Ch. 43 An... Unlikely Alliance

{Nightmare's point of view}

"I'm not going to kill you. Your absolutely insane if you think I'll do that." Suicide told me.

I got up, "I've failed you guys and... I broke our law..." I told him.

"I... I think it's time Nightmare..." Suicide whispered.

"Time for what?" I asked.

"Time for us to stop running." I heard Wire say as he and my other forces surrounded me suddenly.

"For too long our kind has resisted and killed pokemon. We all have pokemon genes and... its only because of these genes that we're alive." Kevin murmured.

"Not to mention your our leader. We'd follow you no matter what. If you wanted us to join the pokemon then we will. Personally, I want to kill that bitch Mary." Bone told me.

"Guys... we've been fighting pokemon for years. Our friends... our families... they were murdered by them! I... I can't just... no... you can't just turn your back on them!" I yelled.

"Sir... I think I can speak for everyone here when I say that I hate pokemon. To my very core but this is about survival. We can't fight two wars sir. However... we can try to fight one at a time." Bone told me.

I glanced at Triston, "What about you?" I asked.

"I never felt much for my kin dad. You know that. I'd kill any pokemon that stood against you." Triston answered.

Kevin laughed, "I think I'm gonna like this guy." Kevin whispered to Wire.

Suicide pat my back, "What do we do first?" Suicide asked.

I looked at everyone and saw Bridget and Takashi, "Hey, Bridget. Why are you helping us?" I asked.

"You two spared us when the scientist would've just killed us. We owe you and Suicide our lives." Bridget told me.

"You weren't very popular with the other Synchs huh?" Suicide asked.

Bridget just crossed her arms and pouted, "Alright. You guys follow Suicide to our base." I ordered.

"What about you?" Suicide asked.

"I'm going to have to do something distasteful..." I whispered.

"Yeah..? Continue." Suicide urged.

I sighed, "I have to go meet the pokemon leader and negotiate terms." I told him as I pinched my nose.

"Whoa, aren't you jumping the gun a bit!? You could wait a couple days and then do it." Suicide suggested.

"No, we need to do it now before they try to wipe us out. Knowing them, they must have the location of our base already. If I rest then they'll cause a battle to weaken both sides. Plus, I'm afraid for our civilians. They must be so scared." I told him.

"Nightmare... I... I have to be honest with you. Our civilians betrayed us." Wire told me.

I looked at Wire shocked with Suicide sharing that same look, "Your kidding me right?" I asked.

Wire frowned, "No... I've always noticed the looks but... never expected them to just turn their backs on us." Wire whispered.

"Then... then what are we fighting for!" I yelled.

Everyone flinched, "Nightmare, calm down." Suicide urged.

"Calm down!? CALM DOWN!? Are you fucking mental!? Our entire existence was built upon the protection of human life and civilization! If our own people turned our backs on us then what are we!? WHAT ARE WE!?" I screamed.

"H... humans." Suicide answered.

"No! We're not! We're... we're monsters... Monsters..." I laid my back on a tree and slumpt to the ground.

"Dad?" Triston asked worriedly.

I grabbed my head as I started crying, "Monsters... After all our sacrifices... they still turned on us... They used us..." I stood up unable to meet anyone's eye, "I'm going..." I whispered.

"Nightmare?" Suicide asked.

I barged through my soldiers earning worried looks as I walked off. I heard someone following me but I didn't care. Whoever it was went in front of me and tried to block my way.

"You can't just go off on your own." Suicide told me.

"Fuck off. I don't give two shits what you say or think." I told him.

"I know your upset but you need to calm down. Barging into a pokemon camp demanding to speak to their leader is suicide." Suicide told me.

"So what?" I told him.

"Stop being a stupid selfish bitch! What happened to our leader!? You know, the one that actually knew what he was doing." Suicide asked.

I did a mock laugh, "He died. Its time you woke up and smell the coffee. I'm doomed Suicide. I don't want to be the leader anymore. You be the leader, I'm going to go kill myself or something." I told him as I tried to go by him.

Suicide grabbed me and shook me as he yelled, "Your going to let your sister get away with everything she's done!? Think of everything she's done to you! Are you going to let her get away with that!?"

I gasped and looked down as I realized he was right, "Your right... I can't let her get away with what she's done." I murmured.

I felt so angry as my clothes created by my powers reappeared. I looked at myself and grinned before looking back at Suicide. My powers weren't returning because of my emotions being so unstable but now... I know what to do.

"Come on Suicide. We have a long walk ahead of us." I told him.

-5 hours later-

Our group finally made it to our new Resistance base. When we arrived, I noticed that the place looked barren. We walked into it with no one even guarding the front gate.

"Where is everyone?" Suicide asked in a whisper.

"Anyone here!?" I yelled.

We moved into the camp more and started to spread out. We looked everywhere and couldn't find even one person. I regrouped with Suicide and Wire in the center of the camp.

"This is just... irregular." Wire commented.

A soldier who had Lucario genes ran over to us and panted, "Sir. Pant. Someone at the gate is here to speak to you." he reported.

I sighed, "Always something... Alright. You guys organize the camp. I'll deal with this." I ordered.

With a curt nod, they left. I nudged my head up at Triston to urge him to come over here.

"What is it dad?" he asked.

I sighed, "You need to stop calling me that. Your an adult now, call me Nightmare." I told him sternly.

He smiled, "Yet you still try to lecture me... dad." he grinned at the last part.

I shook my head with a small smile, "Alright. Come with me." I told him.

With Triston close behind me, we went to the front of the camp. As we approached the gate, I saw that it was in fact a Lopunny waiting for us. I swallowed hard because this wasn't going to be good news.

She waved at me as we neared, "Hi!" she greeted.

I was caught off guard by her happy nature, "Uh... hi? How are you?" I asked.

"I'm good. Your probably wondering why I'm here huh?" She asked.

"Uh, yeah? That's the first question on my mind." I replied honestly.

"Well... the people that were here before you kinda surrendered to us. I'm a representative sent by our Matriarch to talk to you." She explained.

"Alright, is there any way we can get our people back?" I asked simply.

She nodded, "Yeah. Our Matriarch wishes to talk to you." she told me.

"Why?" I asked.

The Lopunny smiled and grabbed my hand, "We wish for peace!" she yelled happily.

I was seriously caught off guard. This was borderline suicidal. How can this girl be so positive and cheerful when her job was most likely going to get her killed?

"How can you be so cheerful?" I asked.

She smiled and tilted her head with her eyes closed, "I don't want to make you mad or suspicious. By being cheerful, I assumed you'd be more cooperative." she explained.

"How will I meet this Matriarch?" I asked.

"She wishes for you to meet her and one of her leader's mate. A human named... um... Uh oh... I forgot..." She whined.

"She's really cute father." Triston whispered.

I shook my head, "I think I know who it's going to be." I told her.

"Ok. She asks to meet you tomorrow. Can I stay here with you all and take you there in the morning?" Lopunny asked.

"Know what? Sure." I told her.

She got excited, "Really!?" she asked.

"Yeah sure. Come on in. Eat our food while your at it. Know what you can even bang anyone you like." I told her sarcastically.

"I... get the feeling your messing with me." Lopunny replied.

"Oh no. I'm being completely serious... ok, I'm being sarcastic. What sort of dumbass do you take me for?" I asked.

It was her turn to act smart, "A really dumb one." she giggled.

"I'll give you points for honesty. How can I trust you though?" I asked.

"You just have to. What other choice do you have? Do you really want to fight?" Lopunny asked.

"...No..." I replied.

She walked right past me, "Good. Now where do I sleep?" she asked.

I smacked my forehead and dragged it down my face, "Ugh. Here... let me bring you to Suicide. He'll know." I told her.

-The Next Day-

{Rui's point of view}

I was scribbling a pen on a piece of paper for my daughter. The damn thing stopped working so I was trying my best to get it working again. After a few minutes, I gave up and threw the damn thing across the room. I looked through our desk and found another pen for her to use.

She shook her head, "Can you draw daddy?" Alivia asked.

I groaned, "Alivia, Daddy's never drawn in his life. I already told you that."

"But you can do anything. I bet you can draw really well if you tried." Alivia urged with a happy dance.

Silvia was laughing at the situation, [Come on Rui. Do it for her.] Silvia grinned.

I grabbed the paper, "Oh, you want me to draw something?" I said and scribbled on the paper.

"What's that?" Alivia asked.

I showed it to Silvia but the paper was blank with my hand in front of it, "A big middle finger for mommy." I told them.

[Are you trying to tell me which finger you'll be using later?] Silvia smiled.

I ripped up the paper causing Alivia to cry, "Oh no, crying child. Your turn to take care of her Silvia." I smirked.

"I want daddy to hold me!" Alivia demanded.

I banged my head on the desk, "I should've just killed myself when I had the chance." I groaned.

"But I would miss you dad!" Alivia cried.

"No you wouldn't because you'd never have existed in the first person. A person that never existed could not feel anything so your argument is invalid." I countered.

[Are you so desperate to be smart that you try to outsmart children just to feel good about yourself?] Silvia asked.

"No, you make me feel good about myself. I just like being a jerk." I told her.

"Daddy! Hold me!" Alivia demanded.

I picked her up, "Happy now?" I asked.

She hugged my chest and nuzzled it, "Yeah." She smiled.

I started to pet her head, "Good." I told her.

[Ausa's here.] Chrono announced.

"Out of all the times Ausa comes here, this is the only time you actually announce it." I commented.

[Oh, I'm sorry. I'll just never announce anything again.] Chrono replied.

"Yeah, you do that. Maybe when this becomes a story you'll finally stay a side character." I replied.

Alivia giggled and said, "Daddy, you can be so mean but your funny."

"I might as well be the comic relief. Everyone is so Arceus damn depressing that it feels like we're in a tragedy." I told her.

[Fun fact, this was originally supposed to be a tragedy with multiple character deaths but that changed due to reader requests not to murder characters.] Silvia told everyone.

"Yeah? Well guess what. No more comedy. Serious time now." I declared.

Ausa opened the door to our office and approached us, "Hi." she greeted.

"Hey." I replied.

[What's so important that you came to see us Ausa?] Silvia asked.

Ausa stood next to me, "A human leader is coming here to talk to us about a peace treaty." Ausa explained.

I was pleasantly surprised, "So... we can finally end the war?" I asked.

"I hope so." Ausa replied.

We sat there waiting for this guy to show up. Alivia eventually fell asleep since I still held her. I got up and laid her on our bed before coming back over to Silvia. With the doors open, I could see the guy approaching with a Lopunny.

"Nightmare... you sure this is a good idea?" I asked Ausa.

"He didn't murder our representative so that's a good thing... I think." Ausa replied.

"Rui..." Nightmare whispered and looked at Ausa and Silvia.

"This is my mate." I told him while pointing to Silvia.

"Huh. Thanks... ironic..." Nightmare whispered.

"You ok?" I asked cautiously.

Nightmare sighed, "To be honest. No. I lost control of my own people. My sister took over..." Nightmare admitted.

"Wait... so how is this going to work?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" Nightmare asked.

"If your not the leader how can this peace treaty work?" I asked.

"...he's right. How will this work?" Ausa asked.

Nightmare thought for a moment before sighing, "We can do the easiest solution. Get me back control over my city. In order to do that we have to kill Mary and make me the Commander again." Nightmare told us.

"That sounds easy." I replied.

"Its not as easy as you think. In order to beat Mary, we're going to need all of our most powerful forces to even have a chance." Nightmare explained.

I looked at Ausa, "Ausa is the most powerful pokemon we have. Are you trying to say that she couldn't beat her?" I asked.

"Mary isn't like most opponents. She's able to drain energy through contact by either her body or by her chains." Nightmare explained.

"But she doesn't need to touch her. Ausa's attacks don't require and physical contact." I countered.

"Yes but Mary is extremely fast and powerful. Gardevoirs are naturally weak in the physical department. Plus, her speed might not help with her attacks. A pokemon attack can neither gain nor lose speed. That means all of her attacks are simply too easy to dodge." Nightmare explained.

I felt my eyes widen, "Meaning she'd have to get close just to hit her..." I added.

"Exactly. We need a group of people to take her down." Nightmare suggested.

Ausa bit her lip, "Ok... let's say we get this group of people together. How do we actually get them to find her without any back up?" Ausa asked.

"That part is simple... an all out attack." Nightmare told us.

I swallowed hard, "Are you sure?" I asked.

"Yes. With my troops we can infiltrate the Underground using 5 elevators. Each team will be brought down with one human teammate. The humans are necessary to use the elevators. Without them, they won't work. If we enter the city through 5 elevators, that'll spread out Mary's troops to focus on them. That's when we send in our special team through another elevator. Since they'll be so distracted from the 5 assaults, they'll overlook us." Nightmare explained.

"This is a well thought out plan. When did you get the time to think this out?" Ausa asked.

"...Due to my Darkrai genes, I have horrible nightmares if I sleep. I only sleep once a month so I thought up this plan last night." Nightmare explained.

I looked at Ausa, "I think it's a good plan." I told her.

Ausa looked at Me then Nightmare, "I'll release the troops we captured so that they'll help us." Ausa told him.

I was about to reply when the entire room froze. The color suddenly drained leaving everything in a state of white, grey or black. I looked to my right to see my other self sitting on the desk cross-legged in front of Silvia.

"You know... you should kill her. You saw those pictures of her and Jay." He told me.

"I know they were fake!" I yelled.

He laughed at me, "That's not how I remember it. You were crying your eyes out like a child that didn't get what he/she wanted."

I growled in frustration, "The situation was different... stressful." I told him.

"You mean painful." he corrected.

I glared at him, "So you do know what Mary did to me. How can you still fight for her?" I asked.

He grinned before glancing at me with his crimson X pupil eye, "She hurt you, not me. I didn't exist until after the experiment." He replied.

I slammed my fist on our desk, "Silvia loves us!" I yelled.

"Correction, she loves you. He precious, weak, helpless little Rui. Arceus, your so pathetic. Hiding behind your little mate since you can't even protect yourself." He replied with a snarl.

"Silvia is the most beautiful, smart, sexy..." I stopped and looked at my lap blushing.

He shook his head and got off the desk, "Your such a hopeless dumbass." he replied.

"Look, we should be working together. Why are you and I so different?" I asked.

"Dude, imagine we were at a crossroad to go left or right. Which way would you go?" He asked.

"Uh... right?" I guessed.

"I'd go left." He replied.

"That's not fair. Since you knew which way I went then you'd obviously choose the other path." I argued.

He face palmed, "That's not the point you dumbass! I'm your opposite! In my mind, I chose the exact opposite decisions you did. I reject Silvia and her ugly Gardevoir ass, I reject pokemon and their scaley asses, and I chose to join Nightmare or Mary because I'm a human supremacist." He told me.

I frowned, "I feel bad for you." I told him honestly.

He flinched with a look of shock, "Why say that?" he asked.

I looked down, "Because your me but you missed so much joy. Silvia... she's the best thing that ever happened to me. How can you not see that yet I can? You've seen my memories, you know that's true." I told him.

He frowned and looked at the ground, "I've seen your memories but in my memories I see Myself with Symphony." he murmured.

"Symphony! Shit I fucking forgot. Thanks me! We'll talk later!" I yelled.

"Wait, what?" he asked before disappearing and color returned to the room.

[Rui? Are you ok?] Silvia asked.

"Where's Symphony!?" I asked quickly.

Silvia punched a hole in the wall behind her. I immediately fell back and onto the floor. I looked at my mate a little hesitant before getting up.

[That... little bitch will die. I'll fucking murder her with my own two hands.] Silvia whispered.

"No." I got up and kissed Silvia, "We'll murder her with our grand total of four hands," I smiled.

Silvia blushed, [Sometimes I think I love you more than I already did.] Silvia murmured.

I smiled at her, "Funny. I think that every day." I responded.

"Rui... Tell me... are you still normal?" Nightmare asked.

I looked at the ground, "Yes and no." I replied.

Nightmare raised an eyebrow, "How the hell is that a yes and a no." He demanded.

"I as I am, normal but I... have another me now. He isn't normal." I told them quickly.

"Okay? Um... you also mentioned Symphony's name. Why?" Nightmare asked.

"She's the one that abducted me. It's because of her that I was tortured, experimented, and have to fix a wall because Silvia punched it." I frowned.

Nightmare just looked at me half interested, "Alright." he turned to Ausa, "Mind if we go get my troops now?" Nightmare asked.

[Oh! That reminds me! We have one of the Synch's and Tuners here. If you want, you can interrogate them.] Chrono suggested.

Nightmare nodded, "Good idea, we'll do that when we get back." Nightmare agreed.

"Alright. Good luck!" I yelled as Nightmare and Ausa left.

[So... what now?] Silvia asked.

"Right now, we have to fix this wall." I told Silvia.

[Aw!] Silvia whined.

I heard Alivia snoring, "Great. Just in time for my nap. Good luck." I grinned as I took Alivia into our room.