Chapter sixty one: Black Hole (Act two- Consequences of the Righteous)
PREVOUSLY ON LEGENDARY PKMN:
"I'll have to go now, while I still have control…"
"Right now, as we speak…. Lugia is trying to kill himself."
"Darkrai, we are the Sinistrio, the most powerful dark Rangers in all of Team Dim Sun. We have been sent to capture you and the shadow crystal as well."
"You… ruined everything!"
The three Muskadeers stood guard over Meloetta. With all of Calestia gone, even Cresselia for some reason, they had to be more diligent than ever to protect their precious princess. That being the case, the three brothers had come up with a solid plan to not let their bad habit of wandering affect this vital mission.
They would stay completely still. They would not move even a single centimeter. Even better, they had found some spare chains to tie all of them together with Meloetta so that they could not be separated. The green haired princess found this to be annoying.
"30 minute check!" Cobalion ordered "Terrakion!?"
"Here!"
"Virizion!?"
"Here!"
"Meloetta!?"
"Here."
Cobalion grinned "Excellent! No one's been lost and the princess is secure! This is my greatest idea ever!"
Meloetta silently played her Pokémon Green game in an attempt to stay less bored. They had standing there doing nothing for the past hour and a half. Unfortunately, the graphics to the game were so horrible to look at she had to stop after five minutes "Can we go and do something while we wait for everyone else to get back?"
"No! We have to stay completely still!" said the fighting steel type.
"Um, well what about Team Nova? They're still here aren't they?" Meloetta tried to think of some distraction. The three brothers realized that Team Nova was in the vicinity, in fact they were drinking tea with each other not five minutes ago. Occasionally they heard Dusknoir laughing.
"That's right! Safety in numbers after all. Let's go to Team Nova and gain their support." slowly, guided by Meloetta, they made their way to the outside open patio. There, they were greeted by an empty table and teacups. The three brothers shared questioning looks, but concluded they must have left in a hurry.
Team Nova would not be back for some time.
Malispite and Mercifond had made steady progress in traversing Almia Castle. The abandoned royal complex had been turned into a maze of ice and snow. It was at least a bit warmer in here than the outside, but the endless searching was getting on Malispite's nerves.
In a corridor they went, briefly connecting them to the outside. After maneuvering through thick sheets of ice the two bats had entered the true interior of the castle, where the white bat assured her brother that the stone was near.
"We're getting closer." said Mercifond, gazing upwards at the ceiling "It's somewhere up there but I don't know how to get up…"
"I'll punch the ceiling." said her brother in a gruff tone. Mercifond reminded him that this would be a horrible idea- the castle was so old that a powerful enough shockwave could cause an immediate cave in. Which, she reiterated, would make their searching ten times more difficult.
The brown bat grumbled, searching for a lever that did something useful. The twin bats looked high and low, until they found a doorway leading to the upper floors. It was blocked by ice, so Malispite and Mercifond quickly disposed of the barrier. Inside they found a small room leading to yet another area. Opening the door, they found themselves on another outside walkway but much higher.
"Look!" Mercifond pointed happily. Straight and to the left was a regal looking yet battered door leading to the back of the castle. The back was the last area to be searched of the castle and most likely to contain the jewel. Due to the literal mountain of ice that has the back of the castle locked up, it was impossible to get in any other way but here.
The twins opened the door and let themselves in. They were met with the sight of an untouched throne room, with shredded banners, candle sticks, gilded pictures and so on. A large, impressive looking throne was in the very back.
"It's probably here…" Malispite said to himself. He saw his sister was staring at a picture, wide eyed "Sis?"
"Malispite... look at this…!" she beckoned. The brown bat flew over and looked at what Mercifond saw: an old painted picture. The most prominent figure was a gardevoir dressed in regal clothing, surrounding her was the castle itself, some palace guards, and an equally royal looking probopass.
"Queen Serenity Steele and Former King Steele, with Their Loyal Servants." Malispite read the inscription "So?"
"Right there…" Mercifond carefully pointed to something in the background behind the soldiers "Do you recognize him at all?"
Malispite saw a black colored pokémon with a red collar and white flowing hair. Though the detail had been obscured, he could tell the pokémon had strange looking red and blue eyes-
Malispite froze.
"No way…" he breathed. It was Asmodeus. That thing in the picture was undoubtedly Asmodeus, or at least what he looked like when he was still alive.
"Wow. I wonder what he's doing there…?" said the white bat quietly "Then again he did mention a 'Serenity' once or twice."
"Wonder if he was friends with the queen?" Malispite wondered aloud. Mercifond disagreed; Asmodeus was cruel and ever scheming, no way he could be friends with royalty. More likely he was trying to destroy her and stalked her for that reason.
"Huh." Malispite wondered "Bet dad would know."
"Probably." said his sister, briefly thinking about him "Well, anyway let's find out where this thing is."
"You know I just realized; how is this room so bright when there aren't any candles lit?" her brother said in a moment of clarity. Pausing at this thought, the twin bats looked upwards. There, in the center of the ceiling, was a bright glowing crystal in the shape of blue teardrop.
"There it is!" shouted Mercifond happily "Let's take it and get back to the base!"
But before she could fly up, Malispite stopped her. Giving her brother a questioning gaze, Malispite told her that his DOOM senses were tingling, meaning somebody was watching them.
"How insightful of you." said a voice from the shadows. The figure stepped out of the darkness, hands glowing with golden blue aura. It was someone they recognized.
"You cannot take the crystal from me!" Lucario growled "For I am the main character, and so I cannot lose!"
"Oh great, not him… what are YOU doing here!?" Malispite asked in an annoyed tone.
"Protecting this luminous crystal," replied the blue jackal "because my employer told me to! This is my summer job!"
"Summer job!?"
"Some of us have to work you know…" stated Lucario "Anyway! I already failed my boss once by letting Kairi take the Holy Grail! So I will NOT mess up again for the sake of my weekly paycheck!"
"But we need it to save the region from doom!" Mercifond shouted back.
"I'm sorry Mercifond, but I will not budge on this matter, even for you." the aura pokémon closed his eyes. He told them to either get out, or experience pain. But before any of that happened, Malispite's brain clicked.
"What does he mean by, 'even for you'?" Malispite questioned his sister "Do you have like… a special relationship or something?"
The white bat and the blue jackal began to sweat. Lucario had made a convincing entrance, but accidently said something he shouldn't have at the last moment. Malispite could never know that he and Mercifond were in a relationship- he would kill them both in a berserk rampage. Or worse; Jello them.
"Uh, what he means is, is that we're rivals!" Mercifond thought quickly "See, we met up while you weren't around and decided that we hate each other! So we became rivals and hate each other! Did I mention we hate each other?"
Malispite thought for a bit. He placed a hand on his sister's shoulder "Alright, I understand. Since you hate him so much, I'll leave this to you. Take him down, Merc!" he shouted words of encouragement.
Mercifond laughed nervously as her brother stood back away from them. Lucario also didn't like the idea of fighting with his girlfriend, and began debating whether or not to go easy on her. Mercifond was facing a different conflict: she knew how much they needed the crystal, but could she defeat Lucario by herself?
"…fine then…" Lucario sighed "Mercifond, let us do battle. For the sake of my paycheck, I will not lose to you."
Lucario's ear twitched and a round sphere came out of it, which he caught with a paw. It was a shining red stone that neither of the twin bats recognized.
"I'll show you something my boss gave me, something new that will shock the world!" Lucario clenched his fist around the sphere, and it began glowing with a strange power. Suddenly the jackal was surrounded by a prismatic shield that warped and twisted around his body. When it was released, the bats were shocked.
Lucario had become just a little bit taller. His ears were longer and with a red tint, and his yellow coat now spiked backwards giving the appearance of a cape. The ends of his paws and feet were red, and black markings now covered his body.
"Mega Evolution." stated the empowered jackal, now many times stronger than before. Mercifond gulped.
MEANWHILE
Gallade and Gardevoir were surrounded by various characters from the Digimon franchise. All were wearing red tropical shirts and sunglasses, and each were holding in their hands a jamba juice. All of them were glaring angrily at the newcomers.
"Why won't you let us pass!?" Gallade shouted from the deck.
"Ya tink we'd let ya pass after ya stole from us!?" Agumon the orange dinosaur shouted back "No, give us back our idea and DEN maybe we tink abou' it!"
"What did we steal from you?" Gardevoir tried to reason with them. Agumon reached into his shirt and pulled out something square, then threw it at their feet. It was a copy of Pokémon X.
"…We've always had the fairy type!" Gallade tried to convince them. All the digimon slapped their faces and then yelled "NO! DE ODDA TING IN DIS GAME!"
"Other thing? What else did we introduce in this game that would make them-" Gallade stopped in mid-sentence. He looked on the back of the game and saw a mega evolved Mewtwo. The fighting psychic realized what it was.
"You… you're talking about mega evolution, aren't you?"
"Yuh-huh mon. Ya stole dat from us." growled the digital lizard dangerously "Give it back."
"Mega evolution!?" gasped Gardevoir "That's right! It's always been my dream to mega evolve one day!"
"BULLSH*T MON." Agumon glared angrily "Dat was invented like tree monts ago mon! You can't just recon ya series and expect it to work! It creates many-a-plot-hole mon!"
"Sure we can. Watch." Gardevoir calmly replied.
FLASHBACK: Chapter 13
"Greetings one and all!" Spoke the creature. "I am Absolix."
Put it frankly, they didn't know what it was.
"Ab…solix…?" Gardevoir slowly said. She never heard of that pokémon before.
"Ah yes… Gardevoir." Smiled the white being. "I must commend you for seeing my true self from earlier"
"By the way when I become stronger I hope to be able to mega evolve." said Gardevoir inconspicuously.
"Indeed." said Absolix "Good luck with that."
END FLASHBACK
"Dat was stuuuupid mon!" said the orange colored cyber being "No one but-a no one is gonna give in to dat!"
Little did he know the viewers wouldn't even notice the difference because they were only interested in shipping Darkrai and Gardevoir.
"Any-a-way!" Agumon and the rest of his digital companions got into some deep stances "We are a-gonna destroy ya mons for ya crime!"
"We don't have time for this." Gallade whispered to himself "I didn't want to do this, but it looks like I have no choice." he suddenly produced a small box out of nowhere, confusing Gardevoir.
"What's that?" she asked.
"Something everyone never thought they would see again… and I'm going to use it as a distraction. Go!"
Gallade threw the box onto the sandy beach, which activated the machine and caused it to emit light as if it were a Poke ball. When the red light had vanished, something stood before them: a grinning Mewtwo.
"M-Mewtwo?" Gardevoir questioned "What the-? Why…?"
"Don't be fooled Gardevoir." Gallade gently took her hand and began sneaking around the group "That isn't Mewtwo.
That's Mewtwo's old personality."
Gardevoir gaped at her friend, then turned to the monstrosity slowly inching towards the confused digimon. She turned back to Gallade and whispered "You mean the Mewtwo created in 2008 when Cataclyptic didn't know how to write!? The Mewtwo that wanted to straight upmurder everyone!?"
"The very same." Gallade said quietly "Because the old Mewtwo was such a psychopath, Cataclyptic sealed him into a puzzle box, never to be released again. I happened to win the puzzle box in a game of poker with the Narrator."
YEAH, DON'T TELL THE BOSS I DID THAT… I WAS UH, SHORT ON CASH AND WELL…
"You can control him right!?" said the scared Gardevoir. Gallade looked at her.
"I can reseal him. But there is no way to control that thing."
The Mewtwo look-a-like brought out a knife from hyperspace and held it up. The confused Digimon eventually asked him who he was and what he was doing. 'Mewtwo' grinned in response.
"I'm going to harvest all your vital organs, rip you into shreds, AND THEN I'LL DANCE ON YOUR ASHES IN ECSTACY, WATCHING YOU BURN FROM THE FLAMES MADE BY YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD WHILE TOSSING YOU OFF A CLIFF INTO THE DARKEST DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN! WITH A LASER BEAM!"
'Mewtwo' leapt at the frightened digital monsters. Drake went back into his boat and went safely out to sea, while Gardevoir and Gallade snuck past the bloodbath and into the volcano.
Darkrai stared down at the three humans in front of it. Representing fire, ice and ground respectively, they were Team Dim Sun's greatest force- the Sinistrio, a group of dark Rangers.
"Come, Rhypherior!"
"Froslass!"
"Let's do this Infernape!"
Heath, Ice and Lavanna each summoned their respective pokémon using some poke balls. From their belts there was a red light and Darkrai found himself surrounded by the aforementioned pokémon. The dark type crossed his arms as the three them brought out their Stylers.
Darkrai had fought Rangers before. Well, one Ranger, but he was the most powerful ranger in the known world so the dark type still had experience against dark Rangers.
He had quickly learned that when facing a Ranger, there were three ever present 'dangers' that they could wield to subdue pokémon. The first was their Stylers, which could loop around a pokémon and forcibly mind control them. The second danger was that these Stylers, thanks to new technology, could produce a Move accurately, albeit with less power than one used by a pokémon.
The third was standing right in front of him: their partner pokémon. And then of course, Darkrai was outnumbered three to one in this instance. Those were bad odds.
For them.
"Well I'd love to play with you, but I have to wait for the real threats to show up." grinned Darkrai, causing the Sinistrio to frown "Why don't you go back and get somebody who can stand a chance against me? I'll wait here."
Lavanna bought into the taunt "That does it! Infernape- Overheat!"
A wave of pure lava erupted from the fire monkey as it screeched a battle cry. The tidal wave of fire flew outwards to the four corners of the wide room. The rhypherior had to use protect to avoid a calamitous hit, while Ice's froslass was recalled, then sent back out when the wave ended.
Darkrai had avoided the entire attack by jumping onto the ceiling and leaving a Double Team copy to make them think he had been hit. By the time they realized this, Darkrai had already leapt downwards with a Dark Pulse Punch, slamming into the infernape and making it recoil backwards.
The fire monkey slowly stood back up and launched a flamethrower at Darkrai, while Ice sent out his Froslass and Styler to take Darkrai by his own means. The prince of darkness merely grinned at their efforts and launched a Dark Pulse in all directions, then a Shadow Ball at Ice's Styler, which dealt it some damage.
Darkrai's overconfidence was his undoing- he failed to see the rhypherior Dig from below and knock Darkrai down, while Heath looped around him a few times before Darkrai distanced himself away from his enemies.
"Ow…" moaned Darkrai "Fighting six guys at once is hard…" Darkrai tried to recall what Victini had taught him about fighting multiple opponents:
"In a situation where your power levels are about equal, you have to make a situation in which you fight them one by one."
Darkrai was in a closed space, and his enemies were good at teamwork. No chance of that happening unless he caused a cave in, but that route wouldn't work either since he might lose the shadow crystal.
"Oh! Idea." Darkrai grinned. He looked up and saw the three pokémon, as well as three Stylers headed towards him. He summoned up his Energy Potential, causing him to be cloaked in a purple aura. He sped away from the threats, and as he was chased he yelled his trump card:
"Double Team!"
Instantly the entire room was filled with Darkrai copies. The Sinistrio gaped, as the number of them ranged anywhere from dozens to hundreds. Their pokémon uselessly flailed about trying to hurt the real Darkrai, only to smash into a transparent illusion.
"Shit! Guys, use the Sinister Cage!" said Ice, wanting them to use a combination attack. Before they were able to start, Darkrai chuckled
"You think I'll just wait and let you think of a plan!?" he mocked. Instantly, all of the Darkrai's raised their hands to the sky, and a black and purple sphere came into their hands "DARK VOID!"
The Sinistrio had but a moment's notice to shield themselves with their Stylers before the room became pitch black. Thousands upon millions of Dark Void spheres surrounded the room, only a few dozen were real of course but it was impossible to tell which were. The pokémon belonging to the Sinistrio were caught up in the pitch black attack, and when the darkness lifted, they were asleep and in an energy sapping nightmare.
Darkrai stood in the middle of the three, a smile on his face as he used Dream Eater to drain the energy from the three pokémon, while at the same time causing them pain from being next to him while asleep. All of his minor injuries had already been healed.
"And now it's three on one." said Darkrai casually "I'll be nice and give you one more chance to retreat."
The Sinistrio were unaltered, remaining firm to the ground. That said, the three became a little nervous.
"I guess he did not defeat Zero for being weak hm?" the large Heath spoke to the group in his broken English. A murmur of agreement from the other two.
"Change of plans. Let's go all out now." Ice commanded the team "We must retrieve that crystal at all costs."
"Still not going to happen." frowned Darkrai "You guys want to take over a region? You have to get through me first. And as we've established, you can't."
"Fufu… perhaps." said Ice mysteriously. The blue haired man reached into his pocket and pulled out a radio transmitter. Before Darkrai could ask what it was, Ice had already spoken "We need backup."
A part of the cavern collapsed from set charges. Darkrai gazed up where the small explosion took place, and found that a part of the ceiling was exposed to the sunlight. The dark type steadied himself as something crashed down from the hole and into the exposed cavern.
It slowly unfolded itself, a four legged machine like entity with two arms, connected to the shoulders by electricity. It was yellow all over, with a tattered back cape around its neck, which was long. His face was obscured by a grinning, expressionless mask.
"…wait! You are-!" Darkrai flashed back to the time when he invaded Zero's STAG Beetle. During the raid, their first obstacle was this man! Though they had only met for a brief minute before he used Gallade to subdue him, Cresselia had told Darkrai all about him.
"The Toyman. Yes." said the mechanized voice "Remember me? We didn't meet for very long…"
"I do but… what are you doing here?"
"Well," Toyman stretched himself "to put it simply, I am here to ensure the success of the Sinistrio in capturing both you and shadow crystal. In this case, I shall take you on myself with the Sinistrio as backup."
"You got it the other way around!" Lavanna huffed "You're backup to us!"
"I don't care what you call it as long as I get paid." the bronze colored man sighed.
"Whatever." Darkrai finally spoke "I'll defeat you all either way."
"Such confidence." remarked the mechanized pokémon. He began typing some things on his arm "Let's see if we can get you to surrender peacefully. Perhaps these will convince you."
Instantly two more crashes were heard behind Darkrai. He turned around and saw two more holes leading to the sky, each made by carefully placed detonations. Darkrai widened his eyes as he saw two more Toyman's right behind him. They both unfolded themselves and placed themselves into position.
"Great…" said the annoyed Darkrai "You can clone yourself…"
"Indeed." replied the mechanical pokémon, encircling the nightmare being "Let us begin."
Three Toymen and three Stylers homed in on Darkrai.
Kairi was on the ground, beaten and bruised. She was gazing at her attacker, Mary Tzu, with fierce eyes. Mary Tzu met her gaze with a look of pure hatred.
"What… the… hell!?" Kairi gasped as she tried to sit up "Mary Tzu! What are you doing!?"
"What I should have done a long time ago." said the Sue in a dangerous yet beautiful yet whimsical voice "Dark Pulse!"
The black Styler that floated in the air zoomed on Kairi and performed a pulse of dark energy point blank. Kairi had reacted fast enough to shield herself with her own Styler but this was not the end. The very next instant, another Styler appeared in front of her and launched a light type Move at her- Ethereal Blast.
A laser beam of light energy blasted from the Styler, catching Kairi off guard and sending the poor girl flying until she landed on the ground. Due to the damage taken from the first surprise attack, and now the damage from this… Kairi's breathing had become ragged, and cuts appeared across her body. Nevertheless, she stood up.
"Why are you doing this!?" Kairi yelled.
"You know perfectly why!" shouted the infuriated Sue back. Roaring, she flung her light Styler at Kairi preparing for another Ethereal Cannon. However this time the beam missed, because a psychic pulse knocked it in the wrong direction.
"You stay away from her!" yelled Ruby, on her knees desperately trying to crawl towards her beloved partner. She had suffered enormous injuries compared to Kairi, there was even a trickle of blood coming from her mouth.
"I thought I got rid of… no matter!" Mary Tzu directed her attention back at Kairi, who realized what had happened "You did this to Ruby!?"
Mary Tzu met her accusation with a Dark Pulse from her dark Styler. Before it was fired, Kairi finally managed to summon her own Styler and knocked Mary's out of the way, which caused it to miss once again. At this point Mary Tzu was so enraged she abandoned her Stylers and lifted Kairi by the neck with the great strength that she had. Kairi began to lose oxygen.
"MARY!" It was Rand, who had arrived after hearing the blast "What are you doing!?"
"Making her pay! Stay out of it!" she pushed him aside with another strange power resembling telekinesis. Ruby summoned more strength and hit the rainbow haired girl with a Focus Blast from behind, causing a great deal of damage. With her grip loosened, Kairi gave her one kick before the both of them stumbled down.
"Why the hell are you doing this!? We're on the same goddamn side!" the brunette Ranger's vision was blurry and her body was disoriented.
"You ruined everything!" Mary Tzu stood back up and got her Stylers online. With a maddening yell, she pierced Kairi's ears with her crime: "I was supposed to save Oblivia! You were supposed to wait for me to return! But instead YOU do it even when it was MY RIGHT TO SAVE THEM!"
A disturbing silence filled the area. Everyone within hearing distance was shocked. Rand's mouth held open in a confused manner, Ruby had an expression akin to his. After some silence, Kairi finally blurted out the thing on everyone's mind:
"THAT'S what you're mad about!? Are you kidding me!? You just wanted the glory of it!?"
"No! I was doing it for everyone! You were the ungrateful bitch who stole what should have been mine; YOU were the one who was always jealous of me so you cheated and did all of this just to embarrass me!"
Her injuries didn't seem to matter anymore, Kairi's anger blocked all sense of pain "No. You don't even care that an entire region was spared from disaster! All you care about is whether or not you get the attention for it! You were always like this, you never gave a damn about others! YOU CAN ONLY THINK ABOUT YOURSELF!"
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" screamed Mary Tzu in an unholy rage "YOU'RE WRONG I'M RIGHT! I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!"
Her two Stylers formed a V line with their bodies at either end, the point locked onto Kairi "So when I tell you to stay out of my way-! YOU DO IT!"
A fusion of light and dark encircled the V shape in the air, then fired a cataclysmic pulse of both light and dark energy at Kairi. The sheer piercing power of the beam was enough to cause a ten meter destruction onto the earth. Rock were simply blown apart, the ground cleaved in front of the blast- nothing was spared.
Save for Kairi. As Mary Tzu whipped around, she saw Dr. Alakazam, who had Teleported her out of the way "Aureen!" he shouted.
"Go! Heal Gun!" shouted his skitty daughter in the house. In her hands was a strange looking bazooka. When it fired at Kairi it did not hit her with bullets but rather what appeared to be a healing ray. The same treatment was done to Ruby, and the women had completely recovered from their previous injuries.
"Unfortunately I had only two bullets of those… I can't do it again!" said the Germanic mad scientist "You're on your own from here!" the doctor warped back to his daughter and ran away before either of the two could thank him.
Kairi and Ruby quickly faced back to Mary Tzu, who was glaring at them with the utmost hate. Without a word, the rainbow haired girl took off her power limiter.
"Normally I shouldn't do this since it hurts everyone around me… but in this case!" Instantly, she roared and became cloaked in a red and yellow aura. Her hair stood up on its ends, elongated and became spiky, completing her transformation into super saiyan 5. With her two hands, and clasped them together and a dark white light eclipsed the area "Demon and Angel Blood: Yin-Yang mode!"
The left side of her skin grew lighter, while the right side grew darker. Her left side had a red eye while her right had a blue one. She had become a living embodiment of dual opposing forces, on top of being super saiyan. Then, as a final transformation, she transmuted her arms into Palkia's, her legs into that of Dialga's, and grew shadow tendrils on her back akin to Giratina's.
At this point, Kairi realized her powers were indeed not made up. The being that stood before them was stronger than anything Kairi had faced before. Nonetheless, she and Ruby stood firm- despite being horribly outclassed, they would have to defeat her.
"Ruby…" Kairi said to her partner "…get ready."
The ground cracked beneath her feet. Air distorted around her "This my combined transformation: God Mode Tzu." said the rainbow haired girl dangerously "Nothing has ever survived this form…"
Faster than the speed of sound, she tore open the air around her with a punch that shattered dimensions. Kairi would have been instantly KOed if not for Ruby, who had grabbed her and swerved her out of the way at the last second.
"…what?" Mary Tzu asked in a questioning manner "Did you just dodge my Broken Fist!?"
She tried it again, zooming at the speed of sound towards Kairi and Ruby with a punch that would shatter dimensions. Once again Mary Tzu's fist tore apart space and time with an epic burst, but once again Ruby had dodged it and taken Kairi with her.
"Your evil intentions are as clear as day!" Ruby said in an accusing tone "Those telegraphed punches don't mean a thing!"
Kairi gave her a questioning look, wondering how a punch at the speed of sound could be telegraphed. Mary Tzu meanwhile just got angrier. She lifted her hand to the sky, and distortion took place around her hand "Then take this! Roar of Ti-"
Ruby launched a Psychic directly at Mary Tzu's hand, which knocked the palm off balance and the technique, a blue beam of destructive energy, flew into the sky.
"H-How did!?" Mary Tzu gaped.
"And don't even think about trying to use the Kamahameha! I'll just dodge it again!" Ruby shouted. At this point, Kairi realized what was going on.
"Ruby! You're Telepathy ability!"
"We can work on my ability later, for now she's about to throw a right hook combined with a Spatial Rend!" Ruby warned her partner. In that instant, Mary Tzu dissolved her Spatial Rend technique, growling in frustration that her plan had been discovered.
"Ruby, you're using it! You're really using it!" Kairi smiled.
"I am? Hey I am! I CAN READ MINDS!" Ruby then Teleported herself and Kairi away as Mary Tzu launched several beams of energy at the two of them. Once again Kairi and Ruby were unharmed because the blue psychic had predicted it.
"This might give us the advantage we need…!" Kairi realized. With Ruby's ability to see through Mary's plans, it would be possible to create a counterattack. The brunette shouted at Ruby to keep close, and get them out of danger.
Fed up with all this dodging, Mary Tzu unleashed her full prowess: At super speed she launched several Spatial Rend attacks, Shadow Forced her way through other dimensions, used psychic powers and used her insane strength to tear open the ground with her bare hands.
The brunette Ranger and her psychic partner used the Teleport ability to its fullest. Forming a wordless link with each other, Ruby's ability caused her to dodge every single technique while Kairi took care of the rest by making a shield from her Styler.
Finally Kairi's stalling paid off: with a bright beam of light her Styler transformed into a Super Styler, which increased the power of Kairi's shields. The two went on the offensive.
"Ruby fire at a blind spot! I'll cover you!"
"Blast Burn!" Ruby launched a Focus Blast right at Mary Tzu, who, enraged, knocked it out of the way and fire a beam from her mouth in retaliation. Kairi shielded the two from the attack, and Ruby launched a Psychic from above which slammed the rainbow haired girl into the ground.
Mary Tzu willed herself back up and lashed her shadow tendrils in every direction, but Kairi's Styler was faster still. With her formidable skill, the brown haired Ranger protected both herself and Ruby from attacks. Ruby fired countless Psychics at her, but it seemed to do little damage against her high defense.
"I have a plan…" said Kairi, who had finally thought of a way to defeat her. She communicated to Ruby through Telepathy, who nodded and made herself Teleport out of sight. Mary Tzu noticed this strange behavior "Where'd she go?"
"Mary Tzu! You claim to be better than me at everything, but I know that it's not true!" shouted Kairi. This got her attention.
"I, Marriland Singapore Raven Sparklight Le-blanc Ariari Nina Tzu am the best at everything! You can't even compare you worthless excuse for a human!" retorted the infuriated Tzu.
"Okay then, prove it." Kairi challenged "You see my Styler here? It's in super mode now- a state that can only be done when your heart is selfless, a power that arises from the need to protect pokémon!
Let's see you do it!"
Mary Tzu paused, but bought the bait. Effortlessly she lifted her discarded Legendary Styler with telekinesis and put it on her arm. She focused her willpower onto the Styler and it zoomed out and about, but it wasn't in its super mode. Mary Tzu tried again and again, but only succeeded in raising her power level.
"You, who can only think about yourself, can never reach this state." said Kairi.
At that point Mary Tzu lost it. Faster than Kairi could blink, she closed in on the distance between them and grabbed Kairi's neck, then crushed it with her special distortion powers gained from the three dragons "SHUT UP! I DON'T NEED TO DO IT!"
Kairi lifted her head, much to Mary's surprise. It was then that she noticed there was a psychic field concentrated on Kairi's neck, which prevented nearly all of the damage from the Sue's powerful grip "Actually yes, you do. It's our duty as Rangers to protect pokémon and solve their disputes. You should be striving towards that instead of raw power."
"You're wrong!" yelled the rainbow haired super saiyan, who threw back her shoulders and prepared a piercing Shadow Force.
"Octagonal Alcatraz."
It was then that Mary Tzu, in a split second, saw the image of an eight pronged symbol above her head. Kairi had been preparing it since the initial taunt, and now it was done. It slammed onto Mary Tzu's entire body and draped her in a blinding light. Mary Tzu released her grip and stumbled a bit backwards.
"How the hell did you use Zero's technique!?" spat the Sue "It doesn't matter, you're an idiot for thinking that would work on me! I'm not a pokémon!"
And then Mary Tzu fell down. For some reason, her muscles did not move. The best she could do was shake a little. Kairi stood over her and replied "Actually, yes. You are. Remember?"
Flashback
"I happen to be half demon, half-angel, half-pokémon , half-robot, half-pirate, half-ninja, half-royal, half-commoner and half-neko."
Mary Tzu widened her eyes. The pokémon half of her had succumbed to the might of the Octagonal Alcatraz.
"I figured that since you were only half pokémon, it would take a great attack to subdue you. So I bided my time and waited for the right opportunity to use Zero's technique." explained the brunette. Ruby reappeared as Kairi turned her back and began walking.
"Learn some humility." were her final words.
Mary Tzu refused. She refused to lose to Kairi, to admit she had won. Mary Tzu denied the truth with all her might, and in her rabid screaming a red energy surrounded her, causing her power level to go off the charts.
Kairi and Ruby whipped around for another go- Mary Tzu was standing up, looking at herself. The purple tattoo across her left arm was glowing.
"This… must be my bloodline ability." said Mary Tzu "The one my parents tried to kill me over…"
She looked up at Kairi "Would you like to know what it does?"
"No." a second Octagonal Alcatraz was fired at Mary Tzu, and the blanket of light returned to pin the girl on her knees.
But this time, Mary Tzu stood still. She chuckled a bit, and Kairi realized that the attack had no effect at all.
"My bloodline ability is called Overpowered." smiled Mary Tzu "It lets me utilize the full power of my mixed heritage… but without the weaknesses of each one! Only the strengths!"
"No way!" Ruby cried.
"And even better!" she was full on grinning now that Kairi had no way to stop her "In addition to all of that… it increases my strength ten times over!"
Before Ruby had the time to act, Kairi was punched in the stomach with a concussive blow, then Ruby soon after. The two flew straight back, the air gushing out of them as Mary Tzu laughed in ecstasy
"I am invincible! I'm always right and you will be punished for your insolence!"
"Mistake?" asked Cresselia "What do you mean?"
Suddenly, a rip in space time appeared next to them, shocking Ho-oh and Cresselia. What emerged from it were two dragons- one was a purple and white dragon-water type, and the other a grey and blue ice-dragon.
"Palkia! Kyurem!" Ho-oh shouted, turning around to meet them.
"Arceus sent us. I'll make a warp bubble for us, so get next to me." said the spatial dragon, preparing his technique. Kyurem flew up to Ho-oh and exchanged information. They had been sent by Arceus to take back Lugia.
"And already I don't like it." said the ice dragon "Lugia is supposed to be a class Four right? Why did she send all three of us to deal with him?"
Cresselia looked at Ho-oh, who bowed his head from sorrow. Palkia became quiet. Finally, the purple dragon asked Ho-oh to relay the truth.
"What you know about the Cipher incident is a lie." spoke the phoenix as a warp bubble encompassed them "All because of me, we face a possible earth shattering crisis that has been kept a secret for the past ten years."
"What the…?" Kyurem blurted out. She turned to her mate "What does he mean, Palkia?"
Before Palkia could respond, Ho-oh told him to concentrate warping them. He would tell the story himself. Palkia obliged, and activated their mode of transport: a spatial rip that allowed quick teleporting via bending space. It teleported a rate of about a fourth of a kilometer per second, but it warped every single second so long as Palkia concentrated. Due to the fluctuation in space, the group had easily tripled the speed Ho-oh was initially going.
With that done, Ho-oh began his tale.
"I was furious that I had been rejected." said the great bird "I… I had never felt so mad before. I stormed out of the Hall and left the house."
Flashback- 13 years ago
Ho-oh had been living on a deserted island for two years now. Not once did he contact his brother or the Council during this time. He told himself he was better than them- that's why even if he wasn't affiliated with the Legendary Council, he would still do good deeds here and now in secret.
He had survived this long by using the Sunny Day technique to make the weather always pleasant for a fire type like him. The fruits and berries on the island were abundant so there was no shortage of food. For water, just use Rain Dance in a small area and collect the water- which was never too energy costly since the sea was frequently heated and clouds formed constantly.
Isolation had made Ho-oh tougher, but did not take away the bitterness he felt towards his older brother. A pelipper delivered the news to him in secret, and occasionally he would spot Lugia, often being praised for his ability to handle a new situations.
A newspaper that came only a month ago stated that Lugia had been classified as the world's strongest psychic, and he had taken it as his title. With all the secret deeds Ho-oh had accomplished, it was never enough for him. No matter how much good he had done, his brother was better still. Lugia had even aided in an operation to take down a group called "Team Aqua", Ho-oh had merely saved a village from a tsunami.
Ho-oh was waiting for his chance. One of these days, he would show the world who he was. He would do something so incredible that Lugia wouldn't be able to compare to him. That was all he wanted, yet he had no idea how to go about doing that.
His biding would eventually pay off. Two months after Lugia had gotten his title, there was a shocking report in the newspaper one morning. And it was perfect.
There was a group called Cipher. Possibly the vilest evil organization to crop up on the planet, they had done what no other group had done before: they had scared the Legendary Council.
How? Cipher possessed a shadow crystal on their secretive little island. Somehow, using the technology that humans were famous for, they had used their shadow crystal as a power source for a great machine: The Shadow Maker. What did the Shadow Maker do? Something that no one had even thought possible.
It could corrupt pokémon. It could rob them of their emotions and turn them into mindless slaves. It got worse: using the same dark technology, they caused the pokémon subjugated by this to have a permanent adrenaline rush. This had the effect of powering up these new 'shadow pokémon', at the cost of their overall lifespan. Because of this, Cipher had created an indestructible pokémon army, and they demanded that Hoenn, the closest country, surrender to them or it would invade with their powerful forces.
This was the third time they had appeared, and Ho-oh could tell that these guys weren't pushovers. He knew because the situation had just gotten dire:
Kyogre had been captured. While innocently patrolling the seas one day cipher hit her so hard and so fast with their mind controlling technology that it was over before the great whale could react. With the guardian of the seas under their command, Cipher seemed unbeatable.
"My chance…!" Ho-oh breathed "This is it…! I'll rescue Kyogre! I'll even defeat Cipher as a footnote- I'll prove myself worthy of the title 'Legendary'!"
Ho-oh flew off his island and located Citadark Island after hearing many rumors and maps. He made a small encampment around a hundred kilometers from Citadark and began planning his invasion. He would catch them by complete surprise.
"I'm going to do it… I'll finally be… Legendary." smiled the phoenix.
After three days of careful scouting, it was time.
Ho-oh attacked the complex in a blaze with his Sacred Fire technique. The attack had been so out of place that the grunts of the island were instantly scrambled: before they could even use their shadow pokémon, the fire bird had already roasted them.
His surprise did not last forever though- eventually Cipher got their act together and retaliated.
"Go! Salamence!" said a man dressed in red, sending out a salamence cloaked in shadows. The dragon type slashed at him with claws of draconic energy, then started to rampage in a frenzy of violence when that didn't work. Ho-oh dodged the claws, and used his supreme mastery over flight to wear out the salamence's Outrage attack- then he went for the opening.
Ho-oh saw the dragon becoming dazed and swooped in with Brave Bird, which knocked it out in one hit. Thinking he did a good job, he looked around and saw many more higher end humans, each with their own special shadow pokémon to control. Ho-oh realized that the man before was just buying time, and cursed to himself when they launched a myriad of high powered Moves at him.
The phoenix dodged the brunt of the attacks but was shocked with lightning and blasted with water regardless. Injured, he fell to the floor but did not give up: Ho-oh summoned his energy and created a massive Sacred Fire that encompassed the area. This served to give him cover, and the bird escaped, flying back into the sky.
"This'll be harder than I thought, those shadow pokémon are something else…" Ho-oh was shocked at these abominations; they had no emotions and were strong enough to make him flee.
He saw something from the clouds. Below him, in the sea surrounding the island, he felt an immense power. Immediately after sensing this, a flash of blue came up and a blast of water erupted from the spot and nearly destroyed Ho-oh. Water Spout.
"Kyogre." Ho-oh grimaced. He could tell her aura was off- another effect of the shadow process. Ho-oh then grinned "They saved me the trouble of finding you!"
More Water Spouts erupted from the water's surface as Kyogre continued her onslaught of powerful geysers aimed at Ho-oh. She fired them so frequently and so fast that Ho-oh was diverting all of his energy just to avoid the whale's attacks. He knew he was weak to water, so even taking one of those could be fatal.
"How do I do this…?" Ho-oh questioned "I can't hit her while she's in the water, and by the time she surfaces then she fired another Water Spout!"
The cracks of his plans were beginning to show as Ho-oh tried to think of a solution to defeating and freeing Kyogre from mind control. Now, he did have a plan in mind when doing this: the fire flying type had a luminous crystal around his neck. He figured that if the luminous crystal could absorb the 'darkness' from the sea whale, he could cure her.
He had planned on defeating her before then to prove his strength, not to mention have a higher chance of it working, but it looked like she was too strong. Ho-oh decided amongst the Ice Beams and Water Spouts that he would have to try the crystal now and hope that it would work.
The white rock was sizable, around the size of a basketball, giving off a soft glow. Ho-oh clutched it with his beak. He would have to take a risk.
The instant Kyogre's shadow became visible on the ocean's surface, Ho-oh used Brave Bird and dove. Closing his eyes and bracing for impact, the bird felt it when Kyogre launched a water spout directly hitting him. But Ho-oh worked through the pain and kept diving, his streamline body propelling him to the water pokémon's noggin, where Ho-oh used his Move and hit her with a Brave Bird combined with the luminous crystal in his mouth.
Ho-oh gasped for air only to be met with water. Frantically he flew upwards until he had reached the surface and desperately gasped for oxygen. The luminous crystal had broken apart in his mouth. The water was silent. Ho-oh tensely looked around, not knowing what to expect.
Suddenly a figure rose next to him, Kyogre. She surfaced just behind him and the fire bird was open for an attack. Fear gripped the bird as he turned around.
"Did… did you free me just now?"
Shock replaced fear. Then, satisfaction. He grinned widely "Yes, that was me. I used a luminous crystal to set your mind free."
The sea whale quickly hugged him, nearly drowning her savior underwater, and promptly asked what had happened and where she was. The fire bird explained the recent events of the week, including Kyogre's capture. He told her that he was in the midst of infiltrating the Cipher stronghold, to put an end to this once and for all.
"Understood. I'll call for backup-"
"No!" Ho-oh shouted "I mean… I can do this on my own. I'm stronger than I look."
Ho-oh burst from the water and his rainbow-like aura shone "Sit there for a little bit and give your mind a rest, I'll take care of everything!"
The great bird flew back towards Citadark Island before Kyogre could speak.
The phoenix knew that he could take down the rest of Cipher. Without Kyogre, they had only normal shadow pokémon. With a Sacred Fire, Ho-oh once again razed the stronghold with his holy flames. He scattered the grunts, defeated the admins, and defeated the pokémon they sent at him.
But he had overestimated himself. He had been greatly injured during the fight with Kyogre, and he should have taken a rest. He didn't, and as a result, all it took was one hit. One random hit from a stray Bubblebeam sent him tumbling to the ground. He got up as he cursed from the pain, only to be hit with another attack. Then another, then another.
Cipher had gathered an entire army of pokémon, and now each and every one of them was out to get Ho-oh. Their sheer numbers and above-average strength overwhelmed Ho-oh the instant he was hit. Move after Move hit him, a constant barrage of strikes. He had not the vitality to retaliate, and soon realized he was horrendously outmatched when their onslaught did not cease.
'No!' Ho-oh mentally screamed. With a rush of energy he flew away and fire a Sacred Fire, only to be instantly attacked from behind and brought back to the floor, where he was bombarded yet again. This time Ho-oh could not resist, he lay there limp, too injured and beaten to even scream from the pain. He realized only just now he hadn't a chance from the beginning.
Eventually, they stopped attacking. By that point the once great bird could not lift a single feather, and it was only by sheer willpower did he remain conscious. He was approached by an old male human, who said something to him in human-talk. The man snapped his fingers, and Ho-oh's wings were clipped with iron braces, his body raised up off the ground, while he winced in pain.
The man began laughing as he talked to his admins. Soon, a machine was brought before Ho-oh, a large ray gun shaped device. They aimed it, and it struck his heart with a cold black ray. This did not hurt him at all, but he already knew it was bad.
"Let the corruption process… begin!" cackled the leader.
Kyogre had seen most of it from where she lay, 'getting rest'. The instant she saw Ho-oh being beaten she contacted the council, informing them of the details.
"And you say that very same pokémon is now in trouble!?" questioned Arceus from the other end "Understood, I'll send Rayquaza. Tell me what this friend looks like so that he doesn't raze them like the rest."
"Oh well um, he's kind of handsome. I mean, he looks like a giant red bird with gold feathers for a crown, a green stripe across his belly-" Kyogre was suddenly interrupted by a crashing noise, followed by a frantic voice on the other end that wasn't Arceus':
"What!?" shouted a new voice on the other end "I'll be right over there! Arceus, warp me now!"
"Lugia I think Rayquaza-"
"That's my brother over there Arceus!"
Silence. Then, Kyogre felt space-time ripping apart in the vicinity. Using Palkia's spatial powers, combined with Arceus' own incredible divinity, a wormhole from the Hall to here was instantly created, and out flew a silver bird.
"Lugia!?"
Lugia never even heard Kyogre shout. All that was in his mind was his precious sibling, which, thanks to the holes within the Cipher lair, he could see was being tormented by some sort of ray gun. Losing it, Lugia bellowed in a primal fury and blasted everything to bits with his Aeroblast attack. The whirlwind whipped up a vicious storm which paved a path to his brother. Without a moments delay he ripped off the braces with his psychic powers and grabbed Ho-oh.
"Hang in there Ho-oh! I'll get you out of here, I'll-"
Lugia was then shot by brother in a Flamethrower attack. Lugia took the full brunt of the attack, and the titan bird fell backwards. The silver bird got back up, eyes wide. Ho-oh was covered in a maddening purple aura.
"I don't need… your help!" Ho-oh shouted, giving Lugia a Sacred Fire attack in response. Lugia shielded himself this time, but still gaped his jaw at what his brother had become.
Ho-oh had developed some resistance to mind control over the years, but he could not handle this level of brainwashing. When his training had took effect, he wasn't completely brainwashed by Cipher's machine. Instead, it brought out all of his negative emotions then multiplied them with the help of the shadow crystal.
"Go away!" shouted the phoenix in primal fury, launching Fire Blasts from every direction and angle. Lugia's agility and psychic shield made it possible to avoid the damage from his brother's high powered attacks. In the midst of combat, he read the minds of a human doing something suspicious from a computer.
"We have no choice, it's now or nothing! I have to use the XD machine on the fire bird! He will probably die like the other subjects, but now that Lugia's here I don't have a prayer unless I get a new superweapon!"
Lugia's eyes widened at this news as Ho-oh upper cutting his brother with his beak. Another Brave Bird later and Lugia was on the ground.
"Ho-oh we have to get out of here now! They're planning to kill you!" shouted the silver bird.
"NO! I won't let you tell me what to do any longer! I have power now, more than you, and now I won't be living in your shadow any longer!" Ho-oh launched a Fire Blast from his mouth so big that the entire complex was burned to ash. Lugia had developed another psychic shield, but his eyes were wide when Ho-oh clenched him up with his talons.
Face pressed against his, Ho-oh gave Lugia the most malicious look he had ever seen "You won't be better than me any longer! I am Ho-oh! I will defeat Cipher and prove once and for all that I'm-"
Ho-oh's speech was interrupted by Lugia giving him a great hug. The fire bird's talons dug even deeper inside Lugia's skin, but Lugia did not let go. Even as Ho-oh thrashed about, Lugia stayed put.
"Ho-oh. I'm sorry I made you feel that way." spoke the silver bird softly "I… I trained harder than you. Harder than anyone else. That's why I'm strong. And the reason I did so is… is so nothing would happen to you.
Ho-oh stopped struggling, finally looking at his brother eye to eye.
"You're my brother! I… I just wanted to keep you safe…" said Lugia "I never meant to show off, I never meant to keep you in my shadow. I just wanted the only family I had left to be at ease."
In that instant, Ho-oh flashed back to two gravestones. On a sandy beach in the middle of nowhere, there were two pokémon: a silver bird and a golden one. Each was staring at the two graves, crying loudly.
"I… I swear I'll keep him safe mom and dad!" Lugia cried "I'll never let anything bad happen to him! I won't!"
A whirring sound made Ho-oh switch back to the present. Lugia's eyes became serious "I swore I'd protect you then… and that has not changed!"
Without warning Lugia flipped Ho-oh and himself so that their positions were reversed. It was now Lugia's back that lay directly in line with the strange machine the leader of Cipher had been setting up. In an instant, an unholy dark beam shot from the new machine and struck Lugia's back.
When the machine made contact, all lights in the room suddenly went off. A darkness overtook the area unlike anything seen before. The full power of the shadow crystal had been unleashed- so much that the formerly black colored rock was a transparent white.
The shock of Lugia's action was enough to make Ho-oh regain his senses and dispel the negative emotions within himself. He got back up, dazed from the effort. He could not see, but no longer felt his brother.
"L-Lugia?" stuttered Ho-oh "Brother…?"
He gaped.
A blackened version of his brother stood in the center of the room. A single feather from his wing shot itself into the Cipher's leader, killing the man instantly. Lugia turned around and faced Ho-oh.
His eyes were blood red. A look of otherworldly malice was upon his face. For a brief instant, the fire bird felt absolute fear.
Suddenly the color returned to his face. It spread, until his body was white again. Lugia appeared dazed, but let out an audible gasp when he realized his feather was stuck inside a dead man's body. He shook him off, then looked at himself.
The machine had done something to him. Something never seen before.
"…Ho-oh. Let's go back to Arceus. I'll get… this looked at." said Lugia quickly. The fire bird nodded his head.
"Lugia, I'm sorry."
Lugia turned to him and smiled "It's fine. Big brothers are always forgiving. Now let's go, I feel funny."
That should have been the end of it. But it wasn't. When Lugia checked his condition, Arceus and the other old Legendaries did not have a clue what it was or how to treat it. Even luminous crystals did nothing against this overwhelming darkness.
They enlisted in the help of a human, agent Coder of the secret agents. Upon thousands of medical tests, Coder wasn't able to find a single cure. Something like this had never existed before. The secret agents were forced to conclude there was no cure.
A mere week after the incident with Cipher, Lugia had lost control again. He destroyed Mossdeep city in the blink of an eye before returning to normal. Arceus had to cover up, saying it was an attack by remnants of Cipher. Lugia shook with fear every night, wondering when he would turn next.
End Flashback
Cresselia and Kyurem were agape with mixed emotions. Shock, awe, betrayal, confusion, anger, sadness.
"He… Lugia…" Cresselia tried to say the words.
"We received his last message." said the space dragon gruffly "He last message was telling us he would turn into that monster at any moment, and that there was no cure. Lugia decided long ago to not make anyone suffer from his curse- in the event that a cure was never found, Lugia would kill himself."
"Why didn't anyone tell us this!?" Kyurem was enraged "Why didn't Arceus-"
"Lugia was a hero." Palkia interrupted her "How do you think the public would react if they knew he could turn into a genocidal monster at any moment? And that he destroyed an entire city without so much a thought."
Kyurem paused as she absorbed this knowledge.
"The resulting panic might have gotten Lugia killed already. The trust in the Council would be severed, which means we would be hindered once another crisis came by." Palkia explained "So we told no one. We lied to save Lugia."
"In the end it only bought us time." Ho-oh grimaced "My brother…"
"So then… so then what do we do?" asked Cresselia in a soft voice. Ho-oh turned to her.
"We capture Lugia. We put him in isolation until something can be done."
"And that's why we're all gathered here." Palkia explained, "I'm a class Four. Ho-oh and Kyurem are both high end class Three's, plus Arceus said Rayquaza was already there. And the final piece of the puzzle is Cresselia. Since it's been proven that emotions can snap him out of it, Cresselia could be key in bringing him back alive."
Kyurem realized the implications behind her boyfriend's words "…how strong are you saying Lugia is right now?"
Silence.
"We know that when Lugia turns… that he could be a class Five or above." Palkia breathed "We have to pray he's a lower end class Five like Coder told us. If we fought him…"
Class Fives were practically gods compared to everyone else. It was no wonder so many high end Legendaries had gathered for the sole purpose of bringing Lugia back- one misstep and the sixth Great Destruction could be imminent. Two class Three's and two class Four's… was it possible to take down a class Five with these odds?
"We're here." Cresselia's train of thought was interrupted as Palkia evaporated his warp sphere. The four jumped down onto solid ground. Cresselia recognized this place from her history books.
Citadark Island. The place where it began. And perhaps ironically, the place where it would end.