"Troops, crush this Absol." The Umbreon general commanded. Five rushed forward at Dim. Faster than they could see, he hit one in the head, knocking him out. Shortly after he knocked out two more. The final two he glanced at, causing their immediate loss of consciousness. He looked at the rest, and one by one they began to pass out at his gaze, their minds vastly inferior to the power spike he had received. The general was the only one that could resist Dim, and even that was just barely. "I'm saving you for a personal treatment." Dim said, the venom of his voice having the raw energy to kill the surrounding plant life, crisping it alive. The Umbreon looked in horror. Meanwhile Dim was losing control of himself, bloodlust driving him mad while he tried to hold it back, what would Obsideon say? He was slipping, he felt a hyper beam being readied in his maw, but it didn't feel like a hyper beam that he ever made, as a matter of fact, it felt like even more power than a three-seventy hyper beam but all in one ball. It was so much that it began to pour as if a viscous fluid onto the ground below. Then it was released. The forest in its path was obliterated in a fraction of a second, the Umbreon with it, not even a scream escaping, it was as if the Universe had deleted his very existence. The ground was torn up and thrown out, and the flash of light from the beam could be seen from the moon. It was like a Hydrogen bomb had exploded in only one direction. After the explosion Dim promptly stared at the scene and passed out.

He woke in Star's quarters at Sol city with Star himself and Obsideon watching over him. "What? Where's Ray?" "The Vulpix? Waiting for his mom to heal." "And if I were you I would be more worried about what you did." Star seemed angry, and Obsideon seemed a mix of that and relieved. "What?" "You nearly destroyed the entire forest. And this is a big forest. If it weren't for how lucky you were with the power channeling you did, you not only would have exploded, but the power from that explosion would have killed everything on the continent!" "Was it really that bad?" "I could feel the power reverberating here, in my chambers. Ten kilometres away and under the city, in a damned canyon!" Dim looked at him in shock. "Really?" Star smacked him. "I swear to Arceus if you ever do that again, I will beat you senseless. Do you understand me?" "Yes Star." "Good, now Obsideon would like to talk to you." "Dim?" "Yes?" She teared up a little. "Could you please not do that anymore?" "What do you mean?" "You almost died. You drained almost all of your energy to do that attack, and when me and Star found you you were laying on the ground barely breathing. You scared me." "I'm sorry. Can I make it up to you?" "Umm…" She bit her lip. "Later, right now, there is someone that wants to meet you." Dim looked confused. "Who?" "That Luxray you saved. Lucy." "Oh, okay." He started to stand so he could walk with her, but his legs collapsed, and he felt sick to his stomach. "Dim, when was the last time you ate?" "I don't remember." He admitted. Star sighed, "Obsideon could you get him some food, it's on the first level look for the kitchen, grab meat and berries, oran and sitrus if you can." She nodded and went to find the food. "How is Ray doing?" "Well he's scared out of his mind, but other than that, I'm pretty sure he's fine." "And Lucy?" "Alive, though she lost a lot of blood, and is extremely stressed out." "Is Obsideon handling it well?" "Well of course, do you doubt her trust in you?" "No, just making sure." "Though by the way, you need to patch things up between you two, she's been crying for a while now from being worried about you." Dim looked at him in shock. "Was it really that bad?" "Let me put it this way, even I have never been willing to channel that much power, even when I fought Tyran. I'll take you to the spot later, when you're done talking to Lucy and Ray, who by the way kept you alive till we got there, he found some water and used it to cool you off, and then treated some burn wounds on your maw." Obsideon came back up with the food, which Dim promptly ate. "Can I go see them now?" "Yes, you and Obsideon may now leave." They nodded and headed out.

"I'm sorry." Dim said a few minutes after they had left Star's residence. "It's okay." she replied, sounding sad. Dim took a moment to gather his courage, and pride. "No, I'm being a hypocrite, I can't tell you I don't want you to fight, and then nearly blow myself up within a week, it's not fair on you." Obsideon continued walking, smiling a little, proud that he was finally putting himself on more equal terms with her. "Just, please control yourself next time okay?" "I will." They walked on for a few more minutes. "Dim don't think I don't understand what was going through your head. I've seen Lucy and Ray, and what you did to those Umbreons, plus Lucy gave us enough 'details'. Just don't think I'm in the dark about this though alright?" "Okay, I won't." They went on in silence until they reached the medical ward Lucy was staying in, it was somewhat of an intensive care unit, but one of the few that could help non-dark types. When they finally got to see Lucy, she had healed surprisingly fast, even for being in the intensive care unit. "Lucy, how are you doing?" She stared at Dim for a moment before registering his presence. "Sorry, I've been a bit out of it." "That's okay, I know the feeling." Dim and Obsideon both said in unison. Lucy looked between the two of them for a second before noticing something. "Are you two like married or something?" "Yes, we are indeed." Dim said to answer her puzzled face. "Huh. I imagined you would be married to royalty or something." She said cocking her head a little. "Why is that?" Obsideon asked, vaguely annoyed by the statement. "Well, how many pokemon can defeat ten hardened soldiers alone, in only a few minutes, that aren't directly tied to a royal partner?" "Well, if we were to be technical, I am royalty myself, so I think that counts, right?" Dim said to try and diffuse his wife's unrest. "I suppose." "Alright has anyone told you anything about Ray?" "Yeah, they said he arrived with you last night, and that as soon as I was able to, I could go see him." "Good." He said nodding. "So what about…" He made a sweeping gesture to her abdomen. Lucy sighed, and teared up slightly. "The doctors say it will probably be female. And they aren't to sure about how well the birth is going to go, on the bright side, they've offered me a place to stay while I'm recovering, and possibly even longer, if I'm willing to work around the city." Obsideon looked at Lucy sadly, not with pity, but with a knowledge all to similar of the position she was in. "Hey Dim, I'm going to go step outside a moment." "Okay, go ahead." Dim said, concern riddling his face. After she left Lucy asked, "Why did she leave? Was it something I said?" "She has things she has to deal with about her past, I'll talk to her later." "Okay, if you say so."

Lucy and Dim continued to talk while Obsideon took a short walk outside. By no means was she jealous, she had noticed within minutes that they seemed more like siblings than romantically inclined towards each other, it was what Lucy was that bothered her. An outcast, with no home, and more enemies than friends. It made Obsideon uncomfortable to be around someone similar to her, as different as they were. She continued walking for a while before bumping into Mercy while he was strolling around. "Excuse me." He popped out. "Hey where's Dim, I haven't seen him for a while." "He's talking to Lucy, you might be able to find him there." Mercy nodded and gestured for her to walk with him as he went in that direction. "I can tell something has you perturbed, what is it?" "Well besides the fact that two of the only Umbreons in the city are walking together without anyone else, It's Lucy." "Jealous?" "No, if it were that I would probably be mad, it that she's outcast, and besides that, her connection to the rebels, is unsettling for me." "I can understand that second part, it is unsettling for me too, I actually worked with some of those monsters for a while, if it weren't for all of you, I still would be." "Then there's what Dim did. It was… odd, the things he did, were ruthless, I've seen Dim do some crazy things, but that was… worse than anything I could've imagined, not to mention the hyper-beam he used." Mercy walked in silence for a moment. "I don't think that was Dim controlling himself at those times." "What do you mean?" "I've heard stories of champions for the Deity of War and Death, some say that pokemon would be taken control of by him, possessed if you will, and havoc would come directly after." "That could be bad." "If he can't learn to control it, yes indeed it could be."

They arrived at the medical ward shortly after. "Dim, Mercy wants to talk to you." "Okay, me and Lucy had just finished talking, though she wants to talk to you Obsideon." Obsideon gave him a confused face. "I don't know." He answered. Obsideon went inside to talk to Lucy. "You wanted to talk to me?" "Yeah, I just uhh…" She looked away embarrassed. Obsideon lightened her face, and laid down next to her. "How you feel right now, that was most of my life, if you want to talk about it, I'm one of the few that will understand." Lucy looked at her with the eyes of an innocent child, and Obsideon had to steel herself from the wave of sympathy and pity, mixed with no small amount of flashbacks. "What do you mean?" "Well, when I was very young, a little Eevee only a few years old, I became a Silyco. From that point on, I had no home, and no one to love." Lucy looked at her surprised, then began to cry. "Why?" She asked to no one. Obsideon looked ahead of her, not necessarily at anything. After a moment she resumed. "As far as I know I'm an orphan, or at least abandoned when I was young, and I've been alone until I adopted Ray, and now this." She gestured at herself. Obsideon nodded. "No you don't deserve it, but it happened, now you have to figure out what to do with it." Lucy looked at her, and though they looked obviously different, Obsideon could see a reflection of herself in the young Luxray. After a moment Lucy nodded "Okay, I will." Obsideon smiled "Good, I hope for you the best." Obsideon then stood and began to leave. She met Dim and Mercy outside. "Did you sort it out with her?" "Yeah, I think she'll be okay." "Alright, well me and Mercy sorted out our problems, it would appear that most of the children we've been capturing have been planning a breakout." "That doesn't sound like a good idea." "Yeah, that's why I'm going to have to sabotage it for them." Mercy threw in. The other two nodded. "Alright let's go talk to Ray." "Of course."

Upon their arrival, Ray looked up at them suddenly. "Dim? Miss Obsideon?" "Yeah though she is Mrs. Obsideon little guy." He looked at them for a moment, before saying, "Okay." He was wracking his brain at the moment given the new information. "You're a smart one aren't you?" Dim asked. "Yup, at least Mom says so." "I would trust that opinion, you did save me after all, which means I owe you." Dim grinned at him. "Nope, I owed you, you did protect me and mom, so now we're square." Dim grinned more. "Well then now that we have that settled, I need to go wrap something up, so Obsideon, could you watch after him for now?" "Sure Dim." The thing Dim was talking about were seeing the site of his hyper beam.

After he got outside he went to find Star. "Man I really shouldn't go on anymore midnight raids." He mumbled to himself, suppressing a wave of nausea. "Dim! Come on, we're burning daylight." Star said when he noticed Dim stumbling around. He walked to Dim and shoved a glowing neon blue berry in his mouth. "There you go." "Dim looked at him confused as his gut suddenly returned to normality. "What was that?" He asked Star. "Rezegen berry, indigenous to an island I found when I came to this continent, I have a small farm of them in my quarters. You see when you channel energy, for any movement, or attacks, you move your life force in a direction, usually in a 'forwards' position, the more you do, the farther it goes. Well certain types of channeling move your energy 'backwards', if you will. Being forwards causes weariness, but going backwards moves you closer to death. Sleeping normally resets those movements, but sometimes it isn't quite enough. Hyper beams, being pure energy, give backwards movement most of the time. Same thing with moves like explosion and sleep doesn't quite perfectly reset your movement, that berry can fully reset all of your movement, but it will double the amount of movement you make until it gets out of your system, which should be about eight hours." "So is that why it was so dangerous for me to channel that much power?" "Yes, it was purely backwards movement, and it was a lot of it. One could say there are ledges for forwards and backwards movement, too far in either direction and you'll fall off, effectively killing yourself, though it takes much more forward movement than backwards movement for that effect." "So if this berry increases my movement, does that mean that I'll get tired really quick?" "Yes, so you'd better take it easy, I don't need you dying because you were breathing too hard." "Yes Loup." They continued walking for awhile until they both began to notice a strong scent of burning wood, and some amount of other burnt scents. "We're close." Star said. They then emerged into a 'clearing', though it was more like a scar, given that it was the spot where Dim had shot his hyper beam. Most of the area was almost a valley or canyon, where the ground inside was charred pitch black, trees nearby were either knocked over, or scorched of their leaves. "Now do you understand how much damage you did?" "Yes, I think I do."