Edit: So I ended up noticing a mistake I had made with the intro a little too late. My apologies, but it's fixed now.
AN: Well. This is odd. I actually manage to meet a deadline for a story update according to plan... only for me to finish and upload four days early. I didn't end up making this chapter being 20K words long like I had originally intended for Chapter 51, but eh, I suppose I'll have a better chance at a 20K word chapter towards the end of the story. Also this is going to be the first and last chapter a certain word is used here, mainly to emphasis the seriousness of the line in regards to who is speaking it.
Truth and Ideals Chapter 51:
Ash and co. were flying on the backs of their Pokémon towards Nuvema Town, and as the town was coming up on the horizon, Latias, both of the Braviary, and Zekrom readied themselves to land.
With Delia waiting outside for the quintet to land, she could be seen waving towards the five as they land together with their four, flight capable Pokémon.
"I'm so glad you three are safe after what I've heard!" Delia said, rushing up and practically charging Ash into a ground in a tight hug, whereas Cheren simply sighed.
"Yeah, well, it's been a good travel since we've resumed, and we're all glad we have flying Pokémon to get to and from here or anywhere else in Unova, but could we take this inside?" Cheren asked, as Delia got up as she helped Ash stand up as well.
"Sure, and- Oh… Iris, Misty, what are you two doing here?" Delia asked, taking noticed of Misty and Iris with Latias.
Misty was silent as usual as she visibly blushed, whereas Iris only partially blushed as she attempted to remain calm and serious.
"Delia. We need to talk." Iris said as Delia led everyone inside, Latias, the two Braviary, and Zekrom staying outside all the while Altair and Raichu emerged from their Poké Balls and looked towards the three Pokémon in question.
((Looks like we're going to have to train you up, Zekrom.)) Altair mentally noted.
As Delia led the other five inside, everyone had a seat as Iris eventually began to ask something again.
"Alright… Delia, I know this is going to be timed rather unevenly, but…" Iris began to say…
"Can you tell all of us everything you know regarding Team Plasma?" Iris asked Delia, as Delia gasped a bit in shock, before calming herself down and sighing heavily.
"Iris, what do you mean? I don't recall her having even known about Team Plasma... I mean-"
"Yes, I do know about them..." Delia spoke up, interrupting Ash as now she had his full attention.
"I should've known they would've still been around… especially with Ghetsis still in charge with that kind of power he has access to…" Delia started, "But I'll do my best to explain…" Delia finished, as she moved to sit down in a chair, whereas Ash, Iris, Misty, Cheren, and Bianca went to find their own places to sit in the living room of Ash's home. Once everyone was seated, Delia began to explain.
"It all started with simply dating Colress for a while... He hadn't had me on the scene for any of his job, because he knew it was a terrifying experience... But he's told me a lot about what goes on, possibly even too much of it for my own good..." Delia started off, detailing the beginning of the information Colress had been telling her of...
Of the day in which Colress told her that staying by his side would no longer be a good idea...
…
You find yourself awaken in an unknown laboratory. You find your head is shaking, your body is shivering from the cold… yet you embrace it.
You look before you and see an old, green haired man before you; one that looks familiar to you. As the man could be heard talking, you recognize his voice as he speaks to his blond and silver haired ally.
Whose voice is that? Why does this place look familiar to you? You take a while to think; to ponder on the subject until you can come up with an answer.
You finally reach a conclusion. You grab for a Poké Ball from your belt and draw out a three headed, Dragon Type Pokémon from which you proceed to kill the familiar man before you with a powerful blast of energy.
You can feel your heart pumping faster and faster; the blond man with the silver streak looks towards you and moves to give you proper clothing, so that you would endure the coldness of the lab. He asks you for your name.
"Ghetsis. Ghetsis Harmonia." You speak to him. The blond man looks shocked, but otherwise impressed.
"So, the Triad was correct; this 'Shadow World' does indeed exist after all." The man spoke, as he smiled. "The name's Colress, but I think you already know of that." Colress introduced to Ghetsis, all the while Ghetsis looked over towards the other man's corpse just as his multi-headed Pokémon remained quiet and motionless.
"Who is that fool with my own image right there?" Ghetsis asked, all the while Colress smirked.
"That would you be you; the old, poor suited you native to my world. I have brought you over towards this world to replace him." Colress explained. Ghetsis simply remained quiet, before letting out a dark, raspy chuckle.
"What was the occasion? Did he fail to live up to your expectations?" Ghetsis asked regarding his doppelganger as his tri-headed Pokémon moved to begin to eat from the now corpse of a copy of himself; Colress didn't even flinch as to this behavior.
"Tell me… Why did you bring me here? Did you need my assistance that badly?" Ghetsis asked Colress, as Colress chuckled.
"Actually, it was the Triad who had suggested I summon you…" Colress stated.
The Triad? Those fools must've been desperate for their original master, though there must be something else… why would they need me?
…
No, no they must be nothing more than fools than to need me; the real me.
As Ghetsis tried to rationalize why the Shadow Triad would need him here, the three in question soon showed themselves behind Ghetsis.
"We didn't think messing with our original realm, our original time, would work unless we were to bring over the true honor to the name of Ghetsis Harmonia." The leader spoke, as Ghetsis looked over towards him and let out a small, deep chuckle.
"Then tell me… Mind fetching Zinzolin for me? I have an untrustworthy doppelganger to slay…" Ghetsis ordered, as the Triad looked at each other, before nodding and watching as Ghetsis and his Pokémon disappeared into the shadows. As they themselves disappeared into the shadows, Aldith emerged towards Colress as she looked at him coldly.
"How can you even tolerate us to begin with?" Aldith asked him, as Colress chuckled.
"Simple, my dear; as long as I am paid, I will endure whatever it is Lord Ghetsis asks of me." Colress told her, before looking over towards an empty pod of sorts.
"Now then, dear Aldith; if you could please fetch a legendary artifact called the "Prison Bottle", I have some much needed experimentation I need to finish; Ghetsis will love what exactly I have in mind..." Colress asked of Aldith, as Aldith nodded and disappeared into the shadows, all the while Colress began typing away on his computer…
Colress eventually pulled up footage from a Pokémon Battle that was occurring; he took heavy notice as to how Ash and his Samurott had developed a strong bond with each other as to how Samurott was able to attain a new forme, but Colress was most especially interested in their combatant; Flare, the "WarGreymon", as Hilbert had called her.
"Fascinating... So I see that experiment involving messing with time worked... But who are these figures? I need to know more..."
Flare's presence on the battlefield filled Colress with many ideas, as Colress began typing away onto his keyboard as to download information from Flare's scan to see if he could determine any weaknesses or exploits in her system. Upon finding the results he had desired, Colress pressed a button quietly as a machine had begun to process creating and manufacturing a device for Colress' intentions.
What is this lifeform? What is it doing here in our world? What could I do to take advantage of its existence?
...
I know what I'll need for the plan to work; I just need to wait on Colress' devices to succeed in developing a seal for this beast. That way I'll be able to contain it and control it.
After all, what is there to not gain from controlling such a powerful beast of war?
"So that's how you had found me?"
"Indeed."
Back in the present, Ghetsis and Colress looked towards Hoopa as they were bargaining with Hoopa for what they needed.
"Now then, I'm certain you're familiar with WarGreymon from two weeks prior, correct?" Colress asked Hoopa, as Hoopa's expression widened in panic.
"Yeeeah… Uh… Problem with that… If you intend for me to capture her again, I'll need to be in my unbound power… Let's just say I got a threat from somebody else from her universe as to why I need the power to pull it off this time." Hoopa explained to Ghetsis and Colress, as Ghetsis looked towards Colress and gave a nod.
"Alright." Ghetsis spoke up, as he approached the Prison Bottle as Colress released it from his computer's grasp, before Ghetsis proceeded to open it up by channeling shadowy energy into it, and as a result, a surge of immense power trailed into Hoopa's body. In a plume of pink smoke, Hoopa emerged from the smoke as a 21 foot tall colossus with six arms ready to grasp at anything it was commanded.
"Now then, key thing before I do this; do you have a means to restrain her this time?" Hoopa asked the two, as Ghetsis nodded. Colress pressed a button which caused for a special device to show itself from a panel, as Ghetsis moved to grab hold of it.
Hoopa, noticing this, opened a portal with four of its arms as its two other arms reached in to grab hold of something from within the void.
Hoopa was quick to slam the entity it had grabbed hold of into the wall nearest to Ghetsis, as the dazed, but struggling, form of Flare could be seen in his grasp.
"Don't say I didn't warn you, Hoopa!" Flare yelled out, before Ghetsis walked towards her and secured a dark binding of sorts onto her left shoulder, as Flare recoiled once the device shocked her, her eyes closing from their normal green coloration…
… As they opened up into a glowing, soulless red as she growled slowly and quietly. As she was being secured by the device, her entire coloration changed in the process of this madness; her armor gaining silver to it, her hair becoming white, and her scales turning black in coloration, all the while Flare's movements were ominously still.
As Hoopa released its grasp on Flare, it looked back towards Ghetsis and Colress again.
"First wish down, time for the remaining two." Hoopa spoke, as Hoopa recoiled a bit once a stream of frigid, fire-like air hit it from the still open portal.
As a metallic, wolf-like animal emerged from the still open portal, Ghetsis and Colress barely had a chance to react as the second Digimon moved to attack Hoopa, as various pores on its body opened up and revealed numerous missile sockets.
"Grand Cross Freezer!" It called out, but Hoopa was quick to rapidly punch the Digimon before it had a chance to execute the attack, and was quick to grab hold of it and throw it into another portal and out of the area in haste. As Hoopa took a few deep breaths, Hoopa looked towards Ghetsis and Colress.
"… Continue…" Hoopa spoke to Ghetsis and Colress, as Ghetsis walked back towards Colress and Hoopa.
"Hmmm, now that simply gaining control of them again won't be an issue, perhaps if we could ask for a repaired refinery for forging Genesect with?" Ghetsis asked of Hoopa, as Hoopa's eyes glowed an intense red before machinery could be heard downstairs, ready for action.
"Done. Although I must warn you that this could backfire horrifically for all of us, yes?" Hoopa spoke to Ghetsis.
"I'll be more than willing to pay the price, but it'll be worth it in the end." Ghetsis spoke, as he looked towards Colress' computer screen, as Colress turned it around to face Hoopa, showcasing a specialized cane with special properties that they lacked the materials to create.
"Now then, with one last thing for us, how's about creating us this special cane for Ghetsis with the properties and schematics listed here?" Colress asked of Hoopa, as Hoopa nodded, as its eyes glowed again, before the cane in question appeared in Colress' device creation machine.
"Now then, with that all said and done, I'll just take my leave and-"
Hoopa didn't even have a chance to finish its words before it was suddenly slammed on the head with tremendous force; the deep blue and pink Poké Ball that Hoopa had used before to restrain Flare with was tossed at its large head, scoring a direct hit which caused the giant Mythical Pokémon to get sucked into the Master Ball with overwhelming power.
"You'll… You'll pay for this…"
One shake, two shakes, three shakes… *click*
As Ghetsis moved to claim the Master Ball from the ground, Colress looked towards the machine that Colress activated just at the moment and placed the Master Ball inside of it. As shadowy energy began to surge and spark into the Master Ball, Hoopa could be heard yelling and screaming in agony as this dark process was being performed, all the while its painful shouting could be heard ceasing as the machine stopped fueling the Master Ball with shadow energy.
As Ghetsis reclaimed the Master Ball from it and opened it up, watching as Hoopa appeared before him with a cold, ominous silence. As Hoopa displayed the same, glowing red eyes that Flare had, Ghetsis merely smirked as to both of his new prizes.
"Awaiting further orders, Lord Ghetsis." Colress told Ghetsis, as Ghetsis chuckled darkly.
"Track down the five unique Genesect; see which of the five is the most durable of them. Once you find the most durable of the quintet, eliminate the other four into scrap if they survive for too long." Ghetsis commanded of Colress in a dark, growling voice as Colress nodded.
"Roger that, Lord Ghetsis. Though, if I may, why are we scrapping the weakest four of the five?" Colress asked, as Ghetsis chuckled.
"Because, if we have the spare metal from the runts, we can melt them down into additional material to strengthen the armor on the strongest of them." Ghetsis told Colress, as he looked his sights towards the five Genesect on the screen, with his attention focused on Geneshine, who so far was indicated to be the strongest of the five so far…
Only time would tell if Ghetsis would determine Geneshine to be the strongest, or the potential fates of the other four unique Genesect. Ghetsis, for the moment though, simply went towards the container with his new cane and moved to grab hold of it.
"Now then, Colress… I have some very specific orders that I need to be tested and executed, and I must have emergency backup while I'm gone." Ghetsis informed Colress, as Colress gave a nod before Ghetsis walked over towards the growling Flare, and then escorts her and the Master Ball containing Hoopa through a shadowy gate.
As Ghetsis disappeared through, though, Aldith and the Shadow Triad were eyeing the entire scene, all four of them with their eyes wide as to what exactly they could feel was about to go down.
"Should we stop him?" One of the Shadow Triad asked the other two.
"It is… not our place, true… but something feels very wrong about this entire plan he now has…" One of them spoke, before the leader simply looked towards Aldith, taking notice of an Ultra Ball she has on her belt.
"Go. Now." He told her, as Aldith didn't need any further convincing to leave the scene, all the while the Shadow Triad quickly drew out Poké Balls as Colress had already prepared for the Shadow Triad's intervention; already no less than six Genesect Drones had barged into the room to attack the Shadow Triad.
As the Triad disappeared into shadows and dragging at least three of the drones with them, the three left behind were given the command from Colress to seek out the other unique Genesect as they flew out of the area to seek the others out, all the while Colress merely pulled up a screen to observe what was soon to happen on Ghetsis' end…
But what of the original plan? To conquer Unova?
You won't even have to do even that anymore; you've already conquered Unova in another world, you can easily do it again here if you want.
I understand, but to be perfectly honest, I believe that if I were to do anything here, let me leave a mark on history instead…
Yes, but of course! To be feared! To be strong! To be worshiped! That is my ultimate goal!
As Ghetsis re-emerged in the middle of a desert of within Unova, Ghetsis was quick to draw out the Master Ball containing Hoopa and then letting the Djinn Pokémon out of its containment. As the colossal, six armed Mythical Pokémon eyed Ghetsis with demonic eyes, Ghetsis finally gave the command.
"Summon Dialga and Palkia." Ghetsis spoke, as Hoopa had two of its arms disappear into rings formed from its wrists, as the sound of a struggle could be heard as both Dialga and Palkia were dragged out of their native dimensions and out into the open. As the towering Legendary Pokémon both focused their rage onto Ghetsis, they both let loose a roar towards him all the while Hoopa served as a blockade to the duo from trying to reach Ghetsis.
Palkia was the first to act, roaring as an intense energy charged in its arms to prepare to attack, but Flare was given the command to attack Palkia first, and when Flare did so, she struck Palkia with her razor sharp, armored "Dramon Destroyers", as she slashed at Palkia with a sharp, and brutal, melee strike that actually caused an unknown liquid to leak from Palkia upon landing the attack.
As Flare moved to strike at Palkia repeatedly with her massive, clawed weapons, Dialga had attempted to attack Flare in the mundane but effective move to freeze Flare temporarily which, at first, seemed to work…
… Until Ghetsis slammed his cane down into the ground, causing Flare to unfreeze from time as Dialga roared and made an attempt to do so again…
… But it could neither work this power against neither Flare, Hoopa, nor Ghetsis if it had tried to do so again. Realizing things were getting intense, Dialga roared fiercely in panic as Palkia finally dropped to the ground once Flare did a serious number to it, just as Flare spiraled up into the air to charge an immense amount of destructive energy into its attack, before dropping the sphere of energy onto Palkia as Dialga decided now to act and use itself as a shield for Palkia…
… Until the sphere was absorbed and eaten whole by the emerging, void-like entity that had emerged as a serpent-like entity with six wings, before transforming into a six legged, winged dragon and roaring an immense shriek towards Ghetsis and Hoopa.
Almost immediately, Hoopa warped four of its arms out of the desert of an arena entirely upon Ghetsis' command, and gestured them to appear from portals surrounding the Renegade Pokémon, repeatedly and rapidly punching the far less mobile Legendary Pokémon into submission just as Flare charged a second, giant sized dark sphere of energy, and then proceeding to drop it again onto all three of them this time around.
"I'M GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF THIS SHIT, GHETSIS."
Arceus finally arrived to the scene from an array of light shining onto the ground, all the while Ghetsis merely turned towards the Alpha Pokémon and simply scoffed.
"Then if you're so sick and tired of it, I have a simple request; strike me down." Ghetsis spoke towards Arceus, as Arceus simply yelled in rage as it had its 17 plates emerged from its side as a sphere of energy was being formed on the tip of Arceus' snout…
… Before Ghetsis slammed his cane down again, causing Arceus' plates to suddenly turn to stone as Arceus was knocked out of the sky as if something had struck Arceus with a powerful blow. As Arceus struggled to recover from this severe downgrade in strength, Ghetsis had walked up to the Alpha Mythical Pokémon…
… But even without its abilities over all of creation, one does not simply strike down God without an actual fight.
As Arceus was quick to buck and rear itself back to standing on the ground, the sheer force of Arceus' quick burst of power causing Ghetsis to get launched backwards, only barely avoiding getting blown away entirely due to stabbing his cane into the ground.
As Ghetsis growled, he let loose a powerful yell as he grabbed his remaining Poké Balls on hand to send out his other Pokémon to assist in the fight; the three headed Hydreigon, the bison-like Bouffalant, the spectral Cofagrigus, the charged Eelektross, and the absurdly sharp Bisharp.
As all five Pokémon joined Hoopa and Flare in the fight against Arceus, Hoopa was near immediate to summon all six of its arms away this time, before all six of them proceeded to punch and land powerful jabs against Arceus' incredibly durable hide, as while Arceus recoiled from each hit, Arceus was taking almost no actual damage from the attack.
As Flare jumped into the air, she span in a vortex as an intense amount of a pitch black energy surrounded her, before she propelled herself like a rocket towards Arceus like a drill; even with her power having been unleashed in full, Arceus was barely budging from the attack, and once Arceus moved to fire an intense blast of energy from its head, Flare was sent flying backwards and out of sight, landing on the ground to recover.
As Flare roared towards Arceus to get the other five Pokémon to attack, Bisharp was quick to strike at Arceus with a sudden, reinforced strike to Arceus' neck; even that did little to faze it, as Arceus moved to trample the landscape, the blunt force of Arceus' struggle sending Bisharp flying as Cofagrigus and Eelektross moved to attack with status moves to try and cripple Arceus.
As Arceus turned its gaze towards them, Hoopa reacquired Arceus' attention when a rapid fire number of fists moved to punch Arceus hard, the hits intensifying in strength, all the while Flare recovers in to participate in the fight again, before she charges and grabs Bouffalant and throws it head first into Arceus, the recoil sending Arceus backwards as Bouffalant faints on the spot. Cofagrigus and Eelektross, after hitting Arceus numerous times with either Poison, Dark, Fire, and Electric type moves, the former channels a move onto Arceus as it draws near.
Arceus sees through Cofagrigus' attempt, but is now greeted with Hoopa's strength having intensified to where all six of Hoopa's arms are capable of holding Arceus in place, just as Bisharp and Bouffalant re-enter the battlefield and slash and ram into Arceus respectively, with Hydreigon, Eelektross, and Hoopa using Hyper Beam to strike Arceus at the same time, all the while Flare is in the air charging an immense, gigantic sphere of destructive dark energy, before throwing it and slamming it into Arceus at full force.
As the full force of Flare's attack levels almost the entire area to below sea level, Arceus still appears to be putting a fight against all of them even after having lost much of its power, as Arceus makes an attempt to strike Cofagrigus with a powerful blast of fiery energy, just as Cofagrigus collapses while giving off a sinister laughter. Suddenly feeling very weakened because of this, Arceus only then collapses to the ground in heavy pain and exhaustion, as all of Ghetsis' Pokémon are returned to their Poké Balls with the exception of Hoopa.
As Ghetsis is safely escorted before Arceus' presence with Flare, Ghetsis merely smirks as he watches how the supposed invincible Alpha Mythical Pokémon is on the very ground, heavily exhausted and too drained of power to fight back against Ghetsis' advance, all the while Ghetsis moves to reveal his right arm from his cloak. As the arm looked much like an unusual type of prosthetic, the hand of it grasped onto Arceus' face and began to drain some form of energy from Arceus, all the while Arceus only can shout and grunt in the sheer pain of electrical surges going through its body.
"It's always the same; a Pokémon, even if it's revered as a deity, is still just a Pokémon." Ghetsis taunted, all the while his grasp let go of Arceus after getting what he wants, as both he, Hoopa, and Flare disappear into the shadowy portal in which they had arrived on the scene to begin with...
Arceus, laying on the ground unconscious alongside the three other Legendary Pokémon, eventually recovered from their beating, as Arceus looked around at its surroundings as its mind felt dazed and heavily fogged up.
"… WHY AM I HERE?! WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!" Arceus yelled, not remembering a thing, but looking over towards the three lesser Legendary Pokémon before it. "YOU THREE. BACK TO WHERE YOU BELONG. I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WOUND UP HERE, BUT WE'RE LEAVING."
As Arceus made its orders loud and clear, Dialga, Palkia, and the unnamed third Pokémon disappeared into their respective dimensions, as Arceus quickly summoned itself back into the Hall of Origin.
What exactly Ghetsis had to gain from this, nobody was certain…
...
"… Except all of that I had just told you is what had happened a year after Sirius had first vanished." Delia told the group in her house; Ash was shocked, but remained calm even through one could feel anger rise from him; Iris and Misty looked horrified, and Cheren and Bianca looked a mix between furious and worried sick at the same time each.
"Wow… I didn't realize you had such a lucky break with Sirius, Delia… I mean… I knew Ragnus was bad news, but the fact you had dated Gh-"
"Colress, Cheren." Delia corrected, as Ash practically fainted as both Misty and Iris were trying to calm him down. "I couldn't even remotely imagine myself being near Ghetsis in such a way; that's just disturbing on sooo many levels." Delia remarked, as Bianca looked worried.
"But… If that happened nearly 15 years ago… Why isn't Ghetsis just using whatever power he had gained to simply gain an instant win for all of Team Plasma?" Bianca asked, as Delia sighed.
"We're all thankful he's probably just too busy right now gloating in his mind about how he had did a number to Arceus of all Pokémon. That's why I'm telling all five of you right now…" Delia began to finish, as Ash was beginning to wake back up.
"That if either of you five think fighting Ghetsis with a Legendary Pokémon will intimidate him against fighting you, it won't even manage to do that in the slightest." Delia said, as Ash finally focused his attention on Delia once he was awake again.
"Alright then, mom… quick question…" Ash began to ask, as he had handed Delia the note that was meant for her from the small box he had gotten his note and the Thunder Stone for Raichu from. As Delia examined the note, her expression went cold and terrified as she analyzed every detail of what Sirius had to say about her prior to his death, and how serious Ash was with Delia at this very moment.
"Who the fuck is Ragnus?"
To Be Continued…
