Pokemon Legacy

Dana's battle right now wasn't going so well as Queen took in Needle Arm followed by an onslaught of exploding needles known as Pin Missile. Sure, these attacks didn't do a whole lot to bug types, but it still hurt, Queen bleeding all over.

But as Maractus went in to deliver a Sucker Punch, the Galvantula scowled and sent out a Multicoloured beam from her mouth called Signal Beam into the cactus's gut. Maractus winced in pain before flying into a wall, Max staring with admiration as Melissa groaned.

However, despite the incredible damage dealt by this, Maractus managed to recover, shaking her head before sending a torrent of pedals forward, the pedals cutting up Queen's body as Dana gasped, quickly returning her before more could be done. That was just too many cuts for her to bare. However, she needed to win this, and as such she sent in Pyro, the fire pig flexing as Melissa groaned with disappointment. She'd figured maybe the girl didn't have a fire type since she kept choosing bugs.

Before Maractus could even try to fight back, Pyro unleashed a quick Ember, knocking the cactus out for good as Max sighed, "Bummer," returning the cactus and saying, "Well, it's up to you now," sending in Ferrothorn.

Jason grinned and said, "You couldn't have gotten a better opponent right now," Dana blinking and asking, "What do you mean?" as Jason sighed, "That's a grass and steel type. That means fire type moves are even more effective against it," Dana smiling wide before nodding.

Luckily, this wasn't technically a gym battle, meaning Jason could legally give her advice. Melissa was actually quite scared now that the girl knew this, but Max seemed confident... either that, or he was really enjoying this battle and couldn't have cared less about the result.

All the while, Anna and Janette were in the clear as they noticed David and Jeff fighting, figuring he had things covered while hiding behind a generator nearby. What that was doing out in the hallway was anyone's guess.

Things had started to improve for David as Druddigon had unleashed Outrage, a move that filled him up with intense energy as he struck his opponents multiple times. Reuniclus, Elgyem and Beheeyem were taking in extreme pain now. During this, Hydreigon was using the same move on Musharna, only he was shooting various flames at the creature. However, just as it seemed they'd almost won, their adrenalin rush ended as they started to look disoriented, David grimacing and thinking, 'Dammit, that should have finished the job!'

The major side effect to Outrage was that unless it won the battle for good, the user would end up confused. Needless to say, Jeffrey took full advantage of this by having his Pokemon send powerful psychic attacks at them, the dragons hitting themselves each time they tried to fight back.

After having their Pokemon healed, Nathan and Jacob were wandering the halls as Nathan asked, "Are you sure we shouldn't be running right now?" Jacob smiling and replying, "I'm sure the others are fine without us right now."

While the man stroked Lucario, Nathan looked at this with interest, trying not to show it before asking, "So, what's up with that Lucario of yours anyway? Why don't you keep him in a Pokeball?" Jacob shrugging before replying, "For starters, he hates the inside of Pokeballs. I put him in one once and he didn't like it one bit. Besides, he's my best friend and partner. It would be cruel to force him to do what he doesn't want to do," Lucario nuzzling his cheek up against Jacob's.

Nathan nodded, though wondered why Sammy had no trouble being in a Pokeball. However, another question came to mind right now as he asked, "Say, how is it that you and your Lucario defeated Giratina? I know Lucario's probably really tough, but he's kind of, well, normal."

Lucario folded his arms as Jacob chuckled, "Well, he wasn't back then. See, he was sent to me in the form of an egg by the legendary Darkrai."

Nathan's eyes went wide. He couldn't even fake disinterest if he wanted to now as Jacob laughed a bit before adding, "Supposedly, he was meant to be a last resort in battling the forces of evil if ever the other legends failed, and this was due to a special power he had in which he could use attacks that he wouldn't normally be able to learn at four times their usual strength. Neither of us really knew how to properly control it until our battle with Giratina."

"So you defeated him using that," Nathan stated as Jacob sighed, "Actually, it worked for a while, but then Lucario made a very foolish mistake. He used Self Destruct," Lucario looking down as Jacob sighed, "Come on, you weren't even half-a-year old, buddy," Lucario nodding, still feeling ashamed of himself.

"So at four times the strength..." Nathan started as Jacob cut in stating, "Naturally, Lucario quite literally blew himself up. Only his tail was left, and Giratina was still moving as he retreated to the distortion world. Luckily, Lucario's spirit merged with me and I was able to use his power to take down the monster."

"And Lucario came back to life, I take it," Nathan replied, pointing at Lucario as Jacob nodded and replied, "Yes, he did, but it was at a cost. See, the legendary hedgehog, Shaymin, sacrificed herself to bring him back."

"I heard she died during that battle," Nathan replied, "I would have never imagined it was on her own accord," Jacob nodding and replying, "Yeah, when Lucario was reborn as a Riolu, he'd lost all his memory. He seemed to still have an attachment towards me, but that was about it. It wasn't until he evolved into Lucario again that all of his memories returned."

"Wow..." Nathan replied, his eyes wide with shock, "I mean, really, wow, that's some very deep stuff. I thought my past was full of hardships, but man..."

At that moment, the two ended up where Izy was just finishing her battle with Rachel. Gliscor had managed to take down Chandelure with X-Scissor as Noctowl finished off Cofagrigus with a fierce headbutt powered by a blue aura known as Zen Headbutt.

With that, Izy returned her Pokemon as Rachel lowered her head, sighing, "Well, I guess you were just too good for me," Izy saying, "Well, you almost beat me," Rachel smiling and shaking her hand saying, "Yes, I did come close, didn't I?"

Jacob then approached his wife, patting her on the shoulder and saying, "That's my girl," Izy grinning and facing her husband before saying, "I take it you dealt with Sampson?" Jacob nodding as Izy kissed him on the cheek saying, "I knew you would."

Then noticing Nathan standing there, Izy put on a look of fake disappointment as she groaned, "Oh, I thought we were gonna save Nathan together, honey-pumpkin," Jacob laughing before replying, "He got out on his own," Nathan shrugging and stating, "Sorry to disappoint," Izy feeling rather impressed by this.

During all of this, Chelsea and Amanda were off to find Sabrina when they walked right by one of the labs, Amanda's eyes going wide when she saw Victini trapped in his capsule, the girl walking over with worry and said, "You poor little guy," Chelsea's eyes sparkling as she said, "Let's free this poor thing," Amanda nodding.

With that, the two tried pulling on the door, finding that it was open. Clearly, security here could have been better. With that, the two opened up the capsule, releasing the legend. Unfortunately, Victini still needed to recover his strength, so Amanda decided to carry him over her shoulders.

All the while, Dana was finding her battle harder than expected once again as Ferrothorn fired a ball of silver energy into Pyro, the Pignite squealing in pain. Dana bit her lip as she was about to give a command only for the spinning disc to latch two of his vines around the pig's arms, having the other ram its metal end into the pig's face, his snout bleeding a bit.

However, just as all seemed lost, Dana noticed the overconfident look on Ferrothorn's eyes and shouted, "PYRO, USE FLAME THROWER!" the pig grinning and releasing a stream of flames from his nostrils.

However, Max seemed to have seen this coming as he had Ferrothorn block it with the metal end of his vine. However, Pyro focused extra hard, making the flame bigger as sections of it passed right by the vine, running hard into the metal saucer, his eyes going wide as he took in fierce damage, releasing his hold on Pyro and rotating back and forth before falling to the ground, his eyes closed.

"ALRIGHT!" Jason exclaimed, raising his fist in the air as Dana let out a sigh of relief, Pyro grinning and flexing before losing consciousness, passing out while Dana let out a sigh and returned him, a warm smile soon following. That extra-powerful Flamethrower must have used up a lot of Pyro's energy.

"Dude, that was awesome," Max replied, his eyes wide open as he reached into his pocket pulling out a badge and saying, "You totally deserve this, man," handing it to Dana who simply giggled, now rather amused by Max's mannerisms.

However, Melissa wasn't willing to accept this as she walked up to Max, reaching into his pocket and pulling out the white orb saying, "We have a job to do," taking off as Max nodded saying, "Right, I totally forgot about that. Thanks for the heads-up, dude."

"Wait..." Jason said, his eyes wide open and his jaw dropped before he added, "Was that the white orb we were supposed to keep away from the black one?" Dana clasping her hands over her mouth and exclaiming, "Oh my gosh, it totally is!"

At that moment, Jacob, Nathan and Izy arrived in the area, Dana and Jason sighing with relief. At least they weren't alone.

Soon enough, just about everyone had reached the area where David and Jeff were still having their fight, both sides looking rather beaten at this point. This battle had gone on a lot longer than planned.

However, it finally came to an end when David had Hydreigon use Dragon Pulse while Druddigon used a big Dragon Claw, all four of Jeff's Pokemon finally falling as he sighed, returning them and saying, "Well, I hope you're pleased," as the others watching cheered, Sabrina's eyes going wide as she turned to see them before groaning, "They've been here most of the time, haven't they?" the professor nodding before replying, "Quite."

At that moment, Tammy charged toward Sabrina shouting, "I'VE FINALLY FOUND YOU, YOU BITCH!" but just as she was about to tackle the woman, Amanda and Chelsea entered the area and shouted, "STOP!" everyone turning to face them.

"Oh, hey guys," Eric said as Benjamin asked, "Why should we stop? This woman's been lying to us," as Chelsea was about to add more to it when Max and Melissa entered the area, Sabrina smiling and asking, "Did you bring the goods?"

"Don't give her the orb," Max remarked, Jeff rather confused by this as Melissa grunted, "Why not! It was Hell getting it here!" Benjamin adding, "Sabrina's a liar. Tabitha didn't leave to return home. Sabrina killed her," Max's eyes going wide as he said, "Dude, that's cold..." Melissa equally appalled right now.

Sabrina then sniffed and remarked, "You people wouldn't understand!" Tammy retorting, "What's to understand? My sister was the nicest person in the whole world and you shot her!" Sabrina breathing heavily as Chelsea and Amanda were about to say more only for Melissa and Sabrina's pockets to glow, the orbs coming out of them right when Nathan and the others arrived as well, their eyes going wide when they realized they were too late.

Everyone stared, Sabrina rather confused as she didn't know about the dragons being inside the orbs. With that, both floated in front of each other for a while, David signalling everyone to back up knowing they'd probably get crushed once the orbs came open. After a few seconds, both balls shattered into tiny fragments as the dragons took form, Sabrina's eyes sparkling as everyone else stared with absolute horror.

The white dragon, Reshiram, stood tall and proud with his body almost shaped like that of a bird. Around his long slender neck where snow white rings to match with the fur covering his body flowing white hair going down his back. He also had a tail shaped a bit like a cone with two rings surrounding it, and his face resembled that of a wolf.

The black dragon, Zekrom, had a pointed bit of skin coming out the back of his head with a blue tip on the end. His eyes were blood red and his entire body almost looked metallic. His tail was even more like a cone and had a spiked collar on the end of it. He had big black wings and around his hands were what resembled big wrist guards, so big that they actually went over his hands.

As the two dragons stood there, David grimaced and spat, "Guys, don't let Sabrina use the core extract!" but before anyone could take action, two small fragments of the extract rose up, the dragons staring with absolute terror as the element inserted itself into their backs, the dragons turning toward Sabrina as she whistled and said, "Wow, that didn't take very much extract at all. This stuff's more powerful than I thought."

Slowly looking up, Victini had a look of fear on his face as he knew just how bad things had gotten. After all, this same thing had happened quite a few years ago.

"Alright, my pets, dispose of these people immediately!" pointing at the trainers, all of them freaking out as Reshiram and Zekrom turned toward Sabrina, scowling as Sabrina spat, "Did you hear me? Attack them!"

However, Zekrom immediately fired a bolt of electricity towards the woman, Sabrina barely dodging as everyone else started to freak out as well, Reshiram sending a flame toward the woman as Chelsea immediately tackled her, both falling on the floor and out of the way of the attack. At that moment, Chelsea allowed her to rise as Sabrina trembled asking, "Why won't they listen to me?" David remarking, "If you were paying attention, you'd have noticed that the core extract came to them. You had nothing to do with that. They're not gonna listen to you."

With that, the dragons started ravaging the entire building as everyone realized now would be a horrible time to fight back, fleeing for their lives as they leaped out of the open windows. Amanda managed to have her birds help a few out while others got hurt while landing but still came out of it in one piece. Either way, the building started to collapse as Sabrina stared in shock. There were still a ton of unconscious Team Shadow agents in there.

She was relieved to see those on the first and second floors waking up in time to evacuate, however, only about two thirds of her men had escaped. The other third had been crushed, most likely killed.

"What have I done?" Sabrina asked as the dragons rose up from the debris, letting out loud roars as everyone glared at Sabrina, the woman then pulling out her gun, Nathan asking, "Are you gonna kill us all or something?"

"No..." Sabrina replied, letting down tears before holding her gun up to her head, "I'm going to do the world a favour," everyone staring in horror. As bad of a person as Sabrina was, suicide wasn't the answer.

At that moment, Amanda ran over to her shouting, "STOP!" tackling the girl as the gun flew out of her hand, Melissa catching it in time to stop it from hitting the ground and potentially going off.

"Why are you stopping me?" Sabrina sniffed, "I'm a horrible person!" Chelsea walking over and replying, "Look, Sabrina, we know all about your reasons. You spent most of your life with no friends, and when Tabitha tried to leave you, it felt like losing another one to you, am I right?"

Sabrina sniffed, not even caring about the fact that the gym leader had so obviously read her diary, everyone else rather shocked to hear this as Chelsea added, "Look, lacking friends is a terrible feeling, but you can't solve it by threatening mankind with the legendary dragons... assuming that's what you were going to do..."

"What the hell is she going on about?" Jason asked as Dana put her hand over his mouth, Nathan also rather interested, the dragons too busy spazzing out as Sabrina took a good look at Chelsea and said, "Hey, I know you..."

Chelsea blinked and asked, "Really?" Sabrina nodding and replying, "Yeah, we went to high school together."

Everyone stared wide-eyed as Chelsea looked confused, Sabrina adding, "Yeah, I wanted you as my partner for the big Science project, figuring since you were smart and new, you could help me. You turned me down all because of what everyone else said about me," Chelsea gasping, "Oh my god, you're that Sabrina!"

After a while, the girl let out a sigh and stated, "I didn't turn you down because I didn't trust you. It was because I already had a partner and felt it would be unfair for him," Sabrina's eyes going wide as Chelsea knelt down and gave the woman a hug saying, "Come on, it's not too late for you to turn things around."

With that, Sabrina sniffed and hugged her back as Jason narrowed his eyelids saying, "Look, this is very touching, but shouldn't we be doing something!" Amanda nodding and saying, "That's right, we have to stop those dragons before they cause any more damage."

But it was anyone's guess just how hard this would be. After all, these were the most powerful creatures in the region. Could they really be stopped?