiots! The lot of you!" Lily grabbed her flower head and yelled hysterically before using her increased speed to go after her friends.
Meanwhile, Inquisitor and her Pokémon just stared.
"Kill him. I don't care how. Make sure he dies painfully."
Inquisitor finally said before all her Pokémon chased after the boy and his.
If anything, Anto's plan did surprise people… just… for the wrong reasons…
[Back with Wes…]
Wes smiled; Espeon just told him it was ready.
Arran, Stein, and his other Pokémon were being pushed back by the Mega Medicham and Mega Blaziken with Warden slowly closing in as his fist filled with electricity died down.
"When is this plan of your going to work!?" Arran, battered and injured, cried as he held his blade.
Wes put on his visor.
"NOW! Everyone, pick a target and hit them hard and fast!"
That was all Wes said before Umbreon unleashed a massive Shadow Unknown attack covering the entire inside of the building with dark energy, but not attacking anything.
"What the?" Warden cried out as him and the rest of his team was suddenly surrounded by dark energy. "What's this all about?"
Emerald seemed to get what this attack was doing. "Sceptile, quick! Leaf Blade!" He pointed over to a Claydol next to a Croconaw.
"Teleport, Claydol!" One of the opposing fakes exclaimed.
The psychic type gathered energy, but all of his eyes widened when he couldn't muster the attack and he and his water type companion was slashed by the grass type move.
"What!?" The enemy cried out in shock
Emerald clenched his fist. "Guys! The whole place is covered in dark type energy! They can't Teleport anymore!"
N then glared at the opposing Pokémon of the fakes. "In that case…" He pointed his friends and his subjects towards the fakers. "Show these thieves what happens to those who smear our name for their own selfish desires!"
They were no longer on the defensive, the champions, Elite Four, Gymleaders, and Team Plasma all launched themselves towards their enemies with their tactical advantage gone.
Warden however…
"Everyone! Aim for the Umbreon! Take him out now!" The leader wearing the Raikou mask shouted out. All six of his Mega Pokémon stopped what they were doing and unleashed a flurry of attacks at Wes and his Pokémon.
"Espeon! Light Barrier!" Wes called out Espeon's new Fusion move, combining both Reflect and Light Screen. The psychic Pokémon bent it in such a way it shielded a dome over him, his dragon ally, his brother, and his trainer shielding all four from an attack from six different sides.
Still, the close range users, like Mega Pinsir, Mega Blaziken, Mega Medicham, and even Mega Sableye were trashing on one side of the shield while the rest like Mega Ampharos and Mega Slowbro were shooting from a far.
Both Eons were tiring out from keeping their respective fusion moves up like this for a long time.
Umbreon weakly chuckled as he tried to concentrate with his brother. "Man… is this what giving birth feels like? No wonder our mom abandoned us."
Espeon scoffed as he did his best to keep the dome up. "I think she was taken away from us after we were bred. One of those two really."
Umbreon paused for a second, trying to keep his move surrounding the entire building.
"… Do you think she would have been proud of us?"
"Even if she isn't, I am," Wes added seriously. "I'm more than proud; I can't imagine life without you two."
"… Pssh! You make it sound like we're going to die or something!" Espeon scoffed again as cracks started to appear on his dome.
A smirk curled up Wes' lips. "What? A trainer can't show his appreciation to his Pokémon in a hopeless looking situation for the heck of it? Well fine, the next time we almost die, I'm just going to insult you guys for stealing my food."
Mega Medicham reclined all six of his fists, ready to smash this dome, until he felt stubby arms grab his waist.
He looked down and saw Delta Wartortle holding him in a lock.
"Ha!" The dark fighting type called as he lifted Mega Medicham of the dark ground and supplexed him back into it.
The other close combatant Megas stopped their assault as they turned their attention to the Delta Species.
Then Arran's Pokémon came rushing in after them, trying to help stave them off. Arran's Salamence, Ragnarok, impressively swooped down on Mega Slowbro and went to work on crunching that almost impossible shell.
Stein and Excalibur, Arran's Excadrill, rushed the Mega Blaziken only for the speedy Pokémon simply slipped over their dual attack.
Alder's Accelgor appeared almost instantly in right above Mega Pinsir, dousing and unleashing a torrent of Acid attack on the Mega Pokémon from above.
Mega Sabeleye looked away, not noticing that Wallace's Milotic was angry for revenge.
And lastly Mega Ampharos was attacked behind by Valarie's Sylveon.
Warden gritted his teeth. They were losing ground and fast. There was no choice left.
The commander primed an Aura Sphere attack quickly before launching it towards Wes. The attack hit an already weakened and cracked area that his Megas were already working on, so it pierced thorough and blurred right for the thief from Orre.
This forced his two Eons to be shocked and jump in front of their trainer to block the attack. However, with both the twins hit, the dark area encompassing the area was dispelled.
"Wes!?" Emerald and Jamie screamed towards the explosion.
Warden looked back at his crew. "Everyone, execute Dying Wind!" He commanded powerfully, making his voice Echo around the area. All fake members of his group wearing masks quickly disengaged all their fights and used their Pokémon to vanish. Warden avoided a swipe from Arran before all of his Mega Pokémon escaped and using a bright Flash move to blind everyone, he escaped with all of his members.
Arran cursed before looking towards the smoke. Wes and his Eons were walking out, Umbreon was held in Wes' arms but looked just hurt, nothing too bad. Espeon looked worse for wear, but held on as well.
"They all left." Alder said.
After coughing a bit, Wes turned towards the Amusement Park, "But I know where they went! Come on!" He cried as he ran out of one of the wall holes with his other two dark Pokémon not too far behind. Shortly after, many of the others followed after him except Alder, N, and team Plasma since they had to take care of the hostages.
"I swear," Wes gritted his teeth as he continued to run towards the smoking Amusement park. "Anto just gets himself in the absolute worst situations!"
[Meanwhile with Summer…]
Summer wasn't fairing well. The darkness closed in on her, and she found herself trying to run from something huge, something malevolent.
It hurt her honestly. It attacked her physically, tears in her muscles, cuts on her skin, and there was this mocking voice in her head.
If that wasn't bad enough, she heard voices.
"Why are you even a ranger anyway? All you do is make things worse."
"Do you have any idea how much we have to pick up your slack? Everything would be better if you weren't here."
"Do you ever shut up?"
Then… his voice came out, distorted, hateful, piercing, and heart shattering.
"You will always be a failure, just give up." Seeing the look his face had when he showed disgust towards her hurt. It hurt so much.
Those words hurt her so much, she knew they weren't real, but it didn't stop them from hurting, from making their words confirm her darkest doubts.
She started crying, she knew it was fake, but still, she couldn't take the pain. She still cried seeing all those loving, caring people she bonded so closely to betray her emotions with such words.
Images, darker images of her friends, and scary forms of her previous enemies plagued her mind, shouting cursing words, and hateful spite.
Out of all the many cursing and the pain in her heart, she wished it would all finally stop.
"… You really just going to sit there and take it?"
That voice was different. Somehow the evil voices seemed to die down a little. It wasn't cruel and hateful, but it was cocky, smug—like some idiot know it all and smart aleck.
Summer looked up then she frowned. She frowned harder than she was suffering. Why was he here?
"Sunnuva, why… are you… the only one who I can see clearly… Wes?"
The glowing figure of Wes among the Darkness was both a curse, and a curse. Especially for the girl ranger.
As if to further her torment, Imaginary-Wes sat down and kicked his feet up mid air as if he was reclining on a seat… while floating. "Well, your brain just can't imagine me beyond smug and cocky. Apparently you think about me so much, my insults for you will always be thought in this manner—so good job for that Nerd. I can't think of anything mean towards you with a cocky and somewhat condescending tone."
Summer got back up, looking just annoyed at the Orre boy. "Oh shut it… wait… why did the other voices stop?"
"Because this is a Dream Eater attack. There was a Gengar remember? Who do you think is keeping everyone asleep?"
Summer seemed only confused at that. "That doesn't answer my question."
Wes continued to look uncaring as he answered. "Because unlike the others, you just so happen to have someone who was experimented on that could reach the human dreaming subconscious on par with a Musharna."
Before she could question Wes, that same girlish voice came back to her.
"Summer! I finally got to you!"
The darkness parted, and out came a world with endless sea, endless blue sky, and the sun brightly above them all.
"Flow? Where-where are we? Why does this place look so familiar?" Summer looked around her.
The Delta's voice echoed through. "We are in your mindscape! This is one of your favorite memories! I think it's from when you were sailing a pirate boat in the Obiliva seas…"
Summer, seeing her pain go away, stood back up and placed a hand on her head. "OK, what is going on?"
"We were hit with a Hypnosis attack remember? It put many of us to sleep and now the others that are left are trying to rescue us from the enemy's forces. You've been asleep this whole time and kept asleep by that Gengar's Dream Eater as Wes explained!"
Summer waved her hands. "Flow, Flow," She looked to the imaginary thief now relaxing on a hammock tied by two palm trees and drinking out of coconut with those cute little umbrellas. … He sure was making himself comfortable in her dreamscape. "WHY. Why is Wes even here?"
"Um well, I needed to stop the nightmares, so a strong memory of someone close to you will help weaken the nightmares, but from what little I know about you, you looked closest to Wes, and while there might have been closer people, I've never met them. So I animated your mental image of Wes to help save you from your nightmares."
"In other words, I won by default in playing your spirit animal, my favorite way to win. I would have saved you sooner, but I was flirting with your mental images of your other female friends—they are waayyyy hotter than you." Mental Wes stopped sipping his drink to lift it up and say that to Summer.
The girl leered at how the free loader was still making himself look comfortable in her mind. "I swear to Arceus Wes, tied up and kicked off a cliff!"
"I'd like to see you try; I'm not even real remember?" Dream Wes put on his shades and picked up a straw hat for him to place on his head. "Now I wonder if there are any pirate treasures I can get while I'm here…? Hey Nerd, wanna be my 'nakama' or whatever, and go find treasure from a dead pirate king? You get to be the obligatory fan service girl, or something more useless since your flat chested and all."
Summer lost it. She was not the f-word! (For her it's flat) "AAAAHHHHHH! THAT'S IT! FLOW, WAKE ME UP NOW!"
"B-But Summer! I still haven't explained this plan that I have to save our friends and how the enemies are bringing us—"
Flow then decided to just wake her up seeing as she just charged madly towards Dream Wes like a hungry predator.
Still, she was quite surprised. She animated the Wes personality to motivate Summer, and in a very unorthodox manner, riled Summer to the point of wanting to smash skulls in. The sweet little delta couldn't help but feel curious as to how this all worked.
[It was all a dream.]
Back in the field, Flow woke up and found herself almost about to be grabbed by one of the fake grunts, she quickly jumped out of the way and pushed the guy away with a Confusion. After sending him flying, she quickly looked to see Summer and the poor guy holding her like a hostage.
It was then the Delta Pokémon noticed the very large and giant white Pokémon towering over the field.
Majus had to admit, Regigias caught him off guard. However, he still had the advantages of hostages—
"AAAAHHHHHH!"
"Oh ArceBFFFKK!?" One masked faker cried out before being silenced violently.
Everyone looked over to see Summer had woke up—and was looking quite ticked off. She was ticked off enough to punch her captor in the chin, and still be in some crazed, berserk state as she looked at the other fake members.
"Quick, Golbat, subduAAPRRR!" one guard tried to tell the others to capture her again, but Summer had impressive jump kicked him in the face before Running up and hammering another faker by driving her elbow into his soft cheeks and knocking off a tooth. The Pokémon of the trainer looked like he wanted to avenge his trainer, but paled as his instincts screamed at him to be paralyzed in fear at Summer's death gaze.
The trainers who were still awake stared in shock as Summer went to town on the bad guys.
"What in the dark world?" Majus spoke out in a stupefied manner.
"I have never seen Summer that angry before…" Aster spoke out as they saw Summer Supplex another poor guard who just actually tried to run away from her and dropped Platinum to the ground.
"I WILL GET YOU WES!" Summer shrieked out to the heavens from the battlefield before locking onto her next prey.
Wes, meanwhile, sneezed.
Majus looked to his shadow. "Genji! I be tellin' ya to make a nightmare to demoralize them! Not… whatever this be!?"
The Mega Gengar popped out from his shadow, as if to say he wasn't expecting this. Majus turned over to his scared followers, to force them to use their Pokémon on the girl before he heard a psychic attack hitting his Mega Banette, Bale.
Flow had taken this opportunity to free Musha, the Munna.
"Musha! Now wake everyone up!" Flow screamed.
The dream Pokémon nodded before making his eyes glow. In an instant, every other Pokémon and trainer woke up and wondered how there was a giant White Pokémon fighting off two flying megas and why Summer was screaming her lungs out.
Majus saw this how bad things were getting and decided now was the time to retreat. "Everyon' time for Dying Wind!" At his command the remaining fakers were carrying their fallen comrades and teleported out of the area.
Majus' megas all retreated before his two ghost type megas did something to make them fall into the shadows.
"W-Where's my mom!?" White woke up, slightly frantic.
Black went to her, as did the others to their friends and to everyone who could.
Summer calmed down, but gasped for breath as the bad guys all left.
Flow cautiously poked her head out from nearby debristhen slowly made her way to her firend to see if she was alright. "Summer? Are you alright?"
"… I… I'm fine… good job Flow." She looked up to the smoke coming from an area she knew as the Amusement park. The Pokémon ranger looked over to the others getting their bearings and shouted, "Hey! What's going on with over there!?"
Aster shouted out the answer. "That's we're they sent Anto! And that might be where they went to!"
At that, everyone perked up, especially White. "That must be where my mom is too!"
Sebastian, waking up rather annoyed and with a crick in his neck, spoke up. "Well, I fall asleep for a while and somehow miss a Legendary Pokémon coming to our aid. Can someone explain while we make our way please?"
[Meanwhile…]
Anto ran.
Anto ran like a scared little boy.
Anto ran like a scared little boy because he was being chased by a highly trained assassin with an empowered blade that was trying to mince his head off his shoulders.
Truly, his finest hour.
"Hold still, you accursed brat!" Inquisitor screamed with a hint of irritation at how many times this younger boy was avoiding all of her killing blows.
"Heck no, you crazed witch! I'm not letting you kill me! That's the point of me running!" Anto ducked from a horizontal swing before sidestepping a following stab before running as fast as his legs could go.
"And thank you, supreme cosmic beings up there, for throwing so many troubles at me that my own legs can out run an assassin! … But this better be the last curveball you throw at me, got it!?"
Too bad no one was listening to that.
Yep.
No one heard that at all.
"Watch out Anti! Incoming!"
Anto looked to the sky before his eyes widened and he ended up sliding right under a swiping Mega Flygon with Sentinel clinging dearly on to the back of the creature.
"Get off me!" Mega Flygon roared as he raced to the sky to get the Delta Pokémon off him.
"Sure, after you go eat a Dragonbreath!" Sentinel inhaled with his non-existent dragonic lungs and unleashed a torrent of Dragonic energy at such a close range.
However, he neglected the fact that he was currently flying. Despite how close he was, even here, Mega Flygon could avoid even a point blank attack by making a quick ascension into the skies, making the G force push Sentinel's aim away from the body.
Meanwhile, Takezo avoided another Psychic wave attempting to crush him as he ran nearby some of the debris of the broken roller coaster ride.
"Hold still, you jumpy circus freak!" Mega Eevee, in the form of an Espeon cried out as she struggled to pin down the Patrat.
Takezo rolled away from the attack and into a running stance with his blade hand out. "Huh, things do seem to repeat around us…"
His eyes sharpened as he avoided a Sucker Punch from the Mega Cacturne attacking where he was now.
"And you are much faster than I would expect of these… megas… you have the same ability as a rare Scolipede, don't you?" Takezo asked the dark type.
"What about it? I'm still faster than you!"
Takezo unsheathed two wooden blades and pointed them to face his two opponents. "While that is true, I must inform you that I have fought those faster than I."
Then the Patrat fixed the scarf around his neck.
"Why you!" Mega Cacturne cried out before unleashing a flurry of Needle Arms at the Pokémon. Takezo noticed something as Cacturne kept trying to hit him, his form was horrible. Despite the speed and power, he was just throwing his power into his attacks. The small samurai can abuse this.
Takezo ducked and slashed with his own Cut attack, but Cacturne dodged his attack as well. From that initial dogde, Takezo knew that he was equally even with his opponent, but there was also the fact that he was fighting alone against two others.
"Hold still dang it!" Mega Eevee turned into a Jolteon and squinted as she watched the two close combatants trail around in front of her in almost blurring motions. "Dang it Cacturne, pin him down!"
"Shut up! You can turn into a psychic, you do it!" The grass type shouted back at his ally before Takezo saw his opening. He quickly momentarily loosened his scarf so he could allow more versatility in his moveset, but lose more speed before he ran towards the Eevee turned Espeon, but not before channeling a quick and small Thunderbolt from his palm and zapping the Cacturne's face, to annoy him.
"Why you?!" He prepared a Sucker Punch, but in the very last second, Takezo barely dodged the punch and ducked under, leaving the attack to head towards the Espeon.
The needle was heading towards Espeon's forehead, but Takezo tightened his scarf for an extra boost of speed and threw his blade at Cacturne's arm, forcing the giant blade to miss the head but instead make Cacturne fall into the psychic type. As the sword bounced from its target it fell down and was caught by Takezo who was ready in a fighting stance against them.
His two opponents got off each other.
"You…" The Evee started. "You saved me."
"I have no reason to kill, nor do I wish that on you." Takezo said before his sharper senses made him feel something. "However, I do wish for you to be currently hurt to the point of not being able to kill us." He activated Detect move, and the second he did, he jump flipped over Mega Flygon swiping at him.
Just as the same moment Takezo leapt, Sentinel jumped off, letting the dragon mega crash into his two teammates.
Sentinel and Takezo landed near each other.
The dust crash was split apart instantly, revealing an Espeon, an angry looking Mega Cacturne, and a absolutely livid Mega Flygon staring down their opponents.
The dragon ghost and Patrat sharpened their claws and brandished their wooden blade.
"Two versus three? Are all fights this easy in the free world?" Sentinel asked out.
"I don't quite know, but I do know…" Patrat held his sentence as the opposing Megas charged for the two of them. "They are much more lively!" they charged for the opposing three.
[Meanwhile.]
"Dang it!" Lily complained after using a normal Synthesis that was weakened by the smoke and smog covering the sun. However, Mega Milotic recovered much easier with her Recover attack. "Why do all of my attacks hurt when I hit her?" The grass type didn't know that this Mega Molitic came with an ability to reflect ranged damage back onto her enemies.
A large shock of electricity and water exploded behind her, but as she turned around, a brown and yellow blur passed by her and crashed into a wall beside the Mega Milotic.
Ohko came jumping beside Lily, looking slightly drenched in muddy water.
"Ya probably need to work out more." The blue fighting type told her.
"Did you just hear me complain?" Lily asked before Mega Milotic shot an Ice Beam attack at the two of them. Lily and Ohko jumped out of the way. Mega Meganuim came around the corner, and shined brightly giving off essence that was quickly healing Mega Stunfisk who looked none too happy at Ohko.
Ohko threw away his coat he got from Valerie, it was cool but it was too damaged and it was honestly slowing him down again.
"Ugh! They have better fire power and healing than you and I, what do we do?" Lily complained as the three Megas prepared attacks towards their direction.
The shiny grass type turned over to Ohko, still smiling as he cracked his fist by clenching it tightly.
"Then we gotta hurt them faster and harder!" He threw his fist defiantly.
"Easier said than done…" Lily complained. However, Ohko turned to her, with a huge grin facing her.
"Ya make it sound like this is suppose'ta be easy." He spoke simply before running towards the three Pokémon gathering energy.
The three megas unleashed a devastating combo of Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, and Solarbeam towards the Fighting type quickly dashing towards them.
Ohko's eyes narrowed but his smile grew larger as he stepped on the ground and ran even faster. He Side stepped the Ice Beam, jumped over the Solar Beam, and slid under the Thunderbolt, making all three attacks miss him. Ohko reclined his fist and punched the Milotic with a Reversal move in the face.
It did not do as much damage as it should. A pink light energy gathered around The Mega Milotic the instant after Ohko's attack connected. Before the light became even brighter, Mega Meganium used Protect on her and Mega Stunfisk.
"Ohko!" Lily yelled as the Mega unleashed Dazzling Gleam.
After the light of the attack died, Lily put down her arms just in time to see Ohko's body flying off in the opposite direction. The grass type panicked and went towards the downed fighting type.
"Ohko!? Are you alright!?" The fighting type was already injured before the fight, now he looked even worse for wear with dirt all over him.
"… Ow. Gotta punch harder…" Ohko managed to say as he got back up.
"Ugh! We need a plan besides charging straight at them!" Lily scolded as she tried to heal some of his wounds.
Ohko suddenly moved, carrying Lily with his good arm and avoiding an Ice Beam that froze the immediate area the two were in.
"Oh right… them." Lily had momentarily forgotten about the three Megas.
"Are those two massive idiots?" Mega Stunfisk laughed cruelly. "Who on earth forgets their enemyKRRAHK!?"
A rock smashed him in the head at bullet speeds and knocked him over.
"OK that does it." Ohko stood back a little shakily up from recently throwing said stone. "I don't mind being called an idiot, but hear this punk: I ain't letting anybody dis my friends!"
Ohko stumbled a little before Lily caught him. "OK, you need to tone down the coolness. But still, I guess you do have your moments…"
Ohko looked at her confusingly. "I don't get it."
"How bout we just hit them hard and make sure they don't hit us?"
"I like the way ya speak, bro!" Ohko bounced back and charged back at the three Megas, ignoring Lily's screeching about how she was a girl.
[Back with Anto...]
Anto kept running from the agent, trying to think of something, anything that could help turn the tides of the fight in his favor.
Then he saw a stray Ice Beam and Thunderbolt launch itself towards the Ferris Wheel, blasting it and making it explode and rattle all carts. Anto heard muffled screams at that and looked towards the destroyed area.
His heart sank as he saw Mrs. Akio and Hilda both still trapped in the Ferris wheel huddling for cover.
"Guys!" Anto mentally screamed out as he avoided Inquisitor and started running towards the Ferris Wheel. "Meet me at the Ferris Wheel! Quickly!"
Anto paled as he saw the Ferris wheel start to rip apart, some of the carts already falling. He saw the hostage cart swaying uncontrollably, and the metal supporting them up weakening greatly.
His danger instincts kicked in, forcing him to dive to the right to avoid an Icicle Crash attack from piercing him.
"I've been going about this the wrong way. You're obviously athletic enough to avoid my blows…" Inquisitor darkly said before pointing her gauntlet at him again. "Thunderwave!"
Anto acted fast, and saw a tree he was nearby. He quickly jumped, swinging on the tree branch and making the attack hit the tree bark instead. However a second blast hit him, shocking his nervous system and paralyzing him.
The amnesiac mentally cursed as he fell down face first into the ground and couldn't even make his body do what he wanted it to.
She didn't hesitate a third time, the instant the child fell, Inquisitor brandished a Sacred Sword attack, a noble blade used by the Swords of Justice, to spill innocent blood.
Anto wasn't going to lose hope now, and his faith was rewarded when he saw Ohko being blasted by electricity and getting thrown into Inquisitor and knocking her away.
"Well not how I expected to be saved, but I'm not complaining." Anto told himself before he heard another charge of attacks heading his way. He motioned his eyes to see three of Inquisitor's Torren Mega Pokémon all aiming attacks toward him.
The young amnesiac panicked, before a large wave of leaves lifted him up and whisked him away from the explosion fast. The mute quickly focused and saw Lily surfing on leaves she was controlling to move around quickly in the battlefield.
Lily glanced at her trainer before unleashing an Aroma Therapy to free her master of the paralysis effect.
"Thanks. Can you pick up Ohko?"
The Grass type didn't say much and simply was able to send a portion of her leaves to grab and take Ohko from the debris.
As soon as she did, the dust cleared and revealed a very ticked off looking Inquisitor. She leered on as Anto and his two Pokémon made their way towards the Ferris Wheel in a platform of magic leaves then she saw three of her Megas coming closer to her.
Anto had seen the cart with Mrs. Akio and Hilda sway violently; they had to act soon. He recalled Hilda was injured last time he had seen her, so he knew he had to hurry up, even with killers breathing down his neck. Since Lily was pretty much using her Magical Leaf attack as some kind of pseudo psychic and construct power, she was able to bring her trainer and Ohko to fly right beside the cart. When Mrs. Akio saw the boy, he motioned her to step away from the door before Ohko ripped it up open.
"She's alright, but I did all that I could to stop her foot from bleeding." Mrs. Akio said as they looked to Hilda. The other woman had ripped up pieces of her clothes to try and lessen the bleeding. It was makeshift at best, but Hilda needed proper medical attention and fast.
Anto mentally communicated to Lily to try and heal her with the same dual move as he glanced out of the cart to where Inquisitor was. He only saw her and her three Megas about to launch a deadly wave of fire at them.
Anto cursed mentally, they were sitting ducks here!
As the beams all let loose and flew towards the failing cart, time slowed down… and something ended up flying right into the beam!
It was Mega Flygon! Takezo and Sentinel had ridden on the Dragon mega again and made him blindly fly into the range of those four attacks! Before the dragon could make contact with the attack, the two other Pokémon ridding on him jumped off and Sentinel allowed both he and Takezo to phase into the metal. Anto acted quickly as he saw the two came in and told everyone to hold on to each other.
As the attacks made contact with Flygon, they all exploded and Anto was able to get everyone huddled together for another Phantom Force attack to get them all away.
Sentinel was able to make them appear on the ground. Anto quickly looked around him to see if everyone was alright and accounted for, which thankfully was a yes.
They weren't out of the woods yet. They still needed to escape. There were those walls surrounding the amusement park that seemed more than likely to be immune to phasing if Anto's luck was any indication so far.
As Anto looked at everyone in his group, his Pokémon, and Mrs. Akio looked shocked at something behind the Amnesiac. Really, hoping it was nothing, the mute boy turned around, only to see two large groups of fake team Plasma members staring him down, being lead by a user with anRaikou and Suicune mask respectively.
"So, the subject be escaping." The one with a Suicune mask stated as six new Mega Pokémon came out from behind him.
"I'd like to see him escape now." The other commander, the one with a familiar looking Mega Medicham and wearing the Raikou mask folded his arms while his own group of megas prepared themselves behind him.
As if to add oil to the flames, Anto looked behind them to where the Ferris Wheel was, only to see Inquisitor walking out of the smoke of her own attack, her Megas looking a little fatigued but it looked as if they were healed of any wounds inflicted by his Pokémon, and looking very, pissed off.
Anto and his Pokémon were surrounded on all sides by the enemy. From being underpowered and outnumbered, now they were without a doubt outclassed and outnumbered 1/10. The young trainer looked to his Pokémon all of them along with the women wondering what he would do next.
"Sentinel… can you do one more Phantom Force?"
"Sure thing—GAH!?" The Torren Pokémon suddenly fell in pain for no reason. Everyone quickly went to him.
"Sen, what's wrong!?" The boy asked, but Sentinel was only writhing in pain.
He looked to Lily for something to heal him with, but the female Pokémon simply shook her head frantically. "I-I don't know what's with him!"
"Majus! Warden!" The female Agent yelled and pointed to anto as if he was some kind of monster. "Subject five has already reached Telepathy stages!"
Mrs. Akio and Hilda seemed confused at what she had just screamed, but everyone else seemed to almost… pale… at her words.
"What?" Warden, the Raikou masked man, managed to speak in utter disbelief. "Wait! That was only supposed to manifest if…!?"
"The mission has changed! Kill him, kill him now!" Inquisitor pointed at Anto.
At that command, every one of the fake members pointed their Pokémon all towards them.
The darkened battlefield lit up like a Christmas tree as all Pokémon, even if tired, frantically readied a long range attack towards Anto and his four Pokémon. They were all out to destroy him, and Sentinel was incapacitated by some unknown means, preventing him from escaping using Phantom Force again.
Lily looked around, trying to gather leaves, but she knew that this time she couldn't protect everyone from a blast of this magnitude.
Ohko clenched his fist, darting his gaze around if there was just something he could punch.
Takezo wielded his blade, but had nowhere to point it to. They were in an open field, where could they even find to take cover?
Sentinel continued to double down in pain. He didn't understand what was happening, but he knew he was causing everyone grief. If only he was stronger! Stronger to protect everyone, stronger to stop those scientists from ever keeping him down here… why!? Why was he so weak!?
Anto relaxed his shoulders, he oddly felt calm at all this… more resigned.
"… I gave up once," He closed his eyes and turned to face the attacks all charging attacks facing him. "No. More than once, I know somewhere deep inside, I failed something—or someone else before I lost my memory. But when I met you guys… you gave me courage."
He clenched his fists before raising his hands out in front of all of them, in front of the majority of the attacks, as if to somehow, someway protect everyone behind him.
That was a lie, the young boy was not resigned. He was resolved to standing his ground in what looked to be his darkest hour.
"So I'm not giving up! Not again! Even if the world fights against me, I will protect my friends!"
He shouted that mentally, out loud for even his opponents to hear.
"Dang it, why did we wait!? Hurry up and unleash the attacks!" Warden cried out.
At his command everyone stopped charging and unleashed—
"Yuh words have such unshakeable spirit in them, Anto."
The mute turned around to the familiar voice behind him before all attacks nailed him from every direction.
A loud, deafening, and earthquake like explosion burst from the Amusement park.
"… Crap! That person!" Warden yelled out in frustration. "She saved him!"
"Where did they go!?" Inquisitor yelled. "Find them!"
"We are not hiding, yuh lowlifes brutes."
They entire fake Team Plasma turned their heads toward that clear, loud, but not shouting voice. Valarie, and her Mr. Mime stood right in front of the closed gateway with Anto, his Pokémon, and Mrs. Akio, and Hilda safely behind her.
"V-Valarie? How did you find me?" The telepathic mute asked in utter shock.
The Kalos gymleader turned back and smiled sweetly at the boy. "We simply followed the explosions, yuh make quite a lot of them, don't yuh?"
"Huh, right—wait, what do you mean by, 'We'?"
He got his answer as the door behind them was torn open by over several psychic and other powerful Pokémon and tossed away like tissue.
"Oh mom!" White cried out as she ran up to her mother, tears of joy came out she was glad to know her mother was safe.
"Anto!" Black called out as he, Wes, Tracey, and Emerald ran up to the roughed up looking boy.
"Guys?" Anto once more said in disbelief.
Emerald looked around confused, and was the only one of the four boys to not understand or know about Anto's pseudo psychic powers. "W-What was that?!"
"It's a long story." Black and Wes said at the same time before looking at each other questioningly.
Anto saw everyone, everyone that he had acquainted himself over the week, except Alder and N, coming up to him with relieved looks on their faces, and saying good job for saving Hilda and Mrs. Akio.
But then things turned serious. Each and every one of Anto's friends looked towards the enemy and Fake Team Plasma, each rip and raring to go.
Inquisitor walked up to the other commanders. "… We retreat." She said.
"You sure? We could probably get him." Warden told her.
"Not with the casualties we already have. We'll have to try a different method." She hit something in her gauntlet. "Besides, it's not a total waste."
"Everyone! Flash Burst!" Inquisitor shouted before throwing up her gauntlet and making it explode in light which blinded everyone in the area.
As the light died down, the entire enemy group vanished.
Everyone just stared at the empty field before Pearl broke the silence.
"Yes! We won!" He cheered and Diamond beside him seemed to lazily share his sentiments.
Ruby crossed his arms. "Don't be too comfortable, whoever those guys were just retreated. They were way too organized and coordinated not try again."
"We need to talk about that later," Summer voiced out. "Right now, it's our job to heal all the wounded and tell the populace that it's safe to come out." She specified this as she looked over to Hilda, who was wearing a make shift ripped up clothing to lessen her bleeding foot.
"Summer is right." The Hoenn champion concurred. "The battle is over for now, we must help the city."
It looked like it was going to be a lot of work though the city's been torn up by battle.
With that, the Festival Of Ruin ended as quick as it began, but the chaos it brew would last a life time.
One boy in particular, would forever be changed by this event.
Both mentally…
"Anto?" Wes asked as he looked at the horrified face of the younger boy.
And physically…
The mute bolted back into the destroyed amusement park, as if searching for something desperate. "Where is it!? I-I thought I had it with me!?"
Wes and Tracey followed after him, along with all their respective Pokémon.
"Anto!" Tracey called out to the panicking boy and grabbed him in the shoulder to turn him around, and only see tears coming out of his face. "Anto, what's wrong?" Tracey delicately asked.
Anto motioned to his upper chest, just a little below his neck where there was a tear in his shirt that he didn't notice from before while he was running for his life.
"My necklace… my only clue to my past…. it's gone."
[Elsewhere…]
Deep within a hidden submarine, the three mysterious commanders were licking their wounds and meeting privately in a enclosed meeting room.
"Wow good Job Inquisitor." Warden complimented as the female agent held the small, jeweled, orbed pendant in her hands. "We didn't completely fail if we got this back then."
"Unfortunately for us, Judicator has a parameter set up on this pendant, only Subject 5's finger print can open it to gain the contents he sealed inside." Inquisitor explained.
Majus scoffed. "It be our tech, can't we be overridein' it?"
"He made a countermeasure for that too. But it's a pain to explain right now. … We need to set up a counter attack soon, after we file a report to the boss."
"Yeah… why is the Seed synchronizing with Subject 5 faster than all the other subjects? It never did anything like this before." Warden wondered out loud.
"..." Inquisitor stayed silent.
Majus was the first to break it after a few seconds, saying the words no one wanted to think. "It be 'awakening' ain't it?"
"All the more reason to stop it." Warden declared solemnly.
[?]
I must admit, I am impressed with you.
Only a true fool would hold firm against such overwhelming odds.
What? You think that Courage?
Ha.
Courage, stupidity, there is no difference between the two.
Still, consider me intrigued…
Perhaps… maybe, just maybe... you can…
[?]
{Author Notes}
Happy Thanksgiving, hope you enjoyed this little read after Thanksgiving meals have died down. Now we are heading on our way to Christmas. Whooo!
This chapter was long. I mean, really, really long. I actually debated a bit on that last part where Anto stares down all those enemies. Around that part, I thought about revealing that the SEED planted in Anto would have some interesting side effects, but I thought against that. Mostly because it felt Deus Ex Machina like to me to have some inner power reveal itself when the odds were beyond against the favor of our little misfit. Instead, I like the idea of Valarie saving him, it makes it seem more… believable, as much as this story is going to get anyway. (Granted, Anto was saved three times in that battle be some form of luck… so…)
Next time, we say good bye to some of the OCs that entered in for fun. (Thanks for submitting, you can still submit some more if you'd like, but they might come much, much later in the story. And they might come back during the Unova League arc.)
(Extra note: sorry if they weren't as present in this arc, I think I added too many characters. I'll try to do the characters more justice later on.)
I wanna go over a few things briefly before these notes ends.
Since Pokemon Rangers are the equivalent of some kind of public FBI that are supposedly more effective than the regular police, it would make sense if all Pokémon rangers are trained in self defense. So Summer kicking butt, she actually knows and is the highest self defense student in her year.
Another is Dream Wes, once he and Hoppa combine forces, no dream is safe from the dynamic, sarcastic duo.
Some plot changes are going to happen very soon in the next chapter, and…
Anto finally challenges Elesa for her gym badge.
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