SUPER MEGA HAPPY ULTRA SPECIAL EPIC AWESOME UPDAAAAATE!
BLAM! (Gets shot for going WAAAAAAAAY over the randumbness limit)
Ow…sorry, I forgot to drink my anti-craziness potion today. (drinks potion) Okay, back to normal now.
I've been away for a pretty long while, huh? For some reason, I wanted to upload this chapter and the previous one at the same time. Yeah, I'm weird.
And, now I've done something which I think I'll be killed for: I put the actual lyrics for my second favorite song in. The italic lines are Japanese (romanji) lyrics, and the bold lines are English. (No, I have no good excuse for putting in a song which is about love. If you want to kill me, fine. Just saying, I think the real life Ben certainly will.)
There's a special event this month for me…find out after the chapter. :D
Okay, that's enough random crap coming from me. Read on, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy the taste… ORE NO FAN SĀBISU O! (Of my Fan Service!)
The morning sun finally rose out of the trees' reach, casting a brilliant orange glow across Route 227. Dewdrops on the grass caught the light, beginning to glow brightly.
It was to this sight that Niko blearily rubbed his eyes, trying to fully wake up. "Yawn…what a beautiful morning…" he muttered dreamily. If only he didn't have the memories of the other day to spoil it…the Pikachu's face immediately fell.
It was then that Ben rose with a loud yawn. "Man, that sunrise looks amazing," he commented. "It's a sight for sore eyes."
"Like ours?" Niko asked, stretching his short arms a little.
"Yeah, like ours," Ben replied, quickly changing into his black jacket, green shirt and blue pants, putting on his armband which all six of his Pokéballs were attached to, then bending down to pat Niko's head. "It's also sort of a nice way to begin our training. So, you ready, Pikachu?"
"Ready when you are," Niko replied, grinning.
In a short while, Niko was breathing hard. Along with Heatran, Torterra, Infernape, Jolteon, Empoleon, and Dusknoir, they were ALL battling each other to train…but all six of Ben's Pokémon chose to attack the Pikachu because he was stronger than the rest of them individually. It had taken him all his might to get past each of their attacks, and it didn't look like they were quite out of strength yet. "What's wrong?" Heatran taunted. "Too tired, Niko?"
Niko's teeth gritted. This is totally not fair, he thought. I may be way stronger than most Pikachus, but against all six of Ben's Pokémon…this is practically impossible! He raised his hand, and fire began to gather at it. "Not a chance!" he shouted, and punched Torterra's tree. The leaves quickly caught fire, and Torterra roared in surprise. However, Empoleon turned and put the fire out with a Hydro Pump, then turned to Niko and attacked with his sharp beak. The Pikachu jumped to the side, then punched Empoleon with Thunder Punch, blasting Empoleon into the trees sparking. "Yes!" Niko cheered.
Infernape leaped behind the Mouse Pokémon and punched him with two flaming fists, sending Niko flying into a rock. The Flame Pokémon rocketed after him, blazing a bright blue and blasting Niko into a tree, causing the other trees around to go up in flames. Empoleon quickly blasted them with a cascade of water, and the Mouse Pokémon emerged sputtering from the smoldering ruins. Then a fist of darkness crashed into him, sending him flying into the dirt again. "He's totally not an opponent for all of us," Dusknoir snorted, turning away. "Maybe Master was expecting too much of him?" The other Pokémon agreed with him, laughing…
…except for Jolteon, who didn't seem to like taunting Niko. Instead, he went over to the Mouse Pokémon and offered his paw. "Need a hand?" he asked, pulling him up.
Niko heard them laughing, and with every moment, his fury grew, ignoring Jolteon's nervously asking if he was becoming evil. Ben was totally prepared to pitch himself off a cliff to save Axel, but his Pokémon…they weren't taking ANY of it seriously. Unable to stand what they were saying any longer, Niko suddenly unleashed thousands of volts in a spiraling orb around him, charging his Volt Tackle and jolting Jolteon in surprise.
All five Pokémon stopped short. Niko's fur stood on edge, crackling with dangerous amounts of electricity, which even he usually wouldn't dare to use. "You all disgust me," the Pikachu hissed. "Ben's throwing his life away for my trainer, and you all just go and make it sound like we're gum on the bottom of someone's shoe for pitching ourselves into the most rigorous training possible. WELL GUESS WHAT I SAY TO THAT? GET STUFFED!" Before any of them could move a muscle, Niko blasted into all five of them with so much force that they all went crashing into the trees…but the Pikachu himself was struck by his own stray bolts, causing him to faint immediately.
"…whoa…" Jolteon finally managed. "Kind of scary when he's angry, huh?" The other Pokémon were so freaked out they didn't even know what to say. Finally, Jolteon stood up. "We should keep training for Master's sake. Come on, let's go!" And the brawl resumed, with all Pokémon fighting with vigor.
Niko watched the sun slowly sink behind the trees, its last pink lights gradually fading. "The first day of our training ends…" he murmured to himself.
"And it sucked," Ben muttered, clenching his fists. The Pikachu turned in surprise. "My improvement rate was awful," Ben continued. "I can't help Axel like this."
"You're expecting too much of yourself too fast," Niko replied. "Ben, slow down a little. You'll tear yourself apart if you push yourself like this."
Ben was silent for a long time, then finally stood up. "Niko, I'm going for a walk to clear my thoughts," he said. "Watch the camp, okay?"
"Right," Niko replied. "Say, maybe you should try listening to vistlip's songs while you think. It helps Axel do so." (vistlip is a band which Axel enjoys listening to. And yes, it's supposed to be spelled with a lowercase v)
"Sure, I'll try it," Ben replied as he began to walk away from the campsite. "But because there's no iPod attached or anything, I can't even make it go into music playing mode…" Suddenly, many names of songs popped up in Ben's head. Whoa! So this is how he chooses his songs…through a neural uplink, he thought. But I don't remember his favorite song…well, I guess I'll just play a random song by vistlip. As he thought this, the names of many vistlip songs popped up. Ben just chose one at random.
*Alo[n]e (vistlip)*
The sound of the electric guitar almost made Ben stop. Oh yeah! This is Axel's second favorite song…argh, how could I forget that? And again he was wondering what happened between them which seemed to disrupt that close-as-brothers bond between them.
Hitori kurai heyan naka,
Kodoku nante iya.
Dare datte sou darou,
Sore na no ni futari bocchi wa sore ijou no kodokukan…
Alone in the dark room,
I hate being lonely.
Everyone probably does,
Yet being together makes me even lonelier…
The yellow sunlight in the sky faded quickly, giving way to a black sky of twinkling stars. Ben wondered how the entire sky was clear even without Axel-or any of his friends-by his side. "The weather isn't exactly empathetic," he muttered to himself with annoyance. It almost felt like the weather here was mocking him, giving him a clear view of the moonless sky which he was beneath alone…
Kokoro ni nozokiana wa nai.
Dakara bokura surechigai bakari nan darou ne.
Kono kyori ga jama de yoku kikoenai kara
Dakishimete hoshiin da…
Hearts don't come with peepholes.
That's probably why we always misunderstand each other.
I'm too far away from you to hear you,
So I want you to let me hold you…
"Would any of my friends understand why I'm doing this?" Ben asked himself, feeling the breeze ruffle his hair. The things his friends had said that made him curse his powerlessness were enough to answer him.
Reizouko no naka ni wa banira aji no aisu to memori goori.
Shoumi kigen ni owarenagara sotto nemutteru…
In the fridge is vanilla ice cream and memory ice.
It sleeps peacefully, its best-before date approaching…
Ben silently remembered that last time he, Chris, and Axel had gotten together before Cipher's attack, they bought some vanilla ice cream, its best-before date being March 3 this year. But now it was almost that day, and his share hadn't even been eaten, as he wanted to eat it with his friends. But now the ice cream reaching that date almost seemed to symbolize how large the gap between them was becoming.
Pinku x kuro ga kirenai color no you ni,
Yowai bokura orinashite ikou yo!
"Ikiru imi nante..." tte iun nara,
Boku wo kimi no imi ni sasete…
Like the dull colors of Pink x Black,
Let's weave our weak selves together!
If you're going to talk about a "Reason to Live,"
Let me be your reason…
"Weave together? Done that," Ben muttered with a bit of sadness. "Axel, Chris, and I were so close when we took Team Galactic down that we might as well have been brothers. Asking one of us to do something actually meant asking all of us. There was no "I," there was only "we." But then, after that, when we went our separate ways, and Chris and I became Champions of Kanto and Sinnoh, while Axel just disappeared without a trace until he became the Tower Tycoon…what happened between us?"
"I rabu yu" nante tanjun sugiru kedo…
Hoka ni wa fusawashii hyougen mitsukannain da.
Dakara asa no uranai koonaa de mezametara tonari de ohayou tte hohoemitai…
"I love you" is too simple…
But I can't find anything else that fits.
So I want to wake up in the morning fortune corner and smile at you by my side…
"Why the long face?" The sudden ringing out of the words from the shadows nearly made Ben jump to the stars in surprise. He slowly turned to see a black-haired young man in a black Shikahusho and a haori with 12 on it leaning against a rock, the starlight not able to reach him. "You look depressed."
"Wh-wh-wh-where did you come from?" Ben stammered when he finally managed to make his voice work. "You just came from that shadow!"
"Ah, yes," the man replied in a completely casual tone. "That's where I came from." It was then that he noticed the headphones, and his face hardened. "Where did you get those headphones?"
"Uh, I got them from a friend," Ben finally managed after much difficulty. The man didn't look satisfied with this answer, and so, completely ignoring the frustrated and sad tone that entered his voice, Ben continued. "He left them behind and disappeared without a trace because he thought he was too much trouble to his friends. And I'm trying to get stronger to reach him to give him the headphones-and with it, my help in the war going on right now."
The man's eyes went back to their normal state. "So that's it, eh?" he asked. "And the name of that friend was Axel Nightblazer, wasn't it?"
"Yeah," Ben replied, not even bothering to ask how he knew. From the looks of it, he didn't know Axel like this guy did. "I don't feel like I can reach him as I am, though." His hands began to clench at this. "I just can't understand why I can't shake off the feeling that he's unreachable…"
The man silently watched his hands clench, then began to walk away. "People may say otherwise, but no one has any power greater than that his friends gave to him. I'm sure the power you intend to give him is just as great." Ben turned, but the man walked into a shadow and disappeared. A bit disappointed that he didn't receive any more advice, he held up his Pokétch and began to type a message to Axel.
Alone no "n" ga marude torikago ni mieta kara,
Kimi wo nogasou to "kuria" botan de shoukyo shimashita…
The "n" in "Alone" looked just like a bird cage,
So I hit the "clear" button and deleted it to set you free…
"I'm going to get stronger so I can help you, but it's hard; aside from Niko, I'm alone…" Ben started to type, but then he and noticed that, if there were bars, "n" really did look like a birdcage, and in "alone" that became even worse, because that pretty much seemed to him like a lonely cage. Knowing the birdcage-like situation he was now in by himself, he deleted "alone" entirely, then wrote "I have no one to help myself."
Baraieti sei no kakera mo nai,
Bokura no stori zutto enjite ikou!
Dareka no mane nante iranai;
Orijinaru de kawari naki sonzai.
Without a shred of variety anywhere,
Let's act out our story!
We don't need to imitate anyone else;
We're original and there's nobody like us.
Ben pressed the send button…and suddenly began to hear in his head the very message he had just typed, in his own voice. With utter numbing shock, he realized the message was never sent to Axel's Pokétch, because he didn't even have one. Instead, it was sent to the very headphones he was wearing. His hands shook at the realization that there was nothing connecting them anymore.
I wanna bi wisu yu, and I rabu yu!
Mendou kusai gurai no style de choudo iin da yo.
Kimi no ame ni nurenagara
Kimi no sora ni te wo kazasu yo.
I wanna be with you, and I love you!
An annoying style is perfect for us.
As your rain soaks me,
I'll hold out my hand to your sky.
Ben turned to walk back to his camp, Alo[n]e's final verses echoing through his ears. He felt depressed now, having realized Axel couldn't be found. To his surprise, however, he saw a lady with brown hair and a violet Shikahusho sitting there, holding Wado Ichimonji! "HEY!" Ben shouted. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY SWORD!" He grabbed Shusui and immediately proceeded to try and use Shishi Sonson to kill her.
But then the lady whirled and waved her hand, and a violet barrier burst up, repelling Ben. "It's not nice to greet people with violence," she chided. "Especially when I was admiring your sword. Wado Ichimonji is a beautiful sword, isn't it?"
"But this is more than just a sword." Ben ran his hand along the blunt edge of it. "My ancestor got this blade from a deceased friend. They had a dream to become the world's greatest swordsmen, but after that, he took it upon himself to fulfill it for both of them. This is a sword which carries the dreams of whoever wields it and sees to it that they come true. If only it would make mine do so…"
"That dream may come true sometime," the lady replied, handing Wado Ichimonji back. "I hope it does. And maybe you can realize its power which will help your dreams come true…"
Ben stared at the sword, trying to notice anything special. It's power? he thought to himself. He looked up to ask the lady what she meant, only to find the wind whistling by.
And once again, he was alone.
Kono koe ga todokimasu ka?
Fukaku, fukake, fukake...
Kono uta ga todokimasu ka?
Fuwari, fuwari, fuwari...
Will my voice reach you?
Deeply, deeply, deeply...(x2)
Will my song reach you?
Softly, softly, softly...(x2)
Although the sun shone brightly the next day, volcanic ash blocked all the light. Inside Stark Mountain, Ben trained himself above the lava by avoiding Palkia and Giratina's attacks (they were taking care not to damage the environment TOO much). Palkia raised both his hands, and the gems on his arms flashed, creating a pink sphere which he hurled at Ben. Ben raised Wado Ichimonji and smashed the sphere, but realized he was quickly losing his balance!
Thrusting out Shusui the other way, he righted himself and jumped to another rock to avoid Palkia blasting a stream of water from his mouth, splitting the rock in half. Then a rippling wave of earth burst from the lava, and Ben had to jump to avoid Giratina's Earth Power. "Ben, don't you think jumping over LAVA while avoiding our attacks is a REALLY bad idea?" Giratina argued.
"I have to train rigorously to get to the level I need to defeat Cipher," Ben replied, jumping at Giratina. "Oni Giri!" But Giratina suddenly began to dissolve into black smoke, dispelling as Ben surged through the area he had once been. Ben grabbed onto the rock ledge hanging above him and pushed off before Palkia's pink meteors could crash into the rock he was holding onto.
Suddenly, with a roar, the lava went crashing upward, while a great fissure ripped itself open in the ground and rock wall! Ben screamed in surprise, though none of the lava hit him. "Hey, hey! It's not a good idea to be playing in a volcano!" he heard a bold voice shout out. "What are you doing here?"
The first thing Ben noticed was the MASSIVE golden two-handed sword, which glinted brightly from the lava's glow. A blue gem was set in its guard, also flashing, and the hilt rested in light gray fingerless gloves. He was a tall man with brown boots, gray pants, a purple tunic with gold highlights, an odd "armor" on his left chest and shoulder, and a crimson cape. His hair was purple, and a black bandanna trailed in the wind. The man's blue eyes made it clear that he would not back down from any challenge.
"Uhh…are you a cosplayer?" was the first thing Ben asked. The man's getup was rather…medieval looking, for some reason.
"NO, I AM NOT A COSPLAYER!" the man shouted with fury, raising his sword. Ben immediately knew it was time to jump, and got to an island in the lava lake before the man's blow hit the ground…but lava still went spiraling into the air all around, and Palkia had to quickly teleport Ben out, and then return him to a safe place. "I HATE it when people ask that!" the man raged, jamming his blade hard into the ground. "Maybe I should be wearing normal clothes these days…"
"Do you like playing Fire Emblem games? You look a lot like a character from them-Ike, I think he was called," Ben commented, gingerly poking the cooling lava with his foot to see if it was safe to get up and move-and then yelping and recoiling because it was still hot.
The man suddenly had a humorous look, and stood upright, pulling his sword out of the ground. "Actually, that's my name," he replied. "I'm Ike."
Must be a real Fire Emblem fan, Ben thought. "Something's definitely wrong with his head if he thinks he's a video game character…"
"Actually, Ben, I know this man," Palkia interrupted. Ben looked up in surprise, but couldn't see Palkia, as he had turned invisible for reasons I don't feel like explaining. :P "This is the 11th Origin Captain, Ike Greil. But it's strange that he's here…"
"WHAT? SO THIS GUY IS ACTUALLY-" Ben had to stop for a moment to keep his brain from exploding. "You're seriously an ORIGIN CAPTAIN? But why did you come here?
"I saw the explosions," Ike replied, shrugging. A guilty look immediately crossed Ben's face. "What, don't tell me you're the one responsible for them?" Ike continued, and then he suddenly narrowed his eyes at the space where Palkia was. "Okay, Palkia, what terrorism are you causing here?"
"ACK! How'd he see Palkia?" Ben gasped. He looked up himself to see for himself if Palkia had turned visible again, and found he didn't.
"Sigh…nothing gets past these peoples' senses," Palkia muttered, slowly turning visible. "I haven't been doing much these days, seeing as Dialga hasn't been invading my dimension. But this foolish friend of mine right here," he gestured at Ben, "asked me to come here to fight him so he could get stronger. It's rather suicidal for a human to want something like that."
"Get stronger…" A new voice, quiet but firm, came from behind Ben, and he looked up to see another man. This one had a blue cloak with gold edges and fastened with a red gem, as well as a light blue tunic (also with gold edges), black pants, black fingerless gloves extending up his wrists, and black boots. His blue hair had a golden headdress in it with a gem planted in the center, and though his face carried a calm expression, his blue eyes gleamed as though he knew lots more than any normal person could hope to in his life. "That's what many people claim they'll do, but they were never able to get near the level you're thinking of, considering you're battling Palkia."
"Yeah, what Marth said," Ike agreed. "What are you trying to do? If you're trying to prove your strength by defeating Palkia, that's pretty foolish. Palkia's too strong for a human, and Santoryu is a difficult style for humans to use. I don't see why you're even bothering; you'll never-"
"You don't get why I'm doing this." Ben began to lose patience already. "You guys don't even know that your comrade-" For some reason, it didn't seem like these guys were the type Axel would team up with, so he didn't use friend- "Axel Nightblazer, IS PRACTICALLY COMMITTING SUICIDE!"
Both Ike and Marth stopped and gave him a long stare. "Excuse me?" Marth asked, his eyes beginning to show worry. "What do you mean, he's committing suicide?"
"I'm the only person who knows, huh?" Ben sighed. "Alright, he went to Mt. Coronet to battle Cipher on his own, and decided he'd do it without help. He cut off all ties from everyone else because…Cipher destroyed the Battle Frontier just to get rid of him."
"The Battle Fron…" Ike caught himself and calmed down. "Oh yeah, Ashura-our 1st Origin Captain-told us about that demonic Lugia. He warned us to be careful, because it defeated Axel. What I don't get is why Axel wouldn't tell us. Surely he knows that one man-even an Aetheraean-isn't enough to beat Cipher."
"He probably did," Ben agreed, his swords seeming heavier in his hands with his powerlessness. "But he's frustrated that so many people died from something which was brought to kill him, and doesn't want it happening again. So he took off on his own. Thinking about it, I don't want him to look like he did yesterday, with that sad look on his face and those dull black feathers…"
"Wait." Marth's fists clenched, and his eyes immediately became wide. "Black Feathers? Think about that day some more." Ben began to think of it, and opened his mouth to speak, but then Marth's hand suddenly placed itself on his forehead. Marth closed his eyes, and then opened them again. "Everything he says is true," he finally declared. "Axel's feathers…are black."
"Oh, no, not good," Ike groaned. "When Axel first obtained his Bankai, his feathers were black. But he became more confident in our power, and the wings turned silver with his hope. So if he's really despairing the way you say…the feathers can't shine and blacken. Which means Axel's lost his power."
"Oh no!" Ben gasped. "We should try to find him immediately…or you guys should." Already, the weight of the swords was coming back, and multiplying itself by ten. "I guess I still should be training, or giving up, seeing as you guys are the ones who have any real power to get to him."
Ike and Marth looked at each other, and then traded a look. "Now, hold on," Marth said, walking closer. "If you really are bent on saving Axel, then we can help you train."
"Wait, what?" Ben's surprise at this time was more than he'd ever felt in his life. "Shouldn't you guys be battling Cipher instead of wasting your time on a human?"
"Aeron firmly believes that no one in this world is useless," Marth replied, extending his arms. "So we should help others reach their fullest potential, shouldn't we?"
"But why do you want to save Axel so badly?" Ike asked, frowning. "I don't see him being that close to anyone in your generation."
Ben was silent for a few moments, and then began his tale. "Last year, I returned to Sinnoh to clear the Sinnoh League after traveling to Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn's. But as you would know, Team Galactic arose to destroy the world. And it just happened that Axel came to Sinnoh at that time, and we teamed up to defeat Team Galactic. A lot of stuff happened which made us become closer and closer friends."
"So you were one of those friends Axel was talking about who helped him defeat Team Galactic," Marth observed with a hint of surprise. "I didn't think at first glance we were talking to one of them."
Ben didn't reply, already caught in the memories. "Axel helped me out a lot, but the time I remember most is when we invaded Galactic HQ to try to defeat them once and for all…"
The door burst open with a burst of light which shattered the glass and left a large burn mark on the wall. The Galactic Grunts whirled in surprise, wondering just what caused it. Then three figures and their Pokémon burst into the room. They pressed buttons on the armbands they wore to send out all their Pokémon, who unleashed havoc and destroyed the room's security system swiftly.
The Grunts tried their best to fight back, but couldn't defeat any of the three. "Sound the alarm!" a man shouted desperately, and two men ran towards the alarm.
However, one of the invaders flicked his wrist, and two blue ropes flew from the Pokéball armband on his wrist, wrapping around the Grunt's wrists and yanking them back. "I'm sorry, but you'll have to get through me-Axel Nightblazer-to sound that alarm," the boy declared, smiling confidently.
One of the Galactic Grunts stared at the rope. "A Pokéanchor?" he exclaimed in surprise, noticing that the rope attached itself to his own Pokéball armband.
"That's right," Axel replied, pressing the buttons on his armband and calling back five of his Pokémon, leaving only a Pikachu. "You cannot escape unless you battle me. In addition, the loser's Pokéballs will be broken." The Pokéanchor flashed, causing a blue circle to pen him and the Grunts in. "So, shall we go?"
"Axel, we'll go on while you handle this one!" Ben shouted, dashing past the "arena" Axel created and into another corridor.
The three battled and battled through Galactic HQ, and Ben suddenly found himself rounding a corner into a room with three cradles, each containing one of the three Lake Guardians-Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit. The gems on each of their bodies were glowing, red energy chaining itself between them, flowing into a pillar in the middle of the room. And standing in front of that pillar was…Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic! "HEY! It's you!" Ben shouted. "The Evil Overlord of Team Galactic!"
"Heh heh…evil?" Cyrus chuckled. "That depends very much on your view of 'good' and 'evil.' But in reality, there is no such thing. That is only the heart's illusions playing tricks on you. But you're too late." He typed a few keys, and Ben's eyes darted to a fourth cradle. This one had a chain of red gems inside it, red energy shaping their facets. The finished gems were identical to those inside the pillar.
Suddenly, Ben realized what was happening, and the realization made him gasp. "You demon! Taking the gems of the Lake Guardians like that? That's like cutting off a Pokémon's arm! It's inhumane!"
Cyrus began to laugh at this. "You don't see the grand scheme of things, boy!" The pillar in the center slid away, revealing the chain suspended in midair. Cyrus reached over and held it in his left hand. "With this, the Red Chain made from the crystals of the three Lake Guardians," he declared triumphantly. Then he went over to open the cradle, and held that chain in his right hand. "And this, the Red Chain I replicated with technological means... With these Red Chains I will pry open the portal to another dimension."
"But what's the point?" Ben demanded. "Why'd you just slice their gems just for that fancy necklace?"
"It's not a 'fancy necklace,'" Cyrus retorted, a Slasher Smile spreading across his face. "Both these Red Chains will bind Dialga and Palkia, forcing them into this world under my control. At that moment, all will end. And everything will begin! That's the Red Chain's power!"
"Unforgivable!" Ben raged, raising his armband. "No mercy for you!" He thrust his hand out, and the green Pokéanchor spiraled out, wrapping around Cyrus' armband. But then, Cyrus just smirked and twisted his wrist, revealing…his Pokéball armband had no Pokéballs!
"I thought you'd do that," Cyrus taunted. "That's why I don't use the armband. But what was the point of still wearing it, you're wondering? Now I can do THIS!" In a lightning fast move, before Ben's Pokéanchor could bring up the barrier, Cyrus turned, firmly grasping the Red Chains, and charged out the window.
Ben gasped in surprise, and tried to plant his feet on the floor, but by some ungodly power, Cyrus exceeded his strength. The leader of Team Galactic leaped all the way to the next building, dragging Ben by the Pokéanchor. Ben shouted as he was yanked out of Galactic HQ. Growling, he began to pull on the rope to get closer to the building…Except then Cyrus took off his armband and let it drop. "Farewell, boy. You would have made a great opponent. But it seems I can't let you oppose me anymore."
"Oh, no…" Ben gasped as he began to drop. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Out of nowhere, a blue rope suddenly lashed around Ben's wrist. Ben yelped as his fall was suddenly broken, then his eyes followed the rope and saw that it was Axel who was pulling him up. "Wha-Axel?" he shouted in surprise.
"Oh?" Cyrus raised an eyebrow, amused. "You wish to save the Lake Guardians and your 'friend' at the same time? Pathetic. Then be dragged down together." Before Axel knew it, he was being dragged lower and lower, the window frame and wall bending beneath his weight!
"Axel, stop!" Ben shouted desperately, watching Axel strain himself more and more to pull him up. Suddenly the window frame broke, causing Axel to drop quickly. Both Axel and Ben screamed, almost plunging over the side, but Axel caught on barely in time. "Let me go!" Ben hollered. "Save yourself! Or else you'll get dragged down with m-"
"DON'T BE STUPID!" Axel screamed defiantly. Ben's words halted in surprise at this. "I would never just abandon you!" Axel continued, planting a foot firmly on the wall and grabbing onto the remains of the windowsill, pulling himself up. "Because…" Axel winced from the pain, but kept pulling himself up, his Pokémon trying to help him. "YOU'RE MY FRIEND, BEN!"
Ben was stunned with surprise for several moments, before planting his feet on the wall and climbing up. After what seemed like an eternity, Axel was able to reach down and pull Ben back to safety. The two boys lay there, trying to relax their aching muscles. Ben finally managed a shaky smile to Axel and his Pokémon and gasped, "Thanks, Axel…everyone." Axel was too exhausted to speak, but he grinned and gave Ben a thumbs-up. The rest of Axel's Pokémon smiled as well.
Cyrus snarled at seeing Ben survive. "Relying on friends…how pathetic. But it doesn't matter. I am off to Mt. Coronet. I will ascend the mountain to its peak and put an end to everything... No. I will bring about a new beginning for everything..." With this, he retreated into the building, and a helicopter with Team Galactic's symbol on it flew from behind it, carrying him away to Mt. Coronet.
"So the Evil Overlord's off to Mt. Coronet, eh?" Ben groaned, as soon as he was sure he had enough strength to move again. "Whatever. Let's get him, Axel!"
"Yeah!" Axel nodded, and the two got up to round up Chris and head to Mt. Coronet themselves.
"So that's your story," Ike murmured, nodding. "Axel saved you that many times on your way?"
Ben nodded at this, a sad look on his face. "Except for battling and catching Palkia, I think Axel probably thought I was dead weight…"
"No, that's probably not the case," Marth interjected. "Axel probably couldn't have gone into the Distortion World without your help. I mean, even for an Aetheraean, it's very difficult to get past Palkia and Dialga simultaneously. You've done him more good than you'd think. But now you must ask yourself: Do you really want to get stronger so you can save Axel Nightblazer?"
"Well, I'd have to be crazy to say no to that!" Ben exclaimed, already standing up. "Unless this is all a hallucination, in which case I'd be crazy anyway."
"Good thing you're not hallucinating, then!" Ike replied, hefting his sword. "If you want that power so badly, then we'll hammer it into you!"
The next few days were (figuratively) spent in Hell. Ike would spar with him, and he was EXTREMELY strong, so Ben always ended up gasping for breath at the end. Next, Marth would try to teach him new swordplay tricks, but Marth was far faster than him and Ben constantly struggled. At the end of each day, his muscles screamed in pain. Yet Ben never gave up, for Axel's sake.
However, it was during Ben's last training session that he found how he could achieve his wish.
That day, Ben was crossing steel with Ike once again. Ike created a fissure in the earth, but Ben jumped away before it could reach him. Then Ben pulled the sheathed Wado Ichimonji from his belt, held it behind him and charged to strike again. As he neared Ike, he prepared to perform Shishi Sonson…
Ike raised his blade and slammed it EXACTLY where Ben was swinging it, and whirled in a counterattack, smashing him into the ground. "Shishi Sonson…the Ittoryu draw-and-resheath technique. I'm surprised you know so much about Ittoryu, Nitoryu, and Santoryu (One/two/three sword style, respectively)."
"Yeah," Ben grunted, pulling himself back up. "They've been passed down through my family-the Roronoas-for generations."
"Well then, considering your name is Roronoa, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised…" Ike replied, although Ben could tell he was a bit surprised about his name.
"So what do you guys plan to do with me?" Ben suddenly asked. "You're training me on the level of an Aetheraean. I thought you-specifically you, Ike-wouldn't have so much faith."
Ike was a bit baffled, and Ben figured it was because he had figured it out so quickly. Then Ike finally composed himself and replied, "At any rate, Marth seems to have a great deal of confidence in you. But he says you have an unusually large amount of reaitsu on you…"
"What? Me?" Ben was absolutely stunned by this. "I've never felt like I have special spiritual powers!"
"That's what most people tell us when they have so much and yet can't see spirits," Ike replied. "Yours are totally unfocused, but Marth believes with refinement we can make you a greater warrior with those powers." Ben glanced down at Wado Ichimonji, and suddenly noticed an odd tingling in his right hand he'd never noticed before. Had he felt it but never noticed up to this point? He contemplated it for a few minutes before Ike broke his concentration. "But enough about that. Well, shall we go aga-"
But he never got to finish his sentence. At that moment, a large slash suddenly drew across his chest. Both Ike and Ben stared at this, perplexed by the blast of red that gushed from it. Then Ike staggered and fell to the ground. "IKE!" Ben shouted in horror. But then there was a sharp pain in his back, and he followed quickly. "What the hell…" he groaned.
"What's going on?" Marth shouted, running over. Earlier, he had been reading a book while they trained, but he tossed the book away at that moment. "Who attacked you?"
"I have no idea…" Ben replied through clenched teeth, dragging himself upward. "That cut just appeared on Ike out of nowhere…"
"Out of nowhere?" Marth's face went pale. "Oh, no, no, no, GET BACK!" He grabbed Ben and Ike and yanked them into the shadows. But as he was doing so, another cut appeared on Ben's ankle. Ben let out a howl of pain, but noticed that no more cuts were appearing after a few minutes.
"That sword…" Ike growled as he tried to use healing spells on himself. "Don't tell me it's THAT one…"
"No, probably a replica," Marth replied. "But still a great danger to us nonetheless." He turned to Ben, the fear still on his face. "Ben…I recognize that power. As long as the target is in the sunlight and within 15 meters around the wielder, it will be able to cut them."
"What kind of power is that?" Ben shouted, but then a jet of water sent him flying out of the shadows. Marth dragged him back, but already Ben's arm took another hit. "Wait, water?" Ben gasped. "Then that means…Cipher Admin Luna!" He leapt to his feet immediately. "Okay, Luna, show yourself!"
Luna's ice cold voice didn't change even when she was out of sight. "I don't need to do that to kill you. You're just trash with no talent. After I've killed you, I'll attack your friends with all my might." After she spoke the words, a blast of water jetted from the trees outside the volcano and smashed Ben in the chest, but Ben held onto a rock to stop himself from leaving the darkness again.
"Curse you!" Ben growled, jumping to his feet again and redrawing his three swords. "You're despicable! I won't forgive you!" Ignoring Marth's warning, he charged out of the shadows to attack Luna. Luna watched him come, and then pulled from behind her a dull gray blade with a guard shaped like an X inside a circle, the ends of the X protruding out of it diagonal to the blade. She made a swift motion-and then Ben's back screamed in pain. He staggered to the ground, and Luna raised her normal sword…
But then Marth appeared in front of her, and his blade was flashing with a bright silver light up towards her. Luna tried to block, but Marth smashed his blade, pointed towards the sky, into both of hers and went soaring into the sky, slamming her back with the force. The light on Marth's blade faded, and he dropped into the shadows. "Another enemy?" Luna growled. "Who do you think you are?"
Not replying, Marth closed his eyes and began to swing his blade in a circle in front of himself. And then…something peculiar happened. As Marth's sword traced through the air, afterimages trailed it and solidified from ghostly apparitions to vibrantly colored blades a second later. "My name is Marth," he replied, still swinging his sword around himself. "And I am an Origin Captain-one of Cipher's greatest enemies." He finally opened his eyes and twirled his sword, and the blades of light around him flashed, arranging themselves into a battle stance. "Shall we fight?"
Luna didn't reply, but instead summoned water from the trees to her blade. Ben was worried about Marth at first, but then he suddenly noticed what was happening to the trees: From having all their water pulled out, they were withering and dying. What a cruel power! Ben cringed as each leaf slowly crumpled and turned brown. But Marth was undaunted, and jumped from the shadows, thrusting out his blade. All the others around him flashed forward at the same time, and Luna had to create a barrier of water to block it. When the blades touched the water, though…they distorted into twisting shapes, and when they came out of the water, they splayed in wild directions!
Marth cursed and dashed to the side, raising his sword and calling blue light to it. "It doesn't matter what defense you have. This sword-Islinger-will slash it apart! Pierce! Shiirudo Bureika! (Shield Breaker)" He stabbed the wall of water with the tip of his blade, where the blue light was brightest, and then blue light pulsed through the water…and then it collapsed. Luna was surprised for about 1/1000 of a second, before swinging both swords, and causing Marth to be slashed in the back, then swept away by a wave.
But then a golden blade went flying up behind Luna, and Ike jumped to catch it. "Sol! (Sun)" he shouted, spinning through the air and slashing Luna numerous times. Then he slammed her back down to earth, jumped back as suddenly the wound from Luna's other sword healed. Ike raised his sword and charged again, but Luna dodged and blasted him away with water, then slashed him three times with her other sword before he went flying into the shadows.
"Sanjuroku Pound Ho!" Ben shouted, and swung Wado Ichimonji, sending Luna flying next to Ike from the blast of air. Ike began to attack her, safely in the shadows. However, then Luna counterattacked with twin whips of water and knocked Ike into the light. "Oh no, Ike!" Ben shouted.
Ike just grinned. "Come at me. Luna! (Moon)" At first, Ben thought he was saying Luna's name, but Ike swung his sword upward, struck Luna and destroyed the blast of water she was preparing along with knocking her far away, jumped high into the air, and backflipped back into the shadow. "Next?" Ike asked, hefting his sword. "Let's see if you can actually fight me, huh?"
"I'll respond with delight to that challenge," Luna replied, slashing with her normal sword. A burst of water shot from it, diagonally cutting the trees and rocks above Ike and causing them to fall. Noticing the shadows shifting so he'd be out of them in a second, Ike used Luna to jump away, destroying more of the falling trees in the process. Luna whirled to where Ike had gone and unleashed three similar bursts, cutting down more trees. Ike watched them fall, then brought his sword to his shoulder and rushed forward while slashing, neatly cutting the falling debris and rushing into safety.
Summoning a wave of water once more, Luna brought it down and crushed the trees like sticks, then pulled Ike and the large amounts of debris forcibly out of the shadows and raised her sword to slash him again. The water and drifting wood and stone hindered Ike's movement, and he wasn't able to get back to shade in time before he got slashed. "This is just crap," Ike groaned, pulling himself back behind the trees. "God, how could my day get worse?"
"Like this!" Luna replied, raising her special sword again. "I'll show you some true swordsmanship no-"
"It's unwise to take your eyes off an enemy. Dansingu Burēdo! (Dancing Blade)" With these words ringing out, Islinger's tip cut into Luna's shoulder, flashing red. Marth didn't waste any time, and his sword-now blue this time-flew back up, slashing Luna across the stomach, and back down into her shoulder again. Then he whirled it back over his head, and back upwards towards her in a great blue circle, launching her upwards into the air. Luna swung her normal sword and blasted water, but Marth dodged and held Islinger's hilt at his hip, its tip pointed at Luna. "Dorufin Surasshu! (Dolphin Slash)" he shouted, swinging his sword upward and flying up after it, stabbing Luna and blasting her away again.
"Nice one, Marth!" Ike shouted, kicking off a rock skyward. "Now let's get her for real this time!"
But neither of them were able to reach Luna in time, with either Sol or Dorufin Surasshu, before she brought a cascade of water from the clouds to slow them down, then in the midst of the scattering light, she unleashed a frenzy of slashes with her special sword and drenched the ground with both water, and the two Origin Captains' blood. "Looks like you weren't enough to stop me with this new sword," Luna commented. "I never thought it would be this easy to stop any of you-most of all Nightblazer." She prepared the finishing blow with both swords…
At this moment, Ben was watching from the shadows with fury-at Luna and himself. Why can't I do anything again? Not just for Axel, but now for Marth and Ike, too! Why do I always end up seeing my friends being hurt in front of me, and not being able to do a thing to stop it? Why…? Instinctively, he reached for Wado Ichimonji's hilt. He probably would be torn to shreds if he did anything now…but what else could he do? At least I might be able to buy them time to escape, so they can hurry away to help Aeron and the others… But then that tingle from Wado Ichimonji pulsed through his hand again, stopping him in mid-stride. Again? What's this?
Pulling Wado Ichimonji out of its hilt, he looked at it, and his own reflection in the ivory blade. But something was completely different from last time he had done this. It seemed to gleam brighter, and even in the shadows, his reflection was full of vivid color. Why is it different this time, then? he asked himself. The blade suddenly began to glow with a white light, and as Ben stared into it, he suddenly felt as though the blade were talking to him-to stand up to Luna, regardless of the doubts he had now. "So that's what you want, eh?" Ben muttered. "Alright then…let's go, Wado Ichimonji!"
Swiftly, he charged out of the shadows and swung Wado Ichimonji at Luna. The Admin was surprised and had to stop her killing blow on Marth and Ike to block his attack. "So you're interfering again? It'll be the last time for that!" Luna shouted, raising her special sword again-but this time Ben completely changed his style. Drawing Sandai Kitetsu and Shusui at the same time, as well as throwing Wado Ichimonji into the air and catching it in his mouth, he began a rapid and relentless barrage of slashes aimed specifically at the sword, so Luna would have no opportunities to use it to slash Marth and Ike.
Almost unable to keep up with the onslaught of swift and decisive blows, Luna desperately launched blasts of water, but Ben spun out of the way of each one, and at the same time used that momentum to keep attacking! Then Ben swung Shusui one more time at the special sword…and it shattered! "Whoa!" Ben shouted; he didn't expect it'd just break into a million pieces like that.
"What?" Luna, Marth, and Ike all shouted at once. The fragments of the sword clattered to the ground, useless now. None of them believed what they saw. "What trick did you just use?" Luna demanded, summoning a wave of water and attempting to wash Ben away.
Ben watched the wave come, and then thrust Sandai Kitetsu forward, and the wall of water collapsed right in front of him! "That sword wasn't much to mine," Ben commented, looking down at his swords. "You know, they always say two heads are better than one. Don't you think the same applies to swords, be it two or three?" He began to run towards Luna, avoiding each stream of water and cutting the ones he couldn't in half. "Each of my three swords has their own strengths! They're a match for any weapon, even yours!" Before Luna could believe it, he was upon her, swords pointed in front of him. "Ushi Bari!"
As Ben charged and struck Luna multiple times with his blades, Marth was slowly beginning to understand. "I get it now! I never took a great look at his sword while we were training with him. That sword…it's Wado Ichimonji! And it's a very powerful Eihrisingrr!"
"Eihrisingrr?" Ben repeated, still fighting. "What is that? Is it some kind of Zanpaku-to?"
"Not a Zanpaku-to," Ike replied. "It's a magic sword forged with the strongest of steel, and enchanted with Aetherean spells. Over time, more incantations are added, and the Eihrisingrr slowly begins to develop its very own 'soul.' But to think this one has been under our noses for a while and we didn't even notice…that's embarrassing." He hefted his sword as he pushed upright. "Marth and I have Eihrisingrrs as well. For some reason, when someone obtains a Zanpaku-to or an Eihrisingrr…almost every time, they never get the other."
"Enough talk!" Luna shouted, unleashing another wave. "This is a battle, not a lecture! Not paying attention will get you nowhere!"
"Yeah?" Ike replied, standing at full height and raising the massive two-handed sword over his head. "Well, Ragnell and I still have a lot of fight left in us!" And he plunged Ragnell into the ground, and a fissure etched its way through the ground. Then, magma exploded out of it, surging towards Luna!
"Whoa! Molten Magma!" Ben shouted, jumping back. (Redundant language FTW! XD) "Ike has this kind of power?"
"Ike's strong enough to crack the earth," Marth replied, holding his sword out and once again swinging it through the air, causing ghostly replicas to appear. "Try to duel this, Luna!" Using Dansingu Burēdo once more, he unleashed another furious combo at Luna, who was still trying to dodge the magma. He swung Islinger down glowing red, smashing hard against her sword, pulled it back and swept it at her from the side, brought it over his head and down, and then stabbing at Luna multiple times in the span of one second. And all the dancing swords around Marth slashed where his physical sword couldn't, injuring Luna even more. The Admin, furious, prepared to unleash a stream of water, forgetting Ben…
"Didn't you just hear that it was unwise to take your eyes off an enemy?" she heard from behind. Turning with horror, she realized Ben was holding his swords at his shoulders, and his head was facing away from her, to the right. "Oni…GIRI!" The three blades slashed Luna all at once, creating deep wounds where they hit.
Luna gasped and stared at the blood. "Im…possible…" she groaned, and fell from the air to ground.
Ben sighed in relief, but he and Marth were panting hard. "What a troublesome ability," Marth sighed. "It's hard even for me to fight."
"Say, your swords-Ragnell and Islinger-have special powers, right?" Ben asked. "Ragnell can split the earth and control the flow of magma, and Islinger can create apparitions of blades…this may make me sound like a power craver, but what's my power?"
Marth ran his fingers across Wado Ichimonji. "You witnessed it, Ben. Wado Ichimonji means 'Straight Road of the Harmony.' True to its name, it finds the resonant frequency of anything it touches within a few hits, and then emits energy with that frequency which harmonizes with the target and can deal critical damage to it in a few seconds. You used that to destroy the sword. In addition, Wado Ichimonji harmonizes itself with your other swords, using your body as a transmitter to give them the same energy needed to destroy your opponent's defenses."
"What an amazing power…" Ben frowned a bit, remembering how Ike originally had thought his idea was a bad one because he was a normal human. "Won't the effects decrease for me because I'm a human, and you're Aethereans?"
"Wado Ichimonji will follow any master, no matter if they are Aetherean or human," Marth replied, smiling. "Is this the power you want to save Axel with?"
"I didn't know what power to expect, but I think I'll be able to be of more use with it," Ben replied, grinning.
Meanwhile, Ike caught Luna and laid her on the ground, then muttered a few words, and Luna's cuts started healing. "Wait, what are you doing?" Ben asked, watching him cause her to recover. "Isn't she our enemy? I thought you guys wouldn't give her mercy at all…"
"We're Origin Captains," Ike replied flatly. "We're not butchers." And that was all he said.
Niko and Ben's Pokémon scurried over at this moment. "We saw all the water acting weird. What happened?" Niko asked.
"We fought a Cipher Admin," Ben replied. Then he looked at Wado Ichimonji, the sword which had just saved him in this fight. "And Niko?" The Mouse Pokémon looked up at him, and Ben held up the Eihrisingrr. "I think I'm stronger now."
Mt. Coronet…
Black feathers engulfed the Cipher Peons and knocked them unconscious. Axel descended, gazing upon the ruination, and turned away. But suddenly, something throbbed, and he was down on his knees, gasping. Grimacing, he used one of Doki no Shiruba Getsu's swords like a cane to keep moving.
Axel kept walking before noticing numerous broken pillars lying on the ground in front of him, and a roof with crumbling ornate designs hung above him. He limped onto the broken stones and entered the hall, noticing a mottled purple crystal inside. It was shaped like a diamond, and energy flowed out of it through a skylight to a location higher up the mountain. Axel narrowed his eyes at the crystal, and then he swung his other sword, his reiatsu flashing into the crystal. But the mottled purple would not leave…
Axel swung again and again, and soon the purple gave way to bright white. He felt his remaining energy dwindle, but kept going. Then finally, the entire crystal turned white, and the room was bathed in its light, beating away the fog.
Now safe from the fog, Axel laid down, and something in the center of his chest glowed midnight blue. The crystal flashed in response, and a beam of energy began to emit from the glowing in Axel's chest to it. The black wings, Axel's coat and daitos turned into black smoke and transformed into the sealed Shiruba-Getsu, but without its silver-blue glow. Axel lay in the chamber for a long time, connecting with the crystal to regain energy, unaware he was faintly broadcasting his position across Sinnoh…
Stark Mountain…
Ben suddenly noticed the trace of reiatsu that pierced the air ever so briefly. "Hey, is that reiatsu…" he began. Sensing a second pulse, and the energy which it radiated, he realized it was, in fact, Axel Nightblazer's. "Where did it come from?" Excited, he jumped up and raced to a rocky peak at the top of the volcano, where winds of pure air swept past him, tasting wonderful compared to the ash-filled air he had been breathing before. A third pulse rippled through the clear air…
"What are you doing up here?" Ike asked, trudging after him with an annoyed look. "You look like a boy on Christmas Day, eager to open up his presents."
"I sensed Axel's reiatsu," Ben replied, and Ike stopped short with surprise. Then another wave passed over, and Ike relaxed, knowing Ben was right. "The pulse came from there…" Ben raised his hand, but his voice trailed off when he found his finger pointing at the fog-covered Mt. Coronet. "So he's still there, huh?" Ben sighed. "But that fog…it reeks of hatred, I feel. It seems absolutely forbidding…"
"And didn't you say that you'd go any distance for Axel?" Marth demanded, walking swiftly up the jagged rocks without stabbing himself somehow. "If you truly will do that, then you have to abandon your fear. With the power you now have, we can focus on reaching Axel now. Can you handle that?"
"Yeah!" Ben replied. But then he thought about something else. "Wait, can Axel really get all his power back that easily?"
"No," Ike replied, shaking his head. "It's really not simple to restore an Aetheraean's reiatsu. It's very time consuming to do so…time we don't have."
Ben's heart sank, but then he remembered the headphones on his head and got an idea. "Wait, I know! Guys, I have an idea. Can't we give another person's reiatsu to Axel in order to restore his own?"
"Do you have any idea how much reiatsu that would take?" Marth looked at Ben as if he were suggesting they build a monument to Cipher. "Besides, Axel has an unusually large capacity for energy. You wouldn't be able to produce nearly enough to do that, Ben…not for an Aetheraean."
"Not just me!" Ben argued. "You guys, too! We'll get the reiatsu of all of Axel's friends in these headphones, and then give them to him so it'll restore his power to full!"
"That's a good plan," Ike nodded. "But when you give reiatsu to an Aetheraean, the different reiatsu blends, and they create entirely new power. So Axel will be more powerful than ever before with these."
"Alright! Let's get to it, then!" Ben declared.
Random Bonus Story…XD
Before we begin this story, I will have you all know: Aeron has his birthday this month (July)! :D So I wrote this short for him as a present. Hope you enjoy it (especially if your penname is Aeron Solo)!
Explosions rocked the street in Gotham City. And soon after, a man with green hair, white skin, and a purple suit came running out of the exploding bank, laughing maniacally. He was carrying a box of stolen valuables and money. "Ahhhh, what a night!" he cackled.
But then, suddenly, a blast of lightning forced him to stop his escape. He turned with surprise towards where the lightning came from, and saw Aeron standing on the rooftop above him. "Had enough laughs, Joker?" he asked, swinging his blade again, this time coated with fire. "I hope you have…because soon, the only smile you'll be seeing is the one in the mirror of your cell in Arkham!"
Joker was astonished with the blast of fire that headed towards him, and ran for it. "Who's this?" he wondered as he ran down a back alley. "Never heard of there being new heroes in Gotham."
"I'm not new, and I'm not a hero like you're thinking of," he suddenly heard behind him. Immediately, he turned to see Aeron charging at him from behind. "But I'm still here to give you a fight which should be a lot of fun for someone like you!"
At this moment, Batman and Robin (you know who they are, I hope, because I'm running out of descriptive language) came running into the street, only to find Aeron beating the crap out of the Joker in the alley. "Hey, who's that?" Robin asked, pointing at Aeron.
"I don't know," Batman replied, shrugging. "I guess Gotham has new heroes. I suppose we can take this time to get Two-Face while this guy deals with Joker…"
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Bowser laughed, ripping through the wall of the Mushroom Kingdom Castle. "Now Peach is m-"
But then, in a flash of lightning, Aeron was bearing down on Bowser. "Hey, it's not nice to smash walls down," he called, releasing Tsubasa no Rai-oh. "Seriously, cut it out, Bowser."
"Ha! I'll easily take you down!" Bowser retorted, making a tackle towards Aeron. Except the very next moment, he was flying out of the castle. "WHAT? NOOOOOOOO!"
An entire day's worth of enemies later…
The sun was setting fast, and Aeron was limping back home, completely exhausted. "Ugh…too many enemies today…can't wait for a rest…" He opened the door, and was met with absolute darkness. "What the-? Why are the lights out? Better turn them back on…" Aeron found the light switch and pressed it, and the room was lit again. "That's better-WHAT THE HELL?"
All of Aeron's friends were gathered in the room (Eddie was STANDING ON THE CEILING), and there was a huge cake in the middle of the room. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AERON!" they all shouted.
*insert loud screaming here*
*insert thud here*
"…" Axel stared at Aeron, who was a bit too surprised by them and fainted from the shock. "…maybe we overdid it." He went to turn off the lights. The room plunged into darkness…and then Axel turned them on again, to find that EVERYTHING (including the cake) was gone. "Huh," Axel commented, and turned them off and on again. And EVERYTHING was back in the room. "Okay, WTF guys?" Axel shouted.
Looks like Aeron (the character) didn't have a good day…well, Happy Birthday in real life, Aeron! (I'll try to ruin it as much as possible. *trollface*)
Anyway, now the entire main cast has epic powers! Yay! Although you really have to wonder what will happen next to Axel…Ben better be quick about his plan.
I can't place a link to Alo[n]e in the chapter; you'll have to go to my profile for that. :/
I know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Ike and Marth (who, coincidentally, are Aeron and my most-used characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, respectively), except for what they did in Brawl, and because people complain so much about how Ike was portrayed in that game, I may have earned myself hate from fans of the series. I do my best, people! :C (curses Aeron for making Origin Captains based on Fire Emblem characters and possibly ruining my Fan Service)
Is anyone tired of hearing about my Fan Service yet? :3