DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN POKEMON! I own Misuki, Matiko, Zato, Greag and Hica.
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"I shall not let you pass!" an armored figure spoke, "In the Name of the Gods, Dialga and Palika, You shall die!" another figure stood before him, blood gushing and dancing from his shoulder. "My dream shall not be silenced!" it growled at him. The blue armored figure rose it's sword as it's response. The black, red and purple figure lunged at him, bringing it's huge, twisted claws down, the blue figure dodged easily, swiping it's sword across the creature's chest. More blood covered it's armor. The black and purple creature laid on the floor, clutching it's chest and breathing heavily. The blue armored being stood above it. It brought it's sword over it's head, "May the taint in your being be purged." the sword slashed down, a pained screech followed by gurgles came from the creature, it's head severed in two. It convulsed wildly as the blade stuck from it's head. The blue armored figure ripped the sword from it's resting place and sheathed it. The corruption meted from the dead being, a man with grey-powder blue hair lay before the knight. His head severed cleanly, blood pooling from the wound. The knight stood for a second before removing his helm. His black hair had it's bangs to the sides, a small ponytail in the back. He looked down at the man, "The Gods have purged you." His armor started to dissipate, turning into blue energy as it flowed into the wind. He looked at the sky, it too started to dissolve, no longer dusk orange now only blackness, the new stars died and faded away, the world crumbled and fell, the corpse fell and broke into nothingness.
His eyes shot open, he surveyed the room and relaxed. He put his hand over his face, "I must be going insane, such a vivid dream, so real." he shook his head, "What nonsense." he laughed quietly and removed himself from the king bed. Grabbed a towel from the rack in the bath, the water warmed to his preference as he pressed a button near the door. He threw off his sleeping clothes into a small pile, and dipped his body into the small pool that ate a quarter of the mildly large bath. He slid up to his upper chest, and sat in the water for a bit. 'So vivid...' he dropped his head under and swam to the other side, placing the back of his head to rest on the rim of the bath that sunk into the floor of the room. He closed his eyes momentarily and took in a deep breath. "Hello there," a woman's voice rang into his ears. He simply titled his head back and opened his eyes. A red headed woman donning a Galaxy uniform that had a hoop skirt starting at her lower chest, her arms covered by black striped sleeves that started at her shoulders and ended at her fingers, her legs adorned with full leg boots, her hair was short but covered her left eye. She was staring right at him, arms folded.
"Do you see anything you like?" Matiko asked flatly. "Do you?" she shot back. "I didn't realize you were a fan of pink and lace." she swung her boot at his head but he dodged and leapt out of the water, easily grabbing a towel and wrapping it around his waist. "Hey now, I saw you eyeing my merch, so I thought I could eye some of your's." he grinned, "What are you doing here? Are you here to kill me or are you hare to get some of the famous honor guard?" he spread his arms out smugly, laughing on the inside. She brought out a blade and lunged at him, knocking him to the floor and holding the blade to his neck, he held her off with his right hand, the other ran through her hair, "Obviously it's both." he chuckled. She pressed harder as she screamed in frustration. He flipped her off him and now he was on top of her, still grinning, the blade had fallen into the bath, she was now defenseless. He brought his mouth to her ear, "I am the one who shall destroy the galaxy, and I will be the one who saves the universe." his hot breath on her ear made her gasp sharply. He rose from her, taking her by the arm, dragging her to the elevator, "Mars, you have failed in your plot to kill me, go back and think over your life, I'm sure there are other things you want to be than a grunt right?" He pressed a button that summoned the elevator, she looked at him confused, "Because grunts die." he smiled. She nodded shakily, then spoke, "Then why didn't you kill me? I just attempted to take your life?" He chucked and brought his hand to her chin, she flinched as his cool, wet skin connected with hers. He lowered his lips to her cheek and planted a peck on them, "Because you still have good in you. You just have to find it." he smiled and nudged her into the elevator. The doors shut and started it's decent to the lobby automatically. A mixed look of joy and confusion was written on her reddened face. Matiko just leaned on the doors and smiled widely. Misuki came out sleepily wearing a pair of baggy jeans and a form hugging tank top. 'Hmm, I wonder what they have been up to.' he laughed softly. "Onii-chan, what's going here? I heard talking and screaming." she rubbed her eye. "Oh it's nothing someone just tried to kill me is all." Misuki nodded her head in understanding and back to bed. He waved her off and grinned harder as she glided lazily back to her room then shut the door. Matiko held up three fingers and started counting down, "3...2...1..." "WHAAT?!" he smiled harder, "Like clockwork." she ran up to him, "What do you mean someone tried to kill you?!" he waved it off, "I unarmed them and sent them away with a warning." he smiled, "Then were's the arm." she eyed him. He narrowed his eyes, "Not everyone I disarm losses that arm!" she crossed her arms, "It was a woman wasn't it?" he sighed, "You know me too well. Look she was just confused about her standpoint, I gave her an option to quit what she was doing, everyone needs a second chance Nee-chan." he patted her on the shoulder. She sighed and nodded then walked back to her room. Matiko also walked back to his room and finished his bath. He put on a sage green shirt and blue jeans, accompanied by his trademarked trench coat. He grabbed his gear and flipped the lights off in his room. The blade still sat at the bottom of his bath.
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Matiko met up with Greg, Hica, Misuki and Zato at the lobby. They were conversing among themselves as he approached, "...but, yeah my Torterra must live around here." Zato nodded, Misuki looked at him in awe, "So where is it? Does it live somewhere around here?" Greg shrugged, "Heck, I'm not sure, It's been so long since I've seen him." Matiko tapped Greg on the shoulder, "Wassup Greg. What'chu guys talking about?" Greg looked at him surprised, "Oh right. We were talking about our starters.' Matiko nodded and pulled out a pokeball, "You mean like this one?" he tossed it up and an Infernape formed before the group. "Say hello to Spitfire." he smiled as he put a hand on the fire monkey's shoulder. The creature just snorted at them. "Hey it's just like mine!" Misuki tossed out her Infernape out, it roared as it emerged. Matiko pulled her away from the two Infernapes, "You do know they spar right?" she looked at him puzzled, "Huh?" A vase flew between them, "Infernapes spar with one another to keep fit." he informed her as he dodged another vase, catching and placing it on the ground. "I trained with mine so I can stay in shape." he withdrew his partner back to it's ball. "Although it can get a little...destructive." Misuki did the same. "Why didn't you tell me that before?" she scolded him, he shrugged it off, "It never came up." She looked at him dumbfounded as he walked back to the group and started a conversation with Greg and Hica.
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The fresh morning sun glimmered past the tree tops, Starly's chirps could be heard in the distance, trees moved in packs near the lake. Greg caught sight of the trees. "Hold on guys, I thinks there's something I have to check out over near the lake." he rushed over. Matiko, not being one to miss out followed quickly. Misuki, Zato and Hica shadowed him. They were barely able to keep up with Matiko, who was already next to him. Greg and Matiko stopped just short of the moving trees. "Which one?" Greg scanned the group and pointed a large one in particular, "That one. I can recognize him anywhere." Hica, Zato and Misuki ducked down next to them. "What are you guy's talking about?" she asked her brother. He shushed her and pointed at the trees. They rustled and moved slightly, the trees were not trees at all! They were a heard of Torterra! The heard had stopped by the lake to get a drink, Zato examined each one, every single one of them had a different markings on their trees, symbols of their trainers. One of the larger ones had a name on it, 'GREGORY' was carved crudely onto it. Zato turned to Gregory, "Greg, Is that your Torterra?" he nodded and got up, "Terrow! Come." he barked to the large Torterra. It turned it's head and studied the man, the other's made a defensive stance, Terrow grunted at them and they eased down. It stomped over to him, rumbling the ground as it stepped. It came to a halt a few feet before it's master.
It took in his scent and bowed its head to him, he placed his hand on the side of it's head, "How have you been old friend?" it rumbled the ground as it growled happily. "Would you like to help me on a new journey?" The ground rumbled again. It placed it's head down as makeshift stairs to it's back. Greg smiled, "Thank you." He clambered onboard, "Come on Hica, you haven't lived until you've ridden on a Torterra." she nodded and shakily stepped onto it's head as well. She leapt to her boyfriend's waiting arms as she stepped off it's head and onto it's grassy back. It roared with delight as it felt it's master's weight on it's back again. Hica held onto Greg's shirt for dear life. "Hmm..." Zato thought, "It's worth a shot, Let's go Terra!" the called out his own Torterra. It growled happily as he climbed onto it's back. He sat underneath it's tree then looked at Greg. "Hey Greg, are you gonna leave us?" Zato shouted to him. He nodded, "Sadly yeah, we have to make up our badges." Zato sighed, "That sucks. Well, best of luck to you both!" he shouted over Greg's Torterra's footsteps. Greg waved goodbye to his friends, starting his journey over. With an unfair advantage.
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The group passed through the Villa once again, taking the last sight of true luxury in the country. The beach that surrounded the villa had eerie black sand. "Hey, Matiko, watsup with all this black sand?" he let some slip in between his fingers. "That's ash from a volcano, how it got here, I don't know." he shook his head. He looked out at the sea, the morning sun gave the ocean a warm orange color, "Hey guys look at this." he waved them over to his side, Misuki and Zato were poking around in the sand when he interrupted them. "What's up onii-chan?" Matiko put a finger to his lips then pointed out to the sea, "Look." The sun's warm reflection skipped effortlessly over the waves, the tip just touching the beach's edge. The sky absorbed some of the sun's tint and meshed it with it's morning white clouds. Matkio smiled as he took in the colors. Misuki nuzzled herself next to her boyfriend, looking awestruck at the sky and ocean. Zato placed his arm around her and smiled. "You'll never find words to correctly describe what you're feeling right now." Matiko said in a whisper, so he would not ruin the moment. "Come on, we have at own to get to." they looked at him in shock. "What you want to stand here and ruin your eyesight by staring at the noon sun?" he looked back at them and pulled put a small machine then proceeded to flip it on. "This is where we have to get to." he zoomed in on Pastoria's icon. Misuki and Zato gathered around each of his shoulders. "And this is the shortest route there. All 435 miles of it." Misuki and Zato looked at each other and gave tired looks. "Does this mean we're going to walk. All. 435. Miles of it?" Misuki complained. Matiko scoffed and started to walk away, "Hell no. We'll just get a ride." Both Zato and Misuki raised their brows at his statement. They watched him walk up to a large rock formation and rubbed a peculiar purple stone quickly, the formation rumbled and started to separate slowly due to years of disuse.
The rocks stopped at twenty-five feet apart, showing two all-terrain jeeps, both made to handle dirt, mud, snow, floods, storms and pavement. Zato and Misuki looked at the cars in shock, owning a car in the Sinnoh region showed the extent of your wealth. Only rich middle and upper class society had vehicles of their own and most of the time it was about one or two, but to have three showed that you were of the highest class society. Misuki and her lover ran their fingers over the sleek white cars steel bodies, looking over every detail that was ever put into the cars. The bulletproof windows, the armor steel plating bodies, the all-purpose rubber tank-treads for back wheels, the all terrain wheels sitting at the front, the winch attached above the front bumper, the all leather interior, the license plates that read "THUNDER". Everything about the vehicles screamed to them, showing all that is power, condensed into two mechanical forms. However, there was another vehicle that caught their eyes. It stood eight feet above them, a large fan on it's back end, a gigantic floatation ring covered the lower half of the craft, it's bulky, armored body was covered in a green paint, and it's rectangular windows were black. The craft was a behemoth! "So, I see you have found the hovercraft." they whipped their heads to Matiko, "That's a hovercraft?! I thought those this were made only for the military!" Zato exclaimed as he pointed to the daemon of a craft. Matiko looked at him smugly and laughed, "I pulled a few strings." he smiled, "But, we are not going to use Besty here." he patted the gigantic hovercraft, "Were using Thunder." he pointed to the two white multi-terrain jeeps. "Oh." Zato finally muttered. Matiko nestled himself into to driver's seat and placed his signature black glasses on, Misuki and Zato climbed into the back and strapped themselves onto one of the leather couches that sat opposite of each other in the bed of the jeep. "OK hang on, things may get a little bumpy!" he said giddy as he turned the ignition, causing the car to roar to life, making Misuki to yelp and latch to Zato's arm. Matiko gunned the gas pedal and they shot out of the mountain-garage, the noon suns' rays flooding the back of the jeep making Misuki and Zato flinch and cover their eyes until they adjusted. Matiko pressed a purple rune on his dash and watched the mountain close from his rear view.
"WOOHOO! I thought I would never be able to drive this old boy again!" Matiko yelled happily as they landed from a three story drop. He gassed the jeep to it's limits, crushing bushes, small trees and any unfortunate pokemon that wandered before his path, all at over 169 MPH. Eventually, Matiko eased off the gas and brought the roaring monster down to a low 45 MPH rumble. Misuki and Zato enjoyed having the wind whip through their hair, Matiko enjoyed using one of his toys again. Over an hour passed as they ran through the forest connecting the Villa to Pastoria. Matiko lowered the speed to 25 and cruised a bit, taking in the sights passing them. Matiko relaxed and slouched in his seat, letting his left arm hang lazily out of the window while his right gripped the bottom of the steering wheel. Misuki leaned on Zato who was looking up at the passing trees. 'Gods, I can't remember the last time I went for a cruise this ni-' "Matiko!" he snapped out his thoughts just in time to clip a figure with a cream colored head.
